Friday, May 04, 2007

Ann Coulter said the word "faggot," and I don't care

(I've been sitting on this one for so long that the Rude Pundit has already done a column about why he doesn't care about the Imus situation. However, he made his case using quotes from other scumbags such as Rush Limbaugh. I make my case solely with Ann Coulter. This, therefore, is different from that.)


This is hardly timely, but that's right: I don't care.

I can't find it in myself to get worked up about anything Ann Coulter says. She's long, long since passed the point of mattering; she has never been credible, and she has never been decent. Rather, her every word is so much monkey feces flung from behind the bars of a zoo cage. As driftglass said: "Ann Coulter is not 'provocative'. She is not 'controversial'. She is ebola in pointy shoes. She is Bull Connor with a bonier ass and a bigger man-apple."

Harsh, you say? Consider this-- Ann Coulter is the woman who said:

- My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

- We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.

- God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."

- Jihad monkey talks tough; jihad monkey takes the consequences. Sorry, I realize that's offensive. How about "camel jockey"? What? Now what'd I say? Boy, you tent merchants sure are touchy. Grow up, would you?

She is also the woman who called into question, on national television, the heterosexuality of. . . wait for it. . . Bill Clinton.

So, no. It doesn't matter to me that she said the word "faggot." It was offensive, wrong, and hateful, but if you've been paying attention at all, you already know that Coulter is professionally "offensive, wrong, and hateful." The Conservative Political Action Conference, where she uttered that slur, is the very same place she called Muslims "ragheads" the very last year prior to that.

That did not earn her a ban from CPAC. That did not prompt CPAC to put any kind of apologetic message on their website. No-- it got her invited back.

I'll spell it out for you: Hatred-- actually, that's too kind. Wretched bigotry is a conservative value. The browner, gayer, kinkier, or less Christian you are (for example), the less likely you are to be embraced with open arms, and the more likely you are to be shot, hung, beaten, or even dragged from behind a pickup truck.

And that's why I additionally don't care who's now suddenly breaking their silence about what kind of person Ann Coulter is, and how they won't put up with blah blah blah. If you are a decent person who has been paying attention, you were already not associated with Ann Coulter-- which makes me confused about Bill Maher-- does she satisfy a fetish of his? Does she simply provide really good drugs? --but that's just speculation, and even he hasn't made much mention of that association recently.

And really-- if all you've got is, "Democrats are all big faggots haha!" to argue with, there's no reason to argue with you than there is to go down to the zoo and debate feces-flinging with slightly more evolved simians.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Refugee status = teh suck

I haven't been on here in a while. That's 'cause Hurricane Katrina fucked me so hard I'm still not yet recovered; I'm not posting this from my own computer, or even in my own home.

So. When things cease to suck, everyone's favorite "anonymous internet troublemaker" will be back in business makin' trouble, raisin' heck, and stickin' it to the man. Until then. . .

Monday, November 15, 2004

Played by Fox News!

That's "played" as in "played for a sucker."

See, I went and made a hasty comment in The Bull's blog. I had to retract it, of course, because-- not being GeeDubya-- I noticed I'd made a mistake. I attributed Fox News's shennanigans to The Bull. Check out this Fair and Balanced excerpt:

"Organizers of a charity bazaar in Conifer, Colo., refused to allow a local woman to set up a booth at the event because the items she wanted to sell — CDs of Christmas hymns she recorded herself — were too Christian, reports the Canyon Courier.

"Evergreen resident Donna Jack was told her music was inappropriate for the 27th annual Holiday Boutique put on by the Conifer Newcomers and Neighbors organization. (The name of the event was changed from 'Christmas Boutique' to 'Holiday Boutique' a couple of years ago so it wouldn’t appear to be a Christian event.)"

Oh, my! Uptight, leftist, anti-Christian, PC hijinks! At-- at Christmas! . . .Except, if you actually click on that link to the Canyon Courier, the source of the article, you see the following:

"The fair is intended to promote arts and crafts, not religion, Brattin said. The name of the fair was changed a few years ago from the Christmas Boutique to the Holiday Boutique so that it didn't appear to be a Christian event.
" 'I was afraid it would be appearing that we were supporting one religious group and not have others represented,' Brattin said about Jack's tape."

