DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: THE US MILITARY!

When I talk about problems in the military I am not talking about our brave men and women who fight for this country, many of which I call good friends and family. I know a lot of people who are either currently or have been military of various branches. What I do say, and all of my military agree, is that the people running the military are stupid beyond all rhyme of reason regardless of who the President is, suggesting a much bigger problem. Let's see those runner ups.

10)David Daleiden- I am really beginning to hate the anti-abortion movement. Abortion is a personal decision that no one outside the person holding that child has any right to judge. You can feel about it however you want but forcing your beliefs, ones not held up by either science or religion, is not going to happen in a free society. We do not live in Saudi Arabia for a reason. This ass is head of CMP, an anti-abortion group that recently put out highly edited versions of tapes of Planned Parenthood discussing procedures and stem cell research. Carly Fiorina is still harping about a stillborn fetus mischaracterized as an abortion gone wrong, something even this douche admits was not true. How come we have laws keeping us "safe" from animal activists highlighting animal abuses in farms, but these idiots can secretly video tape this, edit it out of context, and no charges are filed?

9)Rush Limbaugh- How and why this guy is on the air is a conspiracy in and of itself. He has no major sponsors, his audience has dwindled and he still says stupid things that no reasonable person would believe? So how come his radio show is still on and how is it being paid for because advertising in no way supports this show? This week, dumbass said NASA was run by lefties because water was found on Mars. How does that reason even happen? Anyone still listening to this jerk deserves a swift kick in the ass.

8)The Pope and Kim Davis- Depending on which story you heard either the Pope got a one and one with Kim Davis supporting her cause, or she was one of dozens the Pope saw that day in a receiving line. The bigger questions was WHY was she there at all? Can this bitch's 15 minutes of fame go away already? The fact that official stories contradict each other suggest a power struggle behind closed doors between liberals and conservatives in the Vatican. Sound familiar?

7)The Secret Service- This week, the embattled security apparatus was dinged yet again when it came out that some within the ranks looked at Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz record, particularly that he tried out for them years back and was denied. Emails suggest that they were after something to damage him with after he went after the Secret Service for being terrible at their job lately. Can you guys just stop with this nonsense already and go back to being good at protecting the president and our money? This all started when it got absorbed into DHS which is being run about as well as Carly Fiorina being CEO of them. DHS has been a horrific mistake on so many levels.

6)Jason Chaffetz- As always one step forward, two steps back for Republicans, as this ass got schooled during hearings about Planned Parenthood. Chaffetz barely let the head of PP speak, like many interrupting her numerous times, but near the end he hit a wall of reason. He showed a chart which he claimed was from PP and showed a marketable rise in abortions and a lessening of women's health issues. The only problem was the graph wasn't from PP but an anti-abortion group and said so at the bottom of the graph as the head of PP pointed out. The graph was also an outright fake that anyone who knows anything about graphs noticed, this one being made up nonsense. The hearings were so bad that even hard core Republicans shook their heads in dismay.

5)Jeb Bush- Talk about sinking fast, this week a new poll has Jeb down to 4% and struggling to find his footing. Him talking this week did not help. He kept going on about black people wanting free stuff, denying he meant it that way, but failed to explain why he said the exact same thing from a book he wrote back in the late 90's. Then he tried to explain away the latest school shooting as not the time to talk about gun control, when it obviously is. Donald Trump's economic plan may not be great, but it is head and shoulders better than Bush's, another twist on trickle down economics again. He may be all done soon. Good.

4)Ted Cruz- Another guy getting punished this week is Cruz whose numbers have plummeted, down to six percent nationally. The reason is that he attempted to shut down the government again, something even the most hard core Republican saw as stupid. Only the religiously deranged, which still may constitute 22% of the electorate and is way too high in this day of reason and intellect, backed this. Oh that's right, people don't read anything beyond what they mind set tells them to, convincing them they are right, even if they certainly aren't. The fact we have libraries at our fingertips, yet all we do is social media and porn watching, spells doom for us all.

3)Kevin McCarthy- The current front runner to replace John Boehner as speaker hit a snag when he idiotically told the world that the current investigation into Benghazi was politically oriented to derail Hillary Clinton. He does know the camera was on right? Jason Chaffetz has thrown his hat into the ring as well but that is a long shot at best. If this is the best the right has to offer, we are so screwed.

