BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
FRIEDMAN'S ACCOUNT IS ONE PARTLY ABOUT NORTH AND SOUTH
Israel and Judah.
E and J, Elohim and Yahweh, Shiloh and Jerusalem, Mushite and Aaronid, etc., etc.
It is about rival hereditary priestly lines, descended mainly from Moses and Aaron, themselves ostensibly brothers, that extend, at least in memory and lineage, in or out of power, for hundreds, and even thousands, of years.
E and J, Elohim and Yahweh, Shiloh and Jerusalem, Mushite and Aaronid, etc., etc.
It is about rival hereditary priestly lines, descended mainly from Moses and Aaron, themselves ostensibly brothers, that extend, at least in memory and lineage, in or out of power, for hundreds, and even thousands, of years.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
RE FASCISM IS NOT OUR PROBLEM
Re Professor Kaiser's post in Time, a great article, yet I have to say that the Germans in the Weimar Republic, a so called democracy analogized by him to ours, did not think that fascism was their big problem, either.
Most people there, and in the rest of Europe, including England, were more concerned about socialism, especially after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, than about Fascism.
The American left liberal anti Western imperialist, anti monarchist, pro globalist establishment actually liked the Russian Revolution, just as they had liked the French before it.
Most people there, and in the rest of Europe, including England, were more concerned about socialism, especially after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, than about Fascism.
The American left liberal anti Western imperialist, anti monarchist, pro globalist establishment actually liked the Russian Revolution, just as they had liked the French before it.
RE JESUS HISTORICAL FIGURE
I want to start some notes regarding connections between modern Jewish biblical scholarship and modern Christian biblical scholarship.
It seems to me that one can learn some things about the historical Jesus, which at least might turn out to be highly likely, by using modern Jewish biblical scholarship.
Unfortunately, I know nothing almost about Palestine history regarding those 400 years, 400 BCE and 4 CE, and very little about either Christian or Jewish biblical scholarship.
Further, it is almost too complicated for me to explain.
So what I suggest is that anyone interested in this subject first read R E Friedman, Who Wrote The Bible?, and only then read, and read it into, E P Sanders' account, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, and then draw what implications occur to you from first having read Friedman.
Someone out there may see what I mean here.
Certainly Sanders had been unwilling or unable to use the kind of material in Friedman's account to shed any light whatsoever on the historical Jesus. That fact, itself, may come as something of a shock.
It seems to me that one can learn some things about the historical Jesus, which at least might turn out to be highly likely, by using modern Jewish biblical scholarship.
Unfortunately, I know nothing almost about Palestine history regarding those 400 years, 400 BCE and 4 CE, and very little about either Christian or Jewish biblical scholarship.
Further, it is almost too complicated for me to explain.
So what I suggest is that anyone interested in this subject first read R E Friedman, Who Wrote The Bible?, and only then read, and read it into, E P Sanders' account, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, and then draw what implications occur to you from first having read Friedman.
Someone out there may see what I mean here.
Certainly Sanders had been unwilling or unable to use the kind of material in Friedman's account to shed any light whatsoever on the historical Jesus. That fact, itself, may come as something of a shock.
Monday, March 28, 2016
RE PETHERICK
People love these posts.
I actually have an old Italian, or such, violin, with an old Gisalberti Parma label...
It looks nothing whatsoever like either a Gisalberti or a Ballarini in Petherick's book, or a Del Jesu in that or any other book, for that matter.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Repairing & Restoration of Violins, by
Horace Petherick
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: The Repairing & Restoration of Violins
'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
Author: Horace Petherick
Release Date: October 11, 2008 [EBook #26878]
Language: English
LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD DIAGRAM WHY DO I SHOW THIS?
Reading Friedman's and Sanders' books, together so to speak, certain possible implications jumped out at me.
They are implications which neither Jews nor Christians would be eager to acknowledge.
That makes them all the more attractive to me.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
RE PETHERICK THE STRAD VOLUME XVI
Dilworth, Brompton's Book Of The Violin, calls Petherick's views bizarre. I agree with that.
Dilworth fails to address why, then, if it was so bizarre, The Strad, in 1906, devoted a full length, well illustrated, book to Petherick's views on Del Jesu and Giasalberti / Ballarini.
Petherick had just authored a book on Stradivari in 1900, two years before the Hills came out with their book on Stradivari. Pure coincidence?
Petherick was by then a respected and acknowledged string instruments expert, admitted to British courts as an expert witness on violin attributions, according to his cover page.
Who were his clients, as an expert witness? The Hills? Others of the violin trade? Who?
Was there no scholarly peer review back then to arrest this apparent scalawag? Who were his expert peers, anyway?
The Hills did not touch the subject of Guarneri, in book form, until 1931, 25 years after Petherick's book. Why?
If one cannot believe him on Del Gesu, what about his views on The Repairing And Restoration Of Violins , or on Stradivari? Good questions, as these books are also in print.
Dilworth fails to address why, then, if it was so bizarre, The Strad, in 1906, devoted a full length, well illustrated, book to Petherick's views on Del Jesu and Giasalberti / Ballarini.
Petherick had just authored a book on Stradivari in 1900, two years before the Hills came out with their book on Stradivari. Pure coincidence?
Petherick was by then a respected and acknowledged string instruments expert, admitted to British courts as an expert witness on violin attributions, according to his cover page.
Who were his clients, as an expert witness? The Hills? Others of the violin trade? Who?
Was there no scholarly peer review back then to arrest this apparent scalawag? Who were his expert peers, anyway?
The Hills did not touch the subject of Guarneri, in book form, until 1931, 25 years after Petherick's book. Why?
If one cannot believe him on Del Gesu, what about his views on The Repairing And Restoration Of Violins , or on Stradivari? Good questions, as these books are also in print.
CF PETHERICK POSTS BELOW GUARNERI STRADIVARI VIOLINS
Bein & Fushi, apparently, from what I read some years ago, began asserting, back in the 1980s, that it was unnecessary for them, or anyone deeply knowledgeable, to scrutinize the interior of a violin, in order to reach a decision or opinion regarding its maker. One could examine the exterior only to do this, if a brilliant enough connoisseur.
CLASSIC 2011 POST QUOTE RE AMERICA'S FACTORY AND BANKER
Here is a quote from The Coming Conflict With China:
'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'
'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'
YESTERDAY NPR OR WNYC INTERVIEW POLITICAL EXPERT
Great explanation of bases of drift, undemocracy, and consternation at the Presidential election level.
Could have been one of my posts...
'153 decision makers... 50 states, etc.
'Republicans often winner take all state by state,
'whereas Democrats mostly bleed on, alive, primary by primary, carrying the frontrunner down gradually as they go limping into the national convention...'
Could have been one of my posts...
'153 decision makers... 50 states, etc.
'Republicans often winner take all state by state,
'whereas Democrats mostly bleed on, alive, primary by primary, carrying the frontrunner down gradually as they go limping into the national convention...'
