Health Issues

Last summer, the Supreme Court deemed Obama’s Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to be Constitutional. But that didn’t stop Republican Governors from refusing to implement this Republican-developed plan in their states.

This conversation, I think, is the most reality denying-est one I’ve ever been involved in. No matter what I say or prove or disprove or provide information directly from the source for – it is denied, ignored or laughed at as being crazy. And then dump trucks full of bullshit are emptied out all over the conversation and touted as fragrant petunias.

Ah, Republicans (I mean, professed non-partisans), the bubble in which you live is so impenetrable.

I apologize for the length of this post, but hey, I haven't posted anything in over a month, so I'm actually under my monthly word quota.  

(Spoiler Alert: Romney lost the election.)

Enjoy…

Breakfast Burrito

Bit of a different kind of post today. Apolitical.

Facebook Case Files II

Just some more of my adventures through the land of uninformed opinions. I have changed the names so as not to sully otherwise distinguished reputations. Well, except for my name. It can’t be sullied much further.

I did not edit out any comments. When the threads abruptly end after I post my comment, that’s because no one replied.

Go figure.

Enjoy…

Science, Bitches!

I’m no scientist, but here’s what scientists say. You can either put your faith in them, or in the magic genies that were invented thousands of years ago by, let’s face it, really ignorant people.

Some of this stuff is from comedians, but frankly, I also give significantly more credence to their insights than I do the magic genies.

And some others are my own information-based opinions. 

Also more credible than the idea that "a magic genie did it."

Enjoy...

Trust Issues

A little pre-election banter between bubble-dwellers and reality-enjoyers regarding one of the presidential debates.

If you’re not interested in reading it, let me sum up the conversation:

“A simple observation is stated.”

“Bullshit is smeared over the observation.”

“Facts are introduced, backed up with references.”

“Facts and references are ignored. More bullshit is produced. No references cited.”

“More facts with references are presented.”

“Denial of facts. Laughter. Insults. No counter argument or references presented.”

Or, you could just enjoy the real thing…

Poor Rich People

I'm sick of rich people pretending that only making a 75% profit on their millions instead of a 90% profit on their millions is destroying their lives.

Meanwhile, fuck the poor.

This discussion occurred immediately after President Obama was re-elected.

Enjoy...

Foxic Shock Syndrome

Foxic shock syndrome is a serious malady that affects millions of Americans. But there is a cure.

Fairly Imbalanced

 

Oh, Fox “News,” why are you so fucking pathetic? It’s sad, really.

Enjoy…

Guns: Epilogue

Since the crazies won’t stop defending the ability to murder, I won’t stop criticizing their lunacy.

Plus some observations.

And let it be known that to any fucktard who believes we now need to arm firefighters, I say: Fuck you, you fucking mentally stunted fuck.

This one’s short and sweet.

Enjoy…

Gun Regulations Kill

Alright. One last gun control battle. I’m going to dump this shit on a Friday because I want to end this fucking stupidity before the weekend before Christmas. Read it or don’t. I’m getting sick of these paranoid delusional assholes that need to carry their balls in a holster. But I have to say, this guy is the most paranoid delusional guntard of them all.

Oh, and just in time for this post, another mass murder JUST RIGHT THE FUCK NOW FUCKING HAPPENED. Four killed plus three Pa State Troopers injured. That’s like the fourth this month.

Oh, and fuck Wayne LaPierre. He’s personally responsible.

Enjoy…

Lone Gunmen

Here are a bunch of gun-related observations and whatnot. I think there’s going to be only one more gun post after this. I can’t handle debating paranoid, delusional people much longer.  I prefer the real world.

Enjoy…

Have Gun Will Travel

This gun theme was supposed to end two posts ago (excluding the Happy Whateverthefuck interlude), but mass murderers don’t always abide my wishes. Neither do anti-gun-control advocates.

Here are a few short blabberings that were originally going into a post of other short blabberings. I have teased out the ones concerning guns and stuck them in here.

Enjoy…

Happy Whateverthefuck 2012 Edition

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Here’s the 2012 addition to my commentary, ‘Stop Fucking Pretending there’s a Fucking War on Fucking Christmas, Fuckheads.’ It’s the third year, so I guess this is going to be an annual thing.

This narrative has apparently been zipping and morphing itself around the emails and social media sites for the past several years, but this is the first time its light has reflected into my eyeballs. And has done so several times over the past couple weeks. I’ve posted it in its entirety, then added my simple thoughts afterward.

