Bye Eric

A pretty amazing thing happened in the world of politics last night. The House majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia's 7th congressional district lost by 11% to an economics professor from Randoph-Macon College of Ashland, Virginia. David Brat* is a tea party candidate who hammered Cantor on a hot button issue, sure to be the bedevilment of many other congress people facing primary or general election challenges. He, incorrectly charged Cantor with being in favor of amnesty in the ongoing immigration reform debate and hammered him on a daily basis. Cantor's internal polls showed him with a 62-28 likely result in the race, so to say the least, the campaign admitted that they never saw this coming. I saw Cantor getting screamed at by teabagging leatherlungers at a recent town hall meeting. I am delighted with the result and not very surprised. 

By the way, don't worry about Cantor. He'll be getting paid nicely by Fox News within a year. He does however, have to face the fact that he was rejected. That is the finality of elections. Al Gore is still not over it. Nor is John McCain or Mitt Romney. So, today's humstle is Led Zeppelin's, Your Time Is Gonna Come.

Eric, you invented the "Young Guns " back in 2008. I'm not sad to see you go. You're a weasel and a shithead and I hope you steep yourself in the teabag of misery you created for yourself. I only hope that far right wing guys keep getting beat downs from more radical people. Then this country can get back to being collegial and just might function better than it does now.

* If anyone is interested, especially voters in the 7th CD, please remember that Dave Brat will vote to shut down the government if the caucus he will join doesn't get their way.

I am very impressed with the Los Angeles Kings and have made that pretty clear lately. Yet I hope the New York Rangers can make a series of this tonight, because I want to watch hockey for a little longer. Have a great day, folks and enjoy the great vibe on the day after a real dick lost his congressional seat.

Long time

It's certainly been a while. I'm going to have to ease back into writing. Don't get me wrong, I love doing it, but sometimes, life really gets in the way of what I'd rather be doing- writing for one- so a hearty hello to you all. I missed you.

Today's humstle is Steely Dan's With A Gun.  There seems to be a shooting nearly every day. and people are getting sick of reading and hearing about a systemic problem that our society cannot seem to solve. When it involves angry school children shooting their own, it is even more difficult to fathom. 

Our society is a bit hateful. We don't like each other. We are stirred up against each other and with the tools of social networking and biased media feeding us, nobody should be particularly surprised. So, even though today's death toll is 2 (thank heavens not more-- but two is 2 too many), we will watch as the media unravels the anger that today's shooter had and why. Then there will be the obligatory comments by Wayne LaPierre, in response to the cries of outrage by elected officials who fear his organization and are afraid they won't win an election if the NRA decides their career is over. Then we'll all buy flowers and put them on the curb outside Reynolds High. Then we'll have a candlelight vigil. The President will come out and be consoler in chief. And all this won't change a thing. And we'll bear witness to another shooting very soon. We elect people who don't listen to us.

Tomorrow's humstle  will be Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge Song. The song itself is pretty corny, I know but it evokes memories for me when life wasn't as hateful, the work week wasn't as long and our children were encouraged to stand quietly and stare at nothing. Over worked, underpaid, over scheduled, too many lies and the liars that tell those lies and for heaven's sake, too many guns. And I could go on. You get it.

What's it going to take? I really don't know. If I think of something, I'll let you know.
Yikes, how good are the LA Kings?


See you soon.

Soon

Life intervened and I've been unable to post for a while now. Soon, I hope to have a new one.

Words and Phrases and Monica

He goes to the dirty areas of the ice
Rove
Horrific (maybe the worst of all of them)
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of------- pick the tragedy
Talladega
Anything Pierre McGuire says
Anything Steve Doocy says 
Benghazi
#Benghazi (this site is amazing! and not in a good way either)
talking points
Decision Points ( go dubya)
knowing the unknowable
filthy splitter
:) ( and all the rest of em')
DeMint 
Bentley
Perry
Bryant
Martinez 
Deal ( Nathan, not the Grateful Dead tune)
The Daily Caller (in my opinion, a truly vile breeding ground of right wing trash talk)
so while we're on the subject
And Remember. "The spin stops here because we're looking out for you"
Breitbart
Drudge
 Cheney
Cheney
Cheney 
Bundy 
Phil Griffin 
Minaj
Monica Lewinsky. Who is out in the news cycle today with reprising everything from her oral copulation of POTUS 42 to her mother's suicide watch. This is a two tiered "guilt by association that the other side has decided to press on with to define Hillary Clinton in the next year. I hope she **ucks them all and doesn't run. 

