Columnist – John Sammon My gun is who I am. Love me. Love my gun. I R a patriot. I live where real Amer-cuns live. I be a member of the Thunderbolt Party. We wear German helmets and we carry the Bible and our guns.
We wear armbands with a thunderbolt on ‘em. Most of us are rural gas station attendants, the working class backbone of the country. Not some bunch of lily-livered limp wrists who like to think.
Love me love my gun.
I’m oiling my gun, waiting fer’ the day when weez’ gonna take back our coun-try.
When I get up in the morning, I thank God he made me a white man, not some socialist jig-a-boo communist co.’k-sucking faggot. Not some left-wing sissy whining momma’s-boy college-educated immigrant bastard.
You mess with me and I’ll kill ya.’ That’s what a Republic should be. Not this here Demo-crappy (Democracy) all them faggots and darkies and the traitors been coming over here to infect it been sayin.’
Love my gun. My gun I keep on the wall in a-place-o honor. I take it off the wall and keep it next to me in my bed. My gun is unregistered. You try to take my gun away an I’ll kill ya.’
I can shoot my own shoes off without nickin’ the skin if I need to, or part the hair on a sparrow at 300 yards.
We’re gonna have us a meetin’ where we talk about how to git back at them communist socialist bastard elected officials who don’t think our way and their immigrant faggot friends. Tryin’ to socialize us and forcing us take health insurance and abortions and such. We learn how to make threatening phone calls to their wives and children.
How to dump nails in their driveway.
Or worse.
If that don’t scare ‘em off, we have other means. We in the Thunderbolt Party.
Love me. Love my gun. Kiss my gun.
Any real man huntz with a gun. Any real American man like Dick Cheney, or that guy who was in the movie where he wuz’ the old Jew-boy with the beard (Charlton Heston as Moses).
Weez’ related to the founders of this country who shot the sh.’t outta the Indians, who made our God the God over ‘em and cleared the land and made it work. And then them foreign traitors come over here and try and take it away. And people of minorities and lesbians who get uppity and don’t know their place start whining and the political sonsofbitches left-wing traitors like Kennedy and Roosevelt suck up to ‘em.
Not me. They can kiss my ass. Love me. Love my gun.
I be a tea-bag right-wing patriot, and I’m proud of it.
I jus love to polish my gun and to hold it in my hands because the day of reckoning iz-a-comin.’
If they keep a-lectin’ them traitor faggots then we in the Thunderbolt Party will meet and think about ways we kin’ take our country back. A country where a white man and woman can walk down the street.
I have my gun. I love my gun.
To arms! To arms! We’re tea baggers, but we ain’t throwin’ no tea this time.
If God is white and a man and created Adam in his own image, why did he (God) branch out and create so many other people who look very different ie. Africans, Indians, Eskimos, and so on? There are only two possible possibilities. Either God wanted to create non-God-looking people for his creation so Adam’s descendants could feel superior to them (you don’t look like God, I do). In other words, to promote racism. Or, he was dissatisfied with his look-alike doll, and created other types of people in a desperate attempt to find the right mold.
Columnist – John Sammon Racists believe that God is a white man who looks like John Wayne.
But is he?
Is God white? In all the art over the centuries, including his representation on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is portrayed as white, in the case of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, a grey-bearded, fierce-looking giant floating on a cloud.
If God is truly a Caucasian, then racists and Southern Confederate fundamentalist Christians can take delusional heart thinking that they were created in God’s image, and thus are better than people of color. If you look like God and somebody else doesn’t, you must be better. Feeling better than someone else is important to a racist. Very important.
But is God white?
Adam was white according again to representational art. God created Adam. It follows logic that God would create the first man patterned on what God himself looked like. If God is white, and if God is a man.
It begs the question. If God is white and a man and created Adam in his own image, why did he (God) branch out and create so many other people who look very different ie. Africans, Indians, Eskimos, and so on? There are only two possible possibilities. Either God wanted to create non-God-looking people for his creation so Adam’s descendants could feel superior to them (you don’t look like God, I do). In other words, to promote racism. Or, he was dissatisfied with his look-alike doll, and created other types of people in a desperate attempt to find the right mold.
In that case, people of color could feel superior to whites. God didn’t like you. I’m Plan B.
All of this of course ignores the fact that science has proven that the first walking-upright ape-like creatures originated in the gorges of East Africa eons ago in pre-history. It’s always entertaining to see the reaction of religious zealot fundamentalists to the possibility that God looks like this first ape-like hominid.
That begs another question. Does God have to look like Charlton Heston? Very few people questioned would say that he in fact looks like Tiger Woods. Very few would disagree that God has to look impressive, and powerful. And white. No one has ever portrayed God looking like Woody Allen.
But what about women?
They got a bad rap. First of all, God created Eve for Adam, and then kicked them out of the garden because Eve listened to a snake and picked an apple. I mean, I need to eat something big guy. Excuse me for living.
