Meet Mr. Corporation

Yesterday, January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS) effectively declared that corporations (already considered, via a legal fiction, to be a "person" under the law) could donate money to political campaigns.

Let me back up for a moment. They've been able to donate money to political parties for a long time, but now they can donate money to specific candidates. Lots and lots of money. Millions, even.

Even Michael Bloomberg, billionaire mayor of New York City, wouldn't have enough money to counteract a Halliburton sponsored political opponent.

Do you want a Citigroup lap-dog running YOUR town? (not that you don't have one already, but I'm jes' sayin', is all.)

Corporations can now (and will) pack Congress with congresscritters to their liking. Congresscritters who will give even more blowjobs to big business, big oil, big pharma.

If you thought the United States was already fucked, you don't know jackshit.

So bend over and smile. 'Cause you ain't even gonna get kissed while you're getting fucked.

Oh, and it's only a matter of time before corporate America goes back to the Supreme Court to ask for a finding that they may VOTE, too.

But you will never see Goldman Sachs lining up for jury duty... or Citigroup rushing off to join the Navy.

No. That you will never see.

Corporations take, but they never give. Except to politicians who deliver.

Supreme Court Declares that Women are Property!!!!

"My husband controls my uterus." Copyright © Austin Cline.

Regarding today's title, they didn't really, but they might as well have.

It doesn't matter where you stand on the issue of abortion, what does matter are the words. And these are the words:

"the government may use its voice and its regulatory authority to show its profound respect for the life within the woman."


I'm not making these words up. I know about words. I know about their power and impact and their nuances, too. There is nothing nuanced in the words of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, quoted above.

These words clearly mean that all pregnant women are the carriers of state property and that the state may dictate and police policy regarding the care and feeding of that state-owned property, come hell or high water. It also flat out states that what the woman is carrying is "life" which I've always defined as something that actually lives on the face of the earth, not something that's still sub-dividing in a flesh-lined Petrie dish.

I know this one sure thing ... I am NOT privy to the circumstances surrounding every pregnant woman's decision regarding the life FORMS she carries within her, nor am I privy to GOD'S DIVINE PLAN which, presumably, includes the exact moment at which a life FORM gets a soul.

But apparently Co-Gods and Supreme Court Justices Kennedy, Alito, Scalia, Thomas and Chief Justice Roberts, are privy to both.

May They Bless Themselves!

Oh, wait, that's right. They already have.

(p.s. I still believe that it's a woman's right to choose.)