Abstinence Works! There's Only EVER Been One Case When It Failed: Jeezis!

TDSWJS: Why It's Only A "Class War" When We Fight Back

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The Daily Show - World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over
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Koch Bros. v. Wake County (NC) Schools...

Mr. Deity And the Believing Brain ~~ (Ew! Wattswidda HAIR?)

DOTOF to Eli Cates, P'burgh, PA...
Don't ask about the cat...

Who IS "The Worst Governor Ever?" Vote HERE!

They left off Christie (NJ), Daniels (IN), and nuestra concha chingada, Sasanna Martinez (NM).

E-Trade: Um, no. You Can't "Just Take It Back"

If you know how to 'save' this, then do so. I can't imagine E-Trade's got much sense of humor...

Dit-Dit-Dit-DAH! Jason Jones' Vasectomy!

"I been to the Vet."

Uncensored - I Survived
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can
And don't have any kids yourself.
"This Be The Verse"--Philip Larkin

We MUST Stop The Army Of Flesh-Crazed Sluts

Olbermann: "Four Great Hypocrisies"

He's right, but there is nothing (legal) we can do about it.
Our 'representatives" do not fear us.
Until they do, they will fuck us.

"The Top ONE Percent Owns More (Of Murka's Private Wealth) than the Bottom 90%

Have a p[arty and invite all those remaining O'bots who still claim either the DIDN'T Make the promises he broken, or he's kept them.

"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" Part 1 & 2

It turns out that they're not THAT much different from any other kind of bloody-handed "sicario." The opnly differences are in the 'mobs' they service.

Tweety & former GOPhuq Poobah, Bruce Bartlett Dice the Debt Crisis

This clip was on Big Orange/Kos, in a piece which includes the transcript. The Money Quote:

BB: I think at this point, there's nothing that can pass the House of Representatives.

Tweety: Because it's too much of a zoo?

BB: Yeah, I think a good chunk of the Republican caucus is either stupid, crazy, ignorant or craven cowards, who are desperately afraid of the tea party people, and rightly so...

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New Bill Urges: Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young!

Why Did Prez. Shamwow Continue God's FBI?

The Faith-based Initiatives--which the Busheviks cynically started to funnel federal funds to mainly black, fundie congregations?

Cenk/The Young Turk Leaves MSNBC--Part 1 & 2

Cenk refuses to join the "Insiders."


PART TWO:

Obama Gave Us A Half-full Glass Of Spit, and Says "Suck It."

If the GOPhux Don't Blink, St. Barry Will Cave!

PZ Myers: Design v. Chance

Dia-Rhee-Uh...

A suitably jaundiced take on former DC School Supt, Michelle Rhee, via www.RheeFirst.com: Michelle Rhee claims she won the battle for DC public schools. But can you win a war when you're firing on your own troops?

The Real News: The Age Of Greed, w/Jeff Madrick--Parts 1, 2, & 3

Obama fucked up--showed his true fucking colors--when the gutless fucker appointed the Simpson-Bowles commission.

Part II:

Part III:

The Stuff Ya Gotta Watch

The world economy is depleting the earth's natural resources, and economists cling to models that make no reference whatsoever to the biophysical basis that underpins the economy. That's why ecological economics is needed, says William Rees in this INET interview.
IF--crucially--it is NOT already way too fucking LATE?

ONS FactZone: White Suspect To Be Tried As Black

ONSW FactZone:

The Rule of Lob(biests)

You really think that you have a say in how your government functions, think again. This 60 Minutes report describes a "shocking, revolving door system" that works beyond our control. It is why you can't pay your medical bills. And it is happening behind the scenes so you never see it. This report is a rare glimpse into how we lost our democracy. This report appeared first in 2008, and has since slipped into cvomplete obscurity. Only just over YouTube hits.

WikiLeaks: "Brilliant!"

It's a Life-And-Death Struggle...

This is a non-commercial attempt to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless 'consumers' are combining to destroy life on earth. It is dedicated to all who died fighting for the planet and those whose lives are on the line today. The cut was put together by Vivek Chauhan, a young film maker, together with naturalists working with the Sanctuary Asia network (www.sanctuaryasia.com).

The American Dream: Ya gotta be unconscious to believe it

Acknowledgment: George Carlin (dec.)

In Honor of the Holiday: A Brief History of the USofA

Naomi Klein & Alfonso Cuaron: The Shock Doctrine and the Rise of Disaster Capitalism

This has been around for a couple of years, but nothing has occurred to make the observations any less germane, or the conclusions any less correct. Indeed, if anything, the opposite is true, and it is all the MORE relevant today.

