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[19 Jul 2008|12:58pm] |
Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, "Where is that marvelous ape?" -- John McCain at a Washington, D.C. conference Yep, that's a leader right there, boy.
McCain Joked About How Much Women Love to Be Raped
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[17 Jul 2008|10:58am] |
The US Consumer Price Index jumped by an unexpected 1.1 percent last month amid spiraling energy prices, according to Labor Department figures released yesterday. June’s inflation spike—the sharpest since 1982—brought the annual inflation rate to 5 percent. Economists had been predicting a monthly increase of .7 percent, and June’s rise was significantly higher than the .6 percent increase seen in May.
Producer prices showed an even sharper increase of 1.8 percent, according to the Labor Department. The producer price index has increased by 9.2 percent in the past year in the sharpest increase since 1981. Energy prices led the increase, jumping by 6.6 percent, while transportation costs also shot up as airlines increased ticket prices by 4.5 percent.
Wage levels, meanwhile, decreased by .9 percent after adjusting for inflation. Real wages have fallen by a full 2.4 percent in the past year.
Such drastic cuts in real wages—representing a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the very rich—are sending shockwaves through the whole of American society.
With this in mind, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Tuesday of the potential for renewed demands for higher wages by American workers if prices continue to increase. In his biannual monetary policy report, delivered to both houses of Congress, the Fed Chairman stressed the Fed’s continuing commitment to quelling any wages movement.
“[T]he currently high level of inflation, if sustained, might lead the public to revise up its expectations for longer-term inflation,” he said. “If that were to occur, and those revised expectations were to become embedded in the domestic wage- and price-setting process, we could see an unwelcome rise in actual inflation over the longer term. A critical responsibility of monetary policy makers is to prevent that process from taking hold.”
In other words, the Fed intends—if it can—to tighten the money supply and deepen the US economic downturn to prevent any wages offensive by the working class. In case anyone missed the point, Bernanke reiterated the claim in the next paragraph, saying, “In light of the increase in upside inflation risk, we must be particularly alert to any indications, ... that the inflationary impulses from commodity prices are becoming embedded in the domestic wage and price-setting process.” US: Amid surging prices, Fed raises specter of renewed class struggle Yep.
Sometimes everything is so obvious there shouldn't be any need to point it out, but people still have to point it out for the illiterate TV babies of America.
This country deserves Barack McCain.
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[17 Jul 2008|10:20am] |
Just a note to say that if you're upset about the cover for "The New Yorker," you're a fucking moron. Seriously. (That includes both McCain and Obama, by they way, but then we already knew they were fucking morons.)
Also: "The New Yorker" is the only general interest magazine worth reading. (That includes both "Time" and "Newsweek," but we already knew that they were nothing but propaganda rags.)
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[17 Jul 2008|10:12am] |
I swear, if I was a woman, I'd marry Joss Whedon.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
How people could not love that is beyond me.
vox (secretly wants to be on Broadway)
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[03 Jul 2008|07:16pm] |
Obama's war room
Just take a look at with whom Obama has surrounded himself, and then tell me you don't want to vomit.
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[03 Jul 2008|06:53pm] |
Obama’s patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundrel
On the war, he cited the number of dead and wounded American troops and declared that their “sacrifice” called to mind “the commitments that bind us to our nation and to each other.” That this sacrifice was imposed upon the American people on the basis of lies and in pursuit of predatory interests bound up with the conquest of Iraqi oil, not a word.
Obama continued by ascribing the difficulties in today’s debates about patriotism to the “culture wars of the 1960s.” In doing so, he deliberately identified himself with the ideological shibboleths of the political right. He denounced the “so-called counter-culture of the Sixties,” identifying it with “burning flags” and “failing to honor those veterans coming home from Vietnam, something that remains a national shame to this day.” Yep, vox ain't votin' this year.
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[30 Jun 2008|11:44am] |
Congress Passes New Iraq War Funds
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved $161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next year, without timetables for withdrawing combat troops.
The House of Representatives passed an identical bill last week. President George W. Bush is expected to promptly sign the measure into law once he receives it from Congress. Yep, we elected the Republicrats to stop the war.
In return, they have given Bush EVERY SINGLE DIME HE WANTED in order to continue the illegal occupation.
That's pretty effective governing, eh?
(Exactly how are the Dems supposedly better?)
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[30 Jun 2008|11:40am] |
Obama attacks US Supreme Court decision barring death penalty for child rape
In an action that combines cynical political opportunism and outright reaction, Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, has publicly denounced Wednesday’s decision by the US Supreme Court outlawing the execution of people convicted of child rape.
The 5-4 majority, comprised of the four court liberals and conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the decision, held that the death penalty could only be applied for crimes in which the victim was killed. The court noted that only 6 states out of 50 permitted capital punishment for child rape, and held that this demonstrated a social consensus against such executions.
Yep, that worthless Republicrat is essentially signalling that he's going to appoint more Scalia shite to the federal judiciary, and to the Supreme Court in particular. Notice his praise of the Second Amendment decision the other day? (YET ANOTHER flip-flop, the filthy cunt is HANDING the election to McCain.)
Tell me again why I'm supposed to vote for the Republicrats?
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[30 Jun 2008|11:31am] |
Chavez Candidate Leads Caracas Mayor Race, Poll Says
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's candidate for mayor of Caracas, Aristobulo Isturiz, is the front-runner ahead of the November election, according to the first poll of city voters.
