The Assaults on Planned Parenthood

I really am sick to death of Republican right wing fanatics trying to regulate every aspect of my sexuality, including the right to bear children, or NOT to bear children.  For a group of people who demand less government, I don't quite understand their overwhelming need to crawl up inside wombs and regulate the 28 day cycle.

Here is an idea --- why not regulate the obviously overactive and aggressive testosterone level in every male in every country by surgically removing a testicle.   How about that for an answer to all the wars, all the need to make things go KA POW, all the craziness that makes grown men want to kill women and children.  If aliens ever came to me and asked what could help Earth be more peaceful, this is what I would tell them.

Or better yet, when white males who own a lot of guns think reproductive services are in their realm of expertise and is their domain to regulate; why not tie them down and remove both testicles.  This could be a new service offered by Planned Parenthood, one of controversy born of necessity.  IDSIMAWBB.  The new medical procedure for men intent on controlling women.  IDSIMAWBB is an acronym for "I'm Dickless So I May As Well Be Ball-less". 

The constant attack on women's reproductive rights is symbolic of how threatened these men are by half the species.  Women need to unite right now and threaten these Henry The VIII types with testicular amputation.  Women should arm ourselves with guns and start the notching out process of how many testicles we take out every week.  This sounds like great fun to all women everywhere who have been bullied, battered and oppressed for generations.  You so-called men out there better take heed.  Every dog has its day.

Be Thankful

No political message.

No degradation of presidential candidates from the Republican Party.

No message of doom and gloom.....

Just a simple day to be thankful, for the simplest things, like people who love you and whom you love in return.

For having a safe place to close your eyes at night.

For a bountiful dining table.

So many people don't have these things.  So give thanks to the Universe that, at least for you, the Big Bang is unfolding beautifully.

I'm Just Going to Come Out and Say It

Donald Trump is Stupid

Donald Trump has UGLY hair.

Donald Trump is a Racist

Donald Trump is a Misogynist.

Donald Trump's answer to the world's problems is "bomb".

Donald Trump, being the leading candidate for the Republican Nomination is PROOF POSITIVE THAT THE GOP IS OVER IN THIS COUNTRY.

Vote Bernie.  Vote Hillary.  Vote Coco the Monkey.  The democrats will take back this nation.  The republican party, and republicans in general, have hung themselves with their own rope of lamentable ignorance and inexhaustible greed.

Good riddance.

I'm not a democrat --- I'm a progressive, and I will always vote for the most progressive candidates.  The GOP  doesn't have a single one.

No Sweeter Music to my Ears!

I hear the sobs of a couple of billionaires over the fact that all the money they poured into Louisiana was so much waste water over the levees.

There just isn't any greater joy in my life than to see financial bullies NOT get their way.  Money can't buy everything.  Not that it makes much difference to them......with the obscene personal fortunes of the Koch's, the loss is really no more than a drop in a bucket.  But they have lost far more than money......and that is what sticks in their collective craws and makes me want to put on the Zydeco music and start dancing.

Congratulations to John Bel Edwards, who is surely a more rational choice for Governor than was David Vitter.

I imagine part of the victory of a democratic candidate winning in a notoriously red state is largely attributed to the fact that Louisiana, with its vast natural resources, still lags far behind financially from where it should stand.  This bespeaks years and years of Republican mismanagement and rhetoric over reason. 

I hope that soon Louisiana will be known not so much for the rabidly right wing politics of Duck Dynasty, but for the integrity we all hope John Bel Edwards will bring to the office of Governor.

Thank God It's Almost Over (that is, the Louisiana Governor's Race)

I am SO very happy that tomorrow is election day.  Negative politicking is getting to be too much for most citizens to stomach.

Frankly, as in most elections, I'm not voting for anyone, but merely against the worst candidate.  Last person I voted for was Obama.  Thank goodness lots of people voted with me there!  Twice. 

My choices are:

David Vitter, a diaper wearing, prostitute visiting, good ol' boy who was rated one of the worst U.S. Senators in history.  But he learned from his mistakes.  (If that was true, he wouldn't be running for anything but the Atchafalya and a life of Cajun anonymity.)  David Vitter is a huge embarrassment to the State of Louisiana.  Apparently the only one who's not embarrassed by David Vitter is David Vitter.

John Bel Edwards - a relatively stable human being with a less than stellar agenda.  I really don't like the Muslim-fearing, refugee-refusing pandering to the rednecks, but I guess all's fair in hate and politics.  At least, he might bring something new to the State Capitol --- which is stagnant in its mediocrity, dysfunction, corruption and ineptitude. 

