You Knew It Was Coming...
Political vent...
So the mound of festering shit expelled by the puss-ridden bowels of a gleeful cabal of diseased CEO's which we now call president was on tv this morning. Wow, that apt description makes me feel better, something vilely poetic which delights in the writing. Like waking up refreshed after a tedious nightmare.
We have to continue diplomatic efforts in North Korea until they are utterly and totally exhausted, because waging war is the very last option. Um, forgot about Iraq already did we? Of course, back then it was assumed non-christian brown people would not fight back in the face of the combined might of Halliburton and friends.
Reform is needed for Social Security? His idea of reform is turning it over to the very entities it was created to protect people from. Remember? So that in the face of market crashes and depressions when people's retirements are in effect redistributed to the coffers of those who have a long history (hundreds of years) of looting retirement funds, directly or through the breaking up of companies. Doesn't the word reform generally indicate something new, not a return to the dark ages? Something silly, like making the wealthy pay the same PERCENTAGE as everybody else to social security? Of course that would end the manufactured crisis...
'w' whines incessantly about democrats and moderate republicans playing politics by balking at his appointments, without a hint that appointing reactionaries (who even his darlings on the US Supreme Court have harshly criticized) might be divisive politics. And non-judicial appointees like Bolton, Rice, Gonzales, etc.? Another dirty joke.
Life must be protected at all costs, so undifferentiated stem cells must not be touched. Every embryo is sacred. Why then did 'w' refuse to answer the question about the fertility clinics which create thousands upon thousands of surplus embryos? Obviously, these clinics need to stop creating embryo's, even if they are large donors. Then, what about established life like a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians. Of course, they are not christian and white so they really don't count to 'w'.
We must bring democracy to the world? I guess we have to give them ours to do it, seeing how many freedoms we have lost to this administration. At least someone is getting them. Not likely.
Still harping on a few ten's of millions of dollars which were likely scammed by some shady characters at the UN. How about tens of billions scammed by the ruthless mercs screwing our men and women in uniform (Halliburton and friends again) in Iraq? I guess a ripoff at least a thousand times as big doesn't count, since it is all money from the US taxpayers, and committed by US sponsored corporations.
Like the myth of democrats over-using the filibuster, when the gop used it much, much more to thwart Clinton. Have the neocons come to believe their own lies?
I hate to admit it, but we as a nation deserve the looting of the taxpayer, and the loss of liberty and privacy. As a nation we embraced the fear peddled by these goons, and when you act from cowardice, you get what you ask for. Hopefully, someday we can once again make real courage an attribute shared by over half the country.
To finish up on this, the real Memorial Day, we can only pray someday the schemes represented by w's speech will be nothing more than a bad memory. My prayer is that day will come while we are still breathing. Overly optimistic? What the heck?
So the mound of festering shit expelled by the puss-ridden bowels of a gleeful cabal of diseased CEO's which we now call president was on tv this morning. Wow, that apt description makes me feel better, something vilely poetic which delights in the writing. Like waking up refreshed after a tedious nightmare.
We have to continue diplomatic efforts in North Korea until they are utterly and totally exhausted, because waging war is the very last option. Um, forgot about Iraq already did we? Of course, back then it was assumed non-christian brown people would not fight back in the face of the combined might of Halliburton and friends.
Reform is needed for Social Security? His idea of reform is turning it over to the very entities it was created to protect people from. Remember? So that in the face of market crashes and depressions when people's retirements are in effect redistributed to the coffers of those who have a long history (hundreds of years) of looting retirement funds, directly or through the breaking up of companies. Doesn't the word reform generally indicate something new, not a return to the dark ages? Something silly, like making the wealthy pay the same PERCENTAGE as everybody else to social security? Of course that would end the manufactured crisis...
'w' whines incessantly about democrats and moderate republicans playing politics by balking at his appointments, without a hint that appointing reactionaries (who even his darlings on the US Supreme Court have harshly criticized) might be divisive politics. And non-judicial appointees like Bolton, Rice, Gonzales, etc.? Another dirty joke.
Life must be protected at all costs, so undifferentiated stem cells must not be touched. Every embryo is sacred. Why then did 'w' refuse to answer the question about the fertility clinics which create thousands upon thousands of surplus embryos? Obviously, these clinics need to stop creating embryo's, even if they are large donors. Then, what about established life like a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians. Of course, they are not christian and white so they really don't count to 'w'.
We must bring democracy to the world? I guess we have to give them ours to do it, seeing how many freedoms we have lost to this administration. At least someone is getting them. Not likely.
Still harping on a few ten's of millions of dollars which were likely scammed by some shady characters at the UN. How about tens of billions scammed by the ruthless mercs screwing our men and women in uniform (Halliburton and friends again) in Iraq? I guess a ripoff at least a thousand times as big doesn't count, since it is all money from the US taxpayers, and committed by US sponsored corporations.
Like the myth of democrats over-using the filibuster, when the gop used it much, much more to thwart Clinton. Have the neocons come to believe their own lies?
I hate to admit it, but we as a nation deserve the looting of the taxpayer, and the loss of liberty and privacy. As a nation we embraced the fear peddled by these goons, and when you act from cowardice, you get what you ask for. Hopefully, someday we can once again make real courage an attribute shared by over half the country.
To finish up on this, the real Memorial Day, we can only pray someday the schemes represented by w's speech will be nothing more than a bad memory. My prayer is that day will come while we are still breathing. Overly optimistic? What the heck?
1 Comments:
Re: Social Security. As noted when American Airlines went bankrupt, many other companies would like to turn over their pension plan problems to the government (as if the government were some entity that magically generates cash without contributions in the form of taxes). One of the "problems" the pension plans have is that their investments in the stock markets (of pension funds) didn't pan out as well as expected. Now, they want social security for their underfunded, poor performing pension plans. If these so called experts can't make the money they expected in the market, then how is the ordinary citizen supposed to do that? My father also passed along that the pension plans were underfunded thanks to legislation passed in the 80s that allowed such things. The thought being that corporations would save money and profits by underfunding the plans for the first 24 years of a person's employment then the plan would play catch up for the last 6 or so years. The idea being that either the employee would retire before the 24 year mark (the auto industry buyouts have been a reaction to this) and get a lower pension benefit due to the underfunded plan OR that the market would have produced the money needed to properly fund the plan. Neither panned out and now corporations are in a panic.
Re: Precious stem cells. Yea, perhaps the shrub could show the same concern for life after it's full grown as in Iraq.
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