As if you needed more evidence that America is doomed I give you The St. Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team, infamous for its offbeat, sometimes edgy, promotions. But they’ve come up with a real doozy for this Sunday’s game.
While lots of sports franchises hand out bobblehead dolls, usually depicting their players, the Saints are handing out 2,500 “bobblefoot” Sen. Larry Craig dolls. The keepsakes consist of a miniature bathroom stall with a couple of lower legs and feet.
The team also takes pains to note: “It doesn’t matter if your tapping style is done with a ‘wide stance’ or is used as some sort of code.” That’s a none-too-subtle reference to Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct after an undercover police officer arrested him for allegedly soliciting sex in a bathroom stall at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The undercover officer who arrested Craig said the senator’s foot-tapping, bumping feet and swiping his hand under the bathroom stall amounted to well-known code used in soliciting sex. Craig, however, said his foot-tapping was the result of the fact that he has “a wide stance.”
Hey folks, fun is fun. If I’m just me I probably look at that and have a good laugh. But do you know how many children go to minor league baseball games? It’s supposed to be a family outing. How many awkward questions will be asked about this?
Alas. Alas, dear friends America is being flushed down the toilet. I fear there is nothing left but the gurgle.
May 24, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Monarchy will be the best route to go, after America destroys itself.
Democracy just wasn’t a good idea to begin with. It always leads to depravity by placing the will of the people above all other things.
The will of most people, which becomes the will of the entire nation, is fickle and quite often mistaken.
Common individuals lack the ability of self-government. They can barely even manage American idol. Should we then entrust the world’s affairs to them?
Perhaps, due to certain historical circumstances, a democracy can last for a few centuries, but not much longer. History confirms that all democracies are inherently unstable.
The only thing that supported our democracy was Christianity. It gave us the mores and customs which solidified our society’s position, something which democratic governments, in and of themselves, are incapable of providing.
Separation of Church and State has killed our nation. The primary reason for this is because a true separation is impossible. The State must fuse with a Church.
Morals are based upon religious values, and morals inform laws. Thus, it seems to me that a government will bond with whatever religious institution informs its laws most. Since we have exiled Christ from the public square, the new state religion has become Secularism.
The only problem? Secularism refuses to consider itself a religion, like all the other “tolerated” faiths. It is the truth, in its view. We are the lie, the inconvenient delusion that must be swept aside.
The only hope for our civilization right now is a re-institution of monarchy, and a fusion between the Catholic Church and the state.
If we are indeed the truth, we should be making the laws of the land.
May 24, 2008 at 11:38 pm
let me guess, the first monarch would be…uhm…you?
May 25, 2008 at 7:08 am
The founding fathers of the United States, at least Adams and Franklin, I believe, deplored the idea of democracy. That is why this country was founded as a republic. They knew, however, that it would probably degenerate into a democracy, and feared for the future. Well, it’s here. Of course, the founding fathers were allergic to monarchy, having just had the short end of the scepter, but perhaps we would have been better off as a constitutional monarchy, with an elected representative parliament and firm controls in place against the mob rule of unrestrained democracy. Although, it hasn’t done the Brits much good. Oh, well.
May 27, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Eo…
“Democracy just wasn’t a good idea to begin with”
You know, after I have done some reading on the history of Athens (which is given the credit for “Democracy”), and their decline and fall, and Alcibiades being the poster child of that decline, I think you might be on to something here.