ROAD TO FUTILITY

Conservatives wrapped up their "Road to the Majority" conference this week with keynote speaker- and hold on to your hats for this one!  ---SARAH PALIN!!!!    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

"People lied and the government spied.  People lied and Americans in Benghazi died."
~ Sarah Palin.
Ignoring the fact that her statement was a less than piss poor, half-assed re-writing of a twelve year old anti-Bush slogan (Bush lied; People Died.), and the fact that she couldn't support domestic spying enough when it was a republican policy, and that she never uttered a single word of protest when diplomatic staff were killed under the bush administration,  how could anyone applaud her ridiculous rhetoric that so hypocritically bashes what she once avidly supported? Not even she could possibly believe the insanity she was spewing.

How could they not see her for what she is? How could anyone fall for such obvious partisan lying? I know there are those on both sides who do it, but it's like the republicans aren't even trying to hide it, or just aren't imaginative enough to pull it off. What do they think this kind of duplicitousness could possibly gain them? Do they think people are that forgetful, or that stupid? Are people that stupid? From the amount of applause that she received, I would have to say "YES"

I can't tell you how infuriating it was to hear a room full of morons applaud and cheer her, but that fury was tempered by the hilarity of the fact that republicans believe that Sarah Palin of all people is their 'road to the majority'.


© C. Erich Dunne june, twenty thirteen.

NORTH MISSISSIPPI

North Carolina is now rocketing backward into the dark ages... I never wanted Mayor McCheese to win his bid for Governor, but when he did win I thought "Maybe it won't be so bad..." Boy was I wrong!
The NC Senate is currently re-writing the gun laws of this state. Right now, if you want to buy a hand gun you have to get a permit from your local sheriff, who does his own background check. Those checks and permits will be going away (and don't worry about the federal checks, they will get to those soon) along with many of the restrictions on where you can carry a handgun. When passed, you will be able to take your gun into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, schools, parades, and funeral processions. (guns and alcohol should be a fun mix -but parades i understand, lets get those roads cleared of that ridiculous slow traffic, plus those Shriners are nothing but a menace.)

This is why democrats have to be such hard asses about gun control, because they knew all along that despite all of the public proclamations by republicans they were never really serious about background checks. They said those things because at the time (just after Sandy Hook) they had to, due to public sentiment.  We all knew that they didn't mean it and would never follow through. All they want is to serve the interests of the nra, who along with gun manufacturers only care about selling as many guns as possible and they don't care to whom.

I've actually heard some conservatives say that asking a law abiding citizen to show identification would be too "burdensome."  You mean like when you buy cigarettes or alcohol?  Why is okay for one and not the other? Is it really such a burden to take out your wallet? You have to to pay for the damn thing anyway, and if you pay with anything other than cash they will probably make you show an ID anyway to prevent fraud against a bank or credit card company. So, I guess it's okay to ask for ID to save money, but not lives?

Every week almost I'm amazed by these republican controlled entities rolling back every good thing accomplished in the last sixty years. Soon we'll have the same laws and policies as Mississippi or Alabama, and look where that has gotten them for the last hundred years -NOWHERE.

© C. Erich Dunne june, twenty thirteen. 

I, NOBOT

I was watching some stupid show where the owner of a company pretends to be a lowly employee- you know- slumming it so he can "know" exactly how the rest of us feel. As if.  Like the knowledge that you don't have to do this low grade demeaning labor, and can go back to your mansion at any time you want doesn't color your perception just a bit.

   A show like that is only good for one or two seasons anyway, or for as many shows that they can tape before the first one airs, because after that, no one is going to be fooled.  No one will believe anyone is making a documentary about Tony and his first day at K-Mart.

  Anywho, this poor hourly schlep is working in a shipping warehouse, where his job is to package up products to ship out.  All these different items come down a conveyer, and he has make an appropriate sized box, put the item in it, fill it with packing materials, seal it up, and properly stick on the shipping label.  Every ninety seconds - or you're fired.. All the while his "co-workers" are muttering about he's just not going to "make it". So much for human dignity.  No person should ever work like a machine, nor should they be expected to. If you want a machine to do a job for you, then buy a machine.  Don't hire a minimum wage nothing and try to frighten a machines day of production out of him by threatening his job. If you have to wait another minute or two for your copy of "Big Jugs", (it's a book about pottery) so be it.

   Now don't get me wrong, when you are "on the clock" you should be working.  But no one can work every second of every hour it's just not possible. Plus these rules never seem to apply across the board, or to the board. Any supervisor, middlemanager, or boardmember feels entitled to stop working, chat, take a break (or many breaks), come in late, and leave early or just screw around all day- leaving the "rules" to be followed by the lowest waged nothings.  As if how much money you make determines how much humanity you are allowed.

   Why companies feel they have to rob their employees of their self-respect to get a days work out of them I'll never understand.  I believe they do this simply to make themselves feel like a big man, because they can force you to comply with a bunch or meaningless or arbitrary rules.  To actually tell your workers that they can be fired for sitting down, when half of their job is looking up things on a computer, has to be nothing but a power trip. Are you really going to fire a good hard working employee because he sat down once. I've known people that would. Crazy, stupid people mind you, but people non the less

SANFORD AND SIN

Mark "Appalachian Trail" Sanford won the Republican primary, setting up a run for Congress again. WTF? Are Republicans in love with losing? How does the party of morals nominate a man who cheated on his wife, went AWOL from his job as governor, and ignored his children on father's day to go be with his foreign mistress in a foreign country, and resigning in disgrace. This is the best person the party of morals could produce for this office? This guy?  Who demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt a complete lack of morals, common sense or good judgment? Was everyone else in the state busy?

This is what's wrong with this country. It's not gay marriage, which hurts no one. Or social programs that help the poor, the elderly, and the sick. It's that we keep electing morally bankrupt clowns simply because of name recognition, no matter how they got famous in the first place.

Plus he's running against the sister of Stephen Colbert. Colbert will eviscerate Sanford nightly on his show. I do see this guy standing a chance, just on moral grounds, of which he has none.