Some time back, other
than the United States,
where most of my readers
predictably reside, Canada, and even England approached the number two
readership status. Obviously, I'm
grateful for anybody who devotes even a few seconds of time to read my
rant. However, peculiarly, this blog's
number two reading audience, according to the Google blog map serving my
account, apparently now consists of Russians.
I find this
rather puzzling, because I can't imagine what I have that the good people of
Russia want. I'm thinking, hmm, maybe
they long for a way to bitch about Putin the way I freely criticize Obama --
and I gotta tell you Russian folks, dumping on this president not only feels
good -- it's an obligation for every true American! For my efforts, I get words of thanks or
derision, but what do you get? Polonium
sandwiches, my friends, polonium in the bread, polonium in the drinks and
polonium a la carte. We in the USA get
mainstream media journalists influenced by party politics and who knows what
mix of power and influence -- but your journalists end up dead if they
don't support party politics.
So, why are my
readers significantly Russian in number?
Hey, wait a minute -- is that you, Ed Snowden? Is this an army of hackers? Please -- fascinating though this blog may be
(um, yeah, I'm talking about the early years), there's nothing worth
hacking here. Nevertheless, if anybody's
going to the effort of trying to hack me from Russia, maybe you could just leave
some interesting or juicy stuff on my pages instead so's I can up my
readership?
Then again,
forget me. You folks need to work on
sending Mr. Putin on a long, long vacation.
Some might find him hot stuff, but he and his are screwing Russia and
Russians with his various decisions. A
snake can shed its skin, but it's still a snake.
In our own way,
we Americans know exactly how you feel.
Do we ever. . .
Pretty in paint: Some places around the country insist that
toy guns be painted in bright colors so cops can distinguish between the real
and the false. Well, that sounds great
on the surface, but here's what's going to happen: First, criminals with real guns will
paint them in festive hues to deceive the police. Second, kids who refuse sissy colors on their
toy guns will paint them in black or silver so they'll appear real in
the presence of their potentially bullying friends. Finally, adults who keep toy guns in the
house just to confuse break-in assailants and robbers will also shun the new
colors, preferring instead to alter the colors of harmless, obviously faux
firearms with bold blacks and grays. So,
in the end -- just what is accomplished with these new laws spreading across
the country? Right it's the feel good
factor.
Michael Brown
was shot dead a year ago and the Ferguson MS community where the infamously
fallen young thug, thief and bully was rightfully gunned down nevertheless
honored him with protests and violence, which means they had a routine
day. Everybody with a brain, even Eric
Holder's racist Dept. of Justice, proclaimed the officer who took him down
innocent of all charges. No matter, the
violent morons of Ferguson paid no mind to the fact, fact, fact that Brown was
not shot in the back -- and there was, at no point, any such talk as Hands up, don't shoot. Even when a police officer is fully
exonerated in today's USA, that's just another indictment against cops for the
street idiots. ALL of the recent videos
regarding police officers involved with tragic situations involving black
deaths show, in either little or large ways, people refusing to follow lawful
orders and/or taking off and/or becoming a potential threat to the officer on
the scene. How can things not escalate when
one gives police officers, already "on the edge" in Obama's
hair-trigger America, a reason? If
anything, the anniversary should have honored former police officer Darren
Wilson, whose life is now a hell on earth.
And regarding
yet another movie theater tragedy, this one in Nashville TN, there's another case for allowing guns into
public places so at least there's a chance gunfire will save the day, rather
than ending it.
At least for the
moment, the rational mind of Dr. Ben Carson has displaced the abject
buffoonery of Al Sharpton. I don't know
that Carson's lack of political experience will gain him a real chance at the
presidency (we wish otherwise, of course), but if all else fails he would make
one heck of a U.S. surgeon general.
On the other
hand, the resounding hatred and
evil-inciting words of the Nation of Islam's 82 year old Louis Farrakhan
continue to corrode intelligent thinking among any who would call themselves
his followers. Farrakhan's latest
pronouncements encouraging murders of a certain segment of Americans seem
specific enough to get him arrested, yet he walks the streets a free man,
likely to be unencumbered by Attorney General and Eric Holder clone Loretta
Lynch. When properly and fairly administered
law and order return to this country, and that would be sometime after the
Obama clock hits midnight, we hope a number of folks have little opportunity to
reach the hills they start heading for.
Senator Charles
Schumer says NO to Obama's Iran no-deal and that sounded great, but he's probably
playing the usual game of numbers, knowing full well that this outrageously
dangerous and ineptly constructed plan will sail through Congress nevertheless
-- and voters should remain cognizant of just how their leaders vote, come
election time when political waters of change might feel right.
Voting rights
are much under discussion with the commemoration of voting rights, but will
somebody except the usual morons explain to me again why getting and
showing something equivalent to voter ID is simply oppression for the poor and
unfortunate, since we would ALL have to have identification -- and ID cards for
the unfortunate would obviously be provided at no cost by the government?
