The 420 Project

File Under: 420 Project, principles, Founding Fathers, smoking out

From “The Hick Arrives at the Tea Party”

I, Rufus “Junior” Hickman, Jr., being of sound mind and body, do officially announce the 420 Project, a non-partisan, non-violent, all-volunteer, non-organized organization committed to serving the people of the 3rd District and fulfill their basic needs of someone to scream for them about something to someone else who should listen but has bad hearing.

Anyone can be a member of the 4.20 Project, so long as they are Republican and fear Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and believe that the principles and values of the 4/20 Project are things they can mostly not argue loudly against in the hopes for a better tomorrow for America.

The constitution of this non-Constitution is to protect the Constitution, even the parts we don’t like, and change this perfect document if necessary to serve the good of the country, as our Founding Fathers told us we should do so many years ago when they started amending it. We must re-found our national government that we’re pretty sure got lost and fill it with normal people who know what is actually written in the Constitution or have a pretty good guess as to what should be or probably is in it.

As the leader of the 4-20 Project, Rufus will inspire people to generally agree with things that are said, trusting they are true, because time, as our Founding Fathers said, is money. We have crops to tend to and a farm economy to placate and ain’t always got time to worry about the very specifics of relative particulars.

We must unite this country to share and believe in our principles, and do so by force if necessary, because they are good and just. We must agree that if it’s not specifically written in the Constitution or God’s Constitution, we have the right to say “fuck it,” your government intrusiveness does not apply to me and we would appreciate if you’d get your government nose the hell out of my business and your foot off my property before I blow it off — the foot, not the property, I mean.

Like one of our Founding Fathers, Gen. George MacArthur, probably said, “No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” He then put his money where his mouth was and crossed the Potomac’s 38th parallel to give the blessings of freedom to the Viet Cong rather than be a slave to the government who told him to keep out. It’s time to cross our 38th parallel into the Promised Land.

The 4.2.0 Project is about principles, about being a person of principles, about having them nearby in case you need them, hopefully where you can grab them without getting up to get them, and relaying them to others who may or may not have them. And if you don’t like it, there’s the door. You’re either in or you’re out. You’re in? OK, good. Rufus is glad you came to your senses because I didn’t want to beat your ass. The following are a list of principles that we not only know exist, be we also believe in them in at least a relative sense, or better yet, we do not wholly disagree with them. And we will stand up to preserve them any chance we get:

The 420 Project Principles

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The 420 Project Principles

File Under: 420 Project, ditchweed, Jesus

From “The Hick Arrives at the Tea Party”

The 420 Project Principles

1. America is the bestest nation in the world that doesn’t allow you to smoke out.
2. I believe in God and He is the center of my life. You can believe in any or no God because that’s your right as Americans, but if you don’t believe in Jesus, you will go to Hell.
3. Because we believe that God and Jesus are good, we believe that everything they created on this Earth is good.
4. Since we believe everything from God is good, marijuana must be good, even if the ditchweed Jesus grows wildly isn’t, in itself, great.
5. If you break the law, you pay the penalty, unless that law is bullshit or some cop has got it out for you.
6. I have a Constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, even if my pursuit is to smoke a large amount of pot, which makes my life happy, or even if I don’t which is OK, too. It’s a free country.
7. I work hard for what I have, even if there is a subsidy involved somewhere, and I will share what I have with whom I want. No government can force me to be charitable, just as Jesus implied when he said, “Charity is bullshit.”
8. It isn’t un-American to disagree with authority or share my opinion with someone, but it is un-American, or unwise at the least, to say a dissenting opinion to someone bigger than me or to someone who has a gun. However, it is OK for me to shout down the wrong opinions of others when those people are smaller than me, which is often a genetic trait of certain races, or they are women. Taller people have more important points to make and possess better life-skills. Our proof is that no one in the baseball Hall of Fame is listed as shorter than six-feet tall.
9. I cannot be and will not be perfect as that is only reserved for Jesus Christ, and I shall not hold others up to such infallible standards unless that person is an elected official.
10. People must understand that American life is not about them (the government) vs. us (us). It’s about working together to make this country a better place, a place in which the civilians are not constantly guilty until proven innocent, especially when what you like to do in the privacy of your own home or at a sporting event is to just sit around and get high.

The 420 Project Values
*Freedom
*Liberty
*Sharing
*Relaxing
*Eating
*Flexibility
*Napping
*Companionship
*Laughing
*Courage
*Non-Bogarting
*Charity
*Gratitude
*Constitutionalizing
*Philosophizing

Read The 420 Project Mission Statement

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The Tea Party Vetting Process

File Under: vet the candidate, nosy questions

The Official Nebraska Tea Party Association for Progress Vetting Questionnaire and Comment Card
Name: Rufus “Junior” Hickman, Jr.
Date: Feb. 16, 2010
Place: Central City, Neb.
Test Administrator: Ed Johnson

1. Are you or have you ever been a Communist?
a) Yes
b) No
c) No, but I’ve been a Socialist

2. Do you like the Constitution?
a) Yes
b) No

3. Do you know all the Amendments to the Constitution?
a) Yes
b) No
c) I know the 2nd Amendment, Mother Fucker

4. How many guns do you own?
a) None
b) One or more
c) Not enough

5. Do you think you’re taxed too much by the government?
a) Yes
b) Hells Yes
c) OMG Yes

6. Small Pox: What do you think?
a) What’s that?
b) Not a fan
c) Smart thinking

7. If two gay people wanted to marry, what would you tell them?
a) You have the right to do so
b) Don’t let me stop your walk down the aisle of misery
c) Stop ruining America!

