California, the golden state, the West Coast wonderland, the land of Milk and Honey... well all that's come to a muthafuckin' END!!!
As California suffers the impending doom of a $24 billion budget deficit, you have to wonder what else going to be cut? The state can't generate enough money as it was (never did set-up a rainy day fund)
Also, Los Angeles is crying broke these days, too! The City was begging for donations to pay for the Michael Jackson memorial service, as they couldn't pay the police force to keep people in check.
Sooner or later, the Police are going to get laid off like the Teachers always do in bankrupt cities (case in point, Cleveland during the late 70s and early 80s)... unless the new LA Mayor authorizes (under the table of course) the LAPD to loot from offenders what they need to cover their salaries.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Sexual Confessions... ot the MEDIA of all people
I was a little stunned that perennial hick Sarah Palin resigned her governorship of Alaska, citing that she was tired of the personal attacks on her ethics that were costing the Alaskan taxpayers too much money to defend the attacks.
Sounds like a quitter to me! How is she going to stand up to the harsh and intense spotlight of the Primary Season, if she can't take this type of abuse?
Yet for some strange reason, Governor Sanford of South Carolina, after finding his soul mate in Argentina and showed the pink of his ass on national TV and then even deeper up the recesses of his anus to the AP, is fighting to keep his bed sheets in the Governor's Mansion!
I'm not one to cry foul on either of these two (well maybe Palin, because she personifies the ignorance that runs rampant in this country), but they both need to go away so another scandal involving sex and or stupidity comes up.
Apparently, the Steve McNair shooting was a murder-suicide, and that'll eat up some media attention, but not enough. As we've seen that John Edwards' wife needed to come back into the spotlight and kick John-boy in the nuts with her book, but then the Other Woman is now demanding a paternity test of the little infant. If it comes up at Edwards' kid, that's just too bad, but in reality it doesn't do anything -- except piss his wife off even more. He's been drenched in mud and its been sun-baked on PERMANENTLY by the hot glaze of the 24-hour news cycle spotlight.
Sounds like a quitter to me! How is she going to stand up to the harsh and intense spotlight of the Primary Season, if she can't take this type of abuse?
Yet for some strange reason, Governor Sanford of South Carolina, after finding his soul mate in Argentina and showed the pink of his ass on national TV and then even deeper up the recesses of his anus to the AP, is fighting to keep his bed sheets in the Governor's Mansion!
I'm not one to cry foul on either of these two (well maybe Palin, because she personifies the ignorance that runs rampant in this country), but they both need to go away so another scandal involving sex and or stupidity comes up.
Apparently, the Steve McNair shooting was a murder-suicide, and that'll eat up some media attention, but not enough. As we've seen that John Edwards' wife needed to come back into the spotlight and kick John-boy in the nuts with her book, but then the Other Woman is now demanding a paternity test of the little infant. If it comes up at Edwards' kid, that's just too bad, but in reality it doesn't do anything -- except piss his wife off even more. He's been drenched in mud and its been sun-baked on PERMANENTLY by the hot glaze of the 24-hour news cycle spotlight.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Why Doesn't Some LYNCH HIM?
So the Supreme Court made a decision to keep the historic Voting Rights Acts alive today, but that Uncle Tom of Uncle Tom's Justice Clarence Thomas voted against renewal!!!
In a 8-1 Decision, the lone nigger on the court, was the lone "nay" vote! Claiming in his ironic and asinine opinion that the heinous behavior that was kicking Black people in the teeth and prevented them from voting has basically been regulated to the history books, so the Voting Rights Act doesn't need to be part of the Constitution any longer. How 'bout for historical purposes, so the Constitution is a document of record as well as the document that defines our country?
I bet that Justice Thomas will be condemning the Senate for voting to apologize to all African-Americans for slavery!
What a Tom!!
