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More on "The Stupid"
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 07/14/2013 14:41:31
........... Where to begin?
I suppose a disclaimer. No, you have NOT stumbled on an offshoot of "The Onion". This is actual news.
Since Velveeta doesn't even know where to start, let us spin the STUPID-STATE WHEEL OF SUPER-STUPIDITY™
spin...spin..spin.....spin........spin...........spin...........sp....ILLINOIS
The land of Lincoln recently became yet another state where you can pack heat and have it concealed. The senate and House voted a large majority so that it was not able to be veto'd by Gov. Quinn. So, when you go drink beer in Illinois, don't forget that the drunk guy sitting next to you could be carrying a Glock. Plus a shotgun, plus a small .22, and more.
Just during the July 4 weekend Chicago had over 70 shootings, 12 of which ended in death.
Stupid.
Spin...... spin........spin.....spin.....spin....spin... TEXAS.
Oh dear God. There is not enough bytes in the interwebs to list the stupidity in Texas. Can we demand that they secede?
Texas already has a conceal carry law that allows you to bring your gun to a bar, airport, hospital, church and into the state house chambers. In fact, if you have a concealed handgun and want to watch proceedings in the chambers there is even a special line to bypass those without weapons who must stand and wait. But what happens if you have something really, really dangerous? Like a tampon?
Yes, because if I'm a legislator I'd much rather be hit by a speeding bullet than a tampon. Even given the choice of a jar of urine (their argument for banning them) or a speeding bullet, I guess they'd rather have the latter.
Why were people packing the chambers in Texas? Oh, just removing more rights for women. Well, it's harder to protect our reproductive systems from lawmakers in Texas but easier for us to get and carry guns.
Spin.............spin............spin....spin..spin..spi.....thunk WISCONSIN.
Oh Wisconsin, how confusing you are as a state. Blue? Red? Red? Blue? We adore Madison and all your lush green pastures. We even like your colorful football team. And cheese? WOW!!
But, what the fuck? Seriously. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Another Governor that demands women get a wand shoved up their vagina in order to acquire a medical procedure that is perfectly legal.
Oddly enough the FBI defines rape as:
Oh Wisconsin, you have sullied your cheese for me.
Spin......Spin........spin...............spin......spi......sp....thunk FLORIDA.
Dear Florida, if we raise a shit-ton of money and give it to you, would you call up Texas and both of you run off and secede? Please?
What can you say about a state that lets a woman murder her child and walk free, then lets a man murder a teenager and walk free while putting a woman behind bars for 20 years for NOT murdering her attacker? I mean......... we are dumbfounded! Are you saying you hate kids? Actually this is a possibility when you also compare their education system (or lack thereof).
So, while George Zimmerman got to walk home last night after gunning down a teenager who was armed with skittles and a drink, Trayvon Martin is cold in his grave. Trayvon Martin was only 6 doors away from his fathers fiancé home, yet he was bagged up and listed as a John Doe and carted off to the morgue while George went briefly to the police station to take a few photos, make a statement and go HOME.
FUCK YOU FLORIDA.
And while this trial is happening, this is also happening:
FUCK YOU FLORIDA.
And by the way, we're still pissed at the 2000 elections.
Spin....... spin.....spin....spin...spin....thunk VIRGINIA.
Oh. My. God. Virginia. What's going on? Sigh....
I'm too sick and tired to go on. E.W. Jackson is the stew in stupid and Ken Cuccinelli would put us back into the Plantation slave days. No even further back. Williamsburg, keep up the candle-making and the costumes, we'll need them soon.
We need a call to action of non-stupid people. We must band together and fight all these injustices. Or, we must take over the North tier and saw off the entire South tier.
There is SO MUCH stupid going around, the wheel didn't even get to North Carolina which recently passed an anti-Sharia law that included restrictions to women. Oh the irony! When this stupidity was pointed out to the NC General Assembly, they inserted the restrictions into a bill for motorcycle safety.
No, I am not kidding.
I suppose a disclaimer. No, you have NOT stumbled on an offshoot of "The Onion". This is actual news.
Since Velveeta doesn't even know where to start, let us spin the STUPID-STATE WHEEL OF SUPER-STUPIDITY™
spin...spin..spin.....spin........spin...........spin...........sp....ILLINOIS
The land of Lincoln recently became yet another state where you can pack heat and have it concealed. The senate and House voted a large majority so that it was not able to be veto'd by Gov. Quinn. So, when you go drink beer in Illinois, don't forget that the drunk guy sitting next to you could be carrying a Glock. Plus a shotgun, plus a small .22, and more.
