Chelleology

Scott and I had been talking about it for several months and we finally did it on Tuesday night.  We bought a new gun.  This on will be mine and Scott will be getting his next month.  While we already have one handgun (a little .22) and two shotguns, we felt like we needed to make our first move at defiance.  Our next move will be to get our permits to carry.  Knowing the statements Obama has made in the past about gun ownership, his votes on the issue and the fact that he believes in socialism, we felt it was best we act out before it’s too late.

 

The new gun is perfect for me.  In fact, out of all the guns I have handled, this one felt the most comfortable and the most natural to me.  It’s a cute little Ruger .32 single action revolver.  It has finger grooves on the handle so my fingers can settle into the grooves like a hand fits into a glove.  The revolver is not so light that it will kick really bad but it’s not too heavy for me to aim for long periods of time.  We heard there was an indoor shooting range nearby so I can practice shooting in the winter.  The outdoor range a few miles from here is perfect in the summer but handling metal in the winter is a little tricky.  Frostbite anyone?  I’m really excited at the prospect of shooting again.  It has been quite sometime and I’m a little rusty.

 

My excitement was quickly diminished when I had to take over an hour of abuse on a message board.  For the past three years, I have spent gobs of time chatting on a political message board.  While I was one of a dozen conservatives on the board, I still had fun pointing out to the holes in the liberal poster’s beliefs/policies.  The conservatives have always banded together on the boards when the debates got really heated.  We’ve always had each other’s backs.  But on Tuesday night, the conservatives weren’t there.  I guess I picked a lousy time to pick a fight.

 

I logged onto the board and announced that I was the proud owner of a new gun.  Some of the staunch liberals on the board made their snide comments and left.  These are typically the people who post and run for fear of conflict.  Then someone asked me why.  As any gun owner knows, this is a set up question.  There is no good answer.  You say for protection and they start foaming at the mouth and saying that it’s more likely a robber would pop off a shot at me first before I would hit him, blah, blah, blah.  You say you fear the government and it’s “you’re a whacko”.  So, I gave the answer that happened to be the most true and the most likely to be accepted.  I said “Not that I need a reason but… one it’s my right to own a gun and I’m exercising that right and two I enjoy shooting as a hobby.”  Almost instantaneously the redneck comments came out.  I wasn’t the least bit surprised.  One poster said that she hopped I was more responsible with my gun than her neighbors.  She went on to explain three people were shot in front of her house.  I said “OMG.  There’s a lot of action in your neighborhood”.  THEY GOT ME!  That one sentence and they got me.  I was told that my response was cavalier and uncompassionate.  Um, no.  I was simply stating a fact.  When a shooting happens, an ambulance shows up, the police show up, neighbors come out of their house.  What do you call that?  Action?  I was not being insensitive.  I was also told that I was making fun of her neighborhood.  Now where did I say that?  After multiple explanations and clarifications of what I said, they just continued to twist my words.  Apparently, if you’re losing a debate, take something innocent your opponent says and twist it to suit your needs to prove that you’re right.

 

After three years of trying to sell the conservative argument I feel like I have wasted my time.  There are people you are just never going to get to understand things like the second amendment, smaller government and lower taxes.  In the past year of working campaigns I have learned that getting people to think about the issues is not through a message board but through consistently talking about the issues to those you see every day.  Talking politics at work has gotten such a bad name almost like you should be ashamed of who you are and what you believe.  But I’ve reached quite a few people just talking about my beliefs around the proverbial water cooler.  I talk to my friends, even ones that lean left.  In fact, one told me the other night that I talked her in to voting for the first time in her life.  She said I made her think about the issues and to look at each candidate carefully.  It feels good to know that I’ve at least touched a few but they weren’t people on the board.  I wonder why that is.

