A thought before retiring …
on 11/08/2010 at 01:09 PM
Funny you mention this Pieper as Drew and Christopher and I were just going over the kill totals we had during our weekend urban hunting expedition.Drew got extra points for using home made ammo of course but Christopher got bonus points for using his postal route as a mapping guide.I on the other hand just headed for the bridge underpass and smothered whoever I found sleeping there.
Good Times, Good Times,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Yeah but .... How do we get thru to foreigners who may be more misguided then anti us? Altho god knows there’s enuff ov them to contend with. When they ask what the TP thinks it taking back America from, or who, they clearly do not understand the issues.
But there are a few who do, and Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail is one who does.
All gets a bit frustrating.I forgot to mention this example of folks here, writing for major paper and who herself is not a libtard but also not a consv. in as you and I understand the term.
Here’s something she wrote in her column this week.IRONIC isn’t it, that in his first address to the nation after the biggest Republician swing since 1948, Obama says, “ I took a shallacking”, using a word few Americans even understood? Amanda Platell, Daily Mail
Just when exactly did Americans lose the meaning or understanding of that word? My gosh. Don’t we use it in sports, descriptions of political defeats, the stock market?
She a well established writer of some years, working for a major media. But she managed to get that totally wrong.It means he’s freshly coated with a somewhat waterproof resin that is made from the chitinous shells of insects, right? So now he’s all bright and shiny?
No?
No, it means he got beat up.
How the word went from a noun that describes an ancient type of varnish to an adjective that means being severely beaten is a job for Marina at Hot For Words. Maybe it’s because some bruises appear shiny. Maybe the adjective is just homophonic, and comes from some Gaelic term, perhaps the same root word as shillelagh. That would be my bet. “Shillelagh” is pronounced “shill lay lee” but it looks like “shill e lag” if you only read it and don’t have any Irish folks around to enlighten you. Or “shill e laff” if you’d like. “Shill e lag” would easily become “shell lag” from minor influence of regional accents, and then “shell lack”. Same goes for turning “shill e laff” into “shell lak”. So taking a “shellacking” would mean being subject to a cudgeling. Because a shillelagh is a cudgel. A club. Beat up with the ugly stick. Ta da, done. I betcha that’s how it came about! But it would have been more fun to hear all that coming from a flirtatious big eyed blond with an accent and maximum cleavage.
Us ‘mercans ain’t toadully stoopit ya no.
PS - for all I know, the Irish have an actual word that means being beaten with a shillelagh. Any Gaelic speakers here?
Peiper, why don’t you call the radio station? I’m sure you could explain things to them.
Tell them that it the natural state of Americans to hate government. Any and all of it. We don’t want any, but we know we need some. So we want as little of it as possible. So that’s the “taking the country back” part: We The People (you may have to explain that one) wish to retrieve and revoke the excessive power of the federal (and to a lesser extent - for now!!) and state governments.
Tell them that the 10th Amendment to our Constitution specifically says that this is the People’s right; that the federal government is severely delimited by design, and has only grabbed power over the past 4 generations because people stopped paying attention. Well, we’re paying attention again.
And then smack the crap out of them for the Sarah Palin bit. Make them realize that her appeal comes not from running for, or even holding, some elected office, but by being a plain citizen who is willing to speak up. Ok, being major MILF doesn’t hurt at all, but unlike Hollywood types who got their fame specifically because of their looks, Sarah’s physical appeal is only a sidebar point. Tell them that her sometimes folksy, sometimes corny expressions merely reinforce her grassroots appeal, because she is EveryMan and EveryWoman and is NOT an act, like all of Hollywood and most of the career politicians. She is for real, and that’s where her appeal comes from. She is quickly becoming our Marianne ( the topless chick with the flag the French get so on about ) only with a higher Mom factor, but with equal sex appeal even while fully clothed. And that Becoming implies that Palin bashing could be becoming an offense that begs a good shellacking in the pure and original Irish sense of the word.
