WWH ~~ HN&S, Oct. 31, 2011: Mis-alliance

Some 'authorities' are recommending that OWS should find ways to make alliance with the Tea-hadists, and thereby join the two disparate streams of USer disaffection into one mighty torrent.

They'd lose me, straight away.

Why I'd never ally with the Tea-baggers? My dear ol' Dad, dandling me on his dear ol' knee, imparted this bit o' wisdom to little ol' me, back in the day. He said: "Laddie, ye canna negotiate with 'em 'at wants ye dead and done. Ye've got no leverage. Y'can offer 'em a part, in payment. Tell 'em: "Here's me left 'and. I ain't using it, much. Take that and leave me alone...But they won't. Won't leave ya alone, that is. Aye, they'll take the hand yer dumb enough to proffer. But they want you dead. This just makes it the easier, later. And they got time. Plenty of time.

"And yer left hand!"

Malcolm X said: "...So don’t you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who’s depriving you of your rights. They’re not your friends, no, they’re your enemies. Treat them like that and fight them, and you’ll get your freedom; and after you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you. And I say that with no hate. I don’t have hate in me.... I’ve got some sense.
"I’m not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him."

My biggest objection to the whole "Tea-bertardian" phenomenon is still that it has never, to my estimation, been anything BUT an astro-turf creation of Dick Armey, the Koch Brothers, and Fox News, cannibalizing on the still-reeking remains of the lumpen racism embedded in the GOPhux "southern strategy."

I want NOTHING to do with ANYONE who would voluntarily identify as a tea-hadist, or who wouldn't shun them, with me. I feel exactly the same way about the Ron Paul acolytes, the "Paul-lyps," as I think of 'em, feeding on the contents of the Ayn-Randian fanatic's political lower intestine. Ayn Rand, in any guise, brings to whatever discussion in which her name is raised the same considerations which 'coprophagy' brings to the discussion of cuisine.

There is ZERO common ground for agreement with such sentiments, and also zero room for compromise, on the actual purposes, proper structures, and orderly functioning of culture and society. No thanks. Not going there...

As The Cookie Crumble: Underwater

A story that got a lot of play on the Blog Monday was this one:

"Obama to announce actions on housing, student loans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, according to a White House official."

Winston put it here up on WWH, if you haven't seen it elsewhere...

But Y'r Ob'd't S'v't, Dr WOODY, disrespectfully demurs, in any case: What the FUCK?

I've mentioned this some months ago, and it seems nothing's changed. It is STILL long YEARS--almost 36 months--into his term, and Shamwow is JUST NOW getting around to authorizing "fiat"-remedies for under-water home-owners--and providing a little relief for the deluded proles who were told to "buy an education" to achieve the Murkin dream--to possibly alleviate some of the most draconian consequences illegally inflicted upon them by the depredations of Obomber's BIGGEST BACKERS, the banksters and fraudsters? These measures do NOT REQUIRE CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL!

AND THEY NEVER DID. So, how come it took our Constitutional Scholar President nearly 36 months to figure THAT shit out? And WHY THE FUCK DID HE WAIT SO LONG?

Answer me this, if you think I'm being unfair: What the FUCK was the skeevy, grinning, toothy, jug-eared fuckwit WAITING FOR?

?Time enough for the tame O'bots to arrange their excuses, and explanations, along with the hopeful, exculpatory cries that "It's better late than never?"


I am terribly SORRY, BUT why IS IT BETTER LATER than "never?". "Never" is already here for several hundreds of thousands of broke, displaced, unemployed Murkin families immiserated by the banksters and fraudsters and the "market."

In the intervening 34 months, millions of people have been tossed onto the streets by those same banksters and fraudsters, people who might have been spared that if the skeevy, grinning, jug-eared fuckwit had begun this on DAY FUCKING ONE!

Which he COULD have done. But he DIDN'T! Either he neglected to, through some oversight, or he just didn't WANT to do at the time.

FUCK THIS 'forgiving" crap.

This is the "meritocracy." Either you perform or you don't.

Fuck your excuses for the shitwhistle!

