THE MENU FRENCH TOAST

Why not try something different?

 

One egg yolk per slice. Thick sliced but light body rustic white bread.  No egg whites. Beat milk or light cream into yolks.  Add a little melted bacon fat, or simply cook the toast in bacon fat just rendered, or cook it in butter.

VOTING IN AMERICA CARPETBAGGERS SCALAWAGS

You owe it to yourself to read Randall's book, and see his references.

Republican Radicals controlled voting through white lackeys in the South.

Chapter XXXVII

Their motto was something like "vote early and often".

Freed slaves were run around to various polling places in packs controlled by local handlers.

AN OPINION

"Your instrument might be Mongolian. However, I know little about Mongolian instruments."

NEW TERM THE MENU

Manero's rump

NEW TERMS MORE

Fartocracy

Ugly blunt

Globalectomy

Bum Pit

Glocko Groc

Walletectomy

Gastric Diplomacy

Mastrichtion

Hagocracy

Hillaroni Basta

Trump Stek

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https://www.facebook.com/rfertel/posts/10154630515879402

THE MENU FOOD NETWORK HUMOR

"Some cooks need a recipe to go to the bathroom."

Just a pet peeve.

NEW TERMS REVISION

Rider Liberalism
Power Humanism

Terminator Nationalism

Global Freedom Fighter

Hummer Diplomacy

Soft Target Practice

Poppins Umbrella

Population Trap

Resource Desert

Hot Frost Planet

Boot Identity

Bum Steer

Bare Trap

Bark Byte

Davos Omelette

Maverick Season

Gore Gore

Eu Mama

Red Velvet Insurgency

Breit Byte

Black Bart

Back Byte

Banana Democracy

NYT CHRISTIE NEW JERSEY WHAT'S SO DEVASTATING THIS IS AMERICA BORN THIS WAY

This is the normal. Always has been.

A national interest, over state, local, or national party, or an individual politician's, interests, has never existed here, and never will.

As Lady Gaga, whom I don't normally quote, says, your country was BORN THIS WAY.  

Terms search: your state, Lorch, gas water pressure

PORTUGAL STILL LOVES ME

I guess there is this tiny bunch of really old guys over there, sipping port, or fino or manzanilla, puffing Havanas, and reading my drivel...

LET'S JUST PUT SOME NEW TERMS OUT THERE

Rider Liberalism

Power Humanism

Terminator Nationalism

Global Freedom Fighter

Hummer Diplomacy

Soft Target Practice

Poppins Umbrella

Population Trap

Resource Desert

Hot Frost Planet

Boot Identity

Bum Steer

Bare Trap

Bark Byte

Davos Omelette

Maverick Season

Gore Gore

Eu Mama

Red Velvet Insurgency

Breit Byte

Black Bart

Back Byte

White Bart

BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY

Keats.

RE ROUSSEAU NATURE BEAUTY REVOLUTION SCHIZOPHRENIA REPUBLICANS JEFFERSON AMERICA

For Gigi, not just another pretty face.

MY RECENT DK COMMENT sp punct CORRECTED

It seems worthwhile to post this comment here too:

 

Professor
Thanks for this sweeping and sobering post. I have been speculating that we are in sort of a seemingly permanent global revolution.

It started out with what I call the Civil War of Western Civilization, ignited by what Palmer calls The Age of the Democratic Revolution.

This revolution within Western civilization did not end. It has never really ended.

What has happened rather is that this revolutionary Western civil war has continued, through WWII, with the Orthodox world as a supposed ally of the Allies, and had begun to become generalized in the mid 19th Century, into the rest of the world, where it reignited and has revived old civilizational rivalries, and has given them modern industrial and technological tools to carry on what many have referred to a clash of civilizations.

Of course these clash thinkers do not necessarily connect the American Revolution with the clash of civilizations, but I see them as intimately connected in one very long revolutionary transformation involving enormous unintended consequences for Western Civilization.

All the best

RE POLITICS WAR AND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION TRUMP VERSUS CLINTON

Trump says she will get us into war in Syria. Professor Kaiser, a Democrat, had said the same thing, some time ago....

 

Traditionally, politicians used to view a war as a unifying force, and a positive thing as a way to both get wealth and to gain social cohesion around a monarch or an empire or a society.

(Of course, revolutions or civil wars, on the other hand,  accomplished none of these objectives, usually.)

 

With modern warfare, with the notable exception of the advances of the Soviets as a result of WWI and WWII, this has not been the case since at least the 18th Century in warfare.

 

Colonial conflict is different, not great power warfare as such, although they had their colonial skirmishes.

RE POLITICS WAR AND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION TRUMP VERSUS CLINTON

Trump says she will get us into war in Syria. Professor Kaiser, a Democrat, had said the same thing, some time ago....

 

Traditionally, politicians used to view a war as a unifying force, and a positive thing as a way to both get wealth and to gain social cohesion around a monarch or an empire or a society.

 

With modern warfare, with the notable exception of the advances of the Soviets as a result of WWI and WWII, this has not been the case since at least the 18th Century in warfare.

 

Colonial conflict is different, not great power warfare as such, although they had their colonial skirmishes.

