tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253904342011-11-15T10:46:14.072-06:00"The public and I have a firm understanding: <BR>they never hear what I say, and I never <BR>say what they want to hear."<BR> - Karl Kraus (1874-1936)HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.comBlogger13901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-84632793794776655362011-08-07T08:10:00.003-05:002011-08-07T08:20:31.600-05:00

Today is Sunday, 7 August 2011.The highly-tarnished, to say the least, ratings company, Standard and Poor's, has downgraded the USA/USE sovereign debt from AAA to AA+.Really? The same company which, during the prep of the Great Republican Recession, graded any piece of subprime mortgage debt crap as AAA.Check it out: Reckles$ Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Let to

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-11517189290810247132011-08-06T07:47:00.002-05:002011-08-06T07:50:26.880-05:00

Today is Saturday, 6 August 2011.The Museum of the Bourgeois mourns the victims of the war crime and crime against humanity of 6 August 1945.

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Today is Wednesday, 4 August 2011.Why does the National Rifle Association work so hard, to make it so easy, for Mexican drug cartels to purchase semiautomatic rifles from American arms dealers?Check this out:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/us/04guns.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=charlie%20savage%20N.R.A.%20sues&st=cseDoes N.R.A (aka National Murder by Handgun Association) = crime family?

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Today is Saturday, 30 July 2011.There is no necessary and logical connection between raising the debt ceiling and cutting federal spending.Raising the debt ceiling is simply a necessary condition for preserving the welfare of the nation.How government works. Doh.So, why do Republicans wish to make this connection and sabotage the perfectly normal raising?Some in the Republican leadership seem to

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-42047128372062159082011-07-12T06:53:00.002-05:002011-07-12T06:57:22.194-05:00

Today is Tuesday, 12 July 2011.I'm of two minds about Betty Ford.Thank you for your honesty and beautiful work about addiction.However, how could you have been married to an evil reactionary?

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Today is Thursday, 7 July 2011.The sad and tragic truth is that average Americans today are as misinformed about most of the great issues of the day as they were in 1964 or 1972, or as were average Moscow citizens in 1934.One crucial example is the national debt. Republicans prattle (and many suckers believe) that Democrats are the Big Spenders, when in fact 2/3 of the national debt was incurred

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Today is Tuesday, 5 July 2011."The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions, and without becoming disillusioned." -Antonio GramsciGramsci (1891-1937) is one of my favourite Marxist theorists. Much of his work concerns the nature of cultural hegemony and political leadership. His best-known work in English is The Prison Notebooks. He was murdered by the Italian fascist regime through

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-449349150061020762011-07-04T21:20:00.000-05:002011-07-04T21:21:44.241-05:00

Today is Monday, 4 July 2011.On this date in 1934, the great Austro-Hungarian physicist, Leo Szilard, patented the chain-reaction design which resulted in the atomic bomb.

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Today is Sunday, 3 July 2011.Republican Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann compares herself to John Wayne, whom she imagines was also born in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. (Not.)But, it’s appropriate, since was born in Waterloo John Wayne Gacy, who raped and murdered at least 33 boys.The original Constitution of the USA/USE legitimized slavery.The hallmarks of slavery are always mass

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-76057057763855503132011-06-20T17:12:00.001-05:002011-06-20T17:13:52.922-05:00

Today is 20 June 2011.World Refugee Day. Sixty years ago, in 1951, the United Nations adopted the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.In our times, it’s the conflicts of the major powers, which the latter play out upon the landscapes and bodies of the Second and Third Worlds, which create the preponderance of refugees. The USA and USSR in Afghanistan and Ethiopia and Somalia and

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-15330359172276017502011-06-19T22:21:00.002-05:002011-06-19T22:24:04.308-05:00

Today is Sunday, 19 June 2011.Ethel and Julius, murdered this date in 1953 by foolish fear and antiSemitism.Never forgotten.

