Rantings Of A Mad Rodent

Ah, cringe moments! You know those moments that you take to look at an old photo from high school or the club, and cringe at the sight of your bad perm or ridiculous outfit? Yeah, we've all been there, but at worst, it was only a source of laughter and not shame. Being in my 40's, an old Polariod picture from the 70's and 80's is about the only thing people my age have to worry about, unlike today's kids. Considering today's technology, young people would gladly trade with us!

The reason I'm writing this, is because after seeing a few young women posing for very graphic pictures, I began to wonder, "How is the going to go over when they get into their 30's and 40's?". I don't think that our young people TRULY realize that what's on the internet, STAYS on the internet. That threesome you allowed yourself to be filmed participating in and uploaded, ain't going nowhere, but that topless photo grandma took back in the 60's is probably long gone by now. I have a friend who took nude pictures for his girlfriend in high school in the 80's. He's at a Fortune 500 company now, because his prospective employee couldn't do a "search" for him on the internet. Conversely, we've all heard the story of the young man who didn't get the job, because someone in Human Resources found racy pictures that he'd upload to a page that he'd deleted YEARS earlier. Again, what's on the internet, STAYS on the internet!

It's cool to have fun and get "caught up" in the moment, as long as you don't get "caught up". I guarantee you, having someone see a picture of me from the 70's in bell bottoms, won't be nearly as bad as a prospective mate seeing a picture of you in college taking on 3 guys at once! You can burn a picture and trash a VHS tape, and know that it's destroyed. But when you hit that "delete" button, that doesn't mean that it's gone, it just means that YOU don't have it anymore. It's still there, and it WILL show up at the least opportune time. Guys, the next time you plop your privates out to take a picture for an "adult" forum, or you girls decide to "take it off" for the digital camera, realize that the young you will get a pass, but the old you will be paying for it. Think about it.

When you see Americans finishing last in worldwide polls that measure matters of common sense and intelligence, do you ever wonder how? I mean, we have some very brilliant people in this country, so how come we keep coming in last in these studies? I use to wonder that, but in the last 9 years, that little mystery kinda cleared itself up.

We have greedy ass old people wrecking town hall meetings trying to stop this "government run health care", even though they get Medicare and Medicaid. They're also saying that they don't want any socialist programs, even though they're receiving social security, a program that was modeled after a German socialist program. Why are they protesting against something that they already get themselve? Good question. We also have people against Obama's healthcare plan, just because they were told to. Nevermind the fact that most of these people are without health insurance. One ignorant ass lady said, "My deductable is $5000, and I don't want Obama messing that up." What?!! Obama even look directly into the camera and said, "If you like your current plan, you get to keep it.". What were the responses of the scared stupid Americans? "He's trying to take away my plan!". Can't you just smell the brilliance?

We had parents who were so mad that Obama's speech to school kids would be broadcast to students, that threatened to pull their kids out of school. You know, the usual "Eat your veggies and stay in school" line Presidents say to school kids? But now it seems that scared white people have been convinced that this speech is going to be a "brainwashing session". Even whole school districts were refusing to show it. Are you fucking kidding me?! You honest think that the President would get on camera and try to tell kids some shit that even you frightened ass racist parents don't understand? Don't you find it funny, that the parents who are concerned that their kids are going to be brainwashed, have been brainwashed themselves? "They've awakened a sleeping giant!", huh? Oddly enough, that "giant" was sleeping peacefully when the country was being run into the ground by the Bush administration.

Osama bin Laden and 11 other men from Saudi Arabia, with support from the Taliban in Afghanistan, attacked us on 9/11. We invaded Iraq. To this day, there are seemingly intelligent adults who still think that Sadam Hussain was behind the 9/11 attacks, even though there is concrete proof that he wasn't. Those who mentioned this fact, were called traitors and anti American by the stupid scared Americans. France saw through the rouse, and refused to participate. The stupid scared Americans responded by renaming french fries "freedom fries". We were so scared and stupid, that we willingly gave up our constitutional rights. Americans like to play the "founding fathers" card, when they want to justify doing something evil like the Patriot Act, but somehow, Ben Franklin's quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety", doesn't seem to get mentioned. Wrong founding father I suppose. I guess they meant the one who said it was okay for them to wipe their collective asses with the Constitution.

Since "soccer moms" was already taken, Pres. Bush came up with "NASCAR dads", and now you have unemployed white men with no jobs or health insurance thinking they're Republicans! Then there was fight to put copies of the Ten Commandments in every government building. The proponents said that this country was built on the Ten Commandments, they just never mentioned that they broke every last one of them to build it! Americans specialize in short memories and stupidity.

And now we have the latest attraction in the main ring, the Tea Baggers and the Sarah Palin fanclub. Cue up the music and pass the cotton candy.