as the world sucks

as fucked up and close to my heart as my last post was, i believe this one is even worse.

Mom says teacher let classmates vote autistic son out of class

yes that's right. to punish him, a child in kindergarten who has asperger's syndrome was voted out of class, weakest link style. then the teacher had each student say what they did not like about the kid. the kid has not been back to school since. every time his mother takes his sibling to school, he screams when she pulls up to the school.
this is not a suitable form of punishment. children, even moreso than adults are so vulnerable. i understand that a kid with discipline problems is frustrating, but to publicly ridicule him is not only unprofessional, it is downright cruel.
what i want to know is why this teacher has not been fired, or even suspended.
so, i'm taking opinions on this one too.

as we descend into the dark ages...

a friend sent me a link to an article in the news and observer today. apparently one of my old friends was arrested for sodomy in private. what is wrong with this city? (this world for that matter) i am really just stunned by this. apparently, my friend had someone over, they had sex, then the guy went wacko on him, threatening to disembowel him. my friend called the raliegh police, who arrested them both for sodomy in private. and he had to pay $3000 bail to get out of jail for having sex in his home. does anyone else have issue with this?

amazing news

and it’s true...
Bill Would End Separation of Church and Super Bowl
what’s amazing is that it is even an issue. why do people need to watch football in a "house of worship". i mean, i know that america worships football too, but that in itself is sick to me.
then there is the fact that the owners of the superbowl have threatened churches with legal action if they have planned superbowl showings on large screens. the superbowl claims exclusive rights to all things superbowl.
so, let’s take it to congress and make it a bill that churches have limited rights so that they can watch the superbowl a church. because the superbowl people are greedy.
it’s just really weird to me.
people really should realize that you just don’t need but so much.
i really don’t fit in with the world as it is. then again, i never quite fit in, why would i want to.

the state of the union, or the acid in my gut

i've done my best to always avoid watching gw say anything, aware of my contempt for him. tonight, i decided it was time to actually watch his state of the union adress.
as he said repeatedly 4 years ago, his record does not match his rhetoric.
how can someone be such a pompous ass. and dick cheney is grrrrrrrrrr. i can't even talk about it.
a highlight of amusement, he was talking about respecting all life for a while. yeah respect this fucker.
it was one of those times that i could envision a marksman spraying the whole stage. i must go purge my soul of all this contempt. one more year. please only one more year.

mike gravel talks about creationism

mike gravel, one of our ignored by the media presidential candidates, said "creationism corrupts our youth",
and you know, he is right about that. here, he speaks about that very subject.

if you are not familiar with mike gravel, he was an alaskan senator for decades. he is the very man who released the pentagon papers to the public by reading them in a fillibuster. (the law protects congress from prosecution for anything said on the senate floor during debate etc) this took place in 1971.
this video is him telling the story of doing that. it’s almost 20 minutes, but it’s worth watching.

snicker snicker to giuliani

rally turned to angry mob over tardy giuliani in florida
seems old "911" couldn't even show up on time for his few supporters. what a dill hole. i still haven't figured out where the support he was going to gain after "winning" florida was supposed to come from. satan maybe? i hate to tell him that aside from himself, satan does not exist. just like the rest of the religious myth.


and on a not so funny note, if you did not know dennis kucinich was left off that awful debate i watched last monday, as he refuses to bed with the corporate world. this is a pretty good article about it from the black agenda report.

the corporate control of information must be stopped. people need to stop laying down and taking it. what a fantasy. no time soon.

what mr clinton needs to do

for the sake of america, bill clinton needs to shut the fuck up. he looks like a real ass, and dirty politics, which he accuses others of in his practicing of them, are unbecoming to any politician.

democratic debate

so, on monday, i finally watched one of the presidential debates. annoying, i tell you.

the first 45 minutes were mainly hillary and obama bickering. it was ugly, and insulting to my intelligence.
hillary had the stance not of a leader, but a real bitch. from the get go. she was, in my view, the main antagonst, leaving obama to have to defend himself. i'm not at all impressed.
and bill, if i had any respect before, it has gone down the toilet with his negative campaigning for his wife. people, hillary is only popular riding on bill and his alleged good leadership. oh and that she isa woman. people, you should vote based on a person's abiltities, not due to gender or race. yeah. and she could not say she would not take money from lobbyist. she would not say because she is but a republicrat.
i like a lot of what edwards had to say, when he could get a word in edgewise, but i'm not sure he has the stance of a world leader. he and obama should be runnin mates.
but i predict the bitch and obama. maybe not.
when are we going to change our 2 party system, and actually have a democracy? probalby when hell freezes over.
our political world is pathetic.

