Crabby Blogging Lady

…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.

*itch itch*

I JUST passed by this store yesterday.

I noticed it was *scratch scratch* closed.

It’s in Soho, too.

*itch itch*

I stayed in Soho for a few days.

Oh Lord.

Please NO.

Teen apparel chain Abercrombie & Fitch Co has closed its Hollister store in New York City due to bedbug infestation.

The store, in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, was closed on Wednesday, the company said. It said it was in the process of removing the bedbugs and hoped to reopen the store soon.

Abercrombie & Fitch spokesman Eric Cerny had no comment on how the store closing could affect sales and profits.

No comments, huh? Well, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out! Sales are going to TANK! Hello! Better sell the barcode scanners, this store is gonna be outta commission for a while.

YUK.

*itch itch*

I hope the “trendies” didn’t stay at the same hotel as me… I hate Abercrombie & Fitch, anyway. It’s got more problems than just bedbugs. That business is sleeeeazy.

I don’t follow the news very much, especially the nauseating celebrity news. But Glenn Beck mentioned Carrie Prejean (uh, again) recently, and it made me wonder about her. I know she was the Miss California bikini babe… and didn’t she become Miss World or Miss Universe or Miss Ississippi or something? And then news “broke” out about how she posed “inappropriately” (read: nude) for a magazine? And now there’s some chatter about a s*x tape she supposedly made when she was 17?

[INSERT: A WHAT?!?! When she was HOW OLD?!?!?! Just out of diapers, was it??]

Now, didn’t I hear a couple of months ago that Carrie Prejean said she was Christian? Didn’t she say something like this, quoted from CNN:

“I am a Christian, and I am a model,” she said. “Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos.”

Wait wait wait: Models may do this and that… but what about Christians? Christians DON’T pose in lingerie and swimwear photos. So what ARE you, Miss Prejean.. a model or a Christian? Because you can’t really be both. And let’s all face it– swimwear and lingerie companies don’t NEED models to hawk their stuff. They can sell their goods WITHOUT catalogs full of half-naked girls, yes they can. So I don’t think that it’s swimwear and lingerie that’s being sold here, do you?

She said the photos “have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith.”

Oh, honey, you’re doing JUST fine all by your little self.

“I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be,” she said. “But these attacks on me and others who speak in defense of traditional marriage are intolerant and offensive. While we may not agree on every issue, we should show respect for others’ opinions and not try to silence them through vicious and mean-spirited attacks.”

Rrrrrrrright. Ooooook. So you can be a Christian AND a nude model for Victoria’s Secret AND not be perfect. Well, I guess Jesus just didn’t know what He was talking about when he said, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt 5:48). If I recall, that’s from the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus in the same breath also said that looking at women to lust after them is adultery. Plus, I have an inkling that Miss Prejean has NO IDEA what Jesus meant when He said to be perfect, nor does she exhibit any desire to discover the meaning. Because while I don’t think Jesus meant that we are to be without mistake, ever, He SURELY didn’t mean that it was a-OK to pose nude or semi-nude in magazines because, well, we’re all *just* flawed human beings and can’t be perfect any-old-way!

Seems to me that this “flavor” of “Christianity,” which is becoming more and more prevalent amongst the young people in this country, is not Christianity at all. This kind of Prejean Christianity is basically just non-Jewish and non-Muslim, and therefore by default, is “Christianity.”

I made a handy-dandy little list for you, dear Reader, that you might use to detect the doctrines of Prejean Christianity:

• How LITTLE can I do for God and still be considered a Christian?
• When I sin and get caught, call everyone “mean-spirited”!
• When I sin and get caught, I must defend my sin and my past “mistakes,” and proclaim that “I’m not perfect” or “showed bad judgment.”
• When I sin and get caught, do something WILD and CRAZY– like defend some Conservative pet project and that will make ‘em come running to defend me!
• Know that blonde, naked teenager photos will end almost all dissent, and turn even “conservative” talk-show hosts into a blithering pool of drool unable to defend basic decency and Christian precepts– except for crabby women and real Christians, who cannot be fooled.
• Publicity is good, even if it’s a reproach against Christianity! Because at LEAST Christianity is being talked about!
• When people disagree with me, claim persecution and intolerance!
• The Bible doesn’t mean what it says. What I FEEL at the time is more meaningful.
• There is no hypocrisy posing nude in catalogs marketed for men’s lusts, and defending “traditional” marriage, not at all!
• We just won’t agree on everything, now, will we? So let’s just agree to disagree! Ok? Ok?

I’m an open-minded lady. People make “mistakes” and/or are just plain stupid idiots. I’m all for toleratin’ such jerks with a haughty air of snobbery, nobility, and condescension.

But sometimes you just need to unpack the boxing gloves and go pound for pound with the perp. Like David Letterman. David Letterman is a creep, a real creep. Not just because he guffaws about the thought of crimes toward a little girl, but because he’s a really creepy perv. And he’s old, waaay too old to be on TV. There’s too much injustice in a world where sensible Jay Leno retires and drooling demented Dave goes on and on and on. I say let’s tilt the world in our favor a little, and clamor for Letterman’s firing. The best days are behind him, anyway (yeah, like 136,824 days behind him).

I happened upon this disgusting video of Larry King interviewing Jeff Foxworthy, who pooh-poohed the incident (“it was just a joke, a bad joke…”) and called for “forgiveness.”

Rrrrright……

To help boost his sagging ratings To his credit, Letterman did say he was sorry (well, actually, he said his joke was “misunderstood”; how lame) to the Palin family, and invited them on his show for an “exciting” time, but Sarah and husband rebuffed it. I would, too. No– wait– actually, I WOULD show up on his show, to slap the dirty old man in the face before his adoring fan.

I hate how some people are treating this as Foxworthy and King are: “It was just a joke, and Letterman did say he was sorry.” Yeah, well, so did Don Imus. Hypocrites. You can bash a little girl and liberals giggle, but ooooo Hellfire awaits if you utter the blasphemous words “nappy-headed.” Give me a BREAK. And you just KNOW that if anyone, ANYONE breathed any kind of anything about the Obama girls, they’d be hanging from the White House gallows by now. Hypocrites. GAH!

P.S. And doesn’t it inflame you how the media is treating this?! GAH!!! Like this headline “SARAH PALIN ATTACKS DAVID LETTERMAN OVER “SEXUALLY PERVERTED” JOKE. What the hell?!?! A more truthful headline should say something like: DAVID LETTERMAN ATTACKS PALIN DAUGHTER WITH SEXUALLY PERVERTED JOKE. The media is so hateful I could puke.

…with that Entrecard ad that shows that teenaged girl (head and bare shoulders, lying on her side) making an obscene gesture.
I’VE HAD IT WITH SUCH A TASTELESS, CRAPPY, OBSCENE AD!

Where are the easily-offended people who ban Nativity Scenes for Christmas?! I could sure use a few of them right about now. They should go on a rampage and stop that nasty, obscene ad. It’s disgusting and I am SICK of seeing it everywhere. And I’m sick of my kids and friends seeing it everywhere. Can’t even surf the blogs without seeing that hellish, obscene, disgusting ad.

To the person who has that ad: PPPPPPTTTTTT. :-p