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Morning Constitutional 02/24/11

The local Fife and Drum corps have been disbanded. There’s nothing to be done about it. We’ll be lucky if any of them stay in town. Their absence in the parade will be filled by the Old Lady Knitters Auxiliary #452.
The hardest part will be repossessing all the instruments themselves and sanding off the initials of their current owners while they watch. Very old city ordinance. No way around it.

Nightcap 02/23/11

I listen for the train whistle each night. It’s comforting. Each night tucked in bed, hearing that whistle, knowing thousands of state-identified lunatics are being shipped off to loving, caring homes two time zones away – reminds me the system is working.

ISLAND OF THE SUPERVILLAINS

 What I’m proposing is simple. The toppled dictators, con men, shitheads and monsters from Mubarak of Egypt, Ben-Ali of Tunisia, to Scott Walker of Wisconsin and so forth, be relocated en masse to a remote desert island disconnected from the rest of better society. Preferably the same island where the Army dumps all the giant spiders. Each will be equipped with a spear and a musical instrument of their choosing. No sheet music. There will be no running water on this island, nor vitamin supplements. It will take weeks for their mail to be rerouted and even then, most of it will be crushed and/or bent. A crude social order will work itself out with the more ruthless rising above the others. This Pig among pigs as it were will then rename the lesser jerks and, well, probably take up a...

IT’S CALLED THE ESTABLISHMENT

TalkingPointsMemo.com: From the beginning of the Wisconsin situation one thing that’s been clear from almost all the national media is that it’s a tough spot for the public employees unions because the public at large doesn’t like unions. Especially public employees unions. Only now there are a string of polls out — particularly yesterday’s Gallup poll — which show that that’s simply not true. The nation at large overwhelmingly opposes banning collective bargaining rights for public employees (61% – 33%). That’s not just to say that they’re against restricting the rights of organized labor, but public sector unions in particular. What’s popular and what’s not isn’t the be all and end all of political reporting...

Nightcap 02/22/11

Most people don’t realize it yet but this country is in the beginning of an open civil war/revolution. It’s a bringing out into the open the conflict of class war that’s been waged silently over the last thirty years. It won’t be like other sustained wars. It will be hit and miss, here and there. Ebbs and flows. Right now is a swell. Tomorrow could be a lull.
It’s a horrible thing. All you can do is devote yourself to peaceful defiance.
This is what happens when the ruling class goes completely insane. It’s the end of the Roman Empire.

We’re Going it Alone

I want to be proven wrong on Obama. I have little hope. No one gets that far in America without being compromised and empty. The system is the problem. Two weeks ago, Obama wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal promising to reduce “burdensome” regulations for his friends in big finance. He figured that the trillions they’d already been given wasn’t quite enough to keep them happy, so he decided he’d find more rules that he could eliminate. Then he slithered over to the Chamber of Commerce to assure them that he’d do whatever he could to “change the tone” at the White House to help them increase profitability. Just days later, Obama delivered an entirely different message to striking Wisconsin teachers. He told them that everyone would...

Nightcap 02/21/11

Where is the V man now? He is out looking for the thrill. The feeling of worth and value each man gets when he has wrestled with eight-legged reptile men from the center of Iowa and walked away a wiser man.
Perhaps he will find the thrill biting trees in half. Perhaps he’ll find it deep within the dark, stinking earth down where the rabbits have no eyes and they don’t want any either.
Perhaps right now, even as I type this, our good friend V is turning into a man made of gold, capable of unspeakable acts and possessing a sharper sense of justice than any of us deserve.
Godspeed, Mr. V, Godspeed.

SHOCK DOCTRINE

But maybe parts of the world are realizing that it’s all bullshit. With the Wall Street bailouts in particular, folks have noticed that while governments are cracking down on pesky workers, it’s those same people that have paid for the bailouts, and for a system that does not ultimately serve its people but, instead, a select few who have no intention of trickling down anything.

CREDIT DUE

By chance I look up at the TV Channel and catch the end credits of a terrible program called “Yehweh TV” which features Christian children puking on each other. As the credits slowly roll up I am surprised to see:

EDITING
Chris Weagel
I know I did not edit that program. But I also know that I’m going to have to devote the rest of my evening to figuring out how to update my IMDB profile.