Open thread

I have no words.  “A man pleaded guilty in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend’s four small kittens, which were tossed into a fire pit after the couple argued.”

When are we going to get over this American fear of women’s breasts?  They’re no different than seeing a man’s chest (breasts, technically), and it’s even more pitiful for someone to take offense when a woman is breast-feeding.  Yet, here we are.  “A woman who claims she was kicked off an airplane because she was breast-feeding her baby has filed a complaint against two airlines, her attorney said.”  I’m so sick of this prudishness.  Americans need to get over it.  A woman’s breasts are no more offensive than seeing a man’s bare chest.  Um, let’s see: there’s skin; there’s a nipple; there’s the impression of a pectoral.  We don’t make fat men put on a shirt or go to jail for showing their breasts—and anyone trying to say they’re not breasts is either an idiot or a liar.  There’s no reason women should have to treat their chests any differently than men.  Add to that the offense of someone kicking a family off a plane because a mother is breast-feeding her baby and isn’t willing to smother the child with a blanket.  It’s laughable and it’s offensive and it’s discriminatory.  People in this country need to get over themselves.

Speaking of pathetic political correctness and idiotic puritanism, how insulting is this?  “The word ‘hunger’ sounds so bad, especially in a country where so many have so much. According to The Washington Post, the ‘U.S. government which has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again’ has decided to junk the word hunger. In its report on some Americans’ lack of food, the U.S. government simply uses terms like ‘low food security’ or ‘very low food security.'”  Stop it!  They’re hungry.  It’s called hunger.  Please make the stupidity stop.

This is worth a look.  There is ample proof of homosexuality being a very natural thing, and that is no more apparent than in the animal world (it’s identified in 1,500 species and thoroughly documented in at least 500).  The gallery at that link shows some of those species and gives details about how common it is.  For instance: “More than 55 percent of mounting in young [American bison] males is with the same gender.”; “Homosexual activity occurs with about the same frequency as heterosexual play amongst these marine mammals [speaking of bottlenose dolphins].”; “[O]ne in every 20 male giraffes will be found necking with another male at any instant. In many cases, homosexual activity is said to be more common than heterosexual.”; “Homosexual mounting encompasses almost 9 percent of all sexual activities [for Kob antelope].”; “Homosexual couples account for up to 20 percent of all pairings annually [for the black swan]. Almost a quarter of all families are parented by homosexual couples…”; “Male walruses don’t reach sexual maturity until they are four years old. During that time, they are most likely exclusively involved in same-sex relationships. The older males are typically bi-sexual…”; and the list goes on.  From gray whales to birds to chimpanzees, there are more examples, and that’s just a tiny fraction of how many species we’ve identified who regularly demonstrate homosexual tendencies.  Anyone want to scream about how it’s unnatural?  If you do, speak up; I’d love to smack the shit out of your stupid ass.

Give me a break!  Here we go caving to religious fanatics out to piss on everyone who doesn’t believe what they believe.  And just yesterday I praised the Marines for turning down these fucking toys.  “The Marine Reserves’ Toys for Tots program has decided to accept a donation of Bible-quoting Jesus dolls, reversing course after saying earlier this week that it couldn’t take them.”  Okay, here’s what I want to do.  I’ll offer witchcraft-related items to them and let’s see if they cave to that nonsense as easily as they caved to America’s Talebangelists.

Let’s talk about Borat.  I have no intention of seeing it.  It looks dumb and sounds dumb and… well, I’m confident it is dumb.  Sorry, not interested.  But also let me say this.  The people whose true colors shine through in the movie deserve the public condemnation and embarrassment they’re getting.  I don’t care if you got duped before finding your ugly mug on the big screen.  You’re an idiot for being an idiot, and that’s the only way you wound up in the movie.  You’re a racist or a pig or a slut or a bigot or whatever.  If you had been a polite, reasonable person, you would have been left on the cutting room floor.  Deal with it.  You were proud to be stupid when you didn’t think it would end up in American theaters.  It’s your bed; you made it; put your sorry ass in it and shut the hell up.  But I still don’t want to see it.  The concept is entertaining only for about five minutes at a time.  I know people are dumber than a sack of wet hair.  I don’t want to sit and watch it for two hours.  It’s just not my thing.

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