Well…reading a news story about how the chrisitanists in Louisiana are illegally allowing religion in their public schools, it points out just how far these supposed religious people will go to impose their brand of religion on everyone and use it as a weapon to intimidate those who have different religions. In a middle school in Louisiana, one teacher even goes so far as to teach her classes that the bible ” is 100% true”, and that “evolution is impossible” and that a buddhist student is stupid for not believing in her god. The response of the superintendent of schools there was even worse…when the parents complained of the teachers bullying of their son, this idiot suggested that the child “change his religion” since they live in the bible belt, or change schools…not a word about the illegality of this teacher’s action but just get he hell out of here if you are not a christian. This is what is wrong with these christian terrorists…they are no better than the Taliban who also want to impose their twisted interpretation of a religion at the point of a gun….but Louisiana uses the full force of the government to do it…I hope the ACLU will be successful in making these folks understand that the first amendment applies to them…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
This is just stupid…
Well…have been reading this morning as I always do and came upon a little article that just focused on how stupid the states that are controlled by repubs have become…in Virginia, Texas, and other states, it is illegal to carry signs or flags on sticks into the state capital since they are “dangerous weapons” and can be used to injure people…but, in those same states, it is perfectly legal to carry handguns and rifles into these same capitals…in Virginia, while they were confiscating the signs that gun violence protesters were carrying, a group of gun rights protesters were waved through the same checkpoints carrying loaded assault rifles and pistols I guess since guns are never dangerous. In Texas, female visitors to the capitol had their tampons confiscated since they were also “dangerous weapons” while gun owners were allowed to carry their guns in strapped across their backs. What the hell is happening in this country? Have all the red states put stupid drugs in the water supply? I can’t think of any other explanation…geez…
Are there topics?
Well…have been doing a few things around here but have, thankfully, not thought much about topics to write today..I do know that I have used this computer so much since I got it that I have worn the paint off the e, d and almost the c keys and there are times that I forget where they are and have to think about it..but, not now…just wanted to comment on the statements that ole Mike Huckabee made the other day, addressing some repub meeting or something…this idiot just can’t keep his mouth shut about women…something that the paternalistic idiots on the right all have a problem with…this nutjob came out and said that women vote democratic because government is the “sugar daddy” that provides them with free birth control…now, this is so wrong on so many levels that it is hard to chose which to comment on…I do want to say “WTF”…providing a medication that does so much for women’s health and gives them the opportunity to control their reproduction is now only to get their votes? What the hell else do we expect from these idiots on the right who think the only value women have is to be baby factories and anything that interferes with that is against the will of god? I have really, really had enough of hearing from any of these morons…geez…
One more about Snyder…
Well…just wanted to add another one on ole Snyder’s state of the state address from last week and the one glaring thing that was was not in it…specifics…particularly specifics on how his policies of tax cuts for the rich, attacking unions, and hurting women have created jobs here in Michigan. And you know how the repubs like to take credit for any good news even if they had nothing to do with it…like the auto recovery that was a combination of the companies, the unions, and the federal government and had nothing to do with any repub effort…don’t you think that if Snyder had any data to back up his boasts that his policies were working that he would have led with that in the address? He can’t because it doesn’t exist…we are next to last in unemployment rate and are projected to be 49th in job growth over the next three years and our performance mirrors that of other states where the discredited repub economic policies have been tried. So, this so called tough nerd needs to be sent back to the business world where he comes from…where ceo’s can not perform and still get millions of dollars while the workers pay the price…just like the people of Michigan have paid the price for the past 3 years….geez…
Another one bites the dust…
Well…just ran across another neat little tidbit in the news a few minutes ago that I just had to share…it seems the former governor of Virginia was indicted today for taking gifts and bribes while he was in office…and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…and by that I mean a crazy-assed privileged repub who thought that the laws don’t apply to them. To make this even better, this idiot was the tea party darling who did more to egg on the legislature there to take away a woman’s right to control her own healthcare and forced doctors to perform unnecessary medical procedures on women who want abortions. Just another instance where the connected repubs think that they can do anything they want when they are in office…or in business and that the laws that the rest of us live by don’t apply to them…glad they got this prick….geez…
More lies from Lansing…
Well…I have been gagging since the state of the state speech that our “wonderful” governor delivered last week…full of boasting and taking credit for the few jobs that have been added since they gave away thousands of dollars from retirees to their corporate masters…and the worst is his tries to make the radical, right wing fueled policies of his tea party cronies seem like they are supported by the majority of the people of Michigan. They are not….more than 70% of the people didn’t want the additional restrictions on a woman’s right to control here own healthcare…but the radicals jammed it through the legislature and Snyder signed one of the most restrictive laws in the nation. More than 60% of the people didn’t want pensions to be taxed to pay for more giveaways to the rich and corporations that have not resulted in the adding of one job…but the legislature passed it and Snyder signed it…more than 60% of the people didn’t want a “right to work for less” law that is a direct attack on the middle class and the unions that helped make the middle class possible…so, when this liar tries to make himself and his radical, corporatist, religious cronies sound mainstream, don’t believe it…look with your own eyes and your own wallet…geez…
It’s the republicans fault…
Well…with the vote yesterday in the senate that blocked the re-instatement of UI benefits for the long term unemployed…there is only one party that is responsible…and it’s name starts with an R…can you guess which one? Yep, the damn republicans are at it again, showing their disdain for anyone that is not rich and trying to spin it that is mean ole Harry Reid’s fault since he wouldn’t let the repubs add amendments that would repeal Obamacare and add more giveaways to big business. The sickening thing about all this is how transparently political this sham is…when ole GW was in office, the dems never asked for anything in return for taking care of Americans…they went along because it was the right thing to do…but the repubs don’t give a damn about Americans…even the unemployed R’s that vote for them…I think they are going to be surprised at the backlash for this one…there have been numerous stories that have die hard r’s that are unemployed who say they will never vote for a repub again….and we just might get Harry Reid to change the filibuster rules again that will let them get things done with a simple majority…and cut the repubs out of the process all together…they don’t want to govern anyway…geez…
Still in a malaise…
Well…it has been another day of basically nothing..other than going out to lunch…and I am feeling that malaise that had been dogging me for the past month…which is keeping me from thinking about what to write here and finding a good topic…we still have the repubs being dicks by trying everything to keep UI benefits from being approved by attaching amendments that do nothing but punish people….and that is what the repub party has become over the years…all punishment…all the time…punish the poor, punish voters, punish women, punish undocumented people….when are they ever going to try to do something for the country and its people? Oh, that’s right, never….I wish Olbermann would bring back “the worst person in the world” and we could name the entire right in this country….what a bunch of asses…geez…
The stupid is really deep in Texas…
Well…I have been a little lax in doing these lately but I have an excuse that works for me…and I guess that’s all I need…I did read a funny article…just a shorty…or maybe even on Twitter…not sure…but the gist of the article is the fight that is going on with the repubs for board of ed in Texas…and there was a scene straight from “Inherit the Wind” about the Scopes monkey trial early last century…yep, that long ago…when one of the candidates actually stood up in a public forum and asks for votes since she believes that “we didn’t come from no monkeys” …in this day and age, running for a position that will affect millions of Texas children…they still have viable candidates who are proud of their ignorance and passing that same ignorance on to their children…I’ll ask this one again…”what the hell is wrong with Texas?” geez…
Monkey see, monkey do…
Well…I just had to comment on the continued saga of ole Chris Christie and the political payback his staff laid on the mayor of Ft. Lee NJ just because he wouldn’t endorse ole Chris…I know he fired someone that is supposed to be responsible..but that doesn’t get to the root of the problem…and that is Christie is a bully, and he runs his administration like any bully from the playgrounds to the internet…how else does anyone expect his staff to act when they see bullying as accepted practice day in and day out? It all boils down to the tone that ole Chris has set for his administration of confrontation and attack against anyone who dares to not do what he says…and it showed up in this bs incident…monkey see, monkey do….geez…