Your Freedom Ends at My Bigotry

Subject Matter divided by zero real knowledge/understanding = infinite stupid.

Wow – between the War on Terrah, this, and Frothy Mix’s recent college-bashing they’ve managed to *literally* embrace the entire slogan of 1984’s Party…

Recall that our country is this way because the Brits sent the criminals to Australia and sent the fundies here … Australia is looking better all the time.

@blogenfreude: Not entirely true. The southernmost English colony of Georgia was chartered in 1732 as a place to unload debtors from the crowded prisons of England. Dumping a herd of criminals into the wilderness as a buffer between the more proper WASP English colonies and the Catholic Spaniards in Florida seemed to be a win-win. Nobody could have foreseen a Newt Gingrich as the result of this social experiment.

@Dave H: Still, we came out on the wrong end …

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@blogenfreude: Bearing in mind that both the forced and unforced colonists were adept at exterminating the native population.

“Christian” first, American second? Such an admission is refreshingly honest coming from that direction. Too bad there’s no way we can get them to colonize the moon.

@Dave H:
Whoa, Newt’s a friggin’ *carpet bagger from Pennsylvania.

*capetbagger= a person from a Northern state who moves to a Southern state in order to exploit the backward nature and bigotry of most Southerns for financial gain and national influence.
See Dick Army, G.H.W.Bush and Bush Clan, etc.

@Dave H: That sounds like the plot of a horror movie.

@Dave H: Didn’t the Scots invade colonize Georgia? Then they brought slaves to dig drainage canals, cut the trees, and frighten the Irish? But I have to say it sounds like a good idea to blame the English.

@Benedick: Almost everything is.