Supply Siders

The economically conservative Republicans rely on a theory of money movement called "supply side". It is a euphemism for the GOP'ers buddies getting free hand outs or preferential handouts or both

The Iraq crime is a case study, for conservatives, on supply side economics. Read how it works.....

New revelations have emerged about how tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted in Iraq. A new report by government watchdogs singles out a big American contractor - Parsons - for shoddy work. Investigators charge that Parsons managed to turn a flagship project to help train Iraqi police into a hall of horrors using taxpayer money.

The Baghdad Police Academy was supposed to be a showcase to train Iraqi police - key to the U.S. strategy.

Instead, Wednesday's report says the American construction company turned it into a disaster from the start: incomplete and substandard designs, shoddy construction and no real quality control.[..]Here's what Parsons delivered for taxpayers' $62 million:

* Shoddily built brick walls.
* Cracking concrete.
* Exposed reinforced steel bars.
* Buildings without enough power or with faulty electrical box wiring.
* Plumbing so bad that when cadets used it, human waste rained through light fixtures and ceilings.

The report places some blame on the Army Corps of Engineers, which was supposed to oversee the project.

"They actually awarded Parsons merit increases despite widespread evidence of deficient work," says Rep. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

See Susan Collins statement? That's how supply side works. The building is literally unuseable after all the millions were wasted, so what did the supply siders think was the best course of action? Award. Merit. Increases.

These are the economic heroes of the conservative think tanks demonstrating the invisible hand of the marketplace for all to see. Behold the fucking wisdom.

Source: MSNBC.Com

Presidential IQ's

Occasionally Bluester is inspired. Either that or he has fucking indigestion. He gets those two confused at times.

But I promise you, you are gonna' love this....

A report published last week by the Lovenstein Institute (www.lovenstein.org) of Scranton, Pennsylvania, detailed its findings of a four month study into the intelligence quotient of President George W. Bush.

The study says margin of error is 5%. Take a look at this list of modern era American presidents with their corresponding IQ's.

182 – Bill Clinton [D]
175 – Jimmy Carter [D]
174 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D]
155 – Richard M. Nixon [R]
147 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D]
132 – Harry S. Truman [D]
126 – Lyndon Baines Johnson [D]
122 – Dwight David Eisenhower [R]
121 – Gerald R. Ford [R]
105 – Ronald Reagan [R]
098 – George Herbert Walker Bush [R]
091 – George W. Bush [R]

Honestly, I just supposed everyone knew that GOP presidents would be a bit dimmer than their Democratic counterparts. No, I did. It's to be expected, isn't it? I mean, Jeebus, GOP'ers don't need no learning, and they sure as hell don't need no teaching in the area of government, negotiations, foreign policy, or scientific research. GOP'ers are way too smart to be duped by all those liberal, commie, atheist professors. They simply refused to listen in those classes. They already knew all the answers.

They know in their "gut". They know by consulting their "higher father". They have common sense.

They don't need no stinkin' high IQ, whatever the hell the ACLU is trying to do with a number like that anyway? Fucking ACLU.

Empirical data, consensus, overwhelming evidence? Who needs it? GOP'ers know because they just know. They're born with it. It comes with the silver spoon.

Let's be candid. I'm just not going to hold it all in like I usually do. How much intelligence does it take to break shit up? How much schooling do ya' really need? From the looks of things lately, I'm just sayin', maybe 6th grade elementary. I think that was when the slower boys were still playing with their plastic army men under the lid of the desktop. So, 6th grade it is. GOP president only requires 6th grade intelligence level. W fits right in when ya' look at it like that. A veritable fucking bookworm, even.

And we must give intelligence credit when the credit for it is given intelligently. (Reread that one) And here's a good place to insert this..... ol' Bluester comes in ahead of the best Republican but less than the top three Dems, and that seems about right to me.

Here's what the report says about W's strong points, if indeed he had any....

his lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA,

George may not know, but MBA stands for Master's of Business Administration. George lacked any scholarly achievements, that stuff is for sissies and queers and atheists, nevertheless, he got an MBA.

Why is this significant? Let me put it this way. How can someone steal a whole bunch of other people's money and get away with it over and over and fucking over unless he learns how to do it oh-so-legally? I mean, Christ, that ain't easy. That's what the MBA degree is all about. Bush's "higher father" tells him who to kill and maim and how long to continue to do it, but his god doesn't know where all the loot is.

