Greetings good citizen,
Yet another election has come and gone and still we have failed to, er, ‘correct’ the flaws in a system that was designed to always lead to perpetual gridlock.
Which is to point out that some of us don’t want the system ‘fixed’, it works beautifully for them.
The way things are going, certain parts of the country will continue to use this badly broken system long after it has been abandoned elsewhere.
Left to your imagination is precisely ‘what’ it will be abandoned ‘for’?
If history is any guide, our ‘Faux’ democracy will be abandoned for very real despotism.
The ‘Masters of the Universe’ will simply, er, ‘dispose of’ anyone or anything that dares to get in their way.
(Such is the power of [meaningless] money over those too stupid to realize it is a ‘fiction’!)
Worse, those who ‘flaunt’ the power of money will be ‘stupefied’ when their ‘sacred cash’ is suddenly ‘no good’!
Once the banking system seizes solid those multi-colored pieces of paper become worthless.
Preposterous, says you? It has happened, REPEATEDLY!
The ‘true’ economy is a ‘barter’ economy where you trade what you have for what you need, no funny colored paper or bits of metal required.
Here we bump into something the capitalists don’t like to talk about because it proves their way of doing things doesn’t work (or can only work under carefully ‘controlled’ circumstances…)
How do you participate in a ‘barter economy’ when nobody wants to trade with you?
Short answer, you don’t!
And this is capitalism’s main flaw; it can’t cover all of the bases (even though it pretends to.)
Now good citizen, how do we ‘fix’ this?
Understand that failing to fix this means you will continue to be ‘ripped off’ (until you’ve outlived your usefulness, then you’ll be ‘discarded’…)
Is this what you ‘signed up for’?
Worse, good citizen (and believe you me, it IS going to get A LOT worse!)
You have managed to, er, ‘survive’ into a time when it has no place to go but, er, BOOM!
The infamous ‘Crack-up Boom’ to be precise.
When the payments stop, the supply lines shutdown.
When there’s ‘no supply’ it becomes ‘scramble time’ where ‘grab & go’ becomes the new game in town.
It is the oldest of playground rules, ‘possession is nine/tenths of the law.’
This is where people will relearn that there is strength in numbers…sadly, this will be a ‘hard’ lesson, one that many tears will be spilled over.
Which is not to suggest that the law will have much to do with anything once the wheels come flying off.
Welcome to the ‘Wild, Wild West!’ where a quick draw (or better, getting ‘the drop’ on your opponent) trumps pretty much everything.
The new game is really a game as old as nature itself…kill them before they kill you.
Simple to learn, an (abbreviated) lifetime to master.
You have to be mighty crafty to survive once your reflexes are no longer up to the job…
Consider this fair warning: IF we fail to depose the criminals currently in charge of our civilization, the game is going to get very nasty indeed.
[Hey, what do you want for a Monday?]
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
What a week!
Greeting good citizen,
What a week, eh? Between the, er, ‘improbable’ elections and Bernanke diluting the money supply. What the fuck else could go wrong?
Well, we need look no further than Mr. Rich for the answer to that one.
The part that amazes me is why someone so intelligent continues to ‘pretend’ that Obama is even interested in ‘salvaging’ his, er, ‘legacy’.
He must have known going in the door that he was going to be used as, er, well…toilet paper…and they MUST be making it worth his while because he never attacks those that regularly hang him out to dry.
You’d think after two years he’d have woken up to what the rest of us knew fifteen minutes after the inauguration, that the Republicans would fight him every step of the way.
But Nooooooooooo! Even after having his ass handed to him on November 2nd, the first words out of his mouth are, “I’m ready to listen to any reasonable proposals.”
Like the election caused the Republicans to suddenly morph from being the ‘party of no’ into the big tent party of the one idea!
Sadly, if you have anything to add to that one idea, any hope for bipartisanship goes right out the window.
If you’re disinclined to read Mr. Rich’s excellent article I’ll tell you here what it points out…just how clueless do you have to be to schedule a ‘trade mission’ to ‘out-sourcing central’ right after getting your ass kicked in the mid-terms?
Instead of ‘re-visiting’ NAFTA (like he said when he was campaigning) dickhead is now talking about writing MORE ‘free trade’ agreements…why the fuck does HE think unemployment is at 9.6%? Has he turned into a fucking Republican and decided the unemployment problem is due to people no longer ‘wanting’ to work?
Why do we continue to tolerate this bullshit?
No sooner are they elected than they forget why people voted for them!
Which only serves to strengthen my case to put an end to electing ‘representatives’ who don’t have the backbone to represent themselves, never mind the rest of us!
It’s beyond ridiculous, it’s even beyond annoying, it’s infuriating yet still we fail to do something about this constant source of frustration!
Which brings us full circle to the ‘main problem’ with electing ‘representatives’. It is ‘assumed’ they already know what’s wrong with the nation. It is the bigger assumption, the one where they already know what to do about it that kills us.
We are ‘shut out’ from the national dialog. Even the media doesn’t talk to us (and when they do, they control what is said and why.)
Bizarrely, they do this because they know the public is interested in more than the ‘mundane’ pabulum their editors demand (and the public actively volunteers to have those conversations…but the editors won’t let it pass so it’s better to not go there in the first place.)
Yup, instead of ‘partnering’ with the press we are left to seek alternative sources for a more accurate picture of the world around us.
Is it just me or has anyone else picked up on Mr. William’s ‘cynicism’?
Actually, that was a rhetorical question. These days, if you’re not a cynic, you’re not credible.
I look at SGS’s unemployment figures and it scares me…because even that number fails to reflect the ‘true’ unemployment situation.
As I have stated many times in the past, the ‘true’ unemployment percentage is somewhere in the 50 % range of the ‘total’ workforce (and that’s not counting the ‘underemployed’, which would push it well over 50%!)
Um, our ‘social model’ is badly broken good citizen. What is it going to take before we demand it is changed?
Funny how we keep returning to the subject of conversations we aren’t having.
Do you REALLY care if gay people marry one another or are you more concerned about getting screwed out of your retirement savings?
It should blow you away that NOBODY, either in the media or the government is asking what is being done for the homeless?
Because when the programs to help the homeless dry up, the homeless will looking at YOU…and not necessarily for a handout either.
