Two items said by Mitt Romney, right in a row, have been receiving a bit of attention.  Interestingly enough, they were said one after another.

Governor Romney, I wanted to start by asking you a question on which every American has formed an opinion.

MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that — or a null set — that is that if you’re saying let’s turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn’t be in the conflict we’re in.

OR Okay.  Try this again.:  Kind of a non sequitur, if you will.  What I mean by that is a null set.  The transcript and the words that I heard on various replays do not exactly match.
What is it a null set?  In mathematics, a null set is a set that is negligible in some sense. For different applications, the meaning of “negligible” varies. In set theory, there is only one null set, and it is the empty set. In measure theory, any set of measure 0 is called a null set. Mitt Romney is saying, I guess, that the question is invalid.

The audience watching is all gaping “Huh?”  I just the other day posted rumblings from a Washington Monthly plastering Democrats for trying to speak over the publics’ heads.  I read another article that posited that Al Gore, with his new book, has picked that habit up full-steam — chastising the public for its television viewing habits and on.  Al Gore, of course, can afford to because he is not running for president — which solves the problem that particular article had with what they saw as Al Gore’s presidential campaign.

Mitt Romney, by tossing out the word “null set” had an Adlai Stevenson moment … of sorts.  I am not entirely sure his use of the word makes sense, which leads to explanation number two for “null set”:

Try this:
Kind of a non sequitur, if you will.  What I mean by that is a Vinn Diagram.
Kind of a non sequitur, if you will.  What I mean by that is a Venetian Blind.
Kind of a non sequitur, if you will.  What I mean by that is Fish.
See how that works?  Mitt Romney is explaining the definition of “non sequitur” by use of an example.  That leads to a paradox, which is that it is no longer a non sequitur because  the example is an example and thus not a non sequitur, but you already read that Shannon Wheeler cartoon, and thus we start a feedback loop not dissimilar to the time travel paradoxes used in science fiction films.

The second part of this statement receiving some attention — Paul Krugman wrote on it — is that Mitt Romney’s assertion that Saddam Hussein kicked out the IAEA Inspectors is simply incorrect.  The basic problem is that this narrative is generally accepted as true in the media and by the Political Establishment, false though it is, and to call him on it is to cave in to unorthodoxical Truth — thus Wolf Blitzer ends up an idealouge by the terms set down by establishment politics.

And what I mean by that is a null set.

Why The Beatles look more like The Partridge Family, it’s a product of lack of concern with the manuevering of popular culture.  I oughta give where I picked this image up his due, this was posted at Progressive Ruin, and comes from Jack T Chick’s funda-MENTAL comic creation, The Crusaders.
I am rummaging through the FACTNet board, trying to sort some things out of it.  I can’t really say I am doing a great job of it, and have ended with the habit of simply dragging long passages from some posters to save without reading it — Scott and Tom.   I ended up deciding to create a separate page saving the any comment relating to Jeremiah Duggan, which is probably a pointless exercise only insofar as, unlike with Ken Kronberg, nobodyhere has any direct insight about that case and individual — everything is inference from their own experiences.

A sort of uneasy gray area lies in the attempts at selling us the Truth According to Larouche, and … god help us all… debate it.  Right out the gate, a “Tom” defended the Larouche line on … The Beatles.

I’ve done considerable amounts of homework on the origins of the counterculture, and I am certain it was intentionally created for a particular political effect. In fact, the LaRouche movement was formed out of the opposition to the Vietnam War, and the concurrent launching of the counterculture.

Now, when one starts digging into the origins of the SOE, and related British intelligence outfits, one soon discovers that the British are masters of various forms of psychological warfare. The British Tavistock Institute, for example, is notorious for originating so-called “brainwashing,” electro-shock “therapy,” and the use of drugs to induce psychosis. Later, during World War II, Tavistock psychiatrists were attached to every major British army unit. Their methods soon became very influential within United States military intelligence circles, ultimately leading to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency. One of the notorious experiments the CIA conducted during the heady days of the Vietnam War was the so called MK-Ultra project, which included the large-scale distribution of LSD on college campuses. So much for the opposition. Somehow, a generation of Americans was induced to give up their commitment to truth and justice. Paul McCartney was knighted.
I rather prefer Jack T Chick’s take on the situation.  There are more druids in his historical take.  There are a few things to say about the Beatles in this conspiracy theory.  Firstly, it is a constant with Larouche — Lyn Marcus, the Marxist, could tie it in as a Bourgeoise plot… and Tom picked up on that.  But it does tap right in to the conservative flight against the 1960s.  Hence, the attacks against heavy metal in the 1980s.  Written by the same man who is now writing anti – video game screeds for Larouche, seemingly with the same formula, in this decade.
Thirdly, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Love, Love, Love” must really rankle that man.

Fourthly, and most importantly, the rejection of The Beatles a con game for psuedo-intellectualism, and elitism.  We reject the mass commercialist mindset created to us from the marketing taste-makers, to a great extent true enough, and accept instead… Beethoven.  It makes one feel like they are thumbing their nose at the Marketing — well, Oligarchy.  Literally every single Larouchie and every single ex-Larouchie and every single semi-Larouchie touches upon that theme as an attraction to this Cult of Personality, I see it as appropriate alienation from their peer group leading to an inappropriate response.  But Tom seemed a little bit unaware of the irony of his “drop out” comment.  Hold on a minute here:

In any case, I have not ignored the difficult question with respect to the Beatles. I’m amused that it’s really an issue, but I am not surprised. My experience has been tempered by years of political organizing. I have learned that it’s relatively simple to educate someone politically. Most anyone who has an attention-span, and the willingness to do some work on their own, will readily agree with LaRouche’s basic analysis of the world’s political-strategic affairs. However, the culture, particularly with respect to music, is always the sticking-point, because one’s “music” is almost always the key to their identity. For example, generation X-ers, like myself, generally talk, dress, think, choose their friends, recreate, etc., with their favorite “music” as a reference. I’m sure you are aware of the phenomenon, and I don’t think our enemies are unaware of the effect.

We’ve all seen infants jumping up and down in their crib, hollering nonsense, and putting toys in their mouth. Thankfully, some of them grow up. Unfortunately, many of them are induced to remain forever infantile, and they defend their infantilism to the rotten core, without ever really knowing why.
Ugh.  Actually, this is Jack T Chick.  And, for that matter, the bestialization… the species differernation… right back to what that Larouche questioner asked right on this blog as what he saw the key question to be:  DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMAL?
The absurdity of this is probably the clearest arena to spotlight.  After that, the discussion on matters of culture become somewhat boredom-inducing, and not worth much in the arena of saving.  To sum up that situation:

Lyn’s narratives of the history of science make for fascinating study in the paranoid style, if you can endure the torturous quality. Essentially, as previously noted, there was a Pure Method known to Plato; it was attacked and silenced by Aristotle and Ptolemy, revived by Cusa, cherished and continued by Kepler and perhaps Leonardo; this was promptly attacked by the regnant oligarchy in Venice using their agents, Galileo and Newton. Leibniz then “discovered” the calculus in a flash of complete, brilliant, fresh genius, supposedly after studying “the Kepler problem,” as Colonel Blimpoid has put it.

And never mind that basing the calculus on the infinitesimal leads to Zeno-style paradoxes and that this was known 250 yrs ago, was much discussed and argued, nor that the rigorous articulation of the Limit concept by Cauchy formalized the calculus on a logically sound basis; none of these developments have any internal logical or natural historic force, native to the subject’s complexities. There just has to be a conspiracy, run by oligarchs since the founding of Greek philosophy out of myth and poetry, to silence those (like Lyn) who seek to elevate mankind. 

That is all ye know, and all ye need know, methinks.  I can pretty much by-pass it, ridiculous as it may be.
“Unified conspiracy string theory” of the world. I remember being told in 1979 that Atlantis was found off the coast of Spain, “right where LHL said it would be”. We can spin out more conspiracies than you ever imagined. We could give you a prehistoric conspiracy, a bronze age, Egyption/Babylon, Israeli, Masonic, Christian, Platonic, Satanic, Marxist,British, Rockefeller, JFK, Nazi, Humanist version. I could not even begin to catalogue the stories we published, stole, rewrote and claimed as our own discoveries. Each story will have an appeal to some segment of the population. So, the person listens lightly to the jibberish, then reaches his “level” and then thinks that we have something that he always thought about, but never had “the facts ” to back up.

