as an exorcist.
Ted Max Von Sydow Cruz
Cruz needs to pull out some more of the stops, kick it up.
Exorcism is about the only way to go, without tipping his actual policy hand.
Of course Cruz can land on Sanders as a Communist, but not as a devil.
He can also land on Hillary, as a possessed witch, like a ton of bricks, based on enormous spurious past bad press for Hillary.
That makes a lot of sense for a rascal like Cruz.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Monday, March 7, 2016
IF DAVID BROOKS REALLY THINKS TRUMP IS A SORT OF DEVIL
Then why not throw in with Cruz, anti semite or not?
After all, "Some of these positions I agree with...", DB January NYT article.
Cruz and Brooks, most strange bed fellows...
Brooks really has nowhere to turn, a sad situation.
Cf The Party Is Flat, Thomas bozo Friedman, below.
After all, "Some of these positions I agree with...", DB January NYT article.
Cruz and Brooks, most strange bed fellows...
Brooks really has nowhere to turn, a sad situation.
Cf The Party Is Flat, Thomas bozo Friedman, below.
IT MIGHT BE A GOOD CAMPAIGN STRATEGY AT THIS POINT
for Cruz to start wearing an exorcist's cross for some events, especially a head to head with Trump.
He may, of course, make some enemies, but who knows, he may make some friends too with that wild ploy.
Then, if Trump starts to act possessed, Cruz can calmly hold up the cross in front of him and hold him at bay.
He may, of course, make some enemies, but who knows, he may make some friends too with that wild ploy.
Then, if Trump starts to act possessed, Cruz can calmly hold up the cross in front of him and hold him at bay.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
RE EXORCISM ETC AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY
This, demon possession, is a better approach, even, than treating your political opponents as, say, vermin, as Hitler did re the Jews, and also re the German Communists with whom he had identified them.
This wild strategy of course has had its limits...
To see how Christian demonization, as a political strategy, does not work, in modern times, re Jews, or Communists, for that matter, one has to look at its origins, in something like Pagels' The Origin Of Satan.
It has tended to be associated mainly with Christian on Christian polemics since say 150 AD.
This wild strategy of course has had its limits...
To see how Christian demonization, as a political strategy, does not work, in modern times, re Jews, or Communists, for that matter, one has to look at its origins, in something like Pagels' The Origin Of Satan.
It has tended to be associated mainly with Christian on Christian polemics since say 150 AD.
WHY BOTHER TO ACCUSE YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS OF ANYTHING ELSE REALLY
when you can simply accuse them of being possessed by the devil?
NO DOUBT FEW BELIEVE ME RE CRUZ AS EXORCIST TRUMP AS WARLOCK
I just want to give you one example, from the last debate, only a few days ago.
Warlock Trump starts to hyper ventilate, under attack from both exorcist Cruz and non exorcist but devout Catholic Rubio, and starts to act possessed, and looks wild eyed.
He may have started frothing at the mouth, I don't know...
What does candidate Cruz do?
He counsels Warlock Trump, in so many words, see the debate for the exact wording: to stay calm, take slow, deep, breaths, etc., don't get too excited; just the kinds of things an exorcist might advise one possessed under similar circumstances!
Warlock Trump starts to hyper ventilate, under attack from both exorcist Cruz and non exorcist but devout Catholic Rubio, and starts to act possessed, and looks wild eyed.
He may have started frothing at the mouth, I don't know...
What does candidate Cruz do?
He counsels Warlock Trump, in so many words, see the debate for the exact wording: to stay calm, take slow, deep, breaths, etc., don't get too excited; just the kinds of things an exorcist might advise one possessed under similar circumstances!
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY APPARENTLY BELIEVES THAT IT CAN BETTER CONTROL CRUZ THAN TRUMP
I have to say, from what little I know, is that the power base of the party will be as little able to control Cruz in office as the German industrial establishment had been able to control Hitler once in power.
I don't know why they are so afraid of Trump. He is really actually less scary, in some ways, to the industrial and financial establishment, than Cruz, from what I have seen.
But then what do I know, a broken down old trial lawyer?
I don't know why they are so afraid of Trump. He is really actually less scary, in some ways, to the industrial and financial establishment, than Cruz, from what I have seen.
But then what do I know, a broken down old trial lawyer?
THEN THE NEXT QUESTION OF COURSE CRUZ EXORCIST
Is Cruz willing, then, to posture himself, in the campaign, as a sort of exorcist for them?
In some ways, given his voter base, and his ideology, that makes some sense.....
Rubio, of course, is somehow not quite right for this delicate role.....
In some ways, given his voter base, and his ideology, that makes some sense.....
Rubio, of course, is somehow not quite right for this delicate role.....
DOUBTLESS THEY WILL OR ALREADY HAVE DUBBED SENATOR CLINTON A WITCH
Of course, one always had male witches, warlocks.
Question: have they dubbed Trump a warlock yet?
If not, just wait and see.
Question: have they dubbed Trump a warlock yet?
If not, just wait and see.
RE THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION UNREST WITCHCRAFT
Ultimately, on the religious right, we are perhaps in something like the posture of the New England colonies in, say, 1689......
They had rebelled against the concept of The Dominion of New England.
They were facing wars from foreign enemies, notably the French and their Indian allies, whom they considered demons, heathens, heretics, Papists, atheists, and infidels.
Of course, their businesses, in the port towns, were mainly in smuggling, but they saw no inconsistency between that and their severe religious and political intolerances.
