Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

Those raving, bloodthirsty maniacs who are justifying the American government’s full support for Israel’s missile attacks on civilian Lebanon are continuing their pro-war mantra: “Israel has the right to defend itself!”

Oh, but tonight, these lunatics are adding a new piece onto their pro-war mantra. After Israel bombed a United Nations outpost in Lebanon, killing 4 UN observers, the pro-war Americans started chanting, “Israel has the right to defend itself from from United Nations observers!”

Yeah, cause those United Nations observers are just terrorists, right? Killing Israelis, right? In league with Osama Bin Laden, right?

Yeah, fuckin right. Our nation has been led down into the bloody gutter in this new war. The United States of America now only seems to stand for killing every damned Muslim that it can get in its sights.

I am puking my guts out over this shameless blood fury. Why don’t we just start the fuckin gladiator festivals to satiate the need for America to watch violence? Rip up the National Mall in Washington, D.C., knock over the Lincoln Memorial, and install a giant colloseum for blood orgies that will make the Roman Empire’s sports look like shiatsu massage!

How is it that little kids everywhere know the same implicit rules? For example:

You may sneak out of bed and hang out at the top of the stairs (or at the end of the bedroom hallway in a ranch house) to listen to your parents talk.

You may not actually make yourself known by stepping into the same room where your parents are.

You must run, pittery pattery, whispery giggly pell mell, back to bed when your parents approach the hall or the top of the stairs.

Who tells little kids this stuff? I don’t know, but it seems to happen everywhere.

My favorite Republican Senator, Ken Blackwell, has hit the nail on the head again:

I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed. I think it’s a transgression against God’s law, God’s will. The reality is again … that we make choices all the time. And, I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist, or may make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that can be changed? Yes.

Well, he hit one nail, that’s for sure. You can choose to not be gay. I know because it is just common sense. Not even regular common sense. God’s common sense! And you can choose not to be an arsonist. And you can choose not to be a kleptomaniac. It is true because it is in the Bible! God said it, in Revelations I think, and that settles it!

But here’s the question. Can you choose not to be a gay, kleptomaniac arsonist? I ask because I wonder if that much effort is possible. If it takes X amount of effort to choose not to be gay, does it take 3X effort to choose not to be a gay, kleptomaniac arsonist? Or is it not a linear thing, X+X+X? Is it more like it would take X*X*X effort to choose not to be gay? Or is it not even an exponential thing? Could it be a logarithmic transformation of effort required? Wow, that would be a lot! They say with God all things are possible, but even this faithful Fran turns into a doubting Dorothy when thinking about a logarithmic transformation of effort!

Can someone with a divinity degree help me out with this theological conundrum? I’m asking because I have this friend who needs that kind of help and I want to let this friend of mine know about it. Thank you!

If anyone has had the opportunity of reading the incredible book POWER VS. FORCE by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.[Hay House, Inc.], could you help me by turning to pages 68 and 69 [Map of Consciousness] and indicate to me where you think Rovian/Bushian consciousness is on that chart? Just indicate a level and maybe a reason or two, but please hold down the bi-polar political stuff.

Some anonymous yahoo who writes for the blog Practically Harmless brings up the subject of “Snowflake Babies,” those cute little blastocysts who were abandoned in freezers by their mommies and daddies. Fortunately, a full 100 of these Snowflake Babies have been adopted, implanted in a loving new mommy’s uterus and born, leaving only 400,000 more to go!

I think this is a big moral challenge of our time. But the Anonymous Yahoo at Practically Harmless decides it’s better to poke fun:

The 400,000 frozen blastocysts out there (joined by 25,000 new ones every year) that are, ostensibly, going to be adopted by needy couples. Each and every one of them. Congratulations, kids; you’re frozen, in a big freezer in an embryology lab, and you don’t actually have a brain yet – or, for that matter, more than eight cells – and you can’t be seen without a microscope. But President Bush has given you a second chance.

Well, he’s sarcastic. He’s kidding.

But I’m not! OK, troops, gather up your womenfolk and listen up! We need 400,000 women THIS YEAR, right now, to save the lives of these blastocysts by donating their uteruses to grow these little blastocysts into big-time babies. Then we need 25,000 more women every year to save these little lights that have yet to shine. That’s 25,000 more pregnancies a year; 25,000 more blessings! I bet there must be tens of millions of evangelist women in the United States, and if just half of them are of bearing age, we should have no problem whatsoever in getting these Snowflake Babies born!

If you’re an interested female Christian conservative and you’re willing to give birth to a Snowflake Baby, just sign up right here, and we’ll get ‘er done! Just sign your name in the comment space below and I’ll personally hook you up with a deserving little blastocyst.

I know that there will a deluge of comments, perhaps in the tens of thousands in the first month, so I’ll be sure to get a box to hold it now!

I’m waiting now with anticipatory glee. Who will be the first of 400,000 conservative Christian women to donate their bodies to the cause?

Earlier today I was hanging out, reading various favorite My Space blogs of mine, when I came across this paragraph by Survivor Alli:

“If the following statement offends anyone, I am sorry my feelings have offended you. I usually do not voice my political opinion but I feel I must since our president has made the statement that stem cell research is not moral. Is it moral to even produce humans in a test tube for the reason of selfish parents to have little clones of themselves, when there is probably a reason God didn’t allow them to have children in the first place and there are children starving all over the world that could be adopted? Is it not a moral thing to use our scientific knowledge to help the millions of people who are literally suffering with severely debilitating neurological diseases, and give them relief by the use of the stem cells that are just sitting in a cooler somewhere? Obviously our president has no knowledge about this subject, and is not close to anyone in the situation that stem cell research will save their lives. It seems to me that as the president kisses his little ‘snowflake’ children on national TV he reminds me of someone else that was once in power. Hitler.”

Well, I agree with her on the matter of stem cell research — what’s up with President Bush, anyway? Hello? Clue phone, George, and it’s for you!

But that’s not what I want to write about. I want to write about this opening caveat: “If the following statement offends anyone, I am sorry my feelings have offended you.” Come on! I mean, I understand and all that people write this to keep other people from trashing them and so forth, but I really don’t think it is necessary.

And here’s why. The only way not to offend anyone is to say something completely unimportant, bland and boring. If you say anything that is at all remotely even kind of interesting, you can bet that you will offend someone out there somewhere. If you’re going to write something that is strongly felt, you should be ready for the possibility that your words will offend someone. You will be offensive if you are strong. So be strong! I mean, if you’re not going to risk being offensive, you might as well be dead, because all you’re going to do is be an acceptable mouthpiece for other people’s tastes and sensibilities.

Is anyone with me on this?

Hundreds of thousands of refugees. A hundred dead people every day. Infrastructure destroyed for years on end, with no hope for repair because of the ongoing fighting.

What makes what’s happening in Iraq not a civil war? Well, President Bush doesn’t want to say it’s a civil war.

The mainstream news media, always dutiful in its obligation to mindlessly parrot what the President says the truth is, have been struggling to find some way to not call Iraq in a state of civil war.

Well, now the mainstream news media are starting to face reality. This morning, Reuters writes:

“Tens of thousands more Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence looks ever more like civil war two months after a U.S.-backed national unity government was formed, official data showed on Thursday.”

I remember back when the Bush Republicans refused to call the occupation an occupation, and told us with a straight face that there was no insurgency in Iraq. Anyone want to bet how long it will be before President Bush admits that there is a civil war in Iraq?

I have just seen the most arcane, twisted, political hit job I could have imagined. Republicans are working to smear Democratic candidate Michael Arcuri by saying that he’s hired Zogby International to uncover the secret that Ray Meier is gay.

Their line of reasoning is particularly idiotic. They say that at a campaign web site for another race, in Minnesota of all places, was found through the Google search “ray meier is gay”, and that the IP address of the search could be traced back to Zogby.

Well, wait a minute while I fill up my lungs to let out a big loud, BIG FUCKING WHOOOP!

Who cares? This looks like the kind of warped double bash that only a Republican could think up. Who cares if a politician is gay? Republicans, that’s who.

In the minds of a Republican, it’s okay if a politician breaks the law, lies to the people and kicks the Constitution in the teeth. What they can’t tolerate is if that politician is gay. So, they don’t care if Democrats nail them on substance. All they care about is that the sexual politics gets kept under the covers.

When will America grow up enough to forget the sex and look at the substance? It doesn’t matter if Ray Meier is gay. What does matter is that he is a Republican creep.

This is the most perverted sense of priorities that I can imagine. It makes me want to puke.

ABFreedom thinks he’s asking the right question:

Will the LIEberal attitude even with unlimited funding solve the literacy problem?

I know ABF’s heart is in the right place. But ABF’s problem here is in even asking the question.

OF COURSE “the LIEberal attitude” won’t solve the literacy problem! Lieberal attitudes are attitudes of lying! How can you solve a problem when you’re lying! How can you learn anything when your teacher is lying to you? I mean, if the liberals out there were teaching our kids, knowing how much they lie about everything, how could little Susie trust that I does come after E except after C, or that “sh” doesn’t make a “zzzzz” sound?

If the liberals were in charge, they wouldn’t be teaching phonics — they’d be teaching Phonyics!

The point is that absolutely everything in the worldview of these Lieberals is geared around twisting truth into knots that aren’t truth knots, but become twisted lie knots. They are the rejects of the world, so we should all (r)eject them — to Sweden! Of course they couldn’t figure out teaching issues. They couldn’t even figure out a figure 8! Ha!

Oh, you lieberal sillies are getting their panties in a twist again!

This time, you’re upset that our dear President George W. Bush stopped an investigation into his conduct, using the power of the government that is, of course at his disposal. He got elected, duh, it’s his government, he can do what he wants to with it!

What’s funnier than this typical liberal stupidity is their suggestion that everybody “fix” things by writing a letter to the editor, calling a Congressman on the phone, or marching in the street or something like that. But they miss the point. Nothing will ever, ever be accomplished by trying to get people to change things for the better. The liberals would do much better if they learned to pray (it’s spelled P-R-A-Y) with fervor for the changes they wanted to see happen, and then learned to wait for God’s grace to make itself evident in the world.

That’s how real change will come about. Not stupid liberals insulting other people in the media!

Idiots!