In going through my hits, I see a lot of requests for my page on the American terrorist mecca of Elohim City, Oklahoma.

I can also say that better than 90% of those requests are coming from overseas.

I think it’s an important story, so I’m going to repeat myself a little bit (while you groan.) If you don’t know the story of the League of McVeigh and how it relates to today’s “teabaggers” and “minutemen,” please…. click and have a look.

Someday, this herd is going to have to be culled. I would prefer the Constitutional method, but nobody really seems interested in probing this bunch, for some reason or other. That could well mean that when the time comes to cull them, it’ll be nasty.

Caribou Barbie sure as hell isn’t much of a mother, but it is completely accurate to call her a “birther.”

In the Presidential campaign of 2008, Caribou Barbie’s open courting of white racists was the spark that birthed the “grassroots” movement that has evolved into today’s “teabaggers.” I don’t find it a bit surprising that Caribou Barbie can (1.) fleece them for $100,000.00 at their convention, (2.) back establishment Rushpubliscum candidates like Guv Goodhair and John McCain, and (3.) still be adored by the misspelling masses. The “teabaggers” don’t really care whether or not the Government gets any better, as long as it gets a little WHITER. Caribou Barbie was their guiding cross before the election of 2008 had been decided, because she shares their one core value. They’re happy to have their racist priestess fleece them.

McCain’s worst decision in his political life was to elevate this racist piece of white trash to national prominence, and he rightly deserves criticism for it. But McCain also deserves to get a little praise here and there, and I’ll give praise where it is due. For all of the wrongs that John McCain is guilty of, he and Cindy obviously did some things right as well. One of the things they did right was allow their children to think for themselves. That has allowed their daughter Meghan to blossom as an independent thinker who isn’t afraid to tell the truth.

And she tells it like it is when it comes to the teabaggers, as you can see.

Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.’ And then he went on to say that people at the convention should have to pass literacy tests in order to be able to vote in this country, which is the same thing that happened in the 50’s to prevent African Americans from voting. It’s innate racism and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English.

She’s right on the money. The “Me Generation” is an incredibly selfish, racist, and xenophobic bunch who have delivered us to our ruin because of their selfishness and hatreds. Meghan pegs them quite correctly, which gives me some hope for the future.

Caribou Barbie, who is milking their hatreds for the bling and the bright lights, is a false prophet of an evil past. Her time is almost gone.

I’m not sure why the President and the dems in Congress would have a hard time selling this to people.

How about TELLING THE TRUTH, asshats? The truth is easy. After we see what drivel you are spewing over this, I’ll explain to you how to frame this, since you don’t seem to have a frigging clue,

House Democrats say leadership has their work cut out in convincing the public to support a tax increase on those making more than $250,000.

Centrists and liberal Democrats told The Hill they support allowing President Bush’s tax cuts on those making more than $250,000 to expire, but said leaders must win public support by portraying the tax increase as reducing the nation’s record budget deficit.

“I believe there is a message from back home that is loud and clear: do something about these out of control deficits,” said Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), a centrist whose district was won in 2008 by GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).

“Failure to address that would produce the worst consequence for the country and therefore the worst consequence politically,” Pomeroy said.

Tax increases always carry political risk, and raising taxes during a recession could be labeled as hampering economic growth.

Democrats worry that if their leaders wait to long in selling the move, Republicans will be able to sway public opinion and it will be difficult to allow the cuts to expire.

That could be doubly painful for Democrats, since allowing an extension of the tax cuts would drive up the budget deficit.

“If we’re going to rescind these [tax cuts], which is still going to be a battle, we have to have our message out there on why we are doing it,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group committed to ending tax cuts for the wealthy. “On taxes and some other things we’ve been on the defensive the whole time.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Wednesday said tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush and benefiting those earning more than $250,000 likely would be allowed to expire at year’s end. The plan aligns with President Barack Obama’s pledge to raise taxes on wealthier individuals.

Absent Congressional action, all of the Bush-era tax cuts will expire in December, including those on people making less than $250,000.

Obama and Democrats would like to extend the tax cuts on those making less than $250,000. But to do so, Hoyer said the third-top tax rate must be restructured since it affects earner making above and below $250,000. This means Democrats must introduce legislation that somehow splits this bracket so tax cuts for the middle-class are extended without affecting those earning more than $250,000.

