Tag: Cowardice

Closing Thought–03Jul19

As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day and the subject of patriotism and love of country will also be celebrated.

The highest form of patriotism is to put country above personal ambition……and we know that the 45th president does that at every turn (that was sarcasm)…..but there is a new low to his rhetoric and his ego-centric dealings.

His daughter with Marples, Tiffany, is the center of a news report……it seems Trump would cut her off if she decided to join the military and serve her country……

Donald Trump’s prenuptial agreement with his second wife, Marla Maples, contains shocking revelations about his finances and values, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.

“A source recently passed me a revealing document from this era: Trump’s prenuptial agreement with Maples. Its draconian terms suggest a penuriousness at odds with his public image as a free-spending billionaire in his gilded triplex penthouse. And its confidential financial statements included in the agreement is a sketch of Trump’s immense privilege and the wealth he squandered, telling in both what it illuminates and what it obfuscates,” reporter Gabriel Sherman wrote.

“More than anything, the prenup shows how fiercely Trump wanted to protect the money he did have. Maples reportedly wanted $25 million, but Trump agreed to pay her only $1 million if they separated within five years, plus another $1 million to buy a house,” Vanity Fair reported.

“Trump also would stop making $100,000 child support payments for Tiffany when she turned 21. The agreement states that Trump’s payments would cease earlier if Tiffany got a full-time job, enlisted in the military, or joined the Peace Corps,” the magazine added.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/trump-made-2nd-wife-marla-maples-sign-prenup-that-cut-off-daughter-tiffany-if-she-joined-the-military-report/

Now that is a true LOVE OF COUNTRY (again sarcasm)……..and a higher form of patriotism.

To be honest this is not unique to Trump….it is a common practice for the wealthy that want it all and not to have to pay for their freedom.

The Clucking Of War Hawks

War is a terrible thing and everyone has an opinion……..it is an obscenity that should not be pushed into without considerable thought……….as we start our latest endeavor that involves a region that the Us has invaded on three separate occasions……..some people are telling the Us to go slow and sure and then there are the wart hawks that want us to throw caution to the wind and immediately send in troops on the ground…..yep, those people would be John McCain and Lindsey Graham and they are singing their usual duet for war……

First it was Graham on, where else(?), FOX news……..

“It’s going to take an army to beat an army, and this idea we’ll never have any boots on the ground to defeat them in Syria is fantasy, and all this has come home to roost over the last three years of incompetent decisions,” said Sen. Graham, noted RawStory.com (video below) .

“It’s delusional in the way that they approach this,” added Sen. Graham, who strongly supported the failed invasion of Iraq by President Bush.

Later in the broadcast, Sen. Graham grew irate, “This is a war we’re fighting. This is not a counter-terrorism operation. This is not Somalia, this is not Yemen!”

“This is a turning point in the war on terror, our strategy will fail yet again. This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home!” warned Sen. Graham. “They will open the gates of hell to spill out on the world. This is not a Sunni versus Sunni problem. This is ISIL versus mankind.”

I would have expected him to use a tried and true war hawk tactic….FEAR!  And it us very successful tactic to use on FOX viewers….these people live on fear it feeds their ego and their blood lust.

Then came McCain…..he has been having a back and forth with Rand Paul….and McCain went on the offensive.

“I’ve vetted a number of them because I know them,” McCain asserted on Fox News Saturday morning. “Hundreds and even thousands of them have been killed and slaughtered with these barrel bombs and tortured to death by Bashar Assad. They can be trusted. There are groups of them to be trusted.”

I think is pointing to the trip he made back when to a Syrian town on the border with Turkey where he met with some “rebels”……..he dashed across the border for a photo-op and then ran back to Turkey.  These are the ‘rebels’ he met……..

Image via YouTube

The problem with McCain’s ‘rebels’ were that they prove to be kidnappers that were preying on journalists and such….so much for this vetting process.

Then he went on FOX and made these assertions……

“Hundreds and even thousands of them have been killed and slaughtered with these barrel bombs and tortured to death by Bashar Assad. They can be trusted. There are groups of them to be trusted.”

“Obviously, there are some risks, but what’s our other option here? If someone who says they can’t––they don’t want to do it because we can’t trust the Free Syrian Army, then what is your option, sir and ma’am, in how we are going to attack ISIS in an effective fashion?”

“Has Rand Paul ever been to Syria? Has he ever met with ISIS?” McCain fumed, certainly meaning to say the Free Syrian Army instead of ISIS.

He still puts his faith in the ones that he vetted wrong…….he has been wrong on foreign policy for 30 years and I guess I would like to know why he is still considered an ‘expert’……..

CNN was asked that question and their answer is………

“He has appeared for decades on cable news programs, network news programs,” Feist told Wemple. “He’s articulate, he knows what he’s talking about and he has strong positions. He represents the views of millions and he represents them effectively. He’s a veteran and is loved by many veterans and he’s not just a senator; he’s a former Republican presidential nominee and a war hero.”

Twenty years ago I trusted CNN with reporting the news….apparently those days are gone……a war hero does not make one a responsible analyst on foreign policy……and his lack of concern for the American soldier is astonishing…….he is willing to throw American troops at Georgia (country not state), Ukraine, Syria, Iraq (again)………. he and Graham are spineless war hawks that not once think about the troops they are trying to condemn….some one needs to step up and call McCain on his bullsh*t…………for that is exactly what his views are…BULLSHIT!

Time For Congress To Sack Up!

Opinion from the desk of the Editor

It is NO secret that I think that most of Congress is a bunch of lying cowards….for one the “pro-life” tag…….these cretins are no more pro life than I am a Mother Superior and they are COWARDS because of the latest Gaza War…..they all have an opinion based on nothing more than hand picked info for their little pressers…….if they want to have an opinion then try going on a fact finding mission to the region….I am not talking about the vacations they usually have…..but a real fact finding mission.

The blind OBEDIENCE to Israel is a sure sign of COWARDICE.  Not one of them has any first hand knowledge all they have is a big mouth,  and as I have witnessed over the years,  a sure sign of cowardice……these people, if I may use that extremely subjective term, operate on all levels without first hand knowledge.

Then we have the morons that like to cite historical references….like the cowardly moron, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IN)…,..he recently made a complete ass of himself and showe just how ignorant these people are………

“Hamas is like Nazis,” Kirk told Fox 32 after speaking at a pro-Israel rally in Chicago. “The more Nazis you got, the more Hamas you get, the more death you get.

“The only way to secure peace in the Middle East is to wipe out those who would bring terror to the Middle East,” Kirk added.

Kirk, a friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, estimated fighting in Gaza could last a couple more months. The Associated Press has reported that 1,000 Palestinians, 53 Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians have been killed in the fighting so far.

First of all, good work as an leader of the free world……he is an idiot!  And then there is the Nazi analogy……is he referring to the group that made war on a people without a standing army, or maybe he is referring to the placing of people in Ghettos or camps…..is it possible that this bozo has NO idea what being a Nazi means?………would that be what he is talking about?  If so, then this coward has shown that he has zero knowledge of history…..and just posturing for the cameras.
Congress then did what cowards do…….duck and run…….after all there is an election in a couple of months and cash will be needed……….as reported by Jason Ditz for AntiWar.com…….
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip aren’t sitting well with Israeli hawks, and by extension that means they aren’t sitting well with the US Congress.
That’s got Congressional officials up in arms, pushing President Obama to stop trying to negotiate a ceasefire in the conflict, and instead to endorse Israel’s war unconditionally, and irrespective of how bad it gets.
All this just illustrates that Congress is cowardly and not capable of standing up for anything that they are not told to………I do despise a COWARD and Washington seems to be full of them.  They disregard any info that does not fit in the narrative that their handlers want…….NOTHING more disgusting than a spineless politician!

Just Another Self-Centered Pr*ck!

From the VOMITORIUM

Okay readers, let us have a small test this day……who said when he announced his retirement from the US Congress?

“too much partisanship and not enough progress” in Congress, and said his decision was motivated by a belief that he could “best contribute to society in another way: creating jobs by helping grow a business, helping guide an institution of higher learning, or helping run a worthy charitable endeavor.”

(Pause here for a moment of thought)………and now…..(a moment for rib splitting laughter)……

Sounds pretty much like every one of the self centered little pricks when they decide not to run again….it is either the above pile of bovine fecal matter or some lame crap about spending more time with their family…..but in this case it was uttered by an ever popular Senator from Indiana, Evan Bayh…..he was a darling of the right wing of the Democratic Party…….in reality he was a coward because he did NOT think he could win re-election because of the toxic atmosphere in the political winds of 2010…..but after that he is a man of the people after all and will do good things for the country from the outside of the political arena…..so what has the golden boy been up to since he tucked his tail and ran?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has hired former Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) to participate in a regulatory reform “road show” of speeches, events and media appearances, according to a memo obtained by iWatch News.

“The Chamber’s communications professionals, working closely with our federation and government affairs teams, have done an excellent job educating the public and policymakers about the regulatory overload the nation currently faces, its damaging impact on our economy and jobs, and the urgent need for change,” President Thomas Donohue wrote in a June 2 memo to the Chamber’s board of directors, supporters and friends. “I’m pleased to report that the Chamber has recently enlisted former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card and former Senator Evan Bayh who will carry a bipartisan message on regulatory reform out around the country.”

The Chamber is a group that has spent millions trying to get Repubs elected to office and fights hard against any type of regulation and fairness……

So the Chamber has hired Bayh, among others, to fight for the right of corporations to do as they wish without accountability?  Bayh is NO different than the other congressional scum that sells out everything for the promise of cash…….none of this surprises me….I said at the time of his announcement that he was running from the Senator because he could not get re-elected because it has always been about him and not about what is best for the country…….and that he was a typical American politician…..self-centered.

P.S.  While I was writing this I saw a tweet……

ReverendMannyReverend Manny

by Valerie0714
evan bayh just became a lobbyist for the chamber of commerce… if you’re surprised, you’re either a moron or lying……….

Budget Deficit: Hard Choices

Inkwell Institute

Budget Deficit Series #2

Daily Agitation

Enough is enough!

To begin with, let us establish one thing…..REALITY BITES!

We all have been bored to death the the endless he said, they say on the deficit…..accusations fly like mosquitoes in summer…..but so far absolutely NO one has a good idea for lessening the impact of the budget deficit…I mean anyone can find fault with an other’s opinion or statement….but it takes a large statesman to stand up and offer “real” solutions to the rise in the deficit…after all we pay the SOBs in Washington to solve problems not hide from them…..since they will not do it…I WILL!

Instead of chopping the crap out of social services and entitlements….why not grow some cajones and do what is needed……it is safe to do nothing or as little as possible….but none of that actually helps the country or the deficit in any way

Everyone in Washington (the demented little toads that they are) is scared to death to make a hard choice proposal….how ill it look back home to my voters?  Meanwhile the rest of the country starves to death….good choice dipstick……Nothing more despicable than a liar and a coward….and Washington is full of them….I am not afraid to ridicule and I definitely not worried about votes….so I guess I have nothing to lose…..Unfortunately, the American people are just as guilty as the douche bags in Washington….they want solutions to the deficit but only if it does not effect them directly……does not matter which side of the aisle we talk about they are all the same….. the wealthy want to whack the entitlements for the poor….the poor want to stick it to the rich….and then NOTHING substantial happens to lessen the deficit and any solutions always has a 5 or 10 year life span…. I ask, “you want to kill the deficit?”  Then follow me…..

To me the choices are simple……and yes someone is going to be pissed off at these proposals….but the best I can say is, “Get over yourself”……

The first place I would start is by ending all wars that are sucking our country dry….this is a difficult one because with all those returning troops the unemployment will go through the ceiling…..but I would end it all NOW!

Second, I would eliminate the ceiling on FICA…as it is now if you make above a certain amount, then you do not pay your Social Security, Medicare, etc taxes….eliminate that exemption and SS would become more secure and it would eliminate all that worthless chatter and lessen the deficit….

Third, Put into place a value added tax (VAT)…..Huh?

VAT is seen as neutral with respect to the number of passages that there are between the producer and the final consumer whereas sales tax is levied on total value at each stage (though in the U.S. and many other countries, sales tax is charged only at the point of final sale to the final consumer, and a use tax only to the final user; there are no sales taxes paid at wholesale or production level). The result is a cascade (downstream taxes levied on upstream taxes). A VAT is an indirect tax, in that the tax is collected from someone who does not bear the entire cost of the tax.

Fourth, eliminate the tax deduction stuff……put into place a flat 10% income tax….no deductions….no exemptions…..EVERYONE pays the same percentage….

Finally, I would suggest considering the sacred cow, the cash cow….defense spending…I mean something is wrong when a toilet seat costs $60…..

None of the proposals are rocket science…….

Everyone says they are so concerned with the deficit and the future of the kids…if that is true demand something be done….other than the day care mentality of the arguments our politicians are having now……if you are not willing to make the  HARD CHOICES…then stop whining and let sh*t happen!

Rats Abandon A Sinking Ship

This is just amazing……daily there are reports of political rats leaving the ship of government…..call it retirement if you would like….but the real word is COWARDICE…

Why cowardice?  These people are running scared for their political future and want to leave at their own choice not that of the voters….these people are NOT into politics for the betterment of the country but rather their own egos…..

The sinking ship that I refer to is that of government……the vehicle is not doing well…..these pathetic souls are more worried about how it will look if they are defeated than the enrichment of the American people…egos…superficial pr*cks…..

Look at Kennedy of RI or Lincoln of Arkansas or Dodd of Conn or Dorgan of SD or Bayh of Ind and on and on……in the House alone so far 14 GOP are not running and 10 Dems….

They are leaving the ship of government for all the same reasons…..(pause of effect)…..that ship is a rudderless vehicle that has NO direct with the exception of driving it onto the rocks…..the system NO longer works…it is a dysfunctional system that has NO chance of righting itself ……the system that the Founders were so proud of is a complete bust…..just look at the workings of the legislative branch….NOTHING is getting done while the country suffers…..

Yes these guys and gals will be replaced….but with what?…will it be a new batch of nare-do-wells or will we finally get people that are interested in the plight of the country……my guess would be that the replacements will be No better than those they replace…..NOTHING will change until the people actually care about the country and stop worrying about their petty little issues…..The country is dying of a slow cancer…..a cancer of indifference…..

The Cowardly Democrat

I have pitched a bitch every time a Democrat has left the principles that put them in Washington to follow a safe and re-electable line……if they are going to claim to be a liberal then by God act like one…..and stop acting like some little twit that will do or say anything that will not offend anyone……

My newest target is the Senate majority Harry Reid of Nevada….it appears the newest coward along the yellow brick road of politics is Sen. reid and his new plan for the government…

The top Senate Democrat wants to make it more difficult to run up the deficit with new tax cuts or expansions of federal benefit programs.

Majority Leader Harry Reid’s plan would make it difficult to again extend emergency unemployment benefits or health insurance subsides for laid off workers. It would also make it harder to render new assistance for state Medicaid payments.

The Nevada Democrat is pressing the plan to get legislation passed permitting the government to continue to borrow money to finance its operations. Under the pay-as-you-go concept, program cuts or revenue increases would be needed to cover the cost of any new policies or programs. If not, across-the-board spending cuts would kick in.

Now where do you think all this cutting will come from?  Defense spending?  Ha Ha not a chance!  New fees on banks?  That would be something….but an unrealistic action to consider……No the cuts to cover the Wall Street gamblers will come from you and the programs that benefit you and your families…..

Do NOT make the mistake of thinking that this is a benefit to the people…it is NOT!  It is basically an end run on the people….and the ball is the deficit…..Where in Reid’s proposal is there any hint of him being a Democrat?

Open Letter To Congress #2

As anyone who visits Info Ink will testify that I am an opinionated SOB and have NO problem tell it like it is, or at least as it looks to me….this will be the second open letter that I will have sent to Congress…it is just my small attempt to let the guys and gals in Washington know how frustrated most Americans are at this point in time…..I am an equal opportunity trasher…it will go to Dems as well as Repubs….for both are equally as guilty as the other for the situation we Americans are facing…..

To The “Honorable” Members Of Congress:

We, the people, have been subjected to a political theater of the absurd and it is beyond time for this turkey to give a final curtain call.  Dear Members you are NOT acting in the best interest of the country and its people.  You are not acting as the good faith representatives that you were elected to be…..you were elected to serve the country, I repeat, serve the country not to play political games.

With each new issue the rhetoric and the antics and theatrics become more and more absurd….it is beyond time for you people to start behaving like the statesmen that you pretend to be.

End the emotional detachment from the plight of the American people; you are making the institution of government a un-amusing joke……Apparently the people and the Constitution mean NOTHING to you clowns except when they can serve a purpose in your silly little game.  The whole process that you people engage in has become disgusting and your attitude even more disgusting.  The very idea that you people would rather play  party politics than trying to find real answers to America’s problems is in itself a disgust idea.

The Congress was elected by the people in good faith and in return all we get is pathetic political games…..almost to the person, you told the voters that you would go to Washington and make it a place where the people would make a difference….so far that is a total lie and the games are the games of cowards not statesmen.

