The American People

If CONSERVATIVE WOMEN BLOGGING were a stock I'd be buying like crazy right now.

Did you know that June 9 is National Take Your Daughter to the Range Day? Now you do, and you have no excuse not to participate.

I have a couple of excuses not to participate, actually.
I don't own a gun.
I don't have a daughter.
I don't know where a range is.
I could Google the last one but the other two are a bit of a problem.

“But Amazon,” you say. “I don’t have a daughter to take to the range with me!”

Or a gun to take with me, for that matter.

There are plenty of women out there who didn’t have a father who loved them enough to teach them to shoot. Why not take one of them to the range?

Yeah let me ask one of the girls tomorrow in my class.
That'll go over well for all parties involved.

Can’t find a woman to go with you? Go by yourself and put in some practice hours, so that if you ever do have a daughter, you can train her up like Annie Oakley.

I was really busy June 9th. Probably.
That was a Saturday--
probably dreading having to go into my shitty job, actually.

Here’s why every father should make sure his little pumpkin can shoot a gun:

Well you know.
I came up with a few reasons last post.

Young women are bombarded with messages in the media that insist they have to look a certain way, weigh a certain amount, and wear certain clothes, or no boy will ever ask them to prom. But a shooting range is a judgment-free zone. No one cares whether you just had a break-out, or if your jeans are from Abercrombie, or you gained 15 pounds.  Wouldn’t you rather your daughter spend time at the range on Saturdays than at the mall?

That's a lame argument.

Much like drugs, if you don’t talk to your children about guns, someone else will. Do you really want to take the chance that the person talking to your daughter about guns is some dopey women’s studies teacher who says things like “the very presence of a weapon offends?”

Man you make guns seem really fucking lame.
Why do people even fight?
Fighting is fucking gay now.
Time to pack this shit up, losers.

Gun ownership is like a vaccine against against dating liberals. If you want your daughter to attract the right kind of red-blooded conservative guy and repel the kinds of men who wear ironic t-shirts and play frisbee, make sure that she has a gun or two in her home and a decorative glass jar full of spent casings displayed prominently on her book shelf.

Want to ensure your grandchildren have a few extra chromosomes?

Well here's some advice you can follow.

Most importantly, the world is a dangerous place. Whether we’re talking about home invasions, rape attempts, or the zombie apocalypse, you want to give your daughter the best possible chance of making her way through life without being a victim.

Yeah all right.
So guns are passe now.
Maybe I can teach her to fight with knives or something?

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. 

Hey whoa, man.
Look, you can go die for these things, all right. Meanwhile I'll hang back here.

All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

These assholes have my back?
I'm not sure whether to be more concerned about that or who I'm fighting now.
This was a quote by Ronald Reagan, incidentally.
I'm not filled with patriotic fervor, no.

There’s something I’ve been wanting to ask my fellow 20-somethings: Do you ever feel like politicians are trolling you?

I try very hard not to pay attention to politics.

Sometimes, when I want to torture myself and risk raising my blood pressure to unhealthy levels, I read blog comments. Apparently, there are people in this world whose reaction to the recent news item about a naked drug addict eating the face of a homeless man isn’t to ask “WTF” over and over again, and make zombie jokes.

Shocking twist to that story that went bizarrely unreported (possibly to keep national panic down): it turns out he wasn't on drugs.

1. I hope that Republicans take this time to figure out exactly what it is we stand for.  Not just tax cuts willy-nilly, but serious cuts in the size and scope of government.  Lower taxes should be the extra benefit of less government, not the be-all and end-all of Republican economic policy.  This means that we can’t be afraid to let taxes increase across the board when government gets bigger, because when people don’t have to pay for a good, their demand is pretty much limitless.
2. I hope that Obama lives up to Christopher Buckley’s expectations, because stale liberal ideas (let’s tax the rich some more!) won’t get us anywhere in any of the current crises we face.

Politics should be run like how people play EVE Online.
I mean sure it's cut throat, unfair and brutal but at least everyone is honest about it. No one is pretending to be anything other than a complete jackass.
I just like the people that think they run this game because they shoot at other peoples' ships.
Yeah that's real cool, mad gangsta but meanwhile there are people tugging at the economic strings and you're buying your ships and bullets from someone.

Men rated a woman shown in photographs as more sexually attractive if she was wearing red clothing or if she was shown in an image framed by a red border rather than some other color, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

How dumb are these men?
Same chick, two different outfits and they were fooled by it?
Am I the only person that would look at the photos and say "yeah it's the same person. Go ahead and frame that anyway you want but it's not going to alter my opinion."
Note the word choice isn't "hotter" it's "sexually attractive" as in she's somehow physically better in red--
no don't get it.

I’d like to take this opportunity to put it on record that I have a serious girl crush on Sarah Palin.  Her speech was wonderful, her jabs at Obama were delivered with a smile, and her family is adorable.

This is what Americans actually believe.

“The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing a draft regulation that would deny federal funding to any hospital, clinic, health plan or other entity that does not accommodate employees who want to opt out of participating in care that runs counter to their personal convictions, including providing birth-control pills, IUDs and the Plan B emergency contraceptive.”

Hippocratic Oath should take precedence over any petty moral obligation you think you have.
Swearing to be a doctor is basically making a promise to ONE OF THE TRUE GODS: Apollo.
That means none of this bullshit.

Clearly, the battle lines have been drawn around contraception – no one is objecting to participating in cancer treatment here.  I’m sure that this is a question we’ll see over and over again, as it is based on a fundamental question of where our individual rights begin and end, and which kind of rights take precedence.

Once you promise to do no harm your right to object to certain things ends.
Some pregnancies are dangerous to carry to term and will end up killing both the mother and the child.
There is no sense in ending that in death for both parties because of what some book written in the bronze age doesn't say.

One could argue that forcing a doctor to help a patient find someone who will perform a treatment is still forcing them to violate their conscience.  To which I would respond that no one forced the individual to become a health care worker.  They knew when entering the field what would be expected of them, so they should either chose a new profession or submit to what their job requires of them. 

Exactly.
Thank you, blogger.
We agree on this.
I'm agreeing with a cunt on Blogger.
Plz help.
Here she links an article called the Economics of Vengeance--
Wait, why am I reviewing this blog?
This looks like an article I'd link.

What Mr. Mocan found most surprising was that women turned out to be more vengeful than men. If a woman had been a victim of burglary, she was 10 percent more likely to impose a prison sentence; for men the figure was 5 percent.

Show me a bitch that's half as vengeful as me.

Edward Glaeser, an economist at Harvard who has tried to explain group hatred in terms of political economy, has written that “an economist’s definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.” In healthy economies, he argues, the cost is higher, and the demand for hatred and vengeance drops. 

Can one really put a price on inflicting harm on your hated foe?
That's like the laughter of a child or the embrace of a loved one. You can't really put a quantity on that.

She is skeptical of the economic approach. “How do you quantify shame?” she asked. Often “punishment is irrelevant,” she said, which is why families often still want to take revenge even if the perpetrator is jailed. “It’s not about inflicting pain, it’s about honor.”

Someone needs to look up the etymology of revenge if you think it has anything at all to do with honor.
The word revenge, like vengeance, comes from the Latin root vindicare, which means to vindicate, and vindicate means to set right.
Proper revenge is like karma. It's setting the books right.
Oh right. Blogs.
Nope, I'm done with this bullshit.
Goodbye.