Mr. Obama,
It's great to see you sticking it to the Neocons on such an epic scale, but I want to chime in about something you seem to be dancing around, inexplicably.
I understand that there are forces involved that may preclude your action, but the issue is coming to a head and my faith (such as it is) that you will do right by America is getting a little bit used up.
The issue is the Spanish Inquisition of Alberto Gonzales & others. The Spanish are not the only ones looking into crushing these dirty torture-mongers in their hidey holes. It seems every day another entity vows justice will be served and that they will be the ones to mete it out.
My point should be obvious to you.
What are you waiting for, South Africa?
Who do you want to slip comfortably behind in the pursuit of justice?
I'm sure there are a host of writers working on the exact rationalization that will grip the nation, but I, knowing that it must come as a pretext of the New America, have to say, there will never be peace without justice.
That means BushCo. must be exposed and confess.
I don't care much for punishment. It is too much like revenge, which I find petty.
The Cambodians got it right with their treatment of the Khmer Rouge. No beheadings, just confessions. It would do the world of good to our fellow travelers who were so badly treated at the hands of the great United States of America.
It would do the world of good to the American patriots who know that torture is patently immoral and had to sit by for six years while fascists dictated our national identity as brutes.
It would quickly put us on the top of the heap again as the bastion of truth & justice in the world.
Take a minute and imagine being beat to the docket by South Africa and what a whopping great moral hole we'd have to dig out of. Maybe you can squeak by morally when Sweden or The Hague start proceedings, but when China or Iran do it to embarrass us, we should be well and truly embarrassed.
It's only a matter of time.
I'd much prefer the mess it will cause now to the shame further equivocating lays at our feet. I'm up to here with national shame.
It's got to be fixed. You are the man...
Seriously,
Matt Willis
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Jesus, what a waste of time!
I'll grant that the stimulus package could have been debated more, but judging by the kind of garbage rolling out of Republican pie holes this past week, it would have been a waste of time. Frankly, I think that was the point. They wanted to sandbag Obama and teach him who's really not in charge any more, who doesn't have the moral or popular imperative and finally, who is lost in the wilderness of their own bankrupt policy.
The truth of the matter is that the Republicans have to be naysayers. They have to keep up appearances because that is all they've had for over a decade. None of what was promised in the Reagan Revolution has come to pass . Funny, how it goes. The Contract on America, shot to hell. The Trickle Down Economy, like my father used to say, trickled down the leg of the body politic.
It's over and they know it.
Now, in order to keep their jobs, credibility and dignity they have to clutch maniacally to the old stone story as it drags them down to the Titanic. If they don't, they will be admitting, finally, publicly and categorically that the policy they have been shilling for decades is a complete sham. It only serves the rich, the corporations and them.
Did you hear Boehner this past week going on & on about the pork barrel contraceptives?
"Oh
My
God..."
Poor, pathetic Republicans grasping at condoms to make a rope so they can hang themselves. I could almost feel sorry for them, if I didn't already know that their intentions were always, though grotesquely couched in patriotic and compassionate terms, completely venal & rapacious.
It was always about consolidating power and money and telling lesser people how to live. They have sided with the rich. That's who they protect. That's who they serve.
Why I don't love those rat-fucks, I don't know. Call me prejudiced.
But I'll tell you, seeing Obama lay the smack down is doing me a world of good.
I'm emboldened by the enemy of my enemy.
Maybe now I can pursue that lawsuit against Dubya for betraying the public trust & causing me untold pain & suffering, depression, weight gain, hair loss, etc. (It's not because I'm getting old, so shut up)
I'm still hoping for a perp walk though, that would be the tastiest icing.
The truth of the matter is that the Republicans have to be naysayers. They have to keep up appearances because that is all they've had for over a decade. None of what was promised in the Reagan Revolution has come to pass . Funny, how it goes. The Contract on America, shot to hell. The Trickle Down Economy, like my father used to say, trickled down the leg of the body politic.
