Holy Buck, Fatman!

Since I profiled the economic proposals of the top three Dems, It’s only fair that I do the same for the red side of the carpet.

Boy is it dismal. Words simply cannot explain the crap that is coming from these fartknockers.

First and foremost, when you click on the “issues” link on each one of their websites, the issue of the Economy is WAY BELOW “Keeping America Safe” rhetoric. What does this tell me? They all believe the biggest issue confronting them is the evil boogie man: terrorism. The Economy has just RECENTLY gained importance and only because a record number of Americans are facing foreclosure which is ultimately destroying their portfolios. That can’t happen, dammit.

It’s virtually impossible for me to highlight anything good about the Republican plans for the US Economy. It’s all the same shit the Bush Administration gave us, just wrapped up in a neato new package!  Free market this, Tax cuts that, ownership society, social security needs to be priviatized—BLAH BLAH BLAH.

What I WILL do is highlight the absurdity of the importance of the issues. believe me, this is fucking hilarious.    It will also demonstrate how detached they really are from the everyday economic issues of the common middle class family.  In order of…well…I don’t like any of them so I’ll order it on who currently has the most delegates. Afterwards, I’ll tell you the order of  issues on the website of the Contending em front runner.  After I reach an economic issue, I will stop listing them.  Recent additions regarding the “Stimulus Plan” are NOT included.

Mittens:

His issues page mentions Jihad, Nuclear and Tyrants right at the top, suggesting that the greatest threats aren’t the fact that most Americans haven’t seen a friken raise in a long time, but some perceived dictators overseas.

In layout order:

Keeping Americans Safe at Home and Abroad

Confronting Radical Jihad

Combating Nuclear Terrorism

Strengthening Latin American Allies and Confronting Tyrants

Winning the Global Economic Competition

Clinton places Strengthening the Middle Class as her number one issue.

McCain:

Okay–Disclaimer here: McCain DOES address the Economy as the first issue in the form of a “Tax Cut Plan” Typical. Tax cuts DO NOT WORK! McCain, by far, may appeal to the moderate dem who is disheartened by the current front runner.

Obama’s list of issues:  Civil Rights, Disabilities, Economy.

HuckleFucklebee:

This is, by far, the most disturbing. Luckily, the Evangelicals who believe he will bring on the second coming are showing that their group doesn’t encompass most of the GOP base. Knock on wood.

The Secure America Plan

Immigration

Faith and Politics

Sanctity of Life

Veterans’ Bill Of Rights

Education And The Arts

Health Care

Taxes/Economy

To be fair, he does address health care and keeps “marriage” after addressing the economy. Still…can he get anymore wacky????

John Edwards:

John Edwards lists the economy first under

Standing Up For Regular Families

So now that I have painstakingly shown you the utter disconnect of the Republican front runners, tell me your thoughts on these fuck knuckles.

Good LORD—No pun intended but Huckabee is one crazy wingnut. Crazy to point that it’s starting to scare the living shit out of me.

This crazy mofo was actually advocating revising the constitution to reflect “God’s Standards”. Uh…Here–Read for yourself:

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

Allllrighty then.

I’m sure my fine readers have figured out that while I don’t profess to any faith, I do not stop anyone from worshipping. I believe that is what the first settlers were escaping when they came over to settle here in the first place. Correct me if I’m wrong, but would Fuckabee be negating the last 450 of US history? Oh, That’s right—Christians like him try to revise American History to fit their dominionist viewpoints.

Fundies like him give my Christian friends a very bad name. Not one of my christian friends have ever tried to forcefully convert me or even tell me I am going to hell because I don’t believe. In fact, we engage in healthy debate about all kinds of ideas from all sorts of faiths.  It’s what I believe America is all about–a healthy exchange of ideas, faiths and experiences that translates into the human experience.

