From John McCain saying illegal immigrants started the Arizona/New Mexico wilfires (not a single shred of evidence to support the statement) to Scott Walker and the list of campaign payoffs currently exposed in this week's Shepard Express, the GOP looks more and more like the Party of the Psychotic.
John McCain may well be losing his mind.
Scott Walker never had a mind to lose. He's just a shell of a human being that grew up around his giant bald spot. Frankly, if you were hair, would you want to be caught dead on Scott Walker's head? I'd exit hurriedly, as well. No chance of any nourishment in that scalp.
My husband and I are working very hard to support the recalls of all the Republican senators here in Wisconsin. I don't like the crazy swing this country has taken to the rabid right, nor do I want these empty-headed people making any more decisions that may negatively affect my life.
And let's not forget Paul Ryan, who rakes in plenty of lettuce from big oil company investments. He, in turn, hands out dirty little legislative gifts in the name of tax breaks and deregulation of the industry. This guy, literally, is probably the most despised and least respected human being currently in Washington D.C. I know he is at our house. Opie f*cking Taylor goes to Washington.
Can we just stop for a minute and take stock of what Republicans have actually done?
New Orleans, right after Hurricane Katrina. Forgotten by a Republican administration. New Orleans, the least American city in America, and therefore, quite possibly the greatest city in America, was nearly destroyed by a hurricane, and then got f*cked by the Republicans. This city is still in recovery mode. If this had happened in New York or San Francisco, you can bet the response would have been remarkably different. Too many black people, too many poor people lived in New Orleans. Too many people with too small a voice to matter. Relief and restructure (not) brought to you by Republicans. The Republicans brought you more misery than the hurricane did.
The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Too lax regulation and too little industry oversight. Thank you, again, Republicans. May you someday be soaked in oil and forced to live in brackish squalor for months.
The deficit. Poor Obama. He gets elected, but did he win? He inherited George W. Bush's disaster. The deregulation and lack of fiscal controls on Wall Street was completely brought to you by Republicans. News for all you ostriches with your head in the sand, the collapse of the financial world was engineered by greedy, obese pricks, like James Sensenbrenner, in other words, the GOP. Sensenbrenner is still driving drunk the wrong way down a freeway at the feeding trough for Republican corruption, the U.S. Capitol.
The disintegration of labor unions and fair labor practices. Courtesy GOP.
Tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of people living in this country. I'm not talking little tax breaks, I'm talking obscene amounts of money. Stinkin' GOP, again.
The gutting of social programs that could, actually help America become strong again. Republican inspired.
The attacks on Planned Parenthood, Gay Rights, Health care for Everyone, the Environment --- all coming from one place, the GOP.
Let me just say this. Barack Obama was a cautious first term president, yet he did manage to accomplish some things within a system that is completely dysfunctional. That, in itself, is remarkable.
I believe that the GOP, by virtue of how very stupid they are, will not win the next presidential election, but that Obama will continue as our leader. If so, I have just a few words of advice for him. Come out swinging, Obama. Lay down your diplomatic kid gloves and DO something REAL with REAL ramifications. We (thoughtful, intelligent, well-intentioned and liberal people) want our country back. And we want you to give it to us. America is on the brink. We don't need a diplomat, we need a leader. We don't need cautious leadership, we need a strong man to take a strong stand and bring down this house of cards we call America. This is not America anymore. Whatever it is.....it's ugly.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Breed of a Different Kind (BOK's)
Michelle Bachman. Seriously? A tea bagger? For President of the United States of America? She's worse than Sarah Palin. Well. As bad. She's from Iowa, where people stop at the end of freeway ramps leading to I-80. These folks are just a little bit unclear on the concept. Of just about everything. A Breed of a Different Kind.
Okay, so what, exactly, is a breed of a different kind? Someone considered less than human? Someone reviled? Someone psychotic describing her lawyer?
Today, let's just think about what I consider a "Breed of a Different Kind". Tea Baggers. People who want to reduce the minimum wage to "help" business. What about helping the people who are trying to live on $8.25 per hour. That equates, in a forty-hour week, to a wage of $330, less taxes, which would amount to about $258 take home pay. Let's envision a family of four living on $258 per week. Housing costs for a cock-roach infested duplex in a bad neighborhood would equal at least $450. That leaves $582 left to pay the electric bill, ($582 minus $75, we're at $507). You can't feed a family of four for less than $100 per week, so now we are at $107 left in income, which will be eaten up in heating bills, doctor bills, dentist bills, clothing, school fees, gasoline for the wreck of a car that has to remain uninsured. Tea Baggers. Their my favorite Breed of a Different Kind, today. Sub-human.