It's over and they know it.
Now, in order to keep their jobs, credibility and dignity they have to clutch maniacally to the old stone story as it drags them down to the Titanic. If they don't, they will be admitting, finally, publicly and categorically that the policy they have been shilling for decades is a complete sham. It only serves the rich, the corporations and them.
Did you hear Boehner this past week going on & on about the pork barrel contraceptives?
"Oh
My
God..."
Poor, pathetic Republicans grasping at condoms to make a rope so they can hang themselves. I could almost feel sorry for them, if I didn't already know that their intentions were always, though grotesquely couched in patriotic and compassionate terms, completely venal & rapacious.
It was always about consolidating power and money and telling lesser people how to live. They have sided with the rich. That's who they protect. That's who they serve.
Why I don't love those rat-fucks, I don't know. Call me prejudiced.
But I'll tell you, seeing Obama lay the smack down is doing me a world of good.
I'm emboldened by the enemy of my enemy.
Maybe now I can pursue that lawsuit against Dubya for betraying the public trust & causing me untold pain & suffering, depression, weight gain, hair loss, etc. (It's not because I'm getting old, so shut up)
I'm still hoping for a perp walk though, that would be the tastiest icing.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Just a reminder!
NO MORE RUSH LIMBAUGH
NO MORE BILL O'REILLY
NO MORE FOX NEWS
Shun them
Turn them off
Look away
Don't listen
And don't respond...
NO MORE BILL O'REILLY
NO MORE FOX NEWS
Shun them
Turn them off
Look away
Don't listen
And don't respond...
High Fructose Corn Syrup is GOOD FOR YOU!!
Not!
It was bad enough being peddled this sweet poison bilge water, but now they're having a promotional campaign.
Here's how the two commercials I've seen sorta go;
First there's a happy scene, like a picnic & somebody pours a tall glass of Chateau Love Canal '09 & offers it to the unwitting victim.
The victim says, "I can't drink that dog piss! It has HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP in it!"
The pusher says, "Why, what's wrong with our friend HFCS?"
The victim suddenly becomes mute, or stupidly confounded and can't come up with one fucking thing wrong! They get this pained expression as they nervously back peddle and give up trying to protect themselves because it suddenly seems uncool. Then they cower, embarrassed & defeated while the pusher keeps on mindlessly filling glasses with "drink" & smiling a Stepford smile of banal disassociation.
Oh well, I guess there is nothing wrong with HFCS. It's just good food being maligned!
BULLSHIT!
Nobody ever asks me shit like that @ picnics, mostly because I don't go to picnics.
And they never end a commercial with, "To find out more..."
For god's sakes DON'T LOOK IT UP!
Then you would find out about the changes it causes in your metabolism that suppresses you "full" meter, so you eat more.
Or the changes that make calories hit harder in conjunction with HFCS.
Or, and this is new and extra FUCKED, almost 50% of the tested product came back with mercury content because the chemical used to break down the corn starch has a mercury compound in it that sticks around. It does so especially when the money grubbing corporate producer doesn't take care and watch production closely.
A lot of the product was KNOWN to be contaminated, but the Bush FDA just let it fly because of their corrupt policy of 'you can't stand in the way of profit'!
You know, even in the totalitarian dictatorship of China, you do shit like that and you get executed.
What is taking us so long? In consumer protection and criminal justice, we're lagging behind CHINA!
Oh yeah, and coming up fast on the human rights scale too.
Here's the thing. They shouldn't try to foist this bile onto anyone. Let's not have it outlawed just to find our illegal surplus winding up in Malaysian bellies, like our DDT did. The syrup shills have got to give it up, like ALAR & Saccharin & Fen-Phen & the unfortunate bowel seaping Olestra.
As usual though, fast food aside, HFCS is in food that you might have idiotically thought was healthy, like whole wheat bread! Whole fucking wheat bread for Jesus Tapdancing Christ's Sake! What the fuck are these evil fucktards going to think up next? I shudder to think!
