Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

You know, I don't care if the powers-that-be are Dems or Repubs as long as they are middle-of-the-road. I am so sick of people who can't compromise and insist on the extreme end of things.

And I'm even tireder (ok, bad grammar) of being told that I'm evil because I lean toward liberal.

YOU may not be ranting, but I guess I just did. :D
 

I once, almost, joined the NRA. I share a lot of NRA's actual values; the preservation of habitats for game animals for example, and I have a country boys love for guns. It wasn't because they were so radical that I did not join. It was because I could not decide on which magazine to order. They had two to choose from at that time. One magazine was for hunters and the other was for gun nuts. In a strange way I qualify for both, I hunted all my life until the ultimate game and then I kind lost interest in killing things (except the damn squirrels in my back yard that dig up my flower seeds and chew holes in my house). But back to the subject, I like guns for guns sake. So I was thinking about taking the gun nut magazine.
Then my deep security backround kicked in. Forget the Federal gun registration bit, if I want to know who had guns, registered and unregisterd, legal and illegal, all I have to do is have the NRA subscription list to the NRA gun nut magazine. With that list alone I could collect the names addresses, age, e-mail, etc. of 50% of all the viable combat weapons in America, and by pressuring those subscribers I could get to at least 25% more of the real guns in America. Most Hunting guns are shit for combat, I could wait to get those.
At the time I thought I might be a little paranoid, after all, didn't the head dud(e) say something about .."prying from my cold dead hand.."? So I was sure that they would not give up their subscription list. Now I think that they might, or might not be able to resist it happening. Irony of ironies if the NRA was the primary assistant in taking most of the guns away from the "law abiding" elements of America. So I didn't join.
Welcome to the Fascistnization of our land.
 

Jodie, I agree. I saw a George Will column today where he repeated some sage remark that "moderation" is the balance to "hubris." Amen. I am praying for 12 U.S. Senators today.
 

Drlobojo, you and me think a lot alike, probably because of our country-boy upbringing. We inherited a natural leeriness of "Electric-Light Cities" and the goings-on therein. ... Myself, I keep one of each: a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. For old time's sake mainly.
 

I'm already making room in my attic to hide Jews, Muslims and liberals. Erudite Rednecks will be welcome, too, of course.
 

Thanks, docpants. Since I quit dippin' Cope, I don't make too much of a mess anymore.
 

On my way to work tonight, I saw a cop on the shoulder leaning out his car door with a radar gun. Is that the same thing? :-)
 

Well, no Teditor. Driving a car is a privilege, not a right, and doing so on a public street or highway involves the surrender of certain expectations of privacy. Speeders are in plain view. Next question. :-)
 

If I flipped the cop off as I passed, but he didn't see it, would I still get pulled over?