Finally, we will doubtless see the new emergence, in this so called post enlightened age, of claims of witchcraft, which erupted shortly after that time.
See Robert Allison's lecture: The New England Uprising of 1689.
They had rebelled against the concept of The Dominion of New England.
They were facing wars from foreign enemies, notably the French and their Indian allies, whom they considered demons, heathens, heretics, Papists, atheists, and infidels.
Of course, their businesses, in the port towns, were mainly in smuggling, but they saw no inconsistency between that and their severe religious and political intolerances.
Finally, we will doubtless see the new emergence, in this so called post enlightened age, of claims of witchcraft, which erupted shortly after that time.
See Robert Allison's lecture: The New England Uprising of 1689.
CRUZ
would arm Ukraine against Russia.
This is a person who knows nothing about European, or Middle Eastern, history.
This is a person who knows nothing about European, or Middle Eastern, history.
RE DK POST INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
One of the lessons, pointed out in Liar's Poker, is that the investment banks had previously been partnerships, which had served as a brake on irresponsibility and lack of accountability, but that phase had passed by that time.
RE CHINA HOLLYWOOD STUDIO BUY UP BEGS QUESTIONS
What questions?
Just good ole fashioned laissez faire.
Just good ole fashioned laissez faire.
RE DK POST LIBYA ETC HOW CLINTON JIBRIL MEETING SHOULD HAVE GONE
Secretary: You're late.
J: I know.
S: I have come to advise you that we cannot assist you in any way.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
JL: Why not?
S: I am late for a hair appointment.
J: What is that?
S: I cannot explain what it is.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: May I accompany you and continue this meeting?
S: No.
J: Why not?
S: I am late.
J: Why?
S: Because of you.
And so on.......
J: I know.
S: I have come to advise you that we cannot assist you in any way.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why I cannot explain why I cannot explain why not.
JL: Why not?
S: I am late for a hair appointment.
J: What is that?
S: I cannot explain what it is.
J: Why not?
S: I cannot explain why not.
J: May I accompany you and continue this meeting?
S: No.
J: Why not?
S: I am late.
J: Why?
S: Because of you.
And so on.......
RE LIBYA SECRETARY CLINTON
"She asked a lot of questions...."
(The conjuring trick has already been done.)
You now think she's real smart, for asking a bunch of questions, and then "getting all the right answers".
You don't ask question number one, if you don't have to.
(The conjuring trick has already been done.)
You now think she's real smart, for asking a bunch of questions, and then "getting all the right answers".
You don't ask question number one, if you don't have to.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Friday, March 4, 2016
MY BEST CARTOON LATELY
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/chris-farley-christie-cartoon-flat-party.html
Terms search: cartoon
Terms search: cartoon
KENNAN SPOILS SYSTEM
"They don't really know what an ambassador is for."
Ambassador Kennedy, Tokyo......talented lady, I am sure, but....
In this country, they are for the spoils system.
Political structural problems, again and again and again, endlessly.
Ambassador Kennedy, Tokyo......talented lady, I am sure, but....
In this country, they are for the spoils system.
Political structural problems, again and again and again, endlessly.
THEY DON'T KNOW REALLY WHAT A GOVERNOR IS FOR
Cleveland's in Ohio, isn't it, Governor Kasich?
Political structural problems.
Political structural problems.
THE PRESIDENCY THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT A CITY IS FOR EITHER
Rubio, Cruz, Clinton: Flint, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Newark, LA, you name it, etc.
Cleveland's in Ohio, isn't it, Governor Kasich?
Sanders has some things to say about these issues, but the Presidency is not the institution to do anything much at all about these issues, ever, ever, ever.
Political structural problems.
Cleveland's in Ohio, isn't it, Governor Kasich?
Sanders has some things to say about these issues, but the Presidency is not the institution to do anything much at all about these issues, ever, ever, ever.
Political structural problems.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO KICK IT UP AS EMERIL SAID
We have been discussing current Republican freshman bozo marionette presidential candidates, and how they were stomped by Chris Farley Motivational Speaker Christie in New Hampshire.
This is not just a Republican failing, unfortunately, in American political presidential history..........
We had also been discussing, a few posts ago, the foibles, blunders, and death, of the young and restless Kennedys.
Why not put these two threads of conversation together?
Aren't Cruz and Rubio, in their boyish puerile wayward iconoclastic ignorant unlearned ways, just current Republican examples of those memorable tragic Democratic ingenues to politics we have seen long ago?
The Kennedy boys and the Cruz Rubio boys were cut from almost the same kinds of hereditarily defective bolts of political fabric.
This is not just a Republican failing, unfortunately, in American political presidential history..........
We had also been discussing, a few posts ago, the foibles, blunders, and death, of the young and restless Kennedys.
Why not put these two threads of conversation together?
Aren't Cruz and Rubio, in their boyish puerile wayward iconoclastic ignorant unlearned ways, just current Republican examples of those memorable tragic Democratic ingenues to politics we have seen long ago?
The Kennedy boys and the Cruz Rubio boys were cut from almost the same kinds of hereditarily defective bolts of political fabric.
RE MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER CHRIS FARLEY CHRISTIE HELPS CRUZ RUBIO
Motivational Speaker Chris Farley Christie gave the boys, Cruz and Rubio, a good talking to, back in New Hampshire.
He hinted that they would both be much better off pulling out then, rather than later.
He basically told them the truth (rare, for a motivational speaker, or for a politician): THEY DON'T KNOW JACK SQUAT ABOUT GOVERNING!
