Happy New Years,Joey, You Rotten Sonofabitch.

Just to start it right, remember, Joe Lieberman is gone after this year.

Just for a double plus bonus, that other republican Light, Ben Nelson(T for Traitor) from Nebraska just bailed out too.

I am going to party till I pass out the day I see that rotten fucking sonofabitch no good self serving cocksucker , "Short Ride" to the nearest clinic, double back stabbing turncoat cock swallowing weasel, needle dick bug fucking, turncoat, rotten money grubbing, sell out ,self serving,AIPAC bitch, go down the fucking road.

That scumbag is the head of DHS and absolutely refused to investigate one single allegation against the Bush Administration.

He is dirty beyond dirty and he needs to get thrown out of government or any entity that could possibly have anything to do with government until fifteen years after the motherfucker has been in the ground kicking up Hemlock seeds.

Fuck him and every sonofabitch he does business with.
Rot in Hell under a mile of the Devil's rotten, stinky Gym socks and road stripe stained jock straps, you prick.

My contempt for Joe Lieberman is infinite and eternal.

Just ask me.

Feeling Rich These Days?

One in fifteen Americans are now classified as being the poorest of the poor. That is over twenty fucking million people in a country of three hundred million

400 families in this country control over forty percent of the money available to spend..

Do some basic fucking math.

Top Ramen must be booming.

About 20.5 million Americans, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, make up the poorest poor, defined as those at 50 percent or less of the official poverty level. Those living in deep poverty represent nearly half of the 46.2 million people scraping by below the poverty line. In 2010, the poorest poor meant an income of $5,570 or less for an individual and $11,157 for a family of four.

That 6.7 percent share is the highest in the 35 years that the Census Bureau has maintained such records, surpassing previous highs in 2009 and 1993 of just over 6 percent.

Broken down by states, 40 states and the District of Columbia had increases in the poorest poor since 2007, and none saw decreases. The District of Columbia ranked highest at 10.7 percent, followed by Mississippi and New Mexico. Nevada had the biggest jump, rising from 4.6 percent to 7 percent.

People wonder why there are protesters in the streets.

Apparently having lobster delivered to your front door with a side of quail wings just don't fucking open your eyes to the family's across town who are skipping meals so that the kids have something to eat.

Oh hell no, they notice.
They also give millions of dollars to their local politician to make sure that school lunches and breakfasts have their funding cut because we just can't afford that shit.
They also cry about those protesters  to those same politicians to keep them out of their gated community's.

I remember when my parents split and me and my brother had hot dog buns with ketchup and mustard for dinner and called it pizza.

I also remember just after that when I was nine fucking years old and taking care of my little brother and making sure he had a bath, washed his clothes and made pancakes as big as a plate for him because he didn't like little ones.

I am no stranger to these things and I damn well thought it should get better if ya worked hard and played by the rules.

Guess what, there are no fucking rules if ya are lucky enough to have parents that make two hundred and fifty fucking grand a year.

The rest of us can suck the hind tit.

If you don't know what that is, you made too much fucking money.

The old  saying is that money doesn't buy happiness but it damn well will if you have enough I see.

Have Some Faux News Motherfucker

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Blagojevich Slated For River Tour

As in going up the river.

Blago just got butt slammed and convicted of 17 out twenty corruption charges.
He is going away for the foreseeable future, as in ten to twenty, at least.

Good.

Skeevy motherfucker.

By Bob Secter and Jeff Coen Chicago Tribune

June 27, 2011, 12:33 p.m.

Reporting from Chicago—

A federal jury today convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts, finding he brazenly abused the powers of his office in a series of attempted shakedowns captured on undercover government recordings.

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This marks the second time in less than a year that the 54-year-old Blagojevich, the only Illinois chief executive ever impeached and ousted from office, had been convicted of a crime. The jury at his first trial last summer found him guilty of lying to theFBI, though that panel deadlocked on all the other counts. That impasse set the stage for a retrial.

This time the verdict was unequivocal, with the jury of 11 women and one man finding Blagojevich guilty on 17 criminal counts he faced, including charges of wire fraud, attempted extortion, bribery and conspiracy. The marquee charge in the case involved an attempt by Blagojevich in late 2008 to cash in on his power to name a replacement in theU.S. Senate for newly electedPresident Barack Obama.

