Michael Kindt's Blog, page 82
December 14, 2015
Big Blizzard comin. Yer missin out, guys. I love me a Big Blizzard.
♫ Big Blizzard in my backyard ♫
I always feel compelled to go out in a blizzard. I hate being told CAN’T. On a nice day, I am content to lounge about the house in my boxers, procrastinating everything until tomorrow or even Thursday. When a blizzard hits, though, suddenly I need a lemon or a head of cabbage RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Haha.
The Second Amendment, which gives us the right to bear arms, also originally included a clause which gave people the right NOT to bear arms. This is how it read originally:
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.”
Over time, we gradually worked this right to not bear arms back in, but thousands of people did jail time for refusing to go to war. During Vietnam, thousands of people ran away to Canada to avoid fighting and it took an act of Congress and general amnesty for them to come back. During the Civil War, men were jailed for years and even tortured. The same goes for World War One.
As a committed pacifist (nowadays), this fascinates me. Imagine the heartache and trouble that could have been avoided had this clause been allowed in just as Madison had written it.
Hindsight is 20/20, eh?
December 13, 2015
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser..."
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George Orwell
….and they’re all wrong, of course.
December 11, 2015
early-onset-of-night:
“When I was a kid back in 1979 I used to...
“When I was a kid back in 1979 I used to think Ace Frehley was the coolest person on the planet. Now that I’ve grown up, 30 some years later, I realize I was wrong. Ace Frehley is the coolest person in the universe.”
—comment I saw on YouTube
I need to reblog this because I’m blasting Kiss right now, and I LOVE Ace.
This is my dog Duke. He’s a minpin, a miniature pinscher,...
This is my dog Duke. He’s a minpin, a miniature pinscher, very old.
He’s 12 or 13 or 14 and in the final years of his life.
Yesterday, I put the Christmas tree up and he keeps stealing ornaments off it.
The rounder they are, the better. Or, if he can’t get round, shiny.
He takes them to his doggie bed and just HAS them. I reach in there to take them away and he gets all growly and nippy.
I decided, ok, Duke, you can have a Christmas ornament. I took off the hook because I was afraid he’d swallow it and he got to have a whole Christmas ornament unto himself.
He curled up with it, slept with it. It was the cutest thing ever.
But then, after about 2 or 3 hours, he started tearing it apart, eating it even. Since it’s like stryofoam and fabric and paint, I didn’t think that’d be good for him so I took it away.
He’s so pissed at me. I’m getting the silent treatment, which I always get because, you know, he’s a dog and can’t talk.
Although I relish the fact that Trump has thrown a huge wrench into the very heart of the American political fairy tail,
I can’t help but wish that he was MIKE ROWE every goddamn time I look upon him!
We are fairly convinced that politicians can no longer lead us, nor do they have our best interests at heart. That’s a given, and quite obvious.
So we have turned to reality tv stars (where else?)
Draft Mike Rowe, goddamnit.
To Be Read While Blasting ‘Prison Song’ By System Of A Down | Michael Kindt
A recent presentation by Corrections Corp of America touted the
coming growth of the private prison business. It was geared toward
potential investors and had a very bullish outlook on locking people up
for profit, which is a good thing for the economy–and since we all want
the economy to be good, yay, locking people up for profit!
The
presentation, in glowing tones, spoke mainly about how the private
prison business is such a unique investment opportunity. You would think
that this uniqueness stems from the fact that it’s, you know, locking
people up in cages for money, but you’d be wrong. It’s unique because of
almost certain growth. What industry, short of recreational drugs, can
boast of almost certain growth? The U.S. has the largest number of
people behind bars in the world, the presentation pointed out, so the
foundation has already been laid. We even have more people locked up
than China–and China is a “police state” with four times our population.
Funny how that works. One out of every hundred Americans is behind
bars, at best a fifth of them deservedly so.
Michael Kindt lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He has determined to die there. Soon, probably.
