just one little thing

by kara on June 15, 2015

“You just hate the Duggars because they’re Christian conservatives”

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes Yes. Yes I do. I hate with the intensity of 10,000 burning suns broomstick up the ass hypocritical sanctimonious prudes and racists who yearn to use the power of the state to impose their fuckedup tyranny on everyone else around them. So much so that I would not have any problems with Obama as The Yellow King lining the lot of them up against a wall and shooting them off the planet, into deep, deep space, with extreme prejudice. While I could hate the Duggars “just” because they’re Christian conservatives, I also have the luxury of hating them because Josh finger manhandled his five-year-old sister, and the parents knew and covered it up for their own selfish reasons, like maybe running for public office on the Christian family values conservative ticket.  Maybe the hatred of the Duggars, Duck Dynasty and people like Tim Tebow is because they have made themselves the faces of a sanctimonious movement that lives to pass reactionary judgments on others while holding themselves up to be superior. These authoritarian turds insult and speak with invective toward other people who’s lives, happiness and privacy and then get upset when they are outed as gross in every sense of the word hypocrites. The other reason for the hatred is no matter how many times these vile fucks get outed wingnuts never learn a FUCKING THING about the false ‘wholesomeness’ of their own movement as a lesson to stop the reactionary judgments underlying their ‘family valyuhs’. I promise to leave the Duggars alone, as soon as they quit appearing on the teevee or campaigning to spread their reactionary bullshit views on sexuality. Also: STOP STICKING UP FOR A CHILD MOLESTER AND HIS FREAKISH, ENABLING PARENTS AND SISTERS, YOU MONSTERS.

 

 

 

Christopher Lee

by kara on June 12, 2015

When I think of Christopher Lee, it’s not Star Wars or Hobbits or Bond villains. Tall, suave, handsome, debonair, Bit was his collaboration with Hammer Films that sucked me in. It is also this that rocketed him to fame, the actor becoming synonymous with horror thanks to his spellbinding performances as many Draculas, The Mummy and Frankenstein’s monster. His performances as Dracula have become the iconic and shaped the way the character has been viewed ever since. But it is the film The Wicker Man that cemented Lee as my all time favorite actor. And if you haven’t seen it you are insane because it is on of the greatest films ever made. I’m not kidding. It was once hailed by Cinefantastique as “the Citizen Kane of horror movies”. Christopher Lee thought it was his finest work and best film, ( “Wonderful film … “Its power lies in the fact that you never expect what eventually happens, because everyone is so nice”).

The 1973 cult classic is a chilling, unpredictable and unconventional departure from British horror tradition at the time and is unlike any horror film I have ever seen. Set in a fictional Hebridian island demented by paganism. Beautiful aerial shots of the Scottish Coast, strangely catchy gospel music,  an eerie and unsettling atmosphere and a gripping mystery.

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Baudrillard had a Point

by kara on June 6, 2015

The Grand Canyon. A place of epic visual scale where the modern world falls away, out of the human realm and into the deep geology of the earth. Layer upon layer of the planet’s crust revealed,  the stuff that is under our very feet as we go about our day is laid bare here. 277 miles long, 18 miles wide and over a mile deep, cutting down through more than two billion years of geologic time, it is a place that can still drop the most jaded of jaws.

Outside the south entrance, the kind of development symbolized by a hulking, two-story Fred Flintstone cutout prevails over the barren landscape, calling out ”Yabba-dabba-doo” to motorists looking for a campground. This is Bedrock City of Arizona.

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Florida, or The Onion?

by kara on May 26, 2015

 

Jeff Waters is a Florida man who apparently bought a blank check off a homeless dude, then decided to try to cash it at the local Bank of America. A $368 billion check.

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Homeopathy, who profits from it?

by kara on May 22, 2015

Companies that don’t have to bear the onerous financial burden of proving anything to the FDA.

via xkcd

 

by kara on May 21, 2015

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Oops. Arizona is all out of money. What to do? Republicans who control the sate have it all figured it out. In their fiscally conservative, bootstrappy wisdom, the Rethugs have decided to close the $1 billion budget gap by cutting welfare. that could go wrong?

Low-income families on welfare will now have their benefits cut off after just 12 months.

As a result, the Arizona Department of Economic Security will drop at least 1,600 families – including more than 2,700 children – from the state’s federally funded welfare program on July 1, 2016.

The cuts of at least $4 million reflect a prevailing mood among the lawmakers in control in Arizona that welfare, Medicaid and other public assistance programs are crutches that keep the poor from getting back on their feet and achieving their potential.

Gov. Doug Ducey (R-fuckface), when he’s not stuffing his face with ice cream, says these cuts are necessary to “protect the taxpayers.” Arizona is one of those red welfare states that mooches off taxpayers, in other states. The thing is, the welfare money is entirely federally funded through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. It comes from the federal government. Thanks, but no thanks, Obama! We don’t want your free federal money, for we need to teach Arizona Poors a thing or two about bootstraps. Arizona isn’t really screwing people on government assistance to save money; it’s about teaching those poors a lesson about not being poor.

“I tell my kids all the time that the decisions we make have rewards or consequences, and if I don’t ever let them face those consequences, they can’t get back on the path to rewards,” Republican Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City, said during debate on the budget. “As a society, we are encouraging people at times to make poor decisions and then we reward them.”

This is class cleansing, fellow sleuth. They want poor people to move out of Arizona. Forget the sanctimonious moralizing bullshit. They can’t legally kick people out of the state so they’re going to give them an incentive to self-deport. I say it’s because the fucking moochers (yes, Republicans, that’s you, motherfuckerss) don’t want any of our money to go to the poor in Arizona.

If all of the poor leave Arizona, who will the Teabaggers in the state house vent their hate on next?

(Mexicans).

 

ps: recall this fuckface.

Florida, or The Onion?

by kara on May 19, 2015