Women Rule Men Cruel

 January 6-'21 . . .  ketchup hit the wall in the president’s dining room. 

Meanwhile, back at the Capitol there was  blood on the tracks.

 Law enforcement officers were dying in defense of our Capitol and Congress. Meanwhile back at the ranch donald trump had a tantrum in the dining room.

Potus was mad as hell that his Secret Service guys wouldn’t let him go the extra mile to the Capitol to lead his “Stand by” proud boys out of their “Stand down” mode and into his attempted tirade of Treason. 

While they were leaving the Ellipse, Potus tried to grab the steering wheel from his driver; they were in the presidential limo, “the Beast". But a dutiful secret service agent grabbed donald’s hands and removed them from the steering wheel.

Donald trump was pissed. Things were NOT going his way. Events were NOT going as he and Eastman and Rudy had planned them.

That’s why there was ketchup on the wall in the White House while there was blood on the tracks at the Capitol.

How do we know this? 

Cassidy Hutchinson testified today. In 2020-21, she was  assistant to Mark Meadows, trump’s Chief of Staff, before and during the insurrection.

Questioned today by Rep. Liz Cheney , the intrepid insider testified about what she saw and heard during inner sanctum White House panic while  America was being assaulted on the far end of Penn Avenue.  

Cassidy delivered to the House Select Committee, and to us, the American people, that long-awaited inside story, the up close view of a treasonous Potus. Thanks to this alert, honest staffer, we now know the rest of the story.  

The intrepid Ms. Hutchinson now takes her place in history, along with Rosemary Woods and Martha Mitchell, women who stood up for our Rule of Law, back in '72-'73 Watergate misadventures. Then, and now,  cruel men attempted stultifying stunts of sedition but in the end collapsed in idiotic impotence.

But it takes real women to clean up the mess. 

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Our New False Flag

 In the midst of our present noise and confusion, Ross Douthat mentioned that the Court’s Dobbs decision “won the right to legislate against abortion” for states.

As the fire of leftist reaction and activism leaps up to conflation levels, abortion advocates and activists will eventually reach a peak of rage.

But after some time, the more constructive political leaders among them will moderate their real-world assessment of where they are and where they should go. Then they will get down to brass scalpels and return to strategies and tactics that will enlarge their options in the new birth battleground. 

As Dylan sang long ago . . . “he not busy bein’ born is busy dyin’.”

The 21^st-century iteration of that could be . . . she not busy havin’ fun is busy birthin’.

But I digress.

In this weird Dobbs fallout, a new right-to-life landscape may compel certain persons and groups among our population to relocate from abortion-forbidding states to abortion-permitting states. 

In 2021, our widening amerikan cultural war degenerated from ideological to tactical. The gap between red states and blue states appeared, more clearly defined, in the wake of the  Jan6 reichstag fire attack on our US Capitol.

Now, in the aftermath of Dobbs v Mississippi, or whatever the hell it was,  our ideological red v blue scizophrekia will actualize, as it did back in 1860.

Then it was blue v gray but the 21^st-century manifestation will unfold as blue v red.

When all these sheets hit the fan, I do not foresee that the rebellion will be sufficiently destructive to destroy our democratic republican nation. We've got too much at stake on the international conflageration front for such a rapacious rending to take place. Rather, the red v. blue obsessions that have overtaken us will be manifestly destined as represented by our new flag:

The Stars are gone; they’ve been sold to the streaming video providers for stellar roles in all the latest movies that perform a sedation function by converting our gun-toting violent inclinations into harmless video fantasy. Good luck with that.

The one white spot represents the the new state of Guantanamo, to whence we will exile the white supremecists who, in their trumpian frenzy, cannot get along with anybody else. There they will proudly keep their oaths among themselves as boys with their handmade babes. I hope they don't birther there in sufficient numbers to f*up the freedoms that we all hope to retain in the midst of these riotous times.

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Brett 'n Blasey Ballad

 In the broad tradition of American folk music, I borrowed an old story melody from Mamas and Papas for this ditty about what happened when Kavanaugh got nominated, back in summer of '18, for the Supreme Court.

            Have a listen:  Ballad of Brett 'n Blasey

Lindsey and Mitchey were gett'n' kinda itchy

just to leave  Judiciary hearings behind.

Chuck with his committee, workin’ toward a ditty

trying to get Brett’s nomination on time.

On committee fence Jeff Flake sat

‘cause victims’ rantings knocked him flat.

Lindsey and Mitchey still a-pushin’ forward

in the Senate, you know where that’s at

and no one’s getting Tweet ‘xept Blasey Ford

 

Lindsey said to Grassley we need to go so fastly

just to push this nomination on through (let’s go fast)

But Flake said to Grassley, we just can't pass it

until we truly know what to do.

On committe fence Jeff Flake sat

‘cause elevator tirades knocked him flat.

Lindsey and Mitchey still a pushin’ forward

in the Senate, you know where that’s at

and no one’s getting Tweet ‘xept Blasey Ford.

 

When Blasey was in high school, accosted by a drunk fool. . .

She said it was the nominee.

In Committee testifyin’, implied the nominee be lyin’

And stop his nomination immediately.

Cuz he was drunk’n crazy, back in the school days,

she said Brett had accosted in a drunken haze.

Lindsey and Mitchey still a pushin’ forward

in the Senate, you know where that’s at.

and no one’s getting Tweet ‘xept Blasey Ford.

 

Old schools, Senate rules, smart fools, America drools,

the escalating hype is so strong.

Tweet up, Face up, everything is hype up

to make trauma and drama prolong.