W AT AL SMITH DINNER 2000

"This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base." W

RE VIOLIN FORA: HOTBEDS OF ABUSE FOR THE UNWARY

"NB: John Thornton is a violin dealing con-man who has been exposed in and banned from every significant violin forum online."

TO BE FAIR TO BOTH PARTIES THEY ARE BOTH BEACHED WHALES

rather like our country itself, each being eaten out, for a long time now, on the shore.

RE ROUSSEAU NATURE BEAUTY REVOLUTION SCHIZOPHRENIA REPUBLICANS JEFFERSON AMERICA

Reminds me of a conversation long ago, with an old friend, a schizophrenic, about her parents, the mother also a schizophrenic and her father who had married her: 

 

"He thought he married beauty, but he got a whole lot more!"

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RADICAL OR INSANE BIG PICTURE

It has gone from radical left, in Jefferson's time,

to radical right in Lincoln's time, and long after,

to frankly schizophrenic in ours.

There has never been a time, other than long periods of indolent neurotic or psychotic drift when it did nothing much, 

when it was not either radical, or clinically insane, as a party.

WOOD THEY KNEW NOT WHAT THEY HAD WROUGHT

For me, at least, this excuse, for the founders' course of actions, doesn't wash.

One might as well exonerate the jacobins, Marat and Robespierre, on these grounds.

They knew what they had wrought, especially the early Republican, Jefferson.

AT LEAST ALAN TAYLOR MOSTLY TELLS THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE ABOUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS :

"...One obvious error, actually in the larger scheme of things an enormous error given his topic, he today accuses Hamilton of  having recklessly associated Jefferson with the bloody jacobins of the French Revolution.That is exactly what Jefferson was; Hamilton was hardly reckless, in fact the opposite, to have said so, and it is easy to show that it was quite, and obviously, true.
See Palmer, Struggle, p. 267, and references cited...."

Most Americans deride Jefferson's memory because he kept his slaves and had children with Hemings. 

That is not my objection to Jefferson at all. In these things he was somewhat typical.

PUBLIC OPINION POLITICS ANALOGOUS TO FREE TRADE ECONOMICS

Structurally related Scottish Enlightenment notions, both truly catastrophic for the West.

See prior post:

RE POLITICALLY RADIOACTIVE TOPICS NYT TIMES NOW SAYS TRADE IS ONE WHY NOT THROW IN GLOBALIZATION TOO

Terms search: Lorch, Drew Pearson, DP fallacy, muckraking,

THE FOUNDERS AND THE CREATION OF MODERN PUBLIC OPINION

Somber commentary on the media, public opinion, and government.

The last chapter of Wood's Revolutionary Characters.

RE AMERICAN COLONISTS' COLONIALISM FOUNDING A REPUBLIC OF LIBERTY

These references are for any self righteous hypocrites who might read this and think the idea of colonialism has always been unAmerican.

The country was literally founded on it, as well as on smuggling. 

See various topics in Elliott's Empires Of The Atlantic World, index topics such as colonialism, United States colonization of the interior, various topics under slavery and indentured servitude, etc.

The total decimation of the indigenous Indian population is another aspect he deals with in various places, both by the Spanish and the English.  The French and the Dutch also used them as pawns in the conflicts with the other powers.  Almost all were eventually exterminated, mainly by American colonists themselves in the American interior.

SPEAKING OF FT KNOX AND OPAR

I read a good story, some years ago now, about a very large number of fake gold bars having been made, largely of tungsten.

Wonder what ever happened to those things?

PORTUGAL REMAINS A HOTBED OF INTEREST IN MY BLOG

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I KNOW A LOT OF SELF RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITES OUT THERE WILL SAY THINGS LIKE

You are terrible!  America doesn't stand for colonialism!

We rebelled against the British Empire!

We fought against empire, monarchy, despotism, and tyranny!

You are so wrong!

COLONIALISM IN GENERAL

RE KENNAN'S DIARIES AUSTRIA HUNGARY OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM IN GENERAL

Just a few terse words about colonialism...

Professor Kaiser had a nice terse way of putting problems with American foreign policy.

Americans tend to say: "democracy good, everything else bad".

I am going to try to be as terse as that now:

Western Colonialism good,
liberal international economic order bad.

YOUR MONEY IS AS SAFE IN FORT KNOX

as it is in, say, Opar.

Only Tarzan knows where it is!

RE BBC BANKS GETTING READY TO RELOCATE HOW ABOUT ATLANTIS? NO RUNS ON THAT BANK

Frankly, it does not really matter where they relocate to or from.

They are virtual.  They have no real reserves.

All they need are communications with regimes which support them.

They can locate on Venus, Jupiter, or the moon.

Doesn't matter any more.

The places I suggest have distinct advantages for banks:

They are all places where depositors would have a very difficult time making a run on them, except in their dreams!

RE BOBBITT VERSUS ME

Here is a good example of where we part ways:

He said, in Shield, that we had fought what he called The Long War of the 20th Century, and had won, around 1990, when the Soviet Union disintegrated.

My view is that the West fought a long civil war, in which the Orthodox World participated, during the first half of the 20th Century, and continued to decline throughout the aftermath, represented only in part by the Cold War, until now.

He says long war we won, I say long decline we lost.

