If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
- Wise words from Epicurus to keep in mind on this National Day of Prayer.
You're as dumb as all those records you spinAnd you're as real as the Shroud of Turin
- For some reason, I was mightily amused by learning that the Shroud is kept behind bulletproof glass. I'm not sure if it was because of imagining someone actually taking the trouble to shoot at a piece of linen cloth, or imagining the worldwide freakout that would commence if someone did do it. Sometimes, it's really amazing to consider how human irrationality hasn't been the death of us all (yet).
Walter Sobchak: Nothing changes. Fucking Nazis.
- As half of the Internet has already said: smoking/possessing pot = child endangerment. SWAT goons storming a house in the middle of the night, killing a dog that was confined to a crate, and spraying bullets around with children present = making the world safe for something or other. Well done, America.
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The greatest hypocrisy of conservatives (out of many choices) is their support of government power that hurts citizens they don't care about while constantly yapping about government oppression regarding their issues (guns, prayer, creches, etc.) If the tea partiers cared about constitutional rights they'd join the ACLU.
A few blogs have been noting the cognitive dissonance involved in newest fad of wanting to strip terrorist suspects of their citizenship while freaking out over the thought of those same people not being allowed to buy guns. Needless to say, I assume they mean swarthy, foreign-looking suspects, not the Christian militia types.
Oh, I'm sure they will join the ACLU...while there's still a Democrat in office. Once one of their own tribe returns to power, it'll be right back to calling them terrorist sympathizers and the American Communist Lovers Union.
Awfully illiberal of me, but what I wouldn't give sometimes for a modern-day Che Guevara or someone like that who would actually line some of these fuckers up against a wall somewhere. A bunch of ignorant, bored, spoiled suburbanites who think one of the lowest tax rates in the Western world means they live in a Marxofascist tyranny -- well, here you go, you stupid fucks, here's the real deal. Maybe the rest of them would shut the fuck up and appreciate how little they have to complain about.
"What you need is a holiday in Cambodia." - Jello Biafra
...up against a wall? Somebody's feeling a teensy bit hostile? I think my partner is getting a little tired of hearing me yell at republicans on the TV, but I'm not about to invoke a firing squad - if for no other reason than that gay atheist vegetarians would probably be among the first lined-up.
A teensy bit? Shit, I've already had one near-fistfight this week because I'm so sick of listening to this endless fucking whining. Even during six years of completely Republican-dominated government, they never stopped complaining.
But yeah, that's kind of what I'm saying. It's much more likely that people like us would be on the receiving end of political violence in this country were it to occur, yet these fucktards keep working themselves up into increasing hysterics over a milquetoast centrist being the unholy spawn of Stalin and Mao. I'm just suggesting that maybe being confronted with some real live radical, militant leftists might take some of the romance out of their Red Dawn fantasies.
You're right - they live in a fantasy world. Being ignorant, overprotected, and entirely self-centered should have negative consequences. Is our country's success causing its downfall? Happens to every empire.
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