Foxes and Hen Houses
I’ve been waiting several days for someone to say this, but no one has (just like this, anyway), so I will:
The Fox is not only IN the henhouse, he holds the mortgage on it…and it is an ARM, sub-prime. The Fox controls the water supply to the henhouse. The Fox controls the electricity to the henhouse. The Fox has the henhouse’ checkbook. The Fox won’t let the roosters in and can’t understand why there are no fresh eggs. The Fox wants more eggs to sell to buy guns to protect the henhouse.
Any of the chickens in the henhouse that the Fox doesn’t eat, he screws. Paulsen wants to be a Fox and a Rooster and we will all be chickens if we don’t make Congress skin the bastard and make him into a fox stole. Even PETA would like that.
Life Goes on in Texas
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
This Day Started Out Nice
There are several cultural phenomena taking shape in the US right now that will have profound effects on both our immediate and long term futures. I am writing this because I have spent literally the entire day in front of the computer, reading countless articles and stories, which, taken together, add up to just plain frightening.
The most immediate, I suppose, is the proposed $700 billion bail-out of Wall Street and mortgage bankers by Bush, Paulsen and the neo-cons. Every piece I have read today, which is supported and bolstered by thousands of readers' comments, decry this as a VERY BAD IDEA. When I hear the likes of Paul Krugman and Robert Reich say "DON'T!", I have to stop and listen. This action will plunge America into a debt load which will be virtually impossible to recover from for any foreseeable future. You have a voice. You should use it to tell your congressional representatives to put a stop to this financial suicide. If you don't believe me about the seriousness of this situation, let me know, and I'll give you a half-dozen web sites to peruse for your own satisfaction.
The second unpublicized issue is the matter of the US beginning bombing runs in Pakistan, WITHOUT TELLING ANYBODY. This is precisely the kind of black ops shenanigans that the Bush administration is using to cloud the issues in the current domestic political debate, start more wars, spend more money we don't have, and kill people around the globe. I know the neo-cons don't think a few more dead US soldiers matter much, but perhaps you think otherwise. If they get away with this unnoticed, Iran will go up in flames next, oil prices will skyrocket and most the world will be embroiled in serious conflicts. By the way, the Pakistanis are shooting back at us with the same IF-16 warplanes WE SOLD TO THEM. Think about it. If you can justify any of that, please tell me how you figured that one out. Beats me.
The third unfolding narrative is the unparalleled polarization of left vs. right, blue vs.red in the political make-up of our country. The crowds attending political rallies for McCain-Palin are charged with shouts that are angry and vitriolic. The McCain campaign ads against Barack are borderline criminal and packed with outright lies. Sarah Palin generates a hateful and disdainful mood by her nearly obscene, nearly racist remarks. On the other side, the crowds for Obama and Biden are equally strident and seem almost unfazed by the critical nature of the discourse. Either they are completely naive, or they do not comprehend the imminent physical danger posed by the right wing to Obama, or how serious the real danger is that voting machines will be rigged in at least two states, in order to throw the election. And before you say it to me, I know some of Obama's ads and claims are not 100% truthful, either. That is not helping the overall polarization. Figures lie and liars figure, and both sides are proving this old adage.
If Obama wins, the uphill battle to wrest the country from the throes of monetary disruption and world-wide war will be nearly insurmountable, and the current and likely future Congress will be helpless (in addition to being useless) to do anything about it. If Obama is assassinated (and there is plenty of right-wing talk about that) or if even an serious attempt is made on his life, the inner cities will explode with rage. Repairing the aftermath of Ike will seem like child's play, by comparision.
If Mcain wins, legally or otherwise, all of the aspects of American life which are fragile right now will become tatters and shambles within months. And if he dies ( you haven't thought of that?), do you REALLY want Sarah Palin as your commander in chief? Unless you have no TV and cannot read, you should know enough about her by now to know that she is a preposterous joke thrust upon the American people. And one thing she is not is a friend to women.
But the right loves her to death while the left laughs at her, both of which make her dangerous. More polarization.
