The Boogeyman Chronicles

AZ Governor Brewer ditches Gun Buy-Back program for new Gun-Redistribution program

2013-05-01T06:31:00.001-07:00

What. In. The. Fuck is going on in Arizona? Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill on Monday requiring all firearms acquired through gun buyback events to be resold, rather than destroyed.

Soooooo to be clear, the new Arizona plan is to offer incentives for poor people to give up their guns, then the State will put a new price tag on them and redistribute them to folks who can afford them?

This completely goes against the whole premise of having Gun Buy-Back events... The idea is to get guns off the streets, NOT to transfer guns from one community to another. This is some Bullshit!

But she wasn't finished...

Brewer signed a second bill on Monday that bans any city, town, or county from collecting or maintaining of any identifying information about a person who owns or sells a firearm.

...You know, it amazes me that the same motherfuckers who are so patriotically indignant about even the possibility of putting any limitations on gun ownership due to it being a constitutionally protected act, have literally no qualms and in many cases zeal about fucking with my right to vote by trotting out these mickey-mouse restrictions and limitations like voter ID and what-not.

On another note - doesn't Jan Brewer look like that dead preacher from Poltergeist? ...just sayin'

I'm Back...

2013-02-21T07:13:00.001-08:00

After a ridiculously long hiatus, I have decided to return to blogging... Not that its a big deal to anybody else, but over time I've built up such a reservoir of outrage and shock that I desperately need the outlet. Without it, I'd probably either stroke out or have to find some in-patient therapy... Not that I'm crazy - I most certainly am not... but I've got a cast of characters in my daily life that are certainly enough to drive a muthafucka crazy - so I write to alleviate the urge to "handle" the situation in a more direct and tactile manner...

Hope you read it - hope you enjoy it - blah blah blah...

An Open Letter to Donald Trump

2011-04-27T18:41:00.000-07:00

Dear Don,

Fuck you.

Sincerely,

the Blacks

We the People? - The Tea Party needs to pick a side!

2011-02-19T12:38:00.000-08:00

Isn't it an interesting parallel that after the protests in Egypt commanded Worldwide attention, the Mubarik regime paid "pro-government" supporters to go out and clash with the demonstrators.

And now the protests in Wisconsin are attracting the eyes of the world, the Tea Party groups have decided to bus in their own "pro-government" supporters to go out and clash with the demonstrators.

And isn't it strange that a 'grass roots' movement who have been shouting from the rooftops that the Government needs to "listen to the People", could turn right around less-than-a-year later and argue that The People need to "listen to the Government."

Wisconsin and the deafening roar of the mythical silent majority

2011-02-18T15:24:00.000-08:00

Ok, so, I just finished listening to Governor Walker give a speech where he somehow managed to talk about looking out for the will and welfare of the people, while simultaneously ignoring the thousands of people who were protesting his ass and his decisions inside of his Capital building.

He employed a tactic that I've been hearing more and more as of late... Now get this... There are LITERALLY thousands of people chanting and shouting in the Capital building itself, up and down the streets, at the Governors mansion, and a State-Wide sick-out has shut-down the school system... But This muthafucka goes on television and says that there are more than 5 million people in the State of Wisconsin and that he would not allow "the protesters to believe that they could drown out the voices" of the other Wisconsin residents.

Drown out?

If you claim to be "of the people" and "for the people", how in the hell do you "ignore the people" when they leave their jobs and their security to come to YOUR house so that they can be heard. How do you justify "standing up" for the folks who HAVEN'T SAID SHIT and elevating what you ASSUME they would say above what the thousands of people standing outside your door are clearly telling you?

When the 5 million folks who are sitting at home and watching the shit on tv show up and state their opinion, THEN we have something to talk about, but UNITL THEN... GETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERE

Bristol, Brandy, and the real face of Affirmative Action

2010-11-17T08:13:00.000-08:00

Now normally, I wouldn't give two shits about a television reality show. Big Brother, the Real World, Jersey Shore ...all of them are variations of the same theme. Young twenty-something white kids (who sometimes have "one" light skinned half black friend), in a new environment, drinking and fucking each other, blah blah blah... But last night, Dancing with the Stars provided a tiny little window into the TRUE reality that reality shows tend to obscure.

Dancing with the Stars is a Dancing Contest. I say again for emphasis... Dancing with the Stars IS.A.DANCING. CONTEST.

And on this DANCING.CONTEST., performers are scored by qualified judges, but they are also voted on by the general public. And the vote of the General Public determines who moves forward and who is kicked off...

Bristol Palin ended last night in Last Place FOR THE SEVENTH TIME.

