Archive for October, 2011

Dominance Games / Politics: A room with a view

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on October 22, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics:

Poor poor American public.  Talking, speaking, listening, dialoguing, trying so hard to find a satisfactory common ground upon which all can rest weary heads.

Poor poor American public. Trying to grow and prosper and defend and educate, trying to tolerate and obfuscate and derail and incubate.  A legion of ideals, fabrications, factions, factors, dim lights, messianic hoaxes, hardened criminals and simpering bottom feeders.  We come from every which where and we melt together in the great melting pot of rough grub and half baked plaster.

Poor poor American public.  Stimulating essentials of sovereign virtue, stimulating essentials of urban legends and tooth fairies and Halloween ghosts and venal goblins.  Pictures of racks for punishment and spears for flaying dance magically in the fires of sensuous passions and kneeled at deference that define the worlds we wish for and the worlds we wish our future generations.  The magic dragons of puffery and cynicism circle aimlessly as we all see through the prisms of choice the structured worlds of what ought to be.

Uneasy lies the heart that sees a world at odds with the perfection of true right and goodness that the visions of the vision fairies deem to grant us in our hours of yearning.  The spectrum, the sliding scale, the integral proportion of wealth and power, force and deference….oh where oh where can we go?  Where oh where can we find the solace of vision and the comfort of quest that we wholesomely deserve?

All inclusive are we.  A world of aristocracy.  A world of plutocracy, of meritocracy, of politically and morally correct?  A world of structured class and each in his or her place.  A world of simple and constant and ferocious dreams, wants, divides, fantasies, sets, set ups.  What do we aim for?  Who do we bury? What looks good in the mirror?  What is the delineation of place and time?  What is our shared vision?  What is that vague mist of folly and smoke?  Why is there the love of all mankind and simpering fools as their brothers’ keepers?

Of note:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/privatizing-police-work/329/

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Dominance Games / Politics: Show biz is show biz. Dumb stays dumb.

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games:

Show biz is show biz.  Dumb stays dumb.

In the absence of any real chance to have real people do real things to effect solid policy we get always true stock players and actors for comic relief leading the eternal ratings bonanza of the many loves of the desperate dance prancers of the mawkish melodies of karaoke….. always public spectacle, circus, show, campaign, talk.  Politics as the soft breezes that caresses the day.

Were there a real demand for virtuous speech and honest policy a demand that had some strength and force and a magnitude of pressure then the product given might be something different and become then the boring earnest gab fest done by those who are policy wonks and technocrats and goal oriented softies.

The grand free marketplace of political discourse has responded over and over again to the demands put upon it to keep using the bells and whistles and keep sending out the B actors and commercial product/placement players that fill the void of off time programming and sullied lives that is the solid entertainment of political farce.

We demand in our political markets certain drama, certain heroes, certain villains, certain forms of shadow dance.  We accept the game as it is and wallow it its debauchery.  The efficient market then gives us sun and fun and sweet nothings made up of feckless promise and grand sham.  There is no there there.  Our political games are show games and they are nice posteriors and sweet projections.  Central casting gives us plot, words, story, character….all is the process, the marketing.  All good entertainment has / lets the show become the reality.  The demand is for mindless entertainment, quick thrills, blood curling tempests.  The showmen have long experience and vast knowledge.  Show biz is show biz.  Dumb stays dumb.

Of note;

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/engagement-as-the-new-activism/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

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Dominance Games / Politics: Choke holds / Grand illusions

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games:

There is no jobs crises as we’ve been informed that were the unemployed amongst us real worthwhile human beings then they would be working at the myriad of jobs that could be of their choosing.

We’ve been informed that there are plenty of alternatives for people who are forced from their homes, as well.  By selfishly wishing to stay put and to demand that where possible they retain a roof over their heads they are just impeding the noble march of the free market unchained.

And just imagine…We’ve been informed that we are a nation in danger of being polluted by inferior folk, in danger of having the mongrel views of inferior folk infect our political process……they must be stopped and the must have their voting franchises taken away.

And workers who wish workers rights, we’ve been informed, are no more than thieves who wish to snuff out the lights of innovation, entrepreneurship, capitalism, growth by taking more for their labors than what is wished to be offered, more for their labors than a fixed market might deem appropriate.

What is the purpose of a political system, apolitical entity, a political process if those who gain their sweet little choke holds and rise to the top cannot exercise their duly earned power and dictate the terms that make them proud.

Of note:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-discovers-the-villains-conservatives-are-taking-back-america-from-americans/

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Dominance Games / Politics: Non heathen governance

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 18, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games:

Some grow to accomplish great things and in their awe and satisfaction with their own achievements wish to join the ranks of the governing classes.  These are all by far public spirited poachers who feel that doing right is doing good and that doing good is doing better.  Power and position are simply mere trappings of a calling that enables the true and honorable among us to show their wares and shine in the spotlights of public service.

