Walled-In Pond

Tom Franks: "The Wrecking Crew"

2012-01-30T07:07:00.003-07:00

From 2008:

We Are NOT Making Shit Up Just To "Diss" Obombster

2012-01-29T06:46:00.002-07:00

Woody thinks Maher is occasionally amusing (though his "panels" often suck shit, such as the one the other night with that running-sore Kennedy and Dana Rohrbacher, who appears to have a herpes lesion on his lip), but this rant, and the associated commentary by Politico seriously demonstrates how full of shit he (and Politico) actually ARE when it comes to their "fair-skinned" boy.

Maher chides the RIGHT for their paranoia about what they think Shabama MIGHT do.
<a href="http://www.zideo.co.uk/playzideo/6c4957586d565a70">Episode 235</a><a href="http://www.zideo.co.uk/">zideo.nl</a>
Then Politico chimes in with an extra lick at the "paranoid" Lefties. Watch, then read: "There are some members of the far left who have embraced the right’s politics of fear and use it for their own profit and gain to attack Obama. (Why should conservatives be the only ones who cash in on fear?)"

Somebody needs to give Politico a FUCKING clue! We critics of Obombster on the Left aren't criticizing a chimera.

We do not simply FEAR that he will unleash drones on American citizens to kill them overseas, or sign legislation which permits the indefinite detention of "enemies" because that's what he ALREADY done.

We do not merely FEAR tht he will hand the tatters of thhe social safety net over to those who want to destroy it, because he has ALREADY done that.

We do not FEAR that he will hand the economy BACK to the very rat-bastards who sank it in the first place, because he has ALREADY done that.

We do not only FEAR that he will expand the scope and scale of USer military adverntures in the world because he's ALREADY done that.

Which is to say, contrary to Politicor/Maher's assertions, we are NOT criticizing an "IMAGINARY" Obombster.

Oh, YEAH, baby! Barry's the "Real" thing.

Con-Games, Smoke & Mirrors: How Many Corpses Can Dance On The Head of a Drone?

2012-01-25T07:37:00.002-07:00

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, on the 2012 SoTU...Truthin'!

Fucked: The story of the OTHER "99ers"

2012-01-24T07:47:00.001-07:00

"Salon's" first episode of the documentary video series about long term unemployment, 99ers, and organizing the unemployed.

In “F**ked: The United States of Unemployment” — a new Salon series that will chronicle this important yet largely untold story — Academy Award-nominated director Immy Humes traces the birth and evolution of the 99ers movement. Over the course of the series, Humes will explore her personal struggle with long-term unemployment, the struggles of her fellow 99ers, and confront the stigma of what it’s like to be jobless in America today.

Bill Moyers (w/ David Stockman) On "The Bankstas"

2012-01-23T13:33:00.003-07:00

The thing I detest about self-serving, 'coming-clean' tale-tellers and lesson-learners like Stockman is how they retrospectively polish their own apples. In this case, Stockman conveniently overlooks the notorious, infamous, criminal, fraudulent manipulations of real estate and building loans by the Savings & Loan industry, famously led by one of the Sons of Bush, which began in the early '80s while Stockman was himself still preaching the gospel of supply-side, trickle-down enrich the rich economics which in a "purer" form he still seems to advocate for even today. Though he does at least endorse the re-introduction of the limitations removed when Glass-Steagall was repealed by the "bank-stahz" back in the day.

David Stockman on Crony Capitalism from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Will Shamwow Name Larry Summers To The World Bank?

2012-01-19T16:43:00.003-07:00

Summers and Robert Rubin were the Dim "point-men" in the deregulation fiascoes of the late '90s under Clenis; they collaborated with Phil Gramm and Greenspan and Armey to make it happen. And they all did VERY WELL by it.

I would not willingly occupy the same room with Larry Summers.

Obombster is NOT making a "mistake." He MUST know what he is doing: his Massas' bidding. Cenk gets it.

January 18, 2012: Stop PIPA/SOPA Day

2012-01-18T09:02:00.003-07:00

It is probably unrealistic in the EXTREME to imagine that a functioning oligarchy in full cry might permit the continued, unmodified, uninterfered operation of so fundamentally liberating a technology as the Intertubez has become, and still remains. We need only regard how television was co-opted, and its liberatory poitential was turned aside, to become--along with the rest of its flickering-screened scions--the most POTENT agent of propaganda promulgation ever invented.

I regard the present structure of the Intertubez as I regard the Constitution: It works pretty well as it stands, and fucking around with it pretty much invites the bullies in, so leave it the fuck alone.

--Woody, Jan 18, 2012

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Robert Reich Gently Chastises Shabama For The Banksters GOOJF Card

2012-01-17T12:29:00.003-07:00

GOOJF = "Get Out Of Jail Free"
Reich is entirely too polite to the skeevy, gutless coward...

Experience the Power of "Foto Shop" by A-Do-Be`

2012-01-15T06:13:00.001-07:00

Washington Generals (Dims) v. The Globetrotters (GOPhux)

2012-01-13T09:34:00.001-07:00

A "Nightmare" On Wall Street

2012-01-10T10:02:00.001-07:00

It's called the "Robin Hood" tax.

It's "Financial Transactions" tax on EVERY stock, bond, or currency transaction smaller than $1000...

Well, It's VIRAL Now, By Gawd!

2012-01-09T16:15:00.001-07:00

Lee Camp & a Cast of Several (including a cat and a baby) opposing corporate personhood.

Diane Ravitch: Making Amends (Sorta)

2012-01-08T11:02:00.002-07:00

In the '80s, she was a full-fledged Raygunner, working enthusiastically with bilious Bill Bennett, Chucker Finn, and others to torpedo "liberal,' child-centered pedagogy. She's one of the intellectual progenitors of the whole educational philosophy which underlies NCLB, as well as O'bombster's shameful Race To The Top.
I doubt she can perform sufficient penance to assuage my dislike for her...

And all that "high-stakes" testing? Ummmm, mebbe NOT so good an idea, eh, Diane?
Some of us were telling you this at the time. Remember, Diane? Do ya?

Here's her address to the 2011 AASA Convention, in which she addresses 'reform' head-on, though without reference to here own participation:

Part II

and Part III

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Makes Bill O'Reilly Look Like an Imbecile

2012-01-05T16:08:00.004-07:00

NOT that that is all that difficult to do...

Lest We Forget! "Obama-Goggles" for the Peanut Gallery

2012-01-04T13:14:00.002-07:00

This vid is from 2009. It's gone pretty much as Punk Pat predicted. And NONE of brave Sir Barry's "Dis-Appointments" has yet resigned, either.

"Why I'm Voting Republican!"

2011-12-31T18:11:00.002-07:00

VINTAGE Agit-Prop!

Bank Fraudsters Don't Go To Jail!

2011-12-28T15:09:00.000-07:00

The Space Within: Standing Waves and the Charged Electron

2011-12-27T13:28:00.001-07:00

No, No, Not News!

2011-12-23T10:13:00.005-07:00

!(WWH) by Dr. Woody

"Truth" someone said, most often has a decidedly "liberal" cast.

There persists a serious canard about the nature of USer "media," which is universally accused by the Fucktard Right of some kind of "liberal bias" when the radicals on the right want to demonize anyone who is willing to suggest that 'truth' doesn't always--or even usually) conform to the delusions springing from the painfully misshapen skulls of the Rightwing Fucktard militias, etc....

The "real truth" is that majority of the media (TV, radio, internet, print, movies, books, billboards, even ISPs) is owned by big corporations which strive endlessly, and loudly, to protect the radical conservative agenda of which they are the primary sponsors. The CorpoRat/SCUM "press" are the wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Rightard Oligarchs, Aristos, and Elites. Their reach is enormous, and their ties bind ever so tightly.

This article was produced simply as a counter-weight to the claim by the radical right wing that all media is liberal. From big news outlets to small time blogs, there are many dozens--probably HUNDREDS--of sites that you want to avoid when trying to get good news and information. This is a list--admittedly incomplete and in no particular order--of 50, or so of the worst--that is, the least reliably truthful, most evidently bullshit-filled--places you could go to get your news. These are sites at which you should exercise EXTREME caution and careful judgment before passing along ANY information they purvey.

1. Fox News 2. Rush Limbaugh 3. Glenn Beck 4. Michael Savage (nee. Michael Weiner) 5. Alex Jones (the most credulous skeptic ever) 6. The Heritage Foundation (Koch money) 7. The Wall Street Journal (Murdockian Editorial page) 8. Neal Boortz (his first piece of ass was) 9. Sean Hannity 10. Bill O'Reily

Also: 11. Rightwingnews.com 12. National Review (including NRO) 13. Mark Levin (Wadda butt-hole!) 14. The Weekly Standard (the OTHER "Billy Crystol") 15. Washington Times (Moonies) 16. The American Conservative (Rod Dreher,* for fux sake?) 17. The Drudge Report (the name says it all) 18. The Cato Institute (more Koch money) 19. Media Research Center (Brent "Bozo" Bozell'd gag an orc) 20. Townhall.com (Freeper "News" Central)

Ughlier: 21. Red State (Erick Erickson, now inexplicably employed by CNN) 22. Andew Breitbart's Big Government ("Did" ACORN, e.g.) 23. The American Cause (Pat ("in the original German") Buchanan) 24. Christian Coalition 25. The John Birch Society (OLD Koch money) 26. Citizens United (eponymously renowned) 27. Freedom Works (Dick's Armey) 28. Tea Party Express 29. Tea Party Patriots 30. No Left Turns (John Ashbrook at Ashland U)...