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Testifying in his own defense, Blagojevich claimed prosecutors had twisted his words recorded on secret government wiretaps and insisted he was guilty of nothing more than thinking out loud. What’s more, Blagojevich’s lawyers emphasized, none of the illegal plots he was accused of hatching ever came to fruition.

Yeah, that's it, just thinking out loud and Look!, Nothing happened!

Fucking scumbag.

We all know  most politicians are fucking weasel scumbags who would sell their own mother into slavery to hold on to power but this fucknut was a big time Democrat who thought he had a tiger by the tail and could get away with anything he wanted.
Wrong.

Let this be an example for you back room dealing fuckers.

I would have liked to have seen a raft of charges  drawn up against a whole bunch of other skeevy fuckers that were involved with this but apparently they are content with Blagojevich.

Another thing I would like to see is Blago being thrown in with the general population down in Joliette instead of the relative safety and comfort that they seem to reserve for white collar and political inmates.

Either way, he is all done now.

Who's next?

The Next Big Political Civil War Is in...

Spins the wheel...

The Ivory Coast!!

If that was your guess, come on down and collect your prize of hand held rocket launchers and two semi trucks full of automatic weapons ammo!!

For those of you not quite up to speed, I know, it's hard to keep up with all these rebel motherfuckers all over the Middle East lately, this is actually on the West Coast of Africa.

These guys have been going at it for several years now but you haven't heard a peep about this from our media because the bastards don't have any oil.

Too bad for them, we could send billions in there and maybe even a carrier group like we did to Libya and not Bahrain.

Selective with our political and military resources, aren't we?

Funny, that.

Interesting

One thing that really sucks about living on the Left Coast is that a lot of shit in the business world has already happened while I am still dreaming of nubiles with large breasts.
That and Presidential elections that get called before our fucking polls are even closed. That one pisses me off.

So, to my utter amazement, I see my friend Jill reporting this morning that AOL has purchased The Huffington Post empire for three hundred and some fucking million dollars and put Arianna herself in charge of a bunch of shit.

I really like Jill's take on this, go read some Brilliant At Breakfast for her take.

As for me, I read Huffpo every day, looking for the latest news on what is going on. My bitch with them is they don't update the fucker often enough.

As for AOL, I can't believe they are still in business.

Way back in the day, when I finally got a computer that could connect to the internet, it was through AOL.

I had so many fucking dealings with their idiots in tech support, I finally got pissed off and wrote their phone number in permanent ink across the top of my monitor.True story.

Off To Do Laundry

I would like to thank everyone who stopped by to wish me a happy birthday, that was nice of ya.

I had a fairly relaxed birthday, a bunch of company showed up out of the blue and my girl friends friend made hamburgers and such for every one, that was damn nice of her.

I am in full recuperation mode and am getting ready to head out with the honey and go do laundry and grocery shopping.

In the mean time, the shit is still hitting the fan in Egypt and even the King of Jordan has seen the writing on the wall and replaced his government in response to growing unrest over food prices.

Note that last bit, food prices, you are going to see more and more unrest over food prices.
That is because those same jerks who contributed to our current financial meltdown have decided to treat food the same way they do car sales.

Betting on this and that, buying futures up like candy and driving the final price of food up. Look around ya, the price of cotton is up over ninety fucking percent, one guy, ONE, bought up almost all of the cocoa futures. Bet money, little Ms.Swiss Miss, is going to have a sore ass here in the future.

Pay attention folks, things aren't just going to be ugly in the Middle east, here shortly, the mid west is going to chiming in  too.

I keep arguing trying to persuade my girl friend into getting some grub put away for a little buffer but she is a hard headed Norse women and says she has to go into town several times a week any way and has no place for storage.

I got your hard headed and raise ya by an Irishman......

Starving The Beast Works

You know when the bankers are whining about people using cash instead of plastic, you have hit a nerve.

