1)Drunk Driving Laws- Yes I know a lot of you out there are probably outraged by this statement as drunk driving laws save lives and prevent assholes from getting behind the wheel. The truth is most of the people driving drunk are the same people over and over, including one guy in 2010 who got three DUI's in the same evening. It's also against the fourth amendment and because of this exception we have been subjected to random drug tests and increased surveillance overall. It's also being abused regularly by the police. A recent case in Surprise, Arizona (the ultimate name in irony for this story) talked about the arrest of a man who blew a 0.0% on a Breathalyzer and was still arrested because he had bloodshot eyes. When the man said he had just come from a pool, the officer still brought him in. He had recently had surgery for hip replacement just two days before and was forced to sit on the ground handcuffed as police went through his car. After being brought into the station, blood tests revealed no alcohol and he was released. He is now suing for $500,000. Another recent case involved a guy getting arrested because he ate a breath mint right before the police pulled him over and they thought that signified alcohol, which it didn't and he is now also suing for false arrest. This is what drunk driving laws really do: give cops a reason to rough you up and then get sued costing tax payers millions nationwide. The alternative is to eliminate drunk driving laws and only stop people weaving all over the road or involved in an accident. And if you do get caught drinking and driving, I hope you like jail because after your first offense, that's where you should be headed. And if you get caught again, the jail time should be severe. If we did that, drunk driving will be cut even further than today's screw everybody policy.
2) Trent Franks (R-AZ)- Proving my point that the Republican party is filled with people not smart enough to have any sort of critical thinking ability whatsoever, Trent Franks talked about rape again in a way that is sure to doom his next election. Ignoring the fact that this kind of talk is taking down right wing politicians faster the Dick Cheney with a shotgun filled with bird shot, this idiot put both feet in his mouth and probably doomed any chance he has in an upcoming election. While defending his position on the recent House approved bill outlawing abortion after twenty weeks and not containing an exception for rape or incest, Captain Dumbass had the gaul to say that he couldn't support the exception because "pregnancy from rape is actually very low." In a sense he is right. According to a 1996 study, only 5% of raped women get pregnant. Now while 5% sound like a low number, it actually represents just over 33,000 women. That is not an insignificant number. But as people like Franks have the equivalent of a third grade education, they just see the number five instead of 33,000 and ignore the rest. This guy is far too stupid to be in Congress and shame on anyone voting for him.
3)Rick Scott- Two of the most dependable people to be in this column week after week both have Scott in their name: Scott Walker and Rick Scott. This week Uncle Fester returns with a terrible new law he and the other Gestapo right wingers have cooked up. Beginning July 1st, it will be a felony to possess a bong or other glass type drug paraphernalia. Nevermind the mess this is going to cause the justice system and the already overcrowded prisons, hundreds of people are losing their jobs who make these things. Also included are pipes, screens and anything else a headshop would have. The Florida Justice Impact Committee met over this new law and said this: "The bill may have a negative fiscal impact on state and local governments. It may have a negative prison bed impact on the Department of Corrections. The bill does not appear to have any impact on state revenues." So the bill will cost the state more money, increase the prison population and add nothing to state revenues. Oddly, possession of weed is actually a lesser crime now than the tools needed to smoke it. Way to go Florida. Way to go.
4)Oklahoma- Acting like Florida's mentally challenged brother, Oklahoma went a step further in their ill advised anti-pot crusade. In order to stop the scourge of pot drivers causing accidents on a grand scale, and isn't really occurring, the governor recently signed a bill that stated ANY amount of pot in your system is enough to charge you with driving under the influence. See why I hate drunk driving laws. They are using it to arrest ANYONE smoking pot in the state of Oklahoma as pot can remain in your system for up to sixty days even though the intoxicant has long worn off. A recent study by a large insurance company found that stoned drivers are actually safer drivers than sober ones because they don't speed and pay attention to everything around them. This is your tax dollars at work and again congratulations to anyone voting Republican in this state because those that did and smoke pot, you just made yourself a criminal in the eyes of the law. Mazel Tov.
5)Capistrano School District- I hate to keep piling on the Republicans when there have been some real winners on the left, but we will get to them in a minute. These brainpowers recently rejected a school text book for "being too liberal," and ignoring such people as Milton Freedman, Edmund Burke and other non-historical figures. The text books also gave "too much credence to global warming and an inaccurate portrayal of Russia invading Poland." Here's a quote from one of the district members from Patch.com:
“Some of the things Dr. Evers mentioned are exceedingly troubling to me,” Bryson said, citing the omission of Friedman and like-minded free-market economists. She said if more students studied conservative economists, perhaps California wouldn’t be in bad financial shape.
