Random Unqualified Statements
Feb. 15th, 2008 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sevendeadlyfun1.) Rush Limbaugh and Whatever-Your-Name-Is Coulter Hosebeast? Get the Fuck Out of My GOP. I'm so sick of this idea that John McCain is a bad conservative because he doesn't shoot abortion doctors and help GM cheat on their taxes. See. I'mma OLD SKOOL CONSERVATIVE. I've read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations...and I understand it. GTFO, kids and don't come back until you've learned the definition of conservative. I'll hand out a hint for the slower kids in the back: GOP doesn't have the word Jesus in it and conservative is not an automatic synonym for Christian.
2.) The death of 82 children in 13 years, while tragic for their families, is statistically insignificant. Stop acting as if there's a damn epidemic of kids hanging themselves in closets for the lulz. 82. 13 years. Not actually news. Why don't we focus our rage and hysteria on actual issues, like childhood obesity which affects 1 out of 5 children in the United States and can causes severe and chronic health problems? OH that's right! Childhood obesity doesn't have the tragiporn drama that "the choking game" does. My bad...carry on informing the public of statistically insignificant threats.
3.) Steroids are not a federal problem. I don't care how many RBI/GPA/TNT's Barry Bonds has (or how nice his ass is, either). His drug problem is not a federal one. I can (almost) understand the government keeping a watch on amateur athletics, particularly those that lead to the Olympics as those athletes are representing our nation at a world event. But Barry Bonds and the other smug no-neck dickhead are professionals. That means that their drug intake is rightly the concern of their employers and possibly (though I can't imagine why) their fans. Congress really really should get back to, oh I don't know, running the damn country.
Okay, I'm not better now. But at least I won't be doing this in my head all day. Srsly, this shit needs to stop.
2.) The death of 82 children in 13 years, while tragic for their families, is statistically insignificant. Stop acting as if there's a damn epidemic of kids hanging themselves in closets for the lulz. 82. 13 years. Not actually news. Why don't we focus our rage and hysteria on actual issues, like childhood obesity which affects 1 out of 5 children in the United States and can causes severe and chronic health problems? OH that's right! Childhood obesity doesn't have the tragiporn drama that "the choking game" does. My bad...carry on informing the public of statistically insignificant threats.
3.) Steroids are not a federal problem. I don't care how many RBI/GPA/TNT's Barry Bonds has (or how nice his ass is, either). His drug problem is not a federal one. I can (almost) understand the government keeping a watch on amateur athletics, particularly those that lead to the Olympics as those athletes are representing our nation at a world event. But Barry Bonds and the other smug no-neck dickhead are professionals. That means that their drug intake is rightly the concern of their employers and possibly (though I can't imagine why) their fans. Congress really really should get back to, oh I don't know, running the damn country.
Okay, I'm not better now. But at least I won't be doing this in my head all day. Srsly, this shit needs to stop.
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on 2008-02-15 08:23 pm (UTC)2) I...have no opinion on that one, sorry.
3) Amen, sistah! (or brutha. *g*) Congress really really should get back to, oh I don't know, running the damn country. Umm, when was the last time they actually did that, really? *scratches head*
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on 2008-02-16 05:56 am (UTC)obediencehappiness. And it is indeed sistah. :)no subject
on 2008-02-15 10:40 pm (UTC)Aaaaaannnnnd my love for you just reached a whole new level, thanks to #1. I really wish that the religious right would just go create its own party instead of continuing to hijack mine. They really aren't going to be happy until we live in an official theocracy, are they?
I'm tired of everyone making the Repulican party the Jesus party, because then I end up either ideologically lumped in with idiots I can't stand or having to explain that no, I don't hold with their opinions, and yes, there is such a thing as a liberal Republican. (Although that last part usually gets me asked why I don't just vote conservative Democrat). Seriously, when did extremist thought take over?
In full agreement with you on the other two as well. As far as the 'choking game', biologists have another name for it: natural selection. And Congress, well... I'll save that for another day :)
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on 2008-02-16 06:04 am (UTC)But, seriously? There's a big difference between a liberal Republican and a conservative Democrat. Liberal and conservative are schools of political thought while Democrat and Republican are specific political parties. As you know, conservative is not interchangeable with Republican, but that doesn't mean a conservative Dem and liberal GOP will agree on very much.
I just want my old GOP back. You remember it? The one where we didn't blow taxpayers money like LBJ on a Great Society binge and the government stayed the hell away from private citizens prerogatives? President Bush said once that he was a "big government conservative" and I lost my mind. A big government conservative is what you call a Democrat when the children are present and you can't use more colorful terms for them.
Whew. I'm getting on a rant here and that's just not going to go anywhere happy. Point: Rush Limbaugh and the other crazies need their own party. We must work on this. Possibly with gay bombs (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4174519.stm), which I'm told the U.S. government is working on. We could make them all gay...when RPS writers attack!
*evil laugh*