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YOUR CORRESPONDENT WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FOLLOWING SPECIMEN OF "SPAM" E-MAIL JUST RECEIVED, in the form of a supposed congratulatory letter involving a supposed "promotional lottery" in connexion with--perhaps I should let the e-mail (with e-mail addresses referenced redacted) speak for itself:

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Dear Winner,

Your email address attach to TICKET NO: 6784501 has won Ђ 615,810.00 (Six Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Ten Euro Only) in the on going EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAMM, organise by Wall Street (U.S.Bank) from a $ 700 Billion dollars financial bailout sign on 3/10/2008 by George W.Bush. President, United State Of America approved by United States Congress as a means of resolving the present global economical crisis.
Your fund is now deposited with a security company insured to your names under FIXED INSURANCE BOND POLICY. Due to mix up of email address,we advice  you keep this award CONFIDENTIAL. Until your claim has been processed and your prize remitted to your nominated bank account as this is part of our security protocol to avoid complication and to avoid unwarranted  person taking advantage of this programme.

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Correspondence your claims agent. Congratulation once again from all members of our staffs for choosen your email address as one of  our winner.
 
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CONTACT YOUR AGENT I MMEDIATELY

It just so happens there are a number of flaws in the preceding, among them:

READER, THE ALLUSIONS TO THE NAZI-ERA PROPAGANDA MINISTER AND THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE LURID ANTI-SEMITIC TABLOID DER STURMER in the title of this item are deliberate and @ once conscious.

There can be no mistaking where the crass, lurid and reprehensibly tasteless brand of journalism especially Herr Streicher encouraged in the name of reclaiming German National and Racial Honour, thereby helping stoke the flames of the Holocaust all the more, has been influencing Indecision 2008 in this the final runup.

Especially so from the ilk of the McCain/Palin Presidential campaign, who are dropping hints by their very own acts, deeds and exploits @ campaign rallies of late that they want to lead America down a path as may be her own destruction, a path which could see the "New World Order" running things--all the while claiming that they represent "change" as will Save America From Herself. But, unfortunately, as I have mentioned previously, such frenzied excesses of fanaticism risk crossing the line into some mentally- or emotionally-unstable type spontaneously provoking disorder and violence as could see casualies or injuries.

Never mind the GOP having issued advice that the McCain/Palin campaign please tone down the vitriol for the sake of Party Unity (as if Party Unity mattered more than the Greater Collective Good of the Nation), there's always the danger that one isolated incident in the Willie Lumplump vein could get dangerously out of hand.

The fact of which is not lost on The Courier-Journal of Louisville, in the following editorial entitled "Politics of Venom:"

There is a reason the McCain-Palin campaign has taken such a dangerous and despicable turn.

They are losing.

Reason aside, there is no excuse for the ugliness they have embraced and fomented at their public rallies.

Winning is not everything.

However, desperate pursuit of a fading White House dream has stained the public face of decency that had marked John McCain's political career until this race. The candidate who once decried "agents of intolerance" is one now.

The displays of anger and hatred at several McCain-Palin events are scary and unacceptable in a society that has distinguished itself as a government of, by and for the people -- not the baited mob.

But mob mentality has been on parade at McCain-Palin events, as audience members have shouted "treason," "terrorist," "off with his head" and "kill him."

The candidates are not innocent bystanders. Indeed, they are playing to the mob. How else to explain Sarah Palin's smiling "palling around with terrorists" remark, her talking about "his America" versus "our America" about Obama? Or McCain standing idly by as an attendee called Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi "hooligans," after which McCain agreed?

The Republican ticket has made a decision to exploit people's fears, angers and biases to win political points in a race that is going badly for them.

This is not only a very dangerous and cynical calculation, especially at this time of great economic unrest.

It is an immoral choice.

In criticizing the turn the campaign has taken, John Weaver, a former strategist for McCain, said, "People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Sen. Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Sen. McCain."

