Month: May 2022

From a news story tonight on Yahoo News:

Asked if he believes there should be new gun laws in the wake of the Texas shooting, Georgia Senate GOP nominee Herschel Walker told me in ATL:

“What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.”

I am tempted to say a lot of things but I shall restrain myself and again let Herschel speak for Herschel.

“What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.”

19 dead children and two dead teachers are now, because they must be, eternally greatful for the wisdom of Herschel Walker.

We know the drill, we know the yada yada yada on cable news and in the major newspapers.

The gun loving, miserable self-loathing man in the wheelchair in Texas will say we all grieve and then talk to the NRA convention in Houston this week (yhea, the wonderful irony, the NRA is holding its annual in Houston: Think there will be reporters and cameras all over that convention of murderers? Oh yhea.)

Well the rest of this this won’t be long and certainly not eloquent but profane, it will be profane.

Fuck the second amendment and fucking get rid of it – not possible in this lunatic country.

Confiscate the fucking guns, every last fucking one and melt them down, melt them down – not possible in this lunatic country.

Fuck every last person who has a gun in his or her home, every single one of them, including the ones you know, the ones I know – who we don’t even know have them – good luck with that.

This country is lost and done and gone and that’s just the way it is.

Is there anything else to say? Oh sure about the Republicans, the NRA, Joe Manchin, the south, the crazy mountain west, all of that.

But it all reduces to this: 14 children in grades 2, 3 and 4 died today because this country is lost, done, finished, failed, failed, failed, failed as a nation.

Anyone have a better answer? I’m all ears.

I don’t vote in Pennsylvania but if I did, and right now I wish I could, I would vote Tuesday for Connor Lamb for the Democratic Party nomination for the United States Senate.

Going into primary day, Tuesday, the Democratic Party pollinng leader is John Fetterman, the lieutentant governor of the state who leads in the polls for the simple reason that for the past 20 months he has done nothing but run for the Senate and raise money to do it.

If like me you have used Act Blue to contribute to Democrats in recent years then you like me have received an average of 25 emails a day from Fetterman and/or his wife asking you to give money to his campaign, every day of every week, of every month for at least 20 months

That seems to be all he has done but then it’s all he had to do because being lieutenant governor of a state is not a job. It is a holding place in case something happens to a governor. Would you ever have heard of Kathy Hochul if Andrew Cuomo had used some common sense? Of course not.

Fetterman’s thing we know is cargo shorts and t-shirts and vests as a costume.

You want your senator to show up on the Senate floor looking like that? On MSNBC for his de rigeur interviews? For his debates with whichever screwball reactionary the Republicans nominate in Pennsuylvania Tuesday?

Right now that looks like the crazy woman who says her mother was raped at the age of 11 resulting in her birth.

How do we know that? You know if you are a reporter that is not a hard story to confirm.

Find her mother. Is she 12 years older than the candidate, Kathy Barnette? Go to the courthouse where her birth is registered. Is it true?

Was there, is there a police report of the rape? f not, why not?

These are basic questions for a basic story about a remarkable claim by a woman seeking election to the U. S. Senate. A lot of lazy political reporters seem not to have made these simple basic checks to confirm her story.

It is very hard to believe there would not have been notice of a childl being born to an 11 or 12 year old, especially one who was raped. No matter where it happens in this country at least, it would make news. Did it?

Which takes us back to Fetterman who on Friday had a stroke, which put him in a hospital, which his campaign did not reveal for 48 hours, explaining his absence from campaigning for the critical weekend before the vote Tuesday as because he did not feel well.

Not feeling well?

He had a fucking stroke and that should have been announced immediately – immediately.

The great hero of the people spent two days, two entire days, lying to the people – the people he wants to elect him to the U.S. Senate.

In fact the only sensible choice for Pennsylvania is the man who has been. the only sensible choice throughout the campaign, who had a responsible job he does responsibly and did responsibly while Fetterman was whoring for money for nearly two years.

That’s Congressman Connor Lamb from Allegheny County, who was the first Democrat to win a seat after Trump got elected by the Electoral College in 2016.

Connor Lamb will be an important and consequential senator.

