Alabammy Whammy

They Lovin' Them Some Freedom Down Theah

Via The Great Curmudgeon:

Friday, October 07, 2011
Crazy And Evil

Welcome to Alabama.

The Montgomery Water Works and Sanitary Sewer Board began enforcing a section of the new law on Sept. 1 by requiring new ap­plicants for service to first prove they are legally in the United States, according to the filing. The water board suspended the policy after being notified that Black­burn had temporarily sus­pended implementation of the state law.

Allgood Water Works also posted a sign on its office that "to be compliant with new laws concerning immi­gration, you must have an Alabama driver's license or an Alabama picture ID card on file at this office before Sept. 29 or you may lose water service."

Freedom. Smell it.

by Atrios at 10:44

It's not very American and tolerant and fair-play and all, but if these crazy weasels want to secede from the United States, let them.

Yes, I know: These Klan-lovin' Mitwissers aren't supposed to be representative of what were once the Old Confederate states -- but, too, also, the people living in these areas who don't support this kind of thing should raise their voices in opposition. Strongly.

I'm tired of having to cater in any way to this racist, misogynistic, homophobic, You Better Get Raht Wit' Gunz-n-Jezus, Antebellum vision of Reality. It needs to be rebuked and rejected as any kind of vision for America... and if that's truly what the majorities want in these areas, let them go their own way in their own country.

You addled bunch of peacocks want to rebuild the 'Old South'? Want to put back the drinking fountains and bathrooms and separate seating in buses and theaters and at lunch counters for "Coloreds"? Want to restrict hiring and home ownership and college admission to Whites / The Right Kind O' Christian / Native-Born Only?

Then go ahead, you Troglodyte genetically-damaged inbred throwbacks -- here's your own little aryan nation; leave the rest of us alone. We have adult work to do. And when we restrict your coming back to the United States Of America, as 'tourists' or 'immigrants' or 'foreign guest workers', you can complain then, too.

Not to put too fine a point on it or anything.

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...Do You, Mister Jones?

About Goddamn Time

Via digby -- and with this, we inaugurate a new Blog Category, The Right Stuff:

The New Yorker:

The next target is Wall Street,” an anarchist collective known as Black Mask wrote in its January newsletter, 1967. On February 10th, around twenty-five members of the group, wearing black balaclavas and carrying giant skulls, took to the streets of the financial district and handed out this statement:

WALL STREET IS WAR STREET

The traders in stocks and bones shriek for New Frontiers—but the coffins return to the Bronx and Harlem. Bull markets of murder deal in a stock exchange of death. Profits rise to the ticker tape of your dead sons. Poison gas RAINS on Vietnam. You cannot plead “WE DID NOT KNOW.” Television brings the flaming villages into the safety of your home. You commit genocide in the name of freedom.

BUT YOU TOO ARE THE VICTIMS!

If unemployment rises, you are given work, murderous work. If education is inferior, you are taught to kill. If the blacks get restless, they are sent to die. This is Wall Street’s formula for the great society!

The photographer Larry Fink was there. “They had nothing but their own stealth, and no support,” Fink told me. They hoped to stoke a revolution. “They were working from a massive historic misinterpretation,” Fink said.

Fink thinks that today’s Occupy Wall Street protests are different. “We’ve gone past the time when utopia seemed like a viable option,” he said. “There’s no hope for some kind of Marxist future, so it seems formless. They just know that it can’t go on like this: the greed, the inequality. It can’t go on, so we’ll sit here.”

And, One Of The Smartest Humans In America has a few things to say which Bear Repeating -- 'Over And Over Again, My Friend':

There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.

When the Occupy Wall Street protests began three weeks ago, most news organizations were derisive if they deigned to mention the events at all. For example, nine days into the protests, National Public Radio had provided no coverage whatsoever.

It is, therefore, a testament to the passion of those involved that the protests not only continued but grew, eventually becoming too big to ignore. With unions and a growing number of Democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters, Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point...

In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending. In the second act, the bubbles burst — but bankers were bailed out by taxpayers, with remarkably few strings attached, even as ordinary workers continued to suffer the consequences of the bankers’ sins.

And, in the third act, bankers showed their gratitude by turning on the people who had saved them, throwing their support — and the wealth they still possessed thanks to the bailouts — behind politicians who promised to keep their taxes low and dismantle the mild regulations erected in the aftermath of the crisis.

Given this history, how can you not applaud the protesters for finally taking a stand?

...But Democrats are being given what amounts to a second chance. The Obama administration squandered a lot of potential good will early on by adopting banker-friendly policies that failed to deliver economic recovery even as bankers repaid the favor by turning on the president. Now, however, Mr. Obama’s party has a chance for a do-over. All it has to do is take these protests as seriously as they deserve to be taken.

And if the protests goad some politicians into doing what they should have been doing all along, Occupy Wall Street will have been a smashing success.

The visual counterpoint in the New Yorker slideshow I've provided a link to shows the shift from hesitant, not-that-well-attended antiwar protests of 1966 and 1967, to the mass protests and marches of 1969 and after (Out Now! Set The Date!).

The mid-Sixties through the mid-Seventies were a reaction to the Cold-War paranoia and "button down" consumerist capitalism of the post-WW2 era, in the poetry of Ginsburg, the comedy of Lenny Bruce; the collision between Rock-n-Roll and Soul; in The Naked Lunch and On The Road.

There were a large number of people adrift within a culture based on following the rules, on climbing the ladder and corporate growth (American corporations; this was before the rise of the Multinationals). People were beating their brains out in jobs they really didn't like at the office or factory during the week, getting drunk at backyard barbecues on the weekends, eyeing their friends' spouses; smoking too much, and falling asleep every night in front of the teevee.

And somehow, everyone knew that no matter how swell the Formica counters looked or how dependable that new Chrysler was -- something was very, very wrong. There was a worm at the heart of the rose, and we were being told to ignore it. But eventually, things began to happen no one could fail to notice.

The Cuban Missie Crisis brought the world within a hairsbreadth of an actual thermonuclear war. Americans were just beginning to deploy to Southeast Asia. In his last television interview at Hyannisport with Walter Cronkite, JFK said, "In the final analysis, it's their [the Vietnamese'] war". Then they killed Jack in Dallas, and by 1966, 200,000 troops were sent to South Vietnam and war was once again, as it always has been, Big Business. So many American corporations were, uh, "making a killing".

Meanwhile, people worked at those jobs; drank more liquor and bought more things; what the hell was it all for? Inside themselves, people were checking out: They'd All Gone To Look For America and didn't even realize it. On the teevee every night were scenes of a war half a world away, and men -- mostly in their late teens and early twenties -- were being wounded, dying, in larger numbers every month... not to mention thousands of Vietnamese.

As the war continued and no one listened, those first timid protest Actions became more organized, more visually compelling and rhetorically forceful, and it didn't take long -- the point being, the antiwar movement became the nexus for change already happening in the culture and a real political force to be reckoned with.

Perhaps, just perhaps, #Occupy Wall Street is the equivalent of those early 1966-67 actions, of something larger -- a harbinger of America's Tahrir Square. It's clear this isn't a crowd of students and dirty hippies protesting in New York, and now in more and more American cities; a slideshow of portraits of people attending the protests proves it. This is broad-based; the circumstances that created it affect everyone.

But, much as the Old Red Dog in me would like to think of a protest movement sweeping away old ways of thinking and relating; of shrugging off the Rule Of Wealth; the workers of Greece standing in solidarity with those in England and America and around the world... that's not likely.

And, the Democratic Establishment isn't going to wear tie-dye shirts and talk about "Sticking It To The Man". They're not going to march and rattle the walls. My expectations that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and others will make common cause with the spirit and perspective of #Occupy Wall Street are breathtakingly low.

But, history -- that thing we're all living through, now (a bit different to experience something you just breezed over in a few paragraphs from a Civ-101 textbook, huh?) -- has a way of surprising us. Just look at the past ten years.

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I'm Down With It

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".

- Isaac Asimov, Writing In Newsweek, January 21, 1980

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Something Is Happening Here, But You Don't Know What It Is...

