28 Monday May 2018
Posted in Dingleberries, Indivisible, Memorial, Middle Way, Patriotism, Revolution, Trump-Hole
Your Memorial Day Tweet was the most rude, self-serving and disrespectful official Memorial Day messages ever. But your Facebook post should make even you ashamed. You really don’t get it, do you?!
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Yes this is real. Check it out. How can anyone so clueless get this far in the world?
20 Sunday May 2018
You don’t get to this level of batshit crazy overnight.
No… You have to spend years consuming a steady diet of nothing but mind-numbing-common-sense-destroying-absolutely-bonkers conspiracies and ideas.
You need years of believing that military exercises are the really the way The New World Order will secretly attack us.
You have to be willing to buy the idea that it’s possible there was a sex ring being run by a goddamn presidential candidate, who was doing it out of the basement of a pizza shop that doesn’t even have a damn basement.
You need to be willing to think the laws of physics cease to exist if someone performs a homosexual act, and therefore hail stones the size of truck-balls will fall in East Butt Munch, Missouri.
You have to be willing to overlook most of reality, and accept the idea that there is a parallel universe, and in it there’s a company where you can actually rent ‘actors’ to play high school students who are willing to get shot at?!
Only after lengthy vomit-inducing diet of this crap, could you really believe that MORE GUNS AND LESS ESCAPE ROUTES IS A GOOD FUCKING IDEA!!! Because, where else can they lay the blame that isn’t on fucking guns?! This time the school even had full active shooter plan, as well as a that NRA magic fix-all, “a good guy with a gun”!
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Texas’s lieutenant governor reacted to a deadly school shooting by suggesting schools have too many doors. “We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built. There are too many entrances and too many exits”, Dan Patrick said during a press conference after a gunman killed at least 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas.
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-shooting-santa-fe-school-doors-dan-patrick-lieutenant-governor-a8358691.html
19 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Brain Droppings, Emotional Intelligence, Love, Memorial, Middle Way, Open mind, Patriotism, Sameness
So I’m sitting here watching some of the royal wedding stuff, when they show both William and Harry walking along in uniform. And while I don’t totally ‘get’ royalty, I quickly grasped something completely different from this scene.
It occurred to me that, traditionally the British Monarchy has always laid their lives on the line for their country and crown. In fact, Prince Harry actively fought in Afghanistan through two tours, and was considered a high value target to the enemy. That is as real as it gets. And that is also a sacrifice that many of us understand all too well.
And while Americans like to think we are so much more advanced because we are no longer tied to those barbaric royal traditions, everything is not what it seems.
Sure, we famously spearheaded the ideas of the democracy. We developed radical ideas, such as, we would now trust in our citizenry to defend and run the country. We were no longer willing to trust some out-of-touch royal bum-sniffer, so removed from the struggles of daily life, that they have no clue as to what their subjects have to go through in their daily lives to survive. And worse yet, the same out of touch rulers think it’s only proper that they pass on this power to their clueless heirs.
Except, that’s not really what’s happening, is it?
Instead, as I watch Prince Harry gets married in his military uniform, I can intuitively conclude that this prince who is all the way over in Great Britain has far more in common with everyday people, than President Bone Spurs ever could, or even wants to. Because in America, political power will always get you out of military service, if you don’t want to go.
It seems as though our “representative government” went off the rails somewhere along the way. Instead, this morning millions of Americans spent the early hours of the day, fantasizing that they were somewhere, and maybe even someone else, at least for a few hours.
18 Friday May 2018
Posted in Change, Compassion, Conspiracies, Death, Dingleberries, Guns, Human, Islam, Making Sense of Guns, Memorial, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
At least 10 people are dead, and many more are injured in the latest school shooting in Texas.
I would simply like to ask the Russian funded NRA to tell us again how we aren’t good Americans because we don’t feel as though our children should be in almost as much danger attending school as girls were in Afghanistan under the Taliban… where both the good guys and the bad guys have guns. (Don’t be surprised if they are uncharacteristically quiet this time…)
And I will leave you with the words of this Houston lawmaker: ‘Y’all been sending thoughts and prayers for two freaking decades’ — Read on m.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/article/Santa-Fe-mass-shooting-Texas-Houston-thoughts-and-12925436.php
18 Friday May 2018
Posted in Brain Droppings, Change, Dandelion Break, Emotional Intelligence, Human, Love, Memorial, Middle Way
At some point I’m pretty sure Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have had a talk that went something like this:
MM: “Oh my God, I’m so embarrassed that the media is dragging all of my family skeletons out of the closet where everyone can see them. I’m so sorry Hank!”
PH: “Oh no! Don’t give it another thought Love! Me Great Grandaddy once subjugated an entire continent! I mean c’mon, it doesn’t get much more bloody awful than that! And who knows how many of me own ancestors married their relatives just hold on to the crown jewels? I mean, the family jewels they should have been worried about were the ones that were producing the next generation of heirs. You can’t overshadow the Royal Family when it comes to embarrassing families m’love!”
14 Monday May 2018
Posted in Ego, Islam, Memorial, Middle Way, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
I just wanted to take a moment to honor the scores of Palestinians that were gunned down by Israeli soldiers today while they were protesting the United States opening its new embassy in Jerusalem.
Donald Trump has blood on his hands, not that I think that bothers him. He strikes me as a guy who has 2 emotions: Rage, and conceit. The rest of us don’t matter.
