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Cuz I Said So

 

 

So,

The US government has shut down.

Really?

No, he’s teasing.

I’ve paid as little attention as possible to this story because:

1. It’s not true.

2. It’s political drama in an effort to get the Republican minions and Democratic cult members to fight against each other after coming together in opposition to attacking Syria.  Unity cannot be allowed because it challenges the one-party system.

3. I was trying to finish up a research paper.

Today, with college finally over, I decided to take a peek into the political headlines to see what nonsense was being put out as “news.”  Here’s some great stuff from an article written by Mark Felsenthal for Reuters, “Obama pulls out stops in warning on debt default.”

“A decision to actually go through with it, to actually permit default – according to many CEOs and economists – would be, and I’m quoting here, ‘Insane, catastrophic, chaos.’  These are some of the more polite words.” – Obama

Funny, those are the same words I would use to describe voting Obama in for a second term.

Except you didn’t use the more polite words.

“Warren Buffet likened default to a nuclear bomb, a weapon too horrible to use.” – Obama

It's worth noting that the nuclear bomb was used twice after the Japanese surrendered and now uranium depleted shells used in the Middle East have created a radioactive situation worse than those two atomic bombs.  If this debt default is like a nuclear bomb and nuclear bombs are too horrible to use and the United States government uses them to murder innocent people, does that mean that Obama is arguing FOR debt default?

“This is not just for me.  It’s also for my successors in office, whatever party they’re from.  They shouldn’t have to pay a ransom either for Congress doing its basic job.  We gotta put a stop to it.” – Obama.

Apparently, when making financial decisions for a country, dictators should not need permission from the people who hold the specific duty of controlling the purse strings.

That seems true enough.

Congress should just be renamed as “Rubber Stamp.”

“’This is the creditworthiness of the United States that we’re talking about,’ [Obama] said.  ‘This is our word.  This is our good name.  This is real.’”

He makes it sound like the world will look down on the United States government if it defaults.  The only people who think the United States government has a good name are ‘Merkins who live in Pretendland.

Then, apparently, The Great and Powerful Oz turned toward the usual tactic of describing end-of-the-world scenarios that will occur if people don’t do what He says.  I don’t have my finger on the pulse of what constitutes popular thinking (using the term oh-so-loosely) but I have to wonder if His threats carry the power they once did.  How many times can people hear these threats before the empty threats lose their oomph?  How many times can Chicken Little cry wolf before doubt about His credibility occurs, even in the minds(?) of the spoon-fed zombies?

You aren’t including his Keynesian Klown cult members are you?

It doesn’t look like it or there wouldn’t have been a question mark behind the word “minds” and there wouldn’t have been the word “minds.”

Either you’re with him or you’re with the terrorists.

Wrong president.

Same logical fallacy, though.

Apparently, the puppets are easily interchangeable.

 

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Mitt Romney Unveils His Economic Strategy

So,

Good ole Mittler is in Michigan trying to fool the people into voting for him.  He has taken some heat during the campaign for not being more specific (or specific at all really or even not quite so vague would be nice) about his plans to turn the economy around.  Mitt finally came forward with his plan.  Here's a video of Mitt's plan:

TRST: Obama Cutting the Deficit

So,

Today's "They Really Said That?" is brought to you by the Great and Powerful Oz who was asked about his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term and he said . . .

Well here, watch it for yourself:

What I am learning about having a valuable discussion about ideas is that there must be a clear understanding of the words that are being used.  There has to be a general consensus to the definitions of the words being used.

Case in point, Obama says that "everybody" underestimated how bad the economy was when he took office and that's why he has broken yet another promise.  Let's take a closer look at who "everybody" is, shall we?

It doesn't include:

• Me and my readers
• Peter Schiff
• Ron Paul
• Gerald Celente
• Anyone who can read above an 8th grade level
• Ah hell, this list could go on forever, let's just list who "everybody" is

"Everybody", used in this context by Obama, means "Everybody who believed Obama."  Everyone else either wasn't paying attention or knew the truth.

By the way, if you go looking for this video on YouTube, don't cut it short and search for "Obama Failed Promise" because you'll have to scroll through too many videos to count.

Greece Fire

So,

The 1% cut out the middle man in Greece and straight up put a banker in as the prime minister on 11/11/11.  That is how you do transparency! 

The results have been pretty clear and things are going to get far worse.

Wow! This is Some Amazing News!

So,

I read this tonight as I was procrastinating writing this blog because the cold medicine is blocking the voices in my head:

"A new report published by the World Bank has come to a spellbinding conclusion: High government spending and large public sectors substantially diminish economic growth."

Ya think?

