“AMERIGUN” THE BEAUTIFUL-CARNAGE IN CALIFORNIA and MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI!!!
Murder and mayhem with firearms has become so commonplace in this country that when three innocent people, including two children and fourteen others are wounded at a festival in California and two Wal-Mart employees gunned down in a store in Mississippi in cold blood by a disgruntled employee it barely makes the news cycle. This is the absolute incredible state of affairs in what I am referring to now as “AMERIGUN” where we have become so used to weekly mass killings with assault rifles and handguns that it’s almost not even newsworthy anymore. And as far as I can see not a SINGLE utterance has been made regarding reviving any discussion regarding stricter gun regulations in the wake of these two incidents. In Gilroy, CA at the annual Garlic festival a nineteen year old dressed in camo and geared up for combat snuck into the festival grounds with an assault rifle and randomly began to shoot innocent people. A six year old and a thirteen year old were among the victims. The gunman himself was shot and killed by police within minutes of the outbreak of gunshots. No motive for the senseless slaughter has yet been determined. Here’s a question I have for “MOSCOW” Mitch McConnell and the rest of the gutless cowards in the Congress who are so subservient to the NRA and the gun lobby-how can it be more difficult for a nineteen year old to buy a vaporizer than an assault rifle?!? McConnell has recently introduced legislation that would ban the sale of e cigarettes to anyone under twenty one and yet refuses to bring ANY type of meaningful gun legislation to the floor for discussion. WTF is wrong with this picture?!? How does a nineteen year old acquire a military style assault rifle??? Simple. He just went out and bought it. Sadly, as far as I can tell, the only Democratic candidate who has taken the issue seriously and made it one of the pillars of his platform is Senator Cory Booker. The rest of the field has either paid the issue lip service in order to avoid alienating all of the gun toting NRA members back home or avoided it altogether. As I have said before, it appears the only way to have ANY meaningful gun legislation passed into law, like the banning of the sale of assault style weapons is to flip the REPUBLIKAN controlled Senate and replace “MOSCOW” Mitch as Majority Leader. The House has recently passed several measures to tighten up the loopholes that exist only to see McConnell refuse to even bring them to the Senate floor for discussion. He and forty seven other of his colleagues in the Senate have earned A+ rating from the NRA and gladly accept the generous campaign contributions they dole out for the continued shelter they provide to the gun industry. Oh, and BTW-their hearts go out to the victims and their prayers are with the families. The entire issue of guns is completely out of control. Here in Kentucky, the REPUBLIKAN controlled legislature and the governor passed and signed into law a bill so that a permit is no longer required to conceal and carry a firearm. Recently in Louisville, gang and gun violence has escalated sharply, with many of the guns being used in drive by shootings being stolen from unlocked vehicles. In one instance, FIVE guns were stolen from one vehicle. I have to ask, what kind of an absolute idiot a) has five guns in his vehicle; b) leaves the doors unlocked??? In Chicago, the number of deaths by gun violence trends ever upward. It’s not safe to venture out in public anymore, to concerts, festivals, churches, synagogues or nightclubs without fear of being gunned down. And yet NOTHING GETS DONE!!! WHY??? Our entire culture with regard to firearms has got to change. This is no longer a country where local militias have to be ready to defend their communities at a moments notice, no longer a country where carrying a rifle or a sidearm was as necessary for survival as a horse, no longer a country where their need be any fear of the government confiscating their existing weapons. It IS, however, a country that continues to claim the Constitutional right to acquire weapons of mass destruction like assault style rifles and semi automatic handguns for anybody including nineteen year olds. Until this entire generation of gun owners and Second Amendment proponents is dead and gone, I daresay nothing is going to change. We will continue to see horrific episodes of mass murder and our Congress will do nothing about it. That’s life in today’s AMERIGUN.
