The one twinge-worthy aspect of Hugo Chavez’s speech was his insistence that Bush (and/or Americans at large) oughta quit watching Superman and Batman movies and start reading Noam Chomsky.

It reminds me of this graffiti left on the “Sporting News” stands which reads “Stoo-pid” — alongside the USA Today and Oregonian boxes marked with “LIES!”. There will be no room for such frivulous diversions in the coming Super-state as professional sports. We shall now only consume weighty material.

This is why The Beatles destroyed Communism, I suppose.

Incidentally, it is good that Hugo Chavez didn’t demand us to quit reading Superman and Batman comics, as Chomsky undoubtedly outsells Superman and Batman.

So, I was watching Bush speak at the United Nations, shrugging and sighing. Here was my thought process, what would be popping up in thought balloon form above my head if a comic strip manifested itself right there and then.

“The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.

And the devil is here today. Today the devil came here. Right here. Why, it probably will still smell of sulfur tomorrow!”

Now, if only someone could break through the logjam of diplomatic couching and say such words before the United Nations Assembly.

Actually, with all due — or perhaps little due– respect to Hugo Chavez, Bush is not the Devil. The Devil is a mythological creature, its import largely psychological and sociological and sometimes metaphorically to those who have “Reached the Age of Reason”. Literal transformations are at a loss for me.

Gosh darned it. The Washington State primary was held yesterday, and I slept right through it, not knowing the answer to the most pertinent questions I always have of the Washington State elections.

What was Gordon Allen Pross running for, and what percentage (as well as how many votes) did he receive?

And what did he write in the Voter’s pamphlet?

I see he’s honed in his campaign pitch to his premise of “a 10 percent tithe”, replete with a modest Public Financing of Campaigns. This is to him what the 15 percent Flat Tax is to Steve Forbes.

Imagine 100 people representing 100 percent of the American population to include 100 red headed Lincoln pennies representing all the money in America. Clearly, Congress legislated 59 Lincoln cents to 01 person, then 31 Lincoln cents to 4 people. Therefore 90 percent of the wealth is legislated to 5 percent namely “We the People.”
While 10 Lincoln pennies are legislated to 95 Americans, or 10 percent of the wealth legislated to 95 percent of the enslaved Americans. This is a 90 percent to 10 percent ratio. It was a snap for Congress to fix these numbers.
As your United States Senator, together it will be liberating turning this formula upside down so an American citizen will find equality in earning 10 red Lincoln cents through tithing 01 red Lincoln penny to govern. This one red headed Lincoln cent being the absolute one & only tax paid by an American citizen. Together we’ve found Your money for healthcare, education, career track and paid vacations.
When 100 percent pay 10 percent America’s domestic policy becomes equality guaranteed under the “Declaration of Independence!”
USA splits the one Taxed Lincoln cent equally three ways Federal, State and Local Governments receive a third, 33.33% times 3 equals 99.99%. With 00.01% left over for campaign finance reform. On a 11.1 trillion dollar gross nation product, one hundredth of one percent of a Lincoln penny is 10 billion 12 million to pay for Americas campaign from every city hall to the White House and all camps in between.
Now Americans can run against all lackluster incumbents, (vacated, vacating) seat with the same First Amendment voice as any candidate or incumbent. Like TV, radio, magazines, www., telephone, billboards, flyers. Now Washingtonians Vote justifiably abolishes censored auctions for public office.
Washingtonians proudly Resurrecting Sparks of Deity for First Amendment Primaries!

Gordon Allen Pross received his tithe of the votes: 3165 votes; 1.2704% . A distant 5th out of 6 to the winner of the Republican nomination, some schmuck who’s going to lose in November so it’s not worth remembering his name who received 85.3933% of the Republican vote.

I admit that I’m not entirely sure what county Ellensburg resides in, so I can’t quite ascertain his weight in his home base.

I’m a week behind on these things, as the new and latest issue of the National Review is a cover warning us about Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but I have one question about this cover:

Reminiscent of the Thomas Friedman rule of every so often stating that “the next six months will tell the story”, Can this be the last last chance for Iraq, please?

The rumours that never seemed to cement themselves into fully sighted news appear to finally be cementing themselves. Sure, the indications were there when Fox News ramped up the propaganda on Iran a few weeks ago. But none of the indications that the Scott Ritters of the world have been echoing seemed to be coming true. Perhaps it was just a matter of time-line being off; perhaps that was combined with any number of things happening off-stage and out of view. The result has generally been, for me, pushing aside the rumoured going ons of any military adventure into Iran.

Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) said, “We are conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming.”

Today Bush popped before the United Nations and rattled the chains. And thus we appear to be off in some forbidding direction.

The Electoral cynicism, in some quarters, comes in with USA Today’s publication of polling data which shows Bush’s approval rating rising. It is up to a oh-so-fantastic 44 percent — a percentage that only looks good because of the depths that Bush had fallen. The cynical take, and one that is prevalent amongst vast swarms of the electorate, is that this is the poll for a Banana Republic. We are being groomed for a non-disasterous Fall Midterm election for the Republican Party. The election results have already being written out. We shrug. The only means of protest we have at this moment in history is to throw eggs at our leaders, and then to throw more eggs, and then walk around and forget the day.

That is the electoral lethargacy. Is it warrented? I Report. You Decide.

I saw this glossy little card that someone (I would say the promoters of this event at this place) left in various free newspaper boxes in the downtown area. I am in the habit of grabbing these things, musing over them, then throwing them away, occasionally noting them here.

The bottom of a woman, dressed in panties. “Tragedy Presents My Teacher is a whore”. The “Back to School Special”. The teacher is beside a blackboard that has a variety of sexual topics under the banner “Sex 101”.

I flip it over, see some information, location, and assume that the listing is of a handful of either bands or deejays. The price, and then…

“ALL AGE SHOW”.

Because nothing spells “All Age Show” like “My Teacher Is a Whore” and a close-up of a woman’s panties over the words “Intercourse. Penis. Vagina”, etc…

I have turned off the comments section for the duration of a month. Comments do trickle in from time to time, and I enjoy them. I do not enjoy the spam comments, which until this blog is moved to different software cannot anymore be filtered out with any real efficiency as the “banned” shaft is full and bulging over.

Last week, I received an email from a college newspaper concerning Lyndon Larouche. I probably should take this moment to explain some things about Lyndon Larouche’s role on this blog, then cut and paste it over to a link to the sidebar.

#1: I am not nor have I ever been a member of any Lyndon Larouche Group.

#2: I have received and I imagine I will continue to receive comments from people who are currently or have previously been involved in a Lyndon Larouche Group. There seemed to be some confusion about the matter from the college newspaper writer, and I may well go back and edit Larouche related posts to make clearer that I am reposting other people’s words.

#3: I frequently post as an entry comments from people making warning sirens on Lyndon Larouche. I frequently write entries commenting on comments from Larouchites, and perhaps my last Larouche post — which was full of obscure references meant to irk a Larouchite who had commented previously, was not opaque enough — particularly for anyone “out of the loop” here.

#4: I consider Lyndon Larouche a cult leader. That is the reason I bump up comments such as “paultony”‘s or “Scott’s”, “Scott’s Comment” seems to have opened up a great deal on this topic (relative to the reach of this blog).

#5: The result of which is I constantly waver between an attitude of mockery to a more serious attitude of concern.

I’ll come up with another five or seven statements to round this up to an even 10 or 12. Feel free to email me on the subject, an email address somewhere on the sidebar I believe.

The word from Pakistan is that the government has in their ready a tap of al Qaeda suspects that they tap into anytime they need to quell the duplicitious nature of their relationship with the United States, last manifested in the story that Bin Laden was being offered immunity if he just calls off his Jihad right now and starts leading a low-key peaceful existence.

And thus, floating past the headline grabbing quote that (um) “You know, there is a kind of an urban myth here in Washington about how this administration hasn’t stayed focused on Osama bin Laden. Forget it. It’s convenient throw-away lines, you know, when people say that.” (which you just place next to him saying “I don’t know where he is you know? I just don’t spend a lot of time on him” and slam your head against the wall a few times.) you get the context for this little gem showing Bush’s lack of a sense of any irony.

Pressed on why he opposed the idea of sending a large contingent of special forces to Pakistan to hunt bin Laden, Bush said his strategy was to work with Pakistan’s government.

“First of all, Pakistan is a sovereign nation,” Bush said. “In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we’ve got to be invited by the government of Pakistan.

In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we’ve got to be invited by the government of …

In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we’ve got to be invited by the government of …

In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we’ve got to be invited by the government of …

In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we’ve got to be invited by the government of …

So I take us back to this sign:

Replace “Hegemonists” with any mediocre president from the past, and reshuffle this whole scene we have here, please.

The one thing I can say about the alleged political nature of Bush’s 9/11 speech is that I’m not sure if it should be any other way. To drop all traces of political disagreements from a speech such as that is to attempt to find a lowest common denominator in which everybody can agree on. I suppose such is possible, but it would probably lead to an even more vacuous speech than I hear Bush gave. (I don’t make a habit of listening to what Bush has to say, as he doesn’t have much to offer.)

Divided we Stand, United We fall — because it takes too much coersion to make us “united”. Think about it.