2)Chris Mercer and the MSM- Another week, another shooter. This one was a mixed race, conservative Republicans who hared religion. There are so many things wrong with this sentence I do not know where to start. This ass went into a classroom in Oregon and shot anyone who said they were Christian. Worse, the MSM seems to be going out of the way portray this guy as white, with even CNN doctoring a photo of him by lightening his skin. WTF? The demonization of the white male has got to stop because blacks, Hispanics and feminists are coming up with some idiotic statements about white men and the public is starting to believe them. Black people commit crimes, more so than whites even. Stop media lies that every time a black guy gets arrested, it's racist and every time a shooter kills people, he's a white lunatic.

1)US Military- I have no idea how the military makes decisions on attacking areas, but for the past fifty years they have proven to be really, really bad at it. With a pathological aversion to even a single civilian casualty, our "pinprick" strikes have done nothing to stop the enemy anywhere. Iraq is a shithole, Afghanistan is no better and look what our meddling in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have accomplished. Enter Putin, who think what you want about him, wins wars quickly and efficiently. He does this by pissing on the worthless Geneva Convention and bombing whole areas, breaking the spirit of fighter and populace alike. The end result has been the surrender of hundreds of fighters, ISIS fleeing certain areas and a chance of better stability than what we have done, which has been almost nothing. We spent $500 million on training people who got themselves killed quick and at last count, only five were still alive. Worse, some may have defected to ISIS soon after. That was money well spent. Putin meanwhile is making a real difference by fighting a war the way in should be fought. Meanwhile, the idiots in charge of our pinprick strikes missed the memo where a hospital was, even though they were told weekly it was there, and we bombed it out of existence in Northern Afghanistan this week, for no reason. Now that area has no hospital, several dead doctors and wounded, and has turned that entire area against us. Way to go. So congratulations US military, you are indeed douchebag of the week.

THE PROS AND CONS OF THE MODERN DAY DEATH PENALTY SYSTEM!

Our death penalty system is in serious need of a massive overhaul. We seem to be executing people for crimes, that while awful, shouldn't be above life in prison. Much worse, we may be executing innocent people, which should never happen. Two cases have come up that make me question my support for the death penalty which I believe is both used too much and not enough.

Let me explain. Anyone who sits on death row with even a smidgen of doubt should not be executed until his guilt is guaranteed. However, on the flip side, we spend way too much money with pointless appeal after appeal for some that we KNOW did it and should die a lot quicker than they are. The process is not there to protect the prisoner but to fatten lawyers pockets, as it always seems that no matter how innocent or guilty the person on death row is, the appeal process never changes the status of said prisoner ever, just delaying the inevitable, except in really rare circumstances.Why do we as tax payers have to keep paying for a system that is obviously not doing what it is supposed to be? If this process stopped executions of the innocent I would be more forgiving, but that never seems to happen while the guilty get their life span stretched out ad naseum.

There are have been two cases that have spotlighted our whack death penalty system lately. One person who was guilty but not have deserved the death penalty and a second in which the person's guilt is highly questionable have all reached the headlines this week. Both highlights serious problems with the death penalty. And just so you know, both defendants are white so take racism off the board.

The first case involved Kelly Renee Gissendaner, a Georgia woman convicted of hiring her lover to kill her husband back in 1997. So, even though her guilt was not in question, she still spent almost 20 years before finally being put down.Why should we have to pay for twenty years of this woman drawing breath, costing millions of dollars and sucking up resources the rest of us would like our dwindling supply to go to?

The second case involved an Oklahoma man on death row for ordering the killing of his boss, also in 1997. Twenty years again says our parole system and appeal methods need to be streamlined something fierce. The sad part about this story is that the only evidence against this guy was the word of the killer who said Richard Glossip put him up to it. So with zero evidence, except the word of a guy who didn't want to get the death penalty, Glossip spends twenty years on death row, with countless appeals and no one noticed this guy sounds like he got railroaded? WTF? No one should go to jail on the word of just one person. I've seen how that works first hand when I was accused of doing something I didn't by a guy currently at the time in a mental institution, yet the cops spent two years doing everything they could to prove my guilt. I had a good lawyer and the lack of any evidence caused the cop to get fired and the lawyer disbarred. I was 14 at the time so don't think just because you are not black, the system won't screw with you from time to time.

Here's a big problem with both cases: why twenty years of appeals if nothing changes for either. The Georgia case was recognized even by a former State Supreme court judge who came out and said he made a mistake not commuting her sentence back in 2000, as the killer got a lesser sentence than she did, just like Glossip. I honesty don't think any of these people should have gotten the death penalty as that punishment is being used on people who who don't deserve it nationwide. Gissendaner did indeed instruct someone to kill her husband, but that should not be enough for a death penalty case. The argument ultimately is moot as she was put to death this week.

