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    Wednesday, December 31, 2008

    Obama And That Other Ponzi Scheme

    Oops one more post before the year ends.

    Obama And That Other Ponzi Scheme. The Hsu trial is set to begin January 12. Pods head won't expode - but they may be torn in half. Clinton AND Obama are set to get some rotten press. How will the Pods defend THEIR LORD and while condeming the Clintons at the same time?

    My, my, 2009 is going to be fun.

    Lunch Break: Some music, some photos, and other grab baggery.

    love you all. No posts after this until Friday. Happy New Year!

    Face forward! Eyes open! Onward to 2009!
    Hallelujah

    Here is the song I've been trying to learn on guitar. It is hard. I took up classical guitar a while ago because I wanted to stretch my brain and I hate crossword puzzles. Also guitar is sexy and we middle aged types must get inventive with seduction....lol, as the kids say...

    Joe Pa and Pete Carroll at Disneyland last week. I am into the Rose Bowl match up this year. I love my Trojans-but Paterno is hard to root against. I am predicting a Penn State upset.

    USC's regular season practices are all open to the public: "You see gang-bangers and homeless people," he says. "You see guys catch passes in the end zone and then have to make a spin move to avoid people having lunch under the goalpost." Hard to over estimate the value this has for the community - in particular young men- in this sketchy part of town. I am a Carroll and a Clinton loyalist.


    Gavin Newsom is exploring a run for Governor of Calif. I like Gavin Newsom. Mayor Newsom courageously struck a blow for equal and human rights by allowing gay and lesbian Americans to marry in San Francisco. Barack the Coward refused to be photographed with him. Sometimes Obama makes his sneaky, contemptible, fraudulent career so very easy to loath. (L.R. would not be L.R. without one last backhand to Barry O. in 2008. Prediction: Busting Obama's chops and pointing and laughing at Obama Pods will become a growth industry sometime in the July-September window.)


    Bubble discusses the new year. Still funny after 15 years.



    Photo below can used to respond to nonsense emails from an ex or in-laws or Code Pink:

    Does anyone know who made this photo?

    Finally listen to Ana Vidovic and have a wonderful night!

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    Tuesday, December 30, 2008

    News Flash! While shopping at WalMart Americans discover their nation has disappeared. Update after the game!

    One the last day of 2008 I bring you cheery news!

    America will collapse in the summer of 2010.

    Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces...So says Russian academic Igor Panarin.

    On a local note - for me at least - California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," which always feel just under the surface to me anyway. California, a nation-state, has a specific identity - that most residents ignore. Ignoring this identity is part of the identity. We would be upfront about it like Texans but to be like Texans would not be Californian.

    Alas, Igor goes on to say: and will be part of China or under Chinese influence.

    Uh,no, Igor. I think not. Like Obama, I am not an actual professor, but Igor clearly has no concept of the Californian-American identity. We might get in bed with Mexico if it were not a worse basket case, but not China. I don't care how many dollars they are holding.

    Even the Mexico scenario is suspect. In the 25 years California was a part of Mexico (Yes, it was only 25 years.) Californios didn't much acknowledge or like their overlords in Mexico City. California was a backwater - which is why the Spanish built "missions" up the coast. The nation Cali most mimics is Australia. So the Risk Game scenario lends itself more to a California/Australia alliance. Crazed surfers and outback rednecks fighting off the Commie hordes. Communication will be difficult as Cali surfers and Aussies both speak an incomprehensible English - but we'll figure it out.

    I am being silly.

    However, the potential for large scale social disruption in this country in the short term is real. We are not prepared for another Great Depression. The societal glue of 1932 is not nearly as strong now. Entitled brats were confined to a few rich families on the Eastern Seaboard then. Now, it's the national disease up to and including the current and next President. And I do not see a unifying American leader on the horizon. As I said last night, I could be wrong. Mr. Obama looks more like Neville Chamberlain than FDR. His soaring rhetoric could morph into "Can't we all just get along?" pleading if the breadlines get long enough.

    The answer, to him in particular, is going to be a resounding "No".

    Obama still strikes me as "the other". An interloper. This sense I have has nothing to do with race. Colin Powell feels American. As does Jesse Jackson. Whatever one thinks of Jackson he emerged from here. His American bonefides are not in question. He exists in the part of the house most of us ignore - but he is still in the house. Regardless, Obama is a concoction, a creation (a confection to many) whose history has largely been blotted out, Soviet style.

    Obama has alight here...there...and everywhere. He is a man of the world (or rather, he plays one on TV) coming to power at the precise moment globalization is cratering. The "America as lone superpower" Neo-Con project is snapping back. We are entering an inward looking time.

    Diversity is only a strength if all agree to a final answer. If not - it's just a bunch of fraternities partying in a nice mansion - libel to disintegrate into a fracas when the Bud runs out. The great American ideals have been subsumed into a "consumer culture" now apparently on the verge of collapse. I consume, therefore I am does have an answer: Okay, then you're not.

    To paraphrase James Howard Kunstler: An endless string of strip malls, Walmarts, and drive thru windows won't be fought for because they are not worth fighting for. Even the most TV addled American knows this. An eruption of regionalism that shoves aside nationalism is a real possibility in this mix, if not quite yet a probability. I can see people circling the wagons to protect actual places say Asheville, North Carolina, much of New England, or the California central and northern coast. In other words: places built with citizens in mind, not consumers, that are worth protecting.

    Further, I can see people ditching those places thatrepresent the height of post war American civilization - like Plano, Texas or Peoria, Arizona - "towns" built for cars to easily shuttle consumers whose lone purpose is to ingest something at all times. Soulless Walmart horizons, with nothing in the middle distance except parking spaces.



    BUT underneath the thick layer of post moon landing American lard there still lives a "Live Free or Die" attitude. Like the Japanese on December 6th 1941, Mr. Panarin neglects to add this into the equation. It remains to be seen if that impulse will unify the nation or result in a bunch of dudes with shotguns screaming "Get the hell out of New Hampshire"...or Texas... or Biloxi...

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    PEBO Vacationing

    Isn't this extended Obama vacation in Hawaii weird? The more I hear "leadership" the more I see "detached figurehead." In another Bushesque move: Barack Obama remained silent over the violence in Gaza as Israel today threatened to continue its attacks for weeks. Instead, the President-elect is continuing his 12-day Christmas holiday in Hawaii and was seen enjoying a round of golf.

    Golf.

    Bush's problem was always his lack of curiosity about the details. So far, BHO appears to have the same character defect. It looks as if he is going to get bored quickly. Presidenting is hard after all. It's not as if he has any experience following through on anything except his own self promotion.

    Of course, I could be wrong. Certainly the build up for Obama Messiah over the next few weeks is going to be massive. But can't you just see a massive letdown coming?

    Lunch Break


    I took the photo of this young man on the Venice Boardwalk.

    Quote
    : In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

    Fran Lebowitz


    Gut check: Go on, feel bile in your belly churn: Congress is giving itself a pay raise.
    In a situation where there aren't many people in this country who are seeing their salaries go up, and in fact a lot of people are losing their jobs...
    My God, it makes my eyes cross to think these losers are taking more of our money...now of all times.

