Does anyone still believe the teabagger-gop-ers are bargaining in good faith, or can we all agree they are liars?…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:15 PM Permalink
…As I noted in my last post we are looking at a last ditch, desperate attempt by the über-rich to finish rending the fabric of our society and destroy the constitutionally-based government of the United States.
Of course, as a matter for debate and to speak to the truth of the matter, the teabagger-gop-ers claim the mantle of responsibility to govern calls for them to disassemble government, eliminate every safety net Americans have painstakingly created, further siphon off every penny in our treasury with tax breaks for the rich, and complete the demoralization of normally optimistic Americans who have come to accept the to and fro of republican/democratic methods of governing but that are in no way ready for what is coming from the teabagger-gop-ers.
In recognition of the upcoming status of being a white minority, and so fearful of the consequences, these gasping, mouth-breathing, holier-than-thou rogues are attempting to consolidate their control by depriving the middle and lower classes of the ability to even feed their families, pay their bills, get or pay for medicines, shop for goods and services or, for many, the denial of a roof over their head, food in their bellies, and a warm, comfortable, safe place to sleep.
AND THE TEABAGGER-GOP-ERS DON'T CARE! WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Labels: Conservatives, conspiracy, neocons, rant, republican, republican hypocrisy, republican lies, tea baggers, teabagger-gop-er
First the Teabagger-gop-ers were funny. Then they became a danger to our country. I recognize now they are a dying party and why…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:02 PM Permalink
…and the death of such a mean-spirited, evil party should bring about rejoicing.
The funny thing about it is that nothing need be done by democratic leaders, wiser republicans, independent parties, green parties, or any other party except to acknowledge that when swept up in it's death throes any animal or teabagger-gop-er can be at its most dangerous. Here, to me, is why they are so desperate to enact as many draconian legislative bills as
possible:
U.S. Population Projections: 2005–2050
Executive Summary
If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center.
Of the 117 million people added to the population during this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren.
Among the other key population projections:
• Nearly one in five Americans (19%) will be an immigrant in 2050, compared with one in eight (12%) in 2005. By 2025, the immigrant, or foreign-born, share of the population will surpass the peak during the last great wave of immigration a century ago.
• The major role of immigration in national growth builds on the pattern of recent decades, during which immigrants and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren accounted for most population increase. Immigration’s importance increased as the average number of births to U.S.-born women dropped sharply before leveling off.
• The Latino population, already the nation’s largest minority group, will triple in size and will account for most of the nation’s population growth from 2005 through 2050. Hispanics will make up 29% of the U.S. population in 2050, compared with 14% in 2005.
• Births in the United States will play a growing role in Hispanic and Asian population growth; as a result, a smaller proportion of both groups will be foreign-born in 2050 than is the case now.
• The non-Hispanic white population will increase more slowly than other racial and ethnic groups; whites will become a minority (47%) by 2050.
• The nation’s elderly population will more than double in size from 2005 through 2050, as the baby-boom generation enters the traditional retirement years. The number of working-age Americans and children will grow more slowly than the elderly population, and will shrink as a share of the total population.
It recently dawned on me that the desperation of the teabagger-gop-er is caused by a sea change in the make-up of our population and that it is one of the reasons that the unreasonable side of the immigration nutsos would like to physically round up illegal aliens for deportation, and insure that their American-born children will be deemed 'anchor babies', no longer citizens by virtue of birth as dictated by our Constitution.
Since it is, literally, only a matter of time before the numbers of old, rich, white men become a smaller and smaller segment of society, they will lose their ability to remain in power as the Latino and Black segments grow in such numbers that it will be virtually impossible for a politician who does not directly advocate policies supported by these new majorities to get elected to office.
The days of the 'good ole boy' back-office brokered power deals will come to an end. Lobbyists, should they wish to survive, will have to start buying politicians and putting them to work for the new constituent voting blocks made up by the changing face of America.
Which speaks to why there is all this hysteria in the teabagger-gop-er parties. I guess they feel that if America doesn't revert to the Dark Ages now it will soon be too late, their influence gone, their money buying them far fewer politicians, and the ability to get any of their desperate, evil legislation passed will expire.
I'm sure the new brothers and sisters of color will love America as much as any other citizens and I welcome them; their love of America will eventually smash the hatred of today and return us to being a kinder, gentler society.
So enjoy the show, watch those death throes, prevent the teabagger-gop-ers from doing as much damage as they can, and hope that the winds of time bring us back our former freedoms, expand on the freedoms we have, and bring back the ideas that made America great; the sweet smell of liberty.
Ciao, bella ámi.
Labels: citizenship, immigration, incompetent leaders, rant, republican hypocrisy, republican lies, requiem
I am well aware that the medications I take can give me a skewed perception…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 3:44 PM Permalink
…sometimes of what's happening and the interpretation of world and national events, but I truly believe that anyone aware of the teabagger-gop-ers policies, statements, and the actions of legislatures under their control really cannot help but recognize that these evil people not only want to reinstitute slavery in America, they want complete control over women and their bodies - after they have taken away a woman's right to vote and return the status of persons of color to being worth three-fifths of a white man.
They are growing ever more desperate as they, too, realize that the Latino and Black populations are rapidly surpassing the whites, meaning that America will have very different voting block majorities within the next fifteen to twenty years which just scares the bejeezus out of them.
Watch as their desperation grows. It would be comical were it not for the fact that so many millions of people will be made to suffer from their despicable plans and goals.
The rest of the world seems to innately grasp this as they sucker America into one misadventure after another and in accord with the statements of bin Laden that he will bankrupt the West ("I can send a single man to the mountaintop to wave the flag of Al-Qaede and the West will spend billions and billions of dollars lashing out at a non-existant threat." Osama bin Laden)
Precisely why the Muslims will ultimately wipe out America: They are smarter than our leaders, and I mean our leaders from the very top to the very bottom.
This grows ever more plain to me.
Labels: al-Qaeda, christian hypocrisy, rant, slavery
The ten most miserable states of America…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:24 PM Permalink
…and the political party that runs them.
1. West Virginia - Earl Ray Tomblin (D)
2. Kentucky - Steven L. Beshear (D)
3. Mississippi - Haley Reeves Barbour (R)
4. Arkansas - Michael Dale Beebe (D)
5. Alabama - Bob Riley (R)
6. Ohio - John Richard Kasich (R)
7. Delaware - Jack A. Markell (D)
8. Nevada - Brian Edward Sandoval (R)
9. Louisiana - Bobbie Jindahl (R)
10. Michigan - Richard D. "Rick" Snyder (R)
I compiled this list from two sources: one I no longer seem to be able to locate regarding the ten most hurtin' states in America and
here, a list of state governors.
