AS NOTED ELSEWHERE, READERS, CAREFUL AND CAUTIOUS ESTIMATES SUGGEST THAT THE UR-RAHOWA IN IRAQ could cost $18 billion/diem this year alone.

Which can only make the National Debt much worse thanks all the more to His Fraudulency's misadventures.

And which explains why Your Correspondent intends to donate part of his share of commissions generated by your online shopping to reduction of the National Debt.

Until and unless someone can show valid cause why donations to reduce the National Debt are not wise use of money (and please, spare Your Correspondent any patsies and bromides you may have about "political reasons" justifying keeping the National Debt as high as it is), such is the way Your Correspondent plans to offer online shopping.

With a conscience.

THE CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING MOVEMENT, BASED AS IT IS ON FUNDAMENTALIST/PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS which, in their turn, are probably influenced by apartheid South Africa's syllabus of Nasionale Christen Opverdoing, enjoys overdoing it on nothing short of bromides, platitudes and bumper-sticker slogans in the guise of educating children towards "promoting a healthy and nutritious Christian Patriot Love" which is seen in the movement's Zealots and True Believers as lacking in a "failed and failing" system of public education.

Lacking, they will pathetically claim, because of the 1963 Supreme Court ruling in Engel v. Vitale as declared organised and composed prayers in the public schools to be unconstitutional intermingling of Church and State--in particular the so-called "Regents' Prayer" composed by the New York State Board of Regents for aural recitation @ the start of the school day alongside the Pledge of Allegiance:

A-mighty G-d, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country. AMEN.

(In the actual ruling, due note was given that among the reasons for emigration to the United States given by the early colonists was the  overzealous involvement--some would say interference--of the British Crown in creating the Book of Common Prayer for the Church of England in the 16th century.

(The fact of which Christian Homeschooling programmes will likely ignore or otherwise trivialise.)

Which, all in all, is expected to present the United States as having been "predestined" by Divine Revelation to be the Shining City on a Hill, Civitas Dei, Jerusalem of Gold, Direct Portal and Gateway to Heaven and True Centre of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies--and whose "antient and pecuilar" status is thus seen as "under clear and present threat" by "dark forces" of "Secular-Progressive" orientation thus seen as a conspiratorial "Fifth Column" under "Jewish influence or control."

Such, no doubt, speaking volumes for the warped and perverted delusion which Christian Homeschooling programmes are forever seeing as the Christian Weltanschauung, especially when it comes to history, values and economics (in that last case, seeing free-market capitalism with American characteristics as Divinely Ordained and Predestined as the Great White Hope of the Lower Classes--provided such was granted "complete, final and binding regulatory relief").

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IN FACT, SUCH A WARPED CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW AS IS PRESENTED IN CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING could only carry a serious psychoemotional price in children thus homeschooled, and especially so when they try to adjust themselves to adult life on their own--expected, per the Biblical injunctions inherent in homeschooling, to "honour [support, to the Christian homeschooling perspective] thy Father and Mother" along especially financial models.

Especially considering the enforced social isolation Christian Homeschooling excuses as necessary, out of fear that Knowledge must be some class of a Loathsome Disease as could lead to Error by way of The Wrong Contacts and Associations.

The warped and perverted view of history (liberally reinforced with careless misinterpretation of the United States Constitution as Divinely-Inspired and -Ordained, to take one likely example) and kindred subjects prevailing throughout the Christian Homeschooling syllabus.

Subtle overtures and appeals to racist, white-supremacist and anti-Semitic feelings and prejudices, same expected to be seen as one with the defence of Christian Honour, Integrity and Patriot Love.

And the likelihood for lower-working-class families all too vulnerable to the Christian Homeschooling movement's glowing premises and generalities suffering all the more socioeconomically just to afford the homeschooling cirricular material--and perhaps making things worse by equating such suffering to that of the Christus and His Apostles, especially if the paterfamilias is fired or seriously injured and cannot find work for some time, forcing the family to turn to their savings (or what passes for it) just to maintain their homeschooling ways--that, and a hard-wired reluctance to go on welfare because of "Biblical injunctions" against asking for charity "lest moral error result."

Such, methinks, could be an interesting psychological case study subject, in case psychology majors are looking for ideas or inspiration for their doctoral thesis.

WORTH THINKING ABOUT IN THE LARGER SCALE OF THINGS INVOLVING INDECISION 2008: Recently-released estimates, arrived @ through careful and yet cautious means, suggest that the ur-RAHOWA in Iraq could cost the Good Taxpayers of the "morally superior" United States upwards of $18 billion/diem.

You read that right--$18 billion/diem!

And it's no wonder we are, or in serious danger of, recession and related socioeconomic dislocation--for which His Fraudulency's preferred approach is to throw out "stimulus incentives" starting @ $300 for such who qualify, hoping such will be wasted @ the local Wally World rather than face Reality and impose painful, yet necessary, tax increases upon especially "the Four Hundred."

This coming just as breaking advice emerges of five American soldiers being killed in a suicide-bomb attack in beautiful downtown Baghdad.

All in all, ask yourself: Is throwing out $18 billion per diem on a misguided ur-RAHOWA in the name of "preventing further infamous terrorist attacks," based all along on flawed or misleading evidence, really worth keeping taxes low just to create jobs and, in its turn, maintain socioeconomic stability?

