Oh please, do not let the inmates run the asylum again! What does it take for the great unwashed masses to understand the previous regime put us in this toilet? As wobbly as the current administration is, at least they've recognized the problem and in defense of their ignorance have attempted remedies.
Sure bailing out the brokerage firms was unwise. They should have been left to fail. Only the strong survive. Perhaps the banking and insurance industries should have had their "adjustments" also...But the Dems know where the money is, and that's that. Big business is the golden rule.
Bailouts were bad. Job creations have not happened. But give the little pukes a chance. It took 8 years to screw us into this position, let the other side take a few years at least to stem but blood flow. Then if it doesn't work, which it appears won't have a chance, let there be revolution.
That seems to be a possibly valid option.
02 November 2010
19 October 2010
University of Phoenix being sued?
said on October 19, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Great! It's about time people learned about these false front "schools of learning". The only thing you'll learn is how to spend your money on a worthless paper claiming you've graduated from a correspondence school. Just because it has a brick and mortar building with grounds and a parking lot, it's still a shyster correspondence school run out of somebody's closet in East Gary, Indiana.
As authentic colleges and universities become mere diploma mills, spewing out vaguely trained and mostly ignorant graduates as cattle headed up to the killing room floors, these paper schools promise as much, yet deliver even less.
"Oh, a correspondence degree in Chemical Engineering? We have a job in Housekeeping for you!"
Wise up, people, that paper is as worthless as Confederate dollar bills.
Sing that song the Election Blues
When is the great uninformed, gap-toothed yokel voter going to see the truth in our broken political system? It's broken! It can't be fixed. People elected the O because they truly wanted a change from politics as usual. What they got was a Chicago politician.
There's no difference in the 2 major parties. One is tax and spend, the other spend then tax. We are a nation of Liberals and Conservatives, and not much in between. The middle of the road and fence sitters are the ones who can make an election difference, but choose to worry about their own miserable lives. And why not? The quality of everyone's but the super-rich is degrading, as is our country's false supremacy as the Number One bad ass on the block. Who cares?
It's supposed to be about the quality of life, not the quantity of money.
Ya say ya want a revolution, well ya know, ya better change your head...
There's no difference in the 2 major parties. One is tax and spend, the other spend then tax. We are a nation of Liberals and Conservatives, and not much in between. The middle of the road and fence sitters are the ones who can make an election difference, but choose to worry about their own miserable lives. And why not? The quality of everyone's but the super-rich is degrading, as is our country's false supremacy as the Number One bad ass on the block. Who cares?
It's supposed to be about the quality of life, not the quantity of money.
Ya say ya want a revolution, well ya know, ya better change your head...
07 October 2010
Re: Mayor’s gun logic badly flawed: From a Portland Tribune story about the mayor and city gun-control efforts...
Oh for cryin' out loud! What logic is involved here? Ex Post Facto? Guns have been around this country since the "shot heard 'round the world".
There's a billion guns out there. Another Nanny Law isn't going to stop criminals from finding guns, stealing guns, buying guns, selling guns, or using guns.It's like the old British Constable joke: "Stop in the name of the Law! Stop, or I'll say Stop again!"
05 October 2010
Yeah, just this day, I'm pedaling back from the library during "rush hour", on a side road that everyone else is using to escape the traffic, thru a quiet residential street. A two way stop sign, I stop. A p/u truck is waiting to turn, I wave him on to continue his turn. Halfway thru his turn some maroon on his bike blows thru my stop sign and almost hits the truck, then yells at the guy!
Aplomb! What an idiot! This typical ass-breath bicyclist with his own set of rules totally ignoring safety and the Vehicle Rules of the Road...Everyone would have laughed at the instant karmic justice if the truck had simply flattened this butthead, so everyone could have gone on their way. Lesson learned.
As it was, the truck driver let it go, and as he passed in front of me, offered me a smile and a peace sign....That's cool, but ya know what? I was just obeying the rules of the road, and my #1 rule of Persuasion- I'm persuaded on my bicycle: I'm the smallest fish in the pond, and I don't have a chance against Buicks...much less trucks!
Aplomb! What an idiot! This typical ass-breath bicyclist with his own set of rules totally ignoring safety and the Vehicle Rules of the Road...Everyone would have laughed at the instant karmic justice if the truck had simply flattened this butthead, so everyone could have gone on their way. Lesson learned.
As it was, the truck driver let it go, and as he passed in front of me, offered me a smile and a peace sign....That's cool, but ya know what? I was just obeying the rules of the road, and my #1 rule of Persuasion- I'm persuaded on my bicycle: I'm the smallest fish in the pond, and I don't have a chance against Buicks...much less trucks!
03 June 2010
'Merkan Pride? No, just another gap toothed yokel
To the redneck sumbitch holding his big long pistol, a can of beer, waving around God and the Flag and bleating how he's proud being an American!
Yeehaaa! Boy Howdy! It's gits like this who give this country it's wrong headed directions, with neo-con right wing politicians in big bank's pockets.
His ilk put Rayguns in office in '80, and led to the downfall of our society. His ilk nailed the coffin shut by supporting the Cheney/Bush regime, who let the middle class in this country go fish, and large corporations name the tune.
He's blinded by the light of God and Truth and Right. Trouble is, he doesn't have a clue what's going on, or why. The idjet doesn't even realize his precious Harley's are overpriced crap assembled in the USA of 70% foreign content.
It's a Global World now, you Luddite!
As long as he can remain safe in his own little white bread world, worship the "hero's" from his youth, believe in the white man's God, and hide his face in cheap beer and guns, all will be well. At least he'll protect his own from the "evil invaders", by God, whoever they are! Or will be.
He doesn't know the world is changing and will leave his proud ass in the same sand his head is buried in now. He doesn't want his country to grow, he wants it like it was back in the 50's. "Happy Days"-and it ain't gonna happen.
He just doesn't realize: We have met the enemy- and they is us!
Yeehaaa! Boy Howdy! It's gits like this who give this country it's wrong headed directions, with neo-con right wing politicians in big bank's pockets.
His ilk put Rayguns in office in '80, and led to the downfall of our society. His ilk nailed the coffin shut by supporting the Cheney/Bush regime, who let the middle class in this country go fish, and large corporations name the tune.
He's blinded by the light of God and Truth and Right. Trouble is, he doesn't have a clue what's going on, or why. The idjet doesn't even realize his precious Harley's are overpriced crap assembled in the USA of 70% foreign content.
It's a Global World now, you Luddite!
As long as he can remain safe in his own little white bread world, worship the "hero's" from his youth, believe in the white man's God, and hide his face in cheap beer and guns, all will be well. At least he'll protect his own from the "evil invaders", by God, whoever they are! Or will be.
He doesn't know the world is changing and will leave his proud ass in the same sand his head is buried in now. He doesn't want his country to grow, he wants it like it was back in the 50's. "Happy Days"-and it ain't gonna happen.
He just doesn't realize: We have met the enemy- and they is us!
19 May 2010
Ain't no more than this!!!
1,000 Americans Dead in Afghanistan
A grim milestone: The number of American dead in Afghanistan crossed 1,000 on Tuesday after an attack on a convoy killed five U.S. soldiers. The rate of death is alarming: It took seven years for the first 500 American deaths; the second 500 have all taken place in fewer than two. The average age of the American dead is dropping as well: Between 2002 and 2008 it was 28; last year, it was 26; and so far this year, it's 25.
Read it at The New York Times
And it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for?
This about says it all.
A grim milestone: The number of American dead in Afghanistan crossed 1,000 on Tuesday after an attack on a convoy killed five U.S. soldiers. The rate of death is alarming: It took seven years for the first 500 American deaths; the second 500 have all taken place in fewer than two. The average age of the American dead is dropping as well: Between 2002 and 2008 it was 28; last year, it was 26; and so far this year, it's 25.
Read it at The New York Times
And it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for?
This about says it all.
30 April 2010
WTF????
WASHINGTON — Is George W. Bush about to start a political comeback?
Written off as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history when he left office, the 63-year-old Bush has been keeping a low profile, fading from view as the country turned its attention to his successor, President Barack Obama .
Now, some events might be turning in Bush's favor just as he and his family emerge to tell their side of the story, first with the release this week of Laura Bush's memoir, "Spoken From the Heart," then in November with the release of his book, "Decision Points."
(By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – Thu Apr 29, 5:49 pm ET -)
The guy is at best an idiot. At worst culpably criminal in the actions of his regime. Pampered and privileged, he never worked a real job in his life. His 19th century Polyanna- manifest destiny- white bread Xtian belief system set true democracy back a decade. If he's proud of his accomplishments he needs counseling. His supporters need serious counseling.
