Month: January 2011

2011 GOP S.O.T.U. Response

The president listed his agenda in his speech and as always the opposition has to have their couple of minutes in the limelight, god forbid that we have only one speech and let it go, but NO we have to have the opposition whine and this year you will have a Tea Party whiner…..Bachmann, the Queen of the silver dollar……oh sorry…I mean Tea Party….

This year the GOP picked their fair hair, buff out math whiz to dazzle us with his knowledge of questionable accounting…one Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)….and of course, I must say what I thought of his speech……

Radical BS……math that would confuse Einstein……NO specifics……and the same song they always sing….cut entitlements, spending and anything that will effect the middle class…….

This was all so much crap…political crap……will go NOWHERE!

I will be generous to Rep. Ryan……..my critique of his opposition response speech………YAWN!

Same crap different shoveler….

2011 State Of The Union

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I was up most of the evening trying to find something to say about Obama’s recent State of the Union….I watched…I chuckled and I wanted to puke…..but enough about me….after many hours of thinking about the speech and about 2 in the morning I had an epiphany……NOTHING NEW!

Same song…..same dance….different president…….I could leave it there but for those who do not normally pay attention to the ramblings of a president….let me elaborate……

He wants the US to be innovative, competitive and creative…….he would emphasize education….he would decrease the deficit…..he would like a innovated infrastructure….he wants investment in the future……he would champion bi-partisanship….he wants a reformation of government……he also threw in the obligatory mention of the troops and their families…..But WAIT!  There was something a bit new….a mention of a spending freeze…..but how does spending cuts lead to investment?

All in all a good speech but most of Obama’s speeches are good speeches…..(wait for it)…….But (and there it is)……he said all the things that Americans want to hear……and he said NOTHING that past presidents from Nixon to Obama have not said at almost every state of the union especially the education thing….always gets lots of lip service and goes NOWHERE…if we had spent the money that the presidents had promised in the last forty years, we would be unstoppable globally…..we are NOT!  Another major thing is the deficit…..but if anyone thinks that you will get a grip on spending by cutting funds to NPR or any of the other smaller recipients of government funds….then one would be an idiot!  The major spending programs must be addressed…all of them or the only success that he will have had would be another good speech or idle words….like so many others before him……..

Recently a friend and I were talking about the state of the union speech and she asked if the president has to give the speech……..Not really!  The president is NOT required to give a speech bur…..the Constitution has the answer…….

according to Article 2, Section 3, is:

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

So NO….he is NOT required to give a speech only to inform the Congress an outline of his direction……(and that is the American History lesson for today)…….Or he could do what so many other presidents have done……send a letter to Congress outlining his proposals……this is what was done from Jefferson to Wilson, who made a speech which we Americans have come to expect……but the American people are like that schizoid woman who wants to hear ‘I love you’ before she has sex and then the promise dies and we go about our business until the next time we want a feel good moment…….and between the speeches we go about waiting for those promises to be fulfilled until we need another shot of verbal ejaculation to alter our feelings…….

All this is so much political theater…..even the BS of unity by these Reps sitting together in a show of civility….it is so much crap!  American were told what they wanted to hear….NEVER what they need to hear…..and the song goes on…..Promises said…promises broken….NOTHING new here!

THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME!

Bad Dog!

From the VOMITORIUM

Do you have a pet?  Does Fido or Fluffy sleep on the bed with you?  YOU ARE GONNA DIE!  well, not today but they have found some really strange stuff……

Sleeping alongside your pets can make you sick.

There’s plague (yes, bubonic plague, i.e. the Black Death); chagas disease, which can cause life-threatening heart and digestive system disorders; and cat-scratch disease, which can also come from being licked by infected cats.

Though many people love getting licked or planting a kiss on a pet, it may not be such a good idea, the authors say.

The researchers found several cases of various infections transmitted this way.

“The risk is rare, but when it occurs it can be very nasty, and especially in immuno-compromised people and the very young,” says Chomel, who specializes in zoonoses, the study of disease transmission between animals and humans.

To me I have but two words for these “scientists”…..BITE ME!

Will The South Rise Again?

