But I hate you. I hate what you represent, what you are and that you think you are more qualified to be President than Barack Obama,. So here is a list of the things I despise about you.
I hate that you have the intellectual curiosity of a boiled egg. You couldn't give a straight answer to Katie Couric when she asked you what newspapers you read.
I despise you for being the cheerleader of ignorance and incompetence. You are a cheerleader for the Joe Sixpack crowd, but you don't give a damn about them, you only want them to buy your books, vote for your daughter on Dancing With The Stars. I cannot vote for a person who quit being governor to chase the money people were throwing at you. I can respect wanting to strike while the iron was hot, but not at the expense of the people you claim to represent.
I hate the way you play victim. I hate that you think you have cornered the market on common sense, and call everyone who doesn't think like you a socialist, unamerican, a communist.
I hate your platitudes, for trying to wrap up your bullshit into pretty litlle packages like Godiva chocolate. "Don't retreat, reload." "Death panels" "Weeweed up."
I HATE what you did to the caribou. I get the point of hunting to put food on the table, but you seem to enjoy the bloodshed too much.
I don't get how you think your journalism degree is a more valuable credential for the Oval Office than a law degree. I can't even wrap my brain arond it. I hate that your fanclub pays for pictures with you.
I hate your excessive religiosity. I don't believe that fundamentalism is a healthy religious choice for the vast majority of Americans. I am not claiming wisdom here, because i know how much i don't know. But I believe that religion is a force advocating ignorance, misogyny and an anti-intellectual attitude. You haven't the spine to go on ABC or MSNBC and you don't give a fuck that this is wrong.
I am not religious. I have not set foot in a church for anything more than a wedding, for more than 10 years. I am a writer, a blogger and a scholar. I am a woman who has never had a child, who considers it immoral to have a baby without the means to care for it, mentally, physically, and finacially. Women need all the information availaible on birth control, and their options. Condoms are not a vector for the spread of disease. It is the right of a woman to have or end a pregnancy as she and HER DOCTOR see fit, and not the decison of any random man, or legislator. A man should not make this choice for a woman. If you are not prepared to make a baby, then you need to be careful. No glove, no love. It's not rocket science. Abstinence is great, but it doesn't WORK for most people.
13 December 2010
So much for bipartianship.
Seriously, I am so fucking over hearing shit from the GOP on bipartisanship and I am even more sick of watching the farce of the Democratic pary trying to negotiate with insane, selfsh and heartless people.
It blows my mind how i have to listten to crap from Republicans about how it's soooo important to balance the budget but heaven forfend that richer people pay their share. It is true that while i am unemployed - i do not pay income tax but I pay sales tax. If i was rich I would be ashamed not paying my fair share.
I'm tired of both parties. I could vote for third parties but i do want my side to win almost as much as i want a system where third parties have a fighting chance to win heats and pass laws. Fuck if I can have any respect for a party that won't spend a few billion dollars or extended unemployment compensation when they are quite happy to spend trillions of dollars for tax breaks for rich people who should be able to afford it. I would be ashamed to be a millionare and not want to pay my share, or to put it on the back of someone making $35,000 per year.
A trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. A trillion is a thousand billion dollars.A billion is a thousand millions. This isn't chicken feed nor chump change. Can't keep maxing out the bankcard and not expect a reckoning, we must pay our way and bring the deficit DOWN. We need to reduce defence and stop being the world's police because we cannot afford it. This is too riduculous.
It blows my mind how i have to listten to crap from Republicans about how it's soooo important to balance the budget but heaven forfend that richer people pay their share. It is true that while i am unemployed - i do not pay income tax but I pay sales tax. If i was rich I would be ashamed not paying my fair share.
I'm tired of both parties. I could vote for third parties but i do want my side to win almost as much as i want a system where third parties have a fighting chance to win heats and pass laws. Fuck if I can have any respect for a party that won't spend a few billion dollars or extended unemployment compensation when they are quite happy to spend trillions of dollars for tax breaks for rich people who should be able to afford it. I would be ashamed to be a millionare and not want to pay my share, or to put it on the back of someone making $35,000 per year.
A trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. A trillion is a thousand billion dollars.A billion is a thousand millions. This isn't chicken feed nor chump change. Can't keep maxing out the bankcard and not expect a reckoning, we must pay our way and bring the deficit DOWN. We need to reduce defence and stop being the world's police because we cannot afford it. This is too riduculous.
05 December 2010
Keith versus Bristol: a few more words
I am sure that it must be hard to have had a child either during high school or immediately after, however I am taking Keith Olbermann's side on this one.
I am sure that Bristol is a good mom..... but this is bigger than any family and must be addressed.
That commercial was lame. Although it was slghtly amusing I felt it failed to provide a useful messgae.
Abstinence is bloody difficult for humans. It is ridiculous to set yourself up as a spokeswoman for abstinence when you have a child. It is still more ridiculous that the abstinence-only crew relies on ignorance and misinformation to scare people into not having sex. It is shameful that these people refuse to use the brains and intellect that would have been a gift from their God. It is disgusting, what i hear about condoms, from the Vatican and Benedict. All rational people should reject such crap. It is ok to use condoms. It is not a sin to take care of your health and well-being.
It is appalling that there are children in a wealthy nation like this, with scientific research discovering new knowledge and creating new ideas, who do not know how their bodies work and that fluids and blood from intravenous drips are somehow "eaten."
Marriage is not a magical process that makes a person instantly responsible, nice. thrifty, and hard working form the minute that they say "I do. " Marriage is also not a remedy for ignorance, mental illness nor douchebaggery.
I can say right now that it's been more than a year since i have been with a man. I miss him like crazy. I am hoping to see him when I go to Florida in January. But it is much more important to me that i not hurt him and not be disloyal. I don't want to hurt a good man and friend. It's been almost three years that he's been in my life and i am glad he's there.
I am sure that Bristol is a good mom..... but this is bigger than any family and must be addressed.
That commercial was lame. Although it was slghtly amusing I felt it failed to provide a useful messgae.
Abstinence is bloody difficult for humans. It is ridiculous to set yourself up as a spokeswoman for abstinence when you have a child. It is still more ridiculous that the abstinence-only crew relies on ignorance and misinformation to scare people into not having sex. It is shameful that these people refuse to use the brains and intellect that would have been a gift from their God. It is disgusting, what i hear about condoms, from the Vatican and Benedict. All rational people should reject such crap. It is ok to use condoms. It is not a sin to take care of your health and well-being.
It is appalling that there are children in a wealthy nation like this, with scientific research discovering new knowledge and creating new ideas, who do not know how their bodies work and that fluids and blood from intravenous drips are somehow "eaten."
Marriage is not a magical process that makes a person instantly responsible, nice. thrifty, and hard working form the minute that they say "I do. " Marriage is also not a remedy for ignorance, mental illness nor douchebaggery.
