The Party of Law & Order? The Party of Blue Lives Matter? Not So Much ....

In February, the Senate voted to give Officer Eugene Goodman of the Capitol Police the Congressional Gold Medal for his actions in diverting a crowd of riotous, white supremacist, Nazi insurrectionists away from the Senate chamber. The House bill also honored Officer Brian Sicknick, who was bludgeoned to death by these murderers, as well as two officers who died by suicide after the insurrection.

And last week the House passed a bill to honor police officers who defended the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection. The bipartisan legislation would authorize the creation of three Congressional Gold Medals—one for the Capitol Police, one for the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, and one meant for display by the Smithsonian to acknowledge other agencies that helped defend the Capitol from the racist, white supremacist, Nazi, idiot supporters of Thing 45.

The vote passed 413-12.

Twelve. Twelve? Twelve people thought it best not to honor those men and women who stepped up to protect our nation’s capital? Twelve. All Republicans; all members of the party that calls themselves pro-law enforcement. These sorry excuses for human beings—and you’ll agree when you see who they are—took issue with the legislation's language, most notably the part where it referred to the Capitol attackers as "insurrectionists."

The Twelve:

Matt Gaetz [Q-FL]

Louie Gohmert [Q-TX]

Marjorie Taylor Greene [Q-GA]

Andy Biggs [Q-AZ]

Thomas Massie [Q-KY]

Andy Harris [Q-MD]

Lance Gooden [Q-TX]

Michael Cloud [Q-TX]

Andrew Clyde [Q-GA]

Bob Good [Q-VA]

Greg Steube [Q-FL]

John Rose [Q-TN]

They don’t like the idea that people, carrying Confederate flags, wearing shirts that Read ‘Six Million Jews Is Not Enough,’ armed with pepper spray, zip ties, and weapons, broke into a federal building, raided Congressional and Senate offices, defecated on walls, stole personal documents and computers, attacked police officers, and murder a police officer, would be called “insurrectionists.”

The party of Law and Order!

The Blue Lives Matter party!

But to the Twelve Traitors those people are patriots.

These Twelve Traitors need to be voted out of office.

Tuesday Thought #1

Bobservations

Last weekend, after watching a bit of the funeral on TV, we were out running errands. Carlos now uses a cane when he’s out, especially in unfamiliar areas, to help him get about; it also alerts people standing around to maybe step aside and be a little more aware themselves.

But this day, as we walked into our local Lowes store, and thinking about the funeral, I said to Carlos:

“C’mon, McCane.”

Then I laughed and reminded him that I’m hilarious, and then said:

“I’m gonna start calling you Carlos McCane.”

He replied:

“I don’t like you.”

And we all know that’s a lie; but then cut to a few days later, while walking into a movie theater. I turned to him and started laughing, and said:

“I cannot wait for Christmas!”

“Why?

“Cuz then I can call you Candy Cane!”

“I really don’t like you.”

Again, we all know that’s not true, but thank god for his sense of humor, and how he gets me.

Karma is a Bitch … last week six Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives who opposed the state’s teacher pay bill were voted out of office in their runoff elections.

In fact, 15 of the 19 legislators who voted against the teacher pay bill will not be returning next term; eight lost their primaries, four chose not to run for reelection and three are leaving because of term limits.

The Resistance is working.

Remember that episode of Friends where Joey, annoyed by Chandler, put on all of Chandler’s clothes? If you missed it, that’s him up there.

Perhaps the costume designers on Friends were on to something, or were way ahead of time, because last week fashion house Balenciaga introduced the “layered Oversized Parka.”

It retails for $9,000. Really.

Last week _____ lied again; nothing new, I know. But it was such a stupid lie, told for no other reason than to boost his flaccid … ego.

He bragged during an event in North Carolina that his golf course in the state was on the “largest man-made lake in the world”:

“You know where my club is, right? _____ National. It’s a very big success on Lake Norman. Beautiful. Largest man-made lake in the world by far, right?”

But the facts are that Lake Norman doesn’t even crack the list of the 10 largest U.S. reservoirs; in fact, Nevada’s Lake Mead, the largest on that list, holds 25 times more water than Lake Norman.

Seriously, the man cannot even tell the truth about lakes.

Carla Maloney, secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, resigned last week after it was revealed that she repeatedly called NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem “baboons.”

“Tired of these over paid ignorant blacks telling me what I should believe in. I will tell you what I believe in and that is our Flag the National Anthem and America period end of story. You don’t like it here go to Africa see how you like it there. We are all Americans not African American not Hispanic American. WE ARE ALL AMERICAN. [The] Steelers are now just as bad as the rest of the over paid baboons. You respect your flag, country and our national anthem. How many men and women have lost limbs or died to protect this country and you baboons want respect.”

The party, the racist party, rots from the head down.

Speaking of athletes who kneel, this week Nike announced that Colin Kaepernick, who started the Take a Knee movement to protest racial injustice in this country, is one of the faces of the company’s 30th anniversary of the “Just Do It” campaign.

