if you saw the face of god and love...would you change?

hey mama they got us livin' suicide...

the GOP has been absent from chicago politics for a long, long time. and they are now learning what chicago politics is all about. arizona sen. kyl, republican douchebag, is running his mouth about how they need to cancel the rest of the stimulus spending. so the administration, in good ol' fashioned chicago style, called his bluff. letters were sent to arizona's governor asking if the state would prefer the feds withhold stimulus funds per sen. kyl's wishes. finally...progressive hardball.

hey mama they got us livin' genocide...

why the hell is a fireman testifying at a confirmation hearing for a supreme court justice? is this what the process has come to? forget legal minds and colleagues...lets here from people with vendettas. this should be an opportunity to educate the public about the courts. this should be an opportunity to examine how the system is supposed to work (and in the process getting rid of the bullshit "activist judge" moniker). instead we are parading parties that lost on appeal because the appellate court agreed with the detailed ruling of the lower court. join the fucking line buddy.

you gave cash to the feds, left your school district for dead...

although that line is a hell of a lot shorter than the line developing for people that bush nominated appellate judges are fucking through "activist" tendencies, ignoring the law, their own rulings and the rulings of the supreme court if they think the guy probably did something to deserve it along the way. forty-five minutes worth of findings from the judge that heard all the evidence and lived with the case for 5 years? out the window.

still believin' the system is workin' while half my people are out of work...

the los angelos times does not think it is appropriate to "soak" the rich to pay for a healthy society. yea...having to fork over $50,000 a year if you make more than a million to ensure that people are not unnecessarily dying sounds like such a terrible thing. to put this in perspective...that's like asking the typical starting teacher in new mexico to pay an extra $1,500 bucks a year. and to put that further in perspective...ask yourself what kind of policy they would give you for $1,500 a year.

anonymous notes left in the pockets and coats of judges and juries from frisco to jersey...

and never mind that the tax rates they will enjoy will still be significantly less than it was in the post-war era during the largest, most egalitarian economic expansion in history. guess this is the result of white-washing history and never getting past WWII in the textbooks.

threats and protests, politician's mob debts...

sarah palin offered her view on energy policy in an op-ed in the washington post. it appeared just after she quit her job. she talked about how what they "know" up in alaska...the place she just quit on. as someone that used to at least have a modicum of respect for the republican party that is now utterly embarrassed at the horror show it has become...please keep talking ms. palin. maybe you could have some conversations with sen. kyl and sen. sessions on the record about how scary that black guy with the foreign sounding name is and how unbelievable it is that brown people don't all think alike.

trumped up charges with phoney arrests...

at a time when the supreme court is about to give corporations free reign in political campaigns it is important to note analysis conducted by larry bartels. in his numbers (and granted the studies he had to utilize indicate that his analysis is by no means fool-proof) he discovered that the wishes of low-income persons are literally ignored by republicans and democrats alike. but we just found video of michael jackson's hair on fire...so please continue about your day.

the CIA runnin' like their jones from indiana...

the CIA lies to people...including representatives. it is what they do. get used to it. stop feigning shock over it. end them or accept them. they are our jack nicholson at gitmo. they provide a glimpse in the mirror of how terrible we can be...but we much prefer to just go on about our days and not think about it. so either do something or don't. I am sick of this half-ass gamesmanship.

this ain't no cartoon, no one slips on bananas...

an officer actually filed suit to get an injunction so that he wouldn't have to go to war per his orders claiming that until he sees obama's birth certificate he does not consider obama a "natural born citizen." jesus. fucking. christ.

hell, I shot ronald reagan, I shot JFK, I slept with marilyn and she sung me happy birthday...

california may finally be nearing an end to handing out IOUs. and the governator is reminding everyone why the "tax cut" mantra is entirely boneheaded. at a time when they are needed most by more people than ever...he refuses to sign anything that may institute any tax raises whatsoever in order to close the gap. wish they would hold his balls to the fire and send him something that only taxes the uber-rich more. there is another wave of regular ass people blowback against the wealthy on the horizon...and the GOP is in for a stormy few decades.

politicians got lipstick on the collar, the whole media started to holler, but I don’t give a fuck who they screwin’ in private, I wanna know who they screwin’ in public...

ever notice that the majority of people whining about race are white men? its scary when your centuries-long death grip on everything is beginning to slip isn't it? look at how minority leaders (and by that I mean leaders that are minorities, not leaders of minorities) speak about race and compare it with how white male leaders talk about race. I mean seriously...white men from the south are now concerned about race injecting itself?

you tellin' the youth don't be so violent, then you drop bombs on every single continent...

at a time when "collateral damage" is used to describe civilian deaths I am called on to remember ronald reagan...the man who utterly abhored the idea of taking military action that would endanger civilian lives. the man who left lebonan when he discovered that this was just a bad idea. the "tough" guy that sat out of the conflict of his generation to make movies, who then made it a point to sit down and talk directly with the front man of the "evil empire" of his day.

mandatory minimum sentencin’ ‘cause he got caught with a pocket full of medicine,
do that again another ten up in the pen...

AIG is spending tax dollar money to pay rich people more more money. but again, please ignore this and go back to the video of michael jackson's flaming head. this doesn't concern you.

get so mad I want to bomb an institution...

roger simon brought up an interesting point about diversity on the supreme court...it is full of ivy-leaguers and sotomayor is just another to join the bunch in that regard. but simon's comments raise another question...what in the hell went wrong in this country that we became so hostile to education and intelligence? not that the ivy league is necessarily the bastion of intelligence it would like us to think. but seriously...there was a time when this nation looked up to learned people. now the "champions" that are "just like me" are morons that are proud of their inability to constructively think and mock those that are capable of complex thought processes. fuck me.

oh my god.