No. You Are Wrong.

October 2, 2009 in Politics

Remember when, even if you were not alive yet, that the Pledge of Allegiance was a required daily activity in the school room? Yes, it was our patriotic duty to raise our hands to our hearts and spew out the only words a child can remember at 7:45 in the morning. Well— if you are a conservative by the same logic, that makes you a Nazi!

“We had prayer in school before we started class, and after class,” said Werthmann. “One day I came into the classroom and the crucifix was gone, and there was Hitler’s picture, and the Nazi flag on either side. And our teacher said, ‘Today we don’t pray anymore. We sing ‘Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles.’”

Truer words have never been… wait what?

Yes, it was the Magical Land of Insanity, as Conservative female activists all came together for the innately horrifying ‘How to Take Back America Conference‘ that has been all over the “blogs” and “news organizations” for days now. There were many highlights, including Mike Huckabee allegedly making out with Michele Bachmann in the press bathroom, but that is unfounded— for now.

Freaks from all walks of life were present— from 85 year old’s to the youngest of the Freak kin— all bashing pots against the wall in a general frenzy unmatched by even the greatest of Glenn Beck rants.

“Don’t you dare give up your guns!” thundered Werthmann. “Never, never, never!”
“Give them back one bullet at a time!” called out another activist.

SCENARIO

Jimbo leaves the conference and enters his Truck Nutz adorned Ford F-8000 7 million horsepower vehicle. Jimbo, who is packing heat doesn’t have a gun permit, is pulled over by two officers somewhere west of I-95 (sure why not?). The officers discover that Jimbo is illegally storing firepower and attempt to confront Jimbo over the incident. Jimbo’s reaction? FIRE AT THEM. They are, after all, trying to take his gun away— and you know what happens then? “Give them one bullet at a time!”

END SCENARIO

Is this bullshit coming out of the mouths of the activists, or is it a true sense that anything and everything a Democratic President will do is against their basic understanding of the Bill of Rights?

Hell they have their second amendment— can’t the dirty liberals get the 4th one back? WELL WHO KNOWS, as liberals are not allowed at the Take Back America orgy.

And speaking of orgies, what about gays? Are these “gays” to be referred to as “homosexuals,” or will we go back to their natural, traditional name— “sodomites?”

Rev. Rick Scarborough, a pastor who advised Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, pounded the podium at his Friday afternoon speech, warning that the president’s pro-gay agenda was endangering Christians who spoke out against gay rights.

“The day the president put his hand on the bible,” said Scarborough, “his minions were changing official White House Website to reflect a whole new understanding of civil rights, to refer to homosexuals.” The Bible, said Scarborough, called these people “sodomites, which no one wants to talk about because it reminds them of their behavior.”

Sodomites! There you are. You see— if you stop calling somebody a “Politically Correct” phrase, they will inevitably realize what they are doing is wrong. For instance, if this country went back to calling African Americans “Ni____” again, surely the blacks would understand that being their color is “wrong,” according to this same line of logic.

Yes, this thing was a helluva barn burner— because just as you thought it couldn’t get any better, The North American Union comes into the fold.

Frank Gaffney, president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, had himself a panel session or two of his own, and this is what he said:

“The North American Union is a real thing,” said Gaffney. “It is a real transnational agenda to try to forge out of Mexico, Canada, and the United States, a real competitor to the American Union.” Beseeching his audience not to treat the NAU as “black helicopter stuff,” he claimed the existence of “something like twenty-five different trilateral working groups, each and every one of which is beavering away at new transnational regulations.”

SO HERE COMES THE AMERO! And rightfully so— so long as people like Gaffney have been around pandering to the bullshit on Wall Street, the dollar has become a hindrance to international growth, SO WHY NOT?

SCENARIO

Let’s get the ‘messicans in ‘ere to take our jobs, cuz that’s what every ‘merican wants.

END SCENARIO

Democrats have been bitching for years about the problems with outsourcing labor. It has made us more “productive,” we can guess, but our lifestyles are shit. Most people prefer happiness from a Pharmacy than from say, a beach or a mountain— because who the hell has the time for that anymore? HELL, our jobs are on the line, right? So isolationism, according to Gaffney, is as perfect as Jesus himself— if that was actually the way our economy worked.

