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So as the Government prepares to bail out the failing insurance group AIG, as it has bailed out the mortgage firms Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac I think that I need to share some truths as both parties try to spin this around. And here are some facts:
--On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million.
All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
Name Office State Party Grand Total Total from
PACs Total from
Individuals
Dodd, Christopher J S CT D $165,400 $48,500 $116,900
Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349 $6,000 $120,349
Kerry, John S MA D $111,000 $2,000 $109,000
Bennett, Robert F S UT R $107,999 $71,499 $36,500
Bachus, Spencer H AL R $103,300 $70,500 $32,800
Blunt, Roy H MO R $96,950 $78,500 $18,450
Kanjorski, Paul E H PA D $96,000 $57,500 $38,500
Bond, Christopher S 'Kit' S MO R $95,400 $64,000 $31,400
Shelby, Richard C S AL R $80,000 $23,000 $57,000
Reed, Jack S RI D $78,250 $43,500 $34,750
Reid, Harry S NV D $77,000 $60,500 $16,500
Clinton, Hillary S NY D $76,050 $8,000 $68,050
Davis, Tom H VA R $75,499 $13,999 $61,500
Boehner, John H OH R $67,750 $60,500 $7,250
Conrad, Kent S ND D $64,491 $22,000 $42,491
Reynolds, Tom H NY R $62,200 $53,000 $9,200
Johnson, Tim S SD D $61,000 $20,000 $41,000
Pelosi, Nancy H CA D $56,250 $47,000 $9,250
Carper, Tom S DE D $55,889 $31,350 $24,539
Hoyer, Steny H H MD D $55,500 $51,500 $4,000
Pryce, Deborah H OH R $55,500 $45,000 $10,500
Emanuel, Rahm H IL D $51,750 $16,000 $35,750
Isakson, Johnny S GA R $49,200 $35,500 $13,700
Cantor, Eric H VA R $48,500 $46,500 $2,000
Crapo, Mike S ID R $47,250 $40,500 $6,750
Frank, Barney H MA D $42,350 $30,500 $11,850
Oh really?
-- The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008_passed by the United States Congress on July 24, 2008 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on July 30, 2008_enabled expanded regulatory authority over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the newly established FHFA, and gave the U.S. Treasury the authority to advance funds for the purpose of stabilizing Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac, limited only by the amount of debt that the entire federal government is permitted by law to commit to. The law raised the Treasury's debt ceiling by US$ 800 billion, to a total of US$ 10.7 trillion, in anticipation of the potential need for the Treasury to have the flexibility to support Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the Federal Home Loan Banks.[12][13][14]
How did this happen? How did this happen? Let me tell you how it happened, which is fair since now we are all paying for the profit of a few people and the benefit of a few Democrats.
--On November 12, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. One of the effects of the repeal was to allow commercial and investment banks to consolidate. Some economists have criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.[7][8]
The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and establish so-called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, that bought those securities. Citigroup played a major part in the repeal. Then called Citicorp, the company merged with Travelers Insurance company the year before using loopholes in Glass-Steagall that allowed for temporary exemptions. With lobbying led by Roger Levy, the "finance, insurance and real estate industries together are regularly the largest campaign contributors and biggest spenders on lobbying of all business sectors [in 1999]. They laid out more than $200 million for lobbying in 1998, according to the Center for Responsive Politics..." These industries succeeded in their two decades long effort to repeal the act.[9]
The banking industry had been seeking the repeal of Glass-Steagall since at least the 1980's. In 1987 the Congressional Research Service prepared a report which explored the case for preserving Glass-Steagall and the case against preserving the act.
Oh really? Really?
By the way, would it interest you to learn that in 2005 there was a bill to create a regulatory committee to oversee Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae to ensure these things never happened (HR 1461, to be precise)? To ensure that they would not go bankrupt and drag the economy and our government down with them?
You know a regulatory committee? Well, despite what Barack Obama and Company would tell you? It wasn't the Republicans who voted that oversight on Wall Street down was it?
Well, holy shit.
Why wouldn't the Democrats want to prevent the Regulations that they now demand and claim the Republicans denied?
First of all, let's see what Obama said to Keith Olbermann when asked about it?
OBAMA: Well, I don't think it's going to be $5 trillion. That's the amount of debt that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are holding. But a lot of those are good mortgages. People are paying them. We are going to see some losses. Taxpayers are going to take a hit. How big it is, we don't yet know.
