…a rather nasty stomach virus has made its way through our house, beginning with Satch, who picked it up at school, then making its way into Tanner, then my wife, and finally — though I resisted mightily — into me, where it now lives like that demon who once gave Linda Blair a frighteningly ambitious rogering with a crucifix.
Were I not so miserable — and so frequently indisposed — I’d say something today about Oprah and her charge to the BBC that those whites not on board the Obama Socialism Express Train to Hell are, of course, racists (though she’d probably exclude those who subscribe to her magazine or watch her shitty cable channel, which is twenty-four hours a day of bad, preachy, 90s-style social drama packaged up into a New Agey pant suit. In fact, though I don’t watch it, I’m hard pressed not to think immediately of Meredith Baxter Birney at the mere mention that there even exists such a channel). I’d suggest to Oprah that, just as that clerk at the high end handbag boutique in Europe wasn’t a racist for not recognizing you and treating you like royalty, many people are just as happy blaming Obama’s white half for the miserable policies and intentional tyrannical feints he keeps making toward his dream of a Marxist Utopian police state as they are blaming his historic black half.
I’d probably discuss Jeb Bush’s assertion that he is, in fact, conservative (coming not too long after he told us all that he used to be conservative), albeit only now that Karl Rove and the rest of the GOP establishment failbots have attempted to “rebrand conservatism to fit their own moderate, center-rightist positions and have all but declared the TEA Party terrorists, and the Constitution a dead letter document that was once used in the radical extremist overthrow of a kindly benevolent professional ruling class, in order to move the political spectrum ever more leftward.
Were I not forced at times to make my way rapidly to the john, I’d be writing here of Martin Bashir’s flowery apology to Sarah Palin — while mentioning that MSNBC’s Twitter feed is still promoting his having taught Ms Palin a lesson about slavery, Martin Bashir of course being one of the world’s foremost authorities on American history and slavery in particular, not to mention one of the world’s great literalists, so impossible evidently is it for him to understand that the concept of slavery is not owned exclusively by American blacks, nor is the use of the word slavery to describe, you know, slavery to the State, a usage that is somehow socially unpalatable. Unless you happen to be a shrieking pompous leftist shitheel who is so outraged by Palin’s offensive (if correct) use of a term that he simply had to wish her to sup on all manner of human waste. Because he just cares so damn much about this country. That he wishes to help fundamentally transform, so that it looks like the crapbox he left behind, and that we, too, once upon a time decided wasn’t really our cup of tea any longer.
Had I my health, perhaps I’d be writing this morning about the Light Bringer’s decision to remove “God” from the Gettysburg Address on this, its 150th anniversary — Obama presumably wanting no one worshiping or even acknowledging any other gods but He.
Maybe I’d talk about the WaPo’s twisting of its own poll showing today Romney would beat Obama — which tells you just how bad Obama must suck, because Romney might literally have been the last GOP politician left outside of John McCain who could have even conceivably lost to Obama in the first place.
Or maybe I’d talk about the wholly made up numbers the White House is using to tout its health care enrollment numbers, or the fact that the women O is now citing as an ObamaCare success story says she was frustrated trying to navigate the thing.
But the fact is, I am sick. And as I noted this morning on Twitter, where I’m able to be more active (thanks to portability of my smart phone), if there’s a word for the combination of hacking cough and stomach virus we here have, I don’t know it offhand — though I’d say it is the same word I also don’t know off hand for “Uh oh. A peacock just exploded in the bathroom again.”
If there’re any stories you want to discuss, post links in the comments and set up a kind of impromptu salon.
Though a word of warning: if Oprah Winfrey asks to join, let her. Otherwise you may as well be wearing white hoods and sitting atop of Stedman with a noose while a cross burns behind you. Because some of you are white is why.
Obama presumably wanting no one worshiping or even acknowledging any other gods but He.
ding ding ding ding
Once you figure this out about Teh Lightbringer, the rest becomes terribly, horribly clear.
Also, David Thompson is paging you… (third item)
Your health may suck at the moment, but your use of the subjunctive mood kicks ass.
train wreck news
CMS Official: Only 30 Percent of HealthCare.gov System Has Been Built
CMS Official: Only 30 Percent of HealthCare.gov System Has Been Built
– No matter. Only 0.001% of it is working anyway.
Even deathly ill, Jeff delivers, and kicks ass and takes names.
I’m tempted to say I admire you.
After looking at (a few of) the various versions of Lincoln’s address handled by him, I’m beginning to suspect he may have added under God as an impromptu insertion as he delivered the speech in real time. Since heck, he was a good politician, besides being a master rhetorician. And once having heard his own words, and seen their effects, he liked them and went on to keep those words, placing them in the text thereafter. Seems a likely story, anyhow.
Oprah has more than just a little bit in common with George Lincoln Rockwell.
President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that ‘more than 100 million Americans’ – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act.
– In other words if you think he lies to the American public in general, that ain’t nothin’ compared to the bullshit he runs on his true believers.
Hey, BBH: practice makes prefect.
That was not a typo.
Rest. Fluids. Repeat.
“Only 30 Percent of HealthCare.gov System Has Been Built”
Not to worry. They’ll git ‘er done in Obama’s third term. Maybe fourth, at the latest.
Salon, saloon, close enough. I’m *hic
It shouldn’t cost more than a few billion extra. After all, how many classmates can Michelle have?
I *urp*
Exploding peacock. Sounds like rotavirus.
Nasty, nasty stuff.
Obama removed “Under God” because he’s a dick.
Wait: the part they haven’t gotten around to building yet includes the part that sends those sweet, sweet subsidy payments to the insurance companies?
Sure, just a minor detail there.
Chicken broth and rest.
Get well soon.
Marine corpsemen. 57 states. We don’t need more bayonets.
The exploding-peacock bit is another protein wisdom moment that should be preserved for all time.
I’m sorry to hear about the bankruptcy, Jeff. At least you have the comfort of knowing that Kirsten Gillibrand, like Bumblefuck, cares.
I think I said something like this before but, with all the “overhead” the ACA will cost, it would be cheaper to just let people who think that there medical care is going to bankrupt them just be allowed to ask for the money. A loan or a gift.
Call your local congress critter and just say: dude, guess what, totally wiped out on my snowboard and thrashed my leg, could you be a prince a pay my bills. I mean I totally wanted to get insurance but the Tahoe broke down and I needed a new tranny. . .”
I mean, could it be any worse?
I’m a little tired of having Obama mansplain health insurance to me.
Carney and the rest of the Merry Men are calling it the ACA, again.
Because if they stop calling it Obamacare, everyone will totally forget the whole mess was Barry’s idea; his Signature Legislation. His legacy!
So if single men now have to buy maternity coverage to make sure that women don’t have to pay more, are women now having to buy coverage against prostrate cancer?
Or does the Arrow of Fairness ™ (+3 to hit, special power confusion), like charges of racism, only fly one direction?
I’m pretty sure that question is racist, Drumwaster.
why do so many find aca un-aca
Well, as best as I can figure, there are just under 30,000 deaths per year from prostrate cancer (the second-most common cancer for men behind skin cancers), and roughly 1% of that number of women (~350/yr) dying during childbirth, it is not an unreasonable, even if racist, question.
I always use ACA because I think Obamacare sounds kinda dumb, is inaccurate (Pelosicare?) and I do not think Obama cares.
Disapproval spread: -14.2
Here’s a place where you can build a turkey nobody would feel guilty about killing: Behold!
Let’s try that again. (‘Sbeen a long day.) Here’s a place where you can build a turkey nobody would feel guilty about killing: Behold!
Leigh: when it hits -17, sell.
Y’all are keeping the HTML Fairy busy tonight.
If you want a turkey the Clown Disaster wouldn’t pardon, you need one like this.
>” In a lighter moment, Obama noted that some people call him a socialist, and he said to laughter his accusers need to get out into the world more.
“You’ve got to meet real socialists to know what a real socialist is,” he said”
Ahhhh, you sure you want to go with that one? Final answer? Where can we meet some of these socialists, perhaps “in the neighborhood”?<
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Colo. man signs up for his insurance, his dog gets covered instead
Obama states that “I may be a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m that dumb to roll out the website if it wasn’t working.” (Paraphrased from memory.)
Okay. So how dumb are you, Barry?
“After looking at (a few of) the various versions of Lincoln’s address handled by him, I’m beginning to suspect he may have added under God as an impromptu insertion as he delivered the speech in real time. Since heck, he was a good politician”
Are you implying Lincoln was not sincere about faith, ‘cuz any good politician in Lincoln’s class must by definition be too smart to really be taken with all that, and so just cynically added it as a scrap for the low foreheads in the gallery?
Spelling nazi: prostate, a man part. Prostrate, lying down flat, not manly.
On November 19, 1863, at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln, weak and lightheaded with an oncoming case of smallpox, made a speech that lasted for just over two minutes, and ended with his hope “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Those words have been quoted ever since as the supreme vindication of representative government. Indeed, they are often quoted as proof of American exceptionalism. But the words were not Lincoln’s. Most of his hearers would have recognised their source, as our generation typically does not. They came from the prologue to what was probably the earliest translation of the Bible into the English language: “This Bible is for the government of the people, for the people and by the people.” The author was the theologian John Wycliffe, sometimes called “the Morning Star of the Reformation.” Astonishingly, they had first appeared in 1384.
Wycliffe was perhaps the most arresting figure in the medieval English church. Philosopher, temperamental rebel, and heresiarch, he anticipated many of the doctrines of Protestantism. He opposed the selling of indulgences, rejected transubstantiation and emphasised salvation by faith. He thought that priests should be allowed to marry, and that they should be accountable before the civil courts like everyone else. He rejected papal authority in England, arguing that the nation was bound instead to its own Crown and institutions.
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prostate is a statist
Are you implying Lincoln was not sincere about faith, ‘cuz any good politician in Lincoln’s class must by definition be too smart to really be taken with all that, and so just cynically added it as a scrap for the low foreheads in the gallery?
By no means, as I believe the opposite about him. But the first two drafts don’t include the term, so it makes a kind of sense that it occurs to him on the spur of the moment, in front of many other believers (this is surely good politics, no?) to add the emphasis. And then etc.
“I believe the opposite about him”
Me too. Which makes me doubt mightily that was a political impulse.
It can be both a political as well as a devotional impulse. Nothing need preclude such a co-joining.
here’s line up
The program organized for that day by Wills and his committee included:
Music, by Birgfeld’s Band[11] (“Homage d’uns Heros” by Adolph Birgfeld)
Prayer, by Reverend T.H. Stockton, D.D.
Music, by the Marine Band (“Old Hundred”), directed by Francis Scala
Oration, by Hon. Edward Everett (“The Battles of Gettysburg”)
Music, Hymn (‘Consecration Chant’) by B.B. French, Esq., music by Wilson G Horner, sung by Baltimore Glee Club
Dedicatory Remarks, by the President of the United States
Dirge (“Oh! It is Great for Our Country to Die”, words by James G. Percival, music by Alfred Delaney), sung by Choir selected for the occasion
Benediction, by Reverend H.L. Baugher, D.D.[9]
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if you like your freedom, you can keep…. cont.
It begins: WH edging away from “keep your doctor” promise
– But don’t worry….If you want to keep your policy and doctor just get Bumblefuck to site you as an example and let embarrassment take over for the fix.
From “fourscore years and seven years ago” to Psalm 90, and from thence [5: Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6: In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.], leaping forward beyond Lincoln to the second movement of Brahms’ great German Requiem, we see men mourn the passing of their own. Yet it remains for the living mourners to act.
“[…]but the Tahoe broke down and I needed a new tranny. . .”
What does the car have to do with needing a new transsexual?
– He was planning on a sex change until he lost his insurance?
I dunno Jeff. Semms to me Christie would have found a way to lose.
– Whats worse than a Progressive Democratic bill?
– Why a Progressive Democratic state trying to inact a Progressive Democratic bill.
– Sort of “fuckup squared” times 100.
I’m looking forward to Zero’s career ending the same way in the classic manner of an Illinois politician: with a perp walk.
Given the way that welded-to-their-seats Dems like Dianne Feinstein have been indulging in lèse-majesté of late, I wouldn’t count on the Senate to save his ass, especially once the numerous remaining shoes in the ZeroCare debacle hit the floor. The next one to drop happens when the LIVs learn that he was lying about keeping your doctor, too.
Speaking of, Slaphead: have you and the little woman signed up for ZeroCare yet? Tick-tock!
Grr… imagine the above over on the President Asterisk thread.
– No matter. Every thread is a President Asterisk thread these days.
– “….and I’ll bet it won’t be the last”….When a Titanic disaster becomes a laughing stock for dear leader.
– Stewart, Leno, Kimmel, and Letterman must think christmas came early this year.
