Additional Bitching and Moaning.......
     Some idle musings on DEATH included.        

by Michael Kirwan — July 14, 2007

     I’ve previously laid out my solutions for disentangling the USA from the Bush Iraq Folly so now I’ll address the totally separate issue of the “War on Terror” (!!!!). First off, I have  some  genuine reservations about the language  involved here. Any description with the word “terror” embedded in it is simply too loaded on the propaganda scale to allow a rational discussion about what’s actually going on here.  And it’s not just about Muslims, although their religion does encourage acts of violent lunacy,  if you examine what this conflict is essentially about. So let’s call the factions involved by more meaningful appellations. This is a clash of “pro-modernists” and “anti-modernists.” Those who move towards a globalized commerce, unilateral cultural norms, and worldwide secret domination pitted against a strata of threatened peasants who demand that everything stay exactly as it is, or rather WAS, in the ninth century. One side wants to be able to sell  it’s products to everyone on the planet while those on the other side want everyone to live in a religious straightjacket  of brutality and stupidity. Now that we have properly identified the players, we can move toward containing this dispute.
     I am obviously (as a queer, outspoken atheist) of a “pro-modernist” bent, although there are some of the Old Worlder’s practices I find intriguing (specifically keeping the sexes apart. Hahaha!!!!). Anyway, the only way to best the opposition in this instance (because “winning” doesn’t happen in “battles of civilizations”!!!!!) is to covertly infiltrate and electronically monitor every significant mosque in the western world.  And eventually even into their own home playing fields of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Pakistan, etc. These “houses of worship” are where the hatred is fomented, where the plots are formed and where the imbeciles are recruited. This will have to be a huge, intensely clandestine endeavor. I doubt it’ll stay secret. All of the agents involved will be incredibly imperiled.
     Part 2 is equally disrespectful of the  Islamic faith. You can’t really be surprised here, and if you are you’re on the wrong side of this battle. We’ve got to threaten the Saudis with nuking their “holy” sites and possibly imposing an Iraq-style democracy on their land if they don’t either shut down all of the madras’ (you know, those Islamic schools they’ve opened all over the world) or reorganize them into adopting a pro-western curriculum. And we have to check. Over and over again. Not with white men in suits but with the undercover agents from the mosque spying.
    This is the only method of keeping the fundamentalists at bay while we set up unbalanced trade treaties and  sell iphones and hip-hop to camel-herders. Armies won’t work. Diplomacy won’t work. We may have the piles of money and enticing technology but they have the overwhelming fear (that everything they hold dear can be summarily dismissed) and the permission of the Koran to act savagely.
     I just wanted to get this out. I’ll be long dead by the time a hearty (yet queasy) “I told you so” is called for. There’s no fence-sitting on this one. This isn’t really a spectator sport occasion regardless of how “delicately” the mass media presents it. It’s either advance to “Star Trek” or revert to being monkey-men.


     I  read where the correction department staffs out here in California are being required to take a course on suicide prevention amongst the convicts. Why? Why not enable them to bail out of an ugly situation if that’s what they want? If I was sentenced to 40 years in prison, I’d like the option to chose death instead. I don’t get it. The authorities should encourage suicide, perhaps even set up “euthanasia stations” in all the penitentiaries where anyone serving life or an extended period of time can go get a heroin overdose or something if that’s what they prefer. It’s always baffled me that a society so enthralled with “the sanctity of life” decrees that even the most miserable, ridiculously painful, intolerable conditions must be endured until “nature” takes it’s course. Why? It sounds more like a religious assumption than anything approaching respect for human life and a person’s right to determine whether to give up the ghost on their own terms.  Isn’t suicide a crime of some sort? I’m pretty sure it’s illegal. What’s the punishment  for those who successfully kill themselves? Mandatory resuscitation? And then a jail term? Absurd. The whole  attitude about suicide in this country is a puzzlement to me. There should be salons in every neighborhood providing easy exit services for those who just aren’t interested  in hanging around any longer. It beats me how anyone claiming moral superiority can so blithely consign someone else to an existence of abject misery just as long as they’re “alive”.

   Again, I’ve gotta complain about  that TV show “Army Wives”.  Women who look and behave like those actresses don’t marry guys who earn less than $17,000 a year and they don’t stand on line with food stamps.  You know it’s true.

   I saw a program about  a group of anorexic women in some facility on HBO.  Besides being skeletal, what these creatures all had in common was that they had a support system, family and friends who were all (at very least) inconvenienced by these girls indulging in their starvation efforts. I can’t imagine that chicks would do this shit if nobody else was affected. They just want attention, to suck the life out of everyone around them, and burden their loved ones with the “problem.”  These foolish girls don’t need treatment, or sympathy or insurance-paid-for spa retreats. Send them to Somalia or Darfur or wherever else a famine is in progress for six months. If they die, well... too bad. These inconsiderate brats deserve zero  coddling. Let them puke themselves to death. We don’t need them. Their distasteful antics embarrass us as a nation. The very idea of not wanting to join the rest of us in sentient obesity... it’s appalling.

      I’ve been spending a lot of time at xtube.com (yes, I know, its all very shocking) and although I love the material, I’m surprised  that queers are making errors in common terminology. OUR own language!  So....  A “hand job” requires TWO people. It’s not the same thing as masturbation.  A  “golden shower” likewise calls for more than one participant.  I don’t know the colloquial expression for pissing on one’s self,  but there’s no “shower” without  some distance between the nozzle and the body. 
     In regular life, well, the leather community, I’m pretty sick of guys in their 30’s and 40’s calling themselves a “boy”. A boy is a male under fifteen years of age.  A “daddy” is man who has experienced being a biological father, not just any old fart with a nurturing streak.  There’s a few other of these questionable designations that likewise irritate me but none of them are fresh on my mind. I’m not sure why people desire to label themselves, but if they absolutely must,  they should either create a new word  or adopt one that  truly reflects their faux identity.
   That’s it for now. Stay tuned.
 

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