God made a woman the same color as Adam. No one has ever suggested God created Adam and then gave him a black Eve, a mixed-race union. Adam swinging with a black chick? That would have been way too liberal and progressive for the Old Testament.
If, according to the New Testament, Jesus is the son of God, then God must be a man who looks something like Jesus, according once again to artwork, a pale-skinned, bearded Jewish man of the First Century who must have carried an ad-mixture of black blood in his veins. The Levant-area of that time was a polyglot meeting place of cultures and a mixture bowl of races through tribal interbreeding, trade route swaps and other contacts (exchanging your daughter for a prize goat).
This fact has always been a distinct disappointment to pink-skinned Nazis and Klansmen. To them, God looks better like John Wayne. Somebody you can either be impressed with, or afraid of.
“At a speech in Wisconsin this week, Sarah Palin noted how the words ‘In God We Trust‘ had been moved to the edge of the new dollar coins. ‘Who calls a shot like that?‘ she reportedly asked, before identifying the change as part of a ‘disturbing trend.‘ Some read this as an implied criticism of the Obama administration, even though the decision to redesign the coins was made by the Republican-led congress in 2005.” [ FromTheWeek.com ]
Sarah Palin may not know anything about foreign policy or economics, but she knows which side of the bread is buttered.
Palin is aware that she must keep her evangelical base happy, that’s why in her speeches she always includes a line that will resonate with the holy rollers.
Fundamentalists believe that the guvmint is at war with Christians, and Palin is feeding into this paranoia by insinuating that Obama was behind the decision to move the words “In God We Trust” to the edge of the new dollar coins.
The decision to redesign the coins was made by the Republican-led Congress in 2005. Obama isn’t behind the move to ban the words “In God We Trust” from our currency.
The press and the intelligentsia are flabbergasted by Palin’s popularity despite her cluelessness about the major issues of the day. They fail to realize that Palin’s supporters don’t expect their Messiah to be an expert on climate change or geopolitics. As long as Palin rails against abortion, sodomites and the conspiracy to ban Christmas, her devotees will stand by her come hell or high water.
America must be faithful to its cherished principle of separation of church and state, the word “god” should be anathema in anything having to do with the government.
If our nation is ever to be free from religious superstition, evangelicals like Palin and more progressive Christians like Obama must both adhere to the principle of separation of church and state.
During the day, he was a man of God, preaching the good news to his flock. But at night, he turned into somebody else, engaging in sex orgies and recording them for commercial distribution.
This is the picture that police painted of a 50-year-old American evangelist who was on Wednesday charged with possessing pornographic material.
Pastor Thomas Kevin Manton of Dominion International church, in a Kibera court in Nairobi, where he was charged with producing an obscene compact disc.
A compact disc
Mr. Thomas Kevin Manton of Dominion International, a church that operates from a Nairobi hotel, was denied bail and remanded in custody until Friday for the police to complete their investigations.
The evangelist was arraigned before Kibera senior resident magistrate Cosmas Maundu and denied the charge. The prosecutor, Mr Joseph Musyoka, told the court that on February 25, this year at Runda Estate in Nairobi, he made or produced an obscene publication — a compact disc — tending to corrupt morals.
He did this for the purpose of trade or for the purpose of distribution or public exhibition, the police alleged. Mr Musyoka told the court that the evangelist, who came into the country in 2007, might face more serious charges after completion of investigations.
Immediately the charges were read to the accused, his lawyer, Mr Charles Agwara, asked the court to release him on bail. The lawyer told the court that they would prove that there was a scheme to extort money from the accused. But Mr Musyoka protested against the allegations.
“These are serious allegations. We don’t know whether the allegations are true,” the prosecutor said. He objected to the accused being released on bail saying the police had not completed investigations.
“The accused was arrested on June 23, 2009 and the police have not completed their investigations. We pray that the accused be remanded in police custody to enable the investigating officer to finalise his inquiries,” Mr Musyoka said.
The prosecutor added that the defence lawyer had made serious allegations that certain people were out to extort money from the preacher, but the claims had not been proved. Mr Agwara opposed the application by the prosecution saying it was not the first time for the evangelist to be arrested by the police.
Earlier, he said, his client was arrested and held at Jamhuri police post. “I have been attending Kilimani Police Station for the last one month. The police said they were waiting for witnesses to record statements,” Mr Agwara said.
Added the lawyer: “One month is a fair time to complete investigations. When he was arrested and locked up at Jamhuri police post, he was released after paying some money. We had even complained to the Commissioner of Police about the case.”
He said that the application to have the accused remanded for three days so that police could complete their investigations lacked merit. “The prosecution has not tendered any evidence for the accused to be remanded for three days,” the defence lawyer told the court.
But Mr Musyoka said that they had several documents they intended to investigate because they had pornographic content. He urged the court to remand the accused saying the police did not arrest the preacher out of malice. The magistrate agreed with him and remanded the evangelist.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi advanced the nonsensical conservative idea of “going forward” when she refused to hold impeachment hearings. In a poetic sense of justice, her strategy of “not looking back” is coming back to bite her. Rather than the architects of the criminal war being investigated, she now is on the hot seat. It is possible that this same “going forward” agenda – which has also been accepted by President Obama – may come back to derail the president’s seemingly naïve agenda.
By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez It is apparent that regardless of who is in power, conservative ideals are firmly entrenched not simply in the American psyche, but are an integral part of U.S. policies. One could blame liberals for not having a backbone when combating conservatives, but chances are that the real reason may be even more onerous; one likely explanation is governmental psychological warfare.
Why did Congress last week quietly approve almost another $100 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Why are displaced Mexican migrants scapegoated for all the ills of U.S. society? Why does the United States escape blame for its insatiable thirst for drugs [ in fueling the drug wars in Mexico ]? Why is the United States always supposed to side with Israel, without ever having a debate? Why does “war as peace” continue to be U.S. policy?
With President Obama, things were supposed to be different; the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars were supposed to come to a screeching halt. Guantanamo would be immediately closed down and torture would unequivocally be denounced and those flouting U.S. and international laws would finally be held to account in a court of law.
Instead, we see vacillation or escalation on virtually every front. Just on economic grounds alone, one would think that shutting down both wars would be a no-brainer. So the question is logical; with Obama in the White House and Democrats in control of Congress, why do conservative ideals and policies – such as the right to permanent war – continue to be entrenched throughout the U.S. political landscape?
Most assuredly, the answer lies in the lies that this nation has swallowed as part of its national narrative. For example, several years ago, as I was finishing up my PhD studies, one of my professors was explaining how language and minds can be manipulated – simply by the words we employ and the order in which they are employed. Such a sophisticated process can pre-determine not only what we think and discuss, but when we do this. Who delivers the words and ideas can also influence how people will feel towards any given issue. One example is the use of Colin Powell [ and his contrived account ] to convince a skeptical world before the UN about the need to invade Iraq [ Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld and Rice had zero credibility ].
Colin Powell: The Speech [ LIES ] that led to WAR (1 of eight) [ Click on Thumbnails To View Videos 7 Through eight ]
As the seminar professor was explaining this process, I raised my hand: “This sounds like psy-ops – like CIA work.”
At this, the professor laughed: “You must not be too familiar with our field. The great majority of all mass communications research is funded by the defense department.”
This confirmed what I had always suspected; this would explain how the Iraq War was sold – through an unquestioning media that simply acted liked stenographers – repeating complete fabrications, affirmed by “military experts” (in the employ of Defense contractors) that even grade school children could see through. Yet that would not have been enough to have convinced a skeptical public.
For such a special operation to work, fear, hate and ignorance had to be thrown into the mix, helping to advance the nonsensical argument that Iraq constituted a grave threat to the world. Yet, on the heels of the Cold War – in which the United States was pitted against a superpower that actually had a nuclear arsenal of thousands – Americans were supposed to be afraid of a country that, in effect, used slingshots as part of its air defense. While fear, hate and ignorance usually work in any society, all this was not enough to sell this war.
To sell the war – in fact, to sell the notion of a right to permanent worldwide war (The so-called War on Terror) – required bringing in three additional factors: God, hyper-nationalism and a homeland.” If Bush could convince the public that God was siding with the United States against fanatical Arab/Muslim terrorists who were responsible for 9-11, then all that remained was to convince the public that it was their patriotic duty to support the president in this God-inspired civilizational war to protect the Fatherland against infidels. This civilizational Jihad or Crusade included warring against Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11 and that had not ever been a threat to the United States (see Rumsfeld’s “religious” memos to Bush at this week’s GQ Issue at: http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret)
This war – for the hearts and minds of Westerners – appears to have failed except amongst the FOX-TV-viewing public and its right-wing radio auxiliaries.
And yet, even with a change in administrations, conservative ideals and the conservative agenda continue to dominate the national agenda. Specifically, in regards to Iraq and Afghanistan – the wars continue and Dick Cheney and his ultra-conservative cohorts continue to dictate the nation’s political agenda. The reason: think psy-ops and think subterfuge. While we discuss the proprieties of torture and other enhanced interrogation techniques – we never get around to discussing illegal wars that have resulted in the deaths and maiming of tens of thousands and the displacement of millions. Within this context, we ignore the larger crimes against humanity by the Bush administration and instead debate whether torture works or not.
In a nation of laws – beyond a bad cliché, “going forward” – or not pursuing justice – has now become “conventional wisdom.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi advanced this nonsensical conservative idea when she refused to hold impeachment hearings. In a poetic sense of justice, her strategy of “not looking back” is coming back to bite her. Rather than the architects of the criminal war being investigated, she now is on the hot seat. It is possible that this same “going forward” agenda – which has also been accepted by President Obama – may come back to derail the president’s seemingly naïve agenda.
My gun is who I am. Love me. Love my gun. I R a patriot. I live where real Amer-cuns live. I be a member of the Thunderbolt Party. We wear German helmets and we carry the Bible and our guns.
