THE FASCIST STATE AND YOU

If any of the new ominous bills pass, such as John McCain's battlefield US plan or Joe Lieberman's new rat out the terrorist blogger bill, yours truly may suddenly disappear one day. If this blog suddenly stops with no explanation, know that I have been "liberated" to some dark hole. When are people going to stop defending the government/corporations and start demanding real change?

The Tea Party needs to get their heads out their asses and actually join in with the Occupy Wall St movement. The OWS crowd needs to stop behaving like a bunch of spoiled children and DEMAND specific changes. This, and I hate to say this, communist outlook of "can't we all just share," philosophy doesn't work and provably so as the USSR and China have all stopped being communist in nay way shape or form and are now just totalitarian regimes with a sprinkle of capitalism. Sound familiar? We are more like these countries every day and no one wants to say anything about it.

Back in the sixties, Professor Stanley Milgram tried experiments on people to see how far they could be pushed by an authoritative figure to deliver electric shocks to an unwanted individual. 63% complied to "shock" the person they were told to. In reality, the person being shocked was an actor and no real pain was delivered. But the study showed that people will commit horrible offenses if they are told to do so. Recently, the experiment was done again and, like before 73%, shocked the actor when told to do so. However, if a second person was placed in the room delivering shocks to the actor and he then quit, his partner was more likely to follow suit.

This is a stunning psychological look at how sheepish we really are. We will follow orders without thinking of the consequences and we will bow out when others do the same. In other words, most people are content to go with the flow, no matter where it takes them. It would certainly explain the yo yo effect the GOP candidates have had this election season. The Tea Party would seem to be the biggest groups of sycophants alive today. Mind you the OWS movement could also use some leaders to start moving this thing forward, unless continuous pepper spray is to your liking.

Here's some simple demands. 1) End the fed. 2)Remove all money from politics. 3) Ban insider trading within Congress and Wall St buy using harsh penalties for anyone caught (Federal prison with hardcore criminals for many years is a start). 4)End useless oversights like the Drug War, Homeland Security, the TSA, and VIPER teams. 5)Arrests for anybody involved (public or private) who helped cause the financial crisis and lastly 6)demand that all corporations have to use a certain percentage of their profits for wages for all their employees as well as wages tied from the highest to lowest by percentages. This will cause them to give everyone a much needed raise. Our salaries are dropping and no one seems to care. All this talk about having a job is worthless if they don't pay anything and that's where we stand today. It's no so much about jobs but good paying ones and no one is a anymore. The average salary is slightly less than 26,500 dollars down 14,000 from forty years ago. Are things cheaper than they were forty years ago? Hell no. So why are salaries going the other way? Mainly because the flood of women entering the job market in the 70's diluted the job pool to such an extent that companies could pay far less to attract good workers. This is not me being sexist but a fact. Women working was a good idea in theory but has proven to be an abject distaste. As that genie has left the bottle, government should be looking at doing something to get everyone's salaries way up because women barefoot and pregnant is not going to happen nor should it.

We no longer live in democracy and it is becoming more and more apparent every day. Our laws are being rewritten to keep up us in this prison USA. Read Animal Farm and you'll see it is more non-fiction than you would like. The derivative market is trying to move itself onto the back of the FDIC or in other words risky bids are once again being moved onto taxpayer shoulders. There is not enough money in the world to cover these loses so should they go under so does the FDIC and so does all the money in every bank everywhere.

In other news, FOIA documents reveal that Hank Paulson warned executives at his former company of Goldman Sachs that Fannie and Freddie were going to fail and they should get out stat. This is the very definition of insider trading. It's good to be the King.

Newt Gingrich continues to rise, proving my point that the Tea Party are the biggest bunch of sheep out there. The poll numbers for the flavor of the week (Trump, Bachmann, Cain, Perry all have flamed out as people looked closer at them) all betray them as looking for GOP candidates only who do not have their best interests at heart. The next election will inevitably have Tweedledum and Tweedledee running, and if it's Gingrich versus Obama, Obama gets the edge just for not being a fat, blowhard bastard. No way does Gingrich win and god help us all if he does.

