ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SHOOTING! WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR!

Just the other day I thought to myself, "Gosh, we haven't had a mass shooting in some time. We are WAY overdue." Flash forward a few days and POW, a mass shooting at a country music festival in  Las Vegas. I HATE stories like this because nothing makes me angrier than people having harmless fun, enjoying an outdoor concert, when bullets rain down because someone is mental, super religious, or just plain pissed, which is what the latter appears to be at this point.

When I heard the shooting, I went into detective mode and found out a lot before the media did. I knew the causality rate was going to be astronomically high as reports from local hospitals said they were at critical mass. I tracked down the woman, Marylou Danley, her home and everything I could find out about her. I found her Facebook page as well as know she is a Mom and Grandmother, likes to gamble, works at a casino and was most likely, not involved in the shooting. As she was in the Philippines at the time, her alibi seems solid. The odd part is I KNEW it was going to be her live in boyfriend/roommate who has zero social media footprints, but shared a place with her, which is all I found out about him once I uncovered his identity hours before the media put it out.

Stephen Paddock is quite the cipher. A 64 year old white retiree suddenly decides to start shooting at a crowd of people. This is NOT who I thought the shooter would be. Black guy mad at whites, terrorism, even a known mental case, but it was known now that it was none of these. ISIS has claimed that Paddock was a recent convert but I find that really hard to swallow. So why?

There are only a couple of reasonable explanations. Reports say he had recently taken a lot of money out of his account to gamble with. It is not known whether he won or loss but as he shot up a bunch of people I don't think it went well. He was also allegedly going through a divorce, so it is possible he was having serious money problems, tried to gamble his way back to being in the red and lost it all instead. Then he just snapped and decided to off a bunch of people before killing himself. The other option is less likely but possible. While Paddock has no social media footprint, it is possible he grew to hate Trump and his supporters, most of which would have been at that concert. I hope that is not the reason as it will not help this country one bit and lead the right to condemn leftist violence, which is real but less serious that right wing attacks which are far more numerous.

To make matters even stranger, witnesses say a Hispanic woman was escorted out after screaming that everyone there was about to die, 45 minutes before the shooting. Most likley this is just some nutbag whose insane rantings coincidentally timed with the shooting. But if it wasn't, how did she know? Scott Peterson got the death penalty for the same thing as his claim to his mistress that his wife died recently and this would be his first Christmas without her turned out to be prophetic if he didn't kill her. That statement was made weeks before she disappeared and sunk him in court even though I am pretty sure he didn't do it. But the coincidence, if it was that, sent him to death row. Could this be the same?

No matter the reason, Nevada's lax gun laws sure helped. I have no problem with people owning a machine gun. I do have a problem with ANYONE being able to get a gun regardless of who they are. In this case, it wouldn't have mattered as Paddock has no criminal or mental history background but we should have background checks, licences for firearms and even training courses that have to be repeated every say five years. Letting any idiot get a gun is why we have mass shootings like this. The sad part is, if someone want to kill a lot of people, there is almost nothing the government can do to stop it. You can't legislate insanity and hate.

So pray for the people who died and use this tragedy as an excuse to be NICER to everyone, even Trump supporters. Nazis however are still fair game to punch at will.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: AFTER A BRIEF HIATUS IT'S DONALD TRUMP AGAIN! WTF?

It's hard to keep having worst weeks ever, but damn it if Trump didn't try his damnedest this week to do just that. It was a plethora of idiotic tweets, fall out from his Hitler rally, problems with his retarded staff and even fate had a hand in making Trump look small and unimportant. But he was not alone in what can only be described an orgy of stupidity this week. Let's see those runner ups.

10)Liz Soeiro- This is why liberals suck. The librarian from Cambridge, MA came under fire this week for refusing ten books by Dr. Seuss donated by the First Lady. I would have been in bad taste just to refuse them because of who she was married too, as kids shouldn't have to suffer because Trump is a dick, but no, it wasn't because of that at all. Instead, she called the books "racist" and that set off a fire storm of controversy, not helped by the fact that the author is from Massachusetts and even has a museum in Springfield. Dr. Seuss is NOT racist and even saying that is offensive. Can we please stop shoving race down our throat 24/7? This was further hampered by photos showing the librarian dressed as the Cat in the Hat just two years ago. This country need Xanax stat.

9)Film and TV- It has become apparent that people who work in Hollywood no longer have any idea what the fuck they are doing anymore. Worse, critics are either being paid to lie or no longer understand what makes a show or film good anymore because their reviews are dreadful lately. This week we saw such horror shows as Young Sheldon, the comedy that is NOT funny even accidentally, Star Trek:Discovery, whose only real talent was using great CGI to cover up the fact that there is nothing redeeming about this show, SEAL Team/the Brave/Valor, three shows indistinguishable from one another and none of them any good, the Opposition, Stephen Colbert lite, Me, Myself and I, which is all that will be watching this shit after week three, and the film Flatliners, which accurately described it's BO. Other than the film, critics liked most of the shows listed above. Why? Then they trash the Inhumans, not great but not a suckfest either as previously noted and the Orville, which is my favorite new show. And that was just this week. Imagine what horrors await us next week when even more new shows arrive.

