"Out there" is Afghanistan. Or Iraq. Or anywhere there are American bases....
Whether or not those "people out there" are plotting to kill me is debatable. I'm not at hand and available for the kill.
I just reckon that those "people out there" would be delighted to kill me if I were invading their turf -- if I were at hand and available for the kill.
But, I have absolutely no desire to hang out on their turf unless they invite me -- and they'd have to provide the transportation too which I don't reckon they can afford.
"Sides that, there's a much more immediate gender war right here and now which more concerns me.
Happens I ran across a link in DailyKos to Frank Rich's latest column which led link by link to something called
The American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/
whose logo features good ol' Uncle Sam in the classic thinker pose.
I had a quick look at the table of contents of "The American Thinker) and it seemed to only be a ceaseless parroting of the same sentiments:
End Public Sector Unions...Period - C. Edmund Wright
Government Worker Unions: The Long Good-bye - Steve McCann
The Battle of Wisconsin - Jim Yardley
As well as a blog:
Dedicated teachers and union teachers
February 20, 2011
A little southeast of the disgraceful union teachers defrauding their employers in Madison with is an example of dedicated teachers and students beating the odds.
Whoah! That's a whole damn lot of repetitious thinking, if ya know what I mean.
It sounds dang much like one nasty, plotting, ruthlessly Russell Kirkean thinker is telling a bunch of other so-called "thinkers" what to think.
And, since I do my own thinking, thank you very much, despite all the dangers involved, I don't think that I have to worry too much about those "people out there plotting to kill" me. All I have to do is respect their turf. I don't intrude on grizzly bear turf. I try not to intrude on cougar turf, although those fellows are making a desperate stab at recapturing their old turf and I happen to live on a part of it.
Sorry guys. It's your bad luck to not have the numbers and the weaponry. And, don't worry, we'll probably kill off our own species through warfare and the other crap we as a species do and you can have your own turf back, if we don't totally wreck it for you.
But, this business of those "people out there" has to do with our damned American militaristic unthinking thing:
February 20, 2011
War hero heckled and jeered at Obama's alma mater
Phil Boehmke
Three years ago this month, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Anthony Maschek was shot eleven times during a firefight in northern Iraq. Amazingly Sgt. Maschek survived his wounds and after two years of rehabilitation and recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., the decorated war hero enrolled at Columbia University. ... during a town-hall meeting at Barack Obama’s alma mater which was held to discuss the return of ROTC to the campus .... the assembled students gave the hero a disrespectful reception which included shouts of “racist!” and other taunts in addition to a wave of boos, hissing and laughter during his speech....
http://www.americanthinker.com/...
Which is where I found the title for this here piece:
“It doesn’t matter how you feel about the war. It doesn’t matter how you feel about fighting,” said Maschek. “There are bad people out there plotting to kill you.”
The non-thinking blog closes with all the proper non-thinking militaristic scare them out of their pants rant:
If only these youngsters had an appreciation for the historic role of our military in obtaining, securing and maintaining the very freedoms which they now enjoy they could appreciate the sacrifices of their fellow Americans like Sgt. Anthony Maschek and treat them accordingly.
Um, if we still had the draft ... and those there "sissified intellectual elites" (according to certified, bonded conservative militaristic thinking) were drafted and got shot and killed a few times we'd figure out real quick that those wars are really and truly stupid, we'd be out of Afghanistan and Iraq quicker than a New York minute.
But, to arrive at that there point of view, you gotta do a lot of thinking -- and I don't think the folks at "The American Thinker" are up to it.
And, happens that there are people right here and at hand who are truly plotting to kill me 'cuz I'm a woman. These people right at hand are Republicans who want to defund Planned Parenthood and totally prohibit a woman's access to safe, available and legal abortions.
Gather your wicked coathangers, ladies, and take up your posts in filthy toilet stalls. You've got a death wish hanging over you and it's deadly serious and those Republican terrorists right here and now want to see a trail of blood on that fetid restroom floor.