When Their Mouth Is Moving ... | BlueNC

When Their Mouth Is Moving ... | BlueNC:
"During the debates that took place during the Constitution's ratification conventions, it was specifically stated that lying to Congress about matters of war would be an impeachable offense. Congress has also made it a crime."

the election: third-world shenanigans. evade the noise machine and you will discover that high crimes and felonies have been looting and pillaging the nation's wealth for a long time, probably forever, but certainly since reagon.

i can't find the book i was going to quote which is a must read for anyone dissatisfied with rule by (fictitious) story line. disaster capitalism by naomi klien.

the only phrase i can remember from it is "rolling coup", a little more descriptive than my own "invisible coup".

anyway this century's fascist take over goes something like this: anything "public" is for sale. the military, the hospitals, prisons, infrastructure and so on. usually done via no bid contract. cost plus. to profit making entities. note that tax dollars paid for most of this stuff. also of great interest is the notion that should one of these unregulated entities fail to profit or actually lose money, they are backstopped by infusion of more tax dollars.

forget adam smith's dictum, "one man's greed can benefit the public".

the "tax and spend" rep that the republicans successfully trot out is, like most of the republican talking points, some sort of defense mechanism, complimentary to the truth. as the broad post ww2 middle class becomes a memory, the real action is "tax and steal it".

i'm layed up for a few days w/ slight but painful ding on the shin. antibiotics. will lay down elevate foot for three days. over and out.

Homeland Security team up for surveillance project :
"'They will analyze for subtle changes, such as people forming in groups or loitering,' said Nick Lombardo of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, project manager for the field test."

Medicare Reaches Out to Caregivers - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com:
"This is why we are a third world country.

Pay taxes for a lifetime and then find that we have no national healthcare system at the end of our days."

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Vote USA 2008 | Washington diary: Troubled times:
"In the rolling, rollicking ballad that is American politics, last week was dominated by burlesque musings on pigs and lip-stick.
A trader on the New York Stock Exchange
The bad news from Wall Street now dominates the campaign

This week is overshadowed by the bleak realisation that we are all at the mercy of forces well beyond our control."

BBC NEWS | Business | Turmoil sends US stocks tumbling:
"President George W Bush has not answered questions on the economic situation and had cancelled a statement he was set to make on Tuesday.

When asked by a reporter in the Oval Office on Wednesday to comment, Mr Bush said he had not heard the question and joked: 'I'm old.'"

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 'Emergency' fear for 220m people:
"the number of people living 'on the edge of emergency' has nearly doubled to 220m in just two years, one of the world's biggest aid agencies has said."

another day another holler.

still have not joined obama effort. knocking on doors and telephone banks are not in my skill set. feel the need to put into words what this election signifies. maybe tonight.

hope to drive to doug's hideout near celo tomorrow and camp out a day or two. might take a drive from there around the north of linville gorge to the base of hawk's bill mountain. might climb it and return to hideout for another night.

nicest day we've had since spring. that i remember.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | "Honor" -- On the air...
a new ad by the obama folks. it is exactly the right direction, i repeat what i have been saying, obama and biden quickly need to stop responding to each day's meaningless meme tossed into the cloud of attention grabbers and instead talk about the process pf cartoon electororial shennanigans.

Amazon.com:
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America: Daniel J. Boorstin: Books:
"nor is this a book describing the ills of the world. it's an essay describing the changing nature of the world in which we live. if we are to be active participants on this world, we should be informed and study how it changes. technology's effects are not demonized, their impact is just described.

the age of the book, some 40 years or so, makes some of the events under discussion seem quaint or outmoded, but frankly they're just a foundation of today's media.

highly reccomended."

i read this book years ago and thought it was the clearest exposition of how and why commerce and poiltics currently bumble along in a haze of imagery instead of discourse. i thought it was out of print. but it is available thru amazon and you'd better read it.

