House of Eratosthenes

Gadfly salvage wants to make a point, and I think it’s about how knuckle-dragging meat-lovin’ barbeque-sauce-sucking Hooters-waitress-ogling gun nuts like myself are intellectually incapable of admitting America can do things wrong, because he’s demanding some lists out of us about that: “What has she done wrong?”

Here ya go, pal.

The United States did something wrong, when it did the following:

1. Allow democrats and liberalism to re-define far-left liberalism as some kind of middle-of-the-road stuff.
2. Allow democrats to re-define real middle-of-the-road stuff as some kind of far-right extremism.
3. Allow four Justices to sit on the Supreme Court who would eviscerate the Second Amendment.
4. Allow confusion between “freedom of speech” and sedition.
5. Allow Hollywood to churn out propaganda that serves no purpose but to denigrate and hold up to ridicule the homeland, and any resolve to defend it, with no fear of reprisal.
6. Allow labor unions to exist in the twenty-first century.
Indoctrination Center Ahead 7. Allow communist apparatchucks to educate our children in a public education system.
8. Allow socialists to infiltrate our system of government — so long as they pretend to care about the environment.
9. Allow failed socialist politicians to tell us what “science” is through a glossy movie.
10. Allow “public defenders” to confer value on the lives of their clients, and no value whatsoever upon the lives ended prematurely and violently by them.
11. Allow feminists to re-define fatherhood into something replaceable.
12. Allow feminists to re-define fatherhood into something disposable.
13. Allow feminists to re-define fatherhood into something toxic.
14. Allow politicians to run for high office while telling us that if a European is going to be rude to us, it means the fault lies with us and not with the rude European.
15. Allow our Constutition to be perverted into an instrument that forcibly imposes cultural norms and sensibilities of decency, from a federal enclave onto a state-level one.
16. Allow our federal government to withhold “highway funding” from states that didn’t have the “correct” voting ages, drinking ages, speed limits, library book return dates, parking infractions, et al.
17. Allow the New York Times to spill sensitive state secrets on numerous occasions, without fear of prosecution.
18. Disband the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) without putting in place some adequate replacement.
19. Impose surreal “rules of engagement” on men and women in combat zones, cooked up by pencil-neck geek paper-pushers in two-thousand-dollar suits who’ve never seen combat.
20. Impose an income tax.
21. Let an American President get away, both legally and in his legacy, with jailing American citizens because of the Japanese blood in their veins — only because he was a DEMOCRAT.
22. Put said racist American democrat President on our money (and not take him off again).
23. Impose a minimum wage on our otherwise-law-abiding businesses.
24. Allow our labor unions to jack up that minimum wage every few years for their own financial gain.
25. Allow, through the evolution-versus-intelligent-design debate, “science” to become a process of upholding sacred-cow theories against legitimate challenge.
26. Allow our children to reach majority age without honoring the Golden Rule.
27. Allow our children to reach majority age without understanding the value of reading.
28. Allow our children to reach majority age without knowing how to reconcile a checking account.
29. Allow our children to reach majority age without comprehending the distinction between sacrifice for a worthy ideal, and sacrifice of self for it’s own sake.
30. Allow our children to reach majority age without understanding Thing I Know #70.
31. Allow our children to reach majority age without knowing how to gather clues about what’s going on, and make sense out of them.
32. Allow our children to feel good about themselves without seeing what needs doing, and doing it.
33. Allow our children to confuse getting work done, with being an accepted part of a group.
34. Allow our grownups to confuse getting work done, with being an accepted part of a group.
35. Allow our boys to dress like little girls.
36. Allow our girls to dress like little boys.
37. Require our local populations to recognize marriage as something outside their reasoning, just because other local populations living thousands of miles away want them to be so required to so recognize.
38. Take seriously the idea that anything to do with government should be separated from anything that has to do with God…but then, paradoxically, on December 25 we somehow shouldn’t expect our mail to be delivered.
39. Allow anyone to call Hooters a “strip club” and get away with it.
40. Allow anyone to own a dog who is too lazy to pick up dog feces.
41. Allow Bill Clinton to put in something as absurd as Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
42. Take anyone seriously who wants to bitch about gas prices, while driving something that gets less than 30 miles a gallon.
43. Allow any kind of tax on businesses, knowing full well such taxes are only passed on to consumers.
44. Abandon the Hays Code, without putting in place an adequate replacement.
45. Allow any movie or television sitcom to be produced in which the father of the household is taken less than seriously, let alone held up to ridicule.
46. Allow children to refer to their fathers by their first names, even in make-believe television cartoons.
47. Allow Microsoft Windows Vista.
48. Allow the Fairness Doctrine to even be considered, or for that matter, allow Red Lion vs. FCC to stand without impeaching the entire Supreme Court (sans W. Douglas).
49. Allowed its neighbors and Europe to become apathetic about their own national security (credit goes to tim the godless heathen, whom I named).
50. Allow women to waltz into doctors’ offices and order up diagnoses for their sons, along the lines of “AD(H)D” and Autism and Asperger’s, as if said diagnoses are Netflix movies or pizzas.

Update:
You know what finishes this off perfectly? A quote of JFK by fellow Webloggin contributor Absurd Report:

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

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Fifty Things America Does Wrong!Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008