.
“If Romney wins,
will the world as we know it be over? Yes. And if Obama wins, we the world as
we know it be over? Yes.
“The election seems to
be a contest to see whether we go back to the 1950’s vs the 1960’s. Being
generous, it may be considered a contest between going back to the 1980’s, vs
the 1990’s. But vote as hard as you want, we’re not going back anywhere. We’re
going headlong into the freakish. Things have changed, are changing, and the
changes are accelerating. Three things, globalization, technology, and climate
are taking us to where no election has gone before….”
“Obama
doesn’t really have an answer and Romney has one that works for him and his
friends.”
This is as far as I got with today’s entry before
I had to switch horses.
Just
in case my position is unclear, I am fundamentally a democratic socialist,
former combat medic, gun-owner, hunter, fisher, who distrusts any statement
made by the NRA about gun control. I don’t
believe in secret plots to overturn the 2nd Amendment and/or to
seize personal firearms. Nor do I
believe that a bunch of middle-aged men playing soldier on weekends can oppose
the military might of the U.S. government or any other functional nation’s
military. I don’t believe that the “war
on Christianity” exists other than in the minds of politicians and sky pilots
who use it to bilk more gullible teavangelists out of their savings.
Cassi
Creek: Woke up to another stark reminder
that the insane walk among us. As of
1300, the body count is 12 killed, 50 wounded.
The NRA has remained silent.
President Obama spoke
appropriately. John Boehner and Mitt
Romney spoke but it felt like every sentence had been previously cleared by the
NRA. To further poison the atmosphere,
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GOP
Congressman: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian
Beliefs' »
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GOP
Congressman: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian
Beliefs' »
“WASHINGTON -- Rep.
Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Friday that the shootings that took place in an
Aurora, Colo. movie theater hours earlier were a result of "ongoing
attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs"
Gohmert cashed in on a letter written
by Michelle Bachmann accusing Hillary Clinton’s long-time assistant of being a
plant for the Muslim Brotherhood. Today’s
bit of craziness tops yesterday’s.
Gohmert, an obvious recipient of NRA
campaign funding, unleashed the “war on Christianity” as a reason for the
shootings in Aurora CO. Gohmert has
failed to read his holy comic books. The
mythical Jesus carried no weapons and submitted meekly to his execution. Somewhere between then and now, the Christian
dogma picked up a chapter or two that apparently only NRA members get to read
in full.
And in the interest of his re-election
fund, he then dragged out the claim that an auditorium full of people carrying handguns
would have stopped the gunman with no loss of life among the innocent. Utter bullshit, Gohmert!
Most handgun
owners practice too infrequently, many never practice. The most likely result to an auditorium of
gun owners who believe that they can shoot like military or police snipers is
horrid to imagine. Gohmert’s rendition
of the NRA wet dream would have resulted in scared, confused, poorly trained people
firing blindly at muzzle flashes in a dark and smoky room filled with screaming
people running panic’d about the space, and a blaring sound system amplifying
the inability to sort out the situation and find the actual gunman while doing
no harm to the innocent or the merely stupid.
Very few of us, me included, are capable of
being dumped cold into such a situation and making the correct assessment, then
acting upon it correctly. I’ve been in
night firefights. They epitomize
confusion and are inherently error-filled.
Gohmert’s version of the NRA’s greatest self-delusion would have brought
on the ultimate cluster-fuck. The
carnage would have been elevated to full-scale slaughter wrought upon the
innocent by the gun-owners.
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