In case the debates are as boring as I think….maybe this game could help you and your friends pass the time until Duck Dynasty is on……..
In case the debates are as boring as I think….maybe this game could help you and your friends pass the time until Duck Dynasty is on……..
For my last post of the day I would like to say a few words about the GOP debate tonight featured on FOX News…….the first part of debate night will be the “kiddie table” debate of those poor souls that could not find a way to break into the top 10……sad that this debate will have more actual candidates than the “big dance” later………
My friends and I have been talking about the possible questions that will be asked by FOX……I say there will be Planned Parenthood, Iran nuke deal and a whole array of softball questions…..nothing of substance……since it i the GOP there never is any substance……
But what do others think about the questions that should be asked?
The first GOP primary debate is tonight and while the questions—just like the participants—will be chosen by Fox News, there are a lot of interesting suggestions out there for the 10 candidates to face.
- Thomas Friedman at the New York Times would ask this: “As part of a 1982 transportation bill, President Ronald Reagan agreed to boost the then 4-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax to 9 cents, saying, ‘When we first built our highways, we paid for them with a gas tax,’ adding, ‘It was a fair concept then, and it is today.’ Do you believe Reagan was right then, and would you agree to raise the gasoline tax by 5 cents a gallon today so we can pay for our highway bill, which is now stalled in Congress over funding?” If no candidate answered yes, Friedman would have another question: Why has the center-right in this country completely disappeared?
- The conservative Daily Caller has no fewer than 27 questions for the candidates: Seven general ones, including “Do you believe President Obama is a bad person, or just politically misguided?” and two for each candidate. One of its questions for Trump asks him to explain exactly what he got in return for making political donations to Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
- Katrina vanden Heuvel at the Washington Post also has a lot of questions, few of which are likely to be asked on Fox. Among them: “What’s the matter with Kansas?” “Republicans have argued for decades that lower taxes, less government spending, and less regulation would boost the economy,” she notes, but that’s not how things have worked out under Gov. Sam Brownback.
- The Dallas Morning News suggests seven questions, including: “Two Muslim gunmen were shot dead in Garland, Texas, illustrating the danger of radicalized Islam. How would your policies toward terrorism and the Islamic State differ from the Obama administration’s?”
- Twitter users have offered plenty of questions under the hashtag #DebateQuestionsWeWantToHear, including “Which of your relatives did worse as president?”
- Charles F. Pierce at Esquire has personalized, one-liner questions for each candidate. For Trump: “Dude, seriously?”
Do you have any ideas on the questions?
In case you would like something to do while the clowns perform……….
Time for some rest……and Down The Rabbit Hole!
There has been much written and much said about the drone program of assassination…….evidence shows that we have NO idea who we are killing with each strike.
For one terrorist a drone kills there are 10 civilians dying……somewhere that should not be acceptable………it is time to draw a line and either make the drone assassinations more accurate or abandon it until a safer method can be found……
Thanks to Reliance on “Signature” Drone Strikes, US Military Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing.
When the military training exercise entitled as Jade Helm 15 was first announced the Moronic Right wen batcrap crazy…..people like Alex Jones started telling their idiot followers that the US military was preparing for a military takeover…….even an elected official, the governor Texas ordered the National Guard to keep tabs on the exercise to head off any attempts at a junta.
What truly worried me was that many people that I considered rational played along with the nonsense and even tried to make sense of why the government would do this. DO what? The military is on a training exercise something they do all the time and have been doing for decades without any hint of a coup.
Maybe the people that were most concerned had just viewed the movie “7 Days In May” on TMC……..that could explain the irrationality……
I have been sarcastically digging at the people that took this thing seriously because I am an irritating SOB…….and I want them to feel as foolish as they are…….
But what about Jade Helm 15…….what has been happening….I mean other than some non-existent coup……..
We have one report on Jade Helm………
The documents alleged Walter Eugene Litteral, 50, Christopher James Barker, 42, and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30, stockpiled weapons and discussed how to build homemade explosive devices. Litteral also allegedly tried to purchase a firearm for Barker, who is a convicted felon.
A tipster first contacted the FBI in June after becoming concerned that Litteral and Campbell were “preparing to use lethal force against United States government forces in order to defend against the imposition of martial law or other infringements on their rights,” according to an affidavit. The affidavit noted that the two men had discussed their belief that “Jade Helm 15” was actually a cover for the implementation of martial law with the tipster.
Is that it? NOPE! My state of Mississippi has its share of morons (more than most states)……and someone had to pull the trigger…..
For the second time this week, a gunman opened fire at Camp Shelby, a military training center that is part of the “Jade Helm 15″ training exercises, according to the Associated Press.
A man matching the same description as Tuesday’s shooter, white and driving a red or maroon pickup truck, opened fire around 8 a.m. Wednesday, the Clarion-Ledger reports. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
On Tuesday, a gunman with the same description fired at two soldiers training at Camp Shelby. Two men were taken into custody and questioned, but were then released without charges, according to the paper.
Appears that Southern meth heads and crack smokers are more of a threat then some poor soldier on a training exercise…..
Looks like today is going to be my history lesson day…….
70 years ago this month the US became the first and only country to use a nuclear device in war……..the bomb dropped and over 100,000 people were dead in a matter of seconds…………
Is it now time for the world to remember this atrocity and work to eliminate ALL nuke weapons? That means US, China, Russia and ISRAEL…….et al.
Our Nuclear World at 70 | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.
Once again I will force feed a little history to my readers………..
When I lecture on the Middle East I always get the question…..what is the deal with Israel and the Palestinians?
I tell my audience that it is a loaded question…..that I could talk for hours and still not give them an accurate look at the situation……
Let us start with the beginning of the desire for a Zionist state……it is the late 1890’s……and Zionists and the Brits make a deal that will give the land of Palestine to the Jews……