Gone with the sinned

I am Scarlett O'Hara, she is Melanie Hamilton and he is Ashley Wilkes.  Forever and ever, amen.

CAPITALISM SUCKS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14764357

Pastor, er Governor Rick Perry announces he will throw his teavangelical hat in the teavangelical ring

Awesome.  Another right wing nutjob sent from above.  I predict a Perry-Bachmann ticket.  46% of the votes cast in the 2008 presidential election were cast for a grumpy old man and a seriously stupid woman.  At least that many will vote republican next year. 

If the ultra left abandons President Obama, these two proselytizing pompous pastors-in-waiting will be our next president and vice president.  Think about that and then think about not voting for President Obama.

School vouchers.  Abortion outlawed.  Civil rights tossed aside.  English-only enforced across the nation.  Gay men and women forcibly discharged from the military.  Muslims targeted for harrassment.  Evangelical christianity becomes the law of the land.  I'm too weary from thinking about it to go on.

Think about all of this, read the article then think again about NOT voting for President Obama.

Sent from the CNN App for Android Moore: Get ready for President Rick Perry http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/11/moore.perry.candidate/index.html

Citizen Kane

Watching it on TCM right now. 

We never learn.  That movie is even more relevant today.

I'm worried about the future...not just mine.  I'm glad my son isn't currently planning to have children. 

I must resume being more active on my blog...

...I have neglected it for a long time.

Right now I'm tired and don't have anything to talk about, but I will fire up in days and months to come.  In the meantime, please enjoy these beautiful images.  Disclaimer:  I DID NOT create any of these images.  They are available on the web.  I wish I could thank each and every artist; these images are beautiful and I get a lot of satisfaction just watching the slideshow of these and other images.

Enjoy.

Duly noted

Although this is my blog and will often contain my innermost thoughts, sometimes those thoughts are not appropriate for public display.

I do better when I stick to politics, comedy and vulgarity.

Profanity

FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK SHIT SHIT SHITTY FUCKER FUCK YOU GODDAMN IT SONOVABITCH ASSHOLE MOTHERFUCKER.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If we can't pull this together, we really are fucked

Jesus fucking christ, Twitter has been so hot and hateful today I just had to check out.   Ima write this quick post, then I'm escaping into my Droid 2 apps.

We're about a hair's width away from total ruin, and if WE (as in "YES WE CAN") can't keep it together then were are without a doubt, unequivocally, undeniably fucked in the ass without permission (the word permission "inserted" because some, check that, a lot of people like getting fucked in the ass and give others permission to do so--I'm talking about you, @ScubaSteve36).

"President Obama is a pussy."  "President Obama isn't tough with the GOP."  "We need to primary his ass outa the White House in 2012."  "It's all or none."  "If we can't have everything, we don't want anything.  Some of it isn't good enough."  "You liberals who agree with what he said today are pussies."  

PRESIDENT OBAMA HASN'T FIXED ALL THIS MOTHERFUCKING MESS IN 23 MONTHS AND HIS TIME IS UP, HE SHOULD HAVE FIXED EVERYTHING BY NOW AND ACHIEVED EVERY FUCKING THING HE TALKED ABOUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, WHERE'S THE HOPE, WHERE'S THE CHANGE, WHERE'S "CANDIDATE" OBAMA, WHERE'S THE TRANSPARENCY, WHERE'S THE PUBLIC OPTION, WHY HAVEN'T BUSH/CHENEY/ROVE/RUMSFELD BEEN PROSECUTED.  BLAH-FUCKING-BLAH-BLAH. 

We are engaged in a fierce ideological war with the privileged class and the religious zealots.  They are more than worthy adversaries, unfortunately.  If we, as progressive liberals (to varying degrees), can't stick together and support each other it's all over but the crying.  IT'S ALL FUCKING OVER IF WE, WITHIN OUR OWN RANKS, CAN'T FUCKING AGREE TO DISAGREE ON SOME OF THE FINER ASPECTS OF OUR IDEOLOGY AND LEARN WHAT CONSENSUS AND COMPROMISE REALLY MEAN. 

Why do you think the conservatives keep chalking up marks in the win column?  They stick together.  They compromise and reach consensus for their greater good.  You know they are loving every single fucking minute of our infighting.  It's exactly what they want.

Conservatives have no intention of working with President Obama.  None at all.  He will stick to his ideals and continue to try to work with them because he believes the ultimate result will be of benefit.  Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong.  But he sticks to his principles as much as can any politician in the cesspool that is Washington, D.C.  AND THAT'S WHY WE FUCKING ELECTED HIM. 

Then-Senator Obama inspired us in 2008.  He made US feel like we mattered.  He actually made us smile, made us feel hopeful.  We were joyful and we rejoiced.  We have to hang onto that.  Neither he nor we knew how bad the shit was gonna hit the fan.  Bush, et al, did their jobs well.  They nailed what may be the last nail in the coffin of democracy and freedom from tyranny. 

I am saddened that I have not been able to enjoy President Obama's presidency.  I'm not happy about the continued clusterfuck over DADT.  I despise Tim Geithner and can't for the life of me understand why President Obama made him Treasury Secretary.  I don't understand why President Obama keeps Ben Bernanke on as chair of the fed.  Hell, I don't even know why the fuck we need the fed!!  We DON'T need the fed.  Hillary has been anything but a decent mensch.  And don't get me started on Pelosi and Reid.  They seemed more like deer in the headlights that effective leaders. 

REMEMBER THE SUPERMAJORITY?  HOW EXCITED WE ALL WERE ABOUT IT?  MAN, WE ARE REALLY GONNA GET SOME SHIT DONE NOW!  AND HOW DID THAT TURN OUT?  DID THE DEMS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE PULL THEIR WEIGHT?!  NOOOOOOOOOOOO...!

But we have to work within the system.  And so does President Obama, unfortunately.  How sad it is that so many rejoice in his abrupt collision with reality, and prattle on about his failures to deliver.

Our last best hope is sticking together, even if we have to concede to each other on some things.   

American football

There's only one good thing about it: people gather together to watch the games.

A bunch of grown-ass men wearing brightly colored spandex and helmets. An hour-long game in which actual athletic movement accounts for MAYBE a total of 15 minutes. They squat, face each other, yell a little bit, then then they all snap into action for a few seconds before the ball gets handed or thrown to someone. Whoever ends up holding the ball is then knocked down by one or more guys and those guys who knock, drag or throw him down begin to point to the sky in a showy yet meaningless homage to god. After the insincere display of kudos to god, the guy who knocked down the other guy proceeds to strut around the field clenching his fists, dancing, prompting the spectators to admire him in all his testosterone excess, generally soaking in the adulation while the other guys on the field in identical spandex clothes pat him on the butt, hit his helmet with their helmets, jump up in the air and bump chests, and generally congratulate each other on being the toughest, most manly men in the world.

Every once in awhile, one of the guys in spandex kicks, carries, catches or throws the funny looking ball to just the right place on the field and a similar celebration takes place.

People pay a lot of money to watch these men in spandex occasionally move about the field.

These men get paid A LOT of money to run around, hit each other, knock each other down, throw or catch a ball, and occasionally get in fights with each other every week.

A lot of these men have criminal histories: murder, domestic violence, animal abuse, drug possession, drug use and DUIs, among other charges.

And we're supposed to admire, idolize these "men"? I'll take a pass, and I'm sure I won't get paid anything for it.

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PSYCHED!

I ordered my Droid 2 today (and two psychedelic cases) and I am so stoked!  Can't wait to get it and completely fail to figure out how to work it!  Yippee!

I am sooooo happy to be shitcanning the BlackBerry.  Highly overrated.

WikiLeaks

I've read several of the WikiLeaks cables and I must say they were pretty anticlimactic.  Whoever writes those things must have a PhD in soap opera script writing.  If I were one of the diplomats, I'd be embarrassed too.  Someone actually wrote a very lengthy cable regarding wedding traditions in the Caucasus.  I'm came away from the read with the vision of a middle aged fat guy in a Speedo.

I realize that there are more cables to come and Julian is probably saving the "best" for last.  But thus far nothing in any of those cables compromises US security.  If anything, it makes our government look like a bunch of foolish, sophomoric idiots with too much time on their hands and a suppressed desire to write Harlequin romance novels.

I love the fact that we have WikiLeaks and I hope our government is shaking in its shoes.  My only complaint is that most of what's available to read right now regards our State Department and the Obama administration.  None of it is damning, but why isn't there more dirt being dished on the Bush years?  Maybe those will be the cables revealed in the months to come.  I'm sure those cables are pretty juicy.

President takes an elbow to the mouth, 12 stitches, continues his bad ass reputation!

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