Tea stains
By Capt. Fogg
Maybe Chuck Norris has been kicked in the head once too often. Maybe he deserves another one. He's been barking about being true to the "spirit of our founders" by avoiding the use of a contemporary US flag to wave over their "tea parties" unless the flag is first desecrated by staining it with tea. His op-ed at World Net Daily links to a WND page peddling pre-desecrated flags for $73.50. I don't know if Norris gets a piece of the action:
The idea of being lectured to about political philosophies of the Enlightenment and the visions of the somewhat disparate men who drafted our constitution by an intellectual midget like Norris is galling enough but the spectacle of being urged to stain the flag by people who have been clogging up the legislative process for over 40 years trying to make it a crime to deface a flag is too much to let slip by without at least one Wilsonian "you lie!"
One of the things I'm sure our "Founders" would agree on is that presidents are not to be chosen or un-chosen by mobs of belligerent barbarians carrying guns in the street. In fact, the wisdom of letting the populace have much direct power was much discussed and protected against by the Electoral College and the indirect election of senators.
Another thing I suspect they would agree on is that we the people are the Founders of a country designed to be a constant work in progress through the institutions designed for that purpose. For someone who does nothing in this world but play a tough guy beating the crap out of stage ruffians in the movies to raise rabble that the rest of us will have to deal with is an outrage. For someone forgetful or dishonest enough to pretend that we don't remember him telling us that Bush was president and must be trusted, followed, and honored as such, to now preach revolution is disgusting.
If talking about tea is supposed to remind us that taxation without representation is tyranny, perhaps it will remind some of us that we have representation, but Chuck doesn't like or respect the process that elected them. Is representation by self appointed gangs without election and without taxation their utopian vision, or is it just formless and inchoate rage?
Do we need anything better to remind us that Republican views of civilization and government are entirely situational and entirely opposite when they are in power and when they are thrown out in the street? It's all about winning at any cost and about vengeance at any cost when they lose.
(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)
Maybe Chuck Norris has been kicked in the head once too often. Maybe he deserves another one. He's been barking about being true to the "spirit of our founders" by avoiding the use of a contemporary US flag to wave over their "tea parties" unless the flag is first desecrated by staining it with tea. His op-ed at World Net Daily links to a WND page peddling pre-desecrated flags for $73.50. I don't know if Norris gets a piece of the action:
If you insist on posting a modern USA flag too, then get one that has been tea stained, to show your solidarity with our founders.
The idea of being lectured to about political philosophies of the Enlightenment and the visions of the somewhat disparate men who drafted our constitution by an intellectual midget like Norris is galling enough but the spectacle of being urged to stain the flag by people who have been clogging up the legislative process for over 40 years trying to make it a crime to deface a flag is too much to let slip by without at least one Wilsonian "you lie!"
One of the things I'm sure our "Founders" would agree on is that presidents are not to be chosen or un-chosen by mobs of belligerent barbarians carrying guns in the street. In fact, the wisdom of letting the populace have much direct power was much discussed and protected against by the Electoral College and the indirect election of senators.
Another thing I suspect they would agree on is that we the people are the Founders of a country designed to be a constant work in progress through the institutions designed for that purpose. For someone who does nothing in this world but play a tough guy beating the crap out of stage ruffians in the movies to raise rabble that the rest of us will have to deal with is an outrage. For someone forgetful or dishonest enough to pretend that we don't remember him telling us that Bush was president and must be trusted, followed, and honored as such, to now preach revolution is disgusting.
If talking about tea is supposed to remind us that taxation without representation is tyranny, perhaps it will remind some of us that we have representation, but Chuck doesn't like or respect the process that elected them. Is representation by self appointed gangs without election and without taxation their utopian vision, or is it just formless and inchoate rage?
Do we need anything better to remind us that Republican views of civilization and government are entirely situational and entirely opposite when they are in power and when they are thrown out in the street? It's all about winning at any cost and about vengeance at any cost when they lose.
(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)
Labels: celebrities, Republicans, tea parties, U.S. flag
posted by Capt. Fogg at
10:23 AM
2 Comments:
I didn't know this, but it definitely makes my opinion of Chuck Norris go down. I heard that getting kicked in the head too many times during martial arts training may have caused given Bruce Lee the problems that led to him taking the medicines that killed him. And of course, we've all heard about boxers who've suffered brain damage. So it's entirely possible that too many kicks to the head have made Chuck Norris a moron. :P I don't know if that's better or worse than suffering a purely physical side effect, because at least Bruce Lee still has his dignity when people remember him. Chuck Norris is just making a fool out of himself. (And no, I'm not disrespecting Bruce Lee, angry Lee fans who may be out there. I idolize THAT guy. But Chuck Norris, I couldn't care less about. :P)
Or maybe he's just an ass, and always was one to begin with. Sometimes a man who may look like a hero on screen can actually be a sad little man in his personal life.
By
A.E., at 9:06 AM
I tend to go with option two.
By
Capt. Fogg, at 11:03 AM
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