Bring in the goats (there ought to be goats)
And, just like that, all the news is gone. Phtttt! Vanished along with Congress (on vacation), all the important (i.e., rich) people (on vacation), and our future (on permanent hiatus). It’s August, it’s hot and everyone leaves town except, of course, for the rest of us who get to eat that future while the vacationing few shit gold-plated turds and blow diamond-flecked snot from their upper-class noses while teenaged hookers slip beneath their togas for more of what vacations are for (tips).
And like an outhouse gone horizontal, we have a tipped economy. Not as in knocked over, but as in the only fucking way you’re going to make your fall tuition bill is if you hustle up some more tips. Be friendlier to your customers while watching to make sure they don’t sneak out without paying.
Crime is about to go up and you know what that means: longer prison sentences and more prison guards and that means more cuts to your Medicare and Social Security because god only knows where we’re going to get the money for more guards even if they do eliminate the pee test and start taking the white guys with too many tattoos.
Did you know that John Derbyshire is on the same page as Anders Behring Breivik? Not surprising when you think about it. Derbyshire is an in-your-face conservative and in a year when milquetoast moderates veto tax breaks for the poor because there weren’t any breaks for corporations, cheerleading the slaughter of overseas liberals is weak tea indeed.
Repeat after me: Islam is not a religion of peace. Except for all those times when it is, but no one’s getting paid to talk about that. (As TBogg says, when all you have is a hammer, everyone looks like a Muslim.) It takes balls to execute an innocent man, but Rick “perfect hair” Perry did anyhow. And holding the world economy hostage is not terrorism. Except it is.
Is Republicanism the new face of evil? Rahm Emanuel would beg to differ, Obama has photos to the contrary, and in a world where even Chris fucking Christie occasionally looks good by comparison, it’s hard to argue with the both sides evil assessment. Not equally evil, but differently eviled.
Frinstance, it’s evil of Fox News to pretend Obama’s b’day fundraiser is a big deal, but the real evil is in their graphics when they just flat out make shit up. Bush didn’t hold record numbers of fundraisers? Really? I confess: I find the petty lies more annoying than the big lies. Big lies you have to work at, little lies just get thrown out like they’re no big deal except they are. It’s the little lies that keep normal people from having civil conversations with Fox News fans. How do you talk debt ceiling with someone who brings their own facts to the discussion? When even the “good” networks trot out smirking frat boy legacy hires to snark about the casual way in which the oligarchs tear our society asunder even as their shrill shills go 180° on the truth, and the House uses new math to let 51% of 51% be the new 51%.
And then bring it all back to where I came in, blaming the one region of this country that truly does hate and despise the rest of us: the Teabagging Confederate States of America. Now with goats.
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Harold Meyerson thinks Obama won’t face a primary over this debacle. Here’s hoping Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren proves him wrong. It doesn’t take money to win Iowa or New Hampshire, it takes people, and the left has people to spare. We’re the ones sitting at home trying not to run the pricey air conditioning too much. We can knock on doors, or not. Give us real candidates and we will. Give us more of this same shit, and we’ll go Rall on your sold-out asses.
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Got snarked by a wingnut at Vick’s yesterday and it took me three reply comments before I found the link I was looking for.
Long story short, there’s another phony story circulating on the right about global warming being a hoax of some bizarre sort (quick hoax test: who’s making money from it? The Kochs? let’s move on). ThinkProgress blows the whole lie up in one short paragraph with six links. Meanwhile, another thirty or forty news outlets parrot the original lie and hundreds more will follow before the debunking gets out there (if ever).
They lie. They lie all the time. They lie like you or I breathe and they do it all in the service of the incredibly wealthy just for the privilege of taking crumbs from their table. OK, really nice crumbs, but still they’re only crumbs.
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The thirst for vengeance is not just from the right. Even mousy college profs are demanding prison time for academics who put their names on industry-written articles.
Maybe that’s appropriate but it misses the point. What good are advanced degrees if no bad action on your part ever causes you to forfeit your Ph.D?
Strip them of their degrees and take away their tenure and then let’s see how many ivory tower dwellers sign off on lies for money and perks. The first thing the right did after Clinton got out of office was to make sure he was stripped of his right to practice law and that was just because he got laid while in office.
Can’t we strip the Ph.D’s from the lying pedants who enable Big Pharma’s dope-a-dope scrip escalations? Or did that train leave the station a long time ago?
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Etc.:
Nature’s broken windows: someone has to pay even if it’s just the schmuck sweeping up the broken glass
Admit it: when Delta bought out NWA, didn’t you think, “hmm, Delta must be even more evil than NWA?!” — and you were right! (I hate when we’re right because that almost always means we lost)
I rarely say this, but this is a clever campaign ad
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Windows open. Gonna live with the sticky as long as I can before shutting the apartment up and sealing off the door to keep that 2¢-a-kilowatt a/c from leaking out.
I can’t tell what’s being said or what point is being proved BUT it looks pro-bicycle lanes to me. And anti-super-wealthy. So thumbs up!
http://real-economics.blogspot.com/2011/08/tired-of-rich-fools.html
Goats are good.
Their milk takes a bit of getting used too but WTF you drink tea it might be good in that.
Besides you can eat them and they are not too picky about what they eat.
Heck I bet a guy could even herd them on a bicycle in an urban environment without a dog.
Good luck existing without the A/C. I tried it but couldn’t do it. Thinking of moving farther North to Canada, but winter sucks too.
They still have winter in Canada? Cool. I might have to emigrate.
And yes, I turned the air on just before noon because something in the apartment was starting to smell and I think it was me.