For thos who are skiddish about the stock market, you have a right to be. Prior to the Market Crash of 1929, the Market revealed definite signs of instability in September. The Market began its crash in late October.

Scary. Very scary.

Frankly, I don’t know why the GOP doesn’t change its name to the Oligarchy Party and get it over with.

At least Hoover’s mess was eventually cleaned up, whereas Bush’s disaster will never be repaired.

And now the private contractors in Iraq, the slippery oil deals (play on words intended), and the corruption of our judicial system. We don’t want our children to suffer under a government like this. In fact we have even gone so far as to talk about leaving this country and moving to Ireland if it doesn’t get any better. We were in Ireland two years ago and despite Bush, the Irish people still like us. They just can’t tolerate our freak of a president. But that aside, we have more or less decided to stick it out and fight politically for the things this administration will never understand. Truth, honor, integrity, honesty, and compassion.

A while back we published a seris of essays about THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM. We recently reprinted them in updated versions on our blog, the Coalition for a Democatic America. In one of the posts, my husband, with a little help from Abe, concluded that Bush was a sociopath. I strongly recommend that post. In fact I’ll dig it up for you. It will go a long way towards explaining the corruption that we’ve been seeing for the last six years. I’ll be right back!

Here it is!

http://coalitionforademocracticamerica.blogspot.com/2007/06/part-2-disdain-for-recognition-of-human.html

It’s PART 2 in the series and it’s called “Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights.”

Enjoy…Okay,maybe enjoy isn’t the word, but it left us with chills going up and down our spines.

And now you have to excuse me. I don’t mind being regnant, especially now that the morning sickness is behind be, but these CRAVINGS are both enjoyable and a little over the edge. Pass the chocolate fudge swirl ice cream.

As disgusted as we were by the idea that anyone would consider George W. Bush a wartime leader in the spirit of Lincoln, Wilson, or FDR, we were even more disgusted by the cavalier attitude that the right wingers took towards the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. In many ways they reminded Donatra and the rest of us, of a rich man who leads his dog up to his poor neighbor’s front stoop, allows the dog to take a dump all over the Welcome Mat and then asks the poor neighbor to clean up the mess. You’ll see what I’m talking about when you get to the part about government and media reactions to the crash.

All in all this was a very enlightening albeit depressing series of posts to research and write because it reminded us that George W. Bush, like the Republicans of the 1920s, were bound and determined to take {pirate Capitalism to new heights Then like now, the only real crime was in getting caught. Beyond that it was a cutthroat economy in which the policies were essentially drawn up to benefit the rich.

On another note, we were reminded that a few people who lost their fortunes actually did jump out of buildings, but for the most part these incidents were somewhat exaggerated by the media of the time. But what the media didn’t reveal was the fact that after the Market crashed and the economy began to belly up, you quite literaly had businesses running to the federal government, begging the government to regulate and protect them from their own greed and rapacity. Like I said. It was a little like asking the American tax paper to use that pooper scopper to clean up the mess left by the Corporate Pitbull.

There were certain portions of these posts which had to be cut. It was already four parts long plus a fifth segment for credits to some of the sources we used to verify what Abe was telling us. (We wanted a more historical feel to this particular set of posts.) One of the parts that was deleted–and which may reappear in a separate series of posts about racism in general–was the prevailing climate of racial hatred that took place during the 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan held regular rallies. In fact, the town from which my husband and I moved away from (some might say escaped from) held its last KKK rally at the farm of a school board member’s grandfather in 1924. Later, during the 1930s there were American versions of the Hitler Youth who used to goosestep to the tune of right wing racism and antisemitism. As stated in the previous set of posts, it took the photos from the death camps to wake up the American people and to make antisemitism a dirty word, although much of it remained intact throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and probably beyond.

Another thing that we didn’t get a chance to discuss were the soup kitchens, the gray mush that passed for soup and the tin cup full of coffee for which the poor often had to wait for hours to obtain. Not to mention the foul stench of mush, dirty laundry, and fecal matter rotting in the streets. And yet the right wingers insisted that we had turned a corner and that the depression was getting better while people slept in card board boxes. Yeah. Right.

Name a time when the right wingers have EVER done ANYTHING except destroy the economy by destroying the middle class and draining unearned wealth and ill-gotten gold to the upper and undeserving elite classes and corporations in this country.