Business. Now there's an across the board Breed of a Different Kind. Greedy beyond imagination. Disinterested in the health and welfare of employees. Willing to break any law or regulation in the name of profit. Beyond sub-human. Breed of a Fecal Kind.
Anyhow, BOK's are destroying America. It is sad to watch the empire fall, but falling it is. A good friend told me once that anarchy is an unknown devil, and better to deal with the devils you know. Perhaps he's right. Regardless of who is right, I have a feeling we will all get to see anarchy unfold. That's the legacy of the tea baggers.
Okay, so what, exactly, is a breed of a different kind? Someone considered less than human? Someone reviled? Someone psychotic describing her lawyer?
Today, let's just think about what I consider a "Breed of a Different Kind". Tea Baggers. People who want to reduce the minimum wage to "help" business. What about helping the people who are trying to live on $8.25 per hour. That equates, in a forty-hour week, to a wage of $330, less taxes, which would amount to about $258 take home pay. Let's envision a family of four living on $258 per week. Housing costs for a cock-roach infested duplex in a bad neighborhood would equal at least $450. That leaves $582 left to pay the electric bill, ($582 minus $75, we're at $507). You can't feed a family of four for less than $100 per week, so now we are at $107 left in income, which will be eaten up in heating bills, doctor bills, dentist bills, clothing, school fees, gasoline for the wreck of a car that has to remain uninsured. Tea Baggers. Their my favorite Breed of a Different Kind, today. Sub-human.
Business. Now there's an across the board Breed of a Different Kind. Greedy beyond imagination. Disinterested in the health and welfare of employees. Willing to break any law or regulation in the name of profit. Beyond sub-human. Breed of a Fecal Kind.
Anyhow, BOK's are destroying America. It is sad to watch the empire fall, but falling it is. A good friend told me once that anarchy is an unknown devil, and better to deal with the devils you know. Perhaps he's right. Regardless of who is right, I have a feeling we will all get to see anarchy unfold. That's the legacy of the tea baggers.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Leaving Wisconsin
My husband and I are pondering where to move, once we leave Wisconsin. There truly isn't an ideal place, that's for sure. Better climate, yes, of course. It doesn't take much to deduce that Wisconsin's climate is awful way too frequently. I truly love New Orleans, but after watching the HBO special series, Treme, I can't quite see myself living in a place that is politically more corrupt than Wisconsin is right now.
We both love the wild west and the mountains of Nevada. I, however, truly believe that all power struggles will come down to who controls fresh water, and there is precious little water in the desert. The water shortage probably won't happen in my lifetime, but why take chances? I'm very partial to green. Just painted one of my living room walls a most amazing shade of green. Although I could get used to the muted desert color palette, I would miss the green.
Cocoa Beach in Florida is a beautiful spot, wonderful ocean breezes, plenty of sunshine, amazingly affordable real estate market right now. Florida, however, has never really been high on my list of places I wanted to settle, unless it's in the keys, which is not really like the rest of Florida at all. Trouble with the keys is hurricane evacuation. One road. Two lanes. Ugh. The thought of being stuck on seven mile bridge during a bad storm really scares me.
So, we are going to take my new car on a little road trip next spring and visit Savannah, Georgia. Neither of us has ever been there and it sounds pretty picturesque. So does the route we've mapped out to get there. I always thought the south was a little too redneck for me, but Savannah does have a reputation of gentility and graciousness. We'll see.
Meanwhile, I have to endure a few more years here in America's fascist land, but I'm hopeful that the political climate will change and that I'll feel better about that. Right now, I just wish I could bitch-slap Justice Prosser. I could probably die happy here, with all the satisfaction that would give me.
We both love the wild west and the mountains of Nevada. I, however, truly believe that all power struggles will come down to who controls fresh water, and there is precious little water in the desert. The water shortage probably won't happen in my lifetime, but why take chances? I'm very partial to green. Just painted one of my living room walls a most amazing shade of green. Although I could get used to the muted desert color palette, I would miss the green.
Cocoa Beach in Florida is a beautiful spot, wonderful ocean breezes, plenty of sunshine, amazingly affordable real estate market right now. Florida, however, has never really been high on my list of places I wanted to settle, unless it's in the keys, which is not really like the rest of Florida at all. Trouble with the keys is hurricane evacuation. One road. Two lanes. Ugh. The thought of being stuck on seven mile bridge during a bad storm really scares me.
So, we are going to take my new car on a little road trip next spring and visit Savannah, Georgia. Neither of us has ever been there and it sounds pretty picturesque. So does the route we've mapped out to get there. I always thought the south was a little too redneck for me, but Savannah does have a reputation of gentility and graciousness. We'll see.
