Well…I am just so angry at the media for allowing the idiots that pushed the Iraq war for no reason to chime in on the current strife or civil war that is going on there. Let’s just remember that all of these loud mouths, like Graham, McCain, Feith, Cheney and the rest of the couldn’t get it right squad were just dead wrong on everything about Iraq, and yet we have the media treating them like very serious people and allowing them to bang the drums for war again. Remember one more thing, they are wrong now, again….this new war is certainly a result of the constant litany of mistakes ole GW and his cronies made…especially thinking that the sectarian violence that had been suppressed for a hundred years by military force could be disarmed with platitudes and money….and now these same folks want to destroy what is left of our military by sending them back to Iraq for more of the same nonsense….what a bunch of idiots….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Spending our tax dollars for ideology…
Well…with the repubs in control here in Michigan, you can continue to expect that they will put their ideology ahead of jobs or roads or anything else the state needs…and the latest is the three new anti abortion laws that were just introduced that would make abortion illegal if you can hear a fetal heartbeat….just another attempt to take control of women’s bodies away from them…and one that is clearly unconstitutional when you read Roe v. Wade and the recent court decisions that have struck down these exact bills in other states…but, that won’t stop the repubs here from passing these bills and then paying for prolonged court fights with yours and my tax dollars. What the hell is wrong with these people? Are they just too stupid to read that the courts will never allow these bills to take effect? Or, are they just blinded by ideology and can’t help themselves? The one thing I can’t understand is why any woman would vote for these pricks…geez…
Bye, bye, Eric Cantor…
Well…I was a little groggy last night when I heard this wonderful bit of news and it really didn’t sink in until this morning…one of the “brains’ of the repub party got his butt kicked in a primary yesterday and will be out of the house in a few months…I am laughing, and laughing since this smug little shit was the face behind the whold idea of cutting SS and Medicare to pay for the deficits that the repubs ran on purpose to destroy the hated social programs that benefit anyone but the rich. Now, he is gone…supposedly not conservative enough for his party anymore…a party who thinks that anyone who doesn’t hate gays enough, who doesn’t hate women enough, who doesn’t hate voters enough has to go…but, the one concerning thing about this goodness is that the one replacing him is just batshit insane…who thinks that SS and medicare payouts should be cut by 75% and that the only economy that has ever worked is one that uses christian principles instead of economics….and who can’t even put together a simple answer to whether he supports the minimum wage…this might not be good…geez…
Republicans are just evil…
Well…I’m not sure how many times I’ve said this over the years but, from their behavior, repubs are just evil, evil people who only care about ideology, not about the people they are supposed to work for. The latest example comes from Virginia, where the dem governor there is trying to get almost 400,000 people without health insurance covered under the Medicaid expansion from Obamacare, but the repubs are doing everything including bribing a dem senator to quit his job so the repubs will control the senate and block the expansion. Yep, you heard that right…this traitor dem tried to trade his senate seat for a place on some tobacco board and for his daughter getting a judgeship…bribery, plain and simple…but the thing that just galls me here is that selfishness of this guy…to trade the health and welfare of all of those Virginians and allowing some of them to die just so he can take care of his family. What about the rest of Virginia’s families, senator? Just ugly republican double dealing just like they have done everywhere they have taken power…and they continue to be returned to power by the very people they are saying “screw you” to…geez…
A good guy with a gun didn’t stop the bad guy…
Well…it seems like every day there is a new story about a shooting here in the US and the refrain from the NRA folks is always “we need more guns since a good guy with a gun is the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun” but that nonsense was blown up with the shootings in Vegas last week. The criminals that shot the two officers there last week and then went into a Walmart to continue killing people were confronted by a “good guy with a gun” and they shot him dead…since the good guy didn’t have tactical training..or any training for that matter…just the rubber stamp that allows people to conceal carry across the country, the puffed up craziness that comes with a lot of these folks kicked in and he thought he was going to be a hero…not so much. I am just so tired of the gun nuts here in the US making everyday life much less safe than it was when I was growing up…geez…
The normal right wing lies…
Well…with the release of the new carbon regulations from the EPA this past week, the right wing lie machine has kicked into high gear again…spewing the same tired, old crap they always do…that regulations cost jobs, money, etc. etc….but the problem is that they have been saying this since the 60’s and they have been wrong every time…yep, every time…here are a few examples:
In 1990, the WSJ editorial board said the Clean Air Act amendment would threaten the economic expansion…but, the result was the best economy the country has ever seen…
Again in 1990, Mobil Oil officials testified that the new cleaner gasoline standards would cause major supply disruptions…didn’t happen.
The National Assoc of Manufacturers in 1987 said that new regs to reduce acid rain would cost millions of jobs and contract the economy…didn’t happen…
Henry Ford II said that the new seat belt and safety glass rules would force Ford out of business…can you still buy a Ford? Yep…
So, the next time you hear the same old crap about lost jobs and a failing economy that will come from protecting the health and safety of Americans, just remember that these folks lie…and they have never been right….geez…
Why does anyone listen to Ollie North?
Well…I am just flabbergasted how the right keeps rolling out it’s war criminals and convicted felons to criticize everything Obama does…this pattern continues with the criticisms of ole Ollie North on the trade for the last POW in Afghanistan…you remember ole Ollie…the multi-felon who was convicted of selling weapons to Iran to finance right wing death squads in Nicaragua, and then lying his ass off in front of Congress when questioned about it. Exactly how does committing treason qualify you to criticize the current administration? I know, first amendment and all that and I support everyone’s right to spout out on any subject…but the right just has no shame…they have been wrong about everything for the past 30 years…anyone else would have just retired to private life but, on the right, being wrong just makes you more and more money since they have convinced the rubes that it is all a plot by the “librul media” and that they were right all along…what a bunch of crap…geez…
Another day…
Well…it has been a strange day..or a normal day as they have been going lately….felt pretty good until this aft and then the bottom fell out and I have no energy…but, I’m not going to complain too much…just a little….it looks like the lies are starting to catch up to ole Snyder here in Michigan and the old folks, who normally are the core repub constituency, are starting to peel off to the dems with all of the crap he has done to them…and to me…over the past three years they have taken almost 3 grand from my retirement to give pay raises to ceos….and he tries to atone for that by making a website that tries to convince us that things are so good for retirees here…what a frickin laugh….it appears that the media is starting to actually call out these liars…just hope it make a difference and we can send Snyder back to one of 15 houses…geez…
Obama derangement syndrome continues…
Well…if you need any other evidence that it is not policy differences that is driving the right crazy about Obama, all you have to do is look at the latest event…the release of the last prisoner of war in Afghanistan…which, a few months ago, the repubs were bitching about…that Obama wasn’t doing enough to bring him home, and that to listen to McCain and Graham, anything should be done to make sure it happened. Fast forward to late last week and Obama and his team get this guy released by trading him for 5 prisoners of war that were held in Gitmo…and the right has been going nuts with the predictable talking points like “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” or the men in Gitmo were too dangerous to be released. This can only be explained by ODS…especially since the bitchers like Cheney released over 500 of these same type of people from Gitmo on their watch and traded them for the Taliban coming to the table to negotiate. So, doing exactly the same thing that ole GW and Cheney did was okay when they did it, but now it is an impeachable offense? What a bunch of hypocrites…but we knew that, didn’t we? Geez….
Can Boehner be this stupid?
Well…I really know the answer to that question but need to get a post out about it so I’ll wait til later to tell you. The latest talking point that the repubs are using to avoid dealing with climate change is just weird…ole Boehner came out the other day and said that he is not a scientist so he can’t discuss climate change or propose legislation about it. Think about that, the new standard for our government, according to the repubs, is that they can’t do anything about any of the country’s problems unless they are experts in the field….and the funny thing is that none of them are economists, either, but they continue to propose failed economic theory to help the economy…you know, the tax cuts for the rich and corporations that have never helped the economy grow or created one job. I truly believe he is so stupid as to propose this…to admit to the country that he’s not too bright so excuse me for not doing my job…a new low, even for the repubs….geez…