Well…I know I’ve writing about religion the past couple of days and it’s not normally a topic that I want to do…but, for one more day, I have to comment on something that I find so hypocritical that I just had to…over the past week, the pope has recognized a Palastinian state to try to get the talks going on really establishing one…but, it was the reaction of the repubs here that just lit up my hypocrites meter and maxed it out….their reaction was that religion should be kept out of politics and the pope should just keep his mouth shut on these matters…okay…I hope you guys see the hypocrisy there that I do…every damn political thing the repubs do here in the US is cloaked and driven by religion…the denial of gay rights, the depriving of women’s right to control their own bodies, and many other bits of mischief they do on a daily basis is all traced back to religion…don’t see how that is keeping religion out of politics…oh, I see, they are back to the old ‘do what I say, not what I do” crap that they seem to always fall back on…again, I have had enough of the hypocrisy…had enough 30 years ago and am so tired of them continuing to get elected….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
One more on religion…
Well…in a pretty cool coincidence…at least to me…a new poll that came out in the past week or so shows that the trend away from religion in this county appears to be accelerating, with the number of people identifying as “Christian” dropping almost 8 percent in the past 5 years while those of us who have no religion has grown by the same 8%. At this rate, in only two generations, the majority of this country will be without the scourge of religion…okay, that may be a little harsh but the way that religion is used in this country and across the world, as a sword to attack anyone who is different, I’m not sure if scourge is not a good description. One of the things that I think is driving this change here in the US is the constant whining and constant attempts of the “Christians” here in the US to jam their religion into all aspects of US life but also people are beginning to realize that “Christianity” here is all about hate and control….hating gays because of”Christians” willful misinterpretation of the bible…trying to force their religious views on women’s rights into the law that takes away women’s ability to control their own bodies while they try to ensure that gays don’t have the rights they deserve as US citizens. This hate is turning off the younger generations that religion needs to be viable over time and I, for one, think that is a good thing…as religion dies, this will ensure a return to rationality in governance…not faith, whose only place in the US should be in church…not in government…
Jeb is just as dumb as GW…
Well…read this little nugget of crazy the other day but forgot about it until I was reading the paper today….as you know, ole Jeb is running for president and guess who he has as one of his “top” advisers on foreign policy….ole GW…yep, that GW, the one who manufactured evidence and lied us into a war that has cost almost 3 trillion dollars…and Jeb is supposed to be the smart one? And, he went on at Liberty University the other day that anyone else that would have been president at the time would have done the same thing given the “facts” that they had…..no, Jeb, because any other president who didn’t have Darth Cheney as their VP wouldn’t have had a the “facts” that you had…the lies that there were wmd, that Saddam was working on a nuclear weapon….and on and on….I’m not sure what is the more stupid thing…to invade Iraq in the first place…killing hundreds of thousands and setting the stage for ISIS to rise in the power vacuum, or to know how big a mistake it was and still support it….that from the “smart” Bush….Jeb is just as dumb as GW and we don’t need another moron in the White House…geez…
The problem in Michigan…
Well….as everyone predicted, proposal one to fix the roads here failed by a huge margin…and, as predicted, the repubs are misinterpreting the result to mean that the people here support their tax cut at all cost policies that have put us in this mess over the past 6 years. What these idiots need to do is to read the polls of why people voted no…the largest being that the legislature abdicated its responsibility to the state and the people to maintain the infrastructure just to give tax cuts to corporations and the rich. The problem is that tax cuts do not work…let me say that again…tax cuts do not work to spur growth or increase tax revenues…never have, never will…and the giveaway over the past 6 years of repub control is estimated to be 3.5 billion dollars…more than enough to repair the roads, fix the schools, and to share the revenue with our cities, which is where the growth comes from…not giving tax cuts to millionaires with the blind hope they will invest and create jobs. Now, let’s put an end to the idea that we are overtaxed, too…that honor goes to Minnesota who has a tax rate that is 30% higher than Michigan and has outpaced us in growth every year…and they fund their schools, fix their roads, and their cities are thriving. We need to stop this tax cut nonsense that has put many repub controlled states into this same downward spiral we see here in Michigan…and stop the faith based economics that has kept Michigan from the growth it could accomplish with a rational tax policy…I don’t mind paying a little more in taxes…just as long as it doesn’t end up in a CEO’s pocket like the last tax cut for corporations did….geez…
Another laffer…
Well…I am just amazed at the stupidity of people in the US these days…I wonder if it’s always been this way and the stupidity is just being better reported now or if this is a new thing…all I know is that this one almost takes the cake…don’t want to say that it does take the cake because the pattern has been that there is more and more stupidity of greater and greater depth every week. This one is a huge laffer, though…with a woman from Nebraska suing all gay people on the entire planet for breaking “religious and moral” laws…and she did it with a handwritten, misspelled, and lacking in punctuation petition….the suit is filed as “Driskell v. homosexuals” and slams gay people as “liers, deceivers, and thieves”…yeah, liar is spelled wrong multiple times in the suit….I really don’t know why I write about this stuff any more…it is a little soul crushing to think that people have so little to do and are so ignorant to think a suit like this would ever result in anything, but they continue…like the drip, drip, drip, of water torture, this idiocy is taking away the little hope of sanity I have for this country…how do these people live everyday? Geez….
The crazy train picks up speed in Texas….
Well…just when I thought it couldn’t get any crazier in Texas, the crazy train there just keeps on picking up speed….the latest head slapper comes form the newly elected governor who put the national guard there on alert the other day…can you guess the reason? Nope, you will never get this one in a million years….his reason was that he thinks that the feds are going to take over Texas, confiscate all the guns, and lock up the politicians. Yeah…from an elected governor no less…we have this new level of crazy that was triggered from the annual military practices that are held at the military bases there every year….and have been since the bases were established over 50 years ago. I wonder if it’s something in the water since ole Ted Cruz jumped on the crazy bandwagon and sent a letter to someone in the federal government asking them to reassure Texans that they have nothing to fear from these exercises. Now, it makes it really easy for me when these idiots go over the edge, like they seem to do about once a week now, but, c’mon…really? This takeover would just never happen….and now this idiot governor has the righties there worked up and polishing their guns getting ready for an attack…..let’s waste more time and money getting ready for something that is just a delusion….and not fund schools….geez…
No on proposal 1
Well…if you don’t remember, there is an election tomorrow to vote on whether to raise the sales tax here in Michigan to repair the terrible roads that all of us drive on. I am going to vote no on this proposal for a number of reasons…the first being that sales tax increases are hardest on the poor and middle class as a percentage of their income and that is not a fair way to pay for infrastructure projects. My second reason is that the people who do the most damage to the roads, corporations that use them for commerce, won’t have to kick a dime in to pay for all that damage…where is the tax increase on them to help? On top of the sales tax increase, the proposal would raise the registration fee on every car by almost $50 dollars per car that normal folks can’t just write off as corporations do. To raise the the 1.3 billion dollars that this proposal is supposed to raise, why not just rescind the 1.3 billion dollar tax cut the corporations got that was paid for by me and other people living on their retirement savings? This proposal is just another failure by the repub run legislature to do their jobs as they were elected to do…never before did a sitting legislature in Michigan abdicate their responsibility to do what was necessary to keep the state moving…I think it’s just a ploy for them to be able to say they never raised taxes…that the people did…what a bunch of crap…geez…
Charges in Baltimore…
Well…that was quick…it only took a couple of weeks and a little investigation and there have been charges filed against the cops that were involved in the Grey killing. It’s about time that these blue coated thugs were held accountable…I know, innocent until proven guilty but to even have charges filed in one of these killings is progress from my point of view. And, when the charges were filed, the prosecutor also reiterated that Grey had not committed a crime…the cops were just screwing with him because they could… they think it’s fun to abuse the people they are supposed to serve and protect…the question I have is “are these cops this stupid to continue the abusing when videos are catching cops all over the country?” I’m glad that the trend is toward justice…now we just need the rest of them caught and prosecuted….
Bernie Sanders is in….
Well…got a bit of good new today with the announcement that Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, is running for president. You’ve heard me talk here of my admiration for Bernie and his untiring efforts to tilt the scale back towards the middle class and actually do something about the rich taking everything in this country. One of the things this candidacy will do is push the dems back to the left and away from the corporate wing of the party that is the home of the Clintons since he is an avowed socialist that truly believes that the country is better when it has a regulated economy, not the winner takes all one the the repubs have championed for the past 30 years or so. I can hear the heads explode on the right when they hear a real socialist talk about equity and the rigged economy we now have…but they will also hear of the separation of church and state…something the christian taliban here just can’t abide. I am happy that Bernie is now in the conversation…there will now be ideas talked about, not just personalities…go Bernie!
I just can’t believe this…..
Well…with all of the coverage of police brutality across the US, there was a story yesterday that just made my jaw drop…had a hard time believing it. Since 2004, Chicago has paid out $560 million dollars to settle lawsuits for brutality by its police force…yep that’s $560 MILLION dollars in just the past 10 years….just think of how many school lunches could be bought for that money, how many schools could be rebuilt, and how may roads could be fixed. In the era of cuts, cuts, and more cuts to services, no one thinks there is something wrong with this? Something needs to be done and done now to end this nonsense….anyone who is the object of one of these suits that is settled should be fired and anyone who helped cover it up should go, too….the police in the country are out of control and the daily revelation of another, and another person being killed or maimed by them is just wrong…fire them all….geez…