Finance | Air America Radio:
"It was a busy weekend for the magical money people of high finance as they dragged more of the walking wounded from the killing fields of our economic meltdown."

reading naomi klein's shock doctrinehas reinforced my belief that the nation state is no longer the bedrock of our communal existence. it is instead the corporate power world: the small circle of good old boys who are tearing this world apart.

bubble after bubble collapsing, and when each does, they are paid for their pillaging by jail time (rarely) or money from the people.

1:30 sunday already.

the news has been canceled. throw away yr tv.

i got first batch of postcards, i'll go downtown monday and flog them. maybe i can stand under a bridge to do this. they look great, unfortunately i forgot to include copyright.

GOP Contempt: What This Election Is Coming Down To | BuzzFlash.org: "As the national conversation increasingly shifts from GOP charges to an examination of GOP charges and their contemptuous deployment, independent voters should start abandoning McCain-friendly territory en masse."

i like this statement, because it is exactly what obama must do. no tit for tat boucing sound bytes. instead RIGHT NOW he must respond to every lie by examining the republican methodology of making up anything to demean obama. the voters will respond to it, they hunger for discourse on the way the repugs take an obama posituve, eg big crowds, flip it to a negitive, eg a celebrity, and push it out the next day. and if it takes a lie to do it, no problem.

obama could change the discourse by not tit for tatting but simply point out why political discourse and the mccain stratagy cannot exist together.

another morning's work. my brother in law fred with his grandchild nic who i guess is my grand-nephew. photo from my sister i couldn't help messing with.

a morning's work. from an ink drawing circa mid 70's.

check this out: i got the email fwded sometime last week. wanted to post it to this blog. but didn't i'm well trained. so someone else did.

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/08/2008 | An e-mail to friends from Wasilla becomes Internet hit

My Way News - Creator of Web spots a flaw in Internet Explorer

My Way News - Creator of Web spots a flaw in Internet Explorer: "Tim Berners-Lee, the British-born inventor of the World Wide Web, says he doesn't like to express preferences among Web browsers. But he does have an issue with one of them: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) (MSFT)'s Internet Explorer."

Tom D'Antoni: Cindy McCain's Family Ties: Suds and Murder
i had an uncle who worked in the liquor distribution. if a tenth of the stories he told about the bizzness, mafia, and outright crime is true, the above link is the tip of another iceberg.

another gossip point: the lipstick on a pig buzz actually is a cliche, a slang phrase used by many, including mccain last summer talking about h. clinton. yesterday this could be viewed on youtube; today it has been "removed by contributor".

new - to me - site. got an email today w/ link. good and robust presentation you won't see on the corporate media.

http://www.goasheville.com/election/

obama and folks are blowing it. he has to back of off he said they said he said political pr blather and go ahead and talk like you or me. forget about code, or better yet, talk about code words.

"experience": code word for political hack at home w/ status quo. "earmarks": something that has been built into system and yes all congress has had to deal with them to do their job, including him, but he would like to change that. "elite"; he has been around the block, familiar with more than the mono-world of dc.

i saw part of interview w/ (shiver) o'reilly. he succinctly stated he would increase tax for superwealthy and lower it for remaining 95% of us, o'reilly shot back "class warfare". code word for rich against poor. refine code. the rich have declared war against the poor. and not recently. his tax proposal is attempt to end that war.

etc. etc. obama needs to quit defending himself against republican talking points. shake it off. point out the meaninglessness of this type of discourse and say it plain and clear. and start now.

good live performance of grateful dead below, click the link and take a break.


Internet Archive: Details: Grateful Dead Live at Swing Auditorium on 1977-02-26

yesterday during the eternal kleenup i recabled all hardware. my phone was out all day as well as Internet (for a few hours). also was printing color, but somehow the calibration drifted off. i messed with the phone and color on and off most of the day until good sense told me to start fresh today. i sorted thru color prints and paintings i had stored successfully.

i fixed phone this morning and short story is... very long.

the image above is gum bichromate i did living in a small house with wife and 4 beautiful children. talk about working in a tight space.