Archive for January, 2010
Idiocracy in Action, II
I don’t see how these 5 Supreme Court justices can face their family. I don’t see how their friends can face them.
Kennedy, Alito, Scalia, Roberts, Thomas – what a bunch of…conservatives. That Corporations have the same rights as people? Even a child would be able to distinguish such a thing.
This move certainly has the ability and the power to strike down rights and liberties across all races in the near future. It is the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case led by Chief Justice Roger Taney.
These conservative judges are gauling. It’s a slap in the face to the common man. Here is a Special Comment on the verdict:
Idiocracy in Action
In the highly under-rated movie Idiocracy, a private company buys the FDA and replaces the food pyramid with ads for its products.
Recently the Supreme Court has decided to allow companies to spend whatever they want sponsoring political campaigns, giving big business “an enormous new foothold in U.S. politics,” said Howard Rubenstein, a public relations executive who has advised numerous large corporations over the past five decades and opposes the ruling. “We shouldn’t have a ‘For sale’ sign on these elections.”
“The Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics,” [President Obama] said. “It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.”
“The Supreme Court’s decision to loosen campaign finance restrictions on corporations means a tsunami of company cash is likely to flood through the political system, giving big firms and labor unions even more influence over candidates.
“That could have a chilling effect on candidates on the campaign trail, who may be less willing to take strong positions on issues for fear of drawing fire from well-funded corporate opponents, said Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics”, says John Schoen, Senior Producer at msnbc.com.
If you’re running for office to represent the citizens in our republic, and your stance runs counter to the desires of a business, you could then see big business spending millions of dollars against you. And it could be not just a single business, but an entire industry. Take a stance on our banking system and you would face the entirety of Wall Street resources drowning you out.
It’s not just about today’s existing politicians. As Schoen notes, “In the extreme, some companies might decide to endorse their own slate of candidates.” Think Halliburton and Cheney…on steroids.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34983042/ns/business-answer_desk
Throughout American history there are examples of corporate negligence harmful to society in the long term, examples of corporations running over the American citizen. The United States government should be by the people, for the people, something the Supreme Court seems to have forgotten. The government should help large corporations to the extent that it in turn helps the citizens – not just for the sake of helping the business. As an entity unto itself, the Business is not interested in the concerns of individuals or society. The business does not have emotions or thoughts. It does not have a conscience and it does not know guilt. While the humans in charge possess these characteristics, they are most often overridden by greed.
The large corporation does not have the ability to speak. The large corporation is more like a bullhorn. Protecting the right of “free speech” of a bullhorn is farcical. The right to free speech is an American (i.e., the ability to be a citizen) right. The businesses themselves have no ability to speak, only the humans can do that. Prior to today, those humans had a relatively similar ability to influence politics through their own individual voice. This decision drastically alters that relative equality. By protecting the bull horn’s “free speech”, you are simply allowing the voices of a few powerful American citizens to be greatly magnified…by an entity with a long history of running roughshod over citizens.
And so the Idiocracy marches on.
Face of the GOP
Makes you proud to be a Republican? Rush may be the voice of the party, but Palin is the face of it. And…wow, what a dumbass.
When asked to name her “favorite” founding father, Palin took a page from her infamous campaign interview with CBS’ Katie Couric and told Beck, “all of them” without a hint of irony. Apparently Palin likes her founders like she likes her newspapers.
Of Palin’s founding fathers answer, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews later asked, “how come she can’t answer the most simple questions?”
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130039?lid=1089268&rid=40223423
No Minorties in America?
What if the USA had no more minority groups?
Glenn Beck’s Worst Nightmare: An America Without Minorities
By: Kai Wright | Posted: January 11, 2010 at 6:46 AM
A new study, released last week and reported in the New York Times, reveals that white students are no longer a demographic majority in the 15 states of Dixie (fitting).
This is exactly the kind of thing that’s making the Sarah Palins and Glenn Becks of the world so damn crazy.
The Census Bureau estimates our national demographics will defy majority/minority groupings altogether by 2042. Among kids, the white majority will disappear by 2023.
The number of white Americans is likely to shrink over the next 40 years, the number of Latinos is expected to nearly triple. By 2050, 66% of Americans would be Latino.
http://www.theroot.com/views/glenn-becks-worst-nightmare-america-without-minorities?gt1=38002
This assumes that Mexico remains the shithole, cesspool of violence and corruption that it is today. I wouldn’t want to live their either. I’m sure I’d swim a river or climb a fence, too. Of course, this doesn’t bode well for the anti-
Iraq War Casualties
Soldiers killed in combat in Iraq
Since the war began: ……………….3,478
Since “Mission Accomplished”: ….3,371
Since capture of Saddam: …………3,173
Since Obama (01/20/09): ………..74
Al Qaeda Aviation Network
Its kinda like how that administrtion ignored the threat reports regarding Bin Laden that it received in early 2001.

The report, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, was ignored, and the problem has since escalated into what security officials in several countries describe as a global security threat.
No one can ignore threats like Republicans (while crowing about how they are better at security, of course). While Clinton was attacking Bin Laden’s training camps, Republicans ridiculed the attacks against Al-Qaeda as a waste of tax dollars. Later they charged that Clinton was only going after Al-Qaeda to divert attention from Monica. If a Democrat had kept pressure on Al-Qaeda instead of ignoring warnings, things would be different.
The first Al-Qaeda attack on US soil, that could be understood, many Republicans say – because it was a surprise. But a 2nd successful attack – that would be on the President. As another shining example of Republicans ignoring history, the 1st attack on US soil by middle-eastern terrorists was not on 9/11. The first attack was in 1993. Not only did Bush oversee the 2nd attack, but the attack was in the exact same location. Not just the same city – the same building. So don’t crow about how “there hasn’t been a 2nd successful attack”.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34840622/ns/us_news-security/?ns=us_news-security
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/