Back-stabbing and Back-biting

Haven't posted in LIKE forever.
Still homeless, so I don't get
to the internet cafes or the LAPL
as much as I want -- WITH FREETIME
-- keep up the blog.

What's been interesting to me of
late is that al-Qaeda is still roaming
large like some terrorist group out of
Marvel Comics (i.e. Hydra)! A few weeks
ago pundits were talking about how al-Qaeda
is a franchiseable terrrorist operation!!!

Radio - The Mouthpiece of the Foot On Your Neck

New York City was, is and always will be the Mecca of Hip-hop, and its radio stations desire to hold the much-sought after title of "The Arbiter of Pop Urban Black Culture for the Youth" -- that's a mouthful, but a better euphemism might the station that "keeps it the realist." As if that's something with any true weight in the context of the world.

But anyway, New York's Hot 97(WQHT-FM) has been the epicenter of controversy, as rappers are using the radio as their soapbox to take a piss on rival rappers. For instance (from 3/14/05 NYTimes):

Late last week the rapper Jadakiss had a personal message for his rival 50 Cent: "You should just sell clothes and sneakers cause out of your whole camp your flow's the weakest." He chose not to relay the message by fax or two-way pager, nor did he pick up the phone. Instead, Jadakiss turned to an outlet that has become an increasingly popular avenue for communication and conflict within the world of hip-hop: the radio station Hot 97.

Releasing "diss records" has been a mainstay in hip-hop, an extension of the problematic extreme Alpha Male syndrome that corrupts the way Black men conduct themselves in the ghettos and is spilling over to the suburbs.

Now Jadakiss could not have chosen a bigger megaphone. Hot 97, which is owned by the Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corporation, is the No. 2 station among listeners in New York City and has been No. 1 in the city's 18-34 demographic for nearly a decade. It earns an estimated $40 million annually in revenue, putting it in the top five of Emmis's 25 radio stations. That's a HEFTY as fuck sum, lets you what kind of real $$$$ hip-hop and its exploitation of nigga culture generates THAT THE ARTISTS SEE VERY LITTEL OF. But in recent months Hot 97 has been buried in bad publicity. Critics contend that Hot 97 has tilted from credible arbiter of rap trends to ratings-hungry promoter of violence and racism. This had to happen, because invariably the commercial exploitation of Blacks is going to invite charges of racism, racist behavior from Blacks and whites and some down-right fuckshit, aka "it's a black thang... you wouldn't undastand!"

If not marred by enough senseless and pointless violence, ...two weeks ago, gunfire erupted in front of Hot 97's Greenwich Village offices, shortly after 50 Cent announced on the air that he was booting his protégé, the Game, from his G-Unit clique. The incident, coincidentally, occurred on the first day of the rapper Lil' Kim's perjury trial, stemming from her account of a 2001 shoot-out in front of Hot 97. All of this follows the monthlong battering Hot 97 has endured for airing a song mocking victims of the tsunami tragedy. Did this, I wonder, make national news? It just shows the callousness that young Black people exude -- a callousness that is justified, because young Blacks are systematically just as disenfranchised as the tsunami victims... yet their plight ain't called a tradegy; it's called niggas being lazy... by those who keep a foot on the Black man's neck.

The effect has pointed up, at the very least, how commerce on the cutting edge of hip-hop culture can go awry. I just said it earlier, but if you thnk about it any kind of commercial exploitation of Black culture goes awry, because whites are stripmining and niggas are trippin' from their lack of even the basic knowledge of the tenants of U.S. capitalism. And the recent events may impose another real-world price on the station: the landlord of the building that houses Hot 97 has threatened to oust the station, citing a track record of shootings, fights and "severe verbal abuse of security and building management personnel."

Emmis executives say they are simply trying to maintain their balance.

"We don't want to do anything that provokes or encourages or escalates any kind of violent behavior between camps," said Rick Cummings, president of Emmis's radio division. "By the same token, I can't have the radio station being viewed as a sellout or less than genuine by the younger part of the audience."This, and this alone can go A LONG way in explaining the blighted existence of the American Negro, why he is still a slave, a hustler who's overhead is in EXACT accordance to what his hustle brings in, an ignorant free man who seeks the stabilty of working a wage-slave position and smoking up a good deal of his or her earnings to combat the effects of being in constanct survival mode. What kills me the muthafuckin' most is that

The stakes are high. While considered a kingpin of rap radio, the station is facing increased competition from upstart Power 105.1 (WWPR-FM), which is owned by the radio giant Clear Channel Communications. Though Hot 97 still has a comfortable lead over Power 105 in the 18-34 demographic - the "money demographic," according to radio analysts - Power 105, for the first time since its inception two years ago, managed to beat Hot 97 in overall ratings. Management may also be worried, industry observers say, because Star and Buc Wild, once wildly popular (and controversial) morning show D.J.'s at Hot 97, are now perched at Power 105.1.

Meanwhile, local activists are calling for an overhaul of the station. Rosa Clemente, a leading organizer of an anti-Hot 97 rally held earlier this month, accused the station of promoting music filled with misogynistic and violent content. "They call themselves the place where hip-hop lives," she said, "but hip-hop does not live there. A culture of greed and disrespect lives at Hot 97." The Rev. Al Sharpton and several state and local lawmakers recently asked Federal Communications Commission to turn its attention to the station. And along with every other major radio broadcaster in the area, Emmis has received a subpoena from Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general, for information on its promotional practices.

"We have run into a string of rotten luck here," Mr. Cummings said in an interview, "but if you look at us over the last 17 years, I think the record is pretty stellar."

But Hot 97 is not the only Emmis station that has landed in hot water. Only last summer, Emmis agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve complaints of indecency against a Chicago D.J. In settling the charges with a F.C.C. increasingly intolerant of indecency on the airwaves in the wake of last year's Super Bowl halftime show, Emmis committed itself to a plan to prevent future violations. (Emmis also owns 16 television stations and Los Angeles magazine and Texas Monthly.)

Predatory Banks Exposed as Part of Anti-Nigger Machine!

