Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Rick Perry Gets Confused About American History
More cow bell! No rickie, people in old Boston were not afraid to walk around showing their face because they might get taxed, but because amazingly at that time it was illegal to vandalize property, so they disguised themselves as the indigenous minority, let them catch hell over it. Furthermore, it was not really about the tax on tea, but that the British crown had given a monopoly to one company to be the exclusive tea importer to the colonies. No other tea was taxed, since it was only available as a smuggled product. This group was a business group of importers and merchants who went on board to vandalize the tea monopolies assets because they were pissed at being shut out of the importing and selling tea, not because they were shit faced averse to taxes. And.....the no tax without representation was not chanted at this event, but came from other events.
Rickie was disguising himself as a douche bag the week this era was taught in school. Fuck Rick Perry, a bunch.
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Perry and Bachmann - Social Security is unconstititional and Hezollah is building missile sites in Cuba....
ReplyDeleteYes, the 2012 GOP ticket.
Sarge
Kevin:
ReplyDeleteTis true as you write it. History is one of our best kept secrets. Last night in my "World Democracies" class, a video on the collapse of the soviets and the eastern block, I was the only one old enough to have lived through it, very interesting, I had forgotten some of the sequence of events.
Sarge:
I like that ticket a lot, but hope Perry will be in the VP slot.
There you go, trying to make the GOP's "factose intolerant" candidates adhere to actual history... Don't you know they're exempt?
ReplyDeleteThink Palin's Paul Revere ride to ring those bells and fire those warning shots was an anomaly? Shit, no more strange than Bachmann putting Hezbolah missiles in Cuba or having Indiana fire the shot heard 'round the world, or whatever batshit crazy thing it was she said...
They make it up as they go along, like Donald Rumsfeld behind a podium explaining where the weapons of mass destruction are hidden.
There's no shame in being ignorant. Being willfully ignorant and not curious enough to correct it is the crime.
Sad thing is one of these stupid bastards could soon be leader of the free world. Maybe we should let the ROW (Rest of the World)vote, too.
Squatty:
ReplyDeleteOK, I forgot they are exempt from the common practice of factual accuracy bolstering one's appearance of sanity and minimal human intelligence.
Fringe:
ReplyDeleteSince the average American adult is ignorant of the history of his or her own country, these lying politicians know that they can get away with changing our history to suit their own purposes.
Whit,
ReplyDeleteThese lying politicians are suiting the purposes of corporate america and the super rich, using the religious right as the voting block to stay in power. It's creepy like finding a dead clown in the woods.