Weer'd World

Thought I’d share this little number with you:

Looks like Sesame Street is introducing a homeless muppet. We can argue if this is appropriate or not, and I don’t want to judge based just on the short clip. I would say that Sesame Street can do whatever it wants, being a TV show…well except its a PUBLIC TELEVISION show which takes tax payer dollars for its air time. Again, I won’t judge, but I think that we’re all paying for it, it should be held to a higher standard than say, the bullshit that was Captain Planet. Also I don’t see why Sesame Street should take a dime of public money when you look at all the merchandise they sell. I had Sesame Street merch when I was a kid, and rarely do I see a child’s toy box without toys, products, and books all under the Sesame Street brand. Frankly if they want to run their show ad free they could buy their air time outright, and if I was a network, I’d do everything I could to make sure they got a good deal on it because, while I sound like an old fart complaining about how Sesame was back in my time, I still believe in the product.

Ok but that rant wasn’t my point, my point is this partisan hack is using a PUPPET to push his agenda. Its a work of fiction, and its stylized and idealized for the sake of television and not confusing the issue. I can understand this for the sake of basic education, but when you take it further into political policy the argument starts looking like a Spherical Racehorse.

We’ve all known people who were homeless. Heck we probably know more “homeless people” than we think we know. Lots of people who by definition were people “between homes”. They didn’t have a bed to sleep in, but they crashed in their car, pitched a tent, or found a number of couches to surf. The more stereotypical people take some desperate measures to get back on their feet, get some money, and rent a room and get themselves out of the demographic.

Then there’s the smaller number, the people we see every day, year-after-year if you live in an urban setting. They are often mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or both. They may not want or LIKE being homeless (tho there are many who actually prefer it) but they like whatever lifestyle they have better than one that would be conducive to having a roof over their heads.

As for Hunger, I’m not sure of the actual numbers. I know the political groups will want to define the numbers in ways that make the funds flow the best. I will say that I would be amazed that a public assistance system that is so rife with abuse can feed all these mouths that could otherwise feed themselves, but not feed those who are truly hungry.

In the end, take a beef with a policy, take a beef with an actual event, that’s fine, and we can debate it, but don’t go taking a work of fiction and pointing at it as if its real. You won’t see me claiming we need to expand our gun rights because werewolves and vampires are real, and we need guns to kill them, you’re doing the same thing, and its shameful.

From Occupy Boston

Special treatment for Occupy Boston protesters?: MyFoxBOSTON.com

So the protestors are able to camp out on grounds where it is otherwise illegal, and they are being supplied with public funds to power their equipment (capitalist possessions), and clean their mess…not to mention what it will cost to return the greenway to its original condition after these people have trampled and abused it.

The reporter asked the Mayor if he and his family would be allowed to camp at the Boston Public Gardens, and he was told he could not because he “Didn’t Have a Cause”. I think we can all agree that what mumbles really meant was “don’t have a cause that Tom Menino agrees with”. You see Tom Menino, is a “Progressive” which we all know means “Socialist”, he’s also the co-Chair of Mayors against illegal guns, a group that is a Joyce Foundation political group.

If I were to have an Open Carry camp-in on public lands where camping was illegal I, and all my compatriots would likely not sleep in a tent, but a jail cell, and we would have our property, and our rights confiscated.

Selective Enforcement of the law is the first sign of Tyranny, and Tom Menino is showing his Marxist stripes.

BTW THESE are the people who are protesting

Where do you stand?

I haven’t talked much about the Occupy Wall Street protests
Big #1: Waiving signs and chanting accomplishes NOTHING, be it hippies looking to end the War in Viet Nam, PETA attempting to get us to stop eating tasty animals, or the Tea Party.

#2. A Socialist protest against the rich organized by George Soros and his Move on.org, and the total disjointed nature of the event doesn’t seem to warrant much interest from me.

Still Others have said it better than I could so here they are:
North over at the Gun Blog Black List Slow Children Playing (great photos, and GREAT title and analogy!0

Robb over at Sharp as a Marble, and a direct reflection from Jay . Two hard working family men who did it all on their own through hard work, not taking kindly to slackers and losers demanding a peice of their blood, sweat, and tears.

Linoge points out what we all know, that these people are not the bight shining stars of the world.

Last, Karl over at Ushanka points out the danger of Communism that these idiots are calling for.

Marxism, over the last century has been tried all over the world by many different nations, most of them ended in extermination of its own people by its “Altruistic” government. It really deserves the title of “Failed Social Experiment of the 20th Century”, and those who still cling to its tenants and call themselves “Progressives” are indeed idiots, useful or otherwise.

I am a student of history and I know what I don’t want to see befall my land. That being said, these morons don’t offer much threat except to cleanliness of New York’s urine-scented streets.

BTW if we indeed had a communist system, these people would have nothing to contribute and would likely be the first to be executed.