For the record, the exhaustion two step consists of aimless shuffling. Almost zombie-like.
If you're not within physical speaking distance of my person, or haven't called me on the phone lately, I've got good news and bad news:
The good news is, I got a job! It is, unfortunately, a minimum wage customer service job. But it's full time and will work around the continuing education I need to justify the time I've spent in college so far. So the "constantly broke" situation will soon ease up.
The bad news is that, being a mostly ethical person, I'm in the process of finishing out my two weeks at my current job. While starting part-time at the new job. And by part time, I mean that I'm working full shifts at the new job whenever I'm not working full shifts at the old job. The upshot of which is that I haven't had a proper day off in seven days straight.
What does this mean and why am I telling you?
Well, my brain is so shut down that I've been trying to write something meaningful for the last few hours, and nothing's kicking out. Hell, I've spent more time editing blatant typos out of this post than I have writing it.
So: I'm working up a humor piece for Wednesday.
Then I have a few days off to recuperate and enjoy the company of my sister, a commitment ceremony with my man, a little tie with my family, and the local Gay Pride celebration.
Ranting will resume next Monday.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Theo-crap-acy
Good morning, sports fans! First, my apologies for the vitriol last Wednesday. I was, as noted, depressed. So to all my readers, but especially those who do promote my stuff: I'm sorry. I'm going to try and keep a couple of reserve posts as backups from now on so I don't blog when I'm seriously down.
Onwards, then!
I present to you now, for your consideration, the following:
This was posted on Facebook by an old friend, one whom I've actually had serious discussions about LGBT issues and the state of the world with. And, up until this popped up on my feed, I had thought we were in a "live and let live" detente. So I naturally asked for clarification, albeit laconically.
Her response is as follows:
God cannot tempt us and puts no evil inclinations into our hearts. All of our desires and drives He built into us so our lives might reflect His glory and goodness. But our fallen nature allows Satan the chance to try and twist and defigure what God has given us. He distorts our natural yearnings into temptations. To call same-sex sexual attractions a natural orientation is one of today’s most prevalent heresies.
Why not extend the same protection to all sins? What of those oriented towards sloth, gluttony, anger...? Why should any act be defined as a sin? Where does this heresy end?
And how confusing for our children! The message we are giving them is clear: Ignore God’s law and trust only in your own desires. There is no sin or sinful nature. Do as you please. It sounds very similar to a serpent’s whispered words in a far off garden, yes?
We can tie up the courts with these matters. We can pass laws to protect an individual’s right to a sinful life. We can even attempt to redefine marriage to include relationships outside of the true sacramental right. But we cannot fool God. And in the end, each and every one of us is going to have to answer Him for the part we played in letting this heresy take root.
This is going to take two separate responses, as the image and the text are from two different sources and heave two slightly different messages. On the image, then:
Well, thanks! It's nice to know I'm broken. How do we fix it, then? Oh, that's right. It's not a fixable issue.
In fact, the best one can do is choose whether or not to act on one's sexual orientation. And, as the above report notes, trying to "fix" homosexuality simply doesn't work. All the therapy in the world won't make a gay man or woman straight; it can, however, teach them to accept that they are, and then help them cope with their decisions on how to proceed.
Choosing to abide by any religious ideal, and choosing to not act on your orientation, is fine. Hell, if you're that devoted to your beliefs, it's laudable. But implying that ten percent of the population is broken in such a way that they cannot be fixed is, as I've said before, inhumane and evil.
Why? Well, there's therapy for everything we can fix. There's medical treatment facilities for the things we can't. So if there's no therapy, and one is definitively broken if one is gay...will we be rounding up ten percent of the population and locking them away in treatment facilities?
Oh wait...that sounds like a rights abuse...
Hmmm...well, at least there's legislation against that sort of thing, right? Just like all those nice laws that used to prevent us from dealing with other imperfect people, like blacks, Jews, Asians, and so on.
Oh, but they can't choose not to be what they are! Uhh...well, remember that study I linked up there? The one that says neither can gay people?
But hey, we can choose not to act like we're gay! Just like those blacks, and Jews, and Asians can choose not to act like they're—what do you mean it's racist and demeaning to impose our cultural perceptions on minorities?
But God says it's ok!
"God" has also historically condoned slavery, white supremacy, religious despotism, genocide, and killing infants. And just so we're clear, anyone that wants to whine about the Old Testament-y goodness can have this:
But hey, anyone can believe anything so long as they don't force me to live their religion with or for them, right? Because this is a country of liberties, a country where we have the right to live and worship howsoever we wish.
Which leads us into the response to the text portion of this. For those that don't want to scroll up, here we are again:
God cannot tempt us and puts no evil inclinations into our hearts. All of our desires and drives He built into us so our lives might reflect His glory and goodness. But our fallen nature allows Satan the chance to try and twist and defigure what God has given us. He distorts our natural yearnings into temptations. To call same-sex sexual attractions a natural orientation is one of today’s most prevalent heresies.
Why not extend the same protection to all sins? What of those oriented towards sloth, gluttony, anger...? Why should any act be defined as a sin? Where does this heresy end?
And how confusing for our children! The message we are giving them is clear: Ignore God’s law and trust only in your own desires. There is no sin or sinful nature. Do as you please. It sounds very similar to a serpent’s whispered words in a far off garden, yes?
We can tie up the courts with these matters. We can pass laws to protect an individual’s right to a sinful life. We can even attempt to redefine marriage to include relationships outside of the true sacramental right. But we cannot fool God. And in the end, each and every one of us is going to have to answer Him for the part we played in letting this heresy take root.
So, let's kick this off by defining the most popular word up there: heresy.
