I love how the United States claims to be the beacon of the world, the way and the light, the bestand mostest Christian nation in the world, the world's only leading superpower, its way or the highway, yet seems to be falling apart at the seams.
To be completely honest with you all, this is my fourth attempt to put into words my thoughts on the current health care debate and the state of the country as a whole. I have no idea how to write my frustration with the sheep that follow who they think are experts. I want to sound smart and knowledgeable, but it all comes too convoluted for even my own brain to make sense of it. My frustration stems from the tactics of the children. I do not feel the human race has much longer if it continues this way. We have no chance to reach a true utopia if people continue this way. Who are the children you may ask? Well, they are the ones telling dumb folks to go out and disrupt real discussion and real debate about health care reform. Whether or not they are Republicans, they are the ones who don't want to the current system to change, who will stop at nothing for progress to be stilted and the new era of America to be stained with naysayers and spoilsports.
The more crazies that get onto the media, the more crazies the world sees and identifies with. I'm just extremely frustrated that these people will never be reasoned with and their opinions will never change. I would like to open a conversation on this, so please comment your thoughts!!!
One more thing:
Firstly, the swastika is wrong if you're comparing Obama to the Nazis. This is why stupid people should not try to make parallels in history. I absolutely love the Nazis-Obama/Democrats parallel, because even though they were called the National Socialist Party, they were not socialist, they were fascist. One man rules while the state owns and controls as much as it can while not giving much to anyone else. I'm not sure the parallels work here... although if the "Kill Grannies" rumor is true, it would be Obama's "Final Solution".
I too am flabbergasted as to the "birther movement" on Barack Obama's citizenship. Obviously these crazy folks don't understand parsimony. Usually the simplest answer is the truth. So the entire conspiracy cannot be true (as with most conspiracies), because it is too complicated and it tries to refute the most basic of facts.
I've tried to restrain myself writing on this topic, as I do not believe it should even be talked about. However, watching this clip, the crazy lady from the Mike Castle town hall (video below), and that other crazy woman from last fall (at McCain's rally), I've had it with this stupid speech.
I've had it to fucking here with these racist idiots. I cannot believe for one minute these people hold at least a high school diploma. Liddy says his STEP grandmother was present at his birth. This is absolutely fascinating. Does anyone know what step means? It means mommy and daddy got divorced and mommy or daddy got remarried some time in the future. Obama's parents were happily together (at least happy enough to have a child and present his birth to the world in a classified ad). There was no STEP mother or father that would have been present at his birth because they weren't with the father or the mother. I would assume that would be abundantly clear, that STEP relatives come later. I'll use myself for example: My STEP father didn't come into my life until I was 9 years old, 9 years after my birth. I met my STEP grandmother 1 or 2 years later. My mom did not know my STEP father at the time of my birth, let alone my STEP grandmother. She would not have been present at my birth.
My second beef is that of crazy lady above and the crowd as a whole. I understand they are mostly Republicans due to Mike Castle; however, none of them should have given credence to this woman. First of all, she holds up a plastic bag with documents in it claiming she is a citizen of the United States because she was born, I guess in Delaware. Fair enough. However, I did some light research and I discovered, as did Chris Matthews, that "Certificate of Live Birth" and "Birth Certificate" are usually interchangeable on what are called "short forms" and can be used to get a driver's license, a passport, and oh yeah, give main evidence for CITIZENSHIP. Liddy continued this yarn when he kept the issue on semantics with Matthews. I believe it is because it says "Live" on it. Otherwise it would say "Certificate of Birth" which, in English, means the same thing as "Birth Certificate" with the use of a preposition. Funny that, English being able to transpose words. It wouldn't very well say "Certificate of Dead Birth", because 1) you wouldn't need one because you're dead and 2) that would be a waste of paper. So, in all fairness, this woman's birth certificate is the same as Obama's, with hers being a long form with doctor's signatures and administrators signatures and the like. I can tell you, my birth certificate is a copy of a copy (from 1986, a Xerox of a Xerox) placed onto super cool embossed LA County paper that is multicolored with a stamp on it by the LA County Registrar. It's not an original by an means. I think I have 3 copies of it. Does this mean my birth can be in question? No, because it is on super cool embossed paper that is multicolored, everyone knows it is real, even though it is not an original. I don't even think the LA County Registrar has the original anymore. Which means my entire life will be summed up in one copy of a copy. Luckily it has my mom's signature on it. Whew, dodged that bullet.
She exclaims she wants her country back. I'm not sure what she means, because she never had it. Unless she owned the United States, it was never hers. It is all of ours. And hey, we have this fucking awesome system that has been in place without major change for over 200 years. It's called our election process. Guess what lady, you had your president for 8 years, putting us in this mess, now it's your turn to sit down and shut up. Our lovely electoral process got a new person with a new agenda, and I am truly sorry your life has a close-minded void in it, but that's not my fault nor my problem. I have no idea where WWII got into the picture, seeing as how Obama's uncle or someone also fought in WWII. Greatest generation or not, they have no business in your argument. Waving around an American flag doesn't help you either.
I've got a problem with anyone who does not maintain a certain level of acting intelligence and decency. By acting intelligence, I mean a level at which one can go through a day aware of one's impact on others around them and a clear understanding of how the world works. You don't have to be smart to have a decent acting intelligence, you just have to be able to understand. I do not believe it is hard for anyone who stops and thinks for a moment before acting. I do not believe it is hard for anyone with integrity and respect for others. I am appalled at this woman's blathering, because she would do everyone a favor by keeping her trap shut. To the Republicans who are cosponsoring a bill to require birth certificate presentation during an election cycle, I feel sorry for you and your constituents that you are wasting everyone's time with this feat of bigotry that has come out of this birther movement, not to mention the 43 presidents that did not have to endure such filth (they were all white).
I'll tell you what, if he needed that Certificate of Live Birth to get a driver's license, to get his passport, and to get into college, then that would be good enough for me to establish citizenship. I have a US passport and driver's license that I had to furnish my birth certificate. When I am 35, I could become president (bad thought, I know). Other than skin color, what would be the difference between Barack Obama and I? Nothing, really.
Again I say to all of you birthers, sit down and shut up. I am afraid I will have to punch anyone I come across spouting this shit, this filth, this stupid speech.
Since secession failed so miserably during the Civil War, you'd think Americans wouldn't use it as a go-to slogan anymore. You'd be wrong in your thinking though. All across the dumbass part of the nation, stupid speech reared it's stupid ugly head yesterday during those god-awful tea party protests.
Even Texas Governor Rick Perry got into the spirit of things by stopping just short of suggesting it speaking at a tea party event. He even signed a bill the other say declaring Texas' sovereignty. And while he was speaking, many people would just scream out "secede!
" It wasn't only in Texas either, and it has been going on for weeks since the stimulus package was passed and signed into law. Ignorant people everywhere who haven't learned about how damaging the Civil War actually was just shout it out because they think they are clever or something.
I have news for everyone who thinks that way: You are not clever. You will never be clever. You will live a hateful life. You will live an ignorant life. You will live a stupid life. Believe in what you want, but if you are truly American you will understand that talk of secession is treason and is punishable by death.
The Civil War was HORRIBLE. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It was a war where more Americans were killed than all the other wars we've fought combined. It is the last war we've fought on American soil. That'd be more than 100 years ago. Before that, remember, we fought most of the wars on our soil (e.g. The Revolution or the War of 1812). It is important to note that the Confederacy was only victorious for so many years because the North and South were starkly different. They had no money, they had very few resources, and by far fewer numbers to recruit (as they did not want to allow black slaves to fight on their side). It was a complete disaster for both sides and something that had to prevented in the future at all costs.
So when people say it is patriotic to secede should crack open in a history and look at how patriotism worked then. And then they should think about their stupid speech, wondering why people in power or supposed authority get the right to say such things. For once, I would like to see someone get arrested for treason or conspiracy to commit treason. Show the sheep what it means to talk about secession. Show them what happened to all of the Confederate States of America when they had to rejoin the Union, including Texas. The country is not best served by fanaticism, but by moderation.
Sure, you don't like what Barack Obama is doing, but hey, we put up with George Bush for 8 years, so you can sit down and shut up, because there were legitimate causes to protest back then, and I don't recall any politician screaming we should secede then. It makes all of you secession screamers look foolish and silly, in addition to dumb and easily swayed to the extreme.
However, you can't to these people. They don't get it, and probably never will, because the talking heads don't want to get it. And thus keeps up the vicious cycle of stupid speech.
So, I'm sure you've all heard about reverse speech found in music and spoken words. It is something that is made fun of by comedians and anyone with a brain. It is used by fear mongers to advance an agenda to the unwitting public. But it actually has some psychological underpinnings. It can be studied, and it has been studied by cognitive psychologists. But first a little taste:
So Barack tells us to serve Satan, and all that jazz, just by reversing his phrases. You would totally be surprised at how many words int he English language when reversed sound like Satan. Now, I used the word "sound like" because no one can be totally sure the reversed audio is actually saying "Satan".
The term used for reversed audio is backmasking, which basically means hiding a message purposefully in reversed music or speech, for a dastardly agenda, like telling people to subconsciously serve Satan. However, if one is not told what to listen for, then most of the time you won't hear what is purported to be said. The main problem with the Rachel Maddow clip is that she shows us what is being said, written on the screen, so your brain doesn't hear the audio without any previously gained knowledge. It is the main difference for top-down and bottom-up processing of information. Bottom-up processing is what your brain would have to do to the reversed audio if you never heard it before and weren't given any cues as to what is being said. Top-down is what the clip did. You read the information presented on the screen, and the more times the audio was played the better you "heard" what it was saying. You were given the knowledge beforehand, which makes it top-down processing.
Not to bore you, but the research I have done, and hope to continue to do, is instead of presenting the actual words of the phrases of the backmasked audio, I presented visual stimuli, i.e. pictures, of what the main item of the phrases were. The majority of the people could not decipher the reversed audio. Which means that the visual stimuli did not present the information necessary to make the processing top-down. Thus, it can be said that backmasking may not be real if one is not told what to listen for.
There are people that are huge proponents of backmasking, essentially with the evil messages of Satan and telling kids to kill people or smoke stuff. Now, I have a test for you:
Listen to the first video/audio for the forward music. Then listen to the second one for the reversed audio. Comment what you think the reversed one is saying. NO cheating either!
(They are links to .mp3 files; they should play automatically in your browser depending on what you're using.)
If you can't get it, I'll tell you later, but you have to work it out for yourself. It is gonna be hard, just a fair warning. However, if you've heard it before and know the answer, it will be as apparent as forward speech. I've heard it so many times, I cannot get it out of my head unless somebody hits me really hard, and even then, who knows if it will be gone.
So the moral of the story is: don't believe everything you hear. Just support Obama and Satan.
Just a quick edit: Here's a site that has a good amount of backmasked audio from famous music sources: BackmaskOnline
So what is it with this woman? Is she Joe McCarthy reincarnated? Is it some weird ritual that put his soul into her body, like in The Mummy 2? What is it with her? She spews hate like she's a hate-breathing dragon. I get she has her views on the world, but do they have to be so utterly extreme? Does she have to tell the poor confused moderate part of the country that "re-education camps" are what Obama wants to do? Does she realize that she uses words that are intentionally loaded? Does she not understand that people will take her words literally? Does she not understand that people are dying taking words literally (e.g. the Koran)?
I thought when Barack Obama was elected by a large margin over Old Man and Crazy Hypocrite, the country had agreed that right-wing policies were failing the country as a whole. I guess not, seeing as how left-wing policies need to be stopped at all costs! We cannot elect a liberal-centrist and allow him to change the country the way he sees it! Don't be silly, we elect a liberal, but they must follow conservative agendas. That's how the US works.
Wrong. That's how Michelle Bachmann thinks the country works. Lucky for the rest of us, she doesn't get much of a say int eh House of Reps, seeing she is the in the minority of the minority.
She needs to go away. She needs to get out of national politics. Resign, or something. The Radio hosts says at the beginning of the movie that she hopes MB runs against Amy Klobuchar in 2012 for the Senate seat. I hope she does, because Amy Klobuchar has a bigger chance to win the entire state than Michelle Bachmann can squeeze out in her own district. Then she'll be out of the House and Senate! One can only hope.
However, there is one upside to her spouting off her mouth: She and people like Sarah Palin keep putting their feet further down their mouths, digging the hole of the über-conservative part of the Republican party deeper and deeper.
I guess I'll keep up my crusade against stupid speech. I'll be keeping my eye on her. Don't think Part Deux the last...
I was just reading about Michael Steele's latest CNN interview and he said he was 'done' with reaching out to Obama.
I've been watching his media circus rounds with an amazement that only rivals what I thought of Sarah Palin. He is a tool like no other. First he says the government doesn't make jobs only work, then he says that Rush Limbaugh is a monster (or something like that), then he apologizes to Rush a day later because he's afraid he's going to lose electors, then he says he plans everything, including all of his squabbles, and now he is acting like a child toward Obama.
I'm with Rachel Maddow on this. I hope he stays around, constantly putting his foot in his mouth so the stupid conservatives keep up the in-fighting and petty squabbling instead of actually showing the voters they can get shit done. Steele looks goofy, acts goofy and is downright retarded. I think as a person not of the media there's a catch-22. I don't care for what he says but I can't get enough of his idiocy.
I'm going to keep watching him contradict himself right and left, on things like abortion rights, the role of the Republicans in national and regional politics, and the Obama administration. Because there is nothing better than a politician being constantly reminded that he remains a populist, never holding to a set of core beliefs.
I stumbled across this lovely video on YouTube just now. It's a promo for this guy Alex Jones' conspiracy documentary on Obama lying to us about everything and that bankers control the world. YouTube does have the hour-45 minute documentary, but I won't bore you with that, so here's the 5-minute preview:
Aside from the fact that he's high on cocaine, watch the parallels that are drawn together in the images. It is very powerful stuff to human perception to match crazy music, with random images of those you are discussing, and with speech not directly tied to those images. It sets up straw man tactics, red herrings, ad hominem attacks. There are countless in the five minutes this guy is blabbing. He juxtaposes the "All-Seeing Eye" with the White House, he uses emotionally charged words such as "Ponzi scheme" that all the bankers are using to gain massive wealth, and he gives no evidence for his statement that the government plans to use military force on the American public. For one thing, the military IS the American public, and the government IS the people. No way any of us would let it happen. Those are just a few of what I caught when I watched through it once. There is definitely more. Oh, and he repeats himself. For what reason, I'm not sure, but what I can be sure of--it's dumb.
Can we put a lid on stupid speech? I'm all for free speech, as long as it isn't a waste of oxygen, and is coherent and lucid. But all of these crazy conspiracy theorists out there ruin free speech for the rest of us. They make it stupid speech, and I can't stand stupid speech. Just stop moving your mouth, Mr. Jones, and we'll all be better off.
God, I can't believe I share a name with this guy. The horror!
It's been a while since I've posted and I apologize. I've been really busy and lazy! Ok, so this got me a little annoyed yesterday: This is Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Fixed Noise complaining that Obama has been AWOL during these past 2 weeks in trying to get a stimulus billed passed. He says it about 1:30 mark of the video.
