Well it didn’t take long for the Republicans in our Kindercongress to politicize the tragic bombing in Boston.  Republican Representatives Michael McCaul of Texas and Peter King of New York fired off a letter to the nation’s intelligence agencies stating the F.B.I. handling of the case was an “intelligence failure.”  Never to be outdone, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham declared, “The fact that we could not track him has to be fixed. It’s people like this that you don’t want to let out of your sight, and this was a mistake. I don’t know if our laws are insufficient or the F.B.I. failed, but we’re at war with radical Islamists, and we need to up our game.”  Let’s throw in a crack at the “radical Islamists” to fire up more hatred against us while we are at it.  You can just feel the Republicans gearing up for a Congressional hearing so they can have another Benghazi moment.  Just for good measure, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa implied that the bombing raised questions about our immigration system that should be examined in the context of the bill under consideration (translation “slow it down”).  Nothing like a good tragedy to bring out the worst in our Republican lawmakers.

If any of you still believe we live in a democracy, I have bad news for you. All of us were taught since grade school that in a democracy our elected government is supposed to uphold the will of the people.  In simple terms we learned, majority rules.  This no longer applies to the United States.  Although every poll shows that 90 per cent of the American people want extensive background checks on all firearm sales and the vast majority want bans on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, a group of Senators representing the Senate minority party managed to defeat legislation that would have exactly accomplished the will of the people. Why?  Because those Senators are far more concerned with getting re-elected than governing our country and they are scared to death of the National Rifle Association. In short, they are a bunch of feckless cowards.  How can the N.R.A. command such power?  The association claims 4,500,000 members but the Washington Post Fact Check puts it more like 3,100,000.  The U.S. population is 316,000,000.  That means, my fellow Americans, that a mere 0.98 percent* of our citizens have managed to imposed their will on all the rest of us.  If we are to save our democracy, in every election we must fight to defeat every candidate the N.R.A. supports. 

* (Note: that is point nine eight, or less than one percent.) 

The Mouse that Roared was a 1959 Peter Sellers film that pitted the smallest country in Europe, the duchy of Fenwick, against the United States of America and ultimately the world.  The little country, in bad economic straits, decided that if it declared war on the United States, invaded it and lost, the U.S. would pour in vast amounts of money to rebuild it (Something America tends to do.)  By strange twists, the Fenwick invaders, about 12 men armed with bows and arrows, find New York deserted because of an atomic attack drill and they happen to take possession of the Q Bomb which is the most powerful bomb in the world.  Naturally the United States of America and all the other world powers fall all over themselves to curry favor with Fenwick.  In the end, it turns out the bomb is a dud but the world powers don’t know this and Fenwick essentially rules the world.  That’s really a funny, far-fetched plot except it is happening today.  North Korea’s dipshit leader Kim Jong-un is threatening to attack South Korea and declare war on the United States and send nuclear missiles to destroy LA and Washington, D.C. which is preposterous.  The United States which purports to be the most powerful nation in the universe poops it pants and decides to spend tens of millions more dollars on a missile defense system (which only works 50 percent of the time) on the west coast, postpone missile tests and generally let the little North Korean jerk make us look like a scared bunch of old, white men cold warriors.  Of course, that’s just what Kim Jong-un wants and he is probably laughing his ass off at us.  Now let’s play the kids game, if I were president this is what I would do.  I would write this letter to Kim Jong-un.  “Dear Kim, If you do something dumb like attack South Korea or launch a missile (nuclear on not) at us or our Pacific bases, we will wipe your crappy little country off the face of the earth.  Since your entire country is about the size of Mississippi we don’t even need nuclear weapons to reduce you to rubble which we will.  By copy of this letter we are informing your pal China that we will not spend one U.S. penny to rebuild the shit pile we will make of you.  China please note regarding North Korea, if we break it, you own it.  Sincerely the U.S President.”  Am I the only American who is pissed off at the way we are groveling to that North Korean fat boy with the goofy haircut?

President Obama’s comment that Los Angeles Attorney General Kamala Harris is good looking caused an enormous outcry.  Actually, she is good looking, but a huge group of people immediately went ballistic about how Obama was being ‘Sexist.”  This is a perfect example of how stupid the American public has become.  I just Googled “support for breast cancer,” and “support for prostate cancer.”   Breast cancer got 112,000,000 sites.  Prostate cancer got 33,200,000 sites.  I guess that proves that women’s breasts are more appealing than old men’s’ ass holes.  Is that being sexist?