Now, my good friends over at Merriam-Webster define heresy two ways: one is any dissent from a religious organization's accepted view, especially dissent towards the Roman Catholic Church by a baptized Catholic; and second, as dissent from a prevailing theory, opinion, or custom. Well, damn. I guess that means anything that isn't acceptable to a church is heresy. Anything.
For the record, by the way, I am a heretic by the most narrow definition of the word. I am a baptized Catholic who has repudiated the Church and works against the portions of its dogma that are inherently harmful to humanity. And that's not an "in my opinion" moment. That's a "hey look, they're causing psychological and in some cases physical harm" moment.
Moving on: the problem with declaring heresy in the religious sense, is that it's technically heretical to advertise a burger special on a Friday in Lent. The problem with declaring it secularly is that the Civil Rights movement (not to beat that horse into the ground) was socially heretical.
So claiming heresy, and the fact that something is heretical, is a valid reason to work against it is not good enough. If it was, we'd be living in caves and killing each other with rocks over who has the best berries and which women have the strongest teeth and bones structures.
But hey: that's cool. You have a faith system, and it's yours, and you like it and want to share. That's fine. You can worship as you please, live as you please, raise your children as you please. What you may not do is tell me how to worship, live, and raise my kids.
Just as most people wouldn't allow the institution of Sharia law as the essential tenets of the American legal system, I can't allow the establishment a Christian Theocratic state. And they are the exact same thing, because they would have the exact same results: pain and suffering, religious and moral cleansing, and an end to the "free" nation that many who wish for such a state claim to love.
Why don't we extend the same protection to other "sins"? Well, because stealing isn't inherent as a rule. And as there isn't usually anything inherent to a person that makes them steal, it is not inhuman to declare the they must control their theft habit. And when there is such an inherent cause, we extend treatment and help. The same goes for gluttony, sloth, and anger.
And that treatment and help model, I'd like to remind you, doesn't work and is impossible to ethically administer for homosexuality.
Furthermore, it's only confusing for children being raised with precepts that specifically hold homosexuality to be a sin. But that's fine, we'll just legislate to ensure that children are free from anything that—
Um, guys? We are all aware that Jehovah's Witnesses can't give or receive blood, yes? So, if we're going to ensure that children learn their God's law is paramount, does that mean the rest of us have to stop having blood transfusions as well?
Oh, never mind. We need to respect the Amish religion enough to not confuse their children, so we won't have modern medicine anyway.
Hmm? Oh, right, we can't expect everyone to live by Amish principles. Ohhhhh...
The problem is the conflation of "there is no sin" with "there is no wrong." What a faith declares to be sinful is wrong to its practitioners, not wrong inherently. Making this particular argument implies that because people act in a way that is not consistent with a certain faith, the human race as a whole will accept wrong behavior.
Finally, I'll close with these questions:
How does repressing homosexuals work for the greater glory of God?
How does forcibly evangelizing through legal manipulation in direct opposition to the precepts of liberty this nation operates on reflect His goodness?
And how is insisting that thousands of people you have never and will never meet live in a way that is socially and culturally acceptable to you the only moral thing to do when it is your religion being used as the model, but heinous and evil when it is someone else's religion or beliefs?
Onwards, then!
I present to you now, for your consideration, the following:
This was posted on Facebook by an old friend, one whom I've actually had serious discussions about LGBT issues and the state of the world with. And, up until this popped up on my feed, I had thought we were in a "live and let live" detente. So I naturally asked for clarification, albeit laconically.
Her response is as follows:
God cannot tempt us and puts no evil inclinations into our hearts. All of our desires and drives He built into us so our lives might reflect His glory and goodness. But our fallen nature allows Satan the chance to try and twist and defigure what God has given us. He distorts our natural yearnings into temptations. To call same-sex sexual attractions a natural orientation is one of today’s most prevalent heresies.
Why not extend the same protection to all sins? What of those oriented towards sloth, gluttony, anger...? Why should any act be defined as a sin? Where does this heresy end?
And how confusing for our children! The message we are giving them is clear: Ignore God’s law and trust only in your own desires. There is no sin or sinful nature. Do as you please. It sounds very similar to a serpent’s whispered words in a far off garden, yes?
We can tie up the courts with these matters. We can pass laws to protect an individual’s right to a sinful life. We can even attempt to redefine marriage to include relationships outside of the true sacramental right. But we cannot fool God. And in the end, each and every one of us is going to have to answer Him for the part we played in letting this heresy take root.
This is going to take two separate responses, as the image and the text are from two different sources and heave two slightly different messages. On the image, then:
Well, thanks! It's nice to know I'm broken. How do we fix it, then? Oh, that's right. It's not a fixable issue.
In fact, the best one can do is choose whether or not to act on one's sexual orientation. And, as the above report notes, trying to "fix" homosexuality simply doesn't work. All the therapy in the world won't make a gay man or woman straight; it can, however, teach them to accept that they are, and then help them cope with their decisions on how to proceed.
Choosing to abide by any religious ideal, and choosing to not act on your orientation, is fine. Hell, if you're that devoted to your beliefs, it's laudable. But implying that ten percent of the population is broken in such a way that they cannot be fixed is, as I've said before, inhumane and evil.
Why? Well, there's therapy for everything we can fix. There's medical treatment facilities for the things we can't. So if there's no therapy, and one is definitively broken if one is gay...will we be rounding up ten percent of the population and locking them away in treatment facilities?
Oh wait...that sounds like a rights abuse...
Hmmm...well, at least there's legislation against that sort of thing, right? Just like all those nice laws that used to prevent us from dealing with other imperfect people, like blacks, Jews, Asians, and so on.
Oh, but they can't choose not to be what they are! Uhh...well, remember that study I linked up there? The one that says neither can gay people?
But hey, we can choose not to act like we're gay! Just like those blacks, and Jews, and Asians can choose not to act like they're—what do you mean it's racist and demeaning to impose our cultural perceptions on minorities?
But God says it's ok!
"God" has also historically condoned slavery, white supremacy, religious despotism, genocide, and killing infants. And just so we're clear, anyone that wants to whine about the Old Testament-y goodness can have this:
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall — Luke 16:17So I'm going to have to point out that following "God" does not make you a good person, or even correct person. It makes you a religious person. And if a deity insists that to follow its precepts, you must work for the detriment of your fellow humans, then I believe that's a horrible religion and I recommend you find a new one.
But hey, anyone can believe anything so long as they don't force me to live their religion with or for them, right? Because this is a country of liberties, a country where we have the right to live and worship howsoever we wish.
Which leads us into the response to the text portion of this. For those that don't want to scroll up, here we are again:
God cannot tempt us and puts no evil inclinations into our hearts. All of our desires and drives He built into us so our lives might reflect His glory and goodness. But our fallen nature allows Satan the chance to try and twist and defigure what God has given us. He distorts our natural yearnings into temptations. To call same-sex sexual attractions a natural orientation is one of today’s most prevalent heresies.
Why not extend the same protection to all sins? What of those oriented towards sloth, gluttony, anger...? Why should any act be defined as a sin? Where does this heresy end?
And how confusing for our children! The message we are giving them is clear: Ignore God’s law and trust only in your own desires. There is no sin or sinful nature. Do as you please. It sounds very similar to a serpent’s whispered words in a far off garden, yes?
We can tie up the courts with these matters. We can pass laws to protect an individual’s right to a sinful life. We can even attempt to redefine marriage to include relationships outside of the true sacramental right. But we cannot fool God. And in the end, each and every one of us is going to have to answer Him for the part we played in letting this heresy take root.
So, let's kick this off by defining the most popular word up there: heresy.
Now, my good friends over at Merriam-Webster define heresy two ways: one is any dissent from a religious organization's accepted view, especially dissent towards the Roman Catholic Church by a baptized Catholic; and second, as dissent from a prevailing theory, opinion, or custom. Well, damn. I guess that means anything that isn't acceptable to a church is heresy. Anything.
For the record, by the way, I am a heretic by the most narrow definition of the word. I am a baptized Catholic who has repudiated the Church and works against the portions of its dogma that are inherently harmful to humanity. And that's not an "in my opinion" moment. That's a "hey look, they're causing psychological and in some cases physical harm" moment.
Moving on: the problem with declaring heresy in the religious sense, is that it's technically heretical to advertise a burger special on a Friday in Lent. The problem with declaring it secularly is that the Civil Rights movement (not to beat that horse into the ground) was socially heretical.
So claiming heresy, and the fact that something is heretical, is a valid reason to work against it is not good enough. If it was, we'd be living in caves and killing each other with rocks over who has the best berries and which women have the strongest teeth and bones structures.
But hey: that's cool. You have a faith system, and it's yours, and you like it and want to share. That's fine. You can worship as you please, live as you please, raise your children as you please. What you may not do is tell me how to worship, live, and raise my kids.
Just as most people wouldn't allow the institution of Sharia law as the essential tenets of the American legal system, I can't allow the establishment a Christian Theocratic state. And they are the exact same thing, because they would have the exact same results: pain and suffering, religious and moral cleansing, and an end to the "free" nation that many who wish for such a state claim to love.
Why don't we extend the same protection to other "sins"? Well, because stealing isn't inherent as a rule. And as there isn't usually anything inherent to a person that makes them steal, it is not inhuman to declare the they must control their theft habit. And when there is such an inherent cause, we extend treatment and help. The same goes for gluttony, sloth, and anger.
And that treatment and help model, I'd like to remind you, doesn't work and is impossible to ethically administer for homosexuality.
Furthermore, it's only confusing for children being raised with precepts that specifically hold homosexuality to be a sin. But that's fine, we'll just legislate to ensure that children are free from anything that—
Um, guys? We are all aware that Jehovah's Witnesses can't give or receive blood, yes? So, if we're going to ensure that children learn their God's law is paramount, does that mean the rest of us have to stop having blood transfusions as well?
Oh, never mind. We need to respect the Amish religion enough to not confuse their children, so we won't have modern medicine anyway.
Hmm? Oh, right, we can't expect everyone to live by Amish principles. Ohhhhh...
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Finally, I'll close with these questions:
How does repressing homosexuals work for the greater glory of God?
How does forcibly evangelizing through legal manipulation in direct opposition to the precepts of liberty this nation operates on reflect His goodness?
And how is insisting that thousands of people you have never and will never meet live in a way that is socially and culturally acceptable to you the only moral thing to do when it is your religion being used as the model, but heinous and evil when it is someone else's religion or beliefs?
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Massive Depression
Today will be short and sweet, due to my being vastly depressed that no one seems willing to pay me to do anything whatsoever, much less pay me to write. And by depressed, I do in fact mean resurgence of the clinical depression, yes.
Last week, I wrote a porn story. It features obscure fetishes that 90% of the population would be horrified to learn even exist. Within one week of hitting the content hosting website I wrote it for, that story has more total page-views than this entire blog in its entire lifespan.
So many of you have come up to me and said, "You have to keep blogging, I love what you do!" And yet, I have a tidal-pool audience. Despite my best efforts to get what I do out there, no-one's helping. You love it enough to seek me out, to raise it as a point when I stop blogging. But you haven't got two seconds to share it on FB, to mention to a friend that "oh, I read this thing online."
Fuck.
Every.
One.
Of.
You.
Is that over harsh? Isn't it my job to promote myself?
When was the last time you found a book or author that you'd never heard of through promotional crap? Don't you normally hear about good books, good authors, new reading material from your friends?
And while we're at it, if you have thirty seconds to spam my page with twenty inspirational messages about the powers of Jesus, or fifty kittens, or how much of a bitch you are, or eCards or whatever your poison of choice is, why the hell haven't you got time to repost a blog you like?
