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May 10th, 2009
09:35 pm - Wanda Rocks the White House
What a difference 4 years makes!
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February 8th, 2009
07:28 pm
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December 26th, 2008
November 16th, 2008
August 16th, 2008
10:40 am - No Threepeat
The last thing our world needs is a 3rd term of bushit.
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May 15th, 2008
03:20 pm - Dept. of Bogus Statistics
or How Friggin' Stupid Do They Think We Are??
Back in 2003, just prior to the invasion, a neocon acquaintance informed me that the ultimate benefit of an Iraq invasion would be that oil prices would drop right through the basement. That is, once we liberated our oil out from under their sand. All this within a month's time, no less.
According to this neocon, cheap oil = really cheap gasoline for all (as in under-a-buck-per-gallon-cheap)forever! His final words of advice to me: get with the pogrom already, you goddam fukkin' librul! USA! USA! USA!
The price of oil at that time stood at just $25/bbl.
What with bush’s obssessive staying the intercourse in his disastrous fucking of the cluster in Iraq, what with “Mission Accomplished”, “Last Throes of the Insurgency”, "We got Zarkawi", "We're Winning!!", swiping the credit card to "pay" for this $3trillion travesty, crude oil prices jumped out of the gate, flirted with, and then smashed right through record territory, never looking back.
Day after day, as new records were being shattered--$40, $50, $60, $70---, the one constant factor in all this was a little disclaimer that AP thoughtfully inserted in its financial stories for the benefit of us po' ignert peons:
Let it be known that The True All-Time Record of $38/bbl was set way back in 1980, when dollars really counted. "Corrected" for inflation, (depending on from which orifice the numbers had been pulled how the calculation was done)this would amount to an "actual" price somewhere between $96-$103/bbl in current $$.
So when is a record not really a record? When AP reports it thus.
Course, now that we've blown way past $100/bbl, that little weasel disclaimer has outlived its usefulness....which brings us to this latest piece of buffoonery:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080514/economy.html
(if linky no work, see screen capture below cut)
(Title: Inflation pressures ease despite food price jump.)
(Subtitle: Inflation pressures ease in April despite biggest jump in food prices in 18 years.)
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March.
The lower inflation reflected a flat reading for energy, which helped offset a 0.9 percent jump in food costs as prices climbed for many basic items, from bread and milk to coffee and fresh fruits.
The unchanged reading for energy reflected a big 4.8 percent jump in natural gas prices, offset by a 2 percent decline in gasoline costs.
WTF?? What are they trying to pull here? Next time you're filling up, try explaining this concept to that guy over there who just pumped $100 into the tank of his SUV. Yeah, make sure he understands that prices actually dropped last month, regardless of what his wallet indicates. The AP said so! But make sure you’re wearing your Kevlar™ codpiece.
The reported drop in gasoline prices reflected the government's accounting process, which discounts expected seasonal price changes.
Since gasoline prices normally rise significantly in April, the 5.6 percent rise in prices for the month turned into a 2 percent drop after the government adjusted for normal seasonal changes. That was little comfort for motorists now paying record prices at the pump, which are nearing $4 per gallon.
So what they’re telling us is that the true April gasoline price change of +5.6% --you know, the one we actually experienced—is really a price drop of 2.0%, after some flat-out fabrications“adjustments” for “normal seasonal changes.” No economist left behind here. Moving right along:
Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, showed prices well behaved in April, rising by just 0.1 percent, compared to a 0.2 percent gain in March.
(snip)
Those better-than-expected performances should ease concerns at the Federal Reserve that the sharp increase in food and energy prices this year would lead to broader inflation problems. However, economists cautioned that the recent surge in oil prices to record levels near $127 per barrel has yet to be felt at the consumer level.
A few lines later, we come to this gem:
The combination of rising food and energy costs, weak wage gains and falling home prices have left households feeling squeezed, with consumer confidence readings plunging to recessionary levels.
Whaaaaat? A contradiction? However can this be possible? No editor left behind, either.
and this:
While many economists believe the country is in a recession, other analysts contend that the country may be able to avoid a full-blown downturn, especially if consumers spend a sizable portion of the 130 million economic stimulus payments that the government is now sending out.
