Richest Country in the World

 I just got off the phone with my dear friend, who is a cancer survivor.  Yeah, right, cancer survivor, only in the sense that she didn't die.  So far, she's managed to come back to her life after a year of strenuous treatment and surgery.  But let me tell you what she's come back to and ask you how long you think she'll survive.

An employer who won't take her back because he's made a "commitment" to the woman who took her place in his dental practice.  What about a commitment to an employee who just happened to get sick?  Obviously, doesn't matter.  You're only as good as your billable hours.

Bankruptcy, because their insurance couldn't even begin to cover all of her medical expenses.

Depression, because she can't afford the medication that would help her.

Anxiety about losing her home.

Money problems, because coming up with the attorney's retainer for filing bankruptcy is more than any bankrupt person could afford.

Fear.  Of losing everything she's worked her entire life to have, which is a home and food on the table.  Not asking much of life, and working her whole life to keep her family healthy and solvent.

Now how is it in the richest country in the world, people who encounter difficult situations are just tossed aside because there is no place in our country for non-producers?

This is a statement about America.  We don't F*UCKING care about you if you aren't a productive member of society, and we don't give a F*CK why you're in that position.  We should just call ourselves Mexico and be done with it.

I have never been more ashamed in my life to be a member of this society, and never felt such annoying hatred for the system that is America, for what we've allowed ourselves to become.

Tear it Down.  Burn it Down.  Revolution NOW!

Sheriff Clarke -- Open Mouth, Insert A$$

Well, if you didn't believe it before, perhaps you will reconsider now.  When one of the top law enforcement officers in the State of Wisconsin tells citizens to arm themselves and come out blazing, you have to wonder about the level of dementia Sheriff Clarke seems to be suffering.

Okay, I guess it's the same as telling all the good people to go out and buy white clothes, and all the bad people to go out and buy black clothes, and let's have a shoot out at the not so o.k. corral, otherwise known as the streets of Milwaukee.

Clarke has really made a disaster out of what once was considered a fine Sheriff's Department.  When I see the guy's face on television, I turn up the volume, because I know another historic moment in Wisconsin Stupid is about to be made, and I don't want to miss it.  Call it a self-actualizing moment.

For anyone in law enforcement to promote the purchase of guns and the escalation of gun violence is about as terrible as things can get.  It's like Ms. Manners, Judith Martin, turning tricks.  The very idea!  Does anyone have any trust left for Sheriff Clarke?  Does Ms. Manners send a hand-written thank you note to a John who was an exceptionally generous tipper?

Add to this latest debacle, courtesy of Sheriff Clarke's ignorant mouth, the fact that he is wasting taxpayer money with lawsuits against the county.  Milwaukee County government may be a bit inept, may have some corruption, and may not have the best interests of it's citizens at it's core, but it still recognizes a dangerous employee, and that's what Sheriff David A. (I know what the A should stand for) Clarke is.  A dangerous man, with demented ideas.

Someone Chapter 51 this guy, please, before he unleashes anymore idiotology onto a clueless public.

Ron Johnson is Like My Sister - and that ain't good

Continually embarrassing himself, Ron Johnson felt it necessary to find someone to blame over the attack on a U.S. embassy in Libya. 

The blame game is really easy to get into; just look at the American court systems and the clogged court calendars with stupid cases designed to blame someone into giving money.

You spill coffee on yourself and it's too hot?  No problem.  You're not the klutz, the vendor who sold you the coffee is.  And you get paid.  Ridiculous.  Yet everyday, someone gets paid for their own stupidity.  Man, everyone in America would be a millionaire if we paid out regularly for stupid.

Ron Johnson wants to play the blame game instead of finding real solutions to the world's real problems.  It's probably because on same base level, Ron Johnson understands that he is part of the problem and incapable of solutions.  Being offensive, in his case, is his best defense.  A bully's manifesto.

Ron Johnson presumes to understand that playing the blame game will help his republican party look better than the buttholes they actually resemble.  What he fails to perceive is that blaming anyone for anything that is so obviously beyond their control is a cowardly act.  But then, bullies are cowards.  They're also self-righteous and believe they understand complex situations that are clearly beyond their limited capability of comprehension.

Reminds me of one of my family members, who is so pious under her robe of deceit that she could never see herself as anything but a morally perfect person.  Thankfully, the Hillary Clinton's of the world, and I, can see that these phony emperors aren't wearing any clothes.  And the naked truth is pretty ugly.

Taking off my beer bottle glasses!

I had surgery on my left eye today for removal of a cataract.  Now I know that my vision has been getting worse steadily, but I honestly had no idea of just how bad it was until I came home from the hospital today and looked at my kitchen, which is white.  Really white.  Except, out of my uncorrected eye, it is definitely a yellowish brown, as was the entire world.  I had simply gotten used to poor vision.   I am so happy, and so thankful to my opthamologist for giving me new eyes - well one new eye.  Getting the other one done in two weeks.  I haven't been able to drive at night for a long time, so I'm anxious to see if once again I'll be able to go someplace after the sun sets.

