The End of America

I'm watching it on Netflix. I had forgotten how much the Bush Administration attempted to subvert the Constitution. I know about the spying. I knew about it in July of 2003. I had forgotten how absolutely terrifying AND enraging it was.

Naomi Wolf
Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society

1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2 Create a gulag
3 Develop a thug caste
4 Set up an internal surveillance system
5 Harass citizens' groups
6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7 Target key individuals
8 Control the press
9 Dissent equals treason
10 Suspend the rule of law

Rethug bullying

Bummer. Totally

Well, yesterday's news was quite the bummer. Scary in fact. I was on a base yesterday, changing my primary care physician. Really glad that the shrink who snapped was on a different military base in a different state.

I wouldn't be the first time I've heard of a shrink doing shit that was totally whack. Frankly, it makes me grateful that mine is professional and patient. It took years to find something that worked for me, but my shrink kept trying.

Gah! Still disgusted

I'm still glancing at all the political stuff that shows up in my mailbox and hitting delete. I'm absolutely disgusted with the marriage of banksters and congresswhores so definitively outlined in Greider's book and the Jekyll Island book is indigestible in one big chunk.

Local politics and the pathetic "local" station KUSI whoring for the Republican party is especially disgusting. Sadly, the troops stuck on the bases are subjected to Fox Newz 24/7. Blech. Local politics are so skewed as to be revolting, at least now there is some reporting on them.

It's not surprising that the bible thumping bigots won in Maine.

And then there is the war. Something the banksters, defense contractors, and congresswhores profit from.

*sigh*

I think I'll go get lost in Netflix streaming stuff. I'm impatiently waiting for the discs for Weeds and Dexter. I flew through the first two streamable seasons of both shows. I'm not a big vigilante murder advocate and I don't smoke weed, but both shows are quite amusing and the evil characters get what's coming to them in fiction shows, unlike the banksters and congresswhores who do not, and even more insulting, who ignore the general public that they profit from. Well, they ignore them after they gin up the fear in order to make bucks for Big Pharma. Even when Big Pharma fucks up, big-time.

Update 4:17 PM 11/4/2009
Well wouldja lookee here, now wtf did I say a couple of days ago?

JPMorgan Settlement: Bank To Pay SEC Over $700M Over Charges Of Illegal Payments
MARCY GORDON | 11/ 4/09 05:16 PM | AP

I wish I gave a shit lately

I don't.

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

Umm hmmm, and JP Morgan was already trying to hide their part in this mess, and even that it was a mess. Fuckers.