With my apologies to Jay Black and the Americans:
Only in America
Can 6 gals from anywhere
Go to space in a giant penis
and land back with a desert flair
Followed by “Let’s Make a Deal!”
And only on…CBS!
Our New National Motto?
16 Mar
The national motto “In God We Trust” was officially adopted as the United States’ national motto by a law passed by the 84th Congress. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, replacing E pluribus unum (“Out of many, one”), which had been the de facto motto since the initial design of the Great Seal of the United States.
But Now I do believe that we will soon be seeing a new national motto proposed for the United States, to be heartily endorsed and approved by the current Republican controlled Congress…
NO RULES! JUST RIGHT!
Can You Tell Which One…
11 Mar
Is Our new United States Secretary of Education?
And I thought we were going to outlaw men from playing women’s sports.
Must Everything Go?
8 Mar
In his effort to make America Great again President Trump has installed Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, into the oval office to help do the great making. And according to Mr Musk the United States is broke and on the verge of bankruptcy and in the interest of saving the country and making it better he and his team of unelected teens and twenty somethings must downsize the government and sell it for parts. I think he hopes to make it small enough to “drown in a bathtub”, as Republicans used to like to say.
I thought the USA was doing quite well but apparently we are so poor that we can no longer afford to pay our employees, help our neighbors, cover our promises, support our allies, nor lead the free world. It’s so bad that we can not even afford to hire talented, experienced and highly qualified executives to manage the few departments that we plan to keep operating. It’s gotten so bad that even a gentleman who listed on his resume that “part of is brain was eaten by a worm” has been accepted and hired to lead a US government health agency!
Personally, I don’t see the greatness in any of this. It all seems a lot less great than what we already have but who am I to say? The richest man in the world tells us that what we don’t need to do to be great is spend money. Money is not the answer to solving problems and he should know because he has all of the money and still has problems? Even the only billionaire to ever be elected President of the United States can’t afford to treat himself and his friends to a round of golf at one of his personally owned and operated golf resorts. Nope, life is hard for everyone and making and having more money is not the answer!
In fact, and according to the Republican’s and Musk’s plan, even after all of the cutting is done and all of the waste is eliminated and our government is cut to the barest of bones, we the people of these once great and wealthy Unites States will still have to give 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts to the richest Americans amongst us because, and this might sound a little counter intuitive, we owe them….and for what? Living here like kings while the rest of us toil and scrape and save in an effort to make it to our death beds before we are penniless and broke?
If you have ever worked for a company that replaced old and experienced management with new management who knew little about what your company did and who then began to cut jobs and close buildings, sell inventory and outsource auxiliary staff and equipment, you knew what was coming next didn’t you?
CEOs and Stockholders would start cashing in and the company would start cashing out… until…
Isn’t it funny how the richest people always want to lecture you on how throwing money at a problem is never the answer to solving it? and yet they love to brag about how much they’ve overspent on the things they love, need and want the most? They’ll even sometimes invite you over to a grand party at their grand estates just so you can see how overpriced everything they own is. (and all tax deductible business expenses… of course) (And they usually brag about that too)
It sure looks like America’s New Government Deal is to cut spending, cut jobs, cut services, and cut income, in an effort to make this a Greater America for us all. And all we have to do is trust in our wealthy and genius new governors and wait and see how it all works out.
So Here’s to hoping!… You may also want to hang on to your bathtub.
How To Make Your Country Great Again?
2 Mar
Withdraw from the Major Leagues and join the Minor leagues!?
At the United Nations this week and as the world marked the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there was a disagreement over the wording of rival UN resolutions marking the Russian invasion. The resolution initiated by Ukraine and supported by most Western nations explicitly identified Russia as the aggressor.
And in a surprise to the world: The United States voted against the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. (So wouldn’t that be a vote in favor of Russian aggression?) However, the resolution passed thanks to the backing from 93 other world nations including Ukraine and America’s traditional European allies.
This historic vote marked the first time since 1945 that the US voted with Russia and against Europe at the UN on an issue of European security…and so who does the United States stand with now?
Russia, Israel, Haiti, Hungary, Palau and the Marshall Islands; Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Sudan, Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Eritrea, Mali and Nicaragua.
We’re in the “B” League now…and in 1st place I guess!?