Anyhow, I just have to mention that modern medicine is a complete marvel (as long as the doctor is, too).  In a way, the surgery is a little strange; you're pretty relaxed but aware of things.  The part that really sticks in my mind is the eye thingy they slap on your face to hold your eye open.  It reminded me of the scene in Clockwork Orange where they strap the droog down, attach a device that won't let him blink, and make him watch horrible acts to cure him of violence and aggression.  Stanley Kubrick.....a visionary (no pun intended) for sure.

Not sure if I'm cured of violence and aggression, but I am SO happy with having one good eye, I could just shout from the rooftops.  But I have to clean my kitchen first.

Inauguration Day - 2013

All my faithful readers know that I rant about every thing that annoys me; politically, personally and unrepentantly.   There is, quite frankly, no person on the planet more irreverent than I am, nor more able to get in your face with the truth at every turn.  Making the hopelessly ignorant squirm is my mission.

But no rant today.  Just an honest to goodness appreciation that this country, for all its horrendous people and problems, managed to reelect the best president we've had in a long time despite the best efforts of money, crooks and puppet masters.

Congratulations, Barack Obama.  Against all odds, you bring hope to the world.  You understand the world's problems and you never let the slime balls you have to deal with bring you down to their level.  You're a good man.  And if someone can say that about you these days, you don't have to accomplish anything else!

Take note Donald Trump.  If you had an ounce of integrity, you might be sitting in the white house.  Unfortunately, you are doomed to sit in your barber's chair, getting bad hair plugs that are almost as awful to look at as anything that comes out of your mouth is difficult to hear.


Oooops.  Sorry.  Couldn't help myself.

Act 10 Rally Before Death

Scott Walker and his droogs may think they have won the Act 10 legislation battle, but they've only won a seriously flawed decision by the Court of Appeals.

The Supreme Court will hear this case, and Act 10 will be struck down.

So enjoy your moment now, republican gangsters.  Your ridiculously unfair legislation will be exposed as the mindless piece of crap writing it actually is right before you're all up for reelection.  And the State of Wisconsin citizenry will then realize, we can't afford you yokels in office, in any way, shape or form.

He who laughs last, laughs longest and hardest! 

Keith Best is the Worst -- Liar

Unfortunately, I sometimes read the Milwaukee Urinal for lack of any other substantive news source here in Milwaukee.  And for amusement, I read the Letters to the Editor, because if one wants to gauge the level of intelligence in an area, reading these letters is key!

Today's letter comes courtesy of Keith Best, Member of the Executive Board of the Republican Party of Waukesha County (everyone who is anyone hates Waukesha County). 

Let me dissect his letter, line by line.  My comments are in italics.

"Over the past few years, Wisconsin has undergone a complete makeover".

Sure has.  From pristine, natural beauty to the ugly sister with a black, hairy mole on her soul.

"Despite reckless spending and other disastrous financial policy at the federal level, Wisconsin has seen its workforce go back to work".

Er, yes, but, they went back to work from high paying manufacturing jobs to minimum wage hotel door man jobs. 

"Under the previous administration, our state lost 150,000 jobs". 

We've lost that many  and more jobs and new business ventures since Walker took office.  Hell, Doyle's administration was a model of dignity and democracy compared to this roving band of one track minded zealots.

"The workforce was under trained and needing help".

Well, come on.  It still is under trained and needing help.  But how much training do you need to open a door or flip a burger or say hello to some freak of nature at Walmart?

"So Gov. Scott Walker has seen to it that our workers received the training and skills they need to fill jobs that are in demand."

You betcha.  There's nothing like watching your family starve to death to motivate one to take any crap job in the world that pays $8 so you can be turned down at the food pantry, because you're employed.

"Also, through reductions in red tape and administrative costs, we have seen more money flood into the classroom."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.  I work in a school.  There is no flood of money, but the bull$hit flooding out of Mr. Best's mouth is legendary.  That's one thing you can always count on from a republican, to blatantly lie at every opportunity.  Tell a lie enough and it becomes a truth......well, it will to another republican.  Most of us are conscious of this ploy of the uncreative, by now.

"By eliminating waste, fraud and abuse, Walker has helped make reforms that have led to millions in savings for the taxpayers".

Walker's staffers, when he was Milwaukee County Executive, have gone to trial and been found guilty of various fraudulent activities.  The economic development agency that Walker set up is under investigation for total mismanagement, and the loss of millions of dollars to the taxpayers.  Walker himself is the subject of a John Doe investigation because the guy is as corrupt as Huey Long.  Just think of the waste Walker could eliminate if he would just move to Louisiana.  I apologize, Louisiana.....that was a rotten thing to wish on you.

"If the next two years are anything like the last two, Wisconsin is going to continue moving forward".

Eeeeeyupppp, right into total anarchy and a final comeuppance on shameless, lying sack politicians.

Keith Best ----- don't let him near your kids or your brain!  And keep him out of newspapers.....even rags like the Urinal.