Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Quantum Quips #4: Jersey Shore, Whores & More!



Current mood: Still Feeling Mel Gibson-y
Category: News and Politics
 
CHELSEA CLINTON WEDDING OVER THE TOP

All this hoopla for Chelsea Clinton's $5 million wedding, flaunting it in the face of the poor. Honestly, she couldn't have had it in a small church with just the family? It's not like that marriage would last more than a week anyway. Sends a bad message considering the shape this country is in. It's the same message all the rich have to say, "screw you."

BILL MAHER SAYS IT'S TIME TO RETIRE THE WORD "DOUCHEBAG"


His new word is one that I heartily agree with: Breitbart.  For those of you living under a rock the past week or so, it's the name of a right wing blogger, Andrew Breitbart, who single-handedly frightened the Obama Administration into firing Shirley Sherrod by posting a video he edited to make it look like she was spouting racist dogma at a NAACP rally.  Breitbart refuses to apologize for what he did, despite the fact that this woman's life was turned upside down.  If I had a baseball bat handy, an aluminum one (for the nice sound it makes), I would test it out on this asshole.  So, from now on, if you fuck somebody over or ruin somebody's life, you will be forever referred to as a "Breitbart."  Not exactly bright, but certainly bart and maybe even fart.  Oh, and Andrew?  Have a big glass of kiss my ass!

SENATE BLOCKS CAMPAIGN SPENDING BILL 57-41
Of course, the no votes come from the Party of No since they are owned by the corporations that pushed for the supreme court decision to let special interests literally buy elections and politicians.  What else is new?  If you are for campaign finance reform, let your feelings come out at the polls this November.  I know I will.  It will be a cold, cold day in Death Valley in August before I ever would vote for a Republican unless of course I was lobotomized, twice, and had near alcohol poisoning from drinking a boat full of Tequila.  Oh, and speaking of Mexicans...

RACIST LAW TAKES EFFECT JULY 28TH IN THE AY-ZEE


Yeah, the Ay-Zee is going to become the DMZ after that.   There's a lot I love about Arizona, including the Ecotality Company, a progressive Green company which designs fuel cells and electric vehicles. I even liked the pre-Maverick, pre-Tea Party sucking John McCain.  Sadly, however, he has gone nuts like everybody else in Arizona's government.  Folks keep complaining about illegals stealing jobs, when 99.9% of the jobs the illegals do those same folks wouldn't be caught dead doing---you know, PHYSICAL LABOR.  Remember that shit?  Like changing diapers for rich bitches' babies, gardening for rich bitches, cleaning bathrooms for rich bitches, cleaning rich bitches who can't clean themselves...do I need to go on?  Keep in mind, you red neck lily white assholes who complain about Mexicans, this country was founded by immigrants.  Granted those same immigrants weren't as TAN, but immigrants they were.

BELL, CALIFORNIA CITY OFFICIALS PAYING THEMSELVES WAY, WAY TOO MUCH


Bell, California is a working class community mainly made up of immigrants who at best make about 30 grand a year.  Despite that, City officials are paying themselves up to 800 thousand a year, all the while doubling the cost for city services.  Are you fucking kidding me?  Thankfully, the city folk found out about it and are taking action.  The proper action, however, is to put these bastards in jail.  This is another sign that people just don't give a shit about one another.  They would rather fiddle while Rome burns and grab whatever money they can.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Yep, that's true, especially in Bell, Calif.  Remind me never to go there.

FIGHT OVER EMERGENCY SPENDING BILL FOR AFGHAN-NAM WAR

33 BILLION and change.  You can bet your bottom dollar that a very, very, very, very, very, very [did I say very?] small percentage of that will actually go to the soldiers on the ground or even in the air.  Most of that money will end up in the pockets of those private contractors building shit that only rich Arabs will be able to rent, a good chunk will go to the Pakistani Intelligence Service's hands while they plot to kill us and the rest will end up in Karzai's drug lord's purses.  I think it's time we say, enough is enough and say to Karzai and Co., "it's been real, it just hasn't been real fun."  The president is just being Bush Light (no, not the beer) by continuing the travesty that is Afghan-Nam.  BRING OUR BOYS AND GIRLS HOME---NOW!!!

and finally,

CAST OF JERSEY SHORE RINGS OPENING BELL AT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

You know you're in trouble as a country when the cast of Jersey Shore rings the opening bell at the NYSE.  Looking for some hemp...no, not to smoke...just to hang myself.