When I was a little girl, I spent most of my summers with my grandparents in Michigan.  Because it was summer I was often allow to stay up until 11 in order to watch TV.  Sometimes there was a really good movie on that I would snuggle up to my grandmother and watch with her.  One movie sticks out in my mind.  While I do not remember the name of this movie, I do remember it was about Jim Jones and the mass suicide at Jonestown.  The part of the movie that sticks out in my mind is not the suicide but how the followers worshiped this man they called ‘father’ (in my research on the topic, I found they sometimes called him dad).  I recall a scene where he was in a crowded room and people were chanting ‘father, father’ and reaching out to touch him.  My grandmother and I used to mimic this scene in a joking manner.  While I realize the story is pretty scary, we joked about the ‘father’ chant only because we realize, as rational people, it’s just stupid to worship another human being.  Coming from a semi-religious background, I have no sympathy for these people who killed themselves on the orders of Jim Jones (although I do feel sorry for the children who did nothing wrong but to be born to parents that were crazy).  In my religion, I am taught to have no other gods before the true God of Christianity.  This brings me to my main point of this post - the similarities between The Messiah and Jim Jones.
Let’s first start with their communist and socialist beliefs.  Jim Jones believed in communism.  In fact, he so despised capitalism that he called it racist, facist and sinful (http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q1053-4.html).  His beliefs were the main reason he had moved to Guyana.  He wanted to form a small communist society where he could control his congregation without any intervention of family members or American society.  The Messiah, although he tries to hide it, has very similar views.  The spreading the wealth comment he made to Joe the Plummer comes to mind.  There’s also his many associations with declared communists like Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and others.  Might I add I’m a little sick of people defending The Messiah saying well he didn’t know, blah, blah, blah.  When you’re friends with someone for so many years, you know who they are and what they represent.  If you lay with dogs you’re gonna get fleas!
Second, there’s the cult of personality (which I have to tell you is of bigger concern than his communist and socialist leanings).  The manner in which The Messiah zombies chant with with that glassy look in their eye is very similar to those followers of Jim Jones.  “Oh-Bam-Ah” and “Yes we can” are eerily reminiscent of Jones’ followers chanting “Father”.  Just as the Jim Jones followers, they walked around with blinders on not realizing the harm that would come to them in believing this man.  Jim Jones was charasmatic which allowed him to control his followers.  The longer he controled his followers, the more blind they became to what would ultimately seal their fate.  The Messiah is the same way.  While I don’t expect that he would get his followers to drink Kool-Aide (and I’m not speaking metaphorically) and lay down for a long sleep.  I do think that the longer The Messiah controls his followers with his charasmatic ways the less likely they will see how he will eventually destroy everything Americans hold dear - freedom of speech, gun ownership, etc. 
I think the best the outsiders can do is to continue to see past the charisma and try to point out exactly what The Messiah is doing to this country.  If that doesn’t work, we could always order “Combatting Cult Mind Control” (www.amazon.com) in mass quantities and drop them off on people’s doorsteps.

For the past year, Scott and I have had to eat out more than we ever have.  Between volunteering on campaigns, attending political meetings, Scott teaching class on Monday nights and my fiddle and Irish language classes, we just had no time to cook.  Today was the first time I cooked in a looong time.  As much as I hate cooking, it was a welcome change because I was getting really close to losing my shit and strangling the lazy punk kids behind the counter.
Occassionally, you will run into bad service and it’s no big deal.  You’re angry about it for two minutes and if it’s a tipping situation, you may not tip well.  After that, you’re over it.  There are bigger things to be angry about that the kid who gave you someone else’s drink.  However, I have noticed a significant change in the way customers are treated - namely at fast food restaurants. 
Let’s start with McDonalds.  Around here there are three main McDonalds.  I tend to stick to the one on University and the one on Main.  There are two distinct differences between the two and neither are flattering.  If you want verbal abuse or an indignant attitude you go to the one on Univeristy… you may not get a smile but at least your order is right.  The one on Main, they will always screw up your order.  How many times have I rolled out of their drive thru for chicken nuggets with barbeque sauce only to get home and find the sauce didn’t make it into the bag?  About three times in the month of October! 
How about Taco Johns?  I was hooked on their tacos for a while but that went out the window when I dicovered that if you want your food fast, you’re better off going to Taco Bell.  Not once have I ever gotten my food within the three minutes fast food restaurants used to strive for.  One instance sticks out in my head.  Scott and I were on our way home from a meeting.  We pulled up to Taco John’s just before 10PM.  It’s 10PM, it’s not exactly busy at that time.  I thought it would be no big deal to make three tacos.  Oh no!  There were two cars ahead of us.  After about 5 mintues of waiting for our food, the kid tells us to pull up into a parking space and they’ll run our food out to us.  Ten minutes later, Scott gets pissed and goes barging into the restaruant demanding to know what the deal was.  Two teenagers were making food - moving slower than snails and the manager not seeming to care watching and talking. 
How about Wendy’s suddenly not every having any chili.  This is Iowa.  Chili weather usually starts in late October.  On two incidences, about a week apart, we went to Wendy’s for chili - both days were brutally cold and perfect for chili.  We place our orders only to be told by a kid who seemed indifferent to our inconvenience mumbles “We don’t have any chili today.”  What the hell?  Here’s my number, why don’t you call me when you have some! 
The only restaurant that continues to offer top of the line service with a smile is Taco Bell near the mall.  I know it’s really inconvenient that they have no drive thru but if it means I’m going to get my food fast, hot and with a smile, I am more than willing to get out of my car for it.
So, understand why I’m not always eager to support the state and federal government’s idea of increasing the minimum wage.  This increase means that in order to pay these punk kids more, we have to pay more for the food and get no upgrade in service.  Perhaps we should skip the minimum wage and have these kids work the drive thru for tips.  Offer me bad service and you get nothing but your standard $3/hour base pay.  Treat me well and I may slip you a $10.  Just last week, we tipped a waitress $20 on a $40 tab.  Why?  Because she got us what we wanted fast, she made reccommendations and in an attempt to be funny and prove a point we asked her a question.  Her answer was so good, we gave her a $20.  What was the question?  “I’m going to tip you but I’m going to take half this tip and give it to your coworker because she’s not getting as much in tips because she’s slow or just lazy.  What would you say to that?”  Her answer?  “Well, that’s stupid as shit.”  Good answer!

