Well…I am laughing today after reading about a new law that the idiot repubs passed in Florida that would close all of the internet cafes there since they mistakenly believed that there was a huge network of illegal gambling going on in them…no matter that it wasn’t true…as in every repub controlled state, the facts don’t matter…just the gut feelings of these idiots. But, as always, in the rush to fix a problem that doesn’t exist, these folks wrote a law that essentially defines illegal slot machines as “any system or network of devices” that may be used in a game of chance…” I’m not sure about your phone or computer, but mine can easily be used in a game of chance…in fact, there are thousands of sites that I can access from both…so, what these geniuses have just done is outlaw all cell phones, computers, or computer game consoles that can access the internet…good job republicans, you are finally going to be able to go back to the founder’s times that you so revere…what a bunch of maroons…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Obama needs to just say no…
Well…with the congress coming back this week…of course the first thing we get from the repubs is the newest threat to crash the world economy unless Obama agrees to slash SS, end Medicare, and cut, cut, cut the budget that even the IMF thinks is one of the worst ideas they have ever heard. The reason that our unemployment rate is holding steady and we are seeing moderate growth here in the US is the fact that Obama and his administration didn’t buy into the lies that the repubs were pushing that austerity leads to growth…just look at the continually rising unemployment rate in Europe to see the effects of this crap…and the study they used to push this crap was exposed as the right wing hack job and ideology cloaked in economics that it was…but that doesn’t matter to the repubs…they are still at the same crap they have been at for the past 20 years…gut the middle class and the unions and make the rich richer while destroying what little safety net there is left. So, Obama needs to keep his promise and just say no to this hostage taking…or, let them crash the economy…and drive the final nail in the coffin of this terrorist organization that is playing a political party…the entire country rejected the Ryan plan in the last election so why would Obama even consider trying to compromise with these idiots? No, more…..geez…
This is too funny…
Well..I have been laughing my butt off this aft even though I feel like crap…ole Terrible Ted has announced he is going to run for president and many on the right think he would make the best president since Reagan…the bar is set pretty low there….Reagan was not too bright and let his administration break the law whenever he felt he wanted to…think Iran/Contra and the many other scandals that occurred on his watch…oh, back to Ted…is this the new low that the repubs have sunk to? That this racist idiot would even be considered just shows that the inmates have truly taken over the asylum…that this guy who has 9 kids with 7 different women is the standard bearer of family values? That this guy who has a predilliction for sleeping with teenage girls will appeal to the christian right? Oh, he may if he just shows that his behavior is the way to ensure control over women and he stands up and says none of the women had an abortion. What about the right wing military vote? Will these folks turn out to vote for old Ted when they know he crapped his pants (literally) to keep from being drafted and sent to Vietnam? I would just laugh if these folks weren’t serious about this nonsense and continue to demean the political discourse in this country….geez…
The repubs overrereach…
Well…one of the things that I find to be so telling about the crop of new laws to restrict womens rights that is happening in all of the repub controlled states is that they don’t see it to be the overreach that it is….in every state where this nonsense is going on, polls show that from 65 to 80% of the people there don’t want the legislatures to do this crap…they want them to focus on jobs, infrastructure, and education but the repubs, driven by their colossal hubris, and their need to control people they don’t like can’t help themselves…but, the one thing they just don’t get is that their win in 2010 was not the mandate they think it is…and the country is not the right wing utopia they want it to be…in fact, over the past two years, the country has moved more to the center as they see the repubs going farther and farther to the right. This delusion has driven the right to try to drag the country back into the bad old days of discrimination and this overreach will be their downfall in 2014…it can’t come too soon…geez…
The pushback has begun…
Well…this is going to be a short one since the brain hasn’t been working that well the past few days…but I did want to comment on the signs of a progressive pushback to the nonsense that has come out of the tea party and even “normal” repubs lately…it used to be that progressives had no fight in them…they felt that they could reason with anyone if they would just sit down and talk with the opposition. But, it now appears that they have seen the truth that has been in front of their faces for years…that the right will not compromise, that the right will lie, cheat and steal to push their radical, women hating agenda…and we are doing something about it…like the thousands that have turned out every Monday in NC…the “Moral Monday” movement who are protesting the voter suppression, women suppression, and gay hating that is rife in the repub controlled legislature…and the many, many thousands who have turned out in Texas to protest the draconian intrusion into women’s lives there….we won’t win in Texas…not right now, anyway, but I think these two examples are the start of something big…the start of a movement that will take back the country from the money and the 15% of the crazies who are now attacking women across the country, who are still attacking gays and the poor…we can hope that this movement, along with the demographic changes that are coming, will finally put the nail in the coffins of the repub haters and get this country moving forward again…geez…
The irony in Texas…
Well….it is another bad day for women in the US with the Texas legislature following their illegal attempt to take away womens ability to control there own bodies from last week with another attempt to ram through the same SB-5 in another special session this week. And, these tea party idiots who wave the constitution around like it is the Bible are making sure that no one will be allowed into the legislative session by posting hundreds of armed police outside the state house in Austin…even bringing in mounted police to intimidate the protesters who are exercising their constitutionally protected rights to protest…and the idiot repubs there can’t see the irony that in this supposed utopia of democracy that they have built in Texas, they are using the same tactics that the Egyptian military used against the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tarhir square. Don’t they see that they are no better than the Taliban in their push to control women? They are just substituting their brand of radical crazy assed religion for the radical crazy assed Muslims…and that is just frickin wrong. I know they will win today…but, I really don’t think they understand that winning a tactical victory is going to lose them the war in 2014 when these assholes are thrown out and sanity is restored…I hope it happens here in Michigan and in Ohio, too…the tide is finally turning in our favor and all we have to do is use these new laws that treat women like second class citizens to beat these idiots across the head with them…geez…
Cracks in the bigotry wall…
Well…with the demise of Doma this week, there was another ruling here in Michigan that has started to crack the wall of bigotry that the repubs here are trying to shore up at every turn…a federal judge threw out a law here that prevented public entities from offering the same benefits to gay partners as they do for straight ones saying that the only purpose the law served was to discriminate against gays…and the judge just slammed Snyder and the repubs for their naked bigotry…it’s about time that these repub idiots got called out for this crap…and there is another case coming through the courts right now that could very possibly overturn the marriage amendment to our constitution and make the benefits of marriage available to our gay and lesbian friends based upon the equal protection clauses in the US constitution that say you can’t treat any class of people differently than any other as the marriage amendment does here in Michigan…I’ve always felt that there should be no difference in anyone’s treatment under the laws of the US….as it clearly says in the constitution…and I think that same principle should be applied to the control a woman has over her own body….there are no laws saying what a man can do to his so why should the government in the crazy red states be allowed to force a woman to have a baby she doesn’t want or to allow crazy assed right wing employers to make health care decisions that aren’t the ones a woman would choose? What happened to the righties mantra that screams “individualism” and “freedom”? I guess that doesn’t apply when they are trying to control women…geez…
Darrell Issa should be thrown out…
Well…just remembered a bit of information that I ran across yesterday dealing with the IRS “scandal” that has been flogged to death by ole Darrell….the whole thing was a set up by ole Darrell since he asked the IRS to look into tea party groups and they did what he asked…the whole thing was just to create a fake scandal that he could sell to the crazies on the right when he knew from the start there was no scandal…and all of the money spent, the people fired, and all of the time wasted was all just a misappropriation of government resources that ole Darrell should have to pay back…but, what do you expect from a lying car thief, arsonist, high school dropout? This idiot should be thrown out of congress for this crap…and there are many that have been for much, much less…geez…
Scalia is still an idiot…
Well…have been following the supreme court decisions that have been coming out this week with some interest and one thing stuck me with the release of the opinions on Doma and prop 8 this morning….Scalia is still and idiot. Let me explain, in striking down the provisions of the voting rights act, Scalia basically said that even though the update of the act passed in 2006 nearly unanimously by congress, the court didn’t like the formula used to trigger the act so they could strike it….but, today, this idiot, in his dissent to the ruling on DOMA said the court had no standing to decide on an act that was passed by congress…now, what the hell is it Scalia? You know why he decided the way he did in the VRA…he just doesn’t believe there is discrimination in voting anymore…even with all of the evidence presented, he just ignored it and gave those repub controlled states the okay to continue their efforts to make sure that only whites have the right to vote….and in DOMA he was just trying to weasel out of reading the constitution (something he goes on and on about) and applying the equal protection that is contained in it. This idiot should be retired or impeached….he is not the “great legal brain” that pundits say…he is just a little man trying to impose his bigoted will on the US…geez…
Wendy Davis is my new hero…
Well..don’t know if you were following it or not, but a scene straight out of “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” played out in the Texas legislature yesterday where one senator, Wendy Davis, took on the republican establishment who were trying to take away womens rights to control their own bodies with a draconian set of new abortion restrictions that would have closed almost all of the abortion clinics in Texas. But, what this brave, wonderful woman did was and old-fashioned filibuster; standing up for the people of Texas who did not want this law to pass…and were incensed that the governor..ole Rick Perry…called a special session for the express purpose of taking away womens rights. What senator Davis did was no little feat, standing, talking, and taking on the crazy assed republican men who want nothing more than to control the women in the state…and with the rules of the filibuster in Texas, she was not able to sit, nor drink, nor eat, or even go to the bathroom during her epic speech…all the while staying on topic as the republican men tried and tried to use procedural nonsense to stop her. Here we have one person who took on the establishment and won, giving those of us who believe that women should make their own health decisions hope that this is a new wave, that people in this country are tired of the repubs only focus being taking away rights…not the expansion of them as has happened throughout the history of this country. So, to Wendy Davis and the people of Texas that supported her I say thank you….keep up the good fight….