Another Sign for Occupy Wall Street

Barry's Unique Re-Election Strategy: Piss Off Everybody!

This is a fine example of that at work:

Declaring that California's medical marijuana law "has been hijacked by profiteers," U.S. prosecutors announced charges Friday against dispensaries, growers and financial speculators throughout the state's medicinal pot market.

I doubt that if you took all of the people in California who were both eager to see a crackdown on the medical marijuana trade and who were political supporters of the President, you couldn't find enough people to fill out a decent poker game.

This whole mess is a prime example of a lesson that should have been learned in this country eighty fucking years ago: Prohibition does not work. You cannot legislate morality, you cannot pass a law to make people better.

But this isn't going to change. The cops are addicted to drug money. The private prison industry cannot survive without the convicts generated by the illicit drug trade.

Yet, 40 years after Felonious Dick declared his "War on Drugs", pot is available everywhere. We have proven that we are far more blind to reality than the wets ever were and far stupider than we were in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

UPDATE: He could also cut all of this shit and not lose a single vote.

Occupy Wall Street; The Sign I'd Like to See Edition

The Guillotines of Liberty Must Be Lubricated With the Blood of the Plutocracy!

Any questions?

This Has Been a Gorgeous Weekend

The weather has been as perfect as it can be. Nice cool nights, bright sun, not a cloud in the sky.

And, [sob} my airplane is sitting on the ground at Ye Olde Aerodrome, awaiting parts.

Yes, I know: Read the top quote below the blog photo.

Still sucks. Big time.

It's Not Just a Bunch of Hipsters

Just 26 percent of Americans in an April 2011 Harris poll thought the people working on Wall Street were "as honest and moral as other people" (for a point of comparison, the percentage was 51 in 1997). In that same poll, 67 percent of Americans agreed that "most people on Wall Street would be willing to break the law if they believed they could make a lot of money and get away with it.

And the "no confidence" numbers for the banksters are now over 40%. About as many people have a lot of confidence in the banksters as have confidence in Congress.

Right now, I would be willing to bet that more people trusted the Syndicate than they now do Wall Street. For one thing, you knew, going in, that mobsters were crooks.

(H/T)

Caturday

Gracie is lying inside a paper grocery bag.

Jake opted for a heated cat bed. You can see the white power cord going over the chair behind his back.

George is imitating a furry pillow. He's recovering from a urinary tract infection, so his perkiness quotient is down a little.

It's Not So Much Fun When the Shoe Is On the Other Foot, Eric, Me Boy?

Eric Cantor is denouncing the "Occupy Wall Street" protests.

I don't remember him denouncing the Tea Party protests. Do you?

Do you remember Cantor any expressing alarm at the Teabaggers who were prattling on about "ballot box today, cartridge box tomorrow"? Me, neither.

But when the protests are aimed at the people who have been free-riding on the tax code, boy, Cantor gets all kinds of upset.

And Flip-Flop Mitt, fresh off approving construction plans for his new 11,000 square foot oceanfront mansion in California, threw out the old "class warfare" canard.

Whinging Corporation Threatens Lawsuit If They Are Not Allowed to Frell Up Tens of Millions of GPS Receivers

That's the basic threat of a legalistic extortion letter that LightSquared sent to the FCC. Because how can it possible that the users of a few billions of dollars of GPS receivers would not mind their navigation units being crippled so that some greedy corporation can make boatloads of money? Wouldn't all those pilots, motorists, farmers, surveyors, mariners, hikers, cops, firemen, EMS workers be grateful to have to go buy new GPS devices so a company can make more money? How dare the FCC look out for the public interest over a corporation?

(This is what is going on.)

Dear Bank of America: No, You Do Not "Have a Right to Make a Profit."

Bank of America's CEO defended his bank's new $5 fee on debit cards on Wednesday, saying that customers and shareholders understand the bank has a "right to make a profit."

There is no "right" to make a profit for any business, large or small. Just like there is no "right to happiness".

What there is, however, is a right to try and make a profit. There is no guarantee and that is why businesses, large and small, come and go.

This is no small distinction. But it is symptomatic of the sheer arrogance of the banksters, that they presume that they have a right to make money.

The government made money available to banks for the purpose of making loans to small businesses. The banksters took that money and, instead of making those loans, used taxpayer money to pay off the TARP loans. Yes, that's correct, those greasy fuckers used taxpayer money to repay the Treasury.

But Our Esteemed President says that the banksters have not done anything wrong. Really. They set up an entire cottage industry to produce "NINA loans" and "liar loans", with the full connivance of the banksters, and they did nothing wrong? They bundled those crappy loans into "securities", sold those trash securities with a AAA rating and, at the same time that they were telling their investors what a safe investment they were, they shorted them, which is betting that they'd fail, and they did nothing wrong?

What the unholy fuck is wrong with you, Barry? Does Brian Moynihan (CEO of Bank of America) have to strangle his mistress in the Oval Office in order for you to believe that maybe, just maybe, a bankster has committed a crime or two?

One Republican's Idea For Creating Jobs

It is, and I shit you not: Bring back dwarf-tossing.

Indeed. The Leave No Dwarf Untossed Act. That'll cure the nation's unemployment problem, all right.

In other news, comedians across the country are mourning that Sarah Palin has decided to quit early and not to run for the Presidency. Probably because it would take too much of her time to read all of the newspapers every day.

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