Car Culture was a Mistake 7: Road Rage The End of Beef

Where's the Beef?

No this isn't another post about that stolen valor Republican liar Jason Nelson of Texass.

Or a missive on a forgotten Republican lie of 2021 when  Iowa Governor Starve the poor children Kim Reynolds and many others claimed the Biden led climate plan would mean Real Americans would not be able to eat hamburgers anymore.

But, the Netflix TV series centered around a Road Rage incident, which just garnered several Golden Globes for the actors involved...

Beef was a story which garnered a lot of praise for the fact that while the majority of characters were Asian, the story itself was not an "Asian" story.  But, instead just had Asian people in what Simu Liu and Issa Rae at the Golden Globes called "White people roles".  

Beef ended this summer so the post release coverage  of actor David Cho's confession of a "rapey" sexual encounter with his massage therapist, wasn't front and center during the Golden Globes.

The penultimate episode was quite bloody as Maria Bello's bored Billionaire character who get's chopped in two and the two main characters, Steven Yeun's "Danny" and Ali Wong's "Amy", feud leads them to a car crash off a cliff in the remote hardscrabble hills.  As the two struggled with injuries their mutual hatred and inability to work together to survive in the wild (although not actually far from civilization) I thought this series would end with these two's animosity being their mutual demise.  And I wonder if that bleak ending was planned and abandoned during production or if those scenes were shot and then changed after being screened or reviewed.

Which leads me to the so-called Chinese proverb He who sets out on revenge best dig two graves or whatever version you've heard of that saying involving Revenge and Two Graves, and how it's emblematic of our age's industry of false quotes from ancient thinkers.

Now, for a long time here in the States, Republicans and rightwingers have had a cottage industry in crafting fake quotes and attributing them to the Founding Fathers, usually around guns i.e. George Washington's "Dragon's Teeth" or Thomas Jefferson's "when governments fear the people there is liberty".  Organizations which safeguard Washington or Jefferson legacy usually have entire articles devoted to debunking these spurious quotes but, the reason rightwingers put their lies into the mouth's of the founding fathers is to use the stature and weight of the past to prop up their modern policy preferences.

It's the founding principle of "Constitutional Originalism" which is nothing more than Republicans using their interpretation of the Constitution (The Highest Law of the Land) as the final argument for why whatever it is Republicans want today is backed by the entire edifice of the History of America.

Anyway back to Beef, the series creator Lee Sung Jin said a real life road-rage incident was the inspiration of story;

The idea was loosely based on a road rage incident that actually happened to me," he said. 

"Someone went off on me and for some reason that day, I did not use sound judgment and impulsively decided to follow this person.  I didn't really have a set plan, I just wanted him to feel fear and let him know that it's not OK to do that to people." 

He continued: "But things went awry - certainly not like they do in the show - and what happened that afternoon ended up inspiring Beef.

Road Rage is such a prevalent phenomenon and such a dangerous one that the Illinois State Police have a whole webpage devoted to knowing the warning signs, things to avoid and how to react when involved in a situation.  It's another part of car culture which for years was known about, but was treated like just another price of freedom.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) supports Child Pornography and Adam Lanza's Right to Murder Children

Senator Ted Cruz is the latest in the string of needle-dicked pissant Republicans to bring their sick and twisted ideology to Washington DC.

Like a plague of locusts they descend upon the Capitol with the goal of grinding the American people into dust. Cruz thought he would school Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) about the Bill of Rights.

Senator Cruz: The question that I would pose to the senior senator from California is Would she deem it consistent with the Bill of Rights for Congress to engage in the same endeavor that we are contemplating doing with the Second Amendment in the context of the First or Fourth Amendment, namely, would she consider it constitutional for Congress to specify that the First Amendment shall apply only to the following books and shall not apply to the books that Congress has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights? Likewise, would she think that the Fourth Amendment’s protection against searches and seizures could properly apply only to the following specified individuals and not to the individuals that Congress has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights? 

So, according to Cruz's view of the Senate and Constitution Child Pornography magazines and websites can't be deemed illegal because of the First Amendment.

Also I, as a Police Officer, am unable to arrest people deemed criminals because the Senate can't specify that some citizens lose their Fourth Amendment Rights.

And I couldn't do anything when a gang banger threatens to "catch you on the street" and "cap your bitch-ass" to a person in my town. I can't arrest him because that would be a violation of his First Amendment rights.

And Senator Cruz's condescending despicable rhetorical question was all about protecting the right of murderers. According to Senator Cruz, the Second Amendment Rights of Nancy and Adam Lanza are more important than 26 Americans, including 20 children, Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Republicans are twisted and evil. Their minds have become so warped by their sick ideology that they can not support Laws or Government.

The US Senate is attempting to create sensible Gun Restrictions. No Republicans will support such a Law. When a Country loses the Rule of Law you have Anarchy and that was as big a fear to the Founding Fathers as any.

Update:
I could have highlighted any number of possible scenarios (could the Senate stop the publication of a book containing Senator Cruz's bank account numbers, access codes, passwords, SSN, mothers' maiden name along with his address and photos of his daily routine, routes to work, time he likes to shower for instance) but it comes down to the fundamental question can the Government pass any Legislation?

