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August 25, 2008
He chose who?
Joe BIDEN?????
Why aren't Progressives or Liberal Democrats or even "mainstream" Democrats shrieking, rioting, setting themselves on fire, about this insane choice? Was there any resistance in the Democratic Party (other than among the Clinton True Believers; they wanted their "gal" in the VP slot so they could experience, finally, catharsis) to this selection? Any at all? Apparently not, and the absence of that resistance is a fairly accurate gauge of the degree to which the Democratic Party has died, passed away, evaporated in a steamy mist of defeatist miasma. It is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate America - like the Republican Party - only not yet as murderous, as foul, as the other Corporate Owned Party. Not quite. Close, though. So, wave the white flag, boys and girls; it's all over but the Benediction as four days from now the delegates shuffle from the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field and all the various gatherings sponsored and paid for by those Blessed Corporate Souls such as AT&T, Comcast, General Motors, Microsoft, Motorola and on and on and on . . .
Okay. So, who's to argue with the DLC? It's their party, their presidential candidate, and their vice-presidential candidate. Pardon moi, theirs and Corporate America's. Which makes the selection of Joe Biden perfect. Nauseatingly, gaggingly, perfect.
Who remembers or cares about Biden's breathless cheer-leading (and vote) for the passage of the (ha-ha) "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005?" Who cares about Biden's relentless support of this ugly, anti-consumer act and the seemingly limitless financial support Biden has received from the credit card behemoth MBNA - now subsumed into the financial snake pit known as the Bank of America? From Wikipedia:
MBNA was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which took 11 years and millions of dollars spent on lobbying before the act was finally passed when 15 Democrats (all of whom had received campaign contributions from MBNA, notably Joseph Biden, (D-DE) $147,700) joined with their Republican colleagues to sign it into law.
MBNA was one of the companies mentioned on a 2004 Frontline PBS special about unfair business practices by credit card companies. Some industry practices which MBNA possibly engaged in previously included doubling or tripling of interest rates, shifting billing due dates/payment cycles monthly, and raising rates for customers whose payments were a day or two late which earned it the sobriquet, Misrepresentation Bank of North America . . .
It is a well known banking industry fact that after the MBNA / Bank of America deal of January 1, 2006, a number of MBNA execs were booted off the BofA board of directors due to their fears that their unethical practices could result in criminal charges against them under a number of statutes including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (For a thorough understanding of this legislation, Hunter, a diarist at Daily Kos nailed it two-plus years ago. Go here).
Oh, my. "Criminal charges . . ." And, Biden right in there with the scum. Glomming up the money, shuffling back and forth on the train nightly (so we are now told) between D.C. and Delaware like a ghost, a lost soul . . . sigh . . . alone with the darkness, and the passing lights of small town America whizzing past . . . time to reflect on the damage about to be done to what was left of working-class America as a result of his support for this vile bill . . . or not reflecting . . . who really knows? . . . and this filthy piece of legislation, yet another bullet-proof slab of Corporate Protection at the expense of real people . . . oh, well . . . sigh . . .
So . . . now? Well, now Senator Biden is the Vice Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Party! The running mate of our Great Agent of Change, Barack Obama!!! And we should be - we must be - happy! We have a Winning Team! A New Dawn is coming! Vote Democratic! Vote Obama/Biden! Vote for Change!!!! Blessed Change!
And, there's so much more about Senator Biden's legislative efforts that brings smiles to the faces of the Blessed Corporate Overlords who have funded so much of the Democratic Party, who have written check after check, sometimes even more (gasp!) than to Republicans, who now can relax, don't worry, it's been handled, all is okay, we're home free, Bush is on the way out, the new "Bush" is in the wings.
Obama/Biden! A vote for change! Change We Can Believe In!!!!!!
God Bless Us, Everyone!
- MDM
August 26, 2008
Crash
So, the lost souls call themselves "PUMAs." Which, I've learned, means "Party Unity My Ass." Wow. That's really cool. Has such a Middle School, pre-teen flavor to it. "Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a Dollar! All for Hillary, Stand up and Holler!" Ya-aaaaaay! (Shriek! Shriek! Scream! Scream! Jump up and down! Sob! Pull your hair!)
PUMAs, huh? Disaffected female Democrats who feel Her Holiness didn't get treated properly, respectfully, by the democratic process, right? Borderline nut cases who would rather see, what? a process that disregards the Primary selection system and chooses a presidential nominee, how? by declaration? Hey, we can all agree the Primary process sucks, but so does just about every aspect of our phony system of "choosing" one of the two corporate-approved candidates every election cycle. The PUMAs think only that part that denied their candidate the nomination is fucked up? Please. C'mon, girls. Do something constructive. Work to overthrow the entire system, not just the part that appears to have turned your estrogen into a tube of spackle compound.
A clear example of the howling madness of the PUMAs (I have to chuckle - sneer? - every time I type that acronym) is evident here. The coagulated cable network White Guy, Chris Mathews - the Interrupter his own damn self - run over by (snark) a couple of PUMAs. Jesus, what crazed theatre! What sticky idiocy. And the crowd behind the PUMAs (snark), the "normal Democrats," chanting "OH-BAHM-UH, OH-BAHM-UH, OH-BAHM-UH . . ." I hope Michelle didn't let her girls see that bit of Party Unity, that example of "change we can believe in."
