That's the prompt for the second day of the journaling project. I haven't decided if I'm going to post pics of the things that I put in the journal or not because it's kinda private.
But I did the first prompt and have just finished the second. So, yay me for following through for two days.
OK, subject change:
Dear M. Knight Shitty Director,
Nope. Sorry. You will not fool me again. I don't care how interesting the commercials for Devil look. It will suck. We all know it will suck. Everything you have gone near has sucked since Unbreakable.
No Love,
Me
There's been a lot going on in political idiocy lately but I need to research and reflect before posting about it so it'll be a couple of days.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Late to the Party
But I'm still gonna dance.
So there was this really interesting thing that happened a month or so ago called The 30 Day Journal Challenge.
I totally missed it. Had no idea it was happening until it was over.
I'm going to do it anyway. Starting today I'm going to take up the challenge, reading one prompt every morning and fulfilling it after work.
So here's today's assignment
Journal Prompt Number 1: Create a full page design introducing yourself :)
Highlight your name many times in the midst of your design.
I chose to use a lot of line design because I love it so much lately.
I also chose to draw some of the things that I like as well in there!!
Have fun, be creative, don't stress, just jump right in!!
So there was this really interesting thing that happened a month or so ago called The 30 Day Journal Challenge.
I totally missed it. Had no idea it was happening until it was over.
I'm going to do it anyway. Starting today I'm going to take up the challenge, reading one prompt every morning and fulfilling it after work.
So here's today's assignment
Journal Prompt Number 1: Create a full page design introducing yourself :)
Highlight your name many times in the midst of your design.
I chose to use a lot of line design because I love it so much lately.
I also chose to draw some of the things that I like as well in there!!
Have fun, be creative, don't stress, just jump right in!!
Monday, August 23, 2010
You Know What's Fun?
Moderated comments.
Anyone who knows me, here or on the various sites where I spend time and thus debate (because if I'm spending time somewhere, I'm debating. It's a fact.) knows that I'm always up for a good debate. I love them. I live for that shit.
However
If you comment starts with "God says," or any variation thereof I probably won't care.
If your comment contains a screed in defense of FOX, I will mock you. And you will deserve it.
If you simply disagree with me I will research your point of view or point out the many, many ways in which you are wrong.
All of these comments will get published. Like I said, I love to debate.
What won't get published is this:
"I don't want to argue with you about this. I'm just expressing my opinion."
Hey moron. IT'S MY BLOG. If you just want to drop your opinion and do a runner get your own fucking blog.
You know what else is fun?
The democratic process.
This is what I did with my Saturday.
That's how I make my point; standing in the rain, getting screamed at and hated on by idiots because it matters. Somebody had to say no to these people. Their speaker is a hate monger who lies for a living.
It was just us out there in no small part because there had been rumors that they were going to change the venue or cancel the event and I didn't want to get a bunch of people together for nothing.
The Mrs. carried these two:
and
I carried this one in case you can't read it above.
Yes we got yelled at but you know what? Those people are fucking cowards. One woman, one had the courage to come up and talk to us. She was wrong and she didn't stay long enough to do much more than state her position, take our picture and bail but at least she didn't drive by in her car and shout.
That was the funniest thing. People would creep past us, accelerate slightly and then roll down their windows and scream.
Cowards.
Anyone who knows me, here or on the various sites where I spend time and thus debate (because if I'm spending time somewhere, I'm debating. It's a fact.) knows that I'm always up for a good debate. I love them. I live for that shit.
However
If you comment starts with "God says," or any variation thereof I probably won't care.
If your comment contains a screed in defense of FOX, I will mock you. And you will deserve it.
If you simply disagree with me I will research your point of view or point out the many, many ways in which you are wrong.
All of these comments will get published. Like I said, I love to debate.
What won't get published is this:
"I don't want to argue with you about this. I'm just expressing my opinion."
Hey moron. IT'S MY BLOG. If you just want to drop your opinion and do a runner get your own fucking blog.
You know what else is fun?
The democratic process.
