The transnational media is trying to start a very nasty rumor which goes something like this : if the Republicans are foolish enough to balk at increasing the debt ceiling next month, they will suffer politically just as they did in 1995 and 1996.  This very nasty little bit of left-wing, political propaganda leaves out the cold hard fact that in 1995 and 1996 a lot of people were not merely untroubled by the temporary shutdown of the federal government, they were overjoyed by it!

In 2006 it took me three months, starting by filling out an application at my local post office and finishing by receiving the object of my desire in the mail, to renew an expired US passport.  The United States Postal Service, supposedly half-private and half-federal, is slated to lose at least 7 billion dollars this year.  Before 2006, when I used to renew my US passport, I would get a new one back in the mail in about 10 days.  Those days are gone for good, to say the least!  If the mail service were turned over to United Parcel Service, this private company might charge 60¢ or 65¢ to deliver a first-class letter but the letter would go straight to the right destination and get there quicker to boot!

The Republicans had better not dig in their heels and force the federal government to close down, even for a nanosecond.  Just think of all the taxpayers dancing in the streets and the traffic accidents such wildly irresponsible behavior might cause!

P. S. : Oh, by the way --- it wasn't just the Postal Service that was slow in 2006, the State Dept., issuer of US Passports, gave me major grief and slowed up the general parade. It seems my mug takes one ugly passport photo! My horrible visage seems to have deeply insulted a file clerk in the State Dept., causing the clock to run overtime --- three months overtime!!! (Tamara Drewe has a much prettier face, both from in-front & from behind).

TAMARA DREWE (2010) is Ready for Her New 3-D Passport Photo.

From January 20, 2001 to September 10, 2001, the only searing image that George W. Bush managed to cut was that of a clueless bumbler chopping wood in the August heat of Crawford, Texas.  The Clinton pardons scandal, Marc Rich, and the disappearance of Chandra Levy, along with the hemmings and whorings of Congressman Gary Condit, relegated Bush and the Republicans to the back pages.

It took the False Flag explosions, at the Pentagon and along the plaza of the World Trade Center, to shift focus away from GOP do-nothingism.

The Republicans took control of the House on January 5, 2011.  So far the auguries have been most unpropitious.  The maniac in Tucson and Little Lord Barry in the White House, climbing the walls while threatening the Egyptians, have taken every ounce of oxygen out of the proverbial political room.

If there are new False Flags in the offing, they will be committed by the Democrats who still control the only effective levers of power, which reside exclusively in the executive branch.  It has been ever thus since FDR blew into town in 1933 and would strip every last, remaining vestige of political power & administrative control away from Congress.

History, among other things, can prove to be the Great Bitch Goddess, who can be utterly merciless to those who shirk golden opportunities that are presented to them on silver platters!

If all the Republicans can do is cut $36 billion from the present year’s federal budget, then they will become one of the biggest collective laughing stocks since Franklin Pierce and his cabinet of absolute mediocrities.

“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers,” Oscar Wilde famously said.

Over the last week or so we have had the unedifying spectacle of President Barry Soetoro, running around the White House like a headless chicken, threatening the government of Egypt, much in the manner of a petulant prep. school boy sweating buckets at the onslaught of puberty.  He kept telling that bad dictator and the army behind him to get a quick move on.  They seem not disposed to listen.

Three years ago, Barack Obama was a Lefty's wet dream : by voting for him, your garden-variety Socialist hoped to earn a place in Karl Marx Heaven. Since Socialism is, for all practical purposes, a religion based on faith rather than results, many prayers were uttered out loud over wine & cheese on Barry's way to the White House.  Like a Black itinerant preacher, who had one hand on Sunday's cornpone & hog strips dinner and one hand up the skirt of his neighbor's wife, Barry seemed to have luck on this side --- after all, wasn’t George W. Bush just an amiable dunce and wasn't our boy Barry the product of the best schools and didn’t he move in the best circles?  So what if he didn't have a Birth Certificate!  So what if he had lied on his college-aid applications and said he was a foreign student!  He had the right skin hue and could talk the birds straight down from the trees and have them eating the pabulum of Leninist Worker-hood out of his hand!  The foreign money, in odd amounts, poured his campaign and the transnational media never ceased to sing his praises no matter how dubious his pronouncements.

