Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
Rep. Blake Farenthold’s (R-TX) interview with conservative broadcaster Newsmax veered from a discussion of military force against the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group to discussing sending actor Chuck Norris after them, Right Wing Watch reported.
“I’m no fan of President [Barack] Obama’s, but he was elected president — that makes him commander-in-chief, so we need to give him full authority to do what he does,” Farenthold told host Ed Berliner, before adding, “Quite frankly, Chuck Norris would be the one to send in, not President Obama.”
Look I am the first one to admit that in his day Chuck Norris was a great martial artist in the 1960's.
The 1960's!
However that was five decades ago. After that Chuck was a really bad actor, who relied on well trained stuntmen and camera angles to make him appear to be a bad ass.
Today Norris is an elderly Bible thumper, who believes that Christianity should be taught in public schools, and that nobody can tell he is wearing a toupee.
This is Chuck Norris today. He could not fight off an 80 year old grandmother, much less a terrorist organization who would dearly love to take him prisoner and execute him on camera for all of America to see.
My question is why does Blake Farenthold, who looks like the adult version of that kid who got stuck in the tube in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, hate Chuck Norris so much?
I mean the old guy is in his mid 70's now. Even stubbing his toe makes him pee a little, why would somebody want to send him to get his ass kicked, and then set on fire, in a foreign country just to embarrass the President?
Here are the ten reasons provided courtesy of AATTP:
No. 10: “You can always ignore my advice. The dinosaurs did.”
No. 9: “Because I’ll know if you don’t.”
No. 8: “You have time right now. I know, because I’m standing right behind you.”
No. 7: “It’s taken me a lifetime to earn your respect. You can earn mine by registering to vote.
No. 6: “Because I said so [pounding fists].”
No. 5: “Anyone can throw a punch. It takes a real man or woman to punch a voter registration card.”
No. 4: “Because the other guys don’t want you to. Well, I know who they are.”
No. 3: “The only thing stronger than these? [Holds up his fists] Your vote.”
No. 2: “I get asked for my autograph all the time. Now your government is asking for yours.”
No. 1: “With one hand I can crush coal into a diamond. [Makes crushing motion with one hand.] With yours you can protect your rights.”
aaaand…
No. 11: “Because Chuck Norris can have as many reasons as he wants.”
Chuck Norris and the NRA want gun owners to vote.
You have to know that during the clenched fists portion of this video that old Chuckie's aged knuckles were firing of like a 21 gun salute to irrelevance.
The man is 74 years old for fuck's sake.
He may have been a bad ass in his day, but there are ten year olds that could kick his ass and take his Social Security check these days.
As always after watching Norris act like the toughest guy in the nursing home, I will cleanse my palate by watching the far more talented, and bad ass, Bruce Lee kick his ass.
I have seen that over a hundred times now. Never gets old.
The NRA Freedom Action Foundation's Trigger the Vote program is a national non-partisan voter registration effort to ensure gun owners across the country are registered to vote.
Apparently Chuck's goal is to get a gun into every hand, a Bible into every classroom, and a teabagging lunatic into every political office.
Prick!
Here is video of Bruce Lee kicking Chuck's ass in the final fight of Return of the Dragon. (In the end Lee breaks his neck.)
It may seem childish, but it always makes me feel better.
Now you might consider Carroll O'Connor's delivery pretty humorous, and indeed it was written for laughs, however it is not so funny when you compare it to what LaPierre actually said.
Essentially the only real difference between what Archie Bunker said in a sitcom back in the 1970's and the NRA President's speech yesterday is the passage of time and the laugh track.
Also not very funny, but pretty damn ironic is that at the very same time that LaPierre was telling the television audience that "guns don't kill people," and "the only thing that stops a bad guy with gun is a good guy with a gun" there was a guy walking down the streets of Pennsylvania making a mockery of his argument:
According to local reports out of Blair County, at least four people were killed and five more were injured in a shooting spree near Altoona. The gunman is said to be among the dead, and at least two state troopers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
WPXI's Courtney Brennan says she was told by emergency officials that the shooting suspect "was 'mobile' at one point and went up and down a rural road and shot victims."