People will not get that sort of civics lesson from the McCain-Palin gang.

At least not yet.

They're banking on winning ugly. But for the good of the nation, for the safety of our candidates, for the sake of their own reputations, they must run what's left of their campaign in a way that respects the voter and the process.

If they don't, we all lose ugly. Just how ugly, we don't even want to think.

As if to reinforce this point, consider what Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's Daily Show observed the other night about the warped and misplaced "journalistic priorities" of Fox Prolefeed over recent days being so out of touch with Reality (hat tip to NewsHounds):

Not to mention "Morning Joe" Scarborough of MSNBC acknowledging openly to Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report that they discuss Barack Obama's droog (and the McCain/Palin campaign's bête noire) William Ayres with such frequency "because it's not relevant" (about 1:22-1:30 into this clip):

We should recall, too, that Herr Streicher's approach in publishing Der Sturmer was one of using short, simple sentences and easily-understood vocabulary to make sure working-class Germans across Nazi Germany willingly understood why (as the slogan @ the bottom of the front page of every issue put it) "The Jew is Our Misfortune." And not so much in words as in cartoons, almost always produced by "Fips" (Philipp Rupprecht) and infamous for their crude anti-Semitic depravity reinforced by vulgar stereotypes or their zoophilic suggestions that Jews were somehow "snakes in the grass" threatening Aryan Womanhood and, in its turn, Aryan Racial Integrity.

Do we willingly ignore the lessons and warnings of History by choice, or by our own sheer arrogance and incompetence?

Or will History come back and haunt us without warning or danger, in line with George Santayana's maxim about those not remembering the past condemned to repeat it?

And what will the reaction of the McCain/Palin campaign be if one of their rallies suddenly and spontaneously deteriorates into rioting, chaos and Extreme Ultraviolence?

They had better think about the possible consequences before they resort to blaming "troublemakers" from the Obama Campaign when, in really, it's more than likely the fault of Willie Lumplump.

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FOR THOSE OF YOU READERS WHO ASK, WILLIE LUMPLUMP was a recurring character of the late comedian Red Skelton on both his radio and TV shows.

"King of the Mynah Birds" was Lumplump's "title," which belied the fact of his being a loud, uncouth and obnoxious drunk certain to start trouble wherever and whenever he went. And perhaps his closest rival among Mr. Skelton's repretoire of characters would have to be Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid.

Now you know.

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MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, GENTLEMEN AND LAYDEEZ: IN THE GOP'S STUPID ELECTORAL TRICKS PLAYBOOK FOR INDECISION 2008, playing up the race card is seen to be all the more essential for the sake of "protecting and maintaining" what they regard as an unwitten Sanctii Sanctorum: That only White Male European-American Low Church Christians are entitled "as of right" to the Presidency, let alone being considered credible and trustworthy in positions of power, authority, confidence and trust.

Witness commercials being broadcast for and on behalf of the McCain/Palin campaign through their dear and trusted droogs in the super-secretive 527 arena questioning Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's "credibility and trust" when it comes to his associations with reformed domestic terrorist William Ayers.

Their concerns? Obama is of colour--which, in the GOP's articles of faith, should be seen as a "red flag" right out of the salad days of Jim Crow and the black codes which, among other things, held that blacks could not turn court evidence against whites.

Not to mention such perhaps serving as a Red Herring of the highest order, especially in view of:

• questions about John McCain's "palling around" with a certain G. Gordon Liddy, among other weird and unwholesome elements best considered as coming from the Dregs of Society; and
• the Alaska Legislature's coming out with a blistering report which found that Governor (and now McCain's Vice-Presidential drookie) Sarah Palin abused the powers and duties of her office in connexion with the "Troopergate" scandal, notwithstanding where certain of the acts, deeds and exploits in question are technically legal for the time being.

So much for the implication that only White European-American Low Church Christians can be considered worthy of confidence and trust in positions so requiring.

