Gun Control and Healthcare

Yes, only an hour ago I decried my apathy and contempt for politics.  This is just a rehash of a previous post pointing out exactly how absurd some of this bullshit is getting.  People paying attention know the truth about the relationship between these two things.  I personally experienced another big dose of it in January, and continue suffering for it today.

Alot of the narrative surrounding both of these topics is pure bullshit.  All you need to do is learn your own information and stop swallowing the garbage being presented in every public forum and broadcast medium I can imagine.  But how can these topics be related in any meaningful way, you may ask?  It’s pretty simple and the comparison is sobering – Simple statistics.

This particular set of statistics (crime/firearms/death/healthcare) tells us, at least some few years ago, that you are 9,000 times more likely to die at the hands of a healthcare professional, than being killed by someone with a gun. I understand this in a uniquely personal way.  That number has likely gone up by now.

Most People Don't Get It

I no longer have one single fuck to give about climate change, the economy, healthcare, or any of the myriad politically-charged bullshit topics inundating the cyber and airwaves these days.  Because it’s bullshit.  It’s mostly just bullshit from bullshitters trying to get over and grab whatever they can for themselves.  So now we have a con man in the Oval Office, surrounded by a bunch of yes men out for nothing and nobody but themselves.

Better not forget who REALLY keeps you in power, mutherfucker.

I’m pretty familiar with military culture.  I bet there’s plenty of folks in uniform right now just as fed up with the Commander in Chump’s bullshit as I am.  There’s a passel of ’em in Syria right now wondering WTF.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see a little PWFWC training exercise unfold on the White House lawn sometime soon.

The Secret Service will have their hands full just trying to determine which end is up.  Despite their oath, I doubt many are willing to die for the Orange Fuckwit like TSgt Chapman died for his country.  I’d like to see the current POTUS hauled out in handcuffs.  Just my humble opinion.

PedoPoseurdom Demographics

We can be confident people in this group will constitute a large cross-section of PedoPoseurdom demographics:  Criminally negligent corporate executives and everyone else who gets a kick out of violating the public trust.  I suppose low-level types like this could be given a parole option.  The biggest swath from that bunch will be the typically common fraudsters and inside traders.  These people are sociopaths enthusiastically testing the limits of decent society with impunity.

Now we can expect to see Boeing emerge from this as just another too-big-to-fail economically foundational organized crime syndicate.  Some of these people need to go to jail if the findings are in fact true.  If the overall company suffers  unduly or eventually fails, that is incentive for others to think about going forward.  Police yourselves, assholes.

I experienced this type crap going on in Lockheed myself.  Corners cut, specs fudged, tests faked.  It’s everywhere economic incentive to cheat exists, and government is basically helpless to stop it.  It’s nothing against the companies or workforce themselves.  The problem is, they are after all, made up of imperfect people like you and me.

What do you expect?  I’m pretty sure most expect higher standards in aircraft safety – especially from the people responsible for this type stuff.  Boeing has alot of work left to do.  This is not about getting the Max back in the air.  It’s about getting Boeing’s head out of their collective asses.

While I'm Still in a Real Bad Mood…

Fuck Trump, too.  Apparently Donny-boy recently had his eye on Greenland for some reason.  Him and the Pope should start a new country in there called Pedo-Poseurdom.  We’ll build a wall around the whole goddamn continent, start up a NATO-sponsored no-fly zone, and ship in every sumbitch’n dictator, pedophile and high-ranking corporate cocksucker that steps out of line.  They can butt-fuck each other all day long while proclaiming their great wisdom and sanctity.

This cretin simply cannot be for real.

“Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness,” Trump tweeted. “Was he on the same call that I was? Can’t be possible! Please ask him to read the Transcript of the call. Witch Hunt!”

Trump has at Least 1 Thing Right

I’m not saying he is “totally” right on this matter either, but his characterization of mainstream media is fairly accurate, regardless of the factual ramifications of any particular episode being reported.  The media issue is interesting to me because it doesn’t matter what the topic is – politics, health, current events, whatever – they tend to sensationalize just about anything, with little to no contextual perspective, solely for the purpose of getting eyeballs on their advertising.  Some call it “spin.”  That term goes out the window when the message is just patently false. Truth be damned.

