Wherein You Will Learn Why Elizabeth Warren Does NOT Occupy a Significant Place in the Obamster's Regime

Here's why:

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there -- good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea -- God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." - Elizabeth Warren

Can't have THAT kind of thinking in the highest councils of the CorpoRat State!

Drill and Spill

Via the NYTimes: This is a map of the US charting the known oil spills from pipelines in the last 10 years and the volume of them.

Since 1990, more than 110 million gallons of mostly crude and petroleum products have spilled from the nation’s mainland pipeline network. (Now there's more bubbling up from under the Gulf, around the Macondo Well. But they're never gonna stop, til it's all gone.)

More than half of it occurred in three states — Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — where more pipelines exist.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT, and carefully read the legends and the charts.



The Obamanator and Miz Hillary are about to agree to another, massive, trans-Continental pipeline to pump tar-sands crude from Alberta, Canada, down to refineries in Houston TX, from whence it will be sold to the highest bidder.

I know the argument that, given the high volumes of material these pipelines transport, 100 MILLION GALLONS, spread over 50 states, really isn't THAT much.

But it doesn't TAKE much to thoroughly fuck up some place for a decade or so.

Olbermann Assesses Al Gore's "24-Hours-Of-Reality"

A Facebook friend, Carl Howard, wrote:

Whatever you do, DO NOT WATCH THIS! It is full of evil Global Warming alarmists and hoaxers using human tragedy to fatten their wallets! AGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Hide the children!@ Spare them, at least.

Red-State Update, With Jackie & Dunlap: Debates

Day's Byack!
Ah sher am glayad these boyz's bayack fum they high-ate-us...
And just ignore, or mute, or skip over that pile of shit at the start hyping the Social Security killing "Jobs" Act. (These fuckers (not J & D, but Shamwow, Boner, Canter, et al) will stop at NOTHING to pander to their corpoRat masters.)

TDSWJS: September 13 Memorial

It is this kind of trenchant, incisive, sharp-edged commentary that keeps winning the Emmys...

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Social Security Is NOT a "Ponzi" scheme, etc...

Reich is completely, totally, utterly, unreservedly CORRECT about these points.

However, he's talking to the waves (aka, "pissin' in the wind"), cuz NO ONE in the CorpoRat/SCUM "press" will press the points to the offending (oh, boy, are they) candidates...

Two inviolable rules: You cannot call any self-professed GOPhuck a liar, and you cannot call any "Christian" a terrorist, no matter WHAT!

The Metastacization of "Security"

Since 9/11, there have been more than 30,000 "Security" company start-ups, and more than a TWO MILLION more people employed in snooping for HSA, either officially or off-the-record.
The "National Security State" is firmly in place, and will NEVER be (peacefully) dislodged...

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Penn and Teller: "The WAR on Drugs"

When US Chamber Of Commerce Applauds, You're Not With The People

Oh, Keith? Brian Beutler is incompetent. And incomprehensible. There must have been 50 pronouns without a single identifiable anaphora. Please, no mas!

Mr. Deity and the Philosopher

For those who like their blasphemy "straight up!"

Dept of "It's Not Fucking Nuclear Physics": Evolution is a "Straight" Line

It's The FUCKING Inequality, Stupid!

The richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40% of its wealth. Inequality in the US is more extreme than it's been in almost a century — and the gap between the super rich and the poor and middle class people has widened drastically over the last 30 years.

Meanwhile, in Washington, a bitter partisan debate over how to cut deficit spending and reduce the US' 14.3 trillion dollar debt is underway. As low and middle class wages stagnate and unemployment remains above 9%, Republicans and Democrats are tussling over whether to slash funding for the medical and retirement programs that are the backbone of the US's social safety net, and whether to raise taxes — or to cut them further.

The budget debate and the economy are the battleground on which the 2012 presidential election race will be fought. And the United States has never seemed so divided — both politically and economically.

How did the gap grow so wide, and so quickly? And how are the convictions, campaign contributions and charitable donations of the top 1% impacting the other 99% of Americans? Fault Lines investigates the gap between the rich and the rest.

This episode of Fault Lines first aired on Al Jazeera English on August 2, 2011 at 0930 GMT.

ONS: SCROTUS Deprives Boor of Drill

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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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.