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TRUMP’S TROLLS
VERB “Trolls”-make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them. The latest outburst of racist Twitter trolls from Donald Trump have been directed at Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, as a result of his role in investigating numerous allegations of wrongdoing and criminal acts committed by Trump and his administration. Here is the original tweet from our President....”As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place.” These comments were made following Cummings criticism of conditions at the detention centers along the southern border, criticisms that have been corroborated by numerous other sources. This of course followed numerous racist attacks against the four freshmen Democrats in the House known as ‘the Squad” in the last couple of weeks. Today he went after Nancy Pelosi and the Reverend Al Sharpton for calling him out on the Cummings tweets. He called them racist, and said Sharpton was “a con man and a troublemaker”. Trump’s strategy is simple-divide and conquer. Defer and deflect. Trump wants to make this upcoming election about us v them, whites v blacks, good v evil, America v the world. Why you may ask? Why would the President of the United States of America, once the greatest nation on earth, deliberately pursue such a divisive strategy with all of the inherent risks of doing so? That’s simple too. He doesn’t want the voters to look at his abysmal record of failure, from foreign policy disasters to his foolish and destructive trade wars, his destruction of our environment in a massive sell out to special interest groups like petrochemical, coal and the utility industry, his catastrophic and inhumane immigration policies, his tacit support for white supremacists or his numerous adulterous improprieties. His administration is rife with corruption unprecedented in recent history, from financial wrongdoing to ethical violations. His “CABINET OF CLOWNS” is the most incompetent on record. Instead of safeguarding our resources and the very agencies they control, Cabinet members from Betsy “CRUELLA” DeVos to Steve “the MUNCHKIN” Mnuchin to Wilbur “The BOSS” Ross are too busy dismantling and rolling back to achieve anything constructive all the while lining their own pockets. Let’s just take Trump’s record on foreign relations. He is subservient to Putin for reasons not yet uncovered (remember the Helsinki performance?!?), has failed in his attempts to get his BFF Kim Jong un to denuclearize, instead touting his great relationship while this murderous thug continues to build his arsenal of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them (aren’t you sleeping better at night as he promised after the first so called summit???), supported the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, MBS, despite his direct involvement with the brutal murder and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist, in order to sell him EIGHT BILLION in military hardware, reneged on the Iran Nuclear Deal and has brought us to the brink of a disastrous military confrontation with Iran in the Persian Gulf, started a financially ruinous trade war with our largest trading partner in China after telling us all that “trade wars are easy” (how easy is a FIFTEEN BILLION $ taxpayer bail out for farmers because of your actions?!?) and has driven a wedge between us and our staunchest allies in Europe. He also pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, the worldwide commitment to eliminating toxic emissions from fossil fuels into the environment which has resulted in the acceleration of climate change. He touts his economic achievements, but what are they REALLY??? The economy was humming along pretty well under Barrack Obama and Trump was the recipient of it when he took office. He talks about the low unemployment rate under his administration, another statistic that trended down significantly BEFORE Trump was elected. He and the REPUBLIKAN party have saddled us with the largest corporate tax cut on record and signed off on a budget that reflects historic deficits, and now want to pay for it by reducing the so called entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. The actual increase in the wages of middle class Americans have stagnated while the wealthy see their disproportionate share of the pie grow greater with each passing year. Our infrastructure is crumbling but we have to spend millions on an unnecessary border wall. Economists are predicting the economic bubble is about to burst at any time, and that will REALLY be Donald Trump and the REPUBLIKANS ultimate undoing because it is ALL THEY HAVE as we head into next year’s historic elections. So don’t fall for Trump’s Trolls. As much as I utterly despise the man and his policies, he is a master at manipulating the fears of the uninformed public to his maximum advantage. These are designed to have maximum effect on taking the focus off of the REAL issues, the issues like healthcare and education costs. Keep your eye on the prize, which is to defeat CROOKED DONALD in 2020 and flip the United States Senate and “DITCH MOSCOW” MITCH in the process!!! The rest is pure distraction by design. Donald Trump’s design. SUMMER SATURDAY SNIPPETS
MORE “MOSCOW MITCH” DARKNESS I reported yesterday regarding Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to bring two bills passed by the House designed to protect our election process from foreign interference following the Russian hacking in 2016 to the floor for a vote. “MOSCOW MITCH” called the bills “political partisanship” by the Democrats. It was also revealed that a Russian oligarch previously sanctioned by the United States government for corruption and financial fraud is bankrolling a $200,000,000 aluminum mill in Kentucky, McConnell’s home state. Then it was reported that he also had taken campaign contributions from two companies that produce eighty per cent of the nation’s voting machines. One of the House bills stipulated the use of paper ballots to minimize the risk of cyber attack on electronic machines. MOSCOW MITCH taking more ‘dark” money, imagine that! He is the champion of Citizens United which opened up our electoral process to the highest bidder by allowing corporate Amerika, special interest groups and wealthy individuals to donate HUGE amounts of $ to influence the outcome of elections. He puts the very security of our democracy at risk in order to satisfy back room promises and cull favor for campaign contributions by taking care of his benefactors, be they Russian mobsters or special interests. We simply CANNOT allow this buffoon the opportunity to spend eight more years in office by living on the dark side. SAUDI BLOOD MONEY It should come as no surprise to anyone that Trump recently overrode a Congressional resolution to block his EIGHT BILLION $ arms sale to his BFF The Crown Prince MBS of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The incestual relationship, primarily financial, between Trump, the Kushner family and the royal family of Saudi Arabia is a matter of record. The Saudis, at the direction of MBS, brutally murdered and dismembered a Washington Post journalist, are waging a genocidal war in Yemen with active military assistance from the United States that has killed thousands of innocent victims, including women and children. But hey, what are a few body parts when compared to selling all that military hardware!!! This entire relationship should be included as part of any impeachment inquiry-there’s much more here than has been reported, of that I’m sure. HELP WANTED Job description: U.S. Congress, either House of Representatives or Senate. Experience Required: None. Job Requirements: Must be middle aged or older white Anglo Saxon Evangelical, pro life, A+ rating from the NRA and have the ability to lie and deceive on a daily basis. Job Description: Appear to be accomplishing something significant while doing absolutely nothing about anything for anyone except yourself or your party. Salary: In addition to the huge salary, you are also entitled to as much as you can steal or line up with PAC and/or corporate dark