Hurricane Matthew
Thirteen deaths in the US are attributed to Hurricane Matthew in the US. In comparison, hundreds are killed in Haiti from the same storm. It should be noted that the path of the hurricane only touched the western most tip of the island nation. Many more are expected to die as a result of cholera. Since 2010 over $650 million in European and over $700 million in US aid has gone to Haiti for obviously no good use. Over a 13 billion dollars and this small island nation is no better off in disaster preparation.
What should we expect when the desired action is to throw money at an obviously corrupt and inept government? Hell, the average 15 year old female is he mother of two from different fathers. If a girl reaches 16 and is not a mother, they think something must be wrong with her.
Third world country status here, only insults third world countries. Yet we continue to throw money into this sinkhole. I understand humanitarian aid, but this is a farce. We are so stupid.
Trump really is a guy
So it seems that Donald J Trump is the latest victim of stupidity of a “hot mic”. These celebrities never figure out that the microphone is always recording just like the camera is.
Trump is caught in a locker r0oom quality conversation talking about how he is able to bed married women at will. “They let you do it.” “But nothing you wouldn’t hear in a football team locker room, or your standard sex-themed joke. And it was ELEVEN years ago, long before Trump announced any political aspirations. And the world is shocked. The guy has a pecker and at times it takes over the speaking part of his brain.
On the other hand, his opponent is a career politician. She, just three years ago, in a speech where she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to give, Hillary told the attending audience how she dreams of a world with free trade, and open borders.
I’ll pause while that sinks in. Hillary dreams of a world with no taxes on trade between nations. Even those (like China) that manipulate their own currency to give the an unfair advantage. She dreams of open borders where anyone can travel to and reside wherever they want without regard to immigration laws.
She even stated that she squares her belief by realizing that one has to have “public and private positions”. Another pause.
She just admitted that she speaks with a forked tongue. She says one thing for public consumption. But what she says when she is paid is what she really thinks. How very political and two faced. She admits that what she says at public rallies is a lie–just what she thinks you want to hear–the acceptable position. But she really thinks something else.
And people are aghast at what Trump said, and people aren’t even told what Hillary said. They want Trump to withdraw from the race. Hillary’s comments are yawned at by the media.
I’m not a Trump fan. I think the country is screwed no matter who wins. But the sheer duplicity in the double standard is so damning as to make one want to recoil from the whole process.
Put down your God damn phone
Every single day, I encounter some moron so absorbed in their digital world that they aren’t paying attention when the traffic light turns from red to green. Many times I am number two in line. I used to politely honk my horn to prod people back to this world and remind them the look up from that 4-inch screen and pay attention to the world outside their windshield. It was like it became my fucking job to reel them in so that they step on the gas and move along so I could get to work. I’m sorry, but that falls too much into the description of being a personal assistant. I’m not doing anything like that without getting paid. No thanks. I just wait. If the light turns red again, that’s just the way it is. I plan extra time into my trips just for idiots like this.