H/T Cryptogon

Italian Banks Upset with Level of Cash Use; Underground Economy 22% of GDP


January 4th, 2011



Via: Reuters:

The Italian Banking Association has declared “war on cash” in a country where credit-card usage is less than half the European Union average, according to the Bank of Italy. The association, known by its Italian acronym ABI, says it costs banks and companies as much as 10 billion euros ($13.3 billion) a year to process cash payments, mainly in increased security and labor. Rome-based ABI aims to cut those expenses by promoting electronic payments with credit and debit cards and wire transfers in both the public and private sectors.



“Italy urgently needs these changes to catch up with other countries like France, which has allowed non-cash payments for public services for more than two decades,” said Rita Camporeale, head of payment systems and services at ABI.



Italy’s culture of cash is deeply rooted. Italians are the euro region’s least-indebted consumers and among its biggest savers, according to 2009 Eurostat data. Companies often pay salaries in banknotes to evade taxes, particularly in the country’s southern region, where organized crime is prevalent.

My heart bleeds for those scum sucking asshole bankers.

Not.

So, the underground economy over there is estimated at 22%?

That is surely putting a crimp in those sonsabitch money exchangers wallets.

This is what we need to do people, starve those motherfuckers, make them pay extra because using cash costs them money. Besides that, the PTB can't trace the stuff. They can't search your electronic trail to see what you have bought at Safeway or whether you paid the neighbor to fix your car under the table or bought a couple of bags of potatoes from the local Farmers market.
 Of course, they will try to find a way to get that money back, as we see here, by getting the government involved but hey, this little example of Fuck You, made my day.

Stacking The Deck Against Us

Why this even begins to surprise me, I have no idea.

With all the problems that this country is currently facing, from two never ending wars, millions of people who have exhausted two years of unemployment, Congressional bickering over giving the richest 1% OF THE PEOPLE EVEN MORE MONEY, a lame duck Congress with three weeks to at least TRY and solve these problems, we have our good friend, Harry Reid, taking care of his real constituents.

     Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has asked his staff to work on a bill that would legalize online poker. 

You got to be fucking kidding me.

Staffers for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are circulating a bill to legalize poker playing on the Internet that's backed by large casino interests.
The Nevada casino companies pushing the measure were among the Democrat's biggest donors during his fierce re-election fight. They argue the bill would provide consumer protection for poker players and would provide some tax revenue for federal and state governments.
On Wednesday, three Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Mr. Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) opposing any efforts to pass Internet poker legislation during the lame-duck session.

Wait, it gets even better,

According to the draft of the bill reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Reid's office is considering language that would allow only existing casinos, horse tracks and slot-machine makers to operate online poker websites for the first two years after the bill passes, which could limit the ability of other companies to enter the market.

The bill would also outsource oversight to state regulators, another move supported by existing casinos that don't want to see the federal government become overly involved in regulating their industry.

Ill give ya two guesses who these priveleged few would be.

Times up.
And I quote,

"Be assured that the casinos went all in for Reid."

That would be for his recent election against that loony tunes crazy woman Sharon Anglle.

So, to recap, Reid is pretty much telling us all to go fuck ourselves while he has his staff spending precious time drafting legislation to legalize On line Poker, to pay his casino buddies back for helping him retain office.

That's Democracy in action, ain't it?
The people first and all that horseshit Rah Rah crap.
What an asshole.

Jesus motherfucking christ, do I hate politicians, especially this wimpy cock sucker.

Fuck, Pelosi has bigger balls than this sycophantic, money grubbing, whore.

If he thinks for one fucking second that the Repubs are going to go along with this blatent bit of nut licking, he had better think again.
Personally, I think he should be using his and his staffers time a little more productively
LIKE FIXING OUR IMMEDIATE FUCKING PROBLEMS!

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Is Going Down.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been very vocal lately when it comes to politics.
Very.

With out saying out loud about what I am hearing, they have been accused of using money from foreign sources to use as advertising money to help the Republican party.
Hush my mouth.
Ya know, that recent decision by the Supreme Court of the Right to decide that Corporations are people too ,just set the stage for something like this but NO ONE could have anticipated such a result.
So.
 Now that the Chamber of Commerce has gone all in per say, people are starting to notice.
Good thing I say.
They were already a bunch of cock gobbling corporate whores before the recent courts decision and had been behind the scenes, fucking over the working man and woman for years.
Now they feel empowered and have come out from behind the curtain, feeling that there is no need to hide their naked ambition any more.

