Published on Monday, May 21, 2012 by Common Dreams
How the Ultra-Rich Betray America
by Paul Buchheit
"... The wealthy benefit disproportionately from property and inheritance laws, contracts, stock exchanges, favorable SEC regulations, the Small Business Administration, patent and copyright and intellectual property laws, estate planning, trust funds, Internet marketing, communications infrastructure, highway maintenance, air traffic control, local and national security, and 60 years of research in technology and other industries..."
"...Denial: Traders feel it's inappropriate to pay even a tiny tax on a quadrillion dollars in sales
A quadrillion dollars sounds like a fake amount. But it's all too real. That's a thousand trillion dollars of derivatives transactions which, along with the high-frequency computer-generated transactions (5,000 per second) that make up over half of U.S. stock trades, contributed to a financial meltdown and a $3 trillion bailout for reckless trading.
But there's no tax on these transactions.
While average Americans pay a 10% sales tax on necessities, millionaire investors pay just a .00002% SEC fee (2 cents for every thousand dollars) for a financial instrument. And their supporters claim, inexplicably after the disastrous trading frenzy in 2008, that a tax would increase volatility..."
("Increase volatility?" Now that is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in a while. Jebus, how stupid do these colostomy bag contents think we are?)
Published on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 by Common Dreams
Snarling Banks
by Jim Hightower
"...Thank you, Supreme Court, for making this crass money play possible with your plutocratic Citizens United decision. Now that bankers are going to intimidate officeholders with the threat to put unlimited campaign cash against them, we can expect Big Oil, Big Pharma and all the other Bigs to join the fun...."
"...Wells Fargo now hits you for $15 a month just to have a checking account, unless you keep at least $7,500 in your account. Citibank charges $20 a month, unless you keep $15,000 on deposit — more than double last year's level. Bank fees for money orders have doubled, and fees for cashier's checks have quadrupled..."
There is a way out of this endless abuse-the-customer game: Move your money out of their vaults! For help, go to
http://www.moveyourmoneyproject.org/"
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Penn Jillette Accuses Obama Of Class Warfare For Drug Policy, States' Rights (VIDEO)
Wow, the silly season just keeps coming earlier and earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season#Politics
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
It’s Official: Watching Fox Makes You Stupider
Ben Adler on May 21, 2012 - 9:04 PM ET
The Nation
"... The reason is not because it holds a set of values that others may not share. And that is only partially because it claims to be “Fair and Balanced” when it is neither.
Rather, it is because it fails the fundamental test of journalism: are you informing your audience? According to a new study by Farleigh Dickinson University, Fox viewers are the least knowledgeable audience of any outlet, and they know even less about politics and current events than people who watch no news at all....
...When Fox isn’t inventing smears against Obama, it uncritically regurgitates corporate-funded lies about him....
...This laziness, partisan hackery and lack of regard for basic accuracy is what separates Fox News from outlets that merely have opinions. And it is doing their audience a disservice...
Chris Mooney cited six previous studies with similar findings.
I identified 6 separate studies showing Fox News viewers to be the most misinformed, and in a right wing direction—studies on global warming, health care, health care a second time, the Ground Zero mosque, the Iraq war, and the 2010 election.
I also asked if anyone was aware of any counterevidence, and none was forthcoming. There might very well be a survey out there showing that Fox viewers aren’t [emphasis in original] the most misinformed cable news consumers on some topic (presumably it would be a topic where Democrats have some sort of ideological blind spot), but I haven’t seen it. And I have looked...."
The Nation
"... The reason is not because it holds a set of values that others may not share. And that is only partially because it claims to be “Fair and Balanced” when it is neither.
Rather, it is because it fails the fundamental test of journalism: are you informing your audience? According to a new study by Farleigh Dickinson University, Fox viewers are the least knowledgeable audience of any outlet, and they know even less about politics and current events than people who watch no news at all....
...When Fox isn’t inventing smears against Obama, it uncritically regurgitates corporate-funded lies about him....
...This laziness, partisan hackery and lack of regard for basic accuracy is what separates Fox News from outlets that merely have opinions. And it is doing their audience a disservice...