So six of the ten most miserable states are under Republican governors. HEY! That gives them a majority in misery.
Way to go teabagging-gop-ers.
Labels: class warfare, corruption, criminal justice system, crooked republican party, Governors/, rant
Is it just me or does America appear to be…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:17 PM Permalink
…ass deep in every revolution taking place around the world? The Middle East, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, South America (Our cocaine suppliers), Afghanistan (Our heroin dealers), South Korea, India, Pakistan, China, Russia (nuclear suppliers and the latest source of angst for the fear-mongers) and pretty much anywhere else the shit is flying you will find American troops, knowing it is bullshit, holding their noses and following the vile and repugnant orders issued by the vile and repugnant leaders they must serve.
Somewhere over the last sixty years the asses running our government have failed to lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way and let someone competent take their place.
They (teabagger-gop-ers) speak of the need for a highly educated work force - which they will have to import from China, India, and other countries that REALLY educate their citizens.
They claim to have better health care options - as former Rep. Grayson properly identified it: the republican health plan, first, you get sick, then you die.
They don't even bother to speak of peace. No, they will bankrupt the country for defense spending first.
Now Arizona wants to split into a separate state. I say no, make them their own country subject to visa requirements, trade agreements, ambassadors, and make them deal with the USA strictly as a foreign country and not with the benefit of being the "51st" state as they desire.
They want to break away from the union, LET 'EM, and don't allow them to reenter our union for any reason whatever. Let 'em become a Mexican State, the closest foreign border (I am not being flippant here).
That's just my opinion.
Ciao, bella ámi.
Labels: America, anarchy, corptocracy, disinformation, dissent, distractions, gutless cowards, mickey rourke, Oaths, rant
Rolling Stone reveals Jedi mind tricks being used to finance Afghanistan War…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:12 PM Permalink
…and has even gone to the extent of naming names, such as Sen. John McCain (need I say more?), Sen. Joe Lieberman (cain't keep an old, well slavered, warhorse like Smokin' Joe from smokin' 'em up on his submarine port), Sen. Jack Reed (some people just need to retire), Rep. Steve Israel (they take 'em young and dumb, too), Sen. Carl Levin and Admiral Mike Mullen (there's that need to retire thing again), and, last on my list and the only dubious candidate, Sen. Al Franken, the only man in the Senate to have watched all six Star Wars flicks and way too smart to fall for an old Jedi mind trick.
I watched Senator Franken (on a speeded-up tape probably two-three minutes long of a much longer event) where, while joking with and responding to the comments of those close to him, he drew a complete map of the United States of America from memory (I actually frantically dug out a map of the U.S. for comparison. 'Twas perfect as hand drawn can be); one of the single-most amazing thing I ever saw and I would bet hard money that no other member of the legislative, judicial, or executive branches of government could duplicate.
I can just see military men in camouflaged ponchos darting from one potted plant to another calling gently, "Joe Lieber-m-a-n-n-n…(slowly trailing off into what sounds like the hiss of a snake).
Sen Lieberman would turn toward the potted plant and kneel in deference, though he would seem to be tying is shoes, and say, "Command me, my Dark Master, bend my mind, my will, my body in any way that you desire…"
"There will be a committee meeting today discussing reducing the funding of our sacred, holy war against simple Afghani people that will impact severely on the heroin trade there."
"What do you desire, my Dark Master, and where did you get that camouflaged poncho? That's
slammin', my Master."
"I'll order you one, now shut up and listen, you will do whatever it takes to sustain our funding level…remember, grasshopper, there is no fun without funding, so take one for the team, even if you must abandon the democratic party…do you understand?"
"Yes, my
mother…uh…Master, yeah, that's it, my Dark Master, I shall obey gladly."
"Great! Now when you stand up from worsh - tying your shoe grab Admiral Mike Mullen and send him to tie his boots here so we can chat long."
"As you command, my Dark Master." Lieberman turns, sees Mullen coming down the hall, and congenially calls him over.
"Well, hey, Joe, what can I do for you," asked the Admiral.
Joe walked over, grabbed Mullen's "package", squeezing it twice, causing the Admiral's eyes to glaze over and his posture to become relaxed. Then Joe told him, "It's your turn at the potted plants, Mike…make it so."
The Admiral slowly replied, as if in a trance, "Yes, Joe, I will go to the plant to tie my boots and I will listen and follow all orders from our Dark Master."
Joe, eyes still glazed gives a simple wave of his hand as the Admiral knelt in supplication to the plant with the soldier in a completely camouflaged poncho.
And you wondered how we finance our wars.
Ciao, bella ámi.
Labels: betrayal, bush war doctrine, disinformation, DOJ liars, hypocrisy, Iraq war crimes, iraq war fraud, lieberman, lies, propaganda, rant
Welcome back to our ongoing 24/7/365 coverage of Egypt…Yes, all Egypt, all the time…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:13 PM Permalink
…and boy howdy do we have exciting new developments to report to you today friends and readers, or just friendly readers.
This exciting news was brought to me by my friend Bobby Briggs, my inside confidential informant working with the throngs of other negotiators and can therefore give me the news firsthand. However, due to his important position he has requested total anonymity which was ok'd by my editors so I will not identify him.
Anyway, in the most exciting development yet since the difficulties began for President Mubarak I can now reveal that an anonymous source has informed this reporter that former boy king, Tutankhamun, has agreed to be rehydrated, have all his organs replaced within his body, and receive the blood transfusions necessary to come out of his mummy status to regain control of his subjects by showering the entire country with millions of solid gold trinkets the King had retained in his still hidden, location unknown, carefully concealed, booby-trapped and cursed treasury that has remained undiscovered since King Tut, as the people of Egypt fondly refer to him before he passed away.
It is the King's theory that his people will be too busy collecting enough gold to make them forever self-sufficient and able to live like a pharaoh the rest of their natural lives, and that they will no longer have the time nor the inclination to protest any further.
Let's take a moment here to check on other newsworthy events elsewhere in the world. There is nothing happening in the rest of the world so we will now return to our 24/7/365 coverage of events as they happen on the ground in Egypt.
We can now report, based upon information provided by our anonymous source, that there has been what is being called a "minor snag" in the negotiations for the return of King Tut. The boy King, in return for saving the country of his birth, has demanded telepathically (the only means by which he can communicate with the negotiation team) that former queen Nefertiti, his former mother-in-law and seven-time winner of the "Babe from Babylonia" beauty contest also be revived as King Tut had secretly lusted for her for years before settling for her daughter.
Former Queen Nefertiti is still, perhaps, most infamous for telling the stonecutters to inscribe above the main entrance to her tomb that she could, "See Saudi Arabia from the top of the pyramids."
