Zieg fucking heil.

Once in a while, at Michigan Football games (full disclosure mom pays for the tickets because they’re in the rents name and I can’t afford them anyway. A single game costs more than both my dad’s and my season ticket were back in the day) they ask everyone to “honor America” by standing for “god bless america”. I used to just sit through and get screamed at once in a while. I usually just show up late for the Anthem to miss it (I try to get there for it during high school games just to see how it turns out. I can name that tune in, er, 87 notes). Last year, I started singing the “Atheist Anthem” by David Mandell. There is a new version but I sing the old one because I know it

We are the Atheists, free from mind control
We have no gods, devils, or a soul
Our lives are happy, as everyone can see
Cause we love nature and humanity

Throughout the ages, ignaorance prevails
Religious leaders preaching fairy tales
Stop all your ranting and thumping of your book
We are the Atheists, we won’t bite your hook

Reason and Science, good for you and me
Not a foolish bible (buy-bull), or a diety
Come out and join us,live life free and bold
We are the Atheists, free from mind control

(The 3rd line in the last verse is mine because I can never remember it and it’s close enough to the original for me.)

Which honors America more, standing for your freedom or cowering in fear.

This is long enough so see ya all later.

attorney: “you say you caught him on his way to the bathroom during “God bless America?”

cop: “yes”

attorney: “then what did he do?”

cop: “p****d all over himself.”

attorney: “and you don’t think that meant that he really had to go?”

Maybe it’s time those officers learned about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The need to excrete waste far outweighs the need to stand and listen to a song he’d heard a thousand times before.

Also, is Yankee Stadium private property, or was it built with public money like so many other sports venues?

And the police should not be in the business of enforcing private speech, even on private property. They’re an arm of the government. If the Yankees’ requirement is otherwise legal, they should have their security guards enforce it, not the police. When the police get into the business of abusing people who don’t want to participate in the religious expression, that’s unconstitutional.

Also, if I recall correctly from previous articles I’ve read about the topic, part of the way the Yankees enforce this is by running a chain over the ends of the rows of seats so you actually can’t leave until the religious experience is over; apparently this guy got out before they put up the chain. That part really amazed me: if it’s true, somebody in New York should call the fire department and complain that the chain could result in deaths in the event of an evacuation due to a fire and demand that the Yankees be forbidden to use it.

As if I needed another reason to say it… Yankees suck. Go Red Sox.

hats :: patriotism
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ferrets :: global warming

I’m still here, but I only hang out with sane people now.

Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a country which was called America for short. This was their national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
[text of anthem removed]
There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks.

I’m not a patriot, I don’t give a good goddam about any flags and I certainly don’t chant any nationalist incantations.

I’m not proud to be an American because I tend to be proud of things I actually had something to do with – and I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have picked the US if I had a choice.

And, if there were a god worth his salt, he’d bless everyone not just US. Hell, I think he’d be pretty pissed off at us, frankly.

I don’t like this quote, how is listening to this song patriotic. We need to be careful of how we let the word patriotic be defined.

“Another reason to hate the yankees… and cops… and america… and the list goes on…”

And, to make matters worse, the Yankees are the only one of the 30 major league teams that still plays that horrendous, obnoxious fucking song during the seventh inning of every single home game of the season.

They all started doing it right after 9/11, in a robotic display of pseudo-patriotism; but after about a year, most teams scaled it back to just Sundays, holidays, Opening Day, “honoring the troops” days or other special occasions. But the Yankees still play it every game, just because they are self-important, pompous, culturally tone-deaf pieces of shit.

This story comes as no surprise if you follow baseball. The Yankees and their fans = Fox News Republicans.