FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". The entire country can look at the same footage (from all angles) of Renee Nichole Good being killed and see completely different things. Some see facts. Others see the alternative facts of the narrative their political leaders tell them to see. There is  clear right and wrong about that tragic incident, but even in the media- now more than ever- both sides of every story must  be reported as equal. It all sounds like that AI shit to me as this particular story is reported in the black and white of either/or rather than the full, living color of truth. You can't 'both sides' everything in life, because when you do, you both sides right and wrong and the script is irrevocably flipped.  The thing that might frustrate me most in life today with maga, is that they absolutely don't mind being stupid. Most of us go through our younger lives in fear of being perceived as stupid. Kids won...

IF  trumpublicans really wanted to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants, they could easily have begun in user friendly red states with compliant governors. There would be little need for ICE goons, National Guard or threats of military. But what fun would that be?  In Obama's 8 years, he deported 5.3 million people without ICE goon's wilding out on the streets of America. Also, without unnecessary fanfare, Joe Biden deported 545,000. Neither of those two gentlemen used concentration camps for this process. I do not recall much hullaballoo about this on the news or the internet in those 12 years. But here Trump is one year into his second disastrous term and certain blue cities look like war zones. I have to believe that's on purpose.  Both Biden and Obama respected the 14th Amendment and used due process to accomplish their tasks. Trump however gets by with a memo telling ICEholes to disregard the 4th Amendment. ICEholes will also tell you that you can't film them...

 I'm no fucking rat, but I got a line on some very clever immigrants that seem to have escaped the scrutiny of our ICEhole storm troopers. I'm not really worried about them getting busted because I don't think ICE reads and like a lot of stupid people, they don't read this blog. For that reason, I'm going to go ahead and out them here and because their skills in blending into America are so excellent! I mean- they fooled a Ferrerman. That's not supposed to happen. First one is Gerran Howell. He plays young doctor, Dennis Whitaker from Oklahoma on HBO's "The Pitt". He does a fine job, even finer when you discover that the little scamp is WELSH!  That's a country in the United Kingdom called Wales. I never would have guessed or been the least bit suspicious until I saw an interview clip of him on IMDb, speaking in his native voice.  Second up (also from The Pitt) is Shabana Azeez. OK, now the name is not the big tip off you might think it is. I w...

 Is rooting for Trump to fail- knowing that America will fail along with him- is that really such a bad thing?  What we and the rest of the world hate about Trump is what the world has hated about the US for the better and worse part of 250 years. Mostly the worse parts. We built this country on slavery for fuck's sake! We all but wiped out the native people living here. Who does that? Well, other societies have, but they don't gloss over it as well as we do, and they don't continue on into the future with no shame about it. Not for long that is. Spain and England once ruled the world, but the world eventually humbled them, gave them their comeuppance, and they learned not to be so goddamn greedy. They survived and today are two pretty damn nice countries. Germany started two world wars in the last century because they were awful people with Trump-like *qualities*, but now they are pretty settled down and not only very contrite about their past but concerned for our present...

 Until the news broke of the bigly protest at the fancy, Southern Baptist Church in in St Paul, Minnesota, I hadn't given much thought to ministers and pastors having day jobs. The pastor at that church, David Easterwood (a fitting name, I'd say!) has a fulltime job as the director of the local ICE field office. Makes you wonder which is the side hustle. I really had thought at some point that "the calling" is a 24/7 gig for all of them. A niece is married to a minister, and I've never known him to have a day job of any sort. I believe though, that something like 30% of pastors in his field of Christianity have fulltime jobs in other, non-religious fields. I did  know that as I had worked in Memphis with maybe a dozen guys in commercial construction who were preachers. But these fellas had store front churches at best. Kinda like a starter kit of ministry. Many didn't even have that, and they'd tell me they were also a preacher. I'd give them a Pete Da...

Heard a comedian (I think, Jimmy Carr) talking about how communism has only ever been effective at the level of the family unit. That's long been my assessment of it. He went on to say that democracy was the worst form of government, "except for all the others". Not my sentiment exactly, but also true. I lean towards democratic socialism. It's not perfect, but any system where you can obtain wealth for your efforts, but you also have to help others out, is a good thing in my book. You can be too rich, just as one can be too poor. No one should be either.  These are very odd times in 2026. Soooo many filthy rich people and they just can't be happy with what they've got. They must have it all. But having it all means lording over the poors in every aspect of their already sad lives. This is late-stage capitalism as it could only work out when left unchecked by society for so long. I think the true 'trickle-down' is only available to those that can enable...