Fox Contributor Identifies the REAL Ruling Class!!

by: Chip

Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 13:57:47 PM EDT

Okay, I'll be the first to admit that a tucked-away opinion article/blog in the belly of FoxNews.com isn't going to send shockwaves through our nation's political consciousness (if you could even call it that, collectively retarded as Americans are). Yet we're rarely privy to the true emotional outrage or, indeed, the more graphic manipulations of language at The Top, for lack of a better term. The Top of any institution, whether it's the military, the government, or your local police department, is generally populated by folks smart enough not to say the wrong thing or, more accurately, what's really on their mind.

The Top of the conservative media is sufficiently intelligent to understand they are, in fact, some of the greatest movers-and-shakers of our nation's retardedly fragile political landscape. They know who they are, they know who they represent: the groin-grabbingly wealthy motherfuckers who are truly our ruling class. We sane and humble citizens with a capacity for critical thought have reconciled ourselves with this reality. Others, not so much. FoxNews.com contributor Andrea Tantaros, for instance, just    posted an article explaining how the Marxo-Kenyanists in the White House and their union buddies are totally the real ruling class, thus cementing Tantaros' position as a foot soldier blabbermouth harping to her own ideological choir which is, I loathe to admit, a choir full of thunderously backward people.

Tantaros asserts that the Tea Party victories of Nikki "We Just Said We'd Bang Her Three Articles Ago" Haley and Sharon Angle show the voting public as an angry one, vehemently rejecting a "ruling class" working toward a "vast expansion" of government power. And oh, that government power is "bankrupting" America.

Except Tantaros and the Tea Party leadership who spew this same garbage sentiment are willfully ignoring the reality of our nation's economic landscape. Angry working and middle class Tea Baggers are being particularly manipulated into thinking that corporate dominance and free-market-as-a-domestic-policy are actually symptoms of liberty-fueled Americanized awesomeness. It wasn't corporate greed and our government's lack of loyalty toward its own lower classes who stole the Tea Bagger's factory job, it was those damn jigs and Mexicans. Systemic corruption born out of a sick orgy between the wealthy elite and their elected puppets hasn't driven down our wages, it was that Hispanic welfare queen begging for food stamps. Tantaros, in one short article buried in the opinion section of FoxNews.com, effectively summarized the psychosis - and code word racism - of all those stupid motherfuckers with Lipton bags hanging from their Revolutionary War costumes.

Of course, much of the blame stops right at the voters' feet. Quasi-libertarians half-assedly subscribing to an economic ideology they scarcely understand accept a revisionist view of American history in which: 1. There was actually a magical time when the Austrian school's approach provided ample employment for the working masses, thus ensuring they wouldn't live hand-to-mouth (like that awesome period of time Upton Sinclair wrote about in his upbeat novel, The Jungle), 2. Working-class Americans never had a standard of living lower than their Western European equivalents, 3. Our Recession, much like the Great Depression, was facilitated by the combined efforts of ACORN, homosexual blacks, and union shop stewards.

And the most maddening trait of these people? They actually believe the welfare state is the tool of the ruling class. The wealthy bastards at The Top of the conservative media and corporate America are smart enough to leave the most mind-bendingly idiotic rhetoric to the foot soldiers. We at least have to give Rupert Murdoch and Co. credit for not being so shameless as to point their million dollar forefingers at the most vulnerable of American citizens, and those who (sometimes) represent their best interests, while screaming "Oppressor!"  

Blah blah blah, alright this is an idea but maybe it sucks

by: DavidByron

Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 00:06:22 AM EST

This one is a bit raw though.

So preamble: occasionally I read a diary like this one:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com...

No don't read it because I am about to describe it.  Titled, "Five Simple Ways To Fight Corporate Power" it is a diary trying to get people to change their behaviour.  In a sense every diary is.  How's that working out for everyone?

Usually not very well.  Well--- my personal record is about as good as the Mormons get and they are the industry standard I suppose.  But I am really talking about getting people to change their behaviours once they already more or less agree that it would be a good idea -- in principle, if they weren't so lazy / cowardly / ordinary / watching TV / got better things to do / reading blogs / etc.  And parenthetically I am a huge fan of "got better things to do", but sometimes you feel you need to "do more".

