In response to the dire financial situation the Irish Government finds itself in due to poor fiscal policy and the actions of fraudulent banksters, a new budget was outlined that had some of the most severe cuts in them ever imaginable. Severe cuts that is, to the working class and the poor. Things like a decrease in minimum wage. An increase in the VAT. An increase in student fees (the new govt in the UK has suggested that idea too, the students there aren't quite done yet expressing their feelings apparently). The loss of almost 25,000 public jobs. Pension reductions. You know, basically shredding the public safety net.
What about the rich corporations you ask? The people that caused this whole fucking mess in the first place? The new 'austerity measures' make sure that the corporate tax rates stay the same. Wouldn't want to scare away jobs by taxing the job-creators, right?
My arse.
This is the first of many 'austerity measures' that will be suggested by many other governments in the not too distant future that will have one purpose, and one purpose only; to lay off the massive debt caused by corporate fiscal malfeasance onto the shoulders of the working class. In America, 'We The People' have been saddled with TRILLIONS of dollars of debt (the real number still hasn't been figured out, or if it has been it hasn't been released) to bail out the banks that drove the US economy to the verge of collapse through theft and fraud. Make no mistake, what the banks did in the US were real, proper crimes, but instead of perp-walking their multi-million dollar a year CEO's straight to jail, the public was sold a bill of goods by the bank-owned whores in D.C. who artfully managed to stiff the US taxpayer with the bill for the clean-up. That in turn drove up the deficit, and the bank-owned whores in D.C. now say that in order to pay that down so that the US remains credit-worthy (because China is becoming less and less eager to buy our debt when we're paying them less than 1% in interest) we have to make budget cuts. Public education, transportation, Medicare, Social Security are all on the chopping block to be cut in order to reduce the deficit. What isn't being considered (other than the staggeringly bloated defense budget, that will never, EVER be cut)? Increasing taxes on the bastards that got us into this mess in the first place. Wouldn't want to scare away jobs by taxing the job creators, right?
My arse.
It all comes down to the age-old truism 'He who makes the gold, makes the rules'.
That has never been more true than now.
Happy Thanksgiving indeed....
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Breaking News!!! Bristol Palin snubbed by Dancing with Stars voters!!!...oh, and war's about to break out in South Korea too...
...Good thing that the M$M media in the US has their priorities right. This week the corporate news has been choc-a-block full of conspiracy theories, and counter-conspiracies about how in the world the eldest Palin spawn made it to the finals of 'Dancing with People We No Longer Give a Shit About'. Accusations have been raised that knuckle-dragging supporters of her wolf-killing mother have been busy jamming the interwebs with votes for Bristol. The blogosphere lit up too, full of folks that are miffed that the "integrity" of the show has been ruined (integrity? really?) and that they will forever eschew themselves of the pleasure of watching has-beens try to bump and grind their way out of obscurity if she were to win. All this because of a 'reality' show (if by reality you mean my version of a living hell) that invited this talent-free un-wed mother to be on their show.
Now, I've been accused of being a bit of a cynic in the past, but I think you'd have to be incredibly naive to think that she was invited to be on the competition because she was a good dancer. She isn't. Not really. Not when it could be reasonably said that she had all the style and grace of a Clydesdale in spandex. No, the only reason she was invited on was because her pig-ignorant mother gets ratings. The Half-Term ex-Governor of Alaska is despised and reviled as fervently as she is worshipped by her minions, and all that passion means more eyeballs on the telly, higher ratings for the network, and more money for the corporation that put this whole charade together in the first place. It's almost like the network planned it that way...
Naaah....couldn't be that simple could it?
Oh, and in other news North Korea lobbed some shells into South Korea, the US is sending an aircraft carrier task force to the region in support and the South Korean Premiere is talking about a full-scale response to the attacks. Nothing major really, just another possible war and the reality that hundreds of thousands of innocent lives hang in the balance because the midget in control of North Korea also has nukes, but let's stay focused on the important shit, you know, Bristol Palin and the TSA gropings at your local airport (more about them anon).
Oy vey...sometimes it's enough to drive me to drink...(most times I just walk though)...
Peace.