Saturday, March 26, 2016
CLASSIC POST
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-david-brooks-two-cultures-editorial.html
June 2020 addendum:
Brooks: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/opinion/16brooks.html?hp
New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/79211/david-brooks-and-cultures
June 2020 addendum:
I criticize David Reich and Nicholas Wade, too, as well as Brooks and his adversaries.
I really agree with none of them.
But backed against bright scalding graffiti amid a flat hot intellectual wasteland, parched desert or rotting jungle, you turn and fight with what comes to hand.
Brooks: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/opinion/16brooks.html?hp
New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/79211/david-brooks-and-cultures
OK I CANNOT KEEP A SECRET
See E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, "Jesus' Last Week".
Corpse impurity. It took a week to expunge....before Passover, and then Unleavened Bread.
Certainly Jesus and some or all of his disciples had it. Corpse impurity was everywhere.
Corpse impurity. It took a week to expunge....before Passover, and then Unleavened Bread.
Certainly Jesus and some or all of his disciples had it. Corpse impurity was everywhere.
RE EASTER WEEKEND
It was not just a weekend, or even a week, for most Jews in the time of Jesus.
Most Americans and Western Christians have no idea...oh well, who cares?
Most Americans and Western Christians have no idea...oh well, who cares?
PETHERICK THE STRAD'S GUARNERI EXPERT 1906 VOLUME XVI
Petherick: Del Jesu's linings did not even go into the corner blocks.
Petherick: Sides did not wrap the end blocks in one piece.....
Petherick: Sides did not wrap the end blocks in one piece.....
RE DARIO D ATTILI FALLACY
http://www.guarnieri.com/labels.htm
The labels in the shoes....
D'Attili's tickets are legion in auction catalogues.
The labels in the shoes....
D'Attili's tickets are legion in auction catalogues.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
HULK HOGAN GAWKER NEW LOW MEDIA PRESS MARKET BOTTOM FEEDERS
Hogan had tried to copyright what he was later compensated for under the tort laws, against first amendment defenses.
Terms search: Lorch, Drew Pearson Fallacy
Terms search: Lorch, Drew Pearson Fallacy
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Saturday, March 19, 2016
OPEN LETTER TO MS MAZZUCATO
Re The Entrepreneurial State
Dear Ms Mazzucato:
Great book so far. My remarks are rather in the nature of intramural criticisms. I am a sort of neomercantilist, economic nationalist - Western civilizationalist.
You are also a sort of neomercantilist nationalist, it seems to me, having read your book.
These ideas would have been most helpful to Western Nation States until, say, 1919, when they more or less partially turned away from the nation state concept, and also turned rather reluctantly from their Western Empires, toward larger, liberal, multinational, multicultural organizations, as a solution to their perceived problems.
It did not get any better for them after that, up to and through WWII, and then its Cold War aftermath, and then down to the present day.
It got worse.
One big problem, as in so many other fields, with your account, is that it is mainly about economic theory and history, although it touches other areas without really acknowledging doing so, eg industrial policy in developmental states.
You throw up the hidebound contrast between the rigid US and USSR versus Japan, without placing it in a context of both Cold War Soviet preparedness efforts, and US booming the noncommunist world, as well as a defense umbrella for such as Japan.
It really is a failure to characterize the role of government in wider contexts, the very thing you criticize the private sector here for having done, in economics, once again, in isolation from other noneconomic insights.
And I should point out that I am not myself a fan of US foreign policy, trade financial or commercial policy, or military policy, either before or after WWII.
What you have in mind is really a sort of neomercantilism for a state in a position to embrace economic nationalism. That is the only way that nationalist entrepreneurial advantages you discuss might accrue to a given national taxpaying citizenry and its national companies.
Unfortunately with the advent of blind globalization in the latter 20th Century, that is a vanished ideal in the West.
Countries like Japan, Asian Tigers, and later China, have succeeded with it only because they were allowed to by the West and at its expense.
As I have pointed out so often here before:
Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.
Your book is yet another testament to the failures I and others have described long ago.
Terms search: trading places, trading american interests, Opening America's Market, developmental state, Steingart, attacker state, Faux, Manufacturing Matters, Chalmers Johnson, MITI, van Wolferen, Steingart, bashing, competitiveness, Friedman LeBard, Michael Porter, Huntington, war for survival, rail to rail, Rodrik, Thurston, etc.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/re-where-we-turned-wrong-way.html
You discuss how the US government recently aggressively protected Apple's and others' intellectual property rights against foreign encroachment, under Fostering An Indigenous Sector...this I tend to doubt, having studied prior US trade policy in this area and others.
Further, neither the state, nor the private sector itself, has any interest in fostering an indigenous IT sector strictly within the territorial and national political confines of the US, and benefiting mainly only US taxpayers.
The history, throughout the 20th Century, shows, to the contrary, that the US has seldom placed domestic economic and commercial interests above foreign policy and so called strategic interests.
Your critique of the idol of entrepreneurship is a bright spot in the narrative. It is always great to explode false myths where one can see them.
Figure 13, great stuff!
http://ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/what-the-steve-jobs-movie-wont-tell-you-about-apples-success
I wouldn't let a billionaire American entrepreneur take out my garbage, not because he couldn't do it, but because I couldn't trust him.
One should not expect Trump to do anything like what he says on trade, perhaps even things you think you support, even if he happens to actually believe it and wants to.
He can't: political structural problems hardly touched on in your book....
All the best
Boomerbuster
Dear Ms Mazzucato:
Great book so far. My remarks are rather in the nature of intramural criticisms. I am a sort of neomercantilist, economic nationalist - Western civilizationalist.
You are also a sort of neomercantilist nationalist, it seems to me, having read your book.
These ideas would have been most helpful to Western Nation States until, say, 1919, when they more or less partially turned away from the nation state concept, and also turned rather reluctantly from their Western Empires, toward larger, liberal, multinational, multicultural organizations, as a solution to their perceived problems.
It did not get any better for them after that, up to and through WWII, and then its Cold War aftermath, and then down to the present day.
It got worse.
One big problem, as in so many other fields, with your account, is that it is mainly about economic theory and history, although it touches other areas without really acknowledging doing so, eg industrial policy in developmental states.
You throw up the hidebound contrast between the rigid US and USSR versus Japan, without placing it in a context of both Cold War Soviet preparedness efforts, and US booming the noncommunist world, as well as a defense umbrella for such as Japan.
It really is a failure to characterize the role of government in wider contexts, the very thing you criticize the private sector here for having done, in economics, once again, in isolation from other noneconomic insights.
And I should point out that I am not myself a fan of US foreign policy, trade financial or commercial policy, or military policy, either before or after WWII.
What you have in mind is really a sort of neomercantilism for a state in a position to embrace economic nationalism. That is the only way that nationalist entrepreneurial advantages you discuss might accrue to a given national taxpaying citizenry and its national companies.
Unfortunately with the advent of blind globalization in the latter 20th Century, that is a vanished ideal in the West.
Countries like Japan, Asian Tigers, and later China, have succeeded with it only because they were allowed to by the West and at its expense.
As I have pointed out so often here before:
Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.
Your book is yet another testament to the failures I and others have described long ago.