Meanwhile, I have to endure a few more years here in America's fascist land, but I'm hopeful that the political climate will change and that I'll feel better about that. Right now, I just wish I could bitch-slap Justice Prosser. I could probably die happy here, with all the satisfaction that would give me.
Friday, June 24, 2011
The Silent Ron Johnson - OR - There was a Crooked Man, Who Walked A Crooked Mile
Ron Johnson's former firm has paid him $10,000,000 in deferred compensation. However, Ron Johnson dropped $9,000,000 on his campaign, which unseated a great senator, Russ Feingold. This sounds to me like a little bit of a stinker of an illegal corporate campaign contribution. I'm from the midwest, where if it looks like cow shat, smells like cow shat, then it probably is cow shat.
Ron Johnson has been notably quiet since becoming Wisconsin's junior senator. He seems to be a fish out of water in the heart of politics. A cold fish out of water. Let's poach him. I am hopeful that Mr. Johnson will be unable to provide documentation that outlines this deferred compensation package, which he says was agreed upon. Show me the legal documentation. The entire transaction is suspicious.
All that aside, I have to ask Wisconsin citizens, just what do you have in common with Ron Johnson and his $10,000,000 payoff, er, payout? Ron Johnson doesn't work for the common good of anyone but the ultra-wealthy. I am sincerely hopeful that we can rid the United States Legislature of corrupt and contemptible politicians like Ron Johnson. Unfortunately, we lost a truly good senator because so many Wisconsin citizens were completely hogswaggled by the likes of Ron Johnson. Furthermore, this arrogant, ignorant S.O.B. declares he doesn't have to explain anything.
WRONG.
Lets get these Ron Johnson-like pigs out of our lives, once and for all. Demand accountability. And cherish your voting rights in the next election. In other words, don't believe everything some millionaire tells you. We are, hopefully, not a nation of ignorant and illiterate pygmies......but that is getting harder and harder for me to believe.
Ron Johnson has been notably quiet since becoming Wisconsin's junior senator. He seems to be a fish out of water in the heart of politics. A cold fish out of water. Let's poach him. I am hopeful that Mr. Johnson will be unable to provide documentation that outlines this deferred compensation package, which he says was agreed upon. Show me the legal documentation. The entire transaction is suspicious.
All that aside, I have to ask Wisconsin citizens, just what do you have in common with Ron Johnson and his $10,000,000 payoff, er, payout? Ron Johnson doesn't work for the common good of anyone but the ultra-wealthy. I am sincerely hopeful that we can rid the United States Legislature of corrupt and contemptible politicians like Ron Johnson. Unfortunately, we lost a truly good senator because so many Wisconsin citizens were completely hogswaggled by the likes of Ron Johnson. Furthermore, this arrogant, ignorant S.O.B. declares he doesn't have to explain anything.
WRONG.
Lets get these Ron Johnson-like pigs out of our lives, once and for all. Demand accountability. And cherish your voting rights in the next election. In other words, don't believe everything some millionaire tells you. We are, hopefully, not a nation of ignorant and illiterate pygmies......but that is getting harder and harder for me to believe.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Jail Population Down
Interesting that the discouragement all Americans seem to be suffering has now extended to the criminal element. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, jail population is down by 16%.
Is this a trend away from criminal activity? Are criminals getting smarter and thereby avoiding arrests? Are the investigators getting lazy? Or are the criminals simply finding good jobs and settling down? Not bloody likely.
Perhaps the most interesting development in this story is Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke's reaction. Obviously, when jail population decreases, so does his annual budget, so there is much to lose, in Clarke's eye, to this current trend. He points the fingers at alternative sentencing programs and "soft on crime" judges. Of course, this has everything to do with the lack of respect the Judiciary has for Sheriff Clarke, and vice versa.
America has the largest prison population in the world. Incarceration in America practically guarantees a life of crime; there is no rehabilitation in our facilities, only a dehumanizing experience that robs inmates of any sense of self-worth, and guarantees a future that is almost completely hopeless. That is not rehabilitation, that is cruel and unusual punishment. Americans in prison are repeat offenders, by and large.
I believe that some of the programs in place right now, for non-violent offenders at the local level, will keep offenders out of the penal system in the future. Sheriff Clarke's dismay over these programs makes me question his personal agenda. He smells an awful lot like Scott Walker, and his ego surely is as large. Next time you vote in a local election for County Sheriff, please remember that although David A. Clarke runs as a democrat, his actions are generally republican, pedestrian, and punitive to anyone who disagrees with him.
