THE MAIN ENGINE ROOM

Thoughts and Ramblings, from a long-time Sci Fi freak. !!WARNING!! Sometimes political commentary may sneak though!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Just Another Day..........

Hello. :)

I was going to go on about the news I'd heard about the new movie in the works: A live action movie, about Barbie. Yes, the doll.
But, then I realized that it wouldn't really go anywhere...what could I do, rant about it, because it's based on a toy? A good many movies have been (and, ll be), so it seemed a little self-defeating to go on about it. So, I'm letting it drop. No sense, making no sense...

Haven't posted a bit, because I've been out and about; as such, whatever vitriol I may have had earlier, is pretty well done.

So, maybe next time, something somewhat coherent will make its way here.

Or not. :D

Monday, September 21, 2009

One More Orly Taitz

I know, I know....but, I promise it'll be the last one, unless something *REALLY* interesting happens....

Seems that the soldier, Capt. Connie Rhodes, who refused to deploy because she said Obama wasn't *really* President (and she therefore didn't have to follow his orders), was being represented in her lawsuit about the whole thing, *NOW* is trying to distance herself from Taitz' Full Bore Crazy. The article is from The Huffington Post, and has some interesting info on this debacle.

Like I've said, no more, unless some *REAL* news comes from this...

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Orly Taitz, At It Again...

She's now filed a motion in U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Georgia challenging the judge's order tossing her most recent case.
In return, Judge Clay Land (You remember him, don't you?) is threatening her with a $10,000 fine. Can you say, 'Masochist'?

Sorry about all the links, but it just makes things easier to go through...

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Orly Taitz and the Teabaggers: Shut the Hell up

Today, a twofer.

Seems that the Birther Queen Orly Taitz's newest lawsuit about getting Barack Obama's 'real' birth certificate has been thrown out by U.S. district court judge Clay Land; seems Hizzoner's having a bit of a bother with her incessant filing of things that (A) have no merit, and (B) have no evidence. She, on the other hand, has compared herself to Nelson Mandela, of all people, and says that the judge is a TRAITOR!! Who'd think that a judge who was appointed by George W. Bush would say such a thing, as "Stop wasting the Court's time with this stuff!" Huh. Go figure...

Next, those Tottlin' Teabaggers...
Seems that crooksandliars.com has actually found ten points of interest against them, and their so-called 'Patriot Protesting':

1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes
2. The Stimulus is Working
3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt...
4. ...Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again
5. Republican States Have the Worst Health Care
6. Medicare is a Government Program
7. Barack Obama is Not a Muslim
8. Barack Obama was Born in the United States
9. 70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000
10. The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats

Huh. Who'd have thunk that mindless protesting FOR Republican interests, would be so uninformed...

And, for those who might want to check my sources for the above:
Orly 'Crazy' Taitz

Ten Lessons For Teabaggers

Monday, September 14, 2009

R I P, Patrick Swayze

Just heard that Patrick Swayze died; he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Goodbye, Patrick

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Teaparty Teabagging Town Hallies....

While watching the goofballs dressed up in their pseudo-'Patriotic' costumes and carrying their quaint signs about the 'Naughty Bad Wicked Evil' President and Government, I thought it rather odd, that these so-called 'Patriots' would protest now, rather than for the past eight years, when Bush the Lesser and his cronies were killing the Constitution and raping its corpse. Why are these tools protesting the guy trying to FIX this shit, rather than trying to stop the other guy from CAUSING it? Oh, I know why.....

Because the current guy in the White House is BLACK, and not the guy serving lunch to white people.

That explains everything...........

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Jefferson County Sheriff defends soldier's funeral procession

What in the Hell's going on with people?

Seems a woman in Jefferson County Missouri wrote an e-mail to the Jefferson County sheriff's office, complaining about how her drive was interrupted and bothered by a funeral procession for a fallen soldier who died in Afghanistan. What's great about this? the sheriff wrote her back, basically slapping her down in print. :)

Now, I've never been in the military, but I have the utmost respect for anyone who volunteers to put on a uniform and willingly place themselves in harm's way. And, even if it wasn't a soldier's funeral, she still should have treated the procession with some respect. Whining only makes her look petty and too full of 'self-importance' to be taken seriously.

