Greetings from Calico Blackie!
They have to be stopped
Tomorrow there will be NATIONWIDE protests against Monsanto and their ruthless policy of poisoning us with their chemicals and GMO foods.
Please join in and help us fight these bastards.
Here is what’s happening in Los Angeles…..
Please do what you can. Boycott Monsanto. Resist Monsanto. KILL MONSANTO!
Before they kill us,
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
I KNOW what you’re thinking. Now THAT’S the way to demonstrate leadership skills!
As some of you know, I have a habit of examining the micro in society to better understand the macro in society.
I look at the “little things” in order to better see society as a whole.
For instance:
We can take the case of the Salem Witch Trials and use them as an example of “collective hysteria” and mob mentality.
Multiply that by the thousands and you have The Spanish Inquisition and/or Nazi Germany.
Shrink it down and you have The Manson Family.
In each case, large or small, all it takes is a leader.
Today, these small-scale leaders come and go with the times. It’s the large-scale leaders that no longer stand a chance in our world.
Charisma counts for nothing and corporate backing counts for everything. The corporate-owned media creates charisma and tells people whom to follow……
I’ll bet she stopped with the blowjobs for her husband years ago!
And, we follow.
What can we expect? We’re doomed. Victims of our own follies. Victims of our own individual warped logic.
Case in point…..(under 18 years of age, stop reading here!)….
BLOWJOBS!
A good female friend of mine who is 20 years my junior recently ended a 4-year relationship with her live-in boyfriend. Her and I used to work together at one of those tedious jobs where after a few weeks you run out of things to talk about and by then you knew EVERYTHING there is to know about that person.
Anyway…..
Hmmmmmmm…..!
We were talking and she said: “You know what one of the absolute worst things about dating again is going to be?”
Being the ignorant sort, I said “No, what?”
“Blowjobs” she replied. “Having to give blowjobs again.”
What could I say?
After I thought about that little nugget of unwanted information for awhile, I finally got up my nerve and asked her:
“You mean you lived with and loved a guy for 4 years and had stopped with the oral?”
She said: “Yeah, it’s icky.”
I said: “If it’s so icky, why are you willing to suck off new guys that are practically strangers to you when you wouldn’t do it for a guy you supposedly loved? Why don’t you just tell the “new” guys that you don’t give blowjobs?”
She said: “It’s expected when you’re dating. I’m afraid they won’t go out with me again if I don’t”.
I guess we’ll NEVER understand one another!
We’re doomed, I tell you.
That “urge” to please. That urge to conform and do what’s expected is ingrained in each of us to a point where women will give blowjobs to virtual strangers because “it’s expected”. I’m certain there are a million instances of males doing what’s expected while dating (oral being one of them), simply because “it’s expected.”
That’s the micro of it.
On the grand scale, WE CONFORM AND DO WHAT’S EXPECTED. We try not to think about it. We just bob our heads for Uncle Sam no matter how “icky” it has become.
We are victims of our own faulty logic.
Here’s another example of faulty logic…….
Florida Teen Expelled, Charged With Felony For Lesbian Relationship
A Florida family says their 18-year-old daughter was charged with a felony and expelled from high school as a result of a consensual, same-sex relationship with another student.
Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a female classmate at the beginning of the school year when she was 17 and the girl she was dating was about three years younger.
Here’s Kaitlyn now. Why do I feel a bit like Beavis & Butthead when I look at this picture?
According to an account posted to Facebook by Kaitlyn’s mother, in February, shortly after Kaitlyn turned 18, she was arrested on felony charges at the behest of her girlfriend’s parents. The specific crime was “sexual battery on a person 12-16 years old.”
Kaitlyn’s mother believes the charges were motivated by anti-gay animus:
They were out to destroy my daughter, they feel like my daughter “made” their daughter gay. They are bigoted, religious zeolites [sic] that see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.
But Kaitlyn’s problems did not end there. Her girlfriends’s parents appealed to the school board and had her expelled from Sebastian River High School. Kaitlyn’s mom reports that the State Attorney, Brian Workman, has offered Kaitlyn a plea deal “of two years house arrest and one year probation.” Kaitlyn has until next Friday to accept the plea deal or face a trial.
Link is here: http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2033281&preview=true&mobile=nc
Why do we have an easier time with seeing Kaitlyn and her girlfriends having it off than with seeing this scenario at one of our high schools?
Calico Blackie says:
Taken at face value, it would seem as if the authorities were being extremely rough on the 18-year-old by throwing the book at her.
But, I ask you……
What if it had been an 18-year-old male that was “having a relationship” with a 14 year old boy at his school?
Even better….
What if it was an 18-year-old Boy Scout Troop Leader that was “having a relationship” with one of his 14-year-old Tenderfoot Scouts?
Everyone would be calling for his balls to be chopped off.
But, no………
She’s a cute little young blonde girl, so let’s give her a break!
WE’RE DOOMED!
So, we need to re-examine society. Maybe either set new barriers, or take them all away.
TURN OFF THE TV. THIS IS WHAT WE’RE BECOMING
At any rate….
What we’re doing now ain’t working.
WE NEED CHANGE.
Not the bogus Obama “hope and change” that translates to “business as usual.”
NO!
It’s looking more and more as if we’ll have to tear it all down and start over.
Are we ready for it?
Will we ever be ready for it?
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
Fasten your seatbelts (or, sit on a trailer hitch and pucker hard, for all I care today)
I haven’t updated in awhile for a couple of reasons.
First, I got really sick. I’m not talking about the sniffles or something you can “work through.” I’m talking the laid up kind of sick where you don’t care if you live or die for a few days.
I’m still at about 40% of my normal self.
Second, I was, and am, plain disgusted with it all.
Just before I fell ill, I was talking to a group of people about the effects of the “sequester” on the poor, and how we’re lied to by our government with them constantly fudging statistics to shed a favorable light on the unemployment rate and the rates of poverty here in America.
We haven’t got a prayer. Who knows this? The “dirty hippie”, of course!
Keep in mind, these were lower middle-class and poor people I was talking to. Most of which WILL be affected when the government gets around to screwing them so that their owners on Wall Street will continue to reap the rewards.
What did I hear?
“We live in the greatest country in the world”.
And:
You must be a commie. Weren’t you an “occupier” too?
The people that I thought agreed with me said NOTHING.
THEY JUST STOOD THERE NODDING THEIR HEADS.
So, fuck them. Fuck them all.
I’m getting too old and sick for this shit of trying to help and inform people who would rather continue to get bent over.
So, here ya go ya bastards!………………..
Meals on Wheels budget cuts: ‘Slowly developing crisis’
Who needs social programs when we still have people who can afford yoga classes? BEND OVER! Ladies….You do know that most guys don’t take yoga classes entirely for their health, don’t you?
Air traffic controllers got a reprieve from federal budget cuts when Congress felt public pressure after airport delays inconvenienced travelers.
But few expect a pardon for Meals on Wheels, which provide food and human contact for people over 60 who are physically housebound, socially isolated or very low income — and in many cases, all three.
“They don’t have high-priced lobbyists,” said Alan Winstead, the executive director of Meals on Wheels of Wake County in Raleigh, N.C.
As it is, Meals on Wheels is estimated to serve just a third or so of the 25 million people over 60 who are poor or near poor.
Federal funding for Meals on Wheels and related nutrition services accounted for 0.02% of the U.S. budget last year. This year, the programs will have to do with roughly $38.7 million less because of the so-called sequester, which requires uniform cuts across programs regardless of cost effectiveness.
Link is here: http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/06/news/economy/meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Hey, poor people? This is what the rich people think of you!
Calico Blackie says:
Air traffic controllers got a reprieve BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN EFFECT ON BIG BUSINESS! Hungry poor people and old people don’t, so why not screw ‘em?
Here’s another good one (well, duh)……
There may be millions more poor people in the US than you think
It is responsible for an estimated half-trillion dollars in federal spending every year, is hated by nearly everyone who studies it and is based on an American lifestyle older than the space program.
Yet the figure known as the “poverty line” is almost certainly here to stay. That’s partly because a more accurate measure of who is poor could add millions of Americans to the rolls — something few lawmakers want to have happen on their watch.
“People (are) talking about eliminating poverty in this country,” said Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., whose proposal to change the measure died in Congress five years ago. “You’re not going to eliminate poverty in this country with the definition we have. You can make yourself feel good, but you’re not going to eliminate poverty.”
But, UNIONS ARE BAD!!!
