Friday, December 21, 2018

Putin's Christmas Gift List to Trump

1. Shut down the US government.
2. Get General Mattis to resign.
3. Pull US troops out of Syria.
4. Start building Trump Tower Moscow.
5. Pardon all the Russians involved in Mueller 
    'witch hunt'.
6. Refer to the Ukraine as a Russian suburb.
7. How about a Mar-a-Lago vacation together?
8. Lock up Hillary Clinton.
9. Eliminate Russian sanctions.
10. Make Ivanka the Russian ambassador. 

Friday, December 14, 2018

ANOTHER AFFLUENZA FRAT BOY SKATES RAPE CHARGES


FROM CNN: 'Jacob Walter Anderson was facing four charges of sexυal assault that were dismissed because a plea bargain was reached on Dec. 10. As a result, instead of a trial, Anderson pleaded no contest to unlawful restraint and received a sentence that includes a $400 fine, a three-year probation, mandatory counseling and community service hours. He will also not serve any jail time nor have to register as a seχ offender.'

As women are slammed for activism against sexual harassment and assault, we have a perfect example of why women are supportive of the 'me, too' and 'Time's Up' movements. Just like Brock Turner, Jacob Walter Anderson received a slap on the wrist for a horrendous rape. Women know this story well-we all know women who have endured sexual assault and keep silent. 

The courageous victim in this case did not keep silent. She clearly articulated in her victim impact statement to the court, exactly how Jacob Walter Anderson raped and humiliated her. He is now free. She will spend her life trying to cope with the sexual assault. 

Below is the victim's statement to the court. WARNING: her description of what she endured is sexually graphic.

"Judge Strother,
I am devastated by your decision to let my rapist Jacob Walter Anderson go free without any punishment. Rape is a violent crime that alters the victim’s life and the life of everyone around them forever. He stole many things from me the night he raped me. I will never be the same again.
On February 21, 2016, when I was a 19 years old, sophomore at Baylor University, Jacob Walter  Anderson took me to a secluded area behind a tent and proceeded to violently and repeatedly rape me. He repeatedly raped me orally and vaginally while choking me, gagging me, and physically forcing my body into positions so he could continue to rape me. I had no control over my body and no way to stop him. (please see my original written police statement) When I collapsed on the ground he pulled down his pants and shoved his penis in my mouth and down my throat gagging me. When he forcefully picked me up and shoved me into a wall to rape me vaginally from behind he calmly and coldly said “It’s fine. You’re fine.” When I tried to pull up my pants or sit he shoved me to the ground and shoved his penis back down my throat and continued to choke me. When he forced me up again and started to rape me vaginally again I blacked out permanently. When I was completely unconscious, he dumped me face down in the dirt and left me there to die. He had taken what he wanted, had proven his power over my body. He then walked home and went to bed without a second thought to the ravaged, half-dead woman he had left behind.
Jacob Anderson will most likely rape again. He is now free to roam society, stalk women and no one will know he is a seχ offender.
Jacob Anderson and all rapists who get away with their crimes will never be cured, never change. If anything, they will be emboldened by their power over women and their ability to escape justice and punishment. They will think they are invincible and most definitely increase their violent pathological and predatory behavior.
Everyone knows Jacob Anderson violently raped me repeatedly and almost killed me. The evidence is overwhelming. Now, I not only have to live with his rape and the repercussions of the rape. I have to live with the knowledge that the Mclennan County justice system is severely broken. I have to live with the fact that after all these years and everything I have suffered, no justice was achieved. I have to live with the fact that my rapist will go home smiling and happy and laughing at me. He stole my body, νirginity and power over my body and you let him keep it for all eternity.
Hilary Laborde—where are you Ms. Laborde? Are you here in the courtroom? No? And you, Abel Reyna—where are you? Are you here? No? If I had the courage to come back to Waco and face my rapist and testify, you could at least have had enough respect for me to show up today. You both will have to live with this decision to let a rapist run free in society without any warning to future victims. I wonder if you will have nightmares every night watching Jacob rape me over and again. Of my body lying unconscious and alone in the dirt waiting to die. Of my face transforming in your nightmares into someone you love. Your mother, your daughter, your niece, your granddaughter, your best friend, your wife, your girlfriend.
Jacob Walter Anderson. It must be horrible to be you. To know what you did to me. To know you are a rapist. To know that you almost killed me. To know that you ruined my life, stole my νirginity and stole many other things from me.
I would have loved to have stayed at Baylor. Laughed and made memories with my friends. Learned from my professors. Run in the Baylor line one final time my senior year and walked in my graduation ceremony in my cap and gown with my family proudly cheering me on. I would love to be living away from home pursuing my career the way I had planned. Not be on medication. Not be getting therapy. Not be in and out of the doctor’s office. Not having nightmares. Not be triggered daily into anxiety. Not be fearful. Not be sad. Not be afraid of every man that looks at me or thinks I’m nice and just wants to meet me and get to know me. To be happy and carefree and enjoy daily life. I am none of these things because you raped me and almost killed me and stole them all from me.
To the two women who created the petition of outrage over this plea, I thank you. To the over 85,000 people around the world who signed the petition to deny this plea, I thank you! To all my friends and family, doctor, teachers, and lawyers who believed in me and stuck with me over the past three years, I thank you. You held me up and kept me strong. To my parents and siblings, thank you. I would not be alive without you. You kept me going when I could no longer handle living. It’s been a very difficult three years. It will continue to be rough for a very long time. I know it has impacted all of you and yet you never left my side. You never stopped loving me. You never stopped protecting me. You never stopped fighting for me and you never left. You never left.