Enjoy…

Seeing Guns From The Wrong Angle

Okay. That last post about guns was supposed to be the final one in my gun control series, but I can’t control the actions of mass murderers. They occur so often now. And I can’t control the gun lovers declaring that guns never kill people. I could control my bothering to even comment on their posts. But why should I?

Before we get started, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: A gun is not a fucking "tool." It is a fucking weapon. Specifically fucking designed to fucking kill.

Enjoy…

Gun Rights - More Important Than Life

The fourth in my series of Facebook gun control discussions. The longest. And the last.

For now.

In every discussion I’ve ever had, the anti-regulation side always equates the limiting of magazine capacity or having mandatory trigger locks with ‘taking away my guns.’ And they stick to this argument no matter what. I do not understand how blind devotion (to any topic, really) causes facts to disappear.

No one wants to take away your guns.

I am for the Second Amendment. I believe in the right to own guns. I do not believe everyone should be able to have and do anything they want at any time and any place without any regulations or background checks – basically our current gun ownership system.

And I do not believe that whenever someone goes on a shooting spree, it is the fault of people without guns.

Enjoy…

Gun Control Is For Idiots

The third in my Facebook gun control debate series. 

Fear-mongering riles my feathers.

It all starts with my innocent question.

Ok. I know it wasn’t innocent. I totally knew what it would happen. What can I say? I’m a dick. Deal with it.

Enjoy…

Yet Another Shooting

Here's the second in a series on guns. 

After another in a succession of publicized shootings, all I did was ask a simple question.

This is what followed.

Enjoy…

Guns - Not Just For Breakfast Anymore

Showers don’t clean people.

Clothes don’t cover people.

Cars don’t transport people.

Houses don’t shelter people.

Chairs don’t seat people.

Forks don’t feed people.

And guns don’t kill people.

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The gun control issue is a perennial topic. The left-wingers believe there should be some common sense limits. The right-wing’s extreme, ignorant, alarmist overreaction is always that ‘Librulz want to take away all law abiding citizens’ guns then only criminals will have them how are we supposed to stop a tyrannical government freedom liberty don’t tread on me!’

I won’t tread on you. You’re doing a fine enough job of it yourself.

Needless to say, I get into this fantastically stupid argument all the time.

This weekend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend – the mother of his three-month-old daughter – then committed suicide.

This event, as well as the two presidential candidates never fucking even fake coughing the word ‘gun’ during the entire debate season (much like the climate change issue), has inspired me to post a series of my conversations on the issue. Several other gun-related musings have been posted in this blog already. And I’m positive there will be more in the future.

Enjoy…

Leonard Zelig

Shit. Here’s another one about Mitt Romney I was working on that became irrelevant after the election. It’s still accurate, just irrelevant since Romney himself has become irrelevant to American politics, other than as a comically pathetic footnote.

This one’s a rant, though, not a collection of articles. And fairly short. I’m sure it would have been longer had he been able to buy the election as Karl Rove and Sheldon Adelson hoped.

I’m pretty sure this is the last of the pre-election related material.

Enjoy…

Attic Clean-Out

I collect articles well in advance of my posts. Some of them become a singular topic which I research the shit out of and some of them I never post. Other times, I post collections of topics I think people should be aware of.

After the presidential election, these sort of passed their expiration date.

Regardless, they’re still noteworthy. The good part is, you don’t really have to read the articles, you only need to read the titles or my short summaries to get the gist of each story.

Enjoy…

Disagreeing to Agree

This one is fucked up. In other words, an average encounter with a Republican.

Richard, my good (ex)buddy, instinctively disagreed with my post. When I re-explained my point, he understood - and agreed.

However, like a dutiful member of the GOP, he continued his search for something that we must disagree over. Somehow, booing gay soldiers and climate change are related topics.

It’s like when you first saw “From Dusk Till Dawn."  You were happily enjoying your bank-robbers-escaping-the-law flick, when half way through, it turned into a vampire movie.

Yeah. This is just like that. Only four times as exciting. Trust me. Maybe.

The climate change aspects covered in my last post are largely different from the ones coming up next, so don’t worry about repetition. This is a whole new gravy boat full of dunce-tastic blabber-speak.

I suppose I’m on a climate change kick because we just had a presidential election season and I’m a little pissed that neither candidate mentioned the subject – even as one walked through the aftermath of the most devastating storm to hit the Northeast in memory, which was fuelled by climate change and the other pretended to care about its victims. That’s right, fuck you, Shitt Smarmy, or whatever your name was.

