I blew off some steam about reproductive rights on my main blog. Check it out here if you are interested:
http://beckyispassingthrough.blogspot.in/2012/04/v-is-for-vagina.html
http://beckyispassingthrough.blogspot.in/2012/04/v-is-for-vagina.html
Showing posts with label Asshattery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asshattery. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Grilling Ted Nugent
I’ve been plenty clear before about how I feel about
listening to Ted Nugent’s political opinions. The man has them, just like
everyone else. I have yet to figure out why we’re so hell bent on giving him a platform
to speak from.
Apparently, Nugent shot off his mouth and made some remarks
that ruffled some feathers. Now he’s claiming that the Secret Service needs to
come interview him. Really Secret Service? You have nothing better to do than
interviewing hot headed aging rock stars? To make this dog and pony show just a
little bit more silly, Glenn Beck is doing us the favor of gracing us with more
attention on Uncle Ted.
Oh Ted. I’m very happy for you that your career in music is
so fruitful that you’re still giving concerts. Perhaps you should stick with
that. At least give us some solid reason why you need to have TV time to shoot
off political opinion. Seriously, why are you still getting air time? This is
like people using my blog as news – it’s not. I don’t expect to get tons of
attention because I have opinions, why should you?
Glenn, I really don’t have much to say to you besides stop
being such a stupid douche canoe, but I know you’re not listening anyhow.
Whatever.
Becky
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
So You Wanna Be a Martyr
Listening to: Hercules
Mood: Content and calm
I just saw on the news today that Kahlid Sheik Mohammad’s trial is finally under way at Gitmo. It seems that our friendly neighborhood 9/11 terrorist would like to receive the death sentence and become a martyr. Keep in mind that this is a man who freely admits to orchestrating the suffering and death of thousands of innocent civilians. Enthusiastically. Is there any reason that anyone should care what this man wants, nonetheless give him what he wants?
So. Now that he was stupid enough to make his preference known, why in the world should we not do everything humanly possible to avoid turning this man into a martyr? Wouldn’t a miserable life in prison be much better of a punishment? The whole idea of justice and punishment is to keep society in line and discourage others from following the same path. Why should we encourage individuals to plan massive pain and suffering because of ideological differences only to have the consequences amount to becoming a hero in death? It makes no sense.
I generally hold this person in very low regard. He has proven himself to be arrogant, cruel, and stupid. I mean seriously. If you wanted to be a martyr, the best strategy when being judged by a country with a score to settle would probably have been to keep your mouth shut. You probably would have gotten your wish without much ado. I’m sure your lawyer would have explained this to you, had you not been arrogant enough to appoint yourself as your council. However, now that you have once again selfishly made your preferences known, I’m sure most Americans would much rather keep you alive just on principal rather than let you further your ideological religious heroism.
I’m not even going to get into how I feel about people who have no respect for the differences of others, not to mention causing intentional pain and suffering. I would be up on my soap box for hours.
So seriously, dude. Just shut up and think about what you’ll do about your trial. I hope you’re prepared to become someone’s bitch in jail for a long, long time. In fact, let’s just pipe in Eric Cartman’s “Kyle’s mom is a bitch” song just for good measure. I personally would find that to be fantastic poetic justice. Is that vengeful? Well, yes. In other circumstances, I would find it to be too severe. But bombing two huge buildings full of innocent people for religious reasons seems a bit vengeful too. Someone who has no respect for human life or differences really doesn’t deserve too much respect in return either.
Becky
Mood: Content and calm
I just saw on the news today that Kahlid Sheik Mohammad’s trial is finally under way at Gitmo. It seems that our friendly neighborhood 9/11 terrorist would like to receive the death sentence and become a martyr. Keep in mind that this is a man who freely admits to orchestrating the suffering and death of thousands of innocent civilians. Enthusiastically. Is there any reason that anyone should care what this man wants, nonetheless give him what he wants?