money. Benefits: Low cost healthcare for life; huge salaries; three months vacation, including six weeks in the summer; retirement plan; death benefits better than the military; free air travel; fun money for discretionary expenditures. Oh, and BTW, guess who is footing the bill for all of this??? You guessed it-WE ARE!!! And we wonder why these buffoons are all so anxious to get themselves reelected no matter what the price?!? We are in the middle of the biggest Constitutional crisis our country has EVER experienced with a president who is completely out of control, numerous investigations of the administration in the beginnings of an impeachment inquiry, foreign policy disasters looming on several fronts including the Persian Gulf and N Korea, a deficit that is the largest in our nation’s history, an out of control situation at our southern border being perpetuated by Trump’s inhumane immigration policies, our electoral process under attack from without by Russia, Iran and others and Congress decides to take six weeks off?!? WTF is wrong with this picture? THE WALKING DEAD OF HURSTBOURNE On a more local note, like the zombies from the smash AMC hit “The Walking Dead”, the “OLD GEEZERS OF HURSTBOURNE” simply refuse to die in their numerous and futile attempts to halt the development of TopGolf in Oxmoor Center. After losing their crusade to dissuade the Zoning Commission, the Metro Council and a circuit court judge who dismissed the case, the residents of Hurstbourne have now filed yet another appeal, this one to the Court of Appeals. If past judgments from this judicial branch in similar cases hold true, this appeal has little, if any chance of succeeding. In the meanwhile, construction has already begun on the proposed site. I suppose since it appears that the supply of unscrupulous attorneys and trust fund money is endless in this pathetic ongoing fiasco, it just stands to reason these sorry individuals and their lawyers will take this all the way to the Kentucky Supreme Court. Just for spite. TopGolf should find a good legal reason to counter sue these bastards when the dust settles for once and for all. LIGHTNING STRIKES SUMMER HAZARD-BEWARE!!! A group of girl scouts in MN who were camping were struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm. There were thankfully no serious injuries. FORTY THOUSAND barrels of whiskey in Kentucky destroyed in a warehouse fire that was caused by a lightning strike. Last summer a lightning strike hit a tree no more than twenty feet above our bedroom-it splintered parts of the tree like kindling sending pieces of the tree up to a block away. It went to ground through my garage, blowing out my door opener and a couple of electrical outlets. The resultant boom was so loud it literally threw me out of bed! The four large trees that lined our fence on that side of the house are now gone. The point is as the storms we experience grow more numerous and intense (what climate change???) you should take heed of lightning if nearby. If you are outdoors, you are at risk. It’s simply not worth your life to finish the hole out or catch a few extra rays of sun. Hope you are having a pleasant summer. It’s more than half over already!!! Enjoy it safely while it lasts. MEET “MOSCOW” MITCH”
Anyone who has ever read this blog knows how much I utterly DESPISE Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who, incidentally and unfortunately, hails from my home town and home state of Louisville, KY. For years he has exemplified what happens when big business and special interests groups, as well as the very wealthiest or one per centers control our government and essentially own those people like McConnell who are supposed to be representing the interests of their constituency. He has been responsible for the slow destruction of our democratic processes, from Citizens United which opened the floodgates of campaign finance to his recent and inexplicable refusal to allow two separate bills passed by the House designed to protect the American electoral process from Russian or other foreign intervention from even being brought to the Senate floor for a vote. Here in a brief summary is his explanation. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday blocked votes on two bills designed to combat election interference, accusing Democrats of pushing them for political purposes. McConnell rejected Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s request for consent to pass legislation approved by the House that funds the Election Assistance Commission and sets up a requirement to use paper ballots, calling it “partisan legislation.” The majority leader also shot down Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal’s request for consent to pass a second election-security bill that would require political candidates, their families, and their campaign associates to report to the FBI offers of assistance from foreign governments. McConnell has argued that elections should be controlled by states, not federal authorities, and says Congress has already addressed the election-security concerns that arose from the 2016 election. The requests for the bills come a day after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony about Russian election interference, during which he warned that future election meddling from foreign governments is imminent. “They are doing it as we sit here,” Mueller said. “Over the course of my career, I’ve seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government’s effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious.” (This information taken from “National Review”). As incredible as this may seem, that once again a REPUBLIKAN leader willing to sell out the safety and security of our nation for political purposes, pure and simple. Consequently, on ”Morning Joe” this morning, Joe Scarborough went off on McConnell and gave him a new tag line- “MOSCOW MITCH”. It has already trended heavily on social media. Here is the actual commentary from Scarborough: “How can ‘Moscow Mitch’ so willingly turn a blind eye not only this year to what his Republican chairman of the Intel Committee is saying, to what Robert Mueller is saying what, the FBI director is saying, what the DNI is saying, to what the CIA is saying, to what the United States military Intel community is saying. How can ‘Moscow Mitch’ keep denying that Vladimir Putin continues to try to subvert American democracy?” Scarborough said, after suggesting that perhaps McConnell had a conflict of interest related to Russian investment in his home state. “Seriously, he is — he is aiding and abetting Vladimir Putin’s ongoing attempts to subvert American democracy, according to the Republican FBI, CIA, DNI, Intel Committee, all Republicans are all saying Russia is subverting American democracy and ‘Moscow Mitch’ won’t let the Senate take a vote on it. That is un-American,” Scarborough yelled. The other item we should note is the reference to a sweetheart deal negotiated with a Russian oligarch formerly sanctioned by the United States government for corruption to finance the construction of an aluminum mill in Kentucky. Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list. The new aluminum plant, slated to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be the biggest new aluminum plant constructed in the U.S. in decades. Rusal will have a 40 percent stake in the facility. It would appear not only has Donald Trump sold his soul to the Russians, but so has our illustrious Senate Majority Leader. Just one more indication of how little regard these so called leaders and their party have for the safety and security of the United States-they will sell us out in a nanosecond if it benefits them financially and/or politically or both. Just one more reason to ditch “MOSCOW MITCH” and his golden idol CROOKED DONALD. Since it appears that the Democrats in the House of Representatives have no stomach for seriously engaging these REPUBLIKANS who are in the process of destroying our democracy, the only solution lies at the ballot box next year. That is if your vote doesn’t get hacked by the Russians!!! NOTE TO “NO BALLS” NANCY-YOUR GO SLOW STRATEGY ISN’T WORKING!!!