I can say right now that it's been more than a year since i have been with a man. I miss him like crazy. I am hoping to see him when I go to Florida in January. But it is much more important to me that i not hurt him and not be disloyal. I don't want to hurt a good man and friend. It's been almost three years that he's been in my life and i am glad he's there.
24 November 2010
Hunting.
As a liberal I am pro-hunting. My brother-in-law hunts, as does his family. It's deer season here and i think that since i eat meat that i should get my hands dirty, field-dressing a deer. I think everyone should know where their food comes from, and how to cook it. I don't know that i'd raise my own chickens but i've seen people do it and their chickens were in their yards eating grass and bugs. I don't know if i have the right tools to cut my deer down into steaks and a roast, but i'd try. I have Cutco knives close to hand.
I shop at Whole Foods. I prefer that my food not be full of antibiotics, hormones high-fructose corn syrup and saline solutions. I think that the meat available at Walmart is of mediocre quality, I know it's not cheap to shop at Whole Foods in Hinsdale Illinois, but the quality is worth the time cash and effort it takes to get there. I'd shop at a Whole Foods Indiana if they weren't in the vicinity of Indianapolis.
I shop at Whole Foods. I prefer that my food not be full of antibiotics, hormones high-fructose corn syrup and saline solutions. I think that the meat available at Walmart is of mediocre quality, I know it's not cheap to shop at Whole Foods in Hinsdale Illinois, but the quality is worth the time cash and effort it takes to get there. I'd shop at a Whole Foods Indiana if they weren't in the vicinity of Indianapolis.
22 November 2010
Yo, tea partiers, a moment, please?
What can the tea party do for me; a thirtysomething atheist, unemployed woman, who doesn't want to have children.... Can you help me get a job? What can you offer me that i cannot get from the Democrats?
Why is it wrong to want to close Guantanamo and end use of tortures like waterboarding? Where were you hyperpatriots when Bush II was declaring wars he couldn't pay for, giving his ultrarich friends tax cuts he couldn't pay for?
Why is it that it's ok for Rush Limbaugh to want President Obama to fail? It was unpatriotic, unamerican and allegedly treasonous to question the actions of President George W. Bush, is it not? Is it because Obama is black; would it be different if his last name was Smith, or Jones, or Martinez?
How dare YOU call yourselves "grassroots" when you call to privatize Social Security,; reduce or eliminte the minimum wage*; end OSHA, and demand that gay people and single women submit to invasive exams to prove virginity before being teachers?
How do you call yourselves small government conservatives when you want goverment to monitor every pregnant woman to make sure that her pregnancy ends the way YOU WANT IT --to end with the birth of a live baby, regardless of the wishes of the woman and her doctor??
Why are you ONLY now pitching a bitch that Obama wants to end wars we AS A COUNTRY can't afford, end tax cuts we cannnot afford, and end other bad things your homeboy Dubya did?
What's up with your extreme pro-life agenda? What gives you the right to tell me how i have to spend my money, and why do i have to lose access to birth control because you don't approve of it?
What's with that crazycake Christine O'Donnell and masturbation? Can you PROVE measurable harm to another person caused whenever i use my vibrator, or watch porn?
And for the love of cupcakes, what is it with you people and "smears" when you are caught on tape spreading bullshit? What makes it a smear when your candidates are DUMB enough to put pictures on THE INTERNET of themselves in Nazi uniforms? Why is it a smear when your quotes are quoted on Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, when its coming from your mouth or your writing? OWN your shit. Own your writing and your quotes for fuck's sake! What the fuck am i doing wrong here?
Am I wrong? What don't I get about the tea party? Is there an untruth in these questions i've asked?
Maybe I watch waaaaaayyyyyy too much MSNBC. Maybe the news sources I've read are wrong.... any volunteers to tell me where i've got it wrong? Anyone want to help me out?
16 November 2010
Be the truck, Democrats!!!
There's some fuss over Democrat congressman Alan Grayson's ad that calls his opponent Taliban Dan. I'm the Depressed Indianan and I approve these message in this blog. It's time to start calling the teapartiers, Conservatives, and the Republicans on their shit. For too long they make us look bad, and we let them. We have been called unpatriotic, treasonous, useless, foolish, and several other derogatory terms. Remember?
It's unpatriotic to question the president's motives, and Britney Spears said so for crying out loud. Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they said they were sorry George W Bush was a Texan?
They say this is a "Christian" nation when there is a line in the constution about no religious tests. I've seen the letters in my local paper, claiming this is a Christian nation, wanting to outlaw other religions. I'm an atheist, and i have set foot in Protestant churches. I spent a lot of sundays in a Baptist Church. I read the Bible and do not believe it was divinely inspired, so much as it was written in a time when humanity did not understand how the world around them worked. Religion and Gods are the pitiful attempt to explain how the world worked when SOAP was cutting edge technology. Your Bible repeatedly contradicts itself. You're taking moral advice from people who think women are property and that couldn't conceive of computers, cellphones and Facebook.
They say Atheists can't be good citizens. I get to read this dribble in my local paper too, about how America is Christian. I'd bet my favorite purse that most of these clowns have never met an atheist. Theocracies, like Saudi Arabia and Iran can be scary places to live, there are religious police and your freedoms are limited. We need to call them on their shit. Every last word, everything is on tape, in Facebook, crosposted to blogs. Everytime they call us unamerican traitiors, socialists. Every motherfucking time. It's not a smear to be called on the shit you throw.
Christine O'Donnell is running for Senate and CANNOT think of Supreme Court Cases she disagreees with offhand! I think Kelo vs. New London was a bad calll AS WELL as Citzens United. I also disapprove of the current attempts to dismantle Roe v. Wade ... A fetus may very well be a person but time has to pass before it can survive outside of the womb, at least 26 weeks. A fetus does not own the body of a woman, and it is the woman who should always come first. I have no right to make decisions on how others conduct their lives, and they don't get to tell me how many children i should have.
I don't get what it is with people like Ken Buck and his personhood amendment to make the Pill illegal. I guarantee that women will leave Colorado in carpools to get the Pill. This brings back the possibilty of back-alley abortions, more abandoned babies, more women dying in childbirth, more people having children they can't care for that might be abused or neglected ...
Who is Ken Buck to tell me when I have to have a child? Who the fuck does Sharron Angle think she is wanting women who have been made pregnant by abusers and rapists to have to carry that reminder with them? Why are there so many people who have time to care what a person or couple does in the privacy of their bedroom, for crying out loud??
Where do they FIND these people and why is Jesus always talking to them? I also wonder why Jesus doesn't talk to me, and if he did ... shit might motherfucking change!
Hi, Jesus, I'm ready whenever you are send me a messagge!
Sarah Palin's favorite cause seems to be filling her piggybank. This is probably not going to be a politically correct Blog. I just can't help but wonder what the fuck's going on here. Sarah Palin pimps her books and sells pictures of herself!
It's unpatriotic to question the president's motives, and Britney Spears said so for crying out loud. Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they said they were sorry George W Bush was a Texan?
