“As ridiculous as it may be, many Americans, and certainly many Trump supporters, especially white evangelicals, have a sort of world-historical mission driven mythology and mindset that, in their own mind, reaches back to and carries forward (appropriates) an odd mix of Old Testament authority and New Testament apostolicism (although twisted into ( Read more... )

~Back in 2008 I pointed out that the Democrats had been steadily moving Right after Mondale got trounced by Reagan in 1984, and that the GOP in response had itself moved more to the Right and had now found itself painted into a corner way out in Bat Country. Well, over the past four years we have discovered just how very very far out that corner of ( Read more... )

~I felt like I should be speaking about my Faith and my Patience and so on…but I’m really not in the fucking mood.

I looked back under my old Live Journal tag ‘most humans are vile ignorant scum’ and found “Her Prophet Blah Blah” from Jan 18th, 2011, to wit ( Read more... )

~The media is milking this for all it is worth - all puns intended - by repeating the word ‘child’ over and over again, but never mentioning ages. Based upon his statements, we’re talking mid-teen girls, which is still an 'issue’, though they would probably be past the Age of Consent in quite a few countries. But by saying 'child’ constantly, the ( Read more... )

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Americans weren't always lobotomized, drooling consumers:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2012/12/the_war_on_christmas_it_started_100_years_ago_with_the_spugs.single.html

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/lets-have-real-war-christmas-excess-and-revive-spug-society-prevention-useless-gifts.html

http://www.treehugger ( Read more... )

~Every time I open my Yahoo home page there's the photo of a little blonde dead girl. The racism of that makes me want to kill her again. [Disclaimer to Big Brother; that is a 'rhetorical flourish'..I'm too exhausted to kill anyone, even myself] *sigh ( Read more... )

~I'm finding myself praying that Assad uses chemical weapons this weekend so that all the whinging about Sandy Hook gets wiped off the news cycle ( Read more... )

"The illegal aliens who fraudulently voted ( I have proof of this at my local voting precinct ), the food stamp and welfare recipients, the so called " minorities", the supposedly "disenfranchised" poor, the stupidly pathetic hair on fire women with their myriad sexual and psychological problems, the liberal pseudo intellectuals, the "war is not ( Read more... )

"But this is what most of our fellow humans want, Mr. Hedges. The harsh truth is that most humans - and not just Americans - are fear-based, provincial and willfully ignorant. They want, no they *need* to be told what to do, where they fit in the social order, what their 'purpose' is, even if it is only to 'die for The [so-called] Greater Good'. We ( Read more... )

"It is a law of our civilization, that as soon as a man proves he can contribute to the well-being of the world, there be created an immediate conspiracy to destroy his usefulness, a conspiracy in which he is usually a willing collaborator. Sometimes he awakens to his danger and does something about it." ~Oscar Hammerstein II