I was wondering how the refucks would do, calling on the second string. Where was the Boner? Where was Michelle Bachman? Bobby Jindal? He came through like a champ.
Far from the pissantine whine I was expecting, he lied and bull shitted like the best of them.
When he made reference to the government's handling of Katrina... DUDE... YOUR party's president was in charge of that. HIS appointees did those heckuva jobs. YOUR party was in charge of Congress. YOU sat there.
I love how refucks do this: They create government failures so that can point out the failures of government. They create the reasons why we should mistrust government. He references the Refuckyoucan response to Katrina as the reason we should not trust the democrats, but rather the refuckyoucans to provide help to pull us through this Second Republican Depression. "We republicans have ideas." Dude... we get you... your ideas SUCK!!! That's why we've been voting your ilk out these past two elections. I get the idea he believes in those McCainian Economic Fundamentals.
And of course the straight faced bald faced lies: There is no railway from Disneyland to Vegas in the stimulus bill. You refucks have had NO energy plan, besides "drill baby, drill." You have had NO plan for universal health care beyond, "go to the emergency room." You have had NO economic plan beyond tax cuts, when times are good, bad, happy or sad.
BTW Bar.... Helluva speech. Back it up with action and you may force me to take down my Kucinich banner.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Fancy Assed Ways to Say "Fuck It"
Tale of two Republicans: For Sanford, it's worry, worry worry about how his state (all states) can sustain the mandates contained in the stimulus bill. The " federal strings attached." Pawlenty's state has already implemented those provisions. Hmmm Keep in mind, neither of these characters will rule out the possibility of running for President.
Pawlenty's figured out a rationalle whereby he can take the money, but as a sort of protest. He doesn't say so directly, but he thinks the feds owe his state this money. For Sanford there seems to be something intrinsically evil about (democratic) spending.
"Creative Destruction." I Wikied/Googled this term the first time I heard it and haven't come across anything linking it to Adam Smith, but it's out there again. Let everything go bankrupt, including the automakers. "bust the unions" "sell off the pension funds" Not said in those words, but the point was made by Pawlenty. Somehow this doesn't apply to banks and brokerages and corporate execs, who sit in the shade thinking of ways to make money with money; it only applies to manufactures and other blue collar industries. Somehow, magically a phoenix will rise from the ashes.
Granholm gets cut off when she starts making the point of this country heading in the direction of "Manufacturing nothing."
Governors like Granholm are going to get crucified by conservatards as being nothing more than money grabbers, no matter what they say about envisioning Obama's stimulus bill as a bridge to try to get us to a more active economy. In the meantime, people are hurting in numbers we haven't seen in decades. Sanford makes a lot of noise in opposition, Pawlenty makes excuses, for taking money to help them. Anyone wonder why I call these people and their party Refuckyoucans? ??? They don't care; they just express their disdain differently.
(WOW.... Juan Williams steps out of his "Man Servant" attire (a black Alan Colmes?) and calls a spade a spade regarding the NY Post's Obama/chimp cartoon, while Brit the Shar pei Hume and Billy Blood Lust Kristol excuses it. Face it, the stimulus is Obama's bill, no matter who actually typed it up, just like the devastating tax cuts of the last 30 years are Reagan's and Bush's. The NY Post is calling Obama a rogue chimp, on the attck, who needs to be shot. (see my comment over at Firestarter's))
(Another WOW: Ahnuld on Snuffallupolous: Give the people what they want, such as health care, even if it goes against your personal principles. Is he really a republican? I know he's not stupid.)
The nation is where it is, the economy is where it is, as a result of Refuckyoucan, conservative, Greenspanian, voodoo, policies. Bullshitiousness and douchebaggery: Industries can regulate themselves. Greenspan was SHOCKED to learn that the banks could not. Theoretically.... yes. It IS in the best interests, theoretically, to produce a good product, to give good service, to satisfy customers. Unless you're a shareholder; they're customers of a different color. Good service to them means getting a big dividend.
In order to satisfy buying customers, industry must invest and spend. To satisfy shareholder customers, industry must cut corners and save. Hence ship jobs to China, Vietnam and Indonesia where labor is dirt cheap or the Marianas Islands and import Chinese as slaves. And give tax breaks for the "cost of investment" in doing so. To sell this shit as a benefit to consumers, harp on the notion that higher, meaning any, business taxes will increase prices, while ignoring the FACT that NO ONE lowers their prices when production costs decrease.
