Shame on You!

Greetings good citizen,

I received a rather bizarre e-mail yesterday inviting me to attend an economics ‘summer school’ in Italy.

Five Nobel Laureates will teach the class in English, so the Italian setting is merely to make the surroundings more…’realistic’ (While not currently in the headlines, Italy is one of the PIIGS in case anyone was wondering why they spelled pig with two i’s.)

How ‘appropriate’ that these five, er, ‘nitwits’ expound upon their economic theories in a country that likely practiced (and definitely suffered) from them?

Which brings us to yet another long neglected hobby horse…the one that each of these ‘Nobel Laureates’ needs to have hammered into their squeany little heads…

(Sing it choir!)

ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL!

(Now give me an Amen!)

Hallelujah!

(Where the heck is MY Nobel Prize?)

Yes good citizen, I would ‘opine’ that you don’t know squat about economics if you turn a blind eye to this most basic of economic facts.

(Apparently my opinion is worthless to the rabid capitalists who hand out Nobel Prizes.)

Neither YOU (nor anyone else) can live in an ‘economic wasteland’.

That’s why the ‘global economy’ is in the tank (and it going to stay there until it gets ‘re-balanced’.)

Somehow these, er, ‘gentlemen’ believe this problem is going to solve itself. (and it very well might…however, the fabric of society can only take so much tearing before it shreds completely.)

Which is to ‘opine’ that IF society is ‘left to its own devices’ the fabric of civilization will be ‘obliterated’.

How complete will the destruction be?

Total (barring last minute intervention…which may or may not be successful.)

Sort of boggles the mind to see who’s still drinking the Kool-Aid after all these years.

Considering how lethal that stuff is you have to be amazed that they’re still lining up to down a shot or three!

But that’s all part of another ‘self-correcting’ genetic defect, the tendency to trust people who don’t have your best interests at heart.

Add in the ‘stupid factor’ and we find an endless line of potential Kool-Aid drinkers!

What Kool-Aid is that, you ask?

It’s the kind that blinds you to the existence of the ‘economic desert’.

“There are plenty of jobs out there! You’re just not trying hard enough.”

Yeah, the hundred million unemployed are just a figment of your imagination, especially considering how they ‘don’t want to work’…(which is right next to deciding you no longer want to live…but conservo-whackos will swallow anything regardless of how jagged the hooks are.)

How sad is it good citizen that these facts are also being ignored by the (alleged) alternative media thus our current political dialog is centered on NOT trimming the military budget?

Mighty sad.

Even more disturbing is this headline from today’s NY Times:

White House Tactic for C.I.A. Bid Holds Back Drone Memos
By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI

The administration may deny Senate Democrats information on targeted killings but tell Republicans more about a militant attack in Libya to win confirmation for John O. Brennan as C.I.A. director.

Um, correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Obama run as a Democrat?

WTF is going on here?

Seriously good citizen, how far gone is our situation?

It’s looking mighty tough to me…but who cares what I think, surely not the rabid capitalists!

Which makes me ask, just who has to live among these animals?

Why, (by gum) YOU DO!

And if you don’t do something to help yourself (hint, it all starts with the politicians) then shame on you!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Double Take

Greetings good citizen,

I was about halfway through with today’s post when the word processor decided to close without warning…and this time it didn’t recover even part of what I had already written…

But enough about my petty troubles, there are, as they say, bigger things to fret about.

Fortunately, today’s post is sans links…because today’s commentary is a take off of yesterday’s post, where I pointed out that what the media reported would start bordering on the, er, ‘fantastic’!

I’ll try to recapture as much as I can from the original.

Starting with the pledge to end both the Iraq and Afghan conflicts has led to a renewed beating of the war drums over Iran’s ‘nuclear ambitions’.

Understand, good citizen, we didn’t bat an eyelash when Pakistan developed the A-bomb nor did we discuss invading India when they skipped the A-bomb entirely and suddenly produced an H-bomb (somewhat suspicious if you ask me!)

So why are we hell bent on, er, ‘sanctioning’ Iran? Because Israel doesn’t like them?

Now we come to the fact nobody discusses…how we GAVE Israel the bomb and thumbed our noses at the rest of the Middle East!

Naturally, you can only marvel over the conservatives, er ‘tenacity’ over the Iran issue. If we didn’t know better we might be mislead into believing that ‘wars of choice’ was the Republican version of a ‘jobs program’!

If you can’t find something productive to do then let the military turn ‘em into cannon fodder, we all know how much the conservatives love their cannon fodder troops!

Even more, er, bizarre is how the conservatives have been distancing themselves from their pro-globalization voting records…although good ol’ Mitt made quite the gaff yesterday with his comment about how much he liked being able to fire the ‘hired help’…

It’s just what every ‘working American’ wants in a leader!

Is there any irony in the fact that we are currently unable to ‘fire’ our politicians?

There’s a big WTF right there!

Perhaps we’d have better luck using the ‘traditional’ sense of the word?

Witches, politicians…there really isn’t any difference, is there?

But I digress and today’s marvels are somewhat lengthy!

Next up we had conservative wunderkind David Brooks remarking on the same topic I raised yesterday only from the conservative side of the fence…

He asks why ‘liberals’ appear to be ‘out of ideas’?

Methinks David is of the impression that the public remains unaware that the Democratic party has been defunct since 1968.

What ‘Liberals’ you talking about there Dave?

There haven’t been any ‘liberals’ in politics since we landed on the moon!

And the really big ‘take away’ that the so-called progressives studiously ignore is how OWS let the tiger out of the bag when they told both parties to fuck off in no uncertain terms!

The public KNOWS we have become a ‘one party’ state. The R and the D have become meaningless because regardless of ‘party affiliation’, they all take their orders for the same people!

And those people have already demonstrated their hatred of us!

Worse, they consider the rest of us ‘squatters’ on ‘their land’…

But once again I digress…there’s more!

Newt Gingrich received a $5 MILLION dollar check from the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader…

And people wonder why nobody trusts the media?

This in a time when it is becoming increasingly apparent that our government is ‘bought and paid for’ by those with more than they deserve!

I personally don’t give Newt a chance in hell of becoming the Republican nominee…but this time last election cycle I might have offered the same opinion about Mr. Obama…

Who is, shamefully, running ‘unchallenged’…which is, I suspect, unprecedented, given his unpopularity.

This will become the, er, dilemma of the 2012 election, one where it is clear you no longer have any choice, either way the ‘conservative agenda’ wins.

Wouldn’t be so bad if it was just about bragging rights but these bastards want to exterminate the rest of us!

They took over the 1 in 5 conservative party because conservatives actually believe in stupid shit like there really is a ‘surplus population’!

Um, sadly this is a poor rendition of the original…I was really on a roll (almost good enough to get me ‘disappeared!’)

That said, I captured the spirit of the original piece, even if I didn’t execute it quite as elegantly as I did the first time!

I wonder if we will see things start coming to a head when people realize they won’t be given a ‘choice’ this coming November?

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner