The Proletariat Congress

Common sense dictates that there are just some things you never wear in combination with other items. For example, one doesn’t wear polka dots with stripes or with plaid. It would be just plain wrong. Or you don’t wear socks with your sandals unless you’re old and devoid of any fashion sense. Or any other number of items. As said items will clash and make you look like you walked blindly into your nearby thrift shop and randomly picked an outfit out.

Or in the case of Rachael Ray, you can’t wear a keffiyeh (a scarf) otherwise you’ll earn the ire of right-wing bloggers who think they’re the new fashion police. According to this group, she had crossed the line with her choice in attire as the keffiyeh represents terrorism and extremism as the keffiyeh is typically worn in the Middle East. The problem was “symbolism”.

So our new fashion police are keeping is misinformation slovenly masses in check. Whatever would we do without their helpful advice about our clothing? Perhaps go on with our lives without worrying what Ray wore in an ad produced by Dunkin Donuts (sic – should be doughnut, but that’s asinine American “English” for you).

Apparently it’s not fashionable for these bloggers, like Michelle Malkin to exercise common sense and realise that there plenty worse than a simple scarf that is worn by a chef in an ad for doughnuts. They will continue to delude themselves into thinking that the keffiyeh and other “fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence – unintentionally or not – they matter“. Too bad they’re woefully out of touch with reality.

US chain drops ‘terror scarf’ ad

Whenever there is an attack involving a beloved family pet, the headline blazing across the headline always seems to involve a dog. I cannot ever remember seeing a headline proclaiming someone to have been mauled by their beloved family cat, bird or ferret. It seems that every time there is an attack, it’s always a dog, it’s never a cat or any other animal, or even a snake.

Yet there are people out there who want to claim that dogs are naturally well behaved animals, and the ones who turn on humans are those who were conditioned to act like that. Sorry, I don’t buy it, not when it’s just as easy to do that with a cat. The only difference is the cat will just hide and will only strike out at you if it feels threatened.

What’s more likely to maul your leg, your tabby sitting in the corner sulking or a Rottweiler? I vote for the latter because experience says that a cat will not attack you unless you forcefully invade its space. When a cat runs over to you, you know that it can’t hurt you the way a dog can. Then again, the only cats I’ve only seen run over to people are domestic cats, not the feral kind that keep to themselves.

And people wonder why we have laws to deal with dogs and not cats…

Ah, BBC headlines. They say one thing but they mean something else entirely. This is no exception.

If nothing else at least it is mildly amusing to read.

There has been plenty of talk about this food shortage and how the prices of grains, notably rice is going up and how the poor people of the third world (opps, sorry, I forget I’m supposed to be politically correction and say ‘developing nations’) are going to starve to death; at least more so than they do now. There are predictions that millions in these parts of the world will die from starvation.

The collective response from the west seems to be to increase funding for food aid. To get more food to these people. There is one problem with this. No matter how much food and money we give them, it will never be enough because these people will just keep reproducing and inflating the world’s population, which is nearing 6.7 billion.

Praying to some deity isn’t going to solve your problems nor is some mystical rain dance or anything of that sort. Not all land in the world is fertile; nor is all fertile land being used adequately (see: Zimbabwe).

Cutting back on general consumption is one way.

Moving away from biofuels would help. We could move to use electrical cars (ZENN), and better yet, massively increase funding for public transit; do we need ALL that funding to go to the military so we can bomb some dirt pile back to the stone ages?

Maybe instead of converting food into biofuels, we could use it to feed people.

Or… maybe the Dutch could realise that corn is also people food and not just cattle feed.

We could always reduce our consumption of meet by half. Tofu and soy based products as imitation meat can be quite tasteful and they have the same amount of protein found in meat products. The texture can even be mimicked to be similar.

Of course, we could always just make abortion legal world wide; increase funding for contraceptives and introduce comprehensive sexual education that includes family planning so people don’t feel this insatiable urge to fart out another screaming, pooping machine that will be just another mouth to feed. People in general have a greater longevity due to incredible leaps and bounds made in modern medicine.