8)Tom Wopat- Another fading star, another round of groping. Allegedly suffering from substance abuse again, the former Dukes of Hazzard star was arrested again, this time for groping a sixteen year old girl during rehearsals for a play he is in. Allegedly, he poked her in the stomach and said " I am a creepy old man and you're talented and cute." EWW. Then he slapped her on the butt and said "Nice ass." Double EWWW. If you are 66 years old, don't grope teens. It's illegal and gross.

7)Megyn Kelly- Another person who had a very bad week after her new morning show went off the rails something fierce on more than one day. Why you hired a hack like her is anyone's guess but it has Jeff Zucker written all over it, the president of NBC and true idiot as he ran CNN into the ground earlier. Her interview with the cast of Will and Grace got awkward fast when the host asked an audience member if he was gay because of the show and everyone cringed. That was her best moment as it was all downhill from there. She asked Jane Fonda about her plastic surgery which she was NOT happy about and it showed. There were also cameras failing, crew in shots and even one camera operator who swore on live TV. Oops. Add to that dwindling ratings and this show looks bad. Next time hire someone who knows what they are doing and not some pretty face on Fox who obviously got there by sucking cocks in her way to the top. It certainly isn't because she is a good journalist because she's not and it shows.

6)Anthony Weiner- Because this asshole couldn't keep his dick in his pants, Trump became president. It was his laptop bullshit that caused Comey to re-investigate the Hillary email crap that had noting and was nothing. But because this boy scout felt obligated to talk about it,while ignoring the whole Russia hacked out election story, nine out of ten undecided voters broke for Trump, giving him the election. I am fairly sure if that story didn't break right before the election, Hillary would be president right now. Weiner however got arrested for sexting a fifteen year old girl and got 21 months in federal prison for it. Ha Ha! Enjoy your next eighteen months before parole and I hope you get and up close and personal look at what dick pics are in real life you moron.

5)Rick Scott- Much has been said about the governor of Florida and his not great handling of Hurricane Irma. He left the state for a vacation as things were still being put back together. Worse, it has come to light that the nursing home that lost power and had a dozen of their patients die as a result, had called Rick Scott personally and begged for help. Now those messages are all missing, deleted actually. Why? Now mind you the nursing home is also at fault for multiple violations but it has also been noted that Scott and groups who own nursing homes like this have been actively perusing more deregulation of these groups, or exactly the reason these people died due to lack of oversight. Republicans are actively trying to kill you. Keep voting for that morons.

4)Elaine Chow- Is anyone in the Trump administration not corrupt? The next most likely person to either resign or be fired is the Transportation secretary and Mitch McConnell's wife who is knee deep in an ethics scandal. Much like everyone else working for Orange Hitler, she failed to diverge herself from her stock portfolio before accepting the job. This has led to corruption charges because many see that her stock options with Vulcan Material led to a conflict of interest when she steered government contacts to that company for the sole goal of making money herself. Because of some sort convoluted reason as she once sat on the board of directors at Vulcan, she can't sell the stock until April. This means if she is given the option to get rid of the stock, losing her millions, or resign, which do you think she will do? Greed says resign.

3)Tom Price-What a hypocrite. When he was in Congress, he lambasted the Obama administration for every nickle and dime he could, especially going off about their use of private planes. Once in office as HHS head, doofus went hog wild on plane travel, amassing a one million dollar price tag in eight months. The hypocrisy is deafening. Guess who got fired on Friday? Good riddance.

2)Republicans- This week, Republicans tried to kill half of America and some of you applauded it. Their health care plan, which was actually a tax break for millionaires and more, would have killed thousands by the end of next year and ended insurance for us all by 2020. Then they put forth a tax plan that they are lying through the teeth about as it will do nothing for the middle class and give the 1% a huge tax break. Who supports this crap? They even voted in Roy Moore, a man that makes Louis Golmert look wise and sane in comparison, to run for Congress in Alabama. If you vote for an asshole like this, you will ruin this country worse than it is now. FU Alabama Republicans. I hope another hurricane comes your way stat.

1)Trump- Worst. Week. Ever. And that is saying something. As he has now fucked up aid to Puerto Rico once and for all, even going into a Twitter war with the mayor down there as he started a race war at home. Trump weeks somehow stretch over months is seems as what happened last week seems like years ago. Let's review shall we.

Saturday 9/23- Trump goes after Stephen Curry, dis-inviting him from the White House, even though he was never going, the NFL players again for not standing and Kim Jung Un for being a dick. Puerto Rico is never mentioned once.

Sunday 9/24- NFL protests galore and Trump tweets back.

Monday 9/25- More tweets about the NFL and one about an Iranian missile launch that never happened. He also tells Un to prepare for war. As that is going Susan Collins says no to the Obamacare replacement, effectively killing it. Trump is less than pleased. Still noting about Puerto Rico.

Tuesday 9/26-More NFL tweets. The people of Puerto Rico and newscasters notice that nothing is happening there and people are running out of supplies. Obamacare replacement finally dies. Roy Moore wins over Trump supported candidate Luther Strange.

Wednesday 9/27-Trump insists Trumpcare will never die and it is only because a Senator was in the hospital that this didn't pass. None of that turns out to be true. Tom Price's pricey jet travel comes out. Puerto Rico begins to bitch to high heaven that they need help. Trump seems not to know that the island is part of the US.