Now, one or both of them will likely soon be
LIVIN IN A TRAILER, DOWN BY THE RIVER!
He hinted that they would both be much better off pulling out then, rather than later.
He basically told them the truth (rare, for a motivational speaker, or for a politician): THEY DON'T KNOW JACK SQUAT ABOUT GOVERNING!
Now, one or both of them will likely soon be
LIVIN IN A TRAILER, DOWN BY THE RIVER!
RE SHARPENED LININGS INTO CORNER BLOCKS
There must, then, be a lot of German faux Del Jesus out there!
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
WHOSE JOB IS IT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEM DREW PEARSON FALLACY
Terms search: Lorch, the credential society
Professor Kaiser blames the academic world.....at least in part. Its fragmentation, and suggestibility, and self interests, etc.
There may be elements of truth in that, but it was never the vehicle of so called enlightenment for the working classes, or even the typical bourgeoisie, most of whom never saw the inside of a university or college until the late 19th century, and by the mid 20th had become so specialized that the big picture was usually mostly unavailable to them as part of their curriculum, even if it could have been comprehended widely and conveyed generally.
It was not considered, by the media, the job of the media either, as my references in Lorch demonstrate.
See also what I call, terms search: Drew Pearson Fallacy
Political structural problems, they have no end here.
Professor Kaiser blames the academic world.....at least in part. Its fragmentation, and suggestibility, and self interests, etc.
There may be elements of truth in that, but it was never the vehicle of so called enlightenment for the working classes, or even the typical bourgeoisie, most of whom never saw the inside of a university or college until the late 19th century, and by the mid 20th had become so specialized that the big picture was usually mostly unavailable to them as part of their curriculum, even if it could have been comprehended widely and conveyed generally.
It was not considered, by the media, the job of the media either, as my references in Lorch demonstrate.
See also what I call, terms search: Drew Pearson Fallacy
Political structural problems, they have no end here.
POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEM LOCUS CLASSICUS
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/02/they-dont-really-know-what-state-is-for.html
WHY ALLOW THE BOLSHEVIKI TO REMAIN IN POWER AFTER 1917
Unless you're in Western Civilization la la land.
CHRIS FARLEY CHRISTIE CARTOON FLAT PARTY MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
He had it so right in New Hampshire, when he landed on Cruz and Rubio like a Chris Farley ton of bricks.
Pretend you are watching him, making his spiel, Cruz and Rubio sitting on the sofa where Spade and his sister sat; they then eventually dive under the coffee table, can't take any more; with that, Christie roars "you need to be taught a lesson!" as he sails aloft, above the coffee table.
He then lands on that coffee table, as in the SNL motivational speaker skit, with Cruz and Rubio, squashed flat beneath.
Thomas Friedman could be muttering to himself nearby "The Party Is Flat".
Pretend you are watching him, making his spiel, Cruz and Rubio sitting on the sofa where Spade and his sister sat; they then eventually dive under the coffee table, can't take any more; with that, Christie roars "you need to be taught a lesson!" as he sails aloft, above the coffee table.
He then lands on that coffee table, as in the SNL motivational speaker skit, with Cruz and Rubio, squashed flat beneath.
Thomas Friedman could be muttering to himself nearby "The Party Is Flat".
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
ENORMOUS INCALCULABLE BLUNDER FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION
for us to have broken away from Great Britain.
"...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...." Sir Michael Howard
I would just add (2015 repost and this edit), for emphasis, they had not joined in the First World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt, either.
"...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...." Sir Michael Howard
I would just add (2015 repost and this edit), for emphasis, they had not joined in the First World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt, either.
RE JFK PATTON
Read DK's book, re JFK.
Read Ragano's book. If you don't believe him, ask why an old man, who is anguished, and who is betraying confidences he should have kept, tells such a story.
Re Target Patton, and Bazata's account, if you don't believe him, ask why an old man, who is anguished, and who is betraying confidences he should have kept, tells such a story.
I personally do not believe that either Bazata or Ragano spoke publicly for the money from the books.
Read Ragano's book. If you don't believe him, ask why an old man, who is anguished, and who is betraying confidences he should have kept, tells such a story.
Re Target Patton, and Bazata's account, if you don't believe him, ask why an old man, who is anguished, and who is betraying confidences he should have kept, tells such a story.
I personally do not believe that either Bazata or Ragano spoke publicly for the money from the books.
RE PRESIDENCY FOOTNOTE JFK RFK DUMB AND DUMBER
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/02/bill-cliinton.html
I inadvertently left out JFK.
To see where he stood, just look up Kennedy Round.
"Ask not what your country can do for you....."
Boomer Camelot asshole. Why candy coat it? He snowed everyone on the liberal horizon.
As I said, only a fool double crosses the mob and gets himself and his brother both killed.....in that sense, he betrayed his non mob patronage, the liberal American public.
If you believe that Bobby was really killed by an Arab, then it is a situation of dumb, JFK crossing the mob, and dumber, RFK backing Israel.
I've got you on a sort of ' Morton's Fork ', either way, if you disagree.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/re-jfk-patton.html
I inadvertently left out JFK.
To see where he stood, just look up Kennedy Round.
"Ask not what your country can do for you....."
Boomer Camelot asshole. Why candy coat it? He snowed everyone on the liberal horizon.
As I said, only a fool double crosses the mob and gets himself and his brother both killed.....in that sense, he betrayed his non mob patronage, the liberal American public.
