Let me make this perfectly clear
We seem to have a state of widespread confusion on many important topics. Let's sort this nonsense out once and for all:
Global Warming: Totally not real. Or, if it is, it's just something that is going to happen anyway due to the inexplicable natural climate cycles and therefore it is blasphemous and wrong for mankind to try and interfere with it. It's certainly not anything that has anything to do with the 300 billion or so BTUs of energy the human race releases into the ecosphere every year or so, an amount which has increased pretty much every year since the Stone Age and will continue to increase until something happens that returns us... well, some of us, the small fraction that survives whatever it is... to the Stone Age again. So, first, global warming is not real, and second, if it is, it isn't our fault, and third, if it is our fault, we still can't do anything about it because if God wants the Earth to get warmer, it's gonna get warmer, so shut up.
This is the official public policy position on global warming, and it's a fine one, and no more need be said. However, just so people understand, underlying this excellent and irrefutable public policy is the following even more excellent and irrefutable political reasoning: Al Gore came up with the whole idea of global warming, and Al Gore is a goddam liberal, so liberals pretty much own the whole global warming deal, so, obviously, if global warming is real then liberals are right about something and Al Gore is right about something and in the end we all might have to admit that Al Gore actually won the 2000 Presidential election and the entire Bush/Cheney thing was an illegal, outlaw regime and every single registered Republican is a criminal bastard who should go to jail. And frankly, we will kill every single one of you before we ever admit to any of that. So global warming isn't real, or if it is, it's cool and you need to shut up about it, and I hope we're clear on that. Or else we'll have to kill you. So shut up.
Imprisoning terrorists: Keeping terrorists locked up forever without any kind of legal due process is a great idea as long as they're Islamic foreigners with weird names who probably wear towels on their heads and pray funny. AND it's a great idea as long as they are locked up in some Communist country we should continue to have a complete and total trade embargo on because they're Commies. But we cannot give these terrorists trials and we cannot set them free and we cannot imprison them anywhere in the actual U.S.A. because they're incredibly dangerous, which is proven by the fact that we've already got like 30 of these guys locked up in prisons in the U.S.A and look at all the high school girls kissing each other now. I mean, jesus.
Maybe keeping these goddam towelheads locked up at Gitmo forever isn't such a great idea. We should probably just execute them all, and then airdrop their beheaded bodies into Iran to show how we feel about rigged Presidential elections, just like that episode of WKRP where downtown Cincinatti was bombed with turkeys on Thanksgiving. Yeah. That would show 'em.
The actual birthplace of 'President' Obama: It's important to understand that B. Hussein Obama was almost certainly actually 'born' in the United States, (although, honestly, how 'American' is Hawaii, anyway?) and even if he wasn't his mother was an American citizen so wherever he was born (someplace in Africa) he's probably still an actual 'American citizen' (although by no stretch of the imagination can he be considered to be a TRUE American by the standards of decent, mainstream Americans like Sarah Palin and myself but that's a totally different thing). But that's not really the issue, is it? The issue actually is that clearly the White House is trying to hide something by refusing to release the actual original piece of paper that actually states where Obama was born, and they're probably doing this with the intention of making conservatives look bad, and that's just wrong.
Also, and this may not be the time to bring this up but hey, somebody has to do it: our country was founded by good decent God fearing Christian white men and our Constitution pretty clearly states exactly how, for purposes of representation, people of B. Hussein Obama's heredity and culture are to be counted. Constitutionally, the validity of somebody of B. Hussein Obama's heredity and culture to serve in any kind of elected office in the United States of America would seem to be on kind of shaky ground. I'm just sayin'.
Socialist health care policies: It's important to stay civil and keep the discussion of these things spirited but on a mature level, yes, it is. But if we'd had that attitude back in the 40s when a certain National Socialist party in Germany was rounding up all the folks they didn't like and shipping them off to murder camps, well, the few of us still around would all be speaking German and saluting a flag with a swastika on it right now. Civility is all well and good but let's not forget that we're at war and when you're fighting socialism like our grandparents did during The Big One that sometimes violence is the only way. The National Socialists back then were rounding people up and sending them to camps; the socialists now just want to kill us all slowly by sending us to crappy government doctors like they're forcing on our poor wounded soldiers in that lousy Veteran's Administration. Do you want your sick grandmother being treated by a VA doctor who got his medical degree in some cow college in India? Do you want your kids to get flu shots from some grubby fingered raghead whose name you can't even pronounce? If violent public demonstrations are what it takes to keep Obama's dirty fingers off your grandparent's Medicare, then I say it's a price we should all be willing to pay. Our grandparents fought National Socialism abroad, now it's our turn to fight it on the home front.