After two years in office, in these recent days the dizzying acceleration process of the new Incredible Shrinking Man has ferociously kicked into gear.  The next time that Barry is espied on TeeVee, one expects to see him dressed all over, in shiny black velveteen, with an enormous bow-tie and short britches over high socks, exposing knobby knees.  One also expects to see him waving a ruler and pulling a blackboard, promising to show us all how this job of government is supposed to be done! L’État, c’est Barry, c’est Lui!

Oscar Wilde was right about the gods and our daft prayers; God Almighty help us all and get a move on and be quick about it!

In September of 2008, US Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson presented a modest proposal to Congress, on three pages, demanding 800 billion dollars for his pals on Wall Street.  He called it TARP.  A Congressman or two would report to the press that Paulson had threatened them : if the bill didn't pass, Paulson said, he would tell President Bush to declare martial law.  In October the bill did pass.  Before the New Year, the Federal Reserve Bank (a private banking cartel) would pump more than $2.5 trillion of fiat dollars into the world economy, mostly by using the conduit of foreign central banks.  By that time TARP had been changed by Paulson into a vehicle with which to buy shares in insolvent US banks (Paulson had originally promised Congress that he would use the 800 billion dollars to buy “troubled assets,” mostly in the form of dud mortgages).

No one seems to have ended up in an orange jumpsuit except Bernie Madoff.  In December of 2008, Madoff became the official scapegoat for the “financial crisis.”  The pretense was that Madoff ran his Ponzi scheme in the shadows.  This could not be further from the truth.

In 2003, France’s Société Générale put Madoff & Co. on its official blacklist, telling its richest clients to avoid him like a plague; in 2007, Private Union Banking of Switzerland withdrew all its funds from Madoff & Co because its research dept. had loudly blown the proverbial whistle. The New York Times reports this morning that Madoff & Co., on a single day in 2002, funneled 318 separate payments of exactly $986,301.00 into an account held by its hedge fund, which was then paid out to a single unnamed customer, using J.P. Morgan Chase as a launderer or conduit for every one of the 318 transactions.  In December of 2001 the selfsame single unnamed hedge fund customer had paid out 90 million dollars into Madoff’s private account practically “on a daily basis.”

Where is the righteous indignation over such outrageous financial chicanery in this country?  In the 1930s, bankers who are caught doing such things would certainly be sent straight to prison before they could be lynched!  Have we become a nation of zombies, going about our daily affairs in a trance-like state? Does anything excite us or peak our interest beyond what’s on the TeeVee tonight?

It was a month of fast-moving blizzards; it was a month of slow-moving storms.  In the Northeast, Winter had truly arrived with a vengeance.

And like the season, the temperature dropped in the soul of every faithful Marxist.  On January 5th, Republicans took charge of the US House of Representatives.  How could such amiable, crooked hacks strike fear into anyone's soul?  But the Democrats were terrified.  Three days later, on the 8th, a lunatic opened fire on the outdoor meeting of a Democrat Congresswoman which was being held in front of a supermarket in Tucson.  The Congresswoman was shot in the head but survived; not so six others, there in attendance, with 13 more bystanders wounded.  The Lefty transnational media went verbally ballistic and accused everyone from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh of egging on the madman.  When all was said and done, the Democrats were acutely embarrassed when it turned out that the shooter was a drugged-out zombie, who was so absolutely crazy, that he was even paranoid about the certainty of his own earthly existence.

The President of the United States gave a eulogy at a Tucson sports Auditorium that was much praised in the transnational media but seemed cold to skeptics.  Supposedly the eloquence of the speech helped him to go up five points in the favorability polls.  Barry Spendalicious would return to Terra Firma soon thereafter when he gave his 2011 State of the Union speech that was adjudged, even by his partisans, to be a tremendous flop.  Rhetorical lead balloons were seen rising all over Washington in the final days of the month.

The unremitting comedy, concerning the President's lack of a Birth Certificate, droned on, unresolved and into its third year.  The newly elected Governor of Hawaii promised to produce a true copy of Barry's hospital Birth Certificate but then withdrew his ironclad promise, saying that even the President has a right to privacy whatever the Constitution says on the issue of eligibility!