Terms search: trading places, trading american interests, Opening America's Market, developmental state, Steingart, attacker state, Faux, Manufacturing Matters, Chalmers Johnson, MITI, van Wolferen, Steingart, bashing, competitiveness, Friedman LeBard, Michael Porter, Huntington, war for survival, rail to rail, Rodrik, Thurston, etc.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/re-where-we-turned-wrong-way.html
You discuss how the US government recently aggressively protected Apple's and others' intellectual property rights against foreign encroachment, under Fostering An Indigenous Sector...this I tend to doubt, having studied prior US trade policy in this area and others.
Further, neither the state, nor the private sector itself, has any interest in fostering an indigenous IT sector strictly within the territorial and national political confines of the US, and benefiting mainly only US taxpayers.
The history, throughout the 20th Century, shows, to the contrary, that the US has seldom placed domestic economic and commercial interests above foreign policy and so called strategic interests.
Your critique of the idol of entrepreneurship is a bright spot in the narrative. It is always great to explode false myths where one can see them.
Figure 13, great stuff!
http://ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/what-the-steve-jobs-movie-wont-tell-you-about-apples-success
I wouldn't let a billionaire American entrepreneur take out my garbage, not because he couldn't do it, but because I couldn't trust him.
One should not expect Trump to do anything like what he says on trade, perhaps even things you think you support, even if he happens to actually believe it and wants to.
He can't: political structural problems hardly touched on in your book....
All the best
Boomerbuster
Friday, March 18, 2016
RE APPLE US FIGHT ETC ENCRYPTION ISSUE MARIANA MAZZUCATO BOOK IRONIES EVERYWHERE
See her current book, discussing the extent to which so called entrepreneurs like Apple have sucked critical R & D, which everybody here had paid for in taxes, out of gullible and weak western democracies like us for many decades.
This technology, and much else, privatized for Apple profits for example, at great taxpayer expense here, mostly ended up, knocked off, and often even gladly licensed for limited private profits, in Asia, which, after 1945, put institutions in place to capitalize on it, against its creators themselves over here.
In spite of her best intentions, and really great text so far,
smell the coffee, game over for Western Civilization, pal!
She has great, not especially surprising, or technically new, ideas, that would have been useful to Western States in, say, 1900, some of which states' leaders also actually had known them in the 18th Century and before.
Back then, they had been called mercantilism, but it had needed to be updated, not replaced with Smithism..
This technology, and much else, privatized for Apple profits for example, at great taxpayer expense here, mostly ended up, knocked off, and often even gladly licensed for limited private profits, in Asia, which, after 1945, put institutions in place to capitalize on it, against its creators themselves over here.
In spite of her best intentions, and really great text so far,
smell the coffee, game over for Western Civilization, pal!
She has great, not especially surprising, or technically new, ideas, that would have been useful to Western States in, say, 1900, some of which states' leaders also actually had known them in the 18th Century and before.
Back then, they had been called mercantilism, but it had needed to be updated, not replaced with Smithism..
TRUMP CHRISTIE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM DANCE CARTOON
The usual characters.
Trump, in devil aspect, very tall, is dancing wildly, but holding the hand of Christie, also in transports of dancing frenzy, on a large round table in the middle of a cabaret setting, say in a casino.
Christie can be in a hula skirt, etc., and in drag, perhaps. He is happy. He might also ape a plump La Goulue, Can Can, etc.
Daumier's midgets from prior posts, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, all very visible at intervals, below the table, struggling to keep the table up. They are its only legs. For this one they can be both plump and naked but loin cloths.
Midgets need to look vaguely Daumier esque from the 1840s, or shall I say Barry Blitt esque.....
1880s Moulin Rouge decor, Toulouse-Lautrec touches here and there.
Philipon .
Trump, in devil aspect, very tall, is dancing wildly, but holding the hand of Christie, also in transports of dancing frenzy, on a large round table in the middle of a cabaret setting, say in a casino.
Christie can be in a hula skirt, etc., and in drag, perhaps. He is happy. He might also ape a plump La Goulue, Can Can, etc.
Daumier's midgets from prior posts, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, all very visible at intervals, below the table, struggling to keep the table up. They are its only legs. For this one they can be both plump and naked but loin cloths.
Midgets need to look vaguely Daumier esque from the 1840s, or shall I say Barry Blitt esque.....
1880s Moulin Rouge decor, Toulouse-Lautrec touches here and there.
Philipon .
RE WHERE WE TURNED THE WRONG WAY PERMANENTLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION
See The Old European Order, subchapter 'Mercantilism, Empire, and their Enemies'.
Doyle really summarizes it very well. Hume, Smith, Physiocrats, Enlightenment, etc., ideology in historical context.
Of course, Doyle does not espouse my views here. You will have to look somewhere else for that.
Doyle really summarizes it very well. Hume, Smith, Physiocrats, Enlightenment, etc., ideology in historical context.
Of course, Doyle does not espouse my views here. You will have to look somewhere else for that.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
FLAT FREE TRADE GLOBALISTS CARTOON TRUMP BROOKS FRIEDMAN BERNSTEIN ETC
Just imagine what this depicts.
Trump looking diabolical, but in a kilt and full highland attire, under a tree, is dancing a jig on a legless table top lying on the ground, in a forest glade, which represents visibly on its top the geography of the world.
Protruding, at intervals, around its visible periphery are the heads and perhaps a hand or two of Brooks, Friedman, Bernstein, etc, agonized expressions, their bodies squashed underneath the flat table.
A small sign, stuck in the ground nearby, says:
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED
The caption: Flat Trade
Some of my cartoons may be a little too ' severe ' for Blitt, at least for the public face of Blitt;
they are perhaps more Gahan Wilson like, so to speak.....
Trump looking diabolical, but in a kilt and full highland attire, under a tree, is dancing a jig on a legless table top lying on the ground, in a forest glade, which represents visibly on its top the geography of the world.
Protruding, at intervals, around its visible periphery are the heads and perhaps a hand or two of Brooks, Friedman, Bernstein, etc, agonized expressions, their bodies squashed underneath the flat table.
A small sign, stuck in the ground nearby, says:
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED
The caption: Flat Trade
Some of my cartoons may be a little too ' severe ' for Blitt, at least for the public face of Blitt;
they are perhaps more Gahan Wilson like, so to speak.....
POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS WAKE UP INEQUALITY VITAL CENTER TRADE GLOBALIZATION
Our system did not work, well before gross income inequality!
Our system did not work well when we had a so called vital center, E J!
Our system did not work, well before trade and investment globalization!
Our system did not work well when we had a so called vital center, E J!
Our system did not work, well before trade and investment globalization!
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
TRUMP CRUZ RUBIO CARTOON VARIATION
Same as last cartoon, except Rubio's head, and perhaps a hand, protrude from Trump's mouth.
He has devoured the remainder.
Christie lounging nearby in satanic raiment.
He has devoured the remainder.
Christie lounging nearby in satanic raiment.
TRUMP CRUZ CARTOON
Cruz, as Grand Master, but still a midget, is seen, finally, somehow, putting a stake in the heart of devil Trump.
