Targets at Target

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."

— C.S. Lewis

Good Times ?

The new guys in Tallahassee have reason to celebrate in public because privately they know the odds of getting whacked at the mall are next to non. They know that what liberals are known for hurling are mostly rotten tomatoes and banana cream pies.

Crazies Gun Shop USA

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."
— C.S. Lewis

Guess what i got in the mail last week, a complimentary membership card from the NRA.

Now, I am all for a well organized militia so I support our national guard 110%. But when the NRA strong-arms it's insane policy of "a gun under every pillow" and exports truckloads of US made weapons to Mexico and around the world, I say their god ain't my god.

When children play with guns, we all loose.

"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
— C.S. Lewis

KingWrong

When eliminationists are given a mega-platform by the "maim"stream media, we all loose.

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

Witches Brew

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." Coulter

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."

— C.S. Lewis

BatShitBoy

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

Pain in the Palin

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C.S. Lewis

Palinology 101

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." -"
— C.S. Lewis

TeaManCometh

When all the Tea Party People have are their guns and gawd, all we others starts looking like targets.

"Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which."
— C.S. Lewis

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Palin = psychobabble tea

Pain in the Palin

Mirror mirror,
At the Mall,
Who is the Fringiest of them,
You'all !

The swamp does funny things to people... but the tundra really does a job.

Accidentally tuned into the Tea Peoples pow-wow on tee-vee while Sorry Palin warble on like the teacher in Charley Brown. Lawd all mighty, the way the lady from Alaska rants, it is no wonder why she is the darling of the disgruntled conservative fruit-cake bowel movement schmearing american town halls and airwaves.



White Noise - Antimatters

I hear them making lots of noise but can't really put my finger on what all the hoo-haw is about.
These are the same folk who warship Glenn 'hockey-puck' Beck.
All i can figure is they are:
1. racists
2. sexists
3. racists



They Hate Us For Our Power

Well, in their own words from 04 "we won, you lost, get over it"




Sharks with Friggin Laser Beams

The Teed-off Party is whipping itself up into a frothy pungent lather of discontent smothered in reagan-centric dilution. Whatever...




A Brazilian Dollars For Your Thoughts

There will be no health insurance reform, there will be no campaign finance reform, there will be no wall street reform, no environmental reform, no end to endless war...

Just lots of screaming obstructionist and 99 trillion dollars flushed down the toilet.

If Sarah Palin would fix Haiti, I might vote for her, but she will have to sweet-talk me in creole.

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news for the homeless

Hurray, Obama just signed the Hate Crimes Bill. Love that!

"We will never know how many incidents were never reported at all," Obama said.




Just like Clockwork... Orange. Have a nice pumpkin day.





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Screw Guns

I am the proud owner of a screw-gun, a nail-gun, a heat-gun, a glue-gun , grease-gun and several other guns replete with enough ammo to get me through most jobs. I wield them with deft unapologetic. Each of my lovelies are kept safe and in fine working order, they never let me down. My guns are used to make stuff, to make a living not a killing. I have no use for guns that destroy with dumb lead slugs. I'll leave those toys for the folks who have nothing better to do than stockpile hunks of metal designed to hurt others and intended to comfort their most inner baseline psychosis, the thought that a mob is surely coming for them someday soon.




Charlton Heston is the Face, Bushman is the Brand.

If you want to understand the why's and WTFs , look no further than the NRA and the clowns/apes who uphold their principals "over their dead bodies". Look and listen more with alarming disbelief at the Eliminationist loud-mouths, not in the fringe, but currently on mainstream TV. Listen , if you have the stomach, to the crazies on Fox; Gloom Beck, Jerk O'Reilly, Rube Limbaugh, Same Hannity and what's her face Mann Coulter.
Their contrived hate-talk is intended to entertain and radicalize the American Right fringe.




There is an element in our culture that is whak. Michael Moore got it right in Bowling for Columbine. "...It is a film about the state of the Union, about the violent soul of America. Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. But are we that much different from many other countries? What sets us apart? How have we become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts of violence?



The PopeMobile - Luxury Lunatic Edition.

