The Smallest “YOPP!” of All!

Dr. Seuss’ Words of Wisdom for POTUS Election, 2012

Here we are, 409 days until the next presidential election, and we’re already on presidential debate # 7, on YouTube, nonetheless.  If we thought the lead up to the 2008 election was interminable, it seems we’re about to re-define that term leading up to this presidential election (FYI: the election will be on Tuesday, November 6, 2012).

 

As I was (re-)reading a Dr. Seuss story to my girls last night, the extreme importance of the genius behind what Theodor Geisel has teaching children of all ages for decades, pressed hard on my mind. We’ve too often come to feel the idea that ‘every vote counts’ is perhaps, too cliche to be true, but it’s not.

 

In Horton Hears A Who (1954), the town of Whoville is about to be demolished, all of its people crushed, and all because only one small voice isn’t joining in to shout in the town’s darkest hour:

 

“This,” cried the Mayor, “is your town’s darkest hour!

The time for all Whos who have blood that is red

To come to the aid of their country!” he said.

“We’ve GOT to make noises in greater amounts!

So, open your mouth lad! For every voice counts!”

Thus he spoke as he climbed. When they got to the top,

The lad cleared his throat and he shouted out, “YOPP!”

And that Yopp…

That one small, extra Yopp put it over!

Finally, at last! From that speck on that clover

Their voices were heard! They rang out clear and clean.

And the elephant smiled. “Do you see what I mean?…

They’ve proven they ARE persons, no matter how small,

And their whole world was saved by the Smallest of All!”

Even Jesus hates you…

Even Jesus Hates You

Whenever someone gets in touch with this Jesus fellow, I can assure you, these people will be on his “you’re fucked” list.  With all of the reading I do on true crime stories, particularly ones involving extreme violence, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything, yet I’m continually gobsmacked.

Here’s a brief list of people Jesus hates and who have a front row seat in hell:

Being a NC native (but not currently living there), I thought I’d catch up on a bit of North Cackalaky news.  I came across this fine hellbeast, Naiyana Patel, who slaughtered her children,  8-year-old Jiya Patel and 4-year-old Piya Patel, with a hatchet. Oh, but she isn’t the responsible party, a ghost did it. She was so stricken with grief, she was found pounding herself in the head with the hatchet. She’s still alive and with any luck, she’ll rot in prison.

And this is news?

I sauntered over to Huffingtonpost.com today to read today’s headlines and I see “President Gives In To Boehner Over Congress Joint Session Address” and I ask you, dear reader, this is news how?  Anyone who even briefly paid attention to news on House v. Senate budget negotiations would have known that Obama is an expert at giving in.

Yes, Mr. POTUS, for all I respect you for, your negotiating skills, better stated as a lack-thereof, is not one of them. Mr. POTUS, you are fantastic at domestic diplomacy and occasionally, international.  But Mr. Obama, you really blow goats when it comes to negotiating. Here’s a tip: if you’re doing so much conceding that you’re permanently bent over, you’re doing too much.

Casey Anthony- Who is she?

At the time of the murder of her daughter (which she is standing trial for), Casey Anthony was a 2 year old single mother. She and her daughter, Caylee Anthony, were living with Casey Athony’s parents, George and Cindy Anthony. Casey had never lived on her own and George and Cindy, by all accounts and appearances,  helped Casey substantially both with everyday care for and financial support of Caylee. Casey has given a number of stories as to who the father is and what happened to him, none of which have proven to be true. I do dislike people who want to malign Casey based solely on the fact she’s an unwed mother. That’s nonsensical. For the religious folk out there, so was Mary so there, pipe it already.

Caylee was about a month shy of her third birthday before her tragic death in June of 2008. Since before Caylee’s birth, Casey had been keeping up appearances of working, yet she hadn’t in years.  I still can’t wrap my head around how George and Cindy thought she went to work everyday and yet couldn’t afford to provide anything for herself but some people are very good at lying (and Casey sure has that skill down-pat) and perhaps George and Cindy felt it was easier to turn a blind eye than face the likely fallout of confronting Casey.

The Case Against Casey Anthony

Casey Anthony- maligned or murderess?

Florida Federal Court Judge Stan Strickland- “The truth and Ms. Anthony are strangers.”

If you haven’t heard of Casey Anthony and her trial currently taking place in Florida (and expected to be the most expensive trial Florida has ever prosecuted), you’ve probably avoided the crime and legal sections of news sites and you likely haven’t watched CNN’s Mouth of the South, Nancy Grace (she affectionately refers to Ms. Anthony as the “Tot Mom”).

A Florida Grand Jury indicted Casey Anthony on seven charges for which she is currently standing trial for, Judge Belvin Perry presiding. The following charges are being levied against Ms. Anthony. The State is seeking the death penalty.

• Charge 1

CHARGE: First Degree Murder

• Charge 2

CHARGE: Aggravated Child Abuse

• Charge 3

CHARGE: Aggravated Manslaughter Of A Child

• Charges 4-7

CHARGE: Obstructing a  Criminal Invest by providing false information to law enforcement officers.

The state argues that Casey Anthony suffocated her daughter with chloroform and duct tape, placed her daughter’s (Caylee) dead body in the trunk of her car, drove around with it in there for 3-5 days. She then (allegedly) placed her body in a laundry bag and two trash bags.  Next, Ms. Anthony (allegedly) tossed her daughter’s rotting corpse into a wooded area about a half a mile from her parent’s home.

After that, the state alleges Ms. Anthony attempted to clean up the adipocere *  that had leaked from Caylee’s body in those few days, tossed the paper towels she used to do that in a trash bag with other household garbage, and kept it in the trunk of her car where it was eventually retrieved and taken in as evidence by law enforcement officers.

What is known for a fact is that Ms. Anthony waited 31 days before reporting her daughter as “missing” (we’ll get to that later) and during this time, was out forging checks, partying, drinking and perhaps most appalling, moved in with her boyfriend the day of Caylee’s (alleged) death. Yes folks, if the state is right, that means Casey was shackin’ up with her boyfriend and clubbin’ it while her daughter’s body lay rotting in the trunk.

*adipocere, also known as “grave wax”, is a waxy substance formed during decomposition of dead animal bodies, consisting mainly of insoluble salts of fatty acids.

Bernie Sanders & Prescription Meds- You nailed it!

Bernie Sanders got it right when recently, he chastised the for-profit American health care system for drug prices that for some prescriptions, can run in the hundreds to thousands per script.  Utter ridiculousness. He also got it right when he criticized our government  for giving patent monopolies to provide an incentive for drug companies to carry through research. Why? To simplify it, because the government gets a huge kickback from the profits, just as they do from high insurance premiums, hospital costs, and regular doctor’s visit costs.

So, folks, that’s what your health and life are worth to the U.S government, nothing.  Health care shouldn’t be given to us for free, logically, the cost(s) has to be covered somewhere and that should come from the American people in the form of well-appropriated taxes. What health care should not be is a luxury, especially in regard to life-sustaining care, medications and procedures. As the first linked article points out, on the open market, the drugs that cost hundreds to thousands when obtained legally would only fetch a few dollars.

Where’s the sanity in that?

President Obama,

Enacting legislation to outlaw patent monopolies would be a great first step to health care reform. This step can be more easily and quickly implemented than the current health care reforms you are trying to push through.  I suppose when it comes to matters that benefit the government most, even at the expense of the people, legislation designed to protect the American people do not apply and do not matter.  Here, the ignored legislation would be theSherman Actof 1890 which is supposed to protect Americans from monopolies. Let’s enforce our current protections and safe guards before we try to develop and enact more.

Newt Needs a Refresher in English Grammar

Newt Gingrich needs to head back to whatever institution of higher edumacation decided he deserved a piece of paper. He missed the memo that “…but” is the equivalent of a 180.  Anyone that believes his recent statement to Christian Science Monitor magazine that he is a “Washington outsider” needs to step away, far away from the Kool-Aid.

Newt, we know, you’re just another good ‘ole boy, one of us lowly folk. Your six-plus figure a year income has not distanced you from Joe the Plumber, oh no, you’re one of us! Or, I should say, one of them because I am sure not drinking the right-wing, Jeebus Freak Kool-Aid.  As if we haven’t heard this drivel before, I wretched and then I yawned. Please people, tell me you don’t believe him when he says this:

“I’m essentially an American whose ties are across the country and is interested in how you change Washington, not how you make Washington happy.

“I am the people’s candidate, not the capital’s candidate.”

My Nominee for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” 2011

This Secret Service member is my favorite person right now. They sent the tweet to top all tweets; not just the tweet of the month, the best tweet E-VAH! They will not be undone. Oh how I love any excuse to snark on Faux News!

Dear Sir or Ma’am,

You are my hero!

The U.S. Secret Service issued an apology on Wednesday after an eyebrow-raising tweet went out on the agency’s official Twitter account (@SecretService), which was just activated last week.

The tweet, which stirred buzz despite swiftly being taken down, read: “Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can’t. Deal. With. The. Blathering.”

(read the rest here)

Schadenfreude Saturdays

Who doesn’t love a good dose of schadenfreude? “Schadenfreude” happens to be my second favorite word in the English language.  So, drum roll, please, for your weekly dose of schadenfreude.

Well here you have it, folks, a “mom” (read: egg donor and incubator) who microwaved her one month old baby and received life in prison for it. She could have received the death penalty and for a number of reasons, I’m glad she didn’t. First, I don’t believe in the death penalty (see my post about Osama Bin Laden). Second, a death sentence is often over-turned and at the expense of more legal tom foolery that those of us who don’t microwave babies end up footing the bill for.  Third, it would substantially reduce the amount of time she has to reflect on her heinous actions.

While I do wonder if some people are born so cold that they can feel no remorse over such an action, I am (mostly) convinced that as a person gets older, they would most certainly spend a lot of time reflecting on and developing intense self-hate over committing such a heinous act.  I’m not sure what prison will do for this hellbeast, I’m not sure that a person who could do such a thing can be rehabilitated. She not only intentionally placed her 28- day old baby in the microwave, she watched her cook for two full minutes! I do know that our prisons do not in any way rehabilitate or attempt to rehabilitate our prisoners. Because of that, in cases of hellbeasts like this, it’s best they stay in prison for life, even if it means we foot the bill for the stay at the local 1-star Hilton.

Dear Assholes,

Dear Assholes, Cunts, and Douchebags,

First, buy a fucking clue as to what really matters. Here’s a hint: it isn’t the death of Osama Bin Laden, he long ago became irrelevant to us and to the Taliban. Second, check yourselves! Really? Look within yourself if you can celebrate the death of another person. Third, get a mother fuckin’ grip, people! I know you’re already starting your swearing tirade about how un-American, yadda, yadda, yadda I am but before you cast that first stone, try out some logic.

Disagreeing with how we handled taking Bin Laden out is not synonymous with agreeing with what he stood for.  Since 9/11, our government has feed us so much bullshit and hype, most don’t even know which way is up.  There are far too many sheeples in this country, ready to devour and eat up anything and everything an (allegedly) illustrious leader says.