KREMLIN BEHIND TRUMP
One could see it coming.
Huge, but no one over here is really aware of this, I guess.
Great stuff.
Huge, but no one over here is really aware of this, I guess.
Great stuff.
FREE WAR
SAY AUSTRALIA OR SOMEONE ELSE BACKS OUT OF ENORMOUS CONTRACTS
What are the consequences:
Free trade, right?
I call it FREE WAR
What are the consequences:
Free trade, right?
I call it FREE WAR
RE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AGAIN AND AGAIN
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/american-working-class-history.html
Ragano asked Hoffa, in so many words (see the book), why he needed the Mafia.
Hoffa had told Ragano he needed the Mafia to counter the forces arrayed against his union.
Take a guess what those forces were. That I can well understand.
Certainly, JFK, most liberals' idol was no friend of labor, although he certainly took them, and Hoffa, for a ride in the election.
"Ask not..."
Political structural problems.......
Ragano asked Hoffa, in so many words (see the book), why he needed the Mafia.
Hoffa had told Ragano he needed the Mafia to counter the forces arrayed against his union.
Take a guess what those forces were. That I can well understand.
Certainly, JFK, most liberals' idol was no friend of labor, although he certainly took them, and Hoffa, for a ride in the election.
"Ask not..."
Political structural problems.......
Monday, March 14, 2016
TRUMP MARINA EMINENT DOMAIN GILLIGAN'S ISLAND POOL PARTY CARTOON
Dressed as Thurston Howell III, the hag's dilapidated small motor cruiser half sinking nearby, he is physically throwing her from his yacht, high out above and thence into the marina drink, hungry sharks circling nearby below where she will splash.
Hers is called MINNOW, visible going down, his yacht THURSTON.
Hers is called MINNOW, visible going down, his yacht THURSTON.
CARTOON CONCEPT WITCH AND WARLOCK CONFRONTATION IMAGINE
Just to start thinking about the general election......
Think Salem.
Americans seldom think of a battle of witches, but it is hardly unprecedented.
Think Salem.
Americans seldom think of a battle of witches, but it is hardly unprecedented.
TRUMP EMINENT DOMAIN CARTOON
He is very roughly dragging the old flea bitten hag from her hovel, and then from her wheel chair, toward the viewer.
High rise casino, and Federal Reserve Bank, in background at periphery.
She is biting his arm, hard.
Two bums are trying to get close to pommel him with protest signs as he goes.
A bull dozer has already started demolishing half the hovel, and is tipped up against the sorry dwelling in the image, near background.
Even Barry might grin at this.
High rise casino, and Federal Reserve Bank, in background at periphery.
She is biting his arm, hard.
Two bums are trying to get close to pommel him with protest signs as he goes.
A bull dozer has already started demolishing half the hovel, and is tipped up against the sorry dwelling in the image, near background.
Even Barry might grin at this.
US SUPPORTING SAUDIS IN YEMEN WAR
A quiet little side war in the graveyard of empires, the Middle East.
How many other quiet little side wars are now going on, do you think?
How many other quiet little side wars are now going on, do you think?
AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY
...article by Edsall "summarized, once again, the economic changes that have devastated the American working class over the last 40 years. Hourly wages adjusted for inflation have been nearly stagnant since 1964, and the middle class has shrunk. The de-industiralization of the US--which has gone much further than in the major European countries--has devastated working class communities in states like Michigan and Ohio. In a rational world, all this would have strengthened what is supposed to be our left wing party, the Democrats, and led to legislation which would have reversed some of these trends. But this is not happening. Why?" DK
This is nothing new, really.
Just one of the difficulties has been that labor issues have not been uppermost, as they should have been, since labor unrest began. Even the Democratic Party normally mainly only paid lip service to this issue. There never was here a so called Labor Party, as there was in Britain, or anything like it.
There never was a preponderant lobby in Congress strong enough to overcome countervailing management interests there. Government, and very importantly, the police power, were almost always mainly for management.
The Supreme Court played a key part as well, for decades, in retarding labor oriented federal legislation. Child labor is a locus classicus apparently.
See "Labor History of the United States" Wikipedia article and component articles.
RE NYT THE ERA OF FREE TRADE MIGHT BE OVER
Jared Bernstein faux dream land (he is faking support for his whole title assertion, here).
See David Brooks: Mr more free trade, please.
The presidency on trade is a one trick pony.
Both Jared, and the NYT know this faux thesis is bull.
So why did they print it?
Because they know...
This is an especially egregious piece of Bernstein comparative advantage bull: 'Success in trade has much more to do with comparative advantage (who’s particularly productive making what goods), exchange rates and the quality of supply chains than with trade agreements.'
See David Brooks: Mr more free trade, please.
The presidency on trade is a one trick pony.
Both Jared, and the NYT know this faux thesis is bull.
So why did they print it?
Because they know...
This is an especially egregious piece of Bernstein comparative advantage bull: 'Success in trade has much more to do with comparative advantage (who’s particularly productive making what goods), exchange rates and the quality of supply chains than with trade agreements.'
Sunday, March 13, 2016
CLASSIC POST EXPLAINS MOST OF THE BIG ISSUES
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/re-political-reform-not.html
Boop
Hey:
Maybe the funnier guy, in the small room, can lean on BB to do an illustration or two?
I know, he doesn't think they are that funny....
Fine. I am used to that......
All the best
Maybe the funnier guy, in the small room, can lean on BB to do an illustration or two?
I know, he doesn't think they are that funny....
Fine. I am used to that......
All the best
RE DK REMARKS RE AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AND SCHOLARS the intellectual establishment here
We never really had one, an intellectual establishment, here.
What has passed for one, here, has semi systematically betrayed what has passed for Western civilizational culture, here, just as the free press, here, has also done, from the beginning, really.
What has passed for one, here, has semi systematically betrayed what has passed for Western civilizational culture, here, just as the free press, here, has also done, from the beginning, really.
Saturday, March 12, 2016
TRUMP ON TRADE
He sounds a lot like Steingart: The War For Wealth.
Steingart had said 'they begged me not to publish this'...something like that. Who were 'they', do you think?
The problem is even if he, Trump, were serious, he can't do anything like what he claims he can do.
Political structural problems, especially of the presidency itself; ideological blindness has been crucial in this decline leading to an even more important development, long term economic financial and industrial globalization militating against such a project of repatriating industry, etc.
Game over, smell the coffee. We, not just the US, but the West, are done for, really. We have actually been done for since about 1945, frankly.You can kid yourself.
Terms search Steingart
Steingart had said 'they begged me not to publish this'...something like that. Who were 'they', do you think?
The problem is even if he, Trump, were serious, he can't do anything like what he claims he can do.
Political structural problems, especially of the presidency itself; ideological blindness has been crucial in this decline leading to an even more important development, long term economic financial and industrial globalization militating against such a project of repatriating industry, etc.
Game over, smell the coffee. We, not just the US, but the West, are done for, really. We have actually been done for since about 1945, frankly.You can kid yourself.
Terms search Steingart
THE MENU MONET'S TABLE
Ran across another copy...