Plus: 31. News Busters ("Exposing & Combatting Liberal Media Bias"), 32. News Max (Ben Stein, George Will, etc; fucking dreadful) 33. The New York Post (Murdock's "racy" Tab) 34. Conservative HQ 35. Sirius radio "Patriot" (the only people who boast of being "patiots" are dicks) 36. Conservative American News 37. Conservative Daily News (their names say it all) 38. Judicial Watch (Larry Klayman; nuff said.) 39. The Source Daily ( "I think therefore I am Conservative") 40. Republican National Committee

Follwoed by: 41. American Spectator (R. Emmetic Tyrell) 42, Reason Magazine (Liberturdian codswallop) 43. Where Freedom Rings (batty in the bell-tower) 44. Conservapedia (bwahahahahahaha) 45. The Right Side of the Web 46. CNS News ("Christian" News) 47. Michael Reagan (the BAD seed) 48. Family Research Council (Dominionism Central, in Colo Spr.) 49. Conservative Underground 50. Hugh Hewitt (He's a Huge Twit!)

I'd add a couple more: 51: EUTimes (a skinhead/supremacist outfit) 52. WorldNewsDaily (G.Gordon Liddy's drivel? Really?) 53: The Washington Post (barely less status quo-partisan than the Moonie rag) 54: Human Events (mAnn Coulter's their "legal" expert) 55: Prison Planet (an Alex Jones off-shoot) 56: RT (American arm of the Russian State Propaganda agency; the folks who once brought you Pravda, Trud and Isvestia)

I'm sure there are more, but these will do. If you do happen to post anything from ANY of these sources, be aware that the reliability (i.e., "truth") of the matters will ALWAYS be in doubt. The original list I pulled off "The Examiner." I alone am responsible for the (italicized annotations. Please, feel free to augment or add to the list in COMMENTS below.

* I could have spared the world the insult to intelligence that is Rod Dreher: he was a student in TWO classes I taught at LSU J-School, back in the day, and I could have flunked the drooling tool but to my continuing regret, I didn't.)

Journalism? What "Future?"

2011-12-21T11:56:00.001-07:00

Jesus on the Sidelines: "Tebow" On SNL

2011-12-18T08:52:00.001-07:00

To "Hitch": Gone too soon...

2011-12-16T07:32:00.004-07:00

Though his oeuvre remains, and we may take solace from that!

Here's a link to his Obit on Richard Dawkins' site...

And here's the Obit from Vanity Fair:

Ray McGovern, re: Panorama, on Bradley Manning

2011-12-15T18:54:00.000-07:00

Try Running the DNA on THAT Shit!

2011-12-14T06:40:00.002-07:00

And remember: A Christian lady never does anything that leaves lipstick on any body part NOT seen in church...

Greg Pallast (sans fedora) on 'The Vultures' Picnic."

2011-12-13T10:52:00.000-07:00

The Price, and the Cost, of "Fictitious Capital": Dr. David Harvey

2011-12-12T07:28:00.004-07:00

Local democracy, but national feudalism:

Three years after the near collapse of global financial markets, America is still struggling with unemployment, debt, and foreclosure, European governments are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy—and the world's billionaires are getting richer faster than ever before. The current situation is not sustainable. But what changes need to be made to overcome this mounting crisis of our world economic system? How radical an adaptation will be required? David Harvey, the brilliant theorist and scathing critic of postmodern society, looks at what the future holds for global capitalism.
http://davidharvey.org/

The Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities brings to the Penn Humanities Forum scholars and artists whose work has advanced our understanding of issues central to the humanities.
http://www.phf.upenn.edu/11-12/harvey.shtml

If I were still teaching, I would be teaching this.

The "NEXT 10 Years" Won't BE ANYTHING Like The Last 10

2011-12-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

Ask Mr. Deity! "No hard feelings..."

2011-12-07T16:26:00.002-07:00

"I had no idea she was 13..."

Trump: "A gin-soaked raisin that fell into a nuclear reactor."

2011-12-07T10:05:00.001-07:00

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Oh, The Hermanity: "I Could Use Some Pants!"

2011-12-06T06:32:00.002-07:00

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Dunno How I Missed This: Jeff Sharlett & Jon Stewart

2011-12-04T10:04:00.001-07:00

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ALEC: Corporate Subversion of What's LEFT of State Democracy

2011-12-03T18:32:00.001-07:00

Corporate dollars are funding changes in state laws that disenfranchise voters, and weaken regulations designed to protect the environment. Those dollars are flowing through the Arizona desert this week as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) convenes to draw up more legislation it wants passed in state legislatures.

To highlight what ALEC is doing, groups including Common Cause, People for the American Way, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Arizona AFL-CIO, AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers, the Arizona Education Association, and Progress Now held a press conference Wednesday in front of the Arizona state capitol.

?ALEC?s leaders, firms like Wal-Mart, Pfizer and Koch Industries, have poured close to $400 million into state elections over the past decade, financing campaigns and spoon-feeding our elected officials bills that put profits over the public interest,? said Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, citing a recent Common Cause report. ?The Arizona desert is a perfect place for the public to call them out.?

