The Lost Boys and Girls of America

by Chris Noonan Funnell

In Cambridge, Massachusetts every third person was born in another country. In summer Boston’s streets are teaming with tourists. Double-decker trolleys and Duckboats navigate what once were cow paths or float on the Charles River. 

An ad for a job fair for one of the touring companies caught my eye. That would be a fun job, I thought and I’d learn a lot about this fascinating city. A friend has given tours for many years and we’d even talked about starting a touring company focusing on the Christian heritage here. In the past few years I’ve heard a lot of interpreters taking liberties with the truth and wanted to present an un-PC tour to vie with haunted happenings, gourmet geeks, Cheers tours and pub crawls. I hope there is hunger for a tour that honors our past so we do not lose respect for the Judeo-Christian foundation that made this city so important. Missionaries were sent out from Boston in the 19^th century and now fruit of their work is returning to repay us from Brazil, Africa and Korea seeing the Church has nearly extinguished its flame.

The first casino is coming and medical marijuana stores are open in Massachusetts; the Boston Bomber heard victim’s statements, apologized to victims, sort of, and praised Allah. Some accepted his apology and even forgave him. For some there was a measure of closure but many are still dealing with too much pain and rage to forgive. The Tsarnaev brothers came to our state lived off the taxpayers and literally tore a hole in the fabric of our city. A book by an investigative reporter is about to be published.

Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing by Michele McPhee

 What happens in Boston does not stay in Boston.  For good or ill we are still the “Hub of the Universe”, the sending place of academic missionaries and politicians that have changed the world with presidents and personalities. The cream of the crop have come and gone for centuries. The most recent graduates received their commencement admonitions and diplomas and some internationals will stay here and even import their parents and families into a higher living standard while locals feel the squeeze economically and move, pushed out by the Sanctuary City mentality of Boston's Mayor and the Governor.

A generation has been educated never having saluted the flag nor learned patriotic songs and prayers which were said in school before 1963. The courts have redefined marriage, family and the value of human life. Lost boys and girls find life expendable and sexuality, gender and commitment fall into the TBD category because boundaries are disappearing.

Boys refuse to grow up; like Peter Pan, most have no problem with casual sex and sperm donorship while girls press into man’s realm and demand society pay for abortion and even contraception. They are on the verge of tipping the scales and throwing away the freedom others paid for with their blood.

The lost boy of Charleston SC attended a Bible study and at the end shot nine believers in cold blood. The boy was crazed with drugs and should have been restrained rather than enabled by friends and family. How many more are there out there? What is the remedy? I don’t think it is gun control. In fact if there was someone packin’ in that church things might not have been so devastating.

We are now living in a time when insanity is just as much a plague as cancer or diabetes. They are all sicknesses brought on by poor choices either ours or our predecessors. There is a way to actually live victoriously and it is inscribed on walls of our statehouses and universities but has been effectively ignored and replaced by man-made rules. 

It would be grand to see a fleet of tour buses and Duck Boats teaching those facts and parables but the damage is so extensive some believe only God can save our nation now.

We celebrate our Independence in a big way here in Boston but the enemies of the America have hollowed out our freedoms and are removing piece by piece our Constitutional footing aided and abetted by a compromised media with a leftist agenda. The Fifth Column, the government media complex, the entertainment industry and academia have brainwashed our children and stolen their hope and freedom so that blasphemy replaces the patriotic and sacred songs that once unified us.

Here are the lyrics to the cynical paean Take Me to Church perhaps the Charleston shooter or Tsarnaev liked it. The Ellen DeGeneres Show featured a tattooed ballet dancer to this song as lost girls and boys swooned.   

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
To drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful
That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

No masters or kings when the ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Amen. Amen. Amen

Songwriters
BYRNE, ANDREW HOZIER

Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reliv Barista School comes to Boston

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How I became a Reliv Barista

In May of 2014 a giant began stalking my husband and me. Like Goliath he had a loud voice, towered over us and threatened our life as we knew it. The giant's name was not Goliath but "Third stage Cancer". This giant had stalked and taken many family members on both sides. A team of doctors presented a plan that would take the better part of a year. A few months before the diagnosis we had found Reliv which worked wonders for my moods and energy level. During Dave's treatment of radiation, chemo and surgery I became his "Reliv Barista" adding Fiberstore and Innergize to Reliv Now shakes and making sure he took extra LunaRichX capsules.
We always told the doctors and nurses about Reliv products and showed them the ingredients and studies. They have been impressed with Dave's strength throughout ileostomy surgery and 8 grueling cycles of chemo. His surgeon said "There was no downside to taking it."  Reliv helped Dave stay strong and gave him the energy and strength that he needed to get through his treatment. Today, Dave is happy and healthy and looking forward to what life has to offer. 
Dave has used LRX capsules to make a paste to apply on skin lesions with great success.
I plan to keep telling everyone I can about Reliv and highly recommend the Reliv Now shakes and LRX to anyone with a cancer diagnosis who’s going through chemo. It will definitely help give them the strength and energy needed for a quicker recovery.

Chris Funnell

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My latest Column published by the New Boston Post

http://newbostonpost.com/2017/01/19/buyers-and-sellers-of-bitter-butter/

Sometimes you have to mercilessly edit essays due to space. Editors also are realists about attention spans.
The above links to what the New Boston Post published and below my full article which this blog allows me to print in full.

Buyers and Sellers of Bitter Butter 2017

By Chris Noonan Funnell

The Bitter Butter Award of 2017 goes to...drum roll please… Georgia Representative John Lewis for refusing to attend the Inauguration of the 45^th President of the United Sates and using his platform as a civil Rights icon to stir up dissent and delegitimize the election and Trump’s presidency setting a poor example for his party and younger generations who need to see democracy work.

