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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

THE TAPAS MENU DEDICATED TO FULLY RAW CHRISTINA

Raw broccoli and cauliflour crowns, diced carrots, sweet onion wedges, giant Spanish stuffed olives,  dipped in a braunschweiger or liverwurst, minced anchovy, sour cream, chive, dip.
 
Sorry about the dip, Christina.
 
Manzanilla or fino sherry.

Most celebrants, after one of her meals, must have to head, head first, for the head.

LET'S JUST TRY TO INSTILL A LITTLE CLARITY INTO THE GENERATIONAL BLAME GAME

Some people tend to blame the boomers for having thrown away all opportunities in a frenzy of self indulgence.

Professor Kaiser seems to be in this camp.

While that, so far as it goes, is quite true, the prior generation, generally thought of as the great generation, really gave away what was left of the store of Western Civilization, before, during, and just after WWII, and before the boomers.

Most boomers of course did not realize this, and most still don't.

DRIFT

"The Republicans have successfully kept government from functioning effectively at all levels to a surprising extent, and that has in turn discredited government." DK
 
You might think that loss of effectiveness is a new thing here.
 
Our system was designed not to be effective.
 
If you read Nevins' account of the run up to the Civil War, a thousand or so pages long, the main thing you take away is a relentless sense of endless drift.

THE MENU SAUERBRATEN

Mine was delicious last night.

I did not use horse, the traditional ingredient.

AT THE SAME TIME YOU WERE TAKING DOWN THE WEST'S COLONIAL EMPIRES 1945

You left Russia in control of Europe and threatening Asia. Not at that time complete control, but, big picture, in control.

You left Russia in possession of nuclear technology, which had been stolen. You knew that they had it in 1945. You did nothing about it.

You left China, in place of Japan, in de facto control of Asia; not at the time complete control, since there was also Soviet Russia threatening there too, another pathetic situation.

These are four decisions you made in 1945. Each decision has a long prior period of ideological and factual American stupidity leading up to it.

BBC FRENCH ELECTION HINTS AT SHIFT TOWARD RUSSIA I TOLD YOU SO

To quote Mario Puzo: He is 'making them an offer they can't refuse'. Vladimir Pucino

TRUMP MUNCHKIN FOR TREASURY

Will he follow the yellow brick road?

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

DUNKING STOOL LONG TRADITION HERE

Imagine, when you are no longer the dominant civilization, and they are then doing it to you, routinely.

You have no ideological defense. You have to say, 'fair enough'.

THE MENU GENERAL B N SOLILOQUY

"Back when I commanded troops, we ate men and enslaved women and children.  I now see that that was a form of discrimination. Talking with Terry Gross, off mic, has helped me to see this."

NPR TERRY GROSS INTERVIEWS GENERAL BUTT NAKED FRESH AIR

Terry: "General, you have had quite a career."
General B N: "Yes, Terry, it has been rather colorful. I live in a beautiful country. You must come there some day."
Terry: "Thank you. I will."
General: "So, Terry, what would you like to know?"
Terry: "I have heard that you are now an evangelical Christian. Is that true?"
General: "Yes."
Terry: "What are your political views, generally?"
General: "I believe in liberal democracy. I even believe in LGBT rights, if properly supervised."
Terry: "It has been a pleasure to talk with you, General."
General: "Thank you, Terry."

DIALOGUE WITH AN ECONOMIST

"It is very Mickey Mouse for almost any economist to model this trend for you, but they don't normally want to talk about this trend publicly or even in print: it casts them, and the political establishment they must serve, in relation to their society, and to the usefulness of their discipline for that society and establishment, in a rather bad light."

Me: "Don't you think it's about time you came clean?"
Economist: "U go me dead t rites, guvna."
Me: "Well then?"
Economist: "U don fut th bill."

Terms search: Lorch

HOW DO I BREAK IT TO YOU?

Under economic globalization income convergence, average annual income here will gradually, over many years but not all that many, fall to, say, $1,750.

It is very Mickey Mouse for almost any economist to model this trend for you, but they don't normally want to talk about this trend publicly or even in print: it casts them, and the political establishment they must serve, in relation to their society, and to the usefulness of their discipline for that society and establishment, in a rather bad light.

That is not all.

It will keep falling.

Here's another surprise. Places like Zanzibar, now at $250, may not all go up, under global convergence. Places like Zanzibar might ,say, go down from $250 to $200. Why? Global convergence is, how would they put it, ' uneven '.

PRIMATE DIALOGUE

On Park Avenue:
Rachel: "We're moving."
Hillary: "Where?"
Rachel: "Zanzibar"
Hillary: "Why?"
Rachel: "We believe in income convergence."
Hillary: "What?"
Rachel: "We'll still shop here."
Hillary: "Who's there?"
Rachel: "Gates has a place."
Hillary: "Oh...... Aren't they cannibals?"
Rachel: "No, black Muslims."

GLOBAL INCOMES NEED TO CONVERGE ALL ECONOMISTS SAY THIS REALLY

How about income converging with, say, Zanzibar?

The average annual income on Zanzibar is $250.

You don't hear stuff like this from, say, Piketty.

BBC ITALY MIGRANTS COMIN IN CAN'T BUILD A WALL AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN BABY

Migrants on rubber boat before being rescued off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, on November 3, 2016.

Monday, November 28, 2016

ONE SIXTH OF THOSE 18 TO 24

are either unemployed or in prison.