Now, I've been accused of being a bit of a cynic in the past, but I think you'd have to be incredibly naive to think that she was invited to be on the competition because she was a good dancer. She isn't. Not really. Not when it could be reasonably said that she had all the style and grace of a Clydesdale in spandex. No, the only reason she was invited on was because her pig-ignorant mother gets ratings. The Half-Term ex-Governor of Alaska is despised and reviled as fervently as she is worshipped by her minions, and all that passion means more eyeballs on the telly, higher ratings for the network, and more money for the corporation that put this whole charade together in the first place. It's almost like the network planned it that way...
Naaah....couldn't be that simple could it?
Oh, and in other news North Korea lobbed some shells into South Korea, the US is sending an aircraft carrier task force to the region in support and the South Korean Premiere is talking about a full-scale response to the attacks. Nothing major really, just another possible war and the reality that hundreds of thousands of innocent lives hang in the balance because the midget in control of North Korea also has nukes, but let's stay focused on the important shit, you know, Bristol Palin and the TSA gropings at your local airport (more about them anon).
Oy vey...sometimes it's enough to drive me to drink...(most times I just walk though)...
Peace.
Friday, November 19, 2010
I am offended that the Whitehouse is offended...or further proof that they just don't get it..
Democratic bulldog and former Clinton advisor told on off-colour joke at a breakfast meeting he was having the other day. He suggested that if Hillary Clinton lent Obama one of her balls, they'd both have two. Whether you find that funny, sexist, demeaning or just plain offensive you have to admit, he wasn't wrong.
After being swept into office on a massive wave of euphoric jubilation, promising hope and change, telling us that things would be different from the eight long years of right-wing oppression we had just suffered through, Barack Obama promptly fumbled the ball on the one-yard line.
He had almost the whole country behind him. He had the whole world on his side. Whitehouse press conferences would once again include complete sentences and proper syntax. The word 'nuclear' would be pronounced properly. His party controlled both chambers of Congress, and what did he do? He dropped the fucking ball. He asked the republican party permission to govern. Totally ignoring the absolutely emphatic mandate given to him by the American people, he asked the very same people that had driven the countrys' economy straight off the cliff, if they'd like to help him steer the wheel.
That's not "change", that's "doing the same fucking thing again".
His racist opponents on hate radio ably aided by the rabid attack-dogs on Fake News spewed ever-more venomous and vile accusations at him, and those around him. And the Whitehouse stayed silent.
They didn't get "offended" when the FBI fessed up that thousands of people had been illegally wire-tapped.
They didn't get "offended" when bush admitted that he personally gave the order to commit war crimes.
They didn't get "offended" when the gop time and again called him a commie or a socialist, or a Kenyan.
They didn't get "offended" when the gop shut down the extension of unemployment benefits.
They didn't get "offended" whenever (insert right-wing loudmouth here) called him (insert baseless accusation/insult here).
No.
They choose to get "offended" because of something someone said about his balls.
If there is a clearer example of this Whitehouse and this President being damned near clueless, this is it.
(and for what it's worth, I'm surprised Carville only credits Mrs. Clinton with having three....)
After being swept into office on a massive wave of euphoric jubilation, promising hope and change, telling us that things would be different from the eight long years of right-wing oppression we had just suffered through, Barack Obama promptly fumbled the ball on the one-yard line.
He had almost the whole country behind him. He had the whole world on his side. Whitehouse press conferences would once again include complete sentences and proper syntax. The word 'nuclear' would be pronounced properly. His party controlled both chambers of Congress, and what did he do? He dropped the fucking ball. He asked the republican party permission to govern. Totally ignoring the absolutely emphatic mandate given to him by the American people, he asked the very same people that had driven the countrys' economy straight off the cliff, if they'd like to help him steer the wheel.
That's not "change", that's "doing the same fucking thing again".
His racist opponents on hate radio ably aided by the rabid attack-dogs on Fake News spewed ever-more venomous and vile accusations at him, and those around him. And the Whitehouse stayed silent.
They didn't get "offended" when the FBI fessed up that thousands of people had been illegally wire-tapped.
They didn't get "offended" when bush admitted that he personally gave the order to commit war crimes.
They didn't get "offended" when the gop time and again called him a commie or a socialist, or a Kenyan.
They didn't get "offended" when the gop shut down the extension of unemployment benefits.
They didn't get "offended" whenever (insert right-wing loudmouth here) called him (insert baseless accusation/insult here).
No.
They choose to get "offended" because of something someone said about his balls.