8. I have a right to do what I want with my body, and the government can’t tell me to make it healthy.
a) I agree
b) I disagree
c) If you fry this question, I will eat it

9. I’ve never had sex with an animal.
a) True
b) True enough
c) I could use a stronger definition of animal

10. Are you or have you ever been a Communist?
a) Like I said, No.
b) Did you already ask me this question?
c) Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention because I was drunk on Vodka.

11. What did you think of this vetting questionaire?
a) Seemed legally necessary.
b) Didn’t much care for it.
c) Very uncomfortable toilet paper.

“Did I pass,” Rufus asked.
“With flying colors,” said Ed. “I’m not going to count your wrong answer on #7 because it’s a trick question.”
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Potential Possibilities of Bigger Threats to Guns and America than Democrats

File Under: Threats to America, Threats to Guns

Soccer: once ties become accessible, society becomes ball-less
Puppies: which cause us to let all our defenses down, if they learn to multiply, watch out
Zombies: the zombie lobby’s got you thinking these suckers move slow
Communism: because it’ un-American to not have it on a list like this
Al-Qaeda Diarrhea Bomb: once the shit starts flowin’, freedom starts endin’
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Scenes from The Fog People: Nessa and Iollan Discuss Their Love

File Under: pieces of paper, what a woman does, useless pride

From “The Fog People”

ACT I, Scene 2
NESSA and IOLLAN are having dinner at the pub. The couple’s conversation has escalated again because of their eternally unresolved issue: the couple live in sin, but IOLLAN is desperate for NESSA’s husband, DALLAN, to agree to a divorce.

IOLLAN
Things were supposed to be different.  Things are supposed to be different, that’s how they are.  They’re out of order.

NESSA
What do you know about the order of things?

IOLLAN
We are supposed to be married, married so we can spend forever together with God.  That’s the order.  That’s supposed to be us.

NESSA
Well it’s not. Continue reading

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Border State Hate: Kansas

File under: Kansas basketball, beautiful license plate, silent but deadly, James Naismith sneak attack

From “The Hick Arrives: A Guide to Midwestern Living”

Gosh, compared to Missouri, all these other states seem like paradise or a casino. I reckon it’s easy to say all kinds of trash about Missouri. Heck, if some rich guy would pay me, I’d be a talking head on the idiot box and be the special expert on Missouri. I’d talk all day. When some dumb shit happens in Missouri, which it always does, the news channel cuts to me:

Glue-haired Anchor: “For more analysis on the tragedy, we bring in our Missouri analyst Rufus ‘Junior’ Hickman Jr. Mr. Hickman, good evening.”
Rufus “Junior” Hickman Jr.: “Howdy. Pleasure to be here.”
Glue-haired Anchor: “Can you share with us your comments on the day’s events?”

Rufus “Junior” Hickman Jr.:
“Well, it’s Missouri. What the fuck do you expect?”
Glue-haired Anchor: “As always, your concise commentary is appreciated.”

Continue reading

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Dealing With IT

File Under: IT Departmentadmirable retardation, your problem, arsenic-laced tech juice

From “How to Write Email That GETS RESULTS and Other CEObservations”

I’ve been humbled by the invisible hand of the market as much as I’ve been pleasured by it. I’ve been humbled by fiery Central American women with an affinity for knives. I’ve even been humbled by various meat products in ways I could never have imagined, but rarely have I been humbled to such an unpleasant extent (considering I pay for it) as I have by my own IT department. Continue reading

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Scenes from Mary Courage: Mary Reasons With The Senators

File Under: They’re all dead, bloody hands and clean sinks, price of freedom, sectarian violence, cut-and runny

From “Mary Courage & Her Children”

Scene 3
SETTING: MARY COURAGE is giving freshman Senators GREEN, SEASAW and DOVE a mathematics lesson on a chalkboard. MARY COURAGE goes in-depth about the figures on the whiteboard/chalkboard as the three senators intently listen.

MARY COURAGE
So, as you can see Senators, what we end up with is W times zero equals D, where W is war funding and D equals deaths . . . No, wait, hold on.  That doesn’t look right.  I forgot to carry the one.  And then to divide by one.  Instead of isolating D, we need to subtract W from it and move D to the other side of the equation by–

GREEN
Ms. Courage, this isn’t necessary.  I believe I can speak for us all when I say that math isn’t our strong suit.
(The senators agree.)
We just want to see the final numbers so we can determine if they’re too large to support. Continue reading

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Acceptable Acronym Use

File Under: acceptable acronyms, business email, going to kill you, emoticons

From “How to Write Email That GETS RESULTS & Other CEObservations”

An email is not a text message, it’s not an instant message and it’s not a license plate. It’s a letter, a legitimate correspondence between two presumably intelligent people who wish to share a life experience, thought, emotion or business pursuit. It is not a pool of puke from someone who overstuffed themselves with alphabet soup. Continue reading

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The Man Behind the Curtain

File Under: Wizard of Oz symbolism, puppet master, CEO money and power,

It’s impossible to deny the impact The Wizard of Oz has had in terms of symbolism of the puppet master. Of course, in true Hollywood style, the man behind the curtain was lovable and small. In reality, that man is neither nice nor lovable, his influence is anything but small. In Mary Courage, that man is CEO. Continue reading

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