RE WWI TO WWII THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS TO USE A TEAM SPORTS ANALOGY

We went from still weakly playing offense before WWI, to merely playing defense, by the end of WWII, in The Clash of Civilizations.

We were still believing nonsense like The End Of History And The Last Man until recently, some still do.

RE KENNAN'S DIARIES AUSTRIA HUNGARY OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM IN GENERAL

Somewhere, Kennan said something like, ' for the people of Austria Hungary, after the disintegration of the Austro Hungarian Empire, weak and decrepit as it had been, nothing anywhere near as good emerged to take its

place.... ' something like that.

 

Maybe it's in his diaries...

 

Certainly, in my judgment, one can say more or less the same thing, maybe even more forcefully, from a Western Civilization perspective, which is the one I use, about the Ottoman Empire, and to criticize the horrifically poor decisionmaking of the Western Powers in dismantling it, as revenge for siding with the losers in WWI. Much better to have allowed it to limp on as it was than to have promoted the conflicts and fragmentaion which then followed.

 

Anyway, I want to further generalize his point.

 

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RE VOTING IN AMERICA NEVER WELL HANDLED WHOLE THING JERRY RIGGED

Most all Americans are in a sort of somnambulist dream land about their actual history.

 

Let's just briefly advert to one of my favorite periods in American history, which demonstrates so many aspects of our problems so well: the so called Reconstruction Period.

 

"The winner of the election on November 8 will attempt to govern a nation far more divided than at any time since late 1860, when the nation broke up." DK

We are not that divided, relatively speaking.

 

There is this terrible faux media frenzy that Trump won't accept, and perhaps would even challenge, as Gore did, the election result.

 

Let's just talk about a time, which went on for a long time, after 1865, and certainly after 1860, in the post Bellum South, a byword for corrupt elections, when freed black people, who often back then couldn't read, were put in office in state and local governments, by Northern carpetbaggers and skalawags, all  over the defeated South, with Northern military force.

 

A nation divided, much more than now, by no means ended in 1865, or even in 1877, when the Republican Radicals were defeated.

Most of you no doubt think, 'he can't be right about this'. I want to give you a reference, to a book, and chapter, in a well respected, even handed, prominent, 20th Century historian of that period.

Look at J G Randall, The Civil War And Reconstruction, 1937, Ch XXXVII.

RE DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA DK CURRENT POST

"...The winner of the election on November 8 will attempt to govern a nation far more divided than at any time since late 1860, when the nation broke up...." DK

I would rather put it this way:

America was far more 'divided' both before 1860, and for many decades after, than now.

Now, I would suggest, we are not, yet, so much divided, really, as fragmented, a very different condition.

THIS WAS RATHER NICE RE BLUNDERING AND DANGER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agBtEEYTaY

I AM JUST GOING TO TRY TO PUT SOMETHING INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU

A lot of people think of Clinton as a ' safe ' choice, safer, at least than Trump.

Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.

Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.

Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS

I am not suggesting that Trump's decisions in office would solve the international situation, not at all, but staying with a post Milner Group liberal international economic order policy, which she represents in spades, will no longer work, and not just for economic reasons, but rather for cultural and spiritual ones.

SO FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THESE SIMPLE THINGS COLONIALISM WAS GOOD NOT BAD

World War I was a disaster for colonialism and for Western Civilization, but World War II was the nail in the coffin of Western Civilization.

 

We could have recovered from WWI, as a Civilization.

 

That was not to be the case, and WWII erupted.

 

Even with WII, Western Civilization still had a last chance.

 

But this was the last chance, thrown away.

 

If we had not let Russia take over Eastern Europe at the end of WWII, then we would not have had the Cold War.

 

If we had not had the Cold War, then we need not have boomed and otherwise industrialized, and tried vainly and foolishly to proselytize,  the Third World.

 

If we had not needed to boom and industrialize the Third World, they would not now be in a position to threaten ourselves or each other with destruction.

HERE IN AFRICA ROUSSEAU'S NATURE FIGHTING OFF LEOPARD MEN

RE BBC NEWS RUSSIAN CARRIER NEEDS ITS TUG

This is a Russian military which was, frankly, in much much worse condition than this, relatively speaking to the West, at the end of WWII.

 

Patton begged, literally begged, Eisenhower, who controlled access to Marshall, who controlled access to the President, who was dying, to let us drive the Russian Army, which was, frankly, on foot, and almost bootless, back out of Eastern Europe.

 

Eisenhower refused. If I am wrong about this, I am sure someone can correct me.

 

Monty claimed, later, to have wanted a similar course of action, which was also refused.

RE LOWRY'S MODELS

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RE GOOGLE US CONSTITUTION LIBERTY EQUALITY HUMAN RIGHTS THAI KING

Rather than let Google honor Thailand's request, we should send in Samantha Power, and US military force if necessary to enforce the rights of the Thai people to express their rejection of the Thai monarchy and all its evil ways.

That is American history, and current American foreign policy.

Google needs to be called on the carpet in this country by the federal government for even thinking about complying with Thailand's corrupt, monarchist, anti democratic, anti human rights, requests.

