Gun Goons Gone Wild! . . . Sigh . . . . . .

Please make them stop.  FOR THE LOVE OF HUMANITY!!!  Somebody please put an end to this insane idiocy:

Cindy Yorgason was in line at the J.C. Penney in Riverdale on Wednesday when she looked up and saw a shopper with "a large gun."

Yorgason said the rifle was slung across the back of the man in front of her. When she looked closer, she saw that he also had extra ammunition clips and a sidearm in a holster on his right hip.

"It wasn’t small," Yorgason said of the pistol.

Amid a "lot of raised eyebrows" Yorgason quickly snapped a pair of photos, which she said have been going viral on Facebook ever since. She also said the first store clerk whom the man approached refused to serve him, and everyone in the vicinity "wanted to get away."

On Thursday, 22-year-old Joseph Kelley identified himself as the man in Yorgason’s pictures. Kelley described himself as a firm believer in Second Amendment rights and said he decided to bring the guns to the store to demonstrate that they are not dangerous in the hands of law-abiding citizens.

...Kelley added that he carries weapons to protect children and other people from "criminals, cartels, drug lords" and other "evil men."

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55649700-78/yorgason-carry-kelley-store.html.csp


The Gadfly can fucking damn well guarantee that a crushing majority of Americans do not favor the gun goon guy's vision of an America where a trip to the local shopping mall entails slinging high powered weaponry over one's shoulder and strapping on ammunition packs.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?  No - seriously - what the fuck kind of bad wiring is in these people's brains??

And the Gadfly just had to laugh uproariously at the gun goon guy's justification for his little stunt claiming that he was just out to protect children and other people from "criminals, cartels, drug lords" and other "evil men."

Hmmm . . . The Gadfly will admit that he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he is quite certain that the lingerie section at JC Penney is the last place any "criminals, cartels, drug lords" and other "evil men" would be found plying their dastardly trade.

The Gadfly believes that if this moron and his pals are so hopped up to fight "criminals, cartels, drug lords" and other "evil men," then draft their redneck asses in to the DEA or ATF and send them down to Mexico where the real action is at.  Lord knows we could use a few Rambos down there right now.

But the Gadfly knows that will not happen.  The truth of the matter is that these gun goon toads talk a big game, but in reality, for most of them, their gun is nothing more than an extension of their very small dicks and  walking around in public with an assault rifle slung over their shoulders nurtures their Napoleonic complex and strokes their self esteem.  It's all they have.  Without their guns to demonstrate their manhood, they are just lost, fearful little piss-ant boys -- afraid to confront and deal with the changing world around them and so they take solace in the cold steel of their death dealing devices and the fear that those devices instill in their fellow human beings.

What a sad, sad, sad state of affairs we have come to if these people are allowed to continue with this kind of childish, and obviously dangerous behavior.


----TFG

The Lunatics Are Attempting to Take Over The Asylum

What does one do when a sizable portion of your fellow citizenry has simply gone off the rails on the Crazy Train??

Case in point:

The Sandy Hook "Truthers" are wreaking havoc in Newtown, Conn. and across the United States, touting an elaborate conspiracy theory that promotes the Dec. 14, 2012 massacre as a government-sponsored hoax to influence firearm legislation.

In a YouTube video called "The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed." which has been viewed 8.7 million times at the time of this posting, a user called "TheOutsideTheTV" lays out 30 minutes worth of evidence to support the ghastly claims of "deception surrounding the Sandy Hook shooting," using raw video footage, news broadcast footage, and a hefty dose of skepticism.

Echoing the cries of the "9/11 was an inside job" proclaimers, the Sandy Hook "Truthers" harp on details they say make it impossible for the massacre to have happened the way it was reported to have happened.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/01/sandy-hook-hoax-newtown-truthers-video-goes-viral.html


The Gadfly refuses to post the actual video but did watch it in it's entirety.