Chris Mooney cited six previous studies with similar findings.
I identified 6 separate studies showing Fox News viewers to be the most misinformed, and in a right wing direction—studies on global warming, health care, health care a second time, the Ground Zero mosque, the Iraq war, and the 2010 election.
I also asked if anyone was aware of any counterevidence, and none was forthcoming. There might very well be a survey out there showing that Fox viewers aren’t [emphasis in original] the most misinformed cable news consumers on some topic (presumably it would be a topic where Democrats have some sort of ideological blind spot), but I haven’t seen it. And I have looked...."
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thinking about yesterday's post
And my distrust for mainstream media.
Being born and raised in San Diego I had very little interest in reading the local paper because not only do I dislike dirty hands, I smelled bullshit.
The older I got the more I knew that the way that local government functioned was not in the best interest of people like me and many inhabitants of the over 4,000 square miles inside San Diego County. And it was obvious to me that the paper and the government supported the wealthiest members of a small elite.
So articles like this:
San Diego’s ‘Strong Mayor’ System Worse Than You Might Think
By Norma Damashek / NumbersRunner / May 18, 2012
Hat tip to OB Rag
and books like these:
Paradise Plundered and Under the Perfect Sun only confirm my suspicions.
Being born and raised in San Diego I had very little interest in reading the local paper because not only do I dislike dirty hands, I smelled bullshit.
The older I got the more I knew that the way that local government functioned was not in the best interest of people like me and many inhabitants of the over 4,000 square miles inside San Diego County. And it was obvious to me that the paper and the government supported the wealthiest members of a small elite.
So articles like this:
San Diego’s ‘Strong Mayor’ System Worse Than You Might Think
By Norma Damashek / NumbersRunner / May 18, 2012
Hat tip to OB Rag
and books like these:
Paradise Plundered and Under the Perfect Sun only confirm my suspicions.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
92 min - Documentary - 29 September 2011 (Denmark)
I thought it was going to be a puff piece that didn't critisize so I didn't want to watch this. I was pleasantly surprised, but I still tend to only read the NYT when I've been pointed in that direction or I am looking for an item that was widely reported on and I need details and a source link for a blogpost. I've never read any print newspaper because I can't stand to have dirty hands. Well that and I got suckered into supporting the fucking Iraq war by the mainstream media. And hassled by someone who got msm exposure as some kind of fucking hero when he was just a small man with a devious mind. I don't know if I ever trusted the mainstream media. From my perspective they protect the wealthy. Hell that's ad revenue, and with corporate consolidation, including corporate media consolidation that means more power concentrated in fewer places. I didn't even know who Sam Zell was. Jebus, what a dick.
I thought it was going to be a puff piece that didn't critisize so I didn't want to watch this. I was pleasantly surprised, but I still tend to only read the NYT when I've been pointed in that direction or I am looking for an item that was widely reported on and I need details and a source link for a blogpost. I've never read any print newspaper because I can't stand to have dirty hands. Well that and I got suckered into supporting the fucking Iraq war by the mainstream media. And hassled by someone who got msm exposure as some kind of fucking hero when he was just a small man with a devious mind. I don't know if I ever trusted the mainstream media. From my perspective they protect the wealthy. Hell that's ad revenue, and with corporate consolidation, including corporate media consolidation that means more power concentrated in fewer places. I didn't even know who Sam Zell was. Jebus, what a dick.
squirrels don't like these, yaaaay
And the sweet alyssum smell just may ameliorate the smell of the dumpster that occasionally wafts over in the summer time.
Even though this is an apartment complex the landscape maintenance crew is incredibly lame. They don't do crap and they turn on the sprinklers 2 minutes a month for the tiny little yards that are closest to this particular building. So there is a spigot at the end of the building and I bought a garden hose, fuck 'em. After spending fifty bucks for garden supplies (and I borrowed the tools) I wasn't thinking 'fuck them" I was thinking "fuck me."
