Well…just sitting here waiting for the Man U match to start and thought I’d do another one so I don’t fall farther behind this month. After seeing the tape of the kid getting shot in Chicago last year…he was walking away from the cops and a new one rolls up and just starts shooting the kid in the back…shot him 16 times and would have kept going but other cops stopped him…they are finally going to charge the cop with murder but, my question is: “why did it take 13 months to charge this guy?” I think it’s all part of the cozy relationship that this prosecutor has with the cops, getting a large part of her re-election money from the police union…now….I am normally a fan of unions, but when we see them conspiring with the prosecutors to subvert justice, I think they should be de-certified and the officers charged. Just can’t believe this crap goes on and on in this country….geez….
Category Archives: Politics
Mo Brooks is the worst person in the world…
Well…I really do miss Keith Olbermann and his bit on the worst person in the world…if he was still doing it, this guy, Mo Brooks, a repub rep from Alabama would win the day hands down. Over the weekend this ass, this idiot made it known how bad he is by just one comment…that he thinks the Syrian refugees that are fleeing the violence there are just coming here for a “free vacation”….yep, he actually said that…with over 300,000 murdered or killed in the fighting there, these people fleeing for their lives are taking two years of jumping through hoops, and living in camps, just to get a “free vacation” here in the US. I wonder if the real reason might be that they want to live, that they want their children to live, and they want the chance to wake up in the morning and know their home won’t explode by the end of the day? I am so tired of these guys…you know, I really think it’s a plan by the assholes on the right…continue to be more and more assholey and outrageously crappy human beings and, after a while, people will just get immune to this crap…just like me…my outrage o’ meter has overloaded and it takes worse and worse things to peg it…but this one did….geez…
Some short takes…
Well…not sure if you have been following the news like I have time to do, so I think I’ll do one on some short takes since I am having trouble making sense of a big issue to do a whole one on….first, let’s start with the fascist, racist Donald and his comments the other day on the beating of a protester at one of his rallies….after his racist crowd set upon a BLM protester and beat him, the Donald didn’t say that they shouldn’t…he said the guy deserved it and just shrugged…seems similar to any authoritarian party around the world…dissent is not allowed and is usually met with violence….then we have the second place candidate for the idiot repubs showing his ignorance of everything again…I have a couple of those here that I want to comment on….first, he said that he doesn’t think that there are racial disparities in policing in this country, basically asking the questioner to prove it…which he did but that didn’t stop ole Ben…he just KNOWS it’s not true even though there is a mountain of evidence that shows it is….then ole Ben showed his total lack of historical knowledge by saying that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Constitution when Jefferson was in France in 1787 as the ambassador had nothing to do with it…I can understand his confusion since Jefferson did write the Declaration but cripes…do facts mean anything to this guy? Okay…that’s enough for now….there is a soccer match on and I need to clean my brain out…..
Didn’t think it could get worse….
Well…I sit here shaking my head at the nonsense coming out of the repubs in this last week over Syrian immigrants and I really didn’t think it could get worse…but then these idiots go even farther toward fascism led by…well..by all of them…first there was a governor in the south that said that he thought internment camps for all muslims was a good idea…then we have the Donald saying that all muslims should have special ID and we should have a database with all of them in it…registration as a muslim…hmmmm…does anyone else remember when this was last done…to the Jews…in WW II? Then we have ole Rubio proposing we shut down anywhere that muslims meet in this country including coffee shops and I would suppose shopping malls. Then the normal cast of candy asses on the right who are scared of their own shadows pass a bill in the house that prevents any more Syrian refugees from being allowed to come here…you get my drift…these tough guys who say they can take on the bad guys in the world and stand up to Putin are all shaking with the prospect of orphans and families from the middle east coming here to live and make a new life…the American Dream…you remember that assholes? I just can’t any more of this dumbing down of our country….what a bunch of crap…geez…
Idiot repubs….
Well…with the scared shitless repubs across the nation taking their fear out on Syrian refugees and the vetting process for those refugees, when asked, these idiots can’t point to one part of the process that is deficient…they just know it must be because Obama or something…and this doubly applies to our idiot governor, Rick Snyder, who started this whole mess. When asked yesterday which part of the 2 year process needs to be changed, he couldn’t come up with one thing….not one that he would change but he is also so scared by orphans and families from the middle east that he just KNOWS it needs to be changed…and it is all caused by the attacks in Paris. Here’s the thing…none of the attackers in Paris were refugees…they all were residents of Europe and had passports from Belgium and other European countries and no tightening of the vetting process would have kept them from coming to the US…we don’t even require visas for people to come here…meaning that these same terrorists could have just gotten on a plane and flew here with just their passports in hand. But, again, we have the repubs in their fear filled world attacking the wrong people for the wrong reasons since facts don’t mean anything to them…..good job you ignorant asses…hurt people and make the world more difficult…it’s what you are good at….geez…
Mike Pence is just the biggest ass in the US….
Well…with all of the chickenshit repub governors, including ours here in Michigan, puffing out their chests and saying they will block any Syrian refugees from settling in their states…we have a new low from the really, really asshole governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, who today said that two Syrian families who have been waiting for three years to come here will not be allowed to settle there. There’s your modern repub christian folks…spout Jesus all the time but when it comes to really following their supposed religion, they are just too damn scared or, even worse, are making a political calculation to leave these families in limbo just to get some votes from their equally scared and equally asholley voters….this crap needs to be stomped on now, it is against the law for Pence to do that…federal immigration law trumps what an asshole from Indiana thinks…states do not have the authority to ban anyone from entering the country…he should be sued or arrested and put in jail…I have had enough of these holier than thou asses who wave the constitution around but then ignore it when it’s not convenient or can’t be used to discriminate against people they don’t like….as you know, I’m an atheist but I know a little about religion and know that there is a special place in hell for people like Pence who do nothing to protect the least of the people…to paraphrase the new testament…I think it goes like this…what you do to them, you do to me…so Pence…you’ve discriminated against Jesus as you’ve discriminated against these poor folks who are yearning to breathe free…what a chickenshit move from a chickenshit person….there is even a better rant on this subject by Hunter over at Dalykos today….breathtaking in outrage…
Bye, bye Bobby…
Well…I’m not sure that you knew this or not but Bobby Jindal was still running for president…until today that is…he just announced that he is ending his campaign…but, my question is “why did he start it?” His only credentials were hate of everyone that isn’t a repub, a trashed economy in Louisiana, and rejecting any refugees from Syria…yep, pretty thin resume if you ask me…great for a repub but thin for anyone else. He was never, ever going to get the nomination of the repubs anyway…just another of his delusions to go along with thinking that cutting taxes, gutting his state government, and trashing the university system would be better for his state and make the economy grow….so…bye, bye Bobby…don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out….or do, I don’t give a damn…
Can these guys get even more stupid?
Well…with the scaredy cat repubs doing everything they can to prevent any of the refugees from Syria being settled in the US since they are all 8 feet tall super terrorists…even the 5 year olds…we now have Texas weighing in on why they shouldn’t be allowed to come here and it is so dripping with irony and stupidity that I just had to comment on it. I wonder if you can guess what that would be? A state rep, Tony Dale, went off on a tv interview the other day saying that Texas can’t accept any refugees since it would be too easy for them to buy guns when they arrived…yep…let that one soak in a minute…a guy who has the highest rating for being a shill for the NRA basically says that if you’re a crazy assed white person threatening to shoot federal government employees you can have all the guns you can afford, but, if you’re a refugee (a brown person and probably not a good christian), you can’t. He goes so far as to make sure that any id they may get from the government be stamped so that it can’t be used to purchase a gun…never mind that this idiot blocked laws that would have mandated ID’s and background checks for gun purchases in Texas…and that any refugee could walk into any gun show in Texas and buy whatever he wants without showing any ID…so, what this boils down to is that this racist just doesn’t want any more not white people in his state and he will use any reason to rationalize keeping them out…and to him, the constitution doesn’t apply to anyone except those he approves of…typical asshole repub….geez…
Fear and nothing but fear from the right…
Well….for presenting themselves as the big, tough Americans, the repubs sure like to push all fear all the time. And, here they go again with the refugees from Syria that scare repub governors so much that they are refusing to accept any more in their states…and yes, our idiot governor started this whole thing yesterday when he said he was ‘rethinking” taking in any Syrian refugees…as if they have any say in it. Immigration is a federal government function and while it would be nice to have agreement with the governors, it is not necessary…but, the big thing here is the absolute glee that repubs are showing after the Paris attacks, giving them another reason for another war with ole Mitt going so far as to say we need 50,000 troops on the ground right now…after all his investment in the MIC is not making as much money now that we are out of Iraq and heading out of Afghanistan. One thing you will not hear from these idiots is any talk of how to pay for another war, after all, they never paid for the last two and let the dem come in and do the hard work of reducing the deficit and paying the bills. I think it’s time for us to discard these fear mongers…these repubs that are afraid of their own shadows and find danger everywhere…they should be recognizing where the true danger is…a danger that has cost the lives of 280,000 Americans over the past 10 years…the crazy fetish the right has with guns and more guns everywhere….the stupidity, it burns….geez…
No Paris today…
Well…I was going to do one on the tragedy in Paris but what more can I say than it is one of the most evil things I have ever seen..and I’ve been around for a long time…one of the reactions that I see as a continuation of the fear based decision making of the repubs is that old Snyder has stopped the work being done for Michigan to take in some of these refugees….never mind that only one of the killers in Paris were from the refugee diaspora…that doesn’t matter to the repubs who are just scared shitless of everything…there was a good article out on Kos today that looks at the psychology of conservatives and it is not a pretty picture…worth reading, but not pretty….and with the repub candidates, you can see their bias showing through when ole Jeb! said that we should only help christian refugees….as if that would be any easier to prove than not being a terrorist….still shaking my head at all of this and I will expand on that tomorrow…but, right now…I am just going to get more ice water and watch some racing….