By John Ballard
I'm a bottom-feeder. I admit it.
The stuff I read is not apt to be found in popular magazines or the evening news. But like a beachcomber I find a piece of driftwood or some detritus worth keeping almost every day by combing the Intertubes.
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?This is how Evert Cilliers ends his latest screed.
The lower-earning 80% of Americans have to share 15% of the shrinking American pie, yet the latest incarnation of populist Americans, the Tea Party folks, who are older, wealthier Republicans, are saying that spending is out of control (on Social Security, NOT on subsidies for big business or on wars; by them, it's OK if we blow trillions on whacking Arabs who had nothing to do with 9/11, but hell, we've got to cut Social Security, it's the �responsible� thing to do). These Tea Party deaf-dumb-and-blind humans say the government is �taking over� our lives with �social engineering� and that Obama is a �socialist.� They represent a typical section of the petit bourgeoisie, who have traditionally been more scared of the classes below them than of the upper classes who are shafting them along with everyone else.
The whole charade is more absurd than Eugene Ionesco's play �Rhinoceros.� While we're burning and our elite is fiddling, what are the Tea Party people doing? They're complaining about the quality of the firewood.
America has lost its mind and keeps losing its mind. In Europe they're coming down hard on the banks and on the outsize bonuses that inspired the reckless behavior that led to meltdown.
In America, we're still right behind the Wall Street mantra of IBGYBG: �I'll be gone and you'll be gone, so let's make the deal and let the suckers pay in the end.�
And some known masters of supreme assholicity, like Andrew Breitbart, Faux News and Glenn Beck, have the White House so poop-scared they're prepared to throw a good woman under the bus. At this point their bus has to be bigger than Sarah Palin's mouth to contain all the good people they've thrown under it.
No amount of apologizing can excuse their first reaction of utter cowardice in the face of a known liar's fake threat.
Gadzooks and forsooth, folks. The sane mind boggles. But, but and but again: there's more to this than just another political flap.
Obama the coward reflects the prevailing ethos driving all of us: we are a nation of cowards. Until we show some spine, we shouldn't expect to see any from Obama.
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?And this is what SPLC uncovered about another piece of shit from the right-wing noise machine. Fortunately, most people didn't hear about this, although Memeorandum headlined it a couple of times briefly.
(And yes, I don't care what anyone says. As long as the machine keeps making the noise it gets credit for the spinoff, even without a direct link. In the same way that patience, good character and tolerance flourish in the right atmosphere, so too do intolerance, hatred and willful ignorance.)
The tale, reported by Dan Amato, a Pennsylvania anti-immigration blogger, gained traction throughout the blogosphere. Amato, who blogs under the name of Digger, claimed that members of Los Zetas � dangerous Mexican gunmen heavily involved in the international drug trade and other criminal activities � had crossed from Mexico into Texas and taken over the two ranches in the border city of Laredo. �The source is law enforcement in the area,� Amato wrote from his perch some 1,800 miles away.
In truth, Amato�s source was Jeff Schwilk, the bellicose leader of the virulent San Diego Minutemen anti-immigration group, as Amato subsequently revealed. Schwilk�s home base is about 1,300 miles from Laredo. And Schwilk�s source? Another San Diego anti-immigration diehard, Kimberly Dvorak. She wrote on Saturday at Examiner.com that the so-called ranches takeover �could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of the United States.�[Further details at the link]
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