Trump Speak

Randall Munroe appears to have the same speech impediment as our POTUS:

What a Disgrace

I’ve been openly regretting my 2016 Trump vote ever since realizing I did not do my homework that time around.  I ranked him as just another greedy businessman and Washington “out”sider.  It seemed like a logical alternative at the time.  After a few years of this nonsense I now come to realize this moron is just a 73 year-old, minimally literate, spoiled brat.  Time to go, little boy.

America is not So Different

Consider the background leading up to current political climates in the U.S. and Afghanistan.  A long insurgent war, the longest ever in fact, has brought us to a stalemate.  Perhaps the lesson to be learned is there ultimately never really was any point to it.  The forces of fundamentalist religion are the common denominator, and the situation is the same here as it is in the ‘Stan.  The fight against oppression and racism will continue as long as religious zealots band together proclaiming their superiority over others.  Rational people should consider the fools pushing abortion, LGBTQ and similar issues from churches across the U.S. as just a western arm of the Taliban.

With economic incentive to continue, the story will not change.  Religion is fighting humanity.  Everything doesn’t need to be a money-making proposition.  How long will it take to figure this shyt out?  Will we ever?

News is not News

NPR ran a story this morning about how Trump posted a satellite image.  Was it the about the Iranian launch accident?  Perhaps something to do with the Euro-Iranian nuclear deal?  Anything about the tweet or picture WRT Iran?  Anything at all?  Reuters is no better.  Today they published nearly back-to-back pieces talking about “hundreds of protesters,” then “thousands of protesters.” Which is it?  Is there any integrity left in the media anywhere at all?

Fuck no.  But you’ll certainly find plenty of patently false information about satellite imagery and editorializing about poor POTUS judgement.  I hate Trump as much as the next guy.  But what I hate even more are the fuck-assed bastards running around playing politics with things as fundamentally simple as news reporting.  Politics and Greed have irreparably damaged our culture.  Nothing broadcast on the airwaves or published on the Internet can be trusted any longer.

Then they push the agenda for an argument about the goddamned weather turned political. 

Puh-leeeez.

Reliability – What a Concept

It can be built into software systems.  Just look at the primitive computer that prevented the Apollo 11 lander from crashing into the surface of the moon, or any of the plethora of real-time systems running critical ops of all sorts where failure is not an option.  But those programs all had the financial and power-broker support necessary to get it done.

The problem with software in this respect is simple:  People.  There are lots of flaky, fundamentally unreliable people out there.  Software is a real crapshoot when ordinary buttheads start generating code sans the proper resources and oversight.  A government job to program voting machines?  Seriously?  Good luck with that.

FUD USA

Still can’t determine if the FUD factor (fear, uncertainty & doubt) is a generally good or bad thing with this Trump administration.  I guess it’s fairly innocuous to intelligent people, so from a long view, probably an evolutionary plus.  Only the incorrigibly stupid are really affected by it:

Not 1 single verifiable scientific fact.

At least they’ve recently shown inclination to expand the research grows from nothing but Mississippi ditch weed.

Solution, or Root of All Evil?

Why do these mutherfuckers think money is the solution to all problems? I guess when you have it, it is. They can pay their hookers to shut up, write off millions evading taxes, and give tax breaks to the rich. Why not throw some towards the Middle East and see if that goes away? The Lebanese have already told them we can keep our money. You can’t buy freedom and happiness for people. Nobody is trading basic principles of human dignity for U.S. dollars.

This dipshit needs to take a long vacation with Ivanka while they both disappear from the public eye, along with their egregious stupidity. This is just fucking insane. Go fuck yourself, little boy. He can’t even fool a troglodyte like me with the ‘ol smoke-n-mirrors trick. Took about 2 whole days to start the backpedaling. Let’s see you pull another Mideast Peace Plan out of your ass. What a miserable piece ‘o shit.