Now for a brief break to bring you on-going events in the U.S. financial situation…uh…wait, I have just been informed that there is nothing happening in America's financial community today so we now return to our coverage of Egyptian events.
The reported efforts to revive King Tut and Queen Nefertiti has suffered a hugh setback as the Mummy Revival and Stonecutters Union, Local 904, has gone on strike demanding higher wages, more vacation time, and to be forever released from responsibility for building the new pyramids that the King and Queen will undoubtedly order upon revival.
The king, according to my sources, has telepathically advised the negotiation team to agree to the demands of the unions involved as he will have them all fed to his dogs after they've had a brief trip through cobra-filled snake pits. Related to this is the King's demand that all Egyptian asps must be caught and killed, hunted to the point of extinction.
The negotiation team has advised that Sarah Palin would be hired to scour the country shooting every snake on sight from the safety of her low and slow flying airplane. When contacted for comment former Gov. Palin was heard to comment that just a few perfectly placed nuclear weapons would, upon detonation, guarantee the death of every asp in Egypt, including ,"…all those Egyptian asp-holes…".
Our Foreign Affairs Division report reveals that there is nothing happening anywhere involving foreign affairs.
So in bringing to a close my segment of the 24/7/365 coverage of Egypt I want to assure all our readers that our "All Egypt, All the Time," will continue in thirty seconds and will continue unabated until we can bring you the news that the King, and the Queen he lusts for, are again in charge, barring any surreptitious, sneaky, lowdown, underhanded, improper, and vicious acts by the American CIA, which was once again caught with their pants down, their male members in hand, and without the faintest idea that there had even been an uprising in Egypt.
In news from America today it has been reported that that there is no news from America today.
Well, time to sign off now, so to all my readers and friends (I think sometimes that only my friends read me!), I say to you:
Ciao, bella ámi.
Labels: egypt, egypt protests, humor, mickey rourke, rant
Physician Heal Thyself…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 3:02 AM Permalink
…as Bill's medical and mental health physician I follow the postings he makes here at VidiotSpeak as a vital diagnostic tool to ascertain whether he is on an even keel, so to speak, or whether he is a more likely to have left a sail hanging overboard, slowly filling and sinking the ship of state of mind from the adhesive property of water molecules slowly 'climbing' the sail through the miracle of osmosis, only to continue its trip downward, after death threats from the Gravity Union, through the sail into the boat itself. After an undetermined length of time requiring a separate determination of the determinative nature of this undetermined length of the determined time for this process the boat sank.
My name is Horatio Hornblower Luxuryyacht, Rhodes Scholar, graduated top of class from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn State, and Ohio. I attended, though I did not graduate, several all women universities. I received my several Phd s in Ohio when there were tin soldiers and Nixon coming to my graduation ceremony that was interrupted when a car backfired and the National Guards killed several hundred thousand college students, including Raul and Fidel Castro of children's TV fame (F-I-D-E-L C-A-S-T-R-O, FIDEL CASTRO, Fidel Castro, long may you live in memory, born on a mountain top in Tennessee, killed him a bar when he was only three, he and Paul Bunyan sure chopped down a lot of trees, until an injury to their ACLs blew out both their knees).
I will give you an update on his condition and his prognosis, yes, yes, YEAH, YOU IN THE FUCKIN' CORNER! Whatta you want? Wow, that is a very good question, but, no, we don't think years of wild partying, debauchery, orgiastic sex parties, heavy drug use, and rapid withdrawal of drugs used for decades to calm him had any affect at all. Although Bill did quit smoking, having sex, using drugs, and drinkin' alcohol for the helluvit, and now tells me it was absolutely the scariest twenty minutes of his life. Next? Oh, thanks for that question, but no, Bill has no knowledge whatever that he is I and I is he and we are all together. We can all poo-poo any other opinions on Bill's mental health except to say that he can't locate it at this time We are certain it will turn up as soon as he removes all the excess business cards from his wallet so he can get his wife's number and ask her where it is. This may prove to be time consuming since Bill, like Ronnie Raygun, will soon announce his complicity is trading Smores for hostages in the Smores-Contra administration of the goofy old pricks at the GOP Headquarters.
Next? Bill likes to blow off steam by singing in the rain when its plain Spain will not give us rain or good drugs again and again and that causes him much pain. What's that, Bill? Oh, awright, does anyone have any drugs with them? Bill never does them unless he is alone or with someone. O, Yeah, it's true - and he never lies unless he is alone or with somebody either. Hey I ought to know, being one of the three of us
Last question - that rockin' hot, hardbodied, obvious wild child there on her knees…uh…yes, Bill is available tonight but if his hard-on remains for more than four hours you must promptly call the hospital to get three nurses or more there to help beat his manly member into submission. Last time we went through twelve nurses before the Kraken was called to drive it away because Bill don't play that; it's so embarrassing to watch professional nurses reduced to babbling, quivering, satiated, sweat covered, and totally wild sex fiends. Sex Lives ruined forever. How tragic.
The reason I called this press conference is to confirm that Bill, me, and I had been without the drugs that protects us from panic attacks, anxiety paralysis, and all sorts of crap because the VA pharmacy told us in… October? that we we had no refills. Through the miracle of compound time we were able to land our ship long enough to get the meds but still escape all those nurses. Boy! Time must fly when you're that high.
But to fill in the gaps and say that which could not be said before I had to relearn the language, having forgotten both Swahili and pig-den Latin, which I/we had heard was a dead language but no one can tell us where its fucking buried and we have seen no definitive, or non-definitive newspaper reports on the matter. Anyway, after further reflection and before the mirror broke we just wanted to step back through the looking glass, which is smaller, more elongated, and has a tighter crawl space than the typical mirror to reassess our reassessment. To connect our ravings of late and attempt to show how my twisted mind still possesses some modicom of intelligence and insight
Sick people, those truly sick, can only partially control criminal urges. This is because even a sick man recognizes sick cops that TASER without necessity and use the TASER to torture. Torture has been brought back, clandestinely at first, notoriously, well known now is that our leaders order surreptitious assassinations, kidnappings, and torturing citizens who cannot be proven to have committed any crime 'cept self-defense or being Muslim. gwb also ordered extreme torture, lied about it, was found out, and these heinous acts continue under Obama. Drones are launched with Hellfire missiles that inject true hell into wedding parties, village gatherings, children's birthday parties, and even people just walking down the street. The United States became the laughingstock and major disappointment to countries unaware that we had no intentions of honoring their laws, our laws, several treaties, and the world learned that America is no longer an honest broker of peace and instead now commits warcrimes so horrific hundreds of thousands of people died and millions more were displace from there ancestral homes by America and its armed forces.
