The blog combining two passions most people could give a rat's ass about.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

If these statements offended anyone.

I was just reading the statement made by St Louis Congressmen Akin "At the heart of liberalism, it really is a hatred for God and the belief that government should replace God," and his half assed puedo-apology “My statement during my radio interview was directed at the political movement, Liberalism not at any specific individual. If my statement gave a different impression, I offer my apologies.” 
His actual statement I don't have too much to say about other than someone should give Akin a history lesson. When the shoe was on the other foot and Christians were the minority, their government fed them to the lions. If I were a Christian that would sway me to try to keep church and state separate.
My problem is the whole "if my statement" part. Obviously if he is being called on to apologize- he offended someone. Own it. If you said something that offends people but you still believe it's true, don't obfuscate it, explain it.
Akin should have just explained what ever it is he meant and then say "I'm sorry I hurt your feelings".
When one does not explain why they said something it leaves no room to debunk them. I suspect that is exactly why he issued this lackluster apology instead of actually defending himself.
One other thing I should throw out there so no one thinks I am hiding it. I am an atheist. This does not mean I hate God any more than Christians hate any of the Hindu gods. I don't want your god in our government because many people (like this phoney apology) use faith as an excuse not to explain their rationale. They use faith as a way to make the opinions of others indefensible.
Faith is supposed to be about an individuals relationship with their god(s) or lack there of. It isn't about being used as a weapon against others. And if I were a Christian I would think I would be offended at someone like Akin presuming to speak on my behalf.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Obama needs to quit being a fag about gay marriage

I was at a barbecue of left leaning people (that doesn't sound right but moving on), and because of the progress in New York, Obama's position on gay marriage came up. Basically the theory and evidence points to Obama being for gay marriage but knows it's politically tricky so he claims to be against it but "evolving".
I don't expect Obama to take my position on the issue (Civil Unions for gays and straights alike), but I expect him not to screw with people on this issue. If he supports gay marriage he needs to say so. If he doesn't think it's politically possible, he needs to state his position, but endorse some sort of middle ground.
Part of the point of Pride is to show people just how many people are gay or support the gay community. It's about being visible about something many people didn't really believe existed. When public figures like Obama are ambiguous in their support they are supporting those who don't believe that being gay is real. It adds credence to the idea that it is a choice that some individuals make.
Obama needs to remember that anything could happen to his station. And if he were out of the office tomorrow, history could forgot his 'secret' position. It is especially concerning that Obama doesn't consider this when Kennedy was very famously going to put off civil rights for his second term that never came about.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

GOP thou shall not bare false witness

On GPS this week, Fareed Zakaria made the argument that conservatives are being irrational in their philosophy because they keep repeating the same statements about tax rates being directly related to economic strength, dispute the fact that taxes are proportionately at historic lows and countries with higher taxes are doing better than America.
Where I disagree with Zakaria is that the 'conservatives' are not being irrational they are being dishonest. These talking points are #notintendedtobefactual. The first evidence of this is all the socialist talk about Obama. The fact that Bernie Sanders didn't rise to power should be a clue to the fact that it just isn't true. The second evidence is all this Reagan revisionist history. If you watch the documentary "I want your money" (available for streaming on netflix) one of the first things the film tells you is that Reagan cut taxes, but they never got around to mentioning that this wasn't feasible and Reagan was forced to raise them back up. Remember when Bush Sr. said "Read my lips no new taxes"? The reason he had said that was that because the previous 'conservative' did introduce new taxes.
This goes back to a previous post I wrote about what republicans care about. The GOP tells it's operatives to SAY they care about abortion and fiscal responsibility. But they never DO anything about abortion or fiscal responsibility unless it's part of a political stunt.

Monday, June 20, 2011

ISSUES Abortion

I've re-written the abortion section from the version that was up during the 2010 campaign. I make the same points but in different ways. The biggest difference is that I no longer come out against publicly funding abortion. Not because I changed my mind about it but because of recent attacks on Planned Parenthood. My arguments have to stay current or people will make the wrong associations with what I am saying and shut me out before hearing what I have to say.

http://www.nilvsdcbs.com/abortion.html

Monday, June 13, 2011

Virus

I have three different anti-virus programs running and they can't seem to do anything about the adware. It's time to back everything up and get drastic.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Press Release

Press Release I sent out Monday:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf

Web site address http://www.electladendorf.us

Springfield, MO- Shortly after announcing he would be seeking the US House of Representatives as a Democrat, Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf threw down the gauntlet for the media. In light of recent sex scandal speculation for politicians like Anthony Weiner; Ladendorf has offered to text pictures of his penis and buttocks to any interest member of the media. The 32 year old cartoonist has been a frequent critic of the media, and their lack of useful content. Ladendorf explains "I'm not a glory hound, I just wanted to draw overly developed people and robots punching each other, but I can't stand to see what is happening around me so this stunt is one part guerrilla marketing for my campaign, one part performance art to mock the media, and one part compulsive honesty. I couldn't in good conscious criticize politicians for acting like they are not human but remain quiet about having pictures of my junk on my phone. "

Monday, June 6, 2011

TMI Politics

Is it just me or did the Anthony Weiner (maybe sent picture of maybe his 'popped tent' to college girl) become a bigger story than the Arnold Schwarzenegger's (definitely had sex with and had definite reproduced with staff) story?
First of all: Liberal media my ass! 
Second: WTF?!
Media, let me explain ethics to you. If everything about "Weiner gate" is true- so what. The only possible story is if the girl sees it as an unwanted sexual advance and his Mrs. Weiner has a problem with it. The story is only relevant out side those three people if one of those three people were in someway harmed. Otherwise there was nothing really unethical about it AKA not newsworthy.
Meanwhile in California you have a politician that went behind his wife's back, perhaps intimidated his employee into having sex with him, and hid the offspring from the day of light for ten years. But Weinergate is treated as the real scandal. Ethically, what Arnold has definitely done is worst. It violated his contract with his wife. There seems to be some question as to how consensual the sex was (though I don't know why a rich famous guy would resort to intimidation), and the kid was denied a father. Now that is wrong. Wrong you dumb shits.
ahem.
There is a question about what this says about the character of these two powerful men. It's a stupid question. All men are under the influence of testosterone. Drug addiction specialist and media darling Dr. Drew refers to testosterone as the most powerful drug. Men in positions of power actually have biological changes to reflect their alpha male status. A man's penis actually gets bigger when in a position of authority. Getting mad at a man for having a moment of weakness is like getting mad at your dog for eating out of the litterbox:
they should be scolded and discouraged but you shouldn't be surprised that they did it.


It is the nature of the beast. 


I've been watching the news wondering what is so important that there just isn't any time to talk about my campaign. And I am continually disappointed that what is covered is rarely any value. But whatever. If that is all the media cares about. I have a picture of my  penis and naked ass on my phone. If any member of the media (print, tv, web) want to see it- message me and I'll text it to you.

I'm letting everyone know about this offer so you must not delay if you want to be the first to break this story.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011