    Music: History Repeating. Shirley Bassey, on the other hand, makes me happy to be alive...

    Owning "marriage"

    I overslept and do not have a lot to say this morning. I responded to a post reader Kara linked in the comments last night...a Rick Warren interview. Kara and I pretty much agree on this issue...and I am really foggy right now...and I have an arduous day of college football ahead. So my comments are my morning post- punched up a wee bit as the coffee kicks in:


    Thanks for the link, Kara. Just read it . The trouble I have with Warren was not assuaged. His arguments are soothing but foolish. He states he is for equality for everyone but wants to take possession of the word "marriage" using lame historical excuses....for five thousand years all societies have... agreed on quite a lot, actually:

    -Until recently slavery was the norm in many...for 5 thousand years
    -Most societies have been and remain male dominated - for 5 thousand years
    -War is a part of all societies for the last 5 thousand years.

    The same "5 thousand year" argument could be made to re-institute slavery, or create a monarchy here, or legalize child beating....

    What's so weird about Warren in this piece is his attempt to CLAIM the word marriage. Which is his way of saying "some loving couples are more valued than others." without saying it. "You Gays are nice, so you can have everything except this". He has no logical reason for denying this one thing to gays - except ill conceived "history". But still this word "marriage" must be wholly owned by heterosexuals- (even though in many - if not most - cases they have made the institution a joke and/or a torture chamber)

    That is the rub: Why "marriage" for gays is so contentious for many straights - It cuts at the heart of too many fantasies about family, Father God in the Sky, and perfect romance. Making sure that gays and lesbians do not get a seat at the ADULT table allows conservatives to persist in the "nuclear family is the supreme unit of society" horseshit.

    "Mommy. Daddy, kids, car, pets" as the fundamental social construct is a very recent development - say the 1920s-50's or so. Throughout "history" as Warren likes to say - it actually took a clan, or - as Hillary reminded us - it took a village to raise a child.

    (What most white conservative Americans can't abide is hearing that the 1950s sucked for a lot of people. Blacks, women with ambition, gays...and so on and so forth.)

    Gays should not be expected to sign off on second class status so close minded conservatives can keep their delusions alive.Also, Gays are not some post-war phenomenon that arrived with hippies and fluoridated water. Hard to believe, I know, but homos have been around for...well...at least 5 thousand years just like the wheel, alphabets, and Phyllis Schlafly.

    In some ways the "nice" evangelicals are worse than the monsters. At least the monsters are upfront. Rick Warren doesn't want to reach out to Gays in any real sense. He wants to look loving and expansive while maintaining the unequal status quo - rather like El Presidente Obama, come to think of it. An updated version of "I am not a bigot. I have black friends, I swear!"

    Being handed warm blankets at the back of the bus by nice evangelicals, and told to sleep well in a kindly voice- will not shut gays up. Separate but equal did not work before and it won't work now.

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    Monday, December 29, 2008

    The Barack the Magic Negro brouhaha

    Many people are angry about the lyrics below sung to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon:

    Barack the Magic Negro lives in D.C.
    The L.A. Times, they called him that
    'Cause he's not authentic like me.
    Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper
    Said he makes guilty whites feel good
    They'll vote for him, and not for me
    'Cause he's not from the hood.

    The rest of the song can be heard here.

    It is okay as far as satire goes. Not great. A little funny. The singer is supposed to be Al Sharpton - though I would not have known this had I not read it first. Speaking very much for myself: As a send ups go it gets a C plus.

    I don't see how this little piece of mockery crosses any line. Is it the word "negro"? The word serves two functions without being offensive in my book. 1. It has 2 syllables like "dragon" so it fits. 2. It is used to mock WHITE PEOPLE. Good lord, are we so trapped in the sensitivity fog that we can't see something so obvious.

    In fact , until the end of the clip the entire song is mocking white liberals. Therein lies the real issue. The media reaction that makes this "news" (it is not) comes from whites who do not like being called out for what is an obvious truth: they voted for BHO in part because he's black. Wouldn't it be nice if these types would own up to it. As a Left leaner I've done this kind of voting many times. When presented with a slate of judges I know nothing about I vote for the woman. Why? It satisfies me and my gut tells me we need more women on the bench.

    Whoop Dee Do.

    Should I do due diligence on all candidates? I guess. But there is an election in California every full moon. I participate. I think it is important.

    Voting for President is the big leagues, though. If I'd looked into Obama and found him experienced and qualified and reasonably ethical his being bi-racial would have caused me to pull the lever for him with a little extra zing. It's about damn time the all while male President club dissolved. But I found little worthy about the man except his being bi-racial. So I voted for a black woman - who is wildly unsuited for the job - but it was a safe bet she was not going to win. I made a little statement. Plus, I like the Green Party. Though nearly pointless in the U.S., they serve a purpose.

    Of all the denial white liberals have indulged in this year, pretending their votes for Obama had nothing to do with him being a safe Black, has now reached a level of absurdity. It is thicker than molasses frozen in tundra. This denial got ugly when Ferarro pointed it out last Spring. That bug eyed ego maniac Olbermann, apparently taking it personally, did not like the implication that he was a smug brat. So he attacked the first female V.P. nominee proving himself to be...a smug brat. With fully engorged privileged white maleness he screamed RACIST!

    Like so much of the racial conversation this year - this brouhaha has little to do with blacks. The song is mocking white guilt. With apologies to any black Americans who are offended by this song - let me say once again - while pretending to be open and liberal all whites are doing here is chattering amongst themselves about black people. It is what we do instead of self examination and/or taking responsibility. I presume Black Americans are already quite clear about this character defect with the majority.

    Now what I do find stupid, but not surprising, is that a GOP politician included this on a Christmas CD. WTF? The man is a moron. Neither party will ever have a corner on the dumbass market.

    Besides, Obama consciously presented himself as a safe black man to whites. It was part of his plan. I, for one, reserve the right to mock the President of the United States and his fan base regardless of their race.

    The end of the clip dives into some mockery of Sharpton. So what? Is there anyone more mockable on the American scene? Paris Hilton comes to mind, but few others.

    Meanwhile a pastor who said all gays were child molesters and Jews would burn in hell will be giving the blessing at the inauguration. To THAT many of the same white liberals are yelping for gays and lesbians to "get over it."

    Among the chattering "liberals" some victims of oppression are more worthy than others this year. Women, Jews, and gays get thine arses to the back of the bus and SHUT UP!

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    Lunch Break: Rich hawk/Newton marriage...depression

    Today's' Photo is of a hawk in my tiny backyard. He/She has just ripped a small family of birds to shreds and is now enjoying a moment to reflect. Los Angeles is weird in many ways. One is that you'll be living in the city, thinking it is a city, then all of the sudden - Wild Life!!!
    A coyote at the dumpster...a deer or two trotting across Mullolhand Drive...a hawk killing a very sweet bird family in Koreatown...


