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Cheney/Bush v. Trumpi: Crime Families Battling On The Big Stage (August 22, 2022)

Posted in Bush, Trumpi on August 22, 2022 by e-commentary.org

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. . .

K “The Cheney/Bush crime families are at war with the Trumpi crime family. With the recent primary election in Wyoming, one warrior on the battle field is now throttled, at least temporarily.”

J “Whatever her motives, Liz tried to clean up the public sphere. And now finally after a disturbing hiatus, the authorities are going after Trumpi. That is promising.”

. . .

K “She will land in a thoughtless think tank or an sketchy hedge fund and look for an opportunity.”

J “Nothing ever changes.”

. . .

K “Dick Cheney is not really bright and not really astute and not really witty and not really honest and not really charming and not really real, really. That is what the system seeks and rewards.”

J “Give credit where credit is due. Dick is amoral and ruthless and psychopathic and sociopathic.”

K And he is the patriarch of a crime family that now may not have a player on the public stage.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary on the major crime families in America at Impeachment Imbroglio. Oh, And Happy Saint Nicholas Day! (December 2, 2019).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” Mark Twain

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King Seale Newton X Davis Dellums Day. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 21, 2019)

Posted in Bush, Class, FBI, McCain, Press/Media, Race, Society on January 21, 2019 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “We lost Ron Dellums last year and yet the gang described and dismissed by some as the MSM misdirected attention to McCain and Bush I.”

J “Adding another name makes it sound like an architecture firm. Are we trying to celebrate too many folks on one day? Some are concerned that setting aside February is inadequate and dismissive.”

. . .

J “Rather than a day of service, it should be a day of musing. Folks should discuss King, warts and clay, and his concerns and contributions. And who killed him and why.”

. . .

[See the article titled “A Call to Reinvestigate American Assassinations” in “Consortium News” dated January 20, 2019.]

[John Clifton “Jack” Bogle – May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019. One of the investment giants of the twentieth century, he created the first index fund.]

[See the discussion of Martin Luther King’s famous Riverside Speech fifty years ago on April 4, 1967 at “Bush Escalates World War III (January 15, 2007)” and the e-commentary at “Race and Class And Crime: Jail White People. Oh, And Happy Martin Luther King Day! (January 15, 2018)”, “King Seale Newton X Day (January 16, 2017)”, “King Daze (January 20, 2014)”, “King (January 16, 2006)” and “The FBI File: The American Imprimatur Of Success (January 18, 2016)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week / Signs at the Women’s March in Washington:

Words matter

“What does being a ‘nasty woman’ mean, Mommy.” “It means we are getting shit done, honey.”

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” 1984, George Orwell

It is so bad even introverts are here

Literarily everything about this is so awful

Now you’ve fucking pissed off grandma

ITMF

Furlough Trump

Fuck being ladylike

We need leaders who bleed

Kremlin names Trump employee of the month

Lock him up

Wave in 2018. Tsunami in 2020

Shut down sexual violence

“Strong woman” is redundant

The Wall is a white supremacist monument

Our rights are not up for grabs and neither are we

Make empathy great again

You haven’t seen nasty yet

My body My choice My country My voice

A woman’s place is in the Resistance

If I wanted the government in my uterus, I would fuck a senator

Go ahead, underestimate me. This will be fun

Wall out bigotry

She levels are rising

It’s not like he can even read these

All in all, he’s just another prick without a wall

My body My rules

Be vigilant, stay active, it is the time to meow

We want a leader not a cry baby tweeter

Cut taxes. Fill your own pot holes.

Women are the Wall. Trump will pay

Obama, when are you coming home? The babysitter is weird

Make out, not war

Heart of I.C.E.

