South Carolina and The Intellectual-Liberalism of Conservatism

Why are voices from backwards, reactionary and even insidiously anti-progress states as South Carolina even allowed to comment and engage in discussion on national Political-Economy?  When the intelligentsia of states as South Carolina cannot even stabilize and grow their Political-Economies?

What exactly has South Carolina and it's Intelligentsia contributed towards a perfection of the Union and a maximal realization of the National-Political-Economy besides the opportunity of tearing it asunder?

It behooves the imagination, that after eons of Human-Political-Economic contradictions, South Carolina intelligentsia still reacts. At the expense of progress with the Intellectual-Liberalism of Conservatism.

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Time Magazine's Joel Stein and the Capitalist Farce

Those who Time Magazine's Joel Stein idealistically sneers at "as least capable of doing math" in his 11/16/09; essay on Marijuana, are the ones whose statistical existence enable the Capitalist farce.

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The Prison Condition, Anal Cavity Searches and Terrorism

The following is an interesting statement, written by a Prisoner.  It deals with the Prison Condition.  It deals with the cavalier nature Prison officials approach the antagonistic intrusion of Anal Cavity Searches and it shows conflicting presumptions when contrasted with security concerns of the general public and Terrorism.

"Lieutenant T. I spoke to you about the Prison's Anal Cavity Search Policy and you stated certain things as facts.  You described a scenario where a Prisoner being escorted to the showers quickly pulls a regular sized lotion bottle filled with feces out of their rectum and douses the escort guards with feces and that is the primary reason for the Anal Cavity Search Policy.  The reality is Prison officials have long since explained away the antagonistic intrusion of a Prisoner's body as it concerns Anal Cavity Searches, that Prisoners as a group place objects inside their rectums.  I wonder how much of this is excessive supposition.  I find it more plausible for a guard to blame his or hers inattentiveness during a search on a Prisoner sticking something in their rectum after something happens.  Because this begs this question are Prisoners anatomy any different than any other Human?  Does the mere fact of a conviction and subsequent imprisonment instantly transform a Prisoners anatomy to the point that a prisoners body now begins to defy all natural laws?  This is a valid point.  I wonder who and how many Prison officials have inserted bottles and objects inside their rectums and anal cavities to then become authorities, speaking with certainty on the ease and opportunity of objects going in and out the rectums.  Because anything less than empirical knowledge of this, particularly, when the question is dealing with the antagonistic intrusion of a prisoners body is assumption.  And assumptions alone are not enough to base such violations so casually.

I raise another point.  I understand governments interest in maintaining a safe and secure Prison environment, just as government has an interest in maintaining a safe and secure society.  Since the terrorist acts of 9/11.  The Federal Govt. has enacted a number of laws, policies and practices to dissuade Mass Destructive acts. One of the primary targets has been Airports.  Policies and practices that mandate and warrant airline passengers to remove shoes, submit to a hand frisk, pat down, walk through metal detectors, hand held wands have been enacted.  But and I find this peculiar, no security personnel or legislator is proposing and advocating the practice of Anal Cavity Searches of all Airline passengers.  The U.S. Govt. has all the reasons to pursue all security measures that will ensure the safety of the Homeland, yet Anal Cavity Searches isn't one.  The mass general public and people out there in society have an infinite array of objects that can be concealed in their anal cavities and rectums which can be relative Weapons of Mass Destruction.  If it is to be accepted that Prisoners so casually secrete bottles in their anal cavities."

 The above was written by a Prisoner who has asked Apropos to secure his identity.

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Sarah Palin "Real America", Criminality, Prison Jobs and it's Human Condition

There is this Ironic hypocricy that Sarah Palin's "Real America", Small Town and Rural America with it's Guns, Religion and Family ethos.  Is tacitly supporting criminality because not only does it clamor for Prison jobs but accepts the Prison-industrial antagonism as a viable job creator and the basis for the realization of it's human condition.

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Newsweek The Magazine, Mark Sanford, The Governor of South Carolina on Ayn Rand and Republican-Conservatism and it's Intellectual-Liberalism

Is this tongue in cheek and somewhere in the drapered offices of Newsweek The Magazine, cynical laughter rings? Because having Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina, a Republican, Adulterous-Hypocrite use infantile idealism and it's schizoid hypocrisy of an Ayn Rand and her irrelevant mediocrity as juxtaposed commentary on his real life moral turpitude and malfeasance has to be a tedious joke that teeters on a sort of Intellectual-Liberalism that hints at sophomoric impetuosity. One of those calculations that utterly fails at delivering whatever redemption it's impetus might have hinted at.

Mark Sanford the pathetic wrench and Governor of South Carolina has made this pitiful attempt at classic allegory with his "Atlas Hugged" essay in the 11/2/09; Newsweek Magazine. A Play on the title of that other pitiful classic allegory "Atlas Shrugged" by the ridiculous Ayn Rand (an author who laughably introduced the notion of captains of industry doing on strike! To the human socialization thesis, as if the Capitalist antagonism and it's exploitive medium has any grasp of equity).