Thursday 9/28- Trump tells Fox and Friends that NFL owners are afraid of their players, stoking even more racial tension. Puerto Rico continues to suffer. Jared Kushner and five others are revealed to be using a private email, or the exact same thing they complained about Hillary doing. Acting DHS head says that the Puerto Rico crisis is a "good news story."This does not go over well with the people down their literally dying.

Friday 9/29- Price is fired. Puerto Rico flips out over the "good news" comment and Trump's lack of interest in helping them. Mitch McConnell's wife is under investigation for ethics problems.

Saturday 9/30- More tweeting about Puerto Rico and the Fake News.

Trump is a dick who is looking at his Katrina Moment. Good luck with that. His tax plan is DOA in current form just like the health care plan was. There are already enough Republican votes to kill it outright in the House alone. There is very little chance this passes as is right now. But that matters not as Trump is circling the drain right now and his supporters know it. Congradulations Trump, you are indeed douchebag of the week. Again.

DONALD TRUMP AND TAXES, HEALTH CARE AND OTHER THINGS HE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT!

I don't know if Trump is losing it or never had it. The interviews he gave over the last few days have been bizarre at best, from his tax plan, a blueprint at best right now, almost certain to die in Congress in even it's vague state, to his statement that health care will be fixed any day now as they have the "votes?" which is such a lie I don't even know where to start. Tack on a crap job on helping Puerto Rico, a loss for a Senate seat he stumped for and no clear way to victory ahead on any legislative bill, and we can all say in one loud voice that at least for this week, Donald Trump was a loser! HA! Tired of all that winning yet?

Let's start with the mess that is Puerto Rico and how once again, yours truly personally told the top figure in government evacuation plans that their plan won't work, and once again watched it fail for exactly the reason I outlined more than a decade ago. Help is not getting to where it needs to go because bureaucracy is hampering it (the Jones Act which prevent non-US companies from sending aid to the island nation), FEMA is stretched thin because of multiple disasters right now and private industry has all the oil supplies and no one to move it where it has to go. The latter one is something I have been warning officials for years that they need CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED DRIVERS for emergency situations. Evacuation plans for years have failed for this one reason that when drivers are needed, they disappear, most likely to help their own families. Without drivers that are mandated to show up for work under penalty of being fired, fined or even jailed, this will continue to happen, as it did with Katrina and now Puerto Rico. Idiots.

Trump has shown no ability to make people feel better and the fact that he thinks the island is in the Atlantic, somehow not knowing geography and that it is actually in the Caribbean, does not inspire confidence. His bungling of this will hopefully follow him around like Katrina did for Bush. Help is desperately needed for these poor people and hopefully they will get the aid they deserve. They certainly are getting any from Trump. Does anyone else find it odd that Florida and Texas, both Republican oriented got superior help, while the non voting state (which is messed up as they should be able to vote) filled with Hispanics got screwed? It's almost like Republicans are racist or something. NAAA. It can't be that can it? I think it is.

Then we have his failed health care bill to which he gave a super strange interview to CNN and others on the White House grounds. Trump stated he had the votes for health care but it couldn't go through because one the members, Thad Cochran, was in hospital, and if they had his vote, health care would have been a done deal. There is absolutely not one word of that that is true. Cochran is NOT in the hospital, they don't have the votes, and even if this was true and he couldn't make the vote, they still were at least one vote shy and likely a few more. Now he is saying they will revisit health care sometime next year where it should easily pass. How? They will need 60 votes to pass it, unless they commit political suicide by tacking it on to their onerous tax bill, which is already on life support and it has only been alive a few days. Plus, if they want to use budget reconciliation after that, it won't be until 2019 after the new Congress has been sworn in and that may include Democrats retaking the House and Senate, no longer a long shot according to new data seen. Health care is dead, dead, oh fuck what is this now?

Trump has insinuated he will EO health care now, allowing companies to buy insurance across state lines which is NOT a good idea. It could further tank the system by allowing companies to sell skimpier plans for less money to healthy people, meaning premiums will rise for everyone else. Fun. There are also a host of issues that will arise as each state has different rules when it comes to care so that could upend states rights something fierce. If he does, expect a dozen states or more to sue to stop it. This will then go to the Supreme Court where the ruling is unknown, thanks to Neil Gorsuch looking more and more like a rubber stamp for Republican ideals. Fuckwad. He will be giving a speech at Trump hotel today to GOP donors. Nothing suspicious about that right?

Lastly, we have the GOP tax bill which they are lying to us that it will help middle class families. It won't. Most of who it helps are the upper 1% who stand to make billions if enacted and cost taxpayers at least $1.5 trillion over ten years. This plan was already tried in Kansas and that went so badly the GOP congress there overrode the veto from idiot governor, Sam Brownback, who is also the least popular governor in the US, barely edging out other luminaries as Dannel Malloy and Chris Christie, whose approval rating is also underwater. This tax plan mostly helps the wealthy. Don't be fooled otherwise.

