NFL Nicknames

Apropos of nothing, here are some of my nicknames for NFL teams that I’ve either stolen, or made up myself. Most likely, though, they are stolen:

• Bengals — Bungles or Bungholes, depending on the audience
• Browns — Brownies or Browneyes, again, depending on the audience.
• Ravens — Browns. Heh.
• Rams — Lambs
• Titans — Oilers, or Flaming Thumbtacks of {Doom|Fury|Death}
• Colts — Dolts
• Dolphins — Goldfish
• Seahawks — SeaChickens
• Broncos — Donkeys or Donkos
• Jaguars — Jagoffs
• Raiders — Rapers
• Eagles — Iggles
• Patriots — Fuckheads, Fucking Cheaters, Hate-Riots, Assholes, Brady-Fuckers…etc.
• Cowboys — Cowgirls, The ‘Girls
• Packers — Fudge Packers (yeah, I went there)

More as time and events allow, and do feel free to enter your own nicknames below.

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On This Day

An Unthinkable Choice

I could share my memories of that day, but they’re probably not all that different from yours. A pleasant day turned into horror, numbness and rage with the obscene acts of a few zealots who thought that killing the fellow man by the thousands was somehow a Good Idea.

I see this picture, and it brings tears to my jaded eyes. No one can know or pretend to know what he was thinking as he chose his fate.

But, having said that, I like to think that it was the ultimate act of defiance. Faced with the flames of jihadi-wrought hell, he gave them the finger and chose to die on his terms; not theirs.

Somewhere over Pennsylvania, a group of citizens made the same decision: On our terms. Not yours.

Firefighters in New York City rushed into the wounded towers to evacuate survivors and render aid the best they could. They did not give a thought to their own personal safety; nor to the race, creed or religion of those who may be trapped inside. Their motto, “New York’s Bravest” was not braggadocio.

Do we honor those dead by punishing the people who are trying to prevent this from happening again?

Do we honor those dead by hand-wringing over the treatment of people who would do something like this again, given half a chance?

Do we honor those dead by insisting that the biggest problem facing us today is that of “health care reform?”

Do we honor those dead by engaging in petty linguistic battles wherein criticism of a black president is automatically derided as racism?

Do we honor those dead by claiming that a nation who wants to engage in genocide has a “right” to pursue nuclear energy, and hence weaponry?

Do we honor those dead by watering down the language and calling acts of terrorism “man-made disasters?”

The world fundamentally changed on 9/11/2001, and there are still people who cannot grasp the implications of what happened that day. Political correctness has emasculated us as a nation, and the only people who are brave enough to say that the emperor has no clothes are called to task and made to apologize.

Instead of ridding the world of the cancer that is Islamism, we’re trying to “understand” with “outreach” and cringing like beaten dogs every time the Islamists shriek that they’ve been insulted.

Our textbooks are being re-written to paint Islam in a favorable light, while denigrating Judaism and Christianity.

Is this how we honor those who perished on that day, and those who continue to fight and die in faraway lands that most people can’t find on a map?

For myself, I will render honors in my own admittedly weak way. I will say a prayer of thanks to those who have gone before me. I will go to work. I will love my family, and try to protect them and those who are dear to us. I will help out my neighbors who need help. I will do this not because I am coerced by our government. I will do this because it is how free and honorable people treat one another.

I will do this every day. I hope that’s enough.

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Ain’t No Hate Like Librul Hate

So, I’m checking in on Twitter today, and I see this from @RickSheridan. (BTW, I’m disturbingly close to calling people’s names with the word “at” in front. “Hey, has anyone seen at-Paul today?” Jebus, maybe I need some help here.)

Nice. RT @JMRsOMA @RickSheridan U look like a fucking pervert saying this & standing next to child of color I SPIT ON YOUR ASS 4 THAT CHILD

So, of course, I had to see what precipitated THAT outburst, and I find that the post that started the whole thing was this (again from @RickSheridan):

Don’t mind booing & hissing. Though I agree with Joe Wilson I don’t much cotton to calling the President a liar in that venue. #tcot #tlot

Wow. That seemed to me to be pretty much uncalled for, so in my own subtle way, I jumped into the conversation.

@RickSheridan Wow. That was incredibly fucking insightful. You stay classy, @JMRsOMA.

Which of course, resulted in this:

@pottymouthcon I’m glad you enjoyed it you ignorant hillbilly

Alright, now the game is ON.

@JMRsOMA That’s the best you got? Ignorant hilbilly? What verve! What wit! What charm! You hacked on a guy’s kid. You’re a hateful fuckwit.