Sunday, May 20, 2012
flowers
So I dug up the 8' X 4' patch of weeds in between the patio and the sidewalk with a shovel and planted these vincas that my new neighbor gave me for Mother's Day.
The Otospermophilus beecheyi don't like them, HA!
Saturday, May 19, 2012
REPORT: Who? Media Turns Its Back On Experts Who Blame GOP For Political Gridlock
Media Matters
...But Only Five Articles Have Cited Mann And Ornstein's Thesis, All Authored By Opinion Writers. A Media Matters review of the top five national newspapers found only five mentions of Man's and Ornstein's thesis since the publication of their op-ed, all in opinion pieces..."
May 18, 2012 12:30 pm ET
"...A majority of these citations and authored articles -- 63 percent -- were news stories rather than opinion pieces...
...But Only Five Articles Have Cited Mann And Ornstein's Thesis, All Authored By Opinion Writers. A Media Matters review of the top five national newspapers found only five mentions of Man's and Ornstein's thesis since the publication of their op-ed, all in opinion pieces..."
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
bbbut the optical scanners are good for elections, right?
By Brad Friedman on 5/14/2012 6:51pm
Paper Ballot Op-Scan Systems in FL, WI, NY, OH Confirmed to Overheat, Mistally 70% of Votes
Similar systems used by millions of voters in majority of states also found to have failed as 2012 Presidential election looms..
"...Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), the largest e-voting machine company in the U.S. and the maker of the paper ballot op-scan tally systems in question, have confirmed that their systems may overheat when used over several hours (for example, during an election!), and that they then may mistally and/or incorrectly discard anywhere from 30% to 70% of votes scanned by the machines..."
Paper Ballot Op-Scan Systems in FL, WI, NY, OH Confirmed to Overheat, Mistally 70% of Votes
Similar systems used by millions of voters in majority of states also found to have failed as 2012 Presidential election looms..
"...Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), the largest e-voting machine company in the U.S. and the maker of the paper ballot op-scan tally systems in question, have confirmed that their systems may overheat when used over several hours (for example, during an election!), and that they then may mistally and/or incorrectly discard anywhere from 30% to 70% of votes scanned by the machines..."
Fox Snooze: regulation bad
Fox Finds The Villain Of JPMorgan Chase's $2 Billion Loss: Regulation
May 14, 2012 5:15 pm ET
15 May 2012 Last updated at 12:23 ET
JPMorgan's Dimon wins pay backing
Chief executive Jamie Dimon said there was "no excuse" for the bank's mistake.
The trading loss was revealed in a regulatory filing, and will dent the company's profits, although it still expects to make about $4bn this quarter.
Let’s shine a light on this alchemy. Let’s demand that JP Morgan disclose in a filing all the investments help by its $370 billion Chief Investment Office. That will give regulators, bank analysts and investigative journalists something valuable to do.
Capitalists and Other Psychopaths
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ
Published: May 12, 2012
THERE is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad. Well, consider the following. A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an “unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation.” (The proportion at large is 1 percent.) Another study concluded that the rich are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law.
Capital City
Three years after the biggest bailout in US history, Wall Street lobbyists don't just have influence in Washington. They own it lock, stock, and barrel.
—By Kevin Drum | January/February 2010 Issue of Mother Jones
May 14, 2012 5:15 pm ET
15 May 2012 Last updated at 12:23 ET
JPMorgan's Dimon wins pay backing
The head of JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank, has been backed by shareholders days after it revealed a $2bn (£1.2bn) trading blunder.
The trading loss was revealed in a regulatory filing, and will dent the company's profits, although it still expects to make about $4bn this quarter.
Let’s shine a light on this alchemy. Let’s demand that JP Morgan disclose in a filing all the investments help by its $370 billion Chief Investment Office. That will give regulators, bank analysts and investigative journalists something valuable to do.
Capitalists and Other Psychopaths
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ
Published: May 12, 2012
THERE is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad. Well, consider the following. A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an “unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation.” (The proportion at large is 1 percent.) Another study concluded that the rich are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law.
Capital City
Three years after the biggest bailout in US history, Wall Street lobbyists don't just have influence in Washington. They own it lock, stock, and barrel.