I was listening to the Public Radio International show TO THE POINT yesterday and the main story was about how Blacks an Latinos have a disproportionately high level of home foreclosures... the reason behind this? A resurfacing and repackaging of an old technique that white people used to fuck with people of color, this time it's called REVERSE REDLINING!!! This is where the insidious bankers/mortgage brokers specifically target Black and Latino homeowners and sucker them in to taking out subprime loans on their homes. Not because these people have bad credit ratings, far from it! Their only crime could have just been being financial ignorant (truth be told, many of those exotic subprime loans are DESIGNED to confuse the borrower) and that banks, all the major banks, have systematically pulled out of servicing the so-called Ghetto.

Criminally evil bank Wells Fargo was particular malignant and malicious in its predatory activity. They're being sued by the City of Baltimore for their wide-spread practice of reverse redlining. Employees have stated under oath that they called Blacks and Hispanics, "Mud People" and were going to saddle "these idiots with ghetto loans." I'm surprised there hasn't been any emails released outlining this Anti-Nigger Machine Practice.

We can once again place the blame of this fucking with Blacks at the feet of the Dubya Bush Administration's policies. Dubya was all about having as many people as possible own homes -- irrespective of their qualifications for that or if it was economically feasible to have some much home ownership... because we saw how this drive for everyone to have their house with the picket fence artificially inflated home prices across the board.

We can also blame Dubya Bush for the outrageous level of consumer spending that went on in the wake of 9/11. Remember when that Texas fuckwad got up on the mic and damn near begged Americans to going to buy, buy, buy to spur the economy!

Thanks a lot, Dubya!

The problem with banks like Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual (uh... Chase now) is that they pushed and pushed and pushed these loans on unsuspecting Black people. In the TO THE POINT story, one of the guests recounts that in Atlanta there were task forces, TASK FORCES!!! that were set up to prevent these ANM vultures from co-opting Black Home Owners with "equity in your house that you're wasting" at Church! At Church!

What the Fuck Is Wrong With These People?!!?! Oh, I forgot, that Dubya Bush motto of get in a home and then self-rape your home by pulling out the equity so you can buy some more shit under conspicuous consumption ideals that you don't really need. The sad thing is, it wasn't just white people peddling these loans to financial illiterate people of color; lots of Uncle Tom-type card-carrying GOP Blacks and Hispanics were enlisted to "work with your people."

A record pace of home foreclosures is taking its biggest toll on blacks and Hispanics. Did big lenders conduct a new kind of housing discrimination by pushing sub-prime loans to minorities hoping for a piece of the American dream?

Getting Fucked in the ass HURTS no matter who's doing it!

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This week the Obama Administration has enacted edicts to cap executive pay for financial companies and the big banks. Bravo, bravo, bravo.

Now many critics are clamoring that this is socialist, that this yanks the core out of capitalism (being paid a heinously high wage for your skill set), and that it'll stifle competition or cause a "brain drain" at this top

The so-called skill that these top financial wizards really have is the moxy to bet large and bet large often where the odds of success are rigged to work out, but in the extreme happenings that the bets don't pay off, Satan comes calling to the American Taxpayer.

The upper level managers at the big banks WILL NOT be hurting by having actually salary caps, because they're getting unlimited compensation in stock options... which means that the quest to drive up the stock prices (short term gain over long term growth once again) will continue to put at risk everyone else's wealth. Not to mention that these people will be able to borrow against the future worth of the stock options (that will no doubt be worth a lot, because these oligarchs WILL ensure that the stock price continues to rise -- at the expense of what else? who knows, but surely it's at the expense of the lower classes' pensions and future well-being.

My bunghole hurts just thinking about how big of dildo Wall Street is going to shove up it -- with no vaseline -- next time.

I heard something today, which has to be bullshit, but probably not and I'll have to do some research to find out. In any event, the tidbit of news was that Bank of America will be charging its credit card customers a few who PAY OFF THEIR ENTIRE BALANCE EACH MONTH! Yeah, seriously you must pay Bank of America interest fees if you carry a balance or pay a fee just to keep the card if you carry no balance (and they have the nerve to maintain the name "bank of america", should be the "bank of the soviet republic").

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's too close to what a bullshit credit card company like First Premier does (you have to pay $6/month "service" fee... regardless if you have a balance or not just to keep your account open... on top of the annual fee and any interest charges you get for whatever balance you have).

Take the dick out of my ass BofA, please!?!!?

Wells Fargo, run by cheap fucker John G. Stumpf, no doubt has something similar in the works that they'll announce shortly.

It would seem that American Express isn't such a bad option with their $55 annual fee... at least if you're the type of person who doesn't want to carry a credit card balance and uses the credit card as a cash substitute, not a loan. Getting a loan these days is just a pernicious hassle if banks like BofA and Wells Fargo are going to spread your buttchecks and expand your sphincter with a baseball bat.

The Oligarchical power that the Wall Street Banks exhibit, subtly, is really a direct result of Ronald Reagan's presidency. Remember President Eisenhower's Farewell Speech, in which he warned about the heinous and pernicious power grab that the Military Industrial Complex was working? Well, during Reagan's administration, he fucking embraced the Military Industrial Complex and made the majority of Americans think it was unpatriotic not to do so!!!

You want to know why America can pay for healthcare and why Social Security is such an atomic bomb in national politics? Because of Reagan's excessive military spending on programs that were just complete bullshit designed to line the pockets of rich fucks. Remember SDI? The Strategic Defense Initiative? It was Reagan's military business CEOs wanting more money, and Reagan pushed through the spending measure on some program in which laser satellites were going to shoot down Soviet ICBMs... yeah,... how completely idiotic does that sound. Considering the fact that no one knows if ICBMs actually will work... they've never been tested! Do yo know that! The idea of sending missiles over the North Pole is lunacy, because who knows if the extreme magnetism won't trip up the guidance system.

That's why the nuclear submarine fleet is of infinite more importance, we know those SAM warheads actually work.

