Democrat Mark Begich beats Stevens for Alaska seat.

Happy to see this one.  A typical modern Alaska story.  A centrist who has a very good opinion of himself. Congressional family and landlord roots.  The prototypic fixer-upper.  General Contractor. State Assembly. Mayor. US Senator from Alaska. This old house.  Handyman. Good example to show Sarah Palin's fans how the world dilemma needs to be approached for positive rather than destructive means. The only senator not to have a college education. Looks like he's ethical and enjoys bringing people together in deals.  A compromiser? Let's hope. And he's smart though somewhat cold overall.  Keep him away from the hookers. This guy can do a brake job on your car while selling your house. 

He's going to certainly bring more oil business to Alaska.  Two years out he will be right in the thick of it.  Now we have to get Stewart Smally recounted and Saxby Chambliss defeated.  

Let's keep the dogpatch Clintons out of government! Nova suggestion.

You have to go back to 1992 to realize what we could have had as government when the closet raging Jerry Brown was battling successfully for the presidency.  Slick Willyboy Clinton the current Poppy Bush pal was still allowing the Mena Airbase to be used by G.H.W. Bush to arm the contras and allow cocaine into the US  land through Arkansas and then further ferried by Air America and Southern Air Transport.  The money was laundered and some of it found its way back into Clintons 1992 campaign coffers.  Now after being paid back with an election win over Big George, and hungry for more of the good life, babes, and drugs; --Clinton wants back in!  And now its through his wife.  You remember, the one who suspected nothing regarding Bill's Oval Office oral encores.  The one who ran the dirty campaign against Obama and kept soaking her backers in that very expensive slugfest. The McCain campaign will go down as the dirtiest in history, people will remember the way he disported himself.  Historians will forget the Hillary Clinton campaign even though they virtually wrote the entire McCain script. 

But what does Slick Willy want out of all of this?  He's been pallin' around with Big George the last several years and seemingly getting his hands dirtied in the Khazar steppe region at the southern tip of the Caucasian mountains.  This time he's cornering the market on uranium ore with a Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra.  Big George has been working the Canadian mining markets for some time now since leaving office, January of 1993. Family investments were shifted out of arms in the Carlyle holding company and moved over to gold.  They rode that pony and now are moving again and transferring their wealth. Now with misery and starvation ensured they are buying into water ownership and related management technologies through companies like Bechtel still controlled by Big George's former cabinet members.  

And now a switch into uranium for Slick Willy.  How about a nuclear war with Russia over uranium with with the HillBilly's leading the charge. Does Georgia and South Ossetia now start to make sense as the new front of the cold war? "Defensive" missiles in Poland.  Russian ICBM's being dusted off.  Nuclear subs in the North Sea.  Off the Alaskan coast. Alaskan separatist movement gains purchase.  Russia extends her empire?  Blackwater Inc. is now a clawprint in the greatest untapped area of the planet.  How about slant oil drilling wars between Russia and the US? Get ready for just that.  A North American war for the first time since the Civil war and Zapata.  Canada jumps in...warm enough for you yet? Fighting Russia on two fronts.  The Arabs ally with Russia and we lose the uranium and in the process we lose Alaska. US prospects implode and the occupying army within meets the one without.  

Corporate interests could not be happier unless an axial tilt accellerated the warming at the poles, melting poles and freezing the middle east and the torrid zone.  It could happen but the force necessary would probably knock the planet Earth out of orbit.  After all a spinning top depends upon centripetal stability and an axial consistency.  The factors of mass and speed of revolution coupled with the path around the sun are interrelated by the physics of the system. When things change suddenly everything spins out of control.  Not only does the earth go on a trip out of orbit but the solarsystem loses the integrity of its gravitational shared symbiosis. The orbital balance of the solar system goes way out of balance.  The chaos theory holds and John Muir is again vindicated when he opines that you cannot take anything out of the universe and have it be the same.  The order is disturbed and chaos compounds.  

Super Novas start just like this! Now that's the kind of world sought by Bible Spicers who believe "Left Behind" and unless we stop them thoroughly we are just one more explosion which we witness in wonder as to how it went through the universe for 8 million years before the light reached us.  

By apolloguide, November 16 at 11:46 am #
re"  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081114_a_rejoinder_to_gore_vidal/

If the comment required explication why didn’t you, Mr. Gumbel, request for clarification instead of going to press with your confusion?  I can only reason from your rejoinder that you decided to keep the comment out of context so that you could make issue from it.  Gore’s remark is dripping with sarcasm.  An earlier Bill Buckley might have understood this but as his reincarnation you appear unable to do the same.  
You say that you were:

“deeply troubled about where this thought had come from.”

The next time you are not sure what you heard you need to clarify by asking another few questions, and not by rushing a publicly tarnishing hit piece on a great American author which your article attempts to do, to print. You proceed to suggest that Gore Vidal is out of touch and and nothing more than an idle rich man of the Jack Tanner class of 1896.

and then this line: 
“Vidal’s reactionary bile is part of a clear historical pattern that has, at different times, condoned the slavery he alludes to; espoused open prejudice against immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and the industrial working class; and embraced the notion that democracy is somehow too precious to be entrusted to more than a small fraction of the people governed.” As an immigrant Catholic Jack Kennedy would certainly dispute your characterization of Vidal.

Could it be that Gore Vidal is also responsible for global warming? Or could it be that you Mr. Gumbel are no Bill Buckley?

HuffnPuffington banning

I seem to be much too controversial for Huff'n'puffington.  They bounce me for saying Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary are Zionistically inclined and bringing up the Rahm Emmanuel father truthy observation supporting such an earthy analysis by yours truly.  All of this within the controversy of whether or not Lieberman should pay a price.  Looks like Arianna Huffington has the Plum Book of the Obama  Administration in her sights.  Lord knows internet sites don't pay for that lavish travelling lifestyle of hers.  Her namesake Mr. Huffington, republican candidate for governor of California is still paying the price in so many ways. (by the way anyone who takes the same stage with Tony Blankly is not a Liberal.  More like phony!!) 

Oh by the way I believe along with others that Lieberman should remain until the point where he might decide to vote out of the Caucus on a Cloture Vote.  But having grown up in the dismal days of the southern democrats from 1947 to 1968 I know that the worst scenario is always, ------always the operant direction plan B.  We will get Joe and he will keep his hammerlock on the new administration.  But I would really like to have the supermajority of 60 democrats available for my dreams for at least a few days before the underworld takes out a democrat or two like they did with mel carnahan and paul wellstone...I know its hard to believe but they were smoked by the cia mafia.  

The plebiscite is dominant through voting for only a very short time when the real military power is still held by the opposition.  Never forget that we are still in the extreme danger of losing our popular victory.  There is the domestic !st brigade stationed in the united states and their 7 support teams which have not been mentioned in the BS news reports of the media...  

don't relax just yet, the Superbowl will host a new reality in America.  Demo Centrist Biden may come out on top.  

Carpe Diem But drive safely! Please!

"carpe diem /0ˌkɑ:peɪ ˈdi:ɛm, 0ˈdʌɪɛm/ interjection. E19.

[ORIGIN Latin, lit. ‘seize the day!’, a quotation from Horace (Odes i.xi).]

Used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future."  --courtesy the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

Barack Obama must use his remaining time on earth to inspire the world to its highest ideals of charity, humility, and community.  He has chosen to be the lightning-rod 3-point leader of the planet.  The more the world accepts him the bigger target he becomes for the frighteningly fatuous fringer freshling finks. For his life to be maximal he needs to pack in as much as possible with inspiring speeches between now and the Super Bowl. Podesta is already saying things meant to embarass the Bible spicers regarding the reversal of executive orders on stem cell research whose oppositional roots are within the holy roller ranks of ignorance.  As he continues to fight the power of military ignorance and deceit he will step on a lot of toes. Lowlifes with their Bibles and their guns lie in wait in the shadows for an opening opportunity to make a grisly example of higher progressive civilizations' true leader.  May God bless the new President.  

"...I may not get there with you..." MLK

Swords into Plowshares; Guns into Butter

Happiness today, tears of happiness.  I have seen a miracle. 

All sorts of emotions running through me as I give thanks for the election results.  

The job now is truly to keep hope alive and restrain the Last Chance Texaco grab by the churlish  incumbent Bush.  Bush will try to start another expensive war for a tip to the fascist military industrial block who run his soul. Obama has to be noisy at every single attempt to do more damage to the country by Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gates, Paulson, and others.  