    My favorite quote about marriage:
    Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was the time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.
    from Love in the Time of Cholera
    By Gabriel Garcia Marquez


    More great New Great Depression tips: Never spend what you don't have - It may seem obvious, but...


    Frank Rich, returning from a long vacation in Kool-aid-i-stan, starts to nibble abound his beloved Barry's ankles here:When Obama defends Warren's words by calling them an example of the "wide range of viewpoints' in a "diverse and noisy and opinionated" America, he is being too cute by half. He knows full well that a "viewpoint" defaming any minority group by linking it to sexual crimes like pedophilia is unacceptable. Did Rich, or his sad sack cell mate at the NYTs, Ms. Dowd, ever give fact based reasons for their adulation of Barry? I don't remember these gassy gussies ever questioning Obama. Huh. Whatdoyaknow...liberals who forgot rule one: Question Everything.


    Prayer: Dear Lord, what did we do to deserve THIS?


    Music: THis is Not RoseMaRy ClooNy! Pop Song I never seem to get sick of #2:

    Is that a great song or what?

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    Sunday, December 28, 2008

    Oh Gaza

    Gaza is heartbreaking. The recent eruption of violence is unbearable. Strong opinion either way eludes me. Children being hurt enrages. Yet, no nation can tolerate hundreds of missile attacks.

    As with all Israeli military actions, this one brings the air of doom with it. The endtimes clock, embedded in our collective psyche, always moves forward with the news of widespread Middle East violence. Though this is about Hamas on the surface- the subtext is all Iran. Israel, with or without our help, is going deal with Iran. This may have been what prompted Biden's now infamous remark about PEBO being tested. Regardless, I doubt the Israel/Iran situation will be status quo next December.

    I wish, fancifully, that the religious agony between Muslims and Jews would suddenly and miraculously cease. From the widest angle Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not separate religions. They are sections of one. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the God of Abraham. This singular God could be a centering force, if truly respected.

    But, alas, the people of the Book are lost in fury - so my fantasy is foolish and I am a simpleton.

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    something about what Mary said...

    Deadenders hits hard at the Obama myth enablers in the blogophere. So you wonder why we want nothing to do with the bulk of Obama supporters who post at our sites, and why we despise most of them?

    Read the post - but my answer is this: Obots remain a kool-aid drunk mob with no concept of the troubles on the horizon. Being entirely fueled by a dangerous fantasy spoon fed into their infantile heads (by people who are NOT like you and me) the Obots have yet to demonstrate the slightest capacity for contextualizing the reality of Obama. Double digit unemployment and a President -stuck in 2 or 3 or 4 wars - with few answers other than dumping truckloads of increasingly worthless "currency" into the "system" and begging people to go to Wal-Mart-might wake up a few.

    Get this: OBAMA IS AN ERRAND BOY, SENT BY GROCERY CLERKS TO COLLECT A BILL.
    I repeat this line from Apocalypse Now on L.R. for a few reasons. None nearly as nasty as the line implies.

    1. This line distills what clearly happened in the election - buttressed further this Fall by the financial meltdown. Therefore it allows a vision of unfolding events from a tangible, illusion less perspective. It is a direct counter point to the "Obama is going to pay my mortgage" meme in all its forms.
    2. Part of me does think a kind of apocalypse is upon us NOW. The bill is past due.


    To me Barry and Michelle represent the worst of America in many way. Both are gliders. Barry has gamed the system through out his alleged career. Both give off the stink of arrogance with every third public move. (The "Lincoln train ride" to D.C. is sickening. Who in God's name does this man think he is?) But it is his cult that continues to garner my deepest contempt. I see no need to be polite: They are assholes. I write from experience. Even without direct experience with BHO my guess is that he's an asshole, too. Unearned position creates this outcome. Trust me, I work in Hollywood.

    It is therefore no surprise that his most ardent fans lapse into assholery. There are no good reasons to support the man. With a 10 month handjob from the media, he glided to the top this year mostly because W is so revolting. There never have been verifiable reasons to support the man. The Obots response to this: don't vet. Lame reasons, usually screamed, continue to stand in for rationality and inquiry.

    Millions voted for Obama that I do not loath. The choices were not good. It's the fanatic cult members and their handlers in the media and blogosphere that try my Christian soul.

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    Who pulls the strings?

    Please note before taking this poll: I am prone to silliness, and believe the only time ALL is lost is if we stop laughing. I am not making fun of conspiracy theorists. I happen to be one - though not of the nut job variety. (Example: I do not think Oswald acted alone. However, I also don't think C.I.A. agents popped out of the sewers in Dealey Plaza with rifles and noise makers.) History is largely a string of conspiracies. Not believing in conspiracies is like not believing in weather. Of course powerful groups conspire. Only in America do a substantial number go out of the way to condescend to the idea of conspiracies. It is a form of American exceptionalism. Ask the same folks if secret conspiracies among the ruling class existed in the Roman Empire or Elizabethan England - and they give a hearty: Of course!

    Certain events, once given their close ups, make no sense sans conspiracy. (How did a guy who lost all the primaries in large, traditionally Democratic states and got fewer votes overall than his main opponent -still get the Democratic nomination?)

    But we must always guard against the tinfoil hat brigade, often found swarming downtown Roswell and generally making fools of themselves on the History Channel.

    Still there is so much to wonder about...

    Have a wonderful Sunday!

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    Saturday, December 27, 2008

    The five people Obots meet in hell.

    L.R. has it on good authority that a number of the most committed Obama activists are reporting near death experiences. The phenomenon, while not widespread, has occurred in Chicago, Berkeley, and around David Geffen's pool in Malibu. Remarkably, all report the same visions while technically - albeit momentarily - dead.

    Unlike the usual tunnel ending with a white light, the activists all report entering a small room decorated with Che posters. Inside the room David Axelrod and William Ayres cackle deviously while mocking an angry looking man clinging to a gun and a bible. At some point all report Axelrod saying "Welcome, please partake of some kool-aid." After sipping, a hall with 5 doors appears. The "dead" Obots are then lead down the hall. "Now you must choose where you will spend eternity." Ayres interjects "Don't look at me you capitialist pig!"

    Behind each door is a tiny windowless cell containing one person. All report the same five people.

    Behind door number one a bug eyed Keith Olbermann is screaming "I am the king! I am the king! I AM THE KING!" at a knee buckling decibel and without pause.

    Behind door number 2, is an even tinier cell with Chris Matthews. He is naked and rubbing his flabby thighs. He invites the Obot in saying "Touch them. They tingle. Feel the tingle. Please touch me, Obama supporter."

    A still smaller cell is behind the third door. In it Rev. Phleger is mock crying and saying to the Obot "Oh you entitled whitey you must atone by listening to me preach forever. Forever! Wah Wah Wah."

    Inside the minuscule cell behind the fourth door Randi Rhodes is hunched over microphone booming "Come in, you fucking whore. You are a whore!!! Ha Ha!"

    Finally in the smallest windowless cell of all: Joe Biden just being himself.