Domestic police, as I described in my earlier ramblings, follow the example of their leaders and thus torture, too, demand immediate response and if they respond 1/4 second late you can depend on being beaten and shocked senseless by every cop on the scene. The perp here is clearly insane as all personal accounts of people who knew him state; he will not be convicted because he is clearly insane and easily slipped through the system because though people were afraid and thought him looney, no one to the time to report him to authorities who may have been able to intercede.
No help from the schools, none from his parents, so the opportunity presented was guaranteed at least partial results; the police could not possibly respond swiftly enough to stop this entirely and the perp knows it. He will enjoy the trial as one witness after another is forced to tell they thought him crazy. IT's true and will resonate with a jury.
Unknown to police or mental health authorities his actions are further provoked by teabagger-gop-ers and their excessively puerile mentality."There (was) a killer on the road…His brain (was) squirming like a toad…Take a long holiday…Let the children play…If you give this man a ride sweet families will die…Riders on the Storm(The Doors).
So every component of this tragedy was obvious to SOMEONE along the way…but none acted. The stage set, the execution of its elements were all too easy to carry out, and ALL society is to blame. I/we/Bill wanted to complete our analysis.
His parents didn't help him; the schools didn't help him or ID him to the police; army recruiters who rejected him but, again, did nothing. The politicians are too busy with their dual monologues to have a proper dialog, the media megaphone, to me, have never helped anyone so no safety net there. A logical progression leading to murder and mayhem. A straight line to my eye; causes and effects.
Forgive me, please, for not making that clearer, though in the small fraction my functioning brain I saw repeated a scenario we have seen time and again and will see again in the future. If more people trained themselves to make intuitive calls as to whom exactly is dangerous, we would all sleep easier.
NOTE: I know I make a lot of drug references. What can I say? I'm a genuine sixties hippy and grew up in that era where drug use was common, but more common still was the humor generated by people like Cheech & Chong, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, SNL (original cast), and on and on. I found that type of humor funny then and, if properly executed, funny still. I personally take far too many serious and deleterious prescription drugs to use street drugs that would blow up my heart, chop off my legs and throw them into the fire, enable me to leave the planet, or something; I forget which. But those are the only drugs I do, period.
Labels: mental competency, mental health, rant
Forget famous surrenders of the past and ready yourself…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 12:41 PM Permalink
…for the most shameful surrender in American history, a surrender I do not believe will leave the nation intact.
Congress, both bodies, have so humbled, abased, embarrassed, and taunted each other to the point that compromise is no longer possible. It's like when a younger sibling knows secret(s) about his elders that even the youngster recognizes that were he or she were to reveal those secrets, it would be so great a breach of trust that the family dynamics would change forever, it might take decades to be forgiven (if at all), and the youngster could face complete exile from the family. Most people will innately understand this.
But, in American politics, which USED to be a family united against the world for the good of all its citizens, there is no more family extant. Now it's republicans, who care for only money and power; democrats that try to do what's best for America but are so inept, inane, and such fools that they would ask an anaconda swallowing them whole it they could negotiate to keep their finger- and toenail clippings or, in other words, democrats are so fucking stupid they would rather sacrifice their children to gain the most minute and inconsequential advantage. Independents that caucus with democrats must bear witness to the slow, agonizing death of America. And teabagging-gop-ers would rather just ostracize or execute democrats and independents.
All these political parties have abandoned rank-and-file American citizens and seeks nothing other than complete domination of the country. Each of them have violated their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic and each seeks nothing for Americans but a rough time and a hard row to hoe.
None of these parties has done anything to uplift the lives of the ill, the poor, the unemployed, the hungary, and those who must choose between a fresh can of cat food for dinner or a half tablet of vitally needed medicine.
They all posture, preen for the cameras (I can already see Beohner, speaker elect, licking his palms and smoothing back his hair so he looks good on the TV), try to come up with the most clever or outright vicious comment to make about those of a different party as they step over one of the two or three hundred thousand homeless veterans, most of whom are suffering a myriad of illnesses from repeated tours of duty in an illegal war entered to feed the ego of whom? gwb and the lying ass republicans who aided and assisted in getting us into both illegal wars.
And don't give me any horse excrement about Afghanistan being a "good" and "just" war. It cannot be just to kill and maim thousands in an attack on a nation that just happened to have a terrorist residing there. If that were so America needs to surrender to itself as all nineteen terrorists were last known to be on American soil.
It's over, folks. We had a good run right up until republicans elected a deity, Ronnie Raygun, former actor, former governor, and trader of arms to terrorists to obtain release of the hostages in Iran. And don't write me any crap about, "Reagan never did that!" It's hard to deny the crime when its perpetrator confessed on national television, isn't it?
The history of American Presidents over the last 60 years:
34th President, Republican Dwight David Eisenhower, served 1953-1961, best remembered by me for America's formerly greatest interstate highway system and infrastructure ever seen in the world and warning about the 'military-industrial complex' danger facing America.
35th President, Democratic John Kennedy, War Hero, inspired a nation and paid for it with his life, Nov. 22, 1963. I was on the third grade flag team; I cried the entire time I lowered, then raised to the top and lowered the flag to half-staff when he was murdered.
36th President, Democrat, Lyndon Baines Johnson, sacrificed any future political activities after assuming the office of the murdered Pres. Kennedy in order to get the Civil Rights Act passed. "If nominated I will not accept, if elected I will not serve."
37th President, Republican Richard Milhouse Nixon, the most famous crook ever elected, brought immeasurable shame to America with the Watergate Scandal, his plumber squad, his illegal taping, and his real feelings that, "If the president does it it's not illegal."
38th President, Gerald Ford, typical republican, pardoned almost all of the crooks in the Nixon presidency.
39th President, Jimmy Carter, worst complaint, "He's so boring!" Kept the nation at peace and living within its means, left office with $600,000.00 cash in the treasury.
40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan, bargainer with terrorists, armed Iran against Hussein's Iraq, sent aid, weapons and training to Osama bin Laden to help fight against the Russians in Afghanistan.
41st President, George Herbert Walker Bush, family made millions partnering up with the Senior bin Laden, Osama's Dad, but was too bland to re-elect.
42nd President, William Jefferson Clinton, besides his legendary predilection for illicit sex it at least kept him too busy to spend money, left office with hugh surpluses - just like the last democratic president. Strange, huh?
43rd President, George Walker Bush, Nixon on steroids, a crook, a liar, a usurper of the Constitution, warmonger, would be dictator, bankrupted the country. Did I forget anything?
44th President, Barack Hussein Obama, political coward with just enough charisma to get elected, but lacking the guts to stand up for America and Americans, backs down from every fight, and has the smallest cojones I've ever heard of for a Harvard educated attorney. He is the only democrat on this list with no major accomplishments (other than getting elected), he is surrendering democratic American dominance in politics to men far less intelligent than he, AND IT SUCKS A BIG ROOT!
