Thursday, June 18, 2009

Why has Obama Sold Out The Gay Community????

Well I am not sure that he has done that...I am certain that Any Social Change takes a lot of time...
If you doubt that just ask a black person, or a mexican,...or a gay person.

It looks like the campaign of vitriol and hatred begun by the GOP and Fundamentalists was at least in part successful...
I mean in part successful in how horribly it affected my gay and lesbian friends... I was upset about the comparisons of two same sex people marrying being equal to a woman marrying a dog, etc.,...having said that I must admit that the upset I felt was no where close to the visceral impact it had on the gay community...
And it was successful in that it attacked a section of society and made them feel even more marginalized than before.
I think both sides here have work to do...
And no I do not feel like that assessment is fair to the gay community (I wish fervently that it could be) but I cannot demonize them for their justifiably felt group offense.
I think you guys are going to have to do what you have always done,....try harder than anyone else to show your "Real Value" and simply stop accepting the labels that the jerks on the name calling side have so liberally handed out...
Bullies will not stop bullying simply because they got to you and can easily get to you again thru the same method...
They wont give up trying to make you stand in the corner of the school yard until it begins to look like they are the objects of ridicule rather than yourselves....
Until the effort they are expending on belittling you rebounds and negatively impacts them personally they will simply continue...
You cannot beat them by being the same and you cannot beat them by having laws enacted.
You can only beat them by their own rules but without being bullies yourselves...
Dammit it is not fair...my heart cries for you guys and gals...but the end is not changed by me...
It will have to be changed by you and that will be slower than you want or like and harder than it should have to be...

BUT I am fairly sure it WILL CHANGE....

Screaming about it only portrays you to be the kid in the corner who is too weak to avoid the bully. Thus confirming what the bully is taunting you about...
Everyone I have ever met in the gay community was worth far more than that...
It just looks like the bullies have caused you lose sight of that...
And I hate bullies.....

Friday, May 8, 2009

They were UNPREPARED ???? No WAY !!

I found this on Think Progress...
Obama said he was willing to curb malpractice awards, a move long sought by the Republicans and certain to bring strong opposition from the trial lawyers who fund the Democratic Party.

What, he wanted to know, did the Republicans have to offer in return?

Nothing, it turned out. Republicans were unprepared to make any concessions, if they had any to make.

So now my question is, "What the hell are they bitching about ?? "
Because it looks more and more like they are just going breakneck , head-on, fullspeed, face first into that wall of public opinion concerning this type of behavior.
A wall that they were largely responsible for building..

HMMmmmm... Hoist By Thine Own Petard ???

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How Do They Explain Their Own Survey Numbers ???

IT MUST TAKE A MATH MAJOR TO MAKE SENSE OF IT....... !!!
I started in Computer Programming (RPG - RPG II, Cobol, some IBM stuff I cannot remember what it's designation was ) and switched to Psychology and Photography...

I know it is difficult to figure "WHY" or more precisely "what is the benefit being sought" by distorting or simply ignoring facts that one has acquired whilst simultaneously saying, "See ?? I told you it wasn't like that..." When anyone can look at your own facts and obtain a completely different picture...
BUT...that is what the Right and the GOP and those that silently support them do almost all the time...
IF a Datum is inconvenient ,...well then, it must be erroneous and therefore not to be acknowledged.
AND it works if you also go on the attack against your perceived opponent and have many supporters that also attack with the same or near same points... They have been masters at this in the near past...I dunno WTF has happened to them recently...I mean they went from sleek and deadly shark-like efficient hunters and killers...to Clown Shoes with polka-dots and flowers with almost no transition...
Which leads me to conclude that they were fairly clowny beforehand ...I just hadn't noticed...
Notice how they are maneuvering to include Clinton's last two years in the "Recession"...the recession that until my President took office they would not even say existed???
Am I having another alzheimers holiday or was the last two years of Clinton's presidency kinda ...ummm...embattled by those same folks that are blaming Clinton???
Didn't that jerk from my state (the bug killer) Tommy Delay (criminal extraordinary), have some sort of a heyday with Congress and the simple blocking of legislation that likely would have been good for the economy???
Maybe I get the time line confused again...it is hard to keep track when they Right Keeps Changing Reality just when I get used to pigs flying...

