This turned into an interesting reading.

The question placed before the cards was:

What will be the result to Obama — of his response to the handling of the BP oil disaster.

The answers in cards came – from left to right:

1) Ace of Cups – Reversed:  Loss of faith, respect, and disappointment

2) Cups – The Page – Reversed: Bad news received, tempers flared, outbursts.

3) The Fool – Reversed:  Innocence and image of naivete lost; can also be read as possible warning against rash decisions.

When I first heard about the joke – the fact that he had made such a joke, I felt like I had been hit in the stomach. It made me sick. I started reeling with all kinds of hyper-crazy assumptions, like maybe indeed he IS a plant by the GOP and that he is no different than Bush.

Then I did the smart thing, and looked it up – and it turned out that I was completely misguided by my fears. Here’s a reprint of the joke:

“Jonas Brothers are here, they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don’t get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking?”

I was relieved afterward, seeing that it was OBVIOUSLY not the sick kind of joke Bush made about trying to find hidden WMD’s in Iraq. What’s the difference? Obama wasn’t making fun of the victims, soldiers, or people we are at war with, or the families of victims of any war. He was making fun of the Jonas Brothers. Celebrities. Big, big, big difference.

Sigh of relief….

I still love Obama…but I feel like he’s like one of those parents that lets their kid(s) terrorize others, running through the aisles at Wal Mart and Target, pulling merchandise off the shelves, etc, while the parent pretends not to know what’s going on – and is actually too frightened to punish these monsters for their bad behavior. Someone who is literally so afraid of being called a poor leader, that they in turn become exactly what they’re afraid of.  The bad behavior continues, while the frightened parent continues to offer candies and bribes to make the little monster shut the hell up.

The Republicans scream and yell the most dishonest, offensive, and outrageous statements, repeating them ad nauseum, even going as far as calling the mainstream media “liberal” whenever it tries to correct them on their lies. (The media is in fact right wing and extremely corporate-owned, which is why their lies constantly go unchallenged). Obama and the Democrats seem to simply ignore these screaming imbeciles as if they were nothing more than white noise, while the rest of us in the real world have to put up with the result of their lies. The results usually turn up in casual conversation with neighbors and friends repeating the lies as if it were doctrine.

Obama needs to take the Republicans in the back room and let the beatings begin.  There is absolutely NO excuse for allowing such unforgivable behavior from the right wing to continue.

On a side note…

The Dems need to cull the herd in their own party and start demanding real progressive action.

The Blue Dogs keep putting up with the lies from the right… and then they won’t take action until the damage has been done and corrective actions become laughably ineffective.

I don’t mean to be so rough on my beloved Dems.

Afterall, the Dems don’t have the power of a mainstream media to support their statements. The Republicans scrubbed all of the FCC regulations which once required news media organizations to actually tell the truth. Clinton helped the Republicans when he allowed giant media conglomerates to take over smaller media outlets – thus creating the stronghold that Fox News has today. We went from having tons and tons of independent media news outlets – like newspapers, radio stations, etc that were privately owned – to media outlets that are all owned by less than a handful of different organizations — ABC, NBC, Fox, etc. In the end, you end up with a vacuum where facts go to die – and info-tainment is the norm.

But back to my point… The Dems need to grow a set and help Obama find a spine…because you certainly can’t expect anything good to come from a screaming eight year old monster child Republican.

The merger of corporations and state government was an invention of Mussolini. When he brought it to Italy, he was advocating the creation of a single party state. He called it the Fascist State.

We now have it, too, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling. Actually, thanks to George W. Bush and the Republican Party, we can now finally say we are finally living in a fascist United States of America.

And to think they were worried that it would be Obama and the Democrats who would be bringing us that little gift. They don’t even know what the word “fascist” means, not surprisingly.

But I also blame Obama for what’s happened. He didn’t fight the Republicans in the legislature, hasn’t gone after the Bush administration to seek any kind of punishment, and hasn’t fought hard enough to create the kind of change he promised (like green energy jobs, bringing home the troops, closure of Gitmo, etc.).

