JHK’s Three-Act Play
The word lamppost is popping up lately with alarming frequency in connection with the word banker in all kinds of respectable places, and I don’t think this refers to, say, men in Armani suits searching for their car keys where the light is shining on the sidewalk after quaffing a few rare cuvee jeroboams of Louis Roederer Cristal. Rather, it seems to suggest a certain unease with the levers of jurisprudence in this republic of grifters, stooges, and bought-off lackeys.
Also of late come rumblings from the most august newspaper in the land that certain questions concerning LIBOR-fixing among American bank officials might soon be entertained in a federal courtroom. But isn’t it a fact that the US Department of Justice has its hands full – not to mention its dockets – with cases of alleged performance-doping by star athletes? Just think: all that effort (and expense!) at repeated prosecutions and Roger Clemens remains at large! His fastball might yet shred the constitution and dishonor all the combined sacrifices of our men in uniform in countless heroic wars.
Meanwhile, has The New York Times sent a reporter to chat up the elusive John Corzine? It must be an easier job than, say, trekking to a cave in Tora Bora to interview the late Mr. Osama bin Laden – which a few plucky reporters actually accomplished back when – yet Mr. Corzine is now better hidden than the Orang-pendek of Sumatra. And higher-functioning, too, considering his current role as Uncle Scrooge McDuck to the Obama reelection campaign. In what 5th sub-basement of a Robert A. M. Stern-designed luxury high-rise does Mr. Corzine sit with his moneybags of purloined MF Global customer funds writing checks to the Democratic National Committee?
All this is to say that when a few lame rumors of prosecutorial zeal appear in old gray mouthpiece for the status quo, you can bet that the true tipping point of public impatience has probably been breeched and the fall of the elites is closer than you think. In the sizzling sauna that the US has become under the regime of climate change denial, the black swans of political turmoil are moistly hatching. Who knows what form the mischief might take and how the trouble starts. Perhaps a hostage crisis at the Maidstone Club where families of a dozen hedge fund chiefs are held in the pool house by an out-of-work pipefitter from Wantagh high on bath salts. Or a swindled soybean farmer in a Semtex-rigged vest pays a call on the PFG-Best futures trading headquarters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, just as the lawyers and their financier clients sit down in the conference room to an ordered-in lunch of sloppy joes, fries, and slurpees. Or maybe a part-time evangelist off his Zoloft in some broiling strip-mall in a bankrupt California shit-hole sees the numbers 666 resolve among the remnants of his half-eaten enchilada on a Mitt Romney for President commemorative plate and packs up an arsenal of legally-acquired small arms for his journey to the Republican Convention in Tampa….
This is, after all, the country where the Kardashians reign. Anything might happen.
This is also the fruit of utterly failed moral leadership in a rudderless society adrift on a sea of delusion and untruth in an age of accounts unsettled. The battle over which empty suit gets elected president is a preface to the discovery that the national government only pretends to be in charge of anything. As the reality of total, comprehensive bankruptcy simmers up, perhaps a critical number of citizens stop forking over their quarterly taxes – since it would be the same thing as pounding sand down a rat-hole. Then, things really go south governance-wise. The next revolution in North America could make 1793 Paris look like an Ace of Cakes episode. Lamppost lynchings will seem too merciful. Rather, look for a new realty TV launch: Kardashian Kangaroo Kourt, in which every week a score of obscenely wealthy celebrities plucked from the realms of banking, showbiz and politics are dragged over three miles of barrel cactus in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge behind a Dodge Mopar-loaded Ram Runner (mostly American-made).
In the meantime, let’s just all kick back these hot summer nights on the front porch with a few vodka and Red Bulls and enjoy Jack Abramoff’s new radio show on Clear Channel in which the re-branded “lobbying reformer” offers advice on improving the transaction of public business in our nation’s capital. This is Mr. Abramoff’s first job since completing his prison work-release gig in a kosher Baltimore pizza store. God bless you, Jack.
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First!
Our civilization is showing signs of the confusion that comes upon people just before they die, when things are no longer clear and nothing’s operating correctly in the brain. The reality just hasn’t sunk in for everyone sitting around the corpse, waiting for the end of this cheap oil and cheap money fiasco.
Visit the Leibowitz Society at http://leibowitzsociety.blogspot.com/2012/07/hundredth-post.html for more information and discussion related to our continuing journey into the new Dark Age.
Jim, right on. We are running on sheer institutional momentum now.
For work exploring precisely how things might unravel, from now through 2040, see the “Inter States 2040” scenario fiction project at http://interstates2040.wikispaces.com/
Installment 12 coming this month.
OccupyMBA!
Perhaps things will hold together till after the election, but only if Europe plays Ball, if not the conventions will be as you predict, either way the economic collapse is coming, perhaps around December 21 st, now wouldn’t that be something,
I don’t know Jim. In Wantagh the out of work pipe fitter is still a staunch Republican who doesn’t want “his” taxes raised. He is scraping together what he can to pay his 10k a year property taxes so the current and former Nassau county police and civil servant forces can live lives of leisure knowing that their padded pensions are safe from harm.
I don’t see Joe Pipe Fitter saying anything except what the Fox News Channel is telling him to say. He’ll vote for Romney because he is the White guy. He’ll vote against his economic interests again and again.
And meanwhile at the southern tip of Wantagh in Jones Beach, Donald Trump has gotten the go ahead to build “Trump on the Ocean” an 80,000 square foot wedding factory on State land. Tax free forever.
Don’t count on a revolution. The Goombas, Ginzos, Zipper Heads and Grease Monkeys of Long Island look at you like you are crazy if you bad mouth the USA.
Aimlow Joe was here
http://www.aimlow.com
Around 2004-2005, I remember a gloriously-trumpeted booksigning at a Lower Manhattan bookstore. Some star CEO was there, standing alone (well, with his publicist) at a table behind a stack of his self-titled blast of blather about boardrooms and golf courses, waiting for a long line of admirers that would not materialize. He was fidgeting, looking around. Nervous. No takers.
I remember thinking then this is a hint of what’s someday to come. Nervous crooks, just realizing in a fear-filled moment that they’d overextended, tyeir uneasy backward glances betraying fear of a distant mob (which now, 7 years later, is probably within their sights).
Just for fun I just went to amazon. The book is still available and can be had for a few dollars. Considering buying a bunch–good fuel this winter.
Or nothing may happen at all. Action requires spunk.
When will your new book “Too much Thesarus” be released ?
Your website is beginning to resemble a turkish rug close out sale in a cheap flea market in a sweltering abandoned California strip mall shit-hole, especially the page where the sometime, when-you-get-around-to-it Thursday night ‘feature’ is presented.
But I think I’ll order a dozen of those nifty Snorg Tees you have advertised to go with my lifetime supply of cheese doodles. This way, YOU can grift off a few cents.
I have to go now. NASCAR re-runs and the cartoon channel is up and running again.
There are no quarterly taxes anymore. There are No Jobs.
No Jobs, No Taxes, No Leadership, No Nothing, except rampant corruption.
No Future, and serial internet masturbation.
That’s America.
The put-upon, underpaid, unemployed, or otherwise exploited and cheated American does not have the balls to start a confrontation or the brains to realize why he/she should.
Of course, my own pitchfork remains in the garage and my torch unlit, so what does that say about ME—or any of us here?
I’ve basically just checked out of the national political circus, my bank, certainly the stock market, and most of what passes for contemporary “culture.” Rather: I’m contributing to my local community in concrete, useful ways; building relationships; learning skills; practicing my instruments; and having fun.
Violent revolutions are untidy, nasty affairs. And the definition of “revolution” is to end up where you started.
Corzine is an embarrassment, but I’m not even hearing many voices on the Right going after him. Instead, the only conversation I encountered in the mainstream media even remotely on the topic was between one of Mitt Romney’s fellow ex-partners at Bain Capital and a woman from Occupy the SEC, with a professor and the economic policy person from the NAACP looking on in a segment of Up on MSNBC. The actual crisis and the bankers part in that was a sideshow; the main attraction was the feeding frenzy on the what passes for the Left over Mitt Romney and his time at Bain Capital and his not releasing his tax returns. After two years of bad news, what passes for the Left smells their opponents’ blood in the water, something they haven’t sensed since Sarah Palin was on the ticket.
I’ve been writing about the campaign over at Crazy Eddie’s Motie News, but mostly about local and state races; enough people have the presidential contest covered. Besides, Michigan has become a much more interesting place lately, in the sense of the Chinese curse. In addition to local politics, I’ve been writing about the heat wave, climate change, the gas price rollercoaster, the destruction of cultural sites in Mali, Friday the 13th, Bastille Day, and my experiences with my students.
Speaking of my students, I’ll be showing them “The End of Suburbia” again this week. I’ll see if the range of reactions again extends from people on the Left agreeing with Jim to people on the Right rejecting him, with those in the middle being merely scared and confused, or if I get something novel. For that, I can usually rely on the immigrants, such as the Ukrainian woman who remarked that “Americans are so spoiled. Peak Oil will take away their toys and they’ll all cry.” She wasn’t scared. She survived a collapse already.
Happy Motoring–for now–from Detroit!
http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/
ANIMAL FARM
Welcome to the feed lot, folks.
On one side of the trough we have a skinny Ass, leader of the Rope-A-Dope party. He’s the consummate liar, his silver tongue never ceasing to babble about all the good things he hopes to do for you while doing the exact opposite for the benefit of his masters. He has a whole team of underlings whose job it is to shovel the Hopium that continually flows from his Ass onto the Sheeple milling below.
No other politician in the history of this country has been as successful in facilitating financial fraud and exterminating the rule of law. Millions of families thrown out of their homes on the basis of fraudulent mortgage deeds lumped into fraudulent securities using the fraudulent title transfer system called MERS with not a single prosecution brought by the Ass’s department of Injustice. His favorite fund raiser Jon Corzine walks off with a billion dollars of customer money while Justice turns a blind eye. Massive subsidies for criminal medical insurance companies disguised as a health care system. Trillions of dollars in payouts to the Bankster Cabal that bought his election, all financed by layering debt onto the public account. His personal assassination drones scan the globe searching for real and imagined enemies in defiance of all international law, sowing terror among enemies and any women or children who happen to be nearby. He continues to expand the permanent warfare state envisioned by his predecessor while turning every campaign promise on its head and sucking a trillion dollars per year out of the productive economy.
And on the other side of the trough we have a giant beast with a ridiculously long nose. (The better to snarf up your last penny, my dear) This beast heads an organization that proudly calls itself The Party of Greed. Its supporters are legion, implanted at birth with a microchip that turns any rational thought on its head. For their Supreme Leader they have chosen one of their own— a man incapable of even pretending to know what life is like for the inferior beings upon which his financial wealth rests. He has an unusual characteristic for a politician —the inability to lie all the time. On a regular basis he says exactly what he believes — you know, “I don’t give a shit about the poor” or “hardly any of my annual income is from speaking engagements– its actually less than 400k.” Compared to his opponent the Ass, he has a great advantage because his career success was built upon understanding how the Business of America works. Take over a productive company that needs money to expand, use its assets to borrow more that it is really worth, transfer the funds to your own account, bankrupt the company, fire all the workers, and ship the jobs off to China were the workers are all 14 year old girls dreaming of earning enough to afford a stuffed teddy bear.
If the elephant wins will he be able to match the Ass‘s success in driving America to ruin? It’s a tall order, but he’s certainly the right cyborg for the job.
Re PFGBest in Cedar Falls, Iowa: The FBI is on the case already. Agents arrested the firm’s founder and CEO, Russell Wasendorf Sr., at the mental facility where he was taken after he attempted suicide by running a hose from his car’s exhaust into the passenger compartment, and hauled his sorry butt directly to Federal court for arraignment. This may be the beginning of a get-tough attitude on the part of the Obama administration, if only because this is an election year where they are running against this kind of malfeasance.
Jim – Excellent podcast with Chris Martinson! You are both so articulate while providing somewhat different incites into our current challenges. We must continue to offer realistic and thoughtful narratives of how we can get through this challenging time.
Please take a look at my recently published futuristic mystery “From Here to There: A Story of America’s Future” and join the conversation surrounding what we can do to make it through this time. http://www.fromhere-tothere.org
See Bobcat Goldthwait’s new movie God Bless America for one possible way this may play out for some.
You’ve skipped a circle in the downward spiral. Before we demonize the one percent first we take down civil servants who have become the root cause of all our troubles. It’s not the bankers and money managers, it’s the firefighters and city clerks’ fault.
Vive la Revolution!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, The more things change the more they stay the same. History is the grave yard of schemes and massacre, bubbles and genocide: but we prevail…or at least endure. And if we somehow manage to navigate the shoals of this troubled time, some kill-joys are going to be pissed. Not mentioning any names.
Sixteenth!!!
Yeah, DHS didn’t buy 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets for nothin’. Or Obama the hegemon constitutional lawyer, allowing for military control through martial law, indefinite detention, the takeover of communications, etc, just because. Or the military running exercises in the streets of St Louis, or International special forces running exercises on the waterfront of Tampa Bay.
Question is, do Americans go psycho ala Orlov’s recent assessment, and start rounding up the people actually trying to do something meaningful about the problem, and otherwise killing off each other, or will they direct that anger at those who manage this monstrosity?
What, you think the Mayans ending/beginning their 5,126 long count calendar on the winter solstice of this year was just a lucky guess? Might as well enjoy it, before the shift, whether that happens on that date, or another nearby. ‘Cause it’s a-shiftin’.
http://www.offthegridmpls.blogspot.com
There is NO current possibility of an actual, planned popular revolution in this country. As long as the infrastructure holds together, the powers will know of any such plot in plenty of time to co-opt or destroy it. If they let one develop it will be either to legitimize a new emperor directly, or behind some “committee”; or perhaps an excuse for a lockdown, and test run of the internment camps.
A spontaneous revolution could develop quickly if anything happens to: (1.) disrupt the delivery of paycotropic drugs (mostly anti-depressants)to the 50+ million plus legal USA addicts; or (2) interrupt the smooth receipt of EBT SNAP benefits to the 40+ million entitled. Perhaps that is why DHS put in such a large ammo order earlier this year.
Neither type is likely to accomplish anything positive.
That made my head spin just a little JHK.
Recall that Hemingway line: “A man goes broke slowly, then all at once.”
I’m thinking it’s the way change will come, for societies, public fortunes and even climate.
http://alttransbikes.blogspot.com/
“This is, after all, the country where the Kardashians reign. Anything might happen.”
This is the best summary statement of the current state of things I’ve seen in a long time.
A world where the top spot is taken by a bunch of admittedly attractive and shapely ho’s and their entourage, who probably have their own personal physician just for treating their recurrent STDs. Amerika !! Love it or leave it. Oh, I forgot, now you can’t take your money when you leave.
Wardoc
providing somewhat different incites into our current challenges.
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I hope you hired a good proofreader for that novel of yours.
JHK sez:
“All this is to say that when a few lame rumors of prosecutorial zeal appear in old gray mouthpiece for the status quo, you can bet that the true tipping point of public impatience has probably been breeched and the fall of the elites is closer than you think. In the sizzling sauna that the US has become under the regime of climate change denial, the black swans of political turmoil are moistly hatching. Who knows what form the mischief might take and how the trouble starts.”
And therein lies the rub. The “moist hatchings” (great visual there Mr. K) are those things that have either have not been taken into account; are true pop-up surprises; or have been [to this point] actively squelched/suppressed.
I don’t think the “fall of the elites” will come until after the “brutal oppression BY the elites”; that’s the way these little kerfuffles usually metastasizes.
I’d have to concur with Jimmy Drinkwater’s assessment. Sort of like an active fault-line; a few very low-frequency rumblings, then, WHAMMO… rubble and cinders. How long will the rumblings and moist hatchings continue? That would be a famous Rumsfeldian-ism: an unknown unknown. My crystal ball shattered after the conclusive “victory” in Vietnam.
Gads! Casino Jack plucks a plum for being a disgrace??? There ya have it folks; corruption brings unending reward. That is now us, and that is all…
When will your new book “Too much Thesarus” be released ?
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That’s funny 3RD.
“metastasize”, singular.
Jim, zerohedge ran some of your work yesterday.
What do you folks expect? David Brooks the NYTs pet conservative tried to tell his people to start acting like they give a shit about the future like the old WASP establishment. Any of you people think that is going to happen? Look at the author of this blog his bit of paranoia where anyone who looks like me is a “corn pone nazi.” Sturdy timber for an elite out of that kind of cultural background it is not.
What about the pschologically damaged occupant of the whitehouse? His media entourage who only encourage his psychosis by telling him and his nearly illiterate voting base that “racists” are coming to get him. His wife believes he couldn’t even pump his own gas when he actually drove without whites trying to gun him down in Chicago. This is the elite?
I’ll take the WASPs anyday. You anti-whites can just go pound sand.
I’ve been writing about the campaign over at Crazy Eddie’s Motie News,
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Every week you advertise your blog here at CFN so I might as well finally ask, what is a “Motie?”
And who says Crazy Horse is dead? You lay out the opposing parties so well that it will stick in my head forever. Well done.
What you’ve described is not only taking place on “Lawn-Guyland” but it’s the same thing in North Jersey, with the exception of the cop salaries and pensions being even higher.
Take “wealthy” Bergen County for example. Seventy incorporated municipalities and 75 different law enforcement agencies….all with their own HQs, chiefs, and full compliment of administrative staff and supervising officers.
I live in a town that is one square mile in area. The chief of police oversees a department of 20 people. The chief is paid $170K per year, only $5K less than the governor. The chief’s Cadillac healthcare plan, pension contributions, and other perks/benefits add another $70K to the annual cost.
The previous chief retired last year with a $115K pension and healthcare for himself and his wife forever. He also collected over $200K to buy out his unused sick/vaction/personal,days some of which he claims he earned back in 1974. Oh, the wife of the former chief is a retired school board secretary collecting $45K in pension.
We’ve also got our full compliment of “Goombas, Ginzos, Zipper Heads and Grease Monkeys” in addition to Dot-heads and more Jews anywhere outside of Tel Aviv. They also look at you as if you are an escapee from a mental institution if you suggest saving money by consolidating public services, or merging smaller towns with their larger neighbors. You’d think that the Jews would be more sensible, but nope, they seem to be just as dense as the Ginzos.
I’m convinced that Russian and Chinese satellites are beaming stupid-rays down on the US.
Suburban Will county Illinois (home of Chicagoland raceway you NASCAR fans) pays its DCFS case workers 80-90k per year to hand out welfare checks to the metastisizing welfare state.
That is hush money to keep them quiet so the top level politicians D and R can keep their mitts in the stash. My local R elected official was part of the suburban Republican lay down effort so Govenor “Quimby” Quinn “D” could sneak back into office and continue the looting. They do as the “nice” soccer moms wish, they place nice together.
people can stay in a subservient, abused state, with the aristocracy skimming off their labor-value/wealth, for generations. think middle ages. the living conditions can be much worse and the transgressions against basic humanity much more horrifying than they currently are, and still, on and on it will go. i think it depends on some basic strategies employed by the folks in power, things like creating a hierarchy among the peons so they fight amongst themselves, creating a loyal and feared personal army, promising people a better ‘life’ later on sometime (like in heaven, after they die) IF they behave subserviently now, convincing people their privation is all their own fault, and so on and so forth – strategies well known and actively used by the folks in power today. so as much as it seems like people have just GOT to get fed up with it, sometime soon, history seems to show that uprisings are uncommon at best, and almost inevitably replace one set of sociopaths with an entirely new set of sociopaths – vanishingly few governments appear to have the happiness and well-being of the populace as any sort of priority. so what would make this time different? i personally doubt we will see lynchings anytime soon, and doubt even more that any good could come of it.
they place nice together.
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place?
“a hostage crisis at the Maidstone Club where families of a dozen hedge fund chiefs are held in the pool house by an out-of-work pipefitter from Wantagh high on bath salts.”
One can only hope those who have benefitted from this cf would pay the price, however, the stoned pipefitter will end up eating the face off the homeless joe sitting across the street from the entrance to the Maidstone…
As much as we all want this easy life to continue – selfishly, at least until the end of our sendentary life – a very few of us understand the totality of a species in overshoot.
The only difference between humans and all the rest of the species, ever before having the chance at life, and most always ending in some fashion of overshoot, us humans were smart enough to learn how to exploit everything until it was nearly all gone. And whatever is left we posioned to the brink of nothing being able to survive.
The resources available to future humans is going to be scant with even those with likened with the most rugged of the peasants – having survived during the darkest middle ages – are going to have a tough go of it.
No doubt these people able to make life work in the “rough ages” to come, will not tolerate anyone who can’t pull their weight. After the lamp posts have wore out, the oldest oak trees will revengefully take their place. As the heaviest users of resources must go.
Good luck. You are all going to need it.
CFNers, I know this comment relates to a different topic than today’s JHK article, nevertheless it is at least a CFN topic. Has anybody else noticed the “news” lately that Peak Oil is no more – that Peak Oil was just a Chicken Little moment? What are we to make of this “news”? I mean, there were always detractors to the concept of Peak Oil. That said, I get the impression there are new actors in this coterie and their campaign against Peak Oil has reached a new, more strident level. Am I wrong on this?
“This is, after all, the country where the Kardashians reign. Anything might happen.” A black kid at my gym recently remarked to a bunch of us: “Who are these Kardashians? What did they do? Why are they famous? What makes them so special?” Nobody could give him a reasoned answer – which was his point.
Sad b ut true.
I found this at ‘Angry White Dude’. Someone emailed ‘the Government’ with a polite question.
The Police and EPA Special Agents showed up at his door.
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Keller proceeded to try and contact Mr. Armendariz by Googling him. His domain was a subset of Southern Methodist University, he was directed to contact a Dr. David Gray who is the Director of External Affairs for the EPA.
Keller wrote a simple, one sentence email to Dr. Gray which said simply,
“Hello Mr. Gray-Do you have Mr. Armendariz’s contact information so we can say hello?”
On May 2nd, just a little over a week after the Armendariz crucify comments had flared up, two special agents from the EPA and a local police officer showed up at Mr. Keller’s home. Here is the story in his own words:
On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 at about 1:45PM two Special Agents from the EPA and an armed police officer who stood 6’6” tall visited our house in Asheville, NC. Their visit was a total surprise as we had not received any communications requesting an appointment. The agents presented very official looking badges and asked if we could sit and chat awhile. We moved to the back porch and took our seats with the exception of the armed officer who stood by the door to the house the entire time.
Keller was asked by the agents if he ran a business out of his home, and if so, what kind of business. Keller runs a consulting business from his home. Then he was asked if he had ever sent an email to anyone at the EPA. Keller, not remembering the email initially said no, then remembered his email to Dr. Gray trying to get the contact information for Al Armendariz. This is what happened next:
At this point Agent Woods reach into a file and from it he pulled out a copy of my email to Dr. Gray. He handed it to me and I asked what was there about the content that justified their driving across the state of NC to visit me with no prior warning.
The other agent then stated that my choice of words in the email could be interpreted in many ways. At that point I asked them to be specific as they were wasting my time. I stated that I pay for agents’ salaries and that of the police officer and they have bigger fish to fry. Special Agent Woods then asked if I had ever been arrested – the answer was a swift no. I then asked for a copy of the email they presented and they said that was impossible as the investigation was not yet complete.
Keller asked the agents for business cards that they had previously promised him and they were miraculously out of business cards. The two agents, who had driven four hours from Raleigh, North Carolina for this encounter with Mr. Keller, left via the back staircase as quickly as they had appeared without supplying Larry Keller with their contact information.
He also states that the agents had parked blocking his driveway and that the local police officer had parked in his neighbor’s driveway.
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‘I live in a town that is one square mile in area.’
I live in a city about 2 x 3 miles.
City Budget: half a billion, nearly.
JC College Presidents salary? Id guess a quarter million. Hes a ‘Glib Globalist’ who requires his students to endure ‘global citizenship’ classes to get a diploma!
We are a sustainable city. Perhaps an anti bullying clause will soon be instituted.
us humans were smart enough
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The resources available to future humans is going to be scant
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huh?? say what??
Nobody could give him a reasoned answer
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That’s ridiculous…they have pretty faces and big tits, it’s that simple.
JK – this week’s essay is gold – baby -its gold.
Keep thinking good thoughts. As some have said before us “when in the course of human events it becomes necessary”
Unfortunately the State has prepared for the ilk of you or any individual Patriots – if change does come – it will take the masses……
Jim, about the “american public”: You overestimate their fitness — mental and physical — to engage in any retaliative justice such as you describe. These are the same, ignorant, tasteless, immature people you regularly put in their place. Do you think most of them have even heard of Corzine and his ilk? You can’t have it both ways, Jim. Americans will turn on each other, not their overlords.
I just diverted my attention from CFN to CNBC where a young blond named Nicole Miller Regan, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, was holding forth. Not only did she have a typical case of vocal fry but she had a near terminal case of “up-talk.” If everything she said were honestly transcribed into writing there would be a question mark at the end of each sentence. Up-talk is another speech pattern — raising the voice register up on the last word of a sentence — that has inexplicably swept the country among the young of both genders. Can anyone explain the rationale for this weird phenomenon?
Along with the economy and the rule of law, our spoken Standard American English language is going down the crapper followed closely by our written language.
Yes, yes I can. They want to be seen as questioning ordinary assumption and of course the authorities that hold them.
As Whitman said, obey little, question much. Of course I’m sure he would see them as the morons that they are.
He wouldn’t say anything if they were Black. In fact, he would be outraged if anyone questioned their validity.
The Jew always has animus for the Armenian. Why? Because they remind him of his Khazar roots – and that a Semite he is not.
Armenia is right next door to lost Khazaria and the two peoples were similar.
No, they DON’T have bigger fish to fry. The police state that is amerika is all about controlling its citizens. Small case in point. I live in N.C. A girlfriend of mine lives about 3 hours from me in Black Mountain, N.C. She told me that the police have stopped her car no less than 3 times in the past 6 months. The first time she got pulled for not putting on her turn signal to change lanes (this on a country road around 9:00 p.m. She had just left work.) The next time she got pulled about a mile from her house (country road) because her car momentarily crossed the white line at the edge of the road. The last time she got pulled was after stopping at some bar’s parking lot to make a call from her cell phone. The cop pulled her over for suspected DWI (she doesn’t drink or do drugs). She asked the cop what it was that made him think she was under the influence. He started to tell her that the bar she was at (mind you, she never entered the establishment) was routinely found to serve alcohol to customers who were already inebriated. He then quickly corrected himself to suggest that her tags were expired (they weren’t).
This friend is pushing 60, five foot 2, weighs about 90 pounds soaking wet, has a master’s degree and owns her own business. And SHE is the one the police are after. Kinda makes you wonder who the “enemies” of the state really are. Hint: It ain’t Corzine or any of the banksters/fraudsters. It’s you and me, babe! And TPTB are just getting started rounding us up.
When it gets to the point that citizens learn they cannot trust the police or the politicians to uphold the law, lawlessness runs rampant. Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered in New York City some 50 years ago. When neighbors were questioned by the police about why they didn’t report hearing her screams and cries, they made all sorts of claims. The most outrageous claim to me was that “they didn’t want to get involved.” But honestly, who would WANT to get involved when much of our law enforcement officers and their superiors are a bunch of brutal thugs and liars, preying on 60 year old, law-abiding citizens? It’s like what George Carlin famously said, “It’s a great big club, only you and me ain’t in it!”
“…lamppost lynchings will seem too merciful…”
I have two words:
Fargo
Woodchipper
Why hello!
Uh. Ok. Another little factoid that I apparently did not know…
“the true tipping point of public impatience has probably been breeched and the fall of the elites is closer than you think”
Jimbo, I wouldn’t count on it if I were you.
How is it that Vlad always knows exactly what every member of a gigantic ethnic group is thinking? Is it some kind of mental telepathy?
It’s a two way street with the local cops, they’re just high on mini-fascist fumes at the moment.
Start your own ‘list’ of local ‘authorities’ who you deem to be corrupt running lackeys dog whores. Google them, spend $25 bucks on a monthly membership for an internet ‘private eye’ credit checking/divorce/arrest record/child payment dodger site.
Go mining for dirt on the dirtbags, don’t worry, there is plenty to be found on all of them. Catalog it, Google map their location.
Send anonymous copies of the dirt to their neighbors and family and work colleagues.
Think of it as a modern day Madame Thérèse Defarge storing and taking names of dirty cops, dirty judges, dirty politicians, dirty bankers.
She stored the information of the dirtbags of her time by weaving it into a code in her knitting. She revealed their names and location to the new powers that be and then took her knitting to the front row while they were guillotined. Sweet.
Since there is no Rule of Law in Duh’merica anymore, it will arise anew own it’s own as an Emergent Property.
Remember, you can’t tell the players without a score card.
Sounds like the police in your neck of the woods have too much time on their hands and not enough to do.
Ever think about learning to read braille? It would greatly enhance your literary experience if you could just close your eyes and let the images form in your mind’s eye.
“…a score of obscenely wealthy celebrities plucked from the realms of banking, showbiz and politics…” What about pro sports? Or is that considered a facet of showbiz?
“The next revolution in North America could make 1793 Paris look like an Ace of Cakes episode.”
Or not. Cable tv and the internet keep the masses busy these days. Back in the day lynching the nobility was a good form of entertainment. But now we have youtube.
Being pulled over for nothing makes white folks angry? Hmmm…
Lamppost lynchings? Hmmm…
Woodchippers? Ugghh…
JHK provides the answer in this week’s post, but it would also require a national rising up, albeit a nonviolent one.
Governments and dictators can be brought down completely nonviolently, without leaving the comfort of your mud hut, and JHK described how:
Do you actually believe the government should be brought down? I don’t. I just want priorities to go away from war and toward more welfare, more education, more health care, for the citizens, as the Constitution states.
If you are angry enough and brave enough and organized enough for a National Tax Strike, you can request a change in priorities nonviolently on April 15 by not going to the post office, not filing, not paying for what you are all bitching about. By just staying at home.
Or you can do like I do: reduce income to below taxable level so as not to pay for resource wars …or whatever you are upset about.
But violence is not necessary. No one needs to get hurt for radical change to happen, not even the planet Earth. Focus on nonviolent communication, nonviolent relocalization and nonviolent no-till permaculture / horticultural efforts.
JHK, please stop writing violent fantasy scenes on CFN. It might trigger someone to actually act out violently. I do not want anyone to suffer from violent acts. We’ve had enough of that in human history.
I want all beings to be well and happy and free from strife.
PS. Note to CFN: Stop procreating. Mother earth will thank you.
And look at the Union aspect: the police marched with the Leftist Scum in Madison who want to live high off the people. Public School Teachers, Firemen, Cops – all public unions, all tied into the Democratic Machine and all willing to sell out the American People for perks and benefits.
As with vocal fry yesterday, it wasn’t until moments ago that I discovered via Google that up-talk has been noticed by others before me and already studied extensively.
Check out this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdhJxAmUu3Y
Combine in a young woman both vocal fry and up-talk and you have a person qualified for basically two jobs in this world: a folder of clothes at GAP and MacDonald’s counter person.
…but wait, if that is so, how did that Nicole chick I mentioned earlier become an analyst at Piper Jaffray? OMG, what’s the world coming to?
Yes, Wisconsin is a real hive of, uh, scum and villainy and such.
200,000$ a year for a LIFEGUARD in OC.
A local told me ‘when I took classes at the JC 13 years ago, the school had 30 Admins. Now it has 110, at 100K+ a year each. In a decade or so, that kind of increase.
‘The claim to me was that “they didn’t want to get involved.”
I had a similar ‘thing’ last July when I helped police arrest black street thugs.
The court wanted me to go to the hood and testify!
I dont want to report crimes, after that.
“We have met the enemy and he is us”
Pogo
And to paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (RIP)
Kurt thought that the founding fathers made a mistake on not placing income caps on Americans.
That their mistake was to think that the place was so large and so full of free stuff for the taking (after you shot the present inhabitants)that no theif, no matter how greedy, could become more than a minor irrantant.
So it goes.
And lay off Jim out there.
Maybe this is “Doom Porn” but like with any good porn, about all we can do is to watch.
We already know how it ends.
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Action requires spunk.
As well as awareness that you’re being screwed. People thing that this is normal. They’re used to thinking their “betters” deserve more than they do. Don’t want to anger the job creators.
Illness isn’t spelled telepathy.
“He’ll vote for Romney because he is the White guy. He’ll vote against his economic interests again and again.”
Oh for fuck’s sake, how could voting for the white guy be against his economic interests? Our sitting President has screwed the economic pooch in just about every way imaginable. Our only possible way out of this disastrous situation is to kick Mr. Obama to the curb. The only shame is that we have to wait until November to do so.
“…how could voting for the white guy be against his economic interests?”
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Because we know with either Obama or Romney the wars are going to continue, wasting TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars.
Just vote for Dr. Jill Stein. The Green Party has nonviolence as one of its ten core values.
no theif, no matter how greedy,
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i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh
***Being pulled over for nothing makes white folks angry? Hmmm…***
Technically, the cop had a right to pull my friend over for not using her directional to indicate changing lanes (I told her this). Also, they had a right to pull her for crossing over the white line on the road (that’s why they put that little white line there, ya know). The difference is my friend didn’t pull a “Rodney King” and get all confrontational. She merely politely inquired as to why the officer pulled her over. The “leaving the bar” incident was completely uncalled for. Why you chose to raise this as yet another racial smite no longer mystifies me. It simply is a matter of who you are.
i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh
Q, I think you are going to have to forfeit your role as CFN grammarian.
Or have you been taking too much codeine?
Doesn’t your conscience ever bother you, giving out false rules of thumb?
But then, you don’t believe you will ever be punished by any deity.
Either you are not a native English speaker, or you are just feisty.
I think you might be a foreigner who does not know English grammar.
It is the height of arrogance you display that irritates.
Your motive? What kind of heist are you running?
Your “i before e except after c” rule is like a seismic shock to my system.
Do you suffer from seizures that impair proper grammar?
Of course, it is your sovereign right to demonstrate your surfeit of grammatical knowledge.
But it seems weird that you continue to show your grammatical stupidity with rules of thumb that have so many exceptions as to be useless.
Why you chose to raise this as yet another racial smite no longer mystifies me. It simply is a matter of who you are.
You are right. My bad.
I just assumed your friend was Black, what with being hassled so much for minor infractions … or no infraction. It’s routine when driving while Black.
I’m not taking the bait on your comment about me.
Can’t say as I blame you for that. Fact is though, whether you’re white or black, testifying against black thugs labels you in the black community as being anti-black. Go figure!
In my little hamlet, the downtown is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance. During the Fourth of July celebration, a group of young men became belligerent when some cops asked them to break up their group after loitering around Jimmy Johns sometime after midnight. Long story short, they started a mini riot, upturning trash cans, tables, chairs, smashing car windows, etc. The cops asked Jimmy Johns to close for a while and proceeded to arrest the young men. I read in the paper the following day the names of the young men arrested: LaJavius Goodwin, Jamaal Winslow, Leroy Washington, among several others. Three guesses for ya to figure out their race!
We are all too late, James. Enjoy KULTURCRITIC
http://kulturcritic.wordpress.com/posts/ready-set-conquer/
Q, I think you are going to have to forfeit your role
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From Wikipedia:
A rule of thumb is a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation.
But you knew that.
And I have said that on a recent prior occasion.
You have come up with an impressive list of exceptions to the “i before e” rule. Now you should list the words where the rule does apply so folks can see how much more vast that list is. Start with the word thief. After all, there wouldn’t be an “i before e” rule of thumb if it wasn’t broadly applicable.
Another case of Asoka being a slimy eel and contrary for contrary’s sake.
LaJavius Goodwin, Jamaal Winslow, Leroy Washington, among several others. Three guesses for ya to figure out their race!
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Myrtle, you should be ashamed of yourself. Making assumptions about race or ethnicity based on the arrangement of letters in a person’s name is tantamount to racial profiling. These Chinese youths who were arrested might just as well have been Japanese or Korean or for that matter even African American for all we know ;0) – Q imitating Asoka
I continue making my digital payments in hope that my claim for stolen goods will exceed the deductible portion of my contract. The cheque is in the mail.
“Uptalk” …. it drives me crazy! …most generally spoken by young females and young men endowed with a touch of feminism. It sounds as if they are verbally rolling over on their backs in submission.
If economic disaster is about to overtake us, and if its cause is oil-depletion, those of us who read “Cannibals and Kings” when it first came out never can say that we weren’t warned in good time. Here’s a quote from the last chapter:
“As coal and oil become scarcer, their costs will go up. And since virtually every product and service in industrial society depends on large energetic inputs derived from those sources, inflation will steadily reduce the ability of the average person to pay for goods and services now regarded as essential for health and well-being.”
“Cannibals and Kings” (Marvin Harris) was published 35 years ago.
(Two of the better chapters, for controversialists: the chapter on pork prohibition among the Biblical Jews and the chapter on Aztec cannibalism.)
http://scissorsheldon.com/
All the billionaires are giving to Romney.
“All the billionaires are giving to Romney.”
Good. I hope they all give at least a billion.
“I don’t give a shit about the poor” …”
Right, dickbreath. That’s why he gave over 7 million to charity over two years:
Romney Tax Returns Show $7 Million in Donations Over 2 Years
Story here:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-01/romney-tax-returns-show-7-million-in-donations-over-2-years.html
“Am I wrong on this?”
Yes. More gas and oil have been found. The Bell curve has shifted. Peak oil? To be continued.
All Romney is also receiving money from foreign sources.
That should also make you happy, not knowing what foreign governments are buying our elections, or what foreign interests are being served.
Romney filed with the California Secretary of State as a “general partner” for Bain Capital Partners, a California Limited Partnership.
Romney’s signature is on the document declaring that he certified “that the statements contained in this document are true and correct to my own knowledge. I declare that I am the person who is executing this instrument, which execution is my act and deed.”
The resignation was filed June 17, 2003.
Romney claims his business experience with Bain (destroying USA companies and outsourcing USA jobs) is relevant to his becoming president. I agree. I would not hire someone who lies under oath. It’s a character issue, and a trust issue.
” I would not hire someone who lies under oath. It’s a character issue, and a trust issue.”
Really? Well you “hired” Obama and he is one of the all time liars.
“Uptalk” …. it drives me crazy!
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Hey YourCunt, you don’t know nuthin’ ’bout being driven crazy by Uptalk unless you’ve spent a day in my head.
I recall about a dozen years ago when it was beginning to sink in that there was this odd phenomenon of making declarative sentences sound like questions. It wasn’t until years later that I learned they had a name for it. Uptalk.
