Good lessons are learned the
hard way. It was late August several years back and
we lead a nice horse with a nasty chest laceration
into the surgery room at our clinic. I explained the
treatment approach to the owners and began cleaning
and resecting dead tissue from the injury. My
assistant noticed the pony’s flanks blanketed with
thousands of tiny flies, so to be helpful she
grabbed a bottle of fly spray and launched a
chemical sortie on the little buzzers. This was bad.
Thousands of flies instantly jumped ship and sought
refuge on every other warm blooded creature in the
room; namely us. The little insects attacked my eyes
and mouth and debriding the wound while slapping at
flies quickly became impossible. Finally, we moved
the surgery to the parking lot.
This little lesson came to mind a week ago when I
performed a cesarean section to remove a necrotic
calf from a range cow. Every August we get one
bovine obstetrical nightmare and since there are two
doctors in my practice I have a 50/50 chance the
other doctor will draw the short straw. Doctor
Broyles was fishing the Big Horn River the day I
drew the short straw. As I was clipping the hair off
the old girl’s left flank, I noticed her neck and
shoulders crawling with horn flies. I instructed
everyone to leave the fly spray on the shelf until
we finished surgery; all agreed. It is impossible to
concentrate on the task at hand when all of your
senses are bombarded by tiny distractions which
become overwhelming when attacked all at once. This
exact scenario is playing out right here in in the
good old US A and I wish I could dismiss our
problems as being due to the untimely application of
fly spray, but I fear a more nefarious cause. Let’s
step out of the surgery room and take a thorough
look at America’s sad state of affairs.
Hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous
illegals from every continent are invading our
southern border. Before long, the only person left
in Mexico will be US Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.
Representatives of the Internal Revenue Service are
unequally applying tax law so as to silence
political opposition and are lying to cover their
tracks. Attorney General Eric Holder expends
taxpayer resources so as to fuel a race war in
Ferguson, Missouri. Our national debt is $17.7
trillion and climbing $2.3 billion every day of the
week. President Obama is pursuing a UN climate
accord rather than a treaty so as to bypass
constitutional restrictions calling for ratification
by two-thirds of the Senate. Although technology has
opened vast reserves of domestic coal, oil and
natural gas, progressives promote the false national
religion of environmentalism so as to block its
development. The EPA freezes economic growth by
implementing job killing carbon emission regulations
and are now crafting rules to garner federal control
of all continental surface waters. Make no mistake
about it, all of the above are purposely done to
break and fundamentally change America into a
socialist state; exactly as President Obama promised
in his first presidential campaign. Did you miss it?
America is suffering because the ruling class has
convinced a majority of the unwashed that freedom is
an inherently unfair system and the proper function
of government is to equalize everything. Talent,
ambition, ingenuity, sacrifice, courage and
creativity are replaced with entitlement. Once the
masses believe they are due the bounty produced by
the sweat of others the ruling class has no bounds.
November 4th, Election Day, may be our last chance
to reject every progressive candidate at every level
of office to help America begin her comeback. To do
anything less is as meaningless as swatting at
flies.
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