Lost Your Job? Your Sanity is next! Fuck the GOP

There was an article on Bloomberg.com that detailed the woes of credit card companies and how they’re hoping to convert themselves into holding companies so they can tap the TARP funds.

Hold the fuck up one goddamn minute! Those sons of bitches don’t need ANY taxpayer money… none!

Let them go under.

They are ruthless predators and give their clients/cardholders no muthafuckin’ mercy! I lost my 2nd job in October and asked AMEX if I can make a double-payment in November, the wise-ass customer service rep, said sure. But when I made the double payment, AMEX cancelled my account and sent me to collections!!! Now I have those dicks NCO Financial calling me up, haranguing me for money that I don't have --- 'cause they want the ENTIRE BILL paid right now, no installments, no deals, nothing. All the money, now!

What sense does that make, if I couldn't make the $15/month payment how the FUCK am I supposed to pay the $375! I owe. Granted this is not a lot of money, but it is for someone who has a demoralizing job that doesn't pay enough to cover all the monthly expenses and eat...

Bitches...

I'm Making Arab Money

I have a question about how all this Rescue Package money is going to be spent and monitored… when most people or companies ask for loans they have to submit a “Uses of Funds” document, so the lender know how that money is going to be spent. For some with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed through the TARP

With this Taxpayer Money that’s being given out, the Treasury Department and Congress to have as much oversight as possible, and the people who submit these “Uses of Funds” documents need to be held criminally liable if that money is spent on something else or effectively wasted (the violation being Lying to Congress, so if you fuck-up you’ll do time in Federal Prison, don’t need to put people with rapist, gang-bangers and drug dealers).

Woes...

You know what I fucking hate right now… the telephone. My current wage-slave is answering phones (among other things) at a completion bond company… it’s god-awful, because I answer maybe 200 incoming calls a day – talk about having every ring of the phone distract and throw-off your concentration. I took this job, because I need steady income as the Writers’ Strike totally derailed my writing career and any opportunities that we starting to come. Not to mention my coke-head manager was throwing sabots into the works!

But now it’s extra worse, because of the flagging economy, I’m behind on my muthafucking bills and the Creditors are calling again. I went through a period back in 2004 and 2005, when I was jobless for about 6 months and had Creditors calling me every single fucking day asking for money.

It’s a point now where I cringe whenever the phone rings – it’s ringing right fucking now – because it’s either assholes at my job calling up looking for my boss or it’s assholes looking for money that I don’t have.

What’s really the shits is I can’t get a new job! I’ve been trying for a new job since last July, and nothing. Only two or three interviews… and that’s it. I guess I can’t really complain because I do have a JOB…

Uncle Tom Up In The GOP House!!

So the GOP-WBN selected Michael Steele to be the new Chairman of the RNC (don’t you just love acronyms?)… Steele, obviously picked to expunge the stench of “the White Boy Confederate Party” moniker that lingers so foully around the Republican party, is perhaps the worst type of Black man… a 21st Century Uncle Tom! It was bad enough when Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas were getting GOP attention during the 90s, but this fool – even if it wasn’t the Age of Obama – is the biggest puppet outside of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the post the Age of Dubya, Dumbasses and Dickswinging GOP leaders –

Come the fuck on! A nigga is in charge of the Confederate Party? How stupid and ignorant does that sound? I don’t want to hear about how Steele represents religious values or fiscal conservatism, because under the GOP since Nixon shamed the fuck out of national office all the Elephant Party has been about is deregulating the public and private sectors, slashing public services, spreading the public’s ass-cheechs for Wall Street/Big Business (a fascist ideology) and finding every possible tax to be reduced… which we now know has been the most ignorant path of social economic growth – the bubble that burst from the GOPs mantra will present a problem for the Baby Boomers for the next decade (serves them fucks right, after all their greedy behavior over the last 30 years, they ain’t gonna have SHIT but pain during their retirement).

You know I can’t wait for Ronald Reagan’s name to be up there with Benedict Arnold– as a name that is a slanderous curse words. I can’t believe that the GOP faithful were trying to have his ugly visage carved into Mount Rushmore – if Obama sets the path to redeeming the country international and reviving the castrated economy, then HE needs his face up there… otherwise, just put Obama on the currency (like a new $25) or the replace Grant from the $50…

Steele… you shame the race, you shame the current spirit of the country!

