I can guarantee a Romney Presidency will be better than a second term of Obama, because under Romney, certain people will once again pretend to care about the horrible shit America does and will at least talk about trying to do something about it.
Well that's sort of better, right?
Seriously, fuck that guy.
In other news, Dick Cheney ripped the still-beating heart of a newborn from its chest, the first wail of its life the last, as he opened the yawning black chasm in his abdomen and forced it beside the dozens of other tormented, ichor dripping organs in another undeserved attempt to extend his horrid life...
Remind Them Afghans
I agree wholeheartedly with the author here; it is unspeakably insensitive to spend a decade invading, bombing, and terrorizing a nation, murdering and torturing thousands of men women and children, and driving tens of thousands more into homelessness and starvation, without at least having the good graces to be aware of their religious and cultural mores. They are absolutely right; there can be no justification for violent rampages, no matter what the injury.
Cowardice
Where will you be, what will you do tomorrow?
Do you have work, school, all those lovely obligations keeping people from joining in with this worldwide howl of rage and love? Do you care? Do you know what's at stake?
Sure, this is important, but we have to pay rent, eat, and keep up our grades. If we're too visible or outspoken, we could lose our jobs you know! Our responsibilities to keep ourselves safe within this system come before making it better. Certainly before even thinking of dismantling it, god forbid!
Where will I be tomorrow? I have to be at work in 3 hours. Do we want to be the gears or the bodies upon them?
I know what I want. But knowing is always a far cry from doing.
[edit.] WAH WAH WAH
I know what I want. But knowing is always a far cry from doing.
[edit.] WAH WAH WAH
Godwin is Dead, Long Live Godwin
After World War 2, Allied Command forced some homosexual prisoners of concentration camps, survivors of the goddamned Holocaust, to serve out their time for their "crimes" after the war, no matter how long they had been in the camps or how they had suffered, some of them into the 1960s.
WIP Air and Water are Nice
I want you all to be environmentalists in your own right.
I want you to think about how we all treat our home.
So I want you to join me in a little exercise:
The Earth is our home. Now, we don't treat it too well despite this, cause its rather large, and we can't picture what we collectively as a species are doing to it.
So imagine your home. Whether you live in an apartment or on a couple of acres of land, this will work either way. But because this is an analogy for the Earth, I want you all to go one step further. Imagine all the water you use in a year and imagine only having enough air to surround your home in half a cube whose base is equal to the square footage of wherever you live.
Got that in your mind? Good.
Now imagine every single thing you use in a year.
Everything you throw out.
All the packaging you toss.
All the food you scrape into the garbage can.
All the bodily waste you produce.
All the cleaning chemicals you spray.
All the gas you burn to go somewhere.
And everything else you don't think about when you buy it, use it, and forget it the moment you lose interest.
Now imagine all that trapped with you in your home.
All the liquid waste goes into your water.
All the gaseous waste goes into the air.
And all the solid waste, stuffed into a corner and desperately hoped to be forgotten.
Actually, nix that, a good bit of the solid waste goes into your water too.
How long do you think you would last in that environment?
Got it?
Good.
Now imagine you and 7 billion other people doing the exact same thing.
How long do you think we will last in that environment?
It's not an idle question. We're living it right now. Think about it!
And now think what we can do about it!
I want you to think about how we all treat our home.
So I want you to join me in a little exercise:
The Earth is our home. Now, we don't treat it too well despite this, cause its rather large, and we can't picture what we collectively as a species are doing to it.
So imagine your home. Whether you live in an apartment or on a couple of acres of land, this will work either way. But because this is an analogy for the Earth, I want you all to go one step further. Imagine all the water you use in a year and imagine only having enough air to surround your home in half a cube whose base is equal to the square footage of wherever you live.
Got that in your mind? Good.
Now imagine every single thing you use in a year.
Everything you throw out.
All the packaging you toss.
All the food you scrape into the garbage can.
All the bodily waste you produce.
All the cleaning chemicals you spray.
All the gas you burn to go somewhere.
And everything else you don't think about when you buy it, use it, and forget it the moment you lose interest.
Now imagine all that trapped with you in your home.
All the liquid waste goes into your water.
All the gaseous waste goes into the air.
And all the solid waste, stuffed into a corner and desperately hoped to be forgotten.
Actually, nix that, a good bit of the solid waste goes into your water too.
How long do you think you would last in that environment?
Got it?
Good.
Now imagine you and 7 billion other people doing the exact same thing.
How long do you think we will last in that environment?
It's not an idle question. We're living it right now. Think about it!
And now think what we can do about it!
Troy Davis Must Die
I learned that policemen are my friends
I learned that justice never ends
I learned that murderers die for their crimes
Even if we make a mistake sometimes
That's what I learned in school...
Doin' What I Think I Should...
Troy Davis yesterday, Occupy Wall St. today.
But not every day for the next few months. Not even most of today. For the usual reasons. So it goes.
We're all part-time bodies upon the gears.
But not every day for the next few months. Not even most of today. For the usual reasons. So it goes.
