Peer Pressure Works!

Yes indeed, Canada is in an uproar. We’ve all tizzyin’ up this motherfucker. And I, personally, am sickened by it. Not by the actual TARGET for this national fit we’re currently having, sitting on the floor and pounding our fists while screeching our faces red…but by the fact we’re worrying about this crap at all. Citizens are in an uproar, lines to call in shows are jammed with complaints…and not just from your standard seniors with nothing better to do than complain about things while waiting for both Matlock and the eventual, merciful embrace of sweet death. Even the government is up in arms, with officials DEMANDING an apology.

For what, you might ask? What is this great crime that has been committed? Well, it seems that the panel of Fox News’ Red Eye program were rather harsh towards Canada’s plan to pull out of Afghanistan and take a year off from operational postings as a whole.

I’m sure you have a lot of questions…like, what in the Hell is Red Eye? I know I would have wondered that prior to this whole overblown event taking place. I’d never heard of this show! There’s a reason for that…it’s air time is 3 o’clock in the morning. Imagine just how devoid of informational content a show must be to be relegated to ‘The Infomercial hour’ by a network with such journalistic prowess as Fox News (making sure to include the HUSSEIN in Barack Obama louder every day!). According to it’s own web site, Red Eye is… (continue reading…)

I think my feelings towards the excuse for political ‘debate’ as it exists today are pretty well known. Hell, my feelings towards POLITICS as it exists here today are pretty well known. What used to be about representing the people who actually make the choice to give your fat ass a voice with meaning has become nothing more than serving the interests of the corporate types who are funding the campaign that makes your backwoods country ass look like something sophisticated enough to MAYBE be entrusted with going to a dinner function and NOT drooling all over the fucking plate and asking “Where the Pabst at?” However, being open about things like that tend to somewhat discourage people from giving a fuck about that whole voting thing (though, as recent voter turnouts show, we’re starting to see through the cracks)…so it’s become all about the party. Yes, politics has become a well dressed, somewhat polite version of a gang war. You’ve got the Bloods and the Crips, then there’s a few other little gangs running around chirpin’ on street corners like someone gives a damn, but as soon as the shooting starts only 2 gangs have the firepower to really be in the fight.

That tends to be why I avoid political discourse (I think that might be Latin for ‘Partisan Bullshit’), too. It’s pointless…utterly pointless. Why would you listen to, or read, or watch political coverage from a source who is telling you right off the first snap of the game that they’ve bet the house on one side or another to win the damn game? They’re so completely and utterly biased, and so brazenly open about it, that I am constantly amazed (and horrified) at the sheer number of inbred rubes who actually suck down a big meal of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Michael Moore and are actually boneheaded enough to accept it as absolute fact.

The biggest example of this is anything at all to do with war…period. Doesn’t matter where it is, who it’s with or what it’s over…that’s pretty much inconsequential enough to be perhaps mentioned in a footnote typed in 5 point print at the bottom of Page 177. One side supports it wholeheartedly to the point of actually asking “Why the Hell aren’t we harvesting these people’s organs for OUR use?” while they other side is protesting it to the point of complaining that “We’re creating an entire generation of sadistic war criminals!” Do any of them acvtually think one way or the other on the issue? Maybe a couple…in general, though, they don’t even really care, they just vote ‘along party lines’ as if not doing so will get them a pair of cement shoes and a quick trip to the harbor district (and let’s not pull our usual Canadian bullshit of feeling all smug and superior, because we’re pretty much just as bad up here). (continue reading…)