The Hobby Lobby Ruling: The Satanic Response

   Remember when SCOTUS ruled that corporations with "closely held" religious beliefs had the same First Amendment religious protection as human beings? The Christian Right wanted this ruling as yet another way to impose their religion upon everyone else. Other people wondered what would happen if non Christians tried to use this ruling. In an article from the Daily Kos, the Satanic Temple is trying to do just that. Their claim is that this ruling exempts its believers from state-mandated informed consent laws that require women considering abortions to read pro-life material. Information regarding the Temple's efforts can be found here. I love it. I want to see how the right wing religious pricks are going to respond to this. I'm certain they'll be frothing at the mouth at the Temple's temerity. How dare they exploit a ruling that was only supposed to benefit Christians! I want to hear how the propaganda monkeys over at Fox are going to handle it. Those verbal diarrhea spewing, hate mongering jack holes must be going apoplectic over this. Of all the world's religions, Satanism is the only one that makes any sense. They are little different from atheists like me. They don't believe in God anymore than I do. You can learn more about LaVeyan Satanism here.

My Solution to the Gun Problem.

  For some time now, there has been much debate over how to lower the level of gun violence in America. I have a solution that might work. It's not perfect, but I think it has promise. First off, anyone that wants a gun should be allowed to purchase one. There will be no background checks because we all know that the NRA is completely against them probably because its membership is completely paranoid. Ok, now the Second Amendment is properly protected. Now lest you think that this will result in more gun violence, there's a caveat. The sentence for anyone found guilty of committing a crime involving a firearm is death. Period. End of sentence. In order to keep the accused from tying up the legal system, they are only allowed one appeal. No more. If that appeal fails to reverse the guilty verdict, the guilty party is executed. This execution doesn't take place days, weeks, months or years after the failed appeal. The guilty party is immediately taken to the execution chamber and the sentence is carried out. I know that some people say that the death penalty doesn't keep others from committing the crime in question. I don't know how true that is. My goal isn't necessarily to get others to stop gun violence. My goal is to remove the irresponsible gun toting cocksuckers from the land of the living. The more violent, gun toting thugs killed, the fewer there are to menace society at large.'Nuff said!

Pretty People, Rich People

  Pretty people have a decided advantage over those of us of ordinary appearance. Take the case of Jeremy Meeks, the so called "Hot Convict". Hundreds of thousands of people pleaded for mercy for him solely because he's good looking. He's signed with two Hollywood agents that want to capitalize on his looks. Does anyone reading this think there'd be all this fuss over him if he were average or homely looking? The answer is, of course, "Fuck no!!". This guy wouldn't rate even the most meager amount of attention if he weren't good looking. Let's face facts. Women want mercy for him because, deep down inside, they want to fuck him. It's evolution. People instinctively seek out the most genetically desirable mate. So physically attractive people tend to get treated better than the rest of us. Rich people, on the other hand, simply get what they want by buying it. Things like cars, boats, politicians. The government rolls over backwards to accommodate them. The current Supreme Court's ruling that money is speech and the ending of contribution limits means that the rich will control what the rest of us see and hear when the campaign for the Presidency begins in earnest. As long as the rich have this kind of power, the rest of us are screwed.

The Good & The Bad

  It's been a mixed bag in my life lately. On the down side, I was recently found out that I have type 2 diabetes. Not a big surprise given that I'm overweight and drink soda like it's going out of style. It wasn't a question of will I get it but when will I get it. Apparently my diabetes isn't severe enough to require me to take insulin. I've been prescribed the drug metformin to lower my blood sugar levels. I'm going to have to cut down on the soda drinking and possibly modify my diet as well.
  On the plus side, my final payment to Discover card has been posted. The second major source of debt has been eliminated. The GE Money account I have through Pearle Vision is the next to go given that it's fairly low and I have more money to spare. All that will be left then is the Springleaf account. As a reward, I ordered a new zentai for myself. The pattern sort of looks like molten rock. I plan to get a credit card through Educator's Credit Union to replace the defunct cards I paid off. Next year, I will be going back to Gen Con. I haven't been there since 2009.

SCOTUS has fucked it up again

  First, the Supreme Court declared corporations to be people. Then they declared money to be speech. Now they're giving some of these corporations, like Hobby Lobby, the right to ram the owners' religious beliefs down the throats of their employees. The five cocksucking vermin on the Supreme Court that granted this right to the hypocritical, religious zealot, fascist owners of Hobby Lobby are clearly owned by the corporations and gleefully cater to their whims. The owners of Hobby Lobby aren't looking for religious freedom. They want power pure and simple. Check out this article on Daily Kos. Other articles regarding the idiocy of the religious right, SCOTUS, and Hobby Lobby can be found here.