Well, I am talking about the Dems in the South…..the last mid-term in 2010 pretty much crapped all over the conservative Blue Dog Dems……the last remaining parts of the old Dem Party of the South…..the world was lost to the Dems with the passage of the Civil rights Act 0f the 1960’s……and the Party has never rebounded from that situation……

There is an old bumper sticker that says…”The South Shall Rise Again”…..total crap but I think that the Dem Party has shot its wad in the South……never to return as a viable alternative to the GOP…..

A little history for those not in the know….from the Economist…….

AFTER President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly turned to his press secretary and lamented that Democrats “have lost the South for a generation.” Johnson’s judgment was optimistic. Despite brief flashes of strength during the presidential elections of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Democrats—particularly white Democrats—have been losing ground in the South for half a century.In the Congress that passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the eleven former Confederate states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia—had a total of 128 senators and representatives, of whom 115 were white Democrats (see chart). In 1981 Republicans took control of the Senate for the first time since 1953, but most Southern elected officials remained white Democrats. When Republicans took control of the House in 1995, white Democrats still comprised one-third of the South’s tally.

Some have argued that such conservatism dilutes the Democratic brand: that Democrats lost in November because voters knew what Republicans stood for but could not say the same of Democrats. Ari Berman, author of “Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics”, wrote in the New York Times that “Democrats would be in better shape and would accomplish more with a smaller and more ideologically cohesive caucus.” If by “accomplishing more” Mr Berman means “make liberals feel better”, he might be right; but if he means “pass more legislation”, he is wrong. Moderates and conservatives outnumber liberals in Congress, among congressional Democrats and among the electorate at large. Democrats built their 2006-10 majority by extending their reach into traditionally conservative districts. Abandoning those areas, many of them Southern, after the first mid-term election of a new president’s term—when the president’s party tends to lose seats anyway—would probably be a blunder.

The black population in the South will stay loyal to the Dems….unfortunately they do not vote heavily, as a rule…..but the whites will now be totally behind the GOP and its conserv platform….even though the Dems offer more in the way of services to all Southerns….they will continually vote against their own best interests……not the sharpest pencils in the political box…..

I mean come on!  There are still Southerns trying to sell the Civil War as a matter of state’s rights and not slavery…..you can try to sell that piece of mis-information for so long…..why?  History contradicts that argument……

However, the Declaration of the Immediate Causes for Secession, an official document that was published alongside South Carolina’s declaration of independence, mentions slavery 31 times and cites the election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, “whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery,” as one of the main reasons for secession.Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/SOUTH+rises+again/4028880/story.html#ixzz19bdj6AjW 

The Dems have been losing in the South for decades….but this last election may have finished it off with a fatal shot to the head…..

Anal Regressives

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Subject:  Political Parties/Political Theory

I am sure that you have heard the term “anal retentive”…..But Regressive?  A tendency to return or revert or characterized by regression or the tendency to regress….we can use this definition for many things, but since it is me writing it will be about politics and such…..

First, a little personal history…..For years I have been trying to make sense of our political system…..for to me it makes little sense if you judge a system but its successes…..so far the only truly successful thing that has happened recently is ….WAR!  Health care is a simmering disaster, education is a boil on our society and the environment….that is a societal heart attack waiting to happen…….and then there is our political system….(pause here for raucous laughter)……..we have had a push-pull system forever, but in the last decade or so it is regressing back to the middle ages…..we have conserv Dems and we have liberal Repubs…..but why?  Should not not be if you are liberal then you are a liberal?  Or the same for conservative…..

Here’s an idea. America needs to have a neomodernist party to oppose the reigning primitivists of the right, left and center. Let everyone who opposes abortion, wants to ban GM foods and nuclear energy, hates cars and trucks and planes and loves trains and trolleys, seeks to ban suburbia, despises consumerism, and/or thinks Darwin was a fraud join the Regressive Party. Those of us who believe that the real, if exaggerated, dangers of technology, big government, big business and big labor are outweighed by their benefits can join the Modernist Party. While the Regressives secede from reality and try to build their premodern utopias on their reservations, the Modernists can resume the work of building a secular, technological, prosperous, and relatively egalitarian civilization, after a half-century detour into a Dark Age.

Read the whole article…..salon.com/news/politics/….

A couple of pretty good ideas….The two party system we have now is antiquated and not working worth a damn……with a change we would have all the anal regressives in one place and all the modernists in another….maybe then a little successful legislature would be the norm instead of the exception…..

There has got to be a solution for the inaction of our governing body……why not try a different approach than the one we have now?

Italy Has A Ben Franklin

We have all heard the stories of the sex prowess of one of our Founding Fathers…..one Benjamin Franklin….some a true but most or myths that have sprung up around the enigmatic individual…..stories like his propensity to seek out women….his air baths in front of an open window in the nude……his being thrown out of the France court because he could not leave the ladies be and conduct the business he was sent there to do……like I said stories…most of which are myths or are they?

Enough about Ben…..across the pond there is another person that is giving Ben a run for his money….only this time they are not so mythic but rather more like reality……his name?  Berlusconi the head dude of Italy….he is NO stranger to accusations of sexual impropriety, but this time he may have been better off leaving his “johnson” where it belonged…in his pants……

Silvio Berlusconi‘s political career is once again in jeopardy after prosecutors today accused him of paying a “significant” number of women to have sex with him at parties he hosted last year.

Investigators also claim to have “ample investigative evidence” that Berlusconi provided flats for the women in return for sex at a Milan housing complex he built in the 1970s before entering politics.

He is already under investigation on suspicion of paying for sex with one of his guests, Karima el-Mahroug, a Moroccan belly dancer known as Ruby Rubacuori, when she was 17 – an offence under Italian law. He is also suspected of pressuring police into freeing her from custody after she was arrested on suspicion of theft last May.

Topless women dressed in nurse and police costumes stripped for the prime minister and his friends in his palatial residence outside Milan, which was described by one participant as “a whorehouse”, according to phone calls intercepted by investigators.

You have to give him his props……at 74 he is doing a lot better than I am….I guess it is true…..money talks and bullshit walks…….but you cannot buy love……that is true….but you can rent enough to keep you smiling for a long time……and Berlusconi has GOT to be smiling his ass off!

A Ranting I Will Go #1

It is Sunday and as usual I tried to find something that is not involved with politics to do a post on and I found a doosey……….

By now most us will know just how groundbreaking MTV has been in the past…the first vid channel….first vid award….the first …..well you get the picture……but now they are first yet again…the first to go to child porn as entertainment…..(is that not something one goes to prison for?)

Their new show “Skins” is an instant hit….3.3 million viewers for the first show…..

That pressure is already beginning to mount. At least one advertiser, Taco Bell, announced it is pulling its commercials from future shows.

Taco Bell is not the only organization up in arms about the new show. The Parents Television Council called on the chairmen of the U.S. Senate and House Judiciary committees and the Department of Justice to open investigations about what the PTC alleges is child pornography on “Skins” involving actors as young as 15.

Among the concerns are the ages of some of the actors. Several “Skins” cast members are as young as 15 years old. Their roles in upcoming episodes, which include nudity, have prompted some to wonder whether MTV is doing a delicate dance around child pornography issues.

There is a huge back lash against the show…..

Viacom executives have ordered producers to either make changes or tone down the most explicit content, the New York Times reports.

Meetings on the show were held Tuesday, and executives wondered if they could face criminal prosecution and jail time if the episodes were broadcast without changes, the Times reports.

They are nervous about the third episode of the series, in which 17-year-old actor Jesse Carere is shown running down these street naked from behind. The plot centers around his erection, aided by erectile dysfunction pills. It’s slated to air Jan. 31.

I understand the concern and the outrage……child porn is a problem in this country as well as the rest of the world….but should not someone feel obliged to ask the question….where are the parents of these children?

Come on…you can piss and moan about the content of the show…..but why would parents allow their children to be portrayed as sex addicts and drug addicts?  Should not the focus should be on the parents?  These are minors!  And if I go to jail for offering a drink to a minor, should not these parents be held to some sort of accountability?

I realize the money may be good, but this smacks of pimping your kids out to perverts….

Abortion—Bad!

From the VOMITORIUM

For six months or more the GOP was on a rile against the Dems focusing on Health care while millions were unemployed….and to show their disgust the election battle plan was to focus the rhetoric on the lack of job creation…….it was a great campaign plan….it worked and the GOP won an overwhelming majority in the House……..now we can get back to work as a country, right?

Well, the mental midgets that elected this huge majority can be happy now……you were promised that the GOP would focus on job creation……and instead for the first month or so of their new administration and what have they focused on…..HEALTH CARE!  Sound familiar?

They succeeded in the House on calling for the repeal of the health care act, but it will go NO where in the Senate……they had their first success as the new majority and their next big push will be jobs right?  Well, not exactly……according to Newser.com….

House Republicans unveiled their next major legislative push yesterday: the No Tax-Payer Funding for Abortion Act, which, as its name implies, would ban federal funding of abortion. It would essentially make permanent the Hyde Amendment, which does the same thing but must be renewed each year. They introduced that legislation alongside the Protect Act, which would specifically ban abortion funding under the health care reform law. Independent fact checkers have said that the health care reform law won’t allow for abortion funding, Politico points out, but Republicans insist that the wording is too vague. Abortion legislation has a habit of dying in committee, but this time it’s getting a major push from leadership. John Boehner designated it HR3 “which speaks volumes about priorities,” says the bill’s main sponsor, Chris Smith. “This leadership … believes in this. This is not about political expediency.”

Are you so called independents happy with the vote that you flushed down the toilet?  So far jobs seem to be the furtherest thing from the minds of the GOP…..tell me when would those jobs issue come up?  Apparently putting Americans back to work is NOT as important as you were lead to believe….ya think!

More Revisionist History

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Subject:  History

We here in the US know all too well the diatribes by Glenn Beck….his continuing disrespect of the president, his far fetched comparisons, his chalk board and his weeping…(is there a Weepers Anonymous?  If  so, I have at least two candidates for the program)….to me he is a scary individual….but recently he became more scary….he proposes writing a history book to set all the misinformation straight…….here are a few of his “historical” facts…..

6,000 BC: God creates entire planet just for America.

27 BC: Caesar Augustus becomes first person to employ the Obama Doctrine.

1 AD: First Founding Father born.

c.1790: America achieves racial harmony.

1912: President Woodrow Wilson single-handedly proposes, passes, and ratifies 17th Amendment.

August 2, 1923 – October 28, 1929: American economy completely healthy.April 12, 1945: America catches a lucky break with death of President Roosevelt.

1968: Four British social activists release two-part treatise on progressive plot to overthrow society, commonly known as The White Album.

Just a bit of the revisionism that Beck wants to bring to the people and probably will become a best selling author, again, and the mental deficits will believe his slant on history……there is so much more go to site and see where he is going with his “history” lesson………mediamatters.org/blog/201010190…..

The sad part is that there are people today who will buy into his brand of revisionism and will most likely gain more converts if this book is actually written……

A Revisionist View Of History

Since I am old….I can remember back in the days of the old USSR and their views on history……they were called “revisionists” because their views were NOT completely accurate or truthful…..and we know how bad those dang commies were and how they wanted to change the world….right?

Well, it seems that those bad guys from yester-year are not the only ones that want a “revisionists” form of history……this from the Newser website………

Tennessee Tea Party activists met with lawmakers yesterday to demand the state make a number of changes—including “educating students the truth about America.” What does that grammatically suspect phrase mean? It means that they want textbooks to stop criticizing the founding fathers for their treatment of Native Americans and slaves. “No portrayal of minority experience which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers,” the activists wrote in material distributed to the Commercial Appeal. There’s been “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another,” the group’s spokesman said in a news conference, and the group thinks texts should focus on the positive strides the founders made. “It was their progress that we need to look at.” The group is also asking the state to “reject” the federal health care law, and allow the people to elect either the state attorney general or an independent “chief litigator.”

It appears that Teabaggers want to use a tried a true version of history……we rational people call it…..LIES!  And if one looks carefully at most political history textbooks the founding fathers are depicted as capable of walking on water and in at least one case….walking on water and turning bread into fishes…..most of the textbooks already give a revisionist view of the founders and now the Teabaggers want to make it even more so……if they lie along enough then the real history will be lost….they want to turn these men into some sort of god that cannot be questioned…that type of thinking and desire is for FOOLS!