Additional Random Musings

I think it is good to look into the thoughts that keep us sane during the course of otherwise dull days. So in that spirit, I thought I'd add a few of my own random musings to Steve's earlier excellent post.

Right out of the gate, I agree with Steve. Fuck Michael Vick. Enough said.

*A faithful dog will follow you around from room to room at night when you have insomnia, but he doesn’t like it much.

*The mere thought of living in Texas will cause men to start looking at oversized trucks to buy. (You know who you are)

*Rednecks and Christians are always happier when a Republican is in office but they haven’t a clue why.

*Turnip Greens, Collards, Broccoli, Cabbage and Cauliflower stink while they are cooking. It is just the way it is. I eat them too, but the truth is the truth.

*Among democrats, men are much more forgiving of Sarah Palin than are women. Why is that?

*I don’t like wearing high heels, no matter how good they might look.

*If you are going to the drive through at the bank, a fast food joint or in line at Walmart, stay off your cell phone, you are slowing things down and pissing people off.

*If I pick a piece of lint off my clothing, and don't put it in the trash can, you can just get over it. Yes, this is actually an issue for some people.

*The smell of sheets that have been dried on a clothesline should be bottled and sold.

Peace.

Random Musings By a Surly Old Fart

Giving praise to the Democratic Party for finally passing DADT repeal and START is like heaping praise on a school boy who finally finished his homework assignment 2 weeks late. That shit should have been on Obama's desk for signature by March of 2008 at the latest.

I'm still waiting on that trickle down from the millionaires and billionaires to fix the country. Maybe if we give it about 50 more years?

Books are like people, you open either one up and they are red (read) inside. Of course, opening up a person can be messy and more than likely he won't go for that shit.
Unless it has pretty pictures on the inside, a social conservative will close the book faster than he opened it.

Dean Wormer was wrong. Going through life fat, drunk, and lazy seems to be working just fine.

People afflicted with lycanthropy probably had a rough time if they worked for the Apollo program back in the 60s.

Christian persecution used to mean being fed to the lions or some other horrible shit. Evidently now it means saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

I am so old I can remember being proud to call myself a Democrat. Now I can only say I am proud that I have never been a Republican.

Hearing a social conservative tell me that evolution is only a “theory” makes me want to push their dumb ass onto the ground and scream, “So is fucking gravity!”

Michael Vick tortured and killed dogs. I wonder if he wasn't a highly skilled professional football player, would the cries of “he deserves a second chance” be as loud? How about if he was a child molester? Wouldn't he deserve a second chance then too?
Fuck Michael Vick.

I saw the movie “Buried” last week at the cheap-o dollar movie theater. It is still fucking with my head.

Until just a few years ago, the Speaker of the House has always been a white male. Then a woman got it. Next month a man of color will sit in that seat. Who knew that color would be orange?

Fact: As long as conservatives have a say so in government on this planet, the High Council on Zenith Prime will never allow Earth to join the Galactic Federation.

Whenever it threatens to snow here, all the stores sell out of milk and bread. WTF? Milk and bread? Is that the basic staple to survive the few hours of being snowed in in Alabama? Wouldn't potato chips and beer make more sense?

Drive-way, park-way, strip-mall, and poop-deck are named wrong. You can get your ass in trouble if you do what the name implies.

Money will not buy you happiness, but it will pay for making the swelling go down.

Fact: People who eat bacon are much happier than people who don't. You know it's true.

It is one sorry ass mother fucker that would charge you a goddam dollar so you can put air in your tire.

Never underestimate the ability of an Alabama politician to embarrass the fuck out of you over and over.

Heavy Metal doesn't sound as good as it used to.

Country Music sounds even worse than it used to. (I didn't think that could be possible)

Even though he is in Glenn Beck's shadow, Rush Limbaugh is still a flaming Nazi gasbag.

That's all I got right now. I need to go run those little bastards off my fucking lawn.

Asshole of the Week - President Obama

This edition of ASSHOLE OF THE WEEK goes to, President Obama.
Obama in continuing his tradition of trying to emulate The Bastard Reagan, signed an executive order freezing the pay raises of civil service employees for 2 years.
"Despite the sacrifices that I knew a pay freeze would entail for our dedicated civil servants, I concluded that a two-year freeze in the upward statutory adjustment of pay schedules is a necessary first step in our effort to address the challenge of our fiscal reality," Obama lied.
Civil service employees normally make less than their private sector counterparts, sometimes up to half as much.
Obama gives the royal, no lube, ass fucking to working class families while compromising, without even so much as an argument, to give 880 billion fucking dollars to the millionaires and billionaires.
This is just another step in the Republican wet dream of destroying all government agencies and replacing it with big corporations.
This is unforgivable.
Other than the repeal of DADT, and getting a watered down Health Care Reform passed, what would really be the different if Grandpa and the Swimsuit Model had won the election instead?
Obama, I expected more of you.
I expected a fighter. Not a pussy.
I expected a champion of people. Not another corporate whore.
Obama, are you getting bad advice from somebody?
Do you think that if you continue to give everything to the fucking Republicans that they might not notice that you are black and pretend to like you?
What the fuck, man?
Yes, I would love to see my country united again. That ain't going to happen soon. Until then, it would be fucking nice to see my side doing the ass kicking instead of getting fucked in the ass.
I'm tired of fucking millionaires pissing on me and calling it trickle down.
What are you going to do next Obama? Bust up the few remaining labor unions?
I guess I had better shut up before he gets some more ideas to please his corporate masters.
Fuck it.
Obama, you are an asshole.

A Republican Christmas Meal

In the spirit of the season and current events, I have came up with a proposal that we Americans should consider adopting for our Christmas feast.
I think this is the best way to show compassion as it does recognize that there are people of lesser means who will be going hungry, but without putting an unfair hardship on the wealthy citizens and corporations who have worked so very hard for what they have and shouldn't be punished by having to help feed the lazy and unwashed.
This scenario is based on current economic and tax statistics. Tweaking it for fluctuations in your family's economic stage may be required.
As the families get together for the meal, we would set up various stages and sections for the loved ones to sit with each other.
Starting at one end, the family members with the most wealth would sit together. This would probably be maybe 2 people. The majority of the middle income family would sit in the rest of the chairs starting with the upper middle class sitting closest to the wealthy members and the lower middle class sitting at the other end.
The poor and unemployed will, of course, sit on the floor.
Before you start criticizing this setup, finish reading as it will prove to be the fairest way for ALL members of the family to enjoy a meal together regardless of economic stature, and do it with out punishing the wealthy, who obviously have worked so very hard for what they have.
Ninety eight percent of the food will be set at the end with the wealthy people are. This may require some creative ideas to place it all there, perhaps with stackable Lazy Susan's, or maybe utilizing the cleaner, less repulsive, poor family members as furniture by having them on their hands and knees around the table with food placed on their backs.
This actually will help their self-esteem, as now they are feeling like they are of worth and are contributing to the meal in their own meager way.
If you do decide to make use of your less fortunate family members in such away, be sure not to place the hot items on their backs without using a pot holder or perhaps a towel underneath the food container to keep from burning them.
It would be a sad for the gravy to be spilled and cause the less fortunate family member to not only suffer from minor burns but also the shame of the public scolding. Having to tell them that is why they are poor because they can't even do anything right, could possibly cause a minor lull in the holiday cheer.
With the vast majority of the food sitting in front of the wealthy family members, in this case 2, the other two percent of the food will be shared by the rest of the family members.
After the blessing thanking God for this great bounty and being blessed with having all the loved ones together on this joyous day recognizing the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, everyone can start digging in.
The 2 people with 98% of the food around them will obviously start shoveling it in as fast as they can, so they can eat as much as possible before they become filled up.
The rest of the family seated around the table will begin eating the 2% of the bounty, with the loved ones at the upper end starting first and passing the food down the line.
We can trust each person to take what is a fair share and to ensure as not to take to much so as the everyone can get a portion. The size of the portions, of course, based on how much the family member is worth.
At the upper end of the table, the wealthy family members have became gorged and are grudgingly letting the remaining food be passed down the table.
During the gorging, some food missed their mouths as a feeding frenzy can be messy at times. Fortunately this ill aimed food fell to the floor to the grateful poor and unemployed.
This whole process is best known as “Trickle Down”.
Making sure that the wealthy and upper class have all the food they want, will ensure a steady stream (trickle down) towards the poor.
After all, the rich can't eat it all, and something will have to be done with the leftovers before it spoils. And it isn't good to give table scraps to pedigree pets anyway.
History has shown that the upper class has always shown compassion and generosity in treating the downtrodden, and what better way to do that than showing it during the birthday of Christ?
Needless to say their will probably be some bleeding heart liberal family member, perhaps that bothersome brother-in-law, who will protest that it is unfair and everyone should have access to equal portions.
You can easily quieten down this nonsense by calling him a Communist, Socialist, fag lover, or numerous other names.
Ask him why does he hate America, and why does he hate rich people so much and want to punish them? After all they have worked so very, very hard for what they have.
Most of the family members will vote for eating the Christmas meal this way, even the unemployed and poor because one day, they hope to be able to sit at that end of the table too.
Until then they will gladly let the wealthy trickle down on them and they will like it.
One day maybe they can be wealthy too.
It is the American dream.
Keep on dreaming.

