Don't Count On Next Year Being Any Better...

A big thanks to the ever-brilliant Tom Tomorrow...

2010: It Can't End Soon Enough...

I could come up with a list myself, but why bother...

The First Casualty in the War on Christmas...

Just when I thought that Americans couldn't possibly get any dumber I find this little gem on Wonkette. My faith in the ever-increasing stupidity of humankind has been tested with the repeal of Don't ask Don't tell. But this little skit has once again renewed my faith in the inanity of humanity. I must admit I enjoyed watching this sadly misguided, yet very earnest pastor tell us that repeatedly shooting Santa in the face with a shotgun was lots of fun, but that this act of senseless violence was really just satire, or something like that. After all, they are Texas pacifists, that's a pacifist who just happen to own a weapon capable of blowing really large holes in everyone's favorite jolly elf...

I'm not sure what in this fiesta of vacuousness is more ironic, is it the fact that Santa withstood their fusillade of righteous shellfire. Or is it *peaceful* folks taking their impotent rage out on a character that they acknowledge to be fictional, as if non-existent Santa was the force responsible for the crass commercialization of the holiday and not rampant avarice driven by their fellow Christians. Maybe it's the blatant religious intolerance displayed by their cheesy home-doctored *Coexist* t-shirts. Either way I'm sure these are all things that Jeebus would have done, although I have heard that videos featuring a bunch of sanctimonious redneck assholes vainly trying to knock over a pinata with a shotgun actually make the baby Jeebus cry - with laughter...

Then I read a Gallup poll that virtually guarantees America's impending future as a neo-feudal society...Happy Solstice folks!

What's worse? Fox News Lying to Their Audience or Their Audience being Gullible Dupes?

 Recently leaked memos from deep within the bowels of Hell Fox News have revealed a deliberate campaign to obfuscate the legitimacy of the science behind climate change predictions, and to do so for purely partisan political purposes. Now I know this comes as no great surprise to anyone with an attention span longer than that of a common housefly, but this revelation might be surprising to the millions of doddering depends-wearers who subsist on a regular diet of this blatant bullshit.

The greatest irony is that these calculated misrepresentations are being reported as fact by a *news* organization that repeatedly claims to be "fair and balanced". I ask you Fox viewers, how is deliberately distorting reality either fair and/or balanced? Isn't it bad enough that Fox is nothing more than a televised PAC for the Republican party, do they really have to engage in what can only be described as a concerted anti-intellectual/anti-science propaganda campaign?

The question remains, why does Fox News find it necessary to intentionally hide the truth of climate change from their audience and why have they cast science as a partisan issue? There are two possible reasons for this in my mind. One possible reason could be that science is hard. Maybe the data is so unfathomable to their feeble little minds that they deliberately cast doubt on it to make their audience feel better about being ignorant dumbfucks. That is certainly a possibility, but probably not the case. The more likely scenario is that Fox News is just a rich multi-national corporate shill for rich multi-national corporations that generate untold billions from the dirty energy industries primarily responsible for our rapidly changing climate.

In keeping with the impending Idiocracy we are rapidly hurdling towards, Rupert and Roger should change their slogan to - Fox News: It has what plants crave...

Everything is fine, but we'll need another ten years...

 Am I the only one who sees the frightening parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam? I know I'm not, but since no one in the corporate media appears to have even an ounce of historical awareness, those parallels are never discussed. Maybe that is because most Americans couldn't locate Afghanistan on a world map, so why even bother having that kind of discussion when no one really gives a fuck anyway, aren't things already depressing enough around here?

It looks like the Obama administration has taken over the Bush-era duty of stage-managing the never-ending conflict in Afghanistan into something that is acceptable to an always-compliant American audience. But the question remains after ten long pointless years: Are we accomplishing anything of substance in Afghanistan? the short answer is, absolutely fucking not. There isn't anything to accomplish, Despite our best efforts Afghanistan will always remain a corrupt narco-state that will never achieve even a modicum of the stability necessary to form a functioning civil society. What follows is the question that every American should be asking of our leaders: If glorious victory isn't even an option, why in the fuck are we still there? The official response is, no one has a good answer to that question. Mostly because there was never a good reason to occupy Afghanistan in the first place, other than to quench our insatiable lust for revenge after the 9/11 attacks...

