Adkisson should read this

[LiberalEsto]

If I were the judge at Adkisson's trial, part of my sentence would include requiring him to read this every day for the rest of his life, along with a reminder that if it weren't for us liberals, he would get the death penalty instead of a life sentence.

This is highly relevant after Sunday's tragedy at the UU church in Knoxville, TN. Wish I knew the author so I could give credit.

A day in the life of Joe Republican

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his workday. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.
Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It's noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

[Tesla]

1. Thanks for that!!

K&R!!

[DailyGrind51]

2. Presuming, of course, that Adkisson can read?

[LiberalEsto]

3. Well, he did leave a 4-page manifesto

So I guess he should thank the evil liberals who promoted free public education for all Americans.


In particular, he should thank Unitarian Horace Mann.

"Horace Mann (May 4, 1796-August 2, 1859), was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. His preferred cause was education, about which he remarked that while 'other reforms are remedial; education is preventative.'"

From: http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/horacemann.html



And if Adkisson ends up in a psychiatric hospital, he can thank Mann and other UUs as well.

[DailyGrind51]

4. Yeah, but did he actually know what it said?

I once saw a chicken peck out the opening of Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" on a piano, which someone else had strategically placed kernels of corn.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Well, the news reports said he can play guitar

but I can't verify that he can read. Although if he had books at home like Liberalism is a Mental Disease (or whatever), one presumes he can read. He would also have to pass a written test to get his license as a truck driver.

[DailyGrind51]

10. Maybe he just liked the cover on the book?

Did he even have a license?;-)

[Bozita]

12. In his world, those are coffee table books.

Things to show off. Conversation starters.

[Imagine My Surprise]

5. He said he thought he'd be killed by police anyway...

...so I'm not so sure he's concerned with a death penalty. Does Tennessee have the d/p?

[intheflow]

7. This would just piss him off more.

He didn't have a job, he obviously wasn't taking any meds he needed b/c he had no health insurance, Knoxville does not have a subway system, he can't afford bacon, he doesn't have enough money to have a bank account, he's run out of unemployment, he never got a student loan, he has no family so can't visit his father. All these examples would be lost on him. :(

[yardwork]

8. That shows how the country is failing so many people.

I am a socialist. I don't call myself a liberal anymore because I don't think that Liberalism in the U.S. goes far enough.

The country has become a mean, dog-eat-dog place to live, where a few people at the top reap millions and everyone else fights for the crumbs. We need to overhaul the system. We need to look capitalism squarely in the face and ask what it's done for us lately.

[Maat]

9. I call myself a "Social Democrat."

Wiki says that a 'social democrat' basically moves left, and a Democratic Socialist, such as Bernie Saunders, is moving more toward the center, from a far left position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

In any case, I agree. Typical classic liberalism is not left enough. I'm not in favor of precluding small corporations, however. I have a few in the computer-related/internet category. That having been said, I'm for healthcare for all, in addition to many social programs that successfully address basic needs thoroughly, for everyone.

[yardwork]

11. I'm not against private companies or private ownership.

I believe that universal healthcare would help promote entrepreneurship in the U.S. Right now, many small businesses are failing because they can't afford to pay their employees' healthcare benefits.

When I say I'm a socialist, I mean that I believe that the U.S. should invest more in its people - better healthcare, universal healthcare coverage, better public school funding, more investment in public transportation, more investment in alternative energies, more environmental protection - and invest less in the military-industrial complex that enriches only a few and leads us to wage endless war around the world.

Right now, the United States spends more on the military than the rest of the world combined.

Right now, the United States has more people in prison - many of them privately-owned prisons - than any other country in the world, even much larger countries like China.

This is clearly an insane misallocation of our resources. It isn't "radical" thinking to suggest that the country as a whole would benefit and grow stronger and healthier if we reallocated our spending. It's rational.