Archive for May, 2010

been a while with that guy…

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Saw this sign on a post.

“Clyde Lewis will Tell Who He Believes is THE ANTICHRIST”.

Pictures of the Pope, Obama, and the Prince of Wales with the “666” on their head.

“At the Masonic Lodge in Kenton”, May Whatever date.  $10.

Sure.  So Clyde Lewis sides with the Masons in the Illumanti’s internal battles.  Big Deal.

Souter Kagan.

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

July 25, 1990:
One of the few negative notes was sounded by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) who said he would have preferred if Souter, a lifelong bachelor, were a family man. But Hatch quickly backed away from the statement. “It came out wrong,” Hatch said. “I did not mean that as criticism.”

What was Hatch trying to say there anyways?

Something around here?  There’s more!!
He lives in a New Hampshire cabin with only flannel shirts and firewood for company. He wields substantial power as a judge, and may get the promotion of a lifetime. But what intrigues many Americans about U.S. Supreme Court nominee David Souter is the fact that he is a 50-year-old bachelor.  We wonder, “What’s wrong with him?  How does he feel about women?  Is he anti-social, homosxual, misogynistic, immature, or just plain dweeby?”
He is an enigma. He is Spinster Man.
For the average, never-married, middle-aged man, perennial bachelorhood should not be an issue. Yet it is. It is hard to say which sex has it worse when it comes to stereotyping. Never-married women are assumed to be unattractive or otherwise undesirable. Never-married men are thought to be either womanizers (which carries a positive connotation), hermits or homosexuals.

Actually, doing that quick dig was a way of figuring out something or other about the current Kagan Lesbian Crisis. I have no particular impetus for “gaydar”.  I am well aware of the presence of people scouring about to “out” various politicians.  I have thought of two politicians named in this odd game-hunt as “gay” based on a sort of confluence of credible enough rumor mongering by particular sources– Larry Craig (this was pre-“Wide Stance” Incident) and the current Governor of Florida.  I haven’t got much thought on the current Senator from South Carolina.  Are we supposed to analyze squeeky voices and attribute it to a homosexuality?

We then turn from them to the specter of Butch-haircut women.  That almost seems to be enough to get everyone a’chattering.  The former governor of Arizona, current Homeland Security head, has been rumored to be gay.  Step outside peculiar lines and you get this treatment, I suppose.  In the end, at the end of her career, she’ll get Souter’s treatment of idolizing whatever idiosyncracies she supposedly has — probably not playing Softball anymore.

It is worth mentioning that when Souter retired, he was deemed a hermit retiring to some encased New England cabin, to spend the rest of his life reading — until such time as this happens.  Elana Kagan is, by reports, more social — apparently hob-nobbing with the Liberal Intelligentsia, the new going line is running — that and the stratifying New York City influence is getting to people.  From there, it’s curious to look at the Justices Franklin Roosevelt nominated
Alabama (I imagine the last Ku Klux Klan member who’ll ever be nominated), Kentucky, Massachusetts, Washington (The Pride of Yakima), Michigan, South Carolina , New York, and Iowa.  Then again, you’d have to look in and see who touched down in New York in their lives — only one person is pegged to “New York” on this list.

Well, better a disporportionate number of New Yorkers than a disproportionate number of Alabamans, if we’re going to play this “Heartland” Game.

Greece’s Turmoil Working Out Well for SOMEONE.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

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The odd story of the Hitler Mustache concludes.

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

A follow up to the curious case of a man fingered out by an “I Anonymous” letter to the Portland Mercury, see here.

There was some follow-up in Portland Mercury’s blog.  A letter was written on his behalf concerned for his safety.  The attitude of the I Anonymous writer cooled down a bit.

I saw the guy yesterday, working at this grocery store.  I assume he is the source of the controversy, unless there be multiple people walking the streets of Portland with Hitler mustaches.

Whatever the case, he shaved the thing off.

I suppose, if you can call this a campaign, the campaign got to him.

Gas Steagalls for everyone.

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Occasionally I have to wonder: what the hell is my point?  For instance, a few weeks ago I really BLEW THE LID OFF of the presense of Lyndon Larouchie at a comic book fan board.  Really, investigative journalism at its finest.  Is it anything?  Well, sure.  Micahel Retour, otherwise known as revenire, drops details of an oh so exciting life working a stream of world historicality.  When asked if he’s under the auspices of Lyndon Larouche, he makes a cowardly retreat and lies, betraying that his mission is a fiction and an illusion and he knows it. 

This one is a bit harder.  It begins with an odd little reference at LPAC. 

As one astute blogger on firedoglake wrote on Sunday, in an item titled “The Glass-Steagall Test,” “As the whole blogosphere knows, the Glass-Steagall Act forced banks to choose between being a commercial bank or an investment house. During the Clinton regime, the despicable Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) allowed commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms, and insurance companies to merge… The final vote on Gramm-Leach-Bliley was a gutcheck that most Senators failed.”

Really really strange.  They just referenced obscure blogger.  In the past, they’ve made reference to Jane Hamsher — the main person at firedoglake– for using the word “fascist” and generally opposing Obama’s Health Care policy.  This works hand in glove with their basic attraction to the blog.  It goes on.

The “whole blogosphere knows” about Glass-Steagall because of the radiating impact of the LPAC website, and the other LaRouche points of intervention on this issue, including the impact of the past 14 months’ dialogue with the Stanford Group of leading American economists.

I suppose I should have asked the question based on this statement — “Do you know about Glass Steagall based on the radiating impact of the LPAC website” — instead of a generalized “What?”, but I take his answer to my replacement generalized “What?” to be “No.”  Decide for yourself!  I guess it’s in the eye of the beholder — see: it’s the effect that took things from their activity to various people’s awareness.

So, what we have here, I guess, is that sometime ago the Boiler Room in Leesburg decided that firedoglake would make for a good validator in what political stream they’re swimming.  (They’ll just handily skip the Environmental stuff.)  So they surfed about, looked up “Glass Steagall”, and found that comment. 
Bill Clinton has, of late, been speaking out about policies he undertook during his presidency that he now believes were mistakes.  NAFTA, for instance.  But he stands behind his signing of The Gramm-Leach-Bliley.  Notwithanding whether he is right or wrong to do so, I do believe Clinton knows what it is Glass Steagal.  Lyndon Larouche?  Reading the bulk dump on “Restore Glass Steagall”, I haven’t the foggiest what regulatory policy he refers to — there it is, the words: “Glass-Steagall” — needing to be implemented in some form Worldwide, apparently.  It just does not really appear to connect to anything Senators Carter Glass and Henry B. Steagall pushed and passed and President Roosevelt signed in 1933, and that Paul Volcker proposes in part today… his version apparently follows something like:

The United States must take action to protect itself from the disintegration of the British System, which has already happened. Who cares about the British System? (maybe The British?)  No one in their right mind cares. But, to save the rest of Europe, the United States must act first, by immediately reinstating Glass-Steagall; because, if the United States goes down, the rest of the world goes down.

But it is apparently the topic du jour of what the cult’s followers and travellers stayed glued to, and amped themselves up for last week.:
We are now down to the final five organizing days before Lyndon LaRouche’s next historic international webcast, on Saturday May 8.
Coming on the heels of last week’s private dialogue with leading economists and diplomats, representing the Four Powers nations, only an absolute fool could miss the fact that LaRouche is setting the agenda for the only means to avoid a British-engineered plunge into a global dark age that would wipe out 80 percent of humanity or more. Make no mistake. As events now playing out on the Korean peninsula and in the Persian Gulf make clear, there is a faction in London that is literally Hell-bent on provoking an era of perpetual chaos, in pursuit of their radical Malthusian agenda.
And so it goes.  I don’t understand why anyone would want to wait for a “Historic Webcast” — Larouche has been interviewed by LPAC a ton lately — it appears you can drop by any day and see him as a “Special Guest” to something.  But, there we go.  Appointment viewing for Howie G — good lead in to Betty White’s appearance on Saturday Night Live no doubt.  No word on whether Harley Schlanger checked out a space for a mass viewing in Texas or Utah.  Jerry Pyenson grabbed whomever he could invite.
The world has changed completely now.  That Historic Webcast will always be remembered as a dividing line.  Before and After.

Even though, scenes like this… took place before… and will take place after:

A small group of protesters stationed themselves outside the Darien Post Office Wednesday to advocate for the impeachment of President Obama, a dramatic reshaping of the U.S. financial system, and other far-reaching proposals from the LaRouche Political Action Committee. […] “If she had given me a chance to speak , I would have told her the reason for the mustache is that Hitler’s rise to total domination and power started with an enforced healthcare system much like Obama just pushed onto America,” Sare said. “I am only here to inform.”

Well, they have Chewbacca1989 agreeing with that one.  And here I always thought it began when Hitler removed Glass-Steagall.  (Incidentally.) That campaign is hitting Germany, apparently — part of this campaign:

Essentially, BüSo’s main platform is the repeal of both Maastrcht and Lisbon, calling for a return to full national sovereignty, and the restitution of sovereign national currencies for all nations currently under the sway of the dictatorship of the imperial Brussels bureaucracy.
This would be more on the lines of the great Treaty of Wesphalia (1648), which establishes, for the first time in recorded history, the universal principle of a harmony of interests, in mutually beneficial co-operation, in a community of principle between perfectly independent — yet interdependent — sovereign nation states.
Standing in rabid and furious opposition to this, is the great fraud and evil of world-empire, a neo-feudal form of world-fascism, just as outlined in the Fabian H.G. Wells’ pamphlet The Open Conspiracy (1928), and elsewhere.

I’ll have to peg this:  Interesting that the key election is in North Rhine Westpahlia, where the BüSo party (Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität = Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) is attracting many new supporters. and see if it translates to a marked increase against previous electoral outcomes.
Hey!  They’ve had some luck in the states — though no thanks to the Main Org.  9 percent for Carol Johnson Smith.  And Kesha Rogers, whose nominating victory the German organization is ready to make hay out of:

One week to go until the elections in Northrine-Westphalia, the largest (in terms of population) Bundesland of Germany. After the Texas primary, Bueso printed new posters “Erst Kesha, dann Kascha” (First Kesha, then Kascha), obviously hoping to gain a 52% landslide victory. Kascha of course is the LYM girl mentioned before who called the deindustrialization of Northrine-Westphalia a crime against humanity (for Helga’s crowd, it was always clear that Germans are the victims of whatever type of fascism).
Theys also seem to run out of money in Germany: The “Kascha”-posters were glued to the backside of their standard posters of Helga claiming to have the patent recipe (“Wir haben Patentrezept”).
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Okay.  Take the good with the bad.  I’ll start by commenting on his youtube videos as this young man is recruited and then rejects Larouche.  As he stands for-square behind the politics of David Duke.  Also he’s black.  I guess what might be interesting is to go back and parse his story and if the org recruited him with his various youtube videos in sight.

1:09:  “Don’t know what the fuck that means”.  PAC = Political Action Committee.
Type “Jeremiah Duggan into youtube, google…” Google = wikipedia, JusticeforJeremiah, Schiller Institute.  Youtube.  Not one LPAC entry.
5:20:  Queen Pushed Drugs.  Depends on which day of the week it is.
6:07:  Hm.  Website of two ex-LYMers.  Anyone know what he’s referring to?
(I’ll ignore my problems with anyone using that word at 6:19.)
7:03: Wikipedia.  Always with the Wikipedia.  Wikipedia is the new Dennis King, which as late as two and a half years ago would be where they’d have accused him of getting his information.
7:12:  I don’t think he knows the definition of “second hand, third hand, fourth hand sources”.  Ah well.

Part Two.
1:15 — Has Larouche Planet compiled the Best of these videos into one handy collection yet, or will I have to suck it up and do such a thing?
2:32 — “EVERY PRESIDENT they call Hitler.”  Clinton.  I don’t think they ever called Clinton Hitler.  Bush I — sure.  Reagan — I think they did, eventually.  Kennedy — Maybe not.  (Note: my conception of the start of Larouche’s “Movement” has been backtracked from 1968 over to 1965.)  Johnson — hm.  They’re not messing with electoral politics much at that time.  Nixon?
I am positive they never called Ford Hitler — it was at that time that they joined electoral politics in a way, and Larouche all but supported the election of Ford.
2:53 — Who’d they call Hitler? Ma—huh?

Interesting guy, I suppose.  My head hurts while watching his support of David Duke, and rattling on regarding the Vast Zionist Youtube Conspiracy.  5:00 for Duke:  You can’t write anything against Israel in the college ’cause then you’d be kicked out — really?
7:53:  David Duke 2013! — I mean 2012
I’m not going to lose sleep pondering this man.  I hope he gets himself adjusted somewhat better, and he’s more likely to do so outside the cult than inside.  Otherwise: Move along.  Ponder the imponderables — “One thing most people don’t know about you”.  Someday he’ll wish to wipe this off the web so people won’t know these past ideas about him.
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An old Chip Berlet (and Joel Bellman) article has been posted to a Chicago news site.  Comments follow about a renewed “GLTF”. 
Then again, from the San Francisco Chronicle in 1986:  Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche believes that many homosexuals support Proposition 64, the AIDS initiative, and those who do not have been duped by a “a little mafia among the so-called gay community.” […] “I think you will find that the average homosexual is much quieter than the people who are vocal. And I think that privately they’re terrified of this disease. They don’t see much hope,” he said. “And I think they think about me, `. . . If this guy is gonna save our lives, more power to him.’ ”
The next thing you’ll show me a black David Duke supporter.

Campaign Season. Campaign Ads.

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Okay.  Political ads are us.

Notable Ad #1:  Dan Fanielli running against Alan Grayson.  Supporting Racial Profiling.  Memo to Mr. Fanielli at :44, “If a good looking ripped guy without much hair” — you flatter yourself.
Well, the ad did its job.  Partially.  It got the man national attention.  Donors. 
It’s worth noting, and everybody else is noting it with me — this guy looks like a terrorist.  And this guy looks like a terrorist.  Yes, so does this guy.
1:04 :  Thinking of the premise of the ad, it is here that the Arabic man who is playing the part of the Terrorist is really starting to bug me.  It is not even the political implication of supporting your “Racial Profiling”, as reports go, all I can say is — Fine, Whatever.  But I can’t quite understand why he would want to make sure, after his “minor inconvenience” of interrorgation in airport security, be sure that a guy like him doesn’t get near a “thing like this” — the Airplane — isn’t the premise that all Arab looking men will be pulled out, investigated, then Let onto the plane after they are fully checked — butt cracks included? 

Notable Ad #2.  You have to understand that the Carly Fiorni campaign gave the Democratic Party a gift by running this ad against her porimary opponent, Tom Campbell.   Short hand, this is what Carly Fiorni accused Tom Campbell of being:

demon-sheep

Well, it grabbed some attention.  I don’t know how many people watching the ad out in cyberspace picked any names out, instead of — say, rolling to staid Internet memes.

Naturally the Democratic Party of  California would be guilty of political malfunction if they didn’t pick up and run with it.
And so it goes.

Noted Ad  #3.  I suspect the Republican Party of Ohio overdid this one.  They had a photograph which they couldn’t resist using.  They dropped the standard campaign bits against it.  I can’t figure out what the point of the suggestion is, and maybe I’m wrong — maybe the suggestive aura of Nero Masturbating while Rome Burns has some traction to it.

The British Political Party hierarchy

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Stopping at “See Also”, the wikipedia article for the Conservative Party contains 7,554 words.  The wikipedia article for the Labour Party contains 6,397 words.  The wikipedia article for the Liberal Democrats has 4,242 words.  You can see right there the third party status of the Liberal Democrats — Nick Clegg’s performance a disappointment as for a brief moment in the election campaign, he thought he just might have the stumbling Labourites.

Except… Compare the Liberal Democrats 4,242 words with…
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party gets 5,476 words.

The Monster Raving Loonies beat the Liberal Democrats.