I was driving to Walgreens with my yorkiepoo's head stuck out the window enjoying life. It was really a clarifying moment in my life. Shadow, my yorkiepoo, was having a banging time just smelling the air and letting his ears flop in the wind. I on the other hand was contemplating quitting my job where I would earn around $300K per year. The money was big and lord knows we need it, but I was concerned that these simple but satisfying moments as I was enjoying with Shadow would be limited if not outright missed.
I am an Executive Analyst for one of the oldest companies in the US, which means I could be in Tampa, FL one day and Seattle the next. I have no problem travelling except when it cuts into my weekend and this will. Normal procedure is getting home late on Friday and leaving around 6:00 pm on Sunday night. The problem is I am custom made for this job--it is what I do best, but I have an 11 year old and a wife with rheumatoid arthritis. When I saw Shadow's ears flopping I realized my decision was made.
Shadow's ears were not what caused me to make a decision, but they were the catalyst to me realizing seeing my daughter's growth and development and being away from my wife. All my co-workers were divorced, in the process of getting divorced or single. What is the price of my soul? I don't know, if I could make $300K hanging around Houston I would do it in a heartbeat.
My family, and even that damn crapping machine, Shadow, are worth more then $300K. The common knowledge states that there is some point where on will sell one's soul to make the big bucks. Me, I am not sure, two to three weeks away from my family is not worth it. Is there a price probably, but until my child graduates from high school I need and will be around.
Will I ever make $300K --probably not, but I will be there to see her run track, play soccer, dance, read poetry. These are sacred things and as the Visa ad goes priceless. Pursuit of happiness is one of the bill of rights that I'm chasing. Frankly, my soul may be worth very little, especially if one believes in pre-ordination. So my "soul" function in life is to assure that my wife and daughter are happy. I also need to provide for them , which the $300K proved. However, those that were making that money were snorting it, had 3 girls on the side or just got caught by their wives and the 3 girlfriends.
No big shocker here, but there are some who would really give the family up for the cash, My hope is there are many more who would give up the Case for the quality life. I thank God for my life, wife, daughter and those floppy ears of Shadow. God does have a sense of humor, one must open your eyes and look for his signs. I will regret passing up the cash, but never think twice about it after watching her walking for her graduation. As Garth Wyndham-Price said last week while quoting an ancient but wise philosopher,"Never Mind the Bollocks". I would add to that Rock and Roll Will Never die, and finally, Might as Well Jump. Jefferson and Locke would be proud. In fact, I don't feel so bad for a guy that just lost $200k this year--For those about to rock I salute you!!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
Never Mind the Bollocks
Guest Opinion Blog by Garth Windham-Pryce of UK VU
It has been said when trying to figure out all things political one only need follow the money. Never mind that this statement is normally repeated by trite wankers that do not have a defence of what they posit. On a micro level money indicates some leanings by special interest and pundits. On a macro level however, it is much more complicated than a western capitalist coloured view of agenda motivations.
In China there is a thousand year plan for their purpose, following 1000 years of politically motivated yen distribution would be a serpentine if not impossible path to follow. The Mohammad Fascists are positioning themselves in the same manner. The flow of Saudi currency is quite confusing as they respectfully kiss the ring of the West while they stab it in the back with their fundamental Islamic groups.
More diabolical than the perennial list of nasties is the current amnesty that is being proposed in the States. This seemingly gracious proposal will help many hard-working, deserving, third-worlders grab a piece of the American dream. Is there really any losers--only the sovereignty of the American citizens. Being from the UK, their is some dark amusement in seeing the "Colonies" being sold down the river by their oligarchical political crown. The monarchical action of diluting citizenship for political expediency without the American citizens being represented is very similar to why the Revolutionary War was fought against Great Britain.
The American Revolution was fought for many things, but primarily the theme was freedom. Once could argue the Revolution was the peak and ultimate statement of the age of Enlightenment. Lockeian/Jeffersonian rationalism was essentially civil anarchy. Natural Law endows all humans with rights that no crown, government or religious movement can deny--although it has been tried for 6000 years. Thus civil anarchy is essentially one protecting ones rights while respecting the rights of all others.
Anarchy conjures visions of the Anti-Christ and pink haired punks with safety pins through their cheeks. Yet, if one looks at the western frontier of the Colonies in the 1700's there was essentially a cooperative anarchy. Not such a bad thing. With an overriding acceptance of Natural Law directing the civil anarchy--little government was needed for survival. This is definitely
Unknowingly, the American Congress has just validated civil anarchy by caving to those who disregarded the sovereignty of the United States. Thus, even traditional anarchy just proved it has power over the congress of America. Rush the border, ignore the host country's rule of law and the legislators cave to the anarchical movement.
As a journalist, I never thought I would be writing a piece that contained Locke, Jefferson and Johnny Rotten as like-minded philosophical theorists, but it seems the United States may be moving to the laissez fair/civil anarchy of said philosophers.If borders and the rule of law no longer have primacy in America it is defenceable to say that the American government is no longer needed, each man for himself--and if things get bad we will rush Canada's border. 1)'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.'; 2)'Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist'; 3)'Never Mind the Bollocks'... All philosophies to live by.
It has been said when trying to figure out all things political one only need follow the money. Never mind that this statement is normally repeated by trite wankers that do not have a defence of what they posit. On a micro level money indicates some leanings by special interest and pundits. On a macro level however, it is much more complicated than a western capitalist coloured view of agenda motivations.
In China there is a thousand year plan for their purpose, following 1000 years of politically motivated yen distribution would be a serpentine if not impossible path to follow. The Mohammad Fascists are positioning themselves in the same manner. The flow of Saudi currency is quite confusing as they respectfully kiss the ring of the West while they stab it in the back with their fundamental Islamic groups.
More diabolical than the perennial list of nasties is the current amnesty that is being proposed in the States. This seemingly gracious proposal will help many hard-working, deserving, third-worlders grab a piece of the American dream. Is there really any losers--only the sovereignty of the American citizens. Being from the UK, their is some dark amusement in seeing the "Colonies" being sold down the river by their oligarchical political crown. The monarchical action of diluting citizenship for political expediency without the American citizens being represented is very similar to why the Revolutionary War was fought against Great Britain.
The American Revolution was fought for many things, but primarily the theme was freedom. Once could argue the Revolution was the peak and ultimate statement of the age of Enlightenment. Lockeian/Jeffersonian rationalism was essentially civil anarchy. Natural Law endows all humans with rights that no crown, government or religious movement can deny--although it has been tried for 6000 years. Thus civil anarchy is essentially one protecting ones rights while respecting the rights of all others.
Anarchy conjures visions of the Anti-Christ and pink haired punks with safety pins through their cheeks. Yet, if one looks at the western frontier of the Colonies in the 1700's there was essentially a cooperative anarchy. Not such a bad thing. With an overriding acceptance of Natural Law directing the civil anarchy--little government was needed for survival. This is definitely
Unknowingly, the American Congress has just validated civil anarchy by caving to those who disregarded the sovereignty of the United States. Thus, even traditional anarchy just proved it has power over the congress of America. Rush the border, ignore the host country's rule of law and the legislators cave to the anarchical movement.
As a journalist, I never thought I would be writing a piece that contained Locke, Jefferson and Johnny Rotten as like-minded philosophical theorists, but it seems the United States may be moving to the laissez fair/civil anarchy of said philosophers.If borders and the rule of law no longer have primacy in America it is defenceable to say that the American government is no longer needed, each man for himself--and if things get bad we will rush Canada's border. 1)'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.'; 2)'Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist'; 3)'Never Mind the Bollocks'... All philosophies to live by.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Political Journey
Changing your views as you change through life is normal. Politics is an area where people seem to migrate for most of their life. The accepted school of thought is you start out very liberal and become more conservative as you age. I think the baby-boomers are the model for this school of thought since I am from the lost generation “Gen X”—I was different.
I started being aware of the political process during Watergate. I did not understand much except our President and many other politicians were crooks. It did not take long for Jimmy Carter to become President and I became a student of politics and economics. The classic “Liberalism” of Thomas Jefferson was what I believed in politically and economically. Much of Jefferson’s views were being the Republicans and Libertarians. At age 16 I was a Republican. This was kept to me as it turned off most girls and at 16 girls were much more important than which ideology should lead the free world.
Eventually, as Carter’s Presidency started its’ circular ride on the Toilet of Bad Presidents, many became more vocal about our free market attitudes and Classic Liberal theories. Surprisingly, many called us fascists, because we were “right wing”. The Nazis were fascists and were so right wing they greatly resembled communism. While we were promoting less government in our lives, less taxation, and more personal freedom to choose how we run our lives. My rights stop your nose or property—that was the gist of my beliefs.
When Ronald Reagan was elected it affirmed that my beliefs were correct. The Iranian hostages were released, the economy turned around, inflation faded while taxes were reduced. The military was overhauled and equipped. Eventually, the Berlin Wall fell and the air escaped the Iron Curtain communism was dead—in Eastern Europe.
Now as a middle-aged Gen Xer, I’m still a Classic Liberal and am worried a dieing breed. The Republicans are left of the Democrats of the 1960’s. The Democrats are—well, just a mess. They are very social leaning but are trying to use the War in Iraq as the new Viet Nam. The end result of all this is our own social freedoms and people who try to protect our social freedoms are now under attack. Houston Police are ordered not to bring in Illegals if they are involved in a wreck. Border Patrol agents are being imprisoned because of testimony from Mexican drug lords. Cameras are being set up everywhere to protect us from the “terrorists”. Sovereignty seems to be an issue that few are ready to deal with—will we remain the United States of America?
