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?

Dick Cheney; "we are at war"...is it so?


President Obama is spot on. We should pound lSIS, we will pound ISIS, and in the long run I am convinced we are going to devastate ISIS. But as to the statement by Dick Cheney that "we are at war", I have questions. For example, if we were truly really in an all out war, wouldn't Dick Cheney (5 previous), George Bush (4 previous), and John Ashcroft (7 previous) be working on their next set of draft deferments? And not leaving gullible folks like me on the ground walking with a rifle in uniform.

On a world in focus 

ISIS is still creating its medieval terrorist havoc in the Middle East. For the moment, there is relative calm in the Gaza area. Russia is still - despite a fragile cease fire -doing some damage in the Ukraine, but that's not where the big headlines are today. No, it's what to do if you have a Ray Rice jersey and want to trade it in. Oh my G-d, does this world lose its attention span so quickly?

Better Gun Safety???

We all know about the tragedy in which the nine year-old girl fatally shot her gun range instructor with an Uzi in Phoenix, Arizona. In Los Angeles however, there are  parents that take a much "saner" view of gun safety; they just get their child a 22 caliber rifle. What could go wrong? Well, since he is the ripe old age of seven, something did and he got shot; he's been airlifted to a hospital, no word yet on his condition. As far as the condition of his parents, that would take a different article. A much longer psychiatric one.

How to make money?


What's the best way to eventually make money for yourself, after you've previously cost others lots of money? Be a politician and then retire, see Eric Cantor and the Republicans are still 10 short of a minyan.

Gun sense, its not common and its not automatic


In White Hills, Arizona at a gun range called ironically the"Last Stop outdoor shooting range" it seems this family vacationing from New Jersey thought it would be really cool to have their nine-year-old girl - that's right NINE - to get practice shooting an Uzi. Sigh, what could go wrong did go wrong, and the gun she was shooting proved too much for her, and she actually shot and killed her instructor. But again she was nine and the policy in Arizona is allow them to shoot Uzis once they reach eight. You seven year olds will just have to wait until you mature or whatever Arizona decides, with the blessing of course of the NRA, you know No Reason Allowed.

Rocky has some mean friends


This past weekend an 88 year-old woman intentionally let a raccoon into her house. Without making any comments on her state of mind, the facts are these. She mistook the raccoon for her own cat and attempted apparently to pet it  and pick it up. What happened next was a little scary, as the raccoon bit her on the face, neck and several places around her arm. When the police were called, the raccoon charged the two officers and had to be put down. Like we said, not all raccoons are as nice as Rocky.

Fauxlosophy

We are all bipolar, its just a matter of degree

A GOOD WAY TO TREAT BAD GUYS


This week marked the passing of James Brady, the Press Secretary for Ronald Reagan, shot in 1981 by James Hinckley with an illegally acquired gun. Mr. Brady suffered permanent brain damage and partial paralysis but gamely campaigned against wanton use of such weapons, and the result was that the "Brady gun law". But guess what, the argument that a good man with a gun stops a bad man with a gun, doesn't really hold up here, does it? Because there was one bad guy with a gun surrounded by an army of Secret Service agents, obviously good guys with guns and that didn't stop him. And President Reagan very nearly died. So maybe the best way to stop "the bad guy with a gun" is to have the bad guy prevented from getting a gun. The families at Columbine and many other places would no doubt agree. Rest in peace James Brady.

The most interesting man in the world

1.  WHEN HE'S  PULLED OVER FOR EXCEEDING THE
        LEGAL LIMIT, THEY RAISE THE LEGAL LIMIT

2.   WHEN HE STARES INTO A WOMEN’S EYES SHE SAYS
       “EXCUSE ME MY BREASTS ARE DOWN HERE”
3.   THE ONLY MAN EVER TO MAKE A PROFIT AND HE
        MADE RECORD PROFITS RUNNING A STARBUCKS
        FRANCHISE AT BYU
4.  THE AUCTIONS OFF SIGNED MERCHANDISE BY JESUS
       MOSES AND MOHAMMED NO ONE  QUESTIONS  THE
       AUTHENTICITY
5.   HIS BODY PROCESSES BIG MACS AS HEALTH FOOD
6.  THEY LET HIM DRINK IT AA MEETINGS
7.  THE TSA IS SCREENED BY HIM
8.  THE HIGHEST PRICED HOOKERS IN VEGAS TAKE HIS
      IOU
9.   HE DOESN'T OFTEN DRINK BEER....OBVIOUSLY
      BECAUSE TO BELIEVE  THIS STUFF ABOUT HIMSELF
      HE'S GOT TO BE TOTALLY GOONED OUT OF HIS MIND
      ON HARD LIQUOR

I Blame Obama

For voter suppression at unprecedented levels. If it hadn't been for his running for president there wouldn't have been more younger folks voting than before, as well as older rural people many of whom happen to be black also interested in voting. Not to mention that he got 77% of Latino vote as they participated in the electoral process at a higher rate than before. So again I blame Obama because if he didn't get these people interested in voting they wouldn't have to be suppressed.

I blame Obama


These past few weeks Tel Aviv has been rocketed regularly, to say the least, by Palestinian militants. However, these missiles have been stopped by the "iron Dome" defense system built at an approximate cost of $300 million in special funds allocated by Pres. Obama. Thus the Palestinians can rocket at will without having to fear "sympathetic reports" of  Israeli deaths. Thus the news tends to be even more one-sided and unsympathetic to Israel, to repeat for lack of deaths, and for that I blame Obama