Don Quixote, Squadrons of Hagar's Windmills, and Barack's Bagnios
Nobody’s Opinion: How many people who are without power for the next three weeks in Texas, will be reading books because they can’t get on their computers? Cell phones are down: no school, no work, thanks to Ike.
Okay…any guesses?
Well, I bet that not one person will be reading the book I just finished…Cervantes’s DON QUIXOTE.
Because even I, a person suffering from DBA, (Delusional Book Addiction) started falling asleep around page 854.
I’ve heard the phrase “Don Quixote” applied on many an occasion in accordance to wind mills…and since windmills are favorite topics right now, I decided to read it.
Here’s what I learned:
1. There have always been rich and poor. The poor are an amusement to the rich. They also, almost always, take the punishments for the rich’s mistakes. (Think Fannie and Freddie) But the poor and pure-of-heart keep taking this punishment…the book never says why.
2. Don Quixote is much more about Muslims than windmills. The scene where Quixote attacks windmills because he thinks they are giants, is very small.
3. Cervantes observations of Muslims and their characteristics could have been written today.
You will not see this classic on your kid’s “to read” school lists any time soon.
Don Quixote is about two good buddies: one believes he is a Sir Lancelot, and goes out to save the world.
The “world” thinks he’s a big joke.
Sancho Panza is his nobody sidekick. They travel around looking for damsels to save, wrongs to right, and get severely beaten up for their efforts.
Cervantes observations of Muslims are worth noting. ‘Moors’ were liars, thieves, and not very courageous. They also demand huge payments of extortion…you either pay them big time, or go to war.
“They show their declarations and say that these papers prove their intention to remain in Christian lands, which was the reason they came on a raid with the Turks. In this way they avoid the initial violence of their captors and reconcile with the Church, and no one does them any harm, and at the first opportunity they return to Barbary to be what they were before.”
Yes…they sneak into other countries to take them over.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson met with leaders of the Barbery pirates a few hundred years after Cervantes and came back with the same report.
While Shakespeare was having a grand old time in London, Miguel De Cervantes (the author) lead a tough life. At the great naval battle of Lepanto, he lost the use of his left hand. In 1575, he was captured by Barbery pirates, and spent five years as their slave in Algiers. He came back to Spain, wrote 20 plays and failed. He became a tax collector, and then was imprisoned again.
So, my question is; if the educated have always known the Muslim’s true nature, why in the world have all our leaders been so stupid? Bill Clinton is at the top of that list.
We built the Saudi’s oil wells---they kicked us out. They now have us at their mercy. We fight to protect the Royal Saudi family, because without their oil, we crumble.
When Bush says it’s our own survival we are fighting for, he’s not kidding. The Muslims are not like us. And our leaders, to the rest of the world, look like a bunch of Don Quixote’s on crack.
So, is Barack Obama talking about this “Muslim” threat to us today? No…all he has on his mind is “community service”…a concept that Muslims are really in support of.
No wonder they love him so much.
Barack says Americans must do public works for the general good. He even bragged that he works his young volunteers “like dogs.”
He sounds like a true “sheik.” Muslims don’t like dogs, or pigs for that matter.
Read with me, this chilling passage from Don Quixote.
“This was how I spent my life, locked in a prison or house that the Turks call a bagnio, where they hold Christian captives, who serve the city in public works and in other employment for the general good, these captives find it very difficult to obtain their freedom because they have no individual master and there is no one with whom to negotiate their ransom even if ransom is available.”
If Barack becomes President, it will take a lot more than windmills to save us from Cervantes’ squadrons of Hagar.
America can recover from hurricanes, but Barack’s bagnios will be permanent.
Okay…any guesses?
Well, I bet that not one person will be reading the book I just finished…Cervantes’s DON QUIXOTE.
Because even I, a person suffering from DBA, (Delusional Book Addiction) started falling asleep around page 854.
I’ve heard the phrase “Don Quixote” applied on many an occasion in accordance to wind mills…and since windmills are favorite topics right now, I decided to read it.
Here’s what I learned:
1. There have always been rich and poor. The poor are an amusement to the rich. They also, almost always, take the punishments for the rich’s mistakes. (Think Fannie and Freddie) But the poor and pure-of-heart keep taking this punishment…the book never says why.
2. Don Quixote is much more about Muslims than windmills. The scene where Quixote attacks windmills because he thinks they are giants, is very small.
3. Cervantes observations of Muslims and their characteristics could have been written today.
You will not see this classic on your kid’s “to read” school lists any time soon.
Don Quixote is about two good buddies: one believes he is a Sir Lancelot, and goes out to save the world.
The “world” thinks he’s a big joke.
Sancho Panza is his nobody sidekick. They travel around looking for damsels to save, wrongs to right, and get severely beaten up for their efforts.
Cervantes observations of Muslims are worth noting. ‘Moors’ were liars, thieves, and not very courageous. They also demand huge payments of extortion…you either pay them big time, or go to war.
“They show their declarations and say that these papers prove their intention to remain in Christian lands, which was the reason they came on a raid with the Turks. In this way they avoid the initial violence of their captors and reconcile with the Church, and no one does them any harm, and at the first opportunity they return to Barbary to be what they were before.”
Yes…they sneak into other countries to take them over.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson met with leaders of the Barbery pirates a few hundred years after Cervantes and came back with the same report.
While Shakespeare was having a grand old time in London, Miguel De Cervantes (the author) lead a tough life. At the great naval battle of Lepanto, he lost the use of his left hand. In 1575, he was captured by Barbery pirates, and spent five years as their slave in Algiers. He came back to Spain, wrote 20 plays and failed. He became a tax collector, and then was imprisoned again.
So, my question is; if the educated have always known the Muslim’s true nature, why in the world have all our leaders been so stupid? Bill Clinton is at the top of that list.
We built the Saudi’s oil wells---they kicked us out. They now have us at their mercy. We fight to protect the Royal Saudi family, because without their oil, we crumble.
When Bush says it’s our own survival we are fighting for, he’s not kidding. The Muslims are not like us. And our leaders, to the rest of the world, look like a bunch of Don Quixote’s on crack.
So, is Barack Obama talking about this “Muslim” threat to us today? No…all he has on his mind is “community service”…a concept that Muslims are really in support of.
No wonder they love him so much.
Barack says Americans must do public works for the general good. He even bragged that he works his young volunteers “like dogs.”
He sounds like a true “sheik.” Muslims don’t like dogs, or pigs for that matter.
Read with me, this chilling passage from Don Quixote.
“This was how I spent my life, locked in a prison or house that the Turks call a bagnio, where they hold Christian captives, who serve the city in public works and in other employment for the general good, these captives find it very difficult to obtain their freedom because they have no individual master and there is no one with whom to negotiate their ransom even if ransom is available.”
If Barack becomes President, it will take a lot more than windmills to save us from Cervantes’ squadrons of Hagar.
America can recover from hurricanes, but Barack’s bagnios will be permanent.
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