If you haven’t seen the rant made by CNBC’s Rick Santelli about the recent mortgage bailouts, here it is:

I was surfing around the Internet to find out what type of commentary has been made on this issue. The shear volume was incredible. While it is refreshing to find that people are getting motivated by something, maybe enough to gather en masse in Chicago later this, the student of history and practical politics in me isn’t quite so moved.

I don’t know how big a Tea Party-style event would need to be in order to meet expectations of those cheering on Mr. Santelli. I do know that, no matter how large it is, it probably won’t accomplish any real or lasting change in the format that I speculate it will take. Speakers, crowds, people chanting and talking about how pissed off they are… The event will conclude and everyone will go home. Then what? Will people still be mad at home? Will their anger translate into action? See, rallies are just shows. They may be indicative of bigger things happening in society at large. Unless you see others who are fellow travelers in the belief that change must happen now and then act upon this fervor, rallies and similar gatherings are just shows and nothing more.

I’ve often heard that one of the most famous mass gatherings in history, the French Revolution, was an event that went far beyond the show stage, becoming a turning point for when those in power became afraid of the masses. This resulted in real change that liberated many and changed the face of society and the future of Western political thought. The downfall of achieving this change was that a large amount of people died and property was destroyed. Anything short of that wouldn’t have scared those in power, nor would it have made the notion of change real in the minds of those participating in the revolution.

At this point in this essay, it is important that I state explicitly that I’m not advocating for anything of a violent nature. I am not advocating Rick Santelli recruit commodities traders armed with pitch forks and torches to do anything. I am saying that, while I support people getting mad for a change, I don’t have a lot of faith in today’s angry people planning to gather in mass protest in four to five months.

So while I’m wishing luck to those participating in Mr. Santelli’s Revolution, as I’m hoping it will be called in history books of the future, I’m just a little bit pesimmistic. But just in case, viva la revolucion!

Well, I don’t technically have cash in hand yet. I have made sure that with the passage of the recent so-called “stimulus” bill, I wasn’t personally left out. You see, bills are typically hundreds of pages long. Because of this fact, most elected representatives don’t actually read the bills before they vote on them, so they have to take the words of those writing the bills (such as party bosses or lobbyists) about what exactly they’re voting on. This bill was no exception. Maybe congress-critters should be required to read bills before they are voted on, especially if they wanted to stop waste and have a more efficient government. Case in point, I was able to obtain $350 billion dollars as part of, err, “wireless and broadband deployment grant programs.” The text of this specific section of the bill is as follows:

wireless and broadband deployment grant programs

(including transfer of funds to Rev. Johnny Crawford for the Rev. Johnny Crawford Personal Economic Stimulus Program)

For necessary and unnecessary expenses related to the Wireless and Broadband Deployment Grant Programs established by section 6002 of division B of this Act, $2,825,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 shall be for Wireless Deployment Grants and $1,825,000,000 shall be for Broadband Deployment Grants: Provided, That an additional $350,000,000,000 shall be paid directly to Rev. Johnny Crawford in the form of subsidized loans that do not require repayment. Provided Further, That the funds be used by Rev. Johnny Crawford to do 700,000 chicks at the same time or for whatever. Provided Even Further, That Rev. Johnny Crawford will receive free Detroit Lions tickets for life. Provided Even Further Still, That Rev. Johnny Crawford shall be treated as a cabinet-level appointment for the purpose of income tax reporting, and therefore no taxes shall be paid on any of the aformentioned benefits. And one more thing: Bob Etheridge is hereby expelled from Congress, effective immediately upon enactment.

Money for 700,000 chicks at the same time?! Now I call that a stimulus! I have a pretty good imagination, but I somehow don’t think that’s anatomically possible.

Anyway it doesn’t matter since the bill was just general and vague enough to spend the whole wad on play-doh, fast food, almost anything I can think of. The best part is that once I blow through it all, I’ll go back for Stimulus II and ask for more. Maybe I’ll ask for $350 billions in guns and ammo and call it a “green construction jobs program.”

Even though the bill’s already been passed, it’s not too late to request your own stimulus funding. Just may that sure whatever you request stimulates the economy or at least stimulates you.

Apparently there is a kerfuffle about a cartoon that was printed recently in the NY Post. It couldn’t have been that big of an issue, since I wouldn’t have even known about it unless it was tweeted at me, and I haven’t heard about it anywhere else. Some people are disturbed by it and calling it racist. For your judgment, here it is:

First off — yeah, it’s a monkey getting shot by a couple of (white) cops. You can see whatever you want to see in that. Understanding that racism and derogatory concepts about certain races exist, I can most certainly see as how this cartoon could be viewed as racist. I’m not going to argue with that. Now-a-days, though, the cops will shoot you with a taser like it ain’t no thing; it’s been quite a while since I heard about a fatal shooting by a cop with a gun, but I’m sure it still happens. Anyhow, I can’t think of any other animal that would be funnier to shoot than a monkey. Maybe they should have just drawn in a retarded kid, since the entire concept of their so-called stimulus seems like it may have been written by a mental defective.

I know some people are saying that the monkey is an Obama reference. Technically and literally speaking, Obama had nothing to do with the actual legislation as far as writing it. The Democratic Party peeps are the ones who actually wrote the legislation. So, I guess, the white cops shot some non-racially-specific Democratic Party hack. That’s what y’all should be pissed off about. The Democratic Party is in a position to screw you, your kids and your grandkids for the next couple of years at least. Let’s hope that monkey (and its entire family) gets killed. I mean, it’s either you or them — it’s your choice.

H/T:  Chris Spangle’s The Facts Were These…