Thursday, December 31, 2015

BILL COSBY

Bill Cosby is, naturally, extremely disappointed by the lack of a sense of humor, in so many of his female acquaintances.  What was intended as a bit of harmless fun has been misinterpreted, by so many of them, as something sinister and evil.  Proof that it was harmless can be seen by looking at photographs of him, before all those girls started their bitching, where he looked completely unscathed, both physically and mentally, by the encounters. 

Cosby's purity of heart and purpose has been amply demonstrated by his exhortations to his fellow African-Americans to change their ways and become law abiding citizens.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

THE BASIS FOR OFFICE POOLS

Readers of this blog will note that, in my personal opinion, the threat of ISIL, has been overblown.  Yes, they have staged terror attacks but so did Al Qaeda.  My belief then, as it is now, is that by trying to become an overt state, they doomed themselves to extinction given the relative military strength of their opponents.

They are, at this moment in time, being rolled back slowly but surely.  I think that ISIL, relatively early in 2016, will go the way of the Ebola virus, as a scare tactic.  The only question, in my mind, is what will replace it, in time for the elections?  I think that question could form the basis for office pools in the coming year. 

CULLING THROUGH A MOUNTAIN OF GIBBERISH

It has been said that an infinite number of monkeys, pounding away at the keyboards of an infinite number of word processors, will eventually produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare.  In a similar manner, if one culls through the mountain of gibberish that Donald Trump has produced, there may be found a philosophical gem of inordinate import.

One such gem may prove to be a blow for male liberation that could resound through the ages.  By attacking Hillary Clinton for the infidelities of her husband, Bill, Trump may have not only hit upon a sure fire thing to garner the male vote, but to exculpate  all of man-kind; it was the woman's fault!

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

"A TRAGEDY BUT NOT A CRIME"

I once audited a class in law where the professor made the point that "No one has the right to do wrong".  That was more than half a century ago, in another time, when privilege was not a matter of law.

A white police officer pulls up at a scene where a black child is holding a toy gun and within seconds of arrival shoots and kills the boy without exchanging a single word.  The Prosecuting Attorney, acting as if he were the Defense Attorney for the police officer calls it a "tragedy but not a crime."  I think a better description would have been: "An execution, without benefit of trial, but not a crime."

Saturday, December 26, 2015

DEAR DEMOCRATS

Dear Democrats:

Unhappy about Obama's moves to deport recent migrants surging across the southern border?  He doesn't owe you Democrats anything.  Remember those off year elections that you sat out or distanced yourself from him?  Had you returned a majority to Congress, you could have passed an immigration reform bill that might have avoided the problem.  Let me repeat: "Elections have consequences"

Sincerely  

Friday, December 25, 2015

THE GREATEST DEGENERATION

Although we have, in my opinion, as good a military as this nation has ever fielded, our civilian population, as evidenced by their elected officials, is lacking in courage, big time, when compared to previous generations. 

During World War II, the United States had 500 prisoner of war camps to hold Axis P.O.W.s.  We kept hundreds of thousands of prisoners; this generation, through its elected legislators, has become panic stricken by the thought of bringing 50 prisoners from Guantanamo, into the U.S., even though it would eliminate a recruitment tool of our enemy.

The modern terror weapons, AK-47s, pale into insignificance, when compared to V-1 and V-2 rockets, but reactions of ou people, seem inversely proportionate to the threats.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

IN PRAISE OF BANKRUPTCY

Anyone for whom Social Security payments are an important source of income, should be wary, indeed, of any Presidential candidate who justifies, with pride, the use of bankruptcy as a business tool.  The  actual funds in the Social Security Trust Fund have actually been transferred out, to the upper classes, for trickling down that never occurred.  It is unthinkable for a good capitalist to pay back those funds; what's a bankruptcy for?

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

P.C. IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Ted Cruz, one of the most aggressive of the warriors against Political Correctness, has invoked it when dealing with a cartoon depiction of his children.  Indeed, he is busily fund raising off of it.