Glossip on the other hand got a slight reprieve due to the wrong chemicals sent to kill him delayed his sentence. This guy shouldn't even be prison let alone death row and if twenty years of appeals, including a slap in the face denial from our worthless Supreme Court, doesn't convince you that maybe we should be halting ALL executions immediately, you are one sick bastard. I support the death penalty but it needs to be changed and quick. We need to make 100% sure the person being executed did it, DNA tests for everyone on death row who could use it, and stop sentencing people to death row who shouldn't be there.

Once we conclude that, the death penalty can resume with less appeals for the obviously guilty, as well as a severe reduction of who gets the death penalty, and a return to things like hanging and a firing squad to save money on way too expensive "humane" killings. I do not care if some of these bastards suffer one bit. Their victims sure did.

Glossip should be granted a new trial at the very least because him getting offed on the word of one person with a reason to lie (death penalty removed from sentence for testimony against Glossip), is a big red flag that he may be indeed innocent. The fact that two trials convicted him also bolster my desire to end trial by peers and have professional jurors and TV cameras in every courtroom in the country. The reason for that isn't to protect the system from outside influence but to protect itself from people seeing how crappy our justice system really is. If everyday Americans saw how our court system was being used, they would riot. I would know.

Oklahoma is about to execute another man for killing his 9 month old daughter in 2002 and another guy for killing a prison worker in 1998. Only the later should be put to death as anytime a stranger is killed for no reason, you prove a huge threat to society. The other should have their sentence commuted to life. Yes, an innocent child was killed, and I admit I do not know the specifics of this case, but if the child wasn't tortured or anything like that, this sentence seems overly harsh.

The death penalty should only be used for the worst of the worst and only if guilt is assured. Everyone else, should spend their lives behind bars.

TV SHOWS SO FAR SHOW PROMISE AS A FEW RACE AGAINST THE REAPER!

As there is nothing going on right now, other than Congress Republicans having a hissy fit over Planned Parenthood, and then proceed to handle it so badly even right wing pundits are shaking their heads over how poorly they did. They even attempted to use a proven falsehood as truth about the number of abortions PP does, a tried and true GOP method, otherwise known as everything Carly Fiorina says or does. If reality does not exist in some of the Republicans minds, what hope does humanity have, especially when the idiot masses believe it?

So let's look at what has done well and what has flopped:

HITS:

Muppets- They got a huge initial look and have dropped a few points this week, but still looks like a full season will be given, especially as it is the number one new show with adults 18-49. Reviews have been mixed but I still think it is one of the funniest sitcoms on TV right now.

Scream Queens- While it's first episode didn't do great live, it rose 70% from DVR and on-line watching. I love this show finding it absolutely hysterical with Jamie Lee Curtis hitting it out of the park and a possibly Emmy nod for next year. If you want to see a gory, funny look at slasher films, this is a winner.

Blindspot- Two solid weeks show this program about a hot naked girl covered in tattoos and amnesia has been a lot of fun so far. If they can keep the suspense going without going off the rails like Blacklist did last season I will be glued to this show.

Quantico- I haven't seen the latest episode yet as it still sits on my very full DVR but it did got solid reviews and a decent rating on a tough night. The people I know who did see it liked it a lot so I have a feeling this will do just fine this season.

Empire- I know this show isn't new by it was the number one show on network TV this week with a whopping 6.7 rating, making it a juggernaut. Not my kind of show but good for them for finding a show with cross racial appeal. The recently ended Carmichael Show, about a funny, realistic black family, was also quite good and I hope it gets renewed which it might as it had solid ratings.

Limitless- Surprisingly this show did okay in it's opening week but then went on to retain 100% of it's audience in week two, which almost never happens. I have not heard good things about this show but it definitely has an audience and looks to be on for the rest of the season, barring a meltdown down the road.

The Daily Show- Trevor Noah has gotten off to a good start with over seven million turning in this week to watch him. He still shows some growth potential and while Kevin Hart was a good start, his guest last night was dull, a dating ap business where woman have all the power. WHEEE! And while this might be a good idea, I could not care less about dating aps as I already have someone in my life whom I love dearly. Still, a good few episodes so far and the new correspondents show real promise, especially Roy Wood Jr. whose stand up is really good and should work well here. I am waiting for racists to say that Comedy Central has too many black people on it now.