The Gadfly made the determination that this video was pure, amateurish horseshit at around the 3:30 mark when purported video of a man (a 2nd or 3rd shooter?) chased into the woods and apprehended by police is narrated by some goofball from InfoWars.com.

For those of you unfamiliar with InfoWars.com, maybe you know it's leader - a guy named Alex Jones.  He's a longtime conspiracy nut with a radio show and a website who has been making outrageous claims, never proven and often easily disproved, about everything from Lincoln's assassination to the Newtown, CT mass shooting.  He's a fucking lying fraud and a loon and a fear mongering jackass and anyone who puts an ounce of credulity into his ravings should consider seeking mental health help themselves.

Here's a bit of info on Alex Jones and InfoWars:

http://adventofdeception.com/deception-alex-jones/


And please do take a few minutes out of your busy day to watch these videos of Alex Jones plying his trade on the airwaves.  After watching them, come back here and tell The Gadfly that the guy isn't either certifiably insane or just a big phony loudmouth who has evidently watched way too many WWF post match wrestling interviews:

http://usahitman.com/alex-jones-fraud/


Unfortunately, and to the detriment of the much needed adult discussion on the crisis of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in our society, Alex Jones and his ilk have a very big following of zombie eyed numbskulls across this country.  It is a sad commentary on the state of this country's media complex that a ratfucking liar and fraud like Alex Jones is allowed to spew his garbage on national media outlets and nobody has the fucking courage to call him out on his demonstrable deception and lies.  It is sad and pathetic.

This is the level of stupidity that our society has lowered itself to.  It really does remind The Gadfly of a movie called 'Idiocracy' that came out a few years ago which touched on this very same subject - the dumbing down of America via the programming of our corporate media:





Which brings The Gadfly full circle to the opening question of this post - what does one do when a sizable portion of your fellow citizenry has simply gone off the rails on the Crazy Train??

Honestly - The Gadfly does not have an answer.   You can't teach common sense.  People either have it or they don't.  For those that do have it, it's pretty frightening to watch as more and more of our fellow citizens demonstrate their utter lack of such sense and even more so as it appears that they are dominating the national dialogue.

Something has to change dramatically and soon.  Let's just hope that we can figure it out before the idiots gain power over everything.


----TFG

Gun Goons Gone Goofy! . . .

"Here's something people need to understand about gun nuts: They really think the world revolves around them. And they simply do not care that the loving object of their fetish is certain to inspire fear and terror, or at the very least profound concern, in every person they encounter -- and quite reasonably so."

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/two-portland-gun-nuts-brandish-assau


Shazam!!  And with that one, uncomplicated, crystal clear observation, C&L's Dave Neiwert hits the nail on the proverbial fucking head as to what it is that makes the gun goon guys tick.

The Gadfly himself has encountered a few of these loony toons gun goon guys (see picture above for an example/portrayal) during his lifetime and quite honestly, whenever he thinks of them, he actually experiences pangs of fear for anyone who spends any extended amount of time (family & friends for instance) within the reality denying bubble of their Dirty Harry worldview existence.

It's these guys and not the pheasant and deer hunters or the sport shooters that the Gadfly feels shouldn't be allowed within a country-fucking-mile of a firearm, much less one that has the capability to mow down 30 toddlers in the amount of time it takes to click a mouse button a couple of dozen times.

And this is where the conversation on gun control in America should begin.  As retired General Stanley McChrystal recently stated:

"I spent a career carrying typically either a M16, and later a M4 carbine," he said. "And a M4 carbine fires a .223 caliber round, which is 5.56 millimeters, at about 3,000 feet per second. When it hits a human body, the effects are devastating. It's designed to do that. That's what our soldiers ought to carry."

"I personally don't think there's any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America. I believe that we've got to take a serious look --  I understand everybody's desire to have whatever they want -- but we have to protect our children and our police and we have to protect our population. And I think we have to take a very mature look at that."

The Gadfly highlighted the word "mature" in that statement for a very good reason.

