POLITICS - posted on January 16, 2009 by

OK, you NEED to see this video…

Wow.

The arrogance is unbelievable….and remember, the Federal Reserve is NOT a Federal institution, it’s group of private banks. Yeh, really. There’s some woofing around by the Fed on this ownership issue, (shocker) but it’s a privately owned set of institutions.

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POLITICS - posted on January 13, 2009 by

Ann Coulter…..Really? Ann fucking Coulter?!?!?!

OK.

If you listen to, agree with, quote from, or even watch on TV for more than 30 seconds this cloven-hooved, needs a sandwich toilet shark, then you can’t breathe the same air as me. You are excluded from conversations and are hereby sentenced to be a servant in Crawford TX for the rest of your days.

The listing of Ann Coulter’s lies is long and heinous, so I won’t go into them here when so many others have done such a great job of it, BUTT……I will give you Keith Olbermann’s always funny yet always sharp and relevant take on it.

I’m frankly stunned that anyone listens to or puts up with this person….and I got to thinking why anyone would….what I come up with is that she gives voice to a seething type of illogical, emotionally charged, and bone-deep hatred and bigotry that still exists in heaps and gobs in our country. The kind of people that agree with Ann Coulter kick the crap outta their dogs when Obama wins, or Franken wins, or a black family moves in down the street, or any number of things happen that fuels their impotent rages and prejudices, their fear and their ignorance, their cowardice and their hypocrisy. Or they want to have sex with her (AACCCKKKKK!!! PTOOEY PTOOEY!!).

That she gets air time to promote books, and is paid to speak anywhere other than SNL, is a shocking and total indictment of our media system and any pretense of “NEWS” and or “JOURNALISM”. If Ann Coulter has ever been on your tv show or appeared on your network, or if you refer her in any other way than with derision or contempt, then you don’t have a right to call yourself a NEWS network or a JOURNALIST. You are a carnival barker and you work at the big top, nothing more.

Infotainment indeed…..what’s entertaining about watching a shrill hysterical asshole raving lunacies at the top of her lungs while shouting down every voice of reason within 10 city blocks? If I wanted to see/hear that I can go down to Hollywood and follow the guy who has had a running violent disagreement with his hand at the top of his lungs for the last 30 years, at least he’s consistent, (and he’s probably right about all the injustices his hand has perpetrated on him, Coulter’s ravings have little or no basis in fact).

She’s an entertainment personality you jingo-junkies, nothing more. If you hear it like it’s your bible, you’re a sheep. Sheople…..(haven’t used that one for awhile, but always loved it).

Anyways, if you are one of those people, get away from me. You have a sickness of the mind that appears to be contagious and I want no part of it. I’ve seen “Invasion of the BodySnatchers” and “28 Weeks Later”, I know what’s wrong with you.

Get thee behind me Satan, for your breath is bad and I like to keep that kind of smell closer to my butt, where it belongs.

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POLITICS - posted on January 12, 2009 by

Oil and why it’s ALL lies.

Ok, you’ve always known it was a HUGE lie, what happened with the oil prices last year and the sorry explanations for it, but here’s a LOT more clarity about it.

I’ve shied away from writing about this because of how upset I get about it, but now that 60 minutes has put it all together in a very easy to watch and digest form, I’ve got to help spread the “word” if you will.

A coupla points that need to be mentioned…..1) the economic collapse that we are experiencing right now, is NOT separate from the Oil price debacle, in fact they are very much a part of each other, 2) this thing is why capitalism without regulation does NOT work, in fact CANNOT work.

Capitalism is a system that rewards and encourages greed, and greed inevitably leads to rule bending and breaking, but without rules and enforcement the system will ALWAYS destroy itself, thus becoming the snake that eats it own tail until it is gone……don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty good system when paired with a social democracy and regulation, providing incentive but requiring responsibility, both to your customers AND society. Without regulation, you get what we have now, a run on the Treasury and a ripping off of the public that boggles the mind in this day and age.

I’m putting the segment from 60 minutes in here, but here’s some of the points I found compelling…..

