Michael Kindt's Blog, page 486
August 11, 2011
thetwilitlupine said: ...
thetwilitlupine said: So many immigrants cheat the tax system though. It is not economically sound. I agree with what you say, and I'm all for immigrants who make themselves legal and don't freeload off of welfare.
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Well, if they actually cheat the tax system, which I kind of doubt, I say more power to 'em! That makes them even more American. They're just like the super rich and giant corporations then. How American can you get? Also, when the oil industry, which shows BILLIONS of dollars in profits annually, STILL receives government subsidies, I say fucking kudos to anyone who freeloads off welfare. I believe firmly in fairness. Did anyone mention cutting subsidies to the oil industry during this whole fake debt crisis shit? Nope. They cut money to the poor. The rich still get THEIR welfare. If some poor bastard has figured out a way to cheat an extra hundred bucks a month out of welfare, I wanna shake his hand. The guy's a fucking Robin Hood.
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August 10, 2011
I do not understand people who are anti-immigrant
These people, some of them anyway, sneak across a burning desert to come here and pick fruit or scrub semen off motel room walls for nickels and dimes. They give up their whole life, everything they've known, to travel across the globe to practically starve and to work their ass off for just a CHANCE at a better life. They immerse themselves, with little or no support, in a foreign world where they likely can barely understand or be understood, live in shitholes, count pennies, struggle, fight, etc. They are the exact opposite of wimps.
Are not these the very types of people we want here? Come on. Compare them to those who do nothing, try nothing, sit home, take the easy way out.
You often hear that America was built by immigrants, but 'built' is not, nor should it be, past tense.
August 9, 2011
cleverlilcharlatan:
One of the books that I'm currently...
One of the books that I'm currently reading.
Anyone else reading any good books?
Look at this. Just look at.
America has a long and proud tradition of banning books
From Christian lunacy to political correctness, censoring the speech of others who say things that do not fit into our tidy little world view is right up there with apple pie, baseball, hotdogs, plutarchy, and the bombing of brown people.
According to Herbert N. Foerstel, author of 'Banned in the U.S.A.', among the top five most banned books in American history are 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger, 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck, and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain.
For the most part, the banning of books is done by schools, which makes sense if you think about it. If a topic is controversial or challenging in any way, it is best to not deal with it, to hide it even. That's the American way. We certainly don't want our children thinking too hard about the world in which they live. I mean, what if they formed the wrong opinions about it?
The "educational" system in America exists mainly to train people in conformity and to prepare them, very poorly for the most part, for the workforce. They are to be law-abiding consumers, nothing more. Birth, school, work, death, goes the cycle. We don't want them exposed to stories or ideas that may make them question this cycle, doubt its validity, or even, god forbid, reject it.
When Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451', was a young writer, he submitted a play to a university for production. The play was rejected for one reason and one reason only: it had no women in it. The university felt that a play which featured only men would be "offensive" to women, even though the majority of women actually like men and want to have sex with one or more of them.
This is an example of the political correctness douche nozzles censoring someone. Another is the widespread banning of Twain's 'Huck Finn', which features use of the N word throughout the book. Nothing gives more power to an ugly word than trying to ban it, if you ask me.
Anyway, Bradbury used the experience as some of the inspiration for 'Fahrenheit 451', about a future in which all books were banned because knowledge, with its attendant exposure to differing viewpoints and opposing ideas and concepts, was seen as difficult and painful. Ignorance is bliss, in other words.
Fahrenheit 451, by the way, is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.
Political correctness douche nozzles aren't the only ones who like to play thought police by banning books. Christian douche nozzles do as well. In Republic, Missouri last week the school board unanimously voted to ban two books because they were "biblically contrary," 'Slaughter-House Five' by Kurt Vonnegut and 'Twenty Boy Summer' by Sarah Ockler.
The ban was the result of one man's complaint, a man (and Christian douche nozzle) named Wesley Scroggins. He wrote several outraged letters to the school board and local paper, lamenting the moral decay present in the public school system of tiny Republic, Missouri. His kids, by the way, don't even attend school in Republic. They are taught at home, where parent-approved propaganda can more easily be crammed down the throat.
The kids in Republic don't have to worry, however, even though some fascist guy with no connection to their school wants to tell them what not to read because he doesn't approve of it. They can all get a free copy of 'Slaughter House-Five' from the Vonnegut Memorial Library.
If you are a student at Republic High School, my heart goes out to you. Some day, you will be able to pack up and move the hell away, but for now you should certainly get this book. 'Slaughter-House Five' is one of the greatest American novels ever written, and for you it's absolutely free of charge. Contact the Vonnegut Memorial Library today at vonnegutlibrary.org.
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August 8, 2011
girl-non-grata replied to your photo: Nicki Minaj accidentally showed her nipple….
That's...
That's funny, I just don't feel right unless I have coffee and nipple for breakfast.
A bowl of frosted nipples with a touch a sugar and a little milk to get the day started :)
Nicki Minaj accidentally showed her nipple. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!...
Nicki Minaj accidentally showed her nipple. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Nasty, nasty ladyparts!
Doesn't she realize that nipples are "inappropriate"? The Parents Television Council is blasting "Good Morning America" for airing Nicki Minaj's nip slip on live TV Friday morning, nearly causing the very fabric of the Universe to unravel.
Nipples are icky, especially at breakfast. Icky Nicki nipple!
August 7, 2011
hookersorcake replied to your post: Writers blow
AND AND if you're just going to be a writer at...
AND AND if you're just going to be a writer at least do it right! Drink too much and fight and fuck and have a goddamn life.
And this is the word of the Lord. Amen.
Writers blow
Seriously. Don't they have anything better to do? All they do is write about how they're writers, their experiences as writers, and yadda yadda yadda.
Shoot me now.
Stephen King is the master. Does he have a character who ain't a fucking writer? No.
So basically this is all a bunch of mental masturbation?
I don't ever want to be JUST a writer. How lame…also, it's against everything a writing stands for. Imagine a painter whose work consists of nothing but portraits of himself.
Get a fucking job. Jesus.
Yup. I done grew up around cowboys. I ain't apologizing...
Yup. I done grew up around cowboys. I ain't apologizing for shit. I'm a well-armed liberal. Duck, motherfucker!!
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dovemans replied to your post: I'd probably smoke a joint right now if it wasn't such a...
did you ever smoke weed in your pipe? I wonder how that tastes.
Nope. I actually rarely smoke weed. Occasionally, but then it's a social situation where some else has it and offers. Occasionally, I say yes. I wish….you know what I wish? I wish I had me a little bud right here for those moments like a little while ago where I could go for a couple of hits…..
I wish, man.