One needn't ask a ground hog about the next six weeks.  They will be wintry, if the recent weather past is prologue.  Acolytes of Dr. Freud should have their calendars filled by Democrats in desperate need of warm comfort & cold advice.  The unremitting comedy goes on - - - the country getting more broke by the minute . . .

. . . Money was extraordinarily tight; and morality extraordinarily loose!  The war had done it.  Banks were not lending; people were breaking contracts all over the place.  There was a feeling in the air and a look on faces that he did not like.  The country seemed in for a spell of gambling and bankruptcies.  There was satisfaction in the thought that neither he nor his trusts had an investment which could be affected by anything less maniacal than national repudiation or a levy on capital.  If Soames had faith, it was in what he called “English common sense” --- or the power to have things, if not one way, then another.  He might --- like his father James before him --- say he didn't know what things were coming to, but he never in his heart believed they were.  If it rested with him, they wouldn't --- and, after all, he was only an Englishman like any other, so quietly tenacious of what he had that he knew he would never really part with it without something more or less equivalent in exchange.  His mind was essentially equilibristic in material matters, and his way of putting the national situation difficult to refute in a world composed of human beings.  Take his own case, for example!  He was well-off.  Did that do anybody harm?  He did not eat ten meals a day; he ate no more than, perhaps not as much as, a poor man.  He spent no money on vice; breathed no more air, used no more water to speak of, than the mechanic or the porter.  He certainly had a lot of pretty things about him, but they had given employment in the making, and somebody must use them.  He bought pictures, but Art must be encouraged.  He was, in fact, an accidental channel through which money flowed, employing labour.  What was there objectionable in that?  In his charge money was in quicker and in more useful flux than would it be in the charge of the State and a lot of slow-fly, money-sucking officials.  And as to what he saved each year --- it was just as much in flux as what he didn't save, going into water board or council stocks, or something sound and useful.  The State paid him no salary for being trustee of his own or other People's Money --- he did all that for nothing. Therein lay the whole case against Nationalization --- owners of private property were unpaid, and yet had every incentive to quicken the flux.  Under Nationalization --- just the opposite!  In a country smarting from officialism he felt he had a strong case.

It is a great paradox that, as the federal government gets bigger, the front men supplied by Wall Street and the Pentagon grow smaller.  It is almost as great a paradox that, as the government encroaches more boldly into the everyday life of the populace, individual members of that nondescript agglomeration are likely to consider themselves free of government interference : more often than not, you will hear people saying that they are quite happy to “paddle their own canoe,” as if any choice to do so were being left up to them!  When in true reality they are going nowhere on their own steam but will surely find themselves mugged by authority and beaten about the head & shoulders with the paddle of government meddling!

For the last day or so the transnational media has been crowing about Barry's rise of 4 0r 5 percentage points in the favorability polls.  Yes, Barry gave a pretty little speech about coming together and keeping a civil tongue in one's head before a cheering crowd in Tucson last week.  But this is not the stuff of which reëlection campaigns are made of.  Backflips and somersaults are insufficient to get the man in the White House without a Birth Certificate re-elected.  In the congressional elections of November, the Socialists (who for quite ridiculous reasons still call themselves Democrats) got only 38% of the White vote.  In two years time, and if this paltry number holds, Barry Soetoro is guaranteed retirement on a handsome government pension.  California, New York, and maybe Illinois, might fall into line in the electoral college for him but every region of the country outside the wacky hallowed halls of New England will prove to be a losing battle for the Jackass Party.  The bloom is most definitely off the red, red rose.  Thanks to Third World Immigration and thanks to Wall Street manipulation and Pentagon bellicosity, this country will be an infinitely more miserable place in two years time than it is presently.  2008 was such stuff as dreams are made on --- 2012 promises to be Nightmare City in comparison.

Well, not quite!  After all, it is we, the general populace of this country, who are forever being taken to the cleaners.  But you get the general idea.  It is that our elected representatives always play the perps without having to pay the consequences.  They are never made to walk down the courthouse steps on a daisychain.  Short of bloody murder, they seem to get away with everything.  But they are still perps, if only ones with ironclad immunity!