And I have to be fair on this one. Republicans and Democrats I think in Congress did not pay enough attention to the structural problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which was, they are quasi public, quasi private institutions. They are making big profits and their CEOs are taking in big bonuses when times are good. But there is this implicit federal guarantee when times are bad.
And that was a structural problem that needs to be fixed.
But the problem of not regulating the financial markets effectively generally, not seeing that the subprime mortgage crisis was leading to a mess, not updating some of our financial regulations since the 1930s, that's been, I think, an example of the neglect on the part of the Bush administration over the last eight years whose view is basically anything goes and the government just has to stay out of the way. That has ironically hurt the market and one of the things we have got to rediscover is a little bit of well-applied regulation and transparency and accountability actually helps the market, helps the economy grow. And that's what I want to restore when I'm president.
Really? The guy who votes with his fellow Dems 97% of the time is going to push this bill through? The goddamned bill that his party blocked, and enjoyed the benefits of it being blocked? He's going to restore this?
Bullshit!
Let's be honest, it was the Democrats during the Clinton years and after who passed legislation, and helped to enable these companies to make high risk, subprime loans to people who could never pay them back! And now here we are! Blaming everyone but the people who removed the regulations in the first goddamned place!
Under the watch of the Clintons even as one of their lackies Franklin Raines loots Fannie Mae after being made the head of it for 100 million dollars, steers it further into high risk ventures, and pays a 400 million dollar fine to the SEC, and the Clintons and their minions made a ton of money?
They guide (force) Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac into buying more low income high risk mortgages! Even as the company is selling off debt to Countrywide which only was saved by Bank of America to prevent bankruptcy!
Good job, guys!
Link: http://perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=186294&forum_id=91
Here's another: http://atangledweb.squarespace.com/httpatangledwebsquarespace/fannie-mae-collapse-or-the-democrat-swindle-of-the-us-taxpay.html
Wow. Good thing, the Democrats are here to keep corporations in line!
Here's another bit of news I found….
This is a long and complicated story about how Obama backers were behind the mortgage industry meltdown. It hast to start some where, so lets start with a well known Chicago name Penny Pritzker. It starts with a bank failure.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the case for the 1,406 people who lost much of their life savings when Superior Bank of Chicago went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits. This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior's owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages. As part of a settlement, the owners paid $100 million and agreed to pay another $335 million over 15 years at no interest.
The uninsured depositors were dealt another blow recently when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision to put any recovered money toward the debt that the bank owners owe the federal government before the depositors get anything.
But this seven-year-old bank failure has relevance in another way today, since the chair of Superior's board for five years was Penny Pritzker, a member of one of America's richest families and the current Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the same candidate who has lashed out against predatory lending.
Well, sumbitch.
Oh, you know something else? It seems Fannie Mae gave a bunch of money to ACORN, a rant for another day let's just say they have some problems with a little thing I call 'Voter Fraud'.
And they also had a lawyer named Barack Obama, who also by the way? Gave them money for helping for to get the vote out to the tune of 80,000 dollars! Which by the way was hid and buried deep in the books of ACORN, I wonder why?
Here's another fact:
During Obama's time on the Woods Funds ACORN received grants of $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002), and $40,000 (2002) from the Woods Fund. (Obama in the early 1990's helped train ACORN organizers and later served as counsel in 1995 for ACORN in a "motor voter" registration lawsuit.) And ACORN certainly appreciated whatever assistance Obama afforded the radical organization over the years.
Goddamn.
Good thing, the Democrats are not all about corporate greed or I would be concerned. It's okay to help the poor if you can, I don't know, rip them off while you're at it?
I mean you're not paying for it, the Taxpayer is. I am, you are, that guy is, Obama isn't.
Franklin Raines, CEO: $90,128,761 (1998-2003)
Jamie Gorelick, vice-chair: $26,466,834 (1998-2003)
Jim Johnson, CEO: $21,000,000 (1998 alone)
Look up these names in Wikipedia, and find the goddamned links.
And then tell me how Obama and his Democrats can blast anyone when he took $126,000.00 dollars of campaign money from these people he now condemns!
Yeah, I know.
So as the Government prepares to bail out the failing insurance group AIG, as it has bailed out the mortgage firms Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac I think that I need to share some truths as both parties try to spin this around. And here are some facts:
--On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million.
