Ok you sadistic sick bastard. We are on to you. Enough is enough. So it appears maybe the rumor you kidnapped the real Barak Obama and replaced him with an imposter puppet is true. Yea yea yea. Very funny. But the gig is up. It's just a little obvious this is NOT the real Barak Obama. No way. Not the one we elected and of course, you had him pardon the torturers so you can then turn around and torture the real one...and then say it was "legal" and right now as I speak, you are preparing a pardon for you and Bush that the imposter Obama will sign to pardon your lame ass for the past 8 years. OK WE GET IT. GREAT JOB. VERY FUNNY.

Where is he Mr. Cheney? What country? And what about Michelle? The kids? Are they ok?

Yea. It is a big joke and you have every right to be running around with a smile on your face.

You guys won and you are still winning. You won't go to jail for a damn thing but the jig is up.

Bring back the real Barak Obama and bring him back NOW. 

 

If you live in The Land of Eternal Melodrama, otherwise known as the state of California, you know that the 5th (or 6th) largest economy in the world is going down the tubes. Boom and bust is all California can ever do. Greed runs deep here.

Arnold S has been bashing state workers now for a few months and this week my friend who is a public health nurse who makes a whopping $55,000 ran into some minor hostility in her state car this week. "Megan" helps corporate health care companies find options for health care for the poor which is now all of us. She is also part of a task force to monitor cases of the Swine flu. She enjoys her job and is good at it. She likes serving the public and considers it a noble thing to do. I know, she's a loser.

This week she told me when she parked her car in a not so great neighborhood to visit a local health clinic, she was asked by a nearby white man apparently waiting for someone, "do you like your car?" "What?" she asked. "Do you like your state car?" Thinking he was asking her about it because it is a hybrid Prius, she went on about it being a comfortable vehicle and the gas mileage was pretty good but not quite up to what she would expect..... The man then lit into her how he wished he could have a Prius but he wasn't a state worker like her and he hoped she enjoyed it because he never will. Then he turned away from her and stomped down the block. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before. Ever.

Who knows why it happened but we do have a governor that is in the paper every day bashing state workers. To me it is incomprehensible that the governor of any state would intentionally create hostility between his own public servants and the public they serve. In fact, it is idiotic because the state workers SERVE the citizens so if you cut the state workers you deprive the citizens of services they paid for through their state income taxes.

So after a little too much caffeine this a.m., I called the gov office and spoke to their 13 year old "staffer" (ok maybe she was 18) and was told that Arnold S has to run this state "like any other corporation" meaning "he has to lay off his workers."

I reminded this 12 year old that a coroporation and one of the United States are not the same thing. I also reminded her that most state jobs pay BELOW the national average for state workers and they certainly pay much lower than the private sector. I reminded her many state workers bust their asses to serve their public, like my friend. I reminded her that the state workers work for ALL citizens. They do not work for profit so they are motivated to serve the public and not motivated to, I don't know, "work the system" and lie, cheat, screw people for profit, like, gosh, uhm, what just happened on, ah. Wall Street? Is this a good enough example? Or how about ENRON? Anybody remember ENRON? I think this was a corporation and gosh, what a great job they did (and those traders!) serving the public, huh?

I asked her if the Gov realized that people are tribal and stupid and if he continues to say hostile things about state workers, someone could get hurt.

The 12 year old said, "Oh Governor S would NEVER want that."

So, I guess my worry is that we are now lumping in states which are supported by public tax dollars in with corporations. We have a governor that seems to think California is one giant corporation. It is apparently not one of the United States full of HUMAN BEINGS who have paid into it for services they need and want. I know, it's just terrible that my friend, the public health nurse, isn't working for a corporation doing what she does because then she would be making a TON of money that would, of course, be paid for with TAX DOLLARS but privitization is so sweet because even though it costs the taxpayer 200-500% more, the PROFITS....man. And then the campaign funds? Wow. But no. There is no corporation yet that milks Megan for all she's worth so she can "help people." Apparently this would be the ideal situation in Arnold's warped mind.

The Republican party in this country is now addicted to two things--hysteria as in creating it, and hatred. They are moving into a realm that is creating a kind of poison in our country and our state.  The question always is, why do they constantly get away with it?

In an unprecedented move possibly influenced by his latest movie, Governor aka "The Terminator", Schwarzenegger has decided to dispense with what he called "trivial stabs at dealing with the budget crisis in California."

After considering slashing programs that aid the most needy in the state, such as the physically and mentally disabled, the poor, and children, as well as selling off state property including Cal Expo and San Quentin in addition to slashing the pay of state workers which are supposed to serve California citizens, Schwarzenegger has declared Californian citizens as "expendables" and asked citizens in the state just to kill themselves.