The vast majority of the people on the gun goon guy side of the debate, and particularly the most vocal ones, are quite simply put - the living antithesis of the word "mature."

Would you care to have The Gadfly provide proof of that statement?

Very well.  Here you go:

Two men carrying assault rifles on their backs said they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right, but police said they scared plenty of people.

Calls started coming in to 911 dispatchers shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday. Callers said two men with guns strapped to their backs were walking through the area of Southeast Seventh Avenue and Spokane Street in Portland's Sellwood neighborhood.

Officers arrived in the area and contacted both 22-year-old men. They were carrying rifles openly on their backs and were valid concealed handgun license holders in Oregon.

The men told officers they were hoping to educate the public about gun rights.

Officers explained that they were likely to continue generating 911 calls from alarmed people in the area, which would require a police response. Officers reported neither man seemed interested in those concerns.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/two-portland-gun-nuts-brandish-assau


So these two childish "men" when informed by police that their actions were frightening their fellow citizens and were likely to result in additional unnecessary 911 calls - what was the response of these mindless little shit heels?   A mere, smug shrug of the shoulders.

The Gadfly almost wishes that that story had ended with the additional news that an armed bystander had mistaken the two gun goon guys for potential mass shooters, whipped out his own 9mm and plugged some lead in both their dumb asses as a result.  It would have been Karmic glory in all of it's mesmerizing beauty.

And with that - The Gadfly rests his case in the matter of 'Are Gun Goon Guys Immature By Nature'?

To make a long rant short --- it is way past time for Americans to start having a serious conversation about these mass shootings and the ease of availability of these weapons of mass destruction to the general populace.  And let us ensure that only serious, thoughtful, wise and caring adults are allowed at that debate table when (and if - just being realistic) that time comes.


----TFG

Good to be Home . . . I think . . . ?

The Gadfly has returned from his New Year's sojourn and declares himself fit for battle.

In the coming days, The Gadfly will have a few things and more to say about gun nuts and the Tea Party loons (not that the two groups are indistinguishable from each other mind you).

Stay tuned!


----TFG

Of Holidays and Hope ...

The Gadfly sends Christmas/Holiday greetings and well wishes to all.

The Gadfly will be traveling through the New Year, so no posting until his return.

Thank you readers for visiting this shittly little blog and taking the time to listen to an old soul rant about things which stir his passion --- and The Gadfly wishes you all the best in the coming year and hopes to be back at the keyboard to continue fighting the good fight upon his return.

Cheerio!!


----TFG

Fuck The Atom Smasher. No Force of Nature is More Explosive Than Reality Colliding With Right Wing Group Think . . .

While the NRA's Wayne LaPierre linguistic upchuck from earlier today was enough buffoonery to cause any sane person's eyeballs to spontaneously spurt blood, believe it or not it pales in horrifying comparison to the musings of a Libertarian pundit (if by pundit you mean a flesh decayed Zombie that can grunt sounds which somewhat resemble actual human words) who decided the world could use some sound Libertarian guidance on how to deal with the Newtown, CT child massacre.
 
Megan McArdle (said Zombie) a couple of days ago wrote an essay in The Daily Beast with a uniquely novel approach as to how to deal with future armed and armored madmen with WMD's who decide to play Rambo using real live kindergartners as their training exercise pop-up targets.

Brace yourself, because what you are about to read are words that instantly qualify as The Stupidest Fucking Crap Ever Uttered In The Annals of Human Linguistic History.

Imagine this was said about the Newtown massacre and how to deal with the next one:

"I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.  Would it work?  Would people do it?  I have no idea; all I can say is that both these things would be more effective than banning rifles with pistol grips."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/18/newsweeks-megan-mcardle-calls-for-children-to-b/191889


The Gadfly's initial response (after allowing the steaming hot coffee to finish draining from inside his now seared nostrils) was this:

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Yes dear Megan -- let us "drill" train our toddlers, who when confronted with a demented, AK-47/100 shot magazine sporting psycho spraying bullets to and fro, to bum rush the kook in an attempt to take him down - with the noble goal of preventing additional carnage.

