tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post5025808528401110771..comments2024-03-13T07:52:13.478-04:00Comments on THE SWASH ZONE: FOX: Bow down to my God or get out.(O)CT(O)PUShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-45174570994988670162013-09-13T08:48:14.558-04:002013-09-13T08:48:14.558-04:00No, they just open for him.No, they just open for him.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-15716865450260349822013-09-12T18:43:32.325-04:002013-09-12T18:43:32.325-04:00Indeed. But I thought his prophet was Mystic and H...Indeed. But I thought his prophet was Mystic and Haze. Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-43688985828880015132013-09-12T18:11:07.149-04:002013-09-12T18:11:07.149-04:00There is no God but Zog and Fogg is his prophet.There is no God but Zog and Fogg is his prophet.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-86184480428885530562013-09-12T17:21:00.107-04:002013-09-12T17:21:00.107-04:00... won't have to...... won't have to...Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-18498796194679980162013-09-12T16:13:57.657-04:002013-09-12T16:13:57.657-04:00Hopefully we have have to insert Allah as well and...Hopefully we have have to insert Allah as well and deal with Sharia law advocates.<br /><br />Pre Eisenhower indeed works for me.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-79097613443814902012013-09-12T11:27:20.721-04:002013-09-12T11:27:20.721-04:00The Pledge and the Pledge of Allegiance are two ti...The Pledge and the Pledge of Allegiance are two time tested ways for us republicans to change the subject when we are proven wrong.<br /><br /> Since my forced transition to republican I've been saying the Pledge quite a bit recently. Joe "Truth 101" Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875151516978133598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-49622000228748853532013-09-12T10:41:39.387-04:002013-09-12T10:41:39.387-04:00A sign of dignity, a garish flag,
To be the aim o... <i>A sign of dignity, a garish flag,<br /> To be the aim of every dangerous shot,<br /> A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.</i><br /><br />The 'pledge' as I'm sure you know was written for children back in the 1890's as America was promoting nationalistic and militaristic adventure - as was much of Europe as well. Of course it was written by a Utopian socialist preacher but that skeleton rarely peeks out of the closet today now that the "S" word is so loosely and maliciously applied to anyone left of Limbaugh.<br /><br />I resent being treated like a child at every club meeting I go to and have resented being made to pledge my allegiance to a symbol that waved over good and evil alike. I've often substituted Thor who is after all a better sort of God for the intent of the pledge and occasionally Zog, I god I made up back when I used to draw cartoons. As Zog exists only for purposes of parody - and of course to promote my personal interests - I have no problem with this being a nation under Zog.<br /><br />Liberty and justice? Whaddayou, a socialist?Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-68815449358308110072013-09-12T10:15:10.971-04:002013-09-12T10:15:10.971-04:00Dana Perino, C Plus Augustus's sometime press ...<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/dana-perino-who-didnt-know-what-the-cuban-missile-crisis-was-is-mad-at-jay-z/274938/" rel="nofollow">Dana Perino,</a> C Plus Augustus's sometime press secretary, who, when asked about the Cuban Missile Crisis, answered that she didn't know what it was. (Well, Duh! How <i>WOULD</i> she, because she wasn't <i>BORN</i> then!).<br /><br />As a nonreligious Bostonian, I have always substituted "cod" for "god" when reciting the pledge. <br /><br />And why,I've always wondered, in the name of cod, do we need to pledge allegiance in the first place? I never had to pledge allegiance to my parents, or later, to my own family every morning. They KNEW I cared for and loved them and would be ever loyal to them. I've never understood why the politicians and insecure citizens feel the need to extract that allegiance from people who believe this is the greatest country in the world. I mean, wouldn't people naturally WANT to be true and faithful to the number one bestest place on earth without having to be coerced into saying so?<br /><br />Is there something I'm not understanding here?Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-76710644363537922592013-09-12T09:35:18.994-04:002013-09-12T09:35:18.994-04:00The following anonymous post was inadvertently rem...The following anonymous post was inadvertently removed: <br /><br />I think we should change it back, and take out of the pledge "under God." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-48973700347403842652013-09-12T09:29:17.560-04:002013-09-12T09:29:17.560-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-85155039237516372322013-09-12T02:20:51.139-04:002013-09-12T02:20:51.139-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-6477805881878331802013-09-11T18:58:22.147-04:002013-09-11T18:58:22.147-04:00Yes, turn about is fair play and he sure fucked us...Yes, turn about is fair play and he sure fucked us good.