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| Newtown massacre victim Madeleine Hsu, age 6 ` |
"Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 19:14
from the King James Bible
"If our democracy’s working the way it’s supposed to and 90 percent of the American people agree on something, in the wake of a tragedy, you’d think this would not be a heavy lift....And yet some folks back in Washington are already floating the idea that they may use political stunts to prevent votes on any of these reforms. Think about that."
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 19:14
from the King James Bible
"If our democracy’s working the way it’s supposed to and 90 percent of the American people agree on something, in the wake of a tragedy, you’d think this would not be a heavy lift....And yet some folks back in Washington are already floating the idea that they may use political stunts to prevent votes on any of these reforms. Think about that."
Barack Obama, 8 April 2013
"Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, announced Monday that he would join at least 13 other Republicans who have vowed to block consideration of gun legislation passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and assembled by the Democratic leadership."
New York Times, 9 April 2013
Is there a more disgusting piece-of-shit polluting our nation's capital than Mitch McConnell? If there is, please, I need to know.
So, Mitch is going to block legislation that might prevent the next mass murder of innocent children? Fine.
Since extreme violence seems to be the order of the day, might I share with you this insatiable little fantasy of mine? It involves our boy Mitch. You see, I have this dream of beating the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky to a fucking, bleeding pulp. Confronting him in a dark alley somewhere in the District of You-Know-Where, I can visualize pounding his skull to the very edge of existence. Once he got the message, I might then be seriously tempted to set the decrepit old son-of-a-bitch on fire - just to keep things interesting, you understand. But that kind of treatment would be much too harsh and brutal - even for the likes of Mitch McConnell. Just stuff the bruised and bloodied little bastard into a dumpster behind some third-rate pizzeria on K Street, where he can think things over while he recuperates.
Great Googley Moogley! I cannot believe I'm even thinking such horrible thoughts - and on so lovely a Spring morn! Inviting though the fantasy may surely be, violence on any level has never been my schtick. It's just that Mitch brings out the very worst in me, as that little tirade so clearly and horribly illustrates. It is merely a daydream, don't worry. I don't advocate violence against anyone - for any reason - not even a corrupt and reprehensible old bugger like Mitch McConnell. I know full well that the Prince of Peace admonishes us to be kind and gentle to one another. But isn't the scene described above a helluva lot more palatable to the senses than the random slaughter of innocent children? I ask you.
Do you have or have you ever had six and seven-year-old children? Try to put yourselves in the shoes of the mothers and fathers of the kids who were murdered in cold blood on December 14, 2012. Try to picture your children with their little heads blown to smithereens; their little brains - the receptacles of so much promise and hope - splattered onto the walls of their First Grade classrooms. A little empathy is in order here. CAN I GET A WITNESS??? YO, BABY!!!
GOOD NEWS:
The number of Americans who would prefer that our gun laws remain as obscenely loose as they presently are (or even worse) is a relatively low one.
BAD NEWS:
The people on the pro-gun side of the argument are armed and dangerous. I'm just sayin'.
But what the hell! Ninety percent of the American people want to see stricter gun legislation and yet these assholes refuse to do the right thing. I can't keep emphasizing this enough, folks: Congress is an organized criminal enterprise. And it's not just the Republicans in the cross-hairs of my scope (figuratively speaking - I promise!) There are enough Democrats who are hardly blameless. They should all be held accountable for the carnage when the next massacre of innocents happens within a few months time. And it's gonna happen, make no mistake about it - again and again and again. Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans (not to mention Harry Reid and the conservative Democrats) will see to that. This is a fact of life that we need to grow accustomed to.
And mere "background checks" aren't going to have much effect. It certainly wouldn't have made a bit of difference to the homicidal jackass who murdered those little children at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14. Those guns were purchased by his dear old mommy. Wasn't that sweet of her? If - miraculously - these rapid-fire people-killing machines were to be outlawed tomorrow, it would probably take at least a decade or more for the ban to be noticed. There are just so many of them out there as it is - with thousands more pouring onto the streets each and every day. We might have had a handle on the problem by now had the halfwit from Crawford, Texas not let Bill Clinton's assault weapons ban expire in 2004. Yet more rancid fruit from the sick and twisted legacy of George W. Bush. Wasn't that a time?
