That’s right bitches, I didn’t realize it until yesterday, but Total Diatribe is one years old! It came to me after reading a moooooooooog post over at Mental Poo, it turns out he is a year old too. As an aside, I’m really glad that I’m just a year old, because I just crapped my pants. And that would just be creepy if I was say, I dunno, late 30’s. I could take this opportunity to highlight some of my favorite posts or brag about how great I am (I am great by the way), but the truth is, most of my posts suck. I wrote them high on crystal meth…. or was that rock candy? Either way, my tooth hurts now. To wrap up this little gem, please vote for me for President…. I’m no worse than the other two assholes up for office. Peace.
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.
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.
Photo caption time. Click on the little blue button on the lower left side of the picture to bring up the Photocrank menu (or you can leave your caption in the comments if you are still into the old school method). Have fun. Peace.
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.
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