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November 7, 2016
The Abstemious Optimist
Tomorrow's good news will be...
The good news will be that if Ma Barker and her faithfully unfaithful Billy Willy Dilly are elected, Charles Trumpy Manson will not be anywhere near a nuclear launch button.
If Charles Trumpy Manson is elected, the good news will be that Ma Barker and Billy Willy Dilly will not be enriching themselves and Princess Chelsea at the taxpayers' expense or selling favors to foreign governments so they can live large with their new, best buddies in the Hamptons.
In either event, the biggest bonus of all will be the nanoscopic void left by Snoop Dogg Barry Obama's merciful exit.
After bequeathing the worst healthcare system in the Western world to every single American, Snoop Dogg Barry Obama will be evicted from the White House.
In all fairness, humanity will long remember Snoop Dogg's historic strides in transgender restroom privileges. Did we miss anything else that transpired on Snoopy's eight-year watch? What comes to your mind? Anything? How about the Middle East?
Do not cry for Snoop Dogg Barry, Argentina. The Snoop Dogg family enjoyed about a billion dollars (yes! a BILLION DOLLARS!) worth of vacations courtesy of the US taxpayers. But let us not talk of unpleasant things during this generous spirit of optimism, Ma Barker and her gang will surely get more than their fair share of swanky vacations aboard Air Force One.
I will be abstaining tomorrow.
In fact, after a generation of Whacky Bush Doodle, Snoop Dogg Barry Obama, Charles Trumpy Manson and Ma Barker, I see little reason to continue to participate in that American democracy that looks so perfect on paper, but offers up such a rancid cast of scum monkeys to star in the lead role.
Moving on from abject failure is an optimism born of reality.
I am, therefore, the abstemious optimist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB2E6...
The good news will be that if Ma Barker and her faithfully unfaithful Billy Willy Dilly are elected, Charles Trumpy Manson will not be anywhere near a nuclear launch button.
If Charles Trumpy Manson is elected, the good news will be that Ma Barker and Billy Willy Dilly will not be enriching themselves and Princess Chelsea at the taxpayers' expense or selling favors to foreign governments so they can live large with their new, best buddies in the Hamptons.
In either event, the biggest bonus of all will be the nanoscopic void left by Snoop Dogg Barry Obama's merciful exit.
After bequeathing the worst healthcare system in the Western world to every single American, Snoop Dogg Barry Obama will be evicted from the White House.
In all fairness, humanity will long remember Snoop Dogg's historic strides in transgender restroom privileges. Did we miss anything else that transpired on Snoopy's eight-year watch? What comes to your mind? Anything? How about the Middle East?
Do not cry for Snoop Dogg Barry, Argentina. The Snoop Dogg family enjoyed about a billion dollars (yes! a BILLION DOLLARS!) worth of vacations courtesy of the US taxpayers. But let us not talk of unpleasant things during this generous spirit of optimism, Ma Barker and her gang will surely get more than their fair share of swanky vacations aboard Air Force One.
I will be abstaining tomorrow.
In fact, after a generation of Whacky Bush Doodle, Snoop Dogg Barry Obama, Charles Trumpy Manson and Ma Barker, I see little reason to continue to participate in that American democracy that looks so perfect on paper, but offers up such a rancid cast of scum monkeys to star in the lead role.
Moving on from abject failure is an optimism born of reality.
I am, therefore, the abstemious optimist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB2E6...
November 5, 2016
Wobbling Towards The Final Days
The final days of an election that has brought nothing but dishonor to the concept of Western democracy are mercifully coming to a close.
This Tuesday, after sixteen shameful years of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, America will choose whether Charles Manson or Bonnie and Clyde will be their next Dear Leader.
Either choice bodes ill for America, the world and democracy.
Millions who consider both Trump and Hillary to be unworthy of public trust will not be taking part in this farce. They have been disenfranchised by two psychopaths.
After almost an entire generation of disgrace, American democracy is wobbling off a cliff.
When one begins to wonder whether this democracy might soon be replaced by something else, it is not unreasonable to consider just what might replace a Trump catastrophe compared to what might replace a Clinton debacle on the world stage.
