Meet the elites

I was wondering something. Some Hillary supporters cry that Sen. Obama isn't connecting with "working class" folks. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure that most of the folks in this photo look working class to me.But there's just too many people in this photo from Sen. Obama's recent Oregon trip for me to tell who is and who isn't "working class." But I can tell one thing from the picture, it looks like most of that crowd is white and they look pretty damn excited and energized about a black man becoming President of this country.
Somehow I doubt that everyone in that crowd is an elitist who is only voting for Obama because they hate women.

Yeah, that's a bright idea all right

I keep hearing that the company of mercenaries, Blackwater, wants to start doing private intelligence gathering for our federal government and I can't help but think that it's the worst idea ever to let private companies do all your intelligence gathering.

Just think about the shitty jobs the CIA, NSA, and FBI did in the run up to 9/11, do you really want more of our tax dollars going to a company run by right wing Republican Amway nutjobs? Imagine if you can that company A, let's call them Blackwater, and company B, let's call them Halliburton are locked into a fight to be allowed to gather intelligence for an administration like the current one we got. Now wouldn't it be in their interest to make shit up out of whole cloth just so they can be seen as real go getters who can produce actionable intelligence just so they can secure a contract and collect some of that government gravy money? Company A makes up something, Company B makes up something, and the real truth is nowhere to be found because the companies just make shit up to keep getting money.

And what if the intelligence put forth by the companies is wrong? What if we go to war based on some faulty intelligence they gather or make up? Who is liable? The current war of terror has shown that Blackwater is accountable to no one. They kill, torture, maim, and terrorize Iraqi's, Afghans, and people in this country whenever they feel like it and they are not accountable under our law or Iraqi and Afghani law.

Privatizing national intelligence is just another bad idea in a long line of bad privatizing ideas. We the people have suffered since Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush Jr. began privatizing essential governmental services. They just can't help themselves, when private companies take over enterprises that used to be run by the federal government they get greedy and they let their mania for profit degrade whatever they take over. When Reagan bitched and moaned and said that government wasn't the solution and that it in fact was the problem, what he meant was that his pals in big business wanted to make more money off the government and spending on social programs had to be curbed so that they could free up that money so that it could go into corporate pockets.

Privatizing intelligence gathering is about as smart as invading Iraq in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. I for one don't want a government run by private companies, I want a govrenment that is run by the people for the people. I want my federal government to be run the way the founding fathers intended, with checks and balances and by the people, not corporate America. I know my idea is far fetched and in this day and age it may even be dangerous. Who knows, what with all the radical stuff I write on this blog I'm probably on the list of Americans they'll round up when they declare martial law.

The Silver Fox Strikes Again!

She struck another blow for free and fair elections today. Way to go Kathleen!

Name that film!

No one correctly guessed that the last 'Name that film!' movie was Blood Wedding. Perhaps the choice of a Spanish flamenco film was a bit of an esoteric way to start off my running contest, so to correct that here's a film still from a more popular film.
Correctly identify this film and you could win a vintage postcard from yours truly. Send all entries to monkeymuckATgmailDOTcom. In the case of multiple correct guesses I will draw one name from all those who got the name of the film right.

Monday Morning Denouncing Coming Down

The only minister to endorse me, Rev. John Shuck, sure as hell made it hard for me to denounce him. After all he's progressive as the day is long, he is further left than me on certain issues, he believes in gay marriage, he attends anti war rallies and protests, he believes in evolution, he started a PFLAG chapter here in the Tri Cities area, and he constantly makes fun of right wing religious nut bags who have sticks up their asses. So you can see why I was having a hard time finding a reason to denounce this perfectly progressive minister. Until last Friday that is.

The dastardly dude refused to attend a get together at his current church secretary's house, and no he does not have a new church secretary because the old one left under a cloud of sexual harassment and it's important that you all know that his old church secretary did not chase him around the church until she caught him by the organ (wink wink, nudge nudge). The get together was in honor of the birthday of the husband of his new church secretary. Sure he spends a lot of time with his secretary, a gal by the name of Snad who happens to be my real life friend and an erstwhile commenter on this blog, and yes he probably sees her husband John, the guy who's birthday we celebrated, a lot too but that's no excuse for blowing off the party.