But Reagan tricked the public into thinking that America needed to outspend the Soviets, when it was known by the CIA DURING NIXON'S TIME that the Soviets were no real military threat... and yet, for another 15 years money was wasted on building up the military at the expense of reducing the deficit, money that could have been spent on renewable energy. Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House (which Reagan tore down like the complete jackass that he was), and just imagine if Reagan did help orchestrate Carter's defeat by colluding with the Ayatollah Khomenini and Carter's policies on getting the US off its oil addiction had been in effect for the another 4 years? Where would we be known regarding the quest for Green Energy Sources? A lot fucking further than we are now... but Exxon and the rest of Big Oil was funding Reagan and the rest of the GOP SOBs... to the benefit of whom? The top CEOs, Board Members and major block shareholders... at the expense of the planet and the American taxpayers wallets.

Reagan jammed a fat dick up our asses and we still can't get it out, because we now have to make hard as FUCK decisions regarding healthcare, social security and green energy... all the while letting the

If the US had adopted Carter's ideals about renewable energy, the Jihadi movement wouldn't be so powerful, because by around 1990 to 1994, the US wouldn't need so much oil from the Middle East and its zealots wouldn't have thought of the World Trade Center as such a massive target.

Can we take Reagan's cock out of our ass now? Please, it's still hurts even though it's been pumping in and out for the past 25 years...

White Man Admits to Wide-Spread Racism Among Whites

Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.

Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?

Now I want to ask:

"When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Birmingham" Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than "talk the talk."

Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.

We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.

Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.

Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.

But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've proven what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.

But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."

Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"

How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us?

How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?

How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior?

How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?

How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin?

How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?

I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?

How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

How long before we start "living out the true meaning" of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that "red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?

Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe I'll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.

But here's my three-point plan:

First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.

Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama.

Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth" sing of our damnable color prejudice,

"We HAVE overcome."
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It takes a Village to protect our President!!!

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Dow Flirts with 10,000?!!?!? Where's My Wealth?!??!

So after a YEAR of dismal results and a Nero Burning Rome loss of wealth for the overwhelming majority of investors, the Dow Jones Industrial Average breached the 10,000 mark today -- only briefly though. That's a level the DJIA hasn't seen since right before the financial markets were freefalling into the abyss!

As I always stated the Dow is a fucked up means of measuring, judging, estimating economic activity (please, can we have new measurement, and we can't trust the GDP figures either), because the US economy is still in diarrhea-filled toilet -- unemployment has topped 10% (and that's going to be a persistent level of chronic, pervasive unemployment), the financial section STILL isn't lending money to non-financial sector businesses (obviously companies like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase are making their bones), the retail sector is still anemic, and the housing market is just waiting for the next round of foreclosures.

The big Wall Street banks are posting increasing profits, mainly because of the trading the profits that they're making by trading amongst themselves.

Even if the DJIA has recovered to pre-shit storm levels, have the portfolios of John Q. Investors

Employers are still laying workers off, and the thing about that is, companies look "better" to Wall Street when they have less expenses, i.e. payroll and insurance premiums. This is one of the reasons why companies are looking "attractive" in the short-term (the next quarter or two), but that's what has gotten American companies in trouble in the first place. The slavery to Wall Street expectations and being offered up to the blood thirsty god Profit has forced most important and sustaining jobs offshore to China (where the government purposely keeps the currency artifically low, so the goods & services are cheaper than what they would normally be).

The New York Fed has set a new stage for the rich to get richer (just watch for all the bonuses that AIG, Goldman Sachs and the rest of the tax coffer robbers over the next couple of months), and because the Zero Sum Game is the only game in town in the current (and future) economy, be prepared to follow the rules of Machiavelli.

Enemy of Humanity? Please! On of few rays of hope in the Western World

President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday October 9, 2009... I wonder what that Arizona Congressman, a complete fucknut, who claimed that President Barack Obama is an enemy of humanity or that their needs to be a a military coup to remove the Obama Influence on the country.

These Tea-baggers & 912ers... they're not patriotic at all, they part of the ever-emerging White Identity Movement was lit on fire on Election day 2008.

So mark my words, it's time to watch the FUCK OUT! What ever these people say, they don't like President Barack Obama and his policies -- which aren't liberal or socialist -- simply because he's Black.

What's sad is that some many white people refuse to acknowledge that , so few white people are calling a spade a spade in public. What's is aggravating is when watching any commentary/news channel (i.e. CNN, MSNBC, Fox News), the majority of the commentators and facilitators/anchors is that they don't broach the subject of racism or confront the guests on the lies they're spewing or that their party (or business) wants them to spew.

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Messenger of Humanity, spoke about President Barack Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, indicating that what's important about the prize recognition is that America finnally recognized its internal hatred and racial violence by electing a Black man, a member of the former slave class, to the highest, most legitimate office in the land.

Afghani Taliban is not pleased that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize -- fuck them! What international voice do they have? The International Hate Prize? The International Divisive Champion Medal? And the only other group that is so up-in-arms about Barack Obama being bestowed with this international prize is the WHITE Republican - Confederate - GOP card-carrying Americans. Even that Uncle Tom of Uncle Tom's Michael Steele let horseshit flow from his mouth when he had a chance to comment about the Prize. When is Michael Steele going to rip Rush Limbaugh's hand from out his rectum, and quit being Rush's ass puppet?

The Nobel Committee defended their choice by citing that President Barack Obama changed the climate of international diplomacy and his desire to reduce (perhaps eliminate) nuclear arms. After Dubya Bush and Tricky Dick Cheney's machinations that are akin to Rome's Nero basically force-fed day old dog shit down the throat of the world, anything that Barack Obama does to change the way the international community views the US of A is worth getting some prize.

President Barack Obama has rockstar popularity around the world, outside of America, because the world population doesn't have a history of keeping their foot on the Black man's neck. It was done by Europeans, but its held up continually by Americans. I'm talking about White Identity Movements, who feel embattled perpetually (??!!?) Now this might be true, but one must consider this -- the history of the White Race is to dominate all other races, not to assimilate or even co-exist!!