As I said, this day started out nice (nicely?), but it sure has gone down hill, fast. Stop Bush. Stop Paulsen. Stop McCain. Call or write your congressman. Hope as best you can for Obama. Worry about the Pakistani farmers. If you pray, pray for peace and sanity. Either one will help bring on the other.
Life goes on in Texas
The most immediate, I suppose, is the proposed $700 billion bail-out of Wall Street and mortgage bankers by Bush, Paulsen and the neo-cons. Every piece I have read today, which is supported and bolstered by thousands of readers' comments, decry this as a VERY BAD IDEA. When I hear the likes of Paul Krugman and Robert Reich say "DON'T!", I have to stop and listen. This action will plunge America into a debt load which will be virtually impossible to recover from for any foreseeable future. You have a voice. You should use it to tell your congressional representatives to put a stop to this financial suicide. If you don't believe me about the seriousness of this situation, let me know, and I'll give you a half-dozen web sites to peruse for your own satisfaction.
The second unpublicized issue is the matter of the US beginning bombing runs in Pakistan, WITHOUT TELLING ANYBODY. This is precisely the kind of black ops shenanigans that the Bush administration is using to cloud the issues in the current domestic political debate, start more wars, spend more money we don't have, and kill people around the globe. I know the neo-cons don't think a few more dead US soldiers matter much, but perhaps you think otherwise. If they get away with this unnoticed, Iran will go up in flames next, oil prices will skyrocket and most the world will be embroiled in serious conflicts. By the way, the Pakistanis are shooting back at us with the same IF-16 warplanes WE SOLD TO THEM. Think about it. If you can justify any of that, please tell me how you figured that one out. Beats me.
The third unfolding narrative is the unparalleled polarization of left vs. right, blue vs.red in the political make-up of our country. The crowds attending political rallies for McCain-Palin are charged with shouts that are angry and vitriolic. The McCain campaign ads against Barack are borderline criminal and packed with outright lies. Sarah Palin generates a hateful and disdainful mood by her nearly obscene, nearly racist remarks. On the other side, the crowds for Obama and Biden are equally strident and seem almost unfazed by the critical nature of the discourse. Either they are completely naive, or they do not comprehend the imminent physical danger posed by the right wing to Obama, or how serious the real danger is that voting machines will be rigged in at least two states, in order to throw the election. And before you say it to me, I know some of Obama's ads and claims are not 100% truthful, either. That is not helping the overall polarization. Figures lie and liars figure, and both sides are proving this old adage.
If Obama wins, the uphill battle to wrest the country from the throes of monetary disruption and world-wide war will be nearly insurmountable, and the current and likely future Congress will be helpless (in addition to being useless) to do anything about it. If Obama is assassinated (and there is plenty of right-wing talk about that) or if even an serious attempt is made on his life, the inner cities will explode with rage. Repairing the aftermath of Ike will seem like child's play, by comparision.
If Mcain wins, legally or otherwise, all of the aspects of American life which are fragile right now will become tatters and shambles within months. And if he dies ( you haven't thought of that?), do you REALLY want Sarah Palin as your commander in chief? Unless you have no TV and cannot read, you should know enough about her by now to know that she is a preposterous joke thrust upon the American people. And one thing she is not is a friend to women.
But the right loves her to death while the left laughs at her, both of which make her dangerous. More polarization.
As I said, this day started out nice (nicely?), but it sure has gone down hill, fast. Stop Bush. Stop Paulsen. Stop McCain. Call or write your congressman. Hope as best you can for Obama. Worry about the Pakistani farmers. If you pray, pray for peace and sanity. Either one will help bring on the other.
Life goes on in Texas
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I pay the cable people $39.995/mo. for this?
If it were not for the emails I get every day from:
Barbara
Jennifer
Richard H.
Bruce
Nick
Gina
Bill D.
Ron B.
And
Annette
I would not get any emails worth reading at all.
Everything else I get (about 45 a day?) is either from a Democrat or an environmental group, asking me for money.
