Republicans Must Not Hold America Hostage Any Longer

According to the Stockholm Syndrome if one is held hostage by an evil person or group long enough the person may start to exhibit protective tendencies of one's captors.  In fact after a while a strange sort of irrational love may even develop.
Once set free the hostage must seek or be afforded psychiatric help to return to a normal productive life.
For the past 6 years America has been held hostage by the Republican Party and too many voters are exhibiting the same mental defect described above.  They are answering polls showing how much they would vote for the same Republican party that blocked any and all progress in America all the while blaming President Obama.
And just like a kidnapper who brainwashes a child into believing his real parents deserted him and do not love him anymore they have convinced their base that the President is not only at fault but not even an America citizen or worse!!
Polls show that Congress has a favor-ability rating less than that of gonorrhea or root canals so why would any sane, rational human being listen to them let alone vote for them again.
Perhaps the answer lies in the question itself and the words sane and rational.
Is it possible that the majority of the Republican base is so consumed with hatred and sublimated racism that they are willing to believe anything bad said about the President to the point of voting against their own best interests?
The answer to that is a resounding yes!
We have seen this happen over and over again and even read about it in a now famous (or should be famous) book by Thomas Frank.
In Florida, that wonderful State that gave us the hanging chads, Kat Harris and appointed a President that did not win the majority of votes we are now witness to a Governor with a terribly low approval rating leading in the polls due to $26 million worth of negative ads about his far better and more deserving opponent.
Generally when a candidate ONLY runs negative ads it's because he has nothing positive to say about himself. That could not be more true than in this race between a generally hated awful Governor Rick Scott and his 'for the people' foe Charlie Crist.
Neither man is a saint but then they are both politicians.
However when push comes to shove Mr. Scott is awful and deserves to be shown the door as soon as possible!
And speaking of awful, in Kentucky it is quite possible that another member of the hostage takers may hold his seat in Congress even though he has said publicly and in private that his entire agenda is to hurt the President and keep America down.
He will stop us from doing anything for at least the next two years and affirmed his affections for the anti-social Koch brothers and their bribe money with a treatise of love and promises to help them increase their massive fortune! (If you can sit through the recording of his promises to the Koch billionaires click the link above.)
He aims to block any regulations aimed at reining in business at the expense of the environment and human lives!
And this creature is leading in the polls?
As for the President's foreign policy is it so terrible to think about all the consequences of bombing other countries and starting or entering a war before actually doing so?  Haven't we been there done that already?  And aren't we and the World still paying for the rash ill-advised behavior of the previous war mongering administration?
Who died and made the United States the sheriff at the O K Coral?
If the President can make his case to World leaders and have them join us thus spreading the responsibilities as well as the costs are we not all better off?  Do we wish to send our young men and women into another far off battleground?
We have already been through two World Wars.  If the World cannot come together to squash small factions hell bent on global destruction in the name of some absurd religious belief then shall never have World peace.
Think of what a united Planet Earth could accomplish if testosterone driven machismo, personal greed and religious zealotry could be relegated to an embarrassing footnote in the annals of history.
It may be naive to think this could happen but at least I am not giving in and falling for my abductors!

Absurd But True!

There is an old joke about a woman who lost both her first and second husbands to accidental poisoning.  But when she was arrested for killing her third husband with a vicious blow to the head she claimed as her defense, “He wouldn’t take the poison!”

Kimberly Boone went shopping a few months ago and while she was out her husband, who was sleeping at the time nearly died in a house fire.  Authorities suspected the fire may have been the act of foul play and questioned Ms. Boone.  They let her go without any charges when nothing could be proven.

Now Kimberly is in court again because her husband was shot and almost killed in his garage during a supposed attempted burglary!  At least that is what Ms. Boone told authorities who arrested her for the attempted murder.

Just yesterday a jury of her peers (?) in Winter Springs, Seminole County Florida found her not guilty.  She actually admitted in private to the attempt on his life while publically claiming to have had amnesia during the event.

One can only wonder how the idiot Mr. Boone who knows who shot him will finally meet his maker.

A word to any wise married men out there, do not move to Winter Springs Florida!

In 1989 the award winning Broadway play, “Driving Miss Daisy” hit the big screen.  The original star, Morgan Freeman reprised his role alongside Jessica Tandy who replaced Broadway’s Dana Ivey for the film.  All three of these people were wonderful and Mr. Freeman received critical acclaim for his roll in Daisy.

The original story revolves around an African American male who works as the chauffeur to an old wealthy Jewish woman who can no longer be trusted to drive herself around.  The relationship between the two begins as slightly strained but ends as one of extreme respect and Platonic love.

A story as good as this one deserves retelling.  And a revival can be a welcome event as long as it is done well.  Unfortunately now appearing on Broadway in the role of the aging Jewish woman is the world renowned Israel-hating, Anti-Semite, Marxist piece of human crap known as Vanessa Redgrave. 

I believe this linked article says it all except to ask the geniuses of the Broadway stage and the producers of Hollywood one question, if you decide to do the life story of Elie Wiesel will you morons cast Mel Gibson in the title role?

The great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, Kendall Myers was convicted of spying for the Cuban Government and sentenced to life in prison this week.  Mr. Myers worked in the U S State Department and had access to classified documents although it is unclear what information if any he compromised.

One wonders if he was caught by using wiretaps.  If so would A. G. Bell have approved?

In California, one of the states hit hardest by the economic downturn it was revealed this week that one of their public universities paid Sarah Palin $75,000 for a 40 minute speech. Universities across the country should get together and pay her more to not speak!

But before there was too much outrage California officials reported that as a fundraiser the school made far more money than they paid out in fees.

It was also assumed that having Ms. Palin speak at a university of higher education may be used as a warning to students of what can happen when you choose to be totally ignorant on all subjects concerning mankind today.

Ms. Palin who has made a personal fortune even though many consider her to be a total idiot unfortunately has a large following but then, as Gump would say, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

And finally to show that Forrest Gump knew of where he spoke a Pew Research Poll shows that most Americans think the Bank Bailout bill was enacted and then signed into law by President Obama.  I guess like Ms. Palin they do not have the time nor the inclination to use the 10 seconds it would take to find out that the bill was totally in place before President Bush left office.

Do these people actually dress themselves?

And heaven help us, that’s just the news from today!

Early Bird State Strikes Again

From those wonderful people who gave you Bush and all the commensurate baggage comes the latest in the ongoing "Screw You America" campaign.

Today Ruth Madoff announced that her NINE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLAR HOME in Florida is now to be considered her primary residence. For those of you unaware of the statewide law sub-titled "Screw everyone else and hide your taxes in plain view" Florida considers your home to be a sacred place and is exempt from any attempts to seize it.

In other words Ruth Madoff, who is naturally innocent 'wink wink say no more' until proven guilty will be able to keep the ridiculously extravagant home she was able to buy with her savings as a clerk!

Ruth would be laughing all the way to the bank except because of her, her husband and her family the bank is bankrupt.

If anyone believes as I do that this law should be overturned start writing to your congressman and representative. For those of you who feel this is a just law can I have a piece of whatever illegal activity you are into?