If there is a clearer example of this Whitehouse and this President being damned near clueless, this is it.
(and for what it's worth, I'm surprised Carville only credits Mrs. Clinton with having three....)
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Is it tea time yet? (republicans block extension of benefits to the unemployed)
To all of the ignorant, backward-ass, gullible, dumb as-a-bag-of-hammers, 'Obama's a communist', red-neck, toothless cousin-fuckers that voted for the republican party this past election, may I offer my first piece of evidence proving that you just got royally fucked?
They aren't even in office yet as the majority, but the party of rich white men is already signalling that the poor might as well take a flying fuck at the moon if they think they are going to get anything remotely close to help or compassion whilst the gop have the reins. They even had the nerve to suggest that they couldn't in good conscience (like any of them actually possess one) vote to extend the benefits without cutting from somewhere else in the budget, conveniently forgetting that they are the same bunch of arrogant assholes that are demanding that the bush tax-gifts to the rich be extended whatever the cost ($700 billion).
I'd laugh if it wasn't so goddamned sad.
They aren't even in office yet as the majority, but the party of rich white men is already signalling that the poor might as well take a flying fuck at the moon if they think they are going to get anything remotely close to help or compassion whilst the gop have the reins. They even had the nerve to suggest that they couldn't in good conscience (like any of them actually possess one) vote to extend the benefits without cutting from somewhere else in the budget, conveniently forgetting that they are the same bunch of arrogant assholes that are demanding that the bush tax-gifts to the rich be extended whatever the cost ($700 billion).
I'd laugh if it wasn't so goddamned sad.
Obama gives Medal of Freedom to Bush Sr...or why any 'hope' of 'change' has now been terminated..
In what for many will be the final insult to those that supported him, Barack 'Bipartisan' Obama has decided that George H.W. Bush, the architect of the 'October Surprise', the lynch pin in Iran-Contra and the architect behind the first gulf war, should be awarded the highest civilian honour in the land, the Medal of Freedom.
Look, I know that this comes at a bad time attention-span-wise for the average Yank, after all there is all sorts of outrage over the fact that ThunderThighs Palin is through to the final on Dancing with the (Z-list) Stars because the slavish, Teahadists followers of her mother have figured out how to game ABC's voting system. Plus everyone is all a-twitter over a couple of rich twenty-something Brits finally planning to say 'I do' next year in a bloody great big church, but when Barack Obama, a man widely thought to not only possess a brain, but also know how to use it, says that it's a good idea to honour someone like this, I have to say that for me, it is time to get off the 'Hope and Change' Express.
I knew from the start that Obama was only going to be a 'liberal' when viewed from the angle of where we had just come from. He always was a centrist, a mediator not an idealist, but I had hoped that, if for no other reason than his upbringing, we would have had at least the semblance of an effort to right the wrongs of the previous administration. The first indication that things weren't going to go that way was his choice of Rick Warren, a known gay-basher, to lead the inaugural invocation. Whilst the gathered crowd cheered, along with tens of millions of others at homes across the nation, as Bush the Lessor was escorted out of national governance and back to the pig farm from whence he came, the wheels of capitulation had already started to turn.
Hopes for a quick end to the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were quickly dashed when troop numbers actually increased in the 'Stan. When knowledge of yet more torture and abuse by the previous administration came to light, the President and his Attorney General refused to even consider investigations, never mind prosecutions of the offenders. As the news that the FBI had knowingly violated the privacy of thousands and thousands of American citizens during the bush years via illegal wire-taps came to the fore, the constitutional law-scholar from Harvard didn't raise a finger to bring those responsible to account, or even bother to gather assurances that the practice had ceased. Even now, when you have to subject yourself to being publicly groped by a stranger in order to get on an airplane, a blatant violation of civil rights, the President won't so much as raise an eyebrow.
I knew he wasn't a liberal, but come on, enough is enough. Maybe Bill Hicks was right, but all I know is this: this ain't the "Change" I asked for.
Look, I know that this comes at a bad time attention-span-wise for the average Yank, after all there is all sorts of outrage over the fact that ThunderThighs Palin is through to the final on Dancing with the (Z-list) Stars because the slavish, Teahadists followers of her mother have figured out how to game ABC's voting system. Plus everyone is all a-twitter over a couple of rich twenty-something Brits finally planning to say 'I do' next year in a bloody great big church, but when Barack Obama, a man widely thought to not only possess a brain, but also know how to use it, says that it's a good idea to honour someone like this, I have to say that for me, it is time to get off the 'Hope and Change' Express.