One blog. Fifty kittens. And I'd like to point out that for good or ill, social commentary is unfortunately more relevant to your life than kittens, godsdamnit.
But you know what? Fuck it. Have a kitten.
Because that's what gets shared, that's what you want the world to see of you, yes? Sex, crude humor, memes, and kittens.
Last week, I wrote a porn story. It features obscure fetishes that 90% of the population would be horrified to learn even exist. Within one week of hitting the content hosting website I wrote it for, that story has more total page-views than this entire blog in its entire lifespan.
So many of you have come up to me and said, "You have to keep blogging, I love what you do!" And yet, I have a tidal-pool audience. Despite my best efforts to get what I do out there, no-one's helping. You love it enough to seek me out, to raise it as a point when I stop blogging. But you haven't got two seconds to share it on FB, to mention to a friend that "oh, I read this thing online."
Fuck.
Every.
One.
Of.
You.
Is that over harsh? Isn't it my job to promote myself?
When was the last time you found a book or author that you'd never heard of through promotional crap? Don't you normally hear about good books, good authors, new reading material from your friends?
And while we're at it, if you have thirty seconds to spam my page with twenty inspirational messages about the powers of Jesus, or fifty kittens, or how much of a bitch you are, or eCards or whatever your poison of choice is, why the hell haven't you got time to repost a blog you like?
One blog. Fifty kittens. And I'd like to point out that for good or ill, social commentary is unfortunately more relevant to your life than kittens, godsdamnit.
But you know what? Fuck it. Have a kitten.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Non-Flying Economy
I have decided, after much consideration, that I am going to become a penguin.
Why? Well, let's start with the fact that everyone told me college was a good bet. I'm hunting minimum wage jobs now, sweating and panicking that I won't even be able to find a job that will let me maintain my current income.
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Know who's hiring? Skilled labor. Lots of freaking skilled labor jobs out there. If I'd gone for a CNC machinists certification, I'd be drowning in job offers right now. And I could have had that certification in the same amount of time it took me to get a useless freaking associates. I could have picked up a massage license in less time and for less money. Same for a mechanics certification. Hell, I could be a plumber. And any one of those would be serving me better right now than three years of a college education.
For that matter, why are we still telling kids that college is good for them? Currently, Americans hold somewhere between $902 billion and $1 trillion in student loan debt. And that's with just over half of all new college grads in America being flat-out unemployed, and unable to find jobs.
There's also this unrealistic expectation of experience. "Hiring for General Manager. Successful applicants will have two years prior experience." How many general managers do you think there are, people? How many office assistants, how many of anything? How the hell are normal people supposed to get this mystical experience thing?
Or even better, when the experience I do have isn't considered. I worked in the mall. Year-round. During Black Friday. For three years. I know customer service, and I'm good at it. But I can't get a hit to save my life, because I don't have a specific breed of customer service. I haven't worked in a pawn shop, I haven't worked in a video game store, I haven't worked, I haven't, I haven't...
Seriously, do you people expect the one perfect person for the job to fall out of the sky and demand it from you?
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| I am here for the pizza delivery job! (Source.) |
Someone who just happens to have worked in your industry in a position exactly like the one you're offering, and just happens to be looking for a job?
Other reasons to join the flightless birds, of course, fall under the "screw you" and "I hate you all" categories.
I have, sitting next to me on this desk, a cheap atomizer that I use to deliver nicotine to my bloodstream via my piehole. I have a computer that fits in the palm of my hand that can take pictures, video, make phone calls, browse the internet, and make use of dozens of programs that range from following sports to organizing my life to shooting zombies with my index finger. I'm typing this on a top of the line Mac all-in-one with a second screen and $4k worth of software and peripherals on it (thank you school technology fund!) in a lab surrounded by 25 of these exact same setups.
I have a car that sips gas lightly, costs next to nothing to maintain, will outlive me if I treat it well, and isn't too hard on the payments. When I drive my nice-ish car home, I'll arrive in a decent apartment complex in a moderately nice neighborhood. We might be able to order food, or we might cook something. But we'll have food, and it will be tasty and relatively good for us.
My hubby and I are freaking broke all the time, but we're surviving. And even with our finances being strained to the limit, we can afford little things, we can afford all the wonders we have available to us.
On my way to work, I passed ten people who have no homes, no jobs, and are begging on the street for cash to feed their families. I hear rhetoric all the time for and against gay rights, women's rights, minority rights...and that's all well and good. But what the hell are we doing to help end homelessness, to help end hunger here in America?
You know how much money we spend annually on fighting diabetes? $218 billion. Take a wild freaking guess how much money on making healthy food available to school kids? $11.1 billion.
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And hey, guess what? My nutrition professor told my class (and yes you may all laugh, but then when you stop and think about it, you'll feel a little sick) class that the leading cause of people not eating right is that they don't have access to nutritive foods. When was the last time you saw a ghetto with its own grocery store? When was the last time you saw someone walking down the road with a sack of fresh vegetables? Hell, when was the last time you stopped to think about all the jokes being made about kids raised on macaroni and cheese or college students that live on ramen noodles?
So why don't stores open up in the neighborhoods that need them? Why are whole populations served by quickie marts and convenience stores? Cause there's no money in those neighborhoods. But the government will damn well subsidize corn. Doesn't help anyone, mind you, but hey, there we go.
How are we faring on the situation of creating more jobs? Well, we kinda suck. And honestly, the economy is such a mess I have no clue where to throw in. How the hell are businesses supposed to hire more people with their insurance rates going up, more and more people being dumped onto the market, and a drive to run people through education they really can't use?
