Now You Have Gone Too Far

I just deleted a post that had over ten documented legal injustices from around the world that are happening today because I found one that is being promoted in this country by some of our elected representatives that makes me want to bring a necklace of teeth home.

During last summer’s hard-won debt deal, President Obama and Congressional leaders agreed to a set of spending cuts designed to reduce the Federal budget deficit, including a $54.7 billion reduction in defense spending for FY2013.

Nine months later, however, leaders in the U.S. House are set to renege on this agreement by reversing the scheduled defense cuts and making up the resulting short-fall by making an additional $34 billion cut over the next ten years to the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—otherwise known as food stamps—a program that was explicitly exempted from the spending cuts outlined in the original debt deal due to their disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable.

If you can believe it, Politico has reported on this and Hell yes I will link to them for pointing out some egregious lobbying cocksuckers lying their asses off to the detriment of our fellow citizens to prop up the Industrial Military Complex.

Best of all, it highlights that oh so wonderful Paul Ryan and his Vunderbudget.

The other reason I am linking to them is to give these craven motherfuckers more rope to strangle themselves with.

Are you fucking kidding me?

They are such Ebeneezer Scrooges that they would literally lobby to take the food out of a hungry child's mouth to pay for more fucking bullets,to randomly blow other innocent babies, newlyweds and goat farmers out in the middle of nowhere to Kingdom Come to pad their resumes like a fucking Baseball players stats?

Damn straight they would.

Cain's Run Is Pretty Much Over.

Accuser number four goes public.

I say it's time for that guy to grab his cock and take a walk.

Yer toast asshole.

12%?

So,Congress is coming back in session.

I was reading the dead tree version of the local rag they call a newspaper around here and see that Congress has a whopping 12% approval rating.

First of all, I think that is a bit optimistic of a figure.

Second, just who are these 12%?

They most certainly haven't been paying attention.
12% of Americans actually approve of what Congress has done since the last election.

These people are willfully, Ignorant, Stupid, Mother, Fuckers.

The only other explanation would be that there is a fuckload more lobbyists in this country than I could ever imagine.

Even Stupie McFuckwit never got much under 28% and just astounded me even at that.

No, twelve percent tells me someone has their thumb on the scale because the current crop of dumb as rusty hammers doesn't even deserve that much.

There should be an automatic recall kill switch new election kind of thingy if their approval rate dips below Stupies all time low.

Approaching just one tenth of the population being happy should tell those dumb cocksuckers something ain't right in La La land.

Even now, they are gearing up and trying to raise money for an election that is still ONE YEAR AWAY!

This never ending vote stumping seriously affects what business they should be taking care of.
Renaming post offices doesn't do a fucking thing for this country except for some fucking painter somewhere who gets a quick name change job on the front of a fucking post office.

I don't even know why I bother to vote anymore.

Fucking bastards could give a rats ass what I think and do what their owners want without fail.
Just remember when 90% of us told them in no uncertain terms not to bail out those crooked fuckers on Wall Street?
That even beats 12% and they said Fuck You, we're doing it anyway.

Nope, unless you are a multi millionaire or a Mega Corporation, you do not exist.

They are actually afraid of the average constituent, especially when they are gathered in large quantities.
I see now some cock bite asshole representatives are trying to charge a fee if you want to talk to them face to face.
I have two words for that nonsense;

Fuck, That.

We pay your fucking salary, you arrogant fucking jack ass.
You work for us, arrogant fucking jack ass.

If I want to talk to you about something I find to be important enough to expend my energy and express my concerns to you about, you make the fucking time and effort to make your sorry fucking ass available to me, your employer.

If you have the gall to try and charge me for that, I am on the phone to the ethics committee, the same day, capiche?

That shit needs to stop yesterday.

So, as I sit here, I am still decidedly puzzled as to just who this 12% is and if they actually exist or is it a figment of someones imagination?

I seriously doubt that if I went outside and randomly asked people who were walking by whether or not they approve of the job Congress has been doing that I would find a single aye.

More than likely I figure I would encounter expressions of outrage and disgust, universally.

Is It Just Me, Or Does HuffPo Suck Even More Now?

Being an info /news junkie, I try to surf around to see what is the most current news.
The Washington Post shot themselves in the foot a few years ago and I will still occasionally stop by but HuffPo seems to have jumped off a fucking cliff lately.


