Politics Is Coming

I read a comment section that featured the term "Romnunism" I thought it good enough to steal to make this "bumper sticker".  Dumb Meme? 

Dumb Meme If You Don't Want To Reveal What You Really Are.

So why is THIS a dumb meme? Basically, If you are spreading it around, You basically revealing you're a racist.

How? Well, Some white people have had a hard time dealing with the fact that Trayvon Martin got a lot of publicity on his death. For once the Mainstream Media Focused on a killing of someone who wasn't a young blonde female.

To recap: Trayvon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old teenager  walking in the The Retreat at Twin Lakes gated community on the night of February 27th 2012. He was pursued by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old man with a criminal record who ironically who participates in a neighborhood watch where Martin was temporarily staying.

Zimmerman noticed Martin walking inside the community. Zimmerman called the police to report Martin's behavior as suspicious While still on the phone with the police dispatcher, Zimmerman left his vehicle and there was a fight, which ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin once in the chest at close range.

For weeks, Not much was heard about the incident. Zimmerman was NOT arrested, nor was he charged. Trayvon's father hired a lawyer to investigate and to look into 9-11 calls. It turns out that Zimmerman's account was not consistent with the 9-11 calls and attention was FINALLY given to the case and it spread throughout the social media before the MSM took it on. Upon hearing about the news most people reacted with outrage over the fact a young unarmed black kid was shot by man with a criminal record who stalked him out on a rainy evening. And because like with Henry Louis Gates,  Being black means that reporters will ask our president about the incident. Because, In case you haven't noticed President Obama is....black.

So President Obama being a man who doesn't dodge any question answered with the "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon." statement. A showing of empathy that is normal in a situation like that. Lord knows I can relate to the idea of being a teenager being pursued by an overzealous adult. It scares the crap out of me. Stranger Danger, man!

But some people had a problem with that. They had a problem with bogie men Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson asking for justice for Trayvon Martin and the arrest of a man who stalked and shot an unarmed juvenile. therefore they had to invent stories about Trayvon that somehow justify Zimmerman's shooting of him.

"He was in trouble with school"
"He was wearing a gangsta hoodie"
"He attacked Zimmerman first"
"He was on drugs"
"He was taller and older than the pictures in the paper"

Anything to invalidate his life. These people can't fathom the idea that a young black kid can be the VICTIM of an unjustified shooting by someone who wasn't black.

Hence the meme. It points out how a white woman got killed and the perps were three black men. And that it wasn't front page news. Actually it was, right in the days after the killing. That WASN'T the case with Trayvon Martin. Shades of Ann Coulter with her erroneous attack on the New York Times for not publishing Dale Earnhart's death on the front page. Also two of the perps were arrested immediately and the third one was captured after an intense manhunt.

In other words, The police did their job. They didn't bother asking whether Jacqueline Gardner attacked them first. The police didn't let them out without bail. They're in jail complete with mugshots. A horrible crime to be sure but I hardly think the people spreading the meme would be feeling the same way if the woman was black and the men were white. Just look at the comment section where this picture originated.

Anonymous said...

three more niggers off to N.U. and the liberal press is afraid to call these thieving, murdering niggers out.

May 24, 2012 1:49 PM

Anonymous said...

From the article:
Timothy Sarcia, who police said was Gardner’s live-in boyfriend, told police he was inside their third-floor apartment when he heard heavy footsteps and a struggle in the hallway outside of his apartment door. Through the peephole, he saw a man putting a chokehold on Gardner. He called 911 and screamed for help, he told police.

When he opened the door, he found Gardner lying on the hallway floor unconscious.

Wowwwwww I'm speechless. This guy is a pussy. He didn't try to help his GF. He saw everything and he could have saved her. Where was his Smith and Western and his balls? Everyone needs to spread the word about this guy he shouldn't be able to ever get any female. This is just maddening and sooo sad. Indiana is a concealed and carry state. These foul beasts are traveling outside their ghettos more and more, nowhere is safe. It doesn't matter what you do to keep them out (high property values, expensive rentals, reduced public transit) they can still find a way. And they wonder why we racially profile whe they are in out areas.

May 24, 2012 2:01 PM

Anonymous said...

Her fucking Boyfreind sounds like a PUSSY I wonder if He was WHITE?

May 24, 2012 2:08 PM

Anonymous said...

