Our Bizzaro World?
Bizzaro World is a place in the comic book (Sorry – Graphic Novel) universe… supposed fiction.
Yet every day some current news item hints that it is becoming more and more real. Could be my advancing age, or my own personal illusion of reality, but I gotta wonder aloud here.
I won’t waste your time with my own lengthy list of such seeming portents of this shift of realities other than offering this: The immediate trigger for this post takes the form of a cute young lady and her words, but ALSO in my case she seems a harbinger rather then just an idiot.
Hmm… It may well highlight my concerns to add a sort of disclaimer. I’m not certain I can use the term “cute young woman” without being denigrated as a sexist.
So, MY opinion about Marie Harf is mine alone and NOT the opinion of this blog.
If you can also cite similar concerns about Bizzaro World encroaching on your reality I’d ask that you only put your personally most egregious single example in the comments. On the other hand, if nobody else actually HAS any such it’ll entertain my shrink so I win regardless.
Category: Geezer Alert!
VPOTUS: Pssst…Hey, Ash, you know your wife is really HOT ???
SECDEF: I’m sorry, Mr. Vice President ???
VPOTUS: Yup, she’s HOT !!! She’s a Big Fucking Real Deal !!! …
Oops, wrong thread…
Just to make a comment on the CORRECT thread, Harfy is a moronic dilettante who certainly had no business working for the CIA, and definitely has no business serving as the number two mouthpiece at State…
Well, youse guys all like Robert Heinlein, right?
IN 1956, ‘Have Spacesuit – Will Travel’ was published. The invading enemy was a tripodal species that the main character Kip referred to as Wormface. Wormface and its crowd had established a base of operations on Pluto, abducted two twits and planted bombs in their heads and turned them into their go-betweens, because these two were the innocuous sort, the kind that no one would notice. The Wormfaces also had a base on the Moon, not too far from Earth’s Moonbase.
Wormface’s species had its sights set on Earth, a planet that was (in their words) empty of any intelligent life. When Mother Thing took Kip and Peewee to the Magellanic Clouds for a hearing as to the fate of the human race, Wormface was there, too.
The Wormfaces did not recognize any government other than their own as legitimate. All other species were animals and were meant to be destroyed. They owed allegiance only to their Queen. They would destroy all of us, meaning all species present at the Three Galaxies hearing.
It may have been published in 1956, but I see no difference between Wormface and ISIS.
I keep thinking about “1984” myself. However, yer referenced is more ‘on target’.
So, Wormface knocked up a human and named the baby Scruff Face?
Nope. They made soup out of their prisoners.
… why did a joke about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian suddenly pop into my head when I read that?
One of Heinlein’s BEST juvenile novels! That’s the book that got me hooked on science fiction. I’ve heard plans that there’s a movie of it in the works – one can only pray that they don’t screw it up like they did “Starship Troopers.”
Wow … thanks, Ex-PH2! I have to get my copy out and re-read it now … it’s been a long time since I looked through that one!
Watch “Predestination” – it’s based on “All You Zombies” and other than adding a few fillips, did a reasonably good job of catching the flavor of a GREAT short story.
I have always thought “Double Star” was one of the most underrated books he ever did. And one of the best expositions of practical politics.
Was one of the humans a Roman Soldier, who thought of the other humans as “barbarians”? The hero won the space suit in a contest? I read that a long time ago.
Almost as long ago as when I first read this thread. How did I get here? I thought it looked familiar.
Hate Crimes are my bizarro world issue….
why is it more of a crime to beat up a gay man than my grandma?
The real issue was cops/prosecutors/judges treating gay beatings different than grandma beatings, instead of dealing with the cops/prosecutors/judges we made a bandaid to make one class of people more of a victim than another.
and the laws of unintended consequences have been in play ever since those “hate” crime rules were enacted because now we have people trying to ascertain the thought behind a crime instead of just reviewing the actual actions of the crime.
We can’t actually determine thought, we can offer opinions, we can estimate, but only the perp knows for sure, and if they don’t tell you it shouldn’t matter. The end result of an assault should be jail time, simple and elegant. Remove people who assault other people from society, this isn’t all that hard people.
Ah, yes . . . thoughtcrime.
How Orwellian. And regarding so-called “hate crimes”, so damn close to reality.
VOV… That is a tangled web, and a Bizzaro World indicator near as I can see.
Okay now you’ve got me all cranked up, another bizarro world thing for me is how shitty Americans are behind the wheel.
We all think we’re great but the reality is we suck ass hard when it comes to wheel time. I’ve driven race cars before and have some open wheel and NASCAR time so I have a little knowledge about apex and drift and adhesion…but when did we become a nation of giant pussies more concerned with cup holders than suspension and horsepower?
