What do you KNOW?

Greetings good citizen,

Today’s Alternet carried an interesting story questioning President Obama’s progressive credentials

Make no mistake about it good citizen, the regular people of this nation haven’t had a ‘friend’ in the Oval Office since LBJ refused a second term.

It’s interesting, in retrospect, to note that every Democratic president since LBJ has SUCKED! Perhaps it is more interesting to note WHY they sucked. They sucked because they were conservatives with a fucking D after their name!

No irony should be lost on the fact we are suffering the same problem today.

It is neither sour grapes nor racial resentment that inform us unequivocally that ‘Yes we can = more of the same!’

Which is to point out that it is NOT credible that we ‘misunderstood’ Mr. Obama or that he ‘failed to grasp’ the mandate he received when he was elected.

It’s ‘expected’ that Mr. Obama would run for re-election…but it is ‘unconscionable’ to actually re-elect him, given his performance to date.

A cartoon could beat him! Pick the most pathetic/hated democrat you can think of and they are a shoo-in to win the oval office in 2012…largely because the Republicans make no bones about being on the side of the corporate ‘enemy’. It is telling that there are no ‘real’ Republican candidates in the running as of this time.

Three jobless recoveries in succession is all the ‘evidence’ you need to know that the Republican worshipped commercial sector is NOT YOUR FRIEND!

Worse, the harder you ‘suck-up’, the worse your situation becomes. You know as well as I that the time has come to start hitting back!

It is the only ‘language’ they respect.

Fuel prices are expected to eclipse the $4 dollar a gallon mark this summer making anything even resembling an ‘economic recovery’ DOA.

Is $4 a gallon gasoline a ‘game changer’? It sure is when we’re dealing with a minimum wage that doesn’t come close to meeting and individual’s basic needs and the only sector of the economy showing any sign of life at all are minimum wage/part-time jobs.

What ‘economic recovery’ are these assholes talking about? Are they talking about the recent uptick in sales at ‘high end’ retailers?

The rich are getting richer (at our expense) and they’re spending it too…but you can’t be making economic projections by looking solely at the upper two percent of the income distribution because the picture your get is obviously ‘tainted’.

Speaking of ‘tainted data’ we have this more than somewhat ‘slanted’ piece coming out of China.

Inflation in China Poses Big Threat to Global Trade

Geez, Louise, you don’t suppose the threat to global purchasing power is being ‘manufactured’ (like the impossible ‘cheaper there’) by the lying, cheating financial sector, do you?

Which is to point out that the above question could be phrased differently. Are we really seeing ‘rising prices’ in China or are we seeing shrinking value being applied to our own currency because the end result is the same either way!

That said it’s time to shift mental gears once again as we return to the subject of politics as it relates to economics:

We’ve tried madness, and it hasn't worked.

Terms Of Engagement: Let's be clear, all the noise about budgets and debt and deficits and entitlements is not about the size of the government, nor about the role of the government in our lives. It is all about how much more money the rich are going to squeeze out of the rest of us. It is about redistributing the money upwards and the pain and suffering downward. And they will keep doing it until we the people stop them.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, we get this which begs the question of when is martial law not martial law? When the Republicans tell us it isn’t.

Did I mention that the collapse of our civilization proceeds apace?

If you really want something to fret about, visit The Automatic Earth and view the video by Mr. Decarbonnel. I keep using the ‘fraud’ tag for good reason.

Cheating the system only proves the system is broken.

We could have engineered out the flaws that have caused so much misery long ago if the self-interested had been denied access to the process.

And don’t ask ‘how would we do that?’ The answer lies in the human anti-exploitation law, which makes it illegal for any human to earn their living off of the efforts of any other.

Yeah, that whole buying and selling bullshit goes right out the window! (And saves the planet in the process!)

Either we do this voluntarily or Mother Nature will make us do it…or (and there’s always another choice) we perish as a species. This is why I advocate exile, it’s the natural choice for those who ‘can’t conceive’ of a society without slaves! If you just can’t come to grips with the idea of cooperation then you would be free to enslave the like-minded!

