Community | January 01, 2012 | 66 comments

Happy What ?

source: http://dailycensored.com/2012/01/01/happy-what/

A country of fascists, addicts, and simply greedy bastards we have become. A number of us think it is perfectly OK to shoot our mouths off about starting another war with a very strong country on the trumped up charges of trying to build a nuclear weapon while our president signs a bill that lets the military “arrest” citizens as terrorists and detain them forever without a trial. Meanwhile the Supreme Court is a joke. Once the last hope of this country, it has become, instead, a caricature of all the things bad about it.
Proof of terrorism is no longer needed for a U.S. citizen to be apprehended for it. We still have rendition as an option as it is still not illegal. AND, we still have Gitmo because it has not been closed down. The military can try the “suspects” in a tribunal if they care to.
The large pharmaceutical companies are holding parents and patients hostage for A D D drugs while the FDA is worried about high school and college kids who take the pills for a lark. Someone is worried about idiots abusing Oxycontin and the prison system is making out like a bandit as it leases its inmate population out to corporations for a song.
Our recent “ship of fools,” masquerading as wannabe presidents walk around throwing out threats that they will bomb Iran. Meanwhile Iran is taking the threats these fools are making as serious possibilities because the media is as stupid as the candidates for not calling the candidates out on their carelessly foolish remarks.
The “JOKE” of a Supreme Court is becoming so bad that the chief justice feels he has to defend it, making him the Joker du jour. The Supreme Court used to protect this country from idiot congressmen who pandered to their own and other’s self interests, but NOW the Supreme Court is as corrupt as everything else become.
The 1-2% are united in their attempts to wring every dime they can from the other 98%. And the other 98% are so divided over their feelings about gays, the separation of church and state, and whether the brown people are going to take their job, that they don’t even see who the real enemy is.
Good luck in 2012.
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66 comments // Happy What ?

  • MotherForTruth
    • +1
      MotherForTruth  

    • It is so great we have Current community. Each one here is a personality behind a computer screen. We agree and disagree with one another, share ideas and opinions. We seek the truth and better future for our children. But most importantly we encourage and inspire each other. Our country is not what it used to be, somehow we fell asleep and when we woke up we can not recognize it. We want our great America back and we are here now!

    • 5 months ago
  • deane
  • treewolf39
  • deane
  • treewolf39
  • deane
  • Mishima
  • deane
    • 0
      deane  
    • Mishima:

      Yes that applies. If you meant the Occupy Wall Street crowd are made up of mostly honest people who do not need to gain success through others misery.

    • 5 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • deane:

      No, the OWS miscreants and mendicants are comprised of wanna-be anarchists and communists, of course, and of people who have no respect for property, abhor the free market, are failures in their personal lives, begrudge any authority, and are generally malingerers in their work and families who have not throw them out.

    • 5 months ago
  • deane
    • +1
      deane  
    • Mishima:

      Failures in this country start at the top 1%, keep making up reasons to blame the 99%, you seem to know them so well in your opinions, when clearly you are out of touch with the working class.

    • 5 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • deane:

      Failures in this country have started from mistaken government policies. Go back to the "community reinvestment act" if you want to know the beginning - A government do-gooder misguided policy which stems from the other, and deeper, root of the problem: Liberalism.

      The Left has, more and more, insisted that the GOVERNMENT'S role is to manage the economy, and if things are not going perfectly well, it is GOVERNMENT'S responsibility to step in and do something.

      Well, Deane, they did: They pressured banks to give loans to people who could never pay them back, they over-regulated, the instituted Medicare, driving up medical costs 14% every year for its first 10 years. And they changed the concept of a government protecting rights that people are to EXERCISE to one that the government is to PROVIDE for the right. In other words, if one is having any financial or personal problems, it is the fault of something outside of oneself - society, greedy capitalists, oppression - and it is up to GOVERNMENT, not individuals, to set it alright.

      Thanks!

    • 5 months ago
  • deane
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • deane:

      No, Wall Street pays most of New York City's bills. But you and your comrades want it both ways, of course: Take down the "evil capitalists" - the source of government funding (they pay most of the taxes.. but don't tell your Lefto cohorts...shhhh.....) and get government "free" stuff. Hey FREE health care, FREE college tuition, FREE housing, FREE food.

    • 5 months ago
  • deane
    • 0
      deane  
    • Mishima:

      To hell with free stuff, gamblers on Wall Street should not be making incredibly more money than the working class. It is about narrowing the gap of income earners, stop destroying the middle class with corporate greed, and of course the top 1% pay the bills, because they control the capitalism in this country.

    • 5 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • deane:

      Please present the underlying principle that guides you in circumscribing "how much" people are ALLOWED to have.

      Be sure to add the following things in your explanation:

      1. How much is "too much?" Define it, please. I would like a number.

      2. WHO decides this?

      3. HOW is it ENFORCED? Just commandeer it? The FBI confiscates bank accounts over x amount, for instance? Or is there a special federal police force set up to requisition this "excess" wealth?

