My last blog dealt with Richard Mourdoch and his stupid, inane statement that a pregnancy from rape would just constitute an example of "god's" rather ghoulish "will."
My wife came up with a rather thought provoking scenario. She wondered how he would react if his wife or teen-age daughter happened to be the recipient of this rather horrific manifestation of god's "will." After all, maintaining control over trillions of determined little sperm cells released worldwide every day could get a bit overwhelming even to a supposed omnipotent deity. Can't blame him if he got exhausted and threw up his hands and said "Aw, f++k it!
It's easy to be cavalier about such situations when they are only hypothetical and involve just plain ordinary people. Or, women, which it seems, are lesser beings than him, as far as he is concerned.
It would be indeed interesting to see how Mourdach would react if the hard, cold reality struck home in his own household. I have a feeling His tune might change -- dramatically!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
FLABBERGASTED
I am sitting here in stunned bafflement that any even moderately intelligent human being could say what GOP candidate Richard Mourdoch said. The article didn't state but I am sure he has to be a "teapublican."
Mr. Mourdoch stated that he opposed abortion for pregnancies arising out of rape because..."it is something that God intended to happen."
OK. Let's think about the implications of that ludicrous statement.
Let's not condemn Hitler and the Nazis for the holocaust. Obviously, since "god" didn't stop it, he intended it. Let's not jail or execute murderers, child molesters, terrorists, etc. Let's whitewash all the horrors of history. Lets just chalk all of it up to "god's will" and skip merrily along. That's really what all of them, from the Pope to the thoughtless laity in most churches confidently endorse. "It's God's will" becomes the mindless mantra that excuses every horror imaginable.
Mr. Mourdoch has actually clarified one of the main reasons I don't believe in or worship any "god." I have contempt for their definition of their god because he clearly, if he existed, is an accesory to the horrors that exist in the world. Neither he nor any of his vaunted "angels" rouse their lazy asses (that don't exist) to do a damned thing to protect millions of totally innocent and helpless people, no matter how desperately they cry out for deliverance.
I used to be deluded and think I got all kinds of help from divine sources. It was all happenstance. I've had just as much -- actually more -- seemingly benevolent outcomes after coming to my senses and chucking those superstitions overboard simply because I've lived more years in unbelief than I did in belief. Life is a crapshoot and the dice sometimes come up in your favor irrespective of what or who you believe in.
Can the American people actually be dumb enough to put people like that in office? I hope not, but recent history can only cause me to question.
Mr. Mourdoch stated that he opposed abortion for pregnancies arising out of rape because..."it is something that God intended to happen."
OK. Let's think about the implications of that ludicrous statement.
Let's not condemn Hitler and the Nazis for the holocaust. Obviously, since "god" didn't stop it, he intended it. Let's not jail or execute murderers, child molesters, terrorists, etc. Let's whitewash all the horrors of history. Lets just chalk all of it up to "god's will" and skip merrily along. That's really what all of them, from the Pope to the thoughtless laity in most churches confidently endorse. "It's God's will" becomes the mindless mantra that excuses every horror imaginable.
Mr. Mourdoch has actually clarified one of the main reasons I don't believe in or worship any "god." I have contempt for their definition of their god because he clearly, if he existed, is an accesory to the horrors that exist in the world. Neither he nor any of his vaunted "angels" rouse their lazy asses (that don't exist) to do a damned thing to protect millions of totally innocent and helpless people, no matter how desperately they cry out for deliverance.
I used to be deluded and think I got all kinds of help from divine sources. It was all happenstance. I've had just as much -- actually more -- seemingly benevolent outcomes after coming to my senses and chucking those superstitions overboard simply because I've lived more years in unbelief than I did in belief. Life is a crapshoot and the dice sometimes come up in your favor irrespective of what or who you believe in.
Can the American people actually be dumb enough to put people like that in office? I hope not, but recent history can only cause me to question.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
ROME ALL OVER AGAIN?
What's been happening on the political scene the past four years has made me so mad and disgusted I could spit tacks, nails, barbed wire (you name the analogy). This article sums it up pretty well: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/21/mitt-romney-ad-massachusetts_n_1998052.html
We elected a president four years ago and he came into office with high hopes and solid plans to turn the nation around. Millions, including me, had high hopes.