Meanwhile, there's THIS crock of shit: (Post The "Rome" image here)

Which Woody thinks is the deepest, stinkiest, murkiest BULLSHIT!

It wasn't "eight years of madness" that brought us where we are.

It was 50 years of concerted, bi-partisan effort, a hundred billion or so dollars spent to buy the Press, and the complicity of EVERY SINGLE MOTHERFUCKER WHO occupied the office. Remember: Bill Clinton signed off on repealing Glass-Steagall, at the behest of Robert Rubin, et al...(end it here)

Bill Clinton PROUDLY put an end to "welfare as we know it."

And, in case you have had yer head up Obasmster's keester all that time, the last 30 MONTHS haven't brought us one CENTIMETER closer to changing ANYTHING, and the next 60 months, won't either...

Eleventh-dimension chess???

I doubt he wins at "Slap-Jacks" with four-year-olds...

You can bet the ranch on that'n, hippies...

See you at the beach.

Hippie News & Stuff (10/24/11): Eat the Rich

Hey, Bugs, Got my "scholar hat" on today! Thanks, Win-stone! AND Gaudeamus, Hippies
(Begin Image Here) As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, with its cries for social and economic justice, probably it behooves us to inquire how unequal we REALLY are.

So here's the "Top 5 Facts You Should Know About The Wealthiest One Percent of Americans." Courtesy of rogue economist Ravi Batra:(End OverImage Here)

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1) The Top 1% Owns 40% of the Nation's Wealth:

Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz noted recently, 25 years ago the top 1% owned only THIRTY THREE percent of national wealth.

How much of the wealth does the bottom 80%--that'd be you'n'me, hippies--own? Only 7%.

#2) The Top 1% Take Home 24% of National Income:

In 1976 they took home just 9% -- which means that their "share" of the national income pool has almost TRIPLED in 35 years.

#3) The Top 1% Own Half of the Country's Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds:

The Institute for Policy Studies has calculated that the bottom 50% of Americans own only one-half percent of these investments. That's POINT FIVE...

#4) The Top 1% of Americans Have Only 5% of the Nation's Personal Debt:

While the bottom 90% hold 73% of total debt.

--Allow me to explain, hippies: You/we are INDENTURED servants of Kapital; you/we work our whole lives MOSTLY to repay what we borrow just to stay afloat.--and finally,

#5) The Top 1% Are Taking In More off the Nation's Income Than at Any Other Time Since the 1920s: Not only the 1% of Americans taking home an overwhelming portion of the national income, but their share of this income is greater than at any other time since the before Great Depression.

Here's a little mantra for ya, hippies:

The wealthy make choices: Shall we drive the Porsche or the Benz, tonight?

But the poor make decisions: Shall we buy food or meds, we gotta decide, babe...

I hope you're not down to decisions, hippies...

I'll see ya at the beach.

Back to you in Hippie Central, Win-Stone!

As The Cookie Crumbles: Mission "Creep"

A fair amount of unseemly triumphalism is again attending the assassination of another world leader by forces allied with and supported by the USofA and our blood-soaked, international criminal, Barack Hussein Obama. You KNOW there is NOTHING in international law about when it's permissible to overthrow a sitting ruler, or to institute "regime change." But the O'bots are gleefully claiming the Bushian mantle of "Mission: Accomplished." (By the way: The deceased looks faintly "Christ-like," doesn't he? But i suppose ANY dead, blood-covered Levanter looks faintly "Christ-like," splayed on the ground like that.)

But what "mission"--for the AMERICAN PEOPLE, rather than the international big money cartels--has he actually "accomplished?" Other than turning the economy entirely over to the banksters and financial fraudsters, keeping the war profiteers rolling in dough, and driving USer jobs overseas with NEW "free trade" agreements which , i f memory serves, he campaigned AGAINST?

We've STILL got 4 or 5 (or 6 or 7, depending on how you count 'em) wars draining the treasury.

We've STILL got (unofficially) 15-20% unemployment (The "official" number is about half that; but the official copunt is flawed by SO many factors asa to make it laughable when reported witha strraight face...)

We've STILL got nearly 50 MILLION people, and 20 MILLION kids, in poverty, and CUTS promised to their meager benefits. The average wage, inflation adjusted is STILL about what it was in 1980. Median income is around 42 THOUSAND, but for the lowest NINETY percent it's a full TEN thousand dollars per year the "median." "OFFICIAL POVERTY LEVEL IS $22, 400 FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR).

We've STILL got Goldman-Sachs running the treasury and the Fed. (Geithner, the Bernank, Daly, and close to 100 other close, financial advisors and officials, owe their loyalty to Wall Street, NOT Pennsylvania Ave or "Main Street.)

We've STILL got millions who cannot get medical insurance. Remember the 44 THOUSAND people it was said died every year for lack of adequate insurance? They're STILL dying.)

We've STILL got NO "green" energy policy. (He ran off the ONLY credible "green" advocate he even brought into Gummint, Van Jones. And clean energy plans are invisible).

We've STILL got no--or at least a sorely diminished--4th Amendment. (Where, o, where has our "habeas corpus" gone?)

We've STILL got more and more GMOs entering the food supply. (And Big Ag--Monsanto, ConAgra, Cargill, Koch Industries--alumni and alumna pervade the US Ag Dept.)

We've STILL got The PATRIOT ACT. (Remember when he said he'd "revisit" it once elected? He did, to strengthen the fucker.)

We've STILL got Cunt-Hair Clancy on the SCROTUS. With a black president and AG, this is the only arrangement by which the DoJ could investigate and indict him WITHOUT bringingf out the cahrges of another "High-trech lynching".)

We've STILL got an out-of-control medical system. Costs are rising faster than inflation, wages, and the GDP combined.)

We've STILL got no national industrial policy except out-sourcing and off-shoring. (He's signing or signed off on FTAs with Korea, Colombia, and Panama this year.)

C'mon! What fucking "mission" has the skeevy, grinning, jug-eared fuckwit actually accomplished, other than strengthening the lock-grip of the CorpoRats over EVERY aspect of our lives?

Don't all try to answer at once, hippies. You can tell me when I see you at the beach...

As The Cookie Crumbles: Portmanteau Edition

Good morning, hippies!
Prior Warning: There's gonna be a bit of profanity and a bit of blasphemy ensuing here shortly... Just so's ya know!
(Begin BUFFETT IMAGE HERE) There was an image up on the Web the other day, of a kindly, elderly Warren Buffett, proclaiming, modestly: "I' could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says anytime there's a deficit of more than THREE PERCENT of GDP, ALL sitting Congressmembers become ineligible for re-election."

Doncha just love the sound of that? So self-assured, so REASONABLE. Like some elder statesman bringing wise council...(Stop the BIG BUFFET image here)

But Fuck ME Running! Who is fucking kidding whom? What kind of fucking MORONS actually BELIEVE to this turgid, runny shit?

The key phrase, which elevates this discourse from modest, dorm-level, late-night, sophomoric speculation to the level of complete, utter, unmitigated BULL-SHIT is this:

"You just pass a law..."

Ex-fucking-sCUSE ME? What the FUCK! I put this in the same class of moronic, imbecilic, cluelessness as: "Well, all we need to do to roll back Citizens United and revoke corpoRat citizen-hood is pass a Constitutional Amendment."

Just WHO the fuck do you think is gonna PASS that law, that amendment, you drooling fuckwitz?

Oh, yeah! We could fix the whole fucking COUNTRY if we could "just pass a law..." Like: Hey, Mickey, I know, We'll have a SHOW!!!!

That's the whole fucking problem! We CAN'T "JUST PASS A FUCKING LAW." And Buffett and his billionaire buddies are mainly the ones who made it impossible. They spent dozens of years, and millions of dollars, to set it up THIS way, packing the Congress with millionaires (more than half; 66 Senators), so that every deal redounds to their EVERY benefit, and we, the people, can't pass ANY laws that reduce their influence one fucking iota...

GET THIS STRAIGHT! THEY named the candidates, THEY financed 'em, THEY got 'em elected, THEY supported 'em in office...WHY?

BECAUSE those skeevy "congresscritters" KNOW who owns'em, and pays'em, and keeps 'em shittin' in tall "gummint" cotton.

