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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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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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?

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?

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