Asshole of the Week - Judson Phillips

Well, it hasn't been a week but I can't resist. I have to put up another ASSHOLE OF THE WEEK post.
This time the coveted award goes to Judson Phillips.
This racist rectum is the president of Tea Party Nation. One of several prominent Teabagger organizations flexing their sphincters.
Between the farting sounds coming from the bastards oral anus, Phillips announced his swell idea of restricting the right to vote to property owners.
Yeah. That's right you stupid Teabagger living in your rental property. If your hero had his way, you wouldn't have the right to fucking vote.
Here is the belching buttholes own words:
“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”
The Founding Fathers also restricted women, blacks, and Native Americans from voting. But, hey Teabaggers ain't bigots! Honest Injun!
Seeing how that a good portion of the Teabagger voting bloc are not property owners, it proves the point that I have been making since these assholes sprang in to existence last year: The Tea Party leadership is actually corporations and wealthy individuals.
If they really were populists and regular Americans, would they be voicing their disdain for so many of their voting bloc?
Using their media mouth pieces, they stir up the dumbasses out there into voting against their own best self interest. Not only are these idiots voting to give our treasury to the Uber-Wealthy, evidently they are voting to take away their own right to fucking vote. Amazing.
I guess you can say these Teabaggers hate the troops too.
Hey, it has to be true. Statistics show that a very large portion of the enlisted in our military branches are not property owners. What the fuck, whoever heard of letting cannon fodder have a voice anyway?
So a Royal Fuck You, Judson Phillips, you America Hating racist asshole. And fuck your asshole friends and fuck your asshole apologists.
And fuck the horse you rode in on.

Asshole of the Week

Greetings Citizens and welcome to the first posting of what I hope to become a regular feature: ASSHOLE OF THE WEEK.
I would like to hopefully make it a truly weekly feature posting on a certain day, but the way I am, I'm sure that is unlikely. For awhile anyway. I may post more than once a week, or may go weeks without posting.
This should be fun though, and with as many assholes as there are, it probably would be easy enough to make an ASSHOLE OF THE DAY.
Anyway, pardon the smell of shit.



And the first Asshole of the Week goes to Senator Alan Simpson (R- Milk Cow Tits)
This heartless and evil bastard, trying his best to emulate Dick Cheney or Montgomery Burns, earlier this year said: "And yes, I've made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know 'em too. It's the same with any system in America. We've reached a point now where it's like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work!"
He supposedly half-assed apologized for his remarks, but then he more recently went and called people who want to have Social Security available, “Greedy”.
Yes that's right, Citizen. You are a greedy person because money you expect to have available for you in your elder years, that money you have been paying in your whole goddam life, yes that fucking money... you expect it to be there.
What a soulless and shitty dick.
Yeah, you greedy fuckers should be happy to eat cat food and live in the street somewhere.
What makes people like him? Wealthy and comfortable in life, why the fuck do they have such disdain for people with lesser means.
Social Security is the back bone of 98% of every Americans retirement plans. It is needed. It has paid in by the people. And they are greedy.
You are an asshole Alan Simpson. Fuck you, you old miserable bastard. Hopefully I will live long enough to stop by, on my way to cash my S.S. Check, and recycle a pale ale on your grave.

Like a Dog Under a Shade Tree on a Hot Summer Day

The following is an event that I witnessed and I swear and affirm that it really happened. I am still at a loss to explain it, but it needs to be shared.

When I was in junior high school, a very remarkable event happened in my neighborhood.
A young boy about 5 or 6 was “helping” his daddy mow the lawn. For some reason, the father left the boy and the running mower alone and went in the house for something.
This was years before safety features were put on power equipment. I guess you see where this is going.
I can't remember exactly why, but the little boy put his hand up under the deck and it was horribly mangled by the spinning blade and had to be amputated at the wrist.
The whole town was shocked. This was before reattaching severed limbs was practical, though it had been done with limited success before that time.
Now here is the remarkable event I mentioned. A few weeks later after the wound had basically healed, the parents noticed a tiny bump on the end of the little boys stump. They didn't think much of it, but as the days and weeks went by, the bump started forming into the shape of a tiny hand. Fingers, thumbs, everything.
The doctors were shocked and at a complete loss for an explanation.
The tiny hand continued to grow and in almost a year it looked and acted completely normal as if their was never anything wrong. The only sign of the trauma was the scar on the wrist.
The parents placed this miraculous event as proof of a loving god. The father quit his job and started preaching the gospel, using the story of his son as the cornerstone of his evangelism.
Doctors were mystified, eventually accepting the miraculous explanation themselves.
The boy had absolutely no problems with his hand and grew up to play college and professional football.
I bet you have heard of him.
Joe Namath. Yes, Joe Namath, grew up to be one of the most famous and successful quarter backs in football history. Leading the University of Alabama to 2 National Championships and then as a pro player he led the New York Jets to a Super Bowl victory.
Most people never knew about his injury as a small child, as Joe rarely talked about it.
Even without people knowing, somehow he became known as the man with the miracle arm.
Joe Namath to this day still lives a normal life, with absolutely no problems with his hand.
Although not a man who makes a big thing in public about his faith, he has confirmed that he shares his fathers belief that it was a miracle from God that he has his hand and the talent that made him the success that he is.