Multiple Choice Question, Mr. Jones


(#OccupyWallStreet Poster, 2011: Adbusters)

Q: The #OccupyWallStreet Action, Taking Place Across America, Is:

• The New Woodstock


• Given the climate of the times, a revolutionary act


• An expression of the awareness of cognitive dissonance between (1) The vision of America spoon-fed to its population through the Mainstream Media, political and corporate institutions, and financial structure; and (2) Reality, as experienced through daily life in the United States


• A conspiracy by George Soros


• Anger and resistance towards a system which devalues the collective good in favor of a small percentage of the population, in America and the world


• Derided and mostly ignored by American media and the Little Rupert empire


• An act of hope

Choose All That Apply.

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Im Westen Nicht Neues

The Usual Suspects

News -- On The March !!

• Little Glenn Beck: I Not Dead! I Prove!
  Little Glenny, five years old and having lost even more viewing audience share following his dismissal parting ways from The Little Goebbels Rupert Network, now says the world is ending, again.
  
  Next week, in fact: The dirty hippies camped near Wall Street are going to do Bad Things. Unspeakable Things. Because they are dirty, and hippies, and anarchists and revolutionaries and listen to Groin Musik.
  
  Glenny has "verified" that there will "be an attack on Wall Street, next week", and urged all of his radio show listeners (three of them, and a semi-deaf Parakeet) to stockpile food and water, and to have cash on hand for the inevitable Ragnarok and Armageddon which will follow (I don't know about you, but I've always assumed the End Of Civilization would be on a pay-as-you-go basis).
  
  In his desperation to appear relevant to anyone and anything, Glenny Bubbled:
  

  
  ...Gang, may I warn you, again -- we are in for trouble, and I fear it is close. Ah; I will give you, um, some information that has been -- uh, come to my attention, today; Ammm, that, ah, I don't know if it's credible, or not. It has been verified, ahhh -- not by me -- it's coming from the right sources, it appears; and these people have credibility, who are releasing this information; and it is about an attack on Wall Street, next week.
  
  ... Ahhhhh, I don't know what that means, exactly; that the Unions will join this movement down on Wall Street tomorrow -- they are starting this movement in Washington, D.C., and all over; do not dismiss them. if you have money in the stock market... may I just recommend that you have some cash, uh, handy -- that you have your food and everything else ready.
  
  I hope to god that none of this stuff happens. But you, uh, have people who are anarchists, revolutionaries, intent upon collapsing the system... and I will share with you at the top of the hour a threat that you should take seriously.

  
  One thing I can say -- Little Glenn doesn't know how to speak to a radio audience. He doesn't. He doesn't modulate his voice; it's a droning near-monotone. And every third word is separated from the next by, "Ahhh" and "Uh", and "Umm" -- it's one of the basic lessons in Junior Broadcaster's School that you try to eliminate those bad sounds from your shtick, because they make you sound like a Moron.
  
  Beck also said something about "The Parakeet doesn't care," but I could be wrong about that.


• Chris Christie May Have Coupon For Free Liposuction
  In an announcement yesterday in New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie sat down with the press to announce that he was not throwing his supersized underwear in the ring in a bid for the Rethug nomination for president.
  
  Telling America, "Now is not the time", sitting down with members of the media, the chair underneath the Governor was heard to say, in a West Orange accent, "Hey Hey Hey; get offa me".
  
  Josh Marshall at TPM has noted
  

  A few times this year we've mentioned the 'Murdoch Primary', the all important race to get the support of Rupert Murdoch, various minions and capos of the Murdoch organization and of course the editorial support of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and so many other publications.
  
  Chris Christie, in case you didn't notice, was being backed in a big, big way by Murdoch, Ailes and the rest. So he wasn't just winning the Murdoch primary. He was the product of the Murdoch primary, you might even say a failed Murdoch/Newscorp effort to pull off a leveraged buy out of the GOP nominating process.



