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September 7, 2005
WB: A Better Class of Idiot
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Goddamn it, Bush is just a symptom of a deeper underlying problem… whats behind the potimkin?
Is The New Orleans race vampires
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 7 2005 16:16 utc | 1
In my destress, I fucked up, that should have pointed to this:The New Orleans race vampires also see: Race baiting
“The negro is a native of tropical climate where fruits and nuts are plentiful and where clothing is not required for protection against the weather … The essentials of society in the jungle are few and do not include the production, transportation and marketing of goods. [Thus] his racial constitution has been fashioned to exclude any idea of voluntary cooperation on his part.”
Dixicrat platform of 1948
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 7 2005 16:27 utc | 2
At the risk of manically over posting, I had to add this: With the eyes of the nation firmly focused on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there have been major developments in the battle over the future of the Supreme Court…
Snip:
Rehnquist was at the middle both as a lawyer in his early years opposing participation of African-Americans in Arizona, later as assistant attorney general in the Nixon administration, promoting political surveillance, wiretapping. And then finally as a justice where he was a key voice, the pivotal voice in turning back civil rights and civil liberties the last 25 years.
Snip:
And there is no doubt that throughout his career Chief Justice Rehnquist had an abiding concern with turning the court away, from defending minority rights, and from turning the court away from enforcing the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education. I think you can see it playing out in the streets of New Orleans today, in the Astrodome in Houston, in the faces of the refugees, the legacy of Separate but Equal, the legacy of Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Snip:
AMY GOODMAN: Bruce Shapiro, what about his young law clerk, John Roberts? Now been nominated by president Bush not only to be a member of the Supreme Court with hearings while they were actually set for today. But now with the death of William Rehnquist to replace him as the youngest Supreme Court Chief Justice in what, something like 200 years.
[…much like his mentor, Judge Roberts is a big defender of expansive power by the executive branch.]
I’ll step away from the keybord now for some sunshine and air. Carry on.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 7 2005 17:12 utc | 3
i don’t think you post too much uncle $cam. you are a rich asset here as far as i’m concerned
Posted by: annie | Sep 7 2005 17:27 utc | 4
Annie’s right, major asset almost 24/7. Thank you for posting so much hard to get info.
$cam asked Goddamn it, Bush is just a symptom of a deeper underlying problem… whats behind the potimkin?
It’s a moral issue at root. Americans have shut their ears, closed their eyes, and don’t want to think about right and wrong. Too many are complicit in unearned consumer goods, absurd asset valuations, and if not racism then nationalist socialism of an economic variety IMO.
Posted by: Wolf DeVoon | Sep 7 2005 19:11 utc | 5
While Occam’s Razor always slices bureaucracy down to a black
kernel of venality and incompetence, the sad fact is that with
1,000,000 monkeys and 1,000,000 typewriters, and I might add,
$27,332,000,000 just in the 2006 Homeland Defense Budget alone,
sooner or later you’re going to turn out a Patriot Act II, and
at the same time, advance Neo-Red strategy full-spectrum dominance
across every front, at every moment (O’Connor, Roberts, Rehnquist) where ever there is an opportunity, however momentary and minute.
The visual? Mel Gibson’s Blue-faced Scots, against the Red Chinese.
Read it: [Table 3–1. HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING BY AGENCY, page 50]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/pdf/spec.pdf
Weep. When did they start calling America, “Der Homeland” anyway?
The Department of Homeland Defense budget is *ONE THOUSAND TIMES*
larger than Department of Education’s! Department of State budget
is *TEN TIMES* larger than EPA plus Corps of Engineers combined!
What, so Condi can buy another $3,000 pair of stilleto heels?!
They whacked Education, Interior, Labor, Corps of Engineers, NASA,
Intelligence Asset Management. What the hell is the “Corporation
for National and Community Service?” Is that the Brown Shirts II?
And what the hell is BioShield? A $2.5B charity for Big Pharma?
Now I understand all those arcane NIH calls for request for bids.
