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Archive for December, 2008

Well the Republicans are on their way out and with the rebirth of Camelot the CIA has found a new way to protect America without the usage of torture. It makes you God Damn PROUD to be an American! No water boarding was used to convert Afghan tribal leaders to support our cause but good ole “American Ingenuity”, inspired back into our CIA no doubt by the election of Barrack Obama as our President. These new techniques by the CIA will really “stiffen up” Afghanistan resistance to the Taliban!

Hopefully the program will be expanded by the CIA in Afghanistan under our new President’s leadership! Oh sure George Bush was heard to say this new high tech CIA technique is so “Clintonesque”! Just like the George “water board” Bush to say something so derogatory!

Well my fellow Democrats the Age of Aquarius is about to be reborn in America! The 60’s have returned and Camelot is reborn. Hell with this new CIA technique of conversion world opinion will once again look kindly on America as the land of opportunity, gosh darn ingenuity, and ruggard individualism!

Yes – Only In America could we dream up such a happy solution to the Afghan problem. It goes to show the CIA can rise up to any challenge! God Bless America!

Oh yes we hear the whining conservatives all the time talking about news media biases! But as you will note on this blog I keep track of instances when the news media is anti-liberal. Here is an excellent example.NBC News on Friday night aired a story on Iceland’s economy. Yes the folks up there may have been over spending but Middle Class credit card debt is what has kept America’s upper class portfolios in the black for years during the Bush years. Without “aggravate demand” our economy would collapse. Anyway back to Iceland! Unlike the other Nordic Nations, Iceland was a capitalist’s dream with low tax rates to spur investments. Note this old news article link that promises good times for investors without responsibility! The Icelandic Banks also prospered but then comes the time to eat up their rewards. (See the Video Below)

NBC News doesn’t seem to mention the tax haven status that Iceland gave to global corporations who have now left their prey to suffer the consequences! While the Conservatives and Republicans continue to play the Transactional Analysis game of “Injustice Collector”, viewing every page 10 article of the New York Times as a slight against conservative causes, perhaps NBC should ponder why they left this little tidbit of information out concerning the tax haven Iceland gave to global corporations! That left out information distorts their story about the economic problems of  Iceland! Especially since Americans link Iceland with the Euro-Socialism of Scandinavia!

While our nation must now pay the wages of the vast neo-con REPUBLICAN SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq, we see not only blue collar jobs but also our high end jobs, off shored to the Third World! We listen to the whining of these effete snobs of privilege when the mere cost of Universal Health Care is put at 70 billion yet we must bail out Wall Street and their fellow corporate lackeys up to ONE TRILLION DOLLARS! Could it be that having Universal Health Care would bring “freedom” from the corporate collectivism that Bush and his fellow travelers wish to impose on the Middle Class!

Make no mistake about it. A normal stimulus package may not work as the “Multiplier Effect” will no longer ricochet through our economy. This is because BOTH Clinton and Bush backed not only NAFTA but so called “Free Trade” instead of “Fair Trade”. Now the stimulus will boast the Chinese economy and others rather than ours!

I agree with Senator Biden. It’s time for those who have enjoyed the ‘privileges” of America to step up to the plate and be part of the solution! Time to be PATRIOTIC!

• Repeal The Bush Tax Cuts!

• Repeal the Reagan Tax Cuts!

• Support Economic PATRIOTISM!

• FREE TRADE – JUST SAY “NO”!

Strangely many in the top 5% seem to agree as they voted for Barrack Obama in larger numbers than for McCain. Good for them!

Remember in Western Europe you can still be rich you just have to do so in an environment of SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY! Oh dear now I may have upset some Republicans!

What goes with Barrack Obama? Why did he ask Rick Warren to launch his Presidency with by giving the inaugural prayer? Americans are looking to launch a new era this January and we don’t need a circus side show! Why do we need the blessings of a bigot to launch this brave new era? I have heard some commentators say they believe Barrack Obama is pitching his public tent in the center so he can govern from the left! According to this scenario Obama is going to push the military to drop the “Don’t ask don’t tell” policy toward gays in the military. Fine but there can be no bridges to bigots! Perhaps the ending prayer can be lead by the Imperial Wizard from the Ku Klux Klan! Not many years ago it was illegal for a white and black person to intermarry! Maybe President – Elect Obama should accord the Klan the same stature he is giving Rick Warren. I know perhaps Barrack Obama would like to meditate on these Bible goodies! (By the way I am not an atheist but an Episcopalian).

1 Peter 2:18 (KJV)   Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Rick Warren could also read a special part of the Ten Commandments we like to forget today! Coverting your neighbor’s slave is not nice! <See Below>

 Exodus 20:17  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Damn maybe Rev. Rick Warren can helpfully direct the Gays to some bible based “Purpose Driven Fun” that will correct their wicked ways! They can join the army then when they occupy a city they can be converted to straight by following God’s law! You know the same yesterday and today! See below!

