If you’re like me, you are too busy being a big-time Internet blogger to go to every party that you are invited to. I mean I’m a popular dude, I get invited to lots of parties, not all of them LAN related. Sometimes they are so exciting I liveblog them. Luckily, now there is a blog for me. Katie of SIMYP scours flickr for the best parties, so I don’t have to. I mean, check this out:
Thanks Katie!
A Massachusetts state senator who was photographed while seeming to stuff thousands of dollars in bribe money into her sweater has resigned. The resignation of the senator, Dianne Wilkerson, was announced by the State Senate president, Therese Murray. Ms. Wilkerson, a 53-year-old Democrat, was indicted Tuesday on eight counts of attempted extortion.
And, so you don’t have to troll around the pics, here are the said pictures of Ms. Wilkerson literally stuffing her shirt full of cash (maybe she moonlights as a stripper too?):
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Everything I would want to say, but smarter:
If Clinton was a triangulator, then Obama is a tetrahedralizer, ie, he does it in 3D. Not even Dick Morris could get Ken “cakewalk” Adelman, Scott McClellan, Colin Powell, and will.i.am on his boss’s side. Obama owes his entry into national politics to Holy Joe, the patron saint of Big Insurance, yet “that one” excites throngs of admirers on his left. Why? Is it his promise to expand the war in Afghanistan? Or his plan to increase the size of the army by 90,000? Or his coddling of terrorists (yes, I mean the health insurance lobbyists)? Or is it his pro-wiretap vote? Or his pro-death penalty stand? Or his tax cuts for all but quarter-millionaires? Or his willful neglect of the poor, a class of subhumans unworthy of even a passing mention in his campaign?
Rarely has the word ‘change’ been so devoid of content. Obama’s agenda is Republicanism minus the insanity.
True, McCain offers his rival the advantage of running against a certified lunatic, a cranky coot even nuttier than Bush. With Joe Lieberman at State, John Bolton at DoD, and John Yoo in SupremeLand, every day of a McCain-Palin administration would be Halloween in America: Trick or Shriek…….
But this miraculous story should not make us miss the forest for the trees. The reality is that racial segregation is back to the levels of the sixties and that black poverty has been on a steady increase for the past quarter-century. White Obamania is a cheap thrill, much cheaper than actually doing something about America’s blighted neighborhoods. Obama’s promise of a tax cut for everyone was code for “Fear not, white man, I won’t do a thing for the Hood.” We all got the message. Does a black president mean the problem can be solved or the problem has been solved?
I get long lunch breaks with few readable materials, so today I was relegated to reading Forbes. And I’m reading and stumble upon this: Can We Afford Liberalism Now? by Paul Johnson. I’m assuming just another article about how fucked up Wall Street is and how we can’t overreact with too many regulations cuz unregulated capitalism rocks! Especially if you’re rich and like exploiting others! But, lo and behold, Paul Johnson has more for us in store:
The financial crisis, detonated by greed and recklessness on Wall Street and in the City of London, is for the West a deep, self-inflicted wound. The beneficiary won’t be Russia, which, with its fragile, energy-based economy, is likely to suffer more than we shall; it will be India and China. They will move into any power vacuum left by the collapse of Western self-confidence.
Sweet, so China will benefit and so will India. Interesting, maybe we’ll get an article about the coming shift in the global economic hegemony:
If we seriously wish to repair the damage, we need to accept that this is fundamentally a moral crisis, not a financial one. It is the product of the self-indulgence and complacency born of our ultraliberal societies, which have substituted such pseudo-religions as political correctness and saving the planet for genuine distinctions between right and wrong and the cultivation of real virtues.
Oh shit! Whole new ball game. It wasn’t greedy, fucked up old white men who ruined our economy. It was those fucking PC values. You heard right. Mother fucking PC values. Here we all are, trying to be all moral and shit, and here comes some tree hugger with his pseudo-religion about climate change and how we should respect other cultures. And boom, like that, the stock market crashed.
India and China are progress-loving yet morally old-fashioned societies. They cannot afford liberalism. Their vast populations have only recently begun to emerge from subsistence living. Their strength is in the close, hard-working family unit in which parents train their children to work diligently at school and go to university when possible so they can acquire real and useful qualifications to then go out into the world as professional men and women determined to reach the top.
China is so old-fashioned! Their brand of Marxism is sooooooooo 1930’s Soviet Union. I mean, come on, encouraging capitalist production and exploitation to foment continual proletarian rebellion in a yet-to-be developed nation where socialism is inhibited by the lack of capitalist infrastructure??? So old school, shit bitch.
In short, if you couldn’t tell, Paul Johnson is tired of America not being full of exploitable Chinese. Because owning exploitable Mexicans is like owning the Denver Broncos, when you really wanted the Dallas Cowboys. It just doesn’t feel the same.
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As election day nears, millions of the nation’s poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.
“On the one hand, I’m pretty sure Barack Obama will undermine my best interests by maintaining the same centrist, pro-corporate policies of previous Democratic administrations,” said Jim Estey, 34, a recently laid-off assembly-line worker. “Conversely, I agree with McCain and Palin on abortion, which might just balance out the fact that they’ll further marginalize people like me by supporting deregulation and slashing social programs. So it’s pretty much a toss-up at this point.”
Though such behavior appears to directly undermine their own well-being, lower-income voters have historically supported candidates determined to screw them six ways to Sunday, including Bill Clinton, who incarcerated them in record numbers and cut the welfare benefits many depended on for day-to-day sustenance, and George W. Bush, who widened the gap between them and the rich and sent thousands of them to die in Iraq. This year’s election is reportedly unique in that the nation’s poor must not only weigh how deeply and painfully their chosen candidate will penetrate their rectums, but must also consider unforeseen outside circumstances—such as economic collapse and terrorism—that might allow the next president to bend them over and brutally rape them in ways they never thought possible.
The latest polls indicate that a majority of lower-class citizens might choose not to vote at all Nov. 4, preferring instead to leave the details of how they get fucked to the moneyed classes.
