The Revolution is not being Televised

In Wisconsin roughly 30,000 protesters have swarmed the Capitol Building to protest Governor Scott Walker's all out assault on the rights of the middle class. This is the type of protest that gets coverage around the world, except here in America where it gets the briefest mention in the TV and Print News. This protest is larger in Wisconsin than the famous Haymarket Affair of 1886 that established the 8 hour work day and is celebrated as May Day.
For videos of the protest I've had to turn to one of my local bloggers The Hillbilly Report because no one in the MSM is covering it.

I want to say I am 100% in support of the protesters. What Scott Walker is doing is nothing less than an attack on 90% of Americans.

It is true that even at labor's peak during the Great Depression union membership was only 20% of the workforce, but that was enough to force companies to give their workers basic rights. The 40 hour workweek, grievance procedures, the right to refuse to do hazardous work and a minimum wage are all a result of union activism in this country.

As Scott Walker launches a direct attack against the unions in Wisconsin and has threatened to turn out the national guard on the unions, other Republicans have launched similar attacks on the middle class.

In Missouri they are trying to repeal child labor laws. In the House of Representatives they are trying to layoff all the inspectors for workplace safety and food inspection, and of course they want to take the $2.5 Trillion dollars that Social Security has in surplus and use it to finance the massive tax cuts for the top 2%.

The middle class in this country has already been under constant attack as this graph I got from Jobs Anger shows:

Now the GOP and wealthiest 2% are doubling down in an attempt to gut all the progress America has made in the last 100 years.

Right now the protesters in Wisconsin fighting back against this assault on middle class rights. Even though the corporate owned media is not reporting on it, I am hoping that this will lead to protests like in Egypt where the people were simply pushed to far and demanded their country back.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of Alien Thoughts

Temper-Tantrum Tuesday

(Caution: harsh language)

Seeing the tea-baggers throwing their temper-tantrums about having a government that might throw them a friggin’ bone and have the health insurance companies use a little lube while anally raping them, I figured I could set aside Tuesday’s to have my own temper-tantrums and blog about things I hate.

I will still set aside Purrsday, Caturday, and the all-new Evil Minion Monday to keep everyone up to date on the Catspiracy.

Stupid People

I’ve talked about them before, the Tea-baggers, Creationists, Global warming deniers, and others. They all have the amazing ability to stare right at plain evidence that shows they are wrong and deny what they are seeing.

Frank Schaeffer does a piece on the origins of some of them. How the Religious Right set-up program to turn a small group of their follower’s kids into these sheeple determined to destroy America.

Corporate Owned Media pushing an agenda over the News.

We’ve always had stupid people running around and always will. But nowadays they get the friggin’ spotlight. Someone who brings a firearm to the President’s speech should be politely but firmly taken a few blocks over and told not to return, not assorted to the nearest TV station for an interview.

And what the hell ever happened to truth in broadcasting? If a politician is talking about healthcare their should be an overlay under their name saying how much they take from the insurance companies.

Economists who don’t think Economics is a science.

I’ve got a bachelors in Economics and there is a science behind it. Economic theories need to be falsifiable. So it pisses me off when I see an Economist on TV spouting theories that have been proven false, or weren’t real theories in the first place.

The tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs (trickle-down) nonsense. This has been shown to be false time and time again. It only creates wealth in the financial sector, which would be fine if our financial sector was lacking, but before the meltdown it was 8% of our economy as opposed to its historic 2-2.5% of the economy. It was 4 times as big as it should be so for the last 8 years we piled money on it, while in all other areas of the economy there was zero job growth.

My temper-tantrum is going off in too many directions now so I will stop. Hopefully I will deliver a more focused temper-tantrum next Tuesday.

One last thing that pisses me off is that I can’t think of a topic starting with “W” for tomorrows post.

Talking to the kitchen table

Joe Wilson (R-SC) talking with him is less productive than talking to the kitchen table

I was recently accused of being anti-Christian by the Ed Wood of Star Trek critics for pointing out the stupidity of a tea-bagger who called a Jew a Nazi at a town hall meeting.

