Watch for the Insignia

Our dear readers: Welcome to Friday Letter #110. These are scary times. Will history actually repeat itself? On another subject, we write another funeral review. Read it all.

The insignia

Perhaps those of you who are more in tune with the media than I will have already seen it coming.

If you haven’t seen it, I predict you soon will. The design will be computer-generated, cleverly calculated in its appearance to appeal to a certain social strata. It won’t quite look like the Nazi swastika.

Not quite.

At first, you’ll notice somewhat subtle armbands being worn by the goons surrounding the President. Then you’ll notice the President himself wearing his own emblem. An armband. An insignia denoting his new status as permanent President.

The insignia will begin to appear on flags, on “official” automobiles, badges, embroidered patches. Military uniforms.

Think I’m far out? Think I’m losing it? Think again. The Constitution is about to be suspended. Think I’m kidding? No, the Constitution has already been abrogated. Suspension will follow. Any excuse will do – “the economy” comes to mind.

In the 1930’s, early in his rise to power, Hitler “nationalized” Germany’s heavy industry. Here in the U.S., in 2009, our heavy industry has been efficiently and effectively nationalized.

The government, headed by the new permanent President, now owns Government Motors, formerly known as General Motors Corporation.

Hitler rapidly took over Germany’s health care industry. He began exterminating the elderly, the mentally ill, those rascals the Jews, black people, Down Syndrome individuals, Catholics and other Christians.

Would the President be involved in wholesale slaughter of his own people?

Ask yourself: Was Adolf Hitler a tall, blond, blue-eyed, broad-shouldered hero from the Aryan race? No. In appearance, he was diminutive, swarthy, kind of Jewish-looking . . .

Our President is the all-time top cat in the field of abortion. He’s the world’s champion promoter of abortion. Way more black babies are taken by abortion than from any other race. The President has no compunction about killing fetuses, whether they’re black babies or not.

Oh he is cold. But then, was Hitler warm-hearted?

Mr. President will soon have power that’s even more absolute. Soon, a government official who serves at the will of the President will decide if you are too sick to deserve health care (euthanasia).

Many of us will be sentenced to slow death simply by government withdrawal of medical care.

You think that’s unlikely? This really happened in Germany, midway through the previous century. There’s plenty of evidence that Hitler did exactly what Mr. President is doing right now. Today. Tonight.

He is already commander in chief of the military. He will expand that. Soon he will be the absolute dictator.

How is he doing this? He is riding on a wave of Democracy gone awry. He is taking advantage of a major flaw in Democracy, and that is: the more degenerates there are, the more degenerates can get elected.

I expect the new insignia will have similarities to the imagery used during the election – the “O” shaped waving U.S. flag. Think not? Remember you read it here first.

A funeral well done

The funeral we went to this week was at the chapel of Greeley’s Bonell Good Samaritan Center.

A 90-year-old man, father of a good friend of ours, had lived at Bonell for the past several years.

It was fitting that the ritual marking his death was played out at Bonell. The man’s family showed up in force; a grandson who is pastor of a church in Las Vegas, Nevada, presented the sermon and the eulogy.

The Lutheran-dominated institution does permit some small images of Christianity in the chapel. And, the two-story window at the west end has a cross-shape built into its steel framework. There’s an altar, and a Bible resides on a stand on that altar. The Christian flag has a golden cross atop it.

The sermon was full-on Christian. The young man intelligently and skillfully tied together the resurrection of Christ and the belief that his grandfather will be raised in Christ. Nicely done.

The family did a fine job of paying tribute to a grandfather whose Eaton pastor called “a tough old bird.” A fitting farewell for a family icon.

Really?

Several years ago Laura was reading a column on gardening in the Greeley Tribune.

The writer cautioned us not to be wasteful when gardening because “we are running out of dirt.”

More recently, we saw in the local scandal sheet that we need to conserve water. “We are running out of water,” a writer noted.

These are only a couple of items of mass misconception.

People seem to have forgotten the maxim: “Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but only changed in form.” This includes water. And dirt. We are not running out of either.

This odd thinking, however, pays off when “authorities” deal with the population regarding “water rights.”

I am the first to admit that I know nothing at all about water law. But I do know this: When the City of Greeley sends the water bill, I pay for the use of the delivery system.

City officials rather adroitly take advantage of the misconception that the city owns the water it delivers. The city does not own the water. It owns the supply system. I do not own the water I drink. God owns the water; it is only on loan to us.

Keep an eye on the political issue of the collection of rain water on your own property. I see in the paper that I can get a permit now to do that.

The municipal authority’s presumption is that the city owns the rainwater and therefore can extract a permit fee for its collection and use.

Sound wild and unlikely? See “Insignia,” above.

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Word of the week: Tabernacle. From the Latin, tabernaculum, a tent, the diminutive of taberna, a hut.

These days it means a temporary shelter, or in ecclesiastical usage an ornamented container for the consecrated host.

There’s a tabernacle in every Roman Catholic Church. Or, there had better be. Access is limited to priests, deacons and certain lay ministers. The lock and key prevent unauthorized removal of the sacrament – and that’s a good thing.

There’s also a tabernacle in every little Mormon town across the west. In this case, the “tabernacle” is the large central meeting house of a “stake” comprised of several Mormon “wards.” If it’s not quite a “temple,” it’s a tabernacle.

There’s also a connection here with the word “tavern.” A temporary residence. I have temporarily resided in lots of taverns over time. I thoroughly enjoyed my tavern-dwelling days. Those times are gone, but fun to remember.

Next week’s word: Transubstantiation.

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