Notice that Faux News added parentheses to that second sentence, and completely left out the first, leaving the casual reader with a distorted picture. Also missing is this: " 'I was afraid it would be appearing that we were supporting one religious group and not have others represented,' Brattin said about Jack's tape. Brattin said fair organizers never intended to discriminate against anyone. However religion 'was a line we discussed and it was decided that this was a line we didn't want to cross.' "

So. Here we have the propaganda arm of the Right masquerading as a journalistic organization, caught red-handed deceiving their readers. While I'd like to see them defend this, compared to the rest of the lies they put out on an hourly basis, this is small potatoes. If you watch Fox News regularly, you are significantly more likely to believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and that we've found WMDs there. The chicken-or-egg question: does watching Fox News make you stupid, or does being stupid make you watch Fox News?

Friday, October 22, 2004

Kerry's treasonous meeting with enemy officials

Mykeru fucking nails it, as usual.

"Or, just to really lay the dishonesty on thick, the writer states 'Then Kerry went to Paris, meeting with the North Vietnamese enemy officials, all while our soldiers still fought in the field.' What was this 'meeting' with 'enemy officials'? Why they were the Paris peace talks, for fuck's sake. Every peace talk that has ended a war has involved 'enemy officials', yet in Kerry's case his involvement is implied to be treasonous. That's like saying U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, holding talks in Paris with the Soviet Union at the close of World War II made him a commie sympathizer. The allegation of impropriety against Kerry is not only untrue, but damnably stupid."

Sunday, October 17, 2004

Victory?

It's been well over a week and "The Bull" hasn't had anything to say. I did see in his blog that he was tired and ill, but since posting that, he has posted a lot of, well, utter drivel since then. (Since it takes less effort to gaily fling feces about than it does to clean up afterward, I won't be addressing any of it.) So it looks like my response to his reply is gonna go straight down the memory hole.

And that's okay. I wouldn't want to debate me either.

Sunday, October 03, 2004

Obligatory First Post

I set this blog up in order to respond to an answer to a question I asked at the eastatoe blog. All of the touchy-feely why-you-should-give-a-crap stuff about who I am will come later, if I ever feel like posting it. Meanwhile, I'm working on my response.

UPDATE: The aforementioned blog has relocated to http://ondogriver.net/bullspeak/ and is available from the October archives there. It's also much easier on the eyes now.

2007 UPDATE: Now it's at http://thebullspeaks.com.

Raijin Replies.

(I'm responding to this in this post.)

Well, I must say I wasn't quite expecting such a brusque reply, and I would've preferred to keep things civil. Doesn't matter-- I, too, can be as brusque as you please. That said, I have a few straw men to demolish before getting my response underway.

The strange thing here is that it is obviously a left-winger asking me to do this.

I am a progressive. Sure, you'll find me to the "left" on a lot of issues, but you'll also find me in the "middle" and to the "right" on some-- I am, after all, an American.

At a time when all good Liberals are flaming Our Good President Bush for being a man of Faith, here I am being asked by a Liberal to defend my brand of Faith vs. my Conservative stance on politics as if no decent Wiccan can be a Conservative.

I don't intend to answer for what the fringe at either end of the political spectrum might say or do, but I will say this-- no prominent liberal has ever attacked the President for his faith, and I challenge you to find me an example of one doing so. When Bush's faith does come up in the context of an attack, it's when he's relying on it to make decisions about foreign policy, a la, "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." I don't know about you, but "Inspector Clouseau meets the Book of Revelations" is not the kind of foreign policy I want to see America pursue. Meanwhile, you might be religious, and you might be on the right, but you are not a part of the "religious right" if you are a Wiccan priest. Introduce yourself to Pat Robertson's congregation (for example) as such and they'd just yell at you and call you a Satan worshipper, ignoring history and facts to better demonize you. See, to them, and indeed, many conservatives, no decent conservative can be a Wiccan. Furthermore, you can understand my confusion about your political affiliation when the man you endorse for President of the Untied States makes and does not retract statements like this:

"I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision."-- George W. Bush to ABCNEWS, June, 1999

Now, I don't agree with everything the Democrats espouse, but for the things that are the most important to me, I would not align myself politically with a party at odds with those things. Basically, you've chosen to be part of a political party that would marginalize the hell out of you (to put it politely). . . but you don't see the conflict? I could be wrong-- maybe conservative Republicans are just more open-minded where you live than where I do (New Orleans, LA).