What WOULD happen if Fuckabee got his way? Would I be mandated to join a church? Would Tithing be taken out of paycheck and forwarded to my mandated place of worship? It seems a bit outlandish, but rhetoric like his quote above leads me to believe that he would like to make changes that would essentially demonize people like myself and shame us into joining the mainstream of fundie thought in order to avoid persecution. While drastic changes won’t occur right away, the national discourse will start to sound like this:

It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They are wrong.

That was Mitt Romney’s attempt at pandering to the Fundies who kinda find his religion..”Cultish”. In order to even try and bridge that gap, he needed to figure out who they could agree the bad guy was. Those Damn Secularist!  You know, the ones who chose NOT to worship anyone? Yep—that would be me.

I’m pretty sure I live a decent lifestyle. I’m married, raise a child who choses to follow a faith, I follow the law, help my fellow neighbor in need and don’t bother to stop anyone from worshiping whomever they want. Why am I a bad person? why do these fuckwads insist that my choices in life are “wrong”? Why do they wish to force their belief system on me when I am not bothering anyone? HUH?

The constitution doesn’t mean that I have the right to stop anyone from worshiping who they want. It also doesn’t mean that I should be forced to worship something I don’t believe in, either.  Freedom of religion—that means I am free to chose no religion at all. Fuckabee can take his God’s standards bullshit and shove it up his preacher ass.

I’m stuck in a rut and I want to write but I can’t seem to agree on what to write about.

Right now, the political arena is heating up. The Blue side of the Blogosphere can’t seem to agree on who to throw their support behind and the Red Side seems to agree that they all hate Hillary. I think the red side of this plate has all gone batshit insane and decided that Huckabee the Great will lead them to the rapture. Seriously, folks. If the Rapture were to occur, I think the world would be a better place.

With the Presidential race comes the muck raking. Pundits are currently analyzing every single word that spills from Hillary’s mouth and all they seem to come up with is the fact that she is a women. You don’t say! It’s as if these pundit boneheads are  just now figuring this out and they can’t seem to understand how a Woman could possibly lead the country. I mean…she cried! The fact that she has a chance really ruffles their feathers. On the other hand, they have a Black Man who could win. Oh! GASP! a BLACK MAN! while I was trolling for fodder on RedState, I came across a comment that basically stated the commenter was not ready for a woman or a black president and can’t figure out why not. At least the commenter was honest about his or her prejudice instead of hiding it behind racist code words like our agent of satan, Karl Rove. In the highlighted WSJ article, Satan’s right hand man uses the words, “Trash Talking” and “Lazy” to describe Obama.  It has long been known that political speech has been ridden with coded words to appeal to a group of people either blatantly or subconsciously. David Kuo explained in his book “Tempting Faith“  that he often used many coded words and phrases directed at the evangelical community in many speeches delivered by the village idiot we have in office. A few nights ago, Mister Fatman said that he was excited to be a part of the generation that will potentially elect a black man to be President. Not just A Black man, but someone who has demonstrated that he is worthy of the job by his past record. The Bullshit that some say about his “lack of experience” can eat shit. We have a man who has failed at every business venture he’s ever been involved in, currently running our country. No wonder we’re running both a huge trade deficit and budget deficit. Bush can’t Lay off the American people to cut costs. Obama actually succeeded in his community outreach days, while attending Harvard Law and when he was a part of the Illinois State Legislature. If you count the man people Bush fried while Gubbner of Texas, well…Okay. I guess that can be measured as a success. Depends on who you talk to.

In the huh? department—Snow Fell in Baghdad.  Since President CooCoo Bananas and his Sith  Lord Darth Cheney said that they wouldn’t leave until Hell Froze over–I suppose that means they have to leave Iraq now.

Riiight.

Okay. Rut cured.

Well, folks, It’s On.

I’ve been wavering on my official choice for US. Prez for a while. I was all out for Obama and really wanted to throw all my weight behind him until the Mcclurkin bullshit. Obama has gone for the Black homophobic vote and that may have done him well. It didn’t sit too well for me and I was waning on my support for Obama. However, Politicians are all panderers in some way shape or form; i needed to stick with a canidate i can live with.