Betty bought some bitter butter, but the bitter butter was too bitter for the better batter, so she bought some better butter for the bitter batter and made the bitter batter better!

Spoken quickly this tongue twister was useful to impress small children with my verbal skills. Teaching art for nearly a decade gave me a front row seat on the state of the American child and family. I have seen the frustration of a child who could not find a crayon to match her skin color and made a point of ordering the multi-cultural art supplies that are now available; in January our art lessons included making posters about MLK. Children are more malleable and accepting of differences but they also pick up neighborhood tensions and attitudes like sponges.  When adults set a good example of fair play children follow. When teachers and authority figures cry foul everyone takes sides and division occurs.

It happened after the presidential election in 2000, and unfortunately it is happening again, as Democrats contest the election results and threaten to boycott the Inauguration of the President-Elect Donald Trump.

Snowflakes, youths unable to accept the election results, fuss and whine and plot to disrupt the Inaugural festivities. The adults and senior members in the losing party instead of setting a good example add to the hostile climate lead by civil rights icon and long time Representative from Georgia, John Lewis.  Lewis’s glory days were in the violent racial struggles in the South of the 1960’s when as a young man he marched with Martin Luther King. Perhaps Lewis imagines he must lead a march today against Donald Trump, who in his view is the illegitimate winner causing some to chant “Not my president!”.

What has happened to the peaceful transition of power which America has modeled for the world since its beginning? We did not see this when Obama was elected in 2008 nor 2012 despite the bitter disappointment on the right. That is why I felt the need to call out Rep. Lewis for his bad example and confer upon him the Bitter Butter Award of 2017.

Back on Jan. 20, 2001 when George W. Bush began his first term there had been an extended battle for the presidency and ballots were being hand-counted in Florida as the nation looked on. It came down to a Supreme Court decision in favor of Bush who (like Trump) had won the electoral vote. Al Gore won the popular vote though some have disputed those results as well. A few sore losers have never gotten over that court ruling and never gave Bush a chance. Instead, partisan (and racial) bitterness has continued to plague politics even though in 2008 America elected its first black President, Barak Obama, and re-elected him in 2012.

In the aftermath of the Bush election I yearned for the kind of eloquence Dr. King was noted for to soothe and inspire those adults who took offense during the extended and contentious ballot re-count in 2000.  I took some time out to jot down some thoughts under the influence on my drug of choice, caffeine, at a bookstore coffee shop. While waiting for something profound to percolate up with consolation and healing for my irate, disconsolate African-American compatriots, my eyes fell on a poetry display. If only I could soothe angry, frayed emotions with a poem or an essay as persuasive as the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; a soft answer to turn away wrath…a bridge over troubled waters.

But what did I behold sitting in suburbia without a person of color in sight but the cover of a poetry book by Nikki Giovanni. I remembered her writings from college; her poems sometimes called for revolution and promoted black liberation. She has accumulated over 20 honorary degrees for her poetry which expresses hate such as "We would also suggest blinding or the removal of at least two eyes from one of the heads of all albino freaks". As I began to read one, two, then a third poem, I suddenly felt I was in the wrong aisle. Ms. Giovanni was not into bridge building, but was actually calling for violence, vengeance and reverse racism…bitter butter!

I put the book back on the shelf and the bridge collapsed into a sea of negativity. Instead of soothing words I got my Irish up. How many Bettys are buying this bitter butter? How many spread it on their toast each morning and serve it to their kids like they did during “the Troubles” in Ireland? The recipe for peace and progress calls for better ingredients like those MLK called for: wisdom, justice, hope and non-violence.

Sad to say, The First Black President, Barack Obama did not follow MLK’s recipe for a melting pot and the beacon of liberty to the world. A recipe that blended humanity rather than divided and inflamed passions and created an anti-establishment movement in which police are characterized as racist and assassinated . Perhaps as a student Obama was all too familiar with Ms. Giovanni’s Bitter Butter.

The Justice which MLK was calling for in his “How Long?” speech of 1965 is neither valued nor aimed for by the BLM movement. They have built up a false narrative that incites class warfare and lawlessness.

 President Obama used his January 13, 2011 Tucson speech to lecture the nation about goodness. “… Let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other  more carefully,” This from the same person who proclaimed in his determination to foist the Health Care monstrosity on the nation…"if they bring a knife to this fight, we'll bring a gun."

In 2016 we saw racism flare-ups as the "Black Lives Matter" mantra was continually repeated since 2013 when George Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of a black youth and later, in Ferguson MO when a black youth died at the hands of police. President Obama never failed to use these tragedies to call for more gun control even though the greatest gun violence occurs in cities like Chicago, NYC and Detroit where gun laws are strictest. How long will these harangues go on? Not long…thanks to the peaceful transition of power this week.

So the 2017 Bitter Butter Award goes to Rep. John Lewis for stirring up strife and smearing not only Trump and his presidency but the legitimacy of the votes of more than 60 million Americans who elected Trump.  Although Rep. Lewis has had a long and arguably distinguished career on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement he does not win the Lifetime Achievement Bitter Butter Award; that distinction goes to Barack Obama for his consistency and dedication, causing a racial melt down in our nation.

As we go forward with a new President and cabinet let’s hope there is less taste for the bitter butter of racism coming from all sides, particularly from the media.

Chris Noonan Funnell

Freelance writer/ Columnist                  Jan. 18, 2017