"I mean, c'mon. Here we are talking about da poor leetle children and stuff and cutting salaries of state workers and selling off stuff and I mean, c'mon. Lets just get to the point which is that if there were fewer Caleeforneians, it would make it alot easier to balance the budget and stuff."

Schwarzenegger is apparently negotiating a deal with the private prison industry to not only release thousands of prisoners, but to insure the most dangerous prisoners are released just in case citizens are not up to the job of expending themselves on their own.

"I mean, c'mon," Schwarzenegger said in the same interview, "we are not just releasing thousands of prisoners into da society of Caleeforneia. We are offering these prisoners an opportunity to contribute in a positive way to the state." Apparently a hotline will be set up

1-800-KilURSlf4Ca (Kill Yourself for California Campaign) to assist people in planning their exit.

 "I mean, c'mon. Let's just get to the point. There are too many people in Caleeforneia and they are not happy. I know de are not happy so, you know...I mean, c'mon. Dis is a win win situation."

Apparently the legislature is slated to consider enacting a "dignity with death" law soon similar to that in Washington to further encourage citizen action in the direction of "expendability."

A legislator who asked to remain anonymous was quoted as saying," I mean, he does have a point. I mean, for example, I am a legislator and could not possibly kill myself because my role is fairly, well, important and gosh, I mean, I am already taking $20,000 a year less in per diem costs than is offered." (Legislators are eligible for $40,000 in per diem costs for serving on the legislature) but some little convenience store clerk or something...do I need to elaborate here?"

The Kill Yourself for California Campaign is expected to run through 2012.

 

This was the sort of moment when I smacked myself in the forehead with my own hand so hard, I got a headache. This was the sort of moment when I wanted to ram through the line at the grocery store with my kart, go out the door with it at top speeds screaming "AHHHHHHHHH" at the top of my lungs where I would circle the parking lot repeatedly until some 17 year old bag boy managed to push an entire line of 30 shopping karts into my path causing me to careen over with my kart then writhe in uncontrollable spasms. This was the sort of moment when I wanted to beat my head against the magazine racks full of gossip tabloids about how fat Kirstie Alley has gotten while tears burn in my eyes searing through the back of my overwrought head.

The moment was listening to two older women in line at the grocery store simultaneously call Obama a socialist then talk about going to Cuba for their health care. They understood health care in Cuba was not only free, it was "pretty good."

So there ya' have it folks. The state of political discourse in not-so-middle-class-anymore America while I get out the straight jacket I thought I would only need during the Bush years.

 

It's so easy. Throw together a few hot button themes and mix in an undercurrent of hatred and

instant attention. Takes no talent at all but it does the trick. We all know it. Shock and awe. The sad old routines of the hate jocks that amazingly have been on the air for years now. Sad commentary on this country that these people get their contracts renewed over and over. Once you had to exhibit some measure of talent. Now you just have to be a loud mouthed fat  white jerk spewing out vitriolic spittle. This constitutes talent now, of a different lower kind.

This is also what you get when the number is 2. When you only get 2 of everything, you automatically get division. Two of something divides. Our stupid two party system allows these kinds of subhumans to thrive in our "democracy." The solution is not a three party system because this willl be a cold day in hell but there is a quick solution you can do tomorrow and this is to register Decline to State. Claim neither party and in this way, we can kill the two party system which is so pathetic and infantile but so are the super rich. Pathetic and infantile.

"But here comes the middle class!!" the super rich say. Thank God. We now have to resurrect them because we need them now to bail us out. Before when they were going into the toilet, we didn't really care but now, we need to resurrect them so we can suck off of them again since they are the only ones/suckers that regularly work and produce something and there are a lot more of them than there are of us so for God's sake get that middle class going again. They have to bail us out. And if you live in California you not only get to pay for the bailout, the stimulusl bill, the foreclosures but you get to pay TWICE because your taxes are going up including taxes on your car. You know the one you need to go JOB HUNTING? Well, your registration fees may triple but it's ok. You'll need to pay THIS tax because after you walk away from the house you can't afford because your state income taxes went up about $1000/year, you'll need to live in the car as you move out of a very fucked up state that wrenches its residents around like a ball on the end of a long chain. Wee. This way then that way then this way then that way...weeee. Here we go again. But we really need to help the silly little super rich and their tendency to make rash decisions so get out there "middle class" and get on your feet! The corporate criminals need you! The bankers need you! The State of California needs you!

