December 8, 2008 archive

Return of the Black Helicopter Brigades



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They’re Baaaaaaaaack!

I’ve always had a healthy respect for the Black Helicopter Brigades. We haven’t seen them around for a while. Not since the Clintons. They positively, absolutely loved to hate the Clintons. But with the election of one of ‘them’, George W. Bush, the greatest president ever, the compassionate conservative who restored dignity to the White House and spread American Christo-fascist freedom around the globe in a series of cakewalk wars, they went into hibernation or suspended animation or back into their natural state – grey gelatinous couch potato stasis, jerking off to Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter.

But now, they’re back and they got their mojo on to dethrone the Manchurian Muslim before he is able to take the oath of office and turn the keys of the kingdom over to the Muslim god, better known as Satan.

And after years of bitter-sweet calm they’re back with their paranoid fantasies, delusions of grandeur and pit-bull frothing about the end of the world.

on simmer . . .

I knew this would happen. A flattening of passion. Something close to a full stop. Floundering.

So much time spent waiting for the end of something is leaving me a bit lost.

Now that I get my wish… how will I live without George W. Bush?

Obama’s Team of Reactionaries

Original article, by Tom Eley, via World Socialist Web Site:

In recent weeks, numerous media accounts have referred to President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet selections as a “team of rivals.” The reference is to a book of the same name by the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln’s choices for key cabinet posts after his victory in the 1860 election, when he confronted the secession crisis and then the Civil War.

Docudharma Times Monday December 8

 Prepare For The No Pain No Gain

Economic Recovery  




Monday’s Headlines:

Paul Volcker is back, and he warns of tough times ahead

Taliban destroy 100 trucks in biggest raid on Nato supplies bound for Afghanistan

Tiger, tiger, fighting back

Cracks appear in Brandenburg Gate despite €4m restoration

Greeks riot after teenage boy is shot dead by police

Chikaunga water Elephant Pump transforms lives

Albinos hunted for body parts in Africa

University brings American-style learning to Iraq

Millions of Muslims completing Mecca pilgrimage

Pakistan’s Spies Aided Group Tied to Mumbai Siege

This article was reported by Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti and Jane Perlez and written by Mr. Schmitt.

By ERIC SCHMITT, MARK MAZZETTI and JANE PERLEZ

Published: December 7, 2008

WASHINGTON – Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group suspected of conducting the Mumbai attacks, has quietly gained strength in recent years with the help of Pakistan’s main spy service, assistance that has allowed the group to train and raise money while other militants have been under siege, American intelligence and counterterrorism officials say.

American officials say there is no hard evidence to link the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, to the Mumbai attacks. But the ISI has shared intelligence with Lashkar and provided protection for it, the officials said, and investigators are focusing on one Lashkar leader they believe is a main liaison with the spy service and a mastermind of the attacks.

In Hard Times, Russia Moves In to Reclaim Private Industries



By CLIFFORD J. LEVY

Published: December 7, 2008


BEREZNIKI, Russia – In late October, one of Vladimir V. Putin’s top lieutenants abruptly summoned a billionaire mining oligarch to a private meeting. The official, Igor I. Sechin, had taken a sudden interest in a two-year-old accident at the oligarch’s highly lucrative mining operations here in Russia’s industrial heartland.

Mr. Sechin, who is a leader of a shadowy Kremlin faction tied to the state security services, said he was ordering a new inquiry into the mishap, according to minutes of the meeting. With a deputy interior minister who investigates financial crime at his side, Mr. Sechin threatened crippling fines against the company, Uralkali.

 

USA

New Auto Rescue Plan Focuses on Oversight

Some Lawmakers Want To Replace GM Chief

By Lori Montgomery

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, December 8, 2008; Page A01


Congressional Democrats are drafting legislation that would give the teetering Detroit automakers at least $15 billion in emergency loans early next week and grant the federal government broad authority to manage a massive restructuring of their operations.

The proposal, which could be put to a vote in Congress as soon as tomorrow, would establish a seven-member “auto board” of Cabinet officials and a chairman to be appointed by President Bush to oversee both the short-term loans and a long-term effort to restore the faltering industry to profitability. If the companies take the cash, they would be accountable to the government for nearly every move, and for every transaction of $25 million or more.

Muse in the Morning

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State of the Onion XXII

America the Ugly

Purple Mountains


Gold in Them Thar Hills

Purple mountains

or any color

once majestic

now leveled

rock crushed

for oil

or hollowed out

emptied of coal

except where it burns

or blown apart

in the search

for fancy rocks

America Amerika

The weapon

that destroys the mass

is fueled by the lives

of men too poor

badly educated and so ill-treated

lubricated by the greased palms

of partisan self-interest

and naked incivility

of so-called servants

and dangerously driven

by the avarice

of men too rich

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–March 24, 2006

It Sucks.

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The president sucks. I mean, he really sucks.

The last president sucked too. The next president is almost guaranteed to suck, since all presidents either suck, have sucked or will suck. Some presidents have even been sucked. Sucking is what presidents do.

The Congress sucks. They really suck. They won’t impeach him. It sucks. They won’t arrest him. That sucks too.

Nancy sucks. I don’t know why anyone would let her, but she does…

The attorney general sucks. Did suck. And will suck.