The poverty line was conceived by a civil servant named Mollie Orshansky who worked for the Social Security Administration and was herself the daughter of poor Ukrainian immigrants. She totaled up the cost of the cheapest three-meals-a-day plan that the federal government considered nutritionally adequate in 1963.
A decade earlier, the Eisenhower administration had calculated that the typical family spent a third of its money on food. So Orshansky multiplied by three. It was that simple. The poverty line was born.
The problem, as social scientists and at least some legislators see it, is that measuring poverty that way is not just outdated but simplistic:
The federal poverty line — $11,945 in cash income for a single adult, $23,283 for a couple with two kids — is the same whether you are poor in New York, the most expensive city in the United States, or poor in a small town in Nebraska.
“GET A JOB, YA BUMS. FIND A JOB IN THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY!”
It is the same whether you take transit to work or are hostage to the whims of gas prices. It is the same whether Medicaid helps you with medical expenses or you pay out of pocket. It is the same whether you receive food stamps or pay for child care.
It is the same regardless of how poor you are. For the purposes of some federal benefits, someone making a dollar below the poverty line is treated the same is someone making virtually nothing.
“There are better ways to measure,” said Robert Haveman, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Wisconsin and an expert on poverty. “Nearly any one of them is a better indicator of true poverty than the one we use.”
Among them: Food stamps, anti-poverty block grants for cities, heating and air-conditioning aid, AIDS drug subsidies, family planning services, Head Start and job-finding assistance.
The Census Bureau, which is responsible for updating the poverty line every year to account for inflation, makes no secret of its flaws as a way to determine who qualifies as poor.
Two years ago, the bureau and the Labor Department agreed on a different way — a poverty line that accounts for medical expenses, geographic differences, the cost of shelter and clothing and other factors.
Link is here: http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/03/17671753-there-may-be-millions-more-poor-people-in-the-us-than-you-think?lite
“Come with us, Mr. poor black person. You’re going to live in the Nevada desert with the nuclear waste”!!!
Calico Blackie says:
Want to end poverty in America? Back in the year 1946, Josef Stalin decided there were way too many beggars and crippled ex-soldiers living in and around Moscow and in some of the other Soviet big cities.
His solution?
He rounded them all up and arrested them. He put them on trains and deported them to far-away towns where he wouldn’t have to see them.
Problem solved!
Back to my question: Want to end poverty in America? Use the “Stalin Method”
Completely eliminate food stamps, anti-poverty block grants for cities, heating and air-conditioning aid, AIDS drug subsidies, family planning services, Head Start and job-finding assistance.
Problem solved!
And we can all live together in peace & harmony!
No more poor people!
Why do I get the feeling many, if not most people in this country (and on Wall Street and in DC) would be perfectly ok with this solution?
Just think…..
“If poverty were to be suddenly technically eliminated, it might mean a bigger slice of the pie for the people like me who aren’t poor!”
THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BECOME.
“MORE FOR ME AND SCREW EVERYBODY ELSE!”
Maybe I’ll devote my blog to women with great big asses!
So, why the hell am I beating my head against the wall trying to help a bunch of greedy raving idiots (who are poor themselves) that have been sucked into the propaganda machine?
What the hell….
Maybe it’s the fever talking. Maybe I shouldn’t be writing yet until I’m back at 100%.
Or, maybe I should turn my blog into more of a “Tits n Ass” and “entertainment” extravaganza than it already is now?
I don’t know anymore.
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
There ain’t no “trickle” when the rich keep it all for themselves
I was having a discussion the other night with a guy who obviously was much better schooled in the science of economics than I am.
I was talking about how “trickle down economics” was such a farce and yet many Americans still buy the lie.
There are people out there who honestly believe that when the rich get richer, things get better for everyone.
My argument was:
“Why do the poor always seem to get poorer when the rich get richer?”
And:
How can the poor benefit when the rich keep all the money for themselves? Yes, jobs might be created, but the jobs created are usually poverty-level wage jobs that only continue the cycle of poverty in America.
Plus, the rich are getting richer by offshoring jobs to other more easily exploited labor markets.
So, I asked….
This guy knows the “approved” version of American economics
How does that possibly add up to a “trickle down” effect for America’s middle class and poor?
The guy I was talking to looked at me as if I was an idiot and replied: “Obviously, you need to take a class in basic economics.”
Screw him and his mama too.
Rich is rich and poor is poor. When you’re rich, you have more power in this country and that’s the way it is.
That’s called reality.
Equality and the concept that “All Men are Created Equal” have nothing to do with it.
Reality is something we all need to get back to because right now, we’re just running around like a bunch of chickens with our heads cut off.
Things don’t seem to become REAL until they’re happening to each of us on an individual basis.
For instance:
Here’s how “trickle down” really works. Always has. Always will. The concept of sharing in this country is seen as BAD
There’s been a lot of speculation about the motives for the Boston bombing.
Are they Muslim extremists? Are they crazy? Was their mother involved?
There’s even been suggestions by some that it could have been a “false flag” attack staged by the CIA or some other similar group of hoodlums to use as an excuse for another, more restrictive Patriot Act.
That’s all good and well. But for the families who lost loved ones, or for the people laying in hospital beds with their legs blown off….
All of that talk DON’T MEAN SHIT.
And that’s reality.
THIS IS REALITY
To the poor, to the homeless, to the people who were ruthlessly screwed when they lost their jobs because their workplace was “offshored” in the name of maximum profit, all this talk about the stock market going higher….
all this talk about how we’re going to be suddenly immersed in a golden shower of trickle down economics…..
all this talk about how we’re all soon going to be having rainbows shooting out of our butts due to a strong (ie…the rich getting richer) economy….
DON’T MEAN SHIT.
The reality of it is: THERE ISN’T A SUCH THING AS TRICKLE DOWN.
The rich keep it all for themselves, and if we’re lucky, we get their scraps.
Anyway, from The Institute of the Painfully Obvious, here’s an economic newsflash for you…..
Wealthy spenders could drive economy in 2013
And, we’re being fooled by bullshit stories like this.
The consumer economy may look weak. But affluent and wealthy consumers are ramping up their spending – and that could help drive the broader economy this year.
Two new studies show that the wealthy plan to increase their spending despite higher taxes and a generally skeptical view of economic growth and government.
The American Affluence Research Center looked at the top 10 percent of consumers by income who account for more than half of consumer spending. It found that most of them plan to spend the same or more in 2013 than they did in 2012.
A separate survey from the Harrison Group and American Express Publishing found among the top 10 percent of earners, 25 percent plan to spend more on luxury this year – up from 15 percent last year. Among the top 1 percent, nearly a third plan to spend more, up from 21 percent last year.
The main reason: rising stocks, better incomes and more job security.
Link is here: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/wealthy-spenders-could-drive-economy-2013-6C9675906
What rich people do in this country ain’t going to buy you & me a ticket on this train no matter what they say. That’s reality
Calico Blackie says:
Can you believe it? Who would have ever thought that rich people spend more money than poor people?
This news made me very optimistic for the economic future of our country!
It’s comforting to know that while I’m wrenching in the junkyard trying to find a serviceable part for my 14 year old pickup truck, there are people in this great nation that will be helping me by buying their Porches and BMW’s and contributing to my economic well-being by doing so.
Get it straight, people. Whether or not a bunch of Hollywood Stars and other rich people buy fancy imported cars and other big ticket items isn’t going to make a bit of difference to you & me.
And the news gets even better!
Nasdaq ends at best level since 2000
Better teach your kids to be entrepreneurs now because when your job is gone and your family is homeless, where the Nasdaq is sitting won’t mean a damn thing to you. But being able to make a saleable commodity so that you can feed your family will! That’s reality
Stocks finished near session highs Monday, with the S&P 500 setting a record close and the Nasdaq ending at its best level since November 2000, following a better-than-expected pending home sales report and after Italy’s new prime minister named his cabinet over the weekend, ending two months of political deadlock in the nation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 106.20 points to end at 14,818.75, led by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
The S&P 500 climbed 11.37 points to end at 1,593.61, logging a fresh closing high and surpassing its previous record set on April 11. And the Nasdaq rallied 27.76 points to finish at 3,307.02, closing at its highest level since November 2000.
Link is here: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/nasdaq-ends-best-level-2000-6C9640006
Calico Blackie says:
Well, I’ll sleep better tonight knowing that the Nasdaq is higher than a kite.
All that means is that the rich haven’t taken their profits yet by selling in huge blocks and leaving the small investors holding the bag. But wait awhile because they’re just biding their time.
Here’s another good one. Prices have gone up, so that’s great news for all of us!
US home prices rose in February compared with a year ago by the most in nearly 7 years
After awhile, you begin to understand this attitude
U.S. home prices rose in February compared with a year ago by the most in nearly seven years, as a growing number of buyers bid on a limited supply of homes.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index climbed 9.3% in the 12 months ending in February. That’s up from an 8.1% gain in January.
Annual prices rose in all 20 cities for the second month in a row, the first time that has happened since early 2005. Detroit prices rose 15.2%. Phoenix recorded the biggest annual gain, with prices rising 23%. Prices jumped nearly 19% in San Francisco.
Eleven of the 20 cities reported price gains in February compared with January. Detroit’s prices dropped 0.6%. Those monthly numbers are not seasonally adjusted and reflect the slower winter buying period.
Link is here: http://www.freep.com/article/20130430/BUSINESS04/304300051/home-prices-Case-Shiller
Calico Blackie says:
It’s stories like this that make me cringe.
“Pay more for less”! “Less is MORE”!
And we buy the lie. We think that by paying higher prices, somehow the “excess” will trickle down to all of us.
What bullshit.
HIGHER PRICES. HOW CAN THIS POSSIBLY BE GOOD NEWS FOR ANYBODY BUT THE RICH?
And…..
They’ve already begun to grease us up!
Here’s a good one. Have some lube, citizen!
The twilight of entitlement
We are passing through something more than a period of disappointing economic growth and increasing political polarization. What’s happening is more powerful: the collapse of “entitlement.”
By this, I do not mean primarily cuts in specific government benefits, most prominently Social Security, but the demise of a broader mind-set — attitudes and beliefs — that, in one form or another, has gripped Americans since the 1960s.
The breakdown of these ideas has rattled us psychologically as well as politically and economically.
We didn’t have a “grand vision”. WE BOUGHT THE LIE. And if it’s marketed cleverly enough, people will believe and buy anything
We had a grand vision. We didn’t merely expect things to get better. We expected all social problems to be solved. We expected business cycles, economic insecurity, poverty, and racism to end.
We expected almost limitless personal freedom and self-fulfillment. For those who couldn’t live life to its fullest (as a result of old age, disability, or bad luck), we expected a generous social safety net to guarantee decent lives.
We blurred the distinction between progress and perfection.
No more.
Millions of Americans who have “played by the rules” are in distress or fear that they might be. In a new survey, 65 percent of respondents said today’s middle class has less “job and financial security” than their parents’ generation; 52 percent asserted there is less “opportunity to get ahead.”
We’ll never really be able to retire. Just keep getting beat-up until we die. Retirement? That’s an ENTITLEMENT! BAD!!!
The middle class is “more anxious than aspirational,” concluded the poll’s sponsors. Similarly, the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that only 51 percent of workers are confident they’ll have enough money to retire comfortably, down from 70 percent in 2007.
In the post-entitlement era, people’s expectations may be more grounded.
But political conflicts — who gets, who gives — and social resentments will be, as they already are, sharper. Entitlement implied an almost-limitless future. Facing limits is a contentious exercise in making choices.
Calico Blackie says:
Buy the lie. Buy the slickly-worded articles that tell us there is something WRONG with wanting a better future for all.
Buy the BS that tells us to settle for less because sharing or somehow wanting enough to live in peace is BAD.
Wait for the trickle down!
But, there’s hope for some lucky man out there.
She’s a’huntin’ pecker! (an old typewriter joke)
Martha Stewart to date online, seeks man for bed, breakfast
Martha Stewart was pretty hot “back in the day” but just like the rest of us, age and gravity takes its toll
Martha Stewart may be wealthy, run a successful company and know her way around the kitchen, but she needs help getting a date.
The domestic diva and media mogul agreed Monday to formally join the online dating world, getting expert advice and tips from Match.com’s chief executive, Sam Yagan, who also co-founded OkCupid.com.
“Do you think I could possibly, maybe, find a match, like many of my employees?” Stewart asked him during a discussion on TODAY.
“What we know we can get you is some great first dates. I think finding a soul mate for you might be a little bit difficult, but I think first dates are easily doable,” Yagan told her.
“I’d like to have breakfast with somebody,” Stewart admitted. “I’d like to go to bed with somebody. Sleep with somebody.”
“I’d like to go to bed with somebody. Sleep with somebody.”
“Well, I had a long-time boyfriend. That ended a couple years ago. And I haven’t found the next Mr. Right,” the 71-year-old grandmother said.
Stewart even went on Match.com but failed to get very far on her application.
“I started to laugh halfway down the page. It was, like, impossible,” she said.
But she did fill out the section describing the type of person she’s looking for.
“I put out ‘youngish,’” she told Lauer, clarifying that she wanted someone “active,” not necessarily limited to an age range.
“Energetic, ‘outdoorish,’ really smart,” she said.
Being successful also is important, but “just for him,” she said.
Other criteria?
“Tall-ish,” she said.
Link is here: http://www.today.com/news/martha-stewart-date-online-seeks-man-bed-breakfast-6C9659426
Calico Blackie says:
“Kiss me honey. I just fouled me britches”!
And, of course just like Hugh Hefner and his pneumatic blondes padding around the Playboy Mansion, money and the good life will have nothing to do with it.
I wonder if it will be done with”lights on” or “lights off”?
The answer?
DEPENDS!
At least the “pneumatic blondes” and whatever stallion Martha Stewart chooses for stud service will stand a better chance at getting the trickle down than you and I ever will.
And, they won’t be buying any lies. They will know what to expect.
Do you?
Are you still buying the lie first sold to us by Reagan when he sold out our country to the yuppies and the maximum profit mentality?
MAY DAY PROTEST
Do you still hope for a better tomorrow for yourself and your children?
There isn’t going to be one unless we get up off of our butts and demand an equal shot at it.
Speak out!
Read this and decide: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/goldman/may-day-2013
The time is NOW
Protest!
Stop buying the lie!
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
This was the concert. Bob Dylan and Neil Young played there too. Jeez, I’m gettin’ old!
I see there were three people shot at the big “420″ pot rally in Colorado this past Saturday.
Heh.
I’ll bet that REALLY harshed their mellow.
It’s easy to read this news and remark: “What’s this world coming to when people can’t even get together for a pot rally without violence occurring”?
Yet…..
It’s been going on forever. Some people are just predisposed to violence.
Back in 1975, I attended a benefit outdoor rock concert in San Francisco and watched an almost surreal scene unfold there.
While Joan Baez was up on the stage singing her very beautiful and peaceful version of the hymn “Amazing Grace”, a big brawl between about 20 people suddenly erupted in the stands. I mean, there were punches being landed and people were getting thrown down the concrete stairs of good ol’ Kezar Stadium.
Dylan and Young performing that day
It could have been a lot worse, but the concert was put on by “Bill Graham Presents” and their security people DID NOT mess around.
Those security people all wore T-shirts emblazoned with the word “PLEASE” in big letters on the front, and the rules were written on the back of the shirts.
They didn’t care if you smoked dope. They didn’t care if you danced like a maniac. They didn’t care if you were drunk. Heck, they didn’t care if you wandered around on your hands and knees eating paper and barking like a dog (yes, I saw that once at Winterland during a show).
They were there to make sure the peace was kept.
It just doesn’t make sense anymore!
Get out of line with them and you were assured of an extreme ass-kicking and ejection from the show.
I would imagine those days are gone now because now some idiot would sue the venue over the ass-kicking they got which they so richly deserved.
Anyway…..
What the fuck are people rallying over pot for these days anyway?
The country (and world) is going to hell, and they’re rallying for pot?
I weep for America.
Meanwhile, we’re all a’drool over the latest news coming from Boston, so here ya go….
THE LATEST…..
The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews.
The answer should be obvious to all of us. And no, I’m not posting a picture of “bomber twat” here. I’m sick of looking at the little prick every time I see the news
From his hospital bed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in planting the explosives near the marathon finish line on April 15, the officials said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation, said Dzhokhar and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed by police as the two attempted to avoid capture, do not appear to have been directed by a foreign terrorist organization.
Calico Blackie says:
Hopefully, people are also reading the rest of the news instead of just following the events in Boston. If you live in Southern California, this should get your attention…..
Santa Susana groundwater cleanup could take centuries, official says
No, he’s not drunk. He’s just been drinking the tap water in Simi Valley and Moorpark! (ever spell “Moorpark” backwards?)
The groundwater cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, the site of a 1959 partial nuclear meltdown, could take centuries, a state official said Wednesday night.
