Presto!

So after all the speculation about the mystery speaker before Marco Rubio introduces the republican nominee tonight, it turns out to be Clint Eastwood...who is basically...an angry white male. 

Imagine that.

Ought to garner Willard at least another two or three votes he doesn't already have.

Peace,
emaycee

Recreating what has yet to be created

I don't know if it's the republican ability to ignore facts and believe the demonstrably untrue (creationism, President Obama's not being born in America, the wealthy create jobs) or just a complete and total lack of intelligence, but the people quoted in this article really think Mitt Romney is going to win.  I mean, they just don't think he's going to win, they think he's going to win in a rout.  Two different people are quoted as saying--one of whom says she pays very close attention to politics--that they don't believe the current polls are correct and that the race really isn't close, with Romney being well ahead.  I truly believe this isn't just spin--I think they're the same people who believe there's really a silent majority (actually it's a very vocal minority) who believes all the gibberish they put forth.

They really think that this week's convention is going to show the American people the Willard Romney only they see in their fantasies, and the race is going to be over.  While a lot can happen in the next two months (McCain actually lead President Obama in mid-September 2008 before the Lehmann Bros. collapse and McCain's disastrous reaction to it), there is nothing Willard is going to do this week that is going to change the perception of him as being a filthy rich man who invests money overseas to avoid paying taxes, is hiding something because he's not releasing his taxes, has no idea and no concern for what it's like to be 99% of Americans, and has all the personality of a fucking mannequin.  Honestly, if unemployment was at five or six percent right now, this race would be over.  (And I think most in the media know it is anyway, and that barring some unforseen disaster, President Obama is going to win a closer popular vote than in 2008, but still a comfortable--320 to 330--electoral vote.  It is, though, in their best interest to have us keep believing it's close so we keep watching the news and reading the paper.)

What's going to be truly frightening, though, is what the republicans' reaction is going to be when the news channels are announcing President Obama's re-election by ten or eleven o'clock on November 6th.  For fuck's sake--they knew Obama was going to win last time around and we've been subjected to their nutso bullshit for almost four years now--the birth certificate bullshit, the Muslim bullshit, Obama's not an American (read not white like us) bullshit, we want him to fail bullshit, the he's a socialist bullshit (aided, of course, by a media that is all too willing to put these inanities forth knowing full well they're not anywhere near the vicinity of reality, for the sake of being fair to both sides, which should also be known as journalistic malpractice).

My guess is this time around it's going to have something to do with the Man in the Moon rigging voting machines.  Heaven forbid republicans ever lose because their ideas have failed us again and again and a majority of Americans have come to realize it.

Peace,
emaycee

Barf bag, please

Rush Limbaugh, as he played a clip of Willard Romney's birth certificate comments in Commerce, Michigan:  "Right on, right on, right on."

Is there anything more grotesque than an obese buffoon, who is the antithesis of a wondrous era like the 1960s, who despises all that is good that came from that time period, using a phrase from said era to spout his racist lies?

I mean fucking really.

Peace,
emaycee

United we bargain, divided we beg

WelL it seems the powers that be in Michigan--that would be you republicans--are just falling all over themselves to embarrass the state because it just does so much to attract businesses here, make entrepreneurs want to invest, and attract and retain the best and the brightest.  I mean, it's not enough that living here means freezing to death six months (at least) of the year, let's add the downsides of stupidity and hypocrisy, too.

Seven Hundred Thousand Michiganders signed petitions (verifed signatures) this year to put a ballot initiative before the people of our great state that would enshrine the right to collective bargaining into our constitution.  Opponents have successfully used the state appeals board to keep it off the ballot because it amends too many laws...

ISN'T THAT THE POINT OF A FUCKING BALLOT INITIATIVE--TO AMEND THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION?  AND WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE TWO REPUBLICANS ON THE APPEALS BOARD DOING THERE WHEN THEY'RE TOO STUPID TO HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT A BALLOT INITIATIVE IS?

Christ, we don't need a War on Drugs--we need a War on (republican) Stupidity.

Peace,
emaycee

They did nothing

All that voter fraud--you know, the black folks in Detroit, the dead Democrats still voting, illegal immigrants.  Hell, there must have been what, eight cases out of the millions of votes cast in the last three years. We've got to have us some voter ID laws here in Michigan....

But recruiting a fake candidate?  Well, gosh, boys will be boys I guess.

