Does gasbag Rush swallow the ice cream before or after he swallows the Oxycontin?

CNN’s “We Are The 53%” movement only matters to you if you watch CNN.

Good morning,

Trolls explaining their income tax virtue in 5,4,3,2,…….

Read the comment on The Automatic Earth:

V”The solution is, always, to blame somebody for life’s problems, the real culprit is all of us. Presently the great monster is Wall Street. My problem with that fault finding is millions of us did not take the loans and are not drowning in debt. We are the forgotten in this orgy of blaming. No banker “made” anyone sign their name. All the banker did was provide an avenue to pursue our own greed. The entire American system (only one I’ve lived in) is based on doing exactly that and has been for a long time.

As far as income disparity, while it may well be worse at present, it has always, from the get go, been American. In fact all systems as far as I can tell. The name of the human game is to walk the fine line of an elite controlling nearly all money while dribbling enough to the masses to keep them in check. Credit was a marvelous tool for this.

The foundation of this country stands on the bones of those from whom we stole land, exploited their labor, the poor and the rest of the long list we blissfully ignore. We very willingly, cheering all the way, walked into the disaster many of find ourselves in. It is as old as history and will happen “

Good morning, pups. It’s Kristof and Collins today. Mr. Kristof is in Kenema, Sierra Leone. In “One Girl’s Courage” he says taboos about sexual violence remain strong, so many victims don’t speak up. But I found one who did, and her strength may empower more women and girls to do the same. Ms. Collins has a question in “The Gift of Glib:” Who wants to know the score after the big Republican date in New Hampshire? Just take a guess as to who won!

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got corned beef hash with poached eggs for breakfast. I confess that I missed the New Hampshire debate. (Lucky me!) It looks like the rain may be moving on, and since I have the day off tomorrow I should be able to get a lot of stuff done in the garden. Have a great day.

Speaking of trolls I ventured over to Red State for only the second time ever and registered so that I could comment on this issue of the 53%. After writing a lengthy and well thought out argument and with a gleeful look of anticipation on my face anticipating the response I’d get from the natives I clicked the “post” icon. Laughing out loud when I discovered I could not yet “submit comments as you have not been registered long enough.”

My dad, a decades long member of MENSA, began to subscribe to Limbaugh’s venomous points of view just before he died. It caused me to not be able to be around much in the last few years of his life as he would spout some Rush absurdity and rely on his reputation to deflect being called on it. The rest of my siblings were more tolerant/diplomatic but that caused enormous friction in our relationship. I know I and my dad share the lion’s share of responsibility for that but I’ll never forgive Limbaugh. His being exiled to Somalia would go a long way toward healing some of that old injury.

Surprised? For all of their babbling about the First Amendment, the conservatives brook zero dissent. Although commenting on a blog isn’t a first amendment issue, (unless you’re a conservative trolling a liberal blog apparently), the irony fairly drips.

We are hurting them. They’re pulling out everybody to try to find something to break the OWS movement. That photo of Eric is pitiful. I wonder how many GOP tools will start flogging it today aand I wonder how long it will be before 53% shrivels up and dies.

Boxturtle (Where are the trolls? send in the trolls!)

Keep trying until you have been registered “long enough,” but I’d suggest you set up an e-mail account and use a screen name you haven’t used before. Unless you really want all of the blast faxes… And be sure to report back!

What did Somalia ever do to you?

Boxturtle (I used to be mensa. You’d think that believing Limbaugh would be an automatic revocation)

I predict an “Oh, and you’re banned” response rather quickly. Redstate does not tolerate dissent well.

Boxturtle (And disagreeable facts make them itch)

Had it covered. I was ‘rightytightyleftyloosey’ at hotmail dot com.

I asked the simple question the other day of someone who stated something to me about the 53%.

I asked them, “So you really think the banks and financial industry have done nothing wrong, nothing illegal, no fraud-what-so-ever? You want to look forward, not backward?”

Crickets.

“Well your silence is telling me something,” I said.

