Making all things ready - 19 October 2010
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silveradeptFair warning, this tugs as your heart. Dog is one of those lessons we always learn, although not always with a dog.
And then one for the children still stuck in the Hell that is Required Schooling - if someone is being a total fucking asshole to you or to someone else, call them that. Loudly. Every single time. If an administrator wants to admonish you for your language, retort that you'll clean up your language when they clean up the problem. Actually, as Kate Harding points out, this strategy applies even in adult life, in case you have someone who hasn't outgrown and become mature enough to realize what assholes they were doing much the same. Considering that half of the teenagers in the United States meet the criteria for having a mental disorder, I think it's safe to say the problem's not going away any time soon. Tomorrow, if purple is your color, or you want to to rock out to the no-hate beat, GLAAD is making 20 October Spirit Day and asking for people to wear purple and turn their avatar pictures purple.
Out in the world today, Julian Assange was denied a residency permit in Sweden, where he was hoping to set up another branch of Wikileaks that would be protected by Swedens's stance and laws against media cabals and military agencies being able to rule through the power of copyright. This as Wikileaks still plans on releasing significant amounts of additional data obtained through a Pentagon leak.
A group in the United Kingdom is offering a one-time payment of 200 GBP to substance addicts to get sterilized, in belief that those addicted people will benefit later generations by not having children that will have birth defects related to the substance abuse of their parents.
Inside the United States, four men were convicted of a plot to plant bombs at synagogues and to shoot missiles at military planes in New York state. And the civilian court system scores another win without requiring extraordinary rendition or Guantanamo Bay.
It seems that conservative causes have really caught on to what they can do now, thanks to Citizens United and the ability to not have to disclose their funders - ostensibly nonpolitical groups have been flooding the airwaves with attack ads against Democratic candidates and issues.
As the campaigns continue, the darlings of the Tea Party continue to be more and more hypocritical and outside of the mainstream. Example A is Tea Party darling Joe Miller, whose family has been on several social assistance programs before now, programs that he now wants to cut for others who need them. Examples B and C? Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle, both categorically stating that the First Amendment's prohibition against the establishment of religion and interference with the free exercise thereof does not actually mean that church and state should be separated.
Staying on the Angle angle, Ms. Angle backtracked as furiously as she could, claiming her ad that prominently displays Latinos as immigrants to be disparaged isn't about Latinos at all, going even so far as to address a group of Latinos and say that they look Asian instead. And the Head-desk Chorus continues. Cue up Il Trovatore, please...
Here comes the spin on other things - Fox is more than happy to write an article about how the Democrats are evil for not passing tax cuts for everyone before the elections, leaving the next Congress with having to clean up after them. Excepting that the Democrats seem quite happy to pass a certain subset of those tax cuts, but then they have to surmount the Tarantino to do it, which is proving to be damn near impossible in the Senate.
The Washington Times does their own spinning by pointing out that the President seems to be stumping only in sates that are friendly to him and need more Democrats to turn out, as opposed to other places where his presence would allow the Republicans to tie a conservaDem to their manufactured narrative that anyone not them or a Tea Partier is a socialist bent on destronying America. Not that the Times believes such visits will help.
Speaking thereof, welcome to opinions, where Mr. Feulner laments that America has become more dependent on government to provide them with their social safety net, instead of relying on churches, social clubs, and their employers for things like insurance. Such dependence, of course, fosters servitude and an unwillingness to insist that government shrink and stop taxing the rich so much. Because the rich are the only people paying taxes any more, and their numbers are shrinking because of the weight of all these programs.
Mr. Blackwell takes a run at making a sane column, leaning nicely in the direction of why the U.S. should cut back its contribution to the UN's budget to the percentage of the world's population that the U.S. is and moving it to Geneva, but then descends into madness about American exceptionalism being the only true exceptionalism and how much the UN embarrasses itself daily by allowing Iran a platform to speak in New York and insisting New York police protect him, as well as their ignorance of the evils of the Soviets and the abortions happening in China. So that means that organization funding those abortions, as well as the IPCC, the U.N. Human Rights Council, and all the other bodies of the U.N. Mr. Blackwell doesn't like should be immediately abolished.
The Washington Times then makes an unsigned attacking revisionist liberals who are moving Ronald Reagan over more to the liberal side of conservatism in reaction to the current Tea Party and fringe conservatism in vogue. The Times says that when Reagan was campaigning, he got called an extremist, so only the current crop of extremists should be allowed to claim Reagan as their own. Giving up Saint Reagan to any other movement would divest them of the legitimacy they so desperately crave, so they wouldn't want to do that.
To finish the job, Mr. Williams provides what he believes are the true definitions of socialists, communists, leftists, and progressives - they're all Hitlers, Maoists, and Stalinists who won't hesitate to murder millions of their own people in the pursuit of social justice and government ownership of private property. Very nice way of telling your audience that they don't have to listen to anything that a liberal says.
And last out for tonight, The General Denunciation Form, Conservative Edition, for those times when you get sick of people saying that because you, personally, did not denounce all the loonies and loony ideas individually, you must support all of those Fringey positions.
