Well…it’s primary day here in Michigan and I’ve been out to vote…how about you? I know that the primaries are normally not too important, but this year there is a real choice on our side…even though Hillary is supposed to win today, I still went out and voted for Bernie….have like the guy since I heard him talk many years ago and his ideas line up better with mine than anyone elses do….it looks like Drumpf is going to win on the repub side but they are all so unlikable that I really just don’t care who wins on their side….I will do an update when the results are in tomorrow….oh, I was going to combine this one with one about the bike but being one behind, I think I’ll do the bike one on it’s own…so, this WAS a little politics…but just a little….more later…
Category Archives: Politics
Adults on the stage…
Well…if you have watched any of the debates lately, there can be no confusion about who the adults on the stage are…the repub debate was rife with dick jokes, personal insults, and braggadocio…while Bernie and Hillary had a spirited policy debate that showed that either one of them would be so vastly preferable to any repub that is still in the race. But the delusion on the right continues, that anyone from their “deep bench” is better than the dems…and have any chance to be elected in the fall…all we have to do is turn out and we get the presidency and the senate back….I just don’t want to hear any more Bernie supporters saying they will not vote if he is not nominated…don’t be idiots folks…and hand the election to the repubs just because you’re pissed…I’m a Bernie supporter, too…but any dem is better than the best of the repubs…geez…
Late again today….
Well…have been getting a few things done today so I am late coming back here for another one…did anyone watch the repub debate last night? I hope not since the sight of it would need so much brain bleach that it would probably kill you….I have never seen a group of “adults” carry on with the insults and middle school taunts that made them look as presidential as Pee Wee Herman….but nowhere near as funny….and it does look like ole Drumpf is going to be the winner no matter what he says, no matter how many lies he spouts, and no matter how much he threatens to commit war crimes…my question is if he was elected, and he ordered the military to commit war crimes, how many generals would tell him to go to hell….it is illegal, after all, to order someone to commit a war crime and that is just another reason whey Bush and Cheney should be in jail….but, I blame Obama for that…for his willingness to put the whole mess behind him so the repubs would work with him…how did that work out Obama? I am at a loss to comment more….geez…
The brilliance of Marco Rubio….
Well…was just reading a few articles on the intertubes and came upon this comment from ole Marco that had me laughing out loud at his brilliance…(snark)….after the super Tuesday primaries and caucases, he was asked why he didn’t do better than he did…and ole Marco answered with this brilliance…”if there weren’t so many people running, I would have won most of the states”….let that one sink in for a minute…he uses the excuse that there are just too darn many people running so people can’t see that he is the most qualified and would make the bestest president of all…this is what you get when you have a repub empty suit running…who has never accomplished anything in his life other than making friends with billionaires and trying to memorize a bunch of talking points…I kind of wish he would get the nomination so that either Hillary or Bernie would just destroy him in the debates…but, that is not going to happen…and that doesn’t make me sad at all….
This is what running government like a business does…
Well…you would think that the idiots in charge of Lansing would learn from their abject failures…but no, they are repubs who never learn anything. One of the mantras we hear all the time from these folks that it will be better if we run government like a business…it will save money…greedy unions have to go, etc…but the results are clear to see…from the Flint water crisis caused so that the emergency manager could save 100 dollars a day and look good to his cronies in the Snyder administration, to the privatization of food services for the state’s prisons that rewarded big donors to the repubs with profit while they fed prisoners food that was spoiled and had workers that smuggled drugs into the prisons….to the latest outrage of the veterans home in GR where the union aides and nurses were canned so they could give the contract for patient care to a private company that repeatedly failed to take care of the patients there…patients who are military people..yeah, the ones that the repubs supposedly revere but not if they cost anything. The system worked perfectly fine with some of the best care in the country until the repubs again privatized services there…but the real goal was to do whatever they could to gut public sector unions…and patient care be damned if they could save a couple of million dollars. This is the problem with running government like a business…it just isn’t one! And the bottom line mentality does not work unless you don’t give a damn about any outcome except cutting costs…and cutting costs doesn’t work all the time in business…we had a saying in my business days: you can’t cut your way to growth and profitability….but to the idiots running this state, it’s the only thing they know…geez….
I’m done with NASCAR…
Well…I am just a little chagrined with the news that the leadership of nascar and many of the drivers have come out and endorsed Donald Trump for president….I guess we all now know that racism is still alive and well in the south…now, people can endorse anyone they want…but I don’t have to pay or support their decision by watching them anymore….this just shows that these folks are not too bright…or they agree with all the terrible things the Donald has said and continues to say…do they really believe that all Mexicans are drug mules and rapists as Donald has said on more than one occasion? Do they really believe that all Muslims should be watched by the state? All I know is that Nascar ended for me today…and I have been watching it since the 70’s….I hope the rest of the progressive people in this country do the same….geez…
Texas is just crazy…
Well….as you know, I really don’t understand Texas and the idiots who are running that state…and that was really brought home by the latest bit of insanity that their legislators have foisted on that state. On August 1st, a new open carry law takes effect that requires state run universities to allow students to carry guns on campus…needless to say, this has administrators scrambling to figure out how to deal with this crap….they are now having seminars for professors across that state that basically tells them to let the gun carriers do whatever they want…to not criticize them, to makes sure they get “fair” grades, and to not ever confront them over bad behavior….so, the gun nuts get to do whatever they want while the rest of the people have to just take crap from them…I guess that’s consistent with the repub hatred of education and teachers…that teacher’s safety is less important than the nuts that want to carry guns everywhere….how much more stupid can people get? And do you believe for a minute that these gun carriers aren’t going to try to intimidate teachers and other students?
Geez….
Courser and Gamrat get what they deserve…
Well…just wanted to talk about this obscure Michigan story for a minute…yesterday I read about this one with just a little too much glee but I don’t feel bad about it….if you remember, Courser and Gamrat were tea party darlings that were elected to the Michigan house on their standard “family values” and integrity platform that all of these idiots spout…but that only applies to the peons like you and me. As soon as these two got into office, they started an affair that took most of their time and they basically stopped doing the job they were elected to do…which, how crazy these two are, was not a bad thing…after a while their staff got tired of covering for them and the affair came to light…then these “family values” repubs got tossed from the legislature and I thought we’d heard the last from them…but, this week, the AG here filed felony charges against both of these idiots for lying to investigators…and the charges for ole Courser could land him in jail for 20 years while Gamrat could be gone for 10 or so…typical, typical repubs who don’t think the law applies to them…okay, I’m not going to apologize for being gleeful about this…this is the type of karma that needs to happen more often….
Dow and the Supreme Court….
Well…getting to the end of the month and I am running out of topics so it looks like I will need a couple of fillers to make the goal for the month…I did want to talk about the effect the death of Scalia is having on business…many of them are realizing that with Scalia gone, business will no longer have their best set of shills on the court who invariably rule for business…and you only have to look at Citizens United and the Hobby Lobby decisions to see how far these guys will bend over backward to make sure business and the 1% get what they paid for….and the latest indicator that business is realizing the gravy train is over is the settlement that Dow Chemical made over the past week of almost a billion dollars to settle a price fixing class action suit even going so far to mention the supreme court changes as the reason they wanted to settle….now, when you have a statement like that…that nakedly admits that they had the court in their pocket until Scalia died and they think that they won’t get another one like him, another business shill, when the next justice is appointed….this should really trouble anyone who naively thought that the court was fairly deciding cases without ideology entering into it….geez…
Snyder really is a liar….
Well….as you know, I have written a few of these about the Flint lead poisoning crisis with some conjecture that our wonderful governor Snyder was lying when he said he didn’t know what was going on there until October of last year…with the release of some new e-mails regarding the crisis, we now know he was lying through his teeth about it…he and his top aides know about the poisoning from the start and didn’t do a damn thing about it since it would have cost money to go back to the Detroit water system…this is the problem about running government like a business where the bottom line is all that counts, whether it is outsourcing good jobs to put more profit in the owner’s pockets or poisoning people to give tax cuts to the rich, government is not business and clean water for Flint’s residents is not optional no matter what it’s cost. And cost was the only consideration in this mess….and the lying by Snyder and his cronies means that Snyder has to go…geez…