"No Being Can Be Regarded as "Perfect" which Requires Adoration

Should Math Be Taught in Schools? Snarks Aplenty!

Here's the original, just so you don't think the snarksters are being unfair.

Stupid design, with Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson

What engineer worth the name would place the entertainment complex right next to, and use parts of, the sewage system? This is NOT intelligent design.

The universe was not made for people, if 99.99999999 percent of it can KILL US in mere seconds.

The REAL NEWS: Putting Paid To the GOPhux, One Canard At A Time

Screw "minimum" wage, we need a "living wage." Though good luck widdat: NAGAHAPUN...

Cenk & Grayson Take On GOP Orthodoxy on Medicare

The GOPhux are tools!

I wish it were actually true that the Dims were solidly behind protecting the entitlements fopr which we have already paid.

But they're not. You gotcher Blue Dawgs (among whom is usually numbered the injured Gabby Giffords), and yer "moderates," indeed, thew whole caucus outside the slef-proclaimed (76-member) House "Progressive" caucus who will probably line-up with the GOPhux. Grayson's technically "right" that the Dims are the only thing protecting the programs now, but they are remarkably flaccid about it.

The Abyss

I find this image compelling on so MANY levels. It was created by Vanessa Versailles Ma'et's Photos, and shared with me by mi bien hermanita in El Paso, Kathy Mc., who remarked upon it, with aching wisdom: "One tries to go with the flow, but it's difficult to just float toward an abyss." Yup...

Maher's New --"Rick Perry"--Rules: "We Don't Need A Miracle, We Need A Calculator"

Hey, Kids, Let's Go To Somalia and Get CHOLERA! YAY!!!!

Bill Maher: "If You Think The Earth Was Given To You By God So You Could Kick Some Ass, You're Not A Christian, You're a Texan."

This is a casebook on both blasphemy ("They left the eyes.") and sacrilege. I don't know if this segment is collaboratively written...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: The God of the Gaps

This has ben around a while, having garnered about 125 THOUSAND hits on YouTube, but it's worth the attention--about half an hour:

"DON'T Even THINK About Possible Connections..."

because that might might lead you to conclude that global warming is already happening, warns Bill McKibben in a Washington Post oped.

In the wake of the devastating tornado's in Joplin, MO, and a record year for tornados, floods, and wildfires worldwide, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben makes the case that the extreme weather patterns predicted by climate science models look awfully like what we've been experiencing. His sarcastic column is a scathing indictment of climate change-deniers who repeat the "mantra that no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change" even in the face of clear patterns of many weather events.

The San Francisco videographer Stephen Thomson used images of the disasters mentioned to make McKibben's words even more powerful. Take a look:

Chomsky: Why The "People" Seem NOT To Give A Shit!

The Framers built a system designed SPECIFICALLY to protect the power of the few from interference from the Many!

Citizen, Given Rare Opportunity, Speaks Truth To Power

BRAVO, Sir!

Full Employment For Lobbyists, Confusion for the Corrupt Fux

Moment of Clarity (MoC) via comedian Lee Camp:

It Is A "Bad" Thing That 80% Of People Believe in Fairy Tale Bullshit

What the FRACK!

Lying Is How They Do Business

Enlisting? Here's a Dollar. Buy a F**king Clue!

Former Senior Chief Master Sergeant Stan Goff delivers the advice:

"The Pledge of Allegiance" -- The Whitest Kids

"Very Good, kids. Now come and get your Ritalin."



Anybody wanna copy down the words?

The (Video) Periodic Table of the Elements

This is quite possibly the KEWLEST thing EVER on the Web in the way of an instructional project: Explanatory videos about the elements. Here's "nitrogen."



MEGA-props to my El Paso pal, Kathy Mac, for finding the foregoing; and, lest we forget:

Max Blumenthal, Israel Apostate, Brings It To AIPAC

The Zionists are not the ONLY purblind, moronic, delusional fuckwitz around, but they are some of the most egregious. You don't have to vget past the first intyerview to figger out that these people are completely NUTZ!

I usta think the Russkis would crash the world before they'd abandon Stalinism/Leninism; then I worried the Boers would bring it down rther then truckle to the kaffirs. But I am almost completely CERTAIN the Zionists wouldn't scruple to violently irradiate the planet if they thought they were losing "Israel."

Rapture Advice: Call In Sick!