And with that bit of duh-ness, I'm going to bed.

Biting the Hand that Feeds

So,

I had never heard of the Dependency Index before today when I read that it has risen by 23% under Obama.  A striking headline to be sure.  However, looking into this Dependency Index a bit, it looks to be a media tool of the right half of the one party system to be trotted out when they need to beat down the left side in an election year. 

Still, it made me think, which I understand has gone out of fashion but I'm hoping there will be a comeback.  Politicians have a number of tricks they use to maintain control of the people for the 1%.  I mention "Force" quite often here but that used to be the choice of last resort.  It may still be the choice of last resort and we are just at that point where none of the other tricks will work.

Some of the other tricks include taking control of the education system so that people don't get a true education with the bonus of indoctrination, control of the media, control of the money, and let's not forget the biggie - Fear.

Additionally, they can promise to give money to people.  Money that doesn't exist but where the bill won't come due until some time in the future. 

Guess what?  The future is here in places like Greece and it will be here shortly for dozens of other countries.

This is a dangerous time for people in the government because the potential for an uprising of the 99% increases with each failed attempt to kick the can farther down the road. 

What does this have to do with this Dependency Index stuff?  While many of the programs may have been well-intentioned, they also serve as payments for non-resistance against the government.  When the money runs out or is devalued through inflation, the amount of resistance increases.  Austerity measures are met with violence.

Ironically, it's like paying protection money.  A lot of Americans pay protection money to the IRS so they don't destroy our lives but the government turns around and pays money out to keep people from carrying out a revolution.  Unfortunately, there doesn't look to be very many ways to avoid the end of the road.

In rebuttal to this headline about Obama and the Dependency Index spike, Daily Kos pointed out that much of the damage was done long before Obama took over.  It's built into the system.  The guy before Obama didn't change things, Obama won't change things, and the guy that comes after Obama (unless he makes himself dictator in a signing statement and there is no next guy) won't change things. 

On top of that, the 1% crashed the system and Obama had to pay more in protection money in the form of unemployment and food stamps.  Can you imagine how big Occupy Wall Street would be (will be) without this type of intervention? 

The people in power are invested in the status quo.  Change could mean a loss of power and the 1% would really like to avoid that.

The more subtle forms of control are failing.  The school system is failing so badly that people don't go to them.  They homeschool if they are lucky or just quit otherwise.  This weakens the indoctrination.  Here, even though most of the kids go to school until they are 16, they won't say the Pledge of Allegiance.  It's no wonder that Obama wants to make schools into prisons to hold kids until they are 18.

The Internet has destroyed the 1%'s stranglehold over the information that is released to the public.  They are still trying to fix that and I'm sure that Lamar Smith has anohter dozen bills waiting in the bullpen to make Internet censorship "legal".

Control of the money is getting weaker as people resort to alternative currencies, alternative markets, and barter systems.  3-letter agencies will do what they can but it's going to grow to the point where enforcement is futile.

Fear?  Fear is starting to work against the government because more and more people see the government as the biggest threat to their safety.  Fewer people care about a dozen guys hiding in caves in some third world country when the military is practicing in downtown Los Angeles so they can put an end to the civil unrest of Americans with extreme prejudice.

So, look for this Dependency Index thingy to continue to rise.  Look for the protection money paid out to continue until the breaking point.  If Mittler or inSane-torum is picked by the 1% to replace Obama this year, look for the Heritage Foundation to quit talking about the Dependency Index until the next Democrat gets into office but know that it is continuing.

And we can expect the continuation to put in place the pieces necessary for the last resort such as passing laws like NDAA, a continued blurring between police and military, construction of concentration camps, increased surveillance, and much less subtlety about the government putting these things into place.

"The first two were high and right so where do you think the next one's gonna be?"

"Well, either low and away, or in my ear."

"He's not gonna want to load the bases so look for low and away."

"Right."

"But watch for in your ear."

Channeling Bush

So,

We find ourselves in the third presidential term of George W Bush but without Cheney.

Who's going to shoot people in the face?

Eric Holder has armed entire Mexican drug cartels for Obama.

Long time readers may remember when I was on my little kick leading up to the depression where I would mock King George and my good friend Ben Bernanke every time they did a press release telling the whole world that the US economy was great and people like me who warning of the crash didn't know what we were talking about.  I haven't done the same service with the Great and Powerful Oz because I've been a little bit busy but I saw a video on Saturday that summoned me back to those days and I just couldn't stop myself from writing this post.

Like you really tried.

You could've at least pretended.

The unemployment rate dropped from 8.5% to 8.3% and Obama used this bit of news in a reelection speech and had this to say about it:

"Now, this morning, we received more good news about our economy.  In January, American businesses added another 257,000 jobs.  The unemployment rate came down because more people found work."