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Al Smith Memorial Dinner Conversation

Giuliani: "Glad to have you back in town. You're a genius."
Trump: "Her or me? This seating is crazy! Who's he talking to?"
Clinton: "Save it, Rudi."
Giuliani: "I meant the chef here."
Trump: "Where?"
Clinton: "You're an idiot, not a genius. What's on the menu, sir?"
Trump: "How bout Hillary Roast!"
Giuliani: "Sounds great, I'm starved."

RE POLITICALLY RADIOACTIVE TOPICS NYT TIMES NOW SAYS TRADE IS ONE WHY NOT THROW IN GLOBALIZATION TOO

I will just mention another or two, topics that have always been politically radioactive, at least here.

 

The best one I can think of at the moment is any government criticism whatsoever of free press, media freedom of expression, speech, etc.

 

When the somewhat venerated but faux right to privacy runs up against these enumerated rights, guess what? Privacy, not a well recognized right as such, but that's another story re the Supreme Court (freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, property rights, won't get you there), loses out.

 

This topic has always been the kiss of death for any politician who seriously questions the right of the press, and the media in general to run roughshod over our society (mere population might be a more apt term for us), our political system, our morals, or our so called right to privacy.

 

Because, Americans have been so willing to give up a right to privacy in their identities themselves, on the WWW, as such things as Facebook have clearly shown, not only has the government refrained from stepping in to protect privacy much, but uses the web extensively itself for surveillance, legal or illegal.  

UK CALLS RUSSIA A PARIAH

It's hard to characterize Russia as a pariah, when it is bigger than all the West's countries together.

Unfortunately, the West is a perphery of Russia, not the reverse.

Certainly colonial America was a pariah to the West, after 1776.

Trump has been called a pariah, yet his platform is largely mainstream American anarcho-populist individualism and commercialism.

RE ROUSSEAU AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

The Enlightenment worm had turned with Rousseau.

ENEMIES OF BREXIT ARE LIKE TRUMP THE TELEGRAPH

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Either he is a Neanderthal, or he eats them.

It's one or the other.

ROUSSEAU NATURE IS BASICALLY GOOD SOCIETY BASICALLY BAD

Professor Kaiser seems to think Rousseau was skeptical about nature...I take him at his word.

That is not what I have gleaned from reading at least one secondary source.

See, for example Doyle, The Old European Order, pb, p 214.

On the other hand, because Rousseau was apparently so contradictory, maybe both Doyle and Kaiser can be readily confuted by Rousseau's own writings.

THE UNITED STATES CAN NEITHER CONSOLIDATE FURTHER NOR BREAK BACK INTO STATES OR SMALLER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS

Professor Kaiser mentioned secession fears.

Let me put your hearts at rest, if that is what you want to call it....

Founding Fathers' principles created a we the people political monster.

The way the Constitution was enacted, no state, or political subdivision thereof, could ever secede without the consent of all of the people of the United States first agreeing, not just state governments themselves in every single state, itself an impossibility, because mere state governments themselves are not the full, underlying, ' we the people ' envisioned by the framers.

We the people, all of us, would have to decide, if some of us, who assert they no longer wish to be part of us, want to separate from us.

In this sense, the United States is sort of a constitutionally beached whale, permanently.

Asian civilizations, of course, all know this, and have been feasting on our beached carcass, first the Japanese, since 1945.

The Japanese themselves even called this feasting process the ' hollowing out ' of the American economy.

It has continued heavily, especially since the Nixon Shock in 1971, and accelerating after 1980, by China.

What was left of the beached America carcass, after our politicians feebly brushed Japan away and invited China to the table instead, has been almost completely hollowed out by China.

OLD SELFIE NATURAL STATE DECLINED SINCE THEN

THE MENU RECENT SELFIE IN ROUSSEAU'S STATE OF NATURE

RE DK CURRENT POST

 "...On the one hand, all males had equal political rights and the people governed itself; on the other hand, adultery and homosexuality could be punished with death.  Such discipline had eased by the 1830s, of course, but Tocqueville still believed that democracy worked in America in large part because of the relatively strict moral code which all classes of American society tended to observe...." DK 

 

I do have a lot of doubts regarding various assertions in this part, both Tocqueville, DK, and reality. 

QUESTION OBAMA TRUMP VOTE REMARKS DANGEROUS

Then why weren't Gore's actions dangerous?

 

Americans have been mislead to think that their voting practices have generally been quite fair and above board. That has emphatically never been the case.

 

Just one example, among many, JFK probably won his election by corrupt actions taken by the mob and the Teamsters, who reasonably thought he would then do them favors. That did not happen, and everyone knows the result.

After that, the mob went over to the Republicans, so I read.

Can you blame them?

RE BUSH V GORE TRUMP CLINTON

Professor Kaiser, who is not a dumb guy, firmly believes, and continues to maintain, as far as I know, on his blog, that Bush stole the election from Gore.

I know very little about that question, but Gore certainly did not accept the result and challenged it and lost that challenge.

How is that different in principle from Trump's assertion, true or false, that the Democratic Party has, how shall I put it, taken a hint from the Republicans of Bush's time, and is rigging the election, as Trump asserts, and that if he loses he will not accept the result, and like the Democrat Gore before him, not accept that and challenge the result?

RE TRUMP CLINTON

In some ways, she is more a federalist than he. He wants to transfer abortion to the states, she to keep it to the federal.

