It's been too long fellow ranters and ravers. I've been away, but now I'm back and with gusto. What inspired me to return? Well, I'd like to RAVE about my reasoning. I never much cared for the RAVE side of RANT-RAVE. I always much preferred to RANT. When I write a RAVE, it's usually like this one...nothing but sarcastic irony.
So, today, I'm going to simultaneously RAVE about my return by RAVING about some of the stuff I've been reading – which is partly why I've returned. The promise I made was not to write another minute for any website until I had finished my own first novel. Well, it's finally done and in the proverbial can. So, quite by chance, the other day checked my email and saw that some of my Rant-Rave friends had just posted. Some are all fancy with new titles like "Moderator" – hmm, very cool. I was immediately drawn back. You have to understand that back when I was first involved, I was the number 1 RANT / RAVER for quite a while. I spent hours and hours a day writing, researching, and publishing. I published 236 Rants and Raves with over 114,500 page views. It became, sort of, an obsession. I suddenly realized one day that as much as I loved it, it wasn't going to make me a life-changing income, and maybe I had ideas that needed to be told in another way. We'll see on that.
So, this morning, I wrote my first RANT and published it a while ago. Now I have to wait 30 minutes to publish my first RAVE – sorry, but that's change for the worse even if it does prevent spamming. When you've written as much as I have, you should be immune to that restriction.
Anyway, I'd like to take a moment to RAVE about some of the 'great' stuff I've read on Rant-Rave...so here goes!
Say It's So / Make It So, One-Sided Baloney About Islam Written by Revisionistic Malarkey Slingers Who Don't Know The First Thing About It but that Which Is Fed to Them by FOXNews and CompanyThe neo-conservative baloney being written about Islam is patently repulsive and there is a serious amount of education that needs to be accomplished. I'm sorry to offend, but anyone who calls Islam a blood thirsty religion needs to go back and start their history education over again. Talk to the Indigenous People of North America, the Hawai'ians, the descendants of the Aztecs and Mayans (yes they are still alive all over South and Central America), the people of India, and so on. Go back and read about the Crusades. Read the history of the Irish Republican Army. If you want to join in on a conspiracy to create a new enemy in the world because we "defeated" the communists in the USSR and sold all our debt to the communists of China and call it the people of Islam, then I guess that's your right, but you'll have to do it armed with facts not the fiction that is right-wing, neo-conservative dogma. It's great at stirring up fascists but not based in reality.
Glen Beck Syndrome RisingOh my such juicy conspiracy theories have been stirred up as to cause anyone with a penchant for logic and / or real research skills to have a hey-day! There have been some doozies published, and I cannot wait to get back into the fray. My favorite, though, has to be the one about the President deciding to commit US military might to the UN-Sanctioned, Arab League-supported Libyan no-fly zone to cover up the damage being done to the world by the horrible Japanese people who apparently used a secret machine to first devastate their nation with an earthquake and subsequently drown the remains with an epic tsunami all to cover up their real intention of poisoning the world with radioactive water produced by their diabolical radioactive water-making gizmos! Woo-hoo, let the fun begin!
What's Good for the Goose isn't Good for the Gander After AllSeems like GOPers don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot. When their President Bush took us headstrong into two useless and pointless wars that were desired by no one, they were going in with shock & awe philosophy. When he controlled both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, his stooge, Karl Rove was salivating the installation of a permanent majority for the GOP in the US government for centuries to come. Unfortunately, it turned out the people were more interested in the price of gas, their jobs, having health care, and a bright vision of the future and removed Bush's three branch control first in the House (which turns over every 2 years) and then in the Executive Office. So, Obama had control of two houses for two years, Bush had control of three for six years, and yet the GOPers are whining and dining about total executive control of the the US????? This is just but one more example in a list that must be 50 items long of forked-tongue rhetoric spewed on a moment by moment basis from the slime balls on radical right. Oh my, I've been asleep at the wheel too long!
That's enough for my first RAVE back, bravo to the pot stirrers who are going to make my next few months a lot of fun as we go toe to toe.