A New New Deal

Back in October in a post titled The Rape Of The American Taxpayer, when the government’s bailout of Wall Street was already in high gear, I wrote: Having been brutally raped by a Wall Street gang, aided and abetted by Bush and his congressional cronies, Americans are now being required to buy the rape kit, as well as bear and …

For What It’s Worth

Fuck you, little people!  I got mine—  see if you can get yours. When it comes to economics, the profit motive is to the service motive what fear is to love in religion. But ruthless competition— for example, this, this, or this— that is based on the narrow-minded pork of self-interest, eventually destroys even the very things it seeks to …

Mad As Hell

Hey mighty brontosaurus Don’t you have a message for us You thought your rule would always last There were no lessons in your past… Walking in your footsteps Walking in your footsteps -Sting/The Police From the Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil, the Treasury Department-– oh hell, let’s just call it what it is: a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs— …

Geithner’s Rescue Plan

Timmeh Geithner getting a grip on Obama’s balls Spring has sprung a leak. From Paul Krugman’s New York Times Blog March 21, 2009, 7:12 am Despair over financial policy The Geithner plan has now been leaked in detail. It’s exactly the plan that was widely analyzed — and found wanting — a couple of weeks ago. The zombie ideas have …

Eat The Rich

Matt Taibbi nails it over at Rolling Stone:: The best way to understand the financial crisis is to understand the meltdown at AIG. AIG is what happens when short, bald managers of otherwise boring financial bureaucracies start seeing Brad Pitt in the mirror. This is a company that built a giant fortune across more than a century by betting on …

Some Of God’s Children. . .

. . .Get to paint. I’ll be painting a few days,   but first, I’m going out for Japanese food. I’ll be back blogging before the AIG rich prigs are hunted down like the pigs they are and we get our munnies back.  Well, actually that may never fuggin’ happen;  let’s just say I’ll be back way before I can no …

Torches And Pitchforks

The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cStephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIGColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRap BattleNASA Name Contest Four hundred million years of evolution and Congress still doesn’t know how to GROW A SPINE!?! Stand up to these assholes at AIG and Goldman Sachs and the rest of the banking mafia, or get the hell off the Hill!