At work my cubicle adjoined the cube of a co-worker, age 45 or so at the time, who had transferred to our NJ location from southern CA. I hear his phone ring and he picks up and says “This is John Watson?” I do a mental double take and say to myself “If you don’t know who the fuck you are how is your caller supposed to know?”
That was when I formed the opinion that this weird phenomenon of speech originated in southern CA. I believe vocal fry (aka creaky voice) may also have originated there.
I heard that Corzine is hiding out at the top floor of the Bank of America building in Charlotte lmfao
Why in this era of Obama are black males becoming more violent? Think Delfino Mora from Chicago who was beaten to death while his black attackers video recorded his death and uploaded it to Faceplant.
Are young black males fit for an era of equality and tolerance? Does the thought of pandering to violence apologists make you feel nice?(Asoka)
Will the psychologically damaged president BH Obama make a comment like he did when an overpaid Harvard Prof was inconvienienced?
Maybe, but Id guess they pay both sides!
How about this, which was linked at Drudge:
Zuckerberg’s Loan Gives New Meaning to the 1%
By John Gittelsohn and Dakin Campbell – Jul 15, 2012 9:00 PM PT
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is giving new meaning to the term “the one percent.”
The Facebook Inc. (FB) founder refinanced a $5.95 million mortgage on his Palo Alto, California, home with a 30-year adjustable-rate loan starting at 1.05 percent, according to public records for the property.
[in·con·ven·ience]
A Motie is a native of the planet which is in an asterism known as The Mote in God’s Eye.
“The Mote in God’s Eye” is a science fiction novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an excellent SF writing duo.
We can thank California for “Valspeak”, a phenomenon referred to here as “upspeak”. I looked it up on Wikipedia (terribly borgeois, I know). I remember first hearing it in a movie called “Valley Girl” in the early 1980’s. At first I thought it was kind of cute, but after a while, it sort of grates on your nerves. To hear someone broadcasting news while using this intonation is nothing short of appalling. Edward R. Murrow would be turning in his grave!
Speaking of annoying speech patterns among our newscasters, I find Scott Pelley EXTREMELY annoying. He comes across (at least to me) as a simpering fool; as in, “Thank you, Laura, soo much.” Also worthy of note is his phrase, “That got us to wondering….” Oh really, Scott? All of us tuning in are in a constant state of wondering what you and your staff are wondering! His idiotic smirk at the end of the show is what really gets me, as the news always likes to end on “happy” news. Bring back the newsmen like Cronkite who had some balls! Leave the “sissy boys” to the back room to do copy and such! Jeez! End of rant!
We have a population of 7 billion people, in a world that many think can only support 1 or 2 billion; our climate, whether human-caused or by nature, is warming to the point of multi-species extinction, and being a contrarian now means believing we’re entering an ice age; our oceans are turning acidic, our atmosphere contains high levels of pollutants; we’re in the beginning phase of world-wide nuclear weapons proliferation; our energy resource tank is running on low.
And you’re more concerned about relations between those who have more melanin in their skins and those who have less, than any of the above issues.
Why don’t you grow a brain, Doofus?
Bring back the newsmen like Cronkite who had some balls!
Bring back Edward Murrow!
You’ll remember him if you were around in the 1950’s … and not absorbed by sorority goings-on at an elite {white} ivy league women’s college in the 50’s.
Thanks for making my case, mistified. You are right. If you don’t like Obama, you definitely won’t like Romney. Romney care, Obama care, Obamney Care, etc.
Beantown, global warming can cause an ice age.
If enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm.
The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age — in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset — and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the “little ice age” of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.
Global warming is here and is caused by human activity, in spite of Republican “contrarianism.”
PO will do much more than take away some toys and luxuries. It will take away advanced health care, proper nutrition, advanced education, transit other than our feet or maybe a horse and cart, proper heating in winter, esp. for those not on in a rural place with access to wood or something to burn….need more be said?
All the billionaires are giving to Romney.
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Perhaps this was intended for someone else. It certainly doesn’t relate to anything I wrote.
BTW, the link brings up nothing but a black square with nothing in it…no rightward pointing triangle to start a film clip with.
katnip kid, realistically speaking, you can pretty much forget the horse and cart idea in a post-oil world. Horse owners can spend about $60 to $100 per month on hay, salt and supplements – and some spend much more, particularly if they feed grain.
Maintaining your horse’s hooves adds even more to the cost of a horse. Whether or not you plan to shoe your horse, you’ll need to have a farrier check and trim his hooves every two months or so. This usually costs around $25 or $30. Add in shoeing, and you could pay $80 to $100 every two months. That’s a lot of bartering to do if you plan to exchange services in a post-oil world.
Routine medical care is an additional cost of owning a horse and includes vaccinations, de-worming and annual teeth cleaning. For a healthy horse, this can cost as little as $300 a year. However, if your horse gets injured or ill, you could pay hundreds or even thousands for a one-time treatment. You’d probably just end up putting it down because in a post-oil world you will not have enough income or enough time to do enough bartering to maintain a horse.
Q., it works for me. You can also view it directly in YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3wYU3jprTI&feature=player_embedded
I have to warn you it is X-rated, as it contains an indecent proposal from Sarah Silverman to Sheldon.
ObamaLand
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9400468/Terrorised-Chicago-residents-plead-for-police-crackdown-as-gang-war-murders-soar.html
Notice how the value-system of gang members in Chicago (“get rich”) mirrors that of the leadership in the U.S.
101st!
Like a Screaming Eagle who has a Rendezvous With Destiny
Shit, more bad news from Jim. Is there any ever good news? Well, I’m drinking Naraganset, New Englands beer. Ya, there making it again, after a long hiatus. There’s some good news!
Its a hot nite. I’m here, with my Winchester and tattered copy of ‘Visions of Cody’, waiting for the apocalypse. The Mets are on the radio. All is well! I’m out.
–WSP7
Jesus, now you’re an expert on horses. How about you build an adobe barn and corral, feed your horse on wild grasses, use the poo for fertilizer (or sell it to Tripp) and eat the fucker when he is too broke down to ride or plow. He can lick my sweaty balls for salt. I’ll be barefoot, so will my horse. We’ll get by, then we’ll die. Same as it ever was.
It’ll be cool to see either way. Don’t count on a revolution I’m sorry to proffer, as Joe and jane lunch bucket are still happily scarfing down big macs and sticking it to the American public for their morbid obesity illnesses.
As long as the American public is subject to the lowest quality education in the world, we will all be busy hiding in our homes from robbers and criminals (like my neighborhood where a customer from our store was violently murdered in an upscale-middle class block nearby), not commandeering our nation’s wealthy politicos.
The Revolutionary War and government set up afterwards was in part catered to by American citizens who….dare I say it…read books and knew something of history; they spoke to each other in front of the fireplaces of our living rooms and formulated thoughts crafts and music. That is not the case here today in my opinion from blue-collar-land.
If anything should occur, I am counting on your prediction for states to form cluster nations according to weather and immigrants.
Love your blog.
Up-talk?
If you were ever to visit Toronto, Kyooshtik, the up-talk flood would drown you. Toronto up-talk seems to have attached itself mostly to the pre-middle aged female. Men appear to have greater resistance.
A decade ago, at least, one of our newspaper columnists made the observation that up-talk originated among people who were uncertain of their opinions. An assertion therefore came out sounding like a question.
Up-talk is a habit that people eventually grow out of.
Q., I am sorry you suffer so much because we are different and have different speech patterns. I enjoy both vocal fry and uptalk.
I love it that human beings are all different and speak differently and invest our time differently.
Variety is the spice of life.
It’s even OK that we are all going to die, because we will all die differently, too. Life is so goddamn interesting.
It is just a coincidence that all this is about to hit the fan at about the same time the Mayan Calendar is set to end, isn’t it? Just a coincidence.
Only 157 days left to see if it is all just hype.
invest ^their^ time differently.
I was reading your post waiting for two specific references: NASCAR and Kardashians. Kardashians were mentioned, but not NASCAR. You did mention something MOPAR being driven, so that may qualify as fulfilling the NASCAR reference.
If Corzine is smarter than he looks, he won’t be anywhere near a lamppost when the Treasury defaults and USD’s go to zero. The culling will begin soon and nothing, no nothing, can stop it. Population control is coming to YOUR neighborhood.
As for NASCAR, watching it with someone dead is better than watching alone:
“A woman said she kept the dead body of her companion in a chair in their southern Michigan house for months because she didn’t want to be alone. Linda Chase, 72, said she kept the remains of Charles Zigler clean and dressed and talked to the body while watching NASCAR on television.”
I’m wondering if Nancy will let me borrow Ronny while I watch the Republican Convention next month? As Linda said about Charles, “He was the only guy who was ever nice to me.”
Mitt Romney says he was in charge of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City … and it turns out Romney outsourced the production of Olympics torchbearer uniforms to Burma (now called Myanmar)
If Romney becomes president, expect the whole country to be outsourced.
Romney used the USA, got wealthy in the USA, then hid his cash in foreign countries to avoid paying taxes in the USA. Is that patriotic?
Up-talk is a habit that people eventually grow out of.
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God, I hope so?
We’ll get by, then we’ll die.
We’ll get by, then we’ll die.
The more I read it, the more it seems it would make a good bumper sticker. I like it, Shecky. Thanks!
We’ll get by, then we’ll die.
We’ll get by, then we’ll die.
If you know someone who is unconsciously engaging in uptalk and wants to stop, here is a video that will help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdhJxAmUu3Y
Does Uptalk Make You Upchuck
you are so welcome. Do you have a bumper?
Q., I am sorry you suffer so much
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Oh, I am certain you endure great sorrow on my behalf.
here is a video that will help.
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I posted that video earlier?
So you did, eh?
I think I’ll come out with a line of T shirts:
. Stamp Out UpTalk?
. Fight Creaky Voice!
. Vocal Fry Makes You Sound Like An Idiot!
. Member: Citizens Against UpTalk
. UpTalk Speakers Are Lousy Lovers!
. Vocal Fry and UpTalk: Speech Crimes
. WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: UpTalkers
Help me out here folks. Come up with something really pithy.
Pith on creaky uptalkers.
Ebonics, Yes! Uptalk, No?
He’s an expert on everything. Can you say Wikipedia? It’s his dirty little secret. Don’t tell, okay?
See “The Mote in God’s Eye,” a science fiction novel. You could read the original book, or you could get the definition from the synopsis in the Wikipedia article, or both.
Motie. Like motorhead. Like De Fucking Troit. Jayzus.
keep on googlin’! (thanx to the prescient ccr.)
No, Myrtlemay, when it comes to uptalk I am an expert. I have information you will not find in Wikipedia. For example, uptalk came out of Valspeak, a pop cultural vernacular tied to the sprawling San Fernando Valley on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Myrtlemay, go to Wikipedia and see if it can give you the details I can, like when a new mall—the Sherman Oaks Galleria—opened in the Valley in 1980, local teenagers adopted it as an afternoon and weekend gathering place. Among the rituals and mores refined in this Southern California mall culture was a highly stylized pattern of speech. Alongside a notable uptalk—that is, ending a simple declaratory statement with a rising intonation—speakers also incorporated a variety of exaggerated slang interjections such as “fer sure,” “grody to the max,” “oh my god,” or the classic “gag me with a spoon.”
Here is some more information you won’t find on the Web, through Google, or through Wikipedia, Myrtlemay: Among teens who gathered at the Galleria was fourteen-year-old Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of legendary musician and songwriter Frank Zappa. Moon took the kitschy, materialistic mall culture and wrote an anthem from the ostentatious teen speech mannerisms. “Valley Girls,” which Moon recorded with her father, appeared on the Frank Zappa album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982), bringing Valley Talk, or Valspeak, to radio stations across the country. Embraced and ridiculed in equal measure, Valspeak nevertheless entered the cultural mainstream. Widespread appeal among youth pop culture would even grow as movies like 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High (with Sean Penn as surf-slacker Jeff Spicoli) and 1983’s Valley Girls (with Nicholas Cage and Deborah Foreman) set themselves around the Valley and featured characters with strong local accents.
Wikipedia doesn’t have this level of expert detail, does it Myrtlemay? Though Moon Zappa’s song tied this “dialect” to the San Fernando Valley, such speech patterns had already become recognizable throughout Southern California before the record was released. Indeed, Valspeak derives from and shares elements with other local language patterns, including the jargon of California surf culture (e.g., “tubular,” “bitchen”). “Pure” Valley Talk has become an iconic stereotype of the 1980s, a trying affectation of airheaded, teenage Valley Girls. Yet Valspeak still resonates with regional and national culture. Later movies, for example, 1995’s Clueless, have reprised the accent as representative of upscale California youth culture. Valspeak idioms like “awesome” and “totally” have permeated American speech practices, as has the ubiquitous placeholder “like.” On the Pacific Coast, the broader Southern California accent is still prevalent in the area, although the exaggerations of Valspeak have generally receded. At the same time, linguistic researchers at Stanford University have begun analyzing a so-called Northern California Vowel Shift. Reminiscent of Valspeak, the shifting vowel patterns are found among a variety of men and women of all age ranges. Fittingly, researchers are examining how this vowel shift practice has been successfully developed among teenage girls to negotiate their positions within social groups.
Myrtlemay, Wikipedia is a poor source of information, anonymous, easily edited (I can edit Wikipedia to make it say whatever I want).
Wikipedia cannot compete with an expert’s knowledge.
Thank you for recognizing my expertise.
This is why god hates california, but she still wants to live there?
Fer sure, like, totally. California is a bitchen place for goddess energy?
bitchin’. the goddess fears the q-factor.
Recently, I was exposed to a beautiful Taoist meditation. The in breath – inhale – represents death; the exhale,life. Especially notice that place in between the inhale/exhale known as Wuji – the “Source” – from which the Taijii separates into Yin and Yang, i.e., the inhale and exhale.
Interestingly, the exhale – Life – is all about letting go. And from a physiological standpoint, I have always found the exhale to be far more challenging than the inhale. Literally, it can be a barometer of sorts to any number of issues that attach to and obscure our true core. And perhaps it also has something to do with carbon dioxide buildup as well.
Because of the difficulty of the exhale and letting go, those beautiful moments when the breath unfurls itself like a long languid feline stretching itself on the Serengeti unimpeded are especially treasured. And the inhale following those long, deep,magnificent exhales, are usually effortless, like a billowing expansive movement from the ocean’s depths.
And I have noticed one other interesting and paradoxical thing concerning the breath during meditation. The most gentle breaths that start out shallow and easy, usually end up being the most relaxed, deep and powerful by the end of a session of seated meditation. On the flip side, when my in breaths start out too enthusiastic, with out the corresponding match on the exhale, a certain type of energetic congestion occurs, or perhaps too much of a carbon dioxide buildup.
So maybe there is some truth to a deep, satisfying and nourishing life being about the ability to let go.
Nice. Been to a similar place recently.
Buck Stud, this reminds me of what Osho said in THE BOOK OF SECRETS (chapter 3)
For Tantra, each outgoing breath is a death and each new breath is a rebirth. Breath coming in is rebirth; breath going out is death. The outgoing breath is synonymous with death; the incoming breath is synonymous with life. So with each breath you are dying and being reborn. The gap between the two is of a very short duration, but keen, sincere observation and attention will make you feel the gap. If you can feel the gap, Shiva says, the beneficence. Then nothing else is needed. You are blessed, you have known; the thing has happened.
You are not to train the breath. Leave it just as it is. Why such a simple technique? It looks so simple. Such a simple technique to know the truth? To know the truth means to know that which is neither born nor dies, to know that eternal element which is always. You can know the breath going out, you can know the breath coming in, but you never know the gap between the two.
Thanks for the Osho writing Asoka -he was truly a genius.
It sounds contradictory based upon my last post on the breath, but I agree about not training the breath: to Let It Be is where is at. As so “simply” difficult so much of the time. Or at least for myself.
You’re assuming the very thing (human brotherhood) that New World is questioning – thus an invalid argument. In fact, BECAUSE things are so bad, therefore competition for scare resources is about to get much worse. And if you want to be with us Whites, you had best adjust your attitude, doofus.
You bet it is, Turk. And Teachers get a pass because they’re 90% female. Is what these people do really worth all those benefits? Not education, but indotrination. America will benefit immensely with the end of public education.
That was Magisterial, Soak. By all means eschew Wikipedia – it’s controlled by Zionists.
And Teachers get a pass because they’re 90% female.
Wrong again, Vlad. The percentage of female teachers varies by grade level.
For example, in elementary grades 81.7% are female.
But in secondary schools, only 58% are female.
SOURCE: BLS Current Population Survey, 2011.
How do you know it is controlled by Zionists?
What are their names?
Would it be necessarily bad, if it were true?
What have Zionists ever done to you personally? What is your personal experience with Zionists?
I edit Wikipedia articles because Wikipedia is full of errors. I have never heard Wikipedia is controlled by Zionists. Where did you hear that? What is your evidence?
Facebook….Zuckerberg
Ebay / Paypal…Omar [I hear he sold them]
You know soooo much about Zappa. I doubt you are black!
One more thing, Vlad. Wikipedia says Zionism is not monolithic. There are different kinds: General Zionism, Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, Green Zionism. Should I correct Wikipedia?
Which kind of Zionism are you talking about?
Or did you misuse the word Zionism? Are you really anti-Jewish, antisemitic, regardless of ideology?
You mean all that is not in Wikipedia?
A classic ‘I dont like the facts, Hence I will sling mud’ stance from BB.
The real Zionists do not include Zuckerberg among the Zionists. They are pissed at Zuckerberg.
http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=2020
Asoka the Thief is still at it. I don’t come here often; won’t anyone call him out on his stealing?
Asoka, you stole your long post about Valley Speak — stolen word for word from page 281 of the 2004 book The Pacific Region by Jan Goggans, Aaron DiFranco.
So Asoka, stealing other’s words and pretending they’re your own makes you an expert?
I am truly surprised that Kunstler, who makes a living writing, allows you stay on his site.
You are a thief and should be ostracised by this community.
Recently, I was exposed to a beautiful Taoist meditation.
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By “exposed to” I assume you mean you were one of a half dozen students charged ten bucks (Thursday, 7:30PM sharp) by a swarthy eastern dude (like two weeks late on his strip mall rental nut), whose shtick was laying on a convincing rap about the benes of sitting still and thinking in a certain way about their breathing?
I find that people with a grip on life, happy people, never give a moment’s thought to their breathing…but maybe that’s just me.
So it wasn’t a copy/paste from Wikipedia? And I forgot to provide the citation? And Kunstler reads the comments?
And, for your information, the word plagiarize does not mean “thief” … it means kidnap? I didn’t steal anything. I did not take the original and refuse to share it with anyone; that is what a thief does. I just borrowed it and shared it on CFN to make the point that the amount of information on Wikipedia is piss-poor compared to expert sources, from experts like Jan Goggans and Aaron DiFranco.
Thanks for setting the record straight.
I want you to continue to check all my posts for original sources, so I don’t have to cite them myself? It is a fun game we are playing, Puzzler?
My post never said he was even Jooish, let alone Zionist!
I agree with Mich Native and more recently Puzzler say about you.
He [years ago] was called Mr Cut n Paste.
Mich Native recently called him an ‘asswipe’
Several have noticed his plagiary.
I mostly ignore the posts of this ‘Black, lives in SA, knows all about Zappa’ guy or gal!!!!
the book he mentioned a week or 2 or 3 ago is by B Frantzis, who I know well and lived with.
BF is money hungry. Even 20 years ago he was getting 5000 for a weekend, if I recall properly.
A friend saw Frantzis on YT and said his Tiajii form was so off center it was a joke.
Me, I dont know or care.
Q. you made a declarative statement and ended it with “…and thinking in a certain way about their breathing?”
This makes you guilty of uptalk.
“I mostly ignore the posts…”
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Then miraculously you respond even though you have not read the post?
That is not what I suggested you do. I suggested you ignore the posts and not respond. It is more logically consistent. [1]
— Mr. Plagiary
1. Wikipedia
knows all about Zappa’ guy
anti soak how do you know I haven’t been a lifelong Zappa fan, an expert on Zappa, since the first time I heard him and thought that Zappa proved that “serious” music and rock & roll were not, after all, incompatible?
How do you know that I was not listening to Zappa even before a copy of Freak Out!, (The Mothers’ LP) finally turned up in my local record store. It wouldn’t be accurate to say that hearing it changed my life; for one thing, it had none of the expected quotations, at least none that I could detect, except for some words on the cover attributed to Varese, but I liked the general racket, the gritty urban “talking protest” sound of “Trouble Every Day,” the parodic, ironic humor, the “weird” a cappella vocal ensembles, the improvisation, the (rather mild) sexual innuendo, the funny liner notes, all in all a heady mix, but also, quite obviously, a brainy one. And even in the disembodied form of recordings, Zappa exuded undeniable charisma. He was clearly someone worth following just to see what he would do next. So follow him I did, through his first dozen albums or so. And eventually, the exposure did change my life: although I was never “transformed, perhaps, in quite the way that Matt Groening claims to have
been.
And anti soak, you can’t get this level of detail about Zappa on Wikipedia, or on the Web, or using Google. Only from experts like myself.
Puzzler, fetch!
Wikipedia will not tell you that in 1963, shortly before moving for good to Los Angeles, Zappa presented a concert of his own music at St. Mary’s College in Claremont, with a program that included: Piece No. 2 of Visual Music for Jazz Ensemble and 16mm Visual Projector; Piano Pieces from Op. 5; Collage One for String Instruments; Opus for Piano, Tape Recorder, and Multiple Orchestra; Two Fragments of Prepared Tape for Op. 5
Wikipedia will not provide that level of detail, nor will any Web page or search engine like Google. Only an expert on Zappa, or someone who actually attended the concert, would know that about Zappa.
Puzzler! Fetch!
Man, it must be hot….forgot to get my weekly dose of “special K ” this morning. Crows are in the watermelon, is that a sign?
I went to a Frantzis Seminar where they taught circular breathing with no gap. It seemed utterly alien to me since I naturally hold the breath in or out – as most people do I suppose.
He may well be right that it is the best breathing for the martial arts or even for health. But I prefer the hatha yoga techniques in this area.
Sometimes there seems to be a nectarean quality to the air or “behind” the air. It seems to bring the intuition of immortality – though hopefully not as we are now. No sane person wants that. Certain scents do this too – for me honeysuckle or the sea are two examples.
Sometimes while hiking I’ve noticed a freshening in the air when I approach huge old trees. I have a theory that mature trees produce chi as well as oxygen in a way that bushes and young trees do not.
He walks with a limp: he had a bad car accident years ago and never fully recovered. He says that it was only the Tai Chi and meditation that got him as far as he did.
Yes I know there are some important differences but they all tend to support Israel and some degree of Jewish Supremacy. I know some individuals rise above this. But the mass do not.
I mean if they didn’t think they were special, they would just be blended out of existence just as you want the White Race to be. Many are inter- marrying and the Trads are up in arm about it.
Your knowledge of some aspects of White Culture is immense. Weird since you believe we are demons. You spend all your time with us demons since you have very litte to say to the average Black.
I’ve met Blacks with this kind of niche before: they play the Magic Negro to certain White individuals or groups.
Marlin: Speaking of Kerouac his previously unpublished novel “The Sea is My Brother” is now out in print. I special ordered the hardback version from the publisher in England.
Marlin, speaking of Kerouac try the newly released “My Brother the Sea”.
Thanks for the tip BBM. It seems strange to me that just yesterday, while tying up tomato plants, I began thinking about Kerouac’s service in the Merchant Marine during WW11. And now your post. I’d been reading ‘The Typewriter is Holy, a History of the Beat Generation’ by Bill Morgan, who lives in Vermont. Evidently the Sampas family, his wifes family, has all these manuscripts and they release them one by one. A few years ago it was ‘And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks’, which Kerouac wrote with Bill Burroughs. And before that it was ‘Atop an underwood’, which was of special interest to me because it was partially written down the street here in Farmington. Thanks again. I’ll be buying that book.
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It looks like ‘Cold Fusion’ might is stepping up for another go round as a viable energy source. Tonite at 9:00 PM there is a show about it on CNBC. And have you noticed oil is headed back up toward $90 per barrel?
–WSP7
MM and Shecky,
Your wonderings now have conclusive answers! (It was a bit unfortunate that I had to delve into a posting to get a google reference, but here ’tis.)
The Pacific Region
By Jan Goggans, Aaron DiFranco
Copy and pasted directly. Google expertise, nothing more…
Pardon my redundancy.
Violent revolutions are not the answer. Look at Egypt. Anything good happening there? Is throwing out one corrupt leader for the Muslim Brotherhood an actual improvement? Doesn’t seem like it. And here in the US people are too fat and lazy to think. Remember the Civil War where the sons of rich people paid poor people to join the Confederate Army in their stead. The rich also talked the poor into believing that the Union would take away their right to own slaves! Why the poor whites cared whether or not they could own slaves never seemed to cross their minds. The vast majority of poor whites couldn’t afford any slaves anyway. So to give your life so that the rich could keep slaves seems pretty stupid to me but the rich had a good bullshit line so the poor ignorant whites bought it — State’s rights. Just like today. Only the rich have a new way to broadcast their bullshit – FOX News.
Convincing poor and working class whites that the socialist/terrorist/commie Muslim black guy will take away their guns! The irony is Obama has actually expanded “gun rights” but the ignorant haven’t heard about this because they are too busy stuffing Cheez Doodles in their faces while hypnotized by the boob tube.
The only successful way to implement any kind of improvement is — wait for it – through the deep pockets of the US government. Manhattan Project, Hoover Dam, Soil Conservation, etc. Without the backing of the mighty federal government, good things don’t happen. Life without taxes sounds good until you realize that no taxes means no services – no firefighters, no school teachers, no police patrols, no military, no hospitals, schools, highways, etc. Basically you’d spend all your time fighting off formerly middle class stupes from trying to take your stuff, rape your wife and teenage daughter, kill you, etc. Civilization requires specialization and that only comes from having a government and paying taxes.
Who do we have the best bet with in the upcoming election to keep civilization from total collapse? Keep in mind that Civil War analogy. It’s very telling.
Just because the issue was raised, I’ll add two more annoying vocal traits that are like, sooo annoying…
So, one is the current tendency by people to start every other sentence with the word “so.” Listen for it.
The other is the addition of the “sh” sound to words where that phoneme does not occur. For instance, “straight” becomes “shtraight.” I mostly her it from women, but men do it as well.
Oh, and here’s a bonus one, which I thought was only from my neck of the words in Western PA, but may be more widely spread; the use of the word “whenever,” when “when” is actually correct.
Pilt
Speaking of 666 and empty suits, here, watch this, quite strange:
http://vimeo.com/44583147
“Thanks for making my case, mistified. You are right. If you don’t like Obama, you definitely won’t like Romney. Romney care, Obama care, Obamney Care, etc.”
Wrong again, numbnuts. Mr. Romney has stated that on his first day in office he would begin dismantling Obamacare. Any other lies you wish to share?
“That should also make you happy, not knowing what foreign governments are buying our elections, or what foreign interests are being served.”
That would thrill me. I would welcome money from drug cartels, dictatorships or international criminals. As long as their contributions result in defeating Obama. He is that bad. He is dangerous. He is actively dismantling our nation and our traditions. And unfortunately, it will take three generations to undo the damage he has already inflicted.
There is no tyranny more insidious than that of a democratic system populated by ignorant citizens. That is why no solutions will ever come through the political process. Every intelligent vote is buried in the murk of 100 moronic ones. The voice of the informed barely rises to the level of background noise against the roar of the “majority”.
It is also a fact that truth can never prevail over propaganda. I have seen these battles played out in smaller scale too many times. Every election is won by the candidate who most effectively uses propaganda against the ignorant mass of voters. They don’t even care what the informed voter thinks.
A revolution would do no better. Most of the casualties would come from friendly fire. People killing people who are too ignorant to understand who their enemy is. The insuing chaos would open the door for yet another abusive scenario.
Mr. Romney has stated that on his first day in office he would begin dismantling Obamacare.
And you believe him? A president can undo legislation, poof! Just like that?
He is actively dismantling our nation and our traditions.
LOL!
Romney wanted General Motors to go out of business.
Obama rescued GM. As goes GM, so goes the nation.
There are a lot of people employed right now, providing for their families, who will remember who wanted to allow their jobs to disappear and who fought for their jobs.
Well Q, not everybody can be the happy and optimistic Clusterfuck Nation grammarian lurking in the back row with an error correcting magnifying glass.
But who can argue against your happiness, especially after hearing your orgiastic eruptions with each frenetic page turn of the dictionary.
Interesting post, Vlad. For all your racial bantering, you often display a very rare and unusual sensitivity/awareness/observational acumen which is not repressed by macho bravado. It’s the part of you I really like.
As far as the breath, it’s not a good idea not to make it too obvious, which is why the Chinese Internal Martial Arts do not make a big display of “ki ai”…because a good fighter will make a point of timing and hitting an opponent on the inhale – which is not a good thing.
Crazy Horse. Wow! Thanks for sizing up the candidates and this election battle the way you have here. Your words captured exactly my feelings about the fraudulent and absurd level of discourse between these campaigns as well as that coming from the average herd animal known as the American voter. The criminality couldn’t be more nakedly apparent, disseminated clearly by any number of outlets, yet still no meaningful recourse has occured, either institutionally or socially. WTF?
I have to say that although I find JHK’s disposition on the sad state of our country’s political, social, and economic unfolding mostly correct, I just don’t think significant unrest or collapse is imminent. I beleive the citizens of the U.S. to be fully tame, not capable of organizing any semblance of meaningful rebellion, no matter how many guns or stowed provisions they posess, save a few lone vigilantes who will succeed at best in creating only minor havoc. I could be wrong.
Even people who boast an acute level of understanding of the corruption and injustice, as well as the supposed origins of decay (based on their own ideological slants of course) do not similarly convey an ability to harness meaningful ideas to effect a better condition. Too much diversity of opinion and not enough diversity of thought. Seems we are a status quo of professional gripers, helpless to the point of only ever creating self-fullfilled prophecy.
Thanks again
Hello, Asoka.
I’m new here and am not taking sides in my interjection to your replies to Mistified, but let’s be clear that Obama, or our government’s decision to hand-out monies to failed businesses, to state it fairly, cannot be spun as a noble rescue of the American auto industry nor it’s laborers, as gallant or vile as such spin may sound to partisan-minded idiots. But in fact the government “rescue” of GM was part of the banking bailout fiasco as a whole — to characterize GM as simply an auto manufacturer is a toss to the type of simplistic blatherings from a Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olberman. No?
The battle over which empty suit gets elected president…
This year we have the option of voting for a president and vice-president who both wear dresses.
Don’t waste your vote on Obama or Romney to get more of the same. Vote for the Green Party.
Vote Stein/Honkala 2012.
Cherie Honkala’s Wikipedia page
The choice is not just between twiddle dum and twiddle dee.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.
Stein for President 2012
Honkala for President 2016
Hello, UnstopablefarceImmovableabject
No spin is required.
Romney opposed the bailout.
Obama supported the bailout.
GM employees are gainfully employed.
“This guy doesn’t understand how to create jobs. So there is no surprise — there should be because of that statement no surprise on why he failed so miserably over the last four years, in terms of job creation,” Sununu said on Fox.
President Bush public sector job creation: +3.7%
President Obama public sector job creation: -2.7%
Obama is shrinking government employees and making the government smaller.
If Romney is elected we’ll see government grow jobs again like Bush did.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Were Romney in the same position at the same time as Obama — Romney would have “rescued” GM, too. Any politician would have. GM is a leviathan bank, and had it collapsed the consequences would have been far beyond a spinable PR narrative. No? You take Romney at his word that he would have let GM – a massive bank- fail. Do you really? You don’t seem to take Romney at his word that he would “repeal and replace” a similarly constructed Obama labelled health care plan to his own, so why would you in the case of GM? There’s no genuine nuance to such an argument. Only spin. “Obamacare” wasn’t a socialization of America’s healthcare industry, it was a government mandate to buy private industry insurance.
I’m just asking. These distinctions aren’t hard to parse, unless a person merely wishes to shill for a particular side.
Thanks for responding.
Thanks Buck. I’m a much better mystic (receptive) than I am a yogi (making it happen). This doesn’t fit my self image very well, but it is the case. This distinction is made in Japanese Buddhism: self power and other power. Zen Buddhism focuses on self power but other power is also deeply respected. This blows people away who come to it from reading Watts, etc. Zen is a religion – as is Buddhism as a whole.
This Sensitivity I have I applied to observing human beings – and realized how very different the races really are. No one who just observes without ideological interference can possibly believe that Blacks are like Whites – or on the same evolutionary level with them. The East Asians are quite different than Whites, but are on roughly the same level.
I wouldn’t feel any hatred once this was acknowledged and the situation rectified by mass deportation – as Lincoln, Jefferson, et al intended. But as it is, it’s natural to feel hatred for your enemies who are threatening your Nation and way of Life. Remember, I also hate White Communists too.
Jesus seen near Wall St.
Wants to see if bankers can fly.
Quote as saying to the Money Changers:
“Jump you Fuckers”
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7275/7588921124_409b53c95a_z.jpg
Has a theme song too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
The NRA is convinced he fully intends to take our guns if he can – as the U.N Ban on small weapons mandates. Hillary is really gunning for this one.
Fast and Furious was nothing else than an attempt to indict the gun industry that got away from them.
“Romney wanted General Motors to go out of business.”
He wanted no such thing. He wanted GM to reorganize under chapter 11. That would have ensured that bond holders investments would have been honored. Instead the taxpayers took it up the ass to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. And what did we get in return? The Volt, a car no one wants that is being subsidized by taxpayers to the tune of 200,000 per car. (Yep. Per. Car) And of course Obama benefitted by capturing Union votes.
You are a douche-nozzled, lying weasel. (What a surprise!)
Oh and additionally, pantsfill, Obama handed Chrysler over to the Italians. Thanks big “Oh”
I know more about him than his own students.
He lived at the Rajneesh compound circa 1980-[82]
Then he went to China. His resume has holes in it, intentionally.
He admitted to me in a moment of candor he wasnt a good acupuncturist.
Quite true – that’s why the Founders hated Democracy so called and didn’t mention it in the Constitution. As a Republic, we were supposed to be a Goverment of Laws and as few of those as possible.
And obviously strict limits on who votes.
The greatest generation was great in several qualities: humility and hard work. Guys like Ted Williams were Quietly proud of their Military Service – the baseball was just small potatoes next to that.
But as thinkers? They gave it all away to the Globalists – and fought their brothers who were fighting for the West.
It’s not that the Nazis were such Peacoks – it more that the US was so plain in its uniforms. Humility and egalitarianism again. Black Jack Pershing and McArthur were more typical of military men – and thus didn’t fit that well. But in any case, do you think any of these guys be they plain or peacock would fit in today? Would they have fought if they had really known what was to come or who they were fighting for?
And call no man your [BOSS/Patron] upon the earth. ~verse 9, chapter 13, The Jefferson Bible
The Christfags of Murka took a piss on that advice.
You are a douche-nozzled, lying weasel. (What a surprise!)
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Welcome back Tootsie!! There’s nothing like a refreshing insult.
Buck Stud, this reminds me of what Osho said in THE BOOK OF SECRETS (chapter 3)
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It amazes me how you, Buck, Anti, Vlad et al fall under the spell of other people. Fall? I should say, throw yourselves! It strikes me as weakness, as insecurity…much like UpTalk.
Breathing does not require quiet pondering anymore than does the operation of your endocrine system or your sweat glands. It, and they, are on autopilot. Grow up!
He didn’t “live” there; he simply attended some workshops etc. And it’s no secret that acupuncture is not his specialty; his specialty is Tui Na.
It’s pretty obvious to me that you have an axe to grind, which is not surprising because, to be frank, Kumar is a rather brusque and controversial person at times. But your citing of your “friends” characterization of him being ‘off-center’ while doing Tai Chi is a joke, and a silly one at that.
At any rate, you claimed to have lived with him twenty years ago which would have been Mill Valley as I don’t believe he had moved to Fairfax yet. And a man bringing down “5 grand a weekend” was hardly in need of a room mate ( besides he was married and with small children at the time) so I can only conclude you were the pool boy or the houseboy or perhaps the lawn boy or maybe the gardener?
Or perhaps you were the hired maid?
At any rate, does the below clip look like someone lacking a center?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0RDKfTm6pY
How do you know it is controlled by Zionists?
What are their names?
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Ira Rosenberg, Hymie Hertzlebaum and the Estate of Sammy Davis Jr. :0)
At any rate, does the below clip look like someone lacking a center?
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He looks like a guy I would like to have had my back in some of the places I used to shoot pool.
‘Anti, Vlad et al fall under the spell of other people’
Who, Pray [pun intended] Tell am I [or was I] under the spell of?
And how much do you know about ‘them’?
Oh, I forget, you had a relative with a Stupa, or was it ‘In A Stupor’, or both?
Dear empire
I don’t live in wantaugh but do think your take on the middle-class sounds very bigoted. I happen to think the liberal gay Obama sucking MSNBC /CNN ZOMBIES Democrats are not worthy to breathe air. But hey, that’s just not politically correct. Don’t be a zomboid. Look in the mirror my friend. We are all in this mess together. What gives you the audacity to think you’re better than people who are middle class. You are an Idiot!
Amen.
I went to a Frantzis Seminar where they taught circular breathing
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Are you sure it was circular breathing not circular jerking? :0)
Hey Fizzle
I smell a jealous little piggy complaining about Italians and Jews who have more that you. You are the bigoted negative individual who is crying like a spoiled baby about not keeping up with the Jones (or sal or Alan) you are also disgusting in your ranting about people who “don’t give u your due “. Shame on you.!
and the Trads are up in arm about it.
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That’s singular. Each Trad gets one weapon.
You are so wrong, Q! Hymie Hertzlebaum never had anything to do with it. As a matter of fact, unknown to you, since you obviously don’t do adequate research, Hymie is currently retired and leading a quiet life rescuing Jewish polar bears in the arctic. He has a beautiful 3-level igloo with a nice view of the ice. His only problem is that he can’t get melting insurance, and his front yard is rapidly disappearing.
I admit I’m up in arm about Jewish intermarriage, too, but since it’s my right arm that’s up and I’m a lefty, it’s not a big deal.
I never heard the term “trad” before. Is it significant that trad rhymes with Vlad?
Who do we have the best bet with in the upcoming election to keep civilization from total collapse?
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I don’t know…Who?