Brandy earned a PERFECT SCORE.

Yet in a CLASSIC display of REAL American Affirmative Action, ~~White Folks~~ viewers voted for BRISTOL to move on to the finals and booted Brandy off the show. Brandy earns a PERFECT score and LOSES to the White chick in LAST PLACE.

Bristol, completely oblivious to the fact that her promotion was unearned and undeserved remarked that she felt she was the most improved dancer so she deserved the win. *BULLSHIT* That fact that you went from being a "terrible" dancer to being a "mediocre" dancer should not mean that you should beat a "great" dancer in a fucking Dancing Contest! Unless of course, you're ~~White,~~ ~~a Palin,~~ American...

The Fix Is IN!!!

2010-11-05T06:01:00.000-07:00

Ok, So I'm watching Morning Joe this morning... Erin Burnett comes on with her morning Market Report - just 3 DAYS after the elections - and Guess what... Even though the unemployment numbers didn't change and we are holding steady at 9.6%, she gushed about how we are now adding private sector jobs at a sufficient rate to bring the unemployment numbers down.

And as if that were not fishy enough, the Jobs report she was describing was the OCTOBER report, which coincidentally wasn't released until after the election...

And if THAT isn't fishy enough, she went on to state that the September jobs report (which had been reported as a negative report) has NOW been REVISED... It seems we were adding Private Sector Jobs at this rate back in September as well!

Hmmmm, sooooooo we just experienced a wave election fueled by anger in the electorate over the lack of jobs and feelings about the economy. YET it is now reported that the economy was showing these really positive signs of improvement for the last couple months - BUT news outlets like MSNBC sat on the numbers and only released them AFTER the elections, along with a glowing commentary encouraging people to be optimistic.

Don't sleep... The Hustler's are coming home to roost.

...the more things stay the same

2010-10-14T13:48:00.000-07:00

So, Michelle Rhee, hailed by many as one of the authentic change agents so desperately needed in our Nation's Schools, has just ~~been shit-canned~~ submitted her resignation after seizing the media spotlight by demanding excellence and accountability from teachers. The Washington DC school system, with abominable graduation and drop out rates, seemed to have a glimmer of hope. Here was someone who was finally willing to stand up to the Teacher's Unions and fire lousy teachers who could not produce results. Here was someone who saw past the bullshit myth that all teachers are generally the same, and that the wildly different outcomes are solely the fault of the students themselves.

Hospitals wouldn't keep a Doctor whose patients generally didn't recover from their illnesses and just stayed sick more often then all the other Doctors.

Your local gym wouldn't keep an Personal trainer whose clients didn't really lose any weight and always just seemed to stay fat more other then any other trainers.

But when it come to teachers in Inner-City schools, the students can just keep failing, quitting, or getting kicked out, and the Teachers are generally held-harmless... The defect is assumed to be the child's.

Michell Rhee promised to change all that. She and then Mayor Adrien Fenty were promising to reform DC schools and provide a template for fixing all schools....

But then an election took place...and money changed hands...the special interests and lobbyists went to work...now Fenty and Rhee are gone...the Teacher's Union is jubilant...and the kids are fucked...

Damn Michelle, I was really routing for you...

Where the Fuck is Superman when you need him?

I'm a little confused...

2010-09-06T07:24:00.000-07:00

Newt Gingrich and fair-weather Federalism

2010-09-03T17:14:00.000-07:00

To be perfectly honest, I think partisan politics is a hustle... It's a well paying gig for the mendacious and charismatic who are either too unattractive or don't have enough of a southern drawl to work a pulpit. So I'm rarely surprised when a politician acts hypocritically or takes contradictory positions based on their personal self-interests... But this one is REALLY a gem...

If you go to Newt Gingrich's website, in his issues section, he has tabs on "limited government" and "religious liberty". (You can already see where I'm going with this can't you)

Under the grand heading of "Religious Liberty", Newt writes:

A steadfast commitment to religious freedom is the very cornerstone of American liberty. People came to America’s shores to be free to practice their religious beliefs. It brought the Puritans with their desire to create a “city on a hill” that would be a beacon of religious belief and piety. The Pilgrims were another group that poured into the new colonies. Quakers in Pennsylvania were another, Catholics in Maryland yet a fourth.

It is important to recognize that the benefits of these supports accrue to people of not just one particular faith, but those of all faiths, and for all people of goodwill, whether religious, agnostic, atheist, or radical secularist. Likewise, the Founders clearly believed that the weakening of these religious supports – such as by the hostile treatment of religion in American public life -- threatens to undermine the very republican institutions under which the religious and the non-religious alike find their liberties.

