A Current Affairs Post in Which There's More Than Enough to Be Angry About

It's All Ultimately About AIG

Their credit-default swaps are what's truly bringing everything down around us. See here and here. And what can we do about Hank Greenberg? He helped ruin not just his own goddamn company but also the GLOBAL ECONOMY and the piece of shit is still bitching on (where else?) CNBC that it's everyone else's fault but his. That goddamn dinosaur needs to die already.

And Speaking of People Who Need to Die ...

Former executives of Countrywide, who also helped destroy the economy through their abusive and/or condition-free lending, are now profiting from that destruction by buying up distressed loans so cheaply from the government that they can't help but make a large profit from them. And the piece-of-shit Times, right from the start, has to halfway let them off the hook. "Fairly or not"? As if there's any doubt Countrywide played a part in the ruination of our financial system.

The Last Administration Was a Regime of Secret Laws That Made Bush a Dictator

John Yoo, who needs to be brought to trial along with Chimpy and Dr. Evil, said our stupidest president ever could disregard the 1st and 4th amendments of the Constitution.

Judd Gregg Is for Fiscal "Irresponsibility" That Benefits Him and His Relatives

Never listen to a Republican on any moral issue. You can be sure that if he's railing against bestiality, he's going to run right home to shtup the chickens.

Zach Wamp Has the Right to Shut the Fuck Up. And I'd Enjoy the Privilege of Punching Him in the Face

The Republican U.S. representative from Tennessee says access to health care is a privilege, not a right.

The General Praises an Anti-Gay Gay Republican

For focusing on all of the things that are more important than the gay.

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Here Are Some Older Must-Post Items That I Meant to Include in a Current-Affairs Post Sooner Than This:

He Could Have Been out on the Sea Enjoying His Yacht, But He Decided to Fight the Unions Instead

Home Depot's Bernie Marcus and his fat-cat friends are really to blame for the demise of civilization. He's not "an elder statesman." He's an angry old man who sees power flowing to the common man and woman as the worst thing that could ever happen. He should take many tranquilizers. All at once. And Bank of America can blow me.

The Mormons Lied. To Save Marriage From the Bad People

Go, Fred Karger and Californians Against Hate!

You Couldn't Make Up This Kind of Stupid

David Broder thinks that because the Republicans' previous tax cut failed to save the economy, we needed more Republican input on the stimulus. Broder is going to be 80 this year. I think it's well past time he retired. Or died.

Only Four

That's how many Republican senators voted against making the entire stimulus bill tax cuts.

Health Insurers Cheated Taxpayers out of About $4.4 Billion in 2006

They overcharged for prescription drugs, McClatchy's David Goldstein writes.

Bob Dole's Perfect Description of How Washington Works

Glennzilla: If Bob Dole and Tom Daschle have enough friends in the Senate between them to pass or kill legislation, their lobbying firm wins. And Bob Dole thinks that's just great.

The "Pedophile's Paradise"

Pedophile priests were sent to work with Native Alaskans because their rapes and molestations would be less likely to become public knowledge up there. This article by The Stranger's Brendan Kiley would be shocking if we didn't already know so much about the Catholic Church's massive coverup of sexual abuse by priests. One thing in the story that I found surprising but really shouldn't have was this: Joseph Ratzinger—aka the Pope—asked the Bush "Justice" Department for immunity from prosecution in U.S. sex abuse cases. He got it.

The U.K. Went Along With Torture So the U.S. Wouldn't Refuse to Share Terrorism Information

Yup, that sure sounds like something that would have happened during the Bush administration.

KBR Still Getting Electrical Contracts

Even though 18 soldiers may have been killed as a result of the company's shoddy work.

"Some Hack Carrying Water for Wall Street"

That's how Truthdig's Robert Scheer described Obama after Tim Geithner's first stab at a bank bailout plan. And Atrios noted on Friday in a series of posts that Geithner's subsequent stabs have been only slight variations of the first. 

The Bushes Have Always Been Lying, Thieving Bastards

As part of the punative damages, I think Geronimo's ancestors should seek to dig up Prescott Bush's remains and piss all over them.

And Speaking of Lying, Thieving Bastards ...

The FBI has known that mortgage fraud was rampant since 2004. And it says "lenders initiated 80% of these frauds," William K. Black writes for Huffington Post.

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Here's an Antidote to Much of What Has Preceded It

Jon Stewart hilariously takes down the fuckwits at CNBC.

Comments

[Mark H]

FABULOUS POST...You are MORE informed than ever despite staying as busy as you do. You've taught ME a few things here.... I am ALWAYS disappointed when I learn how LITTLE the American PUBLIC is informed on WHY this Country is dying. IT is EVERYWHERE, people! THANKS, BILL..... I loved this.