Many come and go but those who come well prepared and well propped, well fed, well connected, and well heeled understand the nature of the arena to which they aspire.  They will be singled out and praised, sought after and looked at…they will become the apple in the eye of those whom they may serve.

it is for the public good that these brave souls toil.  It is for the good and welfare of their communities, their regions, their states, their country that they work.  The future is something that they can shape,  They can help secure it for their own and their charges.  It is good to be able to shape the future,  It is good to be able to shape the present.  It is good to be able to shape debate, shape policy, shape paths towards freedom and righteousness and clean laundry.  Governance is for the strong, the secure, the wise, the secure, the able.  All of our aspirants are able.

All of our aspirants are there to learn, to judge, to listen, to know.  We ache for the fine men and women of public virtue.

Governance is good.  It is noble.  It is hard work and sure trouble.  It is a the high calling.

It, then, is to our great joy and happiness that we get aspirants who strive to do public work and not aspirant who strive to do public sin.  Seeking power is what the good guys do when they know that they are always right.  Seeking power is what the good guys do when they know the wind is at their backs and that the wind blows them towards shores of riches and rewards.  Seeking power is what politics is all about.  Doing something with power is what those capable of seeing past their tortured little souls are never quite able to get right.  This take a quiet desire to understand what exactly governance is supposed to achieve.  This takes knowing that governance is all about being king and having the ability to lop off heads at whim and will.  We love our little aspirants.  They are so basic.

Of note;

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65934.html

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Dominance Games: Muck love

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , on October 18, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

It has oft been stated that the functioning democracy is the best of all possible political systems not because, in itself, it is so wonderful and magnanimous but, as has been said, it is the worst of systems save all of the others….when it goes bad, as is often the case, the functioning democracy has the potential to harm the least amount of people and prop up comparative whole classes of nascent winners rather than the few killers left to other cherished dysfunctional systems….this, its major recommendation…it makes more thieves, thugs and idiots happy of, in their own volition rather than just becoming happy through being at the wrong end of the barrel of a gun,

In our sterling world of today we test and love these equations, these forms greatly.  We ponder and pander and kneel with pleasure.  We make craven images of the sufficiently lame, sufficiently unthoughtful, sufficiently hate driven, ideologically driven folks that we can muster up out of the grimy muck.  We worship the sprints to the bottom of all of the piles of sufficiently unvirtuous speech and impractical minds.  We revel in the palatable raw pure eviscerating emotions of the frenzied driven sycophants and psychopaths, hustlers and pimps who are able to dream the dreams of base intimidation and exceptional force.  We worship all rancid muscle…the grace of mud wrestling heroes to adorn and adore.

In political and historical genius we function well in the defense of the safety nets of mass delusion and incompetence.

Of note:

http://www.economist.com/node/21530986

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Dominance Games: The frat boys of Pa and Wi

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games:

Oh no…… we just want fairness in our state’s representation……. Pa. and Wisc. republican denizens of democracy and practical politics wish to reform electoral vote tabulations so that it will not be winner take all but imbalanced districts skewing and gaming the results so that the prospect of a democrat win is not something that would have any meaning…..

Angels, neither party.  Incorruptible, neither party.   Childish….. well we get political correctness in the extreme hurtling down from the smug and self righteous of the democrat persuasion.  Cringing is often in order.  For sheer spectacle and images rampant and pristine for all who missed high school and college fraternity politics we have  legislators of the republican persuasion scheming and wheedling away to glory and immaturity.  This … behavior to stake gravitas upon.  It is ever thus…give a child a weapon and the weapon gets abused.  And you thought governing was about governing.

Let the talkers and the whiners, the apologists and the propagandists, the paid flacks and the paid intimidators color this stuff any way they wish.  Immaturity is king when immaturity is what sells.  Be base and self absorbed and full of adolescent hate and we get the stupid shows of stupid shows.  Never gonna change.

As Applies:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/12/inevitable_wisconsin_republicans_mull_pennsylvania_style_elector.html

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Dominance Games: Voting rights / Voting privileges / Voting scams

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on October 16, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

To be a fair child of democracy and true believer in the ways and means of a respect for good and true voters everywhere……

May I get, in these times of patriotic fervor, my state legislature to pretty pretty please deny voting privileges to any and all who are congenital drones, insidious lechers, progenitors of trashing and gaming already trashed and gamed systems?

Can I get my state legislature to deny voting privileges to any and all who are deranged sycophants and flag demeaning power hungry cretins?

Can I get my state legislature to deny voting privileges to any and all who are flat and fat and sure and hateful and serene and mean….those who are eternal adolescents and slick imitations of weaselly frat boys…..those who are eternally in the seventh heaven of the seven circles of hell in the seventh grade and those who reap the wild whirlwinds of this epochs eternal dimness, cowardliness, irresponsibility  on parade?

Can I get my state legislature to deny voting privileges to any and all who are useless innate drones with little understanding whatsoever of the wry human spirit or of any reading material above the levels of inflexible unctuous wordplay?

