Sunday, April 23, 2006
Sunday Mornin' Coming Down – Part II
Back on…Face the Nation.
Cokie Roberts opines that the “important” visit was in Seattle. Microsoft. Starbucks. Boeing. The next important stop was Saudi Arabia. The obligatory stop by a poor relations shanty in this whirlwind tour was the visit to White House.
Sheesh.
It was George Will. Sam Donaldson. Cokie Roberts. A bas relief of dead dogs playing poker carved in old, gray butter.
Will reached into his Meaningless Statistic change purse to dispel rumors of Chinese dominance and spends 45 valuable seconds nattering on about how, 235 years ago, the Yellow Hoards outnumbered us 100-to-1 and now its just 4-to-1.
Pointless. Contextless. But I'm happy someone showed Will where the "function" button is in Excel, and that he's having so much fun moving numbers around.
On Press The Meet…Ted Kennedy and we’re all Murtha now, baby!
Kennedy lays it down. Our presence has inflamed the insurgency. The only way out of Iraq is to get out of Iraq.
The people that are cutting and running are this Administration. Cutting and running from the Truth. From the facts. From reason.
Calls his vote against the war, “The Best Vote I Cast in the United States Senate.”
He heard the same “Great Bloodbath” arguments at the end of Vietnam. The time has come to get out.
Russert keeps asking the same question: But what if it fails? What of there’s a Civil War? What if the terrorists come swooping in? Huh? Huh?
The right answer would have been to come across the table at Punkin’ Haid with a broken bottle and ask, “Yes, Timmy, what about that? What exactly are the right answers to that question? What exactly are those yummy-yummy good scenarios that the Republicans have left us?”
On Iran.
Kennedy: Rattling the nuclear saber is counterproductive.
Russert: But what if your military advisors came to you and said that there was no alternative except using tactical nukes?
And what if Jesus came and said that your two children were both tied to the undercarriages of trucks carrying nitroglycerine, one with the brake lines cut plunging down a mountain over shattered highway…and one a hundred miles in the opposite direction being driven by a suicidal drunk through a park where his ex-wife is a ranger?
Huh? What then Mr. Smartypants!
OK, time to get something straight and lay a term eternally to rest.
There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. Tactical. Nuclear. Weapon.
Period.
Tossing any nuke around – even a pony nuke, even underground – has monstrous, strategic consequences.
On Bin Laden.
Russert: Why can’t we capture him?
Kennedy: Shit, Tim. Bigger question is, why did we let him go? Why did we abandon the hunt for him?
On Immigration.
Kennedy: If the Preznit would be willing to take on the Right Wing of his own Party, we might be able to fix this thing.
Russert: But some in your Party think you are too quick to compromise.
Russert: Falwell. Whuzzup with him and McCain?
The Senator from Massachusetts was given a chance to wallop a big fat one clean over the Green Monster at Fenway. And he didn’t take it. He hedged on Falwell, hedged on McCain. Talked around the whole “Agent of Intolerance” matter.
Now Kennedy is a legislator and this is how legislators have to operate, but when handed a ball-peen hammer and Falwell’s spongy skull, it is the duty of every person who loves liberty to step up and swing.
Kinda like the sword in the stone.
Kennedy lights up on Education. Chinese are graduation 600K engineers every year. India, 350K. We’re graduting 75K, half of whom are foreign born.
This Administration is soooo fucking cavalier about education. Well, about everything, but the topic is education.
When we passed the G.I. Bill, the Treasury figured that it created $7 in new wealth for every $1 invested. Education is the key to growth.
Damn right. This is an investment in our nation’s future, and it’s worth spending a little money on it. Maybe if we weren’t pissing away hundreds of billions in Iraq. Maybe roll back all of those giveaways to billionaires.
Russert: What about $3.00/gal gasoline?
Kennedy: The “Big Issue” of this election will be the gross incompetence of this Administration on every issue.
Russert lobs up a 44-year-old quote from Teddy when he was 12 years old about Democratic corruption in MA. And then pounces. So when Dems do it, its OK?!!
Kennedy: Fuck you, Russert. When it’s a few cutpurses, then it’s a problem with individuals. When the whole political infrastructure is powered by corruption, then it’s the Party and its culture.
The Panel… Broder, Brownstein, Blankley, Myers.
Broder: (Cracking open another tired, fortune cookie of self-evident wisdom) It’s the government’s job to protect secrets, but it's ours to try to uncover them.
