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600 Days Tres Hombres…..supplemental

My latest two part piece wherein I audaciously take it upon myself to sit in judgment long enough to bestow an actual letter grade of “D” on Barack Obama as President of The United States of America has manifested into far more than a simple fart in a whirlwind. I expected as much. What I didn’t really anticipate, despite both pieces being a rather harsh assessment of our President, is the indignity and vitriol from the right wing fucktards.

These people are dangerous idiots.  Dangerous in that they vote.

I mean, I’m pissing and moaning about him and his administration.

What follows are samples of their reactions from facebook and here at Brainspank.  I provide these to illustrate just how dumb, indoctrinated and demagogued these goofcocks actually are.  My father would describe them as not knowing their asses from a hole in the ground and I am compelled to concur.

For posterity and clarification, I submit that I do think Obama has accomplished one whole helluva a lot in the face of enormous and unprecedented partisan resistance and elaborately callow fuckery.  I made that very clear in part one.

http://www.brainspank.org/2010/07/600-days/

I took it upon myself to address the vital things that had languished, gone undone or had been ignored.  Stuff that really chapped my ass.  Those things, I detailed in part two.

http://www.brainspank.org/2010/07/600-days-part-deux-2/

Read them again for fucks sake.

What I offer you in this third, sort of auxiliary installment, is proof of just how ridiculous so many motherfuckers can be.  Obtuse, missing the the point, unable to be germane or salient, cognizant or aware at all of what is on the goddamn table and being discussed overtly and with serious purpose.

From Facebook:

Wayne F. Hall

“This guy speaks like a true democrat….Love the professionalism. Now what would happen if this guy was on the right? You lefties would grill him like a fine piece of salmon. I mean really where do you guys dig these nut jobs up??”

“Michael did you write that??? I would hope not and expect a little more than that.”

ME

“Yes I did. Why?”

Wayne F. Hall

“How would you like it if the roles were reversed? There are no clean hands in either party and to portray the left as you have is preposterous. Case in Pointe Look who has had control of the house and senate for the last 6 years. We all know that the president is just a figure head ( well except George)and the house and senate can override his veto at anytime So with all the bull that has started in the last three years whom should we blame?”

ME

“Check your math, control of both houses for the last six years? Are you new or stupid?

And how have I portrayed the left? I mean, it was basically a hit piece on Obama.

Of course, hands are dirty everywhere you look. Hello? Ketchup little tomato. My point is this, and I stand behind it: Republicans don’t have an exclusive on the malaise of corruption but they are far more EVIL than Democrats.

Somebody went to great lengths the other day to point out the the crookedness of Charlie Rangel and B Rod etc….so I simply offered a list of war criminals (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Wolfowitz, Haliburton, Blackwater……) and a litany of war crimes (torture, wiretapping, profiteering…..).

Nut job huh?

You know, you “people” never consider or admit just what a shitstorm it would be if they weren’t in power. Typical right wing boiler plate bullshit. Unemployment IS bad. But it would be twice what it is now were it not for the current administration.

The greatest concentration of wealth in the history of human kind occurred under the Republicans. Ever. The Rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Exponentially. Empirically provable, easy to substantiate. An absolute, irrefutable fact.

When us “Lefties” endeavor to change that, we get labeled “socialists”. For merely attempting to battle what in all reality is “fascism”.

By the way, it is my habit and compulsion to deal in FACTS exclusively.

Now the Republicans want to extend tax cuts to the wealthy and increase taxes on the middle class. A policy that has already added a $trillion to the deficit and will add $3.5 trillion more. Oh, you fiscal hawks you.

Piss up a rope dude, your people are running on this specific policy and it is fucked up. Unexplainable. Unjustifiable. Stupid, wrongheaded, greedy and dangerous. From Mark Rubio, to John Boehner, they all want it but can’t seem to explain it.

You all so conveniently choose to forget that the most egregious bailout, the no strings attached one to the banks, was a a Bush job. Remember they called it TARP?

Had the Republicans stayed in control, the grip of corporate power by energy, big pharma, the military industrial complex etc. would now be twice as firm. Wake the fuck up. And if you have any sack at all, stop pissing on my flowers here and come to my blog and engage me.

Are you new or stupid?”

Wayne F. Hall

“Michael You are as gullible as the day is long For you to accuse me of being new or stupid shows your own lack of insight or education…Do you want to know how a democrat covers their Ass they pick apart what someone has to say OR they sta…rt with the name calling in either point you have already proved mine.
You say tomato I say…well that would lower me to you outlook. What is evil is to strip something form someone who has EARNED it to give it to someone who can “make more by staying home and collecting” or some ILLEGAL who is here for a hand out. You piss and moan about war criminals and that list of bullshit you produced. How about the crimes within being PROVEN every day? Oh but let me guess “that’s different” which is another classic democrat saying.
Your shitstorm is coming when Obama’s policies take hold in November. I hope that the Democratic Party DOES get in. HOW ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS MIKE? How about we put our asses 30 or 40 trillion more in debt. You are the one with lack of education. You physically tell me how the hell we can borrow ourselves out of debt with no possible way of paying it back. Did you also know that we only sold 20% of our bonds last year? I may be off a few percent but LOOK AT THE FACTS before you shoot off that fly trap located 1.5 inches below your nose. You also have no idea how to run a business either if I make more at my business I HIRE more people. Because I want to make more money. That’s the way things should be EARNED not handed out like your hard left nut jobs want to do. Even middle of the road Democrats are not impressed with a HARD LEFT stand point.
Your facts are tainted and one sided at best Mike.
Yes I remember the “Bush Bailouts” again WHO was in power in the house and senate. WHO could have overridden the bill? And WHO continued this dangerous and foolish practice? Oh and sorry for the miss print of time line I was sure you would have gotten the idea guess I was wrong on that.
I have a list of names for you but why do you really think it is going to going to prove a point. Get off the holier than though bandwagon you have SOME good points but have a FU**ed way of getting them across.
I’m in for the blog thing I think we both may have a lot to learn and gain Mike. Just don’t de friend or block when things get heated or I call you out on a dumba**ed comment …Like another hard leftie on here
FYI I think you might be interested where I stand in politics…..The hard right does not care for my comments either.
Either way game on and keep up the good work ……Seriously”

ME

“Your first paragraph makes little sense but you describe the tactic of name calling and I can’t think of a group more guilty of that than Republicans. And what’s wrong with picking apart what someone has to say if it’s bullshit?

You…’re second paragraph makes less sense, but I gather you’re opposed to illegal immigration. What makes you think I’m not?

You’re third paragraph makes even less sense. 30 or 40 trillion? What? What? My mouth is considerably less than 1.5 inches below my nose, I hope yours is too.

I’ve run various businesses, one went from less than $1 million a year to almost $10 million a year. I’m also a multi-platinum recording engineer/producer with a blog that has over a quarter million reads.

What facts are tainted? What are you talking about? Can you write a cogent sentence? How about a straightforward paragraph? And you impugn my level of education?

Are you new or are you stupid?

The next paragraph made a little more sense but is ridiculous. You want to blame congress for not overriding the Bush Policy? That’s like blaming the bystander for not inserting him or herself in a violent crime.

