Great Big Sea can fuck right off.
Mar. 20th, 2011 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spookyeviloneI'm going on week 3 of waking up with their songs in my head. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it's borderline annoying because I don't want to get sick of their music and this is going to make me tired of them more quickly than I'd like.
WI has pretty much imploded at this point. Long term civil employees such as teachers are taking early retirement if they meet minimum retirement so they can do it while they're under the old contract and retain their pension benefits. It'll be hard to replace them, since new teachers aren't going to want to take jobs with contracts that have lesser benefits than other states. I am hoping that the recall movement doesn't peter out. I want to see that baby hit the voter booths, and I would love to see people get off their ass and go use the power of their ballots. Lack of that is what got us into this freaking mess in the first place. Republicans have been able to galvanize their voters on the dead-baby ballot for half a century. It's nice to know that non-Republicans have found an issue that brings the same passion. Now, if only they can sustain the momentum.
So, there was an earthquake in Japan that now has everyone freaking out about radiation. I feel bad for Japan. The devastation that hit their country and the sheer idiocy flying around about it is something no country deserves. I wish the stupid fuckers even mentioning Pearl Harbor would remember how it felt on 9/11/01 when there were news reports of people in other countries cheering and detailing how 'the US had it coming'. Because the idiots in the US have become the very people they despised. I shouldn't say 'become' - anyone stupid enough to equate a natural disaster with divine providence of any kind was already a congenital moron of the lowest order. I'm currently waiting for the New Madrid fault area in the Midwest to blow. There've been minor quakes the last few years, so movement's happening. Last time that puppy went, it flattened St. Louis and that was with remarkably fewer people living there. None of the cities along that fault are in any way prepared for seismic activity of any substantial kind, so when it happens, it's going to destroy a good chunk of the Midwest. If I believed in the Christian god and thought there would be any sort of divine providence from a natural disaster, I would lay bets that Topeka, Kansas would be utterly laid to waste with not a shred of a building left standing. I refuse to say the name of evil or give them any more press, but discerning readers will know exactly why that town. Sure, sad for all the other residents who aren't totally evil fuckheads, but hey, god will have spoken, right? Here's to hoping for a hearty, "Fuuuck yooou!"
WI has pretty much imploded at this point. Long term civil employees such as teachers are taking early retirement if they meet minimum retirement so they can do it while they're under the old contract and retain their pension benefits. It'll be hard to replace them, since new teachers aren't going to want to take jobs with contracts that have lesser benefits than other states. I am hoping that the recall movement doesn't peter out. I want to see that baby hit the voter booths, and I would love to see people get off their ass and go use the power of their ballots. Lack of that is what got us into this freaking mess in the first place. Republicans have been able to galvanize their voters on the dead-baby ballot for half a century. It's nice to know that non-Republicans have found an issue that brings the same passion. Now, if only they can sustain the momentum.
So, there was an earthquake in Japan that now has everyone freaking out about radiation. I feel bad for Japan. The devastation that hit their country and the sheer idiocy flying around about it is something no country deserves. I wish the stupid fuckers even mentioning Pearl Harbor would remember how it felt on 9/11/01 when there were news reports of people in other countries cheering and detailing how 'the US had it coming'. Because the idiots in the US have become the very people they despised. I shouldn't say 'become' - anyone stupid enough to equate a natural disaster with divine providence of any kind was already a congenital moron of the lowest order. I'm currently waiting for the New Madrid fault area in the Midwest to blow. There've been minor quakes the last few years, so movement's happening. Last time that puppy went, it flattened St. Louis and that was with remarkably fewer people living there. None of the cities along that fault are in any way prepared for seismic activity of any substantial kind, so when it happens, it's going to destroy a good chunk of the Midwest. If I believed in the Christian god and thought there would be any sort of divine providence from a natural disaster, I would lay bets that Topeka, Kansas would be utterly laid to waste with not a shred of a building left standing. I refuse to say the name of evil or give them any more press, but discerning readers will know exactly why that town. Sure, sad for all the other residents who aren't totally evil fuckheads, but hey, god will have spoken, right? Here's to hoping for a hearty, "Fuuuck yooou!"