So let’s recap.  Change must mean Biden as VP (35 year Senator), Clinton as Sec of State (huuuuge political insider and cold bitch), Geithner as Sec of Treasury (20 years in Treasury or Fed… yikes!), Gates to remain as Sec of Defense (HOLY FUCKING SHIT!), Emanuel as Chief of Staff (long time democrat with Chicago ties), and now Volcker to head Economic Recovery Panel (former chairman of the Federal Reserve, aren’t they part of the problem?).

Way to go rockstar, that looks like some positive change…. fucking politicians.

Share This

So I’m in Florida this week for a technical conference that is full of IT nerds.  A shitload of fucking nerds, geeks, and chips, dips, and dorks.  When I say a shitload, I mean a fucking shitload, like 6 or 7 thousand of em.  As I’m looking at this sea of awkward dudes and the occasional woman (btw, if you were a chick looking to get laid at this conference and couldn’t… then there’s no hope for ya) with disdain, it slowly comes to me.  I understand these people.  I kinda look like them.  I do the same thing for a living.  I actually like what I do for a living, and like talking about it.  I fuck around on my computer until late at night.  Wait for it.  Wait for it… Holy motherfucking christ on rye bread.  I’m a nerd.  Goddamn it.  Now I have to kick the shit outa myself.  Fuck.  What’s worse… I totally get why the pic below is funny.  FUCK!

Share This

Shoot yourself twice in the upper body while being evicted.  This happened to 90 year old Addie Polk of Akron Ohio, and Fannie Mae forgave her loan and signed her  house over to her (click here for full article).  Something tells me that this strategy will have limited returns for pretty much everybody else who decides to use this method.   Congress and “the people” can only use one symbol per crisis, everybody else in this situation is fucked.

In a similar vein, I watched a portion of Meet the Press today and Tom Brokaw stated this:  (full transcript here)

… let me introduce a moment of heresy into the political campaign. Isn’t it also time for these candidates to reflect just what Peggy was saying and say to the American people, “You’ve got a role in this, too. You’ve got to step up.” We’re not going to make gain without some pain here in the next year, and, in fact, the American people have been part of the problem that we have right now. A lot of them took loans that they should—ought not to have taken. Credit card debt is very high. And they want to turn a blind eye to things like entitlements, Medicare and how we’re going to pay for it.

I had some immediate conflicting reactions to this statement.  First, it was a bit of a sting as I have spent many years of my life living above my means as well as many many Americans, currently, my family has paid down most of our debt and have taken great pains over the last couple of years to eliminate credit spending all together.  But the statement rings true.  My second reaction was making this statement (as a member of the MSM and a puppet of our government) is like a drug dealer complaining about the junkies.  Our government has taken great pains to encourage spending both by average Joe and by themselves with their incredible deficit spending, forcing an unnaturally low interest rate, giving incentives to sub-prime mortgage houses, and by giving two fucking ridiculous tax rebates and encouraged people not to pay down debt or save but to buy buy buy.  How many of you sat down with a used car salesman mortgage broker to obtain financing to purchase a house and were told:  “you’ve been cleared for XXXX” where XXXX was waaaaaaay more than you knew you could realistically afford.

It fucking makes me sick.

Share This

I had an uneasy feeling this morning when I woke up.  I felt sick to my stomach, a little crampy, and then a wave of pain hit me from my insides.  It felt like I really needed to fart, and when I say fart, I mean open the valve like a propane tank.  THEN, I realized it really wasn’t the world’s loudest, nastiest, and disgusting fart.  It was the bailout bill.  And that uneasy feeling is the realization that the Senate will pass it today, they most likely won’t be left with their pants down (i.e., they wouldn’t put it to a vote unless they are positive that they have the votes to pass it, unlike the idiot House).

So we’re back to being fucked.  It was good to think that for a day or two, our representatives understood and listened to their angry constituents.

Share This

Another failed bank, well not technically failed by the FDIC standards, but by my standards… fail.  Wachovia’s assets and losses will be absorbed by Citigroup in a deal that was brokered by the FDIC and a bunch of meddling kids, er, I mean meddling government types.  Do statements like this bother you (full article here):

The move, which was made following consultation with President Bush, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, was deemed necessary by regulators to avoid having “serious adverse effects on economic conditions and financial stability.”

“This morning’s decision was made under extraordinary circumstances with significant consultation among the regulators and Treasury,” FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said in a statement.

All I heard was blah blah blah, let’s not wait for the bailout to pass before we start poking and prodding.  We’re in for a hell of a ride people.

Share This

Deep breaths people, deep breaths.  Find your inner chi, find your core, go to your tranquility cave, take a chill pill, mellow out, breath into a paper bag, have a beer, get laid, and for christ-sakes quit freaking out about fucking gas!  Of course there is no gas when everybody runs out and tops off their tanks on their way to and from work, and then fills up random containers full of gas a la the Road Warrior.  I live in North Georgia, I used to think that people were laid back around here.  This situation shoots that theory full of shit encrusted holes.  Quick, I hear that the hurricane and terrorists are causing a shortage of moon-pies and RC Cola, you better drag your redneck asses to the sterr to stock up on that shit.  Fuck.

Share This

I had to read this quote regarding the Russia/Georgia conflict three times and pinch my left nut to believe I wasn’t dreaming.  Who the fuck is he kidding?

Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century

Share This

Highest.  Deficit.  Ever.  The White House announced yesterday that the 2009 budget year projected deficit will be a record $482 Billion(click here for full story).  That’s Billion with a B and at 482, it is damn close to a half a trillion dollars.  The report also noted that the deficit will represent 3.3% of the US GDP, not nearly as bad as 1983.  The total revenue (i.e. money that the government pulls in via taxes and other means) is projected as $2.7 trillion.  That means that a deficit of $482 billion comes out to a 17.8% budget over-run.  As a person who deals with budgets at work quite frequently, I would be fucking fired if I was over budget by anything close to 17%.  And yet somehow everybody just shrugs their shoulders and say “it’s no big deal, we’re the biggest economy in the world”.  We’re a bunch of fucking idiots is what we are.  The most ironic part of this is the Republican party is supposed to be the small government conservative party.  Bullshit.

Share This

On the heels of my copyright infringement email (best. email. ever.) I received the second best email ever, this one was hate mail.  Evidently with Iran in the news lately posturing, testing missiles, and saber rattling, some dude found an old post (or two) from my site stating my position in Iran and the middle-east and took exception to it.  In this beautiful piece of hate mail, the dude posits that I am a bleeding heart liberal, a democrat, and recent college grad, I really thought this was special.  My most liberal trait is my belief in free speech, I am closing in on 40, I am a corporate raider, and I am a registered republican.  I would actually classify myself (if I had to classify myself) as an independent but fiscal conservative with strong opinions about everything.  And like most people with strong opinions, if your opinion is different than mine, then you are wrong.  So Mr. Neo-Conservative Bush lover, you are wrong, and my new favorite fucktard.  You should at least get to know somebody a bit more before taking the time to write a 4 paragraph insult laden hate mail, all of that info about me are in my posts.

Continuing on with my trend of free speech, I have posted this wonderful example of religious right focused sheep-like rage below including the email of the author “unityislife”.  What a great email handle, especially when you are a person who obviously hates Muslims or people who have different views of your own, you probably don’t even see just how big a hypocrite you are using that handle.  Click this link, it is a definition of unity, that might help in your education.  I included the email address in case you wanted to chat with him about his political views or help him petition for universal health-care or host some welfare people.  Check it out, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll lose 10 iq points.

From:	Shaun <XXXXX> (unityislife@yahoo.com)
Sent:	Thu 7/10/08 12:55 PM
Reply-to:	unityislife@yahoo.com
To:	totaldiatribe@hotmail.com (totaldiatribe@hotmail.com

Hey Dipshit,

Get your head out of your ass about Iran - they are a threat. They just tested missiles for the second day in a row. Ones capable of hitting Israel and the Straight of Hormuz. (which they have already threatened to shut down - and in case you aren’t aware, the Straight of Hormuz traffics roughly 40% of the world’s oil supply) If you take your head out of the liberal left’s lap long enough to do a little research you will find that Islam, whether Shiite, Sunni or otherwise has one main goal - that is to convert the infadels or kill them. Read a book about it sometime, or better yet pick up the Koran you asswipe. (Once you’ve picked it up - actually open it an read a little.)

Ever hear of the Iran hostage crisis? Based on your lack of respect for our country and the smacked-ass recent college grad vernacular with which you berate everything NOT liberal, it is probable that you have no historical perspective on Iran’s unwarranted hatred for everything West. (see item A - it’s a key component to Islamo-facism) You should also find it interesting to note Mr. Diatribe, that one of the orchestrators of the taking of 70 innocent Americans and holding them against their will for 444 days was none other than Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current President of Iran!  The very same man that calls for the destruction of Isreal at least once a week. The very same man who espouses doubts that the Holocaust or 9/11 ever happened. The very same administration that has been seeking nuclear capability for the past several years! Bush’s position on Iran is not “an agenda of agression” you bafoon! It is defensive posturing directed at a maniac terrorist who is holding a country of innocent Iranian citizens hostage and seeks to “wipe off the face of the earth” (in his words) Isreal and anything or anyone un-Islamic.

Bottom line, the Clinton administration was just as corrupt as every last one of them. He was getting his little dick sucked in the Oval Office while we were being attacked by Islamic terrorist the whole eight years he was in office. You tell me he was focused on this country’s well-being. He sure was great at dismantling the FBI and CIA though! Way to go Bill! Everything he accomplished worth a shit was at the hand of a very pursuasive Republican Congress. You appeasing liberals have been pushing the policy of coddling these dictators far too long and it’s about to smack us in the face. And when it does there is no doubt you will find a Republican and/or Conservative to blame.

Do us all a favor and pack up your Burkenstocks, your wire-rimmed glasses, your Yoko Ono records, incents, roach clips, and peace sign posters - put them in your 67 VW bus or Toyota Prius and board a ferry to the country of any one of these third world despots you love to defend. If you survive for more than a few days - let me know how it is. I’m so tired of you drivling, snot-nosed elitist liberals/democrats hating this country.

If you don’t like it here, get the fuck out!

Cordially,

Intelligent, Educated, Patriotic American

Intelligent:  Nope, you can’t even figure out how to use the spell checker, you misspelled infidels, aggression, buffoon, persuasive, Birkenstock, incense, and driveling.  Plus you don’t get what unity really is (unless you beleive that to make the world one is successful only if you make the world white and protestant).

Educated:  see above

Patriotic:  By patriot you must mean blind loyalty to the current administration.  I think I am much more of a patriot by questioning authority, not by being a sheep to the Bush-Cheney evil empire.

God bless you unityislife, Jebus and the TotalDiatribe love you.

Share This

The following quote from CNN.com completely encapsulates how fucking stupid our asshole president is…  new estimates are that the war will cost 2.7 trillion dollars and thousands and thousands of lives… nuff said:

U.S. President George W. Bush claimed Wednesday that he had no regrets about the decision to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein in 2003 and reiterated his determination to force Iran to halt its nuclear program.

Share This