I give the Free Press enough grief that when they've earned kudos they should get them as well.  They featured two pieces this week on the Jase Bolger/Roy Schmidt fake candidate recruiting scandal (for which both men, if they had an ounce of integrity, should have resigned and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson--again, if she had an ounce of integrity--would be leading the charge), the first of which calls into question the stopping of the investigation by the detective doing the investigating because he believes records would show that Bolger and Schmidt conspired to commit perjury.  The second was the Prosecutor, republican William Forsyth, who shut it down on July 17th giving his fairly lame reasoning as being he thought it was critical that the primary voters have this information.  Which considering Schmidt's only challenge was a write-in candidate (write-ins virtually never succeed) and that Schmidt still won...you'd have to believe, in the middle of the summer, had virtually no effect and sounds more or less like covering his ass reasoning.

Not that anything will be done, mind you.  Remember, republicans only care about voter fraud when it involves suppressing Democratic votes under false pretenses and subverting Democracy.  If republicans are cheating it's a wink and a nod and off they go.

Have I mentioned republicans and gutlessness yet tonight?

Peace,
emaycee

Cowardice, Part II

So Willard was in Commerce, Michigan today and made a comment about nobody asking to see his birth certificate, I guess because he was born here, though he hasn't actually lived in Michigan in forty some odd years.  I guess it got quite a few cheers, which is kind of surprising--if I lived in a pit like Commerce I'd be pretty pissed at republicans.  It's their policies over the past thirty years that have turned it into the cesspool it is.

Later Willard said he was trying to be humorous ("Obamaloney" is an attempt--an exceedingly lame attempt--to be humorous) but this was merely the usual republican racism.  Get the white folk are riled up about those colored folks (you would be amazed at how many white Michiganders still think "colored" is an acceptable reference to African-Americans).

And it dawned on me as the day wore on that in addition to his insensitivity, his character void, his lack of convictions, and his disrespect for Americans not of his ilk, that one of the main drawbacks to Willard winning the Presidency is that the man is just plain gutless.  The man just won't stand up to anybody and he won't say what he really means.

If he thinks the birthers are nut jobs, just say so.  If he thinks they have a valid point, say it.  But this mealy-mouthed pandering to his base is just pathetic and makes him look weak and weaker.

All the gold in California isn't going to mean much when you have gonads the size of bbs, Willard.

Peace,
emaycee

Cowardice, Part I

This post (though I'm sure he'll never see it) is for the limp dick who drove past me today, and apparently angry about the Liberal bumper stickers on my car, gave me the finger:

A real man faces his enemies and uses his power of persuasion to try and change the other's viewpoint.  A real man would have at least rolled down his window while screaming his viewpoint.  A real man wouldn't have tucked tail and run by speeding away.  A real man would have realized there was a child in the car (so much for those family values you folks are always harping on, huh?), and maybe have tempered his vulgar reaction.

But you're a republican, or more likely, an Antoinette.  You wouldn't know anything about being a real man, would you?  You're far too afraid to argue on the merits because you know I'm right and you're just another in a long line of lap dogs who think the wealthy and corporations are going to eventually toss you a bone (they never do, though, do they?) if you support them.  Frankly, if you had an ounce of sense, you'd take your anger out on your party's leadership--they're the ones who sold you a bill of worthless goods.  I've got the goods to set you free.

By the way, the bumper stickers aren't on the car to anger you. I've given up on your type to stand up for anything that is good for America or Americans.  No, the bumper stickers are there as a show of support and solidarity to my Liberal brothers and sisters.  You know, the people who are actually trying to make our country a better place for all Americans and not drag us into an ugly abyss like you people would have.

Peace,
emaycee

It's all about the Benjamin Franklin

We are sure, here in Michigan, to be treated to many more elitist pieces on the Emergency Financial Manager law (which basically turns Michigan cities, school districts, and whatever other entity is at the republicans' whim into dictatorships, destroying any semblance of democracy in our once great state to advance their union-busting agenda) like this one by Stephen Henderson in which he calls the EMF law unpleasant but sees a lack of an alternative (we've survived as a state for well over 200 years and no one can think of anything better than slapping the face of voters statewide? fucking really?).  Or this piece by the head of a communications firm (see also, paid bullshit artist), Karen Dumas, who tries to explain to us little peons just why this law became so necessary to save us from ourselves (and has the unmitigated gall to claim that somehow a law which infringes on our voting rights should be upheld because, well, people died defending our voting rights).