In a 8-1 Decision, the lone nigger on the court, was the lone "nay" vote! Claiming in his ironic and asinine opinion that the heinous behavior that was kicking Black people in the teeth and prevented them from voting has basically been regulated to the history books, so the Voting Rights Act doesn't need to be part of the Constitution any longer. How 'bout for historical purposes, so the Constitution is a document of record as well as the document that defines our country?
I bet that Justice Thomas will be condemning the Senate for voting to apologize to all African-Americans for slavery!
What a Tom!!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Health Care - Debate and why the US of A is a sham
So President Barak Obama has reopened the health care debate, and not a minute too soon.
We all know that American health care system is WAY BEYOND FUCKED UP... consider that over 40% of all personal bankruptcies are the result of medical bills; medical bills that some managed care network refused to pay-up on a good portion of the treatment that was need to extend someone's life. Let alone fully improve one's health condition.
I'm in a boat like that myself, all though it's not catastrophic yet. I was living in an apartment where the Jackass Landlord Steve Ringel had a building that was build in the 1920s and had black mold in the units, but he was a typical slumlord and decided to cover up the bio-hazard and the rent the unit(s) anyway. I started getting these migraine headaches that kept me out of work for a good two weeks in total... and I racked up at $4000 medical bill at UCLA (doing all sorts of tests that didn't track down the cause, just pinpointed that I was having a severe allergic reaction to some substance... they didn't know what though, so even after all those cash outlay I had no answers).
I was watching TV a little bit this week and the talk about socialized health care was popping up, because President Obama wants the mess fixed while he's vacationing, so when he comes back in the Fall it's the big debate/issue that's going to consume all his time and expend a huge amount of his political capital.
Today, I just so happened to catch Michael Moore's SICKO (2007) on Starz; now I have never seen this film, before but it was extremely eye-opening and made me not what to continue living in the US of A... I mean the country is teetering on bankruptcy anyway and will be for the foreseeable. So why stick around, ya know?
Aside from all the appalling shit that goes on in the denial of care because people have to get permission from those insurance fuckers to get treatment, I was particularly interested in the trips to Canada, the UK and France that Moore took to see out other countries deal with the health care issue. There was an interesting bit in SICKO were Moore is kickin' it in Paris, and he's having dinner with a group of Ex-Pats, and this black woman points out that in France the government is actually afraid of the people, afraid that they might riot -- and they have a history of the people rising up and slaughtering the government (Robspierre and the Rein of Terror)... 'cause you always hear about how the French are protesting some shit about wages in the news. Now, the woman pointed out that the difference in the US of A is, the people are AFRAID of the government.
This fear of the government is the complete antithesis of democracy, but it's continually propagated in the United States. And it's a shame, because people are either afraid to talk out of turn or get labeled as a troublemaker. For large part of the 20th Century civil unrest and protest (violent or non-violent) was a big part of the American way of life, of demanding social change.
Although, Americans don't engage in group civil unrest and agitation. You have to think about the last time the American Public was really out to protest the bullshit that the government is doing -- on a wide spread level. Outside of the African-American dominated, Million Man March from the mid 90s, it was the 1960s, but the Protest Gene was basically stamped out of the American Public Psyche by the Kent State University Shootings. Because prior to that, the government was up here shooting and beating and water-cannoning black people - when they had limited civil rights -- and the occasional whites, those whites who were poor and had nothing to lose. But in the 60s, middle class and lower upper class whites joined the protest bandwagon and were instrumental in achieving change in the fabric of society.
However, the Nixon Administration -- which was doing socialist shit itself by practicing Price Fixed regarding Gasoline -- was so against the social disorder that was part of the 60s ethos, that when the students at Kent State were bucked down like animals in the forrest... white people recognized that their sons and daughters could get slaughtered just like niggas in the South. That the taxpayers' progeny were endangered -- because they threatened the military industrial complex's stranglehold on the American People -- made these happy-go-lucky white people recognize that they've been cowed into an existence that was basically this: keep your nose to the grindstone, work your ass of, rack up as much consumer debt as you can't even afford (as you'll notice the modern credit card, which existed prior to the 70s, began to have an expanded reach since the mid 70s) and be afraid, be very afraid of what the government can, but more importantly will, do to you if you seriously step out of line.
Shit, not even seriously out of line, just step out of line a little bit and you'll have an FBI file opened on you (as I know there is one on my 'cause of this blog and the previous blog).
When I hear these GOP/Confederates sons of bitches rage on and on about we're being seduced by the Socialists or that Barak Obama is a Socialists. I mean come the fuck on, yeah, come the fuck on!
It makes you wonder what the health care industry is really about. sure, people are supposed to make a buck in this country - drug makers, physicians and all that, but do you, Kaiser, Cigna, Humana, Blue Cross, need to rip your paying customers a new asshole if they happen to need some sort of medical care?
Deluge the GOP congressmen and women with letters and emails, demanding them to quit acting like bitches on this health care debate.
But mark my words -- The Kent State shootings were a true watershed in the destruction of democracy in the United States.
We all know that American health care system is WAY BEYOND FUCKED UP... consider that over 40% of all personal bankruptcies are the result of medical bills; medical bills that some managed care network refused to pay-up on a good portion of the treatment that was need to extend someone's life. Let alone fully improve one's health condition.
I'm in a boat like that myself, all though it's not catastrophic yet. I was living in an apartment where the Jackass Landlord Steve Ringel had a building that was build in the 1920s and had black mold in the units, but he was a typical slumlord and decided to cover up the bio-hazard and the rent the unit(s) anyway. I started getting these migraine headaches that kept me out of work for a good two weeks in total... and I racked up at $4000 medical bill at UCLA (doing all sorts of tests that didn't track down the cause, just pinpointed that I was having a severe allergic reaction to some substance... they didn't know what though, so even after all those cash outlay I had no answers).
I was watching TV a little bit this week and the talk about socialized health care was popping up, because President Obama wants the mess fixed while he's vacationing, so when he comes back in the Fall it's the big debate/issue that's going to consume all his time and expend a huge amount of his political capital.
Today, I just so happened to catch Michael Moore's SICKO (2007) on Starz; now I have never seen this film, before but it was extremely eye-opening and made me not what to continue living in the US of A... I mean the country is teetering on bankruptcy anyway and will be for the foreseeable. So why stick around, ya know?
Aside from all the appalling shit that goes on in the denial of care because people have to get permission from those insurance fuckers to get treatment, I was particularly interested in the trips to Canada, the UK and France that Moore took to see out other countries deal with the health care issue. There was an interesting bit in SICKO were Moore is kickin' it in Paris, and he's having dinner with a group of Ex-Pats, and this black woman points out that in France the government is actually afraid of the people, afraid that they might riot -- and they have a history of the people rising up and slaughtering the government (Robspierre and the Rein of Terror)... 'cause you always hear about how the French are protesting some shit about wages in the news. Now, the woman pointed out that the difference in the US of A is, the people are AFRAID of the government.
This fear of the government is the complete antithesis of democracy, but it's continually propagated in the United States. And it's a shame, because people are either afraid to talk out of turn or get labeled as a troublemaker. For large part of the 20th Century civil unrest and protest (violent or non-violent) was a big part of the American way of life, of demanding social change.
Although, Americans don't engage in group civil unrest and agitation. You have to think about the last time the American Public was really out to protest the bullshit that the government is doing -- on a wide spread level. Outside of the African-American dominated, Million Man March from the mid 90s, it was the 1960s, but the Protest Gene was basically stamped out of the American Public Psyche by the Kent State University Shootings. Because prior to that, the government was up here shooting and beating and water-cannoning black people - when they had limited civil rights -- and the occasional whites, those whites who were poor and had nothing to lose. But in the 60s, middle class and lower upper class whites joined the protest bandwagon and were instrumental in achieving change in the fabric of society.
