How can you stand it?

You wake up with bruises in the grim light of dawn

Spread on the makeup, so no one can see

Paste on a smile, and go through the day

Pretending you're happy, and safe, and free

What he does to you isn't love or even sex

Just a safe way for him to purge his twisted crap

You exist as his slave, as his toxic waste dump

And he goes merrily on his way, leaving you in the trap

Well I know the truth and it fills me with rage

That a so-called man could do this to you

To lock such a kind, gentle spirit in a cage

And I'm dying to help, so tell me what I can do

You say that there isn't anyone else who can love you

You say you deserve all the shit that you've gotten

You say that you're flawed, that you're bad, it's your fault

But there's nothing wrong with you, and it's his soul that's rotten

You're too damned smart to believe all his bullshit

You're too damned talented to be sealed in a cave

Too rare and too valuable to be allowed to die

There are too few like you, and you have to be saved

How can you stand it, to live like that?

To exist for his pleasure, to submerge your own soul?

You've so much to offer, but he couldn't care less

And the longer you're with him, the deeper the hole

Where do these “men” come from, from under what rock

do they all keep crawling? There are more here each day

What corruption of nature allows for their existence?

Who told them that life was for them to have their way?

They're savage little vermin, no heart and all teeth

Lacking the balls to be men on their own

So they beat you, and rape you, and leave you there broken

When where they belong is a cell built of stone

They catch you when you're young, and feel out of place

They tell you they need you, how pretty you are

They isolate you, say they're your only friend

So why are you home bleeding, while they're out at the bar?

They're just like jackals cutting weaklings from the herd

They seek out the vulnerable, the sad and the scared

They're oh so charming, when they're luring you in

By the time you realize what they are you've been snared

How can they stand it, to be like that?

They must realize that they're nothing but scum

Can they really believe what they're doing is normal?

Do they search for excuses, when they know there are none?

And you who have seen it, who know what goes on

Who have friends being raped, being beaten and abused

Yeah you, remaining silent, not getting involved

Might not be your crime, but you're still not excused

You know who you are, and you know the excuses

“I slipped on the ice”, “I walked into a door”

You know what it means, and yet you ignore it

Well your hugs and your silence aren't enough any more

If you don't try to help her, then it's partly your fault

That you're looking at her casket, standing there in the rain

I hope you can live with yourself when it's over

And he's off hunting with the pack once again

How can we all stand it, to leave them like that?

We all know about it, but we keep walking by

It's happening all around us, God damn it we know it

No one's doing anything, and I want to know why

Huh? I don't get it.

I just watched "The Big Lebowski", after searching for "funniest movies" lists. I'm a Coen Brothers fan, I loved Raising Arizona (laughed like hell through the whole movie), liked "OH Brother! Where Art Thou?", so I figured it was a safe bet for some laughs. But "The Big Lebowski", sorry to say, wasn't funny at all. I mean John Goodman was funny, as always, but even he didn't get one out-loud laugh out of me. All the actors did a good job, it just wasn't a funny movie. And I certainly don't get the whole "cult" thing. Sorry to all you cult members.

Happy Independence Day

We seem to be losing much of  our independent spirit these days, And by that I mean independence from the government and particularly the two parties, but have a happy 4th anyway. Where's the corn-on-the-cob?

My World Cup pick

I'm rooting for the team whose fans kill the fewest people.

You know what really pisses me off...

...about this story? Well, read it first.

U.S. teenagers charged over suicide of Irish 'new girl' targeted in 'relentless' school bullying campaign

Nine U.S. teenagers have been charged with driving a 15-year-old 'new girl' from Ireland to kill herself, it has been revealed. Phoebe Prince faced an 'unrelenting' bullying campaign from fellow pupils after she started school in the Massachusetts town of South Hadley last year. The teenager, who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Clare with her mother and three sisters, was stalked and harassed from September until she killed herself on January 14. Pheobe was found hanging by her younger sister in a stairwell at the family home. She was still wearing her school clothes.

