Pure Poetry

When I see people on my TV taking shots at Uncle Sam,
I hope they always remember why they can
’Cause we’d all be speaking German, living under the flag of Japan,
If it wasn’t for the good Lord and the man.

John Rich's new song about the economic crisis brings a tear to my eye.

Playing With One's Food

Green Pink Caviar vs. Hardee's Burger

I can't believe Wienerschnitzel never reached out to Padma for their Chili Dog Diet campaign.

UPDATE: Quizno's has lowered the bar even further.

UPDATE II: Blawg!!!1!

Outrage Fatigue

Another steaming pile of crap delivered by yours truly.

Back

Been rather occupied with health issues these days, but I'm back...and decidedly less attached to the outcomes of silly human machinations (the government, the economy, etc)...more art for art's sake.

Atlas Drugged

Last week our pal and comrade Frederick informed us that he would be taking a sabbatical from the interwebs. We will truly miss his contributions to Area 51 and we wish him a successful and enlightening journey. That said, my immediate suspicion was that he went John Galt on us, that he succumbed to the dulcet tones of that pajamujahideen blog mistress Dr. Helen. Turns out he went John Cale.

Question of the Day

What is the question of the day?


Answers don't count.

Clash of the Titans

Dead Gus Hall will be delivering the commencement address at Grinnell College in Iowa in 2010.

Galt is Dead. Long Live Galt.

Waaah! I'm taking my ball and going home!!

Too bad "Going John Galt" doesn't involve our pajama wearing friends actually abandoning their blogs.

Why don't you people get a job.

Giant tea bagging party takes place in Cincinnati.

Because Some Things Just Are Too Funny

Things just keep better by the hour:

Obama Reassures Countries On U.S. Debt:

Mr. Obama’s comments came a day after China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, expressed worries about the safety of Beijing’s $1 trillion investment in American debt. Mr. Obama needs foreign investors to finance a projected $1.75 trillion budget deficit this year, pumped up by stimulus spending and bank bailouts, and none is more critical than China, the largest overseas holder of United States government bonds.

Russia Is Weighing 2 Latin Bases General Says:

MOSCOW — A top Russian Air Force official said that the government was weighing whether to base strategic bombers out of Cuban territory or on a Venezuelan island that has been offered by President Hugo Chávez, according to the Interfax news service.

Pentagon Rethinking Old Doctrine On 2 Wars:

WASHINGTON — The protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are forcing the Obama administration to rethink what for more than two decades has been a central premise of American strategy: that the nation need only prepare to fight two major wars at a time.

Maybe it's because I've had the illness and my thinking has changed dramatically, but I'm starting to find this shit really funny. Regarding the first article...would you invest a trillion dollars with us? What, you think I was made with a finger? And personally I hope the Russians opt for putting their bombers in Cuba; it would Fidel's final fuck you to the U.S.. And lastly, we are the United States, a peace loving nation: we should be able to fight as many wars as we want at any time we want to. We' re The Fucking US of Fucking A and don't forget it.

More Change You Can Believe In

Administration Is Open To Taxing Health Benefits

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the health care system.

The proposal is politically problematic for President Obama, however, since it is similar to one he denounced in the presidential campaign as “the largest middle-class tax increase in history.” Most Americans with insurance get it from their employers, and taxing workers for the benefit is opposed by union leaders and some businesses.

Don't look at me, I voted for a dead commie.

And I still think Shepard Fairey's poster sucks.

A Rite of Spring

There is no more odious a rite of spring...

Whence upon the Ides of March-

Hibernating beasts of the wilderness awake,

causing the hounds to start.

They pay no mind, they yawn and stretch-

...and take that long awaited morning piss.

Change We Can Believe In

This is what $1 billion dollars looks like. According to "The New York Times", one tenth of this pile will be distributed as bonuses to AIG employees. Your tax dollars at work. Change we can all believe in.

AIG Planning $100 Million in Bonuses After Huge Bailout

Octomom News Network

Toilet papering her new house was a rather mild welcome to the neighborhood if you ask me.

A little going away present for Bernie Madoff

Beer For Breakfast

I was going to include a few paragraphs on the myriad of strategies floating around to attack our current recession depression but deleted it right before I hit "post". I'll just go with what I told my step-dad the other day - our current system is unsustainable.

But what the fuck do I know about economics anyways. I ain't no blawger!?!

this is america, we HAVE to blame someone

the new middle class is just an eviction away

Grave Robbing

Some times I get so bored I steal for a thrill.
I've been caught stealing;
once when I was 5...

Fun Times

Question posed by Yahoo! News



Answer: When Rachael Ray devotes an entire show to cannibalism.

I Must Be Feeling Better

because I find this proggel posting to be demeaning, insulting and condescending to those of us who actually work for a living and to those who are now unemployed.

Because this is her idea of a fucking job.

And this is how she draws her salary.

Put down your fucking metaphoric teaspoon and get a real job, you assclown.

Someone got Smart.

I had this image laying around, found the perfect something to go with it, via Frog:

At some point between the day it became clear that Obama would win the primary and the day Obama voted as Senator to approve telecom immunity, Senators Feinstein, Reid, Rockefeller, et al., pulled him into a dimly lit room, and said the following:

They've been spying on everyone. Muslim Charities, Peace Groups, Human Rights Organizations, opposing lawyers, the whole shebang. But it wasn't a secret. They told us everything. We knew ahead of time, hell we were even given numbers on the types of wiretaps issued and why.

This has to remain Bush's issue. If the public finds out that both parties were complicit in spying on Americans we lose a huge political bargaining chip, and worse, it might force us to bring charges, just to show it was them who did it, not us.

So you have to vote for immunity. You can't sink your own party here. We'll go to bat for you, but you must do whatever it takes to keep this hidden. Thanks Barry, we knew you'd understand.

Brilliant. I'd be willing to bet Billions of AIG's munnies that is exactly how it went.

Cross-posted @ Mccs1977

House of Cards

Something to listen to while the U.S. economy continues to die a death of a thousand cuts.

Rush "Bitch Tits" Limbaugh

Quote of the Day

"Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh's whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly."

-- RNC Chairman Michael Steele, quoted by CNN, taking issue with the notion that Limbaugh is "the de facto leader of the Republican party."

Heh. Aheh. Ahahahahahahah!

Cross-posted @ Mccs1977