Here's a novel idea: figure out how many of those nice little farm and business subsidies are actually doing something, grab those that aren't, and hand them to the Small Business Administration so entrepreneurs can get a leg up helping the economy recover on a ground level.
Oh, and just to get back on the social issues horse for a moment, while all this is going on, we're still arguing over whether or not two guys or two gals can pick up a marriage license, or whether women get to decide what goes on in their uterus, or whether guns are magical death machines.
The economy is still in the crapper and the middle class (which was invented for the sole reason that republics don't function well without them) is still shrinking at a vile pace.
So I'm going to go be a penguin now. Penguins are fine with gay penguins, haven't invented firearms, are gender equal, mate for life, house and feed everyone in the flock, (alright, they live outdoors, but so what?) and everyone works together to survive.
And, with any luck, I can rally my new tuxedoed brothers and sisters to the cause of fighting off the humans that are killing all our food. Cause hey, humans can't manage to help their own, so us penguins are going to have to look out for ourselves.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Robin Who?
Once again, we come to you live-ish from Facebook to tell you a tale of rank insanity. On a side note, every time I think about taking a longer break from Facebook, I realize I'd run short on stuff to write about. Yes, Facebook, you're that bad.
Today, kiddies, we're going to talk about fear-mongering. A few years back, some twit began circulating a little gem that essentially called for Anglophone/American Isolationism. A couple years after it started making the rounds, someone replaced the last paragraph with a quote from Robin Williams, which caused the whole piece to be attributed to Williams.
If It's a couple years old, why are we talking about it? Because I keep seeing it on Facebook. Damn you, Facebook. And while I would hope most people would see this as a joke, I have the disturbing concern that many do not.
For your edification, the "Robin Williams Plan:"
Welp. That's...adorable. Before we even dig into this, note that the only part of this I completely like is the Statue of Liberty bit at the end, which is the quote that got Williams' name tacked onto this nasty little turd.
1) 'The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
This is pure pettiness. Everything up there? We were asked to the party.
"But Operation Iraqi Freedom!" says Strawman Schmoe.
Nope. I.F. was was a 'merican operation, that consisted of mistakenly bombing the daylights out of a country under false pretenses, then deciding we were just going to go ahead and take out the country's leader because we were in the neighborhood. Every time some guy in another country thinks of the stupid Americans and how they should stop going in with their "cowboy diplomacy?"
Five'll get you ten that nowadays, they're thinking of I.F. and Operation Enduring Freedom. What? Oh, E.F. was the one where we were attacked by terrorists, and declared war on a sovereign nation in response when they wouldn't hand us the terrorists. Because that's how justice works, right? I mean, wouldn't we bomb Canada if they misplaced terrorists or decided not to extradite them for some reason?
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting withGermany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
There's two parts to this. The first half is the withdrawal of troops world wide. On the one hand, I'm sure there's plenty of ardent supporters of many nationalities that would like to see the back of all American troops. Arguments have been made, good ones, that maintaining a large military presence in Europe is somewhat silly.
On the other hand, we sort of need them to stay put if we want to maintain diplomatic outposts pretty much anywhere nowadays.
But even still. Anyone got any idea how many troops we have, versus how many are deployed?
Try 3,396,825 total personnel. Of which, 3,203,084 are stationed in the US and its territories. That means we have a total of 193,741 personnel active and deployed. Oh, and those numbers do not count the National Guard or the soldiers deployed for I.F., E.F., or New Dawn (Iraqi clean up contingent.)
Which leads into the second question. What the hell kind of difference would an extra 193.7k soldiers do patrolling the US border? For clarification, the total US continental borders amount to just under 7500 miles.
That's 1,356 times longer than Mt. Freaking Everest is tall. Oh, we're only gonna seal the Mexican border? Still 1,933.4 miles of border, land and water. Which, to continue the model, is as long as 351 Mt. Everest's are tall.
Today, kiddies, we're going to talk about fear-mongering. A few years back, some twit began circulating a little gem that essentially called for Anglophone/American Isolationism. A couple years after it started making the rounds, someone replaced the last paragraph with a quote from Robin Williams, which caused the whole piece to be attributed to Williams.
If It's a couple years old, why are we talking about it? Because I keep seeing it on Facebook. Damn you, Facebook. And while I would hope most people would see this as a joke, I have the disturbing concern that many do not.
For your edification, the "Robin Williams Plan:"
"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not
heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan":
1) 'The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will apologize to the
world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know,
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of
those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world,
starting withGermany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines .
They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one
allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs
together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the
remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or
where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and
limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist
nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and
don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any
more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the
bombers. If they don't att end classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
6) The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will make a strong
effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing
non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in
the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10
a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can
go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling
up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the
world, we will not 'interfere..' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds,
rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen
or given to the army.. The people who need it most get very little, if
anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace.
We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building
would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That
way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is
ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE. Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
‘The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your
tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling,
'you want a piece of me?''
Welp. That's...adorable. Before we even dig into this, note that the only part of this I completely like is the Statue of Liberty bit at the end, which is the quote that got Williams' name tacked onto this nasty little turd.
1) 'The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
This is pure pettiness. Everything up there? We were asked to the party.
"But Operation Iraqi Freedom!" says Strawman Schmoe.
Nope. I.F. was was a 'merican operation, that consisted of mistakenly bombing the daylights out of a country under false pretenses, then deciding we were just going to go ahead and take out the country's leader because we were in the neighborhood. Every time some guy in another country thinks of the stupid Americans and how they should stop going in with their "cowboy diplomacy?"
Five'll get you ten that nowadays, they're thinking of I.F. and Operation Enduring Freedom. What? Oh, E.F. was the one where we were attacked by terrorists, and declared war on a sovereign nation in response when they wouldn't hand us the terrorists. Because that's how justice works, right? I mean, wouldn't we bomb Canada if they misplaced terrorists or decided not to extradite them for some reason?
