I once compiled a list of Internet posted meanderings of some odd beyond fundamentalist preacher from some backwater mill somewhere around the South.  His name is Eldon Orr, and the quotations can be found here.

I mention this today because he has emailed me about it, offering that (1) “Howie” took him out of context, (2) Are you Howie?, (3) I still agree with everything posted, (4) This page scared away some undesirible women friends of my wife who almost visited, so thank you for that, (5) I am now a Muslim, and (presumably because he has scary new things to post (6) This page could use some updating, and (7) I have published a book that people can buy.  (Um… Joy?)

When last I checked in, at the same time he was making Hebraic Interpretations of Lord of the Rings, I knew he was well on his way to finding that distinct variety of Islam, bridging his strand of Fundamentalist Christianity to his strand of Islam through strains of, among other aspects, anti-semitism.

I don’t know why I need to point to Mr. Orr or what there is to say about him and where his further studies take him.  A working theory goes that a Hellfire preacher might set himself up on Campus and get shock waves by blasting the Homosexuals as Hell-bound.  Where do you go when you mill about areas that would elect a Jesse Helms, say, and would nod in agreement with that?  You have to go… further.

The Democratic Congress’s nine percent approval rating is a wonder to behold.  It is a product of lowest common denominator electoral math, and perhaps the most stabilizing low approval rating in Democratic history.  By getting everyone angry through a program of inaction, capitulation, and punt-fugging Pelosi and company avoid getting the semi-respectable mid 30s to sub 50 approval rating that might greet any court of action — which would harden support but also greet more than the apathetic loathing that greets them right now.  Hence, the stability maintains such that nothing hampers their assured up-coming pick-up of somewhere between ten and thirty House seats.

Sooner or later, this strange alchemy will reach its limit, and Congress will have to actually act on the pressing issues of the day.  The bet seems to be that they will line behind the program of a President Obama.  In the meantime, Nancy Pelosi stares at that nine percent approval rating, and grins the grin of grins.

Gary Genazzio’s pen-work in EIR and such was a major thumb in the eye of the British Empire.  (Make that “Brutish Empire”).  Thus states the official line for the official obituary of the Lyndon Larouche organ at the Schiller Institute.  (And really, God bless poor Fredrich Schiller for getting dragged into this crap.)   The obituary was penned by Mr. and Mrs. Pechenuks — and by some odd happenstance and only slightly arbitrary a tangeant, I already posted the electoral history for Gerald Pechenuk.  As you see, it garnered a further explication on Gerlad Pechenuk, and a supposition that Gerald Pechenuk = revenire, something I have no thought about one way or another.

I gather that a write up on Genazzio’s death isn’t such an automatic thing — has John Morris been eulogized? — and I gather further that we have a bit of a template for the line when Larouche himself bites the dust.  Also we may have arrived at a point where obituaries come for these mid-level functionaries to serve the purpose of preparation and wind through the themes of Immortality Larouche needs…

… as, um, Mr. Ossifur continues his pursuit of cryonics to plan the cryogenic freezing for later re-animation?

When asked to expand on his comments about America being a nation of Whiners, former Senator and current McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm added, “And they’re also ugly.  Very, very ugly.”

Remember when you were, like, eight and you walked on a sidewalk and kept your eyes down on that sidewak to make sure that you did not step on a crack?

Well, in that same spirit, as pointed out by the American Prospect magazine’s blog — appropriate title “Road Trip From Hell”, four College Republicans are engaged in a Summer road trip from coast to coast while remaining in Congressional districts which have voted a Republican to the House of Representatives.  I imagine they were inspired by the 2000 electoral map (and you don’t really see any difference with the 2004 map) which showed that the vast majority of empty space (“Flyover Country”) voted for Bush, and the vision that this represents the “Real America” of “Real Americans”.  I guess the two things to study are this map.:

And this route.  As you can see, their feat is impossible.  I think they absolutely had to step on a crack in Georgia.  They have been soiled by a Democratic Congress-critter.  It also appears that they did not take the “road less taken” in avoiding some Democratic district in Tennessee — tsk tsk.

Other than that — It’s clear and circuitously awkward sailing, down and up and around various circles on to a thin splice of the Pacific Ocean.  Given their track record so far, I believe they will end up in any number of more Democratic districts.  I suppose it will be interesting to see which way they go in the fork in the road in Kansas — whether they swoop north through Idaho and Wyoming or South through Arizona and New Mexico en route to Southern California.

#1: He talks a bit off the cuff when he thinks he is off mic.  He did in 1984 and he does in 2008.

#2: So do we all, I suppose, whether or not that includes making Jewish racial jokes or speaking about castrating people.

#3: If you had asked me before this incident what Jesse Jackson thought about Obama, I would have offered up a complicated picture full of jealousy and support.  Which is what his remarks suggest.

#4: If you had asked me before this incident what Jesse Jackson thought about Obama’s Father’s Day remarks, I would have said he didn’t like them and was “talking down” to black people.  Which is what his remarks suggest.

#5: If you had asked me what Jackson thought about Obama’s “Faith Based Initiative” proposal, and Bush’s, frankly I would have no idea.

#6:  Berkely Breathed once suggested that his “Bloom County” strip could not deserve the reprinting which Calvin and Hobbes just had because the strips would be stale as Hell.   I offer that thought up with regards to thinking about Jessee Jackson.  Today Breathed does something of a xerox copy of a xerox copy of his 1980s strip.

I just saw a banner ad to a John McCain website (video) that read (ahem), next to a bold forward gruff looking John McCain

“John McCain:  Ready on Day One”.

Hm.

During a lag time on public transit, I pulled out my notebook and listed the American presidents.  I missed one.  I knew I missed one, and had to think long and hard for the rest of my trip to figure out who I missed.

So, my question is: Who did I miss?  I dub him the most obscure president in American history, and I tend to think if I gave anyone this exercise he’s likely to be one of the most skipped over presidents.

Answer I will give sooner or later in the comments section, whether anyone cares or not.

Flag Pin.  Dot dot dot.  Flag Pin politics.

Just shoot me if I make this topic a habit, okay?

So I see Dearest Charles Krauthammer tredge past it in a list of Cynical Obama… what’s that common vernacular used today?… Political and Positioning Readjustments … And I am hit by the inanity of part of our political dialouge.

Long story short: Obama is now wearing flag pins.  After a period of time where he did not wear them.  He started wearing flag pins again after being pestered on the topic.  And mind you he started doing so in the primary season when, theoretically, he still had to court those quote-in-quote “moveon.com (or is it org?) crowd” of a-patriotic symbol smashing snubs.

There are a few ways of considering Obama’s flag pin arch.  One is that the passion which had aligned blustery nationalism and a blurry loyalty test in 65 to 80 plus Bush America has died down such that the flag’s meaning differs in 2008 from its meaning in 2002 – 2003.  Another is the “if it means that much to you” item which is akin to the deference of wearing a tie to one’s job interview — a pander of a type made by everyday citizens in everyday situations.  And the other item is the “Who gives a flying rip?”

Science and Technology:  Differences between Serious and Meandering. 

Winstar… according to the Larouchies — passed onto the Youth in the battle against the Baby Boomers — is something to the effect of:

Newtonian book-keeping and flim-flammery?

At any rate, it is part and parcel, from this vantage point, to the story of the fall of PMR as the internal (to the cult / organization) faults of the Baby Boomers.  Actually its Bankruptcy strikes me, for Larouche’s purpose, as a cautionary tale of “going out on your own” and leaving the Bosom of the Larouche Cult and its various abuses.  The secret curse is that Larouche is beyond the realm of compensation, balance books, and profit margins and further in a field where if he ever gets called to task for breaking the law, it is conceptualized as an Oligarchic Plot against him.

Here’s a recounting of the story of Winstar.  Make of it what you must — a corporation which (ahem) developed an advanced telecom that developed line-of-sight millimeter-wave terrestrial links using digital radios in the 38 Gigahertz band.  And was a corporate entity designed to be bought out by a bigger corporate entity.  And then was sort of lost in the dot com bubble burst –(you know… that rough and wild economic system the nation and world runs off of where new sectors of the economy grow and than contract and sort out?).

At bottom, a truer quest in the realm of applied science than our dear Cryonics – fan and friend, Phil Ossifuer (and various aliases along those lines) and his congregation of blogs and banishments from Cryonic themed message boards — banned because they have no interest in hearing about a g-damned cult leader.  Mind you, Futurenauts, you need not fear Larouche.  The thing has been comical.  My favorite item was Rick Potvin’s rants against Arthur C Clarke when the “Futurenauts” paid their respect to that great Science Fiction author.  But the thing is puzzling me.  Is there a 21st Century Science and Technology selection on the topic of Cryonics?  Perhaps Cryonics is the proposed solution to Larouche’s impending crisis of his Immortality — cue the show Futurama and the collection of famous heads.

I suppose the answer is simply that it falls into a cluster of “fringe” topics for “Phil Ossifur” — not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the fringe — a lot of good ideas float there and come from there.  I was listening to former Larouchie and current Mars Society head Robert Zubrin on George Noory (fringe on fringe), and after a spell I’m convinced Zubrin should be elected president over Obama and McCain.  (Zubrin, I think, wants us to go to Mars and beyond, and left Larouche-land when he realized that the cult was not terribly serious in their stated ideas on the subject, and used those ideas as a money generator and cult- bait and switch.  Which is he has something of a fringe position and realized that the only way to get it out of the fringe was to start his own advocacy think tank and make it real.)  I’m not entirely sure he’s right about Ethanol (I’ve always thought it was a boondoggle, and depressingly a political potent one) — but maybe he’s right… what do I know?

… Incidentally, here we see the Larouchies preying on the currently political desperate, so you know?  The Cryonics enthusiasts need not feel too bad.