What these economists are not likely to mention is that the lion's share of those "stimulus" checks will wind up being blown out our collective tailpipes, one way or another.
But, I'm nothing if not an optimist, so I see a faint ray of hope trying to burn through these bushian clouds of abuse. You know, where they've been pissing on us, at the same time insisting that it's nothing more than a nice gentle rain.
Over the past few years, I've received too many e-mails from wingnuts informing me, for instance, that "Obama is a Muslim who took his Senate oath of office on a Koran."
My usual response is to debunk this bullshite with documented, easily verifiable facts, a good source being snopes.com. Unfortunately, people tend to be invested in their worldview and tend to accept whatever narrative supports it. That is, if they even be bothered to read the facts.
"Don't confuse me with facts, dammit!"
Here's the thing, though. People are generally NOT stupid.
Overwhelmed by the demands of everyday life? Check.
Underinformed by a whored-out press and broadcast media? Check. Propagandized by wall-to-wall wingnut radio? Check.
Stupid? No.
But when you're talking about people's mobility- their birthright as 'Murkins to drive without limitations-- ah, that can't be spun away so easily. I give people ample credit to be able to cut through the layers of bullshit where it directly contradicts their own daily experiences.
I'd like to think that after being kicked over and over again in their economic balls, folks will wake up and make the connnection: "Saaaay, maybe these people really don't have our best interests at heart."
Keep it up AP and others. Keep telling us about the nice, gentle yellow rainshower. And then look forward to an electoral tsunami in November that will sweep the Republican't bastards back into the wilderness, so fast they will never know what hit them.
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May 7th, 2008
01:07 pm - Real Chimps Are Smarter: Part 2664
Ever since the blithering imbecile known as bush 2.0 was installed in Our White House, he has managed to prove that point day in and day out, without even breaking a sweat.
So, just the other day, we were treated to the spectacle of Robin Roberts from DisneyCorp’s Good Morning America fellating interviewing the Ceaucescus bushes on the White House South Lawn.
Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you this choice spooge-stained excerpt showcasing that dazzling analytical mind we've all come to revere:
Q And we have two very special guests that are with us here -- tour guides, if you will. We're in their backyard -- President Bush and Mrs. Bush. Thank you so much for allowing us to be here.
MRS. BUSH: Thanks so much, Robin.
Q You know, America considers this their front lawn; this is your backyard. You see it all the time. Does it still amaze you, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: It does. It's a beautiful place. In the spring, the flowers are fantastic. In the fall, the -- it's just such a -- kind of a place that's so fresh. In the winter, of course, it's got a lot of snow. (Laughter.) Summer is real hot, but it's -- we love it out here. It's beautiful.
Just takes your breath away, don't it?
Full transcript here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080505.html
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April 19th, 2008
09:29 am - So what would you do with $3,000,000,000,000??
Count the zeroes again. That's $3trillion, with a "t".
To put that in perspective, suppose you had a $1,000,000 daily expense account. It would take you over 8200 years, to blow through $3,000,000,000,000 spending day in and day out.
Of course, the warmongering neocon death-cult doesn't have 8200 years to execute their evil blueprint for destroying our planet.
It staggers the imagination to consider the benefits to humanity that money could be used for.
So what would you do?
You could go here to find out.
Knock yourselves out.
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March 13th, 2008
05:25 pm - mr. bush....are you a man or a cretin?
We do know that our nekkid chimperor is tone-deaf:
This came as no surprise to the millions of us who have been paying attention all throughout your loathsome tenure, but Monday night at the Gridiron Club at long last revealed you for the feculent pustule that you are. Mr. bush, you are an over privileged fratboy coward who has hijacked our nation and trashed our constitution, looted our economy, and squandered away our moral standing in the world.
Monday night at the Gridiron Club reminded me of your 2004 performance, the one where you joked about not finding WMD in Iraq
One year into the quagmire and already 500 dead, but it didn’t matter. You had ‘em rolling in the aisles that night. Of course, they were the same fawning sycophants in a whored-out profession who dutifully rolled over and repeated non-stop, 24/7 your pack of lies
non-stop to pave the way for the worst foreign policy disaster in our nation’s history. Motherfucker.
