Good on him. He is far braver than most. Or, for all we know, each "independent" news/media organization has token Shit Disturbers to keep up democratic appearances. Who the hell knows? That's the problem once lying is acceptable. It's like chasing mercury.
And yes, enough already with flashing the pearly whites. Nothing's funny right now, nothing. AND it will either get worse, or it will get even worse than that, later.
But I remember when Bill Maher fans turned on him, too. If I am not mistaken, it was right after he announced in no uncertain terms that that the Nine Eleven Question was off the table.
In possible defense of both Bill Maher and Lou Dobbs…bearing in mind that A.) I don’t know, I’ve never met either one of them and B.) all bets are off if you despise either ideologically…we all have to earn a living. How many people are free to just hold forth on company time and say whatever the hell pops into their noggins…really let the boss have it, both barrels, at the copy machine that is temporarily out of service? Again. Since last week. If people were totally free, there wouldn’t be work. Whoever signs the paychecks gets to set some rules.
If Lou Dobbs or Bill Maher quit on principle or get fired for crossing lines that are OBVIOUSLY established by Big Media, someone else slides into place. Like the disposable, interchangeable Labor that we are. Not least because our borders are wide the hell open. While we are at war and ostensibly under continual threat of terrorist attack.
Ahmadinejad looked pretty relaxed on Larry King, I thought.
By contrast, I know from whence I speak when I say that America behaves like an Alcoholic, a real last gasper, who is SCRAMBLING like a cartoon character to rationalize/coverup/hide/evade/avoid/lie/cheat/steal...anything and everything...whatever it takes to drink another day. And another and another and another, ad nauseum, in a sickening downward spiral.
Until hitting bottom. In the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, they talk about being beaten into a state of reasonableness.
Government "protects" us from hitting bottom, so we keep doing what we do...spending our lives and security away chasing gratification that Stuff unfailingly fails to deliver. Which is why we need a new cell phone every year. Also why we need drugs. Note the word need.
Need translates into profit. What will be a very clever idea will be to make the substances that YOU need legal and the substances that OTHER people prefer illegal, and then make a business out of locking people up. Genius. IncarcerationIncorporated.com
And they just keep doing what they do...which is make lots of money for themselves without actually producing much of anything and spend our money.
We are in the crisis of our lifetimes, and they are still pushing new cars on TV. This bailout "needs" to happen because people's car leases are coming due and no one will loan them the money? Are we serious?
We don't need to ram the spendingest financial vehicle of all time into existence so that people can buy new cars. New cars for Americans are not a priority right now. All new cars coming off the line should run on something other than gasoline.
They can't have it both ways. They didn’t see it coming AND they can see how to fix it? It’s a Crisis AND it’s Business As Usual? We HAVE to do it AND we have to do it in a hurry, their way? Fuck off. I'm sick of this.
It IS time to seize the moment. They are scaring the holy bejeezus out of people because THEY are scared. Hence, the troops on domestic soil. Wankers AND Cowards.
The icing on the cake that they would have the peasants eat is that, from positions of uncontested power, they would orchestrate their own bailout at the peasantry’s expense. Money to get power, power to protect money.
And Americans are just kind of okay with it. Lots of tongue-clicking and finger-wagging, then give ‘em another four years to make good or else? I'm getting sick of Americans, too.
I am not a NO DRILLING nut-period-case-period person. I am a Pragmatist. Drill away. Wind, solar, water...speaking of anything and everything. But some people are adamantly opposed to offshore drilling. And I just wonder, what with all the hoopla about the biggest Government Grab in American history, whether they noticed that Congress quietly paved the way this week for resumption of offshore drilling.
Energy independence is vital. Like food. Speaking of water, where is the call for desalinization plants? Do we have mandated rain water reclamation? No, we do not. But the Working Poor buys bottled water from the likes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Well done.
We are feast or famine people. Extremists. Addicts. We prefer floods and droughts, thanks. The Royal We has figured out how to make a profit off of disease, disaster and death. Death is practically an Export.
Those of you who revile the “Death Tax,” I implore you to re-think your position. I am convinced that society is ill-advised to permit a person who amasses a colossal fortune…owing even to the most ethical entrepreneurial wizardry, likely combined with some fortuitous circumstances…to transfer upon his death that colossal fortune to offspring who have done NOTHING but enjoy the extraordinary good fortune of having been born into extraordinary fortune.
Children who have already experienced such privilege, advantage and enrichment as to catapult them effortlessly and permanently above rank and file offspring. Children who very often careen around recklessly with the most appalling senses of entitlement, the globe their playground with servants on every continent.
Europe does nobility. An entrenched Aristocracy is anathema to democracy and free markets alike.
Someone who works for Big Oil told me there is a desalinization plant off the coast of Santa Barbara, where the Uber Rich live, and another off an exclusive stretch of the Eastern seaboard…the Kennebunkport area perhaps, or Martha’s Vinyard.
Food, water, energy...don't leave home without them.
Revolution, like slavery, has WAY negative historical associations that render it politically incorrect. That conditions on the ground mirror those of our founding revolution is no reason to use salty language.
The United States of Euphemisms.
Fine. Hostile Takeover, it is.