Despite what is really happening in Afghanistan the administration will release a report that speaks of progress. Of course they don't mention that this so-called progress is based on the goal post relocation techniques perfected by LBJ and Tricky Dick over forty years ago and used heavily by the previous Commander-in-Chief to sell that other lost cause (Iraq) to the tragically gullible American populace...

Why isn't the American public asking these simple questions? I don't know. My question to every American is this - How many Americans have to die before we realize Afghanistan is an absolutely meaningless endeavor?

Fox News keeps Beating a Dead Horse...

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Oh Gretchen, didn't you know that faux outrage makes the Baby Jeebus cry...

Can We Still Hope for Change?

 Is this really what my hope for change has become? Constantly compromising to the detriment of our citizenry with a despised yet entrenched minority party? Sorry that is not change we can believe in. It is just a continuation of the Clintonian/DLC third-way politics that are selling out what's left of the American middle class to the interests of our landed gentry.

Roughly twenty percent of registered voters decided the last mid-term elections. That election was not the mandate portrayed by the corporate-media punditocracy, in fact it is nothing more than our national political apathy on full display. The majority believe that since nothing ever changes regardless of which party is in charge, why bother to even vote?

This is the new normal - politicians who are nothing but corporate shills, an economy driven from speculative bubble to speculative bubble by investor-class assholes looking to make an easy buck regardless of the consequences. A permanent underclass of the unemployed, the underemployed, and the uninsured. A crumbling infrastructure. Endless unnecessary military occupations that drain our treasury, but no politician is willing to stop because war is the only profitable manufacturing business left in America, and a corporate-controlled media that puts such a glossy sheen on the propaganda that everyone truly believes that using the same deregulate and trickle-down policies that got us here, are the only thing that could possibly save us...

My support for the President is certainly waning, it has been slowly eroding on a daily basis. I have found it difficult watching Obama turn into just another plutocrat for the plutonomy. President Obama does not support anything even close to a progressive agenda, and I don't think he ever did, and if I hear anymore bullshit in the so-called *liberal* corporate media about him actually pursuing a progressive agenda I am going to fucking lose it.

So far his agenda has been nothing but a continuation of bad Bush-era policies, and an almost total capitulation to a Republican party that destroyed the American economy, and created a perpetual state of war with the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and three undeclared wars in Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan...

So what's a guy to do? I'm certainly not going to vote for Sarah Palin or any other regressive nut-job. If I vote for the Green Party candidate in 2012, does that mean Sarah Palin gets elected? Maybe...At this point either way gets us to the same place, in other words, we're kinda fucked...

The Best Congress Money Can Buy...

 I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. The consequences of a Republican majority in the House are already being felt, even though they don't actually take control until January. The first order of business for the new majority - eliminate the four-year-old Select Committee on Global Warming...

Obviously proactively mitigating the anthropogenic causes of climate change, promoting energy independence, and creating millions of new clean energy jobs is a completely unnecessary endeavor for the Republican-controlled Congress to engage in. Screw what the scientists say, only Jeebus' daddy can destroy the Earth, so doing anything at all is obviously a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. That is, according to the man-sized carrot and his brain-dead compadres.

Although the committee was only used by the willfully ignorant House Republicans to falsely perpetuate the tragic partisan-driven myth that climate change is not actually occurring. This committee was never the unnecessary redundancy that these fucktarded regressives want to portray it as. The loss of this committee represents nothing more than the final victory of our plutonomic corporate overlords, with the help of their latest acquisition - The Best Congress Money Can Buy.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted, this action is, “not just a catastrophe for global warming but it’s a catastrophe for national security".