Demonic America

Original Material | 4/6/2016 | By Laz A. Mataz

[PrairieDawg]

Nah. We've had Artificial Intelligence for years. Haven't you ever seen a 2nd Lieutenant before?

(Full disclosure - a Nam vet told me that one. I never served so I don't actually know.)

[Tax-chick]

“The earth [and heavens] as we know it” will be *remade* into the new heavens and new earth. A seed doesn’t go to figurative Hades when it grows into the plant it was always intended to be.

[Lazamataz]

Whatever they are — suggestions, criticisms — I value them and they help me grow.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well it would be good if you had.

But this can only be done through something that is a gospel witness. Just trying to make the country nicer won’t do it.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, the facility with rhyme and meter is outrageous, but the real genius, in my opinion, is using those tools to give the almost photographic image of the aftermath of a battle in the Afghan Wars. Remember the scene early in the movie “Patton” when Gen. Patton views the field after the battle of Kasserine Pass?

[Lazamataz]

Well it would be good if you had.

But I did.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Okay, okay, you convinced me! Please add. Thanks!

[Lazamataz]

Just noticed this one in that old classic. Pure brilliance.

“If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch ‘em — you’ll swing, on my oath! —
Make ‘im take ‘er and keep ‘er: that’s Hell for them both,
An’ you’re shut o’ the curse of a soldier.”

[Squantos]

Look .....a squirrel !!

[Tax-chick]

LOL! That’s the great observer of human nature using rhyme and meter to make the reader say, “Hell ... yeah!”

[Lazamataz]

Ah. The old "There's a squirrel over there, you don't want my gun" trick.

[Califreak]

I knew we were in evil times a long time ago.

If it gets much worse I don’t want to play this game any more.

[Lazamataz]

Kipling should be honored in his afterlife to know how much of an impact he made on contemporary times.

He’s one of my heros. Ben Franklin is another.

[Tax-chick]

Ben Franklin is one of those characters who has to be real because nobody would have thought him up on their own.

I honestly can't remember a time when I didn't love Kipling. It started with stories from The Jungle Book, like "Rikki Tikki Tavi," but I was reading and memorizing his Indian poetry by the time I was in junior high.

My children are picking it up, too. Bill the Son (older brother of Tom, the future global dictator) took a college course on colonial India. To quote my mom, "What does this have to do with your major? When are you finally going to graduate already?" (August 2016!)

[Lazamataz]

Ben Franklin is one of those characters who has to be real because nobody would have thought him up on their own.

If reincarnation is real, I am Ben Franklin.

Seriously. I really feel like him.

[Tax-chick]

Have you tried some of Franklin’s writing techniques, such as attempting to rewrite news stories as rhyming poetry? He said it really builds vocabulary and teaches a writer to develop flexibility in sentence construction.

[Lazamataz]

Since I once was him, yes, I’ve done that.

But I probably need to do that in this iteration of me, too.

[Lazamataz]

I think I happened upon something.

To understand me best, simply envision Benjamin Franklin.

Right down to the pear-shaped body.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Huh, I thought I was on this list but didn’t get the ping. Add me please?

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

Make sure you have an Unabridged Dictionary on hand. My kids shredded mine - but they have great vocabularies now! - and all we have is a Webster’s Collegiate.

Oh, look at the time! Maybe after a nice literary discussion and four glasses of wine, I’ll be able to sleep to 0500.