Lincoln should have sent Sherman to Texas as well

As thimagee sun rose in Texas Tuesday morning, the racists uh, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans awoke to bask in the glory of their victory over the tyranny of the freedom hating Texas DMV.

It seems, with no sense of irony whatsoever, the SCV petitioned the federal courts to force Texas to issue license plates with the Confederate battle flag, because a bumper sticker of the flag of a racist, treasonous  army simply wasn’t good enough.

From the Dallas Morning News:
The judges ruled that license plates are a form of “private speech,” and thus protected by the First Amendment. The court also ruled that the Board’s rejection of the plate “favored one speaker over another.”

As always, in cases such as this, one must remember, it’s about heritage, not hate. Of course, if your expressed heritage is symbolized by the banner of a defeated on the battlefield, pro-slavery, breakaway confederacy, well then since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I know I’ll be beholding a racist douchebag piece of shit.

Thank you for self-identifying to the rest of us.

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Welcome my friends to the show that never ends

Way Cool Jr. and I were sitting at our favorite watering hole about a year ago talking about how some people have their heads so far up their asses they can’t tell the difference between the truth and FOX News.Slappy

It became more and more apparent as the days of the Obama presidency rolled by that there wasn’t a lot of love for the guy in the room.  Much of it was pure dumbassery. The same guy who called Obama a socialist one day, called him a fascist the next.

Like I said, dumbassery.

Of course that small sample of hate and prejudice has nothing on the stuff the Dip Stick masquerading as the Speaker of the House and his boys and gals come up with when they tumble out of the Klown Kar.

It doesn’t end there, of course. Dumbassery is, after all, contagious. It has spread to folks on both sides of the aisle, whether the aisle is in Congress or the Piggly Wiggly down the street.

Almost anyone has access to Photoshop or a similar program. Folks pass around photos on Facebook captioned with ridicule or the ridiculous about those who don’t think like they do, and feel mighty proud of themselves.

Way Cool and I have been talking about this Interwebs deal for a long time. We wanted a place where we can talk about the issues that affect us. All of it. From here to there. So we came up with Slickster.net.

This thing will evolve as we grow. We’ll lose the things that don’t work and hopefully improve the things that do. We don’t expect you to agree with everything we post here. In fact, we hope you’ll let us know what you think and tell your friends about us.

Look for entries from our friends Kilgore Trout, Sea Hag and Sam Damon.

Way Cool Jr. kicks things off  with a look at some dumbassery down in Kentucky.

As Donald Sutherland sang in a movie called “Hollow Point,” “They’re going to find your anus on a mountain on Mars …”

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The hero of Dumbass Township, or why you should vote

“I won’t get into the debate about climate change,” said Sen. Brandon Smith, a Hazard Republican. “But I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. Therimagee’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.”

This gem of word salad was produced, as noted above, by Kentucky State Sen. Brandon Smith, R-(of course)  Hazard (Moral), during discussions by state lawmakers on the EPA’s new carbon emission regulations on Kentucky. Wherein, the collective membership of the Acadamy of Sciences on both planets said, “What the fuck? When did they legalize pot in the Bluegrass State?”

Sen. Smith was not alone is his quest to publicly display complete scientific ignorance. State Rep. Kevin Sinnette D-(really?) Ashland, added the following:

“The dinosaurs died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted. And to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment to people, I just don’t think it’s out there.”

I present this bipartisan example of stupid not to discuss the merits of the EPA’s new carbon emission standards, or enter the debate on climate change (there is no debate, so shut up), rather my point is (I love making fun of idiots!) that politicians of this caliber (small bore), aren’t elected in a vacuum, rather they are allowed to show up and govern  due, in large part, to the apathy of the electorate on election day.

 

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