This is what I did with my Saturday.
That's how I make my point; standing in the rain, getting screamed at and hated on by idiots because it matters. Somebody had to say no to these people. Their speaker is a hate monger who lies for a living.
It was just us out there in no small part because there had been rumors that they were going to change the venue or cancel the event and I didn't want to get a bunch of people together for nothing.
The Mrs. carried these two:
and
I carried this one in case you can't read it above.
Yes we got yelled at but you know what? Those people are fucking cowards. One woman, one had the courage to come up and talk to us. She was wrong and she didn't stay long enough to do much more than state her position, take our picture and bail but at least she didn't drive by in her car and shout.
That was the funniest thing. People would creep past us, accelerate slightly and then roll down their windows and scream.
Cowards.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Doomed to Repeat It
“Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.”
The above seems reasonable, doesn’t it? Isn’t it logical that someone, anyone, would want to live peacefully and free in the knowledge that the laws which apply to them apply equally to everyone else?
And yet...
The one thing that I’ve heard most often in the past few days in reference to the Muslim cultural center that is not at Ground Zero and isn’t a Mosque, is “It’s not about freedom of religion.”
YES IT IS!
THAT’S ALL IT IS ABOUT!
We’ve done this before, you know?
We’ve done this with smallpox infected blankets and the Triangle Trade and Alien and Sedition Acts. We’ve done this with the Chinese Exclusion Act and Jim Crow and legalized anti-semitism and Red Scares. And lest anyone forget, did it with internment camps.
We set up internment camps within living memory. There are still people alive today who were herded into stables and the like and held there with no cause and no charge, simply because we as American were so weak and frightened as to ignore our own founding principles.
We should be ashamed of ourselves because of these things.
Even more so, we should be ashamed of ourselves for even remotely entertaining the possibility of allowing it to happen again. We interred the Japanese because we, as a nation were so cowardly (yes I said it) that we could not abide by our own laws in the face of a group of citizens who were easy targets.
And we’re doing it again.
Every single time we do this; give in to our fear and our ignorant prejudice and our irrational hate we end up doing something shameful. Eventually realize our gross error and sometimes we even do something to fix it. But that doesn’t less the stain on our nation as a whole.
If we let this continue; if we allow our nation to fall into that same pattern of behavior we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
We know better.
We are better.
The quote at the top of the post comes from Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. We ignored him and destroyed his people and his culture. Let’s prove that we’ve learned something since then.
It’s time to step up people. When someone says something ignorant or intolerant or just fucking wrong you need to say something. I don’t care if it’s uncomfortable. Silence is assent. If you stay silent then you are agreeing with that ignorance or intolerance or wrongness.
It’s is the responsibility of the rational to stand against ignorance. It is the responsibility of the respectful to correct the intolerant. It is the duty of every American citizen who has read and understood and who loves the Constitution to not let this happen again.
I am not a coward and I am not going to allow fear and hate and ignorance to force the hand of the nation I love ever again.
The above seems reasonable, doesn’t it? Isn’t it logical that someone, anyone, would want to live peacefully and free in the knowledge that the laws which apply to them apply equally to everyone else?
And yet...
The one thing that I’ve heard most often in the past few days in reference to the Muslim cultural center that is not at Ground Zero and isn’t a Mosque, is “It’s not about freedom of religion.”
YES IT IS!
THAT’S ALL IT IS ABOUT!
We’ve done this before, you know?
We’ve done this with smallpox infected blankets and the Triangle Trade and Alien and Sedition Acts. We’ve done this with the Chinese Exclusion Act and Jim Crow and legalized anti-semitism and Red Scares. And lest anyone forget, did it with internment camps.
We set up internment camps within living memory. There are still people alive today who were herded into stables and the like and held there with no cause and no charge, simply because we as American were so weak and frightened as to ignore our own founding principles.
We should be ashamed of ourselves because of these things.
Even more so, we should be ashamed of ourselves for even remotely entertaining the possibility of allowing it to happen again. We interred the Japanese because we, as a nation were so cowardly (yes I said it) that we could not abide by our own laws in the face of a group of citizens who were easy targets.
