LAPD Sheriff Deputy punches mentally challenged woman in the face

"Not all cultures are equal. Not all values are equal." ~ Michele Bachmann

Memo To Rahm Emmanuel: When the Police are your only tool everyone becomes a Perp. Video emerged of an LAPD Sheriff's Deputy punching a woman who is developmentally challenged. I try not to come to a conclusion of what the incident, in and of itself means, or judge the Deputy involved prior to all the facts coming out. The incident came about because the woman reportedly alarmed other people on the bus who dialed 911 because who else are you going to call?

Image is important.

Every Police Officer should be aware a punch oft times is not a good technique for handling a situation, punches aren't designed to get compliance from people. In almost all cases, punches appear to be abuse or an over-reaction. Read what the witnesses said the incident appeared like to them,

"Like they're tired of dealing with her..."

"I can't believe he didn't try to diffuse the situation at all..."

But, why is the Officer in this position at all? Because rich psychopaths who control the Government have deemed spending on Mental Health facilities to be SOCIALISM! Confrontations like this are are the result of the 1% Austerity programs which directly target facilities which are best suited and staffed to help people like this woman.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's 2012 budget eliminates 7 of the 13 mental health facilities to save a few million bucks. Why? Because the 1% wishes it. They don't need society. The rich are Pyschopaths. So they especially hate mental health workers.

As Bachmann stated not all cultures are equal. Bachmann and her Republicon Ilk have spent decades coarsening American Society in the viscous pursuit of the Ayn Randian Dream-land, the elimination of programs and facilities to aid Americans, for their Plutocratic Masters. Now 21st century American society is the "richest nation in the world" where the poor and unfortunate are left on the other side of the river.

Police Officers should not be the ones tasked with regularly dealing with people suffering from reduced capacity or mental problems. The Mental Health of members of society needs to be addressed by that society. It's a measuring stick of the level of civilization.

And Our Civilization is rapidly declining thanks to the evil 1%, their Republican Marionettes and Austerity programs.

So, Chicago be prepared for more and more incidents like this as CPD is called in to handle mentally disturbed individuals and the Officers don't know what to do so they Taze him and he dies of excited delirium.

Gold Showers on the EGA

"A fate worse than a fate worse than death... Sounds pretty bad." ~ Blackadder IV

The images and video of US Marines urinating on the corpses of (Al Qaeda? Taliban? Unidentified Pashtun Tribesmen?) has elicited the standard reaction of outrage and condemnation from the SecDef, Commandant of Marine Corps, Secretary of State and put into motion a full NCIS investigation of the video and every possible Marine involved from Camp Lejeune. This incident is rapidly degenerating into the Torture "Debate", wherein the Right-Wingers defend something completely wrong because our "enemies" do bad things thereby making it okay. Mainly because conservatives have no compunction about being evil.

Personally, I never understood how it was fine to kill someone but, the follow on act of "desecrating" their bodies was then deemed the actual violation of the Rules of War. This is no doubt because I am not a gentleman.

Marines should know War is a gentleman's pursuit because every new recruit is taught Marine Corps Officers back in the 19th century wore a Barracks Cover with the Quatrefoil embossed on top. Officers were deemed not-legitimate targets for sniper fire and had to have a distinguishing mark on top of their cover to inform snipers of their non-targetable status.

Other ridiculous Rules of War have been tried over the centuries, the infamous Vatican decision in 1139 the crossbow was too deadly a weapon and could not be used, except on Muslims. All the way down to the the Geneva Conventions of the 20th Century.

The currently accepted Geneva Conventions (Right-Wingers orgasmic love of torture notwithstanding) are really a way Large Armies can fixate and maximize their advantage over small armies. Only a foolish military commander would follow rules of war which ensure his destruction. The moment Al Qaeda begins to mass large troop concentrations for a pitched battle is the moment they are obliterated. Such a concentration, training grounds, depot, armory, motor pool would be spotted and targeted with a massive amount of airpower.

Our enemies would be exceedingly stupid to follow the Rules of War.

This latest incident won't change much. Besides not getting the slap-in-the-face Good Conduct Medal, these Marines will be punished for their crimes, but what can never be brought up is that War itself is a Crime. Jingoistic War Profiteers and Chicken Hawks make too much money off of war. It doesn't matter that War breaks minds and bodies, plenty more were they came from, but don't make the War look bad.

Thus the Afghan War will continue for a few more years (or 4 more years if Mitt Romney steals into the White House) and new Wars will be hatched by the Establishment and the 99% will suffer all the costs, fiscal, physical and mental for the profit of the 1%.

Related:
Golden Shower aficionado Dana Loesch, the St Louis Tea Party spawn of Andrew Breitbart, spoke on her radio show and declared "I want a million cool points for these guys" and "I'd drop trou and do it too..."

Loesch is given air time on CNN regularly and was deeply involved in the baseless smear campaign of the two University of Missouri-Kansas City teachers Judy Ancel and Don Giljum. And as for her "I'd drop trou and do it too..." line I don't remember ever seeing her skinny chicken hawk ass on the yellow footprints let alone in Afghanistan.

