Friday Rant
After enduring yet another full week of idiots I am, once again, ready to speak my mind. Let's start with airline passengers. There's a new security device that can see under your clothes and detect hidden devices such as guns, knives, horse shoes, brass knuckles, Altoid tins, mixing bowls, bombs and various other things. You don't have to go through it unless you set off the overhead metal detector and this way you don't get patted down or strip searched. But, of course, some people just don't like it. Their little bodies are such sacred temples that the rest of us should take their word for it when they say they aren't totin' dynamite. I hate these people. They act like the security guards are trying to poke dollar bills in the elastic of their underwear. These people need to drive to their destination.
Here's another thing, if you have something that you can't stop doing once you start, i.e. Tourettes Syndrome, seizures, praying, drinking, speaking in tongues, bitching, etc, tell the ticket agent BEFORE you get on the damn plane. That will prevent you from getting arrested, holding the rest of us up from getting where we need to go, and getting the pee-dookey beat out of you when we mistake you for a terrorist. It is a fact that after 9/11 if you act weird, the rest of us aren't going to put up with it. Sorry. Maybe you can catch a ride with the special "my-body-is-a-sacred-temple" person if you promise not to look at them.
Okay, now the polygamists. There are two things I believe we never have enough of in this country. Freedom of religion and good mental health care. Luckily, Texas officials stepped in when they noticed that the 1,700 acre Yearning for Zion compound was totally lacking one of these last week. I support polygamy like on HBO's "Big Love" or something like Hugh Hefner would go for, but the real life stuff has too many bad consequences. Absolutely nothing good will come out of this whole deal except maybe, possibly one or two of the kids will have a slim chance of having a semi-normal life. Oh, and some of the lawyers will get loads of free publicity. What really pisses me off is the fact that they own 1,700 acres, built all those houses, temples, pavilions, farm buildings, lawns, etc., and most of the women are considered single mothers drawing welfare checks. So the men are knocking them up, kicking out the boys, creating more brood stock, building temples and harems, staying out of sight and the TAXPAYERS are footing part of the bill! I also understand they have government contracts and grants. This is one of the many problems that government creates. If they were left to take care of themselves they couldn't do it.
One of the most talked about aspects of the YFZ group was the women. The women wear their hair all booped up like that to be closer to God, but I'd think some spike heels under those prairie dresses might be a little more sassy. But I'm not here to make fun of the way people dress. That just kind of slipped out.
Instead of law enforcement raiding the place why didn't they just send in a whole bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses and hard shell Baptists? The Witnesses could have got the doors open and the Baptists would have, in short order, gone in there and cleared up exactly what was going to send them to hell. It might not put the fear of God into them, but it would sure put the fear of the Baptists coming back into them.
Here's another thing, if you have something that you can't stop doing once you start, i.e. Tourettes Syndrome, seizures, praying, drinking, speaking in tongues, bitching, etc, tell the ticket agent BEFORE you get on the damn plane. That will prevent you from getting arrested, holding the rest of us up from getting where we need to go, and getting the pee-dookey beat out of you when we mistake you for a terrorist. It is a fact that after 9/11 if you act weird, the rest of us aren't going to put up with it. Sorry. Maybe you can catch a ride with the special "my-body-is-a-sacred-temple" person if you promise not to look at them.
Okay, now the polygamists. There are two things I believe we never have enough of in this country. Freedom of religion and good mental health care. Luckily, Texas officials stepped in when they noticed that the 1,700 acre Yearning for Zion compound was totally lacking one of these last week. I support polygamy like on HBO's "Big Love" or something like Hugh Hefner would go for, but the real life stuff has too many bad consequences. Absolutely nothing good will come out of this whole deal except maybe, possibly one or two of the kids will have a slim chance of having a semi-normal life. Oh, and some of the lawyers will get loads of free publicity. What really pisses me off is the fact that they own 1,700 acres, built all those houses, temples, pavilions, farm buildings, lawns, etc., and most of the women are considered single mothers drawing welfare checks. So the men are knocking them up, kicking out the boys, creating more brood stock, building temples and harems, staying out of sight and the TAXPAYERS are footing part of the bill! I also understand they have government contracts and grants. This is one of the many problems that government creates. If they were left to take care of themselves they couldn't do it.
One of the most talked about aspects of the YFZ group was the women. The women wear their hair all booped up like that to be closer to God, but I'd think some spike heels under those prairie dresses might be a little more sassy. But I'm not here to make fun of the way people dress. That just kind of slipped out.
Instead of law enforcement raiding the place why didn't they just send in a whole bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses and hard shell Baptists? The Witnesses could have got the doors open and the Baptists would have, in short order, gone in there and cleared up exactly what was going to send them to hell. It might not put the fear of God into them, but it would sure put the fear of the Baptists coming back into them.
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