    • 5 months ago
  • deane
    • +1
      deane  
    • Mishima:

      If you understood the human condition I would not need to present you anything. People have the right to make as much as they want, nobody needs to decide or enforces it. My point is when the irresponsible and unethical among the greedy cause pain and suffering, in the working class, then the greedy deserves the blame. When we stop having welfare for the greedy (bailouts), stop having corporations controlling politics, then maybe we will have leverage for responsible wealth distribution within corporations.

    • 5 months ago
  • Mishima
  • Leen61
  • Mishima
    • -2
      Mishima  
    • Leen61:

      Yes, we need voter ID!

      It is unfortunate that some states are raising the minimum wage. It should be taken off the books: There should be no minimum wage at all.

    • 5 months ago
  • Leen61
  • Mishima
  • circlesquared
    • +5
      circlesquared  

    • The more people you can shake to with a well written perspective the better for the all of us...great post treewolf39. You said what many know and many are waking to. The control sometimes feels so physical and it is...the mind is definitely our advantage we are all connected through it, our hearts, souls and our planet...diverse perspectives combined for the good of each other and all is the goal.

    • 5 months ago
  • Incredulous
    • +4
      Incredulous  

    • seems the recuperation is going well for you treewolf....amazing clarity and spot on perspective in this post. Happy New Year, and keep 'em coming!

    • 5 months ago
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
    • +5
      Leen61  

    • This article says it all. Starting the New Year off with the truth is good. The 1%, with a great assist from the media, have succeeded in disenfrancising the bottom 99% while keeping it that way with their expert divide and conquer tactics.

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
    • +5
      JanforGore  

    • This may seem trite Treewolf, but through all of the adversities we see we still have our voices, our hearts, our hands and our resolve. Never ever allow what you see coming down to take away your hope. Look into the eyes of your daughter and see the future you want her to have and then go get it. You like me and so many others understand the stakes now. We know especially with our environment what we have done and what we now need to do in order to see the world they deserve. I admit I have days myself when I look with utter disgust upon the people of this country as a whole because what I see is apathy, distraction, gluttony and ego and I have expressed that especially regarding environmental issues which seem to get looked over because so many don't wish to see reality.

      However, people who lived years ago faced odds just as bad or worse than what we see today and they endured. Our children deserve better and the only way they will have a chance to have it is if we do not fall into despair. Keep dreaming and then doing. Keep loving and then living. Teach your daughter to do the same as I have done with my son and as so many have done and hopefully this next generation coming up will have that world you see. After what I saw at Durban with our youth, I do have hope that they see very clearly what the stakes are as well and they will not let us forget it. I intend to get out in the streets this spring and my son is coming with me. He is learning firsthand how to participate in this process to make change regardless of what certain elements try to do to intimidate free expression. So many before us gave up so much for us to fight those forces that still seek to keep us down. It's time now to do it again and this time we cannot fail. Have courage and believe in the light and never give up the fight.

      Oh, and we have access to mediums never even thought of in years past. Using them to spread awareness and education is imperative now. That is the other advantage we still have in this.

    • 5 months ago
  • MSII
    • +3
      MSII  
    • JanforGore:

      I've been thinking that 1 of the major reasons we have such apathy is because we have no community. All the much gloried/praised "mobility" (just meaning everyone's "free" to jump to the masters command and move where-ever at the drop of a hat for their precious holy jobs - that in this sick culture have replaced any "meaning") has killed community (people don't know their neighbors, there's often little-to-no connections/communications). Without community you don't have caring. It ends up a kind of law of the jungle, everyone un-caring, just out for themselves and to hell with anyone/thing that gets in the way.

    • 5 months ago
  • circlesquared
  • JanforGore
    • +1
      JanforGore  
    • MSII:

      Yes, sounds simple, but growing up we knew all of our neighbors and we all helped each other. It was quite a wonderful time to grow up in despite the troubles we had. We were poor, but we were happy and we had each other and worked together. I wish to see that spirit again.

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • treewolf39
  • remanns
    • +1
      remanns  

    • Well,....can you provide a Pantone color sample(s) for "brown people",.....I really cant decide if I am in agreement, or . . . .

    • 5 months ago
  • ReMarker
    • +2
      ReMarker  
    • remanns:

      Maybe treewolf saying 'non-white' instead of "brown" would have helped you. Personally, I got treewolf's meaning and think the grievances he expressed are legitimate.

    • 5 months ago
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • unimatrix0
  • treewolf39
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +5
      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • so other than a laundry list of whining, what does the author suggest be dione? too many are adding voices and not enough lending bodies to the cause. the sooner we all realize what tools to the machine we are, and how we must overthrow the current system of despots ruling us mercilessly, using us as labor and consumers while destroying our earth, keeping us at each others throats when we should be embracing all as part of humankind.. its disgusting. sadly here at current is no better, with people still falling into the 'our party is better, more honorable, than yours' when the facts are they are the same tools of the same machine.