If you believe that Bobby was really killed by an Arab, then it is a situation of dumb, JFK crossing the mob, and dumber, RFK backing Israel.
I've got you on a sort of ' Morton's Fork ', either way, if you disagree.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/03/re-jfk-patton.html
Monday, February 29, 2016
THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT A STATE IS FOR
The Presidency...:
The Bush's, Texas, Florida.
The Clintons, Arkansas, New York.
As they were accused of, they were really carpetbaggers with respect to the states they represented.
Their aspirations were always elsewhere.
They never looked back.
The Bush's, Texas, Florida.
The Clintons, Arkansas, New York.
As they were accused of, they were really carpetbaggers with respect to the states they represented.
Their aspirations were always elsewhere.
They never looked back.
RE INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE THE PRESIDENCY NOT YOUR FRIEND INSTITUTION EG BILL CLINTON
The last presidential wrecking ball of the so called Democratic side.
The Presidency itself has been a political structural disaster for the average and lower class American, Democrat or Republican.
This is based on how it was structured, military strategy, diplomacy, and trade, etc., and related to the other federal branches, and also on how it was related (not) to the states and to cities (not).
Clinton: Rhodes Scholar. Post Milner Group. Say no more.........
They had never represented the actual working class here, or in any state or group of states or cities here anywhere, anyway, in spite of the rhetoric, but rather they represented, based on the office characteristics themselves, the global bourgeoisie.
Clinton had specifically claimed to represent all men. Very post Milner Group. Eisenhower, etc., same game, back then.
Human rights, code term for "Americans' rights are not special to me, I am for global rights".
Wilson, FDR, Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Bill, Hillary, etc., ditto:
Human rights, code term for:
"Average Americans', and lower class Americans', rights, are not special to me. I am for global rights, or for nothing".
W: "These principles are right for all people everywhere."
The Presidency itself has been a political structural disaster for the average and lower class American, Democrat or Republican.
This is based on how it was structured, military strategy, diplomacy, and trade, etc., and related to the other federal branches, and also on how it was related (not) to the states and to cities (not).
Clinton: Rhodes Scholar. Post Milner Group. Say no more.........
President Obama, merely a later footnote.
They had never represented the actual working class here, or in any state or group of states or cities here anywhere, anyway, in spite of the rhetoric, but rather they represented, based on the office characteristics themselves, the global bourgeoisie.
Clinton had specifically claimed to represent all men. Very post Milner Group. Eisenhower, etc., same game, back then.
Human rights, code term for "Americans' rights are not special to me, I am for global rights".
Wilson, FDR, Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Bill, Hillary, etc., ditto:
Human rights, code term for:
"Average Americans', and lower class Americans', rights, are not special to me. I am for global rights, or for nothing".
W: "These principles are right for all people everywhere."
Sunday, February 28, 2016
CHRISTIE HAS BEEN TRUMP'S SPOILER OF FRESH DUMB MARIONETTES
But, oddly, he told the truth on these freshmen idiots: Cruz and Rubio.
These guys have zero experience actually governing, whatever you take ' governing ' to mean here.
Christie simply said the very, very, obvious.
The Republican Party seems to want fresh dumb marionettes.
These guys have zero experience actually governing, whatever you take ' governing ' to mean here.
Christie simply said the very, very, obvious.
The Republican Party seems to want fresh dumb marionettes.
RE DK POST INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE POLITICAL STRUCTURAL SUCCESS AND FAILURE
We are still living in the long shadow of assumptions, ideology, and institutions going back to the time of Cecil Rhodes.
We are living in the long shadow of the Milner group, in important senses.
RE institutional failure and its causes, I want to talk about this situation, both in positive and negative ways, since these are difficult to disentangle, both conceptually, ideologically, and over time, re post Milner Group Western Civilization. But, as I said, it has thrown a long shadow. Quigley had done so, positively and negatively, in his exposition, and it was an account that made sense.
We are living in the long shadow of the Milner group, in important senses.
RE institutional failure and its causes, I want to talk about this situation, both in positive and negative ways, since these are difficult to disentangle, both conceptually, ideologically, and over time, re post Milner Group Western Civilization. But, as I said, it has thrown a long shadow. Quigley had done so, positively and negatively, in his exposition, and it was an account that made sense.
RE MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES BUST
Back in 2000 and after, I had appraisers hand me appraisals, on which compensation and damages were to be based, where the projected annual return was set at, say, 7% into the indefinite future. This had become the rule rather than the exception.
One could always find appraisers who would so opine....
It must have been very easy for mortgage companies and banks in such an environment.
One could always find appraisers who would so opine....
It must have been very easy for mortgage companies and banks in such an environment.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
AMERICAN PRESIDENTS HAVE LONG BEEN SELECTED FOR THEIR MARIONETTE QUALITIES
They have not been selected based on old style statesmanship qualities,
but rather on merely American, dumb, relative electability, criteria.
but rather on merely American, dumb, relative electability, criteria.
AMERICA AND BIG GOVERNMENT
Glaucon X:
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." -Ronald Reagan 1981
"the era of big government is over" -Bill Clinton 1996
Those marching orders, given to us by both corporate-owned parties, have yet to be countermanded. They crowned the untrammeled free market King and appointed our government as his servant. When he screwed up in 2008, of course the corporate parties agreed that nothing too fundamental was wrong, in fact, they continued to hail the King. The assumption that the untrammeled free market had the divine right of unquestioned rule over us had become so deeply embedded.
