OK – What More Do You Need?

Thank God that President Obama doesn't have any sort of bias against the news organizations that aren't on the Double O Rainbow train. I want you to keep this in your mind as you read the article: he's not saying he's not just against Fox News' views on his policies – he's against Fox News because they're at least up front about it. Maybe he's also somewhat irritated that Fox News reaches more people than the other news sources. After all, in this day and age – appearance is everything. Who cares what you can do, as long as you look good doing it.

What does this mean?

One: Obama has no clue how to deal with real opposition. This could actually be solved with a simple statement from him other than saying "I hate Fox News! WAHHHH!"

Two: Fox must be doing something right.

Really – people… really? Did Bush ever complain about CNN? MSNBC? No. He just did his job – which is what we voted for. I don't want the Commander-In-Chief whining. I want him doing the job. I want him taking care of what he was put in the office to do – to take care of the country, not scribble "Fox Sucks!" in his slam book.

In fact – why are we being told this? Simple – who else does Fox talk a lot about? The real threat to the DC scene: the Tea Party. Not only Republicans appear on Fox's radar (although that's what everyone else wants you to think), but the group that is going to eat the lunch of both established parties. The mid-term elections are not going to be pretty. I expect to see a lot of incumbents looking around, scratching their heads and wondering what happened.

Of course, there is another side to this. Once those Tea Party candidates get their shiny offices in Congress (I wonder how many keyboards will be mangled?), don't expect a lot out of them. You'd better believe that the Old Guard is going to close their ranks, take a nap and then yell out the windows to get those darn kids off their lawn. It's going to be a fun cycle. $20.00 says the Tea Party contingent isn't going to get a single thing done and that'll be it for them. They'll go back to making for interesting filler for the nightly news and various late night 'tea bagger' jokes. Why? Because no one in the current media (except for Fox) wants to think that they looked at a genuinely historically moment and said "Nah – it's going nowhere." If the Tea Party actually gets somewhere beyond having the pages confuse them for members of the gallery, watch the media lose their minds and the professional (and scruple-free) professional politicians try to sneak in like frat boys locked out of their house.

Another reason why people are inherently useless: not a single person who votes for either Republican or Democrat this election has two brain cells to rub together.

This Should Terrify You…

There are a million ways to take this article. The biggest one is this: unless you're a fellow traveller, the Fifth Estate doesn't care about you. Who is this really aimed at? Bloggers. Me. You. Anyone who wants to express an unpopular opinion or voices an opinion about someone with a thin skin is going to be under fire from here on out. The courts have essentially removed the right to privacy for bloggers. Apparently, it's better to threaten to kill innocent people at a football game or to claim to be a Medal of Honor winner than to call someone a mindless Manchurian candidate-slash-ruler of an inconsequential country.

Huh?

While yes – I know that yelling 'fire' isn't protected speech, but the right to speak my mind in any forum is the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. I have a right to call a local politician an ineffectual, unorganized person. It is my opinion and I should be able to do it either right to his face (and personally wish more people would do this) or do it through a public forum. The Supreme Court has upheld the rights of anonymous pamphleteers, calling it an essential freedom. What is happening in this article amounts to nothing more than an end-run around the First Amendment. A car salesman sued someone because they said their cars were junk. I was a car salesman at one point. The cars I tried to sell were junk, but it was running junk. People called me a thief, a liar, a cheat and did their best to guarantee that I would never know the joys of the so-called 'honest-ass living'. Did I stamp my feet and call him a meanie? No. Did I get my lawyer and claim that his opinion (and that's what it is, everyone) was hurting my business (which it was)? No. I ignored him because he/she/it wasn't worth the energy it would take to deal with him/her/it.

Remember the phrase "Don't make a federal case out of it"? Apparently, a lot of you have.

I am not surprised who put out this article – the very people who are being hurt by the blogosphere. The people who are getting their [censored] handed to them day in and day out. What are they saying? If you're one of us, you're protected. If you're not – you're screwed.