The JOURNEY BEGINS... a new day has dawned in America.

A

BLACK MAN

is now the President of the United States! Can you mutha-fuckin'-believe it!!!

The huge expectations that now hang over Obama's shoulders probably can't be conveyed in words (maybe a book or two), because everybody has their own idea of what "CHANGE" means in respect to Obama and what he's supposed to bring to Washington, to America, to the Rest of the World.

First and foremost we have to believe that the Post-Cold War Kids, who were strategically crucial in this paradigm-shift election, now want government to actually DO something. Put away all the bullshit regarding who's right on the Left and who's wrong on the Right, stow the partisan rhetoric and let's end these pernicious Culture Wars -- because the Right-Wing/Conservative/Confederate Party/GOP lost, their emissaries have raped the economy, pillaged Wall Street and gutted everyone's pension fund and retirements... so they could party like it's 1987!

The challenges that face Barak Obama are considerable, but he's put together a team of heavy weights who will challenge him and challenge the timber of the federal political machine. Just to name a few:
- Change the way Americans consumer energy

- Enact Public Healthcare for all Americans

- Reform Entitlement Programs

- Solve the Shit in the Middle East

- Capture bin Laden (dead or alive)

- Change "The Tone" of politics

I'm glad that Barak Obama and his Michelle were restrained through the entire ceremony, because Blacks, in general, get associated with emotionalism far too much (witness Cuba Gooding, Jr., Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx) -- his speech was powerful, but not the oratory soar that we might have expected. However, it was great from start to finish and didn't get too emotional or peppered with "remember this" lines -- that would have cheapened the moment. Let it be known that Obama did get in his veiled jabs at Dubya and his failed abysmal administration.

Are we going to refer to Barak Obama as BHO in the future? The way we use JFK, FDR and LBJ? After he leaves office? Before?

This Ras The Exhorter signing out.

Shoes Over Guns

IraqiGunman
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

I guess in Iraq you have to throw shoes to get people's attention... it's hard to believe that Dubya got threatened by the one thing that Richard Reid also thought was a WMD... only in the case of the Iraqi reporter who basically shit in Dubya's pillowcase and put it back on the bed, he's being championed by his people as a HERO.

I'd imagine that if something similar happened in the US, the ShoeThrower would get Tasered and be the suggest of a viral internet laughing stock campaign.

It makes no sense to me what the Iraqis find disrespectful... also what makes no sense is, where was secret Service? Jay Leno posited this self-same question, and honestly does anybody have an answer? Also, is that team of Treasury Agents getting the Pink Slip during these Harsh Economic Times? You tell me? And are they able to get Unemployment Insurance if they did get axed?

-- Ras The Exhorter signing off...

Coming Soon to Detroit Three Months Only

Road Warrior
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

It's pretty outrageous that the WBN-GOP Senators were talking about giving the Big 3 until March to get their act together.

This type of idiotic thinking begs me to bring up the point of ELITE BUREAUCRATS... a concept that is completely foreign in the United States, but is a mainstay in Western European and Japanese governments. This is not to say that the bureaucrats of the other Western democracies all know how to run things with ease and smoothness, but more to the point that the "best and brightest" can and are attracted to civil servant roles. Whereas in the US the majority of civil servants are questionable types, with good intentions -- usually. Just ask Rowdy Roddy in Springfield, IL about good intentions for the public good or for himself.

No, Elite Bureaucrats are those men and woman who work for their governments with the kind of leadership and managerial skills one would expect in the most successful of private companies.

Think about what the US would be like if government service wasn't the bastion of those will limited knowledge or limited ambition? Our government would be different, wouldn't it?

And the concept of nationalization would stink like the worst fresh dog shit that you can think of.

I'm Rich, and You're NOT!

I'm Rich, and You're NOT!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Now that's an internal quote from the WBN-GOP...

The GOP is fighting tooth and nail to be permanently known for the next generation or two as the Party of Herbert Hoover and Dubya Bush -- as they'll be synonymous with trashed and devastating economic policies and the Party of Low Wages!

