IF ONLY SHE COULD BE A RUNNING MATE AGAIN

IS THERE ANY END TO ROMNEY'S INANE GIBBERISH?

"The pipeline will go through if I have to build it myself"

"Vote for Obama and Iraq will get the bomb...vote for me and they will not"

Holy shit, is there any stopping the inane, banal comments that ooze out of this man's pie hole? Anyone would be hard pressed to consume so many syllables and still manage to say absolutely nothing. Nothing....just an endless barrage of worthless rhetoric in a failed attempt to prey on the human condition known as stupidity. 

Just how stupid do you think we are, Governor?  How about you cease with the meaningless platitudes and level with us....or are you even capable? Has it been so long ago that you were actually yourself.....so long ago...years before you became this reprogrammed presidential running machine that you are incapable of delivering an original thought? Has it been so long that you don't even know what your personal viewpoints are without someone telling you what to think? 

THE GOP IS RIGHT--- THE MEDIA IS BIASED

Once again a republican claim is completely and totally shot down in flames...of course us liberals tend to argue with facts as opposed to the FOX dwellers. That's right............ an exhaustive new study by media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting shows that the Sunday morning talk shows have been dominated over the last eight months by white, Republican men. AND that includes the (allegedly) completely biased MSNBC!

RYAN BETTER SNAP TO ATTENTION

According to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
“In 2009 the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was responsible for lifting the income of 3.6 million Americans over the poverty line, providing an average of less than $300 in monthly food stamps to families in need. In 2010 this program lifted 3.9 million Americans above poverty, including 1.7 million children.“

And the Ryan budget plan will reduce the Food Stamp program by 133 BILLION over ten years. 13.35 billion in reductions each year over ten years....and he won't budge on the tax breaks for the uber rich. What an asshole. What an unfeeling, uncaring, unsympathetic asshole. What kind of a man would risk children going hungry while he maintains the tax breaks for multi-millionaires who do not need the money? This "SNAP" program has never been more important, given the economic hardships our fellow Americans are going through....

"In fact, America’s dependence on the SNAP program has been all the more important because of the tight job market and slow economy. From the economic collapse of 2007 until the start of the recovery in 2011, food stamp rolls grew from 26.3 million to almost 45 million.
The millionaires in our nation’s capital may never have to make eye contact with the reality of our ongoing recession. The rest of us are not so lucky. Half of the rest of us are poor or low income. Fifty-seven percent of American children live in a poor or low-income family. Out of all SNAP food stamp funding, approximately 75% goes precisely to these poor or low-income families with kids."

25 MONTHS OF JOB GROWTH

Over two years of job growth....yes, it has been a slow, uphill battle. But then again, what did you expect? Did you expect the administration to come in and immediately stop the negative economic vortex of GOP slowdown / near-depressionary eight years of performance? Did you expect an immediate halt to two undeclared wars, a failed energy policy, near historic job loss and a surplus turned into a huge deficit? You did? Then you are either a fool...or you weren't paying attention. Please don't vote in November. Four more years of tax cuts for the rich...four more years of attempted world military domination....four more years of pushing the middle class down...four more years of Bush / Reagan policies might just end us.

SUPREMELY A MISTAKE

While the nation watches, or more accurately.......reads about (the court sessions are not televised by order of the court) the Supreme Court case over "Obama Care," I think it's time to discuss where the President went terribly wrong, while trying to do something terribly right.

Obama certainly had his heart in the right place as he sought to insure 40 million Americans who cannot get health care today. Most of the uninsured cannot afford the exploding costs for insurance to be sure, and in a perfect world the nation could afford to pick up the tab, but we simply cannot afford another expensive social program on the books. Obama claims efficiencies would make this program budget neutral, but I seriously doubt this claim. Virtually nothing is budget neutral coming out of Washington.

So where did he go wrong? In my opinion, when he caved in negotiations on creating a sense of competition in the free market, he killed it. The idea was simple. Anyone who cannot secure health care would be eligible to purchase a low cost form of Medicaid. Anyone would be eligible, and this would force insurance companies to sharpen their pencils if they wanted a piece of this newly formed pie.

Secondly, his notion that everyone would be mandated to get health care was a huge mistake. HUGE. Because taking away freedoms from Americans is never popular, and at its core is unconstitutional. And in doing so, he hurt small business, at its core just plain stupid in any economy, let alone our present condition.

