Still in the news, still god’s awful emissary… 25 March 2010
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If it is not the Dutch, then it is the Irish…. if not the Irish then it is the South Germans - in the old stomping grounds. If not Germany, then Florence and Roma. If not in the parishes then in the choirs… if not in the choirs… then among the deaf children of Wisconsin.
Is there no gay beach resort Benny and Ganswein can retire to? Gay mountain resort?
Gather up the lacey underskirts, the jewels, the custom made Versace clothing (Ganswein, overseen personally by Donatella)… the nifty red slip ons… the bon mots from Bono.. and, you know, get the hell out of [un]Holy Dodge.
One would think. How hard can it be? No one is asking the High Holy Boyos to take a vow of [gasp choke] poverty……….
oh-oh
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703312504575141502679450016-lMyQjAxMTAwMDIwNDEyNDQyWj.html
The Fed will always be there to monetize our debt, as will the Chinese, Japanese, ad infinitum. Indeed, the Fed has been stepping in (via Goldman, JP Morgan and very many banking clients which have excess reserves but nowhere to lend them) for quite some time now. I think when we get a poor auction its that as mentioned in the article, someone doesn’t step up to the plate we expected, but any worry about funding us ain’t gonna happen in the short term.
The only way we’ll have a problem is if literally the entire financial system collapses, but I don’t see that happening. Instead, the worse things get, the more demand for US debt securities. Flight to quality, don’t you know. Some of the problem may actually be from people getting confident and moving out of US debt.
I say make the Vatican the Mecca (!) of legalized prostitution, with tax proceeds to help out the PIIGS!
U.S. to press for Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan
If Obama wants extra troops, he can send more of yours, TYVM.
Why is this not treason? Imagine what Washington, Madison or Jefferson would say.
Nearly 300 Congress members declare commitment to ‘unbreakable’ U.S.-Israel bond
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159159.html
It seems to me that any glee over the demise of the RC Church might be unwarranted, since it’s so obvious that “higher education” has taken the place of the Church in modern society when it comes to keeping people locked down into punitive, impoverishing practices for fear of burning in hell fire. In medieval times, you had to go to church or else lose your immortal soul; in the 21st century, you have to go to college or else lose your mortal earning power. So the churchly spirit is still present and very much reigning over our society – it’s simply shifted to a new field (education, and the institutional complex that serves it). All this stuff about abuse in the church and bishops resigning and the Pope being implicated is just part of the final coff coff, hack hack of the old institutional method of control. The new institutional method of control is still alive and well.
To be unschooled in the 21st century is the 14th century equivalent of being unchurched. The mandatory, lifelong collection plate is still being thrust under our noses.
(yeah, I’ve been reading Ivan Illich lately…)
it’s so obvious that “higher education” has taken the place of the Church in modern society when it comes to keeping people locked down into punitive, impoverishing practices for fear of burning in hell fire.
One thing I am sick to death of in America, and with BOTH parties, is that everything turns into quasi religion. ABSOLUTELY, “education” as prattled by the prelates of education and the Dmocratic party and its ingrates has become a punitive religion.
I don’t see any coming demise for the Catholic Church.
I loves me some Ivan Illich!! He is/was/will be so right about SCHOOLING — fuck that, I tell my kids, get an education, school has nothing to do with it!! Heh — I start my student teaching at charter school in 10 days….
As I putter about the warehouse daily this week, sorting expensive crap and sweeping floors, it occurs to me that someday I’ll look back on these years and tell Da Youth, “Yep, in my day, you didn’t need to spend a fuckload of money to get a degree just to qualify for this stoopid job. You COULD get a degree and end up here, but the degree wasn’t MANDATORY.”
“Higher education” was something I was raised to regard as a hallmark of civilization, and maybe once it was. Now it’s just one more noose tightened about the necks of the unsuspecting by a bunch of smug profiteers.
I hear THAT, Ms. X!!
It is a HUGE racket to be sure!
Just heard on canuck news here that an article in the vatican paper this evening says there wasn’t a coverup in the WI abuse case and that the pope is the victim of a “smear campaign”.
WI victims are in Rome protesting.
They’ve been arrested.
I see wingnut Randall Terry wasn’t arrested in Rome for his protest demanding that Pelosi be excommunicated.
Is it wrong that I want to see Terry and Pelosi in some kind of cartoon cage match?
The NY Times has the latest scare piece up on Social Security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/business/economy/25social.html
Apart from being woefully uninformed, Social Security, as a pay-as-you-go system CANNOT GO FUCKING INSOLVENT YOU IDIOT! When the fund runs out, the benefits are adjusted down to what can be covered by money coming in. That is about 70% +/- of what benefits are expected to be three decades from now.
I seriously want to slap people who say Social Security will disappear. It will only disappear if someone repeals it. Until then, it will be an increasingly woefully inadequate safety net for old people, which thirty years from now will get cut further because that is the way it works. Also, by 2060 when the boomer echo is contributing and the busters are taking, there will be a surplus again. Put that in your pipe and shove it up your ass, Mary Williams Fuckbrain.