Enjoy…

The Politics of Science of Climate Change

Many moons ago, my (ex)buddy, Richard posted a FOX “News” article about a Nobel prize-winner coming out against climate change.

I didn’t come cross this post until later, after the discussion was well underway, which is fine because I only had one little, eensy-weensy, teensy-tiny thing to say on the matter – to which nobody posted anything in reply. That disappointed me, but oh well. Sometimes, people just ignore me for some reason. 

Names changed to protect the stupid and otherwise.

Enjoy…

Obama is the Worst President Ever

…Which is why the Republicans have to keep making stuff up about Obama to portray him as the worst president ever instead of producing anything he’s done that would actually make him the worst president ever.

Oy vey.

Enjoy…

Anger Management

Here’s a compilation of articles that found me. I wasn’t looking for them. As I’m sure you weren’t, either. But now they found you, too.

Yeah, this shit fucking pisses me off.

Except for the other shit that doesn’t.

Keepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogether.

Enjoy...

A Win For Progress

As you know, the Conservatives, backed by the Teabaggers, swept the 2010 mid-term elections. The reason on which they ran was “job creation.” And that’s why they won.

Blackmailing the Truth

When something you’ve been touting for decades is proven wrong, what do you do? If you’re a Republican, you blackmail it away.

Thankfully, nothing on the internet goes away.

Ever.

And let that be a lesson to you kids out there: Post safely.

Enjoy…

Class War: Trickling on the Middle Class

This is sort of a sequel to my previous post, “Class War.” A month after that “discussion,” Warren Buffett wrote an article in the New York Times and Jon Stewart referred to it on the 8/18/11 Daily Show episode, appropriately titled “World of Class Warfare.” 

A friend posted Mr. Buffett’s article on his Facebook page and wondered what his conservative friends thought of it. Here is that short but sweet thread, including the subsequent right wing, anti-factual, knee-jerk response…

This one involves my other good buddy, Kathy.

Names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Enjoy…

Class War: Voter Suppression

Here’s an old debate I had with my buddy, Richard, back before he “de-friended” me on Facebook.

I’m posting it now because the Presidential election is tomorrow and we cover Republican voter suppression tactics. Well, I cover them. He denies them.

Also, I explain in fairly decent detail what happened during the fraudulent Bush v Gore election in 2000.

But most importantly, I wrote a badass version of Green Eggs and Ham.

Sorry that this is a bit verbose. I can’t control the amount of bullshit that squeezes out of a right-wing pie hole. 

Names changed. Enjoy…

Hurricane Happenings

Just some stuff surrounding the events of Hurricane Sandy. Mostly the right-wing making the usual assholes of themselves.

Enjoy…

The Latest Romney Bullshit

Since my last post was all about the truths surrounding Obama, I will counter it with a post about all the lies surrounding Romney. It’s only fair that I try to be bi-partisan. 

'Fair and Balanced' is my motto, after all.

I know it’s difficult to keep up with all the bullshit that flows out of the Mittster’s ass. That’s why I try to keep track for you. You have no idea how many shovels I’ve gone through.

This is just the shit that has been piling up over the past three or four weeks, so some of the kernels you may have seen already. There are several posts going back months if you’re so inclined to sift through all the rest of Romney’s shit.

Oh, DO enjoy…

Fuckin' Obama

To the Republicans out there, fantasy > facts.

Wha - ?

Oh, sorry about using that math symbol, Republicans. It means ‘greater than.’ And it’s meant as a direct dig at your mental acuity.

Wha - huh?

Oh, sorry again. Acuity means ‘keenness of thought or vision.’

Do-hutna?

I called you a fucking idiot.

These are all accomplishments that you Republicans ignore or deny about President Obama and his administration. As well as Democratic Party achievements and other facts in general.

I know, I know. The effort of all that obstructing. And for what? Well, that depends on how well your voter suppression tactics turn out. I’m guessing you hope it’s as good as it was in 2000.

Enjoy if you like facts. Deny if you don’t…

The Beautiful Gift of God Rape

Did that title get your attention?

Sorry if this rant is a little choppy. This is off the top of my head and I kind of blurted it all out in just under two hours.

You won’t enjoy…

Third Presidential Debate

Here are some very notable quotables from the third Presidential debate last night.