On other issues, like trade, foreign policy, and immigration, he is more a federalist than she.

On some, like 2nd Amendment, entitlements, they are both federalists, but with different views.

Interesting to see Brooks, a Republican, come out strongly against Trump.

PBS of course says Clinton won. That was not nearly so clear to me.

recent selfie

PUTIN WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11856922/Russia-refuses-to-help-Syrian-refugees.html

QUESTION

What if Hillary gets outed as bisexual, true or not?
What happens?

Another scenario:
What if Trump outs her as bi during the campaign, true or not (a big lie?)?

Another scenario:
What if she wins, then gets outed, and it turns out to be true?
What happens?

WHAT IF THE RISE OF A MODERN ALCIBIADES

Why not a modern, say bisexual, or even tri sexual, multi
 cultural, radical democratic, an Alcibiades?

He asks, for example " Why should either women, or men, either the one or the other of them, dominate, or be equal to eachother?"

"Well then, heterosexuals are both equal to eachother in this: they are both inferior to me!"

Back in college, I actually heard people talking like this.

RE MOSUL REFUGEES

My suggestion is make the Middle East keep its refugees within its borders.

It can decide how to do that.

Europe should just starting shipping them back.

If no one in the Middle East cooperates, they can go to a port somewhere in Africa.

ENLIGHTENMENT RACE AND CIVILIZATION IN THE AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

RE CIVILIZATIONS CULTURE REVOLUTION RACE ETHNICITY

The Cisalpine Republic offered troops for the projected Franco-Dutch invasion of England, ' the enemy of the human race '.

WHAT IF TRUMP VERSUS HILLARY ARCHETYPES PROVES TO BE ETERNALLY INSOLUBLE

What if, among all the other conflicts all civilizations now suffer from, many of them imported by the West into the rest, the conflict between the sexes for so called equality, a conflict that has never really existed (in spite of the Chalice and Blade, primal matriarchy, thesis), and really almost certainly a conflict for dominance disguised as one for equality, proves to be not just momentarily, but permanently, forever, insoluble? 

What if ? 

RE CIVILIZATIONS CULTURE REVOLUTION RACE ETHNICITY

Many people, Enlightenment thinkers, only in Western Civilization at the time, talked, wrote, and some believed in,  others only pretended to believe in, what they then called the rights of man, of a brotherhood of man, and of one universal democratic republican revolutionary world, one civilization, only, and entire, of liberty and equality for all.

 

This group of ideas had its critics back then.

 

This was not a realistic ideal or ideology, but it shook Western Civilization to its foundations, forever, and has since shaken to their foundations all civilizations in its wake.  

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Breakfast.
Say you want to stay away from sugar? Diabetes, arteriosclerosis, etc.
Fine.
Bacon fat fried french toast.
What topping?
Sour cream!
Maybe you'll still get arteriosclerosis, but one out of two ain't bad.

LIE BIG TRUMP HAS TAKEN A HINT FROM MY BLOG OBVIOUSLY VOTE RIGGING

I'm lying about him taking a hint, but at least it is a small lie.

Who will likely actually do more vote rigging?
His party.
So, why not come out swinging, early, on this issue, with a BIG LIE? That is what he has done.
That is what is called, in this country, smart campaigning.

So, why hasn't he taken my advice yet on the heavy petting claims? Who knows? The opportunity is there for 'the taking', so to speak.

HOLLYWOOD WANDA OBST ETC

Getting near the bottom, for Western Civilization...about to bottom out as a civilization.

As you have less a sense of self, society, and civilization; you also have less wealth, in the West.

Your civilization, and your prospects, go gray, at the same time pop and entertainment imagery all around you goes brilliant.

Terms search: Obst, convergence

See especially: WESTERN MARKET CAPITALIST CULTURAL SOCIAL CONVERGENCE

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Tonight, bleu cheese dressing. Impressionism.

I use a very nice Minnesota blue called AmaBleu.

You could use their gorgonzola too, for the Italians in the audience.

Then take some home made mayonnaise, I now make it with olive oil and avocado oils mixed.....

Then take some organic sour cream.

 

Mush these up together in whatever proportions you feel right, with say one clove of crushed garlic. Minced sweet onion. A splash of red wine vinegar. Crushed capers to taste, dried thyme, and a hint of oregano, perhaps.

 

There is no fixed compass setting for these proportions, or even ingredients, unfortunately. Maybe you do it a little bit differently every time.

 

Just so you know, I have been known to spread this on toast, not salad.

Preferably served on old Creil Montereau Japo. Chardonnay.

 

Impressionism.

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION PROPERTY TEAM

What do they do? They create their case.

How? They take and use all that they have been given about the other case. They even know and use things the government side does not yet know about: design, planning, negotiations, publicity, etc., which predated government lawyer involvement.

They can make theirs from whole cloth.

Call it THE BIG LIE.

I will explain this, very briefly, in subsequent posts.

BOOP

Saw the interview again... Dreyfus... Acid stomach set in...

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION THE PROPERTY RIGHTS SIDE

Normally, the property rights side, and I mean side, a team of seasoned professionals of different stripes, is united by the urge to plunder and win. They usually have played together many times before. They are a seasoned team of mercenary warriors.