What do you think about the story above? Amazing isn't it? A miracle that I witnessed with my own two eyes.
Well, not really. I sat down at the computer and made the whole thing up in less than 5 minutes. Yes, I pulled it straight from my ass in true Fox “News” fashion.
Those of you who know me probably had doubts. But I bet many of you believed the story.
That is what this post is about.
Why do rational people believe absurd stories?
Sarah Palin can get on TV and say that Democrats want to kill your grandparents with the new Healthcare Reform and people fucking believe it!
I'm sure that you have heard equally absurd stories or had them emailed to you. Like Mel Gibson had his face burned off as a kid, or any of the ludicrous Teabbager lies about Obama and Hillary Clinton.
For shits and giggles, copy and paste the above Namath story and send it to people you know. See how many people believe it is true.
I can go on and on about ludicrous stories, and I have in other posts, but I just want to talk about why, not what.
Ok, here's my theory. Well, I guess calling it my opinion is more accurate.
I remember reading where behavioral traits have been shown to be passed down the family tree genetically.
Look at religion. Generation after generation gets religious indoctrination drilled in their heads starting at a very young age.
These religious beliefs that include absurdities as sentient animals like talking snakes and donkeys are taking as facts.
To many of these people, the Garden of Eden story is a fact. Noah's Ark. The sun stopping in the sky. Walking on water. You get the idea.
People believe these old Bronze Age fairy tales with no doubt. In fact, it is the skeptic whose sanity is often called into question when expressing disbelief in these stories.
Over the centuries, this irrational desire to believe the ludicrous has been drilled in the heads of the human race so much, it is now embedded in our DNA.
Now people, without question, will believe idiocy like; the President is not an American citizen. That Bill Gates is giving away millions of dollars to people who will forward his email. That decorated combat heroes faked their injuries to get purple hearts. The list of nonsense goes on and on.
Now, after generations of indoctrination being genetically encoded in our DNA, people will embrace bullshit without question.
Like I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I don't really think these people believe this shit, as much as they want to believe.
They want to believe in a heavenly afterlife so they can go see grandma again. They want to believe there is an everlasting burning Hell, so that bastard neighbor who cut down that disputed tree on the border of their yards can go suffer forever.
With this behavior encoded in our DNA, we want to believe. Just like you wanted to believe that horseshit story I wrote about Joe Namath.
Conservatives want to believe that Obama is an illegitimate president.
Teabaggers want to believe that Sarah Palin is right, and the government will start using euthanasia on old people.
This is not a new thing either. Years ago, some people realized that the population had a tendency to believe just about anything they heard on the radio or saw on the TV, so they came up with the Fairness Doctrine.
All this did was mandate that strong opinions that were expressed on the airwaves had a chance to be rebutted with an opposing viewpoint.
The Reagan administration killed this Doctrine and as a result we now have A.M. Hate Radio, and unchallenged corporate controlled news.
I don't think anyone can honestly say that the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, etc. would ever have gained the popularity they have if an opportunity was given after ever show refuting the bullshit they just spewed.
Should we worry about people believing horeshit without question? Hell fucking yeah we should!
Bullshit can be fun to punk your family and friends with, but when corporations get in on it they can turn the course of the country to dangerous directions.
Just look at the lies of a decade ago; lies about Saddam's involvement in the 9-11 terrorist attack turned half the U.S. population into supporting an illegal and unjustified war.
We need a healthy does of skepticism to keep things honest. Otherwise charlatans will run roughshod over everybody, tricking people out of liberty and treasure.
I'm not saying I am immune to being tricked. I've had my share of being punked, but I'm pretty sure if a former swimsuit model MILF with nice tits starts telling me that the government wants to kill grandma, it will raise a flag. I'll probably nod as if I'm listening intently while actually wondering how somebody can be that batshit insane and still have a nice rack.
I'm kinda weird that way.
For more ludicrous entertainment check out the following video.
If your eyeballs haven't rolled out of the fucking sockets by the time it is over with, read some more of my commentary about it below the video.

Well, if you watched it and can still read this, your eyeballs didn't roll out. IT'S A MIRACLE!
Jeebus.
I really don't know which is worse, this confused little boy obviously being coached, (Jesus has sea blue eyes and a smile that lights up the universe) or a supposed journalist asking said boy, “What about Jesus?” with the same mannerisms that you would ask a world leader about the value of world currency.
I imagine lots of people will believe this story, especially Fox “News” Fans. That would explain why they are promoting their book there.
I said it once, and I'll say it again, chickens don't like wearing suspenders. But that has nothing to do with anything.
But I sure would like to have the mailing list of these gullible people.
They will buy anything.
That is why we had a moron for a president for 8 years.
It is a very dangerous thing.

Does Jesus Want a New Cell Phone For His Birthday?

Well, it looks like the fighting 777th division is gearing up for the War on Christmas again.
Every fucking year, around Thanksgiving, a bunch of idiots whip themselves in a frenzy on some perceived movement to remove the Baby Jesus from their Christmas Season.
Goaded on by assholes like Bill O'Reilly or other Fox “News” and A.M. Hate Radio personalities, these poor dimwits imagine that the atheists are conspiring with corporations and the government to make their shopping experience something less than Holy.

Jumping into the fray are the Religious Right, a loathsome bunch of self-righteous and holier-than-thou shitheads, who organize stupid ass campaigns to boycott business who say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.
I've heard these same fuck heads, all my life, scream and wail about the commercialization of the birth of Jesus, and now that some businesses seem to back away from exploiting a mythical birth and make the shopping thing more secular, the Jesus freaks shriek even louder.
So which is it, Holy Crusader? Do you want your Baby God selling the new X-Box game or not?
And really, what the fuck difference does it make?
This just proves the point I have said many times before; CHRISTIANS HAVE TO BE VICTIMS. Never mind they have basically been running America since its inception over two fucking centuries ago.
They JUST AIN'T FUCKING HAPPY unless they can feel like they are being picked on.
Why is that?
Why do they feel like if they are not ramming their Bronze Age fairy tale down everyones fucking throat, they are being discriminated against?
I will tell you why. It is just like a 9 year old kid that has figured out that their ain't a Santa Claus, but he damn sure ain't gonna admit it because Christmas is just a few fucking days away and, by God, he wants that new PlayStation.
They know that the whole talking snake thing is bullshit.
They know virgins can't have babies.
They know men can't walk on water any more than they can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
But, just like the 9 year old kid, they ain't gonna say shit. Because then they would have to admit they are wrong, and they have been duped by a silly ass superstition and are just as big of suckers as suicide bombers and Tom Cruise.
Then they could no longer feel superior while at the same time playing the victim. And that would be Communism. Or something.
Happy Mother-Fucking Holidays.

Collision Course

This is a short story I wrote a few years back. Got a couple rejection letters and a smart ass tip not to use the Thesaurus so fucking much. LOL
I think this is an earlier draft before I ran the grammar check, so forgive the to's, too's, their's and there's.
Anyway, I thought I would put it on here for shits and giggles.
Hope you enjoy it.

Collison Course
© Steve Whisenant


“Can anyone give me an example of velocity and its relationship with momentum?”

No one raised his or her hands, not that Father Buchanan expected anyone to. Although he had only been at the university one year, he had a reputation as someone who enjoyed humiliating any student who dared to speak up in class, regardless if the student was correct or not.

On the massive LCD marker board behind Father Buchanan were a myriad of complex equations, each so indecipherable as to appear to be complete gibberish. Many of the resulting summations of each equation appeared to be a crucifix.

Some of the students slunk down in their chairs in attempt to be invisible, just in case “Daddy Buck” decided to direct the question to a particular individual. The unfortunate students who sat in the front row, such as Megan Henshaw, had no such luxury.

Father Buchanan turned his back to the class and with a quick press of a button on his LCD marker, erased the left side of the board. “I hoped that you have replicated that portion of today’s lesson. It will be on the test next Wednesday.”

Collective groans rose from the students. Most of the children were from families who could not afford to buy the churches e-notebook. Just reading the scribbles was virtually impossible; copying them precisely by hand onto paper was literally impossible. There was little satisfaction in the knowledge that the more fortunate children whose families could afford the e-notebooks would not do any better. Having it downloaded for you automatically didn’t make it that any easier to understand.

At the marker board, Father Buchanan was scribbling furiously, his head bobbing and swaying from side to side as another monster of an equation was drawn out. Without slowing down his chirography or looking behind him Buchanan said, “Miss Henshaw. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may have tolerated the company of whores, but I will not. Please pull your skirt over your knees.”

Muted snickers from the class only added to the rapidly flushing face of the unfortunate Miss Henshaw. Megan was one of the children who came from the lower income families and had to rely completely on the generosity of the church for her uniforms, books, and any other school supplies she might need. Of course “church” and “generosity” are not often used in the same sentence anymore.

At the awkward age of twelve, Megan had experienced a remarkable growth spurt and physical maturation. Her skirts were rapidly becoming homage to the long dead immoral mini-skirt. Her blossoming bosoms straining the buttons on her blouse, she now garnered looks from older boy students and faculty members that made her feel extremely uncomfortable. She turned heads from the same people who six months ago never would have given her a second look. She had gone to the Church welfare office and requested new uniforms but was denied by the computer calendar saying that she wasn’t due to be refitted for another four months.

Her face blazing in crimson shame, Megan tugged the skirt down as best she could. By drawing her legs up into an uncomfortable position, she just managed to get the plaid material to stretch over her knees.

Up at the marker board Father Buchanan was still scribbling feverishly, his whole body now swaying in an attempt to keep up with his hand as it blurred back and forth across the board. He appeared to be performing a bizarre waltz with the marker board. Father Buchanan had an unusually adept mind despite his weird behavior. He could quickly and accurately scribe out the most complex of equations while carrying on an unrelated conversation, or occupy his mind with other subjects.

