The Million Moron March

Attendees of Glenn Beck's 

Restoring Honor

Rally

On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, Glenn Beck and those of a similar mindset decided to have a Klan "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, DC.  I'm not sure what he means by restore honor, as he and his ilk never had any to restore. 


Something I've noticed, being born and raised in the South and not always at the high end of the socio-economic scale, is that uneducated and undereducated white people frighten easily, and they're easy to manipulate.  Group the word restore with words such as honor, dignity, courage, Jesus, Momma and gun rights, and they are your sheep to lead to slaughter.  Grouping the afore listed words with "restore" implies that they no longer have these things.  If they don't have these things, it's because someone who is not like them took it from them.  For example, many beer-swilling, wife-beating, dunce of the trailer park rednecks believe that they're living in a raggedy 1968 model trailer/mobile home and driving a piece of shit 1981 Trans-Camaro* because a black person "took my job".  Alright, I exaggerate a little bit.  I've yet to hear true white trash ever call a Trans-Camaro of any year model a piece of shit, regardless of it's condition.  They always think they're the stud of the trailer park when they're driving their primer-splotched Trans-Camaro.  I'm wandering off topic a bit, but only to fully illustrate the mentality of people who think Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are "true A-mur-kins" or actually have brains.  Granted, Sarahcuda probably is intelligent compared to Becky Sue or Lolita down at the beer joint, but that does not mean she has good sense.   I'll give it to Glenn and Sarahcuda both - they're smart enough to know how to manipulate stupid people.  Back to this "restoring" business.  The dunces don't have the good sense to realize that they're probably in a better position than they were two years ago and they don't have the intellectual curiosity to do any research and find out anything.  They don't have the good sense to simply look at their own life and see that it's probably a bit better than it was two years ago.  Sarahcuda and Rush and Glenn told them their life sucks and it sucks because of Obama and the "un-American" liberals, so by gawd, that's the way it is. 


I note that Sarahcuda and her nasally screech had plenty to say about liberals don't love our soldiers.  What the fuck ever.  I have no desire to get into an "I love the troops more than you do" pissing match.  I'll just say that I believe the sooner we bring them home, the more of them we bring home alive.  I've noticed that people on the right seem to equate a desire for war with patriotism and with support for the men and women of the military.  I don't understand it, and they won't explain it.  They just tell me something to the effect that "yew libtards don't understand."      


Glenn and Sarahcuda also had plenty to say about the commingling of the church and state.  Of course, they didn't put it quite that way.  It had something to do with reclaiming A-murka for Jebus.  Yeah, right.  Can you just see it?  Glenn Beck's in charge and has mandated that we all must wear magic skivvies.   Can you just hear the screeches from the bible-thumpers?


*Trans-Camaro - A Trans-Am, Camaro, or any combination thereof.  The White Trash Mack Daddy ride of choice.

Of Mosques and Men

I'm not an absolutist on very many things.  I figure there's always the other edge of the sword.  The First Amendment has been one of the few things for which I've had an almost absolutist view.  Until now - and even now. 


The proposed Islamic Center to be located a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center bothers me.  It bothers me for many reasons.  I've always held the view that I care not what god or gods one worships, if any.  Do not encroach upon my life, liberty or property and do not commingle the church and the state and we'll get along fine.  The problem with Islam is that it demands that the church take control of the state.  It demands the death of all infidels.  Infidels are defined as one who does not practice another's particular brand of Islam.  For example, Sunnis consider Shi'ites to be infidels and vice versa.  The authority on what is proper Islam comes from the despot in charge today.  Give things a little time and a few suicide bombers and soon a new despot with a new set of Islamic laws will be in charge.  Sharia law, I believe it's called.  In all situations, women are chattel and are under the absolute rule of all men.  A woman can be beaten in the street for allowing her burka to rise up high enough for her ankle to show.  If a married woman is raped, she is executed for adultry unless there are a sufficient number of male witnesses to testify that it was indeed rape.  Nevermind asking why they sat and witnessed as opposed to stopping the rape.  It is only a religion of peace if you practice your neighbor's brand of Islam.  If you do not, you are an infidel and the only peace you will know through Islam is the peace of death.  Many in support of the Islamic Center will call the aforementioned "fear."  You're damned right I fear this.  Anyone with good sense ought to fear a religion that demands that it be in charge of all laws and all who do not adhere to the sitting clergy's rules should be first tortured and then killed.  I fear a religion that has devalued the here and now to the point that it's adherants WANT to die killing infidels so that their psychotic, bloodthirsty deity will reward them richly in the afterlife.  Before you waste too much time telling me that I don't understand Islam if I think this is what it's about, go tell that to the suicide bombers.  They need to hear that message more than I do. 


