Rick Santorum might not be the biggest asshole on Capital Hill, but he is the only pure asshole on the Hill from Pennsylvania. I think Specter wants to do his part to make the world a better place, and wants to faithfully represent us Pennsylvanians.
And he might not be the biggest asshole on the Hill, but he wants to be. And he'll do or say whatever he has to for his wingnut party to elevate him to that position.
At last, there's a web site dedicated to outing him. You can't hold all his positions and remain rational. You can't hold all his positions and accept American Plurality. My German friend complained to me that the US is always waving the flag and shouting "USA!", but when a German expresses national pride, he is admonished. I explained that anyone can be an American. It's a universal term. Come here, be yourself, and 'poof!' you're American. I went on to remind him that the German state caused a bit of a hassle for the non-Germans by their chosen form of expression for their national pride. See, they wanted marginalization, even extermination for all non-aryans, non-heterosexuals and non-utilitarian artists. Hey- just like Rick!
I've believed for a long time that the people who express opinions like Ricky don't hold them. They express them for political gain. People care more when they're given a side to fight against than when they fight for something. Like liberty, justice and American plurality. That's what's made us the fine country we are: Pluralism.
Santorum, you fuckhead, here's a link to a site all about you and your gorgeous, immense, screwy head:
http://www.santorumexposed.com/
Friday, August 26, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Things going badly
Our President, and most of government thank you very much, relies on your ignorance and lack of sophistication to further his goals. Always mentioning unrelated items together, always tacking hard to the extremes while dismissing critics, he simply has to be ignored now. We don't get anything from him or his people. I've said it before, the only information we get from this administration comes in the form of Lies.
Bush daftly reduces the arguments against his hog-fest in Iraq to 0 vs 1. A complete and immediate withdrawal or endlessly hosing US money and blood down the gullet of US companies floating on their bloated bellies in the Caribbean. He thinks you're an idiot. His spin machine claimed a week of victories as Congress lifted our wallets as they rushed out the door to vacation on the dole, even though every vote exceeded or fell short of his dictats.
Oh- unrelated War in Iraq juxtaposes nicely with War on Terror, because it is assumed you interpret those both to mean "War on the Towelhead Motherfuckers". Of course there's a difference: The War In Iraq ended over a year ago, and the War on Terror isn't a real war (with objectives and maps and stuff). Bush has no plan but domestic stalemate, which is all a war against an -ism can be. But we got up and left after the middle of the real war we had in Afghanistan- oh, and it's still going. And we still have troops there. Spinning wheels.
What would happen to our international position if we withdrew 100% by next Tuesday? Nothing bad, except we wouldn't have room for all the returning soldiers. Bases closing, VA hospitals shrinking, no jobs. The contractors would come home and go on unemployment, assuming Halliburton et al pay into the UC system. The real danger is what would happen domestically if 200,000 people came home with no jobs outside Homeland Security. Bush the CEO knows that we will look weaker on paper when our annual report is published if we bring all those folks home. His refusal to pick a goal and place it on a calendar has more to do with padding our bond value than anything else. You simply can't believe what he says, so you have to look for the truth in the unpublished back story.
SO: what to do in Iraq? Shouldn't be doing anything anywhere near Iraq at this point. What's going on there anyway? Spinning wheels: Spin the Wheel of IED's- whose number gonna come up?
Remember Afghanistan? An election doesn't a democracy make. A Constitution in Iraq won't come but by dictation from over here. Sunnis want a Sunni/Baath state. Shiites want Sharia. Kurds want Kurdistan. Irreconcilable. So as a parting gift, Bush is putting another hole in the NATO boat by fomenting Civil War in Iraq. Syria and Turkey can't have domestic separatists looking over the border at a free Kurdistan, but that's what we'll force them to do.
How much more permanent damage are we going to tolerate from this chump and his glutton horde? I say screw Iraq. Get the hell out. Stop killing our young people, Mr. Bush, and stop taking our money, Mr. Cheney. Stop lying, Mr. Wolfowitz. Stop pretending to work Mrs. Rice. Stop picking fights, shorty Rumsfeld. I want a stalemate. Lame duck begins now. No on Roberts. No on everything this asshole wants, and no on everything his supporters dream they want.
A bipartisan resolution in Congress, the Homeward Bound Act (H.J. Res. 55), calls for a plan in Iraq with a timeline. We need to increase the number of co-sponsors before Congress returns in September. Please call Rep. Pitts today and ask him to sign on.
