The Post Office Tour presents us with an interesting “Point / Counterpoint” debate.  Enter the Maple Valley Farmers Market stop.

I don’t get out to the Maple Valley Farmers Market as often as I should. Apparently, I missed the Lyndon LaRouche supporters (yes, he is still alive) displaying posters of President Obama sporting a Hitler mustache. […]Fiery language that motivates your voting base is good if you are trying to wake up inactive members, but if you are a fringe group like the LaRouche political action committee, you just look like an angry lunatic. No one likes to hang out with angry lunatics; especially voters with moderate sensibilities, and the politicians that are trying to appeal to those voters.
What these folks have completely ignored is the simple art of persuasion.

Howie G chimes in to disagree, and offers the “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen” approach.

I think Godwin’s Law is pretty funny, actually. And I’ve seen it in web forums a million times!

You know who else thought that Godwin’s Law was funny? Hitler!

These people hate Lyndon LaRouche, because with meager resources LaRouche has been effective in exposing them and changing history. These are fundamental issues LaRouche has addressed that go back to ancient Greece and Plato and Socrates.

Then again, they have a way of not saying any of this.

Two supporters of Lyndon LaRouche offended passersby in Mukilteo on Monday when they campaigned for the LaRouche Political Action Committee using Obama-as-Hitler posters outside the Mukilteo post office.

The supporters refused to talk to the Beacon for this story.

More discussion on this vital issue follows here. Interesting item that marks the Youth against the Boomers:

(Note: I say “supporters” because I secretly think they hire young actors to hand out fliers… they are suspiciously younger and more hip than what I suspect the typical LaRouche supporter would appear.)

The “supporters” here are not young and hip but appear to be middle-aged working class guys, which adds to the sense of sadness about the whole thing.

This is another interesting bulletpoint discussion.

Those people were SO crazy. I was scared.
That’s nuts. I like your disclaimer at the bottom.
Yeah, stay away from them.
CRAZY!!!!

SO… The new “American System Rothschild” poll has been released.  It shows some surprising results.  First of all, the percentage of Americans who want to remove Barack Obama from the White House is either 75 percent or 85 percent.  Analysts suggest that this result shows that we are ripe for a Mass Strike if only enough people stationed themselves at enough post offices.  What percentage of the public would need to serve as these Shock Troops?  Analysts suggest that it might take the square root of one percent of the public in order to off-set the competing vibes sent by the Transcendental Meditation Movement.

According to the new polling, Kesha Rogers has surged up to within just six points of Pete Sessions, and is now down just 55 to 49 percent.  What accounts for this surge?  Analysts suspect it may be due to new tactics in trying to appeal to the Religious Right and district Christian Democrats by referencing the biblical precepts that undermine her proposed platform.

The Rachel Brown Congressional campaign hosted a very high level and unorthodox campaign event on Thursday, August 5th; a community classical concert aimed at getting under the skins and into the souls of the generally liberal community of Brookline and Newton, MA. Here, in the heart of Barney Frank’s supposed-strong-hold, more than thirty people came to the concert held at the Brookline Library. Some were just curious, and didn’t stay for very long, but others were absolutely concentrated and riveted by the combination of music and Rachel Brown’s speech on the optimism and creative spirit of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) infrastructure project.

It appears that the public is growing weary of wandering bands of singers.

The campaign’s organizing into the event was varied, and the attendees of the event reflected that. One key flank was the revival of an old Boston LaRouche Youth Movement tradition; singing on the trains! The campaign also took their music to the streets in the days leading into the event, and distributed leaflets advertising the event at various classical concerts in and around Boston. But, it was not so much the form of the organizing, but the fact that the members of the campaign challenged people to reject the degenerate culture of the Baby Boomer generation that keeps electing Barney Frank, acknowledging that, in a revolutionary period, people are open to recognizing how destructive the culture has been and are ready to embrace something much more beautiful. […]

The Mainstream Media concurs with the description of curiosity seekers.

Indeed, their renditions of classical works from Robert Schumann and other composers were good enough to retain nearly 40 random and possibly duped attendees in the Brookline Main Library last week, at a Rachel-Brown-for-Congress event that at moments transcended ordinary fringe craziness.