Here's a link to the article, with both e-mails on the side.

Stupid, stupid people....

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Obama's Speech To The Kids

Well, President Obama had his school speech today. You know the one: "Study hard, stay in school, hard work will get you what you want." You know, all of those 'socialist' things.

Of course, the Repubs had their opposing remarks; mainly, "It was okay, but...", things with no real substance. To give you an idea of the goofiness they're spewing:

Stupid People


Sorry about the link, but this explains it better than I could.

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Monday, September 7, 2009

God, I Hate Some People....

Oh, Happy Labor Day, by the way. What better way to celebrate working people, than to give a lot of them the day off? :D

Went shopping today; and, as usual, there were people who really need to be culled from the herd out & about today. I mean, honestly, how fekking hard *IS* it, to move your damn cart out of the way of others, when you're looking at bread? I especially love it, when they give you a dirty look, if you dare---you DARE!!---move their cart so can get by. On the Annoyance Scale, they're just above (slightly) the brain-dead tools who just leave the cart in the aisle, and walk off to a different aisle, because....well, who knows why? I usually just push it down the aisle, and just hope its person finds it...

By the way, did you know that (technically, at least), you could shop out of someone else's cart? As long as the items haven't been paid for, they still belong to the store, so they're fair game. Not that I would advocate such a thing, of course...

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Not in a good place today...

Found this on Bartcop; particularly, here: Article
Here it is, in its entirety:

Dear Republicans,

Fuck you. No, I'm not joking. I'm sick of this bullshit.

I'm sick of the way you've corrupted the public discourse. The way you've made it acceptable to hurl any insult you like at public officials. The way you blame us for the current atmosphere of hatred by accusing us of starting it with hating Bush. Like Bush didn't come on the heels of eight years of your tireless efforts to destroy Clinton by any means necessary, like Bush didn't give us good reason to complain. A couple of posters on a website compared Bush to Hitler and you've used it as free license to compare Obama to Hitler 24/7 and I'm sick of your hypocrisy, where it's acceptable to say shit about Obama that you would have had an apoplectic fit (and did) if anything remotely similar had been said about your guys. Keith Olbermann calls Cheney a fascist when he was actually using fascist tactics and you think that gives you the freedom to call Obama a fascist, socialist, Marxist constantly for no reason at all. Fuck you and your bullshit false equivalency.

I'm sick of the way you've made the populace stupid. Around a fifth of your populace thinks the sun orbits the earth, over half think evolution never happened. Your populace actually believe the media has a liberal bias. Not because it has, you have the most conservative media in the free world, but because you've shouted it so loud and so often that you've brainwashed the public into believing it, like the battered wife who parrots her husband's insults. You've got a whole segment of the populace shouting about socialism and fascism and none of them know what the fucking words mean. You've convinced them that fascism is a left-wing thing. You've got them so turned around that some of them actually believe global warming isn't happening. Fuck you.

I'm sick of the way you try to destroy the whole concept of government. You've tricked the people into believing that government can't do anything right, always being careful to exclude the army because you love your bullets and bombs but you've so destroyed the public's ability to reason that they don't even think of interstate highways, the space program, the national parks program, etc. Government is always great when it's doing what you tell it and inevitably corrupt when it isn't. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your rewriting of history. You've bleated so loud and long that Reagan was a great president, that the New Deal didn't work, that cutting taxes increases revenues, that you actually have the people believing this bullshit. And these are the same people who will go on to become teachers and fill their student's heads with this self-same bullshit. Reagan was a mediocre president at best who had the good fortune to be in power when the USSR collapsed under it's own weight and you bastards have turned him into the Second Coming. You've rewritten history so that everything foul and hateful and wrong can be attributed to a Democrat while everything worthwhile is a Republican's glory. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your dragging the center ever further to the right. How many whackjob fringe ideas have you dragged into the mainstream? The aforementioned idea that tax cuts increase revenues, the Laffer Curve, the idea that Welfare harms the poor, the idea that there's rampant fraud in Welfare, the idea that whatever is good for corporations is good for the country. And you push these ideas through your corporate media and you do it so long and loud that they become part of the accepted political landscape and because it is easier to tell a lie than to debunk one, we never get away from this rancid shit. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your casual criminality. Teddy Kennedy, a man who's boots you were not worthy to lick, was just buried and all I've heard from my rightist friends for days is Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick. Your fucking golden boy raped the Constitution, mainly because he wanted to; tortured random people (and waterboarding is torture, fuck you too) essentially because he wanted to; spent like a drunken sailor, essentially because he wanted to; invaded a sovereign nation, essentially for the loot and destroyed people's lives, essentially for the evilulz and you bastards are obsessed with a fucking accident a Democrat had decades ago? You don't go on about Laura Bush killing some guy decades ago. Fuck you.

I'm sick of you praising pure evil. You're letting Dick Cheney be the standard-bearer for Republicanism. Dick Cheney, a man so nakedly evil that even his friends call him "Darth"; a man so callous that Lex Luthor would recoil in terror; a man who probably has dismembered hitchhikers in those man-sized safes and kills plants by his mere proximity. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your attempts to tilt the playing field permanently in your favor. Democrats filibustered a few of Bush's most hateful judicial picks and you pricks started screaming about doing away with the filibuster but now you're in the minority, you're filibustering absolutely everything you can and whining when you don't get the chance. You ignored everything the Democrats had to say when you had power and now that you don't, you scream that everyone must be bipartisan. You don't budge a fucking inch on anything but you insist that everyone must compromise to meet you. That's your idea of politics: Don't move an inch, force the other guy to come to the right to meet you and call the result a "compromise". Fuck you.

I'm sick of your corporatism. You dress it up in false populism but anyone with half a brain can see that you're the brought and paid for subsidiary of big business. You keep pushing tax cuts as the answer for absolutely everything, you keep sabotaging every attempt to control the excesses of big business. You genuinely think the world would be a better place if it was a combination of Bill Gibson's dystopian vision of a corporate dominated world and Ayn Rand's bullshit Objectivism, yet another entry in mankind's endless attempts to find a moral justification for naked greed. You've taken the clinically insane spewings of a woman literally to the right of Hitler (pardon my Godwins) and the 1984-like vision of a dystopian author and convinced yourselves that would be a good place to live. Big business is the enemy of the people, always has been. The ideal for the corporate class is to have a small pool of people rich enough to buy their fucking crap and a much larger pool of people so poor and with so few options that they can be used and abused at the corporation's whim. A corporation's objective is not to look after you, it is to make ever-larger profits by any means necessary. You bastards want to reinstate fucking slavery to the corporate class and you've made the public so fucking stupid that they actually swallow the bullshit you're serving up, they actually want to enslave themselves to the corporations that abuse them at every turn. They actually care more about the corporations right to make obscene profits than they care about their child's right to live on a habitable planet. Fuck you.

Fuck you, you scumridden shitehawks, you make me sick. Just fuck off and die.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Blue Light...Extinguished

You know, everyone has fallen on some hard times lately; not only people, but businesses, as well. Especially retail. A lot of shops, stores, and shopping malls have closed down, adding to the vast unemployment going on throughout the country. And while I'm always sympathetic to people losing their jobs, I'm especially saddened by the recent closings of some local K-Mart stores.

K-Mart seemed to be in business forever; in fact, I really can't think of too many people who haven't shopped at one at some point in their lives. In fact, I myself have gotten a lot of things from them throughout the years: back-to-school clothes, toys, books, records (yes, LPs), watches, snacks, everyday and work clothes, bedding, kitchen utensils, you name it. K-Mart ended up being something of a punchline, but for a while, it was a great place to shop.

Now, word's come down that a few local ones---on top of others in the State---are slated for closing. The ones near me, have been there for I don't know how long. Plus, a friend I've known since high school worked at one for *YEARS*, which adds to the sadness. The biggest WTF?! , though, is the fact that while the employees are being let go from these stores, they can apply to OTHER stores, and *if* they are accepted, they have to start at the bottom of the pay scale. Again.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Someone told me, that since SEARS 'merged' with K-Mart, they wouldn't be surprised if SEARS took a hit sometime soon. Wouldn't surprise me in the least...

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