Not To Worry Taxachusetts
Next year's election also is crucial to New Bedford
You may have noticed that we have a big election in New Bedford come Tuesday. But keep in mind we have an even bigger one in Massachusetts next year. The mayor of New Bedford, no matter who he is over the next two years, is going to need all the help he can get from a sympathetic governor or he is going to flounder. New Bedford has been an abused city over the past three years at the hands of a rent-a-state governor more intent on burnishing his conservative credentials to impress Bible-thumping yahoos in the Red States than on doing his job. It took him weeks to detect a difference between New Bedford and Fall River and, for all we know, he still thinks that Fall River is a dumb place for an oceanarium and that New Bedford already has too many highway exits.
You may have noticed that we have a big election in New Bedford come Tuesday. But keep in mind we have an even bigger one in Massachusetts next year. The mayor of New Bedford, no matter who he is over the next two years, is going to need all the help he can get from a sympathetic governor or he is going to flounder. New Bedford has been an abused city over the past three years at the hands of a rent-a-state governor more intent on burnishing his conservative credentials to impress Bible-thumping yahoos in the Red States than on doing his job. It took him weeks to detect a difference between New Bedford and Fall River and, for all we know, he still thinks that Fall River is a dumb place for an oceanarium and that New Bedford already has too many highway exits.
They sure know how to come up with those zinger epithets, like Bible-thumping yahoos, but, their knowledge of people of faith is very limited if not non existent. It took a long time for the Evangelical crowd to vote for Catholic candidates without squealing. I don't think that will happen anytime soon for the Mormon candidates. I say that without comment merely as an observation of reality. Moving right along I do not think Mitt Romney has any more of a chance to be President than Hanoi John or Tanker Dukakis. Disregarding religion he is not a potential candidate that Big Bubba can get behind. I am, for the moment, a huge fan of Senator George Allen, R-VA, for President.
posted by BigBubba at 6:23 PM
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Mark 15:38 (King James Version) 38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Glad to hear that you are happy with your quality of life in Taxachusetts. I hope that means you will be staying there.
I would think that you should appreciate the intellect of President Bush in comparison to the intellect of those well known rocket surgeons Tanked Teddy and Hanoi John.
Does anyone know what secular humanists thump?
Mr. Ducky, what ever makes me a homophobe because of what I think of homosexuals? Such a statement indicates to me that you suffer from Phronemophobia. Get help!
In what respect do Yahoo's resemble people of faith? Certainly not in Swift's description of them in Gulliver's Travels...
"I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracts of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses. At last I beheld several animals in a field, and one or two of the same kind sitting in trees. Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. Some of them coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their form.
Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore parts of their legs and feet; but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were of a brown buff colour. They had no tails, nor any hair at all on their buttocks, except about the anus, which, I presume, nature had placed there to defend them as they sat on the ground, for this posture they used, as well as lying down, and often stood on their hind feet. They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked. They would often spring, and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. The females were not so large as the males; they had long lank hair on their heads, but none on their faces, nor any thing more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies, except about the anus and pudenda. The dugs hung between their fore feet, and often reached almost to the ground as they walked. The hair of both sexes was of several colours, brown, red, black, and yellow. Upon the whole, I never beheld, in all my travels, so disagreeable an animal, or one against which I naturally conceived so strong an antipathy. So that, thinking I had seen enough, full of contempt and aversion, I got up, and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might direct me to the cabin of some Indian. I had not got far, when I met one of these creatures full in my way, and coming up directly to me. The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways, every feature of his visage, and stared, as at an object he had never seen before; then approaching nearer, lifted up his fore-paw, whether out of curiosity or mischief I could not tell; but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it, for I durst not strike with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle. When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud, that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the next field, howling and making odious faces; but I ran to the body of a tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off by waving my hanger. Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.
In the midst of this distress, I observed them all to run away on a sudden as fast as they could; at which I ventured to leave the tree and pursue the road, wondering what it was that could put them into this fright. But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight. The horse started a little, when he came near me, but soon recovering himself, looked full in my face with manifest tokens of wonder; he viewed my hands and feet, walking round me several times.
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The uncivilized nature of the Yahoo makes me think that Christians are actually closer to Houyhnhnm's. I think that the secular progressive humanists have glimpsed their own reflections and thereafter "projected" their own inclinations upon their less "natural" and less "freedom loving" more "law abiding" opponents.
-FJ
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