Enjoy…

ObamaScare

Obamacare is forcing doctors to no longer accept any new Medicare patients.

Or is it?

Benghazi Wars

Benghazi Wars Part I: Fuck You, Romney

A short time ago…

Remember when you thought that the video of Mitt Romney calling half of America ‘lazy, entitled moochers,’ then telling them to go fuck themselves was bad? Well, that was minor compared to this.

Rumble On Long Island

Just a few observations regarding the 2^nd Presidential debate between President Obama and ex-Governor Romney and moderated by CNN's chief political correspondent Candy Crowley at Hofstra University on Long Island.

Enjoy…

Facebook Case Files

Here are a few replies I’ve made to things people post on Facebook. In most cases, they don’t respond to what I say. I can only guess as to why. In other cases, a short discussion is had. And in some other cases, I don’t post what I’ve typed and instead am presenting my replies here for the first time.

In any case, I like to deal in reality.

Cases in point…

Mitt Romney Style

On 10/11/12, Mittington R. Moneyfucker said in an interview with The Columbus Dispatch:

“We don’t have a setting across this country where if you don’t have insurance, we just say to you, ‘Tough luck, you’re going to die when you have your heart attack.' No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital. We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.”

The Reign of Obama and His Super-Majority

Turtle-American and Republican House Leader Mitch McConnell gave an interview to his hometown newspaper. In the interview, he said, “Our view is, [Obama] has done a very poor job. Virtually everything he did that was wrong was when he had overwhelming (Democratic) support in Congress during the first two years of his presidency.”

Voter Fraud Is Real!

Republicans finally get their wish. Actual proof of voter fraud!

Now, if only they would fucking stop doing it.

Obama Has Destroyed America!!

It is still amazing to me how easily people can completely ignore the world around them in order to push a Party talking point.

Here’s another of the “discussions” I find myself getting into on Facebook. I haven’t had one of these in a while and it was fun.

Names are changed.

Enjoy…

Grey Poupon

Pardon me, but have you seen this lovely, humanizing photo of Mittington R. Moneyfucker?

Suppressing For Freedom

There’s a Teabagger group called the Voter Integrity Project. They’re going state-to-state, county-to-county and handing in lists of hundreds of thousands of names that they demand need to be purged from voter rolls to prevent fraudulent voting due to various reasons including voters are deceased or have changed address.

Newsiness

This is an ad created by GING-PAC. GING stands for “Government Is Not God.” It ran in 19 newspapers in these swing states: Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa.

Skullduggery

I tried to think of a word that best describes Romney’s campaign. It is Skullduggery: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

Just some more things and whatnot. So much fucktardery happens on any given day that it’s difficult to narrow the topics. I try to be minimum in summary with maximum in information.

Enjoy…

Brain Farts

These bits just kept popping out of my brain all week. So I did what I do and wrote them down.

For the 100th time.

Enjoy...

Plutocratic For The People

We all know he only says whatever he thinks people want to hear in order to get what he wants because his only value is money and power. He’s got money, all that’s left is ruling America. I’m pretty sure as he stands in front of a room full of multi-millionaires just like himself, this is as close to the truth as we’ll ever hear from this sociopath.

#September Seventeenth

Much of today’s angertainment

will deal with the Middle East.

Much of it will, but some of it will not.

Whatever the case, I hope you’re entertained

and the lessons won’t soon be forgot.

Enjoy…

Flotsam & Jetsam

I wish I could put together more single-topic rants. But it's tough to keep up with all the right-wing bullshit. At least I get to put in random, amusing, non-political tidbits in these multi-topic posts. They keep my water below boiling point.

Anyway, enjoy...

"The Conservative Factor"

Question: What is the difference between the Republican Party and a religious cult?

Answer: The Republican Party is better funded.

Thorium, Indium, Potassium

If any of you who watched any of the Republican convention last week possess even a fraction of a percent of a functional brain, you are fully aware that almost the entire shindig was nothing but lie after debunked lie. Debunked or not, Republicans continue to vomit them from their lie-holes with glee. Politically, people have always tried to argue their point around the edges of reality. That’s expected. But the Republican Party of today has now fabricated an entirely fictitious universe and condemns those who dare expose their lies. This and more.

Enjoy…

Linkin' Blog

This post will be mostly links to other articles and videos. Am I being lazy? No. They’re just a bunch of topics I would normally link to in a regular post. But by the time I get around to covering all the topics, these links will be out of date. Or, they’re links that cover a topic as well or better than I could. Or, they’re miscellaneous. Or, I’m being lazy.

