Well…repub budget is out and guess what? Of course, they want to cut every program that benefits the middle class and poor here in the US so they can give more, and more, and more to the military/industrial complex. I, for one, have had enough of this continually increasing money for war while the rest of us can’t even get out roads repaired or get healthcare. The US spends more money on defense than the next 20 countries combined and you cannot tell me that this is necessary…the Russians, who the repubs are so scared of only spend about 60 billion a year on their military so why the hell are we willing to spend almost 500 billion on ours? It is time to stop building war machines and start building this country again before all of our bridges fall down and we stop educating our people…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
More lies from the right on the minimum wage…
Well…I know that the right hates anyone but the rich getting anything in the US and they have lied and lied about the effects of minimum wage increases…saying that raises eliminate jobs as businesses stop hiring..or cut jobs (which has been found to not be true in every instance)…but they just got caught out in another lie about Seattle’s 15 dollar wage that is slated to start to take effect in April…the right wing rag “The new York Post” had an editorial the other day from a couple of right wing “brains” that pounced on the fact that restaurants are closing across Seattle and they attribute it to the minimum wage that has not even taken effect yet….one little problem…they never talked to any of the owners of the restaurants that are closing to find out why….never mind that places close all the time…and open all the time…these guys just “know” that it is only the minimum wage that is causing it. When Thinkprogess talked to some of the owners that were mentioned in the Post, all of the owners said it had nothing to do with the rising MW…in fact, they all supported the rise. The one fact that the righies failed to mention is that Seattle is in the midst of a “dining boom” with many more resataurants opening than closing, with one owner, who is opening two more places this year, saying ‘opening new businesses would not be smart if they would not be successful”. So, again…the right lies, again, since they just can’t stand that someone other than them gets a leg up in the US…shame on them…
Good riddance Aaron Schock…
Well….we all know that the repubs think of the government as their own personal piggybank that they use to reward themselves and their big donors with tax cuts and other largesse…but, there has been one guy over the past couple of years that has raised taking advantage of the people to an art form…Illinois rep Aaron Schock resigned today amid ethics investigations for damn near everything..his “Downton Abbey” styled office started it off then there were the private jets to go to concerts (supplied by his big donors) and getting an inflated price for a house he sold…again to one of his big donors…but that’s not the extent of it…he had his own staff photographer that he took everywhere to document his exploits and took some staffers to NYC the other month for a “conference” where he spent about two minutes shaking hands and billed the people of his district for the trip. Now….this is what the grifters on the right think government is…you do some time currying favors and amassing dark money waiting for the time that they can get the big payday as a lobbyist when they leave congress….but you have to at least make it appear you’re doing some work for the people you represent…this guy just couldn’t be bothered with that…good riddance…geez…
Tom Cotton is an idiot…
Well…since my shoulder won’t allow me to work out, I thought I’d get to this one early as I wait for it to get warm enough to do the bike ride in shorts. If you haven’t heard, ole Tom Cotton is the ringleader of the 47 repub senators (I wonder what their fixation on the number 47 is?) that sent the ill advised letter to Iran warning that any agreement on their nuclear program with Obama could be rescinded once there is a new president…which he was wrong on by the way…and he showed even more ignorance on the Sunday news shows yesterday, trying to make the point that Iran is dangerous since they already control Tehran. Hey, Tom, do you even know that Tehran is the capital of Iran…and that they have controlled it since it was founded? That would be like saying that Germany has designs on all of Europe since they already control Berlin. It is just an indicator of the ignorance of the current crop of “brains” in the repub party who are either too stupid or too lazy to understand what they continually spout off about…another example being the Common Core standards that Ted Cruz thinks is a federal law the he thinks should be repealed…when it is a set of standards that was developed by the states that they can take or leave. Unless you know what you are talking about repubs, just shut the hell up…geez…
A little wandering around…
Well…haven’t really found anything that has grabbed me to write about so I think I’ll just wander around a little and see what happens…some idiot almost backed her trailer into my car today out at pool and that kind of ruined my mood for a while…but, the drive home with the top down fixed that….anyone else curious about the disappearance of ole Vlad Putin? He hasn’t been seen in over a week and the propaganda arms of his government are falling all over themselves trying to make like everything is normal using old news reports and saying that they are current and press releases that his “handshake” is a strong as ever…pretty weird stuff…it would be a shame if he has died…snark…..ole Mittens the Romney is back trying to do something on Iran…not sure what that would be but he thinks everything would be great if Obama just did what ole Mittens said and walk away from the negotiations….how much more irrelevant can one human being be? I just think ole Mittens is just too dense to understand he lost the election and that no one wants to hear a thing he has to say…what a sorry little man…geez…
Ow…and other stuff…
Well..decided to put the summer tires on the car this morning and while jacking it up, the handle came out of the jack and I mashed the backs of all the fingers of my right hand…a little black and blue and they hurt like crazy…but, I don’t think there is much damage since I can still type….the car does look good with the summer wheels on…I did have some other stuff to talk about..oh, I just remembered it…one of the 47 repub traitors who signed the letter siding with the hard liners in Iran over our president has tried to backtrack a little…but, just a little. John “bomb Iran” McCain has said that he probably should have thought about it a little more before signing but he was rushed since there was a snow storm coming and he wanted to get out of town. Yep…this idiot undermines our country’s foreign policy just because he needed to not get snowed on….what a bunch of crap…the senators and the letter…geez…
Stupid Republican senators…
Well…have been up since 4:30 and thought I’d get at this one since I’m already bored…if you haven’t heard or read yet, there is a group of 47 repub senators who have sent a letter to the leaders of Iran trying to derail the nuclear negotiations by saying that any agreement has to be ratified by the senate and would only be in effect until Obama leaves office…both statements are wrong and were pointed out by, of all people, the Iranian foreign minister who dismissed the letter as having “no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy” and he goes on to say that he is astonished that members of the US congress find it appropriate to write to leaders of another country against their own president and administration….as am I. The smackdown continues int he rest of the letter where the foreign minister goes on to say “It seems that the authors not only do not understand international law, but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy.” Now, I find is just so rich that we have an Iranian foreign minister that has a better grasp of the executive branch power in foreign policy than these idiot senators…and that he understands, where the repubs don’t that changing administrations doesn’t remove the international obligations and that removing the agreement would be a violation of international law. But, one thing we do know from the torture fiasco is that repubs don’t really care about or understand international law…they are just a bunch of idiots…geez…
Not sure what to write about….
Well…there hasn’t been any stupid politicians doing stupid things for me to comment on and it is making this really difficult…all the low hanging fruit has been picked and I am a little irritated…well…there was one…the idiot secretary of state of Kansas, Kris Kobach, was on his radio show the other day and just couldn’t resist the thought in his fever ridden brain that Obama is going to order that no black person that commits any crime in the US be prosecuted…yep…these guys have gotten so stupid that they think this is possible if not probable that Obama will do what they themselves have done in the past…where were the repubs when the white guys from ole GW to the CIA decided that the laws on torture didn’t apply to them? I am just so sick of the crazy in this country being passed off as normal….this is just some batshit crazy stuff and this idiot should be thrown out of office today for this nonsense…geez…
Putin and Hitler….
Well…as I said this morning, I had a flash the other day when I was watching a show on the Third Reich and they showed how Hitler used the supposed abuse of ethnic Germans in Poland as a pretext for invading the country…he did it to keep them “safe”. That immediately brought to mind Putin’s statements when he invaded Crimea to annex it that he was going there to “protect” the Russians that were living there…and he has used the same ploy for the attacks in the rest of the Ukraine. The repubs constantly compare everything they don’t like to Hitler…I wonder if any of them will do the same for their buddy, Putin? Not very likely…geez….
Cops and prosecutors are out of control…
Well..if you didn’t think that something needs to be done about the lying cops and colluding prosecutors that infest the US, just listen to this one…a couple of years back, in Louisiana, a man served court papers on a cop in a police brutality lawsuit, in front of other cops and prosecutors…nothing special…but, then, 20 minutes later, the process server was arrested at his house and charged with battery, obstruction of justice, and intimidating a witness. Then, the sick part happened…circling the wagons, two more prosecutors and the cop that was served all colluded to lie and say that the server had punched the cop in the chest so hard it drove him back 6 feet…all in all around 8 people were in on the conspiracy including the police chief…but, the one thing they didn’t count on was a cell phone camera and the video that was taken by the server’s wife while the papers were being served and that showed that the server just handed the papers to the cop and the cop turned and walked away. Another sick thing here is that the process server has had to pay for a lawyer and have these serious felony charges hang over his head for more than two years. One other sick thing…the cop still has his job, the prosecutor still has his job and the lying lawyers that colluded on the case still have their jobs…..when will this crap end? geez…