Andre Moore isn’t exactly a brain-surgeon, he’s pretty much a fucking moron, he was tossed in jail after he posted a youtube video that allegedly incited violence against the police in Filthydelphia. One of the charges, aggravated assault. What the fuck? Let’s take a step back here.
Andre is/was a security officer at a medical center in Philly, and evidently had a beef with the Philly police. As an outlet of his obvious red-hot frustration, he posted a hate filled video that promoted violence against the cops. A quote from the video (click here for full article):
When you shoot the cops, you shoot them dead
I’m not sure that qualifies as aggrataved assault. Here is wikipedia’s definition of aggravated assault:
causes such injury purposely, knowingly, or recklessly in circumstances where the person has exhibited indifference to human life; or
attempts or causes bodily injury to another person with a deadly weapon.
In another stroke of moronic genius, Andre the fucktard had his 12 year old son film the video. So slap on a corruption of minors charge.
My problem with this is obviously a free speech issue. Is Andre a despicable person? You bet. Are his rants and rages protected speech? Hell yes. If we allow our government to decide the line between protected and unprotected speech, then we are on a very steep and very slippery slope with a bunch of bible-beating book burners waiting for us at the bottom.
I wonder, should they have arrested Ice Cube, Easy-E, and Dr. Dre for “fuck tha police”?
Ice Cube will swarm
On any muthafucka in a blue uniform
Just cuz I’m from the CPT, punk police are afraid of me
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I’m finished, it’s gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in LA
That shit is protected too, and fucking NWA rules.
I have joined the beta of a new site called Anonymous Idiot (AI, not to be confused with Allen Iverson). This is a place where men are men, women are men, and dogs are scared shitless…. wait, that’s my last church, never mind. Anyway, AI has two main objectives: 1) Provide a place where you can post content that doesn’t fit in with your site’s content because it is too controversial (or in my case not controversial enough), and 2) generate backlinks to your site with the goal of generating additional traffic for you. If this is something that might be of interest to you, check it out, at least the content should be interesting enough for a laugh with a bunch of idiots writing them.
So now I’m a certified moron idiot… at least I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
Say it isn’t so, our bullshit government has engaged in propaganda activity directly on US soil? The New York Times had a very interesting article yesterday titled: “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand“. No, the hidden hand wasn’t up Bush’s mostly retarded ass as I had originally guessed, it is actually in your pocket and mine, as well as up the skirts of school girls (the Pentagon is a dirty dirty place full of creepy pederasts). The article is a great read and goes into detail how the Bush Administration uses former military officials, who are now mostly tied up with the private sector defense industry, as embedded puppets at the major TV news outlets. Big surprise, FoxNews had the highest number of these ass-clowns followed by NBC, CNN, CBS and ABC. One warning, the article is fucking 11 pages long, most of us don’t have the attention span or time to dedicate to an article that long, but it was worth the extra minutes for me.
We all know suspect that the information flowing from the Bush Administration is bullshit, but now there is solid evidence of an information tampering program initiated by the assholes in charge of the country. They brought these “independent” analysts in and held private briefings with them with the exact message points the administration wanted to get out and then deployed them to the networks. And this shit works.
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.
I really fucking hate this administration. And, I’m not sure if our government is realistically fixable.
A man was charged with disorderly conduct in Doylestown, PA when he put an obscenity (the big F-word) on the memo line of the check he used to pay a $5 parking fine. Evidently the clerk who processed the fine was offended and the rest is history. Let me get this out of the way before I rant… FUCK YOU DOYLESTOWN! Ok, now come and arrest me assholes. From the article (Click here to read full article):
Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct charge was filed because the comment was obscene, police Chief James Donnelly said.
“He was contrite enough to offer an apology, and I think that satisfies the people who were insulted by it,” he said.
So much for free speech… great now we have to worry if we offend somebody, which pretty much makes me fucked in all 50 states. Sorry, screwed in all 50 states, is that better? But at least they dropped the charges because they were “satisfied” with the apology. So what would happen if they weren’t satisfied? I wrote you a check Doylestown.
We should celebrate freedom of speech in this country, instead we devolve into politically correct bullshit. On the extreme other side of the spectrum of the free speech debate is the Klu Klux Klan vs. the Missouri Department of Transportation. In this case MODOT denied the KKK’s application to enter into the adopt-a-highway program, the KKK sued and eventually won when MODOT lost an appeal. I agree with the KKK in this instance (even if they are ignorant douche-bags) based solely on our rights of free speech. The best part about this story is, MODOT changed the name of the highway to “Rosa Parks Highway” in a bit of a “fuck you” to the KKK, good for you Missouri. It turned out the KKK were dropped from the program after all, when they never showed up to clean up the highway, I guess you can’t teach assholes new tricks, or get lazy racist rednecks out of their trailers to pick up trash.