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED

Finally, we come to the property rights case, in states where they enjoy strategic advantages, advantages in one or more or all branches of government at all levels, and in the private sector and the media, as in Florida. Get ready.

 

Now we enter a truly evil, dark, world, although that is how their foremost pundits characterize government.

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED

Finally, we come to the property rights case in states where they enjoy strategic advantages, advantages in one or more or all branches of government at all levels, as in Florida. Get ready.

 

Now we enter a truly evil, dark, world, although that is how their foremost pundits characterize government.

re AMBASSADOR SURPRISED

What is surprising is that people usually are unaware that China, and of course many other countries, have aggressively lobbied our Congressmen for decades now. It began before 1776 actually.

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT AN AMBASSADOR IS FOR THE CLASH

Ours apparently expressed surprise at what is now a global commonplace, rolling out in Australia:

The outgoing US ambassador to Australia has expressed concern about the influence of Chinese money on Australian politics.

John Berry told the Australian the US was "surprised" by the extent of China's involvement in politics.
He urged greater transparency around political donations.
Last week, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari resigned from the opposition frontbench after admitting taking money from companies linked to China.
The scandal has led to debate about reforming rules on foreign donations, with Labour calling for a ban.

Mr Dastyari did not break the law by accepting money from the Top Education company, but said he was wrong to have accepted the money to cover personal costs.
Top Education, which has links to the Chinese government, has also donated money to both the Labor party and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal party.

'There is concern'

In an unprecedented critique, the outgoing ambassador said China was an undemocratic country exploiting Australia's democratic system.
"I can see no argument of how a foreign government's involvement through political contributions advances Australia's interests," Mr Berry said.
"In our country it's illegal. It would be against the law for any foreign donation to be accepted by any level of government or member of government."
He said the US had been "surprised, quite frankly, at the extent of the ­involvement of the Chinese government in Australian politics".
"There is concern. Our hope is that, in resolving this, Australia will consider doing what many other democracies have done: that is to protect their core responsibility against undue influence from governments that don't share our values."

AT LEAST ALAN TAYLOR MOSTLY TELLS THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE ABOUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS

One obvious error, actually in the larger scheme of things an enormous error given his topic, he today accuses Hamilton of  having recklessly associated Jefferson with the bloody jacobins of the French Revolution.

That is exactly what Jefferson was; Hamilton was hardly reckless, in fact the opposite, to have said so, and it is easy to show that it was quite, and obviously, true.
See Palmer, Struggle, p. 267, and references cited.
Of course, Taylor goes off later in the article and blindly waves the flag as a global superpower over the revolutionary mess they bequethed to us and to everyone in the West, but that is only to be expected from the NYT, which after all has to sell copy to us.

RE COLLINS DISCUSSION OF BACKSTAGE CHARISMA

"Back-stage is informal, and it includes both hanging out with your buddies and confidantes, and planning how to handle your front-stage performances. The glib term “transparency” so widely demanded today implies there should be no backstages; no one ever gets to plan anything or to say what they really believe; it all has to be goody-goody front-stage clichés." RC

 

I want to mention, really only just hint at here, some implications of this aspect of charisma which Collins only touches on in this paragraph, and to point out some of the enormous difficulties caused by media control of government functioning through open government regulations of all kinds, from public records requests, to open government requirements and sunshine laws.

 

Having handled these kinds of matters for state and local governments, although the average citizen naively believes that they are all necessary and required by the Constitution, and has been convinced by constant media harping on them that they are always for everyone's best interests, trust me they are at best crippling for effective government deliberations on complex matters and appropriate decision making, charismatic or not, and generally have mainly benefitted local and national media interests, which actually control these governments rather than the other way around, and which have long been mostly of the muckraking type.

 

Collins is so right.

PHILIPPINES CHINA

Highly predictable.

Western thank tanks scratching their heads...they need to get a different job.

COLLINS' REMARKS ON SANDERS

To me, worth quoting in full:

"In the primary campaigns, the only other person who built up a charismatic profile was Bernie Sanders. Clearly this was all front-stage charisma. Sanders is not imposing as a personality. Throughout his career in Congress, he was an isolated figure whose vote was rarely sought out by anyone. He has no record or reputation for success. What he did find, in the 2015-16 campaign, was a constituency who wanted somebody radical, who could voice their criticism of the establishment. Bernie Sanders epitomizes Weber’s point that charisma comes from the audience more than from the individual himself. This helps explain Bernie’s reluctance to shut down his campaign, even after he had clearly lost and his continued criticism was damaging Hillary Clinton’s general election. He went from nobody to charismatic leader-- as long as he stayed in the magic spotlight of his enthusiastic rallies. In this last respect, the Sanders and Trump campaigns are similar." RC

RE DUSTY

Trump is more like the Maverick Executive:

"Back-stage charisma.   Trump is much less charismatic here. By all reports, when he interacts with people one-on-one, his attention wanders. He gets along with persons who are extremely deferential to him. He is more domineering than inspiring. Hence his preference for big rallies; small meetings with one-on-one interaction are not his forte, not where he gets his emotional energy." RC 

Terms search: how he likes his management team

SEE RANDALL COLLINS' NEW POST CHARISMA

A useful and helpful framework...certainly not the last word on the subject, but he has already taken the discussion rather far, especially with The Sociology of Philosophies.