All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
Name Office State Party Grand Total Total from
PACs Total from
Individuals
Dodd, Christopher J S CT D $165,400 $48,500 $116,900
Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349 $6,000 $120,349
Kerry, John S MA D $111,000 $2,000 $109,000
Bennett, Robert F S UT R $107,999 $71,499 $36,500
Bachus, Spencer H AL R $103,300 $70,500 $32,800
Blunt, Roy H MO R $96,950 $78,500 $18,450
Kanjorski, Paul E H PA D $96,000 $57,500 $38,500
Bond, Christopher S 'Kit' S MO R $95,400 $64,000 $31,400
Shelby, Richard C S AL R $80,000 $23,000 $57,000
Reed, Jack S RI D $78,250 $43,500 $34,750
Reid, Harry S NV D $77,000 $60,500 $16,500
Clinton, Hillary S NY D $76,050 $8,000 $68,050
Davis, Tom H VA R $75,499 $13,999 $61,500
Boehner, John H OH R $67,750 $60,500 $7,250
Conrad, Kent S ND D $64,491 $22,000 $42,491
Reynolds, Tom H NY R $62,200 $53,000 $9,200
Johnson, Tim S SD D $61,000 $20,000 $41,000
Pelosi, Nancy H CA D $56,250 $47,000 $9,250
Carper, Tom S DE D $55,889 $31,350 $24,539
Hoyer, Steny H H MD D $55,500 $51,500 $4,000
Pryce, Deborah H OH R $55,500 $45,000 $10,500
Emanuel, Rahm H IL D $51,750 $16,000 $35,750
Isakson, Johnny S GA R $49,200 $35,500 $13,700
Cantor, Eric H VA R $48,500 $46,500 $2,000
Crapo, Mike S ID R $47,250 $40,500 $6,750
Frank, Barney H MA D $42,350 $30,500 $11,850
Oh really?
-- The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008_passed by the United States Congress on July 24, 2008 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on July 30, 2008_enabled expanded regulatory authority over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the newly established FHFA, and gave the U.S. Treasury the authority to advance funds for the purpose of stabilizing Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac, limited only by the amount of debt that the entire federal government is permitted by law to commit to. The law raised the Treasury's debt ceiling by US$ 800 billion, to a total of US$ 10.7 trillion, in anticipation of the potential need for the Treasury to have the flexibility to support Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the Federal Home Loan Banks.[12][13][14]
How did this happen? How did this happen? Let me tell you how it happened, which is fair since now we are all paying for the profit of a few people and the benefit of a few Democrats.
--On November 12, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. One of the effects of the repeal was to allow commercial and investment banks to consolidate. Some economists have criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.[7][8]
The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and establish so-called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, that bought those securities. Citigroup played a major part in the repeal. Then called Citicorp, the company merged with Travelers Insurance company the year before using loopholes in Glass-Steagall that allowed for temporary exemptions. With lobbying led by Roger Levy, the "finance, insurance and real estate industries together are regularly the largest campaign contributors and biggest spenders on lobbying of all business sectors [in 1999]. They laid out more than $200 million for lobbying in 1998, according to the Center for Responsive Politics..." These industries succeeded in their two decades long effort to repeal the act.[9]
The banking industry had been seeking the repeal of Glass-Steagall since at least the 1980's. In 1987 the Congressional Research Service prepared a report which explored the case for preserving Glass-Steagall and the case against preserving the act.
Oh really? Really?
By the way, would it interest you to learn that in 2005 there was a bill to create a regulatory committee to oversee Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae to ensure these things never happened (HR 1461, to be precise)? To ensure that they would not go bankrupt and drag the economy and our government down with them?
You know a regulatory committee? Well, despite what Barack Obama and Company would tell you? It wasn't the Republicans who voted that oversight on Wall Street down was it?
Well, holy shit.
Why wouldn't the Democrats want to prevent the Regulations that they now demand and claim the Republicans denied?
First of all, let's see what Obama said to Keith Olbermann when asked about it?
OBAMA: Well, I don't think it's going to be $5 trillion. That's the amount of debt that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are holding. But a lot of those are good mortgages. People are paying them. We are going to see some losses. Taxpayers are going to take a hit. How big it is, we don't yet know.
And I have to be fair on this one. Republicans and Democrats I think in Congress did not pay enough attention to the structural problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which was, they are quasi public, quasi private institutions. They are making big profits and their CEOs are taking in big bonuses when times are good. But there is this implicit federal guarantee when times are bad.
And that was a structural problem that needs to be fixed.
But the problem of not regulating the financial markets effectively generally, not seeing that the subprime mortgage crisis was leading to a mess, not updating some of our financial regulations since the 1930s, that's been, I think, an example of the neglect on the part of the Bush administration over the last eight years whose view is basically anything goes and the government just has to stay out of the way. That has ironically hurt the market and one of the things we have got to rediscover is a little bit of well-applied regulation and transparency and accountability actually helps the market, helps the economy grow. And that's what I want to restore when I'm president.
Really? The guy who votes with his fellow Dems 97% of the time is going to push this bill through? The goddamned bill that his party blocked, and enjoyed the benefits of it being blocked? He's going to restore this?
Bullshit!
Let's be honest, it was the Democrats during the Clinton years and after who passed legislation, and helped to enable these companies to make high risk, subprime loans to people who could never pay them back! And now here we are! Blaming everyone but the people who removed the regulations in the first goddamned place!
Under the watch of the Clintons even as one of their lackies Franklin Raines loots Fannie Mae after being made the head of it for 100 million dollars, steers it further into high risk ventures, and pays a 400 million dollar fine to the SEC, and the Clintons and their minions made a ton of money?
They guide (force) Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac into buying more low income high risk mortgages! Even as the company is selling off debt to Countrywide which only was saved by Bank of America to prevent bankruptcy!
Good job, guys!
Link: http://perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=186294&forum_id=91
Here's another: http://atangledweb.squarespace.com/httpatangledwebsquarespace/fannie-mae-collapse-or-the-democrat-swindle-of-the-us-taxpay.html
Wow. Good thing, the Democrats are here to keep corporations in line!
Here's another bit of news I found….
This is a long and complicated story about how Obama backers were behind the mortgage industry meltdown. It hast to start some where, so lets start with a well known Chicago name Penny Pritzker. It starts with a bank failure.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the case for the 1,406 people who lost much of their life savings when Superior Bank of Chicago went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits. This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior's owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages. As part of a settlement, the owners paid $100 million and agreed to pay another $335 million over 15 years at no interest.
The uninsured depositors were dealt another blow recently when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision to put any recovered money toward the debt that the bank owners owe the federal government before the depositors get anything.
But this seven-year-old bank failure has relevance in another way today, since the chair of Superior's board for five years was Penny Pritzker, a member of one of America's richest families and the current Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the same candidate who has lashed out against predatory lending.
Well, sumbitch.
Oh, you know something else? It seems Fannie Mae gave a bunch of money to ACORN, a rant for another day let's just say they have some problems with a little thing I call 'Voter Fraud'.
And they also had a lawyer named Barack Obama, who also by the way? Gave them money for helping for to get the vote out to the tune of 80,000 dollars! Which by the way was hid and buried deep in the books of ACORN, I wonder why?
Here's another fact:
During Obama's time on the Woods Funds ACORN received grants of $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002), and $40,000 (2002) from the Woods Fund. (Obama in the early 1990's helped train ACORN organizers and later served as counsel in 1995 for ACORN in a "motor voter" registration lawsuit.) And ACORN certainly appreciated whatever assistance Obama afforded the radical organization over the years.
Goddamn.
Good thing, the Democrats are not all about corporate greed or I would be concerned. It's okay to help the poor if you can, I don't know, rip them off while you're at it?
I mean you're not paying for it, the Taxpayer is. I am, you are, that guy is, Obama isn't.
Franklin Raines, CEO: $90,128,761 (1998-2003)
Jamie Gorelick, vice-chair: $26,466,834 (1998-2003)
Jim Johnson, CEO: $21,000,000 (1998 alone)
Look up these names in Wikipedia, and find the goddamned links.
And then tell me how Obama and his Democrats can blast anyone when he took $126,000.00 dollars of campaign money from these people he now condemns!
Yeah, I know.
Well, here's a small update.
Last week on the 20th, my dad died. I had to borrow money to fulfill his last wishes, because the army doesn't cover cremation.
And it sucks, it wasn't bothering me while my mom, sister, and neices were around. But now that I am back home all alone? It is really getting me down.
