Merry Xmas - bah humbug

So, the last thing George W. Bush did before leaving office was to organized the biggest swindle of taxpayer funds ever.  The banking bail-out turns out to be nothing but grand theft.    Of course, J.P. Morgan and the Mellon bank won't reveal where they spent the money,  After all, the congress didn't specifically state that they had to when they handed them the money.

Unemployment is at a 30 year high, since they only count the people who are actually able to collect unemployment, perhaps it's a much higher number.  It's an art to lie statistically, anyone who doesn't qualify for benefits, or whose benefits have expired are not in that total.

The wealthy are complaining that Obama will raise their taxes and give it to the poor.  By that I assume they mean the working people who pay 90% or more of the taxes paid into the national treasury.  Those people who received nothing from the aforementioned bank bailout paid from said same treasury to private corporations controlled by the wealthiest 1% of the population.  Boo hoo.

Obama..bama..fo...fama...

Fee Fi Fo Fama..OBAMA.

Who'd a thunk it?  A black President.  I'm going to wait until the swearing in to relax, but this is still a good and almost unimaginable development.  

As a child growing up in the "old south", racism and religion went hand in hand in a most illogical manner.  Later as I began to grasp the nuances of power, I understood racism to be a social construct designed to keep working people from uniting against the fat cats.   A most effective strategy for thousands of years, demonizing a group of people to divert attention from the actual crimes against humanity....

However, I have also seen the brightest best hopes for the working class slaughtered for their efforts by the ruling elite.  So, vigilance is the word for the day.  Hope is here, let's protect it this time.

I wish McCain would just say it out loud...

McCain is still trying to be president, after all these years.  Twitching and snickering during the debate didn't help.  Tapping Gov. Palin to be his running mate, with her bias' coded in her acceptance speech, didn't help much.  The arrogance of the Republican party wogs was never more apparent than with that choice. "Hey, she's a woman..Hillary was a woman, ergo women will vote for her".  I think not.

McCain keeps dancing around the language to try to communicate to the right wing fringe that Obama is black and McCain is white.  Why not just run an ad that says, "Keep the white house white."  It is so obvious that the game being played is that age old one of racist priviledge, just step up and say it.  He won't get my vote, but I could respect the honesty more than the veiled allusions.

Watching the Euro Cup

Ding Dong The Witch is Dead...

Finally Hillary Clinton has conceded that she will not be president of these United States.   The question is what did she get for holding the Democratic Party hostage to her ego?  The figure I read is 30 million in campaign debt, including 11 million dollars she personally lent her own campaign.  This deal is standard party practice.   My question is what about the millions Barack Obama spent in the last couple of months when she refused to admit that she couldn't win the nomination?  Money that should have been spent to rid us, the people, of a neo-fascist government, instead of going down the black hole that was Bill and Hillary's ego trip. 

Honestly, it's not that complicated.  She believed for the last 2 years that she should and would be the nominee.  Like George Bush, she laid the proper groundwork with the power brokers at the Bildeberg meeting in 2007, she took their money and had their blessing.  The country would step an inch to the left and it would be business as usual, with a patrician in charge.  Oops, the architects of the New World Order did not factor in just how pissed off we are with business as usual.  Clinton was charged with the task of perpetuating their hold on the American people and she has failed, or has she?  McCain is waiting in the wings, now with more money to spend than Obama; thanks to Hillary.  

Spring time in NYC

If you live here in the city you may have noticed a slight change in the people on the street in recent weeks.  The crazies are out, making shrines around the columns in the subway, talking to themselves or mailboxes, sleeping on the trains with their imaginary friends.  I haven't been able to confirm if New York State is still releasing mental patients into the city in the spring, however for years in the 80's and 90's it was a common practice.

I've come to rely on the sudden and consistent appearance of certain deranged individuals as a true sign that spring has been sprung, along with all the people the city scooped up in late fall to keep them from freezing to death.  Of course, the politicos blame budget shortcomings as the reason these people cannot be housed and properly cared for year round.  It was only after a long public outcry about the number of deaths among the homeless mentally ill that the city even began it's policy of forced incarceration during the worst weather.  This completely ignores the fact that the state institutions began releasing people in the late 70's and 80's because of lack of proper funding, thus creating this game in the first place.  Now you have a place to live, now you don't.

I realize that the monetary concerns are real, however, if we eliminate the corruption at every level of government and the colluding HMO's and private Health Care Providers, the insurance companies and drug companies I am sure there would be enough money not only to care for the mentally ill homeless ranting at the tourist in time square, but also the rest of us.

There be monsters...

You may notice a pattern in the media now of debt relief programs being advertised, nearly as much as prescription medications.  The bankers are trying to save their asses.  It didn't matter that you couldn't really afford that home or car 2 or 3 years ago, it looked good on their books when they counted your debt as an asset.  Unfortunately, we are at the end of that shell game and now your debt most likely belongs to the Chinese or Saudis.  I wonder how they will deal with it?