the facts

The plump slice of tomato on that chain restaurant burger you ate last night was, on a genetic level, part flounder.

So are your corn flakes.

And no one has to tell you.

Six different major drug manufacturers, including pfizer, have been paying to inflate and increase news coverage of the avian flu "epidemic".

Remember Neurontin?

In the wake of the Katrina disaster, Exxon-mobil posted the largest quarterly earnings profit by any company in history. Chevron, Shell, and BP all posted their most profitable quarters in company history.

The top 1 percent of american households control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.

All of these statements are true. They are completely undistorted facts. I am tired of being lied to. I am tired of putting up with fiscal rape just to get by. And I am sick and fucking tired of being blamed for it. They say we are the country of opportunity. Therefore if you don't make it to the top you're simply not working hard enough. Bullshit. FUCKING BULLSHIT! The subtext that the politico spouting off his script about american opportunity leaves out is that to get there you have to screw over a lot of people. You have to cut throats and cut ties. You have to step on fingers, toes, necks and faces. And God help you if you're a good person unwilling to lie and scam your way to the top, because I promise you that someone in line behind you is. And man, we've let it happen. We've been asleep at the wheel. One day you wake up and realize that being a good person actually puts you at a disadvantage. How the hell did this happen? How do we let Exxon-mobil CEO Lee Raymond go before the U.S. Senate and say that the jacked up gas prices, and their resulting monstrous profits, are simply due to "consumer demand" and "market forces"? Why aren't we burning that lying motherfucker to the ground? Are we scared? Do we just not care? Are we so delusional as to believe that this doesn't affect us? Are we naive and blindly optimistic? None of the choices are particularly appealing.

We are indoctrinated from youth with the ideal of the cut-throat individual. Did you play monopoly as a kid? Remember how great it was to get the "bank error in your favor, collect $200" card? Nevermind that the whole game is just a rouse to teach kids that fucking over your friends to get their property is alright. Pre-teens (12 and under) control a segment of the economy worth over $600 billion annually. That's right. $600 billion. No, those are not two typos in a row. $600 billion worth of sponge-bob shit, transformers, and clothing too skimpy for 8 year olds to be wearing. To get a corner on that tremendous amount of money, ad companies pay in excess of $12 billion annually to manipulate our children. And we think it's fine. We have 10 year olds with chests bigger than my last girlfriend's, and we let them get away with it. We have a new generation of children who lack things as basic to childhood as an imagination, and we let them get away with it. Cancer rates are shooting through the roof, while smoking and pollution slow down, because of things they aren't telling us, and we let them get away with it.

And you want to know the worst part? This isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is looking at the tip from a thousand miles away.

This time I won't stop. I won't be quiet. You'll be hearing from me.