It wasn’t that long ago that the whole subject of “Biblical Marriage” was being discussed in the media and internet. The result of all the hoopla involving legalizing same-sex marriage died down as the numbers of those who are now in favor of it hit critical mass and now the majority of the country is in support of legalizing same-sex marriages and all the benefits that come with it. But then the whole Dan Cathy and the Chick-fil-A thing reared its ugly head again and it’s back on the radar screen. So let’s go over this again and hopefully more people of reason, that is those who do not ascribe themselves to Christian Conservative-Tea Party ideology, will support the right side of history.

You may recall this chart that came out several months ago in response to what “Biblical Marriage” actually is:

The right loves to cite Deuteronomy 22 regarding marriage. It has some interesting things in it, some things that many on the right enjoy, like the prohibition of cross dressing (Deuteronomy 22:5). In general, it supports a great number of fundamentalist thinking they are proud of, as long as it isn’t applied to them, otherwise they may have to get stoned, and not in the way they would enjoy.

Let us examine the chart above because that is a synopsis of just about everything the Bible has to say about marriage. If the Bible is the word of God, then marriage must, according to those like Dan Cathy, follow these tenets.

Genesis 2:24 says that wives are subordinate to their husbands. It bans interfaith marriages and cites that marriages are generally to be arranged by others, not based on “romantic love.” And by the way, if your wife cannot prove her virginity prior to the ceremony, she is to be stoned to death. Also, the Bible doesn’t support the “Nuclear Family” of one man, one women. It cites that a man can have numerous wives and concubines. It actually supports the Mormon view of polygamy. So Mitt Romney has nothing to be ashamed of with his family history and should proudly talk about it at his next meeting with the Christian Fundamentalists.

Genesis 16 says a man can acquire his wife’s property including her slaves for his own. I’m sure this was really big in the Conservative Christian deep South culture leading up to the civil war. Today I guess men can have their way with the baby-sitters that their wives retain.

Genesis 38:6-10 says that a woman who is widowed without having a child must marry and submit herself sexually to her brother-in-law. After all, women are only here to procreate.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 says that if a man rapes a virgin, she must marry him and he must pay her father 50 shekels of silver to the property loss. Again, in the Bible women are not people so much as property controlled first by their fathers and later by the men they are sold to.

Numbers 31:1-18 and Deuteronomy 21:11-14 says that male soldiers can take virgin prisoners of war and have their way with them. The wives must submit. Maybe this is why the right is opposed to women in the armed forces. Logically if they were to take male virgin prisoners……

Exodus 21:4 says that slave owners can assign male slaves to female slaves who must submit and help raise stock. Now in the corporate servitude world people like the Koch’s want to create here, this could get interesting.

Note how all the above passages relate to the Old Testament. What about the New Testament? What did Jesus himself say about marriage? Well, in Matthews he really didn’t say much about marriage as instead about divorce. Jesus preached more against divorce unless unfaithfulness was involved. He didn’t say a word about how many wives a man could have or anything regarding same-sex marriage. Not a word about homosexuality.

Of course nobody even asked him about that. So who knows what his views could have been? As a Jewish Rabbi, he knew his Torah and knew about what was cited above. So he knew that polygamy was acceptable. It was going around in Israel during his lifetime. He knew that men could have their way with their slaves, it was also going on at that time. And you know what else was going on at that time? Homosexuality. It existed and was acceptable in Greece and Rome and other parts of the empire. Jesus said nothing about it. If it was that important to him that it must have been forbidden, you would think there would be something there citing a position.

Marriage, or the union of a couple or group of people, long predates the Bible, Torah or any of today’s faiths. Unions exist because there are clear social advantages to having them. They are not, and never were exclusive to any faith. So why should someone’s religious faith interfere with an arrangement that long predates their religious tenets? If a church doesn’t want to sanctify a same-sex marriage under their roof, then that’s fine. It’s them exercising their religious freedom. But that couple should have an absolute right to establish a legal joining, whether you want to call it marriage or civil union, as long as the legal protections of that union are absolutely the same for any heterosexual couple. I don’t see where semantics really matter, only the union of two people taking care of themselves and possibly others with no legal restrictions because somebody has an outdated and harmful interpretation of a book that was written by man for the men of their age, not ours.