Article I wrote for CLASH Media…
So if my son spends a hundred bucks on me for Christmas, and I send him a hundred bucks for Christmas (which I'm going to do), couldn't he have just told me what to buy for myself?
Our carbon footprint would be smaller, and you know how ragged my fingernails are from worrying about carbon footprints.
But then, he lives in a big city and I live in the urban equivalent of a barn. Perhaps I couldn’t find the stuff he wanted for me. I mean, shit, the only shaving cream I can find for my head in this town is foam, which isn’t even cream at all, hello. And just try to find real safety razors here. Everything is a “shaving system”. You always have to buy new plastic heads. They have like 8 crappy blades in them. They suck, and suck you in so you’re constantly buying replacements.
*brb, investing in Gillette (NYSE: PG)*
Merry Christmas and God bless America, everyone!
December 7, 2015
One of the more beautiful things about our era
is that the term ‘racist’ is being so freely bandied about. I mean, you have the black lives matter people crying racist and the all lives matter people crying racist in turn. You have the toddlers on the college campuses saying everybody is racist and that they need a safe space, like, I guess, an adult version of one of those toddler play-pens, the Big Square, with the Cushioned Bottom, and Netting around the side. That way the poor widdle ones won’t get an owy, emotional or otherwise.
This is the next generation, people.
It’s 2015, and we are all racist. You don’t like Donald Trump? He’s racist and so are you. “Racist”! In 2015 “racist” is code word for “you think about race in a way I think is incorrect.” It used to actually mean something, but not anymore.
I actually think it’s a good thing such a potent word is being minimized and devalued by overuse. As we go forward, calling someone “racist” may be like calling them “bitch”. There are SO many racists now, in this land which elected a black man as its leader TWICE.
Yeah right. Sorry I don’t buy it.
It’s whatever. People aren’t interested in actual, true racism. What they are interested in is accusing people they don’t like or agree with. Racist has, indeed, become “bitch”.
It’s now a curse word, nothing more. You know how Bob is a dick? In the same way Tom is a “racist”.
I’m afraid I have to disagree.
As we overuse terms like racist for all sorts of situations or individuals that are not at all racist we weaken the meaning of the word and that’s not good. It’s not good because we sadly do still have actual racism in our world but as we weaken the meaning of the word through overuse we lessen the importance and our ability to call out the horribleness of actual real racists. When that word becomes meaningless we are in a way giving a pass to racism and I don’t think that’s in any way a good thing.
You are quite right. Your comment on my post was reasoned and, I think, on the money. The “de-powering” of the word racist is, in itself a racist act. This leads to my own pet theory, which marks the Dems and Liberals as actually the most racist of all. The ass-kissing they do. The paths they clear. It’s pretty much a soft racism of lowered expectations. “Black people can’t do as good as white people, so we will give them special help.”
Yay!
One of the more beautiful things about our era
is that the term ‘racist’ is being so freely bandied about. I mean, you have the black lives matter people crying racist and the all lives matter people crying racist in turn. You have the toddlers on the college campuses saying everybody is racist and that they need a safe space, like, I guess, an adult version of one of those toddler play-pens, the Big Square, with the Cushioned Bottom, and Netting around the side. That way the poor widdle ones won’t get an owy, emotional or otherwise.
This is the next generation, people.
It’s 2015, and we are all racist. You don’t like Donald Trump? He’s racist and so are you. “Racist”! In 2015 “racist” is code word for “you think about race in a way I think is incorrect.” It used to actually mean something, but not anymore.
I actually think it’s a good thing such a potent word is being minimized and devalued by overuse. As we go forward, calling someone “racist” may be like calling them “bitch”. There are SO many racists now, in this land which elected a black man as its leader TWICE.
Yeah right. Sorry I don’t buy it.
It’s whatever. People aren’t interested in actual, true racism. What they are interested in is accusing people they don’t like or agree with. Racist has, indeed, become “bitch”.
It’s now a curse word, nothing more. You know how Bob is a dick? In the same way Tom is a “racist”.
