Well…I was going to update on the trip out to the beach today but ran across some facts on tax cuts that are given to business to bribe them to stay in a state, or to move to a state…or, like ole Snyder and his cronies did here in Michigan, just give them tax cuts just because they BELIEVE they work…never to just give more money to their donors in the never ending grift that is the repub party these days. In case you missed it that last part was snark. These two studies, one done in 2004, and another done in 2012 both came to the same conclusion, that tax cuts do nothing to create jobs and also do nothing to grow the economy in the states where this corporate welfare is doled out. So, how do they defend the continued tax cuts that decimate cities and states across the country? They have even given up that pretense…since we know that the repubs are not fact based they don’t care what the facts are…just like they knew there were WMD in Iraq and that torture is the only thing that saved the country from terrorists they just KNOW that tax cuts for business work and no amount to studies or facts can make them reconsider that belief…after all, when they are finally out of office, they want to be able to slop at the trough of free money that tax cuts for business are…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
It doesn’t matter…
Well….as I’ve been reading about the killing in Ferguson, one thing struck me…even with all of the eyewitnesses that saw the cop gun the kid down in cold blood…it doesn’t matter…the cop is going to walk and you can see the process happening as we speak…the time taken to release the incident report so it can be worded correctly to make it self defense, the lack of crime scene investigation and the collusion between the prosecutor and the cops that will make any justice impossible…and it doesn’t matter that the whole world is watching…the cops always get away with it and no one does anything about it…and with every one they get more and more brazen since they have learned over time that they can kill anyone they want with no consequences…some democracy, huh?
Things have calmed down…
Well…I have been quite tired today for some reason and I think it’s from only 1500 cals yesterday and the same thing today….going to try to do better today but have only been able to get to 600 or so so far and I know that is not enough…but, that’s not what this one is about…still have to talk about the simmering crap going on in Ferguson and over the past few days, the cops are at it again, raiding a church and confiscating supplies that were to be used to help the protesters…and they came in in full swat gear, to a church…what were they scared of? Angels fighting back? I am just so tired of these idiots running over the rights of the populace just to play their police state games…exactly what was the threat of donated medical supplies? I just can’t believe this crap…geez….
More Ferguson…
Well…the updates that are coming out of Ferguson on the grand jury that is supposed to be determining the “facts” of the shooting there do not sound good…the person that is presenting the information is the DA who has come out already and said that the officer is innocent without knowing the facts….and who has criticized the governor for doing anything to change the situation and rein in the cops who have been terrorizing the populace….this can lead to no good when an unarmed man with his hands up is executed by police and then city sponsored coverups and smears begin almost immediately. I fear for this city if no one is held to account for this murder…geez….
This is sick…
Well…have been reading of the cop responses to the shooting in Ferguson and they are just sick to say the least..one, from LA, just said “do exactly what I say, how and when I say it and you will be okay…don’t talk back to me, don’t tell me you have constitutional rights…don’t say anything…it is up to you if I hurt you or not…” does anyone else see a pattern here? This is just what spouse abusers say to justify their illegal use of force…”she made me beat here since she wouldn’t do what I say…” So, now any time you come into contact with a cop you have no constitutional rights? Or only the ones that the cop sees fit to grant you? That’s not how it works assholes….we have rights that supercede your assholeness…you don’t get to tell us what rights we have…we have the right to not interact with you if we want and that right has been upheld by the supreme court….these sick assholes need to be retrained at the least or fired….I hope this country is finally had enough of this above the law police thuggery…I sure have….geez…
Ferguson cops have got to go…
Well….have been reading about last night’s events in Ferguson and all I can do is shake my head….I mean threatening a reporter with a drawn gun telling him he will shoot him unless he stops recording the lawlessness of the cops….not sure but that sounds like felonious assault to me…and then the firing of tear gas into the crowds before the curfew when they were peacefully protesting…again…felonious assault and these guys need to go. The governor needs to go in, suspend the entire force and prosecute the officers who have been pointing automatic weapons at citizens expressing the 1st amendment rights of free assembly, who have fired tear gas at reporters and then dismantled their equipment, who have abused reporters and arrested them for doing their jobs and who have fired tear gas at people who were just standing in their yards talking….every one of these officers need to be fired today, not tomorrow, not after an investigation, but now since they have shown that they don’t give a damn about the constitution and the rights that are inherent to the people…these rights are not granted by the cops as they seem to think they are…geez…
I predicted this…
Well… with the events of this week in Ferguson, the only thing I can think of is my warning of the increased militarization of the police in this country and the results of that militarization…that the police have started to look at the populace they are supposed to protect and serve as the enemy to be afraid of as if they are in a war zone. To see these police point assault weapons at people who are conducting perfectly legal protests of the killing of an unarmed teenager and then attack them with tear gas when they are breaking no law should be prosecutable and those in charge should go to jail for depriving these folks of their constitutional rights. Why are these cops so afraid of everyone? Some of the most pertinent comments about this nonsense have come from military men who have been in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and who have said that these police officers are more armed than the army when they went into Falluja or other hot spots in the Mideast….I think it’s about time to recall all of the militay weaponry that has been give to police forces across this country and re-task them to what they are supposed to be…the protectors of the people, not the killers of them…geez…
Pretty frickin outrageous…
Well…just read a little article on one of the websites that has my jaw dropping in it’s so outrageous….while the reps in both the senate and house work for the people in their districts and the law says they have to take time to listen to them, there is a new twist that the repubs are trying out to limit the participation of people they don’t want there…they are charging money to attend the town hall meetings that are supposed to be so their constituents can question them about their votes and express their thoughts on what they want from their rep. In the past couple of months…ole Paul Ryan has started to charge admission of 15 dollars a head for access to these meeting with the express intent of keeping the “riff raff” out of these meetings…and by riff raff that means anyone who is going to ask them a question that might put them on the spot…just when I think the repubs can’t sink much lower…they have sold our democracy to the highest bidder and now they are charging for the “privilege” to talk to them…what a bunch of grifters…geez…
The people of Michigan sure are gullible…
Well…with the election passing and the people of Michigan cutting taxes on business, again, all I can say are that the people who voted for this tax cut sure are gullible. Don’t they remember the promises made a few years back when they cut taxes on business and raised them on retirees? Didn’t they notice that job growth here in Michigan is 37th in the nation when ole Snyder and his cronies said the cut would vault us into the top ten if not the top five in growth? And, here we go again…cutting taxes on the rich while starving cities of the revenue they need to provide even the most basic services while our roads, schools, and bridges crumble around us and the rich take their money and stash it in the Cayman Islands so they don’t have to pay any taxes…leaving the funding of government to the rest of us while the rich keep making money on the infrastructure that you and I are paying for. I think the rich have won….they have stolen the entire country and left you and I with the leftover crumbs….geez….
Benghazi deflated…
Well…I’m not sure if there has been an outbreak of sanity in the repub run house, but the report that just came out of a repub committee investigating Benghazi has released it’s findings in the past couple of days and guess what the result was? No wrongdoing by the administration at all…debunking every talking point that has been pushed by Issa and fox news over the past two years…that’s right..no wrongdoing at all….no stand down order to keep a rescue team from trying to get there…that Susan Rice’s talking points reflected the consensus of the intelligence community at the time…and there was no coverup of any sort….what do you say about that Darrell? After you spent tens of millions of dollars looking for what didn’t exist do you at least have an apology for you incompetence? But, I still don’t think that the delusionists on the right will pay any attention to these facts…after all facts never have meant anything to Issa and his cronies…geez…