MISSES-

Life In Pieces- I never thought this looked like anything but a bad Modern Family ripoff. I caught about five minutes of it last week and honestly thought it was a commercial still. Worse, it got awful ratings, losing half of it's lead in, the Big Bang Theory which is still a top ten show. Expect this to get replaced within the next few weeks with Two Broke Girls or Mike and Molly, both way better shows.

Rosewood- This show about a pathologist who solves crimes with a heart condition had a heart attack this past week with terrible ratings which wasn't that surprising, except that it has no real competition in it's time slot other than the fading Survivor, some middling ABC sitcoms, and the how is it still on Mysteries of Laura. This won't last long.

Blood and Oil- Any attempt to resurrect Dallas like fever fell on hard times as this show did not do well, again on a rough Sunday time slot. Worse, The Walking Dead will be opposite in a few weeks and may take a huge bite out of their numbers. Too bad for Don Johnson, a very good actor, but he looks like he'll be free for other projects soon.

Significant Mother- A show I have never heard of, and apparently no one else did either, as it scored a .2 ratings, which even for the CW is awful. The Voice is killing a lot of Monday's programming, even driving down last year hits like Scorpion, although that may be attributed to the soon to be dead Life in Pieces which is destroying their lineup for the rest of the night.

Minority Report- Unlike Limitless, this misfire dropped below a 1 share, losing a good portion of last weeks already tiny numbers. Monday takes out another new show as this one will last as long as Mob Doctor did in the same slot and channel, which may be good for just about everyone.

The Player- Snake eyes for this show which did a dismal opening and looks to fall even further. No way does this show last past Halloween. Can some one give Wesley Snipes a better role please? He may be a primma donna, but he is a decent actor.

Dr. Ken- I know this show hasn't aired yet but I physically retch every time I see a preview for this crap. No way does this do well even on Friday.

The Reaper is circling Life In Pieces which I think will be the first to go, although Minority Report may not be out of the running either. The rest will likely not see the Holidays.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: MARTIN SHKRELI!

This has been a monumental week for sky high douchebaggery. There were at least four groups or individuals who on any other given week would have gotten the grand prize. But let's be clear, no one deserved it more than contender for douchebag of the year, Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharma, who did something few can: united the country no matter race, creed, color or political affiliation in agreeing that this guy is a giant douchebag. Let's see those runner ups for which many are real doozies.

10)Leslie Allen Merrit- This is quite possibly the stupidest man on the face of this Earth. To quote Animal House "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life." He was arrested this week for several of the freeway shootings that took place in Arizona on route 10 these past few months. His defense was a novel one and said that his gun had been in the pawn shop for the last two months. Unfortunately for him, not only do pawn shops keep excellent records (by law they have to), the cops were trailing him the day he pawned the rifle which was just hours before he was arrested. They had the weapon, ballistics and video of him in the pawn shop. Set, game and match. Hope you like prison dumb ass for no real reason as shooting at cars is just stupid on so many levels. What a fool.

9)Buffalo Bills- Right now the Pats are obliterating the Jaguars, 44 to 10. The last two wins by the Pats have been marred by cry baby coaches who got outplayed and grasped at straws to explain how the other team cheated this week. The Steelers blamed the headphones, which was nonsense as the Patriots have no access to the headphones or the network that runs it. The Bills brought up the Patriots "cheater" history as to how they won, without explaining of course how they cheated to win. The ironic part is that the Bills DID cheat during the game, as they kept playing music when the Patriots were at the line of scrimmage, a league no no. And they still lost. Losers. I wonder what the Jaguars will come up with to explain their massive loss to a much better team?

8)Lee Daniels- I am not a huge fan of this guy and his latest racist tirade got him into a lot of hot water. While idiotically defending Terrance Howard, a real dirt bag by the way and a screaming prima donna as well who has admitted beating his ex-wife, the director said Howard hasn't done anything Marlon Brando and Sean Penn haven't done as well. The only problem with this inflammatory statement is that it is in no way true. Neither Brando nor Penn have ever been even accused of domestic issues, let alone arrested. Brando is dead so he cannot defend himself but Sean Penn is suing Daniels for ten million dollars for defamation. Good. Couldn't he have picked Ike Turner or Chris Brown instead as an example? Oh that's right, they are both black and he needed a white devil to demonize instead. Next time pick on someone who actually did the thing you accuse them of, stupid.
 
7) Stephen Goddard- The writer for the strangely named RealScience blog, which is a terrible name as it actually contains no real science. I have looked into his allegations of global warming fraud and feel it is no better than Holocaust deniers and the "evidence" they collect. His site is filled with graphs that appear made up as they fly in the face of video evidence and what experts have been saying for years. The dumbest thing is he keeps claiming the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland are all gaining ice, which we can see with our own eyes is not occurring. The fact that so many countries are fighting over Arctic resources as the ice is thinning faster and faster says his research is crap as there is no way they would fight over something they could not get to. This ass is why no one believes anyone or anything anymore and is leading to the destruction of society. F him.

6)Saudi Arabia- This week at least 750 people died during a stampede during the annual trek to Mecca took place. Because of lax security, something they have been warned about many times in the past, hundreds, perhaps a thousand, are dead. And it is not like they don't have the money to adequately fix this which begs the questions "Why are Jews called cheap and not Arabs?" This has lead to a lot of problems with Iran pissed at Saudi Arabia and may be in part responsible for clashes in Israel as well. These two sides are never going to get along so maybe we should lock them in a room and let them duke it out once and for all.

5)Carly Fiorina- Thankfully, her rise seems to have stalled, meaning that only 11% of the Republican party is too stupid to vote. Still the worst choice for president, perhaps ever, the media started ripping her a new one this week. Set aside her horrific decisions while CEO, she also committed fraud and treason. She sold parts to Iran while CEO of HP, which was illegal at the time and should have resulted in a criminal probe at the least and also took money from the government meant for job creation and used it for stock buybacks instead, again which got no look at by the SEC even though it was illegal. This bitch has got to go. Also, I see pictures of children pushing for her which should result in them being taken away from the parents for child abuse and neglect. Only an idiot would back this witch who needs to go away. Far, far away.

4)Tea Party Republicans- They anarchists got their wish his week and John Boehner is stepping down from the House at the end of next month. Unfortunately for them, it also means that Obama's budget will most likely pass, perhaps even to the end of his term. The Planned Parenthood shutdown will not happen now and this will save the Republican party from self destructing. Got to give to Boehner, he fell on his sword to save the party. That's brave. Now mind you, by doing this he sets himself up for a cushy job from the establishment for the thanks in doing it, but he also marginalizes the out of control remnants from the Tea Party. If the budget does indeed pass until next December, he will save fallout from an idiotic Congress bent on self destruction. The bad news is that whoever gets the job will fare no better in getting things done without compromise, a non-starter. These fools are hell bent on destroying the government, not fixing it. And that bodes well for no one.

3)Volkswagen- Any other week, these guys would be at the top of the heap. Seems they decided to cheat emission standards by rigging data in their favor. Turns out, their diesel engines are not quite as clean as they claimed. This was done to save money but will instead cost them tens of billions in fines and repairs, not to mention hugely damaging the brand. The CEO was forced to step down and they cannot sell any of the cars that have this defect in it any time soon. I love when companies screw themselves for a few bucks. Contrary to popular belief, greed is not good.

2)Stewart Parnell- This guy took it in the balls this week when the former Peanut CEO got sentenced to 28 years in Federal prison for killing 9 people with tainted peanut butter that he knew was tainted and sold it anyway. What a dick! I am actually stunned he even saw a trial as we usually let CEO's off with a slap on the wrist and a fine for killing people like GE, Bard Inc. and Toyota did to their customers. It didn't help that he emailed everything that nailed him to the wall. As he is 61, this former millionaire is going to die behind bars in a prison with murders, rapists and the scum of society. No country club for him, he will see how hard tough guy prison is not to mention his fortune will disappear in the flood of lawsuits he is looking at. He got what he deserved.

10)Martin Shkreli- The most hated man on Earth has gone into hiding which may be for some time. After hiking a life saving drug for people with cancer and AIDS from $13.50 a pill to $750, Shkreli faced a mountain of bad press from all sides. Normal people were pissed that this asshole was profiting from sick people. Rich people were pissed because their stock portfolio took a major hit when Big Pharma stocks dropped across the board. Big Pharma was REALLY pissed because now everyone is looking at their outrageous prices and screaming bloody murder, making their profits almost certain to drop, especially if new legislation cripples their ability to charge whatever they feel like. This guy could be assassinated from a multitude of people, which no one would cry two seconds over should it happen. Hell, if I was on the jury, that person would walk with a hearty handshake and a big thank you for offing this horrific douche of a human. So congratulations Martin Shkreli, you are indeed douchebag of the week. We will be seeing you again on my douchebag of the year column.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS AS REPUBLICANS PREPARE TO COMMIT POLITCAL SUICIDE!

It's deja vu all over again, as the late Yogi Berra used to say, who I will admit I thought died decades ago. In a repeat of 2013, House Republicans, mostly the Tea Party remnants who escaped getting crushed by establishment Republicans in 2014, have decided that running the country into the ground a second time over Planned Parenthood is a great idea. In reality, this is the single worst idea to EVER come out of the party, and that includes almost all over George W. Bush's terrible ideas. Why is this so bad as in the 2013 scenario, Republicans actually gained seats you ask?

Several reason come to mind in response. One, this is a presidential election year which results in much higher democratic turnout. Two, last time DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz fumbled continuously in reminding voters about that 2013 fiasco for some impossible to explain reason. Three, the Tea Party got creamed, dropping their support to single digit numbers. And lastly, but more important than anything else, SNAP may not have enough money to give anybody on food stamps anything and that is the kind of thing that gets people dead, and not just politically.

If they shut the government down because 22% of America wants it to, imagine how furious the remaining 78% are going to be, especially if a lot of those people are suddenly facing starvation. "An Army travels on it's stomach," goes the old adage, and this army will be filled with approximately 45 million recipients and their families, totaling near 100 million pissed off people, not to mention constant media reminders about it. To say the lives of anyone putting Planned Parenthood over the starving masses is in danger is an understatement. People kill more for food than anything else when things go south, as you cannot survive without it.

The smarter Republicans, like Mitch McConnell (I know, really?), are struggling to find a compromise for which the democrats hold all the cards. They have zero vested interest in helping the GOP escape a mess of their own making and know that if they go through with the utterly asinine proposal, they will fail big time in 2016, perhaps even destroying the party once and for all. It is entirely possible that McConnel will help pass a clean budget in the Senate and then give it to Boehner, who will get help from democrats, something that may cost him his leadership position. The democrats must be smiling ear from ear knowing that they have backed themselves into a corner from which there be no escape.

Besides food stamps ending, a beyond destructive idea, social security may be affected (although that seems unlikely right away), parks and museums will be shuttered and anyone working for the ferderal government will either be sent home or works without pay. Without food stamps, major supermarkets, especially Walmart, will lose billions in lost revenue, sending their stock and the market with it down the drain. Last time, the stock market lost 1000 points the next day, and we were far better off in 2013 than now. They might even inadvertently trigger a massive recession because of this. 2013 caused a loss of $24 billion dollars. This one might be double, even triple that due to economic factors that will have a ripple effect across the economy.

Candidates like Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina will take the brunt of hostility should this go through, effectively not only ending the political ambitions, but if this drags on and people can't buy food, assassination attempts may not be out of the realm of possibility. People will be PISSED and Obama and the democrats see little fall out from their side on this, as they would be protecting Planned Parenthood, abortion rights and women's health, important to a majority of this country. The vocal minority is about to self destruct and might take the GOP down with them when voters punish them in 2016, a real possibility.

So keep it up guys, you stand on a high, steep cliff looking down. And behind you are the angry masses just looking for an excuse to push you guys off. You have been warned and while I do not believe that violence is a good idea, I completely understand why you may be ripped to pieces by a starving, angry mob that you just told to go eat cake. Stop being stupid. Your very lives, and your families, may indeed depend on this.

CARLY FIORINA, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER CONSPIRACY THEORIES TOO BIZARRE TO BE TRUE AND AREN'T!

We have become one paranoid, out of control people world wide. A growing section of America, and not always the backward hick you would think, are believing in things that are so untrue, they border on the laughable. We all sat it first hand at a Trump rally where some bigoted fool insulted pretty much everyone with ears. Immunization declines have become so severe that people are dying from preventable disease, all based on a discredited crackpot from a decade ago. But the Internet can be used for good or evil and a lot of you out there are not using it well, especially the far right who have invented their own reality.

Take Carly Fiorina who has insisted that the scene from Planned Parenthood she described is accurate, even though every fact checker and myself, have found NO evidence that what she says is true. As someone who worked in editing, these tapes are worthless as they have edited it to death. The scene in question is edited in and is NOT an aborted fetus, but a stillborn fetus, as anyone with medical training can tell you. It's may not even be from Planned Parenthood.

Now, while late term abortion are pretty terrible, according to statistics, only 1.2% of all abortions in the country are late term and a vast majority are done because of severe deformity or the health of the mother, two things idiots like Fiorina and others want to not include exceptions for. How is that pro-life when the mother is going to die if she gives birth? Idiots.

Lastly on this, I am sick of hearing about how cavalier the people who work in these places are. This is complete ignorance of these kind of workplaces and basic psychology. There is something called "graveyard humor," and trust me when I say almost everyone does this to keep their sanity. It happens when people have to do horrific things for the greater good like honor guard or mortician. Humor keeps you sane. Just because the idiot complaining about it doesn't have a sense of humor, doesn't mean the rest of the world has to adapt to their stupidity.

Fiorina is getting hit from all sides now, as the media that built her up has reversed itself to attack mode and all the dirty secrets about her past is coming to light. Her ex-husband had little to say that was any good about her, and while he may have an axe to grind, what he says about her I find completely believable. He calls her a dangerous narcissist more interested in herself than anyone else, otherwise known as a classic psychopath. She certainly has those kind of traits. She cheated on her husband, ran two companies into the ground and it also turns out that the "daughter" she lost was her step daughter from her second marriage. Not quite the same thing, lady. Wake up America and discard this waste of space. Literally anyone would be a better choice.

And then we have Stephen Goddard, possibly the worst "scientist" on Earth. For years now he has massed a ton of lousy data which he has interpreted into saying the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland are all cooling and ice there is at record highs. His Realscience.com site is filled with made up graphs with no explanation into them that fly in the face of what we can see with our own eyes. He does know that everyone and their brother is fighting over the Arctic because sea ice is disappearing in a mad dash for new resources? If sea ice was thickening, as he suggests, this fight would not be occurring. It also doesn't help that far more reputable scientists have shown massive ice melt across the regions, and one of my friends who was stationed in Greenland for ten years will tell you how much ice melted in just the short time he was there. Global Warming is real people and idiots like Goddard are making some of you stupid.

The dumbest conspiracy theory this week are not one but two End of the World prophecies of doom. One is allegedly on the 24th and another on the 27th. I have no idea what the 24th entails (something about the Jewish calendar), but the 27th has a lunar eclipse and a blood moon, which would be scary if this was the third century and not the 21st.

I recently watched a five part documentary on Auschwitz which went into great detail into how the camp operated and how they killed millions there. Deniers will have to explain to me why the Germans have video, recordings and detailed notes into the extermination of the people in camp there, which was more than just Jews. No one fakes things that will get them sentenced to death later.

The one conspiracy theory that is not too far out there is the possibility of the failure of one of the world's largest banks, Deutsche, and with it, the world economy. Their stock has fallen 40% as allegations of deep corruption and mismanagement have surfaced. They are cutting 23,000 jobs or 1/4 of their entire workforce, hardly a good sign.
 
This is from Zero Hedge:

The bank, which has paid out more than $9 billion over the past three years alone to settle legacy litigation, has become something of a poster child for corrupt corporate culture.

In April, Deutsche settled rate rigging charges with the DoJ for $2.5 billion (or about $25,474 per employee) and subsequently paid $55 million to the SEC (an agency that’s been run by former Deutsche Bank employees and their close associates for years) in connection with allegations it deliberately mismarked its crisis-era LSS book to the tune of at least $5 billion.

But it was out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak, because early last month, the DoJ announced it would seek to extract a fresh round of MBS-related settlements from banks that knowingly packaged and sold shoddy CDOs in the lead up to the crisis. JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citi settled MBS probes when the DoJ was operating under the incomparable (and we mean that in a derisive way) Eric Holder but now, emboldened by her pyrrhic victory over Wall Street’s FX manipulators, new Attorney General Loretta Lynch is set to go after Barclays PLC, Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings PLC, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC,UBS AG and Wells Fargo & Co.

If true, I have new respect for Loretta Lynch. But the collapse of Deutsche bank could have world wide consequences as they have 75 trillion in derivative liability, which they in no way have the ability to pay back.

Here's an artcile from Notquant.com:

