Remember - These People Want To Rule The Country
Via Dr. Melissa Clouthier - Democrats Gear Up For Denver:
DENVER — As the Mile High City gears up to host a Democratic bash for 50,000, organizers are discovering the perils of trying to stage a political spectacle that’s also politically correct.
Consider the fanny packs.
Okay, wait… fanny packs? Are we seriously going to trust the operation of the greatest country in the free world to people that wear fanny packs? Think about it for a second. You have a choice…
This:
Or this…
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
But wait… it gets worse!
But Matt Burns, a spokesman for the Republican convention, looks on with undisguised glee at some of the Democrats’ efforts — such as the “lean ‘n’ green” catering guidelines.
Among them: No fried food. And, on the theory that nutritious food is more vibrant, each meal should include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white.” (Garnishes don’t count.) At least 70% of ingredients should be organic or grown locally, to minimize emissions from fuel burned during transportation. “One would think,” says Mr. Burns, “that the Democrats in Denver have bigger fish to bake — they have ruled out frying already — than mandating color-coordinated pretzel platters.”
Democrats say the point is to build habits that will endure long after the convention. To that end, the city has staged “greening workshops” attended by hundreds of caterers, restaurant owners and hotel managers. “It’s the new patriotism,” Mayor Hickenlooper says.
That’s right - when you attend the Democratic Convention, they want you to build habits that will endure long after you leave. Sounds sort of like church, doesn’t it? You go to a building where the rules of reality no longer really apply, you get lectured for a while, people claim the food and drink does strange and unusual things, and that you’re only supposed to eat and drink certain things, and then you go home. With any luck, after the Convention, you’ll be ready to dive into dumpsters when somebody puts plastics in the aluminum bin, buy only unionized organic cotton clothing that’s made in the USA, eat locally grown food, and, for the love of Gore, if you’re colorblind, well, that’s the affliction of Bushsatan right there.
But wait! An old foe is attempting to repent! They’re embracing the message. They’re playing along. They want to do what’s right. What do you do?
But it’s almost inevitable that principles, politics and profit will conflict. To wit: Coors Brewing Co., in Golden, Colo., will donate biofuel made from beer waste to power the convention’s fleet of flex-fuel vehicles. A green star for the convention — but it has rankled die-hard liberals, who boycotted Coors in the 1960s and ’70s to protest hiring practices that they said discriminated against blacks, Latinos, women and gays. Heirs to the Coors fortune have long been active in conservative causes and Republican politics.
Oh yes - because of a forty year old grudge, some people are upset that Coors has the gall to turn their beer waste into biofuel and actually donate it to the DNC. How dare they provide free fuel when they were oppressing my grandparents’ gay black Mariachi-singing girlfriends? Remember - these are the same people that think they know how to handle the Middle East better than Bush. I suppose they do get the dynamics of pointless multigenerational blood feuds, though, right?
Look, I’m not trying to claim that Republicans are perfect. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the Democratic Party is being taken hostage by a bunch of psychotic ex-hippies who are doing everything possible to relive their adolescence in some sort of wacky midlife crisis. At some point, we need to ask ourselves which way our country should go - down the path of endless rules, forever chasing the organic, local, unionized dream where we bury balloons in compost piles to make sure they’re environmentally kosher? Or, do we dare to run screaming from the Environmentalian Orthodoxy and decide that the Earth will still orbit the Sun if we happen to get a cheap DVD player from China?
I know which way my vote is going - I can’t afford organic unionized local products, thank you very much. I prefer my products to be cheap, inorganic and very much not unionized (I do have strong holdings in Confederated Slave Bonds, after all).
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June 26, 2008 11:04 pm
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