“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Blowing Smoke: Prelude

Our old friend Rusty Hawkins appeared recently on the local news, regurgitating thirty-year old conservative talking points in praise of the latest economic stimulus package. It appears he is on furlough from Triple I (Institute for the Ideologically Insane) and is kicking around his old dogma stomping grounds.

Emboldened by his stimulus package celebrity the anti-smoking ordinance has caught his expert attention, and he has
stuck his flaming butt in on the controversy by settling once and for all that southern urban Texans are Francophile Castroists.

Just as Van Camp’s Americans of 1776 learned their revolution from the French of 1789, Hawkins has the escargot slurpers and Gloria Cubana tokers leading the world in smoking bans well after Arizona banned smoking in 1973 and Ireland did so in 1994. But what nicotine-doped wingnut needs to check his facts when writing for the fact-checkered Amarillo Globe-News?


Choke on it, Amarillo, the AGN and their cats’ paws are perpetrating another rank con job and it won’t even crinkle the stink sniffer’s sensitive little nose.