Well…since my shoulder won’t allow me to work out, I thought I’d get to this one early as I wait for it to get warm enough to do the bike ride in shorts. If you haven’t heard, ole Tom Cotton is the ringleader of the 47 repub senators (I wonder what their fixation on the number 47 is?) that sent the ill advised letter to Iran warning that any agreement on their nuclear program with Obama could be rescinded once there is a new president…which he was wrong on by the way…and he showed even more ignorance on the Sunday news shows yesterday, trying to make the point that Iran is dangerous since they already control Tehran. Hey, Tom, do you even know that Tehran is the capital of Iran…and that they have controlled it since it was founded? That would be like saying that Germany has designs on all of Europe since they already control Berlin. It is just an indicator of the ignorance of the current crop of “brains” in the repub party who are either too stupid or too lazy to understand what they continually spout off about…another example being the Common Core standards that Ted Cruz thinks is a federal law the he thinks should be repealed…when it is a set of standards that was developed by the states that they can take or leave. Unless you know what you are talking about repubs, just shut the hell up…geez…
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A little wandering around…
Well…haven’t really found anything that has grabbed me to write about so I think I’ll just wander around a little and see what happens…some idiot almost backed her trailer into my car today out at pool and that kind of ruined my mood for a while…but, the drive home with the top down fixed that….anyone else curious about the disappearance of ole Vlad Putin? He hasn’t been seen in over a week and the propaganda arms of his government are falling all over themselves trying to make like everything is normal using old news reports and saying that they are current and press releases that his “handshake” is a strong as ever…pretty weird stuff…it would be a shame if he has died…snark…..ole Mittens the Romney is back trying to do something on Iran…not sure what that would be but he thinks everything would be great if Obama just did what ole Mittens said and walk away from the negotiations….how much more irrelevant can one human being be? I just think ole Mittens is just too dense to understand he lost the election and that no one wants to hear a thing he has to say…what a sorry little man…geez…
Ow…and other stuff…
Well..decided to put the summer tires on the car this morning and while jacking it up, the handle came out of the jack and I mashed the backs of all the fingers of my right hand…a little black and blue and they hurt like crazy…but, I don’t think there is much damage since I can still type….the car does look good with the summer wheels on…I did have some other stuff to talk about..oh, I just remembered it…one of the 47 repub traitors who signed the letter siding with the hard liners in Iran over our president has tried to backtrack a little…but, just a little. John “bomb Iran” McCain has said that he probably should have thought about it a little more before signing but he was rushed since there was a snow storm coming and he wanted to get out of town. Yep…this idiot undermines our country’s foreign policy just because he needed to not get snowed on….what a bunch of crap…the senators and the letter…geez…
Stupid Republican senators…
Well…have been up since 4:30 and thought I’d get at this one since I’m already bored…if you haven’t heard or read yet, there is a group of 47 repub senators who have sent a letter to the leaders of Iran trying to derail the nuclear negotiations by saying that any agreement has to be ratified by the senate and would only be in effect until Obama leaves office…both statements are wrong and were pointed out by, of all people, the Iranian foreign minister who dismissed the letter as having “no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy” and he goes on to say that he is astonished that members of the US congress find it appropriate to write to leaders of another country against their own president and administration….as am I. The smackdown continues int he rest of the letter where the foreign minister goes on to say “It seems that the authors not only do not understand international law, but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy.” Now, I find is just so rich that we have an Iranian foreign minister that has a better grasp of the executive branch power in foreign policy than these idiot senators…and that he understands, where the repubs don’t that changing administrations doesn’t remove the international obligations and that removing the agreement would be a violation of international law. But, one thing we do know from the torture fiasco is that repubs don’t really care about or understand international law…they are just a bunch of idiots…geez…
Not sure what to write about….
Well…there hasn’t been any stupid politicians doing stupid things for me to comment on and it is making this really difficult…all the low hanging fruit has been picked and I am a little irritated…well…there was one…the idiot secretary of state of Kansas, Kris Kobach, was on his radio show the other day and just couldn’t resist the thought in his fever ridden brain that Obama is going to order that no black person that commits any crime in the US be prosecuted…yep…these guys have gotten so stupid that they think this is possible if not probable that Obama will do what they themselves have done in the past…where were the repubs when the white guys from ole GW to the CIA decided that the laws on torture didn’t apply to them? I am just so sick of the crazy in this country being passed off as normal….this is just some batshit crazy stuff and this idiot should be thrown out of office today for this nonsense…geez…
Putin and Hitler….
Well…as I said this morning, I had a flash the other day when I was watching a show on the Third Reich and they showed how Hitler used the supposed abuse of ethnic Germans in Poland as a pretext for invading the country…he did it to keep them “safe”. That immediately brought to mind Putin’s statements when he invaded Crimea to annex it that he was going there to “protect” the Russians that were living there…and he has used the same ploy for the attacks in the rest of the Ukraine. The repubs constantly compare everything they don’t like to Hitler…I wonder if any of them will do the same for their buddy, Putin? Not very likely…geez….
Cops and prosecutors are out of control…
Well..if you didn’t think that something needs to be done about the lying cops and colluding prosecutors that infest the US, just listen to this one…a couple of years back, in Louisiana, a man served court papers on a cop in a police brutality lawsuit, in front of other cops and prosecutors…nothing special…but, then, 20 minutes later, the process server was arrested at his house and charged with battery, obstruction of justice, and intimidating a witness. Then, the sick part happened…circling the wagons, two more prosecutors and the cop that was served all colluded to lie and say that the server had punched the cop in the chest so hard it drove him back 6 feet…all in all around 8 people were in on the conspiracy including the police chief…but, the one thing they didn’t count on was a cell phone camera and the video that was taken by the server’s wife while the papers were being served and that showed that the server just handed the papers to the cop and the cop turned and walked away. Another sick thing here is that the process server has had to pay for a lawyer and have these serious felony charges hang over his head for more than two years. One other sick thing…the cop still has his job, the prosecutor still has his job and the lying lawyers that colluded on the case still have their jobs…..when will this crap end? geez…
A victory for the people…
Well…just read that the FCC has ruled for the people of the US in classifying the internet as a utility that will limit what the ISP’s can do with it. What this means is that the giants like Verizon and others can’t charge more for faster speeds and must treat all traffic on the internet the same…what these companies wanted and what they bought so many republican legislators for was to be able to favor who they gave the fastest speeds to…effectively giving the ISP’s the power to control traffic they didn’t get paid extra to ensure the highest speeds for…essentially, they were lobbying to be able to slow down everyone’s internet that didn’t pay extortion to keep it working as it has since it’s inception…there was a second part of the decision today that I feel was just as important as the first, and that was that states can’t pass laws limiting who can be an ISP…something that the big providers again bought lots of repub legislators to do…to prevent municipalities across the country from competing with the crappy service that many of the big ISP’s provide in cities and means that lower cost internet and universal wifi will now be able to go forward without interference. This all came about with mobilization of the progressive community in the comment phase for the new regulations…with almost 2 million of those comments coming from Kos alone…so we finally won one…and this one really is a victory for the people…
The stupid, it burns…
Well…just a little short one on some more jaw dropping stupidity from another repub today…and from someone who should know better…some background…a repub legislator from Nevada, in sponsoring some new legislation that would allow non-traditional treatment for many illnesses said today that she believes that cancer is a fungus and can be cured by a baking soda flush…now, this is stupid from most people but this woman, Michele Fiore, is the CEO of a healthcare company that makes millions from cancer treatments that are not baking soda….I’m not sure I can work up any more outrage today but in this case “the stupid, it burns”…..two questions come to mind here…how the hell do you get to be CEO of a healthcare company with these beliefs and second, how the hell do such stupid, ignorant people keep getting elected by the repubs? geez…
Doing nothing against ISIS?
Well…just finished reading about another ignorant right winger, Lamar Smith, a congressman from Texas who said today that Obama is doing “nothing” to combat ISIS in the middle east and it is a shame that Jordan and Egypt are doing more….how many more times do we have to use facts to try to puncture the bubble of ignorance for these folks? The facts are that the US has launched 8 times more airstrikes against ISIS that all of the other countries in the middle east combined…that our command and control systems like AWACS are used to plan and control every attack no matter what country the planes come from…and our satellites and intelligence gathering assets are the only ones that have the capability to find out what is happening on the ground. I think it would be a big surprise to our pilots and planners over there that they are doing nothing and it is just a part of the truth of the right these days…that they don’t give a damn about the service of the military unless they can use it to attack Obama…even lying about the truth and denigrating the contribution that our military has given in the fight against ISIS…what an idiot…call ole Lamar and tell him to shut the hell up…