Veritas Omnia Vincit…”but when did we become a nation of giant pussies more concerned with cup holders than suspension and horsepower?” A better question cannot be posed. The answer in my mind…when we as a nation started caring more about who the GIANT assed, ugly as sin, Kim Kardashian screws and blows, than who’s in the White House.
Can’t believe I didn’t think of this before. I have the PERFECT solution for a jobs program for ISIS and all Muslims worldwide who need productive, helpful employment. It’s called “Allah’s Peace Corp”. I say let’s drop leaflets and do radio broadcasts and see how many want to volunteer to work in their own countries first and then when they have all the wells, housing, hospitals and schools they need, move over to the next Muslim country and help Allah’s volunteers out there. Yea, I’m sure this will go over as happily as blipping off a magazine of AK-47 at a wedding, birth, funeral or just for shits and giggles! They’ll love it once they get engaged in all the do-good work and see how much they accomplish with their hands on some tools instead of guns and beheading knives and how really good they feel about themselves as humans and Muslims by helping themselves and the world be a better place. Sure, I know they’ll be tossing their weapons faster than the Iraqi Army in the face of danger and running, not walking to the local Allah’s office to sign up. Because we know, Muslims like the ISIS folks are truly…good at heart…right? (Heavy on the sarcasm) Or, well, ISIS and all their ilk can just GF themselves, their goats, sheep, camels and neighbors and die.
As for Bizarro World…been there, often. It’s called “Htrae” for the non comic readers of old. Read it in the first DC outing edition, Action Comics 1960. Take some pain meds and wait a while and look in the mirror. If you’re like me, your head looks as square as box of Ritz Crackers, your nose is flat and two dimensional and your ears are huge and angular. I can’t look too long though or my BP goes up. 😀
Speaking of giant pussies, when the hell did we become so fucking stupid we need to be told that using a curling iron in the shower or bath tub is a bad plan?
Conair actually has a warning on a hair dryer that it’s a bad plan to use it while you are asleep, and the Dardevle Fishing Lure from American Fishing Lures has a warning on the back stating it’s harmful if you swallow the fishing lure….
Bizarro world is living with a nation filled with litigious and stupid assholes who kill themselves by trying to dry their hair in the shower or burn their house down while drying their hair while asleep or swallowing fishing lures and requiring surgery…
They have a “Do not Eat” sticker on the magensium ration heater in an MRE. Do we really have to be told that and have people really tried to eat that item?
YES and yes! Ditto with the little packages of dessicant in each pouch, idiots still intentionally try to eat them despite the pictures on the sides!
What? And here all this time I thought a heat tab was just an oversized Necco wafer.
You got a batch meant for the Air Force…
Careful, VoV. You’re starting to sound like one of those people who might be tempted to tear the tag off a mattress.
Hear tell over 2/3 the cost of a ladder is to cover their insurance for all the lawsuits filed by dumbasses who use them do help trim their tree branches with their lawnmowers or whatever.
I have always thought the warning on the inside of a Car window screen sunshield (cardboard thing to put in the windshield) that informs the consumer to remove the sunscreen before operating the vehicle was priceless. Of course, I would probably try to drive it despite the warning just to see if I could.
Bizarro world for me? The ’50+ Woman Dating Post-Divorce’ scene. After two complete disasters, I dove for cover — and stayed there.
Is that not where Heavy Chevy hangs out?
Scary.
Is a pop-up target considered a full time employment for the needy?
Bizarro World: I used to spend 10 cents at the corner drug store to get fantasy and sci-fi comic books. The stories that stick in my memory included, among other things, four-legged robots used as pack animals.
The Army has been testing those. They are so damned creepy, they make me want to run in the other direction.
Bizarro world for me – illegal aliens have more rights and benefits than the average legal citizen.
Somebody must have known you were going to do this thread, Zero, because here’s a story just too perfect. A retired teacher who collects historic stuff was stopped in New Jersey and a gun was found in his glove compartment. He’s 72 and the gat was a flintlock pistol, wrapped in a twoel, unloaded. He was arrested and charge with illegal possession of a firearm. “I called the prosecutor to see what we could do on this, and the prosecutor told me that they were waiting for ballistics,” [Defense Attorney] Nappen said incredulously. “And I’m thinking, ‘What? Ballistics on a flintlock?'” Bizarro. Said the retired teacher, I was fingerprinted and I was chained by my legs to an ice cold bench. Apparently there must be a lot of drive-by flintlock shootings in North Jersey.” I suppose it’s his own fault, for a number of reasons, but chief among them is that he remained in Jersey after he retired. Bizarro.
