From my Aunt today:

“What really pisses me off is that the health care bill is becoming the piece of crap, forced to pay but get nothing for it thing the teabaggers said it would be.”

Thanks Dems!

(Perhaps the Stupak thing is a good thing in that case, if it means pro-choice dems have an excuse not to participate in the sham that is the Affordable Health Care Act or whatever Orwellian name they are calling it by)

Medicare for all peeps, medicare for all.

Is a Progressive Girls Gun Club.

Seriously.

One of my poly sci proffs, Mac Murray, asked me point blank what I thought of the second amendment during class one day. He was a great guy and I liked him a lot, but this was early in the quarter and I didn’t know him well yet. It was also just after the start of the Iraq war.

My answer was “the best defense against tyranny is a well armed populace”

“Do you think we are at risk of tyranny?”

“Isn’t that patently obvious?”

At which point Mac started cracking up. I think he agreed.

I don’t think guns will save you from a robbery. I think guns cause more problems than they solve. I absolutely think that people should be required to keep their guns locked up and safe from children or be prosecuted for negligent homicide when someone dies.

But I also think that Jefferson was right about the spilling of blood every now and then in Revolution.

is one of my favorite games.

There’s the white lady or brown man goes to inner city school and teaches brown and/or poor teenagers their worth. (Stand and Deliver, Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, Lean on Me, and of course the original To Sir with Love. I am fairly sure that a new one of these has to come out every few years so that “thoughtful middle class white people” can be assured that brown kids are being educated too without having those brown kids go to school with their kids.

Then there is the world is ending and my family is trapped somewhere else (Los Angles seems to bea common place, but New York too) like The Day After Tommorow, Independence Day. There’s more but catastrophe action movies are my least favorite genre.

There’s the most classic of all, the love triangle like Keeping the Faith, Bandits, and so many many others. But the all come from the original love triangle movies like His Girl Friday and The Philadelphia Story both of which were remade.

There’s the sci fi memes- technology takes over (2001, Terminator, even Transformers) or Mutants as oppressed group (obviously the X Men series, but also Total Recall). And of course the aliens want to kill us all meme.

These are just a few examples. What overused plots can you spot?

I am lying on a couch in a completely darkened room trying not to move too much because my head is killing me.

But I am also bored. I am bored of the the nausea and eye watering and teeth clenching,

So I am playing on the lap top and reading the internets.

And trying not to vomit.

But the lappy screen is so bright.

So I am lying on a couch in the dark with a laptop on my chest and my gradient sunglasses on my face upside down because they are darker that way and add less pressure on my temples and the kid is making me chicken soup so that either I am less nauseous or if I do throw up it wont be dry heaves.

And this all seems quite ridiculous to me

Third world nation doesn’t cut it.Neither does developing or less developed,because the countries we use that label for have all had their natural resources developed right into the pockets of rich countries and companies.

Of course any term that aptly described those countries would not be very complimentary to us in the first or developed world.

Terms used now are more than a bit similar to the way we talk about rape, actually. First we talk around the acts of plunder and we never mention a perpetrator. When we talk about a woman being raped it’s as if she was walking along and tripped and fell on an invisible, nameless, faceless thing called “rapist”. When we talk about poor countries it’s as if they are resource-free deserts and never acknowledge that their resources are stolen by the nameless, faceless thing called “capitalism”.

I read once that the terms explorers used for newly discovered (by white people) lands were all feminine. “The lush, virgin forests need to be opened up for exploration” is the erotica of colonialism.

You can’t fix a thing till you can properly name it. Rape doesn’t end when we call it a “sex act”, so what do we call this looting of poor countries?

Wonder and I were having a chat the other day about panic attacks.

Wonder: Does every woman our age have some kind of anxiety issue?

Me: (Runs through list of every single woman I know) YES.

First- don’t gimme that shit that depression, anxiety, psychological problems et.all
are new ways of drug companies making money. What was previously called hysteria was more likely than not the point where a woman just got so fucking fed up with the shit sandwiches that she blew her lid.