 

Jugulare Mortuos, you future defendants

Watch And Learn

Just in case you were thinking that the whole mosque idea was just an exercise in tolerance -- think again. This was never about fostering tolerance. This was never about bringing about some sort of understanding. If it were, then the mosque would be far away from Ground Zero. This is about currying favor with our enemies and avoiding another attack. Those who want the mosque blocks away have no understanding, nor a willingness to be understanding concerning this:

"It's simply wrong for Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, public figures who frequently reference their Christian values, to malign all Muslims by comparing this cultural center and mosque with a radical ideology that led to the horrific attacks of 9-11," said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, a national lobbying group that advocates Catholic social justice. "We fail to honor those killed by terrorists when we betray the bedrock principle of religious freedom that has guided our democracy for centuries."

Catholic social justice? Would this be the Catholic social justice of the Crusades? Would this be the Catholic social justice of the Inquisition? Are we talking about the same Catholic social justice that shuffled molesting priests from dioceses to dioceses to keep them from being prosecuted? We're not maligning Muslims. We're simply saying that putting up a mosque blocks away from where professed Muslims flew planes into buildings killing approximately 3,000 civilians. Three thousand civilians. Three
thousand people who had no axe to grind against Muslims; who ended up being on the wrong flight at the wrong time. Where's the Catholic justice for the victims? I personally find it disturbing that Sister Simone seems to believe that the bedrock principle of freedom of religion trumps pre-meditated murder. I wonder what her stance on abortion is. She seems to be willfully ignorant of the fact that the conspirators met at mosques and used the buildings to recruit. I'm more concerned that Sister Simone seems to hold the 'Christian values' of Gingrich and Palin as if they were separate from her values. They might be. This is not about Christian values – even Christ commands us to defend ourselves. This is about subversion.

If they're so serious about fostering understanding – make Cordova House completely open to any and all faiths. House a synagogue, a chapel, a mosque, and a Hindu shrine in the building, all within easy walking distance of each other. Let it be a place for open discussion. If the only purpose for this building is to allow understanding about Islam – let's have other faiths there to compare and contrast. Another question: if this is a place of understanding, why are you naming it after an Islam caliphate in Spain? It's like naming a Holocaust museum the Nuremberg Haus.

Remember -- the cornerstone of our society is the idea that the majority rules. People – particularly those in authority – who are in the minority about this are trying to ram this through for their own egos. This is not a plan for understanding. This is a recipe for another attack.

Being Healthy Tastes Like Diabetes…

Coca Cola goes to trial about the sugar vs. vitamin content of their VitaminWater brand of drink. Their defense? If you believe that VitaminWater is healthy, you must be an idiot.

I can buy that.

Really – Coca-Cola manufactures this VitaminWater. Coca 'Cocaine gives it the zip you need' Cola. Maybe I'm a bitter cynic – but some of the colors that VitaminWater comes in aren't necessarily found in nature and that should have been a huge tip-off to the smart consumer… which are a dying breed apparently. But, you may ask (if you're intelligent, and you must be since you're here), who or what is bringing this lawsuit to bear against the mighty Coca-Cola?

The Center for Science In The Public Interest – those people. So what some people are calling 'lawsuit', I'm going to call 'shakedown'. That's all that this is – that's all they do. They come in, pretend to care, lawyer up and go after big companies. I think there is a legal term for this: extortion. Coca-Cola is trying to have the lawsuit dismissed on technicalities. That alone screams 'guilty' – I'm not letting Coca-Cola off the hook. Their "well, the customer should know better" (while true) isn't exactly going to go down in legal records as a sterling defense. Given what a litigious society this is, I think Coca-Cola would have put in a couple of disclaimers to use as STFU buttons again The Center for Science in Our Financial Interest.

If The Center was even legitimately interested in the public health, I think they would make more of a deal about children not getting vaccinated. There is an epidemic of whooping cough – with some children dying – and it could be easily avoided if the parents would just get their kids vaccinated. Let me be clear – I hate adults, especially adults who should know better. Adults who know not to get medical advice from a vacuum-headed silicone-dependent blonde woman are at least worth being put in the "not to actively despise" column (a very short one, indeed). The people who think that their little Ricky or Mumford or whatever they choose to call their spawn are just too precious to get inoculated honestly and deeply deserve everything they get.

