Insanity is my only means of relaxation.
News/EventsThere’s a reason “second tier” candidates poll badly. This comes from a poll on Polling Point, advertised on a website, that appears to be from Clinton wondering why people hate her.
They waste space with Gingrich, Frist, Jeb, and Allen rather than include Huckabee, Tancredo, or Paul? They clearly do not understand the current landscape. Huckabee and Paul are starting to take points from many other players and stand a good chance at upsetting elections. It would be worth knowing how people perceive her against them, I’d think. Oh well. Things will be done as things have been done. Okay … get this shit:
Now, if we know this, are we supposed to feel safer now that the government knows this, more scared that they could attack, or furious as hell that they know and have done nothing about it despite taking away every damned freedom they could in the past six years? I vote furious. The president’s ratings have fallen through the floor, hovering somewhere around a 30% approval these days. We, as a people, strongly dislike where he’s taken the nation, and greatly fear the fact that he is completely and intentionally oblivious to what the American people want him to do. He feels that he’s American’s God-given-and-directed leader and that he can do no wrong. We feel he’s a lunatic jackass hell-bent on destroying American’s hard-earned goodwill in the world. Why aren’t we, the people, looking at kicking his ass out? With enough support from the public (it would need a lot) we could get the Democrat-controlled congress to put forward a vote to initiate a recall election for the presidential office. We have that power. We’re not just sitting idly by in this carriage and waiting for the ride to be over; we can end this now with the power of our own governmental system. Read the rest »Consider the following:
The story that needs to be spread. This is happening more and more in America. Police have been given a non-lethal torture device and are intent upon showing people how much pain they can inflict upon you for no reason, and you as a citizen have no real recourse against these individuals at the time of the abuse. What the officers need to know is very simple for a case like this: once tased, you need several minutes before you can walk reasonably well again. Ordering someone to “Get up!” and using non-complience as a reason for an additional tase is clear abuse of power and of a citizen. Yes, the student handled the situation very badly, and yes he was in the wrong. I’l grant that. However, to be fair, the student was being repeatedly shocked with several thousand volts when he couldn’t obey orders, so I’d be a little upset as well. He then played to the crowd, which quite obviously upset the police officers. They wanted to move him to a controlled area as they had no idea what the crowd would do. I do understand this. I would say, however, their means sucked rather badly. Whatever their concern, the repeated torture of the person for being unable to combat the physical effects of the tase was absolutely uncalled for. Read the rest »Sometimes this stuff disheartens me, and sometimes it makes me feel very, very happy to live here. Today, it makes me feel very, very happy.
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“A world in which men know that most of what they know is probably untrue cannot be dignified with the name of a sceptical world; it is simply an impotent and abject world, not attacking anything, but accepting everything while trusting nothing; accepting even its own incapacity to attack; accepting its own lack of authority to accept; doubting its very right to doubt. We are grateful for this public experiment and demonstration; it has taught us much. We did not believe that rationalists were so utterly mad until they made it quite clear to us. We did not ourselves think that the mere denial of our dogmas could end in such dehumanised and demented anarchy. It might have taken the world a long time to understand that what it had been taught to dismiss as mediaeval theology was often mere common sense; although the very term common sense, or communis sententia, was a mediaeval conception. But it took the world very little time to understand that the talk on the other side was most uncommon nonsense. It was nonsense that could not be made the basis of any common system, such as has been founded upon common sense.” — The Well and the Shallows, NY: Sheed & Ward, 1935, 79-80 – G. K. Chesterton