And “miss print of time line?. No, you were way off and wrong. Yet you seek to impugn my education and facts.

“holler than though”?
You think we both may have a lot to learn? I’m not feeling that.
You’re more than welcome to comment on my blog but I’ll tear you apart there just the same and in front of a lot more people.

I appreciate your tenacity but am nonplussed and remain unimpressed.

My advice to you is English 101″

********What follows is new as of today, July 30, 2010.***********************************************************************************************************************

Wayne F. Hall

“Do you want to make this an English lesson Mike or do you want to deal with facts I will break this down for you as it looks to me like you may be the “new or just stupid”
1 look at your post all it does is to start picking apart my post, y…ou started the game as such so if that’s how you want to play I’m in and as far as name calling the left is way better at mudslinging. What in your opinion is bullshit, may just be that. Or it may be something you can not argue with and resort to picking.
2 Unemployment = taxes= shipping jobs overseas. I think we may agree on this. The higher the taxes on the businesses the more profitable it is to move them. Democrats have a policy of tax and spend, even if they don’t have it. Push the burden onto the wealthy, well the wealthy are the one’s that do the employing, I have never worked for someone who has made the same or less than I do.
(a) And handouts why should we pay for illegals that’s a proven democrat stand point. Look at what they are doing in Arizona.
3 Current debts You stated and I quote” The greatest concentration of wealth in the history of human kind occurred under the Republicans.”
The poor did not get poorer. In fact what was the rate of unemployment then? What is it now? And don’t give me the because of Bushes tax cuts. To be precise here is the current amount of debt and time for you. The Outstanding Public Debt as of 30 Jul 2010 at 01:30:35 PM GMT is: 13,254,548,439,518.09…I love the .09 that’s pisser
(a) Check this out Mike
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-my-money/201003/our-debt-what-has-government-borrowed-your-behalf
Argue with that. And the current administration wants to borrow more…How about we tighten our belts and revamp some of these “pork barrel” programs. I don’t give a shit who implemented them …Start with welfare.
4 I have one business here in N.H. I don’t have to blow smoke or toot my own horn if you want to know about it ask some of my customers or my employees. Or link to my W.H.Sports page
5 You never answered the question about “How we are going to borrow ourselves out of debt?”
6 Screw you and your English lesson I can write as I feel. If needed I can strap on my English studies and properly place all of my paragraphs and punctuation so you may be able to understand. And using proper amounts and times to better help you understand. I for one don’t need that on my page as I’m able to figure out what point a person is getting across.
7 You are kidding about the by stander comment right? I’m sure you are and I may have miss read that. But in case you were serious, tell me this. Why can they override the president if they won’t? You did realize that in some states it is a felony not to get involved if you see a crime taking place. Would I…Yes and I have.
8 you saying you can not learn from someone gives you the holier than though persona. I have learned a lot of valuable thing from all walks of life I truly believe there is something to learn from everyone. I will retract my statement about your education and apologize. I was pissed and to question your education was wrong I’m sorry for that. I would never respond like this on your blog out of respect…But you are welcome to tear apart anything I may post. I will try to behave and cool my temper. Let’s see if we can come up with a few answers instead of running our mouths. Being mouthy is easy. Solving problems and coming up with solutions is not.
9 BTW my English grade was A- and the room was 314″

ME

“I’m not interested in making this an English lesson but I do want and need for you to write more clearly and stop parroting boilerplate right wing crap. I mean previous to now, WHAT FACTS? You begin again by not making much sense. You lament that I’m picking what you say apart, but that is what debate is. Yes, I started the game, but you chose to engage me, you chose to play. If you don’t want to play, go home. I’m here to call you on your bullshit. That’s what this is about. That’s why I’m here. I must confess, you’re beginning to bore me and It won’t be long before you simply won’t be worth my time.

“Unemployment = taxes= shipping jobs overseas.”

Um, what? Whatever point you’re trying to make is clear to no one but yourself. This is the brand of nonsensical meandering I’m talking about. It isn’t high taxes on business that force jobs overseas, it’s cheap labor in other countries and bad trade policy on our part. I freely admit NAFTA is one of those policies and it was fomented and implemented by Clinton. One of his very few missteps but an egregious one. See? You demonstrate an inability to grasp the simplest of concepts. The whole dynamic is clearly lost on you.

If I understand what you so clumsily attempt to posit, you think taxes are the reason for outsourcing and unemployment and that’s just absurd. Just today the Republicans PREVENTED a bill containing tax cuts to small businesses and incentives for smaller banks to loan to small businesses from passing. 81% percent of all job losses during this recession occurred under small businesses. Republicans spent months preventing the passage of the extension of unemployment benefits, that also contained direct stimulus to small businesses etc. and only allowed it’s passage once those provisions were carved out.

Now Republicans want to extend tax cuts to the wealthiest 2%, something that’s ADDED a $trillion to the deficit thus far and at the same time, allow the tax cuts to the middle class to expire. There was a bill authored by Bernie Sanders to end $35 billion in tax cuts and subsidies to the most profitable industry in the history of human existence, big oil. Filibustered and defeated by Republicans. I would imagine you’re not even aware of these events and I guarantee you cannot justify or explain them. You’re in way over your head dude, even if you stand up, it won’t hit you. It won’t leave a mark.

“Democrats have a policy of tax and spend”

That’s actually complete bullshit. Every Republican administration for the last hundred years has increased debt and deficit far more than the Democratic administrations. Clinton even left a huge budget surplus after presiding over the longest and most significant period of economic prosperity in our history. You are guilty of parroting standard disingenuous GOP lies and it means that you are full of shit. You piss and moan about facts, disprove or even mitigate any of these or shut the hell up. No English lesson today but certainly I’ve taken you to school on economics.

“And handouts why should we pay for illegals that’s a proven democrat stand point.”

I never said that, in fact I dealt with that very thing in my last response to you. It’s clear your reading skills leave something to be desired. Again your grammar, punctuation and syntax are Fisher Price at best and you’re knowingly or unknowingly telling a LIE. That is not a Democratic “stand point” and you can’t prove in any way that it is. By the way, what’s a “stand point”? You write like a child, don’t blame me for not taking you seriously.

“The poor did not get poorer. In fact what was the rate of unemployment then? “

When Bush left office we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We now are now posting net gains, as in no more losses, but jobs actually added, albeit at a rather anemic pace. And families living beneath beneath a ridiculously low poverty standard increased over 27% under Bush. The severe poor grew at an alarming rate of 56% faster than any other segment of our population. Over 37 million living in poverty under Bush. Over 10% of our entire population. Under Bush the wealthiest 10% percent came to own half of everything, as in all income. The very top 0.01% percent actually came to own over 6% of everything under Bush. More than anytime since records have been kept. You my friend, are completely full of shit.

Welfare or for that matter, social security, medicare and medicaid are not “pork barrel programs”. You’ve just proven that you’re not remotely aware of the definition of that term.

Are you new or are you stupid?

