“The People are finally waking up.”

I never trust anyone who says “The People are waking up”.  It suggests merely a perceived sway of political fortunes in their direction from a parcel of insanity — on a level that has never been seen in the history of America or the World.

“You mean Occupy?” I ask, obligingly.

“That’s part of it.  But no.  The people are buying guns.  Oregon alone had a record gun sale this year.  They’re getting ready.”
“Hm.”
“And they’ve gotten to Obama.  And make no mistake, Obama isn’t on our side… he’s with someone else.  The people have forced him to veto this bill passed by Congress which would set up internment camps.  This is real.  It’s not opinion.  It’s real.”
“OK.”
“That President.  He almost signed away our sovereignty at Coppenhagen.  He would have done so if he could have gotten away with it.  But he didn’t.  The People wouldn’t let him.  This was 2009.  Long before Occupy.”
“OK.”
“Because it’s the guns.”

I pass by a telephone pole with an odd image of Obama.  I guess.  “President Obama holds a press conference on the illegal activities of the Northwest Wacko Cult”.  I cannot really place this message politically.  I think it’s anti-Obama (elected off of style and image and with chants of “Yes We Can”, etc, while doing Wall Street’s bidding)… but it’s not really clear.  This competes against the latest iteration of a kind of obviously more Democratic Party activist who has moved back from some Perry jibes to … Romney… above the question “Who Let the Dogs Out?” — which is a reference to a forgotten piece of racial awkwardness from the 2008 campaign, and perhaps too an awkward dog travelling incident.

Blast of the Past:  Lebanon
MEMRI TV Clip No. 1165 – ‘New TV’ Host Maria Ma’louf and Executive Intelligence Review’s Uwe Friesecke Discuss AIDS, SARS, Mad Cow Disease, and Avian Flu in the Context of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt
To view this clip visit, http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1165.htm.

Yeah, the reputation preceeds them.  From The Guardian — a source for the Larouche Movement when it jibes with their political purposes (Blair Bush and all that), a tool of the British Empire when it does this:
In recent years, before being discovered by Mr Nelson, Mörner had largely been reduced to self-publishing pamphlets on the web and penning overblown diatribes in loony-tunes publications which bear as much relationship to scientific literature as the Spectator does. One of these – titled There Is No Alarming Sea Level Rise! – was published in an online publication called 21st Century Science and Technology. It might sound impressive, but this magazine is in fact a vehicle for the views of Lyndon Larouche. Larouche is the US demagogue who in 1989 received a 15-year sentence for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax code violations. He has claimed that the British royal family is running an international drugs syndicate, that Henry Kissinger is a communist agent, that the British government is controlled by Jewish bankers and that Barack Obama is a puppet of the renewed British Empire, which is supposedly trying to start a third world war over Syria (see end for references). He sees science and empiricism as yet another conspiracy, and uses 21st Century Science and Technology to wage war against them.

Hm.  Find a contrarian professor, and run with him:
 In an interview with the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), Akasofu explained that the Earth hadn’t finished recovering from the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that stretched from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Since then, the earth has been warming up to its pre-Little Ice Age average.

Keep an eye on foreign Press.  Like here.  Lawrence Freeman on Russia Today.  Jeffrey Steinberg on Russia Today.

I.  Alex Jones Props Up the Cult

Blast from the past.  Congressional Testimony by John Birch Society President and Conservative Democratic Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald against the Liberty Lobby, Spotlight, and its connections with Lyndon Larouche.  September 9, 1981.  Without delving into spurious conspiracy theories…
why do they spend their time attacking the conservative anti-Communists while at the same time they collaborate with the strange leftist cult headed by Lyndon LaRouche?
This is interesting.  Worth keeping in mind as we see an attack from AIM, and an alliance with Alex Jones…

I don’t like the precedent for this choice, as he is not a “Larouchie” but by an elastic definition of the term, but when I post this in a few weeks — the Second Annual “Larouchie” of the Year — Alex Jones will get that coveted top slot.  I think the rest of the list, but feel free to send in your suggestions.

And we will see what Lyndon Larouche does to the Alex Jones brand:  The credibility of the infowars brand and by extension of Alex Jones is damaged by every reference to Lyndon La Rouche. Why Alex has any contact with the man is beyond me. He has never been right about anything.

