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‘Headed for the Rocks?’ (My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 22)

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Historic Valley Forge

Today’s George Washington’s birthday. He’d be appalled if he could see us now. “I went through winter at Valley Forge for that?”

Headed for the Rocks?

Really–is this an ongoing scientific experiment, authorized by our beloved Leaders, to see how much abuse our republic can take before it collapses altogether?

(It’s the winter of 1777 and Washington tries to rally his battered troops by showing them glimpses of their country’s future. “Come on, boys! This is for President Joe Biden!” Half the army drops dead on the spot. The other half flees in terror…)

How Big a Chump Are You?

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We received one of those “Winning America” emails today. These people, whoever they are, pretend to be a conservative website, but really it’s just a bunch of ads and get-rich-quick schemes.

Today it was a sure-fire “simple trick” to win the Powerball, guaranteed to work, everybody who tries it is going to win at least $50,000, and so on.

There’s something sleazy about that whole lottery business. Once, at a family dinner some years ago, a friend of my mother’s, a successful businesswoman, came in all breathless because her newest “system” to win the lottery had only missed by one number. She went on and on about it. She already had a rather nice life, but she still wanted a lot of something for nothing. Blinded by avarice.

The numbers racket used to be the province of organized crime, especially in the cities. Then government turned it into all kinds of lotteries and now we find it everywhere.

This is a tax on credulity and childish greed. I met a young woman once whose life plan, as she confided it to me, was to “win the lottery and then go out West to buy a horse farm!” She already had two out-of-wedlock children and was working on another. No sweat–the lottery would save her. The lottery would provide.

So just send in for your can’t-miss advice on how to win the Powerball, and look forward to a lifetime of unearned opulence. I mean, really, is this for jidrools or what? “Ooh-ooh, I could win a hundred million dollars!” Like they would even know what to do with it, other than piss it away in less time than they ever dreamed possible.

It’s so unworthy of a mature and decent mind.

Prof: Whites Owe $20 Trillion in Reparations

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Just in case you were wondering how your tuition dollars were being spent by colleges and universities last month, those taking part in “White History Month,” here’s an item from Portland Community Idiot Factory–er, college–in Oregon.

Some left-wing amoeba of a “professor” told her students that white Americans “owe”–by whose calculation?–black Americans $20 trillion in reparations for slavery ( http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/05/17/whiteness-history-speaker-whites-owe-blacks-20-trillion-in-reparations/ ). I kid you not–click the link to the news story and check out the video.

Twenty trillion bucks. Wow. That’ll buy a lot of powerball tickets. Why, it’s more than our total national debt. I wonder what kind of shape the country will be in, after they pay that out. To people who never were slaves or never had any contact with a slave, by people who never owned a slave or even saw one.

Gee, my ancestors, on both sides of the family, were enslaved by the Romans. Where do I go to collect my check? Two thousand years ought to have generated some pretty hefty interest.

One thing the reparations movement clearly teaches us: something can be really, truly silly and still be satanic.