Thursday Thoughts

Topless Kardashians
I lost a follower. It happened right after I posted about the scandal between Planned Parenthood and Komen. Hey, it's not my fault Komen only spends 15% of their billions on actual breast cancer research. Don't get mad at me. Unfollow them if you're upset about it.


Thoughts
Anyway, here are a few of the thoughts rolling around in my head this week. I hope they are in some way helpful or inspirational to you rather than pissing you off and then you unfollow me.


Your body + my money = prostitute

You wanting something does not equate to that something being a 'right'. Some people here in America seem to have a hard time with this concept. Not surprisingly, these same people believe that my not paying for that something which they want equates to me denying them access to it. No, honey, it doesn't. You are free to open up your own wallet and use your own money to buy it if you truly want it. And if it were so important that's exactly what you'd do. Stealing from me, though, isn't a right at all. Thinking that everything you want is a 'right' and expecting other people to pay for it is what is commonly referred to as being a narcissist. Others call it being a child. It's basically the same thing. In some foreign countries it is known as being a thief.


If you decide to back into a parking space and end up losing the space to someone else, don't get mad at them. They didn't steal your space. No one can read your mind. When a space opens up and you drive past it in order to stop and back into the space, all anyone else sees is you not wanting the space and driving away from it. By the time anyone realizes you intended to back into it, they've already taken it. This is a reminder for me as much as anyone else. I lost a space the other day and I was pissed about it, but I knew it was my fault. How was he supposed to know I was going to back in?


"Bling" headlights is actually a term now
I don't care how big your truck is. Those blinding blue lights are off-road only and that means they are illegal. Yes, I will either call the cops or you will remove them. Alternatively, I will smash them out. Yes, I have a bat in my car and I know how to use it. Seriously, it's called stick fighting and I was trained in it. Of course, I wasn't trained to stick fight with a pickup truck, but most of what they taught me can be applied to your headlights as easily as your head. Oh nevermind, I'll just call the cops. With my luck I'd probably tear a shoulder joint while whacking your truck because I didn't warm up first.


Does your mother know that you're out?
Why are the police in Australia grabbing kids they see walking down the sidewalk and taking them to their parents with a warning about letting kids walk around without leashes? Has the Nanny State really gotten so out-of-control now that we aren't ALLOWED to let kids walk around outside without us following them everywhere they go? Is this what happens when you get your first woman PM?


Tolerance?
Tolerance is a two-way street. You can't demand that I be tolerant of your beliefs or lifestyle if you are intolerant of mine. Oddly, this concept is unfathomable to the very same group of people I mentioned previously who feel that anything they desire is a 'right' and that my refusing to pay for that thing they desire equates to my violating their rights and denying them access. Interestingly, the 'tolerance' crowd is exceptionally tolerant of radical Muslims who kill people they disagree with. Apparently the idea of killing people who dare to think differently appeals quite strongly to the tolerance crowd. And that is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.


Killer is 'real' victim ... again
I find it odd how the news media, especially Reuters and the Associated Press, will report and push as hugely important news stories that are of no interest whatever to 99 percent of the people in their audience, but of great interest to 99 percent of the very left-wing, mostly female, and disproportionately homosexual employees of the news service itself. And then, when the newspapers keep going out of business, and the audience for their television networks continues to shrink as the viewers turn elsewhere, they throw up their hands and demand government funding to keep them in business, once again insisting that they have a 'right' to sell something no one wants to buy simply because it is their dogma, their god, their religion, and they feel strongly that we should all be forced by the government to support their church of propaganda even as they fight with all their might to outlaw everyone else's religious beliefs and silence all who report a different viewpoint. I seem to recall our Democrat President attacking Fox news and talk radio at one point, and our Democrat-controlled Congress making noises about shutting it down through force of law. This is how tyranny works - what the People want, they are denied. What they do not want, they are forced to endure by Big Government, who insists that it knows better what is good for us all. And what is good for us is never freedom according to Big Government. Freedom involves risk and danger and someone might get hurt. So it must not be allowed. It 'saves lives' to eliminate freedom. It's "for the children" that we must not permit anyone to speak freely or move about without government monitoring. "Women are dying" because of men's freedom. There is always some excuse for enslaving us.

