Clown time is over

Or, has it just begun?

They're not kidding

The ATF has decided that anyone who uses marijuana legally is not allowed to own or use a gun.

Crazy huh. People who smoke pot can't use or possess a firearm but these raging asshats can:



Once again common sense has been shot and killed.

Barns of the week

Their silence is deafening

Of course the for profit media is going to be silent on the Wall Street protests, the corporate media is owned by Wall Street after all. What galls me about the whole thing is the silence from National Public Radio (NPR). Those cowards must fear losing corporate underwriters for their increasingly crappy news shows. Well, they may not lose any corporate underwriters but they sure as hell lost me. I'll never give those cowards another cent. Let those right wing twats Maura Liasson and Cokie Roberts make up the difference, they can use their corporate media salaries to keep the stooges at NPR going.

Hey you! Watch out!

Watch out for that duck!

I'll bet the dirty old broad is picking their brains for naughty information

Public dissent

This past Saturday was a great day to hold a public protest against the legal fiction that corporations are people. A local fellow organized what he billed as 'The Rally For The Humans' and since I love a good public protest I went gladly.

What started out as an overcast cool morning gave way to a sunny and warm afternoon. Which was nice because it brought out all sorts of folks to our event.

This gal was serious and mysterious with her sign. I liked the sign of the guy behind her, the riff on the flag of the corporate states of America.

I got to meet a friend from the blog and Facebook world that I hadn't met in person yet. That's her with the big smile. She's cute as a button in real life. And very nice too.

The signs with the fewest words are the best, they drive home the message of the protest in such a great way.

This little dude is a friend of mine and I loved his sign that featured a riff on one of my favorite knock knock jokes. His mom and sister came to the event as well.

Speaking of that little dude's mother, that's her with a great sign right there.

I liked the fact that this guy dressed up for the protest and that his sign had such a biting sense of humor to it. Well done guy!

No local protest would be complete with out this little lady, our buddy Snad.

This gal had loads of sass and was dishing it out to anyone and everyone. I liked her a lot.

Very clever signs.

This couple heard about our rally and they drove up from Oak Ridge, which is about 110 miles away from my fair city. We also had people from South Carolina in addition to all the other regional folks who attended our protest.

One of the local corporate owned media outlets did a decent story on our event, which is a step up from the horrible stories they did on our rally to support teachers and other public employees a few months back. So all in all I think our event was a success because we got lots of attention and we raised consciousnesses about this issue. And it's always good to show folks in this area that there are liberals and progressives who aren't afraid to speak their minds and take to the streets when necessary.

There's a short video on our rally on You Tube. Click here to see it.

And the last word on the days events goes to hipster dude:

"I was against corporate person-hood before it was cool, so PBR me bitch."

Done

We had over 100 people come out to protest the legal fiction that corporations are people yesterday.

I'll post more about the demonstration tomorrow. And I'll share more pictures too.

Takin' it to the streets

I'll be attending an anti corporate personhood rally here in my lovely town later today. I'll be carrying this sign:

I'll have more pictures and a full report on the Rally For the Humans tomorrow. In the mean time, keep calm and protest on.

The brush pile

Could it be bigger or are we needlessly diverting brush from it?

Words of wisdom

How has the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell affected you so far?

"It upset me so bad that I had to go back to using training wheels on my bike."

"Dude, fuck some 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' bullshit. Can't you see we got a kid to raise here? Hopefully we can get on that new MTV 2 show Preteen Mom so we can make some coin. Pampers ain't cheap homey."

"They asked. I told. We plotzed!"

"I got a sack full of gay mail to deliver to gay males which means I no longer have time to save the whales or to sniff Christian Bale's snails. So you could say it took the wind is out of my sails."

