The n-word shouldn’t be in Huckleberry Finn unless it’s made into an epic rap song.
Repealing Obamacare would be neat. That would be like getting liberals the toy they always wanted and smashing it in front of them.
Don’t like all these birds suddenly dying for unexplained reasons. Feels like the beginning of an M. Night Shyamalan movie. I guess we’ll be okay as long as it’s not “The Last Airbender.”
We need more stringent legislation to make sure the proper number of Xs are put on jugs of moonshine.
Repealing it would be like giving it to them and then taking it away before they can get it out of the box. Letting it go to SCOTUS and have them overturn it, thats smashing it.
So freedom of speech applies only if we aren’t offending anyone. Got it.
The birds are all black birds, which have become epidemic in many parts of this country. Darn things are worse then pigeons in many ways. They have lost many of their natural predators, and seem to be dying from an out of control parasite that is spreading through their populations.
Why is that relevant here? One of the major ways that black bird populations have been kept in check is by the liberal shooting of such birds in rural areas. Sadly, this is a really fun pass time that has fallen out of favor, thanks to liberals being against randomly shooting things in mass. Now the remaining blackbirds have to suffer from parasites, because nobody is thinning out their flocks with 12 gauge vengeance.
For reasons of full disclosure, I haven’t actually read that anywhere, it just seems like a likely guess, that sounds good. Could be completely inaccurate, but we should not let accuracy stop us from running off with any crazy theory that we like. That is not how this internet thing works.
Mr M. said blackbird, he must be a racist! He also said gun, so he must be a racist! He wants full disclosure so he must be a racist!
OTOH,
He said liberal shooting, so he must be an American!
“The Last Airbender” would be a good name for a guitar.
Here’s my random thought of the day, which I thought up myself. If Frank is elected RNC Chair, would he pick Aqua Buddha or Aqua Man as his second in command? Would this end their truce and set off a battle between the two of them?
As for the birds, meh. They were killed by lightning and hailstones. Lightning and hailstones are caused by global warming.
I didn’t do it. No one saw me. You can’t prove a thing.
Just another example of blackbird on blackbird violence. I suspect gang activity.
Way back in ye ancient days, late 19th and early 20th century, farmers were very serious about getting rid of seed and crop eating birds. They’d take advantage of crows propensity to nest at night in the same tree. They’d wait till well after dark then detonate a stick of dynamite up in the tree. Hey! At least they didn’t use an evil gun.
The Last Airbender is the final result of a good chili dog.
Repealing Obamacare would be fun like busting a liberal’s favorite bong in front of them.
We need additonal legislation to make sure Swiss cheese has enough holes.
In Huckleberry Finn we should replace the n-word with obamavoter.
I did it. I killed them all. Those red winged blackbirds are annoying and the starlings tormented my bluebirds. So I killed them all. I will accept financial compensation.
How do we know what kind of blackbirds they are.
-Maybe they are all dead hookers?
-Maybe the blackbirds elected a socialist leader and these dead ones are peasant farmers who got in the way of Utopia.
-Are they all females? Maybe they are upset about Dr Who getting married?
Can we say “black” bird? Isn’t that like racist or something? How about African American Bird?
Doesn’t Fred Thompson live in this area? I think he read some of the new Republican plans and went outside and smote the first things he saw which were the black birds. It was just his first show of force. I would expect RINO’s to start falling from the sky in DC soon!
“The n-word shouldn’t be in Huckleberry Finn unless it’s made into an epic rap song.”
Yes, we should change all historical facts, like the once-common use of the infamous “N” word represented in the Huck Finn story, in order to make liberals appear to care about others. Just like the Japanese and Germans weren’t committing atrocities in their bloody bids to take over the world in World War II, they were just misunderstood victims of the imperial US. See, doesn’t that somehow make you feel better to think of it that way?
If Frank is elected RNC Chair, his first act must be the legalization of nuclear bullets for the masses! Someone must come up with these so that we can have some fun with small nuclear detonations all over America as we deal shock and awe to evil doers!
“The “n” word shouldn’t be in Huckleberry Finn unless…..” Mr. Twain, an aspiring writer, breathlessly awaits your decreeing what words should or shouldn’t be in his next novel, “Life on the Mississippi.” Haven’t you folks read about this in the Constitution? It’s called the “anonymous complaint exception” to the First Ammendment. Any idiot who is “offended” gets to tell little-known writers like Twain what he should or shouldn’t have put in his books. Wait- you haven’t heard about that…?
I have my own random thought today
Robert Gibbs is leaving the obama staff next month.
One of the top contenders for thte sot was a man with the last name of Carny. If this works out to be true than I call first on all jokes about clowns evil or not in the oshita administration?
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
– Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885. Notice.
and persons attempting to find a reason to be offended in it – Musket to the Junk.
“Are there any niggers here tonight?”
That was the question Lenny Bruce asked a shocked audience one night in 1960. His point – right or wrong – was that “the suppression of the word gives it the power of violence and viciousness.” I was thinking about Lenny this morning when I read on the website AlterNet that someone took it upon themselves to remove the “N” word from a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and replaced it with the word “slave”.
We cannot start pretending that THAT WORD never existed. It is not only futile, it’s kind of silly, don’cha think? Are we expected to burn all copies of Dick Gregory’s excellent 1964 autobiography which was called (by the way) “Nigger”? Gregory knew damned well the literary sledgehammer effect of the “N” word. It’s a horrible word, no doubt about it. But it’s a damned powerful word, too. There are certain places in American literature where not only does it work, it’s essential – in Huckleberry Finn for instance. Old Huck was an illiterate, ignorant kid. That’s how illiterate, ignorant kids talked in those days. In fact, that’s how some of them talk still. To pretend he had the vocabulary of David Copperfield doesn’t make any sense.
And, please, let’s not forget that Mark Twain is not some re-visioned, nasty old southern bigot. Next to Frederick Douglas, he was the most enlightened human being of his age on the subject of race – and I would include Abraham Lincoln in that assessment.
It’s a word; a terrible word, yes, but it’s only a word.
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Mark Twain is gonna rise up and beat the hell out of whoever decided to censor Huck Finn.