Partisan Warriors

For those that drink to deeply from the koolaid, believe everything that is shoveled to them and espouse definitive generalized statements just because of a D or R that is associated a persons name. Grow a pair and learn to think critically.

If you have a singular news source and especially if it is a talk show host (radio, TV, print, and internet) then start getting other sources. For example World News Network. News from all over the world, from all sorts of different backgrounds and political alignment. Because where you get information is not nearly as important as the accuracy of that information. Your political talking points distributors and those that make masses amounts of money pedaling fear and hate is not the best sources of news. In fact no matter how accurate a personality (radio, TV, print, and internet) they don't usually source their comments, and if they do, it can simply be their take on what that source is saying. Or in some examples the source is simply another personalities opinion... this is of course more rampant at Fox News than anywhere else.

As a progressive liberal, whom is also a bottom line fiscal conservative, let me tell you I have listened to too many personalities that are President Obama apologist as well. Then I have heard those that simply regurgitate what they have heard on radio or TV, and not source any of it. I have been guilty of that with numbers myself... even after I read them the number that I heard will trump the number that I read. Titillation is king I guess.

However there are to many that don't even try. The Left side is LESS prone to do this than the Right. The Left personalities frames things in a different fashion than the Right personalities, whom just tells you what to think. The main apologist in my sphere are Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, and Mario Solis-Marich. The right wing talkers here that tow party line and fear monger are to numerous to mention. The point is that blind loyalty to someone else's view point is lazy and stupid for the sake of being lazy and stupidly uninformed.

Yes I know that staying informed takes work. But if you are going to have a strong opinion know why you have it. Read and source your belief system by at least reading bills and how certain political figures have voted and ask those leaders to explain their reasoning.

Why this rampage through the lazy leading the dumb, or lazier? Well It has always been a pet peeve. But more to the point I was reading the local news on one of the local TV channel sites about Governor Ritter deciding not to run for a second term. Of course like all sites now there was a comment area that for some weird reason my browser takes me to on that site before the story (that irks me too) low and behold the first thing I read is about how Ritter and the Democrats are ruining the country and making it safe for terrorist. And I am thinking, "Oh for the love of Pete!" I read on and the argument tends to rage between Big D Democrats, Big R Republicans, Big C Conservatives, and Big L Liberals that spew generalization after generalization all regurgitated from talking points from political talk personalities. Not an original idea amongst them and almost nothing to do with Governor Ritter's service. I say almost nothing because I didn't read it all and saw nothing that directly pertained to Governor Ritter. Almost completely about slurs.

Unbelievable!

Ok I'm not one for the gossip pages or celebrity rags. I am actually starting to loath these professional experts and their worthless conjure and overall stupidity. Ok before I completely lose you let me explain.

The other night I was sitting watching TV and on came a one of those complete waste of energy and airwaves with t5he top 10 celeb scandals of 2009, most of the celebs I have never heard of and most of the "scandals" I was blissfully unaware of. However my back was hurting from a home improvement project I was failing at and the remote was across the room. So I figured that some mind numbing celeb claptrap would be the perfect thing to let my mind wander to figuring out the problem I had encountered.

However one of the celebs I did know. David Carradin (sp?). Not that I am a fan or care about him... I just didn't know that he had died so it did grab my attention. Almost immediately when they started talking about the auto-erotic asphyxiation I started to lose interest and even more so when Medical Examiner and professional limelight hound, Dr. Batra (I don't care if I spell his name right) started conjuring. I really don't like the Quincy want-to-be's. They seem to only care about fame and don't have Krugman's character. I was tuning the tv back out when another Quincy want-to-be that seemed to be a vapid man with pretty face with the title of, I believe, "Expert Forensic Detective" said the weirdest thing... behind lines of conjure and likely self importantly babbling about fetishisms, the strutting moron intoned, "And it is important to investigate the possibility of crossdressing!" With an almost comical seriousness to him. How moronic can one get. Not the moron per say. Well the hateful moron too, but the show and the network that allows that misinformed tripe to be aired.

First in the purely sexual context it is called Transvestic Fetishism. Second it is not important. Nor is the any of the other sexual preference/fetishes. I don't care about his fame, or the exact way that he died. That is a dysfunction all of its own to be that into the morbidity details. It does matter if he was with 3 girls, two boys and a Bruce Lee look-a-like while hanging upside down from a giant phallus when he died. If the issue should be the poor man died no matter how, and if the people directly or indirectly responsible for his accidental death fled and/or didn't take responsibility for their actions.

And if David was a Crossdresser and wasn't just into the sexual fetishism of it, then more power to him. But it makes no difference his death and least of all is not important to his death that it has to be banded about in the same way one would say "it is important to note that X had several bouts with CANCER!"

So spotlight seeking hack (I don't know his name, nor is he important enough to waste my time to justify him by looking up what it might be) and those that listen to such spotlight seeking hacks. And actually to the bigotry against the Transgendered. Crossdressing is not a disease. You can't catch it, it isn't fatal nor does it even make one sick. It is almost more a fashion choice and gender identity expression. If you don't wear the clothing of the opposite gender that you were born (GG be careful to judge here I would guess that 95% of you or more have crossdressed), it should not be seen as anything more controversial than big floppy hats.