    Once all rooms have been visited Axelrod says simply "Choose your eternal life." In all cases the Obots begin to cry and yell out "I am sorry. So sorry. I was blind but now I see", running back down the hall.

    After coming to, the Obots all report being changed people. All make a commitment to living rationally, to questioning all politicians no matter how much they like them. All come to terms with reality, committing to live in it. All promise to never call a women a cunt again. And all become kool aid teetotalers.

    Strange but true.

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    Friday, December 26, 2008

    How are you responding?

    Riverdaughter on leadership

    The word "leadership" has been kicked around a lot by the Obama squad this year. Like "change" it has been rendered almost meaningless. In the case of "leadership" I don't blame Obama for neutering the meaning. For years the most duplicitous politicians have debased the meaning. The Cheney/Bush version of the word meant "We are doing it my way or else." Which, since he often got his way in the first term, was a form of leadership.

    Leaders aren't always inclusive. But great ones are. The Obama usage of the word "leader" is odder and more restrictive than even Bush's- if that's possible. The Obama vision of "leadership" is entirely about one person - himself. He's lead expertly on promoting a visceral idea called "Obama". Which is not an idea at all. For the life of me I can't think of a single issue he's lead on. I won't belabor this point because Riveraughter has a terrific post on the topic today.
    I refused to vote for Barack Obama because I knew he came up empty on the capacity for moral leadership.

    This sentence is surprisingly true. The Obama cult's meme now is that he is reaching past old divisions. But he is not. He's attempting to paper over them, apparently believing the force of his personality will render the most wrenching social issues mute. It won't.

    Obama is increasingly in danger of becoming the anti-Truman. Truman, via executive order, ended segregation in the armed forces in 1948 - the summer before he was to stand for election. That was, as they say , ballsy. The Southern delegates walked out of the Democratic convention.

    Obama has failed the leadership test on all major fronts so far: FISA, Public financing, the rampant sexism in the campaign. On FISA and public financing he issued the lamest excuses imaginable for his flip flops. They were laughable. On the sexism, apparent to all thinking people through out the year, he remained all but mute, signalling assent in some cases.

    Presidents do not have to be moral leaders. But the great ones are. Once again, the difference between the Obama myth and the real world Obama is enormous.

    So far.

    Riverdaughter rightly implies that Obama is already hard at work on his re-election, leading the way on his favorite cause - himself.

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    Lunch Break - Boxing day, Macondo, Cruise, Klaatu, Bad Gays, Bad Shoppers, Republic of California

    The Photo is from beconfused.com.

    Quote: At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.

    From One Hundred Years of Solitude
    By Gabriel Garcia Marquez


    From the "Please stop hectoring us" department:
    Will someone tell Tom Cruise to GO AWAY. Has anyone else noticed that in all Tom Cruise vehicles he is always the worst element? Always. Imagine how much better War of the Worlds would have been with Johnny Depp or Will Smith (or a sock puppet, for that matter) saving his kid from the martians.

    Speaking of martians.Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still may be the role Keanu Reeves was born to play. Stiff. Emotionless. Robotic. I think we can safely say: Reeves IS Klaatu. The wikipedia entry on Reeves playing Klaatu contains this partial sentence-which makes me indescribably happy: After saving Jacob from Gort, Klaatu sacrifices himself to stop Gort by walking into the cloud of nanites and touches the sphere...

    News of the Gays:
    Gay twins porn stars cat burglars by night....so much joke potential in one headline...so little time. But it is true. Plus they have very sweet faces. Check is out.
    Also: Homo Highness Hoping for Hot Husband. The good news is having some openly gay royalty. The bad news is that blue bloods are now doing reality television...The well of souls is, indeed, empty. At this rate the apocalypse may be a step up.

    Bad Santa: the number of shoppers declined by double digits this year, auguring a dismal holiday season for retailers.

    Bankrupt: California to run out of cash in 2 months.
    Sounds crazy now but I bet the movement for California to secede will pick up in the next decade. Counter pointed by the move to split California in two. (Logically, it should be east/west not north/south.) The nation-state that is California must either really become one or become smaller. Also - I know it sounds crazy now- but secession movements making a come back in general would not surprise me at all. Prez with an elite vibe who won a 2% majority. Tough economy, add some slow cooked racism (though this is an optional ingredient - in parts of the land it is still added to all "recipes").It's never far from the fantasies of Texans. The Pacific Northwest has a brewing "Cascadia" identity. The New South is connected to globalization in many ways - if the economy really tanks Old South identification could rise again. Ironically, I find this the least likely candidate for a renewed secession movement.
    Food for thought.

    Pop Song I never seem to get sick of - Number 1: Into Your Arms, The Lemonheads.



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    Thursday, December 25, 2008

    Because I see what's coming...

    I took a day off so let's dive right in:

    I'm told that in simple terms money will cease to function as a meaningful commodity.

    It's funny what you can find while reading about a car. These quotes are from a London Times article by a writer sent to review a car.

    I have spoken to a couple of pretty senior bankers in the past couple of weeks and their story is rather different. They don't refer to the looming problems as being like 1992 or even 1929. They talk about a total financial meltdown. They talk about the End of Days.

    It seems clear from here that we are just about out of options. The "rebounds" in the market keep getting weaker. No one - and I mean not one single "leader" - is aware of or willing to tell the truth regarding the economy or much of anything else. If you know of some Democrat or Republican telling some truth about what is actually happening in the system I'd like to know who they are.

    My favorite moment in the 2008 campaign came in January. Hillary, getting teary after she was asked why and how "she does it", stated almost as an after thought: "because I see what's coming." This moment was met with derision by the already in the tank Obama media. But the moment was telling. She knew what was coming? I'd bet she was referring to the economic time bomb now in full conflagration.

    The Obama transition has been impressive. Too impressive. Too easy. Like everything else about the man - it does not add up. As skilled as he is, the sudden rise has been too slick by half. The unquestioning cheer leading of the media, the machinations of the DNC, the GOP rolling over...I know the word conspiracy is now met with immediate dismissal - so I'll stop just short of that ledge and say: Obama's rise has been scripted with alarming ease. Scripting a campaign is a good thing. All successful campaigns do it. What continues to make my hair stand on end is the hijacking of the process by the DNC and the media. Obama is still not being vetted. It is remarkable. We all need an election break - but Obama's involvement in Blag's gubernatorial campaign is the kind of story journalists once salivated over. In my adult lifetime there are only two examples of this lack of questioning I can think of- both recent. George W. Bush in 2000 and his subsequent win, and the run up to the Iraq invasion. Why we are where we are has everything to do with these two events. Both stories were presented but not covered. Subsequently the media made perfunctory apologies: We treated Gore unfairly, We fell down on the job before the Iraq war - blah, blah. blah. Apologies without amends are gamesmanship. Similar, though weaker, admissions of bias have been made since the election.

    Who benefits when journalism takes a holiday? And why is it happening more often? The two red flares small "r" republicans - like me and most readers here - should always watch for on the horizon are 1. Who controls the currency? and 2. Is the public discourse being controlled?