Just understand that they, like you, think they are ‘too good’ to be the slave of another.

And an ‘employee’ is just another name for a slave.

There is another way; it has just never been tried.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Figure of Speech

Greetings good citizen,

The destruction of our civilization proceeds apace…which should surprise no one as the first thing thrown overboard during the 'Reagan Revolution' was justice.

That aside, I confess a ‘peculiar attraction’ to oxymorons such as the following article from the NY Times business section:

Distilling the Wisdom of C.E.O.’s

So what will determine who gets the next promotion, and the one after that? Which of them, when the time comes, will get that corner office?

In other words, what does it take to lead an organization — whether it’s a sports team, a nonprofit, a start-up or a multinational corporation? What are the X factors?

Interviews I conducted with more than 70 chief executives and other leaders for Corner Office in The New York Times point to five essentials for success — qualities that most of those C.E.O.’s share and look for in people they hire.

The good news: these traits are not genetic. It’s not as if you have to be tall or left-handed. These qualities are developed through attitude, habit and discipline — factors that are within your control. They will make you stand out. They will make you a better employee, manager and leader. They will lift the trajectory of your career and speed your progress.

Geez, does it look like the reporter missed a critical piece of the puzzle in his list of talents/attributes?

Isn’t it the single most important one too?

You can be a veritable Ghengis Khan, a leader among leaders but you won’t rise up through the ranks is you can’t convince your superiors that you aren’t a ‘threat’ to them.

How do you do this?

By sucking up, of course!

The ‘flaw’ in this particular mirror is it fails to take into account precisely who the CEO is expected to ‘perform’ for.

He/she is not there for the employees (who regularly get fucked over)

He/she is not there for the investors (who got fucked in the first place)

No, the only person who ‘matters’ in the whole ‘chain of command’ is the largest shareowner…who usually appoints themselves as the chairman/woman of the board.

So… how do you gain his/her, er, ‘trust’?

YOU SUCK UP! (In the ‘proper’ manner/degree)

No need to go into the wide variety of or to debate which type of ‘synchopant’ is more/most successful. Let it suffice to say if you aspire to be CEO (without building your own house, a damned difficult proposition; even in the best of times.) One has to master being a first class suck-up.

Not surprisingly, this causes many candidates with ‘the right stuff’ to eschew positions of authority.

So how ‘wise’ is the suck-up when doing a psychopaths bidding?

Stop and look around you for the answer.

Is the world ‘on fire’?

Why do you suppose that is?

Could it be due to spineless synchopants having their one and only defense against outright idiotic recklessness removed from their grasp?

The world didn’t fall apart prior to this because the bootlickers would fall back on the ‘it’s illegal’ defense in refusing to engage in this or that underhanded activity.

How unfortunate for the rest of us that the bootlickers can’t use that tool since the psychopaths bought the justice system?

Once we could speculate as to how long it would be before the proverbial ‘long arm of the law’ caught up to those who operated ‘above the law’.

Now I strongly suspect our civilization will collapse, ‘technically’ wiping the slate clean of crimes committed prior to the new regime taking control.

While there is a slim possibility that advocates of granting a ‘blanket amnesty’ to all crimes committed in the past will open themselves up for, er, ciminal action in the here and now, it is unlikely. Here we return to the ‘invitation only’ nature of the erection of a ‘new’ government.

Since the day when our ‘old’ government will be thrown under the bus is rapidly approaching I would advise you to be afraid, be very afraid!

And if you aren’t a total fool you will also be preparing to fight.

Make no mistake about it, fight now, fight later but fight you will…and if you suck at fighting, more the pity!

So, do CEO’s possess any ‘wisdom’ worth distilling? There’s hardly any evidence to back up that claim.

Now we return to another topic that has far reaching and increasingly disturbing implications

A media that has the average citizen so fucked up they don’t know what to think or why!

