Someone used a nailgun on one of my tires yesterday. I can't think of anyone who'd do this to me personally, so I'm guessing its because of my Obama bumper sticker.

I'm tired of this "only a few bad apples" bullshit. At the same time they say this crap is unacceptable, they pull a nudge, nudge, wink, wink when they talk about it. They're all a bunch of spoiled white trash, and I'm about ready to start carrying a cudgel with me and start cracking heads open.

The real problem the teatards will come up against is many of us blue collar progessives are a hell of a lot tougher than they are and their idea that every progressive is a 5'4" Jewish Stanford professor will get a real wake up.

We are Ed from The Ed Show. We're not all Alan Colmes.

You want a genuine fight? You will lose, freaks.

And Olympia Snowe is making me cringe for my state today.

She knows trigger mechanisms are never pulled but continues on all "reasonable" about how the pubic option is just no good for America yadda yadda.

Gang of Six? More like Gang of Three Assholes and Other Gang of Three Bought And Paid Fors.

you know this how?

I'm getting out my placard and markers as we speak.

We'll wear man girdles during the new civil war. Props up the gut and may stop buckshot.

That one made me laugh very, very loudly.

we're that frumpy douche bag on msnbc?

Yep. We look like football players but also bitch if the waiter forgets to give us the low-cal cucumber ranch dressing.

is he really huge or something? He doesn't look like a football player to me.

No. He's not the big. I mean that conservatives view of who progressives are is a skewed view. There are just as many Dans from Rosanne as there are Jack McCoys from Law & Order. And if some want to hoot and holler about how they're coming after us to take back their country they should know the country's not getting took.

"Not armed... THIS TIME"

They seem to have forgotten what your average union voter looks like and how many of them quite enjoy their 2nd ammendment rights.

So. On this board I check regularly? They are talking about armed conflict? and who is tougher? Biblebangers or union progressives?

The lunatic fringe are hurt, deceived, scared, mistaken, incomplete... under anger is always fear.

I love these crackpots. I feel sorry for them. I will work hard to make the larger culture more just, more free, more open, more reasoned.... and in the winning of the public sphere these harmed and haunted will become healthier.

You feel sorry for hateful bigoted people who threaten you with armed assault? How nice for you. I'll protect my family from them while you hand out roses, Harry.

I grew up with these people. One out of every hundred is ever going to become healthier. I will be civil but if there is a small percentage who GENUINELY believe there's going to be civil war I certainly won't hand them happy old Stuart Smalley-isms.

But I think you missed that I was being half-facetious about the union comparisons. My only real point is lunatic fringe who say "we're coming to take it back" aren't going to be met with just the people who say "Well that's not very nice of you. Please don't do that."

Also you need to take my comments in reference to the actual video.

No, I didn't mean to sound self-righteous (it just comes naturally, a huge fault) ... I did take your comments with multiple grains of salt... as you should take mine.

But I do mean that these people are operating from pain... In simply dismissing them without understanding their situated fear and hurt is wasting an opportunity.

And I'm saying everybody on the planet has pain and if you're too stupid to see you're being lied to don't expect me to pat you on the head. Get over yourselves, morons.

Saying "these people operate out of fear and pain" is like saying the pitbull doesn't know any better when he attacks the kid and drags him off his bicycle because his owners didn't treat him well.

I have pain. You have pain. Trailer park retards have pain. That doesn't give you license to claim special dispensation while calling for overthrow of your government.

Perpetual "understanding" of assholery has been the downfall of the progressive for many decades. And it needs to throttle back a bit and become aware that assholes act like assholes whether you "understand" them or not.

Not ever teabagger is a frightened, misled, hapless sad sack. Some of them are just pricks.

I've been arrested for civil disobedience. I was most valuable defensive football player in high school because I loved to hit... and unreasonably trot that fact out 40 years later. I will call pricks out at any and all opportunity.... I am abrasive and confrontational over principle or my ego. I am a conscientious objector passivist who watches boxing religiously. I am an effete snob who is convinced of my superiority over the uneducated southern white rural trashclass while cutting all kinds of slack for poor people of color wherever ... unfair, unreasonable, and crackpot in my own way. I mercilessly make fun of people like those in this video..and have an acid tongue about their assholishness.

But I won't give up the idea that I should understand their pain in ways that I would want them to understand your and my pain. If only because it helps me live a more peaceful life... in all my annoying and cloying egomaniacal inconsistencies. I am cracked and blind just like them.

It was kind of nice when the Czar lady was confronted and responded, "i did not know about that" instead of just yelling. Even if it was just a thin sliver of doubt of King Glenn Beck, he did get through to her.

is there no chance that we could spare a few helicopter gunships and commandos to take care of these imbeciles?

Exactly. From such moments the world is healed.

When do the martians return to your back yard to interrogate you?

When do you get snark?

Don't discount your progressive gun nuts.

I have a coworker who hates Bush with the fire of a thousand suns and hunts almost every day of his life. I loathe guns (having had several family members killed by them) but the right is mistaken if they think they're the only weapon shakers.