Bulletin: Bankstas/Brokas Covering Their Toxic Assets

This vid more or less synopsizes much of the information included on Taibbi's blog, but the read is far more complete, especially in terms of the crimes for which the Bankstas and Brokas might be liable

The questions Schneiderman will seek to answer are these: did the banks securitize loans they knew were fraudulent, throwing the rotten mortgages into the stew before serving them to customers? Did they also commit insurance fraud by duping the bond insurers (known as “monoline” insurers) into thinking the mortgages were not as risky as they really were? And did they participate in the fraud scheme on a more basic level by lending huge amounts of money to the Countrywides of the world, knowing that they in turn would immediately use that money to create the bad loans? In other words, did the banks finance the fraud in addition to brokering it?

Morale: Happy Workers Dancing At Tax-Free GE...

To get the joke in THIS--



It probably needs you to be familiar with this:



and/or this:


And, of course, this:

Paul Ryan" Throws "Grandma" Off The Cliff

This is starting to get there, as a counter-discourses go. Is there the slightest chance that this would go viral? I hope so. Because the only to strike back at these wacktards and fuckoloons is through satire, humor and vitriolic mockery.

Colbert's "Word": Autocratic For the People

I invite you to imagine that, instead of the actual, odious, smarmy little shit-weasel you just watched, Benton Harbor were beset by, oh, I dunno, socialists?

Pre-PWNED!

Disaster Capitalism: Coming Soon To A Catastrophe Near YOU!

In 2007, Naomi Klein (finally) collected the insights which had troubled her and a LOT of folks for the previous generation or so about certain predatory aspects of the "post-industrial" capitalist sispensation, and published the results in a vlume which stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy then, and is STILL required reading if, for example, you want to try to understand why socio-economic conditions in such diverse places as Haiti and (now) the lower MIssissippi Valley turn out the ways they do. The firswt vid here is a kind of primer; the second is a whole hour of exposition and examples.



If that whetted your appetite, then you're ready for the main course:

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Chomsky on the Intentional Dismantling of the University

Around 90 minutes; Noam doesn't generally use visuals, so you can just listen along while washing the dishes or painting the house. He's refined this theme quite a bit sincve I heard him first discourse on the subject 25 years ago, in Baton Rouge, where he excoriated the Academy for selling out to the DoD for the research money. If someone had tossed a serin-grenade into that room, that night, they'da depopulated the Mississippi River delta of all the "liberals" between Natchez and N'Awlins...

Motherhood: "Profound" Doesn't EVEN Begin To Touch It.

We hear often enough about, speculate upon, Blake's universe in a grain of sand. Well, here ya go.

Just over three minutes: close enough!

I completely lost track of the original FBFriend where I found this. Thankyou, thankyou, whomsoever you were--a mom, i'm betting...

Robins - 4 Eggs, 4 Weeks from Fred Margulies on Vimeo.

And this for my (late) Mom. If she were alive, I'd have sent it to her. She'd have laughed and laughed. Recuerdos, mama...

Barbara Ehrenreich on "Positive Thinking."

It has ALWAyS struck me that "positive thinking" was a scam developed by the Owners to psychically--but SELDOM materially--to "reward" the peons with spurious 'self-esteem' for willingly consuming the CorpoRat shit-sandwich they get handed; indeed, for apparently "liking" it: "Please, sir, may I have anovver?".

Lewis Black: "We NEED Donald Trump!"

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William Daly: No Jail For Wall Street Perps!

Daly is a fucking weasel; cut off his nutz and make him EAT 'em.

Bat-shit, wackloon, fucktard Morons in South Carolina

I always thought Sherman should just have cleaned the whole fucking state out in 1864, when he had the chance. These people are just crazy as shit-house rats.

"The Myth of Democracy"

Just Think, If St. Barry, The Pale, Was Not The Prez...

Via Democratic Underground:

Why, if we hadn't elected Obama we might have had a president:

• who refused to roll back taxes on the wealthy,
• who refused to establish a windfall profits tax on oil companies,
• who refused to investigate activities carried out by telecom companies who illegally helped the government tap our phones, and who continued to tap phones without a warrant,
• who would have turned his back on Miranda,
• who would refuse to investigate any of the Bush Admin. lies, incompetence, corruption or torture,
• who would support anti-democratic, murderous coup regimes in Central America,
• who might refuse to restore Habeas Corpus,
• who would have left Guantanamo open indefinitely and maintain that its inmates had no rights at all,
• who might have continued extraordinary rendition and torture,
• who might have fought to keep Dick Cheney's remarks to Plame investigators secret,
• who would have done nothing of substance to rein in Wall St.,
• who would have continued to issue signing statements,
• ho might have continued to delay investigations of CIA torture and even investigate those who protest that torture,
• who would have traded away the Public Option even while saying he was in favor of it,
• who would have expanded the war in Afghanistan,
• who would have opened "vast expanses" of Atlantic seaboard, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling,
• who would have 'put politics before science' and at first minimized the BP oil spill and then might have claimed that there was practically no oil left and that "the microbes ate it!",
• who might have continually filed SCOTUS briefs in favor of large corporate polluters,
• who might have even been in favor of whale hunting,
• who might have used cluster bombs on civilians in Yemen,
• who might have refused to investigate Bush's political firings of US Attorneys,