This Tuesday, after sixteen shameful years of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, America will choose whether Charles Manson or Bonnie and Clyde will be their next Dear Leader.
Either choice bodes ill for America, the world and democracy.
Millions who consider both Trump and Hillary to be unworthy of public trust will not be taking part in this farce. They have been disenfranchised by two psychopaths.
After almost an entire generation of disgrace, American democracy is wobbling off a cliff.
When one begins to wonder whether this democracy might soon be replaced by something else, it is not unreasonable to consider just what might replace a Trump catastrophe compared to what might replace a Clinton debacle on the world stage.
October 30, 2016
Titanic Choices
The gap between America's political versions of Kim Jong-il and Al Capone is narrowing as concerned citizens suddenly reweigh the choice between those two psychopaths begging to be the next, big Dear Leader.
Much to the dismay of the Democratic Party's obedient Justice Department, the FBI is actually taking a second look into the Clinton crime family.
With eleven days before the election, those headlines have sent the polls gyrating out of orbit, or should we say, obit.
Since when does political crime matter in America?
Does it really matter whether it is the Republican or Democratic crime family that has access to the nation's treasury so that they can help themselves to the taxpayers' money in order to dole out patronage to their best friends who will in turn kickback a fair share of that payola to the respective reelection funds?
Modern American democracy is all about the party in power fucking the 47% of the population who actually pay taxes.
And some of you thought it could not possibly get any worse after 16 years of those two merry fruit loops, Whacky Bush Doodle and Snoop Dogg Barry Obama.
Whacky Bush Doodle's legacy will be the Iraq War that destabilized the entire Middle East while Snoop Dogg Barry's legacy will be a failed health care system balanced alongside Barry's historic strides in transgender restroom privileges.
The passengers trapped aboard this cheerful Titanic now have a choice of either jumping ship into the cold, night water or staying on board listening to the band play another swell tune.
Some of us arrogant snobs will prefer to remain wrapped in the comfort of our more honorable abstentions.
Much to the dismay of the Democratic Party's obedient Justice Department, the FBI is actually taking a second look into the Clinton crime family.
With eleven days before the election, those headlines have sent the polls gyrating out of orbit, or should we say, obit.
Since when does political crime matter in America?
Does it really matter whether it is the Republican or Democratic crime family that has access to the nation's treasury so that they can help themselves to the taxpayers' money in order to dole out patronage to their best friends who will in turn kickback a fair share of that payola to the respective reelection funds?
Modern American democracy is all about the party in power fucking the 47% of the population who actually pay taxes.
And some of you thought it could not possibly get any worse after 16 years of those two merry fruit loops, Whacky Bush Doodle and Snoop Dogg Barry Obama.
Whacky Bush Doodle's legacy will be the Iraq War that destabilized the entire Middle East while Snoop Dogg Barry's legacy will be a failed health care system balanced alongside Barry's historic strides in transgender restroom privileges.
The passengers trapped aboard this cheerful Titanic now have a choice of either jumping ship into the cold, night water or staying on board listening to the band play another swell tune.
Some of us arrogant snobs will prefer to remain wrapped in the comfort of our more honorable abstentions.
October 28, 2016
Fahrenheit 451 University of Northern Colorado Style
Leave it to America's politically correct spank wankers to lead the way...
Students at the University of Northern Colorado have been warned that gender-neutral "inclusive language is mandatory."
They have also been warned that "it is not appropriate to make statements about faith at any time."
In other news, the PC spank wankers will be hosting a little book burning warm-up for all incoming freshmen (ooops!) FRESHPERSONS at the Student Union this Halloween eve.
Immediately following the book burning, everyone is invited to attend the faculty meeting discussing what measures to take against the racist nature of personal pronouns.
Linguistic therapists will be on hand to provide the most recent, officially approved, politically correct definitions of "racist" for the innocently confused arriving from more rural areas who may be a little out of touch with its exponential usage by the resident, PC spank wankers in the know.
Students at the University of Northern Colorado have been warned that gender-neutral "inclusive language is mandatory."
They have also been warned that "it is not appropriate to make statements about faith at any time."