Same-Sex marriages hurt no one, destroys no heterosexual marriages unless someone in the union is in the closet (Marcus Bachmann). All the studies brought up to say so have been proven by scientific method to simply be full of shit with no basis in fact or reality. Again, same-sex marriage doesn’t hurt, but it certainly helps those involved.

When not running for President, insulting public servants and other Congressmen by accusing them of covertly sponsoring terrorism, or demonstrating her complete stupidity regarding the intelligence committee, world affairs, American history, world history, macro and micro economics, geography, diplomacy, theology, politics, you get the idea, Michele is still active in the one arena for which she and her husband Marcus are so proud of. Their Christian Clinic they operate to Pray the Gay Away. This came up during the campaign and a recent post I read reminded me of it. I believe it is still in operation. Michele spoke highly of it during the campaign. She believes that being gay is a problem easily resolved by prayer or better yet, three meals a day at Chick-fil-A. However, the issue of praying the gay away is the focus of this very brief rant.

When I think of the concept, I’m left with images of the movie The Exorcist and the sequels and prequels. In the original, Regan was possessed by a demon and the Catholic priests were called to essentially pray the demon out of Regan via an exorcism. They had some problems of course and you need to watch the movie for that story. But I wonder if Michele truly sees homosexuality as a demon possessing the bodies of otherwise “normal” people and with her Christian faith, love, prayer and God knows how much money from the patients and government, they can be cured of the affliction. The gay can be prayed away just like the demon can be prayed away from Regan. We don’t need to go into the studies that show that people most likely do have a genetic predisposition to homosexuality, given to them by God if you will, and such therapy has no basis in fact, but does fill the coffers or collection plates damn well.

Well, this leaves a problem. In the exorcist, the demon is never destroyed. It moves on. If this is the case with pray the gay away, where would the gay end up?

I give you:

This explains so much don’t you think. And you know what, I don’t think he wants to give it back.

Favorite Tea Party whack job Michele Bachmann adores Representative Steve King of Iowa. She went so far as to call him “The stunning Steve King.” Why is he on my radar today for this rant? Well he appears to have an issue in the Farm Bill that is important to the people of his home state of Iowa. He has a problem with a provision that essentially outlaws dog fighting. He explains: it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/31/615951/steve-king-dogfighting/

But he didn’t leave it there. He had to make his point so he did. He added:

liberals have so devalued life, that a man can rape a young girl, kidnap her, force her to undergo an abortion across state lines, and then “drop her off at the swingset….and that’s not against the law in the United States of America.”

http://wonkette.com/479791/iowa-rep-steve-king-why-is-it-wrong-to-dog-fight-if-it-is-okay-to-rape-and-kidnap-these-children

Wow, I’m sure rapists and pedophiles across the country are having a collective sigh of relief right now. It appears that in this country, raping young women/girls, abducting them across state lines for abortions is legal. Who knew? I have to wonder if Steve King’s campaign donations from the registered sex offenders in this country have just skyrocketed.

Steve King has no problems with dog fighting. If that’s what he believes, then fine. He apparently has no knowledge of the research that shows that those so inclined to be cruel to animals tend to also be cruel to humans and generally run afoul of the law as part of their sociopathic makeup. But no matter, if he wants to support these people, let him. However it would be nice if he would cite facts in making his argument and not hyperbole. Truth would be nice.

Oh wait, I forgot, he’s a Tea Party darling and they love to be fooled. Most I suspect love to watch dogs maul each other for sport too. Maybe some like to visit playgrounds… No matter. At least Steve is adored by Michele Bachmann who since dropping out of the Presidential race has been home “praying the gay away.” Somebody needs to explain to her that you just can’t “pray the gay away>’ It has to go somewhere. In her case, she needs to pay more attention to Marcus.

It’s entertaining dealing with these nut jobs in Congress, but these people are responsible for our governance. Time has long since passed where we need serious, intelligent people legislating on our behalf, not playing to nut jobs or simply being stupid.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) represents the various corporations across the country. This is a group with major ties to the Koch brothers. These are the people who helped Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce write and enact the infamous SB1070 or “Show me your papers” law in Arizona. They meet on a regular basis, corporate lobbyists and usually hard-core Republican state and federal lawmakers to come up with laws that support the right wing but mostly corporate agenda. It was ALEC that pushed the “Stand Your Ground” laws beginning in Florida and is now in over half the states in the Union. It is ALEC that’s in league with the National Rifle Association who lobby for gun manufacturers that pushed “Stand Your Ground” as a means to pump up sales of weapons and ammunition.