Oh sure he'll claim he had some "ministering" to do somewhere but I know he was probably at home making new Farting Preacher videos or watching and contributing money to the latest Benny Hinn crusade. The party and Snad and John's place was the perfect place to try to convert Sparky and I, but Shuck shirked his duty by not attending and converting us. He let us remain the godless atheists we are. We'll be sure and curse him as we get anally raped by the hoary minions of Satan for all eternity. It's on your head if we go to hell when we die Mr. Shuck, you had your chance but you blew it.

But just so we understand each other here, I'm only denouncing you, I'm not rebuking or repudiating you. And I most certainly am not rebounding, resounding, revolving, revolting, reupholstering, or sugar coating you. And I may even be persuaded to retract my denouncement of you if you see fit to grease my sweaty little monkey paw with some cold hard cash. I'm just saying, that's all.

Takin' care of tag business

Splotchy got me the other day with his story virus and Liberality also got me with the same tag.

First Splotchy's tag:

I had been shuffling around the house for a few hours and already felt tired. The doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw a figure striding away from the house, quickly and purposefully. I looked down and saw a bulky envelope. I picked it up. The handwriting was smudged and cramped, and I could only make out a few words.

And they were in some kind of Slavic script so I did what any gal with a bulky smudged envelope who was tired as hell would do, I tossed the envelope in the car and I drove off to see Kosovo Butch at his barber shop.

When KB saw the handwriting on the envelope he started to shake and swear in Albanian. He told me to make sure I had my affairs in order because some bad juju was about to break loose in our lives.

Looking back on everything I wish I had listened to him instead of laughing his warning off.

Now Liberality's tag:

I had been shuffling around the house for a few hours and already felt tired. The doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw a figure striding away from the house, quickly and purposefully. I looked down and saw a bulky envelope. I picked it up. The handwriting was smudged and cramped, and I could only make out a few words. (Splotchy)

"Meet me at two o'clock at Grisham Square. Don't be late!"What? I already had an appointment at that time. In fact, that was the only reason I had even taken off work that Wednesday. But, when I saw the photos, I knew I had to go and see what the hell was going on. Oh gosh, now I wish I hadn't, but how was I to know then that Elizabeth would take this whole thing so far? (Freida Bee)

She had exposed the nefarious Republican oil-for-neckties program, skillfully dismantling its diabolically brilliant mind control scheme, giving each man, woman and child his or her freewill back, and this had made her a national, nay, worldwide, heroine, but -- the fear -- the look of stark, otherworldly terror on the -- could they even be classified as faces anymore?No, I had to swallow the overwhelming dread that was threatening to force me into complete shutdown, collapsing on the hallowed ground where I would silently, naively wish it all away until it came for -- me. Fruitlessly wiping away a flood of icy sweat, I knew I had to steel my resolve, look upon those photos once more and let them burn their horrific images in my psyche. Permanently. (Randal Graves)

Yet something was tickling my psyche, trying to work it's way to the surface of my consciousness like that bad memory for grade school I buried long ago. The one where I had to give a speech to the whole class and was trying to imagine them in their underwear so I wouldn't be nervous, when I suddenly realized I was the one who was in my underwear as I had forgotten to wear pants. I realized that the faces in the picture weren't faces after all. I was holding the picture upside down. (Dean Wormer)

I smacked the pictures with the back of my hand and put the envelope with the photos down upon the hall table by my door. Suddenly my mind swung into gear, who had that been knocking on my door? The figure looked vaguely familiar as I racked my brains to come up with something--the something that continued to tickle my psyche. It had to do with the necktie program perhaps or maybe the restaurant where Elizabeth and I often ate and sat and talked of old times. What was it? Had that been Elizabeth, wearing a trench coat and hat? I laughed out loud, delighted that I had part of the puzzle figured out. We often made up the most bizarre stories to entertain each other as the necktie program would attest. And we often met at the restaurant on Grisham Square. I picked up the photos again and laughed long and loud. Photoshopped obviously. It would amuse her no end to know how scared and, indeed, horrified I had been, if only briefly. That girl was one hell of a prankster. (Liberality)

And I knew just how to get her back.  I went to her work place later that day and I snipped the brake lines on her car.  As I did it I thought to myself, "That'll teach her to scare the shit out of me!"

