How can you tell if someone is truly on the far left of the political spectrum? Their sense of humor.
One of two circumstances exist for leftists. Either they have no sense of humor, cannot take or make a joke and find life around them anything but funny. Or the humor they attempt is so warped and infantile that it is impossible to believe that it came from a mature adult human being.
Those on the left think it is funny to advocate the assassination of leaders they do not agree with, make comments about race if they are attacking a black person not on their side of the political divide or demean the spouses and children of those they hate.
Hate is the key word. Real humor is not motivated by hate yet the far left brand of humor is anchored in deep and abiding hate. It is a sick and twisted usage of one of the more positive attributes of human nature.
Below is an example from the world headquarters of the far left, San Francisco. The concept has some humor to it but the fact that action is being taken to make it a reality goes way past the humor line and ventures far into hate territory. Viewed from the outside looking in it is clearly a hateful and childish exercise that will ultimately bring further shame and embarrassment to the City by the Bay.
Ironically, for most San Franciscans and for most all of the rest of the nation, this is really just standard operating procedure. Or as they like to say in the military, this is SNAFU.
An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
By JESSE McKINLEY
SAN FRANCISCO — Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital (and a state, too). But President Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.
From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president.”
Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.
“Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs,” said Brian McConnell, an organizer who regularly suits up as Uncle Sam to solicit signatures. “So it is important for satirists to help define their history rather than letting them define their own history.”
Not surprisingly, those Republicans in a city that voted 83 percent Democratic in 2004 are not thrilled with the idea. Howard Epstein, chairman of the ever-outnumbered San Francisco Republican Party, called the initiative “an abuse of process.”
“You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea,” Mr. Epstein said, “and want to put on the ballot as a big joke without regard to the city’s governance or cost.”
The renaming would take effect on Jan. 20, when the new president is sworn in. And regardless of the measure’s outcome, supporters plan to commemorate the inaugural with a synchronized flush of hundreds of thousands of San Francisco toilets, an action that would send a flood of water toward the plant, now called the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.
“It’s a way of doing something physical that’s mentally freeing,” said Stacey Reineccius, 45, a software consultant and entrepreneur who supports the plan.
“It’s a weird thing, but it’s true.”
Taken from (surprise): The New York Times