We knew it was not about WMD, democracy, freedom, deposing a "brutal dictator", or the rest of the bullshit justifications. Never was. It was always about oil. When you were installed, a barrel of oil cost $25. Now it’s at $110 and counting. Mission Accomplished, you fuck.
Monday night at the Gridiron Club, you had another four years worth of material to work with and you showed us that you hadn’t lost your touch with the degenerates and traitors who still support you. A roomful of sociopathic morons, laughing at death, destruction, and disasters, greedily lapping up your words like a pack of jackals mucking about in a pool of week-old piss and vomit:
"You're all gonna miss me,
The way you used to quiz me..
it's good to touch the brown brown grass of home...
I spend my days clearing brush
clear my head of all the fuss
Like the fuss you made over Harriet & Brownie...
Down the lane I look, and here comes Scooter
Finally free of the prosecutor...
It's good to touch the brown brown grass of home
Then I wake and look around me
at the oval walls that surround me
and I realize I was only dreaming
Well there's Condi..and Dick, my old compadre
talking to me about some oil rich Saudi
but soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home
Yes you're all gonna miss me
the way you used to quiz me
but soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home
Down the lane I look Dick Cheney's strollin'
with documents he's been withholding
it's good to touch the brown brown grass of home
Yes you're all gonna miss me
the way you used to diss me
but soon I'll touch
the brown brown grass of home"
Nero fiddled while Rome burned; you played air guitar in ’05 as New Orleans drowned, but Monday night, there is no more denying the utter contempt and hatred that you feel towards us- the 99% of the American people who don’t figure into your base of haves and have-mores.
People on the devastated Gulf Coast, the military and their families, people struggling to stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure, working people who have to choose between selling their belongings in order to have enough gas at $4/gallon just to get to work and make their living while the dollar is becoming the new peso…… hell...this video should be required viewing for EVERYONE, so that finally you will be exposed for the pathological liar, war criminal and sociopath that you are.
But how is it that you happened to pick this particular song by Curly Putman Jr.?
See, the original song was about a condemned man on death row awaiting his own execution. He dreams about returning to his old hometown and then:
"Then I awake and look around me, at four grey wall surround me
and I realize that I was only dreaming.
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre -
arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak.
Again I touch the green, green grass of home.
Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
as they lay me neath the green, green grass of home.."
You were the Texas hangman who mocked a soon-to-be-executed woman on death row, and ordered the switch pulled on more condemned people than all other states combined. But, hey, you’ve outdone yourself these past 7 years: 3000 dead because you were asleep at the switch; who knows how many…6000 in N.O? …another 4000 and counting in Iraq, >1000000 innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight. And thanks to your misguided policies, our military readiness has been utterly degraded to the point where we no longer have the means to respond to a real crisis at home, or anywhere else. Damn you to hell for that, mr. bush. Damn you to hell!
You, mr. bush, are the anti-matter Midas. Everything you’ve ever touched in your miserable life has gone bust and turned to shit. Every. Fucking. Thing.
Hell, you’ve even turned the “green, green grass of home” brown. Heckuva job!
So, here’s hoping that your fond dreams of returning to your shit-hole phony ranch in Crawford will end with you waking up in an 8x8 cell in the Hague. Preferably with Dick, Condi, and Rummy as cell-mates.
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March 1st, 2008
February 14th, 2008
January 30th, 2008
01:19 pm - You say you want bipartisanship?
I got your bipartisanship right here!
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September 25th, 2007
September 19th, 2007
10:56 pm - Frank Zappa saw it coming...
Can only imagine what he'd have to say about what's been going on these past 7 years...
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September 10th, 2007
10:16 pm - Where were you on September the 11th?
I was in a classroom reading my favorite book. “The—Pet—Goat. A—girl—got—a—pet—goat. But—the—goat—did—some—things—that—made—the—girl’s—dad—mad.” But just when we was getting to the good part…
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September 9th, 2007
September 3rd, 2007
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