Well…when asked last week what author has had the biggest impact on him, ole Jeb said Charles Murray…the guy who wrote “The Bell Curve” that posited that black people are genetically less intelligent than everyone else and has recently published a new book “By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission” that basically says that since people are too stupid to agree with conservative principles and won’t make them law, rich people should challenge the ones they don’t like in court until the government gives up governing. Yep, ole Jeb loves a guy that hates America so much that he is willing to destroy it if he and his ilk don’t get their way like damn little children….if there was any question that ole Jeb is not too bright….here’s the answer…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Military overload….
Well…after enduring all of the sad stories and military worshiping during every US race yesterday, I wonder if anyone else is getting tired of it? Not tired of being thankful for the military but if I hear anyone else say “protecting our freedom” again I am going to scream. Saying that the soldiers that died in Iraq and Afghanistan were “protecting our freedom” does a great disservice to those who died in WWII and obfuscates what protecting freedom really is. After all, none of the countries in the middle east that we invaded where our soldiers were killed was a threat to us at all…I know, bin Laden was in Afghanistan but once he wasn’t, why the hell are we still there? The only thing I got from all of the military porn during the last week is “how come the guys that ordered these illegal wars are not in jail?” They should sit the repubs down that want even more “military action” and make them watch every story that I did over the past week to make them understand the human toll that their recklessness has cost….and we have to stop these endless wars so no more stories of our brave soldiers dying have to be told….that would honor the dead more than any flyover at any Nascar race would do…geez…
This is wrong…
Well…just read an article about the tax burden here in Michigan and it just confirms what I have been saying since the repubs cut taxes for corporations here…they are no longer paying their fair share of what it takes to run this state…in fact, the people are paying twice what corporations pay in income taxes just in the so called “sin” taxes on tobacco and alcohol…yep, you heard that right, the corporations whose trucks destroy the roads and whose pollution fouls the air and land pay so little in taxes that the few people that drink and smoke pay more in taxes just on those two items than corporations do with the giant tax cuts they were given by Snyder and the repubs. This continues the repubs plan to shift the burden of taxation to the middle class and the poor while allowing corporations to steal the use of the state without paying for it…or understanding that these tax cuts do nothing but destroy the ability of the state to pay it’s bills, as we see from the fight here to try to figure out how to fix Michigan’s roads. Now, I don’t mind paying my taxes because that is what you do in a society…but taxes have to be fair, and since “corporations are people” they should pay their fair share….geez…
More hypocrisy…
Well….I’m sure you’ve read about the shootout between biker gangs in Texas a few days back,,,but there is one thing you didn’t read about…have you heard any politician say anything about it? In Ferguson and in Baltimore where the people who were protesting (and to be accurate, looting) were black, politicians like Ted Cruz couldn’t comment fast enough that it was a problem with the black community and rolled out all of the nonsense you normally hear from the right…no families, no work ethic…yadda yadda….not that their community is being systematically abused by the police there and that is the cause of these protests. Where were the comments when white biker gangs get in a shootout that left 9 dead with over 170 people arrested? Not a fricken peep from these guys…and I think I know why…the right wing asses vote for Cruz and his ilk and there must be an excuse for this behavior…after all, there are no problems in the white community…yeah, that is snark….just more and more hypocrisy from these racist asses and I am getting really tired of it…where is the media calling them out on this crap? As always…nowhere to be seen…geez…
Jeb just keeps digging…
Well…just read a new piece over at Kos and thought I should comment on it…but first, happy birthday to Pete Townsend…70 years old today…okay, back to Jeb…his pandering to the religious right just got deeper yesterday with his weighing in on the religious “freedom” laws that are propagating in repub controlled states and on the idea that christians should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they want since it is part of their “faith”….here’s the money quote…actually a paraphrase: faith means the ability to do whatever they think is right based on their faith…..did you get that one? Ole Jeb believes that faith gives you the right to pick and choose whatever laws you want to follow….so you think it’s right to murder doctors that perform abortions? A-OK with Jeb. If you think it’s alright to murder people that are not the “right” color….A-OK with Jeb….you can see where this pandering is going, right? They guy who is running to protect the Constitution and our laws is giving a little wink to the religious nuts with that old quote form Orwell’s “Animal Farm” “everyone’s equal but pigs are a little more equal than the others”….so now he is going to create a “special” protected class that get’s to do whatever they damn well please…as if they don’t already…geez…
A better question to ask…
Well…there has been a little uproar with the media in the past few days when many of them have been asking the repub presidential contenders the question “would you still invade Iraq with what we know now?”….but, that is the wrong question for me…the real question that should be asked is “would you allow your administration to manufacture a reason to take the country to war?” I admit that would be a pretty easy one to answer….and, I’m not sure if it would be pertinent or not, but what it would do is stop the media sanitizing how we got involved in Iraq in the first place and remind everyone that ole GW and Cheney lied to the world and America almost 200 times in the run up to the war. That needs to be shouted from the rooftops…especially since a lot of the liars from ole GW’s administration are getting back in place for Jeb’s run and are part of Rubio’s, too….that would be a story that I would like to see run somewhere in the media…geez…
This is stupid…
Well…have been thinking about the nonsense that has been going on about ole Jeb’s response to the Iraq war question that went something like this…”knowing what we know now, would you go to war in Iraq?”…..and ole Jeb fumbled it for almost a week before he said no…but, that’s not the real question here since they DID know what we know now….ole Jeb’s brother W and Cheney knew then that there were no WMD’s and that Saddam was no threat to anyone but his own people…but they lied to us and went to war because they wanted a war…and wanted to reward their buddies in the MIC with war profits that they couldn’t steal if there was no war. It makes me almost puke when I hear the repubs changing the question away from the fact that they lied us into a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and cost trillions…almost making it seem that the Iraq war is just a “hypothetical” as ole Jeb seems to think it is….geez….
Hypocrites all….
Well…I know I’ve writing about religion the past couple of days and it’s not normally a topic that I want to do…but, for one more day, I have to comment on something that I find so hypocritical that I just had to…over the past week, the pope has recognized a Palastinian state to try to get the talks going on really establishing one…but, it was the reaction of the repubs here that just lit up my hypocrites meter and maxed it out….their reaction was that religion should be kept out of politics and the pope should just keep his mouth shut on these matters…okay…I hope you guys see the hypocrisy there that I do…every damn political thing the repubs do here in the US is cloaked and driven by religion…the denial of gay rights, the depriving of women’s right to control their own bodies, and many other bits of mischief they do on a daily basis is all traced back to religion…don’t see how that is keeping religion out of politics…oh, I see, they are back to the old ‘do what I say, not what I do” crap that they seem to always fall back on…again, I have had enough of the hypocrisy…had enough 30 years ago and am so tired of them continuing to get elected….geez…
One more on religion…
Well…in a pretty cool coincidence…at least to me…a new poll that came out in the past week or so shows that the trend away from religion in this county appears to be accelerating, with the number of people identifying as “Christian” dropping almost 8 percent in the past 5 years while those of us who have no religion has grown by the same 8%. At this rate, in only two generations, the majority of this country will be without the scourge of religion…okay, that may be a little harsh but the way that religion is used in this country and across the world, as a sword to attack anyone who is different, I’m not sure if scourge is not a good description. One of the things that I think is driving this change here in the US is the constant whining and constant attempts of the “Christians” here in the US to jam their religion into all aspects of US life but also people are beginning to realize that “Christianity” here is all about hate and control….hating gays because of”Christians” willful misinterpretation of the bible…trying to force their religious views on women’s rights into the law that takes away women’s ability to control their own bodies while they try to ensure that gays don’t have the rights they deserve as US citizens. This hate is turning off the younger generations that religion needs to be viable over time and I, for one, think that is a good thing…as religion dies, this will ensure a return to rationality in governance…not faith, whose only place in the US should be in church…not in government…
Jeb is just as dumb as GW…
Well…read this little nugget of crazy the other day but forgot about it until I was reading the paper today….as you know, ole Jeb is running for president and guess who he has as one of his “top” advisers on foreign policy….ole GW…yep, that GW, the one who manufactured evidence and lied us into a war that has cost almost 3 trillion dollars…and Jeb is supposed to be the smart one? And, he went on at Liberty University the other day that anyone else that would have been president at the time would have done the same thing given the “facts” that they had…..no, Jeb, because any other president who didn’t have Darth Cheney as their VP wouldn’t have had a the “facts” that you had…the lies that there were wmd, that Saddam was working on a nuclear weapon….and on and on….I’m not sure what is the more stupid thing…to invade Iraq in the first place…killing hundreds of thousands and setting the stage for ISIS to rise in the power vacuum, or to know how big a mistake it was and still support it….that from the “smart” Bush….Jeb is just as dumb as GW and we don’t need another moron in the White House…geez…