I'm sorry, does that sound too horrible? Well – re-read the name of this blog. It isn't "Frolics With Overfriendly Kittens", it's "Practical Misanthropy". Anyone who willfully endangers the safety of others through stupidity is a danger to those around him. Anyone who looks to profit from said stupidity is a danger to all of mankind. The Center for Science In "The Public Interest" should be branded as a criminal organization, disbanded and scattered to the four winds. Are Americans obese? Yes. You don't have to have government grants to figure that out. Do we need some nanny organization telling us what to eat? No. Do whatever you want. Eat whatever you want. When you have that heart attack, when you have that stroke and you're left a drooling mess – do not come crying to me. You had ample opportunity to change. You didn't do it. It stopped being my problem when you went for thirds and fourths at Chuck'E'Cheeze.Now, I am sure that people are going to write in and say 'Mr. Practical Misanthropy – you're right… we're stupid slobs that Darwin should have bumped off years ago, but why be so heartless?'

You mean other than because I can?

Because being nice and kind to the idiots doesn't work anymore. In this day and age, if you want to get some attention, you need to start by beating them about the head and shoulders with a bat. As much as we want to say 'we're a good people, we're a kind people' – we're not. We are divided into two camps: the idiot and the predator. Guess which one you might be?If you guessed 'predator' – you're probably wrong.

Until next time...
Jugulare Mortuos

Mission Statement

There are two reasons why I’ve created this blog. Neither of them is altruistic, but if I help some of you, hey – good for you, let me know how that’s working out, so I can ignore you.

I am not going to lie – as some point, I would like to be recognized at some point for my postings. Perhaps even get to the point where this little venture makes money. I understand that I am both one voice in a din of (mostly worthless) opinions and also the lone voice in the desert. I understand that this is going to be a hard undertaking… then again all good things are well fought for.

You may have read some of my earlier posts and have noted the little [censored] sprinkled here and there. Well, I am moving away from that. At first, I felt that I should speak from the heart and that my heart speaks like a sailor. I understand that in this day and age no one gets his or her point across without making some sort of shocking statement. I realize now that even though I say [censored], [censored] and [very censored] in common parlance, the people I want to reach out to and somewhat impress would be neither impressed nor shocked about this language. In fact, they would move away from this blog and go elsewhere. So, I will rather use a good sound argument and colorful (and non-vulgar) similes and metaphors to make my point. I will be crass, I will be rude; but I will maintain an air of erudite sophistication while I insult my target.

Who is my target, you ask? Simple. Almost everyone. As I have looked around and become aware of this society, I have noticed that ultimately there are two kinds of people: one set who live their complete lives in an absolute panic over some thing and are willing to hand over everything they have for that nebulous problem to be solved. I call those people idiots. These are the people who watch one news group (or the other) and derive their (horribly, horribly) wrong opinions from the talking heads without doing a single bit of research on their own. Some are Democrats, some are Republicans – all are morons. Another purpose to this blog is to point out things that should be getting you, Dear Reader, very angry. Like the bumper sticker says ‘if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention’ -- apparently, there are a lot of people not paying attention.

The second group of people is those who take advantage of the stupid. Where are they? D.C. or your local/city/state government is where they can be found. These are the people who feed that nebulous panic and say ‘put us in charge and we’ll take care of the (environment, education, taxes, getting enough chicken nuggets in your order). These people are to be despised. These people are in a position to help; yet they only look out for themselves. Whether they’re that college sophomore taking “Environmental Science” and goes into infarction when you don’t put the recyclables in the right damn bin, or it’s the 85 year-old Senator who dreams of banging the previously mentioned sophomore with a sheepskin condom ‘because it’s Earth-friendly’; they are all fiends dragging us down.