THE MENU MADURAS SAUERBRATEN

Just kidding!
Use really cheap cuts, almost offal.
Cover with leftover organic dill pickle  olive and pepperoncini juice, and refridgerate, if needed.
Marinate for however long you see fit.
Be aware of very high salt content in these prepared vinegar mixtures.
Cook the sauerbraten in the marinade liquid sparingly, if at all, due to high salt content.

Roast in a medium oven with the usual onions and root vegetables. Beets are good. Think of turnips, okra, etc.

HOBBES ROUSSEAU ENLIGHTENMENT MULTICULTURALISM

We don’t care about your race. We don’t care about your religion. Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Dayak, Melayu, Chinese or Buginese – all of them are welcome here. We just don’t want Madurese. All the Madurese must leave.

RE INFRASTRUCTURE BUILD OR PRIVATIZATION SCAM PIKETTY NIGHTMARE

This is  much more complicated an issue than Krugman paints.

You may recall that Trump had painted himself as a champion of condemnors and of condemnation for public purposes, as against the ultra right's, his own party's constituents', antagonism for the government being allowed to ever take any private property for any purpose whatsoever.

Does anyone besides me recall that?

What would that, his position, have meant to someone in that narrow and recherche field of human endeavor, condemnation, eminent domain?

It would have meant that he was on the side of government in its role as public infrastructure development champion, using government to do the job that the right wing private sector abhorred and had shunned. Trump was viewed as an apostate. 
 
Now Trump wants to give that field entirely to the private sector directly, without the controlling involvement of government at all. Why, do you think, is he now advocating infrastructure projects in this format? Take a guess.

There are, to be sure, many constitutional issues with trying to give away government infrastucture work entirely to private developers wholesale, but Trump has not thought of those, and the average American neither knows nor cares about the fine points of law involved.
 
One of the underlying problems, to which Krugman fails to advert, one very near to the hearts of all investors, great or small, but  always uppermost on the minds of the better ones, is the perennial problem of uncertainty. Cf. Niall Ferguson, The House of Rothschild
 
The other underlying problem, related to the problem of uncertainty itself, is one which economists like Krugman, and also more conservative ones than him, have created for us all, in concert: the problem of even having or wanting a bigger, or god forbid a better, central government, capable of larger, longer term, infrastructure projects at all, not determined or called for by market forces in the first instance.
 
Our political system itself, with its potential for radical change every four years or so, tells against long term commitments, of any kind really, by any particular 4 year regime, however either effective or incompetent.
 
The fact that Trump had talked of dismantling ACA, among others, only adds to the inherent institutional uncertainty of such a system of governance, in the minds of greedy, or careful, or cautious, or timid investors.

You may have noted that he talks about a toll road, in either scenario, meaning that it it kind of double taxation, and frankly a bad weak idea in itself, if government funded; and guaranteed, high private profit, if privately funded.

Either alternative shows the kind of Morton's Fork Americans are now in with their political and financial system.

You will note that he doesn't drag out either the hidebound Republican bogey of picking winners, gov cannot do anything right; or the alternative Democratic bogey that the private sector cannot do anything that is not corrupt, things like that.

Contrary to what he says, it is about taxpayer rip, off either way, either by the government directly through double taxation, tax and tolls; or by government in cahoots with the private sector with guaranteed tax breaks and toll profits.

For sewers, restoration projects, etc., to which he refers, as a supposedly better alternative to Trump's plan, double and ongoing  taxation would be built into rent in perpetuity as he says, meaning user fees and charges, on a monthly basis, just like a toll, public or private....

You pay the tax that funds road construction, then you continue to pay through tolls.

I fail to see any real difference in either infrastructure alternative, Trump's or Krugman's, either way.

You do the math.

In answer to his question how much thus financed wouldn't have taken place anyway, my answer, in this political environment, long bequethed by both parties,  is, frankly, not much, if any.

Re additionality, with so called public projects, but often really PPPs, you normally have foreign private contractors, not American firms, winning the lion's share of public infrastructure projects now anyway, for a variety of reasons.

This is a whole complex area, because of our political system such as it is, in which Krugman's discussion, of merely federal versus versus provate, scratches not the surface, and I that doubt Trump's does either. 

Why? Because it is too complicated corrupt and backward to face the light of day, to face, call it, the hot breath of ' close scrutiny '. 

So you get someone like Krugman, letting you eagerly lick his partisan surface icing off the very outmost surface of the real issues he claims to address.

Florida's first such PPP road project, for example, I believe it was federally funded, and went to a German company, as I recall.

Either way, we are in an evil, dark, economists' world, largely left out of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

KILLING TERRORISTS WITH DRONES CARTOON DIALOGUE

"Did we get im?"
"Yeah."
"Anything else?"
"Uber driver killed too."
"Collateral damage externality."

I AM JUST GOING TO GUESS

that many, or perhaps all, hand held APPs double as intelligence gathering tools for spooks.

Internet shell game, lost in a masquerade.

Uber, transportation, digital platform, spook platform.

Facebook, spook lauch pad.

Defense, recruiting hackers.....boom

RE PUTIN'S CHALLENGE AND THE END OF AN ERA THINK OF IT RE SYRIA ASIA AND THE BALTIC NOW

"The new American doctrine was first enunciated by Paul Wolfowitz, then in the Defense Department, in 1992, when he penned a famous memo arguing that the United States should now strive to prevent the emergence of a new peer competitor and, essentially, rule the world...." DK
 
This passage, in a very enlightening post back in 2015.
 