The folderol, since Saturday, stimulated by the Tucson massacre, has got the Democrats in a whirl, to put it mildly.  They seem to still be in shock over the results of the November 2nd midterm elections.  They were expecting to lose but not quite so badly.  Since, they have been living in da Nile; and, of course, they blame it mostly on the voters; and, to a lesser extent, they blame their humiliating defeat on the Republicans.

In Fanny Hill, there is a sailor, who has been long at sea.  Upon reaching England, the first thing he does is hire a prostitute.  Within seconds of shutting the door of his private room in a tavern, he begins to, as they say, “go to it.”  Even though the prostitute is grateful to receive handsome payment for a night’s service, she's appalled at her customer’s rough, seafaring manners : for he seems to take it as a right of the instant transaction that all of his temporary lady friend’s orifices should be put to full and vigorous use.  The prostitute complains, telling the sailor to go easy and not subject her flesh to such harsh and wounding employment.  The sailor earnestly begs her pardon but also demands that the prostitute be a little understanding under the circumstances : telling her that he has been long at sea and therefore denied the amorous congress of womankind for an unconscionable length of time, he shouts : “Any port in a storm, Madam! --- any port in a storm!” --- all the while mashing the prostitute that much harder while offering his full apologies.

August 3, 2010, Manchester, Connecticut :
After Being Fired for Stealing Cases of Budweiser®,
Omar Thornton Kills 8 Former White Co-Workers. Before
Turning the Gun on Himself, Thornton Makes a Phone
Call in which He Opinionates that All Whites are Natural-
Born Racists. Paul Krugman of The New York Times Does
Not Write a Column about the "Connecticut Massacre."
"If They [The Republicans] Bring a Knife to
The Fight, We [The Democrats] Bring a Gun!"
Barry Soetoro (AKA Barack Obama) on the
Campaign Trail, 2008.

In April this webpage will celebrate its fourth birthday.  Faithful readers of this page may have noticed, by now, the mulish tendency of its author of refusing to follow the herd.  Sometimes this habit works out to the good, sometimes it works out to the bad --- because sometimes what is prominent in the news is actually important!  But often times what is prominent in the news is not important at all, but merely the whim of corporate puppet masters who want you behave in a way that will prove profitable for their corporation, and want you to think in a way that does not tend to form a habit of constant sales resistance.

More than a few e-mails have arrived here, at the Club, suggesting that a comment or two might be passed on the significance of the Republicans taking control of the US House of Representatives yesterday .  A tendency towards sales resistance to this notion has kicked in here.  Here at the Detective Club of Jersey City mulishness is the order of the day, where the Republicans are concerned.  After all, the period of 1995 through 2007 is not so long ago, when they controlled the House always, and the Senate mostly (except from June 2001 through December 2002).  Bill Clinton pretty much ate their lunch; Svengali-like he hypnotized them into going along with the Democrat program.  When George W. Bush was in residence in the White House, no crazy spending scheme, nor any crazy invasion of an insignificant third world country, was out of the question or off the table.  Republicans deserved to lose and to lose big.

Who would've thought that their nemesis would be a guy without a Birth Certificate and without a fixed name!

In 2008 Barry Soetoro, the Jumping Jesus of the moment, promised to lead us all, here and abroad, into a never-never paradise of burgeoning national wealth and into a world of international brotherhood.  But now we've woken up from that sweet dream into a never-ending nightmare of the kind of poverty and violence that was already here, now only more so, pre-Jumping Jesus.

The newer the country the tidier the history.  This is because quick decisions projected forward are more decisive, if you will, in youth than they are in the painstaking deliberation of middle or old age.  Unlike Europe, and except for the relatively brief War between the States, the United States has no long history of internecine conflict.  Up until 1965, immigration into the United States has not been accomplished through invasion, but by the gradual entry of the European peoples.  America’s natural resources have been slowly developed, for the most part, rather than rapidly plundered.  A modern government, which she possessed at her inception, was localized and diffuse --- not imposed from Paris or London by a ruling class under the protection of the Crown.  America is a country without an hereditary ruling class.  The ruling class, that she would have, was made up of merchants and bankers who would step into the power void and would rule the country with the help of child-like myths.  The most potent myth of all being that there was no merchant or banker ruling class! …

When it comes to the burning issue of Third World immigration, Republicans always bring out their suicidal tendencies first.  Outgoing Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, after having served two full terms and unable (because of term limits) to serve anymore, has warned fellow Republicans to stay away from a “gang-type mentality” when it comes to Third World immigration.  The new governor-elect, with the help of the state legislature, now controlled by Republican members of his own party, admires the way they do things in Arizona and wants to pass stricter laws encouraging illegals to leave Georgia for greener pastures in New York, Illinois and California. So better times might be just be around the corner for Georgia.