We all love preachers of tolerable kills and the breaking of the minority?

If we must have voters…let them jump through hoops and vote on nothing of value

Of interest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/tea-party-challengers-set-their-sights-on-house-incumbents/2011/10/06/gIQAz6hzZL_blog.html

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refer

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http://thewashingtonfancy.com/

Dominance Games: Bad and murderous public policy

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games /Politics

So there once was a labor movement that was able to push back against unchecked capitalism.  So there were once trust busters, those crying for fairness and equality.  There were always those wishing to push back against abuse……personal, systemic, hellacious, unrequited.  Action, reaction, synthetic settling of corruptible balances of menace, power, glamor, deviation.  The little boys and girls would wish to get just enough to let the big boys and girls play their games and break their enemies.

Owned souls and orgasmic greed are not too damned pretty but they make the world go round.  Self wonder, self aggrandizement, power seeking is the way of the world.  Greedy, rotten bastards and economic sultans fill the annals of history, society, propriety, song and story.  So damned shocking to see human nature on parade.

Legislate goodness and mercy, civic responsibility and chaste souls.  Legislate smarts,  critical thought, roses and propaganda.  Send away those who gleefully reinforce lovely visceral hates.

Systems get broke.  Systems get gamed and shamed.  They get bought and sold, worshiped and raped.  They get taken, get protected, get mean.  Vulnerabilities in systems get exploited, get wrapped up in pretty little bows and get given as gifts to happy little peddlers.  Too damned big to fail means I got you by the …..  Too damned strong to compromise means I win, you lose, get taken, go drown.  Too damned intimidating to be spoken to means blood gets shed and lives get ruined.  Pity no balance of interests, of powers, of regress, of exploitation.  Mean means being at the mercy of those without mercy.

Broken systems need be fixed.  End game are not winner take all.  Suckers are suckers unless they understand the way things work.  Push is always is answered by push back unless the pushers get smart enough to kill push back and remove those who would do so…push back.  We call that bad and murderous public policy.  Otherwise we have the show and the prospect of someone able to rig the game against the killers, the maimers, the viscous, the sinister.  Don’t hold your breath.

Of note:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65934.html

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Dominance Games: True saviors

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on October 13, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

My anger is angrier than your anger.  My hurts are more hurting than your hurts.  My pain is more painful than your pain…… A grand race to martyrdom swinging and slinging along is now our daily bread.  concentrate upon real frustrations and real inequities, real imbalances of real power, real dangers to the survival of real people and real lives if you will but you then are a dumb lummox who just doesn’t get the uses of protest.

Someone special has to  take ownership of the greater pain, the truer pain, the more real frustration, the more honest delineation of vile offenders of human kind.  Someone special has to  take ownership of brand, be the true blue and only real brand, sell the true and only all in one miracle elixir and remedy for all that ails.

How these things stay real…. no more players seeking power for power’s sake, tears for tears sake.  All little protest movements are ripe for the pickings, ripe for the co-opting, ripe for the using and abusing.

Those in pain choose to respect the pain of others.  Its the pain that matters, not the game.  Never are there calculating bastards ready to wring out the doctrine of true social ills and homey misery.  What other good does protest offer?  Give wily bastards a nice little tool to use to skin more suckers.  Bless the beasts and the children.

Tea bags, wall banging…lets see who has a heart.

Of Note:

Politico     Tea party goes after Occupiers

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65826.html

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Dominance Games: Know no evil

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, economics, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

If you can trust the federal government to regulate and bureaucratize and mismanage any problem to death then you can trust private enterprise to squeeze out and throw away anything but profits, put firewalls up against accountability, pay off those who need be paid off and have no one available speak to in order to resolve problems.   Each system is no damned good and bless us we have to put up with them cause they are no damned good save that there are no others…..  no other ways to play and influence and cheat and steal.

All the cherubic hustlers hustling out their own cherubic views of our own cherubic government and our own cherubic commerce, power, culture, thought police, thought control, thought vacancy … imagine innate corruptions in the holy sea of faith, hope and charity…. all innate godliness…. the imagination is in itself a venal sin.

The great hyped thoughtlessly, mindlessly, guilelessly promises kept and miles traveled stem from the lack of  original sin.   A firm, fair, incorruptible system of acts and beliefs; we cherish all who see no evil.

Of agendas, enemies, flaws in hearts of evil doers there is no mountain of belief.  Worshiped positions taken are always exaggerated to comic extremes.

Culture, tap dance, inbred sellers of bright and shiny things.  The tricks of ner’ do well poets of seething tears and heart tugging virtues.  Efficiency, balance, purpose, song….. the shell game and the dance of seven veils.  Little pet peeves and smarmy debates all feel good when the sun rises and helps the tall grass grow.  Good place to hide.

of note:

http://www.economist.com/node/21531481

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refer

http://www.etalkinghead.com/

http://thewashingtonfancy.com/