Dear Mr. Thompson

Socialized Healthcare, Socialized Bailout? Only when you are rich…

Attaturk put up a great post today that describes how the Big Money fools expect (and GET) a hand-out, yet us, the ones who are bailing these Big Money asshats out, can’t get healthcare that would take away profits from the useless health insurance companies. We can’t get a decent “bail-out” for those bogus loan deals (those of us who may have been bitten… I’m a lucky one).

The thing that amazes me is that when I travel around the SE and speak with engineers and managers and educated people, they can’t seem to grasp this. The brainwashing is so deep, that they cannot understand that it is only the Big Money corrupt rich folks, a very minute few, who gain, while the rest of us suffer in the long run.

Universal Health Care is socialism! Somewhere a white guy is complaining about welfare queens, and our $12 billion a month occupation is a battle against a foe so dangerous they always lose (especially upper management) yet can never be defeated. Because freedom rocks, and capitalism rolls.

For years now we’ve been told that socialism is the worse thing ever, it’s like a million Hitlers on roller skates, topless and singing Wagner in a new Stephen Sondheim play presented as a viral video on You Tube.

Unless, of course, you are the archetype of capitalism, then socialism is awesome!

Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.

The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard…

It’s just fine to make it harder for the average Joe to file for bankruptcy, as did that wretched bankruptcy bill passed by Congress in 2005 at the request of the credit card industry. But the big guys are “too big to fail,” because they could bring us all down with them.

Enter the federal government, the institution to which the wealthy are not supposed to pay capital gains or inheritance taxes. Good God, you don’t expect these people to trade in their BMWs for Saturns, do you?

Thank goodness while the economy sinks at our feet and we dump monopoly money into occupations that don’t accomplish crap our media focuses on the important things, like whether a black man is just too damned scary to preserve such admirable policies.

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Hint: You MUST be a Jedi to use the Jedi Mind-trick.

So how many of you listen to Jim Cramer?

from www.thedailyshow.com posted with vodpod

Don Siegelman Update

Gen posted this down in comments of my last Siegelman post (WordPress does not allow “Sticky posts” so I can’t lock that post to the top). Therefore, I wanted to add a quicky with her submitted information which provides a place to stay better informed about the situation. One can always visit Don Siegelman.org as well:

I have posted an alert on Congress.org for people to send letters to their Congress members, demanding that something be done about this injustice. Please go to Congress.org under Soapbox, “Red Flags in a Red State” and submit a message to Congress. I encourage others to start Soapbox alerts and keep Don Siegelman’s name on this site where thousands of people visit daily.

Hypocrite-in-Chief

So I read in the McClatchy online edition yesterday that the Bush admin wants someone to do something about those godless liberals who spew foul language on America’s airwaves, hoping to make America a puritanical “Christian” nation, it would seem. Lord knows their spiritually pure adherance to language rules is respectable and a point to mimic… right?

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will again be weighing political punishment for dirty words, this time involving undeleted expletives exuberantly uttered by the singers Bono and Cher.

On Monday, in a nod to the Bush administration, the high court agreed to consider whether broadcasters can be disciplined for airing “fleeting” obscenities. The vividly rendered First Amendment conflict becomes the latest case pitting free speech rights against government efforts to protect innocent ears.

“A particularly graphic utterance can serve as a first blow that can cause immediate damage,” Solicitor General Paul Clement argued in a legal brief.

The Bush administration supports a Federal Communications Commission rule imposed after Bono and Cher swore briefly in separate live television appearances. Broadcasters say they should not face discipline for obscenities uttered in passing.

In January 2003, during NBC’s live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, Bono of the Irish rock group U2 accepted the Best Original Song award by declaring, “This is really, really (expletive) brilliant. Really, really great.”

FCC regulators initially determined that Bono’s use of what officials discretely termed “the F-word” was not indecent because the singer briefly used it as an adjective in conveying enthusiasm. The politically appointed FCC commissioners thought otherwise, concluding that the “core meaning” of the word associated with sexual intercourse was patently offensive even if used only briefly.

In a related episode, Fox Television aired the 2002 Billboard Music Awards in which Cher received an artist achievement award. The gratified singer and high school dropout from Fresno, Calif, orginally known as Cherliyn Sarkisian, took the occasion to denounce her many nay-sayers.

“I’ve also had critics for the past 40 years saying that I was on my way out every year,” Cher declared. “Right. So (F-word) ‘em. I still have a job and they don’t.”

Now, I don’t know about you, but one thing that I simply cannot tolerate is a hypocrite who blatantly does what he condemns another for. In the Bush Admin case, this is virtually everything they encounter. Libby gets jail time, off scott-free. We condemn those that torture, but we torture and some are proud of the fact. Bush blames the Dems for obstructing progress on a variety of idiotic and unlawful ideas, but is the first to veto anything that can give light and understanding to his lawlessness.

In this case, I find it the lowest bit of hypocrisy, for we have so many instances of these “Men of God” speaking in some of the worst gutter language imaginable, but they want to make sure that broadcasters (and Bono and Cher) are held accountable for EXACTLY the SAME THING they have done.

They have ZERO shame.

So, I gathered this list from OpEdNews of Bush Admin Cursing fits. You tell me who the “Man-of-God” is:

“I can’t think of anything, any mission, more important for a political party or for our candidate than the mission of restoring honor and dignity to the Oval Office.”

- Dick Cheney, speech during a Philadelphia campaign rally, Aug. 4, 2000

“There’s Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from The New York Times.”

- George W. Bush, before a speech during a Naperville, Ill., campaign rally, Sept. 4, 2000

“Go fuck yourself!”
- Dick Cheney to U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-Vt.] on the Senate floor, June 22, 2004

“You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.” - Bush to then Wall Street Journal Washington bureau chief Al Hunt in a Dallas restaurant in front of other diners, including Hunt’s wife, Judy Woodruff, and 4-year-old son, 1986   “When [then President Bush Sr.] became increasingly displeased with the entropy around him [during the 1992 campaign]….that unhappiness was conveyed in rather salty language to senior aides by George W.” -          the late J.H. Hatfield, Fortunate Son, an excellent, revealing book that Bush tried to censor during the 2000 campaign   “In the summer of 1999, [conservative talk show host Tucker] Carlson wrote a piece for Talk magazine on then-Governor Bush that wasn’t taken very well by his staff, because Carlson noted that Bush used profanity, something that apparently isn’t appreciated by [certain] voters. Bush’s campaign deputy finance chairman, Jack Oliver, called Carlson after the piece was published and screamed profanities. Carlson observed that the Bush team covered up any and all references to Bush using profanities, and many accused Carlson of lying, that Bush never says the ‘F-word,’ even though he does all the time, according to Carlson.”

- Scott Spicciati, Editor, Aggressive Voice, Oct. 18, 2003

 

“Fuck you.”

- Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to author and talk show host Al Franken during the April 2003 White House Correspondents Dinner   “In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by [Bush] who declares his decisions to be ‘God’s will’ and then tells aides to ‘fuck over’ anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration…. [Bush] who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them ‘fucking assholes’ in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others.”

- Doug Thompson and Teresa Hampton, Capitol Hill Blue, June 4, 2004

Now I don’t know about you, but if you have been washing your kids mouths out with soap for saying “shit”,  what do you recommend we do with these nasty bastards?