I adore Al Franken's support for net neutrality

hat tip to WOK3

The Great Islamophobic Crusade

Mr. Blumenthal­, some day Americans may figure out that a small group of pro-Israel people run America's foreign policy in the Middle East, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
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I'm so glad my friends told me which roads to take

Mudslides, flooding close roads including PCH; 'huge' storm expected Monday afternoon
December 20, 2010


Yeesh, I thought the 101 was bad. Whoo, talk about being grateful that my friend knows LA traffic. I am.

r u fn kdn?

Monday, Dec. 20, 2010
Pope: Church must reflect on what allowed abuse


Reflect?

How about they follow the paperwork trail and quit moving the pedophile priests when they get caught? Or they "train priests" to spot the pedophiles before they get a church? Holy moly, the geniuses at work in the Vatican...wow, they're almost as brilliant as the GOP:

House GOP Crushes Bill That Would Protect Against Child Marriage
Rachel Slajda | December 20, 2010, 8:55AM

Yeah, what else are these fuckers going to do while we are bombarded with ads for cars that nobody can afford. Ho Ho Ho's , that's our congresswhores!

Still tired

Wish I was here again.

Or here.

Reading 13 Bankers. It's frustrating. I hate banksters.

Honey, I'm home

(crickets)

ps, did you know that LA traffic on a Friday night, during the holidays, in the rain sucks ass?

Tired

Long drive, next day a marathon shopping trip and the revelation that the overtly political major is hated as is the political junkie mother.

That would be me.

Ok then.

I suppose child needs more time to make up mind regarding career goals. Ok, no problem, but snarling at mom does not help, and mom does not have to live with it.

SNL:

Crooks and Liars

wikileaks documentary

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2 car bombs in Stockholm.

The Swedish news agency TT said it had received an email warning 10 minutes before the blasts, which took place either side of 5 p.m. (12 p.m. EST), with a threat to Sweden and its people.

It said the threat was linked to Sweden's contribution to the U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan, where it has 500 soldiers, mainly in the north.

A local news agency, TT, said it had received an e-mail shortly before the blasts, which said it was now time for Swedish people to die "like our brothers and sisters".

Hmmm. Why does this "get the 500 soldiers out of Afghanistan" e-mail stink to high heaven to me?

Weekend At Bernie's

I love Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) I do I Do IIIIIII DOOOOOOOOO! I can't believe I missed this, I was busy all day.

(hat tip Glenn Greenwald tweet)

The Truth-O-Meter Says: TRUE

In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 in a Senate floor speech

Bernie Sanders, in viral speech, says top 1 percent earn more than 23 percent of U.S. income

#WikiFear: What Are They Afraid Of?

Yup, they had to throw Assange in jail at all costs, even to their appearance of credibilit­y.

Cuban dissidents in order to sting Assange on some bs rape charge that was dropped in August --http://art­icles.cnn.­com/2010-0­8-21/world­/sweden.wi­kileaks.ch­arge_1_jul­ian-assang­e-molestat­ion-charge­-arrest-wa­rrant?_s=P­M:WORLD.

Cuban dissidents­? Yeesh, something out the the CIA's playbook in 1963

Assange had to be stopped before he released the bank documents.

http://www­.dailyfina­nce.com/st­ory/media/­wikileaks-­bank-docum­ents/19738­054/

"WikiLeaks to keep releasing cables despite Assange arrest"
http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/medi­a/2010/dec­/07/wikile­aks-cables­-julian-as­sange-arre­st

Bwaaah ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha­hahaaaaaa
About Wikileaks
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You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack (c) 2009 HBO

Let me be perfectly clear about how I feel about Jack Kervorkian. He is brilliant in a country with a lot of morons brainwashed by religion in it. He pushed the boundaries and he may have technically broken the law but I believe very deeply in physician assisted suicide and I do not believe what he did was wrong.

We have the choice to end our pet's suffering, but grandma can't make the choice to end hers?

How fucking barbaric is that?

Julian Assange interview

Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Pro-Wikileaks Vigilantes Down Visa.com
By Ryan Singel December 8, 2010 | 5:42 pm | Categories: Miscellaneous

WEDNESDAY, DEC 8, 2010 13:09 ET
The crux of the WikiLeaks debate

BY GLENN GREENWALD

I'm really starting to wonder if...

