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Dumbass Quote of the Week 2

Gohmert keeping East Texas safe from Islamicized Hispanic types.

Gohmert keeping East Texas safe from Islamicized Hispanic types.

 

“We know Al Qaeda has camps over with the drug cartels on the other side of the Mexican border.  We know that people that are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanic [sic] when they are radical Islamists.  We know these things are happening.  It is just insane not to protect ourselves, to make sure that people come in as most people do … They want the freedoms we have.”

– U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, warning that “radical Islamists” are being “trained to act like Hispanic[s]” and cross the U.S. – Mexico border.

Damn!  I should have known that wearing diapers on your head and riding camels wasn’t the new ‘Mexican thing!’  Now, I’ll be forced to look at all other Hispanics – especially those dark-skinned ones – in a different beer sign light!  Hell, some of them may be in my own family!   When will the madness stop?!

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Dumbass Quote of the Week 1

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Hansen surrounded by apparently clueless vaginas.

“There were two critical ingredients missing in the illustrious stories purporting to demonstrate the practical side of retreat.  Not that retreat may not be possible mind you.  What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam?  Why children and vaginas of course.  While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims.”

– New Hampshire state Rep. Peter Hansen, in an argument against repealing that state’s “stand your ground” gun law.

Guns, vaginas…hm.  That’s actually a dangerous combination – especially one week out of the month.  Hansen later apologized in a written statement, but said he’d used the word for its mere shock value.  But, you know, that pussy is already out of the bag!

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Thoughts and Prayers for West, Texas

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“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all,

And round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;  

For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,

And the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops

That made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,

And in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter,

All the children of one mother and one father.

And I saw that it was holy.”

Black Elk’s Great Vision” – Black Elk, 1931

This is for the victims of last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in the tiny central Texas hamlet of West.  The blast and ensuing fire killed 14 and injured more than 200.  The town is almost completely devastated.  It’s sadly ironic this incident occurred right before Earth Day; considering that highly volatile ammonium nitrate fertilizer is the key component in the debacle.

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Happy Earth Day 2013!

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“Can earth be Earth when all its trees are gone,
And sudsy waters have become unfit,
And poisoned life no longer greets the dawn
With raucous sounds that death has caused to quit?
Will trees no longer wave, with limbs unfurled,
On hapless earth, that ever in orbit roams?
Will human ego sacrifice the world
To satiate its lust for pompous homes?
Will distant space look down on orb that’s bald.
I now can hear the mother say,
“I was once called Earth.
But now, bereft of mirth, I weep. 
That treeless orb’s no longer Earth”

Can Earth Be Earth? – Garvit Agarwal

Earth Day.

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Find the Hero!

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“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.  It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

Arthur Ashe

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Best Quote of the Week

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“That’s what you’ve taught us, Boston.  That’s what you’ve reminded us – to push on.  To persevere.  To not grow weary.  To not get faint.  Even when it hurts.  Even when our heart aches.  We summon the strength that maybe we didn’t even know we had, and we carry on.  We finish the race.”

– President Obama, during an interfaith service for victims of Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing.

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Worst Quote of the Week

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“If babies had guns they wouldn’t be aborted.”

U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, on his new campaign bumper sticker.

Well, that just makes a whole hell of a lot of sense!  But, wait!  He might be onto something.  Babies holding guns – not much different than politicians holding guns.  I mean, at least babies are too little to know what the hell they’re doing; while most politicians are too little-minded to know what the hell they’re doing.

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Why the hell not?!

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I’ve been paying for those lazy welfare fuckers for over 30 years!  I’m not talking about unemployment or social security!  People pay into that.  But, I can’t stand all these people who sit around on their butts – fucking, getting drunk, playing dominoes and trying to figure out ways to take things from the rest of us.  That’s why people are crossing the border illegally from México.  That goes for corporate welfare, too!  We hard-working folks need all the help we can get.

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Thoughts and Prayers for Boston

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May the road rise to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face.

May the rain fall soft upon your fields.

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

 

Boston Marathon Bombing.

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In Memoriam – Jonathan Winters – 1925 – 2013

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Legendary actor and comedian Jonathan Winters died Thursday, April 11, at his home in Montecito, California.  He was 87.  There aren’t enough superlatives to describe what an extraordinary comic figure he was.  His somber-looking face and corpulent figure hid a genius for rapid-fire wit and improvisational fortitude.  In a career that spanned six decades, he performed regular stand-up and appeared in scores of movies and TV programs.  His gallery of characters included Maude Frickert, a grandmother with a sharp tongue and wandering eye, and Elwood P. Suggins, a Midwestern farmer who thought “eggs 24 hours a day.”

His impromptu performances had no equal.  Some of the best came while donning a variety of hats, or picking up an object; each prop serving as a conduit to a slew of other personas.  He could go on forever with such antics, complete with verbal sound effects, and no one got tired.  I know I could watch him for hours, if I had the opportunity.

His comedic genius inspired such people as Robin Williams and Jim Carrey.  There was no one quite like Jonathan Winters.

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