There is only one answer to any editorial or guest commentary asking us to uphold the EMF law on November 6th, and that is the words of Mr. Benjamin Franklin, who so presciently professed that those who give up their liberty for a little security deserve neither.

Woe unto any Michigander who gives up their voting voice for supposed financial security--mark my words, if we allow it to continue, the EMF law will be the beginning of the end of common men and women having any say in the affairs of this state.

Peace,
emaycee

Another reason not to privatize Social Security

Disclaimer:  I was once an employee at a division of Sears Holding Corp.

The claim in the title of this business page piece--"Sears Turnaround Push Paying Off Despite Ongoing Sales Slide"--based on the information contained there is just a bit specious to say the least.  The writers note that net sales at Sears were down 2.6% for the quarter, while its sister division, Kmart was down 4.7%.  The company lost $132 million or $1.25 per share, compared to last year when it lost $146 million or $1.32 per share.  This article came the same week that Sears competitors Target and Home Depot adjusted their yearly outlooks upward based on their reported sales, and Wal-Mart posted a solid increase.

Can anyone explain to me how in the fuck this shows Sears "turnaround push" is paying off?  The company absolutely got its ass kicked again--no sales and no profits--and that constitutes good news?  This is just another in a long line of reasons why Social Security should never be privatized--we cannot depend on the media to play it straight and give us the truthful information we need to make informed decisions (and God knows Wall Street and Corporate America won't).  The plain truth of the matter is that Sears Holding Corp. continues to fail like it has for at least the last ten years and there is no sign whatsoever that it is headed in a profitable direction anytime soon.

By the way, the non-statistical remainder of the piece was basically puff that could have been written (and may have been) by a Sears flunky in their communications department.

Just more hard hitting journalism from the Associated Press.

Peace,
emaycee

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth

Desperate for attention now that his mediocre career has been over for better than twenty-five years, Hank Williams, Jr. made the following comment to Iowa fairgoers (and how pathetically dull must your life be to pay for tickets to see Hank Williams, Jr.):  "We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the US and we hate him.”

Leaving aside the fact that only utter morons would give two shits what Hank Williams, Jr. thinks about anything (sort of like his numbnuts buddy, Ted Nugent), I can see why Mr. Jr. would be a Romney supporter.  They have an awful lot in common--both men have no discernible talent and only have their careers thanks to the success of their fathers.

Peace,
emaycee

Blue fish

At twenty-six American corporations last year, their CEOs were paid more than their companies paid in federal income taxes.

Leaving aside the fact that American CEOs, who are truly a dime a dozen and could be replaced by literally thousands of other bozos, or the fact that their psychopathic tendencies, overblown egos, and sheer ineptitude drove our economy into an inexorable abyss which we're still climbing out of...isn't there something inherently wrong about republicans screaming about how high our corporate tax rate is?  Or how we should extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy?  Doesn't this have all the condescension of a "Let them eat cake" moment?

I swear, I hope there's a circle of hell reserved for these assholes where they can spend the rest of eternity spooning actual bullshit into their mouths.

Peace,
emaycee

Red fish

When my subscription lapses to the Detroit Free Press this September, this piece by Stephen Henderson will officially be the figurative straw that broke the camel's back.  At column's end, Henderson--either woefully ignorant or embarrassingly naive--makes this assessment of the Senate race between Democrat Debbie Stabenow and republican Pete Hoekstra:  "It's hard to see how the state could lose no matter who wins."

Un-fucking-believable.

Let me count the ways Hoekstra would be worse for our citizens, in no particular order:

1)  He's a racist as judged by his oft viewed Super Bowl ad with the Asian speaking in a broken accent
2)  He thinks equal pay for women is a "nuisance."
3)  He thinks we should drill for oil in the Great Lakes.
4)  He's a fiscal conservative, the absolute last thing we need in the Senate right now with our economy still struggling.
5)  He's a deficit hawk, the absolute last thing we need in the Senate right now with our economy still struggling (the failures in Europe aren't from overspending, they're from not spending enough).
6)  Henderson is living in fucking La-la Land if he thinks Hoekstra is going to be some maverick republican based on a couple of half-assed compromises he made when he was in the U.S. House.  If he wins, the day he steps into the Senate Mitch McConnell is going to stick a pole up Hoekstra's ass and he's going to dance however the republican powers that be want him to, just like every other fucking republican in the Senate (and the House, too, for that matter).

