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Dominance Games / Politics: Keep the club. Waste the thought. Fine minds are the illusions of the soft.

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, political science, Politics with tags , , , , , , , on November 1, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

That there is no such thing as a fine mind that is unable to thrash out the complexities of issues in such a way that there is gleaned an understanding of an opposing point of view and the logical structure and world view upon which it may  rest is undeniable.

That there is no such thing as a fine mind that is shut off so completely from the human experience that it sees only the pittance of the mock trials and emotions which make up the day of the dim is also undeniable.

That there is no such thing as a fine mind that may wallow in the simplicities of fallacy and the inaccuracies of illogical and false premise or unexamined premise is in itself  a tautological statement.

That there is no such thing as a fine mind resting in the breeding grounds of political speech is an issue, a statement upon which few will land.  Intelligence is a valued thing and smarts is what we all are sure of in our own very selves.  We are smart enough to understand the world and its challenges…understand those what are with us and those what are agin’ us.  We are savvy enough to see the hell cats at the door and the rats nipping at our heels.

We see the provocateurs, the subversives, the self righteous, the aggrieved, the aggressive, the self important and the rock solid.  We see the whole menagerie of fools.  We see through our grand and gloried prisms the dangled baits of entertainment high and visceral pleasures low so that we can have always some use for the rotten rotten that confronts us.

We see what we need to see and we need to see what we see and smarts don’t mean a good g-d damn.  Keep the club.  Waste the thought.  Praise the kickers and seek the bit of the spoils.  Fine minds are the illusions of the soft.  That’s all there is.

Of interest:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67283.html

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Dominance Games / Politics: To those who play the game we owe our allegiance

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , on October 30, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Honor does indeed make the world go round.  Sentimental and teary eyed gents and ladies with love of country, love of flag, of truth, justice, the American way love freedom, democracy above all things politic, above all things holier than thou.

Scratch them, do they not bleed the reddest of blood.  Pressure them, do they not sing the truest of songs, the most patriotic of fervor, the highest of high minded principle.  Follow them and you not get trips through nether lands of staunch virtuous pillaging of the trolls of decrepit immorality and the black thoughts of ugly existence.

Time and distance and startling dimension know callings noble and  aims true as the truest arrow and as pure as the purest of maidens.  Time and distance are with the noble.

Vultures of darkness and enemies of the human spirit may descend upon the earth to do devilish deeds but those of pristine honor are always there to defend the franchise and to defend the causes of solemn right against the encroachments of corruption.

The world of freedom and democracy we have.  No fixed voting, voting districts.  No rigged candidates or rigged insurgents able to corrupt process and run the games of false choice for ever disenfranchised onlookers.  No lack of access to the pittance of pleading and wheedling needed get help with the  to intimidation and burying of the suckers who have no friends in friendly places.

Our heroes live and love.  In the precious swamp of their derision they understand that order is the important thing and that a control of the process is control of order and that they are the last best defense against chaos and confusion.

Lip service in defense of needed order, lip service in defense lack of uncertainty, lip service in defense of the temples of natural selection are not vice.  This is the virtue of those who are deft.  It is to those who play the game we owe our allegiance.

Of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/business/in-private-conversation-wall-street-is-more-critical-of-protesters.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

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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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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: The prize pig

Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, political analysis, Politics with tags , , , , , , on September 26, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

Everyone hate the government and those who govern.  All would send them packing and then pick a new set of stooges to sing and dance for fun and amusement. And these songs would be better.  These dances would be flashier.  These folk would be more responsive and more deeply in tune with the democratic governing principles of our hallowed land.  And all would be happy.  And all would be thrilled.  And all would have the experience of political ecstasy for the new bums in place would not be the problem and the long line of cookie cutter followers they represent would just take the place of those who had gone before.

What in Gods name makes anyone think that a different mix of cow can come to fore and chew any differently, blankly stare any differently, give the world an excess of methane gas in any different manner.  What gets taken seriously gets taken seriously.  What sells sells.  What seduces seduces.  What bludgeons bludgeons.  Hallowed points made by stars luminescent are what there is.   Excuses for statesmen, stateswomen are the mold of what the stork wants, what the pretty boys and pretty girls want, what the bats in the belfry want.  What seduces seduces, what makes all little hearts flutter over and over again makes all little hearts flutter over and over again.  The sun don’t shine in any different places than it did before.  The rain still gropes the land

The show’s the vote.  The damp, the crowd.  The ugly the kiss of the prize pig.  The prize pig is, as always, the belle of the ball.

Of note:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64390.html

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Dominance Games: Third party

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

Dominance Games / Politics

A third party.  A third party.  A charge of the passionate middle.  A charge of the practical responsible middle, the charge of the thoughtful, unrepressed seekers of wisdom and truth….the salt of the earth, roll up your sleeves, common sense saviors of adulthood and necessary toughness.

A third party.  A third party.  A dream of dreams.  A scheme of schemes.  A team of teams, a wisp of luck, a bounce of pluck, a dollop of soothing smarts, a pinch of a righteous hammer.

A third party.  A third party.  Independents. Moderates.  Political agnostics.  Pragmatic centrists.  Cynical idealists.  Ideal cynics.  A third party.  A third party.

Passion galore.  Brains galore.  Purpose galore.  Galore galore.  All for the doing.  All for those who cant help but give away the store to the parties that be because they’re too damned lame to leave the tough work to none but the base, the passion to none but the base, the direction to none but the base, the rules, the infighting, the candidates, the mawkishness, the symbols, the talk, the moves on the goddess of light to none but the base.

Why not go for castles in the sky when the mud holes here on earth are too dirty to fix?

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Dominance Games: It’s the politics stupid

Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags , , , , , on September 1, 2011 by B Schiff

Dominance Games / Politics

So, what enthralls us going forward into glorious autumn?

It’s the politics stupid.  It’s the show, the sun, the cheap saloons, the stunts, the runts, the rascals, the clowns.  It’s the villains, the scum, the lords, the masters.

It’s the politics stupid.  It’s the talk, the squawk, the spies, the lies, the sins, the spins, the sprinkles of dew.  It’s the politics stupid.  The rants, the raves, the prancers, the dancers.  The running of the bulls, the choirs of the night, the messengers from god, the songs from mammon, the hateful hates, the favorite sons, the favorite guns, the favorite suns.

It’s the politics stupid.  The steady haze, the frosty glare, the wistful sneer, the true beliefs.  It’s the politics stupid.  The holy rollers, the holy redeemers, the Knights Templars, the rats in a cage.

It’s the selling of the trolls, the souls, the buying of the betrayals of loves, the pandering to fish, the abstinence from thought, the self love of self involvement, of self absorption, self decapitation, self promotion, selves wonderful.

It’s the politics stupid.  The charm, the grace, the criers, the buyers, the deniers, the crowds.  It’s the politics stupid.  The flames, the games, the foibles, the trips.  Its the traps, the plays, the bathos, the pathos, the dirty little limericks, the fretful little brows.

It’s the politics stupid.  The incoherent thoughts of incoherent fools and dead folk out for a stroll.  It’s the politics stupid. The demon’s dance, the mysteries of life, the gifts of light.

Minds working, smoking, seeking, praying, straying, gone.  It’s the politics stupid. It’s the angels dancing, promises lost, hearts broken.

It’s the politics stupid.  The end of the line, the rules of the game, the never ending chance to never seek redemption.

Of note:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/the-freelance-surge-is-the-industrial-revolution-of-our-time/244229/

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Dominance Games: The long knives

Posted in Commentary, current events, gerrymandering, journalism, media, News, opinion, partisanship, political analysis, political satire, political science, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 12, 2011 by B Schiff

We can best be protected from extreme evil in the political sphere by spreading around power as much as possible.  The philosopher king or the wise council of elders may be, in their pure forms, the most admirable and efficient forms of governance.  They may bring the best of virtue, vision, majesty, bearing and trust.  These forms may be the abject model of all seekers of wisdom and truth, all seekers of greater, better existence for greater, better political entities, systems, states, facts.  Wisdom and virtue flow undiluted, unfragmented from implementer.  Implementation is a dream..

Virtues  in these epochs of rule are great but as it is with all such things the templates always seem to have equal and opposite flip sides.  The greater good is matched by the greater evil and in real terms governance is best served when as a staunch representative of protection from harm.  The positive is as a bonus…an unexpected bonus of maturity and purpose, reflection and wisdom…that which when it comes… survives…leaves hope.

This is as close to safety we can come to in a world dependent upon the rational and irrational hates and passions of the bubbling classes.  Passion has its virtues…and its price.

In these aspects and respects…we crave our loved version of mass influence…our republic…our democracy.  All done well, good may prosper, right may flourish, balance may be achieved.  All done not so well…most of the mob survives the long knives, the hounds, the wolves, the cuts and the destruction.

Politics is kick ass and dangerous, armed and dangerous, dangerous and dangerous.  Grateful we are for what we see as the limits to the mass dangers we face, in the forms of the base outcomes we can endure.  We bless the phlegmatic, the powerless, the resigned and the the facts of livable survival.  Seeking the better and the good is always the fools errand of the naive known to the knowing and the wise.

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Dominance Games: Good little abuser of the minds of men

Posted in Commentary, current events, Education, gerrymandering, media, News, opinion, partsanship, political analysis, political satire, political science, Politics, satire, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 9, 2011 by B Schiff

As a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men,  as a good little speaker of wisdom and truth on the national stage are you a fine and dandy little advocate for the mind numbing densities of thrill seeking undulating, rapacious, leer loving, visceral thought?

As a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men,  heathen caressing bravado, simulating insouciant stature, hubris without bare naked warning, bearing without down seeking insight, degenerate pablum without the skills to identify food … As a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men are the lover?

As a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men, as a good little transparent mocking bird of  scavenging and bottom feeding …do you  lay claim to the ideas that you are not a rats thrilling dream sucked into a slimy worm hole of grime by an appetite for cheap tawdry thrills provided you by any cheep tawdry fondlers who can play your tune or work your predilections?

As a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men are you the demon demon sublimely enraptured with the prospect of the eviscerate splendor that comes from begging, pleading,wheedling, sighing, yelping, barking,  moaning, panting at the thought of being the open empty void of an open empty cypher that can be filled with screams, insatiable want, tears?

Are you as a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men adept at begging to be used by failed beggars who could not perform well enough to garner the rewards of the heightened and sexual satisfaction that comes with the sell out of the soul.

Are you as a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men a scrap heap of ill will?  Is opening your mouth to speak the act by which you can redeem all of the lost lusts of begging, longing, hot and humid silent, lonely midnights past?

Are you as a good little arbitrator of the useful abuse of the minds of men a lame little caricature of rancid whose only stabilizing thrills are those of smug hyperventilation?

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