So now the people no longer believe that our political system serves the needs of the public. But with two corporate owned parties, and a corporate owned press, no one is there to explain to them that the untrammeled free market serves the needs of powerful corporate interests and doesn’t care at all about the needs of the people. The two parties they voted for created a plutocracy, a government of, by, and for the wealthy--why are most citizens so surprised that it doesn’t serve their needs?"
Great post by Glaucon X. DK site.
Unfortunately, In America, the era of big government was over, from the beginning, 1776, really.
The whole point of America was to put an end to what they considered big government, a ' Robinocracy '.
They did a great job.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." -Ronald Reagan 1981
"the era of big government is over" -Bill Clinton 1996
Those marching orders, given to us by both corporate-owned parties, have yet to be countermanded. They crowned the untrammeled free market King and appointed our government as his servant. When he screwed up in 2008, of course the corporate parties agreed that nothing too fundamental was wrong, in fact, they continued to hail the King. The assumption that the untrammeled free market had the divine right of unquestioned rule over us had become so deeply embedded.
So now the people no longer believe that our political system serves the needs of the public. But with two corporate owned parties, and a corporate owned press, no one is there to explain to them that the untrammeled free market serves the needs of powerful corporate interests and doesn’t care at all about the needs of the people. The two parties they voted for created a plutocracy, a government of, by, and for the wealthy--why are most citizens so surprised that it doesn’t serve their needs?"
Great post by Glaucon X. DK site.
Unfortunately, In America, the era of big government was over, from the beginning, 1776, really.
The whole point of America was to put an end to what they considered big government, a ' Robinocracy '.
They did a great job.
Friday, February 26, 2016
RE DK CURRENT POST THE BIG SHORT
I encourage everyone with some minimal financial wherewithal, to read Liar's Poker.
He thought young people of principle would turn away from the ways of Wall Street....
He made a stirring and poignant address at the Princeton Baccalaureate 2012. Must see.
He urged the graduating class to practice noblesse oblige.
Call him Michael Pollyanna Lewis.
That was not a principle the founding fathers had followed here.
He thought young people of principle would turn away from the ways of Wall Street....
He made a stirring and poignant address at the Princeton Baccalaureate 2012. Must see.
He urged the graduating class to practice noblesse oblige.
Call him Michael Pollyanna Lewis.
That was not a principle the founding fathers had followed here.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
RE DONALD TRUMP ISN'T REAL DAVID BROOKS NYT
Neither is Mr ' More Free Trade, Please ' David Brooks
Terms search: more free trade
Terms search: more free trade
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
CRUZ WALL STREET THE BIG SHORT AND YOU SEE DK POST DEEP DOWN IT IS REALLY STRUCTURAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
Property rights wacko. I know them well.
Who bank rolls them?
Take a guess:
Big (Thurston called it ' big property rights ') corporations, not tiny residential property owners facing public projects.
Guess what: Big property rights (better known as creditors' rights, banks, etc.) have been the biggest enemy of small property rights (those envisioned in the Constitution).
Big property rights got us the mortgage backed securities meltdown. How?
Because the big banks, the big property rights, created the mortgage backed securities market in the first place.
It was facilitated, of course, by Fannie and Freddie, but instigated by them.
Who bank rolls them?
Take a guess:
Big (Thurston called it ' big property rights ') corporations, not tiny residential property owners facing public projects.
Guess what: Big property rights (better known as creditors' rights, banks, etc.) have been the biggest enemy of small property rights (those envisioned in the Constitution).
Big property rights got us the mortgage backed securities meltdown. How?
Because the big banks, the big property rights, created the mortgage backed securities market in the first place.
It was facilitated, of course, by Fannie and Freddie, but instigated by them.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
RE WILSON FDR DEMOCRATS COMMUNISM MCCARTHYISM DK POST ETC
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-jigged-when-we-should-have-jagged.html
Monday, February 22, 2016
IT MAKES AS LITTLE SENSE TO REMOVE LEE'S STATUE AS CECIL RHODES'
Quigley insisted, with some details and credibility, that Cecil Rhodes, and the Inner Circle of the Milner Group, were anything but racists.
Otherwise, why have a project (delusional as it may have been), such as Rhodes', for lifting up all people regardless of race?
What about Jefferson? Mt Rushmore, even. Why leave the image of one who turned out to be a racial hypocrite standing, then? Nonsense.
See: Smithsonian Magazine, Henry Wiencek, "Unmasking Thomas Jefferson", October 2012, p. 40.
What about Washington? He freed them when he died.
Too late, for these zealots. Take him down!
Otherwise, why have a project (delusional as it may have been), such as Rhodes', for lifting up all people regardless of race?
What about Jefferson? Mt Rushmore, even. Why leave the image of one who turned out to be a racial hypocrite standing, then? Nonsense.
See: Smithsonian Magazine, Henry Wiencek, "Unmasking Thomas Jefferson", October 2012, p. 40.
What about Washington? He freed them when he died.
Too late, for these zealots. Take him down!
Sunday, February 21, 2016
IRONIC see dk time post mccarthy
That with almost no real socialists left in the country, Sanders, a socialist, his mere presence may give Cruz' anti communist rants traction!
Incredible really. I would call it the tragedy of Sanders.
Incredible really. I would call it the tragedy of Sanders.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
AWKWARD QUESTIONS
If one believed that combating globalist communism was a paramount concern of Western Civilization, since at least the mid nineteenth century, why then would one want to dismantle the Western Imperial System, which, in spite of Western liberalism's pretensions, had been the main bulwark against world communism, from the beginning?
