The sky is falling, really
By Jack Knight
Recently I read a column in The American where the writer stated, “The sky will not fall after the election in November.” I was thinking, as I dozed off into what I hoped would be pleasant dreams. “Everyone picks on Chicken Little; give the bird a break.” Remember his squawk was, “The sky IS falling.”
Chicken Little is alive, mean and well. I know, I saw the rooster yesterday while at work, he was sitting on the water cooler, bibbing a bottle of Bud Lite as if it were water. His feathers were ruffled and apparently his ears couldn’t handle the misquote . They were rolled up like Chinese fortune cookies and twisted into miniature kitchen-burned pretzels.
The rooster was holding court at the water cooler and he had gathered a pro-chicken audience. He continued with his red eyes gaped straight at me “ If I wuz dead I would still roll over in my grave, fly up from the red clay and tear you asunder; maybe even peck yo tongue into an unpalatable pulp.”
Mr. Little, egged on by the crowd continued talking and strutting. That’s when I noticed, instead of spurs he had straight razors strapped to his legs . I timidly asked the rooster how he felt when he heard the misquote he said, “What do you think, you henpecked chicken plucker.”
I whined, “Mr. Little, it weren’t me who did you in. It was someone from The American.” But my words rolled off of my tongue like a sack of marbles, going in every direction except toward the bird.
The rooster had the cooler and he wasn’t about to give it up, “If I wuz you Mr. Peckerwood, I wouldn’t leave home without a full metal mask and a pair of peck-proof sunshades, and under no circumstances would I visit a henhouse or patronize Colonel Sanders and Popeye’s.”
My wife shook me out of my nightmare and it felt good but uneasy. Maybe I should say something that would help the bird keep his reputation…
Our skies are not “Moon over Miami” anymore. For the past four years they have been in a massive Obama freefall and is currently being propelled by a mega-trillion dollar plummet which could crash and vaporize our economy after November’s election.
Our president must be held accountable for his incompetence in dealing with terrorists, and his sophomoric behavior in claiming free speech was responsible for the murders of our ambassador Chris Stevens and three support people who were protecting him.
Mr. Obama blamed the whole incident on free speech; not on terrorists but on a grainy filmstrip depicting the Koran in an unfavorable light. He also spent thousands of dollars on a TV ad apologizing to the Middle East for the strip.
To double dumb-down matters Obama put Ambassador Rice on her talk show bicycle to peddle the blame for the blood-splatter murders on our First Amendment, not terrorism.
In 2009 Maj. Nidal Hasan murdered 13 soldiers and wounded 29 others, simultaneously shouting passages from the Koran. Today Obama still sees these anarchies of murder as isolated events, having nothing to do with terror.
We could go on with a litany of charges against Obama and his Chicago hooligans, but this is the responsibility of a true bonifide press
Over 60 million people saw the recent debates between Obama and Romney and our president’s performance, at best, created doubt in the minds of many in his ability to lead a great country.
Maybe The Emperor wears no clothes. His teleprompter was invisible. The Jell-O-spine press with their easy-rider questions were not visible either. The light was on but Mr. Obama was not home. His performance was embarrassingly painful to watch.
Jack Knight is a retired Los Angeles City Schools math and computer science teacher. Reach him at knight3230@att.net
