Wisconsin and the deafening roar of the mythical silent majority

Ok, so, I just finished listening to Governor Walker give a speech where he somehow managed to talk about looking out for the will and welfare of the people, while simultaneously ignoring the thousands of people who were protesting his ass and his decisions inside of his Capital building.

He employed a tactic that I've been hearing more and more as of late... Now get this... There are LITERALLY thousands of people chanting and shouting in the Capital building itself, up and down the streets, at the Governors mansion, and a State-Wide sick-out has shut-down the school system... But This muthafucka goes on television and says that there are more than 5 million people in the State of Wisconsin and that he would not allow "the protesters to believe that they could drown out the voices" of the other Wisconsin residents.

Drown out?

If you claim to be "of the people" and "for the people", how in the hell do you "ignore the people" when they leave their jobs and their security to come to YOUR house so that they can be heard. How do you justify "standing up" for the folks who HAVEN'T SAID SHIT and elevating what you ASSUME they would say above what the thousands of people standing outside your door are clearly telling you?

When the 5 million folks who are sitting at home and watching the shit on tv show up and state their opinion, THEN we have something to talk about, but UNITL THEN... GETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERE

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Dr. Laura of Arc: The Cruci"Fiction" of a wanna be martyr...

Ok, let me acknowledge from the start that I have never listed to this woman's show. In fact I don't listen to any radio advice columnists. I tend to see the 'talk-radio industry' as vacuous and specious; a bunch of bullshit artists who get paid to be curt and inflammatory thereby providing some perverse affirmation to the assholes who actually listen to them. They parrot the sometimes ridiculous and sometimes cruel dictums that old guy who side-eyed you in the Walmart parking lot was thinking when he saw you in your fancy car.

But that said, I was never-the-less intrigued by the Laura Schlessinger story. Not by the fact that she blew off a Black caller asking for advice on how to deal with her White husbands racist friends. Not by the fact that she never once told the caller that perhaps her husband should defend her. Not by the fact that she went on to tell the caller that if she has a problem with being subjected to racist comments then perhaps she shouldn't have married a White guy. And not even by the fact that she took the occasion to say the N-word 11 times to a Black woman who called in because she was hurt and offended by racist comments!

No... That's not what prompted  me to end my blogging sabbatical...

What intrigued me was the fact that Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who was in no real danger of losing her contract, chose to QUIT, and then claim she did it to reclaim her first amendment right to free speech. WTH???

Uhhh... Hello? She had a Nationally syndicated Radio show where she could talk crazy all day long and had just gotten away with saying the N-Word REPEATEDLY like she was channeling Richard Pryor (circa 1978).

Free Speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want Without consequence... If you go out and offend a few million people, they may in turn, call your sponsors and demand an apology; that's not persecution, that's cause and effect!

But you see, if she stays on the air and keeps her show, then she'll be remembered as Dr. Laura, the asshole who likes to use the word Nigger on the air when talking to Black people. But by leaving she can pretend to be a martyr who was somehow 'pushed' out by the forces of political correctness. Now, newly minted as a "victim", she'll become a symbol to the conservative right. They'll rally behind her and what they believe should be their right to call black folks niggers in public to be free of political correctness.

Mark my words - She'll either end up on Fox, Cable, or Satellite radio with a new show, with a broader reach, making more money. Only THEN her audience will be even whiter, so she won't have to deal with you niggas anymore...

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A Bernie Made-off bailout?!?

So I'm on the treadmill this morning, and I happen to hear a reporter on Faux news discussing a pending request from victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme who are asking for some sort of Government bailout. The reporter himself was sympathetic as he stated that certainly those who had lost 'everything' should expect that they might receive some sort of restitution; then he questioned, "but where will it end". 