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Today is Saturday, 18 June 2011.That Weiner guy is gross and a typical male chauvinist.However, if he should be hounded from Congress, what about Ron Paul?Weiner has a thing for his “package”.Ron Paul is a professed anti-Semite, white supremacist, and homophobe, according to his published and signed publications.Sure, NOW Ron Paul claims those publications, off which he coined cash, oh gosh, I

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-60579880144011562522011-06-17T18:24:00.003-05:002011-06-17T18:26:59.472-05:00

Today is Friday, 17 June 2011.On this date in 1972, the burglars were busted at the Watergate, and the downfall of Richard M. Nixon began.What more can be said, after all we’ve known for all these years, of his crimes.Had the standards of Nuremberg ‘46 been applied to Nixon, Kissinger, et al., they would have danced on a rope at the end of their days. Ethically, I’m not down with that.War

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Today is Wednesday, 16 June 2011.We've all had other lives.i'm proud to have officiated a gay marriage in the US.It was October ’73, month of the Middle East War, which is why I can locate the date.I was Associate Director of the Wesley Foundation (a Methodist thing) in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and sort of a minister for peace and justice. Back in the day, some of us thought we could use religion

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-46615803202205881842011-05-20T19:47:00.002-05:002011-05-20T19:49:55.405-05:00

Today is Friday, 20 May 2011.http://youtu.be/N43Cm6ra0hY

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Today is Tuesday, 26 April 2011.Give me a break.What are the odds, that a nuclear power plant could screw up?IT'S SCIENCE!

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Today is Monday, 18 April 2011. Stock markets around the world took a dive on news that rating agency Standard and Poor's is threatening to downgrade U.S. government debt from AAA, unless sufficient progress is made on reducing deficits and national debt within two years. Why should anyone any longer pay the slightest attention to the opinions of a company so intellectually and morally bankrupt

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-71417234229099831672011-04-06T15:10:00.001-05:002011-04-06T15:13:12.842-05:00

Today is Wednesday, 6 April , The Net is up attacking. Herewith, a random. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAsWjhqTQbI&feature=fvst

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Today is Tuesday, 5 April 2011. Sorry to have been away because of my arthritis. It was not such a situation as the former President of the Ivory Coast. "By early Tuesday, Mr. Gbagbo was in a bunker beneath his residence and was negotiating a possible surrender through the French ambassador, according to Alain Lobognon, a spokesman for the prime minister, Guillaume Soro. Forces supporting Mr.

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Today is Tuesday, 22 March 2011.What many suspected at the time the Conquest of Iraq began has for some time been confirmed: that the “intelligence” about WMDs was a cruel, callous, and cynical poisoned stew of half-truths, willful misinterpretations of ambivalent evidence, and outright lies. That “planting democracy” was merely a smokescreen for the enduring neoconservative ambition to create

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-82032131464105676292011-03-21T13:25:00.002-05:002011-03-21T13:31:04.283-05:00

Today is Monday, 21 March 2011.M. Gaddafi has never led a legitimate government of Libya. He and his “crew” (in the Mafia sense) seized power as military gangsters, and have, as military gangsters, repressed and exploited Libyans for more than forty years. They are simply Gambinos with gaudy costumes.As such, Gaddafi has never been an anti-colonialist or a socialist. His laughable "masterpiece",

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-22308159078566789562011-03-19T18:11:00.004-05:002011-03-19T18:24:39.321-05:00

Today is Saturday, 19 March 2011.Anniversary of the beginning of the USA/USE Conquest of Iraq in 2003.And what a pleasure, for the people of Iraq.

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Today is Friday, 18 March 2011.Why is the Obama regime coddling Gaddafi?The regime can’t argue that is was caught by surprise and is scrambling to catch up with events. After all, the Pentagon has for decades spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to identify possible politico-military situations and outline responses. Once Tunisia began boiling over, the relevant documents would have

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-92145590650746647002011-03-17T14:03:00.005-05:002011-03-17T14:22:05.037-05:00

Today is Thursday, 17 March 2011.For almost four decades, it’s been public knowledge that General Electric's boiling-water nuclear reactors had a critical design flaw, and might easily fail. gE had to have known this since the beginning.These are the reactors now failing in Japan.“In 1972, Stephen H. Hanauer, then a safety official with the Atomic Energy Commission, recommended that the Mark 1

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Today is Monday, 14 March 2011.The two century dictatorship of the political gangster Khalifa family in Bahrain is in peril from a majority of its citizens. The Saudi family dictatorship has dispatched troops to assist the dictatorship in its continuing repressions.As a prime USA/USE partner, Bahrain houses, for fine annual “payments” to the Khalifa crime family, the Fifth Fleet of the Navy of

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-7780985111314839932011-03-12T23:22:00.005-06:002011-03-12T23:47:29.836-06:00

Today is Saturday, 12 March 2011.Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, accused of providing taxpayer-paid-for files to WikiLeaks, is being tortured.Every night, at the USA/USE Marine "detention" center at Quantico, Virginia, Manning is stripped naked for the night, because he's under "prevention of injury watch".If the authorities believe he's a suicide risk, why have not they transferred him to a medical

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-8171499349736909052011-03-10T15:39:00.001-06:002011-03-10T15:41:25.546-06:00

Today is Thursday, 10 March 2011.Happy 28th birthday to the daughter of my Good Friend.A poem for your day.“Marching Song”A beautiful visionAs I then thoughtIn my five years aged.Armored,The soldiers marched,Air thronged with song.Too late,I recalled,My mother said:“Watch,Don’t do”.

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Today is Wednesday, 9 March 2011.I seldom endorse military violence, particularly by the USA/USE, but I endorse enforcement of a no-fly zone in regard to the Gaddafi regime military.It is true, of course, that the ability to project such force is the result of the gross misguided priorities in Federal government spending. However, this will remain the case for the foreseeable future, whether or

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-42980511420460309762011-03-08T16:48:00.003-06:002011-03-09T14:53:24.491-06:00

Today is Tuesday, 8 March 2011.Today is the 100th celebration of International Women’s Day.I notice that a disproportionate share of the relevant coverage on CNN has focused on the conditions under which women live in Muslim-majority nations. (A less-loaded term than “the Muslim World”.)I’ve seen no mention of the constant attempts at repression of women in the Christian-majority nation known as

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-86161840005024627172011-03-03T18:50:00.003-06:002011-03-03T19:08:58.795-06:00

Today is Wednesday, 3 March 2011.Having read more of Mike Huckabee’s squalid rant about Obama, it’s obviously much more wicked than I realized.What The Huck opines that Obama’s anti-colonialism and anti-Americanism are a result of his childhood in Kenya, and his exposure to the aftereffects of the Mau Mau rebellion against the British. Hello? Against precisely which colonial empire does Huck

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Today is Wednesday, 2 March 2011.1.Presumed Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee claims that Obama's "childhood in Kenya" is responsible for things such as his "liberalism" and attitude toward the British. A Huckabee spokesperson clarifies that he "misspoke". However, in that case, What The Huck would have said that Obama's Indonesian childhood was responsible for his attitude toward

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-20781160542581647142011-02-22T16:20:00.002-06:002011-02-22T16:25:11.444-06:00

Today is Tuesday, 22 February 2011.1.The second largest shareholder in News Corporation, after Rupert Murdoch and his family, is Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. I don’t know if bin Talal and/or Murdoch are personally anti-Semitic, but it is interesting that Fox News features the anti-Semitic ravings (especially about George Soros) of Glenn Beck.2.As I’ve before noted, it is the height of

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-64110692206705397632011-02-18T10:13:00.003-06:002011-02-18T14:21:42.400-06:00

Today is Friday, 18 February 2011.… living in Wisconsin and Idaho.In Wisconsin, the Republican governor and Republican-dominated state legislature are doing their damnedest to destroy the collective bargaining rights of state employees.After all, if working six days a week for low wages was good enough for the Foundering Fathers, it’s good enough for us.The Idaho State Board of Education has

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-22958902569099404352011-02-16T22:10:00.004-06:002011-02-16T22:20:51.813-06:00

Today is Wednesday, 16 February 2011.Bahrain is a vicious and squalid royal dictatorship, which for large amounts of American taxpayer dollars serves as the base for the Fifth Fleet of the US Navy.As I write, the government is brutally attacking citizens who gathered to demand that the absolute monarchy transform itself into a constitutional monarchy. At least two citizens have been assassinated

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-70762688094038551792011-02-15T15:49:00.001-06:002011-02-15T15:51:31.271-06:00

Today is Tuesday, 15 February 2011.1.Hosni Mubarak is “breathing”, according to a “military source”. Other sources claim he is “ailing” or “in a coma”.How convenient: at this point in history, Mubarak just happened to eat some very bad falafel.2.It’s official: Deutsche Borse is buying the New York Stock Exchange.Typical.While white con-servatives rant about the Yellow Peril, the Aryan Menace

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-7889380425916372772011-02-11T10:48:00.001-06:002011-02-11T10:50:04.056-06:00

Today is Friday, 11 January 2011.It’s no surprise that capitalist and other statist media always try to deflect attention from over-arching social/political/economic realities to the most narrowly individual. The latter allows them to attempt to convince people that the problem is one bad apple in the barrel, and not the barrel itself.Hosni Mubarak wasn’t the “problem” in Egypt. The “problem” is,

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-33486745173719694232011-02-06T19:14:00.001-06:002011-02-06T19:16:23.866-06:00

Today is Sunday, 6 February 2011.I believe that it was when Gerald Ford died, and I wrote a scathing analysis of his long life of political wickedness, that I was excoriated for speaking ill of the dead. Piffle. Public wickedness, in particular, must continue to be denounced. Otherwise, we should all forget the “Jew” thing, and instead remember and thank Mr. Hitler for that cute little car.I

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Today is Tuesday, 1 February 2010.So, the board of directors of Egyptian Military, Inc. (EMI) has told the Chairman that, for the good of the corporation, it’s time to let another general have a turn.I’ll have to wait for a final translation of Mubarak’s speech of a few minutes ago, but in one section he seemed to suggest that presidential elections, which are scheduled for September, should be

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-57044565349805273562011-01-31T13:07:00.004-06:002011-01-31T13:13:53.344-06:00

Today is Monday, 31 January 2011.When considering the present situation in Egypt, I’m unfortunately reminded of a short poem by W. B. Yeats:“Parnell came down the road, he said to a cheering man:'Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone.'”Since the “Free Officers” coup of 23 July 1952, Egypt has been ruled by its military, which also dominates, directly or indirectly, the key

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Today is Thursday, 27 January 2011.I’m disappointed that neither “are you kidding me?” nor “incredulous” have chosen to amplify their comments on the column, “On Constitutional “Originalism””.Perhaps in that column I was unclear. I wasn’t directly addressing questions of “construction” and “interpretation”, or the degree of overlap between the two, but the question of philosophical justification.

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-20851764262700538282011-01-26T14:34:00.003-06:002011-01-26T15:14:18.551-06:00

Today is Wednesday, 26 January 2011.Cf. comments on ““Mindless Rant“?” by “in context” and “my thoughts”, whom I thank for taking the time to ponder and write.While slavery (which is not a form of servitude, but the complete denial of the personhood of others) may have originated in societies significantly different from our own, I believe that people have always known it to be radically and

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-24607029133746378362011-01-26T07:54:00.003-06:002011-01-26T07:58:48.544-06:00

Today remains Tuesday, 25 January 2011.“The most important truth about the Constitution is this: it was written as a set of rules by which living people could solve their own problems, not as a 'dead hand' restricting their options. Strikingly many important questions, from the nature of the Supreme Court to the composition of the cabinet, are left to Congress. There's ample evidence in the text

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Today is Tuesday, 25 January 2011.Emma Goldman Cocker Spaniel is out of surgery and in ICU recovery. A tumour in her liver was removed, as well as her gall bladder. Bleeding was within normal limits, and a full recovery is expected. It will be 3-5 days before lab reports on nature of tumour. We expect her return on Thursday morning.As a friend once said in another context, “She may not be the

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-3516952162090356042011-01-25T11:47:00.005-06:002011-01-25T12:02:00.223-06:00

Today is Monday, 24 January 2011.Sigh.When I referred to “Justice” Scalia as a “pasta-gorging non-Aryan”, it wasn’t “mindless rant”, it was sarcastically making a point: I believe it’s obvious that many, and perhaps most, of the Framers would have perceived him that way.Strip away all the high-flown rhetoric of the Framers meant to camouflage them as high-minded, forward-visioned children of the

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-59620554200614594562011-01-22T13:05:00.003-06:002011-01-22T13:08:37.098-06:00

Today is Saturday, 22 January 2011.On this date in 1973, in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, the Supreme Court held that privacy rights inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment gave females the right to certain abortions.“Justice” Antonin Scalia recently claimed that there is no right to privacy literally stated in the Constitution, and that such a concept could be created only by legislation.Interesting,

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-44134719717208189462011-01-21T12:52:00.003-06:002011-01-21T12:55:51.376-06:00

Today is Friday, 21 January 2011.Several cases pend in the Federal courts, claiming that the new healthcare legislation is unconstitutional on multiple grounds, including mandated purchase of healthcare insurance.It is therefore germane to examine “An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen”, passed by Congress and signed by President John Adams in July of 1798. The Act created a payroll

HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-49751931308702699902011-01-20T13:47:00.005-06:002011-01-20T14:17:07.454-06:00

Today is Thursday, 20 January 2011.Of the House Republicans who voted to repeal the Obama healthcare overhaul, and thus deny offering affordable healthcare to more than 32 million of their fellow citizens, 97% continue to live it up on taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, or what they condemn as “socialized medicine”.(The 97% include career politician John Sullivan, representing my district.

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Today remains Wednesday, 19 January 2011.On this date in 1969, Jan Palach died.In Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, Martin Luther King Day is also Robert E. Lee Day.Jan Palach died for ... the good of humanity.Robert E. Lee was born on this day ... and committed crimes against humanity.Compare and contrast.

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Today is Wednesday, 19 April 2011.On this day in 1807, was born Robert E. Lee, traitor and in the first rank of incompetent American generals, who helped murder hundreds of thousands in pursuit of his greed legally to own, steal from, rape, and murder other human beings.To Lee, all dishonour.

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Today is Tuesday, 18 January 2011.For all practical purposes, handguns have only one reason for existence: hunting human beings, either for homicide or suicide. (Rifles are far more efficient in hunting for subsistence purposes.)(Those who kill for “sport”, that is, as a form of “entertainment”, well, rifles are more efficient also, but the entire activity is ethically despicable, and needn’t

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Today is Monday, 17 January 2011.Today is the 50th anniversary of Dwight Eisenhower’s speech regarding the threat of the “military-industrial complex”.Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the USA/USE military attack on Iraq, in retaliation for the latter’s conquest of American oil in Kuwait.Today is also Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sales Day – check out Special Holiday Pricing

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Today is Sunday, 16 January 2011.On this date in 1969, a 20-year-old Czech college student named Jan Palach set himself afire in Wenceslas Square in Prague.You will recall: the previous August, the “Prague Spring”, the attempt to create “Socialism With a Human Face”, had been crushed by Russian tanks.It seems that Palach and others had hoped to seize a central radio station, and broadcast a call

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Today remains Saturday, 15 January 2011.Perhaps I should pepper my remarks with “CAUTION: IRONY IMPENDING!”, “WARNING: SARCASM AHEAD!”, or ‘DANGER: PARODY!”.Obviously, it’s insufficient to write “At the risk of seeming vulgar…”, followed by something vulgar which is obviously a parody of Hard Right rhetoric, specifically the love of violence, homophobia, and hatred of females and the feminine.I

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Today is Saturday, 15 January 2011.The Museum of the Bourgeois remembers and honours the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Today remains Thursday, 13 January 2011.“Let me make one thing perfectly clear”. As another famous American anti-Semite was wont to say.Case 1. “Aryans” (a non-existent racist fantasy type) murder Jews for centuries. Who are the victims, according to the Nazis? The Aryans. Who are the victimizers, according to the Nazis? The Jews.Case 2. A mentally-ill person attempts to kill a Jewish member of

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Today is Thursday, 13 January 2011.In response to yesterday’s column, “Palin’s Pogrom”, “what’s that mean” kindly wrote: “HH uses lots of "50 cent" words. Most of us use "10 cent" words. For those of you that, like me, did not know the definition of Pogrom:an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of JewsI'm thinking that was a poor word/phrase choice on Palin's

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Today remains Wednesday, 12 January 2010.The “Blood Libel” is an infamous lie, dating at least to the Middle Ages, which claims that “The Jew” murders Christians, particularly children, to drain their blood and employ it in the manufacture of matzos for Passover, and for other ritual and medicinal purposes.In Sarah Palin’s statement on the Arizona shootings, she said, “Especially within hours of

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Today is Wednesday, 12 January 2010.“Name-calling”, stripped of particular contexts, is a vacant emotive term.Is it “name-calling” to apply “anti-Semite” to Ron Paul? Back in pre-Internet days, when political newsletters were all the rage on the Far Right, Paul published anti-Semitic screeds under his byline, which he has never repudiated. Thus, to say, “Ron Paul is an anti-Semite”, isn’t “

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Today is Tuesday, 11 January 2011.Some day, when the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, Nixon, Palin, and Reagan are rightfully relegated to the rogues’ gallery of infamy, I hope that Carlo Tresca will still be remembered and honoured.Carlo Tresca was born on 9 March 1879 in Sulmona, Italy. He became a socialist, edited a left-wing newspaper, and in 1904, because of political persecution, immigrated to the

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Today is Monday, 10 January 2010.I.Read the YouTube … submissions … of Jared Loughner. Either he is severely mentally ill, or he has perfected the finest ever performance art project imitating mental illness. I doubt it’s the latter.The USA/USE is the wealthiest society in the history of humanity, and refuses to create a medical system which can consistently identify and help people such as

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Today is Saturday, 8 January 2011.On behalf of the six persons killed today in the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, The Museum of the Bourgeois extends to the National Rifle Association, “the thanks of a grateful nation”, for the N.R.A.’s tireless efforts to insure that affordable and effective handguns are available even to the most demented and homicidal.

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Today is Friday, 7 January 2011.Amendment XIV, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside..."The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 to overturn the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393

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Today is Thursday, 6 January 2011.Thank you, “wow”, for commenting on yesterday’s column.John Boehner’s high school nickname is relevant because “boner” is slang for “error”, and he’s composed of them.JB is a life-long capitalist, and therefore must believe (and has demonstrated in his business life), that the Leader of an enterprise “deserves” more than the workers. If he doesn’t, he’s a secret

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Today is Wednesday, 5 January 2010.So far as I can determine, today is another milestone in the ethical decay of the Repugnicant Partei. It’s the first time a Speaker of the House has been sworn, who had two months before campaigned for a Congressional candidate who saw nothing wrong in joining his son in playing dress-up as SS Nazi soldiers. (Nothing like keggers to celebrate role-playing war

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Today is Saturday, 1 January 2010.“Atone” – that’s a sectarian religious thing with limited current relevance.Of course, we’re all inheritors of guilt, when we inherit the goodies generated by the myriad crimes of our predecessors. History didn’t begin anew with us.And have I ever suggest tearing it all down? Honour our victims, by building a better world. Stop using the crimes of yesterday to

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Today is Wednesday, 29 December 2010.On this date in 1890, one hundred and twenty years ago, elements of the U.S. Army, in a culminating act of state-sponsored terrorism, assassinated as many as 300 Lakota at Wounded Knee.There are those American citizens who will disclaim any responsibility: “I never killed an Indian”, just as there are those who say, “I never owned a Black slave”.These squeal

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Today is Tuesday, 28 December 2010.“Marley was dead: to begin with.”Sorry: wrong novel.Re-boot.“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”To begin with: the People’s Republic of China has never been a socialist experiment, but always a state capitalist dictatorship – that’s the essence of “Maoism”, which latter was merely the state capitalist extrusion of Mao’s pathetic dictatorial ego

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Today is Thursday, 23 December 2010.On this date in 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, creating the central American bank.Of course, if one’s an anti-Semite, one claims that, on this date in 1913, Woodrow Wilson, either the unwitting dupe or the willing tool of the International Jew Conspiracy, created the Federal Reserve System, subordinating the American economy to control by

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Today is Tuesday, 21 December 2010."mary christmas" yesterday commented: "So you are saying that because "states rights" was used as an excuse/cover to dominate the Black man and woman (back over 150 years ago) that current advocation of "state rights" will lead to similar attrocity?"Between 1776 and 1789, the 13 former British colonies were effectively 13 independent nations, associated by the

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Today is Monday, 20 December 2010.A saving grace.Today is the birthday of a Lady, the Princess of Seafood City. The Museum of the Bourgeois takes the greatest pleasure in wishing her the happiest of birthdays, and many happy returns of the day.“A date which will live in infamy”.On this date in 1860, one hundred and fifty years ago, in Charleston, South Carolina, 169 white, male, anti-American,

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Today is Sunday, 19 December 2010.On this date in 1946, the First Indochina War began, as the Indochinese struggled for their independence from the French Empire.And yesterday, a minor Oklahoma politician, a retired light colonel, damned gays for wishing to “parade” their sexuality in the military. And this guy is a hetero, who parades his heteroness on his ring finger. Guess he’s SPECIAL.And OK

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Today is Friday, 10 December 2010.On this date in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Thus, today is World Human Rights Day.It was thoughtfully celebrated a day early in the U.S. Senate. All Repugnicant senators, save for Susan Collins of Maine, plus Joe Manchin (D-WV), voted to block repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”, thus striking a blow

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Today is Thursday, 9 December 2010.Obama's political genius continues to dazzle.Dealing from the position of awesome strength his reign has created, the tax "reform" dictated to him by the Repugnicant nabobs will award at least 25% of the tax savings to the long-suffering wealthiest 1% of Americans.Note to members of the working class who voted Repugnicant: now, will you pull your heads out?"And

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Today is Friday, 3 December 2010.When will many working class American whites pull their heads out?They vote Repugnicant every time the Repugs shout “The coloreds are coming! The coloreds are coming!”, and then the Repugs repay them by doing everything they can to kill extended unemployment benefits for the working class, and everything they can to extend tax giveaways to the

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Today remains Thursday, 2 December 2010.In 1823, President James Monroe decreed the entire Western Hemisphere to be the exclusive property of the USA/USE. This became known as the “Monroe Doctrine” (German equivalent: Lebensraum).Among the many fruits of the Doctrine: on this date in 1980, members of the Salvadoran military (a close comprador ally of the USA/USE) raped, tortured, and murdered

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Today is Thursday, 2 December 2010.

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Today is Wednesday, 1 December 2010.World AIDS Day."O, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears..."

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Today remains Monday, 29 November 2010.Read, please, Hope Against Hope, and Hope Abandoned, by Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, née Hazin; 31 October 1899 – 29 December 1980). Married to the poet, Osip Mandelstam, both of blessed memory.

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Today is Monday, 29 November 2010.I’m reading Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, an excellent biography by Anthony Everitt (New York: Random House, 2009).One of the central points made by the author is quite chillingly germane to the USA/USE situation in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hadrian understood that there can be no such thing as an empire which indefinitely expands: an empire must grow no further

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Today is Sunday, 28 November 2010.The latest Wikileaks document dump demonstrates that the USA/USE diplomatic services do all the nasty things that imperial diplomatic services have always done since the invention of empire.Oh.And, in other news: water is still wet, the sky is still blue, there’s gambling in the casino, and publicity-whore Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who wants Wikileaks designated a

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Today is Friday, 26 November 2010.'Tis tomorrow in Afghanistan.Where the USA/USE has just beat the USSR record.The Sovs only lasted in conquest of Afghanistan for 9 years, 50 days.The USA/USE is on 9 years, day 51.Hurrah, hurrah.

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Today is Wednesday, 24 November 2010.I'm pleased that a small portion of my Federal taxes may go to a prison staycation for disgraced political gangster and bigot Tom DeLay. Soap-on-a-rope!

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Today is Tuesday, 23 November 2010.If you’re like me, you’re frequently spammed by Internet scamsters. Last month I received such a communication that was so unusual I saved a copy, as follows.“Dear Sir or Madam:Thanking in advance your kind attention and felicitations.Your name is directed to me as a Concerned Citizen who whishes to help his nation-state of birth or origin.I am Mullah Akhtar

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Today is Monday, 22 November 2010.

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Today is Sunday, 21 November 2010.When was the last time that Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger, James A. Baker III, Brent Scowcroft, and your author agreed on something?I can’t remember either.The current something is the necessity for the immediate ratification by the U.S. Senate of the “New Start” treaty, the arms control treaty between the USA/USE and the Russian Federation.Senator John Kyl (R-AZ

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Today is Thursday, 18 November 2010.Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) should be censured by the House only after John Boehner (R/T-OH), etc. are expelled for supporting wars of aggression, white supremacy, etc.

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Today is Sunday, 14 November 2010.Today is the 45th anniversary of the Battle of Ia Drang (14-18 November 1965) in the Second Indochina War.The Ia Drang was the first significant combat between major elements of the US Army and the PAVN (People’s Army of Viet Nam, popularly known in the USA/USE as the “NVA”, or “North Vietnamese Army”).The grand strategy of the American commander, Gen. William

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Today remains Saturday, 13 November 2010.Most esteemed Jean Le Corbeiller (1927-2010), with whom I had the greatest honour and good fortune to be student and scholar at the Seminar College of The New School for Social Research in New York City, has died.I shall have more to say. For the moment, let Auden speak for me (from 1 September 1939):Defenceless under the nightOur world in stupor lies;Yet,

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Today is Saturday, 13 November 2010.We’ve become familiar with hoarding through “reality” television, usually in cases where the hoarded items are “worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary”, and the more of each of the latter, the better. While this sort of hoarding is obviously a mental disorder, there is a keen resemblance to another behaviour which is highly approved by capitalist society:

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Today is Friday, 12 November 2010.

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Today is Wednesday, 10 November 2010.My apologies for tardiness in reply. The region in which I live (denoted “Green Country” by marketers of tourism) is unexpectedly enjoying a most beautimous Autumn, with the attendant explosion of allergy irritants that implies.Many residents of the Old Con-federacy, and I should say many white residents, have traditionally embraced a "peculiar institution"

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Today is Monday, 8 November 2010.“Move along folks; nothin’ to see”.Having given the victims of terroristic homophobes their 15 minutes due, the capitalist media (CM) is moving on.Of course, the CM prefers the far-less-incendiary-and-accurate term, “bullying”.Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? I’ll stipulate, as lawyers say, that I’ve already received at least one outraged comment. “There HH goes

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Today is Sunday, 7 November 2010.Anniversary of Oktyabr'skaya revolyutsiya.

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Today is Saturday, 6 November 2010.Seldom will one hear me say a good word for a billionaire, even an ex-billionaire. But sometimes camels do pass through the eyes of needles.Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky is deserving of great praise and support.Khodorkovsky became wealthy as a result of the infamous “shock therapy” which “privatized” the Russian economy after the demise of the Soviet Union. The hands

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Today is Friday, 5 November 2010.Part of the argument I’m making is that a very unique set of circumstances enabled the election of a Black president in 2008, but that the underlying white racism endemic to many Americans swiftly re-asserted itself, and that this was a large factor in the Repugnicant seizure of control of the House in 2010.It’s for this reason I compared the reaction of many

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Today remains Thursday, 4 November 2010.

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Today is Thursday, 4 November 2010.Is the USA/USE “ready” for a Jewish president?I seriously doubt a Jew could be elected, given the hordes of stealth anti-Semitic “Christians”. The non-stealth type is the garden variety, spewing “kike”, “Hebe”, “Abie”, “Christ killers”, etc. By “stealth” I mean those who support Israel as a nation-state, but only because they fancy that its existence is one of

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Today is Wednesday, 3 November 2010.I’ve been quoting this from Dietrich Bonhoeffer for 40 years now, and it’s sadly still timely. “It’s not that people are born stupid, but that they are made stupid, by the impact of overwhelming power which profits from their manufactured stupidity”.Granted that Americans are subjected to a set of hegemonic socialization pressures unique in the history of the

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Today is Tuesday, 2 November 2010.Election Day.It’s tres apropos that the first returns tonight should appear from Kentucky, where Rand Paul, Repugnicant/Teabagger, is running for U.S. Senate. Appropriate, since Kentuck is where the GOP (or should we start calling it the “WTF” – comments, please) has stained its escutcheon by endorsing a white supremacist. (And we all know how deucedly hard it is

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Today is Monday, 1 November 2010.Thank you, “wondering”, for your comments on yesterday’s column.I’ve never been so naïve as to contend that all Democrats are personally saints, and that all Republicans are personally demons. It’s not “about” persons.As a party or movement, the Republican Partei, and its dupes and stooges such as Teabaggers, serve wickedness far more consistently, and in a far

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