They say this is a "Christian" nation when there is a line in the constution about no religious tests. I've seen the letters in my local paper, claiming this is a Christian nation, wanting to outlaw other religions. I'm an atheist, and i have set foot in Protestant churches. I spent a lot of sundays in a Baptist Church. I read the Bible and do not believe it was divinely inspired, so much as it was written in a time when humanity did not understand how the world around them worked. Religion and Gods are the pitiful attempt to explain how the world worked when SOAP was cutting edge technology. Your Bible repeatedly contradicts itself. You're taking moral advice from people who think women are property and that couldn't conceive of computers, cellphones and Facebook.
They say Atheists can't be good citizens. I get to read this dribble in my local paper too, about how America is Christian. I'd bet my favorite purse that most of these clowns have never met an atheist. Theocracies, like Saudi Arabia and Iran can be scary places to live, there are religious police and your freedoms are limited. We need to call them on their shit. Every last word, everything is on tape, in Facebook, crosposted to blogs. Everytime they call us unamerican traitiors, socialists. Every motherfucking time. It's not a smear to be called on the shit you throw.
Christine O'Donnell is running for Senate and CANNOT think of Supreme Court Cases she disagreees with offhand! I think Kelo vs. New London was a bad calll AS WELL as Citzens United. I also disapprove of the current attempts to dismantle Roe v. Wade ... A fetus may very well be a person but time has to pass before it can survive outside of the womb, at least 26 weeks. A fetus does not own the body of a woman, and it is the woman who should always come first. I have no right to make decisions on how others conduct their lives, and they don't get to tell me how many children i should have.
I don't get what it is with people like Ken Buck and his personhood amendment to make the Pill illegal. I guarantee that women will leave Colorado in carpools to get the Pill. This brings back the possibilty of back-alley abortions, more abandoned babies, more women dying in childbirth, more people having children they can't care for that might be abused or neglected ...
Who is Ken Buck to tell me when I have to have a child? Who the fuck does Sharron Angle think she is wanting women who have been made pregnant by abusers and rapists to have to carry that reminder with them? Why are there so many people who have time to care what a person or couple does in the privacy of their bedroom, for crying out loud??
Where do they FIND these people and why is Jesus always talking to them? I also wonder why Jesus doesn't talk to me, and if he did ... shit might motherfucking change!
Hi, Jesus, I'm ready whenever you are send me a messagge!
Sarah Palin's favorite cause seems to be filling her piggybank. This is probably not going to be a politically correct Blog. I just can't help but wonder what the fuck's going on here. Sarah Palin pimps her books and sells pictures of herself!
A few words on Taxes
I'm so over "bipartisanship." If I could go two or threee years withou hearing the word bipartisanship, I might be able to get over the stabbiness the sound of the word gets me. I should just call it the b word i'm that sick of it.
More specifically, I don't get why President Obama is trying for bipartisanship with such unreasonable people as this current crop of Republicans who would dancc on the smoking remains of the White House if they thought that by doing so it would get them a couple more points in their approval ratings. Take this tax cut thing, Democrats want it for those making less than $250,000 per year and Republicans want to keep the cuts for those above that 250K mark, and not go back to the 39% under Bill Clinton.
So here's my solution: The tax cuts expire, taxes go up 3 percent and everyone pays a little more. Nobody gets any goddamn thing, 3-4 percent and to hear the GOP/ FoxNoise crew tell it we were looking at a 20% hike. If you can't compromise like adults, nobody gets shit. No more compromise, no bipartisanship, no nothiiiing! It was a poorlythought out law that wasn't paid for and it is time to say bye-bye. We can't afford it.
Since I do not have a job, there is no income tax to be taken from a paycheck, but i DO pay sales tax whenever i go to the store and buy something. If i buy a Diet Coke from the gas staion when i pick up some ice, sales tax.
I pay sales tax at the mall if i get a Cinnabon or a pretzel from Auntie Anne's, or if i get a corndog. Whatever i get there's always some tax. Godiva Chocolate, Hello Kitty notebooks, toothpaste, laundry soap, tax, tax, tax.
There was probably sales tax figured into the price of the Santa Picture that waas taken with me , my sister, and my cousin this past Saturday.
Theres sales tax when i buy cat food, Doritos or a birthday card. I don't have much, but i am paying SOMETHING. Everybody does. Very few thing are truly nox-taxable these days, Illegal immmigrants pay sales tax at the grocery and dollar stores. Paris Hilton pays sales tax on jewelry or a new phone or a pair of Louboutins.
TAANSTAFL, people.
More specifically, I don't get why President Obama is trying for bipartisanship with such unreasonable people as this current crop of Republicans who would dancc on the smoking remains of the White House if they thought that by doing so it would get them a couple more points in their approval ratings. Take this tax cut thing, Democrats want it for those making less than $250,000 per year and Republicans want to keep the cuts for those above that 250K mark, and not go back to the 39% under Bill Clinton.
So here's my solution: The tax cuts expire, taxes go up 3 percent and everyone pays a little more. Nobody gets any goddamn thing, 3-4 percent and to hear the GOP/ FoxNoise crew tell it we were looking at a 20% hike. If you can't compromise like adults, nobody gets shit. No more compromise, no bipartisanship, no nothiiiing! It was a poorlythought out law that wasn't paid for and it is time to say bye-bye. We can't afford it.
Since I do not have a job, there is no income tax to be taken from a paycheck, but i DO pay sales tax whenever i go to the store and buy something. If i buy a Diet Coke from the gas staion when i pick up some ice, sales tax.
I pay sales tax at the mall if i get a Cinnabon or a pretzel from Auntie Anne's, or if i get a corndog. Whatever i get there's always some tax. Godiva Chocolate, Hello Kitty notebooks, toothpaste, laundry soap, tax, tax, tax.
There was probably sales tax figured into the price of the Santa Picture that waas taken with me , my sister, and my cousin this past Saturday.
Theres sales tax when i buy cat food, Doritos or a birthday card. I don't have much, but i am paying SOMETHING. Everybody does. Very few thing are truly nox-taxable these days, Illegal immmigrants pay sales tax at the grocery and dollar stores. Paris Hilton pays sales tax on jewelry or a new phone or a pair of Louboutins.
TAANSTAFL, people.