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting withGermany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
There's two parts to this. The first half is the withdrawal of troops world wide. On the one hand, I'm sure there's plenty of ardent supporters of many nationalities that would like to see the back of all American troops. Arguments have been made, good ones, that maintaining a large military presence in Europe is somewhat silly.
On the other hand, we sort of need them to stay put if we want to maintain diplomatic outposts pretty much anywhere nowadays.
But even still. Anyone got any idea how many troops we have, versus how many are deployed?
Try 3,396,825 total personnel. Of which, 3,203,084 are stationed in the US and its territories. That means we have a total of 193,741 personnel active and deployed. Oh, and those numbers do not count the National Guard or the soldiers deployed for I.F., E.F., or New Dawn (Iraqi clean up contingent.)
Which leads into the second question. What the hell kind of difference would an extra 193.7k soldiers do patrolling the US border? For clarification, the total US continental borders amount to just under 7500 miles.
That's 1,356 times longer than Mt. Freaking Everest is tall. Oh, we're only gonna seal the Mexican border? Still 1,933.4 miles of border, land and water. Which, to continue the model, is as long as 351 Mt. Everest's are tall.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't att end classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
I've lumped these together because they're the same point, essentially. The idea being to get them dern fererners to stop taking our jobs, and generally making our lives bad somehow. From the top:
There's estimated to be 11.1 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. For reference, the Katrina Hurricane displaced between 400,000 and 1.5 million people. We could barely move, house, and feed them. How in the name of all that's holy are we going to keep track of and ship out several times that number?
No fererners stay longer than three months without a special permit. So what if they want to become citizens? Oh, wait, that takes 5 years. So, essentially, no more immigration allowed in a nation made entirely of immigrants. No more outside ideas. No new blood.
No asylum? No Wernher Von Braun. No getting our hands on the geniuses, the luminaries, or the families that will give rise to them. In short, the beginning of an acceleration to America's intellectual collapse.
No foreign students over 21? So we'll force any student that wants to complete a bachelor's degree in the US to get here at 17, excel into the 99th percentile just to stay, and then ship them out?
You know, attract and train the kinds of minds capable of completing high school 1-2 years early, maintaining a 3.0 or better GPA, completing a Bachelors in the fastest track possible...and then throw them out because we don't want fererners?
Gee, that doesn't seem like a plan to wipe out any intellectual edge America might have. That doesn't seem like our college system would become thoroughly stagnant and collapse under its own weight as those brilliant minds are forced to go teach and practice elsewhere. Nope.
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere..' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army.. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
Yep. That's the way to win allies, friends...refusing to render assistance out of spite, or in some weird show of pessimism disguised as pragmatism. That will absolutely insure that no-one calls in the massive debts we owe them. What, you thought charitable giving was because we're being nice? How about because we owe a lot of people a lot of money, and would like for them not to bankrupt us?
And even at that, are we, one of the richest nations in existence, so poor that we cant't spare the time and aid to people dying of hunger, dying of disaster?
Sure, we need to get on the ball and tackle hunger and poverty in the US, but why not throw a lifeline to those that need it. Even if we give no fucks, think of this: you never know, they might have nukes someday.
Uh-huh. Let's voluntarily surrender one of our few remaining claims to being a world leader, much less a superpower. Sure, they talk a lot, and get not much done. But the same can be said of Congress, and at least forcing Congress to work on a small island devoid of amenities would show some positive results on the way our nation is run.
Oooooh, I'm going to have to revisit that scenario....
Or we could, I don't know, revamp the school system we have? Put some real money and policy behind a preventative health plan? Regulate corn syrup use? Shut up and acknowledge that without an oversight board the English language evolves?
Oh, wait, we're trying to get immigrants to learn the English language? Why should they, they're only here for three months, and even then, they're unable to live here permanently.
Hmmm...ah, you must mean the people already living here. You know, the Native Americans with the dozens of languages we've stomped out, or the various Spanish speakers that make up 12% of the population? Or any one of several other languages commonly spoken in America? Right, of course.
How were you planning to communicate with other countries again? Because I don't see English holding on long as the language of international exchange when one of the largest exporters of the language effectively seals all borders to immigration, homogenizes language, alienates 3/4 of the world, takes a nosedive into intellectual stagnation, collapses their own economy trying to strong arm the energy reserves of the world into bankrupting themselves to feed our greed, and becomes a third world cesspit.
But hey: if you don't mind living in a dystopian hell, that's definitely a winner of a plan.
I've lumped these together because they're the same point, essentially. The idea being to get them dern fererners to stop taking our jobs, and generally making our lives bad somehow. From the top:
There's estimated to be 11.1 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. For reference, the Katrina Hurricane displaced between 400,000 and 1.5 million people. We could barely move, house, and feed them. How in the name of all that's holy are we going to keep track of and ship out several times that number?
No fererners stay longer than three months without a special permit. So what if they want to become citizens? Oh, wait, that takes 5 years. So, essentially, no more immigration allowed in a nation made entirely of immigrants. No more outside ideas. No new blood.
No asylum? No Wernher Von Braun. No getting our hands on the geniuses, the luminaries, or the families that will give rise to them. In short, the beginning of an acceleration to America's intellectual collapse.
No foreign students over 21? So we'll force any student that wants to complete a bachelor's degree in the US to get here at 17, excel into the 99th percentile just to stay, and then ship them out?
You know, attract and train the kinds of minds capable of completing high school 1-2 years early, maintaining a 3.0 or better GPA, completing a Bachelors in the fastest track possible...and then throw them out because we don't want fererners?
Gee, that doesn't seem like a plan to wipe out any intellectual edge America might have. That doesn't seem like our college system would become thoroughly stagnant and collapse under its own weight as those brilliant minds are forced to go teach and practice elsewhere. Nope.
