The awful complexity of murder

That was a horrible horrible awful thing what happened to those policemen in Brooklyn. And that's why say this issue has so many many many sides. I know I don't have the answers, it's taken me all this time just to compile a list of the questions.

Cruz outa control


Ted Cruz has "apologized" to Republicans for "ruining their weekend". Apparently Democrats are not people who have weekends as well, but  it turns out that Republicans are still not particularly happy with him. Apparently  their smooth agenda was not exactly on Cruz control (forgive us, sorta kinda) but to paraphrase/quote an ancient Hebrew parable: " if it weren't their fool, they could laugh too."

America the beautiful, America the ironic

It seems like it's always the draft dodgers, the guys who wanted to do everything in the Vietnam war except actually participate in it who are the "roughest and toughest ". Defending our policy of “enhanced interrogation" are Senator Saxby Chambliss and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who have multiple deferments between them. Against torture of any kind is volunteer war hero Senator John McCain, he who has never backed off from that stance one iota, as he knows firsthand just how that stuff "works out".  Mr. McCain’s kind of honor gives even more credence to the phrase “America the beautiful”. So then isn't it interesting that Israel, which the Republican right claims to so fervently admire has firmly and unequivocally forsworn torture of any kind no matter what the circumstance. Which is why folks like Chambliss and Cheney remind us we can be “America the Ironic”, if we let them speak for us, and I say this as a veteran and who is darned proud of it.

If I were emperor


No one who didn't vote in the midterm elections would be allowed to call sports talk shows.

Military philosophy

The Navy has stripped (and many feel rightfully so) Bill Cosby of his honorary rank of "petty officer." Well, not to be petty ourselves, but military assaults are up 8%, over 6000 this past year and at an all-time high and the victims have to go to their own commanders for redress even if that's the very person who committed the assault. So what then is the military's philosophy? We don't want honorary members sexually preying on our troops, we'll do it ourselves.

Up with a down presidency


They are saying, especially with the new Republican control of the Senate, that Mr. Obama has a diminished presidency and the numbers actually may prove it. Everywhere you look his numbers are down; unemployment was 7.8% when he took office, now that's down to 5.9%. The budget deficit percentagewise of the GDP was 9.8 and that deficit is down to 2.8. And the number of Americans WITHOUT healthcare is down by 10 million. Down down down...do we miss the brains and prosperity of the Bush administration yet?

The "ultimate" dating resume


How's this for an irresistible package? You're 80 years old, you've got a Nazi tattoo between your eyebrows, you're a confirmed psychotic, but it gets better. You're wondering how much better could get? Well you're a mass murderer and you're in prison for life and you're basically unrepentent, so what attractive 26-year-old wouldn't fall for you? Well the "bachelor" is none other than Charles Manson. The bride has got to make a heck of an interview but the upside of having a husband in prison with no chance of parole is that she knows where on the planet he is at all times. We just want to know what planet she's from.

NRA MEMO


The reason we need so many bad guys able to easily get guns is that we would have an excuse for "good guys" getting guns. And it sure does help the bottom line for the gun manufacturers, who in addition to owning their factories, are also the majority owners of the NRA.

A concession on suppression


In last week's midterm election, less than 37% of ELIGIBLE voters actually did so. That is the lowest level of participation since a very united and somewhat distracted America in 1942 had less than 35% participate. So I don't want to hear a word from Democrats, progressives etc who claim that Republican's suppress their vote...they do fine by themselves. And when we got a "decent" participation as in CT where more that 55% voted, we didn't have to put up with 4 years of "Foley's Follies".

America's most dangerous, jobs that is

Being a policeman or sheriff is a dangerous job, they average 18 fatalities per 100,000 workers each year. But, believe it or not they are not the most dangerous job, in fact it barely makes the top 10. So we will give you the top 4.

4. Farmer or rancher

3. Pilot or flight engineer

2. Loggers

1. The most dangerous is fishers and fishing workers, at 152 deaths per 100,000 are by far the most hazardous of occupations.

Thats no fish tail.

Bill Maher's pre-– midterm monologue

Regarding the midterms: message to the Democrats is stop distancing yourself from the president, just ask "President Al Gore". The one I feel bad for is Obama. 63 straight months of economic expansion, a depression averted, a deficit reduced by two thirds (this is true), a healthcare law that's working and lowering costs, two women on the Supreme Court, Bin Laden is dead, the stock market at record highs, and unemployment rate the drop from 10.2 to 5.9. If you are a FOX News viewer trying to do the math, that's less. Gas prices are down. Is that really that hard a record to get behind? My comments: Fucking shame if fucking middle-of-the-road, progressive people and liberal people don't vote...shame on them and they get what they deserve.

Run Tom, Run


Tom Foley is running for governor of Connecticut, and he may well win. See Tom run. He ran from paying income taxes the past number of years with millions of dollars in income and somehow his tax payments are less than $1000. He ran from giving reporters an answer when it was announced last week that Connecticut had their best month for job growth in 20 years. See Tom run. He ran from explaining why not one, but at least two factories that he bought got closed and jobs got cut while he may tens of millions of dollars in the process. He apparently is running from his last scheduled debate against Gov. Malloy saying he will not honor his commitment to make his appearance as previously planned. See Tom run. And now that we have had our 90th that's right NINETIEH school shooting since  Sandy Hook, he still has run from saying if he will honor the assault weapons ban passed after that tragedy. See Tom run, or should we say run away.

Sad irony

How's this for really sad heartbreaking irony? For the first time in its history the state of Washington is voting on a bill to require background checks for gun purchases. Could they, would they, please now finally???

Where is Foley's accountant?

Patrick Smith writes:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley is passionately concerned, as is his party's custom, about balancing the budget of our state. Said budget of course is the expenses that any government must bear versus the taxes that are due. Both components are to a degree discretionary, items the state won't act on and taxes that somehow don't get paid, an ongoing challenge  to all administrations. But there's hope, because if Tom Foley is as good at reducing expenses for Connecticut, as he is at creatively managing his own taxes, given his obvious wealth, we could be in for an interesting actuarial era. And hopefully should he become governor he'll lend the state of Connecticut his accountant.

I Blama Obama


For the breach in White House security, doesn't he know enough to lock his own front door. Seriously after that South American snafu and now this one and now the fact that a person shot seven bullets at the White House and it took them days to notice. So are some members of the Secret Service really are not sure how much they actually want to protect this black president? And why am I getting a Yitzchak Rabin flashback?