22 October 2010
A list of songs I hate
In no particular order, a list of what I consider to be the most annoying, crappy, saccharine and just plain BAD songs ever set to tape. I don't give a shit if i misspell something here, because these are the worst of the worst. I'm working from memory of what i hate, what makes me change the channel as soon as i hear it
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Hold Me Now -Thompson Twins
Movin Out - Billy Joel
Shameless - Billy Joel
Obsession - Animotion
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves
All I Want for Christmas - Mariah Carey
Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine
Blinded By The Light- Manfred Mann
That Sister song, Meet Virginia and Drops of Jupiter all by Train
Pina Colada Song
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
Believe -- Cher
Macarena
MmmBop -Hanson
Your Body is a Wonderland -John Mayer
Thong Song by Sisquo
All Summer Long, Bawitdaba - Kid Rock
Warrior - Patty Smyth
Barbiegirl - Aqua
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Ironic by Alanis Morrisette
LA Woman -- The Doors
69 Boyz-Tootsie Roll
Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman - Britney Spears
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
Black Betty - Ramjam
Who Let the Dogs Out
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Hold Me Now -Thompson Twins
Movin Out - Billy Joel
Shameless - Billy Joel
Obsession - Animotion
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves
All I Want for Christmas - Mariah Carey
Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine
Blinded By The Light- Manfred Mann
That Sister song, Meet Virginia and Drops of Jupiter all by Train
Pina Colada Song
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
Believe -- Cher
Macarena
MmmBop -Hanson
Your Body is a Wonderland -John Mayer
Thong Song by Sisquo
All Summer Long, Bawitdaba - Kid Rock
Warrior - Patty Smyth
Barbiegirl - Aqua
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Ironic by Alanis Morrisette
LA Woman -- The Doors
69 Boyz-Tootsie Roll
Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman - Britney Spears
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
Black Betty - Ramjam
Who Let the Dogs Out
08 October 2010
Some Few Liberal talking points
So here are a few things that concern me as a liberal, as a woman and as an American.
It worrries me that there are very few manufacturing jobs in the United States. I think we should be MAKING stuff here and not merely consuming it. I was glad when the bailout of General Motors succeded. I am the daughter of a steelworker, and I am sure that some of the steel that was made where he worked went into Detroit cars. I want to buy stuff made here, not just in China.
I'm a little concerned about the crap I've seen on the Ed Schultz show about how single women and gay men cannot be both sexually active and good teachers. Who does it hurt, when consenting adults participate in sexual intercourse in the privacy of their home? How does it hurt me as a woman when a gay couple does whatever they like in their home?
I think there should be more recycling. Where my sisters live, recycling bins are delivered by the county and everyone fills them, to reuse stuff and keep it out of landfills. I don't really know what to do with trash but there is only so much landfilll space to go round. I also believe that "waste not, want not" is a very good principle.
I am listening to the rebroadcast of Rachel Maddow, during the interview of Art Robinson and he isn't answering any of her questions, and he accused her of smearing him, being sarcastic and misquoting him, when she attempted to ask him about what he has written on paper and online.
I think that the hypocrisy and selfishness of the Republican candidates, and pundits is appalling and astonishing. I am listening to Lou Dobbs on Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell spit hairs about how he has not hired illegal immigrants to work on his estate and look after the horse. I am watching him dance around it, with the reporter who has spoken to the workers he has hired.
I see Sharron Angle call for the privatization of Social Security, and the VA when both she and her husband benefit from government pensions and healthcare. I see a woman who wants to make all abortions illegal, with absolutely no exceptions allowed, nor for rape, not for incest. This makes me feel cold all over, although i have never been raped, not by a stranger, nor acquaintance and certainly not by my family. I wish all babies were loved and wanted, and that they have parents who will take excellent care of them and love them madly. But I live on Earth. I went to a high school with a fair number of teen moms. I read about children being abused in the paper and online, and it's so very sad, and mostly preventable.
I have heard about Linda MacMahon of the WWE and Senate candidate in Connecticut say that the minimum wage needs to be reduced. This is the same Linda MacMahon that is a billionaire and had $46 million dollars in income last year. How can you take home so much and yet be agianst those who have nothing? Doesn't your conscience trouble you?
I have heard Rush Limbaugh scream about how addict should be in jail, and yet he has a problem with Oxycontin. Why aren't you in jail, Mr. Limbaugh? How do you sleep at night:?
I suppose you sleep just fine on a bed filled with money. If I had that kind of cash to my name, I'd be ashamed. I'd want to stay in my house for a year and hide from the world. It would bother me to be a hypocrite on so massive a scale as Ms. MacMahon and Rush Limbaugh.
I'm by no means good or perfect. I'm a packrat. I drink way tooo much Diet Mountain Dew, I'm up late with the owls and goth kids, and vampires. I curse fucking constantly. I hate most people. I always have my face in a book or the internet. I argue with evangelists, Witnesses and proselytizers. I watch too much MSNBC. I think about sex for at least an hour every day. I think Keith Olbermann is one of the sexiest men in cable news. My home is cluttered but i am working on reducing the clutter and getting rid of stuff; by giving good stuff to charity and pitching the crap. I am good at cleaning the house but i hate the work, and find it boring, lame and unbelievably fucking tedious.
I hope that if I make a really obvious factual error in this blog, someone will call me on it, so i can FIX it.
It worrries me that there are very few manufacturing jobs in the United States. I think we should be MAKING stuff here and not merely consuming it. I was glad when the bailout of General Motors succeded. I am the daughter of a steelworker, and I am sure that some of the steel that was made where he worked went into Detroit cars. I want to buy stuff made here, not just in China.
I'm a little concerned about the crap I've seen on the Ed Schultz show about how single women and gay men cannot be both sexually active and good teachers. Who does it hurt, when consenting adults participate in sexual intercourse in the privacy of their home? How does it hurt me as a woman when a gay couple does whatever they like in their home?
I think there should be more recycling. Where my sisters live, recycling bins are delivered by the county and everyone fills them, to reuse stuff and keep it out of landfills. I don't really know what to do with trash but there is only so much landfilll space to go round. I also believe that "waste not, want not" is a very good principle.
I am listening to the rebroadcast of Rachel Maddow, during the interview of Art Robinson and he isn't answering any of her questions, and he accused her of smearing him, being sarcastic and misquoting him, when she attempted to ask him about what he has written on paper and online.
I think that the hypocrisy and selfishness of the Republican candidates, and pundits is appalling and astonishing. I am listening to Lou Dobbs on Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell spit hairs about how he has not hired illegal immigrants to work on his estate and look after the horse. I am watching him dance around it, with the reporter who has spoken to the workers he has hired.
I see Sharron Angle call for the privatization of Social Security, and the VA when both she and her husband benefit from government pensions and healthcare. I see a woman who wants to make all abortions illegal, with absolutely no exceptions allowed, nor for rape, not for incest. This makes me feel cold all over, although i have never been raped, not by a stranger, nor acquaintance and certainly not by my family. I wish all babies were loved and wanted, and that they have parents who will take excellent care of them and love them madly. But I live on Earth. I went to a high school with a fair number of teen moms. I read about children being abused in the paper and online, and it's so very sad, and mostly preventable.
I have heard about Linda MacMahon of the WWE and Senate candidate in Connecticut say that the minimum wage needs to be reduced. This is the same Linda MacMahon that is a billionaire and had $46 million dollars in income last year. How can you take home so much and yet be agianst those who have nothing? Doesn't your conscience trouble you?