Maybe I will say a few things, at some point, about this conjunction of fields of human endeavor, in Western civilization, in its time.
Maybe I will say a few things, at some point, about this conjunction of fields of human endeavor, in Western civilization, in its time.
DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ABETTED BY FREE COLONIAL PRESS
No better place to look than the first 8 pages of Bailyn, Ideological Origins.
The colonists were fed radical pap originating in the English Civil War (of course it went farther back, to, say, Jesus' followers (not Jesus), Athens (false idol), and also to Roman republicans, etc), transmuted by later pamphleteers.
None of those ideas had any traction whatsoever in British politics, especially after 1688, about the time Trenchard and Gordon began to fulminate on liberty over there.
This was not the Enlightenment, it was the Unenlightenment.
The colonists were fed radical pap originating in the English Civil War (of course it went farther back, to, say, Jesus' followers (not Jesus), Athens (false idol), and also to Roman republicans, etc), transmuted by later pamphleteers.
None of those ideas had any traction whatsoever in British politics, especially after 1688, about the time Trenchard and Gordon began to fulminate on liberty over there.
This was not the Enlightenment, it was the Unenlightenment.
GLOBALIST UNICULTURALISM
It goes well beyond just multiculturalism...
see Huntington's views re multiculturalism.
Uniculturalist individuals, like many of us, have no allegiance to anything whatsoever, except that.
Think, something like, Leibniz ian monads.
see Huntington's views re multiculturalism.
Uniculturalist individuals, like many of us, have no allegiance to anything whatsoever, except that.
Think, something like, Leibniz ian monads.
Friday, March 11, 2016
DK VERY IMPORTANT PASSAGE
"The reasons, in my opinion, go back about half a century, and particularly to two bad decisions by the last New Dealer to occupy the White House, Lyndon Johnson. The first, most catastrophic decision was the Vietnam War, which alienated the Boomer left from Johnson and to some extent from politics, and threw away the enormous Congressional majorities he had secured in 1964. But the second was the redefinition of poverty as a minority problem, not a national one. Ironically, the first target of Johnson's War on Poverty in 1964 was Appalachia, then as now the poorest region of the nation, and at that time, a Democratic stronghold. But the problems of Appalachia have only gotten worse over the last 50 years, and it has become a Republican stronghold, now firmly in the pocket of Donald Trump. The white southern working class has also abandoned the Democratic Party, convinced that Democrats care only about blacks, immigrants, women, and homosexuals. Both Trump and Sanders voters know that their lot has been getting worse, and that neither major party seems to care very much about it. Sadly, they are right.
"Since the mid-1970s, when the first prominent "new Democrat," Gary Hart, specifically repudiated the New Deal's approach to problems, the Democratic Party has increasingly been dominated by a wealthy establishment that focuses largely on social issues--women's rights, gay rights, and affirmative action--and cooperates with most of the most powerful economic interests in our society, led by Wall Street. Going with the flow, Bill Clinton in the 1990s appointed Treasury secretaries from the big investment banks, repealed Glass-Steagall, and allowed the orgy of private borrowing that eventually led to the 2008 crash to begin. Going with the flow,. as Thomas Piketty's book showed two years ago, means promoting increasing economic inequality. Such inequality is the natural result of the operation of the capitalist system and only government intervention can stop it. Clinton went with the flow in other ways as well. His crime bill was a key step towards mass incarceration, and his welfare bill left many Americans defenseless. Urban poverty, as a new book about evictions has shown, has become much worse. Meanwhile, the leadership of the black community, it seems, had focused on creating a black establishment, especially in politics. The gerrymandered black districts that were created in most major urban areas became rotten boroughs, firmly under the control of perpetual incumbents, who remained a power within the Democratic Party but do not seem to have been able to do much for their constituents. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton, obviously, have invested a great deal of time cultivating that establishment, and it has paid off. Although younger black people have turned against their parents had flocked to Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton has nonetheless built up a large delegate lead with the help of black votes, especially in the South. But most of those votes will be useless in the general election, where Democrats have no chance in the Deep South."
"Since the mid-1970s, when the first prominent "new Democrat," Gary Hart, specifically repudiated the New Deal's approach to problems, the Democratic Party has increasingly been dominated by a wealthy establishment that focuses largely on social issues--women's rights, gay rights, and affirmative action--and cooperates with most of the most powerful economic interests in our society, led by Wall Street. Going with the flow, Bill Clinton in the 1990s appointed Treasury secretaries from the big investment banks, repealed Glass-Steagall, and allowed the orgy of private borrowing that eventually led to the 2008 crash to begin. Going with the flow,. as Thomas Piketty's book showed two years ago, means promoting increasing economic inequality. Such inequality is the natural result of the operation of the capitalist system and only government intervention can stop it. Clinton went with the flow in other ways as well. His crime bill was a key step towards mass incarceration, and his welfare bill left many Americans defenseless. Urban poverty, as a new book about evictions has shown, has become much worse. Meanwhile, the leadership of the black community, it seems, had focused on creating a black establishment, especially in politics. The gerrymandered black districts that were created in most major urban areas became rotten boroughs, firmly under the control of perpetual incumbents, who remained a power within the Democratic Party but do not seem to have been able to do much for their constituents. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton, obviously, have invested a great deal of time cultivating that establishment, and it has paid off. Although younger black people have turned against their parents had flocked to Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton has nonetheless built up a large delegate lead with the help of black votes, especially in the South. But most of those votes will be useless in the general election, where Democrats have no chance in the Deep South."
THE TRUMP MENU CARTOON
We show an Elizabethan royal table. Seated facing the viewer at center is the Trump figure from the last two cartoons.
He is hungry. He has knife and fork in hand.
Before him is a large tray on a rustic board table, candelabra either side, other viands, etc. Votaries and acolytes at either side.
On the tray is a large capon, or a suckling pig, whatever.
It is well browned.
He is even taking a large bite, perhaps.
Its hind quarter is branded CARSON.
Where is Barry Blitt when you need him?
He is hungry. He has knife and fork in hand.
Before him is a large tray on a rustic board table, candelabra either side, other viands, etc. Votaries and acolytes at either side.
On the tray is a large capon, or a suckling pig, whatever.
It is well browned.
He is even taking a large bite, perhaps.
Its hind quarter is branded CARSON.
Where is Barry Blitt when you need him?
Thursday, March 10, 2016
TRUMP CRUZ RUBIO DEBATE PHILIPON CARTOON VARIATION
One might also show the Trump figure, facially, in profile, so that physiognomic cartoon skills could shine forth here too.
And why not give him a sinuous forked tail, extending out from the side opposite his face in profile?
And why not give him a sinuous forked tail, extending out from the side opposite his face in profile?
IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL HUNTINGTON AMERICAN MULTICULTURALIST DEMOCRATIC GLOBALISM
Sam: This post is for you.
How many times have the core states in different civilizations joined in long term multiculturalist alliances with each other?
France, of course, had betrayed Western Civ with the Sultan, then later, of course with the Czar.....that was not "multiculturalism"...