Brownstein: (On Slot Jockey Bigot Big Bill Bennett’s comments that Journalists are Traitors). This Administration will leak like month-old-diapers when it suits them.
OK, that was me punching up the tepid prose a trifle.
Me: What you mean is that the GOP will leak half-truths to juice up the pig people and tamp down the opposition and then get their Underoos in a twist when someone dares to tell the whole truth to counterhex their lies.
Tony Blankley: Aughhhh! Get the fuck back to the McLaughlin Group you bull tumor.
Dee Dee Myers: Classified information has been leaked, always. Government workers sign a document promising not to release info. If a government worker wants to talk for what he or she thinks if the good of the country, that’s on them.
Brownstein: One important question is whether or not the public is better off knowing things like NSA etc.
Russert: Staff changes at the WH?
Brownstein: Are they looking at fundamental changes or not? Not. The source of Rove’s power is his relationship with Dubya. That’s not going to change.
Me: Obviously not. This Administration doesn’t have “policy” in any sense on that word. They have tactics for kneecapping people and grabbing more power…for the purpose of kneecapping people and grabbing more power. They all the “vision” of a platoon of pickpockets working a rodeo. All they see of this beautiful world are wallets and asses, and all "strategy" is focused on separating one from the other.
Rove will simply move from crafting failed policies designed to throw old women under buses...to just thowing old women under buses.
Dee Dee Myers: The relationship between this Administration and the Press is so contentious. This Admin is not interested in a better relationship with the press.
Broder: The problem is not Scotty. The problem is George Bush, who feels no need to keep the public informed on anything.
Brownstein: There is a shift in the way that media gets done. Increasingly you see “politicians” running to the partisan Press.
Me: Fuck you.
Here, for example, is a picture of the White House Press Corps
ferreting out a story.
What you mean is that the GOP has created a purely partisan alternate media because the whole of GOP “policy” is a Long War Against Reality Including ‘Rithmatic.
What you mean is that the GOP "media" consists of telling stupid people what they want to hear in a way that accrues to the benefit of rich people and the leaders of the Conservative Evangelical Jihad.
What you mean is that the GOP invented a Pravada Press to help it lie to the public, and the MSM has chased them down the rabbit hole and as a result has grown steadily weaker and more pussified.
There is no “Lefty” equivalent to what the Right has done to the Free Press so quit pretending that this is a bipartisan disease.
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tactical nukes....bunker busters....just cute little baby nukes, really. quite harmless, really, would we lie to you?
nothing to see, move along
If we, the sane, ever get control of our country again, we MUST apply the anti-trust laws aggressively to break up the McMedia oligopoly.
Shouldn't those things the press/children are picking up be brown?
"A bas relief of dead dogs playing poker carved in old, gray butter." Exquisite, you have a true gift!
Well, I'm gonna be all over the place here, but:
I have noticed that many of the stores and resturants in my neighborhood have closed. The factories closed years ago. (Where are the jobs?)
I can't find a single article of clothing made in America.
The stores are full of cheap (in every sense of the word) junk.
And where has all the gas gone? I had to try 4 stations before I found any today. It was $2.95/gal. So what will it be when the latest tanker truck makes a delivery.
I believe that my Arab friends were right about this war being about the oil.
It seems to me that corporate america is getting richer and richer. Fat-cat CEOs making more money than God and the Beatles combined.
I was going to ask how will it all come down when Americans don't have any money to by all the junk that "american" company are making in China, but then I realized that this is a group that surely does live for today. Screw posterity.
"It was George Will. Sam Donaldson. Cokie Roberts. A bas relief of dead dogs playing poker carved in old, gray butter."
This may be all that future generations will ever remember about them.
parsec
parsec,
cokie was on charlie rose tonight. jeez, I shouldn't churn that much tummy acid before bednights.
terry of the C.A.,
Your observation/diagnosis is correct.
Fortunately its fixable. It'll be a shitload of work, but we can save ourselves.
muddy,
gratzi
Kid Charlemagne,
"When" we get control.
When.
Undeniable Liberal,
Giving half the globe a 2nd ammendment glow for the next 72 years.
Good photo, Drift.
Look at them, ferreting out the truth....
I can hear them now, shouting back and forth:
"Hey! Looky here! I found a 55 gallon drumful of snakeoil and bulshit, labelled "WMD'S!"
"Cool! I'm onto $11 billions-worth of no-bid contracts!"
"No Shit?"
"How about about a 90 foot high illegal-immigrant demon-doll; perfect for deflecting body-bag anger and pump piss-off? And way easier to inflate than that old latex Saddam bogey-critter, who didn't even last three years before deflating..."
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A lot has been written about prosperity and how to attain it. We have been told by many religious traditions and every personal development guru that the Universersal Source (God, Spirit, Cosmic Mind or whatever label you chose to give it) is boundless wealth. We are also told that abundance, wealth and prosperity are our birthright! Why then are so many people ill, broke, frustrated and unfulfilled? Can a person really develop a prosperity consciousness and effortlessly attract wealth? Well as with everything in life there is only one way to find out. Test it for yourself!
Before we can attain and then test the effectiveness of having a prosperity consciousness we need to understand some basic truths. Let's start by explaining three fundamentals of personal development namely; 1. The Universal Source is all wealth, abundance and prosperity; 2. Prosperity is our birthright; 3. You get more of what you focus on.
1. Why are we told that the Universal Source is unlimited wealth? - Because the Universal Source is the consciousness of the Universe - a universe that is still expanding. It is the driving force behind physical reality. It created everything you see, hear, touch and smell as well as all that we are unaware of (microwaves, radiation, air etc.). It has been stated in religious and metaphysical traditions that this intelligence is not only the Source of everything but that it is also the substance of it! It creates the Universe from itself! It is omnipresent (everywhere present). That means that the entire seen and unseen aspects of the universe are a part of this Universal Source. Science reaffirms this theory as it states that nothing is solid and everything is just one mass of pure energy that vibrates at different frequencies and gives the illusion of separateness.
So we can now claim that the Universal Source is unlimited wealth, abundance and prosperity with some belief. For if this Source is the very substance of everything then it is all the wealth, abundance and prosperity that exists at this very moment!
Ok so far? Now lets look at the second point - prosperity is our birthright.
2. If this Universal Intelligence is the source and substance of all things then there can be only one intelligence in the Universe. Jesus said to his disciples "know ye not that you are the temple of the living God?" Buddha attained enlightenment and "oneness". The list of these religious teachings are too numerous to mention but their message remains the same - God (Universal Substance) resides within and around us. It's very substance makes up our physical body and the world around us - "For in him we live, move and have our being" Acts17:28. Therefore, if this Universal Source is at the very core of our being and is the substance from which we take physical form then it stands to reason that we are connected to everyone else and in fact everything else around us - we are a part of all the wealth, abundance and prosperity of the universe. Just as your hand or foot is a part of your body, so every grain of sand, blade of grass, wisp of wind, bar of gold and brick that is laid in a mansion is part of you. The unlimited wealth of the universe is yours for the claiming. It is already yours, always has been and always will be. It is a part of you.
Ok let's go the third point - you get more of what you focus on.
3. "It never rains but it pours", is a saying I have used myself in the past. Have you ever wondered why such a statement appears to be true? Well metaphysics and religion tell us that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" or as Job cried out to God "For that which I greatly feared has come upon me". What we focus our conscious attention on increases! Don't believe me? Test it for yourself! If you can muster up the strength to do it then think in negative terms for a week. Judge everything that happens to you in negative terms and think only of a negative outcome and watch what happens in your world!!! This is a relatively easy experiment as we are conditioned to think negatively by the world. A word of warning though - once you prove that your focus determines your reality stop thinking negative thoughts as best you can.
I will not go into the 'hows' of why our focus has such a profound influence on our lives (that would be the subject of a book or perhaps a future article) just prove to yourself that it does. A clue can be found in the teachings of Jesus when he said "The Kingdom of heaven is within".
So now we have the three principles of the prosperity consciousness explained let's put it to work. The attainment of a prosperity consciousness is relatively simple - just think on the first two principles until you fully understand them and integrate them into your consciousness. As you focus on them you will discover that your feelings of lack disappear and you begin to feel a connection with everything around you. It is really just an attitude shift - nothing metaphysical or mystical about it at all. You begin to consciously realize that everything is a part of you. Your focus changes from poverty to wealth.
If it helps make a list of affirmations that correspond to the two principles outlined e.g. "God is the Source and substance of everything", "I am at one with everyone and everything around me", "I am a part of all the wealth, abundance and prosperity of the Universe" etc. Don't just rhyme them off in a parrot like manner, think on them and realize the scientific or spiritual truths behind them.
Will it work? Well I can say now that if you follow the above instructions a real change will happen in you. You will start to see the beauty of the world and the unlimited resources that are available within and around you. Will you attain wealth, abundance and prosperity? Test it for yourself! subliminal messages
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