So. Now that he was stupid enough to make his preference known, why in the world should we not do everything humanly possible to avoid turning this man into a martyr? Wouldn’t a miserable life in prison be much better of a punishment? The whole idea of justice and punishment is to keep society in line and discourage others from following the same path. Why should we encourage individuals to plan massive pain and suffering because of ideological differences only to have the consequences amount to becoming a hero in death? It makes no sense.
I generally hold this person in very low regard. He has proven himself to be arrogant, cruel, and stupid. I mean seriously. If you wanted to be a martyr, the best strategy when being judged by a country with a score to settle would probably have been to keep your mouth shut. You probably would have gotten your wish without much ado. I’m sure your lawyer would have explained this to you, had you not been arrogant enough to appoint yourself as your council. However, now that you have once again selfishly made your preferences known, I’m sure most Americans would much rather keep you alive just on principal rather than let you further your ideological religious heroism.
I’m not even going to get into how I feel about people who have no respect for the differences of others, not to mention causing intentional pain and suffering. I would be up on my soap box for hours.
So seriously, dude. Just shut up and think about what you’ll do about your trial. I hope you’re prepared to become someone’s bitch in jail for a long, long time. In fact, let’s just pipe in Eric Cartman’s “Kyle’s mom is a bitch” song just for good measure. I personally would find that to be fantastic poetic justice. Is that vengeful? Well, yes. In other circumstances, I would find it to be too severe. But bombing two huge buildings full of innocent people for religious reasons seems a bit vengeful too. Someone who has no respect for human life or differences really doesn’t deserve too much respect in return either.
Becky
Saturday, April 12, 2008
How Not to be a Popular Presidential Candidate
Listening to: Ahhhhh. Quiet.
Mood: Calm
I'll give you a hint - your first step is becoming Barak Obama.
So I was watching Jon Stewart the other night and had a good laugh about Barak Obama. Well, not specifically about him, but about the brouhaha that arose from something he did. Now I’ve blogged on Obama before and his choice to not wear a flag pin, but this just set the bar lower for the idiocy that is syndicated news. It seems now that not only do you HAVE to wear a flag pin to be a good president, you also have to…….wait for it, wait for it…………be fantastic at bowling!! That’s right boys and girls. If you do not know how to bowl, or are just horrible at it, you will not be a good president of these here United States.
Now I really like Barak Obama as a candidate. I will come on the record as endorsing him. (as if anyone cared….) He has an honest, hardworking air about him that I think would come as a breath of fresh air to this country. He has handled the race issue beautifully, especially after the sermon issue with the pastor that arose recently. It was SO heartening to see a candidate look an issue in the face and speak to the American public as adults and challenge them to raise their own standards of judgment and behavior. I loved it.
When are we (as in the media) going to focus on what’s really important? Are you really that hard up for news that you have to make fun of someone for their bowling score? This is not local news!! Are your priorities and perception of leadership really so screwed up that you consider bowling something to report on? Perhaps if it was just a passing reference to Barak trying to reach the blue collar audience and that he went bowling I wouldn’t be so incredulous.
*Sigh*. They should make leadership classes mandatory in high school. I understand that not everyone wants to or can be a leader, but we should have the common sense as adults to recognize the traits that make a good leader. Perhaps then more people would be calling this baloney what it is.
Becky
Mood: Calm
I'll give you a hint - your first step is becoming Barak Obama.
So I was watching Jon Stewart the other night and had a good laugh about Barak Obama. Well, not specifically about him, but about the brouhaha that arose from something he did. Now I’ve blogged on Obama before and his choice to not wear a flag pin, but this just set the bar lower for the idiocy that is syndicated news. It seems now that not only do you HAVE to wear a flag pin to be a good president, you also have to…….wait for it, wait for it…………be fantastic at bowling!! That’s right boys and girls. If you do not know how to bowl, or are just horrible at it, you will not be a good president of these here United States.
