HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Yeh so i didnt work on my blog too much over this break, but I will be back at it this week. But just to keep you guys occupied; here's a lil widget I got off of Maxim.com.

I think its obvious which one my favorite is =)

WOW, MY ANUS HURTS.

I’m curious to know, my fellow taxpayers; does yours feel the same? Ever since October, the government has been sticking it to us all without lube; don’t you think?

First off we have this bailout plan, worth about $700 BILLION, not million, dollars. It’s complicated, but it can be summarized quite easily; its your standard pimp and ho relationship:

* in Supafly Pimp Voice*
All us taxpaying hoes have been workin the streets hard fo dat monayyyy. Giving Pimp Daddy Government his share every April 15th . But oh naw baby, Pimp Daddy Government’s cousin Balls-to-da-Walls Street was slackin on his pimpin and needed a lil bit of help from Pimp Daddy G. So Pimp Daddy would neva eva leave a fellow pimp in need; since Pimp Daddy G has been a constant follower of the International Pimp Creed- “Pimps up, Hoes down”; since 1776, baby.

Bush asked Congress for $700 billion dollars, he asked twice, first they said no, then said yes. Then Henry Paulson is in DC handing out money to banks, insurance firms, and other companies headed by millionaires now begging for taxpayer funds….and o yeh, there isn’t SHIT we can do about it. Enjoy.

So yesterday, you have the Heads of the BIG THREE, GM, Ford and Chrysler; the domestic auto industry in a nutshell; peas in a pod of bitchassness. They fly in on their commercial jets, then tell us how great their cars are and even though they have been ignoring advice to produce cheaper, more fuel-efficient cars for the last 25 years, they are on their knees literally, BEGGING for $25 billion from the bailout fund. Here’s a lil bit about the * quite comical* hearing yesterday from the Washington Post:



“With the impasse unbroken, Congress is on the verge of leaving the possible collapse of the domestic auto industry in the hands of the departing Bush administration. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday urged Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. to use his vast authority over the rescue money to help the car companies on his own initiative.
"Paulson knows he has authority to take the money," Reid said. "He just doesn't want to do it."
White House officials retorted that congressional inaction would be to blame for any disruption of the auto industry over the holidays.


"If Congress leaves for a two-month vacation without having addressed this important issue, and especially if the Senate leaves without Senator Reid even allowing a vote on this [Republican] amendment, then the Congress will bear responsibility for anything that happens in the next couple of months during their long vacation," White House press secretary Dana Perino said yesterday.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) to rub it in. "I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial," he said. All still at the witness table. "Second," he continued, "I'm going ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet . . . and fly back commercial." More stillness. "Let the record show no hands went up," Sherman grandstanded.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), late in the hearing, reminded them again that "the symbolism of the private jet is difficult," and mischievously asked the witnesses whether, in another symbolic gesture, they would be willing to work for $1 a year, as Nardelli (CEO of Chrysler) has offered to do.
"I don't have a position on that today," demurred Wagoner (2007 total compensation: $15.7 million).
"I understand the intent, but I think where we are is okay," said Mulally ($21.7 million).
"I'm asking about you," Roskam pressed.
"I think I'm okay where I am," Mulally said.
And don't even think about asking him to fly commercial. “

I have mixed feelings about the bailout for the Big3. Of course if they were to go out of business, millions of jobs would be lost, but BANKRUPT does not equal OUT OF BUSINESS. I’ll start with how they got into this poopy mess; which they pretty much can do the polar OPPOSITE of their mistakes over the past 25 years to get OUT of this mess.


Mistake #1
Everyone knows the 1990s were much like the Roaring 1920s, prosperity everywhere. Soccer moms buying vans and gas guzzling SUV's to drive their kids around the suburbs. Everyone else with credit cards buying up a bajillion cars. Meanwhile our carbon footprint was getting as big as Shaq's and everyone acted like everything was kool. We're almost out of the first decade of the new millenium and they are still resisting producing energy efficient, inexpensive cars.

