Some things I’ve been batting around lately

I’ve been thinking about a few things lately, and I haven’t totally sorted my thoughts yet, but I wanted to put them out there for discussion/ridicule/kickstarting etc…

1) Here’s a conservative blogger named Andrew Sullivan talking about something that has REALLY been bugging me and continues to…..he expresses my thoughts better than I think them, read his post….

Let’s be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable of running a town in Alaska competently. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, with no knowledge of or interest in the wider world, as a replacement president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history.

2) It’s driving me crazy that the same guy who successfully lobbied the SEC to drop the barriers to risky investments that led to our current banking situation, that same guy is now the Secretary of the Treasury and is basically looting the entire American Treasury and handing it over to a bunch of absolute crooks. With no meaningful oversight, no accountability, no transparency, and no discernible collateral, he has basically spearheaded the worst looting of the public in history…..AND NO ONE’S LOSING THEIR MINDS ABOUT THIS!!!! Except Lou Dobbs…..(BTW, does anyone else think Dobbs is hammered half the time?)

3) Joe Lieberman has to GO! Are you serious? In the name of unity going forward we have to keep this dangling hemorrhoid around gassing away with his bullshit? If he was on the right they would have dragged him outside and had some of their knuckle-draggers beat his ass til he promised to wear lipstick on TV….and the supposed left is gonna keep him on as a powerful chairman of a committee? At least the right always has their retribution stick close at hand, no matter how inappropriately they normally use it….here’s something you can do about it.

4) And on a related note, why is it when the regular people commit crimes they go to jail, and when the rulers do the same and worse, they get to walk in the name of bi-partisan unity? Sorry, but the the ONLY way these vile shenanigans are gonna stop is to start prosecuting this crap, BASED ON THE LAW, and NOT ON ANYTHING BUT THAT! Maybe it has something to do with an entire industry built on warehousing our underclasses in prisons built and run by giant corporations….

5) Corporate Welfare. All I want to say about this is that if you want a “free market”, (BTW, what we have in the US is FAR from that, with all of our government seemingly engaged solely in the task of protecting certain companies in every market from anything like competition, another thing that bugs me), then you’re gonna have companies that fail. If American banks, financial service companies, car companies, war services support companies, etc can’t compete, then they should be allowed to FAIL on their own merits. Yes I know that overly simplistic, but the fact is it sorta DOES boil down to that after all the yakking.

6) And on a related note, if we ARE going to bail out all these companies, then we GET SOME OWNERSHIP TOO!! What investor in ANY industry just comes in and hands over some savior money without getting a piece of the pie? NONE!! So if we’re investing, then we’re gonna profit too. Calling THAT socialization is against all normal ideas of investing, and why should we be considered less deserving just because we’re the PUBLIC?!?!?

I have more, I’ll just tag them on here…..and you can add your’s as well….

Note from a high school friend on Politics.

To my high school friend, all apologies, I had thought I put this up but it appears I put it in “drafts” thinking that I was gonna write something profound, and then didn’t get back to it…..I suck. But here it is at last available for comment, even though it’s past the election the principles still stand…..

High school friend –

Just flipped through the rant section on your STILL site and, although I consider myself a conservative and refuse to be associated with either side of the political isle ESPECIALLY the Grand Priestess of the American Taliban, and although I do so detest everything that NoBama stands for… we have many similarities of opinion.

America IS a welfare state, don’t kid yourself. The recipients are both the very rich and the poor, all being fed off of the backs of the working class, not the middle class.
Big Mouth Joe Biden says that even though his annual earnings are in excess $275,000, he is a Middle Class American? How can that be? This guy is completely out of touch with reality, like McLaim.

I’m sick and tired of seeing welfare used as a way of life instead of a temporary hand up. I’m tired of MY government taking MY money and giving it single women who’ve 6 kids by 7 dads (she ain’t sure about one), who receives free health care, free day care free this and free that while she sits home watching Opra and eating Bon-Bons in her section 8 housing with her tweaker boyfriend who isn’t supposed to be living there. Their was a family living here in section 8 housing that was paying $14.00 a month and that covered rent and utilities. They had to be evicted because they didn’t pay!! $14 dollars a month for RENT AND UTILITIES and they couldn’t pay. The guys that went in to clean out the apartment took pictures, their were 60 inch Hi Def LCD TV’s and DVR’s in the living and bedrooms. 7 functioning cell phones in a family of 4.
And cases of Crown Royal and high dollar wines, CASES!!. I asked my friend how unusual this was. He says this was an extreme case but it’s very common. Most in welfare housing live a much higher lifestyle then those working for a living.

If I have to piss in a Dixie cup to earn my pay, then THEY need to piss in a Dixie cup get their welfare. I have a better idea. If you want your welfare than you must be in school, 8 to 5 monday through Friday just like the people you’re ripping off to live the welfare lifestyle. Payday is on Tuesday, NOT Friday, that way more will be spent on gas and groceries then on 40’s of Colt 45 or Mad Dog.

People can call me a “Hater” or whatever they like since it’s essentially true. I HATE my money going to support an ever growing segment of takers in American society, free loaders, losers, tweakers and those who’ve come to drink from the well, and then promptly piss in it for the next guy. I’m tired of seeing the system I’VE been forced to pay into against my will, only to see it being used as a free retirement program for illegals, and others coming here with NO INTENTIONS of ever contributing to it.
I’m tired my seeing my hard earned retirement investments going into the pockets of con men and hustlers, then cry poverty and be “BAILED OUT” by their buddies in our corrupt government. I want to see accountability for those committing welfare fraud on both ends of the spectrum. The rich and those calling them selves poor, are all living off of the backs of the working class.

A quick note about this upcoming election…. NON OF THE ABOVE. Are these two stooges the best that America has to offer? A Marxist and a crazy hipocritical asshat Republican with heavy liberal tenancies, and farts dust bunnies? You’ve have GOT to be KIDDING me? We’re fucked! No matter which way the chips fall in the election, we’re fucked.

I’m taking donations to build another Ford Theater or resurrect Lee Harvey Oswald.

Check for me on Myspace.

Signed,

the Hater!

Me –

Heh, the Hater, and the Grand Priestess of The American Taliban, hadn’t heard that but I love it….

I have a number of responses that I’ll get to this, but I’m on the road in Palm Springs right now….I’ll get an answer back to your note, maybe I’ll put i up on my site if your’re ok with that (if you like I can make it anonymous) but it’s a great place to start a discussion, but just so you know, your position has a lot of justification in it, so we won’t find ourselves ALWAYS at odds, just sometimes – 😉

(EDIT – I added this later) I’d probably be careful about Oswald references….

WB

High school Friend –

On the contrary, I think our positions are more similar than not.

I don’t care for Palin, or Biden (obviously) or any of them. Religion
and politics is a terribly dangerous mix. I thin the US needs to stop
meddling is other countries business.

I think the ONLY way to fix our current problems is to fire congress,
all of them! You’re Fired! Go get a real job.

Palin is on Saturday night live tonight- this ought to be a riot.

Lets do the web thing as anonymous. Sounds like fun, and I still contend
that at this point in time no matter the outcome of this upcoming election
the working class will lose once again.