Nato No No ?

In a world of endless Oops, appearance is 99% of perception. The bigger the lie the harder the truth. We report on Libya, you decide.

Chicken Little

The 14 karat gold plated corporate media has decided we can not get enough of the economic pornography they have packaged so irresistibly for general consumption.

Propaganda mogul sports common man look. Literally millions of viewers weened on cable news can't seem to decide which story is most disturbingly stupid; the Debt Ceiling question looming overhead or Rupert Murdock loosing his grip as a media empire crumbles to the ground.

A clever expression of modern sensual British banality by wonder-guy Ron English.

Where is Waldo ! and where is our Dubya, the decider of war and debt. Where are those who got us into this trillion dollar mess. Bush is toast, Pelosi is out to pasture, and Boehner is hanging on by his lavender ascot. Notice the listless hands barely raised as if to suggest a hidden grudging contempt.

Take the millions and run. Clever graffiti focuses on the monopoly of insecurity as the wealthy and affluent scramble for cover from the guarantee of uncertainty that disaster capitalism delivers in the age of global shock doctrine.

Success is not an option. Republican Speaker is just talk as the Bonernator and the rest of his obstructionist party give us the finger.

Eighteen holes and a bottle of bubbly. Civility and refinement are at the core of the camaraderie among the elite political and media class. No matter their price of 'freedom', the multitude of manipulable folk will pay in blood and treasure.

While the militarization of the world mounts...

... the supple hands of the business class begrudgingly prepare for the worst.

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Happy Julio Quatro

With each observance of the Fourth of July , we echo historical myths in hollow scripted narratives. With each war for independence, truth becomes more obfuscated while folks get a little less agreeable.

One fine example of such fiasco is our nation's first war for some other's independence, the Spanish/American War of 1898. Free of British rule, America was no more than 100 years old when we decided it was time join the league of empires. Our navy was not so much strong as the Spanish were vulnerable to a hostile smack-down. A quick read of that conflict makes it clear that given dilutions of manifest destiny fueled by yellow journalism and the trigger of a false-flag, the conquest grab for foreign riches was totally do-able. The war netted the young U.S.A a treasure of territories: Caribbean's Cuba and Puerto Rico plus jewels of the pacific Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. Not bad for a new player in the imperial game of nation building. That war lasted a poultry 10 months compared to todays "endless" war.

While the "adults" take care of war business, we become ever more dependent on the spoils, complicit in the crimes and complacent with the abdication of humaneness. We cross our hearts and hope to not die.

Enough of ancient history. It's the Fourth 2011 and that means a round of imaginary golf for the victors and war profiteers...

Today, America's might is Ready to GO ! anywhere anytime in grand style of shock and awe, we are the world's cadillac of military power.

Our military budgetary be so bloated that even our civilian economic lips suckle super-glued to the goliath of war industry.

Shame that our national psyche is so very red, white and bruised from 200+ years calloused senseless wars.

The numbers of war are always mind-numbing....

save the 4th, forever Ours with sparklers and rockets.

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from russia w doubt

Consternation is the order of the day.

Welcome to Operation Odyssey Dawn.

another sputnik moment

Whining The Future

The 2011 SOTU speech last night began at 9:11 pm promptly. Our president GObama had plenty of intriguing words for those listening in this world. To interpret this historic oratory one must keep in mind that it was crafted by an army of speech writers simply pulling buzz-words out of their ashtrays for news junkies drinking games and for all those wolf blitzers on teevee and washington insiders to digest for hours ad-nauseum. Making sense of the circus is more a quick game of bingo on sleeping pills.

"Who would have imagined using airplanes to fly into buildings."

I have a dream... and a rocket.

Ancient history tells us that back in the 1950's while americans were watching Buck Rogers Comics, those crafty communist russians were busy sending space-junk into orbit. The first know creature to exit our atmosphere was a russian dog named Laika.

Rough Road Ahead

Laika didn't lika getting blasted off into space but the bitches and scooby-snacks he was promised were worth the risk.

2011 Freakathon USA

Soon the USA got all ballistic over the race to the stratosphere and our beloved president challenged us to the task of winning the future and inventing the Moon Walk.

ProtoTSA

First things first. We had to blast our creature into orbit and chose a clever spider monkey. No his name was not Curious George it was Abel. Needless to say it did not end well for Abel or Laika. But we did get allot of really interesting data.

Cutting n Spending

Space programs are not unlike other expenditures that promise untold riches then soon balloon into money pits. When the price tag far exceeds the spending power of the consumer who pays the piper? History is not kind to nations that put all their bombs in one basket.