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It is easy to tell when an action is absolutely wrong because all the right-wing, never served a day jingoistic chicken hawks come out in support of the action. Cowardly warmonger Mark Levin declared "count me in as staunch supporter" of the pissing Marines.

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Now you can be absolutely sure the action is wrong, criminal and evil because Representative Allen West (known for torturing innocent Iraqis and trying to intimidate Congresswomen) has declared, “As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.” Yes, Congressman West how about reading the Bill of Rights.

BP Commercials and Lawsuits and the Petroleum Pigs

"Are you fuckin' kiddin' me? You don't ever admit the existence of this thing. Ever!" ~ Frank Vincent, The Sopranos

BP wants you to know they destroyed the Gulf for Generations but, it's fine now. I'm actually surprised that BP ran a commercial during the BCS title game. I'm not surprised they choose to peddle their pablum to the mouth-breathers who breathe vicariously through student-athletes. Just that they would reference it at all.

The standard model for the rapacious evil Petroluem Companies has been to blame 'Mother Nature' let a spill fade into memory and then proclaim 'See it's all better now!'

BP's commercials portray a sublime Gulf, with sparkling beaches, reenergized businesses, smiling happy fishermen and pristine waters bursting with seafood. As the propaganda tells Us, 'BP is still here and isn't going anywhere.' So get used to your gulf shrimp and oil cocktail.

These commercials, only 20 months after the biggest criminal Oil disaster (that Americans have seen), should serve as a stark reminder of BP's absolute evil. But, Surprise America! The undying negligent Corporate Monster BP has been screwing the US and the World for decades in the pursuit of Oil profits.

Every now and again, a Petroleum Corporation has to step forward and receive the lash of public criticism, but the key for the Oilmen has always been to keep the game going. And they have honed their skills and refined their modus operandi for a century.

The Petroleum Pigs have some how convinced the American People, Natural Resources which belong to Us as a Nation, are theirs. So, they steal Our Oil and sell it for Their Profits and ensure whatever the damage to the land and people that occurs isn't their problem and they receive taxpayer funding to do it all. Profits Privatized, Losses and Costs Socialized. American Capitalism at it's finest.

Even when the victims of the Oil Monsters victims were nominal Americans, i.e. Native Alaskans and the land and seas destroyed were "U.S." territory, Americans could be relieved to know no lawsuits against Exxon would be heard as a result of the heinous unforgivable Exxon Valdez spill.

Although Alaska Natives may have suffered to a greater degree than members of the general public, "differences in the intensity with which a public harm is felt does not justify a private claim for public nuisance." . . . All Alaskans have the right to lead subsistence lifestyles, not just Alaska Natives.

Judge Russell Holland 03/23/94.

Fortunately, as long as the BP or Chevron or ExxonMobil or Royal Dutch Shell Group were destroying ecosystems and screwing people Overseas no problem! The Free Market knows best. Drill, Baby! Drill! I bet you didn't hear about the massive Oil spills from Royal Dutch Shell Group, the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez every year for 50 years or the fact it will take 30 years for the damage to subside and cost $1 Billion Dollars.

In South America, at least, the people are fighting back. President Rafael Correa, a U.S. and Belgian educated economist declared the debts forced on Ecuador by Vulture Capitalists and Corporate Oil Monsters to be illegitimate and that the oil and gas reserves in the country belong 100% to the People of Ecuador. This greatly angers the Neo-Feudalists and the Petroleum Pigs. Happily, the Ecuadorian Courts have ruled the overwhelming evidence of criminal negligence and evil tactics used by Chevron from 1964-1992 constituted a ruling of $18 Billion Dollars in damages.

The evidence against Chevron comes not only from plaintiffs, but also from Chevron's own experts and environmental auditors as well as independent third-party sources. The damages included a punitive component designed to punish Chevron for trying to sabotage the trial and threaten judges with jail time if they did not rule in the company's favor.

On Sunday 01/08/12, Hugo Chavez declared, "I will say it once. We will not recognize any decisions of the ICSID. We will not recognize them." Chavez seized back control of Venezuela's resources from the Vultures at ExxonMobil. Exxon called upon the power of the IMF and the World Bank to exert economic pressure on Venezuela regain control. Chavez along with allies Bolivia and Nicaragua, has said in the past that it would withdraw from the convention that created the ICSID, arguing that the international body gives transnational companies a gateway to violate national sovereignty.

So, BP agreed to pay $20 Billion Dollars for damages to the Gulf. This only happened after Republicons nearly shit themselves unconscious apologizing to BP for the hassle. And only after BP agreed to a "fair mediator" Kenneth Feinberg to administer the fund. "I want the lawsuits to stop" Kenneth Feinberg said. Of course, what Ken Feinberg actually wanted was the lawsuits against BP to stop. BP has been free to sue whomever they wanted and they did so in April 2011 when they filed lawsuits against Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Co. and Cameron International, for over $40 Billion Dollars.

See how "fair" that is? BP causes a Disaster and stands to gain $20 Billion Dollars in profit. It's all part of the Game. Oil Companies steal your Oil and sell it back to you. And they get you to finance the con they are pulling, foist the cost of the damages their rape of the land causes, while getting the rubes to clap and cheer wildly "Drill Here Drill Now!"

Recess

Barack Obama has achieved several important accomplishments during his Presidency despite the Party of the Rich and the Racists recalcitrance. He has not been the Marxist Champion we were hoping for and many of his stances appear moderate to conservative. But, his recent Recess Appointments of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Sharon Block, Richard Griffin, and Terence Flynn to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are perhaps signs of a more liberal agenda for the 2012 election year.

Of course, everything from Getting Osama Bin Laden to these Appointments are an affront to the Republican Bigots and Elitists. So, it is no surprise Republicans are beating their breasts, rending their hair and crying in anguish over President Obama's Recess Appointments.

“It’s astounding to me that the president is claiming these are recess appointments and within his authority, when Congress was not in fact in recess,” said Representative Diane Black (R-TN) who authored the resolution. “These appointments are an affront to the Constitution. No matter how you look at this, it doesn’t pass the smell test. I hope the House considers my resolution as soon as we return to Washington so we can send a message to President Obama.”

It would stand that a Congress actually in Session would not need to return to Washington. But, that's the modern Republican Party. But, while Congresswoman Black's concerns stem from nothing more than her Ignorant Tea Party Bigotry and her anguish should be looked through the prism of her Totally Not Racist history,

In 2009, Sherri Goforth an aide of Diane Black sent out an email with an image titled "Historical Keepsake Photo", depicting the Presidents of the United States. President Obama's picture was a black background with two white eyes.

But, being as the Republicon Party is wholly owned by the 1% they are not angry about the procedures surrounding these appointments but the fact these positions even exist.

“I don’t think this was a recess appointment,” said Candida Wolff, who was chief lobbyist for President George W. Bush and now represents the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets. “I struggle with the fact that a session is still a session, and you can have business within that session.” Cordray’s authority to oversee non-banks and non-financial companies “will probably be one area where I can see action,” she said.

Wolff is a fully invested member of the Plutocracy. She sees these appointments as possible impediments to Wall Street and the Banksters rigged gambling system.

So do other Plutocrats and beneficiaries of the Wall Street System whose profligate theft and criminal malfeasance caused the economic crisis. Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who led bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc. for almost four decades until he was ousted in 2005, called Cordray’s appointment unconstitutional. Greenberg, 86, is chairman and chief executive officer of insurer C.V. Starr & Co. “The president’s stuck his finger in the eye of Congress,” Greenberg told Betty Liu today on Bloomberg TV’s “In the Loop.” “You need the approval of the Senate for that appointment. It was bypassed."

Well, thanks for your opinion Mr. One Percent. And the next time We need to know the about the Constitutionality of something from someone who profits off of legerdemain and starving children you'll be the top of the list.

However, the height of hypocrisy belongs to no less than John "Even with my broad view of executive power" Yoo, who wrote about the Appointments as Use and Abuse of Executive Power. And as you might expect from Yoo torturing a "Suspected" Terrorist's children to death in front of them is fine for the President but "recess appointments" are a massive insult to the Rule of Law.

The Republican position is when we say we are "in session" it counts as being in session. Where 171 Recess Appointments by George W. Bush and 243 by Ronnie Raygun are fine. But, beyond the pure partisan hypocrisy, Republicans care nothing for the 99% and have been demanding the legislation which created the CFPB be altered before they'd consider approving anyone to head the organization. It was tantamount to nullifying a law which was legally passed because the CFPB represents a threat to the Republican Party owners, the 1%.

The Thinner Blue Line

173 officers were killed in line of duty in 2011. It's a sad time for those families of the Officers killed. It's also a sad time for the Image and Reputation for Police Officers and Departments.

The viscous, unconstitutional criminal oppression of OWS and the #Occupy Movement in New York, Oakland, Richmond, Albany, Boston and numerous other cities has once again put police officers into conflict with the 99%. Of course, this is precisely what the 1% want and expect. The 1% have always sought to use Police Departments and Individual Officers to fragment and divide. The Plutocracy also sees the quelling Domestic Dissent as the only legitimate Role of Police Officers.

Police Officers have once again found themselves placed in the role of Oppressor of the Poor in Service of the Rich. The Plutocracy has created an Economic and Political Model out-of-touch and unresponsive to the 99%. The Government is in service (and has been for a long time) to the Very Rich and their Multi-National Corporate Monsters.

Do you think any Police Departments are investigating BP over it's criminal negligence from the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Disaster? Do you think Detectives are investigating BP for the continual dumping of Mercury and various other toxic chemicals into Lake Michigan from their Whiting Indiana Plant? No Police Officers are tasked with keeping poor people in line.