I knew from the start that Obama was only going to be a 'liberal' when viewed from the angle of where we had just come from. He always was a centrist, a mediator not an idealist, but I had hoped that, if for no other reason than his upbringing, we would have had at least the semblance of an effort to right the wrongs of the previous administration. The first indication that things weren't going to go that way was his choice of Rick Warren, a known gay-basher, to lead the inaugural invocation. Whilst the gathered crowd cheered, along with tens of millions of others at homes across the nation, as Bush the Lessor was escorted out of national governance and back to the pig farm from whence he came, the wheels of capitulation had already started to turn.
Hopes for a quick end to the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were quickly dashed when troop numbers actually increased in the 'Stan. When knowledge of yet more torture and abuse by the previous administration came to light, the President and his Attorney General refused to even consider investigations, never mind prosecutions of the offenders. As the news that the FBI had knowingly violated the privacy of thousands and thousands of American citizens during the bush years via illegal wire-taps came to the fore, the constitutional law-scholar from Harvard didn't raise a finger to bring those responsible to account, or even bother to gather assurances that the practice had ceased. Even now, when you have to subject yourself to being publicly groped by a stranger in order to get on an airplane, a blatant violation of civil rights, the President won't so much as raise an eyebrow.
I knew he wasn't a liberal, but come on, enough is enough. Maybe Bill Hicks was right, but all I know is this: this ain't the "Change" I asked for.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Teabaggers are hypocritical assholes*
Look, we all know what happened in the most recent mid-term elections, republicans took back the seats they had lost two years ago to the phenomenon of 'change' sweeping the country at the time. The M$M of course did their bit to paint it as a massive disaster for the Democrats. The presstitutes were barely able to suppress their ear-to-ear grins as they described the elections as a wholehearted repudiation of the Obama doctrine (which is weird, because if he actually does have a doctrine it appears to consist entirely of asking to be kicked in the balls repeatedly by the republicans whilst simultaneously apologizing to the American people for being too partisan). But what went totally unmentioned was the fact that the republican politicians that were elected this cycle are some of the least-qualified and heavily IQ-deficient bunch seen in D.C. since Newt Gingrich's 'contract on America' crowd showed up in the 1990's. This should be seen as very bad omen.
The fact that they are a bunch of hypocrites is a given (they are after all republican politicians, so naturally there's not a lobbyist's check they won't be eager to cash), but the fact that we find out so quickly is somewhat amazing. A case in point is Dr Andy Harris (R-Teabag) who was elected this past november in no small part due to his vehement and passionate opposition of the "government take-over of health-care" and a solemn promise to "repeal Obamacare". The fact that a doctor opposes a plan that gives people access to hospitals, doctors and medicine for the first time seems a little strange to me, but in Tea-bag world it obviously makes perfect sense. Anyway, as it turns out Dr Harris is a big fan of government run health plans after all. Specifically his. So much so in fact, he got a little pissy when he found out he'd actually have to wait before his benefits kicked in. Imagine that, after all of his anti-government rhetoric, after all of his railing against the 'socialist healthcare plan' this guy can't even wait 'til he's been sworn in before he wants his piece of the pie.
This is yet another reason why Teabaggers are fucking morons. They have been played like violins and they are too fucking stupid to know it. Sadly the joke is on the rest of us as we have to put up with at least two years of these assholes in office before we get a chance to throw them back out on the street where they belong.
*this phrase is redundant I know, but it is a service message for the thinking-impaired.
The fact that they are a bunch of hypocrites is a given (they are after all republican politicians, so naturally there's not a lobbyist's check they won't be eager to cash), but the fact that we find out so quickly is somewhat amazing. A case in point is Dr Andy Harris (R-Teabag) who was elected this past november in no small part due to his vehement and passionate opposition of the "government take-over of health-care" and a solemn promise to "repeal Obamacare". The fact that a doctor opposes a plan that gives people access to hospitals, doctors and medicine for the first time seems a little strange to me, but in Tea-bag world it obviously makes perfect sense. Anyway, as it turns out Dr Harris is a big fan of government run health plans after all. Specifically his. So much so in fact, he got a little pissy when he found out he'd actually have to wait before his benefits kicked in. Imagine that, after all of his anti-government rhetoric, after all of his railing against the 'socialist healthcare plan' this guy can't even wait 'til he's been sworn in before he wants his piece of the pie.
