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The bar has been raised.  Bachmann proves (yet again) that she is completely bat-shit insane.

In case you missed the story, speaking in Florida, she said: “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’”

Which, exactly like it sounds, is suggesting that God’s wrath in the shape of otherwise seemingly random weather events are actually punishment for our Nation’s inability to balance budgets, and/or create bipartisan legislation.

http://theweek.com/article/index/218703/bachmann-says-irene-is-gods-judgment-on-congress-seriously

Twice this weekend, I was asked what it would take in a candidate to get me to show up to the polls.  Yeah, you read that correctly… I haven’t voted in years.

First, I’ll address the likely outcry you’re having right now:  In my opinion, the system is broken.  Go back and read about red and blue shit from way back in March.  The voting process in this country is a sham.  It is specifically designed to lure fools into the fools game of believing that the system works.  Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, I’m fine with that.  Until we convince the American populace that candidates don’t have to be rich, self-serving members of their political party, the vote will continue to be a waste of time and resources.

Given that we fix that problem (BIG given here), I will vote for a politician who will provide the following:

1. Corporations are not people.  Round up all of the existing congress that voted for this bullshit and throw them out.

2. Government should be only as big as it needs to be.  The only reason that our current congress “spins up” new focus groups or sub-committees is to line pockets with cash.  Let’s take the “payback” out of the equation, and I think you’ll see a lot fewer groups like this.

3. Cap the pay of ALL political offices to something reasonable.  Teachers, cops, and soldiers making $20,000 a year and congressmen taking hundreds of thousands home is a slap in the face of reality and reason.  Serving in our congress should be an honor taken by honorable people, not someone looking to increase their wealth.

4. “Pork barreling” stops NOW.  Stop all influx of campaign money that leads to law.  Anyone caught doing this is immediately removed from office and arrested for treason.

5. Rip out the Bush administration’s policies.  No more rich-kid tax cuts, no more “Patriot act“, and get us the fuck out of the middle east.

6. SEPARATE church and state once and for all.  If a candidate spews religious shit in any light, they are instantly out of the race and done with politics.  We need a government of reason and accountability, not children’s bed-time stories and fear-mongering.

Well, that’s a start anyway.

Mind-blowing, compelling, powerful.  Those are some of the words that people, including myself, have used to define this video.  Hearing the words directly from the mouth of a soldier only solidifies their meaning.

Stand up America!  Stand up and tell them:  We’ve had enough, Mr President.  We want out of the middle east, members of Congress.  Your lies and methods of control are no longer able to convince us that we have any business terrorizing some other part of the world because your corporate backing “constituents” out-weigh the rest of America.

Get us out of this “war” and let Americans live the lives we were promised by our forefathers, and those who fought and died before us.

I received an interesting email from Elizabeth Potter from myfellowamerican.us.  Based on my blog post on the insanity that recently took place in Norway, I guess I became a candidate for spreading the word about what their website is doing about Islamophobia.

Here is what the email said:

My Fellow American is a film project in the United States devoted to recognizing that Muslims are our neighbors. I am reaching out to you because you addressed the recent events in Oslo, Norway, on My Ex Wife Is A Whore.com and I am hoping you will share this message of tolerance with your readers. We’ve put together a 2 minute film that I believe you will be interested in sharing, watching, and discussing:

http://myfellowamerican.us

I would love it if you could post or tweet about this and share the video. If you can, please let me know. I am here if you have any questions. Thank you so much.

Elizabeth

First, let me address the content of the MyFellowAmerican site.  I think it’s good stuff, and I feel like showing the world that people from other cultures are just like people from yours is a fantastic idea.  We need a hell of a lot more understanding and tolerance if we’re going to progress as a society and stop killing each other for no fucking reason.

That being said, let’s get to the meat of the issue (which I thought I made perfectly clear in my last post).

Religious fundamentalism is specifically designed to pit people from different regions against each other while demanding that others within each region never question or refute the region’s commonly held beliefs.  This is a fucking fact, and there is no arguing it.

Teaching American Christians tolerance is like teaching a tiger not to bite you.  Looks great on stage, but at any minute that cat can (and often does) eat your face off.  You can’t erase a lifetime of church, media, and news-casting-propaganda any more than you can erase a wild animal’s desire to eat.

Elizabeth Potter, I think what you are doing is great.  I think pushing the world to be more tolerant and understanding is awesome.  But if you really want to solve the problem, you’ll have to figure a way to eradicate religious fundamentalism in ALL of its forms.

Good luck with that.