BBH, yesterday I was listening to Faux and some talking heads were dissing each other about their respective parties and the utility of Zero as a president.
The dem opined with a sneer, “Yeah, well he’s still more popular than the House republicans!”
The repub laughed and said “You know you’re in a world of hurt when you’re comparing him (Zero) to the House republicans’ popularity!”
Dubya killed on Leno last night, too.
Why Obama does anything, actually.
Insert above my previous comment.
(Man, did I screw the pooch on that one.)
– Yeah….thats like saying “Ok, I may be dying of lung cancer, but at least I don’t have dandruff!”
international joke
If you like your health plan you can…
Oh Dear: Kathleen Sebelius Does Photo-Op to Show How Well Healthcare.gov is Working; System Goes Down As She’s Talking to Navigator
– The only thing that goes down faster than Healthcare.gov is Linda Lovelace.
Now now. Poor Linda got Jesus and then was killed in a car wreck.
Pertaining to the twit who is getting screwed by Obamacare but still in love with Obama, read the following. Excellent essay about the lemmings in this country.
http://www.redstate.com/2013/11/19/meek-citizens-reduced-expectations/
Sorry that I can’t get the link to work, but you get the idea, is you’re so inclined.
Hope you’re feeling better, Jeff.
—
About Oprah, it has occurred to me in the past that one of the great tragedies of people in Obama and Oprah’s position of prominence is the wasted opportunity: they could tell young blacks about what it really takes to succeed in life — hard work and discipline rather than a sense of entitlement — and their words would be all the more likely to have an impact. But their ideology prevents them from encouraging self-reliance.
Then again, if the dominant culture would ignore an established celebrity like Bill Cosby when he tells these hard truths, it probably wouldn’t have permitted an up-and-coming black entertainer or politician from sounding too much like one of us.
—
The latest news that should be an outrage is that the unemployment numbers were fudged, and the BEST possible spin is that this is just another out-of-control agency (like the IRS? like even the Parks Service, for Pete’s sake?).
Discount the superficial and cosmetic features of jackboots and German accents, and ask any serious person what tyranny would look like, and the answer would be this, what we’re seeing right now, day after day after day — starting with government agencies abusing their power and shirking their stated duties for purely political reasons, but by no means ending there.
On the one hand, this really isn’t uncharted waters for humankind: despotism is the usual state of affairs — as is violence and poverty.
On the other hand, our forefathers fought hard to create a nation that explicitly left that cesspool, and even an inkling of how difficult it is to crawl back out is enough to keep a person up at night.
—
On a lighter note, about prostate/prostrate, I’m an evangelical Christian who’s quite fond of the older hymns: I was apparently pretty precocious as a kid, so I knew that prostate and diaphragm were words to snicker at, and so it took a while for me to figure out what one hymn was on about…
All hail the power of Jesus’ Name! Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all.
From a Zero Hedge reader:
My company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The rest opted out. The company paid 50% of their premiums for about $750,000/yr.
Under obamacare, none can opt out without penalty, and the rates are double or triple, depending upon the plan. Our 750k for 250 employees is going to $2 million per year for 600 employees.
By mandate, we have to pay 91.5% of the premium or more up from the 50% we used to pay.
Our employees share of the premium goes from $7/week for the cheapest plan to $30/week. 95% of my employees were on that plan. Remember, we used to pay 50% now we pay 91.5% and the premiums still go up that much!!
The cheapest plan now has a deductible of $6350! Before it was $150. Employees making $9 to $10/hr, have to pay $30/wk and have a $6350 deductible!!! What!!!!
They can’t afford that to be sure. Obamacare will kill their propensity to seek medical care. More money for less care? How does that help them?
Here is the craziest part. Employees who qualify for mediCAL (the California version of Medicare), which is most of my employees, will automatically be enrolled in the Federal SNAP program. They cannot opt out. They cannot decline. They will be automatically enrolled in the Federal food stamp program based upon their level of Obamacare qualification. Remember, these people work full time, living in a small town in California. They are not seeking assistance. It all seems like a joke. How can this be the new system?
Pelosi, pass the bill to find out what’s in it? Surprise! You’ve annihilated the working class.
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….and then was killed in a car wreck.
– Car wreck, train wreck, same difference.
– Don’t try this at home kids….
– Dayam….whut happened to him?…..Oh he’ll be ok….he just tryed accessing healthcare.gov.
– What do you get when you cross a pheasent and a duck?