We, that is educated and semi-educated people, must do is be extra vigilant against ALL White Power Movements that look to establish themselves and hold on to power - as if White People don't have all the power in the world. If they're afraid of losing power they need to handle the Chinese. Ignorant fuckers.

Weak Dollar... Street Rioting Is Next, Right?

Today the dollar lost value against the major international currencies (because Australia raised interest rates) and this prompted the Chinese to once again try to have oil priced in a different currency other than dollars; they’d no doubt prefer the yuan.

The problem with pegging ANY international commodity or means of valuing an object to the Chinese yuan, is that the Chinese government controls the convertibility of the yuan. As the yuan doesn’t “float” against other currencies and get valued by market forces, it is true value is suspect (currently the yuan is vastly undervalued, hence the reason why Chinese goods are so cheap on the international market, and one of the reasons why the Chinese economy is so strong).

The Russians have been trying to get oil priced in a different currency, Euros perhaps, for a long time, because as the Muscovites lost their superpower status, the schemers in the Kremlin wants some ability to be relevant again on the international stage. Not gonna happen for Moscow; that country is losing citizens like you wouldn’t believe (population has declined for the 15 year in a row, even with mothers getting a bonus check for having kids) and the economy is controlled by a few (like the US) who are wildly corrupt and use menacing and repellent violence to get what they want done (unlike the US).

Of course the Saudis have refused to price oil in anything other than dollars, and they summarily declined the Chinese request. This possibly has something to do with the little-publicized knowledge that the US can blow-up the Saudi refineries and petro-infrastructure. Plus there is some bizarre relationship between the Saudis and the US that can't be explained as to why the Saudis back the US's global powerplays when George Bush the Elder was most active on the global stage.

But perhaps in 7 years from now, when the US still hasn't regained any financial strength, the dollar will no longer be the pricing currency for any globally trade commodity (maybe pork bellies and oranges). When that happens, best believe the US economy will stumble into a depression that it'll never recover from. The dollar will weaken so much and the thirst for foreign oil won't have changed that much... and the US economy will have less buying power to get all goods that it wants. That's when the standard of living gets crazy as it nose-dives in way that will be unprecedented. The only precedent we have is the fact that when empires collapse it is UGLY!

Government for the People, By the Corporations!!!!

Look, it's no secret that the $10 million dollars spent by the Healthcare Insurance industry did the trick in blocking and true, substantial healthcare reform (I don't GIVE A FUCK, what Obama and the White House says in the coming days and weeks, we The People, have been had).

But what's even more insidious is the court case going up to The Nine as the new term begins. Chief Justice Roberts begged to have the Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee get examined. This is the court case revolving around that smear video that was released during the Democratic Primary that made Hillary Clinton look unworthy of public office. The crux of the case is that Citizens United wants corporations to have GREATER rights that the average (or even above average) American Citizen. Citizens United wants to enable corporations to have unlimited campaign finance contributions during the last 30 days of an election cycle. Citizen United wants to Corporate Speech even MORE POWER to sway voters and influence the outcome of elections!

It's been clearly stated, proved and other proclaimed as fact that Corporate Speech (wtf?) is corrosive and distorting from jump!

If you want to hear the actual arguments from both sides in front of the Supreme Court, check out NPR's Supreme Court primer. I don't know how many times, if any, that you've heard people argue in front of the Supreme Court, but I never have... and I found it fascinating. Not being a legal scholar, many of the cases cited were beyond even me, but you'd easily get the drift (and I think the Oral Arguments are released as transcripts later, so you can do your own specific research).

The lawyer arguing for the right for Corporations to be make political campaign contributions that far outstrip what citizens can dig into their wallets and drop. In addition, Corporations can write off the contribution and/or borrow the money at interest rates that normal citizens can't get, therefore their political contribution power is WAY distorting.

The one thing I see, or rather hear, is that the GOP-backed Citizens United wants to hand over control of our electoral process to Big Business lock, stock and barrel. It's some complete bullshit that no Senator or Representative wants to supreme attack campaign finance and/or give the Federal Election Committee near autonomous power to re-regulate the elections in this country. The election cycle for these large scale offices shouldn't be more than 3 months tops! And the money needs to be capped and provided by the government, fuck allowing ANY private citizen or corporation to make any contributions to a candidates war chest.

If corporations obtain the power they're after, we could see foreign sovereign wealth funds buy up US corporations and be able to actively influence the way out country is governed!

The sad thing is I can't even urge you to pester your Congressperson and Senator about blocking this unholy opportunity, because the Supreme Court will be making the ruling that will decide the fate of democracy in this country. If the Nine allow corporations to actually have more rights and privileges that Joe Sixpack, then what's the point of having a Constitution?

Speaking of the Supreme Court, we're coming up on 20 years of having Uncle Tom Clarence Thomas on the bench, and he's been Scalia's lapdog for far too long. And since he's ineffectual, why doesn't he step down? He's gonna be one of these bastards that dies in office...

Roadblocks To Your Future Well-Being

Senator Charles E. Grassley believes that a Public Option for Healthcare Insurance will ultimately force private insurers out of busines... is that a bad thing? I guess it is if you're running for national public office, because you can get so much campaign contribution (selling your asshole to get fucked by the big dick of the corporate oligarchs that are running things) from insurance companies.

Grassley claims that the Federal Public Health Program will run the market, and "that doesn't sound like a level playing field to me." Here's what's wrong with that jackass statement -- when is the playing field ever level? Particularly since the Reagan Revolution and the complete deregulation and destruction of the Unions pretty much canted the playing field - permanently in favor the 1% oligarchs who run things in this so-called democracy (what's that favored book? The Best Democracy Money Can Buy)... it's required reading to brush up on why political change favors the wealth and sticks it to the lower class masses (which is damn near everybody by the end for this Business Cycle).

Any Democratic Senators who are afraid of not getting re-elected if they vote FOR a Public Option in the impending healthcare reform legislation need to be voted out of office in ANY EVENT! Because they're letting their petty personal desire to stay in the Senate (and reap the personal benefits) override what is best for the American Citizenry... who they are supposed to be represent. It's funny (well, sad, actually), how money all of a sudden causes Senators to factor out the little man. Just because I can't contribute to your campaign, but live in your realm of control, doesn't mean that I'm not affected by your actions and votes.