(And besides: How do we know that Machiavelli on steroids and amphetamines isn't secretly providing homosexual favours for such in the McCain/Palin campaign whipping up latent racist feelings?)

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"Why don't you have anything to drink?
Choose one making you better feeling!"

--popular "Engrish" message on Japanese vending machines
selling soft drinks and ready-to-drink canned coffee

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AND IT PROBABLY SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR A FAILING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AS WILL STOP @ NOTHING TO SAVE ITSELF, AND ANY CONFIDENCE THEY MAY HAVE among the Great Unwashed, to experience what may be The Greatest Single Insult they're reduced to facing:

Videlicet, getting heckled @ by your own supporters as an overt show of No Confidence in the campaign--as has been the case with McCain/Palin campaign appearences over the last day or so in response to lettres de cachet from the GOP's Central Committee asking McCain and Palin to tone down such displays of rhetortic as have led to potentially dangerous excesses of fanaticism which, in one instance, prompted the Secret Service to investigate a report that one attendee @ a McCain campaign appearence was calling for Barack Obama's being killed off or otherwise executed for Treason.

Still, though, they have yet to recognise the likelihood that the spigots of fanaticism could be wide open all the more again, with clear and present danger for said rallies collapsing into disorder and violence--all thanks to "goon squads" brought in by the McCain campaign recruited with the cooperation of "especially cooperative" anti-government elements holding articles of faith espousing Law and Order based on sadisto hysteria, all expected to receive Redemption for Value in the end.

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AND BECAUSE "IT'S A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL:"

Shed no tears, readers, for Austrian far-right politico Joerg Haider (58), formerly of the Freedom Party and more recently of the breakaway Alliance for Austria's Future, who died of injuries sustained in a Horror Road Crash overnight.

His xenophobically vitriolic attitudes against the European Union and Jews, not to mention hagiographic admiration for Nazi Germany, was enough to help bring Austria close to pariah status within the European Union, who would impose sanctions so directed in 2005 after Herr Haider made remarks crossing into Nazi hagiography. And killed just as his Alliance for Austria's Future was preparing to rejoice in its taking 11% of Parliamentary seats in recent elections, with the likelihood of being part of a Grand Coalition.

So what exactly can we "morally superior" Americans learn therefrom?

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FOR SOME REASON, THERE ARE SOME ELEMENTS ON THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT WHO SEE GOP VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SARAH PALIN to be no better than the Old Deluder made flesh, who would be ready to sell out Our Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty and Soverign Identity to the New World Order just as Judas betrayed the Christus to the Roman occupation authorities for 30 silver pieces, in turn translating into His Crucifixion.

Right Wing Watch makes a valid case for this point:

It seems that no matter how right-wing someone is, there is always someone even more right-wing around to call them a bleeding heart liberal.  For Sarah Palin, that is Vision Forum who, as we noted last week, thinks that her entire career is an offense to God.  Now, Vision Forum president Doug Phillips tells OneNewsNow that not only does her candidacy violate biblical teaching, she's actually not even a conservative but really a pro-gay, pro-evolution liberal:

"It's pretty clear what it says in Titus 2 that women are to care for their children, love their husband, and be keepers at home; that the Word of God be not blasphemed," Phillips explains. "And it's also clear in 1 Corinthians 11, when it says that the man is not made for the woman but the woman is made for the man, meaning that the wife is to be the helpmeet to the husband, who really sets the family vision and drives the family vision."

Palin, according to Phillips, is not as conservative as many may believe. "Her actual record is a very anti-family record. Sarah Palin is on record as being pro-evolution, pro-contraceptive discussion at taxpayer expense at government schools," he adds. "She has advocated the single-most liberal policy regarding Title IX, which requires basically mandatory quotas now to be applied to the private sector. She's one of the most pro-homosexual governors in America in terms of her actual policies."