"Intelligence is as intelligence does" somebody's momma probably said at one point or another. I've been watching this bunch of genuises, led by Mr. 91, and what their intelligence has been doing. Ya' know what I see? The 6th grade boys with their desks and their pretend army men. That's what I see.

Spiteful Leader

Americans, at least honest Americans, you know, "reality based" Americans, can't understand why Bush would consider sending in even more targets, I mean troops, to Iraq when virtually every bit of advice, from the recent election to the Generals in charge of Iraq, has been to NOT escalate the situation. Why would he go against everyone? This might help to understand what kind of guy the Codpiece really is....

"[In] December, during a visit to his parents' home in Washington, Bush drunkenly challenged his father to go "mano a mano," as has often been reported
.Around the same time, for the 1972 Christmas holiday, the Allisons met up with the Bushes on vacation in Hobe Sound, Fla. Tension was still evident between Bush and his parents. Linda was a passenger in a car driven by Barbara Bush as they headed to lunch at the local beach club. Bush, who was 26 years old, got on a bicycle and rode in front of the car in a slow, serpentine manner, forcing his mother to crawl along. "He rode so slowly that he kept having to put his foot down to get his balance, and he kept in a weaving pattern so we couldn't get past," Allison recalled. "He was obviously furious with his mother about something, and she was furious at him, too."

At 26 years old George was still a defiant, spoiled little boy who, if he couldn't have his own way, would make it difficult for everybody.
George is still weaving in and out in an act of defiance, only this time, it's in front of the entire American population


I told you that story so you could understand this...

"Although the president was publicly polite, few of the key Baker-Hamilton recommendations appealed to the administration, which intensified its own deliberations over a new “way forward” in Iraq. How to look distinctive from the study group became a recurring theme.

As described by participants in the administration review, some staff members on the National Security Council became enamored of the idea of sending more troops to Iraq in part because it was not a key feature of Baker-Hamilton."

You can see the dynamic at work, surely you can. Georgie is "calling his daddy out" for a fucking showdown. W.'s going to show his daddies buddies what he thinks about them sticking their fucking noses in to his business. So what's he do? Does just the opposite of what ol' Jimmy Baker's group suggested. Because just the opposite will work? Well hell no. He could care less about that. He's simply weaving his bike in front of the ISG and the American people , flipping them the bird.

Unbelievable isn't it? He's going to send in more troops because that's something the ISG DIDN'T recommend. Now that is a very fucking sick leader of the free world, don't you think?

Surge This

I think it is fairly inarguable now that this administration is the first fully corporate style leadership we've ever seen in America. The GOP'ers even bragged about Bush Jr. being the first CEO president. OK.

Now what is the one central focus today of corporate America as far as product or services are concerned? Isn't it branding? Have you been paying attention to what I told you about branding?

The word "surge" in the Three Stooges meet the Marx Brothers approach to "The New Way Forward" (also a brand), is a new brand name word. Bush branded his policy by getting us to hear the word "surge" at least a million times.

Here's the definition of surge: a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.

This is not what is going to happen with "The New Way Forward" now, is it? Of course not. But that's what everyone has been trained to think. We only have 9000 total soldiers to rotate.

Bush will not be sending a strong, wavelike, forward movement of troops into Iraq. He will not be rushing or sweeping soldiers into Iraq. The truth is, whatever policy he has in mind, the word "surge" has nothing to do with it, unless, we are talking about a new surge of cash into the corporate entities coffers who service the killing industry America has been running at full production for 5 years now.

Humans have a brain. That brain is not fully understood. I do not believe we are an intelligent species on many issues, but in the world of images and sounds and words and music, it doesn't appear that we are able to make our brains work very well to discern what is being done to us and why.

Test this out some time. Turn on the TV while others are in the room and see if anyone can resist looking at the moving images. We're helpless, almost.

I believe it's the same with words like "surge" and phrases like "The New Way Forward". If we hear and read them enough times we cannot discern anything else but the word and the phrase. We are almost helpless.

The phrase "war on terror" is another one. You notice I don't use it. It's a phrase to get us to accept a brand that I don't want to buy into, I know the brand is a lemon.

And when even the left blogs that I respect pick up the word "surge" and continue it along, playing right into the corporate crooks plan, I know something profound is underfoot.

We are being dissected psychologically and focus groups and demographic magnification experts are providing the instruments to do it with. It all leads to disinformation. The purpose of the exercise is to disinform. To not tell the actual truth about the product or service or war. We're trained, by looking at images that are not truthful and words that don't mean what they mean, to buy the brand. To accept the product. To go along with a "stay the course" war.