Turning the US Senate into the Polish Seym

The Golden Freedom, which the magnates defended with every bit of chicanery and power they commanded, was the freedom of the few to oppress the many... ~ James A. Michener's, Poland

In the novel Poland, Michener describes how the "incredible liberum veto, by which one man in a Seym (parliament) of hundreds could negate and prorogue the entire work of the Seym by merely crying 'I oppose!' was a major cause of Poland's disappearance from the map of Europe". 

The Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom was "partitioned" out of existence by Prussia, Austria, and Russia during the 18th century by subverting the Polish Parliament.

Polish Magnates (Representatives) were bought off by the foreign nations to obstruct and Filibuster any and all reforms in the Parliament. Then having stymied and brought the Nation to a standstill they simply moved in and did as they pleased.

Filibuster Reform in the US Senate has apparently being undermined. The current Unconstitutional rules adopted by the Senate allow for secret holds, opposition and obstruction by singular Senators who cry 'I Oppose!'

The Republican Senators abusing this Unconstitutional rule are doing so for the Plutocracy and Powerful Interest Groups who own them.

The Agreement reached this Thursday morning would permit a Senate majority to bypass the filibuster on a motion to proceed to debate with the condition that either a group of senators on each side of the aisle agrees, or the minority is guaranteed the chance to offer amendments.

The new rules limit debate time for sub-cabinet and district court nominations and reduces the number of required hours between cloture and final confirmation from 30 to two. It also lowers the number of cloture motions required to go to conference with the House.

“This does very little to change how the Senate as a body functions,” said a pro-reform Democratic aide. “After these small changes the Senate will operate much the same way as it did yesterday.”

Like the Polish people of the 18th century We, the People are being held hostage to the whims of Rapacious Moneyed Predators. And the Plutocracy's Senators will stand up and oppose any efforts which hamper the efforts of the Rich to sink their talons deep into Us and drain the American populace of their Money and Lives.

Addendum:
Of course, the Partitioning of Poland did have a positive impact on American History as numerous Polish Officers came to the US and provided The Continental Congress and George Washington with an experienced Officer Core. Including, Chicago's favorite Polish Count Casimir Pulaski, the "Father of American Cavalry".

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Here in Chicago we celebrate Casimir Pulaksi Day. All across Cook County government offices are closed, Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Public Library, Springfield Public Schools, and Illinois state-wide public and private schools are closed as well. Wisconsin (the whole state) also closes on Pulaski Day. According to Arizona Bigot Tom Horne, Illinois school districts are inconsistent with American Values for honoring a foreigner.

No Austerity. No Compromise with the Vultures. No bargaining with the Plutocracy. Barack Obama has the Mandate. It's time The Rich pay their Fair Share.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.  - James Madison

Now, that Real America has rejected the preposterous slanders and smears of the rabid conservatives comes the serious task of reorganizing the Nation.

Overusing the bromide of being doomed to repeat history it seems We do have a difficult time learning from that which has passed before.

The Empire of Byzantium struggled with many of the same issues We, the People face today. Religion. Nobility. Taxes. Military interventions. Dynastic struggles. Culture Changes. Legal Codes.

As the centuries passed, new generations inherited problems and structures created by previous ones. They did their best to build upon the past work, reconcile new ideas with the old or create entirely new ones, but often their efforts became a jumble, a convoluted and a confusing mixture. Hence the term byzantine.

This was well understood by the Founding Fathers who sought to blend their new ideas with the ideas of the Ancient Greeks, Renaissance Italians, and the Thinkers of the Enlightenment in the creation of the New Nation.

One of the great myths of America is that we don't have Class Struggle and Class Warfare. Class division was written about and feared by James Madison, Father of the Constitution,

"The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property..."

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Class Warfare was a major preoccupation of Madison and the other Founders. Some of the Founders, notably Alexander Hamilton, greatly feared that Class War was already upon them (he was thinking of Shay's Rebellion) and the common man would establish a Democratic Tyranny voting themselves the property of the Rich, but it didn't happen then and it isn't happening now.

James Madison believed his "extended republic" model aided by supplemental checks built into the Constitution would stave off Class Warfare, but that within 2 or 3 generations the struggles of rich and poor would result in conflict.

In 1829-1830 Madison became convinced the country was headed for Class warfare by 1930. He reasoned the massive populace crowded together would,

"necessarily be reduced by competition for employment to wages which afford them the bare necessaries of life. The proportion being without property can not be expected to sympathize sufficiently with its [property] right to be safe depositories of power over them." 

So, either the demos would rise up in revolt "by a law of nature". Or the Rich would degenerate into Oligarchy and destroy the Republic because,

"A republic cannot stand upon bayonets. We are free today substantially but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few."

But, this is not the Great Man of History longing. A Great President lets other people rise and the greatest Americans often come from the Middle Class.

James Madison knew this. He and the other Founders also warned of Foreign Entanglements, Standing Armies, and Unchecked Corporate Power.

Do Conservatives not re-read their own mythology? The Myth of Ronald Reagan wasn't that he got the Soviets to pass a universal healthcare coverage for their citizens. It was that Reagan goaded the Red Menace into an Arms Race which bankrupted them. What did Bin Laden accomplish with the 9/11 attacks? He got us to waste $10 Trillion in overseas folly of Empire-building in the Middle East. And not to mention the thousands of american families shattered by the physical and mental scars of war.

What happened, since the End of World War II, was the establishment of the Permanent War Status by the United States have drained the lifeblood and treasury of the Country.

Who has benefited from the Overseas American Empire and the Massive DoD Budget? Undying Corporations and an increasingly isolated Cadre of Elites who see no Country and no reason to spend to aid the poor, or support the infrastructure of this Nation.

President Harry Truman famously stated,

"Poor Ike! He'll sit there and say 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will happen. It's not like the army. He'll find it very frustrating."

President Eisenhower presided over 8 years of American Prosperity. Ike had an America that was untouched by World War 2 and thus had it's infrastructure intact with which to dominate the world market. But, President Eisenhower had a tax rate of 52% on Corporations and a Top Tax rate of 91%!

"[W]e cannot afford to reduce taxes, reduce income, until we have in sight a program of expenditures that shows that the factors of income and of outgo will be balanced. Now that is just to my mind sheer necessity.” 02/17/1953

However, Ike had the benefit of a populace which was not going through a radical upheaval. Ike had a populace which was for all intents homogeneous religiously. He also had a Class of Wealthy Americans which still believed in the idea of Noblese Oblige. 

And what did Eisenhower warn of at the end of his Presidency? The Military-Industrial-Complex. 

Unlike in Ike's day it's not the same, today. The Rich see no reason to aid the poor or even to invest in the United States.

Mitt Romney's former energy policy advisor Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources. gave a speech on 09/13/12 to Congress demanding National Parks be opened to Oil Exploitation and that his Federal Corporate Welfare which he's received since 1967 continue. Hamm also pouted that, "Continental’s effective tax rate is 38%!" Except it isn't. Over the past 5 years Hamm's Corporation Contenintal Inc paid 2.2% in Income Taxes when adjusted for all the tax breaks, corporate kickbacks and federal assistance he's received.

On the books his Oil Company probably has a stated tax rate of 38%. But, Hamm paid next to nothing when all the byzantine tax laws are applied. The Tax Code has been made circuitous specifically because it aids the Plutocracy.

A business owner in Las Vegas on Wednesday November 7th, told a CBS radio station that he had fired 22 of his 114 "mostly Hispanic" employees because President Barack Obama had won re-election. David noted that he had "mostly Hispanic" employees and some had come to work wearing Obama shirts on election day.

The Republican Party's favorite Michele Bachmann believes in a platform of No Taxes on Corporations. That would be Zero. 

Corporate Profits have gone up quarter after quarter since the beginning of 2009. Verizon, for instance, reported a pre-tax income of $24.2 Billion in 2009-2010 and received, through U.S. federal income tax loopholes, a $1.3 Billion dollar refund.

The Richest 1% of this Nation control 50% of all financial investments. The top 10% have almost 90% of stocks, bonds, trust funds, and business equity, and over 75% of non-home real estate. Less than 10% of the country own the United States of America. 

But it's important to note that for the Rich, most of that income does not come from "working": in 2008, only 19% of the income reported by the 13,480 individuals or families making over $10 million came from wages and salaries.

What the Plutocracy wants is a closure of the Middle Class because the Middle Class is too unpredictable. It's much better to have a pliant working class who are satisfied with crumbs from the government and whatever wages/benefits the Moneyed Overlords are willing to bequeath upon them.

The Middle Class too often flexes it's political power and votes themselves things like Supplemental Social Security Income and Medicaid for the poor. The Middle Class votes against Child labor and for safer working conditions and regulations on the dumping of coal slag or mercury waste from Oil refineries into rivers and lakes. The Middle Class fights and strikes for pensions and dental care for their family.

Much easier for the Rich to move to a Third World Hellhole and have a Totalitarian Government enforce Wage Slavery and Corporate Bondage.

Today, the reason "47%" do not pay Federal Income Taxes are because of the slap-dash additions and shaky edifices built into the Tax Code. The EITC, marriage deduction, child deductions, home ownership deductions were Republican backed ideas to encourage people to adopt mores, behaviors and family structures which Republicans favored. The biggest Moochers are the Ultra-Rich.

The last time we had a restructuring of the Tax Codes, with the Bush Tax Cuts, Conservative shills for the 1% shamelessly lied about it's goals. The Heritage Foundation's 2001 report proclaimed if the Bush tax cut legislation were to pass, it would:

1) Effectively pay off the federal debt; 

2) Reduce the federal surplus by $1.4 trillion; 

3) Substantially increase family income; 

4) Save the entire Social Security surplus; 

5) Increase personal savings; 

6) Create more job opportunities.

None of this happened and we've been stuck in the Republican Recession ever since. But, what this did accomplish was a massive transfer of the Nation's Wealth into the hands of the Ultra-Rich.

What the Rich desire is the semblance of Democracy with the reality of Plutocracy. They privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

Most of the problems, President Obama is dealing with, he inherited. Some he's allowed to happen; for instance, the ratio of public-sector employees to the overall population is the lowest it’s been since 1968.

What Barack should do is tear down the rotten Tax Structure and Economy of Income Inequality built by right-wing lies:

1) Let the Bush Tax Cuts expire, completely.

2) Void the Sequestration.

3) Eliminate the Cap on Social Security taxes.

4) Raise the Tax Rate on Capital Gains and tax it as normal income.