Hey, Marlin, you made my day! Narragansett Beer is back? Really? Hi, neighbor, have a ‘gansett. Straight from the barrel taste, the taste that people who really know beer like best.
Do you remember the little cartoon ads they ran between innings on TV during Red Sox games?
Thanks for the info on CNBC re cold fusion. It’s repeating at 11 pm or so, and I’m DVRing it. I’ll watch it tomorrow.
blah blah blah
Unfortunately for you, Mitt Romney was alive in 2008, and he let his views be known:
Romney wrote: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
That was the headline on a New York Times opinion piece Mitt Romney wrote in late 2008, arguing against a USA taxpayer bailout of America’s auto industry.
You don’t seem to take Romney at his word that he would “repeal and replace”
No, I don’t, since a USA president does not have the authority to unilaterally overturn legislation that has been passed by Congress and held to be legal by the United States Supreme Court.
“Repeal and replace” is pablum.
asoka,
I have enjoyed most of your posts, now that you admit that you are a long time Zappatista, I have greater respect for you. The coming election will prove to be an all out media brawl, with the Supreme court ruling on Citizens United allowing unlimited funds to be pumped into the blitz on every waking hour of the electorates consciousness. Frank would have had a field day with the absurdity of it all. It may prove to be a true turning point, a Rising indeed.
Americans are so divided and not only by the socio-economic class. With small minority exception, which is fully aware of sad state, it is the land of countless little groups, passionate with their “beliefs” and “truths”, and (still) Party affiliation, played by the Power Elite with ease.
Other than few skirmishes by desperate here and there there will be no revolution which requires cohesive idea and force.
In FEMA camps capos will entertain themselves by orchestrating UFC-style fights between
Dem’s and Repub’s.
Thank you, xport. I have also enjoyed your posts.
I am kinda surprised to find other Zappatistas here.
Here is my theory of what is going to happen: Romney will go down because he refuses to release his tax returns.
He refuses to release his tax returns because he was hit hard by the crisis of 2008 and lost so much money that he did not owe any taxes in 2009.
But he cannot release that he paid ZERO TAXES since that would be political suicide.
Either way Romney is toast.
Yes, I think Frank would have been enjoying this 2012 show.
Did you happen to see “Toads of the Short Forest” (Part lI), from a concert in 1968?
The 2012 political circus reminds me of that Zappa performance. As captured on the recording, this piece begins in 5/8; then the players fan out. Having assembled an intricately polyrhythmic (or at least polymetric) texture with a screeching saxophone solo laid atop it all, Zappa cues the ensemble to lower the volume and turns to the audience:
At this very moment on stage, we have:
drummer A playing in 7/8;
drummer B playing in 3/4;
the bass playing in 3/4;
the organ playing in 5 / 8;
the tambourine playing in 3 / 4;
and the alto sax blowing his nose.
LOL! ¡Qué viva Zappa!
LOL!
I love these light-hearted exchanges on CFN.
Both you and Q have an exquisite sense of humor.
Thank you both for your levity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQdYXCKUv0&feature=player_embedded
So low brow it hurts. So the cleverdicks need not dismantle.
I see a recent editorial in the NYT, saying that this election will be a referendum on the current state of capitalism. Wow! fat chance that discussion will ever take place. It has always been a rich man’s fantasy. Now that reality is setting in, who will reset the new narrative?
So, one is the current tendency by people to start every other sentence with the word “so.” Listen for it.
The other is the of the “sh” sound to words where that phoneme does not occur. For instance, “straight” becomes “shtraight.” I mostly her it from women, but men do it as well.
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Boy oh boy Piltdown, are we ever on the same page. Yes, I have noticed the use of “So” to begin a sentence where, in my mind, it makes no sense whatsoever. In similar fashion I hear certain people use the word “sure.” I want to take these people by the lapels, shake them violently, and find out where this “So” shit and “Sure” shit began and what it means.
And you are absolutely correct about the sh sound. I observe that it is used primarily with words whose first 3 letters are str as in shtraight, shtrong, and shtrategize. It seems to be an emphasizer – “And LeBron goes shtrong to the hoop.” “The Obama team shtrategized over the weekend.” Yet, I doubt you would ever hear of a violinist playing his Shtradivarius.
My only difference with you on this is that I hear it mainly from men. Without the insertion of an h between s and tr certain words sound decidedly feminine and week. This simply will not do when an announcer says “strong.”
So Kunstler is again expressing his revolutionary revenge fantasies of good citizens rising up to hang the bankers from lampposts. Not likely, I agree with the previous posters who predict the masses turning on each other. A version of this scenario is played out in a film that came out last year called “God Bless America”, written and directed by comic Bobcat Goldthwait. Joel Murray plays a dejected office drone who’s fed up with the crass, stupid people he’s surrounded by and daydreams of blowing away his idiotic neighbors and coworkers. One particularly obnoxious young woman on a TV reality show finally pushes him over the edge and he goes on a murderous Travis Bickle-like revenge spree, killing all those people he blames for the cretinization of America. I have to admit to having similar fantasies and so too, I suspect, do quite a few visitors to this blog. There are elements of “Natural Born Killers” and “Falling Down” in this film but it uses comedy to soften the shocking aspect of the subject matter, which may not be so shocking to audiences today.
As crude a way of making social commentary as this is, there is a definite visceral feeling of righteous glory in these fables. Trouble is, we are probably all on someone else’s fantasy death list and if TSHTF, it’ll be bikers vs soccer moms vs goths vs rednecks vs treehuggers vs punks vs hiphoppers…just the rabble thinning itself out as everyone with an axe to grind makes hay out of the pettiest of their personal gripes.
Here’s a clip with the protoganist’s rant against modern culture – sounds like a JHK essay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52EnTtGstKg
Speaking of 666 and empty suits, here, watch this, quite strange:
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Unique.
I will leave it to others to explain its meaning.
Speaking of cretinizing cultural influences, the recent cover of Time magazine that diplayed a slim, pretty young mother breast feeding her three year old son with the caption “Are You Mom Enough?” has inspired a new reality TV show about “extreme parenting”. The producer who created the softcore kiddie porn show “Dance Moms” is working on this. No demand for serious investigative journalism on TV anymore, but a toddler with a tit in his mouth, hey, that could be a hit show!
Solar Guy, this video is a commentary on nondualism.
If you notice in the film’s credits, thanks are given to Wayne Liquorman, a proponent of advaita.
Thanks for sharing this, Solar Guy.
Merikans will never have a French revolution style uprising. The French peasants lived within walking distance of the rich and worked in their homes. In the US the rich live in gated communities and are known only to a few. They can hire special forces trained mercenaries to protect them. Few people would recognize most CEOs.
Also, the “liberal” media has supplied the masses with many “others” to hate. People of other races, religions, sexual orientations, etc. Even Aimlow Joe has fallen for the hatred of guvmint workers with their plush jobs and reasonable pensions, ignoring that they don’t get SS unless they worked in the private sector, so the pensions need to be enough to live on.
Also, union and nonunion workers have been turned against each other.
The richy riches have covered their asses and the 99% will tear each other apart why the 0.1% are flying off to their private islands. Maybe a few “little rich” (those with $2 million homes might get it), but not the real perpetrators of this disaster.
So don’t expect an uprising against the 0.1% JHK.
Sorry, it would probably be fun and they deserve it, but it ain’t gonna happen here.
“I have noticed the use of “So” to begin a sentence…”
Oh dude, I’m like, ya know, so sorry ’bout that man.
On a positive note, there was an international convention dedicated to advancing railroad travel and improvement this past week in Phila. Pa. Amtrak announced plans to improve service on the Northeast corridor and implement high speed lines linking major cities from DC to Boston.
As the readers of this site know, oil that’s pumped out of the ground in the Middle East is useless to oil-consumers in Europe and North America until it’s conveyed to Europe and to here. The oil is conveyed in tankers, many of them passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This fact is also known to Kunstler’s readers. So why is no one commenting on the strong possibility of the Strait’s imminent closure? Like by the end of this year.
Assad falls; Hezbollah’s land connection to Iran is cut; Israel attacks Hezbollah, now rendered vulnerable. Matters escalate and complicate to the point where Iran carries out its threat and closes the Strait.
It could be that the Iranian threat is nought but bluff. But only the Iranians themselves know this.
Lots of you comment-writers are more geo-politically savvy than I am (no great achievement). Maybe one of you might care to confirm or refute my prognosis.
Zed Leppt In, AND muddmike are correct! The top dogs have split us working folks into fighting groups. Daily our right wing radio Rush want to be types blame college educated science folks, evolution,gay tree huggers for the failures of the top 1%. The small left wing group blames the folks living in the burbs or who drive a truck, own a gun or drink Old Utica Club beer( yes still around). We have been distracted to attack each other while the true leaders of this mess sit back and laugh away. So, any of u fellow posters, remember what that old fat Greek guy said,”The most feared and persecuted people in the world are those that ask questions” But, hey I am enjoying this non climate change heat wave! Go Fox News!
Maybe you know Truman Capote’s remark on Kerouack’s writing: “That’s not writing; that’s typing.” Capote was talking as a self-conscious stylist. And what a stylist he was.
Never read anything by the Beats. Interesting bunch. But since they were proto-hippies they probably helped, inadervtently, to lead a lot of people over the edge of a cliff.
Contrary to JHK’s violent fantasies, revolution does not require bloodshed.
http://www.singingrevolution.com/cgi-local/content.cgi
THE SINGING REVOLUTION
Between 1987 and 1991, hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered publicly to sing forbidden patriotic songs and share protest speeches, risking their lives to proclaim their desire for independence. While violence and bloodshed was the unfortunate end result in other occupied nations of the USSR, the revolutionary songs of the Estonians anchored their struggle for freedom, which was ultimately accomplished without the loss of a single life.
http://www.singingrevolution.com/cgi-local/content.cgi
Their other arm is in a cast and they beat your brain out with it.
Your nature is so small – it must be a torment for your brain to have to transmit such paltry thoughts. If you’re not careful, someday it will crawl out and leave. What else is a headache but the brain trying to get out?
What next? Shaeffer? Remember the the Shaeffer jingle? And the Cydesdales! Where they Shaeffer or some other bear?
Discriminate betwee Unions and Public Unions. The latter is problematic since stuggling people have to pay for these people to live high off the hog. And for what? Teachers – spinster Communists programing kids to be goverment slaves. Cops? Some good, some bad – all serving the Masters. Firemena? Good, but we can’t afford those pensions. Simple as that.
Kyooshtik,
I thought of you today as I took a mini-van full of my daughter’s friends to the beach. You would have jumped out of the car with all the “likes.”
We drove on Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains (a ride that would make anyone from Kansas hold onto the dashboard for dear life) and down to the beach in Capitola.
I heard the word “like” at least 1,000 times..with Lady GaGa and Britney Spears tunes blasting from the CD player.
Wikipedia says of Shirley MacLaine:
All those who believe it is possible to perform ballet with a broken ankle, raise your hands.
Is this not an error in Wikipedia? Should I go ahead and correct this error, as I do so many others? Is anyone else skeptical about dancing ballet with a broken ankle?
The Wikipedia article says “broken ankle,” not fractured, not sprained, “broken.” Is this believable? No one else has come forward to correct this. Is this Shirley MacLaine hagiography?
Wikipedia is full of this kind of false information. Dancing on a broken ankle?
Sheriff Joe bring Barry Soetero to justice: the birth certificate is a fraud. He’s not the President.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/07/sheriff-joe-obama-birth-certificate-national-security-issue/
Maybe the Russians and Iranians wont let Syria fall….
Both Arpaio and Zullo also said that they are not stating that Barack Obama knows of the forgery.
Arpaio has obviously been duped. Obama was birthed and immediately proceeded to forge his birth certificate, even before the umbilical cord was cut, because he knew he was going to be president and deliberately wanted to fool everyone.
What concerns me is whether Arpaio was born in America. What kind of name is Arpaio anyway? He is probably acting illegally as sheriff and has not shown his birth certificate, which he probably forged anyway.
He was 3, I checked. Mama was breast fed till 6!. Time/Newsweek are junk with covers like
‘How Ray-sist is yr Baby’.
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New book out about the Black race riots called White Girl Bleed Alot – the actual words of one of the subhuman rioters.
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BeanTownBill, here’s what I have to say to you:
“Hi neighbor, have a ‘Gansett”!
And I might add … “enjoy that straight from the barrel taste”.
Narragansett is no longer brewed in Cranston (brewery was demolished after sitting vacant for 20 years, now the site of a strip mall) … currently it is made in Rochester, NY by the Genesee Brewing Company (remember Genesee Cream Ale?)
The Braves were before my time. But I remember Narragansett Beer as the great sponsor of the Red Sox, and in that magic 67 season … and all the fathers and grandfathers in the neighborhood sitting around this barn we had, listening to Kenny Coleman’s Red Sox radio broadcast, drinking those tall white cans of Narragansett beer, along with some Ballentines. All of them had been overseas in WW2 or Korea and I used to love listening to their stories.
Bill, I’m no expert, but the beer itself is pretty good. But its a crowded market now, not like the in the 50’s or 60’s. Back then Narragansett was the best selling beer in New England.
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Vlad,
The pensions are a problem now because politicians had wildly optimistic ideas about how the investments would grow, so not enough money was set aside years ago.
As I said before, public workers don’t pay SS, since it is stupid for the government to pay itself. Therefore the public workers have to live on ONLY their pensions.
Looking at my 403b account (I work in higher ed)I could not live decently when I retire on it alone, even though I have paid in more than the minimum for the last 30 years. I will need the SS supplement.
Public unions negotiated fair pensions, but the pols blew it on the investment end. Now we need to make up for their stupidity. A slightly higher investment would have meant either fewer services or slightly higher taxes, but Murikans want it all now, so the pols gave it to them and now we have to pay.
…fwiw, lionel ritchie was dancing on the ceiling- i know because i saw it ‘on the teevee’…now if he d had a broken ankle at the time, i doubt he coulda made it half way up the wall- you know, where you drive us with your constant wikiposts…
anyone here still watch M$M, and if so has there been any mention of the LIBOR mess as it relates to oil prices? i saw one article over at info.info (sic) which said there have been at least a couple of rumbles in the last few years, concerning how the two mechanisms of price- fixing arew similar, and subject to illicit meddling…of course, govt & industry shills have poo-pooed the idea, claiming that there is no reason the entities responsible would do so; they are not in the investment arms of the clearing houses, or some such tripe…personally, i ve always wondered why the price of oil isn t set by “cost, plus”- some negotiated (by govt, NOT industry- an opaque difference, i know!) percentage of profit on top of whatever costs are accrued by whatever method & location are involved…sounds socialistic, i am aware, but if you think about it- since oil is a commodity everyone uses to one degree or another, like air or water- wouldn t we all be better off with a stable, predictable price-line to count on for all of the goods and services we ve become used to, rather than (99% of us, anyway) having to choose and sacrifice between, say, gas or food? for example, in order to go to work yesterday, i had a fucking mustard sandwich for lunch because i required $20 in gas to drive the hour and back…just sayin’- and yes, this time i AM bitter…
Charlie,
Q keeps attuned to M$M out of the corner of his eye, so he’d be the one to ask about commodities price-fixing reports (or lack thereof).
Here’s a bit from “Fierce Finance” from one Jim Kim about an obvious gathering avalanche that I [stupidly] hadn’t considered:
“Disgusting,” writes Richard Bove to a client, as quoted by the Philly Inquirer.
“If the rate is false, all of the charges associated with Libor-based loans are wrong … tens of thousands of businesses are paying the wrong rate on their loans … all of the bank stock [prices] are wrong.”
Some suits are in the making. One Philly government officials was quoted as saying, “I think we are in line to collect from Libor settlements to come.”
Forget about prosecutions for political profit. This is where the piper is to be paid. The courts are about to be crammed with demands for restitution from hordes of private parties. The colluding rate-fixing banks haven’t the reserves to cover these whackings, even at pennies on the dollar. And this occurring in the most litigious society in the world!
Sit tight and muddle through, Charlie, things are about to get very interesting in Finance-land.
(Maybe leading to a peek into other shenanigans of price fixing. Funny how these things grow and spread. I would suspect that’s why “containment” and “scapegoat” will become commonly voiced around the boardroom tables in coming days and weeks.)
…And don’t ever forget, you have actual skills, these meatheads who supposedly run every-fucking-thing only know how to scam and steal. Take a guess which occupation will be in demand in the future.
“Take a guess which occupation will be in demand in the future. ”
Many years ago, I asked an American kid what he wants to be when he grows up?
He replied: “I want to be a Bad Motherfucker.”
I don’t know if he ever succeeded in his career goal.
Sounds like what JHK pines for is taking place in Damascus, as the usual characters conduct their weekly pissing match here on my computer screen.
thanks for you post,it is very cool
Obama’s birth certificate definitely fraudulent – that’s why he didn’t want to produce it.
http://news.yahoo.com/ariz-sheriff-says-obama-birth-certificate-fake-072751943.html
Politician from a southern state grilling Bernanke this morning:
Izzir inny kahnduv uh comp ruh mahz…etc etc
Kyoo translation:
Is there any kind of a compromise…
I only have to hang on 13 years or so without losing my mind. Can I make it?
Yes, now we pay for all the aid to Africa. All the aid to Egypt and Israel. The endless meddling all over the world. The trillions paid to Black America – several Marshall Plans. But Blacks aren’t Germans and it’s like pouring it into a Black Hole.
We cannot fund the lifestyle you desire. You were lied to and you should have realized that decades ago. You’re going to have to adjust just like the rest of us. As for “Higher Education” – please. Public Education was a vast Conspiracy to corrupt the minds of young Americans. See John Dewey and Rockerfella. Literacy was 90%+ in post Revolutionary War New England – long before this monstrosity was dreamed up. What is it now with the “benefit” of professionals?
Not all the blame is your’s – the racial quality of Americans has gone down precipitously. You can’t educate the uneducable.
New Batman movie villian called Bain. Coincidence? Well the character was created/named in 1993. But released right now – coincidence?
O Nanak! This world is corrupt from a to z. Turn within and let it go its way.
personally, i ve always wondered why the price of oil isn t set by “cost, plus”- some negotiated (by govt, NOT industry- an opaque difference, i know!)…..profit
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Get real Chuck. It seems that every generation has to learn anew that government attempts to fix prices simply DON’T WORK. Black markets will emerge instantly.
BTW, my spell checker is very annoyed with your failure to use apostrophes when writing contractions. The spell checker says to me “please tell your correspondent to stop this juvenile practice.”
O Nanak! This world is corrupt from a to z. Turn within and let it go its way.
Probably the best advice I’ve read here this week.
Kirpal and Ajaib must be cheering from their graves.
My brother says the maximum he can contribute to his traditional and Roth IRAs is $6,000 (he’s over age 50) because that’s what the IRS says is legal.
How did Romney legally accumulate a $22 million IRA?
Or did Romney do something illegal?
“That was the headline on a New York Times opinion piece Mitt Romney wrote in late 2008, arguing against a USA taxpayer bailout of America’s auto industry.”
Yes, genius. He did NOT want a taxpayer bailout. He wanted the normal, private sector solution. The troubled companies would file for chapter 11 status. That would enable them the time to reorganize their operations, renegotiate union contracts, and reconfigure terms with their creditors. And do so…WAIT FOR IT…without shoving it down the throats of taxpayers via government intervention.
Many of the investors who rolled the dice on GM stock would have lost money. That, while unfortunate, is a risk ANY investor takes, when purchasing a stock in a listed company. But here is the upshot, if my neighbor makes a mistake in his stock pick, it costs me nothing. His loss is incurred privately. When the government rushes in and “saves” a failing company, it affects taxpayers, many whom would want nothing to do with investing in the company the government is choosing to “save”.
Get the difference, pants-load? No, you don’t. Because you sir, are a moronic leech.
“Don’t waste your vote on Obama or Romney to get more of the same. Vote for the Green Party.”
Oh no, idiot. I’ll waste it on your recommendation. On a candidate that does not have a chance in hell of winning. Yeah, baby, that would be a really wise move.
While we’re on the topic of speech as a public nuisance, how about the nuisance value of the “within quotes” signal? The arms are raised and the index and middle fingers of both hands make a couple of quick hooking movements. The words just uttered are thereby enclosed within quotation marks.It’s a useful gesture, I suppose. But it lacks grace.
government attempts to fix prices simply DON’T WORK. Black markets will emerge instantly.
Yeah, Q., so the obvious answer is not price fixing; the answer is rationing. Government can ration and that avoids evasion and black markets.
If you have a coupon entitling you to buy a fixed quantity of the controlled good, then producers no longer find it easy to divert supplies to the black market since they must have ration tickets to match their production; distributors no longer have as much incentive to accept bribes or demand tie-in purchases; and consumers have a smaller incentive to pay high prices because they are assured a minimum amount.
Rationing, as Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood (2002) pointed out, increases the integrity and efficiency of a system of price controls.
SOURCE: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
If this country ever does face a Long Emergency (and full parking lots say we are not), we can double our resource availability by rationing electricity, rationing gasoline, etc.
Big government can solve these problems, just as big government did during the world wars.
“”Repeal and replace” is pablum.”
Hardly, learned one. If Romney wins there is a likelihood that the Senate could go to the Republicans. That would give Romney both houses. Repeal and replace would be highly likely as even idiot libtards would not want to get in front of that rolling engine of change that the electorate would be demanding.
Massive American attempt to subvert Russia about to checked. New law will require “NGO’s” to register as foreign agents. America has a similar law, unenforced of course. Otherwise alot of people would have to make an honest living here or in Israel.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/07/16/war-on-all-fronts/
When the reporter asked Romney how many houses he had, Romney could not remember. Did Romney ever get back on that? How many houses does Romney own?
I only ask because the Constitution does set a specific maximum number on the number of houses. Two, I think.
“Public unions negotiated fair pensions…”
They did no such fucking thing. They were pigs at the trough and stupid politicians caved to their demands for fear of losing their votes.
The pols perpetuated a ponzi scheme knowing full well that when the time came to make good on their promises they would be comfortably retired and absolved of responsibility. So they agreed to public union demands with absolutely no possible way of financing their promised pensions.
Look at California. Look at the number of towns that are just beginning to declare bankruptcy. The cause? Promised pensions. The result? No money to pick up trash or fill pot holes. Thank you Mr/Ms politician. Thank you public union employee. Your pacts were made in hell. May you reside there in torment.
“My brother says the maximum he can contribute to his traditional and Roth IRAs is $6,000 …”
Like you, your brother is a moron as well. He can contribute as much as he fucking wants. He only receives certain tax benefits on the first 6000.
He may be very old. Perhaps the most old of any. A Highlander perhaps?
“But it lacks grace.”
Perhaps you would rather they raise merely the middle finger?
I thought not.
“When the reporter asked Romney how many houses he had, Romney could not remember.”
Cool. Son of a bitch is so successful he’s not even sure how many houses he owns. I wonder if Tony Rezko “financed” any of Mitt’s homes?
Charlie,
Q keeps attuned to M$M out of the corner of his eye,
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Not really Oz, my TV is tuned to CNBC from morning till night. I don’t think CNBC is considered MSM is it?
But anyway, about your following quote from banking expert/analyst Bove
“Disgusting,” writes Richard Bove to a client, as quoted by the Philly Inquirer.
“If the rate is false, all of the charges associated with Libor-based loans are wrong … tens of thousands of businesses are paying the wrong rate on their loans … all of the bank stock [prices] are wrong.”
I happened to have one eye and one ear on CNBC as Bove was discussing the LIBOR scandle with (I think) Larry Kudlow. The take-away was that if our own Fed’l Reserve had a hand in manipulating LIBOR it was for the purpose of making rates lower, not higher, worldwide, and thus all of the millions of people and contracts affected by the LIBOR rate were affected positively – ie they would pay less, not more. Bove said (and I paraphrase) the Fed had set out a couple of years ago to lower the US Fed Funds rate to a range of 0 to .25%…what good would that do if they left the far more important LIBOR rate at a higher and rising level? (rhetorical question)
So*, the point is that the MSM would have you believe that people have been taking a royal screwing by paying HIGHER rates when in fact they have been enjoying unnaturally LOWER rates. The people being screwed by these manipulated LIBOR rates are all those people in the world that had/have no contracts based on LIBOR. Someone smarter than me would have to explain why this is so.
* “So” at the beginning of this sentence is appropriate. It takes the place of the worn out cliche “All that having been said.”
If Romney wins…
Mighty big “if” there, partner.
Right now the number of electoral votes stands at:
191 Romney
274 Obama
Romney has a far ways to go. So far even billions of dollars of propaganda may not work for him.
By the way, you need 270 votes to become president.
Right now Romney has to expend energy just to get the support of Republicans. Many Republican movers and shakers are just not enthusiastic about Romney. I’m talking about people like: Rick Tyler, John Weaver, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, Rick Perry, William Kristol, Rick Santorum, etc.
“Right now the number of electoral votes stands at:
191 Romney
274 Obama
By the way, you need 270 votes to become president.”
Well, by your accounting its all over. Case closed. Now you can go elsewhere and spread your intelligence on other topics, to other morons.
I don’t think CNBC is considered MSM is it?
Q., you so far down the rabbit hole, you don’t know up from down.
I remember when you were posting as OEO, and swearing that McCain was going to be president. Case closed.
“Right now Romney has to expend energy just to get the support of Republicans. ”
Riiight. And those non-supportive Republicans are going to run right out and vote for Obama. Yep, here’s the headline:
“Republicans Abandon Romney. Obama Wins in Landslide.”
“I remember when you were posting as OEO, and swearing that McCain was going to be president. Case closed.”
Really? You have a funny memory. But in seeing what you post in the present that does not surprise me.
Vlad,
Boy, you sure have some “interesting” views.
I did a search on your comments and found that most of these come from extreme right wing sites.
Surprise! As if I didn’t see that one coming.
Also, I work in PRIVATE higher ed. I do agree that our education system doesn’t do that good a job. However, a large part of the problem is the attitude of the student as a customer. Teachers are required to keep students happy. Some simply fool the students into thinking that they are learning. Unfortunately most students come to school to get credentialed, not educated. The cram before tests and promptly forget. Teachers who expect students to remember much from previous courses are wiped out by “Student Evaluations of Teaching”, a risk losing their jobs.
My school, a very selective private college is spending huge amounts on making the campus look pretty to attract students with parents who can pay the full tuition.
As to your racial comments I am not going to even start. Those seem to come from right wing conspiracy sites.
Also, foreign aid is a tiny part of the US budget. The biggest part is the bloated military budget. We are still spending billions on new carriers, which can only be used against undeveloped countries. For richer countries, including Iran these carriers should be called by their proper name, SITTING DUCKS for cheap cruise missles.
How did Romney legally accumulate a $22 million IRA?
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Easy! He put in the max for a number of years and then he took that small pile ($25K – $50K) and went into cattle futures with the help of Hillary’s broker. Before you know it…$22 million.
Q., you so far down the rabbit hole
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Please cease and desist with the affected Ebonics.
I suppose we’ll find out when Romney releases his tax returns. He released 23 years of tax returns to McCain when he wanted to be vice-president.
McCain looked at them and decided to go with Palin.
23 years of returns for VP, 2 years for President. Hmmm…
LOL!
I cain’t hep it, Q. It just come natural.
When the reporter asked Romney how many houses he had, Romney could not remember.
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Are you sure that was Romney? I thought that was McCain, or possibly Kerry. Both married into wealth.
What must it be like with their cars? They drive over to Home Depot and come out an hour later trying to remember which the hell car they came in…was it the Jag, the Escalade, the Mercedes SUV, the…??
The 0.1% have their problems too.
Republicans Abandon Romney. Obama Wins in Landslide.
Depends on who eventually is picked as the Republican presidential candidate, on whether the convention becomes a brokered convention. Romney does not have a lock on it yet.
‘My school, a very selective private college is spending huge amounts on making the campus look pretty to attract students with parents who can pay the full tuition.’
What is the name of this school?
Part of the problem with post secondary is the
‘government loans-FOR PROFIT schools’ Loop.
Foreign aid, while 1% of the budget = billions or trillions over the decades. The money sent to Israel alone is billions, or adjusted for inflation, possibly TRILLIONS.
I agree with Jan Brewer and Vlad about ‘ending liberal arts ed in public colleges’.
A supporter in Tampa thanked Romney for creating jobs by quadrupling the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion. But did those jobs last? What happened to those jobs when the remodel was finished?
Romney and his wife Ann also own homes in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts. They sold two other homes in Belmont, Massachusetts and near Park City, Utah for about $8.75 million.
So you have to give him credit. He is trying desperately to reduce the number of houses he has, the better to justify his claim that he is part of the middle class.
I have felt some compassion for Romney since he informed me that he is also “unemployed.” He really needs that job as president.
‘My school, a very selective private college is spending huge amounts on making the campus look pretty to attract students with parents who can pay the full tuition.’
Or perhaps beeter worded as:
My school, a very selective private college is spending huge amounts on making the campus look pretty to attract parents[read Fools] who can pay the full tuition for the rich kids.
‘The’, Careful, with Kyoosthik here, you cant get away with unproofed entries.
anti,
I looked up numbers and it looks like foreign aid is about $25 billion a year now, so in a decade that would be $1/4 trillion. In 2001 it was only $15 billion per year. It looks like about $5 billion a year is to Israel, and aid to Africa is only $2-3 billion per year. Also, about $1 billion each year is about the wonderful war on drugs which is working so well, just ask the 30,000+ dead Mexicans.
Yes, the bad for profit schools are a disaster, there are a few good ones, but most are just there to rip off students and tax payers.
I am also not thrilled about “liberal arts” majors. I am in chemistry and teach a course for these students, and it is badly watered down. The sciences are a minority of the faculty, so we can’t require serious levels of courses to insure that students actually learn about science and technology. It is amazing how many of the faculty in the Lib Arts are proud that they are ignorant of science and math.
Unfortunately even those in the sciences have such narrow educations that outside of their research areas they are also illiterate.
In the 1990’s Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital set up call centers, promising to create hundreds of local jobs. Romney convinced the states to support these efforts to “create jobs.”
Then Bain (with Romney as “sole owner CEO”) closed the call centers just two and half years later due to off-shore outsourcing, laying off hundreds of middle-class workers, leaving the states with the debt, and taking taxpayers for millions in the process.
A friend of mine went through the whole process of being excited about having a job, and then having Romney outsource his job, leaving taxpayers in the lurch with the state losing millions of dollars.
Is Romney patriotic? Or does he just go for whatever leads to personal profit?
‘evasion and black markets’
Please refrain from using racist terms here, Mr. A.
I hear 60,000 dead in Mexico. Not sure if thats over 5 or 10 or 15 years.
What state are you in? What do students pay a year? Tuition, room, etc.
Our local JC is Santa Monica College, #1 transfer to USC etc.
2 year schools are SUPPOSE to be ‘blue collar’ but a female [now a Felon?] president changed that!
It was McCain. He had 8 houses and said ‘7’, if I recall correctly.
Angry White Dude:
The truth is illegal immigration is very costly to the state
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mainstream media. They love sanctuary cities and CA is basically a sanctuary
state. States with liberal sanctuary policies like CA actually attract and
encourage illegal immigrants while states with policies like Arizona and
Alabama repel them.
CA has about one third (33%) the nation’s
welfare recipients’ with less than one eighth the nations’ citizens. Census
data has proven that a majority of illegal immigrants are on welfare. Many through
their anchor baby dependents. Deportation of them all (and it can be done and
was at the conclusion of World War II) would resolve CA’s fiscal nightmare in
two years or less. But with GOV
Moonbeam, the progressives in sacrament and the unions having a stranglehold on
the tax-payers this will never happen………….
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When the reporter asked Romney how many houses he had, Romney could not remember.
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This must be a standard question used to trip up politicians. See below.
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-home-front/2008/08/29/how-many-homes-does-john-mccain-own
The only relevant question in my mind is not about their possessions but whether they came by their wealth legally.
Anti,
I am in PA, here tuition and fees are are over $42,000, with R & B >$52,000.
The local CC is about $5,000 for a full time student.
State schools are about $6,000 to $12,000 for tuition and fees for instate students. This is bound to go up since our great new Republic (accent on the last syllable) governor and legislature.
No tax for gas drillers though!
Republic is my response to the “Democrat” used by the Republics.
Tell me more about about the felon running the JC?
Having just paid tuition for San Jose State University’s fall semester, I can tell you it cost $3970.00. Students cannot take more that 15 units.
SJSU just got a new president, a guy who came from Cal State East Bay (much smaller than SJSU). Interestingly, he is from Afghanistan. I think he got his PhD in electrical engineering in the U.S.
SJSU mom
Or perhaps beeter worded as:
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YOUR wording would be even beeter if you inserted a comma after the word college.
But that’s OK, we all got your drift.
beeter definition?:
noun
one who is heavily involved with beets
Having just paid tuition for San Jose State University’s fall semester, I can tell you it cost $3970.00. Students cannot take more that 15 units.
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Wow. When I started my freshman year at St Joe’s in Philly in Sept 1958 a semester cost $330 and I took 21 credits.
shut up, you hoist me by my own petard.
I was wrong..
According to Des Manttari:
Both Arterberry and Vela seem to be admirable candidates based on their extensive experience. However, I question how Riverside CCD could even consider Robertson for this new position given her previous less than stellar credentials and the fact that the District had an entire nation of candidates to choose from. Robertson received votes of no confidence from both her former positions as Secretary of Education in Massachusetts and as president of Santa Monica Community College District. While in Massachusetts, Robertson’s charter schools were met with lawsuits, investigations, and failed results. After she left her position, it was dissolved.
While at Santa Monica College, Robertson was the subject of a federal lawsuit involving alleged extortion, racketeering, bribery, conversion of student funds, and undue influence. Robertson also met massive criticism from both the SMC faculty association and the classified staff, which led to more litigation involving unfair labor practices. Thanks to Robertson’s mismanagement of the college, it now faces serious enrollment and fiscal recovery problems. The Malibu Times has run an online article (May 10, 2006) in which they have uncovered an email sent to all SMC employees from current SMC President Chui L. Tsang, which states in part the following:
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But did one need 128 Credits to Graduate, or 170+?
Even if my age is turning me into a nervous Nellie, I can’t be the only one of Kunstler’s readers who sees the situation in Syria as more than just Syria’s version of the insurrections that earlier roiled Libya and Egypt. Those nations are peripheral. Syria is not.
If one thinks of the Middle East as a cell, a cell in the physiological sense, Syria is the cell’s nucleus. And like a cell nucleus, it has powerful effects on all that surrounds it. Consider its surrounds, going clockwise: Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordon; and last but not least, Israel.
To continue the metaphor in terms of virology, a diseased nucleus is the beginning of a diseased cell. This is Syria. Right now.
Anyone who’s bothered to read what I’ve written can check the details for themselves: who’s just been killed in Damascus, and by whom.
Big banks have been caught in a massive scam to rig global interest rates, ripping off millions of people on their mortgages, student loans and more! We’d go to jail for this, but Barclays bank has only been fined, and just a fraction of their profits! Outrage is mounting — this is our chance to finally turn the tide of the banks’ reign over our democracies.
The EU finance regulator, Michel Barnier is standing up to the powerful bank lobby and championing reform that would put bankers behind bars for fraud like this. If the EU goes first, accountability could quickly spread across the globe. But the banks are lobbying hard against it, and we need a massive surge of people power to drive these reforms through.
If we can get 1 million people to stand with Barnier in the next 3 days, it will give him momentum to face down the banking lobby and push governments to bring reform. Click below to sign, and our growing numbers will be represented by adding mock bankers to a jail right in front of the EU Parliament:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bankers_behind_bars_f/?bpNorab&v=15946
This must be a standard question used to trip up politicians.
Yeah, like the trick question: “What do you read?”
Evil journalists.
The only relevant question in my mind is not about their possessions but whether they came by their wealth legally.
And then you’ll weasel over what is “legal” …
Romney bankrupted companies, outsourced jobs, left thousands of Americans unemployed and dependent on unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc. and he did it all “legally” … and immorally.
Jam,
Here’s another angle of speculation on the Syrian “troubles”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31917.htm
(Give it a look; it’s very compact.)
In the end, I don’t believe anyone pulling the strings of this deadly marionette show really want us to know what the real motives and end-game are.
News reports (from the evil journalists) say Romney may personally prefer to drop out before releasing more returns.
If Romney drops out, the Republican convention is wide open, but whoever wants the nomination will have to overcome strong support for Ron Paul.
jam47, do you really believe Egypt is “peripheral”?
Egypt has a significant Christian minority and the laws in Egypt guarantee that Christians should be ruled by laws pertaining to Christians and not by sharia law. Only Muslims are governed by sharia law.
Egypt is a country of civil law, not an Islamic state. Having a president from the Muslim Brotherhood will not change that situation.
Egypt has been one of the largest recipients of USA foreign aid, along with Israel and (in the 80s Iran-Contra period) Costa Rica.
I personally would not consider Egypt peripheral.
Do midgets use less energy and fossil fuels than people of ordinary size?
Thanks.
I recall that during the early stages of the Tora Bora campaign during the initial invasion of Afghanistan that the U.S. Special Forces appeared to be using specially-trained midgets to fight the Taliban in the caves of Tora Bora.
Q.,
Thanks for the further clarification.
It leads me to look into the prime motivations and movers.
I’m wondering if you approve of these kind of manipulations/shenanigans? All depends on whose ox is getting gored, doesn’t it?
Is “the fix” already “in”? Keep an eye on Holder; he’s done a magnificent job subverting justice so far; let’s see him dance this one right out of the ballroom…
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31919.htm
BTW, CNBC would be the very definition of a mainstream media outfit, though what that might have to do with this particular subject escapes me.
(And please don’t be too hard on Charlie; he makes all his posts on a PHONE fer cry-eye! Consider the device.)
Why yes, Dr. P! (Although some can eat prodigious amounts of vittles when challenged.)
Plus, all my midget friends drive those Shriners parade mini-cars, and boy-lemme-tell-ya-what, those puppies get some SICK mpg’s!
(No, the wearing of the fez is not required to legally operate one; it’s simply a dashing accoutrement.)
“So” at the beginning of this sentence is appropriate. It takes the place of the worn out cliche “All that having been said.”
So is unnecessary. Have you abandoned Strunk & White?
I’m sensing that the CIA, U.S. and UK government, along with Israel have their fingerprints all over the attack in Syria. It just seems to fit the pattern of meddling in other countries affairs.
On a related note, wasn’t it interesting to hear Netanyahu claim that the bombing of a tourist bus in Damascus, killing 6 Israelis, was the work of an Iranian Muslim terrorist. Warmongering? Nah!
Nightmare…
You should have dropped them off at the beach and come by for a crisp, cold glass of German Riesling.
Iona
The only relevant question in my mind is not about their possessions but whether they came by their wealth legally.
How can we determine whether anything illegal was done when we don’t have access to the appropriate documentation?
For example, Mitt Romney may be hiding something since Romney has not released his full tax records from 2010, including key documentation connected to his Swiss bank accounts. We’ll probably never know what was hidden in the Cayman Islands, but we do know why drug dealers hide illegally gotten monies there. Ditto Bermuda.
We also know Romney filed documents with the SEC stating he was CEO of Bain Capital at the same time he was running for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Now he claims he did a “retroactive resignation” from Bain, back to 1999. Are “retroactive resignations” legal? (are they real or are they CYA?
In any event, Romney has demonstrated that he is incompetent, secretive, unpatriotic, and unable to vet himself before running for office.
Anybody who really intends to get the nomination would have done a better job managing to get his ducks in a row before running. If Romney can’t manage his own presidential run, can he manage to run the country?
But do you remember the “bleachers” in Fenway? Or the big “Jimmy Fund” sign? The Green Monster before they added seats?
Who was the only man to play for the Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox?
Did anyone ever hit one out over the right field wall into the street?
Shlitz bear….
…beer….
It is hard to tell what Romney doesn’t want us to see in his income tax records. I have heard several theories:
1. He doesn’t want the Mormon Church find out that he shorted them on his tithes.
2. He doesn’t want us to know how much money he has hidden in tax shelters.
3. He possibly committed some crimes by not properly reporting his income.
4. He doesn’t want us poor shlubs to know how little tax he paid in some of those years because of all the legal ways he used to avoid taxes.
5. He doesn’t want people to see the addresses he listed, because none of them might be his son’s unfinished basement that he listed on his voter registration so he could vote against Ted Kennedy, which would be felony voter fraud.
Add your own theories here….
If someone eventually gets his forms then we will know the truth. Until then, it is anyone’s guess.
Muddmike, regarding illegal behavior, we know Romney was hiding money illegally. Romney was gaming the USA tax code, and Swiss bank accounts are only useful when used illegally.
Romney was using Swiss accounts for the same reason other global elites use them: for their extreme levels of secrecy. That secrecy has allowed thousands of American taxpayers to stash income from offshore companies in a Swiss account, shielding it from the IRS.
Do we want someone who will engage in illegal acts to avoid supporting the government of the USA to be running the government of the USA? Romney is about as unpatriotic as they come.
It is interesting how the rich and powerful think that changing names will make us forget. Blackwater became Xe, which then became Academi. Now they are being sued by a sporting goods company Academy. HaHA
What has this got to do with anything?
Well Bain calls themselves a “private equity” company to avoid using the toxic term leveraged buyout company which is what they really are!
Here is how it works. They find a company that is doing “poorly”, i.e. paying their workers a fair wage for a fair days work, and putting enough money in the pension fund to make sure the workers will have a decent retirement.
Bain puts in a few dollars and buys the company with mostly borrowed money. Then they assign the loans to the company, and take all but the minimum out of the pension fund. Then they fire most of the workforce and cut the pay for the rest. If possible they send jobs overseas. Then they sell the now “profitable” company for a huge profit. They take their profit, and their fees and laugh all the way the the bank (in the Caymans of Switzerland).
Even though Romney is no longer involved, Bain and another PE company bought up Clear Channel, and are stripping it. (Actually that is a good thing for this country.) The latest move was to borrow $2 billion to pay a dividend of $6 per share.
These guys really have class.
Here’s another theory:
Romney did file the FBAR (Report on Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts) with his 2010 tax return.
The IRS would be more likely to audit his returns of previous years if he did not file the FBAR in 2011, not to mention the penalty for not filing an FBAR can be severe. More illegal behavior?
People started using the quotation-marks gesture because they thought it made them au courant. Being au-courant is the same thing as running with the herd. What’s so great about that?
Raised their middle finger to the person to whom they were talking? Why would that matter to me?
CORRECTION
Here’s another theory:
Romney did NOT file the FBAR (Report on Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts) with his 2010 tax return, AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
The only relevant question in my mind is not about their possessions but whether they came by their wealth legally.
They rarely get caught for illegally acquiring their illegal wealth. They often get caught for hiding it or not declaring it as income.
Ask Al Capone.
Asoka,
Well, we had Nixon, Raygun, Bush I and Bush II. There is ample evidence to prove that their people committed at least three acts of treason.
Nixon’s people went to the South Vietnamese before the 68 election to wait to skip the peace talks and wait for Nixon to get in and give them a better deal. LBJ talked to Dirkson about it, but wouldn’t tell us because he felt it would shock us.
Raygun and Bush I had the Iran Contra affair, and Bubba let them off the hook.
Bush II had the Plame outing, but Obama let it slide because he wanted to move forward, even though he should have known the the Rethugs met on inauguration day to plan to trash the country by stopping all actions and blame him for it.
The worst part is that Murikans are so ignorant and have been softened up by 40+ years of the 0.01%er funded propaganda agencies. They call them “think tanks”. This is where Vlad gets his info, and also probably his salary.
Paul Craig Roberts was one of their lackeys (Heritage Foundation) before he actually started thinking.
With all that and the Roberts court we have a real uphill battle to fight.
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There is protection in running with the herd. That is why people run with the herd. That and it is easy to find companionship when you are not out running all by yourself. Please do not misunderstand. I am not advocating running with the herd, but I understand why people do.
Egypt is peripheral in the present situation because it is not the country that’s about to shatter, and whose shattering will affect its affect its neighbours. That country is Syria. My argument is an argument of location.
Yes, usually. Once i read an article called:
TALLNESS A GROWING PROBLEM.
Taller [and people are getting taller and fatter]
means, more food, bigger cars, bigger airline seats
[and more fuel].
Think about Dogs, how much more food a 100 pounder eats compared to a 50 pounder.
I agree with you, Asoka, and had your point in mind while I was writing. Running with the herd has survival value. But if the quotation-mark gesture becomes necessary for survival, we’re finished.
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jam47, Obama is taking exactly the right position on Syria, which is not to act like a cowboy George W. Bush; not to bomb like Bush did (“shock and awe”); not to send American men and women into harm’s way like Bush did (without body armor); not to spend TRILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars like Bush did.
From today’s news it looks like the Syrian government is falling (bad news for Iran) and Obama was right not to send in USA air or land forces.
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mistified has stated he supports the Paul Ryan plan for massive tax cuts at the national level.
Now fiscal conservatives in Kansas are implementing the “Ryan plan” in Kansas. Backers of recent state tax cuts argue the spending cuts will create jobs and boost the economy to partially offset lost revenue — and the result has been a Republican civil war. Who woulda thunk it?
They want to cut everything in Kansas: schools, roads and basic services for the poor, as well as cuts in prison funding that will lead to the release of convicted felons. Way to go Paul Ryan!
Thanks to Ryan and the Koch brothers (who are based in Kansas) there is a chance that Kansas voters will vote for a Democratic president for the first time in 60 years. People have had just about enough of failed “trickle down” “supply side” “free market” Republican economics.
Of course, Obama doesn’t need Kansas. He already has over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
You label something and think that is the same as understanding it – and refuting it. Calling my views “Right Wing” is not only wrong but ridiculous. You haven’t refuted me even if I was “right wing”. As a Fascist, I am neither left nor right but both and neither.
The Native Americans say that Man was given the gift of speech but He misuses it. We say the word “rose” and then we don’t see the rose anymore. You need to both stop thinking as much and at the same time, begin to think again. Right now you’re just sloshing around words you don’t even understand. Like “Racist”.
The Far Right has been right about mostly everything. The current right, the so called Neo Cons – are Jews who jumped from Trotskyism to Republicanism to advance their agenda. They have attracted many Gentile fellow travelers attracted by the idea of the Red, White, and Blue conquering the world for Capitalism.
Blacks are idiot as everyone in higher education knows. Average Negro IQ – 70. Average Afro American IQ (with 15% White blood) – 85. If you don’t know this you’re a clown or lying.
Average Negro IQ – 70. Average Afro American IQ (with 15% White blood) – 85.
Vlad, what is your source for these numbers?
How is percentage of white blood measured?
By “Negro” do you mean Black African?
And Clinton didn’t sell our secrets to Chian for campaing contributions?
And Hillary wasn’t both a friend and disciple to Saul Alinsky? And she’s not committed to incremental Communist Revolution – as is Obama?
Joe MaCarthy was right – he merely underestimated the extent of communist infiltration. He thought it was all coming from Russia ultimately. Wrong. It was coming from here via Warburg and Kuhn & Loeb, Rockerfella, etc.
Incredible – you are still clinging to the duality of Democrat/Republican, in your case choosing the despicable Democrats.
I’m going to take E’s advice on this: do your own leg work. These are well known statistics accepted by all psychometricians except the Jewish Fraudsters like Jared Diamond, Steven Jay Gould etc.
A Negro is a Black without any admixture of anything else. Just pure savagery and stupidity.
The 15% White genes (blood) is an estimated average for the Afro-American population. Obviously individuals vary tremendously. Not my estimate btw, but the Bell Curve’s, Rushton, etc. There I answered your first question after all.
Asoka, it looks like you’ve got yourself a bosom ally here, MuddMike, evidently an esteemed educator at an unnamed private school. Maybe he works at one of the expensive Private Academies ’round here, where the 1% send their kids in order to facilitate guaranteed entry into the Ivy League. You and MuddMike seem to have it all figured out and agree on everything. Congratulations! Where I went to graduate school, Wesleyan University (on a program for local vets, for which I am grateful) there were a lot of these private school kids, unfortunately most of them with their heads up their asses. This left them vulnerable and easily sucked in to all sorts of crazy left wing causes and eastern religious bullshit. Speaking of that, I’m looking for an east coast Swami to instruct me on how to properly breath. Must have a long beard and big white headwrap. I don’t give a sh-t if he talks a lot of mumbo-jumbo so long as he doesn’t ask for my four digit pin.
I thought Jill Stein, and her female running mate, was your candidate? Once again, why all the shilling for Obama?
–WSP7
have to agree with that, whole-heartedly…
don t say beer; say ‘Bull’…
Seems like everything ‘Murka does these days is the extension of a trick, a scam, a subterfuge for the purpose of splintering other nations and rule by proxy. These are the tactics of evil psychopathy, and this is why so many denizens of this nation have lost faith in its’ institutions and question the very basis of our opulent lifestyle.
There is a reason people are drawn to Kunstler’s blog, and conversely, a reason why his pronouncements are so roundly and loudly denied. His views happen to be dangerous to the dominant paradigm; those who deride them are [quite obviously] the most heavily invested in the staus quo. That’s why there’s so much distractionary bullshit in this comment section. (On other blogs I read, at least the comments stay somewhat on topic! I find this one a fascinating study in diversion, subversion, propagandized distaste and denial.)
*So*, on to Paul Craig Roberts, Deprogrammed True-Believer, who has his own opinions now, instead of those dictated by various 3-letter agencies (and whom you’ve mentioned):
“It looks as if an over-confident US government is determined to have a three-front war: Syria, Lebanon, and Iran in the Middle East, China in the Far East, and Russia in Europe. This would appear to be an ambitious agenda for a government whose military was unable to occupy Iraq after nine years or to defeat the lightly-armed Taliban after eleven years, and whose economy and those of its NATO puppets are in trouble and decline with corresponding rising internal unrest and loss of confidence in political leadership.” -PCR
(While I might opine that splintering, subversion and replacement is the current M.O., one could certainly call it “war” by other means.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31910.htm
That lingering bitter taste that some of us have in our mouths? It’s the taste of complicity (willing or unwilling) in evil, murder and control by overt threat of violence.
I’m looking for an east coast Swami to instruct me on how to properly breath. Must have a long beard and big white headwrap. I don’t give a sh-t if he talks a lot of mumbo-jumbo
WSP7, thank you for confiding your spiritual search. As it happens I do have a Swami I can recommend for you: Swami Beyondananda. He travels all over the country. If he ever goes to your area of Massachusetts, here are the top 10 reasons you should make the effort to go hear him:
# 10. The world is in serious condition because of our conditioning to be serious. Seriously. Laughter improves the atmosphere and could lead to political climate change.
# 9. The average child laughs 150 times a day, the average adult only 15. Do the math. Do the aftermath.
# 8. Did you know that one in four Americans suffer from humorrhoids and don’t even know it? Don’t fall victim to this silent joy-killer. Just one Youngman of laughter – the humor contained in one of Swami’s wacky one-liners – can relieve up to a mega-hurt of emotional distress. The laugh you save may be your own …
# 7. The Swami has plenty of new material, thanks to spending the past twelve months in the material world. In addition to “laughed overs” from his recent shows and snippets from the State of the Universe Address, Swami’s got a brand new song. Two of ’em, actually.
# 6. Did you know the quality of life in your community is directly related to the “laugh force” that is generated? A rocking house filled with raucous laughter can create a farce field powerful enough to cause people to smile for no reason up to a mile away! Do you think this kind of power can help us heal the hole in the Bozone layer? You betcha.
# 5. Swami promises to answer or evade all of your questions. In other words, if you have an answerable question the Swami will have a questionable answer. Something puzzling you? Ask the Swami, and have it puzzle him too.
# 4. Are you a Bullwinkle fan? A Dylan fan? An Elvis fan? All of the above? You’ll get to see and hear Swami channel them ALL AT ONCE.
# 3. Do you believe in the hereafter? Well, Swami will be here after the show signing books. You can’t lose. If he becomes really, really famous you will have a famous autograph. Otherwise you will have a rare book.
# 2. Concerned about the economy? Here’s great news. Swami pledges that all the money taken in during this show … will be spent in the economy!
#1. And the Number One reason to come to one of Swami’s performances? Unconditional love. Who doesn’t want or need unconditional love? So here is Swami’s unconditional guarantee: G to his show, and he will love you unconditionally!
(BTW, that last was off-topic as well, but I thought your post deserved a non-shill response. My apologies to everyone else trying to work out the current world banking chicanery that’s so basic to issues of confidence and trust.)
QUESTION: “Do you regret that you had a gun that night?”
ANSWER: “No, sir,” George Zimmerman, 28, replied. “I feel that it was all God’s plan and not for me to second-guess it or judge it.”
BTW, that last was off-topic …
But it was an enjoyable read. Thank you.
By the way, where is it written that everything in the comments section has to be “on-topic”? How is “on-topic” defined? Is it related to the current week’s post? And when no one engages an “on-topic” post, doesn’t that encourage “off-topic” posts? Or is it something related to the subject matter of the blog? What is the subject matter of Clusterfuck Nation? Or, a better question would be, what is not related to Clusterfuck Nation? NASCAR, tattoos, cheese doodles, and every other thing that pops into the heads of anyone living in Clusterfuck Nation seems to be relevant to our particular American-brand clusterfuck, including “off-topic” comments. Again, where is the CFN posting rulebook to be found? It’s anarchy here. And no one is forcing anyone else to log on. No one is forcing anyone to read the comments. If you don’t like what you find here, you are free to go away. Or you are free to bitch about “off-topic” comments. Either way you are contributing to the very clusterfuck you bemoan.
61% of the country in drought.
70% of the corn crop destroyed.
70% of the soybean crop destroyed.
Corn and soybean prices have hit record highs.
Unusual storms have disrupted electricity.
Ice twice the size of Manhattan breaking off Greenland.
Sea level rising.
Etc. etc., but Obama does not talk about GW.
Obama is guilty of prioritizing corporate interests (like Monsanto seed development) instead of taking steps to combat global warming.
OBAMA IS COMMITTING WAR CRIMES
Survivors of three Americans killed by targeted drone attacks in Yemen last year sued top-ranking members of the United States government, alleging Wednesday they illegally killed the three, including a 16-year-old boy, in violation of international human rights law and the U.S. Constitution.
“The government has killed three Americans. It should account for its actions. This case gives us an opportunity to do that,” Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director with the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a press call.
The suit is being litigated by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU. It seeks unspecified damages and highlights the government’s so-called unmanned “targeted killing” program. The ACLU and the Center maintain the drone attacks have killed thousands, including hundreds of innocent bystanders overseas.
Entertaining piece this week from JHK. His ability to make the mundane colorful is world-class.
Meanwhile, more of us every day on planet Earth are getting our affairs in order for the energy descent future of choice in our particular locale. At my house we upgraded our solar capacity by a tiny bit, then downgraded it again almost immediately. Living without electricity is a lot more enjoyable than I ever imagined it might be! Does cool things to your brain…
For anyone who would like to catch up with what’s going on at our campstead in the north Georgia mountains, here’s my latest pictorial on offer:
http://smallbatchgarden.blogspot.com
Cisterns, mushrooms, permaculture gardening techniques, and a homemade survey level, served up piping hot for your dining pleasure.
Cheers, mates.
Tripp out.
Offshoring cost the U.S. 6 mill. manufacturing jobs in last decade. Urge your representatives to pass the Bring Jobs Home bill. This is not a partisan bill.
83% of USA voters negatively view companies that ship jobs 2 China.
97% of voters have a favorable view of Made in U.S.A. goods.
In the last 10 yrs, U.S. lost 50,000 manufacturing facilities.
Let’s reward patriotic companies. Urge your representatives to pass the Bring Jobs Home bill.
At my house we upgraded our solar capacity by a tiny bit, then downgraded it again almost immediately. Living without electricity is a lot more enjoyable than I ever imagined it might be! Does cool things to your brain…
Great news, Tripp!
Does this mean the solar-powered attic fan is history?
“…eastern religious bullshit. Speaking of that, I’m looking for an east coast Swami…
WSP7, I forgot to mention that “swami” is not bullshit. I want to demystify the word by defining it. Because in the west it has mystical bullshit connotations.
Swami is simply a Sanskrit word that has two meanings: “one who has mastered himself,” and “husband.”
No mystical eastern religious bullshit!
Anybody can be a swami. I certainly recommend the experience.
Romney wants to be president, but doesn’t want to release any tax returns.
Any Joe the Pipefitter has to release three years of tax returns just to get a mortgage to buy a house.
Vlad,
Fascism is about as right wing as it gets. Only the corpratocracy the 0.01% wants is farther right.
Look at the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty, which basically makes governments the servants of the corporations, requiring them to pay corporation to not pillage and pollute.
Also, speaking about labeling, anyone with any intelligence realizes that intelligence is far too complex to be evaluated with a single number. Pencil and paper IQ tests only measure the ability to answer those types of questions.
Theories of multiple intelligences are getting closer, but are too simplistic.
However, the use of a single number to describe a complex variable appeals to simpleminded people.
For example, evaluating the economy by the GDP
Let him have his Fantasy World, in which all the bad is from the Republicans.
Ive been listening to NPR this morning. At the same time both stations are defending Immigration, ethnic studies etcetcetc! On our dime!
KPFK has an immigrant talking about police shootings of blacks. That I dont deny. She doesnt mention who does over 50% of the killings in the USA.
And news of bombing of Israelis [in Bulgaria?].
Vlad,
“Blacks are idiot as everyone in higher education knows. ”
Great grammar genius!
Also, “everyone in higher education” is absolutely wrong. Maybe some do, but it is a minority.
“A friend of mine went through the whole process of being excited about having a job, and then having Romney outsource his job…”
Holy shit. If he is a friend of yours their is no doubt in my mind that his job should have been outsourced. Romney should get a medal for this.
[campaing]
Yes they are Chinese but they dont spell their names like that.
…And PERMIT-ED to boot! There’s some forward-looking health and zoning folks for you. Good deal; one less quadrant to get [unproductive] shit from. 16:1 on the urine ratio, eh? Will do.
Chinese center wheel barrows make so much more sense for human energy input, and I’m sure you’ve got competent mechanics around to cobble one. (Could even be a lucrative endeavor, for that matter.) Have them take a peek; a picture’s worth a thousand descriptions.
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html
Thanks so much for the update; keep on keepin’ on!
(Got my own idears on transit makings, but it does involve a small olden-time, focus adjustable telescope, so that might be the difficult piece to acquire. Also going to need nearly 900′ of well line to gravity feed from the see-ment pond; like you, wending through the woods; always something else to get to. )
Vlad,
“And Clinton didn’t sell our secrets to Chian for campaing contributions?
And Hillary wasn’t both a friend and disciple to Saul Alinsky? And she’s not committed to incremental Communist Revolution – as is Obama?
…
Incredible – you are still clinging to the duality of Democrat/Republican, in your case choosing the despicable Democrats.”
I only talked about actions for which there is ample evidence.
Mind reading is NOT evidence. Note, I did not make any mention of any 9/11 conspiracies, because the evidence is still in doubt. There may have been a conspiracy, but it is not well shown
I do understand that the Repukes and Dems are both owned by money and are pretty much the same.
Obama is only slightly better than Romney, but if Romney gets in his appointments to the SCOTUS will put the corporatists in control for a generation. If that happens anything that helps people will disappear, and the US government will be there to make the 0.01% even richer.
Widespread,
“MuddMike, evidently an esteemed educator at an unnamed private school. Maybe he works at one of the expensive Private Academies ’round here, where the 1% send their kids in order to facilitate guaranteed entry into the Ivy League.”
I am at a four year college, and I agree that many students don’t learn much. I have stated that before.
This school has some 1% kids but they are a minority.
If you want to know which school, you will have to work. It is a private four year school right across the river from NJ. That is great comfort to me. If I am having a bad day, I can look across the Delaware and realize that at least I’m not in NJ! ;>)
Another hint about my education, is that my screen name is related to my alma mater, a school where most of the students actually learn something.
“For example, Mitt Romney may be hiding something …”
And you “may” have a brain but you do not.
Let me give you a small clue. This election comes down to a sitting President with one of the shittiest records, on issues both domestic and foreign, in American history.
You, your stupid self, have said in the past that President Obama should be tried for “war crimes”. So, according to you, our vote comes down to pulling the lever for a war criminal, or for a guy that has a couple too many (for your tastes) houses. According to your high moral standards (not), how many times do you plan on pulling the lever for Romney? I mean you can’t go with the “war criminal”.
We will never create the future we want if we can not first envision it. It is easy to find examples of how bad things canbe but almost no examples of a future that really works. Here is a solution.
Please take a look at my recently published futuristic mystery “From Here to There: A Story of America’s Future” and join the conversation surrounding what we can do to make it through this time. http://www.fromhere-tothere.org
“Of course, Obama doesn’t need Kansas. He already has over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.”
Riiiight. So, that being the case the election is over. Which is why you hang out here furiously defending Obama and trying to manufacture some sort of evil that Romney has been involved with? Sounds like rational behavior to me ; >)
Swami…. “one who has mastered himself,”
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This immediately brought to mind the hilarious writings of Frank McCort (Angela’s Ashes)..
paraphrasing: “Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my last confession. I hit my brother twice and I interfered with myself 17 times.”
On our dime!
Two percent of NPR’s revenue comes through competitive grants from federal agencies.
Two percent is not enough to make a dime, anti soak.
I want NPR funding to be increased to 50%
“They want to cut everything in Kansas: schools, roads and basic services for the poor…”
Because they are adults. They looked at their bankbook. There is nothing in their account. They have to cut or they risk an even bleaker future. You, however, who are a grifting drain on society, have no possible way of perceiving this reality. Whatever.
Jill Stein 2012
http://jillstein.org
Which is why you hang out here…
I hang out here attacking both war criminal Barack Obama and Willard Romney because a vote for either of them is a wasted vote.
Vote for the Green Party.
Right now Obama has 274 electoral votes, but by drawing a sufficient number of voters away from both the Democratic and Republican parties, toward the Green Party, Jill Stein will become President. The candidate who receives the most electoral votes wins.
“I want NPR funding to be increased to 50%.”
Of course you do. The country is going down the shitter and your priority is to increase funding NPR. And that would be because people have nowhere else go get news?
My, my, you are pulling bottles out of the mouths of babies to fund NPR. What a monster!
“We’ve given you people all you need to know…”
–Mrs. Romney to an African American reporter
Got that, “you people”?
Vlad,
I forget to mention another case which is proven. W allowed the sale of the only company in the US that made powerful magnets that are used in the control motors of missiles. This company was sold to the Chinese and they took all of the equipment to China.
Thus if there is ever a war against China, American military people will be killed by these magnets.
W is a real patriot!
The important thing is that some billionaire made more money!
” …Jill Stein will become President.”
Holy fuck, those must be some really good mushrooms you’ve been munching. Talk about a break from reality. You are a hoot.
“”We’ve given you people all you need to know…”
–Mrs. Romney to an African American reporter
Got that, “you people”?
Nice try, asshole. Putting words in peoples mouths. Read below:
“CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to reflect that Ann Romney said “we’ve given all you people need to know” about her family finances.”
Source here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/ann-romney_n_1685735.html
And how fucking typical, soak. You and the likes of the Huffington Post, sit around and just wait for a candidate to utter something they think they can pounce on. Then you get it wrong, are too shameless, or stupid, or both, to apologize and go out and do it all over again. Take a little break. You are foaming. You risk being picked up for fear of spreading rabies.
New Kingdom Hearts compilation scans
236w ago – Three new scans of the Kingdom Hearts trio from this week’s Famitsu issue have surfaced. These scans confirm all the rumors that were flying around the past few weeks:
· KH 358/2 Days
Screenshots from Wonderland http://www.carter4i-sdhc.com, Agrabah, Olympus Coliseum and Twilight Town. All these locations are now confirmed.
· KH Birth by Sleep
Screenshots of Ven, Cinderella and Maleficent. Terra’s command gauge will have a Fatal Mode which he can use to eliminate enemies with powerful moves. The multiplayer concept is gone. According to the scans Terra is a powerful warrior, and Ven has excellent agility.
» View KH: 358/2 Days scan HERE
» View KH: Birth by Sleep scan HERE
» View KH: Coded scan HERE
Yes, I would gladly pull bottles out of the mouths of mommy military’s baby soldiers to fund NPR.
One in eight troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008 were referred for counseling for alcohol problems.
The Army’s substance abuse budget increased under Bush:
2004 = $38 million
2008 = $51 million
2010 NPR federal grants = $4 million
“Jobless claims surge…
REPORT: Foreclosure crisis hits older blacks, Hispanics hardest…
Factory activity contracts…
Home sales drop 5.4%, fewest since October…
Grocery bills on rise as corn prices near record highs…”
FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
Romney bankrupted companies, outsourced jobs, left thousands of Americans unemployed and dependent on unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc. and he did it all “legally” … and immorally.
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…and you would have no problem with these sins if he owned only one home? (BTW, this is NOT an instance of UpTalk)
One of the amazing things about you Asoka is the amount of time and energy you devote to your various causes, the upcoming election in particular, from your adobe hut in South America (wink wink).
I, on the other hand, am free from concern about it. I have already told you that Obama will be reelected but you are so fearful of the White Republican you can’t stop working the net 24/7 on Obama’s behalf…the Jill Klein thing is a dodge.
Sometimes I can see one tiny snippet about a person and everything comes clear to me like a brilliant epiphany. I knew John Edwards was unworthy and doomed the moment I saw the film clip of him combing and primping his hair.
Romney is, likewise, doomed because, as Maureen Dowd pointed out, he is perceived as “the rich guy who wears pressed jeans.”
“Yes, I would gladly pull bottles out of the mouths of mommy military’s baby soldiers to fund NPR.”
Wow! Got your hate-on for members of the military. I’m not exactly surprised.
Nice try, mistified. She said “you people” as you just confirmed, as Huffington Post confirmed, as I confirmed.
Listen to it from her own mouth at the :32 second mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFX7jqUW1-8
“We’ve given all you people need to know…”
“Romney is, likewise, doomed because, as Maureen Dowd pointed out, he is perceived as “the rich guy who wears pressed jeans.””
And of course Maureen, who is rich, suggests we should run from Romney because he is like her? And that isn’t registered as being odd?
But the guy who is bankrupting out entire nation, that guy, deserves our vote. Because he would be the cooler one to have a beer with?
Yeah, I don’t want drunken soldiers in the military.
Soldiers are using sophisticated weapons which are better not be handled by drunks. Too much drinking going on in the military.
“But the guy who is bankrupting out entire nation…”
That would be George W. Bush.
Bush received a budget surplus and left a budget deficit.
Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non-defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was not a driving factor in creating the deficits. In fact, such spending, accounting for only 15 percent of the budget, has been basically flat as a share of the economy for decades. Cutting it simply will not fill the deficit hole.
SOURCE: How the Deficit Got This Big
Nice try, mistified. She said “you people” ….. Listen to it from her own mouth
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How shameless of you Asoka! It is perfectly obvious that “you people” meant “you [media] people” not “you [black] people.”
“Nice try, mistified. She said “you people”
She was addressing journalists. That was the “you people” she was referring to. Yet you want to ascribe it some sort of racist comment against African Americans. Be my guest.
“Wow! Got your hate-on for members of the military.”
Gee. If only we gave a fuck what assoka thought. The person who wants to put limits on everything except illegal immigration. And with that thought in mind, why aren’t limits placed on how much a single person can acquire? Remember the movie “Wall Street”? “How many yachts can you water ski behind?”
“But the guy who is bankrupting out entire nation…”
“That would be George W. Bush.”
Oh no. You’re not going to trumpet the, “It’s George Bush’s fault”, logic of our current President?
Bush retired. Remember. Obama was hired. Four years into the process we have results from the new guy’s input. The results are staggeringly bad. At all levels, for all Americans.
When the diaper stinks, intelligent people, change the diaper. I’m guessing from your continued defense one of two things:
You need to visit an ear/nose/throat specialist.
You enjoy the smell of excrement.
I’m placing my bet on the latter.
Yeah, why not a minimum income and and maximum income, at a 10 to 1 ratio.
If they lowest paid salary is $30,000 a year, the cap on highest salary salaries should be $300,000 a year.
I don’t really think any one human being is worth 10 times more than another, but it would eliminate a lot of greedy behavior that has damaged our country, like off-shoring 50,000 factories looking for bigger profits.
Of course, the richest ones making almost a $1,000 a day would have to spend it carefully. Imagine! The rich trying to live on $1,000 a day! But I think it can be done … with frugal habits.
No. You haven’t studied it obviously. Fascism is a political system – not just a pejorative for everything Liberals don’t like.
Some quick proof before you study? Ever hear of National Socialism? That was a Fascist System – which included lots of Capitalism btw. But the Capitalists were not running the show. That’s the difference.
You see both Capitalism and Communism are economic philosphies. Both end up being very centralized with a centralized banking system. Thus the Elite can work with either one. Typically, they use Communism to destroy traditional societies and then let Capitalism creep in when the Communist Economies begin to fail. China is becoming more like us as we become more like China. Yes, we are losing our rights while Capitalism never delivered those rights to the Chinese. So much for that theory.
Fascism in contrast, is a Philosophy of Man, not matter, not economics. It subsumes economics for man and not man for economics. It is traditional society upadated for modern economic conditions. The best modern example? Japan. Sorry, they are not Capitalist or Socialist if you look really close.
What would an American National Socialism look like? America first. Tariffs or “protectionism” – as if protecting our industries was a perversion or something. End foreign aid – nothing about it in the Constitution. End foreign wars and stay home like George Washington told us to.
On Race: sure there are gifts or multiple intelligences if you will. But Civilization is created and maintained by g or general intelligence. And the IQ tests that measure that pretty well. And yes there are culture free ones now. I mean Black musical, athletic, and performing arts abilities are pretty impressive. None of that is as important as g. And the Blacks know that themselves. Shame on you for not.
Cute Story:
The
$50 Lesson
Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog.
During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President someday.
Both of her parents – liberal Democrats – were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?”
She replied, “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.”
Her parents beamed with pride!
“Wow…what a worthy goal!” I said. “But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that!” I told her.
“What do you mean?” she replied.
So I told her, “You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.”
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”
I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”
Her parents aren’t speaking to me.
Oh yeah. Mittens will fix everything. I say either don’t vote OR vote out ALL incumbents. The citizens either have control of this process or they don’t. Now that the decades of financial chicanery have finally been exposed, I would say that it’s a pretty safe bet that the citizens DO NOT have control of the voting process. Did you see that poor motorized wheelchair lady that tried to take the wheelchair up an escalator? OUCH! Wonder who she’s voting for?
“The person who wants to put limits on everything except illegal immigration. ”
I hate to disagree with someone who is criticizing asoka but asoka doesn’t want to put limits on much of anything. And that is his problem. He wants to open the till of a bankrupt store and hand out promissory notes to every wrongheaded cause that ever came down the pike. He’s the idiot savant of socialists without the savant portion of the diagnosis.
The rich and gifted would simply leave – and take their bat with them. My idea is better: simply pay everyone a living stipend and cut out the welfare middle women. And it would change in direct proportion to prices.
The rich would still get to compete for wealth and honors. And the ordinary guy would still want a job to supplement his stipend. But the creative minority and the lazy would be preserved. And the guy or gal (I love my sudden folksiness) down on their luck would have their pride preserved and not have to crawl to bureacrats nor settle for jobs far below their experience or capacity.
This plan preserves human nature and honors the natural differences. Your’s damadges both Man and his Nature by denying differences. It’s not about who is “better”. People can’t be compared like that – even if it is common to do so. Denying money types the right to make it is cruel. As is denying the go getters the fruit of their labors. No, help the bottom and the unusual who want to dream or do something different. Everyone will benefit then.
“I don’t really think any one human being is worth 10 times more than another…”
I don’t know anyone who thinks this either. Try this one, The EFFORTS and CONTRIBUTIONS of one individual are often worth much, much more, than the efforts and contributions of another individual.
There is a difference. I know Marxists don’t recognize the difference but there is a difference
“Did you see that poor motorized wheelchair lady that tried to take the wheelchair up an escalator? OUCH! Wonder who she’s voting for?”
Well I would hope she isn’t voting for anyone. She sounds too stupid to vote.
Bravo, that was the Socratic Method where the teacher lets the student teach themselves thru skillful questioning.
Socrates was put to death for it.
Yes, when we “opened” China we really opened ourselves to destruction. They benefitted and only a few hundred rich Americans did.
Poverty and homelessness are not due to laziness. Whoever doesn’t believe that should volunteer and find out how useless this “cute story” you found online is.
Yes, you’re a Republican if you believe in undocumented fantasies that say all problems are moral deficiencies. The guy is probably homeless because his job was shipped overseas by one of Romney’s 138 Bain Capital efforts to ship jobs offshore.
What the homeless guy needs can only be provided by big government: couseling, a steady address, identification, a place to sleep, regular meals, a place to wash his clothes and shower so that he looks presentable at for a job interview, etc.
But all he is gonna get from you, mistified, is some holier than thou crapola about bootstraps and pulling.
Say, does not this Bulgarian bus bombing seem odd to anyone else? The passengers were just off a plane from Israel, who has THE tightest security in the world. And yet, somehow, the bomber manages to smuggle a backpack full of high explosives through airport security? And no one is questioning this? And how Iran gets blamed immediately. Where are the airport security videos from Israel?
False Swan anyone?
Looks like a war is a coming. Guess the Israelies just couldn’t wait till Sept.
Dee
simply pay everyone a living stipend and cut out the welfare middle women.
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The ink would not have dried on this scheme before a clamor would arise that the stipend be raised. It is in the nature of “entitlements” that this be so. Not that the welfare middle women system you speak of is any better.
Vlad,
The term, fascism, was invented by Mussolini. It comes from the Latin word fascis which means bundle, and it refers to a bundle of sticks.
In fascism, the corporations and government are bound together. This is why Henry Ford thought Hitler was a great guy. Also, it is why Vannevar Bush (W’s granddaddy) found dealing with Hitler so profitable.
You seem to think that I am as dull as you are. If you really believe those IQ tests, then you should defer to me, and realize that I know a little.
Yes, China is now a fascist state,and the Soviet Union was a fascist state. The “leaders” were the same anonymous people working behinds the scenes as the CEOs are in the capitalist world.
These people are not working for the people as you seem to think, but they are working for their own wealth and power. They don’t give a damn about anyone else. Most of these people are sociopaths who have no conscience.
“What the homeless guy needs can only be provided by big government…”
What the homeless guy needs is a home. You say it can only be provided by “big government.” There are millions and millions and millions of people, all over this world, who are living in homes that were not provided by “big government.”
You are a moron. You need a vacation from being a moron. Try being quiet for a bit. You keep painting yourself into the corner of a room called “planet stupid.” Put down the brush, it is getting embarrassing.
I had a brain fart.
That was Prescott Bush who was Ws granddaddy.
Vannevar Bush was and engineer.
Sorry!
“Say, does not this Bulgarian bus bombing seem odd to anyone else?”
Nope. Just you. I’m guessing it was the Bushies who brought down the towers on 9/11.
“…simply pay everyone a living stipend …”
Vlad, I agree with you. I like your idea better than my own. You have changed my mind. Something Q. thinks never happens on CFN.
In terms of implementation it would be difficult, because people don’t like “give aways” … in this culture people are supposed to work. The puritan ethic is “no work, no eat.” That’s a tough ethic to overcome.
But, essentially, I agree with you about society benefiting by giving away a stipend to support the lazy and the creative.
I like that your plan preserves freedom for those who want to work to make big bucks and buy lots of possessions that they then have to maintain and protect. The rich can then also afford their drug habits (like Bush with his cocaine and alcohol abuse and drunken driving).
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the goverment of any other.”
President John Adams
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mistified, you may be right about it being Bush’s fault.
But whether you are right or wrong, thank you for coming out to play today. We might make 1,000 posts this week, thanks to you.
” The puritan ethic is “no work, no eat.” That’s a tough ethic to overcome.”
And should be, lest an even larger portion of the population, line up behind you for their handout. Leeches will continue to leech till the host flicks them off.
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Yes Rush just told an incredible story (based on an editorial) about a boy’s father who ran a small grocery on the south side of Chicago (the baddest part of town). He left in the morning while still dark and came home after dark. He’s eat a plate of food, light a cigarette, talk for a couple of minutes, and then fall asleep in utter exhuasion of body and mind.
The American Dream? I mean that’s how we attained prosperity, so let’s honor guys like this, but do we really want to go back to that? That’s what both parties want – to make us coolies by having to compete with desperate 3rd Worlders.
I’ll never forget a guy I met who ran his own pharmacy for decades. It was horrible, he said. He never had time for anything else. The young guys and gals are lucky: they can work at Walgreens and have a life. A fascinating perspective that balances out the Dream and the Nightmare.
“mistified, you may be right about it being Bush’s fault.”
I know I’m right. Its all Bush’s fault. Obama hasn’t done much but golf, so it can’t be his fault.
