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A little bit of self promotion and a simple statement of what I think of the lame-asses who believe Sarah Palin is ready to lead the most powerful nation in the free world.

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The Rueful Expectations of The Criminally Insane . . .

Watching Sarah Palin in her debate with Joe Biden was, simply put, an incredibly mind-numbing experience. Everytime she opened her mouth all I could think of was the Marge Gunderson character from the movie Fargo. And boy -- listening to the right-wingers the next day oohing! and ahhing! over Palin's dismally dimwitted performance, only served to push my idiocy-soaked brain past the numb stage and into the comatose stratum.

Anyhow, Bill Maher states the obvious alot more eloquently than I can in this clip.


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Coal Miners for Obama . . . Who'd Have Thunk It?

Hehe. Even some rough blue collar coal-miners are sick of the conservatives trying to shove their stained brand of fucked up politics and lies down their throats. Here they tell the NRA and their right-wing political sugar daddy mine owners to fuck off by shutting down their coal mine for a day. Good for them.

It's always a good sign when people stand up to the political bullying of fascists. Now, if we could only transplant some of that courage into the spine of the Democratic Leadership, we might actually be able to accomplish some good for the country.

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Lies Upon Lies Upon Lies Upon Lies Upon Lies . . .

I'm getting really fucking sick and tired of the no-accountability neo-conservatives falling all over themselves in a pitiful attempt to place the mantle of blame for the whole Wall Street mess on the heads of the working poor and minorities. What a pathetic bunch of dishonest losers.

I have a couple of acquaintances who, out of sheer ignorance, or prejudice or hatefulness or perhaps a combination of all, are buying into the Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Hewitt, Dobbs, (name your right wing pundit) crock of shit meme that the preponderance of blame is to be assigned to the poor and minorities because they were the people who applied for home loans without actually possessing the qualifications to earn those loans.

Thomas Frank rams a red-hot spear of truth through the black heart of that right-wing nonsense in this Wall Street Journal editorial.

The key excerpt:

There is no way to measure the number of people who took out mortgages they knew they couldn’t afford, of course, but for what it’s worth, a 2007 report by the Mortgage Bankers Association reports that the FBI estimates “80 percent of all reported fraud losses arise from fraud for profit schemes that involve industry insiders.” That means the lenders, not the borrowers.

Just imagine the flights of fancy that the theory of borrower malevolence and Wall Street victimization requires conservatives to take: All these no-account folks, you see, got together and forced investment banks to engineer subprime mortgages into highly leveraged securities. Then they tricked all manner of hedge funds and pension funds and financial institutions into buying these lousy products. Just for good measure, these struggling homeowners then persuaded bond-rating agencies to misrepresent the risk associated with these securities.

Now imagine what such a fantastic scheme, if true, would mean for capitalism itself. This economic system, glorified by all, dominates the globe today, bidding prices up and down, forcing entire nations to change their ways to better suit its needs, and yet it is so fragile that when challenged by the weakest members of society and a handful of community organizers it simply crumbles. Thank goodness the Soviets never figured this out.

But it all fits in with the neo-conservative profile -- no accountability ever for themselves or their wealthy benefactors! And ALWAYS! blame those with the least power and influence in society, just because they're easy targets.

Yep -- that's our Neo-Cons -- with the con most certainly meaning "con artists." I'm convinced that if this country is to survive, the sane citizens that remain amongst us need to combine forces to deliver a knockout blow to this contemptible ideological movement -- one which will cement it's place forever in the dustbin of history where it rightfully belongs.

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