During The 1987-88; Presidential campaign, candidate Vice-President George H. Bush, used a Black man, Willie Horton and demonized him before the American public. Willie Horton, through the Bush campaign epitomized Black America and that proclivity for crime, stable and prosperous America generally assumes is the case.
By the way George H. Bush won the election.
A Vice-President, sitting in office, personalized the generality of politics. He sharpened national-social contradictions with caricature in "real time" of a human being, demonizing him and in extension a social group and critics could only decry it as "mud slinging".
Fast-forward to the 2008 Democratic nomination for President.
In the sad but comical effort to exploit Barack Obama's comments on small town America. Hillary Clinton is doing the same thing she criticizes Obama of having done. Obama made his comments on why small town America votes against it's interest in a wealthy section of San Francisco. Hillary in her nihilistic toss the baby out with the bath water, either I win or I destroy the Democratic Party tactic. Gave validity to the tactic of the Democratic Party enemies, by stating in Scranton, Pa. a small town and victim of the tactic, that idea and propaganda that the Democratic Party is elitist and out of touch.
This isn't simply a matter of contradiction within the Democratic Party, but this struggle between Hillary and Obama reveals mature antagonisms.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The politics of guns, religion and bitterness
This spectacle of John McCain and Hillary Clinton labeling Barack Obama condescending and elitist because of his comments that rural townspeople are bitter because for the past 25 years various administrations have betrayed them, so they cling to guns, religion, is that age old status quo ploy to never legitimize issues affecting those marginalized and subordinated.
The premise is as long as issues are not giving legitimacy by those whose voice isn't easily discredited and marginalized, such as a Presidential Candidate, then the issue is unseen, unheard and invalid.
The real condescension is this latest obscenity of John McCain and Hillary Clinton going on the record with the assertion that economic hard times and provincial reaction is a choice and life style for those rural people Obama spoke of being bitter.
Economic hardship and all it's underpinnings is as much a lifestyle issue as claimed by McCain and Clinton as that sham confederate slave owning state rights defense. The real elitism is listen to those terrified of class war ruminate that the aggregate issues Barack Obama spoke of rural townspeople clinging to religion, guns being anti-immigration and antipathetic to unfamiliarity is some sort of birth-right value mystique that is sacrosanct from any sort of critique.
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The premise is as long as issues are not giving legitimacy by those whose voice isn't easily discredited and marginalized, such as a Presidential Candidate, then the issue is unseen, unheard and invalid.
The real condescension is this latest obscenity of John McCain and Hillary Clinton going on the record with the assertion that economic hard times and provincial reaction is a choice and life style for those rural people Obama spoke of being bitter.
Economic hardship and all it's underpinnings is as much a lifestyle issue as claimed by McCain and Clinton as that sham confederate slave owning state rights defense. The real elitism is listen to those terrified of class war ruminate that the aggregate issues Barack Obama spoke of rural townspeople clinging to religion, guns being anti-immigration and antipathetic to unfamiliarity is some sort of birth-right value mystique that is sacrosanct from any sort of critique.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Proxy War: Texas, The First Baptist Church and FLDS (Mormons)
Why is the First Baptist Church involved? The First Baptist, denominationally at odds with Mormonism should not be involved in no way form or fashion with the State of Texas actions. Yet not only did First Baptist provide transportation for the removal of the allegedly abused kids, but it's members are actively involved in the states actions with the removed Mormon women and children.
By allowing the First Baptist Church to play such a prominent role Texas is tacitly advancing Religious and Denominational partiality.
Yes First Baptist can play a role and that is after after the seized Mormons are released, then it can compete as it does with any and all other belief systems for the participation and fellowship of free sovereign beings.
What is now unfolding is Eldorado, Texas (Besides the allegation of child abuse) is proxy war with the state being an agent for the First Baptist Church in it's battle with Mormonism.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
The gibberish of Michael Marshall
In Michael Marshall's simian tragic comedy post, Delinquent monkey put to death. A narrative about a berserk macaque monkey euthanized for biting and hurling feces at people.
Michael Marshall wrote "I wonder if [ the monkey] wore a hoodie and a bling chain as well".
Talk about a jaundiced brain grappling with phenomena and taking the easy way out with the ridiculous inference: that those who wear hoodies and bling are monkeys or a feces throwing monkey is a caricature of the hoodie and bling wearing persona.
How much socio-pathic and deviant behavior is done by suit wearing or preppy casual perpetrators or even uniformed state agents i.e. Police, Prison Guards?