However, the Nixon Administration -- which was doing socialist shit itself by practicing Price Fixed regarding Gasoline -- was so against the social disorder that was part of the 60s ethos, that when the students at Kent State were bucked down like animals in the forrest... white people recognized that their sons and daughters could get slaughtered just like niggas in the South. That the taxpayers' progeny were endangered -- because they threatened the military industrial complex's stranglehold on the American People -- made these happy-go-lucky white people recognize that they've been cowed into an existence that was basically this: keep your nose to the grindstone, work your ass of, rack up as much consumer debt as you can't even afford (as you'll notice the modern credit card, which existed prior to the 70s, began to have an expanded reach since the mid 70s) and be afraid, be very afraid of what the government can, but more importantly will, do to you if you seriously step out of line.
Shit, not even seriously out of line, just step out of line a little bit and you'll have an FBI file opened on you (as I know there is one on my 'cause of this blog and the previous blog).
When I hear these GOP/Confederates sons of bitches rage on and on about we're being seduced by the Socialists or that Barak Obama is a Socialists. I mean come the fuck on, yeah, come the fuck on!
It makes you wonder what the health care industry is really about. sure, people are supposed to make a buck in this country - drug makers, physicians and all that, but do you, Kaiser, Cigna, Humana, Blue Cross, need to rip your paying customers a new asshole if they happen to need some sort of medical care?
Deluge the GOP congressmen and women with letters and emails, demanding them to quit acting like bitches on this health care debate.
But mark my words -- The Kent State shootings were a true watershed in the destruction of democracy in the United States.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Gasoline Prices are Spiking Again
I don't know about the rest of the country, but in Los Angeles the price of a gallon of gas has spiked 55% this year alone -- that's the biggest price increase ever seen! Gas is at $3/gal, and if you haven't been watching the price has gone up 34 days in a row.
Once again the Oil Market Speculators are being blamed, and for some reason there's no protests or examination the news about this
The problem that too many Americans have, and perhaps most people around the globe, is that when something that is good for you is a little more expensive, people won't choose it. They'll fuck-up and select the bullshit item, because it's cheaper.
That's why Hybrids aren't all over the place - regardless of price. The IRS provided you a tax credit for the additional cost of buying a hybrid over the fucked-up internal combustion engine version, I still don't think people would make the right choice - bitches - because cash returned in the future doesn't seem to have any present value.
What the fuck is wrong with people? I guess the TOKYO Big 3 will serve up more versions of their popular cars as Hybrids, but for some reason those bitches in Germany haven't announced any hybrids. In fact, VW derides hybrids in their car commercials -- I would have to have those slandered if I was working PR for We Can Solve or Al Gore's Organizations.
People wake up on this issue before there's more pain during the recession.
Once again the Oil Market Speculators are being blamed, and for some reason there's no protests or examination the news about this
The problem that too many Americans have, and perhaps most people around the globe, is that when something that is good for you is a little more expensive, people won't choose it. They'll fuck-up and select the bullshit item, because it's cheaper.
That's why Hybrids aren't all over the place - regardless of price. The IRS provided you a tax credit for the additional cost of buying a hybrid over the fucked-up internal combustion engine version, I still don't think people would make the right choice - bitches - because cash returned in the future doesn't seem to have any present value.
What the fuck is wrong with people? I guess the TOKYO Big 3 will serve up more versions of their popular cars as Hybrids, but for some reason those bitches in Germany haven't announced any hybrids. In fact, VW derides hybrids in their car commercials -- I would have to have those slandered if I was working PR for We Can Solve or Al Gore's Organizations.
People wake up on this issue before there's more pain during the recession.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Chump Company that Anchored the Big Three
So GM final sailed down the river... and who is really surprised? I mean since the first oil shock in the 1970s, the major US automakers have had no answer to the basic, fundamental business question of, "what do consumers want?"