After watching Robert Mueller’s appearances before Congressional committees yesterday and the absolute ZERO traction his testimony gave to Democrats in their strategic efforts to build their impeachment case against Donald Trump, I’m now convinced Speaker Nancy “NO BALLS” Pelosi’s game plan is deeply flawed and needs immediate revision. Despite a growing number of House Democrats who now favor beginning an impeachment inquiry based on what we now know regarding Trump and his campaigns multiple criminal offenses committed in order to get him elected, Pelosi is sticking by her “death by water drip” approach, primarily she claims for tactical political reasons. She doesn’t believe enough Americans are convinced it’s time to get serious about Congress doing its Constitutional duty and removing this total misfit named Trump from office. She seems more concerned about the political repercussions. Here’s what she had to say following Mueller’s testimony and a closed door meeting with the Democratic caucus. Nancy Pelosi told a CNN reporter that she has “never” discouraged fellow House Democrats from supporting an impeachment inquiry against Trump and that they need to follow their own instincts on the matter. But reports started emerging last night that the House speaker had rebuffed efforts to launch impeachment proceedings after special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony. Some House Democrats also have a deadline of the upcoming recess on their minds, according to CNN. They fear that the impeachment issue could lose momentum if it is not raised before the August recess. (this information from “The Guardian”). Pelosi believes her strategy of killing by committee and subpoena will ultimately reveal enough evidence to convince the public that impeachment is appropriate and will serve the Democrats well in the 2020 elections. At this point in the proceedings, I must strongly disagree. Let’s take a look at what we know right now about Donald Trump and his criminal behavior and that of his administration. These tidbits come directly from Robert Mueller’s testimony yesterday. 1). Trump could be indicted for criminal obstruction of justice on multiple counts once he leaves office. 2). A number of his appointees and confidants have been indicted and are currently serving time as a result of their involvement in financial wrongdoing and perjuring themselves in front of a grand jury. 3). Trump himself lied in a number of his written responses to Mueller, thereby perjuring himself. 4) The Russian interference in the 2016 election was very real and was initiated in order to help the Trump campaign; the campaign, including Trump’s own son Donald Jr. welcomed this tampering with open arms, as did Trump himself. The meddling continues today and will continue through the 2020 election cycle with tacit approval from Trump and Mitch McConnell and the REPUBLIKANS. 5). Trump and his sycophants have been misleading the public all along with their claims of “No Obstruction, No Collusion”. Mueller left no doubt as to his involvement in both, despite the fact that he claimed to be unable to indict a sitting president due to DOJ directives. Any ONE of these items should be grounds to begin an impeachment inquiry as favored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler. The REPUBLIKANS impeached Bill Clinton for lying under oath. The supposed “witch hunt” that Trump continues to claim against him resulted in numerous indictments and convictions for criminal behavior, both here and in Russia. His and his idiot attorney “Rudy “RUNAWAY BEER TRUCK” Guiliani’s claims of total exoneration are as ridiculous as the unabashed support for this corrupt and racist individual by the REPUBLIKAN party. Their day of reckoning will be at hand soon. And this is just the old news. Currently we have war about to explode in the Persian Gulf as a result of Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the previously negotiated Iran Nuclear Deal and the policies of “DR STRANGELOVE” John Bolton and “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo; Trump’s BFF Kim Jong un has recently fired off more ballistic missiles and been photographed next to what appears to be a nuclear capable submarine under construction while we are assured about the relationship and Trump’s negotiating prowess; we are embroiled in a destructive trade war with China, which is costing us literally billions of taxpayer and consumer dollars; we have a completely inhumane immigration policy being pursued by detaining innocent men women and children in unimaginable conditions while the number of illegal and legal immigrants at our southern border continues to swell; Trump has racially attacked United States Congresswomen because of the color of their skin, telling them to “go back where they came from”. His deregulation of environmental policies and guidelines which have been in effect for decades are being rolled back at a rate that will cause serious and permanent damage for generations to come, like his support for coal as a means of generating power. He refuses through any legal means possible to release his tax returns-WHY?!? What is he hiding??? I think we all know the answer to that. That's the reason Trump and his lawyers continue to fight New York State and anybody else who would favor making these documents public. So I humbly ask Nancy Pelosi-WTF are you waiting for?!? I understand that in all likelihood the REPUBLIKAN Senate will never vote to impeach their golden idol, but at least an impeachment inquiry will stake out everybody’s positions in black and white for the voting public to see for themselves. The time for action is now, NO BALLS!!!! You are losing the waiting game while Trump while he and his allies make fodder of your party!!! The man is a CRIMINAL, by any definition, and were it not for the supposed DOJ mandate that a sitting president cannot be indicted or charged with a crime, he would have been already. This supposed guideline is absurd and MUST be revisited before Trump actually does KILL somebody in the Oval Office!!!! Why are we allowing him and his REPUBLIKAN stooges to get away with all BUT murder?!? IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUC*ER!!! NOW!!! ALMOST HEAVEN WEST (BY TRUMP) VIRGINIA?!?
