November 7, 2012

Taste their buttery tears, freeper freakout

Saw this spammed on Facebook and it traces back to free republic. Such sweet suffering.

Delusions pasted below...

As the election results pour in tonight, I am confronted with by a period of time in which I must reassess my core values and beliefs, and how they fit into the broader population of the United States.
It is my belief that the Nation is becoming a Humanist Country, where Government is at the Center of Life much as Religion had been in the past. We are becoming more like Sweden or the Nordic countries rather than like the Southern EU nations of Greece, Italy or Spain. The difference between a social democracy and a Humanist Country is at its core one of financial ability to maintain - the Nordic nations have oil, gas and low populations and the South has more people than they can support.

My basis for these thoughts are that I have lived in a state of mind in which I choose to be conservative, religious, and tried to be the best person I could, all the while teaching my children to work hard and be self-reliant.

But as the election results are coming in evidence to the contrary confronts me that many more Americans are not conservative.

The state of American is that just over one-half of the citizens are happy with the Democrats while the conservative half like myself felt he was destruction to the Nation on so many levels.

Tonight I must finally admit that Democrats and liberals have achieved their goals of moving the County into a social democracy like those in Europe; tonight is 1970 in Europe and in 50 years the USA will be in the same dire straights as Europe.

Americans like myself will no longer take the risks or work harder than the laziest in each of our work environments and all seek the same diminishing rewards. Having lived in Europe and experienced the their culture in The Netherlands and Belgium, all incentive to produce has been breed out of the population.

So tonight I must accept that the Country is not going to collapse nor is it going to change much from today for that matter. Tomorrow I will be faced with walking the social plank off the Ship into the water or tread lightly so as not to offend the Humanists, the gays, the anti-Christians, the Latinos, Blacks, women, etc.

Tonight I go to sleep knowing my way of life is in the last generation where a majority once worked hard and individuals were important; tomorrow I embrace the new culture where the intolerant are somehow the norm and to live counter to their culture is being intolerant - I for one do not think I can tolerate this new status quo but will silently accept what our schools and taxes have done to society.

November 7, 2012

Now that Obama never has to run for office again

Can we possibly hope he will get medieval on some congressional republican asses? I'm sick of Obama negotiating with terrorists. I want to see him fight fire with fire. This bipartisan shit where they tell him to go fuck himself and he asks with what has got to go. I don't expect him to invite them to a dinner and being along a baseball bat like Capone but I think he can do something more akin to an offer they can't refuse, not so much a horse's head in the bed but simply prosecuting them for crimes committed while in office and asking the survivors who's next? It's impossible for them to lead as they have without being corrupt. It's not a question of whether they broke the law but the circumstances. Fire Holder and put someone in who will go after the GOP like a weasel in a chicken coop.

November 5, 2012

How did Angelo Mozilo get away with it? Countrywide scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Mozilo

Perhaps more than any single individual, Mozilo has come to symbolize, and bear the blame for, the subprime mortgage crisis. In a New York Times feature on October 20, 2008, Henry G. Cisneros, former secretary of HUD and member of the Countrywide board of directors, describes Mr. Mozilo as “sick with stress — the final chapter of his life is the infamy that’s been brought on him, or that he brought on himself.” CNN named Mozilo as one of the "Ten Most Wanted: Culprits" of the 2008 financial collapse in the United States.[6]

Wow. This guy must be doing serious time, right?

On Friday October 15, 2010, Mozilo reached a settlement with Securities and Exchange Commission, over securities fraud and insider trading charges. Mozilo agreed to pay $67.5 million in fines and accepted a lifetime ban from serving as an officer or director of any public company; it is the largest settlement by an individual or executive connected to the 2008 housing collapse. Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement that "Mozilo's record penalty is the fitting outcome for a corporate executive who deliberately disregarded his duties to investors by concealing what he saw from inside the executive suite." By settling the SEC charges, Mozilo will avoid a trial that could have provided fodder for future criminal charges. [20][21]

This fine represents a small fraction of Mozilo's estimated net worth of $600 million. Countrywide will pay $20 million of the $67.5 million penalty because of an indemnification agreement that was part of Mozillo's employment contract. The terms of the settlement allow Mr. Mozilo to avoid acknowledging any wrongdoing.

In February 2011, the U.S. dropped its criminal investigation into the facts behind that civil settlement.

Ok, so let me get this straight.
1. Steal more money than I could possibly spend in an entire lifetime.
2. Pay a 11% vig on it to the government.
3. No jail time.
4. Profit.

Seriously, what the fuck? I could do more jail time for pirating a Beatles album.

Obama has been a major disappointment for me. He pretty much strikes me as Harvey Keitel's character from Pulp Fiction, a cleaner. So, guys, what went wrong? Dead hooker in the hotel room? Drunk driving with fatalities? Got caught skimming millions from your charity fund? Stabbed your ex and her boyfriend to death and got in a low-speed chase that was all over the news? I'll make all the problems go away but it's gonna cost you.

So yeah, the economy didn't implode. The lights stayed on, stores remained open. We didn't descend into anarchy. But what happened with the criminals who caused this mess? They got away with it.

This is probably the Obama quote that pisses me off the most. "Some bankers gave explanations for the industry’s high salaries, such as 'competing for talent on an international market.' But, President Obama cut them off. 'My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.'"

Obama, your job is not to protect these fucks from the consequences of their crimes. Your job is to say "I speak for the mob with the pitchforks. Consequences are happening now. It's your choice as to whether you're facing a court of law or a lynch mob."

This is the latest quote that pisses me off almost as much. "I've said if the Republicans need more love -- (laughter) -- if they want me to walk the dog or wash their car, I'm happy to do it. (Laughter.) And I genuinely believe that most Americans -- Democrats or Republicans -- they just want us to solve problems."

Obama is not stupid. We have insider quotes from him that show he knows exactly what game is being played and what the score is. For him to go through the kayfabe of acting like there's anything bipartisan to be had with these economic terrorists is fucking insulting. You do not negotiate with people who are in the wrong, you offer them the term of unconditional surrender. Civil rights are not something that's negotiable. You don't find a middle ground on segregation. You don't find a middle ground on reproductive rights. You don't find a middle ground on prosecuting criminals to the fullest extent of the law.

It just infuriates me that you can whip the Rush Limbaugh audience into a frenzy over welfare the thought of a black man living off the sweat of a white man's brow they can't put 2 and 2 together and see someone like a Mozilo is ripping them off harder than any street hood could conceive of.

I'm just so tired of hearing excuses over why we can't fight harder, why we have to put off change until tomorrow, why we have to accept the status quo. I don't want a president who's kissing their asses, I want a president who's busting their skulls.

October 31, 2012

New proposal for writing Grand Old Party

G-P, because writing it out fully is an obscenity.