We can gather that African Americans are evil, the Pledge of Allegiance is wrong, Conservatives want to shoot cops, and we will soon be operating under a three country system-alliance that will destroy us all. Bask in this logic, dear reader. Your future depends on it.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/strawberry-shortcake/ Strawberry Shortcake

    growing up in the midwest and spending a good deal of time in the middle of nowhere (literally the town is not on maps) I could make you head spin with the sort of things I have seen. For example: one summer I braided my little cousin’s hair for fun, he step-dad got mad and yelled us saying, “why the hell would you give her a c**n haircut”. Guns are great chirstmas gifts there, and the gays… oh lord lets even open that can of worms.

    and people wonder why I don’t take ANY boyfriends back there.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    The night is black, without a moon.
    The air is thick and still.
    The vigilantes gather on
    The lonely torchlit hill.

    Features distorted in the flickering light,
    Faces are twisted and grotesque.
    Silent and stern in the sweltering night,
    The mob moves like demons possesed.
    Quiet in conscience, calm in their right,
    Confident their ways are best.

    The righteous rise
    With burning eyes
    Of hatred and ill-will.
    Madmen fed on fear and lies
    To beat and burn and kill.

    They say there are strangers who threaten us,
    Our immigrants and infidels.
    They say there is strangeness to danger us
    In our theatres and bookstore shelves,
    That those who know whats best for us
    Must rise and save us from ourselves.

    Quick to judge,
    Quick to anger,
    Slow to understand
    Ignorance and prejudice
    And fear walk hand in hand.

    “Witch Hunt,” Rush, Moving Pictures

    Of course, what do you expect from Canadians

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/samuraipandapoetry/ samuraipandapoetry

    When in rome.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/katekate/ katekate is squared

    I’ll take your guns one bullet at a time if you take your perverted interpretation of the Bible back in its entirety. Come on, that’s a good deal!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    @KATEKATE IS SQUARED: Will never happen — their misguided interpretation of the word of Christ is the driver for all their hypocritical shenanigans. Take that away and they would be merely crazy.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    SCENARIO:

    You are walking into a parking garage with your wife. It is deserted. You realize that you are halfway between the entrance and your car when you notice that two large, young men are following you and closing the gap at an unnaturally fast pace. You glance around for a cop, security, something, but you it’s just you and your 105 lb. wife. You don’t have a gun. Maybe they do.

    SCENARIO: You are alone in your house. You hear that someone else is in there with you, but you live alone. You call the cops. The response time is going to be five minutes at best if absolutely everything goes your way. You realize that you can die a lot of times in five minutes. You don’t have a gun, so you hide.

    SCENARIO: You are a pretty young college student driving with the window down, leaving school. While at a stop sign, a man dives into your window and turns your car off. He then forces his way in and sits on your lap. He tries to drive off with you in the car, but after a few blocks he realizes that you aren’t worth the trouble and dumps you from the moving vehicle onto the street.

    The first scenario was me, a few years before I became a cop. I did in fact have a gun that I was carrying with a permit. No one died and my wife and I went home. Without the gun, I know that we would have at the very least been attacked.

    The second scenario was a co-worker of mine. He actually did call the cops but had a gun. He shot and killed the burglar who was also armed.

    The last one was a girl that I knew, who honestly had no business owning a gun. If she had had a gun, she would have likely been killed with it. I bring it up for two reasons: Cops really are never around when you need them and to point out that not everyone should own a gun.

    I don’t give a damn if the 2nd Amendment is a good or bad reason to allow me to arm myself. I was actually going to comment on the Forced-Birth link that I thought that Roe v. Wade was too flimsy and that abortion rights need to be further secured with additional legislation. I feel the same way about the 2nd Amendment. It has taken us this far, but I want the ability to protect myself to be guaranteed in unassailable legislation.

    I am not a gun enthusiast, but I will always own one. I can tell you from my vast experience in this area that cops will never get to you on time, laws will never stop the violent from arming themselves and Federal, State and Local governments do a poor job at guaranteeing the safety of individuals.

