Price For Freedom – $35 Billion to Airbus!
Posted on February 5, 2010
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The United States Senate is being held up right now, not at gun point, but at “give my state the pork barrel pet projects I want or the government will cease to function” point. In a most unusual move Senator Shelby from Alabama placed a unilateral hold on every single nominee Obama asked for unless the congress gives his state 40 billion dollars.
One is a $35 billion contract to allow Northrop Grumman and Airbus, not Boeing, build an Air Force refueling tanker(more on that here), and the other an FBI explosives testing center that has not been built despite Shelby earmarking $45 million for it in 2008.
The testing center I think could be up for debate (though certainly not to hold up the entire senate for), but I have no idea what this republican obsession is with Airbus. Who had sex with these senators to make them think our government should outsource making planes to a company that’s going to overcharge us just as much, if not more, than Boeing. They’re foreign and transportation costs more, oh and that crazy thing called unemployment, which in the US is still 10%, and the republicans will completely destroy our government unless we outsource more jobs to Europe. Hey everyone, remember those jobs you all thought we had REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO PUT YOU OUT OF WORK.
I’m not trying to say this in a, democrats are doing sooo much better way, but the numbers pretty much speak for themselves.
The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January’s unemployment rate showing an unexpected decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. It was the first drop in seven months.
So by the logic of places like Fixed Noise who constantly harp on Chairman Mao light for being a raging socialist who’s killing babies in the street for sport this recently surge in employment, while small, means that Obama just won the entire universe. I’d love to deny it, but if the number going up past 10% meant that he was desperately trying to destroy this nation, like the job killing republicans, than surely a number below 10% means everything Obama touches turns to gold, and he has officially become worthy of an all out celebration of the best human the universe will ever know. We need a constitutional amendment praising our leader for how great he is, and we should consider abolishing term limits so we can keep this guy in office until he has more kids and they can become leaders too…right?
I wish I could extort the federal government and act like it wasn’t a big deal. I wish I could tell the government, “give me all the money you don’t have or I’ll throw a hissy fit”. I wish we had laws that not only made this behavior illegal, but placed a social stigma on it that wouldn’t require a court room to hand out judgment, but that every citizen would take it upon themselves to build a giant wall around where this guy lives so he cannot infect our society anymore with his filth. It’s one thing when republicans want to disagree on health care, and I think their claim that health care is fine, if people are ok with that, is perfectly acceptable if you don’t care about the budget, but to place a blanket hold on every single person Obama wants on his staff? Shelby deserves to be in jail, now.
When Did The Bowl Get Political?
Posted on February 2, 2010
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I remember learning a while back that sports, mainly the larger events, won’t do political advertising because it sends the wrong message, and it has a tendency to show bias on an issue.
So how come the super bowl plans to show some anti-abortion ad? It’s one thing to advocate for beer or chips. The story being portrayed in this ad is that abortion is never good, and you should never choose it, it’s 100% political and it’s invading football, do they really have that much money?
Of course the story itself is one in which I would see no reason to disagree. His mother was in a foreign country and she didn’t go along with their suggestion, but why should this case be the poster child for every case? What about the mother who’s life is in danger because he child is being born in a way that is dangerous, what about the girl who made her own personal choice? It’s futile for males to be the main recipients of this advertising too, what the fuck right do I have, or any male without a doctors degree, to suggest what a woman should or shouldn’t do with her uterus. You don’t need an advertisement to explain people what their options are, you need a doctor, and anyone making their decision based on advertising shouldn’t be allowed to be making decisions…ever.
Produce Nothing Make More!
Posted on January 27, 2010
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No this is not some kind of get rich quick scheme, the idea is to maximize how much you make based on the productivity you put in. So let’s say I put in 8 hours of work and I make $160 for my company in productivity, if I was paid $8 an hour I’d be getting paid roughly 50 cents for every dollar I made the company. That would be generous, usually the number is closer to earning 30-40 cents for every dollar you produce. However that’s only in the real world, where you make real products and you generate real economics, if you really want to get paid more for doing nothing work for a bank.
[T]o keep up with the Goldmans, laggards like Citigroup are handing out fat slices of their profits, leaving little left over for their shareholders. Citigroup is, in effect, paying its employees $1.45 for every dollar the company took in last year. On average, its workers stand to earn $94,000 each.
