here's cinci (above)...
and here's my latest post...
i just found out that pink is the traditional color used in world maps to show areas controlled by the british empire. "why pink?" i wondered. and then it hit me: isn't pink the color of that nice little antacid drink? And those tablets? coincidence?
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original saying: "guns don't kill people, *people* kill people."
variation #1: "guns don't kill people, *people* kill people. but people can also be killed by roaming herds of killer hyenas. and other things."
variation #2: "guns don't kill people, *people* kill people. and sometimes people kill other things besides people. people have actually killed a lot of things that aren't people. like harp seals and spotted owls, flies and snails that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. they tried to kill cinci freedom, but instead of becoming so much hamburger meat, she jumped a six foot high fence and eluded her captors (both the police and the spca) for eleven days. then peter max donated $180,000 worth of his paintings so that she could live free of fear the rest of her life, grazing among the green hills of new york. if anyone understands the absurdity of gun control laws, i think cinci does!
variation #3: "guns don't kill people, termination of vital life functions kill people!"
variation #4: "guns don't kill people. they just act as a go-between, kind of like alberto gonzalez and a bunch of others we could name."
variation #5: "guns don't kill people. guns kill *guns*. i'm trying to tell you, this gun-on-gun violence has got to stop!!"
variation #6: "guns don't kill people. people kill guns. or we should, at least. aren't we higher on the evolutionary scale than they are?
variation #7: “guns don't kill people. not as much as the black bears in the west. sure, black bears used to be friendly and people would feed them out of their hands. you idiots! you've just made a wild animal unafraid to approach humans! just be glad that black bears don't have guns...
(i'm not sure about the grizzlies, though. I heard a shipment of ak's was sent to a ranger station somewhere in montana.)
variation #8: “guns don't kill people. microsoft kills people. wait- hold on here. maybe microsoft doesn't kill people, but what about bill gates? okay, maybe bill gates himself hasn't killed anyone, but what about one of his lieutenants? What if he took out a contract on some engineer from apple and he sent one of his geekiest engineers telling him “i don't care how you do it, just make it look like an accident. like he was trying to debug an incredibly complex program and he suddenly had a heart attack. while he was standing in a puddle of water. and someone handed him a wire connected to 10,000 watts of electricity.” stranger things have happened...
variation #9: “guns don't kill people. guns kill *vegetables*. now i *know* i have the support of the succotash lobby on this one. The increase in succotash shootings has been unbelievable. at the same time, however, we must realize that there is a substantial debate over whether or not vegetables are actually “alive”, and hence can be “killed”. what is death? is it defined as the point at which the soul (for those who believe this kind of thing) returns to its origins? if so, does succotash even have a soul? and what about rachel ray? (just kidding!) life is pretty hard to nail down. so in the absence of a really good definition of life, we have to accept the fact that life might be undefinable. and in that case, death and killing are also undefinable. and so with this in mind, do guns (or people) kill people? answer: death is undefinable. rephrase the question...
variation #10: “what about columbine?” what about it? were guns the main problem at columbine? would more gun laws have kept those students from mowing down their peers in heartless blood lust? well, they broke 11 gun laws when they entered the campus. Would a couple of more laws have stopped them? blaming guns for columbine is like blaming spoons for rosie o'donnel's *fat ass*. sorry, the spoons are just tools. so are the guns. what they do is up to the person who uses them...
epilogue:
under the constitution of the united states, we are granted the right to bear arms. there are several reasons that we have this right. the first is so that individuals can protect themselves from lawless intruders. an armed homeowner is an incredibly strong deterrent to would-be criminals. the second reason is so that we can rise up against the federal government if it ever gained too much power. but the executive branch wants to deceive us about this particular freedom, because they don't want to lose their power. The federal government wants the average citizen to feel intimidated by their domestic police- known collectively as the state police, highway patrol, sheriff, national guard, the atf, the office of homeland security, the cia, fbi, nsa, irs...
the federal government doesn't want its power threatened, and so peace-loving people like ourselves will be challenged with a dictatorial regime that will not tolerate resistance...
we can resist passively, but it ain't gonna do much. so what can we do? i dunno. i actually don't advocate guns or violence, but i also don't advocate a government, like the one we have now, that wants to strip us all of our constitutional rights. the constitution is actually a farce, because it is being ignored so blatantly. our courts feel free to interpret the constitution however they feel best benefits themselves or their paying interests. the executive branch feels they are completely above the law. the legislative branch seems to have little power anymore. and so the people who really own this country are playing fast and free with many things that our very lives depend upon. we don't own this land. *they* own it and they don't care what happens to us, as long as we provide them cheap labor. “they” are part of a very exclusive club that none of us belong to. “they” have no idea what it's like to live in our shoes. “they” have the money and the power, and so we have to play by their rules. For now...
how long will this last...?
btw, this "attention gay drivers" bullshit on this website in the google ads just doesn't cut it. if you're gonna do that kind of crap, then the christian view that homosexuality is immoral deserves equal time...
just sayin'...