In other news, the PC spank wankers will be hosting a little book burning warm-up for all incoming freshmen (ooops!) FRESHPERSONS at the Student Union this Halloween eve.
Immediately following the book burning, everyone is invited to attend the faculty meeting discussing what measures to take against the racist nature of personal pronouns.
Linguistic therapists will be on hand to provide the most recent, officially approved, politically correct definitions of "racist" for the innocently confused arriving from more rural areas who may be a little out of touch with its exponential usage by the resident, PC spank wankers in the know.
October 17, 2016
The New European Catchword
Words are magic, are they not?
There is a new catchword making the rounds of various European media circles with increasing redundancy - "populism."
Most generally the usage is directed towards either "right wing" populism or "left wing" populism.
This is a vast improvement over the previous "extreme right" or "extreme left" that was routinely splashed across nervous print and electronic headlines.
"Populism" acknowledges that there is room for improvement with the status quo. but it inadvertently admits that the political class representing the status quo is not necessarily doing a satisfactory job representing the will of the electorate.
One has to wonder if the media spank wankers have carefully thought this one through. Isolating the political class by bandying around "populism" could cause a conflict of interest with the spank wankers' politically correct narrative.
It could actually force some of the wankers to break ranks and resort to the long lost art of objective journalism.
There is a new catchword making the rounds of various European media circles with increasing redundancy - "populism."
Most generally the usage is directed towards either "right wing" populism or "left wing" populism.
This is a vast improvement over the previous "extreme right" or "extreme left" that was routinely splashed across nervous print and electronic headlines.
"Populism" acknowledges that there is room for improvement with the status quo. but it inadvertently admits that the political class representing the status quo is not necessarily doing a satisfactory job representing the will of the electorate.
One has to wonder if the media spank wankers have carefully thought this one through. Isolating the political class by bandying around "populism" could cause a conflict of interest with the spank wankers' politically correct narrative.
It could actually force some of the wankers to break ranks and resort to the long lost art of objective journalism.
October 13, 2016
Dylan
I am a fan of Dylan's early music. It brings back some memories of a much more curious and engaged American generation. It resonates as a quaint time capsule rather than anything I would ever consider as being of lasting value worthy of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Then again, Barack Hussein Obama was nominated for the Peace Prize after being in office for less than one month for no other reason than...
We can blame that one on the politically correct Norwegians who award the Peace Prize.
If this is a vain attempt to make the lit prize fashionable and relevant, I think the Swedish Academy has succeeded in hitting itself in the face with a cream pie.
Do not be surprised if this opens the door for considering television reality series for upcoming prizes. Why not video games? No need to burn books when you can electrify them with pekoral.
Pekoral- Swedish noun - literary pretension.
When considering Mr. Dylan's award, I cannot help but think of Willa Cather and Jorge Luis Borges who were never recognized.
If that makes me a Luddite, at least I am a reasonably well-read Luddite who recognizes pekoral and holds his nose over phony Peace prizes.
Then again, Barack Hussein Obama was nominated for the Peace Prize after being in office for less than one month for no other reason than...
We can blame that one on the politically correct Norwegians who award the Peace Prize.
If this is a vain attempt to make the lit prize fashionable and relevant, I think the Swedish Academy has succeeded in hitting itself in the face with a cream pie.
Do not be surprised if this opens the door for considering television reality series for upcoming prizes. Why not video games? No need to burn books when you can electrify them with pekoral.
Pekoral- Swedish noun - literary pretension.
When considering Mr. Dylan's award, I cannot help but think of Willa Cather and Jorge Luis Borges who were never recognized.
If that makes me a Luddite, at least I am a reasonably well-read Luddite who recognizes pekoral and holds his nose over phony Peace prizes.
September 26, 2016
Gamer Boy Eunuchs and the Slacker Generation
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No one in America is joking about adult children living at home in the bubble-wrapped suburbs with Mommy and Daddy and playing video games all day.
A recent study shows that 22% of men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a bachelor's degree did not work at all last year.
The reason? Video games.
It also reported that households earning $30,000 or less spend 92 more minutes a week online than those making $100,000 or more.
Remember when America was a land of ambitious, hardscrabble immigrants?
Remember when Americans read books?