He is not the tall guy twisting out of the clown car in a clown’s costume of shorts and t-shirts. He is a real public official, with a real job and a real record. And if you are a Democrat, it is a damn good one. Oh, and he goes to work looking like a grown up, in a suit.

This is a really, really, really consequential elerction for the Senate in Pennsuylvania this year. The Senate seat is open owing to a Republican’s retirement and winning it could win control of the Senate, without which there is nothing, without which there is McConnel and the rest.

If you live there, are a Democrat, vote there, then go out Tuesday and vote for Connor Lamb because he will win in November and otherwise the choice is going to between a madwoman and a very tall man in cargo shorts who just had a strroke, lied about it and for all any of us know could die a week before the election in November.

If you are Pennsylvania Democrat, share this with everyone you know and urge them to make sure they vote for Connor Lamb, who I do not know, have never met, and who does not know me.

But I do know to an absolute certainty this if you want to If you vote in Pennsylvania, are a Democrat and believe it is vital to win that seat in November then Connor Lamb is your only certain, sane and able choice.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The United States Constitution, 14th Amendment,Section I.

There are 5 million more females than males in the United States. Girls and women are 50.8 percent of the U.S. population in the 2020 census compared to 49.2 percent who are men and boys (without getting further into contemporary gender issues this is what the Census reported).

The Supreme Court draft opinion on the issue of the Mississippi law to severely restrict abortion would apply only to women, can apply only to women.

Thus and obviosuly, only women would be prevented from obtaining termination of pregnancy in such states if the Roman Catholic majority on the Supreme Court tells the states they can do that.

And let us not pussyfoot with niceties. The five justices ready to do this are not doing it based on law, but based on the religion into which they were baptized and by which they were indoctrinated. That this is about the law or the Constitution is a total lie. It is about theology.

Abortion ban laws would not apply to the male 49.2 percent of the population because males, adolescent boys and men – men like Samuel Alito – can’t get pregnant, can’t carry a pregnancy and will never have to terminate one in a circumstance in which their personal choice determines the decision.

The decision is not about everyone. It is about girls and women. It applies only to girls and women. Do the math. On its face that is not equal treatment under the law, not when it has no application and no consequences for nearly half the population.

So, if the court does what Samuel Alito, who should be wearing not a black robe but the red robe of a cardinal of his church – if it does what he writes and turns the issue over to the states, more than half of which are poised to ban abortion, then that is a ruling that applies only to 50.8 percent of the population.

The other 49.2 percent, the males of the United States? They get off scot free, they are protected by their physiognomy – they don’t have ovaries, they don’t have a uterus, they don’t have a birth canal.

So is it, how can there be equal protecion under the law when nearly half the population can’t be protected unless the law extends to them the same protection that nature confers on the other half?

No, it damned well isn’t.

So everyone should have, as they say, skin in the game, no?

Oh but absolutely yes and, as you’ll see, literally

Here then a proposal.

Every state that passes a law outlawing abortion, or so limiting opportunity to obtain the procedure that it has no practical medical use and application in the same statute should adopt the following provision.

A mandate that in every instance in which a woman comes forward to say that but for the legal prohibition against abortion she would terminate the pregnancy, that the man who impregnated her, under any circmstance, with no exceptions for marriage, engagement, going steady, and notwithstanding any expression or intention of parental involvement, face two unalterable consequences:

1. For the first 21 years of the life of the child produced by such unwanted pregnancy he will be assessed one-third of his income to support that child -whether or not he resides in the same home as the child; with those funds payable every pay period, every paycheck, from every bonus payment to the mother.
2. That such man shall, upon the certification of a mandatory paternity test, be castrated.

How long do you think men in this country would proclaim their right to tell women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies, if men knew they would lose their testicles in the bargain. It’s a rhetorical question that does not need the punctuation mark. It contains its own answer.

There is not a single man in the world who could endure childbirth, not a one and certainly not Samuel Alito.

This sensible proposal to be faithful to the Constitution, to its declaration of equal treatment by and under the law, really demnds that both genders be treated the same.

So, either allow women their choice in human reproduction, the same one men have, which is to bear no burden in it if they so choose, or interfere equally in the control of everbody’s body, female or male.

(With the usual homage to Elia, aka Charles Lamb)