Waiting For Each Other To Die

President Obama is not going to give in!
John Boehner is not going to give in.
Period!
They are, in essence, each waiting for the other to die.

Boehner says that Obama will not negotiate, that that's not the way Congress works.
Whoooooooooa !
Years ago, I kicked the President's butt for caving all the time.
I told you this site would, when called for, also do that.
So the President even went BEYOND negotiating.

The Republicans?
Let's see, "Make him a one term president".
Vote NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
No to equal rights for women,
No to creating jobs even for a crumbling and antiquated infrastructure, and then blame Obama for no jobs, even tho he took us from Bush's 750,000 a month job loss to climb slowly up to adding hundreds of thousand jobs a month.
No to Affordable Health "Act"  42 times, calling it a "bill", EVEN THO they and their insurance companies PARTICIPATED in the forming of that ACT, even tho the Supreme Court validated it, even tho, yes John Boehner, the American people want it in spite of your lies about it.
No to voting rights,
NO, NO, NO.

Even Republican Congressman Peter King called Ted Calgary Cruz a "FRAUD".
How long John Boehner before they start calling you a fraud ?

One Drawback To Wendy Davis

I went to Haltom City to see Senator Wendy Davis announce her candidacy for the office of Governor of Texas. She did a fantastic job of speaking and covering issues important to all of us.

Wendy is no Ann Richards, but Ann Richards was no Wendy Davis. They were and are two distinct strong, intelligent, caring ladies. They had and will have one thing in common: the honor of occupying the Texas Governor's mansion.

I am also looking forward to Wendy calling out Greg Abbott as a flip-flopper. For example, when he changed his mind on the American Airlines-US Airways merger.

Oh, did I mention that she has one drawback. Greg Abbott has in the neighborhood of $20 to $25 million in his war chest. Wendy has about a million and a half. Google her site online and please contribute; contribute your time and money.

Thanks,
Jim Stodola

Do Not Send Money

Every day I open my email or snail mail, I am bombarded by a dozen requests for money, some I consider legit, some not.
One website continually insists on donations; they after all, have to pay their writers.
I would think it would be reward enough to see their works on a website.

We want you to know that we do not pay our writer. He is physically chained to his desk, receiving only a tiny morsel of food when he completes an article, just enough mind you, to give him enough strength to write another article.

We will never ask you for money, just compliments. 
This website is fully funded, and fully fun.

My Take On Syria

The Syria Scenario changes weekly. Here's my take:

There are 22 countries in the Arab League, including Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and Syria itself.
The League voted that there must be international strikes against Assad for using chemical weapons, with Algeria, Egypt, Iraq (our dear buddies, or not), Lebanon, and Tunisia saying they are "opposed to the final decision to call for foreign military action."

Make the Arab League strike Syria. This is their geographic territory, their peoples. Of course they  have "limited" fire power compared to that of the United States, but of course these are supposed to be "limited" strikes.

Then, when some terrorist group wants to retaliate, they can blow up some towers over there...
instead of in Kansas.

Much Feedback Received

After my last post on striking Syria, I received much feedback.
Half of it was for the strike and half against it.
Or was it half for my writing and half against it.

In any case, not to worry. I say not to worry because there probably won't be a strike.
Since Obama said he wants to strike, the Republicans will deny him.
If Obama didn't want to strike, the Republicans would insist on striking.

The President needs to use reverse psychology on these guys.
He should tell the GOP that he is against creating jobs,
that he is against equality for women,
that he is against voting rights,
that he is against Obamacare,

And sure enough, all would be well with the world.

Syrian Strike Narrowed

Originally the Administration was going to strike Assad's Syria regime with a mighty blow for using chemical weapons. But now after the National Security Council has met several times, "the strike option has been narrowed."

Now the US will only strike an un-named convenience store, and only in the cold drink section of the store.

Where Is A Birther When You Need One ?

Make no mistake, President Obama was born in the United States, the state of Hawaii.
But there was a republican birther under every rock, no, no, they were throwing the rocks, swearing that the President was born in Kenya.
Now, even if Obama was born in Kenya, which he wasn't, he would still be an American citizen because his mother was. But no matter, Obama must be figuratively lynched.