What has happened in the past eight years, and actually it began with Reagan, is that investors have become the customer in terms of government financial policies, not the buying public. The end result of these tax and business policies were that the last pool of capital left in this country was the equity people had in their homes. If there was no equity, it was created artificially by cheapening money and deregulating credit and loosening qualifications for mortgages to get people to refinance their homes. In the meantime, these same policies allowed people who were totally unqualified to apply for and get loans to buy homes. While it was the equity they were after, they also got toxic loans. Two separate issues.
The equity as was intended, got spent. It DID create jobs... in the service and retail sectors. Manufacturing continued to move and stay overseas. But the effects of spending home equity are temporary, and the effects have run out. So what we have now are people with refinanced houses, no equity in them and no way to pay for them because they have no jobs. NEW toxic assets added to the other ones: the toxic loans.
Enter the smoke and mirrors of mortgage (bad loan) backed securities, derivatives, credit default swaps, and other fraudulent cover ups (Ponzi schemes) cooked up by the ban-sure-vest ment industry. That anyone, anywhere would be surprised that the economy is where it is is ludicrous. I understand being desperate, but what the fuck do people expect to happen when millions run out of money?
Interest Only Loans. I couldn't believe such nonsensical entities existed. And I couldn't believe people would be so unscrupulous as to sell them. What if the price of the house goes down? DUHH!!! I know the only way I could be convinced to accept such a thing would be that I was lied to or defrauded in some other way. Or just be desparate to have shelter: Sign the loan or live in a crate? I'd sign the loan. Knowing I'm leaving someone else holding the bag.
When you boil down all the financial finnegglings of these past months, their true intent is to protect these bag holders. And it's all been insured at every step of the way with money that never existed. NOTHING is being done to protect the buyer. "Let the buyer beware." EVERYTHING being done is to protect the investor. "Let the buyer be... bailed out?"
Oooooo.... Nouriel Roubini and Paul Krugman face off against GeorgeDubya F Will. School house time.
George is doing his best to not be ridiculed by people who know what the fuck they're talking about. Almost funny as I watch him squirm and seethe as he swallows his conservatard cliches. Shit... I kept watching and waiting for Will to show what an ass he can be and I missed the sensible shit from Roubini and Krugman.
Bobby the Exorcist Jindal. You want to live in a "Republican Paradise?" Move to Louisiana. This fucker's crazy. "I just have a fundamental difference with this package." I can't take money to help people if it differs from my personal political philosophy: Cut (capital gains) taxes.
Pawlenty's figured out a rationalle whereby he can take the money, but as a sort of protest. He doesn't say so directly, but he thinks the feds owe his state this money. For Sanford there seems to be something intrinsically evil about (democratic) spending.
"Creative Destruction." I Wikied/Googled this term the first time I heard it and haven't come across anything linking it to Adam Smith, but it's out there again. Let everything go bankrupt, including the automakers. "bust the unions" "sell off the pension funds" Not said in those words, but the point was made by Pawlenty. Somehow this doesn't apply to banks and brokerages and corporate execs, who sit in the shade thinking of ways to make money with money; it only applies to manufactures and other blue collar industries. Somehow, magically a phoenix will rise from the ashes.
Granholm gets cut off when she starts making the point of this country heading in the direction of "Manufacturing nothing."
Governors like Granholm are going to get crucified by conservatards as being nothing more than money grabbers, no matter what they say about envisioning Obama's stimulus bill as a bridge to try to get us to a more active economy. In the meantime, people are hurting in numbers we haven't seen in decades. Sanford makes a lot of noise in opposition, Pawlenty makes excuses, for taking money to help them. Anyone wonder why I call these people and their party Refuckyoucans? ??? They don't care; they just express their disdain differently.
(WOW.... Juan Williams steps out of his "Man Servant" attire (a black Alan Colmes?) and calls a spade a spade regarding the NY Post's Obama/chimp cartoon, while Brit the Shar pei Hume and Billy Blood Lust Kristol excuses it. Face it, the stimulus is Obama's bill, no matter who actually typed it up, just like the devastating tax cuts of the last 30 years are Reagan's and Bush's. The NY Post is calling Obama a rogue chimp, on the attck, who needs to be shot. (see my comment over at Firestarter's))
(Another WOW: Ahnuld on Snuffallupolous: Give the people what they want, such as health care, even if it goes against your personal principles. Is he really a republican? I know he's not stupid.)
The nation is where it is, the economy is where it is, as a result of Refuckyoucan, conservative, Greenspanian, voodoo, policies. Bullshitiousness and douchebaggery: Industries can regulate themselves. Greenspan was SHOCKED to learn that the banks could not. Theoretically.... yes. It IS in the best interests, theoretically, to produce a good product, to give good service, to satisfy customers. Unless you're a shareholder; they're customers of a different color. Good service to them means getting a big dividend.