I really wish supporters of the Islamic Center would quit screaming racism.  Islam is NOT a race.  Islam is a religion.  One does not choose one's race.  One's religion, however, is a conscious choice unless one lives in a society wherein one must adhere to the state's religion or die.  Here in the United States, we are not required to adhere or die.  One consciously chooses his/her religion.  Such conscious choices are grist for the mill.  It is not a lack of understanding that causes people to shun Muslims.  It is the violence committed in the name of Islam that causes people to shun Muslims.  It is not racism for me to scorn Islam anymore than it is racism for me to scorn Christianity.  Being Arab and being Muslim are NOT one and the same. 

I would really like to know the motivation behind the proposed Islamic Center.  Those who were responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 committed the acts in the name of Islam.  They were convinced that they were doing the bidding of their batshit crazy deity and that he would reward them with 72 virgins in paradise.  I've often wondered - what does a faithful Muslim woman get upon death?  Not beat?  I guess in their society, not beat is a reward.  Back to my point - the Twin Towers are gone because a group of Muslims decided their religion dictated that they should plow jumbo jets into these landmarks.  Is this Islamic Center being built to further flip the bird to the American people?  Granted, the area is blighted with strip clubs and abandoned buildings polluted with graffiti.  The American people could have/should have done a better job of preserving such "sacred ground." 

I have to agree with the President - they have the Constitutional right to build the mosque/center.  Unlike the President, I'll weigh in on the wisdom of the decision.  It's a very bad idea.  They're going to do it in spite of what anyone has to say about it.  I believe it's time we rebuild the World Trade Center.  Maybe it could be rebuilt overlooking the proposed Mosque.  I'm rather partial to the design above.

Momma Moonbat Barks

This is my first blog post ever.  I've been promising myself forever that I would start a blog, and after kicking myself in the ass for a few years, I'm finally doing it.  I hope you'll find it to be interesting, entertaining, informative, or at least not a total waste of the time it took you to read it.  


First a little about myself.  As I noted in my profile, I'm a Viet Nam era baby.  For those of you who aren't quite sure what a Viet Nam era baby is, we're sandwiched between the baby boomers and the Gen-Xers.  We're either the first-born of the older boomers, or the menopause babies of the WWII generation.  President Obama could and probably should be considered on of us, although the boomers also claim him.  At least, some of them do.  Then you have those who want him to "keep the government out of our Medicare", but that's another post altogether.  For the most part my generation is one extreme or the other.  We're either really sharp or we have no sense at all.  Unfortunately, the ones with no sense at all are also mass breeders of another generation with no sense at all.  That's also fodder for another post.  


Politically, I am, as the title suggests, a barking moonbat.  The Dittoheads thought they were insulting those of us leaning to the left when they called us Barking Moonbats.  Most of us embrace the name and think it's pretty cool.  


My religious views are that there is no skydaddy, junior, or righteous spook in the sky there to reward or punish us for whatever it is.  In short, I'm an atheist.  I care not what god or gods anyone worships, so long as they do not encroach upon my life, liberty or property to do it and do not commingle the church and the state.  That's a big one for me - keep your church out of my state and I'll keep my state out of your church.  


Animals are a passion for me.  I love all of my animals, including my wild friends in the yard.  That would be the bunnies, squirrels (although we've had an ongoing squirrel war), chipmunks, and anything else that seeks shelter here.  


That's it for my introduction.  I hope I haven't scared you away yet.  I hope you'll stick around for more barkings from Momma Moonbat. :)