January 31, 2005
Hillbilly faints...
I think she went down when her brain calculated what her plan for socialized medicine would really cost. Course, she won't admit it...
Posted by Michele at 05:22 PM | Comments (4)
January 30, 2005
Chicken little's sky still fell
For days and days all the media could say is how much risk there was to Bush if he held and election and nobody went. Today, their very own picture shows throngs of people in line to vote. And here's where the not-so-subtle distinctions between Foxnews and CNN shine:
CNN Headline = "Iraqis Vote Amid Violence"
FNC Headline = "Millions Cast Ballots Despite Violence"
Given the unbelievably high turnout, and the relatively low number of successful attacks (~45 dead at this writing), which one seems more apropos? Which one captures the essence of this history in the making... shame on you CNN. SHAME!
PS: To you pinko floozers, before you say 'every person murdered matters!', where's your perspective? These people are voting for their liberty for the first time in the history of an Arab nation. The motto of New Hampshire, words ringing from our very own battle for liberty, LIVE FREE OR DIE, should be tattooed on your pink faces!
Posted by Michele at 09:56 AM | Comments (5)
Get them bitches back to work!
Read all about it
Can you imagine being called to work in a whorehouse by the government? Penalty or not... it's a beautiful outcome of social engineering...
Posted by Michele at 07:33 AM | Comments (2)
January 29, 2005
there's hypocrisy left and right
www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/01/17/morning.after.pill.ap/index.html
The conservatives, who claim "no big government!" want to Nannycam the People when it suits their agenda. They are "concerned" the Plan B pill would be "abused" if available over the counter. Bullshit, they oppose the very idea of birth control. Not only that, what business is it of theirs if it is? The lefties are horrified; they want to dictate all installations of the Nannycam.
But taste the cough syrup, o' Libs-Governing-My-Life. "We must not allow 'hate' speech! protect the children!" and "we must ban SUVs!" while we fly four 747s all over the world for a dumb concert (Madonna) or chop up a beautiful Malibu cliff for our sprawling estate (Streisand).
Libs, you can't have it both ways; if you want Nannyism, the conservatives get to put their cameras in, too.
Posted by Michele at 08:49 AM | Comments (0)
Meet the DNA Donors
Thanks to Marla for this one.
Read All About It
It's horrifying to know that young girls turn to prostitution, and I love the ultimate reality the article points out: the police can scarcely do more about this than the parents can.
However, I'm perplexed by the National City police chief's comment that these girls are even coming from otherwise "well-off" families.
Have I missed 100 years of history somewhere? Poor parents have the lock on abuse, molestation, neglect? Fat wallets don't buy a ticket on the good ship Loving Parent. Jose Menendez couldn't even stay alive with his wealth and largesse... you hear us down there Jose? We're talking about you! How's that pitchfork in your ass?
Michael Jackson, fatcat extraordinaire. Would anyone be the least bit shocked if his kids turned up whoring on East 17th Street? It's a horrible attittude...as long as just the poor girls are whoring themselves out of the horror movie that is their life, well, what're ya gonna do. But when the middle classes hit this barrier, well, shit, now we have a problem...
It is a sad fact that there are so many completely defective parents out there. I'm sorry, but Mrs. Flake's daughter didn't just wake up one day and say, man, my life is so good here, my mom is so wonderful, my Banana Republic wardrobe is so great, but I think a life of whoring myself would be even better. Sorry! Mrs. Flake, you're probably a complete asshole, or you're married to one, and my prayers go out to your poor, lost daughter; that she finds a respite somewhere not in your house.
Posted by Michele at 08:06 AM | Comments (3)
January 28, 2005
It is with utter sadness I read the conviction of a doctor convicted of drug trafficking while treating patients of chronic pain.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145529,00.html
I found an additional bit of information on the topic. We treat patients of chronic pain in 2005 no better than mental patients of 1705. There's a special place in hell for you, Ashcroft.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1698/a08.html?232
Posted by Michele at 08:00 AM
January 27, 2005
Who's your daddy?
The political papas are at it again. They propose that common cold medicines are whisked out of arm's reach, tucked safely behind the protective bar of a pharmacists counter. There, the pharmacist can ration the appropriate dose, monitor your purchases through a government-sponsored database, and ensure that no bad people lay their hands on the stuff.
What are they up to? It turns out our self-appointed old folks think that there are just entirely too many meth cookers lurking around every tree, and that our cold medicines faciliate their businesses. If they only make it a little harder to get the fixins' for meth, well she-ewt, the kids will be just plain better off.
The papas cite a decrease of 80% in the number of meth lab "busts" as the shining example of how grandly such a master plan has succeeded in Oaklahoma. Unfortunately, there are no statistics to substantiate tht this fact equals success. Has Oaklahoma seen an 80% decrease in the number of meth users? Meth related crime? Nooooo? Then do tell, Papa Okie, have your watchdog labs analyzed the meth seized recently? Don't tell me, the fixins' have done gone and changed since one of them is gittin' tough to git...
That's precisely the result of the drug war, and its myopic focus on its manufacture and distribution. Nothing. The manufacturers will just find another way, period. Drug use in this country has remained steady, and when there have been dips in drug use, it's been entirely due to changes in the habits of the users. LSD use, for example tapered off not because it was suddenly impossible to get the ingredients, not becuase it was suddenly illegal, but because people stopped using it as much.
Even more frightful, the papas cite DEA support of the cold pill control plan. Fantastic, the agency largely responsible for putting people beind bars for their entire lives for a first-time pot bust, the agency responsible for witch hunting doctors who--get this--prescribe pain medication to people in pain, is in favor of plans to monitor your cold medicine purchases. I feel safer already.
Posted by Michele at 06:38 PM | Comments (0)
Chalk another happy couple up to the patriarchy
One of my neighbors is a pair of 30-ish people living together in an apartment which, like nearly all apartments, has the sound insulation of a cardboard box with a microphone inside and the corresponding speaker outside.
They are the happiest couple you've ever seen, if your relationship-of-choice is life in the overcrowded den of tazmanian devils. About 30-31 random days a month, they can be heard screeching, thrashing, knocking, banging, and hating each other right into the street.
When passing in the apartment hall, she's friendly, he grunts. Yet all the shrill screaming ("I hate you! Fuck you! I hate you!") is hers. Unfortunately I've been privvy to a glimpse of abusive relationships--with a male abuser--when living with my sister; the neighbor behind us beat his wife. All the screaming, the deep thunder of shouting, was male. Here, it's female. And it's so high pitched you think it might be him, if she has pliers on his balls and is plucking his pubic hairs out with electric tweezers.
The police have been called. She disappears for a few days, and just when you think ah, maybe he did kill her! There she is again. But you don't see her; you hear her. And the disturbing devil dance begins again.
So many people have asked me why don't I do something, why I don't more actively intervene. I've been tempted, at 2 a.m. when the pounding has gone on more than 15 minutes and then the screaming begins. But the reality is that I can't save someone who can't be saved. And such a phone call or personal visit by the police (or god forbid, me), is bound simply to result in death. Them shooting me, me shooting them, cop shooting them, the outcomes are all undesirable. And it also ignores one important fact; maybe, just maybe, they enjoy their devil dance and to live without it--in a so-called sane relationship--would be a life too devoid of depth to taste. Sick, maybe. But so is ironing your sheets and we don't call the police on that one...
It's egocentric, bogus intellectualizing that assumes these dances are always unwanted and must be stamped out as surely as g strings on a family beach. I'll remember this at 2 a.m....
Posted by Michele at 04:59 AM | Comments (3)
January 26, 2005
The Puritans Speak
Sponge Bob's 15 minutes in the news has proven once again that the Sex Starved Trinity (evangelical, born-again, fundamentalists) still sees homo sex, baaaad homo sex that, dadgummit, don't even produce no babies. The homos are anywhere and everywhere they look for it and they want YOU. Under the table, in the MICR line of your checkbook, in cartoons. "They" are recruiting, so watch out.
We're pretty sure there was a confirmed homo Cabbage Patch Kid, but the awakening really began with the she-tubbie, Tinky Winky. A Purple-Pursie was observed by a keen-eyed SST (none other than Jerry Falwell) flitting around his arm whilst seductively luring in the innocents by the lusciously plump, hypnotic sway of the Teletubbie bottom. It all but screamed, "Backdoor Babylon!"
It's not that we're not all for the SST's revelations of rampant homo hedonism, the heightened awareness of active homo recruiting, or that we don't appreciate our enlightenment on the pervasiveness of homo perv, since frankly, we'd like to know where to find more of it and we really appreciate the tips. But we find it remarkable they care so much about what goes in or out of other people's asses. After all, we'd definitely rather not know the ins or outs of theirs.
Posted by Michele at 08:00 AM | Comments (5)
United Nations --The Largest Non-Entity Part I
The United Nations is an organization dedicated to something... does anyone know what? The homepage of the UN has a 20+ page "charter" which outlines its purpose--and it's nothing short of delivering nirvana to all the world. My personal favorite is the goal "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom." Okay, where is my hot air pocket translator...
One might say "larger freedom" is a person’s ability to exercise their free will to lawfully pursue and achieve personal successes as he or she defines them. Sound like a reasonable place to start?
The UN makes our freedom smaller in countless ways; it endorses environmental policies to save trees that would so hinder economic health that survival of said trees is fabulously irrelevant; a poor citizenry would have to cut them down to burn for warmth. It endorses a global military authority which could override any single country's autonomy. They openly endorse the coercive practices of tyrannical governments as long as it benefits one of their charter goals, such as China's one-child policy and its coerced abortions; less people = environmentalist ecstasy.
Standard of living is commonly defined by access to medical care, housing, heat, clean water. None of these things is achieved without a healthy economy to support it. Does the UN really believe we will exist on this earth with medical care, housing, heat, clean water, in a tattered economy and NO impact to the planet? Its stealth agenda seeks to continue, not relieve, the misery of the world. The UN would willingly trade the cure for HIV/AIDS or brain cancer for a fracture-free iceberg in the Arctic.
Since the standard of living in Guatemala, Haiti, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Congo (how many should I list) haven't improved under the 50-year stewardship of the UN, we can put a check mark in the failure column of row number one... "better standards of life in larger freedom", since they have achieved neither.
Posted by Michele at 07:00 AM | Comments (0)