This is yet another reason why Teabaggers are fucking morons. They have been played like violins and they are too fucking stupid to know it. Sadly the joke is on the rest of us as we have to put up with at least two years of these assholes in office before we get a chance to throw them back out on the street where they belong.
*this phrase is redundant I know, but it is a service message for the thinking-impaired.
This is why we're doomed as a species...
...we just can't stop killing things...and now I read this story... it makes me want to rip my hair out...
After everything that dog went through, some low-level fucktard county worker "accidentally" kills the family pet when it gets out and acts like a regular dog...
Unreal...just unreal...
After everything that dog went through, some low-level fucktard county worker "accidentally" kills the family pet when it gets out and acts like a regular dog...
Unreal...just unreal...
Sunday, November 14, 2010
...and now over to the sportsdesk...
Cross-posted from a motor racing forum I frequent regarding todays F-1 race...
"Dear Mr. Buttmacher,
As I am sure you are totally unaware, I have never liked you, your driving style or your chin, however in light of today's accident I would like to suggest that you change your current vocation. You have won more WDC's than anyone else, some of them without being a dirty, chopping cheating bastard all the time, you have taken more money from Phillip Morris than a million ciggy-starved test beagles could spend on a nicotine bender, and you have two beautiful children courtesy of HHF's ex-girlfriend. In other words you have nothing left to prove.
Look, I would have liked to have seen you had your nads used as a speed-bag for the crap you pulled on Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Mika Hakkinen, during your career, but I would hate to see you make HHF's-ex a widow, and your kids fatherless simply because you were bored with retirement.
So, do them a favour and hang them up whilst you still can. You always were, and always will be, a pointy-chinned dirty chopping, cheating bastard, but I beg of you, don't make me say nice things about you publicly as would be the case if you were to die when you had your head removed by a stray Force India.
Sincerely,
Not A Fan of Yours
P.S. If you mention this to anyone I will claim that I was drunk or had my account hacked, but I'm serious. Retire. Spend your money. Hug your kids. Shag HHF's ex. I would if I were you.."
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"Dear Mr. Buttmacher,
As I am sure you are totally unaware, I have never liked you, your driving style or your chin, however in light of today's accident I would like to suggest that you change your current vocation. You have won more WDC's than anyone else, some of them without being a dirty, chopping cheating bastard all the time, you have taken more money from Phillip Morris than a million ciggy-starved test beagles could spend on a nicotine bender, and you have two beautiful children courtesy of HHF's ex-girlfriend. In other words you have nothing left to prove.
Look, I would have liked to have seen you had your nads used as a speed-bag for the crap you pulled on Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Mika Hakkinen, during your career, but I would hate to see you make HHF's-ex a widow, and your kids fatherless simply because you were bored with retirement.
So, do them a favour and hang them up whilst you still can. You always were, and always will be, a pointy-chinned dirty chopping, cheating bastard, but I beg of you, don't make me say nice things about you publicly as would be the case if you were to die when you had your head removed by a stray Force India.
Sincerely,
Not A Fan of Yours
P.S. If you mention this to anyone I will claim that I was drunk or had my account hacked, but I'm serious. Retire. Spend your money. Hug your kids. Shag HHF's ex. I would if I were you.."
Thursday, November 11, 2010
I knew I wasn't really going to get a pony, but can I at least get some of that "change" I was promised?
The Obama administration today denied Endangered Species Act protection to 251 species.
George W. Bush (you remember him don't you, the Texas oilman?) protected, on average, 29 species per year. So far Obama has protected, on average, 26 species per year. Yup. The oilman protected more endangered wildlife than his allegedly 'green' successor.
Obama also lifted the offshore oil-drilling ban, (that was put in place by George Bush the First) because apparently big oil companies haven't fucked up the oceans enough. Yup. The oilman's old man protected the seas and shores more efficiently than the 'green' President.
Environmentalists had to go to court to sue the Federal Government to have the Northern Rockies Gray Wolf re-listed as endangered. (Thankfully the good guys won that one).