When I was a young man newly married, my father in law was a river man by hobby more than anything. H was a licensed steam boat pilot who occasionally took the wheel of the BELLE OF LOUISVILLE, a resurrected old steamboat which the city had bought many years back and of which he was also a member of the operating board. He knew many fellow river rats, and one young captain in particular hailed from a prominent family in Charleston, West Virginia. I recall them fondly discussing West “BY GOD” Virginia; I remember a few years later taking a rafting trip on the New River where the scenery was utterly spectacular. The state license tag reads “Wild and Wonderful”. I have a family member who married into a prominent West Virginia family who are loyal WVU fans come hell or high water, both of which can be found there if you know where to look! And now Donald Trump has gone and ruined all that. He has for reasons totally unbeknownst to anybody spent more time and held more of his so called “political rallies” in this state than any other, despite the fact one of the states two Senators is a Democrat (he might as well be a REPUBLIKAN) and the state is only worth five votes in the Electoral College. There are of course the underlying reasons. The racist ones. When you see the newscasts of his rally tomorrow night, the first thing you will notice is how few people of color are in attendance. That’s because there aren’t too many in the entire freaking state!!! Less than 3% of the total population!!! Hispanics??? Less than 1%!!! The white population % of West Virginia??? NINETY THREE PERCENT!!! (Do we see a trend here?!?) Only 20% of the state’s population is college educated. The current rate of unemployment is 4.5%, almost double the national average. Almost one third of the population could be described as Evangelical. When you throw all of these ingredients together, what do you get??? I’ll tell you, you get what is called “the base”!!!! These are the thirty some per cent of the general population and probably closer to sixty or seventy per cent in West Virginia. These are the people that worship Trump, believe in every word that comes from either he or one of his numerous sycophants or FAUX NEWS. These are the people who WILL be chanting “send her back” tomorrow night, you can take that to the bank, Mr. President, and you’ll soak it all in like the two bit charlatan you are. The facts are otherwise regarding what Trump has promised and what he has delivered, not only to the people of West Virginia but all of his supporters in 2016. The wall, which Mexico was going to pay for-how did that work out? All those coal mining jobs that would comeback as a result of Trump’s catastrophic environmental policies promoting fossil fuels like coal as a means of future power-never happened. Some of the largest coal companies in the country have declared bankruptcy over the period since he took office. Health care reform?!? Lower prescription costs??? Ask one of the locals who got addicted to opiods when the pharmaceutical companies flooded the state with pain pills and pain clinics a few years back how that panned out. I know that the people of West Virginia aren’t the back woods hillbillies depicted in the movie “Deliverance” (just don’t get lost on a back road); I also know it isn’t the “almost heaven” John Denver sang about. Like every other state, it has its good points and its issues. It’s a shame that the rest of the country views the state as a red neck racist bunch of hillbillies because that’s all they will get to see tomorrow at the rally. Maybe there will be a few white hoods mixed in for good effect. The previous events I’ve seen here looked more like Klan gatherings than political rallies. I’ll bet you right here and now that West Virginia’s whopping 5 Electoral College votes will be cast for CROOKED DONALD. That’s as sure a thing as him attacking “the Squad” tomorrow night to get the crowd whipped into frenzy. I hope he plans many more rallies there in the state where he feels the most comfortable, because voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan have had enough of him and his racist politics, and these are the states that will determine our next president. His strategy worked in 2016, but it won’t work in 2020. SOME SATURDAY SNIPPETS
RORY’S STORY So here you are, teeing off on the first hole of The Open Championship (British Open) in your home country of Northern Ireland with the entire populace cheering you on, the tournament favorite. You stand on the tee box with iron in hand, soaking in the adulation of the home crowd. The first hole at Royal Portrush, unlike ANY U.S. golf course that the pros play, has out of bounds markers on either side of the fairway. Theoretically, as a professional golfer, especially one of the top ranked players in the world, you should be able to hit an iron left, right or straight in your sleep. This is why Rory McIlroy chose an iron rather than a driver or fairway metal, to put the ball in the fairway and avoid trouble. So what happens next is a complete shock-he jerks his tee shot left and OB (out of bounds)!!! His ball actually struck a woman in the crown in the stomach and broke her I phone!!! He winds up taking a quadruple bogey 8 on the hole (a score affectionately referred to by us mortal golfers as a “snowman”. Then, after scrambling around sixteen more holes to get his score