Only 66 of Our Senators Are Total Douche Bags
Flag Desecration Amendment Fails by ONE vote.
That’s right, ONE vote. 66 of our senators are pandering douchebag assholes, and the other 34 are, well…they are too. But just not this particular time.
What the fuck is up with Diane Feinstein? She cosponsored this fucking piece of shit. Californians - do not vote for her in November. Clearly this was a ploy to show how “patriotic” she is before the election this November, do not allow it to work. I don’t care who you vote for…vote for anyone else. As this issue shows, the democrats are spineless little twerps who aren’t useful in any way. We might as well vote for all republicans. At least they have to balls to really bring on the apocalypse without pretending that they’re not.
On the Senate floor, the 73-year-old Feinstein recalled how as a young girl she was inspired when she picked up the Feb. 24, 1945, edition of The Chronicle and saw photographer Joe Rosenthal’s famous picture of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
With a blow-up of the Rosenthal photo next to her, she described it as a wartime “bolt of electricity” that left her with an abiding feeling that the flag was more than symbolic piece of cloth.
Awww….gee..how heartwarming. I always get a nice warm feeling when I think of winning a war by nuking two cities full of innocent people! But not as warm of a feeling as those people probably felt, right before they were vaporized! HAHA! Seriously though, it’s such a heartwarming image it makes me think we ought to trample on some more of the freedoms that flag is supposed to represent. It makes sense, right?
I’ve got an idea for an amendment. It probably won’t gain any support, because it would be kind of abrasive….but I really think it’s time has come. So without further ado:
Amendment 28 : This document is not bullshit. It’s serious stuff. Read the fucking thing, and then pay attention to it. Do not ignore parts of it, while adding any bullshit you feel like into it. Do not attempt to write discrimination into it, or to inject contradictions into it. Don’t waste time and tax payer dollars even discussing dumbass ideas like that. In general, as the congress of the United States of America, you have a responsibility to not be douchebags. If you don’t think you can handle that, see Amendment 2. We put that one in there so that you can have guns. Get one, point it at your head, and pull the trigger. Deal with important issues. You wouldn’t have to pander to the lowest comment denominators if you actually fixed problems. Imagine being liked for something other than being a better liar than the other guy? Wouldn’t it feel nice? Give it a try. Do your fucking job and stop dicking everyone around, in a nutshell.
What do you think? I think it’s got a nice ring to it. Sure, it’s vulgar and offensive, but such are the times we live. If they don’t want it to be an amendment, I think it should be played over a loud speaker in both houses immediately following the Pledge of Allegience every morning. Because it really seems like they’ve forgot the very important lessons that my proposed amendment teaches.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
great ammendment! If I saw that on a ballot, I would definitely vote for it.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
wow. i’m ashamed that even my man obama voted for the criminalization of flag burning. what a crock of shit. but still, won’t criminalization fail because the courts will likely find that the law conflicts with the 1st ammendment and must be tossed out?
I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m still pretty fucking pissed about dumbass politicians trying to tear down everything the nation was founded on, be it the flag burning thing or the “traitors” over at the New York Times who had the “audacity” to publish a story after being asked not to by BushCo. and are catching flack from all sides, even though the banking transaction traces were common knowledge after being talked about by BUSH HIMSELF over the course of the past FIVE YEARS! As Glenn Greenwald wrote today, they didn’t so much run an expose as point out that there was no oversight of those doing the surveillance.
Blah! I need to enforce a break from news for a while or I may die of a heart attack before my 25th birthday.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
I’m not sure how it would work. If it really became an amendment, the courts would have to uphold it, because it would really be an actual constitutional law.
But that doesn’t change the fact it’s total bullshit.
July 8th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
I like the amendment. More to the point, I think it’s an important enough revision to the Constitution to necessitate amending it to the Constitution.
I really liked the line from the article you linked where someone said that the flag represents American freedom. If I don’t have the freedom to burn the flag as a political statement, I want to know what real freedom I have.