I have no F's left to give, today.

I have run out of "fks" and the patience that goes with them today, for stupid thoughtless tone deaf people. This includes whiners on Facebook and the current occupant of the Oval Office.

Whiners on FB complaining about the woman judges on The Voice for being "trashy" (Miley Cyrus) and "too loud and full of herself" (Jennifer Hudson) .  Yes, we must remind  women folk to be demure and hush up and know their place, just like Adam and Blake do. (Which they don’t) Women are always too loud  or too forceful or too something when they act too much " like a man"

Our precious president, who has taken his outrage to his panting followers in ego-stoking rallies and on Twitter, with regard to black players who kneel during the Anthem.  He wants the "SOB's" fired for disrespecting the flag. Other have taken up the cry and suggest that these rich players who have never served have no right to comment on the freedoms fought for by veterans. Anybody else hear the irony in the face of the oversized infant who never served or earned his own seed money in his life?  Let's just set aside the fact that many a veteran spoke up in favor of the players right  to peacefully protest, as being part of the very rights they fought for.

If one more person says Love it or Leave it, I am going smack someone upside the head and suggest they observe other American's rights or find a place where they think they can dictate in what manner another can "properly"express their patriotism.

And, if I may be so bold, allow me to suggest to Mr Trump that he take all of the time he has spent on his infantile and inflammatory and divisive tweets and rallies and use it to figure out a way to send supplies to Puerto Rico, which he seems to have forgotten is part of the US.  They are still waiting for our delivery of supplies and desperately needed water via FEMA, because "For Texas and Florida you can send trucks, and Puerto Rico is an island in the ocean, ... a really big ocean". Did I miss the part of the story in which everything that has  been sent to Texas and Florida was all by truck?  Do we not have planes that fly across water? Mark Cuban got a plane there.  Other planes have landed there.  Were we going to paddle the supplies across in a canoe?

I do not know the actual IQ of Donald Trump. But he regularly says spectacularly stupid things. Is he really that clueless?  Tone deaf? Thoughtless?  Or just doesn't give a good God damn?

You pick one.  None is the lesser of evils.

Letters to the editor and other thoughts

I realized that I had not posted in here, in a while, and opened her up and took a look.
I guess that I have been too busy " replying" to FB posts, or commenting on them, as well as writing my marginally infamous letters to the editor of the Orange County Register.  Below is my latest effort, though I don't know if this one will be printed. It is after the terrible damage and death that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma has wrought upon Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean.

As I understood  him, Summers was eager to dispel the economic myth that disasters were good for the economy. Fair enough.

Yet, he stood in favor of price gouging during such a disaster, as a fair and useful practice in a free market. Apparently his definition of a "free market" includes those who have lost everything risking being priced out of essentials like the gasoline needed to escape, or food and water to sustain life when all provisions they had are gone.  A short version of this might be said to read, "If you can afford it, you can survive."

Or more succinctly, as Marie Antoinette was said to have replied when told the peasants had no bread, " then let them eat cake."

This second one is my answer to the Register editorial team asking if Trump was right to pardon the truly infamous , and without morals, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (This one got published) 

In a word , no. He was not. 

He was within his legal rights, but skirted every convention, courtesy, practice and control ever put in place regarding pardons. 

Pardon requests are usually submitted to the pardon office of the Dept of Justice which screens them and researches them, usually after a minimum waiting period of 5 yrs.  Usually the convicted person has served time, and expressed remorse.

Trump issued his pardon prior to sentencing, thus all but negating the conviction unilaterally. He made clear in his speech in Arizona the day prior that he thought the sheriff was just doing his job, and that violation of the court order (forbidding him and his officers from racially profiling Latinos) was no issue to him. He made it clear he was taking care of his good friend Joe, whom he thought should have not been convicted. His disregard for the court order, ( and for the rights of the people being profiled as possible illegal immigrants) and issuing of the pardon even before sentencing, sent a message of arrogance and disrespect.  And the former sheriff made it clear he had no remorse, and may even run for office again.  

The blatant disregard for the rule of law was palpable on both their parts.  It was not merely "somewhat unorthodox" timing, as you blandly put it.  

Trump has made clear that he will do what he wants, when he wants, no matter the appearance or consequences.  And also, apparently, no matter what the court has ruled. His supporters can only hope that the next person he sets free has not done something to compromise their own personal rights.