After reading Kay Day’s post on Current Events Watch I was sifting through some of the news reports on the incident. I came to this statement on a video produced by a local news station. It is as follows.
Anyone else see anything askew? Lemme point it out for ya.
How cruddy.
Some celebrate Memorial Day with a barbecue or a sale. Others celebrate it by visiting veterans. I take time to reflect on the history of the armed forces.
Today we must realize that the fallen heroes did not all salute Old Glory. The amazing men and women of the American Armed Forces were in good company. In World War II the British were fending off Fascism and suffering the bombs of Hitler for years before Americans stood up. Alongside them were the commonwealth nations - Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and Nepal. Non-Vichy France held a successful resistance, many Frenchmen losing their lives to keep their nation free. Those that remained would usher in Allied forces during the liberation of Paris. And losing more men to combat than all other nations combined, Russia suffered massive losses, only to continue forward and bring down the Third Reich brick by brick.
In Asia the Chinese were in a civil war when Japan attacked, and despite their hatred for each other, both the Communist and Republican Chinese lay down their lives to protect their homeland. The Siamese (or later Thai), Cambondians, Laotians, and others all resisted the Japanese invasion force, later aiding Australian and American troops in overthrowing the Japanese.
And not to forget the Germans and Japanese who resisted their leaders’ tyranny, seeking to restore to their countries the honor and dignity of history, collaborating with allied forces and spies, sometimes taking on completely independant movements.
Today we remember that in the history of the world only one race has lived as heroes: the human race. We can all today bow our heads in thanks for those across the world who have engaged tyranny and oppression in any form and stopped it from entering our homes, whether they be American, Canadian, Thai, Chinese, or South African. Because the country we must pledge our highest allegiance to is greater than our nation, it is Earth. And despite all our troubles, we all call it home.
So before I thought “Mitt Romney - Massachusetts conservative. Executive experience, okay, fair enough, sounds like an alright dude.”
WRONG.
I was wrong. I admit it. Mitt Romney is a total smeghead.
In a recent Fox News interview, Mitt Romney was asked the perennial question, “What is your favorite novel?” You’ve got a lot of choices, from A Tale of Two Cities to the novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. What does he answer? “Battlefield Earth”.
For those not in the know, Battlefield Earth is to the Church of Scientology what Birth of a Nation is to the Ku Klux Klan. For those unaware of what THAT means, click here. The novel (recently adapted into a film by a large number of Scientologist actors and crew) is written by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the church, and is an obvious preaching of Scientologist values.
One of the fundamental principles of Scientology is that psychiatrists are evil megalomaniacal masterminds who use hypnosis and drugs to keep the entire population of Earth under their command. They also believe that human souls are actually the ghosts of dead aliens who have been brainwashed by ancient alien psychiatrists into feeling pain. Oh how I wish I were making that up. But I’m not.
The book follows the adventures of Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (dumbest character name of all time) in the year 3000 when an alien race known as the Psychlos has enslaved humanity. A little about the Psychlos: they are so named because the Catrists, the ruling class of the Psychlos, have dubbed them all mental patients - Psychlo being their word for such. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler comes in contact with only one benevolent member of this race who belongs to a church where they are trying to overthrow the Psychlo Catrists.
Say that real fast: Psychlo Catrists.
Now, I’m no fan of the psychiatric profession - psychology, a completely different profession, is much more capable of handling most cases of mental distress, and modern psychiatry is much to preoccupied with drugs and medicine. But to think they are some kind of evil cabal is going far overboard.
Mitt Romney’s favorite book of all time is a piece of propoganda for a dangerous and twisted cult. And it’s not even very well written - trust me, I’m a tremendous sci-fi fan.
To put the spoiled whipped cream on the crap sundae, Mitt Romney made this joke:
As a Mormon, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman… and a woman, and a woman…
Yuk yuk. Polygyny isn’t funny, Mr. Romney, it’s a disgusting practice of devaluing women and is a hallmark of a violent agricultural society. So shut your big ugly pie-hole.
Your mission for the day: burn a copy of Battlefield Earth, kick John Travolta and Forrest Whittaker in the pants, and DON’T VOTE FOR ROMNEY!
Mitt Romney, Battlefield Earth, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Mormonism, Polygyny, Polygamy, John Travolta, Forrest Whittaker, the body politick
While riding the bus to school today, I was witness to something that touched my heart.
I was sitting in the back of the bus, with my headphones on listening to “Feign Amnesia” by They Might Be Giants (a wonderful little ditty off of their latest album “The Else” apparently about Alberto Gonzales) and working on a paper for my Environmental Studies class when the bus stopped in SoDo (south of downtown industrial district)
Onto the bus stepped a man wearing blue flannel with a big bushy red beard on his chin and a Nascar cap on his head. He sat down near the front of the bus while the others who were waiting at the bus stop got on. When the bus began to move, he noticed that one woman - apparently and African Muslim with a colorful cloak covering her from head to toe, only the top part of her face showing - was the only person standing, having gotten on the bus last. He stood up and tapped her gently on the shoulder, motioning for her to sit down where he had sat. She smiled and took the seat as he moved farther back on the bus.
When on September 12th, 2001 I saw Nascar-hatted men verbally berating women in burkas and chadors, and heard tales of men being beaten simply for wearing turbans, I thought that this country had gone down an irreversible path of hatred. Now I am happily proven wrong. Maybe it’s just in Seattle, maybe it was just one man, but that still keeps hope alive.
Comment and share with me any similar experiences!