We now stand with these democratic powerhouses: Russia, North Korea, Hungary and Belarus and a few of President Trump’s favorite “shit hole” countries… and Israel of all places! How did they get into this league?
Now I know that these UN resolutions unfortunately hold little weight in the world’s affairs but if you think back at the time of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. That arsenal included an estimated 1,900 strategic warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and 44 strategic bombers.
However, In the interest of world peace and their own independence from the Soviet Union, Ukraine worked with the United States and the world and returned all of its nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances…
And speaking of Israel… they know that If Ukraine had kept just one of those bombs and one ICBM (OK maybe a few of each) and had decided in favor of themselves as much as they were in favor of world peace, then today they would be enjoying their status as the “Israel of Central Europe” and would be waving their middle fingers at the U.S., Russia, Western Europe, and all of the other “A hole” Nuclear Powers in the world… and UN resolutions.
Moral of the story? The United States and Israel should be ashamed of themselves. They have no business siding with team Satan and playing with the “B” league. As nuclear states they should know better. Might does not make right. Might should stand for right…and that is something that the so called political right used to stand for.
It’s A Brave New World?
1 Mar
Here we are in the U.S.A. in 2025. Some say it’s a brave new world…
But everything that we are doing is neither BRAVE nor NEW:
Discuss…
Here We Go Again
22 Feb
At a rally in South Carolina, our former president, Donald Trump declared that if he is re-elected he will “encourage” Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to any NATO member that does not pay enough for defense
As part of his performance he went on to recall that a leader of a “big country” asked if the United States would come to their aid if they did not pay their fair share of NATO defense spending and yet still came under attack from Moscow, to which Trump replied, “You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’ … ‘No I would not protect you, in fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills,’”.
And all of this coming from a man who has made him self famous or rather notorious for not paying his bills and for the copious amount of lies he tells whenever he speaks…
So by his own logic and reasoning then why would we ever have anything to do with him?
Ever again?
Yet here we are once again having to deal with millions of his sycophants entertaining another term of President Trump.
The Jersey Red Tide
19 Feb
Some of you may know that I live in New Jersey but did you know that I live in one of the most deadly counties in the world? And it’s at the beach…well, mostly…and it’s the home of the deadly Red Tide! The Red Covid Tide that is…
You see, I live in Ocean County, NJ., one of the most Republican counties in all of New Jersey. In the 37 years that I have lived here I have seen only 3 people elected to serve as either mayor or on the town council in my town…and none of them were re-elected. And that’s true for just about all of the towns around me.
And why is that so important? Well, even though we are a mixture of semi-urban towns and beach towns and we have an average per capita income higher than the national average, we have one of the highest unvaccinated Covid rates in the Northeast. Only 53% of our residents have received at least 2 of the recommended Covid-19 vaccine doses with only 26% receiving the booster shot.
And what is it that explains the vaccine skepticism of Ocean County residents? It’s Politics mostly. Because our county is heavily Republican (President Trump won it by almost 30 percentage points in 2020) and most Republicans, just don’t believe in vaccines (anymore). And besides beach towns and exurban towns we here in O.C. are also the land of Senior Citizen “villages” and those of us who are older than 65 are the most vulnerable to severe Covid illness and death. (Senior C’s account for about 75% of all Covid deaths in the U.S.) So put that all together: Republicans, senior citizens, loss of faith in vaccines…and you’ve got a Covid-19 playground.
But who cares? Right? It’s a free country isn’t it? However, the large number of unvaccinated residents in Ocean County has led to what some might categorize as a horrific amount of Covid illness and death. Nearly one out of every 200 residents has died from the virus. That is worse than the toll in Mississippi… the U.S. state with the largest amount of Covid deaths per capita! And even worse…it’s the worst death rate than in any Country, except for Peru! Peru? Sorry Peru, but you’re number 2… now. and thusly…Ocean County’s “Red Tide” was born.
And still does anyone care? If we do the math then 1 out of every 200 residents divided into about 618,000 county residents is only 3,090 people. Is that a lot? If 75% of those people are senior citizens… tucked away neatly in their senior villages…(self segregated by choice) then 2,317 of those folks were over the age of 65… and they were on deaths door anyway right? So how many noticed?
I’m sure that their children and grand children noticed but not many else. Hardly anyone is out and about wearing a mask these days and it seems as though every week, parents are assailing the school board about when mask mandates will be ended and Covid restrictions lifted. And what about sports? We must have regular crowded gyms and fields filled with sports and sports fans! And bars and restaurants and malls! It’s important that Americans get back to their way of life, and death, vaccinated or un.
