posted by perkiset on Sep 24

So this morning Bush starts talking about how Senate appropriates are all bollocks up and they need to get to it! There are 12 appropriations that will expire by next week and they’d best get those appropriations up to him so he can sign them by golly!

He also noted that the Dems want to add 22 billion dollars worth of new spending and that this is NO TIME to be pulling money from the pockets of the tax payers. Never mind that this is only 2 months worth of the Iraq debacle, and the predominant mode of spending for Democrats is on US rather than THEM. Never mind that these additional spending amounts add up to better childcare, monies for our failing bridges and infrastructure.

Oh, I see. We are safer if we build bridges over in Iraq rather than here. Over here it amounts to being “soft” and “spendy” - dumping it into that morass is “tough on terrorism” and “building for our future.” We’re clearly safer if we give Iraqis free healthcare yet deny ourselves and semblance of centralized medicine.

Makes us tougher and more Americanish.

So here’s the deal: the Republican Rubber Stamp In Chief has literally approved EVERY SPENDING BILL that his crony buddies in Congress have passed at him… and the resulting deficit, even adjusted for inflation, is the largest in the history of the United States. In his words, there’s no place for the Democrats to be pushing “their agenda” with these spending bills - they just need to get passed. “Pork Barrel” he calls them. Would that make his little project “Pork Casket?”

It is unfortunate that the cellulite of America - the middle America sheeple that still watch Fox news as if it were the gospel itself, will never understand this horrible irony… this spectacular hypocrisy… this cartoon of a government.

posted by perkiset on Sep 23

Thanks to Nutballs who found this classic movie poster redux.

My only problem with it is that it doesn’t really capture the horror of our current situation.

posted by perkiset on Sep 21

So yesterday Bush announces that the Dumbocrats’ plan for expanding the child medical insurance act (which would cover about 4M more uninsured children - up from 6M to 10M) is tantamount to Hillarycare & government controlled medicine.

Well let’s see now. The first plan was passed by you and your boys pal. Seeing how it’s going to expire in a week, it’s a good idea to get it back in force. And since it’s a plan that’s good for UNINSURED CHILDREN then perhaps it has good cross-aisle appeal.

Oh wait - sorry, I forgot. We need to be spending our money on Iraq’s healthcare and rebuilding and people and jobs and infrastructure and such. That’ll make us all safer. So I guess what you’re saying is it’s OK to give money to people as a handout, so long as its not us.

Hey - white trash Republican voters: the money you want to hang on to is still leaving your pocket - don’t think that voting for Repubs stopped that. Bush just decided to give it Haliburton and Iraq rather than people in our own country. Does that give you pause, or am I just interrupting your Laverne & Shirley reruns?

posted by perkiset on Sep 21

Last night a guy is stopped by a policeman for having two nooses hanging from the back of his truck as he drove through Jena. Today on CNN the local police report that the driver was questioned, but there is no discussion of hate crimes.

Similarly, the boys that were suspended for hanging the nooses in the tree that started this whole charlie-foxtrot were not charged with hate crimes.

I just love our country now. We are so damn deluded about who and what we are it’s not even funny. I guess a threatening symbol, harkening back to the golden age of the Klan and rampant torture and murders just don’t constitute enough hateful intention to get attention anymore.

Listening to the townspeople of Jena - “This is just a quiet little town… nothing like this really ever happens. I don’t think we’re racist.”

Of course not dear. So long as those pesky niggers stay OUT FROM UNDER OUR TREE then we won’t have to let them know what happens when they get uppity (sound of spittle hitting spitoon) Sheeeiit them colored boys had it comin’ to ‘em.

Ignorant white trash, all of them.

posted by perkiset on Sep 20

Well let’s see: the 3 WHITE boys that hung nooses in a tree where black people hang out simply got suspended from school. The 6 BLACK boys that beat him up are looking at 80 years in prison on attempted murder charges. The weapon was a shoe.

Constrast that with the story coming out of Virginia, where an adolescent black girl was essentially imprisoned, tortured, raped, stabbed and left to die (she got out) - her 6 WHITE assailants are looking at 3-6 years in prison.

The real issue I have with this whole mess is that in the marching crowd outside of Jena, there are precious few white people. It looks like almost none. Where is the outrage for a simple, yet heinous injustice against the 6 boys being held? Clearly, if there is no racism in America then we should all be on that boat.

But that is not the case. Racism is alive and well here in these United States and the face of it is uglier than ever: It’s become buried in so-called political correctness, hidden as humor or simply ignored because of how distasteful it is.

Although many will disagree with me, IMO this is simply another example of what a polarizing government does with its people - it becomes OK to hate, it becomes correct to distrust, it becomes fashionable to be sarcastic and uncompassionate.

It makes clever racism an attribute to be admired, emulated and employed as a weapon.