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Crash
Wednesday 08-27-2008 12:23pm PT
So,
the lost souls call themselves "PUMAs." Which, I've learned, means
"Party Unity My Ass." Wow. That's really cool. Has such a Middle
School, pre-teen flavor to it. "Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a
Dollar! All for Hillary, Stand up and Holler!" Ya-aaaaaay! (Shriek! Shriek! Scream! Scream! Jump up and down! Sob! Pull your hair!)
PUMAs,
huh? Disaffected female Democrats who feel Her Holiness didn't get
treated properly, respectfully, by the democratic process, right?
Borderline nut cases who would rather see, what? a process that
disregards the Primary selection system and chooses a presidential
nominee, how? by declaration? Hey, we can all agree the Primary process
sucks, but so does just about every aspect of our phony
system of "choosing" one of the two corporate-approved candidates every
election cycle. The PUMAs think only that part that denied their
candidate the nomination is fucked up? Please. C'mon, girls. Do
something constructive. Work to overthrow the entire system, not just the part that appears to have turned your estrogen into a tube of spackle compound. A clear example of the howling madness of the PUMAs (I have to chuckle - sneer? - every time I type that acronym) is evident here. The coagulated cable network White Guy, Chris Mathews - the Interrupter his own damn self - run over by (snark) a couple of PUMAs. Jesus, what crazed theatre! What sticky idiocy. And the crowd behind the PUMAs (snark), the "normal Democrats," chanting "OH-BAHM-UH, OH-BAHM-UH, OH-BAHM-UH . . ." I hope Michelle didn't let her girls see that bit of Party Unity, that example of "change we can believe in." So, tonight, then, at the Corporate Democratic Convention, comes the finale
of this bathos, this critical, moaning need for "catharsis,"
this ripping and rending of garments, sack-cloth and ashes, cries and
whispers; yes, tonight comes Senator Clinton's Call To Unity, sort of a
maudlin eine Partei, ein Präsident, ein Sieg. Can't wait. I will be glued to my tee-vee. I want to see Catharsis.
I want to witness yet another successful Karl Rove operation, this PUMA
psychodrama played out in front of the whole country, in Prime Time, on
all the networks, cable and broadcast. Wheeeeeeeeee . . . .!!! Unity? Okay, Hill, hit me with your best shot. I gotta see this. Lights down . . . then blue spotlight on . . . Ophelia: O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! Okay. She was referring to Hamlet, but you get the point, the poignancy, right? Oh,
yeah. One more little item before we wrap this all up and head out for
nuclear war with Russia, or a violent showdown with Iran, or a complete
collapse of what's left of our financial system, or just plain old
oblivion. Um . . . what about her old man? You know, Bill.
What sort of evil shit does he have packed away? What will the ex-Prez
do to seek revenge for the denial of the expiation of his sins? The
presidency was to be his gift to Hillary. Bill had a little scene all
planned . . . Dressed in his
favorite plaid smoking jacket, holding a glass of Remy Martin, leaning
against the door to their bedroom, he casually says, "See, Darlin'?
There ya' go. It's all over. I may have, you know, really been a bad
boy there a coupla' times, a real prick when you get right down on it,
you know, thrust when I shoulda' parried, but, hell, honey, looka what
I got for you! So, you think maybe, Sweetheart you can stop callin' me
a stupid fuckhead now? Huh? Watcha' think, Darlin'? You're gonna be the
President of The United States, fer crissakes. The leader of the Free
World! And, you're a woman! Show some mercy, okay?" Not to be. None of it. Good-bye, PUMAs. See ya', Bill. Mercy be damned. Catharsis my ass. The fun is just beginning! On to November!!! - MDM Lord of the Credit Cards
Wednesday 08-27-2008 12:22pm PT
He chose who? Joe BIDEN????? Why
aren't Progressives or Liberal Democrats or even "mainstream"
Democrats shrieking, rioting, setting themselves on fire, about this
insane choice? Was there any resistance in the Democratic Party (other
than among the Clinton True Believers; they wanted their "gal" in the
VP slot so they could experience, finally, catharsis) to this
selection? Any at all? Apparently not, and the absence of that
resistance is a fairly accurate gauge of the degree to which the
Democratic Party has died, passed away, evaporated in a steamy mist of
defeatist miasma. It is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate
America - like the Republican Party - only not yet as murderous, as
foul, as the other Corporate Owned Party. Not quite. Close, though. So,
wave the white flag, boys and girls; it's all over but the Benediction
as four days from now the delegates shuffle from the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field and
all the various gatherings sponsored and paid for by those Blessed
Corporate Souls such as AT&T, Comcast, General Motors, Microsoft,
Motorola and on and on and on . . . Okay. So, who's to argue with the DLC? It's their party, their presidential candidate, and their vice-presidential candidate. Pardon moi, theirs and Corporate America's. Which makes the selection of Joe Biden perfect. Nauseatingly, gaggingly, perfect. Who
remembers or cares about Biden's breathless cheer-leading (and vote)
for the passage of the (ha-ha) "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and
Consumer Protection Act of 2005?" Who cares about Biden's relentless
support of this ugly, anti-consumer act and the seemingly limitless
financial support Biden has received from the credit card behemoth MBNA
- now subsumed into the financial snake pit known as the Bank of
America? From Wikipedia:
MBNA
was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which
took 11 years and millions of dollars spent on lobbying before the act
was finally passed when 15 Democrats (all of whom had received campaign
contributions from MBNA, notably Joseph Biden, (D-DE) $147,700) joined
with their Republican colleagues to sign it into law.