into a somewhat more respectable realm he takes a triple bogey 7 on hole number eighteen to end his round shooting a 79 or eight over par. His worst performance EVER in the first round of a major championship. Many would say of his round he was feeling the pressure of the lofty expectations of his countrymen and the so called golf “experts” who had predicted big things from him. Many would have also folded their tent right then and there, made excuses for their poor play and called it a day. Not Rory. I knew that he was a class act when he agreed to do an on screen live interview with the Golf Channel following his round. He was gracious and offered up no excuses, but instead vowed to come out on Friday and shoot a low score to try to make the cut to play on the weekend, a goal which appeared at the time to be unrealistic (he would have to shoot 65 or better to have ANY chance of doing so. So he comes out on Friday and shoots a 65 and misses the cut by ONE STROKE!!!! He missed an easy wedge shot on the seventeenth hole that could have put him in the weekend mix, but his efforts and the reaction of the thousands of fans on the course to it were evidence enough that Rory McIlroy is a class act, win lose or draw. I commend him and the good folks of Northern Ireland-it’s been quite a show so far!!! TRUMP’S TROLLS The continued attacks by Donald Trump on the four Democratic Congresswomen known as “the Squad”, including the chants at his political rally in North Carolina the other night of “send her back” signals yet another low point in his presidency. Time and again he has proven to be an absolute bigot and racist, both in his words and actions. He refused to repudiate the support of White Supremacists like David Duke, made racially offensive remarks following the Charlottesville riot in which a demonstrator was killed and has continuously shown his contempt for people of color through his verbal attacks and his immigration policies. His divisive politics are intended to polarize the country so badly that he can win another term in the White House through his fear and terror tactics and those of his administration and supporters. This will be his tactic all the way through the 2020 campaign cycle, so we should be prepared for a lot worse to come, knowing Trump. It is disgraceful to say the least. And all the while the gutless cowards in the party he hijacked like “RICH” Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham “CRACKER” either stand silently by or support his blatant racism with their words and the lame excuses they have offered in his defense. It is truly pathetic. I hope the Democrats can attack this strategy with a vengeance, because this nation CANNOT withstand another four years of this corrosive, corrupt and criminal individual as President. WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF It’s only a matter of time now. Dr. Strangelove and “POMPOUS” Mike will get their war, and I promise it will be catastrophic for ALL concerned. All because Trump so despises Barrack Obama that he essentially deliberately sabotaged the Iranian Nuclear Treaty which we signed in concert with our European allies. Like as is the case with N Korea and Kim Jong un, our bluster and bluff have been completely ineffectual and the sanctions imposed by Trump have only further steeled Iranian resolve against us. The real winners in any potential shooting war will be sitting on the sidelines while we suffer the casualties, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Trump has steadfastly defended Netanyahu and his corrupt regime in Tel Aviv and MBS of Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince who personally ordered the murder and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with absolutely NO recriminations. DEMOCRATIC DEBATES The next scheduled round of Democratic presidential debates will be held in just over a week or so. I sincerely hope it will be the last one that includes at least fifteen individuals who have absolutely ZERO chance of winning the nomination. The field needs to be narrowed to include only those candidates who have shown they can generate enthusiasm and bring the voters to the polls next year to defeat Donald Trump. Those individuals are as follows, based upon the most recent polling data: Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg and Booker. For the good of their party and the nation, the rest of the field should step aside and allow these serious candidates to focus on the issues at hand, foremost of which is defeating CROOKED DONALD next year. IMMIGRATION POLICIES Shame on all of us for allowing this reprehensible situation. Those responsible, Trump, Stephen (the KILLER) Miller and others in Homeland Security, the Border Patrol and ICE will ultimately be held accountable for the inhumane treatment of these men, women and children, the vast majority of who made the treacherous journey to our borders to improve their lot in life and that of their families. Instead they are imprisoned in internment camps and forced to endure outrageous conditions of squalor and abuse. All the while Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence and other Trump sycophants desperately try to “KEEP AMERIKA WHITE”. Our government has completely turned its back on the democratic values that once DID make this country great. It isn’t any more. “GRANDSTAND” RAND IS AT IT AGAIN!!!