Hippo's mating?

7 myths about making coffee?

The Most Nutitious Ice Creams?

 Really?

There are some some decent stories and news but I keep waiting to see Bat Boy on the front page.

I am going to do something here that I really haven't done before but I am going to ask you for your own opinion instead of me giving you mine.

Where do think is your best news source?

Where do you go to get your information that shapes your opinions on world events, politics, economic news or just plain old day to day news? One thing that really pisses me off about what we get to see and hear about what is happening is what they don't report on and let me tell you now, that that is a lot.

I go to FARK every day just because their headlines are funny and there are always off beat weird news items. Not because of serious journalism, it is a nice break from the doom and gloom.

The usual suspects after that are the LAT and the NYT and more than a few sites right there on my Blogroll.
I am only one guy with so much face time available to me for surfing the web.
TPM is a left leaning political site I try to visit once in a while but Live Leak and Black Listed News are good for things you won't see from the MSM. Shit, even Al Jazeera has more about world events than anything we get to see here. Let's not forget the BBC either.
I will be completely up front here and tell you outright that the only time I watch Fox News is when I can't avoid it.
They have been documented to be outright fucking lying so many times that they have been completely discredited as a news organization with an ounce of objectivity.

So, there it is, just a partial list, I want to know where YOU go to get legitimate news that helps you form your opinions on just what the fuck is really going on in this fucked up world.

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?

It Never Stops

Tax breaks, tax breaks, tax breaks. That's all I hear in between the bed squeaking from the ass fucking we are getting at every other turn.

Unions bad, a whopping ten percent of the work force,Medicare,Medicade, Social Security, the Wic Program, unemployment, ad fucking nauseum.

Now Big Business is wanting to bring a few BILLION dollars back to the US and what do you think their demands are?
Tax cuts.

In the first place, American business are already sitting on ONE TRILLION dollars in cash, they are trying to claim their intentions are as pure as the driven snow and they want to stimulate the economy.

Why is it the back of my legs just got a chill like someone ripped the covers off?


Because they pulled this shit before.


The NYT actually does a good job of exposing their true motives and if you go read that article, I guarran-fucking-tee ya, you will be just as pissed as I am.
Lying, skeezy cock fucking suckers.

They want a tax holiday so they can bring that money back here and find ways to fuck us some more.
A tax holiday from a 35% rate on Billions, to down to just over 5%

And, you just know, those rotten fucking pricks win Congress will stick their hands out and be glad to help.

Spit

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Are You Fucking Serious?

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Guess Who Blinked First

Thay's right, smooth talker, you be playing with fire at this point in history if you think fucking with Social Security is a good thing.

Someone finally convinced you to quit listening to those country raping bastards long enough to see what would be coming down the pike if you had.

We all know SS has absolutely nothing to do with the budget and in fact, would have a giant surplus if the politicians hadn't been able to steal buttloads of money from it in the past.

Look elsewhere young man, for your magic unicorn feed to fix the fucked up economy, this place be full of danger for you.

That's Rich

You'll get the obvious pun shortly.

White House Privately Pushing Data Showing Bush Tax Cut Extension Politically Popular

A Senate aide sent over a copy of the email that an administration aide sent to offices on Wednesday morning. In it, the aide touts Gallup polling data showing that "Two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor extending the 2001/2003 tax cuts for all Americans for two years, and an identical number support extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed." 

Sure, two thirds of regular Americans are in favor of this crap.
Numbers lie because the people doing the polling can twist those numbers to fit their agenda.
Do you want to know how they could have possibly come up with these complete bullshit statistics?

HMM, sixty six percent, that one is easy.

They asked Mitch McConnell and John Boehner what they thought and then some poor slob who's unemployment ran out bumped into them looking for a hand out.
That's three, divide that up and you get sixty six percent.

Easy.

Don't be fooled by this fucking horse shit, there is no way in hell that two thirds of the average American public backs giving those rich cocksuckers more money.

Unemployment extensions I can see but someone is trying like hell to spin the capitulation of one Barack Hussein Obama to the fucking Republicans again, and I for one, ain't buying it.

 

Outta The Park

Froomkin knocks the hide off the ball with this one.

Somebody is still paying attention.