Back in 2002, I read this book called HIGH AND MIGHTY, written by the NYTimes Detroit bureau chief, it's an scathing indictment of the SUV segment of the auto industry. Here's what I learned from that book... that the US automakers LOST MONEY on every car that they made. Every car! They only made money on the light trucks, and that's because they had cheated the fuel standards through effectively lobbying in Congress over the decades.
Now it stands to reason that if you lose money on something -- regardless of how vital it is supposed to be to the core of your business -- you subconsciously won't spend the money, mental resources and creative thinking to actually figure out how to make a profitable car. Ousted, good-for-nothing CEO Rick Wagoner said the pernicious killing of the EV-1 was the biggest mistake of his career! No shit, ya dumb fuck! Uh, back in 1976 it should have been apparent that oil was in the hand of crazy bastards who jockeyed camels and that oil was a finite resource who's price wasn't really subject to normal supply & demand theoretics, so to find a way to make a fuel efficient automotive vehicle or a non-fossil fuel vehicle should have been job one! (Ford's bitch-ass slogan of Quality is Job One, should have been innovation is job one! Not just 25!)
Imagine if back in the early 1990s, GM decided to subsidize the EV-1 and subsequent electronic car technology with the outsized profits it was raking in on shit like the Hummer and Escalade?
More shortly... 'cause The One's ability to control the bankruptcy is going to be a major discussion point for the next 90 days...
But suffice to say the THREE CHUMPS have shown the pink of their ass far too often... and now the Japanese and German and ITALIANS have the run of things.
But GM also squandered any and all profits on shit like dividends and stock buy-backs and even playing around in the internet space.
Back in 2002, I read this book called HIGH AND MIGHTY, written by the NYTimes Detroit bureau chief, it's an scathing indictment of the SUV segment of the auto industry. Here's what I learned from that book... that the US automakers LOST MONEY on every car that they made. Every car! They only made money on the light trucks, and that's because they had cheated the fuel standards through effectively lobbying in Congress over the decades.
Now it stands to reason that if you lose money on something -- regardless of how vital it is supposed to be to the core of your business -- you subconsciously won't spend the money, mental resources and creative thinking to actually figure out how to make a profitable car. Ousted, good-for-nothing CEO Rick Wagoner said the pernicious killing of the EV-1 was the biggest mistake of his career! No shit, ya dumb fuck! Uh, back in 1976 it should have been apparent that oil was in the hand of crazy bastards who jockeyed camels and that oil was a finite resource who's price wasn't really subject to normal supply & demand theoretics, so to find a way to make a fuel efficient automotive vehicle or a non-fossil fuel vehicle should have been job one! (Ford's bitch-ass slogan of Quality is Job One, should have been innovation is job one! Not just 25!)
Imagine if back in the early 1990s, GM decided to subsidize the EV-1 and subsequent electronic car technology with the outsized profits it was raking in on shit like the Hummer and Escalade?
More shortly... 'cause The One's ability to control the bankruptcy is going to be a major discussion point for the next 90 days...
But suffice to say the THREE CHUMPS have shown the pink of their ass far too often... and now the Japanese and German and ITALIANS have the run of things.
But GM also squandered any and all profits on shit like dividends and stock buy-backs and even playing around in the internet space.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Even Weed Sales Couldn't Help
So the California Budget deficit is $21 billion?!??!? The economy nose-dived that fucking fast and that holy-shit steep that the State's Taxes (sales tax a 9.75%) and Fuck-you Fees can't generate the revenue required to say have the police crack down on weed smuggling? Or for kids to go to summer school?
I would now is the time to get the fuck out of California!
Since States are unable to operate with a deficit, it means that a GOD DAMN HUGE SUM of Money must be borrowed, which isn't really possible these days, or Gov. Schwarzenegger will just have to BREAK THE LAW!