My vote will go to John Bel Edwards, not because I'm for him..., but because he simply poses the least of possible menaces to the wonderful people of this beautiful state.  Stay tuned.  Interesting times in Louisiana!

The Consistent Stupidity of the Republican Party

If there is one constant all Americans can count on, it's the continued bad ideas that the Republican Party keeps proposing.

Remember invading Iraq?  My son served in the army, fighting a huge tank battle, and returning home damaged and never the same.  For what?  Most Americans wrongly believe this was payback for 9/11.  It was not.  It was to keep the military/industrial complex going; it was for making billion dollar profits for Halliburton and other corporations, and it was wagging the dog at its absolute finest.

So now the Republican party is calling for boots on the ground to fight ISIS.  ISIS came into being because of our middle eastern manipulations to begin with.  How will killing and maiming more U.S. military personnel change anything?  It won't.  This is why I hate history......the ignorant never learn from it.  And the Republican Party is ignorant.  That's putting it nicely.  These people are just plain stupid.  Someone isn't making the kind of profits they want to make.  Killing a few thousand American servicemen and women will change that.  Is that what America is all about?  I realize the greed and excess of our country is first and foremost in importance to people like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, the list goes on.  But what we're all about is based on lies and proof that these methods simply do not work.  If you keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, that is the definition of insanity. If you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it. 

In the age of information, to remain ignorant is a personal choice that too many Americans are making.  There is a grand plan to keep the populace of our country misinformed and stupid.  The dumbing down of America has long been documented, and the result is, our country is a disaster, the planet is on the verge of destruction, and the Republicans rejoice in these results because it generally will end with profit for someone.  You can bet it won't be you.

But leaving politics out of it, if this is the current human condition, then we, as humans, should do our part and become extinct.  We've neither solved any real problems, nor have we improved the world in any humanitarian, lasting sense.  We're dinosaurs.  The planet will get rid of us because we  are just too stupid to survive .  We're born into a pristine garden, which we're hell bent on destroying.  This is the path we are on.  Perhaps this is the end result of evolving from apes.  I hope for alien intervention, because there's bloody little intelligent life down here.  And the worst of the worst are members of the Republican Party.
 

Terrorism

Perhaps if the United States was engaged in humanitarian efforts (desperately needed) instead of having the largest defense budget on the planet (unnecessary), the global acts of random murder by extremists would come to an end.

Empires are vulnerable to attack.  The United States should be less concerned with defending itself, and more engaged in becoming a model global citizen.  Until we get that, and do that, not much will change.

What happened in Paris is the work of fundamentally unbalanced people, promoting their agenda of hatred for Western civilizations.  But what about the domestic terrorists we breed right here in the good old United States of Amerika?  The movie theatre assassins.  The Ku Klux Klan.  The Unibomber.  The Manson Family.  The Tylenol poisoners.  The campus killers.  The Branch Davidians. The Jonestown Kool-Aid drinkers.  The people who put needles in Halloween candy.  The Wall Street thieves.  The NRA. 

My point is merely this; violence creates more violence.  In an ever-escalating landscape of mayhem and aggressive, murderous acts, I dread politicians like Donald Trump, who will no doubt promote a "bomb the hell out of them" solution, which is not a solution as much as it is a reaction.  Frankly, our country's constant involvement in global conflicts does not produce any measurable end to the nightmarish existence we all find ourselves living.  Fighting terrorism with more terrorism is not only a bad idea, but an unreasonable and not very well thought out approach.  It's been proven time after time that it will not change anything.

Imagine a world where the United States enters a hotbed of extremist violence, not with fighter jets and boots on the ground, but with medicine, food, safety and shelter for the unfortunate populations who are caught up in the mental illness of the terrorist group du jour. 

Or is it too late?  Are we all just SO crazy that we can't stop the wrong thinking that has brought us to the miserable, unhealthy state we're all living in. 

If our children learn by example......is it possible for us?  For the rest of the world?  Dismantle the military-industrial complex and fund the organizations that promote peace, health, nutrition, clean water, safety, love, respect and the freedom of their own choices.  I realize it is difficult to have respect for groups of people whose fundamental beliefs are so far removed from what we consider "normal", we can't imagine anyone wanting to belong to one.  But if they do so willingly, then that is their choice.  If they belong unwillingly, then we should provide shelter for those wishing to escape.

In short, all of us deserve to live a life of peace, dignity and well-being.  Those groups that would deny us that are the enemy, no matter what flag they're flying.