That's just off the top of my head.

I mean, if Henderson, head of the Free Press's editorial board, thought he was so great, why did the Free Press endorse his opponent, Clark Durant, for the republican primary?

Frankly, this was merely a Free Press sop to its republican readership.  Henderson just puckered up his lips and placed them squarely on their lily-white asses.

His questionable assertion as to Hoekstra's viability as a candidate for the state of Michigan is beyond disgusting.  We can just call him the Kung Fu Panderer.

Peace,
emaycee

Two fish

Joe Biden, to a group of largely African-Americans in Virginia:  "...[Willard Romney] is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.  Unchain Wall Street.  They're going to put y'all back in chains."

Rochelle Riley (an African-American) on Biden's statement:  "But what he did do was go too far in his efforts to talk about the damage Republican policies could do to America's middle class, poor, and minority residents--who are not all the same people."

Riley's column was kind of all over the place--at its end I wasn't really sure what she was striving for--but part of it was about conservatives making it impolitic to talk about racism even though it still exists...which, if this is her hoped for change, she should be absolutely applauding Biden's comments.  I mean a white man calling out republicans for their inherent racism?  It's brilliance--who else but a white American male could honestly call them out for it and be listened to?  And what's with this bullshit about how the middle class, the poor, and minority residents are not all the same people?  We most assuredly are--we're all Americans who are suffering under the damage done over the past thirty years by republican policies and people of Ms. Riley's ilk who are so willing to compromise with them on economic matters for the sake of bipartisanship.

It often amazes me how African-Americans can take as much bullshit from republicans without going postal on a daily basis--I do not have the inner strength to take the shit they do.  But then I read comments like this from Rochelle Riley:  "...conservatives and racists, who by no means are always the same people..." and I think it might just be either an utter lack of conviction or sheer ignorance on the part of African-Americans' leaders.

Your mistake, Ms. Riley, is believing their bullshit about how you can be a republican and not be a racist.  You can't.  I've been on this planet fifty-three years and have never met a republican/conservative who was not a racist.  Get deep down into their hearts, when they think no one is watching, and their true selves will come out.  Given the chance to save a black person's life and that of an ant, they will save the ant every time because they just do not think of "you people" (their words) as living, breathing human beings.

Peace,
emaycee

One fish

The question, what do we want in a President, posited by the Free Press's Rochelle Riley for her handful of readers, was predictably banal to begin with, but the answers she got were even worse.  Hell, if that's the best her readers can do, I really wish none of them would vote because their answers were so...so...dim-witted.

We need someone who can pull both parties together to work out America's problems.  No we don't--we'll end up with the usual diluted policies and laws that do nothing but continue the status quo.  We need an honest President--what the fuck?  So is this some kind of cheap shot at President Obama?  Because from what I've seen--and I've had my disappointment with the President, too--he's about as honorable a man as I've seen in the Oval Office since I began following politics in 1976.  We don't need packaged candidates, we need to talk about what we need--yawn, yawn, yawn.  Bunch of hypocritical bullshit from a bunch of boneheads who have all the policy knowledge of your average Antoinette.

The one I did like, though a bit naive, was the one, who referring to the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," said he wanted a President who strove to make us more like idyllic Bedford Falls than the nightmarish Pottersville of George Bailey's misguided wish.  I'd settle for a President who pointed out that if republicans had their way, we'd be Pottersville in less than a year....

No, what this country really needs (for starters) in a President is one who will stand up to the republican party, tell the American people what their true agenda is (your abject poverty), push for national health care, gut Wall Street and corporate America of its financial clout, restore the power of unions, and above all else stay the fuck away from Conventional Wisdom devotees like Ms. Riley who through their utter lack of conviction have helped lay the groundwork for the destruction of our poor and our middle class.

And a note for her African-American friend who feels so upset about feeling forced to vote for her fellow African-American merely because he's black, too:  try voting for the other guy.  My guess is, in about a month, the disappointment you feel in President Obama will seems like fishing in heaven compared to the utter horror of a Daddy Warbucks/Jughead Presidency.

Peace,
emaycee

More conservative malarkey

It reaches a point where it becomes almost absurd, this conservative belief that apart from defense, the U. S. Government is to blame for all that is wrong and not responsible for anything that is good.

As if no business ever hired someone who had a public education, as if none of their workers ever drove on roads that the government built--hell, that none of them shopped at stores or used auto mechanics or saw doctors that never benefited from the internet or the NIH or welfare benefits.

