They voted in Afghanistan; what's your excuse?!

Participation in this weekend's presidential elections in Afghanistan were @ 60%, which is basically the same turnout we managed in our last.  The Taliban had made a lot of threats, which mostly didn't materialize.  That's what happens when you stand up to bullies: they evaporate like a bad dream.

In the US there are 70 million adults who are NOT EVEN REGISTERED TO VOTE!  Really!  We could have an entirely different House and Senate if these lazy cop-outs just did their civic duty.

Refusal to register and vote is NOT a social protest; it is an abdication, a surrender to the right-wing, the religious fanatics, and the corporate interests.

If you're not registered and don't vote you don't count, and don't have a right to complain about not being represented.  I'm not saying you have to choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.  Show up, sign in, and vote for nobody!  Or for or against tax measures or State amendments, or write in: "All these candidates suck".  Or f**king run for office yourself!  s

Mass shootings are bread and butter for the NRA.

Another shooting at Fort Hood.

Wayne Lapierre, head of the NRA, says: "They only defense against a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun." OK, this is an Army base, full of good men and women with guns, and still a psycho hits 20 people before going down! And how, exactly, are kindergartners s'posed to deal with a situation like this?!

Who will join me to create ANGR (Americans for National Gun Regulation)?!

Roberts and the other 4 traitors open the floodgates even wider.

5 to 4, the bullies on the SCOTUS further opened the floodgates for monied interests to own our gov't. Let's just review how the right-wing got this slim majority: 2000 election: Katharine Harris throws 25,000 black voters off the registers because their names sound similar to ex-cons. It's still very close, but Gore will win, so Sandra Day O'Connor (fearing Gore will choose her successor), and 4 other right-wingers impose their will over that of the voters, stopping the recount.

At some point, we have to talk about impeaching Roberts and Alito, because they are illegitimate, appointed by a regime that stole two elections.

Mary Barra gets to be the scape goats for the sins of good ole boys!

Poor Mary Barra, I guarantee you that the powers that be at GM knew the shit was about to hit the fan:

--10 years of knowing that a faulty ignition switch was killing people in terrible crashes
--50 cents to fix the problem
--Some bean-counter (undoubtedly Republican) that said "We don't want to do a recall

So of course they hired Mary Barra.  Let's hide behind a woman!  And the assholes in Congress (who no doubt played golf with the REAL guilty parties) get to do a verbal gang bang on this woman.

Remind you of anything?  Oh yeah, Obama having to come in and clean up after Bush's two failed wars and a 2nd Great Depression.