But such legislation will meet resistance since some Democrats think all of the Bush tax cuts should be extended.

Rep. Mike McMahon (D-N.Y.) co-authored a letter with Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) in January asking Obama to include in his budget request to Congress an extension of all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for two years.  Obama did not honor their request, much to McMahon’s chagrin.

“I think it is a political liability because it’s a [bad] policy right now for the economy and could have a bad impact on jobs,” said McMahon, adding, “I think it is something that is going to be a lively discussion.”

McMahon is full of shit. The notion that taxing the ultrarich does anything to slow down the economy is complete, unadulterated, easily disproven bullshit.

Franklin D. Roosevelt jacked up the tax rates plenty on the ultrarich, and he saw substantial economic growth afterward.

Bill Clinton hiked taxes on the ultrarich, and the economy grew at a pace not seen in decades.

In the era of Dwight David Eisenhower, the top tax rate was 90%-and the economy saw steady, HIGH growth that marked the ascendancy of a strong middle class in America.

The moronic monkey slashed taxes on the ultrarich. Now, would ANYONE like to argue that Chimpy’s economy was a desirable one? The poor got substantially poorer, the middle class vaporized, and we got a debt that no one will be able to pay off.

It’s just plain stupid to argue that the ultrarich don’t need to contribute more to a country that has afforded them the opportunity to live like they have. What the hell is wrong with rich people anyway? Don’t they appreciate what this country has done for them? Why aren’t we framing this debate the way it deserves to be framed-namely, that the rich asshats crying about their taxes are a spoiled, selfish, UNPATRIOTIC lot of whiners that will only be satisfied when no one but THEM has anything?

This one is so easy. Anyone who can’t sell it to Americans is dumber than a damn stump.

In the epic Texas battle of “the Closet Queen vs. the Cheerleader,” Rick Perry is racking up the endorsements. He even got an endorsement from Caribou Barbie (which is mighty curious, since a genuine “teabagger” candidate exists in the form of Debra Medina, who would presumably be EXACTLY the sort of candidate the “teabaggers” could rally around. But, I digress…) Hutchison, for her part, has gotten “Deferment Dick” Cheney and Chimpy’s daddy to back her bid for the Governorship.

My view is that Caribou Barbie’s endorsement is the one that really matters, because Texas is a state loaded down with those Jesus-loving “family values” types.

I have proof, actually, that Caribou Barbie’s endorsement is the one more likely to carry the day…

And any other helpful appendages you may have

We may be on the cusp of a new “birther” movement.

I saw something this morning about one Caribou Barbie. In that telling, the Welfare Queen of Wasilla was born in a town named New Westminster in British Columbia.

Have you ever heard this? Do you know of it? And never mind her parents are American citizens; the afterbirthers have taught us all that this makes no difference.

Everybody is incensed over the fact that the idiotic banker/gamblers we had to bail out just a year ago are already back in the business of lavishing big bonuses on themselves as a reward for their incompetence.

But those huge payoffs to themselves didn’t start in just the last year or two. They’ve been congratulating themselves for decades. Every time they figure out a way to screw their customers, it adds to thast bonus pool, after all. In the banker/gambler method of doing things, screwing all the taxpayers must seem like the biggest score of all, so it’s pretty natural that they’d want to congratulate themselves once more.

Before they screwed the American taxpayers, of course, their most common method of sticking it to their customers was through credit cards. Fine print that allowed them to send interest rates through the roof for a payment that posted 5 minutes late, low “teaser” rates that turned into 20, 30, even 40% when the teaser period expired, participation fees…. man, there were so DAMNED many ways to bend over their customers with credit cards that bankers never tired of inventing new ways to give their “valued”  customers a good old yank by the trousers. I got tired of it years ago, and I never carried more than 2 credit cards after about 2003, and I only carried those out of necessity. In early 2008, I got tired of being fucked with on my remaining 2 cards as well; I paid the balances on time and mostly kept them in my wallet, but the bankers STILL figured out ways to hit me; participation fees leave a balance on your card, which then enables your card issuer to stick you with a higher interest rate because you didn’t “pay off your balance” you didn’t remember you had. When that happened to me the final time, I called the card issuer, got rid of my balances, and got rid of the cards the same day. They gave me 90 days to change my mind, and people predicted that I’d do exactly that since it is so hard to do a lot of things without a credit card. But you know, I just don’t do a lot of things anymore, and I never reinstated the cards-and here we are, 2 years and a Republican Depression later, and the only thing I’m “missing” about the stupid credit cards is the monthly payments.

I’m heartened to see that many other Americans have decided to do what I did, and end their contributions to some greedy asshat’s bonus pool. I’d like to see ALL Americans do this, sooner or later. The only power that commercial banks have to fuck us over is the power we, ourselves, give to them. The less power we give them, the less they can do to us.

But don’t stop here; if you bank with a commercial institution like BooFooA, or Hells Fargo, consider getting rid of your accounts and switching to a local credit union. I did that 10 years ago, and I’ve never looked back on that decision, either.

Emily Maddox, 24, of Knoxville, Tenn., is the kind of customer credit card companies covet. She has a good job as an Internet marketing coordinator, and she lives within her means. But she’s never had a credit card, and she has no plans to apply for one.

Credit cards, she says, “make me really nervous, and I’ve never felt comfortable having one.”

In a country where the average consumer owns five credit cards, Maddox may seem somewhat quaint, like an Amish farmer who drives a horse-drawn buggy. But proponents of a no-credit-card lifestyle say there’s nothing old-fashioned about their choices. And they’re convinced that their numbers will grow as consumers become increasingly disenchanted with credit card industry practices.

Credit card usage is slowing. Revolving credit — largely made up of credit card debt — fell by nearly 20% in November, the largest drop on record, according to the Federal Reserve, reflecting less borrowing by consumers and banks’ tighter lending standards. Through October, the number of new credit card accounts was down 46% from the same period in 2008, according to Equifax.

But abandoning credit cards is a much more radical step than using them less. Consumers who don’t own a credit card often have a hard time renting a car. Some hotels won’t book rooms to travelers who want to pay with a debit card or cash. Those that accept debit cards may place a hold on several hundred dollars in the customer’s bank account, which could cause checks to bounce. And many consumer experts say that responsible use of credit cards is one of the most effective ways to build a good credit record.

Those concerns haven’t swayed Dann Zinke, 22, of St. Paul, who works at a gas station to save money for college. He’s never owned a credit card and doesn’t plan to get one any time soon. “I refuse to recognize it as a rite of passage into adulthood,” he says. “I don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up and receiving other credit card offers.”

Reasons consumers are opting to live without credit cards:

•Desire for a simpler lifestyle. Two years ago, Adam and Courtney Baker decided to reduce their debts, sell most of their stuff, and spend a year or two traveling around the world. By selling their small business and a rental property, they were able to pay off more than $11,000 in credit card debt.

Initially, they planned to use an American Express card during their travels, says Adam Baker. But once the couple wiped out their debt, they decided to stick with debit cards and cash. Going without credit cards helps them keep a handle on their spending and suits their stripped-down lifestyle, says Baker, 25, a freelance writer whose blog about his family’s experience is titled Man Vs. Debt (www.manvsdebt.com).

“We enjoy not having them (credit cards) in our lives,” says Baker. “Getting 1.5% cash back for using four cards and juggling them is just not something that interests us. We have bigger and better things we want to focus our attention on.”

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It is a real pity that Chimpy and his “patriotic” worshipers sold us to China so that the filthy rich wouldn’t have to pay taxes. It is also a pity that Chimpy paid American firms to offshore our jobs and R&D to China (he did that with taxpayer money, of course. Thanks for that, moronic monkey.)

We get all of our baubles AND our Federal budget money from the Chinese. Not a good situation for us, since the Chinese never renounced the Stalinist philosophy that they were born with back in 1949.

The Chinese, of course, are not to blame for this; unlike our own Government, the Government of the Peoples Republic of China seems to be interested in uplifting its own people, rather than burying them. The Chinese saw opportunities when we installed the idiots of the Reign of Error, and they played them masterfully. But even while they were gutting our commons, the Chinese always knew that one day, the differences they still have with us would have to be addressed. This is unlike our own idiots in the “teabagger” right wing, who seem oblivious to the fact that the Chinese now own us.

