How much is enough?

I think that's a fair question to ask at this time of year.

Some of us are actually asking how much can I give. I had $21 on me yesterday, so I gave $20 to the homeless veteran who was outside Walgreens.

And meantime, our Congressmen and women enjoy free food, free health care, a hefty salary that lasts ad infinitum, even free hair cuts. They are celebrated and supposedly wonderful, fine folks "serving" our country.

I think not. That vet who was out in the cold there yesterday? HE served our country. He gave up everything. And now this poor soul is left, literally, out in the cold to have to beg for money for his next meal.

Well done,  Congress. Well done.

As if it doesn't actually get worse...

John "the Crying Cheezit" Boehner and his idiot cronies subversively buried a Federal Lands deal down on page 1105 or so of a piece of legislation that was appropriated for the defense of our country.

They wanna DRILL, baby, DRILL on 2,400 acres of sacred Apache lands.

Here's the article on Live Huff Post.

One lone Republican from Oklahoma, Senator Tom Coburn, tried to get the land deal removed from the legislation, but he, of course was "shot down" by the other assh*les.

A personal thank you to Senator Coburn for trying to do the right thing.

"Our" Congress had shuffled this through during a lame duck session without divulging the covert attempt at this land deal - that - BY THE WAY - is not even an American company. They are saying it'll provide jobs, but those jobs will be short lived AND at what price?

You want a few more barrels of oil and ruin sacred Apache lands. Sacred groves of Oaks and places these lovely, gentle people committed suicide rather than fight the incoming assh*le white people who were stealing their lands and raping their women and killing their children.

Oh. Wait... Looks like we're still doing the stealing part.

This little gem of a multinational oil corporation named Rio Tinto is owned by Australia, England and a smattering of China. Who knows who else has their dirty little hands in this nasty deal.

Oh, and just for sh*ts and giggles? Rio Tinto is in bed with Iran doing business in Africa, too.

Native people continue to be raped, robbed and pillaged all in the name of Big Greedy Oil. In Africa, and still here in the good old U. S. of A.

We put these people in charge of taking care of our lands and people.

This is NOT my Congress.

This is not the way we Americans want to be treated.

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? How much money do these people need, for pete's sake??

How much?

I am sitting here nauseous. I live in Alaska, so I get the "news" about four hours after my East Coasters. So, I might be late to the party a bit, but I am mad enough for whomever isn't paying attention.

I'm gonna write about it, talk about it, campaign about it and I'm gonna throw my money and support to stop this terrible Congress of ours. I think we need to stop paying these short-sighted jerks, because they really don't need any more of our taxpayer dollars or our free health care. Or the free trips to Antarctica.

Do you know there was a junket to Antarctica by some of our lovely Republican senators recently?

They were disappointed they didn't get to see polar bears.

If any of these fools with their heads directly up the *sses of Big Oil would even for ONE second learn about Antarctica, they'd know that POLAR BEARS DON'T LIVE IN THE ANTARCTIC.

They live on other end of the planet, you IDIOTS.

These people are literally the polar opposite of informed.

And these are our leaders?

What the f*ck.

I'm steaming mad so much that my hands are shaking while I write this. This hurts my soul that these complete buffoons got ANYONE's vote.

Why? Would. Anyone. Vote. For. These. Idiots.

They don't even know what they're doing.

I sure hope they're pooling their money and buying some big-ass boats, because with this level of completely uneducated blind poking of their dicks in space (thank you, Louis C.K.), all of their beautiful homes on the coasts of our beautiful country?

  Well, those fancy homes of theirs are gonna be flooded in no time flat as the sea levels rise and the terrain is buried beneath hopeless mayhem from climate change.

You can stick your head in the sand, but then the sand is gonna flood and then, 

hopefully, you'll WAKE THE FUCK UP.

Rock, Paper, Scissors : Ignorance Ain't Bliss

I had a Facebook fight last night. Actually I had two of them. One was important and the other was semi-important.

My friend, Karen, will think one of them was ridiculous, but it speaks to an aggression problem that seems to be getting more rampant in our "society." She got yelled at the other day when she was at Target trying to buy dog food on Black Friday. A woman actually yelled at her and told her that "she had picked the WRONG day to buy dog food."

?

Who gets to tell who what is the right day to buy dog food? 

Heyyyy, it's dog food Monday! Everyone buys dog food on MONDAY now!

???

Nope. That's not how it works.

Nobody gets to tell me when I get to buy dog food, when I get to go to the bathroom, or how I get to live my life. I mean murdering is bad and that sort of thing should go without saying, but I'm talking about societal "norms" like telling me I'm selfish because I didn't have children, or that I'm irresponsible because I don't work a 9-5 job in a cubicle.

Fuck. Off.

I recently had to "inform" individuals that it is not my job in life to educate them. The information is readily available and if you don't take the time to educate yourself, then you don't get to form an opinion about a subject matter so important as climate change or reproduction or gene expression.

There was a fool here yesterday in Alaska who mistakenly believed me to be a sweet, cute person that would listen to his bullshit and be impressed with his "business acumen" and his "5,000 square foot house" in Ketchikan.

Nope.

Your assumptions, sir, are getting you nowhere very quickly. Well, he continued to hit on me despite my wedding rings and the mention of my husband who was at a table watching the Seahawks football game.

This idiot went so far as to FOLLOW me to the table so that he could meet this so-called husband of mine because I was so feisty and I called him out on his bullshit and he thought that no man would EVER be able to put up with a woman like me!

And, of course, this noodlehead began every sentence with "I" and never asked one question of me.

It's absolutely amazing that men (a lot of them - not all of them) see women as prizes and pieces of meat  to rip apart. I don't mean to be vulgar, but a lot of men see women as a place to stick their dicks and that's really all they believe women to be good for - oh, and the cooking and cleaning and the toiling to make their lives comfortable.

There is a complete lack of empathy for others, lack of emotion, lack of caring, lack of equality.

This dude did his damndest to impress me - but, for those of you who really know me? I'm not impressed by money or the fact that you fly helicopters and you have, apparently, a very small penis.

When you have to try THAT hard to impress a lady, it is CLEAR that you are lacking in certain departments.

Like those poor middle-aged guys driving the little shiny convertibles or the EFFING cigarette boats and their loud, disruptive, gas-guzzling engines. Ugh. Each time we'd go past one of these assholes, I'd wave and yell "Sorry about your small penis!" and these idiots, of course, would wave right back because they couldn't possibly hear me over the loud "ROAR" of the engine!

Oy.

This guy's wife drank herself to death 4 years ago and died at 49. He talked about it like it was HER fault for not being able to just power through it.

She didn't die of drinking, asshole. She died of a broken heart because she was married to a man who spent 80 hours a week working and was completely unsympathetic and called her "an emotional wreck suffering from empty nest syndrome" after their three children moved away.

He actually went so far as to tell me that he had "wasted" $50,000+ dollars on rehab for his wife, but she kept relapsing.

Yep. I'd probably drink myself to death, too. Or better, DIVORCE his ass and take HALF of all of the fucking money because that the ONLY thing he values in this world.

So, the thing I'm talking about is that women really should stop putting up with anything less than a wonderful person who treats you like gold and LISTENS to you. Men who talk OVER me or interrupt me or try to SCHOOL me on biological science or animals or gardening?

Nope. Those are MY areas of expertise. Listen to me. I've done the work. I have spent 42 years (or more) schooling myself in these areas. I'm willing to have a conversation about it, because sometimes I learn things from other people on these subjects, but a conversation is a give and take. It's not a monologue.

Just because I don't have a penis (thank GOD for that) doesn't mean I don't have balls. My cojones are ragingly big and I'm not afraid to use them. I know Karate, too, so don't try to bully me and get in my personal space. And don't TOUCH me. For the love of ALL that is holy, I will SLAP you and then I will punch you. I'm not afraid to break my hand. Done it before, will do it again.

Make no mistake:

Just because I'm KIND doesn't mean I'm a pushover.

Just because I'm pretty and cute and have a nice figure (thanks, Alaska) doesn't preclude the fact that I have a really, really good brain and I know how to use it.

And just because I'm smaller than you doesn't mean I can't stomp all over your ass - with my words, fist, kicks or whatever it takes for me to defend myself.

AND REALLY. Just because you have a penis, it doesn't mean you have some special privilege. It actually makes you weak and stupid and acting like a total asshole even in front of my husband.

So, when my husband got up to leave at half-time (we had driven separately), this fool ass first told me what a great guy my husband was. Well. Yeah. I married him. I know that, douchebag.

And then he offered to get me a hotel room so he could fuck me.

What a nice guy.

Men. Jesus. What the hell.

Which leads me to the 10 keepers that are out there. Like this one, below. This video is amazing and beautiful and it made me cry cry cry, so be warned! It's the reunion of a man who raised a gorilla and then the gorilla was released into the wild. This is their reunion. And the world needs more men like THESE.