The Bush administration and the Republicans in power left us a giant, flaming mess. And I really hate sounding as if I’m upset because it hasn’t been fixed. I’m actually really happy with the Democrats who’ve been pushing hard for the progressives (like Kucinich, Boxer, Wexler, Feingold, etc etc). But I’m really upset that they also keep buckling to any kind negative media press, refusing to fight back and stand up for their party’s constituents.

We need an FDR Democrat in office – not a Clinton Democrat. We need Obama to say “I *hope* Wall Street bankers, Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Bush Criminals are afraid of me – Instead of saying “I’m willing to put the past behind us and look the other way.

Under the new proposed bill, the insurance companies will be given everything they’ve been asking for – and they will get it all because they pumped millions of dollars a day in negative campaigning against “Government-Run Health Care”.

Insurance companies will be on steroids, dumping more and more people for no reason at all – Charging more and more money every year for premiums and deductibles, providing less and less coverage.

And now that the Supreme Court has passed a law saying corporations are protected in saying whatever they want, just like people, they can run more commercials to fight reform.

Obama made a HUGE mistake trying to make nice with everyone. He made a huge mistake assuming Democrats would be happy with “any kind” of “health care reform”.

Make no mistake about this, though: We Dems are not going to vote Republican just because of this – But we certainly won’t be voting for the Blue Dog Dem incumbents. The legislature needs to grow a backbone and stop worrying about trying to please Republicans in the House and Senate.

Government-Run Healthcare means you won’t get dropped, you won’t lose your coverage, and you won’t lose your house. Obama simply needs to write an executive order demanding “Medicare for All” and simply put us on a Single Payer system – Where every man, woman and child is covered by insurance. The same way every other country on the face of the planet is.

The blue dogs consistently claim that they’re “all for reforming health care – as long as it’s not too expensive”.

But if you ask them if $100 billion per year is “too much” for another war – they’re all on board, behind Obama and the Republicans.

Literally, we have more children living in poverty now than any other time in history (since the great depression), and unemployment is in the double-digits.

Obama says healthcare costs must be controlled, and nothing of substantial change will occur until 2013…!!!!!

But another 3-4 years in Afghanistan? Hell yeah, let’s spend another $2-3 BILLION PER WEEK for a war we CANNOT AFFORD!

I seriously don’t give a rat’s ass about terrorism – Sorry, but I just don’t. Your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack? You are more likely to win the lottery – twice – this year – than to ever – EVER – be killed by a terrorist.

More people die in plane crashes per year than in terrorist attacks.

Are we doing anything about airline safety – due to crashes? Nope. Are we doing anything about safety when it involves terrorism? Every single g-damned time I go the airport, I’m reminded of what a huge effing a-hole G.W. Bush was on 9/11, pretending to care more about capturing Bin Laden, but instead sending us to Iraq to hi-jack oil fields for his buddies.

But, hey, I shouldn’t complain.

We have a “Democrat” in the White House – who will more than likely help the Republicans get control next November.

I was just listening to Ed Schultz and heard him say that he had spoken to several key people on the Hill yesterday… He said not one single person has been able to explain why Obama wants to wait until 2013 to let Health Reform go into effect. Except one explanation that seemed to ring true: Republicans are hoping that if they get control back of the House and/or Senate, or White House, that they will reverse this bill in a heart beat.

This makes perfect sense.

Basically, Obama is a Clinton-Republican. Not a true Democrat – but a Lieberman Democrat. Someone in the White House who is basically trying their darndest to help the Right Wing get everything they’ve been wanting for the last 100 years.

Clinton basically handed the rightwing their wettest and wildest dreams with NAFTA legislation, de-regulation of the media industry by allowing giant corporations to take over them, and also by allowing the energy, banking and Wall Street boys to become as de-regulated as they were before the great depression.

