Monday, October 07, 2013
Friday, October 04, 2013
Today's Quote
(updating a post from a coupla days ago - Kinda Says It All)
I'm not saying The Prez should match nasty for nasty, I'm saying there's no need to suffer fools. You get a chance to grab a dipwad like Stutzman by the heel and dangle him in the sunshine so everybody can see him for the small and empty-souled know-nothing leech that he is, then you should do it. And as for pickin' on some junior putz who nobody's gonna remember when he's gone? Fuck him - little man wants to be in the majors, then he plays the full nine.
The president also mocked Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) for saying Wednesday that his party has "to get something out of" the shutdown fight, even though he doesn't "know what that even is.”
"You have already gotten the opportunity to serve the American people. There's no higher honor than that," Obama said to applause. "You've already gotten the opportunity to help businesses like this one. Workers like these. So the American people aren't in the mood to give you a goody bag to go with it. What you get is our intelligence professionals being back on the job. What you get is our medical researchers back on the job. What you get are little kids back in the head start."That's the Obama we need to hear from on a much more regular basis.
I'm not saying The Prez should match nasty for nasty, I'm saying there's no need to suffer fools. You get a chance to grab a dipwad like Stutzman by the heel and dangle him in the sunshine so everybody can see him for the small and empty-souled know-nothing leech that he is, then you should do it. And as for pickin' on some junior putz who nobody's gonna remember when he's gone? Fuck him - little man wants to be in the majors, then he plays the full nine.
Both Sides(?)
In the atmosphere of All Shutdown All The Time, it became fairly easy to overlook this one from a law professor at Liberty University:
But back to the point - maybe we should be taking a much closer look at the high rate of incidence of sexual assault/sexual abuse in organizations with very top-down authoritarian power structures - like churches and the US military - and maybe we shouldn't be leaving them alone with the kids.
The Christian mission field is a “magnet” for sexual abusers, Boz Tchividjian, a Liberty University law professor who investigates abuse said Thursday (Sept. 26) to a room of journalists.
While comparing evangelicals to Catholics on abuse response, ”I think we are worse,” he said at the Religion Newswriters Association conference, saying too many evangelicals had “sacrificed the souls” of young victims.What is it with these god freaks? If they're not invading the Middle East - or hatching plots in the Middle East to blow up the infidels - they're hanging "witches" or "honor murdering" teenaged girls for the sin of being raped; or they're preaching hellfire and brimstone about home and family while buying meth from their homosexual lovers etc etc etc. And in this country, they get to do all that in the comfort and safety of a tax-free corporate office.
But back to the point - maybe we should be taking a much closer look at the high rate of incidence of sexual assault/sexual abuse in organizations with very top-down authoritarian power structures - like churches and the US military - and maybe we shouldn't be leaving them alone with the kids.
Thursday, October 03, 2013
The Root Of The Problem
Ted Cruz - not Senator Cruz per se - but the generic Ted Cruz kinda personifies what's wrong with this whole Radical Right movement.
Today CNN was reporting on some inside scoopy shit - saying there was a growing number of Repubs who see Cruz as having set himself up as the One True Conservative - that he thinks he's the one with the purest Republican soul - or some other fucked up verbiage that these "deliverers" always try to drape around their own shoulders.
Adam Curtis took a good look at the same kinda of thing in his documentary The Power Of Nightmares, about the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and the American TheoCons etc.
And no, I'm not saying these GOP dopes are the same as... well yeah, I guess I am. Guys like Ted Cruz are almost literally no different from somebody like Ayman Zawahri or Pol Pot or any other fart-breather who thinks leadership means having to prove your moral superiority over everybody else. So fuck him.
Anyway, the Race To Purity is basically a process of elimination. "Everybody's fucked up except you and me, and I've got my doubts about you." Can you tell me honestly that's not what's been going on here?
These guys are NOT conservatives. And they have absolutely no feeling for anybody who isn't willing to self-immolate to advance their cause. BTW, pay close attention to the simple fact that they're not the ones wearing the vests loaded with all the C4 and ball bearings - they're always eager to send you out to do the wet work while they wait at home to watch their PayPal receipts go up after the pink mist clears.
So now I gotta wonder - who talked Ted Cruz into this?
Today CNN was reporting on some inside scoopy shit - saying there was a growing number of Repubs who see Cruz as having set himself up as the One True Conservative - that he thinks he's the one with the purest Republican soul - or some other fucked up verbiage that these "deliverers" always try to drape around their own shoulders.
Adam Curtis took a good look at the same kinda of thing in his documentary The Power Of Nightmares, about the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and the American TheoCons etc.
And no, I'm not saying these GOP dopes are the same as... well yeah, I guess I am. Guys like Ted Cruz are almost literally no different from somebody like Ayman Zawahri or Pol Pot or any other fart-breather who thinks leadership means having to prove your moral superiority over everybody else. So fuck him.
Anyway, the Race To Purity is basically a process of elimination. "Everybody's fucked up except you and me, and I've got my doubts about you." Can you tell me honestly that's not what's been going on here?
These guys are NOT conservatives. And they have absolutely no feeling for anybody who isn't willing to self-immolate to advance their cause. BTW, pay close attention to the simple fact that they're not the ones wearing the vests loaded with all the C4 and ball bearings - they're always eager to send you out to do the wet work while they wait at home to watch their PayPal receipts go up after the pink mist clears.
So now I gotta wonder - who talked Ted Cruz into this?
Kinda Says It All
"We're not going to be disrespected," Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) told The Washington Examiner. "We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."These guys are a buncha belligerent hyper-testosterone teenagers, arguing that no matter what actually happened, what they insist on believing is that they've suffered an unendurable insult and they're gonna get some payback.
Today's Eternal Sadness
An Arizona woman died after her boyfriend accidentally shot off a handgun he had tucked into his waistband Tuesday morning.
The 18-year-old man had been hugging his 24-year-old girlfriend when she complained that the weapon was making her uncomfortable, according to KTVK.
The man discharged the gun while attempting to remove it, shooting the woman, according to police.
The woman was rushed to an area hospital and later pronounced dead. Police have not released names in the shooting. Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson told ABC Phoenix that the shooting appears to be accidental, but is still under investigation.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
The Shutdown Thang
Don't kid ourself - fuckin' up Da Gubmint is what the Radical Repubs want.
They campaign on it. They raise money on it. They get elected on it. And then they go to Washington or their state capitals or whatever and they proceed to fuck up Da Gubmint some more so they can start the whole thing over.
Sometimes, Doc Maddow gets close enough to touch it:
A little gerrymandering, anyone?
I guess the point here is that we're not done with this - not by a long shot. We have to figure out how to step up and put these fuckin' brats to bed.
They campaign on it. They raise money on it. They get elected on it. And then they go to Washington or their state capitals or whatever and they proceed to fuck up Da Gubmint some more so they can start the whole thing over.
Sometimes, Doc Maddow gets close enough to touch it:
A little gerrymandering, anyone?
I guess the point here is that we're not done with this - not by a long shot. We have to figure out how to step up and put these fuckin' brats to bed.
Parade Of Stoopid
I should give people something of a break on a lot of this stuff because even if they try to get the straight dope, there's plenty of root weevils out there doing whatever they can to make things unclear, but like the man said, "how come we have to be the stupid country?"
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)