Somebody might want to let the teabagging idiots know that the tax and economic policies they love so much appear to be bearing the fruit that everyone with a IQ of over 70 knew they would. We’re going to have to wean ourselves from China, and it’s going to be a nasty set of withdrawals. The Chinese have just about had it with us, and I don’t blame them a bit.

There is opportunity here, however. We could realize that gutting your own commons in the name of “free” trade is national suicide, and we could take steps to bring at least part of our commons back. We could forge better ties with Russia, a sleeping economic powerhouse, instead of constantly trying to provoke them by offering to bring failed states like Ukraine and Fascist dictatorships like Georgia into NATO. We could craft economic and environmental policies that would result in a better deal for everybody.

With our right wing, we won’t do any of that. We’ll just fall apart. Russia can tell you about how all that goes. You see, once upon a time they spent every dime they could get on their military because of this expensive war they were fighting, and they were in big hock to foreigners…

MORE than half of Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a new “cold war”.

The finding came after battles over Taiwan, Tibet, trade, climate change, internet freedom and human rights which have poisoned relations in the three months since President Barack Obama made a fruitless visit to Beijing.

According to diplomatic sources, a rancorous postmortem examination is under way inside the US government, led by officials who think the president was badly advised and was made to appear weak.

In China’s eyes, the American response — which includes a pledge by Obama to get tougher on trade — is a reaction against its rising power.

Now almost 55% of those questioned for Global Times, a state-run newspaper, agree that “a cold war will break out between the US and China”.

An independent survey of Chinese-language media for The Sunday Times has found army and navy officers predicting a military showdown and political leaders calling for China to sell more arms to America’s foes. The trigger for their fury was Obama’s decision to sell $6.4 billion (£4 billion) worth of weapons to Taiwan, the thriving democratic island that has ruled itself since 1949.

“We should retaliate with an eye for an eye and sell arms to Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela,” declared Liu Menxiong, a member of the Chinese people’s political consultative conference.

He added: “We have nothing to be afraid of. The North Koreans have stood up to America and has anything happened to them? No. Iran stands up to America and does disaster befall it? No.”

Officially, China has reacted by threatening sanctions against American companies selling arms to Taiwan and cancelling military visits.

But Chinese analysts think the leadership, riding a wave of patriotism as the year of the tiger dawns, may go further.

“This time China must punish the US,” said Major-General Yang Yi, a naval officer. “We must make them hurt.” A major-general in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Luo Yuan, told a television audience that more missiles would be deployed against Taiwan. And a PLA strategist, Colonel Meng Xianging, said China would “qualitatively upgrade” its military over the next 10 years to force a showdown “when we’re strong enough for a hand-to-hand fight with the US”.

Chinese indignation was compounded when the White House said Obama would meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, in the next few weeks.

“When someone spits on you, you have to get back,” said Huang Xiangyang, a commentator in the China Daily newspaper, usually seen as a showcase for moderate opinion.

An internal publication at the elite Qinghua University last week predicted the strains would get worse because “core interests” were at risk. It said battles over exports, technology transfer, copyright piracy and the value of China’s currency, the yuan, would be fierce.

As a crescendo of strident nationalistic rhetoric swirls through the Chinese media and blogosphere, American officials seem baffled by what has gone wrong and how fast it has happened.

During Obama’s visit, the US ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, claimed relations were “really at an all-time high in terms of the bilateral atmosphere … a cruising altitude that is higher than any other time in recent memory”, according to an official transcript.

The ambassador must have been the only person at his embassy to think so, said a diplomat close to the talks.

“The truth was that the atmosphere was cold and intransigent when the president went to Beijing yet his China team went on pretending that everything was fine,” the diplomat said.

In reality, Chinese officials argued over every item of protocol, rigged a town hall meeting with a pre-selected audience, censored the only interview Obama gave to a Chinese newspaper and forbade the Americans to use their own helicopters to fly him to the Great Wall.

Hey all you Rushpubliscum “patriots,” don’t you just LOVE that we’re now so weak that our officials can be treated like this?