I had an interesting tweet session yesterday with a lifetime conservative and NRA charter member and as he described himself, a "strict" constitutionalist. Within seconds (and that's all it takes on Twitter) we were at each other's throats about #benghazi, IRS, Bundy, Judicial appointments and his insistence that POTUS was immoral and therefore he doesn't love Amerika and nor does his administration--- until I referred him to Robert Draper's great book, Do Not Ask The Good We Do.  I asked him to read the section Prologue: Evening: January 20, 2009, where Fox's schizophrenic pollster, Frank Luntz convened a meeting in Washington with 50 movers and shakers in the Republican legislative and lobbying hierarchy to plan the obstruction of the entire Obama Administration, starting on January 21st. This backed him down a bit. Then we agreed to "follow" each other and that seemed to make him happy. I've not heard from his since. I did suggest he follow Will.I.Am for more spirited debate, since Will has become the administration's latest Kalpen Modry and John Favreau.

Honk 21 times if you think the Correspondent's Dinner should be cancelled.

And another great SCOTUS moment Monday, whereby any non Christian that participates in local meetings has to leave the room while prayers are said. Let's give a shout out to Anthony Kennedy for reversing his opinion on the matter of public prayer. AK, you were the 5th vote on Monday, joining the cesspool of conservative judges who have done more to turn back the clock in this country than any other force for good or evil.

It just pisses you off, you know? 

But you can make all this madness go away. #spreadsanity  and vote for the things that are important to you.

By the way, today's humstle is Jesse Winchester's Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt.  A really neat history lesson and it's on You Tube. I'd post it for you but I don't know how. 

I call BASTA to all this BULLPUCKY for today. More tomorrow. 


  


 

Words & Phrases

There are some words and phrases I just don't want to see for awhile. Maybe you agree. Most are not going to disappear but maybe these and many others could go on hiatus.

Epic Fail
Negro
Constitution 
Bipartisanship
Race
1%
99%
Occupy
Keeping it simple (but I love hockey!!)
awesome
IDK
MSM
LOL
Palin
Carney
Limbaugh
Libturd, Libtard,
Useful Idiot
Troll
Bundy
Pry it from my cold dead hands
Kiss my fat black ass
Manchild
Backdoor Cutter
Box Cutter
Al Zawahiri 
Putin
Schumer
Gowdy
Issa
Obama (BO)
Thomas, Scalia, Alito and Roberts
Koch, Cock and Cook
Handler
Bundler
Buffet, Munger and Gates
Kernan
Scarborough
Hannity
Levin
Sharpton
Gohmert
Fallin
Christie
McHale
Putin
Reagan
RT
Rivers

Tomorrow-----

No, I'll see you tomorrow.

 
 

Book It

Don't think for a minute that Republicans will not gut and/or overturn the ACA and continue to pass laws that harm a vast majority of Americans if they flip the Senate this year.

Putting faith in a Hillary Clinton to win the White House in 2016, is a fool's errand. It implies that her veto pen will be sufficient to stop the impending spasms of overreach that will occur. 

I am not a sycophant of the Democratic Party. Many of my blogs call for a strong and much needed third alternative. Who will base their campaign on making campaign finance reform a priority, prevent the repeal of the ACA, nominate reasonable people to the Supreme Court and continue to champion alternatives to fossil fuel addiction? This does not leave out the need to stop the entire jingoistic "cowboy" mentality regarding guns, military adventures against other nations and the overdue rebuilding of our infrastructure.

Presently, I'm not sure there is such a person. Our history has examples of people who did not affiliate with the two major political parties. But the power and money structure vastly favors those parties and how we would accrue equal status to a third party is clearly not in the cards. 

The name of Bernie Sanders has come up recently. Buddy Roehmer had a small shot at his fifteen minutes in 2012. What is it about these two that pales before the endless line of wannabe authors, ex talk show hosts and establishment hacks running for President on the same ol' bullshit ticket.

A recent post implored you to vote your interests and those of loved ones, friends and strangers who lack the money and influence to. Today's post still calls for you to do so, because if you were not to, you deserve what you will surely get. And it won't be pretty.

Please consider a worthy alternative to the status quo, because what they're about, really isn't much about you and your life. And the stakes are too high for that to continue. 

Thank you for reading this.

By the way, boycott companies and products that are made by assholes. You know who they are. Social Media is a great thing. It has the power to send messages of all kinds to millions of people. Do your part. #spreadsanity.

If.....Then

Our system is slowly but unmistakably being hijacked by a well funded minority of  people who are desperate to hold onto their status quo. This gives them privilege and isolates them from real people and their very real problems. This movement was born in the 80's during the Reagan administration and is the template that now sees many state legislatures controlled by elements that are not friendly to the poor, women, workers andpensioners and recent SCOTUS rulings have given their agenda plenty of room to run. 

The only peaceful way to slow this agenda and to restore more balance in our society is to become educated as to issues that affect you and your loved ones. Your vehicle is the ballot box. If you do not vote, you cede this agenda at its present speed. 

Please get educated and more connected.  It is difficult and combing through policies that benefit very few of us is just as difficult. That's the price of a greater well being.

Do what you want. But please be mindful of the old saw; If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got.

Vote as if it mattered.It really does.