Two stories this week concerning our increasingly mechanized military.
The first one involves self-driving supply trucks that allow the humans riding in it to spend their time looking for roadside bombs.
Personally, I’d reverse the roles but it’s progress I guess.
Next story is a tad scarier. The Brits have basically built a Cylon Raider which they call the Taranis. Read up on it here.
So, um, Skynet may not have been so fictional, eh?
The family of a 87 year old lady used her obituary to attack Harry Reid. That’s nice, huh?
More here.
Some other “compassionate conservatives” in Utah published the names, addresses, and – in the cases of pregnant women – due dates of likely undocumented migrants in their state.
Hey! Nothing like sending your angry tea baggers to kill a brown baby that would be an American if allowed to live. And yes, that is EXACTLY the motive in those cases.
In both those instances, the perps were LDS members. This is not to say every member of that church is an evil, racist prick. You could single out any conservative religious mob for having that ilk in it’s midst. I know plenty of decent human beings that are Mormon that don’t subscribe to that kind of hate. That said, the slush fund for Prop 8 *was* helped by the church.
No, other conservative twits abound, regardless of religious affiliation.
Old-ish news, but there’s a farmer in Missouri who painted a sign on a semi trailer, denouncing Democrats as “parasites”.
Now, some folks lit said trailer on fire – twice. This is wrong, even if this hate is on the side of an interstate. It’s his land and his right to be an a-hole. I guess.
The fun part here is that said angry farmer who is pissed about people taking in below minimum wage welfare payments is himself a leech on the system, for the price of over a million dollars in farm subsidies.
Look, if folks on welfare are parasites, million dollar subsidy babies like him are full-blown leech colonies. Plus, he’s some kind of scam artist that fleeced new parents in a baby crib scheme.
Nice guy. But no worse than the rest of his party really.
Another taste of the incredible levels of hypocrisy and stupidity coming from the GOP here in Nevada.
Thanks to Hugh Jackson for doing what so few others are willing to do.
So, an energy company advises their customers on how they can conserver energy and conservatives angrily ramp UP their energy usage in protest.
The discussion then turns to how best to appeal to conservatives.
Which is BS.
A couple thoughts here.
1. Teddy Roosevelt was a conservative AND a conservationism. He was also pretty progressive and helped build our national park system.
2. Republicans today only see national parks as a place to take their assault rifles.
3. The word “conservative” and “conservation” come from the same source. At least, in the traditional sense. You can’t say they mean the same thing today.
4. With their love of oil companies, and hate of the environment, and dismissal of things like “peak oil” and “climate change”, how the hell do you plan to appeal to folks that aren’t even reading the same book, much less the same page as the rest of us?
5. I imagine some of these conservatives are full-on Rapture Bunnies that think that if we destroy the Earth, we’ll MAKE God prepare the End Times. Or some crap like that.
In short, these aren’t rational people. Anyone who wants to run up a light bill as a political statement is an idiot. Anyone who thinks oil companies are their pals and isn’t a board member on one, is a fool.
I appreciate the view that everyone should conserve, but some folks are just too into their kool-aid cups to be spoken to on this issue. Trust me, it ain’t the marketing folk’s fault.
Why aren’t conservatives called out for this type of shameful and hateful trickery?
This is just about the way it exists in reality…if not GOP rhetoric:
No clue who made this but they deserve a medal. Or at least a cheesecake.