Can you say fuck off and die?

 I predict it will just be a matter of time until these fucking pricks get a good dose of sunshine and run like the fucking cock roaches they are, back into the shadows.
Bragging about their agenda in broad day light and about how much money they are spending on the up coming election is going to turn the spot light right back on their sorry asses and after that, they will wish they had never been born.

I guarandandfuckingtee that these arrogant fucking assholes are going to have a rectal exam  coming that they will be begging for a little "personal" lubricant be present every mother fucking day they get out of bed with their wore out ass holes dripping blood.

Keep running your mouth long enough and you will find a dick in it eventually.

This is actually a good thing, it might shut these bragging mother fuckers up.

These fuckers have been in the back ground of our political process for years. It is just now that they feel they have enough power to come out from behind the curtains.

Come on out boys and never mind that giant fucking sledge hammer behind you.

Mark my words, there is a giant ass beating coming their way after the watch dogs start digging into their activities.

Good doggy, here's a biscuit.

Sic' em boy.

Update, It's already started and the Big boys  here at home are already in the spotlight.

The Circus is in Town, Every Where, America.

Jesus fucking Christ am I glad I don't own a television anymore.

Every where I look , all I see are stupid people who should be wearing size seventeen shoes and have round red noses.
Fucking clowns running for elected office that can't even spell, Elected Office.
On one hand, we have this silly little dolt named Christine O'Donnell who's claim to fame is that she is not a witch.
If this was the Gong Show she would be out on her little ass looking to find bus fair.

She claims she has that douchebag Hannity "in her back pocket" so she can do battle with the fuck wads in her own party, has no fucking clue what the first amendment is about and steals money from the  donations for her campaign to pay for pizza deliveries. I have to agree with my buddy Gordon on this one.

Then we have the ,Oh , So Lovable Meg Whitman, who has so far spent over a Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars, of her own personal money, to run for the position of Governer of Kalifornia.
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 That pays what, 200 grand a year? Just a guess.
Some return on your investment there honey.
That poor undocumented maid she was paying 23 bucks an hour should have went on strike for better wages

Something stinks like a barge full of dead cat fish there.

Then we have little Miss Carly Fiorino, who has raised 5.9 MILLION dollars, to run against Senator Barbara Boxer, again, in Kalifornia, for a job that pays $110,00 dollars a year, plus 138.00 dollars a day PER DIEM FOR EVERY DAY THEY ARE IN SESSION.

Now explain to me how 5 million goes into a hundred grand.
, OK, 6 million into a hundred and twenty five grand, my math ain't so good.

Either way, you should get my point.

The GOP and the Dumbocrats are both spending millions of fucking dollars for a job that pays one tenth of what they are spending on advertising to win.

What are we missing here folks?

Lobbyists.
Contracts, kick backs. That's what

Pay as you play.

California has one of the top ten largest economies in the entire fucking world.
Top Ten.
A hundred grand won't even get you a cheap seat in that economy.
That shit is just gravy.
Remember, Meg has ALREADY spent a hundred and fifty mother fucking MILLION dollars of her OWN money, trying to buy this election.

Ya wonder why us peons don't see the need to vote for any of these people?
Some are bat shit fucking crazy, I need not go any farther down this vein, others are so outright fucking power hungry and greedy, they are spending more than fifteen years worth of potential wages in one election season, just to get their hands on the levers of power.
Those levers must be some powerful mother fuckers is all I can say.
Might I add, none of the above give a rat fucking shit about you.
It's all about the power and they would kick you in the ribs if you had the audacity to fall over from starvation right in front of them while on their way to a corporate  fund raiser.

Better yet, they would have some hired goon do it for them. hey, those shoes are expensive, don't ya know.

Think about it, 5.9 million fucking dollars in advertising to get a job that pays a hundred grand a year.

Like I said, barge load of dead cat fish, something stinks to high heaven.
That's our political process these days.

Goodbye Mayor Daley

Like the transfer of power hasn't already been drying the ink next to a bathroom stall hand dryer,
Hello Mayor Emanuel.That would make my fucking day. Dirty sonovabitch inherit fifty years of corruption and a seriously pissed of populace. IE, someone who lives there and has been documenting this shit for years.

