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I’ve had it

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As most of you know, I tweet our TPC posts on Twitter all day, so I am exposed to many, many wonderful people, but also a whole lot of truly deranged types. After awhile it adds up. Then I compound that by making the mistake of watching the Sunday Talkers, and bam! I occasionally gotta vent.

This is one of those times. So forgive me for this extended Moment of Negative, but my poor head is about to explode. Feel free to jump in any time with your own “had-its.” I’m certain I forgot a few and may add more later. And with that…

I’ve had it with:

Stupid people.

Rape jokes.

Extremists.

Liars.

Fear-mongers.

Bullies.

Needless misunderstandings.

BP ads boasting about awesome Gulf coast vacation spots that are even better now that they’ve killed everything off with their deadly oil pollution.

Sunday talk show hosts.

Sunday talk show guests.

Sunday talk shows.

Conservative pundits.

Loud overtalking/constant interrupting.

Trolls.

Nasty trolls.

Nasty stupid trolls.

Rude, insecure putzes.

Stupid people.

Very stupid people.

Smart, seemingly highly educated, informed political people on the Tee Vee Machine with poor verbal skills saying knowingly stupid things.

Lack of foresight.

Lack of hindsight.

Gun zealots.

Religious zealots.

Right wing zealots.

Judgmental righties.

Judgmental lefties.

Phonies.

Self-righteous right wing nut jobs.

Self-righteous Dems.

Self-righteous know-it-alls.

Stupid self-righteous know-it-alls.

Did I mention stupid people?

Dishonesty.

War on Women.

War on Voters.

War on LGBT.

War.

Hypocrisy.

Bigots.

Racists.

People who don’t listen.

People who judge blog posts and articles solely by their titles without reading the post itself.

People who judge blog posts and articles solely by their titles without reading the post itself, then comment inappropriately.

People who comment on posts without having followed the links in the post that would answer any questions they have.

People on Twitter who assume all retweets are endorsements, as opposed to realizing that sometimes a retweet is simply to point out an interesting, different, or controversial p.o.v.

People on Twitter who consistently confuse “lose” and “loose,” “it’s” and “its,” “your” and “you’re” (not typos).

People on Twitter WHO INSIST ON USING ALL CAPS.

People on Twitter who don’t provide context to their tweets– sometimes threads are not traceable or visible– who tweet things like, “Me too!” or “When?” or “How can you say that?!”

Republicans who can’t see beyond their own donors.

Republicans who can’t see beyond their own power grabs.

Republicans who can’t see beyond their own ideology.

Climate change deniers.

People with no sense of humor.

People who think they have a sense of humor, but don’t.

Condescending windbags.

Incompetence.

Willful ignorance.

Birthers.

RyanCantorTrumpMcCainPalinBreitbartWestBachmannMcConnellRandPaul [insert more names here].

Fox.

Whew! Thanks. I needed that.

whew dog

What the HELL is wrong with Comcast?


Since Tuesday around noon, I cannot get MSNBC on my televisions. None. If and when for a brief moment it comes on, it glitches (digital freezes) in and out, then goes blank again. When I realized it was JUST MSNBC I checked and yes, CNBC is out too, but I don’t give a crap about that channel, just my damn MSNBC! I’ve plugged and unplugged, gotten zapped by Customer Service and had my head patted by various and sundry, told to be a good girl ad wait until Thursday for a “service” man to come out. I have had MSNBC on my television for at least 8 years, maybe more, but THIS week it’s too weak of a signal to make it to Mishawaka, Indiana? What do they think the “service” man can do over here as opposed to where the signal is coming from?

Any suggestions?

Video- Lt. Col. Duckworth responds to Rep. Walsh ‘true hero’ remark

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I know how I would have responded, but it would have never made it to air.

Added- Ya know, on second thought, I’m going to take greater umbrage from Walsh’s “Of course I think she’s a hero” schtick. Yeah bunny, but what about the “true hero” thingie? Is Tammy Duckworth only a hero on Tuesdays and Thursdays of alternate weeks? Did she leave one too few limbs back in a burn heap in Iraq? Or maybe because she’s a gurl, and you have a long a vaulted history of having problems dealing with the gurls, and GOD FORBID one has the cojones to contest your Tea Party given right to be a noisy boil on the butt of the House of Representatives. Gawd, I detest this man.

Added Added
Ugh o rama, he doubles up the stupid.

Unprovoked, partiers allegedly threw bottles at black students, evoked Trayvon Martin. Gotta rant.

Allegedly…

HuffPo: Cornell Chief of Police Kathy Zoner confirmed that people were “reportedly making racial references” and throwing bottles from the roof of Sigma Pi. She added that she could not disclose more information because the investigation, which is being led by Ithaca Police, is ongoing.

Beverly Fonkwo ’14 said she was walking home with a friend when, unprovoked, the group on the fraternity roof began throwing objects that landed near a group walking behind them. [...]

When they asked them to stop again, the group responded, “‘Come up here, Trayvon,’ and started making all these other racial comments,” Fonkwo said.

