Let Fly

The prize for Scary-Freaky Zealotry today goes to the commenters at the DumFux News website.

A few samples from the comments section on the post regarding the "poetry event" at the White House, featuring a rapper called Common (via: Little Green Footballs).

nativeson1 6 minutes ago in reply to nickthecat

DONT RE-NIG IN 2012 !

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elsargento 6 minutes ago in reply to idahojon

HOW TO WINK AT A N I 6 6 E R. HOLD YOUR WEAPON OUT STRAIGHT AND CLOSE ONE EYE. NUFF SAID.

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paintaz Just now

Another classless move, from a classless president………….they will be bustin out some fortys !

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contributorj Just now

i wonder if moochelle will sneak off and perform a common bj…..

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kingtiger44 Just now

All in attendence will recieve a white lawn jockey statue, and a coupon for KFC.

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kingtiger44 18 minutes ago

Animal Control responded after a report of loose porch monkey’s.

Sometimes, it's all just a fucking circus.

Today's Inspirational Messages

New From Pew

Let's put this in front of Congress and see where the real power is.

Oops

Who do I talk to about a refund?

We Are So Fucked

Back to a once-familiar theme of this blog from about a year ago: bend over and grease up, America.

Daily Censored (by Michael Collins):

Official unemployment is around 9%. That excludes the marginally employed and under employed. Adding those two groups takes unemployment up to 15.9%. Add the long-term unemployed and the figure climbs to nearly 23%.

When you have 23% real unemployment/underemployment among those willing and able to work, you have budget deficits at every level of government. Businesses fail or slow down. Governments reduce or eliminate services. People lose their homes and health insurance. Credit ratings dive, making it more expensive or impossible to borrow for any reason, including emergencies. The unemployed contribute much less to the economy, which shrinks substantially, leading to more under or unemployment. There future darkens. All that’s left is hope, a commodity of little use today.

If you’re part of the financial elite in crowd, you don’t need hope. You’re about to get another big payday. Much lower taxes and relaxed regulation of foreign exchange derivatives are on the way.

Wow

Brings a whole meaning to the phrase "holy crap".
(hat tip to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

A Prediction

Red State Update

A Terrible Secret

In the very short time she served as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin's single greatest achievement was...wait for it...raising taxes!  There's a fair probability that it wasn't actually her idea - more often than not, it's the staffers who come up with these things - but she pushed hard for a program of taxing oil company profits in order to give Alaskans a share of their state's great mineral wealth.  And she did it by going out of her way to get the Dems to support her efforts.

via Joshua Green:

...she managed to solve, at least for a time, the problem that lay at the heart of Alaska's politics for a generation: how to break the oil companies' grip on the state and capture a fair share of their profits for Alaskans. Palin's major achievement was winning an oil tax that did just that and was called Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share (ACES).

Shocking, ain't it?

And here's where politics is so fucking weird that I just have to love it in all its perverse glory:  no politician is going to talk about it out in the open.  Obama can't point at it as a good example of appropriate regulation because then he has to give props to Palin for getting it done.  And Palin sure as hell can't talk about it because it directly contradicts the party-line dogma about government interference.

But the main thing is the same ol' crap that talking about taxation is considered political poison.  There's a program in place that fills the coffers of a (very red) state government, while not hindering the profitability of Big Oil, but it seems nobody anywhere else is allowed to make any serious effort at getting hugely profitable corporations off the dole, much less getting them just to pay the taxes they already owe.  This is just too weird.