Western liberalism, unfortunately, has posed an even greater threat to Western Civilization, as it turned out, than globalist communism. A really sad commentary.
Western liberalism, unfortunately, has posed an even greater threat to Western Civilization, as it turned out, than globalist communism. A really sad commentary.
RE DK POST TIME SENATOR MCCARTHY COMMUNISTS REALLY SADDER AND OLDER STORY THAN AMERICANS KNOW
Professor Kaiser is quite right, by the time of McCarthy, communists had gone, changed, or been outed.
See The Haunted Wood, which spells it out nicely.
Of course, by then the Soviets had already long gotten everything they had wanted, more or less, from us, by internal influence:
they had gotten our support, over European objections, re Eastern Europe, (they had gotten Patton, through the OSS, if you tend to believe Target Patton, as I do; apparently Bill O'Reilly also did something which I haven't read; they had put a political short leash on Monty to intervene in Eastern Europe in 44 45, as he later complained...)
they had gotten the bomb through espionage, and even through our political cooperation, it seems (!)
they had gotten our help, and ideological support, in further dismantling the European empires (a real biggie, in my judgment),
and they, a foreign civilization, had gotten Eastern Europe and much of mitteleuropa.
They almost got an agrarianized Germany, thanks to FDR and Morgenthau and White, etc.
See The Haunted Wood, which spells it out nicely.
Of course, by then the Soviets had already long gotten everything they had wanted, more or less, from us, by internal influence:
they had gotten our support, over European objections, re Eastern Europe, (they had gotten Patton, through the OSS, if you tend to believe Target Patton, as I do; apparently Bill O'Reilly also did something which I haven't read; they had put a political short leash on Monty to intervene in Eastern Europe in 44 45, as he later complained...)
they had gotten the bomb through espionage, and even through our political cooperation, it seems (!)
they had gotten our help, and ideological support, in further dismantling the European empires (a real biggie, in my judgment),
and they, a foreign civilization, had gotten Eastern Europe and much of mitteleuropa.
They almost got an agrarianized Germany, thanks to FDR and Morgenthau and White, etc.
Friday, February 19, 2016
SHKRELI ACA HEALTH CARE COSTS ETC COMMENT ON DK SITE HOW ENTREPRENEURSHIP KEEPS COSTS DOWN
Professor
Echoing your ACA remarks, there is a useful summary re medical costs and policies, in the current Florida Bar Journal, of all places, by Steven I. Weissman. He has gathered a lot of media references in one place.All the best
Terms search: rail to rail, ACA.
Re ACA see especially Weissman, text and fn, at fn 9.
Echoing your ACA remarks, there is a useful summary re medical costs and policies, in the current Florida Bar Journal, of all places, by Steven I. Weissman. He has gathered a lot of media references in one place.All the best
Terms search: rail to rail, ACA.
Re ACA see especially Weissman, text and fn, at fn 9.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
RE INUNDATION IMMIGRATION
Europe is as little able to stem the tide of Muslims, and, eventually, of black Africans, as Americans are at stemming the tidal wave of Mexican population movements into our heartland.
Why did the Pope show up down there? Because they are all, nominally only, Catholics. In reality, they are native Indians masquerading as Catholics, not European Catholics, really. You and the Pope can kid yourselves!
It is really symptomatic, if you will, of the continuing political crisis of will of Western Civilization.
You can call it what you want.
Why did the Pope show up down there? Because they are all, nominally only, Catholics. In reality, they are native Indians masquerading as Catholics, not European Catholics, really. You and the Pope can kid yourselves!
It is really symptomatic, if you will, of the continuing political crisis of will of Western Civilization.
You can call it what you want.
RE THE CLINTONS AND THE MILNER GROUP
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2016/01/ppp-cartels-not-market-states-dk.html
RE MULTICULTURALISM IN AMERICA
When the Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese, conquered various native people in the New World, the Spanish, who came first, had just literally driven the Muslims from Western Europe in 1492.
The Muslims still heavily infested central, east, and southern Europe, and would do so for hundreds of years more.
No Western colonial power, then or later, wanted to see any free Muslims or Muslim colonies whatsoever in the New World, for very obvious reasons. Some Muslims were brought here, of course, but they were brought as slaves.
The Muslims still heavily infested central, east, and southern Europe, and would do so for hundreds of years more.
No Western colonial power, then or later, wanted to see any free Muslims or Muslim colonies whatsoever in the New World, for very obvious reasons. Some Muslims were brought here, of course, but they were brought as slaves.
RE WILSON AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN CASE YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/10/kennan-re-wilson-re-russian-revolution.html
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
RE CHINA MILITARIZING SOUTH CHINA SEA VIETNAM JAPAN KOREA ETC DEJA VU
See Huntington's hypothetical scenario, published way way way back, in 1996, for the start of an inter civilizational war, toward the end of The Clash.........
ANOTHER PARIAH STATE PRESIDENT FDR
apparently inherited the disastrous British antagonism to Germany, even prior to the beginning of WWI. See, for example, Beschloss, The Conquerors.
terms search: pariah
terms search: pariah
REAL ECON TV ON PRESIDENT OBAMA CAMPAIGN ORIGINS
"He was a total nobody.
In 2005, he became a US Senator. In 2008
he became president of the US.
No one in US history ever pulled off anything
like this.