Under the grand heading of "Limited Government" he speaks about the "gaming the system mentality" and inherent corruption of big government, stating:

Markets are ultimately fair because they empower individual consumers to make their own choices. Bureaucracies are fundamentally unfair because they empower a few insiders who inevitably drift toward cronyism and corruption. The only solution for big-government corruption is smaller government.

Hmmmmmmm, Let's recap... our commitment to religious liberty must be steadfast and should extend to all faiths - AND the government should stay out of free-market transactions...

OK

Now can someone reconcile that shit with Newt Gingrich's NEW position: That when it comes to an old Burlington Coat Factory building being leased to a group who want to construct an Islamic community center, that the Federal Government should "game the system" by declaring the whole Ground Zero area a 'National Battleground'?

He even went on to say:

"The Attorney General of New York, Andrew Cuomo, could intervene because frankly he has the ability to slow it down for decades if he wants to."

"There are a number of different steps that could be taken. There's no reason this has to occur and whether it's city, state, or federal there are plenty of ways for America to stop it."

Clearly, one of y'all (and by y'all I mean "Gingrich A" or "Gingrich B") is pandering... Either website Gingrich is stating your true positions and talking point Gingrich is trying to build support for a political run by fanning the flames of racism and anti-Muslim sentiment, OR - you're just another race-baiting asshole and your website is designed to build political support for you with eloquent displays of fake piety and philosophical fuckery.

I don't know which one is true, but I do know one thing - You sir, are full of shit.

~~**And that's one to grow on**~~

The Reverend Glenn Luther Beck Jr. can kiss my entire a$$

2010-08-30T09:29:00.000-07:00

You know, I've really got to hand it to this guy... On television, radio, and now even at a mass rally, he has been able to successfully portray himself as some kind of Christian faith leader. From his perch, he has managed to lead a pilgrimage of Conservatives to the very spot where Dr. King stood, invoke his name, and claim his legacy, while having spent the better part of a year attacking the idea of "social justice". He managed to portray himself as a common Joe, even referring to himself as "every man", while attacking "Liberation Theology" which is rooted in the idea that we should work to empower the poor and the struggling... And perhaps the most fascinating transformation is that he has managed to portray himself as some kind of 'equal rights' Christian, who even attacked the President by calling him a racist, all while being a proud member of the Mormon faith...

Why is this so fascinating you ask?

Well for starters because what the Reverend Glenn Luther Beck WON'T tell you is that Mormons believe that Black people are dark skinned because we are cursed by God.

BoM Alma 3:6 And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren,

And that God performed this curse to mark us, so that that his people (white people) could identify us and know not to mix with us or our traditions.

BoM Alma 3:8 And this was done that their seed might be distinguished from the seed of their brethren, that thereby the Lord God might preserve his people, that they might not mix and believe in incorrect traditions which would prove their destruction.

Or that when their prophet Jacob spoke to the Nephites, he warned them that if they did not cease their filth and wickedness, God would curse them by making them EVEN BLACKER than he made the already wicked Laminites

BoM Jacob 3:8 O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours, when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.

Or that in God's sight we are not only dark, but filthy and loathsome and God himself has turned his back on us.

BoM Mormon 5:15-18 And also that the seed of this people may more fully believe his gospel, which shall go forth unto them from the Gentiles; for this people shall be scattered, and shall become a dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people, beyond the description of that which ever hath been amongst us, yea, even that which hath been among the Lamanites, and this because of their unbelief and idolatry.
16 For behold, the Spirit of the Lord hath already ceased to strive with their fathers; and they are without Christ and God in the world; and they are driven about as chaff before the wind.
17 They were once a delightsome people, and they had Christ for their shepherd; yea, they were led even by God the Father.
18 But now, behold, they are led about by Satan, even as chaff is driven before the wind, or as a vessel is tossed about upon the waves, without sail or anchor, or without anything wherewith to steer her; and even as she is, so are they.

Nor will he tell you that until the Book of Mormon was revised in 1981, it stated that if and when we would "turn back to God" and be redeemed, we would be made WHITE. And while he may, (as Mitt Romney did during his campaign), acknowledge the fact that Mormon's forbade Blacks from entering in their ministry until 1978, he probably WON'T tell you that the prohibition was based on a belief that blacks were neutral in the war between God and the Devil in some 'pre-existence' and were therefore cursed and forbidden from the priesthood. Nor will he tell you that Mormon's do not believe that they were wrong or that that is now untrue, they simply believe that a new revelation from God came in 1978 that essentially said, "...eh, Fuck it... go ahead and let 'em preach".