Numbers 31:17 ¹⁷ Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, ¹⁸ but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

(The moral we learn here is that a virgin is a terrible thing to waste! Why not ravage one for the Lord today! Sorry folks I am on a roll. No I am not an atheist just a liberal Episcopalian)

What I find amazing is that the Bible condemns to death those who have sex outside of marriage yet would Rick Warren demand the stoning to death of Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter? Bible justice demands it!

Deuteronomy 22:20 – 21 (KJV) <Concerning your new bride if she turns out not to be a virgin>   ²⁰But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: ²¹Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Oh yes don’t try to add to this or change the LAW above! The Bible forbids it!

(Proverbs 30:5-6)

5 “Every word of God is flawless;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
6 Do not add to his words,
or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.

I would not force Rick Warren to marry gays in his church. What I object is his insistence that we ban all churches from marrying gays! If he is so scared about family breakups why not BAN DIVORCE as Jesus commands! Now read the full Bible passage below as it is “SLICES” to the truth. Does Rick Warren choose to “receive it”? (Read passage to understand).

(Matt 19:9-12) 9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. 10His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. 11But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 12For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Oh oh oh I know if we don’t ban gays from marrying then all of us straight guys are going to go a lusting after other guys! Ok, yeah, right, sure! Maybe it isn’t family values that are threatened but the conservatives sense of their own masculinity that is threatened!

I find it disgusting that these “Toyota Republican Senators” from the south want to see the American Automakers go bankrupt. Where is their “patriotism”? You know the very thing they accuse liberals of lacking! True I would love to see the automakers CEO’s loose their jobs and would expect that as a precondition. While Rush Limbaugh whined and wailed that production of SUV’s was an inherent American Right,  now his fellow travelers want to see the auto worker pay for their mistakes!

(Above is an excellent clip from the “Young Turks”)

What we are seeing in America is the corporate elite have a loyalty to their class over the interests of America! American blue collar AND white collar workers had better push for ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM and FAIR TRADE! Instead we live in an era of licentious permissiveness where the corporate class can over ride the security not only of blue collar workers but white collar workers as well. My dad was an accountant and was vicimized with age discrimination! I was a white collar employee of AIG years ago. It was no fun believe me. This is not an issue of blue collar vs white collar. It is an issue of “employee vs corporations”! For too long the elites have been playing the Transactional Analysis Game of “Let’s you and him fight”! They did this for decades with Middle Vs Lower Class. Now the Democrats are becoming much wiser and not playing by the “GAME SCRIPT”!

Silly me! I am one who believes Americans are (now get this) “entitled” yes entitled to:

• Health Care
• Pensions and
• Some form of job security!
• A governmental decision making process that is uncorrupted by corporatist payoffs!
  

It is true that we need employees to be capable of being “retrained” and fluid else we would still have all ditch diggers and no machine operators in construction. But we can develop solutions for a modern economy! In Germany workers have access to an education and retraining fund. The problem in America is that some think you can retrain people for computer jobs while at the same time undermining the job market for high tech workers with the H1-b Visa program. Computer programmers are even organizing to fight the destruction of their careers. What jobs cannot be “off shored” are now being given to legal foreign guest workers so as to undermine our middle class way of life. Then Wall Street wonders why aggregate demand is declining with the resultant lack of consumer spending! They then say “look college kids don’t want to study for high tech”! Excuse me but to use their own language “now they wonder why ATLAS SHRUGGED”!

Please don’t misunderstand me. I would take those H1-b Workers who are here and before sending them home offer them American citizenship. Then they would not be subject to subjugation from the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS! They could then ask for higher salaries without fear of being deported!

There is nothing wrong with global trade just so long as it is “FAIR TRADE” not “FREE TRADE”! We cannot continue this era of licentious permissiveness where corporations exercise no loyalty to the nation that gave them succor, incorporation, protection and profits! The market only rewards lower prices not values.

FREE TRADE IS FREEDOM FROM MORAL VALUES!

FREE TRADE IS FREEDOM FROM LOYALTY TO AMERICA!

One way in which the effete snobs of corporate America continue to wage war on the middle class is to try and stifle the rising “Middle Class Consciousness”! Democrats fall into this trap by talking about “Workers” rather than “employees”! Believe me I worked for AIG and was a white collar employee! I had no job security! Perhaps it is time for WHITE COLLAR UNIONS also! White collar employees also have no job security and should join forces with blue collar employees! There is a rise in “Middle Class Consciousness” today as Americans question their assumptions of loyalty to the masters of the corporate collectives! These 21st century collectivists use job interviews to test for loyalty to the Corporate Collective over loyalty to one’s own self and values! Sure being a”team player” is ethical but what about “MY SECURITY”!

