NOT THAT YOU ASKED
This week instead of pontificating on just one subject, I'm going to take some quick shots at several news items that have caught my attention lately.
You might remember that not long ago I suggested that the best way to fight ISIS was to use intelligence to find out where its leaders were hiding, and send in small strike teams to capture or kill them. This past weekend we did just that when we found out where the chief finance minister for ISIS was. A strike team tried to capture him,
but when he resisted, they killed him and captured his wife. As a result, we have more information about what ISIS is planning, it has one less leader, and we did it without killing any civilians or destroying cities and private property. I hate to say I told you so, but, oh what the heck. I told you so.
Last week Sen. Ted Cruz appeared at one of those conservative group meetings in his campaign for the presidency. In his speech he criticized Republicans who were now attacking Obamacare instead of being against it from the beginning, like he was. He forgot to mention to them that, since his wife quit her job to campaign with him he has signed his family up for one of the health plans made available through Obamacare. I guess it's just too hard for him to give up some of his best applause lines, even when using them makes him a hypocrite.
The next time a member of Congress goes on TV to tell us how much he cares for working people, remember the Amtrak crash last week. Why? Because just hours after that crash, a congressional committee voted to cut funding for Amtrak, including funding for improvements that might prevent another such crash. It turns out that that particular
route is a very popular one used by many working people to commute to and from work. It gives a member of Congress a warm fuzzy feeling to say he cares about people. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when one of them actually does something for people. You may have been elated when you heard that the scumbag that set off bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon was sentenced to death, but I wasn't. In fact, I wasn't happy about the alternative, which was life in solitary confinement. The best punishment for him
would have been a life sentence in the general prison population.
Here's why.
First of all, he wants to die and be considered a martyr. Why give him what he wants? If he were to spend the rest of his life among the other inmates, believe me, they would have him wishing he were dead every day for the rest of his life. For one thing, while the other inmates are criminals they are also Americans who hate terrorists as much as the rest of us. For another, in prison, the people considered the lowest of the low are sex offenders, especially those who harm or kill children. A terrorist who killed a child would spend the rest of his days getting from the other inmates exactly what he was planning to do to those 72 virgins he thought were waiting for him in the next life.
Finally, the next time you hear New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie railing against people who get welfare and food stamps, chew on this. In 2010 and 2011 Christie spent $82,594 in taxpayer money on food and drink at NFL games. If he attended a game a week during the 32 weeks of both seasons, he averaged $2,612 per game chowing down. During that same time the average single person on food stamps received $194 a month. It seems that when it comes to feeding at the government trough, Christie is the biggest hog in the bunch.
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