• Amanda Knox, Stylishly Dressed, Returns Home
  Justice was once again served, with an apple in its mouth; unfortunately, Commissario Guido Brunetti or Salvo Montalbano were not available to handle the investigation of the case in which American Amanda Knox and her boyfriend were accused of brutally killing Knox's roommate two years ago. The case against her, and the (former) boyfriend, overturned after two years in an Italian prison, Amanda flew home to Seattle. The New York Times noted
  

  The Knox family hired a public relations company specializing in crisis management soon after Ms. Knox was arrested in 2007 during her junior year abroad in Perugia, accused along with two men of killing her housemate, Meredith Kercher, during a sexual attack...
  
  At one point a Seattle judge was admonished for using court stationery to write to Italian officials on her behalf. And Senator Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, championed her case, reaching out to both American and Italian officials...
  
  In some respects, her supporters had their work cut out for them. The crime Ms. Knox had been accused and eventually convicted of was lurid, her statements to the police were inconsistent and DNA evidence presented at trial seemed to link her to the brutal killing...
  
  But by the time she was freed from an Italian prison on Monday, her public portrayal was very different: Many media accounts in the United States, at least, portrayed Ms. Knox as a nice young woman, a linguistics major at the University of Washington, who had fallen victim to the Italian justice system while on her junior year abroad.
  
  No one can say for sure whether the painstaking and calculated rehabilitation of her image helped sway the Italian courts. Ultimately, it was an official report casting doubt on the DNA evidence in the case that led to her exoneration.

  
  Over the past four years, the case had turned into a predictable circus, and tried in the media -- and, Italians love a good Opera; you only have to sing the right songs and the audience will be on its feet.
  
  Amanda's roommate is still dead. There are no other suspects, but on an evening in Perugia in 2007, out of a group of four people, one ended up dead. What actually happened? The victim is still dead -- but, Justice is so passe these days; I guess no one cares, really. And Amanda does seem like such a nice young lady.
  
  And, Italy is a country that can't even get rid of an Oligarch Prime Minister who treats government as an adjunct to doing business. Italian officials have indicated they will appeal the court's decision, but I feel it's doubtful that Ms. Knox would return to Italy voluntarily to stand trial, again. So no one should be surprised.

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Deeply-Held Personal Beliefs

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MEHR: Paul B. Farrell, investment analyst, isn't particularly liberal, but he has been saying since the mid-2000's that an unsustainable Housing Bubble and derivatives market would explode and sink the economy. He has also said since that bailing out the Banksters was a Bad Idea, and that our collective future is heading for Unknown Territory.

...Warning: to Wall Street CEOs, the Super Rich, the top 1% who think they own our government … the party’s over. No matter who gets elected in 2012 and 2016, the new Lost Decade 2011-2021 will make life miserable for the president and Congress, as with Japan earlier.

Worse, this Lost Decade will make life miserable for everybody: corporations, investors, consumers, workers, small businesses and all our families, with the kind of economic suffering experienced in the painfully long Great Depression era.

...Yes, big shock dead ahead. The class wars like Arab Spring are accelerating across America. “Occupy Wall Street” is going viral, spreading through “Occupy Together,” expanding in dozens of cities across America and the world, growing bigger — in commitment, in mission, in boldness — a resistance movement waging war against our democracy-killing Super Rich.

Next, expect many more class wars, regional rebellions, uprisings against the wealthy — yes, this is the second American Revolution.

Wake up folks: The myopic media is trapped in 2012 “campaign mode,” in a time warp delivering mind-numbing reality shows featuring the latest soap-opera sound bites about Mitt, Rick, Chris, Newt, Michele and their endless games.

Meanwhile, off-camera something big is happening, in the real world, a historic, cultural shift exploding all across America and the world. Something the media, bankers and politicians still can’t grasp.

Get it? The people have lost faith in voting. Not just lost faith in the markets and economy. The public no longer has faith in democracy. They know voting is irrelevant, nothing ever changes. They now know their world is being manipulated by a powerful cabal of wealthy special interests, corporate bosses, bankers, lobbyists and self-serving politicians.

Voters know they’re being played for suckers. The game is rigged. And they’ve also figured out that change will come only after a revolution, one they’re triggering.

Warning: This revolutionary spirit is spreading across the world’s youth, the unemployed, disenfranchised and disillusioned, voices who’ve lost faith in voting democracies.

