Monthly Archives: July 2009

As to whether Barack Sweetie Obama is more appreciative or more disdainful of women, allow me to re-present a photo of his Wunderkind speech writer Jon Favreau.

That would be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s cardboard boob he fondles.  Not surprising from the standpoint of her having already demonstrated a willingness to be publicly disrespected but — c’mon, can we please call a spade a spade — pretty sexist and crass for a presidential speechwriter.

Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who YOU are.

So deaf are Washingtonian ears to reprimands and even pleas from the people — and so many years has it been this way, despite ostensible changes in leadership, always with Special Interests enjoying incredible government largesse — that a reasonable mind is obliged to presume that the deafness is selectively prejudicial.

Period.

Where are the Legal Eagles who will mount class-action discrimination actions on a cost-only basis?  Which of our up and coming Jurists will “settle” for fame over fees, satisfied that when Reason finally prevails, their patriotic efforts will be remunerated manyfold?  Think about it, really, who will selflessly bring expertise to bear when Reason may not prevail in their lifetime?

Believe me, I know.  I am three years at this blogging about insane politics and corrupt government, my customary claim of “not having made one dime” being put to rest this past month by a nice man who very kindly sent a twenty-dollar bill.  Lest he should be accused of befriending a Dissident, I’ll not say anything specific like “thank you Clark” but, rather, “thank you Hawaii.”  

Hawaii has some American Patriots.

Hawaii also has some Hawaiian Nationalists.  These would be people, Hawaiians, who want Hawaii to be restored as the sovereign nation that it WAS, right up until U.S. troops marched into the kingdom and declared that it WASN’T.  To the untrained eye, their case is not without merit.  

The question in MY mind is whether — while Bad Guys are at the helm and everything that anyone but the Select Few tries to do rolls like water off a duck’s back — do American Patriots in Hawaii and Hawaiian Nationalists consider themselves to be in the same foxhole?

War on Drugs, War on Terror, War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan, War on Poverty, War on Corruption . . . it couldn’t be any clearer that American citizens are AT WAR.  Correct me if I’m wrong — for I have no soldiering experience beyond generalized fighting for my life — but it seems to me that people who are at war, if they would live to tell the tale, are obliged to consider themselves always to be under siege.  Surely it is THAT level of watchfulness, competence and readiness that will effectively repel or, failing that, effectively reciprocate an attack.  Attacks made by adults of adult capacity DO have to be reciprocated, but is a different swamp of political correctness. 

Having earned $20 and having spent in the neighborhood of $150,000 at this racket, I confess that I would much prefer that the current rather than a future confederacy of dunces remunerate my labors.  Posthumous praise is the stuff of Martyrdom.  Martyrdom is the stuff of Last Resort.  Let’s don’t go down that road if we don’t have to.  That said, let us be WILLING to go down that road if need be.  Willingness to die has very much to do with who “wins” a war.

Which brings me back to class-action discrimination suits.  Generally speaking, which is to say leaving out the Silver Spoons and Whiz Kids, lawyers can’t lawyer for free anymore than writers can write for free.  As a matter of political correctness and a measure of Faith — for evidence abounds to the contrary — I’ll concede that love makes the world go ’round, but money keeps it on its axis.

I advise Patriots to quit throwing their money at politicians and down the crapper that IS the American “political process.”  Instead, pool it.  Think small planes and fast boats, instead of small inroads and fast politicians.  Think patriot chains and freedom franchises, instead of perpetual campaigning and entrenched interests.

Think American ingenuity, know-how, and stick-to-it-ive-ness.

Think venture capital.

On the Recovery Circuit, it is suggested that the ‘-ism’ of alcoholism stands for Incredibly Short Memory.  I will argue that it stands for Incredibly Short Memory with other -ism’s as well, including but not limited to activism, evangelism, communism and corporatism. 

On the chance that it resonates with anyone but me, otherwise just for the hell of it, I re-print a piece I wrote before bailout bucks commenced flying out of Congress like so much candy out of a pinata.  I do stand corrected on the matter of money not simply disappearing.  A lot of money DID “simply” disappear — I did not realize just how much of the “money” wasn’t money at all, but leverage-read-that-accounting-entries.  Make no mistake, though, a lotta lotta REAL money “simply” changed hands.

THE PLURAL OF WOLF IS WOLVES
26 September 2008

Certainly the urgency of the “run up” to the Great Bailout is reminiscent of our reaction to another terrorist attack.  Schizophrenic overkill and underkill, like the Addicts that we are.

There are traders and bankers…and appraisers, and real estate agents and loan officers and risk managers and government officials, who are SUPPOSED to be risk managers…who both contributed to The Mess (Disaster has been overused, like Whatever, and like) AND who profited from The Mess.

It is less that we should be bailing people OUT of their problems, but locking people up for CREATING the problems.  Laws have been broken.  Shit like this doesn’t just happen.  Check these people, WHO ARE PAID A LOT OF MONEY TO SEE THAT SHIT LIKE THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN, saying that we “find” ourselves between a rock and a hard place.  “We” “have” to do “something.”

I have a theory that far oftener than Anonymous Sources blow whistles, they throw shit at walls to see what will stick.

Bull Shit, More Shit, Piled high and Deep.

PAST DUE WAGES THAT HAVE BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED WITH I.O.U.’S SHALL BECOME SECURITIES?  TO BE TRADED AT FAIR-I-USE-THE-TERM-LOOSELY MARKET VALUES?  Lemme get this straight . . . wages are to be discounted, with financiers to take a cut?  Hank The Ban

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck.  Obviously.  Who can have forgotten about THE DEBT under which everyone is staggering?  People are in arrears, people are on the edge, PEOPLE NEED CASH TO FLOAT THEIR BOATS.  Who cannot see that people will be motivated to trade I.O.U.’s which signify a specified earned wage for LESS than the amount contracted?  This is BLATANTLY a scheme to discount the wages of American labor  to reflect the downward adjustment of “all asset classes.”  In other words, by the Fraud Factor.

One is too many and a million are not enough is said about a drink for an alcoholic.  America is inarguably a Nation of Addicts.  I will say the same about outraged calls and letters to Officialdom, one is too many and a million are not enough.  Just say NO.  Just say . . .

THE FAIR MARKET VALUE OF THOSE I.O.U.’S IS THE FACE VALUE, NOTHING LESS.

I respectfully suggest that NO ONE should be throwing their hats into the ring of machinations that constitutes “running” for office in America.

I say respectfully NOT because the process has any integrity.  In my view, it has NONE . . . unless it is to periodically remind Humanity just how low it can go.  In my considered opinion, politics are inherently corrupt.  In my considered opinion and in my Experience — beside which opinion pales — American politics have deteriorated into brazen opportunism, corruption and worse.  Yes indeedy, for all the cards that have been played on li’l ol’ me . . . for the record, that would include the Racist card, the Ku Klux Klan card, the Provocateur card, the COINTELPRO card, the Kook card, the Terrorist Card, the Embittered card, the Scorned Woman card and the Moron card — I am playing the Traitor card.

I say respectfully because the Offices which follow directly from our founding documents yet have merit and, if only owing to Laws of Probability, there are assuredly a Few Good People amongst the new crop of political aspirants.  For my money, we should grow more hemp and fewer politicians.

Wanting not to offend, rather to find a consensus large enough to seek refuge in, I will not dwell on the question that SOMEONE has to ask.  What sort of person seeks . . . early on, proactively and with considerable sums of other people’s money . . . to “run” to “win” a position of Power in a system that is only euphemistically called broken when it is undeniably RIGGED?  It’s like random online gamblers clamoring to sit at the high-stakes table with Card Sharks who are well known to CHEAT, and asking Other People to bankroll their play.  It is a superlatively bad bet.

There are some up-and-comers who are distinguishing themselves.  Adam Kokesh comes to mind, as a Congressman from New Mexico — I very much like the idea of an Iraq War veteran and active member of Iraq Veterans Against The War in a House of Representatives that seems entirely too willing to send Other People off to die.  For its striking-one-might-say-unholy willingness to sending Other People to their deaths, Congress is one place where it is possible to call for Fresh Blood without prompting censorship or prosecution by the Minister of Hurtful and Hateful Feelings.  None but the uneducated and the ill-intentioned could construe a call for Fresh Blood in Congress as anything other than metaphorical.