The Gadfly will repeat this since any rational human being, after reading such blithering idiocy, may very possibly be motivated to put their brains in to a temporary, self-induced coma.

Megan McArdle, Libertarian Pundit extraordinaire, actually believes that one of the best ideas for preventing future mass shootings in schools is to train the little tykes to group together, and like a good old fashioned rugby scrum, run directly at the bullet spraying loon, knock him to the ground and thus upsetting his slaughter-hungering equilibrium, which in wingnut theory, will result in a few less rugrat corpses and blood to be mopped up after afterward.

The reasonably functioning human mind and the compassionate human soul stagger at the cold-blooded, sociopathic thought process that is belched forth from these monstrous people.  It makes one wonder whether this country is deserving of the gift of democracy, considering how often we shit upon it in the name of some maniacal interpretation of a document written over 200 years ago when mankind could not foresee the advancements in genocidal weaponry designed to butcher human beings on a mass scale.

To close, all that The Gadfly has to say to the Megan McArdle's of the world is - fuck you.  Fuck you and every single soulless sonofabitch who thinks like you.  And The Gadfly sincerely hopes, since you are convinced that nothing can be done to prevent another Newtown tragedy,  that the next schoolroom massacre doesn't find a loved one of your own as one of the bloodied, lifeless cadavers being carted away in a zippered, plastic bag for no goddamn good reason at all.


----TFG

It isn't Doomsday in America today, but thanks to the NRA, it most certainly is Dumbsday . . .

OK - so The Gadfly watched the NRA's leader (and half human/half lizard) Wayne LaPierre give his nationally televised "press conference" this morning in response to the Newtown elementary school massacre:

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/21/1371711/nra-blames-everything-except-guns-outdated-video-games-hurricanes-and-corporate-media-led-to-newtown/


So - in the proverbial nutshell - Mr. LaPierre's argument can basically be summarized as such:

> If only we had More Guns.  Many, many more guns.

> Arm the teachers - cross train them as S.W.A.T Commandos.

> Hi-tech security and armed guards and/or Police in all schools (what about massacres in movie theaters, malls and churches Wayne? Armed guards & cops there too?).

> Ban shoot-em up video games.

> Too much gun violence (no I'm not making this up) in movies and on tv.

> Ban music videos that show America's youth disrespecting authority.

And after listening to the words (if by words you mean vomit retched forth in human speech form) of Mr. LaPierre's ludicrous screed, this half human/half lizard man curtly turned away and slouched off stage like the naked coward that he is, ignoring pleas from reporters for follow up questions.  It was classic NRA flim-flammery and gutlessness.  Advertising LaPierre's appearance as a "press conference" and then running away from any tough questions which might call in to question any amount of accountability that the NRA and Mr. LaPierre might have in America's epidemic of mass killing events.  This farcical spectacle, quite frankly, was nothing more than a hastily produced NRA infomercial and quite a shallow and amateurish one at that.

After watching such stunningly unfeeling dirge, The Gadfly wistfully wishes, if solely for a moment, that he were a faithful believer in the Heaven/Hell stratagem - purposefully so that he could take some pietous comfort in knowing with every fiber of his being that there are very special and insanely broiling accomodations awaiting Wayne LaPierre and his gun goon brigades in the ungodly depths of Hell upon their Earthly demise.


----TFG

Sigh . . . The End of The World As We Know It . . . [ again??? ]

BENJY SARLIN:  DECEMBER 17, 2012, 3:33 PM

Like many traumatic national events, the Newtown shooting has already spawned its share of wild conspiracy theories that draw in everything from British finance to the Hunger Games.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/newtown-libor-hunger-games-theories.php



Yep - The Gadfly has already received three chain e-mails in the past couple of days breathlessly telling him that the Aurora and Newtown mass shootings are calculated, evil, 'Manchurian Candidate' type plots that have been engineered by Obama and the U.N. to provide justification for confiscating all guns in America and handing over America's entire national security apparatus to the U.N. with the end goal of a one world government with Obama as Supreme Chancellor Octavius Barry Palpatine or something thereof.