I love it; he deserves it.

Sidenote: people are now burning their Nike merch because they are pissed about Kap but they seem to forget that they’ve already paid for the stuff so they are only hurting themselves.

Asshats.

Diego Berrio and Edwin Giraldo Cortez, two Catholic priests from the Chicago area, were arrested in Miami Beach after bystanders along Ocean Drive reported the men having oral sex … in their car … in broad daylight.

In fact, Diego and Edwin were so busy getting’ busy they didn’t even notice that police had arrived to arrest them.

That’s all.

It starts … Next Wednesday at 10PM … the mashup of Murder House and Coven and the return of Jessica Lange!

Over the long weekend we watched two movies, one at home, and one at the local theater.

First up, was The Light Between Oceans, the story of a couple living alone on an island—he’s a lighthouse keeper—who suffer two miscarriages, and when a rowboat drifts ashore with a baby and a dead man on it, they take the child in as their own … until they learn that the child’s mother is looking for her daughter.

Good film, but the best part, for me, because I’m shallow, is Michel Fassbender as the lighthouse keeper. Tall and dreamy, is he.

Then we went to see BlacKkKlansman, the true story of a black cop, Ron Stallworth, who infiltrated the KKK back in the early 70s; it’s a great film, relevant to America today, sadly, and the ending should, should, make you cry.

Again, though, shallow me, couldn’t help but be enthralled by John David Washington, son of Denzel and Pauletta, who is quite a dreamboat.

I was also, as I have been before, taken by Adam Driver, unconventionally hot, in my mind. 

And also, very good in the film. So there!

House Republicans Vote To Take 255 Days Off In 2016

I was thinking about getting a new job. And since I’ve worked my whole life, and now I feel like cutting back a bit, I’d like something with flexible hours, fewer hours, but, if I could, make a decent salary, too.

So, I have decided to run Congress, where, next year, House Republicans have scheduled themselves to work just 110 days.

Yes, out of the 365 days a year, not counting that Leap Day thingy, House Republicans want 255 days off; and, you know, they are provided with a taxpayer salary of $174,000 a year … nearly $1600 a day … or $197 an hour for an eight-hour work-day.Not to mention the pension for life and the free health care and all those other perks.

I could live on that.

And yet these are the same Republicans who reject raising the minimum wage and reject mandating paid family leave for American workers who work forty hours a week, 52 weeks a year just to make ends meet.

So, why are we letting them do this? Why are we allowing the GOP controlled Congress to give themselves 255 days off each year, including the entire months of August and November?

And why we keep hearing GOP asshats, like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan who refuses to spend one minute away from his family while denying that same right to American workers, call a large majority of Americans lazy, entitled, looking for government handouts, and also kvetch and moan whenever President Obama takes a day off.

Americans, those of us who work, and those of us who have elected these asshats to Congress, get an average of twelve vacation days a year — and we usually take just ten of those. And the median household income is about $50,00, with one out of four households living on less than $25,000 per year.

Why do we do this? Why elect people, pay them more than we make, and allow them to decide when and for how long they are going to work?

As for their attacks on Obama and his golf trips? Let’s take a look at the numbers:

While president, for eight years, George W. Bush took 879 vacation days while President Obama, who hasn’t quite finished his eight years, hasn’t even broken the 200 day mark yet.

Two-hundred days in eight years? In eight years a GOP Congressman, and by default, yes, even a Democratic Congressman, will have taken 2,040 days off.

Why.Do.We.Allow.This?

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Today In Stoopid: Kentuckians Want A Dead Guy Over Mitch McConnell As Senator

Oh Kentucky. I’m’a have to ask you to sit down. I mean, you made this problem, and you could have fixed it, but you stayed home, or you just put your check next to the box that said ‘Incumbent’ because, what, it was too hard to actually think before you voted.

Let me backtrack: Kentucky Senator, and Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell is so unpopular in Kentucky that the state’s voters thought Colonel Sanders … yes, that Colonel Sanders of KFC fame … would be a better senator than McConnell.

According to Public Policy Polling:

“In spite of KFC’s weak poll numbers Colonel Sanders remains a beloved figure, with 71% of voters seeing him favorably to only 8% with an unfavorable view. In fact they even think Colonel Sanders could be part of the solution to the problems in Washington — by a 47/27 spread voters in the state say they think Colonel Sanders would make for a better US Senator than Mitch McConnell. Too bad he’s dead.”

Yes, folks, the voters of Kentucky, who just reelected Mitch ‘Mock Turtle’ McConnell to office last fall, now say they’d rather have the dead guy who mass-marketed fried chicken as their Senator.

McConnell’s approval rating in the state is 32%.

So why is McConnell in office? People don’t vote. I mean, seriously, it’s that simple. The Democrats sat home and the few measly republicans who did show up got their way, and now the people of Kentucky are whining.

Well, you made this mess, and only you can fix it. Next time there’s an election, put down your phone, turn off your TV, look away from the porn on your computer, and go vote.

Only, maybe don’t vote for the dead chicken guy?

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