But I diverge. Boy do I diverge. This was supposed to be that someone somewhere needs to dog The New York Post because I bet those bastard's ad revenue is down and I bet if some stimulus package money shows up through whatever channel, they'll snatch it up like paparrazi on Lady Di's death. Yea yea yea. Keep an eye on the finances of the New York Post because if even a dime of that stimulus money they like to make fun of using cheap and humorless tripe comes into their rotten-smelling air space, they'll gobble it up because people like this have no scruples anyway. Hypocrisy? Sure. They'll do it. Show them the money.

So c'mon everybody. Lets keep an eye on the finances of the Post. Lets catch 'em in the act.

Dog 'em.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solves everything and nothing all at the same time.

If you ask me to count how many emails and phone calls I made to NPR during the Bush reign, it would probably be over 100. My emails were ALWAYS asking NPR to DO ITS JOB and instead of enabling the corruption, acting as apologists, running superficial political stories, they needed to tell the American people what the hell was really going on be it the lies into Iraq, snowmachines in Yellowstone to Rumsfeld making a kiilling off the Tamiflu vaccine (anyone talking about bird flu now? NO. Because the entire thing was fabricated and Rummy left with millions of dollars from his Gilead Pharmaceutical stock--source: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein). Now they are boo hooing that some of their shows have to be cancelled like Day to Day and Weekend America.

Well guess up NPR? You are going down with the rest of us, collateral damage from the Bush years and I say you deserve to go down in flames. Maybe if you had reported the truth you would be ADDING shows under the Obama Administration, not cancelling them.

I'm not boo hooing for your damn show cancellations. You asked for it. Next time do your damn jobs in the name of something you seem to have forgotten about--democracy.

 

 

 

 

Acccording to a Mother Jones article by Karen Greenberg from their Jan/Feb edition ("The People vs. Dick Cheney"), the Bush Administration broke 269 laws. 269 Laws.  

So what did you do? Were you speeding? Did you roll through a stop sign?

Not have your seatbelt on? Expired meter?

I'm still grappling with this whole gig. It's ok if psychowhitedudes ran our country into the ground for 8 fing years based on two stolen elections, killed thousands playing neocon war games, maliciously destroyed our environmental laws  (only 267 more to go folks!)...

AND now we are all on clean up duty/doody perhaps for the next 30 years...

Itzzooo-ok. Let's just move on, embrace change...c'mon people now.

BUT YOU better pay that ticket bud and don't you ever break the law again! You damn criminal you.

 

 

 

Bush is Gone. Can we get rid of White Trash Television Now?

 

THIS SAYS IT ALL.

A COMMUNITY OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO SHARE THE SAME PLANET WELCOME THEIR NEW PRESIDENT WITH GRATITUDE AND OPEN HEARTS FOR HIM AND ONE ANOTHER.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AMERICA NO MATTER HOW THE "MEDIA" AND "PUNDITS" TEAR US APART TO MAKE MONEY.

THIS MUST ALWAYS BE AMERICA.

SOME OF US HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU OUR ENTIRE LIVES. GOD BLESSED AMERICA AND THE WORLD.

 

C'MON WORLD. 15 YEARS FOR DOING WHAT WE ALL HAVE WANTED TO DO FOR THE PAST 8.

 

THROW A SHOE FOR PEACE IN IRAQ. THROW A SHOE FOR JUSTICE.

WAKE UP AMERICANS. THIS IS STILL NOT THE TIME TO SLEEP.

On New Years Eve across this nation, we all need to throw some shoes. Throw 'em high and throw 'em hard.

The real pathetic thing regarding justice for the crimes of the Bush Regime is this is about all it may come down to. Thank you our inept Congress/Democrats. So throw a few shoes in honor of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid while you're at it.

 

 

 

To say that things have gotten absurd is an understatement. There isn't a word for how things have gotten since the only one who knows this word is GOD. But let me tell ya' if he/she/it ain't laughing his/her/it ass off right not he/she/it should be.

What kind of species creates an artificial construct entirely of its own then elevates its importance over and above itself--the construct being money? The human species created money. The human species can do away with it and isn't it all becoming a little ridiculous, this thing with money? I mean, this thing with money could annihilate the entire planet making the obsession even more, ok, inane. (God, is this the word you would use? INANE?).

Imagine a world without money and currency. Go ahead. Take the leap. "How could this possibly work?" you say clutching your wallet in both hands. Now, hang on to your Gucci because this is really going to blow you away. Here is how it would work: everyone would get what they need. Again. Everyone would get what they need. Everyone would be guarenteed a shelter, food, health care (gasp), and transportation. The dying person in Dafur right now? This person would get all of this and how barbaric that this person does not get all this now. You see, money leads to barbarism, lack of compassion, empathy...Money is barbaric.

