|
Weinzierl Jewelers |
|
Victoria’s Corner Bar. Nightly Specials and Menus. 952-443-9944 |
|
8 First Street in Waconia. 952-442-2885 |
|
942-443-2078 |
|
Funeral Home & Cremation Services 952-474-9595 |
|
Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic. Occupational Therapy. Speech Therapy. 952-443-9888 |
|
Huber |
|
City of Lakes & Parks 952-443-2363 |
|
“Trees Are Our Roots” 8099 Bavaria Rd * Victoria * 952-443-2990 |
|
Headlines and bylines |
|
Front Page Feature Story |
|
From the Editor |
|
Addie’s Drawing |
|
Letters to the Editor |
|
Victoria Moments |
|
Hook Line & Sinker |
|
Calendar of Events |
|
Click here to Advertise |
|
the Gazette |
|
Return to Home Page |
|
Order paper Gazette |
|
Notes and Quotes |
|
The Scoop at City Hall |
|
I read last month that a woman in Pennsylvania somehow caught the Superbug, a bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics, and doctors are in a quandary as to how to treat her. A woman in Alabama was attacked by fire ants in May and died. No treatment necessary. And then a woman in Arizona was stung more than 1,000 times by a swarm of bees and died. In Minnesota it will soon be mosquito season. Yikes! But there are things that bug me more than mosquitoes. For example ... Have you noticed that people who are described as "inclusive" seem to have attained ultimate heights in the status of "cool" society? Not to mention in their own minds. They're at the top of the charts, the top of the credits, and the top of the food chain. According to these cultural elites, "inclusiveness" is next to godliness, sort of like cleanliness. But I suspect there's dirt ingrained in the callouses of their soles. And those of us who are trying to keep our own noses clean better not tell anybody what we think, and know, in this stupidly politically correct world. If we get too honest or persnickety on some topics, we are excluded for being exclusive, or rejected for being rigid, or judged for being judgmental. Elites attack with such labels and adjectives because they cannot otherwise defend their stances. There is widespread agreement in some circles that none of the inclusionaries is as smart or as cool as they think themselves to be. Where do I get my information? Not from Fakebook. I don't trust it, from the beginning. Now I learned that Fakebook has been culling the news to coincide with their liberal interests. They'll continue to do so, despite being caught. It's the nature of the beast. Speaking of beast, I don't want my little granddaughters to be in a restroom with a big hairy male ape, nor a young handsome male chimpanzee. I'm talking about restrooms at their schools, at their swimming pool locker rooms, at their churches, at Target, or anywhere else. A male ape should not be allowed in a girls' restroom just because he happens to be feeling like Daisy Duck that day. Where is common sense? It started to disappear about the time that Time magazine asked on its cover, "Is God Dead?" As my friend G. K. Chesterton said, "The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense." And neither do I want to be caught in a restroom with King Kong. I might be able to handle Curious George, but I'm not as strong as I used to be and I can hardly believe that so many people have their minds in the toilet. Why would anyone force us to acquiesce to peculiarities of one tenth of 1% of the population? It's beyond the pale. In fact, such a directive is a pail of excrement. And it's being filled by top dogs. Those same dogs are also trying to force the Little Sisters of the Poor into paying for contraception and abortion coverage. That's like forcing people who live on Mount St. Helen to buy flood insurance, or forcing people in the Mojave Desert to buy crop insurance. It's absurd. Actually, it's criminal. Similarly, organizations like EWTN, the television network started by Mother Angelica, are being forced to spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to defend their religious liberty and freedom of conscience, which also doesn't allow them to buy insurance for their employees for contraception and abortion coverage. The employees don't have a problem with EWTN policy. Why should Obamacare? All of this coercion is not related to protecting or including people. It is related to a hatred and jealousy of virtue, or virtuous people, or people trying to be virtuous. It's one more salvo, among many, against the Judeo Christian culture. They want to stomp it to the ground and bury it. These latest strikes are not as gruesome as beheadings and suicide bombings, but they are killing in another way -- a more dangerous way, because it takes advantage of weak minds and leads to a deadening of those minds. I didn't use the word "stupidly" earlier in this column by accident. Did you hear that a candlelight vigil was held this week for an ape? Not a bathroom ape, but one that was manhandling a three-year old boy who fell into the enclosed moat. There was no choice but to kill the animal. The gorilla's power is beyond belief. However, weak minds stupidly advocate for the ape, not for the life of the child. Lack of common sense. And yet when I get up in the morning and the sun is shining and the sky is blue, and it's Springtime in the Rockies and in Victoria, Minnesota, and I get to spend time with my children and grandchildren and others I care about, the world takes on a whole other hue. And I am once again invigorated to meet the challenges of life. We are all traveling the dusty and well trod road, together, whether we like it or not. Bugs included. Give me the flyswatter. |
|
From the Editor |
|
Dedicated to the sunshine of truth, the moonshine of meeting deadlines, and the starshine of Victoria. |
|
The Victoria GAZETTE |
|
Sue’s Album A symphony of photos and fewer than a thousand words at www.VictoriaGazette.com |
|
June 2016 |