The one thing I expect to happen regarding health care is that the American public still pays out the ass for insufficient healthcare. Whatever the "cost" of a Public Option is or will be, it's certainly going to be nowhere near the cost that Dubya and Tricky Dick's unwarranted war has cost us in seven years of struggle with a people that can't get their act together to at least better themselves. Saddam was one mean cuss, but he kept all those combustible Iraqi factions in their place. Although, if you think about it, what's happening now it was would have happened in any event once Saddam died. His perverted and corrupted and twisted and sadistic sons wouldn't be able to run Iraq, they would fight amongst themselves over who should be in charge and then a civil war would be on the horizon... where the factions would be Qusay v. Uday v. the Shi'ites... but it would have been their mess, not a quagmire that sucks and sucks and sucks American tax payer dollars down a drain that doesn't even feed us cheaper than cheap oil. So no, the Public Option would damage this 1/6th component of the economy, it would find a way to

What's just too damn scary is that Medicare and Medicaid are going to bankrupt the economy in any event. Maybe the Sarah Palin prognosticated death panels aren't out of the question, seeing how without proper healthcare cost reform it'll be too expensive to keep sick old bags.

The Senate Bends Over and Spreads Its Ass-Cheeks for the Health Insurance Industry

Say it isn't so?!? Say it isn't so?!!?!

But alas, it is as the the United States Senate's Finance Committee has grabbed its collective ankles and let the pulsating, putrid penis from the Health Insurance Industry get rammed up their sphincter so tough until its bled today, as they rebuked the notion of having a Public Option. While this is the first major setback to President Barak Obama's desire for healthcare reform, it's actually the main critical factor -- because nearly all the other points can be linked back to the fact that there is no choice competitive choice when it comes to selecting an insurer.

You have to ask yourself, "what is so damn bad, wrong, outrageous, socialist(?) about having a different, COMPETITIVE option than the bullshit we're forced to choke on by the likes of Aetna, Cigna and Kaiser?"

What this really says about the power of the Voice of the People is that it has been diluted and nailed shut by the moneyed fat cats on Wall Street. Some national polls (Gallup, Time/CNN, etc.) have stated that 65% of the American people WANT a Public Option. It's not like that super-majority is asking for a Single-Payer System (which is what we should have or some variant of that, like in France*). but what the super-majority craves is an opportunity to not have to deep throat the smelly cock of Wall Street anymore. As much as I relish the fact that President Obama is a Black man up in the White House and it shattered some many societal ails, his biggest campaign contributor was Goldman Sachs... yeah, that investment bank that conned the American public out of $12B (while education only gets $4.3B)... so we're not going to see the "Change We Can Believe In" until the corporations get their dicks out of politics, all campaigns must only take public funds, and there's some rioting in the street (which after the Kent State Shootings... isn't going to happen, because articulate white people got shot then, and they don't want to get shot now. Other Western countries disallow corporate campaign donations, but we in America embrace it, and when that one case comes before the Supreme Court shortly which will decide if corporations can make UNLIMITED campaign contributions, there game will be over. The US of A will become akin to the USSR in terms of who is RUNNING SHIT!

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) had removed the Public Option possibility from his proposal, because he felt he couldn't get GOP/Republican/Confederate Party support. See that's the first BIG mistake, trying to reach out to those who blatantly act in service of the greedy, rapacious and blood-thirsty god called Profit... you don't engage the enemy, you make them kowtow to your agenda. Obama started out from a hat in hand position just by beginning the debate with his line in the sand being The Public Option, the fact that he wasn't pushing for Universal Healthcare for All through a Single-Payer System was him showing that he's got a cockleash on and the handle is controlled by Wall Street factions.

Do you know that Corporations have "better" rights in America than its citizens? They can avoid being sued and have any meaningful recourse taken against them... no company goes to jail for killing people, no company gets put out of business for treating the public like shit and peddling a crappy product that turns around hurts consumers and the environment.

The majority of Americans - both hemispheres - live in a Third World status; I can only postulate that Canada is the only First World Country in the Western Hemisphere, and that's because I don't know if 95% of Canadian wealth is in the hands of 1% of the Canadian population. When then International Monetary Fund and the World Bank stroll around the global stage looking to uplift countries where the wealth disparity is a mirror image to what we have in the good ole US of A, the first thing they would do is say, "you have to break down these oligarchs (that's the term one uses when the upper 1% has such complete control of the wealth) who run the banking and financial services sector they have TOO much wealth and they throw around the muscle the wealth affords them to rig elections, grab the government's dick - squeeze it hard -- and force the government, which is supposed to be run by the people, to continue to pass laws that feed more and more wealth back to the Upper 1%.

Where's the American Hugo Chavez? That's what I want to know?

Is there really any reason why the top personal income tax rate shouldn't be 50% or 60%? I'm in the lower class, and I can routinely pay damn near zero percent income tax (usually around 5%), so imagine what the razor-sharp accountants are doing for someone who's making say $500,000/year?

These questions will be answered later this week -- stay tuned.

You want an APOLOGY?!?!?! I don't beg a NIGGER'S pardon!

Birth of Fade Nigga Nation
Originally uploaded by Phalanx

The House of Representatives is looking to publicly rebuke fool in congressional clothing Joe Wilson, that stalwart son of the South, who was the aide de camp of the supreme bitch Strom Thurmond. Then to show how much his hatred to blacks outstrips his benefactors, Joe Wilson stridently, loudly and publicly doubted, attacked and all around faded the fuck out of Thurmond's biracial daughter, Essie Mae, when she dropped a bomb on the South Carolinians and ID'd Thurmond as her pops.

Wilson is refusing to apologize for his complete demeaning of the office of the President, and marking a new low in racial politics in this country as well as partisan politics.

I would love to see Joe Wilson get the Mussolini Treatment, lynched and then dragged by a truck around the city until his body gets torn apart, and have little kids play Kick The Can with his decapitated ugly head!

