Well…have been thinking about cleaning my bathroom but this looked easier so I’ll give this a try…one of the questions that I have with this whole Syria nonsense is “what’s wrong with diplomacy?” When did our entire foreign policy devolve into using military force for everything? What is wrong with talking to the world about it and trying to find a diplomatic solution? We used to do a good bit of “horse trading” to get what we want with the use of the military being the last resort…I think it would be a good idea to try that for a while and not be in such a hurry to bomb everything in sight…it’s like the old saying ” when you are a hammer, everything you see is a nail”…..so, let’s talk for a while…Syria isn’t going anywhere….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Let’s burst the bubble of saint Ronnie…
Well…I am gagging at the new repub talking point that goes something like this: Saint Ronnie would have responded more quickly to any chemical weapon attack than Obama and would not have allowed anyone to use them when he was in office….and this comes from “top republicans” in congress….what a crock of crap. Do these people not even think of history when they open their mouths? Let’s burst this bubble right now with just a small dose of history that these idiots conveniently ignore…first, during saint Ronnie’s term…the administration knew that Iraq was using chemical weapons in it’s war with Iran and even used satellite photos to tell Iraq where the Iranian troops were…hundreds of thousands killed…second, saint Ronnie stood by when Saddam turned his chemical weapons on the Kurds in Iraq that were revolting against his regime…another 100,000 dead or maimed…saint Ronnie knew and did nothing. So, to say that saint Ronnie is the template for action on the use of chemical weapons is to laugh, and laugh, and laugh….what happened on his watch is so much worse than what is happening now in Syria that the repubs need to just shut up about it…not that they will…truth doesn’t mean anything to them when they think they are scoring political points…geez…
No on Syria…
Well…with all of the wrangling that is being done on whether or not to attack Syria, I think we need to remember the results of our interventions over the past 20 years or so…in no particular order, just as I think of them…starting with Iraq…after a trillion dollars and thousands of Americans dead, along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis…we still have half failed state with hundreds of people dying every day and little prospects for it to be better…then we have Libya….one of the places that seem to have fallen off the media’s map lately…a completely failed state with gangs of terrorists killing and maiming at will since the central government doesn’t have the power to do anything about it…Afghanistan…outside of the American controlled areas, the Taliban and other warlords are still in control and are just waiting for us to leave so they can re-impose their crazy brand of Islam on the country and continue to murder women and children….do I need to go on? I think sometimes we just need to let things play out and not play world police…these folks have been killing each other for thousands of years before the US even existed and there is nothing anyone has ever been able to do to make them stop….geez…
Not sure what to do…
Well…as you can probably tell…I have been struggling with a case of writers block or whatever it is when the ideas just don’t come…but, with over 2500 of these done, that just doesn’t make sense. I did want to comment on Syria a little bit…I do like the idea that there are some deliberations going on instead of just the knee-jerk use force reaction that has passed for foreign policy lately…not sure where it is going, though, when the WH says that they are not bound by any decision of congress…weird…why do it then?
The true nature of the repubs in Texas was clarified over the weekend when they refused to sign their LGBT National Guard up for the benefits that the Pentagon has said they qualify for after the demise of DOMA….basically saying that the bigoted hatred of gays trumps the service that these soldiers have done…so, the next time anyone on the right says they support the troops, think “they support the troops if they are heterosexual” and tell them to go to hell…okay…not feeling it right now so I am going to go and then come back later for more…I am one down already for the month…
Labor day and Snyder…
Well…this little thought popped into my head earlier today and I thought I’d put it down here before I forget it…if this year is anything like every year, Labor day will bring another walk by the governor across the Mackinac bridge here in Michigan…and with that, you will hear him lie and say that labor is the thing that built our country and is the most important thing that will get it moving again…just don’t believe a word of it coming from Snyder…he does not believe a word of it no matter if it’s true…this idiot is responsible for the biggest attack on organized labor in the history of the state; the right to work for less law that was rammed through the legislature in a lame duck session, and one that Snyder said during his election campaign that he did not support…just more and more lies that come out of the repubs here in Michigan…then we have the transfer of wealth from retired workers to the CEO’s of the major corporations with the huge tax cuts for them while taxes are raised on us, the workers…so, whenever you hear Snyder or any other repub talking about their respect for labor…you can tell it’s a lie if their lips are moving….geez…
Good move on Syria…
Well…finally got to the last one for the month…wanted to get it done before the Michigan game comes on in a half hour…I find the president finally doing the right thing on Syria…going to congress for approval even though this congress hates him…this move will do a couple of things that I like..first, it takes away the right’s ability to criticize him for any decision he makes…either getting them on board to agree with any attack…or, Obama will be able to use their refusal for cover and not attack…either way the politics works well for him since the left really wants the government to work like it’s supposed to with the branches doing their jobs…and, if refused, he can blame the right for being wimps and not supporting the necessary use of force…whichever, it is a win/win…but I really do hope there is no attack without the UN being involved…we need to stop all this world policing to repair our standing in the world…
One of the stupidest things I’ve heard…
Well…listening and reading about the commemoration of the 1963 march on Washington, I heard one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard from one of the commentators on the right…their contention was that the only reason there is still racism in the US (and these folks are not sure there is any) is the fact that the agitators on the left keep talking about it…it’s not that most of the people stopped and frisked in NY are minorities, it’s not that you can murder a young black man in cold blood and get acquitted, it’s not that the repubs are doing their best to make sure minorities can’t vote, and it’s not that the right hates the first African-American president with a rabid fervor that has no other explanation but racism….it’s that the president and the rest of the left keep talking about it. Yeah, right….it’s just another instance on the right that if it doesn’t affect the (mostly white) repubs, it doesn’t exist…just like discrimination against gays doesn’t exist unless it affects a member of their own family…and the other arguments the right puts up why there is no racism are the same ones they spouted in 1963….I think they are getting really scared that the demographic tide is going to wash over them and make them the little, regional party they deserve to be…the people have rejected their platform and ideas for the past two presidential elections and the only way they cling to power is to lie, cheat, and steal elections…and that can’t work forever…geez…
The thugs are in charge in Wisconsin…
Well…take a good look at what is happening in Wisconsin if you want to get the true picture of what repubs think about citizen’s rights….a few days ago, an unarmed man was attacked by the police as he stood filming his brother getting arrested for protesting in the capitol…and this man was doing nothing but what is his right as a citizen…his right to free assembly…but the repubs just hate it so much when they are called out for their thuggery and illegal behavior that three of them jumped on the unarmed man with his hands in the air that they now say was resiting arrest and committed a felony assault because one of the thugs that jumped on him got hurt when they fell on top of him. This is the picture of repug administrations across the US…wave the constitution with one hand while they are beating citizens with the other….I really hope the ACLU gets involved here and there are suspensions and fines all round for these thugs…the one thing these pricks don’t understand is that they were caught on video doing this crap…and they have 15 witnesses who say there was no resisting arrest…there was no reason for the thugs to do anything to this man except treat him as a citizen…something the militarized cops of this day and age just don’t understand….geez…
No more war…
Well…here we go again….more and more and more war and now here we go into Syria…haven’t we had enough of this crap? When did it become our responsibility to police every country in the world? And, what benefit is it to the world or to us? Governments have been killing their own citizens since there were countries, even before, so why now? What is the difference between Syria and Rwanda where almost a million people were killed? We did nothing in Rwanda, what makes Syria different? The sick thing here is that we have the same people who advocated going into Iraq cheerleading attacking Syria; the same old group of chicken hawks who think that it an affront to the US if every country in the world doesn’t do what we say…and then spout “democracy” out of the other side of their mouths. I have had enough of spending trillions for this nonsense while people go hungry here and the country crumbles as we spend more, and more, and more on the military. One last thing, what made chemical weapons the bright line trigger point? The Syrian government has killed almost 40,000 of it’s citizens in this civil war and many, many thousands more in its secret prisons and we continued to give them aid until last year…how do you justify this hypocrisy? I am tired…just so tired of this continual war and the war profiteers that fan the flames with their lobbyists…when does it end?
Keep attacking Obamacare repubs…
Well…as with many, many things that the repubs think are true but aren’t, we now have to add the idea that attacking Obamacare is good politics for them….and, as with many, many other polls, these folks are just reading the country all wrong. When they look at the polls that say that only 40% of the country likes Obamacare, they see a political opening; another wedge they can use to divide the country and gain an edge…but, the one thing they don’t understand, like many, many other things, is that there are 35% of the country that think that Obamacare doesn’t go far enough…there are 35% that think that the country should go to Medicare for all and cut the damn insurance companies out completely. So, if we add the 40% who like the law with the 35% who think it doesn’t go far enough…you get a true 75% that think the law is better than what we have now and want it to continue….and these morons can’t even do the math to see that…they assume that 60% of the country hate the law and that is why they are pushing against it so hard…but, with the new revelation in another poll that says that only 19% of the country identify as being repubs…all I can say is “please proceed” repubs…you’ll be gone soon…yay….