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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
...sysprog. Thanks. You never send readers on a wild goose chase. I listen. You handed us (gift) some beautiful music. Pier P. Pasolini experienced some harsh realities. Ya got me wondering if a disguising wig, a rouge powder facial puff, and reason to stay clear of automobiles. The "Believers point of view" and the ever changing human psyche. The "sacredness of the natural world" + 'stuff' to think about. Again, as Timothy3-Pomegranate say: Listen to tunes like Pasolini all day? Good analysis, and you may know me better than I know me? Who knows? Mystery is within. Thy say in the boondocks:`A pokeweed belief spring up early as the earth warms. It seems impressive to a few, but has no permanent value. Go glow,
little glow worm.
Fun UT, I opines.
Lightening bug summer rivals.
Brief cackle, and a puff-smoke.
A straw pop and crackle. huh.
No ugly.
"Isn't this all a bit much?" Meritocratic v. Idiocy. Who can find the popper noise words?
Dana Millbanks, in my opinion, is as interesting as a former Washington Post columnist.
I'd buy the Wa/Po just to read: Hagar the Terrible, Pinhead Zippy, Mary McGrory, and Coleman McCarthy.
I'd skip the sallow.
The Death Section.
You (sysprog) doc.
Ya Breathe passion.
It's the grand stage.
Players with interludes, common sense, a rogue or two, and whether they be wandering lost, wondering:` yes, no?
A few wrist slappers.
Maybe withdrew, pew?
No suffer a maximum.
A Life's Sermons Ends.
Whines, and indeed la!
A 'tea-leafer' is a fraud.
'Um do pickpockets you.
Get away from afflictions.
Practice gentle discretion.
No be too brazen or:`Tomb.
Prefer: Teach direct experience
Second hand jibber creates pain.
Izaack Walton say:`Use a small hook.
Use a strin one yard long. Catch a eel.
Quiet places can sweeten a one's temper.
Do as little harm as possible. You live longer.
Sometimes we all feel like a motherless orphan?
It's a tumultuous assembly. Quack like a geese?
Make a rackets. Pop bubble gum. Make a trifle?
Keep up the great discourse. Monk hush Monk?
Be windy, or be silenced, so thank you sysprog.
reading this thread, even the approximately 85% I seem to not have the capacity to make heads nor tails of. :-)
What I still don’t understand about the “families in politics” [because I think “nepotism” is not the correct word] argument is why a woman like Hillary Clinton should be automatically denied the opportunity to be President JUST because she had the gall to fall in love with and marry a guy who [15 or so years later] was elected president. It’s not like he’s appointing her to the position.
What happened to “judge a person by the content of their character”? Now we are to judge them by thier names and the actions of their fathers/mothers [and, if she's a woman and has takern her husband's name, her husband's fathers/mothers?]
After reading all the arguments, I admit that I still don’t get it.
I’d like to thank sysprog for the articles. I would love to see Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh?printable=true
and Former Navy Counsel Alberto Mora
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?060227fa_fact
in some high positions in the Obama Administration where their courage and ethics can be put to use for the good of our country...no matter who or what their forebears to the seventh generation were, said or did.
a little more recognition of the Palace Culture that infuses DC from top to bottom (effectively uniting the media and the elect), and to see some recognition of how it has come to be and how it is preserved.
"Versailles on the Potomac," indeed.
Anti-democratic? Well, not if you redefine "democratic." Which has been done, after all. The trend is toward a "directed democracy," wherein certain established interests within the palace aristocracy (including our media) determine and direct the course of discussion, debate, and ultimately who is considered eligible for "election."
Always been thus? In some ways, yes. Despite all our democratic and republican trappings, our government directly descends from the hereditary monarchies of England and Europe, and from the Cromwellian dictatorship (which tried itself to be hereditary). Resistance is built in, but we are still dealing with monarchial styles and pretentions, hereditary positions if not titles, and with an in-built tendency toward authoritarianism and autocracy.
This is all part of the origin of our nation's government. Unless you're prepared to change the nature of that government, dispose of the Constitution and start over -- in other words, engage in some kind of Revolution -- it's not really going to change. No, "incremental change" is not going to do the trick. All that does is reinforce the status quo, a status quo tending toward ever greater reliance on hereditary position, insulated Palace points of view, ever greater class distinctions reinforcing vastly powerful arisocracy ruling over a nearly powerless underclass/proletariat, and a more and more autocratic, imperialistic, militaristic executive. A King as it were, or if you prefer, an Emperor.
In other words, the "incremental changes" are going the wrong way, almost all toward consolidation of and reinforcement of the very things you're criticizing.
There is no sign that trend is reversing.
Every sign points to further consolidation and reinforcement of those trends under the New Administration.
We're in a multiplicity of crises after all.
Crises=Opportunity -- for further and deeper expansion of our New Model Government.
I have a Friend who loves to go back and search The Family Tree.
If I visit Western Maryland, and open a phone book to:` James, boohoo.
Some of James's ancestors were coal minors, or orchardist, From Wales.
No trace ancestors via phone book. That leads to self 'mediating' drunks.
Sometimes. The twit-offspring, the pampered adult, can bring harsh, sudden ruin.
-H.L. Mencken's 'Notebook 71, 1956. Here's a cool word for egghead *bibliobibuli.
-There are people who read too much, 'bibiobibuli', and I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other people are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through the most diverting and stimulating of world,
and are in a haze, seeing nothing,
and hearing nothing. I share that.
It's generic, and war grunts do say:
And okay: `It Don't Mean Nothin'.
Lexicographer, Noah Webster, attended Yale. He trembled when he finished his work of compiling a Dictionary. He "completed" his task he said:`Mr Webster could barely hold a pen when he was at the near end of his goal. He had to walk around the room for a few minutes to summon the strength to finish the last word. He recovered. Webster once was asked by a Naval officer, Basil Hall. Why he considered 'Americanisms' unworthy of consideration in the book? Noah Webster responded:`There are enough words already. (I love garlic and basil)
There is a friendly fisherman in Nova Scotia. His wife makes great chowder. We eat & chatter.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
