Let's get political!

[vicarz]

My mom is in town visiting, which means I'm knee deep in politics. All this morning it's been a marathon of cspan, and wow...nothing says nutjob like someone without a job who takes the time out of their day to call into a news program. It's odd - like facebook or eljay they're not actually asking questions: The vast majority are merely stating their platform of beliefs with no question to ask. The poor hosts sit there trying to look interested while the insane people rant. The insanity seems to have three basic flavors:
1. socialism/political correctness caused the shooting in texas (the solution of course is to stop pretending that muslims are people and throw the lot of them out of the country)
2. the prisons and torture are the reason for muslims hating usia and that's why we have to stop the madness which results in attacks on the US.
One fine fellow interviewed (a real person, not a caller) was kind and thoughtful enough to remind the nuts of Tim McVeigh and how a right-winger engaged in one of the worst terrorist attacks on USian soil. He was probably a secret muslim?
3. you can't trust any of them muslims/darkies and we should address that (see #1)

While typing this 2 low flying military jets just flew over my house (about 2 blocks from Iwo Jima / Marine War Memorial) and set off all the car alarms. They...they know I was typing subversive messages.

While the news was talking about executing the Mohammad fellow, a converted to muslim man who people forget didn't do his shooting spree as a terrorist act but as a blackmail scheme to make money, the news came out that another school shooter type has held is Asst principal hostage in a NY school.
situation resolved - an 80s graduate was still holding a grudge...it was NOT me, I repeat, I was NOT in NY for HS...
A friend noted that she finds execution to be cruel and unusual punishment, and good for it because he deserves cruel and unusual treatment. I am of 2 minds there - I'm all about torturing people who do wrong on a personal visceral level, but as a matter of public policy I oppose anything like it. It does no preventative good and we've found many people falsely in jail once we came up with the ability to test for DNA evidence.

My mom enjoys the news mre than I do - I like to stay informed sure, but I grow weary of the idiots calling in. I think for her it's just background noise that she mostly tunes out, but I lack the tune-out gene. I hear the idiocy in everything from the callers to the commercials. I'm looking forward to when we go out today.

Yesterday we walked from the Marine Memorial to the Vietnam wall, hit some buildings in and around the area, and walked back. It was a perfect 70 degree day with no rain and the crowds were small compared to what Wed will be like.

Today I see the doc about my stupid elbow.

Comments

[ex-dasboot.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what the hell those jets were doing...went right over me as I left for work, shaking the car.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Probably a flyover because today is the anniversary - they lay a wreath at the memorial.

[novaya-zemlya.livejournal.com]

I was going to add that today is the 150th or so birthday of the Marine Corps. So the flybys make sense. As far as the crazies on TV are concerned, that's another reason I don't have direct TV any more. I mean I have a television, but it has no cable and the reception in my building is so crummy that I don't watch anything. I use it to watch DVDs.

But I digress. I get a bit of the ranty crazyness when I read the comments on news Web sites like CNN and Salon and others. Some are well reasoned, others are just nuts and/or/ trolls. My older brother and his wife watch Fox all the time. They get all worked up and my blood pressure goes up and I look for things to do out of the house (he lives in Houston, so I only have to put up with this over the holidays).

And as for the other conservative arguments, it all boils down to: if only those horrid non-white, non-christian, non-our-flavor-of-Christianity (Papists!), sexually ambiguous, FOREIGNERS and women (who aren't brain-dead submissive bimbos) would go away and let us middle aged, pasty white frat boys run the world, everything would be all right. For Us. .....Now where's my mint julep?!?!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I think I must be like your mom as far as tuning out the crazies. My boyfriend hates it when they take calls because he finds so many of the calls inane but it doesn't seem to bother me nearly as much.