In order to satisfy buying customers, industry must invest and spend. To satisfy shareholder customers, industry must cut corners and save. Hence ship jobs to China, Vietnam and Indonesia where labor is dirt cheap or the Marianas Islands and import Chinese as slaves. And give tax breaks for the "cost of investment" in doing so. To sell this shit as a benefit to consumers, harp on the notion that higher, meaning any, business taxes will increase prices, while ignoring the FACT that NO ONE lowers their prices when production costs decrease.
What has happened in the past eight years, and actually it began with Reagan, is that investors have become the customer in terms of government financial policies, not the buying public. The end result of these tax and business policies were that the last pool of capital left in this country was the equity people had in their homes. If there was no equity, it was created artificially by cheapening money and deregulating credit and loosening qualifications for mortgages to get people to refinance their homes. In the meantime, these same policies allowed people who were totally unqualified to apply for and get loans to buy homes. While it was the equity they were after, they also got toxic loans. Two separate issues.
The equity as was intended, got spent. It DID create jobs... in the service and retail sectors. Manufacturing continued to move and stay overseas. But the effects of spending home equity are temporary, and the effects have run out. So what we have now are people with refinanced houses, no equity in them and no way to pay for them because they have no jobs. NEW toxic assets added to the other ones: the toxic loans.
Enter the smoke and mirrors of mortgage (bad loan) backed securities, derivatives, credit default swaps, and other fraudulent cover ups (Ponzi schemes) cooked up by the ban-sure-vest ment industry. That anyone, anywhere would be surprised that the economy is where it is is ludicrous. I understand being desperate, but what the fuck do people expect to happen when millions run out of money?
Interest Only Loans. I couldn't believe such nonsensical entities existed. And I couldn't believe people would be so unscrupulous as to sell them. What if the price of the house goes down? DUHH!!! I know the only way I could be convinced to accept such a thing would be that I was lied to or defrauded in some other way. Or just be desparate to have shelter: Sign the loan or live in a crate? I'd sign the loan. Knowing I'm leaving someone else holding the bag.
When you boil down all the financial finnegglings of these past months, their true intent is to protect these bag holders. And it's all been insured at every step of the way with money that never existed. NOTHING is being done to protect the buyer. "Let the buyer beware." EVERYTHING being done is to protect the investor. "Let the buyer be... bailed out?"
Oooooo.... Nouriel Roubini and Paul Krugman face off against George
George is doing his best to not be ridiculed by people who know what the fuck they're talking about. Almost funny as I watch him squirm and seethe as he swallows his conservatard cliches. Shit... I kept watching and waiting for Will to show what an ass he can be and I missed the sensible shit from Roubini and Krugman.
Bobby the Exorcist Jindal. You want to live in a "Republican Paradise?" Move to Louisiana. This fucker's crazy. "I just have a fundamental difference with this package." I can't take money to help people if it differs from my personal political philosophy: Cut (capital gains) taxes.
Friday, February 20, 2009
A-Roid: Now as a Toon Lune
I won't say I never liked him, but since he left Seattle, which was long before he signed his contract with the Texas Rangers, I've despised him. He's a calculating phony. Last year was the first year I failed to attend a game for the express purpose of booing his sorry ass.
I don't care how talented he is, and his using 'roids has done nothing to change my opinion, he's a fucking loser. Now that he's pulling a Dubya, and making new lies as the old ones are blown full of holes... well... He is TRASH. can you tell I hate phonies?
I have a T-shirt I bought in Maui that has a saying on it, the adherence to which would serve A-roid and other phonies and compulsive liars well:
Tell the truth; there's less to remember.
Trying to live by that may not change the type of person you are (like a recovering oxycontin addict who turns to booze or sex is still an addict) but it will make life simpler.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Who the Fuck is Worse?
(I haven't looked yet, but the link is there under my CNN feed)
Watching Tweety and I heard there's a survey ranking presidents and Dubya ranks 36. I'm cornfused. Very very verrrrrry cornfused.
Seriously, SIX presidents were worse? This must be a misguided effort at being bi partisan. Or charitable. Or perhaps stupid. Ya think? ???
Must be that he's tied. six way? Hmmm... I give up; gotta look.
Ooo... this is kinda interesting:crap possible reasons for the jump, but I just think it's numbness due to the common placeness granted to corruption and ineptitude by Dubya's cronies. Ida figgered he'd a been one of 'em.