American support for the Russian Revolution was multiculturalist, (and anti Western Civilizational), only from the American side (the Bolshiviki, of course knew better than to embrace American multiculturalist capitalism)!
The US alliance with the Soviets in WWII, another example perhaps.
Apart from these temporary alliances, and other short term aberrations, one can count the number of times on your ass: zero.
Nothing in The Clash, "The Global Politics Of Civilizations" chapter seems to me to contradict this.
Core states in other civilizations are not multiculturalists.
How many times have the core states in different civilizations joined in long term multiculturalist alliances with each other?
France, of course, had betrayed Western Civ with the Sultan, then later, of course with the Czar.....that was not "multiculturalism"...
American support for the Russian Revolution was multiculturalist, (and anti Western Civilizational), only from the American side (the Bolshiviki, of course knew better than to embrace American multiculturalist capitalism)!
The US alliance with the Soviets in WWII, another example perhaps.
Apart from these temporary alliances, and other short term aberrations, one can count the number of times on your ass: zero.
Nothing in The Clash, "The Global Politics Of Civilizations" chapter seems to me to contradict this.
Core states in other civilizations are not multiculturalists.
RE ECB
What is the difference, really, big picture, for Europe, between .05 and .00?
It, Europe, is a beached whale, either way, really, amid booming globalization elsewhere, which it and us have singlehandedly promoted, for many decades now.
Smell the coffee. Western Civilization: game over.
American candidates talk big about turning America around, Trump talks especially about economic and commercial and industrial turn around here, trade, etc.
Guess what?
Because of our prior policies of the past 60+ years, that is not possible, for a variety of reasons Trump is not called upon, because the other candidates don't want to touch it even though they have been told by their handlers that it is bull.
It, Europe, is a beached whale, either way, really, amid booming globalization elsewhere, which it and us have singlehandedly promoted, for many decades now.
Smell the coffee. Western Civilization: game over.
American candidates talk big about turning America around, Trump talks especially about economic and commercial and industrial turn around here, trade, etc.
Guess what?
Because of our prior policies of the past 60+ years, that is not possible, for a variety of reasons Trump is not called upon, because the other candidates don't want to touch it even though they have been told by their handlers that it is bull.
AN OLD CARTOON CONCEPT
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/09/re-china-japan-america-krugman-nyt.html
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
ONCE UPON A TIME I HAD TRIED LAMELY
to get Barry Blitt to look at my scripts, by referring to them in my posts and mentioning his name.
This is a guy who was ready to retire 5 years ago.
The reasons I had were that he does a great job with physiognomy, gesture, action, and color.
He truly is the modern Daumier. google search:
Barry Blitt Boomerbuster
This is a guy who was ready to retire 5 years ago.
The reasons I had were that he does a great job with physiognomy, gesture, action, and color.
He truly is the modern Daumier. google search:
Barry Blitt Boomerbuster
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
TRUMP CRUZ RUBIO DEBATE PHILIPON CARTOON
We show a stage with three podiums in a triangle about 8 feet apart on each triangle side.
The large podium is nearest the viewer and facing away from the viewer directly toward the back of the stage; the other two very small ones are on either side, facing say 45 degrees from directly frontally, and turned partially toward the larger podium and partially toward the viewer.
At the central podium, with back to viewer, is a very tall figure in a black, floor length, robe, or better yet, wide collared silk cape. Long blond white reddish hair billows around the head. Long horns protrude from the sides of the head. Also, long pointed ears are visible through the hair.
At the tiny podiums, on either side facing half toward the viewer are two midget figures, one at each podium, in crude monks' cassocks, with crude rope belts and sandaled feet.
They can look something like two of the figures below, only clothed as rustic monks:
One can imagine different expressions on each of their faces, fear, awe, determination, courage, calm, etc.
The one on the left is Cruz.
The one on the right, Rubio, or vice versa, this doesn't matter.
They are both holding firmly, outstretched, at full arms length, in both hands, toward the tall figure confronting them, a large exorcist's cross.
-- Philipon --
The large podium is nearest the viewer and facing away from the viewer directly toward the back of the stage; the other two very small ones are on either side, facing say 45 degrees from directly frontally, and turned partially toward the larger podium and partially toward the viewer.
At the central podium, with back to viewer, is a very tall figure in a black, floor length, robe, or better yet, wide collared silk cape. Long blond white reddish hair billows around the head. Long horns protrude from the sides of the head. Also, long pointed ears are visible through the hair.
At the tiny podiums, on either side facing half toward the viewer are two midget figures, one at each podium, in crude monks' cassocks, with crude rope belts and sandaled feet.
They can look something like two of the figures below, only clothed as rustic monks:
One can imagine different expressions on each of their faces, fear, awe, determination, courage, calm, etc.
The one on the left is Cruz.
The one on the right, Rubio, or vice versa, this doesn't matter.
They are both holding firmly, outstretched, at full arms length, in both hands, toward the tall figure confronting them, a large exorcist's cross.
-- Philipon --
MEGHAN HAS ACCUSED TRUMP OF BEING BASICALLY A CHANGELING
She opened another door to seeing Trump, as Cruz may have divined, as a warlock.
Classic manifestations of being a witch or warlock is the ability to change form at will, to be a changeling.
Trump has long been accused of being a closet Democrat...for example. Crist is a locus classicus, now, of this change or mask.
Classic manifestations of being a witch or warlock is the ability to change form at will, to be a changeling.
Trump has long been accused of being a closet Democrat...for example. Crist is a locus classicus, now, of this change or mask.
RE MEGHAN VERSUS TRUMP
She accused Trump of changing his views back and forth, he answered sometime one has to change, based on changing circumstances, better information, emerging things, etc.
I can well understand that....
But we are going to pursue a different implication of that accusation of changing, a darker implication if you will, in light now of what Rubio now accuses Trump of being, a phony, as he also accuses Crist of having been: a phony governor.
I can well understand that....
But we are going to pursue a different implication of that accusation of changing, a darker implication if you will, in light now of what Rubio now accuses Trump of being, a phony, as he also accuses Crist of having been: a phony governor.
RE CRIST DOES RUBIO MEAN A PHONY POLITICIAN
or a phony heterosexual?
Creative Loafing tried to out Crist, but was warned off publishing it.
Creative Loafing tried to out Crist, but was warned off publishing it.
RUBIO HAS ACCUSED TRUMP OF BEING A PHONY LIKE CRIST
This direction, of course has enormous possibilities for the lines of inquiry I have been following recently here.
We will unpack some implications of this direction in subsequent posts..........
We will unpack some implications of this direction in subsequent posts..........
Monday, March 7, 2016
EVEN IF BROOKS IS RIGHT ABOUT THE GREAT BETRAYER
Trump is the candidate that Americans most deserve.
Maybe Trump can do for the country, for the world, and for God, something like what Rick Scott has done just for little old Florida, a mere state.
Nevertheless, Trump would really queer the benevolent influence of his opponent, the naive, latin lover, young and restless, Cuba lover, Rubio, who, as Chris Farley Christie said, knows jack squat about governing anything larger than a small duplex, down here, given Rubio's really great, smart, hands off statesmanship on sacred, and largely constitutionally inviolable, small scale, peanuts, grass roots, average American private property rights here (the big boys behind the scenes pulling the strings on this marionette).
