Men cannot be feminists

[cheeky monkey trying to get some.]

Men cannot be feminists, because we’ll say anything to get laid.

Guys,

if you thought that feminists were likely to exercise their rights to free exchange of passion, what would you do to get it?
Would you tolerate their repetitive ideas about how they are oppressed?
You do realise that they like to hear their own drivel repeated to them.
So, why would you NOT do it?

The offence rests

[that's more like it]

-Cos67 ¬(%^D>

Wing wong for the Gipper

Chinese translation of "Win one for the Gipper"
from the old Reagan B-movie, and thus his nickname,
other than Bonzo, but that's another B-movie.

Ronald Reagan plays his last great role, as US President, and surrenders the US to China.

He was credited with reviving the economy, BUTT that's far from the truth.
Reagan's revolution was a Communist revolution. Socialism for the rich.
The rest of us started that slow slide into oblivion, starting with the air-traffic controllers. If you want to see how upset the controllers were, check "Pushing Tin".

It all began with President Carter's reaction to the oil crisis.
He said essentially "we must learn to live within our means", which was true,
but stupid to say. It's unpopular.
So Reagan and his henchmen got elected telling Americans what they wanted to hear.

"The party's just begun"
what he didn't say was "the people of 2008 will pay for it"
or "this will land us in the lap of the Chinese"
Therefore, he's a fraud, historically speaking.
Who wouldn't want to party with someone else's money?

As per Greg Palast:
Reagan was all about illusion (debt and theft/war).
Taxes. He raised them all the time, and since he spent like a drunken sailor,
the US still went into hyperdebt.



who's gonna save the day? Obama, the Chinese food of Presidents.

are you seeing a pattern here?
Gong! congratulations.

If the US is going to be the best (tax haven) we rich all have ‘work together’. Actually capitalism is built on competition. Screwing workers has meant short-term profits, but long-term poverty, and the death of the middle class, and that leads to revolution. This all plays right into China’s hands.

The song for Reagan:

IT’S A DEBT MAN’S PARTY

[the 100th anniversary of the Conservative's Jesus]

"DEIFICATION"
CHOMSKY ON DEMOCRACY NOW
"He severely harmed the American economy. When he came into office, the United States was the world’s leading creditor. By the time he left, it was the world’s leading debtor. But the free money made many people happy, especially the rich."

[that's more like it]

-Cos67 ¬(%^D>

property porn, part 1

[from Atlanta Georgia from 50 to 16 million]
story:
#1 – Le Reve – The grand estate, located in Cumming, GA, has been given yet another price cut. Once offered at $50 million, the 47,000 square foot home is now in foreclosure and carries a price tag of just $16,500,000. It’s last listing price that I know of was $18 million back in January of this year.
Massive Southern US properties are going on fire-sale.
50% off.

Cos67 ¬(%^D>
checkitout:

LA Times
Million-dollar homes in California suffer further sales drop in 2009
REAL ESTATE
The number sold in the state falls 23.8%, to 18,621 from 24,436 in 2008, for a fourth year of decline in a row.

The decline in sales of high-priced houses in California, according to… (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

February 05, 2010|By Alejandro Lazo

Sales of California homes priced at $1 million or more tumbled for a fourth consecutive year in 2009, according to a report released Thursday.

The number of million-dollar-plus homes sold dropped 23.8% to 18,621 in 2009 from 24,436 in 2008, according to San Diego real estate research firm MDA DataQuick.

Formula number one for destruction of public cash

[F1 to get clipped]

In my 'how do you like my balls now?' piece, I said that paying millions for F1

is totally stupid when you're asking grannies to pay 150 pounds a year for a tv license,

to "support British arts".
The kind of carving up of cars that goes on in F1 is not really art.

And, I like Formula 1. actually, I like it because it's basically the only widely-available

racing on tv. It's actually fairly boring. and the money is obscene.

well, it turns out that Formula 1 demands 40 Million a year
from the public broadcaster, the BBC, for the rights to show the 18 or so races!

not exactly a moral citizen of the country; and all the F1 bosses
including Bernie Ecclestone the car salesman, are British.

the first hints are going around that the BBC is gonna drop Formula1. They'd be nuts
not to.
UPDATE:
Bernie, always the promoter, is now telling the world that it would terrible to have Formula 1 only on pay tv. I foresee riots in the streets. xD

Well, then, perhaps Formula 1 should ask for a lot less than 40 million a year.

Otherwise, chop it. These are tough times.

Cos67 ¬(%^D>

Later, I'll talk about the BBC's bloated staff paychecks some other time:

teaser- Chris Moyles, dj - 6 million quid/yr

a night in...with ...the wife

Marriage and health
the Student BMJ research showed that it's healthier to be married.

There are psychological benefits.
If you accept that:
there’s no easy way out, you give up, thus lessening your stress.
After a while, you want to die, and fate being what it is, you don't get your wish.

While you married folks are gloating, here's something for the feminists to consider.
Slate mag mentioned a Cornell study

Men who earn less than their wives are most likely to cheat.
Dependent women are less likely to cheat.

Therefore, married women should not make more money than their husbands, if they want to stay married.

Cos67 ¬(%^D>

and God said "Let there be retards"

The religious right in the US is a powerful force in politics.

Unfortunately, they're retarded. If any member of the Bush clan,
including Karl the Roving cunning idiot mentions the words
family values
gays are not in God's plan
Christian prayer
Intelligent design

these Religiolous idiots will give millions and their votes.

They watched Bush, in shock and awe, as he played cowboy in the Middle East.
In fact, a large number of them were hoping Bush would bring forward
the Day of Judgement, so that they will be saved, and so the rest of us
will damned to hell.
If only it were so. Most of them wouldn't give a red coin to a poor person
or offer them health care. They'd let them die in the street.