"In sum, Trump has front-stage charisma, and not a lot of the other three kinds... " RC

THE MENU

https://www.southernfoodways.org/award-categories/ruth-fertel-award/

RE BOBBITT'S SEETHING UNDER CLASS

Ever since 1776, really, they have all, literally billions of them, been gradually brought to understand, and now expect, as their natural eternal birthright, liberty and economic equality,

AND GUESS WHAT, MORE.

WESTERN CONTACT W CHINA FIRST EMPEROR CIRCA ALEXANDER TIME

The obvious.

CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS WHY HAVEN'T OUR POLITICIANS TOLD US THIS BEFORE NOW?

I can answer that question in a long sentence.

It is so embarrassing, so catastrophic, so self inflicted, and so against Western liberal ideology, even the so called conservative side of Western liberal ideology, that they all generally have refused to even acknowledge the fact of its long period of development, or even the possibility of its development, and frankly have no effective answer to it, ideological, political, technological, economic, or military, and never have, and if they had told us about it now, even at this very very late date (and they know this, too, because they long engineered ignorance of it from the apex of the political pyramid) most of us would tend not even to believe them, and would believe instead all this nonsense about a war on mere terror, or a war a la Bobbitt between bad terror and good consent.

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED THE SMALL LIE

Now we turn to the typical government case. Normally, as I said, the government lawyer gets handed a case that is already filled with detail and is usually discoverable, even if the lawyer makes changes in it after getting it.

So what does the case look like? It typically takes a significant but not catastrophic amount of land from a site with an existing use already on it.

It normally has a valuation appraisal, backed up by expert reports, saying that the taking of this much land causes little or no damage, for which additional payment would otherwise be due on top of payment for the land taken, to the existing use of the remaining property.

This assertion, little or no damage to the remaining property, may or may not be true.

For the sake of this illustration, let's just call it THE SMALL LIE.  

LEADERSHIP ROLES COALESCING WARLORD CAPITALIST ENTREPRENEUR BILLIONAIRE MAVERICK POLITICIAN

What word can we come to use, for this new being in the so called market state, or whatever other, or rival, states are now coming into view?

Czar? Emperor? Duke? Baron? Imperative? Condottieri? King? Boss? Governor? Commissar? Caliph? Duce? Fuhrer?

How about, why not, wild card, say, Shogun?

INDIA RUSSIA NEW AIR DEFENSE DEAL WHERE ARE ALL YOUR CALL CENTERS

Smart shopping.

Do you think it's possible that there might be, or come to be, a side deal, re IT access to global customer information, over there in India?

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED PROPERTY RIGHTS STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES

Let's continue describing how the stage gets set for the trial where the big lie can win big.

 

As I mentioned, the government lawyer usually only starts to work on cases relatively late in the acquisition process.

 

Skilled owner lawyers have been finding out about the project for a year or more, based on publicly available sunshine law five year work programs of the department of transportation, and have solicited clients on the proposed project, have teams of experts combing the countryside to find clients to refer to them, and have sometimes discussed certain proposed design features they either favor or abhor for certain new existing clients, even before the lawsuit ever gets filed or the acquisition agent knocks on the door with an appraisal and an offer to buy, and long before the government lawyer even knows about the case. 

RE DK'S NEW POST THE DREAM

""My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere," she told the management of a Brazilian bank in 2013. That, of course, was the dream that the Europeans hastened to extend to Eastern Europe--economically and culturally a completely different region from western Europe--after the collapse of Communism, and now western and Eastern European voters alike are turning against it.  And that is the dream, as the New Yorker article shows, that West Virginians are fighting against.  They are right to do so.  Both Lincoln and FDR were keenly aware that they were fighting on behalf of the whole world in their struggles to make democracy work here at home--but both understood that the battle had to be won at home first.  We have been losing that battle for the last 40 years, and we have to turn the tide at home before we cam improve our impact abroad.  In an emerging clash of civilizations, we need to make our own civilization work."

It sounds a little like he thinks globalization needs to stop and regroup, around Western Civilization, or 'our own civilization' (maybe he means just America) then fight the clash, which has gotten in its way, before then sallying forth, once again, on the founding fathers, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, etc., globalization road.

He does appear to think that the Civil War overcame secessionist problems, "...and since we are most certainly not about to fight another civil war, we will have no obvious means of overcoming it...." but, on the other hand, acknowledges that we have secessionist issues again, or still. Whichever it is, we got 'em.

I personally don't see why a civil war situation should not ultimately emerge (not that it would solve any more problems than the first one did), after, say, five years of increasingly violent civil unrest on a nation wide basis.

I certainlhy would not expect a constitutional or political structural reform agenda to emerge that would solve current disquietudes here, any more than the Civil War had solved disquietudes back then.

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED

A brief sketch of the government side here.  There are many constraints....

Government lawyers usually only get their cases relatively late, either to settle or to try, from client departments, state or local.

The departments try to control the process, without legal input, or very late legal input, quite often, because legal input is usually viewed as obstructive to politicians, and engineers, alike.

This is a competitive disadvantage situation which property rights lawyers, on the other side, know intimately well, since many of them once worked on the government side. That's another story.