5) Eliminate the deferred compensation rule.

6) Eliminate any and all Tax breaks and federal subsidies with Corporations which out-source jobs and off-shore manufacturing factories.

7) Bring back a Financial Transaction Tax to curb Wall Street volatility and curb rampant Hedge Fund speculation gambling.

8) Propose a Tax cut package for the first $250,000 of income (98% of America).

9) Create and augment spending and hiring for public-sector employees.

10) The follow-on Budget should include a 50% reduction in DoD spending. 

Then watch Republicans tear themselves apart as they reveal their entire Party is devoted to guarding the obscene theft and reverse-robin-hood robbery of Middle Class wealth by the Rich. House Speaker Bohener immediately genuflected to the Rich after President Obama's resounding win. Congressman Peter King of New York has declared he and the Republican House members have a "Mandate" to protect the Tax Breaks for the Rich.

There is a window here for Barack Obama to cement himself as True Class Warrior fighting for the 300 Million Americans who desire the American Dream but are being shackled with the chains of Wage Slavery and Corporate Bondage to the Moocher Class of the Plutocracy. It is our Job as a Center Left People to pick him up and stand beside him and guide him to that Destiny.

*- I think Jerome Corsi did this same post, except his use of "man-date" meant Barack Obama was Gay Muslim *Married* to a Pakistani Man whom he later murdered.

Birthers Vindicated! Barack Obama does not have the proper Bloodline to be President

"He was hip, he can dance, he can sing" - Republican Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, who while "struggling" on his $174,000 congressional salary, found time to explain why Young people voted for President Obama. I'm sure Duffy meant to say 'There goes Obama shuckin' and jivin' again!'

Right-Wingers firmly believe that "white" people elected President Obama and that if they can flame enough racial tensions "white" people will choose not to re-elect him.

"He’s our first African-American president. The country voted for him because of that. It made us feel good about [our]self," Republican Joe Walsh, worst Representative in Congress, told an Illinois Town Hall, the accepted dogma amongst right-wing bigots.

Birtherism is the crude form of this attack. Of course, Birthers attempted to gussy-up their rank bigotry with "scientific" analysis of the LFBC. However, since the wretches started with premise Barack Obama wasn't born in America no amount of data will dissuade them from their beliefs and all information must confirm their preconceived conclusion.

But, now back for Round 2 is Dinesh D'Souza, the reactionary dominionist, who wrote The Roots of Obama's Rage, a piece of conservative bilge designed to allow the more sophisticated right-wing bigots to bemoan President Obama's "Kenyan anti-colonial" attitude, as the viciously racist Newt Gingrich did upon the books' release.

Back in 2010, in my post Teabaggers Money to Be Had, I wrote:

Having written that Barack Obama is ruled by the african muslim ghost of his dead father to overthrow and kill whitey, Dinesh D'Souza is now making the rounds on Toxic Right Wing Radio to pimp his hoo hoo hoo chuckle chuckle chuckle hilariously titled "Roots" book. Glenn Beck had him on and somberly observed D'Souza's pulled straight from his ass article isn't "theory", "it's fact, just fact".

But, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the Conservative scum are receiving their orders from the Wealthy who want Republicans back into power so they can continue their unprecedented theft of Trillions from America. It's not a coincidence D'Souza's article appears in Forbes magazine.

Of course, I find it hilarious that the two Right Wing Champions of Barack Obama isn't American are Soviet Born and Raised Orly Taitz and a gentleman named Dinseh D'Souza.

Well, Joe Ricketts, owner of the Chicago Cubs and huge fan of having Rahm Emmanuel and the Government force Illinois residents to fork over $300 million dollars to fix his family's baseball stadium, declared, "Our Republic is under assault from our government," is part of a wealthy cadre of Plutocrats who are producing a movie based on D'Souzas work.

"Obama has a dream, a dream from his father, the sins of colonialism be set right and America be downsized."

Obama is the secret Kenyan, Marxist, Muslim bred and trained for One Purpose! To destroy America from within!

It's the highfalutin' form of Birtherism. He doesn't possess the Sangreal of the Founding Fathers. His blood is not pure. His blood is of those who Hate America and do not genuflect before American Exceptionalism.

Mitt Romney during his interview with conservative fluffer Mark Halperin, played this sinister bloodline meme,

"My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state.  Those experiences in totality have given me an understanding of how America works..."

Romney has the proper bloodline. He was born in the Purple. His education (shhh don't say Harvard) and pedigree are of The Right Stuff.

Personally, I don't think this is a winning strategy although it subtle and clever. I don't believe it will sway people to voting against Little Nikita Barack. But, from my perspective it appears to have no downside. We shall all see if the millennials are swayed by this cheap bigoted garbage to overthrow the Usurper and install Dauphin Willard Mitt, the Duke of Bain, House of Romney into his birthright.

Joe Ricketts hates President Obama's spending, but loves Socialism when it's used to help his family's baseball team

While the rich, ever a self-conscious minority in a republican state, were constantly driven by the fear of danger, even when no danger existed in fact, to take aggressive and oppressive measures to head off the slightest threat to their property. - Douglas Adair, The Extended Republic, The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End his Spending for Good is the Title of Joe Ricketts 54 page, $10,000,000 dollar proposal designed to prove that President Obama is not the "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln" America thought and laments that Americans "still aren't ready to hate this President."