As John Prine used to sing:
“All my friends/turned out/to be/insurance salesmen.”
Life goes on in Texas
Barbara
Jennifer
Richard H.
Bruce
Nick
Gina
Bill D.
Ron B.
And
Annette
I would not get any emails worth reading at all.
Everything else I get (about 45 a day?) is either from a Democrat or an environmental group, asking me for money.
As John Prine used to sing:
“All my friends/turned out/to be/insurance salesmen.”
Life goes on in Texas
Monday, September 15, 2008
What a lovely day
When I wrote this, it was late morning. By the time I got around to posting, it was after the closing bell and Wall Street ad closed over 500 points down.
Lehman Bros. is sinking, Merrill-Lynch is being bought by a monster bank and sweetheart money manager AIG has just said that it needs $40. BILLION in emergency funds to keep going. The Dow slid 300 points within 15 minutes of the opening bell, and John MCain has just told a crowd in Florida that our enconomy is "fundamentally strong".
This man is smoking exactly WHAT, for breakfast?
Lehman Bros. is sinking, Merrill-Lynch is being bought by a monster bank and sweetheart money manager AIG has just said that it needs $40. BILLION in emergency funds to keep going. The Dow slid 300 points within 15 minutes of the opening bell, and John MCain has just told a crowd in Florida that our enconomy is "fundamentally strong".
This man is smoking exactly WHAT, for breakfast?
Thursday, September 11, 2008
In Memoriam?
All day long, today, 9/11, the Main Stream Media is sponsoring an Obamapig roast in lower Manhattan, in the pit where the Twin Towers used to be. After seven years, the New York real estate developers have decided the space should be use for something.
Participants will be able to slather the pig with lipstick, called "Old Guiliani Fire Engine Red". Rumor has it that the pig is a 40 year old Vietnamese bore that was shot recently by Sarah Palin. George Bush will be on hand to lie about the entire event to a Fox News reporter and the Dept.of Homeland Security will be on hand to serve Kool-Aid to everyone. Everyone will be required to remove their shoes and donate them to the TSA.
All political backstabbing and mudslinging has been suspended until tomorrow, when John McCain is expected to announce that Sarah Palin's pastor has spoken to him tongues, healed his cancer and granted him eternal life...at the rest home of his choosing in Arizona.
Praise the Lord.
Life goes on In Texas
Participants will be able to slather the pig with lipstick, called "Old Guiliani Fire Engine Red". Rumor has it that the pig is a 40 year old Vietnamese bore that was shot recently by Sarah Palin. George Bush will be on hand to lie about the entire event to a Fox News reporter and the Dept.of Homeland Security will be on hand to serve Kool-Aid to everyone. Everyone will be required to remove their shoes and donate them to the TSA.
All political backstabbing and mudslinging has been suspended until tomorrow, when John McCain is expected to announce that Sarah Palin's pastor has spoken to him tongues, healed his cancer and granted him eternal life...at the rest home of his choosing in Arizona.
Praise the Lord.
Life goes on In Texas
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
This has taken all day
First of all, "Shoulda Stood In Bed" got published on OEN today. The rest of what is here is stuff you might have missed. I was, of course, compelled to comment. As the say, take a deep breath.....
Article at http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9205
We are not stupid, we are manipulated.
I had something to say here. I sort of agree. I hate it when that happens. Your turn.
This is really good. And I got my two cents in here, as well:
Article at http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9210
Sarah Palin Pisses Me Off
Catchy title and one among many on the same subject.
This is some good news:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/maddow-king-beck/
She has her own show (right after Olbermann, weeknights, MSNBC-TV) now and is off to running start. Kicking everybody's ass. Whoopee!
This is fun, too ( I got this third hand):
www.salon.com/opinion/Keillor/2008/09/10/palin.
This is the awful truth, told straight from Minnesota. The only thing he doesn't call her on is calling Eskimoes "Arctic Arabs".
Then we have this:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/petraeus-fox-final/
I can't think of a better place for the General to unload a batch of carefully worded bullshit than on Fox. Earlier this week, he said, "I did the best I could". I think that means, "We screwed up".
Article at http://www.opednews.com/articles/McCain-Palin-Campaign-Reli-by-Dave-Lindorff-080910-110.html
McCain/Palin Campaign Relies on Lazy Thinking and Prejudice to Win
Dave Lindorff is a remarkable guy and I don't always agree with him. But this piece says it all, well. "Lazy thinking" is a big problem. As I said, the only thing worse than lazy thinking is people who think they think. Pass me over that there six-pack and gimme two quarts of earl.
The news today has been all about a remark Obama made yesterday, about the "changes" McCain claims he will make in Washington, if elected. Obama used an old phrase, one used earlier by McCain himself, in the primaries: "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig". The McCain camp went nuts! Just a few days ago Sarah Palin had been mouthing off about pit bulls and lipstick and the GOP decided this Obama remark was a terrible implied insult to Palin (actually a few days ago, lots of peole thought HER remarks were insulting to pit bulls). Anyway...
The debate has been raging since early morning on MSNBC and is still on now (4:45). By now, everyone knows that this phrase is common , especially among hog farmers and even more especially in the south. What everyone has carefully avoided is mentioning what you get when you combine the elements of lip-"stick" and "pig", which is "pigsticking". If you didn't grow up on a farm with pigs, or don't know many hog farmers, you won't know what that is, and, trust me, you don't want to. But suffice it to say, that it's time for someone to get Obama a good, sharp knife and let him get down to business.
And did you know that, by an official count, Sarah Palin has lied about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere 27 times since the nomination? She may not be counting, but everyone else is.
Hurricane Ike is coming. All hell has not frozen over but is coming this way and we're doin' the best we can.
Life goes on in Texas.
Article at http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9205
We are not stupid, we are manipulated.
I had something to say here. I sort of agree. I hate it when that happens. Your turn.
This is really good. And I got my two cents in here, as well:
Article at http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9210
Sarah Palin Pisses Me Off
Catchy title and one among many on the same subject.
This is some good news:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/maddow-king-beck/
She has her own show (right after Olbermann, weeknights, MSNBC-TV) now and is off to running start. Kicking everybody's ass. Whoopee!
This is fun, too ( I got this third hand):
www.salon.com/opinion/Keillor/2008/09/10/palin.
This is the awful truth, told straight from Minnesota. The only thing he doesn't call her on is calling Eskimoes "Arctic Arabs".
Then we have this:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/petraeus-fox-final/
I can't think of a better place for the General to unload a batch of carefully worded bullshit than on Fox. Earlier this week, he said, "I did the best I could". I think that means, "We screwed up".
Article at http://www.opednews.com/articles/McCain-Palin-Campaign-Reli-by-Dave-Lindorff-080910-110.html
McCain/Palin Campaign Relies on Lazy Thinking and Prejudice to Win
Dave Lindorff is a remarkable guy and I don't always agree with him. But this piece says it all, well. "Lazy thinking" is a big problem. As I said, the only thing worse than lazy thinking is people who think they think. Pass me over that there six-pack and gimme two quarts of earl.
The news today has been all about a remark Obama made yesterday, about the "changes" McCain claims he will make in Washington, if elected. Obama used an old phrase, one used earlier by McCain himself, in the primaries: "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig". The McCain camp went nuts! Just a few days ago Sarah Palin had been mouthing off about pit bulls and lipstick and the GOP decided this Obama remark was a terrible implied insult to Palin (actually a few days ago, lots of peole thought HER remarks were insulting to pit bulls). Anyway...
The debate has been raging since early morning on MSNBC and is still on now (4:45). By now, everyone knows that this phrase is common , especially among hog farmers and even more especially in the south. What everyone has carefully avoided is mentioning what you get when you combine the elements of lip-"stick" and "pig", which is "pigsticking". If you didn't grow up on a farm with pigs, or don't know many hog farmers, you won't know what that is, and, trust me, you don't want to. But suffice it to say, that it's time for someone to get Obama a good, sharp knife and let him get down to business.