When Republicans first run for office, they are likely to be for stricter immigration controls.  When they leave office, and want to become known as “statesmen,” they tend to lecture Republican officeholders, who they are leaving behind, about all and sundry: Sonny Perdue being the latest in a long line of political morons to do so.

There are always consequences.  However good and Simon-pure were the motives behind the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 and however well-meaning were the intentions behind the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, consequences, like feces in an aviary which always falls from a great height, have happened in a most spectacular fashion.

On the front page of today's New York Times (CLICK HERE) there sits a fresh realignment of Reality --- to wit Prichard, Alabama (a suburb of Mobile).  In 1960, when the city had a population of 47,000, it was 70% White, and it was prosperous.  In 1999, Prichard went bankrupt.  The US Census figures of 2000 were interesting, to say the least : the city, in 2000, was 85% Black with a shrunken population of 29,000.  55% of its inhabitants, who were under the age of 18, received public assistance.  Last year Ron Davis, Prichard's Mayor (who, needless to say, is not White) stopped paying out the city’s pension fund to its mostly White retirees (the average yearly payout is about $12,000 per pensioner); and, needless to add, most of the cutoff retirees no longer live in Prichard, so even if they are displeased with Mayor Davis, they cannot vote against his opponent in the next election.

This is what disenfranchisement looks like.  The future is already here -- -- -- just read the most recent US Census numbers!

When they found the lonely body of the retired Prichard Fire Marshal in the recesses of his dark house this June, his family needn't have bothered to notify the electric company and the waterworks to cease providing services.  Operating lines to the house had already been cut, long before, due to non-payment.

Wake up from your long-term trance, America. The future is now --- as bold as love and twice as ugly!

Corrupt legislation makes for more corrupt legislation.  The Immigration Act of 1965 is now over 45 years old.  Under its aegis, Third World immigration became the new norm and the forgotten exception.  Politicians promised at the time that Third World immigrants would not be “flooding into America's cities.”  When this promise was discovered to be a gross deception, the Immigration Act of 1965 was not amended but was, rather, increased in its surging quota numbers : so much so that the 400,000 dead cutoff of 1965 is now the rising 2 million of 2010 --- not counting, of course, the one million yearly border jumpers and visa overstayers.

In a sane world, with sane politicians, and with a public that does not sit zombiefied in front of widescreen TeeVees, the Senate would have been debating yesterday the urgent need to cut back drastically the present “legal” quota of 2 million.  But as the trickle became a flood and the flood became a hurricane and the hurricane turned into a rapidly moving tornado, the politicians in Washington behaved more & more like crazed heroin addicts. Just one more bag of the old chunky brown would do the trick!  No need to go on the wagon when you can mainline the good stuff!

3 million a year, legal and illegal, almost all of it from the Third World, how in God's name have we come to such a pass?  As the economy plummets and the dollar sinks, more and more time must be spent trying to squeeze more and more Third World crime and more and more Third World poverty into this nation --- as if her citizens had not suffered enough from an experiment that in 45 years never stops bubbling over and, in every way and throughout every day, chops at the roots of the country.

But, if the policy itself does not make one whit of sense, then the venality behind it may.  The essential problem is not just a twisted Democrat politician looking for easy and plentiful votes.  It is much more than increased expenditure for the newly arrived welfare cases from overseas.  If one goes on, for years and years, pretending to act like a heroin addict, then self-destruction must be considered to be the natural and ultimate goal of a ghastly pantomime.  With all the self-loathing in the world possible as the opening gavel came down, yesterday the Senate of the United States successfully managed to filibuster the DREAM Act into agreeable oblivion; that perverted piece of legislation died for good and all, not with a bang, but with a barely perceptible whimper, never to be heard of again --- it is fondly to be hoped.

