And Since We Were Discussing The Barely Literate
March 27th, 2008
Jim Paine would like all the wogs to quit whining, please. Really, you should take a lesson from Mr. Paine. Y’know, inherit a little money, scam some welfare BLM land, and coast on your fat ass at your multi-million dollar ranch.
What the fuck’s wrong with you?
As dipstick fucking dumb as the whole thing is, there is one gem. That’d be Mr. Paine’s stab at mocking how all those darkies ain’t, like, educated as good he is.
From his idiot satirical syllabus:
Baccalaureate
* Reality 1A: Life Sucks; Get a Helmet
* Reality 293: You Are Not Important To Others
* Hold Out Both Hands: The Sad Truth About Your Demands
* Spelling & Grammar (required course; must be retaken every enrolled semester)
Here’s a tip, you fucking moron: when mocking others’ writing skills, you might wanna consider not leading with the kind of dipshit error drummed out of every middle-school kid with an IQ over 20. (Scroll down to ampersand.)
March 28th, 2008 at 7:15 am
if i may just butt in to the boulder and surroundings battle …. to offer yall a break, … come zoom out with me and check the reflections that span a liveleak hit (2 million views in 2 hours), endlessnes as only a stretch of sand can end less .. and green thumbaloony land.
A fairly complete account (including pics of main characters on both sides) of the Little Big Horn battle in the 1870ies, fought in a vain attempt to stop gold diggers) is here: http://www.footnote.com/page/1209/the-battle-of-little-big-horn a page that does not show up till the 7th images.google page searching for Crazy Horse. On the way there an old and consistently informative site has the most info: crystalinks (mandala medicine wheel, geometry connection).
Searching for Dee Brown (whose ‘the american west’ had tears burning behind my eyelids and got me going on this quest) is even worse, the first page is taken by a basket baller, then this, from what i can tell, pleasantly conscientious and accurate chronicler of an extremely ugly part of colonial imperial christian expansionist missionary and last but not least, genocidal history shows up here: www.fantasticfiction.co.uk FICTION??????????
Dee Brown
Born February 28, 1908
Alberta, Louisiana
Died December 12, 2002 (aged 94)
Little Rock, Arkansas
(via the encyclopedia of Arkansas)
joep, cartoonist at nova.tv
http://www.novatv.nl/index.cfm?ln=nl&fuseaction=artikelen.details&achtergrond_id=10319&CFID=39223633&CFTOKEN=38827279
shows Muhammed’s ‘lontje’ (fuse) transmuting baser emotions - of ‘diep gezonken’ (degenerated) Dutch yet stacked in the hi-rises typical of mass-manipulooters’ - in Drew Hempel type fashion rather than exploding, .. and yet though agreeing with and following the climax of the Wilders collage he double deals with him somewhat, as Geertje initiates the ‘hele hoop gedonder’ (irritation) with footstamping (placing near misses next to a book on the ground), his neighbour, an imam, as the next carrier of ‘burengerucht’ (disturbance) passes it to our prime minister who escalates the din, a zoom out reveals the whole lot to be contained in the ‘fuse’.
Wilders used the most hated cartoon (of his fellow threatenee, without permission) showing M as a suicide bomber BUT turning it into a device that would somehow bring thunder (perhaps underhandedly intending to council moslims to stay in their deserts and showing confidence in Muhammed’s ability to catalyze impregnation of his deserts with rain (thunder and lighting rather than exploding) as long as he stays there and focuses on the task of applying the dutch touch, the green thumb (to GROw her sugar plumb).
I wonder wether Muslims view their prophet Mohammed as a kind of Sitting Bull for instance (since the latter did a sundance to receive intimations about how the envisioned battle would go (well … and it did but retaliation and then more broken treaties followed all too soon)), to the point of self maiming, blood draining, which itself resembles the muslimlike ((sunni or shia?)) flagellation of sorts Wilders has chosen to honour in his selection of fears for the future of Holland).
Not that i think this view justified but Islamists taking it is understandable as hell .. ..and still very popular, that is their reasons for resorting to violence are as religiously adhered to as their means are blasphemously violated.
Crazy Horse, his and the bands around him applied the range of tactics (initial negociations, gentle warnings, nudges, pushes, outbursts of anger, provocative prods, clabberings with coupsticks and finally guerrilla) from (conservative) motives everybody likes to steal and then sully (with the improving means to perpetrate mass murder even then a much more rapidly firing gun suprised the indians and proved quite decisive), that is to say, unleash (’achieve’) a horrifying generations-spanning string, strung cable, strained rope and whirlwind of trauma and disaster.