This is another issue that the media is totally ignoring. There is an ever diminishing amount of tax revenue and an ever-increasing number of people landing in dire straits!
There were not one but three ‘referendum questions’ on the ballot to repeal taxes locally and I didn’t vote for one of them! (Unsurprisingly, only one passed and that’s going to ‘bite us in the ass’ too.)
People aren’t stupid. Repeal taxes and you’ll get socked with higher ‘fees’ (that won’t go away!) Been there, done that.
We aren’t having the ‘right’ conversations…and maybe the ‘blogosphere’ is the answer to that problem.
Sadly, I have my doubts.
There are too few Internet users seeking solutions.
That said I am thankful for the attention you give me, gentle reader.
That and being amazingly ‘troll free’!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
What a week, eh? Between the, er, ‘improbable’ elections and Bernanke diluting the money supply. What the fuck else could go wrong?
Well, we need look no further than Mr. Rich for the answer to that one.
The part that amazes me is why someone so intelligent continues to ‘pretend’ that Obama is even interested in ‘salvaging’ his, er, ‘legacy’.
He must have known going in the door that he was going to be used as, er, well…toilet paper…and they MUST be making it worth his while because he never attacks those that regularly hang him out to dry.
You’d think after two years he’d have woken up to what the rest of us knew fifteen minutes after the inauguration, that the Republicans would fight him every step of the way.
But Nooooooooooo! Even after having his ass handed to him on November 2nd, the first words out of his mouth are, “I’m ready to listen to any reasonable proposals.”
Like the election caused the Republicans to suddenly morph from being the ‘party of no’ into the big tent party of the one idea!
Sadly, if you have anything to add to that one idea, any hope for bipartisanship goes right out the window.
If you’re disinclined to read Mr. Rich’s excellent article I’ll tell you here what it points out…just how clueless do you have to be to schedule a ‘trade mission’ to ‘out-sourcing central’ right after getting your ass kicked in the mid-terms?
Instead of ‘re-visiting’ NAFTA (like he said when he was campaigning) dickhead is now talking about writing MORE ‘free trade’ agreements…why the fuck does HE think unemployment is at 9.6%? Has he turned into a fucking Republican and decided the unemployment problem is due to people no longer ‘wanting’ to work?
Why do we continue to tolerate this bullshit?
No sooner are they elected than they forget why people voted for them!
Which only serves to strengthen my case to put an end to electing ‘representatives’ who don’t have the backbone to represent themselves, never mind the rest of us!
It’s beyond ridiculous, it’s even beyond annoying, it’s infuriating yet still we fail to do something about this constant source of frustration!
Which brings us full circle to the ‘main problem’ with electing ‘representatives’. It is ‘assumed’ they already know what’s wrong with the nation. It is the bigger assumption, the one where they already know what to do about it that kills us.
We are ‘shut out’ from the national dialog. Even the media doesn’t talk to us (and when they do, they control what is said and why.)
Bizarrely, they do this because they know the public is interested in more than the ‘mundane’ pabulum their editors demand (and the public actively volunteers to have those conversations…but the editors won’t let it pass so it’s better to not go there in the first place.)
Yup, instead of ‘partnering’ with the press we are left to seek alternative sources for a more accurate picture of the world around us.
Is it just me or has anyone else picked up on Mr. William’s ‘cynicism’?
No. 332: October Employment and Unemployment, Dollar Debasement, Election Subscription required November 5th, 2010
• Baloney Payroll-Employment Data: Seasonal Adjustments Become Primary Driver of Jobs Creation?
• October Household-Survey Employment Fell 330,000
• October Unemployment Rates: 9.6% (U.3), 17.0% (U.6), 22.5% (SGS)
• Fed Move to Debase U.S. Dollar Will Generate Higher Inflation But No Recovery
• Election Results Do Not Alter Basic Economic or Inflation Outlooks.
Actually, that was a rhetorical question. These days, if you’re not a cynic, you’re not credible.
I look at SGS’s unemployment figures and it scares me…because even that number fails to reflect the ‘true’ unemployment situation.
As I have stated many times in the past, the ‘true’ unemployment percentage is somewhere in the 50 % range of the ‘total’ workforce (and that’s not counting the ‘underemployed’, which would push it well over 50%!)
Um, our ‘social model’ is badly broken good citizen. What is it going to take before we demand it is changed?
Funny how we keep returning to the subject of conversations we aren’t having.
Do you REALLY care if gay people marry one another or are you more concerned about getting screwed out of your retirement savings?
It should blow you away that NOBODY, either in the media or the government is asking what is being done for the homeless?
Because when the programs to help the homeless dry up, the homeless will looking at YOU…and not necessarily for a handout either.
This is another issue that the media is totally ignoring. There is an ever diminishing amount of tax revenue and an ever-increasing number of people landing in dire straits!
There were not one but three ‘referendum questions’ on the ballot to repeal taxes locally and I didn’t vote for one of them! (Unsurprisingly, only one passed and that’s going to ‘bite us in the ass’ too.)
People aren’t stupid. Repeal taxes and you’ll get socked with higher ‘fees’ (that won’t go away!) Been there, done that.
We aren’t having the ‘right’ conversations…and maybe the ‘blogosphere’ is the answer to that problem.
Sadly, I have my doubts.
There are too few Internet users seeking solutions.
That said I am thankful for the attention you give me, gentle reader.
That and being amazingly ‘troll free’!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Friday, November 5, 2010
Can you say 'gridlock'?
Greetings good citizen,
It sort of ‘belabors the obvious’ that the word ‘gridlock’ is going to see a lot of use.
Which, naturally, is just the way the ‘infamous they’ like it.
I used to go round and round with my conservative brother in law about precisely ‘who’ these mysterious people were when we both knew we were talking about malicious conservative pundits (which he defended as being ‘maligned’ by the ‘liberul media’.)
Take a hard look around you good citizen, everywhere, the only thing you will hear or see are conservative talking points being ‘parroted’ by the fucking ‘corporate media’.
And there ain’t NOTHING ‘liberal’ about the corporate media.
Even NPR has a STRONG Republican bias.
All of these fuckers squawking about ‘socialism’ would be hard pressed to actually ‘define’ what they’re ranting about. Most of ‘em wouldn’t know socialism if they were drowning in it!
No irony at all should be lost on the fact that it is ‘socialism’ that makes America great!
EVERY worthwhile institution in this nation is the product of ‘socialism’. ALL of the ‘public utilities’ as well as the schools are, er, ‘socialist enterprises’. The interstate highway system, that’s ‘socialist’ too!
Understand good citizen, when two-thirds of those ‘lucky enough’ to be employed earn less than $40,000 per year, this fucking country isn’t nearly as ‘divided’ as the fucking lying media pretends it is.
Which brings us full circle with the ‘highly unlikely’ Republican victories of this past Tuesday.
How the hell does an organization that only one fifth of all voters subscribe to win even a single election?
The ‘true’ answer is THEY FUCKING DON’T! I’d posit it’s not possible but that would be ‘unrealistic’, it’s the old ‘birds of a feather’ thing.
You get enough of them in one geographic area and they will indeed ‘win’ but by rights, they should only win, at best, one fifth of all available posts.
Naturally, neither the R or the D is branded into their flesh…and a politician can even ‘switch parties’ (all by themselves) after they are elected.
Which is to point out the one thing ALL politicians have in common, they are, first and foremost ‘opportunists’!
Which leaves your vote where, precisely?
Why, it is sitting in the hands of somebody willing to sell what you have ‘entrusted’ them with to the highest bidder…they really don’t care!
Few of you seem to understand what this ‘public service’ stuff is all about. Maybe you get confused by the ‘public’ part…which has nothing to do with nothing.
But anyway, tonight’s first offering tells the tale of how:
The GOP Recipe for Keeping the Economy Down Until Election 2012
Um, there is more than a ‘minor flaw’ with this headline as it erroneously ‘assumes’ we will still have an economy in 2012 (Hell, it assumes we have one now!) Wrong…again.
Moving rapidly along we arrive at tonight’s second offering where Mr. Krugman does some ‘wondering aloud’.
Doesn’t that last line sum up the entire ‘party of no’s’ line of reasoning nicely?
Doesn’t matter what ‘the opposition’ does, they’re doing it ‘wrong’ because it isn’t ‘our way’ (although don’t ask what ‘our way’ is, if you were one of us you’d know. We don’t want those damn libruls ‘stealing’ OUR ideas…)
You KNOW how I feel about this ‘elected official’ thing, it’s a damn waste as well as being the main stumbling block placed in the path of justice…which is why it persists.
But I digress…
The real question is how much longer we will be expected to stumble along while NOTHING is fixed?
One little ‘hiccup’ and the wheels are going to come flying off so fast your head will spin right off your neck…but that’s only if you’re lucky.
The unlucky will survive (at least briefly) the wheels falling off.
I was watching the Science channel the other night and the scientist there was saying we would probably have to nuke ourselves back into the Stone Age, not if but when the ‘singularity’ occurs.
Um, not to be mean but this guy is sort of a dope and most of his ideas have huge flaws in them…including the ‘solution’ to the ‘singularity’ issue.
He suggests we ‘merge’ with the computers (like the machines wouldn’t lock us up in a server farm somewhere then pull the plug.)
While I’d posit the solution resides in the ‘software’ this super fast computer gets to use.
You’d think it would write its own but it would have to use a language WE provide.
Okay, so the guy isn’t a ‘software engineer’ but neither am I…
On the other hand, it turns out he IS a conservative…which goes along way towards explaining his, er, ‘flawed logic’.
Like his ‘misstatement’ that we would return to the 1800’s if we were forced to use EMP weapons to combat a ‘rogue’ computer network.
Sadly, it is widespread ‘misconception’ that we could simply take a backwards step of only a century or so…the reality is we would lose a millennium! The ‘social clock’ would turn back not a hundred but a thousand years!
There are modern examples of precisely this phenomenon but people seem to think our system of government/commerce is ‘resilient’ enough to withstand the loss of efficiency only computers can provide.
For a ‘taste’ of just what this phenomenon would look like read the novel ‘Hard Reality’ by George Anderson (available on amazon.com) It captures what life would be like inside an ‘information void’ quite accurately.
It’s hard to say if we can avoid such a fate at this point in the game (although most of us would prefer to.) Sadly, it’s not up to us. This is a decision that rests with those currently driving civilization off a cliff (for their own financial gain, despite the fact that their very acts will serve to void the, er, ‘utility’ of currency.)
On and on it goes…
Here’s to hoping Superman gets to Lex Luthor in time…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
It sort of ‘belabors the obvious’ that the word ‘gridlock’ is going to see a lot of use.
Which, naturally, is just the way the ‘infamous they’ like it.
I used to go round and round with my conservative brother in law about precisely ‘who’ these mysterious people were when we both knew we were talking about malicious conservative pundits (which he defended as being ‘maligned’ by the ‘liberul media’.)
Take a hard look around you good citizen, everywhere, the only thing you will hear or see are conservative talking points being ‘parroted’ by the fucking ‘corporate media’.
And there ain’t NOTHING ‘liberal’ about the corporate media.
Even NPR has a STRONG Republican bias.
All of these fuckers squawking about ‘socialism’ would be hard pressed to actually ‘define’ what they’re ranting about. Most of ‘em wouldn’t know socialism if they were drowning in it!
No irony at all should be lost on the fact that it is ‘socialism’ that makes America great!
EVERY worthwhile institution in this nation is the product of ‘socialism’. ALL of the ‘public utilities’ as well as the schools are, er, ‘socialist enterprises’. The interstate highway system, that’s ‘socialist’ too!
Understand good citizen, when two-thirds of those ‘lucky enough’ to be employed earn less than $40,000 per year, this fucking country isn’t nearly as ‘divided’ as the fucking lying media pretends it is.
Which brings us full circle with the ‘highly unlikely’ Republican victories of this past Tuesday.
How the hell does an organization that only one fifth of all voters subscribe to win even a single election?
The ‘true’ answer is THEY FUCKING DON’T! I’d posit it’s not possible but that would be ‘unrealistic’, it’s the old ‘birds of a feather’ thing.
You get enough of them in one geographic area and they will indeed ‘win’ but by rights, they should only win, at best, one fifth of all available posts.
