Political News
Jan. 6th, 2010 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lykomancerI might do this more seriously if I know that anyone's reading it. The news is freaking wacky shit, kids.
Let's start with this dude-- Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, who claims that liberals-- NAY! RADICALS!-- are a bigger threat to this country than terrorists.
...god damn it. Stop trying to out-crazy Michele Bachmann, people. This is not a contest where anyone wins.
Then there's Sarah Palin, who is still talking for some reason. She thinks that having an expert in Constitutional law as commander-in-chief is dumb. Also, apparently she "forgot" that the Shoe Bomber was tried in federal courts during the Bush years.
Republicans don't think Obama says the word "terror"...which is just false. And meanwhile, this jerkass is trying to raise campaign money by using the fear of terrorism renewed by the would-be Underpants Bomber.
This is also pretty ridonkulous: sending female soldiers lipstick and Cosmo-- really? That seems a little, uh, generic. And insulting.
Probable triggers in these*:
The battle for reproductive rights is ON in Wisconsin.
That article brought my attention to this little gem of WTFry from the Human Life Alliance: “I am familiar with no case of incest-related abortion that did not make matters worse for the victim.”
Really? No case? None? Ever? REALLY?
And a just and righteous skewering:
Brit Hume claims that the only way Tiger Woods can make any (emotional/professional/etc.) comeback is to drop Buddhism and convert to Christianity. Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi take this on brilliantly.
EDIT: This snarky ridicule bothers me. Maybe it's because I'm a great, big, fat, raging GEEK with pre-existing clinical depression, but I admit that I often feel upset/sad/depressed to realize that the fictional worlds I love don't exist and never will.
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* I'm guessing; I admit that I actually have no idea what triggers other's traumas. But it's better to be safe and label it, right?
Let's start with this dude-- Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, who claims that liberals-- NAY! RADICALS!-- are a bigger threat to this country than terrorists.
...god damn it. Stop trying to out-crazy Michele Bachmann, people. This is not a contest where anyone wins.
Then there's Sarah Palin, who is still talking for some reason. She thinks that having an expert in Constitutional law as commander-in-chief is dumb. Also, apparently she "forgot" that the Shoe Bomber was tried in federal courts during the Bush years.
Republicans don't think Obama says the word "terror"...which is just false. And meanwhile, this jerkass is trying to raise campaign money by using the fear of terrorism renewed by the would-be Underpants Bomber.
This is also pretty ridonkulous: sending female soldiers lipstick and Cosmo-- really? That seems a little, uh, generic. And insulting.
Probable triggers in these*:
The battle for reproductive rights is ON in Wisconsin.
That article brought my attention to this little gem of WTFry from the Human Life Alliance: “I am familiar with no case of incest-related abortion that did not make matters worse for the victim.”
Really? No case? None? Ever? REALLY?
And a just and righteous skewering:
Brit Hume claims that the only way Tiger Woods can make any (emotional/professional/etc.) comeback is to drop Buddhism and convert to Christianity. Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi take this on brilliantly.
EDIT: This snarky ridicule bothers me. Maybe it's because I'm a great, big, fat, raging GEEK with pre-existing clinical depression, but I admit that I often feel upset/sad/depressed to realize that the fictional worlds I love don't exist and never will.
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* I'm guessing; I admit that I actually have no idea what triggers other's traumas. But it's better to be safe and label it, right?
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Date: 2010-01-07 12:06 am (UTC)(Way for Aasif Mandvi to skewer Hume! It hurt to lol because it was so true.)
*shakes head* The idea of being shamed into carrying a rapist's child. I can't fathom it! As a Catholic (until some other god claims me XD), I will always support the woman's choice, for or against abortion. Because I know that I'm not raising the child, nor is anyone else from the church or conservative family agencies who belittle a woman enough just for existing. I liked one of the commenters who mentioned how hospitals used to ask what the woman wore/acted/said to 'incite the rapist': Imagine saying the same thing to someone who got robbed, beaten, or kidnapped.
Keep posting these, Lyko-chan!
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Date: 2010-01-07 01:48 am (UTC)An average day of American news is on par with the most awesome day Fandom Wank could ever dream of having. Rivalries and backstabbing and wankers and wingnuts, oh my! I've only been really "into" the news for a year and a half, and I honestly don't know what I did before that.
Although it sometimes takes some effort to appreciate the funny under all the "HOLY SHIT MAN, THAT'S MY LIFE YOU'RE FUCKING WITH!" and "WHO VOTED FOR YOU!?"
In other news: Vocab is easy; verb conjugation is hard. D: How is it I can hear a sentence (in Japanese), understand all the words in it, and yet not understand the meaning?
Also, reading kanji's freaking hard. How the hell am I supposed to know which part of that motherfucker is the radical? Or how many strokes it takes? sl;dkfjdglfdg.
(I've been "studying" by trying to translate my doujinshi. I'd like to hope that my handwriting-- my foreign, uneducated, American handwriting-- is more legible than whoever's I've been trying to read for the last hour.)