It’s also ALEC that has sponsored most of the Voter ID laws across the country. ID laws that conservatively can impact the voting rights of over 5 million United States Citizens who will be unable to get the proper photo ID’s the law demands, due to inability to get a birth certificate or not having the money to get the limited acceptable ID’s required. This is the law that ALEC, at the bequest of the Koch brothers and GOP hope will suppress enough votes to throw the election to the Republicans in November, even though they now admit there is no “voter fraud” to speak of out there to justify such a draconian approach and infringement of American freedoms.

If ALEC, working for the NRA and GOP are so convinced that birth certificates to get valid picture ID’s is needed to insure that only US citizens are voting, then it’s only logical that since the 2nd Amendment only applies to US citizens, the same requirement should be in place to make sure that only verified US citizens are purchasing guns and ammunition in this country. Afterall, we don’t need any foreigners in the country out there buying guns to threaten and take over the country. I have as much evidence of that happening, possibly even more, than they have that foreigners are voting to throw off the election.

So if a State has, or plans to enact any legislation demanding proof of US citizenship via a photo ID, then there should be accompanied with legislation that only the same ID can be used to purchase any guns or ammunition. The purchases must be made in person, the buyer must register as the voters are and gun ownership can be removed (caged) if there is evidence that something is wrong. For example, if Florida takes hundreds of thousands of registered voters off their rolls, those same people also lose their guns at the same time, and those who caged those voters need to go out to each and every home to take possession.

Hey, it’s all about American Freedom. So NRA, if you back Voter ID’s then you must also back the same ID’s be used before anyone can exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. I see it as a good compromise, a win/win. Or you can tell your ALEC partners in crime to back off this suppression of a constitutional right that is as important, if not more so, than the 2nd.

Sheldon Adelson

Hyman Roth

Alright, I’ll admit it, with my Italian background, two of my favorite movies are The Godfather and Godfather Part 2 (we won’t talk about part 3). One of the central characters in Godfather Part 2 was Hyman Roth. The Roth character was based on real life gangster Meyer Lansky. Lansky was a Jewish underworld mobster who was in league with Charles “Lucky” Luciano and helped “Murder Incorporated” grow into the mafia syndicate as their accountant. Meyer was part of the “Jewish Mafia” and developed a gambling empire from Saratoga, New York to Miami to Council Bluffs to Las Vegas. He also oversaw gambling in Cuba.

The Hyman Roth character was a Jewish Investor and associate of Vito Corleone and later his son Michael Corleone. Hyman’s good friend, Moe Greene “invented” Las Vegas and became a millionaire from the gambling operations there, in Miami and Cuba. Hyman never forgave Michael Corleone for killing Moe Greene so he used Michael’s brother Fredo to set Michael up for assassination. It’s a good movie and if you never watched it, go rent it and see if you can pick up the parallels to Sheldon Adelson.

Now there is nothing out there that I’m aware of showing that Sheldon has arranged any assassinations of any underworld crime bosses out of revenge. However, there are some interesting things to note here. Sheldon is big into gambling. Very big. It’s made him a billionaire. He has casinos in Las Vegas and a real profitable one in Macau China. In March, 2012 ABC News did an expose on the operation. “Watchdog: Mob Ties at Chinese Casinos Owned by US Firms?” Here’s the link if you’re interested:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/watchdog-mob-ties-chinese-casinos-owned-us-firms/story?id=15871379

It speaks of violent Chinese underworld mob bosses, American Corporations and their ties to Sheldon Adelson who at the time was Newt Gingrich’s major financial backer. Adelson denies any wrong doing and states that the Federal case is built “on a foundation of lies.” But the investigation by the Feds and by investigative reporters (real ones, not the drones from Rupert Murdoch and FOX) continue. Here is a recent post:

http://www.propublica.org/article/new-questions-about-sheldon-adelsons-casino-operations-in-macau