Roads That Lead To Me

I was just looking at my blogger stats, suddenly aware for the first time that Blogspot actually gives me some sort of feedback regarding what it is that brings people to my blog, what doesn't, and what people like the most.

Apparently what people like the most is .... penis.






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After penis, people like Michelle Monaghan. Then they like Bridget Moynahan. I can't blame anyone for those two. I quite like them myself.

The next item, I don't know what the hell that is. How does this funky symbol lead to my blog when I don't even know what it is?

Jillian Barberie ranks after a funky symbol? I'll bet she'd be crushed if she knew that. I mean, how does a person rank lower than a symbol like that?

And then nude. That's an obvious one.

Spanking? People are led to my blog by doing a Google search for 'spanking'? I don't remember posting about spanking.

Ah Casey Anthony. So many women want to burn her at the stake. So many men secretly would be totally willing to 'do' her.

And then Bridget Moynahan again.

And then Michelle Monaghan one more time, just because she's doubly hot.


Sooooo, penis is the number one search term leading to this blog by over 3000 votes? Wow! I totally didn't see that coming.

Komen, Planned Abortionhood and Spinelessness

Gonna cash you like a check from Publisher's Clearinghouse


This may shock some of you, but I'm going to say it anyway.

Ready?


Truth and dogma can't occupy the same space
I don't think this whole hissy fit between Komen and Planned Parenthood is worth even one tenth the space it is getting in the news. In fact, I don't think it is even worth mentioning on any news cast or in any newspaper more than once, and even then only very briefly.


Very hush-hush link until now
As for the sudden reversal by the Komen bitches, it doesn't surprise me at all. There is nothing more PC than pink. And Komen has made it more popular for politicians and other PC pussies to wrap themselves in pink than the American flag.


Lesbians addicted to easy money
Of course they have no integrity when it comes to their own policies regarding donations.

Of course they reversed themselves without even bothering to call a meeting and revise those policies.

Doesn't this sound all too familiar? Didn't we just have a bunch of people appointed to powerful positions without Congressional approval, in violation of our own laws, by the pinkest president this country has ever seen?


I can do whatever I want!
Sure we did. That's how a pink world works. This is how it is when My Mom is running the show.

And I'll bet you all of these people involved in this scandal drive slow in the passing lane, too, just like my mom. And whenever anyone tries to pass, they speed up and block him out, just because they can. That's how it works in a pink world. That's the country we're living in today, a gleaming pink nation, sickening like a giant bottle of Pepto Bismol, gay and inconsistent and spineless and flaky as a pie crust that's been cooked too long.


Probably a bad driver, too

Now, let's forget all that because it's the weekend and we have a Superbowl to watch!




P.S. How much you want to bet the reporters announcing the game will be wearing more pink than ever by order of the heads of their television network in order to show corporate support for Planned Parenthood. See, NOW we know the real reason so many corporations were so terrified not to show support for pink. It wasn't about breast cancer at all. It's about abortion.

Sexual Battery

According to America's lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and police, the following is a crime of SEXUAL BATTERY:




No one was hurt. The sexual organs involved belonged to the man now being charged with sexual battery, and there was exactly no emotional or physical trauma involved.



According to America's lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and police, the following is NOT a crime of SEXUAL BATTERY:




The victim is unarmed and both hands were clearly visible and empty when he was assaulted in his genitals hard enough to lift him off the ground and throw him onto his back, prior to the assailant leaping upon him and pummeling his face like a hockey player during the third period, followed by another assailant walking over and for no reason whatever, applying a Taser shock to the victim's face despite the fact that the victim is on his back, unarmed and not harming his assailant in the least.


Is it my imagination, or is it the case that our lawmakers are fucking insane? Teabagging a sleeping man is not sexual battery. It is being a dickhead. Kicking a man's testicles hard enough to rupture both of them and lift the man off his feet so that he lands flat on his back is absolutely sexual battery. It is battery and it is sexual to the victim, as well as to everyone who witnesses the battery and sees clearly that it involved the victim's sexual organs. It is sexual battery because we, the people, say it is. And if the laws as currently written disagree, then the laws are wrong and must be changed. If our lawmakers can't comprehend this, or simply refuse to do as we say, then our lawmakers are wrong and must be changed.

