In my previous post here yesterday, I mentioned tar and feathering, tongue-in-cheek of course, for members of the Bush white house. Today I'd like to mention congress, tar, and feathers in the same sentence for each and every son of a bitch in either of those houses masquerading as representatives of the people instead of the corporate shills they really are.
The context in which I'm referring to those particular "Honorable" representatives of ours are the ones who voted to pass Time Warner's much lobbied for bill increasing postage. Here, I'll just let Katrina Vanden Heuvel who is editor and publisher of one of this country's most notable liberal magazines, "The Nation," explain from an e-mail I received from "The Nation" yesterday:
Half a million dollars. In postage.
In just a few short days, The Nation will pay one of the biggest new bills we’ve ever faced.
The Crisis, in case you haven’t heard, is this: postal regulators have accepted a scheme designed in part by lobbyists for the TimeWarner media conglomerate. In short, mailing costs for mega-magazines like TimeWarner’s own Time, People and Sports Illustrated will go up much less or in some cases decrease. But smaller publications like The Nation will be hit by an enormous rate increase of half a million dollars a year.
In the monopolist's parlance it's just a consolidation of their power in what will hopefully "fuck the little guys" (competition) right out of existence.
I saw two magazine headlines in the past couple of days preparing us for the exciting futures each and everyone of us will enjoy though extended longevity. One read "Live to 1,000 (Feel Like 30)". How funny is that?
Do we really want to live to live to be 1,000 and feel 30 in a world of globalization and global warming with no penquins or polar bears, a 7% chance each year our homes might be be blown away by tornadoes, flooded out by hurricanes, or burned to the ground by wildfires in drought stricken areas while society's in total mayhem brought on by the collapse of oil supplies and wars are now being fought over food and water instead of oil, yet even if you have water you can die of thirst but Coca Cola doesn't give a shit if you can't afford to buy a drink because they've privatized all the water rights? Do we?
Oh, and don't expect to be able to buy a "Nation" magazine either. They went out of business long ago as a result of congress enacting Time Warner's postage hike into law way back in 2007.
4 comments:
wow...that was a good spewing of the piss and vinegar...thank you...that felt great...now I think I need to go find that bucket of tar and some feathers....hmm, I gotta bunch of old pillows that should work.....
You know what really puzzles me..I get flyers advertizing ALL the Postal Wonders that are available....in the mail....with Postage Paid....( talk about a total WASTE of money....geeusss)
I should thank you for the distraction...
Bush was here today..
In Cleveland...
he comes to the Cleveland Clinic about 3-4 times a year..."susposedly" to admire all the" research"...
He usually comes and visits some poor industry and attemptts to act all fucking folksy and man of the people crap- and How effin sorry he is that Industry here has been effected by Global "issues", and then he starts humping the terra Agenda...and how Ohio has helped with the war....balahblah....
but the hired background crowd today remained stonelike, expressionless, and there was no applause......even at the cues....he looked hot,flustered, peevish....
I got my own theories.....about the Clinic Visits...
and they aren't nice....
and I don't feel sorry for this pathetic turd of a man.....
I hope the injections are given by a tired old nurse with a rusted 14 gauge needle....
Oh My.....where are my Nightingale Manners ?
Oh, that's right I threw them down the toilet in January 2001.....when the Turd took the Oath....
Okay...you are probally wondering what the heck DOES the Nursey think is effecting Our Dear Leader...
whelp....I and some of my fellow cohorts....have bets....
A. Tertiary Syphillis
B. BSE....yup Mad Cow Disease....I think Mad CowBoy Disease is right on the money.....
all I know is he comes here Alot...gives speechs when he comes- usually at the Intercontinental hotel- which is part of the Clinic.....and he usally sneaks in and then out....we Always learn of the Visits at the end of the day...very sneaky.....
( the Clinic is a very interesting creepy place- lot of Texas money- alot....and there is a Dignitary Floor.....for ONLY Dignitaries...just wonderin')
BTW.....the previous Surgeon General came out today and blasted this effin Administration.....watch NBC eve news...nice to see a Doc blast this asshole ....and his administraion....
E, that is very interesting. My vote is for Mad Cow (all that stumbling & slurring & inability to process basic information). No amt of TX $$$ is gonna cure that.
Dry-Drunk Syndrome is another possibility. So is Silver-spoon-in-nose, dont-give-a-shit-itis, mommys-best-friend, firecracker-frogger, & genetic-mutational-throwback.
Dada, I think a tar'n'feather party is quite appropriate, considering how they've plucked us all. ~~ D.K.
Live to be 1000??? Hmm I have to think the pharmaceutical companies are behind that-- think of the revenue that would produce here in the US of A. Maybe just pump our cardiovascular systems with Botox instead of blood? Maybe it could happen with whole body transplants? But at the rate this "civilization" is going downhill, I'd pass.
Just 1 Century would be more than I could handle.
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