Obama it is.

I do like Edwards, but seriously—does he have a chance? can he pull it off or will too many people have bad memories of 2004?  I dunno.

This is all subject to change, of course. I will not, however, support Clinton. I just can’t live with her. There are too many things I don’t like.

Since it’s a few days before a major holiday, I’m pretty slow at the job. This allows for a little more time to surf the tubes and stumble upon laughable blogs like this guys personal diatribe against anyone with a Vagina. Well, anyone with a vagina that dares to have an actual opinion. Or speaks, for that matter. Or exists. Well, I doubt he’d object to them existing since they allow for him to get off. Even if it is just reading old penthouse forums while beating off.

I couldn’t help but laugh as I scrolled through each “Women are out ta get you!” post. I’ve read many Pro MRA websites and they all seem to have one major thing in common: Somewhere, in the past they were wronged in some way. Either the bitch ex wife took them for all their cash or they got cheated on or their wives refused to suck their dicks when they demanded it. It’s all the same: the Bitch had the Fucking nerve! I can always find the post that alludes to the incident that gives birth to the scorned MRA. In this case, Mr. Birdseye’s “Japanese Wife” (which, no DOUBT he believed that marrying a Japanese woman would be better because they have been known to be more subservient to their husbands) had the gall to cheat on him. Of course, it’s his side of the story. We can’t be expected to actually believe that he *MIGHT* have failed his marriage by not believing what marriage is: a partnership of compromise, communication and understanding. Oh hell no. It was all the bitch’s fault. Fuck dat cheatin’ ho.

I kept reading and laughing —so much so that I sent some of these posts to my husband who characterized his mindset perfectly:

Posts like this are a result of Biguns and those other 3rd rate Hustler wanna be rags being put out of print because of internet porn. Next post: “When I Met Jackie at the Ski Lodge”.

Seriously!

Women don’t need to argue with him. They just need to make sure that he *NEVER GETS LAID AGAIN* That’s pretty simple to do since it’s more then probable that he’s not getting laid right now. Penis size might be part of the problem, too. I suspect that it has more to do with his bitterness, though.

Anyhow, his last post was by far, the best—a vast liberal feminist conspiracy to create a new north American currency. Except that there is no such thing. This guy is so clouded with bitter fury that he can’t even think logically.

Anyway, MRA’s aren’t to be argued with. They are there for our amusement, because there isn’t anything more hilarious then a guy scorned.

My libertarian debate buddy, Psychophil chimed in on the SCHIP debate which is still raging here in DC. (well, for all intents and purposes, I am in DC as I type this, soooo Blah.)

Phil’s argument is a poorly formed argument against SCHIP. They live in California where the Governator has propsed UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!!! *GASP*

However, for the sake of the argument, lets say that this fool profiled on “SAVE ME FROM MYSELF, SAINT OPRAH!” lived in Maryland. The idiot profiled on the Oprah website is just that, and idiot. She(and her husband) were called idiots by guests, friends, etc etc. . not once in the article did she state that she wanted to apply for state sponsored health care for her children. In fact, the price of health care for her entire family is $1,000, and she decided that she wanted to spend it on herself instead. Since her husband pulls in $5000-6000 monthly (is that net or gross?), under current SCHIP guidelines, they would NOT qualify. Under the MD expansion, a Family of 8 would qualify for a portion of assistance, but still be subjected to paying premiums because they fall more then 200% above poverty guidelines. Quoth the MD Expansion:

SCHIP Expansion. The Maryland Health Care Access Act of 2007, a comprehensive health care reform plan sponsored jointly by the governor and members of the legislature, expands Maryland’s SCHIP program to children under the age of 19 in families with incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty guidelines. Families with incomes between 200 and 400 percent of federal poverty guidelines would pay premiums to participate in the program. Dependent on a Medicaid waiver.

That sounds like someone would be paying something our of their bank account.