And we’re doing it again.
Every single time we do this; give in to our fear and our ignorant prejudice and our irrational hate we end up doing something shameful. Eventually realize our gross error and sometimes we even do something to fix it. But that doesn’t less the stain on our nation as a whole.
If we let this continue; if we allow our nation to fall into that same pattern of behavior we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
We know better.
We are better.
The quote at the top of the post comes from Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. We ignored him and destroyed his people and his culture. Let’s prove that we’ve learned something since then.
It’s time to step up people. When someone says something ignorant or intolerant or just fucking wrong you need to say something. I don’t care if it’s uncomfortable. Silence is assent. If you stay silent then you are agreeing with that ignorance or intolerance or wrongness.
It’s is the responsibility of the rational to stand against ignorance. It is the responsibility of the respectful to correct the intolerant. It is the duty of every American citizen who has read and understood and who loves the Constitution to not let this happen again.
I am not a coward and I am not going to allow fear and hate and ignorance to force the hand of the nation I love ever again.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Hallowed Ground?
Normally, I'm not all re-tweet, pass this along-y. But this is important.
You know all the idiocy happening around the "Ground Zero Mosque," which isn't at Ground Zero and is a community center not unlike a YMCA.
Look at this. Tell everyone you know.
I don't care what you actually think about the plans to build the facility because unless you agree with me, you're wrong.
Muslims died in the towers.
Muslims died defending the US in the subsequent wars.
Muslims are citizens of this nation.
This nation whose founding tradition is freedom of religion. Think about that. The people writing out the Bill of Rights decided to put freedom of religion right at the top. It's the first thing they listed. Freedom of religion.
Not freedom of religion if it's popular.
Not freedom of religion if it's the easy decision.
Freedom of religion, fucking period.
There's a reason we call these things rights; not just because they are accorded to us by law but because they are the right thing to do. Also because it doesn't matter if they are popularly accepted. THEY ARE RIGHTS. Everyone has them, no matter what.
Why is the ground only hallowed in the face of a house of worship and not in the face of a fucking strip club or off track betting or fast food? Is that respectful to the people who died? And seriously, how the fuck did a Burlington Coat Factory become "hallowed," anyway.
Trust me. I've shopped at one. Not that hallowed.
The answer to these questions is IT'S NOT ABOUT HALLOWED GROUND. IT'S ABOUT HATING MUSLIMS. Duh.
The right has been pumping this basic theme since the 1960's. They call it the Southern Strategy. It works like this:
Contact White voters.
Identify the group that White voters fear and upon whom they will readily lay the blame for their problems.
Make up problems if you have to, or if actual problems are your damned fault in the first place.
SHOUT AT TOP VOLUME that the group identified is, in fact, the cause of the problem.
Repeat final two steps as often as necessary.
Shit like that leads to this.
The Tea Baggers invited this woman to my town. She's coming to spew her venom and hate and lies where I live. And let's not get it twisted. We're not talking about some quirky political fringe member. She's the KKK in a better outfit.
She lies and in so doing she puts American citizens in danger.
That's while I'm going to protest the Tea Baggers and their venomous speaker this Saturday. If it were the idiot Phepls clan, I'd be there protesting. If it were the actual KKK, I'd be there protesting. I'm gonna be there on Saturday because it's long past time that someone told these people that their hate isn't welcome in decent communities.
And you know what the saddest thing is? The whole basis of extremist Muslim rhetoric is that the US is at war with Islam. So, basically, all this ignorance being thrown around about this mosque is reinforcing their point as much as humanly possible. Way to go morons.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Yeah, I know. It's been two months.
The 'Potamus has been working. Deal with it.
I've had a surprising number of people emailing me and asking when I'm going to say something about the oil spill. Apparently not a few people are waiting for me to rip into BP or expecting me to do the same to the administration.
I'm not going to do that.
