Team Players
Okay, so like I have previously said, I assume everybody that reads this either knows me or has read the libro. Just in case, I need to remind everybody again, except not in a way where I'm trying to impress anybody, that I was in the Navy, and on a submarine. So a lot of what I do, even though in a lot of ways, my experiences there weren't exactly a success, is influenced by those four years. This is a huge chunk of my time that trust me, I can totally account for, and I look at things a little different because of it. That said, having done a lot of things I didn't want to, but doing everything I've meant to, I know am not exactly sure why people insist on making other people do things they don't want to, or worse do something they don't give a damn about.
Yeah, I'm talking about the Pledge of Allegiance, here in Fla., suddenly a hotbed for liberal, activist jurists (and where were you cockasses in 2000?). Apparently it isn't Constitutional to make somebody say the Pledge. Hell yeah it isn't. Jesus, how obvious is this one? Pretty much every shitty country ever has had some sort of pledge. Patriotism is okay. Nationalism is dangerous. Nationalism gets you into the Hitler Youth, and then you can never, ever be Pope... Wait. Well you sure regretted toting around that ceremonial dagger. Not everybody wanting to say the Pledge is a good thing.
The crack pollsters at WSVN tackled the problem. For those of you not familiar with the South Florida media, Channel 7 is the absolutely most sensational TV news ever. No bias or anything like that. Just all crazy. I'm pretty sure those crazy fuckers are in denial about the hurricanes last year. I mean that they are all still actively trying to convince the rest of South Florida that New Orleans is gone. When I was a kid one of their correspondents lived behind us. His name was Don Dare. Don FUCKING Dare. Well if anybody could convince me that the Superdome had become a sort of Mad Max people wearing the white plastic armor bastion of freedom, it would be some guy named Don Dare. Of course he has bonus cred because once there must have been a real stunner of a story, because the Chennel 7 Helicopter landed in the field next to our houses.
Anyway, Channel 7 had a survery, about -100% scientific, where they decided that 76% of the whole world decided kids should be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I guess the real problem is that maybe there's some shit going on that some people aren't so proud of, and that kids get a chance to point that out EVERYDAY before they learn about most, or at least many of our fine, fine states, well that hurts a little. Jesus, even if everybody says it, and every Iraqi too, aren't we fucking up a whole bunch of stuff? Do I say it? Yeah, sure. Stand for the Anthem, the whole nine. But that doesn't mean that everything's all better.
Rummy, just today, after some Marines were judged to be NOT insane random, or worse, focused and hateful, killers, said that 99.9% of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing a fantastic job. I'm sure he's right. Hell, that's the first thing he's been write about in about forever. But here's the thing...there's about 130,000 troops JUST in Iraq. Yeah, first of all, that's a number we forget from time to time, so there's the reminding. Second of all, that means that there's still .1% over there that are absolutely wacko. That's a hundred and thirty nutballs heavily armed and prolly a step away from being the crazy Australian guy in Commando. Is that better than say, hmm... Any city in America? Yeah. But it's not good enough if we're going to occupy a whole country. They don't even need reasons to hate us, and here we are stacking them up like there was a sale. Yes, please take your reason to hate us from the top of the stack, otherwise you will get covered by an avalanche of dumb.
Fuck man, the kid that used his dog to torture people didn't get any prison time. Yeah, hard labor is no fun. He's not going to get to buff floors. He's screwed, because he discredited America. He did a hell of a lot worse than not say the Pledge. He took a great big bowl of asshole and threw it at us, and now we're all just a little more of an asshole. Thanks for that. You know what? That dipstick shouldn't be able to say the Pledge. His Pledge priveleges are revoked...Just ask Marcellus Wallace.
But some high school kid doesn't want to? Well hell, he doesn't even need a reason. The chances of some twit in high school having a sincere, thought out position on the matter are pretty slim. He's just being a dick. Honestly, he prolly loves shit music like Godsmack. Or worse, his parents are dicks and he's just dumb. But you know what, if Johnny Yuma (the Rebel...keep up, I swear) makes kids that can form sincere and thoughtful positions do just that, then these kids are going to be all right. And if you, yourself Johnny, have a little soul, then kudos. Welcome aboard. The Navy is looking for conscientious citizens like you...
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