Now the biggest conspiracy is that people who join think that LHL wants a mass movement. If that was true you would think after 30 years we have a few more subscribers and contributors. But, if you look at the lists you find that we burned every one out. If you takle a close look at the Presidential lists you will see that the repeat givers soon drop off. The demographics of the givers also changes as we targeted another group. At one time, through the anti drug coalition work, we had numerous supporters who were in the right to life groups. Another time we had John Birch type lists to call. Now you will see a lot of Muslim names as we pick up on the post 9/11 comspiracy of how Israel is the ultimate master of the British and US war efforts.

Rewind a little and stop at this line:

Now the biggest conspiracy is that people who join think that LHL wants a mass movement.

This is one of two things that “xlrc” has hammered on this board constantly, that Larouche he wants — a parallel world where he is a dictator and creates the impression upon a group of fawning syncoprants that he is a Player in World and Cultural Affairs.  The other being that Larouche is being used and duped by other criminals — the extortion does not  with Larouche ciphing up money from the LYMers.  I don’t know what the make of the latter impression.  The former, I can suggest one my problems with Dennis King.  It is interesting that his book “The New American Fascism” was published just a couple years before David Duke narrowly lost a Senate seat and then the governor seat for Louisiana.  I say that because a David Duke has a clearer shot of winning anything electorally than Lyndon Larouche, and has a clearer antecedent and connection with the “Old American Fascism” — the one party white supremicist ruled Jim Crowe Southern — um– oligarchy, and the KKK.

Actually I reflect on this:

There are some people on FACTNet who are out to ruin LaRouche, I think. They’re not obsessed with what he says, but with what he does. The site got a lot more intense since a senior LaRouche org member committed suicide in April.

Sure.  Sure.  OKAY. There is a strange sense that Larouche’s Empire is now perpetually on the brink of collapse.  3 years before I receieve a post on the current strains of Larouche, Inc — Fidileo — Dead, and all that:
today, the movement is all but broke.
there is that whiteboard in the “national centre” showing how much each local raised so far for the week, and the total is never enough for the movement to stay afloat – at least not with helga’s weight in the boat.
many old timers are moonlighting as substitute high school teachers or got some computer job (data entry).
‘Intelligence’ consists mainly of internet searches. The am bfg is constructed primarily from surfing the web, with some gossip from “contacts” thrown in. Lar doesn’t have any intelligence capability – at least not anymore. He has some “contacts”, many of whom don’t even like him. But people talk to EIR/EIW/Strategic Alert because everybody likes the idea of being interviewed, makes one feel important.
The ultimate source for the stuff in EIR now comes from web search engines – except for LAR’s rantings – those repetitive and near-repetitive tracts come from lar personally. The web searches are copy pasted into the am bfg, or the “daybook”, and eventually amalgated into an “article”. A typical EIR article is made up of stuff from other people’s websites, with some jokes and opinions thrown in.
There is one guy in the national centre – Richard F. – who collects a lot of statistics from the web, comes up with charts, etc. At least this guy does some actual work. The rest just writes opinions columns.
Every now and then, the NEC, or whatever , will decide (i.e. “judge” — inside term) on which slant to take (i.e. “intervention” — another inside term). The truth will be shaded in EIR in such a way as to reflect the “policy”.
“Contacts” around the world will then get a call or two, and be “briefed” on the latest incarnation of lar “policy” based on the assumption that they really cared about what lar thinks. This will be followed by the customary joke — “the world is coming to an end and there is no other solution except lar”. After that, the begging for money starts.
Sometimes, some “contacts” will give some gossip, and tell the boomers in leesburg not to publish it. the boomers will then relate the gossip to lar, and lar will think that he is being let in on something because he is so important to the world.
This basically sums up the best private intelligence agency in the world.
about helga and her bitch’s rich and famous lifestyle — the trouble about courting VIPs is that you must have the means to entertain them. every now and then, you read about the german and her bitch rubbing shoulders with this or that VIP. VIP shoulders don’t come cheap…and the big shots will only give you the time of the day if you look like you have some means. hence, the true purpose of the yoot movement…to help foot the bills.