The reason there is no outrage is because this type of behavior is expected from niggers.

May 24, 2012 2:18 PM

Anonymous said...

Day-Um, ShavedShortCock....

At least learn to read. Da Po-Lice charged deze Mudda-Fuggahs!!

Didn't release them like they did jo' Mama!!!

May 24, 2012 2:19 PM

Anonymous said...

Shoot to kill.simple as that.

May 24, 2012 2:34 PM

Anonymous said...

If Obama had 3 sons they'd all act like this.

May 24, 2012 2:35 PM

Anonymous said...

Very sad story.

Merrillville, a once all-white, nice, middle-class suburb has become inundated over the last decade or so by The Beast. The same fate that's befallen so many once nice (and safe) southern suburbs of Chicago.

At some point Whitey is going to run out of places to flee to, then the real shitstorm will come.

May 24, 2012 2:38 PM

Anonymous said...

Communist/Democrat/Socialist Owned and operated Mainstream News Media only reports what fits its Agenda, and the fagbama Regime's Agenda. Completely Biased reporting. Boycott them and their Sponsors and support FOX NEWS and their Sponsors. If a business/Company advertises on both FOX and the Lame-stream News, BOYCOTT THEM.

May 24, 2012 2:41 PM

Anonymous said...

war its time for a war

May 24, 2012 2:45 PM

Anonymous said...

Too bad I wasn't her boyfriend.

All three of those apes would have been gut-shot with a 45ACP 1911.

Then I would have dragged all three outside the building, doused them with gas, and had an old-time COON FRY.

May 24, 2012 2:53 PM

Anonymous said...

Fuck you nigger.read this.you & the rest of your Niggers are dead.try a race war.we will pile your bodies up in the various lakes and rivers nigger

May 24, 2012 3:07 PM

Anonymous said...

This why you need to keep on reporting Shaved, the truth can only be suppressed by the media for so long.

May 24, 2012 3:15 PM

Anonymous said...

WHY ARENT THESE NIGGERS DEAD!

I say kill three at random to even this out.

May 24, 2012 3:16 PM

Anonymous said...

Fuck all niggers!!!!!! I have a way to eliminate this useless race. From now on, every nigger baby that's born they should neuter every single one of them. That way this useless race will be gone little by little and the world will finally be a better place. The country will be crime free and it will be out of debt too.

May 24, 2012 3:30 PM

Anonymous said...

The nigger is the scourge of civilization.


Note how many posters were attacking her boyfriend who was the father of her second child. They seem to have a problem with an unarmed man not going after three armed men. And yet many Trayvon haters had a problem with Trayvon defending HIMSELF from an armed man.


Yup, That's the kinda people Trayvon Martin and President Obama haters are associated with. Your racism and hate are pretty much out in the open.

Hit and Run Numbskull

Look at this piece of drivel I got as a message through my facebook page:

• • So your telling me that another 4 years of obama is a good idea? That's like saying lets raise the titanic so it can hit the ice berg again. He had his 4 and spent to much time reafing about marx and being part of the socalist party and golfing to do any thing good for this country. 4 more years of this clown and were fucked. Incase u missed the memo this country is worse off in the last 4 years then all of bushes 8.
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  16 hours ago

  Jim Gorman

  • And if u think I'm wrong then u have spent to much time in doors watching msnbc.
    
    
    
    
    
    I have no clue who this uneducated moron is but he sure as hell went off and hid  away in a way that I couldn't reply to him.
    
    So let me take his questions one at a time. 
    
    
    
    So your telling me that another 4 years of obama is a good idea?
    
    Absolutely! BTW It's President Obama, Learn to capitalize last names when you address our president. When the race is between Mitt Romney and President Obama it's no contest. Mitt as governor of Massachusetts, He brought down its state rank to number 47, Out of FIFTY. That's Mississippi territory buddy. You want people to chant "We're Number 47!" "We're Number 47!" "We're Number 47!"?
    
    That's like saying lets raise the titanic so it can hit the ice berg again.
    
    You described going back to Bush economics to a "t". After all, Bush already smashed the economy in 2008 like the Titanic (capitalization) and President Obama raised it again and now you want a second iceberg (BTW, It's one word not two) named Mitt to sick the economy AGAIN?!
    
    He had his 4 and spent to much time reafing about marx and being part of the socalist party and golfing to do any thing good for this country.
    
