George Won't

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George Won't: Is an obvious word play/antonym on the name of the writer that Keith Olbermann strongly criticized on Countdown on MSNBC last night, Monday, June 28, 2010.  We would like to tell Mr. Won't that the GOP Republican plan to block unemployment and other benefits and extensions of the same has been enormously effective.  I can tell you from personal experience that I currently live in bone-grinding poverty - right here in the good ol' USA Mr. Won't - as a result of corrupt and morally bankrupt GOP/Republican policies, programs, pugnaciouness and general obstinacy coupled with insanity.

Yes, thanks to you and your ilk Mr. Won't, I haven't been receiving unemployment benefits nor Medicaid for the past 22 months.  Congratulations! You and your ilk have driven me and ten million others like me into abject poverty!  It is wonderful living on food stamps and being denied health care and other benefits and monies.  If I desperately need something, I have to contact the local church for charity.  The first time I did this (last year) I was given all of one hundred dollars in gift cards.  The second time I requested charity (this winter) I was given all of forty five dollars in gift cards.  Do you know what it's like living on $ 200/month on food stamps and $ 145 in gift cards for almost two years Mr. Won't?  I'll bet you don't have a clue.  But, it is obvious that that part goes without saying.

Oh, what's that Mr. Won't, I should find a job?  Well, happily, I have.  I now work as a freelance copywriter - which puts me in the same profession as you, Mr. Won't.  That means I can compete with the world market for writing jobs that pay about 50 cents/hour - once you calculate the research, the rewrites and the chasing around payments for money.  Why that is only six or seven dollars shy of minimum wage!  Why can't I make minimum wage?  Because I can't even find a job here in the USA at that high a level of income.  So I have to take my 50 cents an hour - if I can even find that.  What makes it worse, Mr. Won't, is that your ideologies have forced your fellow writers into making that kind of wage.

Here's something else.  The writing work that I do is called "SEO" - the so-called Search Engine Optimization.  This means that the texts I write and get published are put on the internet and compete with all the other legitimate and otherwise sources of information on the internet.  I have been successful at this, one of my articles came up as a "4th Page Ranking" when you search for the keyword.  So, thanks to you and the GOP/Republican policies, I have to write SEO articles that might have an even higher page ranking than the topics you could be googling.  And I am not alone, thanks to people like you in your profession of writing, millions of them are posting this "information" on the internet.  Which slows down the search engines and the original stuff you were trying to look up.

The upshot of all this, Mr. Won't, is that your forced labor at costs of 50 cents/hour is creating writers and more SEO writings that jam up the internet when you search for something.  If your policies and opinions keep prevailing, soon you'll have to take all day to find that one article you were really searching for on the internet.  That's what you wanted, isn't it Mr. Won't?

* Reference: MSNBC's Countdown/KeithOlbermann's Comment Monday, June 28, 2010

FOM: FED Officials See High Unemployment for Years to Come (Reuters) and How Welfare Cuts Can Cost Lives (Reuters)


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Our Twitter Report

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Our Twitter Report: Not exactly a definition, but we did have a tweet read exclusively Friday, May 14, 2010 by KeithOlbermann on "The Twitter Report" during MSNBC Countdown.
Keith referred to our avatar as President Garfield.  "Is that President Garfield?  President Garfield is tweeting us?"  Then he did his humorous voice "President Garfield here!". We loved it.  (It's actually Benjamin Harrison.  Keith - we love you!)



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Mentamodium or Cerebrimodium

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MentaModium or CerebriModium: http://bit.ly/cszD6a Suggested new over-the-counter medication for those afflicted with 'BrainDiarrhea'.  E.G....those who moan and groan 'I feel crappy'.  (Thanks in advance to KeithOlbermann for his twitter question today...).  The conflation of a popular OTC diarrhea med with Mental or (from the Latin) Brain...



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NineEleven Denial or 911 Denial

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NineEleven Denial or 911 Denial: Is a topic we'd much rather not talk about, but its out there. And its being pandered and bandied about by none other than the likes of...Rudy Giuliani? Its making us sick. "America's Mayor" (remember all the video of him escorting people to safety during the 911 attacks?...) has downgraded himself into a GOP buffoon denying any terror took place under the Bush Administration's watch. Give us a break while we lean over and retch our liberal guts out (figuratively, of course).





Lawrence O'Donnell (filling in for Keith Olbermann on Countdown, we presume Keith's father is still ailing, but we don't know...we hope its something else...) ripped Big Rudy a new one by articulating one-by-one the terror acts that occurred on US soil under the Bushies' watch. We think Lawrence did a fine job of it. We were wondering if the IED attacks on our troops overseas should be included. (From our point of view, the Bushies' are directly responsible for any/all IED casualties...) Not sure if they missed it or not, but lets not forget the Virginia Tech massacre, either. Was the VTM a terrorist event? Oh, we think so - just ask the survivors if they felt terrorized or not. We're sure most of the victims felt terror. Dumb question. Dumb.





Not to belabor the point...just how dumb is the GOP? Or, more pointedly, how dumb are we? Is our collective memory so short, our collective consciousness so stunted that we really have forgotten all of the atrocities that have gone before the Detroit Terror Attack of Christmas 2009? In essence, 911 Denial is really an attack on the intelligence of the American people. Worse, its also a back-handed slap-in-the-face to any and all of the survivors of these terrorist events.





In the longer, larger view, its really a back-handed slap to all atrocity survivors in the temporal community. We're not just talking Holocaust Denial, but forgetting about Andersonville (not the town, the Civil War POW camp in that locale), Darfur and many, many others. Some of which, shamefully, have been forgotten. Of course, Holocaust Denial is illegal in many European countries. And it should be illegal in the good ol' USA, too. As a matter of fact, such denials as 911 Denial should be illegal in the good ol' USA, too. Which should tell you just how heinous we think it is to promote, mention 911 Denial in the name of GOP politics. It is despicable.





Which leads to speculation - what if the Bushies had made 911 Denial illegal? They probably did not even think of making it into law. (911 Denial does not appear in the Wikipedia, by the way...). Now if it ever does pass into law, would they (the GOP, and their ilk...) ignore the law and continue campaigning under this ridiculous and offensive banner? We're guessing...yes. Is it more disturbing that we think they would or that they would?





Which is a banner they've yet to flout. We have to try to see all points of view. So, we're guessing that Big Rudy and some of the others are implying that there was no terrorist event during the Bushie era....because no law was passed to make the denial illegal. From that point of view, they are right. We say, lets prove them wrong, and make 911 Denial illegal. Of course, the Obama administration does have its hands full. And most Americans are more concerned about putting some damn food on the table and getting the rent paid. And, some of us do have short memories. Because, we've got to get that damn food on the table and more...





Which is why it is the media's job to play "Gotcha" and trip up the buffoons who espouse lip-farts like 911 Denial. Come on George! What's with you man! But, its wrong to lay the blame solely on George. He's only human. He should have caught it, he booted it, and he apologized. Man up. And don't play any favorites. If you have to play the "Gotcha" game, give it to everybody. Brother Michael, Sister Sarah, oh, and Harry just got tripped up too! The media is very good at the game when it concerns a sex scandal and our politicians...or a pro athlete...or a pro golfer... You see, its hard to focus on some things other than a good old sex scandal. But it sells. 911 Denial didn't have to sell itself...until now.





Aside from all this: We like the way Lawrence handled the show on Friday night (1/8/09). We just wish he would pick up the "Worst Person In The World" Torch. Then we would love him. Whoever replaces Keith (and he won't be on the show forever...) we hope they pick up that WPW Torch.



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