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Hitoru wrote:Numb Nuts.
Mikethehack wrote:Hitoru wrote:Numb Nuts.
Investment news on guns gets shunted into rants? Clever.
Mikethehack wrote:
Gun owners and investors are once again betting on post-election restrictions. Whether the president’s leaving gun owners alone is a guide to future policy or “part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment - during his second term!”, as National Rifle Association executive Wayne LaPierre claimed recently in a speech, remains to be seen. Gun buyers aren’t waiting.
Mikethehack wrote:Smith & Wesson’s has risen 91 percent and hunting superstore Cabela’s has surged by 53 percent.
Eating arugula has become a political act
Conservative thinker is branded a closet liberal based on the food he eats.
By PlentyMag.comTue, Mar 24 2009 at 2:51 PM EST
CHEW ON THAT: There's been a lot of recent chatter and thought on food. (Photo: thebittenword.com/Flickr)
The arugula meme was born, so far as I can tell, when a young and relatively unknown presidential candidate by the name of Barack Obama, attempting to sympathize with a group of Iowans about the challenges of rising food prices, opened his mouth and promptly inserted his foot:
"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?" the senator said. "I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff."
The state of Iowa, for all of its vast food production, does not have a Whole Foods, a leading natural and organic foods market. The closest? Omaha, Minneapolis or Kansas City. Mr. Obama, perhaps sensing a lack of reaction from the crowd, moved along to the next topic.
A gaffe? Surely — and the fact that Iowa actually does grow and sell a fair share of arugula doesn’t do much to alleviate that. The reaction, in any case, was every bit as merciless as the rise to fame of a previously obscure leafy green was, err, meteoric: what had previously been the province of the occasional recipe-blogger immediately became the political slur du jour, an all-purpose tool for accusing your opponents of being effete, elite, and otherwise out of touch with the concerns of those fabled ordinary Americans. And Obama, in turn, was promptly anointed as the fancy-dining liberal with the Ivy League degrees: “wine track” candidate who would surely be rejected by Hillary Clinton’s shot-downing beer drinkers, the blue state counterpart to Miss Buffalo Chip and John McCain’s – ahem – salt-of-the-earth Ferragamo loafers.
Clearly Obama didn’t deserve it, but then again neither did arugula. Unlike, say, petite vanilla scones or that old liberal staple, the cappuccino, the plant that is known by much of the English-speaking world as “rocket” hardly deserves to be pegged as the exclusive province of left-wing foodies. It is, for one thing, widely regarded as an aphrodisiac, which makes it arguably the most pro-family of the salad greens out there – and in addition to pairing nicely with some fresh fruit and nuts in a salad, its spicy zest also lends itself well to pesto. It grows like a weed, too, which means that even if there isn’t a Whole Foods around, you can show what it means to embody the virtues of hard work and self-sufficiency by scattering some seeds and growing yourself an edible yard. If a guy can’t eat this stuff without being accused of being a latte-sipping closet communist, then what does that say about the state of our public discourse?
[/quote]friendlyskies wrote:Which is fine. But, shit, if I hear one more of these gun buyers talk about how it's so difficult to start a business in the USA when they're putting all their money in guns rather than doing what I do, which is operate as a private business because I re-invest in myself and my business rather than buying luxury items (really, an AK-47?), I'm going to puke. That's their excuse for working for the government instead of getting a real job? Parasites. And losers - they're missing out. I just finished paying for my trip to Colombia and Venezuela because I sold work, to other private businesses, using a computer that I bought instead of a gun. And these gun nuts say they can't afford and elitist computers, they couldn't possibly start their own business, they *have* to work for the government, but they hate communism. Or whatever. Good grief.
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