Da south... just because

Da South

Why is it the south was so easily pacified? I mean look at the world. Most people in the world get really angry and revolt when their land is occupied. The US has been occupying the south for a century and not a peep out of you. Well Wallace tried to stir things up I guess.

But seriously. The US beat you in a war and laid down the law and I must say I've never seen any people on the planet take it as well as you southerners do.

If only people all around the world could be pacified as easily as the Confederates!




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Abdulmutallab could not have blown up plane

I called this false flag...Panty bomber.







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O'Keefe's mug shot, the face of modern conservatism

via america blog




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Good Riddance, Aughts!

via: Could Everyone Please Stop Pissing Me Off

Dear Aughts (00 – 09),

Wow, what a decade. Way to suck far more than not…

Way to lose nearly 10,000 Americans needlessly from a manufactured war (Iraq), a submerged city (New Orleans), and a possibly preventable terrorist act (9/11).

*But on the bright side, most of those Americans who died weren’t wealthy.

Way to systematically tighten the governmental grip on our freedoms; like talking on a phone and being illegally listened to, or protesting the lies of a president and landing on a “watch list”, or voting in an election and then having a hand-picked court step in to decide the outcome anyway.

*But hey, at least we’re doing all we can to keep the government from aiding us with our health.

Way to take the country’s media and turn it into one giant, biased, money-making scheme.

*Were it not for comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert speaking truth to power, we may have zero straight-forward bullshit detectors left.

Way to stay out of the violent quagmire that is Iraq / Iran / Afghanistan / Yemen, and the rest of what is the craziest, most unstable region on the planet.

*It’s not like there were consequences the last time we fucked around in the Middle East, back in the 80’s under Reagan.

Seriously aughts, WTF?! Many Americans were less upset by election fraud, Wall-street greed, and war-profiteering, than they were about Janet Jackson’s exposed booby!

*But again, on the bright side, we do now have Snuggies, 600 cable channels, and Twitter.

So now that your time is up, will you please disappear forever? Honestly, we’d rather have to stare at Ann Coulter’s adam’s apple than have to spend any more time with you.

Now go. And take your Florida recounts, and your Jon & Kate’s, and your Bluetooths, and your bin-Ladens, and your Viagra, and your baconaisse, and your regime-change, and your Jersey Shore, and your Arena Football, and your Enron, and your Transformers with you!!!!!

Go, we say…

Americans Who Know Better

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OK...Jaun Cole put it all together here at Informed Comment

Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade;
Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs

By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst of times. I declare it the decade of the American oligarchs. Just as the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union allowed the emergence of a class of lawless 'Oligarchs' in Russia, so Neoliberal tax policies and deregulation produced American equivalents. (For more on the analogy, see Michael Hudson.) We have always had robber barons in American politics, but the Neoliberal moment created a new social class. At about 1.3 million adults, it is not too large to have some cohesive interests, and its corporations, lobbyists, and other institutions allow it to intervene systematically in politics. It owns 45 percent of the privately held wealth and is heading toward 50, i.e. toward a Banana Republic.

The List




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Grind the press...

via Bob Cesca:

Let's recap.

Obama administration officials said Fox News Channel "isn't news."

Outrage ensues from everyone including Fox News, Joe Scarborough, Jake Tapper and Dana Perino who referred to it as something "dictators do."

The Bush administration, on the other hand...

-Used reporters to out a CIA agent, then sat by and watched reporters go to jail to protect their sources.

-Paying Armstrong Williams, Michael McManus, and Maggie Gallagher and others for favorable opinions about WH policies or to attack opponents of the WH.

-Planting Jeff Gannon to lob softball questions.

-Fed reporters misinformation about WMD in Iraq, then used those reporters stories as corroborating evidence of the existence of WMD in Iraq.

-treated Helen Thomas like a leper.

-waged a coordinated campaign against NBC.

-kicked all the NY Times reporters off of their planes.

-the Pentagon Pundit program, which sold the war by planting former military officers on networks. Uncovering this story earned a journalist the fucking Pulitzer.

-Staged mock press conferences with FEMA employees pretending to be reporters.

-allowed Ari Fleischer to tell everyone (but directed at journalists) they needed to “watch what they say and what they do.”

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Time-line: Bush-Wall Street Corrupt Housing Crisis

Time-line: Bush-Wall Street Corrupt Housing Crisis

2002=Video: Younger Bush Pushing "EASY Loans" on Minorities
2002=Bush Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNqQx7sjoS8&feature=related
2002=Bush Enlisted Investment Banks issue "EASY SURE FAIL" Mortgages
2002=Bush Proclaims Enlisted Fannie/Freddie to buy Garbage Mortgages
2002 FED+Bush Admin=high priority on "financial innovation"+Bush"s "ownership society"
2002 FED=Used housing boom to prop up economy after 2000 market collapse
2002 FED governor=warned: lenders breeding fast-growing risky mortgages
2002 FED examiners=­investigat­e mortgage lenders of WSBanks
2003+2004=FED analyst: deteriorating lending standards+higher defaults+ foreclosures
2003+2004=FED encourage development of alternative mortgages=sub-prime loans+ adjustable
2004=Comptroller Curr (OCC) used 1863Law=prevent enforcement state predatory lending laws
2004=OCC=prevent enforcing consumer protection laws against Big Banks
2004=Link:http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/02/spitzer-bush-administration-blocked.html
2007=FED+F DIC+OCC=is sue guide=No new loans to poor after 'teaser' rates expire 2-3 years
2007=FED+F DIC+OCC=Bl ock Half of Subprime borrowers from refinancing=Insure Casino Bets
2007=FED decisions=Help Banks win Casino Bets
2007-2009=20-30% Subprime didn't meet Refi thresholds,But 70-80% would without new rules
2007-2009=2Million teaser-rate loans expired without refi http://www.bloomberg.com
2002-2008=Graph of Housing Bubble showing straight up line 2003-2007 (below)

2007=Bubble fed by "Easy SURE FAIL" Mortgages BURST creating CRISIS
2008=Green span=saying FED ill-equipped to investigate deceptive lending=False
2009=Greenspan consulting gig PIMCO+asset manager GSE mortgages+senior bondholder
Graph=http://www.mortgagecalculator.org/images/us-subprime-mortgage-market-growth.png
Bush Ownership Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership_society

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Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/michael-moore-and-sean-ha_n_311936.html

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/michael-moore-and-sean-ha_n_311936.html