But enough of the vitriol, Wilson's brazen act demonstrates why the South -- as a bastion of poor Republicans, simply because the Democrats support equal rights for all -- continues to be out of step and out of touch with the rest of the WORLD. Not just the nation, but the world. Wilson showed the world that Southern Whites are still so ignorant and bigoted that they would attack the leader of the US, who is uplifting the nation's international status after a Southern Hick who happened to fail into the highest public office of the land shredded nearly all of America's goodwill.

White People of the GOP/Republican/Confederate ilk most likely follow and believe Glenn Beck's belief that Obama's Health Care Revamp is his idea of reparations for Slavery!!! How is the world, in the most outrageous of world views, is Obama Care a secret means for Blacks to get their 40 Acres and a Mule?

Can we lynch Glenn Beck NOW!!!?!?!?!

Joe Wilson, Card-carrying member of John BIrch Society and KKK

Joe Wilson was heckling the President of the United States of America! If that's not the most disrespectful act a GOP/Confederate/Republican Ass-Fucker could have done, I don't know what is?

Joe Wilson is as bad as that Iraqi who threw his shoes a Dumbass Dubya Bush... but for some reason no one in the White House is taking him to task. Thereby showing that the Democrats are a bunch of pussies.

Rahm Emanuel, so-called Mr. Nutcracker, asked for an apology from Joe Wilson... uh, hate to break it to you buddy, but you don't ask for an apology from a scoundrel like Wilson in the first place. What ever you get will be insincere, will be lacking any kind of humility and it let's him off the hook from getting attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and then made the poster child of what is wrong the GOP/Republicans -- that over-weight Southern White Boys who back the Birther Movement.

Although what the media isn't saying about the Joe Wilson rebuke of the first Black President is -- just what is this childish man's mind state to make such a remark? It's plain and simple -- it's racism to Nth degree, and here's how and why. Joe Wilson is from South Carolina, so off the bat he's a Confederate who thinks the South Will Live Again, but also he must hold the greatest outrage over the fact that Barak Obama is President of the United States. Southerns over the age of 35, particularly those who have amassed power in the 80s and 90s, don't like niggers. Not one bit. They still think Black people are beneath the Whites, no matter what accomplishments or measure of intelligence, prestige, money or success the Black person has -- Niggers were our property only a 140 years ago, so I just don't see how they will ever been anything equal or better than us Aryans.



Joe Wilson's outburst was basically him saying, "boy, what kinda shit are ya spewin' ta yer betters?" I'm sure Wilson never refers to President Barak Obama as, "Mr. President," but probably always calls him, "Barak." Wilson just proved to me that adage that all Republicans aren't racists, but that all racists are Republicans! And mark my words, anyone who attempted to thwart President Bush's half-intelligible rhetoric would have been burned at the stake. I mean the Republican Party in ANY of its incarnations and formats didn't censure Wilson == and they fucking pricks for not doing so. Michael Steele, you were your Uncle Tom/Clarence Thomas mask with such aplomb!

Don't let the country be back on the Road of Prosperity because of the policies the Barak Obama put in place happen before the 2012 election... just it'll basically say, "America was saved by a Harvard-educated Black man! After a Yale educated White Man and his cronies stuck a hot poker up America's collective asses!"

Hold These MuthaF*cka Accountable!

President Barak Obama just finished his speech to both houses of Congress regarding the problems facing us with the health care reform legislation that he wants to see passed.

He made one supremely telling statement, a CEO of an Insurance company got up in front of the Senate and made some statement about how employees are encouraged to drop long-paying customers who happen to get sick, because they need to boost profits. The same CEO said this is done because of "Wall Street's Relentless Profit Expectations" - THIS is the true barbarian at the gate, ready to rape and pillage. In fact, it (Wall Street's thirst for ever increasing profits) has been pretty much raping, pillaging and stealing from the general public UNCHECKED since Ronald Reagan rolled up into the Oval Office.

Their Power Is Unparralled

We don't even really know how tight the Corporate Power Structure

There was a recent episode of Warren Olney's Show Which Way L.A. in which he was discussing the fact that most medical students avoid being general practitioners because the pay is so low and the cost to run an office and deal with the bullshit insurance bureaucracy siphons off any kind of cash that they may make. This doctor from the heartland of California was talking about how specialists get three and four times the amount, when a regular internist can provide the same care. And another doctor was stating that the drug companies pay kickbacks and bonuses to doctors who prescribe their pharmaceuticals... or the sales reps for the expense ass machines like MRIs also pay kickbacks when those machines are incorporated in part of the regimen for ATTEMPTING to deduce what is wrong with someone. The fact that all these doctors and hospitals are in the pocket on the Drug Companies isn't shocking, it's appalling. It makes you wonder if you can really trust the diagnosis, because the doctor making the claims could be making enough cash for the mortgage on his vacation home by slangin' oxycontin or xanax or God knows what other drug is being prescribed (like all the fucking anti-depressant drugs that are on the market. There's even boost Anti-Depressants that extent the reach of shit like Zoloft.

Americans need to be very afraid of the Corporate Power Structure, it's not just the military industrial complex that we need to be vigilant about, it's the financial-industrial-chemical complex that is standing with its foot on our neck, and must people are just too dumb to realize it.

Paul Krugman's NYTimes Editorial excoriated the right-wing/GOP/Confederates and the outright lies that they're offering the public as the alternative to Obama-care; these lies serve who? You guessed it!

But Krugman makes some interesting points about how potentially ungovernable the nation is (just like California has proven to be), because of the lines drawn in the sand by the members of the Republican / Confederate party, "Given the combination of G.O.P. extremism and corporate power, it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s proposal (you have to read the whole article for this explanation), even though Democrats control the White House and have a large Congressional majority.

And what about other challenges? Every desperately needed reform I can think of, from controlling greenhouse gases to restoring fiscal balance, will have to run the same gauntlet of lobbying and lies.