ALEC?s agenda includes weakening clean air and clean water laws, undercutting public education, and disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of legally-qualified voters. At closed-to-the-public meetings like this week?s confab at the posh Westin Kierland Resort Spa, ALEC?s business executives, lobbyists, and elected lawmakers sit side by side and vote as equals on the group?s ?model? bills, then carry that legislation back to state capitols across the nation.

ALEC puts its stamp of approval on hundreds of pieces of legislation each year and claims an annual success rate of about 20 percent. Almost all of the group?s $7 million annual budget, including the cost of conferences like this week?s gathering, is underwritten by its corporate affiliates.

Why Are Atheists Angy? You REALLY Wanna Know?

2011-11-30T18:16:00.003-07:00

To answer the question, I'd say, mostly, cuz them pushy, righteous, pious, hypocritical fucking Cristo-theocrats wanna keep shoving THEIR version of some mystical, long-dead, zombie-'god' creature into the fabric of law and gummint with which EVERYBODY would be compelled to comply.

Knock that shit off, and we'll settle the fuck right down. Promise!

"The demand from the Oligarchs for civility amounts to a feces-soaked ball-gag shoved in the mouths of the powerless to rob them of the force of their anger." ~~ Dr. Woody, 2011.

"Spray It Forward"

2011-11-29T14:27:00.000-07:00

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You Can't Argue With "Stupid," Cuz Stupid ALWAYS Wins

2011-11-25T12:36:00.003-07:00

So just ignore the imbecilic fuckers. Most FauxNooz viewers are men hoping to get their next and possibly last sexual charge from a flash of white up the skirts of one of the Nooz-Reader Hareem of vacuous, bosomy, leggy blondes with peach pits for brains.

GOP Foreign Policy: Go To War!

2011-11-24T10:40:00.005-07:00

Re: The GOP "foreign policy" debate, which focused on foreign posturing and national "security." What was UNSAID!

The GOP Candidate Clown Car debauched its contents onto yet another stage an "debated" topics from the Patriot Act to the roll of the TSA, while some critical topics were avoided such as the Eurozone and Iran.

Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official and columnist, gives us his thoughts on the GOP debate. "Syria's first; then Iran." FORGET those cretinous, credulous morons like Alex Jones. Here's a guy with the "inside skinny.

You KNEW It Was Coming: Mr Deity & The Big Bang

2011-11-23T11:44:00.001-07:00

OCCUPY the Machine!

2011-11-22T07:15:00.001-07:00

The Face of Bovine Bellicosity; "You Can't MAKE Me Think!"

2011-11-18T13:56:00.016-07:00

You KNOW how we do, Bugs!!!. Thanks, Win-STONE!...Hola, Hippies,

Regardez-vous the "Face of Bovine Bellicosity, Murkin Style!" (Joe: start image, full frame, here)

His posture, his rhetoric, his look: All of it screams "I WON'T THINK!!! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! G'WAN, TRY IT, MOFO!"

His name is Max. And at least he's NOT claiming he's NOT one of the 99%, which sop for many of the self-satisfied, self proclaimed 53 percenters do.

But WOULD YOU JUST LOOK at that face!

Jayzus! I've seen cattle that exhibited ex-actly the same ignorant, perverse, cud-chewing, pugnacious stubbornness when it was time to move'em

This is the face of a person who has never once been troubled with nuance, who is a complete and utter stranger to complexity, which has NEVER, ever, once, in all his years, been troubled by an idea of ANY sort of abstraction. And how old IS he?

Does this face look like a 30+ year-old-man? I did the arithmetic. One tour in the Corps = 4 years. Then 8 years to "work his way through school" (with the GI Bill?) Anyway, that's 12 years. He HAD to be 18 to enlist. So that means he's AT LEAST 30.

(PS: I did it in three, on the Bill, working two-three jobs, and carried 18 hours/semester, too...what's his problem??? OH, yeah...)

There's not even a flickering gleam of intelligence to be seen in the whole of the vast expanse of bellicose jaw, belligerent forehead, flushed and ruddy cheeks, or the distinctly barn-yard-like, ever-so-slightly crossed eyes.

I bet he was a good soldier. "STRACK," they call 'em, latterly. He'll work his ass off, for the mission and his illusion of his superiority. He'll take ORDERS, sir, yes SIR! Seventy hours? May I have SOME MORE, SIR, please SIR?!
(JOE: END IMAGE HERE)

You want your whole army made up of exactly this kind of specimen. Big, brawny, inchoately or misdirectedly angry, and not very bright. Eager, though. And willing. Just tell 'em what to do.

Who equate 'success' with virtue.

And "doesn't blame Wall Street." (Is Max even DUMBER than he looks? Who knows?)