This particular equation of his just might land him the prestigious Papal Peace Prize. It was the recognition in mathematics that landed him his current job at the most prestigious church university in the Christian world.

As he continued to write out his equation, his mind returned to the young woman he just chastised. He was well aware of the financial status of the child, and the strictness of the Office of Welfare, but he could not let that stand in his way of running a moral classroom. Miss Henshaw showing off her legs was not only an immoral act but it was distracting the other male students. He had caught the young Mr. Sanchez sneaking a look at them several times.

Silently he cursed the Universities strict student seating guideline. The computer assigned seats in each classroom dependent on what it ascertained the student’s intelligence/interests to be. The logic being, that it was no use wasting the precious time of the University trying to encourage the slower learning students to do better as the world needed more menial labor than higher education graduates anyway. The higher aptitude students sat closer to the instructor, while the slow learners delegated to back of the class.

Just my luck, thought Father Buchanan, I have an unusually bright whore in my Wednesday Mass 101 class, and she is sitting right next to the lovely Geoffrey Sanchez.

The thought of Mr. Sanchez brought a small smile to Father Buchanan’s face. Geoffrey was a very handsome and, according to the seating arrangements, intelligent boy of thirteen. He was a product of a Portuguese/Hispanic union. His activity in the churches soccer and swim teams enhanced his already succulent body into an athletic vessel of pure desire. A shock of the blackest hair Father Buchanan had ever seen flowed on the head of the angelic boy.

Three weeks ago Father Sanchez was most fortunate in having random odds act in his favor; he caught Mr. Sanchez in a violation. While coming out of the faculty restroom, he observed Mr. Sanchez running in the hall. Given that he was the one that caught him, the act of disciplining was automatically granted to him if he so desired, as is the rules of the University. Oh, and desire he did. While a malfeasance such as running in the hallways usually only carried a flogging of three to five lashes with a paddle, Father Buchanan could not restrict himself to such leniency. A leather strap was needed on this young transgressor, yes indeed!

After calling the delinquent to his office, Father Buchanan had the child drop his pants and underwear to his ankles and bend over his desk. The sight almost took the saintly priests breath away. Well tanned muscular calves and thighs, maintained by the Universities excellent athletic department, rose from the crumpled fabric of the boys lower uniform up to the less dark, but oh so supple buttocks. The tan line caused by the swim teams bathing suit only heightened the sight to a heavenly vision.

“I am so sorry Father, please don’t beat me. I won’t do it again!” pleaded the young boy. Father Buchanan acted as if he didn’t hear him. Indeed, he may as well not have heard him as his full attention was on mental calculations and justifications of the appropriate punishment. That and the regret he felt for not being back in his old parish. There the boy would get a less painful, but much more satisfying reprimand.

But there was no reason to waste time on such dreams. The church tries to discourage that kind of thing whenever possible now. Liberals, rare as they are, still afforded the Benches ear. Hence the rule that another faculty member must be present during the administration of discipline. Sister Ingrid seemed to be the one that was always available as the faculty witness these days. She stood near by, not close enough to interfere, but not far away as to miss the administration in vivid detail. In her hand she held the first aid kit, as corporal punishment by Father Buchanan always seemed to require a little bit of touching up afterwards. It didn’t hurt to be prepared.

With one hand holding the boys arm twisted behind his back so that he could not move in any direction, Father Buchanan repeatedly administered the strap of discipline.

Later in the day Father Buchanan beamed with pride when a fellow faculty member told him they could hear the boys shrieks all the way down the hall in the faculty lounge.
The mathematical priest brought his mind back to the classroom just as he finished writing his equation on the board. The thoughts of Mr. Sanchez and his punishment had opened up the blood flow of the nether regions, bringing his flaccid penis to life. Fortunately his priest robe hid that bit of information from the class. The early church elders knew what they were doing when they designed them.

Turning back toward the class, Father Buchanan caught Mr. Sanchez looking at the girl next to him again. Fury set in his brain. Granted the little tramp was doing everything she could to be modest, but that didn’t take away from the fact that she was disrupting Mr. Sanchez’s studies. The attention of Mr. Sanchez should be on him! Not some poverty stricken whore, no matter how smart the Church thought she was.

Megan was trying her best to make herself invisible, or at least shrink down to a size where no one noticed her when Father Buchanan’s turned his gaze on her. When he mentioned her name, she thought that she would faint. Her formerly crimson flushed face turned terror pale.

“Miss Henshaw,” said Father Buchanan. He said it in the patronizing voice that all the children in his class had grown to fear when directed to them. “Perhaps you can tell the class what the equation I just put on the board is?”
“I uh, uh, uh, I b-be-believe,” she started to stammer.

“Come on Miss Henshaw,” interrupted the esteemed educator. “What is wrong? Are your clothes binding you? Or are you occupying your mind with whorish thoughts?” he snickered.

Whenever Father Buchanan singled out a student for ridicule, he made a slight snickering chuckle after the berating. This signaled the class that they were to feel free to laugh at the misguided student too. Most did, not because they really found it funny, but out of relief that they weren’t the ones in his crosshairs.

Father Buchanan noted with satisfaction that Mr. Sanchez was among the students laughing at Miss Henshaw.

Megan never felt more mortified in her life. It was taking all of her will power to not burst into tears. She knew from experience that that would only make things worse.

In what could only be described as a show of superhuman strength, she took a deep breath and resumed her attempt at answering the Indoctrinated Instructor. “I believe it is your prominent formula th- that answers the old riddle, of wh-what would happen if an in indestructible unstoppable object were to meet with an indestructible unmovable object of equal mass.”

The glare on “Daddy Buck” never changed, but in his mind he was shocked. The little whore knew! Of course he could never grant praise on the little tramp. Instead he did what he always did, moved to the next level. More than likely the little slut knew about his mathematical discovery from somewhere else and took a guess that was what it was. Yes, more than likely she just took a guess. They were after all covering velocity and momentum this week.

“Well well well, Miss Henshaw,” came the patronizing voice again. “Why don’t you stand up and face the class and tell us how this works. After all you do seem to be so familiar with it.”

Poor Megan thought that she would die right then and there. When death did not come, she silently prayed for it. As with most prayers of the poor, it went unanswered.

“Come on Miss Henshaw, don’t be shy. Stand up and let everyone see you as you enlighten us.”

Megan slowly stood up. Of course when she shifted positions her dress slid back up above the knee. She pulled vainly at it as to stretch it back below the knee, but to no avail. If she pulled much harder she was sure her skirt would slide right off her hips. As horrifying as that thought was, she didn’t think that she could be anymore mortified than the way she felt then.
“What is the matter Miss Henshaw?” inquired the Patron Saint of Patronizing. “Do you have something in your clothes that is making you itch?” Snickers ran through the class. “Or perhaps it is the itch of a whore. Could you not find a deviant infidel to scratch your whore itch for you, Miss Henshaw?”

Megan's pallid complexion had changed back to its crimson shine of shame. She quit pulling on her dress, took another deep breath and turned to face the class. “The formula computes that as an object of mass moves, it builds extra mass along with the momentum derived from its velocity. It p-postulates that an object at rest, no matter how unmovable or indestructible c-could not resist an object of equal mass and endurance that is in motion. Therefore the at rest object would be compromised under the superior mass of the object under momentum and velocity.” She let her breath out in a long shuddering exhale. Please Sweet Jesus, Megan prayed. Make him leave me alone. As with most prayers of the poor, it went unanswered.

Father Buchanans smug look never changed, but in his mind the mental equivalent of his jaw hitting the floor took place. This is a trick, he reasoned. There is no possible way this little whore could know! The remarkable multitasking brain went into overdrive. One part trying to compute a formula as to how this tramp could have possible known this, the other part working on how to further humiliate the little slut. A flash of horror shot through his brain. Mr. Sanchez was actually looking at the whore in what appeared to be awe! This would not do.

Megan slowly turned to her desk and started to sit down. “No!” shrieked the Father, his voice rising in pitch, “I am not through with you!” Megans face once again drained of color as her wrist was grabbed and she was yanked cruelly towards the marker board.