You know another thing that made a mockery of what LaPierre said, were the actual facts of one of the worst shootings in America's history.
LaPierre claimed that if there had been armed officers inside the Sandy Hook Elementary school, that Adam Lanza would never have dared to enter the premises and open fire.
Well tell that to the two officers who were present when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold started massacring their fellow students in Columbine High school. The two gunmen knew the officers were there, yet with superior firepower they simply outgunned them, and continued on their rampage unabated.
I am almost tempted to call the NRA, as it is today, a joke. Not a funny one, but a joke nonetheless,
John Bolton, George W. Bush's pugnacious Ambassador to the U.N.
Grover Norquist, anti-tax fetishist and the man currently holding the GOP hostage.
Chuck Norris, ex-martial arts superstar and current advocate for putting Bibles in school classrooms.
Oliver North, disgraced in the Iran-Contra affair during Ronald Reagan's second term.
Ted Nugent, old "poopy pants" himself.
Larry "wide stance" Craig
Wayne Anthony Ross, Sarah Palin's ex-attorney and the first person in Alaska history to be refused confirmation as Attorney General.
Rep. Don Young, Alaska's lone Congressman and an individual who once used the term "There will come a day when those who will bite will be killed too, and I'm very good at that!"
However like I said though these are clearly a bunch of clowns, they are NO laughing matter. For they have each done their part to cause great harm to our country and its' people.
And to find evidence of that harm you need to look no further than Newtown, Connecticut.
I kind of think this show looks like fun. I don't usually watch reality TV but I might tune into something like this. After all it DOES look entertaining.
However putting the Toad on there really detracts from the cool factor in my opinion. I mean we want to see tough men and women on the show, pushing themselves to their limits. Not ex-schoolyard bullies whose claim to fame is that they now carry their famous wife's purse for her while she is making one of her Obama bashing appearances somewhere.
I mean come on.
And NOW apparently somebody is trying to resurrect Todd's tarnished image by having Navy Seal sniper Chris Hayes say this: “Going through that knee-high mud will drain anyone except Todd Palin. He’s kind of like God walking on mud out there,” and “you don’t need Chuck Norris. Send in Todd Palin.”
Oh come on! Why do they insist on pimping the Palin clan as bigger and better than life all of the time?
Sarah did not show how pregnant she was due to her incredibly "tight abs." Bristol graduated from the high school she never attended with a 3.497 GPA. And now Todd is the toughest man this side of Chuck Norris? Or God?
And they wonder WHY we are constantly calling them out on their bullshit!
Look I have NOTHING but disdain for Chuck Norris these days, especially since he is insisting that public schools should reintroduce the Bible as a fucking textbook. However back in the day Chuck was the real deal. He was the Professional Middleweight Karate champion for six consecutive years, and retired with a record of 183 wins, 10 losses, and 2 matches that ended in a tie. That is certainly nothing to sneeze at.
So even if Norris is currently a Bible verse spouting has-been, at least at one time he had actually been somebody worth admiring. Toad is nothing like Norris, as evidenced by the fact that he had to bring his buddies with him to beat up the only black kid in at Wasilla high, and comparing him to Chuck Norris makes him look like an incredible asshole and a pathetic wannabe tough guy.
As for comparing him to God? Well in my opinion they are both works of fiction, so I really don't have much of an issue with that. I'm just saying.
I am sure that they will edit this thing as carefully as they can to make Todd look like a badass but those of us who live in Alaska know exactly what kind of pansy ass he really is, and no amount of quick edits and carefully positioned camera angles will convince us that he is anything but a two bit pimp and a back stabbing bully.
This is just another attempt by the Grizzled Mama to repackage her hillbilly clan as the great American frontier family through the use of reality TV shows. Well gee, it's certainly worked well for them so far (Right Bristol?), so hell why not?