Now cometh Rafael Edward Cruz, alias Ted Cruz, alias Calgary Cruz. Yes sir, Cruz was born in Canada. By the fact that at least one of his parents was American, Rafael has dual American citizenship.

Calgary Cruz wants to be your  president, just like Rick Perry did, or does. Just Like Greg Abbott will, just as George P. Bush, son of Jeb Bush, will. You all come to Texas if you want to be president.

Back to our exciting adventure. Now that Calgary Cruz wants to run, he is denouncing his Canadian citizenship. He had earlier denounced sanity, reason, common sense, decency, and a few other things, but we need to get back to our exciting adventure.

President Obama had more certification than Calgary Cruz, but where are the birthers now that you need them?  Not a peep.
Are they collecting their rocks to say now that Obama was born in Nova Scotia, to deflect the attention from Rafael Edward Cruz, alias Calgary Cruz.

Come on Donald Trump, this is your chance to get some attention, and run for president again. But I suggest that you move to Texas first.

Rand Paul Is A Dirty Corksoaker

Rand Paul is the son of Ron Paul. The senior is a fairly decent gentleman. His son however, is something else.
Read of the man and you will find he is an utter, utter hypocrite. He just now said he is as avid a supporter of voting rights, of civil rights, as any man.

Rand Paul said this as he was sipping a glass of wine and dipping the dirty cork into the wine.

What did I tell you. Rand Paul is a Dirty Corksoaker.

Presidential Debate Coverage Banned !!!!!!!!!!

The RNC, (Republican National Committee) just voted to ban NBC and CNN from covering the 2016 Republican Presidential Debates.

I guess now we'll have to watch the Republican debates on The Comedy Channel.

Does Anybody Know Where Rick Perry Is, He Doesn't

Today, Rick Perry was speaking at a "Red State" gathering in "New Orleans."
The sign on his podium said that very thing.

Yet Rick Perry told the crowd that, as he spoke, he was in Florida.

Somebody from one of these other states, please claim this turkey.

But then again, speaking to Republicans, who usually have their heads up their asses, they probably didn't even notice the difference.

Pope To Gays: We Love You, But You're Going To Hell

I have some respect for the new Pope but what he said recently was confounding.
He said, as did Cardinal Dolan, that he can't judge gays, but what they do is a sin.

OK you guys, the Pope loves you but no touching.
You touch and you are going to Hell.

Newspaper Rejected My Letter

I have a pretty high success rate of getting my letters to the editor published, something like 99% and close to 500 letters. However I just had one rejected.
I'm not going to name names here as I did in the letter, but just give you the gist of it, or rather the "jest of it."
There is a new product on the market, a testosterone used like a deodorant stick.
We have a few radical, extremists right wingers writing to our local paper,

and I merely suggested that they were rubbing too much of that testosterone on their underarms.

What's Rick Perry Gonna Do Now ?

Rick Perry just announced that he will not seek re-election for Governor of Texas.

So what’s he going to do now? We had a private, secret, off the record interview with the guv and he hinted at some of the following:

He might open up his own gun shop, “with stores in all 251 counties in Texas, oops 252 counties, oops 253 counties, oh you know what I mean, everywhere, everywhere.”

He will definitely be running again, this next time running with the bulls in Pamplona.

He said now he “will have more time to devote all my efforts working on Texas secession from the Union, or was that the Onion?”

Perry said that since the country was so entertained by his gaffes in the last presidential election, he will work on more gaffes to entertain us in the next presidential election.

If he could not be canonized for sainthood, he said he will pray that his staff will nominate him “to the Governor’s Hall Of Shame, oops, I mean Hall Of Fame.”

He is also going to devote more time fighting for women's rights: the rights to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, and by golly he will especially honor their right to STAY pregnant.

Posted by Flying Captain Cowboy at Monday, July 08, 2013

Scientists Looking For Alzheimers Gene

Ladies, don't get uptight about this, I am not mocking you, I am mocking myself.