Grab a cold drink, go to the bathroom and then sit down and read this whole thing. I am dead fucking serious, READ IT!

Without question, he reinforces with facts why I believe that dirty sonofabitch George Bush jr. should be in fucking jail.

Brace For Impact

Tomorrow is the big day when people go vote in the Mid terms for Congress and the House of Representatives.

I have been staying away from politics for quite a while now because I got burned out on it.

After tomorrow the political landscape could change dramatically.

The Party Of No claims they are going to take over the House and then the REAL obstructionism is going to start when they get sworn in.
They plan on trying to Impeach Obama, repeal the healthcare bill and completely tie up the peoples business with endless investigations, all the while wanting yet more tax cuts for the rich and Fuck You if you make less than a million a year.

If Bohener actually gets to be Speaker, all Hell is going to break loose.

If we wind up with Whack Jobs like Sharon Anglle and Christine O'Donnell in office, it is going to go down hill fast.

If the Dems wind up retaining the Majority, it is STILL going to go down hill fast.

My point?

It is going to continue to decline no matter what.

The Economy is still trying to find bottom while those treacherous mother fucking Banksters and Lobbyists keep trying to find ways to squeeze the last nickel out of our pockets, no matter who is in charge.

There isn't Jack Shit for anything I feel the need to run home and fill out a ballot for.

I was supposed to drive home from the Girl Freinds today but slept all damn day and it was getting dark when I finally got up.

I have been here since a week ago Friday.

I am hitting the road tomorrow and I WILL NOT turn on the radio to listen to this political Kabuki while I am driving, there might be some road rage involved if I did.

Nope, I am going to wait until all the results are in in a day or so and then figure out what my game plan is going to be.

Most likely just doing what I have been like nothing happened.

Neither party has done Jack Shit for the working man or woman and quite a few of us have been watching them for years.

We have simply come to the conclusion that we have to take care of our selves and our loved ones with what we have.

We watch and we wait.

Take my word for it, it isn't going to get better any time soon so watch your six and try and look ahead as much as possible for your own well being.

They don't give a shit about you and they are lying through their teeth when they say they do.

Remember that.

A Short Conversation With My Cat

Me:
 Get the fuck off of me, I already fed you.

My cat;
I loves you, pet me asshole, where the fuck have you been?

Me;
 Yer spilling my beer, get the fuck off me.
My cat;
Fuck you dude, pet me now.

Me; Goddammit, get the fuck off me! Here, Let me light a cigarette, I know how much you like that shit.

My cat;
 Here have a set of claws right through your right nipple.

Me; Holy SHIT!!

My cat, don't piss me off again, I'll bite yer ass.

Me; Want some flying lessons?
My cat;,
Bring it bitch.
Me; OWWW! You little sonofabitch!!

My cat;
Fuck you asshole, where the hell have you been? My fucking shit box needs to be cleaned out, you think that petting me for an hour and a half is going to change that?
Here have some blood, it's on the house.

Me; Oh, you little bitch, come back here.

My cat; fuck you asshole, while you were away, Rahm Emmanuel  decided to run for the Mayor of Chicago.
Me; How much does it cost to send an ungrateful rotten mother fucker too Chicago?
My cat; How the fuck should I know, bleed some more asshole and call the White House!

There will be beatings handed out around here as soon as I can find the fucking Peroxide and a one way ticket to Chicago's Mayor office. If the little bitch lasts as long as the elections, God help who ever opens that fucking box.

Either way, it's a win win. Daley is fucking gone, Emmanuel takes office and opens Pandora's box into the corruption that has been going on there for the last thirty years and I get to read about whoever opened some fucking box and got to meet my cat.

Nice kitty.

A rat is a rat after all.
Someone needs to send a rat  chaser over there.

Fuck you Rahm.

Signed, a member of the Professional Left, asshole.
Good fucking riddance. Get the fuck out of the White House and go back to the little Rat Hole ya came from, dick head.

Sorry for your luck Drifty.


Get out of the way, secretary lady, cat treats have no effect, just dump the box off and run for your life.
Take the population of Chicago with ya.

After All There Years, I Discover I Am Actually A Rightie

Who would have thunk it.
I noticed recently whenever I see or hear one of the following idiots open their yap, my right hand instinctively reaches over and unzips my pants, pull out my decidedly left leaning dick and violently yanks me to the right, looking to fill said idiots mouth with warm piss to shut them the fuck up.
What do you think about that, Michele?

