Thursday, October 16, 2014

With texas on the verge of a full blown epidemic...


or so the conservative panic masters would have you believe...Rick Perry chose to jet off to Europe to deliver a chest thumping, Tim the Tool Man ooh ooh ooh, we are the masters of the universe speech. Do you suppose they could put a travel ban to texas in effect and erect that fence around the state before he gets back? 

You would think this would attract the attention of the conservative media watchdogs...the state is virtually devolving into a zombie apocalypse and the Governor scrambles a jet and hightails it as far away from the nightmare as he can without accidentally overshooting the landing strip and winding up in the hotzone in Africa...

With the 2016 elections fast approaching, one can only hope that Perry, Palin, Christie and maybe even Ben Carson thrown in for color, will not disappoint the country and deliver the best three ring circus ever under the big tent...Hillary only has to sit back and let the mayhem deliver the presidency to her with a bow on top. Maybe if we all wish real hard the "It's too dam hot" guy will join the parade as well.

As a footnote to this observation...I have to ask, is it any wonder that Texas' healthcare system is so sub par, that the care providers are so poorly trained that a nurse would travel on a commercial air carrier while showing symptoms of infection, and facilities so lacking in reliable equipment that, not one but two personnel would become infected...when the Governor  chooses to politic overseas while the people are left to the mercy of  the unrelenting fear cycle of the conservative talking heads...who's only real concern is how to spin the dilemma in such a way as to influence the impending election cycle.  If history is any reference the hysteria will result in little more than archived headlines, as we've seen in the past with predictions of ten dollar gas, confiscation of guns, collapse of the monetary system, death panels, concentration camps, and the mandatory 666 tattoo on everyone's forehead...but just a casual perusal of conservative websites and social media pages reveals that logic and common sense is not a pervasive trait shared by the right wing.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Monday, August 18, 2014

ask a moron about climate change...



             and they'll respond with "but it was cold yesterday"...this picture shows 
the real ramifications of what we can expect more of in the future...

I'ts amazing how little outrage there is coming from conservatives...

about the blatant militarization of the police department responding to the crisis in missouri...that seems more interested in keeping the non violent factions of the fracas from exercising their constitutional rights....while turning a blind eye to the looters and criminals that are causing all the violence... 


Thursday, July 31, 2014

TBT-sometime in the 80's


Retired Coal Miner To EPA: 'We're Dying, Literally Dying For You To Help Us' | ThinkProgress



I would imagine that if given the opportunity to work in the coal mines for the rest of your life or work in a company producing some sort of clean energy the choice would be a simple one...it's just bizarre to me that in the 15th year of the new millenium we would still be relying on burning coal to keep warm and generate power...when we know so much about the potential of just the sun itself not to mention that of wind and water...the only apparent reason for this conundrum is money. Convert all coal mining operations to alternate energy producing entities and the people will still have jobs maybe more so...their health will improve saving millions in healthcare costs, and we will be able to stop raping the land for it's mineral resources which pollute the environment with the afterbirth...I'm just saying...

it's time for the medical community to step up and do some serious research...



A Florida single mother of four announced this week that she believes a strain of cannabis has saved the life of her youngest child, 19-month-old Nettie, after doctors said that no more could be done to keep her alive. “Nettie was going to die,” Rachael Garner told Yahoo Health about her daughter. “I feel 100 percent sure it has saved her life.”

I like to be fair about these things...




and I have to say that I mostly agree with this tpm...however the one solution that gets the short shrift would be to totally decriminalize marijuana...this would go a long way to reducing the drug trade problems. addressing the entire drug problem with the goal of treatment instead of incarceration for users would do a lot to help as well...when our government becomes more synergistic instead of engaging in partisan party obstructionism for the sole purpose of winning elections and garnering political capital for self aggrandizement it will function more closely to the ideals that created this nation...

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Friday, February 21, 2014

Time for an update...

Well the month has been progressing along quite steadily...been big things happening.  Became a bona fide homeowner with the payment of a large sum of money to my brother who has subsequently died from a brain tumor karmas  a bitch