April 29, 2014

If the 2016 election is Bush/Clinton

Standard Disclaimer: If Hillary wins the primary and becomes the Democrat's nominee, I will vote for her. The experiment with third parties in 2000 was a disaster that is still oozing blood from our sides, and I know we cannot allow ANY GOP to have the White House again, even if the right wing sings hymns of hate for Bush.

However, let's go ahead and see what a Bush/Clinton election really means:

For one, it is nostalgia, which is the sign of someone looking back to a time that never was, in the hopes of filling an empty present and dead future. We will be saying, to the whole world, that America cannot and will not come up with any new ideas. Yes,Hillary would be female, and Obama was a black man, yet we know that they will both be "friends" with the John McCains that will call for their execution five minutes after eating Lobster with them.

Neither Jeb nor Hillary threaten the power structure, indeed, both of them will spend half their time showing "I am not realty like those people in my party, I am a centrist uniter!" Indeed, as much as I love the idea of the moonbats fighting the bushes, I know that none are fighting for a return even to the FDR days, but that both will brag about how many hippies they can punch.

For two: Neither is against war. The minute the Zionists get themselves in hot water again, both will offer to send all the aid they can, because it is America's job to support Israel. I have no love for the other side of Jerusalem, but as long as Israel knows they can always demand help, we will be on war footing.

Three: neither of them love social spending. Bill Clinton got his fame as the person that seemed to hate welfare spending as much as the GOP did. If Hillary is different, she can show it, but she does NOT. Both of them love "education reform" which is bullshit speak for "hate teachers." Both love to demonize leftist figures.

Four: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/wall-street-republicans-hillary-clinton-2016-106070.html

translated...wall street know it has nothing to fear from democracy.

April 12, 2014

OK,time to get real

Now, everyone here knows I do not like Hillary. If she is the nominee, i willhold my nose and vote for her.

However, this is not just a cute joke, it is outright wicked.

What this is saying is that security is so lax that any nutcase can get close enough to shoot someone, and it is not always funny how this never happens to the rich GOP types?

Yeah, say I am wearing a tinfoil hat,but it is not funny that this happens right when Hillary is running? Can this be a scare tactic?

You know if this women used a gun and shot Hillary, there would be oceans of champagne, from Rush Limbaugh to church picnics.

April 12, 2014

RE :Read Nirvana's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-nirvanas-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-acceptance-speech-20140411

Now, Musician politics blur a lot, especially with artists like REM that are VERY political. Nirvana is also the first Gen X band to get inducted into the Hall of Fame.

So why am I as a Gen Xer ready to puke? Because for all the beauty in the speech, there are a lot of lies I cannot sanctify:

"Nirvana defined a moment, a movement for outsiders: for the fags; for the fat girls; for the broken toys; the shy nerds; the Goth kids from Tennessee and Kentucky; for the rockers and the awkward; for the fed-up; the too-smart kids and the bullied. We were a community, a generation — in Nirvana’s case, several generations — in the echo chamber of that collective howl, and Allen Ginsberg would have been very proud, here."

NO...

Yes, a lot of those ugly kids (I was and still am one of them) who were ran over by Boomers did think it was nice to see one of our own on MTV. Nirvana were not the best Political band of our generation (Pearl Jam and REM fit that mold) the most dark (Alice in Chains) most talented (Soundgarden) or even the most controversial (Hole gets that honor as Courtney even made Madonna freak out.) But they were the first that MTV felt they could allow on, and yes, it made a difference.

But the difference was that now MTV could dull any musical genre, or at least find a way to misdirect people from the stuff that was revolutionary. They were not the coffeehouse where people played guitars and recited poems, they were the starbucks that made money pretending to be that. I do not blame the band for this, indeed, Kurt was unhappy enough to kill himself, which is the second reason I cannot endorse this.

In his suicide note, Kurt felt he had to kill himself because this rockstar myth drove him nuts. Kurt, we never thought you were having "one hundred percent fun", so why did you have to kill yourself over that? Your death reinforced the same stupid myth that the damned Boomers did, the idea of the young artist that crashes and burns too young, ala Syd barrett , Jimi Hendrix, etc. We wanted you to be the 40 year old guy Kurt, the guy that still shat and spat on the myths, even as other artists tried to make money off of them. The guy that borught home that most of what the media sells is a joke, especially when they feel something has been safe enough to be given an award, which is only given to those who have become harmless!

And speaking of harmless fools, the last thing I want to see is the image of Kurt and Courtney basking in the glory of Kurt's corpse, and the MONEY. Part of the reason Kurt is dead is that you two were too busy planning the post Nirvana future to bother making sure Kurt got the actual CARE he needed. Troubled artist, how about someone who needed help and was abandoned by his friends and family?

April 2, 2014

what the Supreme Court's latest decision reveals about voting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=770566

Whenever people say "why vote Democratic?" I will point them to decisions like this and Citizen's United. Yes, Elections DO matter, and yes, even if the prospects that Democrats offer for 2016 make me sick, I know that we NEED to get some appointments on that hopeful day when Clarence Thomas or Tony gets that heart attack. The court is packed with young lions on the conservative side, and old, sick justices on ours. You know the GOP is just waiting for one more of the liberals on the Court to die, or to be shot by some "lone gunman that has nothing to do with the right wing, despire having a library of right wing literature, etc."

And when I hear some mealy mouth talk about Sotomayor or Kagan as if they were conservatives, I will have a double laugh. Those two have been a major force in keeping Tony from going completely ape. All the Gay marriages that have happened happened in part because Sotomayor and Kagan held the line.