Well…I’m not sure if you heard about the little showdown between a rancher out west who has been illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands for over twenty years in defiance of many court orders for him to stop…with the latest chapter being his use of armed right wing militia groups to stop the confiscation of his illegally grazing cattle since he doesn’t recognize that the federal government’s laws have any validity in his state. Yep, you heard it, just another instance where the “law and order” repubs pick and choose what laws they are going to follow…but, my big bitch is with the feds and their enforcement people for letting this tin horn idiot get away with it…when the militia folks arrived at the scene, they feds backed off since they didn’t want any bloodshed…armed men in defiance of the lawful actions of the government is against the law…so now felonies are allowed to pass since there may be bloodshed? What’s next, armed robbers being left alone to rob since there may be bloodshed? The more time that these so called patriots are allowed to get away with ignoring the law…and, in effect stealing grazing land from the federal government, the more emboldened they become…this crap needs to be stomped on right now and these folks need to go to jail…now…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Taxes, taxes…
Well…after tangling with the IRS again for a measly 500 bucks or so…it just pissed me off when I was reminded about GE and how they have been able to manage their tax liability…and, by manage I mean avoid paying any taxes at all. Over the past three years, on 28 billion dollars in income, GE has paid no taxes…in fact, they have used the code written for them to get over 3 billion dollars in refunds…yep, folks…you and I are paying GE 3 billion dollars out of our taxes to bribe them to stay in the US…not that being here is the reason the company exists…that US markets have gotten it to where it is today…no, it is from their wonderful business savvy…if you can’t recognize it, that last part was all snark…the infrastructure, the education, and the market they depend on is all paid for by us and they use if for free since they don’t pay taxes…talk about free riders and takers….how many people would it take to take the 3 billion dollars they take every year? Parasites all……geez…
The deficit drops…
Well…I have been just shaking my head at the hypocrisy of the right for the past few years concerning the federal deficit but one new little tidbit of information that came out this morning highlights how the concern from Ryan, Cantor and their cronies is just so fake and partisan…this morning, the CBO reported that the deficit is going to be under 500 billion dollars for the year…the lowest since 2000, the year that ole GW took office…that means that every year that that idiot was in office, the supposedly terrible deficit was ignored by the repubs and when the dems were in control, they never held the government hostage to try to cut it. So, when you hear anyone on the right bitch about how out of control “Obama’s” spending is, you just have to tell them this little truth…they won’t believe it but you should tell them anyway…maybe their heads will explode and that will be fun to watch….geez…
Another day….
Well…have been thinking about what to write today with very little luck so I think I’ll just noodle a little and see what happens…one of the things that the repubs hating the ACA and trying to obstruct it at every turn has done is to put single payer back on the table in some states and keeping the issue alive across the country…and, why not?
The rest of the industrial world does single payer and their costs are just a fraction of what we spend on healthcare here…I’ll bet the insurance execs across the country are starting to get a little pissed at the repubs since they are keeping the issue alive when they would prefer to try to lock in their obscene profits and keep single payer from getting any traction…wouldn’t it be better to take the complexity out of healthcare by giving everyone the same coverage…where everything is covered, no co pays, no crap from the insurance companies, and you only sign up once in your lifetime…that would be nirvana to me…geez…
The family values crowd…
Well…I have been laughing…or would have been laughing at another member of the “family values” crowd if it wasn’t just so absurd…if you haven’t heard, another Louisiana congressman got caught making out with a staff member after he was elected extolling his virtues as the family values candidate. But, here’s the real curve, now that he was caught, this idiot didn’t follow the David Vitter model…and that is lie to everyone, act contrite, and call for forgiveness from god…nope, this guy is willing to spend millions of government dollars “investigating” who released the tape of him making out and then try to proffer criminal charges…yep, he is going to try to prosecute the person who revealed his wrongdoings….not resign as he should but play the well worn right wing victim card where none of their behavior is their fault…but the fault lies with the media who revealed it…I can not believe the chutzpah of these idiots….geez…
Hypocrites….
Well…I have been following the sickening comments coming out of the repub controlled house that they won’t restore long term unemployment benefits because they “make people not want to work” and other specious comments….but, the thing that makes it even worse is the smug self righteous belief that they work so hard while the people looking for work are just slackers. Well…I’ve got news for you, idiots…taking a month off then coming back to work for four days, then taking another 18 days off does not make for doing the full time job that you are getting paid big bucks for. I have just one thing to say to you idiots…shut the hell up…geez…
Shining some light…
Well..this is just going to be a short one since I did 15 miles on the bike today and I am worn out…but, I did want to touch on what is happening on the left to expose the Kochs and their nefarious plans for the country that includes polluting everywhere and having the American people pick up the cleanup tab, busting unions, and even interfering in local mass transit decisions since only the less fortunate use mass transit…or so they think. We have to continue the work that Harry Reid has been doing on the senate floor where he has shone a light on these plans by enumerating the bad effects their money has had on the country…and I think it’s starting to work since Charles Koch wrote a whining, “poor me” op-ed in the WSJ this past week that has been roundly ridiculed even from some of those on the right…now, we need to make these idiots the focus of the next election and use that to get our side to turn out…because, as Kos says: “if we vote, we win”….
The Kochtopus strikes again…
Well…if you didn’t really know how much the Kochs hate progress and anyone but the rich, you just have to take a look at the mischief they and their minions are doing in Tennessee. Just today the bought and paid for senators that they own put forth a new bill that would prevent any new mass transit projects from being built…yep, you heard it right…they have just introduced a bill that would not allow any county or municipality to look at their mass transit needs and do something about it…and guess what? Who are the people that use mass transit out in middle of the country? Yep, you guessed it…the middle class and poor….and now the Kochs are buying laws that don’t allow the people to say how their tax dollars are spent…of course, only the Kochs should be able to say how they are spent since they are rich and know better than anyone what the country needs…and, to them, any money spent on anything but tax cuts that benefit them just can’t be allowed to happen…what a bunch of asses…geez…
The supreme court thinks elections should be for sale…
Well….here we go again…the righties on the supreme court have handed the big money in country another win by throwing out the limits on what an individual can give to any campaign…after citizens united, where corporations have been allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections but not to individual candidates, now we have the rich able to buy seats without having to go through a corporations….now, the Kochs just have to pick a candidate and buy them the seat…after all, they spent 400 million dollars in the last election…now, they can cut out individual donors all together…and they buy more and more influence while the rest of us will have none…this is probably the worst decision the court has made since Plessy v. Ferguson…these hacks need to be impeached…geez…
Stupidity, they name is repub voters…
Well…have been following the whole ACA signup process that has been going on and it looks like almost 8 million more people will have health insurance that couldn’t get it before, that couldn’t afford it before, and who were told they didn’t need it before….and the really, really stupid thing is that there are new polls out there that asked newly insured repub voters if they still want the law repealed…and a majority of them do. Now I have railed against the fact that repub voters frequently vote against their best interests in electing the party that favors the rich against everyone else, but, this is just fricking ridiculous…these folks now won’t go bankrupt from medical bills, won’t be turned away for pre-existing conditons, and won’t have a cap on what will be paid for their care….all a result of the ACA, and they still want it repealed to be replaced by what? Nothing but high risk pools that cost several times more than coverage under the ACA…or nothing….what a bunch of brainwashed idiots who have been manipulated by their party and Fox news to hate the best thing that has happened to them in a generation…for what? Freedom? Geez….