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Rifle Up the Ass
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
– Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, in a much-anticipated press conference Friday, the 21st, about the Connecticut school shootings.
With an invisible coon skin cap on his head and the ghost of Charlton Heston looming over him, LaPierre took the expected stance of the NRA: guns don’t kill, people kill. Ergo, we need more guns. With 50% of the world’s firearms therefore, the U.S. should be the safest nation on Earth. Strangely, we’re not. Like the Republican Party’s attitude towards taxation (giving the wealthiest citizens tax breaks to stimulate jobs), the NRA mantra is a perfect example of insanity: doing the same damn thing over and over, expecting different results. It would be a hard-fought battle, but I hope the nation has finally come to its senses and will ban assault weapons. Then, we reasonable-minded folks can tap-dance on Heston’s grave.
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Last Rights
This past Friday, the 21st, a nationwide moment of silence was held for the 26 victims of the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings. I don’t have children and I’ve never been a victim of a violent crime. Thus, I can only imagine the extraordinary pain the victims’ families must be enduring right now, especially the parents of the 20 kids murdered in that rampage. Who could believe in a god after a massacre like this?
Charlotte Bacon, age 6
Daniel Barden, age 7
Rachel Davino, age 29
Olivia Engel, age 6
Josephine Gay, age 7
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, age 6
Dylan Hockley, age 6
Dawn Hochsprung, age 47
Madeleine F. Hsu, age 6
Catherine V. Hubbard, age 6
Chase Kowalski, age 7
Jesse Lewis, age 6
James Mattioli , age 6
Grace McDonnell, age 7
Anne Marie Murphy, age 52
Emilie Parker, age 6
Jack Pinto, age 6
Noah Pozner, age 6
Caroline Previdi, age 6
Jessica Rekos, age 6
Avielle Richman, age 6
Lauren Rousseau, age 30
Mary Sherlach, age 56
Victoria Soto, age 27
Benjamin Wheeler, age 6
Allison N. Wyatt, age 6
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Happy Summer Solstice!
For our friends and loved ones in the Southern Hemisphere!
TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year”: President Obama
This morning TIME Magazine announced that President Obama is their “Person of the Year” for 2012. He last received that honor in 2008. The other contenders were: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head for advocating for girls’ education; Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi; and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Obama is only the second African-American after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., to be selected. I eagerly await the usual cacophony of rancor from the Tea Party loons over TIME’s choice.
Bulletproof Backpack
Well, this makes sense. A company called Amendment II American Armor has come out with a “Bulletproof Backpack” – literally! Sold online for $300, the backpack “provides built-in ballistic protection in a backpack that weighs just ounces more than a non-armored backpack.” They come in a variety of styles, but you can also get them in the “Disney Princess” and “Avengers” versions.
It’s come to this? Teaching kids how to duck and cover, along with how to read and write? I can only imagine what all parents of young children are going through right now.
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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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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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