Friday, July 19, 2013

Brezhnev 2.0

Vlad is really rocking the retro Soviet show trial thing.
Last week he ordered a court to find a dead man guilty.
This week he orders another court to convict his chief naysayer on trumped up embezzlement charges.
Hey, maybe you can dig up the Czar and kill him again?

You're a busy dude Vlad, checking your decrepit conscription armed forces during the largest post Soviet war games; riding in a sub, the only thing I haven't see you do is inoculate kids against disease.
I mean a midget with your talents should never allow himself to be limited when the cult of personality is still under construction. Too many ways to endear yourself to the people with propaganda based in fantasy.
Then again isn't all your propaganda fantasy?

Unlike our own leaders who bungle about blindly killing innocents with "signature strikes" from drones; you target your foes with phony legal charges, long predetermined sentences in far off gulags...
Actually you're not a whole lot different than Barry are you?
Barry likes to hide behind "state secrets", keeps people locked up without charge or trial for years on end in a prison he promised to close six long years ago. Prosecutes in secret courts without real due process, and allows testimony derived from torture to be used in those courts.
So no Vlad, you're no worse than Barry the Constitutional law professor.

What does that say about us?
The people who allow ourselves to be lead by evil?

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Blocked by the Fresno Bee

Good morning dear readers, today as normal, I began my day by reading the local rag on line with my morning joe.
Also as usual I logged in to Disqus so I might comment on the never ending cycle of stupidity that is Fresno City and County government.

Many times in the past I have participated in the Disqus forum attached to the Fresno Bee fish wrap rag, tweaking our abundantly illiterate, ignorant population spouting Faux News idioms.
This morning when I attempted to weigh in on Mayor Ashley Swearingen's plan to overpay herself and the Chief of Police Jerry Dyer; by laying off city workers who actually do the day to day heavy lifting required to run a city of 500,000 plus, I could not.

Ashley's unilateral move laying off vital code enforcement officers is clearly a retaliatory move in the wake of her failed attempt to privatize trash collection in Fresno.
Kudos to the good citizens of Fresno who voted her efforts at political patrimony into the dustbin

Yes in the past I have used, shall we say direct language, to describe the blatant incompetence and corruption exhibited by the leaders of Fresno; but nothing to warrant being blocked from commenting in the local governments mouthpiece.
Unless of course you happen to be Ashley, Jerry or the equally monstrous Maggie Mims.

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For instance; in the past I have commented on Maggies' running a revolving door of criminality through her jail by allowing the nations most prolific car thieves to make Fresno number one in car theft.
Her penchant for misquoting law, placing the county in tenuous legal territory with regard to the medical marijuana issue; and worst of all her completely inept handling of the Minkler incident, have made her a favorite target.

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Jerry Dyer is a trough feeding muscle bound steroid pumping bully.
He takes a full salary from the city to be chief, AND he collects a retirement pension from the city at the same time.
He retired so he could protect .25% of his 8.25% tax payer funded public pension; but because he's so "irreplaceable" Ashley lobbied hard for him to get a raise and stay on.
Who knew that anyone could be so indispensable, so worthy of becoming a millionaire at the public expense.
Jerry, you're having too much fun, and find it far too easy to harass the homeless than it is to take on gang bangers on their turf.


Last and least is Ashley, her attempts to gut the city of workers, while handing that work to her campaign contributors; with an eye towards using those funds to overpay herself and Jerry is just the tip of the iceberg. How about the street she wants to put through Fulton Mall.
Ashley take a trip to Pasadena, wander around the Paseo Pasadena, with your city credit card of course, and get a good idea of what Fulton Mall could be.


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You'll notice a street does not run through it.