A couple of weekends ago, Ron Paul was on the NPR quiz-show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”.  He was given a three question quiz about fringe presidential candidates, which included a question about the political career of one Lyndon Larouche, Jr.  As a whole, it was a stab in Ron Paul’s back — fringe candidate asked about fringier candidates.  I balk at the implication,  though, with ragards to Mr. Larouche — the same with the New Republic side by side profiles of Larouche as “The Crazy Who Is Not Running” with Dennis Kucinich as “The Crazy Who Is Running” — which, whatever one may say about Paul or Kucinich, they are not cult leaders.

Ron Paul finished off by saying that “Lyndon Larouche is always right.”  It is a joke I took as roughly equivalent to Homer Simpson’s line.   But apparently this was taken in Laroucheland as this weird sort of wink and nod from Paul — a semi-establishment figure sending a message to the huddled Larouchies.  Larouchepac issued a press statement on Ron Paul’s mention, and I passed by a Larouchie-written blog entry which considered it an act of communication.  It may be the case that the sentence is taken to heart as the least subtle axiom issued from out of Larouche.
As though the most libertarian elected official in Congress sees eye to eye with a sick parody of a Statist.
LL is/was always right. It is an axiom, proposed by Kepler. Remember: Lyn successfully predicted the outcome of a coin flip 594,375,820,001,1593 times in a row. What more needs to be said? 
In other news, this sad little story has been taken down:
http://ibykus.blogspot.com/2007/08/slandered-by-own-father.html

Depriving us all of one more insight into the mind of a LYM recruit, this one with the saddest of contexts.  I did not get there in time to offer up a comment.  Ah well.
And the latest EIR-ish pamphlet (as pertains to the standard lackadaisical non-solution to the Mortgage crisis)  is subtitled “The End of Our Delusion”, which… is apt.  Look for it when the LYMers do their “Rush” as the college terms begin… oh, wait.  Printing?

Here’s what I see on a sidewalk:

9-11 Was an Inside Job
(whatever9-11Conspiracywebsiteitis.com)
No It Wasn’t.

The “No it wasn’t” chalked in a different handwriting, of course, and in purple instead of white (as are the lines crossing out the original message).

I will be sure to note if s/he crossed out every other chalked 9/11 Truth advertisement.

1.  Karl Rove.

2.  Alberto Gonzalez.

3.  Larry Craig.

4.  John Warner.

5.  Tony Snow.

So we have those three members of the Bush administration have, within the past ten days or thereabouts, called it quits.  Enough ink has been spilled and enough and enough late night talk show monolouges have been tossed out and enough keyboards have been typed about Larry Craig.  John Warner’s retirement appears to be leading straight into the campaign announcement of Democratic Mark Warner, which appears to cement a Democratic Senate seat in the next cycle, and we should be busy salvaging as much “Senator Warner” stationary as possible for that turn-over.

I always suspect Karl Rove’s departure as a bit of a sham, but perhaps we just acknowledge that he, along with Gonzalez, have averted a political disaster and entrenched hyper-spin control with the Democratic Congress, but then again the Democratic Congress hasn’t much gumption in these things.

So there is Tony Snow, who left Fox News / Bush Administration to work for Bush Administration / Fox News.  Looking at his image, he has aged exponentially in his rather short tenure in the Bush administration.  I suppose I should just level that out to Cancer — and I note that Snow, in his farewell speech, talked about how Bush joked about his balding head — the cluelessness reminiscent of when Bush told the blind reporter to take off his shades.  Even in the best of times, with under the tutelege of a more honest politician (if such a thing exists), it is a job that grays your hair.