And did you know that, by an official count, Sarah Palin has lied about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere 27 times since the nomination? She may not be counting, but everyone else is.
Hurricane Ike is coming. All hell has not frozen over but is coming this way and we're doin' the best we can.
Life goes on in Texas.
Shouda stayed in Bed
Lipstick, pigs and pit bulls, race cards and sexism. Bridges to Nowhere (and the moose she rode in on), sex ed in kindergarten, wheelchair gaffes, change, Obama's change, McCain's Obama's change, loose change, no change. "Country First", "USA,USA!". Pathetic plastic patriotism. Useless emotional orgasms. Palin rumors and pregnant teens, lies and rumors of lies. Then more lies, dead wolves shot from airlanes and even more moose jokes. Questions of age and mental stability, abuses of power, maligning of community organizers and leaking swift boats. Lobbyists feigning to demean lobbyists, Rovian manuevering and Obama gone centrist and bland. McCain piles one preposterous myth on top of another and everyone swallows it or publishes it, hookers, one-liners and stinkers. Someone said today that "Obama is in the faculty lounge", thinking about it. Maybe sad, maybe true.
America is daft. America only wants to know about Brittany's underwear. America can't pay attention (does EVERYONE have ADD?). American can't stay on topic. America thinks this whole election is an TV reality show. If it isn't sensational, it won't make the news and no one will talk about it. The biggest irony is that John Edwards finally proved he had some balls and we promptly forgot about him. Life is hard and then we all will die, dead from over-tittilation and lack of substance. America is asleep (except for Kucinich). The Russians are coming. But America is happy as a pig in @#^*. So is Joe Lieberman.
McCain will win, the Repubs will have another hooker and a beer, and the Democrats will act surprised. Palin will become VEEP and gut the environment, announcing it in tongues. Nothing will change we will still have two wars (maybe three), a sinking economy, no health care, higher unemployment and the gap between the rich and poor wil get bigger by the day. We will continue to socialize more programs like Fannie and Freddie, making it harder for the poor and middle to use them. We will go on privatizing everything else and helping the rich own more and control more. The media will approve all of it. Murdoch will buy more media. No one will object.
And everyone will wake up next March and be shocked.
Have you actually listened to Sarah Palin? She sounds like your shrill, abusive mother, your crazy old aunt or your whiny, troublesome sister-in-law. She prays to God. I pray FOR God: he has to listen to her.
Oh. Sorry. I forgot about that oil thing. But that is OK: we have T. Boone Pickens.
America is daft. America only wants to know about Brittany's underwear. America can't pay attention (does EVERYONE have ADD?). American can't stay on topic. America thinks this whole election is an TV reality show. If it isn't sensational, it won't make the news and no one will talk about it. The biggest irony is that John Edwards finally proved he had some balls and we promptly forgot about him. Life is hard and then we all will die, dead from over-tittilation and lack of substance. America is asleep (except for Kucinich). The Russians are coming. But America is happy as a pig in @#^*. So is Joe Lieberman.
McCain will win, the Repubs will have another hooker and a beer, and the Democrats will act surprised. Palin will become VEEP and gut the environment, announcing it in tongues. Nothing will change we will still have two wars (maybe three), a sinking economy, no health care, higher unemployment and the gap between the rich and poor wil get bigger by the day. We will continue to socialize more programs like Fannie and Freddie, making it harder for the poor and middle to use them. We will go on privatizing everything else and helping the rich own more and control more. The media will approve all of it. Murdoch will buy more media. No one will object.
And everyone will wake up next March and be shocked.
Have you actually listened to Sarah Palin? She sounds like your shrill, abusive mother, your crazy old aunt or your whiny, troublesome sister-in-law. She prays to God. I pray FOR God: he has to listen to her.
Oh. Sorry. I forgot about that oil thing. But that is OK: we have T. Boone Pickens.
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