I don’t think I have really journeyed that much in the last thirty years, but I know the politicians have. Would a Democratically controlled Congress pass the tax cut that JFK signed? Hell would a Republican controlled Congress sign it? We are currently living in an oligarchy of political parties that seem to have their own survival as their primary goal. It is still representative and we can still vote them out but the alternative, in most cases, is less desirable. Kudos to Joe Lieberman for hanging in there. A party of Liebermans could do a lot for this country. Screw the party system—it’s time for Democratic Anarchy.
I started being aware of the political process during Watergate. I did not understand much except our President and many other politicians were crooks. It did not take long for Jimmy Carter to become President and I became a student of politics and economics. The classic “Liberalism” of Thomas Jefferson was what I believed in politically and economically. Much of Jefferson’s views were being the Republicans and Libertarians. At age 16 I was a Republican. This was kept to me as it turned off most girls and at 16 girls were much more important than which ideology should lead the free world.
Eventually, as Carter’s Presidency started its’ circular ride on the Toilet of Bad Presidents, many became more vocal about our free market attitudes and Classic Liberal theories. Surprisingly, many called us fascists, because we were “right wing”. The Nazis were fascists and were so right wing they greatly resembled communism. While we were promoting less government in our lives, less taxation, and more personal freedom to choose how we run our lives. My rights stop your nose or property—that was the gist of my beliefs.
When Ronald Reagan was elected it affirmed that my beliefs were correct. The Iranian hostages were released, the economy turned around, inflation faded while taxes were reduced. The military was overhauled and equipped. Eventually, the Berlin Wall fell and the air escaped the Iron Curtain communism was dead—in Eastern Europe.
Now as a middle-aged Gen Xer, I’m still a Classic Liberal and am worried a dieing breed. The Republicans are left of the Democrats of the 1960’s. The Democrats are—well, just a mess. They are very social leaning but are trying to use the War in Iraq as the new Viet Nam. The end result of all this is our own social freedoms and people who try to protect our social freedoms are now under attack. Houston Police are ordered not to bring in Illegals if they are involved in a wreck. Border Patrol agents are being imprisoned because of testimony from Mexican drug lords. Cameras are being set up everywhere to protect us from the “terrorists”. Sovereignty seems to be an issue that few are ready to deal with—will we remain the United States of America?
I don’t think I have really journeyed that much in the last thirty years, but I know the politicians have. Would a Democratically controlled Congress pass the tax cut that JFK signed? Hell would a Republican controlled Congress sign it? We are currently living in an oligarchy of political parties that seem to have their own survival as their primary goal. It is still representative and we can still vote them out but the alternative, in most cases, is less desirable. Kudos to Joe Lieberman for hanging in there. A party of Liebermans could do a lot for this country. Screw the party system—it’s time for Democratic Anarchy.
Monday, April 23, 2007
The View from the Dark
I really had a hard time choosing sides over the Rosie vs. the Trump fight. Rosie with the over sized Mongolian head; Trump with the cotton candy comb over-- oh how to choose. Their TV shows had little to do with how much respect I had for them, both suck on a universal and god-like scale. I especially disliked The View, no matter who was on it, because it was a bunch of self-important, yapping, biotches that rarely made a semi-literate point that would assist a mentally challenged prison bitch in life scoping skills.
Rosie's addition to the show did little to make me hate The View more, it did make me disrespect Barbara Walters a bit more. It did reinforce that Rosie's intelligence was the quotient of her mouth size divided by her head size. For the students that were raised with New Math this means that Rosie is ate up with the dumb-ass, ( and sadly, unlike Anna Nicole, is extremely punishing on the ocular ooglers). Rosie's continued running of her mouth spewed forth ignorance like Chris Farley's ass on a steady diet of pickled eggs and rotting malt ale. Rosie's ignorance was only exceeded by her consistent spewing of said ignorance.
Last week's tragedy at Virginia Tech was in some respects not as sad as the rants made by Rosie O'Donell and the released Alec Baldwin rant. The saddest part of Rosie's rant is the disrespect of humanity. Her stance on late term abortion is an insidious soul-killer. Any parent that has scene the internal pictures of a four month fetus knows it is a living human. Rosie, because of her life choices, will never be able to feel the fetus grow and mature in her "body". To her, children are commodities to be acquired at one's own convenience. Thus sucking the brains out of an 8 month old fetus is OK if it is convenient for the mother.
Early term abortions are probably as sinful as late term, but late terms kill babies that could survive outside the womb at the time they are murdered. Medical procedures do not negate murder. After Alec Baldwin's hate spewing diatribe to his 11 year old child would he be free of guilt if he performed an 11 year old late term abortion on his "ignorant pig of a child"? Obviously not, a viable human whom is terminated is murdered--medical or likewise.
These arguments have been hashed over for decades, but the most disturbing portion of the whole Rosie episode is her obvious lack of the understanding of the separation of church and state and her prejudicial discrimination of certain peoples of faith. Rosie's reasoning for the Supreme Court's ruling on Late Term Abortion, was the court's religious make up. She did not believe that it was valid that the court made a ruling on this issue while five of the Justices are Catholics.
Separation of church and state is the restricting of a state mandating a specific religion. The English told the Pope to piss off so they would not be under the Catholic heel. The Catholic heel was replaced by the Anglican heel in England. Then many, mostly the Plymouth Brethren told them all to piss off and moved to America so they could worship in the manner they wanted. Many of the forming fathers were Deists rather than Christians so they understood and desired independent worship that no governing body could regulate. That is THE separation of church and state.
So five Justices that made a decision on a ruling that happened to be of the same faith is NOT state and church united. It should be said that since they happened to have faith they may have believed in a soul and decided late term abortions would kill those souls. It does not matter if this is the case, because most of the world believes in a soul. So Rosie's delusion of a Catholic conspiracy to hijack the pro-abortion cause is the same excrement her discrimination of Catholics is made of. Is Rosie anti-Catholic? No she is pro-death, when it is convenient and fits her elitist "theology".
The Virginia Tech mess is decidedly more tragic, but it is demonstrably sadder that small minded people like Rosie and Alec Baldwin are seriously listened to concerning things they have no knowledge or expertise about. I can have an organization corrected and moving in the right direction in six months, but do not feel I have the right to do stand-up in front of 500 people or make sweet, clean love with Kim Basinger. I am damn sure I could do both, but would suck in at least one of the tasks.
Fame does not give one the right to pontificate in self absorbed righteousness, it just gives one the right to pontificate. Now here is my version of Rosie's post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning. Alec and Rosie are both noted liberals. It seems that in their cases they are full of hate and want to kill the innocent, undesired or inconvenient. Therefore, there is something about Liberals that does not allow them compassion, but seems to infuse them with unreasonable, vicious, barbarism. Probably not a proper conclusion--in general.
If a soul reads this I'm sure I will quickly be labeled a born-again right winger. I'm a Deist in the universal sense and a free market anarchist--I'm not sure which is my political belief or my religion and they may be the same, but the point is we are individual souls that cannot be lumped together because of one set of beliefs. I wonder if Rosie was an admirer of JFK? Would have been damn hard for him to become president with world full of hers.
As a post script, why is there ever a need for abortions--at least late term abortions? As we were taught in the 1980's the all powerful condom would stop these issues. Why have they forsaken the Trojan Christ?
Rosie's addition to the show did little to make me hate The View more, it did make me disrespect Barbara Walters a bit more. It did reinforce that Rosie's intelligence was the quotient of her mouth size divided by her head size. For the students that were raised with New Math this means that Rosie is ate up with the dumb-ass, ( and sadly, unlike Anna Nicole, is extremely punishing on the ocular ooglers). Rosie's continued running of her mouth spewed forth ignorance like Chris Farley's ass on a steady diet of pickled eggs and rotting malt ale. Rosie's ignorance was only exceeded by her consistent spewing of said ignorance.
Last week's tragedy at Virginia Tech was in some respects not as sad as the rants made by Rosie O'Donell and the released Alec Baldwin rant. The saddest part of Rosie's rant is the disrespect of humanity. Her stance on late term abortion is an insidious soul-killer. Any parent that has scene the internal pictures of a four month fetus knows it is a living human. Rosie, because of her life choices, will never be able to feel the fetus grow and mature in her "body". To her, children are commodities to be acquired at one's own convenience. Thus sucking the brains out of an 8 month old fetus is OK if it is convenient for the mother.
Early term abortions are probably as sinful as late term, but late terms kill babies that could survive outside the womb at the time they are murdered. Medical procedures do not negate murder. After Alec Baldwin's hate spewing diatribe to his 11 year old child would he be free of guilt if he performed an 11 year old late term abortion on his "ignorant pig of a child"? Obviously not, a viable human whom is terminated is murdered--medical or likewise.
These arguments have been hashed over for decades, but the most disturbing portion of the whole Rosie episode is her obvious lack of the understanding of the separation of church and state and her prejudicial discrimination of certain peoples of faith. Rosie's reasoning for the Supreme Court's ruling on Late Term Abortion, was the court's religious make up. She did not believe that it was valid that the court made a ruling on this issue while five of the Justices are Catholics.
Separation of church and state is the restricting of a state mandating a specific religion. The English told the Pope to piss off so they would not be under the Catholic heel. The Catholic heel was replaced by the Anglican heel in England. Then many, mostly the Plymouth Brethren told them all to piss off and moved to America so they could worship in the manner they wanted. Many of the forming fathers were Deists rather than Christians so they understood and desired independent worship that no governing body could regulate. That is THE separation of church and state.