Naturally, neither the R or the D is branded into their flesh…and a politician can even ‘switch parties’ (all by themselves) after they are elected.
Which is to point out the one thing ALL politicians have in common, they are, first and foremost ‘opportunists’!
Which leaves your vote where, precisely?
Why, it is sitting in the hands of somebody willing to sell what you have ‘entrusted’ them with to the highest bidder…they really don’t care!
Few of you seem to understand what this ‘public service’ stuff is all about. Maybe you get confused by the ‘public’ part…which has nothing to do with nothing.
But anyway, tonight’s first offering tells the tale of how:
The GOP Recipe for Keeping the Economy Down Until Election 2012
Um, there is more than a ‘minor flaw’ with this headline as it erroneously ‘assumes’ we will still have an economy in 2012 (Hell, it assumes we have one now!) Wrong…again.
Moving rapidly along we arrive at tonight’s second offering where Mr. Krugman does some ‘wondering aloud’.
Democrats, declared Evan Bayh in an Op-Ed article on Wednesday in The Times, “overreached by focusing on health care rather than job creation during a severe recession.” Many others have been saying the same thing: the notion that the Obama administration erred by not focusing on the economy is hardening into conventional wisdom.
But I have no idea what, if anything, people mean when they say that. The whole focus on “focus” is, as I see it, an act of intellectual cowardice — a way to criticize President Obama’s record without explaining what you would have done differently.
Doesn’t that last line sum up the entire ‘party of no’s’ line of reasoning nicely?
Doesn’t matter what ‘the opposition’ does, they’re doing it ‘wrong’ because it isn’t ‘our way’ (although don’t ask what ‘our way’ is, if you were one of us you’d know. We don’t want those damn libruls ‘stealing’ OUR ideas…)
You KNOW how I feel about this ‘elected official’ thing, it’s a damn waste as well as being the main stumbling block placed in the path of justice…which is why it persists.
But I digress…
The real question is how much longer we will be expected to stumble along while NOTHING is fixed?
One little ‘hiccup’ and the wheels are going to come flying off so fast your head will spin right off your neck…but that’s only if you’re lucky.
The unlucky will survive (at least briefly) the wheels falling off.
I was watching the Science channel the other night and the scientist there was saying we would probably have to nuke ourselves back into the Stone Age, not if but when the ‘singularity’ occurs.
Um, not to be mean but this guy is sort of a dope and most of his ideas have huge flaws in them…including the ‘solution’ to the ‘singularity’ issue.
He suggests we ‘merge’ with the computers (like the machines wouldn’t lock us up in a server farm somewhere then pull the plug.)
While I’d posit the solution resides in the ‘software’ this super fast computer gets to use.
You’d think it would write its own but it would have to use a language WE provide.
Okay, so the guy isn’t a ‘software engineer’ but neither am I…
On the other hand, it turns out he IS a conservative…which goes along way towards explaining his, er, ‘flawed logic’.
Like his ‘misstatement’ that we would return to the 1800’s if we were forced to use EMP weapons to combat a ‘rogue’ computer network.
Sadly, it is widespread ‘misconception’ that we could simply take a backwards step of only a century or so…the reality is we would lose a millennium! The ‘social clock’ would turn back not a hundred but a thousand years!
There are modern examples of precisely this phenomenon but people seem to think our system of government/commerce is ‘resilient’ enough to withstand the loss of efficiency only computers can provide.
For a ‘taste’ of just what this phenomenon would look like read the novel ‘Hard Reality’ by George Anderson (available on amazon.com) It captures what life would be like inside an ‘information void’ quite accurately.
It’s hard to say if we can avoid such a fate at this point in the game (although most of us would prefer to.) Sadly, it’s not up to us. This is a decision that rests with those currently driving civilization off a cliff (for their own financial gain, despite the fact that their very acts will serve to void the, er, ‘utility’ of currency.)
On and on it goes…
Here’s to hoping Superman gets to Lex Luthor in time…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Thursday, November 4, 2010
That didn't take long...
Greetings good citizen,
Under the category of ‘that didn’t take long’ the Republican’s are already getting ready to, er, ‘dismantle’ what little progress was made during the first two years of the Obama presidency.
Since the new ‘healthcare’ law was essentially written by the insurance industry we can only wonder what ‘republican improvements’ will look like.
Tell me again good citizen, who (precisely) voted for these assholes?
In my browsing of the web I have seen ‘the usual suspects’ rounded up and paraded before us as the ‘guilty’ parties.
Yes, good citizen, the group of people most threatened by Conservative Ideology (the current recipients of Medicare and Social Security) are the same people being accused of voting the Republicans back into power.
Naturally, I don’t think one of our new ‘conservative’ legislators actually ‘won’ their respective race…I believe the corporate controlled media ‘crowned’ them.
Which is not to say that any politician over the past thirty years has gained office without the express ‘approval’ of those who own the media. (Any who stepped out of line didn’t keep the job long thanks to the same blind and ham-handed media.)
They don’t have to ‘see’ anything, they can just make it up. It doesn’t need to be true, it merely needs to be credible.
Anyway, also falling under the category of ‘that didn’t take long’ (Republican) Ben Bernanke just announced he’s pissing away more of your purchasing power in a misguided attempt to ‘save’ the economy!
Wall Street is overjoyed!
Bizarrely, prices will rise, raising profits and making the economy ‘appear’ to improve while our collective ‘standard of living’ gets thrown into the septic system.
This is how it goes in all Banana Republics…you’ll work all day for a crust of bread and you’ll have to take a loan out to get that much!
As I have stated repeatedly, if your job doesn’t pay you enough to live on, it is not your employer’s problem; IT’S YOURS!
The question you need to ask yourself is if it is time to change jobs or if it is time to change governments?
Understand, it is the government that permits employers to raise their prices beyond what you can afford. (It also permits them to pay you less than you need to live on…how did the employer class get such a ‘sweet deal’?)
You don't suppose the multiple 'stolen elections' had anything to do with it?
Our current government is demonstrably ‘broken’. The very people it was supposed to protect us from have taken it over.
You may have noted that the, er, ‘commentary’ on election night repeatedly stated the voting public ‘disapproves’ of BOTH political parties and that the Republicans had best not read too much into their being used to ‘spank’ the Democrats.