Last week on the 20th, my dad died. I had to borrow money to fulfill his last wishes, because the army doesn't cover cremation.
And it sucks, it wasn't bothering me while my mom, sister, and neices were around. But now that I am back home all alone? It is really getting me down.
Gah!
My dad might be dying, and my family is going crazy, and I have no idea what I am doing!
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
My dad might be dying, and my family is going crazy, and I have no idea what I am doing!
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
You know what? I am pissed the fuck off at the world right now!
Where to fucking start? Where to fucking start!
Let's start with friends, let's start with people who you are supposedly fucking cool with who are too damned awesome to be bothered when you really need them! Let's start with those people, one's so called fucking buddies!
Let's talk about someone I loved like a fucking brother, who I would have moved heaven and earth for, who blew me off for weeks, then backed out of moving in on me, left me short of fucking money, almost got me fucking evicted from my fucking house! And then gave me fucking attitude!
Like I was the dick! Who took my side in situations and down the road acts like I am a fucking asshole to support his bullshit in a completely different situation because that is what friends do evidentially!
And then despite knowing that two of my relatives died, despite knowing my dad was sick, that my sister was due, and he doesn't even fucking call to see how I am! He shows up one fucking day, and acts like everything is cool, and then goes around and acts like I am a dick because I gave him the cold fucking shoulder!
Yeah, thanks for popping into my life after a month of Hell to sit on my fucking couch, buddy! I should be grateful you squeezed me into your schedule, fuck you too!
And then there are people, a ton of people, supposedly my friends! Supposedly people I am cool with, and those people? Surprise, surprise, surprise! Can't be bothered either, but unlike this first guy I called them! I called them because I needed a friend, I needed someone to talk to!
Well, I guess everyone is fucking busy! Too busy for emails, too busy for text messages, too busy for phone calls!
So here I am, my fucking dad is sick with cancer! He can't fucking move from the waist down, and no one knows what the problem is! No one knows if he will ever fucking walk again! And here I am a few states away wondering if he will ever get to walk again, wondering if he will get to play with his grandkids, wondering how my mother who can barely walk is helping him!
And you know what? I wonder some nights, some dark and lonely nights? Why I am still fucking here? For my friends? Right.
Right.
I go into work, and I bust my ass all day, and I watch more of my friends (and I am starting to put a sarcastic tinge in that word when I say it, like a fucking sneer of pure contempt) stand around and be lazy! They do nothing all fucking day, and then when shit hits the fan?
Guess who gets bitched at? Guess!
And then the bosses have the balls, the very fucking balls to wonder why I am mad? And my friends wonder why I am upset!
And I want to fucking scream! I want to just fucking scream!
And then the best part of all of this bullshit? The very best part of it? People I cut out of my life, people I fucking shoved aside and quit talking to because of things they did that I didn't like! People I said weren't my friends?
Those are the fucking people who call me, those are the people who come to my house after I flat out told them how much I desired to fucking end them, those are the people who bother! Those are the people who call and ask how I am doing? Do I need anything?
Ha!
HA!HA!
The fucking irony, the fucking insanity of it all!
It's like some fucking cosmic joke!
You know what I need?
A fucking hug? Or maybe a fucking single bullet and a gun! Because I have had about enough of all this fucking shit!
Fuck!
Where to fucking start? Where to fucking start!
Let's start with friends, let's start with people who you are supposedly fucking cool with who are too damned awesome to be bothered when you really need them! Let's start with those people, one's so called fucking buddies!
Let's talk about someone I loved like a fucking brother, who I would have moved heaven and earth for, who blew me off for weeks, then backed out of moving in on me, left me short of fucking money, almost got me fucking evicted from my fucking house! And then gave me fucking attitude!
Like I was the dick! Who took my side in situations and down the road acts like I am a fucking asshole to support his bullshit in a completely different situation because that is what friends do evidentially!
And then despite knowing that two of my relatives died, despite knowing my dad was sick, that my sister was due, and he doesn't even fucking call to see how I am! He shows up one fucking day, and acts like everything is cool, and then goes around and acts like I am a dick because I gave him the cold fucking shoulder!
Yeah, thanks for popping into my life after a month of Hell to sit on my fucking couch, buddy! I should be grateful you squeezed me into your schedule, fuck you too!