—By Kevin Drum | January/February 2010 Issue of Mother Jones
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Energy wars heat up
Hmm. Remember that Arab Spring that was kind of exciting to watch?
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 07:33 AM PDT
Energy wars heat up From Africa to South America, conflicts over waning resources are becoming more tense -- and dangerous BY MICHAEL T. KLARE
"...* Egypt cuts off the natural gas flow to Israel: On April 22nd, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company informed Israeli energy officials that they were “terminating the gas and purchase agreement” under which Egypt had been supplying gas to Israel. This followed months of demonstrations in Cairo by the youthful protestors who succeeded in deposing autocrat Hosni Mubarak and are now seeking a more independent Egyptian foreign policy — one less beholden to the United States and Israel. It also followed scores of attacks on the pipelines carrying the gas across the Negev Desert to Israel, which the Egyptian military has seemed powerless to prevent...."
Well, you would think that their gains in freedom might be our losses in higher gas prices, right? Mmmmm, not so fast:
Raymond J. Learsy
Author, 'Oil and Finance: The Epic Corruption Continues'
JPMorgan's $2 Billion Loss and the Price You Are Paying for Gas at the Pump
Posted: 05/11/2012 10:40 am
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 07:33 AM PDT
Energy wars heat up From Africa to South America, conflicts over waning resources are becoming more tense -- and dangerous BY MICHAEL T. KLARE
"...* Egypt cuts off the natural gas flow to Israel: On April 22nd, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company informed Israeli energy officials that they were “terminating the gas and purchase agreement” under which Egypt had been supplying gas to Israel. This followed months of demonstrations in Cairo by the youthful protestors who succeeded in deposing autocrat Hosni Mubarak and are now seeking a more independent Egyptian foreign policy — one less beholden to the United States and Israel. It also followed scores of attacks on the pipelines carrying the gas across the Negev Desert to Israel, which the Egyptian military has seemed powerless to prevent...."
Well, you would think that their gains in freedom might be our losses in higher gas prices, right? Mmmmm, not so fast:
Raymond J. Learsy
Author, 'Oil and Finance: The Epic Corruption Continues'
JPMorgan's $2 Billion Loss and the Price You Are Paying for Gas at the Pump
Posted: 05/11/2012 10:40 am
Friday, May 11, 2012
How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent
NEWS & POLITICS
AlterNet / By Joshua Holland
How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent
America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power.
May 10, 2012
"...A study by the Constitutional Accountability Center found that the Chamber of Commerce had won 65 percent of its cases heard by the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, compared to 56 percent under former Chief Justice William Rehnquist (1986-2005) and just 43 percent of the cases that came during the Burger court (1969-1986)..."
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Obama, Gay marriage OK. :)
Obama’s gay marriage announcement followed by flood of campaign donations
By Dan Eggen, Thursday,
May 10, 12:33 PM
"It’s too soon to tell whether President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage will help him or hurt him at the polls. But it’s already doing wonders for his pocketbook..."
Ahhhh, President Obama, Thank You
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
900 dolphins, 5,000 birds dead in Peru
900 dolphins, 5,000 birds dead in Peru
Posted May 10, 2012 07:17:21
Weather expert Abraham Levy said on Tuesday the warming of the Pacific waters due to El Nino could be to blame.
(cough, bullshit, cough)
acoustic trauma? biotoxins?
Oil and Gas Exploration Threatens Peruvian Amazon
February 22, 2010
"...A recent report, however, indicates that the Peruvian government has now conceded a whopping 41 percent of their Amazon territory for oil and gas exploration..."
Posted May 10, 2012 07:17:21
Weather expert Abraham Levy said on Tuesday the warming of the Pacific waters due to El Nino could be to blame.
(cough, bullshit, cough)
acoustic trauma? biotoxins?
Oil and Gas Exploration Threatens Peruvian Amazon
February 22, 2010
"...A recent report, however, indicates that the Peruvian government has now conceded a whopping 41 percent of their Amazon territory for oil and gas exploration..."
