Slouching Towards Oblivion

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Wayne "The Brain" LaPierre

..is a complete dick.

from Addicting Info:
In April of 1999 13 people were killed by two gunmen; students at the school. Could they have been saved by that one guard that the NRA wants us to believe is the solution? Well, there was an armed guard; a 15 year veteran of the Sheriff’s department. He responded, and he returned fire. He called the Sheriff’s office for backup. Yet, with both an armed security guard on site and backup coming in by the minute the two shooters, who started their rampage at 11:19 a.m. and continued until THEY ended it at 12:08 p.m with their own suicides. They left 13 dead and 21 injured in the wake of that 49 minute attack.

In March of 2005 a 16 year old shooter killed his grandfather, a deputy sheriff, took his guns including two handguns and a shotgun and vest and went to Red Lake High School in his grandfather’s police vehicle. The first person he killed was one of the school’s two security guards at the door. He went on to kill five students and a teacher at the school, wounding at least a dozen more before ending his own life.
The NRA solution 100% in place with 100% failure.
In the immortal words of St George (of Carlin): "What're ya, fuckin' stupid?"

With Love And Charity In My Heart

...go fuck yourself, Wayne.  Seriously - take your little 9mm metal dick - or your great big 12 gauge dick - crawl back under the porch and fuck yourself.

Christmas Askew











Saturday, December 22, 2012

Moloch Lives Here

Wayne LaPierre is the Lord High Priest, and he demands sacrifice - because no god survives being ignored and forgotten.

from Garry Wills:
First Moloch, horrid king, besmear’d with blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears,
Though for the noise of Drums and Timbrels loud
Their children’s cries unheard, that pass’d through fire
To his grim idol. (Paradise Lost 1.392-96)
Read again those lines, with recent images seared into our brains—“besmeared with blood” and “parents’ tears.” They give the real meaning of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning. That horror cannot be blamed just on one unhinged person. It was the sacrifice we as a culture made, and continually make, to our demonic god. We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him. We have to make that offering, out of devotion to our Moloch, our god. The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily—sometimes, as at Sandy Hook, by directly throwing them into the fire-hose of bullets from our protected private killing machines, sometimes by blighting our children’s lives by the death of a parent, a schoolmate, a teacher, a protector. Sometimes this is done by mass killings (eight this year), sometimes by private offerings to the god (thousands this year).
(hat tips = Daily KOS, Professional Left Podcast)

Today's Carnage

Just a sampling:
 
3 Shot And Killed In Mich... 

(hat tip = HuffPo)

The Toll

via HuffPo:
In 2011, guns were used to murder 8,583 people living in the U.S., according to the most recent FBI data available. Among those murdered by guns, there were 565 young people under the age of 18, and 119 children ages 12 or younger -- the latter number nearly equivalent to six Newtown mass shootings. And these figures include only homicides.
8,583 gun-murdered Americans in a year = 9/11 every 3 months.

119 gun-murdered kids under the age of 12 = Sandy Hook every 2 months.

Friday, December 21, 2012

About Sandy Hook








Swan Song(?)

From Charlie Pierce at Esquire:

There was one thing that I regret not hitting as hard as I should have hit it during the presidential campaign recently concluded. And when I say I didn't hit it hard enough, I mean I didn't hit it like I was swinging Mjollnir at a bass drum the size of Lake Huron. The point was a simple one. There is no possible definition by which the Republicans can be considered an actual political party any more. They can be defined as a loose universe of inchoate hatreds, or a sprawling confederation of collected resentments, or an unwieldy conglomeration of self-negating orthodoxies, or an atonal choir of rabid complaint, or a cargo cult of quasi-religious politics and quasi-political religion, or simply the deafening abandoned YAWP of our bitter national Id. But they are not a political party because they have rendered themselves incapable of politics.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The View From Out There

When the whole whole world says you're bug-fuckin' stoopid, one thing you have to stop and consider is that maybe you're bug-fuckin' stoopid.

The Week:
Coverage of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, was splashed across newspaper front pages around the world, a testament to the universal horror of a tragedy in which 20 children, all of them ages 6 and 7, were killed in their classrooms by a lone gunman. There was an outpouring of sympathy from the international community, which was inevitably followed by utter bewilderment at America's continued obsession with lethal weapons. The U.S. is home to 270 million privately held guns, which equates to an average of nine guns per 10 people. (In second place, with roughly 1 gun for every two people, is Yemen, "a conflict-torn Arab nation still dealing with poverty, political unrest, a separatist Shia insurgency, an al Qaeda branch, and the aftereffects of a 1994 civil war," notes Max Fisher at The Washington Post.) It is no coincidence that the U.S. also boasts the highest rate of gun-related deaths among developed countries — an American is 20 times more likely to die at the hands of a gun then another member of the developed world. Here, some reactions from around the world:

Canada's The Globe and Mail:
There is something inexorable about the phenomenon of mass shootings in the United States. We have been forced to write about it with tragic regularity for years. We have exhausted adjectives to describe our horror and revulsion. We have stated and restated the problem…
The time for platitudes is past, Mr. President. It’s time the U.S. cured its gun sickness.
And there're 10 more links and excerpts.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Today's Toon

I'd like to think we'll figure something out, but I'm not very hopeful.  We can't even decide we should do something - much less decide what we'll do.

Dear Obama Haters

I'm not saying you're all the same as this bunch of spit-cup deep-fried slop-faced apes, but I think you should know about your fellow travelers.


Monday, December 17, 2012

Todays' Tweets



Better Gun Laws Now

A gunman puts a bullet in the brain of a Democratic congressman, Gabrielle Giffords, and nothing changes. A madman murders young people in a crowded theater in Aurora, Colorado, and nothing changes. Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and Christmas shoppers in Portland, Oregon become casualties and nothing happens. Our children are now being slaughtered as a result of a political calculation.
Tim Dickenson at Rolling Stone

Mike Bloomberg at Mayors Against Illegal Guns

Today's Toon




And when weaponized anthrax is outlawed, only outlaws will have weaponized anthrax. --John Fugelsang

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Godly(ish) Tunes







Of course, the inevitable crap immediately showed up on Facebook about how assholes shoot kids at school because the schools have told God to get out.  Here's the thing:  if your all-powerful god can be kept out of anywhere just because some minor functionary on some random local board says so, then that is one weak shit god ya got there, Sparky.

And if your all-loving and all-merciful god turns his back as innocent people are being slaughtered - and while you shrug and rationalize it all as "god's will" -  then you and your god can both go fuck yourselves.

The Shooting(s)

We have a gun problem.  And since the problem is all about guns, the solution has to be all about guns as well.  So here's the logical approach to solving it.

I'm calling on all you gun owners to carry your guns wherever you go, and when you see someone who has a gun, I want you to shoot him.  Shoot anybody you see who has a gun.

There's bound to be some collateral damage, but once the gun freaks are all busy shooting each other, maybe they'll leave everybody else the fuck alone.

And while we're at it, the Sate Department should add the NRA to its list of Terrorist Organizations.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Ol' Doc Maddow

We're losing something important.


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