All I set out to do when I rustled up a good friend and got'm to put together this blog was: EXECUTE MUMIA NOW. But times are a-changin'.
Let's talk about Al Franken. Besides being a moron who leverages his years on TV to lecture to the Right about how brilliant he is and how stupid we are, there isn't much to him. But he signifies a cancer upon the Right which I must address.
When the election was going on, my so-far-Right-I-sympathize-with-the-Left father, whom I adore, gave me a little lecture. I heard it from other like-minded individuals who would call into some of my favorite talk show hosts, and it went something like this:
"I'm staying home this [2008] election. I can't support what the Republicans have done with their runaway spending. They're just as bad as Democrats - worse, even, because we elected them and they're behaving like this. If I stay home and don't vote, we'll go back to the way it was before. Remember that? Do you remember when Bill Clinton was President and the Congress was Republican? Remember how good things were? If I stay home, that's how it will be again. A good ol' stalemate."
Well, Pops, I love ya, but you're wrong. By staying home, by not doing everything in your power to get anyone who even remotely agrees with you to vote, we have the debacle we're facing today. The economy is in a shambles and the government won't keep its filthy hands out of the problem. What does that do to any problem, when the State presumes to fix things? It gets even more fouled up.
That whole idea, about staying home, or voting but only on local issues? Comes from the Boomers. Yup, my Dad is a Boomer. As with all their other ideas, they're wrong. And they're ruining the world with their bad ideas, one false adage at a time.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Iran - my fellow ridiculous Americans
I didn't have to go very far to find the following comment regarding the 16 year old girl shot in Iran: "why is american media reporting on Iran like if we dont have problems here we need to resolve first," (typed by "lmaohater" on youtube in the comments section to the video).
I could have told you the second it happened we would have weak-spined, lily-livered, equivocating simpletons by the thousands who would have similar remarks. My fellow ridiculous Americans use this weak argument (which appeals to similarly weak people and their emotions) to decry getting involved in other countries, in judging murderers, and in getting into the space race. It is a powerful argument when you really think there is no difference between murderers and people just trying to have a fair election.
I am the first to acknowledge that "reformists" and "moderates" in Iran are hardly better - instead of wanting to dismember every Jew and American (like the bad guys in control over there) they just want to incinerate us. But there is a right and a wrong. A very smart person I work with was stuck on the fact that no one had 'proof' who killed this poor girl. That it could have been her own people, so we just shouldn't judge. The same argument says you never really can have proof, so how can you make anyone waste away in jail at all, or sentence them to death? It's going to be the downfall of our country, this equivocation, combined with a few of making decisions.
On the decisions front, it is this fear of committing to one which has given birth to the adage everyone feels smart in repeating, "There are no black and white choices in this world, just shades of grey." Weak people can repeat it a million times (and they do, adding a delightful condescending tone when they do), but it doesn't make it true. The world is full of decisions - from board games to spouses (another concept fallen prey to those who can't commit to a decision) to jobs to pets.
My people (Americans, Westerners, and anyone else who's not murderous) need to rediscover their sense of choice. And make choices, and stick to them.
And of course, that will help them decide to finally Execute Mumia Now.
I could have told you the second it happened we would have weak-spined, lily-livered, equivocating simpletons by the thousands who would have similar remarks. My fellow ridiculous Americans use this weak argument (which appeals to similarly weak people and their emotions) to decry getting involved in other countries, in judging murderers, and in getting into the space race. It is a powerful argument when you really think there is no difference between murderers and people just trying to have a fair election.
I am the first to acknowledge that "reformists" and "moderates" in Iran are hardly better - instead of wanting to dismember every Jew and American (like the bad guys in control over there) they just want to incinerate us. But there is a right and a wrong. A very smart person I work with was stuck on the fact that no one had 'proof' who killed this poor girl. That it could have been her own people, so we just shouldn't judge. The same argument says you never really can have proof, so how can you make anyone waste away in jail at all, or sentence them to death? It's going to be the downfall of our country, this equivocation, combined with a few of making decisions.
On the decisions front, it is this fear of committing to one which has given birth to the adage everyone feels smart in repeating, "There are no black and white choices in this world, just shades of grey." Weak people can repeat it a million times (and they do, adding a delightful condescending tone when they do), but it doesn't make it true. The world is full of decisions - from board games to spouses (another concept fallen prey to those who can't commit to a decision) to jobs to pets.
My people (Americans, Westerners, and anyone else who's not murderous) need to rediscover their sense of choice. And make choices, and stick to them.
And of course, that will help them decide to finally Execute Mumia Now.
Barney Frank needs to GO.
So let's see, Barney first brings out glorious economy to its knees through the subprime meltdown. Now, he decides that maybe we've recovered too fast and starts all over again trying to destroy us. This man can't be ignorant that he made this happen - if he's doing it a second time, it's intentional.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
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