• commentary
  • FRIDAY MARCH 13 2009 6:00 AM

Asshole Fuckface Roundup #88

Here we are. I know, it has been an entire week of desperate waiting. Fear not, the moment you yearned for has arrived. It’s Asshole Fuckface Roundup time. I’ve been wading through this shit for a week and it takes its toll. I am drained, weak, saddened and very much in need of a meatloaf sandwich on sourdough. I had an exciting week; having learned my new neighbor is an Asshole Fuckface. He hired a drug dealer as a contractor, took out insurance and then, the very next day, burned a couple of rooms down in his duplex by piling rags on a floor heater. Go figure. One plus one equals obvious. But he’s just a tiny, local Asshole Fuckface! I’ve scoured the earth and discovered the worst of the worst, so put on your best plastic moo moo because this is going to be ugly.

First up, some tough guy Asshole Fuckfacery.

Chuck Norris was a sad excuse for an action hero. Now he’s a sad excuse of a human. Oh, and he’s completely insane. Chuck penned an article this week for World Net Daily. It’s pretty fantastic, as it is a classic example of the ramblings of a madman. Ordinarily, a man like Chuck would be milling about in an alley, explaining these theories to a box, but since Chuck was once the poor man’s Steven Segal, he gets to write it down and say it on the radio.

On Glenn Beck's radio show last week, I quipped in response to our wayward federal government, "I may run for president of Texas."

That need may be a reality sooner than we think.



Oh, do tell. And not the part about how Texas becomes its own nation –– the part where you win an election. Even Texas is not that stupid.

If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.



Wait. Um. Okay. I think I got that.

How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution?



Huh. Why do I think your version of an American Revolution includes a handmaid, whose legs you thrust your sweaty body between while holding your wife’s hands?

“Thousands of cell groups will be united around the country in solidarity over the concerns for our nation.” The right wing cells will meet during a live telecast, "We Surround Them," on Friday March 13 at 5 p.m.



Did you seriously just use the term “Right wing cells?” That’s awesome, mostly because “cells” are what killed thousands of Americans on 9/11. But, by all means, take that term and fucking run with it. It's all yours, rebel.

Again, Sam Houston put it well when he gave the marching orders, "We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name."



Lighten up. You’re a pathetic, washed up, Hollywood action hero. During a revolution, your stupidity would probably not be a valued commodity. And your karate skills would not work so great against an assault rifle. And no, I won’t link to WorldNetDaily (hit Buzzflash, who reposted the pertinent excerpts, if you need a source).

Next up, the first Asshole Fuckface fight club.

Thankfully, we don’t have to leave Texas to find our next Asshole Fuckfaces. Corpus Christi State School is a Texas residential facility that houses disabled young men. Obvious, if one were an Asshole Fuckface caring for disabled young men, one would start a fight club.

Profoundly disabled young men were forced into "fight club" style battles by the people hired to care for them in a Texas residential facility, police said Tuesday.



I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say that is wrong.

"It's some of the worst child abuse I've seen in over 30 years," Corpus Christi Police Captain Tim Wilson said.

"Sometimes we see isolated incidents. What's appalling about this is that it appears to be organized."

The video footage showed staffers provoking the young men until they became physically violent, then shoving them at each other to make sure they fought.



Ha ha! I’m laughing so hard –– but that’s only because I don’t have a soul.

Eleven current or former employees of the Corpus Christi State School were identified in the videos, which were discovered last week.



First rule of fight club: You're going to prison. I would also like to recommend a fight club to the death.

Next up, some Catholic Asshole Fuckfacery.

Sometimes we face very tough decisions in life. It must be tough for the big wigs of the Catholic Church because they have to make decisions that will effect whether someone gets to go to heaven, or some shit. They are like gatekeepers, who don’t have sex, except with the occasional boy, and they live a sweet, pampered life in a special city. It’s a bitch. Also, they are all men and have never been pregnant and can’t comprehend giving birth, or dying during childbirth, or the many complicated aspects of carrying a child, so they make harsh rules about abortion. It has nothing to do with them not being able to have a child, or sex.

Anyway, this week an awesome Archbishop of Brazil, named Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, faced a very tough choice: Be one of the worst Asshole Fuckfaces of all time, or not. He went with the first one.

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.



Yes, read that correctly. The Catholic Church would very much like a nine-year-old girl, who was raped by her stepfather, to carry the twins to full term –– even if it would kill her.

Doctors said the girl was 15 weeks pregnant when the abortion was performed Wednesday in the northeastern city of Recife, where Sobrinho is archbishop. Health officials said the life of the girl — who weighs 80 pounds — was in danger.



The Church, of course, has the back of the archbishop.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church's Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had been carrying had a right to live.

"It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated," he said.

Totally. The girl is supposed to die, unfortunately, at the age of nine, after being raped by her stepfather, so she could produce two motherless children, who would grow up knowing they were responsible for their mother’s death, so she could get into heaven. Thems the breaks.

He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion –– the elimination of an innocent life –– was more serious".



Somebody better call the PR guys.

Finally, a plethora of Republican Asshole Fuckfacery.

Where to start with these amazing fucking idiots. Oh, I know, John Boehner.

Boehner said Americans want government to practice the same financial restraint they have been forced to exercise: “It’s time for government to tighten their belts and show the American people that we ‘get’ it.”



Yes. During the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, the thing to do is to stop spending money. Everyone should stop spending. Government, the peoples, everyone. Because economies always do well when no one is spending money. That’s not at all the worst idea and won’t at all lead to the worst possible scenario. This guy is the most powerful Republican. Holy shit.

Next up, Boehner’s underling, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor.

The second-ranking House Republican told reporters that President Obama should be focusing on the "economic crisis," as opposed to holding four-hour meetings on healthcare, as the president did last week. The efforts may be laudable, Cantor said, but the White House should be devoting all resources to fixing the economy and not to "impose these cap-and-trade schemes."



Right. Because people losing their jobs and becoming uninsured will not at all have a negative effect on the already terrible economy. Heathcare is not one of the reasons we are suffering. Healthcare and the economy are totally unrelated. This guy is the second most powerful Republican in the House. Holy shit.

Next up, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina. You may have heard of South Carolina. It is #2 in unemployment, currently at an exciting 10.4%. So, what to do with that stimulus?

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Wednesday became the first governor to reject some of his state's share of President Obama's economic-stimulus money, spurning $700 million that Sanford said would harm his state's residents in the long run.



Yay! Check you out! Taking a stand based on no economic understanding!

Asked how he could reject federal money when his state's unemployment rate was cresting 10 percent, he responded: "There will be no immediate answer. ... Reforming state government: That can lead to job growth in the state."



I don’t want the money, but I don’t have any other ideas! Reform government! It’s bad. Make it good! This guy is running the state of South Carolina. Holy shit.

They actually don’t know a thing about economics. Hey kids, there are no monetary fixes because you and your peeps fucked everything up. The interest rates are at zero. The dollar is not worth a whole lot. All you’ve got left is debt. Welcome to what you created.



FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper


 

Previous

PAGE: 

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Next

Comments
thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

MAR 13, 2009 07:36 AM

Chuck Norris is a fucking nutter! surreal

Also, the continuing antics of the Catholic Church and the GOP just don't surprise me. Status quo, I suppose.

Another good AFFR.

-TM

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

MAR 13, 2009 07:40 AM

thefreak said:
Chuck Norris is a fucking nutter! surreal


Seriously. Don't a lot of people who say similar things wind up under FBI investigation?

Maudite

Maudite

Mesquite, TX
March 2004

MAR 13, 2009 08:02 AM

Don't Mess with Texas whatever

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 13, 2009 08:09 AM

mingol said:

thefreak said:
Chuck Norris is a fucking nutter! surreal


Seriously. Don't a lot of people who say similar things wind up under FBI investigation?


the problem, of course, is that the FBI is on the Chuck Norris Watchlist.

Peanut85

peanut85

San Jose, CA
July 2002

MAR 13, 2009 08:49 AM

motorfirebox said:

mingol said:

thefreak said:
Chuck Norris is a fucking nutter! surreal


Seriously. Don't a lot of people who say similar things wind up under FBI investigation?


the problem, of course, is that the FBI is on the Chuck Norris Watchlist.



Ha! Nice.

xfinitex

xfinitex

East Lansing, MI
August 2005

MAR 13, 2009 08:59 AM

motorfirebox said:

mingol said:

thefreak said:
Chuck Norris is a fucking nutter! surreal


Seriously. Don't a lot of people who say similar things wind up under FBI investigation?


the problem, of course, is that the FBI is on the Chuck Norris Watchlist.



You know, I work at a bookstore and he probably has my favorite right wing nutbag book title, Black Belt Patriotism (complete with photo of him standing in his martial arts uniform while the sun sets behind a mountain in the distance) right behind Ted Nugent's Ted, White and Blue.

On a more serious note, I've been following this thing in Brazil and I find it horrible and fascinating that this was the decision they made. Particularly, when it appears that even a lot of man-of-the-street Catholics are just fine with the abortion in this case.

poeticdesires

poeticdesires

Baltimore, MD
June 2005

MAR 13, 2009 09:03 AM

you excommunicate the doctor, who was doing his job by helping to save a life. you excommunicate the mother, who was looking out for the well being of her daughter. but you don't excommunicate the step father, who raped the daughter and caused the problem IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?
there are no words to express my anger. just...just...i am shaking. i want to ripe someone's head off, but instead i'll just stay out of organized religion like i have since high school.

deep breath out.
woo saa

CoyoteMike

CoyoteMike

Iowa City, IA
May 2006

MAR 13, 2009 09:08 AM

It amuses me when all these little voice people (like Chuck Norris) say things like "the government needs to start listening to the people!" They don't seem to get that the government IS listening to the people. We had that "election" thingie where we chose the people we wanted to be in charge, based on the ideas they were going to try.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 13, 2009 09:25 AM

i find it hard to care much about the whole excommunication thing. the catholic church is a private club with private rules. if those rules are half a century or more out of line with modern sensibilities, well, that strikes me as their business. the excommunication isn't particularly more ridiculous than, say, transubstantiation.

Lucifer69133

Lucifer69133

I'm lost
February 2009

MAR 13, 2009 09:43 AM

motorfirebox said:
i find it hard to care much about the whole excommunication thing. the catholic church is a private club with private rules. if those rules are half a century or more out of line with modern sensibilities, well, that strikes me as their business. the excommunication isn't particularly more ridiculous than, say, transubstantiation.



Erm...no. The church may be a "private" club, but it's one with over a billion members, so I would say that things like these affect a wide variety people, and still have an impact on wolrd affairs.

Also, I don't see how transubstation could lead to the excommunication of a raped 9 year old. Not the same thing AT ALL.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 13, 2009 09:48 AM

the number of members is irrelevant. nowhere in the church's rules does it say that anybody has to like what it has to say. it's not a democracy, except inasmuch as those who don't want to follow the rules are free to leave at any time.

to clarify, the girl in question was not excommunicated. and it is the same--both are arbitrary rules based on religious dogma. to me, the important parts of this case is whether or not the girl is cared for and whether or not her rapist is punished. the opinion of a bunch of religious blowhards is just background noise.

Lucifer69133

Lucifer69133

I'm lost
February 2009

MAR 13, 2009 10:13 AM

motorfirebox said:
the number of members is irrelevant. nowhere in the church's rules does it say that anybody has to like what it has to say. it's not a democracy, except inasmuch as those who don't want to follow the rules are free to leave at any time.



I don't think it is a simple as that. In a country where three quarters of the population are catholic, I don't think it is a simple as walking out of the front door, as it if was some kind of after school youth club. People in these places are born catholic, and obviously the church still it has an impact on the fabric of scoiety because of that.

motorfirebox to clarify, the girl in question was not excommunicated.



My bad.

motorfirebox and it is the same--both are arbitrary rules based on religious dogma. to me, the important parts of this case is whether or not the girl is cared for and whether or not her rapist is punished. the opinion of a bunch of religious blowhards is just background noise.



Again...no. Transubstation is a spiritual practice that has little to no impact on world affairs, and something which is integral to the practice of Catholic worship. The catholic stance on abortion has little to do with the bible and more to do with the kind of religious blowhards talked about in this article.

Heck, I would have thought that the last 9 years in America would have taught people something about the dangers of religious ideology. You're right in saying that the priority here is the girl's wellbeing, but these people are not just background noise, and they won't go away just because you think their beliefs are silly.

pagnaet

pagnaet

Amarillo, TX
March 2005

MAR 13, 2009 10:44 AM

If Chuck takes over Texas, Im out of here.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 13, 2009 10:46 AM

Lucifer69133 said:
I don't think it is a simple as that. In a country where three quarters of the population are catholic, I don't think it is a simple as walking out of the front door, as it if was some kind of after school youth club. People in these places are born catholic, and obviously the church still it has an impact on the fabric of scoiety because of that.


i don't see how the fact that lots and lots of people have volunteered to join this private club has any bearing on the situation. yes, there's social pressure--which is applied directly by the people being affected. if the government were bowing to catholic pressure and closing all the abortion clinics, that would be worth getting excited about.

Lucifer69133 said:
Again...no. Transubstation is a spiritual practice that has little to no impact on world affairs, and something which is integral to the practice of Catholic worship. The catholic stance on abortion has little to do with the bible and more to do with the kind of religious blowhards talked about in this article.


John Wycliffe might not see much of a difference.

JekyllAndHyde

JekyllAndHyde

Austin, TX
April 2005

MAR 13, 2009 11:09 AM

As I posted in the Liberal Politics group, I have a lot of family members in Austin, Texas, and I lived there myself last year, and I'm okay with Texas seceding, provided America holds onto Austin -- it could be like West Berlin during the Cold War. That should be the provision: fine, you guys can leave, but we're keeping the cool city, and maybe San Antonio as well.

Then the "Republic of Texas" could turn to drugs to build up its economy and become another extension of Mexi... wait a minute... I just realized, this is all a plot by Santa Anna's ghost to get Texas back for Mexico! Of course! It's so obvious!

...And it makes more sense than Chuck Norris leading Texas in a secession and declaring himself president....

Previous

PAGE: 

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Next