I have what is known commonly as a “potty mouth” and it has been mentioned to me on occasion that I have a “mouth like a sailor”. First off, as a father of young children, I hope to god that I don’t have a potty mouth, because then it would be full of shit and piss filled diapers, that would suck more than anything has ever sucked before. And the whole mouth like a sailor thing doesn’t sound right either (no sea-men jokes please).  Why don’t we just say that I have a colorful vocabulary and shut the fuck up about it?
 On occasion, people feel they need to correct vulgarity in speech or writing, this really pisses me off. Ok, one caveat, I try to limit it to adults, I give the kids the opportunity to learn profane language on their own, but when they turn 18, all bets are off. As an example, just recently I was testing out my new social bookmarking plug-in and I submitted one of my posts to reddit.com, it was The Simpson’s Movie gets teacher fired. One of the comments on reddit was:
Another effective point spoiled by the use of the word fucktard.
I didn’t get it, “fucktard” was my favorite part of that post. What an uppity asshole, did the use of my colorful language diminish my point? Well, evidently yes in his book. Well I always say, you have to break a few eggs if you want to make an omelet, but it sounds better if you say “You have to break a few motherfucking eggs if you want to make a donkey-raping omelet”.
My favorite diatribe on the word fuck is in the clip below, somebody added some animation to it… but be careful, it may include some obscene words, enjoy.
A Connecticut substitute teacher was fired for airing The Simpson’s Movie to his classes. The catch is, his classes were 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. I’m all for free speech, but this was a dumb-ass move. I’m opposed to the movie ratings system philosophically, but practically as a parent, I can see me using it as a quick gauge for whether the material is appropriate for my kids. The Simpson’s Movie is rated PG-13 and I can’t see one thing educational, apart from an animation or film course (which wouldn’t be in the curriculum of elementary schools), that would necessitate airing this to 3rd graders. A local news station in Boston had the story:
School officials said they had warned 30-year-old Aquil Abdul-Salaam that the PG-13 rated film isn’t appropriate for children.
Officials said Abdul-Salaam admitted showing the movie to students at Beecher School between mid-September and Oct. 4. Beecher School is for children in grades kindergarten through seventh grade.
Sadcox has been commenting on the sad state of our public education for some time, and unfortunately this is just another sad example of how low our education standards are in this country. Thank you Mr. Connecticut fucktard for perpetuating our poor education standards.
First it was smoking bans, seat-belt laws and a myriad of seemingly benign legislation bent on controlling society at the cost of your personal freedom. Now it is baggy pants. Yep, baggy pants. Are you serious? As if there isn’t enough going on in our world, let alone our communities, that baggy pants are an issue. All across the country these types of legislation are either in place now or in the proposal phase. The elected officials are attempting to make a positive correlation between baggy pants and crime. Here a couple of blurbs from a recent ABCnews.com article on the subject:
“If we have kids going around wearing pants below their butts, it’s not nice, not decent,” says Timothy Holmes, a city commissioner in Opa-locka, Fla.
In Atlanta, City Councilman C.T. Martin says he’s trying to raise standards and instill values in today’s youth.
“Bill Cosby started this conversation, and we let him down,” Martin says, referring to the comedian’s controversial criticism of the parenting skills, grammar and values of poor blacks.
Laws like this are extremely dangerous, I agree with Cosby, it goes back to parenting, you can’t legislate your way out of this. Just because you wear a mini-skirt, it doesn’t make you a whore, the same goes with baggy pants (the crime part that is, not your inclination to be a whore).
I’ve been following this story and the expected media hype and have held my tongue until it played out. The following excerpt from a CNN.com article today explains the schools verdict on the situation:
“We see the editorial as an opinion which is protected by the First Amendment,” Landers read.
However, Landers said the board found that the editor had violated the school’s ethical standards.
“We feel that it caused harm to The Collegian and to student media. It is our judgment that his actions were unethical and unprofessional,” Landers said.
This is a surprisingly well thought out judgement, typically free speech issues are very emotionally charged. In my opinion, the FB guy intended a free speech dialog/debate as a reaction to the “article”, he succeeded. However, he could have picked a better topic or even A topic, the FB guy really wasted a golden opportunity here to take a real stand on a real issue, he still could have told Bush to Fuck-off, but for Christ-sake make it count.
On the other hand, he did cause harm to the paper in terms of advertisers pulling out, this should have been planned for as a negative reaction was inevitable. The FB guy and the paper could have mitigated this by lining up advertisers that are pro free-speech. Again, all he had to do was pick a real issue to make a stand on.
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