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FOLKSIES, WOULDN'T YOU AGREE THAT THE IMAGE LEADING TODAY'S POST IS RATHER APROPOS THE TIME OF YEAR, particularly among such of you in the Northern Hemisphere as are still seeing autumnal effects?
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PERHAPS IT WAS OVERSIGHT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, but perhaps it was time to add to the FAQ's I asked back on Saturday this particular one:
Why are your blog posts shown in UTC time, not prevailing local time? The reason for this is logical more than anything else: It's the World Wide Web, not the America Wide Web, that I happen to be on. And UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time, to translate from the French abbreviate; a/k/a Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT) is the international standard by agreement for establishing correct time the world over. As for the inspiration therefor, such came about by way of the German worldcaster Deutsche Welle's TV service, DW-TV, using UTC time for programme scheduling purposes (@ least when it was on cable TV here in Winona). Now you know.
FOX PROLEFEED CRONYISM @ ITS MOST PATHETIC: How many of you can be considered regular, hard-wired viewers of Fox News Sunday week after week among you readers of this blog, or reasonable facsimilies thereof?
If so, you may have noticed yesterday's show being little more than a rather pathetic exercise in idolarty towards The Oxycontin Boar, who, inter alii, insisted that the GOP's Last and Only Hope for Remaining a Viable Political Option in Our Morally-Superior United States is for them to hold dear a complacent, "stay the course" toadyism vis-a-vis the hagiographic deification of Ronald Reagan and such articles of faith holding free-market capitalism with American characteristics to be the Great White Father of especially the Lower Classes "otherwise enslaved in hopeless and helpless dependency upon State welfare and Social Security," or so the patsy would go.
Remember, holding fast a "stay the course" complacency only risks its destruction from within, as in corruption, mismanagement, waste, fraud, inefficiency and scandal; one need look no further than the Leonid Brezhnev regime in the then-Soviet Union (1964-1982) as a prime example and warning of this. (Not to mention the star-crossed attempts by his successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, to so perpetuate, only to be thwarted by their deaths in office within measurable distance of their assuming power.)
Instead, what El Rushbo deserves is your reminding him of the facts as above; consider referring him to this item by e-mail (politely, of course).
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COME TO THINK OF IT, YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE NOT JUST RUSH LIMBAUGH, BUT ALSO HIS COMRADE-IN-ARMS (SO TO SPEAK), FOX PROLEFEED'S GLENN BECK, perhaps being unwitting psychopaths whose messages, notwithstanding their playing the patsy of being "entertainers" to avoid Attracting Unwelcome Attention (or so they think), may pose Clear and Present Danger to the Community as much as to its Peace, Safety and Good Order.
With Glenn Beck probably being the More Dangerous of the two.
And made all the worse, in either case, by the fact of the core audience for both their respective programmes being the Great Unwashed, deluded into an arrogance rivalled only by the ranks of Afrikanerdom in apartheid South Africa expected to see themselves "as of natural right" being the natural Lord and Master of South Africa "by right of conquest," so to speak, as reinforced by officially-sanctioned organisations of highly-secretive and Freemasonic nature such as Die Broterbund.
What exactly would prevent someone from taking "pre-emptive" action against Beck and/or Limbaugh by way of the prevailing mental-hygiene laws both would love to see deployed against "Godless Liberals and Secular-Progressives" and other "Enemies of the Nation," real or suspected (unaware that the orders in question may be issued in a state of insanity, technically rendering such null and void under common law)?
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HOW DO WE KNOW THAT "ASTROTURF" MOVEMENTS AREN'T ACTUALLY IN UNHOLY AND CORRUPT LEAGUE WITH THE SO-CALLED "CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY" in the development and perfection of propaganda, mind-control and groupthink techniques to mislead such among the Joe Sixpack types expected to parrot the line of "the Four Hundred" through trick or deceit in furtherance thereof (as witness the use of deceptive-sounding stylees for their movements like "Americans For Prosperity," to take one especially noisome example)?
And how sure are we that the Scientologists' infamous "Fair Game Policy," bordering as it does on McCarthyism, isn't a cornerstone of such groupthink vis-a-vis "astroturf" in the "winning of hearts and minds" racket?
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A REMINDER THAT WE IGNORE THE LESSONS AND WARNINGS OF HISTORY @ OUR PERIL: The rather scholarly journal Latin American Antiquity hath it in its new number that the ancient Nazca peoples of Peru, perhaps best known for the massive displays of earth sculpture best appreciated from the air, may have planted the seeds of their own destruction in pre-Colombian times thanks to wholesale and reckless deforestation just to open up new agricultural lands.
As for, perhaps, the closest parallel to the Nazca in our supposedly "advanced" and "enlightened" times, consider the North Koreans as have themselves been forced into wholesale deforestation in recent years just to maintain its cherished neo-Stalinist agenda of juche ("self-reliance") in terms of food supply after several years of poor harvests translating into famine ... aggravated by increasingly heavy rainfalls which, in their turn, have translated into gross soil erosion on the denuded hillsides as have themselves washed out fields and crops by mudslides.
And throughout, "Great Leader" Kim Jong Il is expected to be looked upon by its starving and helplessly tired populace as a superdivine leader with mystical powers ... and his father, "Eternal Leader" Kim Il Sung, being worshipped as a deity (its Sanctii Sanctorum being the Monument to Eternal Leader Kim Il Sung in Beautiful Downtown Pyongyang, backed by a ceramic-tile picture of Holy and Sacred Mt. Paekdu, itself figuring prominently in the official pantheon of North Korean Mythology as well-documented).
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HOW MUCH LONGER BEFORE OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED BLACKMAIL BECOMES THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN GETTING BANKERS TO MAKE MORE LOANS AND LINES OF CREDIT AVAILABLE TO SMALL BUSINESS, especially so in the wake of The CIT Group, heretofore the preeminent small-business loan and finance company, having gone into Carey Street?
(The whole being seen as a "pre-emptive" action against the likelihood of weird and unwholesome elements, many of them based offshore "for tax reasons," according to the official patsy, start exploiting the vacuum now opened by CIT's insolvency. Even more so where Notorious Criminal Syndicates, both from within and without, have significant involvement--especially for discreetly [or so hoped] laundering the Proceeds of Crime and/or Terrorism.)
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MONTY PYTHON FANS ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THE "MINISTRY OF SILLY WALKS" SKETCH, about a supposed agency of Her Majesty's Government specialist in studying and promoting bizarre or otherwise unusual walking patterns.
Which had Your Correspondent imagining as perhaps the perfect example of Silly Walking Music none other than "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan of late 1970's vintage; I think the melody line makes it ideal to Silly Walk to its beat.