Even more barbaric is charging people for what they need to live--like for food. For health care, for getting around. For being human. We live on a planet that charges people money because they were born. Because they are alive. You pay. This is all a part of the elevation of a human-created construct over human decency and welfare and it's well, sick. Very sick.

Ok Ok you say. But go on about how this would work.

Everyone gets what they need. Whatever you own right now, you keep. Your house. Your car. Boat. It's yours.

What about hoarding you ask?

Yes, intially there would be hoarding but then it would strike people as incredibly stupid to hoard since anyone can attain what they need anyway. Why would you hoard 8 cars if you can have 8 cars anytime? If you can have anything you want, where is the incentive to hoard, rob, kill, steal, cheat, bomb, shoot, threaten, connive...Without money, much of the things that make us kill one another and kill the planet (climate change) would be totally eliminated.

The government that hoards the money while their own citziens starve to death...well, this would make no sense without money.

We have enough material crap that we could get a little to anyone who wants it. The person dying in Dafur would get a place to live. Would get food. Human love and generosity would finally be totally and completely released. We could finally be kind to one another, help one another, care for one another because this barrier we put up to divide us from ourselves would be completely and totally GONE.

There will come a time, possibly right before the planet dies, when money will be abandoned because our obsession with it will just become impossible to maintain. It will suddenly look really really stupid to shoot someone for their money. We also will not be able to afford planetary death. Climate change, all these disasters, population growth...we are going to price ourselves out of existence at some point and we will not be able to afford money any more. If we do not eliminate money deliberately and replace it with a more humane system, it will happen anyway. Inevitably.

The financial collapse has made us all see how pathetic we are as a species. That the best minds are NOT making the best decisions. That the human species may in fact deserve to go extinct. That chasing this crazy thing we created called money is killing us all. It's killing the planet.

As Carl Sagan pointed out, the tragedy of the human species is it has evolved the capacity for foresight but refuses to use it. Can we use it now? Do we have the fortitude and courage to use it now? The answer will determine the future of the entire world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So. This is it. We have one of the most corrupt presidential regimes in the history of the country and like frat boys after the party, they trash the place then just leave? Is this how it is now? We are all moving on? Forgetting that our Speaker of the House in concert with our Congress blew off an illegal war where thousands died, is forgetting about the outing of a CIA agent, the gutting of environmental protections, the blackballing of long-time dedicated government employees, the firing of judges for political purposes, the wiretapping of our phones, reading our mail, lying, lying then lying some more, allowing corporations to write policy, working in secret, abolishing Habeus Corpus, Posse Commitatus, advocating and practicing torture, bankrupting our treasury then asking US to pay for it over and over? C'mon. You're kidding me. Throw in a vice president who blew somebody's face off with a shotgun.

Did I miss anything? Yea. Actually. I did. A lot.

 But, hey, it's been 8 years. Relax. It's almost over.

This is how it works now?  We're all supposed to "move on", get over it, rage about change?

No permanent damage done right? Right? We'll just glide back to how it was? And how was it?  

Let bygones be bygones?

No accountability of any kind? And we think this will not affect future regimes? This kind of phenomenal level of disrespect if not contempt for our country? How come I got stopped recently for running a stop sign? I mean...if I can't run a lousy stop sign after all the stuff they have done? I mean, a stop sign? I tried to reason with them. Look at what our government has done in our name. I did not get a ticket. I drive on incredulous.  

And here is the final travesty: that indeed, they will walk away from this free as birds.

Never held accountable.

Never punished.

In the end, no matter what happens, this will comprise the darkest time in America's history and America will wear the scars forever and Nancy, these are not the kind botox will ever get rid of...but oh- do you care?

 

 

 

 

Well one thing is for sure. I am glad someone is FINALLY  addressing all us hockey moms out here. Yea, my girlfriend, Monique who lives in a rough part of LA? Her son was shot in a gang shooting accidentally (it grazed his shoulder) and it was while they were on their way to yup--you got it--hockey practice. Yea, Mom's all over the nation after working their three jobs all day and picking their kids up from day care or grandma and trying to put together a meal if at all and doing the laundry at the laundramat and fighting with the Dad who is 3 months behind on his child support and the car with the muffler hang off of it and the 12 year old who is facing detention yet again and the rent that just went up and the closed library and parks and the price of milk at the grocery store going to $4 for a half gallon and the cousin that's in jail again for passing bad checks--yea, they all play hockey in inner city LA Sarah. You got this demography thing down pat girlfriend. Yea, every single woman in this country is white, upper class, and rushes their little "Track" is it (?) to hockey practice. Sure. You got it.

Finally, someone who really knows the heart and soul of our nation.