What is most heartbreaking about the massacre is that it was done for no other reason than that Trump just wanted to pocket some future votes with his base.
And so, 55 were killed today. How many of them had families? Does the Dear Leader bother to think about the fact that he, without a doubt, to also dedicate their lives to hating, and killing Israelis and Americans for years to come.
Good work on helping to keep Americans safe in the world, you dolt.
05 Saturday May 2018
If you’ve been following that “witch hunt” of an investigation into the whole Trump/Russia whatchamahoozit, then you know there was a meeting in Trump Tower back in June of 2016.
And you probably also heard about Don Jr.’s explanation as to why the meeting was no big deal. “They just wanted to talk about adoptions”, he explained.
Only adoptions? That’s odd…
If this meeting was the Russia’s only chance before the election to sneak in a “big ticket request” to the Trump campaign, why the hell would they pick the adoption of Russian orphans’?
Why indeed.
You may remember that back in 2012, Russia banned Americans from being able to adopt orphans out of Russia. There was a bunch of news stories at the time on the subject, but none of them really explained what it was all about. And what the hell do those Russian orphans have to do with the 2016 presidential election? Why did they target Donald Trump’s campaign with this request?
You’ve probably heard about the Magnitsky Act in the news, but do you know what that is? Do you know the whole story?
The person that really needs to tell this story is the man who lived it, Bill Browder. So at this point I’m going to ask you to click on the below link. It will take you to the webpage for “Stay Tuned with Preet”. On there, Preet interviews Browder on that story, and on how all of these things all fit together.
Take the time to give it a listen. Don’t only wont you won’t you regret it, you won’t be able to look at the Trump/Russia scandal the same way ever again. Share this with others. Get this story out. This is who we’re really dealing with.
18 Wednesday Apr 2018
Posted in First Amendment, Memorial, Middle Way
If I had to pick how I am remembered, it would be as a voicemail prize on a show about ridiculous news.
NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air : NPR
— Read on www.npr.org/2018/04/17/528656453/npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-84-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air
15 Sunday Apr 2018
Posted in Memorial, Middle Way, Patriotism, Trump-Hole
President Donald Trump has ordered the flags to half staff today because the guy who played the drill sergeant in a movie that had soldiers in it, died Sunday morning.
During a brief press Q&A, the President said, “His performance of a hard-hearted drill sergeant who drives a new recruit to commit a murder/suicide, was the most amazing performance of someone being in pretending to be in the army. It’s not an easy thing, I know. It’s something I have tried to do myself, with some success!”, he said, while waggling his eyebrows.
“I’ve always wanted to order the flag thing. It’s a great thing, the flag thing. Obama didn’t do the flag thing enough because, well… I don’t like him. A lot of people don’t.”, the President concluded.
The president was also heard to say that he was totally psyched everyone sending him all of their taxes finally.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/04/15/full-metal-jacket-actor-r-lee-ermey-dies-at-age-74.html
22 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Change, Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, Guns, Hate, Indivisible, Kids, Love, Memorial, Mental Health, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
I have started about two dozen posts about this latest shooting, but have published none, because the story keeps morphing. It started as the horrible tragedy that is yet another school shooting. And as the story started to emerge, it became clear that there was something different.
The idea that people had contacted the police, and the FBI on this shooter long before he acted, showed just how broken the system is. Add to that the fact that the shooter himself flat out told people that he actually aspired to be a school shooter… well, that simply shows the desensitization that we’ve all gone through.
Of course, somewhere in the middle of the whole thing, the President of the United States actually tried to make the story about him. That’s a first. But, then he made what is probably the most toothless political gesture, banning bump stocks. I mean, aside from the fact that this shooting didn’t even involve the use of bump stocks, but bump stocks aren’t even a weapon. Of course the NRA is staying quiet, so far the plan is working!
And then there are the students…
They are the reason that this story hasn’t ended, and won’t end, any time soon. They are the something different that has been needed in these stories for a long time. There have always been survivors and families who have made gun control their life’s work after events like this. So why is this different? Just ask any marketing person how difficult it is to predict when teenagers will suddenly connect with something; a fashion, some slang, a technology, or even a cause. Because once that barrier has been crossed, whatever it is will catch on in ways no one can control, or predict.
Now that the protest are beginning, we need to keep watch as the threats to young people grow. The NRA and its lackeys will not play fair (“they’re all actors!”) in their pursuit of war machines. And they will not care if their targets are minors. Some school districts are threatening suspension, while others are giving out civics credits for it.
Despite everything that the NRA and many of its financial recipients will tell you is that isn’t about “coming to get your guns”. It’s about the difference between rational (“I have a couple couple rifles and a shotgun for hunting.”), and obsessive (“Obama is a black gay Muslim socialist! I need a couple extra AR-15’s to store in my shelter with my canned goods, and my tinfoil hat!”)
And it’s about the end of all of the ridiculous excuses. There are people with mental illnesses in every country in the world, so why don’t they have mass shootings all the time. No one tells you it’s not a good time to talk about hand washing because it’s “not the time” to talk about it, because it’s insensitive for all the people who have recently died of the flu. Every one of those excuses is designed to play upon our morality. Think about that… Every tactic is made to play upon your humanity!
That’s what we are dealing with. People who will not give an inch, don’t care about bloodshed, and will use morality in the name of the immoral. Let’s see what happens when they go up against youth, optimism and the sheer force of adolescent willpower.