The answer can be found in the early
support of a crooked Chicago banking
family.
Video:"
In 2005, he became a US Senator. In 2008
he became president of the US.
No one in US history ever pulled off anything
like this.
The answer can be found in the early
support of a crooked Chicago banking
family.
Video:"
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
RE ANGLO AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT ACTUALLY ANGLO AMERICAN ANTAGONISM
It really goes back to before the colonial rebellion.
We were the first pariah state in modern Western Civilization.
That is why Wilson, a pariah state President and his secretary of state, much later, a century plus later, initially looked with glee at the anti imperialist Russian Revolution.....during WWI!
What a long standing Western Civilizational disaster it has been.
We were the first pariah state in modern Western Civilization.
That is why Wilson, a pariah state President and his secretary of state, much later, a century plus later, initially looked with glee at the anti imperialist Russian Revolution.....during WWI!
What a long standing Western Civilizational disaster it has been.
AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC CHECKS AND BALANCES SPOILS SYSTEM
Why not follow up the last post with a brief discussion of choices open to American Presidents and State Department officials, based on American universal values and principles, on selections of ambassadors and heads of missions?
Americans would like to see more women, black, and LGBT choices, of all different religious denominations, especially if a Democrat is elected:
"In her concession speech Tuesday night,
Clinton claimed the mantle of the representative of oppressed
Americans, including minorities, women, and LGBTs." DK
How about this, these are just some possible combinations:
For Ambassadors to Middle Eastern countries, here are some possible helpful orientations, assigned to no particular posts yet unless noted:
A gay white female
A transgender bisexual
A black Evangelical Christian gay male
A Jewish gay black female for Muslim posts
A Muslim gay female for Israel
A bisexual American male or female, white or black for Saudi Arabia
For Asian countries, how about:
A gay female Vietnamese American for ambassador to China?
Similarly, a gay black Evangelical Christian female for Japan?
Or, say, a gay Chinese Muslim American female for Japan?
And vice versa for China?
Tough choices!
For Europe, how about
gay black Muslim female for Germany
for England, Court of St James, Chinese American gay black male,
or, say, a Radical Imam American,
stuff like that...
For Russia, say,
gay female Muslim, or Jewess,
Send a gay white female racist as ambassador (spoils system) to South Africa, just for good measure.
And so on.......
Why not diplomatically 'buy the farm' on American universalist CFR, Party of Davos, 'values' ?
Americans would like to see more women, black, and LGBT choices, of all different religious denominations, especially if a Democrat is elected:
"In her concession speech Tuesday night,
Clinton claimed the mantle of the representative of oppressed
Americans, including minorities, women, and LGBTs." DK
How about this, these are just some possible combinations:
For Ambassadors to Middle Eastern countries, here are some possible helpful orientations, assigned to no particular posts yet unless noted:
A gay white female
A transgender bisexual
A black Evangelical Christian gay male
A Jewish gay black female for Muslim posts
A Muslim gay female for Israel
A bisexual American male or female, white or black for Saudi Arabia
For Asian countries, how about:
A gay female Vietnamese American for ambassador to China?
Similarly, a gay black Evangelical Christian female for Japan?
Or, say, a gay Chinese Muslim American female for Japan?
And vice versa for China?
Tough choices!
For Europe, how about
gay black Muslim female for Germany
for England, Court of St James, Chinese American gay black male,
or, say, a Radical Imam American,
stuff like that...
For Russia, say,
gay female Muslim, or Jewess,
Send a gay white female racist as ambassador (spoils system) to South Africa, just for good measure.
And so on.......
Why not diplomatically 'buy the farm' on American universalist CFR, Party of Davos, 'values' ?
RE DK CURRENT POST DIPLOMATIC FEMINISM LGBT MINORITIES
This is an issue in his post he stays away from (maybe he doesn't see it, but I doubt it); public figures can't go there, here, anyway; I can:
Nothing in American history demonstrates its diplomatic tone deafness better than its appointing women representatives, such as Albright or Clinton, to important posts at missions to core states in other civilizations, especially where women there are not public figures.
Nothing in American history demonstrates its diplomatic tone deafness better than its appointing women representatives, such as Albright or Clinton, to important posts at missions to core states in other civilizations, especially where women there are not public figures.
LIONEL CURTIS WAS A LONG WAY FROM CECIL RHODES
He and the Milner Group were moving closer to a tragic Wilsonian blind globalization, globalization for globalization's sake, paradigm.
Terms search: Wilson, Howard, Rhodes, CFR, Kennan.
Terms search: Wilson, Howard, Rhodes, CFR, Kennan.
Monday, February 15, 2016
RE US POLITICAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
Re Scalia, the Supreme Court, etc.
Just a quick note to point out a long standing political structural problem here. This is one of many issues, everywhere one looks, that Americans have never really been taught to understand at all. Why? Because it was seldom in the personal or party interests of politicians, legislative, judicial, or executive, state or federal, to discuss with them, really.
The Federal Court system, especially its bench, does not want either a particularly strong federal legislative or executive branch (they got their wish, from the beginning, really, but only capitalized on it in stages), nor does it really want strong state legislative, executive, or judicial branches (again, they got their wish from the beginning).
What it has long wanted most, and gotten long ago, is a strong federal judicial branch, and especially the Supreme Court.
Just a quick note to point out a long standing political structural problem here. This is one of many issues, everywhere one looks, that Americans have never really been taught to understand at all. Why? Because it was seldom in the personal or party interests of politicians, legislative, judicial, or executive, state or federal, to discuss with them, really.