The opposiiton blatantly set out to sabotage everything that president Obama set out to do -- even denouncing and standing in the way of things they originally were in favor of and championed. All to discredit and drive out of office that very president. And, they were cocky enough to do it while owning the fact of what they were doing.
Now, a great many of my fellow Americans are too dumb to see the subterfuge and the hypocrisy. They're falling for the lies! We're in danger of having these lying would-be despots actually pulling it off.
If they do, America is doomed, as far as I can see. Like ancient Rome, we'll be headed into fascism driven by theocracy. Our democratic republic will probably be over -- forever. What follows will only be a deceitful sham.
Romney would load the federal government with hand picked purveyors of his insane Mormon philosophy. He'd also let Ryan run rampant with his Catholic doctrine as long as it agreed with his mormonism (much of it does). I remember the fiasco Ed Mecham brought to the state of Arizona. Romney would do even worse to the United States of America. Our standing in the civilized, rational world would go to zilch overnight.
Forget any real freedom of conscience and personal belief if this cabal seizes power! The same lies and subterfuge seen in this campaign would soon become the modus operandi of our national government. They'd load the Supreme Court with fanatics like themselves.
Denounce me as an alarmist or whatever you wish. I stand with Cato, the great Roman patriot and inspiration to Washington and his army, who was so distraught over Caesar's rise to power that he commited suicide by disemboweling himself. We all know, or should, what happened to Rome. But, then, not many people like history, and they very well may be doomed to repeat it, as numerous historians have pointed out.
We elected a president four years ago and he came into office with high hopes and solid plans to turn the nation around. Millions, including me, had high hopes.
The opposiiton blatantly set out to sabotage everything that president Obama set out to do -- even denouncing and standing in the way of things they originally were in favor of and championed. All to discredit and drive out of office that very president. And, they were cocky enough to do it while owning the fact of what they were doing.
Now, a great many of my fellow Americans are too dumb to see the subterfuge and the hypocrisy. They're falling for the lies! We're in danger of having these lying would-be despots actually pulling it off.
If they do, America is doomed, as far as I can see. Like ancient Rome, we'll be headed into fascism driven by theocracy. Our democratic republic will probably be over -- forever. What follows will only be a deceitful sham.
Romney would load the federal government with hand picked purveyors of his insane Mormon philosophy. He'd also let Ryan run rampant with his Catholic doctrine as long as it agreed with his mormonism (much of it does). I remember the fiasco Ed Mecham brought to the state of Arizona. Romney would do even worse to the United States of America. Our standing in the civilized, rational world would go to zilch overnight.
Forget any real freedom of conscience and personal belief if this cabal seizes power! The same lies and subterfuge seen in this campaign would soon become the modus operandi of our national government. They'd load the Supreme Court with fanatics like themselves.
Denounce me as an alarmist or whatever you wish. I stand with Cato, the great Roman patriot and inspiration to Washington and his army, who was so distraught over Caesar's rise to power that he commited suicide by disemboweling himself. We all know, or should, what happened to Rome. But, then, not many people like history, and they very well may be doomed to repeat it, as numerous historians have pointed out.
THAT INDOLENT 47%
Sorry, Mitt. We just can't seem to keep ourselves from showing up your inane pronouncements. We're such troublesome debunkers of your stereotypes.
Here I am, at 78, With a carpet repair job booked for Friday afternoon and a wedding ceremony for Saturday. Maybe another call will come in for earlier in the week. And, I'm working Aflac as well. Have to get busy tomorrow making the monthly checkup on active accounts. I'm so lazy and dependent, you know. I just can't bring myself to take any responsibility for my own welfare.
On top of that, can't seem to keep myself off this internet and feel compeled to voice my opinions on so much nonsense and drivel that you and others feel compelled to spout.
Then, there's my little wife, Phyllis. She's been tossing around ideas for doing something productive as well -- at the ripe young age of 76. Just this past week, an opportunity dropped in her lap.
For many years, she taught defensive driving classes here in the state of Arizona, evenings and weekends while holding down a regular career job during the day. She was very good because she set up the state program when she worked for the Arizona Supreme Court and knew it and Arizona traffic laws backward and forward. I used to go with her and do the paperwork.