And finally, please note that with the exceptions of Eisenhower and too-bland-to-be-real Bush the Elder,
every other republican president has engaged in blatantly illegal acts in contravention of American Law and Treaties, while every democrat serving over the last 60 years may have been boring, may have had dalliances they shouldn't, but they knew how to govern for all, even the least of us, they were not war criminals, looters of weaker nations, they didn't deplete and almost destroy our armed forces.
AND PEOPLE DON'T SEE THIS? FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!
Labels: Barack Obama, Bush, bush hypocrisy, bush war doctrine, democratic party, destroyers of dreams, disinformation, rant, republican hypocrisy
"The Senate Stands for Injustice," NYT Editorial board
posted by Bill Arnett @ 12:50 PM Permalink
…
See:
On one of the most shameful days in the modern history of the Senate, the Republican minority on Thursday prevented a vote to allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly in the military of the United States. They chose to filibuster a vital defense bill because it also banned discrimination in the military ranks. And in an unrelated but no less callous move, they blocked consideration of help for tens of thousands of emergency workers and volunteers who became ill from the ground zero cleanup after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The senators who stood in the way of these measures must answer to the thousands of gay and lesbian soldiers who must live a lie in order to serve, or drop out. They must answer to the civilians who will not serve their country when some Americans are banned from doing so for an absurd reason, and to the military leaders who all but pleaded with them to end this unjust policy. They must answer to the workers who thought they were aiding their country by cleaning up ground zero.
Again and again and again the teabagging-gop-ers must try to explain their churlish ways of preaching 'strict interpretation of the Constitution', no abortion even when the birth will kill the mother or make her suffer a lifetime raising a baby born of incest or rape, how they can give lip service to all the better things about America, while ignoring the things only a society can do: amass funds through taxes to pay for public services, transportation via bus, taxis, trains, and the planes that allow a society to survive and prosper through trade and shipping, forming police and other law enforcement entities to maintain the peace, and yet, despite certain knowledge that LBGT persons having been filling and performing these jobs for decades (Just think back to J. Edgar Hoover, a great example of LBGTs all by himself), the teabagger-gop-er's refuse to acknowledge the achievements of the LBGT community now or in the past.
I would caution Obama of an old, old saying (I remember it as if I were a small boy hearing it for the first time):
"He who has nothing to support him, is in a fair way to starve. ANON, Characters and observations, Early 18th Century
I would also like to know just what the teabagger-gop-er party would do if suddenly every military troop, or the largest part of them, "CAME OUT", declared themselves to be LBGT, and insisted upon the immediate discharge the republicans would love to give them.
NOW re-read the quotation above again, and think about it.
Labels: Barack Obama, constitution, neocons, rant, teabagger-gop-er
Step aside Jimmy Carter, h-e-e-r-r-e-e-'s Barack Obama…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:36 PM Permalink
…who desperately needs a reminder:
"Soon you will have forgotten the world, and the world will have forgotten you." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2nd Century
For so long Jimmy Carter has been one of the boogeymen of the GOP. He hasn't sunk into the mire and the mud and the muck of after-office politics, to my memory I cannot ever recall a single instance were he denigrated an opponent (in or out of office), and he did something that as a young man I thought I would never see: America at peace with the world; no staged attacks, no false provocations or pretensions toward war, no, none of the phony bullshit of every president that succeeded him in office.
Four years of peace, our children not being slaughtered, the budget of America was sound, a surplus of over $600,000 in the treasury, and then the republicans regained the office of the Presidency. It's been all downhill sledding with Dante (the one and only True Leader of the teabagger-gop-er party, dontchaknow) as he carries the country round and round, down into the ground, as fast as he can possibly carry us, only to find, when we arrive, that America has taken a dive, right into the very muck and mire we sought to survive. Barack Obama, I don't think, will be anywhere as close to being remembered kindly as Carter.
Can he build a house? HA! He went to H-a-a-v-a-a-d Law School and almost everyone has had their fill of attorneys! Boy! Back in the Eighties going to Law School was like a trip to Disneyland! Come one, come all, three short years and you, too can be an F. Lee Bailey, a Thurgood Marshall, a Johnny Cochran, rolling in money, using $100 bills to stuff your mattress! Hookers! Fame! Greed! Avarice! Power on loan from S-a-t-a-n!
The republican teabagger-gop-er party will
buy your soul…sacrifice! Yeah, sacrifice your soul, that's the ticket, and bring your corporeal body with you so you can stand up in court and tell the rethuglian judge the party's wishes and he will routinely rule for you and against democrats.
And the teabagging-gop-ers? How soon they forget:
"People in the fashionable world are driven to commit as many ugly actions through snobbery as wretches are through misery. Robert de Flers and Francis de Croisset, Les Préciuuses de Genève, 1929.
And the entire country should remember the sage words of Sydney Smith, an American playwright, circa early 1900s:
I am not fond of expecting catastrophes, but there are cracks in the universe.
I have plenty more to say, having never been so entirely disgusted with any single politician in my life as I am with Barack Obama, but, alas, I tire quickly whenever my mind is set racing at light speed, all the words coming at me unchecked, so many that by the time I have typed a few, thousands more words have passed me by, lost in the endless recesses of my mind. I long ago recognized this long, slow descent into thoughtlessness, a void from which I will not escape.
But in the end isn't that what happens to us all? Screwed by the rich, specifically the rich politicians buying their way into office, shunned by the world that sees us for what we have become, and churches, a boon to the formation of early society that has twisted their ethics, beliefs, and clergy into money collectors for a god they know damn well cannot spend it. He can't spend it so these holy men step in as purported stewards of the most vast treasures ever accumulated by man and spend it on themselves and on the men that can assure the treasure collecting of the churches cannot be stopped.
Note for Vidiot Mom: Thank you for your very kind words. I find much solace knowing that my words and writing have reached out and touched someone. If you are so inclined, please obtain my email address from the Vidiot (You know her, right?) so we may correspond directly. I am further flattered that you brought my writing to the attention of others; perhaps you and your friends might care to suggest subjects for me to write about? Really, I'd like that.
Labels: aphorisms, Barack Obama, mickey rourke, rant
Let's try this again: R-E-M-O-R-S-E!
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:40 PM Permalink
Those dry Martinis did the work for me;
Last night at twelve I felt immense,
Today I feel like thirty cents.
My eyes were bleared, my coppers hot,
I'll try to eat, but I cannot.