Instead of forcing citizens to get health care, he should have shifted the focus to mandating the insurance companies to offer low cost plans for low income families....or they could go to government supported insurance...not for a full blown PPO, but a modest health care plan with moderate co-pays offering basic coverage.

Could it be he was so desperate to achieve a bi-partisan effort on health care he threw the baby out with the bathwater? I would say yes. And considering the almost universal criticism of all or portions of the Affordable Care Act, he certainly failed to get a return on the investment. He gave up way to much and got nothing in return for his efforts.

And he is about to pay the price for it as the Supreme Court is about to at minimum, bitch slap the President in public, and at worse, give him a public taking to the political woodshed.

The decision will be 5-4 and John Roberts will jump hurdles in order to write the opinion. This is one of the decisions that will be studied for generations to come. Judicial versus Executive powers. Conservative decision versus progressive president. A good idea poorly executed in my opinion.

And that is the world........."The World According to Kimba." Thanks for reading.

DON'T LIKE MY POLICIES....JUST SHAKE ME UP

"Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-a-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again." --Mitt Romney

Give him credit folks, at least he is honest. This man will do or say whatever it takes to become elected. Once he gets the GOP nod, he is going to shake it up and become someone else...anyone else that can beat President Obama. So if you want to know which version of Mitt you are going to see tommorrow, check the polling data today.

CHENEY GETS HEART TRANSPLANT

No truth to the rumor that the donor died from a shotgun blast to the face....

LET THERE BE NO DOUBT...THIS GUY IS DANGEROUS

DO REPUBLICANS CARE ABOUT YOU?

DON'T LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOU THINGS AREN'T GETTING BETTER

Numbers are funny things, you can slice them and dice them and pretty well let you spin them to justify any agenda....but there is no doubt, we are in full recovery. Jobs have increased for quite a while now...the stock market is at 12, we are out of Iraq and soon to be out of Afghanistan and we will save a fortune there.....it took a while, and the recovery has been agonizingly slow, but it appears all of the efforts of the GOP to make the Bush created recession Presidents Obama's "Waterloo" have completely failed.

WWIII IS OUR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL

Phobia: 1. A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous. 2. The fear that paying a slightly higher tax rate will threaten the uber-rich's financial portfolio and drive them into poverty.
What is the debate here? When we were in the middle of a world war, and the government needed supplies, scrap drives were created and the results were phenomenal. When we needed to boost production of planes for the war effort, everyone pitched in (Rosie the riveter) and production went from 6k in 1940 to 96k in 1944, enough to fill the skies...and victory was ours. No one complained as the government rationed sugar, gasoline, tires, coffee, meat, etc.
Today our country is in the midst of an economic crisis; have we become so spoiled, so jaded, so selfish that we cannot ever come together as a country for a common cause ever again?
Critics of closing tax breaks and tax loopholes for the uber wealthy often say that when compared to the deficit, it would be a "drop in the bucket." I say so what's the problem? We could use some drops in the bucket right now. I'm not rich by any means, but I would gladly pay an extra percentage of taxes to right the economy.
This isn't about redistribution of wealth or 1% vs.99%....it's about patriotism. Thank God WWII happened a few generations ago instead of today...imagine our generation given ration books and asked to "come to the aid of their country?"

THANK YOU SOUTH CAROLINA !!

What could be better for us.....the primary goes on with them attacking each others obvious limitations for being elected....Santorum going after Gingrich....Uncle Fester grabbing votes, and Gingrich being...well, nut job Gingrich. He is Joe Biden without all the charisma baggage.

Newt Gingrich, fined 300k for ethics violations by a 395–28 House vote. It was the first time in history a speaker was disciplined for ethical wrongdoing. ....left his first wife while she recovers from cancer....cheated on and left his second wife demanding theirs be an "open marriage" or we are done. What a putz. Who on earth will agree to be his running mate...Mel Gibson?

STOP BEING AFRAID....SPEAK YOUR PEACE

ROMNEY A WINNER AND THE GOP'S A LOSER IN IOWA..

There he is folks, your winner and still champion.....hold your nose and vote for Mitt Romney. The GOP slate of candidates is sooo incredibly weak that Perry still thinks he has a chance, and 2 nut bags like Paul and Santorum are in the upper eschelon. Blows my mind that a huge political party as the GOP consistently fails to promote a viable candidate for President.