I tag Enriched Geranium, MNMom, and my lovely and talented running mate Kristi Love.  You tagees have the choice of continuing either strain of the story virus that I have left you with.

So funny we forgot to laugh

Mike Huckabee did it again. He forgot that everything he says at any public event might be videotaped and recorded for posterity. While appearing at the NRA convention he "joked" that the sound of a chair dropping was the sound of Obama hitting the deck because someone pointed a gun at him.

He has since publicly apologized but his comment begs the question, does he really think that the idea of Presidential candidates, especially black Presidential candidates, getting shot is funny? Or is it just the idea of a black man cowering in fear of being shot is funny to the former Governor of Arkansas, a state that was no model or leader in the movement to desegregate the south in the 1950's and '60's? Or could it be the case that Huckabee thinks that Obama is an uppity black boy who needs to be put back in his place?

"Segregation now, segregation forever! All them uppity Negroes needs to be shot at! I'm Mike Huckabee and I approved this message to the NRA!"

Really though, this kind of backwards bullshit from Huckabee shouldn't surprise us. After all he is the man who says he does not believe in evolution, that women should be subservient to their husbands in all matters (including one presumes in all matter gynecological too), and that the US Constitution should be changed to reflect his interpretation of "God's will."

Imagine what a Huckabee led America would be like:

• whites, especially whites in the elite monied class, would be allowed to point guns at will at black people
• women would have to obey their husbands even if their husbands beat or abused them because it would obviously be "God's will" that they do so
• science takes a back seat to stone age religion (oh wait, we've already got that under our current religious nut bag leader)
• only fat rich white guys decide what "God's will" is and they get to change the Constitution willy nilly to make it and the will of God match.

Hmmm, it's no wonder that Huckabee's vision for our country didn't catch on. I guess ol' Mike though that since one former Governor from Arkansas got himself elected then the nation would be dumb enough to vote for another one. And maybe he thought that he'd take us back to the good ol' days of the 90's, the 1890's that is, back when women had not vote or say in things, back when blacks were "free," and back when most every one believed that some guy lived somewhere in the sky and controlled everything and everyone.

I'm guessing Huckster is genuinely sorry for his "joke." Sorry it got reported and that people outside of the rich white fat cat African American hatin' members of the NRA who got to hear his wit and wisdom that is.  Any time Huckabee appears on TV from now through the general election in November, someone needs to remind people that he thinks pointing guns at black people is funny. Or maybe someone should shove a gun in his fat face every time he shows it in public from now on.

Rob and Laura Petrie slept here

The 'Pulse-A-Rhythm Massiging Mattresses' kept them coming back time after time.

Separate and unequal

This handsome dude is my Uncle Jerry. He was one of my mother's brothers and I lost touch with him after my siblings and I were sent to live with Aunt Rageaholic and Uncle Adultery after my mother's sudden death in 1972. Uncle Jerry was a "confirmed bachelor," which is what they called homosexual men back in those days.

I always liked Uncle Jerry. He was a nice guy and he took us places when we were little kids, like to the movies and to hockey games. It never occurred to me that my uncle was gay because he didn't act like the gay people I saw on TV and in movies at that time. I came to learn later that the "gay" characters on TV and film around that time were wildly offensive stereotypes and they bore no relation to the way gay men and women really acted. Jerry just seemed to be a nice hard working guy who was around at family functions and who took us kids out for fun outings, he didn't seem like he wanted to have sex with every man or boy he saw and he didn't run around acting like the limp wristed sissy character on Are You Being Served.