There are other problems with Policing in America, as detailed in the Department of Justice Investigation of the Seattle Police Department, which found

"that SPD engages in a pattern or practice of using unnecessary or excessive force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 14141.” The DOJ Executive Summary states, "Deficiencies in SPD's training policies and oversight with regard to Use of Force contribute to the constitutional violations."

The DOJ report highlights the "few bad apple" theory,

"In any given year, a minority of Officers account for a disproportionate number of Use of Force incidents."

There are always going to be a percentage of individuals who abuse their authority. But, the System itself is at issue. Police Officers have to decide which side they are on. Is the Officer willing to be a Guardian of the Plutocracy? A truncheon wielding, pepper-spraying Bully for the 1%? Because every Police Officer should realize once the 99% are crushed, once the Middle Class is forever obliterated, once we are reduced to Wage Slaves chained irrevocably to be cogs in the machines of industry and war, Police Officers will be disposable too.

Race Baiting Rick Santorum meant what Racist Reagan said about "Black Peoples"

What? Republican Racism.

Just before his Iowa Showing Sick Rantorum commented, "I don’t want to make --black-- people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money.”

Santorum did mumble (stumble?) around the word "black", but listening to his speech it's clear what meme Rick was man-on-dog whistling.

What Santorum really was saying (cue Ronnie Raygun impression), 'My Fellow White Americans we must stop those Big Muscular Young Bucks from eating Steak and then jumping into their Welfare Queen's Cadillac all on your dime.' Because the idea conservatives gleamed from Nixon and had fully incorporated under Reagan and George W. Bush was the Southern Strategy. That by scaring the White folk about the Blacks is a winning election strategy. CBS News offered up the statistic that 84% of the Iowans on food stamps are "white", while 9% are "black" over a 9-to-1 ratio.

But, Conservatives are disgusting unabashed bigots. Their entire Modern Edifice is built on the foundation of Rank Bigotry and Blatant Racism. Everyday there is a revelation of a Republican sending out a racist email or a conservative propounding a bigoted "theory". But, Mainstream Media does not cover the Right's shocking Racism, most likely, under the guise of not stooping to such base reporting. Of course, this allows the average duped ignorant conservative the false moral high ground of declaring Faux News, Tea Party and Republican Racism as being totally non-existent. Leaving right-wingers the freedom to proclaim, 'I wish stupid liberals would show me one example, Just One Example, of right wing racism. Harumph!'

Dumb Ass liberals, believing the conservative to be seeking an honest debate agree and provide the evidence only to have the conservatives change the parameters and continue on that charges of Racism against Republicans are all made up smear tactics of evil leftists.

Meanwhile, Faux News has spent hundreds of segments race-baiting the same single 30 second clip of 2 New Black Panther Party Members which they've run thousands of times. What? Republican Racism?

Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal sent an email before Christmas that compared Michelle Obama to the Dr. Seuss character The Grinch. The subject line of the email reads "Twins separated at birth?" It includes side-by-side pictures of Michelle Obama and the Grinch with similarly windswept hair. The forwarded part of the email reads, "I'm sure you'll join me in wishing Mrs. YoMama a wonderful, long Hawaii Christmas vacation".

Mitt Romney's Pension and Tax Returns.

“[A]s soon as President Obama releases his grades and birth certificate and sort of a long list of things then maybe he’d do it,” Romney Son #3 demands to see President Obama's Birth Certificate.

Mitt Romney and Bain Capital made Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by dismantling American Companies and firing American Workers. Mitt is now 13 years removed from "working" at Bain Capital but still receives Millions in benefits from the firm.

Romney will not release his tax returns because it will show Romney's been receiving Millions of Dollars every year from Bain Capital as "deferred income and" paying around a 15% tax rate.

It's clear why Romney hoped for the bankruptcy and dissolution of General Motors. Romney hoped Bain Capital would be able to Vulture off some GM assets and increase his Pension. If there is one thing Romney has not flip-flopped on in his life it's that he consistenely chooses Profits Over People.

Romney is a member of the pampered, never done a day's worth of actual labor, Vulture Class which profits off of destroying America and picking at the remnants. And without a doubt he is going to be the Republican Nominee for President of the United States or more accurately Romney is the One Percent Candidate for President. (Re: W Spann LLC created expressly by a Bain Capital chum of Romney's to donate $1,000,000 to his Candidacy.

The 1% is now comprised of Sociopaths. They can not recognize the emotional states of other people, do not Nor do they care.

But, what they can do is rally their resources for when One Rich Man is Attacked the 1% treat it as an Attack on their Whole Plutocracy. As Billionaire Hedge Fund parasite Stephen Schwarzman told the Nation, “It's a War! It’s like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.” When the idea that Capital Gains should be taxed as normal income instead of at the 15% rate.

Members of the 1% recently created a Political Action Committee (PAC) titled the Job Creators Alliance. But, like all the evil things the 1% does, the Job Creatos Alliance is a deliberate misnomer. It isn't a PAC with the goal of how to to Create Jobs but on how to continue and increase the obscene and murderous transfer of wealth up to the coffers of a small cadre of Psychopaths.

The 1% aren't making anything, let alone "Creating Jobs". They profit by crooked bookkeeping, legerdemain, mathematical number games, shifting billions of electronic digits from one account into another and then proclaim themselves hard-working capitalists. They are gamblers, thieves, poltroons and Vultures.

But, Mitt's still playing the I'm a regular guy like all of Us. When he shows up in his blue jeans and a fancy dress shirt, sleeves artfully rolled up, tie conspicuously absent.

But, what "Unemployed" Regular Guy Mitt will never tell you is that he is a Plutocratic Vulture scrapping his profit from the carcasses of dead Americans whom he helped kill and the Opportunities to which Romney refers to,

In less than a year, the American people will go to the polls and choose a new president. A matter of great moment is at stake in this election. The question we will decide is this: Will the United States be an Entitlement Society or an Opportunity Society?

Are the Opportunities for the 1% to continue raping the Country, Oppressing Millions and Killing those who interfer in their Pursuit of Profit.

The 1% Hate Uncertainty

“Socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, is never the answer.“ - Hank Steinbrenner, who received $1,200,000,000 Billion dollars in Taxpayer money to finance his baseball stadium. From which those profits will neatly land in his pocket.

The 1% of this Nation hate uncertain elements. What they would rather have is the certainty of the economic model they are confident in; Neo-Feudalism, in which their profits are privatized and protected by Government and their losses are socialized and paid for by the 99%.

But, there are also elements of modern life, pensions, Medicare, the EPA, freeways and schools which represent huge areas of Uncertainty. Your pension would be better off as a private account inside their Wall Street casinos where they can gamble it away and tell you, 'Oops! The Free Market just swallowed your life savings! Sorry, but that's Freedom.' As Republicon Jeb Henserling told America, "I don’t think we can figure out how to outlaw recessions any more than we can outlaw tornadoes or outlaw hurricanes. Economic growth has never gone in one straight line up. It’s a part of freedom."

Schools represent another area of Uncertainty. Schools and Teachers teach the 99% things the 1% does not want them to learn. Note how often this is the cry of David Horowitz, Michele Bachmann, Faux News listeners. Schools are awful places where children learn to make up their own minds instead of absorbing the Neo-Feudalist vision of America. And now unlike what George Carlin observed, the 1% don't even need Americans to be "just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passably accept all these increasingly shittier jobs", for they can increasingly go anywhere in the world to find their labor pool.

So, if it's revealed 1 in 2 Americans live in "Poverty"? The 1% funds Think Tanks to produce the kind of education they want you to have. Poverty? Harumph! Why that doesn't exist in America! Here is this Study which clearly shows the 99% "have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food". This comes from the mouths of the puffy faces of those who've never, ever missed a meal.

You see the modern One Percenter has fully absorbed the Ayn Rand Economic Philosophy. They are Great Atlases bestriding this Land, this Nation, this World with their awesome Minds. The 99% are to be feared and controlled because, as in Rand's vision, the Common Man is nothing more than a potential Parasite. And once you've started viewing your fellow man as a "worthless eater" it becomes apparent why increasingly, the 1% is comprised of Sociopaths, people unable to express or recognize human emotion.

Why would a One Percenter want a functioning infrastructure? They no longer need the American worker or American factory. It's often pointed out we aren't a Manufacturing country anymore but a Financial one, and what the Financial Exploiters want is the ability to move "their" capital anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice, to engage in predatory lending, usury and eliminate all banking/financial regulation. The 1% do not see American workers, companies or factories as assets but as giant pools of liquidity waiting languidly, for them to drain and thus quicken themselves with Naked Credit Default Swaps.

Why would the 1% want EPA restrictions? Their water isn't going to be filled with the toxic run-off from fracking. And BP can't be certain a Government inspection of the BP Whiting, Indiana Oil Refinery Plant which routinely dumps a dozen toxic byproducts from oil refining, including benzene, toluene and suspended solids containing mercury, lead, nickel and vanadium, into Lake Michigan will cost them some of their beautiful money. And Massey Energy has to face the uncertainity of how much money the Government will demand they pay for killing their miners by their rampant criminal negligence.

So, much Uncertainty facing the 1%! How does the Melting Pot benefit the psychopathic 1%? They don't need a Nation, they gate off their communities, they hire their own private police services, they have 24 hour Propaganda Networks. If they have bigger problems they band together and instruct their wholly owned Congressmen and Senators to adopt their Views and pursue their issues. The 1% are constantly pushing their Republicon Guards to eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, and steal Social Security. Because those SSA funds represent the last Great Pool of liquidity waiting for them to tap.

The 1% don't need you. But, what they do need every so often is to eliminate Uncertainty. And that is why the filthy 1% who deliberately caused the economic collapse and the housing bubble are now trying to convince enough people that it was caused by social programs for the poor and middle class.