No doubt about it, Jones has given the Movement some spots on the political fringe from people who… might have forgotten they exist, or take Alex Jones guest as a serious tip.  Yes, they always had something like this — Anton Chaitkin appears on D’Anne Burley.  But… This guy makes it explicit.  Radio host Steve Kates interview Lyndon LaRouche on the immediate threat of general thermonuclear war, removing Obama, and the Strategic Defense Initiative.

And notes from this interview I actually listened to for some reason.
“This empire is determined to set the nations of the world into a war with one another, which is intended that civilization as we’ve now known it, will no longer exist. This is not only a general prospect; this is the immediate situation this weekend. This is not a weekend like other weekends. We’re now on the verge—and it’s set in place right now—of a chain reaction, which could mean the extermination of civilization as we’ve known it.

II.  Barney Frank Retires.  Will set up dining room tables however he chooses.

Alice Wolf puts in a word against Barney Frank and for Rachel Brown before Frank announced his retirement.

Rachel Brown, whom he described in a town hall meeting as talking to a dining room table, challenged Barney Frank, with regard to the Glass Steagall take down. In the video recording of their electoral debate he was so self congratulatory it was completely mental.
He toots his horn like everything he did was just great and everyone else caused the meltdown. […]
The bank cartel in Mass. is THE VAULT and that’s his boss. They are the remains of the original oligarch’s banking group dating back to the times of the Tea Party itself. One of the group is Fidelity and this outfit has tentacles in Chicago too. He may look and sound like a buffoon however the iron fist inside the glove so to speak is looking for ways to destroy the US, they are mad as anything right about now, their monetarist system is still on it’s death bed.

And the people are remembering Barney Frank via the quote — dining room table and what planet….

NHPR hour 2.  Rachel Maddow.  Here.
Bill Press:  And he’s the bluntest man in Congress, telling one constituent at a town meeting: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.”
The Clip of the Ages, right?
Also, the climate in Congress has “substantially deteriorated” since he first got to Washington, Frank said at his press conference, although there was no hint the man who famously likened a dissenter’s intellect to a dining room table sees himself as playing any role in that substantial deterioration.  Hm.  I say insulting the Larouchies should get a pass on that one.
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr  As for wit, all I noticed was a clownish demeanor, somewhat reminiscent of W. C. Fields, though without the booze. A specimen of it was presented on National Public Radio for us to savor the other day. In responding to a contrary constituent in 2009, Frank said, “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.” Oscar Wilde he was not.
And don’t you probably suspect there are plenty of Frank’s colleagues in the House on both sides of the aisle who often wish they could face down an addled constituent at a town hall meeting and note: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.”.
Those who admire him say that Mr. Frank served up his sourness equally, without regard to the political importance or social status of his audience.
And his flavorful putdowns stirred supporters, who cheered when he told a woman at a 2009 town meeting who likened President Obama’s health care plan to Nazism, “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.” .
Steve Williams:  Back in 2010, when open meetings with constituents were all the rage because of the rise of the Tea Party, Frank had an exchange with a woman from his district who questioned him about his role in America’s financial meltdown. Frank refused to partake of any discussion, saying, “Debating with you is like debating with a dining room table.”
Newsbusters:  Kamen noted that while Frank once called to grouse that he hated his column, “we’ll miss his quips and pithy, sometimes withering comments.” The Post staffer rattled off thirteen quotes, beginning with  a now-infamous 2009 quip in which Frank dismissed a critical town hall participant by saying that addressing her concerns was “like trying to have an argument with a dining room table.”
Huffingtonpost  He’ll leave behind a long legacy of legislating, obviously, but he’ll also leave an equally impressive legacy of quips and zingers, which he deployed at will to ridicule reporters, belittle political opponents and, on one memorable occasion, compare the LaRouchie version of Ani DiFranco to a “dining room table.”
The Progressive:  Most of all, I’ll remember him for telling off a Tea Party person who came to his 2009 health-care town meeting and compared Obama to Adolph Hitler. Frank invoked his “ethnic heritage,” and said, “What planet do you spend most of your time on?”.
In an era of carefully crafted political images, he has stood out for his rumpled demeanor and scathing wit.
“Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table,” he told a detractor in 2009.
Frank is a sometimes crotchety advocate for many causes dear to online gamblers as well as many liberal voters. Inside the gambling community, he’s known for his efforts to pass legislation that would allow secure online gambling in the United States. Outside the gambling community, he’s probably best known for being the first openly gay member of Congress. And he was once reprimanded by Congress for encounters with a male prostitute. Oh, and there was that one time he told a woman arguing with him about President Obama’s health care plan that he’d rather argue with a dining room table.  Bless the people of Massachusetts because none of these things kept him from being reelected every year.
On the Absurdity of a Donald Trump hosted Newsmax sponsored Republican Debate:  It looks like Ory Taitz and the woman that Barney Frank compared to his dining room table are going to be on the panel asking the “Tough” questions.

Don’t forget the other part of that equation!
He asked critics: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
When a woman at a town hall meeting in 2009 called President Obama’s health care proposals “Nazi policy,” he famously said, “I’m going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
“What Planet” is a sub-heading in the career overview here.
When he said to a nubjob, “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He handled his office with a style that was really unique. He’ll be missed..
This one from NPR gets both of them in.  As does Fox News.

Interesting to note the drawback to the Rachel Brown Campaign.  There is less likely a chance of appearing on a Public Access aired debate against the two or three “legitimate” primary challengers.  I suppose we’ll see if she can sneak that 20 percent anti Frank vote of 2010 into a Kesha Rogers victory, and make next year’s “Larouchie of the Year” list…

III.  THE PO TOUR

Dateline… Look it Up Later… Libertarian-Ville/  As it turns out, they are followers of Lyndon LaRouche whose beliefs I can’t seem to place anywhere on a political spectrum. According to the Wiki article, the views are applauded by communists, socialists, totalitarians, and fascists alike.
I asked how this effort was being funded and how do they plan on enacting laws and regulations and the answer was that people would just do this. It reminded me of Star Trek and other socialist programming but it had very fascist overtones. Mark then gave up, exasperated by my inquisitiveness and desire for answers. Having failed at proving his beliefs he resorted to ad homonym attacks calling me closed minded and brain washed. He walked off and under his breath said that he needed to find other people to get things done with.
It is obvious to me now, having read up on what these LaRouche guys believe, that they are truly lost. Mark had announced he had read Mises’ book Liberalism proudly beating his chest with his self congratulatory intellectual prowess. Perhaps he did in fact read the entire volume. Obviously, he had not understood it.

Dateline Livingston, New Jersey:

Members of the LaRouche Political Action Committee — named after American political activist Lyndon LaRouche Jr., who unsuccessfully ran for president on eight consecutive occasions from 1976 to 2004 — did not identify themselves but instead referred requests for information to their Virginia-based offices.

“Our sole focus right now is to remove Barack Obama by the 25th Amendment or impeachment,” said LaRouche Political Action Committee spokesperson Angela Vullo. “As long as he is president, the world is being threated with a World War III. And that is a nuclear World War III.”

Dateline Ewing, New Jersey  Only in the land of the free could there be political posters ridiculing President Barack Obama in a Hitleresque mustache, or wearing a derby and “Dancing to Wall Street’s Tune” as half of the famous “Laurel and Hardy 2011” team.
Only in the home of the brave could there be campaign literature warning that Obama is Britain’s puppet and leading the U.S. into World War III while calling for his ouster under the 25th Amendment on g rounds that he cannot perform his presidential duties.
Such was the display of posters and political flyers set out on a table outside the Ewing Post Office yesterday for the curious to gawk and listen to supporters of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.

Joe Lerner, Dateline Seattle, August
However, I disagree with my own tee-shirt, however politically correct (beneath the slogan Lyndon LaRouche is shown bursting from a phone booth, with a swastika stitched on his chest). But when Lyndon LaRouche activists set up a table in front of my favorite store (the U-Bookstore on the Ave), I wanted their attention. […]
The first time I spoke with the LaRouche-ites, meaning to “dialogue,” they responded by harassing and intimidating me: taking my picture with their cell phones, asking what my name was and where I worked, and so forth. When I refused to leave, they called the police, and when the police arrived, I was accused of harassing them. The police, who obviously just wanted to defuse the situation, asked me to leave, but I stuck around a few more minutes anyway.
Several days later I ran into the LaRouche-ites again at the same spot. Again the police were called. (One anti-LaRouche guy who joined the fray with me bolted after they had dialed 911.) […]
It was cold and raining. Now I saw things from the LaRouche-ites’ perspective. Passersby hurried past, not looking, as intent on avoiding me as much as the LaRouche-ites. I saw one guy I knew from work (it was lunch time). He reddened and turned away. I yelled his name. When he did look I shouted, waving my brochures, “I’m not them, I’m the anti-them!”
“I have to be somewhere,” he murmured, and hurried away.
Later someone did read my brochure. “I didn’t know this information was so readily available,” he said.
Yeah, these guys are evil, I was about to reply, when he joined the other LaRouche-ites behind their table. […]
Over the next few weeks I saw them several more times on the Ave, and once in Fremont. Eventually I was talking with a friend who worked at the U-Bookstore. “I thought of you the other day,” he said. “I read in the paper about a woman who jumped out of her car to tear down one of their Obama-with-a-Hitler-mustache posters. She was arrested.” He then told me of another recent incident when a group of LaRouche-ites and Socialist Workers Party members had set up tables next to each other and proceded to harangue each other. “Can you imagine a more dysfunctional picture?” he asked.
“I don’t know. Did they call the police on each other?”

The masses are talking about the Thermonuclear War Prediction:
Okay, I’ll stop. But seriously, can you believe people take this guy seriously? I wouldn’t have thought so, if I hadn’t talked to one of the members of his cult today down by Sproul on the Berkeley campus. They genuinely believe this crap, along with some other fun stuff (Obama is a diagnosable narcissist, if you didn’t know).
As weird as it sounds, I’m kind of intrigued by how odd the whole movement is. So as soon as I post this, I’m sending a link to the appropriate email addresses on the site, and I’m going to ask for real evidence to back up the claim that the “British” are behind a plot to end the world. Because I can’t really see a motive, can you?

Dateline Odessa:
They are recruiting for political activist Lyndon LaRouche’s ‘alliance of patriots’ to ‘remove a disaster’ and ‘junk the new world order consumer economy.’
‘Some people are turned off, but then they come around later because they realize what we’re saying is the truth,’ Jambor said.
I saw these outside agitators at the annex when I went to renew my tags. Lyndon Larouche is the guy who has his followers pay him $24 a month each to go out and beg money from the public.
He’s been a part of every conspiracy theory ever developed since the 1960s. I couldn’t believe that he was still alive, but he is, after Googling.
Just proves that evil never dies, and there’s a sucker born every minute. This group is associated with the KKK, among others.
No, thanks.

Dateline Odessa, Texas
“The biggest problem we have is people are so pessimistic and selfish. They think they are going to keep making money on the stock market and shopping for Christmas while Obama sends the world into depression and war. If we took all the energy people are wasting on shopping and focused it on removing Obama, he would be out next week,” said Craig Holtzclaw, the LaRouche PAC Organizer
The protestors will be traveling around West Texas for the next 2 weeks and then will be traveling all around the state spreading their message.

What a waste of time, money, and effort. If they think they can impeach with in 2 weeks They obviously have not heard how hard it is to impeach period.

Dateline leepy little town of 13,000.  San Mateo County.   It is just a reminder that  we really need to probe a little deeper into peoples intentions.

IV.  INSULTS

Ms. Mirak-Weissbach is a member of Lyndon LaRouche’s organization (far right), and a collaborator of the conspiracy theory web sites mondialisation.ca[2] and globalresearch.ca. The level of honesty is exactly what can be expected 

  Y’know…

This Time Magazine Cover.

I refuse to believe that Mitt Romney is all that into self-pity, and is asking the question… at least in quite that way.

There is no Emo Romney.

This is a Media Creation.

  Newt Gingrich isn’t perceived to have this problem, and he’s not all that far away from Mitt Romney in the poll numbers and key states.

Charles Krauthammer has a reasonable column for a conservative take on Newt versus Mitt.

Note that Global Warming has slid completely out of any conservative vantage point, and the Nancy — Newt show will surface in short order.

Meantime, I’m waiting for the “Why Don’t they like Me” for Ron Paul.  But I guess there’s a big media blackout on the Ron Paul campaign, and stuff.  He may just beat Romney in Iowa.

If Gingrich wins the nomination… memorize these words.

The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.

If Mitt is indeed giving that sad look, then I think Gingrich’s victory might be ascribed to this whole sale fighting attitude when things are down.  Though… there are Emo Fans out there:

Gingrich, however, embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive.
And George Will sticks one up for Jon Huntsman, who… doesn’t really have any favorables or unfavorables to speak of.  And who… I’m watching a little bit suspiciously, I might say.  He may be the one last surprise — the final shoe to drop out of nowhere — in this contest… or he might not.