Government works for the people or it works for business and industry. It can’t serve both. It can only serve one and regulate the other. I’d prefer government to serve my needs and to regulate industry rather than the other way around.
I found this in the comments section of an article on the Tea Party movement.
I am a conservative. I believe in:
Conserving the environment
Conserving a woman’s right to choose
Conserving the quality of life for the middle class
Conserving the rights of all people to live the life they choose with whom they choose in the way they choose
Conserving your right to believe in God and my right to deny god
Conserving my right to pursue a long and healthy life
Conserving the infrastructure that made this nation great.
I believe in paying my taxes, all of them.
I do not believe in loopholes, corporations having the rights of individual humans, congress having more access to health care than the poorest of the poor
Because I am a conservative.
Tea Party “conservatism” is not conservative; it is reactionary and racist.
As you may have noticed, dear readers (both of you), Chickenbutt is on indefinite hiatus. I am deliberately no longer neck-deep in political news so I have fewer political things to write about. I may, however, reinvent this blog to feature other content.
When I have time.
Which means I’ll get around to it.
RSS feed will likely be the same.
Hasta luego.
Christian conservatives, obviously lacking the courage of their convictions, are playing cute word games, making thinly veiled threats on the life of a United States President instead of coming right out and saying what they clearly mean. Wingnuts, self-styled patriots, Becktarded 9/12-ers and poor spellers of all stripes have been calling for Obama’s blood since long before November 2008.
The latest in passive-aggressive bible-thumping comes in the form of the stickers and t-shirts which read “Pray for Obama, Psalm 109:8.”
Now, Psalm 109:8 is innocuous enough, I suppose. It simply reads:
May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
However, the problem with citing scripture in ANY situation is that one often ignores the passages before and after the one being cited, which usually add much needed context to the citation. In this case, Psalm 109:9-15 read:
9 May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.10 May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven [d] from their ruined homes.11 May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.12 May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.13 May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.15 May their sins always remain before the LORD,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Such lovely Christian sentiment.
As Frank Schaeffer so eloquently put it:
…this is trolling for assassins. This is serious business.
It’s un-American. It’s unpatriotic. And it goes to show that the religious right, the Republican far right, have coalesced into a group who truly want American revolution. If it turns out to be blood in the streets and death, so be it. It’s not funny stuff anymore. They cannot be dismissed as just crazies on the fringe. It only takes one.
Now, imagine for just a moment, someone wearing a shirt or sporting a bumper sticker that said “Pray for Bush, Psalm 109:8″ around, oh, say…March 2003. Imagine further that this person is dark skinned and/or of Middle-Eastern descent. I wonder what would have happened to such a person…
If you want a Bible verse that in my opinion is truly more applicable to President Obama, try Psalm 72:12-14.
[When faced with criticism that one's art is pornographic,] no one ever defends pornography. They argue that their art is not pornography without questioning the assertion that pornography is intrinsically bad.
Has anyone ever seen Sarah Palin & Carrie Prejean in the same room together?
If the Fort Hood attack was an Islamic terrorist attack on American soil — to be somehow blamed on President Obama — then wouldn’t the DC Snipers also qualify as an Islamic terrorist attack on American soil? And if so, wouldn’t that completely contradict the Republican boast that Bush “kept us safe” since 9/11? The DC Sniper shootings happened in 2002, about a year after 9/11.
Douchebag.
It’s a good thing there isn’t a commandment in the Decalogue that simply says “Don’t Be an Asshole,” because a lot of American Christians would be in trouble right about now. And before you waste time sending me an email to say “I’m a Christian and we’re not all like that,” first write an email to a Christian you know who is like that.
