Not only is Stuff White People Like a Kindercore favorite blog, but now they have partnered with the killer peoples at FatAmerican to make a shirt celebrating the many loves of white folk with 100% of the profits going to a non-profit in need (you can actually help choose which non-profit gets the help HERE)
Also as an aside I would like to add something about how awesome I think the Fat American folks are… Last week I ordered the wife one of their shirts for the XMas (shhh don’t tell her) and yesterday I got an email from Mia over there apologizing for the fact that it had taken them a few days to ship the shirt. Not only do I appreciate the fact that a human took the time to write me, but I was pumped to find out in her email that - like Kindercore - there are just two folks behind Fat American and holiday orders have them backed up and crazy trying to get everything packed and out the door. I feel your pain Mia, believe me, these past few weeks have been killing me filling orders in the middle of the night after my day job. Hooray for small indie businesses making magic online! Fuck the Man! Woo hoo!
So please go visit FatAmerican.tv and order up something special.
GM CEO, Rick Wagoner, when asked what size balls it takes to ask for $18 billion from people you've spit on for years and ground into poverty thru outsourcing and other jerk moves.
Gotta love this exchange between the Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Chrysler) and Congress (a.k.a. the 535 Stooges).
Autocrats: Can we have $25 billion (that’s a thousand million for the Brits and just a plain metric fuck-tonne for everyone else) so that we can stay in business despite poorly spending our largess to enrich executives and thumbing our noses at environmental concerns by over-producing over-consumming monster trucks for moms (not to mention shelving electric cars much loved by celebrities)?
Congress: How do we know yr not gonna spend it on booze?
Now there’s talk of a structured bankruptcy for GM which would prolly allow them to weasel out of something (note to self: dazzle them with something clever to cover up yr lack of research on this issue).
Despite their support for a bailout (tho opposed to a structured bankruptcy), in their talking points the United Auto Workers suggest that the end result will be same whether or not a bailout occurs (note: as above, so below IR in italics).
5. The consequences of a collapse by the domestic auto companies would be truly devastating:
• 3 million lost jobs;
instead of the mere 60,000+ (more than 20% of 3 million (a number based on UAW membership)) they’ve promised to cut if they get the money!
• pension and health care benefits cut for 1 million retirees, spouses and dependents;
children and the elderly always die in a crisis. see pandemics and lions. that means I’ve got no rebuttal for this talking point but consider it dishonest to exclude it.
• thousands of other businesses - dealers, suppliers and others - would be threatened;
• huge pension and health care costs shifted to the federal government;
and just what exactly does a bailout do diff’rently, dawg?
• negative impact on the entire economy, making the current recession much worse;
boogerman!
• drop in revenues to the federal, state and local governments, forcing cuts in vital social services.
straight up bullshit. deficit spending requires no tax base not to mention that the entire money system is fiction (but that’s another issue (see bank bailouts, fractional reserve banking)). and if yr so concerned about government budget shortfalls, end the insane (and insanely expensive) GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR!
And their website is ugly.
To wax serious-like for a moment, there’ll be big, hurty consequences for a lot of little people if there’s no auto bailout.
But rewarding bad behavior and poor business practices enables the same old shit to keep happening.
Furthur (and maybe worserer), propping up a dying automobile industry, thereby allowing it to remain a large sector of the economy, impedes real transportation innovation (think about it, I haven’t).
I emplore Congress to cease transferring private debt into public debt (unless it’s for individuals facing home forclosure instead of corporations :-).
Today’s classic McCain moment comes from August 29, 2005:
Here we have McCain and Bush celebrating McCain’s 69th (yup was even old 3 years ago) birthday while New Orleans was being obliterated by hurricane Katrina.
No this isn’t a new name for my Athens Banner Herald Column, but a seedy scandal involving good old John McCain that has a direct connection to the financial problems we are dealing with this week. Here is a quick recap of the scandal that I found on Huffington Post:
If you invent money and introduce it into an economy, that doesn’t matter (WRT impact on human lives) as much as where you insert it in the food chain.
It seems criminal (AS HELL!!!1!LOL) to bail out one class of debtors while throwing another class of debtors to the wolves.
If you give the bank monies in an amount equaling the cost of the defaulted mortgages, effectively paying off loans designed to fail, why can you not give the same amount of money to families in financial crisis with the stipulation that they use it to pay off their sub-prime home loans?
The bank ends up with the same amount of money either way, but fewer lives get ruined in the process (poverty kills, mofo!).
If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but please, somebody splain this to me.
Oh right.
My bad.
A nation of happy, financially secure families creates conditions less conducive to the rise of fascism, and thus, is bad (for fascists).
After working a less than stellar show last night at the Caledonia I settled in to watch the 3am repeat of Hardball and was completely pumped to see Matthew’s off-leash and relentlessly attacking the McPalin distraction machine.