"I just canceled my plans to go join the Marines. I was gonna go and join up but now that I might have to get gay married or have sweaty sex with a bull dyke, well that's just too much for me to bear. I want to defend my country and all, but I draw the line at letting some drill sergeant drill me. So instead of leading men into battle or doing whatever them Marines do, I'll go into the family business of providing out of date magazines to the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists."

Creepy feral house of the week

I played with the color a little bit to make it even creepier.

I just sent this letter to my idiot teabagger Congressman

"I respectfully request that you support raising taxes on the wealthiest citizens in this country so that we can get the economy moving again. Study after study has shown that raising taxes jump starts the economy and that cutting deficits in a recession hurts the economy. So I request that you vote to raise taxes to get America moving again and if you don't that you resign your office ASAP."

However I have my doubts if he'll do what I ask.

Cents and sensibility

There is a place, a place that every conservative politician, every teabagger, every Republican should hate. In this place they have strong labor unions that protect workers, high taxes that are used to pay for universal health care, and heavy regulation on business and industry. According to the conventional wisdom, which no conservative or teabagger or Republican really possesses, this place should have a floundering economy that's mired in permanent recession or worse. This place must be hell on earth. But instead, they love this place but they don't ever want to see it's success replicated over here.

What and where is this magical place you ask? Well, it's a country over in Europe and it's an economic powerhouse even though it has stringent regulation on business and industry, even though it has 'socialized medicine,' even though it's workers are overwhelmingly represented by unions and they get three more weeks of vacation that Americans do.

It's Germany.

That's right people, Germany. By all accounts what with the strong unions, the workers getting more time off than we've ever gotten in this country, the high taxes, the redistribution of wealth, the socialized medicine, and the stringent regulations on business and industry Germany should be a basket case. According to the right wing economic pundits and the Milton Friedman acolytes, Germany should be the little country that couldn't. But guess what? Not only is Germany surviving. it's thriving. And it's doing so because of the high regulations, the high taxes, the strong unions, the universal health care, and the numerous holidays it's citizens enjoy.

The reason why the global downturn hasn't hit Germany is simple, there is still demand in Germany for manufactured goods because German workers can afford them. And German workers can afford them because they have strong jobs, employment security, a strong social safety net, and a government that is forward thinking and creating alternative energy jobs. And also because of the fact that on all German, and most European, corporate boards workers have a voice because it's required by law that workers have a seat at the top table.

Germany is doing so well in fact that the buildings and the memorial monument being built at 'Ground Zero' in New York city are being built with steel imported from Germany. Imagine that, the Germans with their highly regulated industry that relies on 'expensive' alternative energy, high unionization, with their highly taxed workforce, can still export steel cheaper than it can be made in the USA.

So the next time you hear a teabagger, a right wing TV or radio pundit scream about unions, keep in mind Germany is one of the most highly unionized countries on earth and it's an economic powerhouse. When they say that fair and equitable taxes and socialized medicine will kill an economy, remember that Germany has high taxes and government run health care and it's the economic leader in the western hemisphere. When they tell you that regulation is strangling business and industry, tell them that Germany has much more regulation that we here in the USA do and that German companies lead the world.

For years they said that if you look closely at the design of a bumblebee it shouldn't be able to fly and yet it does. Well, now I'm telling you we can have a fairly taxed country that has single payer health care for all and one that regulates business and industry in the interests of the highly unionized people. And we actually had that country once, we had it starting in the aftermath of the Great Depression and we kept it going until we allowed Reagan to dismantle it starting in the 1980's. We can do this, we can learn from the successes of post war Germany and we can be great once more.

Home schooling strikes again

This is from a Christian school's yearbook. Not quite homeschooling, but close.

And yes, I know some of you homeschool and I'm not mocking you.

View of the week

A summer evening in Limestone TN.

Arf

I did a slew of these linocut prints on 3 x 5 cards yesterday. I love how each of them is alike yet so very different.

What are teabaggers cheering for today?