Congressman Joseph Pitts Phone: 202-225-2411
Bush daftly reduces the arguments against his hog-fest in Iraq to 0 vs 1. A complete and immediate withdrawal or endlessly hosing US money and blood down the gullet of US companies floating on their bloated bellies in the Caribbean. He thinks you're an idiot. His spin machine claimed a week of victories as Congress lifted our wallets as they rushed out the door to vacation on the dole, even though every vote exceeded or fell short of his dictats.
Oh- unrelated War in Iraq juxtaposes nicely with War on Terror, because it is assumed you interpret those both to mean "War on the Towelhead Motherfuckers". Of course there's a difference: The War In Iraq ended over a year ago, and the War on Terror isn't a real war (with objectives and maps and stuff). Bush has no plan but domestic stalemate, which is all a war against an -ism can be. But we got up and left after the middle of the real war we had in Afghanistan- oh, and it's still going. And we still have troops there. Spinning wheels.
What would happen to our international position if we withdrew 100% by next Tuesday? Nothing bad, except we wouldn't have room for all the returning soldiers. Bases closing, VA hospitals shrinking, no jobs. The contractors would come home and go on unemployment, assuming Halliburton et al pay into the UC system. The real danger is what would happen domestically if 200,000 people came home with no jobs outside Homeland Security. Bush the CEO knows that we will look weaker on paper when our annual report is published if we bring all those folks home. His refusal to pick a goal and place it on a calendar has more to do with padding our bond value than anything else. You simply can't believe what he says, so you have to look for the truth in the unpublished back story.
SO: what to do in Iraq? Shouldn't be doing anything anywhere near Iraq at this point. What's going on there anyway? Spinning wheels: Spin the Wheel of IED's- whose number gonna come up?
Remember Afghanistan? An election doesn't a democracy make. A Constitution in Iraq won't come but by dictation from over here. Sunnis want a Sunni/Baath state. Shiites want Sharia. Kurds want Kurdistan. Irreconcilable. So as a parting gift, Bush is putting another hole in the NATO boat by fomenting Civil War in Iraq. Syria and Turkey can't have domestic separatists looking over the border at a free Kurdistan, but that's what we'll force them to do.
How much more permanent damage are we going to tolerate from this chump and his glutton horde? I say screw Iraq. Get the hell out. Stop killing our young people, Mr. Bush, and stop taking our money, Mr. Cheney. Stop lying, Mr. Wolfowitz. Stop pretending to work Mrs. Rice. Stop picking fights, shorty Rumsfeld. I want a stalemate. Lame duck begins now. No on Roberts. No on everything this asshole wants, and no on everything his supporters dream they want.
A bipartisan resolution in Congress, the Homeward Bound Act (H.J. Res. 55), calls for a plan in Iraq with a timeline. We need to increase the number of co-sponsors before Congress returns in September. Please call Rep. Pitts today and ask him to sign on.
Congressman Joseph Pitts Phone: 202-225-2411
Saturday, August 20, 2005
fdaFDA Approval is Meaningless
Politicians, drug salesman and stockholders are always bitching about jury awards and trying to limit patients' rights to sue companies for killing them. The recent Vioxx verdict will be used as an example on FOX for a few months, to show how out-of-control juries are.
I agree that juries are made up of dumber people than we want to find. They know nothing about the case they're given to decide, which in the case of drugs and health is unforgivable. I heard one of the jury members say, "It looked like Merck tried to do the best they could, until the memos surfaced about tweaking the studies." The defense attorney said "Look- this is an FDA-approved drug!"
But in order to grant FDA approval, the FDA only requires the company to provide data to justify it. Lots of data. Lots of studies. To win FDA approval, Merck held some studies in the dark. Kept them quiet. Like the studies that showed increased suicide in antidepressant trials. And since the drug companies are the only parties to the drug sale represented in the Cabinet, the Congress and the lobbies, they can and do.
I agree that juries are made up of dumber people than we want to find. They know nothing about the case they're given to decide, which in the case of drugs and health is unforgivable. I heard one of the jury members say, "It looked like Merck tried to do the best they could, until the memos surfaced about tweaking the studies." The defense attorney said "Look- this is an FDA-approved drug!"
But in order to grant FDA approval, the FDA only requires the company to provide data to justify it. Lots of data. Lots of studies. To win FDA approval, Merck held some studies in the dark. Kept them quiet. Like the studies that showed increased suicide in antidepressant trials. And since the drug companies are the only parties to the drug sale represented in the Cabinet, the Congress and the lobbies, they can and do.