At any rate, I'm glad to see the current trend, no matter what the cause, and slightly dismayed by Clarke, who obviously wants to keep his budget money at top levels, without regard to favorable crime statistics. So here's a message for all you felons out there: you're not doing your part......not according to Sheriff Clarke. I only hope this isn't the lull before the storm. America is really ripe for a revolution. Could this be the start?
Is this a trend away from criminal activity? Are criminals getting smarter and thereby avoiding arrests? Are the investigators getting lazy? Or are the criminals simply finding good jobs and settling down? Not bloody likely.
Perhaps the most interesting development in this story is Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke's reaction. Obviously, when jail population decreases, so does his annual budget, so there is much to lose, in Clarke's eye, to this current trend. He points the fingers at alternative sentencing programs and "soft on crime" judges. Of course, this has everything to do with the lack of respect the Judiciary has for Sheriff Clarke, and vice versa.
America has the largest prison population in the world. Incarceration in America practically guarantees a life of crime; there is no rehabilitation in our facilities, only a dehumanizing experience that robs inmates of any sense of self-worth, and guarantees a future that is almost completely hopeless. That is not rehabilitation, that is cruel and unusual punishment. Americans in prison are repeat offenders, by and large.
I believe that some of the programs in place right now, for non-violent offenders at the local level, will keep offenders out of the penal system in the future. Sheriff Clarke's dismay over these programs makes me question his personal agenda. He smells an awful lot like Scott Walker, and his ego surely is as large. Next time you vote in a local election for County Sheriff, please remember that although David A. Clarke runs as a democrat, his actions are generally republican, pedestrian, and punitive to anyone who disagrees with him.
At any rate, I'm glad to see the current trend, no matter what the cause, and slightly dismayed by Clarke, who obviously wants to keep his budget money at top levels, without regard to favorable crime statistics. So here's a message for all you felons out there: you're not doing your part......not according to Sheriff Clarke. I only hope this isn't the lull before the storm. America is really ripe for a revolution. Could this be the start?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Scott Walker goes after Planned Parenthood.....and the Poor, Yet Again
Scott Walker, Chief of the Assholery Department of State Politics, is expected to sign a budget bill that eliminates state and federal funding from nine of the state's Planned Parenthood health centers. Adding insult to injury, Mr. Walker's budget also cuts men out of BadgerCare, the state's Medicaid-funded family planning program, and tightens the eligibility restrictions for women, which could jeopardize the entire program.
Why is Mr. Walker so adamantly opposed to family planning? Why is he attacking basic health care coverage for the poorest segment of Wisconsin's population? The public spin Walker and his supporters give this is they are trying to fix the state's budget. The reality is, Walker must know he is not going to survive a recall election, and is doing everything in his power to wreak havoc for programs he does not, personally, endorse.
What, exactly, doesn't Mr. Walker like. Here's a partial list:
1. The Poor
2. The Pregnant
3. The Unpregnant
4. Teachers
5. Municipal Workers
6. Sexuality
7. Homosexuality
8. Family Planning
9. The Unemployed
10. The Disabled
11.....
Oh forget it. This could take forever.
Let's do a list of what Scott Walker does like:
1. Power
2. Money
3. Powerful people with Money
4. Anyone who lies
5. Anyone who gets elected via lies
6. Anyone who believes the lies and therefore elevates themself to idiot status. These are people he can identify with.
Mr. Walker, we do not personally endorse you. Soon enough, the polls will prove that. The only thing larger than your ego seems to be your capacity for stupidity.
If Scott Walker is trying to restore morality by destroying family planning, his weapon of choice - defunding - will come back to haunt him and all of Wisconsin.
Cutting minimal health care coverage to poverty level men is just disgusting, as if men don't ever get sick. Walker is mentally ill; every action he takes in the name of budget woes supports this diagnosis. What is sad is that his emotional dysfunction affects people he hates, i.e., sexual human beings, the poor, the disenfranchised, single mothers, working families. With all this capacity for hatred inside him, what is left? What does he live for? Who is Scott Walker? Too bad his own mother didn't believe in birth control. Then we wouldn't have to listen to this talking egg or watch him defecate over a once beautiful place.
Why is Mr. Walker so adamantly opposed to family planning? Why is he attacking basic health care coverage for the poorest segment of Wisconsin's population? The public spin Walker and his supporters give this is they are trying to fix the state's budget. The reality is, Walker must know he is not going to survive a recall election, and is doing everything in his power to wreak havoc for programs he does not, personally, endorse.