If attire was indicative and measure of deviancy and it's relative criminality, then hoodies and bling have a long way of catching up with what has been done in the costumes of the past centuries. In closing there is a word for generalizing malbehavior with attire and it's bigotry.
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Michael Marshall wrote "I wonder if [ the monkey] wore a hoodie and a bling chain as well".
Talk about a jaundiced brain grappling with phenomena and taking the easy way out with the ridiculous inference: that those who wear hoodies and bling are monkeys or a feces throwing monkey is a caricature of the hoodie and bling wearing persona.
How much socio-pathic and deviant behavior is done by suit wearing or preppy casual perpetrators or even uniformed state agents i.e. Police, Prison Guards?
If attire was indicative and measure of deviancy and it's relative criminality, then hoodies and bling have a long way of catching up with what has been done in the costumes of the past centuries. In closing there is a word for generalizing malbehavior with attire and it's bigotry.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Economic Relativism, Pete Peterson and the Savings Gambit
Pete Peterson of the Blackstone Group, one of the wealthiest private equities in the cosmos, an imperialist machine par excellence had news to peddle and the smug nerve to, as the saying goes "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" declare it withe the bombast and self-importance pf the newly minted.
Drum roll...! The equity shark declared that the Sub Prime Rate morass and it's purported consequence on the economy is primarily a side effect of America's liberal attitude towards thrift and savings.
You know it's funny savings and it's critique is always the last wheezing gasp of profiteers. America as the critique usually goes should squirrel away liquidity so speculators can in turn appropriate it. Yes that tired ass tune of give me your savings, I know what to do with it, and become wealthy off it's manipulation and when I blunder a'la Bear Stearn's my conspiring and at times duped Uncle Sam will be there to aid me, be my parachute while the squirreling masses will in delirium yodel about Jack and his wit.
The agenda of Pete Peterson and the interest he represents is simple, feint, thrust and parry any intent to call into account the political-economical environment that creates billionaires in an hour (on June 21, 2007; Blackstone Group went public and Peterson became a billionaire in an hour). The formulations that the serving of working class in America who serve and support economic relativism should put it's needs and wants on hold and save so the Pete Peterson's can access the savings and indulge in subjecting the aggregate economy to the up and down swings of their manipulations only benefits a specific group. What is always conveniently ignored in the savings argument is savings as a particular type of specific economic activity doesn't benefit society at large. If the question is liquidity and it's availability then there are more dynamic means of doing so, for example stock investments and the dynamism of such activity impacts the aggregate society in a more realized way, than the manipulation of savings in the hands of a few.
What I find crass, is this colonial paradigm of political-economy which exploits the complexity of the savings question, flips it into a gambit ploy with the simplistic sounding of thrift as policy. So in a period where value derivatives bankrupt century old banks, the savings argument is worn out and backwards.
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Drum roll...! The equity shark declared that the Sub Prime Rate morass and it's purported consequence on the economy is primarily a side effect of America's liberal attitude towards thrift and savings.
You know it's funny savings and it's critique is always the last wheezing gasp of profiteers. America as the critique usually goes should squirrel away liquidity so speculators can in turn appropriate it. Yes that tired ass tune of give me your savings, I know what to do with it, and become wealthy off it's manipulation and when I blunder a'la Bear Stearn's my conspiring and at times duped Uncle Sam will be there to aid me, be my parachute while the squirreling masses will in delirium yodel about Jack and his wit.
The agenda of Pete Peterson and the interest he represents is simple, feint, thrust and parry any intent to call into account the political-economical environment that creates billionaires in an hour (on June 21, 2007; Blackstone Group went public and Peterson became a billionaire in an hour). The formulations that the serving of working class in America who serve and support economic relativism should put it's needs and wants on hold and save so the Pete Peterson's can access the savings and indulge in subjecting the aggregate economy to the up and down swings of their manipulations only benefits a specific group. What is always conveniently ignored in the savings argument is savings as a particular type of specific economic activity doesn't benefit society at large. If the question is liquidity and it's availability then there are more dynamic means of doing so, for example stock investments and the dynamism of such activity impacts the aggregate society in a more realized way, than the manipulation of savings in the hands of a few.
What I find crass, is this colonial paradigm of political-economy which exploits the complexity of the savings question, flips it into a gambit ploy with the simplistic sounding of thrift as policy. So in a period where value derivatives bankrupt century old banks, the savings argument is worn out and backwards.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
The Value Imperative, The Root of it all
Value is that which is given anything that is significant in one's life, from inclination to disposition, to the pursuit of vital necessities and how it is wanted.
