Saturday, November 24, 2007

 

On this Thanksgiving weekend, I am thankful for clear-thinking individuals such as Syd here, and for the thoughts he has so eloquently expressed:


I don’t carry a gun…

… to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because my sex organs are too small. I carry a gun because I want to continue to use those sex organs for the purpose for which they were intended for a good long time to come.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don’t carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/rkba/i-dont-carry-a-gun/

posted by huggy 9:19 AM

Sunday, November 18, 2007

 

Is this what passes for "justice" in America?

I don't care one way or the other about Barry Bonds. I think that employing a federal grand jury to investigate steroid use in professional baseball was an incredible waste of taxpayer money. That being said, now that he has been accused of lying to that federal grand jury about using steroids he could face 30 years in federal prison?!?!?

Bill Clinton was proven to have lied to a federal grand jury for getting head jobs in the White House Oval Office and still walks around a free man!!!

If Bonds spends one moment in jail, then Clinton should be imprisoned for his crime! Since that can't happen due to American double-jeopardy laws, then leave freakin' Bonds alone!

Who the hell cares about whether or not Bonds lied...it's not like he did it while a federal employee, on federal property, while receiving a federal income, in the presence of other federal employees, then not only lied to a federal jury about it, but lied about it to the entire nation on national T.V.! If he'd done that, then SURELY he should go to jail, right???

posted by huggy 11:31 PM