More natterings from Chuck Norris, now a syndicated rightwing columnist and tv pundit

And he handles this new task with all the aplomb and tact that your usual bog-standard paranoid, authoritarian, and hilariously under-informed bile type employs, but he does win points for occasionally veering into some non-trad lines of scolding, mixed in with book plugs.

As seen in previous threads.

We'll begin with Obama's First Act as President, where he rattles on about abortion over and over again, referencing a comment Obama made and declaring that

America doesn't need to "turn the page" on culture battles, such as abortion; it needs to reopen the pages of its history to our Founders' heightened views about the rights of all human beings in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. And we need to revive and re-instill that value of humanity back into society, our children and our children's children...

before going to even better heights with

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." He was not, of course, writing about the America of today, with state-sanctioned and even subsidized abortion and a movement to promote the killing of the elderly through euthanasia. But he could have been. And his belief in what should be "the first and only legitimate object of government" still should stand, and that includes for the president of the United States of America. But if he and his administration won't protect the rights of the living (even in the womb), then who will? Pelosi? Reid? A left-leaning Congress?

Other bits include a piece supporting domestic manufacturing without really inquiring as to the political conditions that encouraged the massive outsourcing of jobs.

And best of all is bit of weirdness where he begins by alternately supporting Obama's health before attacking him for whatever reason, then wandering over to decry any sort of national health plan, before wrapping it all up in a commercial for his own diet/health products. He quotes from Jefferson, Franklin, and one of the Chuck Norris Facts.

tl; dr version:

dude what did those movies and that texas show doesn't really like obama, liberals, etc and is given regular column space to vent as such

who's gonna protect the rights of the living? the LIBERAL MEDIA? those FAT CATS on WALL ST?

The continued insistence of the "a movement to promote the killing of the elderly through euthanasia" bit from some of these guys is something I find entertaining. Does it fall into the realm of complete cluelessness as to what most of the "death with dignity" movements are actually about? Do they actually understand it clearly and have a problem with the concept of not letting somebody who is at the point of wanting to end their suffering do so in a non-gunshot-related manner? Or is this just more mendacity/disingeniousness and obfuscation from folks not entirely unused to practicing such?

My guess is that they take a very moralizing slippery-slope position that assisted suicide devalues the sanctity of life and puts its end in human instead of heavenly hands, leading inexorably toward the euthanizing of, say, coma victims and Alzheimer's patients and eventually just old people nobody really likes.

^^ It is indeed disingenous to pretend that people who are fine with assisted suicide are therefore fine with these things it allegedly "inexorably" leads toward, but this kind of rhetorical tactic is not exactly uncommon

But I don't think I've ever seen that particular slope being posited; perhaps b/c I haven't necessarily looked all that hard(we all have our limits of exposure to this shit, after all), but I've always seen it expressed as Chuck does above. Instead of one thing leading to another thing leading to another, it gets all clumped together like a shitball of used cat-litter and served up.

but this kind of rhetorical tactic is not exactly uncommon

Exactly. It's like part of the job description for certain flavors of cultural scolds.

Do they actually understand it clearly and have a problem with the concept of not letting somebody who is at the point of wanting to end their suffering do so in a non-gunshot-related manner?

If this were a less demanding board I would post a specific Bill Hicks quote right here

What nabisco said. It is not man's right to terminate life. Life is God's creation and to terminate it is to subvert His will. That these same folks are so quick to excuse the use of lethal force against "bad guys" of whatever sort is the baffling part, IMO.

It's hardly baffling when they think they're God's instrument.

They are certainly God's tools.

Barack Obama emphatically promised more than a year ago, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."

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