    
    He had his 4 what? Meals a day? Spent too (not to) much time reafing? What the hell is reafing?  about Marx? (Capital letters on proper names please) Who, Groucho? Being part of a Southern California party? Huh? Dude, what have you been smoking? He may play golf almost as much as Bush but at least he got Bin Laden and saved the economy.
    
    4 more years of this clown and were fucked.
    
    You said it. We WERE fucked after four more years of that clown Bush. Or did you forget a punctuation somewhere? You shouldn't type angry. Although that's impossible for most conservatives.
    
    Incase u missed the memo this country is worse off in the last 4 years then all of bushes 8.
    
    In case is two words not one.  I don't do text speak, I'm an adult. No, I'm afraid we are in much better shape then we were in 2008. Stock market is way up from the day Bush left office. Gas prices have NOT hit the record highs it set under Bush. The unemployment rate and the deficit has been steady since 2009. Bush nearly TRIPLED the unemployment rate. Likewise Romney in Massachusetts. Wars are ending, Bin Laden is dead, An American auto maker is the top seller in the world again after falling behind under Bush AND Reagan. Things are pretty good despite the Republicans obstruction and Fox News propaganda that seems to have brainwashed you.
    
    And if u think I'm wrong then u have spent to much time in doors watching msnbc.
    
    I know one place you DIDN'T spend too much time in and that is classrooms.  Unless you you actually think I spend too much time inside of actual doors. That would make you really weird dude....and (yawn) on the msnbc reference, A channel I don't watch because I watch regular TV. But that's pretty much the sheep followers of Fox News would predictably say.
    
    OBAMA/BIDEN 2012! Let's keep this recovery going, No more Bushenomics!!!!
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

More Dumb memes

Some people have a hard time with what President Obama said in regards to doing things by themselves. Even taken out of context it's the truth. Especially when it comes to Mitt Romney. Born rich to a man who would not have been rich if it wasn't for the government taking the initiative top build roads for the auto industry that made Mitt's dad rich.

And let's look at the cartoon. It doesn't even mention government.

Listen you brat, It was your Dad's money that helped you built your lemonade stand, You didn't develop the plastic vessels that make sure your lemonade is contained. You didn't grow the lemons nor did you process the sugar that make up your lemonade. You didn't grow the trees that make up your pathetic stand nor did you forge the nails that barely hold it together. And that water? Clean fresh water thanks to the government that didn't bow down to private sector's demand to drill into an aquifer to mine it for nefarious purposes and poisoned it.

So you foul mouth runt, You just be thankful for all the help you got and don't get your nappies in a bunch because some man wiser than you speaks the truth.

Some Men Deserve To Be Dead

Robert Zarinsky is dead from pulmonary fibrosis. Good, It couldn't happen to a more deserving individual.

You see, a long time ago Zarinsky was on trial for the murder of a 17 year old girl from my current hometown of Atlantic Highlands. Her body was never found but he was sentenced for life thanks to the dogged work of former Atlantic highlands Police Sgt. Sam Guzzi.

I had just moved to the town when the Star-Ledger published an excellent series of articles called "Deadly Secrets" that went into full detail of what went down. Here's the rub, Zarinsky had been accused and linked to many more crimes from as far back as 1958. That cop killing crime took more than 40 years to go to trial. He was found not guilty mainly because of the length of time was considered too long for Zarinsky to get a "fair" trial. The family of the slain policeman was able to successfully sue for money in civil court but the reward was overturned on appeal.

Zarinsky got his money back while he was in jail but sued to get some interest on what he lost, money he was in no position to spend. Yeah, what a douche.

Read the 15 part series that the Star Ledger published in 2007. Read how this scum got away with the killing of as many as 5 other young girls. He was to stand trial for one of them when he did.

Mark Levin's An Asshole (And A Little Bit Dumb)

There are many right wing talk show hosts out there. I listen to them occasionally to see if any of the messages they are spreading is sticking.

Well, two Republican talking points that have taken hold recently is there so called "solution" to the oil price crisis. Which is to say, we need to drill, drill, drill off shore in Florida and California. The oil companies say it's safe so of course we should do it. Never mind the fact that no one talks about going to the beaches of Texas because of all the off shore oil wells. We must drill, drill drill. It's safe it won't ruin the scenery.

The second talking point all the right wing minions are spreading is the need to go nookwular. After all, nuclear energy is non polluting, never mind all the storage space needed to store nuclear waste. It's cheap, if you ignore the amount of clean water needed to cool the uranium rods and the amount of money it takes to mine the uranium in the first place. It's safe, if you ignore 3-mile island, birth defects and increased targets for potential terrorist attacks. I'm skeptical of their point of view. After all, the right wingers don't want Iran and North Korea to mess around with nuclear power.

So, what does Mark Levin have to do with this? Well, he's one of the more nasty right wingers out there. Only Mike Weiner Savage is more repulsive sounding and sicker with his views. His voice is awful! How he got a job on radio with that voice, a voice good enough for silent movies. His rhetoric is that of a Joe McCarthyite. So anyway, He hates Barack Obama (natch) and thinks John McCain is too liberal. He loves Ronald Reagan because Reagan won the euphemistic Cold War by demanding the Berlin Wall be torn down. (Of course Levin supports the US BUILDING a wall between us and Mexico.)

Sooo, one night I'm flipping through the radio stations and I hear his show. Mark Levin's approach is to rant like a madman with inane histrionics. This night's rant went along the line of "Do we want to have an energy policy like the Communist Soviets or do we want to have an innovative strategy for dealing with our current crisis?" I flipped the station back to the Met game laughing at how absurd that rant was. I don't recall the Soviet Union being big on windmill power and solar panels. I seem to recall they WERE into nuclear and have a huge oil reserve they make use. Both of which has caused them endless environmental problems. That's because; like the right wing in THIS country, they favored an unregulated approach to their energy policies. If we want to be like the Soviets it's drill, drill, drill and split, split, split...the atom.

When I think of the Soviet Union I think of obnoxious corruption. They loved their vast military spending, their unquestioned devotion to their nation and their suppression of the press. Kinda like right wingers like Mark Levin.

Ben Stein Is An Asshole

Every once in awhile I like to put a spotlight on some right winger I feel is out of touch with the average American. This time I'm gonna shine it on financial whiz >snicker<,Ben Stein best known as the teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". He played the boring economics teacher who kept saying "Buuuuelller."


"Buuuuelller."


"Buuuuelller."

Comedy gold for sure. Like it or not that is going to be his legacy. He probably would like to be known for being a right wing (I mean, Conservative) pundit. However if he keep coming up with claptrap like this column, he won't even have a beloved legacy to fall back on.

Here's Ben Stein, an elitist who thinks everyone else should serve him as he sees fit because he's Ben Stein damn it.

This column linked features an outing he had, when he went to Barnes and Noble and got some unsatisfying service. Since he's Ben Stein damn it, he has a forum to write about his grievances that I will deconstruct in the following paragraphs.

Now for a few words that may give you some guidance on life as it is.

Here Ben Stein talks to his reader as though they have no clue on what real life is, he will help you out. So, in the very first sentence he condescends to us.

Last week, my pal Mike Long and I had dinner at a Thai place in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then we walked one long, steep block to Barnes & Noble so I could buy a few photo books of D.C. to send to my friends in California.

He sets the scene, he's in the elite section of Washington DC having a Thai meal, don't want anyone to think he'd settle for Chinese takeout.

He's Ben Stein Dammit!

He then mentions he walked, like a regular guy up a LONG, STEEP block to Barnes & Noble.

Woo! No pantywaist that Ben! No taxi for him.

He also mentions the store being empty because of hard rain. Yeah! Tough guy Ben Stein walks uphill in torrid rainfall to buy picture books for a friend in California.

I found several lovely books and brought them to the sales counter, where two young salesclerks, a man and a woman, were lounging.

He bought "lovely" books. How effete Ben. Lovely, you say?

He mentions that the two salesclerks were lounging. This displeases King Ben.

"Stand at attention you lazy louts! I wish to purchase lovely books, Dammit!"

But Ben doesn't just want to purchase the books he wants low paying employees at Barnes & Noble BookSELLERS to mail them. He wants them to >poof!<>

He wants them to go the extra mile Dammit!

The problem with going the extra mile is you end up in the wrong town.

The young clerks looked worried. "We don't know how to do that," one of them said.

"You don't ever send books?" I asked.

"Hey, we're students at George Washington University," the young woman said. "We don't know how to do much."