Jeezus FUCK, people. It's the same kind of purblind ignorance--or pretense, it's hard to tell, sometimes--as that which at a distressing number of times appears to drive the likes of Robert Reich and Paul Krugman to their ambivalent conclusions about the power and motivations of the T-baggers.

Reich and the rest do not seem to understand a fundamental dynamic in this equation.

It is this:

The t-bagger contingent is QUITE content if their standards of living are diminished a little as long as, in in consequence, and along with it, the situations of the people they despise as their inferiors--mainly 'coloreds'--are affected even WORSE than they are.

To yer basic t-bagger, the WORST thing about Social Security and Universal Health Care, or any gummint assistance program is that it treats the T-baggers, the rednex and crackkkers who regard themnselves as SUPERIOR to the rest of those whom the benefit includes--EXACTLY THE SAME as the people they detest, and they cannot ABIDE that.

They don't WANT to be thought 'equal" or 'equivalent' to and be treated exactly the same as those whom they despise as their inferiors! And they'd rather crash the program than be regarded as in any way the same way as those "Nigras" and "Messkins."

So they don't mind if their own piece of the pie is a little diminished, as long as their "inferiors" take a BIGGER hit, or preferrably are entirely deprived.

That's just how that cookie crumbles down in those t-bagger precincts, hippies.

Stop by the Store on the way out and pick up a tank top with the cool WWH logo, or a bumpersticker. Those dichoric ampules are pretty nifty, too. We'll watch 'em change colors when I see ya at the beach...chers.

As The Cookie Crumbles: A Very USer Coup

Chris Hedges on Tuesday had a piece in the Blogosphere about how, after returning from 20 years as a foreign/war correspondent, he came home to the US only to discover that there had occurred, in his absence, a "corpoRat" coup d'Etat.

Coincidentally, I was listening to activist/lawyer/blogger Kevin Zeese the other day--he was a guest on one of the former Air America hosted spots, someone sitting in for Randi Rhodes, I think--who reminded me of the so-called "Powell Memorandum." It was the TEMPLATE for the coup to which Hedges testifies.

It's possibly the most influential document you NEVER heard of. Truly, there is probably not a more influential document in the WORLD, in so far as the shaping of the corpoRat climate in which we now struggle to survive--the world of CorpoRatocracy, Oiligarchy, and fiduciary servitude--than the Powell Memorandum.

Probably, you don't even remember Lewis Powell, either. Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, from 1971 til he retired in 1987--his mission already well underway under the Reaganauts. He cast himself as a mild-mannerd jurist; he was not a high-profile guy, considered a 'conciliator.'

A southern Aristo, Powell drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that described a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society--schools, the press, universities, media, etc--in early 1971, just before Nixon put him on the SCROTUS. On the Court, he was regarded as a "moderate," but the memo suggests his alleged moderation was simply a well-worn, comfortable costume which covered a radical, corpoRatist agenda.

I borrowed from Wikipedia the following outline of the basic premises of his plan, which was based mainly on his experiences as a corporate lawyer who was a representative for the tobacco industry with the Virginia legislature, to say NOTHING of his leadership, in Virginia of the '50s, of strident, official opposition to and defiance of the "Brown V. Topeka," school integration decision.

He wrote the notorious "Memo," privately, to a friend at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Investigative reporter Jack Anderson turned it up several years later. In it Powell called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding politics and law in the U.S., and suggested among other things, the formation of "friendly" think tanks. Can you say Heritage Foundation? American Enterprise Institute? The Coors Foundation? The Olin Foundation? Etc?

With it's title, "The Attack on the American Free Enterprise System," Powell, a subtler culture warrior than many of his time, sounded one of the opening calls of the culture wars. In shock from the dramatic upheavals of th 50s and 60s, Powell like so many of his generation--Alan Bloom, notably, who was ineradicably scarred by the sight of black men with shotguns outside Columbia in '67--Powell (for this instance at least) shed his reticence.