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The recent fad in student ‘activism’ is to kick military recruiters out of schools, sometimes leading to hostility, shouting matches, and occasionally physical violence which this blogger has actually been privy to. While accusing the right wing of reducing everything to a sound byte, they themselves have become just as guilty - Books Not Bombs my Persian butt. Indeed.
One student in a recent walk-out at Seattle Central had the nerve and gall to claim that recruiters at the community college were racially profiling students from lower class backgrounds simply by showing up to campus. This is obscenely absurd and the result of fanciful extrapolations from their expectations of the right wing, not reality. People from lower class backgrounds rarely attend the community college, it costs a damn arm and a leg. And the majority of the student population is white! Besides, the army and marines booth is often passed over. Soldiers come back from action to learn at the college, but those already there rarely have incentive to leave.
Besides, no one is forcing anyone to recruit ever! It is a cognitive choice. Like any organization, our armed forces have the right to be there. And for many, service in the military is a great option, giving them free room and board, free education, and a fine paycheck. My mother served in the Navy as a communications officer in Guam and later in Alaska, providing her with the money to later become an alumnus of the University of Washington. Before her both my maternal Grandfather and Grandmother served during World War II, the former as a machinery operator for the Army Corps of Engineers and the latter as a secretary in the Marines.
If I didn’t have the financial backing of my parents to afford to go to college now, I would gladly sign up for the Coast Guard because I feel strongly about stopping the importation of drugs and defending the US border at sea. But no recruiter will convince me to, they simply provide information on the armed services, and a resource for joining if that’s right for you.
What really needs to be done is provide better funding for military hospitals, ensure the contractual rights of National Guardsmen and Soldiers so that they can come home safely and quickly without further delay, and have our great country provide as much to our men and women in uniform as they provide to us.
People on the far left confused our troops for the war, and while I feel we need to allow the Iraqi nation to evolve into whatever it will become without further assistance from us, the armed forces are this nation’s best possible way to train and employ our population as possible. Kicking out recruiters isn’t the answer, people. Focus on what’s important instead of blindly attacking whatever is closest.
When on a recent trip to Ellensburg, Washington, where I will be transferring my credits to Central Washington University in the fall, my family and I ran into a group of Bush supporters who held banners reading “Support the Troops” and wielded American flags. Feeling insulted by this disingenuous attempt to ostracize those who disagree with the war and label us unpatriotic, I was compelled to engage the group, mostly senior citizens and young single men.
Before I got an attempt to voice opinions such as “How can you claim to support the troops by putting them into hostile situations? I support them by trying to bring them home without further injury or death,” I was pre-empted by a particularly liberal member of my family who - to my shock and dismay - flipped the group the bird! He continued by shouting obscenities at them and insulting their intelligence. One elderly woman who was a member of the group responded to him by saying, “I hope your mother is proud of you for flipping off an old lady.”
When I confronted my family member, he said he had done so because “those people are beyond reason. You can’t talk to them, they’re idiots.”
I am constantly frustrated by these extremely polarizing agents on both sides of issues across the spectrum of the political divide in the United States. Immediately they turn to insults and rage at dissenting opinion instead of engaging in debate and discussion. Both sides have created melodramatic worldviews and put themselves as knights in shining armor, fighting demons and dragons who threaten their fictional utopia.
My position with the war supporters was now irreconcilably compromised, and I was unable to actually engage them in discussion because they had been put into a defensive frenzy by the thoughtless and hate-filled actions of my family member. I had been stripped of an opportunity to open up discussion with people I could safely assume were intelligent and educated - living in a College town hardly lends itself to idiocy and illiteracy - who simply did not see or disagreed with my opinions.
People, you have to stop calling each other names. Nowadays it’s hard for any American to go without some knowledge of what’s going on in the world. Both CNN and FOX News run 24/7, Google News feeds itself onto our homepages, and standing at the bus affords us the opportunity to glance at that morning’s headlines. College newspapers across the nation are flourishing, and blogs like mine provide opinions from intelligent people from all walks of life. If anyone feels strongly about any subject, you can be sure they have at least some information on the subject. If they disagree with you, they probably know something you don’t. Whether or not you think that’s relevant is another story, but you’ll never know if you don’t find out.
This is a plea to everyone - stop it. Stop underestimating your fellow Americans and instead try and listen and talk to them like people, because that’s what they are. If you disagree, that’s one thing, but don’t think they dissent because of some mental inadequacy.
Due to the lack of internet at my newly moved-into house, I am updating from an internet cafe .Thanks, Online Coffee Company! Mmm, Chai and Lemon Cake…
Now I’m coming off as a liberal stereotype. Um… GIT ‘R’ DONE!
There, now all is even.
First off, I would like to apologize for the delay in putting Maz Jobrani’s interview on this site. Due to technical problems, the video is taking a very long time to get transferred to a computer. Instead, I will devote a portion of tomorrow to creating a full transcript, and hopefully post that by that night.
Well, I was flipping through “Amazing Spider-Man 536″, released late 2006, and I realized that there is a super-secret code in Peter Parker’s words. If you replace the words “cape” with “turban”, and “registration” with “patriot”, something entirely else is spelled out! And by that I mean, it’s totally blatantly obvious.
Using a scanner and Microsoft Paint, I bring to you the TRUTH of Marvel Civil War!
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Eerie, ain’t it?
political frenzy - the state of mind in which one questions all points of view, attacks all angles of a story in order to find its weakest spot, and leads a full-frontal assault on the mores and demands of decaying society in the hope that the rising generation will take their intellectual excellence and achieve its fullest, always remembering and never repeating the follies of its predecessors.
Political Frenzy Author(s)
» Ryan-Miller