My god these fucking people are so sickeningly ignorant and laughably paranoid that it just makes The Gadfly dizzy and nauseous.  Oh - and btw - you can thank Rupert "Asshole of The Millenium" Murdoch and Fox "News" for employing people like Glenn Beck, Dick Morris, Eric Bolling and Sean Hanniturd for helping to fuel the spread of this zombie apocalypse idiocy and pants-pissing schizophrenia with their constant fear-mongering styled "what if?" type of ranting and raving on the public airwaves.

The Gadfly swears to The Flying Spaghetti Monster that if a Toyota Prius sized asteroid were to fall from the sky tomorrow and hit smack dab on top of Fox' NYC HQ, vaporizing the whole place and every employee in it, yet leave every other building and human around it untouched, The Gadfly would fall to his knees, and with arms outstretched and eyes gazing toward the heavens, become an instant believer in miracles - the kind of miracles that could only be delivered by a loving, merciful, mindful and justice appreciating god.


----TFG

Maggot Mockery on Standby - - Please Stay Tuned....

The Gadfly had a head full of derisive commentary re: the shit maggot who's talking in this video:




However,  The Gadfly was subsequently distracted by the horror soaked news of some gun goon slaughtering 27 people, including 20 kindergartners in a Connecticut elementary school today, so  I am simply going to have set my filet knife aside for the that was meant to make Grover Norquist in to Wingnut Sushi for the moment and deal with it another day.


----TFG

The Motor City Motor-Mouth Madman Opens His Demented Pie Hole Once Again . . .

Unka' Ted is proposing revoking the right to vote for any American who is receiving any form of public assistance as well as eliminating Medicare and Social Security.

Ted Nugent called for the suspension of the right to vote for "any American who is on welfare" as part of his proposal to reduce federal budget deficits outlined in his latest Washington Times column.

The National Rifle Association board member also called for "slaughtering the three sacred entitlement cows" of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and called for tax increases on "the nearly 50 percent of Americans who pay zero federal income taxes." Nugent wrote that these policies should be instituted "before taxes are raised on the producers, which will further choke the economy."

Nugent frequently attacks Americans who receive public assistance, whom he has termed "gluttonous, soulless pigs."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/04/ted-nugents-budget-deal-suspend-vote-for-welfar/191666


It is quite understandable why this creep is such a darling of the Tea Party.  A statutory rapist, Vietnam war dodging coward, and a serial illegal "hunter."  Yep - that most certainly makes him the perfect poster boy for the sociopath Teabaggers alright.

But hey wait just a moment!  The Gadfly just recalled something.  Didn't ol' Ted, last April 15th at an NRA gun goon rally, state that if Obama was reelected that he himself "will either be dead or in jail by this time next year?"

He sure as hell did:

"If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," Nugent said, according to a video posted on YouTube by the NRA. "If you can't go home and get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil America hated administration, I don't even know what you're made out of."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/17/nugent-threatens-death-if-obama-wins-in-november/


All The Gadfly has to say is that for the first time in his curmudgeonly lifetime, he is joyously looking for to the coming year's tax filing deadline day.

One can only hope that the cameras are rolling when Unka' Ted is either frog-marched off to the hoosegow (the likelier of the two boasts) or driving one of his smoke belching SUV's off a cliff straight down into a mile deep canyon (ala Thelma & Louise).

But the reality of the situation is - ol' Ted really is, not at all unlike his AM radio soul mate Rush Limbaugh, just a loud-mouth, ignorant, lying, racist, immoral coward who hides behind his public persona and his wealth when attacking those he disagrees with.  Ted Nugent is quite simply the worst of the worst of humanity, not to mention, lamentably,  a downright shitty American citizen.


----TFG