Friday, August 19, 2005
The ChiIndy Sheehan Thing
MoveOn sent an email this morning about the vigils around the country. We're all with her, right? But let's be clear about something:
A trip to Iraq is not a death sentence. There are a lot of our people over there. I guess we can't count the mercenaries/contractors. Only some are dead.
The personal notes in the email suggested horrible fears that loved ones slated to go away for a while will come to bodily harm. But of course they will! They're in the military, which gets involved with bodily harm as a workplace likelihood.
It's important that we look for a positive ingredient in this shit soup, if only to do a better job than the administration in honoring the fallen and maimed. Bush wants them coming home in the dark so no one notices. I want us all to think about them, and never forget the way life changes for someone when the shrapnel from an IED costs a leg, arm or penis. Life-changing. Like when Bush stopped snorting coke and falling down drunk to be a Jesus freak working for Armageddon.
I think you should remember the part of protest that transcends your personal situation and interest: This is a waste of your loved ones' time and misappropriation of their talent in addition to a hasty risk of their life, limbs, independence. Not because it's a money-making diversion to liberate Iraq, or because it has no bearing on our security, or even because the whole fiasco was built on a lie. It's a waste of time because our spoiled and indolent leadership, indifferent to our interests and above the fray, only visit us on TV from time to time to pat each other on the back, reinforce our fears, and change the subject from their lack of a plan (NOW DOCUMENTED: They knew they had insufficient planning!) and lack of a goal and lack of a reason and lack of talent. Their distraction in Iraq diverts valuable assets from our real offensive projects to the prosecution of the war, which ended over a year ago when the President landed on the aircraft carrier in his Buck Rogers pajamas.
He went us there because he could. He saw an opportunity, although it had to be spelled out in decades of Neocon writing. Politics is the art of the possible, and Bush had the domestic political capital to get away with it. The GOP will spin responsibility away from themselves, but his friends are getting filthy rich, just like his buddies at Enron did when they figured out a scam. But if Enron had Halliburton and the other military contractors subcontracted, California would be their property today.
Iraq: only a few thousand miles away from our enemies in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea... Canada.
A trip to Iraq is not a death sentence. There are a lot of our people over there. I guess we can't count the mercenaries/contractors. Only some are dead.
The personal notes in the email suggested horrible fears that loved ones slated to go away for a while will come to bodily harm. But of course they will! They're in the military, which gets involved with bodily harm as a workplace likelihood.
It's important that we look for a positive ingredient in this shit soup, if only to do a better job than the administration in honoring the fallen and maimed. Bush wants them coming home in the dark so no one notices. I want us all to think about them, and never forget the way life changes for someone when the shrapnel from an IED costs a leg, arm or penis. Life-changing. Like when Bush stopped snorting coke and falling down drunk to be a Jesus freak working for Armageddon.
I think you should remember the part of protest that transcends your personal situation and interest: This is a waste of your loved ones' time and misappropriation of their talent in addition to a hasty risk of their life, limbs, independence. Not because it's a money-making diversion to liberate Iraq, or because it has no bearing on our security, or even because the whole fiasco was built on a lie. It's a waste of time because our spoiled and indolent leadership, indifferent to our interests and above the fray, only visit us on TV from time to time to pat each other on the back, reinforce our fears, and change the subject from their lack of a plan (NOW DOCUMENTED: They knew they had insufficient planning!) and lack of a goal and lack of a reason and lack of talent. Their distraction in Iraq diverts valuable assets from our real offensive projects to the prosecution of the war, which ended over a year ago when the President landed on the aircraft carrier in his Buck Rogers pajamas.
He went us there because he could. He saw an opportunity, although it had to be spelled out in decades of Neocon writing. Politics is the art of the possible, and Bush had the domestic political capital to get away with it. The GOP will spin responsibility away from themselves, but his friends are getting filthy rich, just like his buddies at Enron did when they figured out a scam. But if Enron had Halliburton and the other military contractors subcontracted, California would be their property today.
Iraq: only a few thousand miles away from our enemies in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea... Canada.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
The Separation of State and State. Wha?
1) Here's a link. Thanks Rich. It fits into the thing I wanted to write today:
http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=318
2) We've been watching televisions tell us about the growing disparity between the haves and have-mores, and once in a while we hear about the have-nots. But while we're running as fast as we can to turn the wheel and keep our stuff while we go out and get more (at near-zero-margin prices!), we're missing something important.
The government again. Still. Nobody on the hill except that coward veteran Kerry or that adopter of black kids McCain ever served in the military. None of their kids are going off to fight the war. Very few have ever had real jobs, although Frist opened old peoples' chests to vacuum money out, and DeLay was a destroyer of insects.