According to the second page of the proposal, Joe Ricketts said it himself, "If this Nation had seen that ad they never would have elected Barack Obama."

The ads in question will try to paint Barack Obama as an angry black militant who learned his anti-Americanism from his father and then from Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr. Joe Ricketts belief is the McCain Campaign's decision not run the blatantly racist ads ultimately lead to McCain/Palin's defeat.

Since his election the Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who wish to turn this country into a giant camp of Wage Slaves have had one goal for 2012; attack President Obama so often, on so many fronts, for so many perceived slights, with so many baseless accusations, and so savagely that it would cause amongst the American People a sort of Weariness. A Fatigue of let's just get back to some Republican stooge whom the Media fawns over and conservatives forgive every transgression so that we may be left alone. But, Right-Wingers are never going to leave you alone. The want total Hegemonic Domination of the Government so that they may institute their Totalitarian Control over the lives and minds of the American People.

Joe Ricketts is the Patriarch of the family who owns the Chicago Cubs. And this is the key to this man's thinking. As a billionaire Plutocrat Joe Ricketts feels it is entirely acceptable to have the Tax Payers of Illinois and the resident's of Chicago provide his family hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild and spruce up Wrigley Field. After all he's the elite. He's the Job Creator. He's the good guy. [See My Post: Illinois Taxpayer Welfare for the Billionaire Ricketts Family to rebuild Wrigley Field?

It's abhorrent that Plutocrats, like Joe Ricketts, have successfully created a Country in which they Privatize their Profits and Subsidize their Losses, but now they want their companies borne aloft on the backs of the Tax Payer. Oil Companies have long been able to shift the burden of running their business onto the backs of the Middle Class and Poor and it seems the Plutocrats of this Nation realize that their campaign to demonize Barack Obama could result in the election of Mitt Romney who has guaranteed to slash programs for the Poor, raise taxes on the Middle Class and transfer Trillions of dollars to the Rich.

As I wrote in my previous post,

Private business, the Free Market, "Job Creators", and a Government not involved in "picking winners and losers" is a the biggest myth peddled by the evil Republican Party and their Right-Wing lackeys. What the Republicans want and what they get their Conservative Media Goons to report ad nauseam is a Government controlled by the 1% and aligned to cater to the Plutocracy's interest.

That is what is driving Joe Rickett's "Ending the Spending" PAC. Ricketts is of the 1% who firmly believes that spending tax dollars on teachers pensions or healthcare coverage for sick and elderly people is ignorant evil socialism. Spending hundreds of millions of Tax Payer dollars on a baseball ballpark is Righteous Goodness.

The Founding Fathers greatly feared the Income Inequality situation we have today. Most were afraid the multitudinous poor would rise up and slaughter the rich few but, it wasn't unforeseen to them that the rich might exert Oligarchical Control over the Nation, as well.

"In all the governments which were considered as beacons to the republican patriots and lawgivers, the rights of persons were subjected to those of property. The poor were sacrificed to the rich," - James Madison, Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States.

This packet was produced on May 10, 2012, but didn't come to everyone's attention until a week later.

As soon as the details emerged, Joe Ricketts backed away from the plan with this statement,

Not only was this plan merely a proposal - one of several submitted to the Ending Spending Action Fund by third-party vendors - but it reflects an approach to politics that Mr. Ricketts rejects and it was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion for a direction to take. Mr. Ricketts intends to work hard to help elect a President this fall who shares his commitment to economic responsibility, but his efforts are and will continue to be focused entirely on questions of fiscal policy, not attacks that seek to divide us socially or culturally.

So, Ricketts doesn't even have the courage of his convictions. Like all Koch-roaches, Ricketts wants to do his dirty work in secret, under the coverage of his anonymous PAC. Slandering and demonizing the President, from the cover of darkness, like a coward.

Well, guess what? Joe had just better hope enough frat boys continue to patronize his park and drink the piss warm overpriced Miller Lite he peddles. The Chicago Cubs just lost a supporter. I've been a Chicago Cubs fans since 1982. Ryne Sandberg was my favorite player as child. I'll never go to Wrigley Field again.

Republicans consider the Act of Voting to be Fraud and hate Democracy

It's not that the Republicon Party is actually worried about Voter Fraud it's that they consider the Act of Voting itself to be the fraud and quasi-criminal. Republicons have been fighting to restrict voting and limit election turnout because it aids them and their Owners, the Plutocratic Elite.

Voting has always meant power. Even now with the increasing control of both major parties by the 1%, Republicons and their Plutocratic Overlords hate voting because it means the voter may choose a Government which does not seek to defend through laws and violence the stolen wealth accumulated by the Plutocracy.

Much of this stems from Alexander Hamilton's fear the Demos would rise up and slaughter their Plutocratic Oppressors. The 1% today don't fear the Demos Rising because they have a powerful enough Paramilitary Domestic Army,

"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh largest army in the world,' NY Tyrant Michael Bloomberg,

supplemented by the likes of BlackWater if need be.

What the 1% fear today is the 99%. This why the evolving OWS and #Occupy Movement has so angered the Rich, it may hamper the crooked gambling system known as "American Capitalism" which funnels TRILLIONS in stolen loot to them.