So five Justices that made a decision on a ruling that happened to be of the same faith is NOT state and church united. It should be said that since they happened to have faith they may have believed in a soul and decided late term abortions would kill those souls. It does not matter if this is the case, because most of the world believes in a soul. So Rosie's delusion of a Catholic conspiracy to hijack the pro-abortion cause is the same excrement her discrimination of Catholics is made of. Is Rosie anti-Catholic? No she is pro-death, when it is convenient and fits her elitist "theology".
The Virginia Tech mess is decidedly more tragic, but it is demonstrably sadder that small minded people like Rosie and Alec Baldwin are seriously listened to concerning things they have no knowledge or expertise about. I can have an organization corrected and moving in the right direction in six months, but do not feel I have the right to do stand-up in front of 500 people or make sweet, clean love with Kim Basinger. I am damn sure I could do both, but would suck in at least one of the tasks.
Fame does not give one the right to pontificate in self absorbed righteousness, it just gives one the right to pontificate. Now here is my version of Rosie's post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning. Alec and Rosie are both noted liberals. It seems that in their cases they are full of hate and want to kill the innocent, undesired or inconvenient. Therefore, there is something about Liberals that does not allow them compassion, but seems to infuse them with unreasonable, vicious, barbarism. Probably not a proper conclusion--in general.
If a soul reads this I'm sure I will quickly be labeled a born-again right winger. I'm a Deist in the universal sense and a free market anarchist--I'm not sure which is my political belief or my religion and they may be the same, but the point is we are individual souls that cannot be lumped together because of one set of beliefs. I wonder if Rosie was an admirer of JFK? Would have been damn hard for him to become president with world full of hers.
As a post script, why is there ever a need for abortions--at least late term abortions? As we were taught in the 1980's the all powerful condom would stop these issues. Why have they forsaken the Trojan Christ?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Why God Let It Happen
Just as many bloggers discussed the tragedy of the Virginia Tech massacre. I'm sure many are now querying why God would let something like this happen. This is a question that is asked every time some tragedy occurs.
What I am having a problem with is the the trinity of the God head. Jehovah is pretty much a vindictive and jealous god the commandment his tribe not to commit murder, yet a few chapters later he commanded the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites. Jehovah God ostensibly is the creator God that brought the earth into existence, but was a bit of a bastard according to the Old Testament. So could it be that Jehovah God let this tragedy happen to whip into shape the Christians into obedience. If they do not obey his commandments retribution and punishment will be wrought upon some innocence to teach the remaining Christians a lessons.
Then there is Jesus the Son of Jehovah God whose New Testament was in polar opposite of God the Father. Jesus was about sacrifice and forgiveness. Is there some connection between God the Father's massacre and the concept of Jesus' sacrifice? It seems in polar opposites of what the testaments and messages meant, but perhaps there is some celestial meaning behind all this.
I'm really having trouble with trinitarianism, especially when it comes to the Holy Ghost. If it was God the Fathers plan to coordinate with Jesus to teach mankind a lesson of sacrifice and obedience was it the Holy Ghost the put into the mind of the assassin to execute the massacre. If this was a plan of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Ghost perhaps there was some lesson behind all this. But if this is the case what a harsh lesson to be taught.
Somebody, please enlighten me on trinitariansim. I know the Pentecost was the first occurrence of the Holy Ghost, but it seems to me there are three separate entities and perhaps they all have different agendas. Is Christianity really a monotheistic religion?
Bless the students at Virginia Tech, be it God, Gabrielle or Raphael.
What I am having a problem with is the the trinity of the God head. Jehovah is pretty much a vindictive and jealous god the commandment his tribe not to commit murder, yet a few chapters later he commanded the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites. Jehovah God ostensibly is the creator God that brought the earth into existence, but was a bit of a bastard according to the Old Testament. So could it be that Jehovah God let this tragedy happen to whip into shape the Christians into obedience. If they do not obey his commandments retribution and punishment will be wrought upon some innocence to teach the remaining Christians a lessons.
Then there is Jesus the Son of Jehovah God whose New Testament was in polar opposite of God the Father. Jesus was about sacrifice and forgiveness. Is there some connection between God the Father's massacre and the concept of Jesus' sacrifice? It seems in polar opposites of what the testaments and messages meant, but perhaps there is some celestial meaning behind all this.
I'm really having trouble with trinitarianism, especially when it comes to the Holy Ghost. If it was God the Fathers plan to coordinate with Jesus to teach mankind a lesson of sacrifice and obedience was it the Holy Ghost the put into the mind of the assassin to execute the massacre. If this was a plan of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Ghost perhaps there was some lesson behind all this. But if this is the case what a harsh lesson to be taught.
Somebody, please enlighten me on trinitariansim. I know the Pentecost was the first occurrence of the Holy Ghost, but it seems to me there are three separate entities and perhaps they all have different agendas. Is Christianity really a monotheistic religion?
Bless the students at Virginia Tech, be it God, Gabrielle or Raphael.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Trite Virginia Tech Blog
It would be a good bet that the majority of blogs in the last couple days commented on the Virginia Tech tragedy. And well they should it was a needless loss of life and an occurrence that is happening with greater frequency. The knee jerk talking heads immediately pontificate on the need for more and better gun control. The dichotomy of the talking heads is that the majority of the single gunmen that unleashed the holocaust on the students in the various Universities where the shootings took place is that the perpetrators were foreign students or immigrants that were not able to purchase firearms.
Great Britain which has one of the strictest gun controls laws in the world has a double digit increase in firearm crimes. Gun control does not control those that have the insidious impulses to destroy their fellow brothers and sisters. Rather, it refuses the right of the law abiding citizens to own a fire arm--which by the way is protected by the now withering Constitution of the Unites States.
Educated, informed and well armed citizens could decrease the impact of these tragedies. Ironically, the talking heads that are in favor of gun control have body guards that are well armed with semi-automatic and/or high caliber fire arms. This is not about hunting this is about the protection of the citizens from terrorists and yes in extreme cases out of control government.
As a post script of this tragedy a similar occurrence took place in a college in the Appalachians. The terrorist started shooting wildly at any and all students that were in his sight. Two students went to their pickup trucks retrieved their shotguns and blew away the crazed shooter. Total death count three--still sad and a tragedy, but what would have happened if the brave students did not take the initiative to take down the crazed gunmen--perhaps another Virgina Tech tragedy. It is trite, but gun control is a steady hand with a kill shot to the heart.
Peace Out and shoot straight
Great Britain which has one of the strictest gun controls laws in the world has a double digit increase in firearm crimes. Gun control does not control those that have the insidious impulses to destroy their fellow brothers and sisters. Rather, it refuses the right of the law abiding citizens to own a fire arm--which by the way is protected by the now withering Constitution of the Unites States.
Educated, informed and well armed citizens could decrease the impact of these tragedies. Ironically, the talking heads that are in favor of gun control have body guards that are well armed with semi-automatic and/or high caliber fire arms. This is not about hunting this is about the protection of the citizens from terrorists and yes in extreme cases out of control government.
As a post script of this tragedy a similar occurrence took place in a college in the Appalachians. The terrorist started shooting wildly at any and all students that were in his sight. Two students went to their pickup trucks retrieved their shotguns and blew away the crazed shooter. Total death count three--still sad and a tragedy, but what would have happened if the brave students did not take the initiative to take down the crazed gunmen--perhaps another Virgina Tech tragedy. It is trite, but gun control is a steady hand with a kill shot to the heart.
Peace Out and shoot straight
Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Freedom to Edit Speech Revolution
It started years ago, mainly on college campuses. It was known as "politically correct" speech. Certain forms of speech were discouraged not because they were vulgar, but because they may insult some form of a minority group. These groups may not be racial or religious, or transgender or transvestite or transpecies. If a man was was trapped in a ladies body, or outfit, or soul of a horse--any type of lanquage that would be disparaging to these "protected" group could lead to severe ramifications to those that made the disparaging remarks.
A good example of how politically correct speech can be confusing is the case of how we described the Americans from African descent. Originally, in polite circles the term Negro was used, a derivation of the Spanish word for black. In least polite circles a bastardization of that word was used and was meant as an insult. Another term that was used around the same time was colored--I don't think that was as insulting as the "N" word but I imagine it became disliked in the South as there were many signs posted that said " No coloreds served".
Then in the 1960's Afro-American became the name that was in vogue for sometime. Concurrently, Black was a title that many were OK with. Then in the 1980's African-American became the title of choice among the black folk, but at about the same time it was becoming acceptable for blacks to call other blacks "niggahs". It was definitely not acceptable for any non-black to use the "niggah" term. However, it did become acceptable for everybody to call Americans of African descent blacks, again. Could it be that soon it will be acceptable to use the Spanish pronounciation of black? While it is spelled Negro, it is pronounced Naygrro. As one can see it is hard work staying politically correct and this example is for only one racial group.
Some other examples of PC changes are illegal immigrants are now undocumented workers. Short people are vertically challenged and bald people are folically challenged. It seems the worth in using PC terms is not to insult groups and their members. In the case of the African Americans there should be some sensitivity as they had to put up with centuries of crap and the "N" word was a vestige that abuse and crap. But can we now settle on an agreeable term to speak of your community.
Now the remainders of these "protected" groups should be ashamed of trying to equate their "struggle" with that of the Black community. Yeah, it is tough being a short person but as long one does not misuse the term midget, dwarf or munchkin; nor bowl said small person against his or her will things should be OK. Also, as a member of the folically challenged, I have heard it all and chrome domes get over it--especially those with the comb-overs.