I could go on, but I just don’t see the point. This is for me, an exercise in futility. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You don’t understand what you’re merely just repeating, and I’m confident most of the FACTS I’m feeding you are beyond your ability to digest. I’m done here. I need for you to understand that you’re wasting my time but you’re also wasting your own.

Feel free to comment here or on my blog, I never censor anyone, just don’t expect me to engage you unless you have something cogent or germane to offer. Go home. It’s no fun to knock a man down over and over when he doesn’t have the sense to stop getting up.

You’re forcing me to punch the clown; the euphemism is apt. I’m doing no more than whacking off here. You’re so damn obtuse, you don’t even know when you’re beat and that you have no idea what you’re talking about. Only an idiot can think another idiot is a genius. If you don’t like me calling you names, tough shit. You bring it on yourself. Go home.”

Honestly, I’m not sure why I bother, except perhaps to expose the abject idiocy and willful ignorance of these jackasses.  I guess that really is my reason for bringing it here; more eyes and minds get to experience it.  I must be naive, because people like this leave me awestruck.

Here’s one from from right here on Brainspank.

AhahahahaLibtard!

“Me thinks you sound a bit like that dude Rachel Maddow.

GROW some balls and support your country. Vote Republican.

What a bunch of liberal corny BS.”

ME

““Me thinks you sound a bit like that dude Rachel Maddow.”, huh?

Methinks you just revealed yourself to be another jingoistic asstardian bigot. Grow some balls? You’d have to cut mine off to vote Republican, I have the courage of my convictions, you are afraid of mere lesbians. I’m going to offer you the same thing I do all of your ilk, show me where she has been less than truthful, prove a lie she has told. Just one, and I will give you fifty uttered by the Fox News info-tainment personality of your choice.

Fifty to one asshole. Now Man up.

For what it’s worth kids, one of two things is about to happen. This cowardly douchebag will come back with a ridiculous substanceless stream of angry god fearing invective or we’ll never hear from his retarded ass again.

Yeah, buddy, you vote Republican again. You’re taxes will go up and the wealthy will see their taxes continue to be low and we’ll be far more fucked than we are now. Their proposals will add over three trillion dollars to the deficit. This is how I know you’re stupid because that’s exactly what you’re gonna do. Vote against your very own interests and then blame the liberals because you’re teeth are falling out of your odd pointed fucking head.

Now bring it or shut the fuck up.”

AhahahahaLibtard!

“And if you wanna talk corruption… Blago, Rangel, Bill, Hillary etc etc And they do it in the most arrogant fashion.

I will NEVER vote Democratic again. Pity you kids can’t attend a school without falling for the leftist indoctrination hook line and sinker.

Parrots.”

ME

“And if you wanna talk WAR CRIMES, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, Haliburton, KBR Blackwater…………..

Wake the fuck up, they’re all corrupt, but not all of them are evil.

Pity you kids can’t even watch television without buying the bullshit right wing demagoguery.”

And that is, of course, the last I heard from this moron.  Seriously, my kingdom for an honest and informed opinion that is counter to mine but not originating from anyone with anything other than a normal shaped head.  These examples really are illustrative of my experience with the right wing, conservative, Republican and/or teabaggers out there.  Are they all this simple, uninformed and misguided?  I have yet to find a reason to even suspect otherwise.

Drinks for my friends.

600 days part deux

Looks like my letter grade of “D” really pissed a lot of you people off. That’s a good thing. I expected as much.

For starters, let me just remind you all that blind faith, marching lockstep, fanaticism, willfully ignorant zealotry and demagoguery are salient ingredients for a stew of poisonous broth, corrupted vegetables and rotting meat. The wine will turn out to be vinegar. The water, tepid and bitter. It is what Republicans have been cooking and serving for decades. No wonder they’re all bug eyed, pasty, jowly, slow eyed plutocrats; narcotised by an astringent, relentless dogma of defying truth and flouting compassion.

Democrats in general and progressives in particular do not run their kitchens in such a way. Some of us are moderate, some of are progressive and some of us are even downright conservative (often to my dismay). It is both the beauty and often the bane of our party. But we Democrats have the courage of our convictions.  We really are about truth, justice and the American way.  We like prosperity for the middle class. Unlike the other side, that will lie, conceal and obfuscate to regain power and once they have it, to keep it, without regard for the circumstances or who may suffer.

I do support Mr. Obama, unlike the prodigious quantity of jerk offs that salivate at the idea of America failing to increase their chances of re-election, I want, hope and sincerely wish for him to succeed. I have not lost my belief in him. He is not even four years older than me and that just confounds me. It really is the most difficult job in the world and he cuts through it like a curtain in the wind. I’ve yet to see him rattled. I am proud and happy that he’s my president. Like I said before, we’d have been fucked from hell to breakfast and screwed nine ways to Sunday about now were he not our Commander in Chief.

But, I’m a Democrat. I’m a progressive Democrat. We don’t think twice about criticizing our elected leaders and we are rarely ostracized enough to regret it. The black hats are forbidden such redress. Such trespass. We are encouraged and expected to engage in as much, at least.  It is expected of us.  Or so I’ve been told, by my mother of all people.

So all of you that would pile on, or engage in any attempt to shame or prevent me from saying what I am here to say, can piss up a rope, smoke a pole or otherwise play Tiddlywinks with manhole covers. It’s subjective. It’s my opinion. And I am compelled.

Here is what chaps my ass:

First of all, and there is plenty, I hate, hate, hate that Dick-in-Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and cronies et. al, won’t be held accountable for the egregious war crimes they so obviously and blatantly committed. Torture, profiteering, wiretapping, overt fraud by the private contractors acting on behalf of the military industrial complex……. all in the name of terrorism.  Crimes against humanity.  Dirty business.  Inexcusable.  Awful things for which they will not pay.  Disgusting.

Terrorism.

A concept, an idea, that has proven to be no more than a paper tiger. Underwear and shoe bombers. Give me a break. They tell us that most of the 9/11 attackers were Saudi Arabian( 16 of 19), did we attack Saudi Arabia? It’s another story and another blog but it’s all crap. Bullshit on a scale you don’t want to know. Something we have waged war over and killed hundreds of thousands if not millions for.  Thousands of our own dead and tens of thousands permanently broken.  All of it, all of it is a lie. We’ll get to the stupid fucking war part. But the rest remains. Crimes on an international scale, horrible things done in the name of national security that should never, ever have passed beyond the purview of our own Constitution much less the Geneva Conventions. Posse Comitatus and Habeas Corpus out the window……….

What the fuck is that?

Here’s the sick part. The part where the goddamn rubber hits the motherfucking road. It’s all still happening, all of it. We still torture, we still “rendition”, we still spy illegally on our very own people and Gitmo is still open for business.  There are as many private security contractors, at least, in Iraq and Afghanistan as there are enlisted men and women and you and are paying for both while they can and do kill anyone and everyone they want.  Over five hundred different private armies. We still award contracts to Blackwater, albeit under a different name.  KBR and Halliburton……..

Absolute nonsense.

Why?

For what?

My President, Our Man, has not lifted a finger to change or stay or mitigate any of it. The Patriot Act, fucking joke unconstitutional legislation that it was, is still, for all intents and purposes, fully intact.