Is it any wonder that the majority of pundits give President Obama's reelection an every increasing percentage of viability? Mitt Romney...someone without any passion except for self promotion...someone who would trade in his grandma for the Oval Office...say or do literally anything...be anything...it takes to win. It is only a matter of time before the press starts scrutinizing his performance of Bain Capital..and he will be clouded over with taint. Can you say four more years?

MR. SENATOR, I HAVE A QUESTION....

It's New Year's Eve, and the candidates are burning up the map of Iowa in preparation for Tuesdays caucus...answering mindless questions repetitively all the while saying less than nothing with virtual aplomb, or painting broad strokes of reform with little or no depth to indicate they have the faintest clue to correct the problems besetting our great nation.
These are the normal protocols for running for political office, and are completely predictable. I can only assume the candidates have been over and over the list of "usual" questions they can expect...the normal four year softball questions they will attempt to answer in order to curry favor and possibly even receive a round of applause, if the size of the venue allows.

The unfortunate result is a complete lack of information given from the candidates; as no one expects you to prove your worldly intelligence, or to display any impressive, or even appreciable modicum of pseudo intelligence beyond the average voter's ability to understand.

The sad fact is, the closest the average American gets to any public figure of any enviable intelligence level has been reduced to recent appearances by Dr. Neil DeGasse Tyson on space exploration, and "The Big Bang Theory." Any intelligent conversations or public debates are a rare vestige of what our worlds, and our entertainment avenues used to incorporate.

Intelligence and education used to be exalted and admired. We used to have a respect for the written word. Generations past would never consider additions to our lexicon such that are summarily added to Websters Dictionary without an iota of thought or debate in present day....bon mots that would render our previous generations spinning in their graves.....take the following sentence for instance.....

"The pod person used his WiFi at hyperspeed to listen to some tuneage, complain about plumber's crack, saw a gay-friendly drama queen and - bada-bing - wound up with some bling."

A nonsensical sentence to be sure, but every word now appears in the Oxford Dictionary. Every word. I have not researched it, but if it is not included already, can frickin' be far behind?

Our country no longer values education, no longer revels in the written word. We have become a nation of uneducated video idiots. Our educational system is begging for an overhaul. Book stores routinely go out of business. Libraries are under appreciated, and under utilized. Our public airwaves neither addresses the issue, nor seeks to be a part of the remedy...namely producing anything of an enriching nature, opting instead to produce an endless array of pablum targeted to the least common denominator amongst us.

Seems to me each candidate should be asked a variety of questions, such as "Our population has become increasingly lazy, unintelligent and culturally vapid...what can you do as a leader to help to return this nation to its former glory?" I would love to hear the answer, because until we return to a love of learning, until this nation returns to dreaming, until this nation returns to respecting and revering its intelligent people and regains its thirst for knowledge, we will be hopelessly mired in mediocrity. Even today, as we consider who to vote for, rarely if ever consider which candidate is the smartest person in the room...instead, utilizing our, baser instincts to make the decision, which in part leads to the banal charade a public forum with a candidate has become.

And if you are reading this and acknowledging the obvious fact that I could use a remedial course or two in grammar and diction, consider this. I graduated with all A's and B's throughout my school years and found the education system to be very easy and remained largely unchallenged throughout. I realize and acknowledge that I am......this post is....an indictment of the very system I rail about, and the very character and lack of priorities I assail against today. I know I am a part of the problem, and in no way above it all.

But welcome to my world...."The World According to Kimba." Thanks for reading.

CELEBRATE RESPONSIBLY & HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR

THE GOP CONTENDERS...FORMER SITCOM STARS

Random I know, but over dinner with friends (including a decent bar tab), I now realize where I know the GOP candidates from....The Addams Family.
Pugsley---------Newt Gingrich
Lurch-----------Mitt Romney
Morticia-------- Michelle Bachmann
Gomez----------Rick Perry
Uncle Fester----Ron Paul
When you think of them in this context, even the Addams motto begins to makes sense.....
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc......
(We gladly feast on those who would subdue us)
I should probably add quitting drinking to my New Years Resolutions...

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm; and that three or more become a Congress!" -- John Adams

HOLY CRAP.....WILL BARNEY BE REPLACED BY WILMA?

Barney Frank, ranking minority member on the house Financial Services Committee has announced he will not seek re-election in the upcoming election. In his many years of service to the country in government, Representative Frank has certainly made a mark on the landscape of the country, both financially and politically.