6) The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
Here we see a great point and a rotten point. We absolutely should be self-sufficient. Absolutely!
Now, where else are we going to go for oil? Hmm? Oh, that's right. We already do. It just happens that, even with the US being in the top 3 total oil producers in the world, it's still not enough to keep us running.
We'd need ours and all of Russia's to get through every day, which would cause prices to soar as we became dependent on two sources. They won't have to take our offer, cause they don't use the damn stuff nearly as much as we do. They just have to wait a couple of days for our everything to grind to a halt. And then we'll take whatever price they feel like calling for.
Here we see a great point and a rotten point. We absolutely should be self-sufficient. Absolutely!
Now, where else are we going to go for oil? Hmm? Oh, that's right. We already do. It just happens that, even with the US being in the top 3 total oil producers in the world, it's still not enough to keep us running.
We'd need ours and all of Russia's to get through every day, which would cause prices to soar as we became dependent on two sources. They won't have to take our offer, cause they don't use the damn stuff nearly as much as we do. They just have to wait a couple of days for our everything to grind to a halt. And then we'll take whatever price they feel like calling for.
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere..' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army.. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
Yep. That's the way to win allies, friends...refusing to render assistance out of spite, or in some weird show of pessimism disguised as pragmatism. That will absolutely insure that no-one calls in the massive debts we owe them. What, you thought charitable giving was because we're being nice? How about because we owe a lot of people a lot of money, and would like for them not to bankrupt us?
And even at that, are we, one of the richest nations in existence, so poor that we cant't spare the time and aid to people dying of hunger, dying of disaster?
Sure, we need to get on the ball and tackle hunger and poverty in the US, but why not throw a lifeline to those that need it. Even if we give no fucks, think of this: you never know, they might have nukes someday.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
Uh-huh. Let's voluntarily surrender one of our few remaining claims to being a world leader, much less a superpower. Sure, they talk a lot, and get not much done. But the same can be said of Congress, and at least forcing Congress to work on a small island devoid of amenities would show some positive results on the way our nation is run.
Oooooh, I'm going to have to revisit that scenario....
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE. Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
Or we could, I don't know, revamp the school system we have? Put some real money and policy behind a preventative health plan? Regulate corn syrup use? Shut up and acknowledge that without an oversight board the English language evolves?
Oh, wait, we're trying to get immigrants to learn the English language? Why should they, they're only here for three months, and even then, they're unable to live here permanently.
Hmmm...ah, you must mean the people already living here. You know, the Native Americans with the dozens of languages we've stomped out, or the various Spanish speakers that make up 12% of the population? Or any one of several other languages commonly spoken in America? Right, of course.
How were you planning to communicate with other countries again? Because I don't see English holding on long as the language of international exchange when one of the largest exporters of the language effectively seals all borders to immigration, homogenizes language, alienates 3/4 of the world, takes a nosedive into intellectual stagnation, collapses their own economy trying to strong arm the energy reserves of the world into bankrupting themselves to feed our greed, and becomes a third world cesspit.
But hey: if you don't mind living in a dystopian hell, that's definitely a winner of a plan.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Skittle Storm
Title got your attention, yes? Hehehehe...so, I was working on a poli-social rant for today, got sidetracked, and now I figure I'll tell you why.
My older sister is planning a rare visit to Oklahoma next month, specifically to hang out with my partner and I. And somehow, she managed to pick the dates out of the blue that would put her up here for not one, not two, but three major events.
Kicking things off, my commencement for my Associates degree is on day two of her visit. I found out the dates coincided a little while back, but it was easily three weeks after she told me when she was coming.
Day three is our local Gay Pride Parade, moved back to May these last couple of years because Oklahoma uses summer as an excuse to try and kill us all. Not that it needs an excuse, being Oklahoma, home of tornadoes, earthquakes, brush fires, floods, baseball-sized hail, and ice storms. But I digress.
So my sister will be able to come see me wear a silly robe and even sillier hat while the President of the college hands me a piece of paper that entitles me to get some more college. But it's awesome, nonetheless. She will then also be able to go and watch drunken drag queens stagger about in the heat screaming about love while trucks, floats, and every flavor of queer invades a mile long strip of ground. And for that day, and for days after, it looks like a unicorn puked on that part of OKC.
But, and most exciting, is this: the Love is Love Rally.
Read through it. Take your time. Why yes, there is a mass commitment ceremony at the end of that, isn't there?
So, on that day, with my sister watching and squee-ing from the sidelines, my partner and I will declare our love to a few hundred people, exchange rings, and get giggly all over one another.
Two fantastic elements to this:
The first and foremost is that I get to have a ceremony with my partner of nearly five years, something we've both badly wanted for a long time, but have been putting off due to lack of funds.
The second is that my sister, one of the few members of my blood family that would actually show up to any such ceremony, will not only be there, but had planned for it, in advance, before any of us knew it was even possible.
So, if I haven't managed to churn out a few hundred words of wrath, please excuse me. I'm to busy over here being mushy and pink and whatnot.
Ranting resumes, yet again, on Wednesday.
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| No Skittles to see hear. Move along. (Source.) |
My older sister is planning a rare visit to Oklahoma next month, specifically to hang out with my partner and I. And somehow, she managed to pick the dates out of the blue that would put her up here for not one, not two, but three major events.
Kicking things off, my commencement for my Associates degree is on day two of her visit. I found out the dates coincided a little while back, but it was easily three weeks after she told me when she was coming.
Day three is our local Gay Pride Parade, moved back to May these last couple of years because Oklahoma uses summer as an excuse to try and kill us all. Not that it needs an excuse, being Oklahoma, home of tornadoes, earthquakes, brush fires, floods, baseball-sized hail, and ice storms. But I digress.