Media -- movie
and TV -- stocks are sinking and fewer among the young depend upon
conventional television, whether cable or satellite, for their entertainment
anymore. I know every TV show can't be The Walking Dead, but there's some pretty
bad and repetitive television out there.
The new season looks enticing, I suppose, if you crave another butt-load
of cop and hospital dramas -- and TV sitcoms whose premises have sunk lower
than snow on California's heights. Lyings and tirades and bores, oh my!
One point I
would seriously offer here is, maybe
it's time to shed the union hoodoo stuff and start making it easier for novices
& nobodies to contribute story ideas and scripts. This, however, seems unlikely merely because,
as in all other lucrative segments of society, attorneys have everything
tangled up in knots, and unless one has an agent who Plays The Game correctly,
even the best story ideas are encouraged to dive straight to hell (unless
somebody cleverly rips off the creator and gets away scot free). And that's why we turn on our TVs and get
what we get. As we said, stocks are
tanking, and the same old among the same old are left scratching their heads.
70 years ago,
Japan surrendered to the United States and that aspect of World War II
ended. America-hating leftist professors
in colleges and universities will blame the U.S. for the carnage reeked by
atomic bombs ordered dropped on Japan by President Truman, yet they'll
"forget" to emphasize the millions of lives saved by ending in this
manner a war likely to continue long and bloody. Had Obama been president when Pearl Harbor
was bombed, his recipe-style negotiated
settlement would probably have destined America for a far different and
terrible future.
Trump all day
and Trump all night: Oh, pity poor Megyn Kelly -- She can dish it
out, but her colleagues can't take Trump's response! Look, everybody knew that Donald Trump is
what he is, and to say that the media (likely in conjunction with political
operatives) isn't out to destroy him using every little word he utters is just
plain wrong. Me, I'm getting my kicks
out of hearing them designate Trump as un-presidential. Really?
Has anybody bothered to look at what's currently taking up space in the
White House? That, dude, is
un-everything good about America. Wanna
talk about Hillary, another un?
The GOP is
absolutely responsible for Donald Trump's grand entrance into the Republican
palace, both through their lackluster performance in Congress and
through their surrender to every major piece of legislative debris favored by
the White House
Bring Trump
down. . .ruin him. . .ridicule his position. . .insult him back. . .and what
does it get you?
Why, a third
political party, of course. Remember?
Throughout the
years I worked in a hospital atmosphere, I never once heard of a
female body part called a whatever. In fact, I once knew an OB-GYN physician who
encountered some legal trouble because he knew all about, and much too much
about, a particular woman patient's body parts -- yet, never did I heard him
reference anything called a whatever. According to the rabid mainstream media,
Donald Trump apparently knows what a whatever is and knows where it is
located. I'll continue consulting
medical encyclopedias, but I doubt there will be a whatever anywhere,
either pictured or explained.
Planned
Parenthood
in pictures: Think what you like, I'm not budging from my
position that this is just not a subject to hang the GOP's political future on,
but it's their funeral. The thing is,
those engaged in "right to life" pursuits involving every aspect and
age of human beings have complicated matters by themselves, merely by looking
to technology to help people live longer and better lives. We've reached the stage where people who used
to be too small, too large or too dead can now be hooked up to
"life-sustaining" machinery able to keep life signs going
indefinitely. Should we, then, save
everybody? This is all well and good,
but now the scientific community ponders how many people are enough for a
planet only capable of sustaining so much life.
If some of us expect that God will solve the issue, remember that thing
about going forth and multiplying -- except nobody seems to have written down
instructions for hitting the "stop" switch to bring the reproductive
railroad and its eternal load of interactive vaginas and penises to a halt.
So go ahead,
scream about Planned Parenthood, but think of a day in the future when an
abundance of humans might be felled by disease of a most horrible sort -- or
maybe human life will suffer simply because we're messing with the seeds and
mechanisms used to grow crops. Recent
questions among scientists take this issue quite seriously, and one wonders
about the road to famine, possible thanks to nothing more than our own
intervention.
At the risk of
being labeled a ghoul, I believe aborted human body parts -- which would
otherwise be incinerated or destroyed in some other manner -- may well be
helpful, and even necessary in tissue research.
If anybody thinks this concept isn't already taken to vast extremes in
China, North Korea, Iran and any number of countries whose human-related
practices are far less than stellar or gracious, they're kidding
themselves. Want to get rid of Planned
Parenthood once and for all? Ban sex.
The Environmental
Protection Agency Un-protects:
Well, well, well -- now who will the EPA sue, following their own little
toxic water screw-up in Colorado, the effects of which flow on to Utah
non-stop? This is an opportune time for
Congress to find a way to fine the EPA almost out of existence, until there's
only adequate funding remaining to care for emergencies, and not for little
White House-advised excursions into climate change crazy town.
