Cognitive Dissonance for Twits

Two year old Caroline Sparks in southern Kentucky was killed by her 5 year old brother when he got his hands on the Cricket .22 caliber rifle he had gotten from his parents for his birthday. Just like his parents, he undoubted thought that he knew what he was doing. August just won't be the same at the Sparks house after 2015.

It is sad how people blame God for their shortcomings when they cannot face the realities of what they do. They hand a toddler a lethal weapon then are surprised when that child kills someone with it. After the reality sets in, they have to say that someone else was at fault. God is a common victim in this blame-game because he cannot defend himself. A man rapes a 10-year old girl, pregnancy results and "it's a Gift From God." she can't abort that fetus and the news cycle makes a hullabaloo about the abortion while never mentioning the crime that was perpetrated against the child.

"It was God's will. It was her time to go, I guess," grandmother Linda Riddle told WLEX. "I just know she's in heaven right now and I know she's in good hands with the Lord." Little Caroline would have been in a better place before she died if the parents did not subscribe to the gun-culture they apparently did. She would not have needed the Lord's hands if there was no gun in the house.

Well now it will be God's Will that the parents suffer recrimination for the rest of their lives unless they adequately deploy Cognitive Dissonance and decide that their daughter is better off dead. This maneuver is appallingly simple. Blame God and you are all set. That allows you to keep up appearances, but there will be spousal fights, depressions and a high probability of divorce with their 5-year old going to live with Grandma. Once you decide that children being killed in this manner is okay and alright with God, you can absolve yourself of any further concern. I name all parents who give firearms to their children "Twit Of The Day."

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For Sunday, June 28, 2015 the TOD is (drum roll) Jim Inhofe!

Friday, June 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a leading Senate conservative, today made the following statement about the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage.

“I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court decision. My position on this issue is clear and has not changed. It is unfortunate that the Court took it upon itself to decide for the people what was being appropriately debated and decided in the states through the democratic process.”   Imhofe website.

For Sunday, June 28, 2015 the TOD is (drum roll) Jim Inhofe!
 

His comment that marriage rights are "appropriately debated and decided in the states through the democratic process" is a statement that only a Twit can understand. This is equivalent to a state legislature voting to decide that people of a national heritage, genetic background, or religious persuasion are property and can be bought, sold, and worked to death. It is the same as those representative bodies debating and voting to incarcerate a person for not swearing allegiance to the flag or for not believing in a god.

His belief that it is appropriate to allow common rights to people on one side of a street to be granted that is denied on the other side. Yes, there are places where streets form state boundaries. There are just some aspects of human existence that no matter how long the right has not been recognized or has been actively denied, it is inappropriate to continue even for a day to fail to recognize the right.

Let's look at a Constitution right that the Supreme Court ruled on that flies in the face of EVERY human being. Corporations are people in the sense that they have rights to free speech and religious faith that can inform who they do business with and what benefits they provide to their employees. I personally think this is a travesty of Justices but for now it is the law of the land. Supreme Court Justices are not immune from Twit-like decisions. One can only hope that a future Congress will act to undo that damage as well as other corporation-friendly rulings that injure humans.

You know, there are just some aspects of human society that can't be legislated at a geographical level. Unfortunately, the United Stated, no matter how much it wishes it to be true, cannot legislate beyond its own borders. However, within them they can be consistent.

Tucker Carlson Talks Like a Twit

Tucker Carlson talks like a Twit

“The president has said a number of times guns are the problem, guns cause violence,” Carlson complained. “There’s nobody in the world surrounded by more armed people than President Obama himself. I notice he’s not suggesting the people around him disarm. He wants to remain protected, but the rest of us have to go without means to self-protection.”

Nobody is surrounded by more armed people than President Obama except for EVERY resident of West Baltimore or East for THAT matter. It is the freely available hand gun that takes the lives of so many People in the US every year. The sad fact is that the vast majority of those deaths are not from armed criminals but from a friend, relative, toddler, or ones self. Except for the statistics that suicidal gun owners all too often murder one or more others prior to dropping the hammer on themselves, one would not need to worry about those shooters.

Tucker's assertion that the President's Secret Service protection team should disarm first is the most stupid suggestion I've heard this man utter in,,, oh, well... at least a month. His statements embody one of the attributes of who are Twits: They are overly free with non-sequitur statements. Also they just don't get it. For all the fire power the Secret Service allegedly has, they have not shot and killed anyone in a very long time. Even when JFK was assassinated they managed to arrest Oswald.  Sirhan Sirhan was captured alive without any bullet holes. Sara Jane Moore, Squeeky Fromme and John Hinckley, Jr. all survived their arrests with minimal bruising.

All too often the firearms manufacturers' lobbyists post a list of absurd statements that they want covered in the current news cycle and it seems that the Twits outbid each other to see who will be the one to first make the claim and who will then reinforce the message with their echo echo echo.

If any of the "conservative" ilk would ever diverge from the corporate line and suggest that this country needs any other solution to gun violence than more guns, more guns and more guns, that person might actually graduate FROM the top of their class of  Major Twits.

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