The ‘new’ healthcare plan (that has yet to be instituted) IS A CARBON COPY of the plan REPUBLICAN MITT ROMNEY saddled the Bay State with before departing for his presidential run! (And make no mistake about it it has been an unmitigated disaster!) Why IDIOT cowpokes (here’s another oxymoron) THINK democrats are responsible is just as moronic as blaming Clinton for Reagan’s NAFTA!

In fairness, the ‘fucking’ democrats have done next to nothing to impede the corporate takeover of our society.

Yeah, ‘brainwashed’ conservatives believe to this day that Bill Clinton (rather than Newt Gingrich and the first Rebublican controlled congress in over 40 years) was ‘responsible’ for NAFTA.

See what ‘owning’ the muzzle (by controlling the paychecks) of the media produces?

Which is to belabor the obvious, we don’t live in or enjoy ‘freedom’, we don’t deserve ‘freedom’, only ‘owners’ can enjoy freedom!

But I digress!

This particular article points to (of all places in the nation) Wyoming and none other than coal mining as the ‘source’ of the now two year old ‘economic boom’!

If you can’t see what’s WRONG with that picture you’re probably still scouring the first article for some ‘wisdom’ to take away…

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

More valuable than gold!

Greetings good citizen,

For time out of mind (as far as the West is concerned) people didn’t bother to steal food as the punishment far outweighed the short-term benefit.

Although we can only speculate what would happen to a ‘first time’ offender if he were nabbed for, er, ‘hijacking’, that isn’t quite an accurate desciption of what took place here.

In late March, they contacted Allen Lund. The broker carried out a standard series of checks, including verifying the company’s federal registration and its insurance coverage. Then it assigned the company to pick up a load of tomatoes from a shipper in Miami on Monday, March 28.

Over the next four days, working through Lund and three other freight brokers, E&A Transport picked up four more loads of tomatoes, a load of cucumbers and a load of frozen meat from shippers across Florida, including in the Miami area, Palmetto and Punta Gorda.

At each pick-up, a driver working for E&A showed up at the wheel of a tractor with a refrigerated trailer. The shippers loaded the pallets of tomatoes or the other goods into the trucks and the driver drove off. None of the loads got to their destinations.

The load of frozen meat, worth about $48,000, was picked up from a meatpacker north of Miami. It was bound for Salem, Ore. It is missing, too.

“This was definitely a smart organization,” said Mr. Holland, who was the broker on the load of meat. “They were smooth as silk.”

The thieves sought out loads headed for Detroit, Hartford, the Hunts Point market in New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Mr. Holland said that gave them time to carry out multiple thefts before the alarm was sounded, since in each case it would be from two to four days before the loads were due at their destinations. Brokers and shippers suspect the thieves had a buyer for the produce.

In this case nobody got a gun stuck in their face. Contracts were drawn up and what appears to be a legitimate trucking company was contracted to pick up the goods and deliver them to their respective destinations.

So, in a case of what looks like fraud, what would a first time offender be facing, punishmentwise?

If he had a real good attorney, he could probably get away with probation and community service.

But that’s beside the point, isn’t it?

The point, the real story here is a combination of ‘who took the food’ and why?

The theory put forth here is the food was stolen for resale…although the dollar figures don’t seem to justify the risk involved.

You can indeed speculate that the loads were ‘insured’ (although for how much will remain unknown.) in the beginning insurance is ‘attractively priced’ something that changes quite quickly as the ‘risk’ (losses) mounts.

Why food and why now?

Should we be on the lookout for a big time pasta fest (with 4 truckloads of tomatos comprising the bulk of the missing cargo?)

Hard to say good citizen, you know the uprisings across the Middle East have more to do with food shortages than ‘freedom’ but the rat-bastard capitalists don’t want you even thinking about what they will soon inflict upon you in the not too distant future.

Yeah, there was a blurb in today’s paper about inflation being ‘up slightly’ due to the relentless increases in food and gasoline.

Using the ‘New (Republican) math’ inflation is only up a few hundredths of a percent. But measured the ‘traditional’ way, (without all of the fudge and bullshit) inflation is running around nine and a half percent.

Make no mistake about it good citizen, food (in times of scarcity, regardless of the cause) is more valuable than gold!