I’ve had it. This story triggered all kinds of pent up feelings. GottaVent. I’m stumbling through stream-of-consciousness and high emotions here, so if it’s a little clumsily worded, please just go with it:

Why anyone ever in the history of ever anywhere thinks it’s a bad thing to be black, gay, Mexican, Jewish, Native American, or any damned thing but lily white and male is simply astounding to me in this day and age.

Why does the color of anyone’s skin, the protective covering that keeps our organs from spilling out, make a difference to #%@&*! anyone else?

How does pigmentation make one inferior or superior to anyone else?

How does pigmentation make one more threatening or stupid, savage, or beast-like?

How does lack of pigmentation automatically make one superior in any way, shape, or form?

How does consensual, adult love of another adult human being make one a pervert or child molester?

How can the expression of mutual love and/or passion between two consenting human beings be deemed illegal anywhere, any time?

How and why is wanting a lifelong, monogamous relationship, including the same marital status as other humans, immoral or illegal?

How does one’s belief in their version of their god make them suspect or inferior?

How does one’s belief in their version of their god make them superior, morally or in any other way?

How does one’s non-belief in a superior being make them inferior, amoral, or unfit in any way?

Why are non-believers unable to be so much as considered as possible presidential candidates?

Who the hell is anyone to judge another anyone solely based on their hue, orientation, nationality, belief, or any other deeply personal, involuntary, or birth-oriented trait or other natural, newly discovered, evolving, or acquired identification? That was really awkward, but you get what I mean.

And where does anyone get off using violence to express disdain or disapproval?

And where does anyone get off expressing disdain or disapproval to begin with?

And finally, why must every not-necessarily-offensive word out of everyone’s mouth be so politically correct that we are forced into a pre-emptive duck-and-cover posture of self-censorship?

Rant over. For now.

2010 AUDIO: President of Ireland kicks right wing radio host’s arse

Via AnnetteK at DKos who tells us that this amazing rant was recorded in 2010, but was only recently posted on YouTube. Transcript here:

You’re about as late arrival in Irish politics as Sarah Palin is in American politics, and both of you have the same tactic. The tactic is to get a large crowd, whip them up, try and discover what is the greatest fear, work on that, and feed it right back and you get a frenzy, and that leads you in time, then, to when you have in fact maybe one of the most gifted Presidents elected – though I happen not to agree with all his foreign policy – but you know, you regard, for example, someone who happens to have been a professor at Harvard as somehow [?] handicapped. You don’t find anything wrong with all this Tea Party ignorance that been brought all around the United States, which is regularly insulting people who have been democratically elected.

The president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, kicks Michael Graham’s (US right wing radio host) arse.

Sarah Palin slam– Check.

Right wing fear mongering– Check.

Gifted president– Check.

Education is good– Check.

Tea Party ignorance– Check.

Decent, generous Americans– Check.

War mongering foreign policies– Check.

Building peace = anti-Semitism and martyring Jews: Idiotic– Check.

Nailing wingnuttery masterfully– Check.

Be proud to be “a decent American instead of a wanker whipping up fear”– Check, check, and mate!

VIDEO: Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell and won’t take it any more

Forgive my light, rather weak posting today. I feel like crap. Here’s all I can muster up… rather, Dylan mustered it up for me:

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Video- Attention Kelly O’Donnell & Media: A Naturalized Citizen IS THE SAME As A Natural Born Citizen

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Pertinent part starts about 2:50.
Mitchell- And the chairman of the committee, Joe Lieberman, Kelly, also suggested that he thinks it’s time to strip someone who’s under such a watch list of their citizenship.* Strip them of their citizenship, we heard Senator John McCain saying earlier today that there should not have been any Mirandizing so there’s going to be a lot of focus on what some critics of the administration are going to be saying, republicans are raising a whole lot of issues.**

O’Donnell- All about how you would then proceed, if someone is, especially a naturalized citizen as was the case in the Times Square incident, could you pull away the citizenship to deny them some of the rights that we as American citizens would have. That’s part of what is prompting Lieberman’s comments. And if you were even a natural born*** citizen and commit what they said could be an act of treason would you then forfeit your citizenship benefits. And there was a discussion today that went into the fact that a citizen could be determined to be an enemy combatant, a classification that gives the government some different avenues to go through prosecution. So, these are really tough issues because they go right to the heart of the constitution, and right to current day events that have everyone on edge.

Ms O’Donnell, I see that you graduated from Northwestern, so you really can’t be this stupid. Are my parents and sister less American than you****? Or is the fact that they’ve been “naturalized” longer a factor? Craig Ferguson’s only been naturalized about as long as Shahzad, so maybe Craig should be careful not to be accused of anything? How long do you have to be naturalized for it to really stick? Can you make me a graph showing the different levels of American? Is it like the wedding anniversary thingie? I mean, if I’ve been naturalized for 5 years I get Free Speech, 10 years the Right to Bear Arms? I’ll be waiting for your reply.

* Mitchell stumbles around too much for me to type every damn word she says, I tightened it up.

** Is there ANYONE that is paid to be on television that cooks up a bigger word soup that Mitchell? It’s bloody painful.

***Note the emphasis on “born”.

**** I dare you to say that to her U.S. General husband.