Posts Tagged ‘bullshit’

Imagine me doing the face-palm movement, ok? Yes, I am one of those fence sitting sorts who can’t completely eschew religion, but neither can I quite get my teeth properly set to CHEW most religious proclaimations. This week brings some spectacularly Nutcake of Doom moments thereby:

You women? Stay OFF the sofa, you vixens! Because some male cleric has caught onto your evil ways: relaxing on sofas makes your legs fall seductively apart!

Stepping outside your life station? Prepare to die, in India, for dating or marrying outside your caste. It is the 21st century, and people want to murder you for falling in love with someone whose skin is a degree lighter or darker? Sounds like good old racist clap trap to me….and dressing it up in religion just makes any purported deities look bad. (And see, it is not merely Islamic men murdering women for unchaste behavior—other religions can go off the rails of humane good sense, too.)

And while it is not this week’s news, I simply must add my voice to those decrying the latest bit of misogynist behavior from the Catholic Church. It seems that trying to ordain a woman as a priest is as serious a sin as raping a child. Wow. Really? Gee, hang on to that ole’ boys network there, Benedict. Welcome to the 11th century…..again.

And let’s examine the current immigration conflagration in a pseudo-scholarly way, shall we? David Barton says that God draws national borders, not people; so opening borders is kicking sand in His divine face. I just have to say, whether or not Barton is the Biblical scholar he calls himself or not, did he ever read a history book?

I could go on, I suppose, but hey, I AM allergic to nuts. If I keep reading the religious crazy nuts stuff, I may have an anaphylactic reaction.

I have been deleting myself from email lists for most of a year now. I am sick of being hectored and nagged by both sides. Somehow, the local Republicans got my phone number and keep calling to ask if I want to be a delegate to their convention, wtF is that about?

I am burned out. My health has suffered. My marriage has suffered. My writing has gone to sheer shit. And I am pissed off. Seriously, America? Have you forgotten what a representative democracy is all about? You elected Obama to replace the mad cowboy who took Reagan’s start into corporate thuggery, and Clinton’s book-keeperish nice guyness to the next fucked up level. The ship of state is on the rocks and you think the new “Captain” should fix it all yesterday.But you think he can do it alone?

The GOP is busy trying to blame everything from Afghanistan to the oil spill on him. Pssssttt—-he did not do it! One man, with his political party acting like a crew of pussies (and so not the bad cats in “Cats” either) can only do so much.

Barry Obama doesn’t have a magic wand to wave over all of America’s problems. Sorry, but to both progressives and republithugs, I must say, give up the myth of the “magic negro”, ok? He is President, NOT King. But America likes being stupid, the redneck jokes are coming home to roost, research suggests that facts don’t change fondly held dumb-assed ideas. Is this some sort of right wing New Age sewage effect? If you believe hard enough in something moronic and downright wrong, it will become true?

Here are some facts that even a housewife-grandma-veteran-bitch can grasp, try to keep up, alright? This is like the phone call your 7th grade teacher made to your folks, two weeks before semester end, to tell them you were failing.

* Illegal immigration is not what threatens the American worker. Having nothing worth working UPON is ruining American labor. We don’t MAKE anything anymore besides artery-clogging cheeseburgers and movies. Illegal immigrants largely do work that white Americans want nothing to do with at all.

* We have to dump the idea of the Mall being “entertainment.” Spending money on necessities instead of stupid assed fads USED to be the American way. Expecting to work for a living wage and actually knowing the job used to be the American way. Now every other person wants to be a “day trader” and “dot com millionaire.” You all watched the wrong fucking movies, ok? I honestly don’t know if we can get back to this, because the idiocracy seems well set.

* Obama didn’t start the wars. He surely needs to finish them. Good luck with that, Barry. He needs your help—-tell him supporting the troops means bringing them home alive, educating them with the new GI bill so they can go out and revitalize American industry as the vets of WWII did before them!

* Stop flogging the fear. The “terrorists” do not really want to “bring it to us here”—-they simply want American business and American military the fuck OUT of their countries and lives. Using the Marines and the Army as very underpaid mercenaries for American corporate interests abroad is going to crash the country.

(And just an aside? Fire the mini-white-shirted brownshirts of the TSA—hire some war veterans that know what a real asshat looks like so the petty jerks can quit feeling up grandmas and stealing baby sippy cups, ok?)

* This bullshit about cutting budgets, but NOT defense that Teabaggers are on about? Stupid. The defense budget would cover ALL the rest of the budget with leftovers for all. Basically, continuing to vote for morons espousing this line is paying for big rich bastards to use your sons and daughters as bullet stoppers for their own purposes. Wake the Fuck UP!

