Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick 'Should Have Been Executed' (VIDEO)
Michael Vick paid the price and he's still paying it. He's ultimately responsible for the cruel deaths of a number of dogs. We love dogs I understand. And dogs raise good emotions in us and it's horrible that their lives should have ended so cruelly. But did you ever see how chickens, pigs and cattle are slaughtered "humanely?" Should all those meat packers be executed? Are those of us who eat meat partly culpable? Vick paid the price. Further retribution makes no sense in a nation that is supposed to be Christian and forgiving. Move on. And yes Tucker Carlson is a complete mind numbing fool and we should ignore him.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
NYT editorial on Wikileaks and the Banks
Banks and WikiLeaks
The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26sun3.html?_r=2
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Fucking Christmas
“Just a lot of sentimental hogwash where you live in some pathetic fantasy world. I'm glad it's over and we have ten months of rest from this endless commercial prattle.”
``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.
``Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
``And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. ``Are they still in operation?''
``They are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, `` I wish I could say they were not.''
``The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'' said Scrooge.
``Both very busy, sir.''
``Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,'' said Scrooge. ``I'm very glad to hear it.''
``Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,'' returned the gentleman, ``a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?''
``Nothing!'' Scrooge replied.
``You wish to be anonymous?''
``I wish to be left alone,'' said Scrooge. ``Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.''
``Many can't go there; and many would rather die.''
``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''
``But you might know it,'' observed the gentleman.
``It's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. ``It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!''
Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him.
``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.
``Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
``And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. ``Are they still in operation?''
``They are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, `` I wish I could say they were not.''
``The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'' said Scrooge.
``Both very busy, sir.''
``Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,'' said Scrooge. ``I'm very glad to hear it.''
``Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,'' returned the gentleman, ``a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?''
``Nothing!'' Scrooge replied.
``You wish to be anonymous?''
``I wish to be left alone,'' said Scrooge. ``Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.''
``Many can't go there; and many would rather die.''
``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''
``But you might know it,'' observed the gentleman.
``It's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. ``It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!''
Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Great Gatsby--The Great American Novel
http://books.google.com/books?id=FV5R6_FgLUAC&lpg=PP1&ots=kHULUsdocc&dq=the%20great%20gatsby&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
According to Legal Experts we may be commiting a crime reading the cables passed on by Wikileaks: Bullshit I say
The U.S. has no case and people who because they are lawyers and think they know should keep their unasked for opinions to themselves and stop doing the dirty work of the misinformation/disinformation experts. We have first amendment rights and whether or not they can be limited in regards to what we say or write in public, it doesn't prevent us from reading what is already published by a "free" press. What insanity! Otherwise roll up the streets and just lock us in our houses. It is not a crime to read even the most incendiary and flagrant treatises written in history much less what transpires for news. The less than a thousand cables published in the Times, the Guardian etc. are already published.
What are we looking at here, the novel "1984" come true?
What are we looking at here, the novel "1984" come true?
Monday, December 13, 2010
Why do the rich want tax cuts
We haven't really heard from the top .5% of the wealthy who will be getting these gigantic tax cuts, perhaps permanently one day if the Republicans have their way. I fear they might. But we hear from their slavish protectors endlessly how this economy will improve once they have their money.
I see how it will improve the economy. On a drive one morning to the northernmost part of the island I'm staying on here on the Palm Coast of Florida, I saw the convoy of gardener trucks, pool cleaning trucks, sewer cleaning trucks, house cleaning trucks, delivery trucks, catering trucks etc. making their way slowly up the A1A and turning into gated driveways that lead to the villas surrounded by perfectly manicured 15 foot hedges. In some cases I could see past through openings in the hedges to the lawns that looked as though they were putting greens, the mansions that looked like smaller versions of the Pierpont Morgan Library, their polished Mercedes, Bentleys & Bugattis all lined up in the driveways. Meanwhile an army of sweating men bare chested and wearing bandannas were already engaged in trimming, edging, mowing, clearing, sweeping, digging and delivering the services and goods necessary for the day.
It came to me that the ultra rich only want the tax cuts though they haven't said anything one way or the other (or at least I haven't heard) is because they can get them. It's an expression of power, a reminder to us who they are, who they control and how much above us they really are. That they are powerful, that they own everything and that they can get whatever they want and take whatever they want without so much as raising themselves from their breakfast tables seems also to be the dream that their slavish protectors aspire to.
I see how it will improve the economy. On a drive one morning to the northernmost part of the island I'm staying on here on the Palm Coast of Florida, I saw the convoy of gardener trucks, pool cleaning trucks, sewer cleaning trucks, house cleaning trucks, delivery trucks, catering trucks etc. making their way slowly up the A1A and turning into gated driveways that lead to the villas surrounded by perfectly manicured 15 foot hedges. In some cases I could see past through openings in the hedges to the lawns that looked as though they were putting greens, the mansions that looked like smaller versions of the Pierpont Morgan Library, their polished Mercedes, Bentleys & Bugattis all lined up in the driveways. Meanwhile an army of sweating men bare chested and wearing bandannas were already engaged in trimming, edging, mowing, clearing, sweeping, digging and delivering the services and goods necessary for the day.
It came to me that the ultra rich only want the tax cuts though they haven't said anything one way or the other (or at least I haven't heard) is because they can get them. It's an expression of power, a reminder to us who they are, who they control and how much above us they really are. That they are powerful, that they own everything and that they can get whatever they want and take whatever they want without so much as raising themselves from their breakfast tables seems also to be the dream that their slavish protectors aspire to.
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