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Show THE THUNDERBIRD c is ac !:;M in It- tOJSRjh m - . i .... An appointment with stupidity Before the reign of The Reagan Administration, rarely woke up screaming. The creature and happenstance's of my dreams rarely involved anything more frightening than fighting off a few huge clumps of intelligent lint beneath a massive refrigerator. Nothing out of the ordinary, and nothing so horrifying that it lingered for more than a few moments after awakening. But like said, that was before the Dawn of Ron. Now my dreams are filled with an array of hideous politically conjured fiends and events that not only pester my dreams, but which with awakening prove to be only slightly twisted subconcious manifestations of real-lif- e nightmares. They don't go away when the lights are turned on. By now some of the more astute readers are probably thinking, ''Oh, here he goes again, raving about some supposed nightmare that he had in order to make a point when all he's really doing is hiding behind a made-u- p dream from which he can lob his biased views and blame poor ol' Mr. Reagan for all the world's woes. Ho-huNow he'll probably make some rude comments about a 'dream Nancy Reagan' chasing him with a urinalysis bottle and leaving huge red lipstick stains all over his furniture." Actually had considered doing something like that, but then decided that making up some improbable dream to get a point across would be futile, because there are few things more boring than listening to some bonehead babble about his dreams (whether real or not) like a bargain basement Nostradamus. Besides, don't think could make up anything as absurd as what is really happening all around us every day. SoI won't do it. As far as blaming Reagan for all the world's woes won't do that either. The problems world-wid- e a far too complex to be blamed on someone as simple as Reagan alone. No, he had to have help. Sadly, think that a portion of the help came from We the People who were, at first, so taken in by his bravado that we allowed patriotism to turn in to xenophobia. This, coupled with the rise to power of several certifiable lunatics in distant lands led to a nation with decidedly itchy trigger-fingerAdd to this the general ignorance of the public as to what was really going on in the White House, which was compounded by the lies we were fed, and we wind up with a situation like the one we know face in the Middle East. So there we sit, off the coast of Lebanon with our 27 warships waiting for something to happen, while back in the U.S. many people are confused as to why we're there and wondering who we're going to help if something does happen. There are many questions. They need answers. Meanwhile, back on the home front, we are being faced with the continuation of a few old bad habits, and the reappearance of an old demon. Again, some of the blame can be placed on Reagan and his henchmen, and some of it can be placed on We the People. The bad habits include such old favorites as: Rampant nuclear testing despite massive public outcry, continued degredation of the environment by chemical robber-baron- s who are seemingly encouraged by a president how opposses environmental clean-u- p bills, and the continuing expenditure of money we don't have on things we don't need. All the while, the quality of life in America is dwindling. Poverty is on the rise, violence is soaring, and the national collective intelligence is being whittled away by drug abuse and a rapid decay of the educational system brought about by ludicrous budget cuts and the old demon mentioned earlier. That "old demon" was reborn in the wake of the wave of conservatism that swept the country when Reagan took office. Now the demon seems to be out of control, and groups of its servants the Christian Fundamentalists are raving out of control and banning books nearly as fast as they're being printed. It's bad enough that these morons want to ban the printed word, but that's not enough. They want to ban the ideas behind the words. Actions like these are leaving are children ignorant in the sciences, and sadly oblivious to the complexities of a world around them that may not share their beliefs. When this happens, I fear that America will lose all of its status as a world power and that scares me. MONDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1987 PACE 5 A Roast Beef & Cheddar, A Large Order of Fries, And A Large Drink I I Now Only Offer valid L U through February 15, 1987 at participating Arbys Roast Beef Restaurants. One coupon per customer. Not valid with any other offer. h r, Vi f 'L M . 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