Lest you thought I was going soft in my old age........

I have been remiss. I apologize. I realize that an important component of this blog has been neglected during my adventures with html, piles of leaves, and other such distractions. So, I present for your digestion a fresh political rant, hot off the grill with all the trimmings.


I've been reading some interesting posts lately concerning the standard one-liner that redneck, uneducated (obviously), uninformed, and so-called patriotic good old boys use when confronted with differing opinions concerning the state of our union. You've all heard it, that all purpose, "If you don't like it here, just LEAVE!" Ahhhhh, yes, that is the kind of answer that covers all the bases and cuts off any hope of intelligent discussion right at the knees. Well, I have decided that although this lame retort that only a simple minded moron could come up with is beneath anyone with a lick of sense, it DOES seem to be the perfect fuel if one decided to fight fire with fire. So, in response, since anything resembling coherent reasoning would be wasted on these individuals, I give you "NO, Dickweed, I LIKE it here just FINE; it's YOU who fucking need to leave, before you and your fascist friends totally destroy what's left of this great country!"

Well, I do admit, the word "fascist" might only confuse him. But hey, the poor sap is confused already. You might wonder why the popularity of anal sex is on the rise in this country. Well, who's been bending over and begging to get it in the rear for the last 6 years? Not me, my friend. Nope. If I wanted it up the wazoo, I'd have to get in line behind millions of god-fearing patriotic Americans of the "conservative" persuasion, who can't seem to get enough of it. Raise my taxes and lower those of the rich and connected? SURE, bend me over! Reverse decades of progress towards protecting the environment? HELL YEA, what the hell we need trees and wild animals for anyway? Operate the government in the shadows, only responding with asinine spin to whatever the press has to dig up concerning what our own government is doing to us as well as our "enemies"? DAMN STRAIGHT! I don't need to know all that stuff, as long as I get to drive my pick-em-up truck to Walmart and buy me all that Chinese made stuff! Send my job overseas so some oppressed third world worker can do it for pennies a day? That's what I got my unemployment for, yessiree!

Fully half of the citizens of this nation don't deserve to be. They are lazy. They are slavish to an ideal that doesn't exist in reality. It's taken the deaths of quite a few sons and daughters for many of them to think maybe they don't like what this president is doing. These are the kinds of people who are motivated only by personal tragedy. They watch what goes on around them and can't see it, the denial is so strong. You have to hit them upside the head with a two by four before they will believe that a two by four actually exists. They hate themselves and their miserable lives so much they need someone else to focus their frustrations on, and this president knew exactly how to distract them from what he's doing to them.

So, go ahead, suggest that I leave my beloved country, and I'll suggest right back that I'm not going anywhere. It's YOU, you ignorant SOB that needs to leave.
May I suggest Serbia. Serbs love their strong men. Serbs hide their heads in the sand better than anybody. Serbs are the definition of denial. They would welcome your clueless mindsets with open arms. They have no concept of what a freely elected democratic system of government is, and don't WANT to know. Or, if you are really feeling lucky, move to Russia, which more closely resembles the kind of government you honestly think we should be living under. They don't like the free press in Russia. They don't want to have to pay the price for freedom. Putin knows that and is slowly but surely giving them back what they once lived under in the old Soviet Union. So, no, my redneck republican "christian" friend, you can pack YOUR bags and get the hell out of here, I'm friggin tired of you and you're simple minded sheep herd mentality.

Unfortunately, those who worship King Dubya wouldn't make it halfway through this rant before their eyes glazed over and their brains seized up like an old Harley with a slow oil leak. Such concepts are beyond their grasp. It's the year 2006 and this is what our public education system has wrought. Well, I can't totally blame the school system, as I was taught for much of my young life in the Mississippi public school system, in the sixties, no less, yet despite that, grew up with an open mind capable of learning and questioning and still capable of separating obvious fact from propagandic fiction. But in today's world, with the internet and 57 flavors of media, there's no excuse for so many peoples' apparent inability to be so sorely lacking in critical thinking skills. But, here we are, sliding down the banister right back into the middle ages, and as long as we have a congress without a spine, a simple minded puppet with his finger on our nuclear button, and a populace without the guts to stand up and fight for what's right, we have only ourselves to blame when it comes time to flee this country rather than swear an oath to Haliburton.

Rant over. I now return you to your favorite sitcom. Enjoy.