It is no time for mirth and laughter,
The cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Sultan of Sulu (1903) act 2, p. 63 [not the Star Trek guy, Bill]
by George Ade 1866-1944Got that? It is no time for mirth and laughter, (T)he cold, gray dawn of the morning after. We have arrived, as I expected we would, at the cold, gray dawn of the morning of Obama's presidency. It ain't a pretty sight, is it, watching a president humble and abase himself before his republican masters? Kissing ass has been the signature hallmark of his tenure, so HE learned something, unlike the hundred of thousands of students who probably have been priced right out of the classroom and have only learned that NO ONE, NO ONE, NO ONE can be trusted to keep even the simplest or innocently-made promise once they actually enter office.
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
(Dean Acheson 1893-1971, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Sept 8, 1977.) They need to change the song to, "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas," to I'm Dreaming of a Pink and Yellow Christmas" so all the little chirrun will understand that the shredding and consequent blizzard of shredded memoranda copies is now a quaint, though relatively new, holiday tradition in America started by those blessed luminaries of American politics, gwb and the big Dick, who at last count STILL had truckload after truckload of shredded memos being removed from an address that officially doesn't exist. Now what could be more Christmas-e that a fat old bald, filthy rich guy dumping 300,000 pounds of confetti in your yard from a guy who's address you are not authorized to know - under penalty of water boarding and unlawful confinement in a third world country still willing to torture and maim in the name of democracy?
"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."
(William Ralph Enge (Dean Inge) 1860-1954, in End of an Age (1948) ch. 2.) Wow! Is it just me or does this last quotation nail the teabagging-gop-ers to the cross they so falsely worship and represents everything which the rethugs are AGAINST?
"Power to the people."
(Black Party Slogan circa 1961-1968 Weren't true then. Weren't true when John Lennon (IMHO the greatest songwriter of my time) said it. Ain't true now. Power accrues to the rich!
Bill Arnett 1953- , s'okay I wanted to see my name in parentheses, ain't no thang, man.)I guess for the rest of the time I exist, or not, in one of the most despised, ridiculed countries extant today and run with a malevolent malfeasance that only the gang-that-not-only-can't-shoot-straight-but-can-only-shoot-themselves-in-the-ass can muster.
It ain't much. But it's the New Democratic Party. The line for the knee pads and
prophylactics…uh…late breaking news, the teabagging-gop-ers, fully supported by pResident Obama, has outlawed prophylactics as part of new legislation to increase forced enlistment of all the poor into both the republican party and, simultaneously, the U.S. Armed Forces, in preparation for World Domination by the Teabagger-gop-er Party.
Reminds me of an old high school cheer: "REGURGITATE! REGURGITATE! THROW UP ALL THE FOOD YOU ATE! V-O-M-I-T, VOMIT - BLEHHH!
Labels: Barack Obama, blackmail, Conservatives, GOP, hypocrisy, neocons, rant
Well, continued tax breaks for the rich tell me that the son-of-a-bitch…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 11:19 AM Permalink
…that many, like me, elected based upon his promises to keep the rich in check has instead abandoned our collective Democratic Party and proven to be naught but another whippin' boy for old white rich bastards disassembling our country and our freedoms brick-by-brick.
I remember the outright euphoria I felt upon Obama's election; the thought of America's promise that any child could grow and learn and succeed through words and deeds to aspire to and actually break through the lie that was America for over two hundred years that, "…any child can grow up to be president…" when it was plain to everyone with eyes to see that such a thing could never be.
America spread the lie until it became , "…as ubiquitous as a toaster…" [comment made by Steve Jobs regarding the original Macintosh. Bill], but it is only now that women, persons of color, LBG, etc. have been making inroads to lower offices in the legislative branch for many years, sure, but showed that at least as far as the last elections were concerned that no woman would be in the top tier, for president, and, looking back at Obama's extremely skimpy political record I begin to believe he was hand picked. I can see it:
"C'mere, son. Now unnerstand that this ain't never been done before, but we believe we can get enough votes between disaffected democrats, women, blacks, Latinos, and the republican votes we can send your way that it should be a breeze getting you elected. But you gotta understand that you have to come when your summoned [and don't go peeing down your leg, boy, it's disgusting!], that you can talk a good game, but the minute you git all uppity and think you're actually going to further the democratic agenda, well, FORGIT IT! We'll come after your family, your garden, your little doggie, and we'll make it so obvious that a black man can never run this country that we'll set back the civil rights movement way back to the fuckin' Sixties, you got that, boy? And women candidates might as well forget it, too, after we unleashed Wailin' Sarah Palin on you dumbass democrats nobody will seriously think about votin' female again, at least long enough so's we teabaggin'-gop-ers can find an utterly repulsive female like a Hillary to run against one of our self-made multi-billionaire old white guys. Ain't that a hoot?"
YOU BLEW IT, BARACK. YOU BLEW IT OUT OF SHEER COWARDICE WHEN SO MANY OTHERS WERE READY TO SUPPLY YOU WITH DEMOCRATIC HELP, POWER, MONEY, SUPPORT, AND AT A TIME WHEN THE PUBLIC CRAVED LEADERSHIP, SOMEONE TO STAND UP AGAINST TEABAGGERS AND THEIR ILK, SOMEONE THEY COULD LOOK UP TO AND ADMIRE.
IF YOU HOLD YOURSELF FORTH AS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHAT A BLACK MAN CAN DO FOR HIS COUNTRY YOU HAVE FAILED UTTERLY, COMPLETELY, IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE. YOU ARE A PROVEN COWARD, AFRAID TO STAND UP TO TEABAGGERS AND THEIR ILK EVEN WHE FACED WITH RESOUNDING MAJORITIES
ON YOUR OWN SIDE.I honestly don't believe I have ever seen a weaker president in my life. More stupid, of course, I lived through the bush years, too, y'know, but weaker? More cowardly? More venal? More willing to collapse from a single screech by Mitch McConnell? One that TALKS a great game and then does absolutely nothing but surrender without regard to the damage to the collective democratic psyche and the obvious harm you swore an oath to prevent.
At least no one can claim you're a man of your word with the intestinal fortitude required to stand up for the patsy idiots, like me, that were sold down that Ole Man River by a smooth salesman of snake oil promising that you'll walk! You'll talk! You'll roll on your belly like a reptile! Come one, come all! A nickel, a dime, a quarter - anything you can spare will help re-elect the second worst president in American history!
Labels: Conservatives, conspiracy, crooked republican party, disinformation, dissent, mickey rourke, rant
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:49 PM Permalink
…Open, locks, Whoever knocks! (
Macbeth)
The very wickedness of the teabagger-gop-ers astounds me. I listen day after day as the rethug-teabaggers state their clear desire to destroy the institutions of government brought about after two hundred years of better-men-than-they fighting tooth-and-nail to establish the precepts of American government: freedom for all, the right to worship as a person chooses, the right of a person to choose not to swear allegiance to any religious icon or deity at all, if that be their wish, freedom of speech, the endowment of a person's unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But, as in a movie, I see within my mind the foundation of America falling apart, catching fire, and seemingly failing as the bricks catch fire and spiral away down into the darkness that holds the soul of those most wicked, devious, teabagging-gop-ers actively calling for the further enrichment of the already rich and the withdrawal of every safety net that the democratic party has labored to put into place to the benefit of all, not just the rich, the richer, and the very richest amongst us.