That said, I DO concur with Cicero about the execution of Traitors.  And hardy har har, it matters not whether it is sovereign nations or world government under discussion.  Either way, if a sovereign nation of People or a sovereign planet of People would maintain the integrity of a System by which masses of individuals can pursue life, liberty and happiness, those same people are OBLIGED to execute Traitors.  Mind, I am concurring with Marcus Tullius Cicero . . . who was executed for opposing dictatorship of Rome.

I trust it does not break any American laws to quote one of the most famous and well-regarded statesmen of the Roman Empire?

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

It is my resolute conviction that we have Traitors in our midst.  There is NOTHING cyclical or happenstance about the crisis through which we continue to lurch like drunken sailors on furlough.  No disrespect to the sailors, rather to the power-drunk, money-crazed Public Sycophants and Executive Slime.  

Let us PLEASE separate the wheat from the chaff before our wits and our wallets are overwhelmed by another parade of Pick Me! Pick Me! politicians.  If we will not first ride the Bad Guys outta town, the Bad Guys will marginalize whichever Good Guys MAY be coming down the pike.  The game is rigged, remember?  Who keeps playing by the rules with CHEATERS?  Stupidos and conspirers, that’s who.

By all means, file the infamous paperwork to be ABLE to “run” for office.  On pondering the peril that hangs over us like Damocles’ sword, also the hazy circumstances of Comrade Obama’s birth, it is possible to imagine that tidily dotted i’s and smartly crossed t’s may be the least of our concerns by the time elections roll around.

How ’bout a web site that serves as a registry of prospective candidates?  With brief bio’s, and each aspiring politician’s succinct positions on the same X number of questions.  I advocate a platform with ten clear-cut planks, reminding my beleaguered countrymen of the REALITY that God Himself has not inspired diligent observance of so long a To Do list.  

I IMPLORE countrymen who have MUCH more in common than they don’t to please Please PLEASE make what I appreciate is, for them, a GIGANTIC moral concession, notably taking abortion and gay marriage off the table.  Those bugaboos aren’t going awaywhere.  We can resume our circle jerks in six years — right where we left off, I expect.

SPARE ME about the number of innocent potential people who were not realized.  Look the other way and don’t think about it, same as with all our dead and their dead in Iraq.  And Afghanistan.  Eenie meenie miney mo . . .  Who’dya like for the trifecta, Iran or Pakistan?  Or North Korea?

SPARE ME about Gay Marriage altogether, just spare me.  THIS IS NOT THE TIME.  Unless the intent is TO divide the citizenry . . . y’know, drive impossible wedges between ALLIED CITIZENS to keep them stubbornly refusing to marshall their combined strength against a frighteningly powerful and thoroughly corrupt Super Elite.

It is a no-brainer that people who are campaigning for office pull their punches.  The argument, explanation and rationalization is that it’s the “only way” to win.  Stop already.  We assure one another all around that things “have to” happen certain ways and “can’t” happen other ways  – because that’s the way it is, because that’s the way it’s always been — and then, lo and behold, we are repeatedly “rewarded” by actualization of our very own self-fulfilling prophecies.  We are practically savants.

Let us not start throwing months and money away on egocentric campaigning.  Let us not already scatter our energies behind different candidates.  Let us not be so quick to throw in the towel on what THIS Administration and THIS Congress and THESE Robber Barons are doing.  It’s a little like planning the company Christmas party while embezzling proceeds unchecked.  

Americans are notorious for short attention spans.

Singleness of purpose is a mighty mighty concept.

RESTORE THE REPUBLIC.

There will be no restoration of the Republic, nor will confidence be restored to the market, unless we clear the decks of Traitors and Crooks.  Instead of vowing to REALLY do what needs to be done LATER, after another round of Campaigning As Big Business, let us for once in this increasingly miserable life do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.  If for a bona fide Change we will dispatch rather than delay our duties, I have no doubt that worthy statesmen will distinguish themselves . . . just like they did at the founding of the Republic.

By all accounts, General George Washington did not WANT to be president.  He was “simply” the best man for the job. Not the lesser of multiple evils, not the cream of the crop of the bottom of the barrel, but an American Patriot of unparalleled bravery, wisdom, strength, determination, effectiveness AND HUMILITY.  A Reluctant Leader.

Wisdom holds that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure

Scavenger hunting and treasure hunting, the twain shall meet

To rouse Fearful from cowardice and Privileged from pleasure

Discreet the feat is heat to feet in tandem with repeating treat.