"This is not the change you are looking for"...or why Obi-ama gets his Star Wars impression wrong..

So, thrilled as I was that Senator Harry 'Dickless' Reid pulled the chicken-switch yet again and decided NOT to make the republicans filibuster for the continuation of their corporate owners tax gifts, I thought that this week might be a bit better for the Dems. After all, Obama is hitting the campaign trail, where, contrary to the lies from the official gop press outlet Fukked Noizze, he is being greeted with large audiences, riotous applause and much cheering. Likewise, Bill Clinton has put his latest intern to the side and gone on the road to talk up the Dems as well.

Sounds good right? Bringing out the big Democratic guns just as the M$M  presstitutes have to grudglingly report that the polls they've been squawking about for weeks predicting wide-spread slaughter and destruction for the Dems, now actually show that things are not quite as dire as originally reported, seems like a good idea.

Well it was until this little civil liberties-shattering piece of news came out.

Look, I knew that the Prez wasn't a true liberal, not by any stretch of the imagination. I knew that he was a centrist that had grand visions that he could construct a working government with both parties involved in the decisions being made (I also knew he was pissing in the wind because if there's one thing the republicans hate more than a Democrat, it's a Democrat in the Whitehouse). So when he doesn't propose legislation that will outlaw the gop and ban Faux News from the airwaves I am not totally surprised. But when he proposes legislation that even his dumb-as-a-rock predecessor's puppet-master didn't dare dream about, I have to admit that I get a little annoyed. Well, okay, more than a little.

Not only will this new legislation not make us any safer from a 'National Security' standpoint, it will actually have the opposite effect for every single person with a computer and an internet connection. If the Internet companies have to provide the government with instructions on how to un-encrypt our private communications, don't you think that hackers will do the same only quicker and more efficiently? We are supposed to be trying to make it MORE difficult for the hackers to gain access to our computers and personal information, not the other way around. Never mind the fact that there is no mention of how these taps will be applied, what the standard of proof is in order to secure this data, and whether warrants will even be necessary before the internet companies simply hand over our cyber-lives on a silver platter to the government. And what happens if your information is requested but is later found out to have been a mistake? Most likely the companies involved will have their immunity from civil or criminal prosecution written into this law ahead of time, you know, to save the politicians the embarassment of having to vote for the shredding of our rights separately as they had to with the phone companies. Got to take care of the corporations don't you know.

So, is an Obama Presidency better than the alternative we were given? Yes, by a factor of many trillions, but the truth is that as much as the republicans like to paint him as a dangerous out-of-control socialist, judging by his actions, and the legislation he has proposed, unfortunately that couldn't be further from the truth.

This is NOT funny...(well maybe a little bit)...

I know that this really isn't funny, especially as he seems to have been a really nice bloke, but the visual that it conjures up just makes me burst out laughing...

Mr. Heseldon sir, you were a kind and generous man, but making an "Off-Road" Segway was pushing the boundaries just a little too far...

May you RIP.

"You guys suck!!!" "Yeah? Well you guys suck WORSE!!!"...or what the M$M isn't telling you..

Just a tricky-quicky this Friday morning for all of my fan. As noted in one of my earlier rants, the M$M has already determined that the Democrats have lost the Mid-Term elections this coming November, and it's all now just a question of how large the gop majority will be, and where John Boner's tanning table will go in the office of Speaker of the House.

This morning on the front page of msnbc.com is a massive article (with a graph and everything) screaming in HUUUUGE font 'Democrats in worse shape than in 1994'. Fair enough. Except buried lower down on the same page, MUCH lower down of course, is this little nugget of truth.

So there you have it kids, proof positive, that even though the presstitutes in the Corporate media are telling you one thing, the whole truth tells a slightly different story.

Bottom line? They're all a bunch of lying bastards.

Fuck 'em.

"Outsourced", yeah, that's REALLY fucking funny...

As none of you know, because no-one actually reads this blog, there is a brand new sitcom starting this fall called "Outsourced". The premise is a lower-level manager of a call center is told that his entire department is being 'laid off' and their jobs will be outsourced to India. His only chance at continued employment is to travel to India and train the Indians who will replace his former co-workers.

Now, I don't mind telling you that I am having a hard time typing this as I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes just from reading the premise. I mean that is just hysterically fucking funny, right? People lose their jobs and then one dumb schmuck has to travel half way around the world just to try and keep his...Hahahahahahaha!!!! Stop! STOP!!! I can't take much more!!

Okay, maybe not. What, exactly, is supposed to be so funny? The fact that all of those jobs went overseas? Or maybe that because the only way the white dude keeps his job is to go to India? Or maybe it's funny to laugh at the poor bastards being paid $1/day to take those US jobs in the first place, or maybe it's just really fucking hysterical to listen to people with accents use Americanised names...

Me? I'm having a hard time understanding why anyone wouldn't see that as being mind-blowingly funny, but then again I just sent a script to Hollywood for a new comedy series called "Foreclosed". It stars a cast of very rich bankers that each week get to fuck over a poor family that can no longer afford their home, and the side-splittingly funny situations that ensue as the newly homeless family struggles to survive out on the streets...I think I have a real shot of having that picked up for a full season, probably by Fox...

From the NRDC...no explanation needed...

Up is down, black is white and Christine O'Donnell is electable...