Under the guise of advancing analysis of Governmental spending under the anti-deficit opportunistic critique. Mark Sanford labors ridiculously to solicit the sympathetic ear of his Republican-Conservative contemporaries who naively also share his orgasmic awakening to the romantic Fancy's of Ayn Rand and her pent up resentment at Soviet-Marxist practice. As he faces and contends with the consequences of his adulterous idiocy with his Argentinian Lolita. An exhibition of such stupendous error in judgement which his impotent critique of Ayn Rand's world view as lacking in "grace, love, faith and any form of social compact does nothing to mitigate and is only a transparent and feeble plea for understanding.

Mark Sanford's essay does affirm one supposition which is Republican-Conservatism thought and it's practice is a psychosis and insane calculus which the simple "man isn't perfect" mantra littered through out the essay is as demented as Mark Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina flying off to Argentina, thousands of miles away from sworn, duty, honor, loyalty responsibilities to the people of South Carolina and the Fidelity Vow he gave his Wife when they married.

In response to Mark Sanford, Republican-Conservatism and it's Intellectual-Liberalism: Government cannot be at odds with the people isn't it, "By the People"? And empirically Mans Liberty is always relative.

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Michael Jackson, "This Is It", The New York Republican Rep. Pete King and Transnational Conglomerates

Michael Jackson "This Is It", a docureality, behind the scenes homage to what it means to capitalize and exploit opportunity has on 10/27/09; debut to rave and rare reviews from friends and foes alike.

Even that New York Republican Rep. Pete King who pompously and in true Republican fashion, found criticism, where none was relevant, over television coverage of Michael Jackson's death, may have hummed a tune or two of Michael Jackson's "they don't really care about us"---which is what Republicans are good at and quintessentially do, not caring about people.

Nonetheless the sensory experience of Michael Jackson in rehearsal in "This Is it', has transcended Republican hypocrisy and is the first wave of what is a deluge of exploitation from the crass and crude schemes of his father Joe Jackson to the veneered gambits of transnational conglomerates. Michael Jackson and his eternal artistry is a generating means of capital par excellence which even Republican misanthropy genuflects to.

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Tyler Perry, The Black American Experience and the Spike Lee Contradiction

I Haven't been a critic of Tyler Perry's works which because of it's one-dimensional ethos seems simplistic and unclutteredly moralistic. Yet to deny, denounce and reproach Tyler Perry and his works is to deny denounce and reproach that basis, facet and organic-condition of the Black American Experience that has produced it.

There is this tension within Black American Intelligentsia. Which in it's simplistic form can be narrowed to perception and utility.

• Perception--Specifically, the euro-centric critique of the Black Communities generalities, the prejudices of the greater society.
• Utility--The continuing Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois debate.

When Spike Lee, the Movie Director, criticizes Tyler Perry for buffoonery and minstrel revision, one has to wonder what exactly is Spike Lee's point or angst at. The themes and characters of Tyler Perry's works exist, they are real ---Is Spike Lee wishing that side of the Back American Experience be kept hidden because it causes the Spike Lee bias and faction of the Black American Experience squeamish embarrassment because that sort of caricaturization is susceptible to euro-centric denigration and it lacks the stereo-typical nihilism of Spike Lee's own works and ethos.
Tyler Perry's works are not Amos and Andy minstrels or "Gone With The Wind" affections and it's myriad examples that litter the American cultural land-scape from Michael Jackson to Oprah Winfrey. So what exactly is Spike Lee's criticism based on?
Simply creating or depicting a character as Spike Lee does who knows how to flip "The Man" off does nothing to address the schizophrenic nature and alienative imperative of the Black American Experienced realities. As a matter of fact it is mere therapeutic indulgences. it instead affirms the basic contradictions and antagonisms of American society which Spike Lee and the strident impotence of his works purports to outline in graphic detail. Nonetheless save for the entertaining value does nothing to resolve.
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Missouri,Catfish, Noodling and Anti-Establishment Folklore

What about Missouri Catfish that gnaws at the ham fist of a certain type of Man and Woman. To want to just thrust hands in muddy waters, grabbing at the sinewy, slippery, wiggling Catfish beast---and with a feeling of accomplishment that is rooted in the slimy primordial swamp of that fist human hand slicing through brackish waters, hoists out of the muddy Missouri waters the 52lb---100lb behemoths that have wiggled their way into the colloquial lexicon as Noodling, unlike the proverbial "one that got away" fish tales!

Noodling is Illegal in 31 states. Including it's Capital the Great State Of Missouri with it's "Show Me" provencialism. Still it thrives. Just as anti-establishment folklore, it is the existential measure a tangent of cultural narrative that defines in stark relief the nuanced irrelevance of status quo prohibition as an idealistic medium of exerting control over a certain strata of it's society.

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