The Kwanzaa Post - and a SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT

Today, my children let us discuss what a holiday is in the USA.

hol•i•day [hol-i-dey] –noun
1. A day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
2. Any day of exemption from work (distinguished from working day).
3. A time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.
4. A religious feast day; holy day, especially any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.
5. Sometimes, holidays. Chiefly British. A period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
6. An unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface.


Please note that the definition 5 states it is primarily a British thing. Also, definitions 1 and 2 both have a similar theme – a day off from work. The topic as it comes does not allow for a day off from work, so they are void as well. Definition 3 is close to 1 and 2, and also not applicable. I don’t even know what the fuck 6 is – never heard of THAT before. This leaves us, friends, with definition 4.

Kwanzaa is a religi—Wait, no, it has nothing to do with religion.
Fuck.

Here’s the breakdown:
Kwanzaa was made up – yes, MADE UP – in 1966 by a black man named Ronald McKinley Everett, but better known by his black alias of Maulana Karenga. According to interviews with him, he wanted to "give Blacks an alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society." Um… didn’t we just go through damn near a century of fighting to provide black people with the same rights as the whites? In just two more years, would we not push through the Civil Rights Act of 1968, ending segregation? So why the fuck is this man trying to drive a wedge between the races by concocting a new “holiday” just for the black people??

Sorry, the rant took over.

Anyway, Kwanzaa celebrates the Seven Principles of Blackness (I am controlling the rant). They are:

• Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
• Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
• Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
• Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
• Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
• Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

During the early years of Kwanzaa, this socialist fucktard said that it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas, that Jesus was psychotic, and that Christianity was a white religion that black people should shun. But, as the mainstream ate it up, he backed away from that stance. Why? I’m not saying I can read his mind or anything, but I’m thinking he wanted it to become VERY widespread so he would have the power and money that came along as befits the founder of a semi-national holiday. It gained steam and prominence in a society to afraid of speaking out against stupidity that things were accepted and embraced by the sheep that pushed political correctness. “If I say I don’t agree with Kwanzaa, I will be labeled a racist and outcast from polite society. I’ll just keep my mouth shut.”

Wish me a joyous Kwanzaa and I will thank you, but my response is going to be Merry Christmas. If you are offended, tough shit. Get the fuck over it. If you take a moment to get to know me, you will understand that I am actually tolerant, but feel that the idea and/or the word “tolerant” has become over used and misused. I thanked you for your genuine well wishes – I tolerated your sheep-like following of a non-holiday, power/money grabbing idea that flourished with the Cosby show. Tolerate my genuine well wishes for the season. Think what you will, just say, “thank you”, and nothing more.

A friend of mine, Bruce from Atlanta, explained to me that he liked the ideas of Kwanzaa. I explained I can completely support it, but – aside from the 7 days of Kwanzaa every year – never see these principles in practice. Bruce is a devout Christian black man that continues to this day to celebrate Kwanzaa, in spite of the religious differences he has with the founder. After all, this “holiday” is not religious. It is merely a celebration of black people by black people… and the relatively few members of other races that are full of political correctness.

So, it is with great excitement that I announce my OWN made up “holiday” – BASTARD’S DAY!!

The third Saturday of August will be National Bastard’s Day. I foresee Bastard’s Day cards:

To commemorate Bastard’s Day, I thought of the bastardiest bastard I could… and I IMMEDIATELY thought of YOU!

Bastard’s Day candy in lewd shapes – but don’t eat the chocolates! They are NOT chocolate!
Bastard’s Day gifts, like diet books and fashion tip books, Groupons for etiquette classes, or resume building software. You know, free or cheap things that point out flaws in other people.

It has potential. With the fall of the political correctness attitude (a slow and painful death, but I believe that people are getting sick of it as it only hurts the society as a whole), it is a prime time to start up this little franchise!


** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** 
Please see the post located here for a change to Bastard's Day
http://rivertouch.blogspot.com/2013/12/update-to-bastards-day.html

This is NOT a dick joke

Ok, so Rep. Weiner made a mistake. He took some pictures of himself and sent them to women he was flirting with on line. Big fucking deal. He didn’t kill anyone. He didn’t develop a drug or alcohol problem. He didn’t plane seeds of discontent among his constituency (more than any other political figure). He is not treasonous. He’s a man that thought with his dick and made a bad call… a LOT of bad calls. I believe I can speak for all men when I say, “been there, done that”.

From this point on, it is easier to do one of two things:
1. Pretend I live in his district and voted for him
2. Take for granted that I am generalizing about ANY elected official, just using his specifics to illustrate my point

So why the Inquisition? I asked that when it rained down on Clinton as well. I don’t give a flying fuck what the man does with his own body or within his own family. It is his POLITICAL AGENDA with which I am concerned. I voted for his support in what I believed was best for the country (abortion, immigration, inflation… all the important “-tion”’s out there, whatever they may be). He may be the strongest advocate for smaller federal government there is, but because he did something that the hypocritical majority deems “immoral”, he is being pressured into quitting his post as a people’s elected representative. How fucking absurd!

We (as a nation) are not going to give him an opportunity to redeem himself. No. We are going to say, “You did a bad thing that we can’t fire you for, so we are going to lean on you until you quit”. I’d say he has a strong case for a Hostile Work Environment suit. I wonder how many of these upstanding moral and political beacons of righteousness have a chick (or dude) on the side. I wonder if any of them are saying to themselves, “Damn, that could have been me!”

I think Pelosi is just mad because no one will send her pictures like that, nor does anyone want to see that skin-stretched-tighter-than-a-drum train wreck of a hideous face/body in anything less that a full face and body covering burqa. OMFG Can you even imagine that perpetual shocked face looming on your computer screen. I just ruined my keyboard with my own puke.

I digress.

This was a “scandal” – and I use that term VERY loosely – that involved a few people and nothing like selling state secrets. He took pictures of his body and cock and sent them to women that expressed an interest in seeing them. He’s a moron for not being able to tell the difference between a tweet and a direct message. And an even bigger moron for even tempting fate by not using a direct email address but using Twitter instead. Really?? What the FUCK were you thinking??

And, in closing, to all of you people that defend forcing him to resign with the argument, “What else has he lied to me about?” do you honestly think that the other politicians are telling you ONLY the truth?? Look at it this way, you know one thing now that you didn’t know before. Can you say the same thing about ANY other sitting politician?

If you had a job that you worked into a career over a long period of time, one to which you were dedicated and in which you were respected and made the mistake of being unfaithful to your wife, should you go to your work and quit?

Really??

I think all of you guys had better put down your rocks. He got caught, but you haven’t…yet. I do not like the idea of the morally bankrupt being the ones to call “ethics violation”. The blind and the blind, you know.

My two cents, do with it what you will.