Category Archives: Rants & Raves

Letterman Saves America

Something occurred to me just now.

Since Letterman inadvertently started up his feud with Sarah Palin, not one right wing terrorist has shot up a church or tried to perform a mass killing at a Holocaust museum or gay theatre or abortion clinic or NAACP or LULAC affair.

This means that the Palinites have stayed in their mom’s basements writing hate mail to CBS rather than assassinating Americans they don’t agree with. As long as they still have tissues to clean themselves off with while staring at their Miss Wasilla bathing suit posters, America is safe.

Somebody give this guy a medal.

CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked | U.S. | Reuters

It is nice to now that *someone* in the government has the balls to call out Cheney, even if it was a tad wishy-washy.

That said, the old bastard HAS been running around preaching we should torture brown people and lustfully wishing some terrorists (non-white, of course) would blow up something under Obama’s watch so he can yell “I told you so!”.

In short, what an asshole.

Listening to women’s voices

I’ve noticed some real good advice and some real honest opinions from women in the media lately.

On Rachel Maddow awhile back, she interviewed Jennifer Boulanger, Executive Director for the Allentown, PA Women’s Center, who gave some chilling descriptions of the “compassionate conservative” scumbags who assault her staff, her clinic’s patients, and herself. Even if you do not approve of abortion (and, really, who does?), I would like to think you’d be appalled at the level of hate so-called Christians have on this issue.

At one point, she tried to appeal to our nation’s better nature. Unfortunately, there isn’t much of that around anymore.

On the same subject is Rozalyn Farmer Love, a third year medical student who plans to practice in women’s health. She explains how and why she came to the conclusion that should she be confronted to have to perform an abortion, she will do her job. Yes, she grew up in a religious family, but dogma will not overcome he need to act in her patient’s best interests. It is a pretty powerful read from someone about to be thrown into the front lines of a very touchy subject.

Lastly, some VERY no-nonsense economic advise from 93-year old Dr. Anna Schwartz. This was a delight to listen to, even though it was harsh medicine to swallow.

We need to stop listening to the misogynists in the GOP who hate women except when they can use a random beauty pageant winner as a prop to spread hate and fear and actually listen to the female voices in our society.

Unemployment | Marketplace from American Public Media

Marketplace had a great series recently on the subject of unemployment and how it is handled from state to state.

You’d be surprised on how valued it is in progressive states and how ignored in the southern, anti-union, anti-worker states. I mean, you would expect certain trends, but not the true disparity that exists between, say, Oregon and South Carolina.

In short, conservative “red” states suck.

Neo-Nazis are in the Army now | Salon News

Apparently just recruiting felons and drug addicts wasn’t enough. Now the military is allowing white supremacists into the ranks. Hitler tats and all.

But hey, they apparently are not as threatening as gays.

Sheesh.

Fresh Air did a couple of good stories concerning gays in the military today. It should illustrate the choice between allowing hatemongers in and kicking talented Americans out.

Clintonite Politics Redux

I know it has been about a year and your memory might be fuzzy on this, but we had immense delight this weekend watching Hillary Clinton get rolled out in front of the media to comment on the Iranian elections.

To listen to her have to remark on things like “respecting the will of the people” and to let “the voters decide” just made me laugh. Hell, I probably actually chortled. I mean, a year ago, this lady was officially out of the running for the Democratic nomination and was insisting on not conceding until the superdelegates could pull a backdoor stunt to give the brass ring to her. Or, as she so delicately stated, until someone assassinated Barack Obama.

Here, take a look:

In another fun bit of Clintonian failure, vulgar Clinton Mouthpiece Terry McAuliffe lost his carpetbagger stunt at being the Democratic nominee for the governor’s race in Virginia.

Let us hope that this streak continues and the Clintons and their followers are continually forced to a) eat their words, and b) fail when trying to gain leadership roles in this nation. Their advise is of use and they do not require constant shunning, but their brand of self-serving “leadership” is something we need to move on from.

Minuteman group arrested for murdering family

You probably won’t hear this on TV or read it in the news, but apparently we’ve had a THIRD incident of conservative terrorism.

Shooting a doctor in church and trying to assassinate a crowd in the Holocaust museum wasn’t enough for these guys.

Now, they’ve taken to race-based home invasion and murder. Three Minuteman terrorists staged a drug raid on a Latino family and rob them. But just for the hell of it, they decided to execute them, presumably for the color of their skin. This included shooting an eight year old girl.

The mother of the family survived and called the police. Bonus vengeance: she found a gun and shot one of the attackers when they returned to check that everyone was dead. Bonus bonus: she shot the one named Bush. Just saying.

Here is an actual news article on this. The local racists originally thought this was a race-on-race attack. Because, you know, all Mexicans are murderers.

Way to abuse the Internet

They say the Republican Party has to embrace the web to maintain traction in this current political environment.

Personally, I think they’d be better off trying to cull the racists, bigots, terrorists and loudmouth drug addict sex fiend radio shitheels in their midst. But that’s just me.

As for the whole “we know Web 2.0” thing? They have a lot to learn.

Last year, for some reason, I started getting email from Jim Inhofe. You know, the anti-climate change racist asswipe. I don’t know how I got on his list. Presumably they trolled a list of any email account that ever sent a message from Oklahoma and spammed it. I mean, I haven’t lived there since 2003, never voted for the asshole or his ilk, and I have never been a member of the GOP, KKK, or NRA.

It was mildly entertaining to read his detached from reality BS during the election, until the rise of the Palinites and Inhofe’s willingness to join their racist sedition bandwagon. I unsubscribed and was the better for doing so.

Until this week. Mary Fallin, another OK Rethug cretin, is running for governor. And suddenly I’m getting email from her.

Yeah, these spam artists have a lot to learn about properly using technology for something other than to blow up brown people and assassinate people in churches and Holocaust museums.