Because they need to get their Wholly Bought and Paid for Republicon Party and Pro-Business Democrats elected to eliminate Uncertainty so that they may turn all of America into a Galt's Gulch. But while, they live as Lords, the 99% will live as serfs and wage slaves mining their gold, picking their arugula and quietly dying off when their working years are over.

Because that is Certainty the 1% are Striving towards and Rand's Ultimate Vision for the 99%, for the Common Man, that he toil unobtrusively underneath the feet of the 1% Colossuses and have the courtesy to die quickly and quietly.

What You Talkin' 'Bout Willis Tower? Sears is Bankrupt

Well, it was a good thing Governor Pat Quinn gave a bunch of Illinois taxpayer money to Sears Corp because of all the Jobs they are going to create.

What a joke this modern American "Capitalism". Corporations routinely get bailed out by taxpayers, exploit the byzantine tax structure to pay "negative tax rates", eliminate jobs here in the States, close factories, and are declared "People" and "Job Creators".

Here is what Sears extorted from Governor Pat Quinn on December 16,

The deal gives Sears tax credits worth $15 million a year for 10 years, which it can use against withheld employee income taxes. The deal also would extend a special taxing district, reducing the company's local property tax bill for another 15 years.

So, Sears Holding Corporation got a 15 year special property tax zone in Illinois. Sears Corporate Headquarters is located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. This is what they are going to do with their new special tax zone in Illinois, Sears is going to use accounting gimmicks and legerdemain to transfer money electronically from other stores in other states into the Corporate HQ, that money will then be listed on the Corporate profit sheet and will be accounted under the special taxation rate. This is known as the Las Vegas Loophole.

Additionally, by declaring Bankruptcy and closing 100+ stores Sears are reducing their labor costs and protecting their assets from going to the few American employees they have left. After Bankruptcy and restructuring the CEO, COO, and Corporate Board are going to abscond with Millions of Dollars in Golden Parachute severance packages.

Sears Corporation owes no allegiance to any flag, cares nothing for any nationality and sees every nation as little more than a piggy bank on which to fatten themselves all the while selecting governments which make their rampant corruption and outright theft "legal".

CME Group just swindled Illinois Taxpayers

"Why don't you accept your fate? You will return to your chair and you will sit there. You will entertain me and you will entertain my guests. And if you do not, I will simply kill somebody else. Him, perhaps. It doesn't matter." - Kivas Fajo, Star Trek: TNG, The Most Toys. Fajo explains the modern American Capitalist system and the threats the 1% use to control the Nation.

CME Group just robbed the people of Illinois for hundreds of millions and now they are going to transfer the extorted money to cover their losses from other areas of their corporate monstrosity. When faced with their own gross negligence, budgetary shenanigans, accounting fraud and malfeasance CME Group made the simple move of transferring one column of numbers to another column.

MF Global Holdings Ltd. filed for bankruptcy on October 31 after it was forced to reveal that it had made a failed $6.3 billion bet on European sovereign debt.

MF Global used at least $700 million of customer funds to “meet liquidity issues” in the days prior to its bankruptcy, according to CME Group Inc., which had auditing authority over the failed futures broker.

CME Group chief operating officer Bryan Durkin told a packed meeting of the National Grain and Feed Association this month, echoing earlier testimony by CME executives to Congress, that MF Global was the culprit, not CME's clearing house.

In a real Capitalist system, CME Group would go bankrupt for their shoddy accounting and managerial techniques but in the American Neo-Feudalist System, CME Group just threatens Governor Quinn and uses the power of the Government to take Millions from the Taxpayer to cover their losses due to criminal malfeasance or outright stupidity.

CME won a tax break from the state, which had hiked the corporate tax rate in January in an effort to plug a budget shortfall.

The legislation, signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Friday December 16, will reduce CME's tax bill compared to what it was before the tax hike, shaving off about $77 million annually when it takes full effect in 2014.

I'm sure innocent investors lost fortunes by being involved with MF Global and CME Group but when an Illinois resident is taken by a Nigeria Lottery Email Scam they can't go to Governor Quinn and demand, 'Unless you cover my losses I'll leave the State' and be given taxpayer money.

This is how these 'Job Creators' cover their losses. CME Group and other financial behemoths don't create anything and have been engaged in a byzantine system of legerdemain and gambling wholly disconnected from labor and adding nothing to the economy.

And then when the bills come due these High Rollers simply march into the State Capital Building and demand the money from the Government. They don't come "hat-in-hand" but come armed with the smug superiority of being the Economic Elites, of being the financial gurus, the Wizards of Wall Street and demand their losses be covered or they will simply destroy more.

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.

Oathkeepers? More accurately Oathbreakers and Conservative Domestic Terrorists

"Remember the lesson from my book: It just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good," - Ann Coutler.

The Oathkeepers were a loose organization of Veterans, Police Officers, Active Duty Military and National Guardsmen which nominally declared they would never "just follow orders" and deprive Americans of their Constitutional Rights, with the motto "Not on Our Watch". Today they have little impact but you can still find right-wing blogs which tout the Oathkeeper Pledge, as conservative blowhard The Bloviating Zeppelin recently did in declaring himself an Oathkeeper.

