The Mrs. Obama should be at the House now doing the same thing.
The GOP claims “Growth Opportunity Prosperity” but reality is “Gangrene Ossification Petulance.”
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Common Folk Heroes of the Week: U.S. Congress!
Fucking Bitch Ass Scabs
The almighty Congress. Do they do it for the common folk? No. Should we have ever really thought they did? No. But they win heroes of the week for reaffirming my belief in evil (not in a supernatural way, I don’t believe in religion beyond that, but in a very real way). Sometimes i grow soft and optimistic, I start to believe governing bodies really do have the people’s best interest in mind. Egad, I was starting to get such good vibes I almost decided to grow dreads! Thank you Congress for setting me straight again and bringing me back home to cynicism and defeatism.
Secretly, I think Rage Against The Machine
Boehner Can Suck It
John Boehner can figuratively blow me. You and your party’s whining is disgusting there is not one goddamn element of the Affordable Care Act that anyone with heart would object. To support the most simpleminded and rabid of your supporters you decided to shutdown the US government putting about 800,000 government employees out of work, in addition to the countless government contractors who got a stop work order today. So take a minute to appreciate the fact that instead of being able to claim that you are the part of “Growth Opportunity Prosperity” realize that you have now become the party of “Gangrene Ossification Petulance.”
FUCK YOU AND THE FAKE TAN YOU RODE IN ON.
Common Folk Hero of the Week
(Photo: Ron Page, The Appleton, Wis., Post-Crescent)
Mark Scheffler’s protest against the legality of open carry in Appleton, WI is pure creative common folk genius. A couple weeks ago, two presumably militant zealots, Charles Branstrom and Ross Bauman, decided to walk through the downtown farmer’s market carrying AR-15 assault rifles on their backs for “self defense.” 
They were not arrested nor fined despite several 911 calls and many feeling, rightfully so, uncomfortable.
In steps Mark Scheffler who decides he will point out the absurdity of gun laws by carrying his brown hen, named Winchester, in his arms through the farmer’s market. While carrying assault rifles through a downtown farmer’s market is completely legal, carrying a chicken, ironically something inherent in order for a farmer’s market to exist, is illegal and carries a fine of $263.50. It is also worthy to note that Scheffler owns a gun himself and pretty much feels like I do, “Guns have their place…they don’t belong in downtown Appleton.”
It scares me that a seemingly rational person “illegally” carries a hen whereas the quite possibly mentally impaired are the ones legally carrying assault weapons. Let’s think of the worst case scenario in each situation…
Category: politics, Thos |
Tags: ar-15, assault rifle, guns, hen, mark scheffler, open carry, protest
Do Gun Lovers Think this is a Better Way?
Vice and more so their TV show have really been stepping up their game lately. This article about Benghazi’s gun market begs the question.
If you feel the US government has too much control over guns is this what you’d prefer?
Photo from the linked article on Vice.
My Plan to End Street Harassment
I have a plan to end street harassment and if I understood how Tumblr worked I would have used their tool to promote a post I came across today “My plan to end street harassment forever”. I have a much less violent way to stop street harassment of women.* There are way too many corners or construction sites in our cities that many women avoid because of the regular harassment and catcalling, which are really one in the same.
My solution is code named “OPERATION URSA MAJOR.” The plan is to gather a bunch of bears and have them hang out at the aforementioned spots. They would then whistle and catcall at the people who are usually harassing women. My guess is after a week or so the harassers would get the point.
As a reminder to the general public the only time a catcall is ever acceptable is at a wet t-shirt contest, but if you are at a wet t-shirt contest you, as a participant or viewer, should probably question your life decisions.
via Flickr user Hope Abrams
*I haven’t posted this earlier because I felt it reeked of a patriarchal tone of “how to protect the women from evil men”
Category: bad at life, DCDan, Frustration, How My Mind Works, politics, Rant |
Tags: bears, catcalling