Lugar loss has lessons for Republicans, Democrats
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - Veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in the Indiana GOP primary provides warnings for President Barack Obama and his Democrats as well as Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans six months before the November election.
"...Ultimately, it was Lugar's efforts to cross party lines and his longevity in Washington - two issues that tea party-backed challenger Richard Mourdock used against him - that proved too much for Indiana Republicans...."
Not the first time I've wondered about the idiocy of Indiana Republicans. I respected the The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and I respected Senator Lugar's ability and willingness to work with Democrats. The gridlock in DC is so destructive for the American people.
THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - Veteran Sen. Richard Lugar's loss in the Indiana GOP primary provides warnings for President Barack Obama and his Democrats as well as Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans six months before the November election.
"...Ultimately, it was Lugar's efforts to cross party lines and his longevity in Washington - two issues that tea party-backed challenger Richard Mourdock used against him - that proved too much for Indiana Republicans...."
Not the first time I've wondered about the idiocy of Indiana Republicans. I respected the The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and I respected Senator Lugar's ability and willingness to work with Democrats. The gridlock in DC is so destructive for the American people.
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Obama's war on pot
THURSDAY, APR 26, 2012 07:54 AM PDT
Obama Justice and medical marijuana
The President's justification for his crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries has to be heard to be believed
BY GLENN GREENWALD
"President Obama gave an interview to Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner this week a...
...Much more important, though, is that the Obama DOJ is aggressively prosecuting dispensaries without any suggestion that they’re breaking local law, and worse, is threatening states considering enacting medical marijuana laws that dispensing medical marijuana, in and of itself, even to sick people with a prescription, is a violation of federal law that will be prosecuted..."
*sigh* I've given President Hopey Opie so many chances to prove that he might be the one to help change our sick political system.
It's not happening, especially with the "War On Drugs." Going after medical marijuana dispensaries is only inviting the cartels to put possibly unsafe product in the hands of sick people.
Here's how I feel about it:
Legalize drugs, even though meth and heroin scare the crap out of me because I've seen what they do to people. Tax them, regulate them. Take the tax money and fund drug treatment centers.
Yes, some people will die. They are already dying. Take away the cartels' gun money and maybe more people caught in the crossfire in Mexico will live. We share a long border with them. Our illegal drugs markets are killing our friends and neighbors.
Obama Justice and medical marijuana
The President's justification for his crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries has to be heard to be believed
BY GLENN GREENWALD
"President Obama gave an interview to Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner this week a...
...Much more important, though, is that the Obama DOJ is aggressively prosecuting dispensaries without any suggestion that they’re breaking local law, and worse, is threatening states considering enacting medical marijuana laws that dispensing medical marijuana, in and of itself, even to sick people with a prescription, is a violation of federal law that will be prosecuted..."
*sigh* I've given President Hopey Opie so many chances to prove that he might be the one to help change our sick political system.
It's not happening, especially with the "War On Drugs." Going after medical marijuana dispensaries is only inviting the cartels to put possibly unsafe product in the hands of sick people.
Here's how I feel about it:
Legalize drugs, even though meth and heroin scare the crap out of me because I've seen what they do to people. Tax them, regulate them. Take the tax money and fund drug treatment centers.
Yes, some people will die. They are already dying. Take away the cartels' gun money and maybe more people caught in the crossfire in Mexico will live. We share a long border with them. Our illegal drugs markets are killing our friends and neighbors.
Monday, May 07, 2012
Fucking Blogger
New and improved my ass, I hate the new blogger template.
What happened to my title link? How do I fix that?... (nifty, now it's working *sigh* ) Why is blogger "help" so fucking NOT helpful?
Why are there 3 links to my profile page and no way to fix the no title link?
Why ist it such a pain in the ass to do a s-i-m-p-l-e post now? I have to know more html, not less.
And while I'm bitching Facebook sucks ass even more now also. Why can't I see my posts in the newsfeed?
Keeeeee-rap.
What happened to my title link? How do I fix that?... (nifty, now it's working *sigh* ) Why is blogger "help" so fucking NOT helpful?