what child left behind mr bush?

you know, i don't buy it. homework does not benefit a kindergartener. i don't even think busy work should be given to older kids. most people do not take their work home, why the hell do they think it is good for the kids.
i personally don't appreciate the stress. i don't appreciate my tax dollars paying for a school to only give my child data but not make sure things are fully understood.
for instance, asia's homework has recently been consisting of write a sentence type questions. write two sentences about what you would do in winter if you were a bear. my issues, aside from this is kindertgarten is the fact that they haven't even really taught the kids to spell. i think to fully learn, that one must fully understand each step before proceding to the next. it's more than knowing data. if one doesn't understand, they have not learned.
i think that it is the schools' responsibility to teach, just as they did when i was a kid. i know this has a lot to do with that asshole gw's "no child (but yours) left behind act", but i cannot buy it.
they are trying to steal childhood from children, occupying them sun up to sun down with busy work. and if that isn't a way to burn a kid out on school and make them hate it, i'll kiss your butt.
if i am having to acutally be the one to teach my child, then what good is school? please somebody explain this to me. why am i not homeschooling. she'd get more, and ultimately understand more.
and with all this focus on kids writing in kindergarten, (despite the fact that studies show that most kids aren't redy for that until they are 7 or so and the same studies also show that despite when a kid learns to write, theys still are all at pretty much the same level by the time they are 10) when are they learning the real foundations of education.
maybe i'm crazy, but i just really don' think school should be so stressfull right off the bat. the way to educate is to get the person being educated to want to be educated. and that cannot be done with constant pressure. have i ever mentioned that now, asia wakes up at night puking at least once every week or so. when i took her to the pediatrician, they said it was acid reflux. very likely due to school, since she never had this problem before. she is 6. this kind of stress should be at least saved for much later years, if not at all.
god damn it. just wanted to share my frustration.

senatorial lust in the airport

first off, i’ll just get the ha ha at yet another ridiculous news story out. senator larry craig
was caught in an airport bathroom for lewd behaviour. this is a republican senator that goes around screaming family values and abolish gays. but he just can’t help himself. and that my friends is what is wrong with the whole conservative we got your morals agenda. because they don’t they are playing conservative america like a deck of cards. this seems to happen more than it should.
and come on you high ups, really, if you want to touch another man, can’t you at least have the discretion to do it somewhere private and not condemn others for doing the same? this guy tried to solicit a police officer in the bathroom by doing the foot tap signal. then put his hand under the stall, etc etc. apparently a series of known secrect code these people use.
then, he plead guilty, but is now saying he didn’t understand what he was pleading guilty for. come on. you are a senator, a law maker, but you didn’t understand what your arrest was, and plead guilty anyway.
that’s just funny. i don’t care who has sex with whom, because a person’s personal life has nothing to do with me. but i hate hypocrisy. i really do.

the preist patrol

another gem formerly posted by the ressurected grave jorg.

does anyone else thing that it is frightening that the feds are training clergy to "quell dissent" during martial law

The first directive was for Pastors to preach to their congregations Romans 13, the often taken out of context bible passage that was used by Hitler to hoodwink Christians into supporting him, in order to teach them to "obey the government" when martial law is declared.

Pastors were told that they would be backed up by law enforcement in controlling uncooperative individuals and that they would even lead SWAT teams in attempting to quell resistance.

Though some doubted the accuracy of this report at the time due to its fundamentally disturbing implications, the story has now been confirmed by a KSLA 12 news report, in which participating clergy and officials admit to the existence of the program.

It was related to the Pastors that quarantines, martial law and forced relocation were a problem for state authorities when enforcing federal mandates due to the "cowboy mentality" of citizens standing up for their property and second amendment rights as well as farmers defending their crops and livestock from seizure.

It was stressed that the Pastors needed to preach subservience to the authorities ahead of time in preparation for the round-ups and to make it clear to the congregation that "this is for their own good."

yes, i have a huge problem with this. don’t think that this is a small scale, for your own good kind of situation. this like, many of gw’s clandestine presidential directives, is purely frightening. they are setting us up to be a government state "in the case of emergency". and considering their ability to create emergencies, i think that it could be whenever.

all those small bricks, building a foundation for our future police state. and the police will be clergy.

but how do they plan to quell dissent in people that are atheist, like myself. they hold nothing over me as far as god threats go. so are they going to gun us down? imprison us? of course, this is worst case senario. i can’t even say unlikely any more. and as i’ve said before, don’t think it can’t happen here. they got their little bricks. baby steps if you will.