"But surely other customers have wanted to send books," I said.

They shrugged.

This exchange doesn't ring true to me. I don't doubt that they said they couldn't mail it, and if Ben Stein had used any of his brain he would have known that there is no infrastructure to do that in individual Barnes & Noble BookSELLERS stores. I would question his unawareness of something called the Internet but that would be a third act spoiler.

What doesn't ring true is the idea that students of George Washington University would say that they don't know how to do much. I think that's Ben Stein projecting. It's a typical right wingdig at anyone who goes to college these days are lazy liberals raised by hippies being taught by radicals to hate America.

Yawn! time to get a new playbook, Mr. Stein.

"Can you call over a manager?" I asked.

"Yes," the young woman said eagerly. Soon, a pretty young woman with short hair appeared.

Mr. Stein is pleased with the appearance of the comely appearance of the manager, maybe she will save the Ben from the incompetence of these peasants.

She was indeed the manager, but she didn't know how to send the books, either. In fact, even after I'd carefully spelled out all of the addresses, they couldn't figure out how to send anything.

Ooops! She can't.

Okay, Ben, here's the story. They don't have a delivery system to individuals available in corporate bookstores. That's not their function. Did you see the scale behind the counter to weigh the "lovely" picture books to determine how much extra they need to charge you for delivery?

What? You thought that there would not be any extra charge?

Oh Ben, Ben, Ben. Do you think that the free market means free handouts to minor celebrities?

Worse yet, just the effort "froze" the checkout computer such that it couldn't even let me buy the books to mail myself.

Uh Oh, technology fails Mr. Stein. My God, how will he get through this horrible day?

Now, bear in mind, this is in a time when people are supposedly suffering financially and need jobs.

Ahhh, now we're getting somewhere. People who make a pittance should appreciate the fact they even HAVE a job. This is a right wing tactic that ignores the fact it's the Neo-ConArtist agenda that gave us the struggling economy and the working structure of low wage slaves that are only trained to do minor tasks and discouraged from doing anything beyond their job title.

Trust me, I've worked the service industry.

I like the way he can take this experience and dismiss the possibility of anyone in this country suffering and needing jobs. Flyover country is foreign to Mr. Stein.

As Mike and I walked back to my apartment, I said, "That was amazing. Those people didn't know how to do a basic transaction like mailing books."

Again, Ben Stein ignores the function of the Book Seller. It's to sell books not mail them. Maybe the Pizza Delivery guy knows how to mow your lawn, but it's not his job to do so when he's delivering pizza. Especially if he doesn't have a lawn mower. A similar situation you find in a typical B&N bookSELLER store.

The fact that the clerks and manager never had requests to mail books should have tipped you off what an elitist pain in the ass you are.

"No," he corrected me, "they don't want to do it. They didn't even really try very hard. They're college students. That means they don't care at all. They're getting paid whether they send the books or not. They're like civil servants -- only civil servants have a good attitude, and these guys have a poor attitude."

"You're right," I said.

Okay, Mr. Stein probably hasn't made less than 7 dollars an hour since the late 60's. Times have changed. 7 dollars an hour is beyond poverty wages, especially in places like Georgetown.

Here's an old statement "You Get What You Pay For" If you pay someone 7 dollars an hour that's the kind of service you get and should expect. This is the legacy of your hero Ronald Reagan, to cut expenses to the bone so shares of stocks go up.

Students of GWU are most likely going to become lawyers. They are only working at the store during the school year. They are not making a career at the corporate bookstore. They will barely make enough to pay for books at the school even with the possible discount to pay for the textbooks that MAY be available. They realize they are being screwed so they will not go out of the way to please an elitist TV talking head. I love the fact that snobs who are a pain in the ass expect people to adjust their attitude because they have money. I doubt Ben Stein was tipping.

When I got home, I went online and in five minutes had ordered and shipped the books. No fuss, no muss. Not a good omen for Barnes & Noble.

I love it that it took this long for Mr. Stein to figure out the 21st century free market system. Barnes & Noble is a huge corporation that a few years after Amazon.com came out, started their own online delivery system. This has been the case for about a decade. The corporations have set up the online system as the main way of delivering goods. The old way of having individual stores delivering it is slow and inefficient so they all but got ride of it.

I can't speak for Georgetown but pretty much every B&N I've been to has computers at the store itself to deliver the books from distribution centers around the world closest to where a book needs to be delivered. This is the best of both worlds. you can go into a store, see if the book itself is of quality, then walk to the computer and have "Lovely" picture books mailed to California.

After that, I called information to get the telephone number for a luxury hotel in Chicago. The operator couldn't find the number -- I got it online, too. Then I called the hotel. The clerk at the front desk couldn't find my reservation. I retrieved it online.




Now He's moved on to another place where he didn't get a satisfying experience. He's calling information!

Information! Damn, what year does he think he's in.

Ben, the free market that you worship has determined that phones with operators are too expensive, So why in this century that your first instinct is to resort to mid 20th century techniques is beyond me.

Do your own work you lazy elitist!

He's some advice, if you made the reservation online, that's where you'll probably find it.

The next day in Chicago, I spoke to a gathering of physicians at a convention.

How much did DR. Stein get paid for that one speech? More than all the B&N employees combined get in a year, I bet. What a waste of good money that could go to lowering medical insurance costs.

After the speech, they told me that their No. 1 problem (after Medicare reimbursements) was finding workers who were actually willing to learn and work. "It's not a case of workers begging for jobs," said the man next to me at a post-speech lunch. "We're begging for qualified workers."

Here's the problem that the conservative economy has given us. No one wants to train workers to be good workers. They don't want to pay them a living wage to keep them and expect the people to worship them when they get hired.

There's a point to be gleaned from this, and my friend Mike made it well after our debacle at Barnes & Noble: "I wish every worker in America had to be a freelancer at selling or writing or painting or carpentry or computer repair or law or something for two years. I wish Americans could have a period in their lives when they only got paid for what they sold and produced. It would do this country world of good."

When you get to the point in your life where your BIGGEST problem is paying taxes and dealing with unsatisfactory service. Both Ben Stein and Mike Long have made their initial living working as speech writers for Republicans at taxpayers expense.

Many failed writers go this route because it pays well and gives them free time to pursue other interests. Since they are right wing, a lot of well funded think tanks give them handouts to propagate neocon agendas beyond their specific taxpayer supported duties.

This gives them enough money to jump into freelancing. Unlike the surly individuals who have to pay a lot more money for college ands rent than Mike and Ben had to in their salad days. They were able to make a freelance living because they already had name recognition and as long as they don't strand too far from the right wing agenda.

But I can't help about that talented actor, who decided to follow his muse and went to endless auditions with no success. He sees an opportunity to play a teacher in a John Hughs film.

What an opportunity! To be in a movie directed by the maker of hits like "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles" This will be the road to future success!

Not so fast Thespian! That role is going to go to a non actor with no training. His only credentials is that he was a speech writer for a criminal named Nixon.

Be gone!

Anyway, a far more honest scenario would be for Mike and Ben to work the service industry for two years and try to live off the low wages they pay you.

I always think that if they were to be in the service industry and had to deal with unreasonable customers and managers who yell at you for minor mistakes and to hear mind numbing platitudes from corporate.

Trust me, it's very deflating and humiliating, but even if one moves up in the world their is still a need for the service people like Ben Stein demands, so I think it's reasonable to be paid more and with it more responsibilities and more training.

There's another point here. First, it's true that we may well be in a recession. I didn't think it would happen, but a combination of Wall Street idiocy and greed, Federal Reserve tardiness and caution, and a deluge of fear dumped on consumers by the media may have done it.

Ben Stein is being paid as an economics expert. Good money, and yet he never saw the recession happen. In the real world that would get you fired. It got me fired.

As far all Wall Street idiocy and greed. This is standard Ring Wing Capitalism. When Wall Street is allowed to go about doing what they please this isn't a possibility, It's an inevitability. He championed every action that occurred. The ugly reality hit the American people first before the media got wind and Ben Stein (a paid member of the media) turns it around and blames the Media for getting the American people worked up. The media made you lose your house.

But even in a recession, there's always a shortage of talented, hardworking people in every field. Be one and, even if the recession gets really bad, you can whistle past the graveyard.

Lord knows there must be a lack of talented financial experts on TV to hire you Mr. Stein. And Hardworking? How hard was it to speak in monotone for five minutes. How much talent did it take for that movie role Ben? And somehow he was able to parlay that into commercials for Clear Eye and for Comcast twenty years later. Meanwhile talented , hardworking actors are forced to serve elitists like Mr. Stein in Thai restaurants.