Secondly, this is not a story about a family struggling to make ends meet. It’s a story of an addiction to shopping, deceit, and unwillingness to let go of the material things that define us as people. This is something we should be addressing separately from the SCHIP debate: The credit crunch. We live in a country where we are told that the only way to express our patriotism is to shop. Financial analysts are betting that already overextended consumers will find a little more Holiday cheer in their pockets and spend some money during the Holiday season.

Easy credit is the way people have been showing off their “wealth”. Assets? Oh, well..The home. Maybe. Except that HELOC. And the ReFi. uhmmm…Housing prices are on a downward trend. I sincerely doubt the idiots on the Oprah show would be granted any kind of loan.

The idiots are so vastly different from the thousands who play by the rules, work decent jobs and just simply get screwed by a screwy system. Contractors who have no benefits through their jobs seek out health insurance just to get denied for a “preexisting condition”. Some cubicle monkey looks at some drs note in a chart and determines that Acne is a preexisting condition. People who live in generally depressed areas and are offered jobs at minimum wage with health care being an expense they simply cannot afford to buy.

It’s true, some of us are victims of our own personal choices. Some are not. Some have played by the rules only to have the factory close down, the IT job offshore or the small shop they once owned get priced out because of the new Wal-Mart. SCHIP programs are designed to be safety nets—a program to help someone while they are in the process of making better choices. I think there are plenty of people out there who are victims of circumstances. I also believe that inflation is worse then people think it is. How can I tell? well…personally, I can tell by how much money I will take out of the cash machine. I used to be able to make a 20 last all week long. Now, the same expenses cost me 40$.

I’m paraphrasing. But HELL—The Judge pretty much said JUST THAT.

The victim was assaulted in broad daylight, at an Exxon station while a cop witnessed it. From the Sun:

The officer testified in court that she was 25 feet from the car at the time of the incident.

“I witnessed him use his right hand, not in a fist, but in, I guess, an open hand, and push the female’s face. … As I saw him grabbing her hair … and trying to pull her out, that’s when I called it on the radio,” the officer said, according to a recording of the hearing.

The woman told the officer that Webb had attempted to pull her out of the vehicle, causing her hairpiece to fall off, and that he hit her in the face, though she characterized it as “more of a tap than a punch.” The woman had no visible injuries, police said.

Alrighty then. So, the Judge says in response to this:

But when the alleged victim didn’t show up in court, Circuit Court Judge Paul Harris said it didn’t matter what the officer saw.

“The state is stepping into the shoes of the victim when she obviously doesn’t care,” the judge said Oct. 3 before acquitting Michael Antonio Webb of second-degree assault. “It’s that big brother mentality of the state. I know it’s your policy (to bring domestic abuse cases without victims), and I appreciate that and I’m not faulting it, but I have to decide the case on what I have. I think a crucial element is missing.”

The judge said without the victim’s testimony, he couldn’t be sure she didn’t want to be beaten.

“You have very rare cases. Sadomasochists sometimes like to be beat up,” he said.

Sadomasochists.

Yes, My friends. Victims of Domestic Violence who are terrified of their attackers and refuse to testify in court against the abuse because they fear the repercussions can now be classified as sadomasichists.

What. The. Fuck?

I’ll be honest. I was TERRIFIED to bring charges against my ex husband. He threatened to kill my cats. He threatened to take my daughter away. He said that if I left him, he would sue me for all the money I made (he didn’t work) and tell the courts I was a bad mom. He held knives to my throat and said that he would push deeper if I called the cops. I escaped under the cover of darkness and only after I knew he wasn’t home. This was in 1996. I didn’t bring charges against him until 2003.(for abuse related to my daughter and threats made to myself) That’s…Hmm.. SEVEN YEARS LATER! I remember his attorney questioning my attorney on why I “wanted to do this now.” My attorney replied, “When you have someone standing behind you ensuring your safety, confrontation isn’t as scary.” She was referring to my current husband, who, at 6 ft and roughly 250lbs, could pound my 160 lb ex into pulp if he went near his girls. Believe me, he wanted to. However, my husband has self control and conducts himself like a real man. Meaning? Violence is never the answer. It’s the last resort of self defense.