So, tonight, then, at the Corporate Democratic Convention, comes the finale of this bathos, this critical, moaning need for "catharsis," this ripping and rending of garments, sack-cloth and ashes, cries and whispers; yes, tonight comes Senator Clinton's Call To Unity, sort of a maudlin eine Partei, ein Präsident, ein Sieg. Can't wait. I will be glued to my tee-vee. I want to see Catharsis. I want to witness yet another successful Karl Rove operation, this PUMA psychodrama played out in front of the whole country, in Prime Time, on all the networks, cable and broadcast. Wheeeeeeeeee . . . .!!! Unity? Okay, Hill, hit me with your best shot. I gotta see this.
Lights down . . . then blue spotlight on . . .
Ophelia:
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Okay. She was referring to Hamlet, but you get the point, the poignancy, right?
Oh, yeah. One more little item before we wrap this all up and head out for nuclear war with Russia, or a violent showdown with Iran, or a complete collapse of what's left of our financial system, or just plain old oblivion. Um . . . what about her old man? You know, Bill. What sort of evil shit does he have packed away? What will the ex-Prez do to seek revenge for the denial of the expiation of his sins? The presidency was to be his gift to Hillary. Bill had a little scene all planned . . .
Dressed in his favorite plaid smoking jacket, holding a glass of Remy Martin, leaning against the door to their bedroom, he casually says, "See, Darlin'? There ya' go. It's all over. I may have, you know, really been a bad boy there a coupla' times, a real prick when you get right down on it, you know, thrust when I shoulda' parried, but, hell, honey, looka what I got for you! So, you think maybe, Sweetheart you can stop callin' me a stupid fuckhead now? Huh? Watcha' think, Darlin'? You're gonna be the President of The United States, fer crissakes. The leader of the Free World! And, you're a woman! Show some mercy, okay?"
Not to be. None of it. Good-bye, PUMAs. See ya', Bill. Mercy be damned. Catharsis my ass. The fun is just beginning! On to November!!!
- MDM
August 27, 2008
Once More, With Feeling
Here they come again tonight. More Clinton. This time it's Bill. Dear god, do these people ever consider gracefully exiting the stage? Any stage? Her stupidly formulaic lecture last night was beyond endurance. The wide eyes, the pursed, snarky smile, the complete absence of content in what she said - it was all so Hillary Clinton. I'll write about it tomorrow. Tonight? Tune in if you haven't decided I'm such a sexist pig I have become just another irrelevant male on the radio. (I got that suggestion today in an email.)
See you tonight.
August 21, 2008
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
-Mark Twain
Well, now we know. Thank goodness, too. For the past seven years it's just been driving me crazy. How in the world did WTC number 7 manage to collapse if it was not hit by anything during the 9/11 attack and no explosives were set deliberately. Sheesh, what a mystery . . .
Well, a report by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in suburban Washington was released today and the cause was . . . a fire 400 feet away. Yeah. There you go. A fire up the street a ways. Got it. Wow. So simple. How'd I miss it? I'm embarrassed. According to the New York Times today " . . . investigators determined that debris from the falling twin towers ignited fires on at least 10 floors at 7 World Trade Center, which was about 400 feet north of where the city’s two tallest buildings once stood. The blazes burned out of control for six hours, as the city fire department, devastated by the collapse of the twin towers, abandoned its efforts to extinguish the fire, and the sprinkler system was incapacitated."
The report continues: "The heat from these fires, the investigators said, caused the beams on the lower floors of the east side of the tower to expand, ultimately causing a girder on the 13th floor to disconnect from a critical interior column that supported the building’s long floor spans. Once the 13th floor gave way, a cascade of floor failures started down to the fifth floor, leading to the overall collapse of the tower."
All righty, then. Case closed. Turns out the whole shebang is exactly what our Dear Leaders have been telling us all along. Whew . . . what a relief, too. Impossible to imagine that our Dear Leaders would, well, you know, make shit up. Try to confuse us. And, anyway, ya' gotta ask yourself, why in the world would they do that??
So, all you conspiracy theorists, time to move on. Nothin' to see here. Let's go. Keep the traffic moving. C'mon. Don't make me say it again. Head 'em up and move 'em out.
What else ya' got? Obama picked his running mate yet? Boy, the Chinese are sure kickin' our asses in the gold medal department, right? Hey, did you hear what that crazy old coot Lieberman said today . . .?
- MDM
Stormy Friday
Welcome, Truthseekers, to the tropical storm Friday edition of Malloy's weekly headline recap. We'll take you calls on all the newsworthy stories of the week: 800-989-1480, so join the fun and frivolity!
Here are the headlines that caught our attention:
Six Florida deaths blamed on storm Fay
76 civilians killed in airstrike, Afghan officials say
Pakistani troops kill 21 militants: officials
Russian Says It Is Pulling Out of Georgia, but Troops Remain
Rice and Poles drink to shield with Georgian wine
Rice: Polish Missile Defense Has... Nothing To Do With Russia
Rice Travels to Iraq to Push for Deal on US Forces
Bush Administration Announces ‘Aspirational Timetables’ In Iraq ...
Petraeus Endorses "Spiritual Handbook," Betrays 21% of Our Troops
Kaine on McCain's House Gaffe: "He Couldn't Count High Enough"
Obama Campaign Presses the Attack Over McCain's Houses Gaffe
Waiting for Obama: Veep Announcement Builds to Frenzied Standstill
McCain, Obama campaigns dig into real estate links
JOHN McCAIN PRO LIFE? WHAT A JOKE
Denver and The Greatness of Hillary Clinton
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