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November 15, 2015

Because lots of people with assault weapons in a dark theater shooting at each other...

is clearly the only way to prevent mass murder from suicidal maniacs.

We have the ugliest unbounded American gun-nut stupidity on display in the aftermath of every horrible gun event.

There isn't a problem in the world that can't be solved with more guns and more violence.

Heading out for the evening? Here's what the well-dressed NRA asshole is wearing to the theater:

Assault weapon? Check.
Laser scope? Check.
Extra rounds? Check.
Bulletproof vest? Check.
Sidearm? Check.
Night vision goggles? Check.
Secure comms? Check.
Medical kit? Check.



http://thelifeofkylie.com/2013/03/13/guest-post-list-of-x-ten-dumbest-things-gun-nuts-always-say/

November 11, 2015

The hell she will create as President...

If we know anything, we all know the hell waiting for American families with President Hillary.

Past performance IS a reliable indicator of future performance.

From the massive disaster known as the Iraq War, to a violent State Dept. tenure that turned Libya, Syria and Yemen into hell holes of violent extremism. Millions of lives were shattered and the consequences will be carried for generations. In spite of the chaos caused by her interventionist ideology, Hillary remains an unapologetic neo-conservative.

From lobbying for Wall Street banks to intervening as a government official on behalf of big Wall Street contributors to her personal foundation. As a corporate Democrat, Hillary has been in the middle of it all.

American workers will have ZERO representation with Hillary Clinton. Clearly toxic trade deals sending millions of jobs to slave labor in Mexico and Asia are called the "gold standard" and "good for New York and America".

Then, there are the idiotic statements about welfare dependency and tough on crime sabre rattling and more equally idiotic statements about email security, gay marriage, sniper fire and being dead broke leaving the White House.

War, inequality, injustice, and bad judgement... there's a common theme.

It hits us right at home.

It hits our paychecks, our health care and education costs. Her corporate philosophies coupled with Wall Street money are working hard to destroy the quality of life in America for working families.

The tortured explanations defending her actions aren't just cringe worthy, they are vomit worthy.

Evolved? Easy for her to say. The damage is done. Families hurt. Money lost.

I'd rather vote for someone who gets it right the first time.

Hillary wants everything. We owe her nothing.



November 7, 2015

"Pulling Myself Up By My Own Bootstraps", Heartwarming Biography of an Outsider Candidate

Forthcoming bio, excerpts just released.

From the Chapter on Growing Up and Leaving Home

After personally intervening to defuse the riots triggered by Martin Luther King's assassination, I turned down a West Point scholarship offered to me by this guy I met. While I might have deferred my entitled future as a military hero, I wasn't about to stay home and bake cookies. I was, after all, the plucky child of hardworking American immigrants and my mother named me after one of the most famous mountain climbers in the world. Even though I was dead broke when I left home, I overcame my struggles and climbed my way to the top.


From the Chapter on Diplomacy
I made a decision to live up to the inspirational figures and namesakes bestowed upon me. Surviving childhood in a war torn, violent community gifted me an ability to manipulate events with surgeon-like skills. Whether negotiating the Northern Ireland peace process, dodging sniper fire in Bosnia to end the Balkan war or spreading American-style democracy to Libya, Syria and Yemen, I was able draw upon the strength and experience of my own imagination as a brilliant diplomat. For example, if you want peace in the Middle east, you have two options, bomb Palestinians until they give up or slip them into Egypt, overnight, when no one is looking.


From the Chapter on Survival
Goldman Sachs, Ctitgroup, PhARMA had me under siege. Their daily onslaught of cash bombs shook the very core of my foundation. I used wheelbarrows, dump trucks, pyramids and anything I could get my hands on to protect my family. As the chaos of wealth and privilege exploded all around me, I held quiet vigil in off-shore tax shelters. It is a blessed miracle that I survived. But I learned a valuable lesson about money. Welfare is like slavery. Too many of those on welfare had known nothing but dependency all their lives. It was time for reform.


From the Chapter on Technology
Having two devices for email is inconvenient which is why I keep a US Government email server in my basement. I don’t know, I don’t throw anything away. I’m like two steps short of a hoarder. So I have an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone and a Blackberry. Actually, email is a bit confusing to me which is why I like sending jobs to China and India. All that boring technical stuff needs to go to Asia so we can free up our time for more important things like deregulating Wall Street banks.