Just during the July 4 weekend Chicago had over 70 shootings, 12 of which ended in death.
Stupid.
Spin...... spin........spin.....spin.....spin....spin... TEXAS.
Oh dear God. There is not enough bytes in the interwebs to list the stupidity in Texas. Can we demand that they secede?
Texas already has a conceal carry law that allows you to bring your gun to a bar, airport, hospital, church and into the state house chambers. In fact, if you have a concealed handgun and want to watch proceedings in the chambers there is even a special line to bypass those without weapons who must stand and wait. But what happens if you have something really, really dangerous? Like a tampon?
The Texas Senate barred women from bringing feminine hygiene products into the Senate Chambers Friday — provoking a social media uproar and an exceptionally swift retraction of the policy.
Why ban the humble tampon or pad from entry? Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst claims the decision was made because feminine hygiene products could presumably be thrown at lawmakers, who debated Friday about sweeping new restictions on abortion in Texas.
Yes, because if I'm a legislator I'd much rather be hit by a speeding bullet than a tampon. Even given the choice of a jar of urine (their argument for banning them) or a speeding bullet, I guess they'd rather have the latter.
Why were people packing the chambers in Texas? Oh, just removing more rights for women. Well, it's harder to protect our reproductive systems from lawmakers in Texas but easier for us to get and carry guns.
Spin.............spin............spin....spin..spin..spi.....thunk WISCONSIN.
Oh Wisconsin, how confusing you are as a state. Blue? Red? Red? Blue? We adore Madison and all your lush green pastures. We even like your colorful football team. And cheese? WOW!!
But, what the fuck? Seriously. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Another Governor that demands women get a wand shoved up their vagina in order to acquire a medical procedure that is perfectly legal.
Oddly enough the FBI defines rape as:
The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.
Oh Wisconsin, you have sullied your cheese for me.
Spin......Spin........spin...............spin......spi......sp....thunk FLORIDA.
Dear Florida, if we raise a shit-ton of money and give it to you, would you call up Texas and both of you run off and secede? Please?
What can you say about a state that lets a woman murder her child and walk free, then lets a man murder a teenager and walk free while putting a woman behind bars for 20 years for NOT murdering her attacker? I mean......... we are dumbfounded! Are you saying you hate kids? Actually this is a possibility when you also compare their education system (or lack thereof).
So, while George Zimmerman got to walk home last night after gunning down a teenager who was armed with skittles and a drink, Trayvon Martin is cold in his grave. Trayvon Martin was only 6 doors away from his fathers fiancé home, yet he was bagged up and listed as a John Doe and carted off to the morgue while George went briefly to the police station to take a few photos, make a statement and go HOME.
FUCK YOU FLORIDA.
And while this trial is happening, this is also happening:
TAMPA, Fla. -- Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast Florida judge was bound by state law to sentence her to 20 years in prison.
Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of a toddler and 11-year-old twins, knew it was coming. She had claimed self-defense, tried to invoke Florida's "stand your ground" law and rejected plea deals that could have gotten her a much shorter sentence. A jury found her guilty as charged: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Because she fired a gun while committing a felony, Florida's mandatory-minimum gun law dictated the 20-year sentence.
FUCK YOU FLORIDA.
And by the way, we're still pissed at the 2000 elections.
Spin....... spin.....spin....spin...spin....thunk VIRGINIA.
Oh. My. God. Virginia. What's going on? Sigh....
I'm too sick and tired to go on. E.W. Jackson is the stew in stupid and Ken Cuccinelli would put us back into the Plantation slave days. No even further back. Williamsburg, keep up the candle-making and the costumes, we'll need them soon.
We need a call to action of non-stupid people. We must band together and fight all these injustices. Or, we must take over the North tier and saw off the entire South tier.
There is SO MUCH stupid going around, the wheel didn't even get to North Carolina which recently passed an anti-Sharia law that included restrictions to women. Oh the irony! When this stupidity was pointed out to the NC General Assembly, they inserted the restrictions into a bill for motorcycle safety.
No, I am not kidding.
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Comment by AuntAzalea on 07/14/2013 15:17:40
great blog VJ, I am so blown out with being heartsick for Trayvon's family and our country that I think I need to do an escape day of Food Network...oh wait the Paula Deen thing... well maybe I will just read a book.
great blog VJ, I am so blown out with being heartsick for Trayvon's family and our country that I think I need to do an escape day of Food Network...oh wait the Paula Deen thing... well maybe I will just read a book.
