Bradley Manning punished in cruel and usual style

Heard this morning Bradley Manning has been acquitted on one very serious charge - "aiding the enemy." Now I see he's been convicted on a host of other charges. So this heroic individual will probably be sentenced to only 150 years behind bars, as opposed to 250 years. I'm not kidding. American "Military Justice" is a contradiction in terms. http://www.bradleymanning.org/

Go back to where you came from!

I'm guessing these (white) Iron County board members would like it if ALL Native Americans would "go back to where they came from!" What are American Indians doing on "Public Land?" Geez, what a bunch of intruders upon the hallowed ground of White Privilege! http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/iron-county-officials-start-push-to-evict-tribal-harvest-camp/article_70df4a43-21d2-5637-9f56-f126ad494cd4.html

Belarus, here we come!

I'm so fed up with us people exercising our First Amendment rights. America, and particularly Wisconsin, are so much better off when we emulate the type of democratic governments the Republicans admire - like Belarus, China and Colombia. http://www.channel3000.com/news/crowd-larger-citations-issued-during-singalong-at-capitol/-/1648/21163670/-/awtlw0z/-/index.html

Concrete and landfills fill my heart with joy.

What's so damn GREAT about these five puddles anyway!? Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario.... so what? If we filled 'em in with urban garbage, then paved 'em over, it would provide the real estate community with thousands of square miles of prime development land. Nowadays, we can desalinate the oceans and pipe 'em this-a-way, so there's no more need for bodies of "fresh water." And let's frikkin' Frack the forkin' farmland till we can't furtively frolick there no more. Trees? Who needs 'em!? President Reagan taught us they pollute the air with CO2, and just clutter up the view of the big buildings downtown. Meadowlands? Just a kind of highly-evolved swamp, really. Fertile fields? Smell too much like decaying leaves - much better to cover 'em up with little boxes, little boxes, far as the eye can see. Then apply the pesticides, toute suite! As far as the Arctic's Tundra goes, I can't wait till more of it melts away so we can more easily build a four-lane highway to Barrow, Alaska. The Countryside is annoying, and the Great White North will look much better when it's all stained a delightful shade of brown. I really, truly hate "Nature," and that should be the attitude of each and every patriotic Americorn. Got a minute? Go to the Mall! http://www.michiganradio.org/post/us-house-bill-will-cut-great-lakes-restoration-initiative-funding-80

What's Good for the Goose....

Since ALMOST NOBODY in the USA appears to give a rat's ass that Rolling Stone magazine recklessly, pre-emptively declared Dzhokhtar Tsarnaev GUILTY last week, I propose more convenient tactics of that kind. Oh yes indeed, there's no need, no need whatsoever for that quaint, obsolete precept that USED TO presume a defendant innocent until PROVEN guilty. Examples abound: George W. Bush is so TRANSPARENTLY guilty of having lied us into unjustified war against Iraq that we don't need no stinking trial regarding W's unspeakable crimes against humanity. He's directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who posed America no threat at all. Let's just toss him into Leavenworth, and throw away the key. Hell, I'd go even further - I'll let the viewers of this blog determine what Bush's appropriate punishment should be... no need, no need for a jury of Bush's peers, and some silly goddamn magistrate to pass sentence. Ronald Reagan was OBVIOUSLY culpable of trading weapons for hostages in the Iran-Contra affair - he should have been INSTANTLY punished - preferably by a howling MOB, to the utmost! Never mind any type of judicial process. Barack Obama should be removed from office immediately! Why? For his rampant violations of international law, like waging - even escalating - an unconstitutional, undeclared war against Afghanistan. Not to mention the fact the president meets with his equally bloodthirsty advisors in the White House every Tuesday Morning, to decide which American citizens/foreigners need to be added to his obscene "Kill List." No need, no need at all for impeachment proceedings: we all know he's guilty as hell of tossing lethal drones against unarmed civilians. We Americans are so superior to the rest of Humanity, we NEED NOT BOTHER with trials, hearings, or any other type of procedure to ferret out and definitively establish the actual TRUTH. Yeah, RIGHT! And the Constitution is nothing more than a lousy scrap of paper.

In Madison, only the homeless are honorable

I am indeed generalizing excessively right now. So allow me to continue in that style. The trouble these days, especially in ultra-authoritarian, hyper-privileged, intellectually-warped, informer-enamored Madison: Far too many people call the police at the drop of a pin. In this sick, thoroughly gentrified town, scarcely an eyebrow is raised when "good neighbors" call the cops after having spotted a homeless person sitting on a milk crate, holding a sign soliciting a few bucks. There's got to be a better way to achieve a mutually-satisfactory degree of conflict resolution. It seems there's some sort of unholy competition going on here to see who can be the biggest, most prolific "Judas." And the worst part? Many of these cringing, cowardly, demented "Good Citizens" are actually proud of their sordid selves. Perhaps I exaggerate; if so, not by much. Makes me want to seek out a more honorable populace... maybe somewhere better, like... Schenectady NY, Muskogee Oklahoma or Benton Harbor Michigan...

Florida jury issues race-based hunting licence!

I can only say: This realy amounts to a minimally-veiled declaration - or rather a reiteration - of an "open season" on Black Americans. There seems to have been a sort of "hunting licence" issued tonight, describing an entire ethnicity as being unworthy of life itself. The young man was MURDERED, and for what? For walking back from a nearby convenience store after he purchaced some skittles?! I am not particularly proud to be a white American at the moment. Actually, that's a serious understatement. The Seminole County jury's decision reflects the extreme, violent, pathological sickness that has infected the alleged heart of so many Americans who happen to share my complexion. It makes me feel ill, and worse. Much worse.