Obama is the only democratic politician that can say "clean coal" with a straight face and without laughing out loud, and as part of his green energy policy he wants to build new nuclear power plants, because Three-Mile Island or Chernobyl can't possibly happen again.
I'm starting to think the only "change" that took place in 2008 was that now when we get lied to we get a friendly, reassuring smile instead of the gormless smirk we had for the previous eight years.
My head hurts.
George W. Bush (you remember him don't you, the Texas oilman?) protected, on average, 29 species per year. So far Obama has protected, on average, 26 species per year. Yup. The oilman protected more endangered wildlife than his allegedly 'green' successor.
Obama also lifted the offshore oil-drilling ban, (that was put in place by George Bush the First) because apparently big oil companies haven't fucked up the oceans enough. Yup. The oilman's old man protected the seas and shores more efficiently than the 'green' President.
Environmentalists had to go to court to sue the Federal Government to have the Northern Rockies Gray Wolf re-listed as endangered. (Thankfully the good guys won that one).
Obama is the only democratic politician that can say "clean coal" with a straight face and without laughing out loud, and as part of his green energy policy he wants to build new nuclear power plants, because Three-Mile Island or Chernobyl can't possibly happen again.
I'm starting to think the only "change" that took place in 2008 was that now when we get lied to we get a friendly, reassuring smile instead of the gormless smirk we had for the previous eight years.
My head hurts.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Well they don't call them coffin nails for no reason...
The Feds have finally decided that graphic labels featuring corpses and rotten cancerous mouths might finally take the edge off the 'coolness' that is cigarette advertising in the US. Whilst it is true that radio and telly ads for fags have been banned in the States for years, there are still billboards and magazine glossies showing some relaxed hot babe, or well-chiseled dude with a fag hanging out of their gobs in some gloriously cool and alluring setting. This could well be changing.
Now as a recent addition to the list of pompous and sanctimonious ex-smokers out there, I must tell you that when I was a non-smoker I never saw an advert that made me think to myself "blimey, I bet I'd get to shag birds that look just like that if I started to smoke". I did see plenty of ads that might have made me change brands though, and over my smoking years (actually over half of my life as it turns out) I did change brands several times. So from personal experience I can attest that ciggy advertising works, at least part of the way. I have no way of knowing if this new idea will actually get people to quit, or more importantly make sure they never start, but I really hope it does. It is a complete and total waste of money, and is quite possibly the most stupid product ever devised, think about it, what other product do you buy on a daily basis and then immediately set fire to? See? Dumb right?
So here I sit, finally able to consider myself smoke-free, and the single biggest question I have is this: Why in the world did no-one ever kick me squarely in the nads every time I entered the room after smoking a ciggy? That shit smells revolting.
Now as a recent addition to the list of pompous and sanctimonious ex-smokers out there, I must tell you that when I was a non-smoker I never saw an advert that made me think to myself "blimey, I bet I'd get to shag birds that look just like that if I started to smoke". I did see plenty of ads that might have made me change brands though, and over my smoking years (actually over half of my life as it turns out) I did change brands several times. So from personal experience I can attest that ciggy advertising works, at least part of the way. I have no way of knowing if this new idea will actually get people to quit, or more importantly make sure they never start, but I really hope it does. It is a complete and total waste of money, and is quite possibly the most stupid product ever devised, think about it, what other product do you buy on a daily basis and then immediately set fire to? See? Dumb right?
So here I sit, finally able to consider myself smoke-free, and the single biggest question I have is this: Why in the world did no-one ever kick me squarely in the nads every time I entered the room after smoking a ciggy? That shit smells revolting.
Monday, November 8, 2010
New Oklahoma law accidentally bans the 10 commandments...or why stupid is as stupid does..
In an attempt to prove their god-fearin' gun-totin' christian purity last week, the voters of Oklahoma overwhelming approved a ballot measure that (they thought) would ban the use of Sharia Law in determining verdicts in trials. This came as news to me, I was unaware that this was a problem anywhere in the US, but apparently in Oklahoma it is so rampant that they needed to pass a law banning it before all of the toothless cousin-fuckers that live there were forced to grow beards and their wives and girlfriends were forced to cover their tattoed beer-bellies with burkas...
