In the last few days I have seen two political cartoons criticizing the people of Texas by absolutely terrible media shit weasels.

After that I saw New York Congressman and totally corrupt fuck-shit Joe Crowley open his stupid lie hole on Morning Joe blathering on about the same crap.  (You can tell this subject doesn’t put me in a good mood)

Yep, you head that right.  Hurricane Harvey is reason to support Nancy Pelosi … because “all politics is local” Texas and Kentucky have to support a Representative from California who is becoming hated by her own party.

This is more proselytization by worshipers of the religion of the Church of State.  There is nothing that doesn’t require more big goverment intervention.

Was the response to Hurricane Katrina a cluster fuck? More goverment!

Was the response to Hurricane Sandy politics gone awry with everybody trying to stick their hands in the government cookie jar at once?  More Government?

Was the response to Hurricane Harvey a heartwarming reality show of neighbors helping neighbors?  Texas rednecks in mud boggers dubbed the “Diesel Army” driving through flood waters to rescue people and turn down offers of money.  Guys in punts and airboats known as the “Cajun Navy” driving in to rescue people.  A successful businessman known as “Mattress Mack” turned his stores into emergency shelters, which other local businesses dropping off food and other supplies to help the survivors there?  More fucking government.

There is no end for these people.

Hence the cartoons mocking the people of Texas.

There are crazy Christians who are bible literalists.  They believe the world is 6,000 years old and the Grand Canyon and dinosaur fossils are evidence of Noah’s flood.  Their faith seems strong but it is really a house of cards.  If the world is really 4.54 billion years old, how can anything else in the bible be true

The cartoons above are the big government equivalent to that.  Their is no room in their faith to incorporate the idea that independence and self reliance are good too.  It’s all big government all the time, or nothing.

I am one of these small goverment types.  I believe in independence and self reliance.  I still believe in the need for good goverment.  Those are not mutually independent.

I remember the words of the Preamble “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Note both the “promote the general Welfare” and “secure the Blessings of Liberty” clauses.

These Statists would have you believe that the opposite of big goverment is anarchy.  Either you want a cradle to grave welfare state with massive economic redistribution and social engineering schemes OR you die in a flood because the Coast Guard doesn’t exist.

There is an enormous gap between those two positions.  The moderate, reasonable, and dare I say the intent of our Founding Fathers, was to put government between those two points.  We (that includes the small government types in Texas) pay taxes with the expectation that emergency services are available to use.  We pay for an Army to defend us, police to protect us, and other programs to provide aid in a time of crisis.

That doesn’t mean when there is no emergency we want you meddling in our daily lives, over regulate the economy to death, bailout the banks in such a way that the executives whose decisions crashed the economy ended up with bonuses instead of prison sentences, create a surveillance state, and all the other skeezy shit that the government does on a regular basement.

If you want me to summarize my attitude, and if I may be so bold as to speak for many people in Texas and around the country:

“Leave me the fuck alone UNTIL I ask for your help, and then ONLY provide the help I ASK YOU FOR, until i tell you to fuck off again.”

I am happy to take care of myself until I am in over my head (for the people in Texas, quite literally) and then I’ll call emergency services.

Big goverment is not the answer.  The good people of Texas showed that.

That doesn’t mean they don’t want any government either.  They showed that too.

There is a healthy balance of self reliance and civil service that occurs that is optimal for society.

New Orleans was a city with a culture of government dependence.  When the city flooded and the local and state government fucked the dog on that response, people were unable to help themselves.  It was chaos.

Houston showed how well an independent people and responsible government can come together for everybody’s benefit.

These statistics can’t have people seeing that, they can’t have people learning that lesson.  If the do they might not want to give into big government so quickly.

Some people were in DC protesting Trump in Dinosaur costumes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6GTEOZssKY

I couldn’t see their sign or hear what they were shouting, but the only thing that makes sense to me is that they must be protesting for funding for dinosaur cloning research.   I fully support that and believe Trump should fund that.  I can’t wait to see actual living Tyrannosaurus at the National Zoo.

Bob Menendez is the senior United States Senator from New Jersey.  He is a Democrat.   He is currently on trial for corruption in relation to taking bribes for covering for a health care provider that defrauded Medicare out of $105 million.   That provider has already been found guilt of fraud.

Menendez is a sitting Senator.  In an act of titanic, brass plated ballsiness, he requested leave from his trail to cast votes in the Senate.

The judge denied the motion.

I disagree with the ruling.

I think Menendez should have been allowed to attend the Senate votes.

I think he should be walked into the Capitol Building by Federal Marshalls, in an orange jumpsuit in handcuffs and leg irons, and escorted to his seat.  Once the vote was cast, the Marshalls should escort him out again. 

The people of New Jersey are entitled to his representation.  

The rest of us are entitled to see him be treated like the criminal he is.

This is probably why I’m not a judge.

Moms Demand Action was all upset because a kindergarten took a field trip to a gun range and induced a firearms safety course.

The response from the Moms Facebook crowd was as predictable as it was stupid.

Yep, because meth is legal and protected by a constitutional amendment.  Oh wait, it’s not.  A legal gun range is safe and responsible and the kids were given safe firearms handling training.

I didn’t know that these kids were being taught to hate Jews and the West and to kill people.  Or does she believe just holding a gun makes you a bad person.  I wonder what Deb Potter has to say about Leftist parents who use their kids to protest for Lefty causes, like the kindergartners who protested Betsy DeVos, the kids who protested Trump’s immigration policy, the six-year-old who was used by a pro illegal immigration group for a year to stage hugging the Pope, or kids being used for pro-choice marches.