The 15-year-old was allegedly targeted by a group known as the 'Mean Girls' after she started dating a popular senior football player at her school. Pupils said Phoebe was called 'Irish slut' and 'whore' on Twitter, Craigslist, Facebook and Formspring. Her books were knocked out of her hands, items were flung at her, her face was scribbled out of photographs on the school walls, and threatening text messages were sent to her cell phone.

Announcing the charges, prosecutor Elizabeth Scheibel said: 'Their conduct far exceeded the limits of normal teenage relationship-related quarrels. 'The investigation revealed relentless activities directed towards Phoebe to make it impossible for her to stay at school. The bullying for her was intolerable. 'The actions of these students were primarily conducted on school grounds during school hours and while school was in session.' Mrs Scheibel revealed the Phoebe had suffered a 'tortuous' day when she decided to take her own life. She added: 'From information known to investigators thus far, it appears that Phoebe's death on January 14 followed a tortuous day for her, in which she was subjected to verbal harassment and threatened physical abuse. 'The harassment occurred while she studied in the school's library around lunch period, walked in the school's hallways near the end of the school day and after school, as she walked toward her home.' She added that numerous faculty members, staff members and administrators at South Hadley High School were aware of the bullying - some even witnessed physical abuse - and did nothing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262487/Phoebe-Prince-9-US-teenagers-charged-suicide-death-Irish-new-girl.html

Ok, beyond the obvious need to take the nine utterly worthless excuses for human beings that tormented the poor girl and remove them from the planet, there is so much more about this story that pisses me off, and so many more people than the nine defendants who need to pay for this crime. 

The story showed an inspiring photo of a candlelight vigil of students at her school, showing how much they cared, and how much they miss their dear Phoebe. WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU WHEN SHE WAS GETTING BULLIED EVERY FRIGGING DAY IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSES? Laughing nervously or moving off would be my bet. Cowardly hypocrites, every friggin' one of you. You let her die just as much as if you stood on the dock watching her drown. Go ahead, tack every cute fluffy teddy bear on Earth to her fence, it won't ever make up for letting her be bullied to death. You'd better not call yourselves Americans in my hearing, because Americans don't allow bullying of the weak, you cowards.

And how can it be possible that "numerous faculty members, staff members and administrators at South Hadley High School were aware of the bullying - some even witnessed physical abuse - and did nothing"? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? And if it is true that staff did nothing, how can they retain their jobs while at the same time the school asks parents to believe that their children are kept safe at Hadley School? Someone from Hadley School wanna explain THAT one to me?

Here's the part that really, really makes me think that someone should bulldoze that school, and the town it sits in, and probably the state as well, and if they need a driver, let me be the first to apply: 

"Mrs Scheibel said the investigation looked at whether the adults' failure to help Phoebe amounted to criminal behavior. 'In our opinion, it did not,' she said. 'Nevertheless, the actions - or inactions - of some adults at the school are troublesome.' An anti-bullying expert has said anti-bullying policies at Phoebe's school were not rigorous enough.

"Not criminal"? Doesn't Massachusetts have a "Good Samaritan" law that requires you to help? They put Seinfeld away with it in the last episode, didn't they? And "Troublesome"? Excuse me? You find it "troublesome" that supposed "educators" stood around doing nothing while they watched a girl be tormented into suicide? What is that, British understatement? It's a hell of lot more than "troublesome" to me, and I don't even have kids! DO NOT PROTECT THOSE CRIMINAL STAFF MEMBERS WHO ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN!

"Anti-bullying policies at Phoebe's school were not rigorous enough". And "But Marlene Snyder of Clemson University's Institute on Family and Neighbourhood Life said laws and policies don't necessarily help if schools don't follow through with intensive training for teachers and staff. 'In defence of teachers, very few of them have ever had training on bullying prevention, much less how to intervene without making the situation worse,' she said. 'Some people don't understand the dramatic and devastating effect that this kind of treatment can have on a child.'"

