Archive for 14th May 2006
Right here, Happy Maternal Oppression Day:
Today is the day that we feminists simultaneously exalt and pity our mothers in a (hopefully) mutually-reinforced ritual of sorrow and righteous anger.
Really now, can it get any more idiotic than that?
A low, slow, grateful tip of the hat to Bullwinkle Blog for this gem:
Jim: And you realize that the proper stance in the war on terror and/or Iran under Speaker Pelosi is to put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye?
Angry GOP grassroot voter: Yes, but I’m really angry!
Jim: And you realize that you’re also kinda retarded.
Oh yeah. I did the “I’m so pissed off I’m voting for the other guy” thing in 92 — though I did not vote for the sleazebag again in 96. Two words:
Never.
Again.
Thanks to Harvey, I found this gem of feminonsense, about a chicken sandwich commercial:
It’s an ideological piece of propaganda designed to justify two things: the annihilation of chicken’s lives and the annihilation of the human female’s self esteem. These are related, meat-eating and sexism
Chortle! And how does she “know” this nonsense?
and I know this because scholar Carol Adams has explained it all in her books and demonstrates it with examples pulled from popular culture in her wonderful slide presentation which she gives at universities all across the land.
And that would be more of that “feminist research” (that’s an oxymoron), based on nothing whatsoever, save the author’s “feelings” and “perceptions,” like all “feminist research.” The fact that this Carol Adams idiot has presented her feminonsense at universities all across the land means nothing more than universities are full of idiots (no surprise at all there), who will believe any PC crap that comes down the line.
There is no end to idiocy — particularly from feminists — on the Web. And what would we do for entertainment without these morons?
If you saw the “Smug Alert” episode of South Park (clips here), and if you’ve ever lived in Bloomington, Indiana, then you know how perfectly SP nailed Bloomington’s smug, self-congratulatory leftist population. You don’t even have to get out of your car there to see the local hippie wannabes sniffing their own farts:
Bloomington badly wants to be Berkeley, and that says it all.
The Smug Alert is always at least Very High in Bloomington because the moonbats are always everywhere, and never retreat back under their rocks. But should you be visiting — or, God forbid, moving to — Bloomington, here are some things you need to know.
Bloomington is home to the Dalai Lama’s brother and a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Local moonbats, being very into paganism, “alternative medicine,” (the Bloomington area is the home of that nutcase of all nutcases and con, Hulda Clark), veganism, “spirituality,” interpretive dance, auras, crystals and other such nonsense, are very into Tibet. They couldn’t find it on a map or tell you what continent it’s on, but they’re very into All Things Tibetan. If you spend any significant time in Bloomington, you’ll find yourself wishing somebody would nuke Tibet off the face of the earth so you don’t have it crammed down your throat anymore.
Oh. And don’t eat at either of the Tibetan restaurants, unless you enjoy dull food, and don’t mind dead flies floating in your organic, free-range water.
Bloomington is so overgrown with mature trees that spots with full sun are nearly impossible to find, so overgrown that if you cut down every other tree in Bloomington, you wouldn’t be able to tell half the trees are gone. However, all you have to do to get elected in Bloomington is squeal “Save our trees!” and “Developers rape the Earth Goddess!” If you move there, steel yourself for a city council that is nothing but envirowackjob, socialist asshats. And tell Jeff Ellington (who always runs but never gets elected, because he has a brain) hi for me.
Despite the fact that every local newspaper article and every letter to the editor about bicyclists there insists that they always obey the rules of the road, I can’t remember the last time I saw a bicyclist who didn’t flout every law imaginable — I’m sure that at some point, I have seen a law-abiding bicyclist there, but I can’t remember it.
Speaking of roads, prepare yourselves for idiot drivers. They’re leftists. They’re perpetually SKEERED! They sit at four-way stops waiting for every car coming within sight to get there, and then they wave everybody through because they’re too stupid to remember who goes when, and they’re too SKEERED! to go unless there’s no car in sight. They sit at the stoplight and watch it after it turns green, because they’re too stupid to remember what color means what, and because they’re too SKEERED! that some car might come out of nowhere, run a red light, and ram them. They slow to 2 mph to turn corners because they’re SKEERED! that the car might otherwise flip over. They drive at ridiculously slow speeds, paying no attention to what lane they are in or should be in, paying attention to the trees, the sky, everything but driving, because they have no lives and nothing to do and no place to be.
Then there are the “traffic calming” devices. Bloomington government reps are soooooo stupid and soooooo SKEERED! somebody might drive at a normal rate of speed like a normal human being with a real life and someplace to be and SKEER! somebody that they spend millions of dollars on “traffic calming” devices in a town with next to no economy, where if anything, they need “traffic exciting” devices. And speaking of wasting money they don’t have, be sure to check out the sewage treatment plant water park between north Walnut and College. It won some sort of moonbat award, which didn’t surprise me at all.
I used to think Bloomington was some sort of magnet that drew nutcases. I now realize that it’s the nutcase students who stay in Bloomington, which after a few years, results in a town full of nutcases. And if anyplace is full of nutcases, Bloomington is (and the nuttier you are, the better your chances at getting elected to the city council).