If you are one of His cult members, now is the time to click away to something else.  You have received confirmation that He is doing a great job and that you are doing gawd's work when you proselytize in His name.  Reading any further might shake your faith will probably make you angry because it pisses you off to no end when people ruin His message with the truth.  Faith is what atheists like me need and if I had any, I would see that His message is not to be questioned.  That will only lead to hell.

Can atheists go to hell?

Is Mittler Romney giving a speech near here?  We could go.

Math time!  The unemployment rate came down because more people found work.  Let's check this out.  There were 13 million unemployed people in December.  Obama, the great and powerful job creator, is taking credit for 257K people getting employment.  Let's see now.  Divide by 3, carry 1, subtract 5, add 257 thousand jobs and you get a change of .06%. 

I'm impressed.

By the whopping change?

No, that SW still remembers how to do math.

There is that.

Maybe some small factor is being left out by the lamestream media.  Ohhhh, that's right, 1.1 million threw in the towel, moved into a tent on the lawn of a state capital, and were beaten with police batons.  75% of the change recorded as a "drop in unemployment" was caused by people who have completely given up on the system and are no longer counted as people. 

Maybe Obama wasn't trying to deceive people.  Maybe he's just shitty at math.  He should stick to Constitutional Law.

He's shitty at Constitutional Law too.

Shitty at economics and the Constitution, he should be a politician.

These people no longer in the system should heed Newt's advice and get a job.

1.3 million people should get the 250k available jobs?

They could landscape for Mitt and get paid under the table.

This though, is not the point of this blog.

It never is.

True dat.

Taking a page out of the Bush/Bernanke Mad Lib book, Obama added this gem:

"But the economy is growing stronger.  The recovery is speeding up."

From January to December of last year, the people who said "Fuck it!" and dropped out of the system rose by 1.24 million people.  In the first month of this year, the number of people that quit looking for Newt's magical but invisible jobs rose by 1.18 million people.  There are a couple of things that are speeding up but recovery is not on the list.

How about the amount of presidential bullshit being uttered?

Really?  Do you think that has changed?

This is an election year though and I want to point out that all is not lost for the cultists.  If Obama can maintain a sense of despair, he might be able to get over a million people to drop out of the job hunting scene every single month between now and November.

Wait!  What about Hope?

More people are definitely going to be asking for change?

Using cardboard signs?

Yep.

If over a million people per month drop out of the system, he should be able to get the unemployment rate down to 6.5%.

Schwing!  Reelected fer shure!

Hosanna unto Obama!

In fact, why stop there?  With less than 13 million people left making the unemployment number look so bad, He should work at getting them all to drop out of the system or indefinitely detain them as enemy combatants (incarcerated and disappeared people don't count against the stat). 

Look, here's the thing . . .

Frank Caliendo says you can always tell when Obama is going to really push a point because he'll say, "Look," or, "Here's the thing," and if it's really important he'll concatenate them.

I understand why Obama and Bush lie about these things but I also understand that the only reason that they get away with it is because no one says, "Really?  You're going to go with that bit of bullshit?"  Obviously, the audience at His speaking events is made up of cult members and, no doubt, when they stop believing him, the 1% will just hire film extras to make up the audience with a couple of people up front holding cue cards for "Laugh" and "Applause". 

Where was the "Laugh" guy for the spilled milk joke?

Watching the pained look on Michelle's face.

At some point though, I would like to think that the ground would become so infertile for such blatant lies that they would just stop.

It's a dream I have.

Occupy Wall Street and the 2012 Election

So,

For those of you that were wondering, yes, I'm still alive. 

The big talk now is the fact that there is only a year left before the next batch of sociopaths is elected and will Obama make the cut and how will Occupy Wall Street affect the outcome with Obama being Wall Street's bitch?  Can he somehow convince them that he's on their team?

Only if the New York winter freezes their brains.

Well the fire department did take away their generators, for their safety of course.

They will freeze to death safely.  That's good to know.

I suppose that it would be good timing to address a question from the previous blog post since it pertains to this topic.

"But do you *really* think Obama -- who signed Frank-Dodd into law, fought hard for the consumer financial protection act, and INHERITED the whole TARP chaos -- is a Wall Street crony who doesn't give a shit about the little guy???

Really???

Maybe constructive criticism would be more helpful."

Well, considering that He has continued to bail out Wall Street, His top advisors come from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, and Wall Street has made more money in the last 3 years than in the previous 8 years combined, I would have to say that what I *really* think is immaterial.  The facts speak for themselves.  If you really want to know what I think, I'll put it this way.  If the Great and Powerful Oz ever gets any symptoms of colon cancer, Lloyd Blankfein will know about before Obama's staff of doctors.