It may not matter as there are already signs this bill is doomed. They still have to figure a way to pay for this to even have a chance getting it through budget reconciliation rules which demands no increase after ten years which this bill does in spades. Good luck with that. 69 Republican Senators have already come out against a provision that would double people's taxes in states like NY, CA, NJ and Illinois, to name just a few. There is NO chance ANY Republican from any of these states votes for this provision because there is no way they get re-elected, let alone not get shot, if it passes. It would be impossible to deflect from the fact that their vote raised everyone's taxes 100% in the state. It would be a bloodbath and perhaps even a literal one.

Tax reform is way harder than health care in that to do anything, you have to take from one group to give to another. And when you take away from one group, they get pissed. If that group happens to be corporation, which is likely, they will spend millions attacking the candidate, severely hurting their chances for re-election. Citizen's United fucked over politicians too which I find funny. They can't get anything done now because corporations hold immense power over our government and can "free speech" anyone that they want back to the Stone Age.

Regardless of what Trump says or wants, this tax bill is likley going to be watered down to near nothing and even then, there may be no clear path forward. It is because of this that average Republicans are fed up with the establishment and thus people like Roy Moore get elected to run. Paul Ryan is in serious trouble next year as his numbers suck. I have a feeling a lot of politicians on both sides of the aisle are going to get primaried out next election. And that could help bring about either a better quality of politicians or more firebrands like Moore. Depending on what happens these next few months will decide that question for us.

NORTH KOREA, THE NFL AND OTHER SIGNS OF IMPENDING DOOM!

Holy God things got serious fast. North Korea is begging for war, the end result which will be the end of their existence. Trump, because he can't do anything else right, lobbed a hand grenade into the center of America and may have inadvertently started a new Civil War. Puerto Rico is a wasteland that our country seems totally nonplussed by the fact that these people are going to die without aid. Meanwhile, the fucking Republicans are still trying to get their awful "health" care bill through even though it appears to have far more than three detractors now, effectively killing it. What the hell is going on?

Let's start with the most serious of actions and that is Kim Jung Un double dog daring us to wipe them from existence. He threatened to nuke the Pacific, an action that would almost certainly lead to a nuclear war. Today, he said that as the US had declared war on North Korea, which we haven't even by the loosest of Trump talk, they will start shooting down US planes even in international waters, That will also lead to a nuclear war, proving what I keep telling so called experts that Un is NOT sane, NOT reasonable and most likely to end millions of lives on the planet. What part of human history leads any rational person to think that Un won't do something so stupid that war will never happen? Read how almost all wars have ever started and there are only two explanations: stupidity or malice. Almost no war ever has been begun because it was the right thing to do. And when war is started, they usually fight in the most half assed way possible, all but guaranteeing the conflict will last way longer than it needs to, wounding and killing millions more than needed.

Many say we need peace and talks and crap like that. History tells us this will only lead to hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions dead. Our only option is to attack North Korea with everything we have and accept the fact that we are going to lose millions on our side too. If we had attacked decades ago, the death toll would have been far lower. For each decade they waited, the death toll multiplies. For anyone who thinks this theory is bunk, I challenge them to find a war in the last hundred years that wouldn't have have had a far lower death toll if we ended the war quick by any means possible, rather than dragging it out for the dumbest of reasons. WW2 would have been over before it started at least a dozen times had either the Russians or the Allies opened a history book to see how their chances stood and attacked earlier than they did, held back by mankind's pathological aversion to fighting and war. Sometimes, these are your only options. I know first hand, you can't always talk yourself out of a fight. Sometimes, you have to punch someone. We are at that moment. The longer we wait now, as Un is not wrong that war IS inevitable at this point, the more people are going to die. Chances are good, tens of millions will die if we attack now. If we wait as little as a year, that number may be hundreds of millions and by the end of this decade, we all could be extinct.

We are accelerating that time table because our moron president, along with the Republican party, are hell bent on killing our health care system with yet another fucked up bill that will kill millions and, most likley, quite a few Republicans when children start dying. This country is not known for stable, thoughtful dialogue. Scenes like the GOP baseball shooting may be much more common place if they ever figure out a way to enact this monstrosity. As of this moment, that seems unlikely in the short term, until at least 2019, as the next reconciliation bill is going to be used for taxes.

But that is not the only thing the GOP is fucking up as Trump keeps telling us he is pulling out of the climate change accord, which no one but the most stupid like him doing this, as well as hinting he will pull us out of the Iran deal as well. This would be the dumbest thing he could ever do as the Iranians could restart their nuke program tomorrow and we would have no way of stopping it. What it does in this treaty is prevent them from getting a bomb for ten years. So because President Blackenstein set this up, as well as everything else Trump has repealed, that is why it has to go, not because of policy? Fuck you! This is still a good deal. Leave it the fuck alone. He won't which will lead to another war front for us which worked out so well for Hitler when he said, "Let's attack Russia. Nothing bad has ever happened to anyone who opened a second war front." And then he lost. So will we.

Then we have the NFL. Talk about a perfect storm. CTE injuries are being discussed, hyper masculine sports play badly with the younger generation and now politics is involved. This is why the NFL ratings are in decline. That and the fact that they have way too many teams for the talent pool. I have watched a lot of shitty football these last few weeks and a lot of it had to do with the quality of the players who so far are a sad lot, especially among the Pats whose defense a small child could penetrate. The reason for this is they have spread out the best players among a sea of mediocrity, which has led to a lot of blowouts and poor games so far. Attendance alone tells us that LA cannot handle two teams anymore.