Why are there 3 links to my profile page and no way to fix the no title link?
Why ist it such a pain in the ass to do a s-i-m-p-l-e post now? I have to know more html, not less.
And while I'm bitching Facebook sucks ass even more now also. Why can't I see my posts in the newsfeed?
Keeeeee-rap.
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Drug War Slayings Snuffing Out News In Mexico
Oh Jebus, do you really think that the cartels would be killing each other and anyone else who gets in their way of access to and distribution routes in the US if there was no market for illegal drugs here in the US?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Saturday, May 05, 2012
On bailout stuff (old post from June '09)
Raymond J. Learsy
Scholar and Author of 'Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future'
Posted: June 9, 2009 06:28 AM
Is JPMorgan a Bank or a Government-Funded Casino?
...Just last week, a leading source of tanker operations info reported that the good people of JPMorgan hired the good ship, or better put, the VLCC Super Tanker 'Front Queen' for nine months, I repeat nine months, to carry 2 million barrels of heating oil for storage duty off Malta....
What is the price of oil right now?
I think maybe I was too hard on Ben Bernanke. I learned things about the man and his job that I did not know on this 60 Minutes interview
FACTBOX: Where has the U.S. bailout money gone?
Reuters
Tue Jun 9, 2009 1:34pm EDT
Scholar and Author of 'Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future'
Posted: June 9, 2009 06:28 AM
Is JPMorgan a Bank or a Government-Funded Casino?
...Just last week, a leading source of tanker operations info reported that the good people of JPMorgan hired the good ship, or better put, the VLCC Super Tanker 'Front Queen' for nine months, I repeat nine months, to carry 2 million barrels of heating oil for storage duty off Malta....
What is the price of oil right now?
I think maybe I was too hard on Ben Bernanke. I learned things about the man and his job that I did not know on this 60 Minutes interview
FACTBOX: Where has the U.S. bailout money gone?
Reuters
Tue Jun 9, 2009 1:34pm EDT
Finished reading the Israel Lobby
This irritated the crap out of me when I read it:
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Moshe Dayan
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/moshe_dayan.html#ixzz1p8rCO6lg
Moshe Dayan
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/moshe_dayan.html#ixzz1p8rCO6lg
And in the concluding chapter the authors state "It would probably take a bevy of Jack Abramoff-style scandals to convince Americans to purge private money from the electoral process. In the short term, trying to weaken the lobby dircetly is not going to work."
My question as I read that was "Which Americans need convincing of that, the ones who wield the most influence now? The wealthy ones)"
Whoa, what a great title for a book:
By Henry A. Giroux
Peter Lang Publishing 2010)
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout
Zombie Politics: Dangerous Authoritarianism or Shrinking Democracy - Part II
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout
Posted on May 4, 2012
Friday, May 04, 2012
Anderson Cooper To Rush Limbaugh: 'You Might Try The Gym From Time To Time' (VIDEO)
"I don't know if you noticed, but he spoke for a quite a while there and didn't call me a slut even one time," Cooper said. "Now I don't have my Rush to English dictionary handy, but I'm pretty sure that means we're best friends now."
Love it!
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Judge Janice Brown - piece of work
Judge Janice Brown Writes Scathing Economic Rights Concurrence
By Maryam K. Ansari, Esq. on April 30, 2012 9:03 AM
Janice Rogers Brown
"Born in Greenville, Alabama, Brown is an Alabama sharecropper's daughter who attended segregated majority African American schools as a child..."
"...She earned her B.A. from California State University, Sacramento in 1974 and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977. She worked her own way through law school while being a single mother. In addition, she received an LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004.[citation needed]..."
"...For most of the first two decades of her career, Brown worked for government agencies...
... private practice... 1990 to January 1991... .
.. In November 1994, Wilson appointed Brown to the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District..
...In May 1997, Governor Pete Wilson appointed Brown as Associate Justice to the California Supreme Court. Prior to the appointment, she had been rated "not qualified" by the State Bar of California's Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, which evaluates nominees to the California courts. She was the first person with that rating to be appointed.