But now it's time for an act of community service... Since Glenn Beck seems to be a bit confused about what Racism really looks like like, let me offer this little primer. The things I just quoted from the Book of Mormon - That's some Racist shit...

So Glenn, the next time you want to invoke the name of a Black leader while standing in his shadow, and call upon me to "turn back to God"... take a deep breath - then go fuck yourself.

~~~**And now you know**~~~

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47 years later: Americans to honor Martin Luther King with racially separate rallies...

2010-08-27T19:04:00.000-07:00

Now I know we're not supposed to say this but...

Tomorrow marks the 47th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King's delivery of the famous "I have a Dream" speech. What does it say about us that we would mark the occasion with dueling events - Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin hosting their "Restoring Honor" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, while the National Action Network, the NAACP and other Civil Rights figures and organizations gather in a DC High School for their "Reclaiming the Dream" rally? One predominantly white - one predominantly black. One conservative - one liberal. One featuring Dr. King's niece - one featuring his son... Each staking its claim to the mantle... Both claiming to be the "real" inheritors of the legacy...

What fucking dream was that?

You know... "I" now have a dream... I have a dream that my glorious Nunchucks would visit DC tomorrow and kiss all of you gently on the back of your heads; and that then, your sleeping bodies would form a beautiful textured tapistry covering the mall grounds in black and white...

Dr. Laura of Arc: The Cruci"Fiction" of a wanna be martyr...

2010-08-19T10:44:00.000-07:00

Ok, let me acknowledge from the start that I have never listed to this woman's show. In fact I don't listen to any radio advice columnists. I tend to see the 'talk-radio industry' as vacuous and specious; a bunch of bullshit artists who get paid to be curt and inflammatory thereby providing some perverse affirmation to the assholes who actually listen to them. They parrot the sometimes ridiculous and sometimes cruel dictums that old guy who side-eyed you in the Walmart parking lot was thinking when he saw you in your fancy car.

But that said, I was never-the-less intrigued by the Laura Schlessinger story. Not by the fact that she blew off a Black caller asking for advice on how to deal with her White husbands racist friends. Not by the fact that she never once told the caller that perhaps her husband should defend her. Not by the fact that she went on to tell the caller that if she has a problem with being subjected to racist comments then perhaps she shouldn't have married a White guy. And not even by the fact that she took the occasion to say the N-word 11 times to a Black woman who called in because she was hurt and offended by racist comments!

No... That's not what prompted me to end my blogging sabbatical...

What intrigued me was the fact that Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who was in no real danger of losing her contract, chose to QUIT, and then claim she did it to reclaim her first amendment right to free speech. WTH???

Uhhh... Hello? She had a Nationally syndicated Radio show where she could talk crazy all day long and had just gotten away with saying the N-Word REPEATEDLY like she was channeling Richard Pryor (circa 1978).

Free Speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want Without consequence... If you go out and offend a few million people, they may in turn, call your sponsors and demand an apology; that's not persecution, that's cause and effect!

But you see, if she stays on the air and keeps her show, then she'll be remembered as Dr. Laura, the asshole who likes to use the word Nigger on the air when talking to Black people. But by leaving she can pretend to be a martyr who was somehow 'pushed' out by the forces of political correctness. Now, newly minted as a "victim", she'll become a symbol to the conservative right. They'll rally behind her and what they believe should be their right ~~to call black folks niggers in public~~ to be free of political correctness.

Mark my words - She'll either end up on Fox, Cable, or Satellite radio with a new show, with a broader reach, making more money. Only THEN her audience will be even whiter, so she won't have to deal with you niggas anymore...

California Police did WHAT??? Tasered a double amputee in a wheelchair?!?!?

2009-09-21T14:15:00.000-07:00

You'll never guess what the fuck just happened in Rush Limbaugh's America... California Police twice tasered a man in a wheelchair with NO LEGS. Even more insipid is the fact that they pressed the taser to his chest and charged it without deploying the prongs. (This allows them to get the tasering effect without having to include the event on all of their taser incident stats)

BUT IT GETS WORSE! The guy falls out of his wheelchair.. The Officer puts his knee on the guys neck and handcuffs him. And while he is on the ground, the guys pants fall down AND THE OFFICERS LEAVE HIM LIKE THAT. The man who obviously could not run away and posed no immediate danger to any of the officers, was tasered, allowed to fall from his wheelchair to the ground, and humiliated by being left on the ground handcuffed and partially nude for 15 minutes.

MAN I WOULD LOVE TO READ THE POLICE REPORT!!!

I would be willing to bet that the Officers will allege battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. From a man in a wheelchair with no legs...

