WFT Fridays: A Day Later But A Day Wiser!

Mish-mashes and opinions of the last week:



The government is gonna GIVE a bail-out to the banks and “deserving” mortgage companies BILLIONS for shucking the small poor guy into buying a house that in the long run they can’t afford and have repo’d? All so these corporate execs can keep their possessions and year-end bonuses for making bad, BAD business deals?? WTF?!? Then, when everyone’s house IS repo’d, who gets to keep the property? Not the poor schmuck whose credit is ruined and now has to rent (if they’re lucky). Oh, if this goes through (which it looks like it will) then it’s truly a travesty and an open call to those of us middle class idiots who are actually driving the economy around here. Just yet another example of how the rich look after themselves and to hell with everyone else.

What kind of economic stimulus does the middle class and lower get? Granted they SHOULD have known better, but how much of their public education was devoted to ignoring the advertising and continual material lusting encouragement out there? It’s alright to fight for and pursue happiness, but when the average Joe is seduced into buying too much too fast (with A.R.M. mortgages and 0% financing, and lines of credit whose interest floats on the prime rate), and gets his ass jammed and his credit rate shattered, how does the government work to fix the problem? Why by paying off the greedy heartless bastards and their companies that shook down the average Joe! What kind of country are we living in? Not one I’m particularly proud of right now- I assure you.

If you apply the same principle to a smaller “caste” of business owner- their practices would be called into question- any and all possible charges of fraud and illegal business would be levied, HUGE fines paid, and perhaps even a little jail time handed out. With this the banks get to have a bail-out for their bad business dealings, AND they get to keep the foreclosed property they’ll be evicting their “pigeons” or “marks” out of, PLUS they’ll get their year end bonuses, AND not even be called into question to either refine their way of doing business, or better inform the uneducated as to how their wonderful accounting works, thus fooling the stupid for many, many years to come.

Frankly, I would have had MUCH more appreciation for the government if they froze everyone’s interest rate, allow “bail-outs” to cover the recently and/or about to be foreclosed, and force the banks and mortgage companies to take a smaller profit and take responsibility for their shysterness. PLUS jack up the taxes on ALL year end bonuses and golden parachutes taking them out of favor and force the corps to reward only GOOD behavior and performance. Not only would it save the government BILLION of our tax dollars, but it would force the execs to be responsible as well. Sure they’d figure out a way to get around the profit taxes, but at least it might make them a little more creative and think twice before shell gaming the under classes.


And to further back up my claims about how fickle the average American is, look at those poll numbers for McCain. This guy has openly stated that they’ll be keeping the same policies that are in place now and there’s such a huge amount of the American Sheeple SO willing to step in right behind him. Especially now that he’s “promised” change, are we as a country THAT STUPID??? >Sigh< Apparently so.

Just so you know, I’m NOT losing my house. My credit rating is pretty solid, and I’ve been EXTREMELY lucky as far as this current economy goes. I AM over my ass in debt and fighting hard to get out of a financial hole, but I’m MUCH luckier than a lot of friends that I know. I realized we were heading into an economic shit-storm a few years ago and started saving and paying off as many bills as I could early. I used my “economic stimulus package” to wipe out 2 minor credit cards. Now I’ve still got bills, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, again unlike most of my friends.

I try to make it a point to pay the corporations as little as possible. I watch my electricity and water use, I have an accountant to keep me on track with taxes, I get by on as little as possible, I’ve even cut back drastically on gas (though I’m still spending almost twice as much on gas as last year) and fast food eating, and am working as hard as ever to cover bills and climb out of the hole.

Remember: ALL politicians LIE, and we’re well overdue for some HONEST “change” around here, even if it makes things a bit more “socialistic”, which I doubt it will, all I’m saying is that I’m voting for the candidate that seems to be less corporate than the other. I could be snowed, and have been in the past, but I’m looking at the long term and frankly my country, my state, my county, my neighborhood won’t survive another 4-8 years like the last 4-8 years. I wish folks had taken Ron Paul more seriously, and I’m grateful that the race is NOT McCain vs. Hillary because that’s really no choice at all.

Enough political shit- enough economic shit, at least for now, I’m depressed enough!

-Blog notes-

Thanks to all the nice comments on the Crisis On Infinite Mistakes rant(s), MUCH appreciated, and I promise there’s more “Comics My Way” on the way as soon as I get a little more free time, which SHOULD be next week. Life MIGHT be calming down now that a few personal hurdles have been jumped, as well as a few work hurdles, so I’ll be trying to get a lot more shit up here. Again, I truly appreciate your comments, but I also invite you to share your opinions here as much as you can, AND to tell as many as you can about the stuff here, no matter how bat-shit crazy you think I may be. I DO understand your thinking though, and I tend to never comment on most forums that I read, especially comic book oriented because there are SO many there who have their heads up their ass-especially the Sheeple who parrot the opinions of nuts who make videos- and not just Kirkman’s either- there seems to be a heaping shitload of attention whore “talent” out there making their own video lately. I sincerely doubt that you’ll see me making a video of my comic book opinions any time soon- if I do it’ll be a CARTOON- lol – and a HELL of a lot more entertaining!


I am currently about ten drawings ahead in my “Heroes I Miss” renditions of my monkey-self being the character I miss, so you may see those more often as soon as I get the chance to sit and write them. I draw them whenever I’m sitting in front of the boob tube and not eating or reading.

-Random Notes-

Speaking of TV, favorite shows currently running new episodes right now have got to be Primeval on BBC America, Sons Of Anarchy of FX, Shield of FX, Mad Men on AMC, and probably Burn Notice on USA- interesting that they’re all cable stations. Fringe is “on the bubble” with me. It’s interesting, but it REALLY reminds me too much of X-files and the blonde is SO dull and unattractive to me. The first ep was better than the pilot though, and it still has plenty of “suck” room.

In the meantime, if you haven’t been to my MySpace page and looked through my inspirational poster gallery yet I invite you to do so. It’s not any shit that I’ve done personally, but I enjoy the humor in most of them as well as the fact that they parody a sickening workplace trend that I as a thinking, feeling person can honestly live without, I just think that if folks are gonna spend the time to spit these little gems out there should be a gallery collecting them someplace, so go look. It’s in the pics section of the Spank MySpace page (if you’ve got a page and you’re reading this and not a friend yet, I invite you to do so as well). That link is towards the top right of this page I believe.

Still exhausted from yesterday from the wedding and the drama, drama, drama that went with it. All I want to say about that is I was in a suit in the first time in almost 30 years, my firm belief in “karma” (you get back the love you give and you get back the hate you give usually multiplied) was held up and reaffirmed (telling you about that is a whole other blog post, maybe someday), and that I’m hoping that the adage of “bad wedding-good marriage” hold true. Happiness and Love to everyone who deserves it, Happiness and Love.

Till next time…

WAKE UP!