Mistake #2
The Big3 are legendary and have had generations of people work for them. Which means all those Baby Boomers who rose to middle class thru the 60s n 70s are gettin paid out the ass with retirement benefits n healthcare. Which is why GM pays their workers (including benefits) an average of $75 an hour, while Toyota pays their workers (IN THE USA) $48. Couple that with dwindling sales and what do you have?..3 old ass dudes begging on Capitol Hill.

Mistake #3

Oh the evils of corporate excess. Son, you cant roll up next to me in a Benz then ask me for a dollar. Much like you cant roll up on 3 private jets to DC then ask for a loan. DAYUM. They got some nigga tendencies!

They say if it aint broke, dont fix it. WELLLLL the shyte is more broke down than my 1993 Dodge Dynasty, but u dont see me puttin rims on that joint, do you?!?!? File bankruptcy, get chapter 11 protection. Yeh, the creditors wont get paid...right now at least. Bankruptcy will allow you to restructure your contracts, reevaluate your business model....overall GET YO SHYTE TOGETHER PIMPIN...makes me wanna slap these hoes with some baby powder or sumthin...SHEESH !


WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DIE....

Okay, so everyone must be thinking, Meaghan’s shrooming again; what in the balls is she talking about. Thanks to Sarah Palin, everyone seems to think that the Republican party is a bunch of rednecks, conservative, evangelical, white, Christian, uneducated people. And I will be the FIRST to say, that is not what the Republican party represents. That IS however, what Sarah Palin’s supporters represent. That’s all we saw at the rallies for McCain/Palin, but that is hardly the majority of the party.

Being a Republican doesn’t make you a bad person, being a Sarah Palin supporter just makes you kind of a dumbass. Okay, let me not get on a Palin rant, I’ll save that for another blog. I’ll just say I really wish she would GO AWAY and get violated by the Abominable Snowman in the Alaskan tundra, then have the baby since she hates abortion so much. *Cheap Shot =)*

Right now the Republican party is at odds with itself. Half of them right now are known as the right-wing conservative party base who wants to engage in the second culture war of politics. Although they CLAIM to call Barack a Socialist because of supposed “spreading the wealth” policies, they actually have no wealth to spread since they have lower income, lower levels of education, lower socioeconomic standing; therefore they have a poor understanding of global and domestic economic policy issues; resulting in their culture war issues of GUNS, GOD, & GAYS. The 3Gs as I will call them are what they really base their votes on, and I personally have a problem with that because even in times of a prosperous economy because there are way more important issues than that; namely EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, FOREIGN RELATIONS, CRIME RATES, etc…

Then you have the rest of the Republicans who are rational citizens, some of whom I wholeheartedly agree with on some policies. Like healthcare, before John McCain’s ridiculous “tax-credit” which really wasn’t a credit at all. I do not believe in government mandated or sponsored/subsidized healthcare. I believe that HMOs are the devil and the free market should decide healthcare prices, and therefore, that would bring the prices down to a rate that were much more affordable to American citizens. Also people love to think that Bill Clinton was the savior of our country in the 1990’s creating a balanced budget and a surplus. Well he was and is a great leader with great ideas, but it was a majority Republican Congress who helped to balance the budget; Bill didn’t do it alone.

Believe it or not, the country is not half Republican and Half Democrats. Its actually more like a third of each, with the rest of the population registered as independent. We need the Republican party as a major party simply for the free flow of ideas and opposition to ideas. Whenever you have one party in a lopsided majority, it leads the way for corruption, greed and lack of challenge to authority. Democrats are not angels, people. They are just as corruptible as any Republican; if given the huge opportunity that the death of the Republican party would bring.

