Starting with the Governor and Attorney General, two amoral clowns who want to keep women down!
New restrictions on abortion facilities reflect nothing other than a visceral hatred of women.
This is the Know Nothing Party: a racist, misogynistic collection of amoral cowards.
They want a world where the rights of rich, old white men are valued at a premium to everyone else’s rights.
Gorilla says: “Pitching these pygmies out of office is the best a voter can do!”
Here in Virginia, Gorilla’s erstwhile home, our clown Governor and his despicable clown Attorney General are about to execute someone by using a drug designed to treat epilepsy.
And Pharma, Big and small, local and international, are finally understanding that being complicit in murder isn’t terribly good for either their bottom line or their public image. So they’re all trying hard around the globe to stop the use of drugs in state-sponsored killing.
Lethal injection is no more humane than the gas chamber, or the firing squad, or the noose, but it eases the consciences of amoral thugs like McDonnell and Cuccinelli.
Capital punishment is barbaric, and the US is the only supposedly non-barbaric nation that still engages in state sponsored murder.
It’s absolutely no different than Assad or Gaddafi launching airstrikes against their own people.
Nobody’s defending the man being killed tonight.
He committed a heinous crime for which he deserves life imprisonment, assuming of course (as we cannot in dozens of other capital cases) that the evidence against him is clear and untainted.
Alas, capital punishment will continue in the US so long as we elect cowardly, amoral politicians.
Gorilla says: “The drugs we’re injecting tonight are the remnants of a bestial age!”
Yes, it’s that old racist clown George Allen, back in the running to capture his old Senate seat!!!
What’s interesting of course, is that Allen these days would be considered a moderate in the Know Nothing Party.
There are at least 2 other racist clowns, both naturally from Prince William County, who have their eyes on the prize, so to speak.
And the sitting Senator, Jim Webb, is a former Know Nothing turned Democrat. He hasn’t said yet whether he’ll run for reelection, but if he doesn’t then ex-Governor Tim Kane will be the nominee.
Gorilla says: “Nobody’s talking ’bout the New South, honey, it’s still icy cold to me!”
No surprise, really, given that Virginia currently is governed by right-wing extremist idiots…
Who try to save the state money by ordering textbooks that are factually inaccurate!
Gorilla asks: “With books like these, how can we ever explain Ken Cuccinelli to our children?”
In the Old Dominion, as in many other states, and certainly in the US Congress, the bankers rule!
There’s little or no protection for consumers facing foreclosure, any more than there was little or no protection for consumers who were targeted by the banks for totally inappropriate home loans.
And despite all the ballyhoo, Dodd-Frank does next to nothing to prevent the next cycle of disaster, because it does not punish the banks today for their rapacious behavior.
Gorilla says: “The Citi’s not losing much sleep!”
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, having decided that the state should execute a woman for the first time in over 100 years:
“The test for me really is: is there anything that would be a miscarriage of justice in letting the execution go forward?”
Gorilla answers: “Not apparently when you are a totally amoral clown, who thinks state sponsored murder is somehow different than actual murder!”
In Virginia, the Attorney General’s clearly a right-wing crazy, but the Governor, who is also a right-wing crazy, can’t seem to convince his fellow nutjobs of his loyalty and sincerity.
These two clowns so far have spent all of their time in office pursuing the usual misogynistic, racist, homophobic and religious agenda of the far right. Forget about the crumbling roads, or the laid off police (who can pray to Jesus as they file for unemployment) and teachers, it’s all about positioning for 2012: who can make the crazy swoon?
Gorilla says: “There’s no shut off valve in Virginia, either!”
Not content with being a homophobic, misogynistic right-wing clown, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is now also a defender of slavery and treason.
That’s what “Confederate History Month” is all about: slavery and treason, because that’s what the Confederate States Of America were all about.
Their secession from the Union revolved entirely around the right to own slaves.
There is nothing whatever worth studying about the history of these racist, treasonous, morally bankrupt Americans: they lost and their defeat should forever be the cause of celebration in a civilized society.
But Virginia’s governor, like so many others in today’s racist, homophobic and misogynistic Know Nothing Party, wants us all to pretend that white supremacy and domestic terrorism are somehow excusable, or worthy of our study, or justifiable, rather than the contemptible practices they are and always have been.
Gorilla says: “Let us be clear: Bob McDonnell is an unfit, amoral governor, a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, and an idiot, not necessarily in that order!”
Virginia once again leads the nation on a downward spiral!
This time it’s a bill in the Virginia Senate exempting Virginians from being required to buy health insurance should the current version of health care reform ever pass.
And of course, this bill really should be called “The Insurance Company Cherry Picking Subsidy Act”.
Without a mandate, insurance companies will either offload the sick to government or charge vastly higher premiums to the healthy. It’s a surefire formula for keeping health care costs rising forever.
What’s even more ridiculous is that Democrats made this possible: 5 Democratic senators joined with all the Know Nothings to pass the bill.
Of course, the bill’s an exercise in political pandering and has no chance of being made law.
But the message is clear: Democrats are not willing to lead on health care reform and they will be punished for it in November.
Gorilla says: “Insurance companies get the cherry, the rest of us get the pits!”
In Virginia, Republican candidate for Governor Bob McDonnell is rightly being lambasted for being as right-wing as can be.
Not that this should have surprised anyone, and especially those who adhere to Gorilla’s Iron Rule Of Youthful Indiscretion:
“Short of going to prison, you can be pretty much any kind of asshole you like until you’re 30, but if you persist thereafter then it’s Katie bar the door”.
In Slovakia, memory lasts longer.
Restricting human rights but not being genocidal, except when it’s completely and justifiably unnecessary, is the post-modern Eastern European’s right of passage.
A monument to yesterday’s persecution is built in every town, but not for Gypsies, because every minority and every majority can, if nothing else, agree about them.
Gorilla doesn’t make the rules: “30 or 300, nothing changes unless it has to, and then it plots revenge!”