I’m not saying that reformers should give up. They do, however, have to realize what they’re up against. There was a lot of talk last year about how Barack Obama would be a “transformational” president — but true transformation, it turns out, requires a lot more than electing one telegenic leader. Actually turning this country around is going to take years of siege warfare against deeply entrenched interests, defending a deeply dysfunctional political system."

So where are we when it comes to uncuffing the LLC Shackles? When these idiots in the town hall meetings scream that they want their America back, I somehow doubt they mean the pre-70s America, when corporate lobbyists and interests didn't steal the governing from Main Street and put all the decisions in the hands of Wall Street and those sitting in boardrooms smoking cigar and sipping brandy, chuckling gleefully as they continue to bad their pockets at the expense of the hard working people who make up the dramatically dwindling middle class.

On The Dole

I was just laid-off a week and a half ago by my chump employer Houston Casualty Company -- they gave me a bitch severance package and then shorted me on the 4 days of PTO that I accrued and didn't use!

So I'm scouring the internet for jobs, whatever job I can find at this point, and it seems really fucked up in Los Angeles, where I think the Unemployment Rate is around 15 to 20% (unofficially).

As I'm watching some Ted Kennedy Death Coverage on CNN, a commercials runs about an unemployed breadwinner... and then it turns into an admonishment of the Obama Administration for letting 1.5 million immigrants into the country to take our jobs. It was provided by the The American Worker some group that is no doubt a front for some GOP/Confederate Political Action Committee that's trying to keep non-Whites from coming to this country.

The thing is this commercial is targeting LEGAL Immigrants, because there's no way for the government to measure and/or stop the flow of illegals. And from what I recall, you can't come to this country to work unless you get one of those 41-B Visas... and to get those, your employer has to submit paperwork to the government that indicates you, as the immigrant, have a skill that an American CANNOT fulfill. Most of the legal immigrants with sanctioned visas are usually scientists, mathematicians and computer programming specialist -- all jobs that American students over the past 25 years didn't concrete on or there's just a huge need for those skills.

Incidentally, illegals are doing jobs that white people typically have never done (as Blacks were around and those were all the jobs they could get, like janitors, trash men, housekeepers, basically shit manual labor jobs) or that Blacks won't do anymore since the Civil Rights Movement (unless they really have to mop floors and take out trash, which is usually the case for young, Black men 'cause they've been in jail). I'd really like to see a white housekeeper -- MAID -- that is, a young white janitor -- just doesn't happen.

So I take severe umbrage with this political group American Worker, what the fuck? You mean to tell me that some immigrant is going to take a job that just doesn't exist anymore? Should really ask for the repeal of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Act) and force the Chinese to float the yuan so it's no longer artificially cheap (thus making all things from China cheap than they need to be by maybe 20%).

And what's really some shit is this commercial was up here trying to blame the Obama Administration for "continuing to allow" this to happen! I mean damn, like he could have changed the immigrant policy within his first 7 months. All the actions that were done under the Cowboy's Days in the White House are why the job situation is so fucked up. Get your concept straight, bitches!!!

The Torture Documents Are Revealled

Redacted documents?!?!? That's all we get is redacted documents regarding the CIA torture and abuse of

The Tricky Dick Cheney Doctrine that torture not only works in getting people to talk, but also provides accurate, actionable information. However, for some reason this smacks right in the face of the close to a century of interrogation experience that the FBI have built up -- and expressed in their field manual -- in dealing with criminals, terrorists and other threats to the country.

After Dubya's Debacle -- the Iraq Invasion -- FBI Special Agents went to Baghdad and tried to show the CIA how to get things out of prisoners. But the CIA wasn't having it -- the continual war between to the federal agencies as to who has the most clout, played out against the FBI.

But now it seems that the FBI has won, as Attorney General Eric Holder is looking to appoint as special prosecutor to bring to justice those fuckers from the Dubya Administration who just said to hell with treating people humanely -- if ya ain't an American, then you're a cur and we can treat you like one!

The sad thing about doing this though, is that it's going to mired Barak Obama's presidency, he's going to get fucked on the health care insurance reform issue (even in the wake of Edward Kennedy's recent death) and the economy might or might not get better by the midterm elections (which could give the GOP/Confederates control of the Senate or the House) and then his first term is basically done with. And he might not get a second turn, unless the economy REALLY turns around by 2012.

The question that we have to AG Holder is... are you going to open up the flood gates for the Republicans/Confederates to try some bullshit the next time they get in the White House? Now, on a certain level, the Dems NEED to do this because a) the bullshit with Ken Starr is ripe for payback and b) this demonstrates that the Dems aren't pussies and that they'll go to the mattresses if they have to (and wouldn't you know it would be black man who shows the GOP what it means to "get in that ass."

Sure the country needs to "get over what happened in the past administration," but I disagree because the Dubya Days fucked a lot of shit up, and the GOP/Confederates really did an unfair number of Clinton, so it's 16 years of abuse that needs vindicating.

Only problem with this CIA investigation is that it's going to make the CIA appear weak to the outside world, to those that we need to keep in check. However, the CIA's Clandestine Service will continue to act with impunity in the Middle East, kinda have to because those muthafuckas are all about decapitating people on webcam. What the fuck is that anyway? Jeez!

How Private Industry Gets Over and Gives It To You

They fuck you in the ass with their need for more and more profit at the expense of the bottom 95% of the public.

What self-styled critics are calling Obama-Care -- even though the Obama Administration hasn't written its own proposal -- is what is irking me, and the majority of the country right now.

Here's quick video that I saw on YouTube that simply breaks down the need for universal, SOCIALIZED health care insurance.
... don't let people convince you that the government "just can't do shit right." Not every private industry company runs really well, you all do know that right? Something 75% of all new businesses fail in the first 3 years... that tells me that only a few people really have all the necessary skills, business insight and PURE LUCK to make in the dog-eat-dog world of American Capitalism. Now, I'm a STRONG proponent of private enterprise and entrepreneurs, but I know that the greed incentive leads down the shady road of behavioral economics in which Zero Sum Games are par for the course... and that results in severe pain for the loser, and let's not take into account sociological factors like racism, discrimination, xenophobia and spitefulness. Racism is big factor to consider... even though President Obama is half-Black and half-White that doesn't mean the subtle, insidious effects are racism are still alive and well.

