"and how much more falsity is still necessary to me that I may therewith always reassure myself regarding the luxury of my truth."
-Friedrich Nietzsche-
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Quick, hurry, watch this video right away before "they" pull it. Watch it before "they zap it off the internet" because it's a video of Obama admitting that he grew up with Muslims and is "one of them." Watch carefully and you can see where it was edited. It's the third one in my in-box this week and the week's not over. Videos about impaling Christian babies on the "Scimitar of Muslim justice." Obama in a Ukrainian porn video -- hurry, before it gets pulled as part of his obvious Marxist agenda! Even a dog knows better than to swallow anything from Obama, but we swallow the slander with infinite glee. In YouTube we trust and ain't it fun to hate Obama?
How many thousands of years ago was it that merely saying President Bush was embarrassing was enough to ruin your career and get you excoriated on Fox News, and reading the names of the fallen in Iraq was an outrageous attempt to criticize the president that bordered on treason? Go back and look -- quickly -- before history is rewritten.
UnitedHealth, the largest US health insurer by market capitalization, posted earnings of $944 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from $726 million in 2008, it was announced this morning. That's a 30% increase -- what recession?
Last week I got a bill for over $700 for some routine blood work. Good thing I can afford Blue Cross at $1500 a month with a $2500 deductible, but still, I pay in far more than I get out of it seeing as that's how private insurance works and how they need to make 30 or 40 percent to keep the stockholders fat. Good thing for UnitedHealth if the Sleaze Lords defeat "Obama's" Marxist agenda!
America hates the President, America hates the courts, hates the Congress, hates the Government. America doesn't trust science, doesn't trust educated people, doesn't trust Liberals. Americans believe they're smart, that their opinions are valid; their superstitions, their fears, their prejudices and that they're being oppressed by everyone but those who get rich from their suffering. America trusts anonymous e-mails, Rush Limbaugh and YouTube. Americans love comfort, security and luxury, especially if they have more of it than their neighbors. Of course paying for it with cash is Communism, but what's a little falsity? It's free and abundant -- and it's fun!
Another disaster struck this morning. Unless corrected by legislative action … and soon, I would consider this the last stake in the heart of democracy.
ReplyDeleteThe SCOTUS, in a 5-4 decision, has removed restrictions on corporate spending in campaign elections. The money people have won. The legal concept of a corporation, whose original purpose is to promote commerce … and nothing more, has gained more power than the electorate.
According to Fred Wertheimer (an advocate of campaign finance reform): “The Supreme Court majority has acted recklessly to free up corporations to use their immense, aggregate corporate wealth to flood federal elections and buy government influence (…) Under today's decision, insurance companies, banks, drug companies, energy companies and the like will be free to each spend $5 million, $10 million or more of corporate funds to elect or defeat a federal candidate -- and thereby to buy influence over the candidate's positions on issues of economic importance to the companies.”
Please do not consider this an off topic comment. With the latest SCOTUS decision, you can expect to see more of the same shit our esteemed Captain Fogg is talking about.
You scooped me by minutes! Vide supra.
ReplyDeleteThe majority opinion seems to exude sympathy for poor corporations who can't compete with the increased power of a few bloggers who write on their own behalf. It's their right to pay propagandists, to attack, libel and slander by proxy. It's their right to bribe and corrupt in the name of the holy profit, amen.
ReplyDeleteWhat needs to be addressed is the concept that a corporation has all the civil rights that nature grants to human beings. As long as that outrage persists, as long as we allow dollar bills to vote and to shout down or pay for the will of voters, we are not a democracy in any way.