What's Better And What's Worse In The News?

What's Worse For George Zimmerman?
  George Zimmerman is getting muzzled in court. Trayvon Martin's drug use and his history of fights will not be allowed. If you have to decide between the conflicting testimony of two people, what is the best indicator for human behavior? The past. The past is prelude. Of course, it is not always true. People change and people do things out of the ordinary way of doing things.Yet it is still the best, though fallible, indicator of what took place in the past and of what will take place in the future.
What's Better For Rush Limbaugh?
  Rush Limbaugh made an excellent point during his show. He said that the Republicans think the Democrats are just people with bad ideas whereas the Democrats think the Republicans are the scum of the earth.
You see the battle is being fought on two, very different battlefields. The Republicans fight their battle intellectually while the Democrats fight theirs emotionally and totally. The Republicans want to get you to change your thinking in some areas while the Democrats demonize the Republicans and fight total war just as the communists did under Mao and Stalin and do today under Castro, for instance. This is also the stance of radical Islam that says "Convert or die!" Democrats are today totalitarian while Republicans want a limited government whose functions are more those of protecting you rather than telling you what you are going to do and monitoring you to make sure you do.
It's the choice between liberty and slavery. For adult children who have never had parents who were task-masters but pals, the concept of slavery is very hazy and not emotionally vivid. Authoritarianism makes them think they are cared for, that they finally have real parents. For adult children who have had stern, unyielding parents who had lots of chores for them, the choice is much clearer and  the concept of slavery is much more alive.
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW Gainesville, Florida  352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Limbaugh, Cain, Morrison, Dean, Savage, and wide reading.