Life apparently handed me a quirky
twist of fate, because my initials are
also those of the term, rat bastard.
I prefer not to make routine use of words bordering upon the profane,
but since fate seems to have awarded me the usage of r and b -- and I suppose
I'll have to claim rhythm & blues for myself at some other time -- I
want to take full advantage of the term by offering my own awards this
week. Thus, this week my Robert Barrow's Rat Bastard Awards go to:
1. The Obama Administration. Surprised?
Of course not. The president who
repeatedly professes a willingness to negotiate with Congress lies because he
won’t and often says he won’t. Who
decided up front to shut down the Word War II memorial in D.C. and various
parks? Obama. Who punished military academies by shutting
down travel to the Naval Academy to watch the Air Force vs. Navy? Obama. Who (tried to) put a stop on allowing military folks overseas to watch football from Armed Forces TV?
Who prohibited military clergy from ministering to military members
during the shutdown? Obama. Who did everything possible to close down,
especially and specifically, things that would hurt Americans – and children --
and make them suffer, though not closing down his own golf course? Obama.
As one park ranger was heard to say, they were told to make things as
miserable as possible for visitors.
Enough said. A rat bastard
Administration if ever I saw one, constructed and maintained on lies.
Last week, I phoned
a congressional office in Washington, D.C. and spoke with a staffer. After explaining why I thought the
hell-and-damnation stuff firmly belongs in Democrat laps regarding the
shutdown, I mentioned my outrage at the WW II memorial being barricaded. He interrupted me by reminding me that yes,
but the barricade had been taken away "so that World War II veterans could
visit the site under their First Amendment rights." At that point I replied yes, I knew the
barriers were down -- and also that I heard on one news program after another
that the vets were able to see the memorial under First Amendment rights.
Given that, I
said, if First Amendment rights belong not only to veterans, but to every
American, how come everybody can't visit the memorial now? The stunned congressional staffer responded
that this was a good question and nobody had asked it before. Well, said I, maybe it would be a good
question to ask his boss, the congressman.
So -- if I'm
nobody's political genius, but can ask a question that stumps a
congressional government staffer. . .how much trouble are we in?
2. The President and Harry Reid. I've rarely heard such a succession of snotty
speeches from government officials.
Obama's talk-down-to-you lectures are just rude and hateful, and Reid's
are simply rude and stupid. They and
their supporters are obviously in such a snit over the fact that few Americans
want "Obamacare" that they'll do anything to get their way. The president is obligated to negotiate, and
campaigned on negotiating, but won't negotiate with anybody except foreign
folks who may not be acting in our best interests. Rat bastards occupy the White House.
3. Governor Jerry Brown. His decision to allow illegal criminal rat
bastard aliens in California to have driver's licenses, topped off with his
proclamation that this is "just the beginning," qualifies the
governor as a true violator of American constitutional principles and a
generally all-around genuine rat bastard.
When will these renegade government officials and romancers of
"sanctuary cities," all of whom have taken an oath to defend the
Constitution, go to trial and see considerable fines and prison time? The only remedy on the horizon may be the Tea
Party, growing in popularity and not nearly as "extreme" as White
House rat bastards, scurrying in fear, would have us think.
4. The Mainstream Media. I'm thinking particularly of ABC, NBC and its
cable affiliates, and CBS, and don't forget PBS, but they're hardly alone. I used to dismiss those who claimed the
network news departments and large city newspapers were in the bag for the
Democrats -- until I started paying close attention. Desert vultures would die of thirst waiting
for kind words or stories complimentary to Republicans, Independents,
Libertarians or anything that isn't Democrat.
In the bag? You bet. Probably the biggest rat bastards in the
nation. As major newspapers and
commercial TV networks continue to suck and die all over the country because of
the outrageously political partisan lies and kisses they keep feeding to a
public which may indeed slowly be catching on, we only hope political rat
bastards keep their hands off the Internet -- where at least some truth yet
lies.
5. New York City Democrats. Heck, they've always been rat
bastards, but they have a mayoral candidate who is truly a communist and actually wants to rule beyond
mere communism. This guy wants even
higher taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and his goals are sure to push many more
businesses out of the city. If you
entertain plans to move to NY City because it's "exciting" or
"fascinating" or something, may we suggest that you go elsewhere
(Hell might be nice)? The state itself
is a bullet train wreck, and since the Democrat candidate almost seems assured
(per the polls) to be elected by a majority of NYC morons who crave both
socialism and nails in the coffins which used to be their lives of economic and
entrepreneurial freedom, they're likely gonna get what they want. Between rat bastards and characteristically
giant NY City rats, I wonder how they can tell one from the other.
6. The Perpetrators of Gun-Free Zones. We already know that most of those with
firearm evil on their minds purposely seek out gun-free zones because the risk
to their lives and intent is negligible.
However, there's word out there that, of all mass shootings since the
1950s, all but two occurred in gun-free areas.
If true, this is shocking and makes advocates for gun-free zones even
bigger rat bastards (and negligent homicide proponents?) than they already
are. I'm no NRA member, but even I
realize that this country was born at the end of a gun, and it can only perish
with the absence of guns..
7. The United Nations. Since I was a kid I've heard how the UN is
the world's greatest hope. Anybody
notice the world lately? The UN is much
too costly at our end and populated by rat bastards who look upon the United
States as nothing more than a conglomerate of fools passing out taxpayer
money. If they really want to be useful,
have each delegate take a million or so of our illegal immigrants back to their
home countries, and don't forget the extremist Islam crowd.
8. School Boards. Some of these folks, not the students (and in
many cases, probably not the teachers who have to enforce this absurdity), need
to be taken to the woodshed. For one
thing, shame on them if they didn't lift a finger to fight Common Core,
an idiotic "education" and testing system obviously developed and instituted by both academic and
government rat bastards. Further, any
school board members who think it's just fine to punish a child playing
cops-and-robbers or making a "finger gun" -- or making something
vaguely resembling a gun out of a breakfast pastry -- need to be removed at
once. From coast to coast, my oh my,
what an established effort grinds forth to make kids fear and hate
firearms. Rather than teaching kids to respect
such weapons, the concerted drive among progressive rat bastards infesting the
public school system is to shame, punish and remove any thoughts that firearms
can be one's best friend. My
suggestion: Of course, the best thing
would be for outraged parents to get together and sue the school boards so
they'll, we hope, get an expensive message.
Otherwise, whenever these little punishment incidents regarding play or
art over non-existent weapons pop up, parents at the involved school should
consider banding together to encourage all their children to repeat the
"offense" in unison on a particular day and time -- and make sure to
have press coverage standing by at the school so the shame factor can be
properly directed to educational rat bastards who seem more concerned with
punishing than educating.
9. Me. No specific reason, I simply wanted to award myself an RB before somebody else nominates me.