In an instant, Father Buchanan’s composure was under control. But not before the whole class gasped in shock at his outburst. Noting that he was in danger of turning the whore into a martyr, he immediately started on the calculations for his next best plan of humiliation. In the mean time he would have the tramp go over the formula, explaining it in detail to the class. This would give him ample time to formulate a berating. She was also very likely to stumble over many parts of it, giving him opportunity to chastise her in front of the class.

“Here you go Miss Henshaw,” he said, handing the frightened girl the LCD marker as his voice pulsated with his practiced patronizing prose. “Please be so good as to go over the formula for the class bit by bit. Don’t forget to put heavy emphasize on explaining the matrices and logarithms.”

Any spark of will power the poor girl had on holding back tears was now extinguished. Tears ran down her cheeks in long glistening streams. Gripping the marker in her clenched fist, all she managed to vocalize was a gasping, choking sob.

“Come on Miss Henshaw! You seemed to have had all the answers a minute ago. What is the matter? Had you rather be using that little mouth for something more suited for a whore?” He snorted and looked around the class. Not one student was snickering. In the quick cursory glance, he wasn’t even able to find a child smiling. Not good. No sir, not good at all!

Sniffing, Megan composed herself enough to start going through the formula. Sweet Jesus, she thought, it will take forever to go through this. “Here the formula starts out with a unitary matrix, its subsequent conju-.”

“No no, Miss Henshaw! Please assume that our little minds are inferior to yours. We don’t know anything about unitary matrices or anything else. Please elaborate!”

Groaning to herself she started again. “A unitary matrix is a matrix whose conjugate transpose is its own inverse. Flipping everything across the main diagonal gets the transpose of a matrix. That is, you make the rows into the columns and the columns into the rows.”

On and on poor little Megan went, line after line on the massive formulaic eyesore.
Father Buchanan stood right by her mentally calculating several complex algorithms simultaneously. There was no problem that could not be solved with mathematics. By one of his calculations she should make an error on the next logarithm. Another calculation that has never left his head in days was ciphering the probability that young Mr. Sanchez would once again violate and where that might be. It would not do for some other faculty member to be so fortunate to catch him and be the disciplinarian.

Glancing out the window he happened to see a terribly obese student violating the rules by cutting across the grass. Shuddering at the thought of being the one to have to whip such a repulsive sinner, he quickly averted his eyes. He made a mental note though, if another teacher happens to catch Mr. Sanchez in a violation, he could trade Fat Boy for him. Almost subconsciously he also started formulating an equation that proved that extra mass carried by obese people would invariably lead to transgressions.

Miss Henshaw passed his predicted logarithm failure with out so much as a stammer, blowing the whole eigenvector. This was not good at all.

Out of the corner of her teary eye, Megan could see that Father Buchanan was staring at her. Why does he hate me so? I am doing everything right! While she could not clearly see the academic celebrant because of the tears in her eyes, she could tell that he was not looking at her the same way the other people ogled her. While many priests and even Sister Naomi looked at her in that way that made her very uncomfortable, this stare was of a darker more sinister nature. She focused more on the problem at hand. Please Jesus, Get me through this with no difficulties. As with most prayers of the poor, it went unanswered.

Father Buchanan was in a quandary. He had to berate the little whore soon. She was making a fool of him. So far she has not made one error in explaining the formula. How was it that she had been in this class for the last two months and he not know her potential? The papers she submitted were not overly outstanding. At the moment he couldn’t he even place a single subject she had worked on. Wait! Was she the one that did the oral report on dark mass? Frantically he searched his mind to remember who had written it. It was a very intriguing concept about the theoretical missing mass in the universe.

According to theory, ninety percent of the mass in the universe was “dark”, meaning it is invisible, undetectable, or hidden from the human eye. The report she gave, if it was she, suggested that the dark mass was the ideological opposite of all visible matter. In other words, all of the dark mass represented Satan and the evil in the universe, while the visible mass portrayed Jesus and all that is good. He remembered thinking that it was a valid concept, worthy of calculating a formula for it, but it border lined on blasphemy. To think that evil outweighed good nine to one was just too uncomfortable. Except it did have support in some verses of the Bible.

Father Buchanan was contemplating this and wondering why he hadn’t dwelt on it more when the little whore finally stumbled. Yes! He thought. Time for the master to compose!

“What is the matter Miss Henshaw?” inquired the Inquisitor of the South Wing. “Have you started outgrowing your clothes again? Yes, I think you have! Goodness gracious young lady, you may as well go ahead and perform a strip show for the class. Seeing that you are half naked already and unable to complete your task!”

Again no children snickered at the cue.

Megan was frightened. Very frightened. But it was not from the remarks from her Malevolent Mentor. No, she had barely even heard them. What had once again piqued her adrenal gland was not some threat of verbal abuse. No this frightened her to her very soul. Please Jesus, she prayed. Make him send me back to my seat. Don’t make me have to do this! As with most prayers of the poor, it went unanswered.

“Come on Miss Henshaw, if you can’t explain the problem, I am afraid I am going to have to insist that you finish undressing. That is what whores want. Isn’t it Miss Henshaw?”

“F-F-Father B-B-Buchanan,” she stammered, “I-I-I-…”
“Miss Henshaw!” roared the Ecclesiastic of Vociferation, “Either continue with the analysis or start disrobing like the whore we all know you are, at once!”

Clenching the LCD marker in a death grip, she thought, here goes, and gestured to a part of the formula on the marker board. In a very low voice she whispered, “I think I found an error in your calculations.”

Father Buchanan was taken back. In his most abstract of calculations, he would have never formulated a response from Miss Henshaw like that. He looked at her a moment, analyzing the look of fear on her face. No, she wasn’t just trying to be cute like that Henderson boy. Albert Einstein; an atheist of Jewish origins indeed! For a brief moment he wondered if the Church University decided that they would go ahead and pay for the blasphemers dental work.

Looking up at the class he noticed that they were all listening in intense interest. None of them were trying to foolishly hide behind his or her classmates. They were actually leaning forward in anticipation of something. It dawned on the prodigious product of the papacy that the rest of the class didn’t hear what the little tramp said.

Spreading a grin across his face, which to the amazement of the students didn’t cause his face to crack, he said, “Attention class! You probably didn’t hear the muffled mumble of the habiliment challenged Miss Henshaw. She has informed me that she has discovered an error in my computations. Didn’t you Miss Henshaw?”

Megan was still standing facing the marker board with her back to the class, clenching the LCD marker so tight that her fist was turning blue.

“I will tell you what Miss Henshaw!” catcalled the cocky cleric, “if you are correct and you can point out any mumpsimus in that formula, not only will I publicly apologize for any implications that I may have made implying you were a woman with a moral compass of a Southern Baptist, I will personally recommend you as an immediate member of this universities mathematics department. So, without further adieu, please elucidate!”

Megan, somewhat relieved that he didn’t fly into a rage and strike her like he did Billy Henderson, started her oral depiction of the erroneous arithmetic. “Here is where the error starts”, she said gesturing to a portion of the formula. “Where E is the energy of the object in question, Mo is its rest mass, C is the speed of light, and gamma g is a numerical factor that depends on velocity. At very small velocities, gamma is approximately equal to one. At velocities near the speed of light, gamma becomes larger and larger. Mass like gamma grows with velocity. This demonstrates that light speed travel can never be accomplished because as mass approaches light speed, the mass approaches infinity.”

“Miss Henshaw”, interrupted the skeptical celibate. “I didn’t write that formula as you should very well know. That was conceived and published almost a century and a half ago by Albert Einstein. Surely you are not implying that Einstein made a mistake in his relativity equations?”

“N-No I am not”, replied Megan. “B-But this is where it indicates that mass increases in speed and is where the formula justifies the next part of the equation that you did write.” She lowered her voice to a whisper. “Which is in error.”

“Humph!” grunted the caustic clergy. “Please continue.”