His regime is directly and indirectly responsible for the quagmire we're in now. Still he smirks. The only way out is throwing dollars at a myriad of problems. Any administration would be forced into these bitter solutions, whichever political party had inherited the mess. Voters for the most part suffer from short term memory....
We revere Reagan, whose regime put us on a road of dependence to powerful banking and big business interests, and now we're looking with fondness at the Bush years? Only the rich survived unscathed. The working middle class is screwed on every turn.
We'll never get back to "the way things were".
Written off as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history when he left office, the 63-year-old Bush has been keeping a low profile, fading from view as the country turned its attention to his successor, President Barack Obama .
Now, some events might be turning in Bush's favor just as he and his family emerge to tell their side of the story, first with the release this week of Laura Bush's memoir, "Spoken From the Heart," then in November with the release of his book, "Decision Points."
(By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – Thu Apr 29, 5:49 pm ET -)
The guy is at best an idiot. At worst culpably criminal in the actions of his regime. Pampered and privileged, he never worked a real job in his life. His 19th century Polyanna- manifest destiny- white bread Xtian belief system set true democracy back a decade. If he's proud of his accomplishments he needs counseling. His supporters need serious counseling.
His regime is directly and indirectly responsible for the quagmire we're in now. Still he smirks. The only way out is throwing dollars at a myriad of problems. Any administration would be forced into these bitter solutions, whichever political party had inherited the mess. Voters for the most part suffer from short term memory....
We revere Reagan, whose regime put us on a road of dependence to powerful banking and big business interests, and now we're looking with fondness at the Bush years? Only the rich survived unscathed. The working middle class is screwed on every turn.
We'll never get back to "the way things were".
05 April 2010
Lieing and Tigers and bikers, oh my!
Reading about Tiger's golf return debut later this week. Everybody is clucking about his choice for caddy, Jesse James. Har! What is it about group-think mentality which has a hard time accepting the human conditions of power, lust, and greed? If you remove the sexcapades from Tiger and Jesse (hey, they're "only guys"), the public would still have this warm fuzzy ideal. Tiger is an upstanding, soft spoken family man, and Jesse a "gee he's okay for a tattooed biker, see how he loves his nice actress wifey?" Take scandal out of the mix, they're still our darlings. What they did respectively is obscene, and a mockery of family values, yet the public will soon forgive these media populists, and go on to more whoofs and tweets. Sex is power, and some are just too greedy in the candy shop...
31 March 2010
It's starting!
OK, see! See! I've been saying this until I'm blue in the face. I feel like the Boy Who Cried Wolf/ Chicken Little, and whatever else naysayer...Yes, Obama was the only choice. Yes his regime will be better than anything the Cheney/Bushites can put together with all their money and guile. Yes, McCain is a tool- the only maverick in him is the TV show from the 60's. Yes Palin is an idiot, but so's the average uninformed voter...
And YES, Obama is a Chicago politician! With one hand he pats the baby, while the other steals the lollipop! He will do and say whatever he can to gain consensus. He blew it with his lack of leadership in the face of a crumbling Republican party. If he couldn't seize the day in his first year, the next 3 will be hell to pay. And pay and pay. He will finally blur the last difference between the major parties..
Off shore drilling was inevitable. We won't do a thing about our petroleum use until gasoline reaches $6 per gallon. But by then, we will be well entrenched, poised to do a classic pincer movement on Iran. Cannons to the left of them, cannons to the right of them, onward the Forlorn Hope...
And YES, Obama is a Chicago politician! With one hand he pats the baby, while the other steals the lollipop! He will do and say whatever he can to gain consensus. He blew it with his lack of leadership in the face of a crumbling Republican party. If he couldn't seize the day in his first year, the next 3 will be hell to pay. And pay and pay. He will finally blur the last difference between the major parties..
Off shore drilling was inevitable. We won't do a thing about our petroleum use until gasoline reaches $6 per gallon. But by then, we will be well entrenched, poised to do a classic pincer movement on Iran. Cannons to the left of them, cannons to the right of them, onward the Forlorn Hope...
17 March 2010
It does take a lot to laugh and a train to cry....
