Metaphor

First of all, I would like to compliment Sarah Palin, or her minions, for knowing what a metaphor is. I would never have suspected them of such depth.

I have taken a day to digest the catastrophe of yesterday's shootings in Tucson. Yesterday, I was dazed. Today found me enraged. I find that this is the proper mood for me to be in if I want to write this decidedly uncivil note. Ms. Palin, Ms. Bachmann, Ms. Angle, your cute little word games, your "second amendment remedies," your crosshairs (and I know them when I see them), your "locked and loaded," and all of your other treasonous, murderous words have now borne fruit. "Awwwww, who, us????? Dontcha recognize a metaphor when ya see one?" Oh, so cute, so clever. So fucking stupid.

No, I will not be civil with people like you.

As I have said in this space before, people who shout others down at town hall meetings have no interest in democracy. People who wear their weapons to public events are not proudly celebrating their second amendment rights. These people are interested in getting their own way through intimidation.

Who are these people, and how did they get this way? These are people whose ideas hold no water, but who cannot bear to give these ideas up. The only way they can persuade others of the validity of their ideas is by force.

Here are some facts:

Republican policies have ruined the economy. For the second time. Understanding of cause and effect allows me to predict that, if these policies continue to be followed, things will get worse.

Barack Obama was elected president, by a wide margin, democratically. Nobody stole America from you.

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. The proof of this is abundant, unless you are an idiot.

The earth is not 6,000 years old.

God did not make the earth in seven days.

The world was not covered by floodwaters, and Noah did not save all those animals.

Elijah did not go straight to heaven without having to die.

Jesus did not rise from the dead.

There are no such things as witches.

Homosexuals are quite normal human beings. They are in the minority, but nature makes a certain number of them, just as she makes a small number of left-handed people, and has done so since there were animals on the earth. As human beings, they do not deserve to be persecuted, and they should have the same rights as anybody else.

Barack Obama is a black man. He is, far and away, smarter than any of you.

You don't believe any of what I have just said. These facts have not found a way to penetrate your thick skulls.

Because your brains are having trouble assimilating this information, may I suggest taking all these facts and shoving them up your asses? That act will be more constructive than anything you're doing right now.