Welcome to the Slacker Generation.
The "decline and fall" continues...
No one in America is joking about adult children living at home in the bubble-wrapped suburbs with Mommy and Daddy and playing video games all day.
A recent study shows that 22% of men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a bachelor's degree did not work at all last year.
The reason? Video games.
It also reported that households earning $30,000 or less spend 92 more minutes a week online than those making $100,000 or more.
Remember when America was a land of ambitious, hardscrabble immigrants?
Remember when Americans read books?
Welcome to the Slacker Generation.
The "decline and fall" continues...
September 24, 2016
The Upcoming Presidential Debates
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Monday is the first American Presidential debate. Here are some numbers for your consideration.
Those of you outside of the US may find some of them rather bewildering.
There are about 210 million eligible voters in the US. About 135 million, or 65%, will actually vote.
Over sixty million will watch the debates. Today's NYT is predicting 100 million viewers and comparing it to the Ali-Frazier match.
Many more will hear the fallout echo through other media sources until the next debate.
Both Trump and Hillary are each expected to spend over 450 million dollar in television ads.
99% of those ads will be negative attacks against their opponent.
Historically, for over half-a-century, Presidential candidates have arrived bearing very scant, personal resumes. They have had virtually nothing positive about their accomplishments to lay before the public. Negative attacks on their opponent is the only option.
Many of you in Europe might find it rather astounding that candidates can even use television as a propaganda outlet.
It could be argued that this unrelenting bombardment of almost a billion dollars in propaganda would make Americans the most misinformed, or dis-informed, voters of any modern democracy.
Countless surveys have concluded that these ads have virtually no lasting effect on voter opinion.
That does not mean that the voters are not already very misinformed since America no longer practices any form of unbiased journalism.
But what does all this matter when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are simply two more shit house maggots like George W. Bush and Barack Obama seeking to lay their nasty eggs inside the White House?
The "decline and fall" of America continues...
Monday is the first American Presidential debate. Here are some numbers for your consideration.
Those of you outside of the US may find some of them rather bewildering.
There are about 210 million eligible voters in the US. About 135 million, or 65%, will actually vote.
Over sixty million will watch the debates. Today's NYT is predicting 100 million viewers and comparing it to the Ali-Frazier match.
Many more will hear the fallout echo through other media sources until the next debate.
Both Trump and Hillary are each expected to spend over 450 million dollar in television ads.
99% of those ads will be negative attacks against their opponent.
Historically, for over half-a-century, Presidential candidates have arrived bearing very scant, personal resumes. They have had virtually nothing positive about their accomplishments to lay before the public. Negative attacks on their opponent is the only option.
Many of you in Europe might find it rather astounding that candidates can even use television as a propaganda outlet.
It could be argued that this unrelenting bombardment of almost a billion dollars in propaganda would make Americans the most misinformed, or dis-informed, voters of any modern democracy.
Countless surveys have concluded that these ads have virtually no lasting effect on voter opinion.
That does not mean that the voters are not already very misinformed since America no longer practices any form of unbiased journalism.
But what does all this matter when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are simply two more shit house maggots like George W. Bush and Barack Obama seeking to lay their nasty eggs inside the White House?
The "decline and fall" of America continues...
September 13, 2016
A Woman Bearing The Scent Of Hell
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No, I did not knock on the gates of Hell and receive a press release of coming attractions and no, I am not into the Riesling again. I am just putting this whacky scenario out there in case it comes true and then I can retire and take up beekeeping.
Yes, this started out as wishful thinking concerning the resurrection of Bernie Sanders, but then it took on a life of its own and walked bare-ass naked into the flames.
Here is that smoking forecast replete with the scent of Hell:
1. Hillary is forced to step down because of her health.
2. Bernie Sanders is her obvious replacement BUT...
3. The DNC calls for a new, open convention and nominates Michelle Obama.
4. The PC media spank wankers go absolutely bonker- balls with joy!
5. Michelle Obama wins the nomination with a bellowing voice vote.
6. Barack Obama and his staff receive a third term in office.
No, I did not knock on the gates of Hell and receive a press release of coming attractions and no, I am not into the Riesling again. I am just putting this whacky scenario out there in case it comes true and then I can retire and take up beekeeping.
