tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post3059094081385206839..comments2024-03-24T18:43:18.706-04:00Comments on Darwinfish 2: Just a Heap of Blind Ragebluzdudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-72156010303259610462021-01-09T12:07:17.825-05:002021-01-09T12:07:17.825-05:00First, thanks for visiting. I hope you return.
No...First, thanks for visiting. I hope you return.<br /><br />Now, please allow me to clarify... I have nothing against seeing to the needs of rural Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore. My issue here is more about cutting a much needed expansion of mass transit just to build more/widen roads.<br /><br />Baltimore has a vastly inferior mass transit system. Unless you're going northwest to southeast and back, or north to south and back, you're spit out of luck. The purple line would have added a much needed east/west route. This was already in the books with millions already spent on development, which Hogan just shit-canned.<br /><br />Expanding mass transit has the double benefit of not only addressing the choking traffic around town, but climate change as well. The climate change hammer is going to drop sooner than people expect, so I think it's in our interests to address it immediately. The more people we get out of cars, idling in traffic, the better. (And I say this as a regular Metro/subway rider for over 20 years, up until the 'Rona has me WFH.)<br /><br />Hogan, to me, is just another Republican who is in lock-step with the fossil fuel industry. That's where we disagree. That said, I can't fault him on his handling of the pandemic. It was as good as anyone could realistically hope for. (Which is not saying much.) And I appreciate that he's not a zealot or religious wingnut, like so many other GOP governors. He's just a businessman doing businessman things.<br /><br />I don't believe this has to be an either/or situation. He should be able to address the needs of the whole state, especially given the high tax rate under which we currently labor. <br /><br />As for the national dialogue, I'll be happy to turn down the heat when they do. When they stop characterizing Democrats as baby-killing, handout-seeking, snowflake Commie Socialists who are the enemies of the decency and the American Way, I'll stop considering them redneck, hypocritical religious wingnut, woman-suppressing, voter-suppressing, racist, gun-obsessed, gay-hating, deluded, head-in-the-sand, xenophobic fucktards.<br /><br />I'm tired of the Democrats being the "responsible" party who every 4-8 years has to clean up after a Republican administration who's left the economy, the deficit, and the nation in tatters. If they want to keep throwing bombs, I'll help throw them back. That's probably not what Jesus would do, but hell, I'm an godless heathen.<br /><br />Thanks again for stopping by and commenting. See you on Margaret's blog.bluzdudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-27282297337517334752021-01-09T10:01:22.100-05:002021-01-09T10:01:22.100-05:00I read your comments on Margaret's blog but ca...I read your comments on Margaret's blog but came over here so I could answer you. I totally agree with this blog post and most of your comments on her blog about Hogan. I, too, don't agree with his decision about the rail line but I wish you'd rethink your disapproval of giving money to the "outlier red counties." As a lifelong resident of one of those counties, I can tell you there is both need and resentment in the fact that we never get our fair share of tax dollars. The focus of most Maryland leadership on Baltimore is what has caused a growing divide in the state and why I am trapped in red Second Amendment sanctuary unlike the far more balanced county I was born into. The partisanship from all angles has to stop. The concerns of rural outliers need to be addressed (and, I'm obviously not speaking about bat-shit crazy racist stuff, I'm talking about infrastructure, jobs and a feeling that those in power actually see those of us out here in the boonies and respect our needs and opinions.) We don't have to agree on everything but we all need to find middle ground and try to understand where our fellow citizens are coming from. Bottom line is most of us are all seeking the same things: safety, health and happiness. The big job is figuring out how we can communicate our similarities to unite ourselves instead of focusing on our differences.Bobinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-45314485666913701102021-01-08T17:31:53.787-05:002021-01-08T17:31:53.787-05:00I understand having an outmanned force just try to...I understand having an outmanned force just try to get through the day, but there's no excuse for them having been outmanned in the first place. Leaders refused National Guard help for days and then hours, and where there were numbers of police, they treated these people with kid gloves, most unlike they treated BLM protesters who were merely marching with signs.<br /><br />The police force in DC made an blatant and obvious display of who they want to beat with sticks and who gets a pass.bluzdudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-76320514904278380832021-01-08T10:56:01.862-05:002021-01-08T10:56:01.862-05:00I don’t know how he could think that the Constitut...<i>I don’t know how he could think that the Constitution gave his Vice President the power to overturn an entire election, just because he didn’t like the result</i>.<br /><br />If that were true, of course, Biden could have stopped Trump from taking office four years ago. Not that Trump would probably think of that.<br /><br /><i>I’m looking forward to when the feds start using facial recognition to identify and arrest these “pat-rioters.”</i><br /><br />I think it's actually a common police practice, in highly-volatile situations, to avoid making arrests on the spot if they know there's photo and video evidence by which they can identify people and arrest them later when it's safer to do so. And some participants in the attack on the Capitol have already been identified and fired from their jobs. They're not getting away with this.<br /><br />One can hope something will finally get done about the culture of wingnut-coddling which has entrenched itself in police departments generally. Some of the most powerful people in the country could have ended up dead if that mob had gotten its hands on them, and they know it. They've had a real scare thrown into them, and scared people with power tend to take action.<br /><br />Everybody seemed to expect that 2021 would be less crazy than 2020. So far, I'm not favorably impressed.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-21620581063148388582021-01-08T08:54:08.722-05:002021-01-08T08:54:08.722-05:00Whispers... Lloyd Bridges.
Both were brilliant in...<i>Whispers...</i> Lloyd Bridges.<br /><br />Both were brilliant in one of my all-time favorite movies.bluzdudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-19421589035342180632021-01-08T08:48:24.063-05:002021-01-08T08:48:24.063-05:00Agree with everything especially Stacey Abrams and...Agree with everything especially Stacey Abrams and Leslie Neilson.😉Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04247428494327269983noreply@blogger.com