My limosine liberal sense was tingling...

When I read this bit about John Travolta flying his huge-ass private jet into Oshkosh and pimping the aviation industry.

I'll take off 0.5 hypocrisy points for promoting fuel-efficient planes at the EAA, but I still refuse to believe there's a crisis until the people telling me there's a crisis start acting like there's a crisis, instead of tooling around in a freaking 707 while demanding my freedom of movement be curtailed.

Well. This will clear out my Netflix queue.

He's got a Constitutional right to spew crap and I've got a Constitutional right to refuse to contribute to his care and feeding. I guess it works out.

Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a video saying John McCain is a war-profiteering clone of President George W. Bush?

I was unaware beer distributorships made money off of national defense... *blink*

I have the usual list of reasons I'm not looking forward to President McCain, but keeping Iraq out of the hands of Iran and Syria is not on it.

And this, this is just ignorant: "keeping our troops in harm's way in Iraq..." They're soldiers. Their job description is "going into harm's way." They know it when they sign up, and God bless 'em, I'm glad they do. But I've never figured out how keeping them fenced up where it's safe and refusing to let them do their job because they might get hurt isn't condescending bullshit.

Charlton Heston speech

Looks like everyone with Netflix has loaded up their queues with Charlton Heston movies...there's a wait on a lot of them.

The NRA website doesn't say when/where this speech was given, but it seems like a college graduation sometime before 2000.

I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 - long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist.

I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe.

I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite.

Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh.

From Time magazine to friends and colleagues, they're essentially saying, "Chuck, how dare you speak your mind. You are using language not authorized for public consumption!"

But I am not afraid. If Americans believed in political correctness, we'd still be King George's boys - subjects bound to the British crown.

Do read the whole thing; he tells an interesting anecdote about a speech at a Time-Warner shareholders meeting.

You first, Matt Damon!!

Celebrities were among the first to recognize that 9/11 represents our failure as human beings to learn to understand and love each other. So why have the media ignored all of the celebrities who have reached out to al-Qaeda members in Iraq and at Hollywood soirees to show the so-called terrorists that basically we're all alike, with just a few differences that should be celebrated under the principle of diversity? Why have the media denied us uplifting footage of celebrities and al-Qaeda members holding hands and singing "Give Peace a Chance"?

Sure, there'll be a few glares and rude stares aimed at the women on the red carpet with their hair and ankles showing, but it's just their culture, which I'm told is better than ours. And once their vests goes off, you'll forget your hurt feelings.

(Everytime I hear that song, I think of this Cox and Forkum cartoon.)

Ripped from the headlines

In the upcoming Law & Order episode, the governor will be a Republican and the prostitutes will be teenage boys. The defense will plead "Not Guilty By Reason of Mental Disease or Defect" regardless of who is on trial; the governor will be found guilty--despite the protests by NAMBLA--but a boy who kills him after being buggered will be found not guilty.

The "special L&O twist": the kids are pimped by a relative of Arthur Branch, played by Michael J. Fox. Otherwise the rubes in Cornville might miss the whole "conservatives are evil" schtick.

I'd go write scripts, but I'm allergic to California. *doink doink*