Posted on 07/27/2009 11:25:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This past month, Ruminant has been uncharacteristically silent, missing at least three column deadlinesnot at all like her: and this at a time when her birth-country is so noisily scandal-ridden and patently loony that her usually effortless and knee-jerk snarkiness should have been propelling her on, of its own massive momentum, to write gleefully malicious prose, paragraph upon paragraph.
But to what effect, I ask? To what effect? What can commentary add to "news" that is so transparently monstrous and mad that the only sane response is either 1) silence; or 2) going postal, in DC just for starters.
Instead, following the Michael Jackson Death Circus, La Palin's Final (We Think)Withdrawal From The Pageant That Is Her Personal Alternative Universe, The Continuing Shenanigans Of Bad, Mad, Thinking-With-Their-Reproductive-Organs White Republican Boys in DC (All Paying Members of that notorious C-Street Frat-House, Sigma Kappa Upsilon Mu, or SKUM). . .I've been, instead, rendered mute. (And I haven't even MENTIONED the so-called Democrats in the House and Senate blocking Health Care Reform, the Rabbis and Mayors et al Recently Arrested in New Jersey, nor the ongoing idiocy-in-installments of Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Joe Scarborough and Fox "News," just to name a few of the usual culprits-of-crap, all of which should lay obvious, raucous claims on a rabid-left-wing-columnist's time and conscience. SOMEONE has to write about this stuff, this madness, this America-of-Ours, I've always thought, and yet . . .I've been utterly remiss of late.
Why?
SKUM Overload, I opine. Despair over "Popular Culture" as it is known and lived in these United States. A mute desire to head out for the wilderness, where I would never again have to listen to Governor Mark Sanford waxing forth about his Argentinian Soul-Mate (oh, give me a break!), or The (C-Street) Family advancing a philosophy that somehow, guiltlessly, conflates fascism with Christianity. Even Lou Dobbs, always teetering, has gone firmly and finally round the bend. Yes, with The Birthers? That group of gormless jackasses who can't parse a birth certificate? What should I say about THEM? What mere words are up to the task of smacking down all the idiots in this Republic?
I'm not up to this right now, folks. DANTE might not have been up to it. He'd have run out of circles of hell before getting halfway from A to D. (Of course, Cheney would require his own personal circle. As would Karl Rove. Still! And John Ensign and Mark Sanford are bucking for a duplex in Dante's Lower-Circle-of-Fun: adjoining master bedrooms with a shared, en-suite fire-pit might do it.)
Hiking the Appalachian Trail, my ass! I only wish the dog had eaten Sanford's homework while he was out there woodshedding.
Mercy, we live in interesting times!
So, I've been on the sidelines of late, quietly watching the various long- and short-running playsboth comedies and tragedieson the world's many stages.
And then came the Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. story, out of bucolic Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Harvard professor gets hauled off in handcuffs for "breaking into" his own residence, even after displaying two forms of I.D. to the arresting officer. President Obama, commenting later, says (quite rightly) that the police "acted stupidly". . .and then, days later, does an about-face, and says he could "have calibrated those words differently."
How, precisely?
Had Sergeant James Crowley come into my rural residence (were I still living in South Carolina), without being invited, and tried to haul me off in handcuffs for jimmying my own door open, he would have been dealing with not some sort of verbal "overreaction" (President Obama's words), but, rather, with Smith & Wesson. (I lived waaaaayyyy out in the Oconee County woods, and had to fire my shotgun off into the night sky on many occasions to discourage predations by two-legged varmints.)
Now, I understand, Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley have been invited to the White House to sit down and chat amicably over a brewskie. Were I Professor Gates, I'd be waterboarding Sgt. Crowley with my Sam Addams.
The bottom line is: it still sucks being Black in America, and I suspect it's going to suck for quite a long time to come.
Now, true, I'm an uppity, lippy white woman of a certain age. I've even talked back to the Teaneck police, on occasion, when I felt they were being unnecessarily heavy-handed in the course of issuing a traffic ticket (to my husband) for double-parking outside Louie's Charcoal Pit for precisely two minutes while I dropped off medicine for a sick child. Did me (and Dean) a lot of good: the ticket got written because I got lippy. But, Oh Lord help me, what if I'd been Black and lippy? I can tell you "what if." I'd have been given a second ticket, at the very least, for disorderly conduct.
Now, I also admit, as a child of the 1960s Mini-Revolution in this country, I have stood on ramparts and been tear-gassed while protesting the Vietnam War and calling the Athens, Georgia police who were gassing me "porcine." They were porcine, and they should have been on our side of the line of fire, the right side of history. Post-Kent-State, it was pretty obvious that law enforcement was not batting for the angels in America and, though I've taken citizens' classes in police procedures, and generally got along well with my small-town police force in Pendleton, South Carolina, in Teaneck and, obviously, Cambridge, there's still a great big old problem between the (mostly) men in blue, and those they've sworn to serve and protect.
And, if you happen to be Black, or Latino, or somehow obviously mentally impaired, you're likely to have an even bigger great big old problem with the police.
Reportedly, Professor Gates said to Sergeant Crowley, "I'll speak with your mama outside" (NYT, Vol. CLVIII, No. 54,747, Page 1). Right On, Professor Gates! And right on into those handcuffs, alas. . . .
Well, President Obama missed the boat on this one.
It was not Professor Gates who overreacted, or Sergeant Crowley who needed his feathers smoothed.
It was, instead, an opportunity for the First Black Man In The White House to say, "Enough!" and it was the police, all across America, who needed to be told. Along with their mamas.
What happened to the leftist belief that the discharging of firearms is either the fault of the ‘dangerous’ gun, or the ‘evil’ gun manufacturer.
Maybe she just needs to ‘calibrate’ her words differently.
Another leftist hysterically ranting about an issue she knows utterly nothing about. The only black people this chick knows are the ones who pick up her trash or hold the door at the trendy restaurants she goes to.
What no hair under the arms??? lol.
Being white on 67th & Halsted in Chicago still sucks too.
The article didn’t specify.
Wonder what she thinks about Waco? And they were not black.
Really?
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Oh, dear...
"Being CERTAIN Black People With Huge Grudges And Anger Management Issues, STILL Sucks In America."
TARD she is!
Quoting MR. Gates: “Yo mama.”
What a cow.
Very typical of the insipid, liberal white woman. I call them “The Great White Queens”.
In their vapid skulls they believe that “People of Color” and other “brown” folks ought to be proud that these paragons of virtue and intellect are down for the struggle. See: Babs Boxer.
I had a friend whose sister married a black man and everything to her was about race. Preached about it, wrote about it, on and on, ad nauseam. I felt bad for her husband in that, hey, what is it like to have your spouse see you for the color of your skin every minute of the day and night?
These gals are truly demented and their self-righteous spiels only put it out there for the world to see in all it’s illogical gory.
“So this old hippie bitch claims she would have shot the cops?”
Then she would be shot numerous times in several places with Glock Model 21 .45’s. Game over.
Wait a second....isn't that line from "Uncle Buck"? Is this story written by a real person?
LOL...nevermind. I see now.
Regards,
I guess Rwanda and Eritrea are bastions of civilizations, why not move back home if it sucks here...I’ll do the same and move back to my ancestors home near Hamburg.
You lose.
See post #30.
I’ll agree with that sentiment.
I’ve noticed that BO’s family situation in whatever godforsaken third world toilet country that was, is looking like it is just aces for them.
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