1)Congress- A new poll said that the Congress approval rating is now at a minuscule 6%, meaning the only people in all of America who like Congress are Congress, their families and perhaps a few friends. The main reason we hate Congress is that many of us, a majority of us, think both sides are beholden to corporate interests and neither side has a real plan how to fix our rapidly devolving economy. However, I have to give a slight edge to the Democrats as some of their plans might work if the GOP would actually work with them while the Republicans, as far as I can tell, have only one plan and that is to bankrupt the country giving tax breaks to billionaires while letting the rest of us starve. Who exactly is voting for that plan? Morons, mostly known as the Tea Party. Perhaps they too are part of the six percent who think people like Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin are Rhodes Scholars. Please, please, please, if you are in this group, kill yourself. You are making life miserable for the rest of us with your idiocy.
2)Kansas Republicans- Speaking of know nothing douchebags, the Kansas GOP has proven my point once again that privatization is the worst idea for any subject. These brainpowers decided to do it with their medicaid program with predictable results. Now is Medicaid perfect as is? Hardly. But there are better fixes than letting three private companies run it as Kansas has now shown. When passed, the governor promised it would save money and not cut care. Neither has been proven right. The program has already run over budget and cost saving measures such as denying 24/7 nursing care for those that need have been implemented. So instead of getting much needed care, that has been reduced to eight hours days. What is a person who needs 24/7 care supposed to do for those 16 hours he is alone? The wait list to get on these programs is estimated by some to be over seven years long now, which before was two at best. Now raising taxes on corporations and accepting the federal government plan on Medicaid would have been better, cheaper and less deadly. Instead the GOP went full on death panels, which is ironic considering
how many times I heard those words screamed about Obamacare. Congratulations Kansas, you got what you voted for. Enjoy watching people die by the thousands.
3)Craig Cobb-Yes everyone's favorite white supremacist is back. Hot off his recent revelation that he is in fact, part black, Cobb has had a few rough weeks. AWWWW. My heart bleeds. Getting back from the talk show how that outed him as that which he hates, his house was covered in racist graffiti. Now that's funny. Then due to some dispute with the town, Cobb and another man decided to walk around town carrying weapons in some lame attempt at intimidation. It didn't work as Cobb was arrested and placed into jail for his ill advised tactics. Since then, Cobb has gone on a hunger strike. He is now in a hospital where he will be force fed if necessary. Stick to your guns douche and stop eating forever. If you die, it's one less racist schmuck in Earth.
4)Merrill E. Newman- Nothing makes me angrier than people doing the stupidest things imaginable. The film The Purge is excellent in which every character in the movie does the wrong thing every time. It is almost laughable by the end. But in real life, it's just kind of sad. Newman decided to follow in the footsteps of the three teens who thought a vacation jaunt to the Iraq/Iran border would be all sorts of fun. It wasn't when they got arrested and held for months as prisoners. Newman did the same with an incredible idiotic desire to return to North Korea to see all the places he slaughtered the enemy. Good times. As he was about to leave, he was arrested and held, basically, for ransom by the government. I say let him rot. If you are dumb enough to go to a place you know is dangerous, you are on your own if things go bad. We shouldn't be wasting our State Department's time on rescuing some old fart too stupid to know not to put a live rattlesnake in his pants. I am sick of saving morons all the time.
5)China- I don't know what is up with China, but they are basically double dog daring the world to nuke them. First, they say they are not buying any more debt, which is fine. But then to announce that they will be selling off all treasury debt, moving away from the petrol dollar and establishing the yuan as a new world currency is asking for it. Lastly, in a truly dangerous gamble, they have seized air space that Japan claims as its own. Airlines are being asked to respect the new air space but I find unlikely that Japan will back down over the islands beneath which they claim as their own and may hold untold wealth. We flew bombers over the area as a clear FU to China and a sign that our treaty with Japan will demand we defend them from any Chinese aggression. All of these signs are the kind of things that lead to war, and if China is involved, nukes are likely. Swell.
6)Heathcare.gov- Today is the deadline for the website to be up and running and it is. Sort of. It can only handle a minuscule 50,000 people at a time, unlike say Facebook which can handle 20 million at a time. Way to raise the bar Obama. At that rate, if every single person in America needed to access the site (which they wouldn't but for sake of argument let's say they do), it would take over a year for everyone to access it. Now it is not all bad news as one of my friends discovered she will save over $20,000 a year on health insurance with the new plans for her and her staff. That's not chump change. And giving people access to health care is important as I know all to well in MA. But this site is a disaster still, the result of cronyism in action where important projects are being given to lessers because of their connections and not their know how. As this has infected all ways of life now, we are doomed to rule by idiots everywhere. Gut this site and try again.
7)Black Friday Shoppers- What a bunch of rubes you are people, especially anyone who went out to stores on Black Friday or Grey Thursday or whatever bullshit they are calling it. First off, Internet sales are pretty good so you don't have to navigate through a Hunger Games reenactment at the local Walmart. Second, many of the so called deals aren't. Studies show many items priced for less months earlier like a blender that was ten dollars cheaper on Labor Day and a TV that was exactly the same price as a Fourth of July sale. I've worked retail sales in the past and let me tell you many of those so called deals aren't. They mark up the price and then announce fifty percent off, which is still higher than the suggested retail price in the first place. Or the bait and switch where they get you in the store with low prices on one thing, and while you are there, convince you to buy something else that isn't the deal you think it is. Some of you got screwed this past weekend. Good. Anyone who went shopping on Thanksgiving is a giant douchebag. Let people have one damned day off from their shitty job already.
8)60 Minutes and the MSM- The media is lying to you. Many of you apparently already know that as ratings for MSNBC and CNN have dropped in half. Fox dropped slightly but as the only news channel that actually has real news (and lots of fake news) they are still number one and that is sad. CNN and MSNBC are simply unwatchable because of all the nonsense they talk about. Fox does the same which convinces the dumber of us out there facts that are not true, but once in a while they do get it right. I can't say the same for either of the other two. If they, I don't know, reported the news without any spin, they might actually see their ratings double. But this isn't a left versus right thing as ALL news is garbage right now. Don't believe me. Let's look at actual facts.
Crystal Magnum was a household name after she falsely accused three Duke Lacrosse players of raping her. The prosecutor decided to press charges even though there was zero evidence of a rape and plenty of doubt that she was telling the truth. When it came out she lied, the prosecutor got disbarred and Magnum was let go, no charges pressed, even though she ruined the lives of the three players who were expelled from school. That story played across 160 media outlets throughout the country. This past week, Magnum was sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing her boyfriend. Total number of news outlets that did a story on it: 2. CNN reported on it twice and once on Fox. That's it. No MSNBC, no ABC, not one newspaper in the country. How is that possible?
Or take this gem: according to the NYT and NPR, the knockout game is a hoax being spread by racists to inflame racial tensions between blacks and whites. WTF? So all those people that have been killed or injured in this so called hoax are imagining their broken jaws and racial taunts, as almost every case has been black teens beating up white people. Why is it if a black person beats a white guy it's not racial, but the vice versa causes marches up and down city streets as an affront to people of color. Please. In 2006, a gang of black teens in Long Beach, CA raped and beat three white girls while screaming things like "Kill Whitey." This was never reported in the MSM and no hate crime charges were brought against the thugs who did this. NPR talked about it, but for them it was discussion which asked if black people can be racist, which is the dumbest thing I ever heard. The black community accepts racist attitudes more than any other group in this country and to deny that it exists is just foolish. The liberal media has decided that black people are never racist and as a result, play down any story that refutes that idea. That is just plain dangerous.
But the worst of the group is 60 Minutes, a laughable bit of propaganda run by CBS Corp, which is the most disingenuous news channel, and yes they are even worse than Fox. They have been at the center of every major controversy for the past twenty years in which their news gathering skills have been called into question. They railroaded Dan Rather out for daring to ask questions about President W. Bush's military record which basically said he skipped out on most of his assignments while on duty in the Air Force but got away with it because of his family. When the documents were declared hoaxes, Rather paid for it with his job. This was a classic bit of disinformation in which true statements are placed with a smattering of wrong data which makes the whole sheet suspect. Had CBS done their job, they might have found the document was true, but CBS decided to go the other route, like they have so many times in the past.
When Pierre Salinger found evidence that rocket fuel was found on some seat backings from TWA 800, he sent his findings to CBS for verification. Instead of doing their jobs and testing the material, they gave it to the government and ratted out Salinger who then went to jail for possessing stolen property. The tests on the seats were never done and CBS lost any journalistic creed they might have had.
60 Minutes has done similar things in the past such as scuttling a big tobacco story because CBS Corp had stock interest in Phillip Morris and they were afraid the story would damage their holdings. Way to kill a story guys. Their actions became the plot line to the movie the Insider and damaged their credibility. After this latest fuck up though, anyone still watching this shit program should rally turn the channel to something more educational like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Turns out that the reason for the Benghazi hoax that 60 Minutes was propagating wasn't all Laura Logan's fault (who has been suspended along with her producer) but CBS Corp who were the brianpowers behind the book the merc liar was peddling. CBS Corp was actively selling their own narrative to sell a product they knew was crap, to make money and, as result, cost taxpayers millions in unneeded hearings in Congress and led to further distrust of all institutions. These assholes should be arrested.
The media is lying to you to sell products now. They are telling you the unemployment rate is 7% when it is closer to 30%. They are telling you the housing market is improving in places like CA and NV when the opposite is actually true. They are you telling you since the stock market is rising, all is well and not why the stock market is rising due to QE infinity and buy back stocks from major corporations. All in all, the MSM sucks and people should take whatever they say with a grain of salt. So congratulations MSM and especially 60 Minutes you are indeed douchebag of the week.
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