Don’t worry, I’m still angry at right-wing fascism masquerading as patriotism. And I will continue to metamorphose my accumulated anger into your education and entertainment.

So, here you go.

Enjoy…

Play Ball!

Pick your team and root for them. No matter what.

Randomosity

Some more random goodness.

Enjoy…

Just Some Stuff

This one’s a quickie – unless you read and watch all the links contained herein. But even then, it's still shorter than my usual posts.

Exciting side note: I just figured out how to embed HTML code. Now, if I only knew what that meant. All I know is, I don't have to post links to pages with videos that aren't on YouTube anymore. I can just post the video directly. Ah, technology.

Enjoy…

Hodge-Podge of Thoughts

Not all of this stuff is political. Hey, I warned you that might happen from time to time.

Enjoy…

2nd Amendment Ludicrocity*

I originally wrote this one a little over a year ago when NRA lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre was at yet another CPAC convention claiming that Government policies kill people, not guns. And the Teabagger Party was eating it up like it was a deep fried stick of butter covered in powdered sugar and chocolate sprinkles. It was shortly after U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen others were shot at a public meeting, resulting in six deaths.

In light of the most recent mass shootings by American-born and bred terrorists at the Batman movie premiere in Colorado and the Sikh Temple a week later in Wisconsin and the gun people continually proclaiming, “Now is not the time to discuss gun control,” after every mass shooting, I felt the need to post it now. I’ve also added some new info. This may seem choppy in thought at times, but I’m aggravated and I’m trying not to curse so much. So give me a fucking break.

Enjoy…

Oh, FOX. You Lying Liars Who Lie.

Yeah, they’re at it (I was going to say ‘again,’ but that would imply they stop every now and then.) still.

I Didn't Build That

And neither did you.

An Open Letter to Victims

An open letter to all the victims and their families and friends of mass shootings:

Columbo-esque

Oh. Just a few more things…

TBF: Stupid Fucking Asshole Edition

I limited this collection of idiocy to around 2,000 words. You should thank me.

Hey, it’s got pictures!

Enjoy…

It's the Denial of Truth, Stupid

My good buddy, Mark simply posted a link to a Mother Jones article about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. There are tons of charts explaining everything and more links in the article leading to more charts. Simple, straightforward. In its unbiased reporting, it even shows how rich Democrats in Congress voted unanimously to extend the Bush Tax Cuts for rich people.

Enter: Kathy. I forgot that the facts which contradict Republican fantasies are the equivalent of lies.

Enjoy…

What the What?

OK. So, this website put up an article about how FOX “News” uses selective editing in the way they manipulate their “reporting.” It was a good article, showing what FOX said and juxtaposing that with the full transcript of the actual interview. Naturally, FOX edited out the parts that contradict the Roger Ailes anti-liberal mandate.

Since I had done a blog post about that very same thing several months ago, I posted a link to it in the comments section.

Then, the troll showed up. Since I often read the comments sections of articles I read, I’ve seen this nitwit before. I think you may have an idea of what transpires next.

Enjoy…

Louisiana Devolution

Hey, remember when I told you Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed a bill that funneled large sums of public education money through vouchers into the private school Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) program? The program that teaches that since the Loch Ness Monster exists, it is proof that the theory of evolution is a fraud and creationism is real?

The Affordable Fear-Mongering Act

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was upheld by the Supreme Court. Republicans are not the smiley happy bumble bees they usually are.

As Andy Borowitz puts it, “Congress passed the law, the President signed it, and the Supreme Court upheld it. So it must be repealed.” – Republican logic

Here are my quick thoughts. Enjoy...

Papiere, Bitte.

Or, in this case, "Documentos, por favor."

The Supreme Court knocked down three of the four provisions before them regarding the Arizona “Papers, Please” SB 1070 bill. The one they left in place was the provision that police could ask to see the identification of anyone AFTER THEY ARE ARRESTED. The racial profiling, pre-arrested, show-me-your-papers part of SB1070 was struck down. No matter what nut-job Republican Governor Jan Brewer and FOX “News” says.

The Left seems to think they scored a big victory, seeing as how 75% of the provisions were struck down. The Right seems to think that they scored a big victory, seeing as how the Supreme Court upheld the provision that police are able to arrest “illegals,” which they already could anyway.

What’s the reality of the situation?