    Vast sectors of the economy are now pseudo nationalized and the national conversation has been constricted by a few large media outlets. The illusion of debate has replaced debate. This may have been happening all along - but only in this year has it been so evident. Don't comfort yourself with bromides about the Internet and free speech. The largest blogs are now a part of the media system and the rest of us have no tangible effect - except to comfort a relative few.

    Hillary is not the only one who "saw what was coming." I believe many did. What is it that is coming? I don't know precisely. However, it does seem obvious that the house of cards was teetering. Further, it is obvious that at some point trillions in borrowed bailouts morph into a meaningless national currency. That, in turn, becomes a real world crisis for real people. The bloodbath of 2009 has begun in 2008. Again from the London Times: A crash as historic as the end of communism on tap for 2009. Sure the piece is about the U.K. but in economic terms the U.K. is the neighbor across the street.

    So I ask openly and without judgement: Why was Obama chosen? Who brought (also "who bought") him? Who benefits?

    Our real options are paltry. Two that are always important, valuable and available is to Pay Attention and Ask Questions. Even if those questions are only directed at yourself.

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    I interrupt this day off ...

    I interrupt this day off to brag: L.R. mentioned in the Boston Globe! My plans to take over the world have officially begun!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    Also: Carolyn at Make Them Accountable picked up a L.R. entry in which I mentioned a bumper sticker I saw in east Hollywood. She went ahead and created an image -
    LOVE IT!


    also:
    Merry Christmas!
    and now we return to our regularly scheduled day off.....

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    Wednesday, December 24, 2008

    Lunch Break: Bob Barker relaxes, Plus: Hawaii Homophobes, Holidays and Happiness.


    Photo: Bob Barker enjoying his favorite holiday movie: Yogi's First Christmas.

    Quote: Truth is the mother, knowledge the father.

    Jesus in the Gospel of Phillip
    Nag Hammadi Library


    Fading Fast: How could they think he was ever for them?
    Depression note: While Depression deepens PEBO goes on 3rd vacation this year.
    I realize it is taxing to have everything handed to you on a silver platter...but 3 vacations in one year? Why, it almost seems like....W!

    Music: In many weird and counter intuitive ways this has been my favorite year in a good long while. What a Wonderful World:


    I am out until Boxing Day! See you Friday. Please have a great Christmas!

    The colors of a rainbow, so pretty, in the sky
    Are also on the faces of people going by
    I see friends shaking hands sayin' how do you do?
    They're really sayin I love you.

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    How many spiritual hypocrites, crooks, and snakeoil salesmen does Obama have to surround himself with before it becomes obvious to all he is a fraud?





    2 notes to readers:
    Kara - I watched every bit of the San Diego credit crunch poinsettia bowl...heartbreaking. Boise State is one of my favs after USC.
    Yttk: Thanks so much for the link in your comments above! I am surprised and pleased at the level of disgust re: Warren among some obama pods. It gives me real hope that thinking liberals are not a historical curitosity - but still might be out there somewhere...

    Wyoming for Christmas comes from here.

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    Tuesday, December 23, 2008

    Coming to

    Monday I saw an SUV with the standard Obama messiah face, but underneath the perfunctory and now meaningless "hope" had been replaced with "con man". Honks and thumbs up all around. In a delighted dither I drove to a horrific mall called the Glendale Galleria because I know a place there that makes bumper stickers on the spot. I had to have my own.

    I know I am repeating myself around here. But that rhetorical dust storm you see in the distance is called blowback. And it is moving this way. Each and every bit of it satisfies my political soul. Here's a slice from the grotesquely pro-Obama L.A. Times: Speaking of Jews, Warren has publicly stated his belief that they will burn in hell...

    Nice pick, Barry.

    Please remember that the Warren pick is not an attempted accommodation of the Right, it is an affirmation of who Obama actually is. (Why is the Right never expected to accommodate the Left?)Further, the negative response from some Obama supporters is not so much an expression of anger and disappointment as it is a bunch of drunks coming to after a severe year long bender. Warren's beliefs regarding Jews have much in common with the Obamas' long time minister's best bud Louis Farrkahn.

    In the end, they roast.

    Sure its only an invocation, not a cabinet pick. (Though, many of those are suspect.). But the opportunity lost is enormous. For example The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the American Episcopal Church would have been an electrifying choice for any number of reasons. She's a she - making a statement about God, women, and inclusion. She is leading a large American denomination during a wrenching and painful fight over Gays - pleasing almost no one - but sticking to principles. The motto disagree without being disagreeable seems to be her tag line.

    Warren on the other hand is openly disagreeable. I quote the L.A. Times again: Warren doesn't just oppose gay marriage, he's compared it to incest and pedophilia. He doesn't just want to ban abortion, he's compared women who terminate pregnancies to Nazis

    Imagine the response from the Huffington hypocrites had a President Hillary Clinton picked this man to give the invocation.

    To their credit a few on the Obama "Left" responded forcefully and without flinching. With Warren, Obama administered a hard slap to his base. He might be decent enough to allow the most delusional Obots - groaning over the toilets at his after party - a quiet hangover.

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    Lunch Break - Jesus, apocryphally speaking, New Orleans Streetcar in the Snow, Obama blowback, Bo Burnham, thought stoppping phrases

    Quote: If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

    Jesus in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas


    Obama Blowback:
    I don't guess I need to point out that means Obama has effectively invited someone who equates him with a Nazi appeaser to participate in his inauguration...
    If Obama signs Federal Hate Crimes Legislation protecting gays I will blow him kisses and genuflect at an Obama alter I erect in the backyard, chanting "yes we can" and welcoming myself after waiting for myself for so long ... until then he remains a fraud perfectly happy to chuck people under thew bus if it means more power for him.

    Another poll!!!! I'll get sick of 'em soon.


    Some Music:
    Bo Burnham is a perfect person. I proclaim my devotion now.

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    Just For Fun...

    Monday, December 22, 2008

    Kunstler: Change You Won't Believe

    James Howard Kunstler is usually worth a read. I say usually because he is prone to allowing his mommy issues to rear up in his weekly essays. Though, never an overt delusional Pod he clearly saw Obama as the best opportunity to defeat Clinton. While dressing up his Hillary hatred as a viewpoint with reasons - it was never more than contempt for her as a powerful woman. The same bile spewed forth toward Palin later- and would have, no doubt, for any woman.

    He is relentlessly gloomy - which in no way makes him wrong. Just often hard to stomach. Like Brando's character in Apocalypse Now he is willing to stare into the abyss:
    The American experience for a few generations has produced an adult population with very childish instincts, increasingly worse each decade. For instance, the desperate power fantasies among the younger tattooed lumpenproles -- those with next-to-zero real economic power -- suggest a certain unappetizing playing-out of resource competition.

    Since my affection toward Hillary occupies a seat opposite Kunstler on the Titanic deck- I am coming to the conclusion that I am glad she lost. Less inclined politically toward Palin or McCain - but still seeing their likability - I'm glad they lost too. I see things as grim as well, though not as grim as Kunstler. Intending to pull for my country in the extraordinarily bad period we are entering, I wish the next President success...of a sort...This is markedly easier since my trust of the man about to take office is south of zero, and I have no emotional bond with him - other than mistrust. I think so little of Obama, he's bound to meet and even surpass my expectations.