Seems the state of Arizona is in deep need of qualified class monitors to go around to defensive driving classes periodically and check up on schools and individual teachers, so she has been offered a position as one of those monitors.
She plans to take it. It entails three days of preparatory classes in Phoenix to get certified and a good bit of driving around the state. I will likely accompany her most of the time. I'm very good at finding locations and programming the GPS. She, not as much.
So, Mitt, want to comment again about how dependent and irresponsible we of the 47% are?
Incidentally, we have already voted in this election, and not one single vote went to you or any of your theocratic fascist friends. Go run for Mormon president. They'd love to have your closed, deluded mind running their so-called "Christian" cult! It's only a little more stupid than regular Christianity.
Here I am, at 78, With a carpet repair job booked for Friday afternoon and a wedding ceremony for Saturday. Maybe another call will come in for earlier in the week. And, I'm working Aflac as well. Have to get busy tomorrow making the monthly checkup on active accounts. I'm so lazy and dependent, you know. I just can't bring myself to take any responsibility for my own welfare.
On top of that, can't seem to keep myself off this internet and feel compeled to voice my opinions on so much nonsense and drivel that you and others feel compelled to spout.
Then, there's my little wife, Phyllis. She's been tossing around ideas for doing something productive as well -- at the ripe young age of 76. Just this past week, an opportunity dropped in her lap.
For many years, she taught defensive driving classes here in the state of Arizona, evenings and weekends while holding down a regular career job during the day. She was very good because she set up the state program when she worked for the Arizona Supreme Court and knew it and Arizona traffic laws backward and forward. I used to go with her and do the paperwork.
Seems the state of Arizona is in deep need of qualified class monitors to go around to defensive driving classes periodically and check up on schools and individual teachers, so she has been offered a position as one of those monitors.
She plans to take it. It entails three days of preparatory classes in Phoenix to get certified and a good bit of driving around the state. I will likely accompany her most of the time. I'm very good at finding locations and programming the GPS. She, not as much.
So, Mitt, want to comment again about how dependent and irresponsible we of the 47% are?
Incidentally, we have already voted in this election, and not one single vote went to you or any of your theocratic fascist friends. Go run for Mormon president. They'd love to have your closed, deluded mind running their so-called "Christian" cult! It's only a little more stupid than regular Christianity.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
THE LIES ILLUMINATED
I've been branding Romney and Ryan as liars. Some people might take issue with that.
Here's a fact saturated article that states much better than I can exactly why they are liars: http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/10-things-mitt-romney-and-paul-ryan-dont-want-americans-know?page=0%2C1
I hope some people will take the few minutes necessary to read that article.
Here's a fact saturated article that states much better than I can exactly why they are liars: http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/10-things-mitt-romney-and-paul-ryan-dont-want-americans-know?page=0%2C1
I hope some people will take the few minutes necessary to read that article.
EXTOL "LOVE" -- PRACTICE "HATE"
If you read the whole account cited in my last blog, you know exactly what I'm referring to. Theists can wax eloquent about "love" up until the moment someone dares to call into question anything about their "faith."
As soon as that happens, the fangs and claws immediately appear. All pretense of tolerance or love suddenly disappears in a flurry of denunciation, vitriol and outright hateful violence. Nothing is deemed off limits to the most extreme of these fascist-minded idealogues.
If one wants to know what the most extreme cases of human-on-human brutality happen to be, all they have to do is check the records of religiously based pogroms and holocausts. They are myriad and become especially horrific when another ideology -- politics -- enters into the picture. That's why our national founders were so insistent on separating those two dangerous mindsets.
Modern extremists set on totally controlling their neighbors and the world chafe under that wise separation provision incorporated into our Constitution and seek any and all crafty means of circumventing and nullifying it. Chief among these efforts is the seeding of the Supreme Court with "conservative" idealogues who will undermine personal liberty with ideological tyranny.
If you don't think you will be hated if you dare to reveal yourself as a non-believer, just go down to Mississippi and Alabama and publicly try to establish a secular or atheist organization. Just defend the right of a woman to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and see how fast you will be vilified and ostracized, and even murdered if you get too involved in any organization so dedicated.