Other than becoming Vox Humana what do the rest of us do?  Probably nothing.  I don't think many people will change because of reading that diary.  But surely this is a very common issue for a lot of activist related blogs and bloggers and movements and so on.  I am not aware of much actual thought on the subject of how to get people to do stuff (except giving money -- there's a shit load of research on that).  Judging solely by what I get apparently any thought that does exist thinks the way to get people to do stuff is to send them a LOT of e-mail asking them to.  Some people even still do that for cash.

'Avatar' Robbed at Academy Awards

by: donkeytale

Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 00:51:15 AM EST

Predictably, the Whiteysphere was in full metal uproar.

"Clearly, a conspiracy," said noted film critic Stu Piddy. "The American people are simply too depressed and confused to realize that War shortens the useful lifespans of drones. And a locker gets wounded slaughtering millions of Iraqis and wins the Oscar for best picture? Life is good, very good for inanimate objects, indeed."

Piddy cut short the interview, stating that he was late for an evening tete a tete with his newest gal pal, an enigmatic, online seductress who goes by the name of "Miep".

Ormond Otvos registered anger when informed of "Avatar's" rejection by the joooish dominated Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences.

"'Avatar' is the greatest anti-corporate movie of alltime," thundered the rotund grey beard in a video posted to youtube just moments after the result was announced, #12 in a video series entitled  "Jooos, its wahts for dinner."

"Ah well, back to my chemistry set. Did you know that blue litmus paper turns red when you dip it into a testube of liquid Owsley?"

Meanwhile, Avatar, the "greatest anti-corporate movie of all-time" has earned nearly $60 gazillion at the worldwide box office for its producers, the 20th Century Fox Corporation.

Perhaps the most disappointed pwoggie of them all tonite was Fail Yayhoo Reft, the American-born radical Muslim cleric who recently posted another of his interminable cut 'n paste online fatwas urging US soldiers to study "Avatar" and absorb its deep lessons before laying down their weapons and deserting their posts.

But in an exclusive interview, Imam Reft seemed undaunted by this latest in a series of consecutive defeats that has alternative pundits comparing his record favourably with that of the 1972 Philadelphia 76'ers, who finished 9-73.

"Keep readin' Dean Baker!" he exhorted his followers from inside his Chicago based mosque cubicle Sunday night, before heading out to catch a late New Jersey Nets game.  

Fort Hood and Islam

by: gzodik

Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 00:45:08 AM EST

"Feelings Are Not Facts"

by: 4kedtongue

Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 14:09:27 PM EST

I'm sorry for what happened on Saturday.  I'm also sorry for the Sunday night texts, as well.  They were sent out of frustration.  They were inappropriate.  They were adolescent.  It was absolutely wrong for me to send them.

I could address every point of your email and recount all the times I've felt injured by you, but it would serve no purpose.  It would serve no purpose because any injury I've endured was unintended by you.  More to the point, my injuries have been self-inflicted.  I have tried to convince myself that friendship with you is possible.  It's not.  My desire to help you has many sources - most legitimate - but I have denied certain emotional reasons in the hope that altruism and the honest desire to see you free from your struggle would over-shadow my insane romantic desires.

I'm not _____.  I don't have an agenda based on how I picture MY life.  But nor am I a potted plant.  I have feelings, facts be damned.

Obama Pwns the Wingnuts on Both Ends

by: donkeytale

Wed May 27, 2009 at 09:09:34 AM EDT

In other words, in areas that conservatives traditionally care about, such as defense, he appoints the rare Republikkkan holdover who appears to be competent at his job instead of a pure drama queen, Gates.

In areas of import to pwoggies, such as SCOTUS, he appoints an unabashed liberal.

But his appointments are not merely sauce for the bleacherites. He has an overriding desire to entrench a moderately leftist tilt to an executive branch that has been set hard right on the tiller since 2001 and headed right for nearly thirty years.

No, you are not getting Harvey Milk as Minister of Gay Culture, or wtf. No, Obama is not walking on the sacred waters of pwoggiedom. Or should I say the sacrificial waters of pwoggiedom. Yes, he is a human being with an inherent ability to fuck things up, just like the wrest of us.

Sotomayor's selection reflects liberalism, feminism, and equality for the fastest growing voter demographic. In short, a good pick for political reasons alone. Of course, as we have long since learned, the ultimate success of the candidate cannot be assured by the pick. Its all in the vetting, so we will see. But whats left of the Republikkkan caucus will be walking into a trap if they strenuously question Sotomayor's competency for the job.

Adios, putos. Don't let the levers of power smack you on the ass on your way out the door.

2010 is just around the corner, the campaigns will begin to heat up only a bit more than a year from now.

Remember teh 1994 midterms? Clinton's mildly leftist bent, what little of one truly existed, was lost forever in that election. Obama hasn't (so far) followed Clinton's stumbles from the gate and it appears, at least as of today, that the Republikkkan Party, so long so omniscient on the national scene, are nothing but a complete joke of a dying, out of touch countryclub set.

This very day, there will be hundreds of thousands of embittered, wealthy old white men huddled together in private club grill rooms across this dubiously grate nation of ours, grousing about Obama and the liberals, parroting what they heard Cheney say, Limbaugh say, Hannity say. RIOTOUS!

Sure, hold Obama's feet to the fire, or wtf. He's moderate on many issues. Guess what, Nader voters? The moderates elected him, not you. Get used to being crowded into the same stall as the formerly tighty whities. Get used to smelling Limbaugh's breath in your face. Enjoie. Get used to it loosers. Here is a Demotard who wants to win and win for the long term, and you dont even know what "win" is, much less "leadership" do you, Mr. Jones?

http://nytimes.com/2009/05/28/...

Feminists Make Shitty Mothers

by: Revisionist

Sun May 10, 2009 at 14:36:24 PM EDT

She's revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women's rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn't buy in to Alice's beliefs  -  her daughter, Rebecca, 38.

Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she feels so blessed to be the sort of woman 64-year-old Alice despises  -  a mother.

Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women into childlessness. It is devastating.
But far from taking responsibility for any of this, the leaders of the women's movement close ranks against anyone who dares to question them  -  as I have learned to my cost. I don't want to hurt my mother, but I cannot stay silent. I believe feminism is an experiment, and all experiments need to be assessed on their results. Then, when you see huge mistakes have been paid, you need to make alterations.

Full story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

Thoughts from the Campfire

by: Lasthorseman

Sun May 10, 2009 at 22:14:36 PM EDT

The End Days of Trolling

by: pinche tejano

Mon May 11, 2009 at 15:05:30 PM EDT

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to cyberbullying.

     Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

     This Act may be cited as the `Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

     Congress finds the following:

           (1) Four out of five of United States children aged 2 to 17 live in a home where either they or their parents access the Internet.

           (2) Youth who create Internet content and use social networking sites are more likely to be targets of cyberbullying.

           (3) Electronic communications provide anonymity to the perpetrator and the potential for widespread public distribution, potentially making them severely dangerous and cruel to youth.

           (4) Online victimizations are associated with emotional distress and other psychological problems, including depression.

           (5) Cyberbullying can cause psychological harm, including depression; negatively impact academic performance, safety, and the well-being of children in school; force children to change schools; and in some cases lead to extreme violent behavior, including murder and suicide.

           (6) Sixty percent of mental health professionals who responded to the Survey of Internet Mental Health Issues report having treated at least one patient with a problematic Internet experience in the previous five years; 54 percent of these clients were 18 years of age or younger.

SEC. 3. CYBERBULLYING.

     (a) In General- Chapter 41 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`Sec. 881. Cyberbullying

     `(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

     `(b) As used in this section--

           `(1) the term `communication' means the electronic transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received; and

           `(2) the term `electronic means' means any equipment dependent on electrical power to access an information service, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages.'.

     (b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 41 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

           `881. Cyberbullying.'.

Read'em and weep trollers, soon you will be going to jail for two years for your trolling ways!

I can't wait for this bill to pass and a fleet of sockpuppets to go out to the most disreputable sites with their troll-hunting trolls.

Bring popcorn! The second this is law, expect fireworks in naranjastan, and more.