...On June 8, (2005) Brown was confirmed as a judge on the D.C. Circuit by a vote of 56-43...
...Liberal organizations including the NAACP,[9] the Feminist Majority Foundation,[10] People For the American Way,[11] the National Council of Jewish Women,[12] and the National Organization for Women[13] called her views "extreme right-wing," reflecting political and ideological differences...
...In a speech to the Federalist Society, Brown called the group a "rare bastion (nay beacon) of conservative and libertarian thought" and that the "latter notion made your invitation well-nigh irresistible"[15]
In the same speech, she gave hints of her philosophical foundations. She described private property as "the guardian of every other right". Later in her speech she described collectivism as "slavery to the tribe" and that government was a "leviathan [that] will continue to lumber along, picking up ballast and momentum, crushing everything in its path".[15]
Jebus.
What a tool, and ungrateful hypocrite. Bitch certainly knows who's asses to kiss in order to stay on her perch, doesn't she?
Thanks Petey, as if just being a RepugnantThuglican wasn't enough for me to hate you.
By Maryam K. Ansari, Esq. on April 30, 2012 9:03 AM
Janice Rogers Brown
"Born in Greenville, Alabama, Brown is an Alabama sharecropper's daughter who attended segregated majority African American schools as a child..."
"...She earned her B.A. from California State University, Sacramento in 1974 and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977. She worked her own way through law school while being a single mother. In addition, she received an LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004.[citation needed]..."
"...For most of the first two decades of her career, Brown worked for government agencies...
... private practice... 1990 to January 1991... .
.. In November 1994, Wilson appointed Brown to the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District..
...In May 1997, Governor Pete Wilson appointed Brown as Associate Justice to the California Supreme Court. Prior to the appointment, she had been rated "not qualified" by the State Bar of California's Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, which evaluates nominees to the California courts. She was the first person with that rating to be appointed.
...On June 8, (2005) Brown was confirmed as a judge on the D.C. Circuit by a vote of 56-43...
...Liberal organizations including the NAACP,[9] the Feminist Majority Foundation,[10] People For the American Way,[11] the National Council of Jewish Women,[12] and the National Organization for Women[13] called her views "extreme right-wing," reflecting political and ideological differences...
...In a speech to the Federalist Society, Brown called the group a "rare bastion (nay beacon) of conservative and libertarian thought" and that the "latter notion made your invitation well-nigh irresistible"[15]
In the same speech, she gave hints of her philosophical foundations. She described private property as "the guardian of every other right". Later in her speech she described collectivism as "slavery to the tribe" and that government was a "leviathan [that] will continue to lumber along, picking up ballast and momentum, crushing everything in its path".[15]
Jebus.
What a tool, and ungrateful hypocrite. Bitch certainly knows who's asses to kiss in order to stay on her perch, doesn't she?
Thanks Petey, as if just being a RepugnantThuglican wasn't enough for me to hate you.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Dear Mormons, sympathy is in between shit and syphilis in the dictionary
FRIDAY, APR 27, 2012 11:04 AM PDT
Mormons who fear Mitt
Young people are leaving the church -- and some think a Romney presidency will only make things worse
BY TROY WILLIAMS
...“Mitt Romney is having a terrible impact on how we are perceived,” explained Brigham Young University law student Marshall Thompson, a former intern to Orrin Hatch, an Iraq vet and a faithful Mormon — the type of person, in other words, you’d expect to be part of Romney’s base. “I’m told he’s a very nice person in real life,” Thompson continues, “but he comes across as out-of-touch, materialistic and disingenuous.”....
...“I cannot count the number of stories I’ve heard from moms who left the church because of Prop. 8,” explained Utah writer and social critic Holly Welker. “The reason? They have a gay son or daughter.”...
And there you have it. In a country like the US, and specifically in a state like California, those jerkwads should have known that political activism like the Mormon church became involved in with Prop h8 was going to lead to problems. Not only with the perception from outsiders, but also within the church. Idiots.
Young people are leaving the church -- and some think a Romney presidency will only make things worse
BY TROY WILLIAMS
...“Mitt Romney is having a terrible impact on how we are perceived,” explained Brigham Young University law student Marshall Thompson, a former intern to Orrin Hatch, an Iraq vet and a faithful Mormon — the type of person, in other words, you’d expect to be part of Romney’s base. “I’m told he’s a very nice person in real life,” Thompson continues, “but he comes across as out-of-touch, materialistic and disingenuous.”....
...“I cannot count the number of stories I’ve heard from moms who left the church because of Prop. 8,” explained Utah writer and social critic Holly Welker. “The reason? They have a gay son or daughter.”...
And there you have it. In a country like the US, and specifically in a state like California, those jerkwads should have known that political activism like the Mormon church became involved in with Prop h8 was going to lead to problems. Not only with the perception from outsiders, but also within the church. Idiots.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Ryan Seacrest covering 2012 Elections for NBC
Bwahahahaha....
Hmmm....
Well perhaps it IS appropriate, after all the Presidential election of 2000 left no doubt in my mind that elections are just entertainment for the proles. They don't fucking change anything.
I now look at photos of the President and this thought worms it's way into my consciousness and it's kind of mean. I can't help but think, "Oh yeah, there's Hopey Opie."
It's not that I disrespect the President, but I have lots of disdain for the system.
Hmmm....
Well perhaps it IS appropriate, after all the Presidential election of 2000 left no doubt in my mind that elections are just entertainment for the proles. They don't fucking change anything.
I now look at photos of the President and this thought worms it's way into my consciousness and it's kind of mean. I can't help but think, "Oh yeah, there's Hopey Opie."
It's not that I disrespect the President, but I have lots of disdain for the system.
Friday, April 27, 2012
so Limbaugh said something outrageous and hateful again?
Limbaugh On Hillary Clinton: ‘Has Reached The Pinnacle, And All She Is Is A Secretary’
AUDIO
by Noah Rothman
| 3:11 pm, April 26th, 2012
Okaaaaay... so? Dude is a drug addicted hate mongering fool with tons of hot air to blow around and nothing constructive to say. I usually ignore buttheads like him when forced to be in their vicinity unless they get right up in MY face , and then I bully them right back because that's all the dumbfucks understand.
I know exactly how to deal with Rush Limbaugh: I never tune in to his ridiculous shows. He's a hateful clown who gets paid big bucks to stir up the proles and goad them into voting against their own best interests.
Maybe I'm just not a good war strategist? It's hard to even see the toad as an enemy because it's just too easy to imagine him in a court jester's clown suit with scary clown make-up on. Instead of spreading joy like a regular clown is supposed to do, he spreads fear and anger and that is his job. Why would I help him in a job like that by reacting to every outrageous, ridiculous, ludicrous thing he says?
So why this post? Just reacting to the constant reactions to him on the left. I think I'm a bit more irritated by lefties reacting to his bullshit than I am by the king of court jesters himself. It was just too easy and I'm tired this AM.
AUDIO
by Noah Rothman
| 3:11 pm, April 26th, 2012
Okaaaaay... so? Dude is a drug addicted hate mongering fool with tons of hot air to blow around and nothing constructive to say. I usually ignore buttheads like him when forced to be in their vicinity unless they get right up in MY face , and then I bully them right back because that's all the dumbfucks understand.
I know exactly how to deal with Rush Limbaugh: I never tune in to his ridiculous shows. He's a hateful clown who gets paid big bucks to stir up the proles and goad them into voting against their own best interests.
Maybe I'm just not a good war strategist? It's hard to even see the toad as an enemy because it's just too easy to imagine him in a court jester's clown suit with scary clown make-up on. Instead of spreading joy like a regular clown is supposed to do, he spreads fear and anger and that is his job. Why would I help him in a job like that by reacting to every outrageous, ridiculous, ludicrous thing he says?
So why this post? Just reacting to the constant reactions to him on the left. I think I'm a bit more irritated by lefties reacting to his bullshit than I am by the king of court jesters himself. It was just too easy and I'm tired this AM.
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