Why Mr. President?

Speaking of prosecution, The Obama administration will not be prosecuting a single player involved in the contrivance masterminded by Karl Rove that ended up in nine state attorney generals being fired for not pursuing totally bogus assertions of voter fraud.  Nice.  Cowardly.

Are you hearing me?

A “D”.

See, these are historical things that will suffer from historical context. Important things. Beyond deficits and debts. Realistically, and I’m sorry, far more consequential than soaring unemployment and a tanking economy, because these things, these issues, don’t just threaten our livelihoods, these things threaten our lives. See?  And it’s these things that will ruin our posterity as well as our ability to even create, seek or gain employment because we simply cannot pay for them.  We are not paying for them.

Deficits and debt don’t matter when it comes to the military industrial complex.

How do you like me now?

Well, I’ve got more. Still wondering about that letter grade of “D”?

Come with me, I’ll take you a little further.

Afghanistan.  We visited this war on these people over a single man and a hand full of other assholes a decade ago.  Nothing has changed.  Nothing.  Even if bin Laden is dead, he’s alive.  We don’t even know.  Al-Qaeda is still a shadow and in some circles rumored to barely exist at all and the Taliban is more robust than ever.  Thank Dick-in-Bush for that.  Now we are nation building so that they don’t send more underwear or shoe bombers, I guess.  Fucking ridiculous.  The tail wags the dog and the military industrial complex is in leg humping lust with it.  Fuck this shit.  We kill and die everyday for no sane reason.  It’s beyond stupid and for a commander in chief to countenance it, much less agree to escalate it, is an absolute betrayal on levels of morality, humanity and common sense.

This really is the heart of my “D”.

The stinging reality that our people are falling into poverty.  Not enough work.  I’m talking about the asshole Republicans failing us by threatening to filibuster the extension of unemployment benefits four goddamn times.  People in this country are literally starving and we refuse to help them but there is always money for this kind of wrongheaded imperialism that is absolutely doomed to fail.  This policy has never, ever worked,  Obstinate Republicans won’t vote to extend unemployment so that innocent children can be fed based on the notion that it would contribute to the deficit, but both they and dipshit Democrats never ever ever fail to pass a supplemental war spending bill.  Unpaid for.  Through the lips and straight to the hips……of the goddamn deficit, on the order of ten times as much.  Not only are we accomplishing nothing but we are making matters worse.  It’s the stupidest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen.  A ballet of illogical at $10 billion a fucking month.

Mr. Obama has not said a word but to throw more money and lives at it.

Breathtakingly despicable.

See, this is where he gets his “D”.  It would be an “F” but Dumbya blew the curve.

There are all sorts of lesser but still vitally important issues.

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  Give me a break.  The administration is waiting for an implementation study to be completed in November?  There’s some sort of survey going on in the meantime?  Did we conduct studies or surveys when we integrated blacks or women?  Nope.  You know why?  Because it was the right thing to do.  This is chickenshit.

See the “D”?

Why Mr. President?

When we hear the clean up workers in the gulf are getting sick and need respirators but BP won’t provide them or that they are being housed in formaldehyde contaminated trailers……..well?  Fuck off, put your boot back on that neck and make it fucking happen, not now, yesterday!  Two words “Executive Order”, look into it.

Our mutual ass licking contest with Israel is profoundly ridiculous.  We give more money to them than every other nation on earth combined, and for what?  So they can run their own Semitic version of apartheid?  Hey Barack, Netanyahu has your number and is playing you for a chump and it’s embarrassing.  They kill and rape and steal and oppress with our dime.  We fund them.  It’s our money.

Why?

See the “D”?

Health care was a start but a mandate without a public option?  Is there a punchline?  Call me nonplussed.  I honestly haven’t researched financial reform but I hear it’s pretty much the same deal and I’m confident that what I find won’t surprise me.  I guarantee I won’t be impressed.

Smell the “D”?

I do.

Is this change?  Nope.  It is merely the same game being played less clumsy, just a little less recklessly, with just a little more political adeptness.  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Feel my “D”?

Here is where it also lands for me.  I am frustrated and dismayed by Obama’s reluctance to engage anyone and everyone that would smear him personally or progressives in general based on race as well as those that would, and do, strong arm  this country in pursuit of the filthy lucre.  Money they don’t deserve.  They are liars and thieves and Mr. Obama postures as though they barely exist.  Liars and thieves.

I hate a liar and/or a thief.  Hate.

Herein lies my “D”.

For example:

Shirley Sherrod.  Van Jones or ACORN.

I’m not going to detail the the gory, if you’re aware and attentive, you already know.

Shame on you Mr. President for allowing this to unfold and gain the traction that it has and then allowing such knee jerking so recklessly and so irresponsibly.  You and your administration ran from the liars and thieves.  Callow.  A party foul.  Stupid.  Amateur hour.   A woman who’s father had been murdered by white supremacists.

Why again, Mr. President?

So, it is indeed a “D”.

I would be remiss for not undertaking the following:

To Andrew Breitbart, Fox News, patrons and purveyors thereof, and anyone and everyone else of similar ilk, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU IN THE NECK.  You racist, lying, porcine, soulless, motherfucking hypocrites.  The word “nigger” applies more to you than it does to any other ethnicity in the world because you have consciously chosen who and what you are.  You suffer from a low level, intellectually bereft cranial priapism that allows you to somehow justify such overt bigotry.  FUCK ALL OF YOU.

Drinks for my friends.

600 Days….give or take

This one is not so easy as the last one.

I like the man.

My hope was audacious.

I am somewhat loathe to undertake it.  It is an admission that I was wrong to a degree, one that I’m not entirely comfortable with.

A confrontation with my own naivete’.

A collision with my expectations.

When he first emerged as a candidate, I didn’t imagine a half black man with the name Barack Hussein Obama would have a chance against the likes of Hillary Clinton.  If able to clear that formidable hurdle, I couldn’t imagine him actually winning the majority of hearts and minds in this country.  I said as much both out loud and in my writings.  Yet he did.  And it was a miracle of sorts.

As luck would have it, he ended up against a pair of absolute clowns via McCain and Palin.  Clowns, as in circus, as in bit players to amuse and distract.  Had they gained the upper hand, we’d be fucked nine ways to Sunday and from hell to breakfast as of today.  I don’t doubt that.

Well before he was elected and inaugurated, I understood what he was up against, not just the vast numbers of the great unwashed, the closeted bigots and fearful ignorants, but the cynical and the skeptical like me.  Don’t get me wrong, I liked him, I was impressed, ever since that fiery speech at the ’04 convention and every move he’d made since then.

I must tell you that my first choice was Kucinich, whom I still adore, so I was rather obviously primed for disappointment.  And rather more clearly, an idealist.  Pin that red letter “I” on my chest before I get on the bus.

Well, I was wrong, and happy to be so.  With soaring populist rhetoric delivered in a euphonious cadence America had not heard since JFK or the greatest of civil rights icons like MLK, with common sense policy proclamations, charismatic compassion as well as  a natural political prowess not seen since Big Bad Bill, he prevailed.  And I wept.  I did, my girlfriend and I both.  We were so happy and overcome with optimism.  My mother and I cried on the phone.  After what we’d been through under Dick-in-Bush, I was in awe of the potential, the good fortune for me and my country.

