fucking banks...

We tried to get a "bridge loan" when we tried to buy our house in 1995; the local bank refused saying we couldn't cover it. That made sense; don't loan to those who can't afford a loan.

Now, "Bank of America" begged for a "bailout" because they had either given loans to folks who couldn't afford them or bought loans from such dead beats "financially challenged debtees". Then, fucking "Bank of American" went and bought an investment company with the "loan" meant to give them working funds; said working funds were intended for BofA to be able to loan money.

Then, fBoA begged for more "loans" so they could loan money.

What I bunch of assholes!!!

(Did I mention that a year after we paid off our house loan, fBoA dropped our home equity loan limit by 80%? I had to write a protest letter to one of their Vice Presidents questioning the "facts" in their letter in order to get the limits restored. Not that it matters, we haven't needed to take out a loan on our home equity line of credit for several years and don't anticipate doing so any time soon...

Gore Loser

I am a Gore Loser; that is, I never accepted the legitimacy of the Presidency of George Walker Bush from 2000 to 2004. I tentatively accepted his legitimacy from 2005 to 2009 until I read that in Ohio, there was a surplus of voting machines in the suburbs and rural areas (Republican strongholds) and a deficit of voting machines in the big cities (Democrat strongholds).

Last night, the John Steward "Daily Show" presented Bill O'Reilly berating Democrats in 20001 (I think it was) for not giving the G.W. Bush administration a chance. Now, it appears that O'Reilly is refusing to give the B.H. Obama administration a chance. Seems like hypocrisy to me...

In late December, some "conservative" AM "talk host" was calling Obama the "leader of a thugocracy". This suggested that President Elect Obama was already serving as President and had enough time on the job to have displayed the character of a "leader of a thugocracy". At the time, the President Elect was still picking folks to serve in his government and hadn't ruled a day. How could this jackass of a talking head make such a statement???

I suppose the simplest answer is that he simply made an inflamatory statement and expected his listeners to take him at this word. There seems to be a lot of that going around the Conservatives in the past couple of decades. In the late 60s and 70s, we Conservatives were a lot more logical and careful about what we said.

Wisdom from 1883!

“The Republican party, while it is wicked and corrupt, is not an assemblage of fools, and, while there may be, and doubtless are, many foolish and stupid men who put themselves forward as leaders, the mass of voters in all sections of the country are tolerably sensible people."

Dodge City Democrat
Dodge City, Kansas, Saturday, December 29, 1883

Bullshit!

Speaking as what was known in southern Mississippi as a "liberal conservative" in the late 1960s (when I was in junior college), I find this following "humour" as insulting bullshit:

To All My Liberal Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. To My Conservative Friends: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

To paraphrase Ronald Wilson Reagan (humm, 6 6 6?),

I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.