Glenn Greenwald's take

http://www.salon.com...source=newsletter

The drift is bolstered by noted recent stock price increases for the competition-free major monopolies (in some states the Only option is One of these.)

'Course too, your newspaper delivery guy could have bought those shares too, (while sleeping under those fabled bridges) if they accept food stamps for stock. So then -- if Obama persists in rationalizing his absence of direct involvement -- to any effect -- in this sellout, well then

We'll always have the Cheney/Palin ticket to accelerate the final dismantling of any opposition to the Corporatocracy (and the women can deal with their new Third-World status if the bible-thumpers bring back the coat-hangers, as they are threatening. Maybe by castrating a priest or two? Hey.. new martyrs to canonize.

Meanwhile, the entire world is expecting Obama all-alone to rectify wasted Eight Years of the Cheney ShogunateÂ of complete incompetence on all levels, undo the results of Murican petulant arrogance towards friend and foe alike (all while fixing a completely impotent Congress via some magic force that straightens warped minds) -- along with imagining Victory (again!) and accomplishing neutralization of the goons in Israel simultaneous with the goons in Iran. And a few dozen other insoluble problems.

Is Obama that Bad or is Murica that thoroughly Fucked .?. a middle-school policy wonk sorta asked.. I fear that my negative outlook on prospects for the Murican future have been even optimistic. It now appears that the words shall become even more hyperbolically ghastly and the unravelment even quicker.

W.P.B.

Post #319,023 by Ashton 12/23/09 5:38:50 AM Reply	Glenn Greenwald's take http://www.salon.com...source=newsletter The drift is bolstered by noted recent stock price increases for the competition-free major monopolies (in some states the Only option is One of these.) 'Course too, your newspaper delivery guy could have bought those shares too, (while sleeping under those fabled bridges) if they accept food stamps for stock. So then -- if Obama persists in rationalizing his absence of direct involvement -- to any effect -- in this sellout, well then We'll always have the Cheney/Palin ticket to accelerate the final dismantling of any opposition to the Corporatocracy (and the women can deal with their new Third-World status if the bible-thumpers bring back the coat-hangers, as they are threatening. Maybe by castrating a priest or two? Hey.. new martyrs to canonize. Meanwhile, the entire world is expecting Obama all-alone to rectify wasted Eight Years of the Cheney ShogunateÂ of complete incompetence on all levels, undo the results of Murican petulant arrogance towards friend and foe alike (all while fixing a completely impotent Congress via some magic force that straightens warped minds) -- along with imagining Victory (again!) and accomplishing neutralization of the goons in Israel simultaneous with the goons in Iran. And a few dozen other insoluble problems. Is Obama that Bad or is Murica that thoroughly Fucked .?. a middle-school policy wonk sorta asked.. I fear that my negative outlook on prospects for the Murican future have been even optimistic. It now appears that the words shall become even more hyperbolically ghastly and the unravelment even quicker. W.P.B.
Post #319,039 by dmcarls 12/23/09 12:24:24 PM Reply	"And a few dozen other insoluble problems" You mean like this: (?) http://www.wowowow.c...arzenegger-423019 Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Post #319,046 by boxley 12/23/09 1:44:21 PM Reply	wait till the 75 year draught hits then watch the fun
Post #319,049 by Ashton 12/23/09 4:45:48 PM Reply	In the "thou sayest" bin -- ItÂs not just climate change sucking up water resources. ItÂs the huge surge in population; and the resulting surge in agriculture, which is the single largest consumer of water. The Earth has limits and we are already exceeding them. Then, after the lawyers ... first we kill all the priests.. 'Course too, we can wait for Mother ~~Nature~~ Cthulhu to employ that innocent word, decimation-- surely a Cheneyesque future, That. (And likely the way the proles will choose by not-choosing.) "Sentient Beings" ... indeed.

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