I merely want to point out, here, that, back in 1992, it was almost 5 decades past the time, 1945, when the US, or the West together, even, could have reassumed the role which they, especially the US,  had so cavalierly forsworn:

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the  European  Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt.  And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....." Michael Howard (my underlining)

Sunday, November 27, 2016

THE MENU

Okra parmesan.

RITE OF SPRING CELLO IMPROV

World Premiere, Borneo, 2017.

Capucon?

How about a Rite of Spring Cello Improv duet? It really needs two instruments, minimum.

JUNGLE DIALOGUE TWO

"How's it going?"
"Lost another last night."
"What will you do, down to 2 crew?"
"Uganda. It's safer."

SAMBAS

Sambas was 50 miles from Singkawang, but even at that distance it was obvious that something awful was happening in the town. Our driver heard the rumours early the following morning; as I was eating my breakfast, he timidly approached to announce that he would not be able to drive us that day. By the time we found another Jeep it was after 9am, but not a shop or business in Singkawang was open.
“Sambas?” said the officer at the army checkpoint, and when we nodded he shook his head disbelievingly as he raised the bamboo barrier. It was March 21, 1999, a Sunday.
There was no ordinary traffic on the road. The only vehicles were motorbikes, carrying two or even three riders, buses and large trucks with slatted wooden sides. Each was packed with Melayu dressed raggedly for war. They clung to the roofs of the buses and the running boards of the trucks. They raced one another with crazy speed and the warriors leaned out and waved as they overtook us, shouting, “Sambas, Sambas.”
People fell into two categories that day: those who could not be induced to go near Sambas, and those who could not get there fast enough.
At a town called Pemangkat, we stopped and photographed a group of warriors. It was appalling to see how young they were. The atmosphere was closer to that of a school outing than a war party, an outing which had been hijacked by a gang of horribly overexcited bullies. At the sight of the cameras they pranced and posed. Most carried small sickles, some had mandau (swords), a few had longer swords or spears, and one carried a hunting rifle. With care and ingenuity they had fashioned uniforms for themselves with ribbons and bandannas, scarves and balaclavas. One young boy wore a strip of red cloth covering his face into which he had cut two eyeholes. In his T-shirt and his shorts, with his bad teeth and his childish grin, he looked like a naughty boy dressed up for Hallowe’en.
Beyond Pemangkat, we passed rows of burnt and smouldering houses by the side of the road. Distant columns of smoke rose up from the jungle, each one of them representing another Madurese village. The new driver knew all their names and pointed them out as we passed: Selekau, Setimbuk and, far down towards the sea, Segaru, the island were the Madurese refugees were awaiting their Dunkirk. Had the boats come to rescue them in time? Or had the Melayu gone in and “finished” it, as they had promised?
Ten minutes before Sambas thick billows of smoke were visible, rising from a point close to, but outside, the town. We passed through an army checkpoint; the soldiers were doing nothing to stop the trucks of arriving warriors. Budi, my Chinese guide, asked the name of the place from where the smoke was billowing, and the officer told us it was a Madurese hamlet named Suka Ramai. “It is a strange name,” said Budi, “Suka Ramai. The words mean ‘I love noise’ or ‘I love trouble.’”
Sambas was a small market town, the usual agglomeration of wooden homes and low concrete commercial buildings shaped around a square. The metal shutters on the first-floor shops were all drawn down and padlocked. Not a single person was to be seen outside. At a T-junction on the edge of town, a massed body of men had gathered: older men than the imps in Pemangkat, big, burly men with long knives and a dozen rifles between them. To the right, a narrow road led towards Suka Ramai.
Half a dozen reporters and cameramen were standing uncertainly at the junction. We stopped the Jeep and cautiously walked towards them.
A man on a motorbike emerged from the direction of the smoke, and came to a stop. In one hand he brandished a curved sword and in the other he held out an object attached to a length of string. It was pink and delicate and it took several seconds to understand that it was a human ear.
The man dismounted, kicked out the stand on his bike and sat on it facing us. A cameraman and two photographers took up positions in front of him; he brandished the ear like a medal, and held it still so that they could focus the lenses. He wore a yellow headband daubed with paint, and there was blood on the sleeve of his jacket and on the blade of the sword. He was shouting into the cameras in a barking, staccato manner. Was this the state of possession, the battle trance about which I had heard so much? He was a handsome man, with muscular brows and shapely lips. As he spoke I noticed his teeth, which were very white and even. I stared at the small dainty ear and began to feel as if I was falling into a trance myself.
“What does he say?” I whispered to Budi. “He says: ‘We don’t care about your race. We don’t care about your religion. Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Dayak, Melayu, Chinese or Buginese – all of them are welcome here. We just don’t want Madurese. All the Madurese must leave.’”
“Ask him what is happening up there,” I said. Budi asked. “He says go and see for yourselves.” The man with the ear, pointing up the road, towards the smoke, said: “Silahkan, Silahkan.” Go ahead. Be our guest.
A mile of fields lay between Suka Ramai and the spot where we stood. The road across them ran dead straight. The cameramen and reporters exchanged hesitant glances. I had never felt simultaneously such extremes of eagerness and reluctance. My body felt light, as if I might float away. It wasn’t fear, because there was a weird absence of any personal threat. It wasn’t suspense: it was obvious what was happening up the road. But it was impossible to turn back.
The driver refused to take the Jeep any farther. As we began to walk towards “I Love Trouble,” another truck overtook us and the warriors in the back cheered and waved their blades. A man on a bicycle passed by in the opposite direction, with a little girl on the handlebars; both waved and smiled. The surface of the road was in good condition; we passed one patch which was sticky with blood.
A scattered group of warriors appeared from the direction of the village, jogging towards us out of the smoke, waving their weapons. A man carrying a spear ran up to me, grinning and shook my hand. “Anti-Madura!!” he shouted. “Madura, no! No Madura!” Now there were hundreds of young men streaming down the road past us. They were all smiling, and panting with exertion and excitement. More of them stopped to talk.
Ask them where they come from, I told Budi. “Pemangkat,” said one boy in a T-shirt bearing a map of the London Underground. “But I haven’t been there for seven days. We have been hunting the Madurese people.”
What do you do if you find them?
“We kill them directly, then take the head and chop it.”
Why do you chop the head?
“It is our tradition,” he replies. Then a boy in a white vest was walking towards me, holding a human arm, severed below the elbow. All the fingers and much of the skin had been stripped off the hand. Bone and muscle bulged out of the other end.
When the warriors had gone, Budi said: “It is not their tradition. It is a Dayak tradition, but they are Melayu.” Soon I could smell the houses burning. There were perhaps a dozen houses in Suka Ramai, and all of them were in flames. There had been a hundred Madurese holding out here, and at least a thousand Melayu in the raiding party.
A few of the Madurese had stayed to put up a fight; after two of them were shot, the others had run off into the jungle. Some of the raiders had stayed in the village to chop up and divide the two bodies; the rest had crossed the fields to hunt the fugitives in the forest. But they had made a clean escape, and the tired thirsty Melayu were returning to the burning village. We were arriving at the tail-end of the hunt; the fun was over for the day. A battered pickup halted beside us, and a Chinese man began unloading boxes of bottled water and handing them out to the warriors. There was nothing else to do, so we walked back along the road. I felt obscurely disappointed, as if the point of the afternoon had passed me by. We climbed into the Jeep and drove back into Sambas to find water ourselves.
In the market square a few of the young warriors were standing around, and a single shop was open. There was a stand selling the kebabs called sate; near by smouldered the embers of a fire. Among them was a charred human femur. Budi noticed it at the same time as me, and he suddenly looked stricken. His lips trembled and he was on the edge of tears.
“Let’s go, Richard,” he said in a low, strangled tone. I walked quickly to the shop to buy water and cigarettes. As I was fumbling for the money, a tall man in a yellow headband walked over from the sate cart. On his belt hung a rusty handgun, as well as two of the bulging plastic bags I had seen the day before. In greasy fingers he held a piece of grey, fibrous, partly cooked meat impaled upon a stick of wood. He pulled off a piece with his teeth and chewed it. His face was a foot away from mine.
He held the kebab out to me, and smiled. “Silahkan!” Please eat.
The other boys in the square had gathered round and were laughing. “Silahkan! Silahkan!
“No, thank you.” Budi walked up, looking agonised. “Please, Richard, let’s go.” The man continued to push the meat at me, talking excitedly. “Tell him no, I don’t want it.” But he wouldn’t take no for an answer, as he waved the meat in my face.
I experienced again the sensation of light trance, and of gravity failing around me. I thought about how easy it would be to take the meat, and to eat it. I thought about the animals which I had eaten over the years; horse, dog, monkey, snake, snail, slug. I remembered in particular the monkey, which had been grilled over a fire in a jungle village. Its meat had been tough and gamey, but afterwards I had seen a relic of it: a simian right arm, hand and portions of a rib-cage. The skin was charred, but patches of the fine grey fur were still visible and the hand had ten delicate fingernails, like the nails of a newborn baby. How close was I to being a cannibal? My dreaminess deepened as I pondered the consequences of my actions in the next two or three seconds: I, a cannibal... But the piece of meat looked cold and unappetising. I needed to drink water before I could think about eating.
“Ha!” said the kebab man with a cackle. He pulled the meat away and stuck it into his mouth, and I felt my knees going cold with relief.
There were so many questions I could have asked. I asked the first one that came into my head.
“Delicious,” he said, when Budi had translated. “Like chicken.” We walked to the Jeep, and the kebab man followed us, with a group of young Melayu, all laughing and jabbering and pointing behind them.
“Oh no,” said Budi quietly. What is it, I ask? “They’ve got more... meat. They want to show it to us. They want us to eat.”
“Let’s just go,” I said, but the hands of the Melayu kebab man were on my shirt and he was tugging me back from the open door of the Jeep. “No thank you” I said, trying to keep a smile on my face as I unpicked his fingers. “No thank you. Let go.”
The driver was frowning and sweating as we struggled to close the doors. Then the engine wouldn’t start. Twice, it rumbled and grated and then died. Budi was muttering something, perhaps even a prayer. Outside, the kebab man and his friends were tapping on the window, and bouncing ecstatically up and down. Then the engine started up, and we began to reverse slowly into the road. The men outside were miming the action of a pair of chopsticks over a bowl of rice. They were shouting words I understood: “Makan! Makan!” and “Silahkan!” They chased after the car as we drove away.
Makan! Silahkan!
Dinner time! Be our guest!



 
Among the Cannibals



 
A Melayu warrior holds up the ear that he has taken from a dead Madurese in the conflict on Borneo in 1999



 
A warrior with a monkey at the town of Sambas where atrocities took place



 
Melayu with their weapons preparing to hunt down Madurese

JUNGLE DIALOGUE

"How's it going?"
"Lost another crew member last night."
"Who got em?"
"Who do you think?"
"Is there a search?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Figure it out."

Cf:
Richard Lloyd Parry, The Time of Madness, Jonathan Cape, 2005.
This excerpt with photographs appeared in The Times, T2 section, 29 March 2005.

BBC CERTAIN UGANDA TRIBES NEED MORE WILSONIAN SELF DETERMINATION

Perhaps Trump's new UN Ambassador can work on that.

BRITISH MORAL PHILOSOPHY SINCE THE 19TH CENTURY REALLY

generally represents the final dead end of Enlightenment Deism.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

DURING THE TIME WHEN WESTERN CIVILIZATION REALLY NEEDED PHILOSOPHERS WITH VISION LAST DITCH

philosophy, England and America, remained under the sway of often narrow minded, highly gifted sometimes idiot savant, often Asperger Syndrome, usually doctrinaire, logico, mathematico, scientistic, ordinary language, grammatico, narcissistic, specialists and pundits, many Vienna Circle, etc., like Frege, Austin, Godel, Waismann, Hempel, Russell, Wittgenstein, Wisdom, Turing, Skinner, Schlick, Ayer, Strawson, Rhees, Anscombe, Malcolm, Quine, Carnap, von Mises, Reichenbach, Feigl, Kripke, and a number of others, long list. Many of the circle came to teach here when the Nazis took power....
 
Pardon my French.

Gellner sent some of this stuff up rather well, back in the day, expecially ordinary language philosophy. He was, however, a multiculturalist, a creed I heartily detest, but we can't all be perfect.

RUPEES DOLLAR TOO SOME DAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ6av1KtgL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7X1MbIvdvY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEXwpLxzcGo

CLINTON PILING ONTO VOTE RECOUNT I TOLD YOU SO GORE ETC

Everyone in the media landed on Trump for not being forthcoming whether he would accept an adverse election outcome.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE

started out as The Journal of Race Development.

Read it at TheInternetArchive.org

https://archive.org/stream/journalofracedev01clar#page/n0/mode/1up

Start with Blakeslee's Introduction

PICTURE MY LECTURE TO LIBERAL GLOBALISTS ABOUT WESTERN CIV DECLINE

Picture the kids on the sofa, in SNL.

Their dad invited motivational speaker Chris Farley in.

Think of me as him.

AUDIENCE TODAY COMPUTER DOING A LOT OF CLICKING WONDER WHY

EntryPageviews
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Portugal

16
France

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Turkey

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Indonesia

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Greece

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Poland

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Russia

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Ukraine

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United Arab Emirates

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THANKSGIVING WEEKEND MESSAGE GIANT TURKEY GOBBLELIZATION

A giant turkey is threatening Europe.

Another won't defend them.

Gobblelization.

RE WASHINGTON POST AMERICANS KEEP LOOKING AWAY FROM THE ELECTION'S MOST ALARMING STORY

Why do you think that should be? (DK does not mention it. Wonder why?)

I can give you some reasons:

1. It's not true.

This excuse seems weak to me.

2. It's true.

If true, it is so embarrassing, and has so many adverse implication, that it doesn't fit into the American political analysis or established pundit propaganda framework.

3. True or false, it has been caused by our own globalization of the WWW and the internet.

That is a big reason not to talk about it. This is also very very embarrassing for Globalist pundits both in politics and in the media.

RE NYT MAKING ME AN OFFER TODAY 50% OFF

I offer their globalist pundits Brooks Kristol and Friedman, etc., an idea:

Why not get a job flipping burgers to get an idea how liberal globalization might work for their childrens' children, if they are lucky.

DUSTY ROUGH JUSTICE ALTERNATIVE READING

Dusty: " How bowt money."
General B N: "Don eet money. Start fires wit Rupees. Or toilet paper."

DUSTY'S GOT EM OUT BY THE COACH CARTOON ROUGH JUSTICE

A dusty trail, dusk. The coach is stopped.
Dusty has his 6 shooter trained on the occupants, hands up, in front of him.

He has just told them to "Stick em up".

From behind, from behind the coach, a big stealthy naked wild black figure, his cloak doffed to the ground, is upon him knife at his throat.

General B N: "Gimme one o ese for our rites n I don't eat you."
Dusty: "How bout their money?"
Gen B N: "We don eat money."
Dusty: "Deal. Take her," motioning to Power.

POSSIBLE WORLDS EUROPE LONG VIEW A PROPOS HUNTINGTON BOBBITT

Here is a long term scenario for you.

It is already perhaps dimly visible.

It bears no resemblance to Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man.

It has no meaningful connection with either Americanism or Western liberalism.

We show the Western European vestige of Eurasia being divided, partitioned really, a la Poland's many partitions, into northern and southern precincts.

The northern and eastern half is, of course, held, eventually, by Russia.

The southern and eastern half is held, of course, by an Islamic hegemon, undetermined at this point.

It seems unlikely that either China, India, or Africa, will participate materially in this partition, except perhaps as facilitators.

INDIA BLACK MARKET ECONOMY WHY NOT BLACK MARKET POPULATION TOO CHINA RUSSIA

If a country would delete its large denomination bills, why wouldn't it also do something drastic like offshoring millions of its unwanted?

Say an initiative to get rid of untouchables, something like that?

It could be a democratic initiative.

They could be sent to Central America and made to move north from or through Mexico into the US. Or maybe they just stay in Mexico. How bout that?

What stops India from doing that? They could send them to Africa! Great idea. Say, Liberia. Congo. Something like that.