What the Republican party is faced with is a dearth of ideas, and subsequently a dwindling constituency. Republicans are against science, quoting their unbridled faith in GOD, fiercely for all personal rights (which kind of defeats the purpose of a government) including GUNS, and a strictly conservative social view virtually equating GAYS with evil. Their current 3G platform alienates too many people. The country is getting less white and more educated every day, and the same old Reagan Rhetoric just isn’t going to cut it anymore.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not an Independent, and DEFINITELY not Republican I’m a registered and faithful Democrat. But I believe that two heads are better than one. Believe it or not, on Capitol Hill, the Democrats and Republicans DO work together sometimes, and have the possibility to create great new ideas and directions for the country to go in. But the absence of an intelligent Republican party would inevitably mean that Democrats ideas would go unchallenged and no one would second guess them. The heart of our Democracy would be lost without an opposition party. PERIOD. And for the Republican’s party’s sake, they better PRAY that Mitt Romney or someone similar emerges as your party’s next leader, and not Sarah Palin. Otherwise, we may have a second secession from the union on our hands. You think a civil war cant happen again? Well they all said a Great Depression can’t happen again and look where we’re heading now. Call Sarah Palin your leader and see if we don’t have a second version of the Confederate states of America headed by Palin; and she will live at Fox News Headquarters.

*for all my Republican friends, please don’t think there’s any chance of me joining your ranks any time soon, or EVER. All you Sarah Palin supporters can go back to Alaska with her and get molested by a big, GAY, multiracial, Socialist, Atheist, Abominable Snowman…o yeh, and the Media-Elite will videotape it and put it on YouTube. =)

yes, another cheap shot, but they will continue until I write my full Sarah Palin blog entry; and get my complete disdain for her completely off my chest. After that, the cheap shots will be kept to a minimum =)

HEY AL-QAEDA; YOU REEEALLY DON’T WANT IT WITH BLACK AMERICA

So today the number 2 guy from Al Quaeda today made a statement calling Barack, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, “House Negroes”…and had the AUDACITY to invoke the words of the honorable Malcolm X…From Huffington Post:
“The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect _ along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice _ "house negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."”

Now many people think that they ARE house negroes; but I disagree. Okay maybe not so much with Condoleeza (she loves her some GW Bush, its true), but Colin Powell regained some dignity when he resigned from the Bush administration and when he endrsed Barack for President.

Okay, so first of all, you have a majority of Americans who are rightly against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq right now. AlQaueda is making a HUGE mistake in dissing the most popular President-elect of modern times. First you have his overwhelming victory and the support of tens of millions of Americans and millions of people overseas who were overjoyed to see Obama win and for the first time in a long time support America because of it. And probably for the first time EVER, you have about 94% of black America who loves their President. For al-Zawahri to essentially call him a “House nigga” is opening a can of worms that he really doesn’t want to mess with. Don’t bring race into this, because that is one argument you will lose. Don’t try to be racist when you are claming that the USA is racist and xenophobic by invading your countries and trying to bring you democracy. We never should have been there in the first place, but your racist rants will only serve to give us a renewed spirit and dare I say, blacks will get behind a miliatry cause like never seen before.

You had the slightly taken out of context quote by Muhammad Ali declaring part of the reason why he refused to enter military service in Vietnam was because “No Vietnamse ever called me nigger”.(the other was being a conscientious objector because of his Muslim faith). The quote was a bit inaccurate, but still displayed the sentiments of many minority Amercans at the time. Now with the Iraq war, we have a lot of people saying that we need to fix things at home before we start meddling abroad. But I GUARAN-DAMN-TEE that if you start bringing out the racist slurs, black America will have a reason to get up in that ass.

MY FIRST BLOG

Hey, I'm Meaghan...I started this blog because I have a lot of opinions and I feel like the web is a good place to express them. This wont be a liberal blog, more in tune with my manz Lou Dobbs, if you mess up.....I'mma get in dat ass, Republican, Democrat, Fox News or MSNBC whatever....I'm keepin it mad real and too honest. =)

Also, I hope to educate people, not because I'm always right, I just come with the educated, and researched view that I think is lacking these days.

O yeh, and where's the title from/what does it mean? Its from the Nightmare Before Christmas, and its my favorite character....no significance other than that =)