Posted on 08/26/2007 8:05:12 AM PDT by McLynnan
Ted Nugent: Opinions? No, just the facts
By Ted Nugent, Texas Wildman
Sunday, August 26, 2007
I admit right up front — I didn't graduate from college.
I was too busy learning stuff, traveling the world, creating a firestorm of rock-'n'-roll R&B and seeing the way things are.
I fancy myself a human sponge for information, facts, data, wisdom and truth.
I am convinced that quality of life comes as a direct result of learning good over bad, smart over stupid, responsible over irresponsible, and the making of pragmatic decisions based on evidence to that effect.
Bottom line is, I am a rather humble guy, not cocky enough to pontificate on my "opinions," but rather examine information, cross-reference all that I can dig up and draw conclusions based on corroborating empirical evidence.
For example, I'm not foolish enough to play with fire, use tobacco, drink and drive, eat garbage like a pig, point guns at anything I'm not willing to destroy, commit crimes or play around with meth or crack.
I not only learn by my mistakes, but from those of others as well. The jury is not still out on the error of these ways. It's over rover.
So, as I kneel and pray each day for a stronger, better America, I find myself conducting more and more media interviews, speaking to a lot of youth groups and various schools across this great land.
I am astounded at the abject denial regarding certain self-evident truths, a denial that is a surefire recipe for serious injury, ruined lives, premature death and a dangerously susceptible America.
Convenient denial on any given subject will create an atmosphere of general denial where you can more easily pretend, for example, that smoking or chewing tobacco isn't really substance abuse and you can go right along killing yourself while charging others for your health care. Unbelievable.
Irrefutable list
So, here's a list of facts that may or may not be argued, but all are irrefutable, and the fact that an argument exists on any of them proves that fantasy is for fools who are more than happy to see America come to her knees.
* Water is wet. Venison is food. Tobacco use kills more Americans than anything. Drinking and driving is self-inflicted terrorism.
* God gave me the right to defend myself.
* Tofu production kills more living things than any other activity on earth.
* Paul McCartney took too much acid.
* Trapping bans don't work. Hunting bans don't work. Gun bans don't work. Gun-free zones are a recipe for innocent slaughter.
* Guns are harmless, inanimate objects.
* Pathetic people not willing to defend themselves cannot dictate such soulless policy upon those of us who know we must.
* American education fails to teach many children to read, write, spell, balance a checkbook or talk.
* The Internal Revenue Service is horrendously wasteful, unaccountable and unconstitutional.
* Dope destroys lives. Meth users are American terrorists.
* The No. 1 threat to a black American's life is a black American.
* Kids that don't do chores are a liability to family and America.
* People who don't care about their health don't deserve health care.
* Good is superior to evil. Smart is better than dumb. Activism is the duty of anyone claiming to be part of an experiment in self-government. A work ethic is far superior to laziness.
* Barbecued dead animals are perfect, natural and delicious.
* Love conquers hate. Patience teaches much more than immediate gratification. Clean is better than dirty.
* War is the answer against terror and evil. In WWII, America was the good guy, the Japanese and Nazis were the bad guys. You cannot negotiate with evil.
* The war on poverty is a joke. Pimps, whores and welfare brats are not legitimate job descriptions.
* Trees produce wood for many quality and proper uses.
* There are more deer, bear, mountain lion, geese, wild hogs and wild turkey in North America than at any time in recorded history.
* Child molesters cannot be fixed.
* The government gets more profit from gasoline taxes than the oil corporations do per gallon.
* Rock-'n'-roll is sexier than C&W. Guitars are cooler than keyboards.
* It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
* People who can't speak clear English or mumble and carry themselves badly will have a hard time achieving the American Dream.
* Hippies stink.
* People who litter are rude pigs.
I think you get the picture. Obviously, this is a grossly incomplete list of some of the more obvious facts of life.
But if we are to honestly examine this sampling, you will see facts that are to this day disputed, all in the name of "feelgood" denial.
Ted Nugent is a Waco-based musician and television show host.
Probably more deer than bears but I’ve spent every summer of my life in Maine and in all the years, I’ve seen more bear than deer. My sister hit a bear on 95, just above Bangor 2 years ago. Major damage to the car. The guy that stopped to help her said “Are you *sure* it was a bear???” and she said “I may be from away but I KNOW a bear when I see one!”
When he pulled huge swatches of bear fur from her grill, he believed her!
Paul McCartney took acid One time. He did not like it.Ted is getting old in more ways than one.
