Monthly Archives: December 2012
No, It’s the Damn Evolutionists!
“We get all up in arms about 20 children being shot in a day care but we don’t give one good-glory rip about the 4,000 that were removed violently from the wombs of their mothers [in abortion procedures] the same day. I believe they use children and Christmas and all that to pull on our heart strings about gun control. That’s what it’s all about.”
– Pastor Sam Morris, of Old Paths Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Tennessee, about the Connecticut massacre.
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It’s the Damn Queers and Abortionists, I Tell You!
“Our country really does seem in complete disarray. I’m not talking politically, I’m not talking about the result of the November 6th election. I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God. I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn’t exist, or he’s irrelevant to me and we have killed fifty-four million babies and the institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete redefinition. Believe me, that is going to have consequences too. And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that’s what’s going on.”
– James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, opining on the Connecticut school shootings.
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Finish that Spelling Test, or I’ll Shoot Your Ass!
“You should be able to carry your weapon anywhere in this state.”
– Texas Governor Rick Perry, speaking at a Northeast Tarrant County Tea Party meeting Monday night, the 17th, adding that even teachers and school administrators should be allowed to carry guns in schools, which drew loud applause from the crowd. He made the comment in response to a question about the Connecticut school shootings. To his credit, Perry urged all Texas school districts to review their emergency response plans and emphasized that lawmakers should “consider mental health issues” to make schools safer.
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Gun ≠ Manhood
Recently Bushmaster, the gun manufacturer, released an advertisement aimed directly at its male patrons; challenging them to reclaim their “man card.” The online ad linked to a “test” where questions would help determine if a man is a real man. Some are silly: ‘Do you eat tofu?’ Others are practical: ‘Can you change a tire?’ For the record, my answers are ‘no’ and ‘yes,’ respectively. The test apparently has been removed, but this debate is coming up again in light of the Connecticut school shootings last Friday.
The connection between Bushmaster and the massacre of 28 people in that grade school is more than just a little unsettling. Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old shooter, used a .223 assault rifle – the same kind displayed in Bushmaster’s advertisement. In this gun-loving society, some men – and women – still equate firearms with masculinity. A gun or rifle, after all, has a strangely-phallic shape (which may or may not be by design) and bullets could easily be mistaken for testicles or even sperm cells.
This whole thing is similar to the ongoing myth that a boy becomes a man when he has sex with a woman. Apparently, the hyper-macho crowd didn’t that out too well, since it assumes that adult females are the harbingers of masculinity; that the secret ingredient to true male adulthood is somehow ensconced within a woman’s vaginal walls. But, as the proud owner of a penis, I never felt a woman held the ‘Holy Grail’ to my manhood. And, neither does Bushmaster. Despite its phallic resemblance, a firearm just can’t substitute for a penis, or more importantly, a man’s true sense of self worth.
I’ve known plenty of real men in my life, including my father and uncles. They, along with several male friends, know how to shoot a firearm; a few own actually a gun or two. That’s fine. People have that constitutional right, just like they have the right to free speech, which I feel is more important. But, none of those men I know has the overwhelming need to shoot a gun and kill people to prove their masculinity. Boys become men when they learn to accept personal responsibility for their actions; when they learn to take care of themselves; when they show respect for others, while maintaining their dignity; when they care for their families and their communities; when they stand up for those who truly can’t stand up for themselves. These are real men I know: fathers and husbands; hard workers; tax-payers – men who have built good lives for their families. A real man knows how to set the table and do laundry, as well as change a flat tire. A real man spends time playing tea party with his young daughter, or coaching his son’s little league soccer team, not out shooting deer and moose.
These men don’t need a gun manufacturer to issue them a “man card.” They earned their “man cards” themselves – not from some stupid test asking about tofu and staring down fifth-graders. They’re the silent majority. They’re the real men of this world.
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Free Speech – Not Free Guns!
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
– 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
December 17, 2012 · 8:13 PM
Third Time’s A…Whatever!
Today, the Chief begins the next phase of his increasingly curious life – another job. It’s a contract technical writing position – the third one in the past year. The last two were pulled out from beneath me without much warning. So, we’ll see how this one goes. I’m trying to temper my enthusiasm. A close friend of mine told me not to be so pessimistic; that people can sense a negative attitude and eventually steer away from it. I almost told him to go to hell, but he’s such a good friend, and I don’t have too many friends. Such is the plight of the writer. We observe and write about human nature, but just don’t like to get too close to those human types. Admittedly, it’s tough to be optimistic after enduring unemployment for the better part of the past two years. Getting laid off from that engineering company was a mixed blessing. The stress throughout that last year had become almost unbearable.
So, why would I put myself back into that maelstrom? Well, there are these minor inconveniences called bills. They’re like zits to a teenager. You eliminate one, and another pops up. They just don’t go away. My student loan zits have become especially annoying. They really just won’t go away! They impact another little inconvenience called credit reports. I suppose I could pack up and move far away to some isolated coastal community like a lot of writers and concoct a new identity to eschew those little pests. But, I’m too tied to this community.
Thus, I reenter the corporate world once again; pushing my creative writing career just a tad further back. But, I need and want this technical writing experience. I love it almost as much as I do fiction writing. I trained for it anyway; my English degree specializes in professional writing. I have to make that pay off. Besides, I reflect on my years in the standard business world and found all the crap I’ve seen and done makes for some great stories! That’s the writer in me: always finding a way to humiliate the people around me without them realizing it.
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God Could Have Saved the Little Critters, If You’d Invited Him Back!
“You know the question’s gonna come up, where was God? I thought God cared about the little children, God protected the little children. Where was God when all this went down? And here’s the bottom line: God is not gonna go where he’s not wanted. Now we have spent, since 1962, this, we’re 50 years into this now, we have spent 50 years telling God to get lost. Telling God, we do not want you in our schools, we don’t want to pray to you in our schools, we don’t want to pray to you before football games, we don’t want to pray to you at graduation, we don’t want anyone talking about you in a graduation speech. We’ve kicked God out of our public school system. And I think God would say to us, ‘Hey I’ll be glad to protect your children, but you’ve gotta invite me back into your world first. I’m not gonna go where I’m not wanted. I am a gentleman.’”
– Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association, blaming the Connecticut shootings on the lack of prayer in schools.
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