Monthly Archives: September 2003

Snootch to the Mother Fucking Noonch

Monday, September 8, 2003

OK, I'm probably taking a break from posting much “real content” here for about a week. I don't know if my writing is getting more esoteric or people reading it are getting dumber, but some of the feedback I'm getting lately is so over the top insane in its ignorance that I think I'm losing brain cells reading it… and it's definitely putting my irritation level through the roof.

I mean, if people said to me “Shannon, I don't agree with (insert item from my page) because (insert logic)” I wouldn't mind; if anything I'd enjoy it. But I do not enjoy, “Shannon, I don't agree with (insert something I never said) because (insert logical fallacy)“. It's mind numbing. And in any case, I've got a lot of work to do.

But before I go…

My contemporaries, our feelings and sensitivities were forged on the battlefields of Vietnam, where we heard the garbage and the lies, and we saw the sacrifice. I ask you, is it happening again?
- General Anthony Zinni

Check out Justin Raimondo's commentary on Bush's speech. One more quote though.

The occupation force is primarily responsible for the pure blood that was spilt in holy Al-Najaf, the blood of al-Hakim and the faithful group that was present near the mosque. This force is primarily responsible for all this blood and the blood that is shed all over Iraq every day. Iraq must not remain occupied and the occupation must leave so that we can build Iraq as God wants us to do.
- Aziz al-Hakim

Welcome to the future of Iraq. Read Gary Leupp's commentary… the “funny” thing is that 69% of Americans (still) think that Iraq was behind 9/11. Well, that may not be true, but you can bet there's a real good chance that they'll be behind the next one, which all these actions are pretty much guarantee will come and will kill plenty of innocent Americans.

Well, enjoy the death everyone, be it from guns, bombs, or cancer.

Myself, I'm all about oceans and sailboats and a little farm where I can grow food. The farming part's easy, and well, as far as the sailboat and ocean, I hear all you need is a phatty boom batty blunt… And a mermaid might even get thrown in for good measure.

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Mooooo

Sunday, September 7, 2003

I'm looking forward to having some visitors (???*) later today. Other than that I'm continuing to build the massive pile of backups and then will begin work on an image update for Monday or more likely Tuesday. I'm still being pummelled by worms as well.

I wanted to mention a thought I had about hypocrisy; now, I should preface this by saying that I've spent plenty of my life being a hypocrite and probably still am on many levels — we all are to one extent or another. I'd also like to preface this by saying it's an observation, not a judgement! Emphasis on that!

Anyway, corporations (and governments) “eat” just like we do. While we need calories and nutrients and such, they need money to sustain themselves. In order to get it, they can act ethically and in a fashion that helps people, or they can ignore all that and make money without concerning themselves with how it affects people — as we see now, by warmongering. Throughout the world right now we're seeing wars being waged for one reason alone — to put money into the hands of corporations.

Sure, other reasons get listed and argued about, but ultimately those are (a) distractions, and more frighteningly (b) creations of the corporations and governments — most obviously so in the very public “evidence” debacles the US corporation is going through, although they are far from unique in this action. Even these silly religious wars are purely a corporate and governmental manipulation — there are periods of history (Spain is one very obvious example) where we've seen vibrant Muslim and Christian communities living and working together…

But after all, why should a corporation care about people?

Let's break that back to people… People don't need to eat meat or animal products to survive and be healthy. Some of the world's top athletes are vegans, and there are a number of cultures with very long life expectancies that are vegan. That's not really up for debate. What's also not up for debate is that eating meat and meat products involves the killing, suffering, and enslavement of animals. So basically, whether you support it or not, meat product consumption is recreational killing.

Now, if you want to support that, that's cool, but you really have to also support war and carnage and abuse of others in general… I guess the question is, how can a person have an anti-corporate or anti-war stance, but not be a vegan without falling prey to hypocrisy? They're basically metaphors for one another… Anyway, just an observation. Most of my friends eat meat.

Update: I just had to share one hilarious message someone sent me… They said “but Shannon, you aren't minimizing the killing of animals by not eating meat — if you don't eat that steak, someone else will”, which gave me visions of meat eaters having to eat more and more and more as less people eat meat.

Anyway, obviously that argument holds about as much water as serial date rapers saying, “hey, if I don't rape this chick, the next dude will, so what the hell, I'm gettin' laid tonight….” Change begins with a single person.


* ie. I don't know if he's going to make it, not “I don't know if I'm looking forward to it”.

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Want a PA ride? Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Saturday, September 6, 2003

OK, this is very poorly drawn, but here at BME we're equal opportunity pervos. Seriously though, this is just a 30 second whip-up… If one of the many artists wants to give it a better go, please do so; feel free to extend the theme. People seem to like this kind of thing, but just don't ask us to stoop to I'm not playing with myself, I'm adjusting my jewelry levels…

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By request…

Saturday, September 6, 2003

OK, I'm not going to reveal the pervo who asked for this shirt to be designed, but here it is. If you think it's a good idea, you know where to make your voice heard.

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Cry me a river

Saturday, September 6, 2003

To all the people who are messaging me and having whine-o-rama parties about a member of the “black eye” club that was removed, you really ought to clue in to what's going on. First, this bs crap that's being spread like “oh, he was only removed because friends of Shannon didn't like he uses 'gay' as an insult”. First of all, it's not a secret that gay bashing isn't cool here. Second, it's irrelevant who files the complaints. Third, that's something that would get a warning, not a removal, unless they refused to stop — which incidentally they did, but that was not the final reason.

The person in question was removed because they have a history of causing problems, including hacking their ex-girlfriend's account in order to spy on and harass them — yeah, maybe you're OK with that because this all is a popularity contest, but I'm not going to support what amounts to online rape. This was followed up by continually getting in fights, promising to stop, and reneging on those promises.

So, if you have concerns about the way something was handled feel free to contact me privately, but spamming people you don't even know to try and get them to write me and complain is just going to guarantee that your stalker buddy doesn't come back, and spamming isn't something that's going to be tolerated either. So grow up; get a life. If you don't think you can act like an adult, go get a livejournal site instead where you can live up the drama all you like.

This is not the place for this sort of petty garbage.

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