'Former' Presidents: Why is it that when the liberal mainstream media mentions Bill Clinton it's always 'President Bill Clinton', but when they mention George W. Bush, which they hardly ever do nowadays, by the way, and that's just wrong, it's always 'former President George W. Bush'? Also, I'd like to say that if B. Hussein Obama had sent President George W. Bush over to North Korea to get those two chicks out of the hoosegow, he wouldn't have apologized to Kim Jong Il, he would have popped the little bastard's head off his neck and then led an airborne assault on the prison where they were being held.
Also, of course Clinton went over to rescue those two chicks, I mean, they're kind of hot, and I'm sure they expressed their gratitude to him over and over again on the plane trip back to the States, I mean, you know what those Asian chicks are like, and we all know what Slick Willie is like. Although I'm sure if he was asked he'd lie about it. Someone should do a DNA test on those reporter chicks' dresses. In fact, it's kind of a national scandal that the mainstream media hasn't shown any interest in investigating exactly what may have gone on between Clinton and those two Asian chicks on the plane trip back. You know they'd have been all over President Bush if he'd ever rescued two hot Asian chicks and then spent a long plane trip alone with them. It's typical.
Anyway, I hope this has cleared a few things up for everyone.













"...every single registered Republican is a criminal bastard who should go to jail."
Pretty much nullifies anything else you had to say, but since you are obviously preaching to the choir instead of actually trying to influence the opinions of the people who don't already agree with you, fire away.
I will note that as a Heinlein fan you appear to be a bit too fond of absolutes.
August 6, 2009 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I never try to have any kind of serious discussion with the sort of person who honestly doesn't believe in global warming, or who genuinely feels that simply because the Nazis called themselves socialists, they actually were. As Heinlein once put it in an entirely different context, 'never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.'
In other words, this 'essay' is for entertainment purposes only. When I want to convince a conservative of something, I'll either bring a club or a bribe, depending on circumstances.
August 6, 2009 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose I see your point, but as literal as most conservatives are in this country, all it takes is a single line like the one I quoted to turn this from entertainment to polemic.
It also the lamest excuse in the book to write inflammatory and divisive things to then claim: "Hey, I was just kidding! If you can't take a joke stop reading."
Here's another Heinlein quote that you may have missed:
In case you are unfamiliar with that particular term and need to look it up as I did, it means: Without which it could not be.Heinlein was a was a naval officer and an academy grad, so I am pretty certain he wouldn't approve of the partisan crap that is going on in America these days on either side of the fence and would be pretty disappointed with our inability to have a polite conversation despite disagreeing.
Here's one more Heinlein quote for good measure:
Truer words were never spoken.August 6, 2009 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jason,
Yeah, when I Googled for the 'pig to sing' quote (I don't have an eidetic memory, even for Heinlein, sorry) I hit the same 'Heinlein quotes' page you must have.
As I've mentioned in a couple of other spots (most prominently here: http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/majorattitude/heinlein.html) I enjoy Heinlein's fiction but would never hold him up as a model of social virtue. The dialogue he puts in the mouth of various fictional characters if often eminently quotable, but he himself went from one extreme to another in terms of social and political beliefs over the course of his life, and he was not always as polite in real life as his fictional characters preached everyone should be (nor, for that matter, were his fictional characters always as polite in their fictional lives as they preached everyone else should be... Lazarus Long, just for one, was capable of enormous rudeness when he found such to be in his self interest).
I see great value in civility, but I also see equal or greater value in invective, insult, satire, and parody, when they are done in a fashion I find entertaining. As much a fan as I am of gentle souls like Heinlein, I'm also a fan of Clemens, Wilde, and Churchill, not to mention modern masters of the vituperative art like Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart. I'd imagine as much as my attempts at humor have offended you, so to have all those worthies exasperated you equally, and no doubt you've published many essays and comments scolding and abjuring them for how they've lowered the discourse, just as I have here.
Or maybe you just think they're funny, and I'm not, which is certainly fair enough.
August 6, 2009 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wasn't offended so much as disappointed in the continuing tone deafness on the left to make commentary - satirical or not - that doesn't further inflame our tensions.
Stewart and Colbert are both much more subtle in their humor and rarely leave the object of their satire aware they have been targeted for humor, a subtly lacking in this blog.