The last thing I heard about Uncle Jerry from my brother, who is not the most reliable or unbiased source in the world. He told me that Jerry was either dying from or had died of an AIDS related disease and that in his last years he was a bitter hateful angry man. If that was indeed true I can certainly see why Jerry would have been such a man towards the end of his life. He grew up in a time when gays and lesbians were more hated and feared than they are today. For most of his life there were no such things as gay bars where gay men and women could meet and socialize in peace without having to fear getting beat up or killed for being different than the rest of us. Also for most of his life my Uncle Jerry had to live with the fact that he could have been arrested and prosecuted for being true to who he was and loving men. If I had to hide who I was and society told me that I was a second class citizen who was subject to arrest for loving someone then I'd be bitter and angry too. I'd bear a lot of hate towards everyone who tried to marginalize me and to exclude me from having the same rights that heterosexual people have.

I can never make up for losing touch with my gay uncle and I can never tell him that I loved him. It's too bad that he didn't live to see the day when the largest state in our union finally recognized that not allowing two consenting adults to marry one another is wrong. I'm not sure if he would have gotten married if he had the chance but it would have been nice if he had had the option to and if he had the same rights and freedoms as others in this country have.

Let's hope that the rest of the states in our union follow the lead of California and Massachusetts and grant homosexuals the right to marry if they so choose. The same people who oppose gay marriage are the ones who opposed interracial marriage, inter faith marriages, civil rights for African Americans, and equal rights for women and they were just as wrong about those things as they are about gay marriage.

And now here's a few words from women who have been in Hitchcock films

"Hello, Grace Kelly here with a riddle for you. What has a beginning, a middle, but no end in sight? Give up? Why it's the war on terror of course!"

Barbara Bel Geddes on appeasement: "Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Spain, and the rest of the countries who make up the coalition who attacked Iraq appease George Bush by joining him in his illegal invaison?"

"I looked out my rear window the other day and I saw my neighbors getting evicted because they couldn't pay their mortgage. And before any of you say anything, I know damn well that I wasn't in Rear Window."

"You'd have to be a psycho to support a 72 year old man for President. Especially one who offers nothing but the same old shit we've been getting for the past eight years. Ick, just thinking of voting for Bush McCain makes me feel dirty, I need a shower now."

"No sir, the rumors are not true. I most certainly do not have lilac scented pubic hair."

"Parts of North by Northwest really haven't held up well, have they? But holy crap we're all praying that no one ever remakes it."

"Haven't I been here before?"

"I'm Joan Fontaine and I approved this film still."

"Enough of this foolishness! When I get done with this shot I'm going to let my hair down, give you my best vixen look, and then I'm going to spank you for using all us classic Hitchcock beauties in this silly post you monkey you."

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The house the George built

Only in an America led by an idiot could the call for diplomacy with Iran be likened to Nazi appeasement. It shows once again how little grasp of history those idiots who run the current administration have.

You know, their idiotic pronouncements about this kind of thing might not be so bad if they were doing some actual diplomacy behind the scenes while they shouted their bellicose rhetoric like Nixon did when he "opened" China or like the British government did when it was negotiating with the IRA in private while prosecuting them in public. But no, Bush, Condi, and Cheney are too stupid to do the likes of that. They'd rather just rather widen their current circle of death and call anyone who disagrees with them terrorist loving traitors.

We can only hope they don't try to bring their Jesus back by trying to bomb Iran so that they will trigger Armageddon.

Waiting

This tiny little man is my Congressman:
His name is David Davis. He's a rock ribbed conservative hard right wing Republican. He's so far right he makes Dick Cheney look like a damn dirty hippie.

I recently sent him an email asking him to introduce legislation that would strip all contractors doing business in Iraq on behalf of the US government of any and all immunity from prosecution. I asked him to do this so that the people in Blackwater and KBR who are murdering innocent Iraqis and raping their female co workers will be brought to justice. I also asked that after he introduced such legislation that he then resign so that his seat can be taken over by a person who will do the people's business in Washington DC and not be a tool of the multi national corporations.

It's been over a month since I asked him to do these two small things for me. He has done neither and he's not even bothered to write me a letter back telling me why he refuses to do what I asked. It's down right rude of him not to at least reply to me, don't you think?

