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November 23, 1963; Three Score Years Later (November 27, 2023)

Posted in Immanentizing The Eschaton, JFK on November 27, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K “I was too young to realize it at the time, yet I have come to realize it was the most consequential event of our lives. We hear that no one is above the law. The clear and central message of the profoundly public statement is that no one is above the Lawless. President John F. Kennedy promulgated some ideas that would have nurtured an American Renaissance described ethereally in his time as Camelot. And he was exterminated for it.”

. . .

K “The individuals who and institutions that were threatened could have dispatched him privately, yet everyone involved sought a public spectacle to send an unambiguous and enduring message.”

J “Poison would have been too private and too traditional. The deed would have been done, but the message would not have been delivered.”

. . .

J “The United States is run and controlled by a cabal of sociopaths and psychopaths who perpetuate themselves generation after generation. Nothing ever changes.”

K “Johnson, Bush, Hoover, Ford, Warren and so many others were all in and all in on it in some way. A true coup d’etat.”

. . .

K “Assange is the current whipping boy. If they killed him, he would disappear and be of no utility. By abusing and torturing him very publicly and brutally hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the message is clear. If you say what we do not want you to say, we will abuse and torture you publicly and brutally for years.”

J “He is twisting in the wind. The cabal of sociopaths and psychopaths should be swinging in the wind.”

. . .

K “With the vast resources of the United States, the United States and by extension the rest of the world truly could have been great and good after 1945. We as a nation and as a people could have been the progenitors of an American Renaissance . . . and immanentized the eschaton . . . without running budget deficits!”

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[Dedicate some time to determining the Truth. See “The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA” by Edward J. Curtin, Jr. in “edwardcurtin.com” dated November 22, 2023, “In Memory of JFK: The First U.S. President to be Declared a Terrorist and Threat to National Security” by Cynthia Chung in “thesaker.is” dated November 22, 2021, and “Kennedy Assassination: ‘CIA-Did-It’ Theorists Are Covering for Israel” by Laurent Guyenot in “www.unz.com” dated November 17, 2023. Undertake your own inquiry and decide for yourself.]

[See the e-commentary at American Foreign Policy: 1945 – ____ (July 24, 2023).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

It’s just business. Nothing personal.

The Truth shall not set you free and may lead to your subjugation, yet it is worth knowing

Knowledge is power. No, knowledge is not power. But ignorance is powerlessness.

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Golden Anniversaries Abound: The [Lewis] Powell Memorandum And Attack On America (August 30, 2021)

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K “Okay, so it was fifty years and a week ago. A lot of stuff happened in 1971.”

J “Do even nine folks remember his screed and frontal assault on democracy?”

. . .

K “Appointments to the Supreme Court have always had an element of partisan politics. Lewis Powell was a lobbyist for corporatist interests who became one of the first appointments who then served as a lobbyist for corporatist interests while on the bench.”

J “The courts from the Supremes on down are falling down and failing we the people.”

. . .

[See “50th Anniversary of Powell Memorandum: Neoliberalism Has Wrecked Its Hosts” in “Naked Capitalism” dated August 23, 2021 and “Greenpeace Analyzes the Lewis Powell Memo: Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy” in “Greenpeace.org” dated September 21, 2011 by Charlie Cray.]

[See the e-commentary under the category “Immanentizing The Eschaton” and “The “I” Gene; The “We” Gene: Searching For The Genie In All Of Us (April 3, 2017)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Don’t let them immanentize the eschaton.

Let them immanentize the eschaton.

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First Monday And “Patient One” (October 5, 2020)

Posted in Covid / Coronavirus, First Monday In October, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Presidency, Supreme Court on October 5, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K “Are there gradations of illegitimacy?”

J “Is the Supreme Court just quasi-illegitimate and semi-unrepresentative?”

. . .

K “I gather that he becomes ‘Patient One’ and gets transported by ‘Marine Corps One’ to ‘Bed One’ for scrutiny by dozens and dozens of doctors.”