And the median income for a family of four is dropping. And the CPI is rising. And they voted themselves another pay raise. I haven't seen whether the Presidential salary was raised as well, but when Bush came in 2001 he accepted a $400,000 a year salary plus expenses and benefits including LIFETIME BODYfreakinGUARDS. For those who skipped that class, he made 40% more than Clinton the previous year ($250,000).
And in Pennsylvania, watching as jobs evaporate and population ages and flees for younger cities, with tax revenue declining and slot machines promising to make up the difference between what the politicians can promise in 30 seconds and what reality can provide, the lawmakers just passed around pay raises of over 10%. As health programs and municipal services are being whittled down to empty slogans.
So back to the link. Unbossed is a site apparently dedicated to freedom on the roads. But the roads are ultimately paid for and maintained by bodies. And when a company gets a deal to build a toll road they might be taking a share of the tolls.
Our local, county, state and federal governments are out making deals to get themselves paid hard, and we're paying them for it. I'm not a Democrat, but I plan to vote that way until the Republicans act like people living among people. I wanted to work to promote a third party, like the Greens, but I think taking over the Democratic Party with Progressives interested in the people who live here is a nobler goal.
So let's purge the governments of everyone in them, replace them with naive people who don't trust lobbyists and can't try to control their neighbors' attitudes, want to leave personal decicions to the Americans, and hope to get back to their real jobs after a little time off to serve the people. Let's.
http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=318
2) We've been watching televisions tell us about the growing disparity between the haves and have-mores, and once in a while we hear about the have-nots. But while we're running as fast as we can to turn the wheel and keep our stuff while we go out and get more (at near-zero-margin prices!), we're missing something important.
The government again. Still. Nobody on the hill except that coward veteran Kerry or that adopter of black kids McCain ever served in the military. None of their kids are going off to fight the war. Very few have ever had real jobs, although Frist opened old peoples' chests to vacuum money out, and DeLay was a destroyer of insects.
And the median income for a family of four is dropping. And the CPI is rising. And they voted themselves another pay raise. I haven't seen whether the Presidential salary was raised as well, but when Bush came in 2001 he accepted a $400,000 a year salary plus expenses and benefits including LIFETIME BODYfreakinGUARDS. For those who skipped that class, he made 40% more than Clinton the previous year ($250,000).
And in Pennsylvania, watching as jobs evaporate and population ages and flees for younger cities, with tax revenue declining and slot machines promising to make up the difference between what the politicians can promise in 30 seconds and what reality can provide, the lawmakers just passed around pay raises of over 10%. As health programs and municipal services are being whittled down to empty slogans.
So back to the link. Unbossed is a site apparently dedicated to freedom on the roads. But the roads are ultimately paid for and maintained by bodies. And when a company gets a deal to build a toll road they might be taking a share of the tolls.
Our local, county, state and federal governments are out making deals to get themselves paid hard, and we're paying them for it. I'm not a Democrat, but I plan to vote that way until the Republicans act like people living among people. I wanted to work to promote a third party, like the Greens, but I think taking over the Democratic Party with Progressives interested in the people who live here is a nobler goal.
So let's purge the governments of everyone in them, replace them with naive people who don't trust lobbyists and can't try to control their neighbors' attitudes, want to leave personal decicions to the Americans, and hope to get back to their real jobs after a little time off to serve the people. Let's.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Property Rights
Our founders didn't specifically outlaw torture and brutal executions because they aren't effective deterents to criminal behavior. They forbade 'em because they didn't want their country to grow up to be cruel and despotic, capable of intimidating even its citizens into a state of unquestioning obedience.
It's disgusting behavior, beneath the dignity of us and our heritage.
That's all. It's uncivilized.
The Constitution was also set up to protect the individual from blocs. The notion that a few wealthy developers with more access to political appointments and sharing a steam room at the club with the governor or mayor can vote to take your ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, hand it at charity prices to a real estate company, and put a friggin' mall on it is atrocious.
Two groups, the oil companies and the construction/development companies are thriving in this stagnant economy, and they should have to go out and buy their own raw materials. The wierdo-socialist government is propping up these companies, not because they're weak, but because they're too fat to stand up.
A billion dollars for the oil companies to go find oil in the 'energy bill'. Eminent Domain as a mechanism for companies to get tasty tax parcels at bargain prices. It's almost as bad as prividing the Republican State of Alaska with $3,000,000 to produce a film about road building in Alaska. But not disgusting, like officially standing on the principle that the Geneva Conventions against torture are 'Quaint'. It's not quaint, it's a founding principle of our Republic.