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EXCEDRIN HEADACHE #1832: The FBI's opening some rather loaded enquiries into the executive compensation policies and general mortgage-lending practices of Countrywide Home Loans, the #1 "sub-prime/Alt-A" mortgage lender catering mostly to "chronic and habitual" welfare cases "needing a dose of healthy respect" for owner-occupancy which only free-market capitalism with American characteristics makes possible (or so the conservative line prevailing excuses the need for a "classless ownership society" being encouraged among the Lower Classes in particular).

Which could be grounds enough to call for a renewal of emphasis upon mutual self-help (in this case, by way of the building society model) as a way to help the deserving Lower Classes towards owner-occupancy housing. Or, better yet, cooperative-model housing developments.

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A RATHER BIZARRE SIDELIGHT OF THE PAST WEEKEND'S SNOWSTORMS IN THE OHIO VALLEY AND EASTWARDS would have to be the news footage of numerous spinout accidents on the I-64/77 bridge over the Ohio River in Charleston, West Virginia aggravated by icy road conditions.

Which might look more amusing (or would it not?) if such were scored to none other than the "March of the Toreadors" from Bizet's Carmen ... or, better(?) yet, the "Anvil Chorus" from Puccini's Il Trovatore, to cite obvious background music.

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TELL ME IF THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTION FROM L. BRENT BOZELL TO THE JOHN McCAIN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN per The Washington Post, as quoted by The Carpetbagger Report, suggests where sugar-coated anti-Semitism may likely come into the McCain campaign playbook vis-a-vis the conservative delusion of Kulturkrieg:

Our culture is decaying from within, and most Republicans have been shamefully AWOL on this issue. McCain could begin a national conversation about parents, not the state, taking responsibility for their children and their communities. He should call on the entertainment industry to stop polluting America's youth with its videos and its music and on the Internet....

Which begs the question of whether the GOP's ideal of Amerikanischer Realkultur for the sake of "our culture***decaying from within" is probably closer to die Bransoner Muzikschaukultur, based as it is on an idealised notion of True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command--based, on closer inspection, upon the 1950's white middle-class Levittown ideal conservatives idealise more than anything.

An ideal excusing contempt towards the poor and National Minorities in the name of said Patriot Love. Not to mention a jingoistic brand of xenophobia rivalling anything North Korea churns out to keep the masses in line and forget the enforced misery and poverty which "Great Leader" Kim Jong Il expects will save North Korea from the likelihood of "American colonial occupation."

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AND WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE PHONY KULTURKRIEG WHICH CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDISTS MUST ENJOY PUSHING AS A DISTRACTION from The Big Picture (particularly from the standpoint of its supposedly contributing to Moral Harm in Right-Thinking [read: poor, undereducated and easily-influenced "white trash"] Families and their Children, with liberal doses of anti-Semitism and appeals to "Holy Blood and Soil," as reflected in die Bransoner Muzikschaukultur, as required), it's been noted that while broadcasters may be fond of using the TV Ratings Scheme to provide information, they don't complement such from time to time (especially when the content raises questions of Moral Harm) with content advice.

Solution: To better "get the message across" to especially the Lower Classes, said advisories might want to be broadcast in Engrish (same being given, per recommended advice, just before the show starts and coming out of commercial breaks). One recommended form being this Engrish version of an advisory which Canadian broadcaster CTV used when they transmitted The Sopranos a few years back:

This program for the child is not intended. That includes very rough way of talking and nude image violence scene. Perhaps a certain adult it has happened with contents. Consideration division of the viewer advises strongly.

Other Engrish forms of content advice which broadcasters could present as necessary include:

This program is suitable for viewing the family.

This program for the audience of 7 ages or less includes the scene of violence of the imagination or cartoon, is not nominated.

This program includes hint language. Consideration division of the parent advises.

This program characteristic includes language and the subject which are related. Consideration division of the viewer advises.

This program includes the scene of conduct and violence of characteristic of the animal. Consideration division of the parent advises.

This program includes strong language and violence scene. Consideration division of the parent advises.

This program includes the nude image. Consideration division of the viewer advises.

This program for the audience of 14 ages or less graphics or includes the scene of extreme violence with another method, is not nominated.

This program includes the characteristic hint language and the scene of the nude image. Consideration division of the viewer advises.

Therefore as for this program for the audience of the adult who grew the implication which should nominate the subject of adult.

(Thanks to Pigeond.net's English-to-Engrish Translator for making these examples possible. It's so wonderful way to kill idle online time!)

ĘSOP, AS IN THOSE FABLES ANTHROPOMORPHIC WE'VE GROWN UP SINCE CHILDHOOD (AND THEN SOME), once observed that "the smaller the mind, the greater the conceit."

And perhaps no better examples of this thinking in action exist than among the conservative propaganda machine and its fondness for glowing generalities in the face of imminent socioeconomic meltdown brought about by misguided conservative socioeconomic policies seeing free-market capitalism as the Great White Father of particularly the Lower Classes "chronically and habitually dependent" upon State welfare for years, even generations (and, to the conservative way of thinking, "developed Socialistic tendencies" all the while).

Worst offender for the sake of demonstration: Fox News Channel, particularly when it comes to presenting an overly-cheerful "spin" on socioeconomic deterioration, as NewsHounds is fond of exposing to air and sunshine from time to time. (Recent examples in this vein can be had here and here, if you need evidence.)

What excellent insight into the conservative mindset, Ęsop!