Cold Day In Hell

 We wrote this letter in response to a large bill board and multiple signs for Timmerman.

Mr. Fitzgerald
Owner of the Shamrock Restaurant
7701 Fitzgerald Rd
Thurmont, MD, 21788
                                                                September 23, 2012
Mr. Fitzgerald:

As a Christian, I am compelled to let you know of my disgust for your support of Timmerman for Congress.  I wrote your daughter two months ago, but never received a response.  Every time my wife and I travel on Rt 15, we are befuddled by your support of this candidate in the 8th district.

Mr. Timmerman has based his campaign on Iran having a nuclear bomb.  As I wrote Dawn, “Timmerman ran a campaign based on his knowing more than the head of U.S. Intelligence, James Clapper, and a report from the top 16 Intelligence agencies in our country.  They have repeatedly stated that Iran does not have, and will not have, nuclear bomb capability."   Iran does however, have a right to develop nuclear energy because they signed the nuclear proliferation treaty; something Israel has not signed.

Mr. Timmerman boasts of being an “investigative reporter”.   Barbara Walters, Glen Beck, and a number of political entertainers who have an agenda, are also investigative reporters.  I see Mr. Timmerman as a typical Neo-Con, who wants more wars and less individual liberty.  He is a Zionist war monger.  He considers the Patriot Act, which is the most vicious attack on our 4th amendment rights, to be fine.

In the past, you have been supportive of patriotic candidates like myself and Ron Paul.  It bothers us to see your support for Timmerman, and although we are grateful for your earlier support, it will be a cold day in hell before we have dinner at the Shamrock.

Disappointed,



Mike & Jane Hargadon

Letter to the Editor of the Wanderer

Wanderer:

I was astounded to find that, “F.A. von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises were not household names, that is, until Mitt Romney named Cong. Paul Ryan as his presidential running mate.”  (Wanderer Sept 6th).  Why on earth would that be?  Ryan’s idea of a cut, is to cut a proposed increase, and he has no cuts for our military empire.  I have been a follower of Dr. Ron Paul for six years.  I mentioned Hayek’s name in my 2008 congressional stump speech, and I have had several friends travel south to attend the Mises’s Institute.  Maybe Dr. Dougherty has her Paul’s confused?

In 2010, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Wisconsin published a detailed analysis of Paul Ryan’s voting record that would make President Obama proud. Ryan voted yes on TARP, the 2008 stimulus, the GM and Chrysler bailouts, Medicare Part D, Head Start, an extension of unemployment benefits, No Child Left Behind, and the raising of the debt ceiling.  These are hardly examples of responsible spending.

How this political creative writing merited a top page in your great paper is a mystery.  Does a higher degree in Philosophy allow someone to misrepresent two great economists?

Maybe One Goat In Hell?

For years now, I have taken exception with several priests, who have insisted on characterizing goats as stubborn, mischievous, and evil.  They seem to fall into this error, as they try to unpack Christ's parable of the final judgement. Matthew 26: 32, 33  "And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left."  Those on the left are later banished, "Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."  Matt. 26:42

My complaint is that Christ's point is simply that there is a difference: a difference between a goat and a sheep, as there is a difference between someone who lives for Christ, and someone who does not.  The urban view of goats just naturally makes an easy target for a homily on unacceptable behavior, which is bound to land you in hell.  For the most part though, I have found goats to be good natured, trainable, and humorous.   I have raised both sheep and goats, and if I had to send either to hell, it would surely be the sheep, with one exception, "Redneck". 

I started writing this blog at 2:30 am after returning from my dental office, where I cut-off my wedding ban of 37 years.  Earlier in the day I had attempted to give two of my three goats their worming medicine.  Redneck, named for her reddish brown neck on her otherwise white coat, has always been a tad skittish.  I had her penned in a stall.  Just as I grabbed her collar, she broke away, and jammed my ring finger.  It hurt, but I hoped I could walk it off.  I kept hoping until pain woke me at 1:30 a.m., and my ring was obviously tighter against the slightly swollen finger.  Luckily I have high speed drills at my office, in which a diamond-chip burr cuts through metal rather easily.

I will always take exception to this common clerical cut on goats, but if I am unable to register my complaint, I'll just figure he's referring to Redneck.