Day: October 31, 2017

Closing Thought–31Oct17

Trick Or Treat!

Tonight the streets will be filled with ghosts, goblins, witches, and other assorted beasties all in search of goodies that their parents will hate.

Halloween on of a child’s favorite days…they get to be a superhero, a princess, an angel, a devil, etc.    with all this fun does anyone know where it all began?

History Lesson ion the way…..

The origins of the festival
Hallowe’en seems to have grown around the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain, marking the end of the light half of the year and the beginning of the dark half.

Samhain was in part a sort of harvest festival, when the last crops were gathered in for the winter, and livestock killed and stored. But the pagan Celts also believed it was a time when the walls between our world and the next became thin and porous, allowing spirits to pass through.

The practice of wearing spooky costumes may have its roots in that belief: dressing u

Source: Hallowe’en: a history of All Hallows’ Eve, from Samhain to trick-or-treat – Telegraph

If you have children and will be out and about I hope they have a fruitful  and safe Halloween…..chuq

Boehner Unloads

Former House Speaker John Boehner has been silent since he left Congress thanx to the dickheads in the “Tea Party”……since his departure he has been pretty quiet but then along came new FOX News commentator, Jason Chavitz…..

Former House Speaker John Boehner called his former colleague Jason Chaffetz an “asshole” and “total phony” during a lengthy feature interview with Politico Magazine.

The profile, released on Sunday, promised an “unchained” Boehner in his most revealing and candid interview since retiring from Congress in 2015. While discussing Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) taking over the House Oversight Committee following Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s (R-Utah) June resignation from Congress, Boehner let loose.

In addition to calling Chaffetz a “total phony” who was more concerned with self-promotion than legislation, Boehner ripped Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the founding chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, calling him a “legislative terrorist.” Some Republicans wanted Jordan to take over the committee after Chaffetz’s resignation. Boehner added,

Source: John Boehner Rips ‘A**hole’ Jason Chaffetz In Scorching Interview | HuffPost

Let’s say Boehner pulled no punches and now we know what he thought of the idiots he served with in the House. All I can add in closing is….You Go Boy!

I was never a fan on Boehner when in office but I like his outspoken way and in so he has a new fan….ME!

USAFRICOM–WTF?

What the hell is going on in African Command?  They got 4 special ops troops killed with no air support and  with little knowledge of the bad guys in the region, Niger, to be exact…..and now more questionable deaths this time in Mali….and you will not believe who is involved……..

Nearly five months after a 34-year-old Army Green Beret was strangled to death in his embassy housing in the Malian capital of Bamako, military officials say investigators are looking into whether two members of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 are involved. Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar’s body was discovered June 4 in housing he shared with other Special Operations forces. And while no arrests have been made, the two SEALS were flown out of the country almost immediately afterward and put on administrative leave, the New York Times reports. The SEALs were originally classified as “witnesses,” but that designation was changed to “persons of interest.”

A military medical examiner has ruled the death to be a homicide, sources tell the newspaper. Originally the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command was investigating Melgar’s death, but on Sept. 25 the case was taken over by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which is not releasing details about the investigation or a possible motive. “NCIS does not discuss the details of ongoing investigations,” says a spokesman. The Army has yet to release a statement about the incident. Read the full Times story.

WTF?  Americans killing Americans….explain this one away.

There is something deeply wrong within USAFRICOM…………..time for Congress to pull their heads out of Trump’s ass and demand some accountability.

(Today will be light posting day….got a day full of doctors and such….hopefully will be back to full line up tomorrow….chuq)

It’s Tax Cuts Time Again!

Trump has been on a losing streak now for 9 months….he tells us all about his accomplishments in the last 9 months….oh good.,…what are they?

NO fucked up health care.  Close enough to a shooting war with N. Korea.  Pissed off most of our allies (which we will need when he succeeds in a shooting war).  Our State Department is run like Sesame Street.  He has fucked the environment for a generation.

And now after 30 years Trump gets to screw the Middle Class with this lame trickle down bullshit that has not worked since forever.

Ever noticed when you are gonna get screwed it is always to help the Middle Class?

Well sports fans as usual a good screwing is coming…..even The American Conservative sees it…why cannot you?

Can we define the middle class in practical terms? To be sure, there are probably as many sociological definitions of the middle class as there are commentators seeking definitions. So let’s set aside the socio-swamp of beliefs, values, and taxonomies of class in favor of a definition with measurable thresholds.

Many commentators attempt to define the middle class by income, and people tend to self-report that they belong to the middle class based on income. The self-evident way to define the middle class by income is to set aside the top 10 percent (households earning $145,000 or more) and those defined as poor by the U.S. Census Bureau (households making less than $25,000), roughly 25 percent of all households.

Source: Are You Really Middle Class? | The American Conservative

Nothing your president and Congress is about to do will do anything to change this downward slide.

But that’s okay….he, Trump, will finally have a win that he can thump his chest about and you can continue your drive to the poor house.

Ain’t American politics grand?