But it doesn't stop numbnuts like Nolan Finley from peddling their peculiar and misinformed bullshit about individual initiative and the evil government--and making like a scratched record and repeating their tired mantra of how terrible those (not so) high taxes on corporations and the wealthy are to boot.  Yawn.  The piece was like every other such piece written by a comatose republican--so riddled with inaccuracies and specious arguments that my seven-year-old could successfully rebut it.

Finley does make a piss-poor stab at humor (remember, conservatism by its very nature is antithetical to good humor--no rebellion allowed) when he refers to President Obama as President Pinocchio...which is lame even for someone who has all the cleverness of a dead tree stump.

And he closes with an almost admission that the President will probably win re-election and then, ooh scary, it's going to be on us foolish voters and we'll suffer all the horrible consequences.

Like you know, the country not falling into another Great Recession, and not having Wall Street fail and having to spend our tax dollars to bail out their asses, and not watching income inequality continue to have us resemble a Third World country, and maybe having a chance to have more decent wages for normal folks, and not fighting two pointless wars, and not having the social safety net shredded, and maybe having our grandparents still have a guaranteed income and decent healthcare in the later years, and....

I could probably go on for two or three more hours, but you get the drift and I've got to get some sleep before work tomorrow.

Peace,
emaycee

I used to be disgusted...

...now I'm just flat-assed pissed off.

It's been a horrible couple of weeks in the Detroit Free Press (not so good in the Detroit News, either, but it's a conservative publication and you gets whats you pays for)--so much so that I am seriously considering letting my subscription lapse when it expires in September.  I've been reading newspapers since I was eight-years-old (no child prodigy, I started with the easy stuff: sports and the comics) and I've never been so utterly disgusted with the level of discourse and the slip-shod journalism.  Misinformation--swear to God, it seems that several of their pundits are looking for jobs in the Beltway.  Just brutal with the "trying to appear balanced even though we're reporting completely incorrect information and our opinions are so ill-informed..." ad nauseum.

And then...and then...I read a piece like this one and this one (disclaimer:  they were written by my daughter) rooting out real life problems while exposing real life problems (homelessness and issues with local homeless shelters in a small Iowa town) and I think to myself maybe journalism isn't such a fucked up field, after all, that it's still capable of doing some good in this big old goofy world.

Maybe I just need to subscribe to a small town newspaper....

Peace,
emaycee

Statistics, Inc.

This one is downright distressing:  currently, one in four Americans is working in a low wage job.

One in four.  This means, as you're walking down the street, out of every four people you pass by, one of them is stuck in a low wage job.  Twenty-five percent of American workers.

I know some will say that this number includes a lot of youths, but how many of them are trying to save for college or helping Mom and Dad pay the bills?  I'm sure a few of them are also people who are happy with fifteen to twenty hours a week so they can take care of other matters (family, personal, hobbies), but you'd still have to assume there are many, many more who want and need so much more in wages.

And how much worse do you think this will be if Daddy Warbucks and Jughead win the Presidential race this November?  I'm guessing it increases within a year to two in five....

And just how long do you suppose the wealthy, corporations, and other powers that be in this country think we are going to sustain such abject wages?

Not too fucking much longer, my friends.

Peace,
emaycee

Game on

Just a hunch, judging from the 37,000 or so e-mails I received today from like-minded political organizations, but it seems Willard made quite an interesting pick today for his running mate.

I think his choice of Paul Ryan could be a spectacular one--if the national media is honest and lets the American people know the draconian agenda Ryan favors and Willard just signed up for.  In the simplest of terms, Romney/Ryan just blindfolded America's poor, middle class, and elderly  and handed them a live grenade.  If they figure out what it is in those first few seconds and toss it, well bully for them.  If not--oh well, it's their own goddamned fault.

And if the Democratic Party actually stands up for its ideals.  Beause we have the chance to show many Americans (forget the Antoinettes--they're hopeless) that there is truly a stark difference between us and them.  We see an America where all people are equal, where opportunity arises for all, where we look after the least of our brothers.  They see an America where you wouldn't piss on your next door neighbor if he was on fire unless you got paid a nickel first.  After seeing the Pavlovian salivating going on from most of those on the left today, I'd like to hope that's the choice we show them.

Unforunately, as we've seen all too often over the past four years, it doesn't often happen that way.

