a scroll down memory hole lane

"in washington, speaker john boehner pledged his support for wisconsin's governor, a fellow budget hawk. meanwhile, mr. obabma's political arm, organizing for america, moved quckly to rally support for the state's union leaders and public workers. that, of course, has conservatives riled up, some of whom point to a white house strategy session scheduled for early march at the afl-cio headquarters in washington as evidience of its unabashed collusion with the unions."
n y times 2-18-2011

so...let me get this straight...investment bankers and wall sreet speculators play fast and loose with ethics and regulations...take enormous, basically insane risks...trash the economy...create a massive spike in unemployment plus collapsing property values, which, in turn, erodes tax bases and creates budget issues for governments everywhere around the country and all this is the fault of union represented public employees...oh fuck congress and the stinking little rat-bag governor of wisconsin...as if the reeking clapped out whores in congress haven't sold their miserable asses to the highest bidder every day of their lousy political lives and well into their dotage as lobbyists...collusion is a way of life there...a career maker...a yardstick of good..the scum rises to the top...and you cannot attack your patrons and survive...someone else has to be responsible...it's a matter of relative power...wealth can shift responsibility because wealth can control public opinion and the legal definition of blame...a scroll through the headlines in today's on-line edition of the n y times looks like something that was written by gudelines laid down in a directive form dr. goebbles ( yes he had a phd in literature...newt gingrich has one too...except i believe his is in history...draw your own conclusions) i'd puke if i had eaten anything yet today...as it is the dry heaves are in order...so what neo-con syndicate of plutocratic mafioso bankrolled the chesse whore's campaign? one has to wonder just how much legs the old empire has left in it as the politicians and their constiuents gear up for the struggle to see who gets to keep how much of what they have...and, of course, working people will be the first to be fucked over...the social darwinism of the rich will morph into the fascism of the doctor as they become more frightened and less sane...unions are the self-defense structures erected by workers to protect themselves from the rapacity of capital...they are non-sanctioned communal activity that does not agrandize the power or status of wealth...that is why conservative would-be slave owners hate them so...they are a self-evident target of every bone-head mouthpiece politician ( and i am thinking of the senile and malleable reagan here) and yahoo pundit ( friedman is a fucking ass) that wealth can buy...this alone makes them worth supporting...the classic propagandist ploy of blaming "the other" for your own moronic decisions and bad judgement couldn't be more apparent here...forget the lake of fire...i want a palin presidency in 2012...then the empire can put up the "going out of business" signs and we can watch the chaos as the thugs murder each other in the streets over what's left.


twenty-first century undead

"the faithful attending the beatification of pope john paul II will be able to pray before his coffin which is being exhumed for the event the vatican said friday."
reuters 2-18-2011

the undead relic of the twentieth century, lenin has competition in the world of symbols...a figurehead of a secular religion goes toe to toe with that of a spritual one...who will grab the box office lead for the elevation of a dead leader into a fetish? john paul hated communism like rand paul hates tax and spend democrats...jp2 and the gipper laid gorbachev low in the 1980's and 90's so it's only fitting that he take on the souless devil in red square...too bad the gipper and the red tsar can't join in the struggle...a heavywieight battle royale of irrelevant teleologies...can't wait to see fox news coverage.


hard cheese
7:02 a m 2-19-2011


"we weren't well-versed in everything about the bill and why they're doing what they're doing, except that we're broke as a state."
adriana inman. organizer with the fairfield tea party in southwest ohio.

knee jerk reaction is on the march and it is supported by poorly informed fools...a standard of ameican politics in the second republic and an indication to even the most obtuse that the hamiltonian system is not representative of the interests of the voter class of its citizens...of course they don't understand...if they did they'd start to ask questions, and no good can come of that...the last thing the whores anywhere and especially the repuiblican defenders of the primacy of wealth want is an informed electorate who can pick holes in the logic of arguments that palce the burdens of poor decisions based on avarice on the shouders of workers...the lap-dogs of wealth in the wisconsin legislature say that they have the votes to pass the anti-union legislation and will patiiently wait until the missing democrats reappear to pass it despite the obvious dipleasure of a significiant group of second class "constitutents" in the state....and they may be correct in that...unpopular legislation has a habit of being passed over the objections of "the people" ( and that too should be an object lesson in the efficacy of entrusting your interests to a system that buys and trades elected officials)...the union members and their supporters will still be there when the dust settles as well...they will still be part of the dialectic ( yes it is a valid concept despite attempts by what's left of the political science trade to discredit it...it is independent of marxist ideology...a mechanism of human relations)...if they could let go of the partisan, economic issues that they represent ( remember i am an industrial member of a craft union run as a buisness so i know how these clowns think ) and embrace a strategy that will help all working people rather than just their membership, and so just their finances, then they could use their organizing skills to develop a counter movement that can do more than mount ineffectual protests that will express discontent but change nothing...tea party activists are pretty much the malleable dregs among voters who do not want to think much because it hurts...useful fools...they coud be effectively countered by a strategy that represents workers as a class...in fact you could co-opt legions of them...syndicalism may indeed be an unworkable alternative to the mess we have now, but unions that cut across trade and jurisdictional lines and represent workers as a class would be a considerably stronger force than the compartmantalized and marginalized relics we have now...there's an iww icon on this blog for a reason.

the party of wealth is infleixble on "flexibility"
12:56 p m 2-19-2011
"no, not at all."
wisconsin senate majority leader scott fitzgerald on the possibility of a compromise over collective bargaiing for public employees.

i have seriously tried to be bipartisan in my utter contempt for the miserable whores that constitute the political class in this clapped-out empire...but cretins like this low-life used car salesman from wisconsin are making it difficult to be objective...in order to provide "flexibility" to the state and municipalities in dealing with their budget issues it seems imperative to deny thousands of wisconsinites the right to bargain for a living wage...this is an emotional issue and i am struggling to maintain some semblance of composure in response to this provocation...grover nordquiist is a fucking joke and as such it is easy to set aside his ideological cant for the nonsense it is...these bozos are in a position to actually impact a large number of workers and set an example for a multitude of knee-jerk retctionaries and crypto-fascists across the country who believe in the social-darwinist proposition that working class people are inferior...this is rank bullshit but holds some currency with the less mentally adept among the populace who plan a counter-demonstation on their day of rest...i don't doubt that the hard-liners in wisconsin will succeed in passing this legislation...somebody has to take the fall for economic conditions and it cannot be those who are actually responsible...so sod the proles...the real perpetrators control the political apparatus...and this may be the problem...organized labor accepted a continually rising standard of living as a quid pro quo in return for not participating in american politics as unionists after the second world war...that's why there is no "labor" party in the u s...those in control of the political apparatus saw fit to begin reneging on the "deal" during the nixon adminstration, and have not looked back since...so while their interests have been regualrly assaulted workuing people in the u s have had to rely on politicians pretending to be sympathetic to their interests rather than unionist/politicians that are actually in accord with them...so they are left to the whims of the political flavor- of- the- month...which at the moment is "blame the proletariat because they have few political friends and their cushy union coantracts are an easy target in these troubled economic times"...okay...pull the trigger fucker...but when wisconsin falls behind arkansas in education because the municipalities use their "flexibility" to not pay teachers squat and get all the c students who graduated in the bottom half of their class and can't teach worth a damn remember you get what you pay for...same goes for health care...some people have to be kicked in the ass before they can pull their heads out of there.