    The turn of events in Illinois these past 3 weeks do not bode well, however. Obama has exhibited all his worst traits in miniature: knee jerk lies, obstruction, complete ignorance of scandal management, (the scholar didn't learn much from Watergate or Monica.), lack of responsibility, and an inability to lead unless the entire team is singing his tune - which is, of course, not leadership at all. 3 weeks into Senateseat4sale-gate he's not risen above anything. All the media horses and men are trying mightily to pull him out of the muck of his home state - but still, it's sticking. He is now part of the circus. This is because at the core of the media project called Obama is an entitled man in over his head. Not a great statesman or leader. At least not yet. He appears baffled and annoyed that he is even being questioned - however timidly - about Blag and is currently taking cover behind his lawyer, the entire state of Hawaii, and Bushisms.
    In 2009 the economy is going to be gut wrenching. Call it whatever you like, a depression, a downturn, a bad patch. The sting will be real. I wish I saw the empathy of FDR or the decisiveness of Truman on deck. We need both. I do see a man who has surrounded himself with bureaucrats from another era, gate keepers, and Yes Men. All fine if this economy was in a normal circa 1990 downturn. But we are looking at a complete reboot, which will not be easy. A new normal, very unlike the old normal, is coming.

    We need a leader. So far, I just don't see one. Here's to hoping I am wrong.

    So pull a tarp up chin high, and read Kunstler. As with all Peak Oilers I find him good on information - but bad on timing. They've predicted correctly that things are falling apart - but seem to be consistently off by a year or two. In 2009 they may have gotten it right.

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    Lunch Break - snapshots of kids


    It is Christmas week - which is about light in the dark, children, etc etc... So I poked around the laptop to find photos of kids.

    Here ya go. All L.A. kids. Plus a few teens I know or knew... (oh and these are snapshots. When ever I post any photos I get at least one email telling me I'm talentless as a photographer...nice people out there...)




    Merry Christmas! Talk at you guys later...












    2008 liars...

    Last 2 Rappy - choices both about deception.


    Obama's new Theme song:

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    Sunday, December 21, 2008

    Triple-think

    A few things backed up today.
    1. The white liberal Obots are quickly becoming the battered wives of American politics. They take a beating from the Lord Obama, insist it won't happen again, and, after a bit, start making excuses to keep the relationship going. The toxic Andrew Sullivan - who I can't bring myself to link to again - is now backpedaling with truly asinine rhetoric about generational change and the usual horseshit from Obama Kool-Aid World. Uppity has a fine round up here.
    2. This nonsense about Obama "reaching across the divide" by choosing Warren is not double- think - it's triple-think. For the "reaching across the aisle" meme to be true one must believe:

    A. Obama was ever pro-gay rights. Unlike Hillary Clinton, this is not true. All year Obama surrounded himself with homophobes - while refusing to even have his picture taken with pro-gay rights San Francisco Mayor Newsome (talk about cowardly). Obama has never spent a penny of political capital on gay rights.

    B. Believing, in contradiction to the facts, that Obama is for equal rights for gays one can then take refuge in the nonsense that Obama is building a bridge by choosing Warren.

    C. When, in fact, Obama - by choosing Warren - is simply continuing as he always has; surrounding himself with homophobic "leaders". Obama is in his comfort zone with Warren.

    Nice trick, Barry.

    Now a link to the ever odious Avarosis. I laid out my utter contempt for rich white faux liberals here. This does not mean that watching them impale themselves is not going to be fun next year. (I wish there was a Code Pink Cam so we could see the freak out when Lord Obama bombs Afghanistan and has the military go into Pakistan.) The cognitive dissonant nightmare that is Avarosis's brain manages to point up a sick truth about Warren here.
    I am not sure who causes more nausea, Rick Warren or John Avarosis. Can't decide. I'll stick with Huffington and David Geffen if I feel the need to vomit.

    In summary: the problem here is not Rick Warren or Barack Obama - it is the fools on the Left who did the Obama denial jig all year. I'd like to re constitute the central thesis of this blog at some point. But so far my basic beliefs about BHO are truer today than they were when I turned on him last January. (It's called research - you should try it Obama Pods.)

    Obama is a fraud.
    Obama will turn out to be poison for liberals.


    What I was going to post alone tonight is below:

    BRAND OBAMA

    No Quarter has already done the due diligence on this Chomsky clip. It is so spot on that I am happy to bring up the rear and essentially repeat a post.

    Chomsky lives further to the Left than I ever alight. But I have admired him greatly from where I sit. I consider his addition of the phrase "manufactured consent" to the lexicon invaluable in clarifying my thoughts on this year's Obama media circus. Our "consent" in electing Obama was manufactured as surely as our "consent" for the Iraq invasion was.

    Money quotes (I paraphrase) :

    The choice of Biden must have been with conscious contempt for his own voters.

    and

    These people should not be advising (Obama) on the economy. They should be getting subpoenas.

    One of the fascinating truisms of both Obama and Bush has been to ability to throw the bird at the population openly and suffer no backlash. Indicative, I think, of very similar personalities. When Obama, answering complaints about his status quo cabinet choices, said "I am the change." One could easily hear the echo of W's "I am the decider."

    (If a Senator Clinton had been elected her saying "I am the change." would actually be true.)

    Chomsky calls Obama what he is: a brand. And as a note to whoever is left out there on the true pacifist Left the comments on Afghanistan and the Obama website are helpful.



    Getting fair, real analysis on Obama is going to take some work next year. The media simply won't be able to bring itself to confront its own maleficence in 2008.

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    Some Sunday Fun - FUBAGS and Polls.

    I have a few more "rappy" categories I want to get your votes on. The first 2 are entirely non-political.

    Sexiest person of 2008. Please note: I am sexually objectifying people in a completely even handed way. Just because beauty has been comodified to a disgusting degree in our late capitalist society does not mean it should be ignored. These choices are in the eye of the Rappy Committee. This committee exists entirely in my head. If you don't know who a nominee is - google image, baby....whoo hoo...or add your own.


    This poll is again reflective of my own interests and intellectual crushes - so add your own, if you wanna.


    As I sit here is my crazed sexuality flux, I am working on my secret agenda to take over the school systems, turn all America's young boys to a gay "lifestyle" and all sweet little girls into angry bull dyker bikers.

    (I wish someone would define this alleged "lifestyle". As a 4.5 on the kinsey scale, a bit of a slob, and a couch potato sports fan - I feel my "gay" lifestyle never gets any respect. Why are there no frumpy homos in pop culture!!!??? We are not all tidy fashionistas, for god sake...Not all gay men are Anderson Cooper/Elton John hybrids. That does it: I am starting a group: FUBAGS: Frumpy, Unfashionable Bi and Gay Society - of America...dot com...inc. )

    I am adding this category:



    See ya. Off to church and then catching up on yesterday's amazing bowl games. I really enjoy all the pomp and tradition surrounding the magicjack st. petersburg bowl...the magic...the jack...the meaningless game in front of the empty stands...the pre game parade of minor celebrities sponsored by Bennigans...the Tampa vs St. Pete Sausage Tug sponsored by Jimmy Dean and the Charlie Weis Foundation for Rotund Living - and, of course, the traditional "plugging in the new phone jack" dance performed at half time...this year by that Verizon Wireless "can you hear me now" guy...AND...wait for it....Donna Brazille!