What is our country coming to?
It's disgusting behavior, beneath the dignity of us and our heritage.
That's all. It's uncivilized.
The Constitution was also set up to protect the individual from blocs. The notion that a few wealthy developers with more access to political appointments and sharing a steam room at the club with the governor or mayor can vote to take your ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, hand it at charity prices to a real estate company, and put a friggin' mall on it is atrocious.
Two groups, the oil companies and the construction/development companies are thriving in this stagnant economy, and they should have to go out and buy their own raw materials. The wierdo-socialist government is propping up these companies, not because they're weak, but because they're too fat to stand up.
A billion dollars for the oil companies to go find oil in the 'energy bill'. Eminent Domain as a mechanism for companies to get tasty tax parcels at bargain prices. It's almost as bad as prividing the Republican State of Alaska with $3,000,000 to produce a film about road building in Alaska. But not disgusting, like officially standing on the principle that the Geneva Conventions against torture are 'Quaint'. It's not quaint, it's a founding principle of our Republic.
What is our country coming to?
Friday, August 12, 2005
Hold not thy nose
So I've been hearing about a guy from Philadelphia, a Drexel professor, who threw his hat into the upcoming Pennsylvania Senate race. He's running as a Democrat against Casey Jr.
I don't like Juniors to begin with, especially the political dynasty juniors. But when they run for office using the same platform/paddle the bad guys use it turns my stomach.
And I don't plan to hold my nose and vote against Santorum without also doing something positive. The trouble is, Santorum can't be allowed to win. The other problem is: In a few years, someone is going to have to take the White House away from Georgie Junior, and when that happens the country is going to see they've stuck it together with crazy glue. Scratch that: FUCKING CRAzy glue.
I wonder whether it would be best for the long term to leave P(R)ick in the Senate to exlplain away and apologize for all the permanent damage he and his idiot horde have caused. Because the lies can't transfer so easily to the next administration.
We saw Specter at the gym the other day, and he's looking pretty bad. A faithful raquetballer, he's in good shape for an old, old, old man. But the cancer came up with the last two 'old's in that phrase. He was sprightly. And he'll vacate a seat after the coming 2006 'election'.
So let's talk about this Pinnochio fellow. Can he win ? Should Santorum be forced to stay? He wants to bail out to start runnin' fer Prezy-dent. Should we give him two years off ?
I don't like Juniors to begin with, especially the political dynasty juniors. But when they run for office using the same platform/paddle the bad guys use it turns my stomach.
And I don't plan to hold my nose and vote against Santorum without also doing something positive. The trouble is, Santorum can't be allowed to win. The other problem is: In a few years, someone is going to have to take the White House away from Georgie Junior, and when that happens the country is going to see they've stuck it together with crazy glue. Scratch that: FUCKING CRAzy glue.
I wonder whether it would be best for the long term to leave P(R)ick in the Senate to exlplain away and apologize for all the permanent damage he and his idiot horde have caused. Because the lies can't transfer so easily to the next administration.
We saw Specter at the gym the other day, and he's looking pretty bad. A faithful raquetballer, he's in good shape for an old, old, old man. But the cancer came up with the last two 'old's in that phrase. He was sprightly. And he'll vacate a seat after the coming 2006 'election'.
So let's talk about this Pinnochio fellow. Can he win ? Should Santorum be forced to stay? He wants to bail out to start runnin' fer Prezy-dent. Should we give him two years off ?
Pants afire, but lots of smoke too
Where there's smoke there's fire. The President's smokescreen to obscure the past is thematic. Revisionist History, obstructionist history...
Don't you love the way they change the subject from Sheenan's vigil to "I just think it would be irresponsible to pull out of Iraq. I thought about it, but I don't think it's a good idea." I do. I love that. It makes me look forward to the next administration struggling to repair the damage done to the WHite House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Treasury, the Environment, the International FLow of Goods and Services, the ... the concept that Jesus doesn't want us to throw stones. Remember, he died at the hands of an angry mob.
One day there will be a National Park Trail, similar to the tracks of George Washington, but it will include plaques wherever Bush Jr. spoke, and it will say "George Bush Lied Here."
Don't you love the way they change the subject from Sheenan's vigil to "I just think it would be irresponsible to pull out of Iraq. I thought about it, but I don't think it's a good idea." I do. I love that. It makes me look forward to the next administration struggling to repair the damage done to the WHite House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Treasury, the Environment, the International FLow of Goods and Services, the ... the concept that Jesus doesn't want us to throw stones. Remember, he died at the hands of an angry mob.
