South Carolina proved how much they love the Bible and Christianity last night by electing Mark Sanford, the adulturing liar, whose slogan was “He’s still got 8 Commandments left he ain’t violated!”
You may remember him as the fellow who used to be governor, cheated on his wife, went “hiking on the Appalachian Trail” to be with his lover in Argentina, and used taxpayer money to do it all.
Upon being elected, he said “I thank the people of South Carolina for their trust.” He then wrung his hands, threw back his head, and emitted an evil laugh.
But you know, his opponent was a Democrat. A clean, honest, decent Democrat but that’s not enough for South Carolina. If Jesus himself came back as a Democrat, he’d lose in South Carolina.
This is the state, just to remind everyone, who also kept re-electing Strom Thurmond, a man who was once a member of the KKK and who fathered an out-of-wedlock child with a black woman and then never told anyone until the child was grown. Ten Commandments? Who cares, his opponent was a Democrat!
It wouldn’t be quite as ironic if they were equally forgiving, but when Bill Clinton had an affair, these same people voted to have him impeached and removed from office. So apparently the Bible only applies to the people they don’t like, and not to them personally.
“Do as I say, not as I do” is now the 11th Commandment in South Carolina.
The NRA just chose a leader who calls the Civil War “The War of Northern Aggression.”
Let me let that sink in for a minute.
This explains much. Many of the most extreme NRA members seem to think that there is nothing treasonous at all about taking up arms against your own country if you don’t like the way things are going. And now I see why — because they have the same mindset that the people who committed treason back during the Civil War had.
“What? You want to take away my (insert one: slaves / guns)? Don’t you know the Constitution gives me the right to own (slaves / guns)? You can’t violate my freedom like that! I don’t care that a majority of Americans think differently or that the courts have ruled against me!”
Seriously, I understand these people better now. Sadly.
Every month, the economy improves, little by little. We have the lowest unemployment in four years, the stock market is at an all-time high, and the deficit has been cut by a large amount.
Now certainly if any of those things had gotten worse, you’d be sure to hear how it’s Obama’s fault. Hell, you actually hear it now from people who apparently never read anything about the economy.
The real fact is that the President can only do so much to help the economy. That’s true of every President. Somehow people think the President has some sort of magic control box on his desk and can switch the dial from “economy bad” to “economy good” whenever he feels like it. “If I had the power to make gas prices go down,” Obama said last summer, “what possible reason would I have not to do that?”
But the President certainly does have some power — Bush’s decision to cut taxes for the very wealthy hurt us economically and now that they’re gone, the economy has started to improve, for instance. But he didn’t do it alone; he had congress’ help. Obama’s problem is that he is facing a party that has said, many times, that its main goal is to prevent Obama from accomplishing anything. That’s why congress has passed no jobs bills, no matter how much we need them.
Obama fought them when they declared that the way to solve our economic problems was through “austerity” — which means basically cutting everything, throwing many people out of work, and somehow all these now poor people without jobs or income would help the economy by — well, they never exactly explained that part. We know it doesn’t work, because in every European country that tried it, their economy fell head-first into terrible depression and massive unemployment.
So the fact that the economy is improving despite the Republicans seemingly doing everything they can to prevent that should mean that Obama gets some credit, right?
Right?
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I love a good pun (as anyone who has checked out my book titles know)… And today I am being bombarded on Facebook with “Star Wars Day” — not because the film was released today or anything, but simply for the pun.
I remember seeing the first film (now known as “A New Hope”) about a week after it came out. My friend Gary Walker had seen it and was raving about it, so we went down to the local mall to see it. I enjoyed it tremendously, and anxiously awaited each sequel. Although I read a lot of science fiction, I was never a Star Wars fanboy. I didn’t buy the books or toys (I was already in college), and still can’t name all the side characters everyone knows by heart, but there’s no doubt I enjoyed the films.
Then Lucas ruined the films with the prequels — or as they are known around my house “The Films Which Shall Not Be Named.”
There are thousands of stories that could be told in the Star Wars universe (which I hope Disney will consider). Instead, Lucas gives us the earlier story of Darth Vader.
Let’s ignore the fact that the films are terribly directed and acted, full of cartoony CGI, and look like their primary purpose is to sell toys. Let’s just talk about the story of the prequels.
Where’s the suspense? We know how the trilogy ends. We know what happens to Vader. There were absolutely no surprises or twists or “Luke, I’m your father” moments in the film.
To make matters worse, anyone watching the films in order today will have all the twists in the later films spoiled. “Oh, Vader is Luke’s father? Big deal, I knew that two films ago.”
But the films also are not consistent in and of themselves. Vader creates C3PO when he’s a kid and yet C3PO never mentions this to anyone in the later films? And Vader just forgets? And seriously, if you’re trying to hide Luke from Vader, why are you putting him on the planet where he was born, using the same last name?
Besides, Jar Jar Binks.
So let’s hope Disney takes the new films they are making in the Star Wars universe and does something new. We don’t have to see the same story again. There are trillions of people in the universe, let’s have some of their stories. Disney has a good producer/director/writer in charge, and I have A New Hope that things will be better. (Heh)
Just keep Lucas away from it.
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