The Indigestible

Harrold Independent School District in (of course) Texas has OKed teach­ers and staff bring­ing firearms to school.

This fes­ter­ing stu­pid­ity begins and ends with David Thweatt (the district’s super­in­ten­dent), it seems, who offers up these state­ments as evi­dence of his own severe retardation:

He said the district’s lone cam­pus sits 500 feet from heav­ily traf­ficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target.

Right. Placement near a high­way — not, mind you, an actual inter­state — makes schools vul­ner­a­ble to attack. Somehow. Maybe by deranged long-​​haul pro­duce truckers?

The fact that it hasn’t hap­pened yet seems not to faze our man:

When the fed­eral gov­ern­ment started mak­ing schools gun-​​free zones, that’s when all of these shoot­ings started.

Which is actu­ally an out­right lie. Attacks on schools are con­sid­er­ably fewer now than they were in, say, the early 20^th cen­tury — before schools were no-​​gun zones. And is any­one stu­pid enough to gen­uinely believe that a stu­dent bentt on vio­lence won’t actu­ally end up using a staff member’s piece to make it happen?

And before you even try it: The US is not like Israel, so we don’t want to emu­late them in terms of arm­ing teach­ers; any other equally stu­pid “argu­ment” in favor of guns in school will be sum­mar­ily deleted from the comments.

Larry King, fif­teen, was shot quite dead at school last year by a class­mate who didn’t like to face the real­ity that King was gay.

Rather than put the blame where it belongs — on his mur­derer — King’s par­ents are suing his school because admin­is­tra­tors “per­mit­ted” him to show up in drag.

Of course, if the admin­is­tra­tors had not done so, they’d’ve been sued by the ACLU.

The fault for King’s death is imme­di­ately on the shoul­ders of his killer, Brandon McInerney. In a broader sense it’s on those who believe big­otry, homo­pho­bia and weasel phrases such as “hate the sin, love the sin­ner” are accept­able. Thus, in addi­tion to McInerney, I blame Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Jim Hartline and every other hate­ful, twisted wretch that gives courage to the troglodytes among us.

This might include King’s own par­ents, who very clearly didn’t under­stand their son. At all.

Unnamed air­lines, accord­ing to the VFW, are charg­ing troops extra fees for the bag­gage they check — as they’re going off to war.

This raises two questions:

1. What hap­pened to mil­i­tary trans­port? And
2. How many of these air­lines are chaired and owned by Republicans with “Support Our Troops” mag­nets on their SUVs?

You’d think there would be a lit­tle more patri­o­tism and class amongst our air car­ri­ers — but their anonymity in this case, cou­pled with the way Cheney et. al. have very care­fully kept aware­ness of our two-​​front war from the minds of most Americans, make it unsur­pris­ing that such thought­less behav­ior is going on.

Unsurprising, but still entirely disgusting.

Meanwhile a recent con­gres­sional report reveals that American cor­po­rate wel­fare is still going strong, even though we can’t afford national health insur­ance. Nearly two-​​thirds of US busi­nesses are not pay­ing income tax, and a lit­tle more than that per­cent­age in foreign-​​owned busi­nesses are also dodg­ing their fare share.

With the crush­ing war debts imposed upon our grand­chil­dren by the worst shit­bag admin­is­tra­tion in US his­tory, with infra­struc­ture col­laps­ing, with edu­ca­tion being tossed out the win­dow — still, we aren’t tax­ing the wealthy.

Perhaps the sec­ond amend­ment is a good thing after all.

The god­tards are fond of claim­ing that non­hetero­sex­u­als adopt­ing chil­dren is bad for the kids.

As bad as this, I wonder?

An evan­gel­i­cal preacher killed his wife sev­eral years ago and stuffed her body in a freezer after she caught him abus­ing their daugh­ter, accord­ing to police and court documents.

Anthony Hopkins mur­dered his wife in 2004 after she caught him fuck­ing their daugh­ter, who would have been around 15 at the time. He then forced his daugh­ter to help him hide her mother’s body in a freezer.

That’s pretty bad, but the cap­per is likely this, from a col­league who described Hopkins’s last ser­vice (the one after which he was arrested):

His mes­sage, she said, was about for­give­ness and not pass­ing judg­ment — and at one point, he turned to his seven chil­dren and asked them to for­give him his past, present and future.

Forgiveness. Not pass­ing judg­ment. Isn’t that con­ve­nient?

But when you think about it, that’s what’s wrong with a lot of the reli­giously addled — they have this belief that they can get away with any­thing, because in the end their god will for­give them. You might have seen the bumper sticker that reads, Christians aren’t per­fect, just for­given. This sums up the atti­tude beau­ti­fully. It doesn’t mat­ter what I might have done yes­ter­day, or what I might do tomor­row, because my phan­tom cloud-​​papa will for­give me for all of it in the end.

This abso­lu­tion of per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity is what allows mon­sters like Hopkins to do what they do, and not kill them­selves out of shame and self-​​disgust.

And yet, other evan­gel­i­cal retards like James Dobson con­tinue to insist that hand­ing a child over to an adop­tive queer is the very worst thing you can do. How much doc­u­men­tary evi­dence can he bring to sup­port that?