Now, in the case of the transgender, transvestites, trans-species and transvampirical-crack whores; let's work a tiny bit more on getting our lives together and then we can concern ourselves with being insulted by possible insults or slangs, (is it possible to insult these groups?). After all, if a person, especially a high profile celebrity, all one must do is go to rehab and all is forgiven.
That is what is refreshing about the Don Imus situation. In the Ann Coulter case she was using a joke to kid John Edwards. Isaia Washington may have used the perjorative term for homosexuals in angry outburst but one did not get the impression that these terms were used in hateful attitudes. Imus on the other hand has exuded hate for many years--just ask Howard Stern. Calling the Cornell female basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed ho's", exemplifies racism and hatred. However, Imus has the right to be a racist and hater just as his employers have the right to suspend or fire him. Likewise, the sponsors have the right to pull their add time from the Imus program.
What is refreshing about this case is Imus did not really cave into some hypersensitive poverty pimp. He is feeling the retribution for his stupid and needless comments. True Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton were involved in this case but much of that is because of the nappy headed insult Imus used. He deserves the crticism and sanctions he is receiving.
There were cases earlier in this year that tried the same tact for the sole purpose of political ruin. Additionally, in the case of Coulter and Washington they are members of so called protected groups--females and African Americans respectively. However, in the case of Coulter even though her comment was made in jest and she is a female trying to crash the glass ceiling, more importantly she is conservative and that negates any protected status other females would enjoy. Nonetheless, while Coulter's comment may have been considered mean-spirited by some in the media, it was not uttered in hate. I wish the same could be said for Imus.
Imus had no political motivation to utter his perjoratives and worse of all after stating that the black members of the team were nappy headed he threw in the stereotype that they were "ho's". It's a good thing Imus has that ranch for the kids with cancer out in New Mexico, otherwise he would have the karma of Stalin. Come to think of it wasn't there some heat about how he set up his tax exempt status on the ranch?
For many years I thought Imus was a cynical, but intelligent talk radio show host that used his crotchety persona as an act for his radio program. However, the recent occurrences reveal that not only is Imus a crotchety arse, but a self-centered wanker that should be off the air. If there are any sponsors left on his show please boycott the products. A much easier boycott would be not to watch MSNBC, when was the last time you watched it on purpose.
The trend towards forcing celebrities and the laymen to speak only in certain terms with certain language is appalling, but using the public airways to spew misogynist racial hatred to innocent young female student athletes is sub human. Even a turkey necked, ancient relic, that reeks of cow shit and mothballs, whose brains is pickled by the copious amounts of illicit drugs and alcohol that were consumed in the 1970's should know better. Know better, yeah know better, yeah no better, no better-- he is no better than Klansmen that perpetuate this type excrement. Raise the bar Imus, although you probably can't get your fake hip over the bar.
I am for free speech, but Imus is quickly moving into mean spirited Alzheimer inspired drivel. Quack! Quack!
A good example of how politically correct speech can be confusing is the case of how we described the Americans from African descent. Originally, in polite circles the term Negro was used, a derivation of the Spanish word for black. In least polite circles a bastardization of that word was used and was meant as an insult. Another term that was used around the same time was colored--I don't think that was as insulting as the "N" word but I imagine it became disliked in the South as there were many signs posted that said " No coloreds served".
Then in the 1960's Afro-American became the name that was in vogue for sometime. Concurrently, Black was a title that many were OK with. Then in the 1980's African-American became the title of choice among the black folk, but at about the same time it was becoming acceptable for blacks to call other blacks "niggahs". It was definitely not acceptable for any non-black to use the "niggah" term. However, it did become acceptable for everybody to call Americans of African descent blacks, again. Could it be that soon it will be acceptable to use the Spanish pronounciation of black? While it is spelled Negro, it is pronounced Naygrro. As one can see it is hard work staying politically correct and this example is for only one racial group.
Some other examples of PC changes are illegal immigrants are now undocumented workers. Short people are vertically challenged and bald people are folically challenged. It seems the worth in using PC terms is not to insult groups and their members. In the case of the African Americans there should be some sensitivity as they had to put up with centuries of crap and the "N" word was a vestige that abuse and crap. But can we now settle on an agreeable term to speak of your community.
Now the remainders of these "protected" groups should be ashamed of trying to equate their "struggle" with that of the Black community. Yeah, it is tough being a short person but as long one does not misuse the term midget, dwarf or munchkin; nor bowl said small person against his or her will things should be OK. Also, as a member of the folically challenged, I have heard it all and chrome domes get over it--especially those with the comb-overs.
Now, in the case of the transgender, transvestites, trans-species and transvampirical-crack whores; let's work a tiny bit more on getting our lives together and then we can concern ourselves with being insulted by possible insults or slangs, (is it possible to insult these groups?). After all, if a person, especially a high profile celebrity, all one must do is go to rehab and all is forgiven.
That is what is refreshing about the Don Imus situation. In the Ann Coulter case she was using a joke to kid John Edwards. Isaia Washington may have used the perjorative term for homosexuals in angry outburst but one did not get the impression that these terms were used in hateful attitudes. Imus on the other hand has exuded hate for many years--just ask Howard Stern. Calling the Cornell female basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed ho's", exemplifies racism and hatred. However, Imus has the right to be a racist and hater just as his employers have the right to suspend or fire him. Likewise, the sponsors have the right to pull their add time from the Imus program.
What is refreshing about this case is Imus did not really cave into some hypersensitive poverty pimp. He is feeling the retribution for his stupid and needless comments. True Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton were involved in this case but much of that is because of the nappy headed insult Imus used. He deserves the crticism and sanctions he is receiving.
There were cases earlier in this year that tried the same tact for the sole purpose of political ruin. Additionally, in the case of Coulter and Washington they are members of so called protected groups--females and African Americans respectively. However, in the case of Coulter even though her comment was made in jest and she is a female trying to crash the glass ceiling, more importantly she is conservative and that negates any protected status other females would enjoy. Nonetheless, while Coulter's comment may have been considered mean-spirited by some in the media, it was not uttered in hate. I wish the same could be said for Imus.
Imus had no political motivation to utter his perjoratives and worse of all after stating that the black members of the team were nappy headed he threw in the stereotype that they were "ho's". It's a good thing Imus has that ranch for the kids with cancer out in New Mexico, otherwise he would have the karma of Stalin. Come to think of it wasn't there some heat about how he set up his tax exempt status on the ranch?
For many years I thought Imus was a cynical, but intelligent talk radio show host that used his crotchety persona as an act for his radio program. However, the recent occurrences reveal that not only is Imus a crotchety arse, but a self-centered wanker that should be off the air. If there are any sponsors left on his show please boycott the products. A much easier boycott would be not to watch MSNBC, when was the last time you watched it on purpose.
The trend towards forcing celebrities and the laymen to speak only in certain terms with certain language is appalling, but using the public airways to spew misogynist racial hatred to innocent young female student athletes is sub human. Even a turkey necked, ancient relic, that reeks of cow shit and mothballs, whose brains is pickled by the copious amounts of illicit drugs and alcohol that were consumed in the 1970's should know better. Know better, yeah know better, yeah no better, no better-- he is no better than Klansmen that perpetuate this type excrement. Raise the bar Imus, although you probably can't get your fake hip over the bar.
I am for free speech, but Imus is quickly moving into mean spirited Alzheimer inspired drivel. Quack! Quack!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Imus Conundrum: Sacking, Rehab or Execution
Once again a white man has uttered words that have insulted or demeaned a group of people. Drastic actions must be taken to correct this crime against humanity. In this particular case, radio personality, Don Imus called the Lady Rutgers basketball team a bunch of of " nappy headed ho's". In the quick bit of research I was able to perform many of the Rutger players were indeed nappy headed, but in a quick straw poll of the girls not one teammate agreed to a monetary transaction for sex. Clearly, the Rutgers girls were nappy headed, but it is doubtful they were ho's (the possibility does exist that the wobbly turkey neck and the scent of embalming fluid that precedes Imus, may have greatly discouraged any possible "ho's" from accepting his offer).
In the previous weeks there have been cases where people have called other people gay or homosexual, and even though the assertions were correct the "offending" party entered rehab to cure themselves from the intoxicating feeling of calling a spade a spade--- and I mean spade as in the suit of cards. I cannot afford a thirty day stint in rehab. But in the Imus case, the Rutger's players may have been nappy headed but there is no proof the were ho's. Thirty days of rehab is simply not enough. CBS and MSNBC are discussing a two week suspension, but I think clearer heads will prevail and Don Imus will be put to death preferably by firing squad.
While many will argue that Imus has sponsored the program for children with cancer on his ranch, bringing joy to the last days of terminally ill kids or in some cases helping others go into remission, these self aggrandizing gestures cannot camouflage the underlying attitudes of disdain for ho's. Similarly, since these comments were heard nationwide and live on the radio I think it is safe to forgo the trial and move on to the execution faze.
Thirty days of rehabilitation effectively removes the disdain and guilt of homophobia when offendors call actual gays homos. But, in this case, I think it is highly appropriate to immediately dispose of Don Imus. For those that are a bit squeamish about execution we could also give a frontal lobotomy and remove his vocal chords to effectively squash this hideous menace to society.
If the above actions are not taken within the next two weeks we will all meet at Rockefeller Center and complete the citizen judicial action. God and Joan Baez would want it this ways.
