Sticks and Stones
So the Commonwealth of Virginia, home of Thomas Jefferson, can be declared officially brain dead.
Protestors arrived at the State Capitol with American flags on little wooden sticks – the kind handed out at parades or used for centerpieces. You know, the deadly weapon kind.
Oddly, a group at the Capitol building who were there to support gun violence prevention, were told that they had to remove the little dowel sticks from their flags while this dude was ushered in.
Which, admittedly, is not a stick.
Thanks to everyone for the heads up.
Young college/university students undecided on a major, psychiatry should be considered. You will make a ton of money and have a never ending supply of patients. Start with Louie.
1Madness is the first thing that comes to mind. Tampons not allowed in the Texas capitol but guns are. Madness. I’ve seen some of my formerly apolitical relatives overtaken by this madness, whipped into a state of paranoia by right wing extremist media and a fear of losing the pitiful income they have.
2My apologies for Virginia. It is ranked so low among all 50 states that it would take a lot more space and time than available here to enumerate them all, and whats more, with my penchant for organization, I would try to alphabetize them. Now we have the ex-guv and his missus indicted for taking money on a quid pro quo basis from a millionaire manufacturer of a dietary “supplement” which isn’t worth the powder it would take to blow it up. And it is colder here than a well-digger’s ankle at the bottom of a well. Sigh. Think thoughts of warmth and sanity . . . O, Canada!
3We should be more afraid of a flag on a stick than a rifle with telescopic sight? Things sure have gone to hell in a handbasket. President Obama needs to use executive privilege here to save our sticks.
4Coast to coast crazy, with Darrell Issa in CA to Paul LePage in ME. Is there one state in the union without its own load of gohmert?
Even normally sane Toronto has its Rob Ford.
5Can’t some state capitol employee tell a gun from a dowel?
6In the future I imagine we will have to use plastic flatware because we might be a terrorist and use the real thing on unsuspecting wingnuts. A sad time for our country.
7When dowels are outlawed, only outlaws will have dowels.
8Profound statements here.
9Those little American flags with dowels attached are given out to those participating in citizenship ceremonies throughout the country. I really didn’t know they were a threat. You learn something everyday.
10Dowels are not mentioned in the Second Amendment. Now, maybe if they were part of an organized dowel militia….
11I’ve heard that those really high heels can be effective weapons too. How about ORDER OF DOWELS AND REALLY HIGH HEELS and how they are to be used most effectively?
12Marge, don’t give them ideas. They’ll ban high heels next. Except on cowboy boots, of course, especially when worn by someone who’s never been within miles of a horse.
13maggie @3
“Think thoughts of warmth and sanity . . . O, Canada!”
Um. Thoughts of warmth. Canada. Which one of these things does not go with the other?
Think thoughts of, say, the Sahara.
14The Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms – it doesn’t specify firearms. Either pointy sticks are weapons, and thus “arms” protected by the Second Amendment – or they aren’t weapons, in which case they should not be banned.
Protect your right to wear short-sleeved and/or sleeveless garments!
15With all this lunacy aboot the 2nd Amendment, I’m starting to wonder if the founders didnt intend to arm bears. I”m just sick of it and I enjoy shooting paper targets and clay pigeons.
16Arm the Bears! Probably the only way that team would win the Super Bowl. Who am I kidding, maybe at least a winning season? Oh, not those Bears, the other bears who would probably be far more responsible than the average gun nut gohmert.
Anyway, those manly man Republicans sure act like a bunch of girly girls, when confronted by a real woman. If a space invader landed, could somewhat understand that probe thing they have proposed in so many states. But my wife, my sisters, my mother, and the wonderful ladies here at JJ’s? Silly Gohmerts are living the Coyote Ugly chewing off their own paws, and mine, with their invasion into a woman’s private health issues.
Go Wendy, Go Leticia and scare those old boys, until hopefully they shut up.
Cue the graphics please: Loopy Louie having some sense pounded into his head with a 4″ stiletto heel.
17Well if dowels are a weapon – holy moly Home Depot should be rename Weapons depot – they have all sorts of dowels. Then again if you run with a dowel you could take an eye out!!!
18The guys and gals who show up demanding that open carry be the law of the land are nothing less than terrorists themselves as far as I am concerned. All they want to do is scare those who don’t believe that it shouldn’t be that way. I was in my late forties before I ever met a person who was so scared of the world around him that he insisted on carrying a pistol openly everywhere he went.
19Home Depot! How about Louis Vuitton? Those goofy TX gohmerts removed tampons from ladies handbags. As any guy who has been asked to briefly hold his wife’s handbag can tell you, removing the cotton will reduce the lethal effect of said handbag to somewhat more than can be carried by a full sized pick-up truck. Faced with an average guy wielding a 2×4 or a woman with a purse, if the length of the board and the straps are equal, I’ll choose the 2×4 to the head.
Or, as in this VA case, a dowel vs the stock of an assault (hopefully unloaded) rifle? The absurdity astounds me, as to which is more dangerous.
It’s not the weapons with these 2A gohmerts that scare them. It’s strong wonderful women that terrify them. Intelligent women literally are the Al Qaeda of their delusional fear.
20That’s not actually a real firearm, there’s the tell tale orange bit at the end that signifies it’s a toy, plus the caption on the photo that says imitation. That’s not to say that the ban on flag sticks isn’t stupid – it is. As was the removal of various inanimate objects from women entering the Texas Capitol building
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