“Here we see that the formula computes the impact of the two hypothetical objects.” Megan went on describing the formula in a shaky low voice monotone. “Here we see K as the kinetic energy developed in the moving mass. This is where the formula falls apart.” The grunt next to hear causes her to instinctively to cringe. “While there is nothing to show that the at rest object would prevail”, she continued, “we can see here that the object in motion does not necessarily triumph.” Megan started writing her own formula with the LCD marker in a small window she created on the marker board.
After scribing out a formula at a much slower pace than her teacher, Megan said “This shows that for your formula to be correct, the in motion object must be traveling at light speed in relation to the at rest object. Your formula fails to mention this, in fact it implies that the in motion object would triumph at any speed. The formula actually creates an oxymoron; it proves that light speed is an impossibility and then in the next logarithm says that light speed is a necessary component.”

For the first time in his life, Father Buchanan's mind went mono-computar. No longer were the simultaneous equations being written in his head. Thoughts of young Mr. Sanchez were flushed away like turds in a monsoon. He stepped up and pushed Megan aside. Not in a hateful, forceful way… just out of the way. Without taking his eyes off of the board, he reached down and took the LCD marker from Megan and started scribbling equations.

After a while Megan slowly backed away and sat down at her desk. Father Buchanan never said another word the rest of the day, as did any of the students. When the bell rang at the end of the day, the class quietly exited the room leaving Father Buchanan alone, dancing his terrible waltz with the marker board.

The next Wednesday when the class arrived, Sister Rachel was seated at Father Buchanan’s desk. Father Buchanan, she had said, was on extended emergency leave and would not be returning this semester. Sometimes the prayers of the poor are answered.

Pissing and Moaning in the Airport

I am really sick of listening to the complaints about body scanners, intrusive pat downs and the general pissing and moaning about airport security.

Suddenly, now that Bush and his fearmongering cronies are not on air every day keeping the fear level up, everyone wants to complain about airport security. No, I am not enthusiastic about getting a full body scan, or a pat down, but I seriously doubt that these activities are raising the purient interests of TSA workers who have to carry out scans and pat downs. I'm sure they are not getting up each morning enthusiastic about caressing fat men, little old ladies and snot nosed brats, and if they get a little amusement out of viewing an x-ray image of my sagging boobies, who the hell cares? I will, in all probability, never see this person again.

If another incident happens and a plane falls out of the sky as a result, I can predict the pissing and moaning about how the Obama Administration was lax in protecting us from all the terrors that we were warned about by Bush and Co. since 9/11.

I am never disappointed by the propensity of my fellow Americans to complaint about one thing or another. Suck it up and get over it. There are all sorts of options for getting from one place to the other. Flying is more convenient, but if you don't want to put up with the tightened security, let Greyhound do the driving for you! One or two experiences with a snoring slob on your shoulder for 12 hours should cure you of any airport aversions that you now have. Peace.

I Want to Believe

The subject of UFOs has always been an interest of me.
The thought of intelligent life out in the cosmos visiting our planet is something, like on the poster on Agent Fox Mulders office wall, “I Want To Believe”.
I've read many books on Ufology, even compiled and self-published a book on the subject in the mid nineties, (I be damned if I can find a single copy now) along with spending many hours watching videos on said subject. I have to admit, despite my skepticism, I am fascinated by the whole thing. Being a fan of government conspiracies fuels it even more as the two are intertwined with stories of Area 51, Roswell, Majestic 12 and others.
When I was still in high school, I was at the drive-in theater with several of my friends. Probably watching a low budget sci-fi or horror double feature on a Friday or Saturday night.
These routine weekend evenings were usually spent female free as I and my most of my buddies still found the fairer sex somewhat alien, despite the raging hormonal attraction.
Communication, for me anyway, usually degraded to a form of sub-English stammering whenever I attempted to speak to a girl.
So I, along with my socially challenged buddies, usually ended up on these nights at the drive-in, parked closer to the front row so as not to be thought of as fags, because the back rows were for making out.
Cheap ass Boonesfarm strawberry wine and homegrown cannabis were usually present after pooling our meager capital together for the purchase. (not that I inhaled... ahem) In a stoned haze we would enjoy this much more comfortable environment while watching cinematic classics as “The Incredible Melting Man”, “Death Race 2000”, “Dawn of the Dead”, etc.
Damn, if I haven't digressed from what I was writing about. Ah, sweet nostalgia can do that.
Anyway, on one of those nights, we saw our UFO, or actually UFOs... plural.
Normally one could write off what my buds and I saw to the pot and Boonesfarm, but everyone else at the theater saw it too. Lots of people got out of their cars and stood and watched the lights dancing in the sky.
What we, and everyone else, were seeing was two lights in the distant sky to the left of the movie screen.
Below is a highly detailed artist recreation of the event.
They seemed to do some acrobatic maneuvers, circling around each other. This went on for several minutes before they moved off out of sight.
Sometime later, what appeared to be a military fighter jet flew over the theater in that direction, fueling more excited discussion of what the fuck could be going on.
Despite the foggy state of mind I was in, I can still clearly remember how the lights looked and behaved. For years I held on to that one event as my possible witness to a craft piloted by otherworldly creatures.
Fast forward a quarter century.
Late one night, Judy and I were driving back from her parents house about 90 miles south of The Rocket City.
Judy was sound asleep in the passenger seat next to me, I was lost in thought (unfamiliar territory for me) when off in the distance, I saw the same type of phenomenon that I witnessed roughly 25 years prior.
My first thought was to wake up Judy, fortunately that moment of insanity vaporized as fast as it formed.
We were driving on a very dark highway in the country. There was very little light, no street lights and other lit up shit.
The UFOs were directly ahead of me over the road and I was heading straight for them.
I was as excited as a Teabagger at a cross burning and wishing I had a camera. This was before cell phones and shit, although we may have had one of those bag phones. I really can't recall the exact time period.
Their was no traffic on the road other than our car. This was shaping up to be just like many other experiences I have read about.
Would we experience missing time?
Would we be abducted?
Would the UFOs land like those in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and eject the cosmic Pillsbury Dough-boy?
We grew closer and closer to each other. Our car, and the mysterious flying lights.
I was beside myself with excitement... once again I almost reached over to wake Judy, but once again thought better of it.
Would our car stall out, like they do in the reports?
Would our radio start screeching right before everything quits?
I noticed that I had slowed down to less than 30 mph. I was hardly looking at the road anymore, as I was staring transfixed on the approaching globes of light.
Then we were close enough that they were revealed to me.
Two mother-fucking goddam helicopters.
What a sock in the balls.
As I heard the “chop-chop” as they flew over, the dawning realization that it was probably the same goddam thing we saw years ago at the drive-in theater.
I sighed and cursed quietly to myself and thought if the bastards had flown on over the fucking drive-in and let us identify them back then, it wouldn't have been a 2 and a half decade long misconception of what I saw.
But later I started thinking, I am glad I had that mystery for all those years. It made me wonder and dream.
Don't get me wrong, I am glad it is solved, but there is something to having something to want to believe in, even if you know down inside it is bullshit. Kind of like religion.
I sometimes envy Christians. They believe shit that is much more outrageous than extra-terrestrial aircraft.
Talking snakes, virgin births, magical super beings. Like me with the aliens, most of them know all that is bullshit, even if they don't want to admit it to themselves.
When it comes to UFOs, I am a lot like the Christians. I want to believe. Even though, I know better. Just like those fucking helicopters. If I didn't want to believe so bad, I would have never taken the gigantic leap of faith to the outrageous. I would have simply embraced the most simplistic explanation: they are aircraft with humans flying them.
It was fun while it lasted.
And one part of me still hasn't changed.
I want to believe.

The Truth About Liberals. Part 1: The Military

Note: This is the first in a series of posts that I am publishing in an attempt to debunk the Republican and Conservative dishonest definitions of liberalism.
I think it is time for these liars to be called out.


