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

"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, A/K/A Dolt-45,
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

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Pledge-"zOMG, It's Under Bog!!!1!!"

Because "Bog" is the Russian word for "God":
Я обещаю преданность Флагу Соединенных Штатов Америки, и в республику, которую это обозначает, одна Страна под Богом, неделимом, со свободой и справедливостью для всех.
Just as "Allah" is the Arabic word for God. So if someone says the Pledge in Arabic, they indeed are going to use the word "Allah". Christians who speak Arabic pray to Allah.

But you don't have to go very far to find pants-shitting going on over a bunch of students saying the Pledge in Arabic. Or conservatives calling out the pants-shitters for being, well, imbeciles.

5 comments:

BadTux said...

Of course, the Pledge of Allegiance is total gibberish to school children regardless of whether it's recited in English, Spanish, Russian, or Pig Latin. I remember wondering for the longest time why those four witches were standing... I pictured them as the witches from The Wizard of Oz, standing around looking for little children to throw into an oven like in Hansel and Gretel. Man, the pledge was *scary* for a little 1st grader!

- Badtux the Pledged-out Penguin

Joe said...

Yeah, I remember thinking during the pauses in the recitation, "You sure?" and "Wait, that's not true!"

But then, I was a weird kid. I couldn't understand how allegiance to a flag works, so I stopped saying the words "the flag of".

Brian said...

You Yangs like your worship-words...

CLOUD: I am Cloud William, chief. Also son of chief. Guardian of the holies, speaker of the holy words, leader of warriors. Many have died, but this is the last of the Kohm places. What is ours is ours again.
(He goes over to the flag and puts his left hand over his heart.)
CLOUD: Aypledgli ianectu flaggen tupep kile for stahn
KIRK: And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
ELDER: He spoke the holy word.
(Kirk is brought forward to the table.)
CLOUD: You know many of our high-worship words. How?
KIRK: In my land we have a tribe like you.

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montag said...

To add to Tux's remarks, I remember when our godly Congress added the phrase "under god" to the pledge, sometime between 1st & 2nd grade. For a few weeks we stumbled over that as much as we did the debts/trespasses in the lords prayer.

Unknown said...

Yeah, in 1st and 2nd grade I used to drive myself to distraction (a very short drive) wondering what those widget stands looked like and where the hell they all were.