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October 08, 2003
Arnold blitzkriegs California
With due respect to Snoop Dogg, today's post-election mantra is
Ar-NOLD'S up side your head
Arnold's up side your head
I don't necessarily care that much about Schwarzenegger. He'll likely be better than Davis, if only on the grounds that a random name plucked from the frickin' phone book would be an improvement on that weasel. On the other hand, Arnold's rhetoric has so much mushy compassionate conservative nonsense as to make him pretty suspect.
What does make me especially happy about his victory is the rebuke it represents toward all the haters. I'd be hard pressed to think of another American political campaign in my lifetime that was near as vicious and malicious as the unwarranted wickedness thrown at Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm happy to see him win just on that ground alone.
The calls for a retributory recall against Schwarzenegger started before the polls even closed. Every left wing jackass going was threatening legal challenges to the election. Jesse Jackson was all but literally foaming at the mouth about voters being disenfranchised by the lack of "infrastructure" for a legitimate election. Apparently minority group members were not being allowed to vote or something- though of course he could cite not a single example of even having long lines at a polling place, despite the high voter turnout.
A reasonable person of a left wing persuasion might be somewhat skeptical of Arnold. Will he be proposing some cuts in their favored programs? Possible, but his rhetoric has been really mostly to the liberal side- and he did marry into the Kennedy family.
Instead, however, many pinkos have absolutely gone off their beam and come after Arnold with every wicked thing they can accuse him of, no matter how ridiculous. This long time support of Jewish causes has been smeared as a Nazi overthrowing democracy.
OK then, let me gleefully indulge/rub your face in your dumb dystopian fantasy just a bit...
I look forward to Arnold taking office. It's going to be sweet. First thing, he will doubtless declare the state constitution null and void, and declare himself emperor for life.
Second thing on the agenda, he'll definitely be doing away with all those pesky laws against rape and sexual battery and such. All them cheesy pinko Democrats in the legislature can definitely look forward to getting groped- for starters.
Of course he will be replacing the state flag with a nice classic swastika.
Naturally education reforms will be required. Doubtless Mein Kampf and Protocols of the Elders of Zion will be newly required reading in grade schools. Wagner will surely become the centerpiece of school music curricula.
Of course there will be internment camps for all the undesirables, starting with the commies and homosexuals. [Don't worry, Brian- I'll get you asylum down here on the farm in Indiana.]
Oh yes, all you pencil necks better watch out, cause
Its gonna be real hard times for all of these
grit eatin',
scum suckin',
boot lickin',
drop kickin',
gut grindin',
nail bitin',
glue sniffin',
scab pickin',
butt scratchin',
egg hatchin',
sleezy,
smelly,
pepper bellied,
dirty, lousy, rotten, stinkin', freaks.
Yeah, Arnold is really going to be doing the "Blitzkrieg Bop" all across the state- before he moves the National Guard into position to start taking over neighboring states.
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OK, end o' cheesy fantasy.
Arnold seems to have a pretty calm personality, quite even tempered. This is fortunate, considering all the noise from these sore losers. What a bunch of infantile nonsense. In practice, rather than all this silly Nazi stuff, with all these overgrown left wing babies to deal with, he'll be closer to playing out his old movie role as the Kindergarten Cop.
posted by Al at 10/08/2003 05:50:00 PM
October 07, 2003
Advice to my womenfolk about mashers
If you propose anything much short of the death penalty for any man who has been accused (rightly or wrongly) of anything that any single person might arbitrarily decide to describe as "sexual harassment" or "sexual assault," then you should expect to be accused of insensitivity.
The preferred way of pushing this point comes as some form of 'what if it was your wife or daughter?' I got this basic argument in response to my defense of Arnold Schwarzenegger against slimy last minute sexual accusations.
Alrighty then. Having neither wives nor daughters, I'll address this as to an adult niece.
Arnold has been accused mostly of feeling women up. Guys shouldn't be putting their hands on you in an intimate manner without your consent, and you definitely shouldn't just put up with it.
Note, however, that matters of intimacy often don't involve formal businesslike negotiations and written agreements. Even the nicey-nice Disney song involves Sebastian demanding that the guy "Kiss the Girl"- not that he ask Ariel to sign a consent form.
Figuring out women's signals can be a bit ambiguous, then. Therefore, the first thing to keep in mind is to not be leading guys on or putting yourself in obvious likely situations to be receiving unwanted advances, ie by attending drunken parties at frat houses. This will avoid most problems.
However, sometimes signals get mistook, or guys start getting ahead of themselves. You might get touched inappropriately a time or two in life. It will then be your responsibility to form an appropriate response.
If some schmuck feels you up inappropriately, depending on the circumstances, the likely appropriate response would be simply to slap his face. Tell him to back off in no uncertain terms. This would likely be more than enough to give the likes of Schwarzenegger a clue.
Most likely that will end the problem. Whatever he may have thought before, that should make it clear that you're not interested. Usually that will be the end of it. Clear message delivered with minimal fuss: not interested.