Americans are losing homes…….going hungry……losing jobs……dying for lack of health care…..losing retirement funds and the best you people can do is argue over the words in a bill or make up some vague concept that has NO foot in reality…..that is what cowards do when they have NO idea on what to do.  Lobbyists money is WELL sspent!

Have you experienced what the people have to experience everyday?  Have you lost your home?  Do you go to bed hungry?  Do your kids?  Do you have to choose between food or rent?  NO!  Then how can you possibly know what Americans are going through?

I am not choosing one party over the other……I am calling ALL OF YOU….COWARDS!  This silly theatrics has been going on for decades…..a theater of the absurd and all of you deserve the best actor award for your part in the play……maybe your approval rating among the people would be better than 23% if you actually did something other than play this game…..the truly sad part of this whole play is that the American people will be duped time and time again and return you people to Washington on the lies you feed them every re-election campaign……

If the participants in our government cannot act in the best interests of the people….maybe we as voters should rethink renewing your contract with us….for as it stands now you people are nothing but a waste of time and money…..and you have had enough time to waste both those precious resources……I can only pray that I meet you in the unemployment line….wait!….that cannot be……why?….most of your are already millionaires thanks to the American people…..so yet another hope gets drowned in the toilet of government…..thank you for absolutely NOTHING!

Should We Tweak Or Reform?

My post was originally posted on Progressive Independence, which is a good sight and all should visit and get involved…..just go to blogroll and enjoy.

Health Care….this one subject is at the heart of the country right now…..72% of the American people want reform and about none of the politicians seem to want reform…now they are playing the cowards game of tweaking the system so that it will play well in Congress.

$3.66 trillion budget deficit…..or is it a $2 trillion….or $1.2 trillion…just what is the deficit and when does it get out of control?  Or do you really care?  I mean your elected officials are telling the country that you care….but do do you?

Our country is in serious straits noe…health care needs fining…..Wall Street needs to be bitch slapped…..the environment needs fixing….lots of problems need fixing…..why?…they ALL have been ignored for decades and now it is come calling.

If you are old enough…think back to the ’70’s there were a wealth of plans to help make the US energy independent….but they were not popular with the new administrations so the problem was tweaked, if anything was done at all.  The in the 90’s health care was important and instead of refom and fixing the problem…all settled for a tweaking and the problem got worse….which seems to be a common thread to ALL Washington’s past tweakings.

Politician’s always settle for a tweaking instead of a real solution to pressing problems.  Why?  A wealth of reasons….keeping contributors happy….looking to re-election…..there is a number of reasons….and NONE of them actually helps the people they represent.  And unfortunately, all the tweaking has cost more money in the “much mentioned” long run than it would have if they had had the guts to pass real reform.

Basically all the BS about the deficit is a smoke screen to cover the cowardice of the elected representatives.  Yes, I said cowardice!  Tweaking is a coward’s way out.

If the American people truly want reform then they need to find politicians with guts and brains….two qualities that are sadly missing in the flock of cowards we now have in Washington.

I Hate A Coward!

Daily Agitation

I state it again…”I HATE A COWARD!”

But where are the cowards you ask?  That is really simple….

The “Birther” people are cowards…why?  They have locked onto something that has no relevancy whatsoever…..they are hiding behind some made up BS to hide the fact that they are RACISTS.  They are cowards because they hide behind something trivial, instead of being a man/woman and admit that they are nothing but racists.

More cowards….Blue Dog Dems…they hide behind some made up BS to oppose health care on the premise that it is too expensive…but these same “people” and I use the term loosely, are the ones that helped authorize cash for two wars without much opposition…so I guess it is somehow okay with them to send Americans to die but not help them live longer and healthier.  Their opposition has made the coalition a bunch of money..go figure.

The media is a coward because they allow such BS as funerals, arguments and car crashes and moronic politicians that have the IQ of a turnip to dominate national news.  It is easier than reporting on war deaths or deaths because of no health care or energy that is killing Americans….on and on…..we have more serious problems than what goes for major news stories.  The media is a coward…plain and simple.

There are more cowards…..governors who run and win office, that is a contract with the people of the state, and then resign to pursue a personal agenda….that is cowardice.

The there is a party of cowards, at least in a leadership position, that does nothing but attack and attack all issue proposals and offer the people nothing as an alternate…that is a coward….a mental midget of a coward.  They become a party of NO…no alternatives, no positions, no policy…..a party of NO… . .That is a coward’s way of governing.