Now, the title of this blog is “Practical Misanthropy”. As I had been advised by Dearly Departed Mother – “Unless you have a solution, all you’re doing is bringing me down – now go get me my smokes.” – I will not only point out problems, but I will bring about very practical and do-able solutions. The question will be: do you want to put up with some temporary discomfort to achieve long-term success? I’ll bet the answer will a quiet ‘no’. Thank God our Founding Fathers were made of stronger stuff.

That explains the ‘practical’, now for the ‘misanthropy’ – unless you get all weepy over whatever poor and downtrodden minority is on display this week; unless your blind yourself to the fact and just argue on the basis of ‘it is right because it gives me a fuzzy in my heart’, you’re a misanthrope and somewhat less of a person. I can live quite well with that notion. The answers I give to the problems I have are not going to make me popular… to which I respond ‘so what?’ I am not here to be popular. I am not here to drag the proverbial horse to water. I will not make it drink. I will point to the river and say “that or thirst – your choice, Trigger.”

Now that we’re clear and what you can expect from me, I hope that you will indulge me with your time. I promise to do my utmost to entertain or enlighten you… or not. It’s not my job to make you care. It’s my job to illuminate.

Jugulare Mortuos, Dear Reader.

OK – I Have An Idea…

Since a 150 year old building isn't considered a landmark and if you're against it,
you're no better than the terrorists. I think some other monuments need to be put up:

• A memorial for the American soldiers who died in Japanese
  captivity to be placed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• A memorial for the Confederate army who died defending the South – in Harlem.
• A Shinto shrine floating over top the USS Arizona.
• A Jewish temple to be erected in the middle of Palestine.
• A memorial to the fallen Waffen-SS at Pavlov's House.

Have you guys got the idea yet? On what [censored] planet was this even close to being a good idea? How is this going to bring everyone together in one big fuzzy grope-fest? Really? The people thought of this are [censored] retarded chimps and those who support it are no better. You want a memorial for the victims of September 11? Rebuild the World Trade Center, make it the tallest building in the world and [censored]ing plane proof. Turn that crater back into the center of commerce in America if not the world – the terrorists wanted to make us fear what would happen if we continued our overseas policies. I say we give them the finger and continue pounding the people who do this into dust and throw it into the wind. Every time someone says that Islam is a religion of peace, keep in mind that the penalty for "bringing shame to her in-laws" is having your nose and ears cut off, and then left to die. Islam is a religion of pieces – ears, noses and other intimate parts left on the desert ground to rot.

Jugulare Mortuos, idiots

Some Free Advice to Breitbart...

OK, Andrew -- this is not the time for you get all [censored] soft.  Sherrod is going to do her best to wring money out of you... after all, she's found herself suddenly unemployed and needs some cash to carry her in between media appearances.  Congrats, Andy!  You're the [censored] cash cow/scapegoat for this round (No doubt Tony "I think I'll leave this off my resume' Hayward is happy).  This is my free advice to you and I suggest you take it... if for no other reason than you can drag down a lot of people with you and that's always fun for a news cycle or two.  The advice is as follows:

Go on the offensive.

Going on defense, which is what it sounds like you're doing now is the worst thing to do now. The second anyone thinks you're wavering on your principles, they're going to crucify you.  You need to attack and attack hard.  You didn't fire Sherrod.  The USDA forced her to resign -- on the side of the road through a [censored] Blackberry, no doubt at the behest of the White House.  I mean why else is the President going on "The View"?  Because he enjoys talk TV?  No -- this is damage control.  This is what you need to do, Andy.  They throw a punch, you need to give them a shot to the nuts.  They try to kick you, you need to kick them in the nuts -- if you choose to do this either figuratively or literarly, I'll leave that up to you (however, if you do kick the Secretary of the USDA in the sack, please have someone record it -- I'll post it on my site as soon as possible). 

Of course, there is one person who's happy that this is still going on: Rep. Charley "You mean that's illegal?" Rangle.  13 counts of corruption -- I doubt that's a record, but it's just another sign othat we needs to get rid of everybody in Congress.  Everyone.  Senators.  Representatives.  Pages.  Assistants.  You know why DC was built on a swamp?  So the scum won't have to commute far to get to work.  The scum that [censored] idiots like you keep re-electing.