Soap Box

I will be 83 years old in October and will be the first to admit that, for the most part, the world has totally outpaced me, technologically, style wise, musically, and certainly insofar as what is and is not socially acceptable.

And while an octogenarian fiddle player from Tennessee may be miles and decades behind in recognizing and embracing the “in” thing and what is socially acceptable in this ever-changing beehive we live in, there are a few eternal truths that can never go out of style or be pushed to the side and ignored if the human race is to continue to exist and be anything except separate stubborn, recalcitrant warring clans, each totally and implacably committed to their idea as to the societal, political and moral boundaries of the nation.

The truth is the truth, always has been, always will be and truth’s oldest child is common sense and unfortunately, that child has all but been banished by segments of the American population in the last several decades.

What prompted this article was a news blurb I saw the other day about a woman boarding an airplane with a miniature horse she claimed to be her “comfort animal”.

People come on, ain’t this a few points south of downright insanity?

As one who has owned horses for the last fifty years or so, I am here to tell you that there has never been a horse that cannot be spooked and the meanest horse I’ve got on my place is the littlest one.

I also submit to you that somebody who is so off-center that they have to take a horse with them everywhere they go, probably has no business getting on an airplane anyway.

Can you imagine a plane hitting really rough weather and a horse, even a miniature twisting off, raring and pawing? And believe me, even a couple of hundred pounds of scared horse is totally unmanageable.

Any animal, no matter how docile or well-trained, is capable of violent behavior, as evidenced in the Siegfried and Roy show in Las Vegas some years ago when a tiger they considered tame and safe enough to expose thousands of people in the audience to seriously injured one of the best animal trainers in the world.

I am in total agreement with our servicemen and women and the physically impaired who use dogs for, guidance, therapy and emotional needs being able to take their animals on board an airplane.

But a danged horse?

What would happen if I walked into the airport with a 2000 lb. bull and claimed I just couldn’t face the flight without him.

I’ll admit that trying to fly with a bull would be pushing the envelope, but you probably get my point.

Where does it stop?

It will only stop when people in authority in this country gain enough common sense and courage to say NO.

We have come to the point that when politicians find it expedient to their political career they completely forsake common sense and say it’s alright to break certain laws, to encourage certain behavior, to allow certain brown shirt type groups like Antifa to hurt citizens and destroy property without punishing them.

It’s all right for Black Lives Matter to shout slogans about frying policemen like pigs in a blanket or wanting dead cops.

It’s all right for certain cities to ignore federal immigration laws and give sanctuary to people whose backgrounds, criminal records or health conditions they know nothing about.

It’s alright to turn sections of some of America’s greatest cities into garbage piles, to scatter feces on the streets and to create scenarios that could, at any time, cause an epidemic of disease that could spread like wildfire and sicken and kill thousands of people.

It’s alright for United States Congresswomen to defame and insult the only real ally we have in the Middle East and defend terrorists and radicals.

Such is modern-day liberalism, the unwillingness to say no, the godless fallacy that anything goes, that there is no right or wrong, no ethics, if it feels good do it, no genders, no respect for unborn life, no proven paths of civility, no laws that can’t be bent or broken.

There is a word for it, it’s called anarchy and it is a one-way path to chaos.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST

Feel free to comment on Charlie's soapboxes, but please refrain from profanity and anonymous posts are not allowed, we need a name and you MUST provide a valid email address. If you provide an email address, but leave the name as "Anonymous" we will pick a name for you based on your email address. No one other than website administrators will see your email address, not other posters. If you post without a valid email address, your comment (whether positive or negative) will be deleted. — TeamCDB

Check out "Mexico Again" from Beau Weevils - 'Songs in the Key of E'