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.
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.
Ron Paul continues to be the voice of reason in a sea of choppy bullshit in Washington. He wrote an open letter about the bailout plan that sums up my exact thoughts on this mess. I actually wrote my congressman for the first time in my life about this (the bailout), I didn’t even receive a form-letter automatic response. Here’s an excerpt:
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
Yes I do care, the question is do enough other people care enough to do something about it.
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.
I don’t always agree with the environmentalists or environmentalist movements, but at some basic non-political level I get it. This shit is why nobody respects fucking hippies….
Or at least heading in that direction. I’m referring of course to our civilization. The answer to the question of “What caused the fall of Rome” has no real answer, however it had some dominant factors like population in decline, incompetent and corrupt political system, and economic crisis… we are fitting the bill fairly nicely. For me it is those factors plus the unbelievable shit that we as a population get into. For example, check out this disturbing motherfucking shit out:
I’m a little more than half way through the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, and I’ve come to an interesting hypothesis. The privatization of the US Armed Services is taking free market economics (i.e., laissez-faire) too far. In general I’m actually in favor of more privatization, especially on the services side of government like the DMV, Lottery, Toll Roads, tax, schools, etc if the proper oversight, controls and requirements are in place. But the military? I’m not so sure about that. Do we want a private army (or several) fully armed with free reign to kill that sits outside of both our military and civilian justice systems? I recommend that you read this book, it is guaranteed to piss you off no matter where you lie on the political spectrum (full disclosure, it is a left leaning book, but well cited and written). This book will give you an insider view on how corrupt and arrogant our current administration is, and how a few people have the power to mold and create policy to profit their buddies and themselves.
In late December I called Huckabee a scary dude, now I’m leaning towards shocking and terrifying. Hungry Mother filled me in on Huckabee’s inflammatory comments regarding changing the constitution (click here for youtube clip). Here was what Huckabee had to say (click here for full article):
“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards
Steve over at the Axis recently had these words to say about the matter:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you with your Republican winner of the Iowa caucus, Mr. Osama Bin Laden. Ooops, did I say that? It appears that I got my fundamentalist extremists confused there for a minute. I believe that was actually Mike Huckabee who won in Iowa.
I couldn’t agree with Steve more, we talk about State run terrorism and Islamic Extremists, but look no further than our own backyard, Bush has always flirted with the Religious Right and our extremist Evangelical Christians for votes, cash, and sex (I’m just guessing about the sex), but Huckabee has drunk the Kool-Aid.
However. The crack Total Diatribe action propaganda news-team has uncovered that Huckabee is only pretending to be a Christian conservative, yeah sure he was a former Baptist Minister, but we have uncovered his true mentor and spiritual guide. Who could this be you ask? None other than that guy from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I know it is shocking, but as far as religious extremists go, one is no better than the other. Please see the obviously real, and not doctored in any way, visual evidence laid out below for proof. God (pun intended) have mercy on our souls if this guy is elected.
A man was charged with disorderly conduct in Doylestown, PA when he put an obscenity (the big F-word) on the memo line of the check he used to pay a $5 parking fine. Evidently the clerk who processed the fine was offended and the rest is history. Let me get this out of the way before I rant… FUCK YOU DOYLESTOWN! Ok, now come and arrest me assholes. From the article (Click here to read full article):
Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct charge was filed because the comment was obscene, police Chief James Donnelly said.
“He was contrite enough to offer an apology, and I think that satisfies the people who were insulted by it,” he said.
So much for free speech… great now we have to worry if we offend somebody, which pretty much makes me fucked in all 50 states. Sorry, screwed in all 50 states, is that better? But at least they dropped the charges because they were “satisfied” with the apology. So what would happen if they weren’t satisfied? I wrote you a check Doylestown.
We should celebrate freedom of speech in this country, instead we devolve into politically correct bullshit. On the extreme other side of the spectrum of the free speech debate is the Klu Klux Klan vs. the Missouri Department of Transportation. In this case MODOT denied the KKK’s application to enter into the adopt-a-highway program, the KKK sued and eventually won when MODOT lost an appeal. I agree with the KKK in this instance (even if they are ignorant douche-bags) based solely on our rights of free speech. The best part about this story is, MODOT changed the name of the highway to “Rosa Parks Highway” in a bit of a “fuck you” to the KKK, good for you Missouri. It turned out the KKK were dropped from the program after all, when they never showed up to clean up the highway, I guess you can’t teach assholes new tricks, or get lazy racist rednecks out of their trailers to pick up trash.
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