One day there will be a National Park Trail, similar to the tracks of George Washington, but it will include plaques wherever Bush Jr. spoke, and it will say "George Bush Lied Here."
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Never a dull moment, but still no surprises
The White House is stonewalling on the Roberts files. Find 'em yourself.
The President slidStrap-on Bolton into you hiney. Should have been ready for it.
The highway bill, the energy bill, every bill has been about getting paid- except two kinds.
1) The bill coming due when China realizes they don't need our currency to be worth anything to buy their cheaply produced American stuff. Where are we going to go to get it? They have the technology, the brands, the infrastructure, if we need to get things to carry out our little American Dream, fuck us.
The West will sell us the rope we use to hang them"- Lenin.
2) Bill Clinton. Check my facts: The most popular president in the past 50 years balanced the budget, produced the military little Rumsfeld and equally little Bush used to half-ass conquer the lazy part of the middle east. His salary was $250,000. Bush blew the surplus and then some, plunged us into almost $8,000,000,000,000 debt, and gets a whopping $400,000 plus expenses. Talk about a CEO President! This asshole makes more money than his successful predecessor. And his supporters don't even realize they're voting for Enron-scale fraud, graft and downright shit-on-you disregard.
Tax the churches. Tax all income, not spending. Consider it your dues to belong here, where the opportunity is worth chasing. Check me again: a 1% tax on all earnings from business conducted in the US. Wages, interest, real estate.
The President slid
The highway bill, the energy bill, every bill has been about getting paid- except two kinds.
1) The bill coming due when China realizes they don't need our currency to be worth anything to buy their cheaply produced American stuff. Where are we going to go to get it? They have the technology, the brands, the infrastructure, if we need to get things to carry out our little American Dream, fuck us.
The West will sell us the rope we use to hang them"- Lenin.
2) Bill Clinton. Check my facts: The most popular president in the past 50 years balanced the budget, produced the military little Rumsfeld and equally little Bush used to half-ass conquer the lazy part of the middle east. His salary was $250,000. Bush blew the surplus and then some, plunged us into almost $8,000,000,000,000 debt, and gets a whopping $400,000 plus expenses. Talk about a CEO President! This asshole makes more money than his successful predecessor. And his supporters don't even realize they're voting for Enron-scale fraud, graft and downright shit-on-you disregard.
Tax the churches. Tax all income, not spending. Consider it your dues to belong here, where the opportunity is worth chasing. Check me again: a 1% tax on all earnings from business conducted in the US. Wages, interest, real estate.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Blabs
Hey, this wasn't intentional. But I did it. Here: Look at a wart. It's okay to make the occasional mistake. I was going for something about how people can't keep their mind going in one direction with all the hyperdistracting reality around us. But you can see where it went. Lost focus.
I hate blogs. But I guess I don't.
Some people appear to be able to focus. I try hard to focus on the domestic US. This is where I live, and I grew up in a conservative household helieving that government is a lowly profession, government shouldn't affect our lives in a restrictive way, and that people should have real jobs producing something or providing a valuable service.
So I criticize the hypocritical 'Conservative' faction. They are as a rule reactionary and radical. But they want to get involved in our behavior. They want to throw markets out of balance and create special classes of person: the Company and the Leader. These two entities would operate above and transcend responsibility. They don't hug their kids or watch cartoons, they just wield and get.
So restrictions on the behavior of companies and leaders are Different. Leaders should have to check with their bosses before they leave their desk to use the bathroom. Gotta watch them. And companies are owned by individuals who learn they can profit immensely by ignoring, cheating, stealing, usurping,... A for-profit company is like a person, but without morality or conscience. Gotta watch them too.
Enron should have zero influence with our government. It's that simple. But they don't because the fox is minding the asylum.
So I'm for regulation of businesses and the government, and freedom for the people.
I hate blogs. But I guess I don't.
Some people appear to be able to focus. I try hard to focus on the domestic US. This is where I live, and I grew up in a conservative household helieving that government is a lowly profession, government shouldn't affect our lives in a restrictive way, and that people should have real jobs producing something or providing a valuable service.
So I criticize the hypocritical 'Conservative' faction. They are as a rule reactionary and radical. But they want to get involved in our behavior. They want to throw markets out of balance and create special classes of person: the Company and the Leader. These two entities would operate above and transcend responsibility. They don't hug their kids or watch cartoons, they just wield and get.