Girls just want to have FUNdamental rights

Talk politicsely to me

Trump needs four walls. All padded

Tiny hands, but a big dick

It’s Mueller Time [on a Miller Beer label]

You’re so vain, you probably think this sign is about you

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MPP / MPA: Are They Really Masters? (November 13, 2017)

Posted in Bureaucracy, Bush, Clinton, Education, Kennedy, O'Bama, Pogo Plight, Schooling, Schooling Industrial Complex, Trumpi on November 13, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “These Masters of Public Policy and Masters of Public Administration types all suffer from a collective groupthink.”

J “That they are the Masters of the Universe. They are actually the errand boys and errand girls for the real Masters of the Universe.”

K “Apparatchik manufacturing. The law schools historically have manufactured them.”

J “These programs are a ‘law school substitute’ or a ‘law school light’ program.”

K “The most important part of the curriculum is ‘Excuses 101’ that salvages any ill-conceived whim.”

. . .

K “Maintaining groupthink is the overriding concern and the unifying doctrine.”

J “And building the old boy network to divide the spoils.”

. . .

K “Look at the responses on the mid-term.”

What choice did we have?
Nobody saw it coming.
All policies have unintended consequences.
All of the above.

J “They are the ‘D’ students.”

K “Are we all the ‘D’ students?”

. . .

K “Better to get an MFA?”

J “Better to skip the classroom, boycott the S.I.C. and teach yourself.”

K “Have you ever seen the syllabus for a Master of Coarse Arts degree?”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “Schooling The Apparatchiks For The Kleptocrats (December 7, 2015)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016).”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” Frederick Douglass

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

There but for the grace of God go I

Appropriately Proud Single Mom: “My three ‘D’ students took their mom out to dinner for her birthday. My M.D. student, my J.D. student and my Ph.D. student.”

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer

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Reinstate The Draft; Reduce The Demand For War (Somewhat). Oh, And Happy Veterans Day! (November 6, 2017)

Posted in Bush, CIA, Clinton, Democrats, Draft, Military, Republicans, Romney, Trumpi, War, War and Wall Street Party on November 6, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

J “It is a real head-scratcher. Democrats such as J. Kennedy, G. McGovern, A. Gore, J. Kerry, M. Cleland, J. Webb and J. Kerry are decorated war veterans who question America’s pursuit of unending war all over the globe all the time. Republicans such as G. Bush, R. Cheney, R. Giuliani, J. Ashcroft, J. Bolton, M. Romney and D. Trumpi are craven draft dodgers who fledged into chickenhawks and favor and savor sending other people’s kids off to die in useless wars that advance their economic interests.”

K “Life in America. And death in America. Have you noticed that the warring class who use other people’s money to take money from other people also take other people’s kids to take other people’s lives in their wars?”

J “That makes lots of money for them from other people’s money and from other people’s lives and liberty.”

. . .

J “G. Bush the Senior did serve with courage and distinction in World War II, although he surely oversaw and directed some dastardly things when he headed the C.I.A.”

K “B. Clinton did not serve with courage and distinction.”

. . .

K “R.O.T.C. programs were banned from some hip and profitable colleges. The programs should be welcomed because they provide opportunity and possibility. Let the individual decide.”

. . .

J “In the early 1970’s, the Draft became an inconvenient nuisance for the well-connected such as George B., Richard “Dick” C., Rudolph G., John A., John B., Mittens R., Donaldo T and . . . B. Clinton. Dodging the Draft required pulling strings with the local draft board to get a deferment or hiding in the state national guard or fleeing to Europe or faking a hang nail. In response, many corporate think tanks, some owned by their parents, started thinking of a scheme to keep their kids out of tanks and in the corporations. The answer was to end the formal Draft now, release their kids from the duties of citizenship and . . . impose economic indentured servitude on the underclass. That changed the incentive structure for war.”

K “Without the pressure from those who are in an economic position to put pressure on the system, the ‘demand’ for war is greater than optimal or efficient in a society.”

J “The powerful and well-connected will find a way to shelter their offspring in comfortable billets and avoid uncomfortable bullets. However, the social benefit from increasing the cost of dodging the drafting is desirable.”

. . .