Value is at the basis of all human endeavor, whether idealist or materialist, whether it's the socialization of property or it's privatization--- Value is the imperative.
So if value in all it's objectives and ethereal instances has not been thoroughly taken apart as it should be, those who then benefit from the partiality and one-dimensional superficiality of it's thesis have no incentive to dynamically synthesize it.
Just as the human condition cannot step outside of relative history there can never be a devaluation of the value imperative. Yes the false premise construct in it's idealistic vacuum can stand. But when confronted with the fundamental value matrix of necessity as the very condition of humanness, no amount of wit irrelevant of source can negate it.
So as we once again experience the theater of minds in centrist-right America whose only contribution to productivity is the cunning exploitation of relative value. To what then do we owe our tolerance to the assertion there exist a value difference between the bailed out bank, Bear Stearn's and the moral consequence of foreclosed Homes in Cleveland being destroyed by creditors.
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Value is at the basis of all human endeavor, whether idealist or materialist, whether it's the socialization of property or it's privatization--- Value is the imperative.
So if value in all it's objectives and ethereal instances has not been thoroughly taken apart as it should be, those who then benefit from the partiality and one-dimensional superficiality of it's thesis have no incentive to dynamically synthesize it.
Just as the human condition cannot step outside of relative history there can never be a devaluation of the value imperative. Yes the false premise construct in it's idealistic vacuum can stand. But when confronted with the fundamental value matrix of necessity as the very condition of humanness, no amount of wit irrelevant of source can negate it.
So as we once again experience the theater of minds in centrist-right America whose only contribution to productivity is the cunning exploitation of relative value. To what then do we owe our tolerance to the assertion there exist a value difference between the bailed out bank, Bear Stearn's and the moral consequence of foreclosed Homes in Cleveland being destroyed by creditors.
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Logan and the State of Illinois, it's Law, Order and Ethics
Logan was convicted for an act which was committed by the client of the lawyers in question. Their client confessed to them and he expressed how thrilled he was with the fact, an innocent man was being convicted and punished for something he did.
The lawyers in question kept their mouths shut 26 years! Because of what they described as an ethical conundrum. Wonder how much of a conundrum it would had been were their family in it's vortex.
My concern with this recurring theme in the Justice System isn't the simple matter of here we go again another mockery of Justice. But the Justice System is too vindictive, too idealistic, too sanctimonious in it's pronouncements, Elliott Spitzer like.
The degradation and dehumanization of all those involved and I mean All! Is too complete for so many lives to suffer it's errors and presumptions.
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Iraq and The Global War on Terrorism
Frequent readers of Apropos know the Iraq and Global War on Terrorism is military adventure and political opportunism.
Every step of the way, efforts made by those prosecuting both adventures has been more in line with perceptions rather than material facts. The Ideological support for both adventures has come from quarters whose base has been all those discredited thoughts in history.
These past few days has seen an upswing in violent speech and it's activity in Iraq. The much touted "surge" seems to have only been a weave of promises, pay-offs and compromises and as is usually the case it's unraveling.
There is only one theme central to the Global War on Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction. Weapons of mass destruction is the only element that transforms the discussion. Violent speech in all it's forms against state power isn't
new---but this is relatively the first time a radical group is claimed to have as it's strategy, exploiting weapons of mass destruction. If Al Qaeda had been branded as another rocket grenade using group, no one with a straight face would propose or justify deploying entire armies against it.
But this is where military reality transforms into political opportunity. The technical know how for weapons of mass destruction is limited exclusively by certain specifics which then makes it simple and easy for control. The proposition is simple: were it all about the weapons of mass destruction question, this imperial Romanesque theater of orthodox or regular war will not be happening. But we have been subjected to entire armies deployed, order of battles quixotically ill suited to track down triggers for nuclear devices or chemical and biological agent manipulations---all to what end? Just to see the self-described sole super power humbled and frustrated by minds, if we are to buy the propaganda, whose political-economy is still in the stone age?
The only critique of the adventures, the Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have presented is the National Security one and that as I have shown is the only viable when squared with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the means, if not the employ of Political Opportunity of satisfying the concerns is naively unsound.
War and it's mongering has never been adequate direction for any advance in Political-Economy. Yes it catalyses economies but there has to be a set of suitable facts. The most recent failure, to this dialectical fact and its perversion has been the Soviet Union and there is space on the shelf for it's old Cold War antagonist, The U.S.
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Every step of the way, efforts made by those prosecuting both adventures has been more in line with perceptions rather than material facts. The Ideological support for both adventures has come from quarters whose base has been all those discredited thoughts in history.
