Ogre-oids; supplemental

In the original Star Trek, Kirk would at times announce "Captain's Log, supplemental". As I've been away for a couple of weeks, here are some Ogre-oids of recent interest.

NYPD Stop-and-frisk: Taking shallowness to new depths, the city graced by the Statue of Liberty has been randomly stopping, frisking, and interrogating U. S. residents. Apparently, the people of NY couldn't care less. Maybe they think if the city throws away enough civil liberties, the World Trade Center will sprout out of Ground Zero. That kind of superstition is consistent with the primitive tactics of the NYPD, and American law enforcement in general. Any halfway decent group of adults who call themselves Americans wouldn't stand for this kind of thing, regardless if it were (surprise, surprise) happening mostly to minorities, who, never having had it that great in our land of equality, can now be profiled as terrorists. Obviously it is undesirable to harass, intimidate, and humiliate people because they live in bodies. That's basically what this tactic amounts to. And spare me the chickenshit crap about how this is all to make New Yorkers--once notorious for their toughness and indepedence--"safer." Cops acting like punks didn't stop some assfuck from Pakistan from parking a car with a bomb in the middle of Times Square. Listen: the more people you piss off and alienate, the more danger you are inviting into your life. Let's be up front about all this: the tyranny of post-September 11 America is for fun, and we all know it. Beyond that it is completely pointless. Tactics such as stop and frisk are brutish, mean-spirited, ex-jock reactions to a national tragedy that has already happened and cannot be neutralized or redeemed no matter how much carnage, mutilation, and humiliation we can heep on other people. How does imposing martial law on Americans preserve the American way of life in face of a terrorist threat? Turning Virginia Tech's campus into a military, lock-down fortress does nothing to bring back to life the 30+ people slaughtered by an insane man who got his hands on two handguns. All this acting tough and strong and pretending to be ready for something that's already happened because people weren't ready for it is like turning a fire hose on a pile of ashes, then calling yourself a hero. Never waver!

Obesity: Next time you want to learn about how fat and ugly America is, instead of reading more goddamn "information" about it, go to the beach. Last week at the Outer Banks of N.C. I watched in sublime disgust as at least half of the younger adults and children at the shores of the Atlantic were obese. I didn't say anything about on my life-feed on Podcast 24 because you can't get away from them and being on vacation I didn't feel like insulting people to their faces (for once). One of our neighbors was a heaping mound of fat sluting around in a two piece! We'll find Osama bin Laden before another person finds her blubber-shrouded cunt. Yes, entrepreneurs everywhere can start the next big hit at 34th and 7th--provocative beachwear for people who weigh more than an office copier. A four year old was so fat her arms have a circumfrance bigger than my thighs. Once we returned to the corporate shithole of Rocky Mount, the hits kept coming. On our only trip out to a restaurant, we saw another gigantic tub of lard whoof down not one but two calzones like they were oyster crackers. Of course, this isn't a problem since America is a free country: you can be as fat as you want, eat as much shit as you want, be as big an asshole as you want, buy and shoot as many guns as you want, look at as many obese or mutilated bodies as you want, and hate everyone's guts to boot!

Powerless President Obama continues to be exposed as a typically American "didn't-see-the-next-big-disaster-coming-and-AGAIN-wasn't-ready-for-it" clueless asswipe corporate buttplug as the oil continues gushing into the Gulf. Fortunately for us, the oil hadn't made it to the Outer Banks . . . yet.

Ogre-oids, May 20, 2010

Obama's anti-science response to the Gulf Spill. Oceanographers accuse the Obama administration of failing to conduct adequate scientific analysis of environmental damage and permitting BP to obscure the scope of the spill's impact. Scientists say there may problems occuring from plumes of oil that appear to be spreading beneath the surface of the ocean. The flagship vessel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) was off the coast of Africa and was not redirected to the Gulf until May 11, three weeks after the disaster began. NOAA is criticized as being "derelict" in analyzing conditions beneath the sea. A prominent oceanographer says that the government's efforts have been a "catastrophic disaster" and that no one is paying attention to a "vast ecosystem being exposed to contaminants."

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindel reports "heavy oil is coming into our wetlands." The governor says "it's past time to act" and criticizes BP, the Coast Guard, and The Army Corps of Engineers. More evidence of Obama's complacent and indifferent reaction to the moutning crisis. A procedure that could shut the drill well off completely won't be ready until next week. BP is so scattershot and clueless that it has been taking email suggestions for stopping the flow, even getting advice from Kevin Costner. "If you build it, it will stop spilling," or something like that. In the meantime, BP has been successful in taking a full page public relations ad in today's Times assuring us they are doing everything to correct the problem. I guess in the real world, words speak louder than actions.

Teachers face worse job market since Great Depression. Where is the stimulus package for teachers? Even upscale suburban districts prepare for huge layoffs. How does this mean that unemployment is improving? What about the future of education? Schools have their pick of teachers, and teachers' market vulnerability will make them even easier pawns for adminstrative agendas based on around teaching to the test and controlling curriculum. In the meantime, teachers serve as scapegoat #1 for the country's economic and social problems. Sounds typical of a poorly educated society.

Necro-fest, Obama Style. In the last two days, nine U.S. servicemen have been killed, bringing the total U.S. deathtoll in Afghanistan to 1,000. But thanks to the attempted bombing at Times Square, Obama and the American people have the political fodder necessary to continue their necro-orgy for the foreseeable future. Perhaps laid-off teachers should get into the handy-wipes business. These attacks followed annoucements from the Taliban before Karzai's visit to D.C. that they would begin a series of offensives against U.S. forces, which U.S. military spokesmen blew off--futher testimony to their lack of deliberative credibility.

NYPD stop and frisk measures--The NYPD has been stopping and frisking citizens, mostly minorities in their efforts to protect American freedom. The ACLU has filed suit over the fact the NYPD has kept personal information on record even from people were found not to have committed crimes or paid fines that meant their records should have been purged. Nothing like martial law tactics to uphold the American way of life.