Something to keep in mind after the collapse of civilization, a hoard of food is just as likely to get you killed as quick as a pile of gold will. Maybe even quicker given that the only thing gold will be marginally good for after the collapse is buying food…but that ‘assumes’ a seller (stupid enough to take troublesome ‘yellow metal’ over any number of vastly more useful items.)

But we still drift off topic.

One can assume this story attracted media attention because of the ‘slickness’ of the crime, four or five truckloads of food that have ‘disappeared’ after being legitimately contacted for.

Left to our imaginations is how much more food and toher items are simply ‘never making it to its intended destination’ that doesn’t get reported (to anyone beyond the trucker’s insurance carrier?)

I’d posit this puzzle is much larger than it appears and could account for the absence of food riots that should have broken out among the tens of millions of newly homeless created by globalization.

Not that such an untoward occurance would be considered ‘newsworthy’ by the coporate owned media. Which is to say if there were food riots it is doubtful we’d see it on the six o’clock news, even as a sidebar.

Did I mention the rat-bastard capitalists?

Four truckloads of tomatos makes for a curious mystery…throw in a truck load of mystery meat and it sounds like you have a Roman festival in the works…the only thing missing is the truck load of pasta.

And that may have slipped through the net…probably on purpose.

Just as mercenaries make no sense in a ‘free’ society, neither does stealing food in a land where more than a third of the population is on some form of food assistance.

Again, the numbers are ‘households’ and not individuals.

If prices get much higher it is only going to make the ‘theft’ problem that much worse…a circle without end.

And speaking of ‘ends’, I leave you here to ponder the true nature of this story.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Unsettling...and then some.

Greetings good citizen,

Today’s collection of articles are in no particular order and therefore will conform to the willy-nilly format that you’ve become accustomed to here at ASP.

If we return to one of the core concepts of A Simple Plan, the axiom that it is impossible to make informed decisions without accurate information, we encounter our first offering that takes to task our purposefully destructive educational system.

[This article first appeared on TruthDig.]

A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs. [snip]

We must fear, Arendt warned, those whose moral system is built around the flimsy structure of blind obedience. We must fear those who cannot think. Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands.

The slap in the face here good citizen is that it’s bad enough we suffer a ‘truth challenged’ media, it is worse that we suffer an education system which stresses blind acceptance over critical thinking!

Right and wrong are not ‘universally apparent’; right and wrong are whatEVER we tell you they are, whenever we tell you, subject to reversal without prior notice, as the circumstances demand!

If the above reads fucked up it’s because it IS fucked up!

It's like the statement ‘my words mean exactly what I want them to mean, nothing more and nothing less.’

Sadly, that limits the pool of people who ‘understand’ what you said to just you!

We are not a race of telepaths.

Much to our employers chagrin!

Moving along Today’s stock markets were “Markets Unsettled on Concerns About Jobs and Inflation

In the United States, the latest reports pointed to higher inflation and highlighted the continued weakness in the job market. The weekly unemployment claims rose back above the 400,000 level and the government said the core producer prices rose slightly faster than expected in March.[snip]

Investors are particularly concerned about Chinese inflation, fearing that government efforts to restrain it could prompt a “hard landing” for the economy.

“Inflation in emerging economies has become a serious issue, as the impact from high commodity prices is stronger for those countries,” Arnaud Scarpaci, fund manager at Agilis Gestion in Paris, said.

So don’t ‘confuse’ food riots with political unrest. The former are much more serious than the latter.

What’s the bottom line here good citizen? We can only wonder who they think they’re fooling with their ceaseless ‘Happy Talk’ about the state of the economy.

It’s fucked and they aren’t doing a damn thing to fix it (because they don’t give a fuck if you starve, in fact, they’re hoping you do!)

Which leads us to What I was saying Monday

HOLD EVERYTHING: There's No Budget Deal, And The Government May Still Shut Down

Like I warned earlier, this ‘budget deal’ is far from a ‘done deal’.

