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NOTHING BUT TWO FACED NITWITS…..more bullshit from “occupy this”

Good Morning Voices of Knavery,

Being drunk all weekend prevented me from putting two cognitive thoughts together and thought I’d steal a blogger article written by ‘Diablo’ from yesterday’s “Drudge Report” (see link provided on the ‘Diatribe’s ‘ homepage) on a theme we’ve long since visited.  However, it doesn’t appear the OWC (Occupy Wall Street) is going anywhere; therefore I’ve posted another account of hypocrisy in this absolute entitlement based idiocy.  Enjoy: 

Hell no, we won’t go — unless we get goose down pillows.

A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.

The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room. “Tents are not for me,” he confessed, when confronted in the sleek black lobby of the Washington Street hotel where sources described him as a “repeat” guest.

Spitzer, 24, an associate at financial-services giant Deloitte, which netted $29 billion in revenue last year, admitted he joined the protest at Zuccotti Park several times.

“I’m staying here for work,” said Spitzer, dressed down in a company T-shirt and holding a backpack and his suitcase. “I do finance, but I support it still.”

During his stay, hotel sources said, he and other ragtag revolutionaries he brought into the hotel lived like 1 percenters. He would order up a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, they said.

“He’s here all the time,” a hotel source said. “We all see him at the protest.”

Spitzer denied sheltering Occupiers. He claimed he only invited in a blogger buddy living at the park to wash off his camp grime.

Meanwhile, Dutro, 35, one of only a handful of OWS leaders in charge of the movement’s $500,000 in donations, checked in on Wednesday, the night after police emptied Zuccotti Park.

While hundreds of his rebel brethren scrambled to find shelter in church basements, Dutro chose the five-star, 58-story hotel, with its lush rooms and 350-count Egyptian cotton sheets. He lives only a short taxi ride away in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

TWO GODS TWO PERSONALITIES….zuki is conflicted….again

Good Morning Neophytes,

Well the suffering continues.  I was kicked in the groin hard last Wednesday.  My Power Ball ticket didn’t contain a single winning digit! I know I know I know the odds are in the neighborhood of 194 million to one and should be grateful just to be alive, but it always lets a bit of air out.  I have a much better chance of being a quadriplegic than I do hitting six numbers, and I’m reasonably sure that’s my fate, but just the thought of winning is worth every penny. 

I’m a simple man with very simple needs leaving (to quote tree huggers everywhere) a small footprint.  Had I won the 245 million my humble requirements would only take about half, so the rest would be available for my philanthropy.  Not many people know about this part of my life.  Although to be fair lately I’ve been on the receiving end.  It’s a fantastic plan!  But God doesn’t seem to understand the good I could accomplish by blessing the lives of those less fortunate.  I could be a power to uplift and bring about great change.  Look I’m in the “Swear there ain’t no heaven, pray there ain’t no hell” camp.  But let’s just say for the sake of continuity that God created and has influence over we mortals.  According to most zealots depending on their slant toward ‘Old Testament’ culture or the ‘New Testament’ God is either a vengeful retaliative God or a merciful gracious God willing to overlook a few peccadilloes.  The interesting thing about accepting God is one must choose which to prepare for. 

I hope Margo can weigh in on this!  I’m not sure even angels can serve both Gods.

So my point is which God would be most willing to at least read the ‘Executive Summary?’ Hopefully you can see my dilemma.  There have been far too many jackpots won by undeserving assholes that either lose it all or selfishly spend it on themselves and a family member or two.  This is NOT a Christ-like mindset!  Do you see where this is going?  I’m not saying I’m Christ-like by any means; rather my actions would be perceived as being what Christ would do. 

I’ve been soliciting the wrong God! 

In my mind the ‘New Testament’ God would have been overjoyed to expedite my plan, but it doesn’t appear so.  I’m going to make contact with the God of the ‘Old Testament.’  You remember him don’t you?  He’s the one that told Lot to find one righteous man and he’d spare Sodom and Ghamorrah.  I think we all know about the pillar of salt.  He’s also the one that laid down a bet with Satan that his servant Job could withstand the many horrors inflicted on him and stood aside to let it happen.   This is a God I can deal with! 

I’m almost positive this God will demand a significantly higher price than simple supplication.  I’m tweaking the business plan to include a section on ‘failure.’  This God expects results!  There must be consequences should I fail to hold up my end of the bargain.  I haven’t yet decided on the punishment phase and do seek help from the two or three of you hell bent on reading this blasphemy to come up with something this God would accept.  Personally I’m torn between eternal damnation, forced to play golf every minute, or the dreaded four hour erection.  I’m working on it.

zuki

SNAKE HANDLERS & REVEREND WRIGHT….hate and religious ferver joined at hip

Good Morning Scholars of Thanatopsis,

I happened upon this article the other day that outlines the bizarre mindset of a pastor who presidential candidate Rick Perry considers his spiritual leader.  I’ve provided a video link that’s over eight minutes, but it’s pretty f-ing scary.  These snake handlers are no better than the irascible reverend Wright President Obama’s spiritual leader of over 20 years!  I’m certain the two or three of you reading this bag of gas were told by your mothers, “You’ll be judged by the company you keep.”  I believe that to be true.  We tend to associate with others who generally share our opinions.  Yet even after definitive evidence of Rev Wright’s condemnation of America and its institutions, Obama walks away for obvious political expediency and the matter is swept under the rug.  I don’t buy it!  Bickle and Wright ironically enough are cut from the same cloth!

Amen.

Enter Mike Bickle, head of the unironically named “International House of Prayer”, or IHOP for short. Mr. Bickle was one the pastors deeply involved with Rick Perry’s now infamous prayer event in which Perry prayed for, among other things, the wildfires to be put out even as he slashed the budget for the states’ Forest Service which deals with the majority of these blazes.

Mr. Bickles is not a fan of the Jewish community. For years he has been preaching that those of the Jewish faith that do not convert will be condemned to prison camps (aka concentration camps). The crown jewel of this hysteria is his endorsement of Hitler. Yes, you read that correctly.

From one of Bickles’ sermons:

The Lord says, “I’m going to give all 20 million the chance to respond to the Fisherman and I give them grace.” And he says, “And if they don’t respond to grace, I’m going to raise up the hunters. And the most famous hunter in history is a man named Adolf Hitler.”

Got that? Hitler was an agent of the Lord and the Holocaust against the Jews was their own fault for not believing in Christ. Before anyone becomes indignant and insists I’m putting words in Bickles’ mouth, you had better come up with a viable alternate interpretation of his words or don’t waste my time.

Go ahead, watch it and tell me he really meant something else.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/pastor-who-helped-organize-rick-perry

TAKE A PENNY…GIVE A PENNY….occupiers take it all then piss on it

Good Morning Futilitarians,

Even at our very best, it’s difficult to bridge the social gaps between our teeth and the outer circle of associates that ‘have.’  The ‘have not’s’ either have accepted their lot in life or they’ve gone over to occupy a bank or a Charles Schwab office.  While it’s been the policy of the ‘Diatribe’ to remain a political, sometimes it gets so fucking goofy I feel obligated to break the rules and comment.  In my own circle of friends and associates the political spectrum is diverse if not fundamentally unique to each.  This of course make our interchanges sometimes dangerous in that one never knows which statement of bombast is going to offend so rarely do any of us pay attention.  This is why it works most times.

This “occupy” movement at last glance has now become a world-wide joke.  The occupiers have shit, pissed, or otherwise befouled their own staging areas to the point…dare I say it….?  The government must hire contractors to come in and clean it up!  That’s one way to create jobs!  Reports indicate that NY City is spending 2 million a week in maintaining law and order and scrub brushes that leave a lovely scent of lavender behind.  THIS IS MONEY FROM EVERYBODIES POCKET!

Meanwhile the occupiers have yet to crystallize their demands other than to forgive all student loans!  The Teamsters and Teachers unions have arrived to support and perhaps give direction to the movement adrift in a sea of bullshit.  When do Teachers actually teach? Harassing the successful who’ve by their wits, guts, and perhaps a bit of luck made something of value and ‘earned’ money along the way are to be praised not demonized!  I have no doubt there are bankers, financiers, or brokers who are indeed guilty of greed to excess and have made their money by gutting businesses and plundering the assets!  But to do this they’re working within the system.  The ‘key’ word here is “working.”

Most success stories involve creating corporate families!  Successful businesses realize they’re bottom line is strengthened by creating an environment that sustains and supports the families of those who are employed.  These are people not faceless evil emperors sitting in the ‘Death Star’ plotting to suck our blood!  The top 5% of the wealthiest people living in this country pay 80% of the federal taxes collected while 47% pay zero taxes! 

While there’s no way for me to prove it, but I highly suspect the vast majority of those occupying and soiling the ground they stand on, are of the group paying zero taxes.  They whine and cry about how the rich get richer while they in turn have nothing screaming to all that this simply isn’t fair is a stunning contrast only one generation removed from my own!  Fuck um!  “Let them eat cake!”

zuki

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM….zuki explores hypocrisy as a business plan

Good Morning Lost Sheep,

Latest Religious Messages

My Rules: The Aug. 6 revival spectacular in Houston, billed as a day of prayer and attended by 30,000 people at Reliant Stadium, was also billed as a day of fasting, which apparently took at least a few worshipers by surprise, and Reliant’s concession stands (which were open all day) only added to the temptation to ignore the fast. One otherwise-devout man from San Angelo, Texas, told the Texas Tribune that it was OK for him to eat because of an “agreement” he “made with God earlier.” [The Texas Tribune, 8-6-2011]

Defining “Smite” Down: Fed up with the theft of Bibles from the Basilica of San Salvatore al Monte in Florence, Italy, the Franciscan priests in charge posted signs and spoke prayers urging the pilferer to repent. In the event that he does not, reported London’s Daily Telegraph in August, the prayer asked that the thief be afflicted with “a strong bout of the (runs).” [Daily Telegraph, 8-18-2011]

I thought the above articles had much in common.  Not only do they represent modern day religion but it also illustrates the hypocrisy associated with wearing the ‘armor of God.’  I don’t know if Margo has given up on us, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me, but this would be a good one for her to weigh in on. 

These would-be snake handlers ever ready with a quick prayer, will lay their hands upon your head and forgive you of your sins!  “Can I have an amen?”  Then the Haggerty’s, Baker’s, Swaggart’s, Frisbee’s, Hargis’s, Tilton’s, and a host of Catholic Priest’s get caught in grotesque acts of perversion, pedophilia, or the plundering of their respective congregations revealing their slimy souls to the world.  

I’ve taught senior Sunday school and saw firsthand how easy it is to manipulate people of faith into believing most anything I put out there.  It became a game to me.  How long would it take me to make ‘them’ cry?  People would shake my hand all teary-eyed and tell me they felt “the spirit” was there!  Hell I put it there!  I began with about 10 members in my class and met in a small room.  Three months later they had to put us in the Gym as people from other churches were showing up.  This went on for two years until a single mom who was known among the congregation as ‘troubled,’ fat, and not too bright approached me.  Mascara running down her face like Tammy Faye she grabbed my hand and kissed it, sobbing she now knew what she was to do based on my commentary!  I was stunned.  I had no idea what she was going to do and really didn’t want to be responsible for whatever she had in mind, so I urged her to speak with the Bishop before she did anything.  To this day I don’t know what happened to her.

I resigned that day.  Since then I’ve been urged to start a church and told I’d be good at it.  My checkered past aside I’m not a thief.  The idea of being compared to the likes of Jimmy Swaggart or Robert Tilton is not the legacy I’d be proud of.  Although, having thought about it, a couple hundred grand a month would sure solve a few problems.  Hummmm I’m going to pray about it and get back to you.

zuki