I understood it wouldn’t be easy.  I knew it.  This was to be a new and unusual rodeo.  I was aware the change he embraced and espoused would be hard to come by.  The seed of his hope and change would have difficulty finding a moist and accommodating place to find purchase.  I fully anticipated enormous obstructionism and indeed, black hearted racism and soulless hate.

By the way, Cheney’s latest procedure leaves him without a pulse.  No pulse; I shit you not.

I am dumbstruck by the severity of it however.  Profoundly disturbed by an America uglier than I ever supposed.  A political system so broken, polarized and divided, that virtually nothing in the best interest of the people can be accomplished.  An alchemy of hatred and fear fomented by conservatives and Republicans so vicious, resentful and deliberately stupid, that we now have a movement that would so brazenly and recklessly call itself the Tea Party.  After the initial retardation of dubbing themselves “Teabaggers”,  with all the attendant oblique connotations.  A rise to prominence by cartoon goofcocks like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Michele Bachmann, John “agent Orange” Boehner, Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle.  A resurgence in popularity of consummate assholes Like Rush “The Human Shitsmear” Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, as well as the entire roster of Fox News personalities.

There is no intellectual honesty in what they do.  They are simply and merely contrary.  If it’s black, they tell their minions it’s white.  If it’s right and decent and just, they tell them it’s wrong and evil and socialist or communist.  The plug will be pulled on grandma.  They will tax you until you can’t afford to eat or people that can’t find a job because there aren’t any, are actually just lazy no good Democrats.  That it’s wrong for BP to be held accountable for destroying livelihoods, lives and wildlife on a scale that you have not even begun to imagine.  Tax cuts for the rich that have already cost a trillion dollars and will cost trillions more are good for the vanishing middle class, but they can’t seem to justify extending unemployment benefits at less than one percent of that cost ……..no reason, no logic, no justification, just blatant obfuscation.

Man, I hate these guys.

And all of it is provably wrong.  Everything they say is a lie.  Talk about audacity.

So yes, it’s heavy.  Quite the mountain to shoulder a boulder up.  More than I saw coming.

Worse than I thought it would be.

Still, it is with some reluctance and perturbation, despite the aforementioned, that I feel compelled to give our President the letter grade of ‘D’.  I do mean that as sixty some percent.  I do mean that as close to failing.  I don’t base it entirely on his accomplishments or the lack thereof.  I do mean it as my overview of his performance.  I am disappointed.  Disillusioned.  Disaffected and dismayed.

Should you require context for that grade, I would offer you my equally subjective grade for George W. “Dumbya” Bush:  He get’s an ‘F’/Incomplete, if for the very least his spending nearly a third of his presidency, nearly a thousand days,  on vacation, clearing brush and waxing his carrot.  Even after the worst attack on American soil in our history.

But yes, Obama gets a ‘D”, and I will tell you why.

To be continued.

Drinks for my friends.

Let’s talk about Limbaugh……a hit piece

This is another one of those easy ones.  It feels cheap because it’s it’s so goddamn obvious.  Still, I’m happy to run with it because Rush Hudson Limbaugh is easily the biggest asshole ever to grace American media.

I have referred to him affectionately as “The Human Shitsmear” for years.  Picture the amber stain in your white Calvins or if you go commando, that faint greasy brown swath up the back  of your jeans that inspires you to turn them inside out before laundering them.  Rush Limbaugh.  Human Shitsmear.  He lies, without shame, without conscience and without ever being held accountable.  He lies.

Lying and the art thereof, falls under the purview of morality, as opposed to the ethical, as it does and should when done under oath.  Much to my chagrin, I have trouble recognizing a distinction.  It’s only a bad thing when you lie after promising not to?  Anyway, Rush Hudson Limbaugh is a world champion fabulist.

I listen to him.  I honestly do.  This Sunday morning, the local station recaps his blunderbuss of bullshit for the weekends, I heard him say that 43% of the stimulus has been spent and the democratic party will be using the rest of the money for their re-election campaigns in the fall.  He actually said that.  I heard him say it.

That’s complete crap and he knows it.

He lies.

I have plenty to say about the Human Shitsmear.

I love the audacity of his branding himself “The EIB, (Excellence In Broadcasting) network.  Him and his gold plated EV RE20 microphone.  He is exceptionally adept at what he does.  He has talent.  Nevermind that his talent is wasted on the hopelessly stupid.  As an ad libber he is unparalleled.  Extraordinaire.  He makes it up as he goes with such conviction that the dumb, slack jawed, great unwashed can’t help but believe him.  He lies.  He said that Obama had not met with the head of BP, Tony Hayward because Hayward was white.  I heard him say that too.  He’s a pompous, sociopathic fathead that stops just short of buying his own pant load of poisonous, odoriferous, runny Hormel excrete…(my apologies to Hormel).

The bile he spews everyday is racist, bigoted, chauvinist, homophobic, hypocritical, self aggrandizing flatulence.  He cloaks himself in jingoism.  He wraps himself in an American flag so moth eaten and full of holes, it would be unrecognizable to any thinking, aware, compassionate human being.  He has repeatedly maligned celebrities for succumbing to addiction when he himself cultivated such an advanced enslavement to OxyContin that he nearly lost his hearing and recruited his own household help to acquire it.  He pimped his servants for the purpose of acquiring drugs.  He pimped his doctors.

“Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentlemen, a worthless shred of human debris.”

“Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.”

To a black caller: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act… This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”

-bspcn.com

I call him The Human Shitsmear.  Beause he Lies.

He’s been doing it for decades:  http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895

Or check out “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot” by the lovely Al Franken.

Morally and ethically bereft.

See, his core message is that Obama’s agenda is to destroy America.  Whether it’s retribution for slavery or because he’s some nightmare Muslim, communist, terrorist.  Whatever sticks, it doesn’t matter.  Now I disagree with my President on a myriad of things but I do believe he’s one earnest man.  He does his best.  And Rush Hudson, “The Human Shitsmear” Limbaugh, is a goddamn dirty lying bastard.  Obama is not on this earth to destroy this country.  That’s a fucking lie and and this fat irresponsible prick knows it.

See, what really chaps my ass is that I somehow own that he knows exactly what he’s doing.  Fooling some of the people all of the time.  Disgusting.

If you listen to this guy and you believe a single word he says, you’re an idiot.  A lost cause.  I’m not talking to you and I’m not writing this for your benefit.  You are proof of the 1/4 paradigm.  Common sense and logic are lost on you.  The 1/4 paradigm are those that still supported Nixon after he was forced to resign.   The 25% percent who still believed in the idiot Dumbya when he left office and the rest of us in a shitstorm.  You people are incurably stupid.  You still think Jesus Christ will be here to save you personally before you die.  I’m not talking to you.  As far as I’m concerned, you people are worthless human stains who’s only potential contribution to anything at all would be polluting the gene pool.

And you do.  You reproduce without thought and it really worries me.  A whole ‘nother round headed generation of thick tongued, uneducated, bible thumping backward ass morons.