These past few days has seen an upswing in violent speech and it's activity in Iraq. The much touted "surge" seems to have only been a weave of promises, pay-offs and compromises and as is usually the case it's unraveling.
There is only one theme central to the Global War on Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction. Weapons of mass destruction is the only element that transforms the discussion. Violent speech in all it's forms against state power isn't
new---but this is relatively the first time a radical group is claimed to have as it's strategy, exploiting weapons of mass destruction. If Al Qaeda had been branded as another rocket grenade using group, no one with a straight face would propose or justify deploying entire armies against it.
But this is where military reality transforms into political opportunity. The technical know how for weapons of mass destruction is limited exclusively by certain specifics which then makes it simple and easy for control. The proposition is simple: were it all about the weapons of mass destruction question, this imperial Romanesque theater of orthodox or regular war will not be happening. But we have been subjected to entire armies deployed, order of battles quixotically ill suited to track down triggers for nuclear devices or chemical and biological agent manipulations---all to what end? Just to see the self-described sole super power humbled and frustrated by minds, if we are to buy the propaganda, whose political-economy is still in the stone age?
The only critique of the adventures, the Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have presented is the National Security one and that as I have shown is the only viable when squared with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the means, if not the employ of Political Opportunity of satisfying the concerns is naively unsound.
War and it's mongering has never been adequate direction for any advance in Political-Economy. Yes it catalyses economies but there has to be a set of suitable facts. The most recent failure, to this dialectical fact and its perversion has been the Soviet Union and there is space on the shelf for it's old Cold War antagonist, The U.S.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
"Mood in the Hood," Urban Blacks used as bogeyman by Oil executive John Hofmeister
The energy giant Shell is using Urban Blacks, or should I rather say misusing. Specifically Shell is banking on the rabid paranoia and stereotypical fear people have of Urban Blacks and has incorporated it as business policy, a means to an end that if realized will fill the coffers of the giant corporation and it's share holders.
Shell's President John Hofmeister revealed in an interview on the Charlie Rose show for 3/25/08; that Black people and civil disturbance which he characterized as "Mood in the Hood" was a arguing point in Shell, the behemoth energy giant business policy. He went on to say he had talks with the Mayor of Los Angeles concerning gauging the "Mood in the Hood". The implications of this bizarre proposition that Urban Blacks would riot over gas does starkly emphasize the state of the Cold War of American Racism.
Hofmeister argued that the nations energy crisis can be alleviated by allowing Shell to exploit the oil reserves in restricted areas of Alaska. In default, the specter of "Mood in the Hood" was raised. Urban Blacks on a rampage over oil and to complete the caricature, Hofmeister invoked the Rodney King aftermath.
All this "Mood in the Hood" talk, coming from an oil executive does raise the question is provocateurism in the works here? Where is the precedent in support of the implication that Urban Blacks unlike any other group will riot over gas? And Charlie Rose with the credibility of his Journalism on the line sat there and allowed the words to go unchallenged.
As an aside Hofmeister disclosed that Hillary Clinton is partial and sympathetic to the oil industry's concerns.
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Shell's President John Hofmeister revealed in an interview on the Charlie Rose show for 3/25/08; that Black people and civil disturbance which he characterized as "Mood in the Hood" was a arguing point in Shell, the behemoth energy giant business policy. He went on to say he had talks with the Mayor of Los Angeles concerning gauging the "Mood in the Hood". The implications of this bizarre proposition that Urban Blacks would riot over gas does starkly emphasize the state of the Cold War of American Racism.
Hofmeister argued that the nations energy crisis can be alleviated by allowing Shell to exploit the oil reserves in restricted areas of Alaska. In default, the specter of "Mood in the Hood" was raised. Urban Blacks on a rampage over oil and to complete the caricature, Hofmeister invoked the Rodney King aftermath.
All this "Mood in the Hood" talk, coming from an oil executive does raise the question is provocateurism in the works here? Where is the precedent in support of the implication that Urban Blacks unlike any other group will riot over gas? And Charlie Rose with the credibility of his Journalism on the line sat there and allowed the words to go unchallenged.
As an aside Hofmeister disclosed that Hillary Clinton is partial and sympathetic to the oil industry's concerns.
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Hillary Clinton and The Alchemy of Inevitability
Hillary Clinton cried and the people of New Hampshire who I guess never heard of crocodile tears made it out to be an event, political action and voted, saying with their votes they want to see her sniffling before cameras every time her inevitability was called into question.
