Archive for September, 2009
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
George-Barack W-H Bush-Obama
“President Bush was right that Iran’s ballistic missile program poses a significant threat,” Mr. Obama told reporters at the White House.
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Obamanocchio’s Mandate Excuse
Obama, in delivering on his campaign promise to the oxymoronic “private medical insurance” corporations, is going to make purchasing one of its defective, extortionary products mandatory for all U.S. citizens.
As The New York Times reported on Sunday:
[I]nsurance companies have never wavered. Starting two weeks after the 2008 election, they have said they would accept greater federal regulation of their market practices if Congress also required everyone to have [private-sector] health insurance.
[Obama certainly delivers for his overclass patrons, doesn't he?]
This, of course, necessitates a constant river of Reaganesque lying to voters.
One of the latest whoppers came right in Obama’s woeful and patronizing (one wonders what percentage of those who voted for him fit under the belittling label “my progressive friends,” i.e. all those who expected Obama to deliver at least some beneficial, public-spirited changes) “health care” speech last week. It was this:
This is patently, brazenly, Ronald Reagan-style, false.
Purchasing automobile insurance is not mandatory. If it were, it would long ago have been turned into the very kind of public, single-payer, not-for-profit system that was, is, and ever will be the only possible solution to the nation’s medical insurance scandal/disaster.
Clearly, we radicals, progressives, and realists need to find ourselves some actual friends.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Last Hired, First Depressed
On what passes for the political left, analysis of corporate capitalism’s radical commercialization of off-the-job life has been atrocious. Among the disservices performed by allegedly radical thinkers has been their thoughtless habit of adopting the business elite’s “consumer” vocabulary as a legitimate conceptual framework. From the unjustly famous to the realm of everyday flippancy, examples of this disastrous, careless parrot-job abound.
If you wonder how much violence gets done to reality by not only swallowing the notion that “consumer” is a fair-minded label for product-users, but by the accompanying habit of treating the steeply stratified and deeply divided world of actual off-the-job humans as a pool of undifferentiated “consumers,” take a look at this recent report by Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad.
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
“Market” Discipline
In the department of nuff said, a quotation from this morning’s edition of The New York Times:
[I]nsurance companies have never wavered. Starting two weeks after the 2008 election, they have said they would accept greater federal regulation of their market practices if Congress also required everyone to have [private-sector] health insurance.
Note the Times‘ de rigueur omission of the crucial phrase “private-sector.” Nuff said x 2.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Not Joking: The Face of the “New” GM
Fresh off its public bailout, the General Motors Corporation is about to launch a massive marketing campaign titled “May the Best Car Win.” The intent of the campaign is to show prospective buyers how new and different the post-bailout GM will be. The spokesperson “face” of this coming blitzkrieg? I shit you not:
ROFLMAO
Script: “They tell me the young whipper-snappers are none too happy with our latest batch of horseless carriages…Well, by gum, this’ll learn ‘em…”
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
231 Days: That’s How Long it Took Obama to Finish Jumping the Shark
Obama: “That’s how the market works.”
Congress: (Applause.)
Behold, humble citizens: The Obarfma Bridge has been fully crossed.
“Universal” has now become “available” (as if that’s new).
Blatant diversions and boondoggles have now become perfectly reasonable “other ideas”, which it is perfectly reasonable to treat as equivalents to public (a.k.a. real) medical insurance.
I hereby admit my shame and embarrassment at the modicum of credulity I expressed here. I should have puked that night, not choked up.
Mea culpa. I’m sorry to have misled anybody.