“What?” they asked.

“That you are more informed about what is going on then you let on and that standing with the 53% is an act of deception. You should be honest to yourself and others.”

Mix the seven sins and you get the human race. Baser instincts such as compassion and charity are for the uninformed.

I didn’t own property until just recently, so I did not “participate” in the housing bubble before it burst. I engaged and/or indulged in no loans or other types of irregular banking activities during that period. I work 2 jobs; always pay my taxes on time; and lucky for me, probably earn a tad more than average (by no means even close to the upper levels, but not too shabby). I am grateful for what I have & contribute over 10% to charities of my choice bc I am fortunate to be able to do so.

That said, I simply don’t *get* why conservatives wish to *blame* everything that went wrong with the shenanigans of Wall St, the banks, etc solely and only on other “average” citizens – or more likely on poor people of dusky hue.

Fine, fine: some portion of “blame” perhaps can be apportioned to “regular” citizens who bought more house than they should and/or took out numerous mortgages and used their home like an ATM. Yes: they are responsible, too. But seriously? Then we just “conveniently” leave the banks & Wall St out of the equation and what? Do nothing??? How seriously stupid is that??

Yeah, I wish other citizens had been more responsible and aware. That would’ve been nice. But given the rightwing corp-owned propoganda media, citizens were being told and directed to buy buy buy spend spend spend.

I bought a house recently, and the credit union from which I got the mortgage went overboard – to the point of absurdity, frankly – to quadruple & qunituple check my assets and credit ratings, etc. Why is the fraud and illegal activity of the banks so dismissable and irrelevant to these conservative citizens?? If my CU spent so much time and effort checking out my status recently, why are the banks not held accountable and responsible for their errors and lapses??

Rhetorical questions mostly. Duly noted what the rightwing propoganda machine is doing with its Stockholm syndrome dittoheads constantly identifying with their opporessors.

Wake up sheeples…

Put this on TBogg yesterday:

Hi, I’m a jet-setting spoiled brat whose father left him a cool $150 million estate. I fly all over the place to buy suits and fuck exotic women in every country and have an exceptionally cool apartment in Dubai where I can go indoor skeeing when it’s 100 degrees outside. I read the Wall Street Journal because it has the funniest cartoons and I employ the best accountants so I don’t have to pay any taxes. I love to make even more money by buying up successful businesses and then gutting them and pillaging the pension funds. I own a trading firm and make money off of every transaction (aren’t recessions the bomb?). I am the 1 percent.

So where is the 1 percenter website?

I sent an email to Erikson yesterday. Imagine my surprise when he responded.

Essentially I said that he had no idea about compassion.

He came back and told me how he contributed to his church and took care of his family. (His view of compassion.)

What a piece of work.

How about applying this baser instinct.

klynn, did you read Icognito?

Yep.

Do you think he would be called as an expert witness? “My brain made me do it even though I knew it was wrong?”

Idiots have always been useful. To someone.

I don’t think he really knows his view is “wrong” (either morally or analytically). Having been conditioned to scapegoat people born into less fortunate circumstances than himself, he’s just mimicking the argument of the 99 percenters and illogically applying it. “Let’s see, times are tough, therefore the people who have nothing are the ones taking advantage of me, and the people who have stolen all the wealth through money manipulation (such champions of work ethic) are to be admired.”

Don’t hate the guy. Pity the fool.

This is the rightwing meme that’s been so effectively used to brainwash a LOT of citizens via the rightwing propoganda media and/or via many churches.

Nowadays, “charity” is only about what you do for yourself and your family and possibly maybe also for a small circle of friends. Anything else, such as social services, is viewed as “bad” or socialism or communism and/or it’s only about lazy slackers looking for a hand out.

It wasn’t that long ago in this nation of ours, where citizens felt more of a responsibility to the populace at large, not to mention considering it part of their civic duty to pay taxes so that we could maintain our infrastructure, for example. Nowadays it’s all about “me.” Forget anyone else…