You may have to move locations. You may have to learn new skills. But a willingness to work will get you everywhere you want to be.

A willingness to move? I love it when someone who's rich tells people who aren't, to just move for opportunities. Who's going to provide the money? How much money does he think a B&N employee gets that would be adequate to move to a new city? Does he expect us to load a truck like the Joad family?

Usually jobs are only available in expensive cities. Funny thing about expensive cities, they still have low paying crappy jobs. The landlord is not going to rent an apartment to someone moving to that city who doesn't make enough money.

And if you aren't willing to work, I don't see why those of us who are should bail you out.

I haven't been able to Google any pieces by Ben Stein where he condemns Bear Stearns for getting a bailout form the government. Mr. Stein, I hope the next president realizes that people in your salary bracket are not paying their fair share of taxes and that you will actually have to pay your fair share.

Willing to work for your money? Okay, it's time for those of us who WORK for our money to stop subsidizing those rich folks who make their money on capital gains.

Ben Stein, a man who, if you were to take his financial advice would leave you broke.

Larry Kudlow's An Asshole

I listen to talk radio when I am in my car. Satellite radio isn't good enough (Howard Stern Withstanding) to pay for, so I listen to AM radio. FM doesn't offer anything for me.

Anyway, when I don't listen to sports radio (When the Mets are losing) I tend to listen to right wing radio , which seems to be the only other options of talk radio. Left wing radio tends to be on weak signals. I listen to it on my computer though.

Anyway, there are different kinds of right wing hosts. There are the Bush Stooge types, The strident religious types, The "liberals are ruining America" ones, and ones like Larry Kudlow, ones that advocate the so called "free market libertarian" philosophy. Basically it's the "I got mine, fuck you, on yours" philosophy.

He's an Ayn Rand disciple. These are people who embraced the laissez-faire form of capitalism that was espoused in the book Atlas Shrugged, a work of fiction, and a book that perpetuates fraud.

The problem, of course is that was the very form of capitalism that sent us in the worst depression of our history. The people don't believe in taxes for the idle rich. They embrace the industrialists, the CEOs, the Wall Street types, which is fine but they feel that people who are born rich shouldn't pay a penny in taxes and that there shouldn't be any tax on any form of dividends, stocks and bonds.

So who is to pay for all the roads that transports the goods across the country to all the good consumers, the military that protects all their vast assets, the ports that bing in the goods? Why, you the working public of course!

Of course they want to eliminate minimum wage, and want the working class of the USA to compete with third world nations in pay.

They think we need to do this to invite competition, to keep costs low so they can increase their dividends. They have third or fourth homes to buy, cigars to smoke, and the press to control.

So, why does Larry Kudlow piss me off?

A caller called in his radio show, The caller foolishly thought he had kinship with Kudlow, when he talked about his fear of an expansion of trucking in the United States from Mexican truckers. The caller had the xenophobic view in which he worried he would lose his job to Mexican nationals who would be working as he put it for "$15 a day" with unsafe trucks on our US highways.

Now, I get tired of people using Mexicans as scapegoats. However, in challenging the caller's view, Kudlow didn't attack him for his xenophobia, he scoffed him for being afraid of "competition".

Competition?! With what? Poverty wages?!

The weird thing is that Kudlow and his three? guests went on mocking the caller saying that should we go back to the railroad to transport goods?

The canal system?

Should we go back to lugging products on our backs? That would create jobs!

Hahaha

I would go along with that thinking if the caller's job was being replaced by a robot that was more efficient and safer. But that was not the case. Innovations have been slow coming recently in the transportation of goods and the elimination of back breaking work that still needs to be done to provide humidors for Kudlow and co. The recent philosophy of the monied right wing has been to have people doing the same job or more work for less money.

That's not progress. Far from it.

If you were to truly take Kudlow's argument to the logical extreme, why not bring back slavery? Of course we would call it something else, call it an "opportunity" and with our new form of slavery, we don't even have to worry about feeding the workers or provide housing, heck, we can replace them through a temp agency when they aren't doing their job in increasing Larry Kudlow's portfolio's worth.

Don't think it will happen? I wouldn't be so sure.

What an asshole!