The Count

Taxpayer Funded Breast Augmentation

Being a man and being me I'm somewhat reluctant to approach this story for the simple fact that I cannot pretend to understand the psychology and that, really, it is none of my business. Being me, however, I'm not completely reluctant.

Via Fark I found this story about two Australian Navy women receiving breast augmentations paid for by their Navy (hence tax-payer funded) health plan. Frankly, my first reaction is bully for them in getting any kind of medical procedure paid for by any kind of health insurance.

My second reaction is, why is this even news? All that this feeble mind can think of is that no one puts health insurance provided "male enhancement" procedures or prescription plan Viagra on the front page.

Doncha know, a swinging dick is serious business meriting serious consideration while breasts are what? Oh, yeah... it's about those silly women and their silly problems. Ack, the wax in my ears sound better than those words.

So, the only way I can approach this story is... oi, we still have a long way to go.

Entartete Kunst

Entartete Kunst is a term the nazis coined when referring to Jewish, liberal or non-family values art, it is the name of an art "exhibition" in 1937 which displayed such art and It is also a term that Cologne archbishop Joachim Meisner used in 2007 to warn "that when art becomes estranged from worship, culture becomes degenerate." No slip of the tongue, that bad boy knew exactly what he was saying because it is the equivalent of using the "n" word in this country. Joachim's words are very telling, because it confirms what the rest of us know... that the catholic church has not changed one iota and is, in fact, still out of its mind and out of touch with the rest of the world.

To me, the tactics used by the Middle Ages/holy inquisition era church and the fascist madmen of the 20th century are strikingly similar and only differ in scale... right down to the crusade(s) each undertook to liberate their own "east". My mother and father lived inside occupied Europe during WW II. My father in Hungary and my mother in Italy and both were reasonably devout christians. However, they both lost a lot of their "faith" after witnessing the catholic church, during sermons, cozying up to the fascists and enabling them.

Where was the church's moral outrage then? Where was the catholic leadership as Europe slid towards fascism? Where were the sermons exhorting people to protest? Hitler and Mussolini's rise to power started in the 1920s and by 1930 there was no question as to who they were and what they wanted. No, those narrowminded pedophile enabling bigoted shits recognized one of their own. With the exception of a few brave priests men, the catholic church said nothing, did nothing and enabled one of the greatest human tragedies to happen. Yeah, I suppose that in 500 years, if they're still around, some pope's gonna apololgise for it. Fat lotta good that'll do.

The silver lining to this story, however, is the overwhelming smackdown this nazi Ratzi-a-like has gotten from the press. Also, it looks like Cologne is bleeding more catholics than any other part of Germany. Some people have finally learned their lesson, and are willingly tossing him and his ilk into the dustbin of history.

Now, if only Americans could do the same.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

I was just reading the umteenth news report about this impending war strike on Iran. I just want to tackle one itty bitty part of it... that's the part, which has been stated by air minded military officers since the day after Orville and Wilbur took to the skies, about how an air attack (always, their air attack will be different from the ones before it) will force a country or an enemy to its knees and they will surrender.