Catching Pigs

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and Install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.

"When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

"They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

"The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America.

Just Doesn't Add Up

Obama's 2013 Budget. Really all we need to know is that Obama proposes to spend $3.8 Trillion against incoming revenues of $2.9 Trillion. Really.

Of course this adds almost one trillion to the already $15 + Trillion national debt. In fact, in his 2013 budget a full 7% of the budget is just for interest on that debt. That's like a family with a monthly income of $4,000 paying $280 a month just on credit card interest, not mind you, any reduction of the existing balance.....just paying on the interest - starting to become an Obama thing.

And of course Obama's budget does not address any reforms or restructuring of Social Security or Medicare.....both which are supposed to tank (read: go bankrupt) within the next 10-20 years depending upon who figures you use.

Obama's presents this budget with words like "reining in our deficits is not an end in itself but a necessary step to rebuilding a strong foundation so our economy can grow and create good jobs."

Are you kidding me Mr. President? What you say and what you do are two different things. How is spending almost a Trillion more than we are bringing in "reining in our deficits?",.....how does "deficit spending" create new jobs?

Arkansas Coach writes to ABC

Sent to me by a Patriot, thought it would be good to post on this site,...especially in light of the recent Administration assault on the 1st Amendment.......

My name is Jim Neugent. I wrote to ABC (on-line) concerning a program called 'THE PRACTICE." In last nights episode, one of the lawyer's mothers decided she is gay and wanted her son to go to court and help her get a marriage license so she could marry her 'partner.' I sent the following letter to ABC yesterday and really did not expect a reply, but I did get one.

My original Letter was:

ABC is obsessed with the subject of homosexuality. I will no longer watch any of your attempts to convince the world that homosexuality is OK. ' THE PRACTICE' can be a fairly good show, but last night's program was so typical of your agenda. You picked the 'dufus' of the office to be the one who was against the idea of his mother being gay, and made him look like a whiner because he had convictions. This type of mentality calls people like me a 'gay basher.'

Read the first chapter of Romans (that's in the Bible); and see what the apostle Paul had to say about it..... He, God and Jesus were all 'gay bashers'. What if she'd fallen in love with her cocker spaniel? Is that an alternative life style? (By the way, the Bible speaks against that, too.)

- Jim Neugent -


Here is ABC's reply from the ABC on-line webmaster:

How about getting your nose out of the Bible (which is ONLY a book of stories compiled by MANY different writers hundreds of years ago) and read the declaration of independence (what our nation is built on), where it says 'All Men are Created equal,' and try treating them that way for a change!

Or better yet, try thinking for yourself and stop using an archaic book of stories as your lame crutch for your existence. You are in the minority in this country, and your boycott will not affect us at ABC or our freedom of statement.


Jim Neugent's second response to ABC:

Thanks for your reply. From your harsh reply, evidently I hit a nerve. I will share it with all with whom I come in contact. Hopefully, the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper will include it in one of their columns and I will be praying for you.

- Jim Neugent -

Final note from Jim Neugent:

Note: Wouldn't Satan just love it if people stopped using the Bible for a crutch?