If you’re a striking worker and the GOP gets there way (and let’s be
honest, it’s not like we have a labor supported democratic president
to stop this visciousness). You allready can’t get food stamps for
yourself if you’re in an academic college program (you can for your
kids though). So let’s add another class of ‘bad’ poor people to the
list of folks who should starve to death. Poor college students who
try to rise above their station by getting an actual degree instead of
a technical certificate, striking union families who try to rise above
their station by demanding fair compensation. Man, it seems like the
only thing you get when you actually do pull yourself up by your boot
straps is an empty plate.

Oh, it’s Hillary’s fault that Obama went into yet another war (without congressional consent). So far I’ve read the the Great O was “nagged” into bombing Libya, that he’s an “effete” dude who let the foreign affairs girls “henpeck” him into bombing, etc. etc. etc.

Look, I like Hillary. I think she would have made a better president (or at least we would have had a better healthcare plan and someone in the executive branch who can at least spit out the word poverty) but she’s way more hawkish than I am. But she’s never denied that, unlike Obama. He pretended to be the anti-war president, but instead of ending either of the two official wars we’re fighting, he’s added a third. He is the president. The buck stops with him. That’s true for the both international relations and domestic policy. If he really is anti-war, like he claimed to be in the primaries, then he’s one giant leaking diaper of a coward if he can’t stand up to his own cabinet. But I think it’s worse than just cowardice. He’s an opportunist who uses the words people wants to hear regardless of what he actually intends. If he was really as concerned about giving opportunity to the protesters screaming for democracy across the Middle East and North Africa, then Bahrain, Yemen, Morocco, etc would also be getting the straifing treatment. But those countries have either oil and a friendly (to us) dictator or no oil and why the fuck should we care. Libya is the only country where foreign military presence means actual spoils for the foreigners. That’s why we’re bombing. That’s exactly what an opportunist does, uses the hearstring pull of possible democracy to explain why we’re bombing, while really he just wants to drink Libya’s milkshake.

So liberal dudes and conservative whiners alike, you can all quityerwhining that Obama is some pussy-whipped dude. Chill with the sexism and perhaps your fucking critiques will hold a little more water. (Because if you have to resort to sexism, racism, etc etc to make your argument, then your argument wasn’t true to begin with).

and by ‘they’ i mean both republifuckers and democrats, they would
start talking about child support enforcement. Per the last census (i
can’t read the 2010 census on my phone) 70 percent of all child
support cases in this country have a past due balance and in many
states over 50 percent of all cases haven’t seen a payment in over a
year. Woman are logical creatures, and since a huge number of women
who have abortions are already mothers, perhaps they are having
abortions because they already know the partners aren’t going to pay
their fair share. The last time any politician talked seriously about
child support collection was Bill Clinton in the mid 1990’s. But child
support falls mainly on the shoulders of manly men, and heaven forbid
a politician of either party shame them for failing to do their part.
Shame is a women only business in politics.

Fucking AT&T, purveyors of extremely high-priced yet crappy cell
service, is buying T-mobile. I love T-Mobile. There service is great
and their prices are cheap-ish. they are decidely more expensive than
craptastic prepaid services, but it’s worth it as their product is
vastly superior. Or at least it was until fucking AT&T decided to buy
it. There will now be only one gsm cell phone service in the country
and really just 2 major nationwide cell phone companies, AT&T amd
Verizon (I’m not counting Sprint. Nobody counts Sprint). I know the
freemarketeers like to blather about competition, but where the fuck
is it? We pay more for cell phone service than Europeans & Asians and
have crappier quality to boot. And in a year I’m going to be faced
with jacked up rates and crappier service because we like utility
company monopolies. Fuckers.

You know, i’m still super peeved the Bush2 started the Iraq war on
MYFUCKINGBIRTHDAY 8 years ago. It was the one thing the Obama actually
had over Bushy. He didn’t start any wars on my birthday. Till today.
But really, I don’t need bombs over Libya to celebrate 36. A nice
bottle of spanish cava, gift certificates for bedding and cookeware,
or if you really want to be extravagant a jobs program, but bombing
yet another fucking country for humanitarian( read oil) reasons is a
gift I can neither use nor return. March 19th really needs to stop
being your go to date for bombing.

seen on facebook this morning: What’s the difference between our big
interstate banks and a mafia skimming organization? The mafia doesn’t
have atms.

In my addled brain I managed to forget the other big important thing
that today represents.
It’s the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. 8 years in, no
end in sight. Shock and awe and mission accomplished. Do you think at
the Democratic convention in 2012 that the Obots chanting 4 more years
will be chanting it for Obama or for MOAR WAR!!!!!!!

babowdadump
It’s my blogs birthday too
babowdadump

Seriously, it’s been 36 years on this planet, but the last 5 have been
vastly improved by my friends in bloglandia. Thank you all.

go read the So That’s What They Meant By The War On Poverty link in my reader.
Hey you know who would be going to jail right fucking now if that law
happens? ME! I get food stamps and medicaid and I have $22.19 in my
purse right now. Omg peeps, I’m a criminal. I’m worser than rapists
and murderers and CEOs. I deserve jail. I totally do, because I am
obviously defrauding the government (though i report all my income to
both the Irs and DSHS and the numerous assistance programs that
require not just proof of income but for me to sign away my right to
privacy and allow them to monitor any bank accounts I have AND I pay
15.2% taxes on all of it) but I have cash so I must be doing something
illegal. Won’t someone think of the child(ren)? It’s so obvious that
the kid would be better off in some Dickensian group home than living
with a hardened criminal like myself.

A few days ago I went and looked at the most perfect apartment. great
location, 2 bedrooms, washer/dryer, dishwasher, and killer views from
the back deck. But it’s a little pricey. Well, actually for what it is
in Seattle it’s below the market average, but a little pricey if
you’re poor. I told the owner I’d get back to him after I talked to
the ‘program lady’ (i/e my caseworker). I dashed off a quick email and
waited. And waited. And waited. I finally got a call a few minutes ago
and instead of getting a straight up answer, i got a fingerwaging
paternalistic, ‘now Elizabeth do you really think that’s an
appropriate amount of your budget to spend on rent’. I was the told to
go look for something cheaper in 2 neighborhoods I wouldn’t feel safe
letting the Kid walk around in. She could have said ‘the top end of
what our program will cover is X’ without the fucking condescension,
but I’m poor so heaven forbid I go a day without someone condescending
to tell me how to live.