What is it with these people and their guns?

Concealed-carry gun permits let holders bypass Texas Capitol's metal detectors

By Associated Press 

 

 

AUSTIN, Texas - Everyone from lobbyists to lawyers and journalists is rushing to get permits to carry guns inside the Texas Capitol, where legislators already often tote pistols in boots and purses or stow them away inside their desks.
A unique loophole in a new security procedure means a gun permit is like a special-access pass into the domed building, allowing people who are certified to carry a gun to bypass lines at the metal detectors that were set up after a shooting incident earlier this year.

So, they set up metal detectors after a shooting, presumably to prevent future shootings, but if you definitely do have a gun, you can just go right on through? How does that make any sense?
And why would you need to carry a gun into the State Capitol building? Isn't that one of the safest places you could be? Isn't it already well-guarded by trained law-enforcement personnel?

I don't get the whole concealed-carry fetish anyway. If I were walking around with a shootin' iron in my belt, I'd damn sure want people to see it. I would want muggers to take one look at me and say "not him, he's got a six-shooter!" Why would I want to pretend that I was unarmed? Do these people hope that criminals will try to attack them so that they can then pull their guns and go all Bernie Goetz on them? Okay, I probably just answered my own question.

Horrible horrible billboard.

For the last few days, on the way home from work, I've driven by this billboard:

Holy shit! I mean, it's not just me, right? That is really horrible.
I mean, I get that childhood obesity is a problem. I get that young kids are getting type II diabetes at alarming rates, but do we really need this kind of fat-shaming?

Also, I'm pretty sure it's a lie. I was a scrawny kid myself, but I had a couple of friends who were fat and they seemed like they had about the same amount of fun as I did.

Yesterday I saw a poster on a bus shelter with that same little girl that read something like "Warning! It's hare to be a little girl when you aren't." (aren't little, I presume.) Which might be even more horrible.


So who is this "Strong4Life.com" anyway? I went to the web to find out.

This is the banner that greets you at their website:



The community has had enough! Enough with these fat kids!

 

I have had it with these muthafuckin' fat kids in this muthafuckin' community!

Then they have a selection of videos like this:

The point of which seems to be that if you are a fat mother with a fat kid, you should just hang your head in shame because you have failed as a parent!

And this one with the little girl from the billboard:



Which teaches us the valuable lesson that if the other kids are being assholes to you, it's your fault for being such a fatty! Not their fault for being little assholes.

About the only other thing the website offers is the chance to "join the community" on Facebook. Apparently, the most important thing we can do to help these poor fat kids is to go on Facebook and talk about them? I don't know. I don't get it.

This is what's wrong with America.

On the way to work this morning there was a short little story about a fire department who had used the wrong address on the return envelopes for a fundraising drive. And I think it was just supposed to be kind of a cute little "ha,ha silly firemen" kind of an end of the hour feel-good story. But of course, they missed what should have been the point of the story.

Why in the HELL are Fire Departments having to do fundraisers?

Why should fire departments have to ask for donations as if they were some sort of private charity and not a public agency that benefits everyone? This is everything wrong with America in a nutshell. And it's not just this one particular department.

Artists to auction work to help fund fire department in Rist Canyon 

Ledgeview fundraiser nets $1,500 for fire department 

Turley Fire Department seeks donations for repairs

 Fundraiser set for Vilonia Fire Department

Needville plans fundraiser to assist fire department 

Firefighters, EMS To Hold Fundraiser At Dish 'N Dat

 U of R donates $30,000 to firetruck fund

REDLANDS - The Redlands Ladder Truck fund is about halfway to its goal, thanks to generous donations from various organizations. Wednesday was a big day for the fundraiser, as the Redlands Fire Department received three big donations to go toward replacing its outdated ladder truck.

 

All those headlines are from the last couple weeks. All these fire departments are having to go begging for money from the public because we have apparently come to a time in our history when we are no longer willing to fund the most basic, most necessary  services with our tax dollars. We would rather have our heroes going hat in hand to various philanthropists and organizations than have corporations pay taxes on their billions of dollars in profits. http://news.yahoo.com/u-firms-paid-more-ceos-taxes-study-040551766.html 

Someday, when history students are asked "Why did the most powerful nation in the history of the world die out?" they can point to this. They decided that they would rather let fire departments (not to mention schools, police depts, hospitals, etc) go un-funded than ask billionaire CEO's to maybe try and chip in a little.

Okay, Quick Show of Hands. . .

. . .Who likes penises?



Okay, and who likes men in speedos?






 And who loves hetero sex? Let's see your hands!






That's what I thought.

Who Can Have the most assholish response to a Natural Disaster?

Bonus points for making God sound like a petty jerk!

Contestant # 1: Michele Bachmann (R-Pscychonnia)

"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."

   

Well honey, He definitely said something about reigning in obesity, nudge, nudge!

Wow! So Bachmann's God just killed a bunch of people and destroyed a bunch of homes because he disagrees with our fiscal policy? Now that's a petty jerk! Also, if you did actually take "God's" advice and listen to the American People, you'd see that every poll indicates that they are not all that worried about the debt, they are worried about jobs. That roaring? That's the American people shouting JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!! It's only inside your little FOX News / Club For Growth bubble that cutting government spending is a top priority.

Contestant #2: Glenn Beck
Yeah, apparently Beck is still around. He popped his head out from under the cow flop he's been hiding under lately to say this:
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This hurricane that is coming thorough the East Coast, for anyone who’s in the East Coast and has been listening to me say ‘Food storage!’ ‘Be prepared!’ ‘Be somebody that can help others,’ you’ve heard me say this for years. People have made fun of me. That’s fine, I don’t care. I’ve been telling you, ‘Don’t be in a panic situation.’ If you’ve waited, this hurricane is a blessing. It is a blessing. It is God reminding you — as was the earthquake last week — it’s God reminding you you’re not in control. Things can happen. Be prepared  

So, Beck's God just killed a bunch of people and destroyed a bunch of homes in order to make Beck look prescient? Or maybe to increase sales of Beck's "Food Insurance" scam? http://www.businessinsider.com/glenn-beck-food-insurance-2010-10

That's more than being a petty jerk, Beck's "God" is like a mafioso running a protection racket with Beck!

 

Hey, I'm just sayin' A lot of bad things can happen to an Eastern Seaboard!