    Isn't the bowl season special?

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    Saturday, December 20, 2008

    False Hope Springs Eternal

    By virtue of the fact that I learned in 2008 to severely limit my media and liberal blog intake (I just could not fathom how BADLY the left was being deceived and how happily they were participating in the deception.) my reading does become a bit of an echo chamber. So be it. The stunning on going double think of the Progs at Kos and elsewhere in fascinating and edifying.

    Turns out the faux liberals are really stupid.

    I limit the impulse to read any of it -except to gloat.

    Cannonfire again points up the faux liberal cognitive dissonance regarding Obama still rampant on the Left. Anyone who did some cursory research knows this already: Obi has a rare chance to change the game. But he won't.

    The operative word in the sentiment is "rare". What is truly historic about this moment is not Obama's non WASPiness. His half blackness was, and is, an excuse white liberals hide behind to avoid looking at just how status quo a politician he is. (At its core it is also breathtakingly condescending.)

    It is an exceedingly rare opportunity for a truly progressive government to emerge in the U.S. 1932 is the only other moment I know of in the last 100 years that a liberal government had a shot. Historical rewrites aside: Much good came from 1932. Starvation among the elderly was a real problem in pre FDR America. The rights of workers were severely limited. The financial system, now gutted by deregulation, was forced by FDR into a degree of transparency. A woman in a cabinet was unheard of before FDR. Not to mention Eleanor Roosevelt's drastic reconstitution of the First Lady's role. The New Deal did not end the Depression. It did, however, reshape our view of the elected Federal Government. It did open an era in American life in which the middle class could eventually flourish - the harshest aspects of Capitalism having been reigned in.

    1980 codified a new conservative era. Conservatives like to blame the 60s - but the self indulgent society we now have springs from the 80s not the 60s. The conservatives have failed on an epic scale. On all fronts. 2008 is a moment when a true leader could have emerged to transform the landscape yet again. It is increasingly clear Obama has no intention of being that leader. He intends to be liked. Which will be his undoing. Since his election he's done everything imaginable to limit the "change wave" that brought him to victory - to tamp down expectations - to signal that the Rs will change to Ds but the elite will remain the elite. The "pigs at the trough", as Ms. Huffington called them, have different names but troughs will remain in place. I see no difference between what would have been Bush's policies if he had another year and what will be Obama's. Which is, of course, the point. Hawks on the foreign front and Wall Street types at home. Debt our way into a recovery and war our way abroad.

    (As of today we know the U.S. presence in Afghanistan will be doubled. I mention this not because I disagree - I don't - but because the Obama Pod lies were so severe about the wars. Obama WILL NOT change this policy. Nor will there be a speedy exit from Iraq.)

    The difference between Adams and Jefferson or Hoover and Roosevelt was extraordinary. The difference between W and Obama thus far is entirely in style and not substance. Unless he becomes someone else rapidly he will be a place holder for the next GOP majority in 4 years. Again this is, in all likelihood, the point. Would McCain have changed the landscape? No. Absolutely not. However, he would have added intelligence and decency back into the mix as the conservative era ended. And Hillary? Would she have midwifed a new era? Not the Clinton of 2007. But by the last primaries of 08 the answer was a clear YES. The choice confronting the superdelegates in June was between a woman who had earned her stripes and a fad no one knew much about who happened to be half-black. The Democratic "leadership" having replaced principles with slogans - made the obvious, and easy, choice.

    The reason the media overlords and the libertarian Huffington crew were so ecstatic about Obama all along is simple: He is one of them, and they knew it. Obama was the perfect illusion of change, without being change at all. Wall Street gets a bailout, women get a supporting role, the war gets moved, and gays need to stop "whining."

    Change has come, indeed.

    The Obama media and Barack blogs continue to make excuses for him. I joked that the more I found out about Obama the more I thought his non Waspiness was the only thing I did like about him. But not being white is not a qualification for a thinking real post racial person. He came from corruption, and was abetted by corruption. Even if one won't say he is corrupt himself, he certainly is beholden to it. A distinction with absolutely no difference. It remains galling to see the Left continue to encourage their own descent into irrelevancy. The liberal calling cards of "hand up not hand out" and "economic fairness" are dead, killed by identity politics in the service of the status quo and Caroline's annoying ascension.

    There are no liberals in Obama's inner circle. One would think the Obama/Dean liberals might take the hint. Instead we are having another round of the faux Left's favorite drinking game: "He's just a politician" - I guess one throws one back every time Obama betrays another part of his base.

    I really admire places like Cannonfire and Riverdaughter for not flinching before the year's Obamamania. It's been no small task to stand up to the shitstorm of half truths and errant nonsense. The facts betrayed Obama all along. This is why he needed the entire super structure of American media to garner 52% of the vote -in 2008 after 8 years of W, by all rights, he should have had 64% easily. Watching one media outlet after another grudgingly admit bias is both sickening and sadly satisfying.

    Still, they got their man: The agent of change who will change almost nothing.

    As for the Left making excuses and feigning outrage: Go to hell. If they haven't learned how the game is played after 30 years of Atwater and Rove and refused to see the Obama Trojan horse (though it was plain as day) then there is no hope and they deserve no power. The planning and execution of Operation Make Obama President has been amazing.

    Obama's true motto: For the elites, by the elites, so the elites shall not perish.

    What many white liberals are still seeing is the symbol they elected. A garish topper on a 30 year whine festival Christmas tree. Maybe that is the final out for them. In reality the cynicism is so embedded that a symbol is all they really wanted. The best antidote for cynicism when all real hope is gone? False hope. False hope does, after all, spring eternal too.

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    The Bowl System Bullshit.

    College Football Fans look here:

    Based on the AP poll here is the first "round of sixteen" match ups that could have occurred on Dec 6th/7th if the BCS overlords were not so GREEDY. The "bowl" system is more important..so they say... they are lying.

    Florida vs. Georgia

    Ohio State vs. Utah

    Boise State vs. Texas Tech

    Texas vs. Georgia Tech

    USC vs. Cincinnati

    Penn State vs. TCU

    Alabama vs. Oklahoma State

    Oklahoma vs. Oregon

    Wow. How much fun would THAT have been????


    The current bowl system in college football is bullshit. Today, after a 2 week drought in games the "Eaglebank bowl" and the "magicjack St. Petersburg bowl" (which sounds to me like a Frat initiation with a heavy homoerotic subtext.) kick things off. This "system" of inane bowls is pathetic. It grows more pathetic by the year. The R and L Carriers New Orleans bowl is Sunday. (are R and L carriers contagious?) and the my personal favorite asinine game: San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl...(yes a bowl named for a county credit union....classy...lets fight for the bowl system to the death)...is crammed between the Christmas Story Marathon and the Last Minute Chia Pet Deals show on HSN.