I think Robert Beltran’s services are a good trade-in for Fidelio, in a very broad “teach the classicist method of Acting” versus classicist Art mode.  Besides which, there should be plenty of Fidelios in back-stock to wave before these artistic-minded recruits, and they shouldn’t notice that they’re a few years’ old.
I think the nature of the Cult is that is that it needs to be Strained in terms of its financing.  On one hand, it does shadow the Perpetual Impending Collapse claims for the Broader Economy.  On the other hand… the nature of a con is that you funnel your winnings right on through and never stop.

I had long ago expected the new book from Daniel Pinkwater to be something of a kid’s novel overlaying a telling of The Iliad and / or The Odyssey. Unless I’m missing something, it wasn’t. When I saw the cover for the first time, it became clear that it would be a retelling of the ancient Turtle related Creation myths.
I am somewhat flummoxed by some reader reaction that I’ve seen in the blogosphere, to the effect that it ended abruptly. I don’t really see that. It ended the way it had to. It’s a more or less complete book which doesn’t trail off, unlike… say… The Education of Robert Nifkin. (I duck my head as someone hurls a book at me.)

Okay. Footnote this passage, toward the end, and I do so because I have an excuse as it is a mash of political references and this is a political – oriented blog.
Sholmos Bunyip, wearing a gold Roman breastplate and a gold helmet, was standing on the suggestum, chanting and mumbling. Most of what he was saying was gibberish and nonsense syllables, but now and then there was a phrase I could understand.

“Humma humma… goo goo… manifest destiny (1)… waka waka (2)… power to the proletariat (3)… ish Kabibble (4)… New World Order (5)… remember the Maine (6)… hoo hoo… thousand points of light (7)… we don’t want to fight, but by jingo (8)… oop shoop… guns or butter (9)… lebensraum (10)… no child left behind (11)… city on a hill (12)… I feel your pain (13)… walla walla bing bang (14)… day that will live in infamy (15)… who put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder? (16)

He was clean out of his mind, glassy-eyed, and a little scarier than the thousands of prehistoric carnivores listening to his weird speech. I knew what he was doing. He was the warm up guy. He was getting the crowd ready for the appearance of Kkhkktonos.(17)

(1) Originally used by the Jackson Democrats desiring the territorial expansion from the Atlantic on the Pacific. We can thank James K Polk for “annexing” much of Mexico — annexing being an interesting term in this context, as is “liberate”.
(2) Fonzie the Bear. I suspect it has an earlier origin.

(3) Phrase that spurs on the Communist Revolution, I suppose. Leads to the Dictatorship of the Prolatariat, which doesn’t strike me as a terribly positive thing.

(5) Long been around, long been seized upon by conspiracy theorists and, I guess conspiracy analysts. Wikipedia tells me it started with Wilson, which makes sense in terms of the fear of the “One World Government”. HG Wells wrote a book in 1940 which posited the positive nature of such a thing — Overly idealistic, methinks, it sits on my bookshelf. It may have been re-triggered into popular conciousness when George H W Bush talked about it in his speeches to describe the new post-Cold War world political environment.

(6) … and thus a murky set of events hyped up by Hearst’s tabloid papers leads the US into the Spanish – American War.

(7) George H W Bush’s call for action for private charity organizations to fight poverty. Mocked by Neil Young in the lines “We’ve got a thousand points of light… for the homeless man”.

(8) Sounds a lot like Theodore Roosevelt, our burly and jingoistic president.
(9) Lyndon Johnson’s lament during the Vietnam War. Solved as “Guns AND Butter”. Didn’t seem to work.
(10) The Nazi’s version of “Manifest Destiny”.
(11) George W Bush’s educational initiative. Full of standardized tests. Disliked by every school teacher I know of, including my mother.

(12) John Winthrop used it in 1630. Ronald Reagan used it, as did John F Kennedy, for their political purposes.
(13) Bill Clinton in 1992 as a way of suggesting that he is in touch with the plight of the common people. Mocked in various ways, as political pandering, and easily ponderable of what else he feels.

(14) 1958 song “The Witch Doctor”.

(15) Remember Pearl Harbor.

(16) I admit to having to google this up. It seems the verb should be “threw” and not “put”. A Bing Crosby song.

