Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  Watched a presentation, an ad for what the MAGA Republican Party has in store for all of us if their Prince of Darkness gets back in office. No doubt his hope is that he will remain there until death and I am sure he hopes that all those preservatives in the McDonalds he eats will keep him around for a very long time. 

  At any rate the film showed a book burning, and a young lady objecting to this because the writer was an award winning writer, but the person throwing the book into the fire said it did not matter as the writer’s views were wrong, or we know better. Moved on to some effort to claim that slavery was not a bad thing, got challenged by a black lady in the crowd and she was then set upon by individuals determined to show her the error of her thinking. The film then moved on to a lady in handcuffs being taken into custody and trying to explain that she had had a miscarriage and being told that would be up to the court to decide. The final scene was this man who had been observing all of these events finally making a statement to this crowd about it all being fascist and getting accused of being gay.

  How have we managed to slide to the level where all of history is a lie and the only truth is white superiority and male dominance? 

  There are some things we can be sure of from history, the Pyramids were built, by whom and how, still not sure, same for StoneHenge. The Roman Road is a fact as well as the wall between England and Scotland. We know that someone discovered America and much of history has been documented for quite some time, there is always room for doubt when it comes to the outcome of war as the winner writes the book.

  Are we sure of all the stories in the Bible, for some yes, for others no, take your pick as to which side you are on. Put it on the basis of the difference between a Fairy Tale, a War Story and a Myth. Fairy Tales begin Once Upon a Time, War Stories begin You ain’t going to believe the shit but it is true, and a Myth begins, In The Beginning.

   America was discovered by white men long after red men had settled here, so when white men came they stole the land they settled. In turn the white men wanted to raise more than they could manage on their own so they brought black men to do the work, slaves as these men were not paid but kept in bondage. There were black women as well and in some cases the white men decided to increase the number of slaves by breeding with the black women whether they wanted to or not.

  We fought a war with England to become an independent nation in 1776 and then fought them again in 1812. In the 1860’s we fought a war within our nation because of slavery as part wanted to keep it and part did not. We decided to end the practice although in 2016 it looked as if the idea was very much in favor of being reinstated by that administration.

  In 1914 we fought in WWI and then went through the roaring 20’s and the depression of the 30’s and WWII in the 1940’s. Both World Wars were fought with Germany and the second one was when they were involved in the Holocaust. We have been involved with a number of conflicts since then and probably will continue to be involved in conflicts as that and disease are the two main methods mother nature has of controlling the population.

  So with this little picture of the MAGA world shall we take a guess at how this is all to play out. Education will be such that only the information the party wants you to know will be taught. Believe nothing that the party doesn’t tell you. We know we need an Army so train Whites to be leaders and others to the soldiers. Since it is a male dominated world we can pick and choose who we believe in the matter of reproductive problems. We will not tolerate gays or anything like that. There will be a party line answer for all problems and situations and it will be adhered to.

  Sounds just like a page from someone else’s book of bull shit, Marks and Lennin. That is definitely a country I don’t want to live in. Why would anyone else?

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The current crop of degenerates holding court in the U.S. House of Representatives are bent on burning the country to the ground if they don’t get their way. Greene and her ilk are like bags of gasoline and their dear leader, the Mango Menace, is the match. They have become it’s our way or no way caucus just like the tyrant they pledge allegiance to and will gleefully hurt the public.

Prime example a normal bi-partisan bill to fund the Military was blocked by the GOP, the same GOP that claims to be all about defense and supporting our men and women in uniform. It’s not a huge surprise when Tuberville has blocked all senior promotions in the ranks of the armed services because he doesn’t want female persons serving to be reimbursed if they have to seek gynecological care outside the state they are stationed. Not only is not supporting our troops it is damaging our national defense, but it is another thing they also claim to support.

Now McCarty has unilaterally started an impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden. The clown caucus admits that they do not have any evidence for a charge of a high crime or misdemeanor, they are going to start an inquiry so they can find or more than likely manufacture evidence to support their belief of impropriety.  This is one more occasion that the GOP is still answering to DJT and doing his bidding and if there is any semblance of national pride it will bite them in the ass.

Donny is already floating that if he gets back into the White House that the 2024 term would be a do over of his 2016 term because of the Russia inquiries. He honestly thinks that he will be President for life if he gets back through the door again. The Republican/Trumpubicans already have plan the 2025 Project that would weaponize the DOJ as well as state houses to steal the vote. It is amazing that a significant portion of the public does not see that everything the GOP is saying that Biden is doing is exactly what they want to do. (If you don’t know Biden isn’t doing any of the things, they claim he is.)

All I can say and keep saying is VOTE and VOTE in overwhelming numbers so that their mischief doesn’t work, read a paper stop listing to Faux News or any broadcast for a Sinclair owned outlet. Just open your eyes and realize that the Shit Show the Republican want is not what is going to help America or Americans.