* Health care is socialism? Just what the fuck is so goddamned capitalist and democratic about dying for lack of medical care? That isn’t American, that is a twisty stupid form of social Darwinism—last espoused best by the Nazi Party of Germany. If you think Obama’s watered down health care plan is going to sink America’s little democracy into socialism, you are being ignorant zombies for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries and their rich bosses who want to keep raking in your bucks. Until you run out of cash and die that is—sucks to be you, then. Wake the Fuck UP!

But back to my opening—taking myself off lists and ignoring most petitions and letter writing campaigns. I think it is too late. I think too many Americans have their heads firmly up their own racist, sexist, save-me-Jesus asses and they like the sky being brown. I think they all drank the stupid Kool-aid and will keep buying the prettier myths of the GOP and their corporate masters. They don’t want to hear that DECADES of hard work and personal trial lie up the road. They didn’t want to hear it when Jimmy Carter first tried to tenderly inform them that they were going to hell in handbasket.

I’m glad I am old. But if all you young pups won’t learn from history, you are certainly going to suffer through repeating it until you learn or watch the American experiment fail. I almost wish I believed in the traditional afterlife.
I’d kind of like to watch the pissed off Founding Fathers kicking some ass there when some of the authors of the current shitstorm arrive in the “There” after fucking up the minds and lives of millions.

But since I don’t believe in that, I have to content myself with telling everyone buying the drivel and waiting for a fairy godfather/mother President to save them to kiss my ass.

I hated the song of that title the first time I heard it. I hate it worse now when I hear it without music from Americans who are not fucking paying attention.
Just a bit of random news wrap up so the next person I feel the urge to throttle (after they ask me “how are you?” and I reply “fucking depressed” and they respond ” Oh, honey! Why??”) can find out why once the docs insert an airway.

Let me count the fucking ways why:

(1) Remember on Star Trek (yes, I went there!) when on New Gen, Q discussed human history and referred to the age of corporate rule? We are there—who knew that would be how the “age of Aquarius” began? Why do I say this? Because BP—the corporate clucks who have pretty much killed the Gulf of Mexico (and gods know what else) with their cheap-assed (un)safety devices and have a branch of the US military covering their sins: the Coast Guard is barring press or private coverage, threatening huge fines and felony charges. And local law enforcement apparently works for BP on the taxpayer dollar, too.

(2) GOP obfuscation, as they continue their sulk over losing the election, is broken only in one place I can see: they AND the Democrats want to screw up Social Security. A lot of old folks cannot afford to live in America, have their necessary meds AND eat already; and it is going to get far worse very soon if these foxes raiding the financial henhouses have their way. The government can’t pay the bills of war, so they are robbing Peter (Paul and Mary?) to pay generals and arms merchants.

(3) Congress thinks telling folks to work longer is the solution? People fresh out of college can’t find freaking jobs….and those folks wanting to work longer? Their bosses actually can’t wait to get rid of them—what with years of wage increases and bennies that they could deprive desperate young newbies of right at the get go! Wake the fuck UP! America’s economy will continue to suck until we start PRODUCING something besides “consumers” buying cheap Chinese shit at Walmart. (And yes, at Ikea.)

(4) And Obama? It’s the WAR, stupid. Military costs are crushing us. Military costs crushed the USSR, too. (No, it was NOT St. Ronnie who did it with a wave of his hand.) End the fucking wars. And idiots like Palin, telling the teabagging morons that , yes, gub’mint spending must stop, but not military spending? Shut the fuck up, you stupid twat! (And any feminists out there who want to defend her feminist right to be a total moron with America’s future without being called a twat? Bite me. I hate ALL imbeciles in power, not only females ones>)

And I will shut up now, because I have to go move the water outdoors. And I could go on and on and on. If you are not pissed off and depressed? You are not fucking paying attention.

A Seattle police officer is in trouble for beating up a 15 year old girl in a holding cell. He is defending himself against charges by saying, basically, that the teen girl deserved it for provoking him by kicking a shoe at him and calling his wife a whore.

Really? That is your idea of justification to wall-slam a girl, punch and kick her? Gee, I sure hope your wife (whether she is a whore or not) never pisses you off, cause Gods know what you might consider yourself entitled to do in that instance. And man, nobody better play “the dozens” with this dude; he really has a short fuse.

The girl says the officer insulted her first, saying that she was working as a prostitute and that is why she lost it and kicked her shoe at him and returned the insult. It is somewhat the kind of behavior adolescents are infamous for—no impulse control and all that. But a grown man? A trained professional? He can’t control his temper when a teen aged girl insults him?
Wow, how adult is that? I hope he isn’t a parent.

Seattle doesn’t need that kind of cop. He assaulted a child in custody. If a police officer can’t take what a mouthy kid dishes out, how in hell would he act in a truly threatening scenario?

From The Moon’s Favors:

” Reminder, The Deficit You’re Freaking Out About Is Bush’s Fault”

Go look at the chart, please!