But all that was moot after President Hitler gave a rally that should have been dubbed in German to get the full effect. In it, he slammed the NFL and the players for daring to kneel during the national anthem. Gasoline, match, fire. The country erupted into two camps. One slammed the NFL for being unpatriotic and tuned out. The rest saw it for what it was, free speech. You may not like it, but this is a free country and that is exactly why we have the 1st amendment. I'd much rather see that than fucking Nazis for God's sake.

The right went ballistic over this, even though they shouldn't be. Any real American respects someone else opinion and that's what this is: an opinion. We as a nation better learn to mind our own business so things like this, abortion and gay rights can go forward without the "my way is the only way" crowd. Fuck off. This nation is based on the principle of free speech. The left and the right who don't like it are free to find somewhere else to go. The funny part is I agree with the right on this that kneeling during the anthem is disrespectable. So are black men being shot with impunity by cops. I many not agree with them, but I will fight for their right to say it. Again, as long as they are not Nazis. Those guys can go blow.

Lastly, a quick note about the Star Trek show last night: I would rather shave my head with a cheese grater while chewing on tin foil than watch another episode of this disaster. In no way was it even close to Star Trek, something that the Orville is actually much more like. How is that possible that Seth McFarlane made a better Trek show than this? The involvement of people like Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman are a big clue. Kurtzman's last project, The Mummy, was joke and showed it while Goldsman wrote such classics as I Am Legend, I, Robot and, barf, Batman and Robin. The one positive thing I can say is that it was pretty to look at. The special effects were really cool. That's it for good things. The pilot was boring, the dialogue awful, the costumes retarded, the character development nonexistent, and the plot was nonsensical. We don't even see the fucking ship in the first two episodes, only one of which we got to see for free. Tack on to that some of the worst, and I mean worst, characters in any Star Trek ever. The first officer is going to commit mutiny in coming episodes, yet will still somehow command a star ship. Right. In the pilot we only are introduced to three of the people and none of them were likable, including a science officer that appears to be afraid of his own shadow. That will play out well over sixteen episodes. The rest were just background noise.

Bottom line is don't bother. Watch the Orville for way better Star Trek episodes. And while watching it, pray we get to a point when interstellar travel is possible because right now we might now see 2020.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: LINDSEY GRAHAM AND BILL CASSIDY!

I'm back. Did I miss anything? I missed everything? Fuck. Two Republicans I had actually grown to not hate decided to flip that switch with their idiotic health care plan which is thankfully all but dead barring some last minute miracle which I don't see happening. So far the GOP plan is to make it worse and worse until we all just die whenever we get sick. Fuck these two right in the ass, which Graham might actually like as he does come across as super gay. Let's see those runner ups in another week of freaking morons.

10)Madonna- Some people don't know when to go quietly into that good night. Hillary Clinton is throwing Molotov cocktails at the Democratic party with her new crappy book. Sean Spicer is trying to mainstream himself with less than stellar results, including a cringe inducing appearance at the Emmy's. But no one flamed out like Madonna did this week. Did you know she put out a new album this week? Apparently no one else did either as she only sold a nut shrinking 3500 copies over a two day period. Ouch! This blog gets more hits than that in two days and even I know this site is somewhat obscure, unlike the super rich, famous and quite insane Madonna. Maybe it's time to stop touring as she is like a hundred now and acting like a pop princess is just kind of sad now.

9)Sean Spicer- Go AWAY! People were rightfully PISSED he showed up the Emmy's "joking" about his idiotic debut when he claimed falsely that the inauguration was the largest ever in the history of time, demonstrating what we now know is a dangerous administration incapable of telling the truth about anything. Look at that, Trump really IS a politician after all. It did not go over well and, truth be told, was really tone deaf. The producers and Stephen Colbert didn't see that coming? Spicer has been looking for a media job but so far he has been rejected by them all, including, hilariously, Fox. Time to find a job out of the spotlight guy because that road is closed.

8)Marshall Green- This guy will be forever known as Hurricane Sign Language Guy after a spectacular failure while giving life saving info for Florida as Hurricane Irma barreled toward them. They didn't have anyone who could sign so they picked someone with as much sign ability as I have who began to throw off words like Pizza, Monster, and Bear. People who were deaf were outraged as this rank amateur butchered their language for a very important message. The thinking at the time was better him than nobody. No, nobody would have been better. Idiots.

7)Tom Price- The head of the EPA is a dick. That is hardly a new sentiment but this week hit new lows as a real hypocrite. As a senator, he railed against the Obama administration using plane travel at all for anything, using cost as a cudgel. But then flash forward to him in power and we find he is using private planes, which cost taxpayers $25K for ONE trip, when he could have just as easily taken a commuter jet for $750. His response is his time is valuable. Our tax dollars are too you ass.

6)Betsy DeVos- Another Trump loser who this week pulled back protections from rape victims as schools. Is that really what people wanted? While I will agree that there seem to be too many fake accusations that have ruined men's lives, this move seems to move the pendulum back too far the other way which will discourage women, or men, from reporting rapes. Can't we leave things alone instead of constantly tinkering with them?