Humans are good at saying one thing while emotionally practicing another. Nowhere is this more pronounced than where religious and political ideology becomes involved.
Ideology turns fanatic humans into murderous monsters!
As soon as that happens, the fangs and claws immediately appear. All pretense of tolerance or love suddenly disappears in a flurry of denunciation, vitriol and outright hateful violence. Nothing is deemed off limits to the most extreme of these fascist-minded idealogues.
If one wants to know what the most extreme cases of human-on-human brutality happen to be, all they have to do is check the records of religiously based pogroms and holocausts. They are myriad and become especially horrific when another ideology -- politics -- enters into the picture. That's why our national founders were so insistent on separating those two dangerous mindsets.
Modern extremists set on totally controlling their neighbors and the world chafe under that wise separation provision incorporated into our Constitution and seek any and all crafty means of circumventing and nullifying it. Chief among these efforts is the seeding of the Supreme Court with "conservative" idealogues who will undermine personal liberty with ideological tyranny.
If you don't think you will be hated if you dare to reveal yourself as a non-believer, just go down to Mississippi and Alabama and publicly try to establish a secular or atheist organization. Just defend the right of a woman to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and see how fast you will be vilified and ostracized, and even murdered if you get too involved in any organization so dedicated.
Humans are good at saying one thing while emotionally practicing another. Nowhere is this more pronounced than where religious and political ideology becomes involved.
Ideology turns fanatic humans into murderous monsters!
Monday, October 15, 2012
ELOQUENT STATEMENT TO THEOCRATIC FASCISTS
"I wish I could tell them: I am not a lesbian, but even if I were, what would it matter? I have a husband and a child, but even if I didn’t, what would it matter? I’m not Albanian, but even if I was, what would it matter? I’m not a communist, but even if I was, what would it matter? I don’t believe in God, but what does it matter? Some people have a different opinion about God and Christ and the Virgin Mary — what does it matter? You demand respect for your right to believe in God as you like, why don’t you respect others’ rights to believe in a different way, or not to believe at all?"The quote above was taken from the Pharyngula blog. It states very succinctly what I have felt for a long time.
The news is filled with vitriolic attacks which sling supposedly negative terminology around like the waste water it resembles. "Socialist," "communist," "unchristian," etc., etc. Name calling has become standard stock in trade in politics -- always trying to create prejudices and then using those subtle prejudices to influence and deceive gullible people.
Because I believe the healthiest economies and the best societies are created through a carefully thought out and crafted blend of capitalism and socialism, I can expect to be denounced as a hated socialist or even a communist. No thought. No careful analysis. My carefully thought out world view is summarily dismissed by utilizing mindless prejudice against a phastasmic boogeyman or "boogeyidea."
I can also expect to be hatefully denounced as a "murderer" because I believe a woman should have the right to practice birth control and end a pregnancy if she feels unprepared to follow through with an unwanted and ill-advised pregnancy.
Instead of my atheism being accepted as the result of careful thought, reasoning and research, I am denounced as some monster with no morals who is totally unworthy of acceptance in civilized society.
Our government has been almost totally paralyzed for nearly four years now by a concerted effort by one party to demonize the other party and its champion who just happens to be the lawfully elected and installed President. They publicly stated that their goal was to make sure he would not be re-elected. Many people have forgotten that and blame him for his inability to do more to extricate our nation from the financial catastrophe that same obstructionist party brought about.
Let's get real here! American presidents are not kings! They can't rule by fiat! To get things done, they have to have the cooperation of congress!
Instead of condemning and thinking they might not vote for Obama, they should be congratulating him on the rather outstanding things he has accomplished against all the naysaying, obstructionism and grandstanding he has had to put up with.
Far too many people (and I have to watch myself in this area) act on emotion, not reason. That is why negative campaign slogans work so well. Emotion tends to turn the mind off. Angry people are not thinking people most of the time. Many a murderer came to that realization after letting his/her emotional anger precipitate a fatal attack on someone that put them in prison for life or sitting on death row.
Emotions are not evil in and of themselves. However, they must be based on and held in check by careful thought. The theocratic fascists of the Republican party know they must get people to feel first and think later (or never) if they are going to win in about three weeks.
I'm hoping enough thought can be generated to offset all this mindless sloganeering.
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