Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Perspective

Since 2001 (including that year), nearly 300,000 Americans have been killed in traffic accidents.

Since 2001, 130,000 Americans have been killed in falls. 30,000 have drowned.

Since 2001, roughly 3,000 Americans have died in terrorist attacks (most on one day).[1]

But guess which one of those causes of death have resulted in a huge Federal and state bureaucracies and guess which one has resulted in unprecedented governmental infringement on liberties.

[1]However, it must be pointed out that when white dudes go on shooting sprees and try to blow up police stations, that's not terrorism per se. It is apparently only terrorism if the perps are Muslim.

3 comments:

Tam said...

(1) Depends on why the white guy did it. Tim McVeigh and Eric Rudolf were damned skippy terrorists. Some distressed daytrader off his Prozac? Not so much.

Comrade Misfit said...

I was thinking of the guy who drove through Illinois, shooting at non-white folk or the guy in Pittsburgh who killed three cops or the one who walked into a church in Tennessee and began to shoot at people or the clown in Texas who shot up a cop shop and tried to blow it up.

tom said...

The thing is, we, in pursuit of empire are on the way to emulate Rome, this Military Industrial complex is killing our country, how long can we continue to cover the world with troops, carrier groups, and pay for it by starving the home front? Bridges fall down, people have minimal jobs or crappy health care...still the teaklanbaggers insist on borrowing money from CHINA to pay for the Military Industrial Complex.. it's unsustainable...I fear for my country