Monkey Movie Round Up

I've been a movie watching machine lately. Here's quick reviews of the last four I've seen:
I bought this on DVD at the grocery store the other day for $4.99 and after seeing it again after a few years I was struck by how good this film is. It's one of those timeless films that does not get old or cloying or sappy stupid with each successive viewing. Thora Birch and Scar Jo are sublime in this film, many experienced actors could learn a thing or two from the restrained performances these two young ladies gave in this film. I had forgotten how funny this film was as well. I laughed out loud at many of the scenes and bits of humor that are laced throughout this tale of loneliness and alienation. If you have never seen this film, do yourself a favor and watch it. If you have not seen it in a few years, watch it again.

Thank goodness I did not pay to watch this movie. It's not very funny, although it does have some cute gags and jokes, it's preachy, it's not at all realistic in it's portrayal of how the US Congress works, and it was directed by the guy who gave us Patch Adams. I'm going to say that I watched it all the way through because I like Lauren Graham, but in reality I was just too lazy to turn the channel to look for anything better to watch. Avoid this one.

Lucky Number Slevin is a fine fun little modern ironic gangster/revenge movie. Yes, people get shot in it, yes, people get beat up in it, yes, there are many deaths, but all the violence is cartoonish and germane to the plot. It's a very good film and if you like gangster/revenge movies then you'll dig it. Josh Hartnett is very good in it and I'm sure he'll make the ladies swoon. Republican party boy Bruce Willis is oh so archly hip in this flick and he's bearable in it. And boy howdy is Lucy Liu cute as a button in this movie, if you don't have a thing for Asian females after seeing this one then something is wrong you with you.

We watched this movie last night on Sundance Channel. It's about the practice of strip mining coal out of the top of mountains, a practice called mountain top removal, and the environmental damage it does to the land and to the people who live around the land where the practice takes place. This film illustrates perfectly how the poor and powerless get trampled on by corporate interests when there is profit to be made.

Instead of ruining the mountains around here, and yes I live relatively close to the area where this shit is being done, they could mine the coal in the mountains like they used to, by using deep mine technologies. But since it's cheaper to blow the tops of the mountains off to extract the coal the coal companies forgo the deep mining and are poisoning the people of southern West Virginia and it's surrounding environs in the process.

This film is an eye opening view into the world of corporate greed and avarice. I highly recommend you see this film as soon as possible.

(As a result of seeing this film I'll be writing about the dangers and idiocy of mountain top removal coal mining in the future. The fight to ban the practice of mountain top removal is now one of the pet causes of this blog.)

Another adoption

Since I have already adopted an a female actor from Britain, Archie Panjabi, and a female actor from Scotland, Shirley Henderson, I needed a female actor from Ireland to round out my adoptees, so I decided to adopt the small in stature (she's 5'4") but big in talent Irish female actor Eva Birthistle.

I first became aware of Ms. Birthistle from her star turn in the film A Fond Kiss, which is a new favorite here at Monkey Central.  She's also been in another favorite film of mine Breakfast on Pluto.  She's been in a slew of Brit made TV shows and is in some new films too.  Please welcome Eva to the Monkey Muck family of adopted actors!  

So sorry

Bush McCain's minister apologized to those godless Papists for calling them godless Papists and for saying that their church is the "great whore."  But he has so far refused to apologize for his insensitive remarks directed at gays and lesbians and for all the transgressions he has committed against me.

That fat bastard has yet to apologize for leaving me alone with naughty farm girls who were misbehaving so badly I just had to spank them to make them be good:
He has yet to say he is sorry for entering me in the "Who wants to replace Rick Nielson in Cheap Trick?" sweepstakes.
That putrid preacher has never copped to getting me cast in Lost only to have them edit me out later:
And he certainly has not made amends for using torture on me to get me to "turn to Jesus":
But perhaps worst of all, he refuses to apologize to this cute Asian gal for saying she was too fat to wear this costume:

And that fat bag of pus and guts has the gall to call himself a "man of god."  He's more like a god damned fraud, just like the guy he endorsed for President, if you ask me.