This historic wave is summarized here from Nicholas Kulish’s provocative New York Times piece, Forget the Tea Party, the new class wars will force America to change, as they’re changing the Arab world.

The bizarre thing is, Farrell's piece appears... in Little Rupert's Wall Street Journal.

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Don't Give A Damn About You

People Like This Run Your World


(John Currin, Park City Grill, O/C [Dimens. Unk.], 2000)

Ever dealt with these persons? It's amazing: All that inbreeding, and they're barely intelligent enough to remember to breathe.

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Pay Attention

Just The Beginning


(Photo: Cryptome.org)

Carl Franzen at TPM reports:

New York police officers arrested at least 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters late Saturday afternoon, including a freelance reporter for the New York Times, for straying off the sidewalk and onto the roadway in the midst of a march on Brooklyn Bridge. Most were released early Sunday morning after being issued citations for disorderly conduct and court summons, the BBC reports.

...These and other sympathetic reports from The [UK] Guardian ... indicate the protesters’ efforts to penetrate what they had deemed to be a mainstream “media blackout” on their activities appears to be working. In some ways, the protest has become as much a media war as it has a physical occupation.

The MSM (forget the Little Rupert portion of it; nothing mainstream about that)'s coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests initially tried to relegate it to "Youth Running Wild", interrupting the grown-ups whose job it is to push money around, Downtown in Manhattan. Nothing really to see here; move along America. How about another Fox entertainment, huh?

Occupy Wall Street has been going on for nearly three weeks. And it's interesting that the best reporting of events surrounding it have come from the BBC and Guardian UK.

It doesn't show any sign of slowing down; if anything, it's continuing, and increasing in size. There were (according to estimates by the New York Times) originally about 3,500 people -- now, estimates place the protestors camping near Wall Street at nearly 7,000.

They arrived to show their anger and incredulity at the difference between What America Claims To Be, Ronald Reagan's "Shining City On A Hill"; and the results of a decade of being raped by the Right Wing, while Liberals in Congress did little or nothing. They have stayed at Wall Street to become organized, and to organize, and their numbers are growing. That alone should tell someone in the Power Structure, somewhere, something.

To point out the obvious, the Occupy Wall Street action is a manifestation of two things: One, The utter failure of Business-As-Usual politics, its defense of the top one per cent of the population at the expense of the other 99% ... and, Two, it's finally a response by The People -- mostly young people, unemployed and underemployed people; now Union people -- to the difference between The Bright, Shining Lie, and the truth we live every day in our own lives.

Some people interviewed (by that same MSM that only wants to see the protests as a funny little political aberration by people too young to know better) have said they were inspired by events in Tahrir Square and the 'Arab Spring'.

And there's a hope that, as in Madison, Wisconsin, this past Spring, People will begin to stand up for the Truth. Not some Tea Partei garbage manufactured by a bunch of millionaire, right-wing political 'consultants' and backed by miscreants like the Brothers Koch -- but, just maybe, the beginnings of a real American Revolution; "A New Turn", as Jefferson once described it.

The MSM wants everything to be wrapped up before 60 Minutes and 'The Factor' and Monday Night Football go on the air, with plenty of time for commercials. They don't really give a damn if the United States Of America becomes a land of Lords, and Serfs. Too many politicians on all sides seem willing to allow that to happen -- those that aren't actively pushing the country that way. And most of the people in America seem too frightened to do very much.

Except for several thousand people in Manhattan. I believe they're standing out there for millions of us, and for me; and I'm sorry I'm not with them.

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Tell Us Something We Don't Know

Via Greg Sargent's The Plum Line In The War Criminal Post:

People obsessing over Warren Buffett’s comments on CNBC today are focusing on the wrong Warren Buffett interview. These remarks from Buffett, on CNN this morning, are far more significant:

QUESTIONER: Are you happy seeing your suggestion, this new Buffett Rule, becoming more of a basis of a political battle that really has turned into class warfare?

BUFFETT: Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won. We’re the ones that have gotten our tax rates reduced dramatically.

If you look at the 400 highest taxpayers in the United States in 1992, the first year for figures, they averaged about $40 million of [income] per person.