Nevermind the fact the book on World Civilizations is widely used across the country and no one else has had a problem with it. But get a bunch of right wing nutjobs in the room and history has got be rewritten to fit their "facts." We saw that first hand when Wikipedia kept getting altered to suggest Paul Revere was trying to warn the British to align with what Sarah Palin had erroneously said earlier. These assholes are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and telling everyone that's the way it is supposed to be. It's also telling that Milton Freedman's economic policies have been a dismal failure while the right ignores the fact the Freedman was an atheist who preached about the legalization of drugs. Much like the Bible, they pick and choose the facts they want to believe.
6)Dianne Feinstein- It's time to send career politicians like her to the dust heap in history where she belongs. In a previous column, I showed that this corrupt whore is lining her pockets with tax payer money while making sure the lot us are under constant surveillance. Her defense of her anti-gun stance made Ted Cruz look good and that guy is a raving loon. Can we please get a democrat into office who isn't this bad?
7)Marco Rubio-Trying his best to lose in 2016, this possible presidential hopeful is doing far better than Ted Cruz whose popularity rating is somewhere between herpes and Kanye West's ego, but is still sabotaging his run at every move. His latest gaffe is his statement that he will not support any immigration law that has equal rights for gay people. That's right, he's fine with not discriminating against Hispanics, unless they are gay, and then they go fuck themselves. This will not win him any election on a national scale any time soon.
8)Angela Merkel- The German chancellor recently gave the same advice as the right wingers do here: if you want a job move to where the jobs are. First off, if you don't have any money, you can't move. Moving is expensive and beyond the reach of at least one third of any country. Second, what jobs? Merkel went on to say that they can't find enough skilled workers to fill the jobs they have, which is a similar problem here. The issue in the US is that out schools are pumping out the stupidest people who lack the skills needed for these jobs and thus can't be filled. But as blue collar jobs have jumped the shark here and abroad (everything is made in China, Bangladesh, or the like), people with limited education can no longer make a good living and are being forced to live off or less and less.The right keeps calling people lazy which is so far from the truth as many would rather have a decent job that pays well than sitting at home living in poverty making near nothing. Trust me, I've done it and it sucks. There will always be the lazy among us but they are not in the earth shattering numbers the right keeps imagining.
9)Syria- Talk about being caught between a rock and hard place. Recent evidence suggests that Syria used chemical weapons in a limited but still lethal fashion, crossing Obama's so called "red line." Russia has wisely stated they don't believe the evidence as the US has already been caught several times lying about reasons for war from The Gulf of Tonkin to the more recent Colin Powell UN debacle that got us into Iraq again. The Russians say they don't trust us and who can blame them. I don't trust the government at all and I live here. Obama has gone on to say that he will arm the rebels which didn't work out so well for us last time in Afghanistan. Truth be told, there are no good actions here. We can't arm the rebels, we can't get a no fly zone, and we can't get rid of Assad as what replaces him may be far worse if radical Muslims get ahold of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. The best bet is to level Syria, Lebanon and Iran to the ground, but that would probably start WW3 so that is not likely to happen yet. No matter how you slice it, this is bad all around.
10)The US Government- This week, person after person was trotted out to lie to the American people. We wore told that a warrant would be needed to listen in on domestic calls. Not true said a democrat, Jerald Nading (D-NY) who was part of a classified briefing. He was actually surprised how many low level operatives were listening in on calls in real time. This is NOT what we heard before Congress this week. Both Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers this week said that the NSA WAS NOT doing this, and I would suggest immediate impeachment hearings for both for lying to the American people about a severe breach of the fourth amendment, which would constitute treason. The Washington Post yesterday revealed another program called NUCLEON that intercepts all calls to a database if certain trigger words are spoken. This is project Echelon 2.0 which did the exact same thing. Now some are claiming that several terrorist attacks were stopped by this program. However the examples they used have been debunked by several senators and investigators as untrue. The phone evidence was used after the fact, not before, and the rest of the so called thwarted attacks have not been made public to either the Congress or any news media as of this writing. Considering the cost of some of these programs, plus the fact that they seem incapable of stopping any terrorist attack at all, should give anyone pause over this program. This data has incredible ways for it to go bad and little if any reason to stop what it says it is trying to stop. The war on the American people is here and we are losing. So congratulations US government, you are indeed douchebag of the week.
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