Archive for October, 2007

just a thought

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

You know that Canadian pedophile who was just caught by Thailand officials after an International Appeal?  He had all these photographs of him online, with his head swirled into a kaleidoscope of colors, which, naturally was straightened out to reveal his face, and from that he was caught.

I kind of have to pity the man whose face is that kaleidoscope of colors.  Not only would he have had to have had to deal with that for his entire life — you can just imagine the childhood insults — but now his reputation is tainted by this Pedophile creep.  Maybe “Swirl Face” can sue the pedophile?

Measure 50 redux

Friday, October 19th, 2007

“Paid for by Morris USA”

The current buy in rotation against Measure 50 has shifted from “Phillip Morris USA” to “Morris” (and then on to “Oregonians Against The Tax” or something or other.).  Dump the Phillip and maybe you won’t notice.

Maybe next they can go to “Mo” and be done with it.

… is on fire

Friday, October 19th, 2007

They tell us they have to “go along to get along,” and that LaRouche’s policies might “alienate the voters.” Now see where it’s got them. Only 11% of respondents in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll released today gave the Congress a positive mark.

… And so it is, in the Larouche World, where somebody is telling somebody something about Larouche. The further problem comes in with:

U.S. Congress Could Learn from Argentine First Lady on How to Fight the British

Larouche is back on a straight-forward uninhibited “British Empire” kick. It is more simple that way. But, while we’re looking at the British Empire, take a look at this. A bit unimportant, but firstly:

What the Ministry of Truth, Wikipedia, will never tell you, is that Sir Rupert Murdoch is a second-generation protégé of the British oligarchy’s 20th-Century propaganda baron, Lord Beaverbrook.

Hm. Now that would be an interesting thing to see in the wikipedia edits page!

More importantly, note footnote #1. The preparations have been made to ward off the Washington Monthly article — online any day now.

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There is a topic I need to get to, which I think explains a cornerstone meme for a Larochite. But that topic will take a bit of work and thought. For more mindless fun, a fun gallop through some of the things offered as evidence of Larouche’s Political Power by, um, the now departed long time Larouchite.

I did some Googling of my own and if LaRouche is this crazy whack job he sure had some big boys conned into listening to him.

A plain falsehood. The man did not “do some googling of [his] own”.

I used to watch his old TV broadcasts (back in the 80s) and he’d make some pretty wild charges against very prominent people but they never would sue him would they? If these VIPs wanted to shut LaRouche down why not sue? Maybe someone has sued LaRouche but it wasn’t someone like Kissinger or other prominent political figures.

Have some fun with that one. It is the very definition of circular logic.

I wish they’d put the photo of Reagan and LaRouche talking up there. I bet they were talking about the weather!

There is this photograph Larouche uses for his propaganda, inrternal consumption that convinces a Larouchite of his importance, at a candidates’ forum with Reagan and Larouche. Fringe candidates along with real candidates in New Hampshire. I have you know that I have a photograph of presidential candidate John Cox along with the other Republican candidates for this year. Never mind. The Reagan administration had the strongest connections made between the Fantasy Shadow Government propped up for Larouche’s ego and the real government, running off of the fringes of the dark corridors of the Intelligence services. This would dry up relatively soon.

I also remember when Reagan attacked Dukakis over his mental health — Dukakis slipped 20 percentage points in the polls and if I remember LaRouche’s “minions” slipped the story of Dukakis mental state under the door of a the Democratic delegates.

Now that I review these comments, I can see he was largely reliving the glory days. Dukakis was a horrible candidate, easily caricatured and with a tone-deafness that makes one wonder how he succeeded in politics in the first place (Does he feel your pain?), whose main accomplishment and pitch — the “Massachusetts Miracle” — was already decaying into Recession. Gary Hart, had he stayed out of trouble, I believe would have won in 1988. And I’m sure that