No wonder, then, that the Religiopolitical Right wants to revise the Presidential role to one of superdivinity--"Prophet, Seer and Revelator," as it were, all the while expected to lie low when it comes to the likelihood of narcotics or hallucinogenics being used to create the aura of being in receipt of Divine Revelation.

Reinforced, no doubt, by the following video from "Unfit Mothers for Sarah Palin," via Brave New Films and YouTube:

And these specimens of Patriotic Drunk Rednecks (same sources as above):

Is it any wonder that the Lower Classes are as vulnerable and easily-influenced as they are, making them all the easier for the Necons to exploit--never mind the risk of emotional harm?

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To whom it may concern:

Please excuse the intrusion I am causing upon your day, especially considering where you, as a member of what is colloquially known as "the Four Hundred," traditionally epitomise wealth and power @ its utmost. And to which we of the Lower Classes are somehow expected to defer to in matters of Judgement and Wisdom in the name of "our collective best interess."

It is against this backdrop that I would like to address this Open Letter to you, particularly so by way of an appeal to what passes for your sense of Moral and Social Responsibility to the Greater Collective Good of the Nation in the face of a projected National Debt in excess of $10 trillion.

Yes, you read correctly--$10 trillion, with a T.

Largely because of a major socioeconomic scheme which His Fraudulency's Great Within has proposed in the interest of preventing the imminent collapse of the banking and financial systems made all the more so by misguided socioeconomic thought which expected "complete, final and binding regulatory relief" to be, as it were, the Great White Hope of the American People and Nation, especially so the Lower Classes, to the point of their supposed "empowerment" based on free-market models and paradigms.

Which, all in all, risks compromising Our Soverignty and Soverign Identity.

To that end, may I propose the following suggestions as would appeal to any sense you would have of Moral and Social Responsibility, especially so out of any fear or paranoia your collective community would have about "undue and unreasonable" tax increases as would leave you with nothing but the option of capital flight to offshore financial centres as you will likely excuse and justify as being "for tax reasons," notwithstanding the ensuing losses to the Treasury as will affect the day-to-day financing and operations of the Government:

1. Renounce completely and finally any and all associations, open and secret, that you may have with organisations, causes and sects as hold highly-dangerous articles of faith expecting to replace the current republican system of government to, as it were, The United States of America, LLC--replete with officially-sanctioned racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism and xenophobic intolerance.
2. Consider making a fully tax-deductible gift to reduce the National Debt, preferably equivalent to @ least 10% of ready cash, as a means of showing some sort of responsibility among your community of wealth and power for the Best Interests of the Nation.
3. Continue making such gifts to reduction of the National Debt on a regular basis, preferably equal to @ least 2½% of ready cash.
4. Should you have any designs on online shopping for your end-of-year gifting purposes, please consider doing so through the online shopping section of the sidebar to this rather pathetic excuse for a weblog, or so you would think upon seeing this. I intend to donate a part of any commissions I would get from your online purchases so ensuing towards reduction of the National Debt.

By these means, it is my fervent hope and design that "The Four Hundred" can show some semblance of doing their fair share of Civic Responsibility and Good Citizenship in the best interests of the Nation in the face of a clear and present danger of Our Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty being compromised by elements weird and unwholesome as you may unwittingly have supported or may otherwise support fiscally as much as morally, excusing such support as "necessary" for your own selfish interests, and the defence therefor.

Otherwise, what precludes such a show of responsibility?

In any event, I sincerely and fervently hope that what I have just suggested will be given due regard and consideration on your collective and singular parts--especially if you claim to so love and support Our Beloved Nation, yet fear tax policies forcing capital flight showing reckless and utter disregard for the Nation.

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MEMO TO READERS: Your Correspondent would greatly appreciate it if you would pass this along to all in your e-mail circles, weblogs and other online contacts; the better so "The Four Hundred" "gets the message," as it were. However, please avoid recourse to "spam," if you can help it; "spam" only undermines the effectiveness of the campaign and its designs.