Scientists have recently discovered the gene that may cause breast cancer. Since a famous actress found that she possessed that gene, she had BOTH her breasts removed.

Scientists are close to discovering the gene that may cause alzheimers. My wife says that if it turns out that I possess that gene, she is going to have my brain removed.

I was scared when she said that, but relieved when she said she would only have ONE removed.

Huge Asteroid Coming May 31st

On May 31st, asteroid 1998 QE2 (discovered in 1998) will pass by the Earth. It is 1.7 miles long.

Will God destroy the Planet because you shook hands with a gay person?
Will God bring the World to an end because we are over-populated with feminazis?

We eagerly await the Word from men of scientific minds like:
Rush Limpbrain, Pat Robertson, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin,
and maybe a special visit from the other side, Jerry Falwell.

Darrell Issa Is A Lying SOB

Who is Darrell Issa? He is a very, very rich and somewhat powerful Republican congressman from California. Currently, he is conducting House hearings on Benghazi.

Issa said on Face The Nation, Sunday May 14th, that Hillary Clinton was not the target of the hearings, that President Obama was not the target.

Darrell Issa is a lying SOB. About two years ago, Issa swore that he would hold a hearing on our President every week.

In that his only few goals in life are to get rich and destroy an honorable president, rather than caring for our country, he is like typical Repbulican congressmen, Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Demint, Cornyn, Cruz, Bachmann, ....lord I'm going to run out of paper...also treasonous SOBs, oh, one treasonous B.

Just A Question, Just A Question

Should political organizations be given tax exempt status?
Today's issue, why shucks, issue for about the next nine months, is:
The IRS and the tea party.

I know that churches and charitable organizations get tax exempt status.
And when they endorse political candidates they should lose that tax exempt status!!!!

No, what is going on now is not Nixonion. Nixon ordered tax audits on his enemies.

I know that I can't take tax exemptions for political contributions. But the tea party groups think their political organizations should because there is maybe a 2% charity to them, the rest funnelled into politics.

Now, I will concede that pumping brain cells into George Bush would not be political.
No sir, that would be a charitable contribution.

78,000 Apply For One-Way Trip To Mars

This is no joke, through a company called Mars One, 78000 people have applied as the title says for a new life on the planet Mars.

Back in my state we only hope that the 78,000 are Tea Party members from Texas.

Mark Sanford Wins Election

I am sorry to announce that Mark Sanford won the special election in South Carolina for a U.S. Congressional seat.
Being a hard working man, he has already published his schedule:
1. Meet with voters
2. Trip to Argentina
3. House committee meeting
4. Trip to Argentina
5. Introduce bill to House
6. Trip to Argentina
7. Caucus
8. Trip to Peru (that one could get him in trouble)

Sandra Day O'Connor Changes Her Mind

After many years, Sandra Day O'Conner, who originally ruled on the Bush-Gore Presidential election, declares that the Supreme Court probably should not have taken the case.

Maybe we can get the Court to nullify their decision, these things happen.
Then we could nullify the Bush presidency, and turn the George Bush Library into something useful

like turning it into a church or roller rink.

Happy Easter You All

That's all for now.
Jim Stodola

Jeb Bush Says...

Jeb Bush says that history will treat his brother well.

Shucks, Geez, Oh very well, Okey Dokey,
I guess we could do him a favor and leave him out of the history books altogether.

Basketball Makes Strange Bedfellows

North Korea's Kim Jong un and Dennis Rodman are getting along hunky dory.

Kimmy is now wearing rings in his nose, lips and ears.
Denny has just signed a three year contract to play for the Norte Starvinators.

Basketball makes strange bedfellows,
especially when both parties are strange.

Mitt Romney Says....

Today, Mitt Romney said that during the campaign, he didn't mean what he said.
Or was it that he didn't say what he meant?

But also today says that HE should be in Washington because HE could solve this whole mess.

Is he saying what he doesn't mean?
Or is he not saying what he means?

I think in cases like this we should defer to Donald Rumsfeld who would explain:
We know what we know, We know what we don't know, but we don't know what we don't know.
Or do we?

School Voucher Con Game

Folks, I pay school taxes. I have no kids of my own so I pay for your kids. For extremists who damn any form of welfare, understand this is a form of welfare, plain and simple. But it is welfare I am happy and proud to pay. We all receive some welfare.

But along comes David Dewhurst and his henchmen with a conspiracy plot. Now they want me to pay for your kid to go to schools like “Kick One Thru The Goalposts For Jesus Academy”.

One claim is that public schools are not good enough. So what do they do? Rob funds from public schools, making them even poorer, just so their kid can go to “Kick One Thru The Goalposts For Jesus Academy.” Hey, you want to send your kid there….you pay for it.

The con game started by saying they wanted school vouchers so poor minority mothers could send their kids to better schools. Geez you think poor mothers can buy expensive SUVs to drive their kids around town?  They’d be rejected, even then, couldn’t afford the extra tuition. It’s a con game for later vouchers for those who don’t need them.

And now you want to spend my money on a school that is not accountable to me and other taxpayers?

And now Dewhurst‘s con game disguises “school vouchers” by renaming them “tax credit scholarships.” Geez, everybody loves tax credits and scholarships.

Don’t do any of this Dewhurst, don’t embarrass yourself.

Karl Rove Is Not All Bad

Karl Rove is now waging war against the tea party  (also known as the tea bagger party).
He wants to "stop them in their tracks."

Albeit for selfish reasons:  He doesn't want the GOP to be embarrassed by them.

Two Pissants And A Hoax

As you know Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, despite overwhelming evidence, continues to call global warming, climate change, a “hoax.”

I have always contended that Jim Inhofe is a hoax.
For many reasons I have considered two other men to be pissants.

Only three Senators voted against John Kerry’s confirmation as Secretary of State: Inhofe, Cruz, and Cornyn.

The title of this article.

I Just Read A Good One

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre claims to have about 200 Washington Congressmen in his back pocket.

Another writer said that politicians ought to have to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers with patches sewn on their uniforms showing their sponsors.

Lance Armstrong and Your Post Office

Your United States Postal Service spent more than forty million dollars sponsoring Lance Armstrong in bike races.

TO THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE:
Do not, I repeat do not, raise the price of my stamps until after one of the following happens:

1. Either you get the $40 million back from Mssr. Armstrong or
2. Lance works off the $40 million sorting mail in the back room, and then jumps on his bike to deliver said mail. Tell Lance to pedal fast so the mail won't be late.

Miss America Contest

                                                        

Saturday night I watched the Miss America Pageant as contestants tap-danced their way into fame. No, I didn’t watch to see the bathing suit competition, filled with what the announcer said were “enhancements”, well at least not the main reason I was watching.

I was watching to see what these state representatives would say about world peace. Since none of them mentioned world peace, I figured there would be no world peace in 2013.

I knew that, but shucks, how did they know that?

Jim

 

Well Excuuuuse Us

You all remember that giant insurance company, AIG, that you and I (tax payers) saved?
After we saved them some folks at AIG wanted to sue you and I because the terms were too harsh.

From now on, you big company numbnuts, do it at the very beginning,
so maybe 200 million of us can sit across from you,
smile,
tear up the paperwork,
and tell you to have a good day.

In The Privacy Of Their Own Bedrooms

 Once again, I qualiy, I am a gun owner.                                           

Today, many people are out buying assault rifles, buying them by the dozens, buying them for mama, buying them for the kids, buying them for grandma. There were probably three assault rifles under some Christmas trees.  Since half the assault rifles in the entire universe are now on the streets of America, a ban on the future “sale” of such is diluted. I propose something that hasn’t a snowball’s chance of passing: That mere possession of an assault rifle be a felony.

I suspect the new NRA slogan will be : “What we do with our assault rifles in the privacy of our own bedrooms is our own private business.”

And you know what? I think they should do it in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

 

It's a Mad, Mad World

Bill Clinton has an affair and the Republicans impeach him.
Petraeus has an affair and the Republicans want to run him for president.

