I just received an email from some newly established conservative Internet group. They claim to be a 'grassroots' organization that is mobilizing to help ward off Obama's socialistic aims. Although that sounds sort of appealing, I have to confess that I am wary of them. I am considering responding to the email with a sort of "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours" kind of thing.
It might look something like this:
ME:
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Gay
Pro-gun
Anti-abortion (although not in favor of over-turning Roe. v. Wade because it just would not help)
Opposed to the government taking so much of my money (basically because I typically object to how those assholes spend it!)
You:
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Although I am opposed to 'socialism', I am aware that the Earth cannot sustain the gluttony paradigm that the latter half of 20th century America came to symbolize.
I am unapologetically Libertarian. Regardless of which cloak statism is wrapped in, I am not willing to surrender my free will to the those who would care to crown themselves. There is no Camelot, there are no royalty. Public officials are our servants. Period.
A few years ago I posted a message to the Pat Metheny Group web site. My moniker at the time was, Piper Cub. I took that from the make of airplane I owned back then (before I got rid of it after grudgingly admitting that that fucking thing was an even bigger money pit than my damned boat). Anyway, I posted a comment to that message board that I stand behind today. This was in the immediate aftermath of 911 and someone made a post wherein they claimed that the US was the most 'moral' country on the planet. I could not resist the urge to chime in with the remark that, "Sure ... if you can call a country that constitutes 3% of the world's population and yet annually consumes 40% of it's resources - 'moral'." Not surprisingly, nobody said a word ... at first. Finally, someone did speak up, if only to ask, "Does anyone care to respond to Piper Cub's comment?" Nobody did.
I still need to unload that damned boat. It has a 7.4 liter inboard/outboard Mercruiser that must be worth something, even if it needs to be rebuilt. I want to get a sharp little technical flats skiff so I can properly fly fish for Bones down on Biscayne Bay. However, I haven't been feeling rich lately which, no doubt, is part of the reason why he isn't eager to cough up some money for a new boat.
6 comments:
PMT: Shouldn't rich be capitalized in that last
Paragraph?
If my math is correct (7.4 x 61.3), the engine in your boat is a big block Chevy (454 cu.in.). Those are becoming rare and have a great deal of value outside the boat. I have a '38 Chevy coupe (still under construction) with a 402 big block. Like your boat, it's for sale.
I share many of your libertarian values. Like I said at the other 'corner' the other day, here on the ridge and inside the confines of Windhover Farm, I'm Adam and there ain't no serpents. But until we get real about offering real education and opportunities to our various underclasses aka labor to the capitalists, we need a Swedish style social democracy. I still would want to be left the he'll alone though.
Got to go, Eve's calling. Got to keep her AND Dolly
happy.
Windhover
farm
PromiseMeThis, Me..Straight. Not anti-gun, just pro-control. Same thing with abortion... Ain't Nobody's Business. LOL, at least we have one thing in common.
Too much money being thrown in the general direction of problems. I'd like a more precise aim. I have hopes for the Obama presidency. We'll see if the previous administration(s) dug us too deep a hole to climb out of.
About boats. My husband owned a snazzy ski boat at one time. I think it is a common saying that "The best day in my life was when I bought my boat. The second best day was when I sold it." We have a pokey little fishing boat now, but are looking to sell it too. The water in Don Pedro and McClure is wayyyyy down and fish around here haven't been biting. We need to save our (what is left!!) money.
Windhover, I debated whether to capitalize the 'R'. I decided not to because I thought it would ruin the punchline.
A few years back, a fancy, brand-spanking new Mongoose All-Terrain Bicycle showed up at my door. It turned out that Brunswick corporation owned both Mongoose and Mercruiser. There was a class-action suit and the bicycle was a reward. I am still not sure what the problem was suppose to have been with the boat motor. The bike is pretty nice, so I didn't complain.
I wonder where the American Lamb that BJ's Club sells comes from. You said that you only sell locally, right?
ClearAyes, Nice clip. Thanks.
Here's an interesting topic that has had enough at other places. Let's not give any names, it isn't necessary. But, when is joke over the line? Does anything go? Is it OK to, even indirectly, make fun of the aftermath of genocide? If somebody is offended, is an apology due?
My opinion is that there is a (very fine) line. I'll laugh at a lot of what is considered un-P.C. Bill Maher is one of my favorite commentators. But there are words and situations I personally avoid. ie. I'll joke about death, but not about murder. There is nothing wrong with considering the sensitivities of your potential audience.
Clear Ayes:
May I tackle that one? And I don't mind at all naming names. Over on that other corner, Dennis appears to be, as with the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, "more equal" than us other animals. Sort of like when Tricky Dick Nixon said if the president does it isn't wrong.He does apparently possess some co-blogger status, seniority, and superiority. No big deal really. Most of is are content with our supporting actor status, even if the Oscar always goes to........ Someone else. Having said all that, Dennis did not in fact make any joke about genocide. His joke, a little tasteless and a little racist, equated the presence of Indians and reservations with the presence of casinos. There was no mention of the Trail of Years, Cherokees, or genocide until anonymous fired his shot, which appeared while I was posting my (serious) reply to CC's question. Unless you assume that he knew of the T of T, and that his self-described bad joke was really a clever reference to it, I don't believe Dennis is guilty of anything other than lame ethnic humor. I have a friend who is full blood Cherokee, and he would kick your ass over a real insult. I don't think this reached that level. But I'm staying out of it over there for now.
ClearAyes,
I started a new thread for your post.
I am going to copy Windhover's over to there, too.
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