Facebook Amen Corner

Just in case you haven’t noticed, Facebook has become the “Amen corner” of the net. People post things like pretty pictures of sunsets and say things like “Obama is great” and everyone who responds says something like, “What a pretty picture!” or, “What a pretty sunset!” Or, “Yes, he truly is.” And, “We’re so blessed to have George Soros guiding his every move.”

Now, if anyone should disagree with same sex marriages or abortions, for example; it’s better just to keep it to oneself. One’s comment will be promptly deleted, even if one counters with a reasoned argument.

This has happened to me several times. I could say all I want against Iran’s mullahs, but let me say one word about our sainted co-presidents (Soros-Obama) and puff, it’s gone.

I never put the writings I post here on Facebook, but others do. It’s hit or miss. I suspect they have some kind of machine that scouts for word clusters involving “Soros”, “Obama”, “Koelliker”, “fraud”, "treason”, “anti-American”… (you get the idea), and nixes it. Amazing what technology can do these days. And, from news reports I read, our government is getting more and more involved in cyberspace.

I’d imagine, if I were Iranian and blogging from Iran, I’d run into the same buzz saw (only the clusters are different). What’s in a name, anyway?

Alas, the world is getting smaller. We’ll soon be condemned to all doing (and thinking) the same things. In a way, I don’t blame the jihadis. They’re the last ones on earth who can claim to be free. At least they haven’t looked yet who has them by the tail while they’re slamming us around.

We accuse China of manipulating media; we accuse Iran. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

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To my readers#2:

Two things I love about these blogs is making up titles and adding pictures. This is not something I can do on John Batchelor’s site. I have a lot of pictures that I’ve taken over the years to choose from. I also recently discovered boxes and boxes of slides in the attic that my father took. I bought a scanner and added some of these to my digital collection. I think he would have been happy to see his beloved hobby bearing fruit so many years after his death.

Additionally, it’s been fun watching the graphs that tell me you have been reading my stuff – and not just those of you in the U.S. I’ve had visitors from as far away as China (and from virtually everywhere in between).

As a kid, I used to dream of becoming a writer. The problem was, I had nothing to say. For a while, I tried making stuff up. But nobody was much interested. I dropped the whole thing and, for many years, never wrote much or read.

Now this inclination seems to have reasserted itself. I no longer struggle when I sit down at the computer. The things that are happening now are way more compelling than what I could ever have imagined. Truly, “you can’t make this stuff up”.

I am profoundly grateful that you keep coming back to ‘REFLECTIONS’. I assure you, it’s all original and not cut-and-paste (unless so indicated). Spun from today’s events, I always try to lock on to an angle that might have been overlooked. Often, days later, I find something similar said or written somewhere …and I smile.

While you’re at it, do check out my other blog (http://pkoelliker.blogspot.com/). It’s about travel and is non-political. It too has been getting quite a bit of traffic lately.