Originally, following the election of President Obama, the Oathkeepers began coalescing around the time the Department of Homeland Security released their 2009 memo concerning the Rise of recruiting efforts amongst returning service members by violent Right Wing Extremist/Sovereign Citizen/Domestic Terrorist groups. The DHS Memorandum was spurred on by the murder of 3 Pittsburgh Police Officers by Right Wing Extremist Richard Poplawski and noted that the Republicon Recession and President Obama's election presented unique moment in American history.

Additionally, the Southern Poverty Law Center began to document the Re-Rise of the Patriot Militia Movements and the evolving nature of the internet allowed for more dynamic connectivity. Famously, amongst the Oathkeepers former Marine Charles Dyer's skull-masked youtube video set to the soundtrack of The Last of the Mohicans, and the ludicrous videos of Bob Basso pretending to be Thomas Paine dressed in standard 1776 garb became rallying points.

Much of the resulting Oathkeeper History became entangled with the Tea Party, Birtherism, Faux News, fear of the Michele Bachmann/Glenn Beck FEMA Concentration Camps and the Co-opting of the organization's energy by the 1% to direct anger at President Obama and the Democratic Party.

The salient point now is not their manipulation at the hands of the Republicon Party, FreedomWorks or the Koch Brothers but, in light of their 10 Point "NOT" Pledge, the fact The Oathkeepers are little more than another group who wittingly or unwittingly carries the water of the 1% and should more accurately be called the Oathbreakers Militia. This is Pledge #10:

We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Want to guess what the reaction to OWS and #Occupy was from the Oathbreakers? Infiltration and Destruction.

I occasionally saw the odd Ron Paulian Banner at #OccupyChi, but the Oathbreakers attempt to pass along Alex Jones conspiracy memes at various #Occupy General Assemblies (GA) failed. Occupiers are too adroit (literally) and too well read to fall for that Pablum.

Of course, the failure of the Oathbreakers to successfully "Occupy the Occupation" may explain why when the NYPD, Oakland Police, Boston PD, and every paramilitary Police Force were ordered to beat, tear gas, pepper spray, shoot, destroy personal property, illegally detain and violate the Rights of Americans to Peaceably Assemble and petition the Government there was no outcry from the Oathbreakers. And as Right-Wing websites continued the call for more Police Violence and even as anti-American World Net Daily writer Phil Elmore requested,

"Call out the National Guard. Turn on the fire hoses. Send bulldozers. Bring flame-throwers, for pity's sake. Men and women who give a damn about their country, wearing Hazmat suits and respiratory gear, empowered by the lawful government of this nation, should be marching in ranks on every Obamaville this very moment, prepared to beat with truncheons and shoot with rubber bullets every last filthy hippie. The "occupiers" are criminals and terrorists."

There was naught but silence from the Oathkeepers.

When Richmond Police bulldozers turned the potential into the actual, the Oathkeepers showed themselves to be nothing more than a thinly veiled Militia, exactly what everyone at the DHS knew them to be, A Reactionary Anti-American Band of Pseudo Terrorists, who had no intention of standing for the American people but had the the very real purpose of blaming the Democratic Party and President Obama for the evils committed by Wall Street, the Corporate Plutocrats and the 1%.

Update:
“First amendment rights are not absolute.” Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Atty William Carter said in a public statement. He thinks that the lesson these protesters need to take away from being arrested and jailed for two days is that they were wrong about their rights. According to a LA Times article, Many Occupy L.A. protesters arrested during demonstrations in recent months are being offered a unique chance to avoid court trials: pay $355 to a private company for a lesson in free speech. Carter said the city won't press charges against protesters who complete the educational program offered by American Justice Associates.

You see as long as the Wrong Americans are having their Rights Violated, the Oathkeepers are willing to look the other way.

Good Conservatives! Let the Racism Flow Freely! Brent Bozell is a Bigot

If Opinions are like Assholes then, "you might want to say" Brent Bozell is flabby sack of smushed opinions.

Why is the Right-Wing Bigots who make the most incendiary racist or sexist comments look like fat sacks of putrid garbage?

Brent Bozell (L. Brent Bozell III), like all Conservative Pundits, has never had a real job in his entire life. Le Bigot Bozell has spent almost 3 decades sitting on his brains at various Conservative Think Tanks coming up with new ways to blame Liberals for all the fuck-ups by Conservatives. Bozell is one of those right-wing shills who blames Bill Clinton for 9/11 even if it inconveniently happened while George W. Bush was President and whines that George W. Bush got no credit for killing Osama Bin Laden even if it inconveniently happened when Barack Obama was President.

But, while expanding his mind by sitting on his fat ass for a Faux News interview Bigot Bozell decided to compose a racist simile about President Obama. What Le Bigot Bozell stated is so racist and so ignorant I won't type it again, but you can watch Bigot Bozell over at Talking Points Memo. Of course, because it is a simile right-wing liars try to parse the racist statement Bigot Bozell clearly made and then reinforced.

