March 21, 2009 archive

Inviting the Sheep for Another Shearing

What do you get for pretending the danger’s not real.

Meek and obedient you follow the leader

Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.

What a surprise!

A look of terminal shock in your eyes.

Now things are really what they seem.

No, this is no bad dream.

-Pink Floyd (sheep)

In the ongoing madness of an America in terminal decline, the great Surge II is now underway. This one has nothing to do with mass brainwashing that all is ell in Iraq and that we are indeed winning thanks to our shining medal festooned superstar quarterback otherwise known as General God (aka David Petraeus) to divert the flocks attention away from a doomed imperialist crusade. Nope, this one hits closer to home, it started last Monday with a sly piece of internal propaganda from Citigroup’s CEO Vikram Pandit having its best quarter since 2007 which triggered a sucker rally in the Wall Street casinos that dictate to the inhabitants of chumpland. The pocket media once again did their job, selling this latest call for the sheep to come and be sheared with all the effectiveness that they pimped the murderous lies of George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. Things – ARE getting better you see, the gloom-gloomers, the glass is half-empty pessimists, the neurotic nervous nellies and the naysaying Eyores are all wrong, it’s a disease, in their heads, the economy is rocketing its way back to robustitude. The most incredible example of just how thoroughly corrupt that the corporatist media has become is the pernicious cover story of the latest edition of Newsweek magazine that has a picture of good ole Uncle Sam saying that he wants YOU to START SPENDING!YOU need to INVEST in America – before it’s too late.

A Diary A Day – a Humongous Heaping Healthy Helping of FRAUD

Yesterday I diaried about my understanding of how the meltdown happened, here. But there is part of the diary worthy of a diary on it’s own. The very important part played by Wall Street’s three biggest arbiters of credit. We will look at their part combined with how these instruments were allowed to be traded that may be the largest fraud ever perpetrated against the American people. We will discuss the illegal actions that can and MUST be pursued below the fold.

Battlestar Galactica Finale

Liveblogging!

I’m so totally playing hooky tonight.

It’s too distracting to concentrate on anything else except spring cleaning which I really need to do to clear the decks for action.  I’ve given up on being very productive this evening.

Here’s a Wikipedia list of all the previous episodes including the survivor rates which I always thought was a very cool feature and meant to save.

This is the general Wikipedia treatment of BSG.

I don’t pretend to be the greatest trivia expert on it.  I’ve felt that until Sometimes a Great Notion and No Exit I had no frakkin’ clue where they were headed.  Even now rewatching all this cutesy music nonsense (that was just plain ridiculous in Crossroads) I’m almost certain it will be hugely disappointing.

I felt that way about Moonlighting and Xena for instance (Cybill on the other hand was satisfactory).

The space below is for your scribbles.

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