For that matter, what stops any country from doing it, say, for example, China? They have always wanted to move here in great numbers.

Say, why doesn't Russia send all its criminals to Eastern Europe or Asia?

Not a new thing for them: the Czar sent most of their Jews to Eastern Europe and America in the 19th and 20th Century.

The US kicked all its Native Americans to the curb too.

We threw the Spanish Mexicans out too.

It's called Imperialism and Colonialism; nothing better, in our world, has replaced it, yet.

Friday, November 25, 2016

MIGRANT SURGE

"Trick or Treat!"

TURKEY THREATENS EU WITH MIGRANT SURGE NAFTA ALL OVER AGAIN

Let Turkey into the West, and you will get them anyway.

Keep them out and you will get them anyway.

That has been the lesson in spades of NAFTA.

You will get millions of Mexicans, and South and Central Americans, coming through the same border, regardless of what you do.

Just think about Asians, millions of them, rolling across Eurasia to Europe.

What is there really to stop them? The EU?

Russia, and the Muslims, are better candidates to stop them, but, think about it.

TRUMP POLITICAL RULING CLASS HISTORY LESSON

"...this almost complete lack of confidence in our leadership class is a very serious matter indeed. And it does not seem at all likely that our new President, who was elected largely because he was outside that class,..." DK
 
Trump is hardly outside our leadership class, whatever you take that to mean here, and it can mean very different things.
 
He is outside the mainstream Republican Party. That is about all one can say on that. 
 
We have really never had a leadership class here, except the gentlemen founders, what would have been called radical Whig lower gentry in England, and who quickly faded into the background of American politics going forward from 1820 or so.
 
Our politicians have no class, they are not leaders of any class worthy of the title 'leadership class', and they have proved it countless times.
 
They have in fact normally and usually been controlled by moneyed people like Trump, hardly a leadership class themselves, who stood in the background pulling the political strings.

IF YOU SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THEM

they detest you even more.

SCARLETT?

AUDIENCE TODAY SMORSGASBORD

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LADY GAGA

You tell me? I don't think so.

DYLAN ASPERGER'S

Hello.

KINDNESS

Monrovia Hilton, not long ago:

Gaga: "I understand that you are making great progress in kindness in your country."
General Butt Naked: "Yes, we are kind, really, to everyone."
Gaga: "That is very kind of you to say."
General: "We used to sacrifice teenagers before a battle, but I have converted to Evangelical Christianity now."

THE PRIMATE MENU IMPROV

Lobster corn dog.

Crabcake dog.

Remoulard, or tartar, sauce.

CLASSIC POST EXCERPT

THE OTHER INCALCULABLE BLUNDER BIGGER THAN LOSING WWII TO THE SOVIETS

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the  European  Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt.  And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
I would point out however, regarding Professor Howard's term ' imperial domination ', that the American colonies suffered nothing like imperial domination, really, nothing whatsoever comparable to that of more primitive pre industrial societies at that time.

THE BRITISH HAD BEGGED US TO CONSOLIDATE BACK IN THE 17TH CENTURY



As part of strategic British Imperial consolidation.

We had flipped them the bird.

PISSING IN THE WIND

I know that most of you don't read much more than 4 lines at a stretch.
Re:
LATE 18TH C REVOLUTIONS OR REBELLIONS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA

I am wasting a citation, for this point, on most of you.

Although I like intellectual improvisation, I didn't just pull this account out of my ass.  I merely embellished it, a little:

Palmer, Struggle, p. 350 and following.

Thursday, November 24, 2016

LATE 18TH C REVOLUTIONS OR REBELLIONS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA

The European ones, and there were many, were all very different from the American one. Most of them failed, but often left a powerful residue of political reorganization at every level.

The American Rebellion largely left state and local institutions, highly fragmented but already radically democratized, in place, and failed to achieve consolidations similar to Europe.

Europe's revolutionary consolidations themselves, in retrospect, cost Western Civilization more, in the long run, than the dreamland goals which they then failed miserably to achieved, frankly.

This has had huge implications, in different directions, for both.

THE TELEGRAPH BRITISH BENEFIT PAYMENTS FUNDED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

BLUE CHEESE DRESSING

Naples34102 has a very good one.

RE RUSSIA'S BORDER DOESN'T END ANYWHERE

It's a good joke.

Putin has a good sense of humor. So, it seems, from what I have read, if rather dark, did Stalin.

Funny thing: He is almost right really.

THE MENU THE MAKERS DIET PRIMATES

A street near Trump Tower and Park:
Rachel: "Hi. So have you decided on a chef yet?"
Hillary: "No."
Rachel: "What was wrong with Oganda? We thought he was splendid!"
Hillary: "He is too narrow, for us, in his choice of ingredients."

NYT NO EXPERIENCE, NO PROBLEM SPOILS SYSTEM BUT A WHOLE LOT MORE

NYT: WHY COMPLAIN IN AN EDITORIAL. THIS HAS BEEN YOUR STOCK IN TRADE SINCE THE BEGINNING.

This is merely the smooth routine working of the liberal international economic order democracy in America espoused by the NYT, as by the London Times, for countless decades now. Where's the beef?

"They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for."  Kennan

One can generalize Kennan's pronouncement, regarding the virtues of the bi partisan spoils system, the winning party today takes the spoils today:

"They don't really know, to tell the truth, what a _____________(FILL IN THE POLITICAL APPOINTMENT BLANK)
is for."

TRUMP APPOINTS A FORMER SIKH INDIAN WOMAN TO POWER'S SLOT AT THE UN

What do you think about that?