(17) Ancient Norse God, Kronos, allowing the destruction / creation parable to be completed.

Sometimes I end up a bit perturbed at the most minor of grievances. Thus it is that I grated my teeth reading Charles Peters’s “Tilting at Windmills” in the June Washington Monthly and getting to his spiel on Adlai Stevenson, confronted with this:

My father like many other Democrats of the 30s and 40s, thought of himself as a “common man”. Indeed, a liberal leader of that era even wrote a book called The Century of the Common Man, a term that disappared from the Democratic vocabulary with Stevenson’s Emergence. But in the 30s and 40s, men like my father valued the plain spekings of their heroes — Will Rogers, Roosevelt, and Truman, who cared more about making themselves clear to the average American than showing how smart they were.

How hard is to state that that “liberal leader” was Henry Wallace? Or does that lead into an unwanted segue into Henry Wallace and his politics?

Perhaps the prominent use of the phrase “Common Man” by a politician who lost favor by the American people as his association came to be as a Soviet Communist Dupe is part of the picture here.

I don’t know.  The absence of this detail does complicate the picture, though.

I can’t say I care for the Rose Festival very much.  Or its three parades.  I recognize it as a money making enterprise for the city, if not in the immediacy of its essence than in promotion, and thus I wouldn’t do away with it.  But the old lady who mowed on through the children’s parade the other day has become something of a Folk Hero amongst some Portlanders, as we all are able to identify with her plight: Why are there children marching in the middle of the street I need to use to get from Point A to Point B?
I had the misfortune of winding up in the middle of the crowd at the end of last weekend’s parade.  I’ll be sure to avoid that from happening again this weekend.  This weekend being, somehow or other, the Big One.  Bigger than the other one.  I don’t know what the differation between the two parades are — what plunders through one and what plunders through the other — nor do I particularly care.  I do know that tomorrow’s parade has the added nauseating effect of the viewers taping “reservations” and bolting lawn-chairs on the sidewalk.

I understand people have made it a tradition to come around with bolt-cutters and pick up a lawn chair or two.  This makes sense.  If I were to leave, say, my stereo on the sidewalk on any day of the year, I would expect it to be picked up by someone.  Such should the case with these lawnchairs.

With all this in mind, the Portland Mercury organized a clean-up squad to walk down the sidewalks and remove the reservation tape, and perhaps a lawn-chair or two.  Go to their site for all the coverage.  And throw your support to Randy Leonard for his anti-taping measure.

Actually, to be honest, I don’t care all that much.  Go ahead and tape it up, if you must, for the sake of… tradition?  Then leave.  And leave me alone.  Hey!  It’s all cool!

There was a set of three small advertisements toward the back of the Portland Mercury last week.  $5 concerts for each of the following:  Bullet Boys.  Vanilla Ice.  Gin Blossoms.

At another time these artists would have fetched a lot more than the meager five dollars that you can see them for now.  They all had fifteen minutes, more or less, of fame.  I think you can assess The Gin Blossoms as having not loomed as large as the other two, but on the other hand not having had as big a fall in esteem.  I think you can assess Vanilla Ice as the one who endured the greatest ridicule.  I think the Bullet Boys’ star faded away long enough before Grunge blew Glam Metal out that they avoided that ridicule.
Two things about Vanilla Ice.  #1: The VH1 “Behind the Music” episode for him was the highest rated episode.  #2:  He managed his money well, and doesn’t have to do these $5 shows.  I guess it’s a tribute to him, and the Bullet Boys for that matter, that he does.  I guess the Gin Blossoms are the odd man out in this equation, as they seem to be a sort of innocuous alternative pop rock, great-selling because it was able to played on so many radio formats.  For the life of me I don’t know who Vanilla Ice’s audience is — he’s moved in a “new direction” and is all with the “Nu Metal”, which sort of clashes with the slightly ironic nostalgia audience who might think it worthwhile to go to the show.  I understand perfectly who might go to the Bullet Boys show, and a bit murky but understand enough for the Gin Blossoms.
This gets me around to Paris Hilton.  I see those washed out stars doing stuff, pass their prime of popularity.  Paris Hilton — currently in the height of her popular culture zietgeist — I have always been insulted that I know who she is.  There are plenty of millionaire heiresses out there who don’t have to work, and I’m not annoyed by them because… they live their lives and I don’t know them.  If Paris Hilton were performing somehow or other, then maybe I wouldn’t be so insulted by her presence in the pop cultural landscape.  But all we have is this ridiculous sex tape.  A sex tape that further elucidates the problem: her nonchalance… her boredom… her pampered up-bringing.  I understand there is some aspirational admiration from tweens toward Paris Hilton, which is probably an indictment on our culture.
Today everyone wants the Head of LAPD Sherrif Lee Baca for what I will say, without any hyperbole, an outrage.  The whole situation makes my head spin, up to and including Paris Hilton’s press releases of thanks for her “fair treatment”.  It is a vacuous assault to our senses regarding the most vacuous celebrity I know.  She was released because of medical troubles, which apparently are nothing more than an anxiety over fretful lower living.  Bubble Girl is Paris.
This is the only time I have ever felt compelled to spend any of my brain-span thinking about goddamned Paris Hilton, because it looks as though a conspiracy took place in Los Angeles for the sole purpose of pushing Paris goddamned Hilton out of prison.