I don’t know what infuriates me more… the fact that an uninformed public and their mob mentality voted one of the most socialist men in the world to the White House or all the stupid, yes stupid, people who voted straight party Democrat and got Democrats voted back into Congress and the state House.  Or perhaps its the college students who are not nearly as affected by politics because many of them do not pay taxes who threw this election to the tax sharks that want to rip our hard earned money from our fingertips. 

I’m not too upset that the White House went to The Messiah (Obama will never be President Obama.  He shall be known as The Messiah).  I believe in the winds of change… what goes up must come down and all that bull.  I think people will get the message that socialism is no way to run this country.  They pissed  and moaned for eight years about how Bush stole the election, started a war, oh yeah and allowed a hurricane to wipe out much of New Orleans.  I think at least every four to eight years, a Democrat should take office just to remind people how badly they fuck shit up.

There are two things that piss me off about the election and they are both kind of inter-related.  First, dumb asses that know very little about politics pulling the straight party ticket.  Here’s a clue… don’t vote straight party.  If you know nothing about the candidates in other races outside the presidential race, LEAVE IT BLANK!  Seriously, how is it that congress could have, what, a 9% approval rating and yet vote everyone of those jack asses back into office.  Does this not strike anyone as odd?  These congressmen rode the coat tails of Obama straight back into office.

Who is the most guilty?  College students!  Think back… think way back.. back to when you were in college.  Boy, didn’t we think we knew everything?  We were all in for a very rude awakening when we graduated and actually had to get jobs and fend for ourselves.  Mommy and Daddy pay for everything and the kids are not required to get jobs… rightfully so.  They should be focused on studying and not working.  If they work, it’s part time and typically to obtain beer money.  These kids don’t pay taxes yet they can vote.  These kids come into the polling place with the Obama psychosis eyes (Oh -Bam-Ah, Yes, We Can) and pull a straight democrat ticket not knowing or giving a damn about the people they are indirectly voting into office.  Tons of people were pissed that our State House passed the smoking ban, in fact, there were democrats prepared to vote against their own party to express their anger over this decision and there were almost as many people pissed that the democrats in office went way over budget for 2008 and 2009.  So, how is it we voted these same yahoos back into office.  Must we wait until they raise our taxes to pay for their out of control spending to vote these people out?  Or do we have to wait until they take more of our rights away?  Maybe they could ban guns or maybe they can ban smoking in your house or your car before people realize that their actions have consequences.  When you vote people like Jeff Danielson and Doris Kelley into office, you are in essence handing them your guns, your paycheck and your packs of cigarettes.

Sure, I busted my butt to try and get Walt Rogers into office and beat out that arrogant “You have hate in your heart” Jeff Danielson.  And it’s likely that after all the votes are counted that Walt will have lost.  But here’s the bottom line… one by one, I will tear down the democrats at the state house.  If Walt loses, Danielson will be public enemy number one.  I will bust my butt to find someone who can get enough votes to put Danielson right where we belongs (on a path to Hell).  Then I’m coming after Doris - I don’t care if I have to run against her myself!  Then Debra Berry!  That’s right Debra, you don’t scare me.  You may have your cronies come after everyone that runs against you by having them harassed and called names but I do not fear you!

As for Obama, I plan I blogging about every socialist policy he puts into place.  If he tries to silence me like he tried to silence those in Missouri when he came to the state to speak, I will only speak louder.  Please, I beg you to put me in jail for it!  It would only prove my point how socialist The Messiah really is and how he wants to silence any dissent and thus taking away our rights.  The Messiah is all knowing.  He can find out where I live and come get me - I’ll leave the light on for you all mighty one!