November 6, 2015

Breaking eggs to make an omelet, right?

Hillary might have had a shitty State Dept. track record, continues to have shitty trickle-down Reaganesque supply-side economic views, she hasn't met a job that she doesn't want to send to Mexico or Asia, supported shitty tough on crime prison bills that ruined the lives of millions... but who cares?

Clearly, some people are entitled, especially if they are rich well connected Wall Street Democrats. Some are even celebrated for breaking rules. They call it leadership, crafty, political know-how, plucky and empowered, ready to turn at the slightest opportunity. Some folks even believe chronic ethical lapses are the highest qualifications for President of the USA.

But that's not for us, is it? That's for the Clinton class citizens; the entitled ones whose net worth affords them a bit more freedom and indiscretion from the rules that the little people have to follow. We're all equal, it's just that some are more equal than others. And some people have to follow more rules than others. Just ask your friendly neighborhood Police Dept or NSA.

When Democrats go down the drain in mid-terms and general elections for being authority-bound, unpopular and out of touch, in a misguided effort to win the hearts and minds of conservatives, I guess we're supposed to take pride in the fact that we enforce party discipline. Our conservative leaders, like Debbie Wasserman Shultz, will explain the electoral disasters by attacking liberals. They'll say "if only they would shut up and follow our rules, we'd win!."

The irony should be obvious and familiar: political authority type demands strict compliance and loyalty in order to protect a divisive, polarizing candidate famous for ethical lapses and a lack of discipline. We all know censorship prevents solid citizens who have the time and ability to make a difference from engaging in critical speech. With censorship, we lose the essential voices necessary to expose corruption. Perhaps that's the threat from liberals that worries Democratic Party leadership the most. We sweat the details.

If there is a god, let them save us from the political party ideologues. They represent the prudish, right wing intolerance at our American political core.

It's a big suck factor for quality of life in the USA and it is suppressing the vote at exactly the wrong time.

November 2, 2015

Another person with too many guns shot up a bunch of people in Colorado Springs this weekend

does anyone have any info on the suspect? I searched for a while but came u with nothing.

October 13, 2015

Gun Nuts

October 11, 2015

We pay $229 billion/year to clean up after the NRA. This would finance the Medicaid program.

Why are we subsidizing the pro-gun crowd? Shouldn't they have to pay for the mess they make? These are the same people who demand personal responsibility. Yet when the bullets start flying, the gun crowd runs and hides like cowards, leaving the rest of us to pay for it all.

A top public health expert describes the chill this way: "Do you want to do gun research? Because you're going to get attacked. No one is attacking us when we do heart disease."


Two years ago, we called on physicians to focus on the public health threat of guns. The profession's relative silence was disturbing but in part explicable by our inability to study the problem. Political forces had effectively banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other scientific agencies from funding research on gun-related injury and death. The ban worked: A recent systematic review of studies evaluating access to guns and its association with suicide and homicide identified no relevant studies published since 2005.










http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america

October 11, 2015

Michael Moore appreciation day! Immigration Edition

Michael Moore has a unique way of exposing the ugly face of institutional racism and injustice that nourishes the American political system. We can change the system, of course. We just choose not to. I guess even in the hypocrisy and chaos of injustice, disparity, inequality some people find comfort in the status quo and false choice of Clinton vs. Bush.

In the meantime, this could have been filmed yesterday. History is repeating itself. Immigration, the NRA, the wars, the trade deals. If you aren't going to vote to fix things, you are the problem, not the solution.

h/t to zebonaut's post which led me to this classic episode.




October 10, 2015

Here's how the US education system is failing

Other countries might be making big investments in education... who cares.



Can their kids walk around Chipotle with assault rifles?


Enough said.
October 10, 2015

What the hell is wrong with the NRA? This.

The more you hear from the NRA it becomes clear that they are as dangerous as any other terrorist organization. Their beliefs are so extreme, and their paranoia so deep, they threaten everyone.

This lady at Home Depot


These fuckers at a restaurant.



And here too.


And this nut job.


Eventually, it all ends up here.




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