Thanks for reading my rant.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

 We are in danger of a government shutdown because of what? Is there a good reason for this entire drama or is it just to satisfy someone’s ego. 

  The present House of Representatives is Controlled (?) by the Republican Party or so they think, in reality it is controlled by a bunch of brain dead idiots that somehow got voted into office mostly because no one else in their districts wanted the job. Now they are holding the entire country hostage on the whim of one man and what will be the reward for this effort, well, they will get to line up and kiss his ass once again if he is re-elected. If he is not maybe, just maybe they will get to be in the same cell block with him as they are all traitors to this nation.

  If the remaining Republican members of the House do not overcome the dipshits that are causing this problem, by whatever means needed, then they and no other Republican deserves to be voted into any office, including dog catcher, for at least the next 20 years.

  The citizens of this nation do not deserve to be put through a wringer just because a few misbehaving babies don’t get their way. There has been an awful lot of talk about WOKE and how it is so bad and how it needs to be stopped and on and on and on. Truth be told WOKE is also found in the absurdly foolish idea that you are special because you can somehow still walk with your head stuffed up your ass.

  This is not a game you are dealing with, this is a nation and peoples lives and livelihoods.  Let us put this all back on the members of Congress and if you can not come to an agreement to fund then you forfeit your salary for the next year. If it hurts your bottom line I am sure that you can see to it that compromise is reached but when you have no stake in the game it does not matter. 

  A resolution should be made that any time members of the house cannot come together on issues for the good of the country that (1) They can not run for reelection, (2) If is a budget issue their pay check is the first thing to go, and (3) That the golden parachute that your predecessors voted themselves shall come to an end.

Lyle (Silent/Boomer)

We all get a bit tired of paying taxes especially when the taxes are added to taxes such as value added tax on things like tires. Get out your pen and paper and start listing all the things you pay an annual tax on, your house if you are fortunate enough to own one, or at least be making payments on one, ditto on a car, or a recreational vehicle or a boat. If you have livestock even though you may keep them on someone else’s land you will pay a tax for having them, same goes for your dog or cat, I am not sure about exotic pets but I would guess there is a tax on them as well.

   In other countries you can be taxed on the number of doors you have in your home, or the number of windows, how wide your house is and you can be taxed for having a television and the list goes on. So taxes are nothing new and they are not going away any time soon because for the common good we need taxes to be paid to take care of all manner of things that makes life easier and more enjoyable.

   There are things that seem to be exempt from taxes. One is religion as churches are not taxed and the contributions made to churches are supposed to be deductible. Now when this idea was brought forward it  was supposed that by keeping out of church business the community government would be able to function without the church interjecting religion into the social environment without being asked . We currently have churches getting public support without making any public contribution.

   The other item on the agenda of not paying taxes on but costing taxpayer money is guns. This is one item that does not get hit for a tax renewal every year. The 2nd amendment seems to allow for every person regardless of mental ability, temperament, or for any other reason to have a gun or guns. In some states there are no laws about caring those weapons and there is no accountability of these weapons. More effort is made to keep track of a woman who might try to get an abortion than some idiot that might shoot up a school. This is of course do in no small part on the feeling that the fetus has more rights than  a living breathing person and the attitude that we will protect the fetus until the feet hit the ground then it is on it’s own.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I constantly hear people whining about taxes but neglect to acknowledge that those on the higher end of in oncome scale aren’t paying their fare share. They also seem to have zero idea of the services that their taxes pay for, which I will admit isn’t always clear.

I was told by a co-worker that he honestly felt that there should not be taxes, so I made sarcastic assumptions to highlight a folly of his no tax utopia.

I asked.

If his kids went to private or public school.

If he drove to work on public roads.

If his home had a well or used municipal water.

Did he pay for his own fire, or police just in case of an emergency.

Of course, all the responses were that all the services he used were public offering paid for by taxes. He wanted all the services but did not feel that it was his responsibility to pay into a collective for those services, and unfortunately that is how a lot of people think.

I have said for years that annually a report should be sent to every taxpayer breaking down where their taxes go as a percentage, i.e., school, sanitation, police, fire, prison, etc.. If you disagree with the way your taxes are being allotted file a petition, collect signatures, and get the changes on the next ballot, let the public as a whole decide it is what we call the democratic process, and it requires participation.

The current GOP does not feel that they should participate and are trying to shut the system down if they don’t get their hostage demands met. These are the same politicians that voted against the infrastructure bill but are now going to their home districts and taking credit for the projects they voted against. Again, they don’t want to participate but are willing to pat themselves on the back for the process they actively try to tear down.

For our system of government to function we need 2 parties but when 1 of those parties has no ideas other than burn it to the ground nothing gets done for the people. There has to be a common goal, not everyone is going to agree on how to get there, that’s why we have debates to come to some compromise that will move us in a shared direction.

Ok, that’s my soapbox rant for today.