shame upon shame upon shame

Every tom dick and dennis can get his ethics and white tidies in a bunch, but for delay to express that the various findings of the House Ethics committee are the machinations of a "great left-wing conspiracy" is pretty much the most outrageous thing he could have said. not even erstwhile Fox news will be able to hide the fact that the Ethics committee, which voted unanonymously, is composed of more conservative rightwing republicans than even middle of the road democrat. delay has been so very proud of his ability to coerce money from lobbyists to direct various pieces of legislation all to improve the personal wealth of he and his compatriots. Given the Straussian nature of these antics it just seems to ludicrous to now suggest that his own brain has been taken over by the same virus as Ann Coulter or Laura Ingram.

here is a taste of some serious arachnoanarchy... stop buying stuff at retail prices. go into stores, pick out an item, go to the check out stand and leave one-half or one-third of the retail price at the counter. you have just purchased something at cost to the store and have not defrauded or stolen from the store. the store may try to charge you or have you arrested, but ultimately they would have to prove in court that you intended to steal the item, which by paying you didn't, or that you were doing something that they can't even being to figure out what you were doing. you could then subpeona the video of the transaction, claim in fact that the store clerk stole from the store the money you clearly are paying to the store and turn the tables on the whole transaction. if you really want to be able to do this with a profound sense of clarity, study the actual costs of each of the items you wish to obtain. evaluate the profit margins of these items, contact various social justice and economic justice groups and determine the proper valid living wage costs to the producer manufacturer and then subtract that from the retail price since it is not being provided by the corporations. for example Nike pays below living wage to the women and children who make their shoes, but charge 4000% markups on the items at their stores. deduct all of the potential real costs that Nike should and could have paid to labor, transportation, warehouse workers, store employees with no benefit packages, etc.. then pay the remainder. you have thus proven that Nike's profits are exhorbitant and come at the exploitation of workers at all levels and thus as an obscenity are necessarily unfit for the community in which you live. they have two choices, withstand the PR nightmare to hassle you in court, or let it go..