• In April of 2014, Deutsche Bank was forced to raise an additional 1.5 Billion of Tier 1 capital to support its capital structure. Why?
• 1 month later in May of 2014, the scramble for liquidity continued as DB announced the selling of 8 billion euros worth of stock – at up to a 30% discount. Why again? It was a move which raised eyebrows across the financial media. The calm outward image of Deutsche Bank did not seem to reflect their rushed efforts to raise liquidity. Something was decidedly rotten behind the curtain.
• Fast forwarding to March of this year: Deutsche Bank fails the banking industry’s “stress tests” and is given a stern warning to shore up it’s capital structure.
• In April, Deutsche Bank confirms its agreement to a joint settlement with the US and UK regarding the manipulation of LIBOR. The bank is saddled with a massive $2.1 billion payment to the DOJ. (Still, a small fraction of their winnings from the crime). 
• In May, one of Deutsche Bank’s CEOs, Anshu Jain is given an enormous amount of new authority by the board of directors. We guess that this is a “crisis move”. In times of crisis the power of the executive is often increased.
• June 5: Greece misses its payment to the IMF. The risk of default across all of its debt is now considered acute. This has massive implications for Deutsche Bank.
• June 6/7: (A Saturday/Sunday, and immediately following Greece’s missed payment to the IMF) Deutsche Bank’s two CEO’s announce their surprise departure from the company. (Just one month after Jain is given his new expanded powers). Anshu Jain will step down first at the end of June. Jürgen Fitschen will step down next May.
• June 9: S&P lowers the rating of Deutsche Bank to BBB+ Just three notches above “junk”. (Incidentally, BBB+ is even lower than Lehman’s downgrade – which preceded its collapse by just 3 months) 
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•  That does not inspire confidence at all. If this bank fails, it could be the Lehman Brothers all over again. This is one conspiracy theory that may pan out and have far reaching consequences and even end of the world possibilities. So let's worry less about what is going on in the sky and focus on what may actually kill us.

THE MSM, FIORINA, THE BILLS AND OTHER GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN STUPIDITY!

There has been some evidence that IQ's are dropping world wide for unknown reasons. I am not sure what the cause is, but evidence of it happening are all around us. The MSM is building up Fiorina, just to tear her down again. The Bills got caught cheating this week versus the Patriots and, of course, no one said anything about it because it didn't fit the narrative. A new poll has Hillary GAINING on Sanders nationally. WTF, people? And let us not forget that the GOP still has a zillion candidates all saying stupid things on a regular basis. Where can this end for us? Nowhere good.

Let's start with the Bills who kept playing a blaring train noise as the Patriot tried to move the ball, a clear violation of league rules. Once the play clock hits 20 seconds or the offense gets to the line of scrimmage, all loudspeaker music must end. Multiple times a train noise blared over the stadium when they shouldn't. Fans held signs that said CHEATERS which seems awfully ironic considering WHO was cheating this time. So let me get this straight, every time the Patriots win, they cheated and the other team can cheat too because, you know, it's the Patriots. Nevermind the fact that the idiotic Deflatgate scandal might as well as have been called Benghazi (or Ballghazi) for all the truth there was to the never-ending nonsense they were accused of. If anyone has hard proof of the Patriots actually cheating in this particular scandal, I'd love to see it because if all they had was the poorly investigated Wells Report, they have got nothing to prove any wrongdoing, yet they are being branded cheaters because the media told us they were.

The MSM lately has been embarrassing even for them. They continue to shill for Bush and Hillary, while tearing down Sanders and Trump at every chance. They declared Fiorina the winner of the debate even though she did worse than just about every other person in her command of "facts" which were nothing more than wrong headed talking points, many of which just made up. How do you win a debate, where facts do matter, by going all Dick Cheney on the panel? How do you not call her out repeatedly on her desire to start another cold war, her past which is checkered at best and her fanatsy video about Planned Parenthood? Why is the media so determined to get us the most establishment candidate they can? Yeah, that last one is no mystery when you realize that six companies control ALL media and they are all owned by billionaires and multi-national corporations.

The media needed no help in watching Trump and Carson say things so stupid you can hardly believe they are still in the race at all. Trump managed to insult Muslims, including American ones, the President, and any sense of decency when he failed to refute the most racist man alive at a recent rally. Carson stepped in it when he said on Meet The Press that no Muslim should ever be President. Good Lord, are these people that Muslim phobic?

Then there is Leslie Allen Merritt, a 21 year old utter moron recently arrested for a string of highway shootings on Interstate 10 in Arizona. His defense of his gun being in the pawn shop for the past two months would have been a great alibi had it been true but the police has footage of him pawning said gun the same day they arrested him, as he was under surveillance at the time. Ballistics link him and the gun to the shooting. Hope he likes prison, because he is being charged with 28 felonies, including several counts of terrorism. I am guessing, he is looking at a best case scenario of ten years in a Federal Prison, more if it goes to trial. Enjoy male on male rape, dumbass.

Clinton is gaining on Sanders for some inane reason, a stat I wonder if it is actually accurate and not some media driven fantasy. At a recent rally, Clinton couldn't fill up a classroom while Bernie is still attracting tens of thousands. But as Biden looks to be getting ready to enter, her days may be numbered at that point. If the media continues to keep begging us for a Clinton/Bush mash-up, maybe the first thing we should do when society collapses is destroy all the media outlets first, as they will be ultimately to blame. Or the politicians, your choice America, as they suck pretty bad too.