I've already expounded on what I think will happen if the federal government ‘shuts down’ and it’s a lot more serious than anything either the blogosphere or the corporate owned media will admit to, being the ‘reality based community’ that they think they are!

And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse we have this bullshit!

Seems as though there was something to those claims of fraud leveled against that private consortium of banks that call themselves The Fed.

Dunno how much more evidence you need that our ‘house’ is so far out of order as to be uninhabitable!

But, the disturbing part is how this is no accident!

The fuckers really are trying to kill a shitload of us off.

And the more you refuse to accept this, the closer it creeps.

It has probably already happened, somebody somewhere has ‘slipped’ likely when they, (being mentally unstable and all) flipped out and launched into a tirade about how they couldn’t wait for the day when most of us end up cutting one another’s throats for a crust of bread!

Because that’s exactly the direction this clusterfuck is headed…and there ain’t a frigging thing you can do about it, especially if you’ve already been pushed to the margins of our society.

So, some mighty ‘weighty’ reading here good citizen,

Consider it well and prepare accordingly!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Enough is enough!

Greetings good citizen,

Naturally yesterday’s disaster makes for today’s ‘bargains’ (or so goes conventional stock market theory.) let Japan sink into a radioactive hole, did you see the price of widgets amalgamated? Had to jump on that!

Or so the market hustlers would have you believe.

Honestly good citizen if it weren’t for automated payroll retirement fund contributions the stock markets would be ‘flatline’. NOBODY (in his or her right mind) would be buying stock in this economy! Our entire ‘economic model’ ceased working decades ago.

If it seems like there are ‘alternate realities’ out there it’s because there is two very distinct ‘economies’ out there.

And the dividing line between them is stark indeed!

Naturally, those in the infamous middle are confused as to which reality they belong to (as neither ‘belongs’ to them, despite their illusions they are still the ‘hired help’.)

So we are left with the inevitable question of when is enough, enough?

Understand that the morons who already have more than they can spend have no conception of the word except to reject the idea or even the notion that they might already be ‘there’.

Nor do these simpletons understand/care where theirs comes from (it comes from YOU, good citizen!) The math is really quite straightforward here; more for them equals less for you…and if you don’t like it, tough!

Which has increasingly become the standard response to any objections raised by those who must live with the consequences of these decisions.

And if you don’t think these decisions affect you, you are sadly mistaken.

I’m sure most of you don’t BUT if you WERE to stop and think about it for a moment, aren’t things getting more than a little ‘peculiar’?

I’m not talking ‘little green men’ peculiar either; the ‘antics’ of the uber-wealthy are far stranger than that!

Worse, the uber-wealthy pay to have their ‘weirdness’ invade your life! Don’t you have more important things to worry about than Larry wanting to marry Danny?

Same thing with that other lunatic fringe group, the 33,000 member Tea Party. There are other, larger ‘radical’ organizations…it is the bought and paid for corporate media that keeps inserting the teeny-tiny (but Billionaire backed) Tea Party into the national conversation.

Let us not overlook the most important factor here, that the Anti tax ‘Tea Party’ movement is supported by Billionaires! While the nation falls into its own cesspool!

This is hooray for me and fuck you writ large…with the uber rich flipping the rest of us the bird!

But it can’t be helped; it’s what they always do.

So I ask you again, when is enough, enough?

And, naturally, the answer I’m seeking isn’t related to the accumulation of riches but how much more can you stand?

And the answer to that is you (the average individual) is already well beyond ‘pissed off’. The one thing that keeps you ‘in check’ is the total lack of an avenue to even seek a remedy!

This is the downside of a ‘fuck you, pay me’ system, everything, including justice has a price tag!

Making a bad situation worse, the game is still ‘to the highest bidder’, if you want the local pols attention you had best have deep enough pockets to, er, ‘captivate’ it.

Which is to say you (via your PAC) make a six figure campaign contribution to Joe’s campaign fund, but when push comes to shove Joe votes against you because Sam gave him twice as much!

Joe will be quick to acknowledge that he ‘owes’ you, he’ll just try to pay you back some other way. Even if that means *sponsoring legislation that will get you what you want!

