Ingorance? Meet the best of the best in the United States Army, and shut up as you do it!

 
 
you gotta love when you have a petty, first term, tea partyer num nuts imbecile rethug congressman getting bitch slapped down by a 4 star general, and relish that sound of bug guts goin' crack, squish, splatter on the wall.......................

See the fireworks here.

We have GOT to weed out the tea party transplants from our congress.  They are embarrassing in their ignorance and need to be sent back to the grainery or feed and seed, or village bowling alley or where ever the fuck in the back waters from whence they came.   We need real people in Congress, folks.  And these are NOT they.

And yet 5 (COUNT THEM, FIVE) of our ex presidents, our Past "Leaders" STOOD WITH THE WAR CRIMINAL!!!

  

and made me cringe in deep sorrow and blind rage.  THIS today, this event, the statement made by these men standing next to the worst president ever, broke my heart and drove home for me for perhaps the last time that this is NOT what the framers had in mind for our country.   I'm deeply seriously apologetic to the rest of the world for allowing this travesty of justice and all that is right and true in this world, this place.  As they honored him at the hugest oxymoron ever, The Bush Library, active warrants are drawn up in other countries for the crimes against humanity that are and will forever be his hallmark. 

ASHAMED.

DEEPLY, HONESTLY, NAUSEATINGLY, PERSONALLY  ASHAMED.

From the good people at Think Progress:

13 Reasons To Be Glad George W. Bush Is No Longer President

With the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas, Texas today, there has been some creative re-telling of history and the Bush legacy — an legacy full of terrible consequences, intended and otherwise, that we’re still having to deal with to this very day.

Here’s a reminder from our ThinkProgress colleagues why you should still be happy that those 8 long Bush years are over:

• Authorized the use of torture

Though the US Code bans torture, Bush personally issued a memorandum six days after the September 11th attacks instructing the CIA that it could use “enhanced interrogation techniques” against suspected terrorists. The methods included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and “stress positions.” A recently-released bipartisan committee concluded it was “indisputable” that these techniques constituted torture, and that the highest authorities in the country bore responsibility for the creation of a torture programs at Guantanamo Bay and CIA “black sites” around the world

• Politicized climate science

Bush’s “do-nothing” approach to climate change prevented the U.S. from pursuing meaningful action. Though he claimed that global warming was a serious problem that was either a natural phenomenon or caused by humans, the administration routinely edited scientific reports to downplay the threat of climate change, censored CDC testimony that climate change was a public health threat, and promoted climate denying studies financed by ExxonMobil. At the end of the Bush presidency, a top intelligence adviser warned the incoming president that climate change was a massive destabilizing national security threat that would lead to “Dust Bowl” conditions in the Southwest.

• Ignored Afghanistan to launch a war in Iraq

Rather than consolidating gains after the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Bush and his neoconservative allies pushed for removing Saddam Hussein from power, kicking off a war that led to one mistake after another. Ten years later, the war is estimated to have cost cost up to $6 trillion and resulted in the death of more than 100,000 Iraqis, 4,000 Americans and another 31,000 wounded. Meanwhile, Afghanistan saw a resurgence of the Taliban after Bush shifted resources to Iraq.

• Botched the response to Hurricane Katrina

Bush appointed Michael Brown — a man whose only real qualifications were political connections and a sting at the International Arabian Horse Association — to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003 and he preceded to undo everything theClinton Administration had done to make FEMA functional, botching the response to 2004′s Hurricane Frances so badly as to prompt calls for his firing. But Bush kept Brown on board and, as a detailed timeline of the response to Hurricane Katrina demonstrates, neither man took the storm seriously until it was too late. Bush, who famously said “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job” midway through the crisis, thus presided over the most deaths due to a single natural disaster in the United States since 1900.

• Defunded stem cell research

At the turn of the century there was perhaps no greater hope for finding cures to illnesses ranging from Alzheimer’s to diabetes than ongoing stem cell research. But months after taking office, Bush eliminated all federal funding for any new research involving stem cells, citing a religious objection to the use of embryos — even though the embryos in question were byproducts from couples undergoing in vitro fertilization and would have been destroyed by IVF clinics regardless. Twice more during his presidency, Bush vetoed legislation that would have restored funding.

• Required Muslim men to register with the government

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Bush’s Attorney General, John Ashcroft, instituted an anti-terrorism program to register all male immigrants between 18 and 40 years old from 20 Arab and South Asian countries. Thousands of innocent men came forward to register, only to be rounded up for minor visa violations. Roughly 1,000 men and boys in the process of applying for permanent residence were arrested and confined in standing-room-only centers, enduring invasive strip searches and beatings by guards. Many were deported, while others were held for months after their immigration cases were resolved, without a shred of evidence they had any links to terrorism.