It really saddens me that I just may have lived through the 'glory days' of America and, worse, that I am now watching the decline and fall of just another social experiment of men seeking to control other men through wealth, trickery and deceit, making and breaking an endless number of promises in order to gain the advantage they fancy they need to turn America into a state of the many working to serve the few, the poor further enriching the already rich, the ill suffering ever lower wages but still, somehow, able to pay for healthcare for those many, many times wealthier than they, and I know that my beloved country has already fallen to third world banana republic standing in the world.
We really have gone too far this time. As the lip's of the world's citizens slowly draws back into a primordial snarl that simultaneously indicates both contempt and disgust we continue to lose allies, further isolate ourselves from the world, and we now know for certain that most of the free countries of the wold do not trust us with the sensitive and top secret information that might one day stave off a nuclear holocaust, greatly reducing the chances of last minute phone calls that could lead to diplomacy instead of open war.
And I flatly state that in my opinion, if we come to such a destructive war, that it will be rooted in the evils done by the teabagger-gop-er-rethug-neocon-conservative party.
Labels: backstabbers, destroyers of dreams, lies, rant, republican hypocrisy, republican lies
Skating away, skating away, skating away on the thin ice of a new day…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 3:27 PM Permalink
…(
Jethro Tull)
The thin ice upon which America has been skating for decades has grown very thin indeed. Our legislative branch of the government is essentially useless, the same faces spouting the same rhetoric about phony bipartisanship has created a total gridlock. Our judicial branch is still aiding in this perfidy by hearing ever more bogus charges of vote-fixing or voter fraud, Obama's citizenship, don't ask-don't tell, and, during the bush era, seemed to tailor their rulings to conform with bush's desire to return to the Nixon days where, "…if the president does it it's not illegal…," and, further, aided the bush administration by allowing draconian legislation limiting our civil rights, rights to privacy, the right to expect that our homes will be inviolate unless a valid bench warrant has been approved by a judge after a review to assure there is probable cause for that entry into our domain, and the wiretapping of our calls overseas and observing our internet usage.
Now the teabagger-gop-ers have devolved to outright blackmail: If you won't blow up the budget with another 700 billion dollar shortage caused directly by more tax breaks for the wealthiest class in America, we will make sure all the unemployed will starve over Christmas by refusing to pass the legislation necessary to keep their benefit checks coming in.
I'm sure in the idyllic little vermin minds of republican leaders all those collecting benefits must be illegal aliens and democrats too used to the welfare state to go out and find a non-existant job that will support a family, but I think (hope) that the republicans standing out there in the dole lines will certainly recognize that that is not the case at all.
So for all the republicans returning to office asinine leadership that values your worth at ZERO, that would rather see you starve instead of living on the pittance the government might mete out, may you finally realize that a vote for a republican is a vote for misery and suffering for the poor, the infirm, those choosing between medicine and food, those losing their homes and all the rest of the seeming punishment of the poor for having defied the will of the rich, old, white man party called the
KKK…er…gop.
Yes the Grand Old Party working hard with their allies, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Assholes is blackmailing America without regard to the disaster brought upon this once proud nation that has been reduced to the playground of a political part that doesn't want to rule. They don't give a damn about ruling; witness the bush train wreck that almost destroyed America, made us the laughingstock of the world and, now, the Wikileaks show that other world leaders view us as their lapdog, easily goading our leaders into ever more terrible adventures.
No, they give not a twit for leading a formerly great nation back to greatness. No, they want to get the nation so drunk on the swill they produce that they can bend Lady America over a park bench, ravish and ravage her as they continue to loot America.
I do have just one question for these nutjobs: When the government of America collapses from within do you honestly believe all those dollars you are amassing at the expense of every citizen will be worth damn? That other nations will go crazy buying up more and more of America until the day our new foreign masters cast you aside like the used whore, Ameria, that you have kicked aside time and time again.
Labels: elections, hegemony, hypocrisy, inequality, rant
"Well I can tell by your rusty zipper and the yella stains on your boots…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 3:55 PM Permalink
…that you either still have a bladder infection or a teabagger/gop problem. Either way ya got a problem. One is easy to handle with a regimen of penicillin, the other, apparently like a lingering infection of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea carried by and passed about among the teabaggers and gop-ers who cheat on their wives, mistresses, teenage boys and girls, and half-crazed, mutant, family-only bunny rabbit-like rapid breeders, and those who breathe through their mouths.
The gop-ers are already back-peddling and beginning to back away from the teabaggers, something I very much wish they would not do
unless they continue with their ridiculous desire that Sawah Pale-one be their presidential candidate in 2012. I believe all Americans owe it to themselves to pledge to do everything within their power to insure the Pale-one is the candidate to which all the religious right-wing nuts, bigots, racists, misogynous, homophobic followers are sure to pledge their loyalty.
In 2012, switch parties briefly in order to vote for Sawah's nomination and then change back at your voter's registrar's office or simply vote against every republican on the ticket, starting at the top. Tell every pollster that might call that your rootin' tootin' fer sure voting for Sawah, no one else can save us.
gop-er leaders are ready making their contributions to enshrine Sawah and erect statues in her honor with all the brick-shitting they are doing now at the very though of such a scenario.
So get the word out that it's Sawah all the way and help a hardworking comedienne, Miss Tina Fey, continue to prosper leading up to the election and Sawah's crushing defeat (and no, "crushing de-feat is NOT a new big brave hunter's trick to disable wolves by crushing their feet so they can only hobble, and therefor, make an easier target of the wolfs to be shot from the safety of small airplanes in order to live as our ancient ancestors did).
Labels: elections, hypocrisy, mickey rourke, rant
For any gamblers in our midst the gorillas in the mist…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 3:22 PM Permalink
…will put an end to the naked scanning rapidly gaining support among governments and airlines. By this I mean that when the first illegally taken NAKED pictures (and oh, yes, there will be cases of TSA employees taking illegal photographs) of:
A mega-rock star, male or female,
Famous or infamous politicians,
A fabulously wealthy diva,
Playboy bunnies or the male equivalent (especially in a turgid state),
Any completely innocent extremely beautiful female or male,
A future or past First Lady or Former President,
Any elected or former Representative or Senator,
Any sitting Justice of SCOTUS or the many appellate courts,
and any number of other types of people (Play along! How many others can YOU think of?) surfaces and drives public and political outrage to a white-hot feeding frenzy in the MSM, X-rays exposing the entire naked body will cease.