It seems the only time we hear about Kentucky’s junior Senator Rand Paul is when he is either doing or saying something really stupid or getting the sh*t kicked out of him by an irate neighbor! Now we learn of his latest incredible “GRANDSTAND” regarding the legislation for compensation for victims of 9/11. The following information is taken from NBC. Comedian Jon Stewart, an outspoken advocate for 9/11 first responders, blasted Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for his objection Wednesday to a bipartisan bill to ensure a compensation fund for victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks never runs out of money. Speaking to Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday, Stewart called Paul's objection to the bill, which the libertarian-aligned senator said should be offset by spending cuts, was "outrageous" and "an abomination." "Pardon me if I’m not impressed in any way by Rand Paul’s fiscal responsibility virtue signaling," Stewart said, noting that Paul supported President Donald Trump's tax cut that "added hundreds of billions of dollars to our deficit." He accused Paul of trying to “balance the budget on the backs of the 9/11 first responder community.” Paul questioned the bill's 70-year time frame and called for the spending to be offset with cuts, pointing to the government's $22 trillion debt. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the compensation bill would result in about $10.2 billion in additional payments over the next decade. "Not blocking the 9/11 bill — simply asking for a vote on an amendment to offset the cost," Paul tweeted Wednesday. A spokesman for Paul responded to Stewart by reiterating that "Sen. Paul is not blocking anything. He is simply seeking to pay for it." This nonsense from a member of the same REPUBLIKAN party that has created the LARGEST budget deficit in our nation’s history. The same REPUBLIKAN party responsible for the tax fraud of the century which provided table scraps for us and billions for corporate Amerika and the Billionaires Boys Club? The same REPUBLIKAN party whose leader, Donald Trump, has stated on the record that the budget deficit doesn’t concern him-he’ll be long gone when the debt becomes due, just like with his financial dealings in his business career-leave somebody else holding the bag. Where’s Rand Paul in all of these conversations????? Like the rest of his cowardly REPUBLIKAN colleagues, nowhere to be found!!!!! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The people who elected this buffoon should be ashamed of their tea party selves (whatever happened to those folks, anyway?!?) for his words and actions. I wish somebody could tell me of a single bill that Rand Paul has been responsible for that has benefited ANYBODY?!? He is pro gun lobby, opposes the Affordable Care Act and and in general done absolutely NOTHING to distinguish himself in the Senate. If the best the Commonwealth has to offer is “RICH” Mitch McConnell and “GRANDSTAND” Rand Paul to represent us in the United States Senate, we deserve what we get. And what we get is this kind of stupidity and arrogance. Let’s get rid of both of these embarrassments.…PLEASE!!!!!!!! “LOCK HER UP!”; “SEND HER BACK!”; “SEIG HEIL”?!?
Sieg Heil was a verbal salute used at the Nazis' mass rallies, where enthusiastic crowds answered Heil (Hail!) to the call of Sieg (Victory). (From Wikipedia). I read a headline this morning on MSNBC that stated “chilling chants of “send her back” at Trump’s political rally in North Carolina last night. I am amazed at looking at the people in the crowd at these so called “political rallies” (more like KKK gatherings) who claim to be proud Americans and yet chant “send her back” about a duly elected member of the United States House of Representatives because they believe Trump and his racist and bigoted campaign against anyone of color or anyone who disagrees with his inhumane immigration policies. Now I realize these people at these rallies ARE the 30% base that Donald Trump exclusively panders to-he could care less about the rest. Because in reality he is nothing more than a glorified snake oil salesman, he is absolutely in his element when he is surrounded by adoring idiots who wouldn’t care if he raped and then shot one of “the Squad”, the four women of color who he has been viciously attacking over the last week or so in order to serve the red meat to his supporters. The entire idea of the President of the United States whipping crowds into a frenzy in one of the reddest of red states (and one of the most racially biased states in the country!) and encouraging them to chant “send her back” is so completely un American the only parallel I can draw is with Hitler and Nazi Germany. The “political” rallies he staged were done for the same reasons as Trump-to whip his base into a frenzy and terrify the rest of the populace into believing their way of life was being threatened by the hordes of Jews and misfits who were bringing the country down. In Trump’s case its people of color and immigrants. Hitler sent out his “brown shirts” to round up the undesirables while Trump uses ICE. Hitler utilized his military to carry out his geo political ambitions; Trump is doing the same, like sending troops to the southern border or to the Persian Gulf to further escalate tensions in the region. The simple fact is Donald Trump has literally nothing else to offer. His administration from day one has time and again proved itself to be the most corrupt and incompetent one in modern history, from the top down. He surrounds himself with family and sycophants who won’t say no to him regardless of how completely far off the reservation he goes. Many members of his “CABINET OF CLOWNS” (thirteen in thirty months) have either been fired or forced out or resigned as a result of various scandals, both ethical and financial. Several current members of his administration are under scrutiny for various criminal wrongdoings, like Wilbur (THE BOSS) Ross or Kellyanne “C” WORD Conway. His accomplishments are virtually nil-he takes all the credit for an economy that was doing well BEFORE he became president. His REPUBLIKAN tax bill was the greatest FRAUD of all times, further increasing the gap between haves and have nots, and lining the pockets of his BFF’s in the Billlionaire Boys Club and corporate Amerika. He has undertaken trade wars