At a glance, the show flyers that Brown operatives hung around Brookline appeared to be largely apolitical, with a portrait of Schumann filling the page and the words CLASSICAL CONCERT in big letters. But a closer look quickly revealed something much more insidious: in addition to honoring Schumann’s 200th birthday, the performance was tuned to metaphorically reject “the crazy Obama administration and moral degenerate ‘Bail-Out’ Barney Frank,” whom Brown is now challenging in Massachusetts’s fourth congressional district.

The content of Brown’s half-hour diatribe, which came between the first and second pieces on the program, was no surprise to anyone familiar with her former work. To be found in Brown’s trash heap of unintelligible talking points: “[Obama] would rather the nation collapse than admit he is wrong,” American citizens are no longer being trained to make discoveries, and the United States should tunnel underneath the Bering Strait so as to connect Russia and Alaska. Brown also spent much of her time touting a “future-oriented Mars colonization” proposal, which might answer the question Frank asked her back in Dartmouth: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” (Watch the entire loony performance — with rant — above.)

The senior citizens and non-English-speakers in the crowd seemed untroubled by, if not unaware of, Brown’s comical indictment of her opponent and Obama. Everybody else just seemed relieved when she shut up and let her comrades bless the gallery with their gracefully executed classical selections. Two apparently well-off 60-something couples simply chuckled at Brown’s inanity, perhaps unaware that her literature tied their lifestyle to the Third Reich: “The culture which [the notoriously anti-Semitic] Wagner represented,” according to the flyer, “was later imposed upon and accepted by the failed Baby-Boomer generation.”

Various respondents to the “American System Rothschild Poll” were largely negative.  One person wondered why the tune was set at 256.  Still others expressed horror at the morbid allusion to Lyndon Larouche’s death and how everyone needs to start thinking about it.

Malene Robinson, during her discussion of the historic personality of Mozart, set the scene: “imagine you are a group of mourners who are looking at the dead corpse of your leader, who led a revolution, and is now dead, and the whole world is collapsing around you. . .and you ask yourself, ‘what does this mean for me?'” This suddenly became a very real question for everybody in that room. Ask yourself: has it become a real question for you?

The Rachel Brown campaign appears to be not worried about this public relations set-back, perhaps believing that the upcoming “Wienie Roost” set on the day of the anniversary of the day Barney Frank roosted Rachel Brown but good will remind people why she is vaguely memorable.  The high profile web-blog wonkette has provided the Event some publicity.

Polling for Summer Shields shows that he has fallen further behind in his Write-In campaign against Donald Duck, Spongebob Squarepants, and oddly enough Lyndon Larouche.  Analysts believe that Donald Duck’s rise comes out of renewed name recognition from news stories about sexual assault cases against Disneyland employees.  Spongebob Squarepants is expected to win the write-in election, due to his continued omnipresence.  Lyndon Larouche is harder to peg, considering:

Speaking of funny on the square in front of our office today a Lyndon Larouche stand was set up. Another bunch of crazies — unfortunately they don’t get nearly as much airtime as the Tea Party. […]

Larouche is ancient news. Sheesh, how long have those crazies been around? Three decades-ish? And yet, despite their very best efforts otherwise, they never viably influenced the Dem Party or its policies. […]

The answers to the above tell you why virtually no one’s the least bit interested in old Larouche idiocy, and why virtually everyone’s interested in recent new TeaP idiocy.

Though it appears Summer Shields has one voter in him, Analysts suspect that Summer Shields’s fall behind Larouche in the polls may be due to Shields’s disappearance when he speaks, and the invariable propping up of the name “Lyndon Larouche”.  Analysts suggest that in order to beat Larouche in the coming November election, Summer Shields will have to find a way to distance himself from him.  While they believe that Donald Duck has reached his ceiling and can easily be jumped, they are stumped on how he might pull ahead of Spongebob Squarepants — perhaps Shields will have to go on the attack against Spongebob.

This week’s Wikipedia Sockpuppet Banned list includes  Manger le caniche, Outings Chair, Forge Tipsy, and Amy Ferrous Mix.

I was wondering about the politician in Colorado, the “Tea Party” insurgent who won the Colorado Republican Primary on Tuesday for US Senate to take on Michael Bennett.  “Wait.  Is this the guy who claimed that bike paths were a UN plot?”  No, that’s the gubernatorial candidate — who is not going to win in large part because Tom Tancredo is running a third party campaign — but, might possibly win if not for that.

I checked wikipedia for “Ken Buck”.  Even considering that he was regarded as inconsequential until recently, even considering that his chances to take the Republican nomination didn’t spike up until late in the primary campaign, I was surprised by how the wikipedia article read.  It was as though written by the Ken Buck for Senate campaign.  These things, understand, are contested — partisans for the candidates tending to devote more time than they particularly desire to affecting the wikipedia article.  Perhaps this is a show of the front-runner sleeping on the race, perhaps it is a show of a low-tech electorate, perhaps a show of how wikipedia has slid out of the credibility scale.

Seriously, I can’t recall the sentence that had been on the page that was hilariously self-serving — something about an epiphany from God that lead him into Public Service and doing the People’s Business and turning around a previously skeptical person.
It still is a jagged article.

The editing history is worth a gander, as it beefs up a previously static and useless page.

Things that drive me more nuts than they should… Chris Good analyzes the chances that the Republican Party might take over the Senate.
He categorizes New Hampshire as currently held by Democrats.  He does not place Ohio’s race into the list of potential Democratic pick-ups, even though the Democrat has better standing there than the Democrat in most of the list of states listed.  This would bring the number from 13 and 4 over to 12 and 6.

Number of comments to take to “Journolist” in this decent ezra klein blog post: ten, but that’s because it didn’t pop into the mind for some of the previous commenters — commenter #9 and his “nearly half public Ozers taking government handouts and not citizens” probably should have crammed it in.

And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck.  It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Ted Stevens was right!  Of the three metaphors proferred here, and for the discussion being had on “Net Neutrality”, the “series of tubes” line is the best concept to understand the form and function of what is at stake.  It is incumbent for anyone who mocked Ted Stevens’s words to state their better easy-to-understand byte-sized metaphor.

Actually, while I can see how the Internet might be something you just dump things onto, I am not sure what to make of the “Big Truck”.  I guess it is part of the same concept — Ted Stevens has both the dumping and the dumped in mind, the truck dumping things onto the thing that is being dumped on.  But everybody knows that the Internet is indeed something people take dumps onto.  And, those dumps fall into series of tubes.  It is incumbent on us all to keep the series of tubes unclogged.

We are still having to guage these things in regulating television, years and years after President Roosevelt took the television airwaves to tamp down the fears of the public at the outset of the Great Depression.

I’m skipping down the NY Times website.  I see that Alaska related items are in the political news.  Ted Stevens is in a plane-crash — and we now go into a bit of eulogy remembering the life and times of Ted Stevens.  Levi Johnston is running for Mayor of Wasilla as a Reality Television stunt — just another puppet doing the bidding of Big Business.

AND… Palin Dismisses Reports of Eye Rolling.

I am tempted to suggest that this is coverage of minutiae.  But then I realize that to cover Sarah Palin is to cover minutiae — and I guess the point of the whole banner protest that lead to the “Eye Rolling”.

I could dwell into the policy and political stances taken by Sarah Palin.  I guess that takes us to the whole “Mosque in Shadow of the WTC” issue — or non-issue.  Perhaps William Kristol sums that side up more coherently.

Shut Up, He Explained.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg to New Yorkers.

William Kristol suffers from the political narcissism disorder whereby he places himself in for New Yorkers.  It is not New Yorkers to whom Michael Bloomberg said “Shut Up” — it’s just William Kristol.
It’s not a luxury that Kristol would afford cross aisle.  Say Bush or Cheney said something disagreeable — or Palin… Or Jan Brewer… or whoever.  Cheney to Americans — Shut Up.  Not a headline that ever appeared in the Weekly Standard.

This story gets more ridiculous from there.

There is nothing but “Theater Review” in assuaging Palin.   Obama, you jump around on that score.  Over the weekend, we were treated to something about Michelle Obama and Marie Antoinette and a lavish vacation in France?  Do I care?  No.  In relation to the current Obama tiffing match against “Professional Liberals” — well, there was a reason he went to the Rachel Maddow clip when throwing out a clip to the “Netroots Nation”.  I’m not as low on Obama as a lot of “supporters” / voters, largely because I was never as high on him as them.  So Gibbs might have more credibility in his argument if we hadn’t just come out of a situation with Shirley Sherrod.

