{"id":1433,"date":"2009-04-21T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/last-nerves\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:36:40","slug":"last-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/last-nerves\/","title":{"rendered":"last nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t really want to know how many last nerves I\u2019ve got left.\u00a0 Each time I think, \u201cThat\u2019s it, he\u2019s gotten on my last nerve,\u201d <!--more-->along comes another boob to up the ante and land another one.\u00a0 Today, Perez Hilton wagged his tongue at the world for his 15 minutes of fame as he dictated the terms of gay politically correct speech that all beauty pageant contestants shall forever after observe.\u00a0 Last week \u2018s national talking points parroted by the leftwing fishwraps started with a redefinition of Islamic terrorism into a generic label of \u201cman-caused disasters,\u201d as if a Christian or Buddhist is as likely to fly a commercial jet into a skyscraper as an Islamist.\u00a0 Then there was the scorecard of recent mass murders inspired by the 2nd Amendment, because everyone knows that the 2nd Amendment causes mental disease.\u00a0 And to commemorate the nationwide demonstration against reckless government spending and encroaching socialism attended by \u00be of a million citizens, the FBI classified conservatives as rightwing extremists who must now be monitored.\u00a0 The week before that I was informed that all white people exhibit racist behavior against black people when no blacks are around.\u00a0 Bowl me over with a feather; who knew?<\/p>\n<p>I so get that Obama won the election and that he is as much my president as he is yours.\u00a0 What I don\u2019t get, however, is how his victory became a license for every leftwing nutjob with hair-brained ideas to air out their amateur prescriptions for America.\u00a0 The 1200 page stimulus bill and the 680 page congressional \u201cclimate change\u201d screed didn\u2019t just pop out of a legislators head one day.\u00a0 And the leftist paranoid memes that bob to the media surface each week like turds in a punch bowl, well, if the left wasn&#8217;t so malicious I&#8217;d almost have to pity them.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it must have been a living hell for them to have all this craziness bottled up inside their heads with no outlet for the previous 2 administrations.\u00a0 But now because Obama won, all of that madness, misdirection, dislocation, and dictatorship, that basket of empty promises suddenly makes sense! They didn\u2019t just win an election.\u00a0 They won their reality.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine what a relief it must be to suddenly have a reality you can live with?\u00a0 Or how terrifying it must be that, having tasted the sweet nectar of authority in the promised land, how they must now use any tactic of force or coercion to desperately hang on to it?<\/p>\n<p>Still, they do have a thorny problem of convincing the remainder of humanity who actually observe reality before making conclusions about it, to go along with their plans, but that\u2019s what dictatorship is for, right?\u00a0 Hey, what good is being a dictator if you can\u2019t dictate a few things?\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t really want to know how many last nerves I\u2019ve got left.\u00a0 Each time I think, \u201cThat\u2019s it, he\u2019s gotten on my last nerve,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}