MBNA
was one of the companies mentioned on a 2004 Frontline PBS special
about unfair business practices by credit card companies. Some industry
practices which MBNA possibly engaged in previously included doubling
or tripling of interest rates, shifting billing due dates/payment
cycles monthly, and raising rates for customers whose payments were a
day or two late which earned it the sobriquet, Misrepresentation Bank
of North America . . .
It is a well known
banking industry fact that after the MBNA / Bank of America deal of
January 1, 2006, a number of MBNA execs were booted off the BofA board
of directors due to their fears that their unethical practices could
result in criminal charges against them under a number of statutes
including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (For a thorough understanding of this legislation, Hunter, a diarist at Daily Kos nailed it two-plus years ago. Go here).
Oh,
my. "Criminal charges . . ." And, Biden right in there with the scum.
Glomming up the money, shuffling back and forth on the train nightly
(so we are now told) between D.C. and Delaware like a ghost, a lost
soul . . . sigh . . . alone with the darkness, and the passing lights
of small town America whizzing past . . . time to reflect on the damage
about to be done to what was left of working-class America as a result
of his support for this vile bill . . . or not reflecting . . . who
really knows? . . . and this filthy piece of legislation, yet another
bullet-proof slab of Corporate Protection at the expense of real people
. . . oh, well . . . sigh . . .
So . . . now?
Well, now Senator Biden is the Vice Presidential Nominee of the
Democratic Party! The running mate of our Great Agent of Change, Barack
Obama!!! And we should be - we must be - happy! We have a
Winning Team! A New Dawn is coming! Vote Democratic! Vote Obama/Biden!
Vote for Change!!!! Blessed Change!
And, there's
so much more about Senator Biden's legislative efforts that brings
smiles to the faces of the Blessed Corporate Overlords who have funded
so much of the Democratic Party, who have written check after check,
sometimes even more (gasp!) than to Republicans, who now can
relax, don't worry, it's been handled, all is okay, we're home free,
Bush is on the way out, the new "Bush" is in the wings. Obama/Biden! A
vote for change! Change We Can Believe In!!!!!!
God Bless Us, Everyone!
- MDM
Stormy Friday
Wednesday 08-27-2008 12:21pm PT
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." -Mark Twain
Thursday 08-21-2008 3:03pm PT
Well,
now we know. Thank goodness, too. For the past seven years it's just
been driving me crazy. How in the world did WTC number 7 manage to
collapse if it was not hit by anything during the 9/11 attack and no
explosives were set deliberately. Sheesh, what a mystery . . . Well, a report by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
in suburban Washington was released today and the cause was . . . a
fire 400 feet away. Yeah. There you go. A fire up the street a ways.
Got it. Wow. So simple. How'd I miss it? I'm embarrassed. According to
the New York Times
today " . . . investigators determined that debris from the falling
twin towers ignited fires on at least 10 floors at 7 World Trade
Center, which was about 400 feet north of where the city’s two tallest
buildings once stood. The blazes burned out of control for six hours,
as the city fire department, devastated by the collapse of the twin
towers, abandoned its efforts to extinguish the fire, and the sprinkler
system was incapacitated."
The report continues:
"The heat from these fires, the investigators said, caused the beams on
the lower floors of the east side of the tower to expand, ultimately
causing a girder on the 13th floor to disconnect from a critical
interior column that supported the building’s long floor spans. Once
the 13th floor gave way, a cascade of floor failures started down to
the fifth floor, leading to the overall collapse of the tower."