Now I really like Barak Obama as a candidate. I will come on the record as endorsing him. (as if anyone cared….) He has an honest, hardworking air about him that I think would come as a breath of fresh air to this country. He has handled the race issue beautifully, especially after the sermon issue with the pastor that arose recently. It was SO heartening to see a candidate look an issue in the face and speak to the American public as adults and challenge them to raise their own standards of judgment and behavior. I loved it.
When are we (as in the media) going to focus on what’s really important? Are you really that hard up for news that you have to make fun of someone for their bowling score? This is not local news!! Are your priorities and perception of leadership really so screwed up that you consider bowling something to report on? Perhaps if it was just a passing reference to Barak trying to reach the blue collar audience and that he went bowling I wouldn’t be so incredulous.
*Sigh*. They should make leadership classes mandatory in high school. I understand that not everyone wants to or can be a leader, but we should have the common sense as adults to recognize the traits that make a good leader. Perhaps then more people would be calling this baloney what it is.
Becky
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Pakistan Vs. Iran - It's Nuclear
Listening To: Patience – Guns N Roses
Mood: Tired
I’ve been meaning to write on this subject for quite some time now at least long before both countries came into the spotlight for totally different issues. Unless you have been on a different planet (like, say, Saturn) lately, you will have heard about the findings that Iran has not developed weapons grade uranium nor does it plan to in the near future. This happened in spite of all of the posturing and pissing contests being held between our fearless, fake cowboy, leader and Iran’s short and conservative Ahmadinejad. You will also have heard about Pakistan’s recent drama with President Musharraf refusing to disrobe (well, not exactly disrobing, but it sounds so much more fun than just taking off his uniform!) and the unfortunate demise of Benezir Bhutto.
I haven’t been hearing as much lately, but the presidential candidates have been participating in some saber rattling over Iran and how we will definitely go after them if they don’t bow down and kiss our ass and do what we say. Now, I’m not mindlessly pro-Iran. They definitely have their own problems with religious nutcases and infrastructure. I don’t know that I want them to have nuclear weapons capabilities either because there are a lot of power hungry nutcases who would use them in the wrong way. However, in this case I think I admire Iran. They basically bent over and mooned the US and told us where to stick it instead of letting the US bully them. They were right that we had no authority to tell them that they were to get rid of any and all nuclear things. Hats off to Ahmadinejad for having cojones.
What concerns me is not so much that we’re going after Iran, but that we’re bothering them and completely ignoring Pakistan’s decent into chaos. A country that already has weapons grade nuclear capacity. Let’s wade just a little further into this cesspool of ridiculousness. Ahmadinejad seems to be an intelligent guy. As we determined, he has balls and knows how to conduct himself politically in the world. He has his own mind and stands up for himself. Iran isn’t the model democratic country, but they really have a lot more order than, say, Afghanistan or Pakistan. There is an infrastructure and a strong leadership, even if fanaticism rears its head at times. Pakistan, on the other hand, has been, and continues to, spin farther and farther out of any semblance of order and control. If you need proof of this, just take a look at Pakistan’s Northwestern Frontier Province (NFP) and Balochistan. Not only are these areas completely out of any government control, they are under the control of local war lords who thumb their noses at Musharraf and do what they want. Pakistan has numerous problems with porous borders in these areas into and out of Afghanistan, a major production center for religious nut jobs with control issues. I have my own theories that Bin Laden himself is indeed within Pakistan instead of Afghanistan, but I’ll save that for another day. I know for certain that I don’t want anyone in Afghanistan having nuclear knowledge. In case anyone is still interested in Afghanistan (you know, the country that started our latest meddling in the middle east…..) the Taliban nutcases are starting to come back out of the woodwork and being pains in peoples’ asses again. On top of all this nonsense, Pakistan is going through what promises to be a transitional phase with the government.
So why are we so blind to the situation in Pakistan? Why are we not giving the situation due attention? A few reasons. Number 1, we (as in we the White House) like Pres. Musharraf. Well, we like the fact that we can control him for the most part. Number 2, we would rather have the evil that we know (i.e. Musharraf) rather than a religious fanatic that we don’t. Number 3, we (again as in we the White House) want oil, and Pakistan is pretty well useless in this regard. Iran on the other hand would be a strategic resource for oil snatching.