  • Oil is traded as a commodity, like stocks, which results in an artificial price, independent of supply and demand….in fact it becomes disconnected from supply and demand to a large degree and becomes much more susceptible to investor perception.
  • 60-70% of all oil contracts are held by speculators, defined here as investors who never actually “buy” oil, or take delivery of it, they buy the contract to buy it and eventually hope to sell it for a profit.
  • In the last 5 years, speculative (non-delivery) investments in this market went from 13 billion to 300 billion dollars, a rather significant number, and clearly a number that has an effect on the final end user price.
  • In a given day during the run up of the price of crude oil, 27 barrels were traded each day for every 1 barrel that was actually consumed. That’s pretty indicative of where the price put on some pounds, ya figure?
  • You CANNOT believe it when these scum from these giant investment companies talk about supply and demand, they are flat out LYING LYING LYING!! Of course they will say that, otherwise they would have to admit that they are generating profits to the detriment of every person on this planet, which is a lot of people to ripoff.
  • On 9/22/08 the price of oil jumped $25 in ONE DAY! And there was no event like a plane flying in to a building or any other event that could account for it, EXCEPT trading.
  • M.I.T. did a study which came to this conclusion

    (This study) ….addresses each of the reasons that Wall Street speculators used to justify the higher price.
    They are:
    *Higher oil demand
    *The effect of dollar depreciation
    *The danger of political or armed disruptions on oil supply
    *The world is running out of oil

    (the link to the study is a downloadable PDF file)

  • There was only one indicator in the upward price of oil….NOT consumer demand…..NOT supply shortages….ONLY investor demand.
    *In a commodity market so crucial to the entire economy, with such a direct impact on each person’s life and in some cases their safety, warmth and well-being…such speculation CANNOT be allowed – WB.
  • Here’s some of the Big Players in this thing, names you’ll recognize – Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Barclay’s, and even (no, DON’T SAY IT) A.I.G.!! Funny how this kind of thinking seems to be surfacing in every facet of our nation’s problems right now. With NO punishment or restrictions being enacted as of yet.
  • None of this is illegal as of 2000, ever since this part of the the financial system was deregulated. Interesting that the trading is done IN SECRET – ON PRIVATE EXCHANGES!!??!?!? How can it be that something with this kind of impact is not open to public scrutiny? That’s unbelievable.
  • Well….one reason is because ENRON wanted it. The same guys who RAPED the West Coast with a private and false market manipulation that actually killed people, and drove the price of electricity up 300%!!
  • From July 08 to Nov. 08, 70 billion dollars of the money that went in during the runup was pulled back out of the market. During that time the price of crude dropped 75%.
  • Still think this is all about supply and demand, as we are being told by the Wall St. scum? And guess what? As of now the regulations that govern all this have NOT been changed.

    Here’s the 60 minutes segment –

    Watch CBS Videos Online

    Are you pissed yet?

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    POLITICS - posted on January 6, 2009 by

    Why cops suck a lot of the time.

    Once again, another instance of some punk bully who managed to get a license to carry a gun and be a “tough guy”. I HATE that this happens and that these people that were there with him will probably back him up, even though this kind of criminality is even worse than regular, cause these are the “GOOD GUYS”.

    I hope the BART system has to pay so much for this that they will get the message, this is NOT OK, and you’d better make sure the people you hire aren’t closet psychos like this piece of shit.

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    POLITICS - posted on December 22, 2008 by

    And ultimately they can always default to the old standby of assasination

    When the talking is done, when the reasoning, pleading, bribery, blackmail, PR, and humiliation fail, it’s always been true that when nothing else works, force will be used.

    A major GOP operative, someone who handled MANY things for the GOP including a bunch of the Ohio election stealing, was getting close to testifying, and his plane crashes – he dies. I’m SOOOO surprised.

    Without getting into specific details, 19 Action News reporter Blake Renault reported Sunday evening that 45-year-old Republican operative and experienced pilot had been warned not to fly his plane in the days before the crash.

    “Connell…was apparently told by a close friend not to fly his plane because his plane might be sabotaged,” Renault said. “And twice in the last two months Connell, who is an experienced pilot, cancelled two flights because of suspicious problems with his plane.”

    There is always that Big Club implicit in dialogues with Power. At some point, when things aren’t going Big Power’s way, it will be made clear that you can be killed, and will be if you don’t have a sudden change of heart. Nothing new in this, it’s just the bottom line.

    If YOU were the kind of treasonous scummy person/persons capable of stealing an entire national election, how far would YOU go to cover it up?

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