Go ahead and check out your selection of whole wheat bread @ the store & see the extent of the depraved indifference these "health conscious" corporations have toward us, the rabble.
Who profits from this death bread soaked in cheap ass joy juice?
Check you store! Almost every type of national brand "healthy" bread has it as a top ingredient. HFCS is EVERYWHERE!
If we somehow get rid of it, the fatcats will have to retool their edible mass production facilities and pass the cost on to us. Plus the higher cost of surgical grade glucose to replace all that syrup.
Are you going to make your own brown bread from now on?
I'll answer that.
NO!
Me neither.
So, the cost of eating is going to go up because I don't want corporate pig fuckers to poison me for their convenience or cost effectiveness. I don't want to be involuntarily fed shit to save some corporate bitch some money or to make his puffy, boil covered ass look good to the stock holders. I'm so done with that shit!
Who do these pricks think they are? Why doesn't the government, sworn to protect the citizens from harm, stop this bullshit?
We all know why.
"We the people" aside, and I do mean aside, we are powerless. We haven't the money to put these people away.
It might make you mad. It does me.
I often say, if CEOs were as popular a target as abortion clinic doctors, it would be a very different world. You know what I mean?
It was bad enough being peddled this sweet poison bilge water, but now they're having a promotional campaign.
Here's how the two commercials I've seen sorta go;
First there's a happy scene, like a picnic & somebody pours a tall glass of Chateau Love Canal '09 & offers it to the unwitting victim.
The victim says, "I can't drink that dog piss! It has HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP in it!"
The pusher says, "Why, what's wrong with our friend HFCS?"
The victim suddenly becomes mute, or stupidly confounded and can't come up with one fucking thing wrong! They get this pained expression as they nervously back peddle and give up trying to protect themselves because it suddenly seems uncool. Then they cower, embarrassed & defeated while the pusher keeps on mindlessly filling glasses with "drink" & smiling a Stepford smile of banal disassociation.
Oh well, I guess there is nothing wrong with HFCS. It's just good food being maligned!
BULLSHIT!
Nobody ever asks me shit like that @ picnics, mostly because I don't go to picnics.
And they never end a commercial with, "To find out more..."
For god's sakes DON'T LOOK IT UP!
Then you would find out about the changes it causes in your metabolism that suppresses you "full" meter, so you eat more.
Or the changes that make calories hit harder in conjunction with HFCS.
Or, and this is new and extra FUCKED, almost 50% of the tested product came back with mercury content because the chemical used to break down the corn starch has a mercury compound in it that sticks around. It does so especially when the money grubbing corporate producer doesn't take care and watch production closely.
A lot of the product was KNOWN to be contaminated, but the Bush FDA just let it fly because of their corrupt policy of 'you can't stand in the way of profit'!
You know, even in the totalitarian dictatorship of China, you do shit like that and you get executed.
What is taking us so long? In consumer protection and criminal justice, we're lagging behind CHINA!
Oh yeah, and coming up fast on the human rights scale too.
Here's the thing. They shouldn't try to foist this bile onto anyone. Let's not have it outlawed just to find our illegal surplus winding up in Malaysian bellies, like our DDT did. The syrup shills have got to give it up, like ALAR & Saccharin & Fen-Phen & the unfortunate bowel seaping Olestra.
As usual though, fast food aside, HFCS is in food that you might have idiotically thought was healthy, like whole wheat bread! Whole fucking wheat bread for Jesus Tapdancing Christ's Sake! What the fuck are these evil fucktards going to think up next? I shudder to think!
Go ahead and check out your selection of whole wheat bread @ the store & see the extent of the depraved indifference these "health conscious" corporations have toward us, the rabble.
Who profits from this death bread soaked in cheap ass joy juice?
Check you store! Almost every type of national brand "healthy" bread has it as a top ingredient. HFCS is EVERYWHERE!
