Showing posts with label special pleading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label special pleading. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

How Dare the Government interfere with Boeing! The Free Market is Always Superior!

"Corporations are people, my friend."
If Boeing 787 Dreamliners fall out of the Sky, then it's up to consumers to have the freedom to choose whether or not they would fly on them! The Free Market does everything better! Governments interfering, by grounding all 787's, is just Socialism. 

Regulations are Marxist. Caveat Emptor!

It appears the problems with Boeing's 787 are more than just minor winkles to be ironed-out and are indicative of a deep-seated flaws stemming from a desire to skimp and do all facets of production on the cheap.

Corporations don't want a Free Market. Boeing, especially doesn't want a Free Market. They want the semblance without the substance.

Boeing exists because of the machinations, under-handed deals and Government contracts especially over the last decade.

In 2001, Boeing moved it's Corporate HQ to Chicago, Illinois. Boeing brought all of 500 employees from the Seattle Sprawl Complex because then Governor George Ryan pushed the Illinois Legislation for a 20 year property tax exemption and $56,000,000 in tax subsides from the city and state. Boeing now has the backstop of special tax structures crafted for Corporate Welfare to fall back if they somehow incur a tax liability.

Boeing has repeatedly pulled stunts like this before. On January 4 2012, Boeing announced it was moving Air Force tanker work out of Kansas to other U.S. plants and closing its Wichita operation next year.
In 2008, Boeing asked Kansas officials to help win a $35 billion contract for 18 Air Force tankers. Wichita's Mayor Carl Brewer says Kansas had a long history of coming through for Boeing. Boeing received 650 tax breaks over the last 30 years and $3.5 billion dollars in bonds from Kansas.
One Boeing press release claimed 'Tanker Win Would Bring 7,500 Jobs, $388 Million to Kansas.' However, after securing the $35 Billion Dollar contract from the US Government and and getting special tax dispensations from Kansas Boeing continued their Race-to-the-Bottom and left the workers in Kansas high and dry.

What Corporations want from Government are negligible taxes, lax financial laws and no regulations.

It's part of the Myth of Self-Regulation. When Corporations are allowed to regulate themselves they use their connections in Government to receive Special dispensations and unfair advantages.

Corporations allowed to regulate themselves use shoddy construction materials and eliminate safe-guards and safety systems as was demonstrated with BP's Deepwater Horizon platform.

Corporations allowed to regulate themselves, lie and have actors pretend to be Doctors to promote the benefits of their products, as Tobacco Giants did for decades.

The Republican Party has been propagating the Myth of Self-Regulation for decades. Basically, that if the insidous government wasn't strangling Businesses with onerous regulations the engine of Capitalism would operate at 100% efficiency. It's as big a fraud as Perpetual Motion Machines. And designed for the same reason; to dupe and swindle Americans and transfer billions from the Poor to the Rich whom the Republicans slavishly serve.

Monday, October 19, 2009

The Girl from Georgia (USSR)

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
~ Angel of Death, SLAYER
The Republican Party and it's frenzied supporters, the 9/12ers, Birtherites, Teabaggers, Get-a-Job Shouters, have seemingly ingested the novel and film The Boys from Brazil and thus have been transformed into an unrecognizable conglomeration of madmen who scream and yell, talk real tough and make hysterical demonstrations of anger but despite their convictions that President Obama is Islamo-Hitler they lack courage and are thus nothing but Punk Ass Bitches.

Enter the Taitz, The Girl from Georgia (USSR)*. Orly Taitz has convinced the Republican Party that Obama is one of titular characters in the novel and film, a genetic clone of Adolf Hitler.

Watch the battle scene between two greats, Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and Peck's prophetic revelation of Obama's true heritage as the Islamo-Hitler of the 2000s.

But, now watch as Punk Ass Bitch Republican Jean Schmidt tells an angry Birthrite accuser she agrees with her and not with the American courts.

But, while the Party of Ronald Reagan has embraced and championed Taitz, a child of the evil empire; a Soviet Citizen like Orly Taitz would never be taken seriously unless there was a constant stream of invective being leveled against the President. A ceaseless river of false witness which has flowed from the mouths of Fox News. Whether it be one of the Isms; fascism, communism, socialism, marxism or Obama's desire to destroy America or kowtowing to every foreign dictator; no lie is too unbelievable, no slander too ridiculous, no charge too outlandish for Fox News.



So, enamored and beguiled by a godless Communist Soviet Agent, the Punk Ass Bitch Republicans and their brain washed Self-Appointed Chicken Hawk He-Man America Defenders have allowed themselves to made fools of as Taitz paraded ridiculous Kenyan Birth Certificate forgeries and outlandish lawsuits which when tossed out by American judges merely serve to strengthen their resolve and inflame their fanaticism.

*- Orly Taitz is actually from the Moldavian SSR, the other side of the Black Sea but I needed the Georgian SSR for the alliteration.