Yes, this started out as wishful thinking concerning the resurrection of Bernie Sanders, but then it took on a life of its own and walked bare-ass naked into the flames.
Here is that smoking forecast replete with the scent of Hell:
1. Hillary is forced to step down because of her health.
2. Bernie Sanders is her obvious replacement BUT...
3. The DNC calls for a new, open convention and nominates Michelle Obama.
4. The PC media spank wankers go absolutely bonker- balls with joy!
5. Michelle Obama wins the nomination with a bellowing voice vote.
6. Barack Obama and his staff receive a third term in office.
September 10, 2016
The Bean Counter's 9/11
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September 11, 2001
Terrorists slam into the World Trade Center with hijacked jets killing 2,753 innocent people.
In response, George W. Bush pauses to give a pass to his Daddy's oil-trading buddies in Saudi Arabia who reared and educated these killers and demands that the Taliban turn over al-Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden who planned the operation from his hideout in Afghanistan. The Taliban demands evidence.
October 7, 2001
The US launches Operation Enduring Freedom that still has troops on the ground trying to endure the freedom that they brought with them to Afghanistan fifteen years ago.
26,000 civilian deaths
3,407 allied troop casualties
March 20, 2003
Basing their logic on the assertion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction while supporting terrorists such al-Qaeda, the Whacky Bush Doodles invade Iraq.
Estimates of civilian casualties range from 150,000 - 600000.
150,000 Civilian casualties
4,491 US service casualties.
2011
The Syrian Civil War grows out of a very curious butterfly fluttering around in the empty heads of the PC media that they call "The Arab Spring." Now there is an historical oxymoron if there ever was one.
We beg to differ a little, and include Syria in our numbers asserting that the presence of US troops and the instability of the Iraq war helped ignite and fuel this on-going tragedy regardless of the PC infestation of butterflies.
220,000 deaths and millions of refugees.
The Bush 9/11 numbers speak for themselves.
World Trade Center deaths 2,753
Afghanistan 29,407
Iraq, (lowest est) 154,491
Syria 220,000
Why even mention the trillions of dollars squandered on these debacles that could have gone into healthcare, housing and education? That money is long gone. It went directly into the Republican's piggy bank that they call the defense budget.
Thank you George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, General Franks, General Petraeus and General Odierno for your "considered" response to the tragedy of 9/11.
History will remember all of you.
September 11, 2001
Terrorists slam into the World Trade Center with hijacked jets killing 2,753 innocent people.
In response, George W. Bush pauses to give a pass to his Daddy's oil-trading buddies in Saudi Arabia who reared and educated these killers and demands that the Taliban turn over al-Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden who planned the operation from his hideout in Afghanistan. The Taliban demands evidence.
October 7, 2001
The US launches Operation Enduring Freedom that still has troops on the ground trying to endure the freedom that they brought with them to Afghanistan fifteen years ago.
26,000 civilian deaths
3,407 allied troop casualties
March 20, 2003
Basing their logic on the assertion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction while supporting terrorists such al-Qaeda, the Whacky Bush Doodles invade Iraq.
Estimates of civilian casualties range from 150,000 - 600000.
150,000 Civilian casualties
4,491 US service casualties.
2011
The Syrian Civil War grows out of a very curious butterfly fluttering around in the empty heads of the PC media that they call "The Arab Spring." Now there is an historical oxymoron if there ever was one.
We beg to differ a little, and include Syria in our numbers asserting that the presence of US troops and the instability of the Iraq war helped ignite and fuel this on-going tragedy regardless of the PC infestation of butterflies.
220,000 deaths and millions of refugees.
The Bush 9/11 numbers speak for themselves.
World Trade Center deaths 2,753
Afghanistan 29,407
Iraq, (lowest est) 154,491
Syria 220,000
Why even mention the trillions of dollars squandered on these debacles that could have gone into healthcare, housing and education? That money is long gone. It went directly into the Republican's piggy bank that they call the defense budget.
Thank you George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, General Franks, General Petraeus and General Odierno for your "considered" response to the tragedy of 9/11.
History will remember all of you.
