Washington is Run by Zombies that Want to Eat Your Souls

I. They Want to Eat Your House




This week, I have been thinking a lot about the things which our President and Democratic majority Congress have not done. Today, McClathchy had an article about how folks who thought that they were going to be able to keep their homes through federally mandated mortgage rescue programs have been let down.


http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/1839114.html

Turns out that the banks are allowed to decide that a home owner is not “qualified” to stay in his or her home---if they can find a buyer for that home. The implications here are obvious. Friends of bank officials can cherry pick the houses they want. Bankers get to keep collecting money on the houses and have a tenant to maintain the property until they sell it to a buddy. This was the plan all along under the George W. Bush administration. His dad’s Carlyle Group runs one of the big “vulture funds” (see my old journal “The Carlyle Group is Run By Zombies Who Want to Eat Your Brains”).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5166720

Score one for the banksters and zero for us. The really insidious thing about this scheme---it is designed to lull Americans into a false sense of security. It declares “We are all in this together” and then picks us off one by one. In our false complacency, we become one of the zombie pack, docile and unquestioning.


II. They Want to Eat Your Sons and Daughters



Before September 2008, the war was the single defining issue of the last election. After September 2008, it should have continued to be a defining issue, since the federal bankruptcy under Bush was caused by runaway war spending (and tax cuts for the rich). The newly elected Democratic majority in DC should have committed to run, not walk, away from our business wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That did not happen. Instead, on the eve of his Peace Prize ceremony, President Obama announced that he was escalating the war in Afghanistan. Nixon (that zombie master extraordinaire) came into office declaring that four years was enough to end a war and then he escalated the Vietnam conflict, too. Obama was compared to a lot of ex-presidents before he was elected. Usually JFK, but sometimes FDR or Carter. Who would have thought that he would choose to emulate the second worst Republican President of this century, committing more of our troops to a conflict in a region notorious for its hostile terrain and never ending wars, so that a natural gas pipeline could be built?

The casualties in Operation Enduring Oil Company Profits have not stopped. The press has simply stopped reporting on them. Here is a list of U.S. military personnel who have died in Afghanistan. Note how many were killed in 2009.

http://icasualties.org/oef/ByTheatre.aspx

The Washington Post has their photos. Remember how we demanded the right to show the flag draped caskets of killed servicemen and women, so that America would remember the cost of war? That was then, when it gave the Democrats a political advantage. When was the last time that Keith Olbermann reminded us of the number of days that have passed since victory was declared in Iraq?

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/

III. They Want to Eat Your Conscience, Part I. Burma




Obama got a Peace Prize for not being W. America patted itself on the back for electing a president who was not W. This year, our whole foreign policy was supposed to change. Under the leadership of a new president and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, we were to become the friends of democracy again.

Yeah, right.



http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2009-02-17-voa28-68797302.html

That is code for ending sanctions. Against the country that thinks nothing of murdering/terrorizing/starving its own citizens to keep them good little zombies. Against a country which happens to be sitting upon a bunch of natural resources which the west craves.



http://www.mizzima.com/news/world/2816-clintons-burma-policy-preview-for-better-or-worse.html

Why the rush to start doing business with the junta? From the U.S. State Department:



http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35910.htm

IV. They Want to Eat You Conscience, Part 2, the Congo





http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/05/16/congo-violence-deja-vu-all-over-again/

Note that the photos that accompany the above article are much, much worse than any of the zombie pics in this thread.

For a summary of the foreign powers (including the U.S.) who are funding the wars in the Congo, see my old journal on the subject.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4904803

As in Burma, the prize is the regions’ vast supply of natural resources. Rich, western countries arm the combatants in exchange for diamonds and other treasures. People are enslaved, children are conscripted, women are raped. Recent UN action has only intensified the violence. Here is a report about one American company that continues to do business with military combatants.


http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/diplomacy/091202/us-company-fuels-congo-war-un-report

I really truly hoped that the new crop of Washington Democrats would do something to end the bloody war in the Congo. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued some nice sounding words on the subject:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8194836.stm

Clinton misses the point. As long as we continue to encourage the various sides in local political squabbles to take up (foreign made) arms rather than negotiate, there will be violence against civilians—that is how modern wars are fought. And violence against women inevitably involves rape. Maybe, instead of scolding fighters in the Congo, Clinton should seek to shut down U.S. companies, like the one above, which help fund the war.

But I forget. This is a business friendly administration.