BTW Im sorry for you loss
LOL
I hit a wild turkey - couldn't believe the huge chunk it took out of the grill. But I got a lot of great feathers - and a meal.
Amen. Maybe that’s the reason the vast majority of Paul’s tunes since the Beatles sucks so much. I like Ted’s guitar work and agree with his political opinions almost completely, plus he has the right to rant as much as he wants to and piss off the left. They have the audacity to whine about what he says after all the hate filled, arrogant seditious and treasonous crap that they spout off all the time. Go for it Ted, and rub their faces in it!!!
Soybeans are the most heavily pesticide sprayed food crop so perhaps he was referring to that.
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/wildlife/soybeans_wildlife.html
[Just a wild-@ssed guess. Who knows *what* is at the “center of his mind”?].....:)
By far, the greatest keyboardist, and the one that elevated it to guitar-level coolness is Keith Emerson. One of the greatest MUSICIANS of rock as well.
You think so? Not me. Besides, Paul's been a pothead for over 40 years. That by itself will kill off most of your brain cells.
I didn't realize that smoking related diseases are the only type of illness that requires medical attention. Without smokers.....who would be paying for your "children's" health care? Don't kid yourself......the federal government would collapse without the money it steals from smokers.
Sorry......I forgot to state that you sound like a pathetic liberal.
He didn’t say the government should do anything about those.
Just because someone thinks an activity is dumb/stupid/dangerous doesn’t mean they think it should be outlawed.
1. If they want to make steel when they are stoned, they should be able to do it, just ship it to China.
2. The illegal activities you describe are going to be alot easier once they stop smashing in doors on specious information regarding possesion. We could catch and incarcerate far more real felons, like murderers and rapists, if we treated the drug epidemic as a public health issue rather than a criminal one.
September is bear hunting season in Maine, yes?
Odd thing is, I was asking about bear hunting last night form a Maine transplant. Must have bears on the brain.
To some extent you are very right about smokers. ON the other hand, an equally, if not worse behavior, male homo practices have had more per capita spending afforded them than any other group, bar none.
“Soybeans are the most heavily pesticide sprayed food crop so perhaps he was referring to that.”
I have been growing soybeans for a few decades. In some years, roundup is all that I ever use. In others, I have used a bit of residual herbicide, but never an insecticide.
Fruits and vegetables have far more herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides than any cereal grain. And, for the record, golf courses use more pesticides/acre than any ag application on the planet.
I didn't see him say anything about banning tobacco or drugs. Just that they cost lives.
Nothing "nanny-statist" about that.
Can you deny it, or are these, as Ted plainly states at the beginning of this editorial piece, facts proven by empirical edidence?
Mark
A lot of areas are being forced to consider reinstating hunting for bears and other large predators, for the simple reason that they're encroaching back into populated areas. I know that there are TONS of wild turkeys in my area, same with deer. And I also know that there are now mountain lions in the area, and they're here because of all the deer! I didn't think that mountain lions were ever really native to the Kansas City area, but they've been seen near the KU campus, in Lawrence, and there are lots of caves in North KC, and it seems that they like those.
For years people had tried to convince the MO Department of Conservation that there were mountain lions running around here, but they just "poo-poo'd" the reports. Then, a few years ago, during morning rush hour, a deer went bounding across I-435 closely chased by a mountain lion, which was hit by a truck and killed. Sort of hard to deny at that point.
Mark
Really? I know that my company's health insurance coverage doesn't ask anywhere whether you smoke or not. At least 1/4 of the people where I work are smokers, and to the best of my knowledge, none have ever been refused health care or coverage from the insurance company. And given the way people whine about every little thing where I work, I would have heard, had it happened.
Mark
But anyone who tries to pretend that it is NOT a dangerous substance that kills and sickens tens of thousands of people is worse than a fool - they are the moral equivalent of someone who sells crack or meth on a school playground and argues there is no data showing it’s bad. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
I used to smoke. As with ANY other substance - do whatever the hell you want, just don’t ask me to pay the cost of it. Let the marketplace decide. My ONLY beef with tobacco is that smokers have this self righteous delusion that they should be treated differently than other drug users. Tobacco, weed, coke booze - I don’t care who does what (until they impact someone else’s life) but when cigarette smokers come off like they are morally superior to dope smokers just because THEIR drug of choice has a more effective political lobby then I feel free to ridicule the habit.
Thanks for the spelling correction! Illegal drug dealers and users are real felons. And account for a large percentage of the STEALING that goes on.
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