I know, it was a rhetorical question. Here, follow me for a second. Here is a round room, go pee in the corner.
Right.
That should keep her busy.
Wait a minute! Who let her in here?

SECURITY!
There is one of those "others" in here!
You, get your narrow brown ass out back and wait your turn.
I will get to you eventually and piss all over you too..
Think of it as the Health Care Bill these fucking clowns passed.

Next!

Oh, sorry Mr. Boner, I didn't mean to piss in your eye.
Actually, I did. if I had tried to piss in your mouth, it would have turned into a sprinkler big enough for a corn field in Ben Nelson's back yard. What with you flapping your gum's at light speed about the necessity to keep those tax breaks for the ridiculously rich. You're excused now.

Next? Oh fuck. I am going to need another half case of beer for this asshole.

What's the matter Newtie? All of a sudden you decide to shut up?
I have a question for you.
Who the fuck do you think you are anyway?
As far as I can tell, you are the tighty whities version of Reverend Jackson. You serve no apparent purpose other than to stir shit up.Still up to the same old tricks I see, lets shut down the government.
Please run for President, pretty please?
I would love to see your ass as broke as mine with about the same final results.

Next?
Oh, my. No, there will be no peeing in this mans mouth
I see a strict regiment of chili, peppers and prune juice for this ass clown, heavy on the Tobasco. Enough said.

What, you don't wan't that Rushie?

You too,

But our little sweetheart Sarah thinks maybe she can run for President too!

Guess what I have in mind for you my dear..

Wrong, go pee in the corner with Michele Bachmann, take the Tea Party with ya.


Oh, sure, this traitor.What list would be complete with out this egg sucking bastard?

Sorry Joe, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire and holding an arm load of kittens.

Smarmy mother fucker, God, I hate that guy.

Finally, we get to those spineless cock suckers who truly deserve my ire

 

Guess what? I am going to need a whole lot more beer before I can even begin to think about how pissed off I am at this crowd.

Just A Follow Up To The Last Post

These are the current headlines from cough cough, Huffington Post, which is a "news" aggregate.

WASHINGTON — The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.

Right, the biggest man made disater in history has, dissapeared?
Just ask the folks in a little place called Valdeze, Alaska how that shit works.

They are lying to you, again.

Key word, dispersed. That would be that magic elixer that causes cancer, some nasty shit called Corexit, Yeah, it'll corrects it alright, key word, " Solvent". The EPA told them to quit using it and they went ahead and dumped a few million gallons in the ocean so it can show up in the food chain for another fifty fucking years. Go read this whole propaganda piece and ask yourself  just who needs a swift kick in the nuts. Lying. Mother. Lovers..

Here is another beauty, whatever happened to those relief wells, by the way?



ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (Associated Press) - Mud that was forced down a blown-out well was holding down the flow of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP said Wednesday.

Send the bill for the link to Arianna.

How is it that they spent a month just trying to cap that spewing mess that was estimated at fifty to a hundred thousand pounds per square inch and no one could tell us how many fucking gallons/ barrels a day and now they can just " pump some mud" back down the breaches of Hell?   Now they can just pump some mud down the same hole at their liesure and it is some kind of mile stone?
Let's do some math here, this is from ABC two weeks ago,

Pressures in the well are continuing to rise, National Incident Cmdr. Thad Allen said today, signaling that the cap seems to be working and there are no other leaks in the well. This evening, the pressure stood at 6,700 pounds per square inch, lower than officials would like to see but not a cause for immediate concern. 

“The well pressure is now being controlled by the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling mud, which is the desired outcome of the static kill procedure carried out yesterday,” BP said Wednesday in a statement posted on its Web site.
Through Tuesday afternoon, engineers pumped mud weighing about 13.2 pounds per gallon at slow speeds from a surface vessel through a choke line into the blowout preventer on top of the well. If all goes well, cement may be applied to fill the well over the next few days.

Thank you, NYT, for that bit of info.
Now then, I will be the first to say I suck at math but if you go back and reread those two little quotes, something jumps out at me.
One uses Pounds per square inch and the other uses pounds per gallon.
If memory serves me, a gallon of tap water weighs eight pounds.
So, whatever "mud" they are using is five pounds per gallon more than plain tap water, given it is a mile down, I want to know how a gallon of "mud" that weighs thirteen pounds can stop a well that was estimated to be at 6,700 psi.
Like I said, I was never real good at math but that defies the laws of physics.



I want to know how that shit works and Bill O'Rielly is my first choice as an underwater special correspondent.. Just make sure there is a lot of anchor chain involved.

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.

Great news!

Huge new mineral deposits have been discovered in Afghanistan! A trillion dollars worth! Enough to transform the entire country from a complete hell-hole into an ordinary every day crap-hole like New Jersey. Woohoo!

Vast supplies of minerals such as iron, copper and gold, all with worldwide technological applications, are scattered over the country, according to the Defense Department.

But officials caution that they won't be easy to extricate and that it will take years to turn this new found mineral wealth into actual revenue.

Uh, yeah...the mineral potential of Afghanistan has been known about for decades. The Soviets identified it in the 70s. The Chinese would love to get their hands on it, too. Problem is there ain't no fucking infrastructure to get it out. Even if you could mine it you gotta get it to the sea for transport by ship. Good luck with that.

So lets start from the beginning...first you gotta build massive mining operations but that don't do ya no good without freeways and railways and bridges and airports. Then you'll need equally massive support facilities like train depots, chemical plants, power stations, truck stops, housing facilities, blah, blah, fucking blah-de-blah.

Okay, so lets say you DO somehow manage to pull all that off. The nearest sea port is in Pakistan. Not a problem! The Pakistani government has never wanted anything but a successful neighbor next door and I'm sure they'd be more than happy to negotiate the required international treaties at a fair and equitable price. Hell, it ain't like they ever supported the Taliban, now is it?

The terrain shouldn't be much of a problem when it comes to building roads and railways. The 10th Mountain might be having trouble but what do they know?

The educated workforce you'll need is almost a given...see that farmer over there? He speaks Pashtun AND goat.

The US Guv'mint just put time back on the clock in Afghanistan. And I, for one, have complete trust in the notion of bringing in legions of unicorns and magic faeries to fly the ore to safety and bring the most ungovernable place on the planet into the present.

Before you know it all our men and women can come home and the Afghan people will have more lithium-ion batteries than they can eat.

That'll be a good day, when our boys come home.

spongebobcrackwhore

It's Called Murder

That is what happened in that mine in West Virginia the other day,Mass Murder.
Twenty five confirmed deaths and four unaccounted for after what many believe was a methane blast inside the mine.

Last year, MSHA ordered the mine closed 29 times to correct problems found by inspectors, said Stricklin. He did not know why each citation was issued or how long the mine was forced to close each time, but closure times can vary widely.

"Any time you issue a D order, it's a very bad condition," Stricklin said. "I don't want to call it unusual, but it's a serious condition."

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At the sprawling coal mine where 25 perished in an explosion this week, regulators found that dirty air was being directed into an escapeway where fresh air should be. An emergency air system was flowing in the wrong direction, which could leave workers without fresh air in their primary escape route.

Terry Moore, the mine foreman, told officials that he was aware of one of the problems found during a January inspection and that it had been occurring for about three weeks.

The air-flow problems are among a string of safety violations that federal inspectors found in the months and days leading up to the deadliest mining disaster in more than a quarter-century.

"Mr. Moore engaged in aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence in that he was aware of the condition," the Mine Safety and Health Administration wrote in fining the company a combined $130,000.

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Massey subsidiary Performance Coal Co., continued to rack up citations until the day of the blast. MSHA inspectors ticketed the mine Monday over inadequate maps of escape routes and an improper splice of electrical cable on a piece of equipment.

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Now get a load of this,

Neither violation the day of the blast was life-threatening, said Massey spokesman Jeff Gillenwater.

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There is a hell of a lot more to this story.

There is very disturbing pattern here which can be found when you see that Massey has forty one other mines that are operated in this manner.

Massey Energy — the Virginia-based coal giant that owns the Upper Big Branch mine, the site of Monday’s tragedy — also controls 41 other underground coal mines currently active in Appalachia. Investigators have cited those projects for 2,074 safety violations since the start of the year, according to federal documents. The citations run a spectrum, but hundreds charge mine operators with failing to maintain air quality detectors, failing to ensure proper ventilation, allowing combustible material to accumulate, and a host of other infractions related to miner safety.

