Friday, November 04, 2005

An eye for an eye - a thumb for a tag


And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.

Mark 9:43

Maybe we shouldn’t be dividing the United States into Red and Blue States: maybe quality States and junk States would be a better way of looking at the patchwork of idiocy that stains our country with bloody blotches. If we consider the forces of Evolution that allow the adaptable to adapt and the non-adaptable to go the way of the Neanderthal, maybe we will see how letting political entities that are self-destructive and unable to exist in a changing world ride on the coat-tails of the progressive and enlightened is not a good thing.

Did we fight the third Reich and the Empire of Japan; did we stare down Stalinism and the Soviets to preserve the right of Nevada to uphold the principles of savagery and ignorance?

"In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes," Reno Mayor Oscar Goodman said Wednesday on the TV show Nevada Newsmakers. The crime in question was highway graffiti. Apparently Oscar was playing Blackjack the week they studied the French Revolution in High School. I am not a historian or an expert on the Reign of Terror in France, but I’m fairly sure that nothing was improved by its excess and I’m fairly sure that al fresco painting was not the kind of crime that led to the guillotine. I’m very sure however that good old Goodman knows far less. He’s not talking about the political crimes that kept Madame DeFarge knitting away, he’s talking about kids with spray cans.

"I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb," the mayor said. "That may be the right thing to do." According to a report on CNN today, Goodman also suggested that whippings should be brought back for children who get into trouble. Reports that the Mayor favors installing private booths where the whipping and maiming of children can be watched by a certain clientele are as yet unconfirmed.

I say push Nevada to the outside of the herd. Seal the borders and let the whoring, boozing and gambling hoards go elsewhere until the State becomes just another desert full of madmen cutting off each other’s body parts while screaming about God. That may be the right thing to do.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You don't spray paint with your thumb. You use your index finger on the button. So not only is it a stupid and barbaric idea, it wouldn't even produce the intended result. Off with his head.

Capt. Fogg said...

Still it's hard to hold the can without your thumb.

Off with his head anyway!

Intellectual Insurgent said...

He probably just returned from Saudi Arabia, where they have public beheadings every Friday. The thrill of the kill left him craving more blood.

You always have to wonder about the sexual fantasies a guy like this must have when he suggests whipping as a punishment for kids. He probably wears a gimp outfit in a S&M club on the weekends.

Capt. Fogg said...

It just goes to show you that the trend toward barbarism isn't just about them it's true of every country full of religious fanatics.

phinky said...

"the State becomes just another desert full of madmen cutting off each other’s body parts while screaming about God."
Hmmm...sounds like Saudi Arabia

Capt. Fogg said...

Saudi Arabia - or Saudi America. It may be the same thing before long.