Even Tricky Dick Cheney was begging and pleading with the WBN-GOP Senators to pass the Auto Industry Rescue Package. Hopefully Dubya and the Treasury Department swoop in and allocate some of the TARP money to the Auto Industry (which IS applicable to GM via GMAC).

Why just this morning as I was driving to my storage locker I saw two 2009 SUVs! I almost shit myself, because I could understand for the life of me why someone actually recently bought one of the environmental disasters/energy hods.

Just because gas is going to hit $1.15/gal by the spring and the Big 3 won't have the same kind of external pressures to get them to make more fuel-efficient cars doesn't mean that the Oil Crisis has disappeared. It's still in full affect.

The WBN-GOP don't know how to connect with the American People anymore -- they are, by in large, clinging to the

REJOICE, REJOICE THE GOP IS DEAD

fuck Bush
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

That is not a far off statement, although it’s not completely true… yet. The past election has effectively demonstrated that the GOP is the Party of the Confederate States, of Old White Men and Country Bumpkins -- essentially an antiquated group of constituents that are seriously looking for a reason to continue to exist.

I can't find a reason, can you?

Additional Voices

Malcolm X - Ya Been Had, You Been Led Astray
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Greeting THE NIG IN ME readers, this is Ras The Exhorter here, a new blogger on Ramses’s site. He’s been tied up on many a projects and getting his life together, and he graciously asked me to contribute to this blog.
 
My first entry will be about the Transportation Safety Authority or TSA; they announced recently that by next fall the fluid ban will be lifted such that passengers will be able to once again carry liquid, gel or aerosols greater that 3 oz on planes.
 
Ras to the TSA (and the American Public) the Terrorist won! They’ve forced us to change our way of life. And that’s all the really want, so yeah, they won! Thanks a lot George Bush and Dick Cheney for pushing the fear of radical Islam off the scale. It is hard to believe that Richard Reid (aka The Shoe Bomber) and the theoretical musing of a group in Germany regarding making
 
The one crucial fact about the terrorists (where ever they are from and whatever dogma they subscribe to) is that they can wrong and defeated 99.9% of the time, but when they have to be right and get through that 01% all hell breaks loose, and the over-reactionary U.S. Government (under the jingoistic regime of G.W. Bush thankfully with less than 90 days left in the Presidency) curtails its citizens civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. The one document that almost no other country has, and is the basis for the freedom all American citizens enjoy above and beyond the rest of the populace in the Global Village.

I Mean Really?!?!?!

Monpoly spoof
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

POLITICS – OLD SKOOL CHI-TOWN STYLE
 
So the Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich showed the pink of his ass as he was forced to do the perp walk from the Governor’s Mansion early yesterday morning – Law Enforcement got his ass on some pretty wild, near cinematic, corruption charges. As this muthafucka was looking to sell President-Elect Barak Obama's vacated Senate seat -- wtf??

Here’s some quote from Blagojevich’s shit-filled mouth via the Fed's wire tap:
“I want to make money… the seat is a fucking valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.”
“I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fucking nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it.”
Rowdy Roddy even called up the Tribune Company looking to axe reporters who have a tendency to call him on his shit, “our recommendation is fire all those fucking people, get ‘em the fuck out of there and get us some editorial support.”
 
Far be it from me to laugh a dumb-ass politicians (well, that’s not true) – but U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald rancorously stated that that Roddy Blag had “taken the state to a new low!”

What’s even more fucked in the head is, Roddy Blagojevich was daring the Authorities to wire tap him! Daring them! In my experience when a muthafucka does that, it’s time to check with the FBI ‘cause you best believe they is already recording all that muthafuckas convos! And such was the case with Blagojevich… I’m mean, I don’t know who is worse Orenthal James Simpson, disaffectionately called “The Juice” or Rowdy Roddy Blageojevich! Each demonstrated a level of pigheaded boolshit, that I’m just cackling and cackling as I write this.
 
What kills me is that Blagojevich had been under investigation for FIVE FUCKING YEARS because of his extra dubious fund-raising and influence-peddling schemes – and apparently he was oblivious to the Feds on his ass or, or once Obama had solidified his DC power-base and knew that he needed a Senator to help him keep the dead GOP from coming back to life, Obama pressure the US Attorney to drop a hammer on Rowdy Roddy. Word on the street is that Rahm Emmanuel had a hand in this, 'cause Rowdy Roddy could have caused problems in the future by putting the wrong sumbitch in the Senate seat.
 