The Federal Court system, especially its bench, does not want either a particularly strong federal legislative or executive branch (they got their wish, from the beginning, really, but only capitalized on it in stages), nor does it really want strong state legislative, executive, or judicial branches (again, they got their wish from the beginning).
What it has long wanted most, and gotten long ago, is a strong federal judicial branch, and especially the Supreme Court.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
MILNER GROUP IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS PERHAPS
One might call the utopianism of the Milner Group a late blooming manifestation of the radicalism of the real Whigs, which had infested the American colonies, as well as here and there in Britain and elsewhere, back in the early 18th century. See Bailyn's chapter "The Contagion Of Liberty", Ideological Origins.
It was a universalist radicalism born partly of fragmentation, a schismatic fragmentation, following in the train of the political and religious disasters of the Reformation and its aftermath, really.
"We hold these truths to be self evident..." Many radical schismatics, besides the colonists, were also universalists, Luther for example.
Jesus, oddly enough, although a radical Jewish schismatic, was not himself a universalist: he had no mission to the gentiles whatsoever. See: The New Testament Bible, and E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, Index, 'gentiles'.
Someone who knows more can correct me I am sure.
It was a universalist radicalism born partly of fragmentation, a schismatic fragmentation, following in the train of the political and religious disasters of the Reformation and its aftermath, really.
"We hold these truths to be self evident..." Many radical schismatics, besides the colonists, were also universalists, Luther for example.
Jesus, oddly enough, although a radical Jewish schismatic, was not himself a universalist: he had no mission to the gentiles whatsoever. See: The New Testament Bible, and E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, Index, 'gentiles'.
Someone who knows more can correct me I am sure.
RE US VERSUS BRITAIN THE US PILED ON AFTER MILNER GROUP HAD DECIDED ON CRUCIFIXION
The coup de grace was 1945:
"...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...." Sir Michael Howard
"...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...." Sir Michael Howard
I would just add (2015 repost and this edit), for emphasis, they had not joined in the First World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt, either.
That had, after all, been why Wilson, and his staff, including especially his Secretary of State, were at first so thrilled with the Russian Revolution......
The universal empire of Western Civilization was, in Quigley's terminology, the British Empire, after 1763, not the Napoleonic, briefly, thereafter.
I CAN NOW ANSWER QUIGLEY'S QUESTION DEFINITIVELY P 134
Curtis and his Milner Group associates assisted heavily at the crucifixion of the British Empire.
There has been, and never will be, a resurrection......
It did not die 'to be born again'. It died to die.
Of course, everyone who knows anything has known this answer since Quigley asked it. Before, actually........
There has been, and never will be, a resurrection......
It did not die 'to be born again'. It died to die.
Of course, everyone who knows anything has known this answer since Quigley asked it. Before, actually........
re why the US continued to foster this decline BLIND GLOBALIZATION
We embarked after WWII on what I can only call Blind Globalization.
This had, by then become the party line also of the CFR and other US institutions, for the obvious reasons.
It was rationalized as fighting the Cold War, but, of course, there were the other mainly economic and commercial agendas, especially for us..............
This had, by then become the party line also of the CFR and other US institutions, for the obvious reasons.
It was rationalized as fighting the Cold War, but, of course, there were the other mainly economic and commercial agendas, especially for us..............
WHY THE US IS CONTINUING TO FOSTER THIS DECLINE
Very important elements in this country continue to function along these same lines, still actuated by the Milner Group ideal, although somewhat modified to substitute American cultural and political hegemony and political and economic ideals in place of those of British Imperial Civilization, and still connected to long existing relationships and institutions all over the world. CFR and IISS are only the most obvious.
As Wikipedia notes, The CFR promotes globalization, free trade, reducing financial regulations on MNCs (not on anybody else of course), and economic consolidation into regional blocs (and beyond, I would add), and develops policy recommendations that reflect these goals.
It is filled with what Huntington had derided in The Clash, and Faux discussed, as Party of Davos types.
Smell the coffee, game over.
Now there is a great irony here, re the US versus Britain, hardly a real Anglo American Establishment, and I will go into that shortly.
Happy Valentine's Day...'Pakistan's president has denounced St Valentine's Day, saying the festival has no connection with Pakistani culture and should be avoided.'
He is so right!
As Wikipedia notes, The CFR promotes globalization, free trade, reducing financial regulations on MNCs (not on anybody else of course), and economic consolidation into regional blocs (and beyond, I would add), and develops policy recommendations that reflect these goals.
It is filled with what Huntington had derided in The Clash, and Faux discussed, as Party of Davos types.
Smell the coffee, game over.
Now there is a great irony here, re the US versus Britain, hardly a real Anglo American Establishment, and I will go into that shortly.
Happy Valentine's Day...'Pakistan's president has denounced St Valentine's Day, saying the festival has no connection with Pakistani culture and should be avoided.'
He is so right!
WHY THE WEST DECLINED
Lionel Curtis believed that Western Civilization virtues and culture could be permanently fostered only within an integrated global political (and economic) system around the British Empire, and involving Britain in a program of generosity, trust, and freedom toward the Dominions, colonies, and all other countries. In a word, he considered Western Civilization (and more especially British Civilization) the only one, really. See Quigley, The A-A Estab., p 64.
Even France and Germany did not qualify for this Civilizational club of one. Quigley, p.133.
Even France and Germany did not qualify for this Civilizational club of one. Quigley, p.133.
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