I’m a rebel, a maverick

Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Lean Cuisine instructions said to microwave at 50% power for four minutes, open and stir, then cook another two minutes, 30 seconds at 50%.

Like I have that kind of time.

Four minutes at 100% did the trick just fine. What's with their anal retentive cooking times?

Again with the constitutional scholars

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"Dr." Laura Schlesinger has quit her radio program, seemingly bewildered by all the brouhaha over the use of a little word that starts with "N."

“The reason is, I want to regain my First Amendment rights,” Schlessinger said. “I want to be able to say what’s on my mind…without somebody getting angry.”

Um, the first amendment doesn't say anything about being able to say what's on your mind without somebody getting angry. It just says you can say it. And guess what? Other people can say what they think about you as well.

Yet another right-winger that thinks that constitutional freedoms apply only to them, and not to people who disagree with her. Gosh, those conservatives have awfully thin skins.

Real Amuricans Hate Freedom

Monday, August 16, 2010

It's amazing, this ability of the right wing to wrap themselves in the flag while they denounce other Americans, while they tell their brainless, moronic followers who to hate and who to blame for their own lot in life.

They're going to make a lot of hay out of the President's remarks on a proposed mosque and Muslim community center in New York City blocks away from "ground zero" [a particularly interesting take on this is here] — especially the Tea Baggers, who constantly trumpet about the consitution, which few of them seem to have read and even fewer understand. Guess what, guys? Our President swore to protect, preserve and defend the constitution, and he is absolutely right. In fact, he was so right that I am sort of pissed off that he then backed off his comments because he didn't want to get embroiled in the controversy caused by so many stupid idiots. I wish he would say anything nearly as forceful about same-sex marriage or the rights of gay and lesbian citizens.

With the logic being displayed by the know-nothing bigots of this world, I'm sure they would be happy to ban all Catholic churches from within a 4-block radius of schools.

The rhetoric I have heard from the right over the last couple days is nothing short of astonishing, but not as astonishing as the fact that no one seems to be calling them on it. I mean, these people are actively claiming that fundmental rights do not exist. That there is no right to free speech, that there is no right to assembly, that there is no right to religion. Except, of course, for their own. This is a hallmark of the right wing, that everyone is equal... except people that aren't just like them.

When the Bush era finally began to stink like rotten fish and people started to come out of their bizarre snooze, I hoped that things would get better. Instead, the right has gotten more and more crazy, more insane, more totally bonkers. So bonkers that they had to spin off a crazy new group so that they could go even farther into the bizarro world they inhabit. No is yes! Land of the free! Except you and you and you! We love the constitution! Except for this part, let's rip that out, and while we're at it let's add some amendments to take rights away from people.

Power corrupts, and in the case of the right wing at this juncture in history, the quest for power corrupts absolutely.

People Who Can’t Hear Themselves Speak

Friday, August 13, 2010

This is an excerpt from an appeal filed by "Protect Marriage" against the Prop 8 ruling. Like their group's name, these people say things in ironic bizzaro-speak, and don't even bat an eye.

At any rate, the inference of anti-gay hostility drawn by the district court is manifestly false. It defames more than seven million California voters as homophobic, a cruelly ironic charge given that California has enacted some of the Nation’s most progressive and sweeping gay-rights protections, including creation of a parallel institution, domestic partnerships, affording same-sex couples all the benefits and obligations of marriage.

Is it just me, or did they just say that homosexuals should be happy because we have made a separate but equal system just for them? Or to put it more succintly, They have their own water fountain, what's their problem?

Another thing that bugs me is this insistence by the fundamentalist nutbags that same-sex couples get "all the benefits and obligations of marriage"... but not marriage.

So, it's not equal, is it?

Of course, you can keep breaking down their illogical arguments, and push it until they start saying "Why do the gays have to use the word marriage?" Seriously? Is that what they're getting worked up about? A word?!

Somehow I don't think so. But it certainly shows how flimsy their arguments are.

The Tyranny of Judge Walker

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Oh, that biased and tyrannical Judge Walker.

First, he denied a Prop 8 injunction that would have immediately allowed same-sex marriage to continue in California. He decided that the defenders of Proposition 8 should be heard. Biased!

Despite finding that Prop 8 was unconstitutional, Judge Walker put a stay on his decision, again blocking same-sex marriages in California so that the Prop 8 supporters could have another chance. Tyrannical!

Judge Walker, having heard from all sides — including the Republican governor and Democratic attorney general of California, ended the stay. But he then put a hold on that decision for a further week so that the opposition can be heard from yet again, once more keeping same-sex marriages from happening. Judicial activism!

Yes, this Judge is just another total left wing hippie, trampling all over the will of the people to force the homosexual agenda onto the moral, Christian people of California.