Is BioShield a cover to psyops-funding for crowd control studies?
Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets .. $15,632M
Defending Against Catastrophic Threats …………. $ 3,898M
Emergency Preparedness and Response ……………. $ 6,121M
A $25,651,000,000 budget, plus $500,000,000 a day unaccountable,
and all I got from FEMA was this crappy Church Camp t-shirt?!?!
Now do something proactive with that new-found knowledge, and that
white-hot fire of justice and retribution burning within all of US.
It’s time for a nationwide tax revolution.
Posted by: tante aime | Sep 7 2005 19:53 utc | 6
I like Uncle, too.
Nobody can afford to give much weight to those poll numbers. If you do, you will just crawl into a corner and rock.
Who takes automated phone polls. If they were voice polls I just pretend that they outsourced the calls to a low-bid subcontractor and the subcontractor is a subsidiary of the Focus on the Family communications enterprise. This is a complete fantasy. I have no idea how the polls were conducted. But sometimes we need illusions. I can’t [afford to] believe we are that stupid.
Posted by: eftsoons | Sep 7 2005 21:43 utc | 7
Well, I was about to consign myself to Bedlam, EFT. I’ll reprieve myself for awhile.
Posted by: Groucho | Sep 7 2005 22:13 utc | 8
pretty good stuff>>>>> http://www.thisisnotover.com/archives/2005/09/heres_what_gets.html
Posted by: steve duncan | Sep 7 2005 22:33 utc | 9
It’s a moral issue at root. Americans have shut their ears, closed their eyes, and don’t want to think about right and wrong.
51% of the voters brought this Thing back into office, and most of them are going to try their damndest to change or ignore reality just so they don’t have to face up to the fact that they’re also responsible for this mess.
No one likes to admit that they’ve fucked up. And this is the biggest fuck up of all.
If any of the hardcore Bush suporters do realize exactly what they’ve done to their own country… well… I can only imagine that the suicide rate will spike dramatically. I know I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I had voted for him.
Posted by: Libby | Sep 7 2005 22:36 utc | 10
Addiction to polls has become a major USA disease. I’ve even fallen into the trap, myself, and that’s when it’s gone to far, since I have never considered myself a sucker. I’m about to start a recovery agency for this malady. It’s ridiculous.
If you’ve noticed, the polls have gone off the graph high and low in the past week. It’s a heart attack for this nation, and the people are panic-stricken as usual. Their beloved known response. That’s a time when they cling to the known and you know that.
Those of us in the know are spending precious life force agonizing about this shit.
Posted by: jm | Sep 7 2005 23:57 utc | 12
Polls are not God. Not the truth. Nor can you suck their teats for nourishment and escape. Since when has arithmetic been the mighty ruler of the universe?
Posted by: jm | Sep 8 2005 0:03 utc | 13
And BY THE WAY,
There is no known cure yet for maniacal over posting. It’s a new condition, the effects of which are still undetermined.
Posted by: jm | Sep 8 2005 0:08 utc | 14
This is not a accurate poll. The numbers sampled are too small. Do no assume that this poll relflects public opinion. Any Dem who needs poll results to justify action on this tragedy doesn’t deserve to be in office. Shine light on what went in a consistent fashion, and what is going on in a consistent fashion and the “support” for the leaders of agencies will crumble. This is also a misleading question.
Posted by: patience | Sep 8 2005 0:42 utc | 15
Ya know, I keep looking at this poll and wondering whether it’s really as bad as it seems. People could be thinking, “Why fire some underling? Sure, he’s an idiot, but the problem is with his boss, and why let Bush get away with firing Brown and then pretending it was all his fault?”
I’ll admit that this is probably over-optimistic. It would explain the discrepancy between the number of people who say that the feds fucked this up and the number who think somebody should be fired for it, though.
