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Two Covers To Commemorate The End Of The 112th Congress
Presenting two covers to commemorate what may be the most dysfunctional Congress in the history of the US: the 112th, whose final official day is today. The only Congress that will be worse is the 113th, then the 114th and so on.
First, from Bloomberg:
And from the Economist:
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I think a plane smashing into the World Trade Center would be a better depiction of the 112th congress. And that is being kind.
Babies?
try Demons
(f Bloomberg)
Bloomberg's just mad that there wasn't far more free monies.
Bill Banzai does far better work.
my thoughts exactly. looks like someone at the E-con-omist has been lurking...
in an ideal world, they would have hired Bill to do the cover, but why bother when you can rip it off and call it your own?
time to take it to next level...
The next level, you say?
Let's close the Congress. Let the States run their own. Save the pay-outs. And it will not get any worse than 2012.
Don't just close it, demolish it.
It's more toxic than Chernobyl.
Does anybody really expect mature decision-making from a species that becomes more juvenile every generation?
Maturity just isn't attractive.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
Oh, and don't forget, human brains are shrinking.
If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-why-brain-sh...
In that case, the Geniac would be the size of Saturn to equal the computing power of my microwave oven.
Skull sizes progressively becoming smaller is a mark of domestication.
It happens to dogs, horses, cows, humans, and the other several dozen domesticable species that can survive being caged. (And yes, State Society, a.k.a. Civilization, is a zoo.)
BTW, the chief psychological symptoms of domestication are stupidity and docility.
In other words, humans are becoming progressively poodle-ized.
_____References_____
Peter J. Wilson (1991) The? Domestication of the Human Species. Yale University Press.
Jack Goody. The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge University Press.
That's an interesting take, worth considering (although impact is likely longer-term). William Calvin provides a fairly in-depth and interesting look at the causes and effectives of species juvenilization in The Ascent of Mind.
If skulls are getting smaller, why are tits getting bigger?
Self explanatory,
Store bought titties?
Who cares why??
bioaccumulation of hormones in the food and maybe hormone imbalances caused by things in food
or more plastic surgeons looking to... ahh... expand their practices.
My reply - if every single member of Congress is evil, an idiot and on the payroll of the financial big boys, why not run yourself? Isn't this supposed to be a people's body? The vast majority of politicians (particularly from rural states) were once regular folks who wanted to make a change (until they got to DC). IMHO, many see the future and are simply going through the (e)motions. Ron Paul said we were too far gone and many are now losing interest in a war where winning is impossible without default - something no one can admit publicly.
I'd go with fucktards
I agree but it is hard to populate the picture with something that can clearly be labeled as "Fucktards." Maybe a bunch of horses asses all over the place? Babies are too sweet.
I'm kinda partial to Fuck Sticks
Hey, no problem. What you do inside your own home is your business.
I'm somewhat surprised. Those covers are actually really good. For mainstream media to now get fed up, this is saying ALOT.
I'm pretty sure all babies are aborted on sight in DC. The Constitution says so.
A picture of the Criminals in Orange jumpsuits would have been surfice.
Artistic genius!
Where oh where is that infamous Japanese airline pilot, from the Clancy novel Executive Orders, when we need him?
Nice of them to catch up 7 years after the fact.
Fuck MSM and their printed fish wrap.
I think both of them are only mad because they didn't screw over the country far enough for their liking.
Useless MSM. It'd be good as expensive toilet paper, yet the ink comes off on your ass. Totally useless.
US Dollars are a good cheap alternative and the ink stays on the paper when you wipe.
Absorbancy is crap though..
Good to see the media is giving us the details of the problems confronting the country, not just playing it up as a reality show. Except the scripts for the reality shows are more believable.
I think if i were a congress critter, i would be on lugey watch big time.
The first place the payroll tax hike will hit is the wallets of waitstaff and cooks, since this tax hike
now with holds the only extra cash to go in the gas tank to get back and fourth to work. LOL!!
Excellent job lawmakers, excellent job.
So once rates go down, they can never go back up no matter how ill considered the 'holiday' is?
That's the kind of thinking that gets us into this mess.
But as Tyler has pointed out repeatedly, those in the lower ladder of income can receive massive benefits to supplement their low pay. Everything from food stamps to housing allowances to no income tax to "free" health insurance to child care. If we are going to have a Ponzi system (SS) at least we should fund it on a semi-rational level and end the current situation in which the average recipient receives tens of thousands more than they contribute (same with Medicare).
number two is bonzai worthy.
Pretty insulting comming from two piece of shit Socialist trash rags like that.
really-I think it's more of the "it takes one to know one"
In the meantime, Indian farmers rush to buy gold. This is it, folks. The train is leaving the station.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/cons-products/...
That cover is too funny.
Love the short pants on Bohner. Those knees are to die for. :)
Maybe WB could do a redo with Boner wearing kneepads?
"You got a little something on your chin Mr. Speaker."
pods
Bohnerhosen!
But what's up with the blackface mime? That's a little too racist for my tastes.
Bazinga!!
+1 for Boehnerhosen. I'm usually too pissed when reading ZH to get a good laugh. Thanks for making today the exception.
Not like anybody is paying any attention
Yea who cares? Stawks r up!
mobsters
Its such as bore.
Babies? hmm so we're comparing sociopaths with innocent not yet brainwashed creatures now?
Europe? Where's the austerity in the US? At least Europe has some.
To me, the notion of America becoming Europa is one big mindfuck.
Europe wants to go federalist just like the US, while the US is going the direction of Europe: an unbalanced broken system completely unable to change direction. Economically, both are treading water, and neither has any prospect of getting out of the hole they are digging for themselves.
Who needs more proof that 'Western civilization' is fucked?
We need Banzai to give us a proof of a patriot holding an elephant gun, aimed at the elephant in the room.
Looks like the GOP is one trigger pull away from oblivion as it is.
today I commemorate the congress by changing my registration from republican to libetarian on the plantation no more.
No...reject all political handles. That is how your judgement becomes managed. Partisan atheism is always the right choice
I wanted to start an Anarchy Party, but by definition, anyone who would join was excluded.
pods
Several yearsa go, I tried to start the Libertarian-Anachist Party ("LAP"). Same result. Plus, the first meeting was fire bombed.
I wouldn't want to be a part of any organization that would accept me as a member.
until one re-cognises it's the whole System thats rotten, beyond any Party-ing, then looking for solutions within the System will continue.
just close the door, walk away, no second thoughts. . .
What would Bagehot say?
Or maybe that's Steve Keen. ;) (actually Paul Tucker from BoE to the Bank of Japan Lulz)
I would say that putting a guillotine in the middle of the senate floor, with the caption "It's Time" would be the most appropriate cover.
speaking of guillotines
Two centuries after handkerchiefs were dipped in the blood of the beheaded French king Louis XVI, scientists believe they have proved one such rag kept as a revolutionary souvenir contains his bloodstains.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255590/Dipped-blood-beheaded-French-king-Scientists-use-DNA-confirm-gourd-VERY-gruesome-memento-execution-Louis-XVI.htmladr
YES .
With the Constitution inscribed upon the blade.
'sic semper tyrannis' would do ... and would be legible in the YouTube videos!
Yeah but what does MAD Magazine have for its cover???? That is where the real news is....
What does playboy have to say? Honestly their political commentary isn't bad, I'm curious.
A caricature of the Senator from Tokyo Prefecture.
If you can draw it well enough, you get a free art course!
What is going on, William Banzai works for both Bloomberg and The Economist now?
Zerohedge should go in print edition with the best-off blogs and links of the month.
When it hits the magazine covers the end is nigh.
they are all members of the one-percent-gang, or candidate members.
they will never do what is good fot the country, they will do what is good for the gang.
They never state the true point, they just state the talking point. They are divided because Obama and the Dems are spending us into oblivion and the Republicans are losing the battle which turns to them folding. They have no effective speakers. This is by design. Any bonehead knows that spending yourself into insolvency is unwise and no one is conveying that message. Get used to this. I say just let them keep going. Give everyone everything and collapse the damn thing.
Please spread this link far and wide if you want to know the game plan for the new American Revolution. Assymetric warfare can succeed and does not require centralized command.