I hate to burst the right-wing love-fest bubble currently being spewed by the presstitutes in the M$M but let's keep some facts in mind.  She won with just 16% of the 187,000 or so registered republican voters in the state and is trailing her democratic rival by 15 points in the General. The same Democratic opponent who would have been dead in the water if Rep. Castle had won. So a) thank you tea-baggers for insuring the Dems retain the Senate majority in November, we couldn't have done it without you, and I really mean that, and b) none of the tea-hadists that are currently creaming their jeans in a 100% non-lustful manner seem to recognize the fact that their "populist" movement is actually bought and paid for by a couple of billionaire brothers. They are being used and are simply too dumb or too blind to see it. They are good fun to watch though...it's like getting a sneak peek into a lunatic asylum when the meds get mixed up..

And the real winner in last night's Delaware Republican primary is.....the Democrats...

As can be seen by today's less than cordial response from her opponent, the newest gop Senatorial candidate from the state of Delaware, Ms 'Don't let the fingers do the walking' O'Donnell, has set off a bit of a firestorm in the party of Angry White Men.

The Anti-Christ (formerly known as Karl Rove) was less than supportive in his comments, and even George Bush The Dumber's former speech writer David Frum came out and said that this basically hands the seat to the Democrats in November. Not exactly the sort of encouragement this political neophyte might have hoped for.

But the larger problem here isn't so much that a totally batshit-crazy loon has been elected in a republican primary, there have been plenty of those this year, the bigger problem is that they are SOOOOOO completely out of their damned minds, they make people like the Anti-Christ (please see above) sound sane and reasonable. For example, Harry Reid's opponent, Sharon Angle, is so completely out of her mind that she thinks that Democratic control of America is a violation of the first commandment. Not the First amendment, the first commandment... And that is why, up until last night, Harry Reid was the luckiest Democrat in the country.

But not anymore. Nope, that title now goes to Chris Coons, the Democratic candidate for Joe Biden's old job. Why? For the simple reason that his opponent is even more out of her tree, totally-around-the-bend, oh-my-fucking-God, not-playing-with-a-full deck, nutsy-cuckoo than Sharon Angle is. And trust me that takes some doing. I am sure that I will be writing more about this crazy bird in the not-too-distant future, but for now I'll leave you with this little nugget of dumbassity from the newest Princess of stupid: in 2003 O'Donnell was quoted as saying that by allowing college dorms to go co-ed it would lead to the opening of "orgy rooms" and "menage a trois rooms" on campuses across the United States. Now I don't know about you, but anyone that has a mind that is so fevered and so pent-up with sexual self-denial that they can imagine that sort of thing actually existing anywhere other than the Playboy Mansion (or Bill Clinton's bachelor-pad) simply proves that they themselves are the ones in desperate, desperate need of a damned good shagging...

Taking a walk on the wild side..or where NOT to go hiking on holiday this year..

Would someone please explain to me why in the world you would CHOOSE to go mountain hiking on the border between two hostile countries during a war? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that it might be over soon , but really...what in the world were they thinking? Were the Rockies booked? No room on Denali? Utter madness if you ask me...

Apparently the gop has already won the mid-term elections...And I think this is a good thing..

Okay, hear me out...I haven't lost my mind or suffered a serious head injury this past weekend (although I did go to Wisconsin which some would consider more or less the same thing)..I think that the numerous polls lately (and we all know how reliable they can be) that show that the Dems will lose control of the House in November will actually fire up the typical "off-peak election" lethargic Democratic voter and get them to the voting booths this fall.

Whilst I realize that the presstitutes in the M$M are simply doing their masters' bidding with this bullshit, I think that it will unwittingly back-fire on them.

Their polls conveniently show that whilst Dems are unpopular, because you know, even though it took 8 years to completely fuck things up it should take much less time to clean it all up so folks are "frustrated", they forget to mention that the rethuglicans are even less popular.

Pushing the meme that Boner will be the next speaker of the House makes a splashy headline, and maybe sets up the battleground for a little election fraud, but in the end I think that the thought of that chain-smoking Oompa Loompa with the gavel in his hand will be sufficient to get the Dem voters to the polls in enough numbers to prevent the realization of those dire headlines..

Let me make this clear, I am no cheer-leader for this President or this Congress. I am less than enthused with the President's agenda, in fact I think he has been a spectacular failure in many areas, and I am even less happy about the apparent inability of his inner circle to understand what the phrase "mandate for change" meant. However he was given a truly shitty hand, and I think that he may finally be learning the lesson that the gop will never, EVER, cooperate with him evidenced by the fact that he is starting to beat them over their heads with their own obstructionism. Bearing that in mind, and with the horrifying alternative being obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a petri dish, I think that even as the ass-clowns yip and yap endlessly on the idiot-box about how the GOP has already won the elections, it will be a leaner, meaner Democratic majority being returned to govern us after all the counting has been done this November, and that we may finally, at long last, see some real "change".

If you aren't pissed off you aren't paying attention...

A quick cross-post from something I put on the Democratic Underground this morning in response to a post about 'moderate' voters...

"..I simply don't understand how people can be "undecided" or "moderate" when you look at the rethuglican party...It really is very simple..if it fucks over the poor/working class/women/education/educators/the environment/gays/non-christians/immigrants/non-whites then they are for it..

If it benefits any of the above in any way whatsoever they are against it.

Any questions?"

Pretty much sums up my mood at the moment...