Ablogination

The standard montage of items that tend to require more thought than comment.

1) The Ensign Affair:

Republican Senator, John Ensign, was forced to admit to having an extra-marital affair with a staffer.
Now, that really isn’t the point. That’s a personal issue he will have to settle with his betrayed family.
But when this happens to the same guy that called Larry Craig “disgusting” and did everything he could to remove Craig from his post, it does warrant mention.
A vocal attacker of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and, oddly enough, a member of the Pentecostal International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (sorry, can’t help but LOL) and a born again “Christian", Ensign solicits derision for not practicing that which he preacheth. Ensign was also active in an evangelical group known as the “Promise Keepers". Why doesn’t this surprise me?

And no, this isn’t partisan. John Edwards is guilty of much the same thing unfortunately.

It’s not the sex, it’s the hypocrisy, stupid.

2) Pretty Fly for a Black/White guy:

PETA is now officially a bunch of blithering idiots. So sad to see a once well-intentioned organization decay into complete and total obscurity as a direct result of the fucking morons who now run it.

3) U.S. Economy:

Recently, another one of those “polls” pronounced that “the public is turning on Obama’s economic policies".
Which “public” would that be? The one that’s still nursing a sore ass from being kicked out of every branch of national government, or the one that watches with hope as the economy slowly but surely rebounds?

4) Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests:

The SCOTUS just ruled, in deeply flawed fashion, that Prison inmates do not have a constitutional right to DNA to try and prove their innocence.
The message conveyed here?
You have no right to your bodily effects but the government does. DNA is forcibly taken from prisoners across the nation as a matter of routine every day.

Not wise, not appropriate.
Legislation becomes necessary.

5) Slavery. Hey, we’re sorry.

The Senate just adopted legislation making official an apology for the slavery of African Americans.
No problem with this at all. Slavery is an evil deed.
Now, slavery at the time was nothing unusual. In fact, very common practice the world over. And we could always discuss the Barbary Cost Pirates and a possible apology to Caucasians, but what the hell. I think it’s a very good idea to state emphatically, as a nation, that such a barbaric practice is unacceptable to civilized society.

Nobody in my lineage has ever owned a slave. In fact, my European ancestors were Reformation “criminals” and sentenced to hard labor in the “colonies".
But I’m still on board with this one because of the message it sends.

I join the chorus.

6) Gimmie a drink or I’ll shoot!:

I’m a real Liberal. The 2nd Amendment is the law of the land and in these days of Conservative Terrorism I’m glad it exists.
But when the Tennessee legislature overrode Gov. Bredesen’s veto of the most ignorant legislation to pass since Marijuana prohibition, I realized that I believe in a certain amount of gun control for a reason.

I don’t have a problem with guns. I have a problem with cowardly, Right Wing Conservanoids carrying them around. Especially in my place of business.
So my sign went out today. It reads….

“Firearms are not permitted on this property. Enter armed at your own risk".

Why “own risk"? Because we’re in NE Tennessee. Not NY, LA, Miami, Detroit….
Going unarmed in those environments is suicide.
Going armed in small country cities where random violent crime is barely noticeable, chicken shit.

“Own Risk". You produce a firearm in my presence, you’d better be ready to use it. Because I’ll knock your brains out without a second’s hesitation and without warning of any kind. And I won’t stop stomping until the cops get there and pull me off.
That’s just the way it’s going to be.

Why is this legislation as stupid as it is? The same reason all too many gun owners are as stupid as they are…

From Media General:

Media General News Service Published: June 18, 2009 WOODBRIDGE, Va.—Maybe he should have ducked out of the bar when he had a chance. But now that he didn’t, he may need a lawyer to help him duck the charges. Prince William County police say it all happened June 10 at Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant and Crabhouse. A man walked into the popular Cherry Hill Road gathering spot on the Potomac River at 2:15 p.m. He appeared intoxicated, Tim’s manager David Blick said, so bartenders refused to serve him. He also had a “sidearm”—police say it was a .40-caliber handgun—and it wasn’t concealed. The spurned patron stormed out of the eatery and down to the beach. There, he reached for his gun and fired on a group of ducks known to hang out by Tim’s looking for handouts. Four to seven shots were fired, Blick said. Customers and workers were horrified. A mother duck was killed, and the slaying was caught on video, said Prince William police 1st Sgt. Kim Chinn. A woman at the restaurant was videotaping the mother duck and her babies when the man fired the fatal shot. The man with the gun took off, but customers and employees ran after him and got his car’s license plate number. An initial police search didn’t turn up the duck killer, but two hours later, police got the call that led to an arrest. A car had crashed into Powell’s Creek at the end of Corbin Court in southern Woodbridge, not far from Cherry Hill Road. The driver turned out to be the man police were looking for, Chinn said. David Yount, of 16791 Sweeney Lane in Woodbridge, was charged with driving under the influence, refusal to take a breath or blood test and reckless handling of a firearm, Chinn said. The 33-year-old could not be charged with animal cruelty because it’s not illegal in Virginia to shoot an animal that can be hunted, she said. Police, however, did call Virginia’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to see if the shooting violated federal wildlife laws. But game wardens determined the duck was a domestic breed and thus not subject to those regulations. There were also no charges regarding the carrying of a firearm. In Virginia, it’s legal to have a gun in plain view in a restaurant unless the establishment’s owner prohibits it. Efforts to change state law to allow concealed weapons in restaurants that serve alcohol have thus far been turned back, but the issue came up in the recent Democratic primary for governor. Eventual party nominee R. Creigh Deeds, a state senator from Bath County, was hammered by primary opponents Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran for voting to allow concealed guns in bars. Deeds faces GOP candidate Bob McDonnell, a former state attorney general, Nov. 3. Yount, on the other hand, faces a July 10 court date. He was released on a $500 personal recognizance bond.

There you have the number one reason that Pro Gun/Alcohol/Moron legislation is dangerous to the people (and wildlife). What would have happened if this quack had just one more drink? This fucking shitbird bastard is exactly the same mentality as the vast majority of Conservanoid asshats that support this legislation.
Now people will start carrying guns to protect themselves from goombahs who carry guns.
See how this escalates?

Democratic Sen. Doug Jackson of Dickson. You get the Pig Vomit Award this month. When someone you love get’s shot by a drunk with a permit in a bar, look no further than the mirror for someone to blame.