If we somehow get rid of it, the fatcats will have to retool their edible mass production facilities and pass the cost on to us. Plus the higher cost of surgical grade glucose to replace all that syrup.
Are you going to make your own brown bread from now on?
I'll answer that.
NO!
Me neither.
So, the cost of eating is going to go up because I don't want corporate pig fuckers to poison me for their convenience or cost effectiveness. I don't want to be involuntarily fed shit to save some corporate bitch some money or to make his puffy, boil covered ass look good to the stock holders. I'm so done with that shit!
Who do these pricks think they are? Why doesn't the government, sworn to protect the citizens from harm, stop this bullshit?
We all know why.
"We the people" aside, and I do mean aside, we are powerless. We haven't the money to put these people away.
It might make you mad. It does me.
I often say, if CEOs were as popular a target as abortion clinic doctors, it would be a very different world. You know what I mean?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Stop Listening to Rush!
No REALLY!
Time to shut the bitch down seriously.
Just ignore him.
He is like bad voodoo, you have to give him the power to matter.
He has none on his own.
He is just a tired old junky.
Time to shut the bitch down seriously.
Just ignore him.
He is like bad voodoo, you have to give him the power to matter.
He has none on his own.
He is just a tired old junky.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Obamorality - Obamataliation
I was just looking at Obama signing away all that hideous neocon torture crap going on in Guantanamo and else where and I almost started crying. Am I a little wimp? No. I was just ashamed for so long and I'm overjoyed that the evil shit is being corrected finally! Even if it's a baby step, we finally seem to be going in a just and humane direction.
I have been fighting, sometimes halfheartedly I'll admit, since Reagan was in office plying his Pomade brand of fascism. I've seen everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I held as virtuous about America being stripped and sold down the river by these half human neocons & their ilk. It has riled, angered & sickened me for three decades, but now there's a black guy signing orders & laws that fly in the face of those douchewanks.
If it wasn't IN YOUR FACE enough that Obama is a Democrat, if it doesn't crush their spirit to lose so decisively, if their broad disapproval hasn't taken a vast amount of wind out of their sails, the fact that a black guy leads this nation away from their shit is a 100% bona-fide treasure and should be relished!
It's great.
I know we're asking an awful lot of Obama, but then he signed up for it didn't he. And perhaps his makeup is particularly suited to cutting the balls off the Right while saving the economy, saving the environment, saving hearth & home or saving human dignity itself from the clutches of evil conservatism. (i.e. Cheney!) Maybe it's just second nature to the guy.
If it is, then he's a phenom of extraordinary power. Imagine... A guy as charismatic & powerful as Hitler, but working for the greater good, instead of world domination! It makes me want to cry!
And he's not even that progressive. I mean it was God this & God that on his first days and that don't bode well. Do you realize God was helping the Neocons all this time too? I don't think you can trust God. He should be left out of it. Hmmmm...
Anyway, Obama is no Kucinich. He's no Wellstone and he's definitely no Nader, but hope springs eternal and if he pushes back against anything that makes Limbaugh happy then he's doing great. In fact, as we progress through his administration I hope Faux News goes code red with dismay & pulls out all the stops against him, because it will signal that Obama is actually doing us all some good and Fox can't stand that.
So, I'm as happy as a little girl and whenever I think of Obama @ the helm I get a little more giddy because it's been a long long time since I've been able to appreciate any part of the government, least of all the president. Sorry Bill, I didn't vote for you either.
I have been fighting, sometimes halfheartedly I'll admit, since Reagan was in office plying his Pomade brand of fascism. I've seen everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I held as virtuous about America being stripped and sold down the river by these half human neocons & their ilk. It has riled, angered & sickened me for three decades, but now there's a black guy signing orders & laws that fly in the face of those douchewanks.
