Rape is a blessing and challenge from God. Have a cool summer. Rick Santorum

This is the dangers, to me, about seeing who is the most conservative. It's a very dangerous sort of version of Horse, but instead of making your opponent do the same shot, you try to top them with an even more ultra-conservative viewpoint. Does anyone agree with this moron with this idea? Are you kidding me?

My first thought was how would he feel if his wife or daughter got raped and pregnant, but I think he'd still feel the same and just, in his way, tell them to walk it off. I think he should be raped and see how it feels to be that traumatized and see what a violent, life-altering act that is. Maybe he would then be a proponent of getting rid of having a statute of limitation on rape. But even then, he wouldn't have to live day-to-day with a reminder of the rape and rapist.

Wouldn't it be the same as someone getting raped and being allowed to move next door. This could help you "turn the other cheek." It'd be hard, but it's a "challenge from God," the fucking endurance tester.

But I guess testing people's ability to pull through (like those X-tian bastards that don't tip because "God will take care of them") is in his hugely, dangerously, ineffective, nation-destroying, idealistic campaign he's running.

First off, He recalled becoming "sickened afer reading John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech calling for the rigid separation of religion and politics," to which he says, "What kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can come into the public square and make their case?...I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is aboslute."

Well, this moron doesn't realize that the reason for that speech was America's dumb-ass ignorance and thinking we weren't ready for a Catholic president and he'd be running our country via the Pope. Rick's a Catholic and like a lot of Americans, we forget our country isn't infallible and we have been racists and wary of Catholics, now Mormons, Muslims, Irish, Blacks, Italians, Germans...and he believes only Christians are being vilified.

Secondly, how easy does he think it is for an Athiest to run for president? Obama gets shit for being Christian (but a closet Muslim). Not too mention, almost the entirety of the Republican party and others try to run the country on a Christian agenda, though most of that is a rhetorical front to take focus away from the other shitty things they do.

Rick would be such a bad president, because he couldn't fairly represent the people. He cannot even represent Christians well.

So back to the overcoming obstacles, he wants to abolish public schoools and have home schools, along with women being back in their homes to rebuild the family structure that feminists destroyed (when they were fighting for rights that apparently Christians have never withheld from women), no affordable health care (even though he gets insurance via tax payers' money)...So even in this bad economic time, where gas and groceries are going up and houses aren't able to afford to live on a single income, he wants mom's to stay at home...and teach their own kids. So now they have one income, struggling, and have to pay for their own, unaffordable health care. All the public school teachers are out of work. They could be hired to home school kids, but if they, too, will have to support a family and provide their own health care, they'll have to charge a huge amount which I'm assuming the families can't afford. Most Republicans are also against minimum wage laws, so I'm assuming people will still be poor.

God, what a moron. As much as I don't want Romney or Gingrich, we can't have this moron running out country. Ron Paul, there's about 7% of things he says that are right on, 25% of things which come from the right idea but would be horribly bad to bring into play. It should just be there as an awareness to people and not actually want to go through with it...but at least he's genuine. He's actually running on a platform that true to him. He's not conceding his beliefs or integrity to win the party's nomination, and I respect that tremendously.

Whoever gets the nomination will have to show their true colors in the actual race against Obama. I think (and hope) that Obama will crush them. We cannot have a Republican (at least the current version of them) in the White House. Our country will not be fixed, especially since it's based on re-elections. It'll be another term until somethine can realistically get done.

John McCain had a good chance and could've if after he won the party's nomination he went back and ran as he really is.

I should have taken more photos from that Ted & Wally's show which my calculus teacher's band played. Turns out we have a ton of friends in common. It was a good turn out and Bryan Byrd, Joe Knapp, Andy Berkeley, and a ton of others showed up. We talked about Dewey Mansion and Joe Knapp said it's rubble. Need to take a pic and drink a 40 oh-zee in its memory.

Ayana pulled me through the crowd right up to the front and danced to all the band's stuff.

We all know the Republican candidates are morons, but reading all this Rick Santorum stuff. I already didn't like him from the Senate because of his stupid conservative, ridiculous Christian view and influence. But everything he expects like home schooling, one working parent and the other a stay-at-home mother....who can afford to live in today's world with one income and with his stand on other stuff you would be paying out of pocket for way unaffordable health care and shit that's way too unrealistic.

I'm reading a book now called Taliban by Ahmed Rashid, which came out in 2000 based on his past 25 or so years reporting in that area from before the Soviets even tried to invade. It entails how the past history in the area and leading up to the Taliban takeover and somewhat explains their, hesitant acceptance of their rule and how they immediately banned girls and women from it all and took this peaceful, tolerant religion and turned it into this violent, militant, totatlly ideological fundamentalist sect and whey they oppress women, and it's a lot of what the conservative Christians and almost verbatim what Rick Santorum's angling towards. Replace his view of conservative Christianity with that completetly militant, un-Islamic ideology of the Taliban and you can hardly tell them apart.

Not to mention, all these religious leaders coming in about the first amendment being torn apart by the Obama administration because of the contraceptive thing (which we could debate that on all it's hypocracy), the intention of the Framers was to not have a religion running the country - despite the conservatives trying to say that separation of church and state isn't what it's being portrayed as.

Bad Bus Day

I have a blog I've been keeping from posting because it was a ranting, cynical diatribe which may well be kept to myself and just venting and it didn't just have to do with that moron from the World-Herald. Nor was it his headline for a lame review of a former duo now a full band that read something along the lines of "More Instruments Gives Band a Fuller Sound." No shit, dumbshit shit, stupid-fuck! This isn't the Onion, you're a fucking pair professional...of sorts. Seems to me like you're coasting. May as well be, "Tuning Guitar Gives Cleaner, Consistent Sound."

Not even going to get into this week's selection.

Today, though, I thought I'd catch the bus being that a) it's still icy and slushy out there and b) I need to activate my bus pass this week or it will be deactivated. So I walked through the slush and ice and wait for the bus that says I can't use my student-issued bus pass on Sundays because the school's closed on Sundays. What if I was going to go study? What if I was going to meet a study group or go to a required exhibit? Even MCC's bus pass allowed Sundays.

So I left work early to be sure to catch the last bus of the day going my way. I get off by Bag N' Save to walk the path only to get there to realize (of course) it's not plowed. So I have to walked around through unplowed shit to get to unplowed sidewalks to meet the street to cross but cars are coming. I wait and the last car hits the puddle I'm next to and splashes me. The water actually gets my entire face. So only having gloves as the only absorbant material on, I wipe as much off. I get some water in my mouth and tastes like standing water. I get snow and scrub my face and lips and drink some coffee from my mug.

My throat's getting raw now. Gonna make some hummus and have some rosemay, olive oil lavash with it.

PS: I hope the Patriots don't win today. F- Brady.