"Feel right here, doctor, this isn't right?"

"Are you sure?  That seems normal."

"It wasn't there yesterday and Jamie Dimon says it wasn't there the day before.  I think you better do a biopsy because I've got too much money invested in this mouhtpiece."

"You know the mouthpiece is at the other end?"

"Whatever."

You know Democrats don't have a sense of humor when it comes to their Messiah, right?

Can I read the first piece of hate mail?

Let's move on to constructive criticism.

Oh, this should be good.

I'm only reading the first piece of hate mail.

It was kind of a vague suggestion on who I'm supposed to help so I'll dish out a bunch.

Let's start with The One, Oz himself.

What kind of constructive criticism do you give a guy that makes Al Capone look like Mother Teresa?

I would have picked Ghandi.

My constructive criticism is this: keep doing what you're doing because apparently some people just don't get it yet and are still supporting You in supporting the 1%.  You, Mr. President, have completely outdone my expectations on your blatant hypocrisy, broken promises, and taking money from Wall Street to completely fuck over the American people.  For some though, 3 or 4 years isn't going to be enough, so use a teleprompter to keep from sounding like Beavis and Butthead, stick to the script, and run a good race and give the people 4 more years of your stellar performance.

Next, the Neo Cons.

Are you going to sugar coat this one too?

He did hold back on Obama, didn't he?

I sincerely don't know what to say about them.  I summed it up last time.  These people are batshit crazy.  I saw a video recently that said that the Republican handlers are actually Democrats because the Neo Cons are saying exactly the wrong things to win an election, when they aren't just being stupid.

When aren't they being stupid?

The smartass has a point this time.

I guess I can just encourage them to keep on doing what they're doing so they can alienate everyone on the planet.  That way, even if Obama and Blankfein are the only people who show up at the polls, Obama will win.  Just like last time, I'm rooting for the cult members because I think it paints a clearer picture of the hypocrisy, violence, and corruption of the system with Obama at the helm.  If a Neo Con gets into the White House, people won't be surprised when another foreign country is turned into a crater because they dared to promote democracy or threatened to stop using the US Dollar as the world currency.  Obama, the guy that was going to end the wars and stop torturing people, is setting the record for the number of countries attacked.

Including America.

Hey!  If you aren't with Wall Street, yer again' us and deserve to be beaten down with batons, peppersprayed, shot in the head with tear gas cannisters, trampled by horses, hit by scooters, and run over by cars.

Ummm, something about that doesn't sound right.

Yeah, the scooters.  How not-manly is it to ride around as a cop on a scooter?

Maybe they were short-handed that day and the meter maids were called out to help run over protesters.

Does anyone remember where we were?

Taking a ride on the ADHD version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?

Constructive criticism.

Who else should we help out?  Occupiers?

Keep up the great work!  Keep it peaceful.  Keep looking for solutions.  The longer you ask the questions, the better your chance of finding the solution and the more other people will start looking for solutions.  Keep the videos coming.  The thin veil covering the police state is being ripped to shreds with all the videos that are coming out.  People are being arrested for standing on public sidewalks.  It is illegal to not support Wall Street but legal and moral are, more often than not, opposites. 

This movement actually gives me hope.

Are you going to let the cult members off the hook?  After all, they can't help it.

Yeah, go easy on them.  The DNC has their brains locked in a vault guarded by a waterfall that detects invisibility and a dragon.

Fine but would it be okay if I addressed the comment about Frank-Dodd?

Wheeee!

This won't be pretty.

This is such a beautiful masterpiece that sums up the Obama administration with incredible accuracy.  This bill is the most "broad" and "sweeping" bill since Noah came down from the mountain with the 10 Commandments.

Noah?  Isn't that the boat guy?

Boat guy? 

What does this broad and sweeping bill do?  Nothing.

Wow, that is broad.

And sweeping.

Words.  More words.  Hope and Change.  Broad and Sweeping.  The bill set up a plan to create regulations somewhere down the road, somewhere between 200 to 400 regulations designed by a couple dozen 3-letter agencies whose Tsars are no doubt on the take from Wall Street.  Of the first 40 "regulations" passed, they were all watered down or completely neutered so as to make this broad and sweeping bill completely toothless.

I heard that how Blankfein likes his Presidential blowjobs.

Business as usual in Washington.

Passing this bill was like having a meeting to set a date about when to have a meeting to determine who should be in charge of being in charge of the next meeting. 

Kind of like Hoping for Change.

But not actually changing anything.