If it wasn't IN YOUR FACE enough that Obama is a Democrat, if it doesn't crush their spirit to lose so decisively, if their broad disapproval hasn't taken a vast amount of wind out of their sails, the fact that a black guy leads this nation away from their shit is a 100% bona-fide treasure and should be relished!
It's great.
I know we're asking an awful lot of Obama, but then he signed up for it didn't he. And perhaps his makeup is particularly suited to cutting the balls off the Right while saving the economy, saving the environment, saving hearth & home or saving human dignity itself from the clutches of evil conservatism. (i.e. Cheney!) Maybe it's just second nature to the guy.
If it is, then he's a phenom of extraordinary power. Imagine... A guy as charismatic & powerful as Hitler, but working for the greater good, instead of world domination! It makes me want to cry!
And he's not even that progressive. I mean it was God this & God that on his first days and that don't bode well. Do you realize God was helping the Neocons all this time too? I don't think you can trust God. He should be left out of it. Hmmmm...
Anyway, Obama is no Kucinich. He's no Wellstone and he's definitely no Nader, but hope springs eternal and if he pushes back against anything that makes Limbaugh happy then he's doing great. In fact, as we progress through his administration I hope Faux News goes code red with dismay & pulls out all the stops against him, because it will signal that Obama is actually doing us all some good and Fox can't stand that.
So, I'm as happy as a little girl and whenever I think of Obama @ the helm I get a little more giddy because it's been a long long time since I've been able to appreciate any part of the government, least of all the president. Sorry Bill, I didn't vote for you either.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Congressional Despair
I was asked to write a letter to the editor because I have been known to get quite passionate.
Some issues need the right rage to be felt by the subjects, like a revolution or a complete dismantling right down to anarchism.
Jefferson alluded to that notion, in that every generation ought to remake its government.
The premise is terribly overdue.
Instead of We the People, it's Them the Warpigs.
Instead of forming a Better Union and following our Better Angels, it's watch TV and buy something to make yourself feel better.
Fuck that bullshit right now.
Anyway, three letters, one to the paper, the other to "my representatives" and the most recent to Chucky Schumer.
1)
REALLY? A Congressional pay-raise?!
I would be speechless but this is just too much!
What kind of descent legislator would vote to line their pockets with gold while citizens they represent are in dire peril of loosing their jobs, homes, insurance, security and freedom?
If you can't guess, I'll tell you.
CORRUPT!
And how about INDIFFERENT, GREEDY, DEPRAVED, CALLOUS, MONEY-GRUBBING, LYING, LYING and LYING!
Get the picture?
A raise is just so completely wrong headed that I am inclined to add STUPID and that they need schooling, but I know history well enough that nothing short of the Sack of Rome is going to dent their thick skulls.
However the American version of the Sack of Rome will have to be phone calls, and LOTS OF THEM, to your Rep & Senator.
Email is nice too, but doesn't say "Hello, cut the crap" like a switchboard jammed with calls.
We've got to be standing up all at once, Republican & Democrat, and kick these clowns in the wallet TODAY!
Leave 10000 messages and keep calling until Pelosi cries UNCLE!
Stand outside their offices with a big angry sign.. Get up in their GRILL!
They know it isn't right and they are thumbing their noses at us!
It's time for a nose bleed!
2)
I oppose giving Congress a pay raise this year. While most Americans are struggling at every turn, lining congressional pockets with taxpayer gold is just depraved indifference. They should be ashamed!
How many of these kinds of letters have been written in the last 200 years?
How many times has Congress paid any attention to them?
What's going to be different now?
Do they suddenly give a crap?
NO
So, don't anybody hold your breath for a miraculous new sense of decency or responsibility from these bloodsuckers. You'll die!
3)
NO PAY RAISE!
Can you people really be serious? It's the wrong move, wrong time and the wrong message.
It makes you look rapacious and stupid at a time when your constituents are fighting in near panic for their very homes.
The message is,"Oh, gee, you lost everything? Here, let me raise my pay. Have a nice day!"