That and that alone explains how in the hell ANYBODY could go along with escalating American targets in Iraq after all we now know. In 2002 and the first months of 2003, my brain was screaming, "what in the hell is going on, surely someone will stop the Iraq invasion, surely these people and Blair and Powell, surely you guys aren't going to do this" but they did.

The same thing is happening now. It has to be because we cannot help ourselves in the face of such a calculated way of communicating. Once again, it has become surreal. No one can tell me who we are at war with. No one can tell me what we are doing in Iraq . No one can explain how long we will be there. And yet, we are going to escalate our presence in Iraq and hand more tax dollars to Republican cronies "servicing" our brand name wars.

Well, I have a brand name for these folks.....Fuckers.

War on America

George is continuing his war on America.

Better start checking your mail, to see whether it's been opened. Last year I tried to explain to conservatives how the Dictator in Chief had been using his illegal and unconstitutional "signing statements" to formally announce his refusal to obey laws just written by Congress.

Now he's going to open our mail. Do you think them there fucking ter'rists are hiding in our mail now?

President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail
without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned.The President asserted his
new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then
issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under
emergency conditions.That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the
bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.Bush's move came
during the winter congressional recess and a year after his secret domestic
electronic eavesdropping program was first revealed. It caught Capitol Hill by
surprise. Link

Here's the text of Bush's newest signing statement. Here's the President telling the Congress and the American people what he'll do with our mail, like it or fucking not.

"The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted
by subsection 1010(e) of the Act, which provides for opening of an item of a
class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to
the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent
circumstances, such as to protect human life and safety against hazardous
materials, and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for
foreign intelligence collection."

The intervention that was the election didn't take in Bush's brain. I think he IS going to have to be arrested. The charge would actually be treason to the country via violation of the Constitution.

In a nutshell George is setting down two exceptions to getting warrants before opening mail, as the law calls for. The first is in two parts. The first of these "to protect human life"...no one need go any further because that excuse alone would be enough of a catchall, but not to these traitors, the second of these, "hazardous materials"...who defines this? It's just silly but they are, sadly, serious.

The second exception is "foreign intelligence collection". This one is right to the point. If they want to gather what they call "foreign intelligence" they'll "collect" your mail without a warrant. Guess who gets to determine whether it's "foreign intelligence" or not? That's right the fucking Decider. Lawlessness, that's what the hell it is.

And let's be real here. This is in a signing statement. That means they have already been doing this. They already have been opening our mail without warrants. That's one of the reasons Bush does signing statements, to justify his ongoing criminal behaviour.

He needs to be arrested.

Here's Tony Snow when asked about this...

"Now, wait a minute. Peter, what he said is that there are some times that he believes that the implementation language does not meet constitutional muster. And rather than getting into Congress's business, those signing statements have been looking for constitutional ways to fulfill the will of Congress and get them done effectively."

Get a load of the fucking Snowman. "...the implementation language does not meet constitutional muster...."

Did the courts rule on this bill already and I missed it? WTF How in the hell does the executive branch know it doesn't pass "constitutional muster"? The executive branch, that's headed by the President, is usurping the power, if Frosty the Snowman is correct, of the Judicial Branch. Once again, we're headed into a Constitutional crisis focused on the separation of powers.

The Snowjob goes further..."those signing statements have been looking for Constitutional ways".

The executive branch, if they believe this crap Frosty is spewing, has now decided the entire government is in the hands and decision making power of the President. He decides what is Constitutional, he decides who an enemy combatant is, he decides what torture is and what it's not, he decides if a passed law will be implemented or not, he decides which rights we have, he decides all wars and conflicts himself, he decides what money will be spent.

He needs to be arrested. And I am deadly fucking serious.

Onward Christian Soldiers, Digital Fun

Now, right up front I'm saying I don't agree with the progressives here. Nosiree.
Christian Christmas gifts every Christian kid needs this year...

Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new
computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the
wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart, a major video game
retailer, should yank it off its shelves.

The Campaign to Defend the Constitution and the Christian
Alliance for Progress, two online political groups, plan to demand today that
Wal-Mart dump Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a PC game inspired by a series of
Christian novels that are hugely popular, especially with teens.

The series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is based on
their interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and takes place after the
Rapture, when Jesus has taken his people to heaven and left nonbelievers behind
to face the Antichrist...."