I guess we won’t know the truth about that, only can guess.

Racism Took A Day Off Yesterday

Nigger! Take that! And that!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

While I'm sure a LOT of muthafuckas is mad that a Brutha will now be occupying The White House, it doesn't deter from the Fact that Racism took a day off yesterday. It saw no point of coming to work.

It's Never Over

I contemplated taking down this blog after Obama's Victory... but the ethos behind this site still remains poignant regardless of the fact that Black Children will be living in the White House for the Next Four Years!!!!

However, I will be bringing on a new contributor as I take a more contemplative stance.

America perhaps will change, or at least the perception of the Country to the World will change.

Now go out and buy some stocks and bonds 'cause the prices is CHEAP!!!

Powell backing The One

Wanted - Colin Powell
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Sure it happened about a week ago, but I’m just now finishing up my thoughts on the subject. What’s irked me is Gary Bauer’s comments (that shameful Washington lobbyist) in that he dismissed Powell’s endorsing of Barak as an irrational act of racial solidarity. He's backing Barak 'cause they're both light skinned niggas? Please! McCain showed the pink of his ass by selecting Sarah Palin, that in itself should disqualify him from assuming power... should he win the election.

Bauer's comments smack of old skool bigotry, because most Black people in the Street have NEVER dapped up Colin Powell. In fact his name is routinely mispronounced as Colon, not Colin… it indicate that shit just passes through him.

Obviously he needs to make amends for being the Voice of the Bush Doctrine at the UN to convince people across the globe that the WMDs did in fact exist. A man has he been smarting since then.

So suck a left nutt Bauer, and keep your check book open as you write more checks to keep your self in the mix inside the Beltway, as your failed ideology continues to wreak havoc with the country at large.

Judge and Jury are forced to confront each other

To there was a groundbreaking case before the Supreme Court about discrimination during jury trials. The issue at stake is that prosecuting attornies were using their pre-emptory strikes (where they can just say, "you, you're off the jury" no questionsed asked) to systematically remove Blacks (and probably other minorities, too) from jury pools.

The Supreme Court, in a 7 - 2 Ruling, overturned a 1996 case in which the DA took five niggas off the jury, and sealed this ex-G.I. Joe's fate and sent him to death row by packing the jury with white folks. The details of the jury selection revolve around thsi one Black 26-year old student, who offered up some potential excuses that the trial might force him to miss a few days of class, and he was concerned about that. Even though the dean of his school said it would be okay, the DA kicked old boy off... so he could keep this one white dude on the jury, who was a contractor with two houses under construction and a wife coming home from the hospital after a major surgery, and he had no help at home. Now, who really needs to be removed?

The prevailing justices stated that it was egregious for the prosecutors to behave this way, and now they were on blast -- you kick niggas off the jury, then your conviction is apt to be overturned.

And the issues raised by Rev. Jerry Wright are labeled outrageous?

THE BITCH HAD WARDROBE MALFUNCTION?

Apparently the GOP dropped in excess of $150K on new, luxury Wardrobe (see Momist) for Sarah Palin and her ENTIRE family. I guess if you’re the head of government of the wanna-be breakaway state like Alaska, you can get away with dressing like Joe Six-pack’s moll and still be respected. I think it’s shameful and smacks of caddish behavior

What kills me about the walking spoof is that she keeps claiming that Obama’s tax proposals are socialist in nature, when the fact that Alaskan citizens get hand-out of petro-dollars that filters into the state’s coffers from the sale of that crude. Now if that isn’t socialist, then I don’t know what is? When the government hands out education grants and loans, which she no doubt used to attend the four different colleges that she attended, is that also considered the pinnacle of capitalism or is it more socialist in its slant?

This is the chumpess (ya like that?) who thinks that the Veep actually “runs things” in the Senate! She’s unfit for command, not because she’s a contemporary of Obama or inexperienced, but because she’s god-damn ignorant! And a hate monger to the extreme; not to mention her husband was/is a member of a seditious group (akin to the Southern Rebels during the Civil War); I’m surprised he has been arrested on charges and executed (which is the penalty for sedition!). I bet she didn’t know that, too.

