In most other countries, they don’t pander to political correctness quite the way we do here. Here is a perfect example of that:
This video was produced by the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Australia. It’s shocking, it’s unnerving. And, it’s accurate.
Not quite a year ago I did a piece on what I thought was one of the most crass advertising campaigns I had ever seen. Well, they’ve done it again.
In the meantime, PETA continues to get naked:
Watch more PETA videos at PETATV.com.
That’s the teaser for this pic on Colleghumor:
Girls making out is the new black. (from CollegeHumor)
It seems every generation wants to shock the previous generation by doing things they THINK their parents never did. My generation did it mainly by having guys primping like a girl, and girls appearing to be plastic replicas of Pat Benatar. I don’t think that worked too well. Most of the following generations simply adapted “shocking” words to describe mundane things or re-inventing old words like “frickin”. Big, big, whoop. About 20 years ago white girls decided to shock and disappoint their parents by teaming up with black guys. What they didn’t know then was that was a throwback to the 60′s. Everyone was on cheap drugs then and pretty much gave up on the shock value once they got decent jobs and kids. So, apparently this wave of kids have decided the shock value is girls making out with girls. Now, first of all, this ain’t particularly new. Second, most guys will flat out admit that seeing two good looking gals lip-locked is a pleasurable sight to see. And, I would guess quite a large percentage of the women would feel that way too ( a theory that I’ve been quantifying for about fifteen years now ). It just doesn’t have quite the shock value inter-racial dating did 20 years ago. However, if the girls want to think it does, and prefer to do that as opposed to drugs, free-sex, driving drunk, or other much more harmful activities, I’m 100% all for it. So go ahead, shock me some more. I can’t take it. I swear I can’t. Don’t. Stop.
And guys, don’t think for one second society will be nearly as tolerant if the guys decide they’re gonna shock us all that way!
( If you read collegehumor.com, you’ll get “shocked” about 20 times every single day. )
29
Jan
Was browsing posts over at Dean Esmay‘s and he made a real fun post. What he did was agree to watch a "documentary". Now, Dean is kind of like an intelligent conservative. "Why We Fight" is kind of like ultra-liberal propoganda. It’s one of those things you just have to ignore facts and nod your head in agreement whenever they tell you something ludicrous, like how the US invaded Vietnam, and stuff like that. He then live-blogs his reactions as he watches it. For chucks and giggles, here it is.
Now, I’m not the sort to deprive myself of 90 minutes of time otherwise spent with my four year old just to insult myself or get upset by wasting 90 minutes watching something I know I’ll get upset by. So, if you all want to, you can watch it. I’d like to know exactly how many BLATANTLY obvious "mistakes" are made like "forgetting" the French started the Vietnam War and drug US into it, the first "Democracy" was the Roman Empire, and that the Japanese tried to surrender during WWII and Truman nuked them anyway. Little things like that.
All this really tells me is Eugene Jarecki never attended school. That’s all. ( Actually, from reading other sources, what it tells me is Jarecki knows how to make a quick buck and knows exactly which suckers pay the most. The wilder, more outlandish the claims, the more likely Robert Redford will LOVE you at Sundance. )
23
Jan
I heard about this one floating around the internet a couple of days ago. I figured it was just another one of those bogus over-the-top emails. I was apparently wrong:
“Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I’m in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first.”
On the same day, Hess received this reply:
“SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com“
Once “outed”, discount mats supposedly fired the employee who wrote the email. And, at this time, this is the response you get if you visit their website:
Sgt. Hess eventually goes the way of what makes the US great, he buys two cots somewhere else. The only thing Discount Mats apparently got was a major headache and lost sales. That’s what they deserve for hiring a butthead to work in sales.
28
Dec
The United Nations has released this advertisement for US consumption:
I really don’t want my kid seeing this advertisement. You think he’d want to play soccer if he saw it? Once again, the United Nations is proving how useless they truly have become. This is just stupid.
21
Dec
I’m fairly shocked by this one. Congressman Virgil Goode wrote this letter to his constituents:
Thank you for your recent communication.
When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand.
I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.
We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.
I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.
The Ten Commandments and "In God We Trust" are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, "As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office." Thank you again for your email and thoughts.
Now, I got a real problem with his attitude. Mainly, he seems to be completely ignorant of the entire history of the United States, which is not good for a Congressman. The original members of the Mayflower came to America to escape the totalitarian rigidness of the Church of England. Their religious beliefs were Christian, but a very different form of belief than the "official" religion of England. After The Pilgrims, other waves of settlers came to America to escape religious persecution at the behest of the "official" religion du jour of their governments. This desire for religious freedom manifested itself in the United States Constitution in the form of the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What Congressman Goode is doing is, in his official position as a US Representative, he is punishing US Representative Ellison for using the Koran for his inauguration. This is so wrong. Congressman Goode is proposing becoming what the United States was formed against.