Not since 2001 has the Congress of the United States managed to pass a sweeping bill that might have granted immigration amnesty to millions.  Like a heroin addict locked in a padded cell and deprived of a fix, our Leninist legislators in Washington yesterday were foaming at the mouth, hoping to boil up a fresh batch of chunky brown for the good of the nation!  Nine years of a bottleneck --- to deny watering our long drought with a flood of freshly minted Third Worlders would be of the utmost cruelty!  Why, it would expose a cruel lack of compassion towards those Third Worlders who had hitched a ride on the crooked backs of their illegal fathers & mothers, when they were tiny children, when they could know no better nor can they now return homewards on their own steam!  The lies die in the throat, the hand stops fumbling through the empty wallet, a bloody mallet drops to the floor after laying liberty low, but the ingrained instincts of the Leninists in Washington will never be slaked with mere millions, fresh from the Third World, until America's financial institutions are finally bankrupted and America's cities are befogged in smoldering ruins : not until then will the Leninists consider their chosen mission of societal destruction truly finished and complete.  Such is the wild logic of our heroin addict, his favorite syringe by his side, brimming over with luscious rivulets of cooked chunky brown! As the strange man in the White House once said to a drunken mob in Berlin : look at me --- Citizen of The World!!!

The first Congresses of Bill Clinton and Barry Soetoro were pretty much the same in terms of numerical composition : in 1993 there were 57 Democrats in the Senate and 258 in the House; in 2009 there were 60 Democrats in the Senate and 257 in the House.  The only difference between Clinton and Soetoro was the size of their winning margins : Clinton only managed to muster 43% of the vote while Soetoro coasted in, with wild approval from church and state, having an absolute winning majority of 53%.

In those first two years the most notable congressional features that Clinton managed to achieve were higher income taxes and more gun control.  Besides pushing through an overall mammoth level of spending, for Barry the one brief shining moment was the passage of government regulated healthcare.  But being a man of dubious antecedents and of uncertain parentage, the present incumbent in the White House was bound to look favorably on the prospect of more Third World immigrants coming to this country and becoming Democrats.  This goal had to be accomplished under the subterfuge of deporting foreigners who had breached the borders, if only to show that the executive branch was serious about immigration enforcement, which could then be used as a prelude to a full amnesty for tens of millions of foreigners (ha,ha).

But it was preordained that Barry and his minions in the executive branch would not be able to put their full hearts to a task that was to prove an inevitably phony one.  In this morning's Washington Post we see the first buds of a blooming scandal : in trying to puff up its deportation numbers, ICE has doubled-counted between 6,000 and 23,000 border jumpers, mostly Mexican, in the sole custody of the US Border Patrol, going as far afield as Seattle to find aliens with which to fabricate the overall national deportation numbers of ICE.

Thousands more illegal aliens, released on “orders of recognizance,” would thereafter have their status changed to one of being deported through the process of “voluntary return.”

A Louisiana ICE agent, speaking anonymously, has claimed that during a two-week period more than 100 Mexicans in his jurisdiction, arrested for the most part on multiple drunk-driving charges, were released on the selfsame “voluntary return” program and counted as deported.

CLICK HERE and read and weep, if you have the stomach for it.

Yes Virginia, there are sometimes just plain lies and then there are miserable fabrications but we have government statistics forever with us! No wonder Harry Reid wants to push the so-called DREAM act through, double quick. Remember, boys & girls, after they pass a bill in Congress, what is it that we do? --- why we read it, of course!!!

The crazy, hysterical, madly spinning windmill of Internet gossip, regarding a supposed backstairs deal between Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, both being about to do a push-me, pull-you deal regarding the maintainability of the old GW Bush income tax levels for millionaires and billionaires, while, at the same time, letting the unspeakable DREAM act (amnesty for Illegals) sail through the US Senate.  But again the question must be asked : where are the votes coming from to pass this monstrosity?  They simply weren't there the day before yesterday, nor yesterday, nor today!  Again it must be stated that the Internet has changed the way business is done in Washington, like it or not.  After the Republicans took control of the House and the Senate in 1994, they thumbed their noses at their voters by voting for GATT in the lame duck session (which some wags called passing GAS).  But a goodly portion of Republican voters didn't know precisely what GATT was or what it would turn out to be (alas, they know now).  But can you imagine the kind of aftershock that would travel with lightning speed, from Washington to the Pacific Shelf, if Republicans voted for amnesty for Illegals after all the fulsome promises and all the tortured postures which they have made since the unlamented GW Bush left town!

