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Love the rancid bastards

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , on April 21, 2011 by B Schiff

And….

And…..

The red roses are red

The blue violets are blue

Violate my little life…..

Love the rancid bastards

Mark Ames and Mike Elk …. The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/print/article/160062/big-brothers-thought-control-koch

The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true.

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Some gifts just keep on giving

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2011 by B Schiff

Death to the corrupters, the saboteurs, the mercenary clowns.  Death to the rise and loves of sincere autocracy, the rise and loves of right thinking felons,  those free from the sins of the understanding fool, those free from the rise and loves of the devils in the details of all the good flunkies.

Sincere hubris and answers from above.  The strong protect the weak.

Fixers fix.  Some damned things are just too damned important to be damned left alone.

Beyond reproach, the world needs love.

sneers and reprise

Rick Ungar Forbes,com

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/04/16/gov-scott-walker-reportedly-planning-financial-martial-law-in-wisconsin/

Blogging for Michigan

http://www.bloggingformichigan.com/diary/6434/and-so-it-begins-emergency-financial-mgr-fires-entire-government-of-benton-harbor

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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And now the apocalypse. It has finally come.

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on April 19, 2011 by B Schiff

And now the apocalypse.  It has finally come.  The world has finally evaporated and the netherworlds of shadows and specters haunts the winds.  It is come.  The dark terror of yesterdays horrors and fears is come out of the mists of the dregs of time and has brought us to 1937 and its look to the future.

Trust is the love.  The trusting lords and masters.   The trustworthy lords and masters. The eternal battle cry…. “The American people implore me to do my bidding.” We have ourselves come and gone and get to look forward to the past.  Its dreams are ours again.  It visions are ours for a song.  The visit to the strange country of the past is just around the corner.  Bless the beasts and the children.  Again and again.  And with feeling.  Cometh the killers.

Rick Ungar Forbes,com

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/04/16/gov-scott-walker-reportedly-planning-financial-martial-law-in-wisconsin/

Blogging for Michigan

http://www.bloggingformichigan.com/diary/6434/and-so-it-begins-emergency-financial-mgr-fires-entire-government-of-benton-harbor

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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Easy sometimes

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 17, 2011 by B Schiff

Easy sometimes.

Heroic measures stand for staunchness against the floods of barbaric pressures.  Heroic measures are bloody but unbowed, tough and straight as a steel arrow, suffer no fools and right all wrongs.

Defenders.

http://www.economist.com/node/18010553?story_id=18010553

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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Here comes the past

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 12, 2011 by B Schiff

Democracy……just the sound of the word…the texture of its artful arcane syllables cascading out of the mouth, over perched and parched lips….the breaths deepen, the body tremors, and there is a comforting sniffle to back up the hope and pride.

The grand and great religion of the non secular masses.  The grand and great religion of the sweet, lovely secular champions of honesty, honor and fair play.  the end point of all politics.  The fair shake for all mankind.  We get it.  We got it.  We import it.  We sell it.  We cherish it.  We mangle it.  We push it through hell to see if it is or is not a cardboard illusion.  Tis a strong thing this Democracy.  it mirrors many images.  It shows off many hues and colors.  it is purposeful and pure anything of care and caring.  Always to be improved.  Always to be made superior and worthy.

Bang goes the money trap.  Rat tat tat goes the fix.  Stomp stomp goes the rants.  And the melting pot just melts all charges to a shiny statue of group wisdom.

Who skews? And why not?…Who plays and takes the spoils?  And why not?

On the supremes and their proclivities.

Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/04/11/110411taco_talk_toobin

On the states and theirs.  The comfort and  joys of the gerrymandering fix

From  The Weekly Standard

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/854xppnl.asp

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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Til death us do part…..

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 8, 2011 by B Schiff

The dumb ……  the honored creed.  The rancid bastards ….. the true.

The books I am pushing…..

Dominance Games: An Essay on Power    A Novel …….. Lust Games: An Essay on Honor   A Novel ………. Void Games:  An Essay on Revenge   A Novel …. coming soon

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Rational 'round the rosey….Saunter 'round the glen..

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 7, 2011 by B Schiff

Who believes in rational policy?  And upon whet rational rests your firm beliefs?  Are you the master logician able to leap tall buildings in a single bound with the strengths of your abilities to match premise upon premise with masterful conclusion after masterful conclusion?

Perhaps, as a modern day Sherlock Holmes, you are the master detective striving and gritting and smoking out the true holy premise upon which to base your true holy thought.

No matter.  In the end logic eludes and we circle and circle and drive dizziness to new heights. We delve into the minds of the masters of pious previous thought and the masters of previous pious power. They say always…be scared boy…be very scared.  Be frozen girl…be very frozen.  Accepted truths don’t have to be accepted truths.  They just need to be convenient.

From The New Yorker

The Tyrant Tax by James Surowieck

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/03/07/110307ta_talk_surowiecki

From Harpers

By Slavoj Zizek

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/04/0083351

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Statistics, Damned Statistics. Damned Lies

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2011 by B Schiff

One could be a long time follower of the deceptive crafts, a long time lover of the  of parochial crafts of the political operative.  One can be a long time follower of all of the stars of all of the games, all of the felons of all of the games.  The ribald, the antiquated, those with the endearing mouths full of fun and fancy, gibberish and noise …these make me proud.   The grand and the intense, the frolicsome and the tedious, the major harmonies and bittersweet songs of the eminently sincere….these make me weep.  The lure of  a molten train wreck……the stuff of legend and the lifeblood of the passing scene.

Statistics, Damned statistics, damned lies.  The godly rational saints give us all gusto and purpose.

Two examples of the world as it is lived.

Lynnell Hancock   Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/tested.php

From The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/18483411

It takes a lot to be sure of a lot.

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