Olbermann, on the other hand, has a much greater responsibility to not divide us further in pursuit of his republican-inspired commentaries. Despite the fact that I agree with much of his ire, his tone and tenor is hardly helpful in healing the damage these last forty years of partisan politics has done.
Sorry to be a critic. I suppose you expected nothing but adoring cheers from the choir.
August 6, 2009 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
How are your efforts at encouraging civility going on WND, Freeps or even Politico?
Suppose it is an uphill battle, what with 1/3 of "your" party being birthers.
August 6, 2009 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is closer to 20 percent who actually believe that crap, but you are essentially right. Many people in the republican party aren't ready to start listening, mostly because what they hear coming from the left is so startlingly similar to what they themselves did to create the schism to begin with.
The reason I don't go to those other sites is because that is where the GOP fringe goes. They are beyond reaching. Any republican with half a brain and an inkling of intellectual honesty - yes, I know they are an endangered species - doesn't go to those sorts of sites. Most are probably here and other progressive sites, either commenting or lurking.
As tough as it is getting liberal democrats to let loose of some of their vitriol and paranoia for the right, that is an impossible task among conservative republicans in the foreseeable future. I suspect sanity will radiate from the center-right to the fringes over a number of years.
I am just worried that such a transition is impossible if the left won't lay down their rhetorical weapons in favor of persistent and consistent advocacy for smart solutions to obvious problems.
August 6, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't 'expect' anything when I post here. I simply respond to whatever I get. Often times the things I feel most strongly about here get no response whatsoever, which is more frustrating than anything else (especially when I'm posting urgent pleas on behalf of a friend who is on the verge of starvation). So I'm grateful for any responses here... however, that gratitude doesn't mean I'm not going to respond to those responses honestly.
As to the remainder of your point of view, which seems to be that the conservatives can insult everyone who disagrees with them however they please, but god forbid anyone say anything back, it's an opinion, but it's not one I hold or have much respect for. One of the most potent weapons against foolishness and malice is humor.
Beyond that, you seem to believe that those on the right wing are filled with good intentions and simply misled, or woefully ignorant. I don't; I think many of them are filled with deliberate malice, corruption, and wickedness, especially those I am trying to satirize and parody with this blog entry.
August 6, 2009 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I actually don't think that at all, and I am quick to knock similar behavior when it comes from the right.
As to the rest of your opinion, your suggestion that most republicans are "filled with deliberate malice, corruption, and wickedness" is the height of hyperbole as well as hypocrisy and historical inaccuracy. Those base emotions can be found on the left as well as the right and most especially among people in positions of power no matter what party they belong to.
You obviously have the right to write whatever you want. Just as I have the right to critique it as being overly combative, intellectually stunted and apparently seeks to combine disparate positions from multiple points of view into a single, all encompassing "conservative" wickedness where all registered republicans should be thrown in jail.
Satire is only effective when it is pointed and focused on a specific target, otherwise it is just bad writing.
August 6, 2009 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
::sigh::
Okay, let's boil this down:
Shorter Jason Everett Miller: "As a Republican and a conservative, I do not find your so called satire of Republican/conservative POVs to be either funny or insightful, and, further, you're a meanie."
August 6, 2009 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not exactly what I said, but that is a better example of real satire that is marginally funny.
August 6, 2009 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans have, as a general rule, extremely limited senses of humor... and absolutely no capacity whatsoever for laughing at themselves.
August 6, 2009 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, Jason, the good doctor wrote "many" are filled with malice, etc. -- not "most." See, that's hyperbole on your part.
And lighten up, man.
August 7, 2009 3:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
PS: Loved the teach a pig to sing quote. I think it very apt and applicable to today's health reform and other political debates.
The existing disconnect on the right side of the house can be very frustrating, but I think it is more a matter of teaching a parrot to sing. They are capable of singing but have been taught for years to simply repeat what they are told.
Slightly different context and not nearly as hopeless in my opinion.
August 6, 2009 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great blog! So funny! Dangerous stuff here..... ;)
August 6, 2009 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. And it's only dangerous if someone stops and thinks about it, and what are the odds of that happening? ;)
August 6, 2009 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Scary! To consider how few thinking brains there may be.... I'm encouraging Obey to look into that.
August 6, 2009 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, that about covers it Doc.
August 6, 2009 7:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very well done Doc!
August 7, 2009 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, to all of you.
August 7, 2009 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink