Well…I really do need to stop reading anything anyone on the right has to say about anything…the tortured logic hurts my head. The latest bit of nonsense comes from ole Rudy Giuliani who, with the killing of two police officers in New York, has decided that Obama and the protesters of police brutality are to blame since they “inflamed” passions with their condemnation of the murders of unarmed minorities. So, let me get this straight…it’s the protesters of police brutality that are to blame…not the police and the rampant brutality that permeates police forces across the nation? If there wasn’t any brutality, there wouldn’t be any protests…seems simple, huh? To thinking people who aren’t washed up political hacks it is simple…stop the brutality, regain the respect of the people you are supposed to protect and to serve….geez….
Category Archives: Politics
One last thing about Cuba…
Well…in all of the stuff I’ve read about Cuba over the past few days, one thing I thought of has not been mentioned…that is the fact that with this stroke, Obama has taken the reason away that the Castros’ have used to explain away the poverty and lack of growth that Cuba has seen over the past 50 years..it has always been the US’s fault…everything that has ever gone wrong has been blamed on us but now that is going to go away and the people running the place are going to have to put up or shut up…just my thought….
Police whining….
Well…I had a good laugh this morning when I read about the response of many police departments to the protests against police killings and brutality towards minorities when they whine that they are all being tarred with a broad brush and their little feelings are hurt that people think they are the problem when they abuse everyone they come into contact with…other than old white guys. My response to that is “stop killing and abusing minorities” maybe then you will have a better image in your communities. I know, not all cops are bad ones but they all lie to protect other officers, they all use too much force and use force as a first resort instead of a last….and way too many of them ARE racists who never think their job is to protect and to serve but that they are in a war zone and that any force they decide to use is justified….I also don’t think that it is the citizens job to know how to interact with police to ensure they don’t get killed…not getting killed should be the default setting in these interactions…it has gotten so bad that a great majority of the population will not call 911 for help since they fear that when the police arrive it won’t be to help…but will cause even more damage….so, yes police…you do have a problem…and it is your problem not the citizens of this country…you need to reform your practices and how you view your jobs and you need to stop killing unarmed people…that would be a good start…geez…
Cuba…finally…
Well…just short one on the news that the US is going to start normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba…my only question is “what took so long?” Since the demise of the Soviet Union, Cuba has been no threat to the US and many other countries that we were enemies with have long since had relations repaired and are now trading and diplomatic partners…I wonder what it was with
Cuba that made them different? Probably just the right wingers who profited by the continuation of hostilities…which is a normal function of the right these days…to gin up hostilities/controversies that they can take advantage of to grift their way to riches. Fifty years of this nonsense is long enough…can’t wait to hear the heads exploding like ole Rubio’s already did….fun…
Not sure about a topic…
Well…have been sitting here trying to think about a topic for today that would mean something…but, there are just little snippets that I can’t flesh out right now…and that is quite frustrating…it has been kind of interesting listening to the tea party idiots who are just outraged that the repubs are making a deal on the budget when they think it should wait until the repubs take control in January….but, they just don’t understand that it won’t matter…there is still the veto hanging over their nonsense and they are never going to get what they want…and, in that same vein, I have been chuckling at their delusion that this last election was a “landslide” and their assertions that the entire country backs their crazy assed agenda just because some more repubs got elected…I know they don’t believe in math but if only 36% of eligible voters voted in the past election and they got a little more than half of that, that means they got elected by about 19% of the people in this country…now, let’s do some simple math…100% minus 19% means that 81% of the people didn’t vote for their crazy assed crap…I know…subtraction is beyond most of them….geez…
I think Dick Cheney is a psychopath..
Well…have been reading about the torture report and ole Dick’s reaction to it and the only thing I can say is I think Dick Cheney is a psychopath. If you look at the definition, which includes amorality, extreme egocentricity, and the inability to learn from experience, you see that old Dick has these traits in spades but he also has no feeling for the suffering of others; he actually revels in the suffering of others. I can imagine him sitting in the vp’s residence every night with that day’s torture tapes just salivating and wishing he was there in person…and getting turned on by the suffering he is inflicting by proxy…just like the killer in the tv show “The Following” with Kevin Bacon where he used other people to do his dirty work…I wonder if that makes ole Dick a serial killer by proxy…using the hands of the government instead of his own to do his killing for him…what a terrible human being…geez…
I am appalled….
Well…I have never been so appalled at any administration as I was today when I read that Holder will not use any of the new evidence that came out of the senate investigation to hold anyone accountable for these violations of both US and international law. I am doubly appalled at his reasoning that goes right back to the “I was just following orders” that he Nazis tried to use at Nuremburg…his new take is that if there was a memo written by basically anyone that said that torture was legal, then no one can be held accountable…this right here is enough to have him fired or tried himself under international law and treaties and I fault Obama and this misguided policy for the continued ruining of the US’s standing in the world….I just hope that some other country will take up the cause and charge any one of these idiots that ordered torture…I talking about you Bush and Cheney and then arrest them when they enter their countries, which is perfectly legal under international treaties that the US has signed. I am speechless that the rot of the Bush years has been allowed to continue…this country is finished….and I mourn for it…
Torture….
Well…not sure if you’ve seen it yet, but the senate report on torture is out and it is not pretty…one of the biggest takeaways from the summary is that Dick Cheney is the biggest damn liar in the US and should be in jail for his part in building the torture regime. But, I said that a long time ago…that he committed multiple felonies that should have put him in the dock at the war crimes trials at the Hague…where his cellmate should be ole GW. One of the most egregious lies that ole Dick has been pushing for 10 years now is that the country was kept safe by information gained by torture…that is just not true…has never been true…and will never be true but those on the right still believe it, still parrot that zombie lie that has been debunked too many times to mention here. Every expert in interrogation has said that the only thing you get from torture is what you want to hear…and given ole Dick’s hand in fabrication of the “evidence” that took us to war, I could easily believe that torture was just part of his plan to gin up “facts” that would support their goal of war in Iraq. I have had enough of these folks…they have stained this country beyond repair and then just sit there smugly saying they were right…when they were completely wrong about everything…geez…
Prosecuters are the problem…
Well…just sitting here thinking, no it didn’t hurt, and my thoughts went to the many police shootings that have happened in the past few months and the fact that the grand juries didn’t bring charges for the police that clearly murdered these people…and one of the lame reasons that the prosecutors spoke of was the fact that they have to work with these cops every day and they would stop cooperating if they had the threat of charges hanging over their heads, Yeah, I know, a bunch of bs but there is just one small change that can happen that would eliminate that problem….so, I propose that whenever a cop is involved in any act that would go to the grand jury, the local prosecutor should be replaced by a special prosecutor that has no ties to the police and who will do the job as it is supposed to be done…not like Ferguson where the prosecutor there did everything in his power to make sure the cop was not charged…even up to letting the cop testify for hours….when did you ever hear of a subject of a grand jury investigation being invited to testify to save his ass….never happened with a gang member or mafia don or anyone else. This small change would do more to restore faith in the justice system that has been shattered by letting these murderers go free…geez…
Another thing I don’t understand…
Well…just read an article about the “tips” that the St. Louis police force tweeted the other day for young black kids to follow to make sure they don’t get shot by the police while playing with toy guns…first, don’t ever use them…anywhere, anytime…and if you do and the police come…throw them away and lie down on ground so you don’t look threatening to the police….not like any white guy that is open carrying a rifle on his back into anywhere he wants to…no, not like that…or not like the white guy with an assault rifle that was threatening to blow cops heads off while drunk and in the street….then, the reaction was to politely ask him “what’s wrong, and is there anything we can do to help…” a little different than the reaction Tamir Rice got when he was playing with his toy gun while black…when the police screamed up to him, piled out of the car and shot him within 5 seconds. What is the takeaway here? Don’t be a black kid…anywhere, ever, or you will die by the police….when are we going to do something about this crap? Geez….