BP and treaties

watching Senator Al Franken ask the oil guy, jack coleman, about oil drilling is so eductional. the oil guy is like a oil sheen of sleaze sloshing around the room. Franken: "I don't understand your reaction."

drones like coleman will fight for treaties and pre american sovereignty, i'm sure. shareholders, my sweet ass. if the government can screw nii mii puus on their TREATY, what makes your damn contract worth anythingG?!

cspan is killing me.

Another oil industry fail and i'm helpless until i'm on my bike

most of us are just barely getting by and then this oil disaster happens and no one can be serious enough about it to stop our use of oil. we have to act by doing that one big thing, getting out of our cars. don't ask me how to do it, because usually i'm bus bound but all i have to do is fix the bike tire and i'm out on the street, free and happy to pedal slowly down the street. yeah, everything is a hassle but in place of marching or riding down there and trying to express my rage and grief, may or may not have an effect, depending on the plan and your willingness for giving your life to it. until i can do something real without so much rage and grief, i can ride my bike or walk while i still can. it's just too much stress to watch what is happening and not do something, however small.

as for something large, everyone has a dream and since no one else can express it, that has to be the other action i take, then take it from there. the only problem is, no one will be interested in my dream unless others have it, but strangely, i believe there must be others who can help me elucidate it, make it real. who and where will i find them?

mathematically unintelligent = suckers

buffett shows some respect, for Brooksley Born! he is afraid of someone for once. these hearings are a joke otherwise.

buff is looking at holtz-eakin like he's viewing a frog mating.

what the hell does "estimable" mean? the deference given buff is so naked and frankly, nauseating. what does "there is UTILITY in the model" mean? sounds like he's saying, "we can make money, so the model works."

got to stop watching before i throw something.

Weird obsession

Okay, so i watch congressional hearings. i admit i track the stock market and thought i could pick them if i had to. luckily, i have never had the money to invest and simply hope our state pension has some funds in it when we retire - at least enough to bury each other. the credit rating agencies are on today. it's like waiting for a blood match for an ultimate fighter. you want to watch even though the whole thing absolutely Horrifies you! today, the special match even has warren buffett to harrumph through the questioning, knocking out anyone in his path with "sage". the bp guy and the moody's guy are morphing into the enron guy and the madoff guy and, holy shit, WTF!? is there some culture of ultimate stupidity that we have to fight too?

any minor thing i do that is "illegal"? hard to care when no one is ever accountable for anything, especially if you have money. so here i sit, mostly law abiding except for the green, and if i get caught, Criminal! and jail. life in these united states is NOT fair.

invoke sovereignty and take our country back! we can't possibly do any worse than the crazed invaders have. watching them, especially buffett, turns my stomach. they are human oil spill. cspan ROCKS!

we're just a bunch of sludgey mother fuckers sleazing around! i have always felt that i was the dumbest one around, so i hide my ignorance by not writing, by not speaking out because i think everyone else knows, everyone else has the resources and time but no, not me. shit! now i know everyone else is just as fucking STUPID as i am! i don't how to express all this anger without swearing but i will in deference to my partner who hates my alley talk. i love it but oh well, i'm used to censoring myself, that is the whole point, right?

some idiot went to law school and all they get to do is be sleazy!? a guy goes to business school and all they get to do is become welfare queens!? you decide you're going to be in government at miserable rates and all you can do is let lobbyists screw you?!

there's got to be somebody who can do a job without selling their soul.

no one chooses to starve, but to be so acquisitive, against ALL logic, is suicide for us. what we do is act like we want to live here, act like we want clean air and water. simple.

AIG hearing on CSPAN

It is so instructive to actually hear the suits get together and explain to each other how fucked up they are. "De-leverage and De-risk the company!?" what the hell is up with an entire system of people basing EVERYTHING on "good risk management and planning?!" How does a naked short sale work? is it the same fucking thing that happened when we were forced to sign treaties? how and why some tribes signed treaties for others and all were forced to comply and all lost almost everything? This kind of greed and mendacity are rampant but by no means "new."

we created this world together, i have to keep reminding myself of that. now we have to fix it, together. how does one person start? tell me.

This earth is NOT "bounty"!

Another word or phrase i take issue with because what else can i do? just die, ay? Listening to our president explain to us how we will stop shitting on ourselves. earth is literally our mother and is not FOR us. merde! i'm enraged again, same as when some suit says "going forward, blah, blah, blah.", or another says, "we want to MAKE SURE blah, blah, blah."

is this what "forked" tongue means?

speaking of wall street, on american greed, a woman says, (paraphrase) "what did i learn? don't trust a man wearing an expensive suit and italian loafers."

today govt (via the Minerals Management Service and Obama) and wall street (arrggj!) got mixed up in my head. not a great combination to make something positive, got to try, AND die trying!

is this what being the fool who sold Manhattan for a string of beads feels like?