Showing posts with label constituion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constituion. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Right Wing Mythbuster.


 Isn't it funny how the people that believe this country was founded by people seeking religious freedom are the ones trying to cram Christianity down everyone's throat? Here are a few right-wing myths set beside the actual facts for your perusal:
 "Obama is a socialist nigger from Kenya!" 
 He's actually mixed race democrat from Hawaii, by way of Illinois (though why anyone would chose to move from Hawaii to Illinois is beyond me). Although his father was Kenyan, his mother was a stark white women, and natural born citizen of the United States, married to his father prior to his birth. Personally, I think a majority of the idiotic hate that Obama faces can more appropriately be tracked to the fact that his father married, and vigorously fucked a white woman. Something the tiny minds of the religious right just can't accept, but don't want to publicly say they can't accept.
 "If them fags are allowed to marry each other because of their choice of lifestyle, why can't I marry a horse?" 
 Because homosexuals don't have a choice in their orientation, they're born with it. Whom you love is not a matter of choice, it's a matter of heart, and no human being should be denied the right to marry another human being (assuming both humans are of equal maturity and intelligence, and of legal age to do so). You can't marry a horse because it wouldn't be a mutual decision, as marriage is, and marriage is an exclusively human rite. In addendum, animals are not granted rights under the Constitution of The United States as citizens. Although what you chose to do with your junk is your own business (and what anyone else chooses to do with their junk is their business, incidentally), your argument here, is asinine, banal, juvenile, ill-founded, and pedantic.
"Poor people are lazy, and just want me to hand them my money!"
 Most poor people are not lazy. most poor people are poor because they're shouldering more than their fair share of a burden that is the responsibility of the entire working nation. We poor people don't want YOUR money, we just want our own, and we're sick of donating a majority of the pittance we break our backs, bleed, sweat, and raise callouses on our fingers for to your lobbying efforts, political campaigns, bailouts, and tax relief.
"Non-christians are Satanic heathens!"
 Nope. Muslims, who practice the Islamic religion, worship an analogue of your god that they call Allah, Buddhists worship an analogue of your god (albeit much less self-centered and vengeful) that they call Buddha, and Atheists worship no god. Satanism is, by definition, a religion; one whose practitioners worship Satan.
"My kid should be allowed to pray in school! They're stomping on my religious freedom!" 
 Your kid IS allowed to pray in school. There is nothing barring your child, or any other, from praying while in school, or any other public place. There ARE, however, conventions set forth by our forefathers protecting the rights of EVERYONE. Not just your kid. Prayer IS allowed in public school, it just isn't, and shouldn't be mandatory. You'd be just as pissed off if public schools taught the Qu'ran, or (god forbid) the Torah, because what you actually mean is: "My kid isn't forced to pray in school." Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, and therefore, religion is not mandated in public schools. You can, however, take the money I'm saving you by paying your share of the taxes that go to those public schools, and put your child in a private, charter, or catholic school, where they have entire classes dedicated to non-standard, ELECTIVE subjects such as religion. Ironically, though, you're forcing your child to participate in a religion that may or may not fit with their beliefs.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Caveat Emptor

  No, seriously... what the fuck? How do people honestly still back right wing escaped lunatics like Mitt Romney, Newt Getrich, and yes, dare I say it, Ron Paul? I don't get it. Is it because the job market sucks? Do you really think these bajillionaires are going to help you? Have you seen their track records?  None of these people would spare a kind word to Red Skelton, let alone offer any substantial support to a REAL poor person. You know what they'll do? They might offer to pray for you, or suggest that you pray yourself.  The job market sucks EVERYWHERE! It's been sucking LONG before the current president, and it will continue to suck for a while. Am I saying you can't be critical? No. Not at all. You have the right to do so, no... you have an obligation to do so according to the U.S. Constitution (still one of my favorite pieces of literature). Am I saying you're better off fucking yourself with a concrete dildo wrapped in barbed wire and capsaicin than putting another republican in the office?

 Um... yes.

 Did you see what happened with the last one? You think maybe it's a good idea to recover a little, and maybe get this country on its feet before we test its strength with incompetent assholes again? I'd recommend it. 

 Look, here's the thing. No candidate regardless of the current political faction to which s/he claims allegiance is going to please the entirety of the voting age population, but there are some out there that are simply not a good fit if we, as Americans wish to progress and quell the hatred that far too many other countries (you do remember that there ARE other countries, right?) feel in the pit of their stomachs for us.We have an astronomical portion of our population in ill-health with little to no hope of recovery just on the basis of their income. They're too poor to be healthy. Do you understand how glaringly cro-magnon that is?! They don't have enough MONEY to get proper medical treatment! Meanwhile, the whole of Europe, and even that homogeneous, barely consequential little town called CANADA cock their collective heads to the side like a dog that thinks it hears a high pitched whine as if to say, "what the fuck?"

 Let's not go trying to throw out a guy who's trying to clean up the last guy's mess. That's not how you fix things. And let's not go screaming for his head, and whining because our incessant need for instant gratification demands we do so. There's a nifty little saying:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

 Ironically, it comes from the oft-made-fun-of French. Are you going to tell me that those swarthy, suave, cretins know more about social responsibility than we do?!

 Oh wait... it seems they do. 

 All I'm saying folks is this: Put the fucking torches and pitchforks down, okay? 

 I've been accused (if you can believe it) of having too much patience. One of my all time favorite people in the world continually calls me a Zen master (and frequently gets angry at me for not getting angry about petty things). You don't have to be a Zen master, or "have the patience of Job" to see that we're in a better situation in general now than we were four, eight, or even twelve years ago (Jesus Hernandez Cristobal, has it been that long already?!). Make your decision wisely. Do not put someone in office who will continue to whittle away your rights because it affects their bottom line too much. 

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Not-so-righteous Indignity.

Ladies and gentlemen (and I use the phrase quite loosely) of the Senate: You're fucking fired. No, seriously, that's it, hand in your cards. You're done. Enough is enough. The National Defense Authorization Act is an abomination, and you know it. First the damned patriot act, and now this? This is America, for fuck's sake! Remember America? Land of the free, home of the brave, et cetera? This convoluted compilation of coprophagia doesn't just tread on, it outright slaps the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments in the nutsack. This is not the United States I recall being taught about in school. Then again, since I've been out of school, many people have tried (some rather successfully) to rape our constitution. Remember the constitution? The very document that allows you paint chip eating, knuckle dragging buffoons to keep your outrageous salaries while not doing your job? 


The state of the union is fucking abysmal right now, and we've no one to blame but ourselves. To all of you threatening to move to Canada: Go ahead. You do that. Move up to Canada, and let this country continue its downward spiral, because that solves everything, doesn't it (note sarcasm)? What do you think will happen next? That's right, WE'LL FUCKING INVADE CANADA! They're close enough, and don't protect their borders all that well anyway, eh? Don't you think it's the next logical step? 


How about this for an idea: FIGHT BACK! God damn it, people, this is YOUR country. YOUR homeland! It is a land with a "government of the people, by the people, for the people, [that] shall not perish from the earth." Assholes! We seem to be approaching a time when the Gettysburg Address will once again become relevant. Ever read it? I mean really read it? No? Okay, here's a version updated for today:


"[Eleven score and fifteen] years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are [once again about to be] engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a [re]new[ed] birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."


Notice I didn't have to change a whole hell of a lot for it to remain relevant? 
What does that tell you? 
This war isn't being fought with muskets and cannons, it's being fought with pen and paper.
 I leave you with a great quote: 
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."


 ~Ben Franklin


And Think... REALLY think about this: 
The politicians' greatest weapon is your own complacence.
 ~Me, making an observation.



Friday, December 2, 2011

1st Amendment what?


Okay, so I looked it up, just to make sure I wasn't delusional. Turns out, I'm not. The first amendment states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE!
 RIGHT.
 PEOPLE.
PEACEABLY.
 ASSEMBLE.
 It's the FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT! I see absolutely NOTHING in there about "the right of the people to peaceably Assemble" between the hours of 9am and 5pm a long as it's convenient, innocuous, and doesn't hinder business. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
The "Occupy" movement (to which, I will henceforth refer as "The Occupation") is a growing movement of people who are completely, entirely, justifiably fed up with a grossly imbalanced system. For what it's worth, I'd recommend occupying despite the plea by City Hall to move. What pleas of ours have they listened to? This whole idea of "Yes, you can protest, just keep it down." defeats the entire purpose. As for the naysayers, and those people griping about our presence (and I say "our" despite the fact that I am not camping out, because I AM the 99%) I'd like to see them survive without mommy or daddy's help. I worked my ass off to go to college, get an education, and I've spent my entire life struggling to get ahead because of an imbalanced and bias political system. I am NOT lazy, I am NOT "whining," I am NOT just sitting around crying that I want a handout, I AM tired of the 1% making their profits off MY blood sweat and tears, whilst keeping their own hands pristine, and I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE!
I passed by City Hall here in Philly two days ago to meet up with my wife after work, and you know what I saw? Hundreds of former occupiers... HUNDREDS, walking shoulder to shoulder down broad st and around City Hall. It was gorgeous. Counter-intuitive to this peaceable assembly, there were DOZENS of cops, in groups of three or four, every. five. feet. Aren't there drug dealers, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drunk and disorderlies, frat boys on meth, hobos on heroin, unsupervised juveniles, impoverished people carrying concealed weapons, and disturbers of the peace to arrest? I mean, this IS Philly, right?
Yesterday, when I passed below William Penn, I noticed there isn't even a way for regular commuting pedestrians to get through the concourse. They rented a god damned fence to keep people out. Allegedly, there's "imminent construction" about to take place,  but I'll tell you what: This imminent construction is no more convenient than The Occupation.

Personally, I'm glad this generation is finally starting to wake the fuck up and realize they've let the political process go to shit for far too long. Hopefully, it's not too late to fix it.


~So sayeth the Mofo.