What do you know about Sikhs?

She's a Methodist now.....

CLASSIC OLD REFERENCE

RE ISAAC BABEL THE AWAKENING ODESSA MUSICAL PRODIGY FACTORY

Here's a new one. I am way behind the curve on stuff like this:
The Genesis of Artistic Creativity

THE PRIMATE MENU THE MAKER'S DIET

Near Trump Tower, a deli off Park Avenue:
Hillary: "Yes, I eat pygmy, but it has to be properly prepared."
Rachel: "Kosher?"
Hillary: "No, sorry."
Rachel: "I understand."

COLLEGE GRAD MIGRATIONS BY STATE

Like rats fleeing globalization ferrets.

THE PRIMATE MENU

A deli, somewhere off Park Avenue:
Rachel: "What's that?"
Hillary: "Veal tonnato sauce wrap."
Rachel: "Where did you hear about that?"
Hillary: "The web."

BBC LIVING STANDARDS WORST SINCE THE LAST WAR WAGE OUTLOOK DREADFUL

Western Civilization Civil War Peace Dividend.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

THE IMPROV MENU BEEF WELLINGTON ON THE GO

Ok. Let's say you don't bother to cook. You don't bother to have someone cook for you.

You can't make it to The Savoy.

What do you do?

Here it is:
You send out for a Beef Wellington sandwich. You have to find a high end deli, say in Knightsbridge or New York.

You order thin sliced filet, even roast beef, slathered with a layer or two of pate. Choice of bread, my favorites are onion pumpernickel or onion rye. Sweet sliced onion, dill pickles, giant pimiento stuffed Spanish olives, on the side. Grey Poupon on the side; I hate health food store cider vinegar mustard.

For Boop



I JUST SAW ELLEN OBAMA

RE TRUMP LGBT OUTAGE

Obama sees it coming too.

TRUMP HOW BOUT LGBT OUTAGE

In a democratic administration, coming out has been a badge of honor in some cases.

Under Trump it should turn into a witch hunt to involuntarily out any useful victim.

It is a predictable McCarthyite turn. There are no Communists left to out. Bernie's already out, in a way.

THE MENU QUICK AND DIRTY BEEF WELLINGTON IMPROV

Let's say you  are out in one of the former colonies, cannot get back to Maxim's in Paris, or The Savoy.

You want Beef Wellington. 

What do you do?

You get a piece of meat. It can be beef, antelope, wildebeast, crocodile, panther, goat, whatever, but it has to be tender, or made tender, somehow. Marinade it, say. 

If it's a tough cut, simmer the bejesus out of it, then drain, carve into steaks, and use as the Wellington filet, reserving the juice to reduce for gravy. If tough, you can also grind it into patties, if you have the tools out there.

Use liver pate as previously described to wrap the meat.

Let's say you don't want to go through the process of making pastry dough?

What do you do? Give up?

You get a prepared substitute. What are some?

How bout pita bread (you might need to use 2)? What is wrong with lavash (they come larger, easier to roll up tight)?
Wouldn't a large flour tortilla work almost as well?

You could even make a thick style French crepe, or a Dutch pannekuken, and use this!

How about naan?

Of course, you should grease both sides of the bread. your choice of what to use. I recommend butter or smoked temporarily liquefied al dente bacon fat.

Bake no longer than necessary, since everything in there is already cooked at least to rare.

Everyone loves wraps nowadays.

You can thin slice the meat, smear the pate on it in a very thin layer, and literally roll it up like a 'conventional' wrap, or pita pocket.
 
Beef Wellington Wrap or Kebab, or naan keema wrap. This is just a fancy, large, baked wrap or filled pocket.
 
Home cooks throughout history did analogous things, I am sure. If called on it, the more well to do said it was frugality. In more cases, among the poor, it was more a matter of survival. Poor people have always had to improvise at times, just to survive.

This post is dedicated to Randy, a Shaman of improv theory.

POWER OUTAGE SPOILS SYSTEM TO THE HALEY GO THE SPOILS

hardly a surprise in the Spoils System.

One new ostensible grass roots populist movement rooting out another, only recently established, ostensibly grass roots group.

That has really been what grass roots populist democracy has always been all about.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

TRUMP REPUDIATES THE ALT RIGHT ABANNONMENT

Christie and Giuliani were also abannoned.

Romney, if he accepts the post, will eventually be abannoned.

Some constituencies, not just the alt right, which got him elected have already been abannoned. 


THE MENU PATE ALTERNATIVES THINK OF IT AS AMERICAN POLITICS FILET DE BOEUF EN CROUTE

Why not admit that some of the ideas I have discussed, about using leftover juice  or oil or slop from various other canned jarred or roast meats or fish, are fair game, for pate?
 
I suggest for chicken liver pate that you use leftover roast chicken slop as an ingredient in chicken liver pate. I am not dogmatic.
 
They often leave the liver in the cavity, but that hardly qualifies as full pate material alone.
 
You have to reduce this slop of course, then mush it up with cooked chicken livers. See the other pate entry for other possible ingredients.
 
This is great on toast, pita, lavash, chips, doritos, you name it.
 
You can use it as you would braunschweiger, if you know what that is.
 
I suggest you ask your cook or chef to incorporate it into your next Beef Wellington.

For Beef Wellington, cut filet into individual portions, broil to rare, then immediately roll in the pate, and then pastry dough, and bake. That is better than cooking it raw wrapped.