Many our friends around the world look at America's love affair with violence and make the necessary arrangements when visiting our glorious developed nation. They know what we seem to refuse to accept, that in a civilized society there are safeguards for avoiding tyrannical tendencies and jack-boot thuggery. But then there is the little matter of stun-guns. Tasers don't kill people, people do.

When we visit them in the Old Country, they make the necessary arrangements also.



But this blog is about the swamp... and this post is also about Guns in Art.
Florida leads the nation in rampant irresponsible gun sales and there is an unnerving tilt by ordinary folk towards packing heat. The "law under my pillow" crowd is alive, well and trigger-happy. Then there are the rest of us who are feeling a bit edgy on the side-lines.
Ironically and without pity the artist as spectator will find endless material to express the profound impact that fire-arms have on our psychic collective. A painting of a gun is not a gun, it can not hurt you physically but it can and will at best affect you mentally. Are there really only two kinds of people; those with guns and those with shovels?







In a nutshell: Bad-ass equals Dumb-ass.

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License to Hate

When a team of divers recovered this 2 ton bronze Nazi Eagle from the wreck of the Graf Spee of the coast of Uruguay, they decided to cover the swastika so as not to offend the public.

After the Dem convention in Denver, the Rove appointed Colorado state attorney Roy Eid dropped the charges against the three would-be self-confessed Obama assassins, the patsy dumb-ass swastika sporting meth-heads. With one stroke of his pen, Eid not only politicized law enforcement, he gave the green-light to all homegrown haters that it is ok to act on their despicable emotions. The crazies get the message, but most other americans really aren't paying too much attention.
To contrast the aftermath of the conventions, the repug in St.Paul brought us images of their police state jack boot thugs detaining college kids, grandmas, journalists Amy Goodman and about 400 regular folk for "conspiring to riot".


See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak Evil.
These are the faces of the children of the conservative media agenda, theRush Limpbaugh, O'Reilly, GlenBeck haters cult.


Count me out of that "we".
The haters are working over-time to further their racist ideals.
Where is the outrage?
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A heavy cross to bear

update: Senator Barack Obama is ending his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he has belonged to for about two decades and one that had become a lightning rod in his Democratic presidential bid.

From Pat Tillman's eulogy:
In this struggle [the war in Iraq], some will speak of God as the guide and guardian of the struggle, while others will speak of a higher power, and still others will look within to summon up a deep and personal courage that knows no denomination or catechism.


Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity
Researched by Sarah Maddox and Bill Gibbons
Jason Leopold, Truthout

A lawsuit was filed in federal court against the Pentagon, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army Major, by a military watchdog organization, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The nonprofit Military Religious Freedom Foundation filed the complaint September 18th, 2007, charging the Pentagon with widespread constitutional violations by allegedly trying to force the soldier to embrace evangelical Christianity and then retaliating against him when he refused. Jeremy Hall, an active duty Army specialist in Iraq, claims his First Amendment rights were violated because of his atheist beliefs, for which he was threatened with the charge of violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the blocking of his reenlistment in the Army.



Petro-crucifixed


Fundy Fruitcake First Ladies Share Fashion Secrets.

Proud to be hugely stupid

Heah in Flawda, when a fancy zirconium ring is not enough:

"With the pole already in the ground and building permits in hand, the group is on its way to having what it calls the "world's largest" Confederate flag in place by mid 2009. The group just needs about $30,000 more... Adams insists the flag isn't about racism or slavery. "It's about honoring our ancestors and about celebrating our heritage," he said. "It's a historical thing to us."

And a not so histerical thing to others.

spllchckin da walking points

Many a good wordsmith enjoy playing with words but in the information age is literacy over-rated? Dismantle public education and we can expect more of this.
To be fair, not all 'morans' are republican dictionary hating, god-fearing ditto-head freepers.



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0ooooooooobamamamia

From the ever thorough Orcinus blog:
David Neiwert is a freelance journalist based in Seattle.

The Obama haters
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
-- by Dave

It's not really news that Barack Obama's candidacy is drawing out the worst tendencies of conservatives, including the way they're painting Obama's white supporters as race traitors.

Are the american people ready for change ?
I hope so... otherwise it's "More-Of-The-Same- McCain"