Social Seppuku

I am Thankful!

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:44:00 +0000

"Yes Mark, it is true, the Sacred Turkey of Justice brings the Gravy of Truth to all on this Special Day!"

Be thankful. Now if they will just put him in one of those corporate prisons that Texas is famous for....

Texas Prison, Ramsey Unit © Danny Lyon

Censorship, Sex, Power

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:22:00 +0000

Moral Police seldom do good.

But she gets it...

Keep it Greasy...

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:37:00 +0000

Die BP MotherFuckers
Stopping killing us!

Art from here

Screw you we're from...guess where?

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:08:00 +0000

Taliban Texans never disappoint...

Here is a link, but be careful. They say it is not designed
for non- fuck witted Christians.
More info and links here
and Social Seppuku's Texastravatastic-a-palooza
posts of the dumbstar state's cultural attractions here.

It's not just unholy Amarillo
it is all of America!

Feminine Power

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:03:00 +0000

(photo of Carrie Prejean)

...is an amazing thing

Barry Cooper is Super!

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:56:00 +0000

Fuckin' A Barry!
A real man with real mission.

Read here about Barry's latest foray into Kop Busting.

Having lived near there for a few years, I can say that it couldn't have happened to a shittier Police Capt. Watch the fun at Barry's site here,
or the big screen version on You Tube.

Barry Cooper is running for Texas AG.
Give him all the support you can.
He can use it. He is non-corporate and Family owned and operated.

From Our Responsible Nation...

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:50:00 +0000

Not a good idea

"Genetic Change we can believe in..."

Confused Cops under Presuure?

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:38:00 +0000

Poor stupid Bastard...

Fire Extinguisher = Riot size Pepper Spray

Taser = Gun

It seems the Police need to do a little inventory and get organizing of their "stuff"

Righteousness and Comfort in Ignorance

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:34:00 +0000

This is so sad and so real and seemingly inescapable.

a snip from the BBC article:

Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America's poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.

Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different:
"You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining.
"It's like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy."

Suffering and Hell to OMG LOL

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Our Entertainment, Their Suffering

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000

Stamp Out Violence Against Women and Girls of the Congo
by omnipeace

If No See, No Hear, then No Speak, No Do

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:07:00 +0000

Read some of the not so new News, here

Some of my favs: 6, 9, 19, 24

Thanks to Raw Story for the hard work and for working this story
and other corruption involving the Turd Rove.

Signs of Ignorance

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:48:00 +0000

Merry Christmas from Social Seppuku

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:36:00 +0000

May all your life be filled with astounding hypocrisy, un-just and unnecessary social conditions, mind boggling ignorance and ineptitude in crucial human services and impotent rage and despair at the domination of the rich and influential over the innocent and needy!

Merry Fucking Krampus!

If only it were true....

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Wall st.at its Finest

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:26:00 +0000

A model of pure Capitalism
The American Dream...

Somali sea gangs
lure investors at pirate lair

read the full article at Reuters here

By Mohamed Ahmed

HARADHEERE, Somalia (Reuters) - In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate.

Heavily armed pirates from the lawless Horn of Africa nation have terrorized shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean and strategic Gulf of Aden, which links Europe to Asia through the Red Sea.

The gangs have made tens of millions of dollars from ransoms and a deployment by foreign navies in the area has only appeared to drive the attackers to hunt further from shore.

It is a lucrative business that has drawn financiers from the Somali diaspora and other nations -- and now the gangs in Haradheere have set up an exchange to manage their investments.

One wealthy former pirate named Mohammed took Reuters around the small facility and said it had proved to be an important way for the pirates to win support from the local community for their operations, despite the dangers involved.

"Four months ago, during the monsoon rains, we decided to set up this stock exchange. We started with 15 'maritime companies' and now we are hosting 72. Ten of them have so far been successful at hijacking," Mohammed said.

"The shares are open to all and everybody can take part, whether personally at sea or on land by providing cash, weapons or useful materials ... we've made piracy a community activity."

{Snip}

Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.

"I am waiting for my share after I contributed a rocket-propelled grenade for the operation," she said, adding that she got the weapon from her ex-husband in alimony.

"I am really happy and lucky. I have made $75,000 in only 38 days since I joined the 'company'."

Change we can be dismembered with

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:00 +0000

It's all about American Pride
But where politicians fear to tread,
Others with more courage , heart and whiskers will...

Obama administration refuses to sign land mine treaty
from Raw Story

After reviewing the Bush-era policy, the Obama White House has decided to maintain the prior administration's refusal to sign an international treaty banning land mines, according to published reports.

"More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines," the Associated Press noted. "Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia."

"We made our policy review and we determined that we would not be able to meet our national defense needs, nor our security commitments to our friends and allies if we sign this convention," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly reportedly said.

Advocacy organizations like Human Rights Watch had urged administration officials to sign the treaty. The United States is the largest worldwide contributor to the recovery of undetonated mines, which still pose a severe danger to civilians in 70 countries. No land mines have been produced by the U.S. since 1997, when the Land Mine Ban Treaty took effect. The last time American forces deployed the weapon was during the 1991 invasion of Iraq.

According to the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (ICBL), efforts undertaken in 1999 to recover mines "have saved millions of lives through the removal of more than 2.2 million emplaced antipersonnel mines, 250,000 antivehicle mines, and 17 million" explosive remnants of war.