5)Media- The Republicans are lying to the America people. How fucking hard is it to SAY that? I have watched news media dance around the fact that many of the Republican party, including the goddamned President of the United States, when it comes to what is in their fucked up health care bill, lie, lie and lie some more. And the reporter just stands there with a shit eating grin on his face, somehow unable to say the words, "THAT IS A LIE!" The bill does NOT protect people with pre-existing conditions, it will cost more, and we ALL will lose out insurance over the next decade as it gets priced out of existence for all but the richest. How fucking hard is that to say as it's only your fucking job!?

4)North Korea- This deranged midget is going to kill us all. The chances for a miscalculation here is sky high, especially if he dies something suicidal like fire a nuke at the Pacific. No above ground testing has been done by anyone since 1980 and with good reason, the fallout is hell on the environment. It also will start a nuclear war as that is a serious red line to cross. Pray he doesn't do this ever.

3)Trump- What the fuck Trump. Your numbers are going up, you make a deal with the democrats, you haven't screwed up Hurricane relief (surprisingly just the opposite go figure) and all you had to do was keep your mouth shut for three seconds. He didn't make it to one as he royally screwed the pooch with an unhinged rally speech were he went off on Hillary, and the chant of course, the wall that will be built, and then the cherry on top, how anyone who kneels at a sporting event out to be fired, ignoring the fact that the first amendment is front and center here. While I have come to view hate speech as something that should be controlled, protest speech is definitely protected, even if I don't agree with it, and in this case, I do not agree with Kaepernick but I support this right to his protest. That is what America is all about. Trump on the other hand made every athlete of any color side with K and that has shown so far as almost every NFL owner has condemned this act by Trump, including friends like Bob Kraft, Tom Brady and Bill Bilichick. The Warriors said they weren't going to the White House anymore because of this, a tradition around since JFK. This, plus his support for the almost dead Trumpcare bill will see those higher number plummet right back into the basement. What a moron.

2)Republicans- These douchebags are still trying to kill Obamacare and it appears to be finally not going to happen. Susan Collins said today there is almost no chance she supports this bill and while Lisa Murkowski isn't talking, word is she will also vote no on it, driving a stake through this horror show once and for all. Some Republicans however will not walk away from this unscathed. Dean Heller in NV can start packing up his office because his wishy washy stance on health care pissed off both sides and now he is in real danger of no even making it past the primaries as he is 26 points behind his opponent. Nevada is going more blue so chances are really high that the democrats capture this seat regardless. Jeff Flake, Ted Cruz and even the winner in Alabama face closer races than you would think in red states. All are vulnerable. Alabama's democrat, Doug Jones, got an unexpected boost when Roy Moore's campaign bus idiotically misspelled their domain name, which Jones purchased and now goes to his website instead. Free advertising. He is also down in the polls by less than four points, a sign that even in Alabama, Republicans are starting to having second thoughts. Staple this stupid health care bill to whoever runs and watch the votes start to pour Jones' way.

1)Graham and Cassidy- I have decided I now fucking HATE these two assholes to such an extent I will now actually dance when these two fuckers die. I hate them more than Trump, more than mushrooms, more than Justin Bieber even. It was bad enough they are trying to push through a truly evil bill that will kill millions, they are lying through their teeth about it. Cassidy got it the worst after Jimmy Kimmel hammered these two this week, calling Cassidy a liar for when he appeared on his show. When Kimmel is the only media voice to actively call this out is so fucked up I don't know where to start. Kudos to Kimmel though for saying these two are liars and should be kicked out of office tomorrow. Anyone who votes for either of these two ever is a fuckhead of epic proportions. People like this have to dragged out of office one way or another and if we don't, sooner or later some shit bill is going to pass and we all going to suffer as a result. The GOP is trying to kill us. Wake up to that. So fuck you two, you are indeed douchebag of the week.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: MARTIN SHKRELI!

Pharma-bro is back and his frat boy, smug ass smile disappeared when he got sentenced to a big boy prison for putting a hit of sorts on Hillary Clinton. It was the usual week of losers, schmucks and idiots, with Trump all over the place and seriously pissing off his base by daring to deal with the democrats. Like he was ever actually a Republican and not a grand opportunist. Suckers. Let's see those runner ups.

10)Democrats who hate Single Payer- The fight between progressives and retards in the Democratic party came to a head this week as sixteen left wingers all came out in support of a Medicare for all plan. The people I all like, such as Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, and others, most of which are on the short list for potential runs for president in 2020, all came out for it. The ones that didn't, dinosaurs like Fienstein and Schmuer, all poo pooed it because they are fucking a hundred years old and need to go. They make Bernie look young in comparison. Vote these fuckers out in the primaries in 2018, 2020 or whenever their time is up. The democrat party needs an enema and shit like these assholes need to be flushed out.

9)Ted Cruz- I loathe this guy and found myself laughing that this douchebag liked a porn on Twitter and then had to backtrack something fierce. Yes, you read that right, Cruz liked and shared a porn on his account, erased it, and then had to spend the rest of the time explaining why it was there in the first place. He denied anything to do with it but his old college roommate swears Ted was a porn freak in college. Hypocrite much loser?

