By j doe | August 30, 2010 - 2:02 am - Posted in news commentary

Like most if not all of you, I have been reading an awful lot of garbage lately.

I mean mostly pure shite. When writers don’t have anything good to put out there, it doesn’t actually mean they absolutely must produce pure shite like the thousands of specimen pieces currently floating.

Notice the following piece:

By j doe | August 27, 2010 - 2:48 am - Posted in news commentary

We’ve got Bruce Springsteen and….

“5.5 million manufacturing jobs, nearly 32 percent of the U.S. total, have been lost in the United States since George W. Bush took office in 2000.”
Don’t be fooled by this ‘new’ administration telling  you we’ll make it in America. Here’s a bit of the old Korean free trade agreement:

“For every car the United States exports to Korea, we import over 1,000 into the United States.”

And the upcoming agreement that Obama’s pushing is even sweeter, making sure that the US subsidizes Korean clean energy development ahead of the US.  Business and jobs in America really means subsidizing slave labor in kingdoms like Korea. How can you fight labor costs with a country which won’t comply with international labor laws?

Gotta love the stars and stripes.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/147957/despite_fresh_rhetoric_about_saving_u.s._manufacturing%2C_obama_is_quietly_pushing_failed_bush_trade_policies/?page=3

By j doe | August 26, 2010 - 3:21 pm - Posted in news commentary

Seems like there has been endless crying over all the poor home’owners’ who lost everything and wound up in the ditch with a jug of cheap wine and nothing but sob stories.

So let’s clarify this. First of all, the mortgage holder is the actual owner of any home with a mortgage on it. So anyone whose home had a mortgage didn’t,  in fact,  own that home in the first, or second, or whichever place. Rather, they entered into an agreement with a lender to purchase the home. This is a blatant fact that everyone seems to prefer to ignore in this so-called crisis.

You can’t ‘lose’ what you never had. The dream or charade or whatever you want to call it, is really that all these wanna-be homeowners ever owned anything at all. Because they didn’t.

Now, if your home didn’t have a mortgage and you actually did own it, than that’s a different story. You can be pissed off all you want, but nobody took your home away from you. You still own your home that you actually owned in the first place. It may not be worth jackshit, and that’s what you can be pissed about, but nobody, ‘took’ your home. Don’t let’s pretend that mortgage holders owned their homes.

They never did, so at least get the sob story correct.

By j doe | August 25, 2010 - 11:37 pm - Posted in news commentary

“handling manure and dead chickens with their bare hands, and living amid rats and cockroaches in the company’s trailer park.” – OSHA report on routine business as usual at Maine egg farm, describing workers and conditions

I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. Note this is business as usual.

http://www.alternet.org/food/147956/out_of_control_egg_producer_flouts_regulations%3A_consumers_deal_with_500_million_salmonella-tainted_eggs/

By j doe | August 24, 2010 - 4:35 pm - Posted in news commentary

How is it still possible that the Republican versus Democrat farce battle continues to successfully harness this population of sloths?

Do those actually exist who believe a noticeable difference in power could result in the ‘winning’ or ‘losing’ of one or the other of these team colors?

This country (USA) is reduced to the equal depths of barbarism and meaninglessness, as perfectly represented by the NFL. No issue of greater importance than the score of a perfectly useless football game has even been approached by this government.

So what happens when you wake up the day after ‘winning the game’ to find out it was nothing more than points on a screen?

Fucking sad.

By j doe | August 10, 2010 - 4:36 pm - Posted in news commentary

“The idea that we should put limits on growth because of some natural limit is a profound error.”

Wow. That’s some heavy stuff. Maybe all we need to do is find the air nozzle on the planet and pump it up so it’s twenty times the size it is now, to fit more growth. But wouldn’t that still mathematically have a limit?

Lucky for us these questions are relegated to pre-school classrooms with four year olds and never enter into any adult arenas.

Uh-oh. Wait a second. This is a quote from Larry Summers. The pre-school teacher, you ask? Actually, no. This Larry Summers is the Chief Economic Adviser to Barack Obama, the President of the United States.

Did you know, “On a typical day, when about 43 million tons of goods are carried on U.S. transportation networks, a third of that tonnage is coal and oil?”

Beam me up Scottie. Or  should I say, Larry?

Whatever.

-Passages from Bill McKibben’s ‘eearth.’

By j doe | August 4, 2010 - 2:50 pm - Posted in news commentary

‘McCord would return home early, suffering long-term injury from IED attacks that left him with a shattered lower spine and traumatic brain injury (TBI). He says the military at first tried to deny him treatment but eventually agreed to grant him back surgery after civilian tests showed serious injury. Despite TBI and severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), McCord says the military refused to grant him a medical discharge and instead discharged him with a pre-existing personality disorder, a distinction that precludes him from receiving disability benefits from the military’ – Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey, on one of the soldiers involved in the Wikileaks helicopter video

‘wants the public to understand that “war kills civilians first.” He says, “I think Americans…need to take responsibility. If you pay taxes, you pay for that soldier’s wage. You’re just as guilty as the soldier pulling the trigger.’ -Ray Corcoles, soldier from same unit

That’s where the denial comes into play. Get up, get some coffee, get in your SUV, go to your health club, take your kid to soccer practice, come home and eat some GMO chemical food, go to sleep and do it again. Pretend none of it exists, and tell yourself you’re not like that. That’s the other guys. The bad guys.

These are the spoils of war.

http://www.thenation.com/article/38034/wikileaks-baghdad?page=0,1

By j doe | August 3, 2010 - 12:20 am - Posted in news commentary

“Brand new World Bank study says that the demand is going to exceed supply by 40 percent in twenty years.” -Maude Barlow, talking about world water supply

Mmmm, very interesting. What can be done about this? For starters, I say build more golf courses at a faster rate. Also, let’s have kids at a faster rate too, and hopefully, with any luck, they’ll turn out to be golfers!

This is just one of many stellar ideas that can and will be employed to combat this issue.

http://www.alternet.org/water/147704/un_declares_water_a_fundamental_human_right_–_u.s._abstains_from_voting_on_resolution/?page=2

By j doe | July 29, 2010 - 8:00 pm - Posted in news commentary

But definitely not in the USA.

‘When our republic was created, the population ratio between the largest and smallest state was 13 to 1. Now, it’s 68 to 1. Because of the abuse of the filibuster, 41 senators representing less than 11 percent of the nation’s population can, in principle, block action supported by 59 senators representing more than 89 percent of our population. And you wonder why it’s so hard to get anything done in Washington?’ – E.J. Dionne

As Dionne says later in this piece, what an embarrassment.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_politics_of_stupidity_strikes_again_20100728/

By j doe | - 6:43 pm - Posted in news commentary

‘..instead of paying workers well enough to allow them to buy things like cars, as Henry Ford proposed to do, companies like Wal-Mart and McDonald’s pay their workers so poorly that they can afford only the cheap, low-quality food these companies sell, creating a kind of nonvirtuous circle driving down both wages and the quality of food. The advent of fast food (and cheap food in general) has, in effect, subsidized the decline of family incomes in America.’ – Michael Pollan

Isn’t that great?  This is part of the beautiful picture that is the success of America. While she wallows in the spoils of war, her citizens are graced with the unique luxury of not only living in cars and on couches, but also eating manufactured chemical garbage that will make them sick and even kill them!

Oh, the glory of world domination.

http://www.alternet.org/food/147661/michael_pollan%3A_the_mighty_rise_of_the_food_revolution/?page=4