Bush pushed for it and definitely made it all happen. But it was also Clinton who basically caved to Republicans in the House who were pushing for all of the massive de-regulation.

The left wasn’t pushing back hard enough, and basically fell back on their promises to protect and deliver on Campaign Finance Reform, Global Energy / Green Energy / Kyoto Protocol changes and reforms. Al Gore would’ve helped insure those changes went into place. But instead, as soon as Bush came into office, he dismantled every single progressive and green environmental legislation in place, rolling back more than 50-years of progress. Bush also pushed hard for voting de-regulation with the “Help America Vote Act” – which was basically the “Help Count Less Votes Act” – designed to make sure every single vote that was tallied on a faulty Diebold machine was protected – and any voter with dark skin was called into question, and given fewer working voting machines in their precinct, thus guaranteeing 8-12 hour waits in long lines.

I’m feeling extremely frustrated this morning…

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/26/obama.behar.bullies/index.html

I’m with Joy Behar on this one:

Obama, smack those playground bullies

It’s high time to start putting the law down on those idiots who do nothing else except bully the others into submission.

It’s not 2004 anymore.  It’s not even 9/12.  For crying out loud, it’s effing 2009!

Grow a set!  Man up!!!

You are dealing with people who have killed for far less than what they are killing for now.  These people don’t know policy or how to get things done.  All they know how to do us frighten innocent people into making them vote the way they want them to.

Power is EVERYTHING to these people.   Because being in power is like being king.  They don’t believe in following laws anymore than they believe in paying taxes or living by the same rules everyone else has to.

To them – They “earned” their wealth and gosh darn it, no one is gonna make them live or act like “common” people.

They believe their wealth – their class – their nobility – their “closeness” with the “royals of their day” – should give them the right to break any g-damned law they choose.

George Bush wasn’t a president – he was appointed – he was – quite literally – more of an emperor or a king than an elected president.

He was – indeed – “King George”.

And back in jolly old King George’s day, only the “little people” paid taxes.  Only the “little people” had to obey the laws of the land.

Obama:  Please stop letting the rich have their way, while still making everyone else relent to their wishes.

If you’re not gonna stand up for us, who will??

I’ve been feeling the need to let off a little steam

Sooo…I created this blog. Like a private bag I can scream into…or a hilltop I can yell out from.

Some place where I can just cuss, scream and rant about how pissed off I am at fucking neocon fascist hateful greedy stupid rightwingers.

(siggggghhhhh)

I don’t even care about the grammar…or spelling.

All that matters is that it felt GOOOOOOOD.

On the other hand…

I can’t fucking believe how stressful it’s been with Obama.

Of course, it seems the rightwing has something to complain about ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

But this time – is it about the economy? the war? taxes?

Of course not.

IT’S ABOUT A FUCKING PEP-TALK TO SCHOOL KIDS!!!!!

Seriously.

I don’t even know where to begin.

It’s like my mother-in-fucking-law. I love her. But sometimes, she is about as clueless as can be. And she even “claims” to be paying attention. But then somehow can’t seem to understand “what all the fuss is about” “why is healthcare such a big deal?”. It’s easy for you to say that ’cause you’re covered under GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE – CALLED *MEDICARE*, Grandma!

Oh, I dunnnnoo… Could it be because people are fucking losing their homes because they had the audacity to get cancer and get dropped from the healthcare plan they had been paying into for the last 40 years?? Or they got fired because the company they worked for packed up and left for Indonesia or India – or – gasp – Mexico. Geeze Leeewwweeeezz. Do you really need a lesson in economics to know how hard-hitting that can be on someone’s pocketbook? It’s not bad enough that you get cancer from the environmental elements – like toxins in the air and water (Thanks, W., for the “uber-clean” clean air policies you gave your buddies in the energy sector) — but that your healthcare provider (like United Health Group or PacifiCare) wants to give more to its CEO’s than to it’s customers. When you put profits before people – you are asking for some baaaad-assed Karma to come down your street.