In a last-minute surprise

 Jeff proposed a compromise

Lindsey and Mitchey still a pushin’ forward

in the Senate, you know where that’s at.

and no one’s getting Tweet ‘xept Blasey Ford.

 

Broke busted Blasey can’t be trusted

and Mitchey wants it to go to the Floor.

Diane cant take it; she says she’ll have to shake it

We knew she’d wanna shut that door.

Slidin’ on procedures and rules;

You know its lowball, but politics is old-school.

Blasey’s ‘criminations and sad accusations

cant go on indefinitely,

so Brett’s nomination was becoming a reality.

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Looking for Real Republicans

 Let’s go Republican-hunting. Let us find the real Republicans.

So that we understand what we are looking for, let’s define what a republic is; then we’ll define what a republican is. According to my traditional (1965) Webster’s dictionary . . .

Republic: noun: a form of government in which the head of state is an elected president rather than a monarch; a form of government in which the sovereign power is widely vested in the people either directly or through elected representatives.

Republican: 

1. adjective:  pertaining to, characteristic of or having the nature of a republic; favoring a republic; of or belonging to the Republican party. 2. noun: a person who supports the form of government of a republic.

Furthermore, we will define the Republican Party.

Republican party: one of two main political parties in the USA; it was formed in 1854 by anti-slavery groups . . .

Now. . . in the fast-moving current of 2022 politics, let us ford the rapids of Congressional politics, in order to identify the legitimate Republicans, so that we can distinguish them from the infamous R.I.N.O (Republican In Name Only) chimerae.

First candidate: Eric Greitens

  Eric said: "The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice. . . Get a RINO hunting permit. There's no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn't expire until we save our country."

And this:

“We are sick and tired of the Republicans in name only surrendering to Joe Biden and the radical left.  Order your RINO Hunting Permit today!

Second candidate: Adam Kinzinger

"In May of 2009, I returned from service in Iraq and announced my intention to run for Congress. . . If we are going to ask Americans to die in service to our country, we, as leaders, ought to ought to be we willing to sacrifice our careers and our political intensity when our oath requires it.”

And this:

 “So who is Jeff Clark? An environmental lawyer with no experience leading the entire department of Justice. What is his only qualification? That he would do whatever the President (Trump) wanted him to do, including overthrowing a free and a fair democratic election.”

Which of these two political office-holders is the better role model for leadership in the defence our 241-year-old republic?

What say ye? Eric or Adam?

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To Be or Not to Be

To be or not to be, that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in our elections to allow

the slings and arrows of unscrupulous meddling,

Or to speak testimony against a pack of Lies,

and by opposing end them!

These two followed not what trumpian corruption did demand;

but instead they did stand their ground

to do the right thing

For Truth and Honesty.

For election Integrity!

They knew not what course other public servants may take,

but as for these and other patriots like them, they did say:

Give us Honesty instead Lies! 

Thus sayeth Rusty Bowers and Shaye Moss!

Ring the bell of Liberty; Sing the Anthem of Integrity!

Oh Say Can You See . . .

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Juneteenth

 For the umpteenth time I been

try’n to tell you 

today and tomorrow

how we had to beg steal n borrow

for so long damn long

to right this wrong 

to make you understand

Garland had brought ole Abe’s command

to make you see the writing on the wall

that proclamation on the wall, y’all

that proclamation that sent out the call

Abrahamic exclamation that say stop to end it all.

Put an end to it yall!

For the umpteeth time, I say I say I say

Hey! bodies of enslaved people used

bodies whipped, scarred and abused

as collateral

for more chattel

like cattle

until the umpteenth generation

from away back there in Africa nation

and along the way in honky miscegenation

even unto Haitian liberation

and later Haley’s imagination

implanted in roots of captivity

bearing fruits of productivity

through blood and sweat and tears

with underground railroad gears

in defiance of mason-dixon fears.

Yet two and a half years after the fact

the end of slavery became at last an act

announced  belatedly to Texas blacks

in spite of obstructive Texas rangers

at Galveston by Major General Granger

when he brought news of emancipation

of Abe’s neglected proclamation

way back there on June 19th, 1865. 

Now it was time for blacks to thrive

‘though we be say’n it for the umpteenth time

folk didn’t know it ’til that Juneteenth sign

when Granger say You now be free

cuz You been free since ’63!

Underground Railroad Rides Again!

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Your Friendly Neighborhood AI

I was bagging groceries at the A&P in 1968 when the movie theatre across the parking lot provided my first glimpse of the now-infamous AI.

The incredible dual prescience of author Arthur C. Clark and movie producer Stanley Kubrick was revealed when, in 1968, Kubrick produced the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Their combined human intelligence brought forth a portrait of an Artificial Intelligence movie character never before seen on the silver screen: Hal, the talking computer. 

In the movie, Hal was dutifully keeping a watchful eye of the the good ship, Discovery One, and crew. When Hal and Pilot/Scientist Dave Bowman have a little disagreement, we viewers catch a glimpse of Hal’s compassion-less, inhuman disregard for human life:   

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE

This was our baby-booming introduction to the unprecedented character of Artificial Intelligence. It was not a favorable report. Hal’s cruel obsession with completing the mission provides the artificial intelligence rationale for the demise of crew members out there in the middle of nowhere!

But hey! That heartless glitch has been fixed. It’s all good now.

The good news is that AI’s obsession with duty is nowadays moderated with a humanitarian compassionate sensitivity! This news was brought to my attention by Amala Ekpunobi, through her Prager University podcast, Unapologetic Live in conversation with her Prager sidekick,Taylor. Check it out!:

https://www.prageru.com/video/has-google-created-a-sentient-ai?

Thanks for the good news, Amala! Keep up the good work.

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