Then she relegated Martin Luther King Jr. to a footnote in American History, declaring that were it not for the Great White Father, Lyndon Johnson, civil rights wouldn't even exist for her to even snide at. As if the revolts, blood, sweat, and tears of those Black and White protagonist who manned the barricades were abstract, surreal, fleeting, impressions across the twilight sky of the cold war of Racism.
Then weirdly she professed what an honor it was to be on stage with her political rival Barack Obama--- only Sybil like, frothing at the mouth, banshee screaming acted out her shame on you Barack Obama role as if she was auditioning for "one flew over what nest." So the people of Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas found affinity with it. Schizophrenia must be uniquely appetizing to them.
Then she got caught lying. Hillary had her Pinocchio moment. She lied that while landing at an airport at Bosnia she came under sniper fire. As if coming under sniper fire completes her bonafides and in one swoop she mocked and trivialized every last non-combatant tragic death due to Bosnian sniper fire.
Her husband once said he smoked but didn't inhale and like turkey's Americans gobbled it up. Now the wife claims she has been sniped at but it was only John Smith like, made up.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Charles Krauthammer is irrelevant, always has been
Charles Krauthammer is at it again. In another irrelevant Op-Ed he questions why Barack Obama remains a member of the Trinity Church.
Krauthammer and Co. with their rants about the Wright rants are a gaggle of geese pecking . If Jeremiah Wright and his "God Damn America" from pulpit is beyond the pale and Obama should excommunicate himself to satisfy the logic of brains clearly terrified by what injustice has wrought. Then why hasn't Charles Krauthammer renounced his citizenship and emigrated, on the grounds that the U.S. Government is so saturated with specific injustice and crimes against humanity that the only practical indictment is a historical one?
Furthermore has Krauthammer called for Catholics to renounce Catholicism considering the Catholic Church has been a haven for pederast?
Has history denounced and taken the position that Thomas Jefferson was the worst form of intellect, that of inconsistency? Because for all practical purposed his pronouncements on Providence and mans Liberty was at the expense of all those Black Men, Women and Children he held in slavery.
Should members of Congress resign because Racist and the most backwards of reactionaries have walked it's halls and advocated their cause in it's space?
Should the U.S. Supreme Court Justices disrobe because in it's history the very interesting jurisprudence that Black people were sub-human?
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Krauthammer and Co. with their rants about the Wright rants are a gaggle of geese pecking . If Jeremiah Wright and his "God Damn America" from pulpit is beyond the pale and Obama should excommunicate himself to satisfy the logic of brains clearly terrified by what injustice has wrought. Then why hasn't Charles Krauthammer renounced his citizenship and emigrated, on the grounds that the U.S. Government is so saturated with specific injustice and crimes against humanity that the only practical indictment is a historical one?
Furthermore has Krauthammer called for Catholics to renounce Catholicism considering the Catholic Church has been a haven for pederast?
Has history denounced and taken the position that Thomas Jefferson was the worst form of intellect, that of inconsistency? Because for all practical purposed his pronouncements on Providence and mans Liberty was at the expense of all those Black Men, Women and Children he held in slavery.
Should members of Congress resign because Racist and the most backwards of reactionaries have walked it's halls and advocated their cause in it's space?
Should the U.S. Supreme Court Justices disrobe because in it's history the very interesting jurisprudence that Black people were sub-human?
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The economies of Ohio and Texas are models?
Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind at forum.belmont.edu/cornwall birdied an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal, supposedly comparing the economies of Ohio and Texas. In the aside I find this remark telling:
What does "Big Government" contrasting "entrepreneurial Economic Realities of today" mean?
"It is a stark comparison of a state that is stuck in big government policies of the 1900's (Ohio) and one that has changed to reflect the Global Entrepreneurial Economic Realities of today (Texas)."
I find once again economist and economics viewed through the conservative skew as not just political rejoinders but for all practical purposes, distortions. Its as if there is money in circulation stamped Entrepreneurial Reality (Conservative) and Big Government (Liberal). The truth of the matter is within the fact of each economical potential, there is the dynamism of value.
The critique "Big Government" has always been disingenuous and intellectual fraud. Its been consistently exposed as the sham it is and it's critics, two faced opportunist who ham fist pork barrels with projects bearing their names while railing against the mechanism, government, which made it all possible.