@pottymouthcon Thats where you show your ignorance asswipe! What are you his mouthpiece? Fuck you, Fuck him, & God keep that kid safe!

Now here’s where it starts getting good, because I’m thinking at this point, “How in hell does a one-off comment about Obumble engender this?” And I figure now that I got the stick in the hornet’s nest; what harm in giving it a little stir! A little riposte to see what parry might come back.

@JMRsOMA I was right from the get-go. You are a racist fuckhead with nothing to contribute except bile and hate. Thanks for playing.

@pottymouthcon Im 4 real so get use to it bitch the kid w/be raised with values & traditions contrary to the experiences of his ethnic group

Wut? “The kid will be raised with values and traditions contrary to the experiences of his ethnic group.”

Then followed these streams of invective to Rick.

@RickSheridan WHAT U R TEACHING YOUR BLACK CHILD: It’s bad to watch anything concerning the first Black US President-Poor kid w/b fucked up
@RickSheridan WHAT U R TEACHING YOUR BLACK CHILD: To be disrespectful of the first Black U.S. President and that makes you unpatriotic~!
@RickSheridan WHAT U R TEACHING YOUR BLACK CHILD: Intolerance of Black men. White men like you of course are acceptable.
@RickSheridan WHAT UR TEACHING YOUR BLACK CHILD: To develop mixed emotions about people like #Kutcher who love people who look like him/her!

I’m still on the “values and traditions” of ethic groups, so I ask:

@JMRsOMA By your logic, then, should white kids be raised in white neighborhoods surrounded by other whites for purity of ethnic experience?

To which I get:

@PottyMouthCon Fuck you bitch, I have nothing more to say to you wannabemouthpiece

Wait! I asked a question, and I think I deserve an answer here, don’t you?

@PottyMouthCon Don’t go there with me you Ultra insensitive #Republican! It’s about demonstrating respect ESPECIALLY given the facts.

Respect!

@JMRsOMA Respect?!? It’s a two-way street, my friend. Now, one last time, please explain your REASONING – sans bile – if you can.

Still no answer here, and now we’re bringing up “facts.” I’m generally a fan of facts. Facts teach me stuff. Facts allow me to make rational decisions; not based on emotions. Let’s do. Let’s do talk facts.

@JMRsOMA I’m trying to give you a chance to enlighten me; to change my mind with logic and facts. Can you do that, or is hate all you offer?

I even put the lid on Potty for that one.

@PottyMouthCon I don’t give a fuck what you think, feel, believe. It’s clear you have no respect for the President of the United States!

Well, I can’t fucking argue with that.

@JMRsOMA That’s very true. But it has everything to do with his policies and ideas and nothing to do with skin color. I have the same…
@JMRsOMA …opinion of Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, and many, many others for the same reason. NOT SKIN COLOR”

The conversation ended there, as @JMRsOMA decided to block me. (Which doesn’t do a fucking thing, since I can log out and see the tweets just fine anyway.

That’s not the point.

This is the point. This is why racism will never end in the US — not while people like this are so concerned about the “ethnic experience” only for their own skin color. If I said that white kids should be raised by white parents in white neighborhoods, I would be called a Klukker, and there would be figurative crosses burning on my lawn for daring to suggest this.

I have a great deal of respect for anyone who adopts a kid. As Rick said in a tweet to me; he expected this, and they’re used to it.

So much for content of character, eh, Dr. King.

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Don’t Worry Citizen, Why Would Twitter Want to Track Your Links?

https://twitter.com/link_click_count?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14iTrb&linkType=web&tweetId=3870211703&userId=38265281&authenticity_token=e851ee1d071431c67388f3534b23d3ff9e461074

This is what is sent back to Twitter when you click on a link.

I’m not an expert on Twitter’s internals, and am not claiming as such.

I tried to access the link_click_count program directly using wget and links, but I get a 403 error, so I’m not sure what is being returned to the browser; probably just a “”Location: ” header that redirects your browser to the correct link destination. (I could do a network trace, but I’m too lazy and short for time right now.)

The request sends 5 parameters:

url, which is your eventual destination. In this example it is http://bit.ly/14iTrb

linkType = “web”

tweetID, which is, presumably, the status ID of the tweet that contains the link you just clicked on — and which is tied to the person who orginally made the tweet.

userId, which is, as near as I can tell YOUR user number within the Twitter system, and

authenticity_token, which is a huge hash of something — probably a unique identifier in the system; perhaps to detail that specific click.

Again, I’m not an expert on Twitter’s internals, and I don’t really care that much that they’re taking link counts.

What does bother me is that they can potentially follow YOUR clicking habits, and tie them to the users you follow. I’m not claiming they are using it for nefarious purposes, but the CAN. And someone with a subpoena CAN, as well.

