Well..I’m sure you’ve heard the nonsense that keeps being pushed by the NRA that says: “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun..” …and they try to use that to get people desensitized to people carrying guns all over the place where they shouldn’t…and you’ve heard me rant about the fact that I don’t want to be around people carry guns..after all, who the hell can tell who the “good guy with a gun” is? That little fact that showed the fallacy of the NRA’s contention was on display at the latest mass shooting where 9 Americans were murdered in a classroom…again…you heard the gun fetishists scream that the school was a “gun free zone” and that is why no “good guy with a gun” was there to stop this murderer…all lies, and more lies…this school was not a gun free zone…in fact there were many people on that campus that were carrying guns that day…but, one of the carriers explained the nonsense of the NRA’s contention, a former military man trained in use of guns…this guy said there was no way he was going to take his gun out and get involved since “how can the swat team tell that I’m a good guy with a gun?” Pulling out his gun and getting involved would have probably meant this guy would be dead right now with some lame apologies for it….so, the next time you hear the NRA’s crap, you know it is a fallacy, a lie just to get people more scared and get them to buy more guns…don’t believe it…geez…
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This is just sick…
Well…if you’ve been here before, you’ve heard me talk about the need to keep religion where it belongs; in churches and not forced down the throats of people who may be of another religion or of no religion at all…and the people here in the US who are the perpetrators of that force are the supposed “Christians” who have the delusional notion that the US is a “Christian” country. Even now, in 2015 we still have this crap going on all across the country, but mainly in the south where even elementary school children are being coerced into illegal prayer in school. In this particular case, a public elementary school in Georgia was forcing the entire school to engage in Christian prayers to start the day, clearly an unconstitutional act but it gets even worse…when two kids whose parents told the school district that it was unconstitutional said they wouldn’t pray, they were yelled at by their teachers and told to go sit in the hallway while the rest of the class prayed…and later, other teachers tried to get the kids to go against their parents teaching and pray with the class just to “get along”. Finally, the parents had had enough and sued the school district to get them to cease and desist their illegal acts. While the parents won the case, what kind of reprisals will that mean for their kids? One of the kids was pulled from the school because she was uncomfortable with how she was treated…and the other, older child is trying to stick it out under the daily, subtle threats she is undergoing. Now, this whole sordid episode just shows why religion should be put back in churches where it belongs….but the teachers and administrators who set up this forced adherence to Christianity should also have been fired…but, they are still there, waiting for their next chance to break the law and push their religious beliefs on others…geez…
Lyndsey Graham is such a hypocrite…
Well….when I think of repubs these days, all I can think of is how they are such hypocrites…and you’ve seen me write about this before but this latest example from the senator from South Carolina just ices that cake and puts a cherry on top. If you remember back a couple of years when hurricane Sandy hit the northeast and did monumental damage to the coastline, the repub talking point at the time was that any aid that was to go to repair the damage had to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the government…and this crap was led by ole Lyndsey who voted against any aid for the people who were devastated by that storm…let’s fast forward to this week when a hurricane hits his state with the worst flooding in history there…I wonder what ole Lyndsey’s reaction is…not to offset any help for his state, but to be the first to “feed at the trough of the federal government” as the repubs always say when regular people need some help from their government. Now, I have no problem with helping the people of South Carolina or any other state where there is s natural disaster…that is what a society is for…but I do have a problem with this idiot playing politics with disaster aid when it’s not his state…the rank hypocrisy here makes me sick…but, that’s the modern repubs for you…nothing for you unless I approve….what a load of crap…
Stuff happens?
Well…another week, another mass shooting leaves more Americans dead…I’m not sure what to think about these things that just keep happening over, and over, and over….but, my reaction is not “stuff happens” which is exactly what ole JEB! responded when asked about the tragedy. Stuff happens?…9 people are dead and JEB! repsonds “stuff happens”…I don’t know what to think about that…a person running for president asked about 9 dead and he just dismisses it with “stuff happens”? I have a theory why he would react that way…he just doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself and the rest of people who have allowed him to go through his life detached from reality….just like his brother before him and the rest of the crowd he runs with…they just don’t give a damn…and I am tired of them…and of people dying…I’m just tired….geez…
I’m disappointed…
Well…as you know, I very seldom talk about religion unless is it being used as a bludgeon to impose religious views on people who are non believers…but, something the Pope did last week disappointed the hell out of me…he made the point to meet with the homophobic country clerk from Kentucky who refused to do her job and issue same sex marriage licences to gay couples….what does the Pope not understand about discrimination and the separation of church and state here in the US? It is not ‘religious freedom” to deny other people their rights just because you don’t like the idea that gays can get married…and by meeting with her, the Pope gave sanction to this unlawful behavior…it was a terrible mis-judgement on his part, to elevate a hater to the status that she gets a private meeting with the Pope…she who is on her 4th marriage…it just shows how we need to end the hegemony of religion in this country an put it back in the churches where it belongs….geez…
Bye, Bye, Boehner…
Well…it was a little bit of a surprise to hear that ole John Boehner has decided to resign from congress at the end of October and I’m not sure if I should be happy or what…after all, he is going to go down in history as the worst house speaker in history but I think his biggest failing was emboldening the crazy, right wing vandal caucus to try to blow up the government. Especially when he scheduled 50 votes to repeal Obamacare to try to mollify them when he knew it had no chance to ever become law….and that it would just make the righties even more delusional, allowing them to control the House when there is only about 40 of them. What he should have done is schedule one vote, then work with the dems to get things done…just ignoring the bomb throwers. But no, he wanted to continue to be speaker and put his own personal status before that of the US so he allowed them to control him and at the same time, ensure that nothing would get done. I kind of think it may be like watching a train wreck for the next month…that you just can’t look away even though people are going to be maimed…bye, bye, John…
They are ALL stupid…
Well…if you have been listening to any or all of the repub candidates spout over the past couple of months, there is only one conclusion that you can draw…that they are all stupid. The latest from one of the front runners, Ben Carson, show his ignorance of the law and the constitution in all it’s glory…first, last week, this idiot comes out and says that he could never support a Muslim for president saying that Islam allows them to lie to get elected…well, Ben, if that is a disqualifier, then all of the repubs now running are disqualified. But, the latest one that this idiot came out with today was that just being Muslim should be probable cause for their houses to be searched and their phones tapped. This idiot appears to not know that there is a fourth amendment to the Constitution that prevents these things and was one of the main reasons that the Revolutionary war was fought….but, when scary Muslims are involved, they don’t deserve the same rights as the rest of us American citizens….I knew about this stuff in the 6th grade…this surely should disqualify this idiot from anything but retirement…and I just wish he’d go there…I know the repubs are proud of their ignorance on many subjects but a campaign whose entire reason for being is to promote ignorance and hate is just too much…geez…
Jeb truly is the stupid one..
Well..just wanted to do a short one on another idiotic thing that JEB! said in a speech a few days back…the gist of it was the same thing that ole MItt said during his campaign…that the only reason that minorities vote for dems is that they will get “free stuff” from them and won’t have to work for anything…and ole JEB! went on to lecture that they should vote for repubs since they will put policies into place that will let minorities “earn” their way to a better life…right there I started laughing so hard my eyes were watering..this lecture coming from someone who has never “earned” anything in his life that wasn’t given to him by the Bush family connections….has never had to worry where the next meal is coming from or where to get the money to pay for the doctor…and this idiot thinks he can lecture anyone on earning anything? Again…I have had enough of these rich pricks telling working people what their failings are and why they aren’t rich like them…JEB!, you would be an Arby’s manager if it wasn’t for your family…just STFU…geez…
Carly Fiorina lies just like the rest of them…
Well…the lies just keep on coming from the right these days about Planned Parenthood but this last bunch by Carly Fiorina is just too much…during the debate last week…ole Carly went on and on about the video she said she saw that showed a live baby being dissected for organs at Planned Parenthood…even though this video DOES NOT exist and never did…but the media gave up their responsibility of challenging her on these lies and she continues to spout them…but now, it has gotten even worse with her campaign faking a video that supposedly supports what she said in the debate….and, again the media has given here a pass on this lie when it would be pretty easy to just look for the time stamp on the video which would expose this lie…but none of them will do a damn thing….but, that doesn’t make this any less of a lie and this should disqualify the idiot Carly from ever holding any office…this, along with the lies about her “success” at HP should have gotten her laughed right off the stage…but here we have this idiot rising in the polls as she lies, lies, and lies….I guess that’s what the repub base likes…liars and the lies they tell….she will NEVER be elected in the general…just go home, Carly…only the most rabid of your base wants to hear a word you have to say…geez…
Capitalism and healthcare don’t mix well…
Well…with all of the press being given to healthcare these days, one little known capitalistic tactic has been flying under the radar…until now. With many illnesses, there are old drugs that work perfectly fine and, with the few cases there are, there is no incentive for any drug company to develop new drugs or for companies to develop generic analogs for those drugs. But, that’s not good enough for the Wall street boys that make their living screwing people and stealing everything they can…the new trend is for the hedge fund boys to find a company that has one of these old drugs and is the only company making it…they then buy the company or the rights to the drug….and increase the price astronomical amounts…the latest example being the drug Deraprim, a 62 year old drug used to treat AIDS patients. The ghoul behind this crap is a jerk called Martin Shkreli who just happens to be a former hedge fund manager and what he did is just the worst of capitalism…he took the price of this drug which once cost a dollar a pill to $750 dollars a pill putting the treatment out of reach of many patients and lining his pockets while people die…justifying his actions saying the increase is necessary to fund “research”…that will never happen. In fact, in a previous company where he did the same thing to pediatric kidney patients, he is now being sued for 65 million dollars…this guys is no humanitarian…and this crap should be stopped now before more people die just to make him richer…how does he live with himself? Pretty easily, I’d guess…these folks don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves….geez…