The big difference of course is that Islam went on to be a global force to be reckoned with whereas the native American ways suffered genocide and must make do with an o so faint reflection in the indigenous rights movement, reservations, disputed tenure (Ward Churchill) and splinter groups like the rainbow family.
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The long view is taboo:
Hold collectively responsible and accountable.
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The shortsighted one tries but mostly pretends to be more accurately specific, on target and hence, just:
Search out and punish culprits perpetrators and criminals on the one hand, hold up beneficiaries, initiators and inventors as shining examples deserving every bit of their singling themselves out in matters of reward and wages, so much even that the personhood status is, in jealous imitation?) granted big generations spanning institutions that have agency to stay inviolate, sovereign, etcetera.
Either way, the most violent actions sort the most ef- and affect, they shape and set the pattern for slews of mere follower rather than initiators, the western ways of banishing troublesome elements morhped into colonialism and imperialism with mercenary industries of supressing spreading non-racist slavery.
That’s right Geert, the left is as blind to Bolshevism as it is to Islam, even to this day, and yet, so are you, with your biased take on semitism. The Bolshies meanwhile morphed to zionism but are still quite recognizable since traceable, they even concentrated and consolidated if anything.
ps: read my first Crews on your recommendation but more bycause i had one of them o so infrequent letters from an old acquaintance who gets a kick out of dead weights http://cleandraws.com on the day i saw ‘body’ for 25 eurocents
March 28th, 2008 at 9:55 am
And that, TT, will be one of your shorter posts. Right?
March 28th, 2008 at 10:22 am
don’t worry, my posting average is once every few months anymore these days (approaching fifty you know) and trying to stop wars as fooltime as i did burns one up quick. What have i got to show for it? poetpiet.tripod.com and another 60Megs of that shit i can’t decide to do anything with .. .yet.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:34 am
well, i did come to a live terminal well armed today (though had no definite plans with it, but here, so there (few words by myself though, which show you i can be brief):
speaking of (lo trust hy ego) gold in themthar hills …
…from a site called goldisfreedom (though Beckerath, who at first sight might be regarded a a hero of mine on account of my recommending him so often … hahah hhaah!!! i realize i have most often done that when in a RUSH whereas in my more elaborate critiques i try make sure folks/readeries (as Dejan calls his) understand the diff between rush and crush, greed and fever of golddiggers vs benevolence towards tiniest, most humble and voiceless beings. I appreciate Fekete brings up a close associate of B’s but must place some remarks in the margin of his 05 screed:
Since time immemorial governments have been predisposed to intervene on behalf of the debtors and to the prejudice of the creditors. There may have been ideological motivation for this, but it is more likely that governments were pursuing self-serving policies. *They were debtors themselves*. They wanted *easy money* in order to aggrandize and perpetuate their own power. They have done all they could to compromise the sovereignty of the saver. Through various measures such as fomenting credit expansion or inflation, and through *obstructing* the free flow of gold, they have tried to undercut the importance of saving and to promote the cause of spending. The regime of irredeemable currency must be seen as the fulfillment of those early aspirations. The Ratchet and the Linkage Recall that when access to gold is inhibited or denied, as it has been with increasing frequency and intensity throughout the entire history of the gold standard, gold hoarding is superseded with similarly increasing frequency and intensity by the hoarding of marketable commodities.
Piet (responding to the 3 sections between **
respectively):
Not neccesarily
on the contrary
no, obviating
Michael Hudson
More specifically, the role of land and its rent must be seen to be of such central fiscal and historical importance that it cannot be left out of account by economic theorists, historians or the designers of fiscal systems. In the century since Henry George elevated land rent to a central political focus in Progress and Poverty (1879), the perception of land’s importance has become marginalized even as its actual role has grown. Economists have telescoped the analysis of land into capital-in-general, despite the fact that land represents the major source of capital gains. The economic interpretation of history has been dominated by Marxists focusing on class conflict between labour and capital, not on the role of land tenure and rent in history. The problem is thus not simply to get economic history into the core curricula, but to make the land issue central to economic history, and hence to the study of our own society’s future.
Abraham, Joseph … American Indians ….