Myself, I think that, purely in the interest of National Security y'know, every single Representative, Senator, and President should be required to 'strut their stuff' in full frame naked glory and be photographed down to the most minute detail of their naked bodies.
National Security should require this in the name of protecting America. And to let them feel AND SEE IN ACTION the gross violation of personal privacy.
Labels: rant, totalitarian state, tsa, X-ray machines
The circle of insanity now seems complete when…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 1:30 PM Permalink
…the MSM cites a new poll this morning showing that 77% of respondents thinks the tea party is not going to be able to run the country or solve its problems while 11% thinks they would be just peachy-keen.
When a poll shows that 77% of people don't trust in a political party isn't the existence of that party moot and highly unlikely to have their candidates win many offices? 11% favorability isn't enough to get a person elected to dog-catcher is it?
Personally I think the teabaggers will be a real spoiler in this election. They will draw the votes of the hard core mouth-breathers who would ordinarily vote rethuglican and I think the split will be large enough to help get more democrats elected, not fewer.
Thank goodness that even if they do enjoy some success their small numbers will make it impossible to do the severe damage they wish to do. If they ever achieve a majority they will end America and turn it into a police state with anyone allowed to carry a gun anywhere, they will destroy equal rights, end health care, reverse Roe v. Wade and prohibit a woman from even aborting the child resulting from a rape or incest or that jeopardizes the woman's health, and end all legislation requiring equality among all.
I do believe it is that simple: stop the teabaggers or be ready to be enslaved in a few short years. The death of America is at hand anyway, the teabaggers will merely hasten that death.
Labels: elections, rant
With so much going on in so many areas, reported in so many media venues, and the serious problems…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 3:50 PM Permalink
…plaguing America today, problems, people, political groups and hatred run amok (a word of Philippine origins as it happens; commonly used in a sentence such as, "My Warrior Woman ran so amok to protect, shelter and seek aid for me that the VA Clinic Staff kept a wide, wide, distance from her and the doctors she corralled to assist me and did not dare get in her way.") that are so rapidly destroying America and its ideals that the speed with which they are dismantling our institutions seem to be increasing exponentially by orders of magnitude.
Last week or sometime before (I have no functioning time frame of reference- coulda been last week or two years ago) I wrote of my feelings about the anger, hatred, angry hatred, hateful anger and any combination thereof that was further seriously damaging my already severely damaged psyche.
This, too, concerns me greatly. The destructions of our seas, the engine that drives our planet and allows it to function is becoming seriously impaired, possibly to the point from which there can be no return.
Having seen the folly of believing an undersea oil spill can be contained it still doesn't, won't, can't seem to be understood that once our seas are so damaged they can no longer perform their functions that acid and otherwise polluted rain will fall to begin the final destruction of our planet.
Small example: The Japanese and others in that region have so overwhelmed the whale populations, whales that would have consumed vast quantities of nutritious plankton that the sheer number of plankton available that would otherwise be consumed by whales is now be eaten by hugh jellyfish, growing up to five feet wide and weighing several hundred pounds that is crowding out many other fish and alone now migrate up the coast of Japan rending and tearing so many fishing nets that the fisherman cannot keep up replacing them. Other fleets go out, and with all the plankton consumed by jellyfish, come back with loads of fish insufficient to support their own families, much less any one else. Almost two-thirds of Japan is now surrounded by these jellyfish, tearing net and rendering fishing impossible.
I believe this to be a direct consequence of overfishing the whales that would ordinarily have eaten the plankton and thus stopped the jellyfish migration from the China Sea to the Sea of Japan as the whales and other fish would have consumed that source of food.
In Europe, especially Spain and Portugal, the absence of open ocean food has brought swarm after swarm of jellyfish, most of them, unfortunately being box jellyfish, which sting with the most powerful poison that exists in the natural world. Strong enough to kill a heavy, but healthy, adult in under two minutes. And that from a box jellyfish less than five inches across; they grow to several feet in dome-size with tentacle trails of a hundred feet or more.
These things are happening for a reason and that reason is man. These radical groups spouting now are the jellyfish of America and will kill America just as their sea bound relatives destroy human life.
But this is just my opinion and I could be wrong.
Ciao, bella âmi.
Labels: environment, government, hypocrisy, rant
The unsurpassed savagery of the Jewish State, Israel…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 2:27 PM Permalink
…could be ended quite peacefully if they would only obey UN Resolution 242, extant since 1967. Any other state so abjectly ignoring a UN Resolution would have long ago had the derision of the world heaped upon them and, possibly, forced used against them to force compliance with that resolution.
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
November 22, 1967
Following the June '67, Six-Day War, the situation in the Middle East was discussed by the UN General Assembly, which referred the issue to the Security Council. After lengthy discussion, a final draft for a Security Council resolution was presented by the British Ambassador, Lord Caradon, on November 22, 1967. It was adopted on the same day.
This resolution, numbered 242, established provisions and principles which, it was hoped, would lead to a solution of the conflict. Resolution 242 was to become the cornerstone of Middle East diplomatic efforts in the coming decades.
The Security Council,
Expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East,
Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security,
Emphasizing further that all Member States in their acceptance of the Charter of the United Nations have undertaken a commitment to act in accordance with Article 2 of the Charter,
Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
Affirms further the necessity
For guaranteeing freedom of navigation through international waterways in the area;
For achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem;
For guaranteeing the territorial inviolability and political independence of every State in the area, through measures including the establishment of demilitarized zones;
Requests the Secretary General to designate a Special Representative to proceed to the Middle East to establish and maintain contacts with the States concerned in order to promote agreement and assist efforts to achieve a peaceful and accepted settlement in accordance with the provisions and principles in this resolution;
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on the progress of the efforts of the Special Representative as soon as possible.
I have absolutely nothing against the jewish people, as usual my beef is with their leaders who constantly defy the law and spirit of resolution 22, and I'm sick and tired of their always playing the 'poor wittle victims" when nothing could be further from the truth.
Here, again, they are the aggressors in international waters blockading relief supplies to the people from whom they stole the rich farm land and still seek to keep imprisioned the real owners of the land, starving and dying while the Israelis creep further and further within Palestinian borders and seek to destroy the people whose land they have stolen.
I am both embarrassed and ashamed that the American government not only condones this tyrannical behavior but actively assists the jews in oppressing, killing, and starving those people whom they wish to oppress, starve, and oppress just because those people want back lands wrongfully stolen from them.
Quick! Name one other nation allowed to ignore a UN Security Council Resolution for forty-three years without consequence.
But this is just my opinion and I will never concede that it is wrong.
Labels: neocons. Israelis, rant