Sheldon is in hot water and one can only speculate his interest in this year’s presidential campaign. He once backed Newt Gingrich and now fully back Mitt Romney. Is it possible that Sheldon wants more friendly investigators at the Department of Justice? Adelson has said he’s willing to spend up to $100,000,000.00 to defeat President Obama. Since he’s worth by some estimates of around $50,000,000,000.00 he can afford it. His Macau operations brings home billions. But if there is something to the allegations, then Sheldon would think that a $100,000.000.00 is a small price to get the Feds off your back. Poor Hyman wasn’t so lucky. The Feds were after him and Israel wouldn’t let him return there due to his underworld connections. Upon his return to Miami, Michael Corleone’s hitman got him at the Airport. I don’t think Sheldon has to worry about that. However, who really knows.

Anyhow, the one fact that intrigues me about this man who is so interested in American politics and the political process of the country he is a citizen of is that he’s not so much the American you would think of. Although he served in our Armed Forces, unlike his protégé Mitt Romney, Sheldon is on record saying that he would have preferred to have served in, and worn the Israeli Defense Forces’ uniform.

Watch this link about the “American” who is one of Mitt Romney’s biggest backer:

Even though Hyman wasn’t allowed to avoid American Justice by fleeing to Israel as “a returning Jew” Sheldon might still want to consider that option if the Department of Justice files criminal charges against him. Israel would love to have access to his billions and their progressive tax code. This apparent, underworld gambling casino mobster would make a great new character if there was to ever be a Godfather 4. But hey, at least Hyman made sure everyone got a piece of his birthday cake. Sheldon would never be that generous to anyone who couldn’t help him personally.

When the founders created the role of President, they built into that position the focal point of our nation’s foreign policy. The president, with the secretary of State approved by Congress, would set the tone of all foreign policy. This policy involves of course our relationships with other nations, both militarily, but also economically. So what does Mitt Romney bring to the table?

He is quick to try to convince the nations that the world has less respect for our country because of her current president. This of course runs counter to all polling in the world and is only supported by FOX polling of resident right-wing nut jobs in this country speaking for those outside the country. Afterall, we’re Americans, we speak for everybody. But I digress.

Let’s look at Military Policy. It’s true that President Obama never wore the uniform before taking on the role of Commander-in-Chief. He was never drafted. Of course, he was barely a teen when the draft ended and was only 14 with the Vietnam War ended. So let’s look at Mitt Romney. As a college student he supported the Vietnam War. In fact, he protested anti-war rallies. He was pro-draft, yet he took advantaged of being a Mormon and was deferred from the draft so he could do missionary work in the South of France. None of his five sons have signed up for service in the two wars that Mitt Romney supported (Iraq and Afghanistan) because they were serving a higher calling, helping their father become president for Pete’s sake.

Mitt Romney just today, as a candidate, violated long-standing US policy regarding military posturing in Iran by saying he would support a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran and that war was on the table. Not even George W Bush was that crazy. He later stepped it back when confronted. Much like most of his tough war talk, he later takes it back or re-defines it. Mitt’s problem with military policy is that he has the “loose lips” that can sink the ship of the State of US Diplomacy. What is really interesting about Mitt’s stance with Iran is that there are reports that he has financial dealings, (most likely indirect to avoid being found in violation of US sanctions against Iran) from which he is making more money from Iranian Oil.

As our current Commander-in-Chief, President Obama has removed us from Iraq and is in the process of removing our presence from Afghanistan. When Libya erupted, he worked with NATO to assist the rebels who eventually overthrew and killed Qadhafi and not a single US casuality occurred. Further, using Seal Team 6, the president has killed Somali Pirates holding an US citizen hostage and of course Osama bin Laden in the middle of Pakistan. He has also used military drone attacks to kill off Al Qaeda leadership. The president has demonstrated the proper respect and use of our military forces. The only thing Mitt has done regarding the military has been making money off of various military contract.

Speak softly and carry a big stick goes back to Republican Teddy Roosevelt, has been used by most subsequent presidents in terms of military foreign policy and works best today. Mitt talks loudly but has no balls to make the tough real life decision a Commander-in-Chief of the largest most powerful military force in the World must have.

