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Right Wing, Left Wing Parasites.

On my voter registration card is an acronym, it says ‘NPA.’   No Party Affiliation.  There’s a reason I don’t support any political party, and that’s because it makes the most sense to me not to put my faith in the hands of complete idiots.  Seriously, spend half a day watching house and senate meetings on CSPAN and you’ll see what I’m talking about.   These are supposedly the best of the party, the winners, the people in charge of making laws to improve our collective lives.   So why is it that the speaker from Tennessee or Alabama or one of those bible belt states is wasting the House’s time requesting that everyone stand up and sing ‘God Bless America’ and those that are opposed should be put on record as ‘hating America?’   Because he’s an idiot that’s why, and so is every single person that voted for him.   Then some democrat from up north, I think New York gets up and starts singing it before whoever is in charge of this ship of fools stops this lame political stunt in it’s tracks.

These are the people responsible for passing bills and reforms folks, a room full of feeble old people who spend most of their time obfuscating every issue and delaying any progress to make some half-assed protests or to try and score some political points for their re-election campaign.   That’s all it is really, these are career politicians.   They have awesome health care (at taxpayer expense), their pockets are lined with so many backers and lobbyists, that to think that people in circumstances like that actually give a damn what happens to anyone else is almost laughable.   That’s just rhetoric though.

It’s just humorous to me to see what these people do exactly.   For example, just now I was watching this guy from Texas, one, John Carter, go on a speech in the House.   This man, who looks like my grandfather, went on about the forefathers, and how they founded a ‘republic’ for blah blah blah morals blah blah blah.  This went on for about three minutes.  First, I don’t think the House needs a damn history lesson that serves as little more than an attempt to assert your party is right by simple virtue of the fact the forefathers founded a republic so republic-ans must be the chosen ones.   Right, okay, whatever.   Second, I’m not sure what this has to do with the purpose of the hearing, which apparently was to talk about the federal bailout money and where it went.   I know why he said it, to fluff his point.  To give whatever argument he’s about to present the presumption of correctness rather than actually making a point that’s significant enough to stick.

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Elected Babysitters

A thought occurred to me at work today.  That the idea of elections is curious insofar as it’s intention.  It seems to me that people in general tend to enjoy the process of voting because they can appoint someone who most closely agrees with their pretenses and if that person fails or does not do it properly they can feel justified in blaming that person for being an imperfect human being and not an avatar of their personal morality.  Therefore it is though they appoint a babysitter to make their decisions for them, and if they don’t like how they handle it they can simply interchange one for another without ever having to examine if the person’s actions are flawed because the set of morals and pretenses they follow are flawed as well.  Simply put, it takes the responsibility of the voter away and puts it in the hands of someone else.

Blame is an easy thing to pass and it’s even easier to judge someone if you don’t like how they handle their appointed position because then, even though that was a person that previously one might have been predisposed to agree with, they end up making one look bad, and we can’t have that now can we?  This is the typical modus operandi of the average voting citizen. 

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Porn Industry Requests Bailout – Congressional Response Flaccid

Recently the porn industry has suffered, much like the banks and automotive industries. Of course with the porn business, at least they could legitimately say the reason their businesses were failing is was not associated with greed, incompetence, or corruption. They were just busy fucking.

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.

Francis said in a statement that “the US government should actively support the adult industry’s survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people.”
“People are too depressed to be sexually active,” Flynt said in the statement. “This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.”

“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly.”

So far, there has been no congressional reaction to the request.

I feel that the flaccid response from congress shows the true impotence of the elderly congressmen in being able to form a rock solid plan for giving cold hard cash right into the backdoor of the porn business and keep the nations sacred porn industry erect.

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Consider This

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel. — Abraham Lincoln, speech to Illinois legislature, Jan. 1837.