For a more levelheaded take on the elections, do yourself a favor and read this commentary by CK Michaelson.
I completely agree that if one of the ballot choices had been ‘Hang ‘em high’ it would have been the ‘top choice’.
As I have lamented here more than once, we find ourselves saddled with a government full of criminals and are at a complete loss as to how to rein it back in.
Ironically we have the ‘resources’ to march on Washington and, er, ‘remove’ the corporate controlled ‘pirates’ from office. 80 million ‘not in the workforce’ makes for a mighty big ‘army’.
What we don’t have is a ‘consensus’ on what to replace the current mess with.
A Simple Plan would produce prosperity across the nation and, eventually, around the world…and it wouldn’t take a lot of time.
We’d do what we do now (and only pay for half of it because the rest is, er, ‘unnecessary’.)
The ‘Real Estate’ mess would be ‘fixed’ overnight…only the ‘investors’ (and that fucker Flipper would lose.)
Banking (as it currently exists) would go the way of the Dodo.
Not only would there be a ‘jubilee’ where all debts were forgiven but future debt would be outlawed! (Via the human anti-exploitation law.)
Sound ‘too good to be true’…ironically, it’s not.
We can have ‘the Promised Land’ tomorrow…and only the criminals won’t like it. (Because stealing shit will be pointless, nobody will have any cash.)
If you don’t ‘understand’ it now, you will eventually.
I keep pointing to the one thing that makes it all work but most of you still don’t ‘get it’.
Mother Nature doesn’t have a fucking cash register (so resources are free! While cash registers will still exist, NOBODY gets the receipts! Banking as it SHOULD BE done!)
Fuck you pay me! Is NOT the basis for a thriving civilization.
In fact, you need only look around you to see the horrors a ‘debt based’ society, er, ‘breeds’.
If we fail to share this world then we are doomed to extinction.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Under the category of ‘that didn’t take long’ the Republican’s are already getting ready to, er, ‘dismantle’ what little progress was made during the first two years of the Obama presidency.
Since the new ‘healthcare’ law was essentially written by the insurance industry we can only wonder what ‘republican improvements’ will look like.
Tell me again good citizen, who (precisely) voted for these assholes?
The Road Ahead Turns Right
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: November 3, 2010
Energized by their big victories in the midterm elections, Congressional Republican leaders wasted no time on Wednesday in putting President Obama and Democrats on notice: the days of single-party control are numbered and legislating in Washington is about to get a whole lot more complicated.
In my browsing of the web I have seen ‘the usual suspects’ rounded up and paraded before us as the ‘guilty’ parties.
Yes, good citizen, the group of people most threatened by Conservative Ideology (the current recipients of Medicare and Social Security) are the same people being accused of voting the Republicans back into power.
Naturally, I don’t think one of our new ‘conservative’ legislators actually ‘won’ their respective race…I believe the corporate controlled media ‘crowned’ them.
Which is not to say that any politician over the past thirty years has gained office without the express ‘approval’ of those who own the media. (Any who stepped out of line didn’t keep the job long thanks to the same blind and ham-handed media.)
They don’t have to ‘see’ anything, they can just make it up. It doesn’t need to be true, it merely needs to be credible.
Anyway, also falling under the category of ‘that didn’t take long’ (Republican) Ben Bernanke just announced he’s pissing away more of your purchasing power in a misguided attempt to ‘save’ the economy!
Wall Street is overjoyed!
Wall Street Jumps a Day After Fed Move
Shares have been buoyed by the Fed’s decision Wednesday to buy an additional $600 billion of assets — so-called quantitative easing aimed at creating more dollars and increasing the supply of money in the economy — that will involve buying $75 billion in Treasury bonds each month until June.
Bizarrely, prices will rise, raising profits and making the economy ‘appear’ to improve while our collective ‘standard of living’ gets thrown into the septic system.
This is how it goes in all Banana Republics…you’ll work all day for a crust of bread and you’ll have to take a loan out to get that much!
As I have stated repeatedly, if your job doesn’t pay you enough to live on, it is not your employer’s problem; IT’S YOURS!
The question you need to ask yourself is if it is time to change jobs or if it is time to change governments?
Understand, it is the government that permits employers to raise their prices beyond what you can afford. (It also permits them to pay you less than you need to live on…how did the employer class get such a ‘sweet deal’?)
You don't suppose the multiple 'stolen elections' had anything to do with it?
Our current government is demonstrably ‘broken’. The very people it was supposed to protect us from have taken it over.
You may have noted that the, er, ‘commentary’ on election night repeatedly stated the voting public ‘disapproves’ of BOTH political parties and that the Republicans had best not read too much into their being used to ‘spank’ the Democrats.
For a more levelheaded take on the elections, do yourself a favor and read this commentary by CK Michaelson.
I completely agree that if one of the ballot choices had been ‘Hang ‘em high’ it would have been the ‘top choice’.
As I have lamented here more than once, we find ourselves saddled with a government full of criminals and are at a complete loss as to how to rein it back in.
Ironically we have the ‘resources’ to march on Washington and, er, ‘remove’ the corporate controlled ‘pirates’ from office. 80 million ‘not in the workforce’ makes for a mighty big ‘army’.
What we don’t have is a ‘consensus’ on what to replace the current mess with.
A Simple Plan would produce prosperity across the nation and, eventually, around the world…and it wouldn’t take a lot of time.
We’d do what we do now (and only pay for half of it because the rest is, er, ‘unnecessary’.)
The ‘Real Estate’ mess would be ‘fixed’ overnight…only the ‘investors’ (and that fucker Flipper would lose.)
Banking (as it currently exists) would go the way of the Dodo.
Not only would there be a ‘jubilee’ where all debts were forgiven but future debt would be outlawed! (Via the human anti-exploitation law.)
Sound ‘too good to be true’…ironically, it’s not.
We can have ‘the Promised Land’ tomorrow…and only the criminals won’t like it. (Because stealing shit will be pointless, nobody will have any cash.)
If you don’t ‘understand’ it now, you will eventually.
I keep pointing to the one thing that makes it all work but most of you still don’t ‘get it’.
Mother Nature doesn’t have a fucking cash register (so resources are free! While cash registers will still exist, NOBODY gets the receipts! Banking as it SHOULD BE done!)