Obama gets to live if he does what the entitled bitches that run that fucking swamp called DC want. Seriously man. Do you believe that bullshit about JFK and the lone gunman and the magic bullet? I sure as fuck don't. Come on man, the Kennedys pissed off and threatened the wealth of a few people who roam the halls of power with impunity, no matter what they get up to. You think those nasty creatures are happy when their entitlements are threatened? You think they don't have disposable jackals in their employ?
VIRTUAL JFK: VIETNAM IF KENNEDY HAD LIVED Teaser Trailer (Streaming on Netflix now)
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(This was simply my stunned response to Obama's tax cut capitulation)

Assange arrest is bullshit

Update ; Assange has been refused bail.

"...Today Visa joined Mastercard, Paypal, Amazon, EveryDNS and others in cutting off their links...."

Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in UK
By RAPHAEL SATTER
Associated Press

And everybody who doesn't have their head planted firmly up their ass knows it. The rape charges were dropped in August so they had to find something else to keep him tied up in court somewhere where someone could keep him from releasing more damaging documents. He was planning on dumping documents that had to do with banksters.

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National Geographic "World's Most Dangerous Gang"

National Geographic World's Most Dangerous Gang 2006

Interesting to watch. I wonder how much more crumbling infrastructure all over the world this nasty MS-13 gang has decorated in graffiti, blood, drug addicts, and broken lives in 4 years since this documentary was made? Probably grown exponentially with our economic woes, eh?

I'm grateful that even though I've been poor, I never had to deal with these violent lowlife scumbag cretins. Jeez what a bunch of nasty, brutal and stupid thugs. Most of them are hopeless criminals and can't be rehabbed. The gang tattoos are one of the reasons I've never liked tattoos. When I was a teenager none of the angst ridden middle class teenagers had cute, cartoonish and colorful tattoos or weird piercings, only the dirtbags had ugly ass jail tats, and frankly, through no fault of my own, I had to deal with a few of them briefly and in relatively safe environs. I saw the graffiti and tattoos and the glazed, vacant-eyed paint huffing, pcp smoking morons 30 years ago and beat feet. At that time a full-time minimum wage job would get you a 2 bedroom apartment in this city in a decent neighborhood with only 3 inhabitants instead of needing 4 or 5 roommates. At that time it was possible to find a full-time minimum wage job, and a decent neighborhood that had affordable rents.

This gang is certainly a testament to the pathetic state of the justice system in the US and the US's retarded foreign policy in Latin America.

Oh Jeeezus Christ on a fucking pogo stick, wtf?

Dec 06, 2010
Obama announces deal to extend Bush tax cuts

UDPATE: President Obama reached a deal with Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts for two years and unemployment benefits for one year

What the fuck is all this bullshit about compromise?

The fucking RepugnanThuglicans have said before that bipartisanship is date rape. You have to hit these stupid motherfuckers upside the head with a baseball bat to even get their attention.

And they wonder why Democrats didn't fucking bother to vote in the last elections? And they wonder why people check out and don't bother with politics at all?
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Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Taking Down America

Posted by Alfred McCoy

at 5:11pm, December 5, 2010.

"...Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003...

....In his State of the Union address last January, President Obama offered the reassurance that “I do not accept second place for the United States of America.” A few days later, Vice President Bidenridiculed the very idea that “we are destined to fulfill [historian Paul] Kennedy's prophecy that we are going to be a great nation that has failed because we lost control of our economy and overextended.” Similarly, writing in the November issue of the establishment journal Foreign Affairs, neo-liberal foreign policy guru Joseph Nye waved away talk of China's economic and military rise, dismissing “misleading metaphors of organic decline” and denying that any deterioration in U.S. global power was underway...

...Economic Decline: Present Situation

...Today, three main threats exist to America’s dominant position in the global economy: loss of economic clout thanks to a shrinking share of world trade, the decline of American technological innovation, and the end of the dollar's privileged status as the global reserve currency..."

The public attitude of our leadership in Washington DC is so arrogant that it dovetails nicely with the book I'm reading and that double dose often starts this song in my head.

