compare and contrast

wall street had its highest level of compensation last year, 125
billion dollars. and the market is all gangbuster bullish again. BP is
scewing over everyone who needs and deserves compensation from their
disaster. and the fed thinks that raising food prices ain't no big
thing for us little people.
meanwhile, states are avoiding bankruptcy by scewing over poor people,
disabled people, people trying to educate themselves or their kids.
there's riots in puerto rico over tuition hikes that no one's talking
about. no one's even talking about foreclosures anymore, though they
are expected to keep rising.
and the politicians can't seem to get their noses brown enough in the
backsides of the crooks who really run the country.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

oh for fucks sake

washington state is now going to CUT TANF cash benefits by 15% for
everyone in order to balance the budget.
funny, during all those years of surplus no one ever suggested raising
the benefit amounts to keep up with inflation. The benefit has been
the same for at least the last 15 year. it didn't get raised during
the gogo 90s or during the real estate bubble. but it's the first
thing to cut during bad times. and all this from a democratic governor
in a 'progressive' blue state. it's okay washingtonians, the poor will
baile your asses out, we always do.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

food and fuel

Just about every account I've read of the reasons behind the protests
from Tunisia to Jordan involve people being righteously pissed about
the rising costs of food and fuel. (I also read that Berneke's
quantative easing was a huge reason for the rise in commodities prices
and at least Egypt's food price spike). I'm not surprised. hungry
people, or even people who are scared of being hungry, suddenly have a
lot less tolerance for the excesses of the upper class. it's why 'Let
them eat cake' is one of the few things we thin we know about the
french revolution persists.
what does that mean for us 'MEricans? we've still got aways to go
before the hunger pangs reach past the bottom 20%, but it's coming. it
might even come faster if claire mckaskill's craptastic budget bill
passes and kills any possibility of the government being able to do
anything other than pay the salaries of the douchebags in the tacky
blue suits.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

You know what today needs

Another post about eye candy

Mads Mikkelsen- the hottest man in Denmark

Ming Tsai- chef I'd like to.......have dinner with.

Alex Lanipekun and Richard Armitage in MI-5, a show whose name really ought to be changed to "hot dudes that do Englishy spy stuff and make RQ wobbly kneed"

So peeps- who are you drooling over at the moment?

Dear Simply Ming:

I love you for these 4 reasons.
1. you are hoooot. really freakin hot. especially since you got rid of
the long bangs douchebag hair.
2. you regularly cook with you mom, which is adorable.
3. you just spent 3 minutes of your show explaining why you don't burn
garlic. this is my biggest cooking show pet peeve. if people learned
to cook from cooking shows then all garlic would be bitter grossness,
except for you.
4. you caught yourself calling all of your audience 'guys' and
corrected by adding 'and gals'. you didn't erase all us lady types
into defualt maleness or infantilize us by using 'girls'. it's a small
step towards equality and it just cemented my adoration.
sincerely,
rq

--
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

bwahahahaha

One of the tv preachers populating my non-cable television this
morning (1 news show, pbs doing cartoons, a fishing show, 2 paid
programs and 8 fucking tv preachers) has decreed that bed bugs are an
obvious sign of the apocalypse.

Dies this mean that we need to smear lamb's blood on our apartment
doors until the rapture so we can gaurantee ourselves pest free sleep?
Are bed bugs repelled by the act of kneeling bedside to say prayers?
have the beds of therighteous been sparred or must they suffer with us
heathens untill paradise beckons?

--
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

The measure of a person is not what they would kill for

but what the would die for. i keep thinking about the difference
between the murdering douchenozzle in Arizona and the protests in
Tunisia and EGypt, protests started by people so frustrated by
government corruption that the literally became the spark that ignites
revolution by lighting themselves on fire. It should make us all feel
a wee bit better about the violent rhetoric of the right. we know that
when they turn that rhetoric into action they lose legitimacy. they
aren't willing to sacrifice themselves for a better world, but they
are willing to sacrifice others. becuase of that, we know their
measure and it is too small to matter in the grand scheme.

--
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning