Friday, May 3, 2019

Bring Back the 'Fields' of Honor.'

So much for 'The Fields' of Dreams.' Bring back 'The Fields' of Honor.'  The time is right! America needs to embrace Socrates' plea, "Know Thyself." Who would not agree that our countrymen have a history of being adventurous, rugged, explorers and 'cowboys' forever? Heavens, we loved our horses so dearly that we continue in this 21st century to measure the dynamics of our autos in terms of 'horse power.' We're COWBOYS and as Cowboys we must remember the importance of honor.

People get all excited about the current state of political divisiveness and ugly wrangling. We hear our elected leaders call opponents liars, cowards and sexual predators as hate rhetoric overflows. That's not new, folks. Our American politicians have always showed their ass-side more than their Judeo-Christian side. The only thing that has changed is we no longer have dueling matches to settle the score and protect one's honor. It's time the dueling 'fields of honor' are brought back to the land of the free and the home of the brave. Damnit, Make America Great Again!

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton settled their differences in 1804 and two years later Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson did likewise. Even Abe Lincoln and James Shields were prepared to exchange gun shots when the blood shed was avoided with an apology. Can you believe Mark Twain could have been killed by James Laird in a dueling match...its true. Wow! Had that happened I would have no reason to visit Hannibal, Missouri.

Well, the time is ripe in the good old USA to break out the dueling pistols and stand back-to-back!
President Trump would no longer need to ask his supporters at rallies to "knock him out, I'll pay the lawyers' fee." No sir, Trump could challenge people who offends his honor to a duel...and Joe Biden would not need to "take Trump behind the gym." With 24-7 cable news, we could all push for specific dueling square-offs. We could hold dueling events at the Super Bowl half-time and get The NRA to sponsor and provide free beer and brats. Mercy, gun sales would sky-rocket! AND, the greatest benefit coming from the return of dueling would be the riddance of some politicians, i.e. wild animals, which kill off the undesirables among them. For future phraseology reference, we will not call dueling matches a 'thinning of the herd' but instead use the phrase, 'flushing the crap.'
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I Shot That Scondrel

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