Notes on Wing-Nuts.

This is going to be a post about mass hysteria, particularly of the right-wing variety.
First, I have to mention two things. The CHOW lesson I taught on Matthew 24 was probably the best I've ever done. Second, when I heard that the Navy SEALs had taken out the Somalian pirates the image in my head is of Johnny Depp's character Jack Sparrow standing around doing something latently homoerotic as Charlie Sheen's character from Navy SEALs jumps onto the boat and blows his head off. Now on to the matter at hand.

Obama Derangement Syndrome on the far right has become every bit as bad ad Bush Derangement Syndrome was on the left. To start out, I don't think President Obama has done one thing so far I have agreed with. That said, our children our going to grow up thinking the word 'Nazi' is defined as 'someone who's politics you disagree with'. A few examples.

-It seems everyone is looking to create the Founding Fathers in their own image. Reading any internet gun forum will give you several examples. Usually a quote from a letter is ripped completely out of context and used to say "The Founding Fathers believed.....". Of course the Founding Fathers were a monolithic entity who never disagreed on anything :::rolling eyes:::.

-Give the secession talk a rest already. Most of the States that would do this are ones I wouldn't really miss.

-While I'm on the subject all the states claiming their "sovereignty" might want to look that word up in the dictionary and remember the definition the next time a hurricane or ice-storm rolls through and they want monetary assistance.

-People talking about armed revolution should remember that the American Revolution was the exception, not the rule. Every other armed rebellion I know of has been much more similar to the French Revolution, with it's blood-letting and genocide than to the American Revolution. Are there really Washingtons, Jeffersons, etc. around these days? People trotting out Jefferson's quote about a revolution every 20 years would do well to assess the nations that have actually experienced armed strife on a frequent basis and see how well it's working out for them. It would be a sad irony if, in hopes of avoiding European-style Socialism we wind up bringing about African-style chaos.

-These same types like to make vague references to "respecting the Constitution", which pretty much only means the Second Amendment (which I agree with them on) and a few other portions they like. Then some mention of not recognizing Obama as President or ACORN "stealing the election" may come up. Apparently people are not familiar with Article 2 of the Constitution, according to which it only matters who the electors selected and that that person is the president until 2/3 of the Senate says otherwise.

-What set this off is my futile quest to buy three boxes of ammo for my rifle. No bullets to be found at the gun store, none online. Honestly people, I just need a few boxes to go shoot my AK-47, then you can go back to getting ready for the impending Zombie Apocalypse.

-I heard an ad on the radio for "survival seeds", and how seeds that can reproduce (non-hybrid) may become more precious than gold in the impending Zombie Apocalypse, or whatever else people are terrified of. This is the largest AM station in my city by the way. Not late at night, at like 5pm. The ad, I kid you not, mentions how they could be valuable items for barter. Barter? Barter? WTF? Honestly. W.....T......F? If we come to a scenario where you're bartering you're going to have a million additional concerns too. Remember Civil Defense Myth #2: The Survivors Are the Lucky Ones.

-Anyways the anti-Obama zealots would do well to remember how pathetic the anti-Bush zealots were and try to argue their disagreements rationally without talk of Global Conspiracy, NWO, the Rothschilds, concentration camps, lizard people, etc.