Modern-day Gatsbies

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Tuesday July 09, 2013 · 6:46 AM PDT

2013/07/09 · 06:46

This twitter feed is interesting. He's a Hamptons native, jack-of-all-trades who self-describes as someone who helps "the helpless make the transition from concrete to grass". In other words, he does simple things for extremely rich people who pay him exorbitantly. Million-dollar 4th of July parties, or just:

Love looking genius when I go to fix a hedgie's broken TV while 20 people are watching Wimbledon. I walk in, reset their cable box. Bill$250
— Joe Schwenk (@HamptonsBorn) July 7, 2013

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Make them Occupy their shame!

RasNesta

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Tuesday November 22, 2011 · 1:18 PM PST

2011/11/22 · 13:18

We've all seen how devastatingly effective the silent protest against UC Davis Chancellor Katehi was:

http://www.youtube.com/...

This needs to be expanded and applied against all other politicians and officials that have dispatched SWAT teams against American citizens peacefully using their Constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.

Michael Bloomberg first. Imagine hundreds of silent protesters holding up identical "SHAME!" signs meeting him every time he walks onto a public street. The signs should be identical so that a hundred different ones don't water down the message trying to outdo each other.

Bloomberg should get this sign shoved in his face at every opportunity, the women his goons fenced off and tortured:

Seattle a-hole Michael McGinn should be forced to confront the haunting image of the 84 year-old woman his stormtroopers assaulted:

Here's the list (Bloomberg is a given):
1. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
2. Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn
3. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock
4. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
5. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates
etc.

Who else should be targeted?

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Extortocracy? Hostageocracy?

RasNesta

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Tuesday July 26, 2011 · 5:13 PM PDT

2011/07/26 · 17:13

"Nice economy you got here...," the extremely-tanned-to-the-point-of-orange hood said as he stepped into our shop, "Wouldn't want anything to happen to it."

What do we call this new form of government the Republican party has invented? What do we call a system where one of the political parties is willing to shamelessly utilize actions that would be grounds for arrest in a private setting?

The GOP learned a very bad lesson from last year's tax cut fight. After Obama traded extending tax cuts that go largely to the wealthy for a short extension to unemployment insurance (Now running out, a completely ignored story.), the Republicans looked around for something else breakable.

An expensive vase with the words "Worlds Economy" was at hand. Now the GOP thugs are nonchalantly tossing it from hand to hand. If they drop it, they'll put their hands up and playact an insincere "Oops! If only you'd given us everything we can't get legitimately at the ballot box, we'd still have an economy. Where's that gov't shutdown vase?"

The truly nauseating part of this is that the Republicans will only agree to a short-term debt extension, meaning that we get to go through this extortion again early next year. After having a 2nd round of extortion over a gov't shutdown this Fall.

The GOP will not relent until they take complete control of the gov't, or we die tryin'. They've went over the ideological waterfall in a Trotsky barrel and any of their ends justify any means.

Get used to living in an Extortocracy.

Progress for America running ads with PLANE SLAMMING INTO WTC!

RasNesta

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Wednesday September 13, 2006 · 5:49 PM PDT

2006/09/13 · 17:49

One of the most venal, evil 527s of the last election cycle, "Progress for America", has stepped over the line.

They are running an ad on the cable news channels warning that "some" (obviously Democrats) are terrorist appeasers, blah-blah, we have everything to fear including fear itself.

About halfway through the ad is footage of one of the planes smashing into the World Trade Center.

We have now dipped that low. These people truly have no shame.

You can watch the piece of excrement here.

Every New Yorker, regardless of political affiliation should make their opinion known to Progress for America and to the networks and shows that take their blood-soaked money to run this offense to decency.

There has to be a line.

I'm giving McCaskill (MO-Sen) $50/month

RasNesta

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 4:03 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 16:03

through to the election.

Another recurring donation, like the one I have to the DNC. (Hear that lurking Republican turds? Here's another hardworking midwestern Democrat going all-out to throw your lying, corrupt, war-profiteering party out on its ass!)

C'mon folks, with a 100k users, let's put up some gaudy fundraising numbers this cycle!

It is now time to show the bastards what we can do.

Can we finally agree that Kinky Friedman is a horse's a**?

RasNesta

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 6:31 PM PDT

2006/08/09 · 18:31

I'm sitting here watching Kinky on Joe Scab-borrow Country savage the voters of Conn. for saying hell-no to Holy Joe last night. You remember Holy Joe, the most boringly conventional corporate-whore politician the Democratic party ever produced?

The type of political animal that someone who presents himself as a "maverick" like Friedman should despise. Unfortunately, Kinky's words betray that he's just another run-of-the-mill cigar-sucking establishment phony.

Because at 8:09 in the show the fake-ass so-called maverick
uncorks this beauty: "The way I see Lieberman is that he is pro-America, unashamedly, and pro-Israel, and these liberals are not."

Nice hardline GOP talking point, asshole. We should tattoo that statement on Kinky's forehead, right above his bushit-covered nose.

Letter I just Sent to my Dem Rep

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Tuesday January 24, 2006 · 9:21 AM PST

2006/01/24 · 09:21

(sent to Emmanuel Cleaver, D from Kansas City)

Why the hell have I bothered giving money to the DNC EVERY month for the last 3 years?

You Congressional Democrats are the most hapless, useless wastes of matter in the universe.

Look at some of the issues that you let slip away:
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WTF? An Iraqi Kurd Woman in Manhattan, KS?

RasNesta

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Monday January 23, 2006 · 11:23 AM PST

2006/01/23 · 11:23

I'm listening live to the Bush's speech in Manhattan, KS today. Some screeching Iraqi Kurdish woman just got up and slathered Bush with love.

The most interesting thing that she said is that she has two female relatives in the Iraqi Parliment! WTF?

How many Iraqi Kurds live in Manhattan, KS population 44,800? How about the Kansas City metro area?

Not many.

Now, how many of those Iraqi Kurds are women with 2 female relatives in the Iraqi Parliment?

This really stinks of overt propaganda. I guess Bush can't get the questions he wants from the locals, so he is now busing in questioners.

This should be investigated.

The wheels are coming off! Bush's "remarks" on Katrina...

RasNesta

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Sunday August 28, 2005 · 9:48 AM PDT

2005/08/28 · 09:48

This morning (Sunday) Bush's "live" remarks were reduced to completely garbled audio for some reason. It sounded like he was transmitting from the dark side of the moon!

When they can't even manage a simple video feed, something is up. Bush must be in a complete rage after this one!

(Or...is it on purpose? No video due to a black eye from another cheesy poof incident or stress-induced gin blossoms?)

Mehlman on Blitzer: Hypocrite of the Century

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Tuesday July 12, 2005 · 3:15 PM PDT

2005/07/12 · 15:15

A shaken-looking Ken Mehlman at 30 minutes into todays "Wolf Blitzer Reports":

Bltzer: What if the shoe were on the other foot? What if the President in this particular case were Bill Clinton and Republicans were in the opposition? Wouldn't you be doing exactly what the Democrats are now doing?

Mehlman: I don't think we would. I don't think you'd have people pre-judging an investigation. I don't think you'd have people sending e-mails out to the "angry left" to try to raise money, alledging that somebody is a criminal, that someone ought to lose their job. It's entirely unprecedented, it's a smear campaign, it's wrong, and it ought to stop.

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Umm...I'll leave it up to you guys to dig up any of several hundred thousand examples from Clinton's presidency to award Ken the "Lying Idiot Hypocrite of the Century" trophy.

David H. Hackworth for Kerry SecDef?

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Thursday October 21, 2004 · 8:57 AM PDT

2004/10/21 · 08:57

How about it? Does the Secretary of Defense have to be a general or bureaucrat? As "America's Most Decorated Soldier", and someone not shy about attacking "The Perfumed Princes" like Bush and Rummy (He took back calling Clark that.), Hack would be loved by the troops.

Here's an excerpt from his biography:
"Hack's military career as a sailor, soldier and a military correspondent has spanned nearly a dozen wars and conflicts, from the end of World War II to the recent meltdown in the ex-Yugoslavia...He sailed in the merchant marine at age 14 and the U.S. Army at 15. In almost 26 years in the Army he spent over seven years in combat theaters, winning a battlefield commission in Korea to become that war's youngest Army captain...In 1971, as the Army's youngest colonel he spoke out on national television saying, "This is a bad war...it can't be won we need to get out."...Hack is an advocate of military reform and a believer that the big fire power "nuke-the-pukes" solution won't work anymore, but that doesn't mean war will go away."

That goes along with his latest column on the "Soldiers for the Truth" site, which I've taken the liberty of reproducing below. It makes sense, but also explains why the military has put him on the "no-talk" list for personnel (he was involved in breaking Abu Gharib also). Read More

Condi-liar Rice: Humiliation is justice for nuke proliferation!

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Monday October 04, 2004 · 9:57 AM PDT

2004/10/04 · 09:57

Next time you get a speeding ticket, go to court and argue that the "humiliation" of getting the speeding ticket is punishment enough, thank you.

After all, the leaders of our Executive Branch, the branch tasked with enforcing our laws, believe that blushing cheeks are punishment enough, provided that the offense is serious enough. Say the offense is--selling nuclear technology to North Korea and Iran!

On "Late Editian" Sunday, Condi-liar tried to spin Bush's lie that AQ Khan (Paki who sold nuke technology to North Korea and Iran) has been "brought to justice" because he's been "humiliated":
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RICE: A.Q. Khan is out of business and he is out of the business that he loved most. And if you don't think that his national humiliation is justice for what he did, I think it is. He's nationally humiliated.
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So, AQ Khan's luxurious villa is actually a "fortress of humiliation"! Poor terrorist-arming WMD peddler.

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