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?

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.

Immigration Reform: Welfare for Defense Contractors

Is it just me or is history repeating itself?? Source: Google Images

With our decade long War of Terror on the world slowly winding down; we now find ourselves with a very troublesome quandary.

Question: How does a nation ween itself from an economy heavily weighted towards the waging of war, and the production and export of war material?

Answer: We don't.

We take those weapons, sensors, and manpower and use them to militarize one of our two peaceful borders.

Why? Two reasons; first we have to satisfy the governments' manufactured xenophobia permeating the old angry white people among us, who simply fear people with brown skin.

Second, and perhaps even more insidious; we have an economy based on building and using tools of destruction.

If our nation is not involved in a war directly, our proxies provide a ready market for some of our excess capacity.

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But here's the rub, with so many of us drawing our incomes from government and the industry of war, it becomes political and economic suicide to reduce spending in these sectors.

Naturally the solution is to use these tools at home in new "Wars of Paranoia" by building a larger, more obtrusive Big Brother State.

Witness the IRS training agents to use AR-15 assault rifles, Department of Homeland Security buying all the hollow point ammo they can get their hands on.

Let's all sign up today!
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Department of Homeland Security...so reminiscent of the German Gestapo protecting the Fatherland.

Can we get more Orwellian?
Really?

What happens after we have "secured" the border with Mexico; Boeing, Lockheed et al, will still need more war work to satisfy their millionaire and billionaire shareholders.
Does Mexico then become a "legitimate" target for drone strikes under the ruse of providing safe haven to the drug cartels we created?
When will Barry or one of his successors apply the use of "signature" strikes to the "War on Drugs"?
Have we already crossed that line Barry?
Considering we operate freely around the globe, I have no reason to believe otherwise.

Holy crow! The Canadians are coming!

Will we then militarize our border with Canada?

Under what guise?

Imminent invasion of the Canucks?

In reality, these expenditures are not about keeping the Mexicans out, it's about keeping US in line.

Tragic Accident or Assassination?

Author/reporter Michael Hastings 1980-2013. Died suspiciously just hours after an email warning to colleagues of Feds investigating journalistic practices. Source: Google images

Today we all received the news about the untimely death of journalist Michael Hastings.
I guess I could have used all kinds of adjectives in that first line describing, shock, surprise, amazement that a life so young was snuffed in it's prime...
In reality, I'm not surprised at all.
Neither should anyone be surprised who's paying attention to the U.S of King Barry.

People are dying all over the planet in Barry's War of Terror.
Yeah, Barry's War of Terror.
Barry is the Terror.
Constitutional Law Professor Barry.
Barry the President, making his own rules in such a way, that Dickless Cheney's salivating like a pit bull on a side of raw beef.
Barry who OK's the killing of US citizens without due process.
Then kills their kids.

Michael Hastings, the journalist who wrote the article in Rolling Stone that killed General Stanley Mc Chrystal's career, was also killed.
In a single car crash in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.
Is that perhaps the first single car fatality in Hancock Park's history?
If you're not familiar with the area, Hancock Park is probably the most expensive part of the City Of Angels proper.
Nice wide, well lit streets, clean smooth pavement.

Healthy 33 year olds who can drive, don't just die in single car wrecks in Hancock Park.
In my experience the only cars that catch fire after hitting trees in quiet residential neighborhoods are Ford Pinto's.
Or they've been rigged to burn by someone ensuring death.

Pretty sure Mr. Hastings was not driving a Pinto.

Michael Hastings' Mercedes
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Gun Control: Means Use Two Hands

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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the all too predictable all out assault on the right to bear arms has taken center stage just as we knew it would.
Unfortunately this tragedy is only compounded by the fool's rush to false judgment regarding the cause of this unspeakable crime.

When we all stand back, and take a cold hard look at the facts surrounding the majority of mass shootings, one truism stands above the rest; every one of these perps is nuts.
Certifiable. Straight jacket wearing, rubber room living people; who for the safety of the vast majority must be identified, institutionalized.

In short, a tiny minuscule percentage of our population who own guns, also match the above description.

