Far East Cynic

Something everyone can use.

After last night’s Rethuglican slugfest. My takeaways: Trump does not have as much game as he thinks he does, and needs to put Super Tuesday away quickly. Time is not on his side. That said, he is right about Rubio and Cruz, they have never led anyone or hired anyone.

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Pouring gasoline on an open fire.

So, it would appear a portion of America really wants to prove to the rest of the world how ignorant they really are. Donald Trump won Nevada. Yet another shameful moment that is the United States election of 2016. Now the media is all over Mr. Trump, calling him unstoppable.

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As if things were not screwed up enough.

God decided to play a cruel joke on American politics by holding a recall election of His own. The winner was Justice Antonin Scalia. The loser will be the rest of the United States, that is left behind to watch the Constitutional farce that will be the nomination of his

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The 140 character summary of the Hobby Lobby decision.

“This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate” as I tweeted earlier, religion is now only about unapproved fucking— Atrios (@Atrios) June 30, 2014

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There is such a thing as decorum.

I once again, marvel at the stupidity of the pro-gun community. The bodies from the Santa Barbara are hardly even cold-and yet we have to hear this: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.” – Joe the Plumber (yea, that guy) to the families of the Isla Vista shooting victims,

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The Zombie Eyed Granny Starver, hard at work

Yesterday afternoon, the Devil's apprentice himself, Paul Ryan ( Worthless Cocksucker-WI) and his Democratic counterpart Mrs Landingham (H/t to Charles Pierce for the term) announced they had reached a budget deal. Some deal. Rather than go for the straightforward approach of repealing the rest of the Bush tax cuts and

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“My country is a horror show.”

David Simon, speaking at a forum in Sydney Australia gave a very perceptive rundown about what ails the land of my birth. He points out very eloquently a theme that the Pope and others have been highlighting recently, namely that income inequality is dangerous  and if we don't do something

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It is so close to my current situation, it hurts.

As the totally screwed up merger continues:   While I was back in Shopping Mall, I learned what I long suspected, the little weasel who engineered this abomination had been hard at work over the past six months planting ideas with all the wrong people. This, after he lied to all

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Where is Kent Brockman when you need him?

Well we met our new "team mates" yesterday. As I expected it, it did not go well:   It was an interesting exercise in surrealism. Our current boss was basically pre-empted by the GS-15 who seeks to enslave replace him. That issue has not been determined yet-but this guy acted

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They went slowly mad……

Well it looks like the mess may be over-for a while. Our Galtian overlords have finally had to cave in and recognize that they were only going to get one thing:   The exercise was pointless from the word go. Sane people recognized that. They also recognize how we cannot

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