Emmys

The no good, very bad Emmys.

So, ok, I watch a lot of TV now that I don't have to tolerate the advertising because I watch on Netflix.  I sat through 10 minutes of the Emmys, 5 of which was advertising and the tv went off.  It probably will be off for a month or so barring some national or local emergency, but I will probably watch the election returns even though this city's politics veer revolting to the right and it shows in "local" coverage.  I do watch some tv online through Imdb/Hulu, but the ads are getting bad there also, and to ask people to watch the SAME ad 7 or 8 times inside of 45 minutes is an awful lot to ask. To much, if you ask me.

 So anyway, I wasn't surprised that shows that I've never seen (or even heard of) won awards and I was even less surprised that shows that I've tried to watch and absolutely loathed won (Modern Family, Dancing with the Stars, Mad Men).  I hate dude's wife on Breaking Bad , but I like the show and thought the kid deserved some recognition for how well he plays Jesse.

This election aint even a horserace any more

Romney Schmomney.  The only way that entitled piece of crap is going to win is if people don't fucking vote.

Mitt Romney is a fucking dickhead

Leaked videos show Romney dismissing Obama supporters as feeling entitled to handouts


Wow, that's rich coming from a prep school asshole . Mitt Romney is a spoiled little dick. He seems to think that the 47% who can't afford to pay taxes are leeches, meanwhile, investing other people's money is hard work I tell ya!

6/20/13
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Stanford Organics Study A “Fraud” – Linked to Cargill & Tobacco Money

Stanford Organics Study A “Fraud” – Linked to Cargill & Tobacco Money


by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog
September 13th, 2012

Libyan Consulate Attack: Who's to Blame?

Looks like maybe we got duped.



Who is 'Sam Bacile'?

September 13, 2012, 4:30 p.m. ET WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443524904577649891086383820.html
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi

Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi
By Pepe Escobar


"In September 2012, for the first time in three months, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, aka The Surgeon, released a 42-minute video special to "celebrate" the 11th anniversary of 9/11, finally admitting the snuffing out of his number two.

His number two was none other than Abu Yahya al-Libi - targeted by one of US President Barack Obama's cherished drones in Waziristan on June 4...

Asia Times Online has been warning for over a year about blowback in Libya - and potentially in Syria..."


Make of this what you will, but I hate the sound of Arabic, about the same as I hate the sound of Hebrew when I've just watched an alQueda video, or seen a news report of unrest or violence.  A native English speaking Muslim told me that I was wrong for hating the sound of the call to prayer in Arabic and that the sound of church bells bothered him. Ok, I didn't expect him to apologize for his feelings, why should I?  Maybe if my noticing the sound of the language hadn't happened after 9/11 I would feel differently. Maybe if I had grown up hearing the call to prayer more it wouldn't make my gut churn, because I'm not a hateful person and I love the fact that I hear many languages in my region, and I don't believe religion is a bad thing in moderation for people firmly planted in reality. I won't apologize for the way I FEEL when I hear it. Do I react that way when I hear people conversing in Arabic? Why no, I don't. Maybe it's just that it would drive me batshit crazy to have some asshole on a loudspeaker hollering at the whole town that it's time to go pray 5 fucking times a day. I don't need to pray with a herd, or a flock or whatever you want to call it. I can pray any time I want to, and anywhere I want to.

Monopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do Best

Mr. Engelhardt,



I do appreciate your writings because I like being informed. I just get a little depressed when I find out how many pies my government has it's sticky little fingers in. *sigh*
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Sam Bacile, Anti-Islam Filmmaker, In Hiding After Protests

I don't know who disgusts me more. The fundamentalist fools who made this antagonistic film or the thin-skinned fundamentalist fools who riot every time their religion is insulted.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Golfer Gets Shot After His Golf Ball Breaks a Window

Findlaw

By Andrew Chow, JD on September 11, 2012 5:47 AM | No TrackBacks

"A pair of golfers apparently teed off the wrong man after an errant golf ball triggered a shooting, police say...."