In the previous weeks there have been cases where people have called other people gay or homosexual, and even though the assertions were correct the "offending" party entered rehab to cure themselves from the intoxicating feeling of calling a spade a spade--- and I mean spade as in the suit of cards. I cannot afford a thirty day stint in rehab. But in the Imus case, the Rutger's players may have been nappy headed but there is no proof the were ho's. Thirty days of rehab is simply not enough. CBS and MSNBC are discussing a two week suspension, but I think clearer heads will prevail and Don Imus will be put to death preferably by firing squad.
While many will argue that Imus has sponsored the program for children with cancer on his ranch, bringing joy to the last days of terminally ill kids or in some cases helping others go into remission, these self aggrandizing gestures cannot camouflage the underlying attitudes of disdain for ho's. Similarly, since these comments were heard nationwide and live on the radio I think it is safe to forgo the trial and move on to the execution faze.
Thirty days of rehabilitation effectively removes the disdain and guilt of homophobia when offendors call actual gays homos. But, in this case, I think it is highly appropriate to immediately dispose of Don Imus. For those that are a bit squeamish about execution we could also give a frontal lobotomy and remove his vocal chords to effectively squash this hideous menace to society.
If the above actions are not taken within the next two weeks we will all meet at Rockefeller Center and complete the citizen judicial action. God and Joan Baez would want it this ways.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
My Best Sellers
While good writing is important to be a best-selling author, marketing makes it happen. That is why I, like many great writers, will create Titles that sell. By Titles, I do not mean some popular serials that will have on going characters and plot lines, but titles--the name of the best-seller. Below are my first five:
1) "10% Body Fat and Ice Cream 3 Times a Day"
2) "How I Watched TV for Six Months Landed a Six Figure Income, Beat Depression and Grew My Johnson (work on last part)"
3a) "Big Johnson and Little Divorces"
3b)"I Love My Wife"
4) "Me and Mrs. Johnson"
5) "Mrs. Johnson and Me"
Why two number 3)'s? Only single guys need ask. What is with Johnson? Let me beat depression and I will work on the rest, wip.
1) "10% Body Fat and Ice Cream 3 Times a Day"
2) "How I Watched TV for Six Months Landed a Six Figure Income, Beat Depression and Grew My Johnson (work on last part)"
3a) "Big Johnson and Little Divorces"
3b)"I Love My Wife"
4) "Me and Mrs. Johnson"
5) "Mrs. Johnson and Me"
Why two number 3)'s? Only single guys need ask. What is with Johnson? Let me beat depression and I will work on the rest, wip.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Guilty "Gonzo" Bloggers Killed Hunter S. Thompson --a look back
Hunter S. Thompson has been dead a little over two years and his ashes still have a street value of well over $1,000,000. I actually authored this line and unless one reads on may consider this "joke" a witty and "hip" joke. However, the structure of this joke is straight from Chevy Chase's Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is Still Dead bit and the punch line to a Keith Richards joke that I think Dennis Miller did--form and function 100% SNL. I wrote the joke to fit the theme of my "essay", and yet was only inspired by 25 years of SNL watching. (I have probably watched more, but, my late 1980's depravity has me uncertain.)
Why the Hunter S. Thompson interest? Actually, my interest was in Lester Bangs, who was labeled a "gonzo-journalist", but not the original since that would be... yes, Hunter S. Thompson. Stating the obvious, no disrespect Lester, but does writing record reviews make you journalist? (I know he was more than an album reviewer, I saw "Almost Famous".) As many of the printed eulogies stated Thompson was not really much of a journalist, but he was one helluva writer. D.A. Blyler pretty much wrote the same thing on rawstory.com, but he was "miffed" because some bloggers thought snorting coke, drinking, writing and taking quaaludes (normally in that order) made them a "gonzo-journalist".
Mr. Blyler deserves his "miffness" (and yes, "damn it", I am over doing it with the paranthetical statements and "quotes"-- I am developing a whole new "style" of "journalism"), especially since the "old" media ( "the" Times for God's "sake") gave credibility by association with the bloggers and the original Gonzo. Blyler made it a point to let bloggers no they should be overjoyed with what they accomplished in the realm of "Journalism"...
Bloggers...journalism...what the Hell? OK, blogging, the internet, Bill Gates--all in one basket combined with CNN, talk radio and time (as always) change the landscape. Hunter S. Thompson was a superb writer that did it differently, as did Kerouac, Twain, Faulkner, Tolkien, etc. Maybe what we should be asking ourselves is why does Dr. Thompson inspire bloggers so much? Thompson's writing was good, sometimes great, but, it exuded the free-spirit, the counter-culture, freedom...things that brought down the the Berlin Wall and many writers (not just bloggers, dammit).
The first paragraph really could have been used to sum up this whole train of thought. Those that create things we like people who inspire us and many times we would like to create like them. When it is all said and done all we have left as our legacy as writers are the words we wrote. ("FYI", (only 3 hits as of this "writing"), but if this "newer", "Freer" style catches on it is documented, by God I can prove it, it's on the "internet").
Why the Hunter S. Thompson interest? Actually, my interest was in Lester Bangs, who was labeled a "gonzo-journalist", but not the original since that would be... yes, Hunter S. Thompson. Stating the obvious, no disrespect Lester, but does writing record reviews make you journalist? (I know he was more than an album reviewer, I saw "Almost Famous".) As many of the printed eulogies stated Thompson was not really much of a journalist, but he was one helluva writer. D.A. Blyler pretty much wrote the same thing on rawstory.com, but he was "miffed" because some bloggers thought snorting coke, drinking, writing and taking quaaludes (normally in that order) made them a "gonzo-journalist".
Mr. Blyler deserves his "miffness" (and yes, "damn it", I am over doing it with the paranthetical statements and "quotes"-- I am developing a whole new "style" of "journalism"), especially since the "old" media ( "the" Times for God's "sake") gave credibility by association with the bloggers and the original Gonzo. Blyler made it a point to let bloggers no they should be overjoyed with what they accomplished in the realm of "Journalism"...
Bloggers...journalism...what the Hell? OK, blogging, the internet, Bill Gates--all in one basket combined with CNN, talk radio and time (as always) change the landscape. Hunter S. Thompson was a superb writer that did it differently, as did Kerouac, Twain, Faulkner, Tolkien, etc. Maybe what we should be asking ourselves is why does Dr. Thompson inspire bloggers so much? Thompson's writing was good, sometimes great, but, it exuded the free-spirit, the counter-culture, freedom...things that brought down the the Berlin Wall and many writers (not just bloggers, dammit).
The first paragraph really could have been used to sum up this whole train of thought. Those that create things we like people who inspire us and many times we would like to create like them. When it is all said and done all we have left as our legacy as writers are the words we wrote. ("FYI", (only 3 hits as of this "writing"), but if this "newer", "Freer" style catches on it is documented, by God I can prove it, it's on the "internet").
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
A Sublime and Celestial Philosophy for a Utopian Societ
Achem's Razor is a theory that states the best solution to a problem is usually the simplest. Quite by surprise I viewed an example of this on Mad TV with guest host Bob Newhart. The patient came in and explained her issues to Bob Newhart said, "OK, are you ready for the therapy...STOP IT!" The patient was shocked, but Newhart explained stop the behavior and you won't have the problem any longer.
Think about it, if we just stopped all the despicable behavior we would have Heaven on Earth:
Think about it, if we just stopped all the despicable behavior we would have Heaven on Earth:
- The fighting between the Jews and the Muslims--Stop It!
- The fighting between the US and the Muslims--Stop It!
- The contentious in-fighting between the political parties--Stop It!
- The racial in-equities and bigotry--Stop It!
- World Hunger--Stop It!
- Cancer--Stop It!
- Al Gore's public appearance and questionable lisp--Stop IT!
- Clay Aikens---Please, Please, Please--Stop IT!
- Girls Gone Wild-- well this is the exception that proves the rule.
Just some thoughts, please feel free to add to the list and perhaps we can get a world movement to start our earthly Utopia. Rock and Roll Aint Noise Pollution.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Revelations, 9/11 and REM
"In a fire, representing seven games, in a government for hire in a combat site." I will not reveal which verse of the bible this comes from, but clearly it is prophetic and could very aptly describe our current situation. Another troubling scripture is,"Overflow, population, common food, but it will do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs..." As Christians we should not be surprised by the prophecies of the coming tribulations.
Recently, rabbinical experts found an apocryphal document that revealed absolute shocking proof of Heavenly prophecy. The initial verse translates to," That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, ( and a word that translates to aeroplane or flying machine)." Clearly, we have already felt the impact of the earthquake with the horrific tsunami that struck South East Asia. Likewise, the scourge of the bird flu continues to spread over our planet. Finally, the reference to the flying machine(s) can only be a reference to the 9/11 tragedy. Even more convincingly a few verses down closely translates to"Look at that low flying plane! Fine then-- Uh Oh." This must be the final prayers sent to God by those trapped in the unthinkable hell of the twin towers."
Now more than ever, we must tithe, pray and support our fellow Christian brothers and sisters. It is more important than ever that we financially support our Churches to prepare for the upcoming tragedies that will be inflicted on the Holy chosen one's of God's flock. Likewise, it would be wise for all to start stocking up on canned and freezed dried goods to help us make it through the Tribulation. As a Christian Brotherhood we will do our best to care for all our members, but there may be times when one must be self-sufficient. Your tithes are greatly appreciated , but in this dire and eminent crisis all financial support you can spare, is not only appreciated, but absolutely needed.