By the way, do you miss him yet? I'm sorry, that was a silly question, wasn't it.
Mitch McConnell and the NRA want us to swallow the idiotic notion that gun control is an assault on our "freedom"; that it's merely one slippery step on the totalitarian banana peel that would blindly lead us from democracy to "Stalinism" - or "Fascism" - or "Hitlerism" - or whatever stupid fucking "ism" of-the-day they happen to be whining about at any given moment. We shouldn't be naive enough to fall victim to their lies and propaganda. As long as American gun laws remain as insanely lax as they presently do, the chaos will persist. What part of this no-brainer do these corrupt fools not get?
Here's a tasty little tidbit to leave you with. I've walked all hours of the day and night in some of the more funkier neighborhoods in cities like London and Toronto. Never once did I have the fear that I might be shot and killed by some enterprising young freak looking to make a few extra dollars. I usually feel as free as a bird when I visit those cities. I don't have that same freedom in "the land of the free". Neither do you. I'm not kidding myself. You shouldn't either.
How many deaths will it take till they know
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is....
Oh, skip it.
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net
AFTERTHOUGHT:
Annette Funicello passed away yesterday.
I've gotta level you, folks; I was never really a huge fan of the "Beach Party" genre of film - anything but. They weren't even bad enough to make them fun to sit through. And yet in spite of that little personality quirk on my part, I always thought that she was lovely - and that smile one could read at midnight by....
This is getting to be an awkward time for me, at least as far as memories are concerned. The teenaged icons of my early childhood - not terribly far removed from me in terms of age - are beginning to fade into eternity. When I was a little boy they seemed eternally youthful and indestructible. They weren't, of course. They were (and are) as vulnerable as any of us in their grip on that brittle thread that binds us to this earth. Time keeps flowing like a river into the sea....Has anybody here seen my old friend Lennon?
For every one who goes before me I fear it less and less.
SUGGESTED VIEWING-3:20 PM:
Hyde Park on Hudson
Fourteen months ago I mentioned on this site that a film about Franklin Roosevelt had commenced shooting with the great Bill Murray in the title role. It was released on DVD this morning and I just finished viewing it twenty minutes ago for the very first time. It's a wonderful movie and highly recommended! In tribute to the recently deceased Roger Ebert: TWO THUMBS UP!
For more recent rantings on this electronic cesspool of naughty, LEFT WING propaganda, please go the the link below:
"The Rant" by Tom Degan
What kind of Americans are you anyway?
Cheers!
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| Mitch: Plutocracy's bitch |
Since extreme violence seems to be the order of the day, might I share with you this insatiable little fantasy of mine? It involves our boy Mitch. You see, I have this dream of beating the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky to a fucking, bleeding pulp. Confronting him in a dark alley somewhere in the District of You-Know-Where, I can visualize pounding his skull to the very edge of existence. Once he got the message, I might then be seriously tempted to set the decrepit old son-of-a-bitch on fire - just to keep things interesting, you understand. But that kind of treatment would be much too harsh and brutal - even for the likes of Mitch McConnell. Just stuff the bruised and bloodied little bastard into a dumpster behind some third-rate pizzeria on K Street, where he can think things over while he recuperates.
Great Googley Moogley! I cannot believe I'm even thinking such horrible thoughts - and on so lovely a Spring morn! Inviting though the fantasy may surely be, violence on any level has never been my schtick. It's just that Mitch brings out the very worst in me, as that little tirade so clearly and horribly illustrates. It is merely a daydream, don't worry. I don't advocate violence against anyone - for any reason - not even a corrupt and reprehensible old bugger like Mitch McConnell. I know full well that the Prince of Peace admonishes us to be kind and gentle to one another. But isn't the scene described above a helluva lot more palatable to the senses than the random slaughter of innocent children? I ask you.
