Reading the newspapers across America and watching TV news, I am amazed at the reports from our senators on just how callous some of them can be! Don’t they realize just how insignificant they are in history?
The Roman Coliseum was started and finished by three emperors, and included several areas dedicated to different classes. The very finest entrances and seating were to be used exclusively by the emperor and his entourage, the lowest class of the common poor and women were on the very top of the building. The building in its day was magnificent, but look at it now!
We have withstood the COVID-19 scourge and have almost learned to live with its deadly menace to the point our people are just ignoring the safety measures needed to wipe it out of our lives. A lot of uncaring state governors are so enamored with their status as governors; they are signing laws in their states, protecting the fetus at conception, while signing laws authorizing anyone to carry AR-15s capable of killing dozens of our born children in 30 seconds.
Why is this happening? Where is their compassion for the born children?
A pastor according to my Bible is the protector of his flock; where are they now in this day of carnage?
Parts of the Coliseum are still standing to this day, but only parts of what is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Will America go the way of the past without learning from history?
We have a wonderful nation if we can only keep it for our future generations. Looking at the crop of cultists being put forth for consideration in November’s election, makes me wonder if we are on a downward spiral just like the Coliseum. This is a sad time in America!
Bill Williams
Palmview
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Annie Oakley, while traveling in 1889 with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show in Germany, shot the cigar out of the mouth of the German Kaiser with her rifle to thrill the entire crowd. But Lee Harvey Oswald used a rifle to shoot the head of an American president to horrify our entire nation. A rifle is a rifle.
Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger successfully landed his plane in the Hudson River on Jan. 15,, 2009, to save his entire crew and passengers and would later be remembered as the “Miracle on the Hudson.” On Sept. 11. 2001, 19 Islamic jihadist terrorists flew four planes into the WorldTradeCenter, the Pentagon, and into a field in Pennsylvania that ultimately killed almost 3,000 Americans. A plane is a plane.
A knife in the hands of a skilled heart surgeon can save a beating heart, but a knife in the hands of an MS-13 criminal can cut out a beating heart. A knife is a knife.
A baseball bat in the hands of Babe Ruth can crack two home runs out of Yankee Stadium, but a bat in the hands of Al Capone can crack open the heads of two disloyal thugs. A baseball bat is a baseball bat.
An eternal truth that common sense conservatives have always remembered but bleeding-heart liberals have long forgotten is that good people will always do good with things they have, and bad people will always do bad with things they have. And all the laws, rules, regulations and gun-free-zone signs will never change that eternal truth.
Jack Ayoub
Harlingen
