JEEzus Phuquen H. Christ, NOT AGAIN...!!!!!
Friends, I can't believe we've come to this...yet another story of senseless violence...this time, in Nice, France, on Bastille Day, of all days.
As Dot Calm used to lament, "Can't we all just get along?"
I've been to France. Stayed for a few days--not nearly long enough--in Paris with my parents just over 20 years ago. We were so impressed with how warm and lovely the people were, how outrageously fresh and delicious the food and coffee were, how glorious the architecture was, and how stunningly beautiful the countryside was...best enjoyed from the generously-sized window of a TGV bullet train. We traveled through Nice--a port town--on the trains, which took us cheaply and swiftly through France to Italy. I will never forget how beautiful the French Riviera was. Maybe, if the bad news lets up, I'll post from my old journal about that trip. The French people were so good to us. My mother spoke no foreign languages, but the universal language of her radiant, kind, welcoming smile was her passport to the world--wherever she went, people bent over backwards to take care of her. My dad speaks French, so they thot he was da bomb. I speak only a few words of French, but I was fluent in Spanish, which turned out to be a happy medium for several non-English speakers and me--we chattered like happy magpies, exchanging life stories and celebrating the connection between America and France that the Atlantic will always be too puny ever to sunder.
France is such a strong nation, full of resilience and self-respect, that I take it personally--it offends me deeply--whenever some bastard mounts an attack there.
And there have been way too many attacks there lately.
This one really escapes me, though. I just can't seem to wrap my mind around it.
I mean, what does it take to drive a semi deliberately through crowds of people...steering to aim at the thickest crowds...watching the horror and terror on your victims' faces and hearing their screams and seeing their blood as you mow them down?
It cannot have been the work of a sane mind.
That's all I got right now. I'm too horrified, too grief-stricken for my French brothers and sisters, to write any more. I have headlines below describing what we know and why such attacks are virtually impossible to prevent.
Some comfort, huh?
Know that my thoughts are with you, dear ones--know that I grieve for you. As soon as I can find a material way to help, please know that I will. And I encourage everyone reading this please to do the same--keep your eyes and ears open for a way to help our French brothers and sisters and then DO IT.
LOVE TRUMPS HATE.
It must--and it is up to all of us to make sure it does sooner rather than later.
Once you get past the headlines, there's plenty of Trump- and Republican-related bullshit to laugh at in todaze post. Hopefully, the infotainment will distract us all for a little while.
Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
Peas, friends. Hug yourselves and each other for me--please and thank you! And treasure every minute you have to enjoy life with your loved ones. There are too many sick fuckers out there trying to make it our last.
- Dot Calm's shadow
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If you are Christian,
the only way to read the bible literally
is NOT to read it literally.
"Reading the words on the page as written"
is "twisting" it,
"taking it out of context."
What do you expect from people
who believe a book that says
"not fucking" = "fucking"?
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Headlines
First, the ugly...
Truck plows into Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, killing dozens: what we know
Why attacks like the one in Nice are nearly impossible to prevent--the short answer is that lone wolf attacks, which this seems to be so far, have so few warning signs or coordination signals we can triangulate in on. Ugh.
"Screaming that I will never forget": what one journalist just saw in Nice
Nice tragedy: Trump weighs in to say "I told you so"...well, the stupid orange fucksicle is at it again, staying classy and showing just how "presidential" he is. He can take his cell phone and shove it up his pasty white posterior for as much good as he's doing anyone.
President Obama on Nice attack: “the character of the French Republic will endure”...yup. That is how a President behaves. I'm too progressive to agree with a lot of what O'Bama has and hasn't done in office, but I have to say that, especially after the chimp, it has been a joy to have someone so intelligent and articulate representing us. Barack and Michelle are a class act.
Now, the bad...
Newt Gingrich demands deportation of American Muslims who believe in Sharia. Please, can we just get Texas to secede already, call itself Jesusland, move all the Jesus-freaks there to set up their own goddamn theocracy, and then surround it with a big, beautiful wall? I'm sure that the rest of America and the world will chip in to pay for it!
Turkey coup attempt: what we know
Turkey military coup: news and updates
Repulsive Mike Pence fits right in with Trump's misogynistic worldview
And now...a little funny.
Hillary is already using Pokémon Go to register voters. Should we tell her that those virtual Pokémon are really DEMONS (according to the Christian right-wing-nutjobs...see the video below if you don't believe me)? When it comes to voters, I want Hillary to Collect Them All. Srsly--NEVER TRUMP.