J “Certainly more than one. If you or I had presented with his symptoms, we would have been sent packing back home thus killing precious time to make a more careful diagnosis and treatment.”

. . .

K “In the age of vicious irony, her introduction in the Oval Office to the powers that should not be may have turned into a superspreader event.”

J “Moving from outside in the Rose Garden to inside in the Oval Office may have done it. No is speaking candidly who really knows his condition and the medical cocktail he is consuming. The age of vicious irony is also the age of calculated ignorance.”

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K “The Court that may soon have 6.75 Catholics, with 5.75 solidly united in not allowing others to ‘immanentize the eschaton’ and one committed to allowing others to ‘immanentize the eschaton’ in this life.”

J “And two other souls who also want others to be able to ‘immanentize the eschaton’ in this life. The Court theoretically could be more unrepresentative but not much more unrepresentative.”

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K “What so many good folks fail to realize is that Trumpi is effectively packing the Court for the corporations. A Court that went from the ‘Kennedy Court’ for years to the ‘Roberts Court’ for months is now becoming the ‘Trumpi Court’ for decades with his three picks in three years.”

J “A Court named not after a justice but someone outside the Court who was always outside the law. Trumpi aspired successfully to achieve injustice by breaking the law in a legal system that allows the rich to break the law.”

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J “The controlling Corporatists on the Court hold opinions and values that do not represent the rest of the public pack in America.”

K “If the opportunity presents, we the unrepresented pack should seriously consider packing the court and sending them packing. Try to bring that topic up with others and you quickly discover that most folk’s Overton Window is the size of a side door peep hole.”

J “Roberts sealed the front doors of the Court for the little people years ago and Trump is nailing them shut for two generations.”

K “RBG opened doors for women and girls. ACB will close doors for women and girls.”

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[See the e-commentary under the Categories “First Monday In October” and the “Supreme Court”.]

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Dividing The Divided Supreme Court In A Divided Country (October 3, 2016)

Posted in Constitution, Elections, First Monday In October, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Presidency, Supreme Court on October 3, 2016 by e-commentary.org

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K “Divide the Court. The Court is already quasi-formally divided, yet they meet in joint session. The country is already divided. Formally divide the Court in two.”

J “So we simply acknowledge the divide in the country and divide the country and the Court in twain. That is where we are heading. That is our destiny.”

K “There is talk of dividing the Ninth Circuit which, if it is done, is always along geographic lines. The Supreme Court is divided along easily demarcated ideological lines and adequately defined geographic lines. The four Red Catholic Republican Institutionalist Boys should propound the law in the Red States. The four Blue ‘Jewish’ Democratic Individualist ‘Girls’ should propound the law in the Blue States.”

J “One Great Decision. Two utopias. I like it.”

K “What is truly promising is that neither side would be forced to undertake and endure a great constitutional convention; that prospect is terrifying. Each team could have a mimeographed copy of the same Constitution. And then each team could continue to reach opposite results.”

. . .

J “That would allow everyone in the two Americas to immanentize the Eschaton everywhere at the same time.”

K “Not exactly. One team would allow everyone in Blue America to immanentize the Eschaton and the other team would not allow anyone in Red America to immanentize the Eschaton.”

J “Exactly. Toward a more perfect division.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary for the last half dozen years in the Category “First Monday In October”, “Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005)”, “Immanentize The Eschaton: Move To Sunny Somalia (December 20, 2010)” and “Immanentize The Eschaton. Say What? (August 22, 2016).”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

The Election is all about the Court

We are selecting one of the two Courts not one of the two court jesters

With liberty and justice for some

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Immanentize The Eschaton. Say What? (August 22, 2016)

Posted in Environment, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Internet on August 22, 2016 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “Do you want to immanentize the eschaton tonight? We are playing pool at 8.”