Still, the one person who has to be happiest about this is Joe Biden--can't imagine Jughead is going to charm his way into making a better impression than previously thought possible in the Veep debate.  He'll just be his heartless regular self.

Peace,
emaycee

Too stupid or a conniving prick?

Well, now, here's a surprise:  seems republicans, unhappy with another initiative, this one to enshrine collective bargaining rights into the Michigan constitution, have had intrepid Attorney General Bill Schuette investigate and his opinion is...

...that the initiative is too complicated for the hundred words it is allowed on the ballot.  As if it wasn't bad enough that Michigan republicans embarrassed us and cost us dearly in recruiting businesses and talent to a state that's looking more and more like Rubesville with their supremely brilliant (and ultimately defeated) ruse that the fucking font size was wrong for the Emergency Manager Law Repeal Initiative, now we're supposed to believe the labor rights initiative is just too much for us poor working folk to understand.

Now, Mr. Schuette is a republican, and it may be beyond most of their members meager mental capabilities, but I'm pretty sure most of us know exactly what this is:  another in a long line of republicans using any gimmick they can think of to subvert democracy and the will of the people to protect their corporate benefactors.

I mean heaven forbid we tell those benefactors to pound salt up their ass like the wise folks in Ohio did in repealing SB5.

Peace,
emaycee

Motor City Idiot

“Obama represents everything bad about humanity and Romney pretty much all that is good. It is really that stark.”  Ted Nugent

Leaving aside the facts that 1) Ted Nugent is a poor excuse for a human being, a third rate celebrity, and a lame brain of epic proportions, and 2) President Obama is one of the most decent human beings to occupy the White House in my lifetime (good family man, community activist, administration virtually free of scandal), if Willard Romney represents all that is good about humanity the United States of America is fucking finished.

I mean pack it the fuck in and hand the reins over to the Chinese.

Peace,
emaycee

Moderates

With the cuckoo birds who make up what passes for the modern republican party, so-called moderates have played a major role in stunting any chance for an America that meets the financial needs of all Americans.  They're always willing to make a bargain that affects somebody else's paycheck, always willing to discuss dismantling the safety net for "bipartisanship."  Frankly, there's always been something a little smarmy about moderates--they're sort of like the chief ass kisser at your place of employment, kind of pathetic and not even in a way that you really feel any empathy for him.

Digby--much more literate than I--absolutely nails it on what makes moderates so...so...meager:

"The worst people in politics are often the so-called 'moderates' who are only 'moderate' by virtue of the fact that they believe themselves to be superior in every way to the people who believe in something."

Amen.

Peace,
emaycee

Smackdown extrordinaire

Looking for a nice little piece to brighten your day, put a little smile on your face?  Guaranteed that this smackdown, written in response to the typically ignorant ass ranting of some Antoinette about how he's going to sell his business and go on welfare if President Obama wins, will do just the trick.

If only we had Democratic politicans who were so presicient and honest.

Peace,
emaycee

Not quite Forrest Gump

Because, you know, while Forrest Gump may have been as dim-witted as a squirrel, at least he had a heart.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (see also, Alfred E. Neumann) is offended--fucking offended, I tell you--by facts.  Seems he just has his puny brain all in a snit because Sen. Barbara Boxer--unlike her republican colleagues--decided to have a committee meeting based on scientific facts.

What's really frightening is that the people of Alabama are so fucking stupid that they'll re-elect this utter moron with better than 60% of the vote.  When did being stupid become a desired quality in our elected leaders?

Never mind--it's the fucking American south.  They're not even smart enough to understand how badly Sen. Boxer bitch slapped his dumb ass. 

And neither is he.

Peace,
emaycee

Told ya!

Well whaddya know?  Seems one Jeff Greene, uber billionaire, is getting a wee bit anxious about the fact that the Occupy Movement may have been a like watching a baby sleep compared to the shitstorm that's coming if the level of income inequality and the eroding of the middle class continues unabated.  Seems Mr. Greene even believes that eventually the ultra wealthy will realize the error of their ways--read, we can hold onto more of our money this way--and eventually become more supportive of progressive causes because it will be in their best financial interest.

Haven't I--moi, me, emaycee--been saying that it was only a matter of time before the aforesaid shitstorm hits?

Unfortunately for Mr. Greene, though, I tend to agree more with this assessment by John Kenneth Galbraith:

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

One only need look at their desperate attempt to buy this election for Willard Romney to understand Mr. Galbraith's assertion.

Peace,
emaycee