Ahhh.... Buchanan. PA's eternal source of shame. The Keystone state's only president. dead last. Harding... yeah I could see him as being worse. Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce... I have to confess, I know little about them. Who else could rank lower? That's only four who are more fuckupulous. Who're the other two?
Andrew Johnson... Survived impeachment by only one vote. I guess if he'd been better than Dubya he would have avoided the whole process...? That can't be the reason or Clinton would rank lower also.
William Henry Harrison... no fair. The fucker died after only 32 days in office. He didn't have time to do much of anything beside getting sick and dying. "Vote George Dubya... He survived fatal colds." Riiiiight. I'm not thinking so. Fuckin' Dub.... he's #37 at best.
Watching Tweety and I heard there's a survey ranking presidents and Dubya ranks 36. I'm cornfused. Very very verrrrrry cornfused.
Seriously, SIX presidents were worse? This must be a misguided effort at being bi partisan. Or charitable. Or perhaps stupid. Ya think? ???
Must be that he's tied. six way? Hmmm... I give up; gotta look.
Ooo... this is kinda interesting:
They give a bunch ofThe prize for the greatest jump in approval from historians over the last nine years, however, went to a president who has often sat near the bottom of such rankings: Ulysses S. Grant. The Civil War general jumped 10 notches, from 33rd to 23rd.
Grant has traditionally received poor marks for corruption among people in his administration and the failed postwar reconstruction effort he presided over.
Ahhh.... Buchanan. PA's eternal source of shame. The Keystone state's only president. dead last. Harding... yeah I could see him as being worse. Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce... I have to confess, I know little about them. Who else could rank lower? That's only four who are more fuckupulous. Who're the other two?
Andrew Johnson... Survived impeachment by only one vote. I guess if he'd been better than Dubya he would have avoided the whole process...? That can't be the reason or Clinton would rank lower also.
William Henry Harrison... no fair. The fucker died after only 32 days in office. He didn't have time to do much of anything beside getting sick and dying. "Vote George Dubya... He survived fatal colds." Riiiiight. I'm not thinking so. Fuckin' Dub.... he's #37 at best.
The Farking Bastidges
My Liberal Identity:
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com
Couple of choices were tough to make. I also came out as a Peace Patroller.
h/t BlueGal
Add This to Your Reading List:
The Myth of Ronald Reagan
It's always comforting to get a confirmation... actually, I'm not sure "comforting" fits. Vindicated? I don't know, but thanks, Nunya.
I have several unread books on my shelf, so I'm not sure if I'll buy this one or not. The reviewer describes it as, not just a book for pissed-off liberals, but as a wake up call for conservatives. Hmmmm.... could it somehow change my views regarding the pathogenicity of conservatism? (I was taught in high school that a pathogen kills its host) I don't know.
Two other books to add:
Greenspan's Fraud
Screwed
It's always comforting to get a confirmation... actually, I'm not sure "comforting" fits. Vindicated? I don't know, but thanks, Nunya.
I have several unread books on my shelf, so I'm not sure if I'll buy this one or not. The reviewer describes it as, not just a book for pissed-off liberals, but as a wake up call for conservatives. Hmmmm.... could it somehow change my views regarding the pathogenicity of conservatism? (I was taught in high school that a pathogen kills its host) I don't know.
Two other books to add:
Greenspan's Fraud
Screwed
Sunday, February 15, 2009
A Misuse of Humor?
I don't know. (maybe just chalk this up as Sunday morning too-big-a-breakfast-tummy-rumbling ramblings) In some ways I'm getting tired of my own rage over the past 8 yrs of asswipulous dipshittulous fuckwaddity, otherwise known as W's reign of error destruction. I know there are some serious health detriments due to rage, and benefits to engaging in laughter, humor, the occasional wearing of rose colored glasses, etc but...
(inspired by C&L)
Are WE now fiddling while Rome burns? I wonder.
I've said repeatedly that Dubya was right when he said we misunderestimate him. And not only him, but the entire refuckyoucan party. Now, after an election about "Change we can believ in," one thing that has NOT changed is: The Refuckyoucan party.
They're still up to their same old shit: Obstructionism; smoke and mirrors; outright lies; and most of all, Cowardice. They are afraid of what they've wrought; of owning up to their responsibility and facing the consequences of their actions.
To hear Lindsay Graham talk about "keeping open the possibility of involving government and nationalizing banks..." as he sits with Steffulopogus, the fucker looks like a whipped puppy rather than your usual swashbuckling, tax cutting, labor fucking, free marketeer. Not that he's not still championing tax cuts, oh boy. Especially for the latest refuck toy, "small business," not that we even know what that term means anymore.
Their term du jour: "Bipartisan." WTF? OK, so Obama threw the term around during election season. Was he right? Wrong? Without 60 Dems to prevent a second consecutive record breaking refuckyoucan filibuster performance, he needs cross-over votes. Meet the most powerful people in government: Susan Collins, Olympia Snow and Arlen Spector. The rest of them seem to think it's more important to rewrite the history of the First Republican Depression, otherwise known as the Great Depression: Roosevelt caused it. Reagan's tax cuts ended it.
All this whining and crying about Obama and the Dems not being bipartisan... not reaching out... not including republicans... or their ideas. Well just maybe it's because your ideas SUCK!!! And maybe it's because when one your ideas is included, you still vote against it. Life's rough when you haven't done a single solitary good thing in the past eight years. Get's rougher when people start to realize it.
How much longer will the refucks keep playing their dumbass fucking games? ??? George F Will: "The fallacy of the false alternative, that the president is wielding promiscuously." explained? Fuck no. George again: "You are a pyromaniac in a field of straw men." explained? Again, fuck no. Big words and fancy phrases for empty ideas. Someone please help me out: What did Will have to say this morning? Of substance, I mean.
And while we're at it, let's listen to Carly "I-was-fired-with-a-kick-ass-bonus-for-fucking-up-Hewlitt-Packard" Fiorina give her views what else: CEO bonuses and saving big business and banks. Yeah, I'm a glutton for punishment; I'm watching Fucks News.
"It's all fun and games till someone gets hurt."
I laughed like hell at Sarah Palin's impersonations of Tina... what's that? Tina Fey was doing the impersonations? well... even if there's a way to tell the difference, some things just aren't funny anymore.
People are hurting.
The world is hurting.
The planet is hurting.
(inspired by C&L)
Are WE now fiddling while Rome burns? I wonder.
I've said repeatedly that Dubya was right when he said we misunderestimate him. And not only him, but the entire refuckyoucan party. Now, after an election about "Change we can believ in," one thing that has NOT changed is: The Refuckyoucan party.
They're still up to their same old shit: Obstructionism; smoke and mirrors; outright lies; and most of all, Cowardice. They are afraid of what they've wrought; of owning up to their responsibility and facing the consequences of their actions.
To hear Lindsay Graham talk about "keeping open the possibility of involving government and nationalizing banks..." as he sits with Steffulopogus, the fucker looks like a whipped puppy rather than your usual swashbuckling, tax cutting, labor fucking, free marketeer. Not that he's not still championing tax cuts, oh boy. Especially for the latest refuck toy, "small business," not that we even know what that term means anymore.
Their term du jour: "Bipartisan." WTF? OK, so Obama threw the term around during election season. Was he right? Wrong? Without 60 Dems to prevent a second consecutive record breaking refuckyoucan filibuster performance, he needs cross-over votes. Meet the most powerful people in government: Susan Collins, Olympia Snow and Arlen Spector. The rest of them seem to think it's more important to rewrite the history of the First Republican Depression, otherwise known as the Great Depression: Roosevelt caused it. Reagan's tax cuts ended it.
All this whining and crying about Obama and the Dems not being bipartisan... not reaching out... not including republicans... or their ideas. Well just maybe it's because your ideas SUCK!!! And maybe it's because when one your ideas is included, you still vote against it. Life's rough when you haven't done a single solitary good thing in the past eight years. Get's rougher when people start to realize it.
How much longer will the refucks keep playing their dumbass fucking games? ??? George F Will: "The fallacy of the false alternative, that the president is wielding promiscuously." explained? Fuck no. George again: "You are a pyromaniac in a field of straw men." explained? Again, fuck no. Big words and fancy phrases for empty ideas. Someone please help me out: What did Will have to say this morning? Of substance, I mean.
And while we're at it, let's listen to Carly "I-was-fired-with-a-kick-ass-bonus-for-fucking-up-Hewlitt-Packard" Fiorina give her views what else: CEO bonuses and saving big business and banks. Yeah, I'm a glutton for punishment; I'm watching Fucks News.
"It's all fun and games till someone gets hurt."
I laughed like hell at Sarah Palin's impersonations of Tina... what's that? Tina Fey was doing the impersonations? well... even if there's a way to tell the difference, some things just aren't funny anymore.
People are hurting.
The world is hurting.
The planet is hurting.
Thank you Conservatards
For your representatives.
For your policies.
Why anyone not born independently wealthy would want to vote for these people is beyond me.
For your policies.
Why anyone not born independently wealthy would want to vote for these people is beyond me.
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