This entry contains some additional political commentary on events that I wanted to post yesterday, but that are just running out of my time and accompanying images. Not really ChrIstmas thtomtos him.
Rather, all events are the usual dread and executables that define the mind-boggling readability of Gnosticism. God Demiurge.
The Admiration of the Shepherds Guido Reni (1600s), Certosa di San Martino, Naples
Gnosticism is an evil God Demiurge and a perfect but unknowable God Monad (Similar to the Hebrew Yahweh, but the End imperfect bipolar anger sleeping).
But still I am not helping anyone but myself, so maybe this is a problematic lament.
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Whoever …
On Saturday (yesterday), two major New York City tabloids – both the New York Post and the Daily News – were featured by Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. bizarre and borderline imaginary “press conference” On Friday, he represented his organization’s “official response” to the murder of children aged 6 and 7 and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School exactly a week ago.
New York Post print edition front page, December 22, 2012.
It’s bad that you lose a neo-fascist rag of Rupert Murdoch. New York Post. I will say.
Daily News print edition front page, December 22, 2012.
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This raises another important issue …
Three main network “public relations” shows – Meet the Prostitute, Face the Prostitute, and This whore – plus Fox Prostitute Sunday all feature STRONG trend towards republican / conservative guests.
Three networks three worship at the altar of the temple at the same time WaHoPo Editorial Board style “Washington Consensus” Global corporate capitalism and “free trade” at the expense of the American working class, on aggressive wars and uncontrolled resource extraction based on utopian American concepts and trillion-dollar military spending – all of which are debt-fueled, driven for the purposes of the wealth bubble, the overconsumptionist perpetual motion machine economy, life itself destroying.
Howie “Mistah” When Kurtz spoke of a candidate’s “Russert primaries” in the early 2000s, is it surprising that he came back eerily? Meet the Prostitute?
But for reference only, there are figures directly above and directly below from Media Matters’ reports on guests of these shows in 2005-2006, and I would be shocked if it changed a lot.
As he wrote:
“But people watch these programs. Millions of people.” More people are watching “Meet the Press” than “The Daily Show. Many of these people are quite old, but still a significant portion of the American public is learning about the limits of the great public debates of our time when interviewing David Gregory Lindsey Graham.”
And guess who’s one of David Gregory Meet the Prostitute guests earlier today …
Why yeah, Senator Lindsey Graham (R – Gay).
Gregory asked gay Smiling to provide Graham’s opinion on lowering American levels non gay gun violence. Declared it was GAY LIKE the question is because NOTHING can be done to stop mass killings using non-gay colored THAT, because high-powered assault guns and large magazine clips and / or “drums” gay threats in the fiery imagination non gay white american men.
As this FBI National Instant Crime History Check System chart, launched from November 1998 to October 2012, shows, 156 million Background checks for weapons purchases from November 1998 to October 2012 (last month with published data). It also shows that about 40 percent of these checks have taken place in the 4 years since President Obama was first elected.
This explosion of (attempted) firearm purchases coincides with the (possibly not accidental) election of a black president (well, really mixed). Now part of this may just be bad economic conditions, even maybe a more robust FBI history check system.
But it also points to the size of fetishizing firearms, the almost apocalyptic crowd with their psycho-sexual fantasies of impending social collapse, and the need to fend off the evil and / or non-white herds that are chasing them. weapons, goods, dogs and wives and / or children (yes, in that order).
And of course, as a result of all this debate after the Sandy Hook massacre, the numbers will hit record highs in December 2012.
Attack fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants – USA, compared to other OECD countries, 1960 to 2010.
Mark the Lee Greenwood tape: “And I’m proud to be American / At least where I know I’m free …”
Oh, and Merry Christmas from Baby Jesus. Does anyone have a photo of a Nativity scene at a gun shop – preferably somewhere like Alabama or Arkansas, someone set up to challenge the chimeric liberal “War on Christmas”?
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As for the madness maelstrom of the Republican Party these days …
But this Friedman piece is valuable to me because it talks about that crazy GOP base and I like this quote:
“But if Republicans continue to live in fear and be ruled by a base that refused global warming after Hurricane Sandy and refused to ban assault weapons after Sandy Hook – a base that would prefer every American’s taxes to rise rather than increase taxes on millionaires – the party has no future Mathematics, physics, human biology, economics, and common sense cannot win with a base that fights the laws of guns simultaneously. “
Two points: First, I’m not sure about that. Second, I didn’t understand what the name was like until I read this. “Sandy” It definitely appeared at two of the biggest events of the year. (I think the choice is third.)
Remember, Pres. Obama was willing to give more than half of the store – again – almost as in 2011 – to the GOP, but this fundamental radicalism and instinctive antagonism to have basic management, rational discourse, and even long-term self-interest. They ignore the possibility of a “Big Bargain” agreement (whatever its content or value) on behalf of the House of Representatives.
Rachel Maddow had Very nice rundown on Thursday night show in all the chaotic turmoil – including the disaster that night, when Speaker John Boehner had to vote for his bizarre “Plan B”.
Lastly speaking of Matt Taibbi, I want to note this December 20 blog post. Taibbi wrote that in a kharmic justice act, Glenn Hubbard made a legal statement as part of MBIA’s lawsuit regarding his role as financial advisor against Bank of America and Countrywide.
During this statement, it turned out that the payment was made to Hubbard, a great right-wing economist who advised Dubya and Romney and is now Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. $ 1,200 per hour For “consultation” services. For that fee, he made a ridiculous analysis that Countrywide’s mortgages were no worse than other mortgage creators. (Turned out to be comparing two heaps of high interest / otherwise worthless mortgages, so “expert” findings.)
The best lines:
“It was fair to ask how much Goldman’s’ Institute for Global Markets should pay one of the leading minds of the Ivy League to approve giant daisy chains” – Haha – “The credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations that led to the crisis – after all, it was a pretty big blow, like getting the Dean of Harvard Medical School to pose while drinking a pack of Kools …
“Twenty-two hundred dollars an hour in America buys a high-quality friend who can run a little weird if your needs are there. And that’s exactly what MBIA got from Hubbard’s research.”
Haha
Okay, enough political comments.
Tonight I’ll try to post more Christ-Massy entries and a weather update if needed. I’m going to Anny Runnell Kenny tomorrow to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas day there.
–Regulus