Last year land mines "killed at least 1,266 people and wounded 3,891," AP added, citing the ICBL. One third of the deaths were children, according to the group.

"In contravention of the treaty, however, the United States stockpiles some 10 million antipersonnel mines and retains the option to use them," Reuters reported.

Welcome Home

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:04:00 +0000

I took this photo before I left Texas.
This is from Liberty Hill, TX not far
from Killeen where Fort Hood is.

(click to see the Christian love up close)

I am so sorry than the Fort Hood murders
were done by a Muslim.
It makes these assholes even more so...

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Loathe Thy Neighbor

www.thedailyshow.com

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Political Humor

Health Care Crisis

A Vision Within

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:22:00 +0000

He is a camera, the film and the print

Read it and Weep...

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:51:00 +0000

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

The full article from McClatchy here
some excerpts below:

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.

Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U.S. and global economies.
Only later did investors discover that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A rated investments were closer to junk.

Now, pension funds, insurance companies, labor unions and foreign financial institutions that bought those dicey mortgage securities are facing large losses, and a five-month McClatchy investigation has found that Goldman's failure to disclose that it made secret, exotic bets on an imminent housing crash may have violated securities laws.
"The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in any financial company that secretly decides a financial product is a loser and then goes out and actively markets that product or very similar products to unsuspecting customers without disclosing its true opinion," said Laurence Kotlikoff, a Boston University economics professor who's proposed a massive overhaul of the nation's banks. "This is fraud and should be prosecuted."
(snip)

The firm benefited when Paulson elected not to save rival Lehman Brothers from collapse, and when he organized a massive rescue of tottering global insurer American International Group while in constant telephone contact with Goldman chief Blankfein. With the Federal Reserve Board's blessing, AIG later used $12.9 billion in taxpayers' dollars to pay off every penny it owed Goldman.
These decisions preserved billions of dollars in value for Goldman's executives and shareholders. For example, Blankfein held 1.6 million shares in the company in September 2008, and he could have lost more than $150 million if his firm had gone bankrupt.
With the help of more than $23 billion in direct and indirect federal aid, Goldman appears to have emerged intact from the economic implosion, limiting its subprime losses to $1.5 billion. By repaying $10 billion in direct federal bailout money — a 23 percent taxpayer return that exceeded federal officials' demand — the firm has escaped tough federal limits on 2009 bonuses to executives of firms that received bailout money.
Goldman announced record earnings in July, and the firm is on course to surpass $50 billion in revenue in 2009 and to pay its employees more than $20 billion in year-end bonuses.
(snip)
For decades, Goldman, a bastion of Ivy League graduates that was founded in 1869, has cultivated an elite reputation as home to the best and brightest and a tradition of urging its executives to take turns at public service.
As a result, Goldman has operated a virtual jobs conveyor belt to and from Washington: Paulson, as Treasury secretary, sent tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars to rescue Wall Street in 2008, and former Goldman employees populate some of the most demanding and powerful posts in Washington. Savvy federal regulators have migrated from their Washington jobs to Goldman.
On Oct. 16, a Goldman vice president, Adam Storch, was named managing executive of the SEC's enforcement division.
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This excellent article shows how the game is fixed from the inside.
Read the rest of this truly maddening story here.

A Pound of Flesh

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Too bad fraud does not have the same penalties for felonies

Torture charged in L.A.-area mortgage rescue case

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they suspected of fraud, authorities said on Monday.

The couple, Daniel Weston and Mary Ann Parmelee, and three other people are accused of luring their two victims to an office where the men were tied up, held for hours and beaten, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney said.

Police were called after one of the victims managed to escape, said the spokeswoman, Shiara Davila-Morales. The incident occurred on Wednesday in the town of Glendale, just north of Los Angeles.

Weston, Parmelee and the three other defendants each were charged with two counts of torture, two counts of false imprisonment by violence and two counts of second-degree robbery, according to a criminal complaint filed against them.

Weston, 52, and Parmelee, 51, both arrested last week and jailed on $1 million bond, shared a house in the suburb of La Canada-Flintridge that is in foreclosure, authorities said.

"The two allegedly sought loan modification assistance from the victims but believed that nothing was being done and wanted their money back," a statement from the district attorney's office said.

Davila-Morales added that the couple, according to investigators, believed they had been swindled.

Weston and another man, who previously served time for assault, are accused of carrying out the beatings in front of their three co-defendants, who prosecutors say had prior business ties with the two victims by having funneled loan-modification referrals to them.

Each count of felony torture, defined as inflicting "great bodily injury" for the purpose of "revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic purpose," carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. Defense lawyers were not immediately available for comment.

The case became public as Los Angeles officials and community groups kicked off a national public-awareness effort urging homeowners to beware of bogus loan-modification programs and to report suspicious activity to authorities.

Los Angeles was selected to launch the campaign because the metropolitan region ranks among areas with the highest foreclosure rates nationwide, organizers said.

"mmm, now with more Truth!"

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:57:00 +0000

Saint George speaks the Gospel

How Sweet!

noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:51:00 +0000

Having troubles with Health Care?

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noreply@blogger.com (M.Yu) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:47:00 +0000