Francis Porretto:

Posted on August 26, 2012 by KG

‘..I want my country back: the United States of 1969, when the stars seems destined to be ours, sooner or later. I want to see the safety drones, the enviro-Nazis, the PC crowd, the multiculturalists, the purveyors of identity politics, the exploiters of envy, and the apostles of national impotence put out of this nation. Ideally, I’d like to see them all swinging from gibbets, but one must take what one can get. I want us to flip the bird to our international detractors and whip our enemies yelping back into their kennels. I want us to rev our engines again, unabashedly, and drive for the horizons, grinning like madmen.
I want the ghost of Neil Armstrong to look down on America from heaven and be pleased by what he sees…’                ‘GHOSTS’

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11 Responses to Francis Porretto:

  1. Carol-Christian Soldier says:
    August 27, 2012 at 03:41

    will be ‘swiping’ this if it is OK w/ Porretto-
    C-CS

  2. KG says:
    August 27, 2012 at 06:02

    I’m pretty sure he won’t mind a bit, Carol.

  3. Darin says:
    August 27, 2012 at 08:54

    America can still do big things,wonderful things IF the government will just get out of the way and let us.
    Even though the space program was funded by the government,it was managed and built by private enterprise.What we did to build the space program could not be done today with the regulations we have in place.
    The facility near me was built in a few short years during the early 60’s.They drained swamps,cut canals and built some absolutely massive structures and in the process raised the standard of living for tens of thousands of people.
    Today the whole budget would be blown on endless environmental studies and diversity training.
    http://youtu.be/WUsT_rGt_0o

  4. KG says:
    August 27, 2012 at 09:26

    “IF the government will just get out of the way and let us…”
    And that’s the key to it, here in Australia and – I suspect – all over the West.
    We’re being crushed by bureaucrats, by leeches who produce nothing and treat us as their serfs.
    Every time a bureaucrat dies, a hearse horse snickers….(with apologies to Carl Sandburg, I think it was.)

    • WAKE UP says:
      August 27, 2012 at 15:19

      Yup, Sandburg, “Why does a hearse horse snicker, Hauling a lawyer away?”

      (in “The Lawyers Know Too Much” , published 1922):

      THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much.
      They are chums of the books of old John Marshall.
      They know it all, what a dead hand wrote,
      A stiff dead hand and its knuckles crumbling,
      The bones of the fingers a thin white ash.
      The lawyers know
      a dead man’s thoughts too well.

      In the heels of the higgling lawyers, Bob,
      Too many slippery ifs and buts and howevers,
      Too much hereinbefore provided whereas,
      Too many doors to go in and out of.

      When the lawyers are through
      What is there left, Bob?
      Can a mouse nibble at it
      And find enough to fasten a tooth in?

      Why is there always a secret singing
      When a lawyer cashes in?
      Why does a hearse horse snicker
      Hauling a lawyer away?
      The work of a bricklayer goes to the blue.
      The knack of a mason outlasts a moon.
      The hands of a plasterer hold a room together.
      The land of a farmer wishes him back again.
      Singers of songs and dreamers of plays
      Build a house no wind blows over.
      The lawyers—tell me why a hearse horse snickers hauling a lawyer’s bones.

  5. KG says:
    August 27, 2012 at 15:40

    My favourite is his “Limited”:

    I AM riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains
    of the nation.
    Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air
    go fifteen all-steel coaches holding a thousand people.
    (All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men
    and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall
    pass to ashes.)
    I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he
    answers: “Omaha.”

  6. RobertvdL says:
    August 28, 2012 at 07:55

    ‘Reach for the Stars’ now becomes ‘Retreat to the Past’

    by Viv Forbes

    The deaths of Steve Jobs and Neil Armstrong could signal the end of a remarkable era of scientific and engineering achievement that started about 200 years ago when James Watt and Robert Stephenson managed to harness coal-fired steam power to drive engines and locomotives. This was followed by technological innovations like electricity, diesel engines, nuclear power, the Model T, Colombia and the Apple 2.

    During that era of innovation, we progressed from horse and buggy to supersonic flight; from semaphore to smart phone; from wood stoves to nuclear power; from the abacus to the PC; from flickering candles to brilliant light at the flick of a switch; and from wind-jammers sailing to the New World to rocket-ships landing on the Moon.

    That era brought prosperity, longevity and a richer life to millions of people while creating the surpluses that allowed them to take better care of their environment. It also gave the free world the ability and tools to defend itself from aggressive dictators in two World Wars and the Cold War.

    We are now living in the after-glow of that era, relying on past achievements and investments while Green doom-mongers are allowed to scare our children and reject our heritage.

    What will today’s “Green Generation” be remembered for?

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/27/reach-for-the-stars-now-becomes-retreat-to-the-past/

  7. KG says:
    August 28, 2012 at 08:24

    “We are now living in the after-glow of that era, relying on past achievements and investments while Green doom-mongers are allowed to scare our children and reject our heritage.”

    Superb, and so sadly true.