Now economics. As the record clearly shows, Mitt Romney pioneered at Bain the idea of outsourcing American jobs to foreign soil to improve the corporate profit margins. This works well for the foreign workforce and corporate profits at home, but does little for the working people in this country and their buying power. No jobs, no disposable income, no buying power, deeper recession. Mitt agrees with current laws that continues to give tax breaks to US corporations who outsource work to other nations yet is opposed to reversing it where tax credits would be given to corporations bringing the jobs back and taxing those who outsource the jobs. Countries like China and India would do very well under a Romney world economic plan, but at what cost to Americans.

The interesting thing is, President Obama with the exception of changing the outsourcing tax codes has continued the Reagan, Clinton and Bush foreign “Free Trade” policies that have helped the other nations at our economic disadvantaged. Though not as bad it would be nice to see a stronger position of seeing to our own economic survival. Romney would make it worse. Would divert more resource out of country for the corporate bottom line. Trade agreements with other countries are important but should be geared towards the best interests of the American people if you are the President and Corporations are not American People. Let the foreign leaders negotiate for their people while we negotiate for our own and come to mutually satisfying compromise. Let’s not sell everything to other countries to help a few corporate CEO’s.

Mitt’s first foreign trip at prospective Republican nominee hasn’t been all that the GOP would hope for the man they hope to have in office to represent America to the world. He insulted the Brits regarding their Olympic games, he slipped up egregiously regarding US military options regarding Iran while in Israel, not to mention taking a very tactless photo-op on the Western Wall on Tisha b’Av, one of the most holiest Jewish days commemorating the destruction of the Temple, a day where Jews mourn and fast. God only knows what childish, uninformed tactless thing he will do in Poland. Will he speak about the barbwire at Auschwitz being “the right height”? When you represent this nation, you don’t insult the people you are visiting in their own countries. A president is by definition a diplomat. The highest diplomat our nation has. Mitt has shown he is not up to that challenge.

Prior to civil rights, though people were increasingly less tolerant, White Supremacists had no fears being out in the open. In a country of “Separate but Equal”, Segregation being the norm, these people had no problems going out in the open, expressing their views. Sadly, these views were shared by a significant portion of the country. The Ku Klux Klan were able to march in full white sheet regalia in Washington DC. At that time, their membership was estimated to be well over a million, in a country where few people stood up against lynchings, church bombings and the like.

Slowly in the 1950’s things started to change. The move to grant full civil rights was beginning to take hold. It started with Harry Truman desegregating the armed forces, followed by Dwight Eisenhower ordering busing, and culminated in the Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson. John Kennedy tried to get it done, but couldn’t get it through Congress made up of Dixiecrats and it took Texan Johnson, using the memory of the martyred president to get it passed. When he signed it, he acknowledged that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a Generation. He was right. Many in the South left the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party. Richard Nixon created his “Southern Strategy” that he used to take the White House in 1968 and this has been a mainstay of GOP politics for much longer than a single generation.

However,  during this time the racists began to go underground. Oh, they were still there, people knew of their existence, but they kept in the shadows. They knew the vast majority of the country had outgrown them and they became part of the counterculture.

Now, they are coming back. Many have no problems showing themselves, demanding to be part of the government with support of more people than many thought possible in this day, in this country. Did it have to do with the country electing its first Black President? That certainly played a role. Racists are by nature angry people needing something to vent their anger at. President Obama fills that role for them.

The picture at the top is JT Ready. He’s famous in Arizona. I’ve spoken of him before. He was in the Marines, Court martialed twice, and received a bad conduct discharge from the Corps. But in Arizona he found a calling. With the help of the Arizona Republican Party, controlled by the Arizona Tea Party coalition that convinced Arizonans that all their problems could be traced to people across the border, Ready became a big name in patrolling the border and dealing with those little brown people taking jobs, littering the desert, or whatever propaganda they could come up with. With the help of Senate President Russell Pearce with his SB1070 and Governor Jan Brewer seeing headless bodies in the desert, Ready was making a name for himself. He was running for Sheriff in Pinal County. That ended when Ready murdered his girlfriend, her daughter and granddaughter and the daughter’s fiance before killing himself. Ready is gone, but his racism remains vibrant in Arizona.

You would think that it’s a no brainer figuring who the White Supremacists are and what they stand for. If you do, then you are just like George Bush not understanding the difference between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq. White Supremacists are varied, have differing goals, differing politics, differing tolerances and actually only share one thing, extreme violent anger and hatred.

