I’ve spent my morning the same way I spend every morning, reading various news websites while drinking my coffee and trying to wake up. This is the time when I read most of the off the wall or mundane stuff out there because my brain isn’t completely awake . It’s also the time when for whatever reason I have the patience and appetite for the minutia of the story. But best of all, it’s the time when I read comments on the news articles I’ve read.

Over the last couple of days I have noticed a trend in this country and in others and it’s becoming the Number 23 for me and while that could drive other crazy it’s gives me an unlimited amount of amusement.

Take for instance the comments from this article

Obama Says He Has ‘No Intention’ of Running General Motors

on Fox.com

The gist of the story is that when we gave the automakers $21 Billion in bailouts, we told them they would have to show us a working plan to keep them viable and solvent in the the next 3 months and they agreed to do this.  Well, times up and their plan isn’t good enough for the Obama administration  and now the conservatives are in a tizzy over GM, Government Motors maybe having to follow the capitalistic idea of “let the market decide”. Take this comment from dkirby

Now we have irrefutable proof that Obama is not only unqualified for the job, but he is a liar as well. He DOES intend to run the auto industry. It’s either battery power or nothing with him. He has no regard for the millions of cars out there that still need gasoline. He has no regard for widows of GM employees who are depending on GM stock to live. He has no regard for the Constitution of the United States of America, and he is bent on turning this country into a Socialist Dictatorship. He is dangerous and in 2010 we must vote people into Congress who will veto everything he does or we will all be slaves of the government. I hope all you star-struck college girls and boys who turned out in droves to vote him in are satisfied with yourselves. REMEMBER THIS. YOU ALL ARE GONNA BE FORCED TO LIVE THIS NIGHTMARE WITH THE REST OF US INTELLEGENT PEOLE!

Yes, INTELLEGENT PEOLE out there Listen  to dkirby, President Obama plans to run the auto market and he has no regard for the people depending on GM stock because he might be leaning towards a bankruptcy plan. Ya know, a ‘live or die by the market’ idea. Whats comical here is this comment from coloradobob on another Foxnews.com story about how 3 out of 4 Americans want AIG to give their bonus’ back

Congress and Presidents make the mistake of bailing out companies that should have failed and gone into bankruptcy! Employees at bailed out companies are paid what their contracts say they should be paid (legally). Now, the supposed leaders see that the payouts could affect on their reelections, so they gather together to retroactively tax the legal earnings of American citizens. Sounds like something that would happen in Venezuela or Cuba or Russia or China! If I were a saleman or manager for GM or Chrysler, I would be careful not to get in the news. Your earnings could be next. No longer is a America the land of free enterprise and individualism, but now it is the home of collective stateism and socialism.

So bailing out the banks and helping the bank widows who depend on AIG or any other Wall Street stock to live is Socialism and instead of that plan, Obama should let the market decide and let free enterprise and individualism rule the day… well unless we’re talking about the auto industry, because then if you let free enterprise and individualism come into play and allow a restructuring of the company through a bankruptcy and see which pieces live on in that market afterward, well  then you’re turning the country into a ‘Socialist Dictatorship’

I must say, Sarah Palin did her job didn’t she. Her and Joe the plumber sure did their hatchet job well with their oh-so- innocent inferences that Obama is a Socialist hell bent on taking over the country. Now, everything President Obama does is his way of turning us ‘European’ and ‘Socialist’, even when he does things that are the polar opposite of each other. Well, that’s ok as long as the rest of world isn’t stuck in the same gene pool as ‘Joe who isn’t a plumber and isn’t even named Joe’, and ‘Mrs. No more pork unless it’s a road to nowhere in my state that I said I didn’t want but didn’t return when I got it’.

Now onto international news.

Mr Sarkozy, who blames the “Anglo-Saxons” for causing the economic crisis, told his ministers last week that he would leave Mr Brown’s summit “if it does not work out”.

It seems the French are about to surrender again, but not before Sven, form Stuttgart, Germany has his say

Good for you Sarkozy. The world no longer looks to the US for leadership particularly when it is kept afloat only by China. And British days of significance are long since past.

Well, Ok maybe we should butt out and let everyone fend for themselves, maybe it is time for countries like France to stand up on their own. Maybe Friedrich, from Berlin, Germany is on to something when he laminates

The key will be US dollar status and an end to dollar hegemony. Kudos to Russia and China on pushing for a new global currency with portion backed by gold

Yes, Yes Kudos to Russia and China.

North Korea Threatens War Against Japan Over Missile

North Korea’s government vowed to wage war against Japan if Japanese defense forces try to shoot down a missile that the communist nation says will carry a communications satellite. “Should Japan dare recklessly to intercept the DPRK’s satellite, its army will consider this as the start of Japan’s war of reinvasion more than six decades after the Second World War,” the official Korean Central News Agency said today in an e-mailed statement. North Korea is also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Kudos to Russia and China, now go to them to fix your other ‘global’ fucking problems! Maybe in this new global crisis, where some countries want to institute another type of money as the world’s currency because the American dollar is just so out of vogue, the people backing this idea will start to look to the country proposing this change for their other global crisis and leave us the fuck alone for once. Either we are your world’s police to interfere where you can’t or won’t because you are lack the nerve or the compassion or we’re not. But as long as it is the United States that you look to for these problems, then it is the currency of the United States that will reign supreme. If you do not like that option you can always look to Russia and China for your humanitarian and or security needs, because they are known world-wide for their compassion and their ability to stop the spread of hostilities around their own borders in such a way that the world would benefit from their input, right?

We’re not socialists in this country, we’re schizophrentic.. But that’s ok because the rest of the world is more fucked up than we are. Luckily, we have better drugs to offset our mania, now we just need to legalize them.

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