Why do we feel life is an endlessly boring loop of days crashing into days, indistinguishable from each other? One- two- three- four, as a troop marching in lock step, as a faceless crowd shuffling along a crowded sidewalk, as gray nameless workers trudging into the factories, as if days were marking time to our inevitable end? Why do we feel that some "thing", or some "one" will provide the answers and everything will be alright? "We" hold the only answer.
Why this? Why do we feel this, act this, do this? Modern psychology can find patterns of human behavior, psychiatry can find dozens of maddening theories for individual behavior, but no research measurement can explain why we think the way we do. We are overly complicated organisms, far beyond the daily needs of our hunter-gatherer pre-history. We have modern machinery to perform our most thankless tasks, provide our meals, transportation, and comforts. We are no longer slaves to the animalist fight or flight syndrome. So we think, and we dream philosophies. We see the stars, we reach for the stars. There is nothing left to conquer.
Nothing to conquer but ourselves. We invent gods and demons to guide us. We invent stories to instruct us, we invent knowledge to inform us, we invent ourselves to fulfill us. Life is somewhere between two metaphysical planes of nothingness. We experience time between birth and death, that is all. How we relate to this experience is what we do. As if life were a train trip between borders...Our ticket allows us to sit at a window watching the scenery, or enjoying the ride by seeing other things on the train itself. We can walk along the aisles and corridors, visiting the other travelers, seeing other coaches and berths, watching the conductors and engineers work the train's machinery. We can fill our lives with these travels and travelers, finding our joy and happiness in the journey.
For the destination arrives much to early- and the ride is over...
Why this? Why do we feel this, act this, do this? Modern psychology can find patterns of human behavior, psychiatry can find dozens of maddening theories for individual behavior, but no research measurement can explain why we think the way we do. We are overly complicated organisms, far beyond the daily needs of our hunter-gatherer pre-history. We have modern machinery to perform our most thankless tasks, provide our meals, transportation, and comforts. We are no longer slaves to the animalist fight or flight syndrome. So we think, and we dream philosophies. We see the stars, we reach for the stars. There is nothing left to conquer.
Nothing to conquer but ourselves. We invent gods and demons to guide us. We invent stories to instruct us, we invent knowledge to inform us, we invent ourselves to fulfill us. Life is somewhere between two metaphysical planes of nothingness. We experience time between birth and death, that is all. How we relate to this experience is what we do. As if life were a train trip between borders...Our ticket allows us to sit at a window watching the scenery, or enjoying the ride by seeing other things on the train itself. We can walk along the aisles and corridors, visiting the other travelers, seeing other coaches and berths, watching the conductors and engineers work the train's machinery. We can fill our lives with these travels and travelers, finding our joy and happiness in the journey.
For the destination arrives much to early- and the ride is over...
08 March 2010
Health reform? FUBAR!
There is no health crisis. It's a leadership crisis...
Fearless Leader's latest speech has him casting dispersions on the health insurance companies, accusing them of the sin of taking profits over people.
Profits over people??? No way! Oh wait, isn't that the 'Merkan way? Sure it is. The prez is s'posd to be a tough nut raised in Chicago politics. Too bad it doesn't translate into the national arena.
His influence and abilities are rapidly eroding. Infighting, bi-partisanism, and lack of leadership is rendering him impotent to pull us out of the quagmire the previous regime put us into. Instead we sink deeper into economic malaise and two war fronts that cannot be won.
His effectiveness as a strong and focused visionary is gone. He, and the "new" Democrats have proven once again: Politics as usual. FUBAR.
There really is no difference in the two political parties. One is spend and tax. The other is tax and spend. We have met the enemy and they is us.
Fearless Leader's latest speech has him casting dispersions on the health insurance companies, accusing them of the sin of taking profits over people.
Profits over people??? No way! Oh wait, isn't that the 'Merkan way? Sure it is. The prez is s'posd to be a tough nut raised in Chicago politics. Too bad it doesn't translate into the national arena.
His influence and abilities are rapidly eroding. Infighting, bi-partisanism, and lack of leadership is rendering him impotent to pull us out of the quagmire the previous regime put us into. Instead we sink deeper into economic malaise and two war fronts that cannot be won.
His effectiveness as a strong and focused visionary is gone. He, and the "new" Democrats have proven once again: Politics as usual. FUBAR.
There really is no difference in the two political parties. One is spend and tax. The other is tax and spend. We have met the enemy and they is us.
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