Chris Matthews hates freedom

He doesn't like states' rights. Of course, anyone who says "nullification" is a racist. Good grief.



Allow me to tear his amusingly silly arguments to pieces.

First off, he says "Who does she think she is, John Calhoun?" I wish! He'd come in handy right now.

Apparently, Martin Luther King Jr. is an authority on what nullification means. Riiiight. Hey, Matthews, all these "firearms freedom" acts are nullification. Last I checked, the second amendment wasn't racist. This guy is utterly clueless. So what if some freakshow racist governor said favorable things about nullification 40 FREAKIN' YEARS AGO?! That doesn't make it racist.

One of the other folks with him talks about the "racial aspect" of secession/nullification. What racial aspect? It has nothing to do with race at all! Unless you count the fact that for some obscure, probably silly reason certain people associate states' rights with racism even though it is purely political. The New England states in the 1800's favored secession. Last I checked, they didn't have slaves. Another claim was that if Democrats were running around screaming "SECESSION!" they would be denounced as anti-American. Wrong. It's called Vermont. Y'know, little obscure state in the Northeast, trying to secede, filled with, um, FLAMING LIBERALS. And yet, by most secessionists, they are admired despite their liberal ideas. And to top the insanity off, Matthews, a liberal and major Obama worshipper, comments that people who support secession/nullification think they are more American than people who want to abide by the Constitution. My response: Hey, genius, where ya been for the past 250 years? You're the one who is abusing the Constitution. Nullification and secession are specifically to GET RID OF unconstitutional laws. Frankly, secession is fully justified as of right now. Nullification is nice, but secession is better.

Finally, I would like to make one last statement. Hey, Matthews, ever heard of these neat little things called the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions? By Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. What? Never heard of 'em? How 'bout the Declaration of Independence? It's a document of secession, and arguably the most American document ever written. Stop making silly blanket statements. I'm not racist, nobody I know personally who supports secession is racist. Do your research next time.

As an amusing side note, somebody pointed out that one of the guys says that the Texas voters aren't a diverse crowd. He says this while on a show with two other white, liberal, middle aged guys. Go figure.

Why I Like the Discovery Channel

Given the choice between my three favorite channels, History, National Geographic, and Discovery, I would pick Discovery hands-down. Why? For a lot of reasons.

Reason #1: Bigger variety.
The Discovery channel has a far larger variety of subjects than the other two, from Dirty Jobs to Survivor Man.

Reason #2: Reliably good programs.
With Discovery, you know what to expect. From Mythbusters and Timewarp, you know you'll get lots of explosions and more than likely laughs. From Man vs Wild and Survivor Man, you can expect good information and a lot of "Gross, did he actually eat that?!" It's very consistent.

Reason #3: You actually learn something.
I'm not kidding. You finish an episode of, say, Mythbusters, and you feel like you just watched a really good comedy. You then realize, "Hey, I didn't know that before!"

Reason #4: They're not shoving a freaking agenda down your throat every other show.
This is one of the biggest reasons. On NatGeo or History, nearly every show is throwing an agenda of some kind in your face. The agenda ranges from environmental fanaticism to big-government propoganda to Darwinist lies. With Discovery, of course there's a bias, but it's far harder to detect. They mention evolution a lot, but they don't shove it in your face like National Geographic. There's also pretty much no anti-human lean like on the others. Instead of promoting an agenda, it appears dedicated to proving what they state in one of their commercials: "The world is just awesome." No government propoganda here, folks!

Obama Teleprompter Mutiny!!!

This is to funny. You'll have trouble bringing yourself to watch this video if you get embarassed for the person (like I do), but after watching, you'll want to see it again and again and share it with the world.

Whale Wars

Animal Planet has started a new series known as "Whale Wars." I had seen something about environmentalists boarding a Japanese whaling ship on Youtube, so I suspected that they may be the same thing. Unfortunately, I was right. The story goes something like this: The co-founder of Greenpeace apparently also helped start a group to protect whales from, well, whalers. So far, so good. The group called themselves the Sea Shepherds, and have several ships operating in different areas, at least that's what they imply on the show. All I've seen is about the Antarctic unit, ship named the Steve Irwin. Here's where things go illegal. They desperately want to stop Japanese whaling, which is currently being done under the title "scientific research", which makes it legal, even if no one believes them. However, the Sea Shepherds wanted to stop it by less-than-legal means. All the following can be seen on the show. The Steve Irwin chased down one of the Japs' ships. They then launched a small boat equipped with lots of small packets filled with a type of acid powder and a huge coil of rope. The boat came up alongside the ship,and the goons started throwing the packets onto the ship. ILLEGAL. One type of the powder makes it too slippery to walk, and the other leaves an awful reek for days. The boat then pulled in front of the ship, and dropped the rope with the intention of fouling the ship's propeller and stopping it. ILLEGAL. The fouler missed, so they performed their next stunt with the ship moving. They launched the boat again, and two of the people on board actually BOARDED the Japanese ship. They didn't ahve weapons, but boarding a ship is always illegal. Of course, they're saving whales, so Animal Planet's portraying them as heroes, leaving out the fact that next to nothing they're doing is legal.