This is all been great fun.  I’d debate the slow eyed prick bastard any day of the week.  Seriously, at a moments notice I’d take him on, and if were allowed to talk, I’d destroy him.  I would wipe the airwaves with him and I’m by no means an exception.  Just about any one of the 95% percent of Americans that don’t listen to him could acquit themselves quite nicely if given the opportunity.  We all know that’s not going to happen; callers with an opposing point of view on the “EIB” network are about as common as OxyContin addicts in the mesozoic era.

But the point is this.  He’s dangerous.  Because of him and egregious assholes of his ilk, we have a bunch of mouth breathing idiots walking around calling themselves the Tea Party.  We have Sharron Angle and Rand Paul and a growing number of oxygen starved brains that are willing to resort to violence because of an ideology that they haven’t the capacity to even grasp.  Forgive them for they know not what they do?  Fuck that!  These fuckers are retarded and the Human Shitsmear makes a living by exploiting and emboldening them.

Here’s the deal and the devil at the same time.  He wins because the rest of us pay too much attention.  The most logical course of action with a stalker or any brand of sociopath, is to ignore.  Any attention afforded only fuels the fire.  I love Olbermann and Ed Schultz et al. but, Rush Limbaugh is a fuckhead and so are the people who follow him.  Write those goofcocks off.  No way any hearts or minds or going to be changed there.  They are the mentally handicapped.  Unable or unwilling to think for themselves and all too inclined to let a semi clever reptile do what they honor as the intellectual heavy lifting.  They will listen and follow and worship, no matter what.

Let him have his little universe.  What would America be like with a blackout of all things Shitsmear?  Think about it.  A much better place.  Fuck this piece of shit.  Shut him down and shut him out.  Pay no attention.  Keep moving.  Nothing to see here.

Crackheads will be crackheads and will sooner or later overdose on crack and there is not a thing we can do about it.

His particular genius is that he baits us.  Again and again, He offends and appalls the rational and the aware.  He lies.  He commands our attention by virtue of sheer outrageousness.  The oldest and most despicable trick in the book. So, understand that without that, he is exclusive to the margin. Consigned to them.  The dipshits.  The asstards.  The Hannity’s, Becks, Coulters and Levins.  They are substantial in number but they are the fringe.

They are not America.

They are all, fucking liars.

Only through the outrage they generate, do they matter at all.  The lies they tell, stir the cognizant far more than the great unwashed.  Remember that.

I will never ever, mention the human Shitsmear again.

Drinks for my friends.

p.s.

If you enjoyed this blog, I really recommend you read the comments, not the ones where folks agree with me, I love and appreciate them but that would be boring.  As of this writing, the last comment is a transcript of me spanking the brain of some moron on facebook that is the quintessential example of the “1/4 Paradigm” that I reference in so many of my blogs including this one.  It’s really a lot of fun.  I hope you check it out.

Oh, the sanity!

Yesterday Barney Frank and Ron Paul of all people joined forces to call for a reduction in defense spending.  They actually co-authored an op ed.  Cats and dogs applied for, and were granted, marriage licenses , and some were gay!  I danced naked with my uncle with a pickle in my mouth.  Even though  that prolific moron Michael Steele stuck his dick up his nose by calling Afghanistan Obama’s war of choice, Pat Buchanan opined that it was the Republicans that foolishly got us into Iraq and sort of wondered out loud at the legitimacy of the war in Afghanistan.  Are these douchebags (Frank excepted) reading my blog?

If you read my last one, you understand how this plays directly into my hands.

If the Republicans do manage to wrest control of Congress, they are so fractured, they’ll make asses of one another.  They will become parodies of themselves and their shrill accusations for a lack of leadership hurled at the current administration.  Honestly, the Republicans that aren’t arrogant insensitive neoconservative dicks like McCain, Boehner and McConnell, are embarrassing dunces like Steele,  Bachman, Cantor and Palin……or worse they’re full blown whack job Tea Baggers like Angle, Beck, Hannity, Armey…….all at one point pissing on one another or in each others ear about each other and then shape shifting from dunce, to dick, to whack job with a prolific inconsistency.  The Keystone cops want to lead.  Remember when the Democratic party was the poster child for an absence of unity?

But I digress.

It’s the first time I’ve heard actual elected members of Congress give voice to what I’ve been screaming, replete with spittle and snot, for years.  To paraphrase: We’re fucked, We’re broke and we should look at what we spend the most money on first, to actually cut.  War.  The Pentagon.  The military industrial complex.  As opposed to say, education, health care, homeless veterans et al.  Ron Paul has been saying it persistently for some time and I give him credit.  Otherwise I think he’s puts on a tin hat the second he walks in the door at home.  If not smarter, he’s measurably more savvy than his his round headed kid, Rand, who is a racist fuckhead.  I do wish I owned an eatery in his home state of Kentucky (of course).  Were he to darken my door, I’d happily explain to him that we don’t serve his ignorant kind.

Barney Frank However, we loves us some Barney Frank.

At a health care town hall in Dartmouth, MA, a woman asked, “Why are you supporting this nazi policy?” Frank responded with a question asking,”On what planet do you spend most of your time?” -the huffingtonpost.com

“As you stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Trying to have a conversation with you would be as interesting as trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.” -Barney Frank courtesy of CommonDreams.org

Now that’s my kind of openly Gay Jew member of our House of Representatives.

But I digress.

Our defense budget for this year is some $693 Billion. Next year it will be over $708 billion.  I guarantee that’s not even close to all there is.  Let’s just say a trillion plus.  It is more than the entire rest of the world combined.  Yes, more than the entire rest of the world combined.  As of 2005, we maintain a conservative estimate of over 732 military bases in other countries.  That number is more likely over a thousand.  Two words:  Empire.  Imperialism.  We still have 15,000 marines based in Okinawa.  For what?  That war was over 65 years ago.  I should remind you that nuclear powered aircraft carriers have fuck all to do with mitigating terrorism.  America’s prosperity or demise will never ever be determined by the sheer size of our armed forces.  Such a notion is obsolete, archaic and profoundly absurd.

See, America is still filthy rich.  Filthy.  Rich.

I’m not here to suggest we shave 10 or 15 percent off the military budget.  No, that would be insane.  Crazy. What I sincerely posit is that we cut it in half.  HALF.  Half of it is at best redundant and truthfully, quite probably useless in the context of any contemporary modern day conflict.  Worried about the suddenly out of work soldier?  Put him or her to work on infrastructure.  Trust me, they’ll be much happier and far more productive repairing bridges than being shot at for no fucking reason.  I don’t doubt we could pay them better.

Why this cow has been so traditionally sacred, makes no sense at all to me.  Well, it does actually, because giant vaginas like Cheney, KBR, Halliburton and the afore named Blackwater are getting stinking rich.  So yeah, it makes sense, but it sure as fuck isn’t in your best interest or mine.  Ever wonder why all those other countries are able to afford superior health care at no cost to their citizenry?  Why they’re able to kick our ass in education?  It’s because they don’t spend over half their people’s money on this kind of bullshit.  They don’t take it upon themselves to intervene in everyone else’s affairs only to make matters worse or have it blow up in their faces………

Deficit hysteria and national security are not mutually exclusive paradigms.  They are indeed two facets of the same concern.  This is easy.  It’s simple.