Why we might even have a president who would appoint a bunch of right wing psychopaths to the Commission of Fiscal Responsibility and try to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class while allowing Wall St. Banks, the filthy rich and military corporations to continue plundering our economy, or who might try to institute policies which would effectively shut down the internet.

See! Weren't we lucky we 'elected O'Bama?

Oh, wait...

"Givin' It Away!" ~~ TYT

60 Minutes: The Blow-out of the "Second Mortgage" Crisis

It is 60 Minutes; we should be at least glad that SOMEBODY mong the SCUM< has figured out a way to make the Banksters look almost as bad as they are...

Bill Maher's Elaborate Shaggy Dog On "Getting Crabs."

It's pointed, and clever and it points the blame where it needs to go, but it leaves out the political folks who "gotcher money, dude."

"WE ARE..." "UNION!" "WE ARE..." "UNION."

Oligarchs! Owners! Bosses! Fear THIS!

The Miners' union has gone out against all the coal companies in Alabama. There's NOTHING on ANY "News" abnout this ANYWHERE, according to Glynn Wilson, blogger and regional reporter, via his FaceBook page today.

It's exactly the stridency and the barely restrained militancy that GOPukes, and the Owners, too, fear so much they are struggling to disband them. In the age of predatory, disaster-driven, manichean capital, labor solidarity is the ONLY antidote. Shamwow and the Dims are complicit by their faint-heartedness in support of labor's struggle. That, in itself, is damning.

Of course, St. Barry, the Pale, is in a bind. He cannot take up labor's standard for fear of enacting the racist canard that he's "just one of them." So, while a fucknozzle like the Chimperor Bush need have made NO effort as President to distance himself from, or to avoid being seen to advance a particularly GOPUKE agenda, Obama steps into a rhetorical/political trap if HE advocates for the Dem's constituency. I've said all along, I almost feel sorry for him.

"Inside Job": Yeah, THAT One. While It Lasts...

TDSWJS: "Democrats Couldn't Get Laid On Comps In A Whorehouse"

Okay, I paraphrased it:

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BDSM, The Canadian Way, Circa 1960

The News From Base-istan: She Had A Flag Pin On Her Vagina

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Blasphemy, Most Charming & Sincere, Via Miz Betty Bowers!

There are way too many good lines to select just a few to tease ya:

Job #1: Presiding Over The First Concrete Signs of The Fall Of The US Empire

Got An Hour? Two? Spend 'Em With Jeff Sharlet & "The Family"

All you EVER needed to know about the anti-democratic, subversive, seditious bunch of god-blighted meretricious fucktards, oligarchic wackloons, and theocratic shitwhistles as EVER you'd wanna know. This could ruin yer whole day!
Parts 1-10:

The Confidence Game

Hartmann and I disagree on whether or not there is time to effect structural change through existing institutions. It took the Kochsters--the John Birch Society, et al--almost 50 years, and countless BILLIONS of dollars to finally corrupt the system enough (they call it, deceptively, "gaming") to install their shills and lickspittles and scabs in gummint to finally take over and deliver it.

We don't have that kind of time, or money, or even numbers.

Sorry 'bou'dat!

Local Licenses: The "Real" Targets Of The Attack On NPR

The "ether" on the Web--FB, of course, but elsewhere, too--is ABUZZ with the announcement that the House has scheduled a vote tomorrow on "zeroing out" NPR's federal appropriation. I'd say it's a done deal. Ever since that refugee from the Orleans Parish prison got the video, it's been a foregone conclusion, imho. You cannot tell the truth about the Teabaggers, cannot even imply that you KNOW the truth about them: which is that they are, indeed, the suburban arm of the KKK; the only difference being, the Baggers' sheets are polyester-blend, floral prints from WalMart, not the plain home-spun of Forrests' marauders.

But all that is a charade, part of the kabuki. What's at risk here, the real stakes in the game, are the licenses of the local outlets which would be imperiled if the local stations, which receive a total of around $95 MILLION annu8aly, lose that revenue stream.