This is a clear case of why there needs to be national standards for the use of force and particularly for "less-than-lethal" tools like tasers. ALL taser incidents should be inventoried. All incidents should be tallied and categorized on quarterly reports. All Reports should be open and available to the public. And all officers who abuse the equipment should be wrapped in Christmas lights and tasered in the nuts

I ain't be seent no racism

2009-09-19T05:59:00.000-07:00

Ok, here's why I hate politics... The pathological need to be liked, mixed with the practical need to appeal even to the folks who disagree with your politics and hate you personally, cause even ordinarily bright people to act like feeble-ass escaped slaves. It is a TRAGEDY that Jimmy Carter - an older white man from Georgia - stood up and told the truth - AND WE ALL KNOW HE TOLD THE TRUTH, but the Political negroes are all lining up to scratch and shuffle and pretend that race no longer exists. Of course to do that, they must ignore the obvious (Obama as Uncle Ben on a box of waffles, Obama as a monkey on t-shirts, Signs saying Obama should go back to Africa, and my favorite pictured above)

I am disgusted...

Point of Order: regarding Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, Kane West, and Joe Wilson

2009-09-15T14:33:00.000-07:00

To all my Republican colleagues and the media outlets who give them voice: You can not go on endlessly about how horrible it was that Kanye West (the rapper) interrupted Taylor Swift's (the singer) acceptance speech while lauding Joe Wilson (the Congressman) for interrupting Barack Obama's (the President of the United States of America) address to a special joint session of Congress.

For context: Taylor Swift was saying thank you to her Mom and Dad and to all her fans for watching her videos and singing along to her vapid tales of teen-angst set to acoustic guitar. President Obama was talking about our options for reforming the health care system that is currently in the process of bankrupting the whole fucking country.

Kanye West distastefully expressed his disagreement with Taylor Swift being the recipient of her "moon man" award, thereby challenging the judgement of the panel of twenty-somethings who decided that they liked video A over video B. Joe Wilson distastefully expressed his disagreement with the President's description of the content of the version of the Health Care reform bill that he (the President) supports, thereby challenging the integrity and fundamental honesty of the leader of the free world on International Fucking Television.

To be clear - I'm not defending Kanye West - I think he's an ass. But I can say that Because I am intellectually consistent! There are obvious differences in scale, but they accrue to the benefit of MY argument. They were both stupid, but not equally so...

You can lionize Joe Wilson all you want - print bumper stickers - give him extra donations - wear buttons, hats, or whatever... But don't then turn around and pretend to be paragons of decorum by excoriating Kanye (or Serena for that matter). Just be decent and shut the fuck up. In the pantheon of mindless and Silly Ass behavior, celebrating the one while feigning offense at the other is akin to Zeus (which in this case is Greek for Douche)

Oh Republicans... doth thine fuckbaggery know no bounds?

Introducing Joe Wilson; From ridiculous nutbag to "political reformer" in 82 hours

2009-09-11T04:11:00.000-07:00

So I'm flipping through the channels this morning and come across a discussion on Morning Joe... They are discussing how Joe Wilson's completely inappropriate outburst during the President's address to a joint session of congress might have actually been a 'good' thing in that it injected a bit of friction into the 'debate' a la the British Parliament... They went on to reminisce fondly about how then Prime Minister Margret Thatcher would 'clutch her purse and sling right back' at her detractors.

The problem with that argument is three-fold... (1) This Ain't the fuckin' British Parliament! (2) The President of the United States is the leader of the free world and is NOT the equivalent of the British Prime Minister (3) There are Foreign Policy consequences when you publicly undermine the President's credibility by screaming that he's a Liar during a major policy address

Once again the Refucklicans prove their unlimited capacity for rationalizing the most obnoxious and crazy-ass behavior in their dogged pursuit of the status quo...

Well yeah, the market is bouncing back, BUT...

2009-09-08T06:08:00.000-07:00

Let's see, last November, the economy was on a fast track to hell. The market was losing 6 or 700 points a day. We saw a drop from 13,000 down to almost 7,000. Newly elected President Obama took office facing what all of the commentators and analysts agreed was the greatest economic downturn since the great depression.

Three months into President Obama's administration, faux news, Joe and Mika, and the rest of the R's were out in public proclaiming that because of the 'stimulus bill', we were now in the throws of Obama's economy.

By the 7th month of his administration, the market started to turn around (7 MONTHS) and the talking heads started changing the subject. And now in the 9th month, we are seeing slow but steady growth...

This morning on MSNBC the discussion of the market began with "Well, the market's are up, but..."

C'mon y'all.. would it kill you to acknowledge the positive? Considering the fact that the market is essentially fueled by confidence, what exactly are you attempting to do by downplaying the positives and overplaying the negatives?

Don't sleep - Joe Scarborough is Emperor Palpatine

2009-09-05T12:04:00.000-07:00

The way I think, I make it look easy, Can't leave rap alone, the game needs me...