These words and experiences were very similar to what I experienced in the 1970's and '80's. I was mostly convinced that the world would be taken over by a charismatic Anti-christ that would start WW3 and pretty much put the world in the proverbial crapper. In the meantime, if we did not sin and gave enough money we would be whisked away to a place of safety where we would live on Cheeze Whiz, Vienna Sausage, and 6000 year old bird seed. This would only last seven years since Christ would return and do the atomic-butt drop on the Anti-Christ and seal him up where fallen angels go after being atomic-butt dropped by the big man, you know what I mean Brother!
Few if any read my blog so I may get a bit heretical in my rants, but I do have a point to make. There are extremely intelligent and influential Religious leaders. This is not limited to Christians as most of us are now aware, but my experience was Christian so they will be the scape goat.
Firstly, let me exclaim I am a spiritual man that believes the example of Christ's life is one for which we should all strive. I do have a few Gnostic tweaks thrown in with my mostly orthodox Christian views, but I mainly be that all men should have so much love for Christ that he literally becomes an entity that we can converse with.
That being said the first three paragraphs of this "parody" illustrates how motivated ministers can take, the Bible, current events and even lyrics of REM songs to instigate their flock into giving more, attending more, and even recruiting more members. Yes, the "biblical and apocryphal scriptures" that were quoted to show the signs and symbols of the coming of the Lord came straight from an REM song.
After the first verse that spoke about earthquakes, birds and snakes, an aeroplane--the next line is Lenny Bruce is not afraid. I'm no biblical scholar but I believe Lenny Bruce was a cutting edge comedian that overdosed in the 1960's--could be prophesy, but for what purpose?
The final verse of the REM song," It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine", would challenge some of the best Preachers to turn this into an inspirational, yet fear-mongering message of monetary manipulation:
The other night I dreamt of kinves, continental
Drift Divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right
Ok, maybe some of the more talented Propagandist Preachers could bend this into a twisted message of the Loving Christ and Saviour of Humanity and Mankind return, but can we get real just for a second. If said Preacher received this message, the knives must be some type of retribution supernaturally, or otherwise. Secondly, God is going to cause a Continental Drift Divide for this retribution--it would seem that no matter which continent he caused the drift many innocence would be killed (unless of course he slid France into the Atlantic, those cheese eating surrender monkeys). But, what retribution would this have to do with the people listed.
Leonard Bernstein, talented, sinning, bi-sexual, composer---dead. Leonid Brezhnev, Godless communist, with some of the most impressive eyebrows in Soviet history--dead. Lenny Bruce, again cutting edge, but vulgar comedian that died of an overdose of heroin, this would also put him in the--dead category. Finally, Lester Bangs, a gonzo rock and roll journalist that was respected for his candor and integrity, sadly he died of an overdose of darvon and valium while fighting a cold--once again Lester would seem to be in the dead category.
So what is my point? There are some gracious, dedicated, clergymen that truly want to lead their congregations towards the way of God. Likewise, their are some power-hungry, greedy, bastards that care about growing their church by preaching whatever message is popular or resonates with the majority of the members. I experienced this first-hand, but if you doubt my story flip through some of the channels on Sunday and you will find a couple examples of what I'm writing about.
As an aside,the church my parents made me attend announced in the early 1980's that it would be OK for Hispanics and Anglos to date and/or marry, but African-Americans and Asians must not date outside their respective races. There was a quote from the bible that made this all legal and binding, but rather de-humanizing. Likewise, we attended church on the Sabbath, Saturday, just as the Jews. There was another biblical answer to why we should do this, but some years later I asked my wife's Great Uncle, a preacher, why most churches did not worship on Saturday, but Sunday. He of course had a very reasonable biblical reason answer that made me not sure which day was the real day of worship.
Then I heard the Muslims worshipped on Friday and I quickly came up with a plan for a four day work week, being a Sabbatarian, with Protestant leanings, who believed the Prophet Mohammed was the true emmisary of God. That plan did not work out so well since I previously tried to convince them that peyote was a sacred sacrament that I needed to use daily to please my Lord, Xiapitipical. I may have had a chance of pulling this off if I was not working in a Catholic diacose.
OK, so finally the summary, Evangilists quit the white supremist hate, Islamo-fascists quit the hate of the infidels, Red Sox fans quit the hate of the Yankees, Buhddists and Hindus do you hate anybody--although you know a good steak would not hurt. Oh, and the Catholics you control most of the Christian world--let's do something about that German Pope--I'm not completely sure this 1000 year Reich thing has completely played out.
Recently, rabbinical experts found an apocryphal document that revealed absolute shocking proof of Heavenly prophecy. The initial verse translates to," That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, ( and a word that translates to aeroplane or flying machine)." Clearly, we have already felt the impact of the earthquake with the horrific tsunami that struck South East Asia. Likewise, the scourge of the bird flu continues to spread over our planet. Finally, the reference to the flying machine(s) can only be a reference to the 9/11 tragedy. Even more convincingly a few verses down closely translates to"Look at that low flying plane! Fine then-- Uh Oh." This must be the final prayers sent to God by those trapped in the unthinkable hell of the twin towers."
Now more than ever, we must tithe, pray and support our fellow Christian brothers and sisters. It is more important than ever that we financially support our Churches to prepare for the upcoming tragedies that will be inflicted on the Holy chosen one's of God's flock. Likewise, it would be wise for all to start stocking up on canned and freezed dried goods to help us make it through the Tribulation. As a Christian Brotherhood we will do our best to care for all our members, but there may be times when one must be self-sufficient. Your tithes are greatly appreciated , but in this dire and eminent crisis all financial support you can spare, is not only appreciated, but absolutely needed.
These words and experiences were very similar to what I experienced in the 1970's and '80's. I was mostly convinced that the world would be taken over by a charismatic Anti-christ that would start WW3 and pretty much put the world in the proverbial crapper. In the meantime, if we did not sin and gave enough money we would be whisked away to a place of safety where we would live on Cheeze Whiz, Vienna Sausage, and 6000 year old bird seed. This would only last seven years since Christ would return and do the atomic-butt drop on the Anti-Christ and seal him up where fallen angels go after being atomic-butt dropped by the big man, you know what I mean Brother!
Few if any read my blog so I may get a bit heretical in my rants, but I do have a point to make. There are extremely intelligent and influential Religious leaders. This is not limited to Christians as most of us are now aware, but my experience was Christian so they will be the scape goat.
Firstly, let me exclaim I am a spiritual man that believes the example of Christ's life is one for which we should all strive. I do have a few Gnostic tweaks thrown in with my mostly orthodox Christian views, but I mainly be that all men should have so much love for Christ that he literally becomes an entity that we can converse with.
That being said the first three paragraphs of this "parody" illustrates how motivated ministers can take, the Bible, current events and even lyrics of REM songs to instigate their flock into giving more, attending more, and even recruiting more members. Yes, the "biblical and apocryphal scriptures" that were quoted to show the signs and symbols of the coming of the Lord came straight from an REM song.
After the first verse that spoke about earthquakes, birds and snakes, an aeroplane--the next line is Lenny Bruce is not afraid. I'm no biblical scholar but I believe Lenny Bruce was a cutting edge comedian that overdosed in the 1960's--could be prophesy, but for what purpose?
The final verse of the REM song," It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine", would challenge some of the best Preachers to turn this into an inspirational, yet fear-mongering message of monetary manipulation:
The other night I dreamt of kinves, continental
Drift Divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right
Ok, maybe some of the more talented Propagandist Preachers could bend this into a twisted message of the Loving Christ and Saviour of Humanity and Mankind return, but can we get real just for a second. If said Preacher received this message, the knives must be some type of retribution supernaturally, or otherwise. Secondly, God is going to cause a Continental Drift Divide for this retribution--it would seem that no matter which continent he caused the drift many innocence would be killed (unless of course he slid France into the Atlantic, those cheese eating surrender monkeys). But, what retribution would this have to do with the people listed.
Leonard Bernstein, talented, sinning, bi-sexual, composer---dead. Leonid Brezhnev, Godless communist, with some of the most impressive eyebrows in Soviet history--dead. Lenny Bruce, again cutting edge, but vulgar comedian that died of an overdose of heroin, this would also put him in the--dead category. Finally, Lester Bangs, a gonzo rock and roll journalist that was respected for his candor and integrity, sadly he died of an overdose of darvon and valium while fighting a cold--once again Lester would seem to be in the dead category.
So what is my point? There are some gracious, dedicated, clergymen that truly want to lead their congregations towards the way of God. Likewise, their are some power-hungry, greedy, bastards that care about growing their church by preaching whatever message is popular or resonates with the majority of the members. I experienced this first-hand, but if you doubt my story flip through some of the channels on Sunday and you will find a couple examples of what I'm writing about.
As an aside,the church my parents made me attend announced in the early 1980's that it would be OK for Hispanics and Anglos to date and/or marry, but African-Americans and Asians must not date outside their respective races. There was a quote from the bible that made this all legal and binding, but rather de-humanizing. Likewise, we attended church on the Sabbath, Saturday, just as the Jews. There was another biblical answer to why we should do this, but some years later I asked my wife's Great Uncle, a preacher, why most churches did not worship on Saturday, but Sunday. He of course had a very reasonable biblical reason answer that made me not sure which day was the real day of worship.
Then I heard the Muslims worshipped on Friday and I quickly came up with a plan for a four day work week, being a Sabbatarian, with Protestant leanings, who believed the Prophet Mohammed was the true emmisary of God. That plan did not work out so well since I previously tried to convince them that peyote was a sacred sacrament that I needed to use daily to please my Lord, Xiapitipical. I may have had a chance of pulling this off if I was not working in a Catholic diacose.
