Bunnykins’ Blog

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday  Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.  I don’t feel threatened.  I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me.  I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto.  In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in   Malibu  .  If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away..

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.  I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.  I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country.  I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?  I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too.  But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:  This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Hurricane Katrina)..  Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.  She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.  And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out.  How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of recent events…. Terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.  I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school….  The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.  And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide).  We said an expert should know what he’s talking about.  And we said okay.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.  I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell.  Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.  Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace…

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it…. No one will know you did.  But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards,  Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

If you think, you are unhappy. . .

If you think your salary is low. . .

If you think you don’t have many friends. . .

When you feel like giving up . .  .

If you think you suffer in life,
do you suffer as much as he does?

If you complain about your transport system . . .

If your society is unfair  . .  .

Enjoy life, how it is, and as it comes

There are always those who are worse
off than we are. There are many things
in your life that will catch your eye, But
only a few will catch your heart…pursue those…

My Aunt is giving away her cats do to them making her sick so I am getting the littlest one named Gizmo. It is already litter trained, been fixed and had all of it’s shots. This will be good and give my other cat a friend to play with as I know he gets bored and would like company. I do hope they both get along with each other and I do not find them fighting.

This was a very odd dream it started out as a space or star trek type dream. We were traveling the stars searching for a lost space ship. The ship looked kind of like a borg ship except with a round top and it was more of a white or silver color. We came to this huge planet that had to be bigger then Jupiter but support like like Earth. We landed on this planet and began to explore to see if the ship we were looking for was here. We came across a crashed ship that looked close to what we were looking for except it was about half the size of the one we were looking for. We went inside and began to explore the ship. In one of the rooms we found a control panel for some thing that was very unknown to us. One of the people following me hit a button and seemed to have sent us back in time to when the ship we were in was built, which was thousands of years ago. We watched the ship being built and even the much larger one that we were looking for, which was about the size of earth. We watched as they put animals in huge rooms in the big ship. Many of the animals we had never seen but we did see some from earth as well.

After watching with amazement we were invited to go with in the earth pod, where they put all the earth animals. So we went ahead and got in the ship in the earth pod and looked around and found a basket ball or at least some thing like a basketball cause. So we played for a little bit and was having all kinds of fun and then we noticed that the big ship started breaking apart each pod was separating from the main ship and going to different planets the one we were in was heading toward earth.

After that I woke up.