You have the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Brotherhood, Skinheads, Peckerwoods, White Pride Independents, the factions are varied. Many are in competition with one another. It’s interesting to note that Aryan Brotherhood are actually tolerant of other races to a point, and will deal with them, to a point, and tend to do drugs like heroin and meth. Skinheads are absolutely opposed to drugs and any association with any minority group. Aryan Brotherhood are more of a traditional outlaw gang while Skinheads are more of a political movement. Again, the only thing these groups have in common is violence towards minorities and those in their groups who don’t live up to their code.

Though the KKK are still an influence and of course come from the deep south, it is interesting to know that the Aryan Brotherhood and Skinhead groups mostly came from California. Aryan Brotherhood began in California around 1973 and moved to Arizona around 1979. Between these two states, the gangs are growing chapters across the nation. It’s interesting to learn that the Georgia Chapter of the Aryan Brotherhood was started by AB members from Arizona. Word is that Arizonan AB members are a key factor in starting many new chapters across the country. Go figure.

As I mentioned earlier, the various Skinhead groups are the fastest growing White Supremacists out there and they tend to be more of a political movement than a gang movement. They see this country as being only for the Whites, no tolerance for minorities. They do follow the Nazi doctrine to the letter. If they were to be part of any mainstream political party to enact their goals, odds are it would be the Tea Party Faction of the Republican Party.

Don’t be surprised. Besides, these people have been coming out of the woodwork more and more in recent years. They’re mainstreaming, knowing that to change the system, you must become part of the system. It’s classic. JT Ready was a Neo-Nazi skinhead who could have become Sheriff in Pinal County. Other “secret” racists, but clearly racists none-the-less are already in government. It includes Arizona and the National level. You know them by their rhetoric, their acts and their demeanor. If our country continues to just shrug it’s shoulders to these people and allow them to continue to mainstream, they will become more open and racist in their views.

Currently, the GOP is catering to the racist side of the Tea Party Coalition. I’m not saying that all Tea Party members are skinheads, Aryan Brotherhood, or simply racist. But if those people were to be in a party, it would be the Tea Party and they appear to be calling the shots.

White Supremacists have always been out there and they are involved in everything including law enforcement. They are getting more and more comfortable in not only expressing their views, but in trying to legislate those views. Voter suppression, Laws that target people based on race, cutting of aid to groups that cater to minorities, etc. The only way to stop this, is to call it out when you see it. It’s time to embarrass the White Supremacists back to their dark holes where they had been hiding since the 1960’s. Otherwise, they will unite and this country will lose what little humanity it has left.

Every time his name is mentioned, every time he’s quoted, every time he’s on the radio or television I have to keep asking myself, has Saturday Night Live gone Prime Time? Heaven forbid that Michele Bachmann comes to the realization that Marcus is gay and ends up hooking up with this Gomer, that could signal the end times.

Our first major encounter with Goober was his famous “terror babies” rant while on a flight. In his deluded mind, he figures that a diabolical plan involving terrorists sending pregnant women into the US to birth their America-hating spawns. The mothers and their kids then return home where, the congressman says, the children “could be raised and coddled as future terrorists”— and later, “twenty, thirty years down the road, they can be sent in to help destroy our way of life.” When I first heard this, I wondered if it wasn’t time to implement a psychological evaluation for House members before they could serve. But sadly with the Tea Party caucus that Gopher is apart of, if they were all expelled due to their paranoia, the House may never be able to get a quorum for any action. I later learned this House has been so ineffective in legislating this term that it doesn’t really matter if they ever get a quorum.

Louie Louie  has been a recent vocal supporter of Michele Bachmann and her paranoid rants about Huma Abedin and Rep Keith Ellison of being plants from the Muslim Brotherhood. He and fellow paranoid delusional bat shit crazies Rep Trent Franks,  Rep Thomas Rooney and Rep Lynn Westmoreland joined in the crazy train demonstrating more that there is a need for a House Psychiatrist on call when these psychotic episodes reach a peak.