“We might make 1,000 posts this week…”
My, my, that is something in which to take pride. You should take the rest of your life off as recompense for this esteemed achievement.
I’m sorry, I meant you should take your life as recompense for this esteemed achievement. My bad.
Vlad,
Giving everyone a living stipend is an interesting idea. Has anyone done calculations to figure out how much this would take, and where the money would be obtained?
I have no problem with people getting rich by doing something useful, provided they are not harming others in the process.
It’s good for people to contribute but we must be honest: we’ve ruined ourselves, wrecked by sucess. Even without offshoring and inshoring, there might not be enough jobs for everyone. That’s what technology does. Our forbears back in the 19th Century and up the 1920’s dreamed of the leisure it would produce FOR EVERYONE. How far we have fallen and how much we have forgotten.
Now we condemn the dream that got us here. And try to inspire people to be coolies – a stage that everyone in it wants to get out of – and most never do. At best their kids do.
The stipend has a natural corrective: it will have to be a bare minimum. Most people will naturally want to work at least a bit to have more. And many will want to work as much as they do now. In other words, like water, people will find their true level. And of course, women will select for those men who have money – another big incentive to work. But the stipend will suffice for those who have another calling – like music, writing, painting, meditation, etc.
…accounts unsettled…JHK
To say the least. Measures to date look like trampolines under falling pianos. Using monetary policy to counter real economic phenomena ie offshoring – is absurd. And disastrous, the root of the speculative bubbles that have been inflating and bursting for the past 10-20 years.
Seems that the other side of the pond can do no better what with fantasies of ivory tower economic and political theoreticians and the machinations of the corporate boardrooms coagulating into the mother of all financial debacles – the misconceived Euro.
Some buffoon on this site commented on the skill with which this mess is being handled by European authorities. A howler that comment was. The solution presented by the big thinkers, if only the grubby politics of national self interest wouldn’t get in the way, is to have a fiscal union where responsible and hard working Germans pay the bills for tax evading citizens of corrupt southern regimes. As if the economic slag heap of the impoverished former East Germany wasn’t enough of a burden.
This measure of pure nonsense is dead on arrival. Not happening not only for purely political reasons – why should northerners who spend their afternoons working pay for southerners who spend their afternoons screwing – but also for fiscal reasons. Germany is heavily indebted. Never mind willingness, does it even have the capacity to pay the bills of Greece, Italy, Spain, Cypress, Slovenia and whatever other financial fuckup is coming down the tracks (France?)? This isn’t the time for delusion to take the place of practicality.
And I don’t want to hear the bleating that Greeks work longer hours than Germans. I piss myself laughing every time I hear it.
As for this common European bank regulator, making an announcement of an intent to do it isn’t the same thing as doing it. It will never happen. And if through some miracle it does happen and they put some organization in place national political interests will castrate it. Watch for it to have all the efficacy of the clock watching incompetents at the SEC.
LOL! Keep ’em coming.
Your insults are so inoffensive … charming actually. You are very entertaining with your wit. I hope you continue posting.
I just keep asking why did Building 7 fall down on 9/11 so clean and neat? American’s are so willing to believe what we hear from the mainstream media.
Vlad,
Another option I thought of is just to have everyone work fewer hours.Productivity has doubled over the past 30 years and inflation corrected pay has remained constant over the same period.
If this is true people could produce the same amount as before in half the time, thus doubling the number of jobs and giving people more free time.
The added free time would lead to new markets and jobs.
This happened at the beginning of the 20th century when the 40 hour workweek started.
“Giving everyone a living stipend is an interesting idea. ”
It’s called welfare. And food stamps. And a million other names. It already exists. Go here: http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/browse-by-category This will give you a peek to all that is available for the down and out. This is the “big government is the only one that can save us” mentality that asoka champions. The very programs that have bankrupted our country and if maintained, will destroy it.
certain words sound decidedly feminine and week.
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I’ve given ya’ll nearly two full days to nail me for this and you blew it. Ha Ha, too late.
I have no problem with people getting rich by doing something useful, provided they are not harming others in the process.
I agree. We essentially provide stipends to millions of military personnel who are not producing anything of value.
In fact, they blow up things and waste a lot of resources. 97% of the oil used by big government is military use in endless “practice” flights and “war games.”
We seem to have money to provide millions of soldiers with much more than the minimum stipend Vlad is talking about, yet they do nothing useful.
They didn’t prevent an attack on USA soil, during Bush’s watch, for example. Of course, a lot of that was frozen pet goat Bush’s fault.
“Your insults are so inoffensive … charming actually. ”
Well thank you. I always try and do my part for the mentally challenged, by charming at least one in their midst, every, single day. From your comment I can now say, “Mission accomplished.”
“I just keep asking why did Building 7 fall down on 9/11 so clean and neat? ”
Why limit it to blgd. 7? The others fell rather neatly as well. Back to the drawing board, Zev, the conspiracy is bigger than you imagine.
“They didn’t prevent an attack on USA soil, during Bush’s watch, for example. ”
Well how could they? Bush was the one who attacked. Aren’t you aware it was a false flag operation? Get a clue, clueless.
Yes, Bush attacked, but he attacked the wrong country and wasted FOUR TRILLION dollars that could have gone to strengthen the USA domestically.
In any event, a first-rate, world-class military would have simply refused to obey Bush’s orders to attack a country which posed no imminent danger to the security of the USA, which had never threatened the USA, and did not have the capability to attack the USA even if they wanted to.
Watch for it to have all the efficacy of the clock watching incompetents at the SEC.
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Because you have left out a simple little hyphen (ie clock-watching) you have created a completely different image than what you intended. Think about it.
Don’t underestimate the tens of billions that will be saved by cutting out the whole Welfare Establishment. Nor underestimate the savings to the psyche and the freeing up eros or life energy and creativity.
This idea comes from social scientist Charles Murray, author of Coming Apart, the state of White America 1960-2010 and co-author of The Bell Curve. He got it from someone else I believe. He wrote a book on it but I haven’t gotten to it yet. Entitled “In Our Hands”.
There are problems of course. What to do with those who spend their stipend in a night’s crack or meth binge? Women who have kids they can’t support, etc. There would have to be some strong arm stuff at some point I admit. Btw, I don’t think it will work in a multi-racial mess like modern America. The problem is how to have a welfare state without creating a welfare class. Whites could handle it but I don’t think Hispanics or Blacks could. Certainly not with us to fall back on. It was working in Europe before they went crazy and let in the Muslims. But long term maybe it wouldn’t have: the taxes were quite high and the bureacracy weighed heavily against private enterprise. Both of those are a good way to create a welfare class.
Iceland was the freest and the most educated – the goveremnt the smallest and the most responsive. The net was there but most weren’t using it. Naturally they are the ones that responded best and threw out the bankers. They were doomed – minorities were already flocking in, welcomed into paradise. Soon the White girls would be pushing around the mulatto babies and the welare rolls would have soared. How lucky they are that they crashed before their gene pool was ruined and a permanent minority/grievance class installed as a 5th column.
They have thermal energy. They have thermal energy. And the sea, sheep, a bit of farming, a small population of high IQ Nordics/Celts – isolated between Northern Europe and Northern Canada. No one is better situated to survive what is to come. The can be completely self sufficient. Oh the Joy, the Peace. What have we thrown away for a mess of multi-cultural pottage and swimming pools for our horses?
Vlad,
I said it was an interesting idea. The only question I have is if someone has run the numbers. I have no idea of the costs and savings. I can only guess. It is not a trivial calculation.
I did a quick search, but couldn’t find anything on it. Maybe I’m using the wrong search terms.
Murray claims it would be less, much less, that what we paying now. But sustainable? Don’t know.
LOL! Keep ’em coming.
Your insults are so inoffensive … charming actually.
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I agree. It is so refreshing to read a good beatdown. I don’t know why but I particularly like the scatologically based insults like “pantsfill.”
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much less, [than] what we paying now.
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Oh no!! Now even Vlad has started using Ebonics.
The only way to create stipends is to pass a Robot Labor Income Tax. It will have to be a direct payment from the company to the Treasury where it will go directly to stipends. For the next 10 years, we may have to go to a full blown Command Economy to prevent corporations from passing the cost off onto the Serfs. Free Market Economies rely on certain trusts and sound structures to function. None of that exists and now we might understand what compelled the Soviet Union to do what it did after Lenin overthrew the breathtakingly corrupt Romanov ruling family. With the lion’s share of labor value and profits going to unemployed and underemployed humans, the corporations will be forced to live on legitimate profits from adding real value; not by robbing men of work and offshoring their jobs.
Robots and automation replaced human beings and have concentrated the income stream to the 0.1% who no longer have to distribute the wealth created. To levy the tax will require an analysis of what the robot does, the people that would have done the job 50 years ago, and then levy a tax that forces the robot to support the humans. This will start to drain the swamp of ill gotten gain and restore some of the lost wages that would have gone to some poor slob or even the skilled worker, whose expertise meant nothing to the bean counters.
Domestic robots and automation can be taxed at a lower rate than imported stuff. I’m talking about a 50% tax rate on domestic computer systems and robots! I’m talking 85% robot labor value tax as it comes off the ship from China! Imported stuff will have to have the tax estimated and slapped on everything that touches the docks or crosses the border.
It’s bad enough, offshoring jobs to fulfill the Trickle Down Economics agenda. It’s even worse when robots and automation rob even the sweatshop workers! Civilization must always trump any alleged benefit of high tech and the potential for robbing people of the ability to sell their time and labor for wages i.e. the only kind of income possible now.
All of this distorts wealth accumulation to an evil degree. I remember when Reaganomics was hatched out of the Faustian Deal he and Bush made with the banksters and Wall Street. The objective was to increase the efficiency of tax collection and increase profits for the purpose of restoring the Rust Belt. As we all know, when it came time to tax those windfall profits, the rich said NO! They stole it fair and square and Bush Sr. caved in, and passed the tax burden onto We The Serfs (now Slaves).
We have a wealth concentration racket that’s concentrated far too much wealth and is too well protected from due process. Direct taxation of all devices that have caused job loss over the past 50 years is the only way to claw back some of the lost wages.
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This example of the madness of UpTalk just in from a grown man on CNBC.
The only way to create stipends is to pass a Robot Labor Income Tax.
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Jim in Occupied, the fatal flaw (actually their are many fatal flaws) in your tax-the-robots scheme as with many similar schemes is that a huge new government empire of robot-tax bean counters, experts, consultants and lobbyists would be required…kind of a whole ‘nother IRS. I can just picture the infighting, the corruption.
What we need is something simple like one flat sales tax on every penny spent. We already have in place near universal state sales tax collection systems. Completely abandon all measurements of income whether corporate or individual and tax the bastards when they spend the money, not when they earn it or steal it.
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tax the bastards when they spend the money, not when they earn it or steal it.
I would only change that slightly: tax the bastards earning less than $250,000 when they spend or gamble (speculate) with the money. Tax earnings over $250,000 at 95%.
A financial transaction (or speculation) tax, would apply to trades in stocks, bonds, currencies and derivatives. The tax would generate 50 cents for every $100 traded. According to a 2009 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the transaction tax could raise as much as $350 billion per year.
I would also support going back to the 1950’s marginal tax rate on the rich. In the golden age of Eisenhower in the 1950’s people with incomes over $200,000 paid a 95% marginal tax rate.
Jim,
“The only way to create stipends is to pass a Robot Labor Income Tax.”
The main problem with this is that the robots will revolt and kill us all! ;>O
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European PSN Game Store Updates for April 13, 2011
64w ago – SCEE’s Ross McGrath of the PlayStation Store Team has posted up this weeks European PSN game updates today, as follows:
Hello all – Two new PSN games hit today for PS3 owners, complete with trials – the much anticipated Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes (20% day-one discount for Plussers) and Konami’s classic franchise reboot of Rush n’ Attack: Ex Patriot.
We’ve also got loads of DLC for retail and digital releases, allowing you to expand your play time with Moon Diver, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Funky Lab Rat and Bulletstorm to name but a few.
An exciting new range of XMB customisation options launches in the form of ‘The Studio’ – a brand new set of dynamic and premium themes designed by the hottest artists around, including Anthony Burrill, Mr Jago and Rexbox (who’s work you might recognise from LBP). They’re pretty funky themes and Plus members not only get a free theme, but a blanket discount on all current and future ‘The Studio’ themes. How generous is that?!
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Caroline May Daily Caller
July 19, 2012
The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.
USDA has an agreement with Mexico to promote American food assistance programs, including food stamps, among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.
“USDA and the government of Mexico have entered into a partnership to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance,” the USDA explains in a brief paragraph on their “Reaching Low-Income Hispanics With Nutrition Assistance” web page. “Mexico will help disseminate this information through its embassy and network of approximately 50 consular offices.
To HELL with you
He posts ‘a book’ w/o a 403 Ban!
I would only change that slightly: tax the bastards earning …………. blah blah blah
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You don’t listen too well do you Asoka? Forget earnings (aka income). Tax everybody the same rate for everything based on expenditures…say, 10%. No breaks, no exceptions. Churches, charities, even the government itself pays on every dime it spends. The rich cannot escape unless they want to let their billions lie fallow under the mattress.
You’ll love THIS…… even purchases of stocks and bonds get taxed. Talk about eliminating speculation and nano second massive trades. That would come to a halt real quick. Let’s see how successful the government would be in financing (ie selling) its massive debt with a 10% vig on top. Let’s see what interest rate would have to be paid to move the merchandise (ie to sell the bonds). The incentive NOT to run governments at a deficit would be enormous.
Let’s see how long all these bullshit churches and charities last when THEY have to tithe Uncle Sam.
No more social engineering via tax code.
Ohhh the weeping and gnashing of teeth among lovers of BIG Govt…the Liberals especially and the Republicans to a slightly lesser extent.
Its a little more than specious there, DeeJones, to be implying the Israeli Govt. murdered their own citizens to precipitate a war with Iran. This bombing in Bulgaria occurred on the anniversary of the infamous terror bombing of that Synagogue in Argentina, which was proven to be the work of the Iranians. Israel is a nation that takes care of its citizens, not murders them. They’re not going to let this slide; they’ll be getting even pretty soon.
–WSP7
“You don’t listen too well do you Asoka? ”
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Should be:
You don’t listen too well do you, Asoka?
RULE: When a speaker in a sentence names the person to whom he is speaking, this addressing
of his audience is called direct address. Direct address is indicated by the use of a comma.
Private islands? Does that mean islands that are privately owned?
Where are these islands that are supposedly owned by the rich? Are they in the Mediterranean? The South Pacific? The Caribbean? Can you name them? Can you name their millionaire or billionaire owners?
If Marlon Brando, rich but not Croesus-rich, can buy his own island hideaway, others, richer and better connected, can do the same. But how many have done so?
Let me take you literally. Let me take your one-tenth of one percent arithmetically rather than symbolically. And let me assume you are referring to a percentage of America’s population. Three hundred and fifty million divided by one thousand gives three hundred and fifty thousand. It’s impossible for so many people (the super-rich ruling elite) to divvy up amongst themselves all the islands that are available, especially as they’d be competing against the rich of Europe.
Doomers who believe that the super-rich have islands to flee to in the event of a general collapse, islands that they have bought and built up and provisioned, are fooling themselves. They have constructed a mind-picture that’s based on imagination rather than fact.
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PlayStation Father Ken Kutaragi Launches New Internet Business
138w ago – The ‘father’ of Sony’s PlayStation Ken Kutaragi has announced the launch of a new Cyber company today, with the business based in Tokyo.
The firm works in Internet services, however, it is not yet detailed how it may overlap into the videogame industry.
To quote: “The former chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Ken Kutaragi, has established a new company in Tokyo.
A report from Japanese news group Nikkei, brought to attention in a Kotaku report, claims that the new company is called ‘Cyber AI Entertainment’.
Kutaragi, widely known as the ‘father of PlayStation’, has a purported 90 per cent stake in the new firm. Reports also indicate that Cyber AI Entertainment has raised 20 million Yen in capital.
The start-up firm will work in the field of internet services, though it is currently unclear exactly how the business will operate and if it will overlap with the game industry.”
Marlons Island, sold to cult leader Adi Da!
See: Adi da archives.
Sounds good. Also the way the Japanese are trying to preserve their nation and not import millions of non Japanese workers. They are leading the revolution.
When are the sex robots or fembots coming? Women need some competition to stay sharp…..We need to go back to that style where everything was shaped like a missile – boobs most of all.
But how to keep our traitorous corporations working here in America? We could at least declare them non American and destroy them with tariffs if they try to sell here in America. That’s the stick. Maybe lower their income taxes to make the corporate rate competitive?
HI, Sabrina, this may blocking up for your rectal passages, but for First Best Answer to console troubling you, put wood to your most rfur kernel until feeling good with lubricated slot firmware.
Flashcard latest eye-blinkery (v2.69.) make for right gushing to more firmware, can’t hurt the wood r4 kernel. Then pushing flashcard into anus for good result to stop data “upload”.
Thank you for take it easy question and to purchase a BIG FREE TENT for your major buttocks!
We live to hurry Chinese delivery.
Good Fortune and more Best Answers to Coming.
(That was for good benefit of you. Welcomings to you!)
No, it’s because you sounded decidedly feminine this week, and no one wanted to make you cry.
Jam,
A private island doesn’t need to be owned by a single person, but can be a group of people.
Here is a quote from the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia:
“A private island is a disconnected body of land wholly owned by a single private citizen or corporation. Although this exclusivity gives the owner substantial control over the property, they still fall within the jurisdiction of national and sometimes local governments.”
Jekyll Island in Georgia was a private club for millionaires in the early 1900’s. There are many people who own islands as individuals. Just Google “privately owned islands” and you will find that even Robin Williams and Ted Turner own islands.
Also now, there are artificial islands off the coast of Dubai.
I also meant it in the metaphorical sense of large estates in other countries. In fact their gated communities are almost islands, with limited access for the teeming masses.
Better have good stockpiles, ’cause resupply could be “problematic”. ;o)
Let me take your one-tenth of one percent arithmetically rather than symbolically.
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Ooops! There you go spoiling things. 🙂
People on CFN have a doomer fantasy and you are bringing reality into the picture. That’s a no no.
CFNers have rich imaginations of what life must be like for the rich and are sure the rich can survive the collapse on their islands. And you, bless you, are bringing mathematical reality to smash the illusions.
Welcome! and thank you!
We need more skeptics among the true believers.
Some of you think the whole world will collapse at once. This is quite unlikely. Many areas are going to be still reasonably stable. Even in the US some regions will be relatively untouched.
In fact it is even unlikely that civilization will collapse except in small areas.
The worst that will happen is that the poor and lower middle class will have a really tough time.
Amen!
The obsession on this blog with apocalyptic, Black Swan, Orlov Dmitri-inspired, collapse fantasies needs to be countered by reasoned skepticism.
Thank you muddmike for your reality-based comments.
Of course the response of true believers to reason is: things appear to working normally, until they aren’t.
Eventually, if you aren’t careful they will use the laws of physics argument on you and tell you reality will slap you up the side of the head.
In other words: disaster can strike in any moment. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Buy gold and guns. The end is near. The sky is falling. etc. etc. Been about to collapse for decades now.
The rich better choose their islands carefully.
RISING SEA LEVELS THREATEN PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/world/asia/03iht-pacific.2.5548184.html?pagewanted=all
will slap you up the side of the head.
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If you were really black you would know the expression is “slap you upside the haid.”
No, it was Perry Mason’s.
I have had to control my ebonics to get along in the white world. But you knew that.
The Romney campaign says “real Americans” don’t care that Romney doesn’t have a position on Afghanistan.
WTF!
Are they saying the soldiers in Afghanistan are not real Americans. Or that they do not care about what policy Romney might have on Afghanistan? Isn’t it kind of important to know if Romney knows how to say something else other than “I’ll listen to the commanders on the ground”? And he wants to be President?
XBox 360 Mod Turns Red Ring of Death Into Red Eyes of Laziness
173w ago – Who says stoners are lazy? This one sure wasn’t. He took a replacement case for a XBox 360 and created a bong out of it.
What’s a bong? It’s a smoking utility – you know; the ganja, mary jane, wacky tabaccy.
To quote: We’ve seen bongs made out of N64 and NES controllers, and both were amazing. But a bong made out of an Xbox 360? Oh hell yes.
As you can see by the below photos, this is a serious piece of custom-made weed smoking equipment. Sure, it won’t play Fallout 3 http://www.carter4i-sdhc.com, but it’ll make playing Fallout 3 on a functioning Xbox a lot more fun.
Now if someone wants to make a grinder or a stash box out of a controller to match this thing, you’d have the most epic and nerdy smoking setup ever. I love it. Anyone else have homemade gaming-related paraphernalia? Send it to me!
HI, Sabrina, this may blocking up for your rectal passages,
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Excellent, you accurate and funy capture innertube chink-speak.
Okay, I’ll retreat from the “All” to the relatively UNstable small areas to suit your parameters:
Those in these unstable areas who’ve elected to barricade themselves in some gated community or ‘nother, will have a mean ol’ time getting resupplied, as all routes in or out of aforesaid gated Place of Safety will be blockaded by hungry po’ folk who won’t give a hoot or a holler to da law when it comes to hijacking and robbing incoming supplies to feed their starveling chilluns. It’ll happen in “other countries” first, but it will come to that in the FUSA as well.
Keep the SWAT teams well-fed and paid with some kind of scrip if you’d like your gated community [in the tiny, but unstable area] to exist for a while. When the Ramen noodles and Beefaroni run thin, all bets are off. The gum’mint will be busy with containment operations of its’ own.
I was trying for the thank to you, Q for the humor maybe seeing! Gracious living with new CHEAP BONG will bring joy and comfort.
[;o)
(Not being pointy, but working. Sorry for not making more wasting space!)
The Romney campaign says “real Americans” don’t care that Romney doesn’t have a position on Afghanistan.
WTF!
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The Romney campaign does not realize how true this is. The election has nothing to do with issues. The natural constituency of Obama – liberals and blacks – alone might not have been enough to get Obama re-elected, but when you toss in women, simply as a gender, who barely give a thought to issues but rather see an articulate and handsome, light-skinned black man for whom they can pull the lever and validate the freeing in 2008 of White America from 400 years of guilt over slavery, I guarantee it’s “4 more years” by popular vote numbers something like these:
Obama (51%)
Romney (46%)
Other (3%)
My motivation for saying this is NOT to aggravate Vlad, Mistified, or my brother-in-law but rather to recognize the inevitable.
ozone,
Have you ever heard of helicopters. They are a new invention that can fly straight up into the air.
If you think that you could shout those down, ask the Vietcong, Iraqis and Afghans how many helicopters they shot down with better weapons that Murikans have. How many Murikans have RPGs or shoulder launched antiaircraft missiles?
These would not be for resupply, but to take the people away. This could easily be done at night without lights, or by setting fires to make a smoke screen.
It would also be tougher to shoot them with the mercenaries shooting automatic weapons at you.
If they have a decent water supply and generators with fuel it is not too difficult to store a few months of food. The people outside would run out of food first.
Queen Elizabeth owns many of these private islands. The Caymans and Bermuda, I believe, are just two examples. As was pointed out above, other foreign entities own these islands as well, or at least have a cozy relationship with their owners.
Think about it. Say you come into a million dollars tomorrow. How long do you think that cash would last if you broadcasted it to every friend, family member, GOVERMENT, etc? The answer to that question, my dear, is why these “pirate islands” exist in the first place.
Direct address is indicated by the use of a comma.
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I did not know that.
Sony Bring on v2.43 Firmware quickly as 2.42 is all Messed Up
204w ago – Numerous amounts of gamers are reportedly requesting to Sony that they release the new PS3 firmware ASAP as v2.42 is causing them loads of issues. The reported issues range from no discs being read to problems of going online.
To quote: Personally our PS3 is just fine but then we have not had much time with it since the latest firmware. This is what some gamers have reported to PR:
Well this is totally Effed Up!!! My son decided that it would be a good idea to update the PS3 and he did 2 nights ago without me knowing it. Well now ANYTHING BLURAY does NOT play. NOTHING!!! Doesn’t even recognize the DAMN Disc!!! Is there anything I can do???
Installed this newest update and now nothing works, can not read disks at all. We have done the system restore http://www.sdhcard.com, etc. now have to wait while it gets shipped to Sony to fix it.
Very upsetting, fairly new PS3 (5 months) in excellent condition and was working perfectly prior to update. Extremely frustrating.
I also have realized that the rich people are more than likely good friends (big campaign donors) of the governor of the state.
The governor happens to be in control of the state’s national guard units. Since his or her “friends” would be citizens at risk the national guard would come with Blackhawk helicopters, and probably a few gunships to back them up. Ask the Palestinians about helicopter gunships.
There also might be some military contractors living in the neighborhood with many military contacts who could apply some force.
Need for Speed Shift: Releasedatum bekannt
Electronic Arts hat das Releasedatum für das Rennspiel Need for Speed Shift bekannt gegeben, das für PSP, PS3, Xbox 360 und PC erscheinen wird. In Europa wird das Spiel ab dem 17 September 2009 in den Regalen liegen http://www.carter43ds.com, Nordamerika muss sich bis zum 22. September 2009 gedulden. Need for Speed Shift soll eine realistische Rennerfahrung bieten und hat einige der bekanntesten Renn- strecken wie Brands Hatch mit im Gep?ck. Das Spiel bietet laut EA die meisten High-Performance-Autos in der Need for Speed-Geschichte. Mit dabei sind u.a. Pagani Zonda F, Porsche 911 GT2, Audi RS4 und Lotus Elise. Im fertigen Spiel sollen über 70 Autos enthalten sein. EA hat die Rennspielreihe kr?ftig aufpoliert. Need for Speed Shift ist eine beinharte Simulation und hat nur noch wenig mit seinen Vorg?ngern gemein. Den Entwicklern war besonders die Cockpitansicht wichtig, die m?glichst realistisch wirken soll. Ebenso realistisch sollen sich die Fahrphysik und die Traktion anfühlen. Auch den berühmt-berüchtigten Tunnelblick, der auftitt, wenn man als Pilot mit seinem Rennwagen Geschwindigkeiten jenseits der 200 km/h erreicht, wurde von den Entwicklern realistisch simuliert.
Nintendo 3DS: So viel Grafikpower wie die PS3?
Laut einem Bericht von “IGN” wird Nintendos 3DS fast an die Grafikpower der PlayStation 3 und der Xbox 360 herankommen. Behauptet wird das von einigen anonymen Entwicklern.Wenn man einem aktuellen Bericht von “IGN” Glauben schenken kann, dann wird Nintendos angekündigter 3DS-Handheld auf der diesj?hrigen E3-Messe geh?rig für Aufsehen sorgen. W?hrend die letzten DS-Modelle nicht gerade für ihre Grafikpracht bekannt waren, soll es Nintendos neustes Ger?t n?mlich mit den HD-Konsolen aufnehmen k?nnen. Einige Entwickler, die sich bereits mit dem 3DS besch?ftigt haben, sollen dem Online-Magazin verraten haben, dass die Grafik- leistung des Handhelds nicht weit von den HD-Konsolen Xbox 360 und PlayStation 3 entfernt sei. “IGN” weist au?erdem darauf hin http://www.r4-officiel.net, dass für die 3D-Effekte, die der 3DS bieten soll, deutlich mehr Rechenpower notwendig ist, da jeder Bereich auf dem Bildschirm doppelt (für jedes Auge ein Mal) gerendert werden muss. Die hauseigene Wii-Konsole soll der 3DS sogar gleich mehrfach in die Tasche stecken k?nnen, hei?t es in dem Bericht. Wird der 3DS also ein echter PSP- und iPad-Killer? Oder lehnen sich die besagten Entwickler ein wenig zu weit aus dem Fenster? Sp?testens auf der E3-Messe, die in etwas über einer Woche an den Start geht, werden wir es erfahren. Wir halten euch natürlich w?hrend der E3 über alle News auf dem Laufenden und bieten wieder unseren Live-Ticker an.
Croesus did not even own a refrigerator!. I am so much wealthier than he. I am multitudes. I am the omnipresent master of all things in existence. Well maybe not so much!! I do have fresh orange juice in the morning. Thanks trucker guys! I have pears and apples though! I ate a big ass green apple yesterday and it was good! I did get a little knot in the stomach ‘cuz it was not ripe! Still a treat!
You really are a fucking retard, why don’t you go back to 6th grade work on your reading comprehension? My point is that the Jews, Italians and everyone else in town ARE ALL BEING ROBBED BY THE CORRUPT AND ILLIGIMATE SYSTEM, AND THEY ALL COMPLAIN ABOUT THE EVERY INCREASING PROPERTY TAX BURDEN. They all will not listen to the obvious solution. This doesn’t surprise me regarding the Ginzos, since they are almost all morons. It does surprise me regarding the Jews, since most seem to well educated and accomplished in some way, but will not put up any resistance to being robbed by the thugs at the local municipal building.
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Mitt Romney’s involvement with anonymous accounts in offshore tax havens goes back to the 1984 founding of Bain Capital, which raised millions of dollars from wealthy foreigners through shell corporations in Panama, a nation notorious for tax avoidance schemes and money laundering.
According to the LA Times, family members of some of Bain Capital’s first investors were tied to right-wing death squads in Latin America, while others were later convicted of various financial frauds.
Now we are getting closer to Romney’s criminal activities.
Michele Bachmann claims that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
So what, even if she did?
The Muslim Brotherhood is the party the people legally elected in Egypt.
There is no shame in “having ties” to the legally elected Muslim Brotherhood ruling party.
I’m glad Boehner, McCain, and Rubio are slapping down Michelle Bachman’s McCarthyist paranoia.
apple iphone 4 change the world. I had a big argument with pal yesterday because of many different baseball teams. During the break age, we argument about which team is the foremost in the league big. I thought it is yangqi and he thought it is redsocks. After the argument, he went of to say goodbye to me and close the entranceway loudly. I was so angry with them.
Then he still didn’t speak of it to me during the up coming break time. He didn’t even i should me. I started to feel sad because he is my best friend. When it was time for you to go home I asked him if he wanted to go with me as gotten. He looked at me with a strange look and still turned away. But this time, he did say goodbye to me quietly.
In the end, while I was doing nothing the phone ring. It was him and hubby said he was sorry about what he did, he felt childish. I said never mind you can still good friends. Now I feel getting good I hope we won’t argument again.
Iphone4 took a novel panic buying craze, many Chinese students joined them, even all night queuing obtain at high prices. I think this phenomenon is due to 1iPhone4 complete function a couple of beautiful appearance.
A person looks at an apple iphone 4g at the Apple Store 5th Avenue in New york, in this June per day, 2010 file photo.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 12 (Reuters) – Consumer Reports said it cannot recommend Apple’s iphone 4 to buyers after tests confirmed the device’s well-publicized reception glitches.
It added that that produce AT&T Inc, the exclusive mobile phone carrier for you iPhone 4, was not necessarily the main culprit.
The influential nonprofit loan provider, which publishes guides on many techniques from cars to TVs, said in a list released on Monday who’s also tested other phones — for example the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre — and found none had the signal-loss issues of Apple’s latest iphone 3gs.
The report was the latest blow to the apple iphone 4, which sold 1. 7 million units in the first three days obtainable but has been full of complaints of poor sign. Many of the conditions involve a wraparound antenna whose signal strength is supposed to be affected if touched in a certain way.
Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu said he was amazed at the stance that Consumer Reports carried out the new iPhone. Wu noted that every one’s recommendations are used as a guide by many consumers.
“Consumer reports is a reputable publication. This could have an impact on iPhone sales, ” Wu said.
Apple shares were duck down 1 percent at $257. 06 on Monday afternoon the particular Nasdaq.
The company has was sued by iPhone customers in at least three complaints related to antenna problems.
“When your finger or hand touches an area on the phone’s lower quit — an easy point, especially for lefties , the signal can significantly degrade enough to make you lose your connection altogether if you are in an area with a weak signal, ” contributor Mike Gikas said in a position report on the Person Reports website.
“Our findings call into question latest claim by Apple in which the iPhone 4’s signal-strength indicators were largely an illusion caused by faulty system that ‘mistakenly displays 2 more bars of it should for a given signal strength, ‘” Gikas said.
Apple did not response to a request for article.
Gikas recommended covering the gap in the wraparound aerial with duct tape or in other non-conductive material.
It looks like they’re going to bomb Iran using fried chicken grease. I bet that the pilots will be lick’n their fingers as they drop their party buckets over Tehran.
WASHINGTON. D.C., July 19, 2012 – U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal held a conference call today to brief media on the demonstration in local operations of a U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group operating on advanced biofuel, and to discuss the Obama Administration’s commitment to strengthening national energy security and developing domestic fuel sources.
The Navy is pursuing alternatives because the nation’s reliance on foreign oil is a significant and well-recognized military vulnerability. “The ability to use fuels other than petroleum is critical to our energy security, because it will increase our flexibility and reduce the services’ vulnerability to rapid and unforeseen changes in the price of oil,” stated Mabus.
For two days, the U.S. Navy powered the “Great Green Fleet,” a Carrier Strike Group’s aircraft and surface ships, on advanced biofuel to test the fuel’s performance in an operational setting. The demonstration took place off the coast of Hawaii as part of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC). Secretary Mabus observed operations, which included fueling helicopters and jets from the deck of a nuclear-powered carrier; completing arrested landings of aircraft onto a carrier, the first ever using biofuels; refueling a destroyer while underway; and air-to-air refueling.
“The successful demonstration was a unique opportunity to watch our highly skilled sailors doing what they do best, and to witness in an operational setting the seamless integration of advanced biofuel and energy efficient technologies in some of the U.S. Navy’s most sophisticated air and sea platforms,” stated Mabus.
In addition to operating on alternative fuels, including nuclear power, the Great Green Fleet showcased energy efficiency technology that increase combat capability by allowing Navy ships to achieve greater range and by reducing dependence on a vulnerable logistics supply chain. More information on the demonstration, including a list of participating ships, is available HERE.
Secretary Mabus also signed a Statement of Cooperation with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) to formalize future cooperation on alternative fuel deployment.
The entire demonstration will burn 450,000 gallons of biofuel made from non-food waste (used cooking oil). The biofuel was purchased from Louisiana-based Dynamic Fuels LLC, Dynamic Fuels, LLC, a joint-venture of Tyson Foods, Inc., and Syntroleum Corporation, and algae, produced by Solazyme. This fuel was blended with aviation gas or marine diesel fuel to produced 900,000 gallons of 50/50 blend biofuel.
The British "Daily Telegraph" reported on July 12, South African scientists announced that, from a forgotten so far the best preserved hominid bones are found in the rock samples in the laboratory for many years. solar LED light
South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand paleontologist Professor Lee Berger said, the rock sample is from the famous archaeological excavations to the north of Johannesburg in 2009, "the cradle of humanity" (Cradle of Humankind) taken back to the past three years has been forgotten in the laboratory. Until last month, a technician came across a piece of black stone, "stretched out" a tooth.
With hominid bones discovered so far "the best preserved early human ancestors bones" Berg said. It belongs to Australopithecus sediba in species, age between 9-13 years old, dating back about 200 years old. Chinese Cheongsam
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on the 11th report published by the European debt crisis spread, the impact of the slowdown of the U.S. economy sluggish and emerging economies and other factors, the 2013 global oil demand growth will slow down.
The report predicts that the 2012 global oil demand for 8868 million barrels, an increase of 90 million barrels in 2011; 2013 global oil demand for 8950 million barrels in 2012, an increase of 82 million barrels. wedding Gowns
OPEC said in a monthly report also pointed out that the global economic recovery, though still continuing, but the process is slow, but there are still uncertainties. At present, the developed economies has not been revitalized, the economic growth of emerging economies are still largely dependent on exports, which led to the foundation of its economic growth is not solid.
In this context, the future for some time, the driving force of global oil consumption remains weak.
The report also shows the next two years global crude oil market, the daily demand for OPEC crude oil were 2995 barrels and 2960 million barrels.
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I’m afraid this subject is over your head.
The musical talents of blacks is over-rated. I notice you never see them playing in orchestras or reading music off of a page. I suspect this is because it requires a higher I.O. to sight-read music from a page while playing it.
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Turkel sets up close to 30 industry festivals every year and also the greatest within it’s course worldwide exhibit associated with fur- as well as leatherwear eShow? that is yearly taking place within Moscow, is actually a type of the organization company greeting card.
LeShow, the biggest and many thorough industry with regard to leather-based as well as hair business within Euro Federation determines the actual system with regard to style company exactly where 1000’s monitor developments, discover brand new resources in order to find start up business companions.
The actual twelfth Worldwide Leather-based as well as Hair Industry Display “LeShow-2009” will require put on Might 28 via twenty nine, within the Exhibit Middle EXPOCENTR, Pavillion 7.
LeShow ’09 made welcome exhibitors through main commercial as well as buying and selling businesses through Argentina, The country, Italia, Spain, Poultry, Belgium, A holiday in greece, as well as Ukraine.
Them all had been striving from benefiting from the initial chance to trade brand new suggestions as well as reveal tasks, show the brand new selections, obtain familiar with the most recent novelties in neuro-scientific leather-based as well as hair digesting, as well as help to make agreements with regard to mutually advantageous co-operation.
The actual exhibitor parts of LeShow: Leather-based clothes, Hair clothes, Handled leather-based, Add-ons, Chemical substance uncooked materials, with regard to leather-based as well as hair business?
The actual chosen exhibitors experienced an opportunity to show their own most recent selections using the style exhibits using the involvement associated with Euro best versions. .
Stahl Fashion Colour Forecast poster for Autumn and Winter of 2009/2010 has a look of glamour thanks to a theatrical photograph and an eye-catching selection of largely dark colours. The contrast with the muted colours of nature during the season could hardly be greater.
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Calvin Klein Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation announced that the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) last night named Francisco Costa – the Creative Director for the women’s Calvin Klein Collection – the 2008 Womenswear Designer of the Year. The awards gala took place at the New York Public Library with many of the world’s most prominent designers present.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) presents the Womenswear Designer of the Year award annually to an American designer who has made the most outstanding contribution to and has influenced the direction of women’s ready-to-wear fashion with his or her most recent spring and fall collections.
The award nominees and winner were selected by the CFDA membership, comprised of a peer group of designers, editors, retailers and stylists. Other nominees for this prestigious category included Marc Jacobs perryfred.com, and Proenza Schouler’s Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough.
Mr. Costa received the very same award in 2006 when he was nominated alongside the same designers.