[See “The Deep Unfairness of America’s All-Volunteer Force” in “The American Conservative” by Dennis Laich and Lawrence Wilkerson dated October 16, 2017, “The Moral Case for Draft Resistance” in “The New York Times” by Michael Stewart Foley dated October 17, 2017 and “How the Draft Reshaped America” in “The New York Times” by Amy J. Rutenberg dated October 6, 2017.]

[See the e-commentary at “Smedley And Ernest On Our Friend ‘War’; The ‘Racket’ Continues (September 7, 2015)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

November 8 – One year ago

November 11 – Veterans Day

Draft beer not boys and members of the ruling class

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Trumpi Goes Neocon; Capitulates In Syria; Supports ISIS; Attacks Without Provocation (April 17, 2017)

Posted in Bush, Deep State, Kleptocracy, Neoconservatives, O'Bama, Rule of Law, Russia, Syria, Trumpi, Wall Street, War, War and Wall Street Party on April 17, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “Trumpi capitulated. He is no different after all. Tossing five dozen Tomahawks was his initiation into the gang of Washington chickenhawks.”

J “My first thought was that he took off his mask and revealed himself, but we cannot forget that he does know what he is doing or why he is doing it or even who he is. How would the public react if the newspapers and antisocial media sites reported that Trumpi supports ISIS. Attacking Syria is attacking a country that is attacking ISIS.”

K “His first Hundred Days have been pockmarked by chaos, confusion and complete capitulation to the ‘War and Wall Street Party’. Trumpi lacks the strength, the courage, the experience, the maturity and the integrity to disregard the Neoconservatives and to deep six the amoebic and amorphous swamp beast they call the Deep State.”

J “So now forces are being unleashed to deep six the world. Bummer.”

K “What Bush somehow managed to avoid and what O’Bama somewhat skillfully managed to avoid may be coming to a planet near you. Will it be an expanded proxy war or a full contact world war.”

. . .

[See “Women for Syria: A Day of Action” held on April 13.]

[See the recent interview with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and the interview with retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson for some perspective.]

[See the e-commentary at “Seriously Sizing Up Syria Seizing Up (October 12, 2015)”, “The Drums of War (February 20, 2012)”, “Syria: Gas and Fog (August 26, 2013)”, “Time To Talk: Hear The Guitar (December 9, 2013)”, “The Percolating Middle East (February 22, 2016)” and “Smedley And Ernest On Our Friend ‘War’; The ‘Racket’ Continues (September 7, 2015)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Without evidence or authorization . . . from Congress or the United Nations Security Council

Smoke and mirrors so often hide the true source of gas.

Too many drums; not enough guitars.

Pay your taxes; buy a bomb.

Pay your taxes; buy a guitar.

Make America Grating Again.

Make America Psycho Again.

Political Experience: 0 + Military Experience: 0 + Economic Experience: 0 + Diplomatic Experience: 0 = ?

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Second Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2017 (March 6, 2017)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Bush, Cameo In Courage Award, Courage, Fukushima Daiichi, Health Care, Kennedy, O'Bama, Profile In Courage Award, Romney, Trumpi on March 6, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “This year, the Awards Committee for the ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award is bestowing a special lifetime achievement award to . . . Mr. William E. Binney, Mr. Thomas A. Drake and Mr. John Kiriakou, all of the United States, for dedicating their professional lives to the good of their country at considerable cost to themselves.”

J “Great choices. Long overdue.”

. . .

K “Mr. Drake is also the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.”

. . .

J “Kennedy, Inc. gave their award to O’Bama, Inc. I wouldn’t call it a courageous decision, but I would call it a predictable and strategic move.”

K “Cross-breeding within the ruling class. JFK instead of the AKC. ‘Credential cross-collateralization’ is the way I describe it when each side benefits from bestowing awards on each other. The award is an effort by the Kennedys to keep the Kennedy brand visible and relevant.”

