Visceral reactivity reaching critical mass...

Too little, too late. This will be the legacy of the early 21st century. The 2000's are marred by a second Bush administration and Obama's first. I know you are a little scared, like WSJ, CNN, and others to criticize the Obama administration, but the fact is they have done worse than nothing, Obama has continued the failed policies of the former White House and failed to bring about any change than a combo break in the color of the presidency. GREAT JOB! Any dumb-ass can break a combo, if the mods are asleep, and certainly they must have been to pit Obama and McCain against each other... oh, my bad Obama and Palin against each other (I keep forgetting who was running for presidential office.) It's not like we had to choose between Mrs. Obama and Palin. that might be a fair fight, given that they have both proven themselves to be crazier than the prime-mistress of South Korea, via Twitter and the cock suckers. "Cock Suckers" or CS shall hereby be the title owned by the ASS-press, so if I refer to the ASS or CS, that's who I am referring to.
As far as economics are concerned, the ASS knows about as much as a third-grader. Further, the migration of baby-boomers out of the working class and into the public-program demographic will and has lead to two things: first, an economic downturn, as jobs flood out of the system which could no longer sustain them; second, the establishment of "temporary" socialist contracts with the people (such as welfare and medicaid/medicare) in the move toward total socialist control. Did anyone really, honestly fail to see this coming?
Socialism is the natural byproduct of every failing democratic system. It is the immediate moment before dictatorship, and you all fell for it. Just because you hate McCain doesn't mean you should vote for Obama. It's that simple. Here's a footnote for those interested: I, once again: I, suggested Obama as being more personally compelling as a candidate than the other dual-party candidates. But, here's the part you may have missed >"dual-party". As long as you allow others to determine whois the best representative for your principles, you will be party to their failures. Mike Moore aside, who did the "youth"-vote go to? A galvenized man of steel, or a black man using every demogogic manuscript to exploit his race for votes?
I'm not saying I would vote, much less vote for Lady McBeth Clinton, but the media played you like puppets to get this guy in power. And since then we have seen no changes. The war against feelings is still going on and poised for reenforcement. The economy is still receiving stimulus money which it must recoup, or it will and has become tax-payer loans to private individuals and industrial monoliths producing fail products. Actually, before I list the non-changes standing in the room, point out one thing Obama has changed. One fucking thing, which didn't already have a foothold in the Bush administration. One fucking thing which doesn't boil down to the melanin-injection into the list of presidents. Really, "change" was his campaign slogan, his hook if you will, so where the fuck is it? Oh, we're closer to socialism than ever before: that must be why other countries have voluntarily taken on capitalism, that must be why we can't force cultural structures upon a non-Christian country. Obama, he's our man, if he can't do it, it must have been a failed plan to start with. Fuck that shit. I expect a president to uphold the duty and dignity of his office. If he steps into one more private case, especially because he is a "black" president I will start calling him "nigga." If he wants to be my "peeps" and talks the non-talk and walks the Bush-walk, he is a slave to publicity and was purchased on potential. Therefore he is no different than a slave, he is a "nigger." At least we could laugh at Bush's attempts at socialism and intelligence. Obama draws a line in the sand between "blacks" and "whites" which is more than uncomfortable, it is insidious.

Happy Holidays!