And also, remember: if the government stops spending in a panic, (or keeps spending on the wrong stuff) it will get worse. Like in Ireland.

Because if it is Homeland Security and the progressively more stupid “no fly list” there is no such thing as “Freedom of Information”. If your name is on the list, you will be told you are listed, but not why. You may or may not be allowed to fly, and they won’t answer your questions or tell you how to get off the list.

A SIX YEAR OLD GIRL was found to be listed, and nobody thinks this is extremely stupid or odd? And her parents are to be comforted by being told “Well, next time you want to fly with her, common sense will be exercised, but no, we won’t tell you how to get her name off the list.” Right.

If I did not have a Labyrinth to maintain, I’d be looking for how to retire to Canada or somewhere else. Because the level of stupid is too intense, no country can long survive this level of idiocy and thuggery.

Sometimes I think scientists need to talk to real people more often. Like THIS story about how babies popped out of the womb even one week early usually have special needs.

Yes, not holding the kid till the 40th week makes them ADHD, and ADD, autistic, and all other kinds of things. Really?? I mean, reallllly? How do they decide it is not coincidence? Even if the only thing all the supposedly “special needs” kids have in common is being born early, how do they know that is the real cause of the issues? I mean, a ton of other factors are going to immediately begin accruing in the child’s life. I, for instance, struggle with depression issues—but that is from a rather dysfunctional childhood, not from being premature. But I am sure the authors of this study would find some way to tie it to being born too soon.

This is a bit personal for me. I was born in 1953. I was born in my mother’s sixth month of gestation. Around 27 or 28 weeks. Not 40 weeks. Not 39 weeks. I am not autistic. I was not ADHD or ADD. I was not in any way mentally retarded—and usually maintained a 3.5 or higher grade point average. I read at 6th grade level by the time I was in the 4th grade. My only noticeable issue from extreme preemie-hood? Slightly numb fingertips and lousy fine motor control in hands, presumably from nerve damage because the nerve sheathes were not quite complete.

I am getting a bit weary of researchers deciding to label everyone and everything based on very little real research. People are much more resilient than most folks think, and that includes premature babes. Examine some adults, you science yahoos!

As a child, I loved the Disney film “Bambi” and I loved the skunk, Flower, and the bunny, Thumper. Thumper’s mom had a rule about talking: “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”

Well, that really WOULD shut us all up, wouldn’t it?

But although I spend time reading news and looking for something good, there is very little good news out there. A man went crazy in England, drove about with his shotgun shooting people and killed a dozen. The oil spew in the Gulf continues, and the toxins being used to try getting it out of sight are poisoning the Gulf worse. BP won’t allow workers to wear breathing gear to protect themselves from the effects—cause, you know, that looks bad. Not much upswing from last month’s news, is it? And it gets worse, the SCOTUS basically made your Miranda Rights worthless-—unless you invoke for yourself, you are WAIVING said rights. Hello, police state!

And another ship full of aid materials and pissed off activists is on its way to Gaza to break the Israeli blockade. I don’t see this ending well, but the “Rachel Corrie” is enroute. I don’t know if the Turkish Navy is really escorting this vessel or not; but in the interests of both sides, I hope cooler heads prevail this time. The only good thing I can say, all Thumper ruled? Pray, light candles….hope a sufficient number of folks stop acting crazed soon. And no, I am not only speaking of British taxi drivers with guns. There has been more than enough crazy to go ’round; must be viral.

I love reading The Rude Pundit with my morning coffee! His post o’ the day is about how terribly frantic the homophobic wingnuts of the Religious Right are getting about the idea of the very stupid “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy finally being ended. My favorite quote is below—wherein the homophobic sorts preach about fearing God, but neglect the second cogent part of the Biblical passage. Because, you know, that part sounded like they might be standing in a cow pie! Thanks to the Rude One—he supplied the missing text for us! I emphasized my very favorite part!

“One of the bible passages we’re supposed to read to accompany our prayer is Jeremiah 5:21-29, which is God getting all pissy and wanting people to tremble before him or whatever. Of course, if you go one verse more, you get this: “A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?” To put that another way, all those people, like, say, Tony Perkins, telling you what to say and what the invisible sky wizard think? Their own God thinks they’re full of shit and that you’re a loser if you believe them.”

Of course, I loved the rest of his post, too—especially the part about homosexuals being unable to stop themselves from raping straight troops. What, you mean like happens with hetero guys raping military women? Like that, you asshats?

…it is no wonder we haven’t succeeded much. The CIA sits around thinking up crap like how to make a film that looks like Saddam screwing a teenaged boy? Or of Osama bin Laden in a drunken campfire bullshit session listing his male conquests? Seriously? Maybe the CIA just needs more believable actors?

And imagine, people didn’t think the movie “Men Who Stare at Goats” was funny? They are right, the comedy value pales in comparison.