This story about the "Mexican" drug cartel went on for 7 minutes and 46 seconds and I don't believe that I heard it mentioned once that it is actually Americans who are buying all these drugs. It is largely Americans selling these drugs. Oh, I am so pissed. Don't get me started on Mexican drug violence and the hype around whether or not it will hit is here, in the US, where good, hard-working white people live! I mean if a bunch of Mexicans want to kill themselves for the right to sell Americans drugs, all well and good, just as long as the do it in Mexico, where that kind of thing belongs.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggg!
But then, when I clicked on over to the NPR page, I was confronted with this:
Kelly and Jeff Swanson, who are part of the Quiverfull movement, have seven children. But when they first got married, they didn't want children — until they found out that the Bible was high on big families. And then they decided to stop "controlling" themselves.Apparently there are people out their who feel it is their divine duty to have as many children as possible so that the Muslims don't out-breed the Christians. Read it and weep. I did.
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Dave, if you think reading the transcript was sad and scary, you should listen to the story. Even scarier to hear those view actually articulated. I almost wrecked the car listening to that story on the way to work this a.m.
I'm with Ash -- this was the first story that I was completely awake for this morning. Needless to say, I was MUCH more awake after the story. I wanted to scream.
Moving from a story on drugs to the Quiverfull movement by invoking the Bible being "high" was a masterstroke, my friend. This is why we blog. Or at least read yours.
But... but.... this is what balance means in the context of 21st-century American journalism!
What are you, some sort of dirty communist? Don't you love America?
The most amazing thing about that story is that Christianity is apparently genetic. I had no idea!
Also, I think you should let screwing off the hook. Screwing is not the problem here (tho tossing a little contraception into the mix would undoubtedly be a good idea for many, many reasons). It sounds like having sex is one of the few "normal" impulses these people have!
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