Creepy People And It Is Not Even Halloween

Okay, I will no longer refer to the so called third political group as the Tea Party.  These boneheads have absolutely nothing in common with the folks who dumped some tea in Boston Harbor these many years ago.  From now until forever or until I think of another name, I will refer to these nitwits as the Kool-Aid party and boy have they been drinkin’ it.

The Kool-Aid party is what happens when the other two parties become so sleazy, greedy and self-serving that everybody finally realizes how horrible a job they are doing.  The Kool-Aid party could also be known as The Knee Jerk party, jerk being the operative word here. You see the first people to rush in the door when this vacuum is created are always the ones with least knowledge and experience but with the biggest mouth and ego.
 
They can also be referred to as The Fault Finder party.  They have no solutions, they just point out everything that is wrong. (In their eyes of course). Fault finding takes no talent, no creativity or knowledge of anything deeper than where they had their last meal.Their motto is "No."

The Kool-Aid party thinks that they are patriotic, religious, and all around good Americans.  They are in reality narrow minded, insecure, afraid of anything they don’t understand or doesn’t look like them and are actually sheep that can be led to slaughter with the simplest of ease, like a wink and a “You betcha.”. As Bill Mahr so eloquently states it, The Kool-Aid party is Corporate America’s useful idiots.   .   


Why is it that gas prices can go up overnight but take months for them to come back down?  Could it be the oil companies are doing a little price gouging?   YOU THINK?…. Exactly how can it be that when something happens in the Middle East, the oil that is in reserve, the gas that has already been refined, goes up the next day?  Yet, months after things cool down or change, we still are paying too much at the pump. 

And don’t give me that crap about how we don’t have a high tax on gas like Europe and they have been paying over $5 dollars a gallon for years,  I don’t care… I don’t live in Europe, it has nothing to do with me.  I live here and the damn gas is a scam.  The oil companies make billions, BILLIONS and I don’t see them giving back anything. 

In fact we give them all kinds of tax breaks and subsidies.  I wrote about this last month (In a post called The Gas Scam) about the paper traders who run up the price of oil and yet never actually take possession of a single drop of crude. 

It is price gouging and there are laws against that so why doesn’t someone (insert favorite politician here) have the balls to go after them?  You think maybe some of that oil money ends up in their bank account?


I am sure plenty of good hard working Texans were praying for rain over the last week-end because Gov. Rick (I may be hair-brained but I have a great hair-do) Perry asked them to. The sad truth is we didn’t even get heavy morning dew.

I think the good Lord was really busy.  Every player in the NFL, two NBA players, a race car driver and three baseball players thanked him for helping them win. Then there was some guy who finally passed his automatic transmission repair course test, a lady who won $10 dollars playing the lottery, and a kid who made it another week on American Idol who also gave him full credit.  Hey, he’s got his priorities….

Stay tuned for future adventures

The Real Queen Of The Tea Party

When the Tea Party first steeped from under a rock, I thought it had to do with the Boston Tea Party, but as the stupid signs (Take America Back and I’m Tea Bagging for Jesus) popped up, I became convinced it was the Mad Hatter from the tea party in Alice in Wonderland.  Wrong again, and guess what, the real Queen of the Tea Party is not Sarah Palin after all but Ayn Rand.

If you are not familiar with Ms Rand, she was born and raised in Russia and after coming to America became a novelist and pseudo-philosopher.  Her best known works are “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”

Now I get it who Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan and most of his fellow Tea Partiers think has caused the real problems in our country.  It’s the poor people. Yes sir it is those evil poor people who are wrecking havoc on America.  The Tea Partiers and Congressman Ryan are big fans of Ayn Rand, especially “Atlas Shrugged” a work of fiction that Ms. Rand describes as the demonstration of a new moral philosophy: the morality of rational self-interest. Ms. Rand believed and expounded on the theory that the capitalists were the producers and that the worker-bees were useless parasites.

The thing that jumps out at you in Congressman Ryan’s just released “Path to Prosperity” manifesto, are that most of these polices, such as his extremely boneheaded health care policy, will make even more people poor. I guess there is only so much room at the top.   

Here is another contradiction in the life of conservative Republican Ryan.  Every policy change of the last decade that INCREASED the deficit (the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, the Bush tax cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) good ole conservative Ryan voted FOR.

Ryan also claims that his “Path to Prosperity” budget manifesto is geared to reduce the debt;  however most of these policies have nothing to do with reducing the deficit and will actually  increase it.. The bottom line is that the poorest Americans would suffer from instant explicit budget cuts.  The biggest section of the country, the middle class, would face uncertain reductions in benefits in the distant future and the richest Americans would enjoy an immediate windfall. Business as usual.

AND HERE IN GOOD OLE TEXAS

Teachers getting pink slips can thank Governor Rick Hairdo. Part of the state’s budget problems are because Mr. Perry refused stimulus money from the Federal Government. He only turned his nose up at $830 million dollars.  Hairdo said strings were attached that he didn’t like. If I were a teacher I would want to string him up.

After a night of deep pondering, it is evident that NASA was way more pissed off about us tearing down Astroworld than I thought


Stay tuned for future adventures.