“Oh my God, That’s F#@%ed!!!” Special US Edition.
By Roger Hanney
Sarah Palin. Need I keep writing’
Palin recently admitted the climate in Alaska is changing but questioned human involvement.
Maybe the planet is being warmed by the fires of Hell’ Or God’s anger over teenage rape victims who opt for abortion’
Speaking of demented bitches, Fannie Mae ‘ the US mortgage lender saved by a taxpayer-funded bailout – has shown the sensitivity we expect from rescued banks.
In a magnanimous gesture, the mortgage lender has agreed to forgive the outstanding portion of a home loan held by 90-year old Addie Polk, a widow in Akron Ohio.
According to CNN, she was granted a 30-year loan of $50, 000 in 2004. After she missed several repayments, Fannie Mae requested sheriffs evict her. As they tried to serve eviction papers on her for the 30th time, Polk shot herself with a long-barrelled handgun.
If she survives, she gets to go home debt-free. When Fannie Mae needed help getting through September, they asked the Bush administration for their half of $200 billion taxpayer dollars.
Hopefully, Polk has set the new standard for bankers seeking public funding.
In September, the $200billion bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was the biggest in history. That figure has since been dwarfed by the $700billion bailout spearheaded by Frankensteinian US Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs multimillionaire, Hank Paulson.
Before they could agree to this urgent rescue package, US representatives needed an extra $150billion for the kind of personal projects that would make a Nationals senator blush.
But they had to tighten their belts somewhere so Congress abandoned a plan to fund the ongoing healthcare of rescue workers made ill by their work at Ground Zero on September 11 – for a saving of $5billion.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg helped bury the law by objecting to a requirement that New York City pay 10 per cent of medical expenses ($500million) to sick firefighters and ambulance workers.
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart described this economic meltdown as the ‘turd icing on the shit cake that has been the George W Bush presidency’.
But America’s troubles may have only just begun. The New York Times reported that across key battleground states ‘ Colorado, Michigan, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio ‘ state authorities have illegally removed thousands, possibly millions, of voters from voting rolls for insufficient cause or too close to the election. The same authorities have illegally accessed millions of voters’ personal records in ways likely to disqualify them. In some of these states, despite record registrations this year, voter-scrubbing has produced a net reduction in eligible voters.
And independent investigative journalists claim insiders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report the Bush Administration is putting final touches on legislation redefining triggers that would authorize martial law within the US.
Triggers include ‘a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.’
This ‘perfect storm’ of democracy undone gets worse. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now broke the story that the US Army just made the unusual move of stationing an active unit inside the US.
According to Goodman, the Infantry Division’s First Brigade returned from Iraq has been dubbed Consequence Management Response Force and nicknamed ‘Sea Smurf’.
She writes it’s the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to USNORTHCOM, formed in October 2002 to “provide command and control of Department of Defense homeland defense efforts”.
Environmental meltdown, economic meltdown, democracy denied, martial law, armed forces on American soil ‘ how many ’80s movies had this plot’
Now that it’s really happening, the cliché holds: ‘you just couldn’t make this shit up’.