We have you to thank for that. You and your monkey, whose policies you are STILL trying to hang on to.

Heckuva job, asshats.

There isn’t a word in this article that isn’t true; the reporting is straightforward, and the events happened as they are reported to have happened.

That’s not what I want to point out to you. What I want to draw your attention to, we’ll get to in just a minute.

But first, let’s look at what Caribou Barbie had to say to the first official “teabagger” national convention. It’s pretty boilerplate stuff from the Welfare Queen of Wasilla, who was reportedly paid $100,000.00 to show up and spew her flavor of stupid.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drew many standing ovations from a friendly crowd Saturday night as she blasted Washington Democrats and the Obama administration in a keynote speech for what was billed as the first national Tea Party Convention.

“It’s so inspiring to see real people, not politicos, inside-the-beltway professionals, come out, stand up and speak out for common-sense conservative principles,” Palin said.

Palin sought to hold Washington accountable as she took on a number of issues, including national security, the economy, and the recent election of Republican Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by the late Ted Kennedy.

“America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this,” Palin said.

She called the Tea Party movement a “ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they’re doing business.”

Palin gave particular attention to Brown’s election, calling him a representative “of this beautiful movement.”

“If there’s hope in Massachusetts, there’s hope everywhere,” she said. “His victory is a sign of more good things to come.”

She called on the administration to take note of the election results, saying “you better stop lecturing and start listening.”

“The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government,” she added, saying voters all over the country are sending a message that they want change in Washington.

She harkened Obama’s famous campaign slogan, asking, “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for you?”

On national security, Palin said Americans have grown uneasy in the wake of an attempted Christmas Day terror attack aboard a U.S.-bound flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands. She called on the administration to be transparent about threats facing the country.

“It’s not politicizing our security to discuss our concerns because Americans deserve to know the truths about the threats that we face,” she said, criticizing Obama’s approach to foreign policy with such hostile regimes as Iran.

On the economy, Palin said “we are drowning in national debt and many of us have had enough,” calling for a number of different reforms.

Palin was the darling of many conservatives when she served as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, which she said Saturday night was “the honor of a lifetime.”

Many of those attending the convention at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center said they are big Palin supporters.

Pam Silleman, a 52-year-old small business owner and Tea Party activist who traveled to the convention from California’s Napa Valley, called Palin “the Tea Party’s inspiration.”

Asked if Palin, who is considered a possible contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, should make a bid for the White House, Silleman said, “I would like to see her in a higher office but I don’t know that she’ll do it. I wouldn’t want her to be hurt that bad.”

Fremont Brown, a supporter who had “Palin 2012″ bumper stickers with him, said Palin is “the right person.”

“She has fervent heart and she’s conservative,” added the 59-year-old Brown, who owns a small business in North Carolina. “She was the only one truly qualified with executive experience of the four who ran in 2008. The others were glorified lobbyists.”

If Palin does make a stab at presidential politics, she’ll have a natural following among Tea Party activists, whose grass-roots network is fueled by anger over the growth of the federal government and President Obama’s policies.

My goodness. Caribou Barbie is addressing the Tea Party Convention, and the crowds just adore her! “Palin 2012!” they’re all saying in unison.

Sounds like a big deal, doesn’t it?

Well, you know…… it isn’t. There were (you might want to sit down if you’re not already) maybe 500 PEOPLE listening to this fiery Caribou Barbie speech. The numbers I’m seeing tonight range from 300 people to “under 1,000.” This doesn’t sound like a movement that’s going to sweep the country to me; high school basketball games regularly draw crowds of this size.

Why don’t I see a reference to the actual NUMBER of people in the above article? Check it out for yourself; all you’ll see is how the crowd loved Caribou Barbie, and how nearly half of all Americans view Caribou Barbie favorably (and that one is known bullshit; even a majority of Rushpubliscums don’t want her to run for President according to almost every other poll ever taken. I’ll assume THIS poll was taken there, at the convention.)

The hagiographers trying to boost this white trash would be well advised to concentrate on Romney, or even Huck. The one person certain to lose the 2012 election is Caribou Barbie, barring a lot of game rigging.