The tobacco litigations and civil rights actions were his watershed. The previous decade had seen the increasing regulation of many industries, as well as a burgeoning of civil rights laws. Powell argued the "most disquieting voices" joining the chorus of reprobation and criticism for the Murkin CorpoRat system "came from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians." He firmly resolved to make any further or future recrudescence of such aberrations impossible.

To counteract these pernicious influences, in the memorandum, Powell advocated a variety of expedients which sound strange coming from the pen of a person considered at the time to be a futuere Supreme Court Justice: he urged "constant surveillance" of textbook and television content, as well as a "purge" of left-wing elements from important institutions, including University faculties and media posts.

In an extraordinary prefiguring of the social goals of CorpoRat State for the next half-century at least, Powell named the main goals of corpoRat propaganda/public relations campaigns: changing how individuals and society think about the corporation, in relation to the government, the law, the culture, and the individual.

Shaping public opinion on these topics became, and would remain, THE major element of the corpoRatist agenda. In pursuit of which goal, the corpoRats immediately began a program of acquiring media outlets, in a process called "press consolidation," which ensured "the People," whom Powell instructed the CorpoRats to seduce and confuse, would seldom if EVER be exposed to ANY rhetoric contradictory to the CorpoRat/Capitalist/Consumerist mantras of the Right.

You have only to look or listen around you to determine the power of the strategy, after only 40 years.

Thing is, hippies, and the thing they want us to forget, izzat the CorpoRats have been planning and executing their surreptitious, stealth coup d'Etat for nearly 60 years. And it's a done deal.

I even wrote a poem about it, called "Don't Eat the Souffle!":

"The fix is in:
"The deal is down;
"The game is cooked;
"The dice are loaded;
"The wheels are rigged;
"The decks are all marked,
Shaved, and stacked, and
"The dealers cheat,

"That's just how it is.
"If it bothers you, tough!
"It's what's on the menu!
"Eat it, or starve.
"The House don't care.
"So just shut up and deal.

"The chefs,
To express their disdain,
For the bosses and the clientele,
ALWAYS spit,
Surreptitiously,
In the souffle…"

---Woody, 2011

An' dat's jus' how de cookie crumble, hippies...See ya at tha beach!

WWH ~~ Hippie News & Stuff: Projected

The House Thursday last passed a bill that would permit an exception of conscience if a doctor refused to perform an abortion even if it meant the death of the mother. Friday morning the Zuckersphere (or my part of it) was understandably abuzz.

Remember, it passed the House, but that's all. It's not 'veto-proof. The vote was too close. Over-riding needs a two-thirds majority. This is just more fucking GOPhux kabuki for their basest base, and another distraction to the Dims.

The true arbiter of this law would be the Senate.

And even in the unlikely event it passed there, then St, Barry would have to veto it.

Though his actually doing so would depend on two factors, I think:

1) How close to the election it was, and
2) How close they wanted us to think the 'election' was gonna be.

Shamwow's a TOTAL "pragmatist."He'll do what he thinks will get him the "results" he's after.


Really, friends! Don't worry about St. Barry's second term. He's a shoe-in.

The GOP wants NOTHING more than to have St. Barry back for a second term. He's GOOD for 'em. He does EVERYTHING THEY WANT, BUT makes the Dims responsible. It's a perfect arrangement.

If they REALLY wanted to "win" it, they'd have a candidate who, if they "won," would NOT raise the election fraud flags like ANYONE in the Clown Car would.

They'll be happy to just take the Senate, hold the House, and leave St. Barry, the Compromiser, dangling in the wind, there to take the blame for the "fall of the American Empire," which will begin around 2015, when China's economy surpasses the US.

Then the GOPhux will ahve a sure-fire issue for the rest of the Century, or as long as the White majority lasts: "RESTORE MURKA to it's greatness that the Negrow and the Soshulist party destroyed."

A total money-maker, I gay-RON--tee, it, chers.

And a final thought:
Though the analogy is not perfect, Capitalism does resemble cancer, in that BOTH require and promote indefinite, unlimited growth.

In Capitalism, this is called "progress"; in cancer it is called "metastasis.

In both cases, the hosts are killed.

Be Safe, Hippies! Back to you in Hippie Central, Win-stone!!!