JUST WHEN YOU THOUGH IT COULDN’T GET ANY CRAZIER!

 

 

Supreme Court says New York gun law is too restrictive and that every American has the right to carry a hand gun outside their home for self-defense.

 

The inmates have truly taken over the asylum.

the Ol’Buzzard 

LET TEXAS SECEDE

 

In the Texas GOP convention’s platform, they included secession from the United States.  Why not? 

Texas receives far more federal aid and moneys than they pay in taxes, so if Texas were to secede it would decrease our Federal Deficit.

  

 Since Texans would no longer be citizens of the United States we could stop all Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid payments; cease all financial programs and aid, and all U.S. government support.

 

We could finally justify a wall along our southern border, and require visas for all Texas nationals wanting to enter our country.

 

We could place tariffs on all goods coming out of Texas and all goods entering Texas – again a windfall for our deficit spending. 

 

We could encourage Donald Trump to run for President of Texas, and be rid of a major threat to our democracy. 

 

We could do a one-time payment for resettlement for all MAGA people wishing to become Texas nationals. 

 

I don’t see any downside.

 

GO TEXAS SECESSION

the Ol’Buzzard

 

UNITED STATES SELL-BY DATE: NOVEMBER 8, 2022

 

I find this a particularly hard time to blog.  The MAGA world has brought violence and intimidation into the political processes to an extent not seen since the Civil War; and the Supreme Court is moving the country toward the fundamental Christian far-right.  I fear I am seeing this country, its stability I have always taken for granted, move toward becoming a fascist theocracy.

 

(Fascism: a form of far-right authoritarian, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, exultation of nation and race above the individual, with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader.)

 

This country has a history of good things and terrible things, but it has always strived toward a vision of democracy outlined in our Constitution.

 

I spent 22 years in the military.  When deployed among other nation’s troops I was always proud of the display of the Stars and Stripes – the symbol of our country.

 

But that was in the past.  Now when I see our flag its connotation is insurrection, rebellion and fanatical cult allegiance to a monumental con-man and would be dictator.   To me, the American flag has now become the symbol of the destruction of the democratic government that I have lived under for over eighty years.

 

Perhaps this country is past its sell-by date. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE HEARING

 The January 6 committee hearing is scheduled to begin tonight.   It will be covered in its entirety by all major networks, except Fox.

Don't look up!

the Ol'Buzzard

THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE GUN

 

 

Two-thirds of Americas are temporarily outraged about the shooting of children in Uvalde, Texas.   This will pass as our collective memories are short.

 

This carnage, especially of young people, is appalling on the surface; but it is who we are.  Since the early Homo Sapiens picked up stones and wiped out the Neanderthal, mankind has been killing everything that breathes on this earth, including its own species.   

 

The only thing that ever limits the carnage is the availability of weapons and the sophistication of the weaponry. 

 

Wars, genocide, ethnic cleansing, retribution, retaliation, revenge, execution, jealousy.   We are creative in our cruelty: stoning, strangling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, crushing, spiking, starving, drowning, stabbing, shooting….  And these are performed by organized mobs, be they government, ethnic or religious groups; but it takes individuals to carry them out.  And we carry them out. 

 

We glorify war and we glorify veterans.   We seek out video games and movies premised on violence.  Is it any wonder, with the unrestricted availability of military weaponry to our population, that young, impressionable, disturbed individuals commit mass murder?

 

We are not as outraged as we pretend, or the government elected by the people would outlaw access to military weapons of mass destruction, and government officials that obstruct would be replaced.

 

The Ol’Buzzard