CUBA LIBRE
The standard literary definition of insanity is to continually repeat the same action and expect a different result. Our country has been doing that with Cuba for over 50 years. This week Barak Obama made good on an electoral promise,
Category: Politics
Election Post Mortem
The perception among the American people is that the Republicans swept this election. That’s true but not completely accurate. Every one of the last four Presidents who served two terms lost members of the House and Senate for their parties in
The Problem With Elections
The Brits voted in Parliament recently to jump into the war against ISIS. The United States Congress, that accumulation of cowardly punks, left town rather than stand up for one position or another on the war. Boehner’s excuse; that it would
Midterms
Well, the American people have spoken, at least the ones who count, because if you don’t vote you don’t count, have nothing to say about the results and belong in a dictatorship where your lack of interest is matched by
Give Us Oil Not Immigration
Well, now that the election is out of the way it’s time for all those congressmen who were elected to end our inability to get anything done, to get to work. So with immigration, minimum wage, infrastructure, gerrymandering, etc, all
Kentucky Politics
There has been a lot of talk lately about the election last week, specifically in Kentucky, where prune face, Mitch McConnell ran against Allison Grimes. Grimes had a bad stretch during an interview, when asked if she had voted for Obama in
Bits & Pieces #49
“I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, but I am also a killer. I’ve killed a lot and if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more. If you don’t want to get killed don’t show
The Politics of Ebola
As usual, the country is responding to the Ebla crisis the way they respond to everything else. PANIC! There is a leadership aspect to decision-making that has nothing to do with what the people want. The Ebola crisis is a perfect
Fear and Loathing Over the Middle East
The only solution the Middle East is going to get is going to have to be political and religious, not military. We can bomb the hell out of ISIS as long as we want and eventually it will become a recruiting
Ebola
The Ebola crisis continues to grow with panic in the streets and all kinds of dumb ideas adding to the ridiculous panic. A school has been closed in Mississippi because the principle had traveled to Zambia, a nation in Africa but