against our largest trading partners and slapped tariffs on numerous imported products which has already cost the American taxpayer billions in both financial bail outs to affected farmers to increased prices on consumer goods. He has continuously stoked the fires of racial divisiveness. His immigration policy and handling of immigrants at the detention centers on our southern border are deplorable to say the least. He unilaterally pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accord. His administration is systematically dismantling environmental safeguards and selling off wildlife preserves in order to satisfy the shareholders of the oils and gas companies, coal companies and other special interest groups and thereby keep the influx of cash flowing into the coffers. Gun violence is out of control, yet neither Trump nor his REPUBLIKAN cronies will do anything to arouse the ire of the NRA and the gun lobby. is foreign policy is an absolute disaster-from N Korea to Iran to Russia to China to NATO and Mexico, we stumble and bumble our way from one crisis to the next without ANY clear path forward or resolution. The Iran crisis was begun when Trump, again, unilaterally, decided to pull out of the nuclear deal negotiated by Obama and our European allies. Now Bolton (Dr. Strangelove) and “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo have brought us to the brink of war there. Kim Jong un is playing us like a fine tuned instrument-praising Trump and their friendship while developing the ways and means to inflict catastrophic damage on our country. Putin continues to play him. The Saudis are laughing all the way to the bank, and get away without recrimination for the murder of a Washington Post journalist. His trade war with China has proven completely ineffectual in bringing them any closer to Trump’s demands, and they continue to build their military capabilities and pose a serious threat to our continued influence in the Pacific. The ONLY thing Donald Trump has going for him is the abuse of the office he holds at present. He makes certain to insure he and he alone is front and center EVERY news day, and his pals at FAUX NEWS make sure that his supporters get the message of the day, be it racism against sitting United States Congresswomen or fanning the flames of war in the Persian Gulf. He flaunts all norms of governance, and encourages his staff to do likewise, like ignoring Congressional subpoenas or not testifying before Congressional committees. He doesn’t trust his own intelligence agencies. He claims to be a staunch supporter of our military but shirked his own responsibility when duty called and he could use his father’s money and influence to get a deferment. He uses these so called “political rallies” to incite more fear and hatred in our country, and judging by the reaction of the thousands of so called Americans who cheer him wildly as he eggs them on to chant “send her back” he is succeeding. He feels as free as Joe McCarthy to call these same four Congresswomen communists, as do his sycophant pals like Lindsey Graham (CRACKER) without any justification and for purely political gain. Their only interest is in the desperate attempt to maintain their grip on power. And FORTY some per cent of America has bought in. WTF is wrong with this picture?!? REPENT MIKE “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” PENCE…REPENT!!!
THE COMMANDMENTS Either BROKEN BY MIKE PENCE or THOSE HE IS COMPLICIT IN BREAKING BY HIS SUPPORT OF TRUMP: Thou shalt have no other gods before me (He worships Donald Trump) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (Donald Trump) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour (Daily lies) Thou shalt not commit adultery (Donald Trump)Thou shalt not covet (Donald Trump) Thou shalt not steal (Donald Trump) So there you have it-our Evangelical V.P. Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence himself is guilty of the total disregard of the Ten Commandments on a daily basis in support of his very own golden idol, Donald Trump. He blindly supports Trump on every issue, and in many cases defends him by spreading more lies and disinformation. He supports Trump DESPITE the fact that Donald Trump is a known adulterer, lies thousands of times, has stolen literally millions of dollars in his fraudulent business practices like tax fraud and covets EVERYTHING his neighbors have-wives, property and soul!!! They say a picture is worth a thousand words-just look at Pence in the photo-arms folded in a totally defensive posture, and the look of disgust on his face! Priceless!!!! I was literally sickened the other day as I watched the absurd orchestration the administration tried to pull off when Pence toured a border facility where Trump is inhumanely imprisoning immigrants, both legal and illegal. Then when I heard him literally say in an interview that the American people should be “proud” of the way we are treating these men, women and especially children in this horrific facilities. He actually said this. I knew right then and there that his soul is too far gone for salvation. He checked it at the foot of Donald Trump’s altar, where he worships daily, along with the other sycophants like Pompeo, Mulvaney, Miller and Conway. They all worship their golden idol, as do the 30 % of Evangelicals so who he has convinced he is the reincarnation of God himself.Donald Trump is unfit to be POTUS. Unfortunately, so is Mike Pence. In many ways he is worse than Trump himself, because at least with Trump what you see is what you get, an amoral opportunist. With Pence, you are supposed to believe he is a man of faith but in reality he is merely another Trump sycophant, prepared to do his bidding irrespective of whether it’s right or wrong. There is absolutely NO MORAL JUSTIFICATION for what is going on at the border and the inhumane treatment of fellow human beings, and yet there stands Pence telling us we should be proud. What a complete hypocrite, a total FRAUD!!! If there is such a thing as heaven and hell, I think he has some serious explaining to do when he sits down with St. Peter. His actions belie his words, and speak volumes about his TRUE character. His day of reckoning will come, as will those others involved in perpetrating this atrocious treatment upon innocent men, women and children. |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |