Granite Grok, a shitblog maintained by proud right-wing New Hampshirites who aren’t from New Hampshire, is always a reliable source of misinformation, illiteracy, and the various other noisome hallmarks of self-identification with neoconservative politics. They’ve outdone themselves, though, with this post about serial lunatic Michele Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota. Its opening utterances:

She drives the left nuts. George Will wrote about her in a recent column. What makes Michelle [sic] Bachmann catch peoples’ [sic] attention? She’s smart. She speaks in plain language. She doesn’t engage in doublespeak or pander. THAT is what people want in their politicians…

Apparently, someone thinks that it’s not Hallowe’en, but April Fool’s Day.

Bachmann doesn’t drive the left nuts. She’s an endless source of entertainment. As far as her speaking in plain language is concerned, I suppose that if you’re knot reel good with wurds yerself, yu might think that. A great example of Bachmann’s “plain language” was her claiming that the Swine Flu epidemic broke out under Jimmy Carter’s watch:

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.

Sure she’s not blaming Obama–she merely finds things “interesting.” But more to the point, it was during Republican Gerald Ford’s presidency that the first cases of this strain of flu were seen (not that Ford was to blame, obviously).

Bachmann has also claimed that 3% the atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide, putting her in error by a factor of roughly 100. Then there’s this gem:

I just wondered that if our founders thought taxation without representation was bad, what would they think of representation WITH taxation?

Brilliant.

There are scores of other examples of Bachmann’s unwavering incompetence as a member of the House and as a human being, but it would take all day and night to list them and I have to stock up on eggs and shaving cream before it gets dark.

The Granite Grok clowns have stood behind people like Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin in the past. But when you believe that Michele Bachmann is smart, it’s time to visit a neurologist, or have someone analyze your tap water for the presence of heavy metals.

I don’t doubt that Bachmann’s unmitigated stupidity, lies, and fact-check failures are in fact exactly what morons like the Groksters want in their politicians. With Republicans like Bachmann front and center, it makes it all the easier for ineducable jackholes to feign relevance by littering the Web with Kool-Aid-induced vomit and waste time hosting radio shows that no one with a normal number of chromosomes could possibly bear to listen to.

The governor of California recently refused to sign Assembly Bill 1176, sponsored by Rep. Tom Ammiano (D) and dealing with the creation of infrastructure financing districts in San Francisco. Anyone care to guess was the Terminator was really trying to tell Ammiano–with whom the governor who has a well-established hostile relationship–with this?

If you need a hint, think format, not content.

Despite their stated distaste for the so-called war on Christmas that unfolds every December, Christians of the martryesque persuasion plainly enjoy the battles, as this gives them uncommonly powerful opportunities to engage in the hollow bitching that pervades their entire “faith.”

Today, the American Fuckup Association spat out a press release noting that the 2009 version of the “war” has already begun in the form of a nativity display the city of Warren, Michigan is requiring be removed from the vicinity of a major intersection. The article begins with the claim that “The Christmas culture wars for 2009 have begun and ground zero is the Detroit suburb of Warren,” and devolves from there into unabashedly senseless rhetoric, including the placement of scare quotation marks around the phrase “separation of church and state” as if the concept is a rogue, false construct perpetrated by evil godless types. May I describe the “capital city” of my “home” “state” of “New Hampshire” as “Concord” in similarly baroque form without inviting scorn? I hope not.

I could personally not care much less about the presence of nativity scenes. They represent a bullshit event being framed as genuine history, but there’s nothing unattractive or offensive about them and I would not be personally inclined to call for their removal–this stuff is a world apart from Jesus-inspired efforts to render creationism legitimate, impede biomedical research for insane reasons, or otherwise propagate myth-driven assholery. Yet I also appreciate the need to keep such sectarian displays on public land in check, and what the AFA release fails to reveal–and not by accident–is that the Warren set-up was in fact on government property. The author notes repeatedly that the scene was “privately maintained,” but fails to note that the display was situated on a median strip, patches of land which, last I was aware, are never the property of private citizens.

Here’s the kicker, in my view. The AFA article states:

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center, said that militant atheists attempt to do through the courts what the Taliban by force had done to Afghanistan: remove all the symbols of the country’s national heritage.

People who are not themselves victims of religious indoctrination can immediately spot the problem with this. The AFA compares the non-violent actions of “militant atheists” stateside, pursued through legal channels, with the deplorable and murderous tactics of the Taliban as if this were not the essential difference between them. If I told you that someone had done with a throw pillow what people of a similar bent had perpetrated with a bazooka, I would hope your eyebrows would be raised. Yet this is, from a rhetorical standpoint, exactly what the AFA is doing with this blather. There is roughly the same level of similarity between American atheists and Afghanistan theocrats as there is a physical resemblance between Willie Shoemaker and Shaquille O’Neal, but such considerations never stop people from the AFA or other Christopathic outfits–in fact, they feed handily and hungrily on their own transparent lies.

Despite years of observing the dishonesty inextricably woven into “journalism” by religious mouthpieces such as the AFA and Focus on the Fuckups, I am often still surprised to see how shamelessly it is spread. But when your world view is grounded in events that never took place and serially contradictory ideas, such dishonesty is, I imagine, obligatory.