Remember, remember...
under the yolk of an oppressive government, a Catholic commoner stood up for fear. He attempted to plant a bomb and destroy a building. He wanted governments to keep their proper fear of the people. He failed and did not betray his cohorts. The story of November 5th is sordid, and even a little painful, but it is not one to "be forgot."
While the colonies celebrate the eve of the hallows, or the night before All Saints' Day, by handing out candy to children, the island burns voodoo-dolls of Guy Fawkes and recalls his attempt on James I and the governing body. As an anarchist-turned aristocrat, I would be failing my duty to let the 5th of November go by unnoticed. Every aristocracy develops into oligarchy and despotism as it forgets the message which the terrorist Fawkes tried to ram home. When the ruling body becomes a burden and an oppressive force for great political and social evil, it's people have to grow a spine and rebel.
The Americans did it successfully, but as always they flirt with despotism. The executive branch is (again) dragged into the mud of democratic demogoguery and left with it's bare-ass flapping in the breeze. System or spirit aside, the fall of any democratic republic has always been ushered by the demogogues. And the colonies have one now: wake up call: his policies (actions) are dis-resonant and in many cases entirely appalling to the people, but he maintains good "personal" ratings. He is given more leeway than idiots like his predecessors, because he is an articulate (arguably) leader and possesses a formable background in bullshit. It does, of course, help that the media who elected him will find no fault in his lack of experience his lack of commitment, or lack of pith - but that is to be expected when dealing with those starry-eyed media-man-whores.
Is there no one left to question his power and will, if only for the sake of doing so? Is there no one left to question the demos (the people,) if only for the sake of doing so? Where are the philosophers? Where are the scientists? Where are the saints?
Have we truly forgotten the 5th of November and the lesson of failure? Are we not Israelites in so many ways our minds and stomaches rebel? Reason and faith demand justice and justice is a primordial balance of right and wrong. Why do we accept so many wrongs, without a right?
The 5th of November is not about failure. Nor is it a day to commemorate terrorism. Nor is it a day to fear. It is a day to question ourselves and our masters. Don't think, not even for a moment, that you are an island: everyone who put forth efforts to make your life what it is (everyone throughout history) has chosen to be slaves. Even the rulers are slaves: they need the people to fear them in order to dictate the actions of the slaves. Ask yourself, today, if you are being given fair trade for your soul, or have they failed you as masters and asked too much of their slaves? Ask yourself, if freedom is worth dying for. Ask yourself if being one person, alone in a teeming world, you have need to stand and make your iniquity heard. Ask yourself, because today is the day one man did just that and it should not be forgot!

Last time I saw a smile that fake, there was a dick glued to her cheek...

Does anyone else get annoyed about this time of year, as retailers put up window dressings depicting disingenuous smiles and shiny gifts? I can't stand it.
I was smoking a cigarette outside of the local Best Buy staring at the two portraits of holiday cheer presented to me on the doors. I began questioning whether I should have just stayed home, or gone to the bar directly. Seriously, do these things motivate anyone to actually go in, or buy anything? I don't buy from Best Buy, as a rule they are over-priced, but it is a good place to survey and recall bits of data and information I've ingested en masse over the last period since I was let out of the work-school-homebody-bar cage. And I remember why I almost prefer the bars.
Overhearing salesmen push Windows 7 to customers. Xbox, Nintendo Wii, and DS all on blaring volume levels while Sony's competing offerings are muted. A jerk-off manager scolding another Geek Squader. And that's another, more specific thing: Geek Squad. FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKK you! A sales "enhancing" training module does not make you obsessively curious, nor does it make you love Goonies. You're a bad corporate sales-force, and they slapped us geeks in the face, if another one of you tries to sell me anything at the price-premium of Best Buy's rates I will seriously begin thinking about distributing a virus on your display computers and laptops. I'm thinking "Welcome to Over-priced Buy" or "Welcome to Goatsie" or "Welcome to Two Girls One Cup".
I hate holiday season. I like the food, but how many of you show up late to gatherings, because you don't like the people there. More than not like, some of them you hate, are repelled by, and yet who company you keep? WTF is that? Why do we feel the need to get together and catch-up on our lives, when all we really get are more reasons to hate each other, or more wasted time talking about things neither of us care enough about to remember? Can't we all just get along: and see other people during this "special" time of year? Why does it have to be an issue if I prefer to hang out with a hot bar-maid and not those I am socially obliged to awkwardly spend time with, not talking about the fact we were both hoping the other would die before this time of year?
Any other time, we can just say, "Dammit, why are they still here?" and be done with it. No awkward hours of trying to get along. No tasteless food, with less digestible "conversation" throughout which we keep trying to smile, or at least not actually look like we want to strangle each other. No bullshit, drama, or temptation to light the carpet on fire, just to have an excuse to clear out.