Let's Re-Convene Nuremburg

Poor judgment. That what an associate something or other in the Obama inJustice Department has found. And here I'd been thinking that the rejected finding of Professional Misconduct was wishy washy and crockshitleeishious.

The mothfuckers wrote opinions that essntially said that war crimes are legal; when the US does them. Torture is not torture; when the US does it. Take away John McCain's "hero" badge. He wasn't tortured. He was enhancedly interrogated.

We had a Harvard MBA running up record deficits, "running the government like a business."

We now have a "Constitutional Scholar" taking the treatment of prisoners (of war) back to the Dark Ages, so we can "look forward, not back." So much for Nuremberg; so much for the Andersonville Trial. I guess Hitler's advisors exercised "poor judgment" as well? ???

I guess legal opinion, like history, is written by the victor.

Change we can believe in?

Terrorism, Crotch Bombs... here's the real deal

Miranda, Schmiranda... The refucks are pissed because he wasn't tortured.

That's it. End of fucking story.

Why?

Obama/Democratic regime joins the war crimes crowd, it seals the deal on Bush: Prosecute him, you have to prosecute yourself. And with the new highs/lows of hypocrisy reached and exceeded on a daily basis by the refucks, there's nothing to say that they wouldn't call for the impeachment of Obama based on his doing what Bush did. Except Bush kept us safe. After leaving us open.

All the arguments about information gathering and enemy combatant versus criminal... they all mean nothing. The arguments are based in the refucks trying to justify the war crimes they've committed. The ones that Obama, with the approval of many democrats sitting in Congress now and back then, has pardoned de facto.

The case is very similar to The Khalid Sheikh Muhammad trial. Security is not the issue. Cost is not the issue. The issue is that no one wants the truth of how KSM was treated while in custody to see the light of day. Again, it's Both the refucks who claim credit for their war crimes keeping us safe -- after their ignoring the threats of attack -- And the dems who never raised a peep to stop them.

And while I'm at it...

Aaron Schock certainly is a rising refuckyoucan star. He lies like all the rest. When Mr Schock said refuckyoucans were never consulted regarding the stimulus bill...? Mr Schock is a GOD DAMNED LIAR. It was smaller than it needed to be. Because of refuckyoucan input. It contained a bunch of worthless costly tax cuts. Because of refuckyoucan input. All in all and then some, it contained over 150 refuckyoucan amendments. Democrats don't write refuckyoucan amendments. He's also stupid: Does he really believe that more of the same fuckng tax cuts that did nothing to create jobs and only created massive deficits and funding shortfalls will somehow suddenly do what they've never ever done? Does he think that we are supid enough to think that tax cuts will help us when we don't have jobs and pay checks on which to even pay taxes?

Aaron Schock... Another member of the "Too Stupid to be a Moron," club.

And finally... Jobs bill or no jobs bill, people get hired because there is work to be done. NO ONE gets hired because of a fucking tax break. The millions of jobs that moved to China didn't go there in one year, or even one presidential term, and they are NOT going to come back as the result of one bill, or in one year or in one presidential term. They are not going to come back because of lower corporate taxes. They will come back only when it becomes more profitable.

Erin Burnett -- Scar's "international crush sex fantasy superstar -- is full of shit when she makes claims such as, "I think we can all agree it's not always a bad thing when jobs move overseas."
It IS.... ALWAYS... a bad thing. Not only are our workers losing jobs -- it doesn't matter that their products are made more cheaply if they have no money to buy them, dumb ass -- China offers NO environmental protections and that affects us all. If we don't want steel made over here because steel isn't a "green industry," then we need to develop a green steel mill.

We need to re-institute tariffs. We need protectionism. I don't care if say Hewlitt Packard is an American owned company. If the want to make their products in China, those products should be taxed and taxed heavily when they're imported. And no more calling a shirt made by Chinese slaves in the Marianas, "Made in America," because the tag in the collar is made in America and it's more profitable for Tom DeLay and his slime ball buddies.

Terorism, Crotch Bombs... here's the real deal

Super Sunday... Super Meal..?

Been too long since my last post. When was it I said I was going to try to post twice a day? And the refuckyoucan party loves Amurrka. OK, whatever. So catching up...