Saturday, March 14, 2009

AIG STILL PAYING OUT HUGE BONUSES WITH OUR MONEY !!!

It was widely reported today that AIG was going ahead with a bonus arrangement to pay out nearly ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to Fifty Executives..
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE ????

Oh no you guys...it ain't like that at all....
You're being way too harsh on poor old AIG...
They really had "no Choice"....
See, it is as simpla as this..

They company has many executives under contract...These salaried Managers are working very, very hard and are very talented individuals.
IF AIG had reneged on the contractual agreement to pay these worthies their bounty then they might have left the company and possibly even sued for breach of contract..
And besides, you always want to retain the "Best and Brightest" on your staff and reward them accordingly....it's just good business...
Plus, these were bonuses that were promised well before AIG began having trouble : even months before..
SEE?? NO CHOICE.

I know, I know...you want to remind me that AIG has taken almost 200 billion tax-payer dollars without so much as a ,"Thanks"...
You probably even want to remind me about trips to Scotland to play golf at the most prestigious golf course in the world... Sorta like going to Mecca for Muslims.. AFTER we Bailed them out..
You forget that it Promised Beforehand!!
You might even foolishly point out to me that it was this self same group of ass-clowns that Wrecked the FUCKING COMPANY IN THE FIRST PLACE !!!
And well....you would be right...

So, somebody remind me......WHY WE ARE STILL PAYING THESE FUCKERS !!!!

Because I don't know...

I lost my last job for the crime of disclosing to my boss exactly where the theft in the company was taking place. AND providing proof of same...
Maybe I should have become a thief also... THAT seems to be where the real reward is....
Huh???

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Addendum To The Preceding Post

Being of sound mind ( well I think so) and completely heretic in thought I left a Rant here earlier.. I want to stress to any who read it that it was mostly my actual feelings.
The remainder was rant .
I cannot help it. When the subject of "Evangelical" Christianity arises in a discussion it rarely ends with any kind of charitable thoughts.
I quit the faith because I became enlightened; i.e. I acquired a larger view on the world at large.
I am convinced that the average "Fundamentalist" or "Evangelical" identifies themselves as such from a provincial and essentially unrefined world understanding.
Ask most any young "Christian" to explain a simple concept such as "Charity" and they cannot do it. And there is an entire book in the new testament that explains it.
I read a Christian Science Monitor article today about the rise and fall of "Evangelical" influence and I found themes that I wholeheartedly agree with and simultaneously felt discouraged by..
Religion is a nearly universal Human construct. Humans from the most isolated and primitive tribes will be found to have some sort of belief about the unseen and unknowable. Having said that I have to stress that religion is at the heart of many world calamities...
History is rife with accounts of horrible and terrible criminal acts performed by and for and in the name of religion...
I think organized religion is simply incapable of being anything except a human mechanism for dealing with fear and uncertainty.
Yet Modern "Fundamentalism" in any form, Christian, Hebrew, Islamic..whatever..seems to have become more of an enabler of evil than good.
Can't be helped, it is the very nature of repression and repressive indoctrination. Human nature will simply look for and find an avenue to exploit in any restrictive or rigidly controlled behavior set.
WE are too inquisitive and curious to simply accept and comply with what we are told.. For an infinite span of time.
History bears out that whenever we have allowed repression to take complete control, eventually that system collapses in on itself from its on untenable construction.
The weakness of such constructs is always US.
This is WHY the GOP and "Evangelical" coup is failed and disintegrating , because there are people involved and they each have personal thoughts and feelings and agendas... And my personal feelings and agendas will with few exceptions be the interchangeably same as anyone else's. Even (especially EVEN ) my spouse with whom I share more than half my life to date... Because, she is as individual as myself, as George Bush, as Elijah, as, Mary Magdalene, as Stalin, as Abraham Lincoln.
And Now because of a very few individuals we have all this calamitous economic ruin to deal with...Almost completely caused by the greedy, acting under the license and protection of the religious zealots that placed the control of our beloved country in the hands of these criminals..
Thank You Jesus...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Are They Conservative Christians and the GOP the SAME ANIMAL ???