You've got to be shitting me. Not enough training? Ummm, does the fucking word COLUMBINE ring any bells with you so-called "teachers"? Do you really, really, really need to write down in the fucking school handbook that it's not permissible to knock people's books out of their hands, threaten and beat on them all day, call them "Irish slut", and follow them home? Really? Do you fucking so-called progressive, enlightened "teachers" REALLY need someone to tell you to step in and stop a fight before someone dies? Bulldoze the whole state. I'm serious.

They'll just have to buy bigger guns.

Or maybe a Hummvee.

Police barred from penis enlargement

Fri Apr 23, 12:10 pm ET

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia's Papua if you have had your penis enlarged. You won't get it, according to local media reports citing the Papua police chief.

An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged," said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto, quoted on local website Kompas.com.

"If he has, he will be considered unfit to join the police or the military."

The ban was applied since the unnatural size causes "hindrance during training," said police spokesman Zainuri Lubis in Jakarta, quoted by news portal Detik.com.

Indonesia's remote easternmost province is home to Papuan tribes, many of whom are known for wearing penis gourds.

A low-level separatist insurgency has waged in the resources-rich part of Indonesia for decades and there is a heavy police and military presence there.

Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according to a sexologist quoted by local newspaper Jakarta Globe, wrapping the penis with leaves from the "gatal-gatal" (itchy) tree so that it swells up "like it has been stung by a bee," the expert said.

(Reporting by Olivia Rondonuwu; Editing by Sara Webb and Sanjeev Miglani)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100423/od_nm/us_indonesia_police

For all of you who couldn't afford to take driver's ed.

These are some things that the drivers around me have obviously never been taught.

1. Turn signals are warning devices for other drivers of what you ARE ABOUT TO DO. Not what you're already doing. Therefore, turning them on after you've already hit the brakes for your turn is useless, rude, dangerous, and stupid. So turn on your friggin' blinker BEFORE you start to do whatever it is your blinker is warning us of. Morons.

2. On-ramps are designed to give you the time and room to get up to the speed of the cars you're about to merge with, and to pick a safe spot to merge into them. That means that you should be actually LOOKING at the traffic on the highway for an empty spot LONG BEFORE YOU GET THERE. Waddling up the on-ramp at 30 miles per hour, redoing your eye makeup (yes, I've seen it), waiting until you get within thirty feet of a string of cars doing 75 before you look or accelerate, is useless, rude, dangerous, and stupid. So wake the hell up and LOOK, and look early for a spot to blend into, at THEIR SPEED. Idiots.

2. b. On-ramps are designed to give the guy behind you the time and room to get up to the speed of the cars he's about to merge with, and to pick a safe spot to merge into them, without being forced to wait for the last thirty feet of ramp to go from 30 to 75. Dragging your ass, making him and those behind him pile up behind you, so that all 5 of you reach the highway in a chunk together at 30 mph to merge with a string of cars doing 75 is useless, rude, dangerous, and stupid.  So speed the hell up and pick a spot early to smoothly blend in with the highway traffic, at their speed. Dumbasses.

2. c. On-ramps are designed to give the guy ahead of you the time and room to get up to the speed of the cars he's about to merge with, and to pick a safe spot to merge into them without being pushed into a bad spot in traffic from behind. His adjustments in speed while picking his spot could mean braking. Sitting on his ass without allowing some space for his potential braking (and your accelerating) is useless, rude, dangerous, and stupid.  So slow the hell down at first, let the guy ahead of you get some space, and pick a spot early to smoothly blend in with the highway traffic, at their speed. Retards. 

3. Do I really have to mention cell phones? Ok, texting has been found to slow reaction time more than alcohol or marijuana. U cn wait 2 fnd out wat ur bff's bf hd fr lnch. Pinheads.

4. If you or your car are unable to do the speed limit, stay the fuck home. You useless, rude, dangerous, and stupid dimwits.

5. Passing lanes are for exactly that: passing. Loafing along at 60 in the passing lane, especially when you're staying in formation with the guy on your right, while cars pile up behind you is useless, rude, dangerous, and stupid. Get moving or get out of the way. Dolts.

I may add to this later. Ninnies.