Who would have thought that being Commissioner of Agriculture would call for the level of pugnacity on display here?:
(Hat tip to Inside Catholic–I haven’t been watching tv for a while so I hadn’t seen this commercial).
And do you think Alabama really needs a guy named….?
I’d vote for that guy, hands down. (The first guy.)
It needs to be stated clearly that involvement in Alabama politics does not ordinarily require a firearm.
I haven’t been able to watch the videos because I’m in a library, but I’m pondering whether a Young or Old Boozer would be better.
AMDG
I think it depends entirely on the individual Boozer, though I will admit to leaning slightly in favor of old. The young ones these days seem to like to get blind and comatose as fast as possible. Although perhaps they would do less harm…it’s a tough call.
Politicians and firearms go great together. I wish somebody up here would have the guts to run an add like that.
I must say, Craig, that we certainly get the impression down here that you folks are being slowly crushed by a liberal bureaucracy. I try to keep in mind that most of what I read on that score comes from our right-wing press, and it’s probably not as bad as they say.
Whether it is as bad as it seems to you, I can’t say. We have high taxes to feed the bureaucratic beast (‘tax-free day’ is coming up sometime in June). We have big problems with our “Human Rights” commissions, and even our ‘conservative’ party would probably be considered left-wing in Alabama. One gets used to it, though.
Yeah, it’s that HRC that has been ferociously denounced here. Mark Steyn got hauled before it and has written scathingly about it.
Steyn and Ezra Levant have been the most visible cases in the past few years, and they have done much good by heaping opprobrium on the HRCs. They have done much, I think, to change the public perception of these quasi-courts. Unfortunately, our politicians seem not to have got the message: in my province the HRC has expanded massively in the past year or two. I am very aware of it when I am writing my blog.
Now that last sentence is scary. There are some things I don’t write about here, or not much, because they relate to my job and I don’t want to make trouble for myself here. (Although I don’t know that anyone at work reads my blog, it is sitting here in public with my name on it.) But I don’t worry about what the government thinks.
Let’s just say that there are certain topics I am very wary of writing about. Perhaps I am being overcautious, but, as the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry.
Yeah, I think I’m probably being over-cautious, too–I think I’d have to say something outrageous to cause myself a serious problem at work. But as you say, better safe than sorry.
I think if I were ever summoned before the Oz HRC, I would take Kathy Shaidle’s advice, photocopy my naked bum and write to them “kiss my lumpy butt.”
Why? B/c they are kangaroo courts and we ought not recognise their authority.
That bloke, Dale, was priceless! Nick pointed him out to me this evening (it made it onto The Punch website, which Nick reads) and suggested I link to it here. 🙂
I think I’d vote for him, merely on the grounds that he’s obviously not a big girls’ blouse!
Maclin, I had the most hilarious dream the other night that some of my kids and I came to visit you and Karen in Alabama. We got there by bus! Then we bussed it to Hong Kong for a day trip from your place b/c somehow Alabama was somewhere in the vicinity of Japan. LOL!
I kept worrying we would outstay our welcome, but the kids were well behaved. phew
Well, we’d certainly be glad to have you, Louise, should you ever come this way. Kids & all are welcome although they would probably have to sleep on the floor.
But you can’t get to Hong Kong from here.
Actually you can’t even get to a good Chinese restaurant from here.
I must say I’m not exactly thrilled that Dale Petersen has gone global. Our image is bad enough…but then your reaction & Craig’s make me wonder if the Euro-weenie with an iron fist is producing a reaction that makes a redneck look good.
Actually I’m pretty sure there is some jiving going on in that video–the horse, the hat, the lever-action carbine as seen in Western movies: that’s really not even the accurate stereotype for Alabama, although the general attitude may be.
There are any number of Australians who I would be very disturbed to see going global!
And I had a very strong suspicion that I would not likely get to Hong Kong from Alabama, particularly on a bus!
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