Well…after the devastating tornados that ripped through the central part of the US, one of the first people there to help was Chef Jose Andres who has been instrumental to feeding people after every disaster since 2010 when he formed his World Central Kitchen…partnering with locals wherever he goes, the WCF has provided over 60 million meals around the world to survivors of natural disasters….but it’s not just food that he delivers…always a positive message that helps people understand that we are all in this together and to treat each other with kindness and respect…something that, in these times, people do need to be reminded of….if you can afford it, please send a few bucks Chef Andres way….this saint needs to be supported….
Tag Archives: Kentucky
Doesn’t this look like a bribe?
Well…I guess those of us who live in the ethical real world thought this deal was fishy from the start…but repubs were perfectly fine with it…damn, buried the lede again…okay, let’s back up…you remember last year when moscow mitch mcconnell spearheaded the removal of sanctions from the Russian aluminum company Rusal in return for the bribe of Rusal building an aluminum plant in Kentucky? The owner of Rusal, Oleg Derispaska, was under sanctions since he is part of the Russian organized crime families that support Putin in everything he does, including throwing the 2016 election to the idiot trump. So now, Rusal has pulled out of the project and you can guess why…moscow mitch is no longer in charge of the senate and the idiot trump can no longer give Putin everything he wants so this bribe will no longer work…and the Russians have cut their losses in Kentucky and are going home with the sanctions still lifted which is what they wanted anyway….they really had no intention of ever investing 200 million dollars in Kentucky and they either duped ole Mitch or he was in on it and knew that dangling the jobs from this vaporware project would help him get re-elected even if not one of them ever materialized. Now this would be a good time to start an investigation of how this all came about to go along with the investigation of mitch’s wife who used her government position at the Commerce department to help her family shipping company in China…what a damn corrupt family….geez…
Blue wave, part two…
Well…you know, maybe trump is not the great politician that the repubs are holding him up to be…okay, we all know he’s just an idiot and any political success is due to Russia and Mitch McConnell…the rest of the country just hates trump with a passion that started to be shown in 2018 with the dems re-talking the House in a “blue wave” that saw us gain 40 seats…and last night, the blue wave part two flipped the Kentucky governor’s office over to a dem and even in Virginia, where the repubs have controlled the state for decades, the dems flipped both the house and senate to run the entire state with the dem governor. In Kentucky, idiot boy trump even held a rally for the repub, whining that if they didn’t elect Bevin, “you can’t let that happen to me”, of course since everything is about the idiot all the time. When you dive deep into the numbers from last night, the repubs really should be shaking in their boots with almost all of the suburbs going for dems everywhere and the enthusiasm to rid the country of trump and the repubs is at tsunami levels…now all we need to do is turn that into votes next year and maybe sanity can return to this country and the repubs will be gone for generations…at least until I’m dead anyway…
Are the people in Kentucky just stupid?
Well…with the elections yesterday…and I voted…the people of Kentucky have shown behavior that could only be described as stupid with their electing a far right wing tea party idiot as governor. Guess what this cretin ran on…taking health insurance away from 440,000 people in Kentucky that benefited from the Medicaid expansion that the previous dem governor accepted from the feds. I wonder what it is that people are now constantly voting against their own self interest? Most of these people on Medicaid there are poor whites who overwhelmingly wanted the tea party to run their state…or ruin their state…they have a functioning state exchange called Kynect that people love but they just don’t understand that it is Obamacare…same damn thing…people there hate Obamacare by a 2-1 margin but when they just say Kynect, a majority likes it…just another example that these people are just not right…I am at a loss to understand this nonsense…..oh, well…it’s almost as bad here so I guess I shouldn’t talk too much…geez…
The circus continues…
Well…I’m sure you’ve heard about the clerk in Kentucky who was jailed for contempt of court when she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples citing her “religious freedom” and the elevation of this bigot to hero status for the right…and the circus continues today with Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee organizing a rally to support her bigotry and hate. I guess this is to be expected since these folks don’t have any idea what the constitution says or means…the first amendment and it’s protections of religious freedom DOES NOT mean that you are free to impose your religious views on others…and that is what this case is about…this religious zealot trying to impose her interpretation of faith on the entire county by not issuing and ordering her deputies to not issue marriage licenses to gay couples…that’s it…she is free to practice her religion and not marry a woman, but she is not free to tell anyone else how to live their lives…it would be the same thing as if a Muslim person, working for the county, refused to grant a restaurant a license if they are going to serve pork ribs, in accordance to his religion…or one working for the DMV refusing to give a driver’s license to woman since his sect says women shouldn’t drive. You get my drift here…and there should never be any type of “religious accommodation” that would allow these bigots to continue to collect their pay and not do their jobs…if it means that much to them, quit, and go live your religious live somewhere else….I have no tolerance for these people any more…geez…
Religion intrudes….again…
Well…have been following the case of the country clerk in Kentucky who has been refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because…Religion…even after the supreme court told her to stop that crap. In fact, every court that she has ended up in has told her to do her job or resign..that the first amendment doesn’t give her the right to impose her religious views on her county or any individual…just what she is trying to do by denying these gay couples licenses….and she admits that by saying god is the law she is following and that it trumps the supreme court…now, you’ve heard me rant about this before…that the fundies are no different than the Taliban or other religious fundamentalists…all groups who want to impose their interpretation of supposed holy books on everyone…even those that don’t believe. I’m sure in her vows of office, she promised to uphold the constitution and she should be removed from office and held in contempt if she won’t do her job…updates later…
Mitch McConnell is still stupid…
Well…have been reading a little about the senate matchup in Kentucky that has the turtle, Mitch, going up against Alison Grimes and as I watch, I see ole Mitch just melting down…or there is a sea change happening in the media that is finally starting to call the repubs out for their lies…either way ole Mitch is in trouble. The latest lie that Mitch is being called on is the one that if he is re-elected, he will repeal Obamacare completely but that won’t have any effect on the half million people in Kentucky who now have insurance through the state exchange there…which is Obamacare in action. Now, he either is just too stupid to understand that without the federal component of subsidies and insurance gaurantees, there will be no state exchange…or, he knows and just doesn’t care…and he just keeps on lying out of habit since the repubs have not been held responsible for them over the past 20 years. I am happy that Grimes is finally hitting him on this lie but there are newspapers that are doing the same on their editorial pages…is that a turtle in the headlights that I see? Hope it’s a semi that is going to flatten Mitch come November…geez…
The stupid runs really deep in Kentucky…
Well…as time goes on, I am more and more amazed at how stupid the workers in repub areas are….this was shown this past week when the workers at a VW plant in Kentucky voted to not unionize even though VW wanted them to to bring the plant in line with every other VW plant across the world…and a big part of it was the outside money and interference in the election by elected officials across Kentucky. So, these idiots in Kentucky think that it is better to have no say in their wages, working conditions, and problem resolution? How brainwashed must they be to believe the crap that the repubs were spewing…the lies that one of their senators in particular spread…that VW would not have any new products built at the plant if they unionized…something that VW flatly denied? I am stunned that these folks are so steeped in the Fox news propaganda against unions across this country…unions, by the way that built the middle class and without which, the workers at that VW plant would be making half what they make now…does that make them takers? I think it does…geez…