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My emphasis.
There is much, much more damning evidence here.

As it is, from right here, I would say that at least twenty five charges of Pre Meditated Murder are called for.

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.

Sarah Doesn't Disappoint

Stupid Fucking Bint.
Jesus, this is why Fox News is so fucking dangerous, some people actually believe their propaganda, apparently Caribou Barbie relies on them extensively for her information. In her Fux You's debut, she readily admits to that world famous lying motherfucker Bill O'Reilly that she thought that Iraq was behind the attacks on the Twin Towers on 9/11, SEVEN FUCKING YEARS LATER!

Interviewed by Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on his show “The O’Reilly Factor,” Palin trashed many of the critical accounts of her candidacy in the new book “Game Change.” But one story from the book that Palin did not say was “made up” or “a lie” was the description of her uncertainty as to whether Iraq had a hand in the planning of the September 11 attacks.

“I did talk a lot to [campaign strategist] Steve Schmidt about the history of the war and where the attackers could have come from,” Palin said of her debate prep during the fall of 2008 – more than five years after the start of the war in Iraq and seven years after the terrorist attacks that hit New York and Washington

Please notice where I just got that quote, from the notoriously Right Wing Talking Points Spewing Politico.



Hello?
Seven years?

The following is a list of the hijackers that has been available to the general public long since 2001;

American Airlines Flight 11
Waleed Alshehri, 22, from Saudi Arabia *
Wail Alshehri, 28, from Saudi Arabia, brother of Waleed Alshehri, had psychological problems *
Abdulaziz Alomari, 22, from Saudi Arabia *
Satam Al Suqami, 25, from Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Atta, 33, from Egypt (the likely pilot) *
United Airlines Flight 93
Saeed Alghamdi, 21, from Saudi Arabia (had flight training) *
Ahmed Alhaznawi, 20, from Saudi Arabia *
Ahmed Alnami, 23, from Saudi Arabia *
Ziad Jarrah, 26, from Lebanon (the likely pilot) *
United Airlines Flight 175
Ahmed Alghamdi, 22, from Saudi Arabia
Hamza Alghamdi, 20, from Saudi Arabia, brother of Ahmed Alghamdi *
Marwan Alshehhi, 23, from United Arab Emirates (the likely pilot) *
Mohand Alshehri, 22, from Saudi Arabia, possible cousin of Marwan Alshehhi and/or from the same extended family as Wail and Waleed Alshehri
Fayez Ahmed Banihammad (Alshehri), 24, from United Arab Emirates (had flight training)
American Airlines Flight 77
Khalid Almihdhar, 26, from Saudi Arabia (originally from Yemen, changed citizenship in 1996) *
Nawaf Alhazmi, 25, from Saudi Arabia
Salem Alhazmi, 20, from Saudi Arabia, brother of Nawaf Alhazmi *
Hani Hanjour, 29, from Saudi Arabia (the likely pilot)
Majed Moqed, 24, from Saudi Arabia *


Sourced from "The Complete 9/11 Time Line".

Which, may I add, took me less than two fucking minutes to find on Google.
Is it just me, or do I NOT see one fucking name on that list with the word, IRAQ behind it?

Fair and Balanced my achin' ass, more like Twisted and extremely unbalanced if ya ask me.

In this day and age, where I just proved to you that being misinformed is an actual choice, where information is literally available at the speed of light from multiple sources and GOVERNOR Sarah Palin still believed, seven years after the fact, that Iraq still somehow had something to do with the attacks on the Twin Towers, I ASK YOU, TO YOUR FACE,
You still believe this woman is qualified to be The President of The United States of America?


Cross posted at The Seminal

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More Mooselini

My God, I can't escape the damn woman.
Sara Palin has now signed a contract with Fox News, a multi year contract.
The woman can't even speak in full sentences.

This ought to be a riot.

Remind me again who the brilliant mother fucker was that decided to inflict this vapid wench on the rest of us?

I was perfectly happy having never heard of her and would like to regain that.

Now I am REALLY glad I got rid of my television last year.
Of course, she is a walking clusterfuck so I am sure she will pull some kind of shit, she can't help herself.

Once she gets on the air,she will get the reaction she so richly deserves.

Trust me.