If Congressman Ellison wants to use the Koran, that’s his right. During the Cold War, the United States actually had a Communist Party that was more than happy to bring down the current US government. We’ve allowed extremism in this country for the entire duration of this country for a reason. That reason is above everything else, we cherish our freedoms here more than anything else. People might not be saying that when they promote extremism, but they are showing that it works by doing it. Just because Ellison is Muslem does not mean his is extremist. If we elected 100 Muslem Congressman it would not mean they all had to be extremist and desiring to destroy what it is their families came here for. If we elected every single leader of our government it would only mean the government reflected the majority of the voters. However, since extremist Islam is no different than all the other extremist entities that have existed during the 230 this country has existed, my bet is it won’t be any more of a threat than the US Communists of the Cold War or the Christian bombers of the last decade eventually proved to be. The bigger threat right now to me is Congressman Goode’s intolerance. I have a reason to feel threatened by his intolerance, I’m not a Christian by HIS definition. Goode has got to go.
30
Nov
Found this exchange via my buddies at Independent Sources:
Hello Rocky,
What do you think of Elton John’s desire to ban all religions?
Tiffany Swisher
Jacksonville, FLRocky Responds:
As a rule, Tiffany, I don’t worry about anything coming out of Elton John’s mouth that isn’t written by Bernie Taupin.
That was funny, but there’s more to the story that I did like.
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people," he said. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays.
"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion."
According to the singer-songwriter, 59, his solution would be to "ban religion completely, even though there are some wonderful things about it".
He added: "I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book.
"But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate."
There’s a ton of truth in that statement. He addresses it purely from the gay perspective, but from The Crusades to the modern Muslim Jihads against the civilized planet, ORGANIZED relgion has created chaos and death. Sure, it’s good for the individual, but on a global scale, it’s been a disaster that continues to kill and destroy. I’m not saying any one religion is more or less culpable throughout the history of organized religion, I’m saying the entirity of the sitaution has not done man a whole lot of good. Especially in the last couple of hundred years. It can be argued that organized religion advanced science and knowledge at times. But, the Dark Ages and the current extremist Muslims trying to return to those Dark Ages are currently doing extreme damage for the advent of Man. Rather than wasting billions and billions of dollars in protecting ourselves from this year’s religious fanatics that are being encouraged by organized Islam, we could be developing technologies to prepare the next generations in how to deal with the ever changing global climate and changing demands of increased populations. And, I would guess, by now, if those resources had been better focused, we’d be finding alternative places to live, as in other planets or moons. But, we’re not. We’re spending all those resources on killing each other and protecting ourselves over who’s interpretation of life after we’re dead is most correct.
So, although Sir Elton is most often a flaming bitch who really only seems to say things to offend people any more, he’s hit on a topic that means something. And, oddly enough, he even soft-peddled it a little by saying religion itself has a lot to offer, which it does. It is the corruption of power within those religions that makes it bad. And, banning that corruption doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me. I’m one who has always felt that the only true religion is what’s in your heart and soul. So, banning those people who abuse that faith is a win-win proposal for me.
Now, Sir Elton needs to put that to music, and let Bernie do the writing.
A lot of print has gone into the debate over what exactly "marriage" is. Namely, some homosexuals have been fighting desperately for the honor of being called Mr. and Mr. or Mrs. and Mrs. so-and-so. Along with this debate, part of the counter-argument has been that if we open the door to gays getting married, people will start wanting polygamy ( too many wives ), child molestation ( marrying kids ), and all sorts of other strange perverted "unions" slightly more normal people don’t want to imagine being consumated.
Well, slightly more normal peeps, I’m here to tell you it’s too late. The war has been lost already:
Now, unlike the in-your-face-we’re-gonna-sue-until-you-acquiesce style of the gays, the beastiality proponents have taken a slightly lower-brow approach:
The tongue-in-cheek event had nothing to do with bestiality, participants said, but had something to do with animal rights, something to do with equal rights, and a lot to do with being single and thirty-something, weathering the taunts of the happily married and going home every night to your dog.
Yeah, right. I’m not buying it. Steve Diamond, in a moment of obvious weakness from the euphoria of the moment, revealed their true intentions:
"Same-sex, interspecies, I don’t care. Love is transcendent," said Steve Diamond, putting down his drink to pet his four-inch tarantula, Barbarella. "I’ll be a good husband to her," he pledged. "I’m the one who does all the cooking and cleaning."
And what else Steve? I mean, you’re just a housekeeper if you do the cooking and cleaning. To be a HUSBAND, you WILL be expected to provide something else or the bitch will sue you for everything you’ve got for not giving it to her.
I have seen no lawsuits yet to stop this unholy act. Therefore, it’s over. "Marriage" is now whatever anyone wants it to be. Kinda makes me wonder what all the fuss over the gays was.
24
Jul
This weekend Keith Olbermann, who OBVIOUSLY hates Bill O’Reilly, went a little too far in his zeal to trash O"Reilly:
Of course, the usual suspects trashed it. However, what tells me that Keith went too far is this bit:
"Hell, if you’re lazy, you can even just don an O’Reilly mask and do a stupid dance. You cannot, however, don an O’Reilly mask and do a Nazi salute. MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tried it this weekend, and the humor just got overshadowed by that whole systematic extermination thing."
Sound like Real Clear Politics or Expose The Left? Well, it’s not. That’s from GAWKER. A zine dedicated to exposing the trashiness that Hollywood glamour truly is ( whether they know it or not ). They took time out from exposing more than we need to know on people we most usually could care less about to do that bit on Keith. I give Keith less than six months survival time. Unless of course, he actually comes up with some content people actual care about.
