Clif Garboden says, “Screw You, America!”

Posted by Les on Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 10:59 PM. Read 1796 times. Tags:
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Go read Screw you, America: Sometimes the fish in the barrel deserve to die by Clif Garboden. It pretty much sums up my feelings on Bush’s winning a second term and is pratically SEB in a nutshell. The first sentence in the following paragraph is what cinched it for me, though:

A lot of us effete Easterners want to know: What the fuck is wrong with you?! You voted against your self-interest at every turn (you dumb-asses in South Dakota deserve special credit for voting out one of the most powerful Democrats in the Senate) and re-elected an ignorant cowboy who can’t be trusted to remember a lunch order, never mind run a country. What in the name of God...?! Wait, it was in the name of God, wasn’t it? Rendered weak and ignorant by a spoon-fed climate of fear, you slack-jawed inbred flatlanders have sought refuge in the traditional twin towers of mindlessness--jingoistic patriotism and fundamentalist religion. God’s on your side. Like hell. Jesus loves us, dammit.

Okay, you want God? Let’s talk about God. Your religion is bogus. Fundamentalism, the facile belief in the unexplained and un-researched, is something you born-agains (couldn’t get it right the first time, huh?) share with Al Qaeda, whose ideologues doggedly adhere to religious misinterpretations every bit as silly and dangerous as yours. Just like you, Muslim fundamentalists long to impose an unrealistic and intolerant pseudo-Calvinist morality on the world. In fact, America’s religious right has so much in common with the Shiah, it’s a wonder you guys don’t invite them to join the Rotary. Born-againsters look for the face of Christ in the wallpaper; fundamentalist Muslims hallucinate the voice of the 12th Imam; but aside from that (and extremely divergent attitudes toward pork), you both hate the same stuff--homosexuality, pacifism, Jews, education, uppity women, enlightenment, short skirts, gangsta rap, tattoos, infidels. ... (They also share your love of super-lethal weaponry.)

Well, sorry to burst your holy bubble, Jesus freaks, but God did not create the world in seven days; that’s just ignorant. Like a lot of stuff in the Bible, it didn’t happen. And Moses looked more like Jeff Goldblum than like Charlton Heston. Jesus didn’t hunt; he fished. Jesus wouldn’t want you (or anyone else) to have an assault rifle. What would Jesus do if he met you? He’d ask you to stop ruining his hard-won good reputation. (Y’know the guy died to redeem your sorry ass; you might at least show a little respect for what he was really about.)

It’s a long read, but I couldn’t have written it better myself. It even manages to make my fondness for swearing seem tame in comparison.

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Les United States Posted on 02/13/2005 at 10:47 AM

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I had to restage my PC on Friday after I got home from work and our Internet connection was out for a bit after that so I’m glad someone was able to help you out here.

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I have been helped and it worked out great. My blog is now officially up and running.

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Pothealsall United States Posted on 04/25/2005 at 07:30 AM

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Damn those commie pinko klansman
Gansta rap it down in the hood of the burning bum barrel and As for a-hole politicians there is a recipe for world peace and basically take and Island put all the world leaders a bunch of hookers plenty to eat and drink tons of pot opium and other peaceful drugs a cuban roller and plenty of papers give it a month and send them home bush will be trilled out with the world and have a smoking session once a month and the world will share all because of the Fucking Munchies

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