WILSONIAN FALLOUT

Gender Self Determination. What about anyone who lacks 'the equipment' but sticks to their own gender determination?

Why not, then, species self determination?

Why not, say, ' goat boy ', a boy who thinks he's a goat?

Who can say him nay, under self determination?

LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED

Describing the players and their strategic environment, on each side of the trial, fleshes out the nature and structure of the game, and the relevance and importance of the big lie.

First the property rights side, and now I am speaking only of my state. Yours might be quite different.

Here, property owners, their lawyers, and teams of experts have distinct advantages. Laws, and the political structure of the system here put them on not only a level playing field with their government opponents, but actually substantially tilt the balance in their favor.

QUESTION

Where are the men who are lined up, to claw their way up, over each other, to the podium, to grope Hillary?

Where?

DONALD REALLY NEEDS TO FIND A FEW OLD BEAUTY PAGEANT CONTESTANTS

who will proudly acknowledge that they groped him, 30 years ago, and they liked it!

Matter of fact, why not get only a few of these women to admit they would kill to grope him RIGHT NOW!

RE LIE BIG ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED THE PLAYERS

Who are they? On the property rights side, they are often, though not always, politically well connected, well educated, lawyers, and their firms, often property rights specialty firms, representing only one side, in states like Florida.

On the other side are well educated government lawyers at various levels of government. They are not well connected politically, normally, except at the local level, and even there not nearly as well, as a group, as the private lawyers representing property owners locally. They may not even specialize in property rights law, at the state level, but handle matters in other fields, sometimes many fields. At the local level, this is even more often the case.

LIE BIG TO WIN PROPERTY RIGHTS TRIAL ILLUSTRATION TRUST ME

If you're going to lie, why lie to lose?

Let's just use this field, or sub, or sub sub field, as an illustration.

Just to begin the illustration, to set the stage, you're in front of a jury. In eminent domain trials, Trump's special issue with some on the right, it's a full complement of twelve of the old darlings, plus an alternate or two, just like a death penalty case. Very very rare in civil litigation. You can commit non capital murder, or violent rape, and only get half that many.

In some ways it's very like a very very small scale pool of voters.

Most of them, very much like the average voter, don't know their ass from a hole in the ground, pardon my French. To be fair, in some pools, in some places, some, a few, not all, do.

So, that's the stage for the illustration.

TRUMP NEEDS TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE ON GROPING WHY LIE SMALL? LIE TO WIN

"I don't grope women.
They grope me!"

Or, "I don't grope women as often as they grope me."

Something like that.

Why lie small? Lying small doesn't win in politics.

HILLARY PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF TRUMP'S RELIGIOUS RIGHT

I'M THE LAST THING STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND THE APOCALYPSE.

That's what they are saying.

re nyt op-ed articles today

Designed to woo and keep happy their existing readership, in the long ongoing, dumbed down, diversions they have specialized in.

LIFE OF A SLAVE OR INDENTURED SERVANT QUITE OFTEN

Hobbes' state of nature: solitary cruel nasty brutish and short.

RE CHINA TOPS US IN BILLIONAIRE NUMBERS

Only to be expected.

But, of course, they are looking at the least important number in the clash of civilizations.

LETS PUT IT THIS WAY

The Republican Party after the Civil War, put freed black slaves in positions of puppet power in the capitols of defeated Southern States, using occupation yankee troops and commanders to enforce this regime, while at the same time it condoned yankee importing of thousands of Asian coolies, basically themselves yellow slaves, to work on the First Transcontinental Railroad.

That's your history folks.

LETS JUST GO A HEAD AND TALK ABOUT SLAVE ASIAN COOLIES INDENTURED SERVANTS

They were used in very large numbers, basically Asian and Indian slaves, although they ostensibly had contracts, I guess you could call them a species of indentured servitude, used all over the world as slave labor for centuries right along with blacks, but used right here starting right in 1865, on the First Transcontinental Railroad, just as the Civil War had ended, supposedly to end apparently only black slavery!

Call it prohibitionist, Republican political party, stay in power at all costs, pretzel logic.

RE RACE SLAVERY DEATH GENOCIDE GUILT OR BIGOTRY ADAM SMITH

Everyone now is going around either angry, guilty, or remorseless, but it's one or the other, about only black slavery.

No one remembers, because almost none of them are now around, that the white settlers killed off droves of American Indians, admittedly mostly by disease, but also by war, and enslaved also a goodly number, when they got their hands on them.

Indian slaves weren't worth as much as black slaves because the Indians died quicker in the tropics, whites quicker still. That's an example of what I call comparative disadvantage.

Under Adam Smith's principles, supply and demand, comparative advantage, etc., if blacks were better at surviving tropical conditions than either whites or Indians, then they should, by market forces, have cornered the market for being tropical slaves, and that is what happened.

For example, it would have made no Adam Smith economic sense for slavers to have raided, say, Eastern Europe, rounded up and or bought a bunch of Orthodox serfs (would have been easy to buy, and cheap, from greedy oligarchs) only to send them to the West Indies where they would have brought 25 cents on the dollar, and died like flies in tropical conditions.

Chinese coolies were popular as more or less slave labor up into the 20th Century, especially in places like Africa and Latin America, in spite of some Western outrage.