Looking back at the last Bush transition (from memory): 

1)  a Bosnian War was started at the last moment giving Bill Clinton a fire to put out.

2)  the main White House computer networks were trashed along with telephone switchboards. They all had to be built up from scratch. 

And then there were the initial stupid decisions by Clinton which ruined his support instantly:

3)  Right Winger David Gergen was kept as Press Secretary ...

4)  Gays in the military "don't ask don't tell" ...

5)  The overly ambitious medical plan right out of the gate...from his wife...?!

To the members of the military do not fire on Americans! Stand down all unlawful orders. The first Brigade is still under Bush's orders until the 20 of January 2009.  The administration will stop at nothing to maintain their grip on power.  

Movin' on...

The nationwide funded Prop 8 California success should keep such a deal breaker from emerging to sabotage a progressive 1st term. It's unfortunate that this passed but for a while this will bury the issue from national dialog. It puts Obama in the same position as Arnold and puts Jerry Brown possibly against them.  Jerry is certain to shrill out if he makes or is made to have this as an issue in a campaign running against Arnold for the US Senate in 2011. 

1)  The war which is draining money and soul from the national body politic needs to stop immediately.  

2)  A multilingual program to educate the newly arrived Americans regarding the necessity of  controlling their birth rate as an essential element of citizenship. No more than 2 children! needs to become the law of the land. 

3)  Repair the infrastructure of the country through WPA inspired projects administered by local labor contractors. Green it!

4)  Swords into plowshares. Guns into butter. 

Pull the CIA out of Columbia.  Cut off all military aid to Central and South America's military dictatorships. May the despots be deposed! Turn the CIA into the Peace Corps. And for Christ sake leave Chavez and Morales alone. 

5)  Health care for all.   Extend the military and congressional universal health care system to the entire population. Train doctors in integrative medicine and send them out into the world to heal. 

6)  Electrify the planet with renewable energy and promote efficient energy use reduction technologies. 

7)  Let the show trials begin!  Everyone in the government who was or is still involved in faking the need for war in needs to be charged appropriately, tried, and if found guilty needs to serve  the penalties specified in the law. Everyone, all the way up the ladder to the White House. 

8)   All executive orders issued by George W. Bush need to be rendered null and void. 

9)  The creation of a federal agency under congressional control which has complete authority over a universal Paper Ballot Voting System (PBVS) administered by the states.  

The first few weeks of official office for Barack Obama January 21-February 7 is very dangerous with the possibility of his serious injury due to Mercury, Mars and Saturn being joined by the Moon in a particularly menacing reinforced pattern involving Mars and Saturn in the root chart. Please be extra careful if you are protecting him and his family. I hope that Barack has an official astrologer associated with his security detail.  The Tuesday 27th of January, 2009 has a most intense concentration of Mars and Saturn and Mercury.  Jupiter is in a conjunction which is good and Venus transit and Uranus transit are even better in opposition to the root Mars transit Saturn conjunction.  It will take some skillful steering to avoid the consequences of the Mercury Mars Saturn vibes but there is help available with Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus. 

Nowhere Men

Emboldened by the vicious campaign narrative of the Republican party, the body count rises as the zombies of the cotton belt start to crawl out of their Appalachian caves and squint at the light. East Shreveport is getting ugly. 

Anne Pressly died on Saturday in Little Rock. Was she beaten to death for "random violence" as offered by the Little Rock Arkansas Police? Or was she a victim of the rebel rousing efforts of the McCain-Palin-Bush-Cheney juggernaut? 

The zombies of "Deliverance", "Natural Born Killers", "Badlands", "Road Warrior" drawn to military environments and their easy access to guns, and trained in military schools as children; dimly aware of their difference, have been thoroughly rejected by an exported industrial economy and have nowhere to compete in a non-violent civilization. "Rambo" returns home to fight the enemy within as defined by Colonel Troutman, and now he's addicted to meth-based medications to enhance his warfighter efficiency. 

Rambo is joining armed private militias at the borders. A new race war on the way, Civil War II. "They wouldn't let us win the first one, ..."  

...a zombie goes to a Pa. Democrat rally with his Bible and his Glock, a Texas B-Girl goes to Pa. to pretend to be assaulted by a black man in the service of swaying voters to McCain, a "Helter Skelter" doomer "Doc Savage" hops a Sportster grabbing his gay babe "Slab" and motors off across Interstate 10 to murder everyone without a tattoo ending with the President... a carload of armed speed freaks in Colorado come to Denver to kill the Presidential candidate in front of 75,000 people, and a private security trainee getting certified for arms says he wants to 'kill the "nigger"' candidate for president...

And what, pray tell, is the justice department doing?  Investigating ACORN in order to suppress legitimate voter registration is one thing, beating protesters is another.  

What a wacko f*ckin' government.  

taxes support elderly? come on!

It would be great to see those who make 250,000 or more a year pay more taxes, --incrementally, --up the ladder to the elite mammon megastars.  There should be a salary cap on elite fortunes just like there is a salary cap in baseball and football and other professional sports.  The time for big fortunes is over. We need to cap births and their attendant compensation and offer much reduced indulgence for people who refuse to responsibly control births.  The goal is Zero Population Growth.  To make this work we have to get rid of the idea that increased population is the way that we take care of our elders--a Big Lie about the New Deal spread by Republicans.  

We take care of our elders by refusing to have more children than two. In this way we avoid having the children competing for food with their elders.  We really need to balance the population rather then continue to push the planet way beyond its carrying capacity.  If we allow the elites to avoid these measures we will find our heirs and ourselves on the butcher block to be eaten as the only food left on the planet. 

Cover the planet with condoms! 

what better way..and a double standard too..

to influence the election results than to create riots at the polls..

by claiming that because one is a button wearing McCain supporter.. 

robbed and beaten at an ATM machine..by a liberal rat!  

It's happened: one of the girls at Pootie's stopped banging 

her head on the brass pole long enough to leave College Station, Texas to campaign for

Palin-McCain went too far as to fabricate a tale of ATM assault

for the benefit of John McCain. The bank tape tape denies it, she's changed her story 3 times 

and even Michelle Malkin rejects it. (update, Ms. she wasn't even there!)

And/but on a different day a local TV announcer in Little Rock is bludgeoned in her

home because she appeared in a small role impersonating Ann Coulter

in the recent comic-biopic "W." and, the police claim she was just 

"a victim of random violence"? UPDATE: Anne Pressly died a few days later.

What a f*ckin' country! It is still 1861 in western Pa. and Arkansas.

Low Information Voters... a vanishing breed!

 Dow 7000 anyone? Get a rebate check for $300? Increase taxes to cover it George giveth and he taketh away.  

George W. Bush may be the greatest MBA ever matriculated in that he ran the market up nearly 100% and returned it lower at the end of his power than he found it...and he pushed the future of the world, which depends upon orderly markets, over the side.  Is this is the end of capitalism and the advent of sane international policy...or it is the more likely sellout of the real estate of the US to the Asian banking with Mitsubishi of Japan taking the lead position already having large interests in California banks?  

The debt that we are being asked to assume as taxpayers is being transferred to Asia with corporate dealmakers based in the United States selling bank assurances over the Pacific basin.  --Now, the conservative estimates are that China holds $400 Billion of U.S. mortgages...where does it lead to when the Ponzi scheme of US Wall Street capitalism is evident to everyone? War with China ?  Nukes in our future, flying everywhere!  We get to be the generation which failed the world.   

We are being asked to loan money to bankers (through our tax obligation) who in theory will loan it to businesses which manufacture goods that they attach a profit to and sell them back to us. We get to pay twice and pick up all the commissions throughout the entire process.  But those upper crusters accounting themselves as businesses can buy what they personally need at cost. 

By sub-contracting every interaction within the economy they seek to monopolize capital-flow through the Ponzi scheme of capitalism. There has never been any justification for this level of wealth transfer. These large accumulations are dangerous to the social structure.

John McCain wants to give full time tax filers $5000 US worth of health money. That will cover the cost of one emergency room visit per family. Not content with diluting the labor market with increased immigration, John offers to pull your teeth for free but if you want to replace them you are out of pocket. Of course there's no job now and you find it difficult to feed and house yourself and medicine and dentistry are beyond your budget. But if you are a US Veteran or Merchant Marine or a National Politician you get a full ride. Everyone else gets the opportunity to decay gracefully.  