If the dude doesn't want to take no for an answer, however, then you may have to escalate. If he persists, or comes back repeatedly over time, then do whatever you minimally need to do to stop it. A good dose of mace, or a talk with management if you're in a workplace situation may become necessary. If some bastard won't take a clue, you might need to call the cops. Or Uncle Al.
In any case, don't be trumping up some cheap sense of victimhood later. This won't benefit you. Don't be talking yourself into feeling all traumatized or victimized over some guy making a dumb pass at you. Don't be creating unnecessary drama. Don't be trying to destroy a guy over a little of nothing. That's not fair to him. More importantly, that's not good for your own soul.
Now, if the guy really means you violence, if he's trying to rape you, that's another issue. Just kill him if you can. Here's a nice little handgun you can fit in your purse, just in case. Do you want to go out back and blast a couple of practice rounds?
posted by Al at 10/07/2003 03:11:00 AM
Bogus charges against Arnold
These collective last minute sexual complaints against Arnold Schwarzenegger are SO utterly bogus. For starters, this last minute sliming constitutes just exactly the kind of nasty politics of personal destruction that the Democrats claim to hate- especially all the anonymous charges.
However, even defenders of Arnold in the press generally start out by conceding that these are "serious charges." Even being totally unfair to Arnold by assuming for the sake of argument that the factual claims of these charges are pretty much all true, these are NOT serious charges.
People accuse him of "sexually harassing" women, and even of criminal wrongdoing, "sexual assault." These are vague terms that do not describe his actual supposed actions. Using "to sexually harass" as a verb is bogus because it does not describe any action.
What he has been accused of actually doing basically is feeling women up. No one to my knowledge has even accused him of anything like rape. Unlike the former POTUS, no one has even accused him of whipping out the penis without permission. Apparently he does take no for an answer. He's just jumping a couple of steps in how he's asking, stealing second as it were. Getting grab-handy isn't necessarily very nice, but it's nonsense to try to trump it up into criminal charges.
The most appropriate response to such an unwelcome advance would generally be simply for the woman to slap his face and tell him to get lost. End of story.
Instead, women are encouraged now to decide to feel traumatized and victimized by any minor bit of unwelcome attention. If someone grabs you and drags you off behind the bushes, THAT is a rape. It's a violent act intended to cause suffering. It dilutes and thus discounts the significance of real sexual violence to call copping a feel a "sexual assault."
Now it would perhaps be getting to some meaningful use of the words "sexual harassment" if Arnold was pressuring women with professional considerations. If he was telling women that he'd get them fired from their jobs if they didn't put out, then that would be significantly abusive. If the woman told him to get lost, and he kept following her around, that would start getting significantly bad pretty quick.
However, I've seen nothing suggesting such behavior from Arnold, nor would I expect to. It's not like he would NEED to do crap like that. Most women would WANT Mr. Universe to make advances. Even by dragging $100 bills through every trailer park in the country, the media and Democrat machine has only managed to come up with less than two dozen women to accuse Arnold of unwanted advances. That suggests that 99%+ of his intended playmates were pleased by his attention.
Being Mr. Universe, a millionare businessman AND a movie star, I'd be disappointed if Arnold hadn't been humping everything in sight. What a waste that would have been.
I don't particularly care about Schwarzenegger one way or the other, but extreme liberal hypocrisy on sexual issues does annoy me. On the one hand, they tend to promote all kinds of "tolerance," in practice really not just accepting but actively encouraging all stripes of sexual promiscuity and deviance.
On the other hand, when men actually ACT on these messages, the pinkos are ready to throw cops and lawyers on them. Hey, humping everything is just good clean fun, but even LOOKING at a woman the wrong way and time now can get you a million dollar lawsuit and cops called on you.
Arnold is obviously pretty aggressive at getting what he wants. He's super competitive.
However, he is not violent or even particularly ill-tempered. He's never been accused of rape, nor even, say, punching out paparazzi. You'd be hard pressed to come up with him so much as yelling at someone.
By the standards of his time and place, he may understandably have thought that he was simply being, as he puts it, "playful." These boundaries are legitimately confusing, especially to a young man with ultra-high levels of testosterone flowing through him. The normal thing for male mammals to do is to jump on a female and start humping.
Humans have developed considerably more refined sensibilities, however, so this is not appropriate civilized behavior. We have to figure out more appropriate boundaries. Grabbing at women unannounced is not good. You can't really expect men to go around carrying ink pens and consent forms as some fools seem to want, but some modest courtesy should prevail.
Arnold seems to have about the right response. As a personally more mature older man in a more sensitive time, he recognizes that those old ways aren't getting it. Again unlike the former POTUS, he didn't go on some search and destroy mission against his accusers. Instead, he has accepted the responsibility for his inappropriate behavior. He has publicly apologized. That should be the end of it.
And Arnold copping a feel on a movie set ten years ago has what to do with being governor?
posted by Al at 10/07/2003 03:02:00 AM
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