Just like that.

Occupy Wall Street: A View from Outside the Box

So,

I have heard of the movement, uhh, I've seen it on TV.

You aren't going to let that one go, are you?

Did you think he would?

Okay, I've been following Occupy Wall Street closer than President Ohblahblah will admit.

You know it's part of his daily briefings right?

And night time briefings, and noon time, and . . .

Yes, I know.  He's a smacktard but that is not the point of this blog at all. 

Is there going to be a point?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Not a single point, no.  That would not be in keeping with the theme of this blog, would it?

Theme?

<shrug>

First, the good news.  The propaganda media, with the exception of Faux news, has finally come to grips that there is a very clear message to Occupy Wall Street.  It only took them a month to finally admit it.  They were probably hoping that the protesters would go away before now but, unfortunately for them, we are into month two with protests around the entire planet.  They, except for Faux news, have finally started letting the world know what we already knew.  You can't have a country by the people for the people when you auction off votes to the highest bidders.

Ya think?

Didn't we know that before the protests?

Now, the big question that seems to be on everyone's mind is what is the president going to do about this whole thing.  The consensus at this date is that he has to be very careful.  He needs to acknowledge the frustrations of the people that he has screwed over but at the same time he doesn't want to get in bed with him, as one of his spokespeople was quick to point out recently.  I was kind of glad to see that the Great and Powerful Oz was letting other people do the talking for him.  One of the reasons he was elected was because he was more articulate than King George.

So are my farts.

Hard to lower the bar from there.

Without a teleprompter, dude is losing His composure.  I think he'll get re-elected because the Republican candidates are utterly batshit crazybut by year seven, it's going to be like watching an episode of Beavis and Butthead.

Heh, heh, your name is Bush, heh, Bush, heh, heh.

He's got his people StatusQuo.org MoveOn.org and the unions down there trying to steer the whole mess but he can't get too involved.  Faux news is trying so hard to turn Occupy Wall Street into Tea Party Left that it's become a joke.  Now, it's possible and quite likely that many of the Faux news people are really as stoopid as they sound but it's also possible that they have been told to do everything they can to turn OWS into Tea Party Left.  The establishment cannot let this anarchist movement to go on indefinitely.  The people must be divided into the two sides and pitted against each other.  Right now, you have communists, Obama cult members, Independents, Ron Paul republicans, Anarchists, and everyone else meeting every day discussing solutions.  Actual, real, solutions.  This cannot be allowed to continue.  If the people ever figure out the solution, there will be an immense exchange of power and, quite frankly, this is not something that sits well with the people currently in power.

So, Faux news continues to lie to the point where their reporters are hazed if they even bother to show up near Wall Street. 

Because I care so much about the main stream media, I am going to do them a favor and list the top ten reasons why Obama has to pretend to empathize with the 99% while not getting any of their taint on Him:

1-8.  He's Wall Street's bitch.

9.     Faux news is already trying to say that the Tea Party is better than OWS because Tea Partiers don't get arrested.  Tea Partiers also don't get anything changed.

What a coincidence!

I know.

Every day that nothing is done to appease the protesters while beating them over the head with NYPD nightsticks brings this whole thing one day closer to massive violence.  If Obama cozies up to OWS and then it goes terribly awry, the Republicans will use that in the 2012 election.

"Yeah, we should be locked up in padded rooms but at least we aren't inciting violence."

10.   Obama has already alienated much of his base because of his hypocrisy* and getting behind the protesters today and then sending in the National Guard with water canons next week will only make this worse.  He would be giving the Republicans ammo while encouraging even more Democrat voters to stay home on voting day. 

He's stuck in a tough spot between the votes of the 99% and the money of the 1% and he has to walk a tightwire between them.

The media is missing or hiding a key message from OWS but I'm not going to go into now.  I'm sure there will be time.  It doesn't look like this is going to end any time soon.  I know that several people have hoped that snow will drive the protesters away but none of them have sounded too confident that it will actually happen.  With the EU collapsing, there's a good chance that this thing is just barely getting started.

No matter were it goes from here, the conversation and a search for real solutions has been started.  People are waking up.  That has always been the most critical factor.

* It's only hypocrisy if you actually believed Him in the first place.

I saw his lips moving.

Always a clue.

Video Saturday

We have the chance to turn the pages over
We can write what we want to write
We gotta make ends meet before we get much older

We're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other down the barrel of a gun?

You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear

We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear

This time we know we all can stand together
With the power to be powerful,
Believing we can make it better

We're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other down the barrel of a gun?

You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear

We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear

(Try and understand it) You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear

We're not gonna sit in silence
Were not gonna live with fear