There is a very good reply to both the tone and substance of the resentful fellow's complaint at this site. Here's one "money-quote," from the reply--from the link, to the obnoxious prick:

...I’m a liberal, so I probably dream bigger than you. For instance, I want everybody to have healthcare. I want lazy people to have healthcare. I want stupid people to have healthcare. I want drug addicts to have healthcare. I want bums who refuse to work even when given the opportunity to have healthcare. I’m willing to pay for that with my taxes, because I want to live in a society where it doesn’t matter how much of a loser you are, if you need medical care you can get it. And not just by crowding up an emergency room that should be dedicated exclusively to helping people in emergencies...

I'l bet you dollahs to quatloos that, if the boy could read it --by no means a given--he'd still be unpersuaded; he wouldn't get it, gay-ron-teed, chers...The whole thing is worthy of your attention.

Indeed, copy it for further use, because there are more of them, still, than there are of us. Mebbe we can hold 'em off at the beach?

Scott Horton Debunks The Iranian Nuclear "Threat."

2011-11-17T07:02:00.002-07:00

Dissent --- Olbermann on Bloomberg

2011-11-16T06:14:00.001-07:00

Congresscritters "Beat" the market 12% of the time

2011-11-14T09:55:00.005-07:00

But it's legal for 'em to take un-publicized, 'congressional" information, and then to buy/sell stocks on that basis.
I already called my light-weight Congresscritter and DEMANDED the fujcker sign on to The STOCK Act as a co-sponsor, or loose my vote, entirely...

The Boner flat out lies, and Pelosi, that suppurating slag, gets all huffy and avoids the issue.

EVERYBODY fucking cheats. You're a fucking fool to play it straight when EVERYBODY ELSE is on the pad...

Line up the tumbrels and sharpen the fucking blade, and bring these skeevy motherfuckers out, one at a time, and cut off their fuuking heads.

Sam Seder ("Majority Report") On What To Ask Rick Perry

2011-11-13T07:41:00.001-07:00

Beyond "What fucking planet were you REALLY born on?"

America: "We Eat Each Other"

2011-11-12T12:29:00.001-07:00

A nation of grifters, shills, scammers, and thieves.

"I Smell Toast!" -- Rick Perry: DQ/DNF

2011-11-11T15:39:00.004-07:00

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The Best Fucking Newsteam On Earth: Joy Boners!

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Whadda We Have? The Money! Whadda We Want? Te Rest of It!

2011-11-11T14:56:00.002-07:00

The Best Way To gain Power Is To BUY IT!

Dover, Pa: Where Reason Won

2011-11-10T12:52:00.001-07:00

In this award winning documentary, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public schools. Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" follows the celebrated federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District.

The UNIONS are to Blame!

2011-11-09T10:42:00.002-07:00

A fresh offering from one of the very few authentic claimants to the mantle of Tom Lehrer (another being my pal, Jim Terr, Santa Fe & Las Vegas, NM's premier satirist and filker...)

"I'm Dying...But So Are You": Religion in Its "Smiley Face"

2011-11-08T11:47:00.002-07:00

Cain-temptible!

2011-11-07T16:31:00.004-07:00

Herman Cain, the Right-wing Oreo-millionaire businessman who's 'running for the presidency' on the GOPhux side, was revealed recently to have paid hush-money to at LEAST three women for assaulting and insulting and sexually harassing them while he was the chief lobbyist for the Restaurant Association in DC. The first three complainants decided to forego the p[ublic scrutiny and potential humilition of mking their complaints public.

But now a fourth woman has come forward, represented by the bane of male turpitude of ALL kinds and descriptions, Gloria Allred, with GRAPHIC details of Cain's behavior, which included uninvited, unwanted physical contact, and a blatant quid-pro-quo come-on, promising a job lobbying with the RA in exchange for having sex with him...

The video beneath is Cain's reply to these allegations, as well as to the nearly unanimous condemnations he's received from the Black political community leaders, including Cornell West, Ishmael Reed, Glen Ford, and Harry Bellafonte.

Do NOT feel compelled to watch this.***

***But if you do, make sure YOU have the handy, brand NEW! Popeil pocket vomitoreum by your side, to capture the undigested remains of your lunch. This Cain fucker could gag an Orc.

Scrap the Cap -- Equal Liability for All

2011-11-06T19:10:00.003-07:00

About one sixth of the people in the whole fucking country DEPEND on Social Security to make an even semi-dignified life in the "richest country on earth." That's the same number who are in poverty. Coincidence? WADDA YOU THINK?

The video may be funny, but the subject is serious—now more than ever, Social Security benefits are critical to the more than 50 million Americans who rely on them. Instead of cutting benefits or raising the retirement age, we're relying on you to protect working class families by scrapping the cap on payroll taxes.

Currently, workers are taxed only on their first $106,800 of income. People earning over that amount don't pay (FICA) taxes on that income. By simply requiring upper-income taxpayers to contribute at the same rate as many middle class families, Social Security's benefits could be improved, and its funding would remain in balance beyond the longest projections.
Working Americans are in trouble. 401(k)s were decimated by Wall Street, home values have plummeted, and nest eggs are gone - yet some in Congress continue to defend a lower Social Security payroll tax rate for millionaires than for middle class families.

