For God And Conglomerate
(Politics • Business)
Oh hurray!
Mandatory American middle-class servitude to the Corporate Elite is nearly complete now, thanks to today’s comic Supreme Court interpretation that the First Amendment guarantees businesses the right to unlimited spending on political advertising.
Never mind that the Constitution and the rights it imbues were created for people, not legal business entities. Don’t buck the system, bud, just tow the company line, which is the same as the party line now that we’re free to buy the election of our choice. In fact, how’s about bending down here and taking a good lick from the ol’ corporate bootheel, peasant. Get used to the taste.
(And no, we aren’t hiring.)
→ B.Dunn, Jan 21, 2010, 03 46 pm
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State of the Union, Cliff Notes Version
(Verbatim • Politics)
Jon Stewart provides the quote of both the moment and the year, within a painfully humorous video clip worth watching if you can stomach politics without causing your ulcer to flair up and also have 10 minutes to spare (or at least slide the video bar over and watch the last 5, ‘cause that’s the best part):
And that, kids, is coincidentally also why the captains of the insurance and banking industries will continue to own three or four mansions apiece for the next three years and don’t really give a crap about whatever kind of mortgage or health insurance payments they may have to make.
→ B.Dunn, Jan 20, 2010, 08 32 am
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At Least It Rhymes Better than 'Iraq'
(Be Afraid • Politics)
And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
the next stop isVietnamIraqAfghanistan.
And it’s five, six, seven, open up the Pearly Gates.
There ain’t no time to wonder why
Whoopee! We’re all going to die!
It was easier – far easier – for the Obamaites to succumb to the imagined future Republican taunts of “chickenshit” than think about the next 5,000 American mothers (and fathers) crying quietly in their homes after receiving news that (most often) their son was blown up by an IED while protecting the interests of one of the world’s biggest heroin cartels.
I’d hoped for a giant, but kept my expectations very low. Thus, although the nation is once again more screwed than ever and my meager hope is again dashed, I cannot say I am disappointed because I totally anticipated the big figurative mound of dog shit we have collectively been herded into.
→ B.Dunn, Dec 01, 2009, 08 50 pm
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Rick Perry's Blueprint
(Texas • Politics)
“If Washington, D.C. wants a blueprint,” my tragically inept Gov. Rick Perry barfed yesterday, “they don’t have to look any further than the state of Texas.”
And if they do look, here’s a little of what they’ll find, compared to the other 49 states:
→ Percent of population 25 or over possessing a high school diploma: 50th
→ Percent of non-elderly women who have health insurance: 50th
→ Tax expenditures per capita: 50th
→ Homeowners Insurance affordability: 50th
→ Percent of voting-age population that actually votes: 50th
→ Percent of population without health insurance: 1st
→ Percent of uninsured children: 1st
→ Teenage birth rate: 1st
→ Air pollution emissions: 1st
→ Amount of toxic chemicals released into water: 1st
→ Amount of carbon dioxide emissions: 1st
→ Number of executions: 1st
In my opinion, the above factoids are just the tip of the iceberg – and if anything, they represent a blueprint for why Texans should’ve stopped voting for Rick Perry about seven years ago, not that the do-nothing senator planning on opposing him shows any promise whatsoever either.
Really, unless the Democrats produce someone with name recognition, good credentials and a brain really soon, people are probably going to go out and vote for some clown in protest.
I lived in Arizona during similar times, when the establishment choices for governor were so pathetic that the people elected millionaire crack-pot car dealer Evan Mecham. Trust me, the results were horrible, and I pray Texas doesn’t drive down that road.
Because awful as state government is under Perry, it could be even worse.
→ B.Dunn, Nov 12, 2009, 08 40 am
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