A few rebuttals for these points:
1. Pakistan has, and probably always will be, bought by the highest bidder in the interest of the country. Has anyone in the White house looked into the history of Pakistan?? Seriously?? It is truly an insane place. The governments in Pakistan have a history of changing loyalty and interests like they change underwear. Whatever/whoever they gain the most from has their attention for the moment. The fallacy that we have Pakistan under our thumb is just that – a fallacy. If some country offers them lots of money to pass on technology they’re not gonna say, “Gee, the US probably wouldn’t like that….,” they’re gonna pass it on.
2. Musharraf is a temporary calm in the storm. As I mentioned, the government in Pakistan is unstable. We recently saw a serious jockeying for control in Pakistan because Musharraf decided that he was going to throw a tantrum and not take off his uniform, prompting Bhutto and Shariff to see the opportunity to take over in the event that the world turned against him. Anyhow, as we already determined, they already have nuclear technology. If they can’t get their government in order, how are they ever going to keep state secrets like nuclear technology?
3. Musharraf helping us to police his section of the world in regards to terrorists is another fallacy. Musharraf has no more control over certain sections of Pakistan (like the ones that cater to and harbor terrorists) than you or I. As I mentioned, the reality is that local war lords rule their territory with complete authority and a ferocity that Musharraf really has no desire to go up against. Musharraf has never really stood up to, nonetheless taken a stand against the religious fanatics that reside in his own country.
4. Invading Iran, whether it’s recognized as an oil snatching maneuver or not, would be a devastating decision for the US. Iran is not going to fall over like Iraq did. I would place money on the fact that Ahmadinejad will not be hiding in any underground tunnels. He will be directing the beating of the US army with a stick – most likely with the support of a large section of the world. Does anyone really think that Iran has not taken notice of the events of the past 3 years along with our cavalier attitude towards telling Iran what to do and not made plans about how to defend itself? I’m not thinking so.
I could probably go on about this for a few more pages, but I’ll stop now and post this. Please do not support a candidate who jumps on the bandwagon about Iran. It’s just not worth it. Our country needs to do some serious diplomacy research and actions in order to restore our face in the mind of the world. We have seriously wasted our good name and lots of patience in the past few years, and going vigilante on Iran would be a huge mistake to make.
Becky
Mood: Tired
I’ve been meaning to write on this subject for quite some time now at least long before both countries came into the spotlight for totally different issues. Unless you have been on a different planet (like, say, Saturn) lately, you will have heard about the findings that Iran has not developed weapons grade uranium nor does it plan to in the near future. This happened in spite of all of the posturing and pissing contests being held between our fearless, fake cowboy, leader and Iran’s short and conservative Ahmadinejad. You will also have heard about Pakistan’s recent drama with President Musharraf refusing to disrobe (well, not exactly disrobing, but it sounds so much more fun than just taking off his uniform!) and the unfortunate demise of Benezir Bhutto.
I haven’t been hearing as much lately, but the presidential candidates have been participating in some saber rattling over Iran and how we will definitely go after them if they don’t bow down and kiss our ass and do what we say. Now, I’m not mindlessly pro-Iran. They definitely have their own problems with religious nutcases and infrastructure. I don’t know that I want them to have nuclear weapons capabilities either because there are a lot of power hungry nutcases who would use them in the wrong way. However, in this case I think I admire Iran. They basically bent over and mooned the US and told us where to stick it instead of letting the US bully them. They were right that we had no authority to tell them that they were to get rid of any and all nuclear things. Hats off to Ahmadinejad for having cojones.