That would be smashing!

For my French viewers, this is really filet de boeuf en croute, stolen really from the French, as so many other things were....
 
 

TRUMP JAIL CLINTON RHETORIC BACKLASH JFK FALLACY

Now if he had solemnly promised the alt right to put her in jail (which he didn't), in order to get votes (which he actually did get by faking and no actual promises), he might be at risk for a legitimate JFK Fallacy situation.

If he not only repudiates the alt right, which he now has done, but comes down hard on them criminally, he commits a JFK Fallacy in my judgment. Then they land on him like a ton of bricks.

I AM A PAST MASTER OF ENDON'S AFFENCE

IN MY YOUNGER DAYS



To quote Chris Farley, I didn't know Jack Squat!

LOOKED AT GENERATIONALLY

A whole generation of European adolescents, some of all classes, grew up, and blundered us on our way out of Western Civilization dominance.

ROUGH MORNING SELFIE

WHAT DOES POPULISM MEAN SAME THING AS BANNONISM

I have seen definitions that assert that it has been normally misused by politicians, often as a term of abuse for the other candidate, as in 'He's a populist pander', and actually means nothing definite, really.

One can use it synonymously with Democrat in certain historical settings. In that sense the founders, especially Jefferson, were panders to populism, a constituency also known as patriots, Republicans, or Democrats, not Federalists.

What is Bannonism? A smokescreen.

JUST CALL ENTREPRENEURIAL CAIPTALISM BANDIT POWER

JEFFERBANDITPOWERSONIAN

It sounds suspiciously like grass roots insurrectionist democratic initiative remarks of say Ambassador Samantha Power, which DK referred to in a post some time recently.

What do you think the difference is?

Certainly, neither Bannon, nor Trump, is in bed with Power, yet.

JEFFERBANNONISM POWFERSONIANISM

It sounds suspiciously like grass roots insurectionist democratic initiative remarks of Ambassador Samantha Power, which DK referred to in a post some time ago.

What do you think the difference is?

Certainly, neither Bannon, nor Trump, is in bed with Power, yet.

JEFFERSON NAPOLEON JEFFERBANNONISM

Why did Jefferson, in 1797, like "that wonderful man"?

Because at that point Jefferson conceived him to be bringing Republican Jacobin Internationalist Localism to all of Europe.

Jefferson to Madison, June 4, 1797.

JEFFERBANNONISM

ONE OF THE PROBLEMS FOR JEFFERSONIANISM

You can't take a global position, or even a national or international one, any position really, on anything, (and it is a huge array of issues and problems) except that all other regimes ought also to be local, grass roots sourced democratic regimes, with weak centralized authority if any, as well.

BANNON'S ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPITALISM

What do you think this means?

What do you think he means by it?

For whom is this characterization intended by him?

Is it a code word for others?

Code for what? For whom?

Monday, November 21, 2016

THE MENU TO COUNTER STURM UND DRANG

How bout liver pate, Southern style?

Let's start with liver. Which one?
Most people would say, use beef.

I favor things like squirrel and chipmunk, but can't get enough of the little devils' tiny livers, so I think to use chicken liver. Of course you should use duck or goose if you happen to have it.

Why? It's mild and prevalent.

Call me irresponsible, but I would throw in chicken gizzards when I find them.

Ok. What next? The usual onions, sauteed, thyme, a little sage, dill perhaps, garlic to taste, say red or white wine or fino, reduction, rather than cognac for which I have a better use.

Diced hickory smoked bacon, or comparable European substitute, is required.

How about a few crushed pecans?

What is wrong with say a few peeled muscadines?

That's about it. You already know how to prepare this too or you wouldn't have read this far. 

BANNON DISTINGUISHED FROM BOBBITT BANDIT RANDIT OR KLEPTIC CAPITALISM

Bannon calls his type of capitalism Entrepreneurial Capitalism, to distinguish it from the other two he describes, Randian, or Fascist, Capitalism on the one hand, and Crony Capitalism,  eg Russia and China, on the other, Kleptocracies.

The US seems to be torn between these three ideals, to listen to Bannon describe the situation. In his opinion, we embody elements of all three, not just the Entrepreneurial one.

Bobbitt, in Shield, also had had three types of emerging so called Market States, on somewhat analogous lines, reading market state as a general term for types of capitalist globalist ideological systems or frameworks.

Bobbitt had said that the US was only one of them. Bannon says we are fundamentally the Entrepreneurial one, but he seems to waffle about this in places.

I HAVEN'T YET READ BANNON'S MORE RECENT APPEARANCE REFERENCE YET BUT WILL SAY THIS A PROPOS OTHER RECENT POSTS

If we get further embroiled in a larger Middle East conflagration, with Russia also embroiled either with or against us, Asia will be licking its lips even more than it already has been for decades now.

I GUESS I WAS ONTO SOMETHING SUBCONSCIOUSLY WITH ARMAGEDDON COLLINS HOBBES PUTIN ETC POSTS

See DK fn to his Nov 18 note re Bannon, Armageddon, etc.

THERE IS A DUTCH SITE THAT APPARENTLY COPIES AND PUBLISHES MY BLOG VERBATIM IN HOLLAND

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.nl/

Or maybe this is how they get blogs, from elsewhere, in Holland?

SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE RELIGIOUS STOOGES

Why? Because they are suicide bombers.

They get told they are going to Muslim heaven.

Where do you think they go?

Did you ever see a Mullah or an Imam be a suicide bomber?

No.

Why not?

Take a guess.