Mr. Disproportionate Response

The silver lining: thousands of Americans took out new lines of credit and other loans that will add to the increasing monthly bill, while their wages (if they are lucky to be employed) decline in real (and nominal) terms, or have less and less emergency unemployment benefits left. Thus money which could have been spent more efficiently to pay down consumer debt, ended up propping bank balance sheets, with the blessing of the President, whose primary agenda purposes are to i) recreate the credit/housing bubble and ii) to transfer any and all residual middle class wealth into the coffers of Wall Street, not necessarily in that order.

Excerpt from ZeroHedge. For the full article and a great graph, click here.

This excerpt really says it better than I ever could. The Cash for Clunkers program has come and gone, and left the average joe with (who could have guessed?!) some problems. Instead of a lasting, valuable means of getting credit and commerce flowing in general, our government created a program that promoted going out and adding big ticket items to a lot of already full plates. Full plates, I might add, that could end up unemployed, and contributing to any number of unpleasant financial scenarios…. Imagine the housing crisis, but with some thirteen million new cars.

In the short term, bank books look good. In the mid-term, a lot of people end up without their cars and the financing companies take a hit as people default on their new auto loans when people lose jobs, find that their new car and/or insurance is too expensive, et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. And in the long-term? We have a few million people who had perfectly reliable (or at least sort-of reliable) transportation who’ve given that up, gotten a new car, lost that new car, and now have no means to continue to work as they did.

More idle hands and idle mouths. More people tired, fed up, desperate. More people willing to sell themselves out, to be taken care of by Big Government. And in the end? More people willing to submit to control. Really, I used to point and laugh at the people like Alex Jones and his various listeners and whatnot. Being a part of a doomer community kinda leads to bumping into their sort more often than not, but… With this crazy shit that I’m seeing, I have to give them a little bit of a nod. While the powers that be might NOT be tuning the populace for control, there certainly are a lot of things in place that could easily turn to that end.

No, no… just kidding. I think that I’d likely chew off one of my own testicles to get my hands on one of these new Mercedes. I’ll write more about it later, but until then, check out their official site, here.

Yeah, look around, look around. Things have changed. Again. I’ve finally decided to pony up the dough to get the URL for the website. Note that we’re now at the http://www.mrdisproportionateresponse.com domain. Woohoo for all of that. Also, I’m working on some new themes, trying to find a look that says, “Yes, I would love to brush your hair, but I’m going to do it with a flamethrower.”

I think that the current layout captures this, but the main content column is TOO BLOODY NARROW. So, I’m going to be tweaking this theme OR looking for another one, and will try to have this looking all nice and pretty-like by Monday, as I’ll soon be adding links to my favorite goodies from Amazon to the sidebar. How can I sell you cool gadgets, if it looks like I can’t tie my server’s shoes? GAH!

MDR, out.

Aaah.. ACORN, how I loathe the… let me count the ways. Our favorite charity/lobby organization is tagged again by our favorite not-pimp and not-hooker smuggling their not-girls from South America. This time, they hit the office in San Bernardino, CA. I know I’ve only listed the one prior video from Baltimore, so if you’ve not been keeping score, this guy has gotten help and instruction on how to set up a prostitution and human trafficking business in order to raise money to get into congress at ACORN facilities in:

Brooklyn, NY
Washington, D.C.
Baltimore, MD
San Bernardino, CA

More information is available at http://biggovernment.com/

Of special interest is the San Bern video, where our darling lobbyist explains how she planned and set up the grounds for killing her husband and making it “self defense,” how she threatens and coerces her neighbors, and how she involves and deals with elected officials to get what she and ACORN want…

UPDATE: CNN and FOX News has reported that ACORN has instituted a hiring freeze, special training, and other organizational changes in response to the “pimp/hooker” videos. On the one hand, I appreciate that they’re making efforts–but given that they’ve been involved in investigations of fraud and other shenanigans, I have absolutely NO faith that they’re going to institute any changes that MATTER. What I want? Simple: Investigations at the highest level of the organization. Arrests. Prison sentences.

…I won’t hold my breath.

People who know me are familiar with my passionate avoidance and disdain of sunlight. What most don’t know, but some have seen, is the sheer excitement that comes with autumn. Today, as I left my train, I stepped out of the tunnel, saw the light spilling down the alley where I catch my shuttle to the office, and stepped fully into it, eager to bask in the light.

The sun was rising over the cascades and was tinted a color of gold that only comes with those mild, breezy mornings that speak of pumpkins and spices and leaves changing color. It warns of cooler nights, gentler and more frequent rains, and tells a tale of snows to come. Memory is stirred and a torpid heart sets to beating again. Two score and ten years’ autumns are recalled, and in that moment as the cool, gilded light embraces me, I am alive.

I’ll suffer through the madness and despair that are my life for the other nine months, just so I can have a morning like today’s once a year.

Yeah. That’s right.

The wonderful people at ACORN, receiving an insane amount of money from the government and one of the groups closely tied to Mr. Obama’s name gave this lovely couple advice and assistance in:

Such a lovely group of people, empowered by the government and the trust of large groups of people, using their power to further not just their own goals, but those of the people in their community–even if those people happen to be pimps who want to run for congress.

See it all in living color, here:

Seriously? What the fuck.

Okay, so… I was watching Cloverfield recently, when it came to one of the, “omgscared” scenes. It’s the scene where everyone’s walking down the street and everything’s quiet, when suddenly, the monster roars and appears in front of them. Then, from behind, there’s a full military mobilization with mechanized troops and armor.

Being a veteran, a horror fan, and someone who thinks too much about things that need no thinking, this got me to thinking… While I was in the military, we always practiced and made ourselves ready to repel a conventional or guerrilla force. We were constantly made ready to defend ourselves against a nuclear, biological, or chemical attack. We had weapons and intel and special suits to deal with all of this.

There IS no anti-giant-monster suit. If a giant aberration appeared and began wreaking havoc on an area, and I was called in as part of a troop movement to combat this threat, what would I do? How would I feel? How would I react? I mean, in the movie sense, there’s always some way to resolve the situation. But in reality, staring up at the sheer horror of a 40-story-tall beast, how does one respond?

I’m still stuck. I think that I’d follow orders and go TO the fight, but upon seeing something like that and the ineffectiveness of our weapons against it, I don’t know how I’d react.

What about you? Thoughts? How would you hold up in a giant monster invasion?