I'm back y'all... I took about a nine month hiatus from blogging; got tired of trying to be witty and relevant and all of that shit... But Maaaan, there is just too much craziness going on right now to keep quiet. I swear, even if nobody ever reads this page, if I don't get some of this stuff out of me I think my head will explode. So now I'm back to do what I do; namely to offer poignant and cogent analysis which I will subsequently spoil with random and unnecessary slang and profanity... and shit.

To the point: I was banging on Buchanan, Beck, and Savage about a year ago... And while they're still asses - doing what they do - they are clearly NOT the fountainhead. The guy we should all be keeping an eye on is none other than Joe Scarborough.

He's nowhere near as acrid or caustic as a Pat Buchanon, nowhere near as paranoid or cynical as the psycho-babbleist Glenn Beck, and nowhere near as socially anachronistic and grotesque as a Mike Savage or Sean Hannity, BUT THAT WHY WE SHOULDN'T SLEEP. There is a clear synchronicity in their messages. The difference is Scarborough takes the time to roll his shit in powdered sugar, but don't be fooled, that is NOT a donut. He expresses precisely the same reflexive opposition and hostility towards Obama and EVERY initiative, plan, and program that he's launched; except Scarborough presents it calmly in the voice of a faux-rationalism that allows him to pass it off as an objective or reasoned criticism.

It's too bad, he's even taken little Mika to the darkside as well... I used to enjoy the interaction between them, with her as a genuinely rational alternative to the usual "I'm-towing-the-partyline-but-pretending-to-be-independent" charade. But that was then...

A Bernie Made-off bailout?!?

2009-01-04T10:06:00.000-08:00

So I'm on the treadmill this morning, and I happen to hear a reporter on Faux news discussing a pending request from victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme who are asking for some sort of Government bailout. The reporter himself was sympathetic as he stated that certainly those who had lost 'everything' should expect that they might receive some sort of restitution; then he questioned, "but where will it end".

This was funny to me because it reminded me of another act of butt-ass ignorance that I had the privilege of witnessing... Some years ago, I was a soldier in the US Army. While I was yet in training, we'd spend all of the day in class and most of the evening in the day-room shooting pool, watching TV, and talking shit. One day, someone cracked the plexiglass on a vending machine with their pool cue. The insatiable greed of ordinary motherfuckas led folks to start fishing for chips and snacks out of the machine with coat hangers. This led to a larger break in the plexiglass. Which led to folks reaching into the machine with their hands. Which led to a larger break in the plexiglass. And so on and so forth until, by morning, all of the plexiglass was gone and the machine was completely empty. When the Drill Sergeants found the machine, there was hell to pay for the entire unit, not to mention the fact that we lost all of our vending machines thereafter.

It never occurred to any of those geniuses that there would be a price to pay for their actions. It never occurred to any of those geniuses that you can never really have something for nothing. Once people became consumed with the idea that they could personally benefit, they stopped thinking and started reaching...

That's the image in my mind when I hear about the latest installment of bail-out-a-rama. Bunch of simple motherfuckas to self-focused to look ahead to tomorrow morning. Its tragic, but hell, so is life. Madoff was no Lex Luther, he was just a hustler; drop by ANY big city and you can meet a hundred more. And those who lost their money are not universal victims deserving of governmental intervention; you're just a bunch of people who got took...

But hey, now that I think about it... I got took for $30.00 in a three card monte game once. Not to mention all those times I was bamboozled by the man selling fake gold chains back in my teens. Is there an on-line application on Hank Paulson's website?

The difference between Sexism and Racism...

2008-10-14T11:46:00.000-07:00

Hiallry Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Katie Couric, Joe Scarboro, Pat Buchannon, Carly Fiorino, and others were pushing the idea that Hillary and now Palin were/are the victims of rampant sexism. The subject is fair game for discussion and debate, and may be raised in response to nearly any stimuli. When Governor Palin was first parodied on Saturday Night Live, even though the parody depicted both she and Senator Clinton, Fiorino went on MSNBC and declared the sketch "basically sexist".

But when election workers are reporting that across the country whites are struggling with the issue of race, and when McCain Palin were overtly using a campaign strategy to paint Obama as "not one of us", one Black man, john Lewis, makes a comment that links it to racism and EVERYONE of the aforementioned (with the exception of HRC who hasn't discussed it) has felt compelled to dismiss even the notion. Obama had to distance himself from the very suggestion of racism on the part of others because if he hadn't he would've experienced a backlash.

THAT is the difference between Sexism and Racism. People who discuss allegations of Sexism are furthering the national dialogue. African Americans who discuss racism are summarily dismissed as whiners and their complaints are deemed to be overblown.

Red White and BullS$%t - Interesting parallels of this election season

2008-09-13T11:43:00.000-07:00

