Walker the champion hypocrite

We already knew Walker was a liar: during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign the prospective governor omitted all mention of his determination to do away with collective bargaining. We already knew Walker was a conniving dirty trickster, thanks to the "Buffalo Beast" blogger, who revealed that Walker - by his own admission - had considered possibly criminal activities. Scotty plotted sending in "troublemakers" to disrupt a peaceful crowd protesting outside the Capitol last Winter. We knew that Walker is in the pocket of Koch Industries, the US Chamber of Commerce and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC), and that he's dead-set on robbing and ruining the people of Wisconsin. But Walker's initial failure to contribute more to his own pension plan - until he was "busted" - was not only a LIE, it rises to the the level of pathological. To say nothing in terms of sheer, unadulterated hypocrisy; with Republican prevaricators like Scott Walker, it's strictly "Do as I say, not as I do." Kind of reminds one of eight years ago, when Rush Limbaugh was clamoring to incarcerate more drug offenders, shortly before Limbaugh was caught sending out his housekeeper to score him more oxycontin. Oh, and it turns, not surprisingly, that Rebecca Kleefisch is also a liar and hypocrite of the first order.

Support your local jobless youth!

The unelected George W. Bush regime destroyed the American economy. And aside from a limited and insufficient economic stimulus during the first two years of his presidency, Barack Obama has done little for middle class, working class and poor Americans, i.e., us 99%. The motivation for Occupy Wall Street stems from very real and tangible causes. The big investment banks like Bank of America and fraudulent subprime mortgage companies like Rick Perry's disastrously discredited "Countrywide," played an obscene and palpably criminal role in precipitating the Real Estate Meltdown of 2007. All those contaminated "Collateralized Debt Obligations," and other derivatives you see, which in turn contributed to the crash of Lehman Brothers in Summer 2008, which led in turn to the Wall Street crash of September 29, 2008, when the Dow tanked 700 points in one terrifying day's losses. Trillions of dollars of Americans' hard-earned investment income was lost in one fell swoop, due to the unbridled greed and avarice of the Billionaire Crowd. All of which - and much more corporate malfeasance besides - led to the shedding of 700,000 US jobs monthly for several months in late 2008 and early 2009. And official unemployment has remained stubbornly around 9-10% for many, many months. So it should scandalize nobody that young people especially have had enough. Something had to give, even among a populace that has been inured to injustice for more than thirty years. Even American citizens, as presently unaccustomed to protesting the massive unfairness of it all, finally had to get out the pitchforks, so to speak. I'm thrilled that folks are occupying Wall Street. Hopefully, Occupy Wall Street, and all its myriad branches represents the beginning of a struggle to attain the quality of life that people who "work hard and play by the rules" (as Bill Clinton so eloquently put it) fully deserve.

The Crackdown in Our Town

We're experiencing a protracted police state crackdown here in Madison. Every day brings news of some new authoritarian development; for example, the drug-sniffing police dogs now allowed to patrol Madison's public middle and high schools. If the supposed heroin epidemic that is now troubling Madison is really so dire, there are rational solutions. We must work toward easing/eliminating penalties for possession of controlled substances, and treat addiction as the medical and social problem that it really is. From a Civil Liberties perspective, "The War on Drugs" is a miserable failure that has eroded a wide range of our freedoms. America's drug war is only something worthy of public support if one unwisely supports criminalizing sick people. Yes, addicts often end up forced to steal in order to survive. Escalating the use of totalitarian practices that figures such as Police Chief Noble Wray and Alderman Mike Verveer prefer is not a sane way of dealing with an alleged increase in "Street Crime." It's all too clear our society no longer extends the presumption of innocence to its citizenry, and hasn't for a LONG time, if it ever DID. As for Marijuana, just LEGALIZE IT!

Give generously to your favorite "subversive" organization!

I've increased my annual contribution to the American Civil Liberties Union from a paltry $30 (basic membership) to $120. Couldn't have upped the ante at a more crucial time. America is either turning totally totalitarian, or it's already too late for the USA to make such a transformation, and we are REALLY living Orwell's nightmare. Anyway, I would also contribute to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, Planned Parenthood and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, but one can afford only so much philanthropy, eh?

More specifically...

BOYCOTT Koch Industries! That means: BOYCOTT Georgia-Pacific, BOYCOTT Stainmaster Carpet, BOYCOTT Dixie, BOYCOTT Quilted Northern, BOYCOTT Angel Soft, BOYCOTT Brawny, BOYCOTT Soft n' Gentle, BOYCOTT Mardi Gras, BOYCOTT Vanity Fair, and BOYCOTT Sparkle. In Europe, BOYCOTT Lotus, BOYCOTT Colhogar, BOYCOTT Tenderly, BOYCOTT Delica and BOYCOTT Demak'Up. Check out: Kochbrothersexposed.com!

Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there ain't no rich no more!

The rich are currently paying the lowest share of their income in taxes since 1928. Tax the lazy, parasitical, dividends-earning rich to extinction. Corporate America is just sitting on at least a trillion dollars of pure profit, probably much more. It's time for those greedy Corporate swine to start hiring! Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Main Street! Take the RICH off corporate welfare! And those Banksters, CEO's and their managerial underlings damn well better start making loans to those in need and hiring the masses of unemployed, or there really WILL be hell to pay.

BOYCOTT, revisited.

BOYCOTT Northwest Airlines, American Airlines, United, Southwest, Jet Blue, Delta, Midwest Express and all the rest of the airline industry. Like it or not, inconvenient truth or otherwise, these Criminal corporations are operating hand-in-lead-lined-glove with the TSA and its perverted, groping, Zap-scanning totalitarian tactics. Remember, 1956's Montgomery Bus Boycott shunned the local bus company, too!

BOYCOTT.

BOYCOTT Monsanto. BOYCOTT Wal-Mart. BOYCOTT Pepsi Cola. BOYCOTT Home Despot. BOYCOTT ALCOA. BOYCOTT Starbucks. BOYCOTT McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. BOYCOTT British Airways. BOYCOTT Toyota, Hyundai and Ford. BOYCOTT Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell and BP. BOYCOTT Farcebook and Myspace! Well now, I know you need to buy gasoline, so buy it at CITGO instead. Support the Venezuelan People!

1979

I can remember back when we only had 250,000 locked up in prison, nationwide! And we had a helluva lot more employed in manufacturing than the present pathetic figure of nine million! Those people need jobs out there, Mr. President. What were you thinking when you made your latest speech! (Nobody even takes him seriously anymore.) Tea Bagging Bozos and other Repubs? Batshit Crazy!!

Boycott Coca Cola.

Though China's become the world's factory, due to a combination of historical circumstance, linguistic imperialsm and the information economy, English is now THE World Language. Must also have to do with the fact it's so infernally time consuming to learn a sufficent number (tens of thousands) of ideographs. For us foreigners, anyway, I think the Chinese writing system is an impediment on some level. Then there are some other potential International Languages. Some are "too tough" gramatically... German, Russian, for example. Arabic is fraught with much linguistic complexity and a difficult script. French is hard to pronounce for many billions of non-French. As if by by default, Americanese and British have become what the World settled on for a huge amount of its international discourse. May we live in interesting times! Not saying English and it's dialects is (are) the "Best" language, either. English can be damn tricky! Am I "off-base?" "Off-base." That expression appears to be unique to English? Much of our "Official English" orthography - the way the language is WRITTEN - is approximately 400 years obsolete. Much of the current spelling more accurately reflects the pronunciations of "Elizabethan" England. Good Gawd, did I spell it right? Disagree?
Feel free to tell me.... OFF.