"It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate."
- John Paul Jones - 1775

Liberals hate the military.
This is a line the conservatards love to parrot. The next time one of these idiots says this bullshit to you, point out that it was two liberal presidents (FDR and Truman) that led us to victory over the Empire of Japan and Fascist Europe in four years, SIMULATANEOUSLY.
Point out that, because of George W. Bush and his conservative cronies ineptitude, we are still stumbling around trying to find the perpetrators of 9-11 a fucking decade after it happened.
Also point out that the Bastard Reagan cut and run after a terrorist attack on the Marine barracks in 1983.
Be sure to remind them that there were no combat fatalities in the War with Kosovo under Commander in Chief, Bill Clinton. A war whose objective was achieved quickly and decisively and was predicted to be a failure by ALL conservative pundits and politicians.
Let's do a brief history of liberals and the military.
After World War II, the corporations were salivating at the thought of all the returning service men. Visions of virtual slave labor in the factories had dollar signs floating around the corporatist heads like flies around shit.
With Americas chief industrial competitors, Germany and Japan, bombed into the stone age, projected corporate profits were giving the Wall Street bastards hard-ons of never before seen stiffness.
But the liberals put the brakes on the exploitation of these combat heroes by enacting The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the G.I. Bill of Rights.
Signed into law on June 22, 1944, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt amidst the shrieks of dismay of conservatives, this VERY liberal legislation put in place job securities and guaranteed college education.
Check out this news real from the era:

It was liberals, not conservatives, that worked on involving the U.S. in the First World War, the Second World War, Korea, and Vietnam.
In fact the Democratic Party was once known as the War Party among its critics, particularly those Republicans of the conservative, isolationist mentality.
After LBJ escalated the Vietnam Conflict with the Gulf of Tonkin lie, http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261 the Democratic Party was the leader in pushing for an end to the war, despite LBJ being of the same party.
Johnson, under pressure, chose not to seek nomination for a second term. (Contrast this to the lying fucker George W. Bush. The conservatives supported him even though there was no evidence to support his invasion of Iraq, in fact all the evidence that managed to come to light showed that Bush knew he was lying.)
The Republican Party seized upon this anti-war movement of the 1960s and used it to paint liberals and Democrats as cowards and anti-military.
This distortion by the right-wing continues to this day.
One of the more despicable lies of the Vietnam War, coming from the Right, is that American troops were spat upon at airports and bus stations as they were coming home from the war.
This urban legend has been repeated as a fact by the conservative liars, so often that people now believe it to be true. Even people who lived during that time and should know better will argue that it is a fact.
The truth is, there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that a returning Vietnam War serviceman was spat upon by anti-war protesters or anyone else.
To begin with, Vietnam veterans did not return by the boat loads like the WWII vets did. They rotated back into the real world as their tours of duty ended. So, it is improbable that hippies, or whoever, were hanging around the airports and bus stations waiting to spit on them.
Secondly, I would imagine a battle hardened man wouldn't take to being spat on by anyone very well and even the most stoned out protester would not want to risk hospitalization and possible death by spitting on one.
Thirdly. There are no police reports, FBI, state, or any other enforcement agency that can corroborate the story.
The spitting myth got started years after the last of the soldiers came home.
Fueled by movies like Rambo (does anyone really think a hippie would be stupid enough to spit on a special forces vet?), it took a life of it's own. George H. W. Bush (the smart one) used the analogy to justify the first Gulf War. His dim wit son jacked it up several notches for his Iraqi invasion.
With the corporate controlled media, the lying conservatives have managed to equate war protest with hatred for the troops comparing war protesters to maggot infested communist hippies or something.
It is all bullshit and easily debunked. Good luck getting a fucktard to listen to you though.
This is one of those stories that is ingrained so goddam deep into the Conservatard, it is part of their fucking DNA.
Let's not forget about what happened to Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
A group calling itself, “Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth” set out to destroy the liberal candidate's presidential bid.
They attacked his record as a combat hero, called his Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, and Silver Star medals phony and undeserved.
This organization, funded by hard line right-wingers and Republicans distorted, lied and smeared John Kerry's military record. It was one of the most shocking and despicable actions ever taken against a former member of the armed forces. And a highly decorated combat veteran at that. And the fucking right-wing bastards have the audacity to claim that it is the liberals that hate the military.
More information on this heinous Republican ploy can be found here: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth
George W. Bush refused to disavow the advertisements by these bastards, even when repeatedly asked to do so by other veterans including Senator John McCain.
And we know why the asshole Bush refused to separate himself from the ads. They worked. To this day people still believe that Bush is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War and Kerry is a lying coward.
Max Cleland, a Vietnam War hero, who left 3 limbs behind on a battlefield in Vietnam was smeared by an asshole by the name of Saxby Chambliss during the 2002 election for Senator of Georgia.
During the campaign, Chambliss ran ads juxtaposing Cleland's face with Saddam Hussein's. The right-wing attack ads put in question Cleland's patriotism and desire to protect the country from terrorists.
An article by the slimy cunt, Ann Coulter, circulated among the conservatives suggested that people quit referring to the Silver Star awarded vet as a “war hero”.
More here:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Max_Cleland
While I would never suggest that honest conservatives hate the military, it is factual that conservative pundits have absolutely no problem smearing the records and lives of military personnel that have a politically different ideology than that of their favorite candidates.
The silence among leading Republicans and Conservatives when these smears are going on is deafening.
Can anyone produce an equivalent smearing of the military from the left? I think not. The most they can come up with some silly ass hand-job making disparaging remarks then trying to tie all liberals to that.
Dishonest. Disgusting. Disturbing.
But don't look for anything to change to soon. It is in the millionaires and billionaires best interest to keep people believing these lies. War is profitable. Killing is business and business is fucking good.

The Moon is Made Out of Government Cheese

Not every thing has to make a profit, and not everything can make a profit. ~ Space Trucker
One of the biggest lines the Teabaggers and Republicans love to repeat ad nauseam is that government does not create jobs, small business does. American entrepreneurial superiority, less government spending... blah, blah, blah, fucking blah.
While I am not, nor will I ever be, an expert on economics or employment trends or any of that type of shit, I do think of myself as somewhat astute on what is happening within a 3 mile radius of my life.
I am sure that entrepreneurs do create jobs and it should be encouraged. How many jobs it actually creates, I have no idea.
What I have observed in my little circle, is that employment, economy, and the standard of living is pretty fucking good. Contrasted with the rest of the country, it may be one of the best places to live.
Guess why that is? That's right. Tons of fucking government money is pumped in this area due to the defense and aerospace industry here.
Just using good ol' horse sense here, it stands to reason that with all these government and government contractor jobs bouncing around that there will be spin off jobs like retail and service industry. Plus all other kinds.
Now I am fully aware that, while it is not practical to put a fucking NASA center or a Missile Defense base in every goddam place in the country, it does stand to reason that there could be other government programs that could spur economic growth.
Our infrastructure needs to be addressed sorely. Why not put regional centers scattered all over the fucking country that would employee federal and federal contractors with the objective of fixing roads, bridges, sewers, water mains, power lines, dams, ect.
Don't hand me that shit that private companies should do it either. There is no profit in building a goddam road so it HAS to be a public endeavor.
We spent a trillion motherfucking dollars on a goddam war that got us nowhere and didn't create one fucking job. We can afford to invest in our own country and employ people to do it too.
Not every thing has to make a profit, and not everything can make a profit.
We went to the moon on the government dime. We won WWII by government spending. We built our highway system on tax dollars. The south was put on the power grid through government programs.
All those things created jobs.
All those things are good.
Contrary to what that bastard Reagan said, Government is not your enemy. You are the government. We the people, not Me the people.
Wake up.