The soil decontamination will take far less time, a few or more years, but might not be finished by a 2017 deadline, Mark Malinowski of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control told about 100 people during a cleanup update at the Grand Vista Hotel in Simi Valley.
“It’s a very aggressive schedule to get to 2017, and many things have to happen correctly in order to get there,” said Malinowski, the department’s cleanup team manager.
The groundwater cleanup will take “a lot longer … decades, possibly centuries to complete,” Malinowski said. “Groundwater is an extremely difficult thing to clean up. This contamination we’re dealing with did not happen overnight.”
Malinowski said the investigation into what and where the contaminants are could be largely done by next year. Cleanup plans would then be formulated, and once they are approved, the decontamination would start.
NASA, the Energy Department and the Boeing Co. had information tables at the event.
Boeing owns most of the 2,850-acre site, formerly the Rocketdyne nuclear and rocket engine test facility, in the hills between Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley. The rest of the site is owned by the federal government and administered by NASA.
But, don’t worry about your drinking water. Worry about them goddam IMMYGRINTS!
During a question-and- answer period, cleanup activists sharply questioned Malinowski’s statement that no significant contamination has been found beyond the site’s boundaries.
“I had to remind him that in 2008, they removed three football fields of contaminated soil off the adjacent Sage Ranch Park property,” William Bowling said. “And then last year, the EPA found radioactivity in a well on the campus owned by the American Jewish University, which also adjoins the site.
“They’re not giving the public the clear picture, which is that there is off-site contamination,” Bowling said.
But Malinowski said the EPA’s finding is in doubt.
“Our evaluation of the EPA evaluation showed that was a questionable result,” he said. “So it could be false positive. One of the things we are reassessing is: Do we need to resample that location?”
Link is here: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/apr/18/santa-susana-soil-cleanup-may-not-make-2017-deadli/
Never mind all that. Might as well get high!
Calico Blackie says:
“Cleanup could take centuries?????” WOW! Just think, there’s still people pushing for nuclear power and for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site.
You know….
The type of nuclear waste with a half-life of over 500,000 YEARS.
The nuclear proponents always rant on about how safe nuclear power is, yet they NEVER talk about how to get rid of spent fuel rods.
Their solution?
Bury it all in the Nevada Desert and let it sit there for a million years. Let our descendants worry about it.
THAT HARSHES MY MELLOW!
Never mind the fact that the climate is ever-changing, or that the Sahara was once a lush tropical forest. Never mind that in 10,000 years, the Nevada desert could be a woodland containing the last habitable place on earth. Never mind all of that.
While we’re busy with Boston, here’s another little “thing” that has been happening to us as a result of Congress not being able to do a damn thing for “We, the People”……..
Flight Delays Continue For Third Day At LAX
Ahhhhh…The good old days!
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Flight delays continued Tuesday for a third day at LAX and other Southland airports due to forced furloughs of air traffic controllers.
As of 5 a.m., approximately 60 percent of flights departing LAX and 20 percent of arrivals were delayed, according to flightview.com.
The delays carried over from Monday night when about 25 percent of flights were delayed.
The interruptions in service are a result of a nationwide furlough of air traffic controllers due to federal budget cuts.
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring all workers to take one unpaid day off of every 10-day period through Sept. 30, and that goes beyond control towers in airports, officials said.
On Sunday, LAX experienced an average delay of more than three hours.
Link is here: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/23/flight-delays-continue-for-third-day-at-lax/#.UXZ-g8aBg-M.twitter
Who’s got time to worry about anything else besides: “OH MY GOD. THEY’RE LETTING QUEERS INTO THE BOY SCOUTS NOW!” We gotta protest that!
Calico Blackie says:
As usual, our government cuts the lean and not the fat. Why can’t we freeze congressional perks, pensions and paychecks until they get off their asses and start doing their jobs?
Why?
Because “Power to the People” is just a phrase. A fairy tale told to us by the politicians and banksters to give us an illusion that we actually matter to them. They don’t give a damn about our safety and they never did. We’re just milk cows to be milked dry until we’re no longer useful to them.
THAT HARSHES MY MELLOW!
Here’s another good one I read this morning……
Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts
Sabino Fuentes-Sanchez hid $25,000 all around his house because he didn’t trust banks. Lasonia Christon receives her Wal-Mart salary on a pre-paid debit card.
This article misses the point. Screw the banks. Use them as little as possible. When you use the banks, you’re playing THEIR rigged game
Kim James was homeless for most of the past decade in part because she had no place to save money.
There are plenty of reasons people still live all-cash lives, but the sheer number who do it might surprise you.
At a time when the majority of Americans use online banking, and some even deposit checks using their cellphone cameras, roughly eight percent of America’s 115 million households don’t have a checking or savings account, according to census data compiled by the FDIC.
The numbers are far higher among minorities: More than 20 percent of African-Americans and Hispanics are essentially left out of the American banking system.
Frozen in the cash-only past, they face myriad “kick-them-while-they-are-down” situations where getting money costs money. Banks typically charge $6 to cash checks. Want to secure an apartment? Fee-based money orders are the only option. Without credit cards, they must turn to triple-digit interest rate payday loans for emergencies.
“Corporate control of the government is called FASCISM.” THIS IS WHERE WE’RE HEADED. But, does anyone care? HECK NO. They’re more worried about GAY SCOUTS
Calico Blackie says:
Have you ever tried to rent a car without a credit card? Slowly but surely it’s becoming a requirement of life to have a bank account.
Who made it that way? Why?
Have you ever wondered where these usurious loan companies, some of them offshore agencies, get the money to loan to you? They don’t just go out back and pluck it from the money tree. It doesn’t just magically materialize out of thin air. Besides, the “money to loan” and offshore loan agencies charge interest rates that would be illegal for a bank to charge.
So…..
Where does the money come from?
THEY GET IT FROM THE BANKS.
THAT HARSHES MY MELLOW!
The banks provide the money for these shysters in the same manner that a Mafia Don hires a hit man to do his dirty work. That way, the Don can swear that he never killed anyone and the banks can swear they don’t charge illegal rates.
The “dirty little secret.” A parody from almost 40 years ago. THIS has been going on for decades, but we just never heard about it. Gays in the Boy Scouts? There’s always been gays in the Boy Scouts. It’s just never been officially accepted.
The game is rigged, folks.
And you and I are the marks. The sheep to be fleeced.
DON’T PEOPLE JUST HATE HEARING THE TRUTH?
It harshes their mellow.
It bursts their bubbles.They’d rather worry about gays in the Boy Scouts.
Well, guess what?
THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN GAYS IN THE BOY SCOUTS JUST LIKE THE BANKSTERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SCREWING US.
Which do you think is the bigger problem?
Reality, what a concept!
Maybe I’ll never understand the human race. Why do I tend to think that the same people who would be appalled by walking in on a Boy Scout campfire circle-jerk would be perfectly alright with a mother walking in on her daughter “experimenting” with one of her female friends?
Why are people repulsed by male homosexuality and yet aroused by lesbianism? I’ll never figure it out.
I’ll also never figure out why we become so concerned with “causes” that should’ve never been an issue in the first place.
Why are they even issues and causes?
Why are some of the very same people opposed to gay Boy Scouts alright with this scenario? I’ll bet mom was surprised!
Who gives a damn?
Oh yeah…..
Human rights.
The world is full of people who will deny people’s basic needs and rights to suit their own agendas.
Isn’t that what it’s all about?
Sorry about harshing the mellow for today.
KEEP THE FAITH
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie in Solidarity with Anonymous!
Hopefully, you’re not reading this today (4-22-2012)
Dear citizens of the internet,
We are Anonymous.
The United States Government is again attempting to control and censor the internet. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has just recently passed the house.
This bill would allow major internet entities such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google to voluntarily share your personal information with the U.S. Government. This will not only affect users in the United States, but also anyone with an account with these companies.
This upcoming Monday, April the 22nd, we invite you to join Anonymous in an internet blackout. We encourage all web developers and website owners to go dark on this date. Display a message as to why you are going dark, and encourage others to do the same.
We hope, just like the successful protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act, we can encourage the senate to stop this bill.
Spread the message, and inform the world.
We are Anonymous
We are the people
We are the internetKnowledge is free
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
It can cause us to be crazier than “normal”
Whenever I hear someone describe themselves, or others as “crazy”, I always reply with:
“We’re all crazy. It’s just that most of us bother to hide it from others and don’t act on our craziness.”
I’m not impressed by some idiot trying to get my attention by telling me how crazy they are.
WE’RE ALL CRAZY.
That’s one of the things that makes the world go ’round.