Comment by 
Raine on 07/14/2013 15:24:11
Raine on 07/14/2013 15:24:11
Oh, Vel. I don't even think I have the words today.
I'm so angry hurt and frustrated with this nation today.
I'm so angry hurt and frustrated with this nation today.
Comment by 
velveeta jones on 07/14/2013 15:32:10
velveeta jones on 07/14/2013 15:32:10
I am angry and deeply disappointed in my country.
Comment by 
Will in Chicago on 07/14/2013 16:06:08
Will in Chicago on 07/14/2013 16:06:08
I am disappointed, sad and angry. there are parts of the country that I do not understand.
Comment by 
BobR on 07/14/2013 17:11:31
BobR on 07/14/2013 17:11:31
I don't even know my country anymore
Comment by Raine on 07/14/2013 17:16:44
Right now, I have a feeling I actually do.
Raine on 07/14/2013 17:16:44
Quote by BobR:
I don't even know my country anymore
Comment by 
livingonli on 07/14/2013 17:23:01
livingonli on 07/14/2013 17:23:01
We are moving closer to Idiocracy than that film could have conceived. Although it seems like the sociopaths are in charge.
Comment by 
clintster on 07/14/2013 17:55:09
clintster on 07/14/2013 17:55:09
I had to unfriend someone on Facebook today. I know in the grand scheme of things that absolutely pales in comparison to what Velveeta describes above, but I am still taking it kind of hard.
This was a guy who I have known for 25 years. He and I bonded over a pair of pants (we wore the same kind when we first met at a party). He is a firefighter, and when my house burned down in 1990, he was there at the scene to help me. We went to concerts together, we hung out, he even asked me to be part of his wedding party (I had to turn it down because I was working in summer theatre).
He was always a Republican, and we would talk about the issues of the day, but we were always able to laugh our differences off and move on to other things, like was Van Halen better with Sammy or Dave?
When I got on Facebook in '08, he was one of my first friends. I noticed that he tended to post a lot of conservative news stories, and it seemed that all he wanted to talk about was politics (or at least tell me the "amazing" news about Barack Obama he had heard/read on FOX/WND/Rush etc) He also began to interject into any political posts I made, to the point that others would come into the comments section just to take him on.
I restricted his appearance on my timeline last year because I couldn't take the constant stream of misinformation and blatant lies showing up. I still kept him as a friend because I still felt loyalty to him. Last night and this morning, though, he has been pulling into my threads trying to draw me into the talking points and arguing with him. I REALLY don't feel like getting into it with him or anyone else over the Zimmerman verdict today.
I think I mentioned this before on my Facebook, or here, or both: I taught hundreds of kids like Trayvon for four years. Most were OK kids, some were awesome, and a few were awful. I would never in a million years wish for any of them to meet up with a George Zimmerman.
It won't just take laws to change what happened to Trayvon that night in February last year; it will take a changing of hearts and minds, as well as a conscious examination of how we view young African-American men in this country. If we continue to view them with suspicion and fear, if we can only feel safe around them with a weapon in our hand, then we have failed them (and ourselves) as a nation.
This was a guy who I have known for 25 years. He and I bonded over a pair of pants (we wore the same kind when we first met at a party). He is a firefighter, and when my house burned down in 1990, he was there at the scene to help me. We went to concerts together, we hung out, he even asked me to be part of his wedding party (I had to turn it down because I was working in summer theatre).
He was always a Republican, and we would talk about the issues of the day, but we were always able to laugh our differences off and move on to other things, like was Van Halen better with Sammy or Dave?
When I got on Facebook in '08, he was one of my first friends. I noticed that he tended to post a lot of conservative news stories, and it seemed that all he wanted to talk about was politics (or at least tell me the "amazing" news about Barack Obama he had heard/read on FOX/WND/Rush etc) He also began to interject into any political posts I made, to the point that others would come into the comments section just to take him on.
I restricted his appearance on my timeline last year because I couldn't take the constant stream of misinformation and blatant lies showing up. I still kept him as a friend because I still felt loyalty to him. Last night and this morning, though, he has been pulling into my threads trying to draw me into the talking points and arguing with him. I REALLY don't feel like getting into it with him or anyone else over the Zimmerman verdict today.
I think I mentioned this before on my Facebook, or here, or both: I taught hundreds of kids like Trayvon for four years. Most were OK kids, some were awesome, and a few were awful. I would never in a million years wish for any of them to meet up with a George Zimmerman.