J “That’s what I always say. You could immanentize the eschaton by playing at the pool.”

. . .

K “No more trudging to the library, it seems. The quickest font of information is right there on your Smarty Pants phone. Get on ‘Ask Jeeves’ and type in ‘Immanentizing the Eschaton’ and see what happens.”

. . .

K “There is a one hundred percent (100%) correlation in the results that has never before been achieved in social sciences research in the history of humankind. Every single person who does not want to allow others to immanentize the eschaton has already immanentized his or her eschaton.”

J “There is an opportunity for the contrarians. Find someone who has not immanentized his or her eschaton who will proclaim that we should not allow others to immanentize the eschaton.”

K “Your perspective is a function of your position in this life.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “‘It’s Only A Rental.’ The Earth As A Cosmic Doormat. De-Immanentizing The Eschaton (September 28, 2015).”]

[See “Immanentize the eschaton” in Wikipedia.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Go ahead, make my day, immanentize the eschaton.

America immanentized the eschaton when the people established the National Park Service on August 25, 1916. National parks allow us to get back to the garden.

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Boys v. Girls / Reds v. Blues / Republicans v. Democrats / Catholics v. Jews / Institutionalists v. Individualists / Don’t Let Others Immanentize The Eschatoners v. Let Others Immanentize The Eschatoners: The Great Divide At The Supreme Court Today (October 5, 2015)

Posted in Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, First Monday In October, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Hypocrisy, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Law, Religion, Supreme Court on October 5, 2015 by e-commentary.org

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L1 “Breyer is an all-pro guy, but, admit it, he is too smart to be male. And Sotomayor was born with a plastic spoon in her mouth and is not a sustaining member of the Don’t-Let-Others-Immanentize-The-Eschaton wing of the Catholic church who dominate the Court today.”

L2 “So on one side of the great chasm are the Red Republican Catholic Institutionalist boys (Roberts, Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy) and on the other side are the Blue Democratic Jewish Individualist girls (Breyer, Ginsberg, Kagan and Sotomayor). The divide could not be more clean and elegant.”

L1 “Or more stark and cavernous. The Justices are seated by seniority but now should be seated with an aisle to divide them into two camps. The sports announcer could chortle: ‘In this corner, we have the Reds; in this corner, we have the Blues.’”

L2 “That would be way too honest and candid. The big problem remains the lack of lawyers, leaders and intellectuals on the Court. The biggest problem is that they are drawn from the worst pool of candidates – judges from the federal appellate courts who are probably the most intellectually dishonest group of lawyers.”

. . .

L1 “They are not listening to the Pope on topics ranging from global climate change to the death penalty, from the death of the planet to the death of the person.”

L2 “Or the Pope’s comments on income inequality. Roberts and Alito are trying to outdo each other promoting business over the individual and protecting the government from the individual.”

. . .

L1 “Those in the majority claim to be Roman Catholic but do not vote or behave like the majority of Roman Catholics. They are roman Catholics.”

L2 “Sans serifs. Depends on the day of the week. A Catholic on Sunday and a quasi-Catholic on the first Monday in October and thereafter.”

L2 “The opinions of the Pope are what lawyers describe as purely advisory.”

L1 “That independence of thought is not entirely undesirable.”

L2 “Accord.”

. . .

L1 “No more than three Justices from one law school. No more than three Justices from one religion. No more than three Justices from the WaNeBos region.”

L2 “If no more than three Justices can be confirmed who believe that we should let others immanentize the Eschaton and no more than three Justices can be confirmed who believe that we should not let others immanentize the Eschaton, how do we fill the other three slots?”