You want a revolution?  It’s not about some dipshit Tea Party movement.  It is fiscal and it should start here.  right here.

Drinks for my friends.

Happy Birthday America

We liberals get a little hinky over Saddam you understand.

Yeah, he was a despicable, evil tyrant and really did deserve to taste his own blood prior to his mortal coil being yanked.  Yep, all of the above.   But he didn’t have fuck all to do with 911 so how did he become our problem?  Our responsibility?

Fine.  We drug him out of a hole and let his own people hang him.  All on television. Bonus.  I guess.  We had better reason to do that than break the entire goddamn country and now the entire sonafabitching region.  See, we liberals understand that it did not a single human being anywhere, any good at all.  None.  What happened, because of what we did, was way worse than if we’d done nothing whatsoever.  Hussein lacked the brute,  efficient capacity to kill as and ruin as many innocent, civilian Iraqis as we came to kill and ruin.  Millions of them.  The United States of America, in your name and mine, made Saddam Hussein look positively Fisher Price for no reason at all.

How come we did that?

It was in fact, deliberate, with hubris, stupidity and greed, as it’s impetus.  What I mean is, that it was precipitated by arrogant, greedy bastards with no concern whatsoever for the inevitable consequences.  Obvious consequences.  Dumbya’s daddy wrote in his own memoir what a mistake it would be and why.  Darth fucking Cheney spoke publicly about why we shouldn’t and what would happen if we did.  And it all came to pass.  All of it and worse, although the entrance was grand.  You remember, “Shock And Awe”?  How ninth grade was that?

I’m an agnostic, but I’d stick a red hot spit up Cheney’s ass and roast the dirty prick for all eternity if I could. Dumbsfeld too.  As far as Dumbya, well, you can’t fix stupid.

And now, nine years after the fact, and still in Afghanistan, having traded Generals but not policies, our definition of success is the same nebulous bullshit proffered in Iraq.  There is no analogue for success or victory.  The “We’ll stand down when they’re able to stand up” doctrine.   The most powerful military in the world fighting an enemy that doesn’t have tanks, planes, ships or even an army.  We are not fighting for our nation’s survival. We can leave, literally, anytime we want.

So why don’t we?

Why are we there?  Killing and being killed?  Why?

Silly, if it weren’t so achingly tragic.  Certainly no comedy for those who would dwell exclusively among numbers and projections.  An unmitigated horror for those of us in possession of both heart and mind.

Why?  Why are we there?  Someone please enlighten me.  We have thus far done nothing but make everything worse.  By almost every account, there is barely any Al Qaeda presence at all in Afghanistan.  True to form, we’re bombing the shit out of everybody regardless of affiliation, as in not Al Qaeda, while they, again not Al Qaeda, are still killing our fine young men and women every day.

So now, the very same General in charge as was in Iraq.   Credited with turning the whole thing around in Iraq with the “surge”.  Understand it had less to do if anything at all with that.  No, the phenomena was known as the Sunni/Anbar “Awakening”.

The “surge” was a pile of horseshit.

“The turnabout began last September [2006], when a federation of tribes in the Ramadi area came together as the Anbar Salvation Council to oppose the fundamentalist militants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.” -NYT April, 2007

The “surge” wasn’t even icing on the shit cake, not even a cherry.  That sounds pretty cynical for sure, but what most don’t know is that we had begun to pay 80,000 Sunni members of that “Awakening”, $10 each a day not to fight us.  That right. That’s an ass pocket of cash to anyone in Iraq.  $800,000 a day we were paying them to not kill us.  You got it. Read it again.  The serendipitousness of the surge was merely that.  If not for the Sunni’s getting their brave and pissed off on, along with us paying them to leave us out of it, we’d still be there.  Killing and being killed.

Oh, sorry, we still are.  There.  Why is that?

And what kind of shithole is Iraq now and why isn’t it on the news?  Contemporary Iraq is best case scenario for Afghanistan and we won’t even come close to pulling that off.  We still have as many as 90,000 troops there. Bombs going off everyday.  Turkey enjoys killing Kurds freestyle.  Recent elections most likely a joke.  No doctors or professionals left in the country.  Poverty, disease above and availability of services including fresh water and electricity far below pre-war levels.  Was it Powell who warned that if you “break it, you buy it”?

Now, let’s talk about blood and treasure willingly spent by our government.   Over $10 billion a month.  At least as many private security contractors as troops, half remunerated with our tax dollars at six figures a year or better.  I’m sure closer to $20 billion a month between the two countries.  How many dead? Not just ours but theirs?  How many?  Don’t know do ya?   If it’s anything like Iraq, the ratio is shameful.  We wonder why they hate us.

And we are gonna screw this pooch way harder than we did Iraq.

Mr. Obama, you are rapidly becoming merely the lesser of two evils because of this outrageous agglomeration.  That is to say, I’m glad it’s not McCain/Palin handling it, but I’m beginning to have trouble making a distinction.  Enough is enough.  The problems we could solve here at home with the the blood and money we spill abroad……..

So Barack, this is human tragedy on a scale that does not belong in this century and I know you’re too smart not to know it.  Americans are far more likely to die of a goddamn bee sting than a terrorist attack.   The “terrorists” have proven themselves to be astonishingly incompetent.  It’s all a lie, and you sir, are abundantly cognizant of that.  Remember, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”?  Truer words have never been spoken.  C’mon, the shoe bomber?  The Underwear bomber?   The war on terror is as big a bullshit facade as the war on drugs.  What gives?  What are you doing?

You sir, are beginning to appear deliberately venal in the prosecution of this war.  Somebody is getting filthy rich but it sure as hell isn’t the people you were elected to look out for.

I supported you.  I believed in you.  I’m a Democrat.  A progressive.  A patriot.  We both know that the last justifiable war we participated in was WWII and that was over sixty years ago.

We both know that every war since then has been about sending the poor and less advantaged to die defending the interests of the rich.  We both know that’s what war is and always has been.

I’m not happy with the direction or scope of health care, financial reforms and a myriad of other things, but it is here, on this issue that you are losing me.  Soon, I and so many like me, will throw up our hands and resign ourselves to the ranks of the disenfranchised and disaffected.  We will stop caring.

You want to shake shit up?  You want change?  This right here is the best place to start.  End it.  Now.  Bring our people home and bring our money and resources to bear on what we really need.   The homeless.  The able and willing but still unemployed.  Our rapidly decaying infrastructure.  45,000 a year dying for lack of health care.  People losing their homes and their lives.  Our crumbling joke of an education system.  All these things we so desperately need and deserve, so easily solved by ending this utter nonsense that you could not give me a plausible reason for were you able to share a beer with me across a kitchen table, because we both know there isn’t one.

Not a reason, and soon not a beer or a kitchen table.

Our people Mr. Obama, our country, our swiftly vanishing pride.