And then there are people, a ton of people, supposedly my friends! Supposedly people I am cool with, and those people? Surprise, surprise, surprise! Can't be bothered either, but unlike this first guy I called them! I called them because I needed a friend, I needed someone to talk to!
Well, I guess everyone is fucking busy! Too busy for emails, too busy for text messages, too busy for phone calls!
So here I am, my fucking dad is sick with cancer! He can't fucking move from the waist down, and no one knows what the problem is! No one knows if he will ever fucking walk again! And here I am a few states away wondering if he will ever get to walk again, wondering if he will get to play with his grandkids, wondering how my mother who can barely walk is helping him!
And you know what? I wonder some nights, some dark and lonely nights? Why I am still fucking here? For my friends? Right.
Right.
I go into work, and I bust my ass all day, and I watch more of my friends (and I am starting to put a sarcastic tinge in that word when I say it, like a fucking sneer of pure contempt) stand around and be lazy! They do nothing all fucking day, and then when shit hits the fan?
Guess who gets bitched at? Guess!
And then the bosses have the balls, the very fucking balls to wonder why I am mad? And my friends wonder why I am upset!
And I want to fucking scream! I want to just fucking scream!
And then the best part of all of this bullshit? The very best part of it? People I cut out of my life, people I fucking shoved aside and quit talking to because of things they did that I didn't like! People I said weren't my friends?
Those are the fucking people who call me, those are the people who come to my house after I flat out told them how much I desired to fucking end them, those are the people who bother! Those are the people who call and ask how I am doing? Do I need anything?
Ha!
HA!HA!
The fucking irony, the fucking insanity of it all!
It's like some fucking cosmic joke!
You know what I need?
A fucking hug? Or maybe a fucking single bullet and a gun! Because I have had about enough of all this fucking shit!
Fuck!
So today at work? I cut my damned finger, and yelled 'Fucker!' when it happened.
Then I was sent to the hospital, and they used skin glue on my finger. Granted that was like two hours after I cut my finger, so it was probably done bleeding by then.
That's about it, played some 'Arkham Horror' combining 'The King in Yellow' and 'Dunwich Horror' expansions, and we got our asses kicked by Yig.
And if you haven't played Arkham Horror? How do you live your damned life?
It's that good.
Then I was sent to the hospital, and they used skin glue on my finger. Granted that was like two hours after I cut my finger, so it was probably done bleeding by then.
That's about it, played some 'Arkham Horror' combining 'The King in Yellow' and 'Dunwich Horror' expansions, and we got our asses kicked by Yig.
And if you haven't played Arkham Horror? How do you live your damned life?
It's that good.
So last weekend, my Aunt Ruthie died.
And now today? My Uncle Larry has died.
And I am so fucking bummed out, I just fucking saw him Saturday! We had a beer, and hung out for hours! And now what?
He's dead.
And it doesn't seem right, it doesn't seem fair, and I have no idea what to do.
And now today? My Uncle Larry has died.
And I am so fucking bummed out, I just fucking saw him Saturday! We had a beer, and hung out for hours! And now what?
He's dead.
And it doesn't seem right, it doesn't seem fair, and I have no idea what to do.
I see people citing logic.
I see people being condescending arrogant self-righteous assholes.
I see a bunch of people who might never want to watch an episode of Law and Order since it might offend them, I know! Let's all write NBC and get all of those damned Law and Order shows taken off TV!
There's some logic.
And I want all liberal media leftist bullshit off my TV, and I find art like Jesus next to a jar of piss offensive so let's get rid of that too!
Go ahead and finish your little smug rants and pat yourselves on the back while you preen in your hollow victory.
And then we can debate the logic of it all.
I see people being condescending arrogant self-righteous assholes.
I see a bunch of people who might never want to watch an episode of Law and Order since it might offend them, I know! Let's all write NBC and get all of those damned Law and Order shows taken off TV!
There's some logic.
And I want all liberal media leftist bullshit off my TV, and I find art like Jesus next to a jar of piss offensive so let's get rid of that too!
Go ahead and finish your little smug rants and pat yourselves on the back while you preen in your hollow victory.
And then we can debate the logic of it all.
Ah, it is rare and wonderful that I bless you with blogging twice in a day after a year or more of silence?
That being said?
Wow.
So I guess alot of people deserve a pat on the back for doing what not so long ago they were bitching about when Attorney General Gonzales did it. I would like to congratulate those people for becoming censors, and applaud their efforts to keep me and every other consenting adult on this site safe from seeing what maybe offensive images of how was it put again 'Nazi Child Rape'?
