The Social Security "problem."

Commander Codpiece says that Social Security, the most successful program for helping seniors and more in the history of civilization, needs changing. Do the research and you will find that the problems facing Social Security beginning about 30-40 years out, are real but hardly insurmountable. Here are a few rhetorical examples to use the next time you find a conservative lout mouthing the GOPig talking points regarding Social Security.

The Bush Plan for changing Social Security would be like:

Buying a new lawn mower because it has a bad sparkplug.

Buying a new refrigerator because the light bulb burned out.

Buying a new car because it has a flat tire.

Buying a new cellphone because the battery died.

You get the picture. Remember this, the republican party has been against FDR's greatest program for bringing values into American society (as regards seniors, etc.) since before it was enacted and every single day since. We cannot let the loutish, selfish, venal and self serving barbarians on the right destroy Social Security.

Now, everyone, have a safe and Merry Christmas ( Ho, ho, ho!) and we will be back after the new year.

Rumsfeld, the GI and the lack of armor.

By now, everyone has heard of the arrogant ass' (Rumsfeld) experience with the GI in Kuwait who asked about the missing armor plate for trucks and other non-combat vehicles. What you may not have heard is that the cretins on the right in the republican party, you know, the moronic twits like "freepers" and the like, are ready to blame the GIs and reporter who talked with them beforehand.

The reporter was an embed from a Tennessee newspaper in a unit of Tennessee National Guard responsible for moving supplies from Kuwait into Iraq, so it would appear he had every right to discuss the Rumsfeld Q&A with the GIs of the unit and even suggest some questions for those who started this unnecessary war with such little thought or planning. No matter, those brain dead psychos on the right are screaming for his scalp. As to the GIs, well they are calling for courts martial and firing squads.

That tells you much about the republican party these days, the uber patriots, basically cowards all, would have no place for dissent even when the situation cries for it. They would have you believe that they support freedom everywhere, but they in fact wish to suppress it here at home. No crticisms are allowed for Bush and his band of thugs and criminals, if these latter day brown shirts have any say.

Suffice it to say that their actions are not new to the world, they are merely the latest of a long line from NAZI brownshirts to East German STASZI all of whom wished to stop honest dissent and discourse. They are disgrace to our great nation and to the principles of liberty for which it stands. Their brand of "patriotism" is bringing our nation to a looming crisis, a crisis where the meaning of words are turned inside out and liberty is turned into jackbooted fascism. To paraphrase a classic from pre WW2, the lights are going out all over America.

We will not even get into the habit of the utter disgrace of this person occupying the White House and his immature craving for gathering in the company of real heros, and wearing his make believe military get up much like a little momma's boy who never grew out of playing soldier. Unfortunately, when this sorry excuse for a man plays soldier, many good, brave American men and women pay the price. Men and women whose boots the cowardly C-plus Augustus could not carry, or have ever carried, on the best day of his worthless life.

Ukraine Judicial Integrity

The Supreme Court of the Ukraine ruled today that the recent election, filled with fraud, miscounts and voter intimidation, must be done anew. Isn't it nice to see a judicial system with honor, ethics and integrity actually following the law of the land? Our own system could learn much in the example set forth in the Ukraine. It could, if the members of our judiciary had a fraction of the honor of those Ukraine jurists, but quite simply, they do not.

Our media is also covering itself with shame with the stories of two elections, both of which had exit polls point to someone other than the one who "won" the election. In the case of the Ukraine, with only a decade or so experience with polls and free elections our press screams about the exit polls prove there was something foul going on in the election and make demands for a new election. In the case of our election, with many more years of experience with both exit polling and "free" elections, the press screams that the exit polls were wrong and anyone casting doubt on the election based on such is a conspiracy nut, in the same category as those wearing tinfoil hats.

Exit polling, after having proven to be consistently accurate for some thirty years, suddenly "lost" its reliability in the 2000 election and it continued to be so in the elections of 2002 and 2004. Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture?

I do and it smells an awful lot like a coup d'etat rat by those who would bring fascism or worse to our republic.

Scandal

The UN Oil For Food scandal? That is bad, to be sure, but what of the "Haliburton Missing Equipment" scandal? The "Missing Billions" scandal in the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer?

What passes for media in America today is a joke, it makes Pravda and Tass of the old USSR look like paragons of honest journalism in comparison. Where were the calls for investigating the scandals, that occured under our authority, in Iraq? Could it be that once again the thugs and criminals of the republican party, in ignoring those events, are merely demonstrating the modus operendi of placing party above everything? That was a rhetorical question, of course.

For a good reprise of the lapses of the CPA under Bremer, see this article from August, 2004:

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19620/

Such stories will never be seen on CNN, MSNBC or Republican TV, Fox News and that my friends is why America is going the way of Italy and Germany in the 1930s.