One of the craziest things we do is completely believing in fairy tales. You know….
“The world is a beautiful place, full of good people and beauty. Full of goodness and goodwill towards men.”
While that might be true, it also contains streets made of cold, hard concrete. Ugly streets full of ugly people who will shaft you for a nickel. People who are cruel because they enjoy being cruel.
Look for beauty
So…..
Your outlook depends on what you look for when you venture out into the world each day.
Do you look for beauty? Or do you look for the darker and uglier side of the world?
An ideal mix, I suppose, would be to look for beauty and to always be aware of the ugliness that exists out there. That way, your world isn’t shattered when you’re exposed to just how ugly the world can be.
Why does ugliness and evil exist?
Because we’re human and all crazy. Some of us are not crazy in a “good way”. Some people are just plain evil crazy. Watch out for those people.
Of course, these are all lessons we should have learned growing up.
As kids, we’re innocent. Then, reality sets in
As kids, we believe the fairy tales and as we age, we begin to realize there isn’t always a happy ending. Sometimes you don’t live “Happily ever after.”
But, we still hope at least part of our fairy tales remain true.
That’s why when some idiot, or group of idiots commit a crime (such as the Marathon bombing) so heinous that we can’t seem to wrap our heads around the evil of it all, we ask the question:
WHY?……
I read this today and thought I’d repost it here……..
“Why?” My questions is this…. Why do we always want to know “Why?”
What possible reason could make bombing and killing innocents acceptable? Asking “Why” gives validity to whatever argument these scumbags have rattling around in their skulls.
Why? Because sometimes our fairy tales can go horribly wrong and since there’s no rhyme or reason for it, we search for an explanation when there isn’t one. People are just crazy
How many times have you personally watched a situation unfolding where innocents are slaughtered and the “compassionate” among us and the media asks “Why?”.
Once that happens we see a progression of excuses and allowances made for a person or a groups actions.
I do not care that these two boys are possibly of the Muslim faith, I do not care if they are terrorists, I do not care if it is a father that abuses his child or wife, I do not care that it is a mother that allows her child to starve to feed her drug habit.
The only thing I can see these people have in common, all of these abusers, rapists, murderers and terrorists, is that they are all narcissists in that they believe their own thoughts, feelings, world view or religion is more important than anyone else’s right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Is this the only way to eliminate craziness in the gene pool? Heck, we’d all get a turn
Screw them all. I do not want to know why. Put them down like the rabid dog they are, turn off the cameras and never mention their names again. Cremate them and spread their ashes in the holding tanks of a sewage plant.
End of story.
This is my opinion and of course will be dissected and spit upon and I really don’t care.
Want to know “Why?”? Because anyone that would make ANY kind of excuse for someone or some group guilty of killing or abusing of innocents is a part of the problem and not part of the solution and thus a waste of my time.
Calico Blackie says:
Adios, Jamie Dimon! But, the world is full of them
When is killing our fellow human beings justifiable? Is it when they’ve proven themselves detrimental to the well-being of society? If that were the case, shouldn’t we be taking out all the banksters on Wall Street?
Is killing justifiable when a person, or persons become a threat to all of our physical well being?
Is killing justifiable when a person, or group of persons become predators, preying upon society?
So, maybe the question isn’t “Why?”
Maybe we should decide “When is violence justifiable?”
Oh, by the way, speaking of predators in groups preying on society….
Did anyone notice this?
Cispa bill on cyber security passed by the US House
Getting closer every day. But, we’ll be SAFER!
The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act.
Cispa is designed to help combat cyberthreats by making it easier for law enforcers to get at web data.
This is the second time Cispa has been passed by the House. Senators threw out the first draft, saying it did not do enough to protect privacy.
Cispa could fail again in the Senate after threats from President Obama to veto it over privacy concerns.
A substantial majority of politicians in the House backed the bill.
The law is passing through the US legislative system as American federal agencies warn that malicious hackers, motivated by money or acting on behalf of foreign governments, such as China, are one of the biggest threats facing the nation.
“If you want to take a shot across China’s bow, this is the answer,” said Mike Rogers, the Republican politician who co-wrote Cispa and chairs the House Intelligence Committee.
Keep believing the fairy tales! But, don’t listen to me. I’m a conspiracy “nut”! You know….CRAZY
Cispa has also secured the backing of several technology firms, including the CTIA wireless industry group, as well as the TechNet computer industry lobby group, which has Google, Apple and Yahoo as members. By contrast, the social news website Reddit has been vocal in its opposition to the bill. In March, Facebook said it no longer supported Cispa.
The bill could fail again in the Senate after the Obama administration’s threat to use its veto unless changes were made. The White House wants amendments so more is done to ensure the minimum amount of data is handed over in investigations.
The American Civil Liberties Union has also opposed Cispa, saying the bill was “fatally flawed”. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reporters Without Borders and the American Library Association have all voiced similar worries.
Cispa’s authors say existing amendments have addressed many of the criticisms and more oversight was being given to data before it was handed over.
Link is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22213379
Waste of money. They’re great for finding your body after the act, but we’re not any safer
Calico Blackie says:
So, you see…..
The government CAN get things done when they want to get things done.
Are we safer now? Do you feel better about our government now? Do you still believe in fairy tales?
Then, you’ll believe the government passes laws such as these to protect us.
Here’s another good one that has been flying under the radar these days…..
IRS tells agents it can snoop on emails without warrant, internal documents show
The Internal Revenue Service believes it doesn’t need permission to root through emails, texts or other forms of electronic correspondence, according to recently released internal agency documents.
Is it when they’ve proven themselves detrimental to the well-being of society?
The documents, which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union, reveal that tax department agents have been operating under the assumption that they can bypass warrants. The ACLU claims this would in turn violate the Fourth Amendment.
According to a 2009 IRS employee handbook, though, the tax agency said the Fourth Amendment does not protect emails because Internet users don’t “have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications.”
A lawyer for the agency reiterated the policy in 2010. And the current online version of the IRS manual says that no warrant is required for emails that are stored by an Internet storage provider for more than 180 days.
Calico Blackie says:
It ain’t the gun. It’s the fact we’re all crazy
Well, hey. I don’t know about you, but I feel much safer now!
Maybe we’ll all be safer when our government stops pussyfooting around and tells us the fairy tale is all a sham, and makes their police state official.
It won’t even be any fun to say: “I told you so”.
But, don’t worry!
We still have our GUNZ! (for now)
Gun vote shows gulf between Washington, country
After the proposal to expand background checks as a part of gun legislation failed to win enough votes in the Senate Wednesday, President Obama expressed his disappointment and said this is “only the beginning” to pushing for reform.
If there was ever a moment that symbolized the difference between the power of public opinion and the strength of a concerted minority, it came Wednesday when the Senate defeated a bipartisan measure to expand background checks on gun purchases.
This asshole signed NDAA and pushed through other legislation restricting our freedom, and he calls his failure to get Congress to dismantle the Constitution “shameful”? FUCK HIM AND HIS DUMMY TOO
By the time the vote took place, the outcome was expected. Nonetheless, the result was stunning, as was made clear by the angry reaction of President Obama, who had invested so much capital on getting gun legislation passed after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., only to see those efforts crushed on the legislation’s first real test.
Obama’s description — “a pretty shameful day for Washington” — captured the moment and summed up the frustrations that many ordinary Americans long have expressed about the capital, which is that the system appears tilted in favor of blocking action on important, if controversial, issues rather than enacting legislation to deal with them.
It was a defeat as well for the victims’ relatives, men and women who have walked the halls of Congress and spoken out passionately for action.
We’re told to worry about GUNZ while we’re being crushed. But, gun control will make us SAFE! Yeah, believe the fairy tale
It was a defeat for former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was nearly killed in a shooting in 2011 and who joined in the lobbying effort. They were at the White House with Obama and Biden after the vote, a tableau of hopes crushed.
Calico Blackie says:
Screw them and screw their misguided hopes too. What is shameful is how those cocksucker politicians cynically used victims of violence to further their own agendas of oppression.
Link to story is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gun-vote-shows-gulf-between-washington-country/2013/04/17/e50ede04-a793-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
But, enough about GUNZ and BOMBS….
What else are we reading about that is SO important?
Oh, yeah…..
SEX! WOOHOO!
Two female Long Island teachers pulled from classroom for ‘inappropriate contact with football player and wrestler’
Here’s one of the tarts now! Maybe we can get Homeland Security on it?
Sources told the New York Post that the girlfriend of one of the high school students found a text from a teacher on his phone.
The girlfriend then alerted the school’s principal, John Dolan, the sources said.