Another factor is our perception of Sarah’s authenticity. Ours is a classless society, or so we all like to believe, and we place enormous value on coming from nothing. The journey from starting out as a huddled mass, a singular wretched bit of refuse, to a success (whether you define that as money, fame, power, or just personal satisfaction) is one of the deep underpinnings of the American psyche. Going from lowly beginnings gutting fish in the frozen wasteland slice of hell called Alaska (which is how most of us perceive the place) to being mayor and then governor and then wildly popular speaker is the embodiment of the American Dream. That is Sarah Palin. Marrying into the Gentry and then assuming that level of patronizing class superiority (John Fuckface Kerry) is not authentic. Being a pampered internationalist pussy who took the express elevator to the top by nefarious tactics, the insider’s club of Chicago politics, and by the Race Card (guess who?) is not authentic either. His acting both churlish and intellectually superior angers a whole lot of us. “Oh, if only Americans could understand my message, they would want single payer health care. So I’ll tell them about it for the 217th time.” Um, wrong. And THEN you add in his attitude? “I won, shut up” is a recipe for a punch in the mouth. So is his “ride in the back of the car” line, because it IS “ride in the back of the bus”, and this is unacceptable coming from a half-black man who only learned his negroism after reaching adulthood. A theoretical American who rarely lived in the real America. (no, Hawaii doesn’t count. It’s not Detroit, it’s not LA, it ain’t Kansas. It’s paradise, m’kay?) It ain’t real, bro. He has NO cred. Neither one earned their position or their stance in any way. That both are reviled for their elitist arrogance is no surprise at all; they are not Everyman, they do not speak to everyman. Worse, the latter one does not even know who Everyman is, and it is obvious that he has no interest at all in learning. “Have you seen the price of arugula lately?” is that in a nutshell. I’m rich because connected people have thrown piles of money at me to be their pawn, but I’ll complain about the cost of a food item that has a high snob factor. Whatever else he was or wasn’t, George Bush knew Everyman, because he was him. Or at least had struggled a bit here and there in his past. Or at least made us think he did. Whatever, it was enough. Palin knows, because she is. No question there whatsoever. None. So a huge number of Americans who are on that upwards path, or would like to be, or who at least resonate with the understanding of that upwards striving, react to pompous pretenders like Kerry and Obama in a very bad way. They are flexible sacks of vinegar based vaginal wash, the nasty gutter drippings of a street corner whore’s bath. And that’s about as low an opinion an American can have of anyone we don’t reflexively kill. But Palin we take into our hearts and forgive whatever minor foibles she might have, while elevating her to a respected icon. Now add in God, guns, motherhood, and sex appeal and you begin to see her popularity.
Palin speaks for us by speaking to us, with us. Her ideas are not new. What she says is not revolutionary. It’s what we all think underneath ... or what we all instinctively know we should be thinking. She reminds us of what we already knew. Government should pave the roads, protect the borders, keep a damned great military on hand just in case, plow the snow, and help the poor until they are back on their feet again. And then stop helping. And that’s nearly all that they should be doing. Granted, some consumer protection stuff, some environmental stuff, some education standards, a bit of fiscal regulation that actually works, some courts (because hanging criminals on our own is too much work) and a fair tax structure are also necessary. A few laws that don’t favor any one group are good; laws that limit the worst in human behavior. Or at least punish it. Given that, Americans then ignore the government, as is their wont. But when the government grows exponentially larger than that, even if it takes 3 generations to get there, suddenly we wake up and want to “take it back”. And we are serious about it; serious to the point of stockpiling hundreds of millions of weapons and mountains of ammunition. Serious enough to throw out one political party and to put the other one on pink slip notice: Git ‘er done, or be gone.
Good post Drew. I agree with you mostly, but I still think the inbuilt bias in the media will be very difficult for Sarah Palin to overcome. I think a lot of her popularity is down to her MILF appeal and this is blinding people to her flaws. In my view she would be badly exposed in a Presidential race. If the Republicans want to retake the White House they won’t do it with Sarah P
I don’t want her to run. I want her to keep waking people up. I want more people to form their own Tea Parties. Because we can.
I want every major airport in the USA picketed at every gate by citizens against the new Grab ‘n Grope rules because it is in direct violation of the 4th Amendment. I want everyone who can avoid flying to take the train or to drive. There is a limit, there is a line. And this new “choice” crosses the line - either let some ghetto loser - employed because of their race - fondle you directly, or have them dose you with major X-rays ... for which they are entirely untrained. Talk about being under duress. And if you have faith that the pictures of the a) hotter bodies and b)more embarrassing bodies won’t find their way onto the internet, I’ve got a nice bridge in lower Manhattan to sell you. Fed employees can’t hold onto a laptop for a second the moment it becomes loaded with secure data that some industry would want. Do you really think this will be any different?
That’s what Sarah Palin is good for. Getting people motivated. Find some managerial asswipe to be President. A pretty boy with a good voice who can sling the BS on the fly without seeming too phony. Make sure he has good hair too, that’s one of the main qualifications these days.
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