It's no secret that Schwareneggar sliced the Car Tax when he first came into office, and that alone counts for maybe $17 billion of lost revenue over the past 6 years, and the biggest problem is that California is not an overtaxed state for the wealthy top 10%. those muthafuckas pay some unGodly low 7% in taxes... and I'm sure the milk the Cali system to generate most of their money.
The problem is that Schwareneggar came into power during the I Can't Wait To Stripmine, Ass-Rape and All Around Shit On The Public George W. Bush Years. It's underscored every new day that under the Reign of Dubya America shit on itself and refused to clean itself up. The Empire collapsed so damn hard that one wonders how the ripples will continue to affect the planet with shock waves. Every single state politician who has a deficit now to face needs to be horsewhip and pilloried for the public to piss on. After all those years of excess, no one thought to save money?
Oh, I forget everyone was out for themselves to rape, rob and pillage at the expense of everyone else. You're guilty too, don't deny it!?!? The problem with low income tax rates is, by raising them in a state that just beckons for new people (legal and illegal) every day, the high rates wouldn't deter economic growth for shit. It may now that the citizens are resting their heels with no jobs available, but in the boom times only the cranky will really fucking complain.
There's no hope for California, it implodes over the next two years, and then in 2012 there's going to be a massive earthquake that will tear the State a new ass, because there will be no funds for clean-up and rebuilding...
I guess Assembly Bill 390 can't get passed soon enough, even though that new tax on decriminalized marijuana won't hardly do a thing to save the budget shortfall. The problem with massive program cuts - that are being proposed - the first things to go are things that effect future quality of life... namely schools and other shit for the neighborhoods. We'll it in 5 to 8 years, when weed is ubiquitous as candy bars and the under 25 crowd is under-educated and high as fuck 'cause they can't get a job in a state that is over-run with problems.
I would now is the time to get the fuck out of California!
Since States are unable to operate with a deficit, it means that a GOD DAMN HUGE SUM of Money must be borrowed, which isn't really possible these days, or Gov. Schwarzenegger will just have to BREAK THE LAW!
It's no secret that Schwareneggar sliced the Car Tax when he first came into office, and that alone counts for maybe $17 billion of lost revenue over the past 6 years, and the biggest problem is that California is not an overtaxed state for the wealthy top 10%. those muthafuckas pay some unGodly low 7% in taxes... and I'm sure the milk the Cali system to generate most of their money.
The problem is that Schwareneggar came into power during the I Can't Wait To Stripmine, Ass-Rape and All Around Shit On The Public George W. Bush Years. It's underscored every new day that under the Reign of Dubya America shit on itself and refused to clean itself up. The Empire collapsed so damn hard that one wonders how the ripples will continue to affect the planet with shock waves. Every single state politician who has a deficit now to face needs to be horsewhip and pilloried for the public to piss on. After all those years of excess, no one thought to save money?
Oh, I forget everyone was out for themselves to rape, rob and pillage at the expense of everyone else. You're guilty too, don't deny it!?!? The problem with low income tax rates is, by raising them in a state that just beckons for new people (legal and illegal) every day, the high rates wouldn't deter economic growth for shit. It may now that the citizens are resting their heels with no jobs available, but in the boom times only the cranky will really fucking complain.
There's no hope for California, it implodes over the next two years, and then in 2012 there's going to be a massive earthquake that will tear the State a new ass, because there will be no funds for clean-up and rebuilding...
I guess Assembly Bill 390 can't get passed soon enough, even though that new tax on decriminalized marijuana won't hardly do a thing to save the budget shortfall. The problem with massive program cuts - that are being proposed - the first things to go are things that effect future quality of life... namely schools and other shit for the neighborhoods. We'll it in 5 to 8 years, when weed is ubiquitous as candy bars and the under 25 crowd is under-educated and high as fuck 'cause they can't get a job in a state that is over-run with problems.
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