The Post notes that it’s unclear whether Newton-McNally and Ackerberg actually engaged in physical behavior with the two seniors, or if they exchanged inappropriate text messages.
Police in Suffolk County have not been contacted, as both the students in question are over the age of consent.
Students told the Post that they were shocked that their two teachers could have engaged in inappropriate behavior with the two students.
‘It’s just hard to believe this stuff goes on,’ one student tweeted. ‘I’m really hoping that there isn’t anything and it’s chatter.’
Both of the students, who sources say are a wrestler and a football player, both have girlfriends, sources said.
Calico Blackie says:
Taylor Swift’s ass. Why are we so hypnotized every time a celeb gets caught with his or her pants down when we can all get a better show at the beach? Why? We’re all crazy!
We’re fascinated with sex and violence and yet we’re constantly worried about our safety. We can’t seem to get enough of lurid sex stories and bleeding news coverage.
Why?
Because we’re ALL crazy.
And maybe that’s what makes us human.
AND…..
Maybe we’re misguided too? Maybe we believe what we’re told without question or analysis?
For instance…..
I’ve been half-heartedly following the “Gays in the Boy Scouts” stories for awhile and I’ve never been able to understand the root causes of all the homophobia that seems to grip our country. Is it because homophobic people are actually repressed homosexuals who have been denying their biological instincts all their lives?
I mean, think about it.
They can have all the guys they want. I’ll take Kari Byron and her GUNZ!
I’ve ALWAYS wished that 90% of the male population was GAY AS LIBERACE!
It certainly would have given a wart-hog like me a much better chance with the ladies “back in the day”!!
But, enough pontificating.
I’ve got yardwork to do.
The Sex, Violence and Gays will just have to wait for me another day.
In the meantime….
Not all fairy tales are lies.
Stay crazy!
KEEP THE FAITH
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
Get ready ’cause here it comes!
WooHoo! Congress is at it again and this time (as usual) they’re not even using lube.
We just get to bite the pillow because they’re going in dry.
AND THEY DON’T CARE.
They don’t give a damn about their approval rating.
They don’t give a damn what you and me think of them.
They just don’t care.
It’s frustrating to look around and say:
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
Why isn’t this story front page news on every network and in every newspaper?
Oh yeah, it isn’t bloody enough to hold our interest for long.
How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law
And the 1% LOVES CONGRESS. After all, Congress is REALLY full of crooks and whores that sold us down the river for their own personal gain. They couldn’t care less about their approval rating
The legislative process on Capitol Hill is often slow and grinding. There are committee hearings, filibuster threats and hours of floor debate.
But sometimes, when Congress really wants to get something done, it can move blindingly fast.
That’s what happened when Congress moved to undo large parts of a popular law known as the STOCK Act last week.
A year ago, President Obama at a celebratory ceremony attended by a bipartisan cast of lawmakers. “I want to thank all the members of Congress who came together and worked to get this done,” he said.
The law wouldn’t just outlaw trading on nonpublic information by members of Congress, the executive branch and their staffs. It would greatly expand financial disclosures and make all of the data searchable so insider trading and conflicts of interest would be easier to detect.
Buy it now at McDonalds while there’s still time. Just remember: Sodomy is still against the law in many States, unless you’re in the White House or a member of Congress. Then, you can legally screw an entire nation full of people! After all, they make the rules
But on Monday, the president signed a bill reversing big pieces of the law.
There was no fanfare last week either, when the Senate and then the House passed the bill in largely empty chambers using a fast-track procedure known as unanimous consent.
In the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., shepherded the bill through.
It was Friday afternoon at 12:52. Many members had already left for the weekend or were on their way out.
The whole process took only 30 seconds. There was no debate.
“There weren’t too many members of Congress who were aware of this legislation,” says Craig Holman, the government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen. “And I suspect very, very few understood what a sweeping radical change it is to the STOCK Act.”
Link is here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law
Calico Blackie says:
Where is the outrage? We’re too busy being distracted with meaningless shit cluttering up our lives to feel outrage
Where is the outrage?
Why aren’t we taking to the streets and the internet in record numbers to expose Wall Street and our Government for the sham and racket that it really is?
Why aren’t we DEMANDING THAT CONGRESS CLEAN UP IT’S ACT?
Why aren’t we demanding an end to corruption in Government?
Why aren’t we demanding a Government of the People, By the People and For the People instead of meekly and submissively taking it up the ass every time “our” government decides to shaft us?
WHY??????
Well, we tried to do all those things with OCCUPY WALL STREET and we were beaten and shouted down.
But, we live in “the greatest country in the world!
Where else can billionaires own the government and so thoroughly screw the citizens of this country and make us think it’s a right and privilege to be screwed?
WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?
Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why
And when the market goes way down, guess what happens to YOUR SAVINGS and 401k? But, that’s ok. The rich will have already taken THEIR profits, leaving you with nothing but a sore butt
Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of “disappointing performance” in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods.
In the latest filing for Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has been drastically reducing his exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson, and reduced his overall stake in “consumer product stocks” by 21%.
Berkshire Hathaway also sold its entire stake in California-based computer parts supplier Intel.
With 70% of the U.S. economy dependent on consumer spending, Buffett’s apparent lack of faith in these companies’ future prospects is worrisome.
Unfortunately Buffett isn’t alone.
But, don’t worry. You’ll still have a job!
Fellow billionaire John Paulson, who made a fortune betting on the subprime mortgage meltdown, is clearing out of U.S. stocks too.
During the second quarter of the year, Paulson’s hedge fund, Paulson & Co., dumped 14 million shares of JPMorgan Chase.
The fund also dumped its entire position in discount retailer Family Dollar and consumer-goods maker Sara Lee.
Finally, billionaire George Soros recently sold nearly all of his bank stocks, including shares of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs.
But, don’t worry. We’ll still have plenty of these to keep us “safe”
So why are these billionaires dumping their shares of U.S. companies?
After all, the stock market is still in the midst of its historic rally. Real estate prices have finally leveled off, and for the first time in five years are actually rising in many locations.
And the unemployment rate seems to have stabilized.
It’s very likely that these professional investors are aware of specific research that points toward a massive market correction, as much as 90%.
Link is here: http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265?PROMO_CODE=110D8-1&utm_source=taboola
Calico Blackie says:
Where is the outrage? We’re getting fleeced and sodomized like a bunch of Montana ewes and yet we’re still complacently munching grass!
Maybe we deserve it for being so stupid and uncaring?
Check this out…….
Schiff: 2/3 of America to Lose Everything Because of This Crisis
A record breaking stock market is distorting a frightening reality: The U.S. is being eaten alive by a horrific cancer that will ultimately destroy the economy and impoverish the vast majority of its citizens.
That’s according to Peter Schiff, the best-selling author and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, who delivered his harsh warning to investors in a recent interview on Fox Business.
“I think we are heading for a worse economic crisis than we had in 2007,” Schiff said.
“You’re going to have a collapse in the dollar…a huge spike in interest rates… and our whole economy, which is built on the foundation of cheap money, is going to topple when you pull the rug out from under it.”
But, don’t worry. We’ll still have plenty of these when you need a place to STAY
Schiff says that, despite “phony” signs of an economic recovery, the cancer destroying America stems from a lethal concoction of our $16 trillion federal debt and the Fed’s never ending money printing.
Currently, Bernanke and company is buying $1 trillion of Treasury and mortgage bonds a year. That’s about $85 billion per month against a budget deficit that is about the same level.
According to Schiff, these numbers are unsustainable. And the Fed has no credible “exit strategy.”
Eventually interest rates will rise… and when they do, Schiff says, stocks will tank and bonds dip to nothing. Massive new tax hikes will be imposed and programs and entitlements will be cut to the bone.
“The crisis is imminent,” Schiff said. ”I don’t think Obama is going to finish his second term without the bottom dropping out. And stock market investors are oblivious to the problems.”
THIS is what’s happening while we’re busy munching grass and playing with our iPods
“We’re broke, Schiff added. ”We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit; look at the debt to GDP ratio, the unfunded liabilities. If we were in the Eurozone, they would kick us out.”
“It’s not that the stock market is gaining value… it’s that our money is losing value. And so if you have a debased currency… a devalued currency, the price of everything goes up. Stocks are no exception,” he said.
“The Fed knows that the U.S. economy is not recovering,” he noted. “It simply is being kept from collapse by artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing. As that support goes, the economy will implode.”