This was funny to me because it reminded me of another act of butt-ass ignorance that I had the privilege of witnessing... Some years ago, I was a soldier in the US Army. While I was yet in training, we'd spend all of the day in class and most of the evening in the day-room shooting pool, watching TV, and talking shit. One day, someone cracked the plexiglass on a vending machine with their pool cue. The insatiable greed of ordinary motherfuckas led folks to start fishing for chips and snacks out of the machine with coat hangers. This led to a larger break in the plexiglass. Which led to folks reaching into the machine with their hands. Which led to a larger break in the plexiglass. And so on and so forth until, by morning, all of the plexiglass was gone and the machine was completely empty. When the Drill Sergeants found the machine, there was hell to pay for the entire unit, not to mention the fact that we lost all of our vending machines thereafter. 

It never occurred to any of those geniuses that there would be a price to pay for their actions. It never occurred to any of those geniuses that you can never really have something for nothing. Once people became consumed with the idea that they could personally benefit, they stopped thinking and started reaching...

That's the image in my mind when I hear about the latest installment of bail-out-a-rama. Bunch of simple motherfuckas to self-focused to look ahead to tomorrow morning. Its tragic, but hell, so is life. Madoff was no Lex Luther, he was just a hustler; drop by ANY big city and you can meet a hundred more. And those who lost their money are not universal victims deserving of governmental intervention; you're just a bunch of people who got took...

But hey, now that I think about it... I got took for $30.00 in a three card monte game once. Not to mention all those times I was bamboozled by the man selling fake gold chains back in my teens. Is there an on-line application on Hank Paulson's website?

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More late breaking news: McCain Flip-Flops on Family Values!

Just a short time ago, the press began reporting that Bristol Palin, the 17-year old daughter of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is pregnant.

When asked about the Palin pregnancy, and the "vetting" process that Oldey McSame used in choosing Sarah Palin, the McSame campaign responded by saying that not only did they already know about the pregnancy; they considered  it a non-issue.

TEEN PREGNANCY is now a NON-ISSUE?  W.T.F.?  It appears the Republican Party is 'evolving' pretty rapidly now-a-days.

Now the count is no advocate of teen pregnancy, nor am I an activist against it. I think that teen pregnancy leads to a number of societal issues and problems, but that horse has already left the barn... All across the country, communities great and small are already dealing with the issue and it's effects.  So I'm not posting this to say that Sarah Palin is wrong, or a bad person or anything like that... But after hearing the Republicans talk for years about social pathology as though it was some shit that the Democrats invented and unleased on society like a virus, it is fascinating to watch them parse and squirm whenever one of their own turns out to be... well... american.

The funny part is the fact that McSame DIDN'T properly vet Sarah Palin; because there wasn't enough time to get it done between the Democratic convention and the Republican convention. When McSame realized that O didn't nominate Clinton as his veep, he went scrambling to find a conservative woman that he could add to the ticket hoping that she'd get him the disaffected Hillary supporters. And now with the trooper-gate drip and the pregnancy drip, the McSame campaign may finally be forced to explain why they are suddenly for these major philosophical issues that they were once against.

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The Mainstreaming of Pat Buchanan

Can someone please tell me How.in.THE.Hell Pat Buchanan managed to become a respected political commentator? I mean, have I lost my mind or something? This is Pat Buchanan; Architect of the "Positive Polarization" strategy of dividing the country through the exaggeration of differences and the deployment of 'wedge' issues. This is Pat Buchanan guest speaker to the CCC (Council of Conservative Citizens), recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a Hate Group and reincarnation of the White Citizens Councils from the 50's. This is Pat Buchanan who was, according to Bill White; Chairman of the American National Socialist Workers Party, responsible for arranging regular meetings between the people from "Stormfront", the American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia...

Now he's all "Man of the People" sitting his smug ass on MSNBC every morning, suggesting that Obama needs to run around apologizing for saying words that rhyme with Black.

Now I know, some of you will say, "I watch Pat Buchanan every morning and I don't think he's racist". And you guys have That in common... I'm sure HE doesn't think he is either. But the problem is, those who share and espouse his political and social ideas, most certainly are...

Now every morning I stare at my television in near disbelief; swearing I must've missed something...

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