Posted by: fiorinda | Sep 8 2005 0:43 utc | 16
you know folks, the best you can hope for at this point is that mother nature provides a couple more “Katrina”s in rapid succesion, say an f5 to flatten ft.lauderdale and a 7.5 to flatten san diego — then all the no’s could take back their city and its recovery cuz the feds would be spread so thin helping the rich whities — just a thought
ps. i’m not a troll or a freeper, i’m a canuck that’s a solid libertarian leftie (according to the “political compass”)
Posted by: andrew in caledon | Sep 8 2005 1:21 utc | 17
Goddamn it, Bush is just a symptom of a deeper underlying problem… whats behind the potimkin?
I’m thinking it’s a natural evolution of a world power-the USA is going from republic to empire right now-the chimperor is just a symptom.
Oh well, nothing lasts forever…
Posted by: doug r | Sep 8 2005 2:23 utc | 18
I don’t believe the polls most times, but Americans are suckers and the spin the last two to three days is turning public opinion.
The MSM should make two points. This is the worst administered the federal governments been managed in our (my) lifetime. Second, is the mismamngement due to an idealogy that believes so much in the fend for our self world that its negelect on purpose. I believe its both.
Bush Sr was a terrible manager and his idealogy kept him out of touch with reality.
Posted by: jdp | Sep 8 2005 2:28 utc | 20
i’ll attempt a stab at this…
Bush is just a symptom of a deeper underlying problem… whats behind the potimkin?
dot #3,098,116 – “Political economist Adam Smith was correct in noting that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”[source]
“injured citizens”?
dot #100,994 – “Trauma is a necessary part of civilizing someone, because a natural, maturing individual will not otherwise accept the ideals of civilization. These ideals – hierarchy, property, the State, for example – are so contrary to our tribal nature that they must be forcibly thrust into the human mind. This causes the mind to rupture, to divide its territory that is, to surrender a part of itself to the invading enemy.” [source]
dot #6,224,901 – “We are all captives of the pictures in our head, our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists” – walter lipmann, political opinion
dot #37,872 chapter 3, “the mystification of experience”, r.d. laing, the politics of experience
dot #71,993,000 “Western technology and the people who have employed it have been the most amazingly destructive forces in all of human history. No natural disaster has ever destroyed as much.” the haudenosaunee, basic call to consciousness
i’m not grounded enough at the moment to tie it all together into a coherent argument. i will say that (1) there’s nothing natural about it (it’s not an evolutionary process whereby the u.s. is experiencing transformative pains as it tries to be an empire…we’ve always been an empire) and (2) it’s not simply an issue of morals, or right vs. wrong. it goes to our roots.
Posted by: b real | Sep 8 2005 4:13 utc | 21
Well, what I really want to know is if this poll means that 63% of Americans are racits?
Yes, it IS a serious question, and no I’m not channelling Steve Gilliard.
Posted by: CluelessJoe | Sep 8 2005 7:49 utc | 23
As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions. As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation. We told them of our conversation with the police commander and of the commander’s assurances. The sheriffs informed us there were no buses waiting. The commander had lied to us to get us to move.
We questioned why we couldn’t cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the 6-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes in their City. These were code words for if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans.
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 8 2005 8:20 utc | 24
No reason to be surprised. America is dead. I think only progressives actually believe in the damn country. Even the flag wavers are mostly concerned with themselves, gas prices, and home equity.
Posted by: folkers | Sep 8 2005 9:48 utc | 25
The Bush White House, if nothing else, is a marketing machine, a triumph of style over substance. In the summer of 2002, Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card admitted as much, declaring the time for selling the planned war with Iraq was not yet ripe, “from a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.”
Therein lies the problem for President Bush in the marketing of his administration’s abysmal response to hurricane Katrina. Bush has no product. Even worse, he has no pitch man, or worse still, pitch woman. In a nutshell, George W. Bush needs the Lisa Beamer of New Orleans. But sadly for President Bush, in New Orleans, the color of suffering – and heroism – is black.
For the full story, see:
“Where’s the Lisa Beamer of New Orleans?”
Posted by: AvengingAngel | Sep 9 2005 3:52 utc | 26