Why should the head of a corporation earn 24 million while the President of the United States only earns $400,000? Yes the time has come to question many assumptions! America’s survival depends on it else these corporate elites will sell out to America’s enemies. They already sell our military technology to our enemies in Iran and China!

I am a liberal and if you read this blog you might even label me as a “Social Democrat” rather than a mere Democrat. I really enjoy watching Keith Olbermann but I wish he would demonstrate some of that notorious “liberal toleration” for Christianity! Make no mistake about it religion can some times go on a “masochistic binge”. But I will leave writing on that to my other website www.AquarianFreeThinker.com which I have left unattended for too long.

Keith Olbermann and many PC Liberals seem to automatically attribute hatred and bigotry to Christianity while turning their backs on the death camps of Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Please you don’t have to tell me that the above are not representative of all atheists. I know that. My point is why not give Christians the same respect. The date that Christmas was in the summer is not news to me. When I was just a young boy we attended the NYC Planetarium and they said the same thing about a conjunction of planets occurring in the late spring or early summer. December 25th was latter chosen to compete with the local pagan celebrations. Indeed some Christians (our own pilgrims) refuse to reconize Christmas. My point is that this astronomer’s statement is old hat.

Recently Keith Olbermann had a skit on that made fun of Jesus. I enjoy seeing clerics being made fun of but I resent when the figure is Jesus Christ.

I wonder if he would place a similar comedy skit on concerning Mohammad? Yet fundamentalist Islam is far more condemning of Gays today than even Baptists! I believe the masochism that is displayed in Christianity sometimes is not inherently Christianity but something I have termed in my other website as “Original Masochism”. This is inherent in humanity.

When it surfaces in religion you have the doctrine of “Original Sin” or what I like to call “Apple Theodicy”! When Original Masochism occurs in politics it is called:

POLITICALLY CORRECT LIBERALISM!

When Hal Lindsey was writing his books about the end of the world due to the second coming and some Christians where in literal orgasmic ecstasy at the projected troubles of humanity due to wars, economics and pestilence, PC Liberals where “celebrating” the end of humanity do the wicked wicked American and European bourgeoisie middle class consumption of the earth’s resources. But looked what happened!  Their prediction of that oil production would be sliced in half by 1980 and the earth would face massive population decreases just did not occur. I remeber durning the first Earth Day we read “The Population Bomb” as if it were the new “Scripture” predicting the doom of a decadent bourgeoisie middle class world!

Politically correct liberalism, like fundamentalist Christianity is one MASSIVE GUILT TRIP! But instead of guilt from being the descendants of Adam and Eve with the apple it is “guilt by being a middle class American. OH MOTHER GODDESS CAN YOU BELIEVE I SAID THAT! Both sides would rather relish in masochistic powerlessness rather than deal realistically with the world’s problems.

Thank God Obama kept the Democrats’s masochistic tendencies in check else we would have lost the elections as the Republicans always seize on that! So Keith Olberman you are a cool dude and I watch your program a lot. But chill out with your hatred of Christianity. Why not poke jokes at Mohammad or is it because you know most Christians have now evolved past the stoning and witch fires! Christians would not issue a “fatwa” against you.

I wonder what would happen if Keith Olbermann had taken such liberties with the founder of Islam in the skits he showed on his show.

Yes from the state that gave us Mayor Daly, now comes “Governor Blagojevich”! Damn I wish this was some news from Byelorussia or Ukraine! What I hope is that President – Elect Obama does not get tarnished by this.

President – Elect Obama has said he did not talk to Blagojevich about his replacement. Yet Blagojevich castigates Obama, which is good for Obama, yet it contradicts Obama’s saying he did not talk to Blagojevich! I fear that in trying to disassociate from Blagojevich Obama may have denied all contacts.

It is PERFECTLY permissible and indeed proper for Obama to speak to Blagojevich about his replacement. After all if the Governor is going to nominate someone to replace him then who better to give a recommendation then the person who won the seat in an election!

I can just hear the Republicans new Christmas song, “Acorns roasting on a Chicago fire, FBI knocking at his door”! We don’t need any more innuendo. I am sure this makes their Christmas. Oh hell comes the new year and CAMELOT will rise again!

George Bush, you remember him now? You know the guy who is still the President of the United States but enjoys letting the news of the economic crises being “paired” with Barrack Obama speaking on the news, would love to have this economic crisis not be laid at his feet. Make no mistake about it the Republican would love to use this political corruption case to add one more to their senate totals.

Has anyone heard of George Bush completing his National Guard requirements when he was younger! Why cannot the news media talk about that before he leaves office? I know i showed the above video before but pass it on to your friends. The Legacy Of George Bush!