Now I don't know about anyone else, but what is this guy smoking? Where has he been for the last month? Perhaps for the last 2 weeks? If anyone's been AWOL, it's you, Sen. Graham! Obama has been pushing this stimulus plan, even before he was elected. He was pushing it day-in and day-out while he was President-Elect. He hasn't stopped leading the fight on for this bill. What do you think all the lunches and meetings have been with Republican lawmakers have been for? For nothing? Did he invite you and others to cocktail parties because he's got a huge new house for everyone to see? I'm sure you've seen it before. He won the election and the people spoke the Republicans should sit down and shut up.
It doesn't make any sense for peeps to be blaming Obama for their own stupidity. It's unbelievable to me that more people haven't told their representatives to stop talking and start acting. You work for us. Not for your own ideologies, and certainly not for your own personal gain. You have absolutely no idea what the situation is because you're a US Senator and save for being a horrible human being, you can't lose your job until your term ends. You've got more than one house most likely. You don't see what the economy is doing to normal working folks. Stop lolly-gagging and shut the fuck up. I don't understand how we get anything done in this country with fucktards like Lindsey Graham running around with loose lips that sink ships.
It's a catch-22 at this point, because we've got politicians and then we've got politicians. They never stop talking. This shit is extremely simple. A government cannot work if there is constant roadblocking. We might as well sit for the next 4 years with our hands neatly folded why we wait for the next election, watching the world crumble around us. Who cares, right?
I am so fucking glad life is progressive in nature, and hopefully by the time I'm an old man I can see the crazy religious right go down in flames, as it is surely beginning now.
I'm not sure if I understand what the entire hullabaloo is on Obama choosing Rick Warren for his inauguration invocation.
So, the way I see it, a religious ceremony begins the state ceremony. Not so much separate, but that's another story for another day. It doesn't mean Warren is now apart of Obama's administration, offering any advice, or involved in any decision making or policy debate. I'm not even sure Obama even owes anyone an explanation for the choices he makes.
I get that many minority groups helped get him elected, and he was the way better choice than old man McCain and crazy lady Palin, but I am certain that not every group is going to be happy about every choice he makes. Bottom line is that he can't please everyone at once. He's going to make a certain group happy while he annoys another. He'll then make the one he annoyed happy while making the other annoyed. It's a political cycle that is inherent from human behavior and human nature.
Perhaps then blog posts like Chris Durang's post on The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/gay-and-feeling-hurt-by-o_b_152348.html, feel a little misplaced. He speaks to the fact that Obama has his own reason for choosing Rick Warren, but he feels left out since he is gay. I understand his argument about the non-afflicted not feeling the affliction, but I'm not sure he understands that he too is one that is non-afflicted, such as what faces a young Latina in certain places of the world.
I don't know, maybe I'm so jaded by things, and don't take offense to much, but unless something is really egregious, like Obama saying "All gay people should die," I don't think the gay community should be angered by such a small action of choosing Rick Warren for the invocation, as I believe it will disappear very quickly from the collective consciousness of the nation and the world. It is an historic event, but to focus on such a small bit of it seems, like I said, misplaced, and nitpicky. I don't think an invocation is necessary for an inauguration, but seems religion is a powerful force in culture, I let it alone. I know that Rick Warren has horrible views on homosexuality, and that he supported Prop 8, but I can't fault Obama from doing what he wants at his own inauguration.
And on the new meanderings about Warren becoming Obama's new Reverend Wright controversy crap, I say shut it because it's just stupid. There's no reason for this comparison, and people need to stop getting butt-hurt about it. Not to be insensitive to the gay community, as I strongly feel Prop 8 is horrible, but there are other things to direct your energy, like overturning Prop 8, instead of vilifying Warren for 5 minutes in the spotlight. You get Obama for 4 years, possibly 8 years, and we can work toward a more perfect union, inclusive of homosexuals and other minorities alike.