This sophistry of "Entrepreneurial Economic Reality" speaks more to the casualty and it's effects on an issue xenophobes rant about on Lou Dobbs. If we are to accept "Entrepreneurial Economic Reality" as pseudonym for small business and it's activity, then the economic surges of Texas and the southern border states specifically in the small business realm has more to do with, Mexico, Latin America and the exportation of its citizens in light of it's maldeveloped national economy to the developed U.S. contrary to xenophobic ravings immigration regardless of means always energizes economies.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
History did not stop in the 1600's
We read about Robber Barons. We read about the stupendous wealth gains during the crash of 1929 and beaver faced economic students sit in rapt attention as another Nobel Laureate spit gibberish about cycles of a free market and the jumbled sophistry of it all concludes with "where was I, what was I saying?" Yet for some synaptic anomaly, some mental glitch, we never seem to get it that history isn't something always made or happened in the past we express outrage at the in your face compromise and violations against the very psyche of humanness, which always seems to happen on the endless pages of the history books rapt attentive students coopt their original thinking ability with. So when those same episodes we express indignation and outrage at happen in our contemporary existence we consistently fail to see and recognize we are the ones history is being made with. Our mindlessness and complacency is what the next vitriolic righteous indignation will be directed at.
History did not stop in the 1600's. Norms of human behavior did not start nor statically grind to a halt with Columbus and his voyage. Edicts didn't suddenly become laws with Portugal and the Catholic Pope's Bifurcation of the world. "The White man's burden," was simply a dialectical slogan. There has always been a continuum of human activity and till the sun super novas there always will be.
So as we sit, spectators in this latest installment of guile and the embodiment of Jack and his wit which the housing economy and the Sub Prime Rate swindle is once again revealing, let us look no further than ourselves and our levels of tolerance.
Maybe I'll find time to comment on the Bush Administration decision (which by the way is at the expense of the home foreclosure viral) to underwrite J.P. Morgan's purchase of the Bear Sterns Bank to the tune of $3o billion which to paraphrase Bob Marley "in the abundance of waters the fool is thirsty" and so in a sea of swindled cash Bear Sterns was thirsty.
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History did not stop in the 1600's. Norms of human behavior did not start nor statically grind to a halt with Columbus and his voyage. Edicts didn't suddenly become laws with Portugal and the Catholic Pope's Bifurcation of the world. "The White man's burden," was simply a dialectical slogan. There has always been a continuum of human activity and till the sun super novas there always will be.
So as we sit, spectators in this latest installment of guile and the embodiment of Jack and his wit which the housing economy and the Sub Prime Rate swindle is once again revealing, let us look no further than ourselves and our levels of tolerance.
Maybe I'll find time to comment on the Bush Administration decision (which by the way is at the expense of the home foreclosure viral) to underwrite J.P. Morgan's purchase of the Bear Sterns Bank to the tune of $3o billion which to paraphrase Bob Marley "in the abundance of waters the fool is thirsty" and so in a sea of swindled cash Bear Sterns was thirsty.
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Rabbits and the secret of Pahokee, Florida
Ever wonder why Route Running, Bull Rushing, Busting the Hole and all those intangibles that define great football players came so canny to some native Floridian football players? Well it seems chasing rabbits has a lot to do with it. Welcome to the gridirons best kept secret. The Muck City chase, the secret of Pahokee, Florida. No one really knows when young aspiring high school football players Black and White decided upon chasing rabbits as a performance enhancer. But chasing rabbits in the harvested sugarcane fields of Pahokee, flushing the rabbits out engaging in hour long chases naturally honed those instincts and abilities that would appear so effortlessly on football fields. So it seems from the mechanical rabbits of Greyhound races to the organic ones of Pahokee's sugarcane fields, rabbits do more than hop and nibble on carrots.
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Communism and American Conservatism
When Conservatives who are philosophically clueless about the mechanics of liquidity, transient capital, rant and rile against government and how less is necessary. Isn't that indulgence in the most elementary and academic hood wink?
If there isn't to be some sort of un-American tension revealed, whatever happened to..."Of The People, For The People, By The People."
Communism and the Marxian utopia strangely enough is the absence of Government. Socialism and it's phase is the "withering away" of Government---So when did American Conservatism trade in Dumbo the elephant for the Jacobin dirty red rag and the "Evil Empires" hammer and sickle?
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If there isn't to be some sort of un-American tension revealed, whatever happened to..."Of The People, For The People, By The People."
Communism and the Marxian utopia strangely enough is the absence of Government. Socialism and it's phase is the "withering away" of Government---So when did American Conservatism trade in Dumbo the elephant for the Jacobin dirty red rag and the "Evil Empires" hammer and sickle?
