I wrote this less than two weeks before I retired from the Navy

The latest idiotic-but-pretending-to-be-clever
bumper sticker I've seen reads: "UH, THE FOUNDING
FATHERS WERE LIBERAL EXTREMISTS; SORRY TO RAIN
ON YOUR PARADE." This is a fine example of "He
who gets to define the terms, wins the argument."
Or perhaps better to say, "He who gets away with
obscuring the definitions of terms can flatter
himself that he has won the argument."

America's Founding Fathers were liberal extremists
only relative to the starting point of monarchy.
An oppressive king being at the right-wing end of
the spectrum, breaking free of his power could be
considered a move to the "left." But in spite of
the myth of all the Founders being Deists (a myth
more than adequately exploded by the research of
David Barton and his Wallbuilders organization),
no informed person can consider them to be liberal
extremists in the sense which that label bears
TODAY. George Washington did not cross the Delaware
to abort babies, nor endure the winter at Valley
Forge in order to build a gay bath-house there.

But odds are the composer of that bumper sticker
doesn't even believe what it says himself; he
just wants to throw conservatives and patriots
into confusion. Doubtless next week he'll be
back to condemning Washington and Jefferson for
having owned slaves. That's much like the liberal
extremists who pretend to care about the Jewish
people's welfare only long enough to pillory Mel
Gibson; the same lefties will soon be back at
their pastime of rooting for Muslim terrorists
to destroy Israel.

Speaking of the Muslim terrorists, I continue to
pray AGAINST their evil plans. I get so tired of
wimpy, smarmy prayers for "peeeeeace"...in which
those who pray are so often assuming that the
whole silly quarrel only started by accident,
and both sides can be reasoned with. No, both
sides CAN'T be reasoned with; I'm sorry to rain
on THAT neo-hippie parade. Only three outcomes
can occur with Islamist fanatics: (1) they get
their way, (2) they repent of their sins and
submit to the REAL God through Jesus Christ, or
(3) they are deprived of their power to do harm
--via death, disarming or detention. I pray for
the side of civilization to WIN the war.