Yes, BP fucked up. They were clearly negligent. Yes, the government has far less power that we would want them to have in this situation. Those things are true and they are problematic. But let's not pretend that if those things were magically solved, things would be significantly better.
This is our fault. Lots of (really stupid) politicians pay lip service to the need for the US to break its addiction to foreign oil.
Those people are saying what the voters want to hear.
The voters who want to hear that are uninformed.
There's no such thing as foreign oil There is only oil.
Every drop of oil in the world, no matter where it is drawn from or refined, is sold on the open market.
It's all the same price. That's how commodities work.
So the problem isn't the oil companies or the government. The problem is us. We're addicted to oil. Unless we commit to a course of action wherein we eventually make oil prohibitively expensive, we're never going to change anything and we won't have anyone to blame but ourselves.
I'm not interested in hearing or participating in rants against BP or the administration until Americans are ready to take responsibility.
You know what else I'm not interested in hearing ever again as long as I live? The term "reverse racism."
I know I've said this before but I'm going to keep saying it because if I don't I might have to punch someone.
There no such fucking thing as "reverse racism." The reverse of racism is respect.
I'm tired of this shit.
I'm tired of Andrew Breitbart. He's a liar. The end.
I'm tired of people who should know better tucking their tails and running at the first hysterical, bullshit accusation of "reverse racism." Yes, Obama administration and NAACP, I'm fucking looking at you.
I'm tired of everyone pretending that the Tea Baggers are motivated by anything other than racism. If they weren't willing to happily embrace the most heinous and hateful elements of American culture, they would, you know, stop fucking embracing the most heinous and hateful elements of our culture.
Most of all I'm tired of people pretending that equality is something that we should be ashamed of or that "overcoming racism," means pretending that blatantly racist shit isn't racist.
Dr. Laura, actually said, "I really thought that once we had a black president, the attempt to demonize whites hating blacks would stop, but it seems to have grown, and I don't get it," out loud in public.
Pause for just a moment and go read that quote again. Did you catch that?
Let me make this clear here and now. What that dumb cunt actually said was, "haven't we given you people enough? Can't you shut up now?"
WHAT IN THE HELL WOULD MAKE ANYONE THINK THAT THE ELECTION OF A BLACK MAN WOULD MAKE WHITES HATING BLACKS OK ALL OF A SUDDEN?!
That is some stupid, racist bullshit. America could elect Black people to every single office in the nation and stupid-ass racist statements would still be stupid-ass racist statements and they would still have negative social consequences. Anyone who can't deal with that should probably keep their stupid-ass racist comments to themselves.
She also said:
"If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race."
Um, because on planet Dumb-Bitch-With-a-Radi0-Show, all White people are eventually going to show their underlying racism? That is also some stupid, racist shit.
I honestly don't have a problem with the fact that she used the word nigger. I much prefer the use of the word nigger to the use of the term "the n-word." I'm not five. I don't need people to spell things for me. I have a problem with the other things she said, the stuff she didn't apologize for. That stuff matters and no one seems to care.
I've had a surprising number of people emailing me and asking when I'm going to say something about the oil spill. Apparently not a few people are waiting for me to rip into BP or expecting me to do the same to the administration.
I'm not going to do that.
Yes, BP fucked up. They were clearly negligent. Yes, the government has far less power that we would want them to have in this situation. Those things are true and they are problematic. But let's not pretend that if those things were magically solved, things would be significantly better.
This is our fault. Lots of (really stupid) politicians pay lip service to the need for the US to break its addiction to foreign oil.
Those people are saying what the voters want to hear.
The voters who want to hear that are uninformed.
There's no such thing as foreign oil There is only oil.
Every drop of oil in the world, no matter where it is drawn from or refined, is sold on the open market.
It's all the same price. That's how commodities work.
So the problem isn't the oil companies or the government. The problem is us. We're addicted to oil. Unless we commit to a course of action wherein we eventually make oil prohibitively expensive, we're never going to change anything and we won't have anyone to blame but ourselves.
I'm not interested in hearing or participating in rants against BP or the administration until Americans are ready to take responsibility.