Earlier, I admit...I had carefully typed in a long winded , bombastic Rant about the GOP and Conservative Christians....

Anyway, I just want to point out that not All Conservative Christians are BAD, neither ALL GOP members (tho I can't swear to that).

It is a good thing to be Conservative, a good thing to be Liberal...they are not exclusive to each other..
Look at the Clinton Administration. I remember seeing Al Gore on the Tonight Show talking about ashtrays in military bases and how we needed to buy better ones, not more cheaply made ones...
THAT is Conservative Thinking From a Liberal..

I mean all this name calling is fun but I tire of it ..I just want shit to work, crooks to get caught instead of elected, and the hardworking to be justifiably rewarded...I want the poor to be helped and cared for and DAMMIT I WANT MY MONEY BACK FROM THOSE EFFING BANKS !!!
You know which ones...the ones refusing to divulge the use to which our "Free" money was put.
I want the bickering to stop and the goddam Adults to start acting like Adults for our children's sake if no other reason....

I think that the Conservative Movement was hijacked years ago and it is just now dawning on the members of all those mega-churches and such that they were sold a bill of fake sundries... and they are pissed also!!
The only ones I think are not justifiably pissed off here are the F&*KERS that were in the Congress for the last TEN YEARS...
They benefited rather well whilst the rest of the country was slowly bleeding out...
They are the ones that should pay...not the Christians, Not the Conservatives, NOT THE LIBERALS !!!!
Now I think I'll take a nap...

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Some "Fundamentally Sound" Economy Fella's,.. THANKS !!

It is depressing being unemployed.....
It is especially depressing when one sees the elected Representatives of one's Country stand in groups and individually and say with all seriousness,...""Our Economy is FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND !!"...and ,
.." All The Nay-bobs and nay-sayers out there are attempting to trash the image of a President and Congress that have repeatedly SAVED this economy from the ruin of the Clinton Years !!"...

I mean I WAS employed for a good deal of the last eight years. Truthfully I was....as a janitor, a maintenance man, a carpet cleaner and finally for Wal Mart.
So being out of a job for all of the last year (except for three months) is NOT as bad as some folks have it...
I understand.... I don't have it as bad as some do...
And with that understanding comes the depression of seeing My Elected Officials stand before the press and say such ridiculous, almost pathological fabrications about the Economy ....
I MEAN COME ON !!!!
Seriously you JERKS !!!
Have Any Of You had to Decide Between a House Payment, or a Car Payment (both of which are past-due) so you can EAT ????
Forget about having Lights or hmmm....HEAT !!!

Fundamentally Sound....

Pathetic LIARS !!!
SCUMBAG THIEVES !!!!

MY TAX DOLLARS LINE YOUR POCKETS AND YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO LIE TO ME ??????

Really......
And THEN you want to tell me that it in fact the Horrifying Condition of MY ECONOMY has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU ????
And that you need me to Understand that it is really the FAULT OF OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ????

Seriously Guys...I am UNEMPLOYED !!!!!!

NOT BRAIN DEAD..... NOT YET....

You assholes, how Dare You Hurt My Country like this and Try To Shift the BLAME....

How Dare You......

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Ohio Janitors Get Paid Bank !!!!

IT was reported today that a School System near Canton ,Ohio had one job opening and 700 people showed up to apply.
Yeah ...of course there would be 700 applicants..$16.00 dollars an hour AND benefits..???
Who wouldn't want that job...you have to put up with a little crap now and then (pun) and of course watch out for the over-sexed teachers (but as long as you don't look like a teen age boy no prob) and other than that its a Shweeet Job....
Seriously I ran a janitorial company in the seventies...nice work if you can get it...
But there is the constant factor of some ass who thinks because you are being paid to clean up behind their lazy ass that you are inferior somehow...(Ever see Joe Dirt??)
Bet they feel that way about their Mom also....
Anyway kidding aside , it is a mark of the times...that so many folks that thought such work beneath them even a few months ago are now suddenly realizing that money spends the same regardless where it comes from...And you banker will never know or care... You Mortgage Company could care less and your spouse's "friend" would be glad to get you out of the house...

Friday, March 6, 2009

The NYT says that Food Inspectors are Ignorant of their own JOBS!!!!

When I was seven or maybe eight...my Father took me to a slaughter house... I cannot say the idea ever occurred to me in the raising of my brood...but looking back I don't think it actually had a negative impact either...
Nobody likes to see the sausage being actually made. And I certainly don't think children should be allowed to. Not until they express an interest and desire to see that. And only after first explaining the process and possibly even showing them video... I dunno, each child is different...
At any rate...I think there is a gigantic disconnect between the Consumer and the Processor... Maybe If people were schooled about these type of thing in school fields trips for instance, Maybe there would be more responsible conduct all around...
The Processor is bending and breaking laws to meet demand, Demand is pushing for More and Faster to keep up with the Consumers Buying habits...
In the end we all get poisoned by our own greedy guts...
Truly it isn't intentional, and the victims would rightly argue that "They" did not force the it breakdown of these strictures and regulations...and they are Correct ...partially.
But we all bear a bit of the responsibility....NO, don't flame me about this ( or go ahead ) but the fact remains that with food and the production of same...it really is a market driven thing...surely the market "Forces" we all hear about have been exaggerated and or lied about at every turn due mostly to greed...but We Consumers need to get some education about our food sources instead of assuming that they will be there when we decide that we are feeling a bit peckish...
And hey, I'm a big fat , slob of a guy that got that way eating junk... so I can bitch only a little...but I Can bitch nevertheless....
It is TOO Expensive in this Country to eat "Healthy" for most folks...so you end up eating junk...
Just,...if you eat meat...go see where it comes from..thats all I'm saying....

Thursday, March 5, 2009

STUPID, POINTLESS, WASTEFUL VOLCANO MONITORING..

I was in the Coast Guard , stationed in Garibaldi , Oregon when Miss Helen performed her amazing disappearing mountain act...we had warning also, but not really...it was so much more astounding than anyone thought it would be...ash fall, people dying, mud flows, people dying, and terror .
And we were on the opposite side of the mountain from the main event...
If not for the warnings that were available and put out I dare say there would be to this day a memorial mourning the "hundreds or thousands" that died that day instead of the tragedy that there was.
Jindal and the Republicans are welcome to decry the need to watch these massive frightening things...hell, go live on them, please.
Then they , like Harry Truman can be buried under the half mile of ash and earth gutrock that results when one of these monsters decides enough is enough..
That sounds harsh and ugly I know...but I tire of hubris easily these days...like ,"They will welcome us as Liberators", or, "There are weapons of mass destruction just lying around everywhere", or, "The fundamentals of the American economy are sound",,,,,,.or. "There is no need to Waste much needed capital on something as silly as Volcano Monitoring"....
Yeah silly waste...cause everyone already knows how many active volcano's there are in the Pacific North-west...right ??? So we'll simply steer clear of that area...
Sorry Seattle, you are on your own with your silly volcano... It isn't worth the CASH to monitor it. But Hey ! You got windows , look out of them every now and then...
Of course ,...some of you will have to die pointlessly, but that is the will of GOD and the Republican Party...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

I for one will wait ..........

I am trying to be as positive as I can be... Seriously dude...!!!!
Really though...this is just crappy behavior by the GOP... Does EVERYTHING have to come from their own goddam lips to even at the least a moderately OK idea???\
BECAUSE IT IS NOT LIKE THAT !!!!!!
They got voted out....THEY LOST!!!!!!
So, now they are resorting to the sort of tactic like tha "Spontaneous" outburst by the Santelli guy a while ago...

" President Obama, Are You Listening ??" he asks with his arms outstretched as though he just cannot believe what he is hearing...

What a tool... I think this was a set piece, pure and simple staged acting....
This manhole is one of those ,"people who can carry the water" as he himself put... But you can tell that he also is one of the frequent bathers in the private baths that the rest of us slaves work our asses off to keep heated for the likes of this bought and paid for object.
I was alerted to something calling itself the grizzly movement or some such...more of the same hate mongering..
Ever want to find a directionless hate filled , angry person just listen to the talk radio shows (if you can stand it) and listen to FauX Newz... Plenty of snarky , self congraulatory , hatred...

SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS !!!! THIS HAS TO STOP !!!!!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

So,...Now Obama Is A CHIMP ?? Is That Right????

In response to the cartoon in the New York Post I can only say the following......

I am afraid that the two colleagues of mine that wonder about their individual reactions to it are both correct...
It is a tactic of this type of person (the cartoonist in this case) to use offensive terminology, or imagery in a tangential way that leaves them with what to their mind is effective obfuscation of their intention,..to wit the spreading of a racist ideal or image....
At the same time they can say to anyone that dares question them, "That must be how You see it, but I was not trying to do that".. Shifting the onus of racism to the questioner...
It is rather cowardly and intellectually questionable but that is the right-wing in the U.S. today...full of themselves and ready to push their collective asses in your face at every opportunity.
I remember another comment from someone who was quick to point out that they were both overreacting and that, "Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey"...or words to that effect....

Sometimes an apologist is just the racist's friend in disguise...


Just to be clear about whom I'm calling racist...it was NOT my friends....they are feeling outrage and should be doing so...saying otherwise only outs the person saying it as either a racist for political belief or a racist from pure hatred ...
Another friend is right also; even tho satire has a long history here in this country...there are currently historical boundaries that have the absolute Need of being untouched...
Just like you cannot falsely scream ,"Fire" to get better theater seats, you just can't go past these boundaries at this time...maybe in the future it will be an acknowledged format of satirical import...but there are No level headed folks around that would really try to defend this cartoon as other than it was intended ,...skewed racism.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Will The Liberals Be As Obstructionist In Their Own Well Intenioned Way ????

Someone was saying that the Liberals would be worse that the GOP in the amount of Government Intervention they allow.

I don't think liberals are reduced to censorship, not yet.
Power and authority are very contra-intuitive agents however.. ANYONE finding themselves suddenly able to change the tone of , or completely silence some source of public exposure which they personally find reprehensible and may in fact feel is possibly criminal will likely do so.
It is human nature.. Power is corrupting. It is a fact.
What was it King George ( the real one) said about President Washington ???
Something about if he really did willingly step down and hand the office over to another man...then the British would Never be able to conquer people like this again ???
I know how I would act...I can't be trusted not to retaliate in some fashion or action that would (in my mind) cause the GOP pain and possibly kill it off....
BUT THAT WOULD BE WRONG !!!
It is a failed party and philosophy... but hurting them would only make them stronger and give them the ammunition they desperately need right now to make people identify with them personally... Everyone feels bad for the underdog that is mistreated and most feel like in some sense that could easily become themselves.
I say let them rant...let them continue to scheme. Let them continue to derail and destroy.
Few people feel like being identified with / as a relentlessly , needlessly, and pointlessly angry poisonous snake.
One that is self admittedly intent on inflicting maximum damage and harm even to the point of repeatedly biting it's own tail...

Thursday, February 12, 2009

So,...He IS NOT Interested After All...Huh ????

So,....Gregg withdraws himself from the Commerce Secretary Slot after First going on Television and saying,"When the President asks, you really should accept..!"
I think this misanthrope was a Fat Karl Rove martinette, a puppet, a shill.
I think he was thinking of himself as a male Mata Hari for the GOP....
I mean, go in ...look around...find out ALL the juicy secret stuff that those Bastard Democrats were planning and then run.... Tell,...and get a gold star.
"Well Done Judd !!!" ,... "GOOD BOY !!"
Now the Criminal Republicans have actual emails and such to use as cannon fodder against their hated rivals...
And to think...it was all too easy...just act like you actually respected Obama and they just give you EVERYTHING....

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

It's Entertainment.... Right ????

Seriously...it IS entertaining to see somebody getting mauled by a wild animal isn't it?? Or the aftermath of a horrible train-wreck ??? EVEN BETTER to be able to see the train wreck AS IT HAPPENS !!!
Oh Dear God YES !!!! Please GOD, let me see a Train Wreck as it happens and actually witness the beheadings, disembowelments, traumatic amputations and such that accompany a horror like that !!!
PLEASEEEeeee !!!
But from a safe and harm free vantage point of Course !!!
Okay GOD ????
Orrr..... could you manage to allow a ,...hmmm..., let's say possibly mentally challenged woman to actually give birth to what can only reasonably be described as a litter of puppies...Could YOU GOD ??? For ME????
What's that Lord ??? I'm sorry, your small-still voice is almost impossible to hear over my news-updates...thanks for the techonology by the way... but I seriously didn't hear you Lord.
OH...YOU already Did That...For ME LORD???? WOW...YOU REALLY DO LOVE ME.....
Well at least YOU Do want me to be entertained....
WOW MY GOD IS GOOD !!!!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

AND NOW HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE.......

Or ,.."It Is Accomplished" ,...Or , "Strike the Tents"......Or what ever historic utterance you care to pick that could possibly come close to the events in our Nation's Capitol this Inauguration Day...

SO ..... NOW WHAT ???

Already the GOP seems to revealing the hand that they THINK they are holding...; i.e., to obstruct, to obfuscate , to deny , and ultimately to take the resultant inaction on the serious problems facing all of us and claim that it is the sole responsibility of the Democratic Party in general, and Barrack Obama SPECIFICALLY....

Just look at Senator Cornyn (R-TX) and the pointless shenanigan he has gotten up to with Hillary and her nomination.......
Clearly they are NEVER going to accept or accede that they were / are in any way responsible for the present state that the United States finds itself in...
CLEARLY they are NEVER going to Change their Totally Inept World Concepts...these a-hole are simply frozen solid in a reactionary cold-war mentality....

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Ignorance Is Not Bliss...It Kinda Sucks...

I admit it... I don't know what I'm talking about here...but then neither does ANYONE ELSE !!!
I am of course speaking about the Bailout Banks that have received money from me and you and then flat out refused to say how that money is being used...
WHAT ????? Wait...HUH ??? You Just Are Refusing To Say ????
I mean are these the same banks that I now hear almost daily are BUYING other banks????
I mean are these banks the same ones that are sending their executive to fabulous vacation junkets????? WITH MY MONEY ?????
I WANT MY MONEY BACK !!!!!!!

Monday, January 12, 2009

The Fallacy Of Zero Sum

A short story..

So a day bright and new came along to show a Baker by the name of
"Republic" hard at work baking bread for his end of work day
customers...he had been working for hours previously as he had already
made and sold his usual to the early morning crowd.
Now as everyone knows, baking is hot tiresome work but can be so
rewarding ,...there is the satisfaction of creation, the abject smiles
of anticipation on the faces of those buying your bread or cookies, and
as a small bonus there is the smell...that wonderful smell of fresh
baked bread.....ahhhh.
Maybe it was this smell that caused the problem.. I couldn't say..
The smell meant comfort and satisfaction..
Whatever is was the problem started with Republic's only son... Little
George..
Little george wanted some bread but was not helping Republic who kept
telling Little George, "Be patient, and remember "TANSTAAFL" "
Little George kept demanding Republic do as Little George wished and
simply stop so that Little George could do as he wished..
"Dad, what do that mean "TANSAAFL"?? " , "It's stupid"

Republic only kept working to meet the needs of later in the day...
Finally Little George got angry that things weren't going as he wanted
and in a fit he went out front and threw a large bisk thru the front of
the store shattering the very expensive window... Then he went home and
hid as bad boys often do..

Republic had to stop and get the window fixed so later when the
evening crowd came to purchase their dinner bread there was none..
Many were angry and demanded from Republic an explanation... "I had my
window broken unexpectedly and had to call the glazier to get it
repaired, because TANSTAAFL..." he would then sadly shake his head and
apologize more for his customers going hungry...

Some of them shushed him and soothed him saying, "Republic , it is
alright, for now the glazier has benefitted from your misfortune, he
will doubtless buy bread from you later with the money you pay him and
he might buy new tools from the blacksmith as well...see? This is a
good thing"..

Republic only shook his head and sighed. "TANSTAAFL"
"You have it wrong he said, I am now out by the amount of money hat I
would have made selling you bread, and the money that I am forced to
pay for the new window, AND the wage of the glazier..SEE? TANSTAAFL !"

"Yes , yes," they said, "but what does that mean?"
"Look it is this way" Republic sadly said,"I would have been enriched
by the sales I cannot make this evening, I would still have the cost of
the new window in my accounts, and I might have been about to add a
second worker to my bakery and cannot do so now... TANSTAAFL simply
means There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch !!! "

Little George simply does not understand this...
Republic has the support for all the things he does and in turn he is providing for his community...
Little George just takes for granted that he also has support BECAUSE of the good standing his father has... And that as a result Anything he decides to do will also be supported and be seen as a good thing for the community...
This is the fallacy of the zero-sum argument...

Sunday, January 11, 2009

THE AGE OF PROGRESS OR THE AGE OF HOMILY ????

I am getting the sick feeling ... not quite fully realized but there nonetheless...in the pit of my mind's waste removal area so to speak....my sub-conciousness if you will.
It is plainly stated this...: We are witnessing the advent of an historic period in The United States Of America... We have seen a person of clearly non-white heritage elected to the highest political office in our beloved country. For the First Time !!!
And Only One-Hundred and Fifty Years after we had a WAR that declared ALL people such as he totally Equal...
Only 150 Years ...Only...!!!
And Now the powers that are will completely nuetralize him from realizing ANY creative Idea that he or the support network he brought with him can propose.
They Can and they Will if it looks to them in any fashion that the continuation of their hegemony is going to be forestalled or in any way threatened...
AND they will blame him....
I am sickly feeling that this will be the case in point and it will not be just Republicans at the switches...it will be Democrats as well...
But they wont be caught without a whole pocket full of good sounding homilies to explain why they are doing what is in effect simply childish, selfish actions.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Antidisestablishmentarianism.........

Yeah...that is EXACTLY what modern Republican Base Folks are !!!!
Antidisestablishmentarians.... Each and every one...

So....... The Anticipation Builds...

I can feel it all around me when I go out... Folks are just ...waiting.
In the Arctic, there is this "Pack Ice Melt" phenomena where locals swear they get tense, edgy, and even have fights break out in public places during the season when the pack ice starts to break up..
I think that this is close to what that must be like... It is a strain, it is draining ...it is stressful.
President Obama has been boxed in by the Republicans...no matter WHAT he does, it will not be enough and consequently it will be bad. Score for the republicans.
This horrifying debacle is almost entirely of the making of the current administration ( Lil'George et-al ) and yet they are studiously looking for and exploiting any opportunity to put the blame on the Previous Democratic Presidents...

ENOUGH !!!!!

We need to stop all the petty bickering in Washington and get something positive done...

Monday, January 5, 2009

So Now It Starts...

And my guy is not even sworn in yet....
Richardson had to withdraw his name from Commerce Secretary Nomination because of an investigation... One that threatened to disrupt the Obama Adminstration's earliest decisions.
There is no telling the exact amount of criminal actions that have been allowed under the Republicans (and we no doubt will likely never know). What is a sure thing is that they Republicans are already setting up shop to be as obstructionist as possible...
I wonder how many guys like Scooter Libby would go to jail if they didnot have Bush standing behind them with a bag full of our money and a get out of jail free card..
Well it is nearly over in that regard.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

"Who Will Remember Our Works???" A Question.

I commented the following on another persons blog in response to their question , "Who will remember...?"... And it was asked regarding artistic expression...
I said....
Personally I was seventeen and I liked Zeppelin plenty, I never saw this film tho, pity...I am not sure What I'd have made of it...but as to your posit that "art is what is remembered"... I dunno...I tend to think "Art" is art regardless of being remembered... Art for art's sake??? God no...I mean to say that , for instance,...a soldier's actions in the midst of horrific battle could be justifiably seen and regarded as high art.
Or conversely, the surgeon performing near miraculous brain surgery could be seen as surpassing skill and expressing an art.
I do not mean to argue here, I agree that "Art" is remembered, just not by all and not always... And the clutter...it Is all around , it is called civilization....
I don't know whom our works will be remembered by, nor even if that is a criteria that we should consider in our contemplation of action... I believe that we should do what we see, feel, and think to be correct for the moment and posterity will out. And if it happens to be done in a fashion that elevates the act beyond the norm...well then we arrive at another , the strongest notion of Art.
I used to blithely tell folks that there was no excuse for bad style....Now I just think there is no standard that is "THE" standard.