Now, about the Smug Alert in Bloomington.
Every Saturday morning from May until October, the Smug Alert spikes, from its usual Very High to Extremely High. This is because of the farmers’ market, which should be called the old hippies, vegan wacko, and socialist workers party market. All the nuttiest Bloomingtonians gather in one place and roam around shoving petitions in your face and wearing REVOLUTION NOW! T-shirts, while some pathetic local leftist talentless musicians add their off-tune, PC lyrics as a background.
The minute you cross onto campus, the Smug Alert spikes to Extremely High. In fact, almost every time you encounter anyone associated with the university, fart sniffing becomes deep inhaling, as everyone congratulates themselves on how wonderfully DIVERSE Bloomington is. “Diversity” horseshit is wading-boots deep in Bloomington.
The deep inhaling of farts becomes unprecedentedly deep, however, every fall during the Lotus Music Festival. Officially, the Smug Alert goes off the charts, and the local wackos take all the multiculturalist nonsense to levels otherwise unseen, even at Berkeley. This is really a shame, since all by itself, the Lotus Festival is harmless, and parts are even enjoyable. Wear your masks.
After a week there, I’m very glad to be back here, thanks very much.
On Little Green Footballs there is a story about Brandeis turning two of its Christian chapels into a mosque:
Brandeis University, founded by the Jewish community in 1948 partly as a response to Jewish quotas at Ivy League schools, is considering combining its two Christian chapels to make room for a mosque.
Unfortunately, I can outdo that. At a certain ESL program (which shall remain unidentified, lest I forever end up on shitlists I do not want to be on), an ESL program where space for staff and teachers is at a premium, the administration offered the Saudi students one of the teachers’ offices as a prayer room.
Never mind that they had to kick the teachers out of the office, and there wasn’t enough room even with that office.
Never mind that just three blocks down the street is a mosque.
No, it seemed like a good idea to kick the teachers out of their office so those poor little Saudi students wouldn’t have to walk three blocks to the mosque and could pray there instead.
Five words, all together now:
Give.
Me.
A.
Fucking.
Break.
This is hilarious — my favorite part:
Appallingly, a federal court order requires that criminals have a “right” to cable TV in jail (how thoughtful of the Founding Fathers to include that provision in the Constitution). However, in Arpaio’s jails, the only channels you’ll see are Disney and the Weather Channel, and the latter can’t be much solace when it’s promising 120-degree heat to thugs on their way out to work in the sun.
But that’s not the only entertainment for the inmates. Arpaio treats them to a Newt Gingrich lecture series. When asked if he were going to play lectures by a Democrat, he replied that a Democrat’s lectures would explain why they were in jail in the first place.
When the inmates whined after he stopped serving coffee, Sheriff Joe replied:
“This isn’t the Ritz-Carlton. If you don’t like it, don’t come back.”
Others complain about his tent city jails. Joe’s response:
“It’s 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn’t commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!”
Not enough television sets? You’ve got to be kidding.
We took our unread mail to Indiana, and one of the last things we read was the newsletter from our homeowners’ association. And when we read it, well, I’ll let you be the judge. Just a few problems.
Thorndale, btw, is the next street over.
I read this CNN story, half expecting to see that the ACLU was going to take them to court:
Ground zero’s steel cross to be part of memorial
The two steel beams were left standing after WTC collapseNEW YORK (AP) — The foundation in charge of developing ground zero’s memorial and museum pledged to permanently display the two pieces of steel left standing in the shape of a cross after the World Trade Center collapsed.
WTC Memorial Foundation President and CEO Gretchen Dykstra agreed to find a place for the artifact at the site, though she acknowledged it’s a delicate issue and viewers should be allowed to draw their own conclusions about whether it has religious significance.
During recovery efforts in the days after the September 11 attacks, the two intersecting beams were treated with reverence by some rescue workers. The artifact was interpreted by some as a sign of hope. Religious services were held near where it stood in the smoking rubble. It remains at the site more than four years later.
“The artifact will be treated with utmost respect, but again as a public institution, we will not explicitly offer religious services in association with the artifact,” Dykstra wrote in a letter Friday to Kenneth Ringler, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site.
Dykstra said the cross could be placed in the underground museum, which is set to open in 2009, or the outdoor memorial called “Reflecting Absence” that will fill eight of ground zero’s 16 acres with two reflecting pools marking the spots where the towers stood.
“We agree wholeheartedly that this important and essential artifact belongs at the WTC site and affirm that its respectful placement, possibly with the memorial museum, will be a considered part of our content planning process,” she said.
Officials have yet to decide whether the cross would remain at the site during construction.
The Port Authority scrapped plans to temporarily store it for safekeeping in a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport after clergy groups protested.
The Rev. Brian Jordan, who has worked to keep the cross near the site, has said one likely temporary location is the side wall of St. Peter’s Church, which faces ground zero.
I must say I’m almost amazed that Pataki’s little band of merry leftists in charge of ground zero decided to leave the cross. Think the ACLU will challenge it in court?
Linked to StopTheACLU.com