Isturiz, a former education minister who now hosts a show on state television, had the backing of 39 percent in the June 6-19 poll by Caracas-based Hinterlaces. Leopoldo Lopez, a Harvard-educated opposition leader who met with Barack Obama on June 21 in Miami, trailed with 30.1 percent.
I see your true colors, shining through.
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[30 Jun 2008|10:15am] |
I went to a wedding Saturday.
People complained, but then again, I come from a family that finds fault with everything. If Jesus Christ himself opened the sky and floated down in front of them, with a full choir of angels singing back up, they'd say, "Eh, that's okay, but I was really expecting more." Nothing is ever good enough, so I don't really listen to them about anything anymore.
The reception was interesting, though. Those of you who have read me for a while know that I've grown WASPier as I've grown older. Saturday I thought I might just sprout wings and buzz about for a while. See, the groom was Jewish, and when they did that chair lifty thing and were singing that "Hava Nagila" song, all I could think of was "Oh, what a charming folk custom," which is really kind of rude, isn't it? I didn't mean it that way, but that's how I thought it. (I used to be Riff Raff. Now I'm Brad.)
More importantly, there was this woman there who had the most amazing figure (like a STICK, she was, unreal sexiness) and ABSOLUTELY THE PALEST SKIN I'VE EVER SEEN EVER!!!!! So, so hot. And a clingy white slip dress that was perfect on her. (Although, I did get a little turned off by her shoes. Black shoes? Strappy low-heeled sandal things? Uh-uh. No. White shoes, yes. Silver shoes, yes. Those shoes? You should be scolded, pale sexy girl.)
Of course, she was only twenty-two, which makes me an old, lecherous creep, but I don't care. She was sexy, and her SKIN was brilliant. Also, there was an open bar and I didn't take a single drink. (Save for the toasts, of course.) I was very good.
vox (is changing his name to Cross, or maybe Farnsworth)
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[25 Jun 2008|12:33pm] |
Meow.
You'll pardon me if I don't jump on the pyre the media is building for Tim Russert, who died of a heart attack June 13. You'd never know it from the keening all over television, but as Dick Cheney's press aide testified during the Scooter Libby trial, Russert's show was the place the Bushies loved the most for "getting their message out." Especially during the homicidal and suicidal Iraq war. And especially for the Vice President, who was architect of the Administration's foreign policy.
The eulogists are right: Tim Russert was powerful. From calling Florida for Bush in 2000 to telling Al Gore to quit the contest after Election Day, to kneecapping Hillary Clinton in the debate in Philadelphia last October, Russert was a kingmaker. When he called the Democratic primary for Barack Obama last month, his fellow pundits compared it to the moment Walter Cronkite bailed on the war in Vietnam. I, for one, am looking forward to the rest of the electoral cycle without the domineering presence of NBC's electoral college of one. How the Russert Test Failed America
There is no good reason for anyone outside of his family to miss this man. He wasn't a journalist. He was a propagandist.
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[25 Jun 2008|12:21pm] |
Hmmm.
First Obama was against the embargo against Cuba. Now he's for it.
First Obama was for public financing, now he doesn't want it.
First Obama promised to filibuster any bill giving immunity to the telecoms who aided the government in illegal spying. Now he's for the "compromise." (They are all compromised.)
Can you call Obama just another lying windsock?
Yes you can!
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[25 Jun 2008|12:16pm] |
Telecom Donations Tied to FISA Vote
Oh. Gosh. It's shocking. I'm so shocked.
Supporters of the spying bill received twice the contributions as those against it. Your vote means nothing. You should already know that.
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[25 Jun 2008|12:06pm] |
A disaster caused by the free market
ON APRIL 19, the Economist ran its cover story on the world food crisis under the title "The Silent Tsunami," likening the current crisis to a natural disaster, when in fact, it is absolutely orchestrated and man-made.
The editors in that issue calmly proclaimed that the world of cheap food is gone, and they go on to outline what the crisis means for different segments of the population around the world.
For what they call the "middle classes," it means cutting out health care or rent and food. For what the Economist calls the "middling poor"--the roughly 2 billion people or one-third of humanity living on $2 a day--it means pulling children out of school and cutting back on vegetables so they can still afford rice. For those living on a dollar a day--1 billion people, or a sixth of humanity, fall into that category--they're cutting back on everything but cereals, and moving from two bowls a day to one.
The only group the Economist refers to as desperate are those living on 50 cents a day, and for them, the crisis means disaster. Although, isn't living on 50 cents a day already a disaster? We are a terrible people. I blame us all. You and me too.
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[25 Jun 2008|10:26am] |
Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department
Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used "political or ideological" factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.
The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department's inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year's scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration. Anyone who paid any attention at all already knew this was true, but still. Seeing it all printed out like this, it's enough to make a person vomit.
America is enough to make a person vomit.
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[25 Jun 2008|10:07am] |
HEY!!! Guess what. Scalia is a LIAR.
Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Corpus Dissent
To bolster his argument that the Guantanamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo have returned to the battlefield." It turns out that statement is false. Scalia is a reactionary right-winger, and a treasonous one at that. Yes, I am saying he committed treason, but everyone with a brain (which excludes right-wing filth) knows he did.
Terrorists didn't destroy America. Scalia did.
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