Bentley vs. Rolls

An age old question among motorheads:

Which is better, a Bentley or a Rolls?

I submit that it's a Rolls, but not for the reasons you might expect.

Now we have a new Governor in Alabama. Remember George Wallace? He was from Alabama too.

Welcome the new guy, Robert Bentley.

Just when we thought we had enough idiots, we get this new one.

On the day of his inauguration he is quoted as saying, "Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother.”

Obviously Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists are dismayed. But what about everybody else? How about just everybody, period? (and does he get a partial pass for saying that he wants to be my "brother"...? No, I don't think so Laddie)

Why does a guy, albeit a retired dermatologist, not know that what he said will piss people off? Maybe not like-minded morons who only see people who are just like them but the rest of the population who understands that differences of religion and economic status and levels of education and skin color are simply that (you'd think he'd get the skin color thing at least...dermatology...skin...
get it Governor?)

Differences. They don't make you bad or good. There are plenty of assholes in any corner of the planet. White, black, yellow, red, brown, Jew, Christian, rich, poor, educated and unschooled. Well maybe there are more educated rich white guys who are jerks than other groups but that misses the point (from a report at MSNBC: "Employees at Goldman earned an average of $430,700 each in 2010, down 13.5 percent from 2009 but still more than eight times as much as the average U.S. household income." That just makes you want to scream, doesn't it...unless you are an educated, rich, white guy, in which case...my sincere apologies, Pal-o-mine...can you spare a dime?)

The last thing we need is a person in authority, an elected official, running off at the mouth about intolerance. We need people in positions of power who see the potential in all of us, in spite of the differences among us.

Two heads are better than one but only if both heads are full of hope and possibility not prejudice and ignorance.

I wonder if the Governor realizes that Jesus was a Jew? What would he say if he knew that? He must know that. He can't be that stupid. Well, can he?

What is it with our Governors anyway? First Alaska (Palin), then Arizona (Brewer), now Alabama (Bentley). What? Are we going alphabetically? Arkansas (Beebe) must be next. Three down, forty seven to go.

"Sweet Home Alabama"

Great hook in a classic rock song.

I guess the greatness stops there. Where's Neil Young when we need him...?