But, the religious right, who believe in the right to bear arms,
recognise the hand of God, because they could go out for a jug of milk and
end up getting shot dead.

Cos67 ¬(%^D>

if corporations could speak, they'd tell stories of corpo-corruption

The 14th Amendment of the US constitution= corporate personhood
Citizen's United (Koch brothers) court case= corporate personhood has free speech

That kinda logic is straight from a private, unregulated cesspool (i.e the markets).

Lift up the sewer grates and whoop, there it is. All that fetid, subterranean logic.

Reminds me of that New York monster movie Ghostbusters with the bloated monsters,
those personifications of the Wall Street bankers,
those guards of the open gates of hell.

[A walking, stomping world-destroying market bubble]

Free speech for big corporations is righteous.
But, big corporations pay no tax.
No taxation without representation.
No representation without paying taxes.
Tea Party.
Koch Brothers/government/Koch Brothers
Full circle. Circle Jerk
Prime directive. Must kill self.

BOOM!

Cos67 ¬(%^D>

checkitout: from Inside Job documentary "lifting the grate"

from Ian fraser.org
"Ferguson lifts the lid on the little-documented role of the economics profession in stoking up a global financial crisis.
He alleges that several supposedly “academic” economists — including Larry Summers, Martin Feldstein, John Campbell, Glenn Hubbard and Frederic Miskin — allowed themselves to become corrupted.
Some of these economists took huge fees (bribes?) for consultancy and non-executive direc-torships from financial firms, whilst posturing as disinterested arbiters of the economic scene — and some helped their paymasters by testifying to Congress in favour of financial deregu-lation.
It appears from the film that Summers, now director of the White House National Economic Council, was used by the financial industry to give legitimacy to what were, in reality, flawed and dangerously out-of-control practices.[mishkin was paid 124k to make Iceland legit]
Daemonsmovies.com on hubbard.columb prof/devil. “One of Inside Job‘s most compelling moments occurs when Ferguson interviews Glenn Hubbard, the current dean of the Columbia University Business School and a former chief economic adviser during the Bush administra-tion.On-screen the cornered Dean, who is strongly implicated in pushing the Bush-era poli-cies that caused the system to implode, and who is called out for collecting hefty checks for shilling corporation-friendly economic ideas, bares his teeth and reveals that beneath the fa-çade of the nerdy academic lies a vicious political animal, red in tooth and claw.”

Kaup Thing II: the Bribe of the Tchenguiz

If you remember, the Kaup Thing attacked London, in the form of the Tchenguiz Real estate moguls.
They inflated the already inflated real estate market with a few billion from
the Kaup Thing.

Now the Tchenguiz brothers have been confined by the cops for interrogation,
their houses have been checked.
Hey boys!

I'll tell you what they're looking for. I wrote about it last week.
They want some of that Iceland money.
You know.
that cash you keep in your deep freezer.
Iceland Krona. Kaup Thing food.
They want to see if you boys wouldn't mind
becoming MI5 spies so that you can
get some incriminating stuff on the Kaup Thing
that the Brits can use to blackmail or extort
the Iceland government.

Are you game, boys?

checkitout:

[the 'nice' story]
Tchenguiz brothers arrested in Kaupthing investigation

Property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz are among nine detained in connection with the collapse of the Icelandic bank
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* Simon Bowers
* The Guardian, Thursday 10 March 2011
The Mayfair investment tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz were among nine people arrested in dawn raids by the Serious Fraud Office on Wednesday as part of its probe into the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing. London-based former bosses of the bank were also targeted.

More than 130 police swooped on two business properties and eight homes, arresting seven men aged between 42 and 54. They were being interviewed in central London. Two further arrests were made in Reykjavik.

Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz issued a joint statement, confirming they had been detained. "We were arrested earlier this morning and are being questioned with regard to matters relating to our relationship with Kaupthing Bank. Both of us are co-operating fully with the investigation and are confident that, once concluded, we will be cleared of any allegation of wrongdoing."

The brothers - who have both made substantial donations to the Tory party - had been expected to host a party on board Vincent's 40-metre luxury yacht Veni Vidi Vici in Cannes on Thursday....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/09/tchenguiz-brothers-arrested-kaupthing-collapse-iceland

new underwear for workers

In case they crap themselves from worrying.

The government's cuts to public employment
in the UK were designed strictly
to keep wage inflation down, by causing general fear elsewhere.
Now, nobody will dare ask for a raise.

400 000 public employees to be cut, in total! 100 000 already gone

It was done to keep inflation down, even though
the government is already lying about inflation.
BUTT, they won't be able to lie about it if employees
start demanding wage increases.
Inflation plus no pay increase= loss in real wages

If inflation goes up, then Bank of England interest rates
have to go up. PROBLEM
the banks are accustomed to getting money for free
from the gov. No free money means they will go bankrupt.
The government doesn't want to bail them out again,
for a few more years, because there will be riots.
So,
It's the only "successful" idea put forward by the government.
Only because it's working as it should. No inflation.
Byproduct:
All employees are sh*tting their shorts, over here.

Of course, the stated aim of "reducing the deficit" is bullcrap. At best,
it will save 0.001% of the debt, which is 940 billion and climbing.

You may ask yourself, if they're printing money, doesn't that create inflation?

No, the bankers are hording it in risk-less paper gambling deals.

Cos67 ¬(%^D>
checkitout:
Max Keiser
"but the bankers don't want that money seeping too deeply into the population for that would raise wages and hurt the bottom line for the bankers and their supporters. So they let the occasional slaughter whether in Libya...as a way to purge the system of excess inflationary pressure."

Let’s go shopping to solve the crisis

Just like a Hollywood set, the stores in the UK can do nothing but project
an image of the sick nature of the British economy.

more later