All
righty, then. Case closed. Turns out the whole shebang is exactly what
our Dear Leaders have been telling us all along. Whew . . . what a
relief, too. Impossible to imagine that our Dear Leaders would, well,
you know, make shit up. Try to confuse us. And, anyway, ya' gotta ask
yourself, why in the world would they do that??
So,
all you conspiracy theorists, time to move on. Nothin' to see here.
Let's go. Keep the traffic moving. C'mon. Don't make me say it again.
Head 'em up and move 'em out.
What
else ya' got? Obama picked his running mate yet? Boy, the Chinese are
sure kickin' our asses in the gold medal department, right? Hey, did
you hear what that crazy old coot Lieberman said today . . .?
- MDM
West Nile Virus
Thursday 08-21-2008 3:02pm PT
Oh,
no! The voters (okay, the poll respondents) are showing their
monumental stupidity yet again. Only, this time, one can hope, it's for
real. The wire service screams it out: "McCain Takes Lead Over Obama!! In
a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on
Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a
stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll
released on Wednesday. McCain
leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent,
wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first
lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll."
Right? Okay, that's just the way it should be. Of course these
poll freaks are nuts. Of course America's "dumb-ass" factor is
completely red-lined. But, yep, that's the way it should be. Roll on,
dumb-asses! Bring on McCain! Do it! Really! Do it! Put this idiot in
the presidency! Give it to him!
And, now, gentle reader, wide
awake member of the audience of the Malloy Program, now you understand
what I've been saying when I advocate letting McCrazy have the
presidency. This country is chock-a-block with political zombies,
dumb-asses, and the only thing that will ever get their attention is a
complete, total, utter, ugly, reverberating, massive COLLAPSE
of every single institution in this society. All of it has to fall to
pieces before the dumb-asses get it. Everything. Education, the
economy, the infrastructure, the military, health and safety,
international relations, the environment, everything, every damn thing.
Banging down in a huge smelly pile of chaos and destruction. BOOM!
Maybe
then (maybe not) we'll wake up and realize what was stolen from us and
how - maybe - to get it back. So, you go, John McCain!!!! Go, old man!
Roll, Tide! Down with Freedom! Up with Fascism! Yee-haw! Yee-goddamn-haw!!!!!!!!
Vote Republican, you dumb-asses! Vote Republican!!!!!!!!!!
- MDM
Tuesday Afternoon
Wednesday 08-20-2008 12:34pm PT
The song, not the time of day and day of the week. Justin Hayward wrote it, what? forty years ago? Oh, my.
Tuesday . . . . afternoon,
I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way
It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away.
Something, calls to me,
The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why
Those gentle voices I hear, explain it all with a sigh.
I'm looking at myself reflections of my mind,
It's just the kind of day to leave myself behind.
So gently swaying through the fairyland of love,
If you'll just come with me you'll see the beauty of
Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon . . .
I thought of those lyrics when I checked out this morning's headlines. Quick advice: Don't check out this morning's headlines. Anyway, join me tonight - Tuesday evening - because it's just the kind of day to leave myself behind.
Cryptic enough?
See you tonight.
- MDM Home Again, Home Again Jiggedy-jig
Wednesday 08-20-2008 12:34pm PT
Hey,
Truthseekers, we're back from the Pacific Northwest and live tonight at
the usual time. The forum in Seattle was an absolute hoot! I love
Seattle! Thanks to so many people who made the gig a wild success. But
. . . now back to grim reality. And that includes our topics tonight:
the nonsense that occurred at Rick Warren's mega-church; the ongoing
refusal of the Russians to pretend they're Serbians or Iraqis; the
continuing creepiness of the McCain campaign; and yet more
disappointment for those who honestly thought Obama was a Liberal
Democrat . . . like me.
So, tune in, turn on (oh, wait; that was
the hempfest in Seattle last Saturday . . . oops . . .) and realize how
much fun we still can have before we all die. Even without winning eight Olympic gold medals.
-MDM Thursday Headlines
Friday 08-15-2008 10:09am PT
The Shoe Lady Speaks
Wednesday 08-13-2008 10:43am PT
Pop
quiz: Who is the most worthless member of George W. Bush's cabinet?
BZZZZZZZZZZ!!! Time's up. If you said Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, you win the smoked turkey. Remember
Bush's racist, off-hand remark about "his" two African-American cabinet
level appointees, then- Secretary of State Colin Powell and
then-National Security Advisor Rice? Asked obliquely about his
commitment to race neutrality in nominating advisors and cabinet
members, Bush said, yeah, whenever he's asked that he just points to
Colin Powell and Condi. Whew! And he got a pass on that. Fact is,
Bush's statement - while carefully scripted - shows not only his
absolute racism, but also the degree of "tokenism" Rice and Powell
accepted with their appointments. Since
the beginning of this corrupt administration, matters of U.S. foreign
policy - matters of State - have been devised, managed, and implemented
by Dick Cheney and his hand-picked cadre of war criminals and killers.