A hard look at the Trump-Pence campaign's penetrating new logo--click through and read it for the lulz. Hehe.
The best tweets about the Trump-Pence logo--click through for another delicious batch of penetrating puns
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz claims that she is far
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Politico just reported, "More than a dozen prominent progressive organizations, Democratic officeholders, and top liberal operatives are demanding that the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee remake the superdelegate system when the panel meets just before the convention in Philadelphia at the end of the month."
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I think it was Mrs. Betty Bowers,
America's Best Christian (TM),
who gave this penetrating explanation
of the overtly sexual Trump-Pence logo:
"Children, when two candidates
love each other very much
and want to start a campaign together..."
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Movies
Secular Talk: New Black Panthers May Come Armed To The GOP Convention. Yup, Kyle's right--open carry and other second amendment "rights" only apply to whites. Just look at what happened to poor Philando Castile. If the NRA and the Republicans weren't such phuquen hypocrites, they'd have been up in arms about those "jack-booted government thugs" shooting a law-abiding open-carry citizen WHO WAS COOPERATING with police. And for those morOOns who think that everyone and his sperm should be packing AR-15s 24/7/365, just look at what happened in Dallas. Yup, all those open-carry Texan manly men stood their ground to defend God and country by turning tail and running like hell...and the poor police didn't know who was a threat and who wasn't. When will the ammosexuals learn that they are making the police's already-challenging job even harder?
Secular Talk: GOP Maintains Anti-Gay Party Platform In 2016...what a pathetic bunch of bigoted losers. Ugh.
The Young Turks: Cop Fired For Death Threats Against Little Girl. Frankly, I'm not sure I agree with them here. How certain are they that the cop isn't warning the mother to keep her daughter safe, especially since he ended the message with a smiley? Then again, maybe I'm just being naïve...
Secular Talk: House Republicans Block Research Into Gun Violence. This is how Republicans plan to solve our nation's gun violence epidemic. Did I say "solve"? I meant "foment"...phuquen ammosexuals. You show me a Republican ammosexual, and I'll show you a sad little man with one teeny tiny weenie. It's also a case in point that Republicans, like God, hate facts.
Secular Talk: Obama Suddenly Wants A "Public Option" In Obamacare. I agree with Kyle--we really need single-payer, and O'Bama had a super-majority and blew it. Medicare for all would have been so much better than Romneycare O'Bama-style.
Secular Talk on 2016 GOP: Porn Is A "Public Health Crisis" And A "Menace"--too funny. Republicans apparently want to turn back the clock on sexual morality to Good Old Victorian England, where "good" people simply didn't have sex drives! That's why the species died out in the 1850s. Um...no.
Secular Talk on Batshit Bachmann: "God May Have Lifted Up Trump" To Be President. Kyle mentions that Trump thinks wages need to be lowered. Of course he does--he doesn't effin' pay anyone who works for him, so it's safe to say that he thinks we should all be slaves and not get paid at all. I'd laugh at Batshit Bachmann except that people eat up this bullshit as if it were chocolate pudding. People like my Tea Party Christian friend. Creepy AF.
Unholy shit--Republican platform OFFICIALLY wants to replace our democracy with theocracy. Listen to Cenk and John spell out the most hateful, heinous party platform outside of ISIS and al Qaeda. Holy phuque!!!!! (If I remember, next time I'll post a redo of the RNC logo with the elephant dancing on an AR-15 instead of a guitar. Much more appropriate for the RNC.)
Here's Secular Talk's take on the right-wing-nutjobs' lust for American Sharia:
The Young Turks: How many FUX Noise women has Roger Ailes sexually harassed and assaulted? As Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian (TM) tweeted, " I have trouble imagining that any sexual overture from Roger Ailes WOULDN'T be harassment!" Is it me, or does he look like a perv?
The Young Turks: CNN cop claims Blacks are more prone to criminality. That stupid shit needs to be fired from making TV appearances.
Pastor Terrified Of Pokémon Go "Cyber Demons"--too phuquen funny!
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My new heroes just put up
an awesome billboard
5 minutes from the RNC--hehe!!
It reads:
Love Trumps Hate.
End Homophobia.
www.plantingpeace.org
Paid for by Planting Peace
posted by Dot Calm @ 6:05 PM
