pathos, or just pathetic?

ah! mailcall!
a long day at work..then off to class...and home to this...made my day..."they're at it agian"? of course they're at it agian...it's what they do...they're whores...admittedly of the small town state legislature type, but quality counts for something...what they lack in manipulative sophistication they make up for with a mean streak of vindictiveness and a predeliction for base thuggery...and i would expect no less form them...what continues to amaze me time and again is the naivete that union leadership displays in insisting that we have "friends" in politics and that my state representative gives a rat's ass about what i oppose or support on any day but the election....incredible...clearly the rules of the game continue to completely elude their comprehension...the only thing that speaks to politicians is greasy bags of hundred dollar bills...influence in the hamiltonian second republic is bought and sold via the agency of lobbyists who are in the buisness of pimping politicians to the highest bidder...poor is no way to be influential...neither is relying on "public opinion"...particularly when the "public" is a group so marginalized as union members...take a hard look at what public sector unions are going through right now....as municipalities ( and soon states ) spiral down into insolvency unionized public employees are being demonized as budget breakers because they have jobs that pay a living wage and have some benefits along with the truncated protection that a union contract provides...mayors are coming to loathe those limited strictures on who can be laid off or fired and for what reasons as much as the wall street journal does ( we can talk about the class warfare inherent in that fucking yellow rag later)...no...my state legislator is way more likely to listen to me as a constituent (voter class) than if i run around ringing the leper bell of unionism...unschooled in the reality that technology has taken skill and turned it into the commodity called work the craft union that represents me is suffering form the illusion that someone is still listening...they really need an education officer.

mr. hu in whoretown

"china-u s relations will enjoy smooth and steady growth when the two countries handle well issues involving each other's major interests. otherwise our relatons will suffer constant trouble or even tension."
hu jintao

you have to wonder if mr. hu said this before or after he was lambasted by the tea party hacks and freaks like boehner when he was dragged behind the closed doors of the national bagnio...ignoring or simply being ignorant of the fact that the chinese are old hands at imperial expansion and that they hold a quarter of our national debt, the neophyte whores of the 112th congress leveled criticism of chinese behaviors that would have caused the imperial senate on the other side of the hallway to rise up on its hind legs and bark out its outrage if they had been subjected to them...is it hubris or exceptionalism that leads to a downfall? unfortunate as this episode was the chinese president is moving on to chicago to have a meeting amd possibly dinner with richie daley and pat quinn...who thought this one up? a deliberate effort to take some of the sting out of the congressional pranging by showing mr. hu that things are really rotten in the heartland? a morality play about the high cost of corruption in politics? poor planning? wonder how many of hu's advance team are going to regret this.