We enjoyed a beautiful morning today in Bibleburg. There was finally enough snow to shovel, just barely, and the Big Yellow Ball In the Sky took a valiant stab at burning through the clouds that have been hovering overhead for the past few days.
Herself has returned from a sun-splashed weekend in Palm Springs and is very much not amused by the conditions here, especially since she has to drive to the office in Denver shortly. This is not unlike entering a demolition derby held on ice, driving your good car instead of some beater.
Last night, as I was gingerly negotiating the slippery streets en route to the Bibleburg Intergalactic Airport to fetch her home, I saw any number of speeding nitwits piloting two-wheel drive vehicles one-handed while jabbering away on their phones. Why not just stay home and shoot yourself in the head? That way you’re performing a public service instead of being a public menace.
Speaking of public menaces, don’t miss this Mother Jones story on the Oath Keepers, a so-called “patriot” organization whose core is men and women in uniform. You can’t grow up in the military or live where I’ve lived without meeting people like this, and they’re much more frightening than their leftist counterparts, with whom I palled around in my younger, dumber days.
I occasionally consider selling my guns. Then I read a piece like this and check to see whether they’re all still loaded, with extra magazines and speedloaders within easy reach.
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If there is even the slightest kernel of noble intention in any of these organizations, they all seem to do their best to hide it in layers and layers of buffoonery.
My dad went to a teabagger event a while ago and had to leave. He seriously / honestly (naively) thought it was simple a group aimed at getting federal spending under control. But he came home saying that he might have to reconsider his opinions if so many lunatics share them with him. Nice to hear him say that, but as my brother said, it’s kind of like finding out you’re the skinniest kid at fat camp.
Really makes me wish McCain had been elected Prez this last time around, because you know someone would have filed a suit claiming that he was not eligible, due to being born in Panama (even though he was too young at the time to know any better), and then we’d get to listen to the teabaggers and tenthers and birthers and oathers all twist themselves into carbon-based mobius strips trying to argue that one.
Oath Keepers–yikes.
Emigration is sounding like a better use of my time these days. Norway seems nice.
After reading that article, how can anyone believe we have the best education in the world.
Patrick and All:
This same bunch on Nabobs surfaced during the Clinton administration. They are threatened by anyone who can spell “C-A-T,” and anyone who displays that similar sort of “elitism.” Frankly, “stupid” sells well in America. The dumber the better. I don’t know if that will ever change.
On a happier(?) note, mid-Missouri has had at least as crummy weather as Colorado. We have had two frozen precipitation events (albeit small ones)a week since Christmas. This has definitely challenged my bike commuter ethos.
All the Best,
Dale
You know your country’s in trouble when “elite” is a bad word.
If you want to see where we are heading, read “March of the Morons”, a S>F> classic from the fifties, reprinted in “Omni” magazine in the late 70’s. or watch the movie “Idiocracy”. I wish it wern’t true. The Repugs have always played up stupidity. Ike called Stevenson a “pointy headed intellectual”.
Did Ike really say that, or just his supporters?
Can’t tell whose side these guys are on:
http://www.realoathkeepers.org/