1776

by kara on July 4, 2014

My favorite part of the Declaration of Independence is the middle part, the airing of grievances so to speak. It’s basically a laundry list of all the shitty tricks the GOP and teaparty have used to keep the federal government from getting anything done since Raygun. I have always loved that the founders were basically pissed because the Brits wouldn’t govern.

It. is. epic. 

the preamble is just icing.

Dripping as it is may be with self-contradiction, it’s hard not to feel one’s heart leap up when reading old Tom’s Declaration:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God* entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

* But wait a minute…”Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”? What kind of Deist (= atheist) bullshit is that?

Jesus face-palm

by kara on July 2, 2014

We used to not fucking hire faith based charities for government work at all to avoid “entanglements” that might violate the Establishment clause. But the Supremes decided that test was basically unworkable (it really was kinda fucked up), Congress passed RFRA because they are idiots and the last 5 Presidents have worked at both contracting out government and including religious organizations for a variety of reasons (the right because it makes their nutbag base cases happy, the left because the role church has in the African American community). So here we are – we basically can’t not hire them for fear of a lawsuit that we are discriminating against religious types but we can’t require them to not discriminate if their faith tells them too. The answer is to get rid of RFRA, but that won’t happen as long as the Christian right thinks it benefits them.
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by kara on July 1, 2014

Nothing bespeaks the non existence of a Deity like stopping in front of Ralph’s to give an old dude in a wheelchair 5 dollars and having your bag break and $40 worth of organic blueberries and sugar free Cool Whip roll down the street for all to see.

Blind ass FAITH

by kara on June 30, 2014

Religion is poison when it becomes a part any decision. No wonder there is an ever increasing growth in agonists and atheists. Why on earth does every little voice have to impose their will on the majority? (speaking of majority it is a crime that these five male voices speak as though they represent the majority. Ever major decision they have made lately flies in the face of the majority of Americans). The folks whooping and hollering in triumph over this dumb ruling don’t understand how it will  curtail their own religious freedoms down the road. That’s why they call it “blind faith.” When these proud conservatives and Christians finally figure out what’s been wrought on our nation in their name and in the name of their God, there’s going to be hell to pay on the political right. Maybe the SCOTUS sees the writing on the wall for the GOP and is rushing to expand corporate power as much as possible in order to beat back what Kissinger (?) once termed an “excess of democracy.” They know the GOP is likely to be out of national power for a generation and that President Hillary may well appoint a new liberal majority.

Our right to religion trumps your right to no religion. Our right to carry weapons capable of killing dozens of people at a time trumps your right to live. Our right to make obscene amount of money, well that just trumps the shit out of your right to breath clean air, eat non-chimeric food, drink water that is pure, live on land that doesn’t fart toxic fracking chemicals into the environment, not pay for wars that suck up all of the money that could have used for jobs and infrastructure and caring for the less fortunate. In fact, our rights trump the fuck out of everything about you.

* Who even shops at Hobby Lobby?  I’ve never seen one.  I like hobbies, and I shop at hobby shops. I dunno, in my mind I see depressed Madame Bovary types, with sad arms reaching for the fake ‘olde timey’ garbage and things to occupy their lives so they don’t realize what a horror show they are living in. Now the sad shoppers at Hobby Lobby will be waited on my more miserable pregnant people stuck in low paying jobs preaching the joys of scrap-booking and decoupaging toilet seats.

DIE (of natural causes), please.

by kara on June 30, 2014

Rollin’ Coaltards

by kara on June 29, 2014

Because your truck is not just something to get you from point A to point B. It’s who you are. In other words, mushrooming clouds of diesel exhaust are just another way to show off your manhood. It’s called  “Rollin’ Coal” and don’t have the energy to explain it, so you’ll just have to click the link.