Update:
Ha ha ha the NBC series Night Court had a premonition about Orly Taitz in the episode The Game Show from 1989. Dan Fielding summed up Orly succinctly 20 years ago, “Well, I have pieced it together, and it seems I was kidnapped and drugged by… Soviet agents."

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Republican Special Pleading or IOKIYAR

I saw the Steppenwolf Production Fake about the discovery of Piltdown Man and the uncovering of the Hoax. I won't divulge the details of the play it advances a theory previously propounded and expanded by Steppenwolf Ensemble member Eric Simonson.

The over arching story contains episodes in 1914 and 1953 and plays them as Duality, the actors have dual roles and the themes of loss of loved family members to Wars and scientific theories and tests are explored. An amusing and sly allusion to god as an old man in the sky with a beard while a portrait of an elder bearded Charles Darwin hung above the stage was nice. The play was well done by Simonson and the acting was generally good. The only minor quibble being the strange vaguely Spanish-esque Inigo Montoya accent affected by the understudy who stepped in to portray French priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

However, the key to the Piltdown Man Hoax was the Special Pleading many people engaged in during it's four decade debacle. Despite the ignorant claims of creationists, Piltdown Man was never accepted by the entire scientific community as a proper fossil. Those who did accept it as a missing evolutionary link did so despite evidence to the contrary and by using Special Pleading.

Which brings me to the State of the Nation. The Last 8 years were a Debacle of a sham presidency run by incompetent boob and warped and cowardly old man. It left the US with two wars, neither won despite protestations to the contrary, and an economic nightmare built upon the edifice of a crumbled infrastructure. However, now that Obama has stepped into the role of President howls of rage have been directed at him as though he was in office on 9/11/01 and the 7+ years which followed.

What has happened, of course, is the Punk Ass Bitch REMFpublicans and their conservative birtherite teabagging followers are no longer in power over the Federal Government. Every action condemned under Bush as undercutting the office of president and the country is now acceptable for use against Obama.

For instance, the mantra was Supporting the Troops=Supporting the President, but the Punk Ass Bitches on the Right won't support Obama if he decides enough is enough in Afghanistan.

Rallies in which Leftists displayed signs equating Bush with Hitler and Nazi imagery were used were labelled insane, treasonous and aided the Terrorists. Now:

Obama is a Socialist.
Obama is a Communist.
Obama is a Nazi.

Obama is The Joker
Obama is Mao
Obama is Hitler.

Obama wants to kill Babies.
Obama wants to kill Old People.
Obama wants to kill you.

And these slanders are acceptable. Additionally it is necessary to bring weapons to Rallies against Obama and allude to murdering him via the Thomas Jefferson The Tree of Liberty quote.

You see these instances of pure hypocrisy are okay in the minds of the Punk Ass Bitch Right because they unabashedly believe in Special Pleading or Its Okay If You're A Republican aka IOKIYAR.

Those above instances cover the general mood of the Punk Ass Bitch Right, the REMFpublican Party and their conservative birtherite teabagging followers. But

In June, Congressman Mark Kirk went to China and told some unnamed Chinese Government Bureaucrat, "the budget numbers that the US government had put forward should not be believed."

Yet when Nacny Pelosi visited Syria during the Bush Administration, Sean Inshannity declared, while backed by The Skinny Blonde Harpy Who Shall Not Be Named, Pelosi was "attacking the president" and "She looked ridiculous. She's acting ridiculous." Other Fox Shows hyped the visit as undercutting the President.

Of course, when a Republican goes abroad under a Democratic President to "undermine" the government well it's okay. IOKIYAR

Republican Governor Mark Sanford, as a Congressman at the time, opined, “I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally [to resign]."

Now both these scum buckets have had affairs. Sanford coldly abandoned his wife and sons over Father's Day to met his paramour.

As the incident was being uncovered, as it were, Erick Erickson, of the Punk Ass Butch site RedState angrily declared to Democrats on June 24thWe Police Our Own and You Do Not Get To Judge. However, emails from Erickson indicated Erickson wanted to help cover up the affair. Erickson related the following: “If he wants something more personal for the blog to push back, I’m happy to help." “I wasn’t trying to be a reporter. I wanted to curtail the story.” IOKIYAR

Proven Punk Ass Bitch John Ensign, cheated with the wife of a 'close friend'. Ensign demanded Bill Clinton resign for his affair, "The honorable thing for him to do is to resign and not put the country through this." Ensign won't resign

Emails indicate the affair was known about back in 2008 by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which of course, did nothing. And then Ensign's mommy and daddy gave the former campaign staffer $96,000 as a 'gift'. But of course, as Nevada Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden said "This is a personal matter." IOKIYAR

Resignation for Democrats and IOKIYAR.

The Punk Ass Bitch REMFpublicans and their conservative birtherite teabagging followers are hypocrites.