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11月27日 Be Afraid...Check out this new propaganda video put out by General Motors. Don't worry, I'll wait while you watch it:
Pretty scary stuff, isn't it? Well here's the scary part: It's 100% true.
Well I guess that means every American should be getting on the phone and telling their congressmen to get on that loan, doesn't it? No. In fact, they should do just the opposite.
"But that would be economic suicide, wouldn't it?"
Well you're right. But here's the catch: Whether they get the loans or not, GM (and Ford, and Chrystler) are leaving for China anyway. So yeah, you can go right ahead and pay them to abandon you, or you can tell them to piss off. It's your choice. 11月18日 HOLY CRAP!OK, I was willing to concede that the hijacked Russian tanks were an accident. But there's no way around this one. These super tankers are the biggest things on the water. They dwarf aircraft carriers by a wide margin. These pirates had to know what they were doing when they took the 'Sirius Star', and because of that fact, I am reinstating the "30 pound brass balls" title upon them.
At current market prices, that's about $110 million worth of oil. And unlike those tanks (Which the pirates apparently still have), they might actually be able to find customers for the oil. But I was surprised most by what I read at the bottom of the article:
"Campbell said the Navy does not expect to dispatch a vessel to aide the super tanker because it does not have dangerous weapons aboard like the MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship loaded with arms that was seized by pirates on September 25."
You know what this means, don't you?
11月14日 Someone Told Me There Was an Election?I bet you all thought I was just going to let this election go by without comment, didn't you? Well have no fear. I just wanted to make sure that after having 8 years of nothing but Republicans to ridicule, I still had the juice to dis the Dems as well. As it turns out, they don't really need my help. Remember, I'm a firm believer in Machiavelli's axiom that "The true worth of a Prince can be measured in the character of the men with whom he surrounds himself". Well if my belief system is worth anything at all, Obama's team leads me to believe that he will make Bush Jr look like Lincoln by comparison.
I was going to go with a top-down approach to evaluating craptasticness (is that a word?) of the names that have been floated so far, but some of these names are so bad, there's no ranking system in existence that can accurately distinguish between them. So instead, I guess I'll have to go alphabetically.
That means I have to start with Joe "Nobody" Biden.
This guy is such a dead fish, even the lobbyists won't touch him. I kid you not, he's the poorest man in Washington. According to Wikipedia, his net worth is somewhere between $59,000 and $366,000. In fact, the biggest controversy I could find against this guy, was that some of his legislation was found to be unconstitutional. My god, even this man's controversy puts me to sleep. Fortunately, I doubt we will be hearing much from him, otherwise the price of coffee would triple. At least the next name is a little more exciting:
I don't even know where to begin with this one. I could go on about hers and Bill's connections to the Contras through corrupt officers at Little Rock AFB and the CIA in the 80's. Or I could remind my readers about the "suicide" of Vince Foster, or the "accidental" death of John F. Kennedy Jr, or any one of the dozen or so CIA operatives that were assasinated to protect the secrecy of the Clintons' criminal activities. But I don't really need to do that, do I? This is just a back-door route to allowing Bill back into the White House so he can continue his war profiteering and drug running. And it looks like she will be Secretary of State, a good position for staying in contact with those friends in South America and (now that it's the world's #1 heroine exporter) Afghanistan.
And speaking of foriegn contacts, check out Rahm Emanuel:
Son of an Israeli terrorist (Yeah, I was surprised to find out Israel had it's own terrorist groups. In this case, the Irgun), and former civilian operative for the Israeli army himself, this man is the poster boy for "conflict of interest". But let's not allow a silly thing like treason stand in the way of making a buck. In 2000, Bill appointed Rahm to the board of directors at Freddy Mac, a position which he promptly used to funnel money meant for helping poor people buy homes into the 2000 Clinton election campaign. After he was forced to resign from Freddy Mac in discrace, he naturally failed upwards to Congress. When he ran in 2002, he got his buddies, former Chicago Water Dept. head Don Tomczak and former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to call up their former employees from prison and donate to his campaign in their names.
And in a rather ironic twist (considering his background) we are forced to ask the time-honoured Democratic question "What have you done for me lately?" Well as the likely choice for White House Chief of Staff, Emanuel will be in a good position to create the national "brown shirt" program mentioned in his latest book:
"It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. ...
Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs." The Plan: Big Ideas for America pp 61-62.
Now we come to what has by far got to be my favorite piece of crap thus far, Larry "The Crippler" Summers:
This guy is so bad, he makes some of those buffoons in the Bush administration look like savants. First of all, he thinks that Africa is under-polluted and that women are genetically inferior in math and science. Asenine for certain, but not necessarily a roadblock. Here's the juicy part: In 1990, after Lithuania broke away from the USSR, they hired Summers to come in and consult for them. The idea was to guide them away from the evils of socialism and show them how to run a free market economy. Well within 2 short years, this guy had screwed things up so badly, that after chasing him to the airport with pitchforks, these proud people who had fought for decades to gain their independance from Soviet Russia, rushed back to Parliment and voted communism back in. That's like saying your foster family is so bad, that you are going to run home to the drug addict mother who sells you to the pedophiles for crack money. And where would you put such a brain trust? Why, in the office of SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY of course! I guess it's only fitting that he clean up the economic mess. After all, he created it. I know what you're thinking: "But I thought all of those bailouts and printing 10 billion dollars per day were the fault of Paulson and Bernake." Well you're half right. Bernake and Paulson are certainly using the tools to create a new serf class, but they didn't buy them. No, Summers bought the tools in 1998 when he (and a few others; notably Robert Rubin and Allan Greenspan) shit all over Brooksley Born's efforts to regulate the derivatives market. And since experts agree that the derivatives market is the ultimate source of the global financial crisis, we can ultimately thank Summers for the bread lines we will soon be seeing. And these are only some of the frontrunners. Other names up for consideration in various positions are: Robert Gates (Defense) Rest assured, I have indeed been spending these last 8 years bulking up to kick some liberal ass. Watch for future spinning backfists as more names come up! |
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