Blowing Billions on War While American Workers Go Under

Wow. One Hellfire missile is around enough to provide 3 people with unemployme­nt checks for a year.

Oh no, by all means keep bombing the rubble in Afghanista­n, gotta keep Lockheed Martin and General Atomics in good shape, that's who gives campaign funding to our getting wealthier congress.

Gah.
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The Republican base's favorite pundits

FRIDAY, DEC 3, 2010 15:29 ET
BY ALEX PAREENE

"Republican opinion outfit ConservativeHome polled 1,152 Republican activists (according to "YouGuv America") on their favorite conservative pundits.

...The winners, in order:

Rush Limbaugh: 41 percent
Glenn Beck: 33 percent
Charles Krauthammer: 29 percent
Bill O'Reilly: 24 percent
Sean Hannity: 21 percent
Newt Gingrich: 16 percent
Michelle Malkin: 16 percent
Mike Huckabee: 13 percent
Ann Coulter: 13 percent
George Will: 13 percent..."

So the Republican base are actually Republican activists? You hear that Republican voters? You don't count, get a clue, you sheeple. Your job is to take your voting orders from rich white men who's job it is to keep you angry and scared of anything except the rich white men who are screwing you in the ass without any lube.

And you middle class and poor Republicans don't get a tax break unless the rich get theirs. Jeez, don't you ever get tired of it? Tweet

Merry Christmas unemployed, from the "Democratic" Congress

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Josh Blue

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2 lawyers and 2 OpEds on the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud

and they are vastly different.

So Who Is the Enemy, Exactly? A Portland Plot Should Remind Us of Crucial Questions We Need to Ask and Answer
By MARCI A. HAMILTON
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

I think Miss Marcia has been watching too much Fox Snooz or she's trying to sell copies of her book God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law


"...There are numerous claims here that merit further scrutiny and questioning. First, .."

SUNDAY, NOV 28, 2010 06:29 ET
The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot
BY GLENN GREENWALD

Reading Now

The second page of the introduction hooked me.

See this 6 min clip of author on Book TV to see what it was that did it.

I'm still painfully slogging through Stiglitz' book but it's slow going because I read Perkins' book also.
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Let's see what the corporate ass-kissing Supreme court does with this one

Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
Supreme Court to review Ariz. campaign finance law


and because both sides simplify the tax debate:

Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
FACT CHECK: Small business caught in tax battle
By TOM RAUM Associated Press

While Fox News Pundits Clamor To Attack North Korea, News Corp Is In Bed With The Regime

Reported by Ellen - November 28, 2010 -


And Oh. My. God. You have to read Driftglass today. Go on, git outta here --

The History of Conservatism In 95 Words

The AT&T Settlement: A reason to be thankful this holiday season.

Yeesh, after reading a little bit more about this case and the NYT editorial yesterday and it's comments I just get more and more disgusted with corporate America and it's handmaidens in Congress and the Supreme Court. Goddamned huge ass companies have to be told by the courts that their contracts were unconscionable? The only thing that makes me grateful of this decision is that it may help insure that class action suits don't go the way of the dodo bird.

Today, that is.

Grateful

8 Things Progressives Can Be Thankful For
Chin up, after all we've got Rachel Maddow, health care, Pittsburgh's f-you to corporate control, and a whole lot more to be thankful for.
November 25, 2010

Let's see, what else am I grateful for?

I'm healthy. My husband puts up with my cranky ass and goes to a job that ain't much fun in order to take care of us. The kid is healthy and smart and almost done spending our savings on college, but she won't have shitloads of debt when she starts out. I have more family and friends in good shape (surviving financially, ain't none of us running marathons, lol) than a lot of people.

Most of the San Diego flora looks like this -


But I live in an apartment complex with trees like this -


Damn straight I'm grateful, these trees are gorgeous.

And one more thing Hammer Drops on Tom DeLay

Fox news morons on parade

Fox News hosts tell Buffett to "quit lecturing" the rich

O'Reilly want the 50's back?
History of Federal Individual Income Bottom and Top Bracket Rates

Time to Tax Super Rich and Corporations at 1950s Levels
By John F. Miglio

And in other news "the natural gas industry will still be hard pressed to develop to its full capability because of an oil and coal influence-addled Congress;"

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