Obviously I was stupid enough to think I should produce something for this economy, because producing something for the economy could barely pay me *half* of what I’m *worth*, however if I was to change professions and learn complicated banking formulas designed to screw over the population and continue hording money purely in the name of greed I could be making not only what I’m worth, but another half person on top of that. I couldn’t imagine getting paid more than what I’m worth, if for the sole purpose of screwing over the taxpayers who own your business. Rewarding the worst behavior, paying out more than revenues, just what kind of drugs do you have to be on to think anything about this situation is even ok? These people deserve to be fired and dragged publicly out to explain why anyone, especially in a company that can’t function without the government’s help, is paying out more to employees than they are worth. As if we didn’t have enough reason to hate bankers, if only because they get to live like kings for doing absolutely nothing.
Obama Governing From “Hard Left”
Posted on January 24, 2010
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Actually, the republicans just officially ran out of talking points.
Obama from the “hard left”? That’s news to me. That leftist “public option” he pushed for, the Afghanistan “surge” mainly of private contractors, the stimulus compromise that was nearly half tax cuts, not doing anything (although obviously the EPA trying is A+) to fight the worst toxic waste polluters in the state were all great liberal causes…WHAT THE FUCK. There’s nothing hard left about Obama, certainly he’s left, but hard? He hasn’t even got through healthcare, he’s floating like a butterfly and hibernating.
If Obama is being criticized for anything it’s that many people don’t feel he’s lived up to his campaign promises. This is of course hurt by the fact that his “campaign promises” was a year and a half long campaign of not understanding just how bad things got. The supreme court just ruled that corporations have even more rights than regular human citizens (the one’s with developed morals and circulating blood), what is Obama supposed to do? Obama’s hands are completely tied on so many decisions like this, and because he wants to preserve his character (or any other BS political reason to back down) we all say “Where’s our change?”. This “republican” talks about governing from the middle…but look at the dire state that our country is in because of radical right wing ideology that corporations are inherently “good” or “people”.
Mr. McConnell I’ll meet you halfway with our politics, but YOU FIRST.
I’m Rubber, Muslims Are…Glue?
Posted on January 23, 2010
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All our Jesus bullets bounce off…oh what the fuck FAUX. Ya, “they started it” is a perfectly good reason to kill people in the name of a god, better than “oops” *rolls eyes*. It’s one thing to have Glen Beck crying about the 3 some between him, Obama and Edwards (I would love to drop acid with Beck oh my fucking gawd what the fuck) but having a host claim holy wars are ok only if you didn’t start them?
Hey kids, murder is always acceptable if the person committed murder first, even though the reason they committed that murder may have been that our government killed their family, let’s not address the real issues, here’s a gun, some grenades, and let’s keep this ball rolling. America hasn’t been in war long enough, obviously, and so long as people read out of books other than our bible, Mr. Douche Face here thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to go to war with entire countries because of a few horrible sadistic people. When are other countries going to invade us because of the hateful, immature and evil things said on our most popular TV box program? I would like to make the argument that while terrorism is bad, condoning war in the name of god on public television is far worse. I certainly know terrorists are bad, bad, evil people, but when you’re speaking to millions of people claiming that religious war of any kind should be tolerated, puts you in a category far below the lowest of the lowest creature’s poop. If FAUX Noise wants to promote this kind of filth, they should be paying us.
Balls Beer 4 Health Care Reform
Posted on January 22, 2010
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“That’s how democracy works”.
When The WSJ…
Posted on January 22, 2010
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When the Wall Street Journal has this to say
“A plunge in financial stocks weighed heavily on the broader market as President Barack Obama proposed the most extensive curbs on banks’ risk-taking since the outbreak of the recent financial crisis.”
I can’t help but think of how wonderful that sounds. If that’s all it takes to drive their precious little stock price into the ground the government should heavily regulate anyone wanting to make money off nothing more than having it. The WSJ would have you believe the stock ticker is your own personal Jesus, the crystal ball that magically guides your way through this world. I feel sorry for anyone who watches the stock ticker like that, almost as sorry as I feel when the big banks whine about how hard life is making money for nothing. Almost.
Democrat Fail
Posted on January 19, 2010
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So the democrats lost the super majority they never used to a male model, via a seat that has been solidly blue since I was born. You have the president coming out and telling everyone this seat means everything to him and the democrats and now that they’ve lost it the first thing everyone mentions is what the democrats are going to have to sacrifice if they’re going to fix anything.