But if we’re going to fact check Sarah Palin — follow the moment in slow motion.  Then try to answer me why she appears in political discourse every so often.

Three… Two… One… AND

I came here from a blog that said the Campaign for Peace and Democracy is pro-North Korean, which as far as I can tell is either a joke or hopelessly stupid. Which is it?

What’s odd is that my best guess to the question — “an elliptical response to me” — about the previous comment was, no.  He’s apparently inundated with JournOlist gnabbers.  Odder still, I could have plucked out quite a few people for the original line that the “lots of discussion on sports” was part of the conspiracy.

At least I know this one came from here.  So, to continue down this rabbit – hole — wait:  I can’t quite tell if Fred Olliver is being serious or joking?

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Simpsons, episode “Homerpaloza”:
Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He’s cool.
Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Teen1: I don’t even know anymore.

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The story goes that Barry Goldwater and William Buckley conferenced together and decided to exile the John Birch Society out of the respectable “Conservative Movement”.  Which was just as well for the Birchers regarding National Review — what use did they have for Skull and Bones henchman Buckley and his crew of CIA spooks and Catholic theocrats?

There are a number of strangling odd nuggets of ideological definition and “into and out of the tent” decisions that seem ripe to fit into a historical framework.  I take the following from Rick Perlestine’s books.  The early backers pushing Goldwater for President took stock of him after Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus declined to be pumped up and primed.  The Republican Party in 1964 was strongly pursuing a party switch from George Wallace when Strom Thurmond switched.  Goldwater stood proudly next to Thurmond at his press conference announcing the switch, a tact he would not have done for George Wallace — for whom he disdained and found personally no ideological affinity.

Move forward to the third party apparatus that George Wallace left behind after his 1968 presidential campaign:  the American Independent Party.  In 1972, John Schmitz was their candidate.

Schmitz was notable for his extreme right-wing sympathies. By one measure, he was found to be the third most conservative member of Congress between 1937 and 2004 and the ultra-conservative John Birch Society, of which Schmitz was a longtime leader, later expelled him for extremist rhetoric.

In 1976, as the grassroots Conservative Movement failed to oust Ford with Ronald Reagan, they considered their plans for the future.  Remember, Richard Nixon was our nation’s last Liberal President, and Gerald Ford was the last good president.  In this disgruntled atmosphere, your Richard Vigueries and Howard Philipses made their voices heard on issues most Americans could care less about — Panama Canal ownership, anybody?  And Phylys Schafly made the rounds against the ERA.
On the more mainstream edge of this bunch, and in this case either to the right of William Buckley, or at least to the more revolutionary and less establishment-oriented focus, National Review editor William Rusher considered the taking over of the American Independence Party, overwhelming the kooks that made up that party.  William Buckley dismissed this idea out of hand — they’re not going to rejoin the Birchers they exiled.
Four years later, they nominated and elected Ronald Reagan in the Republican Party, and to the more establishment-focused of this bunch, everything was fine for them.  Howard Phillips would grouse, later running for president several times on a third party when they turned to the Yalie Yuppie ex CIA spook George Bush.

The party’s goal as stated in its own words is “to restore our government to its Constitutional limits and our law to its Biblical foundations.” The party puts a large focus on immigration, calling for stricter penalties towards illegal immigrants and a moratorium on legal immigration until all federal subsidies to immigrants are discontinued. The party absorbed the American Independent Party, originally founded for George Wallace‘s 1968 presidential campaign. The American Independent Party of California has been an affiliate of the Constitution Party since its founding, however, current party leadership is disputed and the issue is in court to resolve this conflict.

In the year 2010, flushed into the stream by the “Tea Party Movement” in a year where the John Birch Society co-sponsored the “Conservative Political Action Committee” National Convention alongside a national television spokesperson bringing pieces of those ideas into prominence, the current Republican Senate candidate in Nevada — Sharron Angle — who jumped from the party Buckley considered a mass of kooks for electibility’s sake.

Yes, I’m familiar with this logic.  A little bit less this.