Crabby Blogging Lady

Durn it, over the weekend I had a veritable SLEW of crabby things to talk about, and — by golly — it’s all gone now. Gone. Must be getting close to Christmas with me feeling so warm and fuzzy like, ya know?

Oh here’s something! Iran is set to slaughter a young father. Why, you ask? What heinous crime did this young, law-abiding man do?

Oh he became a Christian.

What is wrong with that?!

Iran, by the way, supposedly has some “religious freedom.” Their constitution forbids anyone to be reprimanded for their religious faith. That’s not stopping the courts from doing whatever they like. Sheesh, maybe Iran and the US have more in common than we thought….

And the media is blaming… the young man! He should renounce his faith in Christ and become a Muslim, that will fix the problem!

Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who is facing the death penalty, again refused to convert to Islam to save his life….

Please excuse me while I cry. Humans can be so unjust, so wicked to each other.

I am really, really looking forward to the time when righteousness rules, ya know?

…well, er.. maybe they are a little TOO MUCH in touch, when I think about this topic….

So you’ve heard about the New York State Representative Anthony Weiner. What a disgrace of a representative. Doesn’t ANYBODY stop to think about that that word MEANS?? The guy REPRESENTS the people of New York! Have we no honor, no self-respect? We let a guy like this represent us???

It looks like Mr. Weiner is getting a slap on the wrist for what he’s done. All that’s at stake is his job and career. Oh yeah, and his marriage. That’s KINDA important, too (although, just not to Mr. Weiner).

In light of this scandal, politicians are taking action to fix this heinous behavior– by making it less of a crime. Oh, yes!

It’s called “sexting.” The word makes me shudder because it’s so flippant. Apparently, it’s an “epidemic” amongst teenagers. According to MyWay News, 1 in 5 young people have “electronically transmitted explicit photos of themselves, and one third say they have received such photos.” OK, that is DISGUSTING. That’s not “normal” societal behavior. A kid caught doing it has committed a felony crime, because transmitting indecent photos of a child falls under child pornography laws.

So what do the politicians want to do? Reduce the penalties! Golly gee! Child porn isn’t truly child porn if it’s the child doing it, they say!! Yes, seriously, they actually mean that. Unbelievable.

These politicians are IDIOTS. Instead of watering down these laws because teens are doing it, these teens should be clobbered with the hard hand of the law so that they’ll learn their lesson that doing such stuff is disgustingly sick and a reproach in society.

I don’t know where this philosophy comes from, that “kids will be kids” and the judicial system needs to go easy on them. I am of the exact opposite belief– you don’t “go easy” on a kid that rapes and murders a toddler because “kids will be kids” and “kids make mistakes.” That actually happened in my area: a 13-year old raped a 2-year old and murdered her, then put her in her little crib overnight. When mom came home, she found her daughter dead. The punishment for the boy? A couple of months in a juvenile detention unit. I cried my eyeballs out when I heard that. What does that say to that kid, to society in general? That it’s not really all that bad to abuse little girls and kill them. Good Lord….

No, KIDS will NOT be kids. Sending lewd photos of yourself is not “kid” behavior. This kind of crap should not be tolerated, not even once. The consequences are so devastating to other people. I’m a firm believer in hard laws being an excellent deterrent. Even if it’s not a deterrent to the child, it would be for the parent who’d have to pay $5,000 and see their precious little baby go to jail for a while.

I guess the cities are no longer the money makers they once were. None of the criminals go there anymore, it’s too crowded. Rather, criminals are now entering the boundaries of sweet suburban living and small town America. Gee, it’s a regular Hollywood movie out there….

Did you ever wonder if more crimes occurred in the summer than the winter? Or if one seemingly “nice” town or city actually has more crime than that decrepit old town with the run-down shacks? I found a very cool website that shows crime rates for the biggest cities. It’s called Trulia. I think it’s pretty neat! It’s no where NEAR as comprehensive as it should be, though. They really need to work on that. This stuff is important. I want to know where all the crimes are so I can avoid the place like the plague. The website covers all the “big cities” and I didn’t see any small towns on there.

I think there has been a dramatic rise in crime in small towns. My small town is seeing a LOT more break-ins, violent domestic incidents, and now we are faced with drug crimes and gangs. I live in a town with a population of under 900!!!!! It’s insane. My neighbors down the street were busted for drug dealing. Further down, there was a drive-by shooting a few weeks ago. And I saw in the news that, after a sting operation, cops discovered heroin, loaded guns and bullet proof vests in a home nearby.

Crime is getting so bad in my area that the cops have stings?!

The politicians had better lower these property taxes real quick like. It’s bad enough, paying such exorbitant taxes in a nice neighborhood. It’s cruel and unusual punishment to make us pay thousands upon thousands of dollars for an area plagued by crime and drugs. Good God.

Some neighbors are so concerned that they are getting g*ns and other means to protect themselves. Others are getting testoripped so they can pound the criminals into the ground.

Me, I’m practicing The Look to make these losers melt like jello under a hairdryer.

Not that I voted for our current president. Not that I really believed he would REALLY give any of that hopey changey stuff. Nope. But still, one thing I was *kinda* hoping for was a reversal of the Patriot Act, our country pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and maybe some final consensus and regulation about diet pills that work. So far, none of that.

I just found out that the Pres extended certain portions of the Patriot Act. Privacy rights activists are unhappy. The extensions include law enforcement to continue wiretapping communication devices (uh, cell phones), a “special court” to access business and library records of “suspected” terrorists, and surveillance of non-American “lone wolf” suspects (which is not a bad provision).

By the way, who wouldn’t be a privacy rights person? Is there anyone who is anti-privacy (besides Eric Schmidt, I mean)?? How can we use the phrase “privacy rights groups.” It’s like saying “anti-family” with “pro-family” or “anti-life” with “pro-life.” Whatever. Just seems weird.

The article I saw (Wash Post) didn’t say when these provisions are set to expire. Huh.

Ever see that old Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds? Where The Birds attack people in crazed flocks, feathers flying everywhere?

That ol’ Alfie wasn’t too far off.

Have you heard about this?! A robotic SPY hummingbird!! Oh, the US military’s research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is going bonkers over how successful it is. They have a video at that link, where you can see the bird fly and see what it sees as it’s flying.

I have a question.

WHAT the heck is this FOR?!

Why are they developing SPY hummingbirds– Northeastern hummingbirds?!

I’ll bet I don’t look so paranoid, now, huh? I told you this was coming! They are going to be sending flying drones– just like those flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz!!– to spy on us all! It’s absolutely creepy!

Well, I’ll you what. How about we get a whole bunch of young geniuses to take tech courses and get some tech jobs and develop some robotic cats! That’ll teach ‘em! Who’s game???

Come ON!

The news story, I admit, is severely lacking information. Makes my paranoid mind shift into overdrive, people.

Apparently, 200 cows in Wisconsin were found dead.

Investigators are “investigating” but they already know it’s a virus that causes respiratory and reproductive problems.

OK OK– I can understand a couple of cows dead. A cow here, a cow there. And wouldn’t the farmer have, you now, KINDA KNOWN something screwy was going on with his cows? Like, maybe they sounded a little horse? (BWAHAHAHA!! Get it? OK OK I’ll be serious now). Maybe the cows were eating right, and it just MIGHT HAVE been a virus not those amazing appetite suppressant reviews.

But 200 cows? DROP DEAD???????????

A virus did that?!

They really expect us to believe this? How could this possibly be?

Any cow expert out there? Got any opinions?