I can't believe it's not a democracy!

So I am thinking about getting a smart phone.

Don't know what I will get, but I know what service provider I WON'T be using: SPRINT.  I have Sprint with an "older plan," which apparently ended but no one told me.  I almost never use the phone, but I had to last month because of a family emergency (my nephew broke his leg in three places and had to have surgery). The one time I really needed it, after being a subscriber for 14 years, and for reasons no one can explain, I was charged international roaming charges, and a 27 minute call from Brooklyn to New Jersey cost $99.  And the reps keep acting like it's my fault because of the towers in my neighborhood and because I am on an older, discontinued plan.  No one told me that my old plan doesn't exist any more of whatever.  Not even this past weekend, when I went to the Sprint store to see about upgrading to a smart phone and the clerk asked for my cell phone number to check out my plan.  No, not even then. 

Ok, Sprint is out, which means Virgin and Credo too.  Great.  So what's left that isn't the sociopathic assholes at AT&T (they allowed the government to put equipment in a "special room" to datamine all our communication) or the assholes at Verizon?

Fake bishop attempts to infilitrate gathering of sociopaths:

Prankster Nearly Sneaks Into Meeting of Cardinals. Thing is, the imposter sounds like a bit of a nut--he wasn't even a really good comedian/actiivist/protester--yet he got past the first level before being nabbed. What this guy highlights is how all of this pomp and protocol is all bullshit--high priced bullshit--but just bullshit in the end. And has anyone else noticed that people are openly mocking the church now, which can only signal its eventual demise. Not in my lifetime, sadly, but not long after. Good fucking riddance.

I don't think they will go away, but I wouldn't mind seeing them bloodied:

Wal Mart Disaster Deepens: Shelves Empty as Sales Decline. Even if Walmart went boom--and I don't think it will--that would not be enough to punish the filthy greedy fucking Waltons who, with the scumbag Murdochs, seem driven to destroy this country. If things do get bad, no problem for them, as they probably have money squirreled everywhere and they won't lose a cent. Probably will abandon a bunch of stores and make the communities they destroyed clean up the mess. I recognized years ago that Walmart's emphasis on low prices over anything else was a race to the bottom. Well now the bottom is almost here. I hopw that some communities, post-Walmart, recognize that they need to encourage and nurture smaller, locally owned businesses to provide goods and services to residents. Now is the time, when borrowing is cheap, to start cleaning up those empty storefronts and prepare for what could be a healthy, thriving community. Good riddance to the parasites.

Really? He has a heart?

Vatican reveals pope had secret heart surgery. P.S. Just to change the batteries in the device that mimics a human heart. I swear, the tone-deaf PR hacks at VAtican City are trying really hard to find one person who gives a shit about Pope Ratzi stepping down to avoid the shitstorm that must be coming any day now.

About fucking time:

US 'expected to sue' Standard & Poor's -- Lawsuit would mark first major enforcement action against agencies which gave high marks to risky mortgage debt. And, of course, no criminal implications. Because very wealthy people are too special to go to jail. Unless they rip off even wealthier people. See Bernie Madoff.

I wonder which whore is his favorite:

George Osborne and Rupert Murdoch enjoyed private dinner in Mayfair; Boris Johnson and some actor among those who attended recent event at the media mogul's apartment. I'm guessing it's Boris Johnson, because he looks like the kind of lad who would do anything to get just an inch ahead. It's obvious that he's spent a lot of time creating his upper class twit image, but like many social-climbing wannabes, he tries just a little too hard.

Meanwile, in Afghanistan...

Afghan suicide bomber kills anti-terror chief. I recall seeing the same headline a few months back. Apparently the Afghan anti-terror chief du jour is the twin of Al Qaeda's number two. You know, the guy who gets killed by the U.S. military every four months or so.

And why are we there again? I recall hearing about a pipeline that was supposed to go from Whereverthefuckistan through Lawlessratholeistan and deliver some fossil fuel to an awaiting tanker, but surely our media would tell us whether "Operation Destroy the Earth so a Handful of Fuckers Can Own Everything for Five Minutes" was on track. Let me check Yahoo's! front page. Hmmm, Italian tourist arrested for forgetting wallet at NYC steakhouse, ideal time to book flights, Lindsay Lohan says "no" to Dancing With the Stars....

Extent of parasitic activity in the UK revealed:

Secret papers show extent of senior royals' veto over bills; Court order reveals how approval of Queen and Prince Charles is sought on range of bills. That this parasitic family is ceded authority to do anything other than decide which car window they will use to wave to the masses is a fucking insult. I hope the Brits are appropriately outraged and kick this unless institution to the fucking curb. Getting people to accept that some people are breed to rule because a super special sperm met a magical egg is exactly how we get to the lack of prosecutions with the Goldman designed financial crisis. Some people are too special to prosecute. Some people must be consulted before bills may advance. What a shame that the French Revolution and the end of the Romanov family didn't send a strong enough message to these filthy self-appointed elites. They never learn.

Call me Pollyanna, but I guess I try to find something good in every day:

Ex-National Lampoon CEO Tim Durham Gets 50 Years Prison (as do two of his miscreant buddies). Now if only the SEC and others would focus on the bigger banking criminals. Hahahahaha, I forgot, they bought the government. That said, click the link to see the arrogant maw of a soon to be prison bride. Bye-bye sociopathic fucker.

Will he go to Goldman Sachs right away or will he wait a year before acknowledging his long-term employer?

Geithner's planned departure puts Obama in tough spot. Because whores are in it for the money, that's why.