By now even the most casual observer knows how Harry Reid got elected.  Electronic ballot boxes that were already loaded and stuffed, busloads of border-jumping Mexicans and visa-overstaying Filipinos were delivered to the polls, like clockwork, and in sufficient numbers to ensure a comfortable margin of victory for the majority leader in the Senate, who once upon a time, believe it or not, was a rabid immigration restrictionist.  It just goes to show you how much the world has changed, and America in particular, since 1992.

This week Senator Reid threatens to introduce the soi-disant “DREAM” act for a “test” vote on the floor, hoping against hope that enough Republicans (about 5 or 6) can be coaxed into the trap of voting for amnesty for illegal aliens.  Perhaps a retiring Republican senator from New Hampshire or Ohio can be persuaded to take the bait, but the number of dupe-able Republicans is most likely to be pitifully small : Bob Bennett, who was kicked out on his rear end by Utah Tea Partiers in the Republican nominating convention and who has such a grudge against his own party that he would eagerly do anything to embarrass it on his way out the door, is a rare exception and by no means the general rule; even the two lady RINOS from Maine would be loath to vote for amnesty now even though they have done so in the past.  It is certainly no longer 1992 for Harry Reid but, in the same vein, it is no longer 2006 or 2007 for politicians in the national Republican Party.  To vote for amnesty in the waning days of 2010 is like signing one's death warrant, opening a femoral artery, and drinking poison while jumping off the proverbial Montgomery Clift.  No vote would be more politically suicidal than, perhaps, voting for weekend furloughs for serial kid-touchers serving life sentences in Fort Leavenworth.  There are enough Democrats in the Senate up for reelection in 2012 to force Senator Reid to go looking for dupes in the Stupid Party (AKA : Republican Party), just to make up for those guaranteed desertions in Harry's own ranks.

Captain Ahab had such a bee in his bonnet for Moby Dick that he wound up killing himself and his crew while sinking his ship.  Here's hoping that the same crazy notion --- that votes from illegal aliens are somehow worth more than the votes of American citizens --- winds up laying waste to the political career of any politician who is just mad enough to scream “Thar She blows!” in the mad pursuit of political fame and fortune while feeding the pigeons and wearing a big sombrero.

Taking advantage of the fact that the anti-blasphemy laws were repealed long ago, an organization, that seeks to increase the practice of atheism, has bought advertising space on a billboard at the New Jersey entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, which runs into the island of Manhattan.  Belief in a godless universe does not come cheap : Lamar Outdoor Advertising Company has sold its Lincoln Tunnel billboard space to the group for $20,000 for a time-period until the end of December.  Even atheists in this country have a right to express their opinion that the Garden of Eden is a fable and that the Nativity of Christ is a myth, and Lamar Outdoor is only too happy to take $20,000 in furtherance of the atheist cause.

But while Lamar certainly believes in the soundness of atheist dollars, Lamar believes, on the other hand, that some political speech is downright sacrilegious : when a group approached Lamar with its plans to advertise about the President’s lack of a Birth Certificate on the same billboard, Lamar rejected the proposal out of hand.

Up until now there has been no hard proof that Barry Soetoro was in fact born in the United States, thanks to the cold hard fact that no one, much less one single voter, has seen his Birth Certificate!  In fact one would not be amiss in saying that there is an existing color photograph of the serpent whispering in Eve's ear as she offers Adam the fatal Apple, or that Mary and Joseph bought a 3-line birth announcement in all the Honolulu papers announcing the arrival of baby Jesus in a manger on December 25, 1 AD. There is about as much evidence (if not more!) of the occurrence of the events in the Garden of Eden or the Star of Bethlehem guiding the Wise Men to their ultimate destination as there is in the utterly unproven fact that Barry Soetoro was born in a Honolulu hospital in 1961.

