Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

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

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Frosty the Klansman,

Has a very hateful nose.
With two eyes of coal,
and a blasted soul,
He lives in Idaho.

(H/T)

6 comments:

tom said...: There was a time when morons like that would not do that kind of thing, but thankfully (read SNARK) the Glen Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the world have made Democracy safe for bigots, and killers
bastards; 12/05/2010 2:47 AM
BadTux said...: Uhm, Tom, there was a time when morons like that wouldn't do that kind of thing because they were actively engaged in using that noose. Or do I need to go Google pictures of KKK lynchings for you?

In any event, a) the neighbors made many complaints to the city, b) cops and code enforcement people came by the dude's house and told him hanging nooses was illegal under Idaho law and the snow klansman in toto was probably a citable public nuisance, and c) he should thus demolish the snow klansman. The dude then did so.

But 50 years ago, the cops would have probably been defending the Klansman, not the neighbors. And *that* is the big difference between then and now.

- Badtux the History Penguin; 12/05/2010 4:43 PM
tom said...: Dear Bad, not so long ago pre Reagan this country had a positive dearth of the Klan types, THAT is what I was referring too, I was not referring to the 30s when there were Klansmen everywhere!; 12/05/2010 10:57 PM
BadTux said...: Tom, I am not aware of such a pre-Reagan time. I *AM* aware that when a federal judge forcibly desegregated the schools in my city -- in 1971 -- the next year the entire white population, just about, picked up stakes and moved to the suburbs where their children wouldn't have to go to school with "those" children (you know, the children who are distressingly DARK SKINNED? Except they weren't shy about using the N-word in private conversation). I *DO* know that nooses *were* hung in those halcyon days. I *DO* know that I was berated for using the back entrance (the "n***** entrance") at a local diner and sitting in the larger dining room (the "n****** dining room") -- in 1974. I DO know that when I left that city in 1978, many of the city's eateries were *still* de-facto desegregated. A black person could go into the white dining room and get served, but usually he wouldn't want to unless he was trying to make a point -- the response would be, at the very least, discomfiting, though no bodily harm would happen.

And a lot of the worst of that lot moved to Idaho somewhere around that time because they didn't want to "deal with n******'s".

Your notion of a pre-Reagan utopia of racial harmony where racists were afraid to state their hate is just that -- a notion. I was there. I noticed no such utopia. I don't know where you grew up, but it certainly was nowhere in the South, that's all I can figure...

- Badtux the Southern Penguin; 12/06/2010 10:47 AM
tom said...: Dear Bad, do you have a penguin on your telly?

KKK
Year Membership
1920 4,000,000[98]
1924 6,000,000
1930 30,000
1980 5,000
2008 6,000; 12/06/2010 7:15 PM
tom said...: Growing up in the 70s jn NY and NJ I was aware of the great racial divide in our land, my parents were both racists, but many white folk who came up during the depression were of that persuasion.
I have no notion of any pre Reagan Utopia, hell we lived through the days of rage
I'm just saying maybe it's where you grow up that's what tints your glasses....; 12/06/2010 7:18 PM