And then one for the children still stuck in the Hell that is Required Schooling - if someone is being a total fucking asshole to you or to someone else, call them that. Loudly. Every single time. If an administrator wants to admonish you for your language, retort that you'll clean up your language when they clean up the problem. Actually, as Kate Harding points out, this strategy applies even in adult life, in case you have someone who hasn't outgrown and become mature enough to realize what assholes they were doing much the same. Considering that half of the teenagers in the United States meet the criteria for having a mental disorder, I think it's safe to say the problem's not going away any time soon. Tomorrow, if purple is your color, or you want to to rock out to the no-hate beat, GLAAD is making 20 October Spirit Day and asking for people to wear purple and turn their avatar pictures purple.
Out in the world today, Julian Assange was denied a residency permit in Sweden, where he was hoping to set up another branch of Wikileaks that would be protected by Swedens's stance and laws against media cabals and military agencies being able to rule through the power of copyright. This as Wikileaks still plans on releasing significant amounts of additional data obtained through a Pentagon leak.
A group in the United Kingdom is offering a one-time payment of 200 GBP to substance addicts to get sterilized, in belief that those addicted people will benefit later generations by not having children that will have birth defects related to the substance abuse of their parents.
Inside the United States, four men were convicted of a plot to plant bombs at synagogues and to shoot missiles at military planes in New York state. And the civilian court system scores another win without requiring extraordinary rendition or Guantanamo Bay.
It seems that conservative causes have really caught on to what they can do now, thanks to Citizens United and the ability to not have to disclose their funders - ostensibly nonpolitical groups have been flooding the airwaves with attack ads against Democratic candidates and issues.
As the campaigns continue, the darlings of the Tea Party continue to be more and more hypocritical and outside of the mainstream. Example A is Tea Party darling Joe Miller, whose family has been on several social assistance programs before now, programs that he now wants to cut for others who need them. Examples B and C? Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle, both categorically stating that the First Amendment's prohibition against the establishment of religion and interference with the free exercise thereof does not actually mean that church and state should be separated.
Staying on the Angle angle, Ms. Angle backtracked as furiously as she could, claiming her ad that prominently displays Latinos as immigrants to be disparaged isn't about Latinos at all, going even so far as to address a group of Latinos and say that they look Asian instead. And the Head-desk Chorus continues. Cue up Il Trovatore, please...
Here comes the spin on other things - Fox is more than happy to write an article about how the Democrats are evil for not passing tax cuts for everyone before the elections, leaving the next Congress with having to clean up after them. Excepting that the Democrats seem quite happy to pass a certain subset of those tax cuts, but then they have to surmount the Tarantino to do it, which is proving to be damn near impossible in the Senate.
The Washington Times does their own spinning by pointing out that the President seems to be stumping only in sates that are friendly to him and need more Democrats to turn out, as opposed to other places where his presence would allow the Republicans to tie a conservaDem to their manufactured narrative that anyone not them or a Tea Partier is a socialist bent on destronying America. Not that the Times believes such visits will help.
Speaking thereof, welcome to opinions, where Mr. Feulner laments that America has become more dependent on government to provide them with their social safety net, instead of relying on churches, social clubs, and their employers for things like insurance. Such dependence, of course, fosters servitude and an unwillingness to insist that government shrink and stop taxing the rich so much. Because the rich are the only people paying taxes any more, and their numbers are shrinking because of the weight of all these programs.
Mr. Blackwell takes a run at making a sane column, leaning nicely in the direction of why the U.S. should cut back its contribution to the UN's budget to the percentage of the world's population that the U.S. is and moving it to Geneva, but then descends into madness about American exceptionalism being the only true exceptionalism and how much the UN embarrasses itself daily by allowing Iran a platform to speak in New York and insisting New York police protect him, as well as their ignorance of the evils of the Soviets and the abortions happening in China. So that means that organization funding those abortions, as well as the IPCC, the U.N. Human Rights Council, and all the other bodies of the U.N. Mr. Blackwell doesn't like should be immediately abolished.
The Washington Times then makes an unsigned attacking revisionist liberals who are moving Ronald Reagan over more to the liberal side of conservatism in reaction to the current Tea Party and fringe conservatism in vogue. The Times says that when Reagan was campaigning, he got called an extremist, so only the current crop of extremists should be allowed to claim Reagan as their own. Giving up Saint Reagan to any other movement would divest them of the legitimacy they so desperately crave, so they wouldn't want to do that.
To finish the job, Mr. Williams provides what he believes are the true definitions of socialists, communists, leftists, and progressives - they're all Hitlers, Maoists, and Stalinists who won't hesitate to murder millions of their own people in the pursuit of social justice and government ownership of private property. Very nice way of telling your audience that they don't have to listen to anything that a liberal says.
And last out for tonight, The General Denunciation Form, Conservative Edition, for those times when you get sick of people saying that because you, personally, did not denounce all the loonies and loony ideas individually, you must support all of those Fringey positions.