I bet all those are fine by her.

PBS, a bastion of Liberal thought (or lack there of), thinks we should teach sex ed in kindergarten.  Sex ed is getting more and more graphic for younger and younger kids.  Does David Raper think it is a good idea to teach kindergarteners about anal sex because PBS thinks so?  If teaching gun safety leads to accidental shootings then I guess teaching safe anal sex to small children leads to sodomy.

I agree.  Maybe then we shouldn’t be having kindergarten transgender reveal parties where kids can become all confused about the basic biology of boys and girls.  Perhaps reading and math are more important than punishing the crimethink of not using a fellow kindergarten student’s preferred pronoun.

I’m not even sure were to go with this.  Being a law abiding gun owner makes you a Klansmen?  This is so prejudiced that I lack words to describe it.

I guess she comes from the Yvette Felarca middle school of thought, everything I don’t like makes you a Nazi.

This is where these people show their true colors.

It is totally fine for 5 year olds to learn how important it is to properly gender their transgender sex partner while demanding free abortion on demand, but if they learn proper gun safety, the world is coming to an end.

The group called Young Texas Democrats decided that the best way to help their fellow Texans after Hurricane Harvey was to protest the arrival of President Donald Trump in Texas.

They could have driven the 170 miles from Austin to Houston to be 70 more sets of helping hands.  They could have carried down water, formula, diapers, the things people need.

Instead they decided to #Resist.

They absolutely have the right to do that.   They are entitled to their First Amendment protections.

I just think that if their response to a disaster in their own back yard is to protest the President who has come to help, because actually volunteering is insufficiently partisan and too much work; they can at least volunteer to stop breathing because they are using up oxygen needed by hard working first responders.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump went to Texas today because of the hurricane and flooding in the Houston area.

Two media outlets that I am aware of – there may be more – did OpEds on the First Lady’s shoes.  Apparently the First Lady started her day out in high heels.

First Vogue commented with this Melania Trump’s Hurricane Stilettos, and the White House’s Continual Failure to Understand Optics.

The Washington Post published this There was no pretense about Melania Trump’s heels. But sometimes, a little pretense helps.

Who are these articles for?  Yeah, we know the media hates all things Trump.  Did they write these for themselves, as sort of a masturbatory exercise in Trump hate?  Or is the intention to convince us in Trump country that Trump looks down on us?

If it is the latter, it’s a swing an a miss.

From Vogue:

This morning, Mrs. Trump boarded Air Force One wearing a pair of towering pointy-toed snakeskin heels better suited to a shopping afternoon on Madison Avenue or a girls’ luncheon at La Grenouille.

I’ve heard of Madison Avenue.  That is where the fancy shopping is in New York City.  There is a Saks there, I think.  I’ve never heard of La Grenouille.  It turns out it is The in style French Restaurant in NYC right now.  It serves lunch and dinner at fuck you prices.

From The Washington Post:

Observers were baffled by her shoes in particular. Those shoes. Those shoes. Good Lord, those shoes. She is fond of Manolos and Louboutins. But it’s not the brand or the cost: It’s the heels.

I had to look up Manolos and Louboutins.  Both are fashion designers who are as foppishly, flamboyantly, idiosyncratically, gay and European as to make Talladega Nights look like a documentary.

Both also happen to be brands of shoes  that cost somewhere between a new truck payment and a mortgage payment.

This type of criticism of Trump might as well be “Did you see Trump and Melania drinking the 2012 Jadot Louis Le Montrachet Grand Cru Chardonnay with their Wagyu au Poivre?  How gauche!”

This type of horseshit commentary superficial and condescending at the same time.

For the great swath of Americans that live outside of walking distance from 5th Avenue, the first concern they have about shoes is affording them for their kids.

For the Trump voters I know, and who are good people, their regular non-kid shoe buying experience is what is available from the company shoe truck this year.

I say this with the deepest sincerity.  I don’t give a fuck about the shoes the First Lady wears.  She used to be a fashion model.  She wears stilettos for a living.  If you caught me outside the gym, there is a good chance I’m going to be in composite toe boots that an employer bought me.  It is what I am used to.

Media: “The first lady wore fancy designer shoes to your disaster area.  Aren’t you mad?”

America: “My house got washed away and you want me to give a shit about Trump’s wife’s shoes?  Fuck you and the first class seat you flew in on!”

If these people were any further up their own ass they would disappear into a singularity.

I wanted to sit last night out from blogging.   I was overwhelmed by the horrible shit people were saying about Texas last night.  Twitchy covered some of it but I saw people on the periphery of my social media echoing the same crap. 

Then catastrophe in Berkeley, and in was done. 

I needed to sign off for an evening and recover from the lack of humanity I was witnessing.

Then a buddy of mine sent me this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=btm46UnGFic

It broke my fucking heart.

I couldn’t care less about the communist bitch getting arrested.

I am a dog person.   I speak dog.  My wife could tell you about my magic dog powers.

I have friends who have service dogs.  They are all veterans.   One had suicidal ideation.   He came home with a TBI and shortly after that his girlfriend was killed.  If it weren’t for his service dog, he might not be alive today.  

Service dogs are invaluable to the veterans that have and need them and help with recovery from PTSD with less medication.

Did this worthless pile of shit in a Black Panthers shirt bring her service dog to a protest where it was probably terrified and could easily have gotten hurt?

If so, I am done trying to preserve the remnants of my milk of human kindness.  

I hope she dies in custody and her dog is adopted by a family that will really love it and treat it well.