Alternatively, the lawmakers, prosecutors, etc could be forced to stand out in the street and submit to repeated kicks to their genitals with extreme force in the same manner as this American citizen was, over and over again, until they finally understand why everyone except them sees the act of violently assaulting a person's sexual organs in a non-fear-for-life, non-self-defense situation as being an act of sexual assault, indecent and obscene in the eyes of society in general, and infinitely worse than tea bagging some drunk for a gag.

Seriously, is it just me or are the laws in every state in the United States, most of which didn't even have laws defining sexual assault of a male in any form or fashion until the 1990s or later, totally out of touch with reality and utterly wrong?

Does it matter at all that researchers in the field of sexual abuse found that male victims of this exact act of violent assault received it as a sexual assault, with the exact same long-term psychological damage and symptoms as victims of all other forms of sexual assault and abuse, including violent rape? The researchers themselves were shocked, but noted that no one had ever actually asked male victims of sexual violence of this nature anything about how they felt or what effects it had had on them. Once they asked, victims reported all the symptoms experienced by victims of violent rape - nightmares about the assault, long-term depression, flashbacks, and panic attacks. Medically the victims were undeniably sexual assault victims. Legally, they were nothing.

What will it take for the laws to be changed to acknowledge the reality of this crime? Our society has become fixated on violence, as sex is declared taboo and foul language the worst of all possible crimes. So we've sexualized the violence and celebrated it. It's everywhere, from kids television programs to the hallways of their schools to the streets of our own neighborhoods, brought to us by the police themselves. It is an epidemic, which researchers warn is already having devastating consequences for our entire culture even as it continues to spread and grow worse.

What happens to a society that sexualizes violence and then celebrates it?

Auto Update - The Test Drive

Two weeks ago or so I wrote about how I was considering buying a new car, and my three choices were between the Camaro, the Mustang and the Challenger. I listed horsepower and gas mileage and various other numbers. Then I asked what you thought. You overwhelming thought that A) the Challenger was the best, followed by the Mustang and B) I badly needed to go test drive all three before making any decisions. So today I did exactly that.

I also brought someone with me who has very strong opinions about everything and is never shy when it comes to sharing those opinions. They rode in the back seat of all three cars.

Here are the results of the test drives:


Camaro SS
The Camaro was the clear loser in the poll on my last post about the car decision. No one favored it. Here is what I found:

PROS: The SS model is much better-looking than a basic Camaro. I liked it much better in person than I thought I would. The engine was dead silent, which is surprising for a car making over 400 horsepower. We even popped the hood to see if it was really running because it was so quiet. It was, but if not for the turning of the pulleys you wouldn't have known it. From inside the car you can't hear a thing. Speaking of inside the car, the driver's seat is comfortable. Having a side mirror on both the driver's door and the passenger door was very helpful. The car rides solid and handled the really horrible Memphis roads with a smoother ride than I would have expected. It beat on us a little bit, but not as bad as an economy car. The car handles like a sports car, easily flying around a looping off-ramp without any lean or skidding tires at all. This car will fly. It has more power while getting better gas mileage than either of the other 2.

CONS: Sitting in this car is like putting on a condom. It's really tight in there. My left leg was against the door and I really couldn't do anything about that short of amputating my leg. The roof was so low, partially due to the fact that the car was equipped with a sunroof, that my head was touching the ceiling. Lowering the seat all the way down didn't give me any significant headroom. I definitely don't want one with a sunroof. I didn't anyway, but this just confirmed that it isn't even an option for me. I'd break my neck if I ever hit a bad bump in the road. That's just insane. Speaking of insane, I can't see in this car. Not only is there very limited visibility out the rear window, but the blind spot when trying to look to your right for a lane change is big enough to hide a Humvee. And it's no better when you look to your left either. The low roof put the rear view mirror directly in my line of sight so that I really couldn't see well out the windshield when looking towards the right. Basically, I could see what was ahead of me and in my mirrors and nothing else. I felt like I couldn't keep up with where the cars were around me because I could not see well. I would expect to have a nightmare of a time trying to maneuver this car in rush hour traffic with all the blind spots. And I would expect to die were I to ever crash at any significant speed. There's no room between you and the car at all. You're pretty much wearing it.