I have to admit, I wasn't nearly as pissed off as I expected to be after bummer's SOTU address. Seemed like he was calling out the opposition for their obstructionism and basic asshattery. At least in his fashion. He managed to tell the SCROTUS they fucked our system up with their corporatic decision on campaign finance. As an aside here, that decision points out the true genius of Dubya: Od something so apparently stupid and inept to cover your true evil intent. Harriet Myers, anyone? He never intended for her to sit on the bench. She was named as a smoke screen so he could appoint the one he wanted: Scalito. What were Democrats going to do after bitching about her? Bitch about him? Leave the opening for the, "OK, what the fuck do you want?" accusations? Like they could get off their backs and stop wishing for the belly rub from Refucks that they'll never get. Come on. Anyway...

Aside from that and his minor chiding about having to take responsibility for (the non-existence of) government, he seemed to be the picture of the disappointed dad, talking to his children who he wishes could just for a time, get along before he dies. He seems to really believe his bullshit about bi partisanship... getting along... and all that. Is it still bullshit when you believe it? Or are you just that much more deceived and demented?

Then again, I remember during the primaries,everyone wanted him to drop the gloves with Hillary. Get down in the mud with her, Slug it out, and all that shit. He didn't.

And he won.

Then with McStain and the Talibunny, making their acusations about him being a friend of terrorists, and Muslim (because he attended a Christian church), and a Kenyan, and... Once again everyone was calling for him to call them out and duke it out and put them in their places. He didn't.

And he won.

Will he win this time? Sure looked like that a few days later when he lectured the children at their refuckyoucan retreat. They had NOTHING. He made them look so fucking bad their private noise machine had to turn off. Like Hitler's news channels when Joe Louis beat hell out of Max Schmeling.

I was hopeful until the otherday's news of Shelby placing holds on 70+ Obama appointments. So he could get his own version of a Cornhusker Kickback or Loiusiana Purchase II. That's right, I'm not carrying Obama's water on this one. He has no fucking leg to stand on. He's already given in to the proverbial gun to the head with Landrieu, Nelson and LIEberbitch. What moral high ground does he have to refuse Shelby?

None

OK.... game time...

I tried my first Brisket. I have a long way to go to learn the art of slow cooking.

Supposedly it takes 1 1/2 (give or take) hours per pound at 225 - 250 deg F. I can't get my Green Egg grill that cold and still cook. I get it hotter and it cooks too fast. A couple of months ago, I did a pork shoulder. The internal temp hadn't budged after 6 hours at the low temps.

My 8 1/2 lbs brisket was at 170 after 4 hours @ 300. It was at 210 after 10 hrs. And that time includes 4 1/2 hrs with the fire shut down, burping the heat out of the grill every 10-15 mins or so. I was planning on 14 hrs of cooking, so I could pull it off at halftime and slice it after the game. Now it's already be resting and I'll be cutting it before the fucking game. Oh well. Live and learn.

Oh well. With luck it'll turn out better then the healthcare fiasco.

Obama's Losing It

I know. "Duh!!!" you say.

He thinks he's getting the message. Unfortunately it's the wrong one. That the way out of the mess Bush and his enablers did is to continue to follow his policies: Tax Cuts to create jobs.

WHO.... Who in their right fucking mind hires someone because of a tax cut? People get hired because there is work to do. As long as companies get tax breaks for moving their work to China there will be no jobs.

Obama's leaked announcement of a spending freeze, means one thing to me: No money for us, the little people, working class. More of the same old trickle down pissing on our heads the refuckyoucans love so much. I don't understand the perceived PR benefit to the leak. Spread the loss in popularity over a few days,? So the drop after the SOTU won't be as bad?

I never liked him. Not since he committed treason by supporting FISA.

I still don't.

He's proving me right day after day.

He's a phony.

CHANGE.... yeah turn the Democratic party into the new refuckyoucans.

Brace yourselves folks.... Barack's bringing the refuckyoucans back.

I'm voting third party. I've fucking had it.

If I were to Write Obama's SOTU Address

(pardon any puncuation errors; I was a math major)

Right out of the box...

I apologize. I tried it their way. I was wrong. Just as they were wrong for the 8 years of George W Bush, just as they were wrong for their policies such as the deregulation of the banks, and free trade under Bill Clinton, just as they were wrong for the institution of Ronald Reagan's voodoo economic policies, otherwise known as supply side economics, they are wrong today

I asked for republican help on stimulating the economy. After all their input, after all the amendments they proposed being attached to our stimulus bill, they voted en masse against it. They wanted a bill consisting entirely of tax cuts. Tax cuts don't help people who have no jobs and no paychecks.