OK, so finally the summary, Evangilists quit the white supremist hate, Islamo-fascists quit the hate of the infidels, Red Sox fans quit the hate of the Yankees, Buhddists and Hindus do you hate anybody--although you know a good steak would not hurt. Oh, and the Catholics you control most of the Christian world--let's do something about that German Pope--I'm not completely sure this 1000 year Reich thing has completely played out.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Why Congress needs a lesson in Myths
I am currently reading Joseph Campbell. He can be a challenging read. He makes great jumps from Jewish mythology to Algoquin mythology and ties it together with moral challenges that we face in the inner-city. Campbell is intelligent and should be read by every person in congress if not the government in total. It is clear that this will not happen because of time constraints, fact finding missions and probably the congressman's inability to understand Campbell's intelligent prose ( this of course excludes your congressman, as you would not vote for a dolt that was only interested in trips to Dubai, of course this is obvious).
A point that Cambpell made that struck me like a bolt of lightning were myths taught mankind what was proper societal behavior. The mythology of the tribes and societies passed along what the Gods, Demi-gods, or Devils found appropriate and acceptable. In our advanced society we do not need Gods, Demi-gods or Devils to guide us in appropriate societal behavior--we have Judges, Senators and Congressmen to guide us. They are not immortal, but do believe they are infallible, god-like, beings that knows what is best for all of us. This collection of civil servants cannot even agree on protecting our own sovereignty with Mexico.
Campbell explained that the reason for the initiations of many tribes was not only to celebrate the graduation of the boy to the man, but the initiates responsibilities to the tribe-- supplying food, shelter and protection from rival tribes. These initiations were accompanied with many mythic stories and examples to enforce the sacred responsibilities of the initiate to his tribe. The myths were the societal glue of the tribe.
The United States had some exceptional myths that are now being debunked by the post-modern dolts. Manifest Destiny was not a myth, but an idea of mythic proportion which resulted in the US from sea to shining sea--along with some iron-clad sovereignty. Washington crossing the Delaware may not have been as romantic as the painting but it gave the colonies a rallying point and the United States a future quasi-myth to beat our chests. Andrew Jackson, by all accounts a real arse-hole, kicked butt at the battle of New Orleans, the only problem was the war was already over. Nonetheless, the Battle of New Orleans is another bragging point in our keepsake chest of mythology.
We now have a government that uses wars for political posturing rather than dominating the enemy and ending the conflict. Our "civil servants" cannot agree on how or if to protect our border with Mexico. The tribal mythos enforced sovereignty and prepared the tribal members to fight to the death. We have those tribal members, the volunteer army, but unfortunately our leadership is busy trying to invent their own myths.
Five hundred years from now what lessons will we learn from Al and Tipper inspiring Love Story, or his invention of the internet. Or, what about John Kerry's Schwarnegger-like destroying of the Viet Kong, while taking injuries in his rampage. Or what about Bill Clintons.... ah never mind you get the point.
A point that Cambpell made that struck me like a bolt of lightning were myths taught mankind what was proper societal behavior. The mythology of the tribes and societies passed along what the Gods, Demi-gods, or Devils found appropriate and acceptable. In our advanced society we do not need Gods, Demi-gods or Devils to guide us in appropriate societal behavior--we have Judges, Senators and Congressmen to guide us. They are not immortal, but do believe they are infallible, god-like, beings that knows what is best for all of us. This collection of civil servants cannot even agree on protecting our own sovereignty with Mexico.
Campbell explained that the reason for the initiations of many tribes was not only to celebrate the graduation of the boy to the man, but the initiates responsibilities to the tribe-- supplying food, shelter and protection from rival tribes. These initiations were accompanied with many mythic stories and examples to enforce the sacred responsibilities of the initiate to his tribe. The myths were the societal glue of the tribe.
The United States had some exceptional myths that are now being debunked by the post-modern dolts. Manifest Destiny was not a myth, but an idea of mythic proportion which resulted in the US from sea to shining sea--along with some iron-clad sovereignty. Washington crossing the Delaware may not have been as romantic as the painting but it gave the colonies a rallying point and the United States a future quasi-myth to beat our chests. Andrew Jackson, by all accounts a real arse-hole, kicked butt at the battle of New Orleans, the only problem was the war was already over. Nonetheless, the Battle of New Orleans is another bragging point in our keepsake chest of mythology.
We now have a government that uses wars for political posturing rather than dominating the enemy and ending the conflict. Our "civil servants" cannot agree on how or if to protect our border with Mexico. The tribal mythos enforced sovereignty and prepared the tribal members to fight to the death. We have those tribal members, the volunteer army, but unfortunately our leadership is busy trying to invent their own myths.
Five hundred years from now what lessons will we learn from Al and Tipper inspiring Love Story, or his invention of the internet. Or, what about John Kerry's Schwarnegger-like destroying of the Viet Kong, while taking injuries in his rampage. Or what about Bill Clintons.... ah never mind you get the point.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Does God Hate Gays?
This is a question that has become very relevant in the past few years. One question that should be queried is does God exist? This is considered blasphemy by many evangelicals. They are viewed as heretics and should be put to death for their sins. Does this not go against one of the 10 commandments. OK, this is the dichotomy of God's commandments and his supposed followers.
Firstly, God. it would seem, does not have hate in his heart. Secondly, his devout followers believe that the bible is a virtual story. So, God is full of love, but the devout shall stone and execute those that are sinners. Fuck, this is some tough shit. God forgive me for my profanity and the devout bugger off.
Here is the reality of this essay, Gays have an agenda that will give them civil rights such as the African American. While Evangelicals have to battle this Gay agenda. Come on does this sound like some celestial plan that an omnimpent Deity would propagate?
Some answers to the queries proposed. God is probably not real pleased with buggery since it will not propagate the human race. God or some supreme deity probably exists, sure the scientist have theorised we crawled out of the mud and are now creating quantum computers. The earth may not have came to creation as Genesis documents. However, the evolved pollywog's that crawled out of the mud must theorised that there is a Deistic archaism that may have had a celestial evolution. Finally, the evangelical agenda is holy and righteous, but by whose terms. Perhaps, the evangelical righteous and holy beliefs are worshiping the deity of the mud crawling polliwogs, that science has theorised.
Finally, does God love gays, who the hell knows-- does he even exist, who the hell knows, do evangelicals have the right view on Gays-- who the hell knows. Do polliwog's have a supreme deity, yeah probably so. Do scientists have a correct theory on evolution, depends on the polliwogs deity.
All I know is saying faggot does not mean that God does not love them. And 30 days of "therapy" does not remove or negate years of hatred or racism. Isaiah Washington or Ann Coulter be damned , this is after all just a colloquialism God loves the Gays polliwog or anthropic,. Isaiah and Ann probably don' have any true hatred for the Gays. And the Evangelicals are all wankers and discriminators --or maybe not, this is obviously a clear cut case philosophical pantheism. Maybe, god is gay, what with the everlasting life and no reproduction. Stop me before I push the publish button.
Firstly, God. it would seem, does not have hate in his heart. Secondly, his devout followers believe that the bible is a virtual story. So, God is full of love, but the devout shall stone and execute those that are sinners. Fuck, this is some tough shit. God forgive me for my profanity and the devout bugger off.
Here is the reality of this essay, Gays have an agenda that will give them civil rights such as the African American. While Evangelicals have to battle this Gay agenda. Come on does this sound like some celestial plan that an omnimpent Deity would propagate?
Some answers to the queries proposed. God is probably not real pleased with buggery since it will not propagate the human race. God or some supreme deity probably exists, sure the scientist have theorised we crawled out of the mud and are now creating quantum computers. The earth may not have came to creation as Genesis documents. However, the evolved pollywog's that crawled out of the mud must theorised that there is a Deistic archaism that may have had a celestial evolution. Finally, the evangelical agenda is holy and righteous, but by whose terms. Perhaps, the evangelical righteous and holy beliefs are worshiping the deity of the mud crawling polliwogs, that science has theorised.
Finally, does God love gays, who the hell knows-- does he even exist, who the hell knows, do evangelicals have the right view on Gays-- who the hell knows. Do polliwog's have a supreme deity, yeah probably so. Do scientists have a correct theory on evolution, depends on the polliwogs deity.
All I know is saying faggot does not mean that God does not love them. And 30 days of "therapy" does not remove or negate years of hatred or racism. Isaiah Washington or Ann Coulter be damned , this is after all just a colloquialism God loves the Gays polliwog or anthropic,. Isaiah and Ann probably don' have any true hatred for the Gays. And the Evangelicals are all wankers and discriminators --or maybe not, this is obviously a clear cut case philosophical pantheism. Maybe, god is gay, what with the everlasting life and no reproduction. Stop me before I push the publish button.
Faggot??
I am troubled by all the people entering rehab for uttering the "F" word-- no, not the word you are thinking of but "faggot". I do not condone the use of the word, but I also believe people have the right to be oafs and use the term. Now the "F" word has become the new "N" word. Soon we may be able to converse by just using the letters of the alphabet.
What is troubling about this whole trend is many of the crackers are really trying to do the right thing and use the politically correct term. Noticed I used "crackers", it's OK-- I am one. I watched a great commentary about Black, or is it African American, or is it Black comedy. The show gave some great insight into some of the motivations of many of the comedians. The most compelling story was that of Richard Pryor, who was a successful comedian at a very young age. However, after a sabbatical he came back with a completely new act that used sexually explicit language, drug usage terminology, and yes, the word nigger.