So last week those good ole boys voted to ban using Sharia Law in courts. Whew, that was close right? Well maybe not. You see, in their rush to ban a "foreign law" from being used in their courts, they may just have accidentally banned the very thing they were looking to protect i.e. the ten commandments.
I know that making fun of rednecks is easy, you know, because they're rednecks and all, but this story really takes the cake...
So last week those good ole boys voted to ban using Sharia Law in courts. Whew, that was close right? Well maybe not. You see, in their rush to ban a "foreign law" from being used in their courts, they may just have accidentally banned the very thing they were looking to protect i.e. the ten commandments.
I know that making fun of rednecks is easy, you know, because they're rednecks and all, but this story really takes the cake...
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Compromise my ass...or why the President needs to get his Samuel L. Jackson on...
Speaking yesterday at a press conference discussing the results of the monumental ass-fucking that was the 2010 Mid-Term elections, President Obama talked about the need to compromise and to work toward common ground with the new majority party in the House. I nodded sagely as I listened to the words coming from his mouth but my brain was going ape-shit...
Here's what my brain was saying...
"Wait, so the party that kicked you in the nuts every single time you compromised with them....you NOW say the way forward is to compromise with them even MORE?
Do you not read newspapers? Did you not just see what happened to your party at the hands of the people you compromised with? Do you WANT to be a one-term President?
I know that someone will tell me that this is some 9th level jujitsu mind-chess that Obama is playing, but after the ASS KICKING we just got, I'm sorry but I ain't buyin'...
You tried playing nice and look where it got you...remember what Einstein said about doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result?
Mr President, with the best love in the world for your cerebral approach to governance and all that fancy-ass Jedi mind-trick shit you claim you can pull , I do believe it is time to get your Samuel L. Jackson on, drop the nuanced bullshit and kick some motherfucking ass..."
For once, I think my brain is right.
Here's what my brain was saying...
"Wait, so the party that kicked you in the nuts every single time you compromised with them....you NOW say the way forward is to compromise with them even MORE?
Do you not read newspapers? Did you not just see what happened to your party at the hands of the people you compromised with? Do you WANT to be a one-term President?
I know that someone will tell me that this is some 9th level jujitsu mind-chess that Obama is playing, but after the ASS KICKING we just got, I'm sorry but I ain't buyin'...
You tried playing nice and look where it got you...remember what Einstein said about doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result?
Mr President, with the best love in the world for your cerebral approach to governance and all that fancy-ass Jedi mind-trick shit you claim you can pull , I do believe it is time to get your Samuel L. Jackson on, drop the nuanced bullshit and kick some motherfucking ass..."
For once, I think my brain is right.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
A couple of bright moments in an otherwise dark evening...or why money can't buy you Gov...
I'll write more about the dire results of the mid-term selections later, but for now i'll just briefly mention the couple of results that did manage to put a smile on my face. Both of them from California. In the Senatorial campaign Carly Failurina lost by 10 percentage points to Barbara Boxer (one of the few liberals left in that chamber) after having spent many millions of her own cash to fund her increasingly shrill and bitchy ads. That was good fun to watch, because no matter how hard the presstitiutes tried to spin things in her favour she was never really in it at all.
But the best result of the evening had to be the total failure of the former head of E-Bay to buy her way into the Governor's mansion in Sacramento. Some estimates have her spending $141 million of her own money to wind up with 13% less of the vote than her competitor. That equates to roughly $9 for each registered voter in the Golden State (and closer to $50 for each vote she actually did get). She may have fared better if she had just bought every voter in the state a nice lunch with that money, because spending it on hateful, angry and bitter radio, print and tv ads didn't appear to work...Too bad, so sad...
Unfortunately across the rest of the nation money did do the talking, and it was democracy that did the walking..right into the buzzsaw..more on that anon...
But the best result of the evening had to be the total failure of the former head of E-Bay to buy her way into the Governor's mansion in Sacramento. Some estimates have her spending $141 million of her own money to wind up with 13% less of the vote than her competitor. That equates to roughly $9 for each registered voter in the Golden State (and closer to $50 for each vote she actually did get). She may have fared better if she had just bought every voter in the state a nice lunch with that money, because spending it on hateful, angry and bitter radio, print and tv ads didn't appear to work...Too bad, so sad...
Unfortunately across the rest of the nation money did do the talking, and it was democracy that did the walking..right into the buzzsaw..more on that anon...
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