Anti-Semitism

What happened over the years and now even more so since 2005-6, is instead of the zionist and Israelis considering the growing resentment of them in the US public and backing off, they doubled down, got more aggressive and more vicious toward their critics and assorted enemies. They intensified their efforts to censor, they became even more loud and bullying and demanding. They upped the demonizing of everyone and sent out their minion army of hasbaras to scream anti-semite at everyone.

They started bragging even more in public about their power and control of US government and elections and people saw that reflected in our politician’s statements of fidelity to Israel and that really cinched for the public that, yes indeed, the Jews (the public doesn’t all discriminate between Jews and zionist) were controlling our government in a lot of areas.

So you know for a normal person after a while, enough of this is enough. Its like being married to some ungrateful insane woman who tries to scratch your eyes out every day because you bought her a Mercedes instead of a Rolls Royce.

And we in the US are more than aware of this insanity in the current crop of New Aposotolic Reformationist presidential hopefuls like Perry, Bachmann, and Palin touting the ‘I love Israel more than the US’ line. You better believe people are getting mad, and, you know what? These are NOT anti-semitic people—they don’t give a shit about Jews any more than they care about the Chinese guy who runs the Pick Up Stix restaurant, they want freaking JOBS—but their utterances are going to sound wildly anti-semitic to most people.

Americans are....

America is a nation desperate to believe they remain a just and moral people even as they carry out unjust and immoral wars upon other nations all over the globe. Those (far too many) Americans who lack the courage to stand up to a government gone wrong are grasping at any symbol that allows them to pretend they remain decent human beings.

They won't oppose the violence in Iraq, so they scream about violence on TV. They cannot face up to the reality of torture of innocent victims so they complain about "decency" in movies. They bash gays. They demand religious mythology replace science in the schools.

They scream for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in the offices of government while blind to that government's violation of those same commandments. And, of course, they that they really do care about every single human life, despite having sat in silence while hundreds of thousands of people were killed and the survivors showered with radioactive waste in wars started with lies and deceptions.

If hypocrisy were an Olympic event, Americans would take home the gold, silver, AND bronze.

Housing crisis simplified

It’s wrong to create a mortgage-backed security filled with loans you know are going to fail so that you can sell it to a client who isn’t aware that you sabotaged it by intentionally picking the misleadingly rated loans most likely to be defaulted upon.