The 59 seat democrat “majority” should pass health care, without any republican support, cause that’s exactly what they want, and democrats can do nothing to change that. It was noble to try for this 60 vote lovefest but it’s obviously failed, and unless they start giving reasons for people to turn out in the polls the democrats are going to keep bleeding seats. Passing health care reform with 51 votes is not “nuclear“, it’s fucking sane, it’s called democracy. They’ll have to do the same with just about every other bill, because they’ll vote for this “free market” illusion of deregulating everything further, they’ll vote against any acceptance of scientific fact and they’ll vote against reform that isn’t watered down with tax cuts to the point of being useless unless you make millions.
Coakley didn’t seem very strong, and the main reason for running her was that she was the AG or something. It’s going to be a sad, sad state of the union address.
P.S. haha I totally forgot, now that the democrats don’t have 60 votes Lieberman can’t cling to anything. He’s now completely useless unless he can convince 1 republican to switch sides, which will probably not happen this congress. Lieberman isn’t a 60th vote anymore, and we shouldn’t have to work with him anymore like his voice really has that much weight.
Obama’s Mad At The Banks
Posted on January 15, 2010
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So he’s going to wait 10 years to do something about it
Guess what everyone, in going after the banks for stealing money from us so they can crash and burn their competition Obama is going to impose fees so the money they lost will come back in about 10 years or whatever. That’s right banks, you stab us we’re going to slowly bleed you after you’ve already become too invincible to fail. Thanks for looking out for us Obama, surely they’re so scared they’ll never think gouge their customers again *rolls eyes*.
Burning Man!
Posted on January 13, 2010
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I have decided I am returning to burning man this year. I plan to have things be much different, mainly in the forms of habitat. I’m excited, I want to plan it and a trip to California for like a week before hand and maybe a few days after.
I haven’t made a political post in a while because it’s all so superficial. The republicans are whiny little babies and the democrats + the media coddle them back to full health. Reid uses the N word and suddenly he’s an imperial KKK wizard rampaging through our streets with the red army stealing american flag candy from babies. 10% unemployment and the best answer republicans have is fire the leader they’ve refused to work with because of truthful comments he made (though they’d never say it, they want him to resign because it’s true, if Obama were “blacker” or had some kind of Howard Dean moment he wouldn’t be president). I guess I shouldn’t make a blanket statement about “the media” when all I’m really talking about is the TV box, which even on it’s 24 hour news cycle refuses to change topics more than once a day.
There’s that huge earthquake in Haiti, which according to Pat Roberson is the result of the pack they made with the devil to beat off the french slave traders who have been successful in keeping Haiti a 3rd world country since the 17th century with debt (yay artificial slavery!). Their infrastructure now matches their political struggles, and even after paying 80%+ of their revenue on their debt they’re still massively in debt. It’s great that we’re sending in the US military now, but this is the result of the IMF stealing all the wealth from their country without any investment into the people. The IMF came out with a generic statement of “oh of course we’re ready to help”, by promising them more loans they’ll never be able to repay. I want to help and rebuild Haiti just as much as everyone else, but the people of Haiti deserve to own their own country, not international hedge funds who simply care about their profit.
The Bank stands ready to help with financial assistance.
I remember that old conservative quote “the worst words anyone can say to you is “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”". I always thought that was stupid, because if the government is made up of the people than you shouldn’t be afraid of this person (it’s always situational though, the census worker vs the gestapo scenario). The person you really need to be weary of is these bankers. I’d head for the hills if someone came to tell me “I’m from the bank, and I’m standing by to give you the money you need to live at the price of your freedom”. It’s the most unethical thing you can do to Haiti and it’s people, we should stop international bankers from keeping this country in artificial poverty, not just send blank checks (although obviously with a tragedy like this blank checks will go a long way!).
I’m glad the TV box can take a break from sucking on the tit of the republican party to cover a crisis, but they’re so near sighted. It’s like “how can we resolve this issue this very second so tomorrow I don’t have to deal with it” instead of “how we make a lasting difference so this won’t need to be an international crisis in the future”. California has been expecting something of that magnitude for years, are they prepared even a little? If that earthquake hit Seattle, the Alaskan Way Viaduct would be rubble. Our problems are all monetary, we have the power to change our society so tragedies like that aren’t international crisis’s, but we’re all so in debt to the bankers we’re paralyzed to protect ourselves from nature. Why Haiti is so poor.
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