It won't just take laws to change what happened to Trayvon that night in February last year; it will take a changing of hearts and minds, as well as a conscious examination of how we view young African-American men in this country. If we continue to view them with suspicion and fear, if we can only feel safe around them with a weapon in our hand, then we have failed them (and ourselves) as a nation.
Comment by Raine on 07/15/2013 00:06:08
Clint,
maybe you should make this a blog post on its own.
Raine on 07/15/2013 00:06:08
Quote by clintster:
I had to unfriend someone on Facebook today. I know in the grand scheme of things that absolutely pales in comparison to what Velveeta describes above, but I am still taking it kind of hard.
This was a guy who I have known for 25 years. He and I bonded over a pair of pants (we wore the same kind when we first met at a party). He is a firefighter, and when my house burned down in 1990, he was there at the scene to help me. We went to concerts together, we hung out, he even asked me to be part of his wedding party (I had to turn it down because I was working in summer theatre).
He was always a Republican, and we would talk about the issues of the day, but we were always able to laugh our differences off and move on to other things, like was Van Halen better with Sammy or Dave?
When I got on Facebook in '08, he was one of my first friends. I noticed that he tended to post a lot of conservative news stories, and it seemed that all he wanted to talk about was politics (or at least tell me the "amazing" news about Barack Obama he had heard/read on FOX/WND/Rush etc) He also began to interject into any political posts I made, to the point that others would come into the comments section just to take him on.
I restricted his appearance on my timeline last year because I couldn't take the constant stream of misinformation and blatant lies showing up. I still kept him as a friend because I still felt loyalty to him. Last night and this morning, though, he has been pulling into my threads trying to draw me into the talking points and arguing with him. I REALLY don't feel like getting into it with him or anyone else over the Zimmerman verdict today.
I think I mentioned this before on my Facebook, or here, or both: I taught hundreds of kids like Trayvon for four years. Most were OK kids, some were awesome, and a few were awful. I would never in a million years wish for any of them to meet up with a George Zimmerman.
It won't just take laws to change what happened to Trayvon that night in February last year; it will take a changing of hearts and minds, as well as a conscious examination of how we view young African-American men in this country. If we continue to view them with suspicion and fear, if we can only feel safe around them with a weapon in our hand, then we have failed them (and ourselves) as a nation.
maybe you should make this a blog post on its own.
Comment by clintster on 07/15/2013 05:26:36
Ok if I take Wednesday?
clintster on 07/15/2013 05:26:36
Quote by Raine:Clint,Quote by clintster:
I had to unfriend someone on Facebook today. I know in the grand scheme of things that absolutely pales in comparison to what Velveeta describes above, but I am still taking it kind of hard.
This was a guy who I have known for 25 years. He and I bonded over a pair of pants (we wore the same kind when we first met at a party). He is a firefighter, and when my house burned down in 1990, he was there at the scene to help me. We went to concerts together, we hung out, he even asked me to be part of his wedding party (I had to turn it down because I was working in summer theatre).
He was always a Republican, and we would talk about the issues of the day, but we were always able to laugh our differences off and move on to other things, like was Van Halen better with Sammy or Dave?
When I got on Facebook in '08, he was one of my first friends. I noticed that he tended to post a lot of conservative news stories, and it seemed that all he wanted to talk about was politics (or at least tell me the "amazing" news about Barack Obama he had heard/read on FOX/WND/Rush etc) He also began to interject into any political posts I made, to the point that others would come into the comments section just to take him on.
I restricted his appearance on my timeline last year because I couldn't take the constant stream of misinformation and blatant lies showing up. I still kept him as a friend because I still felt loyalty to him. Last night and this morning, though, he has been pulling into my threads trying to draw me into the talking points and arguing with him. I REALLY don't feel like getting into it with him or anyone else over the Zimmerman verdict today.
I think I mentioned this before on my Facebook, or here, or both: I taught hundreds of kids like Trayvon for four years. Most were OK kids, some were awesome, and a few were awful. I would never in a million years wish for any of them to meet up with a George Zimmerman.
It won't just take laws to change what happened to Trayvon that night in February last year; it will take a changing of hearts and minds, as well as a conscious examination of how we view young African-American men in this country. If we continue to view them with suspicion and fear, if we can only feel safe around them with a weapon in our hand, then we have failed them (and ourselves) as a nation.
maybe you should make this a blog post on its own.
Ok if I take Wednesday?