Monday morning stuff

Since November 10, 1775 Marines have served with distinction in “every clime and place.”  Today marks their 239^th birthday.  Happy birthday Marines!

Dopes in denial

Looking for a way – any way – to explain away the Republican wave, idiot Tom Moran, editor of the NJ Star Ledger, blames the DemoDopes azz whippin’ Tuesday last on – get this – James Madison.  According to Moran, Madison and other founding fathers screwed up by creating a bicameral legislature where one body is comprised of equal representation from each state.  For all the public school kids out there, that would be the US Senate where each state has two senators. 

Inexplicably, Mr. Moran argues that a state like Wyoming has no business having the same number of senators as a state like California that has 55 times the population.  That may be why the founders set up the House of Representatives to reflect a state’s population and gave that body the ultimate power – the power of the purse.  It’s also why the Speaker of the House is second in line of succession to the presidency and the Senate Pro Tem is third.

Now this is the editor of a major newspaper who cannot figure out the structure of his own GD government.  No wonder the newspaper business is in an irreversible death spiral.  It has relied on the same business model since Guttenberg started to mess around with moveable type and it is run by-and-large by idiots like Moran.  You just want to scream at the top of your lungs, “Hey moron!  WTF do think the House of Representatives is!?”

Apparently it is lost on Moran that the Republicans also control the very body that is apportioned according to a state’s population…again for the publicly educated out there, that would be the House of Representatives.  So, Mr. Moran how would changing the senate into another House of Representatives change anything?

This doesn’t make any sense until you consider the source

After telling America that he is going to listen to the 2/3rds of us who didn't bother to vote in the midterm election, The Empty Suit opened Friday’s sit down by reminding Republicans that he – The Empty Suit – is the guy elected by everyone.  I wonder if Mitch or OJ piped up with an “Excuse me Mr. Empty Suit, by your own azzbackward affirmative action pass through BS logic, you were NOT elected by 'everyone'.  Combining the people who voted against you with those who didn't vote at all, you took one monumental azzwuppin.  So with all the respect you’re due, please go perform an unnatural sex act on yourself.”  No they didn't.  But, they should have.

Fish wrap prints letter under inaccurate title

To my surprise the local fish wrap agreed to print my letter on abortion found several posts under.  I was surprised again by the title the editors assigned to my piece on the Sunday editorial page:

Abortion is murder, check the ultrasound

I was and remain more than a bit POd about that title.  I believe it was a purposeful distortion of the tone and purpose of my piece.  No wonder child rapist and pornographers rate just ahead of journalist on the “trust scale” with Americans.  So I sent the J-G another love letter.

Re: Abortion is murder, check the ultrasound, J-G letters Nov 9, 2014

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being, premeditation requires the additional element of malice aforethought.  Because I know what the word “murder” means, I NEVER used it my letter.  First, abortion, sadly, is NOT unlawful in most circumstances.  Next, again sadly, most people who engage in the practice have no malice aforethought.  In many cases it is quite the opposite.  The pregnancy is terminated for the “good of the baby” because of deformities or family circumstances of poverty or illness.  The purpose of my letter was to raise conscientiousness about what is being destroyed during an abortion – a baby. It was not my intent to raise unnecessarily provocative and inaccurate arguments equating abortion to murder.

For some reason – ignorance or true malice aforethought - the editors at the J-G saw fit to place atop my letter an incendiary word that is not in any way, shape, or form referenced in my letter or even part of my thinking on the subject (except for the rare Kermit Gossnell types).  

Therefore, I respectfully ask that the J-G editors offer a correction accepting responsibility for the despicable and misleading title editors assigned to my letter as quickly as possible on the J-G’s editorial page and on the J-G website.  Further, since circulation differs significantly on Sundays, I ask that the J-G offer an additional correction along with this letter on next Sunday’s editorial page.

Please advise me as soon as possible with regard to my requests so that I can consider how I might proceed.