If you're a Democrat who has been in the Senate for two years, you are a Washington 'insider'.
If you're a Republican who has been in the Senate for 26 years, you are a Washington 'outsider'
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If you're white, win a beauty contest, attended 5-6 colleges before finally graduating , join the PTA, are voted to be mayor by 1000 people, govern a sparsely populated state for almost two years, and randomly get chosen at the last minute to be VP, you've 'lived the American dream '.
If you're black , raised by a single mother, lived on food stamps, help the community, get into Harvard, become the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, and are voted the presidential nominee by millions of people, you are 'uppity'.
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If you live in an urban area and you get a girl pregnant, you're a 'baby daddy . '
If you're the same in Alaska, you're a 'teen father.'
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If you are born in the 50th state of the union and got a passport at birth, you are too 'cosmopolitan' and let the 'corruption of European ideals affect your judgment'.
If you grew up in the 49th state to enter the union, and never had a passport until 2007, you are a 'true patriot of America'.
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Black teen pregnancy? A 'crisis' in America.
White teen pregnancy? A 'blessed event'.
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If you grow up in Hawaii, you're 'exotic'.
If you grow up in Alaska, you're the quintessential 'American story'.
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If you think it's okay to shoot wolves from helicopters, you're just an average American hockey mom having some fun.
If you try to ensure those wolves are treated humanely, you are out of touch with the average American.
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If you name your kid ' Barack', you're 'unpatriotic'.
If you name your kid ' Track ', you're 'colorful'.
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A Democrat who doesn't fully vet a VP is 'reckless'.
A Republican who doesn't fully vet a VP is a 'maverick'.
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Get 18 million people to vote for you in a national presidential primary, you're a 'phony'.
Get 1000 people to vote you governor of the 47th most populous state in the Union, you're 'well loved'.
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If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an 'empty suit'.
If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an 'experienced executive'.
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If you cheated on your first wife with an heiress, you're a Christian.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years, you're 'risky'.
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If you are black or biracial, America needs 2 years and countless speeches to 'get to know you'.
If you' re white, America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to know you're 'one of us'.
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If you give your wife a fist- tap on stage, it's a ' terrorist fist jab'.
If your daughter licks her palm so that she can slick down your youngest child 's hair on national TV it's an 'adorable moment'.
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If your pastor rails against inequality in the Unite d States of America, you're an 'extremist'.
If your pastor welcomes a sermon by Jews for Jesus, who preach that the killing of Jews by terrorists is a lesson to Jews that they must convert to Christianity, you' re a 'fundamentalist'.
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If you' re 18, white, and get a 16 year old girl pregnant ' life happens'.
If you' re 18, black, and impregnate a 16 year old girl, you're a ' registered sex offender'.
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If you're a Republican and you talk to America's enemies, it's ' diplomacy'.
If you're a Democrat and you talk to America's enemies, it's ' appeasement'.
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If you're a Republican you think women should vote for a female candidate because you share the same biology, regardless of her stand on issues.
If you're a Democrat and you vote for a woman who shares your ideology, you're 'playing the gender card'.
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If you're a Republican and are divorced once (Reagan, McCain) or twice (Giuliani, Gingrich, Limbaugh), you are a champion of Christian moral values.
If you're a Democrat and want to marry your gay partner, you are a threat to the institution of marriage.
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If you are a conservative and reveal that your son will be deployed on Sept. 11, but that is only the date of the deployment ceremony, you are the mother of a patriot who is doing the best to confuse the terrorists and protect the troops being sent over.
If you are a democrat and announce the same thing, you would be accused of pandering to the public and trying to garner public emotion through a lie.
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If you're a Republican and you don't wear a flag pin you're a 'maverick'.
If you're a Democrat and you don't wear a flag pin, you're 'unpatriotic'.
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If you're a Republican senator who solicits gay sex in an airport bathroom, you get to return to your job in the Senate and are encouraged to run for re-election.
If you're a Democratic Senator Having an affair, your political career is over and your wife who has terminal cancer is to blame.