I have heard Rush Limbaugh scream about how addict should be in jail, and yet he has a problem with Oxycontin. Why aren't you in jail, Mr. Limbaugh? How do you sleep at night:?
I suppose you sleep just fine on a bed filled with money. If I had that kind of cash to my name, I'd be ashamed. I'd want to stay in my house for a year and hide from the world. It would bother me to be a hypocrite on so massive a scale as Ms. MacMahon and Rush Limbaugh.
I'm by no means good or perfect. I'm a packrat. I drink way tooo much Diet Mountain Dew, I'm up late with the owls and goth kids, and vampires. I curse fucking constantly. I hate most people. I always have my face in a book or the internet. I argue with evangelists, Witnesses and proselytizers. I watch too much MSNBC. I think about sex for at least an hour every day. I think Keith Olbermann is one of the sexiest men in cable news. My home is cluttered but i am working on reducing the clutter and getting rid of stuff; by giving good stuff to charity and pitching the crap. I am good at cleaning the house but i hate the work, and find it boring, lame and unbelievably fucking tedious.
I hope that if I make a really obvious factual error in this blog, someone will call me on it, so i can FIX it.
06 October 2010
Arguing with Jehovah's Witnesses
The other day I had the joy of being awakened at a bright sunny hour to find Jehovah's Witnesses on my doorstep. I made the mistake of answering the door because I am also expecting a handyman to adjust the front door to seal tightly before winter.
It's the same two I've had before and i expect to see them again before the snow flies. They were trying to convince me what a crappy place the world is. They gave me a pamphlet that i have not yet read, i might read it later.
I'm American. I was born in 1978. I have the right to vote, to work, to go to college. I can have a bank account and credit cards without a male to cosign the account. I can go anywhere I like as long as I have money. I can get a passport and backpack in Europe or I could fly to New Zealand and go to Karekare beach. I have a roof over my head, square meals, Internet access, a library card, condoms and vaccinations. If I should have a daughter she can get an education and not be forced to be married agianst her will. She can be a doctor or a mortician or a guitar player. My life may have its crappy moments but , because of the time and the place where I was born, I'm really very fortunate.
"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom." neatly sums up how i feel about religion.
For me the Bible is a mishmash of contradictions and I am probably shit out of luck when it comes to the JW version of heaven. It seems that their beliefs will only get 144,000 people into heaven, so what happens to the rest of the JWs? I'm not sure that i get that ....
When the bible was written by men, women and children were chattel, slavery was allowed, cloth had to be hand woven on looms, bottles were made out of leather, there were no antibiotics, not much was understoood how and why people got sick, women died giving birth, there weren't many books nor public schools, there were no computers, no electricity, and i can give more examples.... but i won't.
The bible is an atttempt to explain stuff to the desert tribes, and to give them good advice in a time when humanity had very litlle idea how the world worked. People believe in astrology as if 6.8 billion people could lead the same 12 lives. Identical twins do not have identical horoscopes. So, NO, Susanna I don't believe in Biblical inerrancy and infallibilty. What I PUT my trust in is science, honesty, integrity, and compassion. I'm all about the golden rule. I beleive that Karma gives us what we put out there.
I have been a reader my whole life. My parents want me to question authority, so i would not do well in a community of Witnesses, being the person that i am, who reads, questions, blogs, votes, and likes to argue. If there is a god, he made it, and it can't change. THAT'S how I ROLL. Belief in God is not for me.
What happens to the cynical secular individual who gives up her blue jeans, voter registration, birthday cake and blood transfusions to follow these narrowly limited rules? I think i'm shit outta luck, because if i could obey those rules and live that life I would still belong to the Baptist Church that my parents sent me to as a child. I am not sure why they chose that church to send us to, but it was convenient for them as this church had a bus service, brought us to the church and then took us home afterwards.
It's the same two I've had before and i expect to see them again before the snow flies. They were trying to convince me what a crappy place the world is. They gave me a pamphlet that i have not yet read, i might read it later.
I'm American. I was born in 1978. I have the right to vote, to work, to go to college. I can have a bank account and credit cards without a male to cosign the account. I can go anywhere I like as long as I have money. I can get a passport and backpack in Europe or I could fly to New Zealand and go to Karekare beach. I have a roof over my head, square meals, Internet access, a library card, condoms and vaccinations. If I should have a daughter she can get an education and not be forced to be married agianst her will. She can be a doctor or a mortician or a guitar player. My life may have its crappy moments but , because of the time and the place where I was born, I'm really very fortunate.
"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom." neatly sums up how i feel about religion.
For me the Bible is a mishmash of contradictions and I am probably shit out of luck when it comes to the JW version of heaven. It seems that their beliefs will only get 144,000 people into heaven, so what happens to the rest of the JWs? I'm not sure that i get that ....
When the bible was written by men, women and children were chattel, slavery was allowed, cloth had to be hand woven on looms, bottles were made out of leather, there were no antibiotics, not much was understoood how and why people got sick, women died giving birth, there weren't many books nor public schools, there were no computers, no electricity, and i can give more examples.... but i won't.
The bible is an atttempt to explain stuff to the desert tribes, and to give them good advice in a time when humanity had very litlle idea how the world worked. People believe in astrology as if 6.8 billion people could lead the same 12 lives. Identical twins do not have identical horoscopes. So, NO, Susanna I don't believe in Biblical inerrancy and infallibilty. What I PUT my trust in is science, honesty, integrity, and compassion. I'm all about the golden rule. I beleive that Karma gives us what we put out there.
I have been a reader my whole life. My parents want me to question authority, so i would not do well in a community of Witnesses, being the person that i am, who reads, questions, blogs, votes, and likes to argue. If there is a god, he made it, and it can't change. THAT'S how I ROLL. Belief in God is not for me.
What happens to the cynical secular individual who gives up her blue jeans, voter registration, birthday cake and blood transfusions to follow these narrowly limited rules? I think i'm shit outta luck, because if i could obey those rules and live that life I would still belong to the Baptist Church that my parents sent me to as a child. I am not sure why they chose that church to send us to, but it was convenient for them as this church had a bus service, brought us to the church and then took us home afterwards.
No, actually, WICCANT
With double emphasis on the CAN'T.
Christine O'Donnnell, my dear, let me fill you in on a few things....You can say you're me all you like, but as soon as you open your mouth again something else will come out that I will have to disagree with.
What have I heard? Quite alot from that pretty face, from YOUR mouth, sweetie, from the Bill Maher Politically Incorrect Clips and your interviews. I've seen you on Fox News, even though it makes my head ache and my brain hurt.
I read, I think, I vote, and I question Authority. I like having premarital sex, and i'm going to continue to have MORE. Lots. More. More. Oh, right there ... YEAAAAAH!
Politicians have been making backroom deals since there were the city-states of Ancient Greece and they will do so ONLY WHEN it stops being a viable way to get shit done.