suicide bombers

an interesting article on suicide bombings and who is really behind them. perhaps even probable. it’s funny to sit back and watch the games these guys play with the world. jeez. they ought to take up gardening or something.

more on evangelicals in the military

my dear friend jorg posted this article on the subject.
i don’t know if you have ever heard of the video game "left behind - eternal forces"
it’s a not so lovely game where the goal is to go out and covert the remaining people on earth - or kill them. then the character says "praise the lord"
well that game is in the care packages for the soldiers from osu (operation straight up), a group that’s pushing the lord on the soldiers. oh yeah, and the youngest baldwin, stephen is part of the group. entertainment for the soldiers my ass. damn it, we should have bombed the baldwins like on southpark the movie.
this holy war is out of hand.

karl rove and the straw poll - 2 POS in recent headlines

karl rove leaving the white house. oh what a crying shame for bush boy. in the words of brak, "dont' let the front door hit you in the backside when you leave." well actually, i hope it does. and karl, could you take your little buddy back out on the playground with you? he's been disrupting class under your guidance for more than 6 years.

straw poll? what a load of absolute shit. so to get in, the you have have 35 dollar ticket, which is paid for by the candidates. so how in the heck does that kick off or predict anything? i really think this practice should stop for both parties. get some real choices and voting here. but anyway...
and mitt romney paid for the voting machines and won there, so now some say he is potentially the new candidate, but how about the fact that rudy (mega-gag) and john mc cain (gag more) weren't even there. they did not pay to play, so to speak, but that doesn't reduce the number of people backing them in the real world. except for maybe the sheep. maybe that's what straw polls are for, to get the sheep of the masses to get behind one person so they can be more easily manipulated.
i also think it funny/odd how only 2 out of the numerous reports i read even mentioned ron paul. ron paul was number 5 out of the 10 in the straw poll, yet the media repeatedly just pretend he doesn't exist at all. what a threat to the republican party, a guy with a small but fierce backing that is a constitutionalist, something a lot of them apparently want eradicated. damned constitution.

evangelicals in the military, or rather, be afraid, be very afraid

you know, call me ignorant, but i did not know that this had become a problem until i read this article in the independent interviewing michael weinstein, author of With God on Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military
seems there are there is and increasing number of military personnel, officers included, who’s goals are "a spiritually transformed military" and "to be ambassadors for christ in uniform." they gently, then forcefully, try to force their version of religion on miltary personnel. for example, one guy said he was a christian, but they said he wasn’t christian enough and put none as his religion on his dog tags as punishment. sometimes, it’s more threatening than that.
the subset of evangelicals is called pre-millennial dispensational reconstructionist dominionist fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. the group makes up 12.6 of our population, which is still a frightening number, especially since they think they are fighting "god’s" war.
that holy war that extremist muslims are fighting? this is their counterparts.
these people are determined to be self fufilling prophesies of armageddon.
this has been a concern of mine for a while, as we seem to be getting more and more people in congress, and private sectors for that matter, that seem to hold this view.
i don’t do religion. i am proud to be an atheist. but, i also defend people’s rights to their beliefs, something this group does not seem to think is an option. for them, it’s all or nothing. either you are with us, or our enemy. they quote luke 19:27 when spoken to about the mater. that’s the parable of the pounds in which jesus says: “go out among the people, and bring back to me those who refuse to accept me as king over them, and slaughter them.”
oh my. we as a civilation have done nothing but tread water and change clothes over the past 2000 years.

damn, sometimes i loathe the day i started paying so much attention to the news and politics. but i’m no ostrich and i want to be aware of who i’m up against. or what.

entertaining news

i must say, this is the most entertaining news i have read in a long time.
Former British spy claims mystic powers
i especially love the fact that homeboy wore a lilac tracksuit on a tv show and proclaimed himself the son of god.


of course,

who am i?
maybe he is.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!

what would it be like to live in "1984". do you think it could never happen here
Former Regan official warns "something's in the works" to trigger a police state
Take care to to read the link in the article to the executive order from gw and crew.
not to be alarmist, but oto, peopel really do need to wake up. it may not be one more year at the rate they are going. and don't think that another "attack" or just talk of attacks, such as they are doing now, won't give gw and dickboy the opportunity to sieze the moment. and by moment, i mean country.
then there is this may 9 directive another "executive" item that did not go through congress. here is a "layman's" description of what that all means.
not to be alarmist, but you might need to be at least a little alarmed. our future is at stake. and then we have our lame assed congress, who appear to be trying to play a political game of letting the whole war and bush's behaviour slide, thinking it would guarantee them a landslide victory in all elections in 2008. what a backfire it would be to them if gw declared and "emergency" and suspended all elections and finally became the dictator he has always wanted to be. geez. don't think it can't happen here.