• Reinstated the global gag rule

On Bush’s first day in office he reinstated a rule that prevented any non-profit doing work overseas from using any of their own, private money to fund family planning services. This so-called “Global Gag Rule” posed a serious threat to international maternal health, but it also cut off funding for HIV/AIDS initiatives, child health programs, and water and sanitation efforts.

• Supported anti-gay discrimination

In 2004, President Bush endorsed the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which would have banned same-sex couples from marrying in the U.S. Constitution. The Massachusetts Supreme Court had just ruled in favor of marriage equality, and Bush hoped to block the ruling from taking effect because “a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization.” Though the FMA failed numerous times in Congress during Bush’s tenure, he exploited the issue of same-sex marriage to turn out conservative voters for the 2004 election. That year, 11 states added constitutional amendments outlawing same-sex marriage.

• Further deregulated Wall Street

Under Bush, federal agencies eliminated regulations on predatory lending, capital requirements, and other Wall Street practices, allowing banks to engage in riskier and more destructive practices that contributed to the financial crisis that started on his watch. Bush’s Treasury Department also pushed for even further deregulation that would have given Wall Street more oversight over its own practices even after the housing collapse had begun.

• Widened income inequality

The per-person benefits of Bush’s tax cuts accrued to the top one percent of Americans, as therate for capital gains dropped to 15 percent. The CBO found that federal income taxes dropped far more as a percentage of the one percent’s income than for any other group after 2000.

• Undermined worker protections

Under Bush, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, whose mission is to protect safe working conditions, issued 86 percent fewer rules or regulations and pulled 22 items from its agenda of proposed safety and health rules. The office’s funding and staff were also consistently reduced. Meanwhile, funding for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency charged with helping workers who claim discrimination against their employers, was similarly low and staffing fell even as the number of complaints increased, leading to a rising backlog of cases.

• Ideological court appointments

Bush filled the federal bench with ideologues, including two lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. These conservatives believe that corporations should be able to buy and sell elections, ruled against equal pay for equal work, and have sought to undermine a woman’s right to choose.

• Presided over a dysfunctional executive branch

A 2008 analysis by the Center for Public Integrity documented more than 125 executive branch failures over Bush’s two terms. These included government breakdowns on “education, energy, the environment, justice and security, the military and veterans affairs, health care, transportation, financial management, consumer and worker safety,” and others. “I think we’ll look back on this period as one of the most destructive periods in American public life . . . both in terms of policy and process,” Thomas E. Mann, senior fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution observed, noting “genuine distortion in the constitutional system, an exaggerated sense of presidential power and prerogative and acquiescence by a Republican Congress in the face of the first unified Republican government since Dwight Eisenhower.”

Sorry guys.  This is just a reminder.  Of those hellish years and of the other primary purpose served up to you by this blog.  

He is and was and will remain dangerously stupid, and uncaring and unmindful of that fact. 

I'd have been so much prouder of Obama had he chosen to sit this one out!

 

Harry "BEAT ME PLEASE" REID..................

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So THIS is what it looks like............

Photo LARGE EMPTY COMMITTEE ROOM



A hearing Thursday on long-term unemployment held before the 19-member Joint Economic Committee began with just a single lawmaker in attendance. 



The asshats are really not so concerned about us working, being able to make a living, seeing that jobs in America PAY enough to keep up with the cost of living.....

They just don't give a rat's ass and had a SEELEEEWWW of more important things to do on that given afternoon!   We do, however, know what jobs they ARE concerned about.  THEIR OWN.  And we are the ones who determine that.  I say bounce them right outa the halls of power.  It's the only way we're ever going to get heard is to keep the revolving doors a'turnin' till we get someones in those seats who DO give a rat's ass.

FUCKERS!!

Useless mother fuckers, some of whom bitch and moan about being an "entitlement" society while all they know is to fight for their own entitlements as elected officials.  The need to be bussed the hell outa there, YESTERDAY!  But ASAP will do!

4th of July On The 19th of April

 


So there we have it WTF Fans.   Pretty stellar police and federal government tap dancing all the way to Boston bomber's head.  I was impressed.  And WHO KNEW an entire city could just close down for a day.   I wish I were bar hopin' with Bostonians right about now.

Did you see it differently from me?   Pop into "Comments" and weigh in.  I'm sorry it gets all junked out with crap from the bots in our Comments Room.  If I knew how to block that or even clean it out for you I would do it.
But I don't know how, and just hate it that it happens.

Thank you for remaining patient for something to be posted on this blog.  I'll be more regular now having just averted a family emergency. 

I've had ALL the time I need "for family" by now.  Back here feels good already.


Bomber taking the very last boat trip in his life.

I missed you guys.  :)

Ear Candy...............

 

And it was so thoughtful of them to write and sing this song in English, just for us English speakers instead of doing the whole project in their native tongue of Swedish.

HIT THIS AND ENJOY!

It's my new fav song AND girl crush.

READY FOR THE WEEKEND>?????