Rowing the same direction on road construction

Oh! I can mix my metaphors as well as the next idiot.

"Let's all row in the same direction on this road project."

So why don't I like that one? I heard it at a Republican meeting.

“I think it’s important for everybody to be rowing in the same direction on this one,” said Craig Lutz, the Hall County Board of Commissioners’ South Hall representative.

Followed shortly by, “'Trust me when I say we’ve been knocking on every single door to look at other funding opportunities,' Yamala said."

Of course we got the usual blame game quote, “'The problem is the federal government, and we’re not sure what’s coming there,' Mecum said."

Since the Goobernator is from Hall County, Georgia, no Republican mentioned the state's lack of funding. The local reporter did.

The state has made the road a temporary state route so funding can be sped up on the work — widening it between I-985 and Thompson Mill Road in Gwinnett — but so far, no money has been set aside.

So the state has no money. That's okay. The federal government has no money for roads. The county has no money for roads.

But, damn we have been rowing door to door begging other governments to fund a road widening project to nowhere. Well, from Stering on the Lake subdivision to the interstate known as I985.

So I attended a GOP meeting in an underfunded public library which the government hating, tax cutting residents of Stering on the Lake hate at the entrance to their subdivision.

But their lives would be enhanced if their commute including a State funded 4 lane road to the interstate.

Ain't that a bone headed love affair?

George F. Will hates women

The world's most over paid Right Wing blogger, George F. Will, revealed his tighty whiteys in the Sunday paper with his accusation that women limit the quality of Democratic Presidential candidates.

His article wrongly named, Gender limits likely field of Democratic candidates, praised men in an effort to put women back in the bedroom. Is Hillary Clinton truly tawdry as Will alleged?

Will exposed his sexist, Right winged, dogma by using the adjective 'tawdry.'

Why not get down to business on the street, George? Just call her a whore.

But, that's the problem with Republicans and Tea Party Patriots. They hide behind code words like tawdry. No one doubts Mr. Will's impeccable command of the English language. Calling a man tawdry wouldn't cut it.

Ever hear of a man wearing a cheap suit? Sure. Tawdry suit? Well, not so much.

George, please go back to the cigar smoking Men's Club and get a new toupee.

Science, Libertarian Style

Libertarians have the best political approach to science of any philosophical group. I can explain their science with a potato.

Medical science has studied human illness for decades always increasing knowledge and improving techniques.

We know how a potato breaks down in the digestive track. We know how its nutrients enter the blood stream. We know how the body reacts to those nutrients. And, we know there is a linkage between eating a potatoes and many vascular diseases.

Here's the Libertarians scientific method on potatoes.

I eat potatoes.

I'm healthy.

Therefore, the science on potatoes is all wrong.

Now let's talk about how the government is stealing my money with a gun!

Newt Gingrich shot down Flight 370. Blames 'Puty Put' Putin

It's not funny.

The globally naive Newt Gingrich following in the footsteps of Jane Fonda visited Putin and Russia. Dear ol' Puty Put let Gingrich pose for photos on a missile launcher.

Gingrich being more like the dork Dukakis in a tank than John Wayne on a horse shot off a few missiles.

Ops!

One took down Flight 370.

As the smoking planes spiraled down from the sky, Putin consoled Newt with precisely the right words.

"Missiles don't kill people. People kill people."

Newt smiled.

Ronald Reagan is a pussy

Strong words?

Reagan was full of strong words and gets credit for defeating the Soviet Union with the phrase, "Tear down this wall!"

In 1983, Russian shot down a Korean airliner, KAL-007 over international waters. Reagan was on vacation. His press secretary must have been on vacation, too.

An assistant press secretary read a short message to the country on behalf of the President which included this phrase:

Mrs. Reagan and I want to express our deepest sympathy to the families of the victims. Our prayers are with them in this time of bereavement, and they have my personal assurance that I will make every effort to get to the bottom of this tragedy.

The Russian recovered the black boxes soon after the shoot down. Reagan got the black boxes returned ... never in his Presidency. It was 1999 when the world got access to the data on the flight recorders.

There was a U.S. Congressman on the flight, Lawrence McDonald, representative from Georgia in the United States House of Representatives.

McDonald's body was never returned to the U.S. His body and others may have been 'lost' in an effort to hide evidence.