Quote of the Day

Noticed at Americablog a link to this blog, which has some Pat Boone quotes. Really, you know, if you're this fucking stupid, maybe you ought not open your mouth? I mean, really..

This lady (Sheehan) and the groups that have been demonstrating in front of the president's ranch in Crawford and following him around are the very same people that were the dropout, turn-on, anti-war peace activists back [in the Vietnam War era]," Boone said. "They still have this crazy notion that by just being peaceful and maybe toking up or something like that - it's like an ostrich with its head in the sand - maybe the danger and the bad guys will go away and leave you alone, which is not gonna happen."

Well, maybe Boone could explain how Iraq was "the danger and the bad guys", because we all know by now - Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and they didn't have WMD's, and they weren't an "imminent threat", right?

But I like his use of the Vietnam allegory. Pat, you remember the United States lost the Vietnam war? As it just turns out, it's pretty well common knowledge that the "protestors" of the Vietnam era were absolutely correct. They are correct this time around too.

People like Pat Boone are the true traitors to the United States. But Tom, you may say, Pat Boone loves our country and military! Yes, but he's a traitor because he's too stupid to understand these issues, and instead has a broad view that any war the United States gets involved in is good for us, when clearly it is not. People like Pat Boone have the blood of nearly 3000 Americans on their hands because they are too stupid to spend the time to investigate and understand very simple concepts about how you take a nation to war.

Make no mistake, Bush could launch a war against, say, Venezuela and these very same Pat Boone type people would be putting the yellow ribbon magnets on their SUV's and calling the protestors "pot smokers".

Is it guilt by association? You betcha, but the lesson we learn from Vietnam is that there is no repercussion - just dead soldiers. Those opposed to an unjust war will always be thought of as anti-American, and those that will support military conflict regardless of it's justification will always be thought of as patriotic.

When you try and understand why that is - always go back to Tom's explanation of why things are the way they are. It's always about Americans being (on average) really dull and unintelligent people. There is a massive inability to clearly reason concepts, even from some people who would seem rather bright otherwise.

Oh.. and Pat.. people that protested during Vietnam would be in their 50's and 60's now. How could today's protestors be the "very same people". Some are, but I was born in 1966. Apparently Boone was studying Bible scripture instead of math in school.

Speaking of which, Pat Boone also has something to say about creationism.

"The idea that all of this could have happened mindlessly with no blueprint is sheer stupidity and very unscientific."

Boone also cited America's founding documents, quoting the Declaration of Independence as he stressed, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ... "

PRAISE JEBUS that the public school I went to didn't include God in it's curriculum.

The Declaration of Independence also says this;

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I don't know why I bothered to pick on Pat Boone. It's kinda like Randy Johnson pitching to a little leaguer.