What happens is, they are forced to sell the licenses. Licenses in even middling markets sell for fucking beaucoup Million$. Every frequency, in every market, is allotted. If the 1) the House zeros out NPR, and the Senate goes along, and St. Barry, the Pale, does not demonstrate hitherto unforeseen and unforeshadowed depths of courage, that's gonna be the pay-off.

New Netroots Organization Founded Independent of Dems: RootsAction.Org

The Real News, with Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR (among other things):


Meanwhile, down the road a ways, the Teahadists are getting instruction in the art of "trolling": Using personal media to disrupt and confuse...

No Homeland Security Unless We See The WHOLE PLANET As "Home."

John Perkins, the economic hitman of the title, is the real deal. I think he inclines a little too far toward "optimisim" under the circumstances, but this may be a sign of desperatuion from someone who has looked FAR into the abyss.



Here's a whole hour of these revelations:

Interesting Take; Futile Advice

ANY legislative angle on redressing the damage unleashed by CU v FEC is pretty much doomed to failure by the fact that the people who will be called upon to vote to approve any such legislation are either 1) already in the pockets of those whose interests would be threatened by such legislation or 2) intimidated by those deep pockets, and the threat of a well-financed, primary opponent.

And that is before you add in just how long the process of Amendment takes. Over 200 YEARS for the last one. And don't ask about the ERA, which would be milque-toast compared to any effort to overturn or reverse CU v. Fec...

And, remember, too there has to come a vote, eventually somewhere; now remember California's plebiscite on Prop. 8?

Ted Rall's "Dumb-ass Fascism for Dummies," Chap. 11: Don't Tax The Rich

"They Can't Do ANYTHING About The Budget Til They Stop The (Fucking) Wars."

Banks make easy money when they finance wars, cuz every bullet and bomb is a self-destroying artifact...

Economist Dr. Rob Johnson: Cuts? Oh Yeah, We're FUCKED!

Dr. Robert A. Johnson - Executive Director of The Institute New Economic Thinking (INET) and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Dr. Johnson served on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. He is also the Director of Economic Policy for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) in New York. Dr. Johnson was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to that time, Johnson was a managing director of Bankers Trust Company managing a global currency fund. He also served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin) and before that, he was Senior Economist of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici (R. New Mexico).

Marx In Soho! Back, On Public Transportation: "I Am Not A Marxist!"

And neither is Robert Reich. He explains:
I like Reich, except when he preaches his 'optimism' mantra for solutions. It's what he gets paid the big bux for: "Oh, look! Robert Reich's optimistic. It can't be ALL fucked up, can it?"

Sadly, yes.

In Wyoming: "Small Gummint Conservatives" Vs "Culture War Fucktards" In the GOP?

Rachel Maddow sees room for optimism on the issue of 'abortion" in the resistance of some "small gummint" conservatives to big, intrusive Fucktard/Fundie intrusionists who are waging the culture war as a political charade. I don't. Watch the clip, and I'll tell you why.

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I am not at all 'relieved' that there, in Wyoming, the "most GOP lege" in the land, there seems to be a division on the Righjt on abortion when there is still gonna be unanimity when it comes to quashing environmental regs, or saving the wolves, or permitting extractive industries to rape the land for a buck, and I DON'T see ANY evidence that the GOP in Wyoming has any desires to rein in the CorpoRats.

"The Supreme Law Of The Land" and Other Minor Matters

are incorrectly identified in the US Citizenship Test.

No. Really! I saw this on "the Book" the other day, and had thought I'd published something about it already, about how the HSA (which both administers the tests and guards our borders) had essentially begun to inculcate exogenes desirous of citizenship with the mythology, instead to the facts, about US civil life and culture.

Via Ed Brayton's "Despatches From the Culture Wars":

ProPublica has a really interesting article about a Canadian woman who just received American citizenship -- but only because she gave answers she knew to be wrong on the citizenship test.

"Friends told me I didn't need to study, the questions weren't that hard. But I wanted to and so for months I lugged around a set of government-issued flashcards [3], hoping to master the test. I pestered my family and friends to quiz me. Sometimes I quizzed my sources. I learned things (there are 27 amendments to the Constitution) and they learned things (there are 27 amendments to the Constitution). But then we began noticing errors in a number of the questions and answers.

Some examples:

Take Question 36. It asks applicants to name two members of the president's Cabinet. Among the correct answers is "Vice President." The vice president is a cabinet-level officer but he's not a Cabinet member. Cabinet members are unelected heads of executive departments [4], such as the Defense Department, or the State Department.
The official naturalization test booklet even hints as much: "The president may appoint other government officials to the cabinet but no elected official may serve on the cabinet while in office." Note to Homeland Security: The vice president is elected.