(*Not for nothing does a lot of this ‘legislation’ die in committee, never seeing the light of day.) Sort of redefines the old saying ‘you pays your money and you takes your chances…’

Besides being a perfect illustration of what’s wrong with our ‘justice for sale’ system it also shines a stark light upon a society we’d all be better off NOT belonging to.

Although by now we have all gotten used to being laughed at because we’re always getting fucked!

This, ironically, only makes the prospect of turning the tables that much sweeter.

Bringing us full circle to the when is enough, enough? Question.

Our little ‘mental exercise’ above where we ‘buy’ our own politician isn’t feasable, in fact the crooked bastards better watch their step because selling one’s vote to the highest bidder is indeed ‘treason’!

How sad is it that selling one’s vote is also the biggest ‘incentive’ to get into politics in the first place?

As we all know, it takes a ‘special’ kind of person to, er (not) do ‘the people’s work’.

To which I will add the ‘usual’ warning…if we are to survive as a species we MUST dismantle this corrupt edifice ASAP.

Although it does collapse all by itself with frightening regularity…dunno what that tells you!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Flying Wheels...

Greetings good citizen,

The ‘lead’ headline on today’s NY Times is about the unrest in Pakistan…but the REAL headline story (which apparently didn’t break until the markets opened, although markets around the world are bleeding from the eyesockets ‘in unison’.)

The exact time Japan raised the ‘threat level’ from its damaged nuclear reactor to 100% isn’t known at this moment. Although if market performance is anything to go by it must have been sometime last night (local.)

So we can only assume that this one caught the night editors napping.

OR we have another example of ‘if disaster were about to strike would they tell us?’

Given the ‘panic’ this would cause, I’d opine that they would…NOT!

Nice how this segues into today’s ‘topic du juor’ of “Are we witnessing the wheels flying off of our crippled civilization?”

Again we have a headline that didn’t make the cut

Worse is the ‘spin’…

Gas prices are approaching record highs, but so far most Americans do not appear to be drastically cutting back their driving or even their spending as they did in 2008.

Prices for a gallon of regular unleaded gas are topping $4 at more service stations nationwide, revisiting the bleak territory of three years ago, when the average price for a gallon of regular gas reached a peak of $4.11 on July 17, 2008, according to the Oil Price Information Service.

[The question below was originally between the other two paragraphs]

The question, economists agreed, is what happens if prices continue to go up and remain high.

Um, tell me true good citizen, is this really the most pressing issue on your mind?

Aren’t you just a bit more concerned about how much quicker this is going to bring on ‘collapse’?

The eight million jobs lost AFTER the economy tanked haven’t come back…are all of those unemployed people, driving around looking for work behind this…sustained usage level?

No good citizen, they aren’t.

The article tells us the answer, the date given for the previous high in fuel prices was THREE YEARS AGO, what we’re seeing is ‘The New Normal’.

People aren’t ‘cutting back’ because those people lost their damn jobs and haven’t found replacements yet.

And as the next article shows us those jobs aren’t coming back

The thing to remember good citizen is this ISN’T the first or the second ‘jobless recovery’ they’ve foisted off on us, it’s the THIRD!

If the other gloom and doom sites are to be believed, we are facing (or will face in short order) ANOTHER ‘financial crisis’ before the summer is over!

This should surprise no one as we all know NOTHING has been done to correct the causes of the LAST financial crisis!

Hell, our pal ‘Flipper’ is still able to take out a ‘liar’s loan’ to buy foreclosed property with!

But hey, no guts, no glory, right? Isn’t that the same reckless attitude that caused the last train wreck?

Which brings us back to my ‘favorite’ whipping boy…mismanagement.

Extend and pretend is a game you can play for just so long, it’s over when you run out of suckers.

Which begs a more pointed question…are you being played for a ‘sucker’?

If you haven’t gotten a pay increase in the last two years you are!

We have seen the news reports of US facilities shutting down because no alternative to parts ‘normally’ produced in Japan is available.

How far do you supposse that will ‘cascade’?

