However, and I say this in all Christian love and fellowship, the Clan of the Red Beanies has got to go, and that means everyone up to and including the guy who got elected by all the other red beanies to wear the big white beanie and sit in the Chair of Peter. The institutional Church is corrupt, root and branch, and it needs to be taken to pieces and sold for parts. At this point, it is little more than an elaborate international conspiracy to obstruct justice that also happens to have a really good art collection.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Holy Mother Church
Stolen entire from the ever-entertaining Charlie Pierce:
As ye sew, so shall ye fail to reap, apparently
Well the racist shitheels in Alabama* have passed & had enforced new rules to ensure maximum legal hostility to illegal immigrants, including making it a felony for an illegal immigrant to have any dealings with the apparatus of the state (applying for a drivers license, requesting water deliveries, etc), making it permissible for police to check immigration status on a traffic stop, and forcing schools to check the immigration status of children's parents.**
Of course, this has had a predictable and desired (by the Alabama swinefest) result, that illegal Hispanic immigrants have been leaving the state in droves. Of course, non-brown-skinned immigrants dont even get questioned or harassed, so they aren't leaving.
This has also had a predictable and somehow unexpected effect, that the farmers using immigrant labour, are unable to get their crops harvested.
Apparently americans aren't willing to work that long and hard for not very much money, and farmers aren't prepared to push up the wages to overcome that. So much for free labor markets
Of course, if the reich-wing get their way in California, Arizona & Texas, the same problems will multiply afresh ... California, being so dependant on illegal immigrant labour for a huge variety of farm, sanitation, & service staff, could just about grind to a halt. Excellent idea, guys, well done.
*among several other states, but this is the one being reported on atm
** I dont see how these things could stand up to examination under the US Constitution but given the savage lawbreakers and vile criminals that make up the bench of the SCOTUS, anything is possible. I give you, forex, Bush v Gore.
Of course, this has had a predictable and desired (by the Alabama swinefest) result, that illegal Hispanic immigrants have been leaving the state in droves. Of course, non-brown-skinned immigrants dont even get questioned or harassed, so they aren't leaving.
This has also had a predictable and somehow unexpected effect, that the farmers using immigrant labour, are unable to get their crops harvested.
Apparently americans aren't willing to work that long and hard for not very much money, and farmers aren't prepared to push up the wages to overcome that. So much for free labor markets
Spencer said that of more than 50 people he recruited for the work, only a few worked more than two or three days, and just one stuck with the job for the last two weeks.
Of course, if the reich-wing get their way in California, Arizona & Texas, the same problems will multiply afresh ... California, being so dependant on illegal immigrant labour for a huge variety of farm, sanitation, & service staff, could just about grind to a halt. Excellent idea, guys, well done.
*among several other states, but this is the one being reported on atm
** I dont see how these things could stand up to examination under the US Constitution but given the savage lawbreakers and vile criminals that make up the bench of the SCOTUS, anything is possible. I give you, forex, Bush v Gore.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Right on the money
A slightly modified quote:
“Since the financial aristocracy make the laws, is at the head of the administration of the state, has command of all the organised public authorities, dominates public opinion through the actual state of affairs and through the press, the same prostitution, the same shameless cheating, the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere, from Wall Street to the meanest suburbs to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others.
“Since the financial aristocracy make the laws, is at the head of the administration of the state, has command of all the organised public authorities, dominates public opinion through the actual state of affairs and through the press, the same prostitution, the same shameless cheating, the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere, from Wall Street to the meanest suburbs to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others.
A slightly modified quote: Sound like modern-day America? Well, it's Karl Marx' critique of France in 1848, just pre-revolution
or as Spinoza put it: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
or as Spinoza put it: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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