Teabaggers are cheering for:

• psoriasis
• Hodgkins lymphoma
• auto accidents
• rabies
• rickets
• drive by shootings
• rapes of shut ins
• seniors getting poisoned by tainted Meals on Wheels meals
• power outages
• flooding
• cross burnings
• high school drop outs
• anal warts
• dildo explosions
  
• Sam 'n' Ella
• bad puns
• tranny porn
• religious insanity
• corporate shenanigans
  
• corporal punishment
• general disorder
• Captain Crunch
• date rape
• dirty Sanchez
• forced Goatse
• hounding the handicapped to an early grave
• bulldozing the homes of Palestinians
• bologna bashing
• monkey whipping.

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Nic Cage answers some fan mail

Dear Nic,
Why do you do so many shitty movies? Do you really need all that money? I liked you best in the small independent films you used to make.
Sincerely,
Lucy Van Pelt

Yo Lucy,
Did you miss the fact that I have a son I named Kal-El? And yes, that's Superman's birth name. I figure any kid of mine is gonna need intensive therapy and one with a name like Kal-El is gonna need it even more than the others. Therapy ain't cheap so I gotta keep bringing in the bucks while I still can. And seriously, all these crazy ass wigs I wear ain't cheap either, so fuck you. I'll do any movie that comes my way as long as they pay me cash money. Yo Hollywood, make it rain, make it RAIN.
Your friend,
Nic Cage

Dear Nic,
Con Air has to be the worst movie ever. No wait, I just remembered Roadhouse. So you're off the hook.
Insincerely yours,
Jean Siskel

Hey Jean,
Until you skull fuck Steve Buscemi, you'll never know what it's like to walk a mile in my underwear.
Nic

Dear Nic,
When it comes to potatoes, which do you prefer, fries or chips?
Fatty Carbuncle

Fatty,
That's a trick question. You're British. I seen the postmark on your email, what you call chips is what we call fries. Now, you wanna get drunk with me next time I come over there? And if you do can we hook up with Princess Posh Spice?
Tally-ho,
Nic

Nic,
Can you give me your cousin Sofia Coppola's phone number? She's really pretty and I bet we'd hit it off. I'm thinking she's pretty good in the sack too.
Yours (but not any more),
Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie,
Sure, now that you and I are divorced you're into gettin' it on with the girls. When we was married you wouldn't even discuss it. And holy shit, Sofia Coppola is my cousin? I learn something new every day.
Nic

Fuck you Charter Cable

Charter Cable is the worst cable/internet provider in the USA. Their prices are outrageous, their customer 'service' is a joke, and their digital cable rarely works. My two year sentence, wait, I mean contract, no fuck it, I mean prison sentence with them is up next month and when it's over I'm going to shove the digital cable box up the ass of the manager of the local Charter facility near me.

Their customer service people are petty, mean, vindictive twats, which I guess they learn from management at Charter since no one in that shit ass company ever takes responsibility for anything. Their first and only line of defense is to blame us, their customers, the people who pay their fucking salaries, for any and all problems.

I went to their shit-box local office, which by the way, stinks of flop sweat, cheap wine, and Summer's Eve, to pay my bill today. When I asked the harpy behind the counter when my two year sentence with them was up she laughed at first, obviously thinking I was making a joke. When she saw I was dead serious she began to be belligerent. When I told her I was going to cancel my digital cable next month she became even more enraged and her work slowed to a crawl, showing once again that fine Charter Cable training.

As if that wasn't bad enough, when I got home, I found my internet to be running slower, waaaaaaay slower than usual. Hmm, coincidence? Nope. If you slag one of their shit products, they make the rest of their shit package suck too.

I had thought I might keep their internet and phone service, but now I'm going to look into other avenues for both. And I dare any of their internet trolls to read this post and leave a comment. I'll fucking mark you assholes as spam faster than Obama can cave to John Boehner.

FUCK YOU CHARTER CABLE.

Aged beauty

As I get older I love these feral houses more and more.