Fresh from the Mind of McPhitty

If I Were President… #2

What can I say, the country’s officially in the crapper.  Let’s face it, we live in a Socialist state, we just haven’t realized it yet, but if I were President, I would support business, and the Constitution.  So just for the heck of it, here are a few more platform points:

  • Taxes
    • No VAT in America - VAT (Value Added Tax) is a really bad idea, it is being pitched as essentialy a national sales tax, but it is far more subtle, opaque, and insidious than that. VAT is a tax that is added to the price of goods throughout the manufacturing process. Tha means that stuff would cost more, and that the process would be completely opaque to the average consumer. This is a recipe for unbridled Government greed, and economic disaster. Now a national sales tax is not necessarily a bad thing, but it should be a retail sales tax, and it should only be implemented in exchange for the permanent abolition of income tax.
  • Social Issues
    • Same-Sex Marriage - There’s really no question here, this is not a civil rights issue. Marriage has always been a sacred institution between one man and one woman. This fundamental societal unit should be protected. The only way to do this is through an ammendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such an ammendment would not prevent individual states from allowing civil unions. Re-defining marriage in any way is a really bad idea, it opens the flood gates and makes anything anyone wants to do perfectly acceptable. So if someone wants to marry an animal, that’s OK, if someone wants to marry their brother/sister/cousin, well who can say that’s wrong. If an adult wanted to “marry” a child, that too would have to be accepted. Don’t believe me, it’s already happening, Google “triad marriage”. We need a Federal Marriage Ammendment NOW!

OK, let the flaming arrows fly.

No more blue Sno-Cones?!?

I just heard on Fox & Friends this morning that the Kansas City Zoo will no longer be selling blue Sno-Cones.  Now Blue Raspberry happens to be my favorite Sno-Cone flavor, so I’m obviously distraught about this news.  Now why is the zoo no longer serving blue Sno-Cones?  Is it because people don’t like blue? No, it’s because their employees are too stupid to read the labels on the syrup bottles.  Yes, that’s right, a zoo employee couldn’t tell the difference between Blue Raspberry Sno-Cone flavoring and industrial cleaner.  This mistake caused the poisoning of several zoo patrons.  Of course, the bottles are clearly labelled, so if the employee had been able to read, this never would have happened.  Really, is it that hard to read product labels?  OK, I’m done ranting, leave your comments.