The Differences are what will make the Difference

Today on the Diane Rehm show on NPR, the political "experts" in the studio said that the three principle Democrats vying for their party's nomination essentially all agreed on the major issues of US politics.

Well, that's debatable of course, but if it is true, then the differences that the candidates do exhibit are what we must use to choose between them.

So Hillary voted for the Iraq War. Bernie Sanders did not. And of course neither did Governor O'Malley.

Hillary was Secretary of State, and a poor one. That cannot be laid at Senator Sanders' or Governor O'Malley's doors.

Hillary and Bernie can definitely be tagged with the the label "Washington insiders". I don't think that can be put on Governor O'Malley.

Bernie Sanders is proud to call himself a Socialist. As an ex-Brit who lived under the Socialism of the British Labour Party, this will forever disqualify him from getting my vote. I did not become a US citizen to have Socialism follow me to the United States.

I am a liberal. But I believe is American Exceptionalism, I believe this is a country where the success of its citizens is lauded and still possible.

I do not wish to live in the Nanny States of America.

This is why I so fervently hope Governor O'Malley stays in the race. He is the only Democrat I will vote for.

If Hillary goes get the nomination, I will write in my choice for President.

#NoBushes #NoClintons #NoSenators #NoBuffoons

2016 shaping up to be bad for movies...

Pointless sequels, remakes and comic book crap. Yes, 2016 is setting itself up to be even worse than 2015.

Ride Along 2

Kung Fu Panda 3

Zoolander 2

Divergent: Allegiant

Batman vs Superman

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

God's Not Dead 2

Amityville: The Reawakening

Barbershop 3

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Captain America: Civil War

Angry Birds

Neighbors 2

X-Men: Apocalypse

TMNT 2

The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist

Now You See Me 2

Finding Dory

Independence Day: Resurgence

The Purge 3

Ghostbusters

Ice Age: Collision Course

Ben Hur

The Shack

Mechanic: Resurrection

Bridget Jones's Baby

Magnificent Seven

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Ouija 2

Underworld 5

Assassin's Creed

Jumanji

Are these the choices?

1. You bring in a radicalized bride on an arranged marriage from Saudi Arabia and she poisons your mind into hearing every casual insult to your religion as a monstrous insult against the Prophet. And she tells you you're not a true man if you don't stand up to the people who secretly hate you. So one day you do. And she does too.

2. You bring in a demure and totally submissive wife on an arranged marriage from Saudi Arabia and you browbeat her every day until she will agree to kill people with you because of your perception that there is a torrent of workplace insults against your chickenshit religion happening every single day.

Seems to me that one of those statements will turn out to hold more than a grain of truth.

And that is scary. Because what we will have are religiously fueled workplace rampage killings.