So my sister will be able to come see me wear a silly robe and even sillier hat while the President of the college hands me a piece of paper that entitles me to get some more college. But it's awesome, nonetheless. She will then also be able to go and watch drunken drag queens stagger about in the heat screaming about love while trucks, floats, and every flavor of queer invades a mile long strip of ground. And for that day, and for days after, it looks like a unicorn puked on that part of OKC.
But, and most exciting, is this: the Love is Love Rally.
Read through it. Take your time. Why yes, there is a mass commitment ceremony at the end of that, isn't there?
So, on that day, with my sister watching and squee-ing from the sidelines, my partner and I will declare our love to a few hundred people, exchange rings, and get giggly all over one another.
Two fantastic elements to this:
The first and foremost is that I get to have a ceremony with my partner of nearly five years, something we've both badly wanted for a long time, but have been putting off due to lack of funds.
The second is that my sister, one of the few members of my blood family that would actually show up to any such ceremony, will not only be there, but had planned for it, in advance, before any of us knew it was even possible.
So, if I haven't managed to churn out a few hundred words of wrath, please excuse me. I'm to busy over here being mushy and pink and whatnot.
Ranting resumes, yet again, on Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Polit-idiots, Legion, & Rural Communication
So, normally Uncle Jeremy picks one thing that's pissing him off, or giving him warm fuzzies, and takes off on a tearing rant. Today, however, there's more than one. And since most of them are short enough to cover at speed, we'll take them back to back.
In no particular order:
Hansen was responding to a "stand your ground" bill, which basically says that if you can hand over your wallet, run away, drop your drawers, etc., you have to try that first before you can smack 'em in the temple or trachea.
Leaving all the horrible implications in that bill aside, seriously? Hansen claims he was using the word for shock value, but come on people. How many more times are we going to see some idiot politician degrade women or minorities?
Speaking of minorities:
No, seriously. Here you go:
Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa. If that’s the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture. —Steve King (Source.)
King is most likely reacting to news that a comprehensive bipartisan bill to reform immigration laws, specifically those dealing with illegal immigrants, had been mostly hammered out after months of closed door sessions. While the bill needs some more detail work, it looks like a decent shake for just about everyone involved might actually come out of this.
A round of applause then, for Representative King! You didn't even let a single day of that warm, creamy political goodness slip by you before slamming into gear to get that tragedy working for you! I swear, that's one of the fastest snatch 'n spins I've seen on a tragedy since...
Because that's not at all terrifying, right? The best part, however, is that Anonymous is following through. They've stood down Phelps' clan a couple times since then, hacked their Facebook, Twitter, and websites a couple of times, and now Anonymous has flat out stated that if the WBC tries to protest the funerals of the Boston Bombing victims, the WBC will have to deal with Anonymous.
So...woot for a terrifying, faceless organization with potentially unlimited, decentralized power...but apparently with more conscience than most governments? I can live with that, for now.
I have nothing to say on this, especially. It just struck me funny. I leave you with the second to final line of the news story without further comment.
In no particular order:
4. You are what's between your legs, apparently.
State Rep. Peter Hansen, R-NH, apparently has absolutely no idea what Internet security is. There's really no other explanation for why a Republican politician would put the following in an email after all the other nasty little slips his party has had recently:
What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina's of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims. (Source)
Hansen was responding to a "stand your ground" bill, which basically says that if you can hand over your wallet, run away, drop your drawers, etc., you have to try that first before you can smack 'em in the temple or trachea.
Leaving all the horrible implications in that bill aside, seriously? Hansen claims he was using the word for shock value, but come on people. How many more times are we going to see some idiot politician degrade women or minorities?
Speaking of minorities:
3. Let the grandstanding commence!
Politicians have a tendency to turn anything into political capital that at times can seem Rumpelstiltskin-esque. Take State Rep. Steve King, R-IA, who's jumped on the Boston Marathon Bombings as a sign that we should be cautious about immigration reform.
Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa. If that’s the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture. —Steve King (Source.)
King is most likely reacting to news that a comprehensive bipartisan bill to reform immigration laws, specifically those dealing with illegal immigrants, had been mostly hammered out after months of closed door sessions. While the bill needs some more detail work, it looks like a decent shake for just about everyone involved might actually come out of this.
A round of applause then, for Representative King! You didn't even let a single day of that warm, creamy political goodness slip by you before slamming into gear to get that tragedy working for you! I swear, that's one of the fastest snatch 'n spins I've seen on a tragedy since...
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| They did what? Ok, get me a bottle of Visine and the football. (Source) |
2. Who Rules?
Yeah, no segue. Bite me. Anywho, the Phelps Home for the Criminally Insane is at it again, telling people that God hates us all, and communicates through bloodshed. In the past, this has been met with loud media shouting, and much furor. However, a few months back a higher (or lower, depending on your point of view) power has deigned to intervene.
The hacktivist group Anonymous has declared holy war on the unholy church. Here's their declaration of intent.
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| (Source.) |
So...woot for a terrifying, faceless organization with potentially unlimited, decentralized power...but apparently with more conscience than most governments? I can live with that, for now.
1. What.
Ladies and gentlemen (and those who prefer to be neither,) I give you:
Drive-by groundhogging.
BROOKVILLE, Pennsylvania — Police in one western Pennsylvania town are investigating a case of bar kill: dead animals tossed into a tavern by unsatisfied customers.
A groundhog was tossed into Bill's Bar on Sunday in Brookville, about 70 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, before a man sped off in a pickup driven by another man, The (Dubois) Courier-Express reported Wednesday. Hours later, the men returned and tossed in the dead grouse for good measure.
(Source.)
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| Ya did what now. (Source) |
"We have a lot of it up here. A guy will get in an argument and put a dead squirrel on his girlfriend's doorknob, that kind of thing," Dworek said.
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