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Ted Nugent vs Barack Obama
(Theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is playing )
It’s High Noon near the OK Corral in Washington, DC. The NRA convention is being held at the meeting room of the Long Branch Saloon just down the street. The ornery varmint Ted Nugent steps up to the microphone.
He begins by talking about gun control, then the First and the Second Amendment. This gunslinger speaks for a few minutes and then moseys on in to politics. The more he says, the angrier he gets. He is a far right Republican, you know.
Then it happens, Gunslinger Nugent draws his gun, and a shot rings out of his mouth…..”Obama and his colleagues need to be shot like coyotes. We need to ride into that battlefield, and chop their heads off in November. If Barack Obama is elected, I’ll either be dead or in jail this time next year”.
As John Wayne would have said, “them’s some pretty mean words there, Pilgrim”.
A silence falls over the crowd. It got so quiet, that you could have heard a feather fall out of Ms. Kitty’s bola and hit the wooden floor of the Long Branch. “Did he say what I think he said”? “Is he crazy”? “What was he thinking”? “OMG, did Ted Nugent just threaten the life of the Sheriff”?
Well……No……Not Really.
The First Amendment gives us the right to Free Speech. Although, it is against the law to threaten the life of a government official, Ted fell short of that. Some people could consider the remark a threat, but he actually was exercising his Constitutional right to Free Speech. Since Ted’s remarks were not direct threats, he wasn’t nabbed and put in the Dodge City jail.
But, the arrogant Sheriff Obama wasn’t taking any chances. He rounds up a posse (the Secret Service) to investigate, interrogate, and harass the ol’ gunslinger. Anybody with a grain of sense should know that Ted Nugent for the past forty years has been shooting his mouth off. The only person that he is a threat to, is himself.
The posse tracks him down and hauls him in for questioning. After a grueling forty minutes of interrogation (forty minutes? Apparently the posse didn’t think he did anything wrong either) the only thing he was charged with is an illegal killing of a black bear on his outdoor hunting show.
Well, so much for a shootout at the OK Corral. I’d say Ted Nugent won, and Sheriff Obama isn’t smart enough to see it.
Wait. Teds not done yet. On a CBS interview a few days later he states this: “I feel sorry for liberals who can be that brain-dead to take a clear statement of fear on my part and turn it into a threat on somebody else. I don’t think their [Secret Service] concern was that I threatened someone, I think their concern is that someone claimed I threatened someone. In fact, I got to tell you, and I don’t mean to put any professionals on the spot, but — and I don’t have the greatest hearing in the world — but I thought I heard something to the point of, ‘I didn’t think so.’”
The battle lines are drawn. We will have to wait and see who wins the shootout. My monies on Ted.
Til we meet again (Happy Trails)
FB 05/05/12
Un-politically Correct – Frederick County, Maryland
Finally. It’s about time that a legislative body removed their political head out of their arse, and made English the official language of the county. The Frederick County Commission passed the new ordinance by a vote of 4 to 1 on February 21, 2012.
Commissioner Young made the motion, whereupon Commissioner Smith seconded. Vote was taken shortly after, and the lone dissenting vote was made by Commissioner David P. Gray. I’m certain that Mr. Gray has, what he thinks, are valid reasons for voting this way. For the life of me, I can’t imagine why. If you would like to ask Mr. Gray why he voted in such an un-American way, he can be reached at dgray@FrederickCountyMD.gov. I did. And if I receive an answer, I will publish his remarks here.
The official wording of the ordinance follows: “The use of a common language removes barriers of misunderstanding and helps to unify the people of Frederick County, the state and the United States, and helps to enable the full economic and civic participation of all its citizens, regardless of national origin, creed, race or other characteristics, and thus a compelling governmental interest exists in promoting, preserving and strengthening the use of the English language.”
The text is a little wordy, and leaves some room for interpretation, but it’s now THE LAW. Official county documents and business will be written and conducted in English only.
A huge “Thank you” goes out to President Blaine Young, Vice President Paul Smith, and Commissioners Billy Shreve and Kirby Delauter for a job “Well Done”. They can stand straight and hold their heads high, for the passage of a new forward thinking law, that can only serve to benefit all the residents of the county. Though the law may be controversial, and quite possibly risky to their future political endeavors, these 4 men stepped up to the plate anyway, and hit a home run. Kudos.
It’s my understanding that the Anne Arundel County Commissioners are looking at passing a similar law. If the State of Maryland would step forward and pass the same type of legislation, they could join the 28 other patriotic, red-blooded, flag-waving States that have previously passed a law stating that English is the official language of their proud republics. Those States are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.
The United States government has had similar bills proposed, in the House and Senate, over the last few years, and has been defeated each time. Shame on them. You may be interested to know that some of the “nay” voters were: Representatives Pelosi, Sarbanes, Hoyer, Salazar, Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, and Senators Boxer, Dodd, Feinstein, Mikulski, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. In their defense, the article for establishing English as the official language of the United States was tagged onto several other bills. Nevertheless, separate bills could have been proposed by any one of these high ranking, elected members of Congress………but………they weren’t.
The English language should be, and must be, the official language of the entire country. It may not be the politically correct way, but it is the AMERICAN WAY!!
FB 02/23/2012
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