Perplexin’

In case you didn’t know, Clayton Lockett died in Oklahoma from a heart attack.  Lockett was not supposed to succumb to a heart attack; rather he should have died from a lethal injection of drugs administered by the state of Oklahoma.  You see, his vein collapsed and so, the lethal drug cocktail failed.  His crime was that he kidnapped, beat and shot a nineteen year-old woman who, was subsequently buried alive.

 

It seems that Lockett had many supporters who continue to champion his right to live.  Unfortunately, those same protesting pukes don’t feel an aborted baby has the same right to live.  Perplexin’.

 

Speaking of rights, we continually hear about a right to housing, an education, speech, liberty, life, gun ownership, welfare, clean air, and health care.  We also hear about the right to happiness and freedom.  This is where you are supposed to insert a right to not wear a seatbelt in your car.  It’s your car, your seatbelt, and your life.  Still, the powers-that-be tell you what you must do in your car – in the name of safety.

 

But, if you ride a motorcycle in many states, you don’t have to wear a helmet for safety.  Perplexin’.

 

Again, folks have so many great ideas to include ways to interpret and improve on The Constitution.  Lately, we’ve heard stories about mentally ill people using guns to kill innocent others, and the guaranteed call for tighter gun control.  Although there are over 22,000 gun-related laws on the books in America, one more law will likely prevent another senseless killing.  The oft heard proposed law is to make all private sales subject to background checks.

 

That idea is really swell, however when it comes to performing background checks on illegal aliens – those people are law breakers – we don't because sleazy politicians don’t want to hurt the feelings of these felons.

 

And while we’re on the subject of hurting feelings of criminals and foreigners, Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration in Mexico.  It marks the country’s fighting off the French in a bid for independence.  Northern California schools banned the wearing of American flags on Cinco de Mayo by American students.  This was a weak attempt to stifle freedom of speech and a spineless way to avoid any controversy; remember all those rights in paragraph three?

 

American students were banned from wearing clothing depicting the American flag so as not to hurt the national pride of the illegal aliens using our schools, classroom, books, roads, getting welfare, free phones, housing, medical care, and all the rights bestowed on Americans – without paying tax dollars for these benefits.  Perplexin’.

 

Recall a time when people smoked cigarettes at home, the office, school, supermarkets, cars, the beach, on the street, and airplanes.  All was fine until the Surgeon General, C. Everett Coop, felt all smoking should immediately cease.  The press began and smoking cigarettes was demonized to the point of near criminalization.  Taxes on cigarette products was raised to astronomical levels to discourage smoking, and smoking inside one’s home and car were made illegal in many jurisdictions.

 

Good news looms on the horizon, though.  Smoking is back in style and even encouraged but, this time it is marijuana which, until just a few months ago, would garner a person years in jail.  Perplexin’.

 

Finally, we hear, ad nauseum, hapless President Barack Hussein Obama preach about the Affordable Care Act – also known as ObamaCare – which promises to be a total failure to health care.  Opponents to this bill are ardently trying to reverse this mess created by professional bureaucrats to manage and strangle the populace by regulating food, drink, and exercise lifestyles.  We also hear that this bill is law.  Period.  You cannot change the law.  Period.

 

Unless you are those same bureaucrats and are wholeheartedly trying to repeal the Second Amendment to The Constitution, the law is the law.  In the case of the 2^nd Amendment, constitutional lawyer Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden (he’s the one wearing the helmet in case of an oafish fall,) all is fair game.  We repeatedly hear that the Second Amendment needs to be repealed.  Perplexin’.