You All Disgust Me

The MPAA wants the ability to actually turn off certain ports on your home entertainment system, and the FCC is seriously considering it! WTF, am I in Bizarro-world now?

Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood’s insane “Selectable Output Control” kill-switch – Boing Boing.

If you don’t support net neutrality, you are wrong. No wiggle room – you’ve made a logical error, and need to rethink your position.

Who: Vermillion County Prosecutor Nina Alexander
Where: Indiana (Vermillion County, obviously)
Why: for arresting a poor old grandma for buying too much cough medicine, even though she admits that she knows the grandmother isn’t going to be cooking up meth. Not only that, but she’s standing by her decision so that absolutely no common sense or thought needs to be applied here. In essence, a monkey or a robot could do her job. Maybe they should start.

Thanks go out to Inquisitr, RumorMillNews, The Agitator, and Techdirt

Who: Antonin Scalia (I refuse to call him “Justice”, it’s a disservice and a dishonor to all others who hold the title)
When: October 8, 2009
Why: Claiming that the christian cross isn’t christian, stating that:

“The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of the dead,” he said. “What would you have them erect? Some conglomerate of a cross, a Star of David, and you know, a Muslim half moon and star?”

Heavens no, Antoinin, we couldn’t have something OTHER than a christian symbol on government land now, could we?

Courtesy of the WSJ

A few days ago I was reading an article about discrimination in online gaming and the associated forums.    Okay… It was a slow day and I was wading through my RSS feeds.  The discrimination (this time) was towards gays and lesbians.  Apparently, many online games have automatic filters that censor or prohibit any mention of homosexuality.  They do it to keep words like “gay” and “fag” from being used as insults.

I think that’s a cop-out, but I understand the reasoning behind it and I think that, while it’s a stupid policy with all sorts of inherent landmines, it’s not intentionally bigotted.

That’s not what I want to bitch about today.

What I want to bitch about today are liberal absolutists who spew cliche rhetoric out of their asses in the guise of being “intelligent and inclusive”.

One of the commenters to the story said “I don’t care if anyone is gay as long as they don’t throw it in my face.”

Here’s where the shit-storm of idiocy began.

The immediate reaction from the PC lemmings was:  “Oh!  So it’s okay as long as they hide it!”  and  “Oh!  God forbid two guys should kiss where you can see them!”  and “It’s bigots like you who keep people in the closet!”

You see, to the PC lemming, there are no shades of grey.    There is no difference between the kindly old woman who votes pro-life  and the person who bombs abortion clinics.  There is no difference between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell.  There is no difference between Bill Cosby and the KKK.

In for a penny, in for a pound.  Right?

Yeah.  Fuck you.

I spent almost 20 years working in theatre.  I think it’s safe to say that I’ve interacted with more homosexuals on an average week than most people do in an average decade.  I lived in a building in which the resident fags (they called themselves that) dubbed the west wing of the building “Dyke Alley”.  One of those “dykes” was a former girlfriend of mine.  I spent a season working with the Ice Capades, for God’s sake!   My gay friends run the gammut from “undetectable” to “flaming”.  And you know what?

I get really fucking annoyed at gays who “throw it in my face”.

Yeah.  Call me a biggot.  Please.   I need the laugh; this week has been a bit long and depressing.

People who “throw it in your face” are those who can’t define themselves as anything other than (in this case) their sexuality.   For them, everything is about their sexuality.  They aren’t a painter, their a gay painter.  They aren’t an accountant, their a lesbian accountant.   They insist on injecting their sexual orientation into every situation–regardless of the appropriateness.  They’re (wait for it…..) throwing it in my face.

To go back to an earlier context:   I respect Colin Powell; I may disagree with him on some things, but he presents himself as an intelligent, well-informed, highly-skilled person who is a republican.  Rush Limbaugh is an annoying one-trick pony who attempts to cram “republican” down people’s throats.

I’m a big boy.  My despise for Rush Limbaugh (“in your face” homosexuals) in no way precludes my affection or respect for Colin Powell (homosexuals in general).

Can you PC Absolutists understand that concept? Or do I need to dumb it down even more?