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Fox outraged at the poor having access to coffee

By on December 3, 2011 in Bad Taste Theater, Culture, Economy, Food, Impotent Modern Media, Politics, Television

Another typical FOX affiliate hatchet-job on the poor, this story is much smoke with little heat.

While we can all agree that supplemental food income should be restricted from $5 coffee beverages, NO WHERE does FOX quantify this practice.

FOX12 in Oregon? How many people spend $5 of their small food income on these drinks? Do you have a number? Is it in the hundreds? Thousands? Is it six?

What FOX really wants is for its under-brained viewers to equate ability with action. Just because poor people CAN waste $5 of their food budget on these drinks doesn’t mean they DO.

Food stamps are for boring, inexpensive things — like bread and milk and apples. The subsidized tokens certainly aren’t for buying expensive coffee beverages that come in cheerful holiday cups.

via Food stamps for Starbucks? Outrage ensues | Seattle’s Big Blog – seattlepi.com.

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Be true to your school

By on December 3, 2011 in Culture, Impotent Modern Media, Local, Local Crime, Police, Politics

So, three undercover cops with a K9 unit…

Seriously folks, in what other news story is a person who is  punched once considered to have been “beaten”?

Personally, I support resistance against corporations and their co-opting of government (with the cooperation of their lackeys in elected office). I support large scale protests against what has become a corrupt system.

I’m not so sure I support permanent encampments of protestors.

On the other hand, the Hoovervilles of the 1930′s (and our own Nicklesville) proved their point.

The 42-year-old man stood just north of the Occupy camp holding a sign that read “Occupy Somewhere Else, Not My School,” according to police.

via Police: Anti-Occupy protester beaten – seattlepi.com.

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NEWSFLASH! Pepper spray doesn’t hurt!

By on November 20, 2011 in Banks, Business As Usual, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Economy, Impotent Modern Media, Military, Police, Politics, Scumbag System, Television

Pepper spray does not hurt, it “creates compliance”. The U.S.A. does not torture, it “intensely interrogates”. Pizza is not bread, cheese and tomato sauce, it’s a “vegetable”. Bank credit cards aren’t traps designed to suck as much cash out of your pocket as possible ion the form of interest and fees, they’re “smart money”. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Ignorance is strength.

Orwell was right.

 

Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department’s use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a “compliance tool” that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
“When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them,” Kelly said.

via Nation & World | UC Davis officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave | Seattle Times Newspaper.

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Hallelujah! Thine the glory. Revive us again!

By on November 19, 2011 in Art, Business As Usual, Culture, Impotent Modern Media, Music, Police, Politics, Scumbag System

It’s time to return to those days of old when gods of freedom walked the earth and sarcasm was a fearsome tool in their quiver.

 

(Slightly Altered) Piggies

By the Beatles

Have you seen the right wing piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the right wing piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.

Have you seen the newsmen piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the newsmen piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their sties with all their backing
They don’t care what goes on around
In their eyes there’s something lacking
What they need’s a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there’s lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

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