Back in the USASR

The russians may have invented the first satellite but it does not take a rocket scientist to know that it is the USA that has the market cornered on space cadets. Perhaps Michele Bachman will volunteer to be the first to go on the Uranus Probe.

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Read n Weep

Here is a quote from Obama's speech at the eulogy in Arizona.

"I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here – they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us."

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a compendium of ill willers

"A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."

— Ronald Reagan




Dumbing Download Complete

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/florida-mosque-bombed-fbi-calls-help-nation

On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.





FlagWrap

... when you scratch the surface of their "small government" message, what you usually find is someone who doesn't like government because it is the institution which enforces the rights guaranteed under the constitution for people they despise.




by deviding it ? #$^&@

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10157270.stm

A teacher in the US state of Georgia has been suspended after allowing students to dress in mock Ku Klux Klan robes for a project.




MDX Success

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/no-latinos-no-tacos-flash_n_589258.html

Reactions to the "No Latinos no tacos" sign have been mixed.




photo credit: janet reno

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2010/04/none-dare-call-it-sedition.html

This is sedition in slow motion, a gradual corrosive undermining of the government's authority and capacity to run the country. And it's been at the core of their politics going all the way back to Goldwater.

This long assault has gone into overdrive since Obama's inauguration, as the rhetoric has ratcheted up from overheated to perfervid. We've reached the point where you can't go a week without hearing some prominent right wing leader calling for outright sedition -- an immediate and defiant populist uprising against some legitimate form of government authority.




armsagetsome

... values, identity and tribalism are necessary organizing principles and that means the right wing should be treated with the only respect you should grant anyone who sees you as their enemy: you take them seriously and do not underestimate their hostility toward you or their strength and commitment to their cause.




Ooops.

Seems the (crist) campaign forgot a little thing called “copyright”

http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2010/05/24/david-byrne-sues-charlie-crist-for-1-million/

1985 Talking Heads’ hit “Road to Nowhere” in a video posted on the Crist’s website


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bombs AND butter

Fatherland Insecurity

One night not long ago prompted by 40 years of conservative mossbackery and 9/11, Bush Jr created a giant new big gov bureaucracy that few cheer-leading ditto-heads complained about, we the others shrugged with disdain at the gal of a creeping authoritarian strain. Thanks W for the bombastic un-surance.



Motherland Security

Good moooooooorning America! Yesterday, prompted by 40 years of liberal endurance, Obama began a giant new big gov bureaucracy that few cheer-leading ditto-heads complain about. The others will also benefit from health care reform 2010. Social reform is the butter, a healthier populous is the jam.



Doctors Without Brokers

Now is the time to get ready to take care of sick people, professionally. There are jobs to be had in providing health care to millions of Americans who have fallen through the social safety net. What, we didn't have a safety net? Well we do now. Thanks Obama for making jobs.




Generational! bro

Here's to all the wee little people and the ugh old people who will now be better taken care of by the able bodied people. Thanks Obama for saving lives.



Affordable Apothecary

Gee, I feel much better now knowing that if I die, my health will be taken care of.
Thanks President Obama.

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Black Friday

Can you put a price-tag on consumerism? What do you really need now?

What's up with this "black friday" thing?

Is it some "establishment' thing that gets people to the mall?

Is it something Madison Avenue concocted to get people to the Mall?

has it got something to do with things "black" in America?
If so, then visit Jumel Terrace Books in Harlem for a healthy dose of Africana.

Otherwise, enjoy the shopping season that is upon us.

BTW I need new slippers a new electronic gadget and maybe a tatoo.

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july VI MDCCLXXVI

How America Works.

How does one begin to get inside the head of the lady in the harbor, our very own statue of bigotry?



Whose Got Your Back, Barack?

Is that a junior navy seal green beret training in the background while Oby and grampy enjoyed a frolic in Hawaii?



Super Bro to the Rescue!

Have a nice fourth of july 2009 and go ahead, blow some shit up!




Just don't point it in 'I'm a dinner jacket's direction.

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Holy Toledo First Lady

Fashion News Flash!
Michele Obama is Wearing Isabel Toledo.

Official Obama Fashion Cabinet Live Blogging the Parade of Dignitaries and Functionaries.

Isabel y Ruben Toledo are the Unshakably Cool and Caliente Eternal Style-Masters.

The Great Lesson of Fashion is Timing. Timing is Everything. People Are Listening.

Dear Cuban-American Friends, Together Till the Break of Dawn in the Tropics.

First Lady's First Signing Statement:
National ToledoStyle Day.

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