    You know, I liked the Scenario thing in your piece, Shorts 3, but it was kind of asinine in my reply. By the way, your first scenario with the cop getting shot actually happened. I saw the video or something close in training. The shooters were from one of those anti-government redneck groups.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @Chillbear & Shorts-to-the-Third: The NRA’s publication has a column called the Armed Citizen and I will admit I love reading it. Usually it’s some 84-yr-old grandma who blows away some cokehead who’s trying to steal her silver. Excellent stuff.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/shortsshortsshorts/ shortsshortsshorts

    Dude I am all about the guns and such— but holy hell man— what about a bow and arrow or something?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/strawberry-shortcake/ Strawberry Shortcake

    CB- My issue with the 2nd is that is dated beyond belief. In all of your scenarios having a fully automatic weapon would not have made anyone safer. The 2nd was written in a time when you had to reload and think between shots, not shot and shot and shot hoping you hit what you are aiming at. I see no reason that any person outside of a military capacity needs that kind of fire power. I am in no way anti-gun, I have been hunting and I have benefited first hand from the ability for a person to carry a hand gun, but there needs to be serious limits on what can be bought and sold.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    @Shorts3 (Sorry, I just learned the superscript) & SS: I think I can cover you both in this one post. We have these law enforcement tasers that are almost 100% effective against one person if you hit them on the first shot. They are safer than guns, but for the two reasons that I just listed, I am not a fan of them. I am also not a proponent of people having access to M-16′s or Tec-9′s. Archery equipment is bulky and useless at close range.

    The gun that I had in scenario one was a .38 snub nose revolver. I liked it because it made me feel like a detective from the 30′s. I also felt that it was on the bottom end of adequate for self-defense. My top end of adequate is not that much higher. Maybe a .45 or a a shotgun for home defense. Nothing crazy.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/strawberry-shortcake/ Strawberry Shortcake

    CB- who cares how unless it ism having a long bow strapped to your back and cross bow in your hand makes you like a badass! I am sure no one would mess with me then!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @SS: Mr. P made me carry a switchblade to a night class I took – I walked to and from campus to our apartment. I never had to use it (as if!), but I was at a bar in Aggieville, the cute little drinking area by KSU, with a girlfriend and a guy kept asking to sit with us and we kept saying, “no, thank you,” very politely. When we left, we turned down a darkish alley and lo and behold, there he was and he said, “Well, well, well, girls” and I pulled out the switchblade Mr. P gave me and the guy nearly fainted! Suffice it to say, he ran his ass off. PS: I am not a badass, just the opposite.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    CL: Ooh, the .38 snub nose is very “I’m a private dick on a case.” The .45 “feels” better though, right?

    I have a shotgun (locked up but accessible; no permit–nearly impossible to get in my state, but I bought it off a former cop) for the house and a machete for the car, which is illegal. But, you know, fuck it, it’s illegal for me to die when some punk-ass motherfucker gets cute while I’m mall jerking on a Sunday night, tryna get my late movie and a Mrs. Fields chocolate chocolate-chip high on.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @BL: Machete? Do you have a huge jungle to go through to get to the mall? j/k I’m thinking about outfitting my Honda CR-V with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher so if I so much as see a mother-fucker looking at me the wrong way from several hundred yards away, I can blow his ass to hell.

  • http://wordsmoker.com kneetoe

    BL: A machete seems like a remarkably difficult weapon to deploy–is that the word for it–inside a car.

    I go weaponless and play the remarkably good odds that I’ll be fine without. Having guns around is not, of course, risk free.

    Hold on, I’m trying to think of something else earnest to say, something else not at all funny. I’ll be back later with that.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @Kneetoe: In all seriousness, now that I’m a mother, I just figure I will have no problem going postal on any mother-fucker who tries to mess with me and my tiny penguino.