What concerns me is not so much that we’re going after Iran, but that we’re bothering them and completely ignoring Pakistan’s decent into chaos. A country that already has weapons grade nuclear capacity. Let’s wade just a little further into this cesspool of ridiculousness. Ahmadinejad seems to be an intelligent guy. As we determined, he has balls and knows how to conduct himself politically in the world. He has his own mind and stands up for himself. Iran isn’t the model democratic country, but they really have a lot more order than, say, Afghanistan or Pakistan. There is an infrastructure and a strong leadership, even if fanaticism rears its head at times. Pakistan, on the other hand, has been, and continues to, spin farther and farther out of any semblance of order and control. If you need proof of this, just take a look at Pakistan’s Northwestern Frontier Province (NFP) and Balochistan. Not only are these areas completely out of any government control, they are under the control of local war lords who thumb their noses at Musharraf and do what they want. Pakistan has numerous problems with porous borders in these areas into and out of Afghanistan, a major production center for religious nut jobs with control issues. I have my own theories that Bin Laden himself is indeed within Pakistan instead of Afghanistan, but I’ll save that for another day. I know for certain that I don’t want anyone in Afghanistan having nuclear knowledge. In case anyone is still interested in Afghanistan (you know, the country that started our latest meddling in the middle east…..) the Taliban nutcases are starting to come back out of the woodwork and being pains in peoples’ asses again. On top of all this nonsense, Pakistan is going through what promises to be a transitional phase with the government.
So why are we so blind to the situation in Pakistan? Why are we not giving the situation due attention? A few reasons. Number 1, we (as in we the White House) like Pres. Musharraf. Well, we like the fact that we can control him for the most part. Number 2, we would rather have the evil that we know (i.e. Musharraf) rather than a religious fanatic that we don’t. Number 3, we (again as in we the White House) want oil, and Pakistan is pretty well useless in this regard. Iran on the other hand would be a strategic resource for oil snatching.
A few rebuttals for these points:
1. Pakistan has, and probably always will be, bought by the highest bidder in the interest of the country. Has anyone in the White house looked into the history of Pakistan?? Seriously?? It is truly an insane place. The governments in Pakistan have a history of changing loyalty and interests like they change underwear. Whatever/whoever they gain the most from has their attention for the moment. The fallacy that we have Pakistan under our thumb is just that – a fallacy. If some country offers them lots of money to pass on technology they’re not gonna say, “Gee, the US probably wouldn’t like that….,” they’re gonna pass it on.
2. Musharraf is a temporary calm in the storm. As I mentioned, the government in Pakistan is unstable. We recently saw a serious jockeying for control in Pakistan because Musharraf decided that he was going to throw a tantrum and not take off his uniform, prompting Bhutto and Shariff to see the opportunity to take over in the event that the world turned against him. Anyhow, as we already determined, they already have nuclear technology. If they can’t get their government in order, how are they ever going to keep state secrets like nuclear technology?
3. Musharraf helping us to police his section of the world in regards to terrorists is another fallacy. Musharraf has no more control over certain sections of Pakistan (like the ones that cater to and harbor terrorists) than you or I. As I mentioned, the reality is that local war lords rule their territory with complete authority and a ferocity that Musharraf really has no desire to go up against. Musharraf has never really stood up to, nonetheless taken a stand against the religious fanatics that reside in his own country.
4. Invading Iran, whether it’s recognized as an oil snatching maneuver or not, would be a devastating decision for the US. Iran is not going to fall over like Iraq did. I would place money on the fact that Ahmadinejad will not be hiding in any underground tunnels. He will be directing the beating of the US army with a stick – most likely with the support of a large section of the world. Does anyone really think that Iran has not taken notice of the events of the past 3 years along with our cavalier attitude towards telling Iran what to do and not made plans about how to defend itself? I’m not thinking so.
I could probably go on about this for a few more pages, but I’ll stop now and post this. Please do not support a candidate who jumps on the bandwagon about Iran. It’s just not worth it. Our country needs to do some serious diplomacy research and actions in order to restore our face in the mind of the world. We have seriously wasted our good name and lots of patience in the past few years, and going vigilante on Iran would be a huge mistake to make.
Becky
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