You can’t get more quintessentially wingnut than spending big bucks on your oversized pickup to make it waste expensive fuel and be hard on the engine so you can pollute the air all around you and suck in toxic fumes- all just so you can be a childish dick to liebruls. Applying maximum throttle in a low gear puts undue burden on an engine, and can shorten the life of the engine in oh so many ways. I like to see these geniuses get crank-shafted by themselves.

You know, I don’t think neocons realize that they are turning an entire e generation of Americans – the children and millennials of today – into a bunch of card-carrying “socialists” down the road by forcing them first hand to see the real horror caused by their asinine agenda in action. Twenty or 30 years from now, things might be entirely different because kids witness shit lke this. As for me, based on the ramping up of bat-shittery, I plan on being in the crawl-space under my house with a shotgun and a crate of heroin.

 

Some half crazed old geezers wander around the block shouting half crazed old geezerisms. Not our Johnny. He’s a maverick. He wanders around the globe. Back in May 2013, Doddering Crab King John McCain was really excited about the prospects of arming the Syrian moderates who were fighting to free that country from the iron grip of Bashar al-Assad. He even sneaked into the country to meet with the head of the Free Syrian Army, Gen. Salim Idris, the fellow in the mustaches and the striped shirt there with his arm around Johnny. (Idris was ousted in February of this year).

Only one small problem with the fun photo-op: In addition to Idris, some of the other guys in the picture are apparently members of ISIS – you know, the guys who are currently bringing down Iraq. This photo is reportedly being circulated by ISIS as proof of their legitimacy.

The doddering old idiot so baffled by the modern world that he would surely cause a nuclear war by confusing the nuclear football with his “TV Clapper” is photographed with ISIS members. If only one of the Sunday shows would give him a platform to explain himself!

The initial source for that claim appears to be wingnut  blog WeaselZippers (they don’t cite a source), and so far, most of the reposts have been wingnut blogs are burying the lede, trumpeting it as “proof” that there’s no such thing as a “moderate Muslim.”

More empirical evidence that John McCain loves him some military intervening, regardless of who it is that we’re intervening for, just as long as we’re bombing somebody. Gee McWalnuts, after your stellar performance with The Patriot Act, the war in the Middle East, your support of the NSA to spy on every American and now bombing Syria, why don’t you go all in and just fucking join ISIS? Kindly shut the fuck up and do something fun, like duck hunting with Dick Cheney.

Is there some sort of statute of limitations with regard to time since release as a POW? If so, I suppose it’s too late for people to foment irresponsible on-line accusations that John McCain is a traitor, especially since his late dad probably didn’t have a “long beard.”

 

If we weren’t God’s chosen nation, I’d probably be disturbed by all this. You know, the crisis of little children sent by their anguished, desperate parents alone to America?  The “unaccompanied minors flooding into the nation by the thousands and then getting locked in tiny baby jails”? Big Bamo Kenyan HighChief sent out a telepathic message calling all his fellow foreign brown people to start to flooding the heartland. And flood it they have! Real America Virginia is inundated with these small scary monsters, and the Good ChristiansTM there are not happy.

Over 1,000 angry residents of the small, rural Southern Virgnia tobacco belt town gathered at a High School to shriek at local, state, and federal government officials for offering the St. Paul’s College building as temporary emergency shelter for 500 unaccompanied alien children (UAC’s) coming from Texas.

The government had brokered a deal with St. Paul’s College – a historically black college which was founded after the Civil War to educate black men and women in the segregated South was closed five years ago after losing its accreditation –  to house up to 500 children in dormitories.

Nice resident, Aaron Smith told administration officials at a public meeting this week that the community did not want to become the location of a large illegal immigrant shelter. OR:
“We talk slow around here and with a twang. But we say what we mean,” he said. “Let me talk straight into your eyes: We don’t want you”.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses….except you Messicans. And you, with the turban. And don’t think I don’t see you Irish waitress! If you ain’t rich, get out! Why not do what they do in Texas,  make the brown babies watch episodes of Duck Dynasty until they turn white.