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If Bush agrees to a set date of troops leaving Iraq it is called 'horizons'.
If Obama calls for a set date of troops to leave Iraq, with the blessing of the Iraq government , it is called 'timetables', 'endangering our troops', 'cut and run' and 'wanting to lose the war for political purposes'.
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If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $ 70,000 to $ 400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African American voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are 'woefully inexperienced'.
If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the Mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the Governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you are 'well qualified' to lead the nation.

Late Breaking News: OBAMA PLAYS THE SPECIES-CARD BY USING A CLICHE... In a SPEECH!!!

2008-09-10T17:09:00.000-07:00

Senator and Democratic Candidate for President, Barack Obama, Shocked the Nation with an outrageous and vicious insult hurled at Pig-Americans. The Obama campaign which has displayed incredible message discipline until this point can not be given the benefit of the doubt. By attacking Pig-Americans and referencing their inexplicable consistancy even when said Pig Americans are wearing lipstick, he attempted to fan the flames of anti-pig sentiment hoping for some political gain. The complicit audience members howled in approval thereby displaying their incredible Pig bias as well.

When asked to explain his tasteless and insensitive attempt to play the Species-card, Senator Obama attempted to distract the press with some pansy-ass reference to "ISHUUES", whatever the hell that is...

Nice try Senator smart-ass... but we heard you loud and clear with all ~~three~~ both ears...

Random idiocies of Glenn Beck

2008-09-03T19:57:00.000-07:00

I was flipping through the channels today and caught a glimpse of my favorite distraction, Glenn Beck. He was talking about oil and the need to drill for more. As I stumbled onto CNN I heard him dismissing environmental concerns, stating that there was virtually no spillage of oil even during hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

His point was, since there was no spillage there was no risk, and since there was no risk there was no reason not to drill for more oil since drilling for more oil would 'presumably' reduce our gasoline prices.

The hole in Glenn "the thinker" Beck's logic was that if there was no spillage even during Katrina or Rita, then domestic supply or the lack thereof can not adequately explain the precipitous rise in Oil prices. And if the rise in prices did not come as a result of a lack of domestic supply, then "more drilling" is the answer to a different question. He was presenting 'more drilling' as a solution to a problem that 'too little drilling' did not cause.

After every thunderstorm, solar eclipse, superbowl, graduation ceremony, and/or rock concert, our gas prices have climbed and in every case we've been given some lame excuse about the threat to supply. However, the threat has never materialized. The supply has never been diminished. Yet the prices, which have climbed a quarter at a time, remain at nearly $4.00 a gallon and fall only a penny at a time, even when the supply remains constant.

The prices we pay for oil are NOT being driven by the basic rules of supply and demand so it can not be manipulated simply by increasing our domestic supply. There is a ghost in the machine; and arresting the rise of oil prices will require that we deal with it. Sticking oil platforms off the coasts of California, South Carolina, Maine, Texas, California, and Wasington may transfer oil profits from Tehran to Texas, but it will NOT strip them away from Texico...

More late breaking news: McCain Flip-Flops on Family Values!

2008-09-01T19:59:00.000-07:00

Just a short time ago, the press began reporting that Bristol Palin, the 17-year old daughter of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is pregnant.

When asked about the Palin pregnancy, and the "vetting" process that Oldey McSame used in choosing Sarah Palin, the McSame campaign responded by saying that not only did they already know about the pregnancy; they considered it a non-issue.

TEEN PREGNANCY is now a NON-ISSUE? W.T.F.? It appears the Republican Party is 'evolving' pretty rapidly now-a-days.

Now the count is no advocate of teen pregnancy, nor am I an activist against it. I think that teen pregnancy leads to a number of societal issues and problems, but that horse has already left the barn... All across the country, communities great and small are already dealing with the issue and it's effects. So I'm not posting this to say that Sarah Palin is wrong, or a bad person or anything like that... But after hearing the Republicans talk for years about social pathology as though it was some shit that the Democrats invented and unleased on society like a virus, it is fascinating to watch them parse and squirm whenever one of their own turns out to be... well... american.

The funny part is the fact that McSame DIDN'T properly vet Sarah Palin; because there wasn't enough time to get it done between the Democratic convention and the Republican convention. When McSame realized that O didn't nominate Clinton as his veep, he went scrambling to find a conservative woman that he could add to the ticket hoping that she'd get him the disaffected Hillary supporters. And now with the trooper-gate drip and the pregnancy drip, the McSame campaign may finally be forced to explain why they are suddenly for these major philosophical issues that they were once against.