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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
James Bovard - 1994 Source: Lost Rights. The Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin's Press: New York, 1994), p. 333
Sorry Gang but once again all the visitors took over and I didn't get a damn thing done yesterday, other than wade through about 6 tons of bullshit about Super Mom Sarah, the terror of the tundra, to the point of near serious regurgitation of all that I had eaten for the past week and believe me, pucking on your keyboard does it no good at all. And then this morning to wake up, after a somewhat longish night of the daddy of electrical storms that fortunately was accompanied by some rather serious rainfall, something we have not seen for months BTW, to read in the papers that McLame and the mother of the seriously knocked up but saintly Bristol have jumped into the lead in the erection election sweepstakes because all the women have suddenly decided to vote for the lying cow and her doddering dimbulb of a running mate.
Or in the words of one of the greats, H. L. Mencken: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Or my own take on Alaskans after spending considerable time in that beautiful but frigid land: "An Alaskan is nothing but a redneck in a fur hat."
So first, take a look at the following vid and then come back and try and explain to me why anyone would vote for this old fossil and his brain dead Annie Oakley wannabe.
All this after a hectic weekend of running about and the wringing of hands at what has turned out to be the greatest Nationalization of assets in history. And by an ultra conservative government no less. A government that has been totally obsessed by the gospel as written by the late and no longer lamented, Milton Friedman and the boys from the Chicago School of rape and pillage in the name of free markets since they illegally came to power.
But of course, it wasn't a nationalization according to the administration thieves that perpatrated it at all. No siree Bob. It was just a conservatorship. Which ain't the same at all now is it. Oh hell no. This means that the incompetent cocksuckers that foisted this thievery onto the public go free taking all their ill gotten gains with them and you, dear taxpayer are left holding the sack. And a rather large sack at that. So how does it feel to be saddled with a possible liability of some 5.2 TRILLION DOLLARS! 'Cause that's just what they did gang. Saddled your sweet little asses with even more fiscal obligations while saving the asses of their banker friends and the good 'ol boys in Wall Street. So don't expect the pothole in the street outside your front door to be repaired in the near future. And cross any bridges at your own risk becuse they rust and fall down if not maintained. Which they will not be in the foreseeable future.
This is the same formula applied by the late but not lamented, even by the GOP, Herbert Hoover who dished out some 10 millions of dollars of the taxpayers bucks in 1933 to save the City National Bank and Trust Co of Chicago who's major share holder was one Charles Dawes, ex Vice president under Calvin Coolidge, while doing nothing to help the people who were losing their homes due to the unlimited power of the banks under years of Republican rule to steal anything that was not red hot or nailed down. (Beginning to sound familiar?)
Aside to this: Dawes came from a military family also and was made a general himself during WWI. So it all seems to be coming together does it not.
Here you have the two of them. Dawes is on the right.
Of course, as the vid at the beginning of this shows, the economy is solid as a rock is it not? The fact that over 1 million people have lost their homes due to foreclosre in the second quarter of 2008 alone means nothing to the millionaires whose asses the Rethuglicans have just saved.
And then you have the little problem of compensation for the two totally incompetents that ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the ground for of course, people like that are accustomed to a certain life style so we cannot let them down now can we. So..............................Danny Mudd, (A more appropriate name you will seldom see.) will recieve a small take home package for his totally incompetent running of Fannie Mae of some 9.3 million dollars. Not so bad for being a useless prick is it. This on top of his 12.4 million in salary and perks since he took over in 2004. Four years on the fucking job, bankrupting the company his only accomplishment and the son-of-a bitch walks out the door with 21.7 million Bucks.
And then we have a Mr. Richard Syron who up till Sunday was head dick at Freddie Mac who is taking a walk with only 14.1 million in his severence package. Plus the 17.1 million he has had since he took over in 2003 so it is only reasonable that he has a much higher severence package, after all, it took him a whole year longer to sink the fucking ship didn't it.
And you kind reader, is the Bush Bunch going to hand you a huge wad of cash when they ship your job overseas? Don't think so. Just like they are not going to do a fucking thing when the same fucking crooks in the bank that caused this mess come to foreclose on your house. If you and your family have to sleep on a park bench, (Make sure you come early, the remaining places are going fast.) do McLame and his millionaire buddies give a fuck? Sure baby. Well, I'm sure you can use the following to keep you warm on that park bench.
THINK POSITIVE!
Then please go here and read all about McLame's friend and chief finiancial advisor Phil, A nation of whiners,Gramm.
Then you can also see just what he has been all about and who he has been working for in the following clip. Not bad for a dipshit that flunked the 3rd, 8th, and 9th grade in school but them managed to go on and get himself a Phd. from that well known school of intellectuial excellence, Texas College ofAgriculture and Mining. Which fits you right up to be the chief economic advisor for a possible future president of the United States does it not. Of course, with McLames understanding of economics a fucking rock off the beach could fill that post. Not to speak of the Terror the Tundra, little Saintly Sarah, who knows even less. When asked, she believed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were government owned and had to be downsized because they were costing the taxpayers too much money. But now that they have become government owned and are set to cost the taxpayers possible trillions her lips are sealed. Oh that they should stay that way.
And before all you soccer Mom's go out and vote with your vagina instead of your brain I would like you to go here and think of this. The simple fact that Cindy, Barbie wanabee and millionairess, McLame's outfit when she went on stage just before the sanctifying of the Tiger of the Tundra probably cost more than the house you are so desperately trying to save and are almost certain to be thrown out of if McLame and the Saintly Sarah are allowed into the White House.
LATEST! HOT OFF THE WIRE:
Waves of selling wiped out nearly half of Lehman's value in the stock market yesterday, leaving the firm, one of the nation's oldest and largest investment banks, in an all-out fight for survival.
The plunge fanned worries about the troubles plaguing the broader financial industry and sent the stock market tumbling nearly 3.5 percent, its steepest decline in more than a year and a half. The market decline more than wiped out the market's rally on Monday, when stocks surged following the weekend rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-chartered mortgage giants.
But don't forget, as McLame states in that first vid clip, the economy is basically sound. (Was that a formation of flying pigs that just passed by outside my window?)
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