Insurance companies suck, maybe the dude was fed up with this bullshit

"...Insurance typically covers damage to a home from errant golf balls, as well as injuries. The deductible is usually about $250 to $500 per claim, Golf magazine reports..."

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Soooooo eleven years ago today, also a Tuesday.  Anyway, last night I started watching some show called "Revenge" which is streaming on Netflix.   Madeline Stowe and Emily VanCamp are two of my least favorite actors but I've discovered that they play rotten, pampered and vindictive bitches quite well. 

Just for shits and giggles

I went to the iTunes store to see what tv shows are popular downloads right now. I cracked up when I noticed that three episodes of "Breaking Bad" are more popular than the heavily promoted pilot of "Homeland." Of course so is some Dr. Who thing, some thing about the Kardashians and something else about "Slutty Island" Real Housewives. 

 So lots of vomitorium material in the top ten right now.  Sometimes I wonder how friggin stupid my countrymen really are.

Too Big To Jail: Wall Street Executives Unlikely To Face Criminal Charges, Source Says

And some of these guys know full well that their banks are laundering drug money.

Justice?

Bwwwwaaaahahahahahaha
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Maher nails it!

Bill Maher: Liberals Don’t Envy Rich, ‘They Just Wish Rich Would Admit They Were Just Lucky’
VIDEO
by Laura Donovan | 12:25 pm, September 8th, 2012

Elizabeth Warren: 'Americans Are Fighters'

Go ahead and read this critical article from the Christian Science Monitor.

Elizabeth Warren speech: Stirring, or a stretch of the facts?
The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

I did and found myself very critical of it's criticism. I read the links to FactCheck.Org backed up a few steps and thought "omfg, they're trying to fact check candidate's RHETORIC?" Might that be because the politicians that I think actually care about the majority of the people they are supposed to represent I can count on my digits and Warren is one of them? Yeah, could be.

Might also be that I consider the CS Monitor msm and I get bloody sick of their attempts to look like they are representing the Dems and Rethugs as equals.  You know, like a choice between chicken or fish for dinner.

 As long as we are visiting FactCheck.org how about a search on rhetoric spewed at the RNC 2012.

Exposed: Undercover Agents at Occupy Austin Entrapped Protesters, Endangered Activists

AlterNet / By Jen Waller, Tom Hintze
How far should the police go for a conviction?
September 3, 2012 |
"...The Houston case is not the first time police entrapment has led to felony charges being levied against Occupy protesters..."

John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On The Constitution

Dude Cusack,



Love your work, thought I loved your politics, but I'm baffled as to why you would get on THIS idealistic high horse 8 weeks before THIS election? You TRYING to get liberals to stay home and not vote? Let's face it, the cranky old uniformed and misinformed Faux NewZ watchers are going to reach over and check their mail-n ballot box for whoever Angry ol Billy frightens them into checking it for. They vote, which is the only reason they ever win elections because there are a heck of a lot more of us.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's Bases of Confusion

"...In February of this year, Lieutenant Lauren Rago of ISAF public affairs told me that there were only 451 ISAF bases in Afghanistan.  In July, the ISAF Joint Command Press Desk informed me that the number of bases was now 550, 750, or 1,500, depending on what facilities you chose to count, while NATO’s Olson and the Associated Press put the number back down at the January 2010 figure of around 400.  TomDispatch did not receive a response to a request for further clarification from a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan before this article went to press..."
Nick Turse at TomDispatch
September 4, 2012.

Labor Day 2102

The weather is nice, gonna BBQ with friends.

"For many Americans, Labor Day is merely the symbolic end-of-summer, the last chance to sleep in late, clean the storm drains, take the children to a parade or park, perhaps unearth the barbecue from the garage for an impromptu cookout. However, contrary to its present day manifestation, Labor Day was a hard-won holiday, born out of a tense struggle between labor rights groups, exploitative corporations, and the federal government to achieve livable wages for railroad factory workers... Labor day and the American worker

If Mitt Romney gets in because the voter turnout is low we are screwed. So screwed.

Mexico Drug War: Tens Of Thousands Dead As Battle Rages On (PHOTOS)

47,000? I've seen numbers estimating the dead from this stupid, unwinnable war on drugs as high as 60,000. The deaths are so pointless. :(
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Conventions" A great learning opportunity for voters

Brendan Nyhan at Columbia Journalism Review
Aug 28, 2012

Because I'm sick of hearing about Romney and Ryan's nonsense

I give you The 10 Most Stolen Cars in America

Go ahead and look, it's a much less sexier list than you would imagine.

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

I've been looking all day for somthing worth re-posting.

That whole Akin political theatre crapola has become beyond tedious to me.

Chris Hedges nails it again:

The War in the Shadows.
Truthdig OpEd
Published: Tuesday 21 August 2012

"...They were all the same. Gangsters.

All states and armed groups recruit and use members of this underclass...."


"...The multitudes of crimes these killers, torturers, kidnappers, propagandists, special operations units and spies have carried out in our name are well known to those outside our gates. There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism. Okinawans. Guatemalans. Cubans. Congolese. Brazilians. Argentines. Indonesians. Iranians. Palestinians. Panamanians. Vietnamese. Cambodians. Filipinos. South Koreans. Taiwanese. Nicaraguans. Salvadorans. Afghans. Iraqis. Yemenis. Somalis. They can all tell us who we are, if we can listen. But we do not. We are as ignorant, gullible and naive as children..."


Hmmm. Yes, Mr. Hedges some of us were ignorant, gullible and naive. I am not any longer, but I do not feel that Americans who are behind clandestine operations reflect the wishes of the American people overall. I also wonder how many other nations (or their elites anyway) would engage in those activities given the wealth, power, and goodwill afforded the nation as a whole after WWII. After all, people are people, as Jared Diamond proves in "The Third Chimpanzee." Americans aren't the only humans to shit in their nest.

Best of TomDispatch: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance

Best of TomDispatch: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance

Sunday must read

Published on Monday, August 13, 2012 by TomDispatch.com (←this link)

The World (Still) Too Big to Fail

by Tom Engelhardt and Noam Chomsky

In Noam Chomsky’s “Who Owns the World?” -- the most popular TomDispatch post of all time (which means the last 10 years) -- he wrote of one key imperial principle: “The U.S. cannot tolerate ‘any exercise of sovereignty’ that interferes with its global designs.”  Hence, the under-reported but staggering U.S. build-up in the Persian Gulf.

Yes, this is hard to digest, especially if you are unfamiliar with the real history of the US.

Paul Ryan Will Talk About Tax Policy 'In The Light Of Day' -- After The Election

"Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that all 88 boards of election in the state must restrict early voting hours to weekdays. The uniform hours were decided in the wake of outcry over the disparity between restricted hours in Democratic-leaning counties and expanded hours in Republican-leaning counties..."

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/16/699321/ohio-secretary-of-state-restricts-voting-hours-in-all-counties/
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The United States and Its Comrade-in-Arms, Al Qaeda.

AUGUST 13, 2012
The United States and Its Comrade-in-Arms, Al Qaeda.
Tales of an Empire Gone Mad
by WILLIAM BLUM

I keep William Blum's "Killing Hope" close for referral purposes, and I've read "Legacy of Ashes". I've read "The Third Chimpanzee" so I certainly don't believe that any nation state or ethnic group is going to do any better with the amount of power that the US has wielded for the last 60 years.

I'm with Batty. Or I am batty. Or something.

Jack Johnson - Flake

This is why the politickybitch is disinterested in politicky stuff lately

I am also rolling onf the floor laughing my ass off that you have to sit through a Romney/Ryan ad in order to watch a Noam Chomsky video clip:
ENLIGHTENMENT MINUTES - with Noam Chomsky

Darrel Issa is a fucktard

Rep. Issa Brings His Anti-Holder Witchhunt To The Courts