You should take note that White Militia Groups have been on the rise since Obama came into office with a Mandate from the general public.

In Michael Moore's sensational documentary Bowling For Columbine there's a bit where Moore interviews Barry Glassner, a sociologist from the University of Southern California who wrote a book called in which he points out that the average African-American male with a graduate degree has an annual salary roughly equal to the average White American male with a high school diploma... yeah a FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL diploma. So the Black man is really fucked, because he's saddled with some extreme amount education debt and he's only making what a white boy is making just out of high school with no debt at all. I mean what the fuck is that?!?!!?

So when it comes to health care, and Black people are much less likely to check out a doctor for a lot factors, but I can best your ass that the cost is a huge factor. Even for a lawyer or doctor or attorney.

The GOP/Confederate/Republicans and even those shift Blue Dog Democrats must really hate their own profession, because they ARE the government that they claim can't run shit correctly.

But let's talk about that a little more. The federal government CAN run shit correctly. It runs the U.S. Military -- which is tasked with protecting our nation and our national interests across the globe. Now, if you honestly believe that private industry can handle ALL THINGS better than the federal government, then we need to task private industry with assembling, training, and commanding the armed forces. Surely, it would cost less... in fact, the Pentagon could see it's budget slashed by 40 to 50%, if not more (now some of them Black Ops and Dark Projects would still need to be handled by the government, because in the hands of private industry those secrets might just be sold the highest bidder) and we can let those mercenaries dictate the fate our interests here and abroad.

Oh... I forgot we're already doing this in Iraq, and from the reports that have trickled back that money-hungry mercs have performed well, but they've fucked shit up, too, and are no-doubt doing/did a vast amount of raping, pillaging, confiscating and general, all-around war profiteering. What ever happened to those gold-plated AK-47s and other wild shit that Saddam had? I don't recall hearing that it went in the U.S. Defense Budget as "seized goods in a time of crisis." I bet some merc just took that shit, melted it down and bought a yacht off the coast of Florida.

Medicare and Medicaid and the Veteran's Administration are run by the government... with hit or miss results. Sure the VA has showed its ass, but so has private industry... take a look at the meat packing industry... shit, agri-business in general, that's not run too well is it? So many corners are cut just to make a buck! And we all know that's what happens with the private insurance companies. Insurance is the biggest racket there is, hands down... because of all the indecipherable fine print that dictates these exclusionary cases that one has no idea could come into effect, because the permutations that have to occur to get something "right" is just as elusive as it is to get something "wrong" when it comes to being covered by the policy. However, when you are sick and/or in pain, you don't think about these things, you just, "I have insurance, I'm covered" and then bill from the unwaveringly callous accounting office arrives... and you see that you still going to be out of pocket by some $300 to $1000 that you didn't expect!

Americans have this ethos about working until we drop, and that hard work will pay off and allow you to live the best life that you can hope for you. Now that's a crock of shit that is continually sold by hook or by crook by all these people who don't understand sociology and how socio-economics playout in our imperfect union.

What lot of people may or may not know is that their fear of unions, so-called socialism and other so-called anti-American policies are being aroused by rich industrialists who wish to cut wages.

Home Ownership... who knew it was part of The Anti-Nigger Machine

I was listening to the Public Radio International show TO THE POINT yesterday and the main story was about how Blacks an Latinos have a disproportionately high level of home foreclosures... the reason behind this? A resurfacing and repackaging of an old technique that white people used to fuck with people of color, this time it's called REVERSE REDLINING!!! This is where the insidious bankers/mortgage brokers specifically target Black and Latino homeowners and sucker them in to taking out subprime loans on their homes. Not because these people have bad credit ratings, far from it! There only could have been just being financial ignorant (truth be told, many of those exotic subprime loans are DESIGNED to confuse the borrower) and that banks, all the major banks, have systematically pulled out of servicing the so-called Ghetto.

Criminally evil bank Wells Fargo was particular malignant and malicious in its predatory activity. They're being sued by the City of Baltimore for their wide-spread practice of reverse redlining. Employees have stated under oath that they called Blacks and Hispanics, "Mud People" and were going to saddle "these idiots with ghetto loans." I'm surprised there hasn't been any emails released outlining this Anti-Nigger Machine Practice.

We can once again place the blame of this fucking with Blacks at the feet of the Dubya Bush Administration's policies. Dubya was all about having as many people as possible own homes -- irrespective of their qualifications for that or if it was economically feasible to have some much home ownership... because we saw how this drive for everyone to have their house with the picket fence artificially inflated home prices across the board.

We can also blame Dubya Bush for the outrageous level of consumer spending that went on in the wake of 9/11. Remember when that Texas fuckwad got up on the mic and damn near begged Americans to going to buy, buy, buy to spur the economy!

Thanks a lot, Dubya!

The problem with banks like Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual (uh... Chase now) is that they pushed and pushed and pushed these loans on unsuspecting Black people. In the TO THE POINT story, one of the guests recounts that in Atlanta there were task forces, TASK FORCES!!! that were set up to prevent these ANM vultures from co-opting Black Home Owners with "equity in your house that you're wasting" at Church! At Church!

What the Fuck Is Wrong With These People?!!?! Oh, I forgot, that Dubya Bush motto of get in a home and then self-rape your home by pulling out the equity so you can buy some more shit under conspicuous consumption ideals that you don't really need. The sad thing is, it wasn't just white people peddling these loans to financial illiterate people of color; lots of Uncle Tom-type card-carrying GOP Blacks and Hispanics were enlisted to "work with your people."



A record pace of home foreclosures is taking its biggest toll on blacks and Hispanics. Did big lenders conduct a new kind of housing discrimination by pushing sub-prime loans to minorities hoping for a piece of the American dream? Also, violence surrounds Afghanistan's presidential election, and combat soldiers and training in mental health.