When The World In Running Down...

Fuck, why did I get so many credit cards!?!!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

You make the best of what’s still around… a favorite line from a great Sting song called, “Another Day”; steal the mp3 from somewhere (like gomusic.ru) if you haven’t heard it. It was written in the early 80s, so it’s most poignant today… as we’re re-living those harsh economic times… although our times might be harsher than the ear of Stagflation.

People are scared these days, really scared because under the last three GOP administrations the country has scurrilously outsourced too many jobs. People are looking for scapegoats, best be sure; point in fact (this isn’t funny, but it’s hilarious) Lehman Brothers C.E.O., Richard Fuld, got punched in the company gym after it was announced that the firm was going under.

Allan Greenspan, the so-called maestro, admitted today, “I made a mistake in trusting that free markets could regulate themselves without government oversight.” First of all, the free market NEEDS to be regulated, it always has been – just think about the early days of the industrial revolution in England when kids were put to work in factories, because they were cheap labor. And the “Free market” demands the cheapest possible inputs.

FUCK THAT!

The Free Market is so rapacious and insatiable with its desire for continued growth at the expense of damn near everybody. And the sick joke is, American Culture still inculcates its citizens with the antiquated concept of “fair play.”

Greenspan expressed the real problem with this statement, “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.” The financial markets have been run since the mid 80s by a bunch of modern day robber barons – but this time they aren’t being so magnanimous with their wealth when it’s time to die. It was pretty much writ in stone and writ large the members of the corporatocracy (see Secret History Of the American Empire) would rape and pillage – even at the expense of shareholder value and the integrity of the firm – with impunity ever since Enron was found out to be molesting its stockholders and the public at large. All so those “smart guys” could have these multiple multimillion dollar houses all over the US.

People are actually scaling back on medications – which is why we need to have an overhauled healthcare system. One in which the Insurance companies are cut the fuck out of the picture. Why is that if you get sick that you have to ask the insurance company if you can get treatment? You don’t ask the doctor what kind of treatment you require, you ask the claims adjuster if you can even have treatment that isn’t just a Johnson’s & Johnson’s band-aid, a slap on the back and a plastic smile!?!?

Obama and Money

$20 Stacks
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

You know the oddest thing about Obama’s campaign on a socio-political viewpoint is that he’s raised huge sums of money (the GOP would say sickening sums, but fuck them). And this is interesting, because after raising $150 million in September, he’s only got a few weeks left to spend that money, and he’s probably still raising more.

He obviously needed these huge sums of money for his 30 minutes of triple network primetime airtime that he’s buying next week to put the ultimate pimp-slapping on McCain (and the GOP in general) next week. What he’s doing is completely unprecedented in American Politics! He’s basically arranging to have his own State of the Union before he’s even president (that is if he becomes president of this teetering republic), and he’ll break it down to the real (and false) Americans on that day – less than a week before the election – and expose the fraud and backstabbing and pocket-pilfering and general fuck-all-y’all mindstate that the GOP have been propagating since Newt Gingrich got his blasphemous Contract With America issued in the early 90s.

If I was an FBI agent, a crooked one that is, I would be tapping the houses and phones of many of the so-called power brokers in the country on Election Night, just to hear what this chumps have to say! How they react, how they scowl (as if I can hear scowling, but it’s possible!).

The money that this Black Man is commanding is more money than any black could hope to even dream about amassing for a political campaign. And I’m sure all the Old Guard Negroes are swing bats at their favorite effigy and cursing up a storm that they could never raise even a fraction of Barry’s monopoly-esque money boon!

I wonder if he’ll dole it out to other politicians in need?

100 Days Left

You'll Learn To Like The Foot On Your Neck
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Dubya's only get 100 days left in office, and then the International Criminal Court needs to indict him and his entire war cabinet during the entire length of the Iraq War for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.

The ICC refuses to mount those charges, then it needs to stop indicted ANYBODY with those charges, and people who are up for trial on those charges now need to have them dismissed.

The New Economy

kertesz_wandering_violinist
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Is that a fascinating job? yeah, i'm talking about the photo!!

We'll be seeing those types of families again soon, only people won't be documenting it with B&W images -- but HD video on widescreen TVs.