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sub Prime Rate and the Repudiation of Reaganism
Isn't the outcry for regulatory motion on the Mortgage-financial cabal a repudiation of Reaganism?
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War, Liberalism and The Democrats
The Democratic Party has been labeled since the Vietnam hand wringing as soft on War. But the fact of the matter is, if for a minute either party's name is done away with and the focus is instead directed on certain imperatives and tendencies at certain specific moments in U.S. history then one will have to conclude that it isn't whatever purported party platform was being presented at the time, but being on the right side of history is the qualifier.
Starting with the Civil War the imperative practiced by the party of Lincoln was Progressive, hence Liberal. One which contemporary reaction it's measure Ann Coulter, Linda Ingraham would be hurling diatribes and epithets at. The rebellious South, which the Democratic Party is legatee would then be the hearth and haven of all your neo-cons with their intellectual Liberalism.
The mismanagement of World War I birthed the Titanic Apocalypse of World War II which was successfully prosecuted by a Democratic Administration. The Korean Conflict another mismanaged effort was under a Republican Administration . Then Vietnam with it's iconic roof top woe came to it's ignominious finals under Republican ineptitude.
The status quo of any context fear change not for any reason than the impression of not being able to account for it's conclusion. But as soon as some form of assurance is gleaned, then the phenomenon of the reactionaries now the vanguard for change is complete. Once again the Republicans and their critique of War and the Democrats reminds us of this fact. War is not a line item to be either approved or vetoed and Iraq is it's fact.
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Starting with the Civil War the imperative practiced by the party of Lincoln was Progressive, hence Liberal. One which contemporary reaction it's measure Ann Coulter, Linda Ingraham would be hurling diatribes and epithets at. The rebellious South, which the Democratic Party is legatee would then be the hearth and haven of all your neo-cons with their intellectual Liberalism.
The mismanagement of World War I birthed the Titanic Apocalypse of World War II which was successfully prosecuted by a Democratic Administration. The Korean Conflict another mismanaged effort was under a Republican Administration . Then Vietnam with it's iconic roof top woe came to it's ignominious finals under Republican ineptitude.
The status quo of any context fear change not for any reason than the impression of not being able to account for it's conclusion. But as soon as some form of assurance is gleaned, then the phenomenon of the reactionaries now the vanguard for change is complete. Once again the Republicans and their critique of War and the Democrats reminds us of this fact. War is not a line item to be either approved or vetoed and Iraq is it's fact.
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Henry Ford his $ 5, NAFTA and International Trade
Africa's impoverishment and economic dysfunction isn't due to the lack of International Trade. As a matter of fact a primary cause of Africa's economic malaise is a type of international activity. One that exploits African resources at the expense of Africa's internal development. Add on the bribery and corruption phenomena which is a natural consequence of un-developed Political Economies and you get Africa's economy as model.
It boggles the mind to hear Lackeys and Apologist for this model of International Trade, Fareed Zakaria in his March 10, 2008 Newsweek article is one, which posits that the U.S. must serve, must continue serving the global function of National Economies, babble their idealistic gibberish that a revision of NAFTA is symbiotically catastrophic for the U.S. and the world.
Whatever happened to Nations unilaterally developing their national and internal infrastructure, building roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, railroads, putting their citizens to work. Thereby creating and first and foremost establishing an internal-national economy that will nurture and sustain a fact of national trade before attempting to interact globally. The idea and practice of external sources accrediting valuation to a nations productivity is for political-economies at a certain stage in development. This simply means trade or any honest semblance of it cannot exist between un-equal political-economies only plunder and exploitation will.
Why should Mexico rely on NAFTA to economize itself when three-fourths of the Mexican national infrastructure is non-existent? The only beneficiaries of NAFTA are multi-national speculators who indulge the vagaries of Imperialism and it's misanthropy.
How often do we snicker at the spectacle of so-called Third World Nations and the show case capital city while the towns villages and slums around it are in the stone age---and criticism is supposed to be accepted from Apologist, whose only reason is to maintain such travesty that if only more international markets were opened to the poor Kenyan farmer, Peruvian peasant or Indian street dweller their lives would improve and the laid off analog factory worker in Michigan who couldn't even find Kenya, Peru, or India on a map were their life dependent on it, will be better off!