Second- Imagine how much more time and energy we would have if we didn’t have to spend so much time and energy trying to heal wounds created and constantly reopened by others? Wonder is so fuckingsciencebrainysmart she could have cured cancer by now. No shit.

And I’m so fucking entrenched in the shit sandwich miasma that I don’t even know what I’d do. Be an architect I guess. I’ve been doodling houseplans since I was a little kid. It’s what I use as an escape (in place of being a WoW geek like some people we know cough*ouyangdan*cough).I’m trying to convince the family to run away to New Mexico and start and artist commune mostly so I can be the one to design the cabins (from recycled shipping containers with solar power).

I also sometimes threaten to run away to any tropical island where I could make a living selling hand painted coconut shells on the beach, but since I am in a tropical climate right now and am giddy for temperatures that drop below 70, that might not be a workable plan.

And I also sometimes dream of making soup. I don’t wanna run a restaurant, I don’t wanna cater fancy parties. I wanna make vats of soup and then sell them to a restaurant or fancy caterer or a deli.

So peeps- if the kyriarchy ended tomorrow and all those stupid wounds finally heeled- what else would you like to do with your time and energy?

1)End DADT and DOMA AND because you’ve been so douchey allow gays and lesbians all the same federal benefits that straight marrieds get and the gays may come back.

2)Strip the Pitts-Stupak amendment out of health care reform AND because you’ve been so douchey repeal they Hyde amendment and you may get women back.

3) Enact real health care reform including Medicare for all and reforms to drug pricing and you may get your liberal label back.

4) Enact real regulation of the financial industry including a temporary moratorium on foreclosures and maybe we’ll get a functional economy back.

5)Throw money at the problem – JOBS JOBS JOBS. I don’t care how. Pay people to stand on their heads and entertain on street corners. It doesn’t matter what kind of jobs, but we need them now.

(And for good measure you could strip all anti-choice, blue dog, Joe Liebermans of all committee memberships until they remember what fucking ticket got them elected in the first place)

Sincerely,

An Entire Group of Fucking People Who Should Have Been Reading This Blog During The Primaries But Were Overcome With Hopium Instead*. Oh and RQ.

(*I figure it’s nicer just to sign for them rather than do the I Told You So dance)

My friend Ms.J sent me this link and I thought it was too important to just throw in the reader.

UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of the homeless.

In my old, super blue, super “progressive” hometown, tent cities have been renamed “Nicholsvilles” after the mayor. There are trailers parked under interstates where homeless people live because it’s one of the few places the police won’t harass them. The Kid and I are just lucky we have family who could take us in. We don’t have a tent or a trailer.

My aunt told me today that she heard half the school aged kids in Las Vegas are homeless because of the housing crisis.

And how many people still can’t return to New Orleans after Katrina?

What does it take to wake people up, cause 8 years of Bush didn’t do it and Obama seems to be just as thoughtless when it comes to the massive fucktastrophy. Do the homeless have to start pitching their tents on suburban lawns? Or better yet, right in front of the White House?

Would it even matter? I’ve already been proven right that Obama doesn’t care about women, or real health care reform, or anybody who makes less than 100k a year. Would shoving this problem in the face of the Democratic party do anything when the Dems are so busy trying to prove their actually Republicans.

Seriously, cause I’m mad as hell but self-immolation in front of FDR’s memorial on live tv seems to be the only way we might get some actual results.

This is the memorial. The sign reads “They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers……call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.”

This made me laugh so hard I almost peed myself.

(You all know that the only phrases I can actually say in French are Je suis Americaine and Do you speak English – which I don’t know how to write in French)

Yeah, not so much

And continuing on in Afghanistan and Iraq in hopes of creating more jobs at home isn’t such a good idea either.

Better get moving on that new “green” economy Mr. President, or my prediction that you are the second coming of Hoover will make people flock to me like I’m the second coming of Nostradamus.

H/t to Corrente