Bigot Bozell is yet another flabby jowled, wide assed, big bellied slob (i.e. A Conservative) who feels empowered to be as racist as possible because he thinks it's going to win elections for Republicons.

Again how many incidents will it take for conservatives to realize the Modern Conservative movement is little more than a club for bigots and racists?

Of Derrières, Jim Sensenbrenner, and Conservative Racism

Chicago born Wisconsin Republicon Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner isn't going to take any eating advice from someone of Michelle Obama's stature!

Sensenbrenner was overheard speaking loudly into his cell phone at Reagan National Airport. According to an eyewitness, he told a story of a woman who approached him at a church auction to make comments in support of First Lady Michelle Obama. Sensenbrenner responded that he believed Mrs. Obama to be a hypocrite in that “she lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.”

How many comments of a gross racist nature do we need to reach the conclusion that the conservative movement is little more than a club for evil bigots?

Of course, that Sensenbrenner is a grotesquerie, a shambling obese slob, puffy-faced, neck waddled, flabby assed, wide-waisted, prodigiously bellied (i.e a typical Republicon) making this comment is not lost on his rabid supporters. [Read the comments from the above linked story.]

It's not a coincidence that the most despicable comments about Michelle Obama are made by the most despicable obese right-wingers. Racist Limbaugh has rountinuely insulted Michelle Obama about her weight and routinely refers to the FLOTUS as Moochelle Obama. Ho ho ho ho! Of course, all conservatives repeat Limbaugh's insulting racist joke because they have no concept of humor or originality.

Conservatives eat this racist shit up. It fits their bigoted conception of African-American women.

Do Americans really not understand that the vast, majority of Republicons serving in the Federal Government are bigots or shamelessly pander to conservative racists?

Update:
Matrifocal Point correctly points out that Sensenbrenner is also playing into a centuries held conservative bigoted sexist/racist belief system which hyper-sexualized African/Slave women as having large butts (and breasts) as this allowed them to be raped and absued.

This belief still pervades conservative thinking as 'Women who dress immodestly are asking to be raped' which Faux News repeatedly asserts.

Rich Myopic A$$holes gonna be Rich Myopic A$$holes

"You’ll get more out of me,” the billionaire Leon Cooperman said, “if you treat me with respect.”

From the No Kidding Files,

According to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, people in lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to the suffering of others than their middle- and upper-class counterparts.

Yeah, it's not hard to understand this, Rich People don't give a shit. They don't give a shit if you die from lack of healthcare coverage. They don't care if you get killed overseas fighting to expand emerging markets for them to exploit. They don't give a shit about the number of Americans living in so-called poverty. They don't care if your job is outsourced or an illegal immigrant comes over to do it for 1/10th the cost. They don't care if you die in a Mine Accident or Oil Rig Explosion. They don't care about your suffering. All they care about is stealing more for themselves.


Ask any historian, even one as evil and corrupt as Newt Gingrich about the Rich and Poor and you will see that the entire canon of recorded history is one of those who have wealth setting up elaborate systems of thought to justify their position, their oft-times illegally, unethically, or immorally gained riches. "What they [the Poor] lack is the richness of spirit." - Stuart Varney, Faux News.

Why do you think "I Get It" was the phrase Frank Luntz emphasized as most important to the assembled collection of out-of-touch, effete snobs he coached at the Republican Governor Association meeting earlier this month in Florida?

"Gordon Gecko" of Wall Street and "Patrick Bateman" of American Psycho weren't aberrations to these bastards, they were role models and guides.

Wall Street is fixated on stealing as much money as possible from where ever possible and making their thefts legal and protected by the biggest baddest thugs (The Republicons) they can find;

"Whether it’s the EPA, the FDA, the FCC, the SEC, the CFTC, you name it, there is an acronym for a federal agency causing harm right now. We’re trying to pull that in." - Eric Cantor, Republicon Hit Man for the Plutocracy and Defender of the Transfer of Wealth.

Do you think the 1% give a shit about your job?

"Rich businesspeople like me don’t create jobs,” Nick Hanauer, co-founder of aQuantive Inc.

To the Plutocrats 'Job creation' is an unfortunate by-product of Wall Street Thievery. If the 1% could find a way to make money... Oh Wait! That is what the entire Bush Presidency was! A time where the 1% increased their share of wealth, when 2 out of every 3 dollars of income growth went to the Elites, squeezed as much loot as possible out of a rigged "Capitalist" system and then got the Bush Government and Federal Reserve to give them over $8,500,000,000,000 dollars to cover their losses.

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Capitalism at it's Finest! $7.77 TRILLION for the Banking Criminals [Disaffected]
Your Moneyed Masters are Getting Angry with You America [Disaffected]
American Capitalism is Medieval Feudalism [Disaffected]
Republicans Love when Miners Die [Disaffected]