(From BurtPrelutsky.com, Submitted by Travelwise42 [High Praise!])

“For all of Obama’s dire warnings, otherwise known as lies, the Sequester did not represent an actual cut in spending, but merely a reduction in future increases.

It’s like a 200-pound person going on a diet, but not one that would take him down to 180, but merely up to 219 instead of 220.”

Crowder has a short video on one of the witnesses:

I have not really been following this. I’m perfectly fine not hearing about the trial again until the verdict, and I’ll be satisfied with whatever that verdict is.

Still, some people are really invested in this trial trying to make it a whole big racial thing because that’s what intensely useless people do these days: Make everything a racial issue. Well, people did that in the past, but a different sort do it today.

Anyway, interesting this woman would think that “creepy-ass cracker” would not be racist. Now, I should mention my perspective as a white man who grew up in the 80s. That’s back when people were working super hard to make sure white people were not racist. From what I can remember, American history for the first couple grades in school was solely about Martin Luther King. And I’ve been programmed to constantly every day work on not being racist. We white people are constantly analyzing what we’re saying and thinking and making sure it isn’t racist. It’s one of the most important things to us.

And actually, terms like “we white people” seem kind of racist and I’m going to avoid using that in the future.

Anyway, I assumed other races were making similar effort, but this woman makes me wonder. Ask any white person whether a colorful term for another race is racist, and they will answer yes — with extra racist points if it’s used in anger. So that this person is confused on this seems to indicate she has not spent much time learning about being racist.

I hope this is an isolated incident, though. It not too long in the future, white people won’t be a majority in this country anymore; we’ll all be racial minorities. And if that happens, but it’s only white people who have worked on not being racist, we’re probably going to have some big problems.

Well, a lot went on while I was gone, especially with the Supreme Court. I’m not even going to comment on what they decided; I’m just so sick of it. It doesn’t even comfort me when they have a decision I agree with, because it’s just so arbitrary. We’re supposed to have a government we can trust, but instead we’re constantly waiting on these nine people to tell us what a couple page document actually means — and no one can ever predict what they’ll come up with. The Supreme Court should be this stabilizing force to government, but instead it’s this random factor, much of it controlled by what party held the presidency when a justice dies. It’s just beyond idiotic.

Again, the Constitution is only a couple pages. It takes like ten minutes to read. And if you have a handful of people whose only job is to read that document, then a Supreme Court decision should only take like a couple minutes to do. It’s should all be, “Yeah, that power for the government was in there.” or “No, that wasn’t in there.” This doesn’t take days of deliberations. If an issue is so complicated the answer of the constitutionality isn’t immediately obvious to everyone, that just means we need to reduce and simplify government until it is a simple question.

Wouldn’t that be a nice Supreme Court decision? “We couldn’t figure this out, so cut the government and reduce its power until this is a simple issue.” Split decisions means cuts to government power. Put that in the Constitution. In fact, with a couple hundred years of hindsight, I could write a much better Constitution than the one we have now. And make it even shorter.

AP – On Meet the Press this week, Nancy Pelosi stated that she was excited with the prospect of a woman President in 2016.  Not willing to stop there, she continued to express her excitement for a totally female government in the near future.  “Just think of the built in cost reduction involved in transitioning to a 100% female government.  It has been proven that women are paid 75% of what a man makes for the same job. Firing all male federal employees and replacing them with women would result in an instantaneous reduction in operating costs of 25%.  Just imagine how much the deficit could be paid down and how many more shoes and manicures could be purchased with that reduction.

“And it’s just like the expert Sally Fields once said, ‘If women were running things, there would be no war.’ We wouldn’t need that inflated military budget, and all of that money could be used for nurturing programs like funding free healthcare and abortions and shoes and manicures and botox and the genetic modification of men causing them to develop the ability to lactate and lose the ability to operate a remote.  And if Putin or Morsi get uppity, well, we can just give him ‘the look.’  All married men know it.  They will back right on down.  Well, I can’t give ‘the look’ anymore.  My countenance is permanently frozen into a different look entirely, one of horrified astonishment.  A word of caution, don’t ask to see the bill before the botox is completely cured. But anyway, we would get a Secretary… I mean, Administrative Assistant of State that could give ‘the look,’ and heaven knows Hillary can do it.

“And for those of you who love gridlock, you ain’t seen nothing yet.  Aside from the inevitable new holidays we will pass, Twilight Appreciation Day, Nicholas Sparks Day and Lorena Bobbitt Day, we won’t be able to agree on anything.  In fact, we’ll amend Robert’s Rules of Order to disallow even debating solutions to any problem.  Instead, we will talk about the problem and how it makes us feel and then cry with a soothing, melancholy gladness into some government ice cream and maybe filibuster with a Lifetime Movie of the Week marathon or maybe just take turns reading Jane Austin.  It was never about the solution.  It’s the process and the empathy and the understanding.  That is all this country needs to be great again. The men have been running things since 1776, and I say it is time for a change.  I, for one, can’t wait to be part of the coming matriarchy.”