I suspect the victim in this case is terrified as well. I bet her attacker made similar threats to her if she talked. I suspect that even though he is in jail, she believes he could make parole without her knowing and come after her for disobeying him. I know her fear all too well.

Judge Harris, the judge who put the victim on trial instead of the attacker, doesn’t give a flying fuck. Especially if he is seriously labling the girl a “sadomasochist.”

Judge Harris, you’re dead to me.

You just can’t make this shit up.

It’s ironic that just this morning I was discussing the fear that some righties feel when confronted with a *gasp* brown person that may (or may NOT) be a Muslim. While surfing my daily feeds, I stumbled across this post that cracked my shit up. Apparently, this wankstain thinks that Nancy Pelosi is going to cause a dirty bomb to go off in Manhattan. Does Wankstain even live in Manhattan? I seriously doubt it. Wankstain is probably too busy studying his stats and referrals to leave his well padded suburban home in Safe Town, USA.

I think it’s hilarious that fear drives these idiots to believing that every brown person is out ta get’em. They’re the types that don’t talk to their neighbors, unless, of course, they know them well enough. (and know that they are worthy enough i.e. white, rich, Christian)

Shame. I take mass transit into a targeted city every day. I don’t look over my shoulder. I don’t fear Brown people, Muslims or someone with a different viewpoint then myself. What I fear is shit that spews fourth from people like these:

Most of the likely targets of these terrorist attacks are bastions of liberals, so I am really starting to say the h*** with it.

If they really want to walk blindly around in a Gaza-type world of exploding cars, trains, malls and pizzerias just so they can get one over on President Bush and conservatives, then I say let them go for it. After all, it will be their children and families scraped off the walls and streets. Fewer liberals would not hurt this country.

Just so we are clear, no relief funds or federal help should be available to states or areas represented by Members of Congress opposed to these safeguards when the events occur.

That would include DC, Mass, NY, California or Nevada, among others.

and this:

Who’s got the battery cables so we can begin torturing the lefty bloggers?

These people are scarier then “Joe Jihadist”. I will defend their right to say what they want, but I will not allow them to silence me.

I had the GALL (according to Commenter Cham) to Spread my Legs and Procreate at the tender age of 20. ( the man who manipulated me into conceiving-and forcing me to have the baby–I suppose that doesn’t really matter. Whole ‘nother story)

Being proud, I refused to submit to public assistance. I worked. HARD. 70hrs a week sometimes. (Again, not going to mention the father of said child who, well…didn’t like that whole idea of working. Whole ‘Nother Story.) I did take one thing that was offered to me: MCHIP. It allowed me to afford well baby visits (I paid on a FEE SCALE—AGAIN–Not entirely free) and when my daughter contracted rotavirus from daycare, it partially paid for her NOT TO DIE FROM DEHYDRATION at the age of three.(my part of that Hospital bill? $3,000. That’s an asston of money when your effin poor. But I paid it off in installments) I had no intention of staying in the program. I was still working. I made, what…25K a year in 1997? I was going to school. I was trying to make my life better. Awesome, right? Right. Not everyone wants to take a handout. Sometimes, there aren’t any other alternatives.

Well, the middle class in America is fast becoming the poor class. We have Uber Rich, Investor Class and EVERYONE ELSE. With the cost of healthcare going up at an alarming rate and wages STAGNANT for nearly 10 years, I’d have to say that offering healthcare to a wider group isn’t a bad thing. What are your solutions to more and more businesses passing on the increasing cost of health insurance on to the employee—without making a tiny effort of raising their wages? Corporate profits are sky high, too. Maybe the CEO could take a paycut? Ohhh no. Probably not. His Ayn Randian “mememe” attitude is justified! The ilk that support that way of thinking forgive him for his vanity. It’s okay. Pursuit of self satisfaction is ultimately the best thing one can do–It will trickle down! Oh wait—that was piss.