Social Security has a surplus of more than $2 trillion - enough to cover benefits for 25 years or more. It is fully funded by the payroll contributions of American workers; it doesn't contribute a dime to the nation's deficit.

Now more than ever, Social Security benefits are critical to the more than 50 million Americans who rely on them. Instead of cutting benefits or raising the retirement age, we're relying on you to protect working class families by scrapping the cap on payroll taxes.

Currently, workers are taxed only on their first $106,800 of income. People earning over that amount don't pay taxes on that income. By simply requiring upper-income taxpayers to contribute at the same rate as many middle class families, Social Security's benefits could be improved, and its funding would remain in balance beyond the longest projections.

Please support the 50+ million working people and families who rely on Social Security benefits, and Just Scrap the Cap.

DEMANDS? 1) Jobs 2) Jail the bankers 3) Stop foreclosures

2011-11-05T14:36:00.000-06:00

1956

2011-11-04T07:13:00.000-06:00

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It's ALMOST "Unfunny" Watching this Posturing Pimp Unravelling Before Our Very Eyes--ALMOST

2011-11-03T07:38:00.002-06:00

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A Talisman Against the Social Security Stoopits!

2011-10-31T15:21:00.003-06:00

Keep this remarkably clear, concise, unemoitional, factual, objective account of the history, structure and purposes Social Security handy at all times, in case yoiu are unexpectedly accosted by some drooling scion of the troglodytic rightard, Xto-fascist ignorati!

Some Mischief You Can Pull On The Banksters...

2011-10-29T07:53:00.002-06:00

Utah Phillips (RIP), W/Amy Goodman: "The Media"

2011-10-28T11:03:00.002-06:00

War Is "Good" For Some Folks, Fer Sher!

2011-10-27T10:27:00.002-06:00

What is it GOOD for?

Start with "big BUX!"

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War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S.

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Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush made $22.84 million last year.
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Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens made $21.89 million.
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Boeing CEO James McNerney: $19.4 million.

These guys use their corporations' massive lobbying dollars to keep their job-killing gravy train rolling. Last year, their companies spent a whopping $46 million on lobbying, corrupting our politics and ensuring that their bank accounts continue to fatten at our expense. These executives are some of the main reasons why we're wasting so much on war instead of rebuilding our own nation here at home.
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Bring Back The Tumbrels and the Guillotine !!!

2011-10-26T07:18:00.001-06:00

Max Keiser on punishing the 2B2F banksters and fraudsters who've stolen BILLIONS.

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Can You Spell "Pussie?" Yup!@ Eric Cantor

2011-10-25T08:00:00.001-06:00

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Mr. Deity & The Naughty Bits

2011-10-20T22:00:00.002-06:00

Dylan Rattigan Demands The President STAND For The People

2011-10-19T12:53:00.002-06:00

One suspects that, if O'bombster WERE to go to the People, were to be that candid, were to draw the lines that sharply, were to call the fraudsters and banksters out by name--which truly IS the only way to hail them to account--it would be tantamount to daring the Owners to kill him as they did Kennedy, when he got uppity and fired Allen Dulles from the CIA...

Debt: A Brief History -- David Graeber, Organizer

2011-10-18T06:49:00.001-06:00

Part II:

The Frank Factor: You Might Be A Dumb-fuck Murkin Idiot If...

2011-10-17T17:32:00.001-06:00

Wall Street's Just About in the Dead-Middle of the East, Innit?

2011-10-16T12:35:00.004-06:00

Sophisticated (snark) juxtaposition of the articulations of the plutocrats about 'justice seekers' in the Middle Eaast and those occupying Wall Street. Their demands are not dissimilar, even if the specific kinds of despotisms which oppress them vary in form and fierceness.

By the way, if you've ever wondered how "cops" got their names, attend to the "handiwork' of the 'restraining officer' in this beguiling image:

Welcome to the Fucking News. I'm Faintly Moist...

2011-10-15T11:26:00.000-06:00

Take it AWAY!!!!

Meet Your Congressman, A Drunken, Gun-Toting Goober

2011-10-13T09:49:00.002-06:00

Echoing an Earlier Sentimeng: "We Shall Not be Moved..."

2011-10-12T07:31:00.002-06:00

It's nice to have the juxtaposition of Sec. Clinton admiring the demonstrators of the so-called "Arab Spring" but atr the same time (well, later, really) disparaging the efforts of the crowds at the Occupy! to accomplish the same things: being heard, having a voice in their own political futures, and shit like that.

Unless, as I have thought all along, and as Sec. Clinton well knows, the "rebellions" around the Northern Mediterranean this year were NOT about political aspirations of the people, but were instead about changing the names on the deposit slips in those overseas banks where the Rulers and Oligarchs stash the booty they steal from "their people," and Clinton realizes that that is EXACTLY how futile will be the USer demonstrations are and will be.

