Hello NSA!

Greetings to my readers at the NSA! I've always assumed you were reading all this stuff anyway so this weeks news is no surprise to me. I remember being called an anti-American dirty hippie for speaking out against the so-called Patriot Act a decade ago, now the same ones who passed it are crying foul? The fourth amendment has been gutted over the last thirty years, mostly because of the war on (some) drugs, I don't remember a huge right-wing outcry over that.

Privacy is so twentieth century.

But the collapse will render it all moot.

A Test Of Poe's Law

OK, which one is real?

First this:

"
Now the state’s “Committee on Energy and Environment” is proposing a law that would prohibit spending on anything that won’t set Kansas on a course to self-destruction. House Bill No. 2366 would ban all state and municipal funds for anything related to “sustainable development,” which it defines as: “development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come."

Now this:

"f Earth's species were meant to change over successive generations through physical modifications resulting from the adaptation to environmental challenges, then God would have given them the genetic predisposition to select mates and reproduce based on their favorable heritable traits and their ability to thrive under changing conditions so that these advantageous qualities would be passed down and eventually encoded into the DNA of each generation of offspring," Olathe public school teacher and creationist Joyce Eckhardt said. "It's just not natural."

Some warn that the strict wording of the law could have a deleterious effect on Kansas' mostly agricultural economy, since it also prohibits all forms of man-made artificial selection, such as plant hybridization, genetic engineering, and animal husbandry. A police raid on an alleged artificial-insemination facility outside McPherson, KS on Friday resulted in the arrest of a farmer, a veterinarian, four assistants, one bull, and several dozen cows.




If this isn't textbook Poe's Law I don't know what could be.




God humans suck.

Happy And Gay

Here's to hoping the Supreme Court decides to not stand astride history hollering "STOP!"

So far it sounds like there may be a little room for optimism.

Idiocracy In Action

This whole sequester mess just makes me sick. I can't believe these GOP goobers still take supply-side economics seriously. I am a Keynesian in economic philosophy, so I stand with Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman against the ignorant austerity policies so enamored by the right. This is exactly the WRONG time to cut government spending because the economy is still far too vulnerable. Spend now while interest rates are ridiculously low then pay it down when the economy picks up - pretty simple actually.

Welcome!

Welcome to any and all who may read this. I have been a long-time commenter and reader of many political snark blogs, although I lurk more than I comment since so often someone says what I want to better than I could phrase it. I decided to start a blog so I could have a little place to vent about stuff. I really don't care if anyone ever sees it but I welcome comments and debate as long as it's not this:

Now I can't think of to rant about. Well there is the fucking sequester - FUCK YOU TEABAGGERS!

There. Short and sweet.

Talk to you later.


ETA: This blog is a work in progress so the layout may change and I will be adding a lot more links and other goodies.