8)Ed Murray- Another politician, another sicko fuck in office. A recent study said that celibacy was the leading cause for pedophilia in the Catholic Church, a fact I have known for years. Other research shows that sexual frustration can lead to all sorts of deviant behavior. As politicians can have sex, this constant barrage of sex arrests is puzzling. Murray, the mayor of Seattle, stepped down this week after a fifth, FIFTH, accusation of sexual molestation of a minor came out, ending his career. After a lawsuit against him for sex crimes was dropped, douchebag held a press conference saying he was "completely vindicated" and reporters were using fake news with no sources. That opened the flood gates for more accusers to come forward and reporters uncovering evidence from child abuse records previously sealed. Oops. Way to go by daring the gods to expose you. Moron.

7)PewDePie- The one time YouTube sensation was exposed as a racist and possible Hitler lover, causing his star to fade as he was kicked off site after site. He denied ever being any of the things he was accused of. Then came this week, when on one of the few places he has left, called a fellow video gamer, "nigger" during the live video game feed he supplied. Wow, yeah, you're not a racist at all (eye roll here). Unless the person is a true douchebag of epic proportions (Eric Holder and Colin Powell I am looking at you), that name should never be used ever. Hopefully, this ass will fade into history.

6)Michael Issacson- This self described Antifa supporter and college professor at John Jay College got himself suspended for what can only be described as the dumbest tweet ever. This guy, who works at a school devoted to law enforcement actually tweeted that while some cannot figure why a guy like him would teach here, he was proud to teach future dead cops. Wait, what? I dislike cops immensely and even I wouldn't go so far to wish them dead. They all don't suck. Also, for a guy who works teaching future police, him at John Jay College is the equivalent of having a KKK supporter working at Howard. He got himself suspended and chances are good, fired eventually as well. People from both sides are epically stupid.

5)Lynchings- This week, we got two types of lynching, one real, one imagined, both equally horrifying. The real one took place in Claremont, NH?, where a group of teen thought it would be funny to hang a biracial boy who was just eight years old. That is abhorrent. Almost as bad, a rapper I have never heard of and now want to see hang as well, XXXtentacion (nice fucked up name too loser) shot a video where he hangs a young white boy from a tree. Nothing there that will make white people nuts right? We are rapidly getting to a place where black people are going to see what real racism looks like if they continue with this. Understand I have been fighting against this for years now as I have black friends and they and I are worried about the extreme views being seen in both of our communities now. Stop racism on all sides or we all going to pay a heavy price.

4)Jason Stockley/the US Justice System- Another day, another black guy killed under strange circumstances. Stockley was a former cop fired for his shooting a black guy after a car chase. Video and DNA evidence seems to strongly suggest the gun was planted afterward the shooting and, as the word of a police officer right now has to be considered suspect in ALL cases given current cases demonstrating a tendency to lie. giving Stockley the benefit of the doubt is antithetical to reason. The judge said he couldn't come up with a way he could have planted the gun, but even a rudimentary examination of the video shows it could have happened, and his excuse was flimsy at best. And this trial wasn't even a jury one so I can't even fall them. What this means is that black people are so seen as OTHER now that even judges are finding against them. Congrats black people, you wanted to be seen as separate and not equal and you got it. Enjoy prison morons which had you voted for Bernie, hell even Hillary, you wouldn't be looking at the utter destruction of black people for the next four years. The justice system now really is rigged against you and you did it to yourselves with your BLM bullshit. Mozel Tov!

3)Rick Scott and the Rehab Center in Florida- Eight elderly people died after Hurricane Irma hit this week when generators died and temperatures soared into then hundreds. Nevermind the fact that this place had been fined numerous times for NOT having things like a working generator, they weren't the ultimate problem here. That would be Uncle Fester impersonator Rick Scott who helped foster a climate of deregulation and ignored pleas of help coming from the facility who notified authorities they were trouble days earlier. They got no response. As Scott may be making a run for Congress in 2018, I hope people are reminded he help kill eight people here.

2)Republicans, Trump and DACA- Trump made a lot of Republicans mad when he made a deal with democrats to fund Harvey relief and kicked the debt ceiling down the road three months. They went fucking nuts when he said he made a deal with democrats about DACA and even possibly not pulling out of the climate change agreement. You would have thought he said babies taste delicious. The right went ballistic, calling him a traitor and the like, unaware that Trump was always likely to do this as his politcal whims move at a stiff breeze. While some of his more moderate supporters agreed with him, the Nazi types all went crazy and burned their MAGA hats on line. Trump is in real trouble with the Mueller probe that currently looks like it might prove a third of the GOP guilty, including people like Reice Prebuis and Paul Ryan, which may decimate the Republicans if proved true. The Facebook info, which shows the Republicans targeted highly specific individuals that many feel was impossible without US help, is now subpoenaed by Mueller. This case may end the GOP once and for all. Good.

1)Martin Shkreli- This dick got his comeuppance this week when a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bail and was being sent to jail immediately. Assmunch announced a bounty on a lock of Hillary Clinton's hair, which set off a danger hearing, which he lost. Word was that fucking smug smile disappeared when he heard this and his lawyer literally begged for anything else. The judge was undeterred and sent him to the Brooklyn Sunset Park prison in NYC which is not a country club like he was thinking but a MAXIMUM security prison housing some of the worst NYC has to offer like murders, rapists and even terrorists. There are two sections, one nice, one a rotting shell with rats and dripping water. I hope he is in that side. I hate this guy so I hope he gets raped a lot in there or even a nice shanking. Congradultions you ass, you are indeed douchebag of the week. Don't drop the soap loser.

PS- I will be off this week with a huge project but I will be back by next Sunday dear readers.

FALL TV 2017- AND WE THOUGHT MOVIES JUST SUCK NOW!

I can't write about politics anymore this week after finding out that our entire election system is vulnerable to vote changing. Contrary to what we have been told, is is entirely feasible that Russians hacked our systems and changed enough votes to thrust Trump on us. Why isn't this bigger news? So instead of hashing over this and Hillary's why me book tour, let us look at some of the worst new shows in recent memory. Last year had some great stuff with the schmaltzy This Is Us doing gangbusters, sitcoms like the Good Place and Superstore showing us how TV should be done and Netflix and cable putting out some of the best stuff out there. This fall season had none of that. There are a ton of shows that most likley won't see November and some that show promise, although not nearly as many as previous years. Let's take a look at the winners and losers

WINNERS

GHOSTED- Adam Scott and Craig Robinson team up for a funny X-Files type show where a skeptic and a believer join forces to fight the supernatural. These two are hysterical in their own right and the previews look funny. Those that have seen the first few episodes say it is worth watching.

THE ORVILLE- This show has gotten WAY too much bad press and like most of Seth McFarlane's stuff, I love it. His film A Million Ways to Die in the West was panned by almost every critic and I though was one of the funnier movies that year. Same for Ted 2 which is I think is one of the most hysterical films ever made, having seen it at least a dozen times now. Is this show a laugh riot? No and it is not supposed to be. There are funny moments in it but it also is trying to do some serious Star Trek like stuff and I have no problem with that. This show is far better than you have been told.

THE GIFTED- Yet another superhero show but this one sounds better than the FX show Legend I could not get into. This one is more like the failed ABC show No Ordinary Family in which two teens gain mutant abilities in a time where the X-men are gone and mutants are hunted. The family, led by the fetching Amy Acker and True Blood hottie, Stephen Moyers, have to stay ahead of hunters after them while trying to keep their childrens' abilities hidden, which is not always possible. Advance word say it is quite good.

WILL AND GRACE- I loved this show and am thrilled it is coming back. Normally this would sound like a desperate attempt at ratings, but with the rise of Trump and anti-gay sentiment rising, makes this a necessary show to revisit. I am looking forward to more Just Jack and Karen providing some much needed laughs in today's broken world.

LAW AND ORDER:THE MENENDEZ MURDERS- True crime is hot, hot, hot right now and not without good reason. I am addicted to this kind of stuff and am currently watching Scott Peterson and how he may not have done it after all (something I have postulated for years now) as well as shows about Drew Peterson and Casey Anthony. This case, about two spoiled kids who wasted their parents for the money, should be a fascinating tale in the same vein as the OJ Simpson trial. A must see.


LOSERS

YOUNG SHELDON- Big Bang Theory is one of my favorite sitcoms ever. This prequel of sorts looks like the polar opposite, with the setting the most jarring as they went from a multi-camera live audience setting to a single camera, taped show. Why the change? The previews look terrible and I for one will be avoiding this like the plague.

SWAT/THE BRAVE/SEAL TEAM- There is way too much testosterone for me here and I normally love this kind of stuff. The Brave and SWAT are supposed to be jingoistic fart gas that stinks from moment one. Seal Team may be better only for the saving grace that David Boreanez is in it and he rocks, plus the added bonus of being on a night with NO competition. Wednesday's this fall is terrible with very few shows worth watching at all.

DYNASTY- Another pointless remake which has gone savage reviews from those who have seen it. This is too bad because the gorgeous and talented Elizabeth Gilles is in it, fresh off the Denis Leary show, Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll. Her slow motion walk in the credits is better than most porn. Unfortunately for this show, she is the only reason to tune in.

9JKL- Mark Feuerstien, who rocked in the USA show, Royal Pains, dies a painful death here in this truly unfunny sitcom that is SO dated. This premise would have been old a decade ago about a middle aged man moving back in with his parents. Yawn.

KEVIN PROBABLY SAVES THE WORLD- Yet another show with a person I really like, John Ritter's son, Jason who does his best with an hour long dramedy about a man sent on a mission from God. I like it better when it was called the Blues Brothers. Critics have called it just awful. From the previews I would agree.

WISDOM OF THE CROWD- At the top of many critics worst of the Fall TV shows comes this misfire staring Jeremy Piven as a guy whose daughter dies and he invents some sort of crime solving app to get to the bottom of this. Sounds stupid and Piven being in it doesn't make we want to tune in anytime soon.

THE INHUMANS- No show has gotten worse reviews from this show that I plan on hate watching just because I LOVE these characters which from what I have been told, they have put to screen very poorly. The one saving grace is that one my favorite character is Lockjaw, the teleporting Bull Mastiff, is the only thing everyone agrees is awesome. Unfortunate, Medusa, another of my favorites has cheap special effects for her hair, which has a mind of its own, and along with crappy costumes, sets and dialogue makes this a struggle to get through from what I have been told. Rats.