    Yup we sure need to defend the bowl system....

    Perhaps the Elks Lodge Snack Bar and Charity Thrift Shop Knotty Pine Bowl is next. Or the Piggly Wiggly PorkRinds-R-us.com Bowl.

    THE BOWL SYSTEM IS PATHETIC. And unfair.

    This year Texas got screwed out of a championship shot.
    At least one school has a legit. complaint every year.
    Any conference with a championship game puts its teams at a disadvantage.
    Non BCS schools get no shot at the Championship.


    A tournament could have started on 12/6 with 4 games. Quarterfinals 12/13. Semi finals today. Championship which would rotate between Miami, Pasadena, Dallas, New Orleans on 1/1. (sorry "Tostitas Fiesta" you are a phony johnny come lately- plus Phoenix is charmless. )
    Other Bowls could stay in place if they wanted to. (I would hate to deprive Papajohn.com of the astounding amounts of branding afforded by having 6-6 Bozo state play 7-5 Altoona Tech.)

    Even the New Years day bowls could act as consolation games. Or not.

    It is time for a playoff in division one college football.

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    Friday, December 19, 2008

    Brown to fight Prop 8

    Very Good News: Jerry Brown: Gay-marriage ban should be invalidated.
    This is called courage. The idea that a simple majority can nullify a constitutional right has always been appalling - and must not stand. The precedent is dangerous in the extreme. Attorney General Brown is taking the legally and morally correct action.

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    Run offs

    Tonight I want to hold some run-offs. In many of the categories of the entirely self indulgent "awards" that I created over coffee this week 50% was not obtained by any contender. So it's run-off time. Plus, I have nothing to say tonight.
    Please vote - and this is so unscientific that I am happy to say: Vote again if you want.
    Runoff 1

    Runoff 2

    Runoff 3

    Runoff 4

    Runoff 5

    Lunch Break - Trains, and Mormons, and Jesus - Oh my.


    Note: Speaking of trains - the one thing that desperately needs to be included in any stimulus package is a massive upgrade of the embarrassing U.S. passenger train system. At least 30% of the gas tax should be invested in getting people OUT of cars. A real national rail system, much of it high speed, would transform the culture in positive ways, and is one of only a few projects Obama could put forth that would capture people's imagination.


    Music: I'll tell you one thing, whatever else I think of 'em this is certain: The Mormons got the music part RIGHT. Odd thing about many hymns that are arranged as beautifully as this one - they do not make me look forward to some heavenly reward - at all. The opposite is true - they make grateful to be alive right here and right now...

    Wow - was that beautiful or WHAT?




    Quote:
    His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" Jesus said, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying 'here it is' or 'there it is.' Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."

    From the Gospel of Thomas.
    Discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt

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    Thursday, December 18, 2008

    2008 man of the year

    Rappy nominees for today:

    It's hard to fathom the depths of "journalism's" amoral ass licking in 2008 but try we must. They forced fed us Obama and there was a reason. Not at all sure what the reason was. ...3 cheers for Joe Scarborough - who leaves 2 other obamapod commentators mumbling excuses and, in essence, confirming their pathological proObama bias. Plus he mocks them gleefully in the end...it is important to remember that "journalists" like these should no longer be treated with anything but wary suspicion. We cannot and should not trust them. This is beyond doubt after 2008. They are selling something at all times - but rarely have the courage to tell us what they are selling...a war...a candidate...a bailout...

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    Obama comes out of the closet.

    Since the election Obama has come out of the closet. As with Clay Aiken, only the most delusional teens denied what was self evident.

    He is what is Obama really is:
    1. A narcissistic power monger. As L.R. predicted months ago - "Geffen" limo liberals and their adolescent enablers would be the first under the bus. This is now as clear as it can be. Obama used you guys. Obama does not need white liberals any more. So SEE YA! Please come back to Iowa and New Hampshire sometime in late 2011. Oh, and he never liked you. You are envelope stuffers. Always were - from the moment he robbed Alice Palmer...
    2. A Neo-Liberal warrior. The anti-war lie has finally evaporated. The foreign policy team is as right wing as we've had in a Democratic Administration since Lyndon Johnson. Obama - now unfettered - is clearly signalling more war in Afghanistan. Code Pink had better call a Code Red. Yes, Clinton is on the team. But she NEVER, not once, presented herself as anything other than a realist hawk. All the while being roundly trashed by trollops like Huffington and Avarosis.
    3. A man who looks favorably on Milton Friedman economics. His team is populated with "Chicago School" types. One caveat: "Big government" will make a come back. It would have under McCain as well. The situation is dire - the only institution left standing with access to currency (not money, really - just the illusion of it. ) is the U.S. government. So the government will spend. But don't expect any cash infusions for anything other than what will help Obama win re-election. The spending will not be based in any principle of fairness. It will solely be based on keeping Democrats - and himself - in power. From Cannonfire: The Shock Doctrine will be the guiding light here.
    4. A man who has no use for Gay rights. He never has. He's been clear. I hardly fault him. Again, the skill with which he manipulated the delusional liberal wing of his party was something to behold. Regardless of evidence that clearly tagged Obama as a homophobe, the John Avarosis-es and and the Andrew Sullivans kept puckering up to kiss THE ONE's rump.
    I can't help but remind everyone that nothing short of bile spewed forth from the Pods about Palin's church. Well, Rick Warren is now giving the invocation at a Presidential Inauguration. Put that in your sexist pipe and smoke it, Andrew.


    The crash and burn of other sections of his coalition is coming. The environmentalists are holding their collective breath. N.O.W. is squirming as the Obama boys elevate Caroline Kennedy - not because she's the best choice - simply because she carried the most water - for the boys.

    None of this should be written in stone, of course. Obama will maneuver to the Right and Left as only a man with no principles can. The driving force here is his own power and the power of his handlers - the Soros crowd.

    The biggest lie of all is that Obama represented change and McCain and Clinton did not. What the petulant "Yes We Can" minions refused to acknowledge all along is that McCain and Clinton both were independent operators - having won a degree of independence based on having already paid their dues.

    McCain or Clinton would have been beholden to certain groups. But their campaigns were not centered around a BIG LIE. Obama's was. Both Clinton and McCain would have made choices that aggravated many. But it is hard to fathom either ferociously thumbing their nose at their own base like the manchild Obama has these past 6 weeks. Deceit allows - invites - duplicity.

    Like the months after 9/11 - this period has been a waste. Bush could have rallied the country to a new and better place after the attacks. Instead he manipulated our basest fears to conjure a wasteful war. After the election, Obama could have used the moment to lay out a challenging vision. Now the moment is almost gone. Mr. Obama is paying off friends, trying to contain a scandal, and playing patty cake with the Right.

    Obama is Bush 3.
    Obama is a fraud.
    Obama is poison.

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