We're all part-time bodies upon the gears.
Freedom is Slavery.
The professor handed out the Catechism of the Knights of Labor and asked us for our reactions.
Gladys, an older woman, an immigrant from Latin America recounted her first experience with employment in the United States: she worked in a factory in Midtown Manhattan, she was obviously scared to give the exact location and name when pressed by our professor, but she had been exploited, paid less than minimum wage, told to work for 6 days a week, her employers had taken advantage of the fact that she had little grasp of the language at the time and that she knew even less about her rights within this system. She was nearly in tears with the whole class turning in their seats to listen to her in the corner as she described what she went through as slavery.
"But could you quit that job? You did get paid, correct?" The professor pressed.
"Slaves could not quit, they did not have that choice, you were free to leave, right? You could take another job if you found it?"
Gladys responded that yes, she did eventually escape that place, once she had learned enough and could find an employer that could use her language as an asset, rather than a shackle. She was clearly shaken by our teacher's seeming dismissal of her experience to prove what seemed like a semantic point.
"Ah, so you were not a slave then, strictly speaking. See, that's the difference, slaves could not choose to stop working, if they did, they would be beaten. Freedom, free labor means you work or you starve. That is the definition of freedom, in a capitalist system at least."
What a fucking asshole. But good point.
*Update*
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-may-contain-up-to-60-million-slaves-201109134294/
I love these people.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-may-contain-up-to-60-million-slaves-201109134294/
I love these people.
Thinking Back
I don't put much stock in the conspiracy theories, but for everything else progressives and dissenters who don't subscribe to them put at Bush's feet, you'd think they'd be a little more inclined to believe them once the death count in the war on terror reached 2,977 people.
Spark Notes
The Republicans, concerned with getting reelected by frothing, cretinous Teatards have taken a principled stand against raising the debt ceiling, something every single incumbent has voted for in the past.
Not voting for it could mean the collapse of the US economy with all the attendant damage that would do to the world.
Not voting for it could mean the collapse of the US economy with all the attendant damage that would do to the world.
Of course there are ways around that; Obama could simply declare it unconstitutional not to vote for it, citing the 14th Amendment, among other solutions, but he has decided not to bother with such routes.
Instead, he dangles massive spending cuts including to the aforementioned entitlement programs while asking for a pittance in tax revenue from the GOP, and of course military cuts are not even considered...
He's being the adult, the better man, he's compromising~
Instead, he dangles massive spending cuts including to the aforementioned entitlement programs while asking for a pittance in tax revenue from the GOP, and of course military cuts are not even considered...
He's being the adult, the better man, he's compromising~
Of course, the elephant in the room is why all those who bankroll the GOP and the Democrats, the various corporate entities and the super-rich who would be harmed (but by no means be the worst affected) by a default on American debt would even allow their lackeys in Congress to actually implement such a threat.
And the answer is: they wouldn't (Boehner's postponed the vote, even). It's all theater, a convenient way for everyone (except the vast majority of the American people) to get what they want; less government handouts to the most vulnerable Americans, less money being paid by the wealthiest Americans, and maintaining a facade of the wise elder statesman, valiantly holding off the barbarians at the gates, while the barbarians get to pretend they're upholding real American values.
Oh, and they get to sack America again.
And the answer is: they wouldn't (Boehner's postponed the vote, even). It's all theater, a convenient way for everyone (except the vast majority of the American people) to get what they want; less government handouts to the most vulnerable Americans, less money being paid by the wealthiest Americans, and maintaining a facade of the wise elder statesman, valiantly holding off the barbarians at the gates, while the barbarians get to pretend they're upholding real American values.
Oh, and they get to sack America again.
Needs Work
Your own... Chocolaty... Jesus...
Don't hear your prayers, he's candy to share...
Your own... Chocolaty... Jesus...
Don't get on your knees for prayer, he's always there...
At Zerelda Lee's Candy Wares...
Don't hear your prayers, he's candy to share...
Your own... Chocolaty... Jesus...
Don't get on your knees for prayer, he's always there...
At Zerelda Lee's Candy Wares...
How Concise
"The CIA funnels opium and other drugs into underworld organizations in return for said criminal enterprises' complicit involvement with the suppression of local socialist and revolutionary movements. Most notably, this happened during the Vietnam War when the CIA was buying heroin from Khmer warlords in Cambodia and selling it to the mafia so they could flood the streets of Harlem and other black neighborhoods with enough dope to keep the Black Panthers and other Black Power groups too stoned to fight."
-Anonymous, 06/11/11
The Value of Planning Ahead
I'm curious as to why Osama didn't take the Assange route and tuck away some incriminating documents concerning his job history at the CIA somewhere, ordering someone to release them should he ever be caught or killed.
Even if we did capture him and put him on trial, its not like we'd do any but the most superficial of trials, sort of like the one Saddam got that was cut off before they could get to his complicity and work for the US government.
Even if we did capture him and put him on trial, its not like we'd do any but the most superficial of trials, sort of like the one Saddam got that was cut off before they could get to his complicity and work for the US government.
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