Cold Dead Career

     A clown purposely acts the fool to make people laugh and to generally entertain. A buffoon acts the fool unknowingly. While "actor" and "comedian" Jim Carrey may think he is the former, it is the latter description which best suits his buffoonish antics that he passes off as clever political commentary. The most recent offering of buffoonery, clumsily disguised as relevant commentary, from the attention-starved actor who has recently made more bombs than an artillery factory during wartime, is a "music video."
     Mr. Carrey's latest attempt to significantly lower the collective intelligence of our culture is a music video entitled, "Cold Dead Hand." In it, the man who once lived out of his car and is quickly on his way to replaying that role to critical acclaim, mocks gun owners in general and the deceased actor Charlton Heston specifically. The comically impotent Mr. Carrey perpetuates Leftist ignorance about gun-rights advocates as all being tobacco-chewing, pick-up driving, backwoods dwellers who marry their cousins and carry shotguns wherever they go. He also engages in one of the most cowardly acts imaginable, i.e., attacking the dead who can no longer defend themselves.
     I wonder if Mr. Carrey understands that many more people are killed every year by the government's fuel mileage standards than by gun violence. And that two-thirds of all gun deaths in the United States are suicides. I also wonder if the woefully uninformed Jim Carrey understands that the so-called assault weapons ban we had in this country for over 10 years was proven not to have lowered gun violence at all. I'm sure, with his limited ability to comprehend, that Mr. Carrey doesn't understand that gun violence has actually decreased in this country in the last twenty years at the same time the number of guns privately owned has dramatically increased. Mr. Carrey is obviously ignorant of the fact that many more crimes are prevented with the proper use of a firearm than are committed by the criminal use of such weapons.
     I'm sure that Mr. Carrey doesn't care about the facts and statistical evidence that disproves the driving force behind his childish outburst. And lest anyone out there forgot, it was Jim Carrey who was a visible opponent of childhood vaccinations a few years ago when the loony Left in Hollywood, as well as elsewhere, thought that the minuscule amounts of mercury in the drugs to help stabilize them was causing Autism. But there was no public ridicule of Mr. Carrey and others who leaped before they had all the facts. How many children died as a result of their idiot parents refusing to have them vaccinated on the advice of Hollywood hacks like Jim Carrey.
     Why doesn't Jim Carrey make a video about all the gang violence in Chicago or any other big city for that matter? Or How about a video from the brave and clever Mr. Carrey about Islamist extremists?  These two scourges on human existence kill more people in a year than all the gun violence in the last 20 years. No, I think Mr. Carrey's real impetus for the video was not to make a difference in reducing gun violence, but to revive his "Cold Dead Career."

Chris Rock Insults The Founders

     This week comedian and woefully uninformed political commentator, Chris Rock, stated that Barack Obama is like the father of the country. This statement is at the same time frightening in its ignorance of our founding principles and illustrative of the twisted and demented view that the Left has of government as a benevolent parent as opposed to a servant of the people. But Mr. Rock can rest easy in the knowledge that his status of a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance is shared with the 51% of voters who returned Father Obama to the Oval Office for another four years.
     A secondary data point that reveals itself in Chris Rock's statement is his appalling lack of knowledge, not only about the history of his own country, but that of every other one throughout time that has had a tyrant's boot print stamped upon its collective conscious. Even a casual observer of history would recognize that the only governments that portend a parental posture towards those they govern are tyrannical in nature. Or perhaps Mr. Rock went to a school that didn't teach the horrors of Stalin, Mao, Castro or Hitler. Perhaps in Chris Rock's school these oppressors were seen as liberators and, dare I say it, father figures.
     Chris Rock's view of government, and that of others on the Left, runs against the grain of the republican system of government for which the founders of this great nation fought a bloody revolution. They would be appalled at the president, or any other public servant, being referred to as a father. The father and mother of a family are benevolent dictators whose decisions are not decided on by democratic process. There is no consideration in a well-functioning family for the peoples(children's) voice to be heard in the questioning of the choices made by the father and mother. Chris Rock thinks that as the father of the country, Barack Obama should not be questioned. But I wonder if he felt the same way about George W. Bush when he was president.
     What those on the Left like the uninformed Mr. Rock do not understand is that any latitude with regards to power that they wish to bestow upon Barack Obama, must also be transferred to the next president when Mr. Obama leaves office in January of 2017. And that president may not agree with Chris Rock on a whole host of issues. This is the reason that the founders very wisely limited the power of the federal government specifically and divided that limited power among the three branches of government. It was an attempt to avoid one person from becoming a "father."
     Sadly, Chris Rock and many others on the Left don't understand that individual liberty depends on the people having a government that serves them by protecting their freedoms, not by parenting them. Many people in this country have bought into the gilded cage ideology of Chris Rock and others, whereby the government gives them everything they want, but at the same time takes away everything they have or could hope to have.