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[See the e-commentary include in the “First Monday In October Series” and see The Paradox Of The Republican Federal Judge: Republican Federal Judge Syndrome (September 23, 2013) and SCOTUS on TV: “They Might Not Be Such Bastards” (March 26, 2012).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

It all comes down to one Red Republican Catholic Institutionalist guy – The Fulcrum

Pray

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“It’s Only A Rental.” The Earth As A Cosmic Doormat. De-Immanentizing The Eschaton. (September 28, 2015)

Posted in Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Religion on September 28, 2015 by e-commentary.org

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A “One’s relationship to and attitude toward the Earth is a function of one’s religion. If you believe that life is not a dress rehearsal, then you want heaven on earth. If you believe that life is a dress rehearsal, then you do not necessarily want heaven on earth. The Earth is only a rental. Sort of like a summer beach house that you rent for a week and you take more than pictures and leave more than foot prints.”

B “Take a few pillow cases and leave a few holes in the wall. I describe it as the Earth as a cosmic doormat. And if you have already made it on Earth and are of a stingy nature, you may not want to allow others to immanentize the Eschaton.”

A “The Pope gets it. He believes in an Eschaton and also wants to allow others to immanentize the Eschaton. Heaven on Earth and Earth on Heaven.”

B “What if you find that you get in the next life what you left in this life. Not only can you take it with you, you will take it with you. Mother Nature’s O. Henry twist to the story.”

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[See the e-commentary at Immanentize The Eschaton: Move To Sunny Somalia (December 20, 2010).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

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Humanity’s Motto: To Enslave And To Colonize (January 27, 2014)

Posted in Blue States / Red States, Economics, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Markets, Pogo Plight on January 27, 2014 by e-commentary.org

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A “You can now add Bezos to the legendary ‘CDEs’ of exploitation – Carnegie, Disney and Edison – who made their fortunes exploiting others.”

B “And the kingpins of exploitation – the Waltons. As humans, we seek to enslave and to colonize, not to nurture and to develop.”

A “Take one’s liberty and take one’s property. It’s the human way. We established a Constitution to protect life, liberty and property.”

B “He too seeks to enslave. Amazon has become the CyberWalmart.”

A “Like Walmart, the prices are very low and allow some shoppers to afford to make it through the day. Some of the customers may be the same employees who cannot subsist on Walmart wages. The Amazon prices are usually lower and the guarantee is objectively better than the guarantees offered by locally owned businesses that may be going out of business in part because of Amazon’s competition.”

B “By contrast, Costco pays a living wage and offers health care and retirement to its employees while offering very low prices and an unconditional guarantee to its customers.”

A “Walmart is a Red State company headquartered in a Red State. Costco is a Blue State company headquartered in a Blue State. Amazon is an anomaly – a Red State company headquartered in a Blue State.”

B “Look at the state they leave the employees in when a company pays slave wages. Slaves don’t make profitable consumers.”

A “If there are no consumers, you can’t have seventy percent of economic growth fueled by consumer spending.”

. . .

[The author has no financial interest in Amazon, Costco or Walmart and has shopped at all three institutions.]

[Pete Seeger – May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014]

[“Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The World Economic Forum has identified economic inequality as a major risk to human progress, impacting social stability within countries and threatening security on a global scale.” http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/working-for-the-few-economic-inequality.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

To Enslave And To Colonize. Hey, it’s who we are.

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Immanentizing The Eschaton: Your Supreme Court And The Great Religious War (October 7, 2013)

Posted in Courts, First Monday In October, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Journalism, Judges, Judicial Arrogance, Law, Newspapers, Supreme Court on October 7, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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L1 “The Supreme Court is engaged in a war between those who do not want to allow others to immanentize the eschaton and those who do want to allow others to immanentize the eschaton.”

L2 “I’ve said that many times. The five rich White boys – Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Kennedy – have already immanentized the eschaton and do not want anyone else except those like them to immanentize the eschaton.”

L1 “They are the Catholic Squad.”

L2 “And the four others also have immanentized the eschaton and yet do want everyone else to be able to immanentize the eschaton.”

