Tag Archives: Eat The Rich

Canadian pharmaceutical billionaires executed. Can Americans import that?

William Jennings Bryan said “No one can earn a million dollars honestly.” He was riffing Balzac: “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.” Big Pharma billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman stole $3.2 billion via a string of great crimes. … Continue reading

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Storm Bastille. Load Guillotine. Done.

Tax cuts for the rich. Higher deficit interest to the bankers. Less healthcare, Social Security and safety net for you. Ceaseless war for corporate imperialists, continued resource extraction for climate depopulation, and more austerity for the middle class. 21st Century … Continue reading

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What’s wrong with privatizing public resources? Quite a lot, actually…

(Editor’s note: Some Colorado Springs councilmen don’t see anything wrong with leasing public assets for private profit. Is there anything wrong with that?)   Well, let’s see. The City Council is so top heavy with Real Estate Brokers including Princess … Continue reading

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Another Katrina looms, exposed by leaks

But not Wiki leaks. Nay, what is leaking is a supposedly inspected and approved levee in Missouri. Much like the bridge falling into the Mississippi in Minnesota three short years ago, much like the Cimarron street bridge over Fountain Creek/Monument … Continue reading

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Brand New Rope Syndrome.

The simple part of this is that before being elected, one of our New Royal Court in City Hall, one Councilman Leigh, had an accident in a parking lot where he hit two people, one of them an INFANT And … Continue reading

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Crime and Punishment and The CSCS Baby Killing Award

Tony wrote a piece about the ambiguous nature of prosecution in America, a DA can decline to prosecute anybody, or so it seeeeeeeems and somebody felt it amusing to write in offering to have sex with him. On the other … Continue reading

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Republicans trying for another vote-fraud power grab in Wisconsin

supposedly, in a last minute miracle, Prosser and Scott Walker and their Corporate Overlords were SAVED by 7200 extra votes, all Republican, misplaced by Human Error. Oh, please. Walker, Prosser, other Koch-worshipers, you’re pathetic beyond belief.

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Frank Bator and Princess Lisa Czeladtko

I went to his memorial service at Marian House 6 years ago. He had died in his trailer home, alone, and the body not discovered for about a week. There were a few people attending, some of the staff at … Continue reading

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GE, Corporate Govt Contractor Profiteer, presents us…

…with a tax bill. for a 3.2 BILLION dollar refund. This after record profits from  offshored jobs and the tax breaks from doing that hiring a bunch of new people where even those HERE won’t get full pay and benefits … Continue reading

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Scott Walker, Koch-Licker Supreme, strikes again

In a measure not just skirting state constitution, but directly contravening it, the Anti-Workers Rights law was published Friday. Not even bothering anymore to hide their vicious agenda to deprive workers of freedom. The only “right” workers will have is … Continue reading

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Ballot Caging and the real difference between D and R

The R’s don’t want people to vote. More people politically active, means they lose. Very simple. You might ask yourself Self, what’s the worst that could happen? What’s the difference between a D and an R? What real difference does … Continue reading

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Labor Rally In Austin commemorated Fallen Workers

For those who think Disabled Workers complain too much about how we’re cast out by society, these are mock coffins carried to commemorate the ones who are now forever silent and can no longer complain about how deregulated workplaces, Union … Continue reading

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$1Million/foot with 7ft thrown in free

The agricultural minister of Equitorial Guinea, son of the president-for-life, Teodorin Obiang, has ordered the second most expensive yacht to date. Eclipsed only be the very over-the-top yacht of Russian mobster Roman Abramovich.The money comes from Exxon-Mobil, is anybody surprised? … Continue reading

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What happens to Outsourced (Steve) Jobs workers…

a Taiwan manufacturer of touch-screens ordered a switch from wood alcohol as a cleaning solvent to n-hexane. Hexane is a petrochemical that’s more volatile than gasoline (octane) but won’t dissolve plastic and rubber like the in-between number heptane. Think mono, … Continue reading

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Associated Press Financial Tips from Yahoo news

401k, the Republican Privatized answer to Social Security. Tanking. You won’t get enough out of your 401k and soon-to-be-privatized Social Security to pay either mortgage or rent, so suck it up. (Our CEO is doin’ jes fine, He has a … Continue reading

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TeaBag Heroin (she’s a Dope) Palin exploiting her kids again…

The latest episode had HER royal lowness being booed on a celebrity dance competition show in which she wasn’t a participant, her Daughter Bristol was. Bristol who would rightfully be the Poster Child for “Abstinence only” sex education. Her son … Continue reading

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Wasn’t the Recession simply terrible?!

From the infamous 1931 sign above a bread-and-soup line showing a happy smiling family smartly dressed riding in their new car… Dow Jones doesn’t “slide” below 10k… it “plunges.” OOPS. The accompanying picture on AP shows a bunch of floor … Continue reading

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Goldman Sachs hires ethics advisers, forms committee to study legal aspects of their investments.

You know, a company as large and old as that would have done something like that Centuries ago. If they’d any intent of actually following any kinds of ethical or legal standard guidelines. “Well, Gosh dang it, fellers, we just … Continue reading

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11 more miners killed, 64 still missing

That might not include the 20 in the rescue party with whom contact was lost. A second explosion has now been reported at the Raspadskaya mine near Mezhdurechensk, and contact has been lost with a team of 20 rescuers. Mezhdurechensk, … Continue reading

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The New Romans

These were just on the TV about a half hour ago. bacon-cinnamon roll Deep-fried Coca-Cola A Chocolate Milkshake served in a what looked like a brandy snifter in size only conical like a martini glass, with barbecue sauce on the … Continue reading

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Eat the Rich, redux.

A friend of mine asked on another forum what could possibly be done with the cannibalistic practices of Wall Street Speculators. The answer is simple: make a meal of the issue. When the airborne fecal material violently contacts the rotary … Continue reading

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Singin’ the Bail-out blues…

..except nothing that ugly could possibly be put to music.. There’s a massive effort from the Far Right to blame the Liberals, blame the Working poor (whispered rumors are that it’s those MINORITIES) when the evidence has been staring us … Continue reading

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JUST SAY NO to the WS Bailout Bandits

MEET -AFTER WORK- TUESDAY at the corner of SMITH BARNEY and MORGAN STANLEY, where DAIN RAUSCHER meets BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON at the Plaza of the Rockies Building. That’s where Colorado Springs needs to voice its objections to a bailout for … Continue reading

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EAT THE RICH!

My favorite visual from Thursday’s Wall Street action: EAT THE RICH, invoking Peter Richardson’s Class War cult classic. The bastards are making a grab for $700 BILLION in this salvo. Which proposition is the more preposterous?   What’s with the … Continue reading

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