Apparently, in his warped mind pointing out the stupidity of tea-baggers who call Jews Nazis is calling the tea-baggers Nazis and therefore it calls the Christian minority in this country (he seems to believe over half the country is anti-Christian) Nazis.

Naturally I was too busy giggling over that logic to reply.

Then I got to witness a similar form of debate on House Floor. The Republican response to President Obama’s speech on Healthcare.

The President spoke about the Healthcare crisis in this country and how bipartisan efforts are being thwarted by people that don’t bring anything constructive to the table, just scream out bullshit in order to confuse and scare people. (I’m paraphrasing)

Joe Wilson (R-SC) delivered the republican response by yelling out “You Lie”.

Right now the country is in the biggest mess in my lifetime and in trying to move forward we have two camps those who are trying to fix the country (some of the ways are obviously debatable), and those who think the best course of action is to is to yell and scream and be cry-babies.

If you disagree with him he’ll cry

The Republicans, my apologies to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and the few other sane Republicans out there who aren’t allowed to speak on Conservative talk shows, have adopted their debating style from 2-year olds. I wonder how long it will be before a Republican Senator uses the clever rebuttal of, “I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue”.

We’ve let the crybabies and whinners have their little temper tantrums, now it’s time to let the adults get to work.

I would suggest a good spanking for the crybabies and their corporate sponsors, but it appears one “family values” Republican has already taken on that mission:

Lawmaker Denies Affairs

When one side of a debate only rebuttal is yell at a Jew that he’s a Nazi then the only response is exactly what Barney Frank told her. "Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.” “I have no interest in doing it.”

Unlike the Healthcare Opponents this has a leg to stand on.

So many topics, So little time

This is one of those days that I’ve got a bunch of topics in mind to write about but don’t want to take the time to sort them out and make them individual topics. So I’ll let some other bloggers handle some of the topics.

Healthcare:

The candid blogger has painstakingly broken down a lot of the myths and lies about healthcare reform. You can read the entire series here.

The Catspiracy:

Amy Oops has shocking videos of cats training to use our technology and practicing synchronizing their movements, and even practicing how to infiltrate Kleenex boxes.
Watch this horrifying video here.

Follow-up the Dongtastic news.

One the Dongtastic stories I covered was Barney Frank responding to a lady who said he supported Nazi policies by saying, “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it."

That had me wondering what sort of logic is going through peoples heads when they call Jews Nazis. Then I had an illuminating look at the logic of Bigotry. It basically started with a post on Eye of Polyphemus where the author launched a rather weird Ad Homien attack on the fact that I’m a Unitarian implying that Unitarians and Sex Ed are somehow contradictory. He then went on to imply that somehow Unitarians were “Anti-Christians”. I asked him about this weird logic.

He responded he doesn’t consider Unitarians Christians; fair enough, a billion Catholics don’t consider him a Christian either as he doesn’t belong to the one true religion in the church founded by Jesus Christ.

(The big difference is all the Catholics I know believe in a god that has greater judgment then men, so the final call is his. So they treat everyone, even heretics and heathens, the same as they would a Catholic on this Earth, just in case God’s final call isn’t exactly what they thought.)

I went on to ask him how that made me “Anti-Christian” as opposed to just Non-Christian and he just responded that he didn’t consider Unitarians Christians.

This showed me the great logic of bigotry, basically if your not with us your against us. There doesn’t have to be any more steps involved. This is the circular logic of a Bigot, you’re not like me, therefore you’re against me, and therefore anything I do against you is a defensive move, because you are against me, because you’re not like me.

So if you think Nazis were evil, and a Jew doesn’t share your views; that obviously means the Jew is a Nazi.

So to answer Barney Franks question as to what Planet the lady spent most of her time on? It would be the Planet of Bigotry that is located in Intolerance System.

That’s Dongtastic Part I

The Daily Show has pointed out how the MSM is injecting teenage slang into their broadcasts in order to be “hip”. Things like CNN’s “I’m just saying” and MSNBC’s “What the…?” segments.

I guess the idea is nothing shows off the seriousness of your topic better than using slang you’ll hear in middle schools across the country.

Here at Project Savior I strive to be on the tail end of any fad so I decided to inject “hip” new slang into my news reports. The problem is I don’t know what the new “hip” slang is. I decided to investigate.

Hanging out at the local middle school and listening in on the whispered conversations I found out the new slang phrases are “Like, is that a friend of your Dad’s?” something about a “Pedophile” and “We should probably call the cops”.

Learning these “hip” new phrases was interesting and I looked forward to learning how to put them into context, I had to cut my research short when the police showed up. I figured the presence of the Police would damper the girls talking in slang.

I thought I could just use the slang from my high school days and tested out the reactions on message boards to the old phrases like, “Bag your Face” and “Gag me with a spoon”.

The reactions I got were “Hey, aren’t you a friend of my Dad’s” and “the 80’s called, they want their lingo back.”.

I figured that wouldn’t work either so I hit the two “hippest” web sites I know, “NeuroQuantology” and “Cracked”.

Unfortunately, as hip as it is, NeuroQuantology doesn’t use a lot of slang in their discussions Quantum Physics in relationship to brain functions. So that left “Cracked”.

Cracked is a website where people can put up their high school research papers, if your high school research papers were list based and had a lot of dick jokes. Since that’s how I formatted my high school research papers and teachers indicated that they were cool by putting a big “C” on the front of them. I knew this was the place to get my new slang. (BTW: It was a great shock to me that Universities don’t use “Dick Jokes per Page” as a criteria for accepting students).

So I scoured their articles looking for hip new slang phrases and came across this article and got a hip new slang word to add to my news articles, “Dongtastic” adding this phrase to my posts will make it look like I work for CNN. So here is a quick round up of the most “Dongtastic” new items of the week.

Nancy Pelosi grew a set of balls, after Republican Senators said the Public Option in healthcare is dead, and reminded everyone that the Congress has two chambers and the house bill will contain a Public Option.

Republicans countered saying, “You’re a Nazi!” to which she replied, “You said that already.” And they replied, “You’re a Doo-Doo-head Nazi!” to which she replied, “You’ve run out of things to call me, haven’t you?” which made them stare at the ground sheepishly. (This conversation has yet to be confirmed.)

Pelosi actually acting like a house leader is Dongtastic.

Max Baucus has told everyone that he is more afraid of people, “with YouTubes” Than the people with guns. I guess the pen is mightier than the sword and the camera phone is mightier than the AK-47. That’s Dongtastic.

Barney Frank confronted a lunatic at one of his town hall meetings:

..."My question to you is, why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?" the woman asked Frank.
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?," an incredulous Frank rhetorically replied, indignantly adding "You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis....Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it."
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That’s Dongtastic.

ActBlue has raised over $174,500 to support Democratic Congressmen who pledge to only vote for healthcare reform if it contains the public option.

That’s Dongtastic.

There I’ve put in some news stories worth reading about and did it with CNN’s hard-hitting style of adding hip slang to the stories. That should show how that I’m a credible source.

Killing Grandma while eating Fetuses with Hitler II

In my post Killing Grandma while eating Fetuses with Hitler I asked the question, “Is there any group out there that the Republican’s aren’t trying to offend?”

I guess some tea-bagger out there thought this was a challenge and shouted out “Heil Hitler” to an Israeli doctor who was discussing the Israeli state run healthcare system. See video

What a way to build up sympathy for your cause, compare Jews to Hitler.

For all the people out there who are equating Government Healthcare to Nazis, I want to say this:

My Grandfather died fighting the Nazis, he volunteered to serve. He fought to stop a madman who was determined to spread his vile hatred of “others” across the globe.

When you start comparing Government Healthcare (a program designed to help people) with Nazism (Vile Hatred that slaughtered millions of innocents) you demean the legacy of all those brave men and women who fought against it.

My grandfather didn’t die trying stop people from having access to healthcare, he died keeping the world safe from the mindless hatred of a madman that committed genocide of anyone that didn’t think like him.

Implying something else demeans his legacy and the legacy of all those that fought and died trying to stop him.