J “If O’Bama had proposed, pursued and passed a single payer health care system as propounded by the enlightened members of the medical profession rather than selling out and selling the nation a bill of goods described as the ‘Romney – O’Bama Unaffordable Health Careless Act’, he would be both a man of his word and a courageous man of his word. But he is not.”

K “He also spent considerable public resources prosecuting truly courageous individuals and public servants acting courageously such as the Binneys, Drakes and Kiriakous.”

J “The grand and perverse irony is that O’Bama went to great lengths to punish the courageous.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “First Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2016 (May 9, 2016)”, “Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016)”, “On Courage and Truth (March 17, 2008)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Fukushima Daiichi – 3/11/11

From the Kennedy Clan:

Thank you for taking the time to submit a nomination for the 2017 Profile in Courage Award.

This year we received a record number of nominations – nearly 30,000 – from people wishing to recognize courageous leaders for standing up for the greater good.

We are heartened by the unprecedented interest in heralding acts of political courage by our elected officials, and thrilled to have so many qualified nominees. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to be the first to hear about this year’s winner.

[But we do not care what you say because we do whatever advances our interests.]

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Women’s March On Washington (Woodstock With Conviction) / Coronation (January 23, 2017)

Posted in Abortion, Bush, First Amendment, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Journalism, Newspapers, O'Bama, Police, Population, Press/Media, Society, Trumpi on January 23, 2017 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “Rarely have as many citizens peaceably assembled – most sporting pink knit caps with ears – and confronted an equally peaceful assemblage of police.”

J “By my best wild ass guess, at the Coronation on Friday, there was about one (1) security person from the Metropolitan Police Department / U.S. Marshal’s Service / Capitol Hill Police / Transportation Security Administration / National Guard / Coast Guard / National Park Service Police / Secret Service / Uniformed Secret Service / Supreme Court Police / Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Administration per twenty-five (25) attendees. At the community gathering on Saturday, there was about one (1) traffic division cop per two hundred fifty (250) attendees. The vibe changed radically in twenty-four hours.”

K “The authorities only expected 100,000 to 200,000 participants to wander by and then over 500,000 citizens decided something had to be done. Because of budgetary concerns and sequestration, someone said they may be required to cancel the public sector Coronation in 2020 and allow the private sector to organize and orchestrate a ‘People’s March 2020’ in its stead.”

J “The people can do it. I watched a Black female police officer and a White female police officer surrounded by and talking to participants who took group pictures under a hand-lettered sign that ventured the notion: ‘The future is female’.”

K “I don’t believe there were any arrests at the March.”

. . .

K “The Metro ridership statistics are revealing. O’Bama 2009 took gold, O’Bama 2013 took silver, Women’s March 2017 took bronze, Bushy 2005 took honorable mention and Trumpi 2017 also ran.”[1]

J “What were Andrew Jackson’s numbers?”

. . .

K “The crass and coarse missive delivered at the Trumpi Show on Friday continued the campaign. The commentators almost uniformly dismissed the speech as ‘dark’ and ‘dystopian’, yet for most of the Trump supporters life is indeed accurately depicted as dark and dystopic. Trumpi revealed a kernel of truth about the desperate lives of mostly rural folk, but it was not the pretty city talk the journalists and pundits wanted to hear.”

J “For most journalists, the system is working for them, so they report that the system works.”

K “The system is not working. Ordinary folks are not working.”

J “Trumpi is threatening and challenging many individuals and institutions that do not know kindness and do not take kindly to a threat or a challenge.”

K “For both terms, I was concerned that O’Bama would be dispatched like Kennedy.”

J “When it comes down to policy, however, Trumpi’s band of bankers and billionaires will do little if anything to improve the plight of the little people. He’s safe from enhanced retribution.”

K “Some of the riders rolling with the ‘Bikers for Trump’ articulated some of the real economic problems plaguing America. Yet they don’t realize they are being played for chumps by Trumps.”

J “Trumpi is ditching the ‘Bikers for Trump’ and riding off into the sunset with ‘Bankers for Trump’ and ‘Trillionaires for Trump.’ Both the latter two gangs sport the same colors – Green – and the same logo – $.”

. . .

K “A Trumpi supporter said he did not understand what they wanted. Dignity, parity, equality, etc. I suggested that he read and reflect on the signs as a start. The patriot-participants collectively championed the single greatest challenge of our time – saving the Planet – and the single greatest plan – planning parenthood and allowing women to control their biological and economic destiny.”

J “They are right, there is no PLANet B, there is no other planet to plunder. The March was akin to and will be regarded as a ‘Woodstock’ event.”

K “The patriot-participants undertook a peaceful and powerful pilgrimage for the people.”

J “Now the hard work. They must stay focused, organize locally and work hard.”

. . .

[1] Attendance is measured by the number of trips by 11:00 a.m. on the Metro rail system on the day of the event:

O’Bama 2009: 513,000

O’Bama 2013: 317,000

Women’s March 2017: 275,000

Bushy 2005: 197,000

Trumpi 2017: 193,000

Motorcycle jacket of the week:

If you can read this message on the back of my [Langlitz] motorcycle jacket, my President has fallen off.

Bumper stickers of the week / Signs of the times on the Washington Mall:

Dear Mr. President: Am I beautiful enough and young enough to rape?

Keep your rosaries off my ovaries

Keep your theology off my biology

If men could get pregnant, you would be able to get an abortion at an ATM

If I incorporate my uterus, will you stop regulating it?

Nasty

Not my President

Trump is a chump

This pussy riots

I stand with Planned Parenthood

Feminism rocks

Tired of history, try herstory

Queers against Islamophobia

No one is free if anyone is oppressed

Not my President

Love still trumps hate

Grab ‘em by the legislative balls

Be a President for everyone

Planned Parenthood

Women are humans too

Love your Mother Earth

Nasty women rule

Our rights are not up for grabs and neither are we

Education matters

Fight sexism

Where do I start?

Our bodies Our minds Our power

I may survive rape, but I may not survive this

Not usually a sign guy, but geez

Save the Nest, Price Carbon, Now

Queer feminist southerner against racism

Don’t forget to set your clocks back 300 years

We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to

Girls just want to destroy the imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patrimony

Switch the patrimony. Jane Austen Fight Club

Empathize and mobilize

President Trump, I did Nazi that coming

I’m afraid

Make America kind again

Pussy lives matter

Resist

Predator in chief

A woman’s place is in your face

Clean the cabinet

Stronger than fear

Women’s rights are human rights

My rights are not wrong

This pussy has claws and is not up for grabs

No human is illegal

Make American fact-check again

We are the noisy majority

Keep your paws off my body

Rapist in chief

Pussy power

You ain’t seen nasty yet

Blame rape on rapists not women

Nyet means nyet

We count

Respect my existence or expect my resistance

Our rights are not up for grabs

You cannot love America when you hate so many Americans

An immigrant did not take your job

Don’t tread on my [anatomical uterus]

Girls just want to have fun-damental rights

Keep your hands off my [silhouette of pussy cat]

Free Melania

Not my President

Validate Putin

Nasty women vote

Hate will not make great

This pussy fights back

She’s someone~~’s daughter sister mother~~

I served for better than this

History has its eyes on us

A woman’s place is in the House . . . and in the Senate

I’m with her. And her. And her. And her. And her. And her.

<- I’m with her -> [Arrows emanating in all directions]

Nasty and united for equality

Electile dysfunction

I can’t believe I have to protest this shit again

Nasty women make history

I am a woman not a womb

We the people, not the college, should not that be, common knowledge

Lean the fuck in

No mandate to oppress

Men of quality don’t fear equality

Russian prostitutes for Trump

Now that you are in subsidized housing, show us your tax returns

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud

Keep calm and democracy will die

Bad hair administration

Respecto mi existence o espera resistencia

Life begins when you stand up to feeble-minded fascists

If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?