I’m fairly certain that this doesn’t work with apps like Tweetdeck or Seesmic, and if you disable JavaScript in your browser, that will defeat it as well.

You can find some of the more technical info here.

I’m using the #fuckingstopit hashtag on this issue. Not because I think it’ll make any difference; but because I like to say it.

Filed under: Go Fuck Yourself

The Language of Debate

I woke up this morning and headed to my Bloglines page, where I subscribe to a few of my local lefty blogs.

I pretty much do this every morning to keep a consistent level of bile in my system, and believe me, it fucking works.

Anyway, I tumbled on to one that referred to “anti-reformers” and went on to call them (us) “fascists” for wanting the government to prop up private insurance companies.

I looked at that and said, “What in the blue FUCK do you mean by that?” Then, I wished upon them a skull-fucking, the likes of which haven’t been seen since Gunny berated Private Pyle when he was on the shitter with his rifle. But upon reflection, I decided that the skull fucking had already happened, since only a mush-brained O-Bot could make that logical leap.

Using “anti-reform” in that manner indicates some pretty deep intellectual dishonesty and laziness. And “fascist?” Give me a fucking break! You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.

But this language gets picked up and parroted through the MSM on a nightly basis, and the people who can’t be bothered to actually learn anything from somewhere else accept it as gospel.

Let’s get one thing straight: I have insurance through my employer, and it’s OK, but holy mother fuck do I hate the insurance companies.

Their policies are byzantine to the point of being unreadable, and Gord help you when you have to enter the bureaucracy. It rivals a government agency, and in fact, the way insurance is set up in my world, it is a quasi-government agency. Since I am (unwillingly) a union member, I have a grand total of 3 plans to choose from, offered by two companies. The opportunity for me to find a policy that is tailored to my needs is exactly fucking nil.

Plus, what I pay in a year to insurance, combined with what I pay out of pocket is fucking obscene. I could split that money in a concierge-style manner among my doctor, my dentist and the eye doctor, and probably keep everyone in business, and not have to worry if a claim is going to be approved or not.

This “reform” that HRHBPBHO calls for “sacrifice” from just about everyone except trial lawyers and unions. Not only that, but why aren’t we asking the fucking DOCTORS how we can help them lower costs?

You want fucking reform? Here’s PMC’s plan for reform.

• Tort Reform: This can bring malpractice premiums down, which in turn brings costs down. We’re so litigious that malpractice now means the smallest fuck-up. Doctors are humans and make mistakes. Let’s fix it up so that they have to make them right for the minor fuck ups, and yes, let’s sue the shit out of them when it’s egregious.
• De-Couple Insurance and employment: This has a double effect, a nice one being a reduction in the cost of labor for employers, it gets rid of COBRA, and allows people to seek out their own insurance plans, rather than one that hits one standard deviation from the middle of the Bell curve. Competition for insurance will also lower the cost in that arena as well.
• Reduce the amount of paperwork and coding that has to be done. Next time you’re at the doctor’s office, find out how many employees are dedicated almost solely to paperwork and administration.

Those are three things I think would make an immediate and significant impact. There are other issues, as well, but I think reducing costs in this manner would have a cascade effect, and maybe people who have been using the ER for primary care could now afford to see a GP.

The vast majority of people who work in health care want to, you know, HELP PEOPLE.

Let’s fucking figure out how to make it easier and cheaper for them, which makes it cheaper and easier for all of us.

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Heinlein Nails it in One

In a past life, I ran a “respectable” blog (though that could be argued), where I tried to give everyone a chance and speak their piece, and not just call them fucking assholes outright, although many deserved it.

After the election and the inauguration, I pretty much gave it up, since I knew I couldn’t interact with these chuzzlewits and not snap.

And so, PMC was born.

Every time I sit and watch the news, I just get angry and frustrated and, truth be told, a little bit scared. I really think that it’s going to take a generation to undo the fuckery that has been done in the past 6 months. I hope I’m wrong; but there you go.

So, I’m feeling a little unbalanced; one might say “Beck-ish.”

To counterbalance that, I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading. One government enterprise I believe in is the public library, and I try to get there every other week. But I haven’t been reading heavy political tomes or anything like that, I’m going back to one of my first loves: Science Fiction.

There are two authors who I’ve been devouring, and the first is Philip K. Dick. I haven’t seen the movie, but “A Scanner Darkly” was one of the most disturbing and jarring things I’ve read in a long time.

But the one I’ve really been paying attention to is Heinlein, and I’m reading him a lot differently than I did 20 years ago.

The latest one I finished since I’ve been feeling Beck-ish is “Friday.” I tumbled across this (rather longish) passage, and my jaw hit my chest.

It doesn’t really require any context other than Friday’s assignment from her boss is to think about “How to identify a dying culture.” He asks her if she’s given it any thought.

(Hold on — this is going to take me a while to type.)

“[ . . . ] It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.

[ . . . ]

So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.”

“Elementary. Go on.”

“Well . . . high taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way — even though there are always endless attempts to wish it away by legislation. But I started looking for little signs, what some call silly-season symptoms. For example, did you know that it is against the law here to be naked outside your own home? Even in your own home if anybody can see in?”

“Rather difficult to enforce, I suspect. What significance do you see in it?”

“Oh, it isn’t enforced. But it can’t be repealed, either. The Confederacy is loaded with such laws. It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.”

[ . . . ]

“. . . I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking away at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. I guess that’s all for now. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial — but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.”

“Friday, I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all.”

“I have? Are you going to tell me? Or am I going to have to grope around in the dark for it?”

“Mmm. This once I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named . . . but a dying culture invariable exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.”

When I finished this passage, I bookmarked it and re-read it when I’d finished the book. Then I re-read it again. And again.

This passage, more than any other thing I’ve read, articulates exactly what I believe is happening right before my eyes, and I hope — beyond hope — that I am wrong. I often worry that I am being a bit hypersensitive, as I do tend to steep myself in current events, and try (try!) to make sense of them, so I wonder if I’m not suffering a bit from the canary in a coal mine syndrome.

Incidentally, this book was published in 1982, so what was going on in the world as Heinlein wrote it wasn’t all that different from what we are seeing right now.

I don’t know. What do you think? Are Heinlein and I way off base here, or what? Because it doesn’t look like it to me.

Filed under: We're So Fucked, What the Fuck?

More Fuck-Ku

Fuck You, Joe Biden.
You’re a fucking asshelmet.
And your hair plugs suck.

Filed under: Beavis, You Are One Dumb Sonofabitch, Go Fuck Yourself

Creative Endeavor

Last night, I came up with a new idea to go along with Screw You Saturday, and I call it:

Fuck-Ku.

It’s a fusion of Haiku and Fuck You, and it’s brought me great joy in the past few hours.

Here was the first one that I thought of:

Michelle Obama
In Maxim’s Hot One Hundred?
I barfed in my mouth.

And a couple more:

Fuck! Six Syllables
In “Janeane Garafolo”.
What a fuckin’ hog.

Nancy Pelosi
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie.
You withered old hag.

Try your hand below. Should be fun!

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Fuck You Friday <= Now Moved to Screw You Saturday

Not “Fuck You, Friday,” which has a different meaning entirely.

On this here new blog, we will have a recurring featured called Fuck You Friday where you can express your displeasure with anyone or anything with a hale and hearty “FUCK SCREW YOU” (OK, you can still say FUCK if you want. I don’t mind. I’m not a big stickler for protocol here.)

I’ll do a couple here, just so you can get the feel of what we’re going for.

Fuck You, Nancy Pelosi.
Fuck You, WordPress.com for adding the goddamned “1″ category every time I fucking log in and delete it.
Fuck You Sylvester the Cat Barney Frank.
FUBHO.

I think you get the picture.

Feel free to chime in below, and you can even tell me to fuck off, if it makes you feel better.

(Repeats are welcome.)

Filed under: Go Fuck Yourself

Do These Clowns Ever Stop To Think?

A better question might be: “Did they ever start?”

So, here’s the latest from the Obumble administration. He proposes to “outline plans that would require state governments and colleges to change many of their practices and rules.”

(You ever notice how often this schlub speaks in the first person. “I will do this” and “I will do that?” Arrogance personified.)

The plan, which is, as one would expect from these fuckwits, scant on details. But here’s a teaser:

[...]administration officials said Obama wants states to let unemployment insurance beneficiaries continue collecting checks while they attend a broader array of educational or vocational programs than is currently allowed.

“We want the states to make use of the latitude they have to make an expansive definition of retraining,” said Deputy Undersecretary of Education Robert Shireman, former director of a Berkeley nonprofit, the Institute for College Access and Success.

“More expansive definition.” We all know what that means, and it should send a shiver down your back (not your leg — or your chin, for that matter.)

So now, not only are we expanding benefits, which costs the taxpayer (directly and indirectly), we are going to pour a whole shitload of money into “retraining programs.”

Now I ask you: With all of these training programs and benefits and whatnot, why the fuck would anyone want to get off unemployment?

Filed under: We're So Fucked, What the Fuck?