Awesome.
Thanks for saving me from having a feeling, a thought, or an opinion. Thanks for saving my feelings from something that may have offended one of you.
Good job. Be proud of yourselves. And remember when the day comes and it happens to you? You can thank yourselves for setting the standard. You can say 'Wow. I opened the door!'.
Because that is all you did.
You didn't change anyone's mind, you didn't make anyone go 'Oh, you are right', all you did was browbeat, intimidate, and insult everyone else into line.
Nice job. Good witch-hunt. Pat yourself on the back. I wonder who you can ostracize next? Maybe you can start a little clique.
Cliques are nice.
I normally read some news, check my groups on here, send a few messages, make a few comments, and maybe look at some pics. I don't bother anyone, cept maybe FTR because I enjoy reading his responses to my replies, and normally don't pay much attention to what goes on. But yesterday? Everything I looked at included a rant for or against Nana's set.
I saw criticism of it, I saw remarks on it, I saw people wishing rape on Nana while accusing her of glorifying of rape which I thought was funny.
I saw some shit about karma.
And I saw a bunch of people acting like two year olds, and it annoyed me. Annoying me is a sure way of making me speak at length for some reason! And wow, am I annoyed!
I saw people deleting people from their friends list for daring to like the set, for 'Oh my fucking God!' have a fucking different opinion! Or as one bitchy person said for having 'Bad Taste'.
Maybe it is just me but I do not expect all my friends to have the same opinions and tastes that I do.
Bunch of people ran around firing off threats, ill wishes, and snide remarks at other people who disagreed with them. Like everyone was back in 4th grade for the evenining. Nice little sarcastic comments.
I saw a few that looked like victory speeches today, that's cool.
But since we're at it? You know the first thing that Nazis did to anyone who disagreed with them?
Mocked, ridiculed, insulted, and intimidated them into silence. Made them get rid of anything that offended their sensibilities.
Just like yesterday, so let me ask you?
Who glorified the Nazis more?
That being said?
Wow.
So I guess alot of people deserve a pat on the back for doing what not so long ago they were bitching about when Attorney General Gonzales did it. I would like to congratulate those people for becoming censors, and applaud their efforts to keep me and every other consenting adult on this site safe from seeing what maybe offensive images of how was it put again 'Nazi Child Rape'?
Awesome.
Thanks for saving me from having a feeling, a thought, or an opinion. Thanks for saving my feelings from something that may have offended one of you.
Good job. Be proud of yourselves. And remember when the day comes and it happens to you? You can thank yourselves for setting the standard. You can say 'Wow. I opened the door!'.
Because that is all you did.
You didn't change anyone's mind, you didn't make anyone go 'Oh, you are right', all you did was browbeat, intimidate, and insult everyone else into line.
Nice job. Good witch-hunt. Pat yourself on the back. I wonder who you can ostracize next? Maybe you can start a little clique.
Cliques are nice.
I normally read some news, check my groups on here, send a few messages, make a few comments, and maybe look at some pics. I don't bother anyone, cept maybe FTR because I enjoy reading his responses to my replies, and normally don't pay much attention to what goes on. But yesterday? Everything I looked at included a rant for or against Nana's set.
I saw criticism of it, I saw remarks on it, I saw people wishing rape on Nana while accusing her of glorifying of rape which I thought was funny.
I saw some shit about karma.
And I saw a bunch of people acting like two year olds, and it annoyed me. Annoying me is a sure way of making me speak at length for some reason! And wow, am I annoyed!
I saw people deleting people from their friends list for daring to like the set, for 'Oh my fucking God!' have a fucking different opinion! Or as one bitchy person said for having 'Bad Taste'.
Maybe it is just me but I do not expect all my friends to have the same opinions and tastes that I do.
Bunch of people ran around firing off threats, ill wishes, and snide remarks at other people who disagreed with them. Like everyone was back in 4th grade for the evenining. Nice little sarcastic comments.
I saw a few that looked like victory speeches today, that's cool.
But since we're at it? You know the first thing that Nazis did to anyone who disagreed with them?
Mocked, ridiculed, insulted, and intimidated them into silence. Made them get rid of anything that offended their sensibilities.
Just like yesterday, so let me ask you?
Who glorified the Nazis more?
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