The big fuss being made over sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace is seeming to be not unlike the big fuss made every time some asshole with a gun opens fire in a crowd… it’s making a lot of headlines, generating a lot of hot air and resulting in absolutely nothing substantive being done. Are some high profile men losing their jobs, their status, their power? They are but the tip of the iceberg, being sacrificed for the betterment of all their male contemporaries. The noise will die down in the excitement of the holiday, men will go back Continue reading →
Republicans are two faced liars when it comes to being fiscal conservatives
You’d think funding a program providing medical care to low-income children would be a no-brainer. Apparently not true in today’s poisonous political climate. In today’s political climate, even immunizations for poor children become a football to be booted and kicked around until it’s flatter than the balls used in Deflategate. Not to worry though. The rich and their riches are safe.
Our government is supposed to be by the people, of the people and for the people. Yet it seems as if more and more we are defining “people” as corporations and individuals with millions of dollars in their checking Continue reading →
It just keeps getting sadder
Who would have ever thought that America’s standing in the world as a leader in all areas could be destroyed in less than 12 months by the incompetence and insanity that is currently occupying the White House. And now, the RNC and the man currently sullying the White House are supporting a known pedophile rather than vote for a Democrat who has not been accused of any crimes of morality. Party over country. What a sad, sad place we are at in our history. And I am beyond patience with anyone still supporting this whole disaster that’s been unfolding since Continue reading →
Help me understand
The man currently sullying the White House is someone you wouldn’t trust your daughters or granddaughters alone with. How is that someone who should be representing America to the world? He is a serial sex offender. If you still support him, then you must support men using sex as power over women. You might as well send your daughters and granddaughters into his presence sooner rather than later so that they will early on begin to understand that their position is below any and all men and they need to just accept their bodies being groped and used by powerful Continue reading →
Are you happy yet?
I want one of those people who still think the man currently sullying the White House is a good president to tell me one thing he has done to make their lives better. Tried to eliminate health care? Leading us into nuclear war? Supports a tax reform that mostly favors him and his family and those of similar wealth?
I want to ask these people if their schools are better or the economy improved or whether they have some secret hideaway so that nuclear war doesn’t scare them.
We are surely screwed. Continue reading →
We’ve hit rock bottom
Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor – both gone because they couldn’t keep their hands or god knows what else to themselves. I don’t really give a crap about Matt but Garrison is a true heartbreak given his claim to represent the “moral” values of the great American middle. I guess those morals only held so long as he had a mic on or a camera rolling.
Here’s my idea. Every time a man loses his job over being a pig, that job then has to be filled with a woman. That ought to help balance out the power in this Continue reading →
Just disgusting
Heard Nancy Pelosi on a news shows trying to pretend that Conyer’s sexual harassment should be viewed through the prism of his being an American icon. Barf! I don’t have icons who settle sexual assault and harassment claims with money. And I don’t care a crap what their political preference is. Republican, Democrat, Communist, Vegan… I don’t give a crap. Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed of herself for defending this man. But apparently we hold movie and TV stars to a higher standard than our elected officials. That says more than we probably want to know about Americans. Continue reading →
An economic note…
To all Republican lawmakers… since I’m still waiting for the original trickle from trickle down economics to reach me, could we hold off on this second round. I don’t think I have enough years left to wait for it.
Sad
Don Jr. seems to have inherited his dad’s ability to pretend that there is nothing to see here… move along. I hope he and his dad get to be cellmates someday. They can then have long discussions over the fact that if you are an American, you don’t collude with Russia to influence our elections without paying a penalty. Continue reading →
That for which I am grateful
My tires were at Johnson’s Tires when they unexpectedly closed down. Despite extensive searching, they were never found. So I guess that old saying of mine still is true – if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. But rather than letting this get me down, I’ve decided to look for that proverbial pony in the pile of manure. And I’ve found many.
I have to start off with Northrim Bank and their staff who probably never took Tires 101 when they were in Bank College. They tried so hard to help and were always so Continue reading →