All money is said to be equal except when some money is more equal than other money.  Paging Barry Soetoro . . . and don’t bother to bring your Birth Certificate! . . .

The way John McCain won the 2008 Republican presidential primaries wasn't all that clever for his party : by getting between 33% and 36% in winner-take-all arrangements in the early primaries, he emerged victorious but hopelessly weak.

Republican bigwigs would be well advised not to repeat this setup -- -- -- and if Sarah Palin emerges victorious in a new arrangement whereby she gains Republican convention delegates on a proportional basis (the Democrats always award convention delegates on a proportional basis) she will go into the general election as the strongest nominee possible -- -- -- and if she loses, well then she loses : the Republican Party wasn't meant to win in the first place --- what a bunch of back stabbers!

Reagan won this way in 1980 -- -- -- by steadily garnering a majority of the delegates.  Despite harsh animadversions from the Rockefeller wing of the party, he went into the general election campaign as a very strong candidate, one who wound up beating Jimmy Carter by 10 percentage points.  Reagan couldn't win, we were told; and if Reagan did win, we heard over & over, he would start a nuclear war with the Soviets as soon as he laid down the Bible on Inauguration Day.

Sarah Palin may sound stupid, she may act stupid, but if she wins the nomination, she will be -- -- -- in a manner of speaking -- -- -- a freakin’ idiot savant & the Queen of the Movement … (who may start a nuclear war with the Soviets) … hey!, wait a second!, somebody tell Sarah about the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 …

Without animadverting on either the virtue or demerits of frisking nuns in airports, the latest folder-all over pat-downs performed on unsuspecting and surprised citizens by our benevolent federal government, highlights the fatal cluelessness of the American character.  It is perhaps facile to say that in this country no thought is given for the future, or any remembrance afforded to the past.  All that has been said too many times before and does not bear present repeating.  It is perhaps more the national malaise of instant obliviousness that is utterly objectionable, to wit : there is a fatal flaw in the American character that weighs on any other shortcoming of personality that one would care to point out --- it is the total lack of concern for the consequences of one's actions.

It has been 45 years since the Immigration Act of 1965 : a country that was almost 90% European at the time could not possibly see into the future all the way to 2010, but could it not see that the opening of the nation's borders to the Third World would have some consequences that would not prove beneficial and be extremely unpleasant?  Remember, 1965 was the year in which Vietnam turned from a skirmish into a firefight!  And of course, over the length of these 45 years, Congress has always had the power to reduce the overall immigration numbers but has chosen rather to increase them.  In 1965 the proponents of the new immigration bill claimed that the nation would accept no more than a quarter of a million immigrants from the rest of the world on a yearly basis.  The numbers stand now at 2 million legal immigrants and one million illegal immigrants per annum.  These numbers can be changed by Congress immediately and the change signed into law by the president just as instantly.  But that would be racist!

It is the utter obliviousness about the present that makes Americans the biggest dupes in the world.  On the basis of a cock and bull story, a false flag to end all false flags, the US government on September 12, 2001 embarked on an 18- month propaganda campaign against a Middle Eastern dictator who had absolutely nothing to do with the bombings in Washington and New York, which had occurred on the previous day.  But the American public was quite content to lap up the spectacle of it all.  The money for armaments was borrowed from the Chinese.  The blood to be spilled would not be theirs or ours but would come from everybody else (as the Germans say “alle anderen”) who was will to join up in the armed forces for mercenary reasons.  When John Wayne was denied a commission in the US Army, during World War II, he decided to forgo the privilege of joining the common ranks of soldiery but instead went on to star in many a Hollywood shoot 'em up.  TeeVee drama and movie moments are so much more antiseptic and finite than the blood and guts of mundane existence.  To resort to the German yet again, we should eine Frage haben (“pose a question”) to ourselves in this country about the benefits of choosing to live in reality rather than fantasy.  Every time we meet with a difficult patch in the life of the nation we should attempt, as best we can, to look at things as squarely as they are, rather than content ourselves with inserting our national head up our collective asses.  One would think, that after all this time, people, in general, would find the smell rather unpleasant and end all doubt by considering the habit entirely counter-productive.

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