“…waiting on ballistics…”
Really, what they are waiting on is someone to show them how to load, prime, and shoot the damn thing.
Oh, and someone who knows that shot powder and priming powder are 2 different things.
But, thanks for the story, gave me a chuckle.
‘The Time Machine’ Wells finds himself in a time when people march toward their own demise. The call to prayer in Islamic countries seems all too similar.
Of course, here, I do notice the ‘bells’ ringing on Sunday. It is the need for the masses to hold onto a religion when doing so causes the very conditions they claim it will cure. The least religious countries are the most peaceful, best educated, and have the highest standards of living in general.
The spell religion has on people, easily my Bizzaro World.
I’m an Erisian myself. [grin]
‘Everything I say is not to be believed.’ That should keep you riveted to my every word then.
So all the atheist Commies and Socialists in the 20th century didn’t really commit all that genocide? While it’s true the Muslims are leading the way in the 21st century they are complete amateurs compared to Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot. Bizzaro World indeed.
BTW giving credit where credit is due, the atheists in the KGB had a hand in creating Islamic terrorism.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348191/EXCLUSIVE-KGB-operation-seeded-Muslim-countries-anti-American-anti-Jewish-propaganda-1970s-laying-groundwork-Islamist-terrorism-U-S-Israeli-targets.html
I understand that kind of thing has been passed around for a long time. Hitler was not Atheist. Hitler was Catholic. Every Nazi soldier had a belt buckle with ‘Gott Mit Unz'(God with us)on it. You can buy on on ebay for $20. The Catholic church was in charge of all schools in Nazi Germany, and the Pope order prayers be said for Hitler on his birthday and did so until his death. He was not Atheist.
Stalin was an Orthodox Priest. He studied to become a priest for years. He openly allowed religion but only if he was installed as the head of the church. Later on he allowed the reopening of all kinds of churches. I know it is popular to say he was Atheist and to some degree he probably was. He did not kill people because of his faith or lack thereof.
Pol Pot never made any statement about being Atheist. That is a myth. He was a monster that killed by some measuers a third of his countries population. He was a Theravada Buddhist. He studied in a Buddhist Monestary and later attended a Catholic school. He was Atheist.
Mao was Buddhist as well. He remained so until much later. His statements on religion are all over the map. He is quoted often for making an Atheist statement but there are many quotes that offer a different view. “It is wrong to tell people to be against religion.”,one of many. He also installed himself into his culture with a God like status, much as the Japanese Emperor did.
I hope you find some of that interesting.
Sorry, Pol Pot was NOT Atheist.
Just because someone was born religious does not mean they can’t turn their back on religion. Stalin left the church because he didn’t believe in God, and Communism became his religion. The only reason he reopened churches during WW2 was to help win the war.
Hitler didn’t believe in God. Hitler believed in a bunch of fairy tales Aryan myths the Nazis made up. That’s not being Catholic. Considering the Nazis were masters at propaganda a little saying on their uniform means NOTHING. Look at their actions.
Mao installed himself as the Chinese Commies God obviously proves the point he didn’t believe in God.
Pol Pot slaughtered Buddhists for being Buddhists. In fact each of these dictators slaughtered various members of religions because they were religious.
The lack of religion is hardly the only or main reason any of these mass murderers did what they did, but they were not religious men. Muslims murders today are in their whacked out sense of religion.
I could care less what people believe in and I can’t remember the last time I set foot in a church, but countries run by Atheists are far from the peaceful places you stated they were.
Muslims murders today are in their whacked out sense of religion.
*Muslim murderers today are acting in their whacked out sense of religion.
I also agree with your main point. I am living proof that people do change their position on religion.
Hitler did not claim to be Atheist or take any position against the church. Many high ranking Nazi officials successfully used the Vatican as a means to escape being tried for war crimes. Hitler was a Catholic and never claimed otherwise.
Mao elevated himself to a God like status, his statements on religion are all over the map. Its hard to tell what he actually believed or didn’t for that matter.
Countries that are least religious as a population are the most peaceful, educated, etc. I gave no distinction to an Atheist leader. Their leaders may very well be Atheist, I will have to look into it before I make any statement about it.
Great post, thanx.
