It's suitably funny and amusing, and amusingly bad too of course (obviously intentionally). Looks like good stuff, I definitely want to watch the full movie. :)
Posted by: etoven - 29th October 2012, 4:30 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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Haha! Futureroma just did something cool. In the episode Bender makes a reference to the day internet users lost their privacy as August 6 1991 , so I decided to looked it up. Neat Easter egg, that was the day the world wide web first went online.
The Giants are of course my favorite NL team, so while I don't follow all of their games during the regular season, I've been watching through most of this postseason for sure, like I did in 2010 (when they won for the first time since the 1950s), and they did it again! Just awesome... sure, the world series wasn't very competitive -- 4-game sweep -- but still, it was a convincing win, which isn't bad. Good stuff. I didn't get a 2010 Giants championship shirt... I really should, this time.
"Sorry I had to kick your ass, but if I didn't the clowns would make me go to another tea party. Also I'm sick of digesting your food for you! Barf up your own food Busta Rymes! Furthermore the sky was penis today, so penis that we decided to have story time at my local library with all the dolphins in the Pacific. Also, Cregs List is full of al qaeda criminal shit heads. If you ever sell anything on there be sure to hide your wallet in your asshole. Ow yea, most important, my bung hole smells like cherries but tastes like poo. So don't try eating off it, trust me you won't like it." - Tim McGraw
This morning I had the most weird dream just before I woke up. The radio was on and Conway Twitty was being arrested for making a song about eating his parents, and then eating his parents. Funny, I heard his music once and I have to admit I almost went crazy enough to eat people, so theirs that.
This whole faux-outrage over the Benghazi attack perfectly encapsulates why I gave up on the Republican party. After 9/11, it would have been easy for Democrats to jump atop the rubble and condemn Bush for allowing such a terrible attack on American. For not knowing that something this big was coming, for not putting more effort on fighting terrorism in his first 9 months, for not doing MORE. But they didn't. In part, obviously, because they didn't feel like committing political suicide, but also because I think they respected the President's right to respond to this crisis, with both words and actions. They let the President be the President.
Fast-forward to 2012 and you have the Republican candidate for President harping on the current president in the zero hour. It's been followed up by a conga line of outrage and consternation that Obama didn't use the right verbiage or that maybe he actually sympathizes with the killers and doesn't want this latest incident to turn the public eye on the campaign to slaughter Americans abroad [no one's said this, of course, but does anyone doubt the implication is there?]. Fox News and Tea Party doesn't respect the President and they don't respect his right as the duly-elected leader of this nation of respond to incidents like this. That's hardly anything new, as this has been their modus operandi for 5 years. They have the nerve, after two years of publicly-declared obstructionism, to pin the problems of the nation, the slow speed of the recovery, on the President and his party, who "just aren't willing to cooperate."
It's not enough to disagree with the President, it's not enough enough to dislike him. They hate him, hate him all the way down to his guts. He's a terrorist-sympathizer, an unworthy foreigner, a disgusting Communist, who doesn't understand what's so great about America and is doing his hardest to push through bills that will tear this country apart for his own amusement. He's not just wrong, he's EVIL. Mitt Romney's first day will included repealing every single piece of major legislation that Obama passed over 4 years in office. They want him gone yesterday, they want every shred of his existence expunged from history as soon as possible. They want everything he did to be either swept away or poisoned. And it makes me sick. I'm tired of hearing this on TV, I'm tired of my family spouting these lines they heard from Rush, Hannity, and whatever blubbering gob of flesh the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch are pushing in their faces and their ears in as many venues as possible every second of every day.
In a better world, responsible mainstream media would point this out for what it is: a barely-concealed propaganda campaign to use whatever line of attack, whatever outright lie or misconception of the truth to undermine the President and make you, too, hate his guts just as much as they do. It's painful to watch this actually WORK, especially when a quick search on Google shreds these lines to bits with ease. But they won't do that, because the popularity and power of Fox News and right-wing media has forced an absurd "fair and balanced" approached to every story. You can't call out lies and hypocrisy from one individual, it's got to be a problem with both sides. Every story has to be couched in illogical mealy-mouthed PR-speak. "Some say this, but other say that." And it makes me sick. I hear it every single day, those little lies that dig under the skin of some members of my family and propagate the hate against the President. It does no good to bring up those easily found facts, because then I just become the Democratic mouth piece who doesn't understand what's wrong with the President and why he ought to go away as quickly as possible. It doesn't work, it never will, and it makes me sick.
I hate the Republican party, the Tea Party, Fox News and right-wing radio for what they've reduced members of my family to. And I won't vote for a Republican in a national election until it finally stops. But it won't stop, and thinking that quietly weathering the 2012 storm, will finally put an end to this madness is foolish. It won't stop, it'll only be that much more shrill the next time. Think 2012 is bad? Just wait until 2014 if the Democrats win in Congress or the Presidency. I want it to go away, I desperately want a return to at least some manner of decorum, at the very least, but I don't really believe it will. So having said that, I'm stocking up on Pepto Bismol, because it looks like I'm going to be feeling sick for quite a while.
Someone put together an interesting image. Of those who are "skeptical" of global warming, many have looked at figures presented to them for certain periods of times, noting that during those small periods average global temperatures have gone down. However, the long view shows that these are temporary and slight compared to the steady climb.
This graphic is "snarky" but accurate. Sometimes temperatures go down a little, but not enough to stop the overall trend.
Fortunately, lately most have begun to accept that global warming is real. They just don't believe it is caused by humans. To that I say there's good reason to believe humans are the cause, but even if they AREN'T, even if this is an entirely natural global warming, should we not STILL want to reverse it? 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct. That's "natural", and as a consequence basically a prediction for humanity. However, I say if we are able to, let's take the reigns of ecology and try to prevent that. Let's do our best to "freeze" the planet in it's current state to prevent our extinction if we can. If humans aren't the cause of global warming, we have a daunting task of finding out what IS responsible and stopping it (my bet is Omicronians). If humans ARE responsible, our task becomes magnitudes simpler, but still difficult and necessary.
It's suitably funny and amusing, and amusingly bad too of course (obviously intentionally). Looks like good stuff, I definitely want to watch the full movie. :)