No! What those Apologist mean is, this paradigm of Colonial Political-Economy that requires the U.S. National Economy serve as the global surrogate for non-existent national economies of the world must continue. The speculator legatee beneficiaries who do not have any reason or incentive to revise, reform and where necessary over haul this paradigm that has 6,000 + Billionaires on a planet of 6 billion+, want it to continue and the dialectics of it, again shows in an un-equal economical relationship what you have is plunder and just as the vagaries of imperialism plunder the un-developed economies of the Third World so is the world exploiting the economically anomalous relationship the U.S. holds with it at the expense of Henry Ford's $5 epiphany.
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It boggles the mind to hear Lackeys and Apologist for this model of International Trade, Fareed Zakaria in his March 10, 2008 Newsweek article is one, which posits that the U.S. must serve, must continue serving the global function of National Economies, babble their idealistic gibberish that a revision of NAFTA is symbiotically catastrophic for the U.S. and the world.
Whatever happened to Nations unilaterally developing their national and internal infrastructure, building roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, railroads, putting their citizens to work. Thereby creating and first and foremost establishing an internal-national economy that will nurture and sustain a fact of national trade before attempting to interact globally. The idea and practice of external sources accrediting valuation to a nations productivity is for political-economies at a certain stage in development. This simply means trade or any honest semblance of it cannot exist between un-equal political-economies only plunder and exploitation will.
Why should Mexico rely on NAFTA to economize itself when three-fourths of the Mexican national infrastructure is non-existent? The only beneficiaries of NAFTA are multi-national speculators who indulge the vagaries of Imperialism and it's misanthropy.
How often do we snicker at the spectacle of so-called Third World Nations and the show case capital city while the towns villages and slums around it are in the stone age---and criticism is supposed to be accepted from Apologist, whose only reason is to maintain such travesty that if only more international markets were opened to the poor Kenyan farmer, Peruvian peasant or Indian street dweller their lives would improve and the laid off analog factory worker in Michigan who couldn't even find Kenya, Peru, or India on a map were their life dependent on it, will be better off!
No! What those Apologist mean is, this paradigm of Colonial Political-Economy that requires the U.S. National Economy serve as the global surrogate for non-existent national economies of the world must continue. The speculator legatee beneficiaries who do not have any reason or incentive to revise, reform and where necessary over haul this paradigm that has 6,000 + Billionaires on a planet of 6 billion+, want it to continue and the dialectics of it, again shows in an un-equal economical relationship what you have is plunder and just as the vagaries of imperialism plunder the un-developed economies of the Third World so is the world exploiting the economically anomalous relationship the U.S. holds with it at the expense of Henry Ford's $5 epiphany.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Jealousy, the 60's and Justice Samuel Alito
During Samuel Alito's confirmation process for a perch on the U.S. Supreme Court, he expressed a notion which correctly frames him as culturally vindictive and jealous.
Alito expressed the conclusion that, during the movements of the 60's he viewed privileged kids in Ivy League Colleges behaving in manners he felt was an affront to their privilege. Alito must have felt he was in the presence of kindred spirits. Hunched over behind the table, able to finally be under the lights of here is my critique of an epoch which Alito's disdain aside, for whatever it's worth actuated the lives of an entire historical group of citizens---because without having the courage to overtly say it, he threw his lot in with Strum Thurmond and Trent Lott who are firmly on record with their feelings for those day's 60's and pre.
Has any one read any of Alito's opinions since he garnered a seat on the Supreme Court, which as the office of the Presidency was essential brokered? Not only is Alito mocking his strict constructionist mantle, but he is actually contemptuous of his dissenting colleagues, sparing no intellectual courtesy.
Isn't disdain the offspring of jealousy and bigotry?
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Alito expressed the conclusion that, during the movements of the 60's he viewed privileged kids in Ivy League Colleges behaving in manners he felt was an affront to their privilege. Alito must have felt he was in the presence of kindred spirits. Hunched over behind the table, able to finally be under the lights of here is my critique of an epoch which Alito's disdain aside, for whatever it's worth actuated the lives of an entire historical group of citizens---because without having the courage to overtly say it, he threw his lot in with Strum Thurmond and Trent Lott who are firmly on record with their feelings for those day's 60's and pre.
Has any one read any of Alito's opinions since he garnered a seat on the Supreme Court, which as the office of the Presidency was essential brokered? Not only is Alito mocking his strict constructionist mantle, but he is actually contemptuous of his dissenting colleagues, sparing no intellectual courtesy.
Isn't disdain the offspring of jealousy and bigotry?
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Voting Rights
Kentucky's Governor Steve Beshear has unveiled a plan allowing Ex Prisoners to regain their voting rights . His premise was simple, imprisonment is intended to rehabilitate, upon its completion, the right to vote should naturally be restored.
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