Our rulers want to disarm us peasants. We cant be trusted.
http://www.bob-owens.com/2012/12/what-youll-see-in-the-rebellion/comment...
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Try this one:
http://www.bob-owens.com/2012/12/what-youll-see-in-the-rebellion/
WTF is going on with WTI?
that is what my parents taught me; try not to spend money you don't have, because you are gonna have to pay it back one day.
but i guess that is not what everybody learned.
I believe it is your parent's generation that is running congress now? When they said you can't spend money you don't have they were referring to "you" not them.
I think Obama is much more Eastern Eurpoean than a French Socialist. I would have shaved his head and put a Gorbachev birth mark on his head. Boner is the French Socialist he has the same dumbfounded look François Hollande has.
How does one stop "The Chocolate Revolution"?
I've got my flowers ready. ;)
The links I posted above were broken within thirty minutes of my viewing them. It talks about how thousands of small cells operating autonomously with the same overall goals do not need a central command.
Also apparently I cant order anything from bulletproofme.com.
Oh well. I guess the American Spring was called off. Proly due to weather lol.
Everybody go home.
At least try not to show your total lack of computer skills. You added a /comment to the end of your URL, thus rendering it to a 404, since you've probably either logged out or the site won't parse you straight to comments.
It still works, so it's not the NSA blocking it. It's also total fantasy, and utter bollocks. If you need that kind of itch scratched, at least read something with a bit of analysis and thought behind it: try 5GW, here.
p.s.
In future use this site to check if you're being a simpleton or not.
What you said (and learn to recognize when you're being suckered into an ad).
Oh, indubitably my dear chap.
Malforming your own blogspam is just too much not to scratch, however. (And that site is hardly white-listed, meaning my visit adds no revenue).
The Skilluminati website has some fresh material, but to me it does not invalidate the Bob Owens article or explain why it's fantasy. It may well be fantasy, but stories about bullets flying in collapse or revolution scenarios always get people fired up. Many people believe the Great Sandy Hook false-flag gun grab photo-op is the end of guns as we know them. The gun market is at an all-time frenzy. Certainly the lone wolf threat-excuse fits a federal grab at small arms.
They misunderstand the ballet of hormones and internal controls that regulate cell function...it's not nearly the great analogy to "spontaneous order" you might think.
I'm keeping an eye on who and what entities are being added to the list that is going to force foreign banks,domestic banks,oil firms and others to trade their "swaps" in the OTC derivitives market out in the open with the CFTC.Trillions of dollars of these derivitives will now be forced to trade under a regulated entity.All because of Dodd-Frank.I expect a lot of volatility which happens to come in the same timeframe as this debt ceiling debacle and other major economic events like the devaluation of the Yen.Maybe manipulation in the Gold and Silver Markets(and others) will have to be unwound under the new Dodd-Frank rules?The Banks in New York will no longer have the secrecy to move their dirty derivitives work over to foreign Banks in Canada,England and Europe.All foreign Banks must sign up.I'm watching for a big move up in Gold in the next month or two as scams by Central Banks and Governments are forced to unwind.Trillions of formerly unregulated derivitives is sure lot to try to control.And the big part is the increased collateral that needs to be put up by Banks in order to try to continue their scams.Like Warren Buffet said about these things,these mass destructive elements need to be brought under control.It always helps to be a respected investor and good friend of Obama.
The whole point of the derivatives is that they can build notional mountains from relative molehills of collateral (as in almost no underlying real assets whatsoever...purely fictional side-bets).
I don't think one more captured exchange frightens the Too Big to Dissolve who have had months to prep for this eventuality.
You think Dodd and Barney weren't taking dictation as to what would or would not construe real hardship to their "Geppetos"?
There are rules about how much the gubbamint will cover for them (too much) but there's no real enforcement mechanism and they're one more emergency bill from reversing anything in that bill anyway. Seriously, don't ever cry for Wall St; they're covered. Always.
These covers are great.
Instead of a French beret, Obama should have Scottish golf cap. Didn't he just hit the links in Hawaii on another one of his vacations?
A dull axe would work also, live on cspan ?
America turns European? Just last week, it was turning Hispanic. So confusing.