It’s troubling that some people are obsessed with denying gay people fair treatment to the point at which they seem to be afflicted with a genuine mental disorder that allows them to focus on little else. However, once this fixation reaches a certain level, it’s hard to do anything but laugh at these types.

A blog-like construct called “Mass Resistance” is dedicated to spreading falsehoods about the evils of homosexuality, and is peppered with the boilerplate jackhole nonsense about special treatment for gays and their unwavering compulsion to infect children with their sickness, generate and distribute pornography at every turn, and in general invite the downfall of civilization. Here is the “organization’s de facto mission statement:

The citizens of Massachusetts have had enough! End judicial tyranny, homosexual “marriage”, and homosexual activist recruitment of our children in the public schools! Preserve our Judeo-Christian heritage, the Culture of Life, and free speech! CAUTION: We deal openly and graphically with the Culture of Death. R-rated subject matter.

The irony of this site’s “writers” bitching about others’ spreading of propaganda and demands for certain forms of freedom would be amusing were it not such old, tired hat, and the site has all the sophistication of a MySpace profile created by a 15-year-old methamphetamine addict with a few extra chromosomes. But this post is a gem. Who can’t snicker at people getting their knickers in a wad over such things?

Friday, October 16, 2009

Harvard University’s Act Up Exhibit includes “Fierce Pussy”

Where’s the outrage?
“Fierce Pussy” are now “Artists in Residence” at Harvard University.
Don’t miss this new low achieved by Harvard, allowing Fierce Pussy’s “installations” at Carpenter Center and Gund Hall. Part of the Act Up retrospective exhibit through December 23, 2009.

Harvard’s Motto: “TRUTH”

Example of Fierce Pussy’s “art” (1993)

Posted by AMann

I’m glad that the “author” uses a handle designed to reassure readers that he is, in fact, A Man. Then again Aimie Mann of ‘Til Tuesday, a band formed in Boston, could be behind this stuff. Somehow, though, I doubt it.

The parent Web site is equally histrionic and worthless. I have to wonder if people who dedicate so much time to futilely and intrusively attempt to eradicate The Gay were poisoned as children or struck repeatedly in the head with heavy objects; I just don’t get how people can see this “lifestyle,” as they term it, as being remotely dangerous to anyone. Rampant ignorance combined with busybody inclinations is clearly a far greater societal danger, but of course these intellectual cripples can never appreciate this.

Gribbit is among those who have no qualms about writing about science topics despite the limits of having zero education and even less educability. Not for the first time, he is now claiming that Democrats have recently conceived of the term “climate change” in order to create a smokescreen–i.e., “global warming” is not backed by sound science, ergo liberals have invented a throwaway term in order to keep their myth alive.

That Gribbit is a liar and a moron has never been questioned, except perhaps by Gribbit himself, and I’m not even sure about that. The lies and idiocy in this latest outburst are straightforward and it would be amusing to see him try to defend them, in roughly the same way it would be entertaining to watch a monkey attempt to take a bite of one of its own turds without grimacing.

Gribbit writes:

We’ve all heard the old cliche about putting lipstick on a pig, but Democrats in particular seem to rely on futile attempts at doing so when things don’t go their way. For example global warming.

When it became abundantly evident that the MDI was beginning to lose their hold on the subject, they changed it to “global climate change”. Different name, same bad science.

Leaving aside the facts that it’s unclear what isn’t going Democrats’ way in the climate-change realm and that no one I am aware of is losing their hold (whatever that might be) on the matter, Gribbit cannot supply any reason supporting his declaration that global-warming theory is all bad science. He just bellows and expects (maybe) to be taken seriously. Cows don’t offer financial advice or prate on about the Hubble telescope; Gribbit has no more basis for yammering about climate change than a bovine has for expanding on Wall Street, yet he does it anyway.

The term “climate change” is, of course, nothing new. It has been around for as long as humans have recognized climate itself. It is not a surrogate for “global warming” or a backing off from the idea of a warming planet. Fuck-ups like Gribbit may or may not recognize this, but in any case cannot be bothered to tell the truth.

Gribbit also writes:

First the planet has a fever that is going to endanger all life on the planet inside of 100 years and we must act now to stave off certain destruction. Now, since the planet is actually cooling, they cannot make the same argument with a straight face, hence “global climate change.”

Interesting; I haven’t heard any scientists claim that all life on Earth will not survive the next century, and if I didn’t know that Gribbit is secretly a fucking genius, I’d accuse him of creating a laughably transparent straw man. I also don’t see any back-up for the idea that “the planet is actually cooling,” but when you’re a Gribbitian type, it means that you can just say things and expect them to ring true in the absence of supporting evidence as well as the presence of counter-evidence. In terms of temperature trends in recent years and decades, there are so many sources proving Gribbit wrong that it is difficult to select any one of them here, but this should work.

Note to Gribbit: Those funny-looking characters on the linked PDF are called numbers. Numbers, when assembled into a cohesive group, comprise an entity known as data, using which people with three times your cognitive candlepower formulate hypotheses and theories and draw conclusions. There is no subjectivity afoot here, no twisting or distortion or any of the other games your FOX “News” idols or anyone else you symbolically fellate engage in shamelessly and daily in the course of seeing how many mistruths you can generate and propagate. I’ll say it again, since I’m not convinced you ever squeaked past the fourth grade: These are objective numbers. Even if you want to assert that human activity has had no influence on recent warming trends, these trends unquestionably exist, although I suppose if you pretend that humans have yet to invent efficacious thermometers you can deny this without blinking.

You’ve blathered on for years with all the sophistication of a drunken platypus about solar flares and lying profit-diven liberal scientists and a cooling planet, as if you have clue one about what it is scientists do and why, and in this tireless blathering you can’t even be consistent, a feat that even dumbasses can often manage since they typically lack the creativity to vary their cache of lies. Despite your terminally addled outlook, you have every right to hate the fact that Barack Obama is the president, but when it comes to anything more complex than basic arithmetic (something you also suck balls at–has no one ever told you how many days there are in an Earth year?), I strongly advise you to shut your miserable mouth, not that you will, at this stage, ever be anything besides a drolly amusing source of entertainment for Internet surfers blessed with cerebral blood flow and an unqualified embarrassment to yourself.

Bitter dream-world inhabitant that he is, Gribbit can dismiss the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and similar sources to whatever extent suits him, and methodically rout scientists as being in the pocket of the liberal left when their conclusions counter his ass-brained hopes and wishes. This only makes him appear even more ignorant that he does even when not consciously being a hypocrite, assuming that such circumstances actually occur.

Following this joke of a treatise, Gribbit then segues into bitching about “the public option,” an easy stance to assume, I guess, when you live on the government dole and therefore have no concerns about health insurance.

Were Gribbit not a cowardly nonentity and actually willing to engage his detractors in conversation, I would ask him the questions held in this post directly. But Gribbit is the most pitiful form of spineless pisstard imaginable. On his blog he allows comments only from fellow wingnuts, and his continual effort to ban me from his site (guess what, my man–it doesn’t work) is a reflection of the same fingers-in-ears singin’ la-la-la orientation that led him to create and maintain a stunningly worthless shitblog in the first place.

The American Fuckup Association is busy today complaining about what it calls a “hate crimes” bill, which would, according to the rocket surgeons who send out the comically inept e-mails I receive from the AFA from time to time, “criminalize thought” and is “simply the first in a line of morally repugnant pro-homosexual bills” in Congress. In a childishly unoriginal touch, the AFA states that the bill “not only criminalizes thought, it creates a judicial caste system in which those who engage in non-normative sexual behavior perversely get more protection than heterosexuals.” I’d like to hear what these extra rights consist of, but people with intact brains don’t concern themselves with such ideas because they know it’s a line of shit.

And, of course, the AFA is really only spouting this crap out of self-interest, making sure to explain in thorough detail exactly how readers can piss their money away on this “organization.”

God apparently wanted former AFA head Donald Wildmon to be stricken with St. Louis encephalitis this summer, which sounds fine to me, but naturally ensured that Wildmon’s equally worthless spawn Tim would pick up the mindless chase.

Repugnant? It’s difficult to imagine anything being more repugnant than a gang of self-deluded douche nozzles who believe in judgmental sky fairies and feel compelled to spread the word, but this is a nation of intellectually bankrupt loudmouths, after all. If there were really a god who didn’t want gays serving in the military thanks solely to their being gay, then I would encourage that god to go suck a big dick along with all of his drool-bib-equipped fanfolk.

I’ve been successful lately at avoiding online time-wasters, including Facebook, a message board that only gets me in trouble anyway, and this place. But this morning I had to see what the idiot who calls itself Gribbit has been up to. It didn’t take long to determine that his fucktardation has in no way declined since he evidently “upgraded” his site.

I only looked at a couple of recent posts, which was enough to remind me of how stupid this character is, and that he should not be blogging. Here is a turd who refers to someone’s “slight of hand” without a trace of irony. Here is a barking shitheap who drops phrases such as “battle of rhetoric over who the Infestations believes…” and thinks not only that he’s skirting subject-verb mismatching, but that he’s making some kind of general sense. Here is a florid asshole who complains, with reference to President Obama, that “big brother is watching YOU” while ignoring the entirety of the Patriot Act. Here is a wizard who does not grok the multiple redundancies in phrases like “repeatedly re-elected to consecutive terms.” Here is a chap who points out that Obama was a senator before he was president as if this uniquely establishes Obama’s inadequacy.

People like Gribbit, whose family lives on the dime of the very government he continually derides, should shut the fuck up and not be permitted to vote. At times I have adopted the attitude that the U.S. is a great country precisely because worthless muddle-headed people have just as much say in the political process as intelligent people do, but of course this is unduly charitable and inane. The Gribbits of the world should not have Web presences, voting privileges, or any sort of palpable social presence. They should live in caves with bats and avoid all human contact, including screwing. They’re just fuck-ups whose entire conscious aim seems to be reaching for the highest possible levels of hypocrisy, stupidity, and dishonesty. And unfortunately these types always like to breed, with predictable results.