Maybe Trump can do for the country, for the world, and for God, something like what Rick Scott has done just for little old Florida, a mere state.
Nevertheless, Trump would really queer the benevolent influence of his opponent, the naive, latin lover, young and restless, Cuba lover, Rubio, who, as Chris Farley Christie said, knows jack squat about governing anything larger than a small duplex, down here, given Rubio's really great, smart, hands off statesmanship on sacred, and largely constitutionally inviolable, small scale, peanuts, grass roots, average American private property rights here (the big boys behind the scenes pulling the strings on this marionette).
ONLY FOOLS FIGHT THOSE THEY DO NOT HAVE TO NORTH SOUTH KOREA US
Only fools.
Guess who is, and has long been, the fool in Asia?
Us.
Guess who is, and has long been, the fool in Asia?
Us.
RE SAMUEL GLOVER AND THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES
"That broader perspective is necessary if only because it's the best way to deflate the delusional bubbles of people like Clinton, Wolfowitz, et al. Iraq, Libya, Syria -- these societies didn't just pop into existence when they started showing up on CNN. They're the product of millennia of history, and that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa. Against that, our Beltway Caesars are going to set up suburbia with a few well-aimed bombing missions and a "moderate" "government" constructed from a gang of hotel exiles?!?!" SG
"...that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa..." SG
The Middle East, as Rufus Fears reiterated, has always been the graveyard of empires.
A very dynamic graveyard, to paraphrase SG.
"...that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa..." SG
The Middle East, as Rufus Fears reiterated, has always been the graveyard of empires.
A very dynamic graveyard, to paraphrase SG.
ROMNEY MORMON ANYONE BETTER THAN TRUMP POSSESSED
Romney will go with exorcist Cruz over devil Trump.
He will go with anybody over Trump, apparently.
Think about it. Trump must be a sort of devil to Romney.
What is Cruz to him, a sort of angel?
Mormons like Romney would, of course, think that way.....
Smell the coffee...
He will go with anybody over Trump, apparently.
Think about it. Trump must be a sort of devil to Romney.
What is Cruz to him, a sort of angel?
Mormons like Romney would, of course, think that way.....
Smell the coffee...
IT'S TIME FOR CRUZ TO BE OUTED AS I HAVE SAID
as an exorcist.
Ted Max Von Sydow Cruz
Cruz needs to pull out some more of the stops, kick it up.
Exorcism is about the only way to go, without tipping his actual policy hand.
Of course Cruz can land on Sanders as a Communist, but not as a devil.
He can also land on Hillary, as a possessed witch, like a ton of bricks, based on enormous spurious past bad press for Hillary.
That makes a lot of sense for a rascal like Cruz.
Ted Max Von Sydow Cruz
Cruz needs to pull out some more of the stops, kick it up.
Exorcism is about the only way to go, without tipping his actual policy hand.
Of course Cruz can land on Sanders as a Communist, but not as a devil.
He can also land on Hillary, as a possessed witch, like a ton of bricks, based on enormous spurious past bad press for Hillary.
That makes a lot of sense for a rascal like Cruz.
IF DAVID BROOKS REALLY THINKS TRUMP IS A SORT OF DEVIL
Then why not throw in with Cruz, anti semite or not?
After all, "Some of these positions I agree with...", DB January NYT article.
Cruz and Brooks, most strange bed fellows...
Brooks really has nowhere to turn, a sad situation.
Cf The Party Is Flat, Thomas bozo Friedman, below.
After all, "Some of these positions I agree with...", DB January NYT article.
Cruz and Brooks, most strange bed fellows...
Brooks really has nowhere to turn, a sad situation.
Cf The Party Is Flat, Thomas bozo Friedman, below.
IT MIGHT BE A GOOD CAMPAIGN STRATEGY AT THIS POINT
for Cruz to start wearing an exorcist's cross for some events, especially a head to head with Trump.
He may, of course, make some enemies, but who knows, he may make some friends too with that wild ploy.
Then, if Trump starts to act possessed, Cruz can calmly hold up the cross in front of him and hold him at bay.
He may, of course, make some enemies, but who knows, he may make some friends too with that wild ploy.
Then, if Trump starts to act possessed, Cruz can calmly hold up the cross in front of him and hold him at bay.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
RE EXORCISM ETC AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY
This, demon possession, is a better approach, even, than treating your political opponents as, say, vermin, as Hitler did re the Jews, and also re the German Communists with whom he had identified them.
This wild strategy of course has had its limits...
To see how Christian demonization, as a political strategy, does not work, in modern times, re Jews, or Communists, for that matter, one has to look at its origins, in something like Pagels' The Origin Of Satan.
It has tended to be associated mainly with Christian on Christian polemics since say 150 AD.
This wild strategy of course has had its limits...
To see how Christian demonization, as a political strategy, does not work, in modern times, re Jews, or Communists, for that matter, one has to look at its origins, in something like Pagels' The Origin Of Satan.
It has tended to be associated mainly with Christian on Christian polemics since say 150 AD.
WHY BOTHER TO ACCUSE YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS OF ANYTHING ELSE REALLY
when you can simply accuse them of being possessed by the devil?
NO DOUBT FEW BELIEVE ME RE CRUZ AS EXORCIST TRUMP AS WARLOCK
I just want to give you one example, from the last debate, only a few days ago.
Warlock Trump starts to hyper ventilate, under attack from both exorcist Cruz and non exorcist but devout Catholic Rubio, and starts to act possessed, and looks wild eyed.
He may have started frothing at the mouth, I don't know...
What does candidate Cruz do?
He counsels Warlock Trump, in so many words, see the debate for the exact wording: to stay calm, take slow, deep, breaths, etc., don't get too excited; just the kinds of things an exorcist might advise one possessed under similar circumstances!
Warlock Trump starts to hyper ventilate, under attack from both exorcist Cruz and non exorcist but devout Catholic Rubio, and starts to act possessed, and looks wild eyed.
He may have started frothing at the mouth, I don't know...
What does candidate Cruz do?
He counsels Warlock Trump, in so many words, see the debate for the exact wording: to stay calm, take slow, deep, breaths, etc., don't get too excited; just the kinds of things an exorcist might advise one possessed under similar circumstances!
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY APPARENTLY BELIEVES THAT IT CAN BETTER CONTROL CRUZ THAN TRUMP
I have to say, from what little I know, is that the power base of the party will be as little able to control Cruz in office as the German industrial establishment had been able to control Hitler once in power.
I don't know why they are so afraid of Trump. He is really actually less scary, in some ways, to the industrial and financial establishment, than Cruz, from what I have seen.
But then what do I know, a broken down old trial lawyer?
I don't know why they are so afraid of Trump. He is really actually less scary, in some ways, to the industrial and financial establishment, than Cruz, from what I have seen.
But then what do I know, a broken down old trial lawyer?