I'm sure you're lovely to have coffee and pie with but who died and left you in charge of my vagina? I hate to point out the obvious but not everyone is Christian. Not everyone follows your playbook, Christine, and it is none of your business what I do in my home, within the privacy of a locked door and drawn shades. You, who spouts conservative hyperchristian beliefs, you who share your house with a boyfriend, you're just a hypocrite. That's not cool in my playbook. Green things growing grey and blue fuzz in my fridge are smarter than you are.
Fighting cancer, world hunger, disease and man's inhumantiy to his fellow man and WOMAN is a hell of a lot more imprtant than worrying about masturbation.
When I am with my partner, both of us being consenting adults btw, we are not hurting anyone. We care about each other and take pleasure in each other's company in many other ways, like cheesecake, chocolate, talking on the phone, movies, rock music, walks on the beach and breakfast.
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette.
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. -- H.L. Mencken
And as for me, I'll be over here taking my chances with the Wiccans and the secularists. I'll be masturbating, and continuing to have premarital sex while eating chocolate cheesecake, drinking champagne, and listening to classic rock with my lover.
Christine O'Donnnell, my dear, let me fill you in on a few things....You can say you're me all you like, but as soon as you open your mouth again something else will come out that I will have to disagree with.
What have I heard? Quite alot from that pretty face, from YOUR mouth, sweetie, from the Bill Maher Politically Incorrect Clips and your interviews. I've seen you on Fox News, even though it makes my head ache and my brain hurt.
I read, I think, I vote, and I question Authority. I like having premarital sex, and i'm going to continue to have MORE. Lots. More. More. Oh, right there ... YEAAAAAH!
Politicians have been making backroom deals since there were the city-states of Ancient Greece and they will do so ONLY WHEN it stops being a viable way to get shit done.
I'm sure you're lovely to have coffee and pie with but who died and left you in charge of my vagina? I hate to point out the obvious but not everyone is Christian. Not everyone follows your playbook, Christine, and it is none of your business what I do in my home, within the privacy of a locked door and drawn shades. You, who spouts conservative hyperchristian beliefs, you who share your house with a boyfriend, you're just a hypocrite. That's not cool in my playbook. Green things growing grey and blue fuzz in my fridge are smarter than you are.
Fighting cancer, world hunger, disease and man's inhumantiy to his fellow man and WOMAN is a hell of a lot more imprtant than worrying about masturbation.
When I am with my partner, both of us being consenting adults btw, we are not hurting anyone. We care about each other and take pleasure in each other's company in many other ways, like cheesecake, chocolate, talking on the phone, movies, rock music, walks on the beach and breakfast.
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette.
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. -- H.L. Mencken
And as for me, I'll be over here taking my chances with the Wiccans and the secularists. I'll be masturbating, and continuing to have premarital sex while eating chocolate cheesecake, drinking champagne, and listening to classic rock with my lover.
03 October 2010
Birth Control
So you want to ban abortions and birthcontrol ... you might be a nurse or anesthesiologist who objects to tubal ligations .... so you might be a pharmacist who gives someone static about filling a prescription for the pill ... or you are someone like Ken Buck who wants to pass a law to make these things illegal, and i must ask what the fuck is your damage? Who are you to tell me how many kids to have?
Who are you to tell me that I have to be a mommy because you ARE pro-life? What give you the right to tell someone to have a child they might not be able to take care of? Why is there nothing in the Bible about not being cruel, nor abusive to children? It's disturbing that there are those like Mother Teresa who set up clinics to "help" poor sick and dying people yet would not use antibiotics nor pain medications.
Why is there so much need for human life when there are 6.8 BILLION people on the planet NOW - many of whom don't have enough to eat or clean drinking water? Why the push for ignorance?
What's appallling to me is that in the modern year 2010 there are women who don't know how their bodies work, how food is digested and that there are people who think that condoms are a vector for spreading disease. If condoms spread disease, the manufacturers would be sued out of existence by those that were harmed by them.
How can there be mice with human brains when mice weigh an ounce or two and the human brain is two pounds?
Who are you to tell me that I have to be a mommy because you ARE pro-life? What give you the right to tell someone to have a child they might not be able to take care of? Why is there nothing in the Bible about not being cruel, nor abusive to children? It's disturbing that there are those like Mother Teresa who set up clinics to "help" poor sick and dying people yet would not use antibiotics nor pain medications.
Why is there so much need for human life when there are 6.8 BILLION people on the planet NOW - many of whom don't have enough to eat or clean drinking water? Why the push for ignorance?
What's appallling to me is that in the modern year 2010 there are women who don't know how their bodies work, how food is digested and that there are people who think that condoms are a vector for spreading disease. If condoms spread disease, the manufacturers would be sued out of existence by those that were harmed by them.
How can there be mice with human brains when mice weigh an ounce or two and the human brain is two pounds?
Break Shit
There are days when I would like nothing more than to get a chainsaw, some paintball guns and spray paint and go on a tear to just fuck some shit up. My first target would be those crosses put up in memory of aborted children. They piss me off. I'd paiintball all the political signs and some SUVs just for the hell of it. I'd spraypaint hateful things on the Walmarts. I'd have someone in a skimask drive while i paintball a McMansion or three.
Luckily for people I am as poor as shit and cannot afford paintball guns and chainsaws.
Luckily for people I am as poor as shit and cannot afford paintball guns and chainsaws.
A boyfriend, a bed, and some condoms
I have a man who cares about me and who I have had sex with but he lives in Florida. I wish I was so lucky as to live in the same house as he does, but it's not happening. If I did live in the same house, I would give him some sex every day, as much as we both wanted. Invisible Pink Unicorn knows I'd fuck him today if i could just find myself in the same county. I miss him terribly. I know he's just had surgery a couple of days ago and if i could, i would.
I went to high school in the mid 90s and I can think of at least a DOZEN girls who got pregnant and kept the babv. I am sure that my sisters who all went to the same schhool know more girls who had babies as well. I would have had sex then to if I hadn't been a fat nerd. I am still a geek but I am working on losing weight.
For this reason I find it difficult to beleive that Christine O'Donnell who shares a house with her boyfriend, and not having sex is a little mindboggling. I
I went to high school in the mid 90s and I can think of at least a DOZEN girls who got pregnant and kept the babv. I am sure that my sisters who all went to the same schhool know more girls who had babies as well. I would have had sex then to if I hadn't been a fat nerd. I am still a geek but I am working on losing weight.
For this reason I find it difficult to beleive that Christine O'Donnell who shares a house with her boyfriend, and not having sex is a little mindboggling. I
Is that what you call a good christian?
I don't have the slightest idea what to do about the so called ground zero mosque. Are there really no other mosques or synagogues in New York City that such a fuss is being made over one building? Thanks a bunch Jones, and Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich! I would like to put my foot up pastor Jones' ass, because he is a jackass. I regard him as a troublemaking asshole. An ASSHOLE motherfucking shitstain on the flag he's wrapped himself in.