So restrictions on the behavior of companies and leaders are Different. Leaders should have to check with their bosses before they leave their desk to use the bathroom. Gotta watch them. And companies are owned by individuals who learn they can profit immensely by ignoring, cheating, stealing, usurping,... A for-profit company is like a person, but without morality or conscience. Gotta watch them too.
Enron should have zero influence with our government. It's that simple. But they don't because the fox is minding the asylum.
So I'm for regulation of businesses and the government, and freedom for the people.
I think I'm starting to get it.
So the energy bill, right? It doesn't solve any energy problems, but it eliminates problems in the energy industry, right? Things like taxes, the right of localities to influence where a nuclear reactor can go? Things like capital investment requiring money from the investor?
I don't like it. It's a bad bill. It's another empty list of words. All the Congress knows how to do it give money away and help themselves and others shirk responsibility.
I don't like it. It's a bad bill. It's another empty list of words. All the Congress knows how to do it give money away and help themselves and others shirk responsibility.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Why Santorum would be better as actual shit than figurative
You can use shit in your garden to help your flowers grow.
Seriously, I usually stop early in my analysis of Santorum. He earns his asshole stamp as soon as he argues against the existence of privacy. Then he gets another merit badge in buggery by equating homo sex with bestiality. By the time he blamed Puritan Boston for causing the Catholic Church around the world to condone and protect child molestation and homo sex, I was already on to the next page.
But here are some things we should also remember about that asshole Rick Santorum, USS:
I don't like Casey, but I hate this motherfucker. I hope he hasn't saved any of his Senator money, and that his family has to figure out like mine did how to survive on its own efforts in the George Bush Eco-Oh No!-nomy.
Seriously, I usually stop early in my analysis of Santorum. He earns his asshole stamp as soon as he argues against the existence of privacy. Then he gets another merit badge in buggery by equating homo sex with bestiality. By the time he blamed Puritan Boston for causing the Catholic Church around the world to condone and protect child molestation and homo sex, I was already on to the next page.
But here are some things we should also remember about that asshole Rick Santorum, USS:
- Santorum believes millions of people are uninsured because, "some people don't want [insurance] - like the Amish." [Harrisburg Patriot, 6/10/97]
- Santorum believes child care is a "Washington" issue that ordinary Americans don't care about. [Congressional Quarterly, 3/9/05]
- He said that the environmental movement's days are numbered and that environmentalism is against nature. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/24/95]
- He believes in privatizing Social Security. [Congressional Record, S3231, 4/5/05]
- Santorum thinks it's wrong to help single mothers earn a college degree. In his book, It Takes a Family, Santorum said that "The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong." [It Takes a Family, pg. 138]
I don't like Casey, but I hate this motherfucker. I hope he hasn't saved any of his Senator money, and that his family has to figure out like mine did how to survive on its own efforts in the George Bush Eco-Oh No!-nomy.
Public Enemy Number One
The Rove story is now out of the news. Scooter and Cheney are nowhere to be seen. Bush is installing Strap-on Bolton as our interface with the rest of the world. Jesus freaks are glued to the 700 Club praying for their man Roberts no one else seems to know.
And Guess who's back: Scott Peterson! You remember him from such smokescreens as: Cheney bought the Energy Policy from Enron", and "Honey, the Supreme Court Went Duck Hunting with Cheney Before Hearing why we Shouldn't Know Anything about National Policy Decisions Made in Cooperation with the Most Crooked Outfit in US History ". He was also big during "Condoleeza didn't read the fucking memo either- It was the FBI's job."
Of course the Republicans had some influence over US Energy Policy, but they have some legitimate claim to that since they did get control of the government. The Most Crooked Outfit might be the RNC, but the one I'm poking at is ENRON. The ones who took your parents' retirement money. The ones who bankrolled their Houston savant into the White House. You know, their accountants are now in charge of auditing the government. Remember Enron?
Of course they did it by strictly controlling the message. And the news. And access to reality. And with the cooperation of Fox, the media wing of the Repsychoican party, they present daily talking points, hammer them for weeks, and complain about the terrible job the Democrats are doing running the country.
Scott Peterson. I never thought I'd hear that irrelevant name again.
And Guess who's back: Scott Peterson! You remember him from such smokescreens as: Cheney bought the Energy Policy from Enron", and "Honey, the Supreme Court Went Duck Hunting with Cheney Before Hearing why we Shouldn't Know Anything about National Policy Decisions Made in Cooperation with the Most Crooked Outfit in US History ". He was also big during "Condoleeza didn't read the fucking memo either- It was the FBI's job."