It's an incredibly violent video game," said Stevens.
"Sure, there is no blood. (The dead just fade off the screen.) But you are
mowing down your enemy with a gun. It pushes a message of religious intolerance.
You can either play for the 'good side' by trying to convert nonbelievers to
your side or join the Antichrist."The Rev. Tim Simpson, a Jacksonville, Fla.,
Presbyterian minister and president of the Christian Alliance for Progress,
added: "So, under the Christmas tree this year for little Johnny is this
allegedly Christian video game teaching Johnny to hate and kill?"

I say all Christian families should buy this game for every child, just as soon as they can hold the controller in their little hands. Christian children need to practice their faith. What better way? I mean come on, if it's good enough for our Lord(the destruction of the non-believers) it should be good enough for our kids. I can't think of a better way to witness for their faith than to demonstrate that not accepting that same faith will lead to being killed(Level 1) or tormented(Level 2), or both(Level 4).

So to hell with the " message of intolerance" bull. Train up a child correctly and he will remain faithful. Spare the violent Christian video game and spoil the child. (I'm paraphrasing). They can tell we are Christians by our hollow points and semi-automatics.

Anyway, sounds like great Christian fun. Merry Christmas and...hey, you missed the Muslim....

The Snake

WARNING! The following screed uses the root word fuck and it's derivatives frequently. Don't bitch later that I didn't warn you.

It has been quite interesting watching and listening to the conventional fucking wisdom experts in D.C since the election. Many Americans simply dismiss the whole voting thing because they believe it really doesn't matter, the crooks will do what they want to, no matter what. So it is in that spirit I want to point out what is now happening as we transition to a Democratic majority in Congress January 2007.

Voters chose Democrats because of Iraq and corruption. In other words, Americans are tired of the killing and the stealing. So what happens when all the wise ones recently reported on the Iraq debacle through the Iraq Study Group? The conventional fucking wisdom snake simply began shedding it's old skin. You have probably seen a snake shed it's skin. What happens to the snake? Does it turn into a different creature? No. It sheds and remains a fucking snake. That's what is happening right now in Washington, the snake is simply shedding a skin and remaining a snake. A snake that will continue to bite the ass of the American people when it can.

How does Bluester know this? The conventional fucking wisdom group decided on the Goldilocks and the Three Bears strategy for Iraq. They are oh-so-wise, this conventional fucking wisdom group. They recommend no additional troops to be sent into Iraq. The group doesn't recommend any immediate redeployment of our troops out of Iraq either. No, no, just as in the Goldilocks story everything, according to the conventional fucking wisdom group is, "just right".

"Oh but Bluester" somebody may say, "how can that be when the conventional fucking wisdom group said Georgie's policies were all fucked up?" To which I answer, "How fucking wise can a conventional fucking wisdom group be if it took them 9 months to tell us what we already knew?" Over 60% of Americans have believed for almost a year now that Georgie's policies(assuming he has any) were fucked up. But you see, the fucking media, those who really really appreciate conventional fucking wisdom groups, were not allowed to tell us for over 3 years now that Georgie's Iraq policies were actually...how should I put it....fucked up. No, no, no. Only the conventional fucking wisdom group is allowed to do that. And so they have.

And now the media whores can go hither and yon with the conventional fucking wisdom group's blessing..."Yes, yes my sons and daughters...bless you...go forth and tell the unwashed masses the conventional fucking wisdom gospel. Yes Georgie fucked up but now, because we are so fucking wise, we recommend staying in Iraq until 2008. See how fucking wise we are and after all, we ARE a bipartisan conventional fucking wisdom group?"

One anecdote from this group will suffice for now. Last night's Hardball on MSNBC featured two members of the conventional fucking wisdom group. Chuck Robb and Sandra Day O'Conner. Yeah, can you fucking believe it? A retired Supreme Court justice. Now that's some fucking wisdom, huh? O'Conner, when narrator Mike Barnacle said the current administration had been hiding the true cost of the Iraq mess by pushing off budget supplemental bills, said, "Oh, they wouldn't do that." That's fucking wisdom for ya'. Georgie wouldn't do something like that.

Once a snake, always a snake. Even when a snake is shedding skin, it's still a snake. Now as more and more of our soldiers are killed and horribly crippled, they and their families can take great comfort in knowing the conventional fucking wisdom crowd has spoken. Fuckers.