Read 1984, Brave New World, or Animal Farm for a real look at what is occurring. Pray that things get better because, as of right now, things look bleak. Start being one of those that stands up and not follows. There's too many of the latter right now. This is how I'm protesting. What's your excuse.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: CONGRESS

A quiet week as Thanksgiving usually is according to the nightly news. Oh wait a minute, no it wasn't. The stock market dropped six consecutive days over the dawning realization that the Euro was going to collapse, war with Syria/Iran is looking to be imminent, and Congress is proving to be wholly out of step with any sense of reason. Let's look at those runner ups.

1)Syracuse Police Department-Proving many people's point that a world wide kiddie porn ring is in existence with many high levels members is coming more and more to the forefront every day. On top of the recent problems with how Penn State handled the Jerry Sandusky affair, now comes word that for some inane reason, the Syracuse police department apparently covered up crimes against its basketball head coach for also molesting little boys way back in 2002. The local DA is up in arms that the police are still trying to cover up what happened and their involvement. The police are no longer here to serve and protect but to make you obey whatever stupid laws are being told for them to do. On top of all this, we find out that the reason pot arrests are way, way up is money. Shocker. From 1968-1995 there were 33,000 arrests for possession. Since then 550,000. Police rely on stats that show they accomplishing something and thus federal money is granted them. As a result of them pumping up their numbers with easy pot possession arrests (illegal now in some states including mine of MA), they are simultaneously ignoring cases involving robbery, assault even rape. Your tax dollars at work. The police departments as they are now need to be completely reworked as to how they operate. The alternative is slavery.

2)Walmart shoppers- This week we heard of a woman macing others for an X-box game, another man who died during the melees(of natural causes) but whose body went undiscovered for hours as people stepped over him with never a though of helping, and several who were robbed outside of their hard earned goods. A special shout out to the moron security team in some suburb that pepper sprayed the crown INSIDE THE STORE. Needless to say that didn't go over well and the whole store had to be evacuated with children among the injured.

3)The Tea Party/GOP- These idiots are the worst of the worst. They have become shills for the very people they are supposed to hate. As they are joined by the GOP on calling the protesters a bunch of unwashed hippies (which is semi-true), they have piled on to the big business good/government bad theory. Bad news sloths, business and government are one and the same, thus the fascist police state you now live in and whole heartedly support. Don't believe me? Turn the news and try to decide what you are seeing is in Egypt, Syria or your back yard. From a distance, you will have no clue, unless the news tells you WHERE it is.

Why is this not the same when the Tea Party first started (and which when I agreed with them before they went flying off the rails) when big banks and the economy was the focus; when they were the demons? Now its all about gay rights and abortion, which many a GOP member still says are the most important issues we have to face. REALLY? That's the issues that will save our failing economy and world? Not that the Democrats are any better but really what idiot out there feels that these are the major problems facing this country? Do you really want an American Taliban controlling what we do all the time? It's time to wake up people and stop voting these people into office. Also, any idiot believing in this nonsense needs to leave the country stat. You want a fascist state, where religion rules all? You can move there any time. It's called Iran. Enjoy. Leave the rest of us the F#$K alone. Either join in the protests, which are in your best interests morons, or get the hell out. I'm sick of the lot of you.

4)Pakistan- After we went in and killed a bunch of actual terrorists within the Pakistan borders, and killing several of their soldiers who really had no business there, the Pakistani government cut off all supply lines to Afghanistan. This is one of the main reasons we need to be out of the country. As long as we ae there, we have to kowtow to the Pakistanis to keep supply lines open. But, in a true catch-22, as long as we are there, we have to worry about cross border raids form Taliban hiding within their borders. I give credit to this administration (and even Bush) for not doing what we did in Vietnam and let Chinese supply lines remain open. The Pakistanis have to pick a side and should be very careful with whom. There is a strong possibility that this will strengthen ties with an increasingly hostile Russia and China. A World War looms.

5)Russis- Putin is consolidating his power and the Cold War appears to be reigniting. The Russians are still mad about our proposed missile shield protecting eastern Europe from a nuclear attack. Why this should bother anybody is beyond me. We should never use nuclear weapons, less the planet dies. The Russians seem hell bent on bringing us back to the bad old days and even re-establishing the USSR.