These are the things that Revolution are made out of, the times in which the Masses rise up and push certain individuals against the wall.

To the good people of Los Angeles County:  you may want to look into the Recall laws, you know?  The same recall laws that took out Gray Davis and gave you Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The enemy is Lee Baca, a basically intractable machine politician.  By the time he’s up for re-election, this controversy will be long forgotten, so do it now.
In the meantime, maybe you oughta go ahead and give a shilling to a celebrity who actually looks to be doing something… ANYTHING.  For example, Vanilla Ice is putting on a show in Portland.  Part of a tour, I think.

I see that Alan Keyes’s organization, Renew America, has come out swinging on behalf of George W Bush’s new nomination for Surgeon General.

By all accounts, Dr. Holsinger is widely respected by his peers in the medical, academic and state government communities. But, nonetheless, Dr. Holsinger has come under tremendous fire from liberal activists for having the courage to address the compelling medical evidence and multiple studies which underscore the reality that homosexuals can escape the homosexual lifestyle and realign themselves to a biologically and spiritually natural heterosexual “orientation.” The irrefutable reality that thousands of former homosexuals have chosen to leave the “gay” lifestyle they once chose to enter only serves to further bolster — if not prove entirely — Dr. Holsinger’s advised medical assessment.

The “scientific argument” proferred from Dr. Holsinger reminds me of the old Intelligent Design arguments.  Basically the reason that homosexuality is an unhealthy act is because penises fit into vaginas oh so perfectly.  And the body is trained to reject anything else.
The structure and function of the male and female human reproductive systems are fully complementary.  Anatomically the vagina is designed to receive the penis.

It is lined with squamous epithelium and is surrounded by a muscular tube intended for penile intromission. The rectum, on the other hand, is lined with a delicate mucosal surface and a single layer of columnar epithelium intenuea primarily ror the reabsorption of water and electrolytes.

The rectum is incapable of mechanical protection against abrasion and severe damage to the colonic mucosa can result if objects that are large, sharp, or pointed are inserted into the rectum (Agnew, 1986). The anus and rectum, unlike the vagina contain no natural lubricating function.

Thus insertion of unlubricated objects or inadequate dilation of the anus before insertion of a large object can result in tissue laceration. “The internal and external anal sphincters are elastic rings of muscle which generally remain tightly constricted except during defecation.

Which is all why we have AIDS.  AIDS for gay people, you understand.

Which is standard operating thought for the 1980s, of which 1991 basically was a part of.

“That paper was a survey of scientific peer-reviewed studies that he was asked to compile by the United Methodist Church, it’s not that he was saying ‘this is what I believe,'” Babin said. “It’s a reflection of the available scientific data from the 1980s. It should be noted that in 1991, homosexuals were banned from the military and several years before that, homosexuality and Haitian nationality were considered risk factors for HIV/AIDS. Over the last 20 years, a clearer understanding of these issues has been achieved.

Asked about medical experts who disputed that Holsinger’s paper expressed opinions timely in 1991 and pressed to explain what Holsinger’s views on homosexuality are currently , Babin said, “we look forward to the confirmation process, where we can share Dr. Holsinger’s qualifications and views.” 

The rule is that you can be gay in the military, so long as you are closeted.  Which amounts to the same thing as the pre-“Don’t Ask / Don’t Tell” rule.  1991 therefor equals 2007.  More or less.  The entire Democratic slate of presidential candidates raised their hands in opposition to “Don’t Ask / Don’t Tell”; the entire slate of Republican presidential candidates let the crickets chirp at the question.  But leave aside that logic for a moment and look at some more of this landmark study:

In fact, the logical complementarity of the human sexes has been so recognized in our culture that it has entered our vocabulary in the form of naming various pipe fittings either the male fitting or the female fitting depending upon which one interlocks within the other.  When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur as noted above.
Forgetting the bigoted nature of this argument, I think more in terms of logical fallacies here.  This is akin to proving that God exists because we reference God in our everyday language.  Yes, our standard heterosexual relations dictate the majority of our languages.

Pipe fittings?  Is this more 80s thinking?
Well.  The Democrats have to decline this nomination.  Then Bush can turn around and nominate… Jocelyn Elders, perhaps?  I mean… if he’s serious at pursuing his Abstinence  Only Policies…

Hm. It almost seems as though Larouche himself has decreed that an offensive be launched at the FACTNet board. So this is what Lyndon Larouche does to a young man?

OK I have read plenty here this is a very elaborate devious trick indeed whether it is intentional or accidental. The trap is one of deduction. I will explain what too many from the LYM fall trap into as they walk into this domain of self perpetuated deceit!
Well, at least we have the suggestion that “too many from the LYM” are falling into this here “domain of self perpetuated deceit”. Too bad that google exists. Larouche needs to take some pointers from Scientology and the North Korean government in how to better surpress the outside world from interfering with the Party Line.

Really? “Self Perpetuated Deceit”? Continuing on:

Any and all X members are such because they really did not learn one key fundamental. How to come to understand something to be true! Do you take popular opinion? All those opinions CANT POSSIBLY BE WRONG, right? How about the accumulation of a whole bunch of facts that will get to the truth right? Because the simple tally of more facts will show an aggregation of evidence which always leads us in the right direction? Right?
Oh, this is good! I like this guy. I like him for his lack of self-awareness of his sheer pompous absurdity. “Any and all X members are such because they failed to learn”, etc.? Really? That there is the cult mindset. After that, it has the scent of a cartoon super-villian, feverishly rubbing his hands together as he plots world domination — this would be right before that last commercial break where things look bleakest for whoever the cartoon good guys.
But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and ’tis time to close the five ports of knowledge. We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep, which often continueth precogitations; making Cables of Cobwebs and Wildernesses of handsome Groves. Besides Hippocrates hath spoke so little and the Oneirocriticall Masters, have left such frigid Interpretations from plants that there is little encouragement to dream of Paradise it self. Nor will the sweetest delight of Gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the Bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the Ghost of a Rose.

No. Wait. I wandered off somewhere.
Whatever. I can look at this from a few vantage-points. The better one is to say that I think the jimmyos of that board have a sufficient vantage point to not be terribly impressed. I suspect that the new content at FACTNet is going to be rather pointless for the next few days, as the Cartoon Super Villian Genius has his way.

In the meantime, I want to discuss Al Gore’s Nazi Garden for a moment. Um. Okay. I think I need this translated into the Larouchians’ purple prose.

My misguided brethren who so quickly render the blame upon those they don’t understand ascend unto true understanding from doing hard core work. Work that goes into history looking for invisible things the only things that are really existent because they remain when all the perceptible things wax and wane!
EXACTLY!

Okay. Here’s the thing about that article on Al Gore’s Nazi Garden.

It is just about the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen.(*)

No, wait. Someone else gave out that opinion on the FACTNet board, and the epitome of the type of “ex Larouchie” he is warning me against at that.  And here’s what I was warned against…

Lastly remember, If you are truly intent on understanding what Larouche is saying stop taking second hand opinions!

Damneditall! Foiled AGAIN!

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(*) Charitably I could dredge up some notes from a History 102 class and some throw-away references to garden types and philosophical epochs. But really, what good could that possibly do?

… Continuing to study rare exotic floral genus. For this gutter outlet of Wall Street Fascist John Train…