Link is here: http://moneymorning.com/ob-article/schiff-us-will-win-currency-war.php?code=3243#.UW68h0pfJS0
Calico Blackie says:
They know damn well that a disarmed citizenry will be powerless to resist them. Oh, we can still protest and fight. Ask the Indians where that got them when they laid down their arms
Why do you think some members of Congress and our President are suddenly pushing so hard for gun control?
They don’t give a damn about our “safety”.
They know damn well gang members and other violent criminals won’t line up to surrender their guns.
They know damn well that if our “entitlements” get cut to the bone while they’re living the high life, we’re gonna be REAL pissed.
They know damn well that a full-blown depression might be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
They know damn well that, this time, we might not just bend over so easily.
We might stop munching grass when all the grass is finally taken away and the gloves come off.
Imagine the chaos in this country if Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps and all other government programs which were designed to help but ended up by having MILLIONS of people dependent on Wall Street and Uncle Sam are suddenly “cut to the bone”?
But, hey……
What do I know?
How much more are YOU willing to take before you fight back? WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
I’ve got a feeling the next time a call to protest ends with the words “BRING TENT”, we’ll be bringing tents alright, because that’s all we’ll have left.
I just hope that we’re never forced into a situation by the banksters and their wholly-owned subsidiary in Washington, DC to end our call to protest with the words “BRING GUN”.
That’s exactly what the Wall Street banksters and their crooked cronies on Capitol Hill are afraid of.
Oh well. On a lighter (and totally unrelated) note that I found interesting……
French study suggests younger women should stop wearing bras
FREE AT LAST!
A new French study suggests some women should throw their bras in the trash.
Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, a sports medicine specialist from Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon in Besancon, France, published a study on Wednesday that shows that wearing bras may not prevent women’s breasts from sagging, and may in fact increase it.
“Our first results confirm the hypothesis that the bra is a false need,” Rouillon told France Info. “Medically, physiologically, anatomically, the breast does not benefit from being deprived of gravity. Instead, it languishes with a bra.”
I think I’m going to get funding to conduct a study on the benefits of not wearing pants!
The 15-year study involved 330 volunteers between the ages 18 and 35.
Researchers measured their breasts using a slide ruler and a caliper and recorded any changes throughout the study period.
Women who did not wear bras had a 7 millimeter lift as measured from their nipples each year. Their breasts were also firmer, and their stretch marks faded. There was also no evidence that the bras helped get rid of back pain.
The researchers believed that wearing bras prevented the growth of breast tissue, which lead to deterioration of the muscles that support the breasts.
Link is here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57579077/french-study-suggests-younger-women-should-stop-wearing-bras/
Calico Blackie says:
Why not prepare your daughter for her future now?
I guess you can get funding for anything as long as it’s done in the name of “science.”
Meanwhile, we’re screwed by our governments and systems.
People are homeless and in need.
Our “entitlements” (that we paid for) are going to get cut. But the French can find money to study the rates of titty-sag!
And, you know our government has also funded worthless “studies” too.
Fiddling while Rome burns.
Yep….
We’re getting screwed.
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
Oh, that’s right….
If you speak up about it, you’re a DIRTY HIPPIE!
I guess I’m a dirty hippie.
KEEP THE FAITH
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
Is this the end of Supergirl at http://exiledinhollywood.blogspot.com/ ??
One of my favorite writers and fellow activists out there in the blogisphere has stopped updating her page.
Maybe it’s just the sensory overload that I too feel from time to time, or maybe it’s something else.
At any rate, I wish she would start writing again.
Here’s a link to her page: http://exiledinhollywood.blogspot.com/
Drop her a line. We need all the activism we can get.
I think I know how she feels, though.
After awhile you just get tired of it all.
The other day, my neighbor and I were having the impossible dream “If I won hundreds of millions in the lottery” discussion/fantasy and at our age, we both concluded that we wouldn’t do much that was different.
Maybe buy some land and have a working self-sufficient farm.
Kevin Bacon in his best role
I used to think I’d help thousands with the new-found wealth and maybe I still would.
You know, build and fund a homeless shelter and/or a battered women’s shelter, but that’s about it.
Maybe I’m being selfish, but you know what I would do with a chunk of that change? Fund the shooting of another “Tremors” movie! Yep. that’s what I would do.
You see, after 57 years on this earth, I’ve become disgusted with my fellow human beings. Mind you, I’m not any better than the rest of the parasites that inhabit our planet.
How long will we keep buying the same old lies?
I just wonder about people who will continually accept getting screwed, the whole while proclaiming how great it is here.
I wonder how many of these people react when protests flare up by saying “They’re just dirty hippies. “If they don’t like it here, they can move to Russia.”
I wonder how many of these people blame Obama, Bush, or whomever is in the White House, instead of examining exactly what a maximum profit system is doing to this country and it’s citizens.
It does make you want to stop with the activism and say “Fuck it all.”
Ah well……
At least in this country, your future is assured as long as your health is good and you can keep up with the 22-year-olds working alongside you!
Here’s a good one. I wonder how many of these people are enjoying their new careers, and how many of them are hating life every morning and are now just marking time until they die?
In tough economy, fast food workers grow old
YOU’RE HIRED! Enjoy your new career!
Wendy Lott’s career has made a detour to a small-town pizzeria in South Carolina.
She works 10 hours a week making pizza for minimum wage. She has no other job, no health insurance and no idea how she can afford to go back to college, let alone pay the hospital that treated her asthma-related bronchitis.
She’s 27, lives with her mother and most of her take-home pay goes to gas and household items. “It would be nice to get off food stamps, but on $62, I can’t,” Lott said, referring to her weekly take-home pay from her $7.25-an-hour minimum-wage job.
In many ways, she is a typical fast-food worker: She’s older than you’d expect, has more years of schooling and works in the industry not for entry-level experience, but to try to keep her head above the financial storm that threatens to swamp her.
Due to the lingering effects of the Great Recession, the Hollywood image of the care-free, freckle-faced, teenage hamburger flipper is no longer the norm. Only 16 percent of fast food industry jobs now go to teens, down from 25 percent a decade ago.
Imagine working hard all your life to end up with this as your boss?
And many of the older workers are educated. More than 42 percent of restaurant and fast-food employees over the age of 25 have at least some college education, including 753,000 with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Fast-food workers are part of the lowest-paying major occupational group in the United States, according to government data. On average they work only 24 hours a week. Those who can get full-time hours make a median annual salary of $17,813 a year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Others find they don’t get as many hours as they need, and erratic schedules make it difficult to juggle more than one job at a time.
Just marking time
“I’ve been trying to find a better job,” said Lott, who has been requesting more hours for the entire year she’s been at the pizza place.
Some fast-food chains are doing it right, Jayaraman said, such as Five Guys and In-N-Out Burger.
In-N-Out, for example, starts its employees at $10 per hour and offers benefits.
“We do enjoy lower turnover and that, of course, leads to a more experienced team working in our restaurants,” Carl Van Fleet, the vice president of planning and development at In-N-Out Burger, told NBC News via email.
“And they pay a FORTUNE! Imagine making a big $10 an hour?” Idiots. How about “livable wages” instead of “maximum profits”?
“Our associates do work pretty hard to make sure our customers have a great experience.
A higher pay structure is helpful in making that happen but it is only part of our approach.
It is equally important to us that we treat our associates well and maintain that positive working environment in all of our restaurants.”
Link is here:
Calico Blackie says:
Rough economy? But, we’re told every day how wonderful everything is! Wouldn’t it be great if every large corporate CEO in this country was forced to live on $10 an hour for a year before they assumed their positions in their plush offices?
Imagine having to smile and kow-tow when this kid says to you “HEY, YOU DIDN’T GIVE ME ENOUGH FRENCH FRIES”?
They speak of $10 an hour as if it’s bloated excess in the lap of luxury.
Screw ‘em.
I wonder how many of those “older fast food workers” used to say when they read about those who were less fortunate in life: “They made bad decisions in life”?
And, they kept saying that until it happened to them.
Screw them too. Shut up! Kow-tow!
YOU LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!
But, hey….
Let’s move on to the important news.
SHE’S SINGLE AGAIN BOYS!
Jane Seymour, James Keach divorcing after 20 years
This is how I remember her
The couple “confirm that they are separated and have been for several months,” they said in a statement to People. “At this time, they are negotiating the terms of their divorce.”
The British actress, 62, and her actor-director husband, 65, wed in 1993. They are parents to 17-year-old twin boys Johnny and Kristopher.
“They will continue their relationship as devoted parents to their children, as business associates and partners, and in their joint dedication to preserving and furthering the charitable endeavors that they’ve worked on throughout their marriage,” the couple said in their statement.