Do you have or have you ever had six and seven-year-old children? Try to put yourselves in the shoes of the mothers and fathers of the kids who were murdered in cold blood on December 14, 2012. Try to picture your children with their little heads blown to smithereens; their little brains - the receptacles of so much promise and hope - splattered onto the walls of their First Grade classrooms. A little empathy is in order here. CAN I GET A WITNESS??? YO, BABY!!!
GOOD NEWS:
The number of Americans who would prefer that our gun laws remain as obscenely loose as they presently are (or even worse) is a relatively low one.
BAD NEWS:
The people on the pro-gun side of the argument are armed and dangerous. I'm just sayin'.
But what the hell! Ninety percent of the American people want to see stricter gun legislation and yet these assholes refuse to do the right thing. I can't keep emphasizing this enough, folks: Congress is an organized criminal enterprise. And it's not just the Republicans in the cross-hairs of my scope (figuratively speaking - I promise!) There are enough Democrats who are hardly blameless. They should all be held accountable for the carnage when the next massacre of innocents happens within a few months time. And it's gonna happen, make no mistake about it - again and again and again. Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans (not to mention Harry Reid and the conservative Democrats) will see to that. This is a fact of life that we need to grow accustomed to.
And mere "background checks" aren't going to have much effect. It certainly wouldn't have made a bit of difference to the homicidal jackass who murdered those little children at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14. Those guns were purchased by his dear old mommy. Wasn't that sweet of her? If - miraculously - these rapid-fire people-killing machines were to be outlawed tomorrow, it would probably take at least a decade or more for the ban to be noticed. There are just so many of them out there as it is - with thousands more pouring onto the streets each and every day. We might have had a handle on the problem by now had the halfwit from Crawford, Texas not let Bill Clinton's assault weapons ban expire in 2004. Yet more rancid fruit from the sick and twisted legacy of George W. Bush. Wasn't that a time?
By the way, do you miss him yet? I'm sorry, that was a silly question, wasn't it.
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| Jessica Rekos, age 6 |
Here's a tasty little tidbit to leave you with. I've walked all hours of the day and night in some of the more funkier neighborhoods in cities like London and Toronto. Never once did I have the fear that I might be shot and killed by some enterprising young freak looking to make a few extra dollars. I usually feel as free as a bird when I visit those cities. I don't have that same freedom in "the land of the free". Neither do you. I'm not kidding myself. You shouldn't either.
How many deaths will it take till they know
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is....
Oh, skip it.
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net
AFTERTHOUGHT:
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| Annette |
I've gotta level you, folks; I was never really a huge fan of the "Beach Party" genre of film - anything but. They weren't even bad enough to make them fun to sit through. And yet in spite of that little personality quirk on my part, I always thought that she was lovely - and that smile one could read at midnight by....
This is getting to be an awkward time for me, at least as far as memories are concerned. The teenaged icons of my early childhood - not terribly far removed from me in terms of age - are beginning to fade into eternity. When I was a little boy they seemed eternally youthful and indestructible. They weren't, of course. They were (and are) as vulnerable as any of us in their grip on that brittle thread that binds us to this earth. Time keeps flowing like a river into the sea....Has anybody here seen my old friend Lennon?
For every one who goes before me I fear it less and less.
SUGGESTED VIEWING-3:20 PM:Hyde Park on Hudson
Fourteen months ago I mentioned on this site that a film about Franklin Roosevelt had commenced shooting with the great Bill Murray in the title role. It was released on DVD this morning and I just finished viewing it twenty minutes ago for the very first time. It's a wonderful movie and highly recommended! In tribute to the recently deceased Roger Ebert: TWO THUMBS UP!
For more recent rantings on this electronic cesspool of naughty, LEFT WING propaganda, please go the the link below:
"The Rant" by Tom Degan
What kind of Americans are you anyway?
Cheers!
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