You know what else I'm not interested in hearing ever again as long as I live? The term "reverse racism."
I know I've said this before but I'm going to keep saying it because if I don't I might have to punch someone.
There no such fucking thing as "reverse racism." The reverse of racism is respect.
I'm tired of this shit.
I'm tired of Andrew Breitbart. He's a liar. The end.
I'm tired of people who should know better tucking their tails and running at the first hysterical, bullshit accusation of "reverse racism." Yes, Obama administration and NAACP, I'm fucking looking at you.
I'm tired of everyone pretending that the Tea Baggers are motivated by anything other than racism. If they weren't willing to happily embrace the most heinous and hateful elements of American culture, they would, you know, stop fucking embracing the most heinous and hateful elements of our culture.
Most of all I'm tired of people pretending that equality is something that we should be ashamed of or that "overcoming racism," means pretending that blatantly racist shit isn't racist.
Dr. Laura, actually said, "I really thought that once we had a black president, the attempt to demonize whites hating blacks would stop, but it seems to have grown, and I don't get it," out loud in public.
Pause for just a moment and go read that quote again. Did you catch that?
Let me make this clear here and now. What that dumb cunt actually said was, "haven't we given you people enough? Can't you shut up now?"
WHAT IN THE HELL WOULD MAKE ANYONE THINK THAT THE ELECTION OF A BLACK MAN WOULD MAKE WHITES HATING BLACKS OK ALL OF A SUDDEN?!
That is some stupid, racist bullshit. America could elect Black people to every single office in the nation and stupid-ass racist statements would still be stupid-ass racist statements and they would still have negative social consequences. Anyone who can't deal with that should probably keep their stupid-ass racist comments to themselves.
She also said:
"If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race."
Um, because on planet Dumb-Bitch-With-a-Radi0-Show, all White people are eventually going to show their underlying racism? That is also some stupid, racist shit.
I honestly don't have a problem with the fact that she used the word nigger. I much prefer the use of the word nigger to the use of the term "the n-word." I'm not five. I don't need people to spell things for me. I have a problem with the other things she said, the stuff she didn't apologize for. That stuff matters and no one seems to care.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
I Don't Mind The Sun Sometimes
Except when it's being used as an implement of torture.
I went to the Ft. Walton Beach Latin Salsa Festival today (which is ironic, seeing as it's Juneteenth and all.) and despite how small it was, it was fun. I got to watch the (armature, for fun) Salsa competition although my favorite couple, a woman in her fifties and a woman in her mid-twenties who was heavily pregnant, got knocked out early.
Given the fact that it was on the pier in Ft. Walton I obviously stopped by Unwind and snagged myself some Mango Moon Cotton Ribbon, with which to make yet another Calorimetry.
It was hot, like Africa hot, like people were melting as they walked down the street, hot. Yeah, I know it's Florida and it's supposed to be hot, but fucking hell this was over the top.
Aside from that I have discovered that working makes blogging hard to keep up with and that red is a better look for said blog than plain old white.
Nothing much to see here, at the moment. I'm sure I'll have something political to rant about after the Sunday morning shows.
I went to the Ft. Walton Beach Latin Salsa Festival today (which is ironic, seeing as it's Juneteenth and all.) and despite how small it was, it was fun. I got to watch the (armature, for fun) Salsa competition although my favorite couple, a woman in her fifties and a woman in her mid-twenties who was heavily pregnant, got knocked out early.
Given the fact that it was on the pier in Ft. Walton I obviously stopped by Unwind and snagged myself some Mango Moon Cotton Ribbon, with which to make yet another Calorimetry.
It was hot, like Africa hot, like people were melting as they walked down the street, hot. Yeah, I know it's Florida and it's supposed to be hot, but fucking hell this was over the top.
Aside from that I have discovered that working makes blogging hard to keep up with and that red is a better look for said blog than plain old white.
Nothing much to see here, at the moment. I'm sure I'll have something political to rant about after the Sunday morning shows.
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