Fuck you pay me! Is NOT the basis for a thriving civilization.
In fact, you need only look around you to see the horrors a ‘debt based’ society, er, ‘breeds’.
If we fail to share this world then we are doomed to extinction.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Beyond Hopeless
Greetings good citizen,
After voting for ‘change’ in 2008, it seems the media believes handing power back to the same people responsible for the mess we’re in is what ‘the public’ wanted to hear last night.
No one should be ‘surprised’ by yesterday’s outcome. They told us ahead of time that the Republicans were going to ‘recapture’ at least one house of Congress and that is precisely what they delivered.
So, what do you suppose the next two years are going to look like good citizen?
Will the ‘Tea Partiers’ still be ‘outraged’ at the, er, ‘Democratic controlled’ Senate for ‘blocking’ the destruction of what’s left of the government?
Or will the Republican war-monger’s succeed in attacking ‘some other’ Middle Eastern nation, costing us trillions more in money we don’t have?
Pakistan, Yemen…maybe both?
Will the ‘Dems’ in Congress ‘fold’ rather than appear to be ‘weak on defense’?
Sure they will…
As you know (some of you may not, but anyway) the R and the D behind a candidates name are totally ‘artificial’. There is nothing stopping a ‘true’ conservative from running as a ‘liberal’, especially if that is the main obstacle to winning election.
How ‘shocked’ would any of you be if it were to become common knowledge that the ‘party machinery’ of both sides of the political aisle were staffed by our, er, ‘betters’?
Worse, what if these, er, ‘managers’ were more or less ‘related’ (not necessarily ‘family members’, at least in the strictest sense of the word) but if their, er, social backgrounds were, er, ‘typical?’
There is a huge amount of ‘political machinery’ that the public is unaware of although they see it every time they go to the polls.
Candidates don’t just spring up out of the ground, ready to run…
Although, considering the, er, obvious problems lying in wait behind some of the candidates backgrounds, you’d almost think they did!
But I theorize this has more to do with having ‘the sack’ to run as opposed to being, er, ‘qualified’.
Which is to point out that far too many candidates suffer from a malaise that is surprisingly common in the working world, that of ‘more balls than brains’.
It seems to be a ‘baseline requirement’ for any conservative candidate. If you intend to run as a conservative you have to be ‘braver’ than you are ‘intelligent’.
I digress somewhat mightily here…the issue at hand is the ‘mis-conception’ that candidates come from some mystical ‘cookie cutter’ someplace and if you’re a ‘northern Democrat’ you believe in X, Y and sometimes Z.
When, truth be told there’s a very good chance the candidate supports NONE of those, er, ‘values’. They simply want an easy job that offers some, er, ‘perq’s’ you can’t get anywhere else.
Which is to say the only thing better than being is cop is being the cop’s boss.
Funny how the ‘real’ reason people pursue careers in public service has little to do with serving the public…
Worse, most of them are frustrated actors…which tells you a lot more than you might want to know.
Did I mention that I don’t approve of this ‘representative’ happy horse shit?
We SHOULD vote directly on the laws…because you already know what’s going to happen next, don’t you?
NOTHING!
(Well, nothing ‘positive’ anyway.)
Two more years of ‘gridlock’ followed by a choice between ‘awful and worse’ in the 2012 elections.
How much do you want to bet we have a face off between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin?
Here’s a suggestion that should gain a decent amount of traction, I suggest we hang the first commentator who suggests it!
Wait…what do you mean I’m the first? Hold on, that’s not what I meant!
Anyway, it’s not going to happen so there’s no sense getting worked up about it…(hanging somebody, even me. I’m still giving 50-50 odds that SOMEONE [probably a Tea Partier] will be rooting for a 2nd consecutive ‘landmark’ election…)
Too bad we don’t have a viable Latina candidate, may as well cover as many minority/special interest categories as we can!
Fuck the rest of society, power to the downtrodden! (Even if the actual candidate is filthy rich to begin with…)
Sadly good citizen, the only way to end this ‘tokenism’ is to put an end to elections altogether.
The process doesn’t work…we don’t need 2 more years of nothing (worthwhile) getting done to prove that.
And that’s the Democrats on the radio today, all yapping about their under-appreciated ‘non-accomplishments’.
They didn’t do a single fucking thing they were elected to do!
They we supposed to end the fucking war and prosecute the Bush administration. We saw neither…and now its too late!
So good citizen, what do we do for an ‘encore’?
How much ‘hope’ do you have saved up for 2012?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
After voting for ‘change’ in 2008, it seems the media believes handing power back to the same people responsible for the mess we’re in is what ‘the public’ wanted to hear last night.
No one should be ‘surprised’ by yesterday’s outcome. They told us ahead of time that the Republicans were going to ‘recapture’ at least one house of Congress and that is precisely what they delivered.
So, what do you suppose the next two years are going to look like good citizen?
Will the ‘Tea Partiers’ still be ‘outraged’ at the, er, ‘Democratic controlled’ Senate for ‘blocking’ the destruction of what’s left of the government?
Or will the Republican war-monger’s succeed in attacking ‘some other’ Middle Eastern nation, costing us trillions more in money we don’t have?
Pakistan, Yemen…maybe both?
Will the ‘Dems’ in Congress ‘fold’ rather than appear to be ‘weak on defense’?
Sure they will…
As you know (some of you may not, but anyway) the R and the D behind a candidates name are totally ‘artificial’. There is nothing stopping a ‘true’ conservative from running as a ‘liberal’, especially if that is the main obstacle to winning election.
How ‘shocked’ would any of you be if it were to become common knowledge that the ‘party machinery’ of both sides of the political aisle were staffed by our, er, ‘betters’?
Worse, what if these, er, ‘managers’ were more or less ‘related’ (not necessarily ‘family members’, at least in the strictest sense of the word) but if their, er, social backgrounds were, er, ‘typical?’
There is a huge amount of ‘political machinery’ that the public is unaware of although they see it every time they go to the polls.
Candidates don’t just spring up out of the ground, ready to run…
Although, considering the, er, obvious problems lying in wait behind some of the candidates backgrounds, you’d almost think they did!
But I theorize this has more to do with having ‘the sack’ to run as opposed to being, er, ‘qualified’.
Which is to point out that far too many candidates suffer from a malaise that is surprisingly common in the working world, that of ‘more balls than brains’.
It seems to be a ‘baseline requirement’ for any conservative candidate. If you intend to run as a conservative you have to be ‘braver’ than you are ‘intelligent’.
I digress somewhat mightily here…the issue at hand is the ‘mis-conception’ that candidates come from some mystical ‘cookie cutter’ someplace and if you’re a ‘northern Democrat’ you believe in X, Y and sometimes Z.
When, truth be told there’s a very good chance the candidate supports NONE of those, er, ‘values’. They simply want an easy job that offers some, er, ‘perq’s’ you can’t get anywhere else.
Which is to say the only thing better than being is cop is being the cop’s boss.
Funny how the ‘real’ reason people pursue careers in public service has little to do with serving the public…
Worse, most of them are frustrated actors…which tells you a lot more than you might want to know.
Did I mention that I don’t approve of this ‘representative’ happy horse shit?
We SHOULD vote directly on the laws…because you already know what’s going to happen next, don’t you?
NOTHING!
(Well, nothing ‘positive’ anyway.)
Two more years of ‘gridlock’ followed by a choice between ‘awful and worse’ in the 2012 elections.
How much do you want to bet we have a face off between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin?
Here’s a suggestion that should gain a decent amount of traction, I suggest we hang the first commentator who suggests it!
Wait…what do you mean I’m the first? Hold on, that’s not what I meant!
Anyway, it’s not going to happen so there’s no sense getting worked up about it…(hanging somebody, even me. I’m still giving 50-50 odds that SOMEONE [probably a Tea Partier] will be rooting for a 2nd consecutive ‘landmark’ election…)
Too bad we don’t have a viable Latina candidate, may as well cover as many minority/special interest categories as we can!
Fuck the rest of society, power to the downtrodden! (Even if the actual candidate is filthy rich to begin with…)
Sadly good citizen, the only way to end this ‘tokenism’ is to put an end to elections altogether.
The process doesn’t work…we don’t need 2 more years of nothing (worthwhile) getting done to prove that.
And that’s the Democrats on the radio today, all yapping about their under-appreciated ‘non-accomplishments’.
They didn’t do a single fucking thing they were elected to do!
They we supposed to end the fucking war and prosecute the Bush administration. We saw neither…and now its too late!
So good citizen, what do we do for an ‘encore’?
How much ‘hope’ do you have saved up for 2012?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Sitting on their hands...
Greetings good citizen,
This morning’s trip around the blogosphere revealed a lot of ‘warm hands’, which is to infer that most commentators are ‘sitting’ upon them…
Cudos to Hellacious over at ‘Sudden Debt’, he kept it short and sweet, dispensing wisdom for those who would heed it.
I chose to vote before surfing the net so I’ll share my ‘observations’ for what they’re worth…
I’ll start with a ‘two-edged sword’…the only people standing in front of the polls holding campaign signs this morning were Republicans.
At first glance this displays a certain, er, ‘tenacity’ (even though it was a relatively nice day for early November…)
Flipping that rock over, SOMEBODY has to go to work (which explains the absence of Democratic campaigners here in a disturbingly ‘red’ part of a largely ‘blue’ state.)
However, given the state of the economy it seems unlikely that there weren’t at least SOME unemployed Democrats willing to come and stand out in the brisk autumn air for a couple of hours.
If the Anarchists start fielding candidates, I’ll do my share (although this isn’t what Anarchy is about…we believe in ‘true’ direct democracy so there are no ‘representatives’.)
So, what is an Anarchist doing voting?
It’s ‘damage control’.
Since I can’t vote directly on the laws, the least I can do is try to ‘minimize’ the damage done by those who get to vote in my name without EVER consulting me…
Bizarrely, this ‘concept’ dates back to Ancient Greece, yet you can still find people who lament that there isn’t ‘a better way’.
Naturally, ‘better’ is a highly ‘relative’ term.
Admittedly, ‘unfiltered’ direct democracy could become a nightmare so even ardent Anarchists agree that there must be some ‘ground rules’ which regulate what can and cannot be put to a vote.
This is not as difficult as it seems.
The first rule all proposed new laws would have to meet before being put to a vote is an ancient one…the ‘golden rule’. If a proposed rule cannot meet this first ‘qualification’ then it is automatically ineligible to become a law.
It is from this ‘golden rule’ that the central premise of ‘A Simple Plan’ was formed.
The central premise of A Simple Plan is The Human Anti-Exploitation law.
Which outlaws any entity from using any human as an ‘income stream’.
How do you ‘sell’ to people?
Short answer…’YOU’ don’t (and neither does anybody else!)
Who do you work for?
Same people you work for now, your ‘paycheck’ is drawn from ‘society’.
You do what you do because it needs doing.
If things still have price tags on them then who gets the money I pay?
NOBODY, it is simply ‘erased’.
Why do that?
We are faced with economic collapse BECAUSE most of the money in our society has accumulated into the hands of those who need it least. If we fail to ‘re-balance’ our society, civilization itself will crumble!
THIS is the disturbing fact THAT NOT ONE POLITICIAN has acknowledged!
Are these people stupid or do they just think we are?
I am certainly not the first to point out that we are having the ‘wrong conversation’ but I know I am the only one pointing at the ‘root’ of the problem!
Fucking Hooray for ME!
(Which solves absolutely nothing…)
However, now YOU know what is ‘conspicuous by its absence’ and MAYBE something will be done about it!
So much for shitting ‘sitting’ on my hands…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
This morning’s trip around the blogosphere revealed a lot of ‘warm hands’, which is to infer that most commentators are ‘sitting’ upon them…
Cudos to Hellacious over at ‘Sudden Debt’, he kept it short and sweet, dispensing wisdom for those who would heed it.
I chose to vote before surfing the net so I’ll share my ‘observations’ for what they’re worth…
I’ll start with a ‘two-edged sword’…the only people standing in front of the polls holding campaign signs this morning were Republicans.
At first glance this displays a certain, er, ‘tenacity’ (even though it was a relatively nice day for early November…)
Flipping that rock over, SOMEBODY has to go to work (which explains the absence of Democratic campaigners here in a disturbingly ‘red’ part of a largely ‘blue’ state.)
However, given the state of the economy it seems unlikely that there weren’t at least SOME unemployed Democrats willing to come and stand out in the brisk autumn air for a couple of hours.
If the Anarchists start fielding candidates, I’ll do my share (although this isn’t what Anarchy is about…we believe in ‘true’ direct democracy so there are no ‘representatives’.)
So, what is an Anarchist doing voting?
It’s ‘damage control’.
Since I can’t vote directly on the laws, the least I can do is try to ‘minimize’ the damage done by those who get to vote in my name without EVER consulting me…
Bizarrely, this ‘concept’ dates back to Ancient Greece, yet you can still find people who lament that there isn’t ‘a better way’.
Naturally, ‘better’ is a highly ‘relative’ term.
Admittedly, ‘unfiltered’ direct democracy could become a nightmare so even ardent Anarchists agree that there must be some ‘ground rules’ which regulate what can and cannot be put to a vote.
This is not as difficult as it seems.
The first rule all proposed new laws would have to meet before being put to a vote is an ancient one…the ‘golden rule’. If a proposed rule cannot meet this first ‘qualification’ then it is automatically ineligible to become a law.
It is from this ‘golden rule’ that the central premise of ‘A Simple Plan’ was formed.
The central premise of A Simple Plan is The Human Anti-Exploitation law.
Which outlaws any entity from using any human as an ‘income stream’.
How do you ‘sell’ to people?
Short answer…’YOU’ don’t (and neither does anybody else!)
Who do you work for?
Same people you work for now, your ‘paycheck’ is drawn from ‘society’.
You do what you do because it needs doing.
If things still have price tags on them then who gets the money I pay?
NOBODY, it is simply ‘erased’.
Why do that?
We are faced with economic collapse BECAUSE most of the money in our society has accumulated into the hands of those who need it least. If we fail to ‘re-balance’ our society, civilization itself will crumble!
THIS is the disturbing fact THAT NOT ONE POLITICIAN has acknowledged!
Are these people stupid or do they just think we are?
I am certainly not the first to point out that we are having the ‘wrong conversation’ but I know I am the only one pointing at the ‘root’ of the problem!
Fucking Hooray for ME!
(Which solves absolutely nothing…)
However, now YOU know what is ‘conspicuous by its absence’ and MAYBE something will be done about it!
So much for
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Monday, November 1, 2010
Statistically indistinguishable from Zero...
Greetings good citizen,
The ‘nothing market’ surged up over 100 points this morning only to drop nearly the same amount by noon…go figure, right?
Mind you the ‘simpletoons’ in the MSM indeed wrote up the surge but they have, so far, remained mute on the equally as sharp…er, decline.
Maybe it’s just a sign of the times, since most ‘good news’ is so fleeting, you have to jump on it quick or you’ll miss it…
Bizarrely, the MSM fucktards almost never run a story about how the Dow was down 150 points before closing at plus two or three points (which they also make a big deal out of…)
Seriously good citizen, would these people have ANYTHING to tell us without the indecipherable gyrations of the stock market?
[Sadly, the answer is ‘no’.]
Well, on Friday they reported the GDP numbers of the third quarter, where one needs to be mindful that the 2% figure is base on ‘annualized’ growth (which is to say the actual third quarter number was multiplied by 4.)
Or, as Mr. Williams puts it
How ‘unfortunate’ is it for the Republicans that the October unemployment numbers won’t be reported until AFTER the elections?
Which is to say it SHOULD still ‘BLOW YOUR MIND’ that the fuckers responsible for this catastrophe actually believe you’re STUPID ENOUGH to believe they will win the elections THEIR bought and paid for media reports…
IF the Republicans win enough seats to take back control of either house of Congress, you should consider it a ‘declaration of war’ against the citizens of this nation!
And you should react, er, ‘appropriately’.
There aren’t enough ‘Republicans’ or ‘Tea Partiers’ to fill a fucking thimble so HOW THE FUCK can they win even one election?
And THAT my friends, is a mystery to be pondered come Wednesday morning.
In the meantime we can only hope that MY accusations of ‘election fraud’ are totally misplaced.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
The ‘nothing market’ surged up over 100 points this morning only to drop nearly the same amount by noon…go figure, right?
Mind you the ‘simpletoons’ in the MSM indeed wrote up the surge but they have, so far, remained mute on the equally as sharp…er, decline.
Maybe it’s just a sign of the times, since most ‘good news’ is so fleeting, you have to jump on it quick or you’ll miss it…
Bizarrely, the MSM fucktards almost never run a story about how the Dow was down 150 points before closing at plus two or three points (which they also make a big deal out of…)
Seriously good citizen, would these people have ANYTHING to tell us without the indecipherable gyrations of the stock market?
[Sadly, the answer is ‘no’.]
Well, on Friday they reported the GDP numbers of the third quarter, where one needs to be mindful that the 2% figure is base on ‘annualized’ growth (which is to say the actual third quarter number was multiplied by 4.)
Or, as Mr. Williams puts it
No. 331: Third-Quarter GDP, Quantitative-Easing Games, Homes Sales, New Orders Subscription required October 29th, 2010
• Third-Quarter GDP Growth Statistically Indistinguishable from Zero
• Official Economic Activity Is Virtually Flat Other Than for Inventory Building
• Fed Will Be Forced to Monetize Treasury Debt, Irrespective of Current Jawboning, Games Playing and Hand Wringing
• October Employment Data Likely Will Disappoint Market Expectations
How ‘unfortunate’ is it for the Republicans that the October unemployment numbers won’t be reported until AFTER the elections?
Which is to say it SHOULD still ‘BLOW YOUR MIND’ that the fuckers responsible for this catastrophe actually believe you’re STUPID ENOUGH to believe they will win the elections THEIR bought and paid for media reports…
IF the Republicans win enough seats to take back control of either house of Congress, you should consider it a ‘declaration of war’ against the citizens of this nation!
And you should react, er, ‘appropriately’.
There aren’t enough ‘Republicans’ or ‘Tea Partiers’ to fill a fucking thimble so HOW THE FUCK can they win even one election?
And THAT my friends, is a mystery to be pondered come Wednesday morning.
In the meantime we can only hope that MY accusations of ‘election fraud’ are totally misplaced.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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