Sacrifice

Sacrifices must be made in war time.  

Our men and women in the military have sacrificed their lives for our war of terror on Iraq:

We citizens of the USA have sacrificed our civil liberties and our tax dollars for the warwithoutendAmen:
Laura Bush has sacrificed what was left of her drug addled mind to support her insane drunken husband:
Jenna sacrificed her sobriety and her self esteem to support her deranged daddy and her arranged marriage to Karl Rove's ex aide:
But perhaps the biggest sacrifice was made by our Chicken Hawk in Chief:
No, he did not give up drinking.  No, he did not give up listening to the voices in his head that he claims are really his god talking to him.   What our idiot President has sacrificed is his golf game for the war.  He stopped playing golf while the war has been going on.  What a noble compassionate man he is for giving up playing golf so that he can play executioner to millions.  I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead, the thousands of dead American and British soldiers would rather he had stuck to playing golf and that he had left something as serious as war to those who knew what the fuck they were doing.  I'm sure it's little consolation to the millions of injured and displaced people that he stopped playing golf so he could "focus" on the war.  

Every dead soldier, every dead Iraqi, every family torn apart by his treachery in causing this illegal war and keeping it going with no end in sight all wish that the Democrats in Congress would develop some back bone and move to impeach Bush and Cheney both.  We've got to stop the war this minute and we've got to make sure that warmongering Bush McCain and Hillary Clinton do not get elected to replace our current Abortion in Chief.

See ya later Bob

American artist Robert Rauschenberg died yesterday at the age of 82.
He was a pioneer in the area of mixed media art and I always liked his work. He was provocative and forward thinking in his art and if you look at some of my art my one of my many Flickr photo sets then you can see I owe him a great debt because he influenced me greatly.

Good bye Bob, thanks for all your great works and I hope you come back real soon.

The Perfect Sh*t Storm

Welcome to the beginning of American hyperinflation boys and girls. You know what hyperinflation is don't you? According to Wikipedia "...hyperinflation is inflation that is 'out of control,' a condition in which prices increase rapidly as a currency loses its value." Or to put it another way, prices of every day goods rise rapidly, sometimes as much as 1000% in one day, while your paycheck or salary stays the same or even shrinks.

And what causes this phenomena? Well, economists, yes, the same people who Bush, Bush McCain, and Hillary Clinton all say they ignore, will tell you the causes vary from country to country but usually one or two things trigger hyperinflation, a war and an economic downturn, or depression.

And guess which two things our current President brought us? You guessed it, a never ending expensive as hell war and an economic downturn, which could turn into a depression at any time now.

Bush led us into this economic mess by his neglect of the working and middle classes. Historically when only the people at the top of the economic food chain benefit from government largess, corporate welfare and tax cuts for the wealthy, then the rest of the country suffers and the national economy does about as well as a fat kid at a track meet. Look back at the depressions and economic downturns of the late 1800's and at the time just before the 1929 stock market crash. When we deregulate business and allow it to run free then the biggest majority of us get screwed and the only people making money and living well are the owners of the businesses that are deregulated.

And the two organizations who should be speaking out against the screwing big business is putting to us, the media and the church, are mostly silent. Most of the media stays silent because they are owned by big business. Most all TV, movies, and book and magazine publishing in this country is owned by just a few mega corporations and they do their damnedest to squelch dissent and to ridicule and marginalize anyone who disagrees with their points of view. The mainstream churches in the USA are guilty of collusion with the corporate America as well because they preach that we should be good little drones and go to work so that we can give the church ten percent or more of our wages and after a life time of hard work we can expect our reward in heaven. So now we're caught in a vice. We're being squeezed by oil and gas companies and their endless thirst for profits. They use any trumped up excuse to raise prices higher and higher because we are totally dependant on our cars, trucks, and airplanes. We've given up, for the most part, producing things locally, things such as foods and other everyday items, because it was easier to let big business do what the hell it wanted in order to make more and more profit. Never mind that none of what big business wants is ecologically, or economically, or morally sustainable. Gas prices rise and then in turn other prices rise so that profit margins will be maintained. Then gas prices rise again because the gas companies are paying higher prices for everything and then other companies raise their prices to offset the price increase of gas, and so on and so on and so on.Add to that the rising cost of food. Part of which is due to the steep hike in fuel prices and part of which is due to the fact that the world is beginning to eat like Americans do, which is to say eat way the hell more than they should, especially processed foods and meat, and part of which is due to our growing of corn to burn in our gas tanks.