Jesse LaGreca Becomes "The Voice" Of OWS...

2011-10-11T12:28:00.001-06:00

And embarrasses both the Nooner, Peggy Noonan (no signal feat), and the prissy prig of the privileged, George Will. Go, Jesse!

The Late Joe Bageant on American Exceptionalism

2011-10-10T10:28:00.003-06:00

It's not surprising the Murkin people 'bought' the CorpoRat Murkin Dream, cuz we're hucksters, we can sell anybody anything, no matter how toxic...and we INFALLIBLY "buy" our own press releases...

What's the MATTER With These Fucking People?

2011-10-08T08:38:00.002-06:00

There's GOTTA be a reason guys like this turn into such poisonous dickheads. Woody guesses guys like King and Canter and that clown in Utah, Mike Lee, and the rest?

They're the Niedermeyers of the world, the ROTC creeps who'd rather NOT think for themselves, getting their revenge for having NOT had the balls to defy convention, and get high and laid in college.

They've harbored and nurtured this sense of humiliation, and sheltered their resentments all these years, and now, by golly, WE'RE gonna fuckin' pay for laughing at 'em.

Kinda like a Steven King film--a diminished testosterone version of "Carrie?"-- about frustrated, vengeful, ugly old men...

Elizabeth Warren: Here's WHY the Obamster Doesn't Want Her ANYWHERE Near Him

2011-10-05T09:17:00.001-06:00

Please. If He's NOT Saying What I THINK He's Saying, Then WTF IS He Saying?

2011-10-04T12:18:00.002-06:00

Practical Semiotics, via MediaMatters:

It's truly astonishing that NO ONE has yet taken a baseball bat to Karl Rove's reaking gob, relocated a few teeth into the gutter, and then jammed the blood thing a foot-ana-half up his ass.

Somebody convince me that the skeevy fuck ISN'T implying that "a negrow" has got a buncha uppity, talking about "improving" something that White folks claim to have built and perfected.

Is there some OTHER way to interpret that remark?

The next best thing to animation:

2011-10-03T15:03:00.001-06:00

What Price The Justice?

2011-10-02T12:38:00.002-06:00

Keith Olbermann discusses corruption at the HIGHEST judicial levels with Congresscritter Chris Murphy: If you watched Justice Alito mouth criticisms during the State of the Union, or you saw Justice Thomas’ wife raising money for the “Let-Him-Die” tea party, you have doubtless wondered why there is no law preventing justices of the U.S. Supreme Court from degrading themselves, and us, ethically....So what’s wrong with Clarence Thomas getting a $15,000 gift from an organization that had a brief pending before the court?

Lee Camp ~~ Moment of Clarity: Occupation

2011-10-01T13:03:00.000-06:00

Is Doug Stanhope a Reincarnation of Bill Hicks?

2011-09-29T10:21:00.002-06:00

noch ein mal:

otra vez:

All Politics Is "Yokel"

2011-09-28T14:23:00.003-06:00

The ever-forthright Mr. Hitchens assesses the Tea Party and Sarah Palin:

On Ron Paul:

"Crash Course" Needs Grains of Salt For Palatability

2011-09-26T11:10:00.002-06:00

Crises probably are imminent in energy, environment, and economic systems.

But wealthy guys who "got out" with their money before the crash always seem to me to be insufferably proud of themselves and their good luck. Like most of that ilk, he's absolutely CERTAIN he's figured it out, and that he's absolutely right about it.

So take it with the usual dose of salt.

To Call Something a "UFO" Is a Text-book Case "Petitio Principii"

2011-09-23T09:14:00.004-06:00

That's "begging the question," in English. Dr. Tyson is a wonderful advocate for Science. I've posted this before, but it's so good, it can stand repeating.
(Edited, 9/26/11)

Debunking "The Black Book Of Communism"

2011-09-22T14:15:00.003-06:00

This is quite interesting information offered in about as dull and laborious a presentation as I've lately seen, and I DO dull and laborious presentations as a hobby, as you may readily ascertain for yourselves on my "ANOSOGNOSIA" blog...

Forty-Thousand Feet of Food

2011-09-22T07:45:00.001-06:00

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Wherein You Will Learn Why Elizabeth Warren Does NOT Occupy a Significant Place in the Obamster's Regime

2011-09-21T10:35:00.004-06:00

Here's why:

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there -- good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea -- God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." - Elizabeth Warren

Can't have THAT kind of thinking in the highest councils of the CorpoRat State!

Drill and Spill

2011-09-16T12:22:00.006-06:00

Via the NYTimes: This is a map of the US charting the known oil spills from pipelines in the last 10 years and the volume of them.

Since 1990, more than 110 million gallons of mostly crude and petroleum products have spilled from the nation’s mainland pipeline network. (Now there's more bubbling up from under the Gulf, around the Macondo Well. But they're never gonna stop, til it's all gone.)

More than half of it occurred in three states — Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — where more pipelines exist.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT, and carefully read the legends and the charts.

