but I'll never cease to be amazed -- ever -- at the infantile way that so many people view political debates. Apparently, just like a junior high school football game,

I hate that purportedly serious law-maker sorts have so many chucks in the debates circling say, just for example....

The altogether actual Fiscal Crisis , today's news of over 6% of us out of work and still looking...And a whole lot more not...even looking -- anymore.

As just one of the really bad things underweigh today.

Nothing at all funny from where I'm lookin'.

..and probably Brooksian too, just don't read that creature.

Poor 'errant' girls are regularly ston'd to death in that part of the world,

a part to which Mr Bush has done untold harm, egregious...

Can't one be shoe'd there to at least to a quietude, I wonder?

1) Savage governance as institution as profoundly and often as possible.

[keep it absolutely as fuk*dup as possible for as long as possible.]

2) Loot the treasury in the same way and for the same duration.

Nothing else. Ever.

Surprise?

Because it was us that got 9/11 or..anything, that makes it all sort of O.K.

And that would be definitional ? exceptionalism.

Makes sense, then... all that evil is ok 'cause"We're SO special.

Did I get that right?

We could easy do a word like that....with all 1200 rights and responsibilities

and celebrate it ourselves into a working institution even better the old sorta shop-worn,

bit tattered.. ceremony.. religious people seem to want for their own.

Then, maybe even they'd get around to fixing up and keeping up that,

their own[?] bonding rite.

[Has kinda the same ring, too...doesn't it? -An Homage ceremony?-, besides which marriage is like a blenderized marinade ... cooking-wise like, ingredients disappear into that bland sauce --

individuals get lost in homogenization.]

Not a moments hesitation. Well schooled then,.. by Glenn and proud of it.

And Do have a terrific New Year...Salonicals...Ummm. Salonistas?..or..Saloniferators..

Oh hell, whichever, then.

Have a good one... the New Year thing.

He actually just objected that Israel's destruction of huge parts of Gaza "did not go far enough."

and

"We must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II."

I'm guessing this approach will involve nuking some concentrated civilian population?

Hey.. it'll save on the cluster bombs and white phosphorus.

Yo! Dude.

[Actually faked that, I'm almost 70 but it sounded right...And the drug policy is not delusion it is machination from those who would speculate, incarcerate, pocket-line & fear-monger]

..stupid.

And you're not.

But next you'll be persuaded that Bergman is another

wonderful Bushtypic General... a Quartet! then.

Think Fallon, first...Petreaus as ass-kisser?

Fear brings anger

with anger come hate and

hate always begets suffering'

[Paraphrased]

The fear part and origin is the existential key to this particular sort of paranoic militarism. That terrified lashing out....thing.

Another and complementary window is Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians".

The key features to the Authoritarian personality are:

Submissiveness...to any Dear Leader's (Bushite) doctrines and precepts.

Aggression..against any unbeliever thereto

Conventionalism...slavish subscription to (their own/his) prevailing codes.

Whole thing's bloody classic.

...nuke that bloody place.

Wall Street is now peopled by an whole demographic of

gamer,schemer,scammers bastards, since alla bitches gone.

Any of 'em get out in time ...put 'em on work farms.

Calluses...existentially good.!

['Specially fer MBAs]

..packing as it did so potently upun itself, memberwise.

[Testament to going all the way...culminations and cusps.]

*Well, mebbe'd better quit while still aHead*

Countries fail because political elites always end up in bed with economic elites.

And when the ever easy media elites cozy up too, why, then...

...manning up, as he said, in that C-span apologia;

I couldn't help (damn me, anyway) but to check out his hands, to note the length of his ring finger ...

his general wussy demeanour.

[With apologies -in advance- to any gay folk, like myself, who come up short on that digit.]

...deregulation and privatization were the omnipresent watchwords of the era.

We've all seen how well that worked out.

Somewhere back in the '80s, the world took a wrong turn.

And with that clear, to see that sort of navigation is never again misadventured?

Just occurred to me -put off as I am by all the tax dis/configurations which go into how regressive or progressive income or sales or whatever taxes are-that the only real number which really counts is ..

How much buying power you have left after food, needful things, transportation household costs and bills and stuff.

[My own SS -Bless! FDR- is diminished by a full third after food and needful things, and another third with bills -electric, gas, telephone and internet, insurance et al]

'Take home' for me then is maybe sorta sometimes what's left...and the very wealthy and the really -shrill giggle- comfortable don't even notice these costs & expenditures.

THEY have lots of $$ left over from that piddly stuff with which to share if so inclined [it must be said, I have some extraordinarily wealthy friends who really don't mind paying their income taxes. They like to share and it impacts their lifestyles not one whit. Effectively invisible on their real bottom-lines. They're just not greed-mongers.]

So why don't we use that sole & only metric and work out appropriate taxation bases on a simple equable fairness.

[Of course, we'll only be able to do that with all of Wall Street totalled, like to the ground... Goldman Sacks execs will remain chained to their desks, the rest evacuated..but that intervention is of course for another discussion]