How DARE they?

It is beyond my comprehension that people like the one in the clip above can receive national attention spouting such hatred, or that anyone would even think to take them seriously.  This asshole is from the American Family Association...  whatever that is...    

Thoroughly disgusting.  Children died because the schools didn't '
embrace God'.  Reallah.  

And the crazies of Westboro Baptist Church are gonna picket the religious ceremonies, which is no surprise.

How very 'christian', especially during the horriday season, to want to guilt trip the parents and educators of innocent children. How tolerant, forcing their warped 'religion' on the grief-stricken.

Something is very wrong with US society.  It makes me sick to my stomach. 

Boeing Takes the Low Road..

Refusing to give their gay married employees equal pension rights.  

Stephen Colbert called them out on it, as only he can do.  And explains why it will cause a 'gay job explosion'.  He cracks me up sometimes.  You can see his 'twisted' reasoning here.

The Presidential Debate, Mitt's Condesenion and Attitoode And The UTTER Disrespect For An Office

One thing YouTube isn't good at is fast uploading of debates, so I only got to see the MSNBC take on the one last night.  Their outtakes...

In those, Romney is a bully.  And one of the most condescending assholes I have ever had the misfortune to see in a presidential debate.

I'm still waiting for him to use the word 'BOY...'  as in, 'You don't know whatcha taklin' about..... BOY...'

Yes, am talkin' racism here, because there is NOTHING the other side has done these past four years but play to the bigots and the assholes who can't stand the fact that a partly-afro-american is a president, and boy howdy, they got the tee shirts to prove it.  'Put the White Back in the White House.'  Class act.

Frankly, I don't know how the man stands the heat.  It only increases my admiration for him.  And yeah, he showed his disdain for Romney and is ilk...  But the main thing is...  Romney forgets who he is SPEAKING to.  Not an opponent.  The man is the President.

Which MEANS, he embodies an office, and deserves respect.  And you can address things you think are wrong with policies, but you respect the man and the office.

Well, I haven't seen any of that.  On the contrary.  I hate quoting 'Tweety' Chris Matthews, but he's been harping on this for months, as has Al Sharpton, and both are right.  They are so racist it leaves you spitless. 

'Oh he wasn't BORN here, so he's not one of 'us'.'   Whoever 'we' are.  Oh, he's not 'american'.  Uh-huh.  And every day since the man took office, there are the daggers and needles aimed at the man to make him somehow 'illegitimate'...    because they don't LIKE him, because he's partially Black.

The one out-take that really hit me yesterday was how Barack fixed Romney in the eye after his attempt to make a conspiracy theory on Libya and fucked him over.   And finally, finally said the words, 'You are disrespectful'.  And 'I am the President, and the Commander in Chief, and I don't lie.'

Or something like that, I didn't write it down.   

Romney lies out of habit, but his agenda is really toxic. 

He's your horrible racist boss who makes jokes about minorities, and you get forced to laugh and go along with it because you are dependent on him for you job. 

That fucker is evil. 

You know what absolutely flummoxes me in this whole thing?  The condescension, the unbelievable 'superiority' that some people think they have. 

Vote Romney.  if you would like a re-play of the French Revolution in about 20 years.  And oh yeah, Mittens has stakes in Bain, and whaddaya know, they are closing a plant in Iowa to ship it to China, because they only get paid 85 cents an hour, and he'll make another cool million he can put in the Cayman Islands or his Swiss Bank Account. 

How humiliating is it to work for a company for 20 years or so and then be told the plant is being sold, although it is successful, and YOU have to train a Chinese person how you do your job? 

That is so out of the norm, it's amazing.  How crass is that?  Happening in Iowa..

Romney will turn you around all right. 

Go to the library and read up on serfs, because that is what will happen.  And ladies?  Back to barefoot, pregnant and serving your MAN. 

These people make my head hurt.

 

Seemingly it's only ok to vote if you are white

Voter supression is alive and well.  And living here.

Disgusting.

Parachuting from the stratosphere

Salzburg's Felix Baumgartner finally took a helium balloon to the edge of the stratosphere in a capsule, where the outside temp was -65 degrees, and parachuted down, breaking records for the highest balloon flight ever, and breaking the speed of sound on his way back down. 

This project in idiocy was sponsored by the local firm Red Bull, which dabbles in running formula 1 car races world-wide, produces drinks to further have children overdose world-wide on sugar, and purportedly this project in narcissism cost 50 million euros.  Some opined that the money would have been better spent on those who are starving in the world.  Those were in the comments of the news report on yahoo this morning, where you can see a small video of the 'event'.  And you just KNOW that the sponsor is going to double the out-lay in broadcast rights alone.

You can find that here.  I was watching a bit of it on live stream last evening, but the connection was 'scheisse', as we would say, and frankly, it creeped me out, and when they reported that the heating element in his visor wasn't working correctly, I thought, 'I don't wanna watch you freeze your face off...  as in literally.  So just jump, I'm going to bed.'

What did interest me this morning, after reading that the attempt was successful was seeing what the US news had to say about it.  I was surprised, but then again..  I wasn't.  In the end, yeah, Americans were a lot better because...  they rode the space station to explore science.  So did local scientist Franz Viehboeck.  And many of the measuring instruments on board all those missions were developed and manucactured by the Technical University of...  Graz.  But hey, the Murkins are always the biggest, the best, and ---never give anyone any credit for anything. 

Don't misunderstand, I thought ist was a useless and dumb stunt.  The tone of the reporting just irked me.  Because you know...  if it had been an American, well boy howdy, wouldn't there have been a huge chest-thumping cheer of jingoism about 'we're number one'.  Uh-huh...  Yeah, it's much ado about nothing.  And like that terrible energy drink, it leaves a bad aftertaste. The Nightly News report is here.

 

Class act

I'm not surprised.  Empty suit.  And disgusting. 

Let's remember, Mitt was all for viet nam and the war... as long as everyone else went to fight it.

In the end, I have some reservations about Obama as regards his foreign policy.  But he is consistent and doesn't lie. 

Mitt, on the otherhand....  well as Liz Winstead said, he must be nearly paralysed by trying to talk out of both sides of his mouf.

But  Romney using the military for points?  Wow.  How low can you sink.

How embarrassing is it if you are running for president, and relate over and over how you met someone who was killed in Libya, and that person's family asks you to cease and desist, because...   you ...    oh, this story really sucks. 

Listen to the end.  Here.