V.They Want to Eat Your Conscience, Part 3 Gaza




http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/11/200911320434191455.html

The last time I was this ashamed of my country was last winter, when the former President and the last Congress gave their seal of approval to the invasion of Gaza. At the very least, civilians were killed because of imprudent, indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in a crowded city. By most people’s definition, that counts as a “war crime”. But we can not even investigate? Why not? Winston Smith of 1984 would recognize this America. It has its very own Ministry of Truth, and it is called the U.S. Congress.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-palestinians

If only the U.S. determination to whitewash every Israeli action was motivated purely by a sense of justice----Hitler killed millions of Jewish people and therefore Israel is allowed to use any methods to ensure its safety. However, money is the real tie that binds our country to the handful of extremely wealthy families that control Israel. The safety of the Israeli people is not important. Like U.S. citizens, they are considered zombies, to be used and discarded at the whim of their masters.

VI. They Want to Eat Your Brains (and Livers and Kidneys and Hearts)



Healthcare was a hot issue in the last election. Most Americans agreed that their access to necessary care was limited—by lack of insurance, by high deductibles and co-payments, by insurance restrictions. They demanded that something be done.

And boy, has the Democratic Congress delivered something . What exactly that something is I am not sure. I suspect that there is very little “health” involved. And I am pretty sure that only a minority of them really “care.”

As things stand now, we will soon be forced to pay higher taxes and spend money that we do not have to buy over priced insurance policies that will have higher deductibles, higher copayments, more limited service...and no state regulation in case something goes wrong. The health insurance companies have bragged that the Senate Bill fulfills all their dreams. Folks on the left finally seem to have gotten the message, and now they are attempting to shoot down the bill, presumably because they know that the health insurance industry wants it so badly that they may be willing to have their paid Congressmen negotiate on a few issues…like the Medicare buy in?

A year ago , we were promised affordable, comprehensive health care for all. Now, we are reduced to begging the insurance companies to let us include older, sicker (uninsurable) Americans in our federally funded health insurance plan, Medicare. Does anyone else see the irony in this? Or, have we all eaten our own brains?

. VII. They Want to Eat Your Labor




http://socialistworker.org/2009/12/18/yes-we-can-to-no-we-wont

I am still waiting for the Employee Free Choice Act . This was supposed to be a priority. It was introduced way back in March. Al Franken decided to cosponsor it. And yet, it just languishes in Congress.

How hard could it be for 60 Democratic Senators to pay back the unions which propelled them into political power in DC? Those same politicians have no trouble returning the favor for insurance companies, drug companies, bankers. Why do they consider their promises to one of the core Democratic constituencies to be optional? Do they think that the workers of America have been so devastated by the recession that they will be grateful for any crust that is tossed their way? In the movies, you have to kill a man before you can make him a zombie. In the United States you kill a man’s spirit before you reduce him to an undead existence.

VIII. They Want to Eat Your Freedoms



Since when did Americans have to give up their Roe v. Wade rights in order to get health care? This is like telling someone “We won’t kill your son----but you have to give us your daughter.” Mobsters make declarations like this. How did Congress become a freaking wing of the Mafia?

How long will our current government continue to make honest sexuality and military service mutually exclusive?

When will they fix the broken election system that allows a few VIPs to veto the wishes of the electorate?

How can a party which campaigned against Bush era civil rights abuses continue to deny political prisoners humanitarian rights? How can they continue to spy? And withhold information that should be made public, according to post Watergate Reforms?

W. was partially right when he said “They hate us for our freedoms.” We just did not know that he was talking about corporate America and their paid zombie minions in Washington.

IX. They Want to Eat Your Future

So, have your credit card rates come down since the change in political power in Washington? Have you been able to declare bankruptcy and start over after catastrophic medical debt wipes out your savings? Has your bankster been held liable for reducing the value of your pension? Do you feel more empowered? Do you think that the future will be rosier, brighter, because the face of corporate America's elected puppets is fresher, kinder?

Here is the face of Washington.



Enjoy your lobotomy.

Their job applications are brief:

1)Can you raise money?

2)Can you convince people to vote for you?

3)Can you raise money?

Imagine if we used the same standards when hiring engineers, doctors, scientists, teachers, etc

K&R

Zombie deck, in honor of our leaders in Washington.

zombies eat brains and or flesh not souls. Also they have no control over their actions, they are mindless automatons following basic urges. It is unfair to compare them to politicians.

:dem:

-Laelth

Meh, tastes like chicken, anyway.

Washington is run by Zombies who want to eat your souls!

only 13 recs, including mine?

Salute!