Hump Day

OK, so it's Wednesday and I still haven't written the Little Red Riding Hood story. Sorry, I'm swamped and I'm having some headache issues that make it difficult for me to sit and work at the computer for extended periods of time. So with that in mind, this will probably be short.



Out
Republican conservative candidate Michelle Bachmann has officially dropped out of the race for President of the United States. Obama's supporters couldn't be happier. She was the one candidate that he and his people feared most. They had already managed to assassinate Herman Cain, the second most feared opponent for Obama, so the defeat of Bachmann is a real high point for Obama's new year. Now all he has to worry about are a bunch of white males who all look alike to him and his supporters. They will be much easier for him to beat than a strong conservative woman or black businessman. From here on out, it's straight up attack ads calling the Republicans 'racists' and '1 percenters' and shit like that.



Gone
The music industry has indicated that they are going to abandon the production of CDs in 2012 and just focus on selling digital downloadable music instead. Personally I think this sucks in a big way. If I like a song I want a hardcopy of it. I want a good hardcopy, in fact. If I can get a SACD I will. And if not, a standard CD will do. But the iTunes downloads are crap in terms of quality and only good enough for songs I just like a little bit, about 99 cents worth and no more. So anyway, I am in the market for a new high quality turntable after hearing this news. I still have a large collection of vinyl, which incidentally is superior to standard CDs, so if they are going to give up on CDs, too, then I'm going to scarf up as many albums and CDs as I can from the artists I listen to and then, I suppose, live in the past from here on out.



Serve and Protect?
I'm reading more and more articles talking about the alarming trend in the militarization of American police departments, resulting in more and more "no knock" SWAT team home invasions, inexcusable sexual assaults of unarmed men and now a high school girl, tanks, M16s, armored Humvees, and other totally military war-specific weapons, assaults and strategies by police officers against ordinary and frequently non-violent American citizens, with absolutely no justice for the victims and no response from lawmakers or judges. Police are now shooting and/or sexually assaulting American citizens who are not armed, not fighting, not dangerous, and not resisting, and then charging those citizens with an avalanche of crimes that absolutely make no sense. Police in other Western nations have indicated some concern at what American police are doing, but inevitably, American abuses by police are slowly creeping into the practices and arsenals of those other nations as well.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And good men are disinclined to fight when they are being shot in the testicles with shotguns and Tasers and semi-automatic M16s and handguns, or grabbed by, punched in, or kicked in the testicles while simply standing still and protesting for their basic human rights.




So anyway, my eyes are killing me. I really can't write anything more at this point. So, happy hump day!

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Frying Friday

Police intentionally shoot girl in groin with Taser
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a police officer grabbed a 14-year-old high school freshman from behind, slammed her against a car, then pushed away and drew his Taser. He aimed the Taser at her groin, which he admits was absolutely intentional, and fired. The girl was electrocuted through her genitals and fell to the ground.

The video of this is going viral all around the internet.


Apparently now it's copyrighted and we can't see it

There are numerous stories being reported about this already. The cop said he was told that students were walking in traffic and create chaos on previous occasions, so the police were called to put a stop to it. He says he yelled to her and she had her back to him and ignored him. He said she was cursing, which he defined as inciting a riot.

I have already commented numerous times about my feelings concerning the use and abuse of Tasers, as well as Taser's own encouragement of targeting the groin and genitals specifically. If you read this blog then you already know how I feel about this. I'm leaving it up to you to watch the video, read the articles detailing what happened, and make up your own mind.

The police department has made the usual statements excusing the officer's actions and indicating that this will happen again in the future. The girl was absolutely bombarded with criminal charges following to the incident. Reading the list of charges filed against her you would think she was wearing a bomb vest and waving a machine gun when she ran up and tackled the unsuspecting policeman. But the video shows nothing of the sort. What it shows is a human being, an American citizen and child, being grabbed from behind, slammed into a car and then shot point blank in the genitals for what appears to be no just cause at all. Clearly the office was not in fear for his life when he drew the weapon, aimed it at her genitals and fired it.

Not only that, but she can clearly be seen raising her hands and surrendering right before the officer shot her in the genitals, in the exact same manner as the wheelchair-bound man in San Francisco earlier this year who was shot twice in the testicles with a shotgun after surrendering, all of which was also caught on video.



But again, you decide and tell me what you think. The beginning part of the video apparently does not show what they were doing beforehand, or so some of the articles say. Perhaps we missed something. Is there anything you can think of the video could possibly have missed that would justify the shooting of a human being in the genitals at point blank range with the world's most popular torture device, a device which is known to have caused permanent and total destruction of the genitalia of numerous victims in addition to having killed over 400 people?

How many unarmed human beings have to be shot in the genitals by American police, or grabbed by the genitals and lifted off the ground screaming, before something is done about this rising tide of sexual violence, absolute indecency, and torture by authorities and pretty much anyone else who enjoys sexually hurting people, without the slightest response from lawmakers and judges?

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Now, in an unrelated note, I've noticed something else that is really bugging the shit out of me.

Yes, yes, I just assume you all come here to read about what is bothering me and hear me bitch.

OK, but once you notice it I guarantee its going to piss you off, too. Take a look at this car, the Nissan Juke:


Higher, brighter, larger and in-your-face

Look at the headlights. No, not the giant round driving lights that are now located where the headlights should be. Look up higher, closer to eye-level with the driver of a normal car. Yeah, THAT'S the headlights up there, up where your eyes will be as you're driving towards this monstrosity in your normal car. Those are the retina-searing laser HID headlights that are blinding drivers all over the world. The giant super-bright lights below are just parking lights, or driving lights, although they come on all the time to maximize the asshole-effect of this optical assailant.

This asshole-effect is important. The way these headlight systems work, the higher they are relative to other drivers, the more damage they do to your eyes when directed at you. They are 10 times brighter than normal lights, but the law only regulates the light they throw straight ahead, and even that is too high. They can throw as much light as they want at a slightly downward angle. Thus, the car companies can legally fry your eyes as long as the measured light projected straight ahead is below a level slightly less than the sun (seriously.) Lights mounted higher can emit as much light as possible downward into your face and the law doesn't care. So pickups and SUVs can legally blind us all because their lights can be mounted higher than a car's roof. The poor cars, though, are being left out. So that's why the manufacturers are now mounting the HID headlights up as close to windshield level as they can figure out how to do. They'll be putting them up on the roof soon if they can get away with it.

It isn't just this one Nissan car that has done this, raising the headlights up as high as possible to blind other drivers, while also installing the literally blinding Xenon HID system to make absolutely certain that every other driver on the road is blinded by them. It's nearly all the car manufacturers who are trying to figure ways to do this now. And for those of us who have to do a lot of night driving it is a major problem.

The worst offenders are the SUVs and pickup trucks. The systems I'm encountering in the full-sized pickup trucks are single-bulb on each side and when these trucks flash their brights at other cars there is absolutely no difference between their low and high-beam settings. They are EXACTLY the same literally blinding brightness. This means they are blinding everyone else on the road all the time and can't turn their ridiculous lights down even if they wanted to.

And lawmakers are doing absolutely nothing about it.


I'm gonna fry the eyeballs right out of your head

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