I’m always amazed about how when the topic of Covid comes up in a conversation, someone will always ask, usually in a very condescending and smug way, “Do you know anyone who has died of Covid?!” As though that is the crucial bench mark of a disease. If you don’t personally know anyone who has died from it then it can’t be a thing can it? So why make such a fuss?
As many people have died from the Covid-19 virus and its variants in the past 2 years as have died from Cancer and Heart Disease. And those are the 2 leading killers of Americans year after year after year for quite a few years now (probably for as long as everyone alive today has been alive) and so everyone by now knows someone who has died from those deadly diseases…and so we fear them and don’t want to get them and try to avoid them don’t we? But Covid? This new kid on the block is a sissy, right?
Just imagine if Cancer and heart disease were contagious. They’re no more deadly than Covid-19 but would any of us go outside? Ever? And what if there were vaccines that could protect you from Cancer and Heart Disease and your loved ones also? Who would be so cavalier then to go without those vaccinations and proclaim their bodily sanctuary of freedom before their family and friends? And what if wearing a mask could protect others from catching cancer and heart disease from you? Ha! You say! No masks for me! I’m a free human being and you frightened Indians can go scratch for all I care!
And so alas, the Red Tide of free, bold and like thinking Americans sweeps over us all here in Ocean County and from sea to shining sea, unencumbered, until it infects that other “sea” of humanity that will need to become infected and die in such numbers as to make them take notice one day and say, “Hey God, that could happen to me?” For Chrissakes! When is somebody gonna do something about it?”
But until then it’s just a liberal nuisance like I’m sure cancer and heart disease once were. Now they are mainstays and entire businesses and lifestyles are devoted to them. We know how to prevent heart disease but do we? As many of our beloved institutions and practices are devoted to hurting our hearts as are devoted to helping them. (rehabs, health foods, gyms) (bars, fast foods, chips and sodas) And as for cancer? Are we polluting our environments with fewer noxious, poisonous, toxic, virulent and nasty effluents and pollutants than we once were? Hardly, we’ve added more! We’ve just gotten better at providing more treatments, medications and surgeries than we once did in our efforts to combat cancers.
So all in all it’s a win/win! More sickness and disease. More healthcare and hospitals. The real crisis of Covid it seems has been the lack of hospital space to make this disease cost effective… not the tremendous loss of life. After all what’s 900,000 souls lost when almost 8 billion souls are still with us here on Earth?
Sounds pretty cold and crass doesn’t it? But hey! Do you know anyone who’s died from Covid?
So take care of yourself and Let the Red Tide roll on?
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas?!
22 Dec
Last week The Fox News’ “All American Christmas Tree” was assassinated by a homeless man who may or may not have set it on fire for a reason, or not, but if you are a Fox News lover then you know that it was a Liberal Democratic plot to destroy America, Christmas, Jesus and Love…because if you like to watch a lot of Fox News you know that that’s what we Liberal Democrats hate most about America.
But not to worry because Fox News, in the best traditions of wealth, went out and spent another 500 thousand dollars (yes that’s right: Half a million dollars) to replace what could be the most garish (and flammable) symbol of the Christmas season that I have ever seen.
They then proceeded to label the alleged perpetrator as the worst Scrooge in the history of Scrooges! Because what says Scrooge better than a homeless and penniless man allegedly setting fire to half a million dollars of plastic and aluminum? Only to see it replaced by another half a million dollars of plastic and aluminum?
That’s like Fox News, (Scrooge) calling Bob Cratchit, Scrooge because Bob is poor and can’t appreciate a rich man, (Scrooge), enjoying his riches like a poor man should…or something like that.
In any case let us not forget that this is the same Fox News that has spent the last year trying to explain how a bunch of crazy, mad, clueless Trump Supporters who tried to take over the United States Capitol and kill all of the statesmen inside (at least most of them) were just tourists on vacation who were admiring the Nation’s scenery…and what’s the harm in that?
You can watch the link below to see for yourself just how much Fox News believes in their own self importance rather than having any respect for the law, the United States, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Santa Claus, Uncle Sam, Christmas and/or you and me.
Thanks to: http://lasesana.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/blog-of-the-year-2012/