First off Raijin, what do you consider "the Republican attitude on the environment"? Do you rely on the Democratic line, or the sewage spewed by the PETA/Greenpeace groups?

Nice try, but I can spot a false dichotomy when it's presented. I rely on neither-- I rely on the record of the Republican Party on the environment.

You mention PETA and Greenpeace a bit, as though you expect me to be a diehard card-carrying member of both. I think PETA is dangerous and stupid, and I will enjoy eating the flesh of animals until the day I die. I also vehemently disagree with the "spiking" of trees for a number of reasons, though, to be fair to Greenpeace, I'm not sure it's they who advocate it. Most of Greenpeace's tactics seem to be, to me, stupid and damn near suicidal, and I'll never advocate that sort of thing, no matter how "ballsy" some might think it. In short, sorry-- I'm not the Big Red Commie you seem to think I am. (I will admit to buying a planner from the Sierra Club because of the pretty pictures in it, if it makes it any easier for you to stick a political label to me.)

You see, I was conservative LONG before I knew anything about politics.

Brusque or not, I won't sink to the level of cheap shots.

Waste is waste. . .

Then you must be beside yourself with rage given the runaway spending and record budget deficits run up by the Republican-controlled Congress and Presidency, eh? To be fair to you, you never said that waste was bad; you said that it was "waste." Don't let me give you any more credit than I should, but I will assume you meant it was, in fact, "bad." How do you reconcile your views on fiscal responsibility with your support of the most fiscally irresponsible President of your lifetime?

and there isn't anything wrong with people EARNING what they get rather than waiting for the Gov't to come along and make it all better.

Hey, I agree with you here. I'm guessing you're unaware that the growth of CEO compensation has far outstripped that of employee compensation by an obscene factor in the '90's alone, although the cost of living is particularly stubborn in its refusal to stay put. I'm guessing that you're also unaware that the nation's largest employer-- Wal-Mart-- pays its employees starvation wages, necessitating government assistance for a large percentage of them, but that they also finance their growth through infrastructure grants. Otherwise, you might not conclude that the problem lies not with high taxes, but with low wages and corporate welfare. I didn't intend for this to turn into a discussion on economics, but we can go that route if you wish to have such a conversation in depth.

Further, if you are attacked, you fight back! If people get killed and things get broke, well that is the price of war.

Does that mean you press the attack for a bit and then go attack somebody who never attacked you, wasn't planning to attack you, couldn't have attacked you if they had been planning to, and had nothing to do with your original attackers? Because if it does, then I could see why you'd endorse Bush and his disastrous PNAC-driven agenda. Otherwise. . . conflict again!

The world doesn't run on 'kinder, gentler' rules, no matter how much Kerry may want it to be so.

You know you meant "liberals" when you said "Kerry" there, admit it. =P The only reason the world doesn't run on those rules is because there are assholes. The running of the world on those rules is to be aspired to. That's why we have things like "courts" and "laws"-- so that the worldview of assholes doesn't take dominance, and justic prevails (if only in theory, anyway).

It may sound a bit like "survival of the fittest", but if you are all up on Nature you shouldn't have any problem with that. After all, that is how the Gods set things up to work.

There are so many things wrong with what you just said that I don't know where to start to correct you. First of all, the American people always reject a Social Darwinist approach to running their society when it's presented to them as such. But that's okay, since few if any of them are reading this, and you aren't running for office. That said-- I am indeed up on Nature. I am fully aware that as adorable a scene of a lioness grooming her playful cubs may be, they will all die of starvation unless a gazelle or two are hunted down and ripped apart. And if the father of those cubs finds himself no longer in command of the pride, his successor will kill brutally kill them. Out in the wild, it's a continuous life-or-death struggle to catch and kill prey while avoiding ending up prey yourself; the law of the jungle is wholesale slaughter. There is no room for mercy, pity, compassion-- hell, there's no room for art for the love o' Jebus! I don't buy into the gods' setting up survival of the fittest at all-- that's not my path-- much less setting it up to work that way forever for us. Why leave the caves and build cities? What works in the jungle is hardly the best fit for a civilization. Otherwise, killing you and your kids so that I could possess your mate and ensure that my genes got passed down, and yours didn't, would be "natural."

Now, to the environment. PETA and Greenpeace, and others like them, want you to do two things. 1) Believe anything they say just because it came from them - you are not allowed to find out on you own. And, 2) Send them money.

This is actually more ridiculous than your previous statement. First, you make it sound as though genuine concern for the environment is impossible. Second, you say that "you are not allowed to find out on your own." If you wouldn't mind documenting the stormtrooper tactics or psychological operations these organizations apparently use on their financial contributors, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I laugh at your assertion that there's anything to stop them from doing what I did, which was to find out on my own. I've never sent them money and never will, just so we're clear.

I've tested everything I was taught, and all I could learn and/or conceive, by making trips into the wilderness for days and even weeks relying on little or no equipment. What equipment I did allow myself was never allowed to be more modern than the early 19th Century. (I'm a Living History nut, you see. Here was ALSO a chance to test what our forefathers used to open this continent.) Not only did I make it through these 'test', I thrived. Even gaining weight on the longer trips by what I could find of Mother's Bounty. Never did Nature, my skills, nor my Wiccan Faith let me down.

Congratulations: you'd be equipped to survive on your own had you lived in the 19th century and civilization had collapsed. Then again, given the economics coming out of Washington these days, preparing for that may not be a bad idea.

(Sorry. I tried not to take a cheap shot, but, ultimately, I'm human.)

I've also "tested" the Democratic/PETA/Greenpeace line on the environment by going out and looking for my self. And I found it to be FALSE.

Oh. . . my. . .God. That must have been one hell of a sortie you took, since you apparently took one to everywhere. I mean, you had to be sure, right? Because depending on where I go to look locally, I can find either something pristine, or something horribly befouled, so I wouldn't just go to local places if I wanted to go look at "the environment." Doing that might make me do something foolish, like. . . hmmm. . . declaring "the environment" free of harm, by using an argument tantamount to, "I didn't see it; therefore, it's not there."

During no Republican administration in my adult life has there ever been any noticeable "harm" to the environment. (Contrary to the Democratic propaganda.) And, during no Democratic administration has there been any appreciable improvement to the environment. (Contrary to the Democratic promises.) In fact, since I attained voting age in 1980, there has been only increases in the acreage of federally protected land, increases in wild animal herds, and increases in real dollar funding of the environment.

Okay-- let me ask you something. Are you familiar with the concept of "pollutants"? Do you imagine that, contrary to what that concept implies, that they are just harmlessly absorbed into "the environment" with no ill consequences whatsoever? If so, maybe you'd like to take a nice deep drink from Lake Ponchartrain. (Fair warning: It doesn't seem to be absorbing decades' worth of pollutants harmlessly.)

Since you're so confident about these increases-- do you have sources for these assertions about them? I ask because all the things I'm holding in reserve about why you appear to be laughably-- or rather, for a Wiccan prest, inexcusably-- ignorant about the damage done to the environment, I can either provide you with a link to, or point you to its dead-tree source. Before I post them, however, I want to give you the chance either to provide me with something I can check, or to admit that you're wrong. (And make no mistake-- not providing me with some sources will be as good as an admission that you're wrong.) In any case, argument by assertion never works.

Now as an outdoorsman, and hunter, a fisherman, a citizen, and a WICCAN PRIEST, I feel pretty damned good about that. By the way, PETA, Greenpeace, and all the rest account for practically NONE of the funding on the environment on any level. The truth is that it is the sportsman that pays for it.

I'm not even sure what you're talking about here. "Funding for the environment" is too vague to mean anything, and I suspect it has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. This may actually be something you've gotten right, but I have no way to check on that without you clarifying what you mean.

So Rajin, if it were to become necessary to reconcile my priesthood with my politics, I don't foresee any difficulty what-so-ever.
Sincerely,Rev. Mark T. Jones, H.P. (Ordained 1995)
(The Bull)

Really? Get back to me after Round Two and we'll see if there's still no difficulty.

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