Still, a wonderful press officer in the New York immigration office noted that the White House's own website [5] lists the vice president as a member of the Cabinet. It's still wrong, I explained. I told her that my partner wrote an entire book about the vice president and won a Pulitzer Prize [6] for the stories. I was pretty sure about this one. A parade of constitutional scholars backed me up...

I also wasn't asked Question 1: "What is the supreme law of the land?"

The official answer: "the Constitution." A friend and legal scholar was aghast. That answer, he said, is "no more than one-third correct." He's right.

Article VI, clause 2 in the Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause [9], explicitly says that three things -- the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties -- together "shall be the supreme law of the land."

Returning to that "Supreme Law Of the Land" shit:
Article VI, clause 2 in the Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause [9], explicitly says that three things -- the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties -- together "shall be the supreme law of the land." Be handy to have this particular fragment on hand the next time some fucking Christard starts chapping about how the US is a "christian nation," given the express language in the treaty with the Barbary Coast Emirates in the 19th Century which utterly and absolutely DISCLAIMS ANY fealty to Christianity or any other religion.

The Real "Monsters" Are Out On Wall Street!

Politics, from The Twilight Zone.

Read this amazingly acute and apposite essay by Marty Kaplan, from TruthOut today and THEN watch; or vice versa.

The game in Washington is to use the deficit as camouflage for destroying government's capacity to promote the general welfare. The game in Wisconsin and other states whose new Republican governors and legislative majorities are feeling their oats is to shelter the income of the wealthiest, and to balance the budget on the backs of the middle class.

Obama on Unions, 2007: "I'll Walk The Line With You!"

B HObama in 2oo7:
“And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I’ll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States.”


Versus 2011: Compare & Contrast:


"(W)hat I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions," Obama said. "I think everybody's got to make some adjustments, but I think it's also important to recognize that public employees make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens."

The Colbert Report Interviews Clancy ("Cunt-hair") Thomas

Who Is Going To Tell The CorpoRats To Rebuild The USofA And, How?

There is much hand-wringing and wailing in DC and in the circles of the Wise elsewhere about the catastrophic, sustained problem of unemployment in the USer work-place. The common reply to the matter among the ones most distraught about it (the left-punditry, unions, workers' representatives, Bernie Sanders, etc.) is to "call for" the resurrection of the USer industrial/manufacturing State of yore. It was this capacity, in a war-desolated world, which permitted the erection of (relatively) the WEALTHIEST "middle-class" in history; the dissolution of which is the most important, most instructive story in the whole, developing narrative of "decline and fall" that is unfolding (or is "crumbling" a better word) around us even as we speak.

So this makes me wonder if I'm missing something in the popular, mediated rhetoric and hurrah about creating jobs, and restoring Murkin manufacturing, and international competitiveness, an' all shit like that.

Here's the elephant turd in the soup tureen:
Where is the money gonna come from to RESTORE the infrasructure that O'Bama relies upon to boost employment at home, but which the CorpoRats have spent the past 30 years up-rooting, off-shoring, destroying, dismantling, and selling off?

What makes anyone think the CorpoRats are gonna spend money to undo what they already MADE money destroying? They've sold off all the parts they could, long since. The bloody CorpoRats aren't gonna pony up. The USofA is a declining empire. It's expansive days are over. This market is topped out. The people are less important as consumers than hitherto.

The Global corpoRats owe and claim no allegiance to the American nation, except as the military arm and instrument of their policies. They have NO incentive to invest in the failing CIVIC enterprise that is this country's heritage and legacy.

In fact, the CorpoRats have EVERY incentive to undermine, rebuke, and/or ignore it.

No CorpoRat encourages democracy. Democracy, especially in the work-place, is almost literally anathema to the CorpoRat mind, which is autocratic and authoritarian. They exhibit these proclivities every and in every way that they work to diminish or prevent the unions from exercising their power as the democratic representatives of the workers. CorpoRations are FEUDAL freeholds, and the Owners wish ONLY to preserve their OWN power over their vassals. Unions in the work-place, and democracy in the civic culture, are active opponents of those Medieval pretensions, and as such are subject to attack, destruction if possible.

The minions and lackeys of the CorpoRat State are even now busily engaged, where they have "won" the power to do so, in reversing 150 years of workers' gains. Some are resisting. I wish them success. But I don't trust USer cops NOT to shoot demonstrators, and I was witness to and involved in an incident at which the National Guard advanced on a student demonstrators with bared, fixed bayonets (UNM, May, 1970), so I think skepticism is well-founded.

