Wow, it’s looking like the only thing on the planet with a lower approval rating than Bush is the 2008 Olympics. Yet another downer in the hell hole far-right wingnuts have made of the country.
Americans just need a pick-me-up so I’m going to start planning the War Criminals Olympics; Waterboarding, the White Phosphor Relay, Grecko Roman Butchering and American Football. Cheney will win gold in every event despite suffering 17 heart attacks. As an added bonus the economy will also turn around as manufacturers will switch from making those awesome SUV ribbon magnets to giant foam fingers that proudly proclaim that the USA is, in fact, number one.
I heard there was a place in Times Square in NYC that sold gummy bears the size of your head. Probably FAO Schwartz. That place rocks! You know… for the gummy bears.
BBC News is running an article discussing how scientists have been able to take control of fruit fly brains to make females behave just like males. Another complete waste of government funding, but hey, grant research pays pretty damn well. So when does the military admit it’s already utilizing this technology and has sent Ann Coulter into the American populace as an agent of destruction?
Tomorrow is Anchorage’s municipal election; half-assed self-serving bond proposals and the filling of assembly seats held formerly by corrupt bastards with new bastards looking for their $250 checks. Ironically timed considering our local assembly is one hell of an April Fool’s Day joke. Though I think there’s another vote to be cast that’s gone largely unnoticed. The vote to kick the anti-union capitalists out of our energy co-op.
Chugach, in the past, has been run under the ideal of high-reliability and a robust preventative maintenance program making for the best, and most affordable, service possible for it’s members. Well, that’s all changed. The travesty that is the current board is working to end all of that. From their insistence on running Chugach as a lowest-possible-price for power provider to their public scapegoating of the IBEW, these anti-union right-wingnuts will stoop to any low to retain control of your power.
Their most recent round of shenanigans includes a plan to eviscerate the preventative maintenance program to save money and a plan to use MEA as a business model for Chugach in the future. Separately each of these moves would devastate the quality of service consumers have come to enjoy, but combined we’ll have rolling blackouts, 6-10 outages of two hours of more per year and likely countless outages of 15 minutes or less. If you don’t know believe me, ask anyone with MEA as a provider.
For me the deciding factors have been the complete disregard for all forms of alternative energy and the fact that I don’t trust anyone who states unequivocally to not trust a union. Of course all unions have their issues, but I’m pro-union, the last hope of the American middle-class, so anyone who paints them as being evil and scapegoats them for their own ill deeds won’t ever get my vote.
We can’t let these bastards degrade the power grid we’ve worked this hard to make so robust. We can’t allow them to scapegoat our local union for the sad state they’ve put the co-op in. We can’t tolerate a board that refuses to explore clean, renewable and affordable energy sources. Most of all we can’t allow them to drag Chugach into the gutter where they can work to privatize it allowing them to use our money as their own personal bank accounts as we huddle together for warmth during another all too long winter blackout. Vote the sons of bitches out!
“I remember my last trip to Houston. The stench of ash and death in the air from the aftermath of the terrorist nuclear weapon smuggled into the country in a shipping container. We had to run for cover under a hail of gunfire from marauding teams of flesh-eating mutants and crazed rape gangs.”
Oh, sorry, I misspoke.
This is a picture of a Bornean Bearded Pig. Fun fact: if you do a Google image search for ‘bearded pig’, the 22nd result is a pic of Cameron Diaz.
Awesome. Go here and download episode 1×09 of Disney’s Gummi Bears. Everyone’s favorite story of a gang of anthropomorphic bears who have an underground meth lab.
Found this article over at Seeking Alpha discussing the looming collapse of the US monetary system. From the article:
“The Federal Reserve Dollar may be in for another big punch. Gulfnews banking editor Babu Das Augustine has raised the possibility that OPEC may switch from dollars to another currency, furthermore reducing the demand for the Dollar which gets shunned by more and more oil producing countries. Iran only accepts Euros or Yen and Venezuela dumped the greenback while countries in the gulf region move their funds away from it too.”
Basically, the US is up a certain river without a certain paddle. All the while the government refuses to investigate the $4 Trillion missing from the Pentagon. I think Rumsfeld took it. Most likely bought himself a plane to escape.