Chicago is the epitome of coruption in this country and the ponzi scam that has been going on there for the last fifty fucking years is getting ready to collapse like the rest of the country.
If you think for one second that Mayor Daley thought he could keep this major assed Mafia style  scheme he has had since he inherited the whole deal from Daley Sr.and get away with it, You need to buy me a fucking brewery.
Yer damn right he is bailing the fuck out, he saw what happened to that fuck head Blagojovich.
I wouldn't be one bit surprised to see that bastard Daley get a personal invite to Dubai from one certain expatriot named Prince.
Birds of a feather and all that shit.
New worlds to conquer.
 They are waiting to see if Dick Fucking Cheney is going to live long enough to invite his whole cabinet and whether they can get in and out of the country without being arrested.
Good fucking riddance Mayor Daley, one more criminal cabal on the run.
There might actually be a plus side to this fucking Depression, the fucking bastards ran out of mook's to steal  from and the games are up.
See ya's.

Reality, In Your Face Reality

Go take a piss, grab a beer and a sandwich, set yer asses down and go read the whole fucking thing.
In your face,  Peoples English,plain english, open eyed and telling it how it is, this guy even quotes Kunstler.
This is exactly what has happened to us, how they fucking did it and how they are going to keep doing it to us until we cut the head off the snake.
Read it and weep, it is brilliant and layman friendly.

Joe Bageant knocks it out of the park with this one, here is a teaser;

Paying the workers in society to produce real wealth costs money. Capitalists hate any sort of cost. It represents money that has somehow escaped their coffers. So when any behemoth corporation hands out thousands of pink slips on a Friday, Wall Street cheers and "the market" goes up. No ordinary mortal has ever seen "the market." But traders on the floor of 11 Wall Street, people who've deemed themselves more than mortal by virtue of their $110 Vanitas silk undershorts, assure us the market does exist. No tours of the New York Stock exchange are permitted, so we have to take their word for it.



In any case, in the money economy, eliminating costs, even if those costs happen to be feeding human beings, citizens of the empire, is sublime. That is why economists in the tertiary economy can declare a "jobless recovery" with a straight face. By their lights, the perfect recovery would necessarily be 100% jobless. Human costs of generating profit would be entirely eliminated.

Seriously, go read the whole thing, it is long but it will have you looking for a fucking pitchfork and a bucket of tar.

H/T Coyote Prime @ Running Cause I Can't Fly.
A daily read for me.

This Is A Travesty

The oldest seed bank in the world could soon be torn apart and seeds that are genetically different than 90% of the rest of the worlds supply destroyed, to build cheap housing.

Some body needs a severe beating for being so short sighted.

Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction'

Priceless collection' in Russia was never registered so is therefore worthless and does not officially exist, say developers

Twelve Russian scientists famously chose to starve to death rather than eat the unique collection of seeds and plants they were protecting for humanity during the 900-day siege of Leningrad in the second world war. But the world's first global seed bank now faces destruction once more, to make way for a private housing estate.


The fate of the Pavlovsk agricultural station outside St Petersburg will be decided in the courts this week. If, as expected, the case goes against it then the collection of plants built up over 85 years could be destroyed within months.

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More than 90% of the plants are found in no other research collection or seed bank. Its seeds and berries are thought to possess traits that could be crucial to maintaining productive fruit harvests in many parts of the world as climate change and a rising tide of disease, pests and drought weaken the varieties farmers now grow. As it is predominantly a field collection, Pavlovsk cannot be moved. Experts estimate that even if another site were available nearby, it would take many years to relocate the plants.

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The station was established in 1926 by Nikolai Vavilov, the man credited with creating the idea of seed banks as repositories of plant diversity that could be used to breed new varieties in response to threats to food production. During the siege of Leningrad, 12 scientists chose to starve while protecting the diversity amassed by Vavilov, even though the seeds of rice, peas, corn and wheat that they were protecting could have sustained them. Vavilov died of malnutrition in prison in 1943, having criticised the anti-genetic concepts of Trofim Lysenko. But Russia has since elevated him to hero status.

More at the link.

How someone could let this happen to build cheap housing is beyond my comprehension.
Especially the oldest one on the planet that has such diversity.
Greedy fucking bastards, that's how.
Unbelievable.