And most recently, Looney G has insulted the victims of Aurora by saying “We’ve told God ‘we don’t want him around” in response to the shooting. Adding that the country’s move away from its “Judeo-Christian beliefs” was responsible
for God withdrawing his “protective hand” from the country. Of course it had nothing to do with lax gun control laws that allow mentally disturbed people to purchase unneeded Assault Rifles and 6000 rounds of ammunition on the internet without a single check by anyone. Hell, the laws are so lax, Gohmert could even get a gun and ammo. Maybe ATF should be keeping an eye on this nut. He does seem to fit the profile. Hell, I think he was also a character in Deliverance.

Is Gohmert insane? Possibly. Is he stupid? Well, stupid is as stupid does. Problem is he’s emblematic of the type of Tea Party Slime that voter apathy gave us in 2010 so it’s the country’s insanity and stupidity that continue to give us insensitive, unrealistic, pathetic crazy nut jobs like Gohmert, Bachmann, Franks, Rooney and Westmoreland in the House to disgrace our nation. No, God hasn’t abandoned this country at all. I don’t think God really give a rat’s ass about the complexity of religious doctrine or lack of faith in this country. At least no more than Allah or Jehovah or Yahwey. However, as long as the voters allow idiots like these to represent us in DC, then it’s clear that we’ve told “Sanity” we don’t want him around.

It’s still amazes me to hear people call in on radio shows talk about how much better it would have been in Aurora, (or any other site in this country where a mass murder involving an assault rifle) if the people there were also armed with the same weaponry. I grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s to the cry’s of people saying that television and the movies were too violent and would result in violent people, then in the 1980’s and 1990’s it was video games making people more violent. Well, I really don’t believe that violence on television, movies, or video games necessarily have a major effect on the violence of a culture. I don’t discount it completely, but I think the problem is actually simpler than that. Television, movies and video games are making people more stupid. They don’t seem to realize that in the real world, those with guns tend to fire back at you. Unless you are very calm, well-trained and of the mind to take another life, you will be shot and possibly killed, not the attacker who already is of the mind to take lives. That’s reality, that’s what the military and police train for on a regular basis. Watching television or playing video games don’t properly train you or prepare you for a real fire fight.

Military Boot camp is designed to essentially “brainwash” people into being able to go against their nature and be able to devalue human life to make them more effective killing machines. The only lives that matter are those in your unit, those outside aren’t to be considered human. Sadly, one of the reasons so many come back from war with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome is because of the inability to accept what they have done in war, that they have taken human life. It’s not as easy as it would appear in the movies, on television or on a video game. And you cannot regenerate when you are shot, there is no reset, you can’t play again. And, being shot is painful and results in real blood.

So the NRA would like a place where everyone is armed because the more armed people out there, the less the possibility of shots being fired at you. Well, the picture above is of Somalia. Just about everyone there is armed with high-capacity assault rifles. Rifles provided by the gun manufacturers for whom the NRA lobby for. Is this really what we want? It is what the NRA’s leadership wants because that’s how they make money. Off the deaths of innocent people from the most effective instruments of close quarter mass destruction available.

Most responsible gun owners, to include those with military and/or law enforcement experience know that the answer is better gun control laws. In fact a majority of rank and file NRA membership support better gun control laws. They know that laws designed to keep assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, etc. out of the hands of criminals and mentally disturb is not taking all the guns away from law-abiding people. It’s making the streets safer by keeping those weapons out of the hands of people so inclined to take these weapons into a theatre, or school, or shopping center. Someone so inclined to do that represents a danger to the community and responsible gun owners recognize this and agree it must be regulated. They also know that vigilante justice by untrained, untried, inexperienced, but armed cherubs will only make matters worse in a fire fight.

More guns on the streets do not make the streets safer, it would only tend to make us more like Somalia. The only thing it would accomplish is more gun and ammunition sales and profits to the people Wayne LaPierre represents. Not rank and file gun owners, but the manufacturers who want you to buy more of their product.

Paranoid or just a con man trying to convince people that President Obama is trying to take guns away from everyone. He’s not and if he wanted to, he couldn’t under Federal Law and Supreme Court Rulings. Any change of the Constitution requires super majority actions in the Senate and State Legislatures. But no matter, the fear this dweeb instills in the gullible people of this country rakes in the profits for gun and ammunition manufacturers while making the streets more unsafe. Self fulfilling prophecy  Wayne?