– …. a healthcare.gov.
– Thats makes no sense!
– Well we couldn’t call it a fuck.
– Gives a whole new meaning to BYOB.
Rand Paul has been on fire the last few days and is taking on the “sunshine patriots”.
I think I love him.
– I take back what I said. Mooch says Bumblefuck got swag. What hes really got is sag. The only thing going down faster than healthcare.gov is this.
Heh. I saw that this morning.
*sniff sniff* It smells like toast.
– Over at HuffNPoop (We brave the crystal echo chamber of insanity so you won’t have too) the low poll numbers for jug ears is either “Bushes fault”, or not as low as Bushes were so everything is fine. The whole thing with ObamaCare and the website is due to Republican obticles. Otherwise all would be well. A -14 point drop in less than a month and they’re not worried at all he said.
– Lets see, Bumblefuck is at 37%, Bush was at 32%, which means he has 5% to go to match Bush. Nope, not a thing to worry about with three years to go.
What I worry about at this point in the approval swoon is the appearance of dog-wagging tails.
I’m still trying to figure out how the failure of Obamacare is the fault of the republicans.
Spirit Airlines Mocks Obamacare Disaster in Latest Ad
– It seems to have something to do with the glee that all the Rethugs and Tbaggers are having over the healthcare.gov problems, which is causing the problems because everyone knows the baggers h8t Wonder boy and ObamaCare and because shut up.
I figured there was a “because shut-up” in there.
Haters.
It’s not just you.
– The parade of fat morons marches on……
– Careful now Whoopi…you could lose your Communist party membership, talkin’ smack like dat.
clowndisaster™ news
Next ObamaCare dilemma for Obama: Break the law to let people buy subsidized plans directly from insurers or not?
okeefe’s latest on sebilius
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Enroll America Director Conspires to Release Private Data
Apropos of everything and nothing, ABC Nightly News did an investigative segment about poor victim stuck with a $20k hospital bill after insurance pd half of the $40k bill for emergency gall bladder surgery (or some damn thing). The problem it seems is that hospitals like to charge the same rates as DOD suppliers (e.g. $60+ for a 15 cent (wholesale) blood thining pill).
The solution, brave investigative reporterette gravely informs us, is published price lists.
Which had me screaming at the TV: what the hell is the point of publishing the price list if everyone expects a goddamned third party to pick up the fucking tab!
At which point the sobbing children ran to hide in their bedrooms and the long suffering better half rolled her eyes and suggested maybe I should lock myself in my office and drink the pain away.
I don’t think she meant it seriously, but I took her up on it.
for emergency gall bladder
so her life is worth a ford focus?
that’s 72 months @$307/month
HHS To Spend $7 Billion To Find Ways To Reduce Costs….
Gall bladder patient should have offered to pay them 10% of that amount. Take it or leave and have her checkbook in hand when she made the offer.
That story sounds like bullshit. Gallbladder and appendix surgeries are nearly always emergency surgeries. What if she had been the victim of a mugging? A car wreck? A fall? All those require surgeries in the worst case scenario.
Anyway, I agree that pricing out the bill, which they do anyway when they send it to you, isn’t the answer or even a question.
According to the report, she offered to pay $10k and they turned her down.
that’s what gets me with “health care” routine procedures are priced at what the provider can force through. “emergency gall bladder” has happen how many times nationwide since say 1993?
“health care” is the next progg bubble to burst
Turned it down, eh? She needs to go over the head of that person who told her that.
Half a loaf and all that.
Turned it down, eh? She needs to go over the head of that person who told her that
it is a monopoly, time to eliminate that wall
– The secret is you just don’t pay it. What are they going to do, repo your gall bladder?
– The problem isn’t just that the prices are unpublished or even that some poor smuck will end up paying a part of your bill through increased policy costs, the problem is no civilian really knows what a goddamn gall bladder operation SHOULD cost. Its precisely not the same as bying a car.
>Its precisely not the same as bying a car.<
yea effin' routine repairs aren't the same. herr "doctors" are glorified technicians
gall bladders should be routines. with stated prices like installing a new engine.some how they are not.
> no civilian really knows what a goddamn gall bladder operation SHOULD cost.<
it is known with regard to services rendered. it is not shown to the public.
Lots more variable a meddoc must understand and be prepared to counter whilst removing a gall bladder vs., say, a grease monkey removing an oxygen sensor from a Chevvy smallblock.