Some people would dare call this progress, I would call it suicide.

Twenty Billion Is Chump Change For BP

So, BP has agreed to put twenty Billion dollars in an escrow account to pay for the damage their fucking broken well that is still spewing oil like jizz outta a drunk sailor after six months at sea is still spewing.
How fucking generous.
Oh, they felt so bad they have broken the news to their stock holders, that they might have to wait three whole quarters before they can dispense with a barge load of money again.
Fucking cocksuckers.
Then we have the big gun telling us how bad he feels for the small people in the gulf.

Excuse the fuck out of me?
Just how many midgets live there?
Hey, any vertically challenged people that live in the gulf should get their money first, plus a goddamned life jacket and a bottle of degreaser

What a fucking asshole, small people.

Hey, dickhead, I am one of those small people and you had best not get within kicking distance with that fucking attitude, you just might wind up a bit lighter than you were before I got my fucking hands on ya, you arrogant fucking bastard.
Dude, DO YOU HAVE ANY CLUE HOW MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLES LIVES YOU HAVE JUST RUINED?
Small people, what a fucking privileged fucking cunt.
20 billion dollars is a drop in the ocean you just killed.
I am beside myself with the arrogance this motherfucker has.
It's bad enough the President of the United States as a sack the size of a pygmy goat, get yer fucking head out of your ass Obama.
20 billion dollars is a slap in the face.
They made 35 billion dollars, PROFIT, just last year,that means they probably went through ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in operating expense. On top of that they are gettin massive tax breaks and are being subsidized to the tune of millions of dollars a year by us, the US taxpayer.

Oh, fuck no, 20 billion is chump change to these cocksuckers.

Don't even try to cry poor to me ya sonofabitch and talking down to the US public is sure to have consequences, remember that at your next champaigne party, mother fucker.

The more info that comes out about the rate of flow, whether or not the sea floor is broken and there are multiple leaks that we are not hearing about, that are being covered up about, the worse it is going to be for you.

My advice to you, asshole, is to follow the lead of that murderous fucking bastard who owns Blackwater and get the fuck somewhere they don't have extradition treaties with us so you can hide the fuck out while this nightmare goes on for the next sixty fucking years.

The disaster your company has caused will be there long after both of us are dead, you have poisoned future generations to save a few bucks, someone have mercy on your worthless ass, I won't.

A Great Look At The Mind Set Behind Corporate America's Value Of Life And Death Of It's Customers.

DistributorcapNY has an excellent post up anylizing how the murderous whores in Corporate America can come to the conclusion that it is cheaper for them to let you die a horrible death in a fire than it is to spend eleven fucking dollars.
Go read it and understand what we are up against.

The Blame Game Redux (Warning: Different Perspective Ahead)

Actually corporations are people...in the form of millions of small investors who own stock (whether they know it or not - via 401K's and such) AND in the form of a handful of greedy, immoral bastards who get insanely rich by raping the planet just because we let 'em get away with it. The system, which rewards said greed with massive CEO salaries and bonuses, is DRIVEN by the greed of said tiny investors who expect a dividend at the end of the day. Gotta pump up that retirement fund, don't cha know. So what if it takes a few disasters? I got mine.

Better check your own...if you got one...before you read on
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In other words, we're fucking ourselves. BP, Trans Ocean and Halliburton wouldn't be in it if there wasn't a consumer and investor demand for it. Let us not forget that even the liberal iconic god-like Michael Moore has owned stock in Halliburton.

Now, I don't dispute at all that this is an epic disaster. Personally, I'd call World War II the biggest man-made catastrophe in history but that's another debate. I'll see your decimated fisheries and raise all-in, with the number of humans who died. The planet has recovered from far worse than the biggest oil-spill. After we kill ourselves off something else will replace us...I'd bet large on the cockroaches but I won't be around to collect so what's the point?

No doubt that there are people who should hang high for this. And I get fucking pissed off beyond belief that these massive enterprises like BP and GM pay almost no tax while families struggle to pay the bills.

Meh...but demonizing corporations does no good in the end because they're going to keep on doing whatever they can get away with, aren't they?

"Of course fucking of course! I wasn't asking, I was telling."

(sorry...had to sneak in one of my favorite lines from the movie Snatch)

Who allows the corporations to get away with this bullshit?

The government does.

Who elects the government?

We do.

At the end of the day the only conclusion that I can come to is that we just don't give a fuck until something bad happens. We, the people, have totally and utterly FAILED to do preventative maintenance and make sure that our government operates the way it ought to. No fucking different from the engines and pumps and shit that OB busts his knuckles on every day.

"People get the government they deserve, whether by action or inaction". Thomas Jefferson said that, I believe...or something along those lines...I don't mind being corrected if I'm wrong in either the quote or the source.

The wrong way to change things is by violence, you'll never hear me advocate that...the right way is by ceasing to be complacent and by making voices heard in the vote. The problem with that scenario is, once again, that we just don't give a fuck. I'm so disillusioned by the political process in this country that I don't. I've pretty much washed my hands of it because stupidity is my biggest pet peeve and stupidity is rampant on both sides. My one single vote ain't gonna make a damned bit of difference one way or the other because too many other people are fucking idiots. Republicans in charge, Democrats in charge...it doesn't fucking matter because the only changes these days are wild swings to either the left or right.

We're spinning our wheels and going nowhere fast. If I was allowed 5 minutes in charge of America and could pass one law in that time which could never be repealed I would make it this...the outlawing, totally and completely, of lobbying by special interest groups. I would make it a capital offense. No more bought-and-paid-for politicians. No more pork barrel bullshit.

The language of the bill would basically say (in legalistic terms, since government thrives on THAT), "Look, you've been elected to do what's right for the people who gave you that power so what's the problem? Shut the fuck up and do it or you're out of here".

I don't dispute anything OB said...I agree with it all. I just think that we, the people, as a body, need to stop pointing fingers unless we're looking in a fucking mirror.

spongebobcrackwhore

The Blame Game

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Somebody Call The WAHMBULANCE!

Greedy fuckers, corporate welfare is taking a major hit because of the recent health care overhaul and the GOP and several large companies are crying their eyes out over it.
I have two words,
Fuck. Them..

Big Business, GOP Complain That Health Reform Slashes Corporate Welfare.

The Republican Party and major corporations have joined forces in the first major rearguard attack on health care reform, charging that the cost of complying with "Obamacare" is resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in added business expenses.

The crime that reform is guilty of: Slashing corporate welfare.

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Under the previous system, major corporations were subsidized by the government to provide prescription drug coverage to their retired employees. At the same time, corporations could claim on their tax returns that it was they -- not the taxpayers -- who paid for the drug coverage, and could write the expense off as a tax deduction.

Health care reform cuts out that fat. The corporations still get taxpayer money to help pay for their drug coverage, but they can no longer continue the fiction that they're using their own money to do it.

Eat shit you greedy fucking assholes.
That shit came about via the Bush administration and of course, they are hyping the numbers.

UPDATE: The welfare in question originated with the 2003 prescription drug bill signed into law by President Bush after it passed a GOP-controlled Congress in the early morning, following a three-hour vote that was held open while leaders hunted down vote-switchers.

The program entitled corporations to a government subsidy covering 28 percent of the prescription drug benefit for their retirees. The companies were not required to count the taxpayer money as income. (Unemployment benefits, meanwhile, are taxed as income.) Companies were also allowed to claim the entire cost of the benefit as a write-off, even the part paid for by the government.

It's an unusually generous entitlement. When corporations get subsidies for research or for hiring new workers, for instance, they can't write-off the subsidy as if they were spending their own money.

The entitlement isn't removed until 2013.

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The size of the accounting reductions being announced is so large, analysts said, because they project out the benefit from the current subsidy for 30 years, rising with health care's current inflation rate, and then crams it all back into a one-quarter loss. First quarter profits will be reduced, but there will be no long-term impact on the companies' financial health, the AP reported.

AT&T's charge-off was reported as a billion dollars, but the actual cost of revoking the subsidy for one year will be $40 million, according to background information provided by the White House

Cry me a river you fucking bastards.

Now you know why the GOP and Big Business were so dead against it.
Follow the fucking money.

Read the whole thing over at HuffPo.

The Beast Is Hungry

I saw nine cops and four rigs pulled over on the way to work this morning in less than twenty miles.