now, i would like to quote a verse from a robyn hitchcock song, "filthy bird"


Look at the massacre on cable
But you know it won't happen here
We're all too busy watching massacres on cable
Oh yeah

from 9/11 to gw and company, this applies to our society



for dog's sake america, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!

selfish

a mother was kicked off a continental airlines flight because her kid kept talking
i originally read this story on aol, and it in itself is bad enough. i have a netscape email account have to go through aol to get to my email. sometimes i read a few of the articles of the homepage while i'm there. sometimes, i make the mistake of reading people's comments about the articles. i avoid message boards because people do not know respect. but anyway....
the fact is, a flight attendant should not have the right to have a plane turn around to kick people off the plane that are not threat. these are paying customers. from the article, the woman's child wasn't even crying or screaming, but kept saying bye bye plane over and over. he was 19 months old.
but really, as annoying and wrong as i found this, it was the people's response on the message board. many people were basically saying how they were glad the flight attendant did that and that if a person can't make their child a zombie, they have no right to fly on the plane. i admit, a screaming kid is really difficult to deal with, or as in this case, a chatty kid. but these people truly thought people with kids should stay home. how dare someone inconvenience their all important and selfish lives. i wonder how they were as children. a person that is that selfish as an adult must have been a little shit as a kid. i bet no one told them to shut up. (or not enough)
i have no issue with people choosing not to have kids. we have too many people in the world as it stands. it can be expensive. but it's the mindset that some of these people have. it's like a former co-worker said once, though this was in reference to having a girlfriend, "i don't want one. i like to spend money on myself too much." it's the selfish, consumerists people that seem to live in bubbles, detached from the fact that they are part of a big world, with people that are not all like them. these types genuinely believe that the world should bow to them.
oh fucking bah. the point is that it really bothered me how many people were so rude about the whole issue. i don't know why, i've read a few of the message boards on aol before. these people are like kids on freaking playground. but the selfishness that most of our society has is disturbing. i live for myself. i will fight and die for myself. and i am the fucking sun, so rotate around me mother fuckers.
you know what i say? get over yourselves. you are as trivial as the rest of us on this giant organism called earth. just part of a big ole jelly fish. none of us really matter, including you.
and that's all.

coroporate viral infestation

so, in a period of 3 years, only a 50 cent raise
so, in a period of 3 years, cost of living has risen
-far more than that 50 cent per hour
so, on the final day,
they had the audacity to "give" him a cake
"thank you, we will miss you"
so when there was a freezer problem distracting everyone,
he took 3/4 of the cake leaving only the part with the balloons
turned a plate over on top and wrote thanks
it just as well have said "fuck you."

corporate greed
it's every where
tell them to fuck off.

this freaking page would not let me give my blog a title.

oh yeah, i should be in bed but you know me, the time i find to tend to my much neglected blog is late friday night, when i should be in bed instead. oh the denial.

you know, i used to not sleep but 4 or 5 hours a night on a good night, 6 being my max most of the time. occasionally, i would sleep 7 hours on a weekend night. no damned wonder i felt so tired and often irratable.

politics. yuk. wake the fuck up america! are you really hypnotized into thinking that it's all okay and that you like being fucked by that enormous proverbial pineapple? fuckers aren't even using any kind of lube any more.

i don't have much hope with the next presidential election either. the democratic party seems bent on either obama or hillary, and i'm sorry, i don't think this is the time to introduce a black man or a woman to this type election. and please, before you jump down my throat, or call me a bigot, hear why i say this. i am not prejudiced against any race, and i believe that a woman could do as well or better than any man, but we are talking about a nation of bigots, mainly closeted, but bigots none the less. and how many people would vote for even gw again (not that he can run, at least by current laws) before they would vote for a black man or a woman? this election is too important, to go the repubican way, unless you are talking ron paul. but, the problem is, even if i back him, the probablity of him actually geting the nomination is slim to none. same thing for an independent getting enough votes to win the election.. the puppets and the puppetmasters would see to that.
that's the sad thing. democracy? you got two choices, as the southpark song says, between a douche and a turd. we are supposed to be happy with that, but i am not. i know many people aren't.
i'm all about change in the system. i would do what i could to help anyone that could tear down the system, but i'm not really expecting it to happen in my lifetime. people are too lazy, too complacent, too unwilling to give up comfort for change, even if the change might save the nation.
hmmm.
i was actually going to go more into an environmental kind of rant, but i suppose i should save that one for later.
bah.