Republicons, however, are always engaged in repackaging their Theft and Transfer of Wealth under new slogans and are constantly pushing the ACORN/New Black Panther/Rampant Minority Voting Fraud lies. They know by lying they can push laws which restrict access to Universal Suffrage. Republicons first service to their Moneyed Masters is keeping people away from the voting booth.

The 1% sees the Univseral Suffrage as an affront to their Natural Rights. Since the founding of the Nation the 1% believe the Govenment should represent them exclusively.

"The People who own this Country Ought to Govern It." - John Jay.

To the 1% Government exists only to provide a framework for business cooperation, to defend Businesses from foreign invaders, create a extensive structured framework to quell and quash domestic dissent and create a massive military to open up Markets for Business to explore and exploit abroad. To the 1%, anything else done by Government is "Un-American" and "Unconstitutional".

"The 80,000 is a net number. The private sector created 104,000 jobs. The public sector happily shrank by 24,000 jobs. Both of that’s good." - George Will cheered when Americans lose their jobs, because Government workers not helping Private Businesses steal money or kill people are unconstitutional.

Matthew Vadum at The American Thinker clearly enunciated the conservative view of Democracy in his article, Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American.

Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery. Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American...

This is what the 1% thinks of Voting.

Paul Ryan's Deathcare Plan is designed to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and would serve up the least powerful Americans like a trussed-pig to business interests by getting government out of providing healthcare to the sick, the old, the indigent. At the basis of his Paul Ryan's Plan is the squeezing of eveyr last dollar from those with little hope before allowing them to die.

Republicon Mike Lee of Utah is one of the scummiest sychophants serving today. Mike Lee preceded Newt Gingrich in calling Child Labor laws Unconstitutional and routinely made pro-child exploitation videos on his youtube channel. Lee purposefully used his Senate Office to sabotage the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), because the CFPB is designed to stop the rampant corruption by the Richest 1%. Lee's constant fall back is to call everything he opposes Unconstitutional, which according to Lee's leash holders it is because it hampers their crimes.

The 1% don't see the ridiculous bloated DoD contracts as welfare, they don't see subsidies for Oil Companies as theft, they don't believe Corporations negative tax rates, meaning they made more after taxes than before they paid those taxes, is wrong.

The 1% think they are the Neo-Feudalist Lords. Trillions belong to them by the mere fact of who they are. Wealth and Power are theirs by Right. Anything which gets in their way is axiomatically wrong and needs be fought by their Guards and Defenders.

Michael Bloomberg talks about the Republican Recession

"Those who own this country ought to govern it," - John Jay

New York Billionaire Mike Bloomberg, angry that his beloved 1% are correctly being blamed for Wall Street's Rigged Toxic Economic System which led to the current Financial Disaster, recently told the OWS protests; "I hear your complaints. Some of them are totally unfounded. It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis. It was, plain and simple, Congress who forced everybody to go and give mortgages to people who were on the cusp."

Thank You Mayor Bloomberg for pointing out this Economic Disaster was accomplished at the behest of the 1% by the REPUBLICAN PARTY. This is a Republican Recession. This is the Economic Collapse is the Fault of the Republican Party.

Okay not exactly, the current Recession is being pushed on America by the Rich 1% Plutocrats with the vicious Republican dogs and conservative dupes aiding them. Bloomberg can't help himself. His Aristocratic sensibilities are offended by the sight of the 99% expressing their 1st Amendment Rights. But, Bloomberg can't wallow in the mud like Faux News "Reporters" or Conservative Smear Merchants.

Bloomberg isn't the only angry One Percenter, BofA CEO Brian T. Moynihan is "incensed" by the plebes. How dare these OWS types not recognize their Moneyed Masters beneficence! "I, like you [speaking to BofA Executives], get a little incensed when you think about how much good all of you do, whether it's volunteer hours, charitable giving we do, serving clients and customers well," Moynihan said. Addressing critics, he said, "You ought to think a little about that before you start yelling at us."

But, let's not forget the Wall Street Criminals and Bank Thieves could not have accomplished this theft of Billions without the aid of the Republican Party. But, unlike what the alternate reality the Rightwing revisionists are trying to sell these days the Government didn't force any bank, any lender to make these loans. The Banksters and Wall Street Criminals wanted the housing bubble and choose the Republicans in Congress and the White House to push through legislation making their crimes "legal".

It doesn't even start with Senator Phill Gramm or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley repeal of Glass-Steagal in 2000. It doesn't end with the Heritage Foundation's 2001 ridiculous claims the Bush Tax Cuts on the Wealthy would accomplish the following:

1) Effectively pay off the federal debt;
2) Reduce the federal surplus by $1.4 trillion;
3) Substantially increase family income;
4) Save the entire Social Security surplus;
5) Increase personal savings;
6) Create more job opportunities.

No this Republican Recession is not an accident. It is the culmination of the Republican Party's Owners to shrink Government down to be drowned in a bathtub. The despicable Grover Norquist, originator of the Drowning phrase, longtime conservative smear merchant, long-time partner of convicted criminal Jack Abramoff, president of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, said President Bush will be remembered “long after people can no longer pronounce or spell Fallujah.”