“Receiving this esteemed award for a second time is a testament to Francisco’s extraordinary talent, hard work, and dedication to his craft,” said Tom Murry, President and COO, Calvin Klein, Inc. “We are thrilled that Francisco has been honored again by the CFDA and acknowledged by his peers.”
Actress Eva Mendes, dressed in Calvin Klein Collection, alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Victoria Beckham presented Mr. Costa with the award. Ms. Mendes will soon be featured in the Fall 2008 advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein Underwear as well as for Calvin Klein Secret Obsession, the company’s latest fragrance.
According to a Gallop poll, 1 out of 4 Americans believe that the Earth has been visited by aliens from outerspace.
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Oh no!! Another eastern religion buff. Where do they all come from?
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FSL is really a keeping as well as list administration organization along with substantial list as well as manufacturer administration knowledge within the underwear company.
FSL retains 49% of gives within SOOO Torgovaja Kompanija Milavitsa (KM?, the Belarussian organization working the actual Belorussian list string for that items associated with SP ZAO Milavitsa (ilavitsa?, the additional associated with SFG and also the top underwear maker within Belarus as well as Spain. Because from 1 This summer 08, TKM run twenty six Milavitsa stores within Belarus. Currently before the purchase associated with FSL, 51% of gives within TKM tend to be possessed through Milavitsa. Due to the actual purchase associated with FSL, the actual SFG team may personal nearly all just about all gives within TKM.
Additional, FSL retains 25% of gives within ZAO Stolichnij Torgovij Dom Milavitsa (TD?, a completely independent Euro underwear wholesaler as well as list owner controlling thirty underwear shops within Spain, 28 of these underneath the brand associated with Milavitsa. An additional 25% of gives within A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE has already been kept through Milavitsa. The residual 50% of gives within A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE will still be kept through it’s administration.
With the purchase associated with FSL, SFG may obtain wider use of the actual list company associated with A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE, the largest store associated with Milavitsa’s items within Spain, as well as can organize it’s procedures along with individuals associated with ZAO Linret, the actual SFG team organization working the actual blicie? as well as TA? list stores within Spain.
The actual purchase associated with FSL is actually likely to bring about the actual submission as well as list product sales from the items from the SFG team, particularly these products associated with Milavitsa. The result from the purchase with regards to the revenue as well as income from the SFG team isn’t likely to end up being substantial. The actual purchase associated with FSL will even safe the actual possession from the brand lisee? (a high-level underwear manufacturer utilized by Milavitsa), that is becoming certified through FSL.
The actual retailers associated with FSL tend to be Style Administration & List Affiliates Ltd, a restricted legal responsibility organization authorized in the uk, as well as Mr. Remi Pilat. Mr. Remi Pilat, an associate from the administration panel associated with SFG, is the owner of 10% from the reveal funds associated with FSL as well as participates within the deal like a vendor. Mr. Remi Pilat can also be the overseer associated with FSL and can stay in which placement following a conclusion from the purchase.
Based on the reveal buy contract, Mr. Remi Pilat is actually eligible for obtain EUR two hundred, 000 with regard to their gives within FSL, from the complete cost associated with EUR two zillion. Consequently, the actual person in the actual administration panel associated with SFG Mr. Remi Pilat offers individual curiosity about the actual deal because referred to over, and also the purchase associated with gives within FSL through Mr. Remi Pilat qualifies like a deal having a associated individual. Besides the above mentioned, the actual people from the Administration Panel and also the Supervisory Local authority or council associated with SFG don’t have individual curiosity about the actual deal.
The actual purchase associated with FSL isn’t the materials deal inside the which means from the Tallinn Stock market Guidelines.
The primary focus on marketplaces associated with Silvano Style Team tend to be Spain, Belarus, the actual Baltic Says as well as Ukraine. Based on the macro-economic indications you will find more than two hundred zillion possible customers. This particular area might be split in to 3 components. .
Through recognized invite through Napoleon Believe in Europa, the consultant delegation associated with four through eighteen from the EFC fellow member says went to the Solemn Wedding ceremony along with Gala Night from among the castles close to Milan-Bergamo, sometimes the actual Repair from the Army Napoleon Purchase, developed by the actual France Emperor 206 in years past within Italia. Soon after which, in a two-day company workshop in the magnificent Great Resort Rental property Serbelloni in the River COMO within Bellagio, Italia each events completed the actual one-year planning for that Common Proper Relationship through putting your signature on a good contract between your Western Style Local authority or council and also the Globe Napoleonic Neighborhood system.
For that confirmed factor towards the modern improvement from the France ideals popular as well as artwork, arranged during the time of the actual Napoleon Period using the first oneness associated with style creative designers within the faraway 12 months associated with 1868, The actual Leader from the Western Style Local authority or council Nadya VALEVA /Bulgaria/ combined with the Vice Leader Doctor. Gabriella MANYI-WALEK /Hungary/ and also the people from the Panel Pads PEETERSSON /Sweden/ as well as Adrian MIZZI /Malta/ had been just about all provided the actual higher worldwide reputation? Napoleon Purchase and also the honourable name Lady/Sir being an phrase associated with higher honor as well as value.
The actual proper as well as monetary guidelines from the authorized contract really are a higher evaluation for that high quality as well as long-term viewpoints from the trigger with regard to creating as well as improvement associated with U . s . as well as Effective Style European countries via nion associated with Disciplines as well as Suggestions? This particular higher evaluation can also be attached to the actual institutional acceptance from the Western Style Local authority or council and also the conclusion associated with it’s ashion European countries? plan composed of associated with 127 actions, produced like a assistance for that style business as well as with regard to execution from the Western Fee UROPE2020? technique.
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Q.,
Don’t worry; these are the good folks that will fix all the worldly problems by smiling at them and thinking correct thoughts! And if that doesn’t work, relax, you’ve got all of eternity and reach of the cosmos to meditate on it.
See how nice?
Now get thee to an ass-ram, ASAP.
Just… breathe… no, you’re doing it wrong; try again… Breeeeathe… NO! Jeeziz, you can’t think correct thoughts if you can’t even breathe right!! Obviously, this is gonna take some time, training, and (of course) large wads of money handed to the proper people.
Mike,
Sounds like a fun time for all!
(Bring the kids!)
“According to a Gallop poll, 1 out of 4 Americans believe that the Earth has been visited by aliens from outerspace.” -Dr. P.
Kewl.
I guess that means it’s about 25% TRUE!
(Damn good thing it doesn’t originate from a Gallup poll, or this revelation might have some credibility. The Trot and Canter polls have intriguing results, but generally, equestrians tend to hold opinions endemic to a wealthy strata.)
Strangely enough, I had a dream last night about UFO’s in a daylight setting. (I’m not kidding.) They’d appear as a single, fast-moving brilliant light, then hover and split into a perfectly perpendicular line of four identical lights. When one to four of these separate points would appear, each would then split into the “stacked” formation. One became four; one out of four…
Pretty weird, Dr.; you may leave my head now. Thanks, that’s better.
Goddamit OzPete, that post about the ass-ram had me falling out of my chair.
To quote Crusty the Clown, “Its funny because its true”.
Now about that Kidd treasure on Edward Island in the Connecticut River … its just waiting there to be dug up.
–WSP7
So, here’s the deal. There is a first cousin to inanely beginning a sentence with “So” and that is inanely beginning a sentence with “Sure.”
At noon today CNBC will have on the show a guy named Dan Niles, a financial poo bah. Unless I am misremembering, he is a very dark-skinned Indian (dot, not feather), very handsome and articulate with zero Indian accent. (I only mention that as a fillip to Asoka about blacks inability or refusal to abandon Ebonics when a first generation Indian does it effortlessly). But I digress.
The subject is starting a sentence with a word that makes no sense. Tune in at noon and listen to the Niles interview. Here’s how it will go:
. Elaborate question by interviewer
. Answer by Niles that begins “Sure,……..”
“Michele Bachmann claims that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
So what, even if she did?”
“Michele Bachmann claims that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Fuck the Muslim Brotherhood. See below:
” July 8, 2012 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Muhammad Badi — also known as the group’s ‘Supreme Guide’ – said last week that waging jihad against Israel is an imperative for every Muslim. Middle East watcher Raymond Ibrahim who scours the Arabic press and translates it to English for Western eyes posted this revelation on his blog: According to last Thursday’s edition of Al Wafd, during his weekly sermon, ‘Muhammad Badi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, confirmed the necessity for every Muslim to strive to save al-Quds [Jerusalem] from the hands of the rapists [Israelis] and to cleanse Palestine from the clutches of the occupation, deeming this an individual duty for all Muslims.’ More specifically, he ‘called on all Muslims to wage jihad with their money and their selves to free al-Quds’—the same exact language one finds in al-Qaeda’s tracts. Earlier this year, the Middle East Media Research Institute translated a sermon of Badi’s in which he called for gradually establishing a global Islamic Caliphate leading to ‘mastership of the world.’ Another sermon of Badi’s which raised eyebrows in the U.S. was delivered in October 2010, when he said the U.S. was doomed to collapse due to its immorality.”
Mater-fucking-ship of the world. What a lovely bunch.
Me neither! But how about this? “You don’t listen too well, do you Asoka?”
I mean, which one is, like correct? The punctuation mark is supposed to go in the, like, middle? Or is it the end? Like, I’m so thoroughly confused? Gag me with a spoon, fer shure?
What about people who start sentences with too, instead of also?
Example:
Too, I went to English class to have a nap.
Spock never got laid.
http://enc.slider.com/Enc/Kunat_kalifee
“So, a needle pulling thread.” or “Sew, a needle pulling thread?” “Also, a needle pulling thread?” Ouch! My head, like, hurts?
What about people who start sentences with too,
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Yeah, that too. But I’ve got enough on my plate already between UpTalk, Vocal Fry and sentences beginning with So and Sure. Let’s not add in sentences beginning with Too or I’ll be spending the weekend under surveillance at Greystone.
I wasn’t going to bring this up but there is another synonym for also that bugs the shit out of me: “as well.” Just sit there and slowly say those two words and think about them as you do. How in God’s name does “as well” equate to also?
There Meter is/was Jazz.
With the decline of society, tastes, etc its now [C]Rap.
And yes, few are Classical Musicians or Conductors.
Are any Conductors?
Dee, far as bombs and Mossad go, I dont know.
Maybe bombs are now very small.
Q, Me is often times flummoxed by the use of aslo instead of asswhole. Plaese keap up the good fight for propere americen spellig, et seams to be a lost art taday amongst the General Pop, That would be General Pop of the famous “F-troup”.It is finally raining here, thanks Gaia, My plants are smiling and so am I! ;o)
Jim, I am currently only 35 pages into your new book, “Too Much Magic” and I am enjoying it greatly.
I ran across this link and piece this morning which should interest all who read the comments here:
It concerns Peak Growth and the author doesn’t even hit on Peak Oil, Peak Energy, resource depletion, environmental concerns, aquifers drying up, suburbs and exburbs dying, etc.
He’s looking at debt, demographics, and population growth in the USA to warn of growth which is far smaller than what the government projects:
http://danielamerman.com/articles/2012/OverC.html
Too, it started to rain a little hear as well?
Ar! Ar! Humer!
Apparently Dan Niles is not the Indian dude I thought he was. The interview was done by phone, not face to face, so i couldn’t get a look at him. The word “Sure” never came up so I assume I, in fact, misremembered.
“Many areas are going to be still reasonably stable. Even in the US some regions will be relatively untouched.”
As a representative of an institution of higher learning, I would think that you would be familiar with the phrase “Okie migration”. How untouched will the “reasonably stable” regions be once the next Okie migration happens? How hard will the “reasonably stable” inhabitants try to keep the poor out? Will they kill? By the way, helicopters can be brought down by small arms fire.
Well, hang on. Maybe there are different ways (coming from different part of the human being) of doing music. I read a book about the violin by the Master, Yehudi Menuhin. Towards the end of his career and life, he remembered with great fondness the joy he had as a boy playing music with the Gypsies. No written music, never exactly the same way twice, but oh the skill and the joy. He realized that this was a Tradition too – as well as the great Masters of the fiddle in the British Isles. He went to study with them and was amazed at some of things they could do – he didn’t understand how it was even possible. Clearly the Music and instrument play the man and change his nervous system over time.
Can the our Classical Traditon match or equal the spontaneous joy of the Folk Traditions? No, nor should it try: they are different. But even the Great Composers have taken from these traditions -and if they should ever cease to do so, their art might become sterile…And with the destruction of the Folk Traditions, have we seen an impact on the Classical? Is it becoming sterile? You tell me, I don’t keep up with it. But I wouldn’t bet against it….
In the Vedas, Society is describe as the Cosmic Man. So Classical and “Court” Traditions would be up in the Head. But does the Head live alone? Can it, without the stomach, the legs, the arms etc? Our Elite seem to think so – and they already show signs of weakening. Thank God, they will pass away. Rama of the Axe had to destroy parasites like thise 21 times.
So I would say Blacks like Gypsies can have great skill at real time or improvisation. What center or chakra would this be from? The manipura or anahata? Of course, even great Classicists touch these, else their art would have no life. Seizi Ozawa, conductor of the Boston Symphony, was famous for jumping up and down trying to be emotional. Yo Yo Ma is extremely joyfull without such emotionalism – which is quite alien to East Asians in general.
Rush said that Huma’s mother is best friends with the new first lady of Egypt. Is this affecting (is this correct or should it be effecting) our foreign policy? Is it the Ya Ya Sisterhood?
Not anymore than you being friends with David Duke would change KKK policy. Being friends with someone (“having ties”) is not a crime.
xhaler,
Did civilization break down during the Okie migration? I think not.
Yes, small arms fire can occasionally bring down helicopters, but it is rare without full auto weapons with tracers. If it was an easy thing to do, all of our choppers in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan would have been shot down. Also, your aim is worse when bullets are coming back at you as they would in such a case.
It is highly unlikely that disaffected people would be able to mount a long siege on a gate community. They would most likely get tired and bored after a few days, and if things were bad they would run out of supplies and ammo since they would have trouble getting gas to resupply.
The whole idea of an extended revolution of the 99% against the 1% is ludicrous, because of reasons I have stated before.
I’m afraid this subject is over your head.
I’m at the fiftieth chakra now. Are you saying there is a fifty-first chakra above that?
I didn’t say it would be easy. I said it could be done. If the only thing that you have left to do is revolt, I say it’s pretty unlikely that you will get “bored” with it. During a siege, that resupply problem works both ways.
“Being friends with someone (“having ties”) is not a crime.”
No, but being friends with an asshole, tends to make one an asshole.
“The whole idea of an extended revolution of the 99% against the 1% is ludicrous, because of reasons I have stated before.”
Hey, moron take a peek around the world. When the 99% get busy, it is merely a matter of time. You think Assad is going to still be passing water a month from now? Get a clue.
Toronto is Canada’s multicultural headquarters. People have come to live here from all over the world. A quarter-million of them are from Jamaica. Most of these qualify as black.
Over the past week, young men with guns have done some killing. Some of the victims are black, and seem to be Jamaican as well (appearance, names, etc). One of the gunmen is very likely both black and Jamaican (location of crime, crime statistics).
The killings have made headlines. One of them, the beginning: “African-Canadians not consulted…”
Now I ask you, what is someone who is, in fact,
from Africa supposed to make of this headline?
Take my friend E, a black man from Liberia. If E decides that being called an African-Canadian is fine with him, what is he to make of my other friend P, also black, also without objection to being called African-Canadian, but hailing from Jamaica?
They can’t both be African-Canadians can they?
African-Canadian.
Jamaican-Canadian.
Jamaican-Canadian-African.
Racial classification is a puzzle. Can’t be otherwise. But shouldn’t we try not to turn it into an absurdity?
mistified, Raymond Ibrahim is a purveyor of hoaxes affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an extreme right-wing organization whose founder and namesake is well-known for uncivil and racist attacks on liberal, progressive and leftist political groups.
But he sure draws in the willing Islamophobes, like you and anti soak.
There Meter is/was Jazz.
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I believe the word you’re going for is métier.
n.
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
pronounced: MAY-tyay
And, oh by the way, it’s their not there.
Have you ever been tested for ADHD? You seem to have great difficulty focusing when writing.
You are truly mistified,
Murikans have been trained for many years that the “real enemy” is the “other”, other race, other religion, other sexuality …
Most Murikans worship the 1%, because the 1% are the “job creators”, and because each of them will join the 1%, when they have their million dollar ideas or win the lottery.
Another thing that is a problem is that is shooting another person is not a natural act. In WW II they found that most soldiers, who were trained to sight targets and shoot, refused to shoot at the enemy. This is why military training has changed to suppressing fire, i.e. spray and pray. This is why in Iraq more than 250,000 rounds are expended for every one that hits an enemy. This is possible because the military has and almost unlimited budget and great supply.
When most people see a person in their sights, they cannot shoot them.
Additionally, Murikans have very short attention spans and don’t like to be uncomfortable.
The first rain, snow or cold will send them home.
I’ve heard of one conductor. He went into a towering rage at the idea of affirmative action in the world of Classical Music. He knew that would be the end of it since no one would come if the quality went down.
So in other words Hillary is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood ALREADY. Thanks for clarifying our point and muddying your own.
Are you saying there is a fifty-first chakra above that?
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Yes, it is sometimes refered to as Chakra Khan.
Thanks for admitting you are sleeping with David Duke. You have no point.
When most people see a person in their sights, they cannot shoot them.
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Really!? I’ve never had a problem with it ;0)
Hey Everybody! We got a new NUT! Or maybe an old NUT sporting a new handle. Spray and pray? Who is telling you this shit? Yeah, the army has known about the hesitancy problem since WWII. Which is exactly why they drill you (and drill you, and drill you) in BASIC TRAINING to treat the enemy like a silhouette. You know, like on the live fire ranges. Maybe you don’t know. Drill, baby, drill. Do you know how MANY vets there are out there who know this? Do you know how many gun nuts there are coast to coast who not only make their own ammo but make their own weapons? Keep in mind, the hesitancy problem and the extreme environment problem exists on the other side of the gate too. Probably even more so.
the army has known about the hesitancy problem since WWII.
So you go through Basic Training to become an automaton and then you just pull the trigger?
Like in Century 16?
Hey Everybody! We got a new NUT!
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Until I read further I thought you were talking about our new mass murderer out in Colorado. In the picture they are showing of the “suspect” he has that certain off-kilter demented look, something like Jared Loughner.
Uh…yeah. They brainwash you. Depending on your particular function, some get brainwashed WAY more than others. I was REALLY brainwashed. But then, I wasn’t an army manicurist either. Q, (I hate your new handle) the kook in Colorado is the direct result of this country’s obsession with making a buck from intermingling violence and sex in popular media. I’ve always found the state of Colorado to be weird. The EPA should check the water supply in Denver.
Doesn’t look like he has a “certain off-kilter demented look.” He just looks white, like Jared Loughner.
I was REALLY brainwashed.
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How many people do you think you have killed? More than Jared Loughner? More than James Holmes? Do you have any feeling at all for those you kill? Or does the brainwashing do away completely with remorse?
Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002b) where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented (Scholes 1977;]
I have trouble ‘keyboarding’, not writing.
You might know the line ‘Hemmingway wrote that book’ and Capote replied ‘No, he typed it’. Or somesuch reply.
I cant believe I confused there/their!
xhalor,
Watch most of the video shown of soldiers in combat. In Vietnam, soldiers sat behind a wall, held their M-16s up over their heads over the wall and emptied their clips.
There is another video in Iraq where 5 soldiers on a roof unload several hundred rounds at a car across the street and the “bad guys” got away.
Most of the rounds the soldiers shoot are suppressive fire. I don’t blame them, it is a good way to make the enemy keep their heads down. Also, if you fire enough the enemy will back off even if you don’t kill any of them.
Wanna see my scalps? I’m particularly proud of the scalps of the motherfuckers who were trying to kill me.
[gate ?]
Well what about water and power supplies? Food?
Islands are safer than Toris Mansion.
I drove by hers the other day. 55,000 feet of Faux French design. Built to impress, not built to be off the grid!
Now you’re catching on. The most valuable piece of equipment that you have is that Chair Force person (you WILL take the bullet for them) attached to your unit who has the codes to call in the air strikes.
Q, (I hate your new handle)
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I had no choice. I am still banned (403 Forbidden) under my old handle. I had to create a new email acct under a new ISP and then a new handle. The handle I chose was an attempt to remain recognizable by spelling Q phonetically as Kyoo.
Thats his specialty. Pope A the First, sermonizing, pontificating on whats way beyond
his ken.
First of all, you are watching what you are shown. If they’re expending ammo like that, it means that they have either been recently re-supplied or do not have a problem getting re-supplied. That just isn’t always the case. Sure looks good on TV don’t it? I know they love it in Denver.
anti,
Not every mansion is set up for defense.
In most areas a well provides ample water, and emergency generators are available to keep refrigeration and lighting.
Most everyone has a week or two of food at home at any time. The rabble will get bored, tired or hungry in a week or two. They may run out of caviar and the really good vintages in their wine cellars.
If it lasts any longer they will contact their political friends, who they put in office, to send the National Guard to disperse the rabble.
To all those who want to take on the wealthy, try going to Caliber 3 shooting school to get training in killing, if you didn’t get it from Uncle Sam. However, remember that the mercenaries protecting the 1% got their training in special forces in the US or elsewhere.
xhalor,
That kind of shooting was not uncommon in Iraq. That is why the military bought almost every available 5.56 mm round in the world. As I recall they were expending 6 billion rounds a year in combat and training.
That kind of shooting is not uncommon PERIOD. Dude, you are a trip. Obviously, you have not been in a situation where shots were fired at you in anger. City fighting is THE most dangerous assignment there is. Special Ops and Mercs? They’re not GODS. They bleed, fall down and die like everyone else. They also know when they’re hopelessly outnumbered.
Revolutionaries.
Guess it’s a good thing that they all didn’t split at Valley Forge when the caviar ran out.
I’ve always found the state of Colorado to be weird*.
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Agreed. It’s crawling with people wasting their time sitting in the Lotus position in a “stupid” thinking about God only knows what. If they’d all just go home, do the dishes and vacuum the carpet they’d be so much better off. I offer Rob and Paulette, about whom I have written extensively a couple of years ago, as Exhibit A. I couldn’t say for sure but I think Rob is still working on his one million prostrations.
* exception to i before e rule
They are our scalps. I was probably still working and paying taxes to finance your Basic Training. They are my scalps, too.
6 billions rounds a year, and we still had to slink out of the country with our tail between our legs under the cover of darkness, leaving an Iran-friendly Shia government in Iraq.
Does not speak well for the tauted effectiveness of violence.
CORRECTION
Does not speak well for the touted effectiveness of violence.
CORRECTION TO THE CORRECTION
Does not speak well for the touted effectiveness of violence.
Nor does it speak well for the touted effectiveness of Basic Training! 60 Billion fucking rounds not well spent. But somebody got rich from it … not the taxpayers.
Man, would you grow the fuck up. It wasn’t all that long ago that we were swingin’ from limb to limb. The mortal combat that appalls you so much is probably not going to change in your lifetime. But, like myself, keep the ball rolling. What I learned in Basic Training kept my ass alive more than once. Here’s the fucked up part. I may have the scalps, but I sure didn’t get any of the money.
xhalor,
“I may have the scalps, but I sure didn’t get any of the money.”
If you actually have physical scalps, you are one sick puppy.
You probably were not sick before being sent to fight in a war that did not make us any safer.
I am so sorry that so many have been sent to fight useless wars and have been so badly damaged.
We need to make sure our politicians only send soldiers to fight needed wars. The last one that was really needed was WW II.
I am so glad that I was too young to be sent to Vietnam. I am sure that I would have come back damaged too.
Rob and Paulette? I can’t recall the stories, and would like to read about them.
Damaged. Hmmm…There are some things that I have done in service of my country that I am truly ashamed of. Horrified. Typing about these experiences means that it will fuck me up for at least the next couple of days.
HOWEVER,
Some things I did needed to be done. It might not have made Americans safer, but it definitely made other people safer. Do you think that monsters only exist in the USA? I can assure you, they do not.
And no, I do not have any scalps. How fuckin’ gross. I did keep a uniform that had my best friend’s guts all over it until the MP’s tried to take it away from me. That was one hell of a fight. It took a phone call from Mom to make me give it up voluntarily.
All right. I have to mop floors now.
Talk about your appropriate names…Dennis Rodman was in the Philippines for an exhibition game and met his estranged father after 42 years of separation. His father’s name is “Philander” Rodman Jr. and he has acknowledged fathering 29 children by 16 mothers.
You can’t make shit like this up!
Vlad, your thoughts?
xhalor,
I’m am truly sorry that this is a hard thing to deal with, and understand that in the circumstances that you were placed, made you do terrible things. My uncle fought in the South Pacific as a Marine and never talked about it.
I pray that you can heal as best as possible and that we stop letting our leaders send our best into terrible situations without need.
We can’t be the world’s police.
Smedly Butler was correct in saying that war is a racket.
Bless you.
A neighbor of the gunman’s family home near San Diego said that he was frustrated at not being able to find a job after graduating from UC Riverside. So he tried grad school in Colorado.
Didn’t JHK make reference to how the long-term crappy economy is frustrating young adults?
Names? Monikers? Aliases?
Kyooshtik.
You’re an Inuit Indian.
Latinos to Romney: “Papers, please.”
Romney supported the Arizona law to ask Latinos for their papers, but Romney won’t show his papers, his tax forms, to the nation.
When Romney was running (sole owner CEO) Bain, he invested tens of millions of dollars in a pair of companies that specialized in outsourcing high-tech manufacturing and that developed offshore production facilities in Mexico, China, and elsewhere to build electronics for USA firms.
How patriotic is Romney?
Does he just want to become President for his own personal gain? Why is he afraid to release multiple years of his returns, like every other presidential candidate in United States history has done?
Romney claims his business experience is relevant to his ability to become President. We, the people, are entitled to know how our possible future president made his income, how much taxes he has paid as well as to know what and where he has invested.
Mitt Romney’s own father — George Romney — released 12 years of his tax returns when he was seeking the 1968 Republican Presidential nomination.
Bob Dole — the Republican presidential nominee in 1996 — released 30 years of his past returns, while George W. Bush released nine years and Barack Obama seven.
General Butler was correct. Even if he was a GOAT testicle suckin’ Marine. Must get moppin’
God, I’m so weak.
Don’t diss the Marines. Semper Fi!
You are a disgrace to the state of Indiana.
Yes. Yes, I am.
BUT, I got Mr. Clean on my side.
That is, until Mrs. Clean comes lookin’ for him.
LOL!
I still like you, xhalor … as a person.
Asoka – break out of your left right mind control.
The federal government spends 9+ billion per day and 3.8 billion of the 9 billion is BORROWED. Both republican and democrat “leaders” know it is all a bs act.The system will collapse due to the lunitic “money printers” and the people willingness to be led over the cliff. Knock yourself out with my team is the best!
As your lawyer, I recommend that you watch the movie “Moneyball” as it relates to the performance of the “team”. The battles I’ve had with Asoka (gag) on this blog are legendary. But he’s here. And ain’t that what we do “here”. Once I had an African American (oh man do I hate that phrase) cab driver in Buffalo, NY. We were listening to some radio station blathering on about a “Back To Africa” movement. My driver said, “Back to Africa? Man, I’m from Buffalo. What the fuck am I gonna do in Africa?” Until further notice, OUR team is the best. Life will go on without George Washington on the one dollar bill. Maybe George Steinbrenner? What am I saying?! I’m a Dodgers fan!
The system will collapse due to the lunitic “money printers”
Oh, really? Printing money will cause the system to collapse? When might that be? We have been printing money for over 70 years with ups and downs, but no definitive collapse.
What proof do you have the system is going to collapse? When will that happen?
Break free of your conservative / libertarian / Ayn Rand / Ron Paul / Tea Party / Austrian economics / Ludwig von Mises / Murray Rothbard / Milton Friedman / Rand Paul conditioning.
It does not matter how much is BORROWED. As Cheney said: “Deficits don’t matter.” And history has proven Cheney was right.
I like plain speech xhalor. Your message is greek.
Everything is fine for now.
Voltaire
The ponzi scheme take a few years to come to bear fruit. Henry “Frankenstein” Paulson “saved” us in 2008. Everything is fine for now. Drink your kool-aid I see green shoots, and Jon Corzine is in South America?
Asoka – In 1991 if you made $75,000 per year that would equal $138,000 in todays terms. Why?
“Reagan,” Vice President Dick Cheney famously declared in 2002, “proved deficits don’t matter.”
Unless, that is, a Democrat is in the White House.
After all, while Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt and George W. Bush doubled it again, each Republican was rewarded with a second term in office.
But as the Gallup polling data show, concern over the federal deficit hasn’t been this high since Democratic budget-balancer Bill Clinton was in office.
All of which suggest the Republicans’ born-again disdain for deficits ranks among the greatest — and most successful — political double-standards in recent memory.
Locked into to your republicans are the devil and democrats spread peace and love.
The Titantic is taking on water BOTH parties have screwed the American people. The central banks, multi-national corps., and miltary industrial complex run the country. BTW – Billy and Robert Rubin (Glass-Steagall repealed) allowed the alchemist on Wall Street to create their paper empires. CFR and Trilateral Boys ran Bush and the choosen one BO.
If you see green shoots, you must be looking down at the ground. That’s where the green shoots are. That’s where ALL the real wealth comes from.
If you’re still expecting to get all of your money out of weird-assed financial instruments,
Good Luck With That Shit.
Not too Greek I hope.
Gravity doesn’t matter either. Until you hit the concrete.
You are funny!
I have never made $75,000 a year in my life!
I now make $12,000 a year and live like a king.
Your question is meaningless.
No I don’t drink at the paper ponzi well. Fertile land and water is valued. You made sense this time.
Gravity. So, when you hit the concrete, you, personally, are done, right. Splat city.
More Green Shoots For Me!
There it is!
The CFN motto: “Things work, until they don’t.”
Meaningless paranoid babble.
Really $12,000. You only had to make $7,000 in 1991 to keep up your “kingly lifestyle) Now you have to bust you behind to make that extra $5000.
Why is that? 40% more just to stay in kingsville.
Fertile land and water is valued.
Shades of Henry George:
“For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.”
SOURCE: Progress and Poverty (bk. VII, ch. I)
OK – you know with Agenda 21 you won’t have any fertile land?
Obama will make it all equal?
Look at what’s happening. The roots of the modern banking scandals are generations old. Face it, dude. You, and most people from my generation, have been hoodwinked. Nouriel Roubini will not comment on this situation because he says that all of his knowledge is based on laws being enforced. Proposals?
Yeah. No debt. Buy land and metals. F- the banksters.
What you are saying is something that you evidently divine from a theory you have about economics, but it does not jive with my reality. Your idea that “inflation” is somehow hurting me are false.
Likewise, no one has “stolen” anything from me. I worked 45 years. I contributed through prepaid salary deductions to Social Security, and now I am getting my money back, a $1,000 a month.
I live very well on $12,000 because I prepared, because I simplified my life, because I developed an inner life, and because I understand the difference between needs and wants. I am extremely happy.
You sound unhappy. You seem to think nebulous forces are somehow “taking” something from you through the use of a printing press that endlessly prints money.
I feel sorry for you.
Barter. Speak the truth not parrot some gd party line.
I always wondered what was going to revive square-dancing.
Yeah. No debt. Buy land and metals. F- the banksters.
Does this bring you happiness? How are you fucking the banksters? Just the female banksters? Or all of them? You sound angry, and fearful. I feel sorry for you.
Your check will arrive each month and will buy less, less, less, and less. Yes, you did pay in and you deserve what you paid in back. However, the money has been mismanaged/stolen. Therefore, it will be printed and devalued and mailed out to keep people like your from understanding that you are having your “money” stolen. Inflation is real like gravity. It is not nebulous. I suggest alternation income stream or your own food production because you will need a plan B.
comic,
A good chunk of inflation is because everything is done with borrowing, including the creation of money” and the lenders have to collect their interest.
Banks create the money out of thin air when they lend it and then profit from nothing.
If you trust the CPI (which I don’t) I am making 58% more in terms of purchasing power than when I first started working.
Of course since Clinton changed the calculations, these numbers are too low. Check the Shadow Government Statistics page to see a more accurate numbers.
So is plan B going to make you happy? You are pointing out things that the people on this blog have known for quite some time. You have not come to grips with your mortality yet. You are just like most of the white men that I’ve known for most of my life. What the fuck makes you happy? Perhaps you revel in your misery. You are going to be let down. You are going to experience pain. Real pain. Maybe you should wear your best friend’s guts on your uniform for a while.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all hidden forces of economic law on the side of the destructor and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. John Maynard Keynes
You’re afraid. Fear gets you NOTHING. Cosmictraveler my ass.
No plan B allows you to eat. That promotes survival and the pursuit of happiness.
So what the fuck makes you happy, retard?
xhalor – lets not drop to a low level of discussion. Looking for truth makes me happy. Facing the truth as I see it. We are living in historic times and the financial tsunami that is going to hit “us all” won’t be pretty. I won’t be conned by mass media and scum that poses as leadership. What makes you happy?
What makes ME happy?
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHI7_PMFNc
MuddMike – ain’t it ashame that the population puts up with these robbers. See the quote by John Maynard Keynes. These ivy leagues bastard are raping and stealing and people are content to get their monthly check. God help us.
Enough pearls for swine….
If the government really printed money there would be fewer problems. At least this printed money would be used to buy services and products such as roads and infrastructure. (As long as it wasn’t military hardware which just gets blown up.)
The problem is that the government gave away the creation of money to the Fed, and also the banks with fractional reserve banking.
The government can still create coins, which has lead to an interesting idea I heard. The plan is for the government should make a few trillion dollar coins and pay off the Fed with those. Genius!
I concur. More swine…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuNALpGBxK0
These ivy leagues bastard are raping and stealing and people are content to get their monthly check.
Yes, I am content. I am ecstatic each time the Big Government deposits the check. And guess what? Even if I don’t spend all the previous month’s check, they don’t care… they give me more of my money! Getting my monthly check is my reality and I accept it.
You seem pissed at some nebulous “ivy league bastards” … and smug that you know about this big heist going on, but us poor hoodwinked retirees have no clue … but you do nothing about it except bitch and moan and whine. What are you going to do?
Assad and wife.
When Bashar Assad’s wife began to count the pros and cons of taking Assad as a mate, his wealth must have counted for a lot. More so his power, that hormone-stimulating tyrant-power. She married Assad, we’ll say, because she saw him as a king or a king-to-be and she wanted to be a queen.
With the Syrian regime about to fall, what is going to happen to this pair? Will they be spirited off to Hague for trial or will they be dragged into the street and shot?
Hypergamy is natural. It is one of nature’s dictates. But some women pay a high price for obeying.
People like you will be begging me for food and water because you “trust” your paper check in the mail. I will be ready to help. Would be easier if people like you prepared. Maybe look at Argentina as a case study 2000.
I will not be begging. I have no fear of death. You seem to think survival at all costs is the goal … do you not know you are going to die anyway?
What is the goal?
Good on you: you know that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote and now you seem to be waking up to what Blacks are.
Check this out: Cameroonian Beast knowingly infects 40 Polish Women with AIDS. He told the stupid White Women that using a condom with a Black Man was a form or racism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yB69UkJGwk&list=FL_gVKrIjD2M9aYEKqGmgaGA&index=249&feature=plpp_video
Good one, X.
The Night-Tripper gets it done, yet again!
Here’s one strange Canadian-esque derivation of the John Lee Hooker patented endless boogie that you can beat yawse’f aroun’ da head ‘n’ shoulders with. (Played and recorded quite nicely, even if a bit “La Grange-y”.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpANejw-7pw
To boogie is the goal and the only serious end-all to be-all. (Great googely-moogely, I thought everyone knew that.)
Er… might that be “googley-moogley”? Quick, somebody look it up!!
Hey, X!
Plus, with that video, you get a smokin’ fine ad for smokin’ hot X-tian babes! What more could one ask?? (…I ask you.)
Yes, I’m all about the bible studyin’… honest.
The goal is to figure out what being dead is like and to live your life in preparation for being dead. This what the hedonist does as well as the ascetic, the disbeliever in immortality as well as the believer. Which is to say, everyone
I copied the statistics below exactly from an article (cut and paste). I don’t know why the Newseek poll is referred to as a “Pole”?
1996
NEWSWEEK POLE (Nov)
48% believe UFO’s are real
29% believe that we have made contact with aliens
48% believe that there is a government conspiracy to cover it up
1997
GALLUP POLL IN US (Sept)
87% Americans have read or heard about UFO’s
12% reported that they had something that they thought was a UFO
45% think UFO’s have visited earth
48% believe UFO’s are something real
31% believe UFO’s are the result of people’s imagination
72% believe that there is life in some form on other planets in the Universe
38% believe that there are people somewhat like ourselves living on other planets
71% believe that the US Government knows more about UFO’s than it’s telling
1997
CNN/TIME MAGAZINE POLL (June)
80% believe that the government is hiding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms
54% believe intelligent life exists beyond earth
64% believe aliens have contact humans
50% believe that aliens have abducted humans
93% have never been abducted
91% have never had contact with aliens
75% had never seen a UFO or knew of anyone who had
37% believe that aliens have contacted the US government
75% believe that a UFO crashed near Roswell
26% believe that they would be expected to be treated as an enemy
39% believe that aliens would appear very humanoid
35% believe that aliens would look somewhat human
June 1997 – UK
Largest Opinion Poll on UFO’s conducted after a live UFO debate on ITV entitled Strange but True. The question was “Have aliens already visited earth”.
Audience rating was just under 7 million.
92% voted in favor of the extraterrestrial hypothesis with a margin of plus minus 6%.
Three days after the program ITV Telecast ran their own telephone poll and asked “Do aliens exist?” Out of 2,215 votes cast, 87% answered Yes and 11% answered No.
cosmictraveler, the goal is to drop having goals; to live without desire to attain anything, to see clearly that all goals are false, that you need not go anywhere, that you need not attain anything to be blissful, that to be blissful is your nature.
It is enough just to feel grateful for each in-breath and each out-breath, to simply surrender to and enjoy your essence.
Then, when the moment of death comes, that too will be a joyful moment.
Well if most Murikans believe it is true then it MUST Be TRUE!
Also, you found it on the internet, so it is doubly true!
Damn! I really want to respond but I’m TOTALLY bogged down with plumbing and Captain Beefheart tutorials. Watch the skies….
Here ya go SJMom. Vlad was Jaego back when I replied to him about his desire to stomp on me like Shiva.
Qshtik replied to comment from Jaego Scorzne | October 1, 2009 4:41 PM | Reply
“You get smaller every day little man.”