It's depraved indifference!
Congress has been writing laws that allow its members to surreptitiously and personally profit by them, while we suffer increasingly onerous taxes to pay for them.
You already voted yourselves the best socialized medicine in the world, while we scramble and fret over our complete lack of equitable insurance.
AND 100% RETIREMENT BENEFITS!?!? I got a used car & a pat on the back!
I mean REALLY, you are SET FOR LIFE! Another raise right now would be like fiddling while Rome burns!
If someone has to tell you this then you are not fit for office and only do so by false pretense. And there is NO VALOR in hiding behind good deeds to cover bad ones.
The current climate of dismay among voters can only be inflamed by such blatant self aggrandizement. Again I say, DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE and I can only hope, if this bad deed comes to pass, it will not go unpunished!
Some issues need the right rage to be felt by the subjects, like a revolution or a complete dismantling right down to anarchism.
Jefferson alluded to that notion, in that every generation ought to remake its government.
The premise is terribly overdue.
Instead of We the People, it's Them the Warpigs.
Instead of forming a Better Union and following our Better Angels, it's watch TV and buy something to make yourself feel better.
Fuck that bullshit right now.
Anyway, three letters, one to the paper, the other to "my representatives" and the most recent to Chucky Schumer.
1)
REALLY? A Congressional pay-raise?!
I would be speechless but this is just too much!
What kind of descent legislator would vote to line their pockets with gold while citizens they represent are in dire peril of loosing their jobs, homes, insurance, security and freedom?
If you can't guess, I'll tell you.
CORRUPT!
And how about INDIFFERENT, GREEDY, DEPRAVED, CALLOUS, MONEY-GRUBBING, LYING, LYING and LYING!
Get the picture?
A raise is just so completely wrong headed that I am inclined to add STUPID and that they need schooling, but I know history well enough that nothing short of the Sack of Rome is going to dent their thick skulls.
However the American version of the Sack of Rome will have to be phone calls, and LOTS OF THEM, to your Rep & Senator.
Email is nice too, but doesn't say "Hello, cut the crap" like a switchboard jammed with calls.
We've got to be standing up all at once, Republican & Democrat, and kick these clowns in the wallet TODAY!
Leave 10000 messages and keep calling until Pelosi cries UNCLE!
Stand outside their offices with a big angry sign.. Get up in their GRILL!
They know it isn't right and they are thumbing their noses at us!
It's time for a nose bleed!
2)
I oppose giving Congress a pay raise this year. While most Americans are struggling at every turn, lining congressional pockets with taxpayer gold is just depraved indifference. They should be ashamed!
How many of these kinds of letters have been written in the last 200 years?
How many times has Congress paid any attention to them?
What's going to be different now?
Do they suddenly give a crap?
NO
So, don't anybody hold your breath for a miraculous new sense of decency or responsibility from these bloodsuckers. You'll die!
3)
NO PAY RAISE!
Can you people really be serious? It's the wrong move, wrong time and the wrong message.
It makes you look rapacious and stupid at a time when your constituents are fighting in near panic for their very homes.
The message is,"Oh, gee, you lost everything? Here, let me raise my pay. Have a nice day!"
It's depraved indifference!
Congress has been writing laws that allow its members to surreptitiously and personally profit by them, while we suffer increasingly onerous taxes to pay for them.
You already voted yourselves the best socialized medicine in the world, while we scramble and fret over our complete lack of equitable insurance.
AND 100% RETIREMENT BENEFITS!?!? I got a used car & a pat on the back!
I mean REALLY, you are SET FOR LIFE! Another raise right now would be like fiddling while Rome burns!
If someone has to tell you this then you are not fit for office and only do so by false pretense. And there is NO VALOR in hiding behind good deeds to cover bad ones.
The current climate of dismay among voters can only be inflamed by such blatant self aggrandizement. Again I say, DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE and I can only hope, if this bad deed comes to pass, it will not go unpunished!
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