Mischief In Manhattan

Hows everybody doin?
Just blew in from Montana. Hey, did you ever think how many states start with somebodies
name, like Al aska, or Cal ifornia, Ida ho, and Georgia, you know what I mean? Does'nt
work with Montana, whattayagonnado?
My neice, Schmooglie, the litte sh--, Peirson just graduated from high school...did you
ever ask why they call it high school? High School, I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin it sounds a little counter-culture like. If you get my meaning. It's like jr. high school
should be called small school right, and there you have it, the kids are gettin high and
gettin small all at the same time, at school, Mama Mia, I'm thinkin we have a problem.
We was real proud of Schmooglie(like when fat Clemenza tells Mike Corleone....."we was
real proud of you Mike, you bein a war hero and all")for all her accomplishments,
including those cinnamon rolls.....Marone!
First time in thirty-eight yrs. of marriage that me and Betty went somewhere on Memorial
Day weekend, and it hadda be beautiful downtown Manhattan, Montana.
And the after graduation party....fuggetaboudit!
Uncle D. thought he was in Belfast, what with all those car-bombs, you know what I mean?
Thanks citizens of Manhattan, we hadda ball!
Uncle D

Wisdom is as wisdom does!

"Does orthodoxy have a satisfactory answer to the dilemma which this nation faces?
This is an important question and demands an answer. If liberalism has been such an
influential agency for the creation of a movement away from constitutional government
and the traditional American freedom toward a collectivist society and some kind of
totalitarian regime, does Christian orthodoxy have a remedy for this situation?
The answer is found in the biblical view of government. The Scriptures clearly teach
that human government is of divine ordination and does not have as its origin in any
social compact or contract, as Hobbes and Locke taught, nor was it created by man
himself to meet the needs of his society. Rather does Christian theism insist that
government was ordained of God for man and that its just powers come from Him and not
from man. Government is not ordained primarily to defend human liberty, but to insure
that kind of society necessary for man to carry out those duties which he owes to God
alone. Thus, government has clearly defined powers and operates in a clearly defined
sphere. The basic error of liberalism at this point has been its insistence that
human government is a social institution, responsible to those men who created it and
is primarily concerned with the preservation of human rights as they were defined by
Jefferson and others of that day. This error is very popular among Christian people as
well as the nation at large and it has been productive of great error for it has allowed
the forces of political liberalism to extend the operations of government into spheres
where it has no right to be, and in so doing it has actually become a menace to the
human liberty which the liberals insist that it must protect. But above and beyond this, when human government extends its powers and operations to those spheres of human life
which God did not render subject to it, government then finds itself in opposition to
its divinely bestowed purposes for it takes unto itself powers which were never bestowed
upon it. It is this extension of power into these forbidden areas which has created the
modern totaliarian state. When human government enters into the field of labor relations,
education, mental and physical health, agriculture, housing, and those many other areas
of legislation so characteristic of the federal government today, it leaves its proper
functions and enters into those areas of life which God has either ordained that the
church or the family should have as their particular sphere of responsibility, or that
they should be the concern of some human institution which man may erect for his own
civil purposes under Gods grace.
The real problem then, is not basically the reduction of governmental expenses(as imp-
ortant as that is), nor the proper relationship between the states and the federal government, or the victory of one political party over another. All of these have their
place. But the basic issue is the reduction of the total scope of government, on both
the federal and state level, to those spheres which are clearly conferred upon it by the
Scriptures and the surrender of those extra-biblical powers which liberal political
philosophy and practice have given to it during the last one hundred years or so. Only
then will our government be truly Christian and freedom restored to its former and proper
place in the life of the American people."
C.Gregg Singer
A Theological Interpretation Of American History

Uncle D.

Carlos: I wish for you to love me!

..A maiden, Marian, a proletarian librarian, a clarion for humanitarian ideas, a kind of
contrarian grammarian,born a sagittarian to her father Valerian, a libertarian agrarian,
committed to trinitarian and sabbatarian views was a vegetarian all her life.
Maid Marian, a non-sectarian, non-parlimentarian millenarian came to odds with her father
Valerian, a gregarian, sexagenarian, over one Carlos, a rastafarian seminarian, who held
to strange pre-lapsarian and antiquarian views. Valerian, a superlapsarian, opposed
Carlos, an infralapsarian, and nothing became of their friendship.
And living to be a centenarian, this Marian, a proletarian, vegetarian, librarian, never
forgot her love for her rastfarian, seminarian.......Carlos.

Shrimp happens,
D.

Marinara shots and red wine chasers

Uncle D. hadda great adult beverage this week. We, my trophy wife Betty and I, went out
for some 'Happy Hour' nourishment,if you know what I mean? We had some food, a coupla
drinks, and basically had some catchin up to do, it was all good. Afterwards we went to
pick up some flowers to plant in our garden, see, Betty has trained Uncle D. to have an
eye for flowers and beauty and stuff like that....it's like what we do this time of year,
and I really look forward to it O.K.. Hey, am I going to fast for you? Try and keep up,
you know what I mean? So we're buyin all this gorgeous stuff; did I mention it was raining the entire time? Well, it was raining the entire time, and it was a little cold
as well. Imagine that, rainy and cold in Oregon(thats Oregone for my friends back east),
whattayagonnado? Anyways, this is all taking a coupla hours, and we remember we have to
pick up Bug, on account of she's working at the pizza joint. See, usually Bug would give
us a call, when her shift is over, and then we go get her, capisci mi? Except this time
we forget to bring our cell phones, mama mia, what am I Il Stupido, or what? So we load
up our plants and head for the pizza joint, only to find out she wants to have a little
something for dinner after her shift.......sooooooo Betty and I have another 'Happy
Hour' experience at the pizza joint. All this to say I had the great beverage of the
week, which was an Italian peach soda with a shot of vodka, and it wassa so good.
Now, my trophy wife Betty, who could take shots of marinara,with red wine chasers....she
issa so Italiano, hadda glass of white wine and we patiently waited for Bug to finish
her dinner.
Did I mention the rain?
Sometimes I forget the important details!

Ciao,
Donnie

Kah-Nee-Ta Dreamin

Whatta week this is, the Mariners have been playing real good, they finally got Osaka
Bumb Louden, The Kid, Kid Gazelle got engaged and Uncle Donnie had food poisoning! Top that, right! On top of all that Uncle D. and his trophy wife Betty are gonna be grand-
parents again, thanks to Lt. and Mrs. Mahar from Florida. What can I say, life is good,
capisci mi? Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I had another birthday; turning 38 for the twentieth straight year, and I still have full head of hair, whattayagonnado?
Bug got me a birthday present, the greatest hits from John Denver, sweet!
Thank God Ima country boy!
My three favorite American Indian words..... Kah-Nee-Ta! My trophy wife Betty and I
went there for our honeymoon. Resort living is what I do best, you know what I mean?
What with the golf and the pools and the Indian fry bread, what else is there?
From drizzle to sizzle in less than two hours......Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort.
Hey, Betty, make us a reservation soon!

Go Mariners,
Uncle Donnie