What is the solution to the nasty inflation problem we have (no doubt brought on by the increasing cost of corn, oil and other commodities) What is the solution to jobs that once held the working class together being shipped overseas faster then you can say Ni hao, Wo-duh ming-d’zih (that’s HELLO! In Chinese) or—HOLA! And Finally, what is the solution on the fact that most people in the middle class are now living on credit–nearly $8,500 of CC debt per household? No doubt thats because of that whole stagnant wage thing. Give me solutions that will help people get better paying jobs within their skill set–not some bullshit about bailing out some stupid hedge fund manager because somewhere, and investor *MIGHT* have an idea and start up a company with the gains from his investment. That is a long term goal. I want short term solutions for people who need it NOW.

I agree, “sin taxes” DO effect the working poor disproportionately. I mean, if your life is spent being hired and fired for nothing but cost reduction, then I’d drink and smoke, too.

If people TRULY want this to be an “Ownership society”(libertarian & GOP Rhetoric) then proponents of this idealism really need to start educating them on staying away from such sins and saving their money. They probably won’t need the healthcare as often if they do, too.

I hear the bitching. Now give me some solution. Debate is good.

Not too long ago, I was uninsured.

Mind you, I made decent (Not GREAT)  money as a professional paralegal for a rather large but famously bankrupt telecom company back in 2003. The easiest way for them to retain  employees but not have to actually pay benefits was to force them into contracted positions. The contracting company was not obliged to offer health care. Screw it, you were on your own.

No problem, right? I could simply buy n individual policy and have the coverage I needed to maintain well visits preventative care.

You would think that, wouldn’t you?

Not so much. It seems that with my spotty family history of cancer, I  was a bit of a risk to the insurance companies. I could pay a monthly premium of something like $1500K for 2 people with a $5,000 deductible, or I could pay more with a lower deductible. So, I had to make a choice. I had to either buy my health insurance or pay my mortgage and eat. I simply couldn’t afford to do both. So I took a chance. I chanced it that I wouldn’t get sick nor would my daughter. It was a risky gamble, but hey…priorities, right?

So, I decided to send an application into the M-CHIP, Maryland’s Children’s healthcare program. It was another gamble I was forced to take. Of course, I was denied. I made too much money.

So, there I was. Too rich to get assistance. Too poor to pay for private healthcare.

What. The. Fuck?

So, last evening the largely bipartisan S-CHIP Bill passed the House. Lawmakers recognized that those who are denying basic healthcare to children aren’t going to win over voters, so they decided that working together is better then fighting all the time.  Except our dear leader thinks that people like myself would opt to drop their coverage and hurry up and sign up for M-CHIP. Is he kidding? I mean…Seriously? Dropping even crappy coverage won’t be a viable option to many families. Why? Because many of them don’t even have coverage. They simply cannot afford it, just like I was a few years back.

Those who worship at the Alter of the Free Market mindset will state that all we need to do is lower those damn friviolous lawsuits and the prices will go down.  The evil Lawyers are getting too RICH!!!!

I call bullshit. A Market is largely consumer choice driven. If ia company offers a decent product at an affordable price, then consumers will purchase it. However, healthcare isn’t bought and sold like Mp3 players. It’s much more complicated then that. Any industry that has to answer to shareholders has one major goal–increase profits. Insurance companies lose profits when they pay out claims so it is always within the best interest of the insurance company to deny claims and have that pesky terminally ill patient  simply die.  So, some chimp in a suit is sitting in a cubicle telling an experienced Dr. that a test or treatment isn’t really medically necessary. Since that denial will stand to save a few bucks in some fatcat’s pocket, it was all worth it, right?

Chimpy McFlysuit has never worked a hard day in his life. he never had to make tough choices like healthcare or housing, food or medicine. he never had to work 14 hours on his feet and go home to care for the children. He never stood in an unemployment line. He never knew the indignity of being denied something like healthcare can do for your morale. What does he know?

He knows that his rich friends will benefit from his veto. Their portfolios will thank him.