John McCain is hiding in a false universe. He is 72 years old and claiming to be a Viet Nam veteran, but the very earliest of Viet Nam vets were, coming to war in 1966 and only 19. John was a lifer-30 years old. Lifers shield themselves from the realities of war by staying safely away from the action. While training John crashed 4-5 military planes and was involved in over 140 deaths of fellow navy sailors on an aircraft carrier before he went on his storied adventure; crashing and burning: becoming a prisoner of war. As a son of privilege he got a pass for divulging information to the enemy while in captivity, he was the Jessica Lynch of his war, --a coaxed hoax. If there was ever a more dangerous choice to take the helm of the ship of state...

When pressed by his captors John turned quickly as anyone might, as the media creation scion of generations of US Naval admirals carrying the myth of military honor and the illusions of bravery that adorn military comic book minds...the real bravery was from those who went to Canada, burned their draft cards in Saigon like Mark Rankin, poured their blood on draft board record records like the Berrigans, and finally hit the streets by the millions and on one sunny day in Washington, DC drew Richard Nixon out of his White House stronghold and forced him to agree to negotiate a truce to the war. 

Journalists are always talking about the "changed John McCain" just as they talked about a "changed Dick Nixon" well where is he now? Let's listen in to his inner dialog:

"...preaching McCarthyite maidens, cholesterol belt heroic illusions of heroism, run to Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin, the daughters of the new Alaska-American separatist movement...abandon the cities by introducing private systems of money among the elites after this irreversible devaluation through dilution of the money supply...dollars are the stock of the commoner...what a bloodless revolution...by the time they find out what we've done the troops will be positioned in place in the hotbeds of Seattle, Lansing, Berkeley, and College Park. A greenbelt zone surrounding Washington.  Tanks are quietly being positioned...as the US poor recognize their similarity and solidarity with Darfur..."

In the US, Low Information Voters (LIV) continue to be the main obstacle of intelligent government. The oligarchy is so sure of its ability to forcefully create reality for the low information voters, no matter who is in charge of the executive branch (although it is a little more expensive for them when the Democrats dominate the offices of government), that as long as there is an election, they win.  Without a landslide election tossed out votes and the narrative of "move on get over it" blared throughout the media will make McCain the winner. Then the conservative princes prevail. Bush forces McCain to install his cabinet to run things for the continuity of the oligarchy.  The mechanized 1st Brigade Combat Team and its support units become more visible throughout society as complaints about the stealing of the election persist and the ensuing riots are quashed with high energy lasers on the populations of the big coastal cities.  

On the other hand: 

With an Obama landslide making it impossible to fix the vote Bush will create as much damage as he can during the transition: executive orders, pardons, executive decrees on the economy, and the further forward staging for martial law.  Able to start trouble up until the very last moment he will start another war just like his father started the Bosnian war just to keep Clinton busy at the start of his term. This will lower expectations and the direction of the forced conflict will be set in stone by Super Sunday.  

If "Shooter"Dick Cheney keeps control during the transition, the assassination of Obama the last week of January 2009 would create the mayhem necessary for the institution of martial law and the Iraquization of America will be complete with a Green Zone around Washington. The transition time-line would stop thus ending the American experiment of government. Stalinization would begin and the military dictatorship would be firmly in place. 

They'll blame the communists and the socialists and the progressives and low information voters will take their guns and their bibles and proceed to kill large numbers of their neighbors using racial characteristics to sight them in.  

The ACLU alerts us that a 100 mile border around the land and sea of the continental United States has been declared by the US Border Patrol.  In this huge area containing the bulk of the population and all seaports Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Houston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.  Within this border it is possible to stop and detain all citizens for the purpose of legitimate citizenship checks according to the way the oligarchy construes its authority through the Border Patrol, now being backed up the US Army 1st Brigade Combat Team (mechanized) and its support groups: the 3-69 Armor; 2-7 Infantry; 5-7 Cavalry; 1-41 Field Artillery; 1-3 BTB; 3rd SSB.  So by supporting the Border Patrol they can now be permitted to roll their tanks in the streets of America at the behest of madmen seeking to maintain control of the planet at absolutely any cost. The eagle grips the earth in its talons and the pain continues.  

Everything is in place.  Conservatives say it's to "save the babies" and plump them up I suppose for a proper neocon Thanksgiving dinner.  Jonathan Swift would be interested in finding out that Irish fertility is the highest in 16 years...God bless America...