I think you will be amazed at just how far reaching this event will ultimately become.

You know how the parable ‘for want of a nail’ ends, don’t you?

'For want of a nail the war was lost…'

But the fucking ‘beancounters’ dismiss this wisdom as being ‘outdated’.

The evidence speaks for itself good citizen, civilization was built on ‘redundancy’, those who embraced it prospered, while those who didn’t perished.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

A is for Angry...

Greetings good citizen,

What a lovely Spring morning we’re having! The stock market’s up (here in the US if nowhere else) the birds are chirping and the cats are purring.


The presidink has announced he’s going to embark on a new round of budget slashing and guess what’s on the chopping block?

(Hint: Gitmo will still be in operation long after YOU get stuck for huge co-pays on your medicare!)

Oh, and that ‘plan’ to convert medicare to ‘vouchers for private insurance’ will never happen, the government will have been overthrown by then!

In fact, considering the epic failure of our deeply flawed, ancient form of government has been revealed to be, most citizens will be happy to see it go.

Naturally, this raises the question of what would replace the current inefficient (and tolerant to a fault) mess?

Yes, good citizen, the primary reason we DON’T clamor for the surrender of the current government is the very real prospect that our ‘sloppy, corrupt’ (but comfortable) government will be replaced by a zealous, super efficient one.

Here Bill Mahar hits one out of the park while pointing out an inceasingly common new meme…‘I already got your money dude!’

[You gotta see the video!]

This brings us back to the original question, is the nation really THAT divided?

Understand that if we were to form ‘income based’ teams (everybody who works for a paycheck on one team and everybody who doesn’t on another, the ‘divide’ would be far from ‘equal’.

98% OF PEOPLE WHO WORK get nothing more than their paycheck.

[Qualifier] Those not working would be classified as if they were…leaving the 98-2 split intact.

However, the REASON our current government is failing is because the 2% ‘dominate’ the process…and will, because of their ‘special status’ be inclined to foist off the most draconian and unbalanced replacement they can maneuver into place on short notice…

Hell, they’ve had it waiting in their hip pocket for quite some time now.

You’re gonna laugh when you hear what they intend to do.

The plan is to arm the ‘Jesus Freaks’…

It’s everybody’s worst nightmare and it has a major flaw…let’s start with the ‘Prince of Peace’ aspect that makes it pretty hard to justify killing in the name of mercy.

They’ll stop killing when everybody accepts Jesus as their personal savior!

How sad is it that this is only the first of many ‘conditions’. Once everybody accepts Jesus, they have to stop worshiping him the ‘wrong’ way!

It really gets hairy after this because there are HUGE gulfs between different sects of fundies…but if I’m right, things won’t get that far.

To a rational person this is insane but take a moment to examine what most of us swallow on a daily basis! Is it any less ‘insane?’

The other ‘drawback’ to this scheme is the fact that most ‘mainstream’ Christians aren’t militant, only the Fundies hold such radical views…and they are (fortunately) few in number.

Still, we will find ourselves, at least temporarily, more divided than is healthy during a critical phase of the battle for control of our civilization.

Ironically, the ‘hardcore’ Christians will force us to battle them ‘to extinction’, true believers will accept nothing less than complete victory!

I have zero use for a ‘god’ who would fail to put a stop to this. I have even less use for the people who would stoop so low as to send the gullible to certain death just to buy themselves a little more time!

Remember, our so-called ‘betters’ justify their, er, ‘superiority’ as ‘god’s will’.

Which is to point out that it wouldn’t be the first time the ‘godless’ global corporate interests hid behind their willing servant, the religions of the world.

Not that ‘global markets’ were the desired ‘end result’ of globalization, they weren’t.

The fuck heads in charge KNOW the end of cheap and abundant energy will turn back the social clock not a hundred years but a THOUSAND!

They’re clicking their heels with joy because this means they will all be ‘royalty’ once again.

How bizarre is it that most royals died ‘untimely’ deaths?

Guess you can file this under the ‘careful of what you wish for’ category.

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times, Stupid is as stupid does!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner