A Couple of ‘toons that came to me via Twitter……
Day: April 7, 2015
Who Are Those Masked Men/Women?
Every presidential election I try to let my readers know that there is a wealth of candidates…..not just the favorites of the media…….and so far there are some really great candidates….I mean other than the usual suspects……like Cruz, Perry, Paul, et al………
Rebecca Cohen from Mother Jones has done some of the work for me…….I list the candidates in full…..just could not resist…….
Harley BrownHarley Brown, badass biker (Republican): “I’ve got a master’s degree in raising hell,” Brown thundered during last year’s Idaho Republican gubernatorial debate, where he dressed in black leather and proclaimed himself “the proverbial turd in the punch bowl.” He also confided that he’d gotten the presidential seal tattooed on his shoulder after God told him he was destined to hold the nation’s highest office. He already has a reality TV crew following his campaign.
President Princess Khadijah M. Jacob-Fambro, rap enthusiast (Revolutionary Party): Yep, that’s the title and name on the San Francisco resident’s candidacy form, which doubles as a proposal to Lil Wayne. “FROM ONE ALIEN TO ANOTHER ALIEN. ‘LIL WAYNE’… WILL YOU MARRY ME? I AM GOD!!! :),” Jacob-Fambro writes in the section for designating her campaign committee. In case you couldn’t tell from the all caps, she’s a particularly enthusiastic candidate—she filed to run on October 31, 2012, before the last election cycle had even ended.
David Jon SponheimDavid Jon Sponheim, bitter UCLA alum (America’s Third Party): Sponheim’s platform includes some rather, er, ambitious engineering projects, like building a seawater pipeline to irrigate Southern California and constructing a transcontinental levitating rail system. He matriculated at UCLA, which, he notes, “was not his first choice.” He blames affirmative action for his failure to get into a better school, and adds that the communist leanings of UCLA’s political science department turned him off completely from higher education, so he dropped out and went to work for an organic farm instead.
Josue Larose, super-PAC man (Republican): No candidate has generated as much paperwork for the Florida Division of Elections as Larose. Since 2009, the self-professed fat cat from Treasure Coast has created at least 60 super-PACs, including Billionaire Josue Larose’s Female Catholic Priests Committee, Billionaire Josue Larose’s Misses of Beauty Committee, and the Florida Intellectual Elites Political Committee. He’s also founded 41 political parties, including the America Bourgeoisie Political Party, whose bylaws require it to give Larose a limousine.
Terry JonesTerry Jones, french-fry slinging pastor and Islamophobe (unaffilated): This is the same Jones who made headlines a few years ago when he called for Americans to burn copies of the Quran on September 11. So it’s no surprise that his campaign site asks for donations “as we take a stand against the rise of radical Islam and the spread of sharia here in America!” As of January, he was running a french fry stand at a mall.
Joshua David Usera, ninja (independent): Rapid City, South Dakota, might not strike you as a base of operations for feudal Japanese secret agents. But it’s home to Usera, a mixed martial arts fighter and the author of UR My Destiny… A True ‘Ninja’s’ Story. “I’m not good at anything other than martial arts,” the candidate, who is running as an independent, admitted on an interview podcast. “If you want to succeed in anything similar to martial arts, come to me.”
Michael SteinbergMichael Steinberg, lawyer/naughty bagel purveyor (Democrat): Oppo researchers looking for dirt on Steinberg, a Democratic disability lawyer from Florida, need look no father than his website, which describes the most notable skeleton in his closet: “About 20 years ago I, along with some friends, thought it would be funny to open a bagel store where the waitresses would wear lingerie outfits.” But he seems to have learned his lesson. “Needless to say,” he writes, “that wasn’t such a great idea.”
What is an election without a little humor? I heard one pundit say that there would be as many candidates this time as voters……..
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Rand: Paul Not Ayn
Breaking News! Christie Brinkley has a black eye (still do not know why this is news and besides…..who gives a f*ck?)
The GOP announcements for candidacy are starting to roll in….First there was Ted Cruz, then Rick Perry (not official just yet) and now we have three GOP candidates for the nomination with Rand Paul’s announcement……
Rand Paul will join Ted Cruz in the quest for the Republican nomination today, and he’s armed with a slogan that Politico describes as one “designed to evoke populist, anti-establishment themes”: “Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.” But despite the attempts to drum up excitement around his bid, Politico notes today’s announcement “will prove one of the most anticlimactic presidential announcements of modern times,” reporting that Paul’s campaign for the White House began in earnest four years ago. “Within the first year of the Senate term, he really started to focus on it,” a former aide tell Politico, which charts his path in a lengthy piece. It has him revealing his presidential plans to his “brain trust”, a 10-strong group, just days after Mitt Romney’s own imploded.
From there he set out to woo more than the base nurtured by father Ron Paul while still touting his own uniqueness. Politico zeroes in on this moment as key in his effort to do so: His 13-hour filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director in May 2013, during which he argued against the use of drones to attack Americans. Moving forward, his advisers say Paul will focus on a flat tax, IRS reform, term limits, privacy, and justice reform, and market himself as a “libertarian-minded conservative.” After revealing his plan to take the White House at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Ky., today—the first of five stops on a so-called announcement tour—Paul will make appearances in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa, and Nevada this week and host a Facebook town hall meeting.
There you have all the info you need for today…..there are 3 candidates from the GOP that are wanting to run for the presidency…..a loudmouth ego-centric prick, an accused felon and now an isolationist……..so far the isolationist has the best chance of actually landing the nomination……the other two will always be the “also rans”……..but first someone explain to me what the American Dream is, please? A cute little slogan but that is about all it is…..cute.
The one thing that Paul has going for him is he will force the GOP slugs to actually have a debate on foreign policy……….
Unlike the rest of the likely GOP presidential field, Paul is a die-hard true believer in scaling down America’s involvement in conflicts around the world. That pits him against the mainstream, hawks in the Republican party whose ideas are sure to dominate the campaign. By running for president, Paul hopes to inject his ideas into the debate and shift priorities his party’s held for decades.
Paul’s presence alone is a threat to people in the party establishment. The party’s most hawkish voices, fearing exactly this, are mobilizing in force to stop Paul — lobbying internally and even potentially running candidates whose sole purpose would be challenging Paul on foreign policy.
The coming campaign, then, is a major test of where the Republican Party view of foreign policy is heading.
With the entrance of Rand Paul the campaigns are starting to tightening up…….will he or won’t he be the man of the hour in November?
Free Association: America’s Foreign-Policy Makers Endanger Us
The previous article attempted to explain how the US became the police man of the world…..this article attempts to explain just how our foreign policy mavens are possibly making things worse on the world stage…..
Free Association: America’s Foreign-Policy Makers Endanger Us.
When D/Bags Talk It Is Too Good To Ignore
Ever read an article that was too good to pass up or to try and ignore?
All the Right Wing clap-trap about same sex marriage has gone over the top many times……but the best one I read yesterday and just had to pass it on………..
Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera appeared on recent episode of “America’s Survival,” where he and co-host Jerry Kenney made their case against homosexuality by likening it to rape, eating feces, eating children, murder, incest, and drinking poison.
After Kenney boldly declared that “I don’t believe in gay people” on the grounds that nobody can prove to him “scientifically” that there is any genetic cause of homosexuality, he asserted that claiming that gay people are just “born that way” is like saying that a rapist ought to be free to rape because he was “just born a rapist.”
Kenney then went on to say that there is nothing “natural” about homosexuality because whenever it occurs in nature “it doesn’t occur for very long.” This led him to assert that homosexuality can’t be genetic because, if it was, “it [would] have died with the very first person that had the gene mutation.”
Even if one does accept the claim that homosexuality is natural, Kenney continued, that still doesn’t justify it because “there are a lot of things that are natural that aren’t necessarily good.”
“In nature, animals rape one another,” he said. “So should rape be okay? Some animals eat their own waste, is that okay? Animals eat their young. Is our new standard now, in this society that we’ve brought down and as long as we’re at the animal level then it’s okay?”
“Wouldn’t murder be natural?” asked LaBarbera. “Wouldn’t incest be natural?”
“Poison is natural,” responded Kenney. “Let’s all drink a cup of poison”:
Do these people ever listen to what they say…..or maybe listen to that small voice in their head that tells them to just keep quiet?
How America Became the World’s Policeman: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
Yesterday’s attempt to have people look into the world of economics was a total bust……so today I will return to what I know best…..international relations…..
When I was active with lecturing I seem to always get the same question…….how did America become the police man of the world? And since starting a blog the question persists……it is an excellent question……with as many answers.
I was researching the other day and came across this article…….it is pretty good and can help answer the gnawing question…….
How America Became the World’s Policeman: Newsroom: The Independent Institute.