THEN THE NEXT QUESTION OF COURSE CRUZ EXORCIST
Is Cruz willing, then, to posture himself, in the campaign, as a sort of exorcist for them?
In some ways, given his voter base, and his ideology, that makes some sense.....
Rubio, of course, is somehow not quite right for this delicate role.....
In some ways, given his voter base, and his ideology, that makes some sense.....
Rubio, of course, is somehow not quite right for this delicate role.....
DOUBTLESS THEY WILL OR ALREADY HAVE DUBBED SENATOR CLINTON A WITCH
Of course, one always had male witches, warlocks.
Question: have they dubbed Trump a warlock yet?
If not, just wait and see.
Question: have they dubbed Trump a warlock yet?
If not, just wait and see.
RE THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION UNREST WITCHCRAFT
Ultimately, on the religious right, we are perhaps in something like the posture of the New England colonies in, say, 1689......
They had rebelled against the concept of The Dominion of New England.
They were facing wars from foreign enemies, notably the French and their Indian allies, whom they considered demons, heathens, heretics, Papists, atheists, and infidels.
Of course, their businesses, in the port towns, were mainly in smuggling, but they saw no inconsistency between that and their severe religious and political intolerances.
Finally, we will doubtless see the new emergence, in this so called post enlightened age, of claims of witchcraft, which erupted shortly after that time.
See Robert Allison's lecture: The New England Uprising of 1689.
They had rebelled against the concept of The Dominion of New England.
They were facing wars from foreign enemies, notably the French and their Indian allies, whom they considered demons, heathens, heretics, Papists, atheists, and infidels.
Of course, their businesses, in the port towns, were mainly in smuggling, but they saw no inconsistency between that and their severe religious and political intolerances.
Finally, we will doubtless see the new emergence, in this so called post enlightened age, of claims of witchcraft, which erupted shortly after that time.
See Robert Allison's lecture: The New England Uprising of 1689.
CRUZ
would arm Ukraine against Russia.
This is a person who knows nothing about European, or Middle Eastern, history.
This is a person who knows nothing about European, or Middle Eastern, history.
RE DK POST INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
One of the lessons, pointed out in Liar's Poker, is that the investment banks had previously been partnerships, which had served as a brake on irresponsibility and lack of accountability, but that phase had passed by that time.
RE CHINA HOLLYWOOD STUDIO BUY UP BEGS QUESTIONS
What questions?
Just good ole fashioned laissez faire.
Just good ole fashioned laissez faire.
RE DK POST LIBYA ETC HOW CLINTON JIBRIL MEETING SHOULD HAVE GONE
Secretary: You're late.
J: I know.
S: I have come to advise you that we cannot assist you in any way.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
JL: Why not?
S: I am late for a hair appointment.
J: What is that?
S: I cannot explain what it is.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: May I accompany you and continue this meeting?
S: No.
J: Why not?
S: I am late.
J: Why?
S: Because of you.
And so on.......
J: I know.
S: I have come to advise you that we cannot assist you in any way.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
JL: Why not?
S: I am late for a hair appointment.
J: What is that?
S: I cannot explain what it is.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: May I accompany you and continue this meeting?
S: No.
J: Why not?
S: I am late.
J: Why?
S: Because of you.
And so on.......
RE LIBYA SECRETARY CLINTON
"She asked a lot of questions...."
(The conjuring trick has already been done.)
You now think she's real smart, for asking a bunch of questions, and then "getting all the right answers".
You don't ask question number one, if you don't have to.
(The conjuring trick has already been done.)
You now think she's real smart, for asking a bunch of questions, and then "getting all the right answers".
You don't ask question number one, if you don't have to.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Friday, March 4, 2016
MY BEST CARTOON LATELY
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/chris-farley-christie-cartoon-flat-party.html
Terms search: cartoon
Terms search: cartoon
KENNAN SPOILS SYSTEM
"They don't really know what an ambassador is for."
Ambassador Kennedy, Tokyo......talented lady, I am sure, but....
In this country, they are for the spoils system.
Political structural problems, again and again and again, endlessly.
Ambassador Kennedy, Tokyo......talented lady, I am sure, but....
In this country, they are for the spoils system.
Political structural problems, again and again and again, endlessly.
THEY DON'T KNOW REALLY WHAT A GOVERNOR IS FOR
Cleveland's in Ohio, isn't it, Governor Kasich?
Political structural problems.
Political structural problems.
THE PRESIDENCY THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT A CITY IS FOR EITHER
Rubio, Cruz, Clinton: Flint, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Newark, LA, you name it, etc.
Cleveland's in Ohio, isn't it, Governor Kasich?
Sanders has some things to say about these issues, but the Presidency is not the institution to do anything much at all about these issues, ever, ever, ever.
Political structural problems.
Cleveland's in Ohio, isn't it, Governor Kasich?
Sanders has some things to say about these issues, but the Presidency is not the institution to do anything much at all about these issues, ever, ever, ever.
Political structural problems.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO KICK IT UP AS EMERIL SAID
We have been discussing current Republican freshman bozo marionette presidential candidates, and how they were stomped by Chris Farley Motivational Speaker Christie in New Hampshire.
This is not just a Republican failing, unfortunately, in American political presidential history..........
We had also been discussing, a few posts ago, the foibles, blunders, and death, of the young and restless Kennedys.
Why not put these two threads of conversation together?
Aren't Cruz and Rubio, in their boyish puerile wayward iconoclastic ignorant unlearned ways, just current Republican examples of those memorable tragic Democratic ingenues to politics we have seen long ago?
The Kennedy boys and the Cruz Rubio boys were cut from almost the same kinds of hereditarily defective bolts of political fabric.
This is not just a Republican failing, unfortunately, in American political presidential history..........
We had also been discussing, a few posts ago, the foibles, blunders, and death, of the young and restless Kennedys.
Why not put these two threads of conversation together?
Aren't Cruz and Rubio, in their boyish puerile wayward iconoclastic ignorant unlearned ways, just current Republican examples of those memorable tragic Democratic ingenues to politics we have seen long ago?
The Kennedy boys and the Cruz Rubio boys were cut from almost the same kinds of hereditarily defective bolts of political fabric.
RE MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER CHRIS FARLEY CHRISTIE HELPS CRUZ RUBIO
Motivational Speaker Chris Farley Christie gave the boys, Cruz and Rubio, a good talking to, back in New Hampshire.
He hinted that they would both be much better off pulling out then, rather than later.
He basically told them the truth (rare, for a motivational speaker, or for a politician): THEY DON'T KNOW JACK SQUAT ABOUT GOVERNING!
Now, one or both of them will likely soon be
LIVIN IN A TRAILER, DOWN BY THE RIVER!
He hinted that they would both be much better off pulling out then, rather than later.
He basically told them the truth (rare, for a motivational speaker, or for a politician): THEY DON'T KNOW JACK SQUAT ABOUT GOVERNING!
Now, one or both of them will likely soon be
LIVIN IN A TRAILER, DOWN BY THE RIVER!
RE SHARPENED LININGS INTO CORNER BLOCKS
There must, then, be a lot of German faux Del Jesus out there!
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