Despite his long and somewhat storied career in politics, ultimately Frank's legacy will be in his involvement in the economic crash we are currently experiencing; specifically in the issues with Fannie May and Freddy Mac, the failure to oversee Wall Street, the push to end the unfair practices by the financial sector towards granting loans to minority communities (which resulted in loan application abuses in order to reach acceptable loan percentages) and the lack of oversight of the housing bubble indicated by the creation of default swap products that devistated many financial institutions to the point of near elimination.

However the history books judge his involvement in the economic crisis, or any other portion of his 30 year political career....they will all pale in comparison to the effect his retirement will have upon the Financial Services Committee......

Ranking Minority Member Maxine Waters.

I could go into a 200 word rant about the political buffoonery, her complete lack of political acumen of Ms. Waters over the years, but let me just quote something from her memo on Rep. Franks retirement as testimony......

“I will miss Barney deeply. I will miss his wit, his sense of humor.....

May I submit to the ranking chair of the

Financial Services Committee

of the House of Representatives....

wit and a sense of humor is virtually the same thing.

Good Lord help us.... we have 12 months to unload our stocks.

ROMNEY & PERRY: LIARS AND THE LYING LIES THEY TELL

Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry have been accused of telling TV viewers blatant untruths about Barack Obama.
The candidates deny their TV commercials are deceitful and dishonest but both ads selectively quote the president to make it appear he is saying one thing when he is saying another.
The advertisements have been widely scorned for crossing a line from a longstanding practice of political campaigns pushing the truth to its limits, over to misrepresentation. One ad appears to show Obama admitting he will lose next year's election if he talks about the economy. The other has him calling American workers lazy.

Romney's campaign ad is airing on TV stations in New Hampshire, which holds its primary in January. It shows the president saying: "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose."
The ad appears to have the president admitting he is vulnerable on the economy. But Obama's words were from his 2008 campaign, and he was quoting a statement by a strategist for his Republican opponent, John McCain, who was the one on the back foot over the economy.
Perry's ad shows a short soundbite of Obama saying: "We've been a little bit lazy I think over the last couple of decades."
The ad switches to Perry saying: "Can you believe that? That's what our president thinks is wrong with America – that Americans are lazy. That's pathetic."
But a viewing of Obama's full statement shows that he was saying the US government had been lazy in attracting foreign investment.

Foolish men mistake transitory semblance for eternal fact" (Thomas Carlyle).

So is this the new political normal? Complete and blatant lies in order to create the perception they want to put out? A complete abdication of any semblance of honesty or integrity?

Not only have they put out completely false ads...not only have they come out with additional lies in a vain attempt (cover up) to justify their dishonesty....but as lies go, they were inept and easily identified. Morons...they setting themselves up to be destroyed by fellow candidate Newt Gingrich, who seems to be taking the high road during the debates.

MORE THAN 1 IN 5 CHILDREN LIVE IN POVERTY IN SOME SOUTHERN AREAS

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/18/1037739/-Child-poverty-increased-in-2010;-more-than-1-in-5-children-are-poor-?via=blog_1

NETANYAHU NEEDS A U.S. BITCH SLAP...HILLARY?

So Natanyahu won't consult with us, or even notify us of an impending preemptive strike against Iran? Here is all SOS Clinton has to say in her next press conference...

"It has been made clear by Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel cannot guarantee that we will be notified prior to an Israeli preemptive military strike against Iran, and their nuclear weapons program. This obviously signifies Israel's desire to go it alone in any future military action against Iran. The United States will honor those wishes." DONE.

He'll be kissing our asses again in no time flat.....

OOPS

Oops is right....have you witnessed any of the debates? Where did they get these complete morons? The talent the GOP is bringing to the table is laughable!...they have Bachmann, who barely has the intelligence required to be the next FOX News on-air bimbo....there's Uncle Fester Ron Paul, Newt "cheated on my dying wife" Gingrich, and then theres this guy....

Mr. "on day one I am going to close three huge governmental departments...I just can't think of all three right now" Perry. Let's see, I think I had them written down right here....no, I guess not....OOPS is right. Who said there are no good sit-coms on TV anymore?

Update: IMPORTANT MESSAGE.... Apparently, I was all wrong........it appears one of the candidates is not only ready, but being endorsed, well.........by God. That's right Herman Cain, just like Moses, has been hand picked by the Almighty and come November, he is going to save us all...here is his quote: "That's when I prayed and prayed and prayed. I'm a man of faith — I had to do a lot of praying for this one, more praying than I've ever done before in my life," Cain said. "And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses. 'You've got the wrong man, Lord. Are you sure?'"

