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by: pfiore8

Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 13:00:23 PST        
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A guy whacks his plane into an IRS building. Another guy whacks his home to ground with a bulldozer.

and I'm thinking...   the American Dream's thinning veneer is starting to show its cracks.

cross posted at Daily Kos ... firefly-dreaming ... and firedoglake

pfiore8 :: out of whack
Our societal center of gravity, the rule of law, has collapsed. It doesn't work. Not when those who whacked (and are continuing to rape) a global economy get billions in bail outs as ordinary people lose their homes, health insurance, or their jobs.

It's this simple...

PhotobucketOrdinary people will begin to take action off-the-grid and right into the face of the power players. Yeah, that lawless and unregulated bunch whose off-the-grid greed has corrupted the ability of our country to function. Our very relationships as neighbors and citizens become destabilized when the law is not upheld. Innocent people get hurt or die as ordinary people take their actions off the grid, feeling squeezed and without any other recourse... lawlessness spreads... rules become ineffective as boundaries.

This is what happens when the lawless few are not held to account.

Whether bringing us into war to protect or steal resources in another country or rigging an entire financial system, the powerful few are not only not in front of grand juries but, instead, are still involved in decision-making by our government.

War profiteers, arms makers cum black market arms dealers, drug dealers, Wall Streeters, bankers, corporate conglomerate heads... all the lying and destruction and nobody is held accountable. Except the ordinary Americans being whacked. Or Iraqis. Those in Afghanistan. And it sounds like we'd love to whack Iran.

The government, on behalf of its true silent constituency, takes our tax dollars and gives them to people who have created an economy based on death and destruction.

And not on giving you health care. Are we clear yet?

Not on sound and secular education for your children. Are we clear YET?

And instead of investing our own tax money into creating jobs, it was given away to those who, rather than stimulate the economy via loans, told us to fuck ourselves as they rewarded their greed, fraud, and theft with more and bigger bonuses.

We need to do something. And rather than crash small planes into buildings, let's hit the real bad guys. In their pocket books.

Forget e-mailing your congressman. e-mail your friends and relatives. Let's organize a one-week complete and utter non-payment of all insurance premiums, mortgages, credit cards. Everyone sit out of work. All at the same time. And while we're at it, throw out the local politicians and county aldermen and councilmen. Work grass roots and net roots.

It's time to play this game off-the-grid. It's time to move it onto another board, run by other rules. It's time to change this game.

Once we have their attention, let's get the rule of law rein-stated. And then work on the rest of that damned long list.  

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out of whack | 33 comments
tips for redefining what happens tomorrow... (4.00 / 19)
Chuck Schumer said, when the economy tanked in 2007, this is a moment.
Yeah, Chuck, but not quite they way you meant it...

The new poor: Millions face years without jobs

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


is there something we can learn here? (4.00 / 12)
In California, Exhibit A in Debate on Insurance
... Anthem and WellPoint have explained what the industry calls a recessionary death spiral: as unemployment and declining wages prompt healthy people to drop their insurance, he remaining risk pool becomes sicker and more expensive to insure, which in turn forces up prices and pushes more people out of the market.

people dropping insurance hurts the company... whaddya know. we have some power after all . . .

not quite the lesson they thought some of us would take from it, but what can i say?

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


My mother always used that (4.00 / 9)
expression "out of whack". You get great visuals with it.... chaos.... the whole universe looking and feeling kinda Picasso

Dr Wong (4.00 / 5)
my acupuncturist/doctor from China has me stick out my tongue and I know I need her help when she looks me over and says  'Oh Oh you out of whack!    

[ Parent ]
chaos (4.00 / 5)
isn't as bad as this shit we're in...

we were in Gent yesterday. fabulous town and when you visit, i'm taking you there.

anyway, we went into a castle there and saw the Torture Museum. it blew me away on several levels: that they set up torture chambers in old chapels, for one.

but the depravity of it was sickening. and we're those same people today. that's what's horrid. they did it in the name of god, with the church's blessing. and we do the same. find some sick reason to justify it. this is sick shit. i don't care what anybody says.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Engraving, Justice from The World of Seven Virtues, c.1559

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Engraving, Justice from The World of Seven Virtues, c.1559

some fucking justice, huh? i think your word choice, chaos, set me off. a copy of this engraving was in that room and i am still thinking about it.

chaos.

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
We aren't as far removed from inhumanity as we often... (4.00 / 3)
chose to think.  Certainly, our leaders aren't as far removed from political maneuvering as they'd like to believe.  

Richard the III was willing to sacrifice his nephews--first by retroactively dissolving their legitimacy, then (allegedly) by being involved in their mysterious disappearance. Today's politicians aren't much different--they have been willing to do some terrible things in order to gain and retain power. And, worst of all, we have let them.  

 


[ Parent ]
My legendary ability to be patient is out of whack. (4.00 / 11)
I'd elaborate, but I don't have the fucking patience to patiently explain why I don't have any fucking patience left.  

tell me (4.00 / 9)
about it...
:(

come firefly-dreaming with me....

[ Parent ]
patience isn't a virtue (4.00 / 5)
it's a strategy.

and one that has been overused in the USofA among progressives.

time to make some effective changes.

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
Meanwhile, in other parts of the blogosphere, what (4.00 / 14)
we are (apparently) most concerned with is who read off a teleprompter and who didn't.  Or which famous pampered golf player made the right kind of apology (or didn't).

But when the Justice Department not only doesn't do anything about but raises bullshit excuses that don't pass a 5th grader's smell test for someone who went on national TV and proudly proclaimed he was a war criminal, this is remarked upon as if it were in the same category of items as which pampered golf player made the right or wrong kind of apology.

While the self same "Justice" department goes out of its way to make sure two guys cannot get married.

Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door


Rather amusing (4.00 / 8)
that at CPAC they were reading the teleprompter jokes of a teleprompter. Inane

"By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.", Wm. Shakespeare, "Macbeth"

[ Parent ]
and insane! (4.00 / 6)
but maybe we are insane, after all.

because i just don't get it. how did we get here? how unprepared were we, are we, as a species?

because nothing we got has prepared us for this rats-on-cocaine thing driving us all to the limit.  

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
Oh, teh stupid...It hurts!! n/t (4.00 / 5)


[ Parent ]
eXactly. (4.00 / 4)
who gives a shit about S. Palin.

The one thing I will say about Tiger is this: he nailed it when he said he thought he was entitled to plunder. His celebrity entitled him to break rules. It also meant, in a more troubling way, that the rules we ordinary people have to abide by didn't apply to him.

And then he said that he was wrong. The rules apply to him, to everybody. I thought it was extraordinary. And took me completely by surprise.

His mea culpea was the statement for our times. That part of it was the whole thing, in one nutshell. And leave it to a damned golfer to articulate it and maybe not even realize how he hit the nail on the head.

Or maybe hit the ball in the hole? If you didn't listen to it, I suggest it.

btw... another bingo that we can add to  the insult and injury list:

While the self same "Justice" department goes out of its way to make sure two guys cannot get married.

like this is what i need to be worried about . . .

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
yes (4.00 / 6)
we MUST shake it up.
quit buying the crap that's promoted non-stop on the teevee, radio & now online!
get back to basics... buying only what you really need & most of that can be used/second-hand (except, of course, food! )
try growing a bit of your own food... lettuce, spinach a tomato... all will do excellently well in a flowerpot (or recycled gallon milk jugs/ 5 gal bucket)
get back to engaging your neighbors, develop friends in your community...
help out where you can when you can....

come firefly-dreaming with me....

that's right, Ria. (4.00 / 3)
it's not so much about frugal and taking back control of our lives.

it is hammering out options for ourselves off the grid. not hurting others, but being able to live outside of the farm animal like way we're being kept.

Shit, it is 1984... farm animals were perfect examples. That's what we are, afterall. Some of us stabled in expansive homes; others in barns, and some kept outside.

But we are herded and culled and looked at as expendable resources.

we need to take control back. of our lives.

ps... beautiful new site you have there, mrsD.

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
thank you (4.00 / 3)
darling pf8~

& yes.. we DO need to take control back. to not buy into the BS they are selling. because they've spent literally billions to hone their messages to make us desire things we do not need purely to continue to make an ever increasing profit by making an ever shoddier product... & just how much cheap stuff that you merely want should you pile up?  

things like true friends, good neighbors, enjoying nature mean ever so much more to me than having the latest, greatest whatever. but then (as my son says) what do i know? i'm just a simple caveman!

come firefly-dreaming with me....


[ Parent ]
Out of whack (4.00 / 6)
is out of balance and there is no center or ground for anyone to cling too. The NYT article was just depressing as hell. How far can they take this until the people just snap. The USSR did this and they could not maintain the grasp of centralized power or the party. What a sham our government is and the same goes for the political process it has been reduced to enforcer, collector and ATM for the various divisions of the criminal gangsters that have dropped all pretense of 'for the people' or laws.        

   


i'm just wondering when the (4.00 / 3)
DemObots and the ObamaBots snap out of it... how long will progressives wait?

well, maybe that's a stupid question, since there are millions or billions still waiting on the second coming of Christ.

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
The sanest of human beings (4.00 / 6)
CAN be driven to distraction!  When all avenues (whether persecuted or whatever) "dry" up and there is no obvious "light at the end of the tunnel," who knows what will happen next?  Every single human being on this earth has a "cracking" point, right wrong or indifferent.  FIRST OFF!

Americans' inability to buy/pay for various services may, in a turn-about (and, obviously, not thought out scenario) SMACK these ugly corporations in the face.  We simply can't afford it or them! But the sad part is that people are dying as a result!  Spiritually, physically, emotionally, whatever, they are dying.  And that's what THEY want!  The class-elite want it ALL for themselves, except for those they will hold onto for slave-like services.

I read that NYT's article first thing this a.m.  It wasn't as though it caught me off-guard, it didn't, but to see the languishing extent that the unemployment will have and has is so depressing -- I can't even begin to express.  THIS, then, for CRIMINALS, is what the hard-working American people will have as and for their future for a long time to come.

BECAUSE WE CAN'T FUCKING INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THE REAL CRIMINALS IN THIS COUNTRY?  BUT WE CAN SEND SOMEONE TO JAIL FOR HOW LONG FOR HAVING MARIJUANA ON HIS PERSON?  TELL ME THIS ISN'T ONE SICK COUNTRY!

~~~~~

BTW, how many have sent a letter via e-mail, or otherwise, in support of Prof. Boyle's Complaint to the International Criminal Court, against our war criminals?  Here's the addressing:  

The Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Court
Post Office Box 19519
2500 CM, The Hague
The Netherlands
Fax No.: 31-70-515-8555
Email: OTP.InformationDesk@icc-cpi.int
 


Say "YES" to Generation We  Go there, read the Petition and sign, if you agree!   Say "YES" to GENERAL STRIKE


the only thing that i can say (4.00 / 3)
is we die. at some point.

i'm not sure the fight is to save us from dying. it is to save us from using up everything and leaving nothing left. all i can think of is leaving something left for those who follow.

it may be too late to help those already in deep trouble.

right now, i think we need to focus on the infrastructure and how to create something more sound, more fair, more equitable.

i know there are many who will not like what i'm saying, but it's gonna take years to get us back to place for that kind of ability.

big hugs to you tahoe. you are a brave and relentless fighter for what is good and fair and just. kudos honey.


Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
Thank you, pf8! (4.00 / 3)
For the nice words!  :)

Do you realize what REAL investigations could do to help turn things around?  I can't think of one single, solitary thing that would do as much good in short order.

Unfortunately, you may be correct:

it may be too late to help those already in deep trouble.



Say "YES" to Generation We  Go there, read the Petition and sign, if you agree!   Say "YES" to GENERAL STRIKE

[ Parent ]
god, tahoe. (4.00 / 3)
it would be something to give me hope, should that happen. real investigations.

that would signal the thing for which i've been waiting . . .


The "A" word

so i've decided to hope that this man, elegant, well-spoken, even-tempered, calm, thoughtful, is the real deal. today, i hope he is not the lesser of two evils, but just a human being as concerned about others and this planet as i know most of us are.

and i will be sure when, as president, obama starts by demanding the Justice Department enforce Congressional subpoenas. . .

from Nov 4, 2008



Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove

[ Parent ]
Yes, instead of murdering average citizens in their... (4.00 / 4)
workplaces (with our privately owned airplanes, while throwing the ultimate self-involved temper tantrum)--the more effective actions would be organized economic and political  boycotting, IMHO.  

it would be more effective (4.00 / 4)
i couldn't agree more.

enough with death through destruction.

enough!

how are you, serendipity?

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
I'm fine, thanks. Waiting for the roads to be cleared... (4.00 / 4)
from the latest 6-8 inches of snow, and dreaming of spring ;-)  How are you pfiore8?  

[ Parent ]
good now . . . (4.00 / 4)
my honey's mom died in October, and we're just starting to feel better.

i'll be visiting my family next week, so that's got me also feeling good.

dreaming of spring... i always love winter, but this one has been LONG and too cold and messy. spring would be most welcome!

take care, serendipity!

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
So sorry about mom... (4.00 / 4)
I lost my mom, and my dad in the same year, 15 years ago.  It took a while to regain balance following that, but eventually, "spring" does return.  

Enjoy your visit with your family!  We're looking forward to visiting son & family in a couple of months--can't wait.


[ Parent ]
you enjoy too... (4.00 / 4)
and you're right, eventually, the ice melts, the thaw begins, and you sense it's possible to feel happy again!


Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove

[ Parent ]
I feel what you are saying and sympathize (4.00 / 4)
Each community will have its own solution to its problems. The left needs to reconstitute itself as an opposition movement. The federal government in particular has become the enemy -- it is the feds who keep corporations in power and allow criminals to run our major institutions. I suggest an alliance with the right/populists/libertarians and oppose the right/authoritarians and federal level politicians except for a handful who should be identified clearly as not part of the problem.

In order to have boycotts, general strikes and other actions the left must join with the much larger populist tea-party people. They are, in fact, the only opposition movement around -- they are doing what the left should be doing but isn't.


yes. yes! (4.00 / 5)
I've said it several times: we could learn something from the tea baggers. and if could only get out of our own way, maybe we could join up and at least agree on the problems and work on agreement regarding the root causes of those problems.

that's where i think we need the work... how to expose the criminals, all of whom are hiding behind terrorists and illegal immigrants and socialists and and and...

Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life. Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove


[ Parent ]
The Teaparty movement is just Republican astroturf (4.00 / 3)
aka Republicans who won't even admit they are Republicans.

All the people who run those teaparty get togethers are just local fronts being organized by the same old Bush admin. money con artists.  And the effing Libertarians, when I've studied their financing, are the exact completely effing useless thing.  The local ones-  don't even get me going on that nonsense and how they suck up to the local neocon Republicans when push comes to shove.   "Founding Fathers this and Freedom That Blah blah blah" completely useless anti tax sh*ts on govt. Medicare,  who haven't the faintest idea what is actually in any legislation nor that the con artist they just sent to DC is in bed with the local Defense Contractors.

That said, there are enough genuinely disgusted people in all parties or no party to be able to form a genuine political movement of demanding government do something besides provide a refuge for crooks.  


[ Parent ]
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