Guns, like all machines requiring human interface have no capacity for evil or insanity of their own.
Those traits are strictly under the purview of man.
We as humans must recognize that we have a duty to our fellow citizens; that duty is to not allow familial love to cloud our judgments.
We have to be willing to acknowledge reality when it smacks us upside the head like a round from a AR-15. By then it's usually too late.
Mentally unstable members of our families must never be allowed to own, operate, or possess for any reason or period of time any fire arm. Period. Isn't that logical?

If the irrepressible urge to murder innocents arises, and "Box of Rocks Billy" doesn't know how to use, or have access to a gun, the chances for successfully stopping a slaughter have greatly increased. Right?

But then, what if "Box of Rocks Billy" finds, (yes he reads!) the recipe for a fertilizer bomb online like Timmy McVeigh did.
Decides that a truck bomb, even in that deranged dysfunctional brain of his, is a far more efficient way to take down a school.
Will banning assault weapons, ammo clips, hell even slingshots for that matter save a single life in that school?
Do you think it would have stopped Timmy?
Will we outlaw U-Haul's next?

Know this people, as did Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Commander in Chief of Japan's combined fleet during WWII, the only reason this nation will never be invaded is because every other nation on Earth, knows that behind every blade of grass lies a gun waiting for the opportunity to defend the freedom hard won over nearly 250 years of nation hood.

Mr. Brown Part 2

Just received word from my client, that after two weeks and one day; the bright new full of promise, six pound package of DMX lighting equipment I shipped from California finally, heroically arrived in Dallas, Texas. Wearing the road weary countenance of a trackside hobo shelter, my poor piece of cardboard cartonry collapsed on the shipping dock breathing it's last, destined for the burn pile.

This is Texas man, we burn all that shit!

It only travelled from Cali to Texas, back again to Cali, before wending it's way by goat path back to dynamic Big D. Land of the Great UCF Blackhole, where all worthy parcels are lost in the expanse of space populated by the especially lame and foolish.

Given the time it took to travel, the condition it arrived in, the very "special handling" attention received; one can safely assume the Pony Express rides again.
Resurrected from the graveyard of bad ideas by our friends at UCF.
How else but by rider and fastest horse(?) could we explain the amazing speed, and dedication to service we witnessed in the discharge of this duty under such harrowing conditions.
Next time for me personally I'd really really appreciate it if your rider 'er I mean driver tried tying the package down to the saddle bag rather than dragging it behind the fucking horse...

Thanks UCF, making a living in this economic climate isn't hard enough.
You're two weeks late, left me a hundred grand short, and an incredibly bad taste in my mouth for brown.

Mendocino County vs. Feds, Reality Strikes

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While most of America sullenly slogs through a sixth year of recession, the likes of which we haven't  seen since the 1930's, several groups of forward thinking citizens have tasked themselves with continuing the battle against backward thinking government.

With an eye on opening an old industry to new players, while adding taxes to the treasury through entrepreneurial know how, and job creation right here at home; America has been profoundly blessed with a new generation of business and civic leaders eager to tackle two of our society's most glaring deficiencies.

First, the role marijuana plays in society; it's medical, moral, and recreational use.

Second, the elimination of the criminal cartels we allowed to take root in all of North/South American society; their continued spread to Africa in search of new consumers, and trans-shipping routes to Europe.

Suffice it to say, the troglodytes in Federal bureaucratic positions have made these endeavors harder by the moment; every time they lean back on laws promulgated by thieves (Nixon), and enforced by followers of Don Quixote (Holder, Haag). I mean what the heck, if you've got a model that's clearly dysfunctional, wasting money and lives as though they were only words, wouldn't any sane person believe that's the right path? Really?

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It's the path well worn by our government; head planted firmly in a very dark place while at the same time chanting "If I can't see it, it's not true."

How refreshing would it be if we all had local leaders standing up to the Feds; as the leaders of Mendocino County are to old misguided unenforceable models of prohibition that our  retrograde relics in federal power cling to?

Get a clue Barry, instruct (with crayon stick figure drawings if need be) Herr Holder and his henchwench Haag to find more meaningful ways to blow the hard earned tax dollars they throw at the unachievable, and redirect that energy to ending the corruption that permeates our government. 

Like you've said before there are far bigger fish to fry.

Get your oil boiling brother, we want to see some action that resembles reality rather than the tragic comedy that's defined governmental position since the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act.