Age Of VeryDisco

Oi, long time no write. Understandable, given i've been Discovering stuff.

Yeah, it's a hack conservative history, but that's the safe tale to tell, ya? No sense overloading peeps with brutal reality and such; not at this point.

I say this since i've noted, now that Blogger is all back to functional and such and i'm ABLE to note things about traffic, that for some reason my readership is heavily Russian. Which is fucking cool as hell, btw. Glasnost and Nightwatch, allz'y'all!

No but yeah really, Russians have always had a broader, deeper sense of historical reality; at least they do in my view from the armchair of this hemisphere. Can't say really what imparts this opinion to me; maybe Tchovsky.

Did i spell that right? W/e. Look, here's a sunset.

It's a Smaller World After Monsanto, Et All.

0, hai. As the Nation has turned it's glazed eyes toward the McCain Future, we here at the Kiosk Under The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Out Of The Death Of Democracy have turned ours back to the wonderful world of Law and it's inevitably craptastic intersection with the Common Good™. To wit; we proffer the following for the elucidation and edutainmentation of all:

It's A Small World After Monsanto Takes All

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H.R. 5889: Orphan Works Act of 2008


S. 2913: Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008

Plagiarism Today - Orphan Works Bill


Polite Nerd's Position RE: Orphan Works


H.R. 3578: Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act

To safeguard the economic health of the United States and the health and safety of United States citizens by improving the management, coordination, and effectiveness of domestic and international intellectual property rights enforcement, and for other purposes.

H.R. 3155: Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal Enforcement Act of 2007

It's A Small World After Monsanto Takes All - IP Community

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[Hazzy on the disp.]

In April of 2008 the social necrotic of Intellectual Property Law manifested in illustratingly infelicitous fashion.

A Google-hosted video of "The World According To Monsanto - A Documentary That Americans Won't Ever See" was discovered; "in the wild", as it were. The video file was localized by choosing the "Download for Email" option provided by Google. This file was split into 12 segments for the YouTube audience as an educational service, being as the title implied that it was not being carried, broadcast or shown in the USA and the subject material impinges upon all Citizens.


The word "impinge" has a mid 16th century ORIGIN: from Latin impingere ‘drive something in or at,’ from in- ‘into’ + pangere ‘fix, drive.’ The word originally meant [thrust at forcibly] then [come into forcible contact]; hence [encroach on] by mid 1700's: intrude on, infringe (on), invade, trespass on, obtrude, cut through, interfere with; violate; horn in on.

It is specifically describing the dislocation and disenfranchisement of the average person due to Enclosure of the Commons.


As predicted, the series was blocked at [host] due to copyright violation. An attempt to provide alternate hosting was met with immediate response, expected due to the
transparency of approach. Videos posted were removed within minutes of upload.

If education was the goal in producing the film,
The Film Board of Canada seem to be working against it.

Overtime.

It should be noted that no [userprofile] was harmed in this, the [Host] merely made the offending vids unstreamable. This appears to be a case of copyright interfering with educational endevours, and a fairly painless one at that. It's understandable for creators to want distributive control of the media they make, but fair use of media from all mediums should be considered a trust of the public, a given grey area where one's work enters the Commons of Human Knowledge and truly becomes a shared resource. It isn't about piracy, and it isn't about publishing or concessionary property.

It is about information, the exchange of which should be encouraged. It is about education, requisite to weigh the issue of a transnational corporate body with a toxic track record owning the Nation's food supply; owning food, all food, due in no small part to the exploitation of an oxymoronic legal dysfunction known as Intellectual Property.

It is about Enclosure; that abhorition of Human Processes that fences, walls, divides, alienates, separates and denies the Individual the Commons in favor of usurping it for profit and power. That vile, arrogant tool of the Developer Classes that pushes and prods peasants from farm to factory to phone bank, from sharing grazing pasture to sharing mass graves, from open waters to the bellies of company trowlers. Enclosure of the land has been completed.

Enclosure of the Public Trust has nearly been completed, with the death of analogue broadcasting in 2009 being one of the last hedgerows. Think about it: most utility resources are spoken for, fenced away from casual use as needed by individuals and in most cases privatized with State enforcement of trespass.

There is one Commons left. Our Common Mind, our Intellect; which is the dynamic hypernodal expression of our individual contributions to the Shared Folder of Human Knowledge and Experience.


[Hazzy 0ut.]


For a hot time, goto: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billsearch.xpd

Ask for keyword = "copyright" and/or "intellectual property"!

S. 1505: Affordable Biologics for Consumers Act


H.R. 2900: Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and for medical devices, to enhance the postmarket authorities of the Food and Drug Administration with respect to the safety of drugs, and for other purposes.


S. 2242: Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007

An original bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish supplemental agricultural disaster assistance and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy sources and to provide tax relief for farmers, and for other purposes.


H.R. 2207: Agricultural Disaster Assistance and Western States Emergency Unfinished Business Appropriations Act, 2007

Making supplemental appropriations for agricultural and other emergency assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes.

Section 1009 -Appropriates amounts for emergency grants for low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

Know The Chemical Combine's Hydra Heads:

Monsanto in Wikipedia and Monsanto at SourceWatch

Dow

Dupont

The Combine's Future Plans:

Dupont returns the Hydra to India

Triumph (of the Will) Seed

The Combine's Legacy Of Agricultural Endevours:

A Conservative Conservation Truth


Agent Orange

The Feel-Bad Rainbow

40 years of poison law

Prop H - Mendecino, CA

Dream Deferral

What Monsanto (et al) do with IP:

Who Owns Life? Canadian Farmer Sued by Monsanto

Seeds of Discontent

What you can do:

The Great Boycott

Operatrix

These are divisive times, and the fractous ebb of popular action signals an accademically developmental era for democratic unionists.

⋇

So let's try to do better than our Forebears and Betters™.
Let's get the principles of populism down to provable precepts.

∀

For All to inarguably accept a precept as Givens, it has to become Law.

∵

This is a lengthy and nebulously defined "scientific" phenominon. Regardez the declention ofPythagorias' Theoreum -vs- Boyle's Law.

The reasons for this obviously skewed, specialty-dependent and arbitrary nomenclature being bandied about by our Expert class of Authorities are variously incompetence, corruption and petty stupidity in differing ratios. In general, though, the gestault of the Academic Authority will move towards acceptance of a given principle if it is arguably true (and stated falsifiably), or at least gives them enough to chaw on that Papers can be written, thus affording the individuated Authority Units of current Academia opportunity to advance thier own personal Status.

Unless of course it proposes a direct danger to the Dominant Culture or it's Control Authority, in which case a discovered principle, it's technological applications and quite possibly it's proponer and thier adherants are generally bashed, banned and burned in public.

∴

Therefore the Populist in search of a Principia Primae upon which to rest a less-Elitist Demagogiae Democratii, one which forgoes the repugnant and lazy side-step towards the hated Republic By Patricians, must belabor a bit the methodology, lest an obvious Truth™ be badmouthed as balderdash too simple to besmudge another blog entry with.

V ≣ L

Take our precious Labor Theory of Value, which should rightfully be a Law.
I mean, think about it. Even gold is valueless as is, especially in a State of Nature. It's Labor, applied and layered, that gives an object of gold any actual Utility Value that it has. Bread has more Value than raw wheat, and good 9-grain bread more again due to increased Labor enhancing the Utility Value.

UV ≝ L

Kenysian Value theory, and economics per Authoritee Academe, shied purposefully away from such and abandoned the Utility based science that had been built in favor of an quantatively aggregationist, statistically specious, psuedo-science cum propaganda platform far more useful as a soapbox for industrial appologism than as a tool for inquiry. Oh, maybe it could be used by a marketteer to describe preference changes of a target demographic in a given set of circumstances, since Preferences are MainGod for market economics and it's flimsy, mutable excuse for Value. We can suppose also that one can use Thier™ stats against Them™, but why?

∄{∑∞⇅⋓ॐ≢x(n+1)}≣¡|Justice + Equality|!

(There Does Not Exist a Theory of Everything that is Strictly Equivalent To a Strong Argument For the Absolute Value of Justice and Liberty)*

In light of the task at hand, being devising or divining a logical expression of principles governing Human Social Macrodynamics (political economics), let the following operators be (re)defined THUS:

∀ means Authority.
≣ means Strictly Equivalent To.
∵ means Given (Because).
∴ means Therefore.
⇅ means Dialectically Reciprociprocal.

This expresses a relationship which may be negative, neutral or possitive with regards to impact. A model to consider here is English and spin on a poolball, which impart with reversed direction when vectored off another ball.

∵⤴⤷A⥤B=⤵⤶B+⤵⤹A
or
¡A!-⇅¡B!

where ¡! is indicative of an integrated unity of the multi-phasic set of vectors and forces describing the movement of the enclosed Variable Unit.**

∃ means There Exists
∄ means There Does Not Exist.
≢ means Is Not Equal To.

These are our Operators; let us pray that we never have to use them against the Innocent™. Except ∄ and ∀. They're cool looking. ∀ with a circle around it is of course the traditional "Authority" symbol, -v- the Circle A™ of our Beloved Future Perfect, Anarchy. Go figure why they aren't standard unicode characters.

Better yet, go remind yourself of the Twin Tards, the Authority Agents whose "Enlightenened" ideas we need to supplant and surmount to succeed in seeding Democracy.


John Locke: Ovaltine


To make his arguments John Locke had to re-write some of the "Noble Savage" drivel of J-J Rousseau, upon whose Natural Law our idea of the Social Contract is hung, tacked up like a Proclaimation the Sheriff was told to nail onto the doors of our peasants' hovels, en masse under the cover of an Absinthe-flooded night.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Return of The Golden Rectangle?


Refresh your heads as breifly as possible (if you wish) on these gentlemen and thier odd ideas. Ruminate about thier Class, perhaps, and what thier goals were, if you think they indeed had any.
Then we'll move on.



* One should likely insert the words "Piss-Poor, Senseless and Hastily Fabricated" prior to "Theory of Everything" in the refering sentence to get more literal translation from the equation above it; however, this is contrapositive to it's given and nominatively eponymous raison d'etre.

**(Luckily, we won't be doing physics proofs with demographics, per se. Your Candidate is notably weak on the quantificationisms.)

Bill Hicks, Ascended Master

Bill Hicks' Final Interview



Tomorrow is Grandfalloonerry Day. What are you going to tell yourself to asuage your soul while you sit where They™ want you to, doing Thier™ bidding rather than hitting the streets?

Just curious. I'll probably just not get up.

Office Supply Shrinkage and Meme Vectoring

Hey! Load up a few sheets of your company's Avery 5160 address label stock,
and print these out at work.

Webb's Labours Lost

Dec 13, 2004 - Murder of Gary Webb

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You know i hate agreeing with 'Lex Jones, but here we are.


Brad Will - In Memorium
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If you think it's going to get easier to convince yourself to stand up and be counted in opposition to the thickening ligumen of blind self-interest and low-budget int'uipreta'tionsz o'r human rights, think again. Count the bodies. I haven't seen so many US reporters die in the rest of my 40 years as i have in the past 6. That's counting 12 years of Reagan/Bush, when Gary Webb was researching.

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C!A Murder Me
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You're only going to wind up hating your colaborationist self anyway, pro'lly die a coward's death trading a sobbing blowjob for border passes into Canada. Stand up soon, in a town near you, and choose your own adventure.


The Dusty Path - Mayday 2007
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Capital Idea

A taciturn lecture offered as rejoinder in an ongoing dialogue i'm having with our BeltWay Insider. Our story thus far: i have posited that Capital runs the game, and that political movements are more wagging dog than they are bellwethers for change. Civil rights was proffered as an example of a popular movement that changed policy. I pointed out that the Civil War was fought to that end 100 years prior, and was rebuked by an intriguing rejoinder about the echoes of Abolitionism in the current abortion debate. We'll come back to that. Firstly:

So basically, you are refuting the notion that capital interests rule the policy making process from the top down. Now, this isn't just some hair-brained idea of mine, you know. This is, unfortunately, historical fact.

Let's consider the Abolitionists and the Civil War some more.

The Abolitionist movement (along with early versions of the Temperance and Suffrage movements) grew out of Quaker/Shaker and Baptist churches, and although they were vociferous they were in fact outlawed in the South and only given lip service in the North after the Dred Scott descision struck a chord with folks who otherwise didn't care.

Why did it strike a chord? Because it asserted property rights across state lines, a clear problem for states' rights no matter how you slice it.

This is why it was made an issue. Federalism was not quite codified, and all sorts of concessions were being handed to locality as far as right of way and self-determination were concerned. Although the Federal Government had carefully plotted out territories for slave and free states (indicating it's disregard for the issue) settlers had more than once "jumped claim" and lept upon the territory as if the bank wasn't due payment.

This is one of the real issues: homesteaders got an allotment for a stipend, no more, and the territories were already determined. But the settlers would change rules at whim, the ingrates, as if self-determination were the founding principle of the country. Add to this the Southern Aristocracy's marked difference of opinion on the matter of centrism/Federalism, and you have your issue. What drove the war ideologically was the need to resolve the power of the Federal Government as supreme, once and for all. What enabled it and caused the other shoe to drop was ENCLOSURE. Remember the Cotton Gin? This is a modification of the wool mill used in Britain. No big whoop, despite what you may have heard, and whitney went broke in the 1790's without it really doing much. It was one of the loci of Northern industrial concentration, a process very much like Britain's industrial "revolution." This process requires agrarian aristocracy to migrate off of the land, so the land can be repurposed both in utility and in titlage, allowing the leverage of parcel valuation as Capital. Capital Aristocracy is of course the successor; a class of gentry whose wealth is the dictate by which they rule, separate from the land and it's sullen marginless stasis. The Northern industrial elite already understood this, having direct capital ties to Europe, where the process had already spawned the Enclosures, with ensuing dislocation, famines, Dickensian factories, workhouses and mines and slums of the 17 - 1800's.

Capital does make up the issues. Where else would anyone get the idea that "feeding Africa" is something that can be done from the outside, or indeed that Africa is starving in the first place? Is it famine or enclosure killing people in Darfur? In Ethiopia we hear of famine and draught; yet the largest lake in Africa sits at it's heart, and this is a nation so old it dates to dynastic Egypt. It has irrigation; indeed it has quite a few resources, and is able to invade Somalia regularly. So why can't the ethnic herders get water? Is it perhaps because they can't pay for it?

Westerners are uninformed, naive somehow? I am here to tell you this is not true. We know exactly how evil we are, and we justify it by saying "better them than US" before "accidently" allowing warlords to usurp UNICEF monies. Those Suzuki jeeps don't ship themselves over there from NYC impound lots, it's strickly COD.

/ lecturette.

Extra credit: compare and contrast the states' rights issues involved Slavery vs Abolitionism against those of Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life. Explain how the logical outcome of this wlll be determined by Capital.

Goto Cryptome, now.
You won't be able to soon. That's a bad thing.

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The Wealth of Internationals

Money As Debt
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The only puzzle piece omitted from this succinct and informative vid is the bigest lie of all: The Myth Of Land Ownership, which is the meme driving the whole process. You think you need money because you think you can own land. Think about it.

Full-On

Before i take you to Al and Ed's place, perhaps you'd like to read up on the fallout of the Ottoman Enclosure Acts?

No?

'K. Mais oui, we

French Thee Japanese!

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 1

Don't you fear, my little American Yankee Doodles, there is but this first in Francais for you. The rest, we have the English fansubs.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 36

FMA is actually quite the mirror of our world, in both of it's worlds, one of which IS our world, circa World War II.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 37

First of all, it's about fascism, and the casual evils of following orders.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 38

Secondly it instructs of the greater evils afforded the morally corrupt when they are given the resources of a society to draw upon and the cloak of national security to hide under.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 39

These themes weave around a skein of universal truth expressed as The Law of Equivalent Exchange, an alchemical version of the laws of conservation. It should be noted that this law is a real law in our universe, very important to those of us who have...agreements to navigate.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 40

There are Fuhrers and Homuniculi, madmen and manifestations of military machination; and the greatest horrors are those that humans exact upon thier own kind out of predjudice, indifference and duty with common tools, fire and guns.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 41

Genocides and coverups make the godlike National Alchemists powerless to control their own fascist government, and the Black Gate ties them to the nuclear holocausts and Nazi death-camps of our continuum with a web of fate powered by the souls of those devoured by the endless wars of both worlds.

Good times indeed for two kids trapped in cyborg auto-mail due to hard lessons in The Real Truth™: Equivalent exchange doesn't by any means have to work both ways. Sometimes an arm and a leg just get paid to the Void and you don't get shit. If you can still complain about it, you got a good deal.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 42

If you can't find a metaphor in Isballa, just grove on Lust's chassis for a spell.

I'm sure you can Google the rest of the story.

All Hail The New Flesh

Akira
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We assume that the mechanism driving evolution is competition, or rather the laisez faire clockwork of interactions known as natural selection. This hypothesis rests on the idea that some better-suited individuals of a given species are afforded more reproductive oportunities due to thier adaptations, which presumes a situation of scarcity. Scarcity would be neccesary in order to offer the less adapted naught but deprivation, rather than merely less food or water or shelter. Less would be subsistence level, not enough for removal from the gene pool.

See where i'm going with this?

I've mentioned the myth of scarcity before, and although i've tried to allude to it's importance in human affairs i haven't mentioned the fact that accepting it as a primae causae for competition severly disables most of the arguments for mechanisms of natural selection. We see natural selection at work only in areas of actual scarcity, like deserts or the ocean floor, volcanic areas and caves, the Arctic or the complex minute ecosystems of bookshelves. Here the environment is less than nurturing, and life has to adapt to survive. These are exceptions to the general rule of thumb here on Terra, which is an unusually temperate and hospitable world with over 3/4 of it's surface offering not only a living but an easy living for almost any life form. Thus, there is no scarcity of resources, no need to compete.

Yet most creatures do, or rather act as if they need to. This is almost universal.

Almost.

The obvious fact that a meme as complex as the myth of scarcity is part of the conscious processes of millions of different species, including plants, is too much for me to ask you to contemplate. So ignore that path.

Let's focus on what mechanism could possibly supplant natural selection as the mechanism for evolution now that it's debunked, which (like it or not) it is. No, not the grandmotherly compassion of Maha Deva Kali Maa (Jai jai!); full moon on April Fools notwithstanding i am assured that She wants no part in taking responsibility for the infinate permutations of specific petty greed that are involved. So what drives genetic change, other than sporadic mutations?

Choice.

D'oh. Choices, the obvious choice. It is will that drives individual ambition, which is spurred by species specific ambition. How would this affect the genome, you ask?

Regardezvous, si vous plait o non, the Calico Cat.

It has been observed, even in big cats, that when the biome niche of a given feline is threatened there will be produced a Calico, a female whose locii contain all possible attributes for the species. This mother-of-mothers will produce in turn cats of all stripes, literally.

See, other animals know about genetics too, and practice genetic engineering on a much more intimate level than we do. This explains the evolution of certain traits in the natural record that seem to spring up overnight, like sabre-toothing. This explains how the proto-pachydermata returned to the sea as cetacea, and how a scrawny chimp/bonobo with only one set of opposable thumbs became the bald ape typing this now.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, kinder, and i posit thus:

Own your self, own your future.

Start with your vote. It's a small step towards returning to the evolutionary process. Because unlike evolution, devolution really is driven by natural selection. The more evolved will not mix with the common herd, and will most probably be trampled underfoot.

219 years and you STILL don't have the vote, sucker.

Change the Electoral Genome.
Demand Direct Democracy NOW.

Common Sense.

Hot Winter, Cold Feet

I guess nobody else has noticed the IDF incursion in Nablus. Israel has been wrecking the West Bank city for the past 4 days, since the Palestinian infighting came to a screeching halt in Mecca last week. I'm not implying that the two are related.

I'm stating it.


Hot Winter In Nablus
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The Electronic Intifada is one of my fave feeds; they never fail in depressing the shit out of me with some YHWH-forsaken tale of inhumanity. The Palestinian people have nothing to lose by risking life and limb to get word out about what goes on behind the Wall Of Shame, since they're all targeted for genocide anyway.

It's Treblenka in slow-motion, going strong since 1948. Israel's anti-Semitism knows no bounds.

So i made it up to myself by adding some new fun facts & DIY to the Functional Intructional playlist, including an intro to circuit bending.


Functional Instructitainmentismae
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Also, regardez vous si vous plais, important new additions to the Renting In Iraq saga, most probably with a shelf-life. Notably probably effemeral are the CNN Al-Quiada funding story and the "leaked" footage of a US fighter striking British troops.

Aluminium Azrael


Renting: A War Joint
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I added a short clip depicting a British Tornado fighter-bomber striking an Iraqi position. Here's the frame of interest.


HMMMMMMM.

I just assumed it was a laser-guided bomb, until i noticed another user had uploaded it with a title asking, "Is this a laser?" I watched that one, and thought that it had been altered. Then i watched this one again, which doesn't make mention of laser guidance or much of anything.




According to Wikipedia, which i'll admit is NOT Jane's, the Tornado carries Paveway laser-guided bombs, which are all unpowered, meaning no contrail. So....w/e. I don't think we're at laser stage yet for actual weaponry, although we're close.

Man, we suck. No wonder you chickenshits don't trust yourselves with direct democracy. I have bad news, though: your current ruling elite is rich, and the rich HATE YOU.


N35T - Dr Rev Steve Martin (ne Short) Luther King Jr, PHD vs The Can Haters

Checkpoints, Quasicrystaline Tiling, and DeeDee

How exactly does Israeli policy of keeping the occupied territories populations apart from thier population not meet the definition of aparthied?


"Srry, but freedom isn't free, or even on the market."

Oh that's right, the rulers decide the definitions of the age in which they rule.

My bad.

Hence all that is old can be new again, or at least news again.


Quasicrystaline tiling re-rediscovered, again.

Those of us who are vehomently pro-geometry have long touted the superiority of Middle Eastern tiling. Those of you who use Arabic numerals are probably dimmly aware that these are indicative of a culture fluent in math. So, i'm comfortable going out on a limb and answering the question poised in the above linked article: Yes, the designers of the tile pattern knew about it's non-recursive math. One has to do the math to design tiling patterns based on math.

Shake it off with me, America. Let's focus on some good things.

In appreciation of his ding-ach-sich, here's the Hero of Our age, the Hon. George Galloway. (Not to be confused with fellow WordPresser and Lenny Bruce Strike Force memeber, Galloway)


He's Got A Way, He's Got His Gall
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I love these men, but especially George, because he's so damn resilient. He's been taking the slings and arrows for the entire Western Empire throughout this past 7 years of cleptocratic imperial boondogerry, and he's thrived on it. Now he's leading the charge to topple Blair, and all we can do is wish we had someone like him.

Segues nicely into this playlist. Cow and Chicken: A Model Of American Bipartisanship.


Potential Analogue Model Viewer
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Cow is of course the Dems; eager to play the nice guy, apparently compassionate but with a deadly secret. Chicken as the GOP; virulent self-interested hothead with little-man syndrome, quick to flare at assumed transgressions, overprotective. Together they navigate the American dreamscape of devils and morons to thier mutual betterment.

Maybe you'd prefer a degreed opinion?


Parenti Guidance
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There's no analogy or reason to give a reason for posting Dexter's Lab.


The Lab, The Girl, And Dexter
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Elevated Blood, Alcohol

I wish i still drank sometimes.


Drunken Fist, Sober Beavers.

Nothings tears out the social aspect of one's life quicker than not having an excuse to meet everyone at the local dunk-and-plunck. I used to love going to Katie's in San Jose, or Bernard's on Seneca here in Seattle.

I still talk to as many people as i can stand, though. Since i stopped driving things became simpler, and mulching my phone this winter caused a serindipetous ceasation of casual irritation. Now i find my self in a place where i wonder why the fuck i still live in a city with people. American people.

Good lord, America, look at yourself. How droll. How boring, how cheap and unsophisticated yet overpriced. How sexless and vague, how fixated on your apparent roguishness while jumping at shadows.

How broken.


Frodzjette KL has started a PNAC opposing the new viaduct.
My kitten is down with Mayor Nickles, sigh.

This is why my little campaign fails to get anything more than the occasional wavering "oooo, i don't know; the Red Staters/Democrats will take over". Every person i've cornered on the idea of a direct democracy is frightened, scared of thier peers.

You don't trust yourselves, and with good reason. You would rather continue to let the aristocracy rule you like feudal barons than face up to owning your country's decisions. You look up to them, as if they are not only smarter than you but actually people of vision and compassion as well. Not one US politition i see today has anything like a vision. None of them want to make things more democratic, egalitarian, or even livable.


Let me predict the next Presidential tally for you.

None. Not your precious Nader, or Clinton, or Clark, or Obama, or Gingrich, or Robertson, or anybody else. They don't even have the courage to fake a vision, because they don't need to. You allow them to rule, since it's better than the "other guy", even though it's plainly obvious that they're the same. Yale is Yale is Yale is not your Alma Mater, right?

Elevate Me.

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So i'm going to get local for a little bit. I'm going to try to draw the picture for you of the microcosmic, the community unit that forms the building blocks of aquiescence and greed that America is built out of. This is applicable to any "market economy democratic state", which i know you like to think you live in. You don't; you live in an oligopoly cleptocracy. You're probably in the US, Britain, India, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand or Austrailia and thus this is true. Get used to it. (If you're not, would you like a houseguest?)

If it wasn't for the railroad and Ma Bell balancing out the industrial-military we'd all be in the sugar mines already. It's a tenuous ballance though, since the other two could be imminant domained in times of war.

The Seattle skyline obscures one of the Emerald city's many gifts to the Northwest, the exposed flank of First Hill known as Yestler Terrace. Yestler Terrace is a low-income project, built sprawl style like reservation housing. Little pink ticky-tacky. This is a 100-fold improvement on the projects that used to line the street in the early days, when logs would use it as a final slide down to the timber yards and port in what is now Pioneer Square.

This was Skid Row. Never has a more obiquitous term come from the disgusting propensity of the rich to hold the working class hostage to rape the land denied them. The Company Store as municipality, this was Seattle. Like Mattewan. Like...


...we could go on for a while there.


Then, the city burned down. Go figure.





The vicious "visionary" city engineer who decided to level a massive fucking hill that was already occupied certainly didn't have any vested interests in the project, it's outcome, or line his pockets with graft from contracting the project.

Time passes. A new cabal follows the interceeding Selig years, which yeilded the Columbia Tower and King Dome.

We'll do the stadium arena dance later. Let's flash to now, when the pressing concern is the two tiers of traffic running the length of Western Street on downtowns waterfront. The Viaduct was retrofitted in 1998-9, and immediatlely tested by an earthquake which proved my theory about rehabilition of masonry: No matter how much you splint and bandaid a concrete or massonry structure it will NOT reknit like bone.

Makes sense, since it's not.

So now it's a Cypress commuter-press waiting to happen, waiting for that next good snap along the rift that tore the hole known as Puget Sound in the planets crust. It stalks drivers and tourists with 6 lanes of cracked concrete and rusting steel, waiting for the right day. To replace it, the interveining 7 years have seen Safco Field built, which is delightfully paradoxical but limited in scope for an inter-urban thruway. Mayor Greg Nickles wants a tunnel, while Gov. Christine Gregoire wants the Sonics to have thier new stadium. She also favors a new viaduct, since state matching funds will be used being as it's a state highway arterial, connecting 99 and 405 through downtown.

We were asked our advisory ballotted opinions, and we said build a monorail and no more stadiums. So they wasted a bunch more money studying that Simpsons episode with the monorail, then mysterious breakdowns happened on the existing monorail, which had run as an elevated rail from downtown to the Center since the World's Fair.

It was interesting that no one said anything as the project died in '05. It's still pulling money from the tax levies as i type. Be sure they won't be used for the viaduct or stadium in Renton, on Boeing land.

Why does Mr Mayor want a tunnel?

Greg's Plan to Nickle and Dime Seattle

It's called Denny Triangle now.

I'm sure he has his reasons.


My fave local tag, in lieu of the planned
RealMedia video from the Seattle Channel.