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-61240473804548434002013-09-11T18:56:22.218-04:002013-09-11T18:56:22.218-04:00I was 9 years old when it changed. I recall thinki...I was 9 years old when it changed. I recall thinking that at least we didn't have to say "under Jesus" because it wasn't all that much earlier that we had to learn and sing Christmas songs with lines about "little Lord Jesus" and "Christ the Lord" about which my irate parents had little control. <br /><br />But hey, it used to be worse. At least realtors and hotel registration clerks don't ask you about your religious views even if some states won't let you run for office if you don't believe in the mysterious old man, US Constitution be damned. Maybe some day we'll not only remember that no religious test may be required for public office and extend that to no religious test to attend public school.<br /><br />The idea that we were intended to be a secular nation built on humanist principles is one of those things like the origin of species, the age of the universe and the changing climate brings out a jealous rage in some people who think their chosen mythology conveys some special privileges: like the right to persecute and silence alternative views. Dana Perino seems to be one of them. Fox "say Merry Christmas or die" News is all about such people.<br /><br />I can speculate that they are so afraid that their bizarre certainties about a long dead Jewish rebel are nonsense, that they can't allow anyone to express doubt or cite history or even logic. That level of fear probably means that some part of their brains, long bound into a painful, malodorous lump like a 19th century Chinese woman's foot recognizes they are going to die and pass into oblivion and that there is no meaning to life or our place in an endless and violent universe.<br /><br />Yes, I remember the poster, but I don't dream of a time or place where violent conflict is an alien idea. I think it's man's nature and man's fate (with apologies to Herbert Marcuse)<br /><br />Yes, I think the organized swearing - in Florida schools it's mandatory - of a religious oath is offensive, unAmerican, unconstitutional and ironically, for many religious people, blasphemous. It's another one of the reasons I hold the United States to be dishonest in the picture it paints of itself. We're witch hunters, xenophobes, bigots and intolerant of tolerance and we hate each other for our freedom.<br /><br />And John F*cking Wayne, the man who got out of the draft for having hurt himself surfing pretending to be a warrior and made a career out of damning my disbelief in our divine mission to burn children rather than let them turn "Commie."<br /><br />The Duke makes me puke.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-27091183913802376442013-09-11T17:33:38.991-04:002013-09-11T17:33:38.991-04:00apple tree
one dingleberry begets
another dingleb...apple tree<br />one dingleberry begets<br />another dingleberry<br />an infinite progression<br />or in this case<br />an infinite regression !!<br /><br />Fuck Bush!finefroghairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14259359593329028201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-12995758789600264252013-09-11T12:58:34.441-04:002013-09-11T12:58:34.441-04:00Well...
I am an Eisenhower baby. It was kind of ...Well...<br /><br />I am an Eisenhower baby. It was kind of you to characterize his mistake as an arm-twisting. Doubtless, it would be very easy in the rear-view mirror to deconstruct this great American. My earliest memory of Eisenhower was a gag book that featured press release photos of Eisenhower, Kruschev and Nixon with comic one-liners typed in little cartoon balloons entitled <i>Who's in Charge Here?</i> It was a riot.<br /><br />As far as Vietnam goes, in 1969 I walked into a head shop in La Jolla and viewed with great interest a now famous poster with a tree of life, enshrined by the words, "War is not healthy for children and other living things." It has framed my perception of armed conflict and aerial bombardment to this very day. I too am among the legion that will forever be haunted by the <i>Life Magazine</i> photo of the little girl running in terror as the American napalm burned her young body. I read with great relish the underground newspapers published by the student body at UCSD protesting the war and president Nixon. I wished that I was old enough to go to an anti-war demonstration. Only years later did I learn about the chants the anti-war hippies leveled at president Johnson.<br /><br />The first time I saw the "America Love it or Leave it," was in a MAD magazine lampoon, my favorite periodical at the time. Years later, I saw the actual bumper sticker on a faded Cadillac or Oldsmobile.<br /><br />What's going on with Bush 41? I thought he was the mature and reasonable one? I guess FOX just brings out the worst in people. John Wayne smoked his way to lung cancer, a terrifying and painful death. I guess I'll just leave him alone. My favorite line of his was, "Ouch!" when he got shot in a gunfight.Flying Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098313953658606206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-9034530681930379292013-09-11T12:43:30.525-04:002013-09-11T12:43:30.525-04:00"Under God" was added to the pledge in t..."Under God" was added to the pledge in the 1950's. The founders must have been turning in their graves. It's certainly not what they meant and I doubt would support. They certainly understood that someone who believed differently than them, should have protections to believe what they believed. Dana is one of those who has been indoctrinated by words. There was resistance to change the pledge, but as usual the majority ruled, not sanity, or the meaning of the Constitution. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com