I somehow managed to get into the AT&T system from the Apple.com store and order my iPhone 4. This is only part of the miracle, as now I’ve received word that it will be arriving a day early. I’m excited, even if I will be so busy I may not get to set it up until Friday. Ugh.
And I’m mostly posting this to test out the upgrade to WordPress as things have gone wonky a bit. Hmmmm…. if you see anything wrong, let me know.
Finally it has come to pass! When opening a link in Safari 5 that is supposed to spawn a new window, Safari opens it in a new tab, just like every other fucking application in the system has been told to do since Safari got tabs in the first place. Hot damn!!
You know, if you’ve ever met me, that I have a complete and utter dislike of the Pope. I find him to be a horrible excuse for a human being. This is only part of the reason I don’t like the church, but he’s central to the problem in so many ways it’s heartbreaking.
Check this out. I can’t say I’m surprised or outraged, as I’ve long since burned from bonfire to seething ember on this issue, but still, this is awful. There is nothing about this man that should be revered, and so long as he’s in charge of the catholic church, every single member of that church is being lead down the garden path to hell.
I used to wonder how a member of the nazi youth (and don’t think for a minute that anyone alive as a child in Germany during Hitler’s reign was anything but nazi youth, they didn’t really have a choice) could become pope. I know the children didn’t have a choice, but given his views still align with his youthful indiscretions, how did the college of cardinals vote for this singularly disgusting and abhorrent individual.
Then I remembered, he ran The Office Formerly Known As The Inquisition™, and had access to, and directed the collecting of, every secret of every member of the church. Every cardinal, every bishop, every father, friar and nun. Everything. He even had access to the secrets of his predecessors, and every bit of Vatican history, both public and private. And knowing the secrets of his enemies, he was able to blackmail them to voting for him.
I’m sure he and his cronies couched the blackmail in terms of “you’ll want to vote for him, as you couldn’t be elected, what with XX in your past, but he’s clean and safe from that” and look now, the truth comes out that he wasn’t, isn’t and most certainly won’t ever be. Yet he’s in charge.
Because the catholic church, at it’s core, is made up of power-mad cowards who couldn’t stand up to an evil and espouse the True Word of God. And so they, too, get the leader they deserve. Sad.
You know, here’s the problem with the current politics surrounding everything: the people need to grow the fuck up, now.
Let me illustrate this for you. A man with Parkinson’s Disease went to a teabagger rally in Columbus, Ohio, with a sign that asked for the people to think of him and other’s like him. What happened is beyond disgusting:
I know we need Health Care Reform in this country, as does everyone else, my very staunch Republican parents included. I don’t particularly want the mess that is coming down the line, but in this case I think it’s better than nothing. And you know what, I’m going to go ahead and change my stance to “Yep, this is what we need.”
Wanna know why? Because of these assholes in this video. They cannot be trusted with anything, and while I have my doubts about the current direction the country is taking, I know, I absolutely fucking know, that the direction the assholes in this video want to take us is dangerous, destructive, and ultimately would be the death of liberty in this country.
If you can’t have a calm conversation with someone who is just asking that you think about them, too, then I have no issue with ignoring you completely when it comes time to making my decision.
What’s next from these assholes, mocking the athletes of the Special Olympics? They get federal money, too, you know.
There is something to be said about the squeaky wheel getting the grease, but in this case, the conservatives are crying wolf. If there is a wolf, none of us will know until it’s too late, because they’ve called everything wolf for months now. Shame.