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Ooooooo, I think I blew ice cold air on an exposed tooth nerve ….. whatever.
Let me go right to your second paragraph question: “Ever see the statue of Shiva dancing?”
Actually, I have. And it gives me a perfect lead-in to one of many “nutcase” stories burning inside me to get out. Maybe you and Abbey will be able to spot yourselves in this story … like finding Waldo.
Rob is the third husband of my wife’s cousin, Paulette. She is his second wife. They live in Denver. Rob is an exceptionally interesting, knowledgeable and funny guy although it invariably wears thin when he talks 12 hours straight, goes to bed, wakes up and picks up right where he left off.
Rob is a Tibetan Buddhist. This is not a new thing with Rob … in the distant past he abandoned whatever traditional Christian religion he was born into. Rob flies in to the NY metro area once or twice a year to get “life coaching” from his “rinpoche.” He stays with my wife and me because he doesn’t have two nickels to rub together.
Paulette, a long ago fallen away Catholic, does not put a label on her current belief system but she is guided by a Hindu “swamiji.” (At some appropriate age she ran like Usain Bolt from Catholicism as just one of many ways to emphatically reject all things connected to her mother.)
Rob hated his prominent architect father but why, I don’t know. Paulette hated her mother from childhood on. Rob and Paulette both adore dogs. In fact one of their main sources of income is sitting and walking other people’s dogs. Paulette communicates well with dogs but poorly with people. Sadness oozes from a picture of Paulette at age 10 standing in the back yard with her dog. She’s a vegetarian but is overweight and has diabetes. Go figure. I say she could use a nice T-bone steak. She seeks, but does not find, happiness in all things non-traditional.
But I’m getting off track … back to Shiva.
We took Rob to the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC. It’s a gorgeous 7 floor building containing a vast collection of Himalayan art. (Jaego, you should check it out if you ever come to NY from your place in Montana (or Idaho?) where you’re holed-up with your weapons cache awaiting the brown hordes). Rob knows chapter and verse about nearly every piece. He could replace the resident docent in a heartbeat. People started trailing our little threesome around the museum to be within earshot as Rob held forth expertly in his booming voice. So, yes Jaego, I’ve seen the Shiva statue and if it’s me you see under his feet it’s just wishfull thinking.
If you take Rob and Paulette’s prodigious accumulated knowledge of every asian belief system known to man and combine it with two bucks it’ll get you a ride on the subway.
Why do I make this snide observation? Because these two highly educated people can’t seem to support themselves. Their only significant possession is a tiny bungalow inherited in excellent condition from Paulette’s hated mother and since fallen into disrepair. The house has been refi’d several times to pay down credit card debt and raise cash for groceries. The mom kept the house like Felix Unger but since R & P took over it’s become a dump. Paulette has zero decorating or other homemaking skills and doesn’t know how to boil water nor has the least inclination to learn. Her first two husbands made their livings by sponging off people. Paulette’s mate selection instincts are equal to her cooking skills. Needless to say, neither R nor P has any children … a curse that, never having had them, they will never understand. They are hounded by bill collectors yet Paulette ordered a large expensive statue of Budda from a Jackalopes outlet (full of useless junk that Kunstler would scoff at) 400 miles away in Santa Fee and drove there to pick it up. It sits today in an unkempt shrine in their backyard. Rob committed to doing, over a period of years, a huge number (a million, I think) of “prostrations” as a spiritual exercise. Rob is a former drug and alcohol abuser. Paulette is a compulsive buyer of jewelry and even her swamiji told her it was unseemly. Instead of working at making a decent life for themselves they fritter away their time and energy doing the bidding of their spiritual guides. She goes to a “stupa” up in the mountains. My wife gets annoyed with me when I call it a “stupid.”
Both R & P are consumed with the idea that everything is controlled by never-named hidden powerful people. As much as they detested George W. they are certain he was under the control of others … and not Dick Chaney. Chaney was a mere puppet too. They see these dark forces as the cause of their difficult life. Paulette tries incessantly to sell her religious and political convictions to the point where people flee from her like they flee Morman missionaries. After a week swing through the southwest a few years back I told my wife I would never again allow myself to be trapped on a “vacation” with such a negative person.
All Paulette and Rob have is each other and a gigantic dog named Yogi.
Despite my lack of formal schooling in mental disorders I know “fucked up” when I see it.
asoka replied to comment from Qshtik | October 1, 2009 4:53 PM | Reply
Qshtik,
Have you ever thought of writing a novel? You have the material for it in your own family.
Hare Krishna!
Q., it even reads better the second time.
Good writing! Thanks for sharing it again.
Om Namah Shivayah!
A Lesson in Logic
Two Guy’s, Larry and Tom, are sitting at their favorite bar, drinking beer.
Larry turns to Tom and says, ‘You know, I’m tired of going through life without an education. Tomorrow I think I’ll go to the Community College
and sign up for some classes.’
Tom thinks it’s a good idea and the two leave.
The next day, Larry goes down to the college and meets Dean of Admissions, who signs him up for the four basic classes: Math, English, history, and Logic.
‘Logic?’ Larry says. ‘What’s that?’
The dean says, ‘I’ll give you an example. Do you own a weed eater?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Then logically speaking, because you own a weed eater, I think that you would have a yard.’
‘That’s true, I do have a yard.’
‘I’m not done,’ the dean says. ‘Because you have a yard, I think logically that you would have a house.’
‘Yes, I do have a house.’
‘And because you have a house, I think that you might logically have a family.’
‘Yes, I have a family.
‘I’m not done yet. Because you have a family, then logically you must have a wife. And because you have a wife, then logic tells me you must be a
heterosexual.’
‘I am a heterosexual. That’s amazing, you were able to find out all of that because I have a weed eater.’
Excited to take the class now, Larry shakes the Dean’s hand and leaves to go meet Tom at the bar. He tells Tom about his classes, how he is signed
up for Math, English, History, and Logic.
‘Logic?’ Tom says, ‘What’s that?’
Larry says, ‘I’ll give you an example. Do you have a weed eater?’
‘No.’
‘Then you’re a queer’
That Jaego was quite a guy – I love his comeback.
I’ve been doing a modified prostration. It is very good exercise, stimulating the front of the body and stretching the back like the Cobra Pose in Yoga. And it really is great for the triceps – it works them better in some ways than a pushup since the shoulders are less in use.
I feel myself becoming superman like the Lobsang Rampa, the unemployed English plumber.
René Descartes is sitting in a bar, having a drink. The bartender asks him if he would like another. “I think not,” he says and vanishes in a puff of logic.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”
“I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes” replies Watson.
“And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson ponders for a minute.
“Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three.
Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?”
Holmes is silent for a moment. “Watson, you idiot!” he says. “Someone has stolen our tent!”
Cover “what” up?
“48% believe that there is a government conspiracy to cover it up.”
I once had a housemate who had been a Hare Krishna. Once while chanting, he saw a vision of a rabbit. So for a while, he chanted “Hare” Krisna with only one syllable in the Hare.
Visualizing “chakras” is not samadhi and the former is utterly unnecessary to the latter. (And not helpful to it.) I have no idea what you’re babbling about.
“Chakras” are nowhere mentioned, by the way, in the Dharma-Manu Shastra, the Bhagavad-Gita and other Upanishads, the Vijnana Bhairava, the Yoga-Vasistha, the Crest Jewel of Wisdom, or Sankara’s “Essence of Vedanta,” or Narada’s Bhakti-Sutra. Bark up some other tree about your “chakras.”
“Maybe there are different ways (coming from different part of the human being) of doing music.”
That’s as obvious as the sun.
But my points were two: That blacks likely lack the I.Q. to be able to read sheet music. (I am a musician and I never learned how to read sheet music and found it unnecessary.) You didn’t grasp my essential point.
My second point was that black music is very overrated. I’ll stand by that, for myself. I have wide ranging tastes in music, but I almost always prefer White Soul Music to Black. Orchestral music is, of course, one of the richest forms of White Soul music. I also enjoy the music I hear in the coffee shops of Portland by young “indy” and recent bands. It also has White characteristics: Strong melody, singerly singing values, emphasis on sonics and tone, well-composed harmony, a lot of song structure, excellent “hooks” (highly original and interesting melodic sections). Likely none of these young men and women know how to read music. These are White singing values. As for me, give me the White soul music.
Black music is absurdly overrated among Whites.
Yesterday, both O & R, made break to score some political points using tragedy in Colorado to “connect” with voters. And it works because: “To me they came across to be ” or “To me they appeared to be” genuinely shaken by the sudden loss for all those families, as average voting fool would say with straight face.
Thanks God R did not sing some sad song at the end, because that would work too…
Extraction Capitalism–The age of greed.
This fits in so well with what I refer to as inverted communism where the shared national wealth of the people who worked for a strong middle class position during industrial revolution and beyond is now being used as food for the corporations.
It’s ketonic in the same way that the body could feed off the liver when in extreme diabetic state.
Chris Hedges and co-author-illustrator, Joe Sacco, are interviewed by Moyers concerning their new book,”Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, an illustrated account of their travels through America’s sacrifice zones.
He focuses on Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia destroyed sacrifical lambs for the corporations who suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive. The areas destroyed are then monitored by repressive police forces reminiscent of despotic regimes Hedges has covered as a journalist around the world.–Hey maybe that’s what that cop I met meant by this is becoming a police state–ya think?
[“These are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We’re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed,”] Hedges tells Bill.
He says the commercial media refuse to discuss the destruction of these communities left in extreme poverty and environmental destruction.
Poisoning abounds and the people who are enjoying the riches of these areas are living elsewhere, while the people in these communities are stuck in the wastelands of the east coast areas where coal has been extracted.
According to Hedges these are the lungs of the eastern seaboard.
The political judicial and all levers of power and control have been destroyed and this is now an unfettered situation which cause collapse.
After this is over, they will move on throughout the country. Our inability to foster community as JHK would tell us is what is making this a corporate oligarchic state. We are inculcated with the idea that corporate greed is good and is hedonistic –this is triggering our demise in all ways.
Hedges describes this issue as just as destructive as war zones such as Bosnia which he covered with Sacco.
This is an hr. long interview and well worth listening to as he describes political governmental and environmental collapse as we no longer can regulate the supranational global corporate regime of what he calls inverted totalitarianism.
Although both parties serve the global corporate movement I think Romney is probably king. BTW even Joe Scarborough said that Romney didn’t pay any taxes for at least 2 years and Elaine Supkis says that Romney lost money in 2008 and didn’t pay taxes to make up for his losses.
You never have to say you’re sorry for breaking a law when your lobbyists keep changing the law.
PS
I just heard that Romney received $1Billion of government money to turn the Olympics around after a big scandal.–No wonder he was a sucess. He made $100 million for the Olympics….hm
I almost never proof-read my posts. Cannot be bothered. Consequently most contain at least one fuckup. Anyway I think most people understood what I was saying.
…gotta link, perhaps? or was it his show…? i catch it on PBS if i can; i ve always admired moyer’s (thar ya go, kyootie, i threw ya yer bone- uh, apostrophe) insight into the crux of whatever issue or interview he shares…and btw, as a survivor of a hippie commune, i REALLY like your ‘inverted communism’ thing…it s like, totally like so, right on?
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-capitalism%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98sacrifice-zones%e2%80%99/
Bark up some other tree about your “chakras.
Julian, it was a joke.
That should have been obvious, as there is no 51st chakra.
Chris Hedges was on NPR talking up his new one.
I did get his ‘War is….’ but found it too depressing to finish reading.
I didnt listen to his whole talk yday on NPR.
He talked about Camden, neglecting to say its black ghetto.
He talked about illegals trafficked for sex, neglecting to say that its other latinos who are exploiting them. Hes half right and hence irrelevant.
This is what I found last night on Barak ‘letsnotrushtojudgement’ Hussein:
Like a cough, a sociopathic mindset, cannot be hid. In Bob Woodward’s book “Obama’s Wars”, Obama is quoted:
“We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever…we absorbed it and we are stronger.”
Apparently, Obama thinks it’s acceptable for Americans to die because we as a nation can take it, and we will get over it. Being able to absorb an attack is not the point to people who aren’t sociopaths. Never having an attack is the focus.
That was Bush’s focus. He said we can’t afford to make a mistake because the terrorists only have to be right once. The number one priority of the President of the United States is the safety of the citizenry.
For a man to become Commander and Chief and yet be so emotionally disengaged from saving the lives he is charged to protect…that is the mark of a Sociopath. This makes a lot of sense when the man steps in front of the press to address the Fort Hood Massacre (12 dead, 37 injured), and before saying a single word about it, he spends three minutes giving “Shout Outs”, praising his people and pushing his agenda.
Not exactly connecting to the graveness of this event.
However, you are only a sociopath if there is a pattern, and there is quite a pattern with Obama. Before the long list of dictators, radicals and scum bags that Obama has accommodated gets trotted out, there is something else quite disconcerting about Obama, and Iraq…
from Druva Alimans blog
[Druva neglected the ‘dont rush to’ quote]
Sankara’s “Essence of Vedanta
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Julian, Sankara did not write “Essence of Vedanta”
“Essence of Vedanta” was written by Swami Sivananda. You some kind of charlatan imposter?
Does the Bible mention 7 ‘Sacred Seals’?
And you mentioned various scriptures, fine. They dont mention Chakras.
With regards to ass oka, hes best ignored.
You know the extraordinary thing is that this elite wrecked the social/legal/economic eco-system that they used to make them rich.
They didn’t have to go out and grow their own food. A productive farm sector did that for them. They didn’t need to go out and formulate a legal infrastructure from scratch. A body of law, a judicial system was already there for them to use. They didn’t have to go out and recruit a military to protect them. That system has been in place in one form or another for centuries. So have all these systems, this social and economic infrastructure, with the modern nation state as its foundation.
Yet these supposedly brilliant financiers and industrialists seem hellbent on destroying the very things they depend on to survive. They don’t want to pay tax, they don’t want to be bound by laws, they don’t want to be bound by national loyalties. They just want to do what they want to do. Yet they depend on a body of law to defend their interests, to lay out the ground rules for entering into contracts, to defend their intellectual properties. They depend on police forces and military to protect them physically, on a national government to deal with other national governments to protect their interests and act on their behalf.
All this stuff depends on the existence of a nation state and government that they want no part in funding, that they do their damndest to subvert. It all needs financing from a productive economy which they’ve progressively degraded over the past two generations.
We’re swirling around the crapper but they’re coming with us whether they like it or not.
anti soak, thanks for mentioning me, again.
Julian apparently does not know that all this so-called esoteric knowledge about chakras, energy fields, kundalini, astral bodies, is dangerous as knowledge. As experience it is a totally different thing. Don’t acquire it as knowledge. If it is needed for your spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an experience. And if you have an acquired knowledge, borrowed knowledge, it is going to be a hindrance.
For example, Hindu yoga believes in seven chakras, Jaina scriptures mention nine chakras. And Buddhist scriptures say that there are dozens of chakras, that these are only the important ones which have been chosen by different schools. They don’t give any fixed number. Acquired knowledge will be confusing: how many chakras? And what are you going to do with that knowledge, whether there are seven or nine or dozens? Your knowledge is not going to help; it can only hinder.
Jeff Healey was a great rock/jazz performer. When you consider he was blind, his skill on the guitar is almost Hendrix-esque. This guy could play the gitbox with his hair. He was that good. Sadly, he was taken at the young age of 41 with a cancer that started in his legs.
E.
“…to live without desire to attain anything.”
Do you think that anyone has ever actually lived that way, Asoka? To live without desire is contrary to the life principle, which is to keep yourself alive, and to struggle very hard to keep yourself alive, if such struggle becomes necessary. The only way to keep this principle from ruling your life is to kill yourself or to make no effort to defend yourself against the something or the someone that’s coming to kill you. In my view, a sensible way to approach the desire/non-desire problem is to try and separate the desires that serve you from those that harm you, and then to try and reduce or eliminate the latter. And in a society like this one, the wheels of which are made to turn by the constant creation of false desires, such separation is serious work.
While writing the above, I was reminded of Jeremy Bentham and his pain-and-pleasure calculus. If I remember aright, what Bentham said was that all of us, all the time, are essentially engaged in one activity only: the flight from pain and the pursuit of pleasure. Now, what is it that forces us to behave in that way? It is desire.
A person who tried to live without desire, totally without desire, would soon be dead.
Thank you for sharing!
Jen
X said:
So is plan B going to make you happy? You are pointing out things that the people on this blog have known for quite some time. You have not come to grips with your mortality yet. You are just like most of the white men that I’ve known for most of my life.
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When I was a teenager, my father told me that most people live as if they had 400 years to live. So they are always preparing to live and not really living at all. Like Ringo said: “Life is what is happening while you are making other plans”.
I’m 60 and wasn’t blessed with robust health, having had serious spinal surgery at 36. Pain is my daily companion. However, it put me in touch with my mortality early enough to know the value of each day. I don’t know that people of any ethnicity are really aware of the precariousness and shortness of life.
E.
BT said:
Extraction Capitalism–The age of greed.
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Hi, LB. I have referred to most of the world, with the USA as the biggest exemplar, as a “kleptocracy”, a word with summarizes the ideas behind “extraction capitalism”.
I think the basic idea behind extraction capitalism is: “Obviously the USA is going to collapse so between now and the collapse my goal is to pilfer, purloin, grab, snatch, and steal anything I can so that I can live in RItzville when TSHTF.”
All of these cynical politicians know we’re waaaaaay past the point of no return in the USA and the world at large. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Bushes and Clintons have spreads in Patagonia, Cheney in Dubai, Jimmy Rogers in Singapore, and George Soros in Thailand. And that list is politically diverse.
The central idea is to GET OUT OF THE WAY when Europe and USA collapse … but not before stealing anything not locked down.
E.
Jam said to AsokaDo you think that anyone has ever actually lived that way, Asoka? To live without desire is contrary to the life principle, which is to keep yourself alive, and to struggle very hard to keep yourself alive, if such struggle becomes necessary. The only way to keep this principle from ruling your life is to kill yourself or to make no effort to defend yourself against the something or the someone that’s coming to kill you.
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Even Asoka’s beloved Buddhism rejected such a life without desire in the transition from Hinayana to Mahayana a long, long time ago. Desire is encoded in your genes because you always want things that can enhance your survival and/or lifestyle before death. Buddhism only rejects desire with a capital “D” where it consumes almost every bit of psychic space.
Buddhism is not as counterintuitive and INERT as Asoka paints it. Not at all.
E.
LB,
A friend’s wife once said that if the American people ever woke up and realized that they were 99.999% closer to eating out of garbage cans than of being like Donald Trump, the country would change overnight.
The problem with the “greed gland” is that in the 1990s even the lower-middle class got “infected” by it which is why their outrage over kleptocrats is muted.
I think there are signs that the middle classes finally no longer see their house or the NYSE as an ATM but it’s too late. They’re now too busy just trying to survive financially to have the time and resources to be “activists” against the soft fascism we now live under.
E.
Oh, your point. I see! So much for conversation.
American Blacks are completely corrupt in all aspects. I know they’re a lower race but still they can do better than this – in music and in other ways once they are on their own again. Remember the old Star Trek series? They had a standing order not to interfere with developing cultures. That’s wise. We interfered with the Negroes and now they envy and hate us and want to be us all at the same time.
Some of the Black African choral music I’ve heard is absolutely beautiful. Far deeper than the even the fine Black American Gospel. But the beauty doesn’t find a reflection in their lives and cultures. Likewise, Blacks are often very good with words. But their verbal ability doesn’t seem to connect with higher intelligence.
Maybe someday these gaps will be bridged and they will become capable of a higher way of life. But we can’t hold our breath about it and must take steps to protect ourselves against their rage. They will evolve when Nature and Nature’s God decide. In cosmic time, it may be very soon. In human terms, it will be a long time.
Shankara knew very little about the chakras. See this man’s commentary on the Yoga Sutras:
http://yogasutras.com/
I mean seriously guy, why the attitude? You have alot to offer but ruin it with your contempt for other posters. Your anger is making a monkey out of you.
Yes Buddhism became more life postive in the Mahayana. But I’ve heard that Buddha never criticized desire per se, but always selfish desire. I mean Buddha was an extremely logical man. Without desire one could not “go against the stream” to attain Nirvana. One must desire the Desireless. This kind of paradox is right up Asoka’s alley – I don’t know why he doesn’t embrace it. Maybe because he’s not serious? I mean it implies a path, work, etc. He’d rather pretend he’s already there perhaps? Just be desireless! As if such a thing were possible…
Julian, Sankara did not write “Essence of Vedanta”
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Asoka, you speak from both sides of your mouth. At 11:39AM you wrote this^ but at 12:56PM you chide Julian for making “esoteric knowledge” (how many chakras there are) a goal.
What I observe among you, Vlad, Anti, Julian, Buck, and all the rest of the eastern religion buffs who infest this site, is an endless game of esoteric-knowledge-one-upmanship.
I see a bunch of sad-sacks (a la Rob and Paulette) convinced “the answer” to the void in their lives lies in someone else…preferably a swarthy, bearded, white sheet swathed void-filler living, or having lived, 12,000 miles distant.
Chakras schmakras!
“Murikans have been trained for many years that the “real enemy” is the “other”, other race, other religion, other sexuality …”
What the fuck are you yammering on about? “Murikans” (you stupid fuck, for insisting on using this cute term) are made up of a multitude of races and religions. We currently have a sitting President who happens to be African-American.
Shut your stupid, fucking pie-hole and go have a circle jerk with your buddy asoka.
Hey Q, I don’t have a weed eater! WTF! hahahahaha, I do have way to much stuff though.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. MT
I almost never proof-read my posts.
It shows.
Cannot be bothered.
Obviously.
Consequently most contain at least one fuckup.
Shit happens.
Anyway I think most people understood what I was saying.
Yeah, probably, and anyway, why remove all doubt?
Kyoo,
If I remember right, you’re an accountant. Right? I’ve known some accountants in my time and they seem to have this mindset that small details matter. Which is fine, nothing wrong with that. In some professions you need that. You seem to exhibit the same tendency. As I said, nothing wrong with that.
Some seem to be very bright. Based on the accountants I’ve met I would say that there’s nobody better than accountants at thinking inside the box.
One other thing. They seem to have this alarming tendency to catch the minnows but miss the whales.
If it turns you on to attack spelling, grammar etc that’s fine, nothing wrong there. But you might want to pay more heed to the meat of the arguments.
” Why is he afraid to release multiple years of his returns, like every other presidential candidate in United States history has done?”
Oh you mean like Washington and Jefferson. And Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, and FDR and Kennedy did? You are a complete, simpleton. Only fairly recent Presidents have released tax information and it is totally voluntary.
Every-other-fucking candidate-in-United-States-history. What an imbecile.
“We, the people, are entitled to know how our possible future president made his income, how much taxes he has paid as well as to know what and where he has invested.”
Really? Then I think we should look a little closer into the sweet deal Mr. Obama got from Tony Rezko on the purchase of his Chicago home. We’d also like to see some school records from our genius in chief. (I mean what is he hiding?) And since as a young author, both he and his publishing house listed him as a Kenyan, I think he may owe some taxes to Kenya, during the time he claimed he was Kenyan.
“BTW even Joe Scarborough said that Romney didn’t pay any taxes for at least 2 years and Elaine Supkis says that Romney lost money in 2008 and didn’t pay taxes to make up for his losses.”
Did Romney make the tax laws? I think not. If the law states that you can carry losses forward, and these losses outweigh any gains in a given year, then he would pay no taxes. Nothing unlawful or wrong with this according to the law.
If you have a bitch with our taxation laws take it up with the morons who enact the laws not with a private citizen who complies with the laws.
I’d take it a little easy with the racial profiling.
You might want to look at country by country academic rankings of schoolkids. Like among the OECD countries. American kids are nowhere near the top. In some categories like mathematical skill, scientific literacy they are the shits.
I know what you’re going to say, that you’re dragged down by minority and especially black kids. But whites are the vast majority, blacks are not much more than 10% of the population. Hispanics are fairly numerous but still less than 50 million of the 310 million total population. As well, hispancs have a strong caucasian component in their racial make-up.
Other countries are racially diverse but are nowhere near as bad as the US in academic terms.
So what do you figure accounts for this fairly crummy academic performance? Bad genetics in the white population?
Scientific literacy: 21st of 30 OECD countries
Mathmatics literacy: 25th of 30 OECD countries
Problem solving: 24th of 29 OECD countries
Source:
http://www.all4ed.org/files/IntlComp_FactSheet.pdf
Here’s another reference for you:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading
Also, the stuff you say about non-whites and blacks especially might have been said about Europeans by non Europeans in the Dark Ages when European civilization lagged behind others. Also in the pre Roman period before Rome spread Greco Roman culture into north-western Europe.
Nobody’s saying that it’s all roses in American
black communities. But it’s not all roses in white communities either.
“Asoka, you speak from both sides of your mouth.”
Not true. He speaks out of his ass. He shits out of his mouth.
Chris Hedges and co-author-illustrator, Joe Sacco, are interviewed by Moyers concerning their new book,”Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”,
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Because Camden, NJ was one of the focuses (foci?) of the interview I took the time to listen to it in its entirety. Very good and very depressing. I must say, however, as someone born in Camden, and having lived more than 20 years in the adjacent town of Collingswood, NJ I have a far different take on its plight.
The two major corporate employers mentioned – the Shipyard (the Nuclear carrier Kitty Hawk was built there) and Campbell Soup – I don’t believe in any way, shape, or form could be said to have created an employment disaster by an obsessive focus on quarterly profit and loss.
What I saw was a black population that grew like a cancer relative to the white population until a critical mass was reached where white flight left behind a society of deterioration and crime. And to think that Walt Whitman (large/multitudes) once proudly lived there.
Maybe it’s me just being neurotic, but when I write I try to make my point as brief and clear as I can. That’s because I want others to understand the point I’m trying to make. Another reason is because I want to be considerate of others – I don’t wish for people to have to re-read and re-read my post to make some sense of it.
I suspect those who don’t review their comments before posting and those who consistently employ bad punctuation, spelling and grammar are into ego trips; they can’t wait to show how clever they are, rather than having consideration for others by writing clearly.
But that’s not to say that people can’t make the occasional writing error – we’re only human.
there’s nobody better than accountants at thinking inside the box.
Good one ;0)
One other thing. They seem to have this alarming tendency to catch the minnows but miss the whales.
Just for clarification, I have never worked as an accountant per se although my undergrad degree is in accounting. I worked as an auditor and as a financial analyst, but the skills and temperament are the same.
Your minnows vs whales metaphor is a common mis-impression. The truth is that auditors and analysts learn very early the necessity and methods for covering the most ground with limited time and resources. That is why, for example, a correctly drawn scientific sample of data to be examined will bear more fruit than mindless nit-picking.
My shtick about spelling, grammar, and usage is a different animal but it is good to have an accountant’s keen eye.
My advice to you would be to ditch the pride in blasé half-assed expression via the written word. I mean really, what’s the point? Are you too lazy or just too busy? You got a heavy date tonight?
BTW, take it as a compliment that I continue to work on you. You strike me as not irredeemable unlike, say, Anti Soak and others.
Q,
I started meditating when I was 14 years old, mainly because my first martial arts teacher taught me to do so. I really didn’t go looking for it, it just sorted of landed in my lap.
And speaking of “swarthy and bearded”, I lived with a very good Chinese martial arts adept/teacher whose grandfather was Joseph Greenstein, aka, ” The Mighty Atom “:
http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Journey-Joseph-L-Greenstein/dp/1885440308
And it appears that someone is trying to make a movie about his remarkable life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLyEH3-k4U&feature=related
As Rhino mentioned your world is seen from the inside of a box, and a mighty small one at that, or so it seems.
Perhaps ” The Spiritual Journey of Joseph L. Greenstein” might expand your worldview a bit; I know it did mine – and others, too.
You should read it.
“Cat the ate rat.” Change the word order and you get “The cat ate the rat.”
The meaning of an English sentence derives mainly from the order of the words. We all know this. But when it comes to the placement of “only”, we seem to not know that we know it, as in “You only have one life to live.”
Since “only” is an adverb qualifying the adjective “one” each should stand next to the other, nothing in between, as in “You have only one life to live.”
The misplacement of “only”, once thought non-standard, appears with such frequency nowadays, both in speech and in writing, that it has virtually become the standard.
I understand that language changes. The comments on this blog derive much of their tang from their having been written in twenty-first century American demotic rather, say, than in eighteenth- century British Augustan. But change that results in imprecision should be resisted.
I have a really hard time meditating, and only do it in a group gathering. Qi Gong is a moving meditation and quiets my crazy mind better than anything else I’ve tried.
Of all the folks on this site, I think Eleuthero has the best understanding of Buddhism. Unlike Vlad and Asoka, he doesn’t go off spouting off in Sanskrit to show off his knowledge.
Q, Im glad you listened and yes it is depressing. It may very well be that the corporations take advantage of those nobody cares about, but at the end of the day we are all up for grabs. It’s just a matter of time before these practices effect those higher on the food chain. As the famous quote from Nazi Germany goes, first they went for them……then they came for me.
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mystified: About the tax laws. There is a pattern of behavior which is that laws are changed in order for new practices to go without criminal prosecution. It reminds me of an olympic sport known as curling. Someone throws a disk on ice and teammates sweep the surface to make the ice smoother for the disk to travel.
So if is with our laws. The lobbyists for certain concerns change tax law, so to make the breaking of a law moot.
I’m reading JHK’s book and he’s talking about truly fraudulent practices that took place in the Cayman Island, thus no law was broken. There’s no end to the graft that can take place in a global paradigm.
E. Yes, indeed as Gerald Celente says, we’re Dumbfuckistan located north of Mexico and south of Canada!
“Cat the ate rat.” Change the word order and you get “The cat ate the rat.”
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No can do. A second “the” is needed.
Of all the folks on this site, I think Eleuthero has the best understanding of Buddhism.
I agree.
I know next to nothing about Buddhism and have no desire to know more.
I am a beginner, with beginner’s mind.
I agree.
I know next to nothing about Buddhism and have no desire to know more.
I am a beginner, with beginner’s mind.
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An obvious ^instance^ of fake self-deprecation.
As Rhino mentioned your world is seen from the inside of a box
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Here’s the acid test for all you Buddhist, meditating, out-of-the-box types: Are you Happy? If yes, that’s all that matters.
“The musical talents of blacks is over-rated. I notice you never see them playing in orchestras or reading music off of a page. I suspect this is because it requires a higher I.O. to sight-read music from a page while playing it.”
You fuckhead. You made me spit up my beer. Wow. Where to start? Since you’re obviously a neophyte, we will start with some “popular” music. I decided on Duke Ellington’s 1956 “comeback” concert at the Newport Jazz Festival. Since the Yardbirds essentially destroyed Caucasians ability to listen to music that lasts more than two minutes, you may want to fix a snack. IF, and I do mean IF, you behave, we will move on to McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett, and Ornette Coleman. Get yerself a woman with pronounced buttocks and DANCE ya silly nigga.
I dedicate this to “O” who is probably on board an alien vessel demonstrating how humans “do it”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpoaGDHRLSw&feature=related
Bingo!
I’m happy at times, but it’s not predictable. What’s that saying… “Moms are only as happy as their most miserable child.”
I have a neighbor that irritates me because she thinks she’s the shining light of happiness for the whole damn neighborhood. Today she posted from some Omega Institute yoga retreat on the East Coast, making big claims about enlightenment and being part of the change that will bring peace to the world. In general, yoga fanatics get on my nerves. I tried yoga for about three years and managed to get hurt by overextending various muscles in my knee.
Now my neighbor is a certified Yoga teacher. Yoga clearly makes her happy because she jets off alone to exotic yoga studios in Bali, Tahiti, India, etc.
Meanwhile back in the neighborhood, her only child got kicked out of preschool for being violent. My daughter babysat him ONCE and spent the entire time re-directing his naughty impulses.
“Let’s throw rocks at the house!” he suggests to my daughter. My never-spoken advice: “Hey yoga lady, your son appears to have an attachment disorder, stay home and show him some love.”
Jen
Here’s the acid test for all you Buddhist, meditating, out-of-the-box types: Are you Happy?
Q., I am happy … even when I am alone, without a TV, in a silent mud hut.
I am equally happy at a neighborhood party dancing. I am happy when jumping up and down rooting for my Super Bowl team in a sports bar or sitting in the dentist’s chair having my teeth drilled. Wherever I am, whatever is going on…
In activity, happiness is just there.
In inactivity, happiness is just there.
It’s all been fine. This happiness was a constant companion during the struggles of the 50’s and 60’s … against Jim Crow … and winning that struggle, and the struggle for civil rights … and winning those rights … against the war in Vietnam, etc. singing, marching, getting arrested with friends … such camaraderie, such joy sharing together!
Happy having a mortgage at 18% interest (Nov. 1980), then later happy having a mortgage at 6% interest (July 1992) … things have gone up and gone down … the economy has gone up and down, up and down … people all along the way have been predicating the end of the world, the collapse of civilization … but the happiness is constant, and it’s all good. It’s been a good life. If I drop dead tomorrow, that is good, too.
I did not desire happiness; it’s just been a constant in my experience for the past seven decades, from my earliest memories as a child until this very breath.
I have no idea why … it is such a gift, this life. This is why I say happiness is my essence. It has been my experience.
Now I feel if reincarnation happens, it will be a joy to come back to this beautiful life. But if not, that’s fine, too. No strong desire either way. Whatever happens is fine.
It has been a complete and full life, lived intensely in the past with a hot passion, now lived intensely in the present with a cool passion; but always with an undercurrent of bliss easily accessed through meditation, or through conscious action: walking, sitting, doing the dishes, mopping the floor … it’s all good, always breathing in, breathing out.
Ah, this!
Looks like my big mistake, back in my travelling days, was packing a volume of Jack London or Herman Melville in my seabag. What I should’ve been doing is buying Hare Krishna books from those wierdos selling them in airports. That way I’d be more conversant here on CFN. As it stands now I’m outclassed.
–WSP7
LOL
Well sheeeeeit, no worries.
It’s all designed to make us feel like the classic knuckle-draggers that we [apparently] are!
Revel in the turditude, Dude…
OK. I know what you’re thinking. Like every talent producer, “What have you done for me lately?”.
There’s this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlY9wNKYZI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL1F5A082520FB5335
…and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwWiR7P51RE
Too disruptive for your Kraut musical sensibilities?
My music theory teacher taught me that music is evolutionary and RARELY revolutionary. The electronic synthesis of music has pretty much changed everything. John Cage would tell you the same. Instruments with infinite pitch variation. Kind of like Indian pop music. Only weirder.
What kind of instrumentation do you think that Mozart would be using if he were alive today? If he had read the post from “Julian Curtis Lee” that set me off, he would probably fling en empty wine bottle at his head.
And Vlad, Seiji Ozawa made his mark as the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Boston ripped us off.
You are beautiful, man. As Ted Williams said to Yaz, don’t ever change.
You should have punched, kicked, and karate chopped those Hares and Moonies every time you saw them – just like in Airport.
Why did God make freaks like this and Falcon Eddie?
Mmmm…maybe too much personal sentiment about Seiji. I guess you had to be there.
Not African American, just African.
Vlad, the Boston Red Sox were the last MLB team to integrate. How long did they languish because of that?
Maybe he left his heart and mojo in Philly and had nuthing left for Beantown.
Until we ascend, we are limited beings always running down. Entropy is the rule here.
The Celtics were famous for their White Teams too. The Fans are largely White and want to see White Guys play – what could be simpler?
That so many keep going now is the really strange thing.
Racist? Like the way no Black kid wears a the number or name of any White Player? Dude, you can’t see unless you look; can’t hear unless you listen.
Actually Prabhupad (the Hare Krisna Guru) was very canny about the world. He knew about banking scam (creating money out of nothing) and predicted ruin for the West. And he said that Whites control America and Europe, but in a couple of hundred years someone else might. So it is happening.
Read what Reggie Smith has to say about his experiences as a Red Sox player. Or maybe Curt Flood with the Cardinals.
No one is without some goodness. Even the Joker, James Holmer, warned the Police about the booby trap. His blood lust was glutted at least temporarily.
“Racist? Like the way no Black kid wears a the number or name of any White Player?”
Are you speaking for all black kids? How in the fuck could you possibly know?
Who cares what some Black asshole says? They don’t like Whites and wont value us until we’re gone.
Remember how Manny knocked down an elderly gentleman who worked for the team just because he couldn’t produce dozens of free tickets on short notice? Typical Black.
You are suffering from Negro Phillia – an irrational affection for Negroes.
There’s a certain parasite that can only finish its lifestyle inside cats. So if it’s in a rat or mouse, it makes them sexually attracted to cats so the cats can eat them. Not that your Negro Phillia is this bad (it can be though) but just to show how you seem to a normal person who doesn’t suffer from this.
Have you taken your medication today? Maybe you should go check the cotton.
Good – I got a reaction from you. Now go LOOK and you will SEE. All this time you’ve been just assuming that Black behavior was the same as White. As you know, Whites wear Black names and numbers all the time.
ALWAYS and NEVER. Two words that should make ya go hmmm….
You need to get another tatoo. Someone (it might have been Jackie) said you were covered with little flowers, moons, stars and other assorted fem bric a brac.
This time get a big heart and put it right on your heart chakra. Maybe it will help open your hart….
Ok I’ll qualify those with “almost”. After all, a few Blacks do like Classical Music.
John Lennon – Wikiquote
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lennon
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”; similar expressions were u
You are beautiful, man … don’t ever change.
Don’t kick yourself for not taking the literature from the Hare Krishnas, though I have never thought they were weird. I have joined in with them on many an occasion in blissful dancing and chanting.
But I also don’t think there is anything more holy about my spouting spiritual platitudes compared to your collecting Winchester’s Model 1873 lever action rifles. To each his own, man. You have communicated your passion and what you do is beautiful.
And further more I say Carthage must be destroyed.
And you should learn what an average is – and the difference between many and most.
A much smaller percentage (almost zero) of Black Fans wear the name or number of a White Player compared with the percentage of White fans who wear a Black name or number. Satisfied? Now go out and tell us what you find! Be the hero of your own life!
I want to clear this misconception up, pops.
Twice you have labeled me with this incorrect label.
Except for Meher Baba [whom I assume you know zip about] I have been 100% critical of the various
‘Pop Gooroos’ mentioned here:
Trungpa and his overpriced college,
Frantzis,
Osho-rajneesh,
Bubba FreeJon [aka Adi da].
OK?
