Monday Update and Truth
Jul. 20th, 2015 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribMonday Update
Over the weekend I went downstate to visit the parents. Mom's PC needed a bit of attention from me and it was going to be Too Damned Hot to do anything in Chicago except sit in front of the air conditioning. So, since my parents and my car have air conditioning, a quick drive downstate seemed like a good idea.
Saturday night, thanks to the parents' DirectTV, we watched Kingsman. It was okay, in a very cartoonish way. I'm also about halfway through reading Sheri S. Tepper's Six Moon Dance on my Kindle. Tepper can be a fairly inconsistent writer but this one so far is pretty good.
Truth
Ed, the head cook and bottlewasher at Gin and Tacos, notes that modern conservatives are intellectually inconsistent. For example, a non-citizen named Francisco Sanchez shot a woman, and conservatives are blaming Obama and San Francisco's immigration policy. Yet when citizens shoot a Congresswoman or a theater full of Batman fans, we were told the sole and only blame was to be found in the gunman's head. Or even worse, when somebody got shot by police, the cop who pulled the trigger was not even a little at fault.
If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, conservative minds are too big to fit through a doorway. And if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn. (Serious inquiries only, please.)
Over the weekend I went downstate to visit the parents. Mom's PC needed a bit of attention from me and it was going to be Too Damned Hot to do anything in Chicago except sit in front of the air conditioning. So, since my parents and my car have air conditioning, a quick drive downstate seemed like a good idea.
Saturday night, thanks to the parents' DirectTV, we watched Kingsman. It was okay, in a very cartoonish way. I'm also about halfway through reading Sheri S. Tepper's Six Moon Dance on my Kindle. Tepper can be a fairly inconsistent writer but this one so far is pretty good.
Truth
Ed, the head cook and bottlewasher at Gin and Tacos, notes that modern conservatives are intellectually inconsistent. For example, a non-citizen named Francisco Sanchez shot a woman, and conservatives are blaming Obama and San Francisco's immigration policy. Yet when citizens shoot a Congresswoman or a theater full of Batman fans, we were told the sole and only blame was to be found in the gunman's head. Or even worse, when somebody got shot by police, the cop who pulled the trigger was not even a little at fault.
If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, conservative minds are too big to fit through a doorway. And if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn. (Serious inquiries only, please.)
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Date: 2015-07-20 05:06 pm (UTC)Oh, dear… We'll just ignore everything about Francisco Sanchez except that he was a non-citizen, and we're good to go…
[“San Francisco is a sanctuary city, did you keep coming back to San Francisco because you knew that they wouldn’t actively look for you to deport you?” He answered, “Yes.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/07/06/francisco-sanchez-i-knew-sf-was-sanctuary-city-came-to-us-for-work/]
I admire cherry-pickers. They have to show such fine discrimination in their work, they could be watch-makers!
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Date: 2015-07-20 05:15 pm (UTC)If San Francisco's laws are at fault in the Sanchez shooting, then Arizona's gun laws are at fault in Gifford's shooting. You can't have it both ways.
On a Lighter Note
Date: 2015-07-20 08:36 pm (UTC)“Are you armed?”
“This world is ours. We have ruled it since the wheel and fire. We have no need of weapons.”
“Yeah?”
https://youtu.be/TNxh4uxLkco