  • http://wordsmoker.com kneetoe

    @MP: Yes

    My granddad was the head of the TN prison system for quite a while. He advertised far and wide that he had any number of guns of various sizes and shapes between the front and back doors and the bedroom. Probably smart given the circumstances.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @MP @Knee: Yes, I live in the urban jungle (but you can also use it for gardening; that was what I told the NJ state trooper it was for when he pulled me over for speeding and searched my car for drugs a while back). And you cannot carry it on your person, unless you are really tall and can slip it down a pant leg, so you do need to haul ass to the car when you are in the parking lot. In that respect it is not ideal. However, here’s the nice thing about a machete: all you have to do is unsheathe it. Or show the tip, a la Milton Berle. People run, because they value their digits and necks.

    I’m not making up scenarios. Something close to this happened to me when I was buckling my 18-month-old son into his car seat one time.

    Now children, don’t all go out buying a machete. You might need to back that shit up with action, and yeah, assholes who try to rob ladies in the parking lot tend to like to fight and you probably will have to. I was trained by the government of one of the upstanding democracies of the world to fight hand-to-hand (story for another day), so I’m OK with that. So the machete stays.

    Just be careful, is all I’m saying. You really need to know your weapons, and every woman should get some fight training because this world is chock full of animals.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    @MAMA PENGUINO: I feel the same way when it comes to my 4-year-old daughter. Although not postal, more like Die Hard.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/captainfantastic/ CaptainFantastic

    Oh, I likey Ms.45. Reminds me of Death Wish, which I caught on television at a too-young age.

    I used to keep a solid, 3/4-inch steel rod under my car seat (from a construction site). I’m glad I never had to reach for it.

    Machetes are illegal (or just in the car)? We can buy them around here at Home Depot. You have to sharpen them though. Picturing Booky sharpening her machete on a grinding wheel, wearing only safety glasses, a protective apron, and 3-inch pumps. Now you are too.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/lawyergay/ lawyergay

    What always surprises and amazes and then infuriates me about these 2nd-Amendment-get-the-government-off-our-backs types is that the Bill of Rights is, in essence, a get-the-government-off-our-backs undertaking.

    There is no document more “fuck off, government!” than the Bill of Rights, which Republicans and their knuckle-dragging followers seem to despise.

    They shouldn’t despise it, because there’s some pretty good stuff in there:

    1st Amendment: You can say whatever the fuck you want. And you don’t have to worship anyone’s god if you don’t want to (but if you want to, you can do so freely). Also, people can get together and advocate for stuff to be changed, including this very amendment.

    2nd Amendment: Guns!

    3rd Amendment: Soldiers can’t take over your house, except if we’re at war.

    4th Amendment: Well, that’s your right to privacy right there. That means that the government can’t send its jack-booted thugs or even local cops into your house without a good goddamned reason. P.S. Nobody has to give birth if they don’t want to. That’s private, right?

    5th Amendment: You don’t have to tell the government shit. Not ever. Also, you’re entitled to your life, your liberty, and your property always and forever unless there’s a really fucking compelling reason to take one or more of those things away from you. P.S. If the government takes your land for some reason, they have to pay you fair market value.

    6th Amendment: If you fuck up real bad, you’ve got the right to a lawyer, a speedy trial, and to confront all of those motherfuckers who may or may not have seen you fuck up real bad.

    7th Amendment: You have to have some serious cabbage at stake before you invoke the federal court’s jurisdiction in a civil suit. Also, if you don’t like your verdict at trial, then be prepared to argue the law, but not the facts, on appeal.

    8th Amendment: Death penalty is unconstitutional (Ed.: Just wait, you sadistic haters). Also: No torture.

    9th Amendment: You can do whatever the fuck you want, as long as it’s not against the law or the constitution of your state or federal government.

    10th Amendment: States have some powers exclusive of the federal government, but not many. P.S. Rick Perry doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/strawberry-shortcake/ Strawberry Shortcake

    MP – I would probably cut myself if I had one of those

    BL- wow that’s intense!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @BL: Please don’t tell me you consented to the search without probably cause!!!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/voxpopuli/ VoxPopuli

    Oh, the conservative Christians are going to call gays sodomites now? It might be fair if they refer to their “technical virgins” that way too.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @MP: HA HA HA HA! I said “probably cause!”

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