We've got to have fuel for our cars, trucks, boats, and airplanes and we've got to have fuel for our bodies so we'll pay anything for it and corporate America knows it. Our government under Bush and his henchman have cut taxes on businesses and on the wealthy so that now they bear a tiny share of the tax burden. Meanwhile middle and working class people are being forced to pick up the slack and pay higher and higher prices for food and gas in addition to having to pay a bigger percentage of their incomes in taxes.

Wealthy Republicans and the people who own and run corporate America are doing fine in their cloistered gated communities and penthouses, meanwhile the rest of us have been caught out at sea during a perfect shit storm and our boat is about to capsize unless we vote out the men and women who sold us out to the multi national corporations and who voted to deregulate big business. The solution to our country's economic problems is pretty simple, we need to tax the rich and tax corporate profits more. If Exxonmobil, Chevron, Microsoft, Coca Cola, General Motors, Toyota, Wal Mart, Halliburton, and the like want to do business here in the USA then they should pony up and pay their fair share of the up keep of this country.

It's simple, if you benefit from government services, and we all do in one way or another be you a citizen or a corporation doing business in this country, then you should have to pay your fair share of taxes. If you make lots of money then you should have to pay more in taxes than someone who makes little money, if you make lots of profit then you should pay lots of taxes on that profit. It's what they do in Germany, France, Sweden, Spain, the UK, Norway and others and there is no reason we should not be doing it here as well, after all you don't see those countries I just mentioned going through the shit storm we're going through do you? I rest my case.

UPDATE: Check out the second and third items on this post from today from Think Progress, both bolster my points in this post.

For once Maxim magazine got it right

They missed the mark by a million miles when they said Lindsay Lohan was the sexiest woman in the world, but they did get it right with what they said about this creature.

Name that film!

The first person to email me the correct name of the film this photo is from will win a vintage postcard.

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I guess Laura Bush is still too hungover after her daughter's wedding to castigate the Chinese government about the way they're handling the earthquake over there. Maybe when she sobers up she'll shoot some of her bitch venom at the Chinese the way she did at the junta who runs Myanmar. Or maybe someone will tell her how her husband fucked up the response to Hurricane Katrina and how he refused to let international help filter down to the people of New Orleans when they needed it most.

Or, and this is the most likely scenario, she'll just blabber on like the out of touch uncaring war mongering lush she is. Yep, that's most likey what she'll do.

Read it and weep

Suck on it you haters and slack jawed yokels, I'm a freakin' genius.

Possibilities

If Sen. Obama is the Democratic Party nominee and he picks Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his running mate their campaign slogan could be: 

"Obama/Sebelius: The Silver and Black Attack That Will Bring The American Dream Back!"

If he picks New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson then they can go with:

"Obama/Richardson: Vote Black and Tan in 2008!"

Either ticket would be a huge winner if you ask me.  You can go wrong running with a MILF or a pudgy Latino.  

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's day to all you mothers out there and especially to my late mom Norma Kathleen Wells Denton.  She was a great woman who's time on this planet was far too short.  

If you and your mother get along and you are seeing her today, give her a hug and tell her you love her because you never know when you'll lose her.

I hope you saved room for dessert

Mmmmm, dessert.  More retro food and entertaining goodness can be found here.

Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone away

Ladies and gentlemen, They Might Be Giants!

It's denouncing time!

I've got a whole raft of things I want to denounce this week but sadly neither Rev. John Shuck nor instant potatoes made the list this week.  But the following people and things have made it,  so away we go!

1)

One Hour "Martinizing" is a John Birch Society led plot to ruin our country.  Therefore, I denounce it.<