And Grover will be correct. Bush's "Ownership Society" ideals, which began when he was Governor of Texas in the 1990s, will be remembered in US History classes as the either, the realization of a long held Republican goal, the destruction of the Middle Class, the largest Transfer of Wealth to the Richest 1%, and the creation of perpetual Wage Slavery for America or the rise of #Occupy and the beginning of the Renaissance of the American People.

Once Bush got into the White House (and in his spare time of ordering Americans to torture, making up stories about phantom Iraqi WMDs, and not spending much time worrying about Osama Bin Laden) Bush was aiding and abetting Alan Greenspan and the Wall Street Thieves in creating an financial housing bubble in which Wall Street would end up receiving Trillions of dollars under the guise of helping everyone own a home, "And part of it is working together as a Nation to encourage folks to own their home." President George W. Bush, Oct. 15, 2002.

The really bad credit default swaps, the really divorced from reality derivative gambling, the really evil chop and blend bundling of worthless toxic assets into AAA rated loans occurred between 2002-2006, at a time the White House, Supreme Court, House of Representatives, and Senate were all completely dominated by Republicans.

Republicans are in the business of destroying Government. But, Republicans never take blame and for what they have deliberately wrought. So even though private sector loans were responsible,

During those same explosive three years [2004-2006], private investment banks — not Fannie and Freddie — dominated the mortgage loans that were packaged and sold into the secondary mortgage market. In 2005 and 2006, the private sector securitized almost two thirds of all U.S. mortgages, supplanting Fannie and Freddie, according to a number of specialty publications that track this data.

Ask any conservative what caused the Financial Collapse, they will cite Fannie and Freddie, ACORN and Barney Frank. But, the rising inequality in our Society? The Incredible Gap between the Richest 0.1% and the Rest of America? That is unknown to them.

So we have Republicans at the behest of their Moneyed Masters enacting policies, rigging laws, and ignoring crimes which has nearly destroyed the Nation, has made millions of Americans unemployed and plunged the 99% into a spiral of destitution which will take a decades long radical battle against the 1%, who will spend every second cheating, stealing, buying politicians, rewriting laws, rigging elections, altering textbooks and the historical narrative, employing thousands of rightwing hacks at conservative think tanks and, yes, relying on Govenrment officials to discourage, harass, arrest and beat We, the 99%.

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Bloomberg's Awful Comment; What can we say for certain regarding the GSEs?

My sense is that these are people who can’t accept that some markets, especially financial ones, are disasters when completely unregulated – and thus find any far-fetched excuse to blame the government.

Republican Divine Rights

While conservatives seek President Obama's removal through the "bullet box" and "second amendment remedies " because he isn't a White Christian Fascist it's interesting to note The Right has lapsed into it's Aristocratic patterns again.

During the American Revolution when Brilliant Progressives George Washington, Ben Franklin, Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson were crafting the revolutionary doctrine of a State divorced from religion and a Representative Democratic government, the Conservatives of the Era (The Loyalists) were busy killing Patriots and Americans and supporting the Divine Right of Kings.

And whom do we find the Conservatives of today supporting for Government, the idiot Republican children of idiot Republicans. Ben Quayle, Rand Paul, George Bush, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and on...

It's part of the Republican core beliefs. It's in the Blood. While less sophisticated conservatives merely look at the shade of President Obama's skin, more sophisticated racists take it one step further.

To conservatives only the right blood line can make a political leader. Even if that person starts wars which lead to the deaths of thousands of innocents, bankrupts the nation and destroys the middle class like the worst President in History George Bush or is a moronic chicken hawk pornographic website writer like Ben Quayle, they contain the proper aristocratic blood.

The Republican Party wants America to be a Neo-Feudal society. They view themselves as Aristocratic overlords smarter and better than the majority of Americnas and they view their conservative hate mongers as the guardians of their wealth and position.

They aren't even subtle about their vicious slander of President Obama. What do you think the constant attacks on his parentage, his religion, his wife, his children, his belief system are? Do you really believe they are a cogent rational disagreement with his political ideology? No they are bigoted attacks on his birth. To Republicans President Obama doesn't have the right blood, he doesn't have the birthright, he doesn't have the Republicans Divine Right of Rulership.

The Republicans called President Obama a Terrorist during the election so labeling him a Godless Socialist isn't that big a deal.

Vote Them All Out?

Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

The Federal Government is broken. It's the legacy of Grover Norquist and the Reaganites. They wanted to defund, deregulate and destroy the Government so that the Moneyed Kleptocrats, the Plutocratic Tyrants could exert total control over the nation.

Well, it worked. Deregulation of the housing market allowed the rampant bank speculation which lead to the multiple bubbles of the Reagan, Bush 41 and W43 years; which precipitated the Republican controlled bailouts of the Savings & Loans and Mega-Banks. It's not that Government is the answer but it's not the problem. Government's role since the Founding of America has been to curb the voracious appetites of Moneyed Power.

The Founders knew history and were versed in the classics. The knew the cycles of Government laid down by Polybius, they knew the underlying reasons the Roman Republic ended, they knew the how the Aristocratic classes controlled and destroyed the Byzantine Empire, they knew the fragmentation of nations and the devastation of Religious Wars caused by the establishment of the one true faith.

