"Your state has executed two-hundred and thirty-four death row inmates,
more than any governor of modern times [ Cheers from the audience ] Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?"
Rick Perry:
"No sir, I never struggled with that at all."
From the GOP Presidential Debate
7 September 2011
Ah, yes! I love it! Civics for sociopaths! Politics to die for! Life is quite beautiful thank you very much.
Two debates in the space of five days? Somebody up there must like me. In the midst of the first one I asked myself out loud, "Am I hallucinating this?" I wasn't. This was very real indeed. Thanks to the miracle of modern technology I was able to record both spectacles onto DVD for posterity. Looking at them again last evening was not the ordeal you might imagine. To the contrary it was loads of fun to watch! Unintentional comedy always is - and these twits are the Marx Brothers of unintentional comedy.
The delightful, knee-slapping highlight
in accidental rib-ticklers this week was provided by, of course, our
precious Michele Bachmann. I'm really gonna miss that gal. Claiming that
a certain vaccination for cervical cancer causes mental retardation she
pretty much banged the final nail in her campaign's coffin. Her source
for this ludicrous claim? Some woman she had never even met before told
her so. It reminded me of that classic scene from Monty Python and the
Holy Grail:
"She turned me into a newt!"
" A NEWT??? "
" I got better . "
For quite some time the GOP has been the party of the plutocracy, and that it has been hijacked by a cabal of white-collar criminals, half-wits and crazy people. I'm not giving away any state secrets here. They don't even attempt to hide their nuttiness any longer. It's out in the open now. But after watching the latest parade of this insane clown posse I had an epiphany: We can now claim - without exaggeration - that this is a party overwhelmed by the presence of sadists.
Both of the audiences attending these two debates were the icing on a very nasty-tasting cake. In addition to the exchange quoted above between NBC's Brian Williams and Governor Perry of Texas, Ron Paul's inference in the debate five nights later - that a thirty-year-old uninsured accident victim might be forced to "just die" - drew hoots and shouts of " YEAH !!! " from these animals. Isn't that sweet? Such compassion!
I should rephrase something I said earlier. Life is not always beautiful, but it sure is interesting - and never boring! Having said that, here is an extremely non-boring statement for you to ponder:
With each passing day it is becoming more-and-more clear that Rick Perry will probably be elected the next president of the United States.
After I wrote that very short paragraph above I stared at it for almost thirty minutes. I then drove a half mile down the road to grab a cup of coffee from the nice folks at the Country Convenience store. En route I pondered what I had written. Do I really believe that? I didn't quite know. Surely, I thought, the American people won't go down that road again. Sending another dim-witted and reactionary cowboy from the Texas Governor's mansion to the Executive Mansion? They can't be that stupid, can they? CAN THEY??? I've got bad news for you:
YES THEY CAN!
YES THEY CAN!
YES THEY CAN!
Rick Perry would be their perfect nominee. He has more of a taste for blood than any of the other contenders - a lot more ; more than Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman combined. And while Michele Bachmann may claim an insatiable lust for the blood of evil-doers, she's never actually had the joy and privilege of executing anyone, poor thing.
This got me to thinking about scripture. Although hardly a scholar with respect to the New Testament, I do dabble on occasion. Surely these "Christians" can see the folly of their attitude toward the death penalty - not to mention its ultimate hypocrisy.
Rick Perry:
"No sir, I never struggled with that at all."
From the GOP Presidential Debate
7 September 2011
Ah, yes! I love it! Civics for sociopaths! Politics to die for! Life is quite beautiful thank you very much.
Two debates in the space of five days? Somebody up there must like me. In the midst of the first one I asked myself out loud, "Am I hallucinating this?" I wasn't. This was very real indeed. Thanks to the miracle of modern technology I was able to record both spectacles onto DVD for posterity. Looking at them again last evening was not the ordeal you might imagine. To the contrary it was loads of fun to watch! Unintentional comedy always is - and these twits are the Marx Brothers of unintentional comedy.
"She turned me into a newt!"
" A NEWT??? "
" I got better . "
For quite some time the GOP has been the party of the plutocracy, and that it has been hijacked by a cabal of white-collar criminals, half-wits and crazy people. I'm not giving away any state secrets here. They don't even attempt to hide their nuttiness any longer. It's out in the open now. But after watching the latest parade of this insane clown posse I had an epiphany: We can now claim - without exaggeration - that this is a party overwhelmed by the presence of sadists.
Both of the audiences attending these two debates were the icing on a very nasty-tasting cake. In addition to the exchange quoted above between NBC's Brian Williams and Governor Perry of Texas, Ron Paul's inference in the debate five nights later - that a thirty-year-old uninsured accident victim might be forced to "just die" - drew hoots and shouts of " YEAH !!! " from these animals. Isn't that sweet? Such compassion!
I should rephrase something I said earlier. Life is not always beautiful, but it sure is interesting - and never boring! Having said that, here is an extremely non-boring statement for you to ponder:
With each passing day it is becoming more-and-more clear that Rick Perry will probably be elected the next president of the United States.
After I wrote that very short paragraph above I stared at it for almost thirty minutes. I then drove a half mile down the road to grab a cup of coffee from the nice folks at the Country Convenience store. En route I pondered what I had written. Do I really believe that? I didn't quite know. Surely, I thought, the American people won't go down that road again. Sending another dim-witted and reactionary cowboy from the Texas Governor's mansion to the Executive Mansion? They can't be that stupid, can they? CAN THEY??? I've got bad news for you:
YES THEY CAN!
YES THEY CAN!
YES THEY CAN!
Rick Perry would be their perfect nominee. He has more of a taste for blood than any of the other contenders - a lot more ; more than Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman combined. And while Michele Bachmann may claim an insatiable lust for the blood of evil-doers, she's never actually had the joy and privilege of executing anyone, poor thing.
This got me to thinking about scripture. Although hardly a scholar with respect to the New Testament, I do dabble on occasion. Surely these "Christians" can see the folly of their attitude toward the death penalty - not to mention its ultimate hypocrisy.
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