Thursday, September 10, 2009

You Are NOT Entitled to Treat the President with Disrespect

Imagine if Barbara Lee had jumped up and called Bush II a liar in a joint session of congress. Imagine!

You are not entitled to treat the president with disrespect because you have trouble letting go of old prejudices. Even if you are from the American South. 100+ years of denial is more than enough. You won't rise again, gas prices won't go down, and we'll never tolerate fascism for more than a few months after a huge disaster. No more owning people, no more judging them based on anything but the correlation between their words and their deeds. Now, Obama isn't doing things as quickly as I would like, or as much as I would like, but I'm still not sorry I voted for him, because he's *trying* to do the right thing. And if you think he's socialist, you haven't turned off Fox "News" and gotten up off your lazy ass long enough to even look up the word. Fascism is the current rising tide to be afraid of, and we cut it off at the knees in this country by electing Obama. It's still on the rise in tandem with radical fundamentalism in a lot of places around the globe (I'll bet you can name three, outside South Carolina!)....

Guess what, we all have lazy thought patterns and lingering prejudices, but we're getting over it. You are NOT entitled to drag down this country into a pit of hate.

In the more general sense, you are NOT entitled to sit around on your ass and have lazy opinions about issues that you've never bothered to investigate, especially hate-spewing opinions, because it is easier than turning off Fox "News" and doing a little research (which usually involves at least moving your ass from sofa to carseat to library chair, at a minimum).

But you ARE entitled to health care.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

UR Not Entitled to Cut People Off!

You know what? It is nobody's problem but your own if you planned your morning commute so badly that you are in the wrong lane when you need to turn left.

Now, I respect you more than the poor fool who thinks he is entitled to turn left from the *right* lane of a four lane road,

but,

you are not entitled. You blew it. Suck it up. Man up. Drive to the next corner and turn around, or turn right three times to make a left and try again. You are not entitled to hide from the fact that you JUST MADE A MISTAKE by trying to kill me with your motor vehicle.

But you ARE entitled to health insurance. Hope you fight for it like you fight for a crappy piece of road on the way to a crappy job with crappy health insurance.

Hey San Francisco, you are not entitled!

What pushed me over the edge was everyone coming back from vacation at 8:15 am on Brotherhood way.

I had it real nice all summer, just a few of us day jobbers wending our way from Parkside to Daly City BART via the "shortcut" along Brotherhood Way.

But when traffic got thick again, as it does at the beginning of every term, people started driving as if they were entitled to the space I occupied. As if they were entitled to cut me off, slam into my bumper, stop driving and start texting while their car was still going 45 mph.

So, instead of following you home and pretending to be your crazy lover to your husband or wife, I'm just going to 'splain this once.

You are not entitled (and neither am I)!