I mean, the dude with the bakcwards cap can, at worst, strip a few nuts. Even using modern methodology herr docktor must know what to do if his tool severs the wrong plumbing piece. Sure, the odds of that happening might be low, but what if it were you or one of your closest on that table? You’d want doc’s cap facing straight away, I’m guessing.
Those hospital high costs were ‘adjusted’ to cover losses incurred by said hospitals giving free service to whatever indigent struggles up to the door of the emergency room. Including those not in this country legally, and those who abuse what the emergency room is there for. Some people are ‘regulars’, in for minor quibbles that should be handled by another venue, but those other venues turn away indigents legally and shuffle them to…the emergency rooms. Thus, $300 catheters.
> herr docktor must know what to do if his tool severs the wrong plumbing piece. <
sure and paid accordingly. there's alot stuff where doc time plus hospital time&materials generate a price. the $60 aspirin is not such a "market" place.
That’s so ’70’s. Plus, she’s dead I think.
The new ‘standard’ for going down quickly is Sandra Fluke (edging Monica Lewinsky by at least twelve parsecs ).
“said hospitals giving free service to whatever indigent struggles up to the door of the emergency room”
there’s no “free” service. the hospitals are “cost” shifting for a congress/dem/rep that doesn’t want to secure the border. please note the rules of the game.
If Barky can pull out of this O’Care nightmare tailspin, the only way that happens is if ACA works. From all indications, there’s no way in hell it will ever work. 50 – 100 million more people will be dropped from their current insurance plans just before the 2014 midterms, and that will be enough angry people votes to give the GOP the Senate, perhaps with a wide margin.
Of course they will fuck it up, as they usually do, so nothing much will change, really.
And Obama will secretly smile, smile, and say ‘tick-tock, tick-tock’.
Oh. Linky.
– I’d personally rather OCare hang around in its unusable, error ridden, cost ballooning form, like a 6 month old halibut hanging around Bumblefucks neck and stinking up the Dems for the entire rest of his term and into 2016.
– So far, from where we sit OCare is a gift from heaven strong enough to offset even the endless fuckups of the GOP.
> to offset even the endless fuckups of the GOP.<
oh good luck with that. hi mitchy, orangeman, reisus pieces and the rovester. the whole "let's be stupid brigade"
What must become fundamental for us is initiation, not
dissidence. That is, we should consider ourselves first and foremost
as initiators of future possibilities and not as subversives, drop-outs
or rebels who are anti-a, anti-b, or anti-c. We should leave resistance
and repression to the ruling powers and transform our opposition
into an increasingly clear position! Charter 77 represents the position
of an independent citizens’ initiative that understands human
rights as something given not de lege but defacto, And in that sense
the initiators of a new position must be able not only to formulate,
but also to bring to life the notion of a harmonious relationship
between individuals and society.
Two political tendencies
‘Politics is not only the art of the possible, but as well the search
for, and even the creation of the possible. We cannot passively wait
for opportunities to arise, we must actively prepare and create them.’
This is not an abstract essay on individuals living in any society
whatsoever, but about human beings and their prospects in a system
circumscribed by power, ideology, and social and cultural manipulation.
In a totalitarian political structure, just about every facet
of human existence is politicized. The hierarchically organized
ruling class has at its disposal a highly centralized form of decisionmaking
power. Its totality is best revealed in the dispersive way it
controls and influences all the components of society, whose subordinate
decision-making power is derived from direct or indirect
signals, resolutions, directives and orders, all emanating from the
top of the ruling hierarchy.
@ page 104 potpl
– This is what constitutes a “discussion” with the dickheads on the Left.
The Left can’t afford to have it’s Race Card retired. They’ve no other surefire ways to ‘win’ an argument. The seeding and careful nurturing of exploitable victims is the only thing modern Democrats can do. Certainly they can’t provide the better health care solution they promised to their expectant base. We are watching that epic fail unfold right before our eyes.
yes
The hierarchically organized
ruling class has at its disposal a highly centralized form of decisionmaking
power. Its totality is best revealed in the dispersive way it
controls and influences all the components of society, whose subordinate
decision-making power is derived from direct or indirect
signals, resolutions, directives and orders, all emanating from the
top of the ruling hierarchy.
You’d be correct, LBascom. Abe Lincoln began to embrace God as he grew older. And, wiser…