So then ask yourself, and your friends, but demand an answer from your "Leaders": When you've sold out your citizenship for the convenience of being a consumer, and they close the fucking stores, what have you got left? We, Americans, apparently are about to find out.

"What Have Unions EVER Done For US?"

Other than the 40-hour week, overtime compensation, health care, prohibitions against child labor, etc...

Woody's got a new hero in Oz: Manictimes
Here's another of their efforts...

Bankster vs. Deadbeat Owner

With ANY Luck, Shirley Sherrod Will Own Breitbart's Children

By the time this all shakes out. Via an unsigned Huff-Post offering:

Shirley Sherrod has filed a lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart over a video released by the conservative personality that lead to her ouster as an official at the USDA.

Breitbart was served on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), according to the New York Times: "In the suit, which was filed in Washington on Friday, Ms. Sherrod says the video has damaged her reputation and prevented her from continuing her work."

The video first gained widespread public attention when it was posted on Breitbart's BigGovernment.com. The two-minute, 38-second clip was widely received as an admission by Sherrod, who is African American, that she had discriminated against a white farmer. Under immediate pressure from the Obama administration, Sherrod resigned from her position as the USDA's director of rural development in Georgia.

When a full 43-minute copy of the video surfaced, additional context turned the story into one of reconciliation. Sherrod had actually saved the man's farm and started a lifelong friendship. The NAACP, which publicly condemned Sherrod's speech shortly after it was posted on BigGovernment.com, soon issued a retraction and said that they were "snookered."

The White House also begged for forgiveness and offered her a "unique opportunity." Sherrod declined the offer to return to the Agriculture Department.

A statement issued on his website says Breitbart "categorically rejects the transparent effort to chill his constitutionally protected free speech and, to reiterate, looks forward to exercising his full and broad discovery rights." The statement also says that Larry O'Connor, the head of Breitbart.tv, was named in the suit.

The Lingerie Football League Finals

Should be great Google bait, nest paw?

So, cynically, ya give 'em a link, (Great to know HuffPost isn't slipping in their coverage of the BIG stories, nest paw?), a hawt shawt, and turn 'em to the MAIN POINT:

The SUPER BOWL of Socialism
By David Sirota

The Super Bowl has become a true televisual non sequitur—a bizarre “Rocky”-style montage mashing together as many divergent strands of American culture as possible.

This year’s blockbuster was no exception. There was former President George W. Bush sitting next to coach John Madden, who was obsessively texting. There was actress Cameron Diaz feeding popcorn to baseball bad boy Alex Rodriguez. There was Christina Aguilera belting out a “Naked Gun”-worthy version of the national anthem. There was even a melding of hip-hop, hair metal and sci-fi, as the Black Eyed Peas joined Slash for a rendition of “Sweet Child o’ Mine”—all in front of neon “Tron” dancers.

This was a bewildering assault on the senses, to say the least—and nothing was more singularly mind-blowing than the NFL using a Ronald Reagan eulogy to kick off a sports-themed tribute to socialism.

Reagan, of course, made his political name regularly invoking the S-word to demonize government. For such bombast, he gained many followers, most of whom nonetheless cherished the doctrinaire socialism that undergirded their communities in the form of public infrastructure and services.

This Reagan-inspired paradox of cheering anti-socialist platitudes while supporting socialism in practice was the tale of Super Bowl XLV. The game began with a jubilant Reagan biopic that approvingly flaunted his red-baiting past, including his 1964 warning about America taking “the first step into a thousand years of darkness.” The game ended with victory for professional sports’ only publicly owned nonprofit organization, the Green Bay Packers—a team whose quasi-socialist structure allows Wisconsin’s proletariat to own the means of football production.

Green Bay’s win, though, doesn’t tell the Super Bowl’s entire socialist tale. The game was held in one of the NFL’s government-funded stadiums. Additionally, training for many Super Bowl players was subsidized by taxpayers when those players honed their skills at public high schools and universities. Meanwhile, fans arrived at the event on public roads, the contest was broadcast on public airwaves, and the Navy spent $450,000 of public monies flying jets over the game in order to stage a momentary TV image.

Except for The Nation magazine’s Dave Zirin, none of the major media examined any of this. The Super Bowl was presented as a seamless jaunt from Reagan hagiography to trophy ceremony with no mention of the socialist context. Why?

Some would argue that the sports commentariat was laser-focused on the game itself. Others might say that in trying to break the players’ union, NFL management intentionally trumpeted an anti-union president—and the management-worshiping media avoided highlighting the Reagan celebration’s underlying hypocrisy in order to avoid humiliating the owners.