L1 “Exactly. They are the Jewish Squad. Sotamayer developed concern for the health and welfare of others in her youth and did not immanentize the eschaton until adulthood, so she caucuses with the Jewish Squad. The Jewish “Big E” Eschaton itself shapes the attitude toward its immanentization. This life may not be a dress rehearsal.”

L2 “At core, the war at the Supreme Court really is a great religious war.”

. . .

L1 “They are out in left field honing their short game.”

L2 “Yet there are some Catholics who do want to allow others to immanentize the eschaton. Just none of the current Supreme Beings.”

. . .

[See the other “e-ssays” in the “First Tuesday In October” series at https://e-commentary.org/category/first-monday-in-october/.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“In a recent series of Pushitzer prize winning articles, ‘El Diablo Times Bugle Leader Follower Post Pre Clarion’ reports that after each one took of them took the ultimate senior status and appeared before an even more Supreme Being, Johnny, Tony, Clarence, Sammy and Tony II each were sent straight to the mines with no health or safety apparatus, no lunch breaks, no overtime pay, no air conditioning and no law clerks – none – to bail them out.”

. . .

“Your surprise is not surprising. We see that reaction all the time.” “As you know, we did not even entertain the existence of such an ultimate reality. And a room with a view and room service. Just because we lead a virtuous life.” “Indeed. Really, it’s quite simple. From our perspective, we look at how you live your life not what you profess to believe. And perforce, as you know, we know everything.”

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The People’s Amendment: The “Contract With America” (April 29, 2013)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Balanced Budget Amendment, Coffee Party USA, Conflicts of Interest, Congress, Constitution, Immanentizing The Eschaton, Political Parties, Tea Party, Term Limits on April 29, 2013 by e-commentary.org

. . .

X “What do Republicans and Democrats agree on?”

Y “Nothing.”

X “What do Republicans and Democrats disagree on?”

Y “Everything.”

. . .

X “There you go. The People’s Amendment: ‘If a law applies to the people, it applies to Congress; if an exception or exemption applies to Congress, it excepts and exempts the people.’ One simple commutative rule enshrined in a constitutional amendment. Genius is always obvious and simple.”

Y “And the provision applies equally to Republicans and Democrats.”

X “Indubitably. Courts could easily interpret it without all the arrogant activism and ideological warfare that characterizes the courts today. Every tax payer has standing to enforce the People’s Amendment in court. Individual Congresspersons and Senators who vote for legislation that violates the PA are held personally liable for the attorney’s fees of the tax payer who succeeds in enforcing the PA and a small percentage of the public damages. Each representative’s self-interest is enlisted to provide for and protect the public interest.”

. . .

Y “While you are at it, add a simple term limits provision. Six two-year terms in the House and two six-year terms in the Senate are balanced and fair. The provision applies equally to Republicans and Democrats.”

. . .

X / Y “However, a balanced budget amendment is hollow and shallow. Congress can balance the budget without a balanced budget amendment if Congress wants to balance the budget. Congress can circumvent a balanced budget amendment if Congress wants to circumvent a balanced budget amendment.”

. . .

[See the “e-ssays” titled The “Contract with America”; The Congressional Reform Act of 2010 (March 29, 2010), Term Limits (May 14, 2007) and Bringing Balance To The Balanced Budget Amendment Debate (July 18, 2011).]

[For an argument that John McCain and Lindsey Graham should not be considered “enemy combatants,” see the “e-ssay” titled Republicans are Enemy Combatants? (May 10, 2010).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

A Democrat for The People’s Amendment

A Republican for The People’s Amendment

An Independent for The People’s Amendment

A Libertarian for The People’s Amendment

A Green for The People’s Amendment

A Tea Partier for The People’s Amendment

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Archive for the Immanentizing The Eschaton Category

[See the e-commentary at American Foreign Policy: 1945 – ____ (July 24, 2023).]

[See the e-commentary under the category “Immanentizing The Eschaton” and “The “I” Gene; The “We” Gene: Searching For The Genie In All Of Us (April 3, 2017)”.]

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