Smite My Ride

So close to shooting himself in the foot. Of course if he’d manage to shoot himself in the ass it would have qualified as a self-inflicted lobotomy.

erwin tennessee is in unicoi county where they used to make lots of moonshine, today grow the best pot in the world, have klan rallies, and do absolutely nothing else. at one klan rally a few years ago, a hood wearer got so white powered up that he fired a round from his pistol straight up in the air in celebration. the round of course eventually fell victim to gravity, raced back to earth and killed the klansman standing next to the erstwhile firearm enthusiast. i wasn’t there to witness it, but in the summer of 1992 i was leaving the bank i worked at in sullivan county and saw a black tennessee state trooper who had just pulled over a school bus full of robed klansmen some wearing their hoods. it was one of the funniest things i had ever seen then or since.

@jwmcsame: If there was a photo of that, nobody would believe it.

ADD: First thing I’d do is look for Mel Brooks directing the scene.

Here’s something fun. The Hunky Jesus Contest.

@nojo: If not a scene from Blazing Saddles 2, what jwmcsame describes is a metaphor for the teabagger/birthers and a mixed race President.

@SanFranLefty: no doubt. how come no black people have complained about obama being half white when he acts like a republican’t on too many issues? don’t you think the black congressional caucus should send out emails of a shirtless obama standing next to a pick up truck emblazoned with a rebel flag and a black 3 on the door, a chaw of tobacco in his mouth, drinking a busch heavy while tailgating at a nascar left-turn marathon next time he sinks the public option, refuses to pull the troops out of iraq/afghanistan or sides with corporate america on every issue?

@jwmcsame: Early in the primaries, there actually was some chatter that Obama wasn’t “black enough” — although if I recall, that was more about his atypical upbringing, since he didn’t enjoy a Good Times childhood.

The other point to that chatter was that the chatterers were Hillary supporters, and feared his was just a hopeless Jesse campaign that would dilute the vote.

This heathen spent part of Friday afternoon putting 150 rounds of .38 special and 9 mm rounds downrange and adjusting a laser sight on a snub nosed revolver instead of contemplating the sacrifices of the Son of Man, for which my office took half a day off.