    • 5 months ago
  • treewolf39
    • +4
      treewolf39  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      Many people have quit paying attention to the actual state of our nation the rest of the world. A lot of covered lies and bodies. a good post today is.....America: From the Road of Freedom to the Streets of Fascism released on YouTube. I don't have a solution but knowing the problems is a start.

    • 5 months ago
  • ThirdSection
    • +1
      ThirdSection  

    • Yes, we're living in troubled times, but as far as I can recall, all times are troubled. Despite all that, good things that are worthy of celebration somehow manage to continue to happen.

    • 5 months ago
  • eternal_springs
    • +3
      eternal_springs  
    • ThirdSection:

      "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
      ~A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

      Those words ring true today...I have great hope, however....we ARE the 99%

    • 5 months ago
  • Andover
  • Anonmaly
    • +6
      Anonmaly  

    • Actually, I'm not really feeling a division on "gays, the separation of church and state, and whether the brown people are going to take my job"

      I also tend to believe that allot of other people aren't so worried about those things...

      The enemy is greed.

      Other than the dismal outlook, it's spot-on...

    • 5 months ago
  • alexandrek
  • treewolf39
  • alexandrek
  • treewolf39
    • +1
      treewolf39  
    • alexandrek:

      I am no leader just lucky to be alive at the moment. I have seen nothing but the USA getting worse all my life. Some of my best friends are in Canada so I kind of hope that love of oil doesn't kill both countries. I have a young daughter who I would like to live in a caring world. You don't happen to know where the nice world is hiding do you?

    • 5 months ago
  • nikonwilly
  • MSII
  • MSII
    • +2
      MSII  
    • treewolf39:

      There are those nice sane social-democratic countries in europe... I know I personally look longingly at them! I think France and the french people seem to have a good sense that life is about living, and people and -NOT- about holy-dollar (praise Mammon!), and the corporate scum. But that current president of theirs seems hell-bent on turning them into some diseased amerikan clone so who knows... There are those wonderful Scandinavian countries...

    • 5 months ago
  • alexandrek
  • treewolf39
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • MSII:

      Utopianists conveniently forget the centuries of the exodus from Europe when many from there dreamed of going to America. People “cherry-pick” isolated pieces of information in different European countries – choosing only those that support their agenda for Statism – and ignore their “unintended” and accompanying consequences that necessarily follow. British National health care, for example, has resulted in rationing, and the French system of health care requires its citizens to contribute almost one-fifth of their gross incomes. European homes are expensive to buy and maintain, so fewer buy their own homes; the ones that the middle class do own are stiflingly small by American standards and without the land and conveniences we enjoy. In Europe, when people move, they have to register with the state, and in most countries, an average person owning a gun is unthinkable.

      A brief look at Europe itself since our colonial era shows a history of constantly moving borders, religious strife, changes in government and persecution. From where did all of the radical ideas and philosophies – the ones resulting in death, misery and poverty – originate? They originated in Continental Europe. Continental Europe brought not only religious wars, but later the radical and murderous French Revolution, Napoleon, Fascism, Nazism, Anarchism and the various forms of Marxism. And these spread to all corners of the world – from Continental Europe.

    • 5 months ago
  • MSII
    • +1
      MSII  
    • Mishima:

      Well you definitely have the "faux-noise channel" talking points (that is to say, lies) on scary commie-pinko-socialist-nanny-state-europe all down-pat, good for you, the cock brothers, err excuse me koch brothers must be very happy with you.

    • 5 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • MSII:

      Sorry to disappoint you, but I do not get American television in my home.

      I suggest turning off the Rachel MadCow show and not reading Huffington Post any more. Also, give up your electronic membership to Democracynow. If you stay away from that poison, your mind should clear up quickly, probably in just a couple of weeks.

    • 5 months ago
  • MSII
    • +1
      MSII  
    • Mishima:

      Yes let me just get ruppert murdocks Faux Noise channel propaganda in the vein like people like you, enough wrong-winger-troll I've heard enuff of your kinds lies to last a lifetime. You people are nothing but wannabees of the 1%, I have real news for you, they'll never let you in their club no matter how much you kiss their asses and kowtow.

    • 5 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -1
      Mishima  
    • MSII:

      No, we are for freedom. You and your kind are for control and conformity via the central government. In the 20th century, it was the Comintern, the Central Bureau and other forms; in America, you and your comrades extol the federal government.

      The private sector of the economy provides a countervailing force to your socialism and tendencies to despotism. You people want conformity and uniformity, enforced by the federal government you venerate.

    • 5 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • treewolf39
  • kennymotown
  • Mishima
  • KB723
  • treewolf39
  • KB723
treewolf39
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