Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone with half a brain but the White House has been caught AGAIN “wagging the dog” with their favorite topic, fear, to overshadow news about their crimes from making the headlines. Now for those of you that don’t know what “wagging the dog” is I suggest you go to your favorite video store and rent the 1997 Barry Levinson movie titled ‘Wag the Dog’, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Actually the term has been around for years. To quote the urban dictionary “When something of secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance. The expression pre-dates the movie by the same name, and was NOT coined by said movie.”
So what’s the latest version of the White House’s wag the dog? Well if you remember a few days ago the headlines and top stories on the nightly news was “Suspected Dry Runs by Terrorists”. Yup that’s the one. So how did they “wag the dog” with this story? Well first of all TSA reports like this come out almost once a week but never seem to make it to the news media. This one mysteriously leaked its way to the news media 5 days after it came out. So what’s so bad about that you say? Well ALL of the incidents reported in it were total BULLSHIT and had been proven as such. Each and every one of these supposed ‘dry runs’ had completely harmless explanations (like the 60 year old woman who’s ice pack had leaked into her suitcase).
As you all know I have been shouting for years about the greed of Corporations and their ability to manipulate both society and government. Today I came across an article written in 2005 by Manuel Valenzuela. Mr Valenzuela sums up just about anything I could possibly say and then some in this article titled “America’s Tomorrow - Burden on Those Yet to Come“. It’s quite a long article but something I think any good American should read. You will feel your stomach churn as you read this article because it smacks you in the face with truths we all know yet mostly ignore. My favorite passage is:
The corporation has become the demon of the modern age, becoming, to 21st century humanity, what totalitarian regimes were to the 20th, a threat allowed to grow and prosper, slowly gaining power and influence, becoming wealthier than entire nations, allowed to control and manipulate the population, swallowing whole the branches of government, becoming overlord of Earth, master of the masses. It is the corporation, allowed to develop through debauched capitalism and the power of the Establishment, through our indifference and failure to act, which has accelerated the dastardly stage of degenerate capitalism we are immersed in today. It is the corporation, and the people that control it, that has become the greatest threat to the continued survival of humankind.
Last night Keith Olbermann ran what could be his most scathing commentary on King George, my question is, why isn’t 90% of our media saying the same thing and why the HELL aren’t the American people echoing these comments and SCREAMING them from the rooftops!
Even conservatives from previous Republican administrations are trying to warn people that we are two steps away from a police state! Here’s the latest.
Folks this once great country is one step away from a dictatorship, the end of America as it has been for over 200 years! People have to get off their asses, turn the god damned reality shows off and pay attention to REAL REALITY because if they don’t they will find themselves, just as so many people that ignored their own country’s transformation, in concentration camps or as slaves.
Oh here we go again, more people that have completely forgotten what a sense of humor is and are crying racism!
Of course I’m talking about the cross promotion between 7 11 and the new Simpsons movie. In an utter stroke of brilliance these two companies have transformed several stores into quickie marts, based on the store from the show. They have life sized cutouts of the characters, including Abu (on of my favorite characters) and they have employees dressed up to mimic the show.
But of course we have a group of Indian American immigrants that obviously haven’t a drop of humor left in their body and they are screaming the old “This is racism” slogan.
For god’s sake folks, we really need to get a life and a sense of humor! Why haven’t these people ever screamed about the show? I mean it’s only been on for what, 15 years? But NO, now it’s time to bitch and whine and tell the world they are being oppressed! I even saw a video of some bonehead whining about it saying “My children will be scarred for 20 or 30 years because of this…. you honestly can’t be freaking serious.
So here we go again, people will get up on their soap box in a second when they find the tiniest excuse to cry racism but when it comes to more important things, like government corruption, fixed gas prices that are strangling this nation and 95% of the population barely scraping by they sit there with their thumb up their asses totally silent.
I only have one thing to say to ANY immigrant now in this country legally …… you want to be a better American citizen? The stop whining about stupid nonsense that makes you look foolish to the rest of America and start bitching about things that will make EVERYONE’S lives in this country better!
Not that it matters in the big scheme of this fucked up county we call the ‘united states’ but I happened to notice a headline on CNN about ‘racy photos of Miss NJ’, the exact photos that supposedly almost cost her her crown. Running through the photos I was enraged by the fact that anyone even gave enough of a shit to call these racy.
The scary part is this is what America has become. Small minded people that completely ignore issues that really matter (like this piece of shit government we are being subjected to) and focus on the dumbest fucking things around, like that idiot bimbo Paris Hilton). I mean seriously, when the FUCK are you going to wake up … when they haul your ass into the gas chamber? Wake the FUCK up and pay attention to what matters.