Ed Muskie cries and the Republicans run him off.
John Boehner cries and it is a blessed event.

Know why?
Because Boehner cries for the poor rich people.

End of the World

Guys I figured it out.
The world really has ended.

It just hasn't gotten this far north yet.

 Jim S.

Our Proclivity To Violence

                                                             

Long ago a military commander, for another reason, shouted,“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” But maybe now we ought to look at the bloodshot eyes, at the teary eyes.

Don’t jump to conclusions, I’m a gun owner, always have been. I hunted game as a boy on the farm, and by the way, Dad taught us to eat the game we killed.

Bob Costas will now be even more outspoken for gun control. But in many countries a larger percentage of citizens own guns and there is less percentage of gun violence. It is something more…it is our proclivity towards violence over here. I don’t care if it’s four teens beating a homeless man to death with baseball bats or a hundred other examples.

Sure we need gun control. We need background checks even at gun shows, we need to eliminate automatic weapons (not semi-automatic some mistakenly call automatic). We need to ban assault weapons (Again). We need to ban mega-shell clips and magazines.

But more importantly, we need to change our culture. Some swear up and down that increasingly more violent video games, songs, movies have nothing to do with it. I say you’re wrong. Sure your kid isn’t going to mass murder, but it teaches youth, and some others, that some kind of violence is OK, that it’s the norm.

Nothing we do will cover all extremism, but retraining ourselves sure will help.

Over 842 Served

Back when I was in college about a thousand years ago, there was a hamburger chain. They were so small they only had one arch and I believe the sign over their place said "over 842 Served."

They've grown quite a bit since into a multi-billion dollar company. I still eat their hamburgers from time to time, I like them. Their CEO made $8.8 million last year. In addition to annual bonuses, he gets over an eight million longterm bonus every three years. Living in poverty, I think the only bonus their employees get are the pickles they pick off the floor.

It's not just them, at a combination taco, chicken and pizza chain, the CEO received $29.67 million in compensation last year. Their employees living in poverty, are not just high school kids, they average 30 years old with families to feed.  I know, tell them to get a college degree, with what?

We have a big box store in our town. The CEO of this big box chain made $18.7 million last year.
I've been shopping their stores for decades, gotten to know some good employees lately, Larry, Lavelle, Rick, Sallie, and decided I'd speak up for them.

You say it's not your problem? Well the greatest number of employees on food stamps come from this one big box chain. And you as a taxpayer are paying for this.

I know you say that we shouldn't shop or eat at these places, but that wouldn't get anybody better wages. Let's pressure, let's embarrass these rich companies not to be scrooges. Tell them they don't have to have a heart, just one-hundredth of a heart.

New Republican Campaign Slogan

I am waiting for Mitch McConnell, Boehner and the boys to announce their new campaign slogan:

"Let's make Obama a two term president."

To Our Friends Outside Texas

By now you have been reading that many Texans have signed a petition to secede from the Union.

We want you out of staters to know that the vast majority of us want to stay in the Union.

It is just those goosepoop, scum-sucking, bottom-dwelling, neanderthal, stupid, ignorant, radical, extremist, numbnuts, corksoaking, fog-brained, gutter-dwelling, mush-headed, cut-off-their-noses-to-spite-their-faces, can't-see-beyond-the-tip-of-their-noses (that they just cut off), manure-cranium, did I say extremist, teabagger Republicans that want to leave.

We want them to leave too.

IT WAS GOD'S WILL

There have been a lot of kook Republican candidates, in fact some sick ones.
The Akins and the Mourdocks were not exceptions to their party, the Republican Party has a plethora of misogynists.

But Mourdock's words that if a woman gets raped and gets pregnant, it was God's will,
 has an application.

I am hearing a lot of Republicans complain about the Presidential election results.
If you hear the same, tell them what I tell them:

IT WAS GOD'S WILL !

WHY?

A Republican asked me tonight:
"Why do you Democrats even bother to vote in Texas?"

I told her, "We do it just to piss you off."

GO PISS' EM OFF FOLKS.

Jim