Quick Rants!

By now most of you know the story of Keaton Jones. He is the 11 year old child whose mother filmed him tearfully explaining his heartbreaking experience with bullies. What happened next was incredible as celebrities and regular people across the nation reached out to tell Keaton that they had his back.  What happened next was the spiral. Keaton's mother is possibly, (probably, almost certainly) a racist. Some rumors say Keaton may have been using racial slurs at school causing the bullying. 

The mom is taking heat. If you want to go after Kimberly Jones for her possibly racist posts on Facebook and photos with the confederate flag, a symbol many associate with racism and white nationalism, go ahead, but Keaton is 11 years old. To him, the bullying is real and the scars are real. Social media is asking why this kid gets support and not victims of racism. I say why can't we support both? Even if Keaton's mom does turn to be intolerant garbage, and even if Keaton has been influenced by her, an 11 year child can be reached and taught that racism is wrong and abhorrent. Aside from all of that childhood bullying and its psychological impact is real and can impact a person for years, even as an adult. Our personalities are formed as a child and can impact our decisions as adults. There is a national discussion on bullying going on again, and that is a good thing, even if the messenger (Kimberly Jones) may not be a good person and even if Keaton may need to have his world view widened. 

Side note - I am not in any way excusing the mother's racism, or if true, Keaton's. Nor am I saying bullying is a more serious issue than the clearly existent racism issue in America. I am saying we can solve more than one issue at a time and that an 11 year child should not be excommunicated from society because of his parents. 

Consumer review sites are good right? They give the consumer a voice against the power of big business. Maybe. Maybe they are also were loud blowhards who are too ignorant to know what they purchased or what the warranty actually covers go to bitch. Today I am looking at three review from angry furniture purchasers and discussing the problems inherent in consumer review sites. 

Well anyone who has known me for a long time knew that this podcast was coming eventually, they just didn't see me taking this angle. I meant to have the posted earlier on 11/22/17, but it will still be topical on 11/23/17. Today it is time to discuss my personal favorite conspiracy, who killed JFK.  Time to answer this question once and for all. 

And yes, I know 30 minutes is not a quick rant. 

I know, I am shocked as you are, it's November and its getting cold outside. It is even snowing. Somehow the changing of the seasons catches everyone by surprise. To help you out I have created this RavingLunaticMedia public service announcement. 

It's time for another round of "Don't Be These People". Today's exhibits of failed evolution

Women who wear too much perfume (and men who wear to much cologne) 

Driver's who won't let you merge

And a special shoutout to the dumbass I saw thinking the semi would back out of its half completed turn instead of her backing up 10 feet. 

Don't be these people, don't be so self absorbed you think it is all about you. 

This rant is a little late but it still applies. Everyone is still worked up over NFL players kneeling and disrupting our country, flag and military. Somehow, the same people are enraged that monuments to confederate leaders and generals are being removed. What? So on hand we are angry players are disrespecting the military and country but yet we want to honor men who actually fought against this country and led armies that killed loyal Americans. We want to honor actual traitors? Here is episode 51 discussing confederate monuments.

Also, before you tell me Lee was not a traitor - go look up the definition, his picture should be next to the word. 

Liberals ruin everything. Nothing is sacred, not even the Boy Scouts. I mean it says Boy in the name, you have to be a Boy to be in the Boy Scouts.  Until now. Thing is, the dirty hippies didn't take this one from you traditionalists. The Boy Scouts let girls in to make money, plain and simple. They weren't forced, the feminists and liberals did not demand entrance, the private club that is the Boy Scouts decided they needed a new membership base to draw from, so go blame them this time. 

It seems everywhere I look I see a tip jar, or a fundraiser or a crowd funding request. Enough is enough. Certain jobs warrant tips, others do not. Certain things should be crowd funded, like research or disaster relief efforts, others, like your fun time hobbies, should not. Episode 49 addresses why everything is crowd funded and tip jars are more prevalent than ever and whose job it really is to make sure labor earns enough to buy the consumer goods and services business is selling. Hint - its not societies job. 

So I have had a lot going on. Right, no one cares that I got busy. Quick Rants will return with new episodes over the weekend but for now, here is a repost of one of my favorites, Your Cat Is Not a Child. 

Hurricane Irma is an example of the dangers of the "Fake News" slander campaign against the mainstream media. Rush Limbaugh has told his listeners that Irma was not going be as bad as the media claimed and that they were only doing so to drive up ratings and sales of essential items. He also implied liberals go along with it to further a global warming agenda. Rush is playing politics with people's lives. A hurricane is a weather event, the prediction is based on facts and the media is presenting the worst case possibility so that people realize what could potentially happen (death) if they don't evacuate Irma's path. For Rush to imply otherwise is irresponsible. For Rush to tell his listeners it is a hoax and then evacuate himself is cowardice.