FROM THE BACK SEAT: I couldn't even sit up all the way and even slouching I still had to lay my head to one side. There is nowhere to put my feet. You can't slip them under the seat in front of you for some reason, so where the hell are they supposed to go? And I couldn't see anything at all except the inside of the car itself. You can't see out any of the windows. It's like being in a box. I do NOT like this car.



Mustang
The Mustang received a fair number of votes in my poll and is the car I had been considering buying for the longest amount of time. Here is what I learned from driving it:

PROS: This car felt right before I had even gotten out onto the highway. It just has something about it that feels perfect. I don't know if it's the wheelbase or steering ratio or what, but it feels like you could do circles on a 2-lane road and not even go off the pavement. It feels tight and right. It also has a mild musclecar sound that isn't too loud or too quiet. The exhaust is about perfect. Even though the interior has a lot of plastic, which I've read car enthusiasts complaining about, it didn't really bother me. If a plastic pretend bumper doesn't bother you, why would you care if the interior is plastic? Anyway, the seat was comfortable and I was able to adjust it to sit low enough that my head wasn't against the ceiling. The car had no sunroof, which helped give me enough headroom, too. And I can see extremely well in all directions.

CONS: The trunk was smaller than I expected. The driver's seat was literally touching the seat behind it, meaning there is no possible way anyone could sit there unless they had no legs at all. The plastic interior will not age well in the Memphis summer sun, but then nothing plastic ever does.

FROM THE BACK SEAT: There is nowhere to put my feet. There is something blocking them from going under the seat in front of me. But I have enough headroom to sit up straight and my seat isn't uncomfortable otherwise. Why is there no arm rest back here? I have nowhere to put my arm. Its just pressed against the side of the car with nothing to rest it on. I hate that.



Challenger
The last car I drove was the Challenger SRT8, a 2009 model because the 2010 model had sold earlier that morning and already left the lot. This is the car most people recommended that I choose.

PROS: The car looks awesome. It has the most trunk space of any of the three cars. The car can actually seat 5 people rather than 4, like the other 2. No sunroof and my head was nowhere near touching the ceiling. My left leg wasn't pressed against the driver's door while I drove. I had plenty of room, the most of any of the 3 cars. My passenger beside me, who is taller than me, had plenty of room. My passenger in the back had plenty of room. The engine rumbles like a musclecar should. The car rides like a dream, especially compared to the Camaro, which had the harshest ride. I can see better than I had expected. I really like this car.

CONS: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Wow, between 1500 and 2000 rpms the exhaust was so loud and deep it actually hurt our ears. This is a used car so the original owner may have installed an aftermarket exhaust which is to blame for this, but I don't know if that is so at this point. I would swap out the mufflers with something quieter right away. There is a slight blind spot where the rear pillars are between the side quarter windows and the rear window. It isn't nearly as bad as in the Camaro, though, and if you move your head enough you can see around it. I believe I can compensate for this well enough for it not to be a big issue.

FROM THE BACK SEAT: I almost fell asleep. It is really comfortable back there. I had plenty of space, including leg room and my feet could slip under the seat in front of me which meant you could move it further back and I'd still have enough room. I like this car the most of all.


So there you have it. It's down to the Mustang and the Challenger and I don't know which one I'm going to choose. I liked driving the Mustang the most of all. It feels just right. But the ride and extra room inside the Challenger is unbeatable and if you're going to be doing a lot of driving like I am that matters quite a lot. But then again, the Mustang gets the best gas mileage, which also matters quite a lot when you're doing a lot of driving and over a long distance.

At this point, it may come down to what my insurance agent says it will cost me to insure either of these cars. After that, it will depend upon how much of exactly what I want I'm able to find in one of these cars. I'm not planning to buy it brand new off the lot where I get to name all my demands and have it built the way I want, so that limits me to what is available on the market. I was told the SRT8 model Challengers can be hard to get and disappear almost instantly. The fact that just last night I checked the lot and confirmed that they had 2 of them, only to arrive the following afternoon to find that the newest one had already sold and gone, would seem to confirm that actually getting a decent used SRT8 may be a significant challenge. If that proves to be the case, then I'll either have to settle for a standard V8 Challenger, or give it up and go with the much-easier-to-find Mustang GT or other specialty model, like a Shelby, Boss or Saleen.

So, what do you think now?