‘Despite my lack of formal schooling in mental disorders I know “fucked up” when I see it.’
Might you be contributing to this?
Do I sense some codependent, ‘destructive nurturing’ in yr interactions with these 2?
And whats the name of Robs ‘rinpoche’?
I did not desire happiness; it’s just been a constant in my experience for the past seven decades, from my earliest memories as a child until this very breath.
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Well aren’t you just somethin’!!
“After all, a few Blacks do like Classical Music.”
You’re a real politician Vlad. All of my black friends HATE classical music. But, they don’t make the distinction between music from the Baroque Era, Roccoco Era, the Classical Era, the Romantic Era, etc. Let alone orchestral music, chamber music, choral music, parlor music, James Brown and the fuckin’ Rolling Stones. How ’bout you?
Your writing steams out heat like the very vent of hell.
I don’t have a single tattoo, nor does anyone in my family! I can’t even abide having pierced ears!
Nonsense! And from someone as hard headed as you?!
Thats like some ad that says, ‘this camp builds a childs self esteem’.
How about, ‘so long as you are moral’!
So you hold these 2 losers [and their carnivorous dog] up as ‘Typical Meditators’?
Brimelow wrote a bestseller about Immigration.
Then he wrote one about education, immigrants and their kids and how those tables break down by race/income etc.
Its quite alarming.
As he notes ‘we could rethink immigration, if we want better test scores’.
Get it?
Wonderful!
Asoka and anti soak have something in common: an appreciation for Meher Baba.
I first came across Meher Baba in 1969 through a group of his lovers. I was touched by his image though I never received darshan from Baba before he dropped his body.
Id rather read comics [I never do, gave mine away]
than Harry Krishnas ‘philosophy’ books.
They are into idol worship and their interpretation
of the Gita is rather [uh] different.
Just be you……if ya wanna read Eastern, avoid the ‘money hungry, empire building, flavor of the month’ types that get some much good ‘press’ here.
Yeah, it’s been kind of a curse.
Like you, many people get pissed about it. Ozone regularly lambasts and caricatures and mislabels as “new age” what is just natural.
Some see my happiness and have accused me of being on drugs because I have a grin on my face or a smile on my heart.
It isn’t easy being green … but the underlying bliss is there for everyone, not just me. And no one is under any obligation to believe anything I say. It makes no difference to me. I’m happy.
And whats the name of Robs ‘rinpoche’?
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No idea.
P.S. It’s what’s and Rob’s.
Where are we? For fucks sake, where are the Chinese spammers.
find out!
Twice you have labeled me with this incorrect label.
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OK, my bad. You’re really like me. I know a lot about pool but I’ve never picked up a stick.
find out!
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Why?
Thanks for making my point for me: our score have plummeted since we ceased to be a largely White Nation of 90% or so. Our score were compatible for European Nations when the Black scores wer excluded. Now the whole thing is in the toilet including alot of the White scores.
That’s what I’m saying – they’re savages. I sympathize with them – who has time for Classical or The Beautiful nowadays? It’s a lie since the world is so ugly. But I don’t love the ugly like they do. That’s the difference.
Well stop putting stuff in your ears and they’ll close up. You’re the one who can’t meditate. Maybe if you stopped mocking Christ your spiritual life would improve?
Prabhupad’s translation was almost identical to Radhakrishnan’s. Of course he was an Orthodox Vaishanav of the dualist school. That’s what you don’t like. But he is still a Vedantin. Not all Vedanta is non dual. And there are in between positions where both aspects are honored.
Yeah, it’s been kind of a curse.
I can imagine…kind of like “beneath the spreading chestnut tree the village idiot sat, amusing himself by abusing himself while catching his cum in his hat.”
Like you, many people get pissed about it.
Not at all. I should be so lucky. I spend a lot of my time in a state of anxiety over the welfare of my kids…and probably will till the day I die. You, having none, wouldn’t know about such concerns.
Prabhupad’s translation was almost identical to Radhakrishnan’s. Of course he was an Orthodox Vaishanav of the dualist school. That’s what you don’t like. But he is still a Vedantin. Not all Vedanta is non dual. And there are in between positions where both aspects are honored.
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Sounds like a Buddhist version of two particle physicists at the Hadron Collider having a chat at the water cooler.
I never received darshan from Baba before he dropped his body.
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Wow, that’s heavy.
Mia Farrow is estranged from her daughter, Soon-Yi, and has basically disowned her.
It’s been 20 years, I think Woody and Soon-Yi’s relationship has stood the test of time. Besides, Woody and Mia were never married, so Soon-Yi was not Woody’s step-daughter.
Things can get messy when you have children. I have never regretted my decision not to have children.
Vlad, you are correct. That’s why I prefer to make it explicit and say Advaita Vedanta
Advaita comes from Sanskrit:
a, not; dvaita, dual
That eliminates confusion, since the very word Advaita means non-dual.
So you hold these 2 losers [and their carnivorous dog] up as ‘Typical Meditators’?
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I hold Paulette up as someone worse off now than 40 years ago when I met her and in that sense, typical. Couldn’t say for sure about Rob.
To my knowledge, Yogi did not meditate.
I will be interested to learn the religious beliefs and practices of James Holmes, if any.
If he is Muslim, you can be sure he’ll be called an “Islamic terrorist”
If he is Protestant or Catholic, you will never read the words “Christian terrorist”
Since he used an AR 15 assault rifle, a Remington shotgun and a 40-caliber Glock handgun, I’m guessing his religion was the 2nd amendment.
I will be interested to learn the religious beliefs and practices of James Holmes, if any.
James Eagan Holmes has been described as a shy and well-mannered young man by a neighbor, who claims the Colorado shooting suspect was heavily involved in his local Presbyterian church.
He was a normal, intelligent, white Christian boy, just like the normal Christians who are sent to Afghanistan and kill human beings there without remorse. The USA has a culture of violence and spends a large part of its budget on militarism.
Since the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, ONE MILLION AMERICANS have died from guns in the USA.
According to U.S. media reports, there are over 283 million guns in the hands of U.S. civilian population, and there are about 4.5 million new guns sold in the country every year.
Meanwhile, about 100,000 people were shot by guns every year, and over 30,000 of them die. Since Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were gunned down in 1968, about 1 million Americans have died because of gun violence.
Murder no longer among top causes of death in US – Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk › News › World News › North America › USA
Jan 11, 2012 – The number of murders in the US fell from 17826 in 2008 to 16799
Or ‘its all chop soooey to you’!
I laughed as I read yr response. Heck Ive been
in the books of the East for 43 years, I still dont understand much of Vlads posts about them!!
I asked about yr cousins-husbands-lama, because I will do due diligence and attempt to see if hes a
scammer or a good guy.
Vlad, who is Radakrishnan?
Why post these pro-Obama murder statistics showing crime has gone down with Obama?
Murder is not the only gun violence. There are accidents, suicides, etc. due to increased guns.
About 100,000 people were shot by guns every year, and over 30,000 of them die. Since Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were gunned down in 1968, about 1 million Americans have died because of gun violence.
In other words, the figure [30000] that you posted is WRONG, but you dont want to fess up?
A million dead in 45 years, killed.
Well if 100,000,000 die each year, worldwide, from all causes, whats a million? a tiny fraction of that.
Vehicular s kill 50,000 a year. Medicine kills countless.
Lord Asoka, you protest too much.
‘I hold Paulette up as someone worse off now than 40 years..’
I cant name anyone whos better at 70 than they were at 30. Maybe money-wise, but after age 40, its mostly downhill…doubt me? Get nekked in front of a full length mirror.
Or look at pix of y’rself from 40 years ago, then think about what you posted about ‘yr lil buddhist cousin in the land of the snows’.
Do find the name of the Lama, so I can research.
Maybe hes being taken for a ride.
the figure [30000] that you posted is WRONG, but you dont want to fess up?
Yes, it was wrong. It was a low number. Guns killed 30,000 a year. Multiply times 45 years and you get more than ONE MILLION.
ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND AMERICANS DEAD FROM GUN VIOLENCE.
Do find the name of the Lama, so I can research.
You call looking at what Rick Ross has to say “research?”
Old friend, come on and let’s not fret
about tomorrow’s grief today;
let’s spend this instant’s cash in hand–
because tomorrow when we pass
away from this decrepit bar
we’ll be laid out with those who left
it seven thousand years ago.
Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat
Just thought I’d share a link with you. JHK says there’s no money there.—but I keep saying there’s money it’s just being delliberately kept out of the mainstream.
Check this out. $13 Trillion of global elite monies are held out of the taxman’s purview.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/global-elite-tax-offshore-economy
[.. at least £13tn – perhaps up to £20tn – has leaked out of scores of countries into secretive jurisdictions such as Switzerland and the Cayman Islands with the help of private banks, ………investment industries taking advantage of the increasingly borderless, frictionless global economy”.
…According to Henry’s research, the top 10 private banks, which include UBS and Credit Suisse in Switzerland, as well as the US investment bank Goldman Sachs, managed more than £4tn in 2010, a sharp rise from £1.5tn five years earlier.
That’s our Mitt–he’s all about the USA isn’t he?
Oh, let’s see now, he wants more war, but the elite never have to pay a penny toward it…guess we have to give up ss and medicare…
…i ve a question for The Nation at-large: why were the banks allowed to use the TARP (funds) to cover their asse(t)s? wasn t the whole point of the exercise to make them able to lend to busuness & enterprise? according to stats i just read, lending declined greatly with precisely those banks & institutions which received ‘bailout/extortion’ monies…goddamned criminals…well, anyway, did any of you read or hear about any provision in TARP, as presented to Us, allowing for the banksters to pay themselves and the “loan” with our money?
Answer: There was no quid pro quo.
There were even people invited into t he banks to do work and make some of the money as insider friends.
More fun and games that the hyper-wealthy play!
http://inequality.org/mitts-offshore-shenanigans-tax-havens/
These folks opine that the share of wealth going to the top 1% [in the FUSA, land of “equality”] would be about HALF when one takes into account about 10 trillion stuffed in tax haven hidey-holes.
Yes, it’s a club and we ain’t in it.
(I see everyone is picking up on Kunstler’s descriptor of “shenanigans”; no “chicanes” have I yet detected though.)
Perhaps we could repatriate some of these funds so that they might be taxed fairly by use of military force. Oh… guess I forgot who actually owns the military. Sorry. The taxpayer’s monies will continue to pay for the military leviathan, while the uber-rich and sociopathic get to decide how it’s used. That’s always worked out well, hasn’t it? Please continue meditating and medicating; that’s the most effective way to deal with the coming avalanche of criminality.
“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”
–Adam Smith
Scottish political economist (1723-1790)
Does that mean trouble?
Nah… “It’s All Good!”
Please continue meditating and medicating; that’s the most effective way to deal with the coming avalanche of criminality.
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Correct.
Meditation is much more sane than posting revenge fantasies year after year to an anonymous blog with mumblings about pitcforks in the Hamptons. How will that prevent the “coming avalanche of criminality”?
ozone,
Of course it is good. Read anywhere in the Bible and you will see it says over and over that greed is good!
That why the Republicans are such good Christians.
correction:
that IS why
He was a famous 20th Century Philosopher – academic type not a yogi per se. Much of Dvaita Vedanta has an almost Christain feel to it. God and the Soul are separate because God gave jivas the gift of selfhood….so they could return His love. Yet at the same time, they acknowledge the Existential Truth as does Chrisitianity. As St Louis Montfort said, “God is the only one who can in Truth say, “I Am”.
Thus the gulf between Dvaita and Advaita can be reconciled. The choice of path remains. As Bhagavad Gita says, all Yogas lead to the same place ultimately, but Bhakti is far easier for most. I think your problem is that most Bhaktis don’t follow it to the end nor respect the non dual paths. Granted. But the same two objections can be made of Non Dual practicioners relative to their own Path and attitude to the Dualist Path.
What do you think – does the shooting seem a little convenient since Hil wants America to sign onto the UN small arms treaty which is coming up for a vote? Where did he get the money for all this equipment? Who opened the door for him to get in the theater? Was he a Manchurian style experiment? A subject of mind control at the Unviersity where he was studying? Good article:
http://theintelhub.com/2012/07/21/colorado-batman-shooting-shows-obvious-signs-of-being-staged/
The Bible knows man’s heart is “corrupt above all things” and advises measures to curb this and social policies to lessen the damadge. In ancient Jewish Law, the fields were only to be picked once. The poor had the right to the gleaning – which can yield alot. This is merely one example -there are many.
Christianity changed Europe by opening up hospitals and demanding charity. Some Protestant Congregations demanded the tithe – 1/10. All the Modern Dickens/Sinclair/Orwell stuff is simply a reversion to ancient brutality. Not too much religion but too little. And of course then the slack is taken up by the State. And I bet you’re one of those Liberals who endorse this while at the same time warning against an all powerful Police State. Unreal.
The Yardbirds as attention-span destroyers? You sure about that, Xhalor?
By 1968 the Yardbirds had been playing and recording for four or five years. In 1968 Iron Butterfly came out with Inna Gadda Da Vida, which is fifteen minutes long, at least. It was a big hit, the anthem of the sixties,it’s been said. And it was made big by the same group of album purchasers, who, because of the Yardbirds, couldn’t listen to anything longer than two minutes. And what about the post-68 solos of Hendrix?
I know several people who in the sixties and seventies listened mostly to rock. Now they listen to Classical and Baroque. I think rock music prepared a lot of people for music of the so-called higher sort. It did this by showing them how powerful music could be.
And I don’t know why you use the Yardbirds as your example. Their music was too feeble to do what you say it did. The only reason why the Yardbirds matter at all is that they’re the band where Beck and Clapton and Page sharpened their chops.
The Bible knows man’s heart is “corrupt above all things”
We started out pure (tabula rasa) but were corrupted by parents, churches, religions, schools, military (“Basic Training”), etc.
We think we have evolved. In certain ways, yes, but in certain other ways we have lost much. Our evolution is only of reason, intellect, but we have lost, on the way, our heart. And the heart is the
most significant thing. A thousand and one rationalities cannot give you that which a single heart full of sensitivity can give you.
As a liberal Christian, I feel physically ill when Republicans claim to be Christians. Jesus is a liberal, he is not Democrat or Republican.
Unfortunately I have run into many Atheists who act more like Christ than many nominal Christians. Unfortunately many Atheists don’t realize that their beliefs are just that, beliefs. Also, their belief that there is no God is impossible to prove. Those who call their belief “rationallity” are fools. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I agree that more acting like Christ would make the world a better place. However, more religion is more than likely to cause problems, because religions are human constructs. We don’t need more inquisitions, crusades, witch hunts, or Islamic attacks against us infidels.
People of all beliefs need to stop trying to destory those who believe otherwise, or force others to change their beliefs.
“Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.”
Yes,it was Lennon. He was the only Beatle with the wits and seriousness of mind to make such a comment.
A gem. It’s on the Oscar Wilde level.
OOPS destroy, not destory,
However, destory is an interesting concept.
Asoka displays at least one Buddha-like characteristic: equanimity. He gets bashed on this blog a lot. But he hardly ever responds in kind.
“The Yardbirds as attention-span destroyers?”
Eh…I had to pick someone. Round up the usual suspects. I was going to say The Hollies but they were such nice boys.
One of the arguments pro-gun people make is: passing laws won’t help because criminals will find a way. Hmmmm….
A machine guns is a fully automatic weapon that fires a succession of bullets so long as the trigger is depressed or until the ammunition supply is exhausted.
Machine guns are outlawed in the USA by the 1934 National Firearms Act and none of these senseless massacres have been carried out with machine guns.
Anti-gun laws are effective.
Asoka,
I’m not sure if I agree with you about “tabula rasa.” Babies are wonderful, but they are pure id.
Babies come into the world with different personalities, or karma if you will. I think the womb experience “writes” on the character of each child. I’m guessing you were a mellow baby?
Jen
Point taken, Jen.
Perhaps I should have said we come into existence with a tabula rasa brain. All the ideologies, philosophies, religions, the “isms” that we are carrying in our minds are not our own experiences. What is not our own experience has been programmed into us. Otherwise how did we get it?
Babies are not born as Christians or Hindus or Mohammedans or capitalist or communists, etc. That gets programmed into them in the process of “socialization.”
As a result of our programming we all have different identifications and these divide us and result in the conflicts we see in the world today.
Meditation is the process of deprogramming yourself, of getting back to the “no-mind” innocence of tabula rasa and the wonder and the beauty of simply being a part of existence.
Actually you can still buy fully automatic weapons, but they have to have been built before 1986 and have been reqistered. The paperwork is prodigious, so usually only responsible people purchase them. The loss of a class 3 weapon through theft or any other way can lead to serious problems for the owner.
However, there is a significant black market for full auto weapons, and many semi auto weapons can easily be modified to full auto, but it is illegal.
Here is some cut and paste describing the law in brief:
Class 3 firearms include machine guns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors, destructive devices and Any Other Weapons (AOWs).
The tax for privately manufacturing any class 3 firearms is $200. Transferring requires a $200 tax for all class 3s except AOW’s, for which the transfer tax is $5.
To legally possess a class 3 weapon you must complete a transfer of registration within the NFA registry.
There are two ways for you to legally buy a class 3 gun. The first is by transfer after approval by ATF of a registered weapon from its lawful owner residing in the same State as the transferee. The second is by obtaining prior approval from ATF to make NFA firearms.
Read more: http://www.gunsandammo.com/2011/10/19/how-to-buy-class-three-weapons/#ixzz21OSgsrnH
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Of course there are many exceptions, both federal and state.
Also, by the way silencers rarely work as shown in TV and movies. Except for subsonic small bore .22 cal the sound is still pretty loud. I saw one YouTube video demonstrating a silenced .45 at 300+ yards and it was still easily heard. Any supersonic round gives an audible crack, even with a “suppressor”.
The most eloquent proponent of the point of view that Christianity was a disaster for European civilization is supposedly Edward Gibbon, though I suspect that Gibbon’s contempt for Christianity made him overlook the good things it had created. Let me honour Gibbon by mentioning a couple of the bad things.
To someone for whom bodily health is the basis of a happy life, Christianity has a lot to answer for. The various monastic orders that founded hospitals were created in the service of the very religion that played a large part in the filling those hospital with the sick. Christianity’s body-hatred was a disaster for the progress of medicine. Why did Michelangelo perform his body dissections in secret? Because the Church strongly disapproved of anatomical dissection, for artists and physicians alike. The plagues that periodically swept Europe were a consequence of public and private filth, to which filth the Church was indifferent. The Black Death carried off a third of Europe’s population. At least one historian has argued that Europe’s fourteenth-century population-cull was a good thing. But a Bubonic death is not very pleasant if you are the one who’s undergoing it.
Enumerating and describing Christianity’s bad effects and good effects could fill volumes, and have done so. Which one weighs more heavily in the balance I don’t know. But the bad effects are many.
By the way, I’ve conflated Christianity and the Church.
Actually A, Machine guns are totally legal with the right permits. The fact that no mass murders have been carried out with automatic weapons is basically proof that people kill people , not guns. At this machine gun shoot an 8 year old was killed. Total negligence and ignorance was involved. I was there on the ambulance. The kids dad was an ER doctor. What a moron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOgOEvhrbw&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL2D4292C1C2A65433
Also the kid in the you tube clip was not involved.
Soake –
I would like to suggest that it has not been a full life, at present anyway. Your life would be far richer and fuller if you posted here maybe 20 times a week. That’s still a lot, but would leave you with a far more authentic experience of life. My guess is that if you really had a dynamic meditation practice you would post about 10% or less of what you normally do. I think you’re too bored with your life to be on here any less.
I challenge you, Soake. 20 posts or less. It’ll do you good.
As for myself, the less time I’m on the internet the better.
Iona
You put the cart before the horse. As Bishop Sheen said – the early Christains often lived communally either in the catacombs or in the first monastaries. Their feelings of brotherhod lead them to share their goods. So from this, the Socialist concludes that forcing people to share will create feelings of brotherhood.
Life in the catacombs was due to persecution. And life in the monastary was a special vocation. So how do ordinary Christians live during ordinary times? They work for their bread and share with the less fortunate. Stealing from them and giving their money to parasites is NOT Christianity.
Thanks for your laudatory words re my knowledge of Buddhism, SJM, but the reality it isn’t my knowledge of Buddhism per se that’s at all impressive (it’s just decent layperson research that any curious person would do). Rather more impressive is Asoka’s quoting many MODERN gurus (sometimes without citing their names) who tend to be money-seeking frauds like the Bhagwan.
These actual or quasi modern Buddhistic gurus (even Eckhart Tolle borrows “trite Buddhism” and then stands back admiring his words), are very comical figures. They aren’t even in the same universe of Joshu, Hakuin, Tokusan, or Ryutan from antiquity because those guys sweated BLOOD for their enlightenment.
Real Buddhism involves incredible self-objectivity which neither the gurus nor many spiritual dilettantes show the slightest evidence of.
E.
Jen –
I was terrible at meditation until I started doing the kriya yoga technique that Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi) taught. It’s a pranayama technique one does while sitting that quiets the mind in a remarkable and powerful way. As well, I had a lot of depression issues that this practice completely cleared up. I am forever grateful!
Jai guru Yogananda!
Iona
Asoka said:
It’s been 20 years, I think Woody and Soon-Yi’s relationship has stood the test of time. Besides, Woody and Mia were never married, so Soon-Yi was not Woody’s step-daughter.
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This is a disgusting attempt to excuse Woody Allen’s behavior toward Soon-Yi. Who cares if Woody and Mia never married? Marriage is just a piece of paper and they LIVED LIKE A MARRIED COUPLE and raised Soon-Yi as their own daughter. Therefore, Allen is a SICK BASTARD who committed incest. He’s a pedophile who preyed on her just like a flasher in a schoolyard.
We’ve got to stop giving moral relativistic “passes” in society for depraved behavior in the interests of appearing to have refined European-style debauchery to look cool like Polansky.
I won’t go near a Woody Allen film. Line that bastard’s pockets? Never.
E.
Vlad,
The vast majority of American “Christians” are not really Christians. They believe they will be raptured, or believe in the wealth and prosperity gospel,or they merely belong to social clubs where they make business contacts.
The social club members are more worried about getting to the restaurants for dinner on Sunday afternoon, so they bitch if the minister’s sermion goes to long.
If there are even 1 million real Christians in America, I would be amazed.
It is very rare for most of these Christians to even come close to tithing even though most Americans are WAY wealthier than the Biblical Christians.
Damn it I’m getting old and senile
sermion = sermon
Also, I forgot the huge number of “Christians” who have taken the 4 steps and now are “saved” so they can do whatever they please and still go to heaven!
Here is some real truth:
http://www.wor.org/daily-word/
Q,
Without trying to evoke more New Age cliches, it seems that happiness intensifies the more a person can reside ‘in the moment’. The future and the past alike rob from the present in terms of reliving past trauma and anticipating future hardship- “anticipatory anxiety” as I recently read.
But while you rail against your eastern guru/spiritual straw men, the best minds in the western world have contemplated many of the same issues which are part and parcel of the human condition in general. One of the most insightful in this regard is Søren Kierkegaard’s lament of “The Next Day”.
But I also realize you’re just trying to stir it up, otherwise you would save some of your condemnation for those who use prescription drugs as “happy pills”.
Meditation is the process of deprogramming yourself, of getting back to the “no-mind” innocence of tabula rasa and the wonder and the beauty of simply being a part of existence.
this is one of the most wonderful things i have ever heard or read. i am already feeling peaceful just having read it 1 minute ago & feel like i have caught sight of my peaceful home after being lost in programming since birth.
peace, asoka
Iona, I am not accepting any more of your challenges. The last time I accepted your challenge I disappeared for something like six days!
Have you heard Janet and Narayan’s song “Always Near”? It is about Yogananda, sung to Yogananda.
http://origin.cdbaby.com/audio/samples/2df69221/NarayanJanet-05.mp3
Jai guru Yogananda!
This is a disgusting attempt to excuse Woody Allen’s behavior toward Soon-Yi.
She was 21 years old. Don’t you think she could make her own decisions? Who are you to deny her heart the love of her life?
When asked in a new interview with Reuters to promote “Midnight in Paris” about the scandal, Woody Allen, 75, replied,
“What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now. There was no scandal, but people refer to it all the time as a scandal, and I kind of like that in a way, because when I go I would like to say I had one real juicy scandal in my life.”
You are being way too judgmental and petty, in my opinion.
Love happens, E.
Live and let live.
Perhaps my choice of the word ‘challenge’ was too strong.
I hope you will consider my ‘suggestion’ then.
I honestly think you would enjoy life more if you took a couple of days off from the internet every week. After you six day hiatus, man, you came back with a vengeance. I would ‘suggest’ that you consider that you have an internet addiction.
Best regards,
Iona
Thanks for the song. I’ll listen to it later tonight.
‘Asoka’s quoting many MODERN gurus (sometimes without citing their names) who tend to be money-seeking frauds like the Bhagwan’
I like that!
He of the 100? Rolls Royces. A friend defended him by saying, ‘but he didnt own them’.
It looks alot better than the row house in Macon.
Whats the costs? {water tank. PV panels etc?].
Thank you for your concern. I took your suggestion and took the Internet Addiction Test.
My score was 28. I’m nowhere near the high end of the normal category for internet addiction, not even near the addiction category.
20 – 49 points: You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.
As a result of taking this test, I now know that I do not have an internet addiction. Thank you for the suggestion. By the way, the Internet Addiction Test is the first validated and reliable measure of addictive use of the Internet, so I trust the results to be accurate.
A friend defended him by saying, ‘but he didnt own them’.
That’s right. He didn’t own them. They were owned by the Rajneesh Foundation and were an investment. In any event nobody was exploited to get them. They were given as gifts by wealthy people who could afford to give such gifts. But they served their purpose to attract attention.
Osho on the Rolls Royces:
“People’s interest in Rolls Royces shows their mind. They are not interested what is happening here. They don’t ask about meditation, they don’t ask about sannyas, they don’t ask about people’s life, love, the laughter that happens in this desert. They only ask about Rolls Royces. That means I have touched some painful nerve. And I will go on pressing it till they stop asking.
I am not a worshipper of poverty. That’s what those Rolls Royces prove. I respect wealth. Nobody before me had the guts to say it. The pope cannot say that he respects wealth, although he is the wealthiest man on the earth.
I am not a hypocrite. I am the poorest man on the earth. I don’t have a single cent with me. But I want to show these people what attracts their mind. If there were no Rolls Royces here, perhaps there would be nothing for the whole world ask about me, about you, about meditation, about initiation into sannyas, about love, about anything.
It is for those idiots that I am keeping all those Rolls Royces, because they cannot move their eyes away from those Rolls Royces. And mean while I will go on pouring other things in their minds. Without those Rolls Royces they would not have asked a single question.
Those Rolls Royces are doing their work. Every idiot around the world is interested in them. And I want them to be somehow interested–in anything in Rajneeshpuram. Then we will manage about other things.
So tell those people–when anybody asks, tell them that These Rolls Royces are for you idiots. Otherwise you are not interested in anything.” Once they stop asking about Rolls Royces, then I will have to think of something else, whether to have rockets which are going to the moon…. I will have to think of something else.”
I received a letter from a bishop of Wasco County [Oregon], who had been for almost five years condemning my Rolls Royces. In every Sunday sermon he was not preaching Jesus Christ, he was preaching me and my Rolls Royces. The day I was leaving he wrote a letter to me, “Now you are leaving, it will be great kindness on your part if you can donate one Rolls Royce to this church.” Now, this shows the man….
I informed him, “Would you like all ninety-three, or only one?”
And a letter came, “If you can give all ninety-three, that is just the right thing. You are really great. I’m very sorry that I condemned you for five years. You are a man to be worshiped.”
It is a very strange world if you understand people: whatever they are saying shows more about them than it shows about the person they are talking about.
–Osho
Robbing Peter to pay Poor Black Paul is not Christian or moral in general. Charity is voluntary. If it’s forced or Goverment confiscation via taxes – it’s not Christian Charity. Yet you can’t tell the difference!
Great donation to the church has nothing to do with religion, it has nothing to do with charity; it is business, pure business. And that’s what people are doing. They donate to the poor, they serve the poor, to go to heaven. It is an investment, it is not service.
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Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, “I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust….” You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money — they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.
— Osho
There will be no revolution in the USA. We are done as far as the dream we were all told in school. Those in control cannot afford a real revolution, nor will they let any such thing occur. It will all be done and let down in small enough degrees that no one will ever get to a breaking point. There are no leaders in the USA. To change the world there has to be a person who takes up the banner, but there will never be anyone unless they want to die before they accomplish any tiny bit of change. Banning any internet freedom is unnecessary. You can talk all you want about “peak oil” or “handmade”. Don’t matter, it will never come to pass.
[Woody] Allen is a SICK BASTARD who committed incest. He’s a pedophile who preyed on her just like a flasher in a schoolyard.
E., the facts do not justify such accusations. Let’s look at why your incest charge is false.
First, Allen is not Soon-Yi Previn’s father. She was born in Korea in 1970 and was adopted by Mia Farrow and her then-husband, Andre Previn, when she was 8 years old. Allen never adopted Soon-Yi and never lived with her or acted as her father figure. Soon-Yi told Time in 1992 that “to think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable.”
Second, there have been serious inaccuracies in the reporting of the relationship. For example, a 1997 Reuters story about Farrow’s book states that “Farrow described her shock at first discovering Allen had taken pornographic photos of her adopted daughter Soon- Yi Previn and then that he was having an affair with the 17-year-old.” In New York, the age of consent is 17, and Allen and Previn’s relationship would not constitute statutory rape if it had begun when she was that age. But because other U.S. states set the age of consent at 18, it’s certainly a gray area in the minds of many Americans.
But the report is false.
The photographs (which are better described as “erotic” than “pornographic”) were taken in January 1992, when Soon-Yi was 22. She claimed in the Time interview that her relationship with Allen began when she was 20.
Try this experiment: Ask anyone how old Soon-Yi Previn was when the infamous photos that led to the breakup of Allen and Farrow were taken and see if anyone says 22.
To argue that a 20-year-old woman is incapable of making her own decisions is a sexist and belittling claim that ignores Soon-Yi Previn’s humanity.
That has always been the worst aspect of the continued condemnation of Allen: the erasure of Previn as if she has no subjectivity.
It’s nearly as bad to make claims about these people without knowing the facts. You appear to be ignorant of the facts, E.
Your mention of Pollard in the same post is slanderous completely irrational.
Allen and Previn were consenting adults who fell in love and are still happily married today, 15 years later.
Polanski pled guilty to raping a 13-year-old and fled the country to avoid sentencing.
Do you see the difference, E.?
Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama’s decision to meet with the families of victims of the Colorado shooting was “the right thing.”
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Asoka,
You are a symptom of the decline of civilization. You are a “postmodernist” who throws out the wisdom of 5000 years of human social history with ideological legerdemain. I find it interesting that you find a “spiritual” rationale for behavior that is often spoofed in Appalachia (“What did the Appalachian girl say in the morning?” Answer: “Get off of me, Pa, you’re crushing my smokes.”).
Look, it is irrelevant if Soon-Yi was adopted or came out of Maria Farrow’s womb. It is irrelevant if Farrow and Allen were legally married. Soon-Yi was RAISED as a DAUGHTER. Therefore, Woody Allen committed incest.
Since such a relationship often starts furtively with seductions and games, no doubt Allen was preying on her youthful credulity which he skilfully played upon. The whole Soon-Yi thing prompted me to reevaluate Allen’s films since something about them often falls short of the mark (except “Crimes and Misdemeanors”). The humor is very repetitive and the sex gags kind of reveal the banality of Allen’s mind on that score.
He’s like an over-the-hill sports guy who peaked at 32 but stuck around ’til 42 to pad his stats. Allen might have more movies out than any human being alive but, just as those who dislike Vivaldi claim he wrote the same concerto 600 times, you’ve seen one Allen movie and you’re pretty much seen 95% of them.
E.
Vlad,
You seem to have read a different post than mine.
First, the US is not a Christian nation, it never was.
Yes, I know the differences between taxes and charity. The problem with charity is it is very selective and there has never been enough, and all too often the “help” had strings attached.
Enacting taxes to take care of the needy is not Christian, it is civilized. Civilized people don’t require needy to either grovel or die.
Keith Jarret always bored the hell out of me. Completely structureless.
“Since the Yardbirds essentially destroyed Caucasians ability to listen to music that lasts more than two minutes,…”
I’m a Caucasian and I have plenty of ability to listen to music that lasts more than 2 minutes. I would note that Caucasians have specialized in creating long, complex compositions that go overy 5, 10 and more minutes. By contrast, it was blacks who have specialized in short songs and the Yardbirds were imitating them.
“Get yerself a woman with pronounced buttocks and DANCE ya silly nigga.”
My impression is it’s you with the “nigga” mentality.
Sorry I made you throw up your beer. Didn’t mean to shake you up so much.
Asoka,
You can find family photos of Allen, Farrow, and the Previn kids, including Soon Yi, all over the Internet. It was in the 1980s when Soon Yi was in her early teens.
Polansky was a perv, too, but what of the rapaciously ambitious MOTHERS who knowingly pimped out their daughters hoping they’d end up in a blockbuster Polansky film. Polansky never defended himself as a perv which makes him many notches above Allen who is trying to sanitize the entire Soon Yi affair as just a “normal” love affair.
That asshole was taking nude pics of her in her teens. Even the Wiki page takes a moral pass by claiming that the exact time when the relationship went from Father to Lover is “unknown”. Like hell it’s unknown!!
Soon Yi says she “never regarded Allen as a father”. Really? Read the family history. She has become Allen’s co-conspirator. The whole idea that a reasonably decent looking young nymph would marry that ugly, old, male Yenta is incredibly repulsive to me. He worked on her throughout her teen years so she’s effectively a victim of a snake in the grass.
Allen’s son, Ronan, who doesn’t speak to Allen, said, on Father’s Day 2012, that he doesn’t know whether to wish him Happy Father’s Day or Happy Brother-in-Law Day. Mia backs him up on this. You could say it’s sour grapes from Mia but the son?
I don’t see how anyone can defend Allen in this matter.
E.
“I see a bunch of sad-sacks (a la Rob and Paulette) convinced “the answer” to the void in their lives lies in someone else…
My view is that everybody has a void in their lives, and what fills that void is God. I know this might be a new thought for you, but take it under your hat. As for me, I maintain cheer in my days.
Chakras schmakras!
I’ve never said the word “chakra” unless I was responding to some idiot like you inanely bringing up “chakras.” I think you are responding, inanely, to a troll who brought up chakras, inanely. Which says something.
As mentioned, none of the great eastern scriptures that I’m familiar with mention them and they have little importance in religion/yoga. “Chakra” is some meme that takes the place of knowledge in your overtaxed head.
“Quintessence” of Vendanta.
Thank you for correcting that.
As for the rest of your post, no need to bother.
“Quintessence” of Vedanta.
Thank you for correcting that.
I have a translation published 1960 by the Sri Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama. The Indian name for the work is “Sarva-Vedanta-Siddhanta-Sarasangraha.”
As for the rest of your post, no need to bother.
Julian, it was a joke.
Oh I know.
That should have been obvious, as there is no 51st chakra.”
So it turns out you’re the only expert on “chakras” in the room.
Julian apparently does not know that all this so-called esoteric knowledge about chakras, energy fields, kundalini,…”
I have never mentioned chrakras, “energy fields,” or kundalini and the first two items I’ve never mentioned anywhere. Your mind is squirming like a toad.
…astral bodies,
You experience your astral body nightly in dreams. You are often very happy at those times.
…is dangerous as knowledge.
Leaving aside the fact that I am not interested in the things you listed, what do you know about them? On what basis are you worried they’re dangerous. What is your experience with these things?
As experience it is a totally different thing. Don’t acquire it as knowledge.
Knowledge leads to experience and experience increases knowledge. Knowledge is a form of experience. (If I tell a man about thing, he starts to experience it inwardly, etc.)
If it is needed for your spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an experience.
That’s true. It’s best not to seek experiences. (That includes experiences of the world.) It’s best to only seek God. But this is the statement of an ascetic. Are you one? Have you ceased from seeking experiences? (Do you ever go, say, to the park?)
By the way: All things known within become eventually known without. All things experienced within are eventually seen without. All the things you finally experience outwardly or inwardly began as your own notions. You continuously attempt to give yourself experiences by continually thinking of things, picturing them, and bringing them about. You describe yourself as if you a blank screen without any thoughts who suddenly experiences “experiences” than are mysteriously foisted upon him.
And if you have an acquired knowledge, borrowed knowledge, it is going to be a hindrance.
The knowledge of books and the guru point to the ways to get the best knowledge, which is direct knowledge of the bliss of God. All knowledge is acquired one way or another. If it came to you without effort it was acquired by karma before.
“For example, Hindu yoga believes in seven chakras,”
As mentioned, I have been studying most of the great Hindu scriptures — approximately 10 different works, for about 30 years. I have never seen “chakras” mentioned in them. Do you get your knowledge of Hinduism from a Christian evangelical tract?
“Jaina scriptures mention nine chakras. And Buddhist scriptures say that there are dozens of chakras, that these are only the important ones which have been chosen by different schools. They don’t give any fixed number.
Sounds like you’ve been studying those chakras pretty hard. They could never interest me. As Vasistha said: “However the mind conceives ‘the order’ to be — the Order becomes.” I have to say that as far as Hinduism goes, you are chewing on peanut shells and missing the peanuts; chewing on fins and tails and missing the fish meat.
Acquired knowledge will be confusing: how many chakras?
Exactly! Your kind of acquired knowledge is obviously confusing. Not to mention worthless. This Mechanics’ School of religion you have found sounds rather sorry.
“And what are you going to do with that knowledge,
What you do with religious knowledge is enjoy God, revel in Him, plus enjoy the world more.
whether there are seven or nine or dozens?
Again, there is a wonderful stage show going on and you’ve been studying the bubble gum and litter on the floor. Hinduism/Yoga is about God-search and God-love. Not chakras.
Your knowledge is not going to help;
Knowledge is the only thing that can help; especially knowledge of the divine.
it can only hinder.
For you I think that’s been the case! I think it’s time to stop trying to get knowledge about silly chakras, bro!
In a fruitful religious path bliss is the prime knowledge and the mark of success. Bliss is what all humans seek. According to the Upanishads, bliss is God’s nature. Knowledge about “chakras” probably does not, indeed, bring bliss and hinder.
If you can identify a potential member of your Chakra Chicanery Recovery Club here on this forum — please direct your worries to him/her rather than me.
“*drivel*”
Seriously, *soker*?!? /sigh/