YIN close(d) circuit —–
preempted factual improvement … more and more neglected work ….. mineralized vitality
presence
body
female
YANG ….. ….. pow(d)er
fictionally predetermined rising value … projections of vaster and vaster upturns … .bring of breakmanship
future
mind
male
land into capital
More Michael Hudson (from Harpers Magazine may 06):
THE FREE LUNCH: Its cost to citizens The recycling of savings into new mortgage lending has fueled an economy-wide inflation of asset prices for land, homes, and commercial properties, as well as stock market and bond prices. If what rises in value is mainly the land site, then the property owners appear as passive beneficiaries enjoying a free lunch. The property is their major asset and the mortgage their major debt. While doing little to increase the value of the building beyond having picked a good location and making the normal maintenance, they ride the crest of asset-price inflation of land. Indeed, take-home earnings have drifted down over the past two decades, but house prices have soared. These “capital gains” for households are part of the new phenomenon that has been popularized as “labor capitalism.” As Margaret Thatcher’s crowd has put it, “Sorry you’ve lost your job; I hope you’ve made a killing on your Council House or home in the real estate market.” The free lunch. For the two-thirds of America’s and Britain’s populations who are home owners, this free lunch from asset-price inflation of land has proved to be a silver lining in the post-industrial economy. For the remaining third of the population, however, the price of access to home ownership is receding rapidly. Today it hardly is possible for most renters to earn the money to acquire their own homes. The entry price has been bid up too high by those hoping to gain from asset-price inflation even as labor’s earnings have been declining. Its cost to the economy Once a building has taken all its depreciation, investors have a tax motive to sell the property and buy another. The sales price obviously will be higher if the new buyer can begin depreciating the building all over again, for the property will yield more after-tax revenue. This financial trick turns the real estate sector into a game of musical chairs, while enabling property owners to avoid income taxation. The end result is to free more of their cash flow to pledge to mortgage lenders as interest, in exchange for loans to buy more and more property that is rising in price. This is the anatomy of the dramatic increase in land-prices, called the real estate bubble. The tragedy of modern economies is this divergence of saving away from financing new direct investment and employment, to inflate a financial and real estate bubble. When the bubble bursts there will be little new tangible wealth creation to show for it, only a wave of insolvency, bankruptcy and foreclosures as the Western economies begin to look more like that of Japan since its bubble burst a decade ago. America’s and Europe’s largest economic expansion may similarly give way to a long depression. Its cause will remain invisible as long as the politically powerful real estate interests keep getting land undervalued and its income masked as capital gains on the national income and product accounts
PORTFOLIO 39 P O R T F O L I O Michael Hudson is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance. Nigel Holmes was the graphics director of Time magazine for sixteen years and is the author of Wordless Diagrams. the new road to serfdom An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse By Michael Hudson Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty. -H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come ever before have so many Americans gone so deeply into debt so willingly. Housing prices have swollen to the point that we’ve taken to calling a mortgage-by far the largest debt most of us will ever incur-an ”investment.” Sure, the thinking goes, $100,000 borrowed today will cost more than $200,000 to pay back over the next thirty years, but land, which they are not making any more of, will appreciate even faster. In the odd logic of the real estate bubble, debt has come to equal wealth. And not only wealth but freedom-an even stranger paradox. After all, debt throughout most of history has been little more than a slight variation on slavery. Debtors were medieval peons or Indians bonded to Spanish plantations or the sharecropping children of slaves in the postbellum South. Few Americans today would volunteer for such an arrangement, and therefore would-be lords and barons have been forced to develop more sophisticated enticements. The solution they found is brilliant, and although it is complex, it can be reduced to a single word-rent. Not the rent that apartment dwellers N 40 HARPER’S MAGAZINE / MAY 2006 The new road to serfdom begins with a loan.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I wonder if someone like Ward Churchill would have an interpretation of this. This long story is about this 22 year old guy who is the president of a company with a couple employees which has a big $300million contract to supply most of the munitions going to Afghani police and military. He has all sorts of personal flaws and misdemeanors. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/world/asia/27ammo.html?ref=world
Can anyone explain whether due to sheer incompetence, or distractedness, that this easily happens all the time. Or is it simple patronage, or something far more complicated, like they’re funneling money to the Bahamas?
March 28th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
One doubts that the Good Prof would bother trying to make sense of TT’s endless—not to mention senseless—meanderings. The guy’s almost on at the level of Snapple…
But, hey, Sybil. That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
March 30th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Yep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE
Anyway, re: Paine’s mocking of the segments of the university not devoted to technical vocations - who needs scribes, historians and artists anyway? Not essential to running our current civilization. The people running stuff in government and Iraq certainly didn’t need to study that stuff. Business leaders just need to meet each other in school and learn how to hire some workers, and engineers to solve problems. It all works out
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BTW, if you needed a reason to avoid McCain, apparently he directed the divide and conquer plan to remove Dineh out of the large black mountain area which Peabody coal wanted, followed to poisoning the landscape.
http://www.cain2008.org/