Non-horror bitch session

[Marshal Earp]

And I also don't give a shit if you have a baby on board.  All that means is that I arbitrarily pay more taxes than you.  This incites anger in me and could possibly cause me to drive more aggressively.  It doesn't....but it hypothetically could.  Still waiting on my "not contributing to potential overpopulation" tax credit...Actually, I don't care if people have kids or not.  That's cool.  I just think that people who don't have kids should also be recognized in the tax code, other than being punished. 

THANK YOU.  People can talk until they're blue in the face about all the reasons the country is in trouble, the world is in trouble... and not once mention overpopulation.  I'm not even going to get started right now because I have too much to do, but this country is so fucked when it comes to priorities it makes me want to set myself on fire.

You guys are pecking at the skin when what we need to do is rip out the heart and brain of the beast. DESTROY the US tax system, now. it's a complete and total joke, 100% based on political favors and bribery. Green credits, corporate credit, etc.

GE paid ZERO DOLLARS on 41 billion in profit last yer, ZERO!!!!!!! And you guys are bitching about baby credits. FML!

Flat tax or GTFO. You can not give out "fair" tax breaks because that type of power ALWAYS corrupts. Flat tax is not bias, Flat tax can not be bought or bribed. Oh and while I'm on this little rant....

RON PAUL 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Splatterscribe]

 I'm not even going to get started right now because I have too much to do, but this country is so fucked when it comes to priorities it makes me want to set myself on fire.

TM, I could write epic tomes about the level to which this truth-and it is a truth- about our society and its ability to make the most meaningless bullshit vitally important pisses me off.

Now Obamarama aka the Great Black Hype is getting into the act with his post- super commitee failure (Show of hands if anyone else expected that bit of posturing to fail? Wait..all of your hands are raised? Thought so) proclamation that any attempt to stop the automatic spending cuts across the board will be met with a swift veto. Great..except that for once The Prez has actually landed me in the distasteful position of having to side with the GOP on a specific issue,which in and of itself cheeses me off to no end.

To wit: Part of those automatic spending cuts -as I am sure most (if not all) of you have heard ad nauseum by now -is defense spending. While I do believe we're likely stockpiled with enough super weapons to not have to worry about national defense for, oh,  a few thousand years, the reality is that a large chunk of that money they're gonna cut back on is designate for the repair and maintenance of the equipment already being used by our combat troops, not just the development of new weapons.

Here's the elephant in the room-and believe me, this is the only thing that could have me agreeing with the otherwise deplorable GOP right now: as it currently stands,  it is being reported from the front lines with increased frequency that the brave men and women currently risking their asses every waking moment on behalf  the good old US of A are finding it increasingly difficult to do their job and stay alive because the equipment they have is rapidly deteriorating to the point of no return .  Previous cuts limited the available money to them and so lower end substitutions for top notch equipment had to be bought instead and much of this stuff isn't up to par (including body armor). The US government..when you care just enough to send the barely adequate.
 I watched a soldier tonight as he  explained how at his base in Afghanistan they literally have wrenches that will snap in half while tightening a bolt ,which they then have to wait a number of weeks to see replaced..only to find that the replacement is also substandard. Everyone following this? Basically, our fighting men and women don't even have decent tools to fix their tools right now.... and we're going to cut back on their operating budget?

Hey, I'm living hand to mouth like a lot of people right now. As a rule, I've got maybe a couple of bucks left in my bank account at the end of a given week.  Financially my budget is so tight, the edge of it could slice paper (thank God for the one two punch of holiday pay and my family being easy to shop for at Christmas) .  Knowing this, I'll still accept a tax hike if it means that we can keep the money in place to provide the equipment necessary to increase the chances of  our soldiers coming home alive and with functioning limbs. That's nothing to fuck around with, economic problems or not. At least get them home before you slash the funding.

[GeneralCinema]

I'm going to post things like this until it's destroyed. SOPA goes up for debate in the House of Representatives on 12/15. I posted the link to EVERY representative in the US. Find yours and tell EVERYONE you know to contact him/her and tell them to vote NO to SOPA/PROTECT-IP.

For those that don't know, SOPA will destroy the Internet as we know it.  I've been following this since it was called COICA (Combating Online Copyright and Infringement Act).

I need you to tell EVERYONE you know to contact their representative and tell them to vote NO to this garbage!

HERE is a list of EVERY Representative in the country.


We need to save the Internet!

[BadKitty]

I always imagine that these decals are a very useful blueprint for serial killers to make sure that they have accounted for everybody when they come to your house and murder you.   

Dude - YES!!  That is exactly what I think, every single time.

THANK YOU.  People can talk until they're blue in the face about all the reasons the country is in trouble, the world is in trouble... and not once mention overpopulation.  I'm not even going to get started right now because I have too much to do, but this country is so fucked when it comes to priorities it makes me want to set myself on fire.

Admittedly, however, the developed world's overpopulation problem is not kids any longer but old people.  Human nature - not to mention the tax and entitlement system - was not designed for everyone to go on paid vacation for a quarter of a century.  But it's the same principle - people consume less when it's not subsidized.   

[Splatterscribe]

Allen Gregory.
In the name of all that is good and holy, please let  FOX get this wretched mess off the air and give us the promised second season of the vastly superior Bob's Burger's already.

I'll give anything animated a fighting chance, but after watching three episodes of this crap I can safely say that not only is Allen Gregory not nearly as sharp or witty as it's creators apparently consider it to be, but it's one of the most aesthetically unappealing  animated series ever. Jonah Hill needs to stick to live action films.

Visually unpleasant animation combined with characters who are more often than not creepy (and not in a funny way) isn't hip or walking the cutting edge of being subversive, it's merely bad.

And hey, congrats to the writers who,with the advent of Allen's father, managed to conceive one of the worst gay television characters of all time. These people need to take a few days  and watch multiple episodes of the series Soap so they can  get some sort of a  clue as to how to write a plausible gay character, a feat that was successfully navigated with a role which made Billy Crystal a star some thirty years ago.

Better yet, just cancel this regrettable misfire.

[GiveMeGore]

The flush on my toilet is fucking unbelievable. Sounds like a god damn jet engine, no lie. I have to warn people who step feet in my pad who havent before, that when they use the toilet, to close to seat before flushing or else you'll get soaken wet. Literally.

If you take a dump, get up, and flush without shutting the seat......you WILL get punched in the face by flying dookie. Like, that will happen. I wake up at 4am to go to work every day and I come home in the afternoon to a beautiful urine oder in the air because I feel bad for flushing the toilet and waking up in the entire county I live in at that time in the morning.

Once and a while I'll forget and get a nice tasty mouth full of piss slash toilet water. Maybe I'll give Al Boreland a buzz, see what his opinion is.

[GiveMeGore]

Car Insurance:

Un fucking believable, the amount these crooks get away with. What a fucking system. Yeah.....pay us a ton of money..... just incase something bad happens. But when that something bad happens.....you still need to pay. And going forward, you're going to have to pay us MORE now then before. Wait, what? Oh and it's illegal NOT to have this fucked up relationship with your BUSINESS? Fucking sweet deal.

I payed off my car a while ago. Beautiful. That car shit the bed......ok, gotta get a whip. I make a smart choice by getting a Honda Civic.....2006, about 10 grand. Word up.

Now I understand my premium would increase because of the loan. Finance a vehicle and you need full coverage. I get that.......  but you know how much it increased? 3 fold. Yeah that's right....it fucking TRIPLED. What?!?! Suck on my ball sack, bitch. My car insurance has been taken directly out of my check for over 9 years now. (Hense, I've never been late a day with a payment) ...they were taking 54 bucks a pay check (I get paid bi-weekly)  get a letter yesterday, that's changing to 154 a paycheck. What....the.....fuck! Over 300 a month for car insurance! For a fucking 5 year old HONDA?!! Fuck you. And fuck your mom too. Got one speeding ticket and one fender bender in a decade. Lick taint. I'm out. Too bad I live in Mass a fucking Chusetts and none of the major companies offer their service here because they're smart enough not to....  so slim pickings for options......   fuck me running.

[Splatterscribe]

Having political correctness force fed to us.

From an article posted online 18 hours ago. Yep . This happened :

"Christmas carols help us get in the mood to celebrate the holidays. But would they have the same meaning if we changed a few words? Parents of students at an elementary school in Michigan say, "No." A music teacher at Cherry Knoll Elementary School in Traverse City decided to change the word "gay" to "bright" in "Deck the Halls" for the children's Christmas concert. Her reasoning for the switch? First- and second-graders would not stop giggling when they sang the word "gay." Several parents were so upset about the change they went to the school's Facebook page to express their opinions. One parent said, "By taking the word 'gay' out of 'Deck the Halls,' you are making it a big deal. One word can have different meanings." Another parent voiced, "Can one word in a 150-year-old classic Christmas carol really offend someone?" The negative comments have since been deleted from the school's Facebook page, and wall posts have been disabled. Cherry Knoll Principal Chris Parker is on the parents' side, saying, "This would have been a great opportunity to teach that 'gay' has more than one meaning and is not a bad word." In response to the controversy over the word change, the original lyrics have now been restored."


Props to Chris Parker for a dead on assessment. To the people who wanted to change the lyric? That's so fucking gay.

Okay, okay, I kid.  In all seriousness, though, I am so over this lame, overbearing, condescending, oversensitive, whitewashed ,pathetic ongoing effort to pussify every freaking aspect of American culture to the point where individuality is verboten, nothing has any flavor whatsoever and all and sundry are dutifully  represented by the color "bland".

I call African Americans "black".  I  eat fast food because I like how the crap tastes, okay? I'm not gonna lie about it. Bat Girl is bat girl.not bat "person".   And hey, I'm gonna sing "don we now our gay apparel" whether or not it upsets the delicate sensibilities of  guys who are blowing each other nightly because that's how the damned song goes . Honestly, I refuse to walk on eggshells anymore.  The pc police can grow a sack when I'm around or at least fake it with a strap on, because I'm not gonna be part of this dilution of our freedom of speech anymore.
 

[GiveMeGore]

Thank you brother Splatt........   Dead on once again.

It seems this type of nonsense only goes on with us White Folk. We think being politically correct in how we talk, makes it impossible to be called racist or sexiest.

I call African Americans "Koons".  I eat fast food because I like how quick the Wetbags make the crap, okay? I'm not gonna lie about it. Bat Girl is bat girl or bat-cunt, either way....not bat "person".   And hey, I'm gonna sing "don we now our gay apparel" with a pink PennState shirt on and a dildo in hand.... whether or not it upsets the delicate sensibilities of  guys who are blowing each other nightly because that's how the damned song goes. Honestly, I refuse to walk on eggshells anymore.  The pc police can grow a sack when I'm around or at least fake it with a strap on, because I'm not gonna be part of this dilution of our freedom of speech anymore.

 

[traumamama]

Having political correctness force fed to us.

From an article posted online 18 hours ago. Yep . This happened :

"Christmas carols help us get in the mood to celebrate the holidays. But would they have the same meaning if we changed a few words? Parents of students at an elementary school in Michigan say, "No." A music teacher at Cherry Knoll Elementary School in Traverse City decided to change the word "gay" to "bright" in "Deck the Halls" for the children's Christmas concert. Her reasoning for the switch? First- and second-graders would not stop giggling when they sang the word "gay." Several parents were so upset about the change they went to the school's Facebook page to express their opinions. One parent said, "By taking the word 'gay' out of 'Deck the Halls,' you are making it a big deal. One word can have different meanings." Another parent voiced, "Can one word in a 150-year-old classic Christmas carol really offend someone?" The negative comments have since been deleted from the school's Facebook page, and wall posts have been disabled. Cherry Knoll Principal Chris Parker is on the parents' side, saying, "This would have been a great opportunity to teach that 'gay' has more than one meaning and is not a bad word." In response to the controversy over the word change, the original lyrics have now been restored."


Props to Chris Parker for a dead on assessment. To the people who wanted to change the lyric? That's so fucking gay.

Okay, okay, I kid.  In all seriousness, though, I am so over this lame, overbearing, condescending, oversensitive, whitewashed ,pathetic ongoing effort to pussify every freaking aspect of American culture to the point where individuality is verboten, nothing has any flavor whatsoever and all and sundry are dutifully  represented by the color "bland".

I call African Americans "black".  I  eat fast food because I like how the crap tastes, okay? I'm not gonna lie about it. Bat Girl is bat girl.not bat "person".   And hey, I'm gonna sing "don we now our gay apparel" whether or not it upsets the delicate sensibilities of  guys who are blowing each other nightly because that's how the damned song goes . Honestly, I refuse to walk on eggshells anymore.  The pc police can grow a sack when I'm around or at least fake it with a strap on, because I'm not gonna be part of this dilution of our freedom of speech anymore.
 

While I definitely agree with your sentiment, it really seems like the only person who wanted to change it was the music teacher because it kept making the kids crack up.  When I was a kid people hadn't started using gay to describe everything, so it wasn't ever an issue.  I remember the first time I heard it used outside of just meaning "a homosexual."  I was in 8th grade math and the kid next to me said "This homework is gay!"  All I could think was "I don't even understand what he means."

I think a lot of the PC nonsense just strengthens racism and sexism, it definitely doesn't do much to eradicate either.  I'm against hate speech, but being too PC is retarded. (See what I did there?)

[GeneralCinema]

Thank you brother Splatt........   Dead on once again.

It seems this type of nonsense only goes on with us White Folk. We think being politically correct in how we talk, makes it impossible to be called racist or sexiest.

I call African Americans "Koons".  I eat fast food because I like how quick the Wetbags make the crap, okay? I'm not gonna lie about it. Bat Girl is bat girl or bat-cunt, either way....not bat "person".   And hey, I'm gonna sing "don we now our gay apparel" with a pink PennState shirt on and a dildo in hand.... whether or not it upsets the delicate sensibilities of  guys who are blowing each other nightly because that's how the damned song goes. Honestly, I refuse to walk on eggshells anymore.  The pc police can grow a sack when I'm around or at least fake it with a strap on, because I'm not gonna be part of this dilution of our freedom of speech anymore.

 

 

You have more issues than a little bit, but every now and again you're good for a laugh.

[traumamama]

Car Insurance:

Un fucking believable, the amount these crooks get away with. What a fucking system. Yeah.....pay us a ton of money..... just incase something bad happens. But when that something bad happens.....you still need to pay. And going forward, you're going to have to pay us MORE now then before. Wait, what? Oh and it's illegal NOT to have this fucked up relationship with your BUSINESS? Fucking sweet deal.

I payed off my car a while ago. Beautiful. That car shit the bed......ok, gotta get a whip. I make a smart choice by getting a Honda Civic.....2006, about 10 grand. Word up.

Now I understand my premium would increase because of the loan. Finance a vehicle and you need full coverage. I get that.......  but you know how much it increased? 3 fold. Yeah that's right....it fucking TRIPLED. What?!?! Suck on my ball sack, bitch. My car insurance has been taken directly out of my check for over 9 years now. (Hense, I've never been late a day with a payment) ...they were taking 54 bucks a pay check (I get paid bi-weekly)  get a letter yesterday, that's changing to 154 a paycheck. What....the.....fuck! Over 300 a month for car insurance! For a fucking 5 year old HONDA?!! Fuck you. And fuck your mom too. Got one speeding ticket and one fender bender in a decade. Lick taint. I'm out. Too bad I live in Mass a fucking Chusetts and none of the major companies offer their service here because they're smart enough not to....  so slim pickings for options......   fuck me running.

Whoa dude.  That's pretty close to what I pay, and my driving record is pretty terrible.  Here's what I think is so fucked up about auto insurance:  You see all sorts of ads for insurance that say "we keep you legal for less."  That means that they don't cover shit, you'll be paying any and everything out of pocket, but you have to pay them a (still pretty large) fee just in case you get pulled over, so you can show the police that you have insurance.

That's like if it was illegal not to have health insurance, and you signed up with a company that you paid monthly to not do shit for you if you get sick.  You'd just have your insurance card if anyone decides to check.  Paying a good chunk of change to an already wealthy company, because otherwise you could go to jail.

ARGH I just want to punch Flo and that lizard every time I see them.

[GiveMeGore]

Whoa dude.  That's pretty close to what I pay, and my driving record is pretty terrible.  Here's what I think is so fucked up about auto insurance:  You see all sorts of ads for insurance that say "we keep you legal for less."  That means that they don't cover shit, you'll be paying any and everything out of pocket, but you have to pay them a (still pretty large) fee just in case you get pulled over, so you can show the police that you have insurance.

That's like if it was illegal not to have health insurance, and you signed up with a company that you paid monthly to not do shit for you if you get sick.  You'd just have your insurance card if anyone decides to check.  Paying a good chunk of change to an already wealthy company, because otherwise you could go to jail.

ARGH I just want to punch Flo and that lizard every time I see them.

I love when they say "People who have switched to us save an average of 420 dollars per year"  YEAH NO SHIT, why the fuck would they switch insurance companies if they werent going to save?!?!?!?!

Don't get me started on Health Insurance. I've been to the doctors ONCE in a decade. Literally. Got a physical when I was 21 and that was that. Yet, I'm legally required to pay like 200 dollars a month just to say I'm covered. Meanwhile, if shit really hits the fan with me health wise, I still have to pay a copayment, and I'm sure specialist won't be free either if needbe. I'm sorry.....if you're single and know your body well enough to know exactly what to do to make yourself feel better, there is no need for health insurance. Ridiculous. With all that and living in Taxachusettes, I swear to Christ I make about 9 bucks an hour.

[GeneralCinema]

Whoa dude.  That's pretty close to what I pay, and my driving record is pretty terrible.  Here's what I think is so fucked up about auto insurance:  You see all sorts of ads for insurance that say "we keep you legal for less."  That means that they don't cover shit, you'll be paying any and everything out of pocket, but you have to pay them a (still pretty large) fee just in case you get pulled over, so you can show the police that you have insurance.

That's like if it was illegal not to have health insurance, and you signed up with a company that you paid monthly to not do shit for you if you get sick.  You'd just have your insurance card if anyone decides to check.  Paying a good chunk of change to an already wealthy company, because otherwise you could go to jail.

ARGH I just want to punch Flo and that lizard every time I see them.

I love when they say "People who have switched to us save an average of 420 dollars per year"  YEAH NO SHIT, why the fuck would they switch insurance companies if they werent going to save?!?!?!?!

Don't get me started on Health Insurance. I've been to the doctors ONCE in a decade. Literally. Got a physical when I was 21 and that was that. Yet, I'm legally required to pay like 200 dollars a month just to say I'm covered. Meanwhile, if shit really hits the fan with me health wise, I still have to pay a copayment, and I'm sure specialist won't be free either if needbe. I'm sorry.....if you're single and know your body well enough to know exactly what to do to make yourself feel better, there is no need for health insurance. Ridiculous. With all that and living in Taxachusettes, I swear to Christ I make about 9 bucks an hour.

Wow, I thought PA was bad.  My health insurance just went up ~$50/month.  I'm at almost $400 a month - that's for the family plan, it's also a PPO (Comcast hooks up its employees).  My car insurance is over $200, but I'd like to change companies tho I'm not sure if I can right now.  I absolutely detest the company that my car loan is through.  Somebody needs to put a bag of flaming dog poo on their doorstep.  We also get "Occupational Priviledge" taxes here.  Total bullshit.  Some are it's a flat rate, while others is a percentage.

[Splatterscribe]

While I definitely agree with your sentiment, it really seems like the only person who wanted to change it was the music teacher because it kept making the kids crack up . 

This is what pisses me off about it. Instead of sitting these kids down and explaining to them that the term "gay" actually describes a state of being bright and cheerful(or having their parents explain it to them) , the teacher leaps on the solution of just changing the word altogether and altering a carol that has sufficed as is for a century and a half because -heaven forbid-somebody somewhere might get their feelings hurt and the teacher apparently can't be bothered to take the time and actually provide some, y'know, guidance to these kids. (Interesting side note: I'm currently on sort of a "holiday break" from volunteering weekly as an adult ESL tutor, which I've been doing since October 2010..and in the admittedly limited classroom time I have with my students, I've tried to illustrate examples of how English can have an impact on their everyday life..one of the topics I chose to cover was understanding what a racial slur is and why they are never appropriate to use. That was one of the more popular sessions). I don't approve of hate speech in any capacity, but whitewashing this stuff because it could potentially be hurtful simply invests it with the  power to harm..suddenly it's a "forbidden" word and speaking it is more damaging because now we've assigned some malevolent value to it.

Actually,the film  Clerks II had a lot of fun with this premise when the character Randal Graves made an ill advised but well meaning attempt to "reclaim " the entirely racist term "porch monkey" for non hateful Caucasian use.     That was funny..and it made a good point about how people on both sides of the equation are capable of demonstrating a surprising level of ignorance about the language they choose to employ.