Root of All Evil

Blame the Village

October 19th, 2007

Driving to work today a long standing craving that I have once again engulfed my brain. I will never be able to again savor the taste. What is my craving? A McDonald’s Hot Apple Pie. I am not talking about the crap they serve today - I am talking about the pie that was fried, the one that when you bit into it, it would CrUncH! A blister would quickly form on the roof of your mouth because the apples were near 11,000 degrees but you didn’t care because the taste was just sooo indescribably good. It is truly a shame they are gone…gone for good.

Liberals took our pie, they are the root of all evil. If someone chokes to death on a chicken bone they start a lobby to pressure congress for funding to create chickens who’s bones melt in your mouth somehow using the human stem cells of an aborted fetus. OK, I admit, that’s a stretch - the person doesn’t have to actually die from choking to get this ball rolling.

The intimidation corporations feel to reduce fat, cholesterol and make people eat healthy started because some kids liberal mom told him he couldn’t have another cookie and he took it anyway. Liberal mom said he needed a time out, he told her to get bent and had more cookies. Before you knew it the kid was as big as a house and it ended up being the dang cookies fault.Remember a time not so long ago when all adults were in charge? Children respected their elders. Adults were not afraid to step in and provide guidance in a circumstance if the parent wasn’t near by. Lord help you today if you tell a child/teen when they are treading on thin ice. Tell a kid to stop cussing the next thing you know you’ll have the police knocking at your door and lawyers trying to suck every bit of life from you for somehow violating the kids rights (heh, reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw, “Silence is golden and duct tape is silver”). So now the kids are in charge, they are getting fatter by the minute. Why isn’t a parent charged with child abuse when their kid becomes obese? Oh yea, almost forgot, it’s the fast food industry’s, their school’s lunch, television’s and the internet’s fault.

While I am on this tangent let me get a couple of other things off my chest. Police Officers. I have a great respect for the people in blue. They put it all on the line everyday. But I remember a day really not so long ago that police officers would rather talk about a circumstance before a choice would be made to write the ticket or make an arrest. I remember when police officers would stop and talk to teenagers congregating in the local 7-11 parking lot, not to try and find something wrong but to actually try and get to know them. Today it seems you can wave hello at a passing police car and you get a look back, most times without a wave back, that makes you feel like you may have done something terribly wrong.

Ever since criminals have been able to claim they were not responsible for their actions and liberals started to believe them all hell has broken loose. Their, “I don’t remember raping the child, robbing the store, beating my wife, shooting my husband, selling drugs, burning the building down, driving drunk or killing those 27 strangers but if I did it is because when I was young my mother yelled at me, my father beat me, my uncle raped me, Rap music, teachers were mean, a kid stole my lunch money, I played Counter-Strike, too much caffeine in cola, I got a toy gun for Christmas or the earths temperatures are rising.” No wonder the police are acting more suspicious of everyone because apparently everyone and everything had some involvement in the crime. The poor criminal didn’t have a chance - we can’t hold him personally responsible! The well intentioned “It takes a village” crusade turned into “Blame the village” and “personal accountability” has turned into “Whata you gonna do about it?”. There is now an entire industry built around it. Doctors, lawyers, insurance companies and even some politicians make a living off the blame game.

The Nobel Peace Prize to someone because they’re trying to inform people of climate change? Maybe it should be called the Nobel Hysteria Prize instead - ask Floridians who realized a 52% increase in insurance rates because of the hurricanes that were GUARANTEED to hit this past season because of “global warming”. We have known the temperatures have been raising long before the latest national elections and everyone heard there was a hole in the ozone long before they even heard of Al Gore and his creation of the Internet. Wasn’t his movie based on a book or paper that a guy wrote back in the 50’s? I don’t get it.

Seriously, when are we going to stop being (insert race here) men and start being men who happen to be (insert race here)?

Starbucks doesn’t have a big advertising budget - when was the last time you saw or heard a commercial or advertisement? Yet somehow they have infiltrated ever source of media, you see them every day. Watch a movie someone in the movie is holding a cup of joe with a Starbucks emblem (or one that looks very close), if Starbucks is going to sell a book it will make the front page of the local paper (couple of months ago the Commercial Appeal in Memphis ran such a story) and at least once a week you see the local news casters drinking a latte and making some comment about Starbucks. Good products or not, how did they achieve this free ride? I can not think of another company which has such an advantage.

If you have ever watched “Monty Python’s Holy Grail”, how much does the part where they talk about how the castle they built kept sinking into the swamp remind you of New Orleans?

Be accountable for the actions you take - you signed the mortgage, pay it - you didn’t buy insurance and a storm takes your house, build a lean-to. Your piss poor planning should not constitute an emergency for the rest of us.

OK, that may have been excessive but I feel better now