Open Thread

I agree that using the shooting to go after Palin is wrong- but on the other hand, she put herself in that position. She bears at least some responsibility here- especially wit that map and her constant gun rhetoric. It was also interesting that even before we knew anything about the gunman, the head of the Tea Party nation immediately made it political by worrying more about the reaction to the shooting than to the shooting itself.

Face it, the Conservatives and Republicans have no issue with gun analogies, or whipping up their constituents with insinuations that Obama is a Muslim terrorist, or that the country needs to be protected from liberals and Democrats by any means necessary. If they don’t understand exactly what they are saying, then they are dumber than they think.

From The Manitoba Herald:

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The recent actions of the Tea Party are prompting an exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray, and to agree with Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck.

Canadian border farmers say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.

”I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn,” said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota . The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn’t have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields. “Not real effective,” he said. “The liberals still got through and Rush annoyed the cows so much that they wouldn’t give any milk.

Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons and drive them across the border where they are simply left to fend for themselves.

”A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions,” an Ontario border patrolman said. “I found one carload without a single bottle of imported drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley Cabernet, though.

When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR races.

In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half- dozen young vegans in powdered wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the ’50s. “If they can’t identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age,” an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and are renting all the Michael Moore movies. “I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can’t support them,” an Ottawa resident said. “How many art-history majors does one country need?”

In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada , Vice President Biden met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals. A source close to President Obama said, “We’re going to have some Paul McCartney and Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And we might even put some endangered species on postage stamps. The President is determined to reach out,” he said.

and if the repubs dont have anything else to offer to beat Palin, serve up the Fat boy now.

I mostly have issues with hue-mons who stop thinking critically about issues just because they are surrounded by people who agree with them. Take any intelligent, independent thinker and put him is a big crowd full of people who agree with him and BLAMMO, instant idiot. The crowd will move slowly from one way of thinking to another, and they will all just follow along without realizing what they are doing or thinking for themselves. Because that’s what NPR told them to do.

[I threw the last sentence in there as a easy liberal bait]

And then on the flip side, I often find myself looking at someone and suddenly filled with a sense of tremendous sympathy for them, for no reason. I attribute it to some sort of universal love of all mankind.