I first posted about this as a joke back when Brown won the election, now I continue it as a joke, but also with a sick feeling in my stomach that perhaps my joke is becoming true. Today Scott Brown was sworn in and the DOW dropped 268 points. Since Brown won the election the DOW has dropped 723 points. Brown was elected on the 19th. When the markets opened the next day, they dropped by over 100 points. And they’ve pretty much kept dropping ever since with a couple days of recovery that were quickly overcome by drops. Remember late November 2008? Fox News and the GOP blamed Obama for every market drop, even when he wasn’t in office. Just imagine if they were kept to the same standard!

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The US military has finally come out in favor of allowing Gays in the military. This is a no-brainer and a truly black and white issue. No reasonable person can stand against equality in the military. But so far these are just words. When they are actions, we will have reason to celebrate. In the meantime, it’s nice to see the discussion finally start.

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One thing that has always annoyed the piss out of me are Conspiracy Theories.  This isn’t to say that conspiracies don’t exist, but it is to say that most, the vast majority, in fact, do not.  And it seems that no ideology has a stranglehold on these mindless games of “connect the dots.”  We see it on the Right with Glenn Beck and most of Fox News and we see it on the Left with Michael Moore and Hugo Chavez.  And speaking of, Chavez has come out with a dozy.  The earthquake in Haiti… the United States caused it with a secret off shore earthquake weapon.  I…

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So political hacks think that money is free speech? Wow. No kidding. (sarcasm) Pardon me while I don’t find this news shocking. Of course both parties think money equals speech. They are both full of hacks. Independents are less likely to think so because we actually think for ourselves and don’t support parties.

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You may not see this news if you go to the websites of the Corporate Media– and the distinction of “corporate” is quite apt today– unless of course you take the time to seek it out. The Corporate Media hasn’t even batted an eye, but the Conservative Activist Supreme Court has removed the 103 year old distinction between humans and corporation when it comes to the Bill of Rights. It used to be that corporations and unions (added later) were limited in how much money they could use to get candidates elected, but no more! Get ready for all the money that corporations and unions will use to influence elections. If you thought that corporations had too much influence already, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. And it seems that this whole decision rests on the idea that these corporations are the same as citizens. The decision was made by the Conservative Activist Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 vote. Strange, isn’t it, that Conservatives think that foreigners don’t deserve protection under our laws, but Corporations do? Stranger yet is this intentional deemphasis by the Corporate media as they hide the news away. Can you find the article in the picture below (click the images to enlarge them)? You’ll note that there isn’t much difference between the two MSM, but, if you go to the end of the post, you’ll see that it is actually covered well by the Evil Socialists at NPR and PBS and the Evil Muslims at Al Jazeera. How sad is it that you get better coverage of important American election news on a Middle Eastern news site than on the major American media? Very freakin’ sad.

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Pundits and Republicans are fast to say that the Scott Brown win in MA, which is where I live now, was due to the Democrats going too far Left. This is a pretty fishy story if you ask me. If MA is Liberal, then why would they vote for a guys who is clearly a Conservative? Are you telling me that the same State that has passed its own Health Care reform is against the national health care reform? I have also found it very odd when people point out that X percent of people oppose the Health Care reforms offered in the Congress, but they never bother to unpack those numbers. After all, I oppose the Bill in Congress, too, but not because it goes too far; it clearly doesn’t go far enough! I thought perhaps I was alone on that, but now there is an interesting poll from MoveOn.org– a group that I generally dislike because of their “General Betray Us” garbage against Patreaus, who I consider to be a great General and a great human being. Take all polls with a grain of salt AND remember that leaders shouldn’t ever be looking to the polls for guidance, but as informed citizens, it is worthwhile for us to look at this issue from a few perspectives, not the single vision handed to us by a complacent (think CNN) or propagandistic (think Fox News) Mainstream Media.

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I’m making a joke, of course. I don’t think that Brown’s victory has anything to do with today’s market plunge of 179 point (as of this writing 12:18 PM EST 1/20/10). I just thought it was funny that in 2008, following the election of Obama, Conservatives used every drop in the market as evidence that Obama had already ruined the economy (before taking office) and so as I read today’s news and happened to look at the DOW, I thought it was a funny idea to create a false correlation between Brown’s victory and the DOW. I learned from Conservatives. The difference, of course, is that I am joking. But I have 20 bucks that says that if a reversal were to happen and the market climbed by 200 points, Fox News et all will say the markets are “responding” to the election.

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