Whether Holder quits, is fired or simply gets run over by a truck some night doesn’t really matter. Don’t delude yourselves. There’s ALWAYS gonna be another two-legged turd ready to step up to the plate and lick the boots of the Owners.

Unplug. Too simple for y’all?

Steve, this isn’t about Obama, it isn’t about Bush or good/bad democrats or republicans — dumping older workers is the rotten core of criminal capitalism. Discarding older smarter workers might be the essence of what makes crapitalism work for the 1% and their trolls. It happened to my dad, it happened to HIS father back in 1927 and after years of genealogical research I can say it happened to every male in my family going back to 1840 when they came over from Ireland.

Its policy. The Owners make sure each new generation is shocked and surprised when it happens to them. They ensure this shock and surprise by twisting public education into knots to where its ok to teach history as an outgrowth of Capitalist Christianity but to never ever mention the struggle of the working class to find a way to stay alive in this world after 50.

I almost smile when people are stunned that they can’t find work after they get grey hair. Read your history, people. As long as you’re thrown on the trash heap anyway, bring a book along.

This isn’t news, ya know. My dad was canned by his company back in 1970 when he just turned 50. Dropped him like a hot rock. He tried for a couple years to find on-the-books work and finally gave up. Became a ‘handyman’ — fortunately he knew what he was doing. Kept that up for another fifteen years of hard physical work.

So much for ‘no stamina’, staying on the job etc.

Its not the age, its the fact that older people are FAR more likely to 1- tell you to your face that you’re full of shit and 2 – that isn’t MY job and if you want it done you can damn well do it yourself and 3 – you can take this job and shove it up your ass.

Bug-eyed upwardly mobile types gag at stuff like that. Mom or Dad telling them to get screwed? Can’t have that at work.

Austerity is the law of the land because those in power are enriched by it. Strip them of their ‘campaign contributions’ and the obscene protections and perks afforded them as legislators. Expose them to the elements we face every day. Cosseted worms, thats all they are.

Nothing like taking the safe road when doing your job. Don’t want to rock the boat or step on anybody’s toes. And don’t even bother going inside the gulags.. ah, sorry, the prisons in the good ol USA and looking for radicalization amongst the white racist gangs. That might involve some physical risk and might even impede the money river.

Everybody with a cellphone wants to be a Junior G-Man now.

Exactly. If Misha didn’t really exist, the FBI would have to create him.

The government devotes its manpower and money to monitoring domestic peaceful protests because they are the real threat to the 1%. The bomb-builders are the enablers of the 1%’s garrison state tactics.

The real question is about “Misha”, the Mysterious Mad Muslim Mullah… was he really an FBI plant, there to encourage young dopes into action and then arrest them… only this time it got out of their hands and he started blowing stuff up on his own?

I don’t think the FBI is going to voluntarily cop to that one.

Ratcheting up the Corporate Garrison State.

Take it from a member of a cop family… one of the core reasons some people join a police force is to get the sanction to commit violence. Its a really deep thread running thru all enforcement agencies.

We gave the wrong guy the power.

Very sad that as a country we have so many enemies we have no idea which one might have done this.

RevBev. Yep. I follow it religiously you might say. The exceptions are shared possessions. But I’m working on that one too :-)

Organizing 101: If you haven’t used it, seen it or thought about it in six months… get rid of it.