Sunday, February 28, 2021

Remember The Fringe Religous Zealots We Used to Laugh At? They are Mainstream and Politicians Now.

It came to me like a flood when I was watching the 2001 Movie "Bubble Boy". The theme was a Boy Kept Sheltered by his wacked out religious family. The Boy was in love with a girl next door whom his mother called "The Whore Next Door"
The movie would go on to make fun of typical Teenage Sins such as waking up with a hardon, which his loon mother dealt with by having him say the Pledge of Allegiance over and over again until it went away.
This fit the narrative as the boy did not have indoctrinated public schooling and instead learned alternative facts from his mother.
Sound familiar? 
I was raised fairly conservative and not being allowed to watch movies that other "kids" my age could, such as Star Wars, Red Dawn and even Police Acadamy. In fact my sister had to argue to get her ears pierced when she was 16. Why? because the Bible says its a Sin.
With that said they did not limit us as much as other "Bible" families or communities. Do you remember the movie Footloose with Kevin Bacon? Yea that was loosely based on a real Town in Oklahoma where Dancing was forbidden as it caused people to become intoxicated and sexually aroused.
Sounds absurd but it gets worse as I've personally met families who believe Dancing wakes the Devil, is this what they are referring? Who knows it is so absurd, yet that is the point of this post, absurd fringe Ideas which are mainstream.
To make it worse they now have Universities teaching "Alternative Science" and even "Law"
As religious as we were growing up we never doubted Evoluti8on and I never heard of the Earth only being 6k years old until an argument with my Egangilical Cousin who was about to graduate College with his Associate Degree.
He truly believed Noah Saved the Dinosaurs, Truly.
Now I find out there are non Evolutionary Biologists, Really?
Now that's goofy, but the Governor of Montana, a wealthy business man who used computer science and the science of marketing to make himself very wealthy. Now here is the problem with Socirty, we often relate intelligence with success. While Gov Giaforte did use science his understanding of science in general is appalling. Believing in the myth of noah is ok, but to believe the Earath is only 6k years old is fucking ignorant. To make it worse he stated people do not need to retire as Noah lived to be a few hundred years old.
(4) Noah Was 600 Years Old When He Built the Ark So Americans Don't Need Retirement - YouTube
Religous nutters in offices in other states have went so far as to push to make Abortion and even a Miscarriage criminal. 
When a Miscarriage Becomes a Crime (elle.com)
We have the county Clerk in Kentuckt who became famous for denying homosexuals a marriage license as the Bible says homosexuality is an Abomination, that is True but it also says Adultery is a cardinal sin to which she was guilty in a previous marriage.
I would also mention that the Bible also does not allow a woman to have voice over a man. Do we really want that mainstream?
It gets worse when these kind of people are on the Board of Education to decide what is in our Text Books. Netflix has a great mini documentary on this dealing with the Texas Board of Education, 
Netflix USA: The Revisionaries is available on Netflix for streaming (newonnetflix.com)
The point is this people, you have the right to believe as you choose and you will, but you do not have the right to push that belief on other people, that is our Fist Amendment Right to speak and worship freely but also to be free from religious ideology forced on us from the Government.
We already have a Conservative Supreme court that has not been this radical in nearly a Century, that's bad enough. We are likely to see a repeal of rights and things we now take for granted, there is almost nothing you can do about it.
Analysis: The Supreme Court hasn't been this conservative since the 1930s - CNNPolitics
Lets put it back on the fringe where it belongs, or so help me I am going to make VooDoo mainstream and start putting pins in Dolls.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Madman and Conservative Icon, Rush Limbaugh is dead!

 I'm old enough to remember when Rush was considered a fringe entertainment wingnut not taken seriously by virtually anyone in Government and only a source of information for people who had a problem with reality. 

I'm not going to say I never listened to him, I did and found his parodies funny but his attempt at anything factual and news related at a level of Stupid I could not relate to. He was however often all that was on when driving rural MT in the late 90s.
Most I know found his parodies entertaining but claimed otherwise for his information.
At some point he became a symbol of the voice on the right and a legitimate source of information for misguided millions.
I think this was mostly during the Obama years when scared whites terrified of a negro in charge looked for a bigot to comfort their fears, honestly its all I can come up with.
According to wikipedia he was born a silver spoon to a Lawyer Father and a family full of lawyers including a uncle appointed to Fed Status under W Bush. 
"According to his mother, "He Flunked everything, he just did not seem interested in anything but radio. Wikepedia.
That pretty much sums up what I thought about him, dumb as the day is long with a big mouth and a dishonesty 
not known in anyone save those mentally defective or paid propogandists.
Day after day he spun half-truths and deliberately lied to the delight of millions. To make it worse his rhetoric was clearly seditious
as he had no problem lying with the apparent purpose of destroying the US government. 
 He lied about the Clintons, Trump, Climate Change, how our Government worked and everything in-between.
Be it just a delusional idiot or paid, he was dangerous to Americas peace and stability and symbolized everything that is 
wrong with America today.
He is a clear example how the right has lost its mind with a inability to touch on reality in any capacity.
We need to talk, a entire movement built around someone clearly mad is troubling and its getting worse.