While he feels that P.C. is wrong to stifle attacks on innocent and defenseless minorities such as peaceable Muslims, the LGTB community, such attacks are off limits when it comes to his children, because then, his ox is being gored.   

FEELING THE FOREIGN POLICY

The last Republican President took an opthamologist's approach to foreign policy by looking into the eyes of the foreigners who he was dealing with, and finding no blemishes, declared both Putin and Maliki to be good men.  The present Republican frontrunner, for the nomination ,has arrived at the same conclusion, with respect to Putin, but aware that the Bush methodology was flawed, using a completely different criterion, flattery.  Putin, by praising Trump, has provided prima facie evidence of  his goodness, and, if elected to the Presidency, Trump will be happy to deal with Putin accordingly.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

PRESIDENTIAL VULGARITY

To the everlasting credit of Trump's supporters, they would never tolerate his vulgarity, if it came from Barack Obama!

TIME FOR ANOTHER PARTY

With  a record Dow Jones, low gas prices, lower deficit, most of the troops back home, it's time for that black man who cleaned up the mess, from the last Republican party, to go home and let the good times roll again!  Republicans have learned much over the last decade.  They know, now, how to party like there's no tomorrow and not suffer any consequences.  They have learned to shift the burden of  their actions on to the tax paying public, using virtual dollars, so that they don't miss a beat, in their life style, and have the public pick up the tab, without complaint.  Party time! 

Monday, December 21, 2015

ALL THAT'S NEEDED

All that is needed, for the Republicans to become believers in man-made climate change is for the U.S. to agree to indemnify the fossil fuel industry for possible losses owing to ceasing their use in the  production of energy.  The Koch Brothers, for example, would immediately fund the Mother of All Ad Campaigns to warn us of the dangers.  Republicans would become the greenest of the greens.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

CORPORATE FEUDALISM

It may turn out that the greatest irony, the world has known, will occur if many of those, who advocate for a small government, while at the same time, accepting unbridled growth of powerful corporations, end up as serfs for those same corporations.

Monday, December 7, 2015

SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR OF CORPORATE PROFITS

Just as some were proud to serve as sacrifices to appease the Gods of the Aztecs, the thousands of  American victims of gun violence, every year, in America, should be proud of having been sacrificed to  appease our corporate Gods.  Why should dying for the good of corporate profits be any less honorable than dying for the good of one's country?

Sunday, December 6, 2015

WE ARE NOT A NATION OF SHEEP, CATTLE MAYBE, BUT NOT SHEEP.

The people in these United States are not sheep but they can be herded like cattle.  Tens of thousands of gun related deaths, annually, get barely a yawn, since we are told that it's the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution and we cannot act rashly.  Over 300 hundred mass shootings have occurred this year, alone and our handlers tell us to remain calm, and we bovinely comply.  One of those mass shootings, in which a mere dozen+ people are killed by an ISIS sympathizer and we are told to stampede and stampede we will do.  Register all Muslims, but don't register guns.  Carpet bomb ISIS but don't try to stop them from buying weaponry, in the U.S. 

NEARING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE FOUNT OF PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Starting in 1918, the British and French began to divide up the Ottoman Empire, drawing the boundaries of both present day Syria and Iraq.  Good Imperialists that they were, they made sure to draw the borders so that each country would have at least 2 to 3 rival ethnic groups who could be pitted one against the other against the other thus facilitating their becoming a colony. similarly to what the British had been able to do in the 19th Century. on the Indian sub-continent.

The Caliphate to which ISIS alludes came into being in the 8th and 9th Centuries under Muslim Arabs who conquered large swathes of territory including all of present day Arabia and the Levant, including present day Syria and Iraq.  Most of the land was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire starting in the 11th Century.

ISIS signalled that it wanted to return to a Syria and Iraq as it existed before the Ottoman Empire, and before the British and the French drew the boundaries.  By changing its name to ISIL, it was already signaling that it  had already expanded its geographic scope of  action.

As the Centennial Year of 2018 approaches, be sure to celebrate the birth of ISIS on November 11th of that year.