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Dominance Games: The text of aggression needs daily editing

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , on May 6, 2011 by B Schiff

Action.  Need, like and revere action.  The  milk of political debt.  The milk of political debauchery.  The tool against entrenched evil doers and holy gnomes.  We celebrate action.  Desperate for balance and control, we celebrate action.  Stack and attack the transgressors.  Usurp the trust heaven sent they cerebrally represent.

The avenging angel, the hidden conqueror, the mighty sword.  The punitive beast is always as the rotten bastards stand up and shout.  It is a cathartic thing and we wish mounds of it to spread.  We wish the absolutes.   Absolute power, a joy and pleasure.  Punishing power a prime factor in joy.  Heed the rumble rotten bastards.  Heed the rumble.

…the punisher cometh…he cometh hard.  the threat, the image, the fair warning…the vitality …. the life blood of certain restitution, redemption.

The text of aggression is a quiet text.  It needs daily editing.  We edit.

From Chris Cillizza  Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/wisconsin-recalls-hit-deadline-where-things-stand/2011/05/04/AFFVvQyF_blog.html

From  On Media  Politico

http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0511/WSJ_launches_WikiLeaks_rival.html?showall

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

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Laws may be a sham

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , on May 2, 2011 by B Schiff

Perfect villains.  Perfect fools.  The rush to build government, business, economies.  The rush to build equity, fairness.

The short hairs.  Whom got whom by them, the short hairs.  The laws of unintended consequence.  Who rages for them.  lasting fancy and a gift, all laws of unintended consequence.

The self interest of the self interested is the usual.  The fears and cries of the put upon is the dear.  Perceptions  are eternally skewed.  Perceptions of power bases are eternally skewed.  Readings of power are eternally flawed.

Puzzlers ponder answers, define not questions.  The powers of those in the catbirds seat always trump rage and rant.

Place the catbird seat.

Laws may be a sham

Nation states, also.

Two for the show.

From Times Book Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-the-executive-unbound-by-eric-a-posner-and-adrian-vermeule.html?scp=1&sq=The%20Executive%20Unbound%20-%20By%20Eric%20A.%20Posner%20and%20Adrian%20Vermeule%20.&st=cse

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/Giry-t.html?scp=5&sq=parag%20khanna&st=cse

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

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The landscape gets cold at night

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 29, 2011 by B Schiff

Again we mock the human soul.  Again we mock the human spirit.  The cadres of popular imagery are apparent no more.  Damn the torpedoes, all speed ahead.  The more we behave the better we become at ability.  The more we are drunk with the powers of observation, the more we are observant of the void.  The emptiness of the great desert of formless nothing haunts our futures and it is a barren desert, a hot dry place.

The landscape gets cold at night, a counterpoint to the extreme heat of the day. It is an uninviting place, the future in times of trouble and uncertainty.  It mocks us, our belief in it, in its presence, its shape.  It can retreat and hide, run away or crush.  It stares us down a hungry lion.

Deal with what isn’t there.  Build monuments to what is not real.

A view from the other side.

A view from trying to beard the tremulous lion.

Both from The Washington Post

Ian Morris

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/two-books-on-the-future-of-power-and-diplomacy/2011/02/28/AFHSsSHC_story.html

Robert Samuelson   Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-real-tax-avoidance-scandal-centers-on-dividends-and-capital-gains/2011/04/01/AFRz6TXC_story.html

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Cold warm water

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on April 28, 2011 by B Schiff

Sick questions are here to stay.   Sick questions are here today, tomorrow, forever and a day.  The weepers, the shouters, the deadly droll.  Paper our hearts with flimsy tears.   Paper our pockets with dew.  The streets of  mulch turn fallow and dry. The seeds of doubt are ever planted.

The worry.  The grumble.  The game of the lame   The worry.  The predicament.    In sickness and in health .   Beyond reproach the dead bargain away our time.  The dear seal our longings with the kiss.   The true kiss our longings with a seal.  Futures to go.  To have and to have not.  To will and to will not.

Simple colds and dead stress.  Cold warm water.  To live and die too damned well.

New Yorker…Bitter Pill

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/05/02/110502ta_talk_surowiecki

Fortune Magazine   Allan Sloan

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/15/paul-ryan-medicare-reform-hocus-pocus/

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

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Here there and everywhere.

Posted in Commentary, current events, News, opinion, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2011 by B Schiff

Here there and everywhere.  The world is overrun by the foreign other.  The foreign other is an evil other who is stealth and quiet and who comes as a thief waiting, waiting, waiting to bite the hand that feeds, to ruin the new mother that suckles.  The bad bad foreign other.

The proud defenders of the faith.  Ah…the good for me is good for you.  The right for me is right.  Harmony requires the harmonic.  Identity requires the identified.  Live with me, be of me.  Stand for the good and decent and pure, the right.  Don’t tread on me.  Don’t sing songs of change.

See saw.  See saw.  Up and down.  Up and down.  All the mean spirited dimwits.  All the rotten thieves in the night.  Stealing our heritage.  Stealing identity.  Meaning me harm.  They are not like me.  The interlopers interlope.  The Knights of the round table defend the good.  They are not of the civilized.

Here there and everywhere.  They bring not to the table.  They know nothing.  Fractures.  Separation.  The whole is not a liquid thing.  The whole is no boundaried mosaic, pieces separate and enclosed.  The  melders.  Those standing uninvited.  Who flips on who with  goodness of spirit.and common respect? Not me.

European problems.  Not like ours.

Britain, immigraion… The Week

French Panel Debates Secularism and Islam

By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAÏA de la BAUME

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/europe/06secular.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=immigration%20and%20multiculturalism&st=cse

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Kings and things

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 24, 2011 by B Schiff

So what’s what?  So we know the issues, the stories, the problems.  We know the fears, the contradictions, the prejudices, the tall tales told by the tale tellers.  We get the flack.  We all know that the damned bastards are to blame, that the damned bastards don’t give a rat’s behind for the good of anyone but themselves.  If I were only king of the damned world, we say.  If I were only king of the damned world.  Then things would ge better, we say.  Then things would be a damned sight better.

Sun beams and moon beams frolic together on a merry mist as the bunnies and squirrels dance around the may pole and the little chipmunks do cartwheels 9in the park of our imaginations.

If only I were king of the world, we say,  Then candy canes and marshmallows would be floating in the sky.

If only.

Two for simple answers.

From The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/should-big-banks-be-regulated-as-utilities/237342/

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/12/us-education-is-much-better-than-you-think/68635/

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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

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And now the dawn looks bright

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

Then and again.  Always then and again.  Always the mystique of humanity in flux.  Always the mystique of humanity traversing the problems of existence in ways practical, necessary, burdening, resting.

Invitations to commingle with the fates come upon us often and we get mellow at the thought.  Forever the mysteries of the fair and noble society haunts our aspirations and our dreams.  Up from the muck comes our climb.  Up from the muck comes the climb of those who see in their own betterment the betterment for all, those who see in the ordered world the safe havens for all, those who see in the world held as a beacon a standard for all.  We have our aspirations, our lusts, our meaningful diversions.  We have our firm foundations of good moral backbone and glorious antecedents in whose memory we cherish the fight.  Honor.  Always honor.  The gods appreciate honor.

Talking points: The Week Magazine

New York Times Book Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/books/review/book-review-the-origins-of-political-order-by-francis-fukuyama.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3

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