It is his right to say what he did about Islam, and I will not quote him here. It is also my right to call him a shithead and a fool. Certainly I am sorry he's american, and a resident of Florida, because Florida's a wonderful place and doesn’t deserve a fool like him cluttering up the place. Ordinarily i would capitalize the word 'pastor' but i do not feel that Jones is a credit to the god he claims to serve. I'd also like to point out that the Nazis burned books and perhaps Stalin and Mussolini did as well.
It is not freedom of religion to have another person tell us where to go to church and how often. It is not freedom of religion when you cram it down other people's throats, and it is probably not freedom of religion when a fundamentalist complains about what other fundamentalists do. Not all Islam did to us what happened on 11 September 2001. It was 19 men, some from Saudi Arabia, where you can only practice Islam, and they don't let women drive or vote or do a lot of stuff most American women take for granted.
I have little use for religion, and am not likely to set foot in any Islamic center ever, but i feel that it is disgraceful, and antithetical to American freedom that this much hullaballoo is being made over a space that is a dilapidated Burlington Coat Factory, and now some propose to micromanage what's being done with NYC real estate? What's so conservative about that?
I see on MSNBC that there are other churches, strip clubs, restaurants and IPU knows what else nearer to "Ground Zero" than the community center. What is it, with all these small-government tea-partying neo-Puritan busybodies wanting to spend time, legislation and $$$$ micromanaging what the American people do and who they love, what they wear and what colour their house is?
20 September 2010
No tea to be had here
I wish I could say that I get the rationale of the tea party but i don't.
I don't get where these people were when George W. Bush was declaring wars on the Muslim World, passing tax cuts to benefit his rich friends, not only spending all the dimes that had been nailed down and spending dimes that have yet to be minted. I don't get why people blame Obama for TARP when W. signed the law befow Obama so much as turned on the lights in the Oval Office.
It's not a tax hike when you end a bad law that you cannot affford to keep. Currently the top tax rate for income is 39 percent although i am told that under President Eisenhower it was something like 90 percent... holy cow.
I don't get how people can believe how a man who smokes, drinks beer and eats hot dogs can be muslim, I was under the impression Muslims did not eat pork nor do they consume alcohol. I don't get what makes the Obama birth certificate i have seen on the news "fake". His is different than mine, but i have an Indiana certificate. My father's birth certificate is on another form and my mother's is another different form although she was born on a US Army base somewhere in Europe. All these forms basically have the same information, but my father's form has more info than mine.
Sometimes I wonder if it's because they think Hawai'i is a concocted fairytale sort of place like Xanadu, Avalon or Andalasia.
I don't get how you can be a "small-government conservative" when you want to legislate how people can live, love, what church they must go to, and what colour they should paint their house.
I don't get where these people were when George W. Bush was declaring wars on the Muslim World, passing tax cuts to benefit his rich friends, not only spending all the dimes that had been nailed down and spending dimes that have yet to be minted. I don't get why people blame Obama for TARP when W. signed the law befow Obama so much as turned on the lights in the Oval Office.
It's not a tax hike when you end a bad law that you cannot affford to keep. Currently the top tax rate for income is 39 percent although i am told that under President Eisenhower it was something like 90 percent... holy cow.
I don't get how people can believe how a man who smokes, drinks beer and eats hot dogs can be muslim, I was under the impression Muslims did not eat pork nor do they consume alcohol. I don't get what makes the Obama birth certificate i have seen on the news "fake". His is different than mine, but i have an Indiana certificate. My father's birth certificate is on another form and my mother's is another different form although she was born on a US Army base somewhere in Europe. All these forms basically have the same information, but my father's form has more info than mine.
Sometimes I wonder if it's because they think Hawai'i is a concocted fairytale sort of place like Xanadu, Avalon or Andalasia.
I don't get how you can be a "small-government conservative" when you want to legislate how people can live, love, what church they must go to, and what colour they should paint their house.
Hypocrite!!
That's right. Anti-masturbation-activist and hyperconservative Christian Christine O'Donnel shares a house with her boyfriend/campaign manager. Slacktivist.
Tee-fucking-hee people! That's enough anti-sex hysteria for one century. Chrissy is also a "fiscal conservative" who pays her billls with campaign cash!
Sharron Angle has a husband who has retired after working for the State of Nevada and benefits from his government pension and healthcare, and yet she rails against socliaized medicine and Social Security. What is UP with these hyperchristian teapartiers wanting to take income and health care away from older people and sick children? Is that what Jesus would really do? Take from the sick and defenceless and give unto Halliburton and Blackwater?
Tee-fucking-hee people! That's enough anti-sex hysteria for one century. Chrissy is also a "fiscal conservative" who pays her billls with campaign cash!
Sharron Angle has a husband who has retired after working for the State of Nevada and benefits from his government pension and healthcare, and yet she rails against socliaized medicine and Social Security. What is UP with these hyperchristian teapartiers wanting to take income and health care away from older people and sick children? Is that what Jesus would really do? Take from the sick and defenceless and give unto Halliburton and Blackwater?
19 September 2010
A day in the life of a so-called "spoiled" unemployed person
I am unemployed and I don't especially like being me.
I tried living with my sister and looking after her kids while i looked for work but that didn't work. I had a lot of trouble with the children, and barely had time to study for my PTCB.
I live with my mother and do all the heavy lifting or i cut the grass and i clean the bathrooms. I shred documents like canceled checks, and put stuff in the car to be taken to Goodwill or Salvation Army. I am organizing the family pictures and scanning them.
My family has spent 21 years accumulating documents, and pictures and clothes, knicknacks, and this heap wasn't built in a day, so it will take some time to get rid of it. I have spent days shredding sensitive documents, the equivalent of TWO normal week's work, and maybe three by the time I am done.
For a while i was looking after my grandfather, going on errands with him, but he died, and i miss him. I'll never make pancakes for him again or get him coffee.
I can't afford a mani/pedi. I do not own designer clothes unless i have been lucky to get it at a thrift or secondhand shop. I do my clothes shopping at the outlet mall and hem my new jeans myself. Sometimes I get to buy a used book from the library's sale cart if they have anything i will read over and over again. I haven't colored my hair in five years.
I have applied to just about everything. I've applied to McDonalds, Publix, Dollar Tree, Burger King, Target, Best Buy, Jo Ann Fabrics, Michaels, Big Lots, I've put my resume at temp services. I've applied at Walmart - but failed their test 3 times. I've applied for govenment jobs. I've worked for the Salvation Army as a bellringer. I am also a certified pharmacy technician, I passed the PTCB. I am good with computers and I would even go back to a call center if i was offered a job there.
I don't know what to do.
I tried living with my sister and looking after her kids while i looked for work but that didn't work. I had a lot of trouble with the children, and barely had time to study for my PTCB.
I live with my mother and do all the heavy lifting or i cut the grass and i clean the bathrooms. I shred documents like canceled checks, and put stuff in the car to be taken to Goodwill or Salvation Army. I am organizing the family pictures and scanning them.