All the morning news programs carried the latest steno work too. Basically ti clearly announces that the Obsters have turned their beady little nocturnal eyes to Soc Sec.
Good luck is all i can say…
Pardon the cursing. You can edit if you like. The health care bill and then this just put me over the limit…
oh its fine… I curse a lot.
And as inevitable as the mess is (insrance ”reform” giveaway), it still upsets me…
They’ve stolen so much from SS, is a good part of the problem…
when I was in college, early ’80s, all the eager little Reaganites were always warning everyone that SS would be gone by 2000.
I’m looking forward to seeing some of my former favorite progressive haunts contort themselves into fun new shapes as they once again justify Obama doing what they berated Bush for even talking about in the abstract.
I keep hoping Biden will shoot a friend in the face on a hunting trip, just so I can watch the Progs justify that as well. There’s clearly no limit to what shit they will eat when it’s ladled out by their team, so why not?
you know what surprises me, the tack taken by Owen Paine over at SMBIVA. Very odd. His scrabbly bits of “hope”, a banner carried thru several threads now about the ins co giveaway, is the reiteration of the exact talking points the Dems are dishing out. Right down to invoking the 1957 Civil Rights Act under Eisenhower.
Personally, I think it’s just a pose to feed the flames. I can’t imagine that any regular over there sincerely believes that stuff.
I see the children are playing… and running to the blast emails for fundraising letters, no doubt.
well, at least they acknowledge that there ARE flames out there…
They’ll use it but they won’t acknowlege the actual issues. Or the people. Either party.
We are so stuck in concrete.
Trippi: Liberals would be threatening violence if health care had failed
Tapper V Gibbs… with Chuck Todd, Chip Reid and Major Garrett chiming in.
lol
You go guys.
yeah NYCO, that “Race to the TOP” ‘education’ (can’t come up with a word appropriate to my gut instinct, to end the sentence, particularly since the language we were taught in this country has been misappropriated, other than EVIL)
Race to the top of what? in a land where we drone human beings thousands of miles away from a state well known for it’s own ‘corruption’
It can always get worse…. the cia agents in Afghanistan had a celebratory birthday cake waiting for the bomber/new recruit.
As I listen to Margaret Warner detail our “secret” war in Yemen on AQAP.
Glory to god in the highest.
why yes, you’re right,…yes it can
Give us each day, our daily bread …
and likely will
:0(
Have a Nice World War, Folks
snip
Western war states such as the US and Britain are not threatened by the Taliban or any other introverted tribesmen in faraway places, but by the antiwar instincts of their own citizens.
yes the real enemy, world wide, si anti government movements.
Today’s mass e-mail from Tim Kaine, sent by democrats.org, is titled — I shit you not — “Heroes under attack.”
I just threw up in my mouth.
oh god… wienies in lock down.
Have a Nice World War, Folks
Wow, so much to quote from in that piece:
This is Americanism, the only predatory ideology to deny that it is an ideology. The rise of tentacular corporations that are dictatorships in their own right and of a military that is now a state with the state, set behind the façade of the best democracy 35,000 Washington lobbyists can buy, and a popular culture programmed to divert and stultify, is without precedent. More nuanced perhaps, but the results are both unambiguous and familiar. Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, the senior United Nations officials in Iraq during the American and British-led blockade, are in no doubt they witnessed genocide. They saw no gas chambers. Insidious, undeclared, even presented wittily as enlightenment on the march, the Third World War and its genocide proceeded, human being by human being.
Palestinians think Obama is serious. He wants regime change in Israel.
I can’t believe that Palestinians of all people (well, other than the collaborationist “leaders”) thinks Tzipi Livni will be any different.
Settlements will go on and on, and anyway I don’t think that is the real issue. Any more than ABC BBC NPR are REALLY upset at the endless diddling the little ones by the priests, etc.
Both are cover stories for soemthing else.
There is some talk around the the US may want some cover concession made to the Pals, in exchange for Iran War negotiations.
Whatever the deal is, it will be as little as possible for the Pals and as much for war as possible.
Just my opinion.
I hope not. At some point the pendulum needs to swing in our favor.
The israelis iwll never never abandon their ideology of constant war. IIRC dox have surfaced from as far back as the 50s when their leaders devised it… Seems to me several of them openly admitted to it, as they became old men…
And let’s not forget, none other than Edward Said’s wife (widow) is quickly revising his beliefs to more closely dovetail with the Israelis. Unfuckingbelievable!
I think the Palestinians have the only answer, one state, birth rate…. and, however long a war of subversion and stealth it takes. IMO if that is not a just war nothing is.
Did not know about Said’s wife. That’s why it’s so important to collect history books.
When I was in books pre-1948 maps were very collectible, for obvious reasons.
Shorter Health Care Debate
and so on …
a sign of how seriously fucked up “debate” is in this country … someone describes Prof. Elizabeth Warren as a “loose cannon”.
Dog attacks cop car. Yikes.
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NPR Changes Abortion Language
I don’t get that.
Neue…
LINK
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