Советский Союз продолжал принимать активное участие в делах арабских стран на протяжение 80х и вплоть до его развала. Его непосредсвенное участие в произошедшем в Ливане не является тайной. Всем известно о советских поставках оружия противникам Израиля. Радикально настроенным группировкам внутри Сирии и Ирана были не по душе ограниченная поддержка и нарушенные соглашения, что повлекло за собой их действия направленные против Советских служб. Потребовалось вмешательство Иранского правительства на высшом уровне и обешания будуших поставок оружия, чтобы их удовлетворить. Служба разведки Соединенных Штатов и Израиля плотно сотрудничали с Советскими службами. Многолетняя история Советских действий направленных против интересов Соединенных Штатов не имела никакого отношения к религии.
So the fact that the Soviets perverted religion to recruit religious Muslims has nothing to do with religion? Yeah right. The goal the Soviets wanted had nothing to do with religion, but religion was the recruitment tool. No different than offering money to a gambling addict, or sex to a man in order to recruit them as an asset. In fact I’d bet they used sex and money also.
I agree with your point. Their agenda had nothing to do with religion or lack thereof. They did most definitely manipulate the religious beliefs of people to further their agenda.
I can one-up all of you.
Jeb Bush hasn’t declared himself just yet, but when he went to a bipartisan-loaded fund raiser recently, he criticized bodaprez and invoked Reagan.
Both sides applauded.
You get a much longer jail sentence for killing a politician than a reg’lar guy… they apparently are “more equal than others.”
Tell me that ain’t Bizarro..
Pinto Nag – you should see what it looks like from our side of the fence.
Harf says ‘there is no Marshall Plan waiting in the wings’ – obviously she missed the fact that it wasn’t until AFTER WWII and we kicked the dogsnot out of Japan and Germany that we even came up with a Marshall plan the first time. Before that – pick a fight, lose, lose your stuff, maybe some land… and oh, yeah – suck it up. Shouldn’t have picked a fight.
I’ve heard about the other side of the fence from my ex. Spooky.
Isn’t Bizarro World where Mr. Mxyzptlk hung out and tormented Superman? And you could get him banished back to where he came from by tricking him into saying his name backwards?
If that trick would work on the Dutch Rudder Club, we could all do the Happy Dance.
Yes, indeed, that was the bizarro world I grew up with.
Examples? Here’s one:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/17/saudi-cleric-argues-that-the-sun-revolves-around-earth-because-airplanes/
I had seen that, he is just a tad behind the times.
Anything to do with libtards I find Bizzaro.
In their “history” the parties flipped and so now Republicans are the Democrats of yesterday, and yet somehow FDR is still a hero of their party. Then there’s Hitler wasn’t a socialist.
Bush is to blame for the housing crash even though he gave speeches against it and tried to get law makers on board to prevent it, but Odumbo has no responsibility even though he successfully sued to increase the amount of bad loans. Toss in Jimmy Carter and Clinton for good measure, but it’s all the Republicans fault.
The Muslims are victims is another favorite. Or Saddam didn’t have WMDs, or if he did he would never use them. Invading Iraq was a war crime, even though the peace treaty ending the 1st Gulf War was already violated multiple times giving complete justification for that reason alone to invade.
John Kerry didn’t commit treason. John Kerry, Jane Fonda, Bergdahl, and Manning are heroes.(Fuck that and fuck them)
Inmates should be able to get sex changes. Sex changes are normal.
Odumbo is sooo smart, even though without a teleprompter he sounds like the bumbling idiot he is.
Libtards are Bizzaro IMO.
And I have nothing to add. Well done
We should all feel sorry for her Royal Highness being forced to dumb down her lofty and intellectual speech for us filthy hoi polloi.
Heck, at this stage of the game, being called a cute young woman is a compliment on two out of three parts of the statement, in my book. Depending on how the ‘cute’ is meant, of course. (Where I’m originally from, cute can be a compliment or a deadly insult.)
The third part is a biological fact, so no problems there either.
As my fahter would say…
“for every good looking woman…there’s a guy tired of her shit.”
As Taylor Swift says in her newest song:
“Boys only want love when it’s torture.”
She’s right. It is too…what was that word she used? Nuiansced? hell I can’t spell it, but I know one thing.
There isn’t a job, or money in the world that can stop a dye in the wool killer. The mental process that goes through someone’s brain housing group when they cut someone’s head off is completely 180 from you and I.
There is no remorse, no second guesses. To stand there, make that decision and then follow through? It’s not every one that can kill and even fewer still can do it up close and in cold blood.
But to do it like this? Beheading isn’t like cutting up your tomato for a salad. It’s work. Ask any farmer. To do this to a human? it’s evil on its most basic level. If these guys were spray painting graffiti or roughing it up with thier skateboards…ok. I might agree with you.
But no. These people want you, me, and everything and one we know to be dead. Pure and simple.
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