- I was listening to a podcast this morning, and the host was discussing Hillary Clinton and her possible plans to run for president again in 2016. The question of who in the Democrat party would be ready to step up if she either chose not to or ran a horrible campaign was asked. The thing that struck me was that the only person that came up was Elizabeth Warren. When the same question came up for the Republicans, and no women at all were mentioned. Now, I’m not saying that we have to have female candidates just to have female candidates, but you’d think that in a country with over 300 million people in it, we could come up with at least one female candidate better than Fauxcahontas. Where are the Republican women? Where are the rest of the Democrat women? Nicki Haley, a governor, might be a possibility, but I’ve never seen anything that indicates she has a desire to run. I don’t want quotas for candidates, but shouldn’t the ballot reflect the electorate a little better?
- Two things had my blood boiling this morning, but not for the obvious reason. First, there was a story that President Obama interrupted his morning swim in the cold waters off of the Vineyard to go golfing. It appears that this was a spur of the moment thing, because the other golfers were surprised to have Secret Service frisking and wanding them. Apparently when some of them questioned this, they were intimidated with the “What, you’re not going to cooperate?” line. Next we have the arrest of two journalists, basically for contempt of cop. It seems that they were in a McDonalds recharging their equipment and doing their work of informing us about the riots in Ferguson, and when they refused to show ID to a police officer, they were arrested. While the incidents themselves were outrageous, the lack of response from just about everyone is what’s got my dander up. When citizens are accosted by thugs for minding their own business, are either intimidated into compliance or roughed up and arrested for noncompliance, there ought to be outrage and vitriol echoing from the mountains. We aren’t on the verge of a police state because of the hardware and training of the police. We’re on the verge of a police state because we’re being broken to the yoke and we’re not doing anything about it.
- Hint to public school systems: If you are going to require a huge number of students to all read the same book at the same time, either buy the book and pass it out like my teacher did, or give parents and the book stores a few week’s notice so that we’re not all trying to buy a copy of The Scarlet Letter on the same night.
- I’d like to thank all of the drivers in Louisville for their aid tonight in helping me conserve gasoline. Forcing me to drive across town at 25 miles per hour kept that truck just sipping gas. Way to be, buddies!
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 14, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/08/14/musings-69/
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