Perhaps if the little brown babbies came packaged in tiny little placentas and uteri they would then be acceptable?

One nice resident lady, Pam Thomas, said:

“Right now we have a town — I can go home. I can get supper. At 9 o’clock at night I can come back to my office by myself go in there and do work, come out at 11:30 get in my car and never worry about being harmed. I can’t do that anymore if y’all come. You can’t put them over there and it’s not a prison anymore. It’s a closed facility.”

I’ve read what Pam Thomas said half a dozen times and the last two sentences are still stumping me. Does anyone here speak fluent Bigotbargle and would you be willing to translate? Step aside people, I speak wingtard!!!“You can’t put them over there and it’s not a prison anymore. It’s a closed facility.”

PAM THOMAS is envisioning marauding hordes of 7-year-olds carjacking her. How is she going to have her affairs now if she can’t go to “work” until 11:30? Hmmmmmm? Oh, this is serious! Someone attach her hoverround XL15 to a large catapult and launch her into the sea.

Listen up, the good people of Virginia don’t want you putting the brown babies in baby jail. Oh, wait, let us clarify: they don’t want you putting the brown babies in baby jail in their town. Besides, Jesus never said anything about helping homeless children.

What if thos kiddos looked more like these immigrant kiddos:

Alas, the young ‘uns are from Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica and are future Democrats.

Know your War Monsters.

by kara on June 18, 2014

We can all agree that the world is becoming increasingly inhospitable to asshole dictators.

When Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in the Cote D’Ivore elections of 2010 and systematically started murdering 3,000 of his rival’s supporters, the International Criminal Court literally sent someone down there to winkle him out of his presidential bunker and get him on an airplane, where his surprise arrest warrant was issued. The 69-year old is currently on trial by the ICC for crimes against humanity. Mr Gbagbo is the first former head of state to be detained by the ICC, although Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Liberia’s Charles Taylor were tried by special courts in The Hague.

Here are six people I’d like to see tricked into a one-way ticket to the Netherlands:

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Al Gore for President, 2016.

by kara on June 14, 2014

Just like critics warned back, in 2003, Saddam was one of the things holding it all together. When the dust settles in Iraq, the best outcome will be the 3 entity federalization that Old Handsome Joe Biden recommended. For the region, Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc. — the colonial borders are doomed. And BTW, the ISIS forces are not “al Qaeda-affiliated” any longer, they were too accepting of collateral damages to civilians for al Qaeda. They do however have some experienced military professionals in their forces, thanks to Paul Bremer breaking up Saddam’s army and forbidding the officers from playing any role in the new government. Or maybe not so much “holding it together”, as putting the Sunnis on top in a way that made them at least claim to be supportive of Iraq as a single state (he hadn’t had the Kurds since 1991, and from what I understand the western desert was always essentially lawless). It isn’t like the Shiites or Kurds are backing ISIS – but the Shiites in the Iraqi Army aren’t about to die for Sunnis who resent the fuck out of them. Further evidence that before you destabilize a region in the name of “freedom” you might want to have some knowledge about how bad the potential fallout could be. But that would have meant that the Republicans would have had to perform their due diligence and figured out plans for going in and coming out and I don’t even believe they thought through the going in part very well.

Or they could have listened to Al Gore’s speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in 2002, in which he talked about Iraq, displaying incredible  foresight and understanding of foreign policy, laying out the difference between 1991 and 2002. What Saddam was in 1991 he was NOT in 2002. Gore is so freaking brilliant that he apparently one-upped NostraDamus.  To be proven so right all these years later well, simply says that Al Gore should have been President. Very few people had this courage at the time. I don’t think there could be a more genuine leader, a more morally significant man, a more capable man to clean up the mess in America, a more important global figure, a more perfect candidate at this time.

Yes, Republicans could have listened to Al Gore. Instead they were too busy making inventing the Internet jokes and calling him a traitor who doesn’t support the President.