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Topic: Barack Obama
Monkeys with Grenades

Dumb and waaaay dumber.
by Philip Hodson
(libertarian)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Imagine going to the zoo. Imagine walking through the park to the monkey cages. Imagine setting up a television and playing a video for the monkeys. The monkeys come to the fronts of their cages to see what you are doing. Monkeys are smart and process visual information well - they "get it."

You have prepared an instructional video on how to use a hand grenade. Your video starts with close ups of the grenade, showing how to hold it and how to extract the safety pin. It shows a human throwing a grenade.

Then the video shows monkeys throwing grenades and blowing things up. There are scenes from Jumanji of stampeding animals and frightened humans. There are more shots of monkeys having fun - jumping up and down and laughing the monkey-laugh. Boom, boom, boom. Good times! Monkeys running free, causing havoc and getting away with it.

Then imagine that you open up the cages, and, as the monkeys rush to freedom, you hand each one of them a big bag of hand grenades.

Now, imagine that you are watching the evening news on television. Air Force One is rolling slowly down the taxiway. It comes to a stop, and the passenger door opens. Stairs are pushed forward, and a waiting Marine band plays, "Hail to the Chief." Barrack Obama appears in the doorway and starts down the stairs. Behind him, follows the military officer who carries the "nuclear football."

The nuclear football is the popular name for the communications device that allows the president of the United States to launch a nuclear attack, sending bombers, warships or intercontinental ballistic missiles to the certain destruction of whatever fools would dare to mess with us. The senior officer who carries it undergoes the most stringent security investigation. His life is carefully scrutinized. His friends and associates are interviewed in detail. His neighbors and former neighbors are questioned. His employment record is inspected. His relatives are checked. His school records are examined. His driving record and credit history are considered. The slightest deviation from the straight-and-narrow will be detected.

The faintest stain on his life record would disqualify him from the trust of the nation.

There is none!

He has led a faultless life. His moral character is beyond reproach, and properly so. He is entrusted with protection of the NUCLEAR FOOTBALL.

Now consider Barack Obama. He consorts with the most unsavory characters, refuses to release records relevant to his qualifications to be president, and is protected by the superficial press from serious scrutiny of his life history. He cares naught for the constitution he would be bound to honor, were he to be elected. His moral relationship to the officer who carries the nuclear football defies characterization. Barack Obama probably shouldn't be granted a visitors pass to view an air show on a military base. If elected president, however, he will gain access to the nuclear football, merely by demanding it.

Back to the monkeys.

Consider what would happen if you were to actually do such a stupid thing as give hand grenades to monkeys. Well, monkeys don't really throw very well. They certainly don't have intercontinental range, and they couldn't provoke a retaliatory response from elsewhere on the planet. Plus their sense of timing is doubtful. It's unlikely they would understand the urgency of launching the thing once the pin was pulled. Most of them would probably just blow themselves up. The SWAT team would soon arrive to take care of the remaining monkeys.

Then, the authorities would turn to you to ask what you were thinking. You would get a ride downtown for a serious "time out." Your immediate future would be a succession of interrogations and court appearances, culminating in a long prison sentence or an indefinite removal to a mental institution, and properly so. Giving grenades to monkeys would be a reckless, incredibly stupid act.

Back to Obama.

What are the potential worldwide consequences if Obama were to be given access to the nuclear football? Most of the carnage, in the first case, would likely be limited to the monkeys. We are all at risk in the second case. The consequences are unimaginable.

However stupid giving grenades to monkeys may be, putting nuclear weapons at the disposal of Obama is orders of magnitude worse.

Who will pay for this?

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Posted By: Master C
Date: 2008-10-29 21:53:25

Dear Phil,

Man, have YOU got an ITCH that's gotta be SCRATCHED!  It's called "Obama". 

Like someone who looks up to MONKEYS, you whip criticisms on Obama like a white slave master of the old days.  "Whip that black man," you call out.  "What did he do?" someone asks.  "He raped white women, stole from the master's house, and he wants to learn to read!  Whip that black man," you yell out again.

 Consorts with the unsavory, refuses to release records, protected by the superficial press, doesn't care about the constitution AT ALL (hates it, wants to throw it away!), and has no moral character.  Hmmmmmm.  Impressive!  Wonder where you got your facts?  Try some of THESE for your list of reasons to whip him some more:

 1) Barack Obama has been scrutinized by magazines, newspapers, radio and tv commentators, other candidates, his opposition, political blogs, and the news media for more than 21 months.  Books have been written both about him and by him, innumerable articles and feature stories have covered every aspect of his life – and his family – so that he has been thoroughly analyzed, discussed, and investigated.

 2) Barack Obama has been in 29 national debates, televised and broadcast by very capable questioners, he toured all 50 states and several special provinces as he went through 53 primary elections so that his views on every issue that someone wanted to question him about were analyzed, discussed, and evaluated. 

3) Barack Obama has put forth very detailed, comprehensive, specific programs on 26 different subjects from energy to poverty to the (so-called) war in Iraq.  He discusses each program in detail, and spells out how it will be funded on his website. 

4) Barack Obama has attracted and recruited very highly-respected and capable people to assist him in running for office and to serve in his administration when he is elected.  These are people with a great depth of understanding and expertise about every subject that he will face as President, both men and women. 

5) Barack Obama has energized new and traditional voters to contribute more money to his campaign than any politician in history, which indicates their support, confidence, and desire to have him serve as our chief executive. 

6) Barack Obama has met with foreign leaders, military leaders, business professionals, and Congressional leaders about our country’s most troubling problems.  He has discussed these issues with them, and offered his opinions as to how to improve them.  

7) Barack Obama, as a member of the US Senate, has had to review spending priorities, budget allocations, and government policies for every kind of national issue from healthcare to bank reform to the (so-called) war in Iraq.

 And, perhaps even more important than these other items,  

8) Barack Obama has NOT voted or supported the moronic positions of the rabid Republican right regarding such issues as abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, original intent of Supreme Court justices, and the (so-called) war in Iraq.

I know that these points won't make ONE BIT OF DIFFERENCE to a white slave owner like you who wants to whip away on this black man who is better EDUCATED, better SPOKEN, better INFORMED, better off FINANCIALLY, and better SUPPORTED by other people than YOU will EVER BE.

My only hope is that he can create a SPECIAL TAX CATEGORY for Philip Hobson so that he can tax you into OBLIVION!   Maybe you could even go LIVE WITH THE MONKEYS whom you seem to admire so much.

Just wishful thinking.

Master C

 

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Posted By: censoredagain
Date: 2008-10-30 10:09:55

Master C no matter what you say you will be lying to say that Mr. Obama has not been honest.  Further you will also be lying if you say Mr. Obama has not been forth coming on many details.

Phil did not write anything that was not true.  I would like to see something about McCain as well but both Mr. McCain and  Mr. Obama are shadier then the dark side of the Moon I will even add Mr. Barr in that same category as well.

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Posted By: David S
Date: 2008-10-30 12:17:47

I agree with the danger of giving that football to Obama but it is equally dangerous if not more so to give it to McCain, the man who goes around singing;

bomb, bomb, bomb

bomb bomb Iran.

What the hell!

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Posted By: Dirty
Date: 2008-10-30 13:29:20

My only hope is that the football carrier has a mind of his own.

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