The 2 Year Journey From Hope to Hate

I think I may now know what LSD flashbacks are made of: Seeing an ugly old man with an orange face weeping, while telling a story of how, when he was a young man, he used to have to work in his daddys fucking bar.
As Boehner choked back his sobs, and I choked back bile, the superimposed graphic scroll of the election results showed the Dems getting their asses handed to them.
Evidently, all the hope America had a mere 12 months before has turned to hate.
Obama didn't twitch his fucking nose and make the bad shit go away fast enough.
This is what happens when you rely on the youth to help you carry an election.
They rushed out in droves to elect Obama, but when we needed them to keep the country from sliding back into the disastrous policies of yesteryear, they were either apathetic or pissed off.
Since the young fuckers weren't going to hang with us, I wished they had stayed at home during the primary. We may have gotten Hillary who, from experience, would know how to handle the Republican bastards.
Obama played mister nice and wanted to work with the Party of NO! and now the rabid dog has turned and bit the fucking shit out of the hand that was trying to pet it. Big fucking surprise there. Think that rabid ass dog will be easier to work with now that it is off its fucking leash?
I guess America gets what it deserves. Somehow, I was thinking we deserved better. I've been wrong before.
I still have hope.
I hope that Obama will finally grow some goddam balls and tell the Republicans to shove it up their fucking ass.
I hope that FINALLY, the Democratic leadership will learn if the American people have a choice between Republicans and Republican lite, they will choose the real one.
I hope that with power there will come some humbleness and reasonable attitude for the Repubs.
I can hope in one hand and shit in the other. I wonder which hand will fill up faster?
Of course all ain't lost. One bright thing about it is, many of the Dems that got the boot were fucking DINOs and if they were gonna be Democratic In Name Only, then they might as well have been fucking Republicans in the first goddam place.
The GOP managed to tie the conservative Democrats with Nancy Pelosi and made them sound like they were fucking commie homo lovers.
To be honest, I love to see the fucktards eat their own. And a social conservative Democrat is about as vile a thing there is.
Maybe in 2 years we can replace them with real Democrats.
We survived 12 years of Reagan/Bush and 8 horrible years of Baby Bush with 6 of those years enduring both Houses belonging to the Dumbass Party. So we can survive this too.
At least the comedians are happy. The jokes will once again start writing themselves on CSPAN.
How many of the comedy writers do you think secretly hoped that Christine O'Donnell would have won? I imagine that would fill the void left behind when “W” got off the stage.
Now let's set back and watch gridlock, witch hunts, legislation so outlandish that even Reagan would have to veto it and in 2 years, maybe we can give the Orange Man the Red Ass.

Why Do I Give a Shit?

Why do I give a shit? I've asked that of myself so fucking much since I have become politically active. Seriously. Why should I give a flying fuck?
I just had another round of arguing with a knuckle dragging moronic Teabagger.
He was crowing and strutting around about how glad he was that the “Real Americans” are going to take the country back today.
This stupid fuck, who is only a couple paychecks away from living in a goddam cardboard box, kept spouting out his dumbass bumper sticker slogans.
The idiot, who has a job that relies on funding from the government, blabbed on and fucking on about how government spending was out of control.
When I pointed out (for the millionth time) that his paycheck comes from the U.S. treasury, he accused me (for the millionth time) of being just a nigger loving bleeding heart liberal that was ashamed of being white, blah blah blah, fucking blah.
So why do I give a fuck? As of this writing it is 9:30 a.m. in the morning on November 2nd.
The media is still predicting a turn over of the government control to the dumbass party and thus would be a referendum on the failure of Obama and his policies.
So why should I even bother voting?
I mean, as a middle age white male most of the issues I have been fighting for would never affect me.
Abortion and womens rights. I, obviously, can never have a abortion. I have managed to live to my advanced age without knocking up a girl, so it is very very unlikely that abortion will ever touch me in my life. So why do I give a fuck about that? Women. Who the fuck can understand them anyway? So why the fuck do I continue to fight for womens rights?
Affirmative action and civil rights. As I said above. I am a white middle age man. Very unlikely that issue will ever have any effect on me personally. So why the fuck do I yell and scream in defense of it?
Global warming and the environment. I have no kids. I have already been alive longer than I have left to live. So why the fuck do I care if the goddam Republicans destroy the ecosystem? It is very unlikely that they will be able to completely render the entire planet uninhabitable in the next 4 decades. So I should be able to breath and drink water for most of my natural life span.
Space exploration and science. The fucktards have already crippled Americans scientific superiority so bad that we may never recover. Not in my life time anyway. It is now very unlikely that I will live long enough to see a manned Mars expedition. So why should I give a fuck if the Sarah Palins and the Christine O' Donnells take over the country? Stem cells? Bah. Fuck it.
First Amendment. Boy do the goddam Republican bastards hate the First Amendment! It does give me the right to rant and rave like I do on this blog. But do I really need to? I'm pretty sure I won't miss any meals if that is taken from me. I'm an atheist. I could give a fuck about religion and talking snakes. So why am I so goddam passionate about the First Amendment? If I had to, I could always pretend that I found Jesus. After all, I am an old southern white male. That shouldn't be hard to pull off... should it?
It must be so fucking easy being a Teabagging Republican.
So stupid. So bigoted. Hate is so fucking easy to embrace. Bumper stickers are so much easier to read and understand than actually researching for yourself.
Having Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh telling you how to think sure must save them lots of time. Believing Sarah Palin and her idiotic “Death Panels” nonsense must be fun.
What the fuck? It would be so much easier to be like those idiots. Why the fuck do I give a shit?
Perhaps there is something there.
I guess however, I will go vote straight Democratic Party anyway.
I just can't seem to shake my nigger loving, communistic, queer embracing, feminist supporting, tree hugging core values.
Wish me luck. If the fucktards sweep the mid-terms. It will be a long ass two years.
How is the best way to cut eye holes out of a bed sheet anyway?

Fuck You Mitch McConnell

Mitch “The Bitch” McConnell in a rare moment of honesty announced, "The single most important thing we want to achieve (if they win congress November 2nd) is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
No one should be surprised that this is the goal of the right-wing fuckers. I never believed for a moment that Republicans have ever had the nations best interest in mind and I'm just a stupid country boy from North Alabama. So how come these college educated politicians were fooled?
From the outset, the Republican cock suckers have only obstructed any thing that Obama has tried, or even hinted at, doing. If I'm wrong, post something in the comment section below proving that they worked with Obama and the Democrats on an issue of substance. Make me eat my words. I won't hold my breath.
If they manage to win back congress, look for non stop investigations, probable impeachment hearings, and lies and distortions that will make the witch hunt on the Clintons look like an afternoon in the park.
Hopefully this will be a wake up call for Obama to finally stop trying to work with these bastards.
What the fuck did he really think? That racist social conservatives can be reasoned with? He would have more luck reasoning with a goddam copperhead.
There is not one iota of redeeming quality in the current Republican Party. Their only agenda is to stay in office at any cost, give the treasury to the millionaires and billionaires, destroy the social safety net as we know it, wave the fucking confederate flag at Teabagger rallies, tell ni**er jokes behind closed doors and cornhole their pages.
Fuck you Mitch McConnell. It is people like you that makes me wish their really was a Hell. Fuck you and fuck your right-wing colleagues.
We got news for you, Fucker. We ain't gonna let you take the country back. We are gonna move it forward, even if it means dragging racist, obstructionist assholes like you kicking and screaming with it.

36 Things You'll Never Hear a Teabagger Say

1. "I'll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex"
2. "Duct tape won't fix that."
3. "Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken."
4. "We don't keep firearms in this house."
5. "You can't feed that to the dog."
6. "I thought Graceland was tacky."
7. "No kids in the back of the pick-up...it's not safe."
8. "Professional wresslin's fake."
9. "Honey, did you mail that donation to Greenpeace?"
10. "We're vegetarians."
11. "Do you think my hair is too big?"
12. "I'll have grapefruit instead of biscuits and gravy."
13. "Honey, these bonsai trees need watering."
14. "I don't understand the appeal of NASCAR."
15. "Give me the small bag of pork rinds."
16. "Deer heads detract from the decor."
17. "Spitting is such a nasty habit."
18. "I just couldn't find a thing at Wal-Mart today."
19. "Trim the fat off that steak."
20. "Cappuccino tastes better than espresso."
21. "The tires on that truck are too big."
22. "I'll have the arugula and radicchio salad."
23. "I've got it all on a USB stick."
24. "Unsweetened tea tastes better."
25. "Would you like your fish poached or broiled?"
26. "My fiancée is registered at Tiffany's."
27. "I've got two cases of Zima for the Super Bowl."
28. "She's too old to be wearing that bikini."
29. "Does the salad bar have bean sprouts?"
30. "Hey, here's an episode of Hee Haw that we haven't seen."
31. "I don't have a favorite college football team."
32. "Be sure to bring my salad dressing on the side."
33. "I believe you cooked those green beans too long."
34. "Those shorts ought to be a little longer, Darla."
35. "Elvis who?"
36. "Checkmate"