watching prez debate on youTube

And Mitt Romney is a lying sack of shit



















And a fucking dickhead who lives, eats, breathes the bottom line. 


Make no mistake, that's what Lurch is all about.

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Extreme Energy Means an Extreme Planet

October 4, 2012
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Extreme Energy Means an Extreme Planet

If you want a particularly hard-headed assessment of how successfully Barack Obama, the most vulnerable president in memory, is pursuing his reelection campaign, don’t bother to check the polls; just read “Bibi” Netanyahu’s U.N. speech of last week.  The Israeli Prime Minister had, until then, all but campaigned for Mitt Romney, his old Boston Consulting Group pal, who claims Obama has thrown Israel “under the bus.” 

Oh Jebus.  Can I puke now?  Is Romney campaigning for Prime Minister of Israel or President of the United States?  

Fuck Israel.  

There.  I said it.  Except for providing the best spies and mercenaries on the planet they are a nothing but a major pain in the ass.  The victims have become victimizers.


That was just part of the intro for this article;


The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t
Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities
By Michael T. Klare

On Prez campaigns

"...For these crucial roles, they must both become card-carrying deficit-slashers, tax cutters, retarders of government growth, job creators, preservers of Medicare, national-security funders par excellence, fierce defenders of Israel, and men ready to do whatever must be done to prevent Iran from going nuclear. They must, that is, become perfect fictions. And though the debates are still upcoming, both presidential candidates recently had an out-of-town preview on “60 Minutes,” where, interviewed separately, each confirmed one crucial thing: that it’s possible to spend a great deal of time on TV and tell an audience almost nothing..."


Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, A Recipe for American Decline That No One Will Be Debating



Gee, I wonder why my teevee is just a sittin' there collectin' dust?

Scandal

Scandal (2012)TV Series - 43 min - Drama

I love this show. Even more than the West Wing, which may be heresy to some, but hey, Scandal was created by Shonda Rhimes and I'm a Grey's Anatomy fan. And, West Wing already had a following when I had little to no interest in politics. I was relatively apolitical until a couple of years after 9/11.

*sigh*

I just told the stepmonster that  we don't talk politics because I don't argue with brick walls, they make my head hurt.

Not surprisingly, there was no indication that she understood what I was saying.

GA Shooting Range's Liquor License Approved

GA Shooting Range's Liquor License Approved

By Andrew Lu on September 26, 2012 5:46 AM

YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAWWWW

I'm kind of hooked on "The Walking Dead (2010)", even though true to the horror genre in general, the stupid needs to be  slapped out of some of the bitches on the show, Rick's wife in particular. Hilarious that I should spot this article at this time because I know that the story not only takes place in GA, the show is filmed there. I'm getting through the 2nd season so don't blow the surprise for me, eh?  My mother lived in GA for a short time in the late 60's, I'll tell you a hilarious story if I ever remember to ask her if I can blog it.

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
The spammers are attacking this particular post with a vengeance. I'm not bothering to remove them.

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