In the most recent year, they were $227 million per person — five for one. During that period, their taxes went down from 29 percent to 21 percent of income. So, if there’s class warfare, the rich class has won.

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At Last; Their Love Has Come Along

The Thugs Show Their Contempt For America


In Future, All Presidential Press Conferences Will Be Held
Outside George Washington Hospital's ER. Just In Case.

Those pushing Mr. Christie to run include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Nancy Reagan and the conservative columnist William Kristol. If the odds of a campaign were very low just weeks ago, they are increasing.

("Christie Team Assessing How Fast a 2012 Campaign Could Be Mounted", New York Times)

The Rethug Leadership, and the Big Money behind them, have looked at their pack of GOP presidential candidates:

The Mittens is seen as a mock-pseudo-crypto-quasi christian by Real christians (Read: We Will Never Allow A Mormon To Be Elected), and anyway isn't very exciting; Crazy Lady Grand TurtleBear Bachmann and Le Gouvernor Placard Mssr. Perry have crashed and burned, because they say manifestly stupid things and are mentally ill; Newt (" Rockin', No Knockin' ") Gingrich is too overly intellectual for the, uh, average Republican, and is too busy looking for the next Mrs. Gingrich he'll have to marry.

Herman Cain and John Huntsman might be sane, but that may be why they're not finding traction with the, uh, average Republican -- plus, Huntsman is (cough cough) one of Them, too (see "Mittens", above); Ron Paul looks like Don Knotts in Three's Company and is close to crazy; Mike Huckabee is mentally ill too; Crazy Moose Lady Little Sarah, Straight 'n Tall, is crazy, but knows being President would put a stop to her 'Little Sarah Brand'™ Money Machine, once and for all.

And, The Donald can't get the Weasel That Lives On His Head to agree that they should run. So there you are.



Who's left? Who can you "sell" to the Tea Partei brownshirts as well as the Joe Sixpack Average Republicans? Who do The Koch Brothers and Harold Simmons and Little Rupert Murdoch see as the figurehead for their personal agendas? That they will put their personal power (most importantly, huge sums of money) behind?

How about a really fat man who talks like a dock worker -- no-nonsense, spade's-a-spade, You-could-have-a-beer-wit'-this-Guy. Looks just the guy next door. Sweats like you. Got a weight problem like you. Probably whipped like you, too, Bud.

Not like that over-educated uppity illegitimate leader Negra up th' White House what thinks he's the Pres-o-dent. Think you could have a beer with that Socialist Kenyan? No way, pal.

No -- Chris Christie Is One Of You Unwashed Ignorant Peasants. Of course you'll vote for him.

And the sad thing is, politics being what they are -- the members of both parties doing everything they can to provide America's wealthy with The Soft and The Nice, and Treats, and Safety Nets -- and vote-rigging being what it is; The Powers That Be may decide hey; our money's on The Fat Boy.



Because ultimately, elections aren't about reality -- not for these people. For the Rethugs, it's not about adult debate on the directions to take with issues that threaten the species, or about ensuring stability and prosperity for all Americans, as opposed to greed and short-term gains.

It's about selling a product, so that the Gravy Train for the Few can continue without a hiccup. Like Little Rupert, they treat their "political consumers" with contempt: Just give us your Money votes; accept whatever we decide to tell you; shut up, don't talk back; and stay out of our Business. You don't like it? We'll run right over ya.

And, with an Oligarch, two unindicted war criminals, and the widow of the Zombie Candidate For President all saying, Run, Fat Man, Run -- well, if not the Best, why not the Biggest?

Lard Boy will love the idea, I'm sure.

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MEHR:

Associated Press / MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Saturday that he is open to sending American troops to Mexico to help battle drug cartels.

Perry, the Texas governor, likened the situation to Colombia, where the government accepted American military support in battling drug trafficking. Mexico's government, however, has been opposed to foreign forces in its territory.

Perry saids the current violence may require similar military action.

"It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and keep them off of our borders," he said.

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Und Noch Immer Mehr:

I just realized that I'd referred to Herman Cain as "sane". Hope everyone knows that was a relative term...

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