Of course the Republicans had some influence over US Energy Policy, but they have some legitimate claim to that since they did get control of the government. The Most Crooked Outfit might be the RNC, but the one I'm poking at is ENRON. The ones who took your parents' retirement money. The ones who bankrolled their Houston savant into the White House. You know, their accountants are now in charge of auditing the government. Remember Enron?
Of course they did it by strictly controlling the message. And the news. And access to reality. And with the cooperation of Fox, the media wing of the Repsychoican party, they present daily talking points, hammer them for weeks, and complain about the terrible job the Democrats are doing running the country.
Scott Peterson. I never thought I'd hear that irrelevant name again.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Rick Santorum: Great Republican, Shitty Person
I saw Rick Santorum hamstrung by the hard-hitting George Stephanapolous yesterday. Ricky's been thumping his new book, claiming the lesbians are taking over. Radical feminist leaders, you see, are conspiring to compromise the morals of our country and ruin our youth. And yes, the children have too many rights.
Asked by Georgiethe bulldog to identify at least one of these radical feminist leaders, Ricky said,"uh,... you know, I uh,... Gloria Steinem?"
He has no basis for his stupid book. He's just another Republican pimping his religion to help increase the tension between people who read the news and people who get it from TV. Fox.
Gotta lose this douche.
Asked by Georgiethe bulldog to identify at least one of these radical feminist leaders, Ricky said,"uh,... you know, I uh,... Gloria Steinem?"
He has no basis for his stupid book. He's just another Republican pimping his religion to help increase the tension between people who read the news and people who get it from TV. Fox.
Gotta lose this douche.
Monday, August 01, 2005
God Bless America! God Damn America! End the Save the World!
Seriously, is the Republican Party blind, evil or just stupid?
They inherited a staggering surplus from Clinton, turned it into $8,000,000,000,000 in debt, and they're giving themselves an unfunded pay raise.
They gave up on our AntiCommunist Democracy-pushing foreign policy in Taiwan and elsewhere because China now owns $700,000,000,000 in US securities and is in a position to sink the US economy (Midwest be warned: They're moving into agriculture, and that's all we keep you around for).
They try to eliminate taxes for some AND death for Terry Schiavo, the two things we know to be true.
They rally around and appoint to lifetime jobs Evangelist wingnuts who claim social security is a communist victory, despite the ironic Red victory of their mortgaging our future and subordinating our foreign agenda to China.
The only labor money they get is from the Merchant Marine managers' associations, probably owned by another donor, Wal-Mart (opensecrets.org). They surround themselves with Dennis Koslowski, Ken Lay, Ahmad Chalabi, and gird themselves against Big Bird. They essentially pardon Eric Rudolph, and jail Martha Stewart- for NOT insider trading.
The Republican Party is perfect for you who want the world to permit opposites, who claim to be and to not be. You guys rule: I admire your youthful exhuberance for fantasy.
You do however need to be castrated and set out to pasture, perhaps in the pelagic sea, surrounded by those you care about. That's a joke. You can't all be out there AND be alone. I'm trying to speak Republican. Did you get it? Or are you stupid? Or maybe you just don't understand yourselves?
They inherited a staggering surplus from Clinton, turned it into $8,000,000,000,000 in debt, and they're giving themselves an unfunded pay raise.
They gave up on our AntiCommunist Democracy-pushing foreign policy in Taiwan and elsewhere because China now owns $700,000,000,000 in US securities and is in a position to sink the US economy (Midwest be warned: They're moving into agriculture, and that's all we keep you around for).
They try to eliminate taxes for some AND death for Terry Schiavo, the two things we know to be true.
They rally around and appoint to lifetime jobs Evangelist wingnuts who claim social security is a communist victory, despite the ironic Red victory of their mortgaging our future and subordinating our foreign agenda to China.
The only labor money they get is from the Merchant Marine managers' associations, probably owned by another donor, Wal-Mart (opensecrets.org). They surround themselves with Dennis Koslowski, Ken Lay, Ahmad Chalabi, and gird themselves against Big Bird. They essentially pardon Eric Rudolph, and jail Martha Stewart- for NOT insider trading.
The Republican Party is perfect for you who want the world to permit opposites, who claim to be and to not be. You guys rule: I admire your youthful exhuberance for fantasy.
You do however need to be castrated and set out to pasture, perhaps in the pelagic sea, surrounded by those you care about. That's a joke. You can't all be out there AND be alone. I'm trying to speak Republican. Did you get it? Or are you stupid? Or maybe you just don't understand yourselves?
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