{"id":44097,"date":"2018-01-18T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=44097"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:30:20","slug":"view-from-the-balcony-and-the-word-of-the-year-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/view-from-the-balcony-and-the-word-of-the-year-is\/","title":{"rendered":"View From the Balcony: And the Word of the Year Is. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING! This article contains multiple uses of the word s**thole. Read at your own risk.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With the aid of a little-known scientific method, researchers have been able to identify and record conversations from the past, as far back in time as the 3rd<\/sup> century A.D. \u00a0About this unprecedented development Dr. Emmett Brown, spokesperson for the group, said, \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of time before we\u2019ll be able to capture ancient t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates<\/em> from even a million years ago. By then we\u2019ll have the means to actually hear these dialogues. Eventually we\u2019ll be able to recreate images from those same times. When we\u2019ve accomplished that we\u2019ll be able to answer some of humanity\u2019s greatest mysteries, like whether or not the poster for the movie One Million Years B.C.<\/em> contains a valid image of an early homo sapiens<\/em> woman, or if Raquel Welch has the most remarkable line of genes known to man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the most notable recovered conversations so far is one between the Native American, Chief Powhaten, and his daughter, Pocahontas. The old chief thought he could overcome most of the obstacles that prevented the Algonquins from being able to co-exist with the Pilgrims. As a part of the deal Pocahontas married the immigrant, John Rolfe. There were eight years of peace. Then the Pilgrims started claiming the land as their own and the Native Americans sent them running with their tails between their legs.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the ship exporting the last of the Pilgrims sailed out of sight, Pocahontas said to her father, \u201cPardon my French, Daddy, but I hope nobody from that shithole of a place called Europe ever comes here again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chief Powhaten replied, \u201cI agree, Pokes. We\u2019ll let the Norwegians in, but as for the others\u2026we\u2019ll build a wall around our country if we have to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the sixteen and seventeen hundreds, people from all of the s**thole nations across the Atlantic immigrated to Columbus\u2019 America. The great white European ancestors of most of us exploited the indigenous people of America and finally brought their s**thole armies with them \u2013 armies of rapists, thieves, and diseased. If that weren\u2019t enough, they also brought in slaves from where else but the s**thole countries in Africa. They were up to no good. That\u2019s the way people from s**thole countries are. I\u2019m sure, though, that there were good people on both sides of the deal. Very good people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we have a nation of the descendants of those s**thole people from s**thole countries. America has a s**thole President who does s**thole things. I guess that makes us \u2013 for the time being \u2013 a s**thole country, too. The irony about that is that \u201cT for turd\u201d rump\u2019s mother and fraternal grandparents immigrated from Germany and Scotland to the U.S. T-rump is only two generations away from being an immigrant himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So our twitty President wants to restrict the immigration of people from s**thole countries like those in Africa (poverty stricken \u2013 probably of their own doing of course), the rapists from Mexico, and Haiti (they\u2019ve all got AIDS you know). He wants more Norwegians. The problem with Norwegians, though, is that they\u2019ll bring their accordions with them, hook up with the Scots and their bagpipes, and drive us all back into caves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lady Liberty holds up a torch that is intended to welcome refugees who are for the most part the tired, poor, homeless, and tempest tossed masses \u2013 the wretched refuse of s**thole countries. If T-rump\u2019s American nightmare come to fruition we may as well turn out Lady Liberty\u2019s light. The party\u2019s over.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Bill Clinton\u2019s rendezvous with Monica Lewinsky, Rush Limbaugh was fond of calling the Oval Office the Oral Orifice. Now the focus is on another orifice \u2013 one that stinks to high heaven. Will somebody please call the Surgeon General? There\u2019s a major infection in the White House that\u2019s hemorrhaging pus and the only thing that will cure it is a hemorrhoidectomy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year the Oxford Dictionaries <\/em>choose a Word of the Year. Last year it was feminism. If they were to choose the Word of the Year for 2018 right now I have little doubt that the word would be s**thole. And we have three more years in which to continue this trajectory. If I could choose the Word of the Year for 2018? Impeached.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the view from The Balcony.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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