What, exactly, doesn't Mr. Walker like. Here's a partial list:
1. The Poor
2. The Pregnant
3. The Unpregnant
4. Teachers
5. Municipal Workers
6. Sexuality
7. Homosexuality
8. Family Planning
9. The Unemployed
10. The Disabled
11.....
Oh forget it. This could take forever.
Let's do a list of what Scott Walker does like:
1. Power
2. Money
3. Powerful people with Money
4. Anyone who lies
5. Anyone who gets elected via lies
6. Anyone who believes the lies and therefore elevates themself to idiot status. These are people he can identify with.
Mr. Walker, we do not personally endorse you. Soon enough, the polls will prove that. The only thing larger than your ego seems to be your capacity for stupidity.
If Scott Walker is trying to restore morality by destroying family planning, his weapon of choice - defunding - will come back to haunt him and all of Wisconsin.
Cutting minimal health care coverage to poverty level men is just disgusting, as if men don't ever get sick. Walker is mentally ill; every action he takes in the name of budget woes supports this diagnosis. What is sad is that his emotional dysfunction affects people he hates, i.e., sexual human beings, the poor, the disenfranchised, single mothers, working families. With all this capacity for hatred inside him, what is left? What does he live for? Who is Scott Walker? Too bad his own mother didn't believe in birth control. Then we wouldn't have to listen to this talking egg or watch him defecate over a once beautiful place.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Scott Walker - Lost in Delusionville
In a meeting with the press, Scott Walker said "upcoming recall elections are an inconvenience and a distraction to most Wisconsinites".
Hello? Just about everyone in this State can't wait for these recall elections, and the resounding kick in the pants they will give to the GOP party in this state. Scott Walker and his band of buffoons have polarized this state with every move they have made since his election. And now, Mr. Walker, pompous as ever, thinks that the mess they have made of just about everything, from getting rid of high speed rail, to the attack on public employee rights, can be conveniently swept under their finely woven rug of delusion.
Walker is quoted saying "when I talk to people, if that issue comes up (recall campaigns), they're like, "Can't that just be over?". Who is he talking to? Obviously other people who are as rabidly right-wing as Mr. Walker is. He never would engage in conversations with voters in the state who questioned his point of view. Mr. Walker insulates himself because he is utterly clueless about what the people in the State of Wisconsin expect from their leaders. Mr. Walker has one goal for himself, to promote his agenda at the expense of every thoughtful citizen in this state. Unfortunately, Mr. Walker's agenda is, at best, utterly fascist.
Wisconsin voters are not delusional. Scott Walker will undoubtedly be recalled, and if Scott Walker truly had his pulse on the voter climate in this State, he would realize this. His cohorts in injustice, unfairness and backward thinking will also be recalled. To say that the recall elections are a distraction and an inconvenience is to further denigrate the democratic process, of which Mr. Walker has no working knowledge.
It is time for this Empty-Headed, Low IQ, rhetoric spouting Peacock to be run out of town on a rail. Beep Beep. Bitches on a Bus has you and your fascist regime in their headlights. Hope the sound of your fall from power is not too distracting or inconvenient for you.
Hello? Just about everyone in this State can't wait for these recall elections, and the resounding kick in the pants they will give to the GOP party in this state. Scott Walker and his band of buffoons have polarized this state with every move they have made since his election. And now, Mr. Walker, pompous as ever, thinks that the mess they have made of just about everything, from getting rid of high speed rail, to the attack on public employee rights, can be conveniently swept under their finely woven rug of delusion.
Walker is quoted saying "when I talk to people, if that issue comes up (recall campaigns), they're like, "Can't that just be over?". Who is he talking to? Obviously other people who are as rabidly right-wing as Mr. Walker is. He never would engage in conversations with voters in the state who questioned his point of view. Mr. Walker insulates himself because he is utterly clueless about what the people in the State of Wisconsin expect from their leaders. Mr. Walker has one goal for himself, to promote his agenda at the expense of every thoughtful citizen in this state. Unfortunately, Mr. Walker's agenda is, at best, utterly fascist.
Wisconsin voters are not delusional. Scott Walker will undoubtedly be recalled, and if Scott Walker truly had his pulse on the voter climate in this State, he would realize this. His cohorts in injustice, unfairness and backward thinking will also be recalled. To say that the recall elections are a distraction and an inconvenience is to further denigrate the democratic process, of which Mr. Walker has no working knowledge.
It is time for this Empty-Headed, Low IQ, rhetoric spouting Peacock to be run out of town on a rail. Beep Beep. Bitches on a Bus has you and your fascist regime in their headlights. Hope the sound of your fall from power is not too distracting or inconvenient for you.
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