UPDATE: 7/5/2007-- There was much debate in my mind as to whether I should post this entry last night, but I've decided I'm tired of not caring, and I'm tired of being quiet and polite to the people who keep people like George Bush in office by being racist and ignorant and bullying people into silence by calling them unpatriotic and unsupportive. Here's my two cents.
At the outset of this rant, I am going to refer you to the rules of engagement around here. This is my blog and I'll rant if I want to. It doesn't happen very often on this scale, so get over it. And don't forward me any more of this shit please.
Incindiary title, no? Those of you who know me know that I have a real mean streak concerning right-wing politics. I want to cram all the bullshit those guys spout back down their gaping maws and jump on their heads every time they start it up again. One very tangible encounter I have almost daily is those damned email forwards spouting super-"patriotic" navel gazing sewage into my inbox about "killing those terrorist bastards" and "supporting our men over there".*
AND. I. HAVE. HAD. IT.
Here, for your enjoyment, I would like to reply to a crappy, ignorant email forward that has been circulating since March 2003 and that I have received at least three times in the last year from different people who think this shit is funny. I'm just done, people.
You gotta love Robin Williams......Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.Okay, first issue. NOT. ROBIN WILLIAMS, PEOPLE. It's not very nice to attribute ignorant bullshit to people it didn't come from, and especially people who are usually a lot more intelligent sounding than this drivel. Get out more. Read Snopes for fun. It'll save you money on all those get-rich-quick chain letters you've been sending.Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'
1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.Or the more sane alternative, we will apologize for ignoring the crises in Rwanda and Darfur while people were systematically exterminated. And for waiting to "interfere" with Hitler until after three million Jews were killed, to put a fine point on it.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.Now, Jim Gilchrist-- is this a cheap publicity stunt designed to get funding for that fence? Or your presidential bid. Silly rabbit, shit slinging is for monkeys.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.And meanwhile, all you rich assholes will have no one to do the jobs you hope your children never have to do that keep this lovely country of ours running, like raise your children, fry your hamburgers, pick your peaches, mow your lawns or build your houses.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.Oh. My. God. I can't even begin to be funny about this one, because it horrifies me that someone I'm related to thought it was funny. It makes me sick.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.Ummmm... apparently this asshole hasn't been looking at American graduate school enrollment percentages. Temporary visa holders accounted for one third of all science and engineering graduate school enrollment in 2004-2005, and that percentage has been rising. That being the case, foreign students are also much more likely to be full-time students than Americans. Think about that for a second-- what does that tell you about the capability of American students in graduate school? Yeah, we need to go home and study.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.Or how about the alternative none of you oil-paid ignoramuses are talking about-- MOVE AWAY FROM OIL, ASSHOLES. Leave the caribou out of it. Plenty of people have proved it can be done, now let's stop letting the slow-ass American car companies line your pockets and get on with it.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)Ahem, back to number 6. Sew those pockets shut and move on.
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.Hey, we're already proved we can do it. Katrina was good training for this one. Let's not repeat that, shall we?
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.Dude. Let's just stick our heads into the sand and nukes up our asses. It would be simpler.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer.You know, this one I actually agree with. (Americans need a lot more polish... what is it David Sedaris said about tourists in Paris? Oh yeah-- that' it's not generally a good impression to visit someone's country and go out and about in clothes you'd normally wear to do your laundry.) Except I think we should aim for regular schools that work where kids can learn something before we work on the charm and beauty thing.
11.)The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...It would be a much better argument if I hadn't heard so many Americans being assholes to people in France and China because they didn't speak English too. Maybe we should strive to be like most of the rest of the people on Earth and speak more than one language. Then maybe we'd all stop being such assholes to everybody.
Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?No. Go home you ignorant racist fuck and smash your computer.
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' 'Now I have to clarify here that this bit IS Robin Williams, but it was part of his comedy act in a bit against right-wing politics like those this is referring to.
If you agree with the above forward it to friends..If not, and I would be amazed, DELETE it!!I'm sorry you are amazed. You clearly don't get out much. If you got out more, you wouldn't be such an ignorant racist fuck, right?
*Please note that I am in no way indicating that I don't support the men and women of our military who are put in harms's way daily while "fighting for our freedom". I do support them, and I support their right to do so. But that's the subject of another rant. I'll get to it eventually.

Comments (2)
on the English language... if our forefathers meant for the national language to be English, it would have been. and it's still not that 'national' language, so you can't force anyone to learn it when
1) it's not the law, and
2) most people here can't even speak it well. :)
i love your rants sometimes. :)
Posted by the.muse | July 5, 2007 11:31 PM
Posted on July 5, 2007 23:31
I cam over when I saw a stat coming from your site. I loved this post. And I HATE this email with a passion. Hate it. I swear if I get it again I may have to throw my Mac across the room.
Just kidding.
Posted by aimee/greeblemonkey | July 6, 2007 1:59 PM
Posted on July 6, 2007 13:59