Thank you."

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR: THE GUARDIANS OF FREE PRESS


Rest in Peace Mr. Khashoggi, along with all your fellow journalists who lost their lives persevering for the truth. And to those living journalists who daily risk condemnation, threats, torture, and death, we salute your courage. Let us never forget your contributions to a free and transparent democracy. Thank you for upholding the First Amendment.

Friday, December 7, 2018

Presidential Harassment Joins the 'Me, too" Movement

After reading today that Mr. Trump invented a new form of harassment, presidential harassment, I quickly jotted the following communique to him. If you would like to add your opinion, please feel free to contact him at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

'Sorry, but there is no "me, too" movement for presidential harassment. You are supposed to have intestinal fortitude to handle the responsibilities of your office instead of whimpering about being the legitimate target of several judiciary probes. Your self-inflicted political wounds do not make you a victim; it makes you accountable for all the corrupt appointments, executive orders, and schemes you initiated to fatten your coffers. Mr. Mueller is about ready to come for you and your crooked family.  Get ready to reboot Nixon's, "I am not a crook" speech.'

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

The Stupidity of the Anti-Vax Movement

More and more the anti-vaccination movement is growing worldwide. In the United States alone last year, there were outbreaks of hepatitis A, mumps, measles, pertussis, and more than 80,000 deaths due to influenza. In spite of the myth that vaccines causing autism has been debunked, anti-vaxxers cling to the belief that big Pharma and the government are not telling the truth on the dangers of vaccination. I am assuming these are the same people who do not believe in climate science either, since there will be more infectious disease as the world gets hotter. 

The generation plagued with death and disability from diseases like polio, pertussis, and tuberculosis were the ones who created mass vaccination so this generation would not suffer the devastating consequences of infectious diseases. It is a pity that this generation has not seen iron lungs, children dying from pertussis, and people quarantined in sanitariums. 

After working more than a decade in immunization, I am still baffled by the stupidity of anti-vaxxers but I no longer argue with them. Currently there is an emerging outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFA, which is a rare polio-like illness with no cure, no vaccine, and no certainty of when it will stop. Their children went to bed with a cold and woke up being unable to use their limbs. I wonder if any of the 144 parents of the children affected by AFA are anti-vaccine. My guess is no. The only hope for these and future patients, which are mainly children, will come from science and pharmacology. But until people confront the reality of death and disability from infectious disease, the movement will continue to seek converts.

Don't get me started on the Hollywood celebrities that have joined this bandwagon. Many of them are blaming their children's autism on vaccines. It does not make a difference that the physician, Andrew Wakefield, who started this rumor with a flawed small study (and lost his medical license to practice because of it), is still being quoted. They do not want to think that genetics, epi-genetics, having children when the father is older, being exposed to infectious disease (especially in the second trimester of pregnancy), may have contributed to their child's autism. To read more on the science of autism, go the incredible research being done at the University of California, San Diego: https://autism-center.ucsd.edu. 

Unlike the anti-vaxxers, I have seen death and disability from the foolish consequence of not getting vaccinated. I have seen the tears of a first-time mother grieving the loss of her 8 week old baby from pertussis. I have seen a 36 year old die from chickenpox. I have seen countless people die from flu and pneumonia. Not me, I am taking my chances on science and vaccines. 


Thursday, November 15, 2018

Our New Acting AG's Masculine Toilet

Thanks, Stephen Colbert, for this enlightening clip on our new Acting Attorney General's former occupation as Toilet Master Inventor for the Masculine. And here we thought Mr. Whitaker was some talent-less hack sucking up to Trump.