That group of thugs has included I. Lewis Libby, David Addington, John
Hannah, David Wurmser, Samantha Ravitch, Abram Shulsky, Donald
Rumsfeld, John Bolton - the list is a veritable rogue's gallery of
sociopaths, warmongers and Likudniks. Not
a single U.S. foreign policy decision or program has been initiated by
Rice. Her tenure as Security Advisor and Secretary of State has been a
sad joke if not for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have
been bombed, burned, killed, and forced to become refugees as a result
of her vacuous ineptitude and monumental superfluity. Rice
is a poser, a designated diversion from the evil being engineered by
Cheney and his gang; a stylish, arrogant, unruffled failure who seems
to have an attitude that merges Nero's and that of Marie Antoinette.
The planet burns; Rice buys shoes. The list of those countries whose
leaders no longer trust or respect the U.S. grows daily; Rice takes a
trip. Violence and death flares and explodes in the Middle East; Rice
drops in to have tea with Ehud Olmert. The world's leaders - especially
those in the Middle East - see her as completely useless in
any situation that begs for deliberation, hope, ideas, a solution. She
is seen as a joke, a manque, window dressing in Bush's corruption. Prior
to her appointment as Bush The Younger's National Security Advisor (her
most notable accomplishment in that capacity was her complete failure
to act on the PDB of August, 6, 2001) Rice had served Bush The Elder as
his Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor during the political
breakup of the Soviet Union. She often has been touted as an expert on
Russian (Soviet) Affairs, although any evidence of that expertise is
ephemeral at best - nonexistent at worst. (Quick! See what you can find
regarding Rice's usefulness - to the U.S. or to the Russians - during
that period of Soviet contraction and dissolution in the late 1980s and
early 1990s.) Which
brings us to the current Russian crisis. The hot war now raging between
Russia and the Republic of Georgia is yet another indicator of both
Rice's uselessness and the ongoing global chaos perpetrated by the
Cheney Cabal. His acid fingerprints are all over this destructive
confrontation. This is a crisis years in the making, with a bloody
explosion so inevitable it could have been predicted by even the most
inexperienced U.S. foreign service employee. The damage done, Rice is
now hustled onstage to declare her usual rhetorical nonsense when an
utter catastrophe such as this one explodes with no evident
foreknowledge or contingent planning on the part of the U.S. (Except,
of course, our clandestine actions as the behind-the-scenes instigator.
That, after all - national convulsions, civil disruptions, war - is
what has given Dick Cheney such a hideous and deserved reputation and
yet another example of what qualifies him as a future defendant before
an international war crimes tribunal.) The Reuters News Agency reports: U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday urged Russia and Georgia
to end hostilities, saying progress apparently had been made toward a
cease fire but it was important that all parties stop fighting. "I
believe that they believe that they have made some progress and we
welcome that and we certainly welcome the EU mediation," Rice told
reporters at the White House after briefing President George W. Bush on
French-led European Union efforts to mediate with Russia.
"It is
very important now that all parties cease fire," Rice said. "The
Georgians have agreed to a cease fire. The Russians need to stop their
military operations as they have apparently said that they will. But
those military operations really do now need to stop. "Rice said the
United States supported Georgia's elected government. "I want to make
very clear that the United States stands for the territorial integrity
of Georgia, for the sovereignty of Georgia, that we support its
democratically elected government and its people," she said. This
is declaratory nonsense. Gibberish. Utter bullshit spoken by a shill
for the most warlike and corrupt regime in U.S. history. As a result of her inability to provide effective leadership - any
leadership for that matter - Rice should resign immediately. And the
duties of the Secretary of State? They have been Dick Cheney's since
the beginning of this horrific period of U.S. political history - the
Administration of George W. Bush. Let's stop pretending its otherwise. - MDM Dread
Tuesday 08-12-2008 10:03am PT
Starting
to feel those little drumming fingers of panic? Yeah, me, too. U.S.Navy
moving more hardware into the Persian Gulf; Russia and Georgia on the
cusp of total war; Pakistan ready for a complete political meltdown;
Afghanistan and Iraq the scenes of more killing and chaos; McCain
trying so hard to "act" presidential and able to demonstrate his
foreign policy expertise; so . . . what are we going to do about all
this madness?? We're going to get together tonight on the program and
laugh at all of it. Right?
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