Pryor was a genius. He crossed over racial lines with his cutting edge humor. He would in the same bit make fun of how white people would talk and walk when they encountered "niggers". For those offended by the "N" word I will only use it in quotation marks when it was used by Pryor or the other comedians.
To me, Pryor's greatest contribution to comedy and society is he made us laugh, at ourselves and each other. What Pryor realized, is by saying "nigger" is he removed any connotations or power the word once held. Think of that, essentially, one man changed centuries of thought and culture by being funny as hell and saying "nigger".
I hope one can see the similarities between the "N" word and the Faggot situation. The latest "scandal" is Ann Coulter's use of the word while speaking about John Edwards. Now, it is no mystery that Coulter is polarizing, but it was used in the context of a joke--besides John is kind of pretty and Coulter could argue that she was comparing Edwards as a straw man since that is one of the meanings of faggot. Admittedly, it may not have been in the best taste, but so goes the sparring of politics.
What is more demeaning and bias is the pure lack of the press and other Pro-homosexual lobbying groups to completely ignore the multi-cultural connotations of the word "Faggot". In Great Britain they have something called a Large Faggot worm--in my view that is much more demeaning than one's sexual orientation. In Great Britain the word "bloody" is frowned upon--why? There is also a pork meatball by the name faggot, although that may be more descriptive of Newt Gingrich than Edwards. Also the Brits have the term wanker--what the hell is that? In the South the term bugger is used as, "that was one tough bugger", but in many cultures the terms bugger and buggery are extremely frowned upon.
A derivative of faggot is fag and it has its' own meanings around the world. Some examples are, cigarettes, the Guatemalan Air Force, a German Ball Bearing company, a terrorist group in the Canary Islands and the evil Film Actors Guild depicted in Team America: World Police.
My point? Everybody just get over it. One of our most sacred rights as Americans is to be arseholes, (what is an arse in the US), and say ignorant and sometimes insulting things. The beautiful thing about this is the offended have the same right. Not to mention that if this hyper-sensitivity was expanded worldwide we would need another UN just to negotiate between countries to avoid nuclear annihilation and international chaos, e.g. US 'we have the rights to demean homosexuals with the term fag'; Germany' no we have the trade mark on our ball bearing company, Americaner sheistkopfs'. Then famed furniture maker Silas Kopf would file a complaint against the Germans using kopf as a pejorative. As one can see, it would quickly spiral out of control.
My Grandpa, a Swiss immigrant, who I'm sure received some pejorative slurs in his time, like many Swiss had Calvinistic leaning. For those that don't know much about Calvinism, it was essentially a Protestant movement against the Catholic church. So Grandpa would ask, "Who Poped?", anytime somebody broke wind. My point is only our family would understand the connotation of Grandpa's colloquialism. Grandpa compared the Vicar of Jesus Christ, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Bishop of Rome, Prince of the Apostles, Servant of the Servants of God, and pretty much the Grand Poobah of most of the Christian world to flatulence incarnate.
While I don't think Grandpa was a hater. However, those groups that do hate could easily use his tactic to change the idiom of said groups that they hate and continue on with their occult language of hate. Hitler did prove that language could create movements and hate, but conceptually it was thoughts and ideas that were right for the time that created his movement. Do we really think, that in any sane world that 30 days of rehab would replace a philosophical lifetime of hate or discrimination?
Our American birthright and destiny is the right to speak like this. It's not the most perfect society, but it is the best (sorry I can't cite the famous person that said this, but Winston Churchill might be a good bet). No race, creed or "group" should be immune from the pejorative terms, but it is hoped that respect and dignity would be given to all. The beauty part of this system is the demeaned have the same right to demean the demeanors--maybe it would be easier if we should just try to get along. For those are demeaned by any hate group, they should use Richard Pryor's example and simply disempower the pejoratives. Pryor did not accomplish this by showing every occasion of some idiot spewing bad language and manners on the talking head shows and all the cable news networks. Witness the "growth'" of the KKK and the Black Panthers; withering ghosts of the past.
Now that my rant is over I want to apologize to any members of the KKK, Black Panthers, Adolf Hitler, Grandpa, the Vicar of Christ, Catholics, Calvinists, Silas Kopf, any German ball bearing company, the conceptual UN needed to handle the hyper-critical word-nazis, the Guatemalan Air Force, any terrorist group in the Canary Islands, buggers, wankers, any person resembling a straw man or British meat ball, Richard Pryor, niggers, faggots, crackers, fags, and large gelatinous British worms and hope all is forgiven. I will now be entering the Fidelis Angelus Grupo rehab center in Palm Springs and will be unavailable for the next 30 days.
What is troubling about this whole trend is many of the crackers are really trying to do the right thing and use the politically correct term. Noticed I used "crackers", it's OK-- I am one. I watched a great commentary about Black, or is it African American, or is it Black comedy. The show gave some great insight into some of the motivations of many of the comedians. The most compelling story was that of Richard Pryor, who was a successful comedian at a very young age. However, after a sabbatical he came back with a completely new act that used sexually explicit language, drug usage terminology, and yes, the word nigger.
Pryor was a genius. He crossed over racial lines with his cutting edge humor. He would in the same bit make fun of how white people would talk and walk when they encountered "niggers". For those offended by the "N" word I will only use it in quotation marks when it was used by Pryor or the other comedians.
To me, Pryor's greatest contribution to comedy and society is he made us laugh, at ourselves and each other. What Pryor realized, is by saying "nigger" is he removed any connotations or power the word once held. Think of that, essentially, one man changed centuries of thought and culture by being funny as hell and saying "nigger".
I hope one can see the similarities between the "N" word and the Faggot situation. The latest "scandal" is Ann Coulter's use of the word while speaking about John Edwards. Now, it is no mystery that Coulter is polarizing, but it was used in the context of a joke--besides John is kind of pretty and Coulter could argue that she was comparing Edwards as a straw man since that is one of the meanings of faggot. Admittedly, it may not have been in the best taste, but so goes the sparring of politics.
What is more demeaning and bias is the pure lack of the press and other Pro-homosexual lobbying groups to completely ignore the multi-cultural connotations of the word "Faggot". In Great Britain they have something called a Large Faggot worm--in my view that is much more demeaning than one's sexual orientation. In Great Britain the word "bloody" is frowned upon--why? There is also a pork meatball by the name faggot, although that may be more descriptive of Newt Gingrich than Edwards. Also the Brits have the term wanker--what the hell is that? In the South the term bugger is used as, "that was one tough bugger", but in many cultures the terms bugger and buggery are extremely frowned upon.
A derivative of faggot is fag and it has its' own meanings around the world. Some examples are, cigarettes, the Guatemalan Air Force, a German Ball Bearing company, a terrorist group in the Canary Islands and the evil Film Actors Guild depicted in Team America: World Police.
My point? Everybody just get over it. One of our most sacred rights as Americans is to be arseholes, (what is an arse in the US), and say ignorant and sometimes insulting things. The beautiful thing about this is the offended have the same right. Not to mention that if this hyper-sensitivity was expanded worldwide we would need another UN just to negotiate between countries to avoid nuclear annihilation and international chaos, e.g. US 'we have the rights to demean homosexuals with the term fag'; Germany' no we have the trade mark on our ball bearing company, Americaner sheistkopfs'. Then famed furniture maker Silas Kopf would file a complaint against the Germans using kopf as a pejorative. As one can see, it would quickly spiral out of control.
My Grandpa, a Swiss immigrant, who I'm sure received some pejorative slurs in his time, like many Swiss had Calvinistic leaning. For those that don't know much about Calvinism, it was essentially a Protestant movement against the Catholic church. So Grandpa would ask, "Who Poped?", anytime somebody broke wind. My point is only our family would understand the connotation of Grandpa's colloquialism. Grandpa compared the Vicar of Jesus Christ, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Bishop of Rome, Prince of the Apostles, Servant of the Servants of God, and pretty much the Grand Poobah of most of the Christian world to flatulence incarnate.
While I don't think Grandpa was a hater. However, those groups that do hate could easily use his tactic to change the idiom of said groups that they hate and continue on with their occult language of hate. Hitler did prove that language could create movements and hate, but conceptually it was thoughts and ideas that were right for the time that created his movement. Do we really think, that in any sane world that 30 days of rehab would replace a philosophical lifetime of hate or discrimination?
Our American birthright and destiny is the right to speak like this. It's not the most perfect society, but it is the best (sorry I can't cite the famous person that said this, but Winston Churchill might be a good bet). No race, creed or "group" should be immune from the pejorative terms, but it is hoped that respect and dignity would be given to all. The beauty part of this system is the demeaned have the same right to demean the demeanors--maybe it would be easier if we should just try to get along. For those are demeaned by any hate group, they should use Richard Pryor's example and simply disempower the pejoratives. Pryor did not accomplish this by showing every occasion of some idiot spewing bad language and manners on the talking head shows and all the cable news networks. Witness the "growth'" of the KKK and the Black Panthers; withering ghosts of the past.
Now that my rant is over I want to apologize to any members of the KKK, Black Panthers, Adolf Hitler, Grandpa, the Vicar of Christ, Catholics, Calvinists, Silas Kopf, any German ball bearing company, the conceptual UN needed to handle the hyper-critical word-nazis, the Guatemalan Air Force, any terrorist group in the Canary Islands, buggers, wankers, any person resembling a straw man or British meat ball, Richard Pryor, niggers, faggots, crackers, fags, and large gelatinous British worms and hope all is forgiven. I will now be entering the Fidelis Angelus Grupo rehab center in Palm Springs and will be unavailable for the next 30 days.
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