You can’t comb over misogyny

My pussy, my choice

There is no PLANet B

Time to grab patrimony by the balls

Super callous fascist racist extra braggadocious

The power is in our pussies

We shall overcomb

Gender rules are a sham

Respect science, study history, don’t be a jerk

You know what? Bitches get stuff done

Fight like a girl

We will not change the world by behaving nicely

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Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Bush, Cameo In Courage Award, Citizens United Decision, Clinton, Collapse, Kleptocracy, O'Bama, Politics, Profile In Courage Award, Schooling, Supreme Court on October 24, 2016 by e-commentary.org

. . .

J “The Kennedy Corporation is in remission.”

K “Earnings are down, but the brand is still in play. They are keeping a spot at the round table with their ‘Profile In Courage Award’ that is bestowed on other members of the Ruling Class.”

J “That’s it. I need to give an award to get a reward.”

. . .

J “After the proclamation by the Republican wing of the Supreme Court in Corporations United that two step corruption is legal and encouraged, the ‘Clinton Global Initiative’ provided the template. The rich and powerful now can formally invest in and own those in public office.”

K “The Owners now can formally own the owned. ‘Bush, Inc.’ should get more credit because it was one of the first corporations to offer ‘preferred shares’ dubbed ‘Rangers’ and ‘Pioneers’ and the like. The investment opportunity was first profiled in the e-commentary titled ‘The “Ownership State” and “Bush, Inc.” (April 11, 2005)’ years before Citizens United was foisted on us.”

J “Trading interests in Senators is also discussed in the e-commentary titled ‘Commodities Futures / Future Commodities (March 8, 2010).’ Add a few shares of a United States Senator to your 401(k) portfolio.”

. . .

K “Yet the ordinary citizen cannot be a large shareholder.”

J “The ordinary citizen still can toil as a sharecropper for the shareholders. The citizen cannot own anyone or anything of substance. And only the Owners can own the apparatchiks. It is very subtle.”

K “There is no ‘Nader, Inc.’ I looked it up.”

. . .

K “‘Kennedy, Inc.’ has executed a Memorandum of Understanding with ‘Harvard, Inc.’, ‘Bush, Inc.’ with ‘Yale, Inc.’, ‘Trump, Inc.’ with ‘Penn, Inc.’, ‘Clinton, Inc.’ with ‘Stanford, Inc.’ and now ‘O’Bama, Inc.’ with ‘Harvard, Inc.’ and ‘Chicago, Inc.’.”

J “They sure have inked a lot of inside deals. Yet ‘Clinton, Inc.’ plays the field and also owns and is owned by ‘Yale, Inc.’.”

K “Clinton clearly plays the field, yet so do some of the others. If there is a formal MoU, the kids just show up in the Fall; if there is not a formal MoU, the kids are encouraged to call ahead and let the administrators know they are matriculating. Unless something more sexy comes up in the interim.”

J “That’s what I heard. Seems to work. Well.”

. . .

K “The kids who should not make it, do. The kids who should make it, don’t.”

. . .

K “There is so much inbreeding and cross breeding.”

J “With predictable consequences.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “The ‘Ownership State’ and ‘Bush, Inc.’ (April 11, 2005)”, “Corporations United (February 15, 2010)”, “Commodities Futures / Future Commodities (March 8, 2010)”, “Schooling The Apparatchiks For the Kleptocrats (December 7, 2015)” and “On Merit and the Meritocracy (January 11, 2010).”]

[See the incisive commentary of America’s greatest political, economic and social commentator of the last century, George Carlin. Professor G. William Domhoff’s classic examination of power in America, Who Rules America?, could serve as the written text and footnotes to accompany Professor Carlin’s public presentations. Both develop observations developed earlier by Professor C. Wright Mills in The Power Elite.]

Bumper stickers (or window stickers) of the week:

Harvard, Inc. College Yale, Inc. Law School

The Elite ain’t.

