Democracy In Distress

Friday, October 21, 2011

We're having a rapture... again... really? And another satellite is falling? Maybe it is the end of the world as we know it?

Forgive me if I keep my plans for tomorrow instead of dropping everything to prepare for post-rapture looting this time...

Then again, we've also got a satelite falling, making today a "two-fer"!

Retrovirus Lab: Playlist: When Stars and Gods Fall Burning to the Earth: "Soundtrack for the scheduled rapture & falling satellite today. "

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Democracy In Distress: Today is the day when A Man Comes Around... Rapture 2011!:
"Well, according to very few, that is. Personally, I'd be looking forward to a little looting, but I haven't been getting enough sleep the last couple weeks to feel up for the zombies that many others are predicting for today. Knowing life, that means zombies, surely.

I mock a lot, but this is why shit like this is actually very dangerous...

Pets Seized From Sonoma Co. Man Planning Pre-Rapture Killings May 20, 2011 11:57 PM

BOYES HOT SPRINGS (CBS 5) – On Friday night, animal control officials in Sonoma County seized three animals belonging to a man who planned to euthanize the pets ahead of Saturday’s predicted “Judgment Day.”
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“I plan to put my babies to sleep when the earthquake hits Denver,” said Tinker who thinks that a massive world-wide quake will signal the beginning of the end. “I don’t want them to suffer.”

Now, on with the mocking."

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Democracy In Distress: Heez'a comin' tomorraw?!? Really? The Rapture is on a Saturday? Naw.:
"Ah, shucks... I've got nothing to wear. Great quote from the billboard video: "This is how religion hurts people."

Now I know I shouldn't be mocking people's deeply held spiritual beliefs, but I have a hard time seeing this as really being a deeply held spiritual belief for most sane Christians.

Anyway, unless some words I said back in Assembly of God Sunday School back when I was in elementary school really do get me out of jail, er, hell for free, then I suppose I will be available for a good bit of post rapture looting."

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Rubble: UARS reminds me of Mir... (Updated!): "This whole deal with the re-entering satellite reminds me of [Mir], or the Wim Wenders movie Until the End of the World, though with less risk of the world ending."

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

"A Drug Against Wall Street" by KMFDM

Cross-posted from Retrovirus Lab:

KMFDM - A Drug Against Wall Street - YouTube:

In support of the October 15th Global Day Of Action KMFDM releases "A Drug Against Wall Street"

Download the free track and free printable poster here: http://kmfdm.net/adrugagainstwallstreet/

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The amount of epic this song has cannot be entered into ANY calculator.
mickaelx99 5 days ago

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Overall Tax Rate Vs. Income Chart - 1945-2008 & Other charts on the history of U.S. tax rates

The Daily Show: Scorn in the USA - Occupy Wall Street Protests, Tea Party Protests, & Hypocritical Conservative Sensitivities

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Republican Job Creation • Keeping Millions Unemployed To Put One Man Out of Work

Republican Job Creation • Keeping Millions Unemployed To Put One Man Out of Work:

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Analysis: Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on 84% of Americans

Daily Kos: Analysis: Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on 84% of Americans:

Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan would raise taxes on 83.8 percent of American taxpayers, most of the middle- and lower-income families and individuals. But while it would represent a new burden on most Americans, it would also be a massive tax cut for the super-rich.

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84% would pay more under Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan - Oct. 18, 2011:

According to the Tax Policy Center, households with incomes below $30,000 would have, on average, between 16% and 20% less in after-tax income than they do today.

By contrast, households making more than $200,000 would see their after-tax income grow by between 5% and 22% on average.

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oH HELLS YeAH! Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit

From 2011-05 (May)

Sorry for the french, but NO FUCKING SHIT!

Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit:
"A majority of Americans say, for the first time ever, that this generation will not be better off than its parents." —New York Magazine

Generation X is sick of your bullshit.

The first generation to do worse than its parents? Please. Been there. Generation X was told that so many times that it can't even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder's voice in its heads. Or maybe it's Ethan Hawke's. Possibly Bridget Fonda's. Generation X is getting older, and can't remember those movies so well anymore. In retrospect, maybe they weren't very good to begin with.

But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.

Generation X wasn't surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.

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