bring back derpy hooves

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Ahhh, yes.

It’s not cool yet. It’s just not hot. And that’s a start. I was going to say that i’ve never looked forward to autumn this much in my entire life, but… nah, i’ll never be as thankful for the end of summer as i was in 2010. The flood and all. That was worse.

Do you know what sucks the most about my job situation?

If my company were to stay there, come April i’d have two weeks of vacation. Two weeks! But if they lose the contract and i start work for a new company, then i’ll start again from scratch and i’ll probably have no vacation until late 2013. That will suck. If the pay were higher, it’d be worth it. I wonder about some of the old timers, though… they probably have three weeks of vacation every year, and would probably quit on principle if it was taken away. Old people can be ornery.

Oh, i found out why our shithead boss wants to move Nilley and Old Mr. Robins…

…he wants to make a place for that new guy. There’s this new guy named Sid. Sid can only work at our spot because he doesn’t have a car and our spot is within walking distance. But the only slot open is a part-time 3 days per week shift. But he wants to work 5 days, of course. The thing about Sid is that he’s ex-military, and our boss is ex-military, so they probably hit it off and the boss wants to shove someone aside so his little jarhead buddy can get exactly what he wants.

That’s… fucking bullshit. As much as i dislike Nilley, i’m on his side here.

They say that veterans have a higher rate of unemployment than the general populace. Like everyone else, i used to think that this was some failure on the part of society. Now i kind of think that the reason is just that nobody likes them. If our boss in any indication, a lot of them might be sullen, fascist assholes.

I hate our boss. I’ve only met him twice and spoken to him two other times, but he really is one of the most vile people i’ve ever met. Everyone hates him. They say he should be gone already, because he’s trying to get in Ketsia’s pants (despite him being married with a sick child.) But she hasn’t called harassment on him because she’s from a country where women don’t make a big deal about such things.

Lame.

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Huh-huh.

Paul Ryan, really?

Mitt Romney’s biggest problem is that everyone sees him as an out-of-touch rich douche who doesn’t understand what normal people go through, so he chooses as his running mate… the guy who wants to obliterate Medicare so that the rich can pay fewer taxes? I guess if you don’t mind alienating senior citizens on top of everyone else you’ve already alienated, it’s a smart move.

The one thing i wish would be explored is how Ryan is a huge fan of Ayn Rand and makes his staffers read Atlas Shrugged. It probably won’t happen, but i’d love to see the media expose small glimpses of the Randian ouevre to the public.

“So, Mr. Ryan, i’ve been told that your favorite book is Atlas Shrugged.”

“Besides the Bible, of course, yes.”

“Of course. Now correct me if i am wrong, but isn’t Atlas Shrugged about a secret cadre of atheist millionaire industrialists who conspire to destroy the American government and society in general, leaving millions to starve and die while they escape and create a new society based on the hoarding of wealth? All while having lots of premarital sex?”

“Technically yes, but you make it sound bad when you say it out of context like that. See, in the context of the story, they’re the heroes for doing that, because the American people are portrayed as a witless, lumbering herd of wretched, superstitious, envious, cannibalistic nincompoops — mere cattle, really — who deserve no less than death to end their pointless and vapid lives.”

“I see. And this books was written by a Russian jewish atheist who had a bizarre crush on serial killer William Hickman, hated children, and loved cigarettes.”

“Technically yes, but…”

^__^

It won’t happen. But i can dream.

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Look, i want to make one thing clear. If the Republican candidate for president stood up and said “Listen, people. Our fiscal profligacy as a nation has to end. Our top priority must be to reduce our mounting national debt by reining in overspending, reducing the size of our military, and yes, sensibly restructuring Medicare and Social Security so that they will remain solvent in the future. I am sorry to say that there will be cuts, and that we as a people must tighten our belts for the sake of the future…

…and as part of my plan, we will allow the Bush tax cuts to expire as they were designed to do. I am also proposing a three-year emergency tax on corporate profits (as corporations have greatly benefited from government aid) as well as raising the top income tax rate to 40% and increasing the capital gains tax to 20%. Rich people may not like it, but i believe their patriotism will win out over their greed. The sacrifice must be spread around to all. If Congress adopts my plan, in twenty years the future for our children and our children’s children will be much brighter. Go America! Jesus! Clint Eastwood! John Wayne!”

…i would vote for that guy.

That’s what people want the Republican party to stand for, but they don’t. As much as they bleat about the debt, every economic proposal they put forth cuts taxes more than spending, and would effectively grow the debt for the benefit of the rich. George Bush called this voodoo economics a few decades ago, and that’s what it still is.

We can beat out heads against the wall all we like, but why does anyone still buy what the Republicans are selling? Every online teabagger i know is also a conspiracy buff; they delight in picking apart every word that Obama says in his speeches and then applying Glenn Beck-style circuitous logic gymnastics to them, and triumphantly declaring “ah ha! He used the phrase ‘forward, not backward!’ This phrase was used by early twentieth-century socialist guru Milward Croetzfinger in his essay “On the Rationalization of Society,” so this means that Obama is a secret Croetzfinger disciple and is employing the Cloward-Piven strategy for social transformation!”

…and yet the notion that health insurance conglomerates are pushing “privatization” and “market-based reforms” for Medicare because they will be overwhelmingly beneficial for them and not necessarily any better for the people paying in to them? Some team of number crunchers wants Social Security transformed into private accounts so they can skim 35% off the top instead of the 10% that the government takes? It never occurs to them. These people only see things lurking in the shadows, never anything in broad daylight.

So.

Fuck Paul Ryan.

I know you think i’m a partisan tool, but i AM going to vote for at least one Republican this year — our Senator, Bob Corker. He’s conservative but pragmatic… also, by some quirk, his Democratic challenger is some bizarre John Birch Society racist-sexist guy who wants to kill all gays.

No one’s really sure how that happened.

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Okay, this is kinda funny.

There’s an ongoing controversy with that new My Little Ponies cartoon that all the kids like. Specifically, is the character of “Derpy Hooves” offensive to the retarded?

……ha.

Okay, for a pratfall, that’s not bad. The way she breaks a hole with her ass and drags the blue pony down with her. I laughed.

But yes, some people are offended. Wait, cartoon characters can’t be really fucking stupid anymore? What about Goofy? Stimpy? Homer Simpson? Pretty much every hunter, mad scientist, and French-Canadian lumberjack that ever went toe-to-toe with Bugs Bunny? They were all mentally disabled. Is that wrong now?

Goddamnit, fellow liberals. Just knock it off.

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