Ring wing bat sh*t craziness goes global...

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So there were Egyptian protests over Hillary Clinton's visit this week.  At first one may think it has something to do with the US in the middle east generic protest, but then you see a sign with the word 'Monica' on it.  Umm... Monica Lewinski?  I know older US music and movies can be new in some parts of the world, but is our olds news new to them.  Bill Clinton getting a BJ was a big deal when I was in Jr. High.... seriously.  I'm not sure exactly what that was about until I saw Rachel Maddow's show from last night that explained some of the nuances of some of the other protests.

Apparently they were also under the impression that the US manipulated their election that resulted in the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate becoming president.  This isn't due to evidence presented, it was from American Ring Wing nut jobs.  Glenn Beck was sited as a source by one of the protesters (is he even alive still?).  Michelle Bachman was another. 

Really?  So now the crazy sh*t that the right says in this country is brainwashing more than just the trailer park trash and shut in elderly.  They are giving non facts to international citizens and now it's resulting in them losing their minds, just like in the US.  Fox News was pretty much fapping it when they saw the Monica signs.  Holy sh*t! People still care about that?.. We need to bring that up again.  BJS!!!!!!

This is scary.  I mean the fact that people in this country believe this crap is scary, but now we've got multi-national wing nuttery.  I may start to follow this a little more carefully, but we need to shut these morons down.  Facts are essential, but we need a little more passion on the left.  It sucks we are truthful for the most part and the right knows their audience are really dense and set in their ways, but we have to try.

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My Father the Conservative...

I was thinking about getting to this for a while.  There aren't a huge amount of people who read this blog.  Which is fine, I do this to vent and collect my thoughts on these subjects mostly.  I didn't use my full name in the beginning for several reasons.  Mostly I was talking about my employers and I didn't need to be fired for shit talking my bosses.

I still have a couple of reasons.  My grandmother is currently dying.  Coming out as an atheist to that section of my family would be devastating (I think anyway).  As morbid as it sounds, I'm going to wait until a while after the funeral.

I have another reason to keep things about my identity on the DL, at least to a section of people.  I may be working for my dad within the next few months.  I finally started to recieve unemployment while looking for work, but my dad is starting a new section of his business that lines up with some of my education.  I have a lot of student loans and I need something that pays at least $15 a hour to start making a dent in them.  At $13 a hour, I found myself donating plasma and working as a bartender part time to keep up with my minimum payments.  My AES loan has since doubled. 

He's offering my what I need to do a job that is somewhat up my alley.  He's offering the pay I need.  He's also trying to get me to start a dart board company, which is odd, but I can't take the chance of losing my unemployment on a more than likely unsuccessful business venture. 

I think one of the reasons he wants me to do this is his conservative ideology. He wasn't always a borderline tbagger, but he is now.  He thinks corporations should pay no taxes and rich people are the best thing in the world.  Right after I lost my job I had to hang out with one of his rich friends.  The guy reminded me of Barry from Storage Wars.  He was a pretentious douchbag who inherited his money from his dad.  Or as dad called him a second generation businessman.  Sure.

He wants me to pull myself up by my bootstraps.  At this point I don't have straps, or boots.  I owe people boots at the moment and I can't invest anything, because I have nothing.  No matter how many times I explain it, he doesn't understand.  My grandmother did okay, and he always had her to lean back on.  My mom doesn't have any money and dad wouldn't loan me money for school books in college.  I can't count on him for anything.  Which is why I don't think he'll follow through on this job.  I need it, so I'll humor him.

He also started to go on Facebook to start shit on liberal pages I'm a member of.  He knows I lean liberal, but I don't know if he forgot or if he's just a complete POS.  He was talking about running libs over in his Hummer.  Yeah, he drives a Hummer.  I'm not making this up.

He also whines about the Obama administration's policies.  He says it's bad for businesses, which I've pointed out that corporations are making more money than ever right now.  His business is doing so well he admittingly can't afford to fire some of the bad workers, because he needs every pair of hands he can get to push product out.  That doesn't sound like things are so bad to me.  Not to mention he dropped $35 grand on the equipment for the new dept he wants me to work in. 

I'm grateful to him, but it doesn't mean I have to kiss his ass when it comes to things I disagree with him on.  I push back from time to time, but he's mentally unstable at best.  He loves Glenn Beck.  It makes me sick.  He won't find this blog and if he does, I'll talk to him about how I feel and my opinions, but he knows my opinions.  It's not like a roll over all of the time.

He was a bad father when I was younger and I'm trying to spend as much time with him as I can before it's too late.  He doesn't know me very well as an adult.  Anyway, I'll be sure to start back up with more political and atheist commentary soon enough.

Pro Romney Crap in My AdSense?!

Yeah, so if you haven't noticed over to the right of this post, there are advertisements.  This is part of AdSense and I have no control over the ads.  So I noticed that there are Pro-Romney crap on my ads.  I used his name a bunch, so I guess it just filled in the blank for my blog type and ads that would go well with that?  So to counter that, I'll be putting up Pro Obama stuff up for every post from here on out. Starting with this one.

Also, when I typed in Obama into Google, the first thing that popped up was Obama Birth Certificate... really? 

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Corporations Hoard Cash to Screw Over POTUS?

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So are corporations purposely not spending the $3 trillion that they've hoarded since Obama saved the economy just to spite him?  I'm not 100% sure, but seeing how much they whine about taxes and how they have this huge burden, it wouldn't surprise me.  They're making the most profits in the history of making profits and they're screwing over America because their feelings were hurt?  Yes, Obama rips on some of the rich.  They deserve it.  These are the rich people that have more money than I could ever dream of in their personal accounts, and bitch when their taxes go up 3%.  They act like they deserve more respect than anyone and when they screw up, they aren't held accountable... ever.

My conservative father says that corporations have the spending power and shouldn't be taxed at all.  Let's ignore the fact that he also said gas would be $6 a gallon right now and that he said that the world would fall apart and we'd have to shoot our way out (out of what?) in 6 to 8 months... that was in July of 2011.  I love my dad, but he's just out of his mind on a lot of things and straight up wrong on others.  I blame Fox News.

If these companies have all of the spending power, which I guess they do, why don't they use it?  They're hoarding all this cash, cash that could be used to stimulate the economy even more and I'm supposed to be on board with just letting them keep it to do nothing with?  How is this a good argument for lower taxation on the rich and corporations? 

First off, a non conspiratorial reason that corporations aren't hiring people with their pile of money is that there isn't a demand for their products (this doesn't enter into the banks hoarding money equation).  If we took half of that hoarded money and hired people to build roads and bridges, to teach children, and other public works, they would buy stuff.  The increased business would lead to businesses being forced to hire people, and the extra capital would help the economy even more.  Hell, if we took a third of the money... $1 trillion, that would get the economy on track.  The first stimulus took us from losing 600,000 jobs to gaining 268,000 at the height of the recovery.  Even the gaining less than 100,000 lately is better than losing that many.  Of course my ConDad would say those numbers are lies, but how do you argue with non-facts?

Conservatives have a very hard argument to make.  The messed up thing is, that if I were rich, I would proudly pay my taxes and not bitch... and still be rich.

I'd also like to point out that these rich people and CEOs are supposed to be the titans of industry.  People we look up to.  They hoard their money for petty reasons and could help improve the economy with simple decisions, but they won't.  I think that's unpatriotic at best, and treasonous at worst.

Black Pastors Protest NAACP's Acceptance of Gay Marriage

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So this is something that I've never understood.  I'm a white atheist, so maybe I'm missing something, but the black religious community being against gay rights is one of the most bizarre things ever.  Supposedly this was a deciding factor in the Prop 8 vote in California in 2008, but there's been evidence that only around 30% of religious black people voted for Prop 8, temporarily banning gay marriage in the state, so that may not hold water.  There is a large movement in the black religious community against gay marriage, but since President Obama came out for marriage equality, the group seems to be getting smaller.

So... I'll give you the quote that bothers me the most: "This is supposed to be an organization for black people who were beaten, who were mistreated and who were enslaved," Owens told The Huffington Post. "You're advocating for something that's not normal, that's not natural. It's still out of line, it's against moral law."

First off, slavery is okay in the bible. 

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

There are guidelines on it and the bible was used as a justification for keeping slavery legal before the American Civil War.  So if you want to use bronze age fairy tales as your measuring stick, you shouldn't be upset about slavery is you are upset about gay marriage. 

Secondly if you take out the enslaved part of the quote, talking about people who were beaten and mistreated... hello?!  That's gays.  Blacks were treated like absolute shit, but gays have had it just as bad and maybe have it worse still.  Interracial marriage and sex are legal and hell gave us the POTUS.  That was illegal for a long time until Civil Rights organizations fought to make it legal.  Now it's more or less acceptable in our society unless you're a knuckle dragging low life who's really concerned about the amount of serotonin in people's skin.  Interracial marriage was also railed against from a biblical perspective, though even as an atheist who dislikes religion, these passages are iffy at best.  It mostly has to due with Hebrews and tribal things.  It's not as straight forward as the slavery passages.
So now you see a group of people who are fighting for their rights, like blacks did in the 60's, and they say, "Oh, it's not the same thing."  Bullshit.  It's the exact same thing and you are a hypocrite for not supporting the struggle for gay equality.

Also, if they are for biblical literacy, then they should not only be mad at the NAACP for supporting gay marriage, but they need to start campaigning for the deaths of homosexuals.

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

I'm not advocating for these things obviously, but it shows how ridiculous and hypocritical their statements are.  This problem within all communities is getting better.  The president has a lot to do with that and in 20 years a lot of the homophobes will be dead or barely participating in society, but that's a long time to wait.  When groups of people who had the same thing done to them claim that it's not the same thing, it just pisses me off.  They could be allies for more liberal causes if they would just stop believing stupid things.

Romey appealing to racists? Duh!

So Romney went to the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization.  He said he was the best president for the African American Community.  Really?  Shit's been hard for everyone since the GOP destroyed the economy, but returning to the policies that got us in this mess in the first place.  Yeah, that's going to help the black community....

Anyway, that's not why I'm writing.  The thing is that no one really believes Romney thinks he's going to pick up black votes here.  No one.  He also went as far to say he was going to repeal 'Obamacare'.  I know virtually everyone is using this term now, on both sides of the aisle, even the president himself, which seems like a conservative victory by choosing the language used.  Romney is a serious candidate (stifles laugh) for president using pundit insults toward the POTUS.  This was one of the biggest achievements for the Obama Administration, which is a point of pride for the black community, so it's not surprising he was booed for this.

With everything above said, not calling it The Affordable Healthcare Act or at least Health Reform, even in the context of repealing it, is insulting the law.  I dislike even people on the left calling it that, because is concedes the argument to conservatives.  Rachel Maddow has done a pretty good job of calling it Health Reform, which is a pretty neutral term. 

Romney pretty much condescending to the NAACP and getting booed will probably make the GOP whack off instantly.  This is pretty much the plan though, he still has trouble with his base after all of his flip flopping on pretty much every subject.

I also urge everyone to use the term flip-flopping when referring to Romney.  The disgusting shit that the GOP pulled in 2004 is reason enough.  Kerry's 'flip-flopping' was based on a lie that the Bush Administration told him and the congress.  Even with the lie being told, I don't agree with Kerry or Hilary's vote for the Iraq War, but with the lies exposed and the WMD's not there, changing his mind on the subject is more than understandable.  2004 was the first election I could vote in.  I started to get into politics that year, but I didn't realize the vitriol thrown at Kerry until I saw Outfoxed and other retrospects on the election.  The man was a war hero and they swift boated him into looking like a POS.  Fox News was mostly responsible for this.  I had a friend at the time that turned me onto that facts about Fox News, I didn't watch the channel at the time, so I didn't know all of the shit that went along with that propaganda outlet. 

So back to Mitt, he'll play this game, but I'm pretty sure he'll lose unless something horrible happens.  He seems to be on the defensive about the Bane stuff (thanks Newt), but anything can happen. 

Anderson Cooper is gay... okay

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I don't have a lot to say about this.  I'm not all that surprised and I'm glad he came out.  He'll be happier.  He'll still have a job at CNN and he'll still be rich.  It's a little self centered, but I'll still be jobless and straight.  He'll still have a dull show that has the GOP toute their crazy ideas about letting the middle class go f*ck themselves and the Democrats will have a common sense or middle of the road ideas.  Then he'll wash his hands and say both sides are even.  His 'keeping them honest' segment should be the whole show.  Why else would you have a news show other than to keep people honest and to tell the truth?  Maybe as an outed gay man and seeing how the right will attack him, he'll start reporting that one party has assorted interests, some corporate and some that really care about the little guy... and one party has lost it's mind and hates everything Obama does, even if it's something they supported in the 90's or mid 00's.  But I doubt it. 

Obama to tackle drug war if re-elected

So here's the Huffpost story .  If this is true, it'll make the crackdowns under his administration more or less worth it.  It sucks that all of those dispensaries were shut down, but if he's going to take federal action to make it less of an offense (or no offense at all?) to carry marijuana, then awesome.

I personally smoke on occassion, but haven't in a while.  I live in Indiana and currently the laws are really harsh even for small amounts.  It makes me nervous.  Plus there's the fact that I'm jobless right now and I have to be clean to find a new job.  And no, I wasn't laid off due to pot smoking.  I hadn't smoked in a month when I got laid off.  I was laid off supposedly due to volume/lack of work.  So if you were to make that arguement, the lack of pot smoking got me laid off.  All kidding aside, as soon as I get a new job or figure something out, I fully intend to smoke up.  Only after work or on the weekends.  I've never went to work high or smoked at work.  I'm one of the responsible ones. 

Hopefully the Obama admin news means something drastic will be done, but only time and a second Obama term will tell.