NOT COOL

FROM THE FLAVOR OF THE MONTH...COMES THE FLAVOR OF THE MONTH

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/herman-cain-gets-a-ben-and-jerrys-flavor
Thank You to Buzzfeed.com,

always an excellent, amusing read...

HAPPY GUY FAWKES DAY

BEST TAKE I HAVE HEARD YET ON THE 1%

Arnold Kling:

『 The recent trend in job polarization raises the possibility that gains in well-being that come from productivity improvements will accrue to an economic elite. Perhaps the middle-class affluence that emerged during the latter part of the industrial age is not going to be a feature of the information age.

Instead, we could be headed into an era of highly unequal economic classes. People at the bottom will have access to food, healthcare, and electronic entertainment, but the rich will live in an exclusive world of exotic homes and extravagant personal services. The most popular bands in the world will play house concerts for the rich, while everyone else can afford music downloads but no live music. 』

http://www.frumforum.com/libertarians-for-oligarchy

THIS PUTS IT INTO PERSPECTIVE.....

SESSIONS: CUT INTO THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM!

It takes a special kind of heartless bastard to suggest we cut into the food stamp program....it's not like they do not have to offer proof of their inability to afford food....let's take food out of the mouths of children...fuck the millions of children with no access to healthcare (through no fault of their own)...and let's filibuster any attempt to create jobs so we can blame the President next year and get elected....but let's continue to give tax cuts to the top 3% of income earners....you are a real fucking patriot, sir.

LEND YOUR VOICE TO THE MOVEMENT

HERMAN CAIN: SAY NEIN, NEIN, NEIN!

He is the GOP flavor of the month. He is a brash, hard speaking candidate who professes to be a political outsider. However, it doesn't take much investigation to see he is nothing more than the spokesperson for the Koch Brothers, and their organisation, Americans for Prosperity.
Who are the Koch Brothers? Here is an accounting for their actions from the Bloomberg News....

"....In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts. “I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova- Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.”

By September of that year, the researchers had found evidence of improper payments to secure contracts in six countries dating back to 2002, authorized by the business director of the company’s Koch-Glitsch affiliate in France.

A Bloomberg Markets investigation has found that Koch Industries -- in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East -- has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.

From 1999 through 2003, Koch Industries was assessed more than $400 million in fines, penalties and judgments. In December 1999, a civil jury found that Koch Industries had taken oil it didn’t pay for from federal land by mismeasuring the amount of crude it was extracting. Koch paid a $25 million settlement to the U.S. Phil Dubose, a Koch employee who testified against the company said he and his colleagues were shown by their managers how to steal and cheat -- using techniques they called the Koch Method.

In 1999, a Texas jury imposed a $296 million verdict on a Koch pipeline unit -- the largest compensatory damages judgment in a wrongful death case against a corporation in U.S. history. The jury found that the company’s negligence had led to a butane pipeline rupture that fueled an explosion that killed two teenagers.

The Koch brothers have vaulted into the American political spotlight in recent years. Koch Industries has spent more than $50 million to lobby in Washington since 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks political donations. The company opposed derivatives regulation and greenhouse gas limits.
The brothers have backed a foundation that has trained thousands of Tea Party activists. The Tea Party, a popular movement whose name stands for Taxed Enough Already, has grown into a potent force in national politics. Sixty representatives of Congress, out of a total of 435, identify themselves as Tea Party members. Virtually every Republican candidate for president -- including Texas Governor Rick Perry and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann -- has solicited the group’s support.

Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to the two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity. Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his "9-9-9" plan to rewrite the nation's tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans.

Cain is always quick to promote his career at the helm of the Godfather's Pizza chain, but his ties to AFP aren't something the candidate appears eager to highlight. But Cain continues to work with the group.
While several other candidates will be at an Iowa Republican Party dinner on Nov. 4, Cain is scheduled to be in Washington mingling with activists at AFP's annual "Defending the American Dream" summit. He is the only confirmed presidential candidate for the event.

"Herman Cain is the first presidential corporate spokes-candidate," said Scott Ross, a liberal activist who leads One Wisconsin Now, which has often mocked AFP as a front group for corporate interests. "The best way to have your issues talked about in the issue debate is to have a candidate in your pocket with snappy comebacks and easily branded policy papers which mask how destructive they would be." AFP's agenda also includes weakening private and public sector unions, opposing environmental regulations and undoing Obama's health care reform law, among other policies.