I asked for their help on health care. I ignored how they made a hero out of the woman from their presidential ticket, who fabricated a total lie about "Death Panels." I ignored how a leading Senator from the state of Iowa fabricated a total lie about how our plan would force people to "pull the plug on Grandma." The same Senator, by the way, who sat on a panel to hammer out a compromise, which again, contained every amendment his party proposed.

I offered a compromise. It's called "The Public Option." The people who elected me want a universal single payer system. They, the opposition, the Republicans, want the status quo. With the additions of MORE deregulation so that insurance companies can cross state lines and duplicate the same situation we have with banking: Institutions that are too big to fail. AND... they want to take away your day in court when you are mistreated or left untreated by these same institutions. They call that "Tort Reform." Or as another of their Senators put it, "My Waterloo."

I allowed health cre reform to become my obsession, to the point where I allowed a senator who endorosed my Presidential opponent, who spoke at his party's convention, to remain in my party's caucus, and I gave in to his demands and stripped out major components that would have benefited you. All to get his support. And he was not the only one who gained such concessions.

I lost sight of the goal, of the purpose for which I was elected: To change the course of this country. To undo, or at least begin to undo, the eight plus years worth of damage done by the opposition party. I was not elected to do what the opposition allowed me to do, I was elected to lead. I was elected to lead us out of the mess in which the opposition has placed us. Instead...

I have tried my best to include them in the process of government, to which they continue to respond with obstructionism through filibustering at a record pace. I have tried to govern from the center, only to be told that the center is the far left and that the true center is the far right.

America... I honestly believed there existed on the other side of the aisles of Congress, people who would want to work with me; people who would embrace policies that would benefit their constituents. I am sorry to have to admit that I was deluded.

America... You elected me on the promise of Change... Change we can believe in. The change you wanted: New and different policies, is not the change you got: Compromise.

There is a movement in this country, I'm sure you've noticed... They want their country back. There was an election recently in the state of Massachusetts... I'm sure you've heard... Congratulations, by the way, Senator Brown. Before that, there was an election in rural New York state... you may not have heard. I have heard from all three.

There is a portion of scripture that says, "...be ye hot or cold, if you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth..." We have tried the far right's way; that way was rejected in November 2008. I have tried the Centrist way of compromise; that way has also been, and continues to be rejected.

America, I'm back. The president you thought you voted into office, is the president you will get from here on out. Whether that goes beyond 2012, will be totally up to you. That is if the corporations against which we fight do not get their way as now allowed by the five supreme court judges appointed by the far right opposition.

Here's what we must do

I know... it's just a dream but hey,
in our dreams we're free.

h/t to a Mr Eric B. per the fine folks at C&L

Day of Infamy II

Judicial restraint vs judicial activism. Ah, yes. We've been told time and again now that we can't trust those liberal activist judges who legislate from the bench.

So when the Roberts gang took up "Citizens United vs FEC" naturally they would restrict themselves to the case before them. Right? It would be the liberals/leftist judges -- Ginsberg, Stevens, Breyer, and especially that loose cannon wise Latina, Sonya Sotomayor -- who would seek to reach beyond the confines of the case. Right? They would be the ones to overturn settled law and precedent. Right?

WRONG!

Seems as though the Roberts reactionaries looked at every case BUT the case before them, as they overturn roughly 100 yrs of precedent, and declare that we are entitled to the finest government corporations can buy. Insanity.

No, it's beyond insanity. This is a death sentence for government as we've known it. Remember who appointed this ass wipe. As a reward for coaching his lawyers as they prepared to argue before his former boss and SCOTUS in 2000. Can't get away from that slimeball's legacy.

Now before you go on and say something about how that's a good thing, seeins how government's broken, consider that the last time corporations were in control of things -- the 1920s -- we were able to elect a president and government that in turn shackled them and laid the foundations for a period of stability that only ended with the Reagan policies of voodoo economics with his massive tax cut induced deficits, further fueled by ideologically mandated deregulation induced financial instability. Oh....

I forgot. St Ronnie did no wrong. He's the one who ended the Roosevelt Depression. But I digress....

The Constitution has been turned on it's head. The Bill of Rights has been turned against us. I know there will be suggestions that we amend the Constitution to somehow redefine people or declare that it only pertains to natural born citizens or some such thing. Do that and the literalist knuckle dragging conservatards will then declare that it cannot regulate anything Non Living, Such as corporations.

I guess the big question now is, Who chooses the big cheese? Oil? Insurance? Pharma? Coal?

In-Bev?

China?