This was Seymour’s fourth marriage and Keach’s third. Seymour also has two adult children with ex-husband David Flynn and is grandmother to three children.
Seymour is best known for her starring role in the 1990s hit series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” Keach directed numerous episodes of the CBS drama.
Link is here: http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/15/17759520-jane-seymour-james-keach-divorcing-after-20-years?lite
Calico Blackie says:
Jane Seymour was the focus of many of my boyhood fantasies and she still looks real good to me. Now that she’s single again, do you think ol’ Calico Blackie stands a chance?
Here’s a “rearview” of Jane Seymour taken recently at a race track. Good lawd! This picture is as close as I’ll ever get to her ass!
HELL NO.
She was just a boyhood fantasy and I can put dreams of her away just like I can put away dreams of winning the lottery and attaining the American Dream (or of ever seeing Tremors 5 for that matter).
So, you see…..
It’s all an “impossible dream” and maybe we’re biologically engineered to always hope and wish for the unattainable.
Maybe the “powers that be” know this and that’s why they keep telling us the economy is improving and that you too can attain the “American Dream”.
Can I have at least one wish, Genie? Light a fire under her and tell her to start writing http://exiledinhollywood.blogspot.com/ again!
Maybe we’re all just engineered to be suckers?
Maybe we beat our heads against the wall until we’re tired of beating ourselves up about things that no-one seems to notice or care about?
Anyhow…..
It’s nice to dream, even if we know that’s all it is.
Until next time….
KEEP THE FAITH!
Calico Blackie @kidakita
Greetings from Calico Blackie!
Another weekend down and it’s time to get started on another week.
Tomorrow marks the 148th anniversary of the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by General Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
If they’re even aware of this fact, most people fail to realize that it wasn’t really the end of a “civil” war. It was actually the end of the American Revolutionary War.
You see….
Most revolutions do not end cleanly.
There are always factions among the revolutionaries who will quarrel with each other over who will ultimately rule the roost.
Thousands, if not millions more die in the ensuing struggle.
It just took America longer to get to fighting with each other.
One “side” had finally had “enough” of what they thought of as being pushed around by the other “side”.
Never mind that one system favored actual slavery while the other side favored another form of slavery cloaked in the mantle of “freedom”.
Never mind that once again, the poor man fought the rich man’s war.
Never mind that the American Civil War never really ended in 1865 and that it just descended into a Cold War where, even today, we still fight amongst ourselves.
Yet, at least the slaves were freed and that’s a good thing that came out of the shooting war.
So…….
If and when we’ve finally had “enough” in this modern age……
What will our next revolution look like? Will we form coalitions to attack our current government and if successful, will we then fight another Civil War?
I think not. The time for violent revolution is past.
A new revolution would just get ruthlessly crushed unless the revolutionaries were able to secure help from a strong outside source.
Our “freedom” is always for sale to the highest bidder
Then what?
We’ll have replaced one form of government with whatever form of government the “helpers” want us to have, and nothing will really change.
The Banksters would still be in control.
So, when will we decide “enough is enough” and what can we do to keep the maggot banksters from returning to feed on our new society?
What can we do to prevent any country that would help a 2nd American Revolution from surreptitiously installing their “approved” new form of government?
When will we have enough of this crap?
Those are two questions we need to answer before we blindly strike out into the unknown.
As long as we allow the media to keep us fighting a “cold war” amongst ourselves, we will NEVER succeed in our ultimate goal of securing equal rights for every individual.
WE NEED TO STOP BELIEVING WHAT THE MEDIA TELLS US TO BELIEVE!
All the media is doing is keeping us in a state of perpetual “Cold Civil War” with each other and here’s a good example of this:
Has disability become a ‘de facto welfare program’?
Why is this so hard to understand? Some people need help. Why be greedy?
When President Clinton signed “welfare reform” into law in 1996, he promised to end welfare as we know it. Now, some new reporting suggests we’ve created a new kind of welfare — only most Americans aren’t aware of it.
The number of people who depend on checks from Social Security’s disability programs has soared in recent years, according to NPR’s series ‘Unfit for work: the Startling Rise of Disability in America’. The reports, which began over the weekend and continue this week, raise the question: How disabled are the recipients, really? As you might imagine, they have touched a nerve.
After six months of investigation, NPR reporter Chana Joffee-Walt concluded that Social Security’s disability programs have become “a de facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills.” In the past three decades, she reports, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed:
Link is here: http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17459470-has-disability-become-a-de-facto-welfare-program?lite
Calico Blackie says:
Stay classy, America! Keep fighting with each other. Maybe you won’t see who the real enemies are
You see. Even NPR, that liberal bastion of mindless government propaganda for the masses is doing everything they can to keep the “Civil Cold War” going strong.
Yes, there are some people who will “game the system” but most of the people on disability and welfare in this country really need it.
What I hear out here in right-wing redneck country is:
“Those goddam moochers are stealing my tax money. We should drug test and physically examine them all and jail those that are scamming.”
Great idea.
Let’s humiliate millions of less-fortunate Americans just so that we can all get big hard-ons knowing we caught a few scammers while being able to somehow feel superior to a whole huge group of poor human beings in this country.
Fuck you.
Always looking for a sign, an indicator of where our society is heading
So…..
Here’s my experiment….
I will believe we’ve finally decided “enough is enough” when I look at the hit counter for this page and see that the words:
American Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, Media Lies, Protest, The Constitution, Civil War, Disability, Welfare, Poverty, and HUMAN RIGHTS are getting searched for more than just these few upcoming stories in today’s column.
Until then, I’ll believe we’re still content to be that frog on the stove in the pan of water that is very slowly going to poach to death.
Anyway…..
Here’s the stories that seem to have us all snake-fascinated these days:
Former Carson High School teacher accused of sex with student waives preliminary hearing
Hot for Teacher? I’ll bet this has been going on for centuries, but only now has the media decided to report on it. WHY?
A former Carson High School teacher accused of sexual conduct with a former student waived her preliminary hearing in justice court Thursday morning. Jennifer Dalton, 35, will be arraigned in district court at 9 a.m. April 2.
Link is here:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/5660967-113/teacher-dalton-student-2011
Here’s another:
Former teacher accused of sex with student
A former teacher at Northbrook High School has been accused of having sex with a teen who was a student at the school at the time and she now says the boy tried to extort money from her to stay quiet about their supposed relationship.
Link is here: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-teacher-accused-of-sex-with-student-4386105.php
“BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! NOW HOW MUCH WILL YOU PAY?”
Assistant high school principal held in student sex case in Hemet
Do you know how old a woman this age looked to me when I was 15? YUCK!
A 45-year-old assistant high school principal in Hemet was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sexual battery and other crimes involving three boys who attend the school.
The three boys are students at the school, but none of the alleged acts occurred on campus, police said in a statement.
She was also arrested on suspicion of oral copulation, abnormal sexual interest in children and sending inappropriate or harmful matter via an electronic device.
Link is here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hemet-principal-arrested-sex-case-20130403,0,2916862.story
“BUT WAIT! THERE’S STILL MORE!
Gwyneth Paltrow: I have the butt of a 22-year-old stripper
Stripper butt? Gads, she looks like hell!
Well, that’s a testimonial if ever there was one! Perennial health nut Gwyneth Paltrow told reporters on Thursday that adopting the Tracy Anderson Method has given her a completely different outlook on life — and a more shapely bum to boot!
Speaking to reporters at the opening of Tracy Anderson’s flagship studio in Los Angeles, Paltrow recalled one incident in particular, when she was trying on bathing suits with a pal and received a rather unusual compliment about her figure.
“I said, ‘You know, this isn’t so bad for 40, right?’” Paltrow mused of her butt. “And [my friend] goes, ‘It’s not so bad for a 22-year-old stripper!’”
Link is here: http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/gwyneth-paltrow-i-have-the-butt-of-a-22-year-old-stripper-1744121.story
Calico Blackie says:
Does she also have the brain of a 22-year-old stripper? Anyway, that’s my point. Are we more interested in “stripper butt” than we are in current events? And it will be interesting to see if “human rights” and “revolution” get overshadowed by “stripper butt” and “teacher sex” on the search hit counter.
WOO-HOO! Singer Taylor Swift at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. THAT’S the butt of a 22-year-old stripper!
Why do I already think I know the answer?
WE WILL NEVER SAY: “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”.
More people in America are aware of the results of last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards than are aware of the precarious state our society and their very lives and incomes are in.
Maybe that’s ok too. Who knows?
Calico Blackie @kidakita
