OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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mongooz said:
Oh, say can you see, any bed bugs on me?
If you do, take a few, 'cause I got them off of you.
They have scars and broad stripes; they annoy me at night.
O'er the hair parts we watched, are now gallantly gleaming.
And the flashlights' red glare, the bugs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night, that no bugs were still there.
Oh, say does no scar-spangled bed bug yet wave
O'er the bed that's bed bug free, and the home that was saved?
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Bed bugs are no joke. I hope you like washing everything you own.
 
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"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to . . . the Twilight Zone."
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mongooz said:
and the "pile on" begins. just like it did last time.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ew-travel-ban-n731216?cid=public-rss_20170309
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and the pile on continues adding NY.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...mp-travel-immigration-revised-order/98942258/

edit: btw, if you want to get a glimpse of just how much alt right hate there is out there, just read the comments section of the usa today story. pretty amazing. can't believe i'm in the same countrty. wish i wasn't.
 
jp_nyc said:
There’s another side nobody talks about: the NEA spent a lot on performing arts that weren’t especially creative and already have wealthy benefactors. I can understand funding the arts to promote new ideas. But do we really need public money for big-budget stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle? Or Sondheim revivals? Beethoven’s symphonies? That’s never been music for the masses. It’s entertainment for wealthy people who are quite capable of funding this stuff on their own.
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Untrue.
 
micwalt said:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/rural-america-understanding-isnt-problem
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fantastic article. and completely true. i was born and raised in "pennsyltucky". but, i had an unusual upbringing from many others in my town. my dad was a doctor, so we were well off. i was raised to NOT say the N word. we had a lady who came in and cleaned during the day. and in the summer, she was my adult supervisor all day long. well, we actually had two women, but at different periods. Ella was with us for a few years and then she moved to another place in the country. then my dad hired Lucy. i got a REAL education about african americans, up front and personal. both these black women were some of the kindest people i've ever known.

i AM NOT representative of where i grew up. i used to belong to a hunting camp up in the Allegheny National Forest. for nearly 30 years.
those guys are exactly what is described in that article. part of why i'm not up there anymore.
 
micwalt said:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/rural-america-understanding-isnt-problem
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As the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump is being sorted out, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: "Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over America.”

Trump supporters are saying this. Progressive pundits are saying this. Talking heads across all forms of the media are saying this. Even some Democratic leaders are saying this. It doesn’t matter how many people say it, it is complete BS. It is an intellectual/linguistic sleight of hand meant to draw attention away from the real problem. The real problem isn’t East Coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is that rural Americans don't understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because they don’t want to admit it is in large part because of the choices they’ve made and the horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe. [snip]

Here are the honest truths that rural Christian white Americans don’t want to accept; until they accept these truths, nothing is going to change:
  • Their economic situation is largely the result of voting for supply-side economic policies that have been the largest redistribution of wealth from the bottom/middle to the top in U.S. history.
  • Immigrants haven’t taken their jobs. If all immigrants, legal or otherwise, were removed from the U.S., our economy would come to a screeching halt and food prices would soar.
  • Immigrants are not responsible for companies moving their plants overseas. The almost exclusively white business owners are responsible, because they care more about their shareholders (who are also mostly white) than about American workers.
  • No one is coming for their guns. All that has been proposed during the entire Obama administration is having better background checks.
  • Gay people getting married is not a threat to their freedom to believe in whatever white god they want to. No one is going to make their church marry gays, have a gay pastor or accept gays for membership.
  • Women having access to birth control doesn’t affect their lives either, especially women they complain about being teenage single mothers.
  • Blacks are not “lazy moochers living off their hard-earned tax dollars” any more than many of their fellow rural neighbors. People in need are people in need. People who can’t find jobs because of their circumstances, a changing economy or outsourcing overseas belong to all races.
  • They get a tremendous amount of help from the government they complain does nothing for them. From the roads and utility grids they use to farm subsidies, crop insurance and commodities protections, they benefit greatly from government assistance. The Farm Bill is one of the largest financial expenditures by the U.S. government. Without government assistance, their lives would be considerably worse.
  • They get the largest share of Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
  • They complain about globalization, yet line up like everyone else to get the latest Apple products. They have no problem buying foreign-made guns, scopes and hunting equipment. They don’t think twice about driving trucks whose engines were made in Canada, tires made in Japan, radios made in Korea, and computer parts made in Malaysia.
  • They use illicit drugs as much as any other group. But when other people do it is a “moral failing” and they should be severely punished, legally. When they do it, it is a “health crisis” that needs sympathy and attention.
  • When jobs dry up for whatever reason, they refuse to relocate but lecture the poor in places like Flint for staying in failing towns.
  • They are quick to judge minorities for being “welfare moochers,” but don’t think twice about cashing their welfare checks every month.
  • They complain about coastal liberals, but taxes from California and New York cover their farm subsidies, help maintain their highways and keep the hospitals in their sparsely populated rural areas open for business.
  • They complain about “the little man being run out of business,” and then turn around and shop at big-box stores.
  • They make sure outsiders are not welcome, deny businesses permits to build, then complain about businesses, plants opening up in less rural areas.
  • Government has not done enough to help them in many cases, but their local and state governments are almost completely Republican and so are their representatives and senators. Instead of holding them accountable, they vote them into office over and over and over again.
  • All the economic policies and ideas that could help rural America belong to the Democratic Party: raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, spending on infrastructure, renewable energy growth, slowing down the damage done by climate change, and healthcare reform. All of these and more would really help a lot of rural white Americans.
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:eek: PunkKitty makes the rags in Limeyland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ub-TSA-s-new-pat-downs-legalized-groping.html

TSA is security theater that doesn't work, so double down. Haven't flown since 2006 and will continue not to, at least out of the US, as long as there's a chance I'll be groped. People act like you're a self-righteous, puffed-up loser for not wanting to chance getting your junk goosed by a total stranger working for a kabuki money-making enterprise.
 
Theodore said:
Haven't flown since 2006 and will continue not to, at least out of the US, as long as there's a chance I'll be groped.
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Patdowns are pretty rare. TSA cut way back on those “random” intense checks a long time ago (because it turned out they were targeting airline employees who can’t complain). I think now people only get a patdown if you can’t or won’t go through a scanner or if something in their pants sets off a metal detector.
 
Theodore said:
:eek: PunkKitty makes the rags in Limeyland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ub-TSA-s-new-pat-downs-legalized-groping.html

TSA is security theater that doesn't work, so double down. Haven't flown since 2006 and will continue not to, at least out of the US, as long as there's a chance I'll be groped. People act like you're a self-righteous, puffed-up loser for not wanting to chance getting your junk goosed by a total stranger working for a kabuki money-making enterprise.
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Cool!
 
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