Random Ideas

You know, it’s funny. Fundamentalist groups are always protesting movies over odd little details in movies. They even raised a stink about the mannish ugly step sister in Shrek because they chose to see her as a transvestite. Watching a children’s movie with my daughter, I realized that the holy rollers had missed a big one. After all, bees don’t have males who travel outside of the hive. That would mean that the bee character in the move was in fact female. Shouldn’t they be protesting and raising a stink about a lesbian couple in a child’s movie? This just goes to show, these people are very uneven in the application of their rules. What about the gay penguins? Not a word from the fundies on that one. Of course, one of them went straight… Maybe that’s why they were not bothered. Bisexual penguins and gay bees, maybe the fundamentalists are calming down. Maybe, in a few years and with enough alternative lifestyle animals, they will join in on a gay/lesbian parade…

Well, now we know how hard Scotland is on terrorists… The aren’t! It seems that, if you want to blow up innocent women and children, the smart terrorist does it in Scotland. “He was  terminally ill!” you say? What has that got to do with his crime? Does it make his victims any less dead? Maybe his victims now suffer less pain? No, his crime has not changed. The only change is the additional pain inflicted by an idiotic government on the families of the victims. Now, he dies as a hero, praised in his country and pampered for the rest of his life. Now he inspires more maniacs. One more reason for terrorist organizations to laugh at our concept of justice. Open season has now been declared by the stupidity of the Scottish government. I say, “Hang on to your kilts guys! The suicide bombers know where to go!”

Are we tired of flogging this dead horse yet? Her career is dead. Rumor says her marriage is in ruin. Her family life is forever the subject of questionable late night humor. I think that speculation about this train wreck of a woman should have ended when she admitted that she was not even qualified for the job she already had, much less the VP of the United States. Just let her fade into obscurity.

Let’s face some basic facts. Our president wants to make it so that Americans can get health care. Republicans have moved heaven and earth to stop him. Why? It’s quite simple. Between medical and pharma corporations, the cost of medical care in this country has gone up by leaps and bounds every year for decades. Medicines that cost pennies in other countries cost thousands here. Lately, even insurance companies have started sending patients to other countries to get treatment. Doctors and nurses are not making the price go up. Corporations are raising the costs. Can you guess who contributes big money to republican electoral runs? Who pays for the army of lobbyists (other than the tobacco industry)? The Republicans are bad mouthing a provision for a public health care system of any kind. Why? After all, every country in the world that has such a system has lower death rates, lower infant mortality rates, and less of their per capita as well as GNP spent on health care. Too bad the Republican’s buddies (who contribute to their elections) make their money on the inflated costs charged to the consumer for basic health care.