The Obamanator and Miz Hillary are about to agree to another, massive, trans-Continental pipeline to pump tar-sands crude from Alberta, Canada, down to refineries in Houston TX, from whence it will be sold to the highest bidder.

I know the argument that, given the high volumes of material these pipelines transport, 100 MILLION GALLONS, spread over 50 states, really isn't THAT much.

But it doesn't TAKE much to thoroughly fuck up some place for a decade or so.

Olbermann Assesses Al Gore's "24-Hours-Of-Reality"

2011-09-16T06:32:00.002-06:00

A Facebook friend, Carl Howard, wrote:

Whatever you do, DO NOT WATCH THIS! It is full of evil Global Warming alarmists and hoaxers using human tragedy to fatten their wallets! AGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Hide the children!@ Spare them, at least.

Red-State Update, With Jackie & Dunlap: Debates

2011-09-14T08:48:00.004-06:00

Day's Byack!
Ah sher am glayad these boyz's bayack fum they high-ate-us...
And just ignore, or mute, or skip over that pile of shit at the start hyping the Social Security killing "Jobs" Act. (These fuckers (not J & D, but Shamwow, Boner, Canter, et al) will stop at NOTHING to pander to their corpoRat masters.)

TDSWJS: September 13 Memorial

2011-09-13T12:37:00.001-06:00

It is this kind of trenchant, incisive, sharp-edged commentary that keeps winning the Emmys...

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Social Security Is NOT a "Ponzi" scheme, etc...

2011-09-12T07:43:00.002-06:00

Reich is completely, totally, utterly, unreservedly CORRECT about these points.

However, he's talking to the waves (aka, "pissin' in the wind"), cuz NO ONE in the CorpoRat/SCUM "press" will press the points to the offending (oh, boy, are they) candidates...

Two inviolable rules: You cannot call any self-professed GOPhuck a liar, and you cannot call any "Christian" a terrorist, no matter WHAT!

The Metastacization of "Security"

2011-09-07T06:08:00.002-06:00

Since 9/11, there have been more than 30,000 "Security" company start-ups, and more than a TWO MILLION more people employed in snooping for HSA, either officially or off-the-record.
The "National Security State" is firmly in place, and will NEVER be (peacefully) dislodged...

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA.

Penn and Teller: "The WAR on Drugs"

2011-09-04T07:13:00.003-06:00

When US Chamber Of Commerce Applauds, You're Not With The People

2011-09-03T15:21:00.003-06:00

Oh, Keith? Brian Beutler is incompetent. And incomprehensible. There must have been 50 pronouns without a single identifiable anaphora. Please, no mas!

Mr. Deity and the Philosopher

2011-08-31T10:53:00.000-06:00

For those who like their blasphemy "straight up!"

Dept of "It's Not Fucking Nuclear Physics": Evolution is a "Straight" Line

2011-08-30T07:38:00.001-06:00

It's The FUCKING Inequality, Stupid!

2011-08-24T11:01:00.000-06:00

The richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40% of its wealth. Inequality in the US is more extreme than it's been in almost a century — and the gap between the super rich and the poor and middle class people has widened drastically over the last 30 years.

Meanwhile, in Washington, a bitter partisan debate over how to cut deficit spending and reduce the US' 14.3 trillion dollar debt is underway. As low and middle class wages stagnate and unemployment remains above 9%, Republicans and Democrats are tussling over whether to slash funding for the medical and retirement programs that are the backbone of the US's social safety net, and whether to raise taxes — or to cut them further.

The budget debate and the economy are the battleground on which the 2012 presidential election race will be fought. And the United States has never seemed so divided — both politically and economically.

How did the gap grow so wide, and so quickly? And how are the convictions, campaign contributions and charitable donations of the top 1% impacting the other 99% of Americans? Fault Lines investigates the gap between the rich and the rest.

This episode of Fault Lines first aired on Al Jazeera English on August 2, 2011 at 0930 GMT.

ONS: SCROTUS Deprives Boor of Drill

2011-08-21T13:14:00.000-06:00

Abstinence Works! There's Only EVER Been One Case When It Failed: Jeezis!

2011-08-20T08:31:00.002-06:00

TDSWJS: Why It's Only A "Class War" When We Fight Back

2011-08-19T10:15:00.001-06:00

The Daily Show - World of Class Warfare - Warren Buffett vs. Wealthy Conservatives
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The Daily Show - World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over
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Koch Bros. v. Wake County (NC) Schools...

2011-08-16T08:29:00.001-06:00

Mr. Deity And the Believing Brain ~~ (Ew! Wattswidda HAIR?)

2011-08-07T12:53:00.002-06:00

DOTOF to Eli Cates, P'burgh, PA...
Don't ask about the cat...

Who IS "The Worst Governor Ever?" Vote HERE!

2011-08-07T08:34:00.001-06:00

They left off Christie (NJ), Daniels (IN), and nuestra concha chingada, Sasanna Martinez (NM).