Random Nuclear Strikes

I saw this nice map today, and it just reminded me of completely and utterly useless the GOP has become.  During a time in our nation when we sorely need a strong, rational voice to counter the economic & fiscal malfeasance of the Obama & G.W.B administrations, here we have the GOP banging the drum about a Muslim version of one of these near Ground Zero.  Our country is bleeding money out of every orifice, and the GOP are all worked up over what is essentially a matter for private individuals to hash out with city government.  They wail about how this will be a terrorist recruitment & staging area, yet the only evidence they have to support this seems to be a rather obtuse game of “6 Degrees of Radical Shitbags”.  They complain about how it’s “Hallowed Ground”, yet the site is sprinkled with Strip Joints, bars, and Naughty Nightie shops (which are establishments Muslims find offensive, yet they still want to build there).    I’ve even heard claims that if they can build Cordoba House, the terrorists will have won, completely ignoring the obvious fact that the terrorists won on the day the Patriot Act was signed, the TSA & Homeland Security came into existence.  The fact that we were practically throwing our liberty & freedom away just to buy an illusion of safety was our greatest defeat.

I know some of the 9/11 families are all upset about this, but really, let’s be realistic, 2976 innocent souls died that day, and with all the to do over 9/11, you had a large number of anguished individuals carrying on about how awful it was that Cousin Bill (twice removed on my mother’s side, who I haven’t seen but 3 times in the past decade, and that was at a wedding or funeral) died in the attacks, and OH! how it just breaks my heart!  Excuse me while I go protest the proposed site, and then go drown my sorrows with a Whiskey Sour and a healthy helping of naked titty over at the New York Dolls, 2 blocks away.

The demagoguery is just pathetic.  They are fighting for relevancy by creating useless demons to slay for political points among a base that must be too stupid to understand the greater threat to our nation.  The willingness for these “leaders” to carve out & rationalize exceptions to the Bill of Rights is absolutely maddening, and the willingness of those who claim to fight for liberty to eagerly support them while they do it makes me want to renounce my citizenship because I’m embarrassed to call these cowards my countrymen.  I won’t even go into how such pissing & moaning plays right into the radicals hands, further painting America as the land of intolerance, bigotry, & double standards.

Reminder:  Tolerance is not being OK with something that annoys you.  It’s permitting something to exist that makes you angry & deeply offends you, because you have no right to rob others of their rights (provided that the practice of their rights does not adversely impact you).  I know people who find homosexual behavior to be deeply offensive, but they still advocate for gay marriage, because they know tolerance.

So, to the GOP & those who buy their rancid filth, fuck off.  Let them have their bloody Mosque et. al., at whatever site they want.  Don’t like the Cordoba House?  Buy the land next to it and open a BBQ joint with lots of roast pig, and put your dumpster next to the Mosque.  But unless they build the place, and then start grabbing people off the street & forcing them to pray, or they declare Sharia Law holds inside the walls while US Law does not (and we allow it, like an embassy), then this is a non-issue!  Stop beating it & focus on coming up with some smart ideas on fixing the financial health of our country.  You politicians don’t even have to come with ideas on your own (we all know the majority of you barely have a room temp IQ), there are lots of real smart conservatives out there with really good ideas who’d love for you to take them & run, but you are all too stupid enjoying the media attention to give them a listen.

Fuck you all, go die in a fire!

But this is just fun and a sound investment opportunity.

I find it disgusting that our service men & women, those who fight & die for our freedoms, are denied even the most basic of freedoms.

Affordable Solar

After last week at work and today’s meeting at school, my post on the racket known as Higher Education is just not getting done.

I’m to the point where I’m rambling quite a lot, which is a good sign, because it means I’m almost to the editing phase.

I’ll post some schtuff when I get back from school.