Peace and peas,

Quantum Mechanic®

Monday, July 26, 2010

Gooooood mornin', Afghan-nam!!


 
Current mood:I'm feeling Mel Gibsony today
 
Category: News and Politics
 
I had a reasonably quiet weekend...just a couple of tornadoes, flood warnings and shit like that, nothing to get all nervous about.

Then I turn on the news this morning, which was a mistake, and all hell has broken loose over some supposedly classified info being released on wikileaks.  First of all, if it's on the internet, you really can't take whatever is said to the bank, unless you are some asshole named Andrew Breitfart...er...Breitbart.  Apparently that schmuck seems to have control over the White House for some reason.  They seem to fear him and take whatever he says as gospel, even to the point of firing someone based solely on his delusions.  And here I thought Glenn Beck had taken over the world.  Somebody needs to change their dealer as some weird shit is being smoked by all involved.

But I digress...

As Strother Martin aptly put it in the legendary film, Cool Hand Luke, "what we got here is a FAILURE to communicate."

We apparently live in a world where the internet and the bloggers therein seem to control what leaders do these days.  Some allegedly classified shit gets published on wikileaks and then the New York Times puts out an article and all of a sudden it's the Pentagon Papers all over again.

First of all, are you fucking kidding me?  Do you really think that the intelligence community is that stupid that they are going to let sensitive shit get put on a website?  Granted, the Intelligence Community seems to have become too big for its britches by hiring outside of itself and giving top secret clearances to people who shouldn't even have clearances to the bathroom, but still, it seems just a little ridiculous to me.

Everybody and his dog's brother's cousin knew that Pakistan was helping the Taliban. Everybody knows that contractors make gazillions of our tax dollars in both Iraq and Afghan-nam...er...Afghanistan.  Wikileaks isn't exactly blowing that big of a whistle.  People just haven't been paying attention until the story broke it all in one lump sum today. 

Afghanifuckinistan is a lost cause.  Here we are, continuing the Bush doctrine of going into a country, claiming that we're going after "enemies," when it's really about natural resources, like oil for instance, and how certain corporations can gain some secret stashes of said resources, all while stealing our tax money and breaking the middle class down to such a degree that they no longer can stand up on their feet, let alone fight in an election.

After seeing some footage Rachel Maddow came back with on where our tax dollars have been going in that shitty ass dustbowl of a country, it just solidifies the fact that we are throwing away American lives and all our money on a corrupt Afghan government and just pissing off the natives to the point where they feel more comfortable with the Taliban.  That sure as shit doesn't say much for the Afghan government or us as its supporters, does it? 

How many despots do we have to prop up before somebody in government says, "enough!"  How many American soldiers must die in order to put more caviar on the gold laden tables of the Halliburton moneychangers?  We spend 7 billion bucks a month on this godawful war and what do we have to show for it?

Well, let me count the ways.  The average age of the homeless in our country is 9.  Nine, I said.  Children going hungry in our own country.  Yet we have spent 1 trillion dollars in a decade long war that has accomplished DICK.  We might have done better by just throwing that money on a big pile, lighting it and warming ourselves come winter time.

You are not going to like my Afghanistan exit strategy, but here it is.  1.  Kick Karzai and his posse out.  2.  Tell Pakistan to either put up or shut up and by the way, stop playing both sides, 3. Surge and then purge, scorched earth if necessary (I'd just nuke 'em, but then that's me), and 4.  Get our soldiers back home.

Needless to say, but I'm just a little sick of corporations running these wars and now taking hold of our intelligence community.  We've seen the travesty that is privatization...from the Gulf Oil Spill to Blackwater to you name it, they'll fuck it up.  We need, as a nation, to sweep our own doorstep for a change.  It's like anything else in life, if you don't have your own shit together, how the hell is anyone or anything else going to get fixed?!

Anyway, I've ranted long enough.  I hope, though I don't have much faith left, that we can start rebuilding our society and our nation instead of spending money we don't have trying to screw around with some other society that wants us to mind our own business.

Peace, love and rockets...

Quantum Mechanic®

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