Both theories are likely rooted in truth, but there was something reflexive at work, too—a deliberate self-censoring.

Yes, even though we clearly embrace socialism in everything from professional sports to telecommunications, the politicians and corporations who frame our public dialogue have long stifled honest discussions of our socialist reality because they know such discussions would show that America primarily champions a particular form of socialism—a corporate socialism leveraging public resources for private profit.

Like the few municipal services that still remain in today’s era of Reaganomics, the publicly owned Green Bay Packers are a rare exception to this norm. That’s why the story of the team’s organizational structure is suppressed—because it shows the most important question facing our nation isn’t about accepting or rejecting socialism. We’ve already accepted it. Instead, the real question is about what specific type of socialism we want: the current kind that works only for those in the luxury box, or the kind that starts working for the rest of us?

David Sirota is a best-selling author whose upcoming book “Back to Our Future” will be released in March of 2011. He hosts the morning show on AM760 in Colorado. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com, follow him on Twitter @davidsirota or visit his website at www.davidsirota.com.

Pique Oil -- The Nation, Chomsky, et al...

You are probably NOT going to find a more complete (or starker) evaluation of the emerging phenomenon of the "End of Oil" than this series, made by VideoNation (The Nation magazine's vid stream):

Part 1:

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Moar Eleven Dimensional Chess? Or Was It Checkers? Backgammon?

In a piece on the US News blog titled "Obama Tax Deal Left GOP Without Jobs and Unemployment Answers," Robert Schlessinger seems to be trying to argue that O'Bama is making one of those '11-dimensional chess' against the wily GOP, luring them deeper into his lair and snares, where they will HAVE soon to reflect on their misbehavior and change their delinquent ways.

This argument's designed to suggest that, by playing directly into the hands of the obstructionist GOP, O'Bama somehow deprives them of "moral" cover, by 'requiring' solutions of them commensurate with their regained 'power.'

Subtle, were it but true.

The facts of the case, til now, however, appear to suggest the Pukes are still on the previous all-obstructionism, all-the-time tack, and feel no compulsion to provide any more than cosmetic platitudes and time (and campaign)-tested nostrums to the queries O'Bama delivers.

The Pukes don't feel obliged to answer because they do not recognize the legitimacy of the Dims, or (and especially) the President, to ask, much less to to require them to produce any. Bill O'Reilly's demeanor toward "ThePrez" epitomized their disdain and disregard for him, as if he were an uppity house-boy who was trying to cover his ass after being caught in the pantry with the maid.

Schlessinger is only right to the extent that the Pukes have retreated from their avowed intention to destroy O'Bama and delegitimate the Dims as potential heirs to power ever again. This is the direst form of legislative/political civil war, and the Dims will emerge from it, if they lose, forever afterwards 'second-class citizens' and the party of "second-class citizens."

No! Really? Nobody Would EVER Imagine Such A Thing

The LATimes (building pictured at the right) has a real hard-on against the LA Unified School System and the teachers' unions (which latter obsession they share wit St. Barry, who wants to break them).

So much so that last year, the paper took the measure of spuriously and scurrilously publicizing, and willfully misinterpreting, student test scores for individual teachers' classes. One teacher ultimately killed himself from humiliation. That their analysis was based on a flawed, unreliable, and specious methodology they NEVER admitted, while slandering the teachers in the system.

Now the feculent rag is lying about its "mandate" to publish. Via FAIR:

LAT Invents Support for LAT Series on Teacher Testing
02/08/2011 by Peter Hart
The L.A. Times' controversial investigation last year that rated Los Angeles schoolteachers' effectiveness based on a value-added research method has faced a storm of criticism. (See Wayne Au's recent Rethinking Schools piece.)

Now the National Education Policy Center has weighed in, finding that the research "was demonstrably inadequate to support the published rankings."

The NEPC was covered in the Washington Post and, wouldn't you know it, the Los Angeles Times.

Below are the headlines. Go ahead and guess which one is which.
Researchers Fault L.A. Times Methods in Analysis of California Teachers

Separate Study Confirms Many Los Angeles Times Findings on Teacher Effectiveness

The LA Times: Once a Great Paper, now a bum-rag for the CorpoRats.

A Parting Volley Of Salient, Anti-Reagan Reminders

If any feelings for "The Gipper" other than revulsion and disgust, loathing and nausea at the mere mention of the name can survive this wonderfully complete catalog of castigation and condemnation for Ronald W. "Where's The Rest Of Me" Reagan, I disown thee, I disown thee, I disown thee....