Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts.

[cyrano]

Making more curry--updates on that later, I'm certain.
Silent Bob is also thwarted by my lack of sneakers.
LJ user phillipalden posted this article from News Day about a terrorist attack on a building in Iowa that didn't make the news. I sure didn't see anything about it, anyway. These are people who hate us, who want to see us dead. They have organized, in the name of a bloodthirsty violent god, to commit violence and threaten violence in order to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. There is no reasoning with them. According to my government, this means that I am not just authorized but downright morally obligated to bring that violence back down upon their heads.
But I'm probably not going to go out and buy a gun so that I can put a bullet in Clayton Waagner's twisted and unChristian brain. I will instead rely on the laws upon which this nation was founded and which give this country the potential to be a pillar of freedom, democracy and liberty to arrest him, try him in a court where he is presented with the evidence and testimony against him, allow him to testify in his own defence and dig himself into a giant hole, and then convict him and put him in a small metal box for the rest of his life.
I guess that makes me a cowardly CutAndRunoCrat.

EDIT:
Edited to add a link to phillipalden's next post in which he writes his own words about the future. He has a lot more faith in it than I do, but I hope he's right and I'm wrong.

Comments

Re: back up two spaces and lose your turn

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yes, this journalist goes for the sensational word over the correct word. But there is some information in there as well.
Hrmmm. "Since 1977, ....effects of this war include"? I'd probably have to rewrite the whole sentence to get that to read properly.

"It doesn't matter to me if you're a nurse, receptionist, bookkeeper, or janitor, if you work for the murderous abortionist I'm going to kill you." --Clayton Waagner
I imagine it depends a lot on how you define 'nothing to do with abortions'. Does the guy who does groundskeeping for the doctor work for the murderous abortionist? According to Clay, he possibly does. Does the woman at the laundry service who washes towels and lab coats? Quite possibly. The clinic that car ran into does not provide abortions. It does provide birth control, which is considered baby killing by some extreme elements of the anti-abortion movement. And the Pope.
Jesus has said (according to Luke) 'he who is not with me is against me'. The fact that I don't shoot doctors or drive cars into clinics would, by that logic, make me a baby killer. I don't trust guys like Clayton to think rationally. I don't trust Muqtdada al Sadr to think rationally. I think that religion, much like recreational drugs, is something that can be misused to make people do amazingly stupid things.

And Jay's pretty much out of the question. (: I can't do skinny and blonde that easily. But since I was working Saturday and am working Tuesday (the two big party days) I don't figure I have much to worry about.

Re: back up two spaces and lose your turn

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it Stalin who said that religion was the opiate of the masses? Probably the only thing he and I will ever agree on.

You, and likely the author of the article, are right. Loonies have a way of twisting words and stripping away context to make religious texts say whatever it is they want them to say. I don't doubt this has happened since the (Insert Religious Text of Choice Here) was new. Nut jobs happen everywhere. As my oral composition teacher always said: "A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing."

I don't argue with the information, although I'm taking it with a grain of salt. But sloppy writing, in my experience, is a clear sign of sloppy thinking. I abhor both. And in answer to "phillipalden", I have neither the time nor the patience deal with either. (In the adult world, mind you; my students need all the help they can get to prevent them from traveling that same highway.)

Re: back up two spaces and lose your turn

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Stalin wasn't much of an idea guy. That was Marx, I think in 'Das Kapital'. You might agree with him a little more often, but he was a theory sort of guy and didn't have to work with the practical aspects.

Re: back up two spaces and lose your turn

[jholloway.livejournal.com]

Correct phrase is "a litle learning is a dangerous thing."

Re: back up two spaces and lose your turn

[(Anonymous)]

I think Clay Waagner did the right thing. He shut down a lot of babykilling abortion mills and saved a lot of babies from being murdered. I don't know how you can support the murder of innocent children and then act so proud like you have some sort of moral high ground. You support of the babykillers makes you culpable as well in their deaths.

Re: back up two spaces and lose your turn

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

So is there a good benefits package in being a troll? Because I certainly could use a new job.