If Hamilton returned today to survey the outcome of his financial innovations, he would be appalled, outraged and disgusted by the degeneration of the American economy into a Kleptocracy.

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Seriously Sizing Up Syria Seizing Up (October 12, 2015)

Posted in Afghanistan, Bush, Climate, Dollar - World's Reserve Currency, Foreign Policy, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Newspapers, Russia, Sports, Syria, Vietnam, War on October 12, 2015 by e-commentary.org

. . .

7 “They could make it easier if they wore jerseys with numbers.”

8 “The good folks could sport odd numbers and the bad folks could sport even numbers on their uniforms.”

7 “Or the good folks could use even numbers and the bad folks could use odd numbers. Or use different defining colors. Or stitch the sponsor of the team on the back of the jersey.”

8 “During the Southeast Asian War Games conducted in ‘nam, a ‘Stars and Stripes’ newspaper cartoon depicted two identical individuals in pajamas and flip flops – one described as ‘Friend’ and one described as ‘Enemy’.”

7 “Nothing changes. Discerning one’s friends and one’s enemies among those wearing towels and sandals is vexing.”

8 “The great feud between the Shia and the Sunni seems akin to the great feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. No one was right and no one really knew what they were fighting for and no one really knew why they were fighting.”

7 “The reality is that the enemy of my enemy is not my friend, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy.”

. . .

7 “Most folks are more comfortable with what the nerdy folks describe as a ‘Manichean’ division into good and bad, or right and wrong, or us and them. International relations are described as a balance of power and depicted with a scale. A pint of water on one side can be balanced with a pound of whatever on the other side. Yet international relations are more akin to multiple Calder mobiles strung and hung together. Tug on one string and everything tips out of balance. The unprovoked invasion of Iraq by then President Cheney and Vice President Bush in 2003 was the great tug that triggered the imbalance accelerating today.”

8 “Toss a rock in the pond and watch the concentric circles and the eccentric responses. The lack of water in Syria and other places is fueling the fury. A drought of water leads to a drought of hope. The world is transitioning from wars over oil to wars over water.”

7 “And wars over currency. Everything is out of balance.”

8 “Seems that global climate change is bringing about global change.”

. . .

8 “For the U.S., ‘Iraq’ is Arabic for ‘Vietnam’. For Russia, ‘Syria’ may be Arabic for ‘Afghanistan’.”

7 “‘Waterloo’ is French for ‘Waterloo’.”

8 “Or Esperanto for ‘quagmire’.”

. . .

7 “We make decisions with limited information. Look at who is for and who is against going to war. Former General Wesley Clark suggests that the United States seeks to take out Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The Neo-conservatives in America want the United States to be mired in constant war everywhere on the planet all the time. They keep getting us in trouble.”

8 “The bad folks. Do they have even or odd numbers? What color are their uniforms?”

. . .

7 “Much of the fighting is a prolonged currency war between the United States and many other countries. The United States is slowly losing the franchise on the world’s reserve currency.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at World’s Reserve Currency War I = Cold War 2.0 = WW III (?) (September 8, 2014) and Le Dollar – World’s Reserve Currency? (November 28, 2011).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Are they doing the watusi when they should be doing the hokey pokey?

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The Choice: Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate v. Pro War And Pro-Wall Street Candidate (April 13, 2015)

Posted in Bush, Clinton, Elections, Journalism, Newspapers, Presidency, Press/Media, Wall Street, War on April 13, 2015 by e-commentary.org

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C1 “The election is already over. One party nominates a candidate who is pro war and pro-Wall Street and the other party nominates a candidate who is pro war and pro-Wall Street.”

C2 “And if you demur in a public forum, the popular press will dismiss you as an isolationist for questioning war and as a populist for supporting an equitable and sustainable economy.”

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[See the e-commentary at The First Look At The “Second Political Party” (January 3, 2011).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Bush III

Clinton II

Jeb Clinton

Hillary Bush

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