They warned us to be ever vigilant, to guard against letting the Kleptocrats take over, to staying out of Foreign Entanglements, that War is a Racket. They laid the groundwork to guide us and help us, but like any system, those invested in corrupting and subverting the system work ceaselessly to undermine it and through the years they have succeeded. Our Founders and their Sons named them, The Bankers, the Capitalists, the Military-Industrial-Complex, but despite the warnings of those who have seen the naked aggression of the Moneyed Tyrants, the Kleptocrats are Ascendant.

They craft the Legislation, the choose how the that Legislation should be interpreted, they tell us how we can dissent and when they don't like it they craft false dissent. They give the orders to the President, to the Congress regardless of Party Affiliation. Because they are the Party; the Party of Property, the Party of Power, the Party of Money. They are the United States, We are their Thralls.

Racist Limbaugh Hoist by his own Petard

or more likely in the case of that bloated flabby sack of blubber, Hoist by his own Glenn Bec de Corbin.

So, Racist Limbaugh castigated President Obama for a Thesis on the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution. Racist Limbaugh breathlessly called Obama "a little boy" and with righteous indignation Racist Limbaugh declared Obama had "utter disdain" for the Constitution.

Of course, the whole Thesis is false, a made up post by a blogger who so hates(?) President Obama he crafted a fake blog post to show how bad President Obama is...

This doesn't matter to Racist Limbaugh, because even if the whole story is false, he can rightly say I know Obama thinks it.

Racist Limbaugh then went on the offensive and declared his actions were necessary because such falsehoods where attributed to him in his terminated NFL ownership bid. Limbaugh is a classic projectionist. He ascribes his misdeeds to his political opponents because he assumes everyone is as deceitful and untrustworthy as he is...

Racist Rush, everyone knows you are a bloated bigoted racist who would physically whip Obama if he could get away with it. We know that's what you think but not because we are lying scum like you or the Punk Ass Bitches who make up and support the Republican Party but because there exist actual documented quotes in which Limbaugh tried to obscure his racism under the guise of the media is to blame for wanting a black quarterback to do well. (From Think Progress; Stunningly Racist Punk Ass Bitch Republican Steve King can't find anything racist from Limbaugh. And I couldn't find any military service from Steve King, despite King being born in 1949 and the Vietnam War still being fought when he turned 18...)

But, the pathetic Right bewailed the MSM and declared they would forever boycott the NFL when Limbaugh was dropped in his bid for ownership of the St. Louis Rams. They beseeched Limbaugh to sue every news organization which used the fabricated quotes. Of course, using falsehoods to castigate your political opponents is wrong and indefensible. But, now that Racist Limbaugh is guilty of such actions there will be ZERO posts on the Punk Ass Bitch Conservative blogs declaring Racist Rush to be wrong. Because the Punk Ass Bitches who make up and support the Republican Party are rank hypocrites who will believe any and all lies about President Obama.

For instance here's my new pal, Bloviating Zeppelin's take on the issue, I therefore give Mr Limbaugh an easy pass. Next.

Bloviating Zeppelin made himself known to me when he chastised me for not having Life Experience. If the type of Life Experience he's talking about leads me to be a rank hypocrite defender of lying racists like he is I'll pass...

Update:
Here is a link to cartoonish buffoon Michael Ledeen's complete dreck of writing on Obama's Thesis, in which he cavalierly demands Maybe instead of fuming about words that Rush Limbaugh never uttered, the paladins of the free press might ask the president about words that he did write. Even more shamelessly the dishonest Ledeen defends his deliberate slander by claiming It worked because it’s plausible. It convinced Ledeen because he is such an unthinking zealot and wanted it to be true he'd believe any lies told about Obama especially the ones Ledeen tells himself.

Read some of the comments from the ragged bunch of Birtherites declaring this proof of Obama's Marxist Islamo-Nazism. The blithering Punk Ass Bitches on the Right had their "minds" made up for them and are willing to believe everything which confirms their blind ignorant hatred of Obama even when it's complete lies of Fox News...

I completely forget that Michael Ledeen has zero credibility or bravery for this doctrinal statement: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." ~ As relayed by flabby mush butt Chicken Hawk Coward Jonah Goldberg, April 23, 2002.

Republicans Hate You but, so do the Democrats

"What? Why would you do that?!?!?"
"Because I hate you Trebek..." ~ Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery from SNL Celebrity Jeopardy

Mitt Reagan Redux flanked by Bush III is urging Americans to rise up and violently overthrow the Democrats in the Federal Government so they can once again enjoy the spoils of the Kleptocracy with their Republican allies.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Reagan Redux compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again lead the American Revolution."

Both parties hate you. Those in high office really think you have nothing to offer other than to provide them with office. To accomplish this they will use any and all propaganda techniques they can imagine to make you hate the other toiling workers to support them. It's quite ridiculous.

High ranking Politicians are all members (or at least imagine they are) of the Better Class so they are merely looking out for their interests. Their interests are too use the government to enrich themselves, their families and their cronies.

The history of the United States is of Class Struggle. The Founding Fathers knew this. James Madison hoped the United States would not succumb to extremes of poverty and wealth, because of commerce and manufacture, but he was a fatalist who thought his Constitution would eventually become impractical.

Unfortunately, the rich-poor gap in the United States is the worst it has ever been.

As Warren Buffett noted, "The rich people are doing so well in this country. I mean, we never had it so good. It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.