My family has spent 21 years accumulating documents, and pictures and clothes, knicknacks, and this heap wasn't built in a day, so it will take some time to get rid of it. I have spent days shredding sensitive documents, the equivalent of TWO normal week's work, and maybe three by the time I am done.
For a while i was looking after my grandfather, going on errands with him, but he died, and i miss him. I'll never make pancakes for him again or get him coffee.
I can't afford a mani/pedi. I do not own designer clothes unless i have been lucky to get it at a thrift or secondhand shop. I do my clothes shopping at the outlet mall and hem my new jeans myself. Sometimes I get to buy a used book from the library's sale cart if they have anything i will read over and over again. I haven't colored my hair in five years.
I have applied to just about everything. I've applied to McDonalds, Publix, Dollar Tree, Burger King, Target, Best Buy, Jo Ann Fabrics, Michaels, Big Lots, I've put my resume at temp services. I've applied at Walmart - but failed their test 3 times. I've applied for govenment jobs. I've worked for the Salvation Army as a bellringer. I am also a certified pharmacy technician, I passed the PTCB. I am good with computers and I would even go back to a call center if i was offered a job there.
I don't know what to do.
18 September 2010
A few things I don't get...
I don't get the "Real Housewives" one bit. I know my mom like that show, but i don't get what makes them so popular, or where the housewife part is, because i see these women fight, party, shop and do other things but not housewife, not so much.
I don't get why Justin Bieber is so huge. I heard a few seconds of him singing and asked if that as really a guy, and my cousin said it was.
I don't get 'purity balls' and honestly it strikes me as a little possesive and creepy. I think if you have a daughter, she should be taught how to make good life choices, how to say No, and self-defense. I'm also not getting why it is that they don't seem to have mother and son purity parties. Teenage boys need to be taught to keep it in their pants.
I don't get the Bachelor and Bachelorette series. It's like watching an arranged marriage trying to arrange itself and it's not especially romantic to me. I'm also not sure why there are STILL V.C. Andrews books coming out every few months when she's been dead for 20 years. I know there's a ghostwriter, but where's all this coming from? I don't get why people go to tanning booths but i sunburn very easily, and that's why i don't go, but to each his own.
I don't get why people don't vaccinate their children. If I had a baby that came down with polio or whooping cough, because i couldnt' be bothered to have the kid get a shot then I would hate myself.
I don't get evangelical Christians much. I did go to a church where some members went door-to-door to invite people and i occassionally get Jehovah's Witnesses to come by and sell me on their religion, but I know that faith isn't for me. I appreciate my right to vote, blue jeans, blood transfusions and birthday cake, if if i'm not especially happy about getting older. Christianity is a mishmosh of pagan beliefs and other assorted desert nomads' mythologies, and just doesn't work for me. I have a KJV bible to read, but the inconsistencies are mind-boggling. I also own a Gideons' New testament. I know where all the churches are in this neighborhood and if i wanted to go, I would go. I have been to church, but i can't bring myself to beileve that i could be useful to something that can create a universe.
TRUE freedom of religion should include freedom FROM religion. Freedom of religion is not created by having one loudmouth tell everyone where and when to go to church. Freedom of religion is in the state not giving any preference to any religious denomination. I'd rather take my chances with the secularists than the fundamentalists.
I don't get why Justin Bieber is so huge. I heard a few seconds of him singing and asked if that as really a guy, and my cousin said it was.
I don't get 'purity balls' and honestly it strikes me as a little possesive and creepy. I think if you have a daughter, she should be taught how to make good life choices, how to say No, and self-defense. I'm also not getting why it is that they don't seem to have mother and son purity parties. Teenage boys need to be taught to keep it in their pants.
I don't get the Bachelor and Bachelorette series. It's like watching an arranged marriage trying to arrange itself and it's not especially romantic to me. I'm also not sure why there are STILL V.C. Andrews books coming out every few months when she's been dead for 20 years. I know there's a ghostwriter, but where's all this coming from? I don't get why people go to tanning booths but i sunburn very easily, and that's why i don't go, but to each his own.
I don't get why people don't vaccinate their children. If I had a baby that came down with polio or whooping cough, because i couldnt' be bothered to have the kid get a shot then I would hate myself.
I don't get evangelical Christians much. I did go to a church where some members went door-to-door to invite people and i occassionally get Jehovah's Witnesses to come by and sell me on their religion, but I know that faith isn't for me. I appreciate my right to vote, blue jeans, blood transfusions and birthday cake, if if i'm not especially happy about getting older. Christianity is a mishmosh of pagan beliefs and other assorted desert nomads' mythologies, and just doesn't work for me. I have a KJV bible to read, but the inconsistencies are mind-boggling. I also own a Gideons' New testament. I know where all the churches are in this neighborhood and if i wanted to go, I would go. I have been to church, but i can't bring myself to beileve that i could be useful to something that can create a universe.
TRUE freedom of religion should include freedom FROM religion. Freedom of religion is not created by having one loudmouth tell everyone where and when to go to church. Freedom of religion is in the state not giving any preference to any religious denomination. I'd rather take my chances with the secularists than the fundamentalists.
I don't want to vote for Christine O'Donnell
I don't want to vote for Sharron Angle or Sarah Palin either. I am concerned that these women will have a negative impact on women's rights as they are now and i find it disgusting that so-called small-government conservative want to legislate how we can live and love. I think Anne Coulter is a reprehensible human being, and a plagiarist.
I want to vote for a woman but i don't want to vote for someone who seems to think that as a woman, all i should want is to stay home, have a few babies and be a housewife. I'm not great with kids and being a housewife bores me to tears. As a feminist, if you decide to be a housewife after college and marriage that's ok, but YOU don't get to tell me how i should live my life. I'm pro-choice, for legalization of marijuana, I was raised a daughter of lifelong union members. I'm for gay marriage. Gay people getting married isn't going to take away anything from me nor hurt anyone i know. I'm for access to birth control, clean drinking water for everyone on the planet, and I love my library. I recycle. I vote and I blog. I think condoms are a good thing and do not spread disease.
I am concerned about where this country is going but I don't think Sarah Palin is the answer.
I want to vote for a woman but i don't want to vote for someone who seems to think that as a woman, all i should want is to stay home, have a few babies and be a housewife. I'm not great with kids and being a housewife bores me to tears. As a feminist, if you decide to be a housewife after college and marriage that's ok, but YOU don't get to tell me how i should live my life. I'm pro-choice, for legalization of marijuana, I was raised a daughter of lifelong union members. I'm for gay marriage. Gay people getting married isn't going to take away anything from me nor hurt anyone i know. I'm for access to birth control, clean drinking water for everyone on the planet, and I love my library. I recycle. I vote and I blog. I think condoms are a good thing and do not spread disease.
I am concerned about where this country is going but I don't think Sarah Palin is the answer.
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