I understand you didn’t start it, despite what that useless goofcock Michael Steele said, but you sure as hell can finish it.  Not next year, not five or ten years from now, but now.  Right now.

I don’t know whether to feel more sorry for the American families losing fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters or the tens of thousand returning home broken, shattered, both mentally and physically.

Know what’s gonna happen?  It’s all building up to something.  Something that can only end in fire.  This obtuse and utterly senseless course we pursue will likely end with all the mountains and all the sand and all the people, vaporized into glass.  Nuclear war.  Thousands of years from now, bits of them will be discovered preserved, like insects in amber.  Jews, Muslims, Palestinians and millions of secularists who never had a dog in this fight, or worse, didn’t until we pushed it to the brink.  That’s what’s going to happen.

It’s inevitable.  What scares and disgusts me Mr. Obama, is you know it too.

Drinks for my friends.

Just the other day…..

A big part of my job is eye contact. Sometimes I’m a little fierce about it, but it’s the first and only thing that opens the door to a sale.

I’m a salesman.  I’m not proud of it, but I know how to do it.  I’ve sold millions of dollars of goods in a single year.

I clock you, size you up, I look at your shoes, your watch, clothes and jewelry.  I work at Costco selling window treatments.   By the time you get to me, I know what’s in your cart and whether you can afford what I’m here to offer.  I smile at you no matter what.  I hate it.

When there is a couple, I focus on the female. I’m not stupid. Nine times out of ten, it’s the feminine half that would hold sway over anything to do with with window treatments.  That’s what I sell. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve wasted effort on the alpha male only to suffer the absence of the female. No decision even possible for a simple phone call from the company I represent without the explicit consent of the Hen.

So the other day, I’m doing just that.  A couple cruises by and I see her glance at my wares.  She says nothing but I caught her looking.  So I focus on her.  It was a little slow. Imagine my whole periphery as 180 degrees.  At about 90, I catch her looking.  I do my thing.  I watch her.  She never looks back but at about 130 degrees her oily primate gives me the stink eye.

Then he barks, from some distance, “want me to get you a camera, asshole?”

I’m a little confused because I’m just doing what I do.  I wasn’t checking her out.  Yet he locks eyes with me.  He’s actually challenging me, like he’s really looking for some shit.  I return his glare and he starts to slow down, like he’s feeling it.  I’m not really sure what to do but before I know it, the words, “Your best option is to keep moving.” come out of my mouth.  I don’t need to yell, I have a pretty big voice.  I’ve already picked one eye and I’ve locked onto it.  I don’t think he expected as much.  It surprised me too.  He turned away and kept moving.  I immediately experienced that confrontational flush.  What did I just do?

I start to think of things I could have said.  “Why, because your wife has a big ass and bad skin?”  Or:  “You wanna pick a fight with me because your wife is ugly?”

The whole brief episode made little sense to me.  She wasn’t hot.  She was rather the opposite.  I had fifty pounds and at least ten years on him.  What was he thinking?  I’m not a violent guy at all.  I haven’t hit a man with force and anger since I was twenty years old, but he couldn’t know that.  For all he knew, I might have punched a hole through his torso.  What if after I said that he didn’t keep moving?

The thing is, I was instantly angry.  I hadn’t snapped, but  I was ready.  I believe I would have started toward him.  It very well could’ve been an embarrassing mess.  Trading swings with some asshole on the Costco floor.

Sheezus.  How did I get there?  Here?  You think I might hate this gig?  You’d be right.  I do.  I hate it.  It’s bad enough being a monkey on a stick without this brand of bullshit.  What that guy could not have possibly understood is how much I hate this job and that I was ready to beat the fuck out of him because of it.  Instantly.  I was that angry.  What came out of my mouth was an accident and in retrospect it served us both very well.

Wow.

Drinks for my friends.

They’re Nihlists Dude!

This really is so easy. They make it so easy.

As targets, they barely move.

As politicians, they say the stupidest shit.

John “Agent Orange” Boehner said just yesterday in a single interview for the Pittsburgh Tribune that the eligibility age for Social Security should be raised to pay for the war in Afghanistan, disagreed with the proposed temporary moratorium on deep water drilling, but in the same breath offered that we should “pause” any efforts until we figure out what went wrong and compared our worst financial crisis since the great depression to an “ant”.

This asshat wants to be speaker of the house.

Can you say douchebag?  I can.  Say it with me.

I can tell by his slow eyed, puffy countenance that he’s a major boozer; I’m confident it’s the only thing we have in common.

On the very same day, Sharron “failing up” Angle, in her first appearance on anything other than a right wing asstard media venue since getting the nod to run against Harry Reid, said that the unemployed are spoiled and that there are plenty of jobs but that unemployment benefits pay too much (suggesting I assume, that the problem is not a dearth of job opportunity), that the government should force even children who are raped to carry a baby to term because it’s God’s plan and, “The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine,”.

By now she’s flirting with infamy for saying, “If this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.” ………….”the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.”

This bitch makes Glenn Beck look like The Wizard of Oz.

I couldn’t make this shit up.

But here, in the interest of levity and distillation, I’ll share with you Miss Angle’s true message:  “Hi kids, sorry I keep tripping over my own vagina, *smile*, but I’m the very best the GOBP has to replace the most powerful man in the senate, so you really should vote for me because Harry Reid is evil and hates you and because I’m a Christian, so I will help Nevadans more than he ever has and I promise I won’t embarrass any of you anymore, and if I lose, it’s okay if one of you exercises the full extent of your second amendment rights by shooting him.”

Couldn’t help myself; made that shit up.  Had a blast.

The sermon is short tonight kids.

See, Angle aspires to replace a man who is arguably the second most powerful man in America (therefore the world-think about it), and Boehner lusts after being the third.  Mitt Romney still entertains the notion of being the first.  Who else can they run?  Palin?  She’s too busy stumbling over own pudenda while simultaneously raking in the filthy lucre generated from conspicuously losing an election and quitting her gig as governor of our least populated state just halfway through to cash in on her own infamy.  She may not understand she’s too stupid but she does know she’s too lazy to run.  Not gonna happen.  Guy Smiley (Romney) is the best they’ve got.

As my father would say: “In a pigs ass!”

In a shitstorm unlike America may have ever endured, one that may yet compete with her most severe, this is the face of the Republican party that would promise to navigate us out of it.  Empty headed clowns, jackasses without the courage of their convictions or even a modicum of intellectual curiosity, much less anything resembling a coherent plan.  They are quite simply the best and the brightest this asinine Republican party has to offer.

In the proud tradition of Dumbya and Darth, Dick-in Bush.

If we lose the House and Agent Orange becomes the speaker, if Angle’s obtuse dumb ass ends up occupying the hallowed, distinguished and accomplished seat of Senator Reid, or if a used car salesman like Romney were to be allowed to walk the corridors of terrible and frightening power in the highest of executive evinces come 2012, well then, we are screwed.  We’ll find ourselves in a boiling and violent rapids con sewage without any means to even steer.

Should any of this come to pass, we deserve it.

We would deserve it for all the willful ignorance and blind stupidity we will have allowed to overcome us.

May Santa Claus in the sky help us.

Drinks for my friends.

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