6)Syria- Syrian leader Assad is refusing to back down from world wide protests to step down. War plans are being drawn up with the Arab League, the US and UK all telling the citizens to leave immediately. The supercarrier George W. Bush (I would hate to serve aboard any vehicle named after such an awful president) has been moved off the coast and the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only carrier left in their mostly mothballed fleet, arrives soon to join three other Russian warships already there. That doesn't sound too confrontational does it? Sigh. The Russians have warned us not to try a Libya style takeover or else face the consequences. Any attack could unleash, literaly, holy hell with Iran, with Lebanon and Israel getting involved almost immediately, let alone Russia, China and even possibly North Korea. The world is about to ride a razor's edge. Pray.

7)Congress- Yes as the world burns, Congress continues to pass worthless bills that do nothing to fix the economy. The Super Congress that everyone was so worried about taking our guns away (which would NEVER have happened the way the committee was structured), couldn't even do the one thing they were SUPPOSED to do. And they wonder why they stand at a nine percent approval rating. Instead now comes a truly onerous bill, S. 1253. Under this new bill, indefinite detention without charges or trial could be levied on anyone, anywhere, even in your own home. Imagine a world where you could be taken at a moments notice, never told where you went and sit in a cell forever without anyone telling you what you were charged with. Wait a minute. That's the exact plot of Kafka's The Trial, an excellent book and apparently non fiction now. That is the most unamerican piece of garbage I have ever heard. They just say the word terrorist and poof you disappear. The ACLU has written a strongly worded letter decrying this awful bill. This would be a red line for us as well. If you start disappearing members of movement like Occupy Wall ST then violence will be the only solution. And that is something I would condone. Most likely, yours truly will be on the first bus to blackout town, but I'd hoping to be elsewhere if that occurs. I am starting to hear from people that leaving the country may not be a bad idea, that bad things are afoot. I'd like to leave before they seal the borders. Anyone reading out there might want to think about the same. I don't know where might be better but Iceland and Argentina sound nice. So congratulations, Congress you are douchebags of the week.

TEN THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR

With all sorts of horrible things happening this week, (Gingrich at the top of the polls, police brutality at an all time high, war with Syria/Iran imminent) lets take time out to reflect on what we should be thankful for.

10)I'm thankful I don't live in Iran and Syria. Americans were warned today that they should get the hell out of Syria and Europe and the Arab League are supposedly drawing up plans for a Libya style invasion including establishment of a no fly zone. Russia and China are less than pleased with this prospect. The US has moved super carrier the George W. Bush (ugh) into the region and France is petitioning NATO to intervene. Assad's rule is over whether he wants to admit it or not. He should see what happened with Qaddafi and maybe think about stepping down. This war could get bloody if Iran, Russia, China, North Korea or all of them get involved. Yuck.

9)I'm thankful I'm not the president of Berkley college or officer John Pike. Good luck with any career you thought you might have. Pike has become an icon and not a good one. I particularly liked the picture of him spraying the Founding Fathers. And the president of Berkley has flip flopped her story so many times you'd think she was running for president.

8)I'm thankful neither me nor my girlfriend weigh several hundred pounds. Seriously people, eat a salad once a while.

7)I'm thankful I have a roof over my head in a nice neighborhood. Many in the world don't have that luxury especially if your mailing address is Juarez, Detroit or lately, the White House.

6)I'm thankful to have some money in a credit union that isn't being used to help the big banks that screwed everything up in the first place.

5)I'm thankful I'm not a fundamentalist because I like being able to think for myself.

4)I'm thankful I'm not a member of the Tea Party for exactly the same reason and number five.

3)I'm thankful I don't get all my news from FOX because I would apparently believe that Obama is an African born Marxist, that Newt Gingrich has the temperament and ability to be President and that bleach chases away the thirsties.

2)I'm thankful that I don't work for an organization like Fox News, the FBI or any idiot in Britain that said there is no proof of water preventing dehydration. Sigh.

1)I'm thankful for my friends, family and health, even though the latter is so precarious that everyday I wait for a new issue to cost me a small fortune. Again.Yeah our health care system rocks.


Happy Thanksgiving all.