It all sucks. I mean everything sucks. All of it. It all sucks.

The war sucks. The other war sucks. The last war sucked. The next war sucks even more. Sucking is what wars do.

I mean it. It all sucks.

Now the economy sucks, too. The last economy sucked. The next economy will probably suck too. The economy has always sucked. Sucking is what the economy does.

Even girlfriends suck. All my girlfriends have all sucked. And they probably thought I sucked too. But then most boyfriends probably suck, usually.

My job sucks. probably because I don’t have one. But even the last one sucked. They all sucked. Your job probably sucks too. Or did suck. Or will suck. Sucks, huh?

Is there anything that doesn’t suck?

It sucks that everything sucks. I mean it. It really sucks.

I wish I had an answer. It sucks that I don’t have an answer.

What sucks even more is that you don’t have an answer either. Even if you think you do. Sucks, huh?

Gitmo sucks. Torture sucks. Bombing sucks. Depleted uranium sucks. Napalm sucks. White phosporus sucks. Poverty sucks. Disease sucks. Injustice sucks. Bigotry sucks. Racism sucks. Starvation sucks. Hate sucks.

You suck. I suck. The world sucks. There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

What can I say? Life just… sucks.

This essay sucks. It’s probably the worst thing I ever wrote. It really sucks.

Try to have a nice day, ok?

Late Night Karaoke

Please Talk Back

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get

No words

Obama Supports Republic Workers Who Are Occupying Factory!

You all probably know by now that workers at Republic Window and Door have occupied the factory and are demanding their legal right to severance pay and vacation pay as the plant closes.

CHICAGO – Workers laid off from their jobs at a factory have occupied the building and are demanding assurances they’ll get severance and vacation pay that they say they are owed.

About 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors began their sit-in Friday, the last scheduled day of the plant’s operation.

“We’re going to stay here until we win justice,” said Blanca Funes, 55, of Chicago, after occupying the building for several hours. Speaking in Spanish, Funes said she fears losing her home without the wages she feels she’s owed. A 13-year employee of Republic, she estimated her family can make do for three months without her paycheck. Most of the factory’s workers are Hispanic.

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“We’re doing something we haven’t since the 1930s, so we’re trying to make it work,” Fried said.

https://www.docudharma.com/show…

I didn’t think he’d do it, but he did.  I figured Obama would sit this one out.  I mean, occupying a factory is illegal, at least formalistically.  There could be a politicla downside.  He didn’t have to say anything.  But I was wrong:

When it comes to the situation here in Chicago with the workers who are asking for their benefits and payments they have earned, I think they are absolutely right,” Obama said Sunday at a news conference announcing his new Veterans Affairs director. “What’s happening to them is reflective of what’s happening across this economy.

“When you have a financial system that is shaky, credit contracts. Businesses large and small start cutting back on their plants and equipment and their workforces. That’s why it’s so important for us to maintain a strong financial system. But it’s also important for us to make sure that the plans and programs that we design aren’t just targeted at maintaining the solvency of banks, but they are designed to get money out the doors and to help people on Main Street. So, number one, I think that these workers, if they have earned their benefits and their pay, then these companies need to follow through on those commitments.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/p…

He avoided endorsing the sit down strike directly, but he said they were right and that’s good enough for me.

EAST, WEST, ONE SKY

Twin sides of sky in stopped motion time.

Blushing clouds in colors rhymed.

The setting sun fades out our light,

Turns on the moon to clear the night.

From my rooftop observatory at sunset, tonight.

 EAST & WEST SKY DEC 7th

Elder “Care” in Af-merica-stan

Well it’s Pearl Harbor Day but Dad flew B29’s out of Italy late in “the big one”.  Dad is now 86, has advanced alzheimers and is becoming increasingly incontinent.  My extreme efforts to aide my mother and help her through this situation ended in her reporting me to an elder care agency for “elder abuse”, no less.

My final discovery in all this is that Ma is a sociopath.  Tomorrow there is a meeting to discuss how best to warehouse a WWII patriot in a nursing home.  Why?  Simply because he is of no further use to Ma.  He just can’t die in his own home like he wanted because Ma finds it gross that he craps in his pants. That plus Ma’s first psychiatric breakdown happened upon my birth, so I am, and have always been the focus of her Satanically aided anger.

In all of this and all of my efforts to help the medical and legal establishments of Afmericastan have proven to be evil in their nature and intent.  My mother taught me something with this entire experience and you should take heed.  Cure yourself and stay off the electronic medical surveillance grid.

Pearl Harbor Day

Last year I posted this at GOS(i’ve since deleted this one) & also  here at dd….

This is my dads story & just one of the family stories that run through my head at the mention of Pearl Harbour Day.

Each in their own way highlights a facet of why/how i became just exactly who i am.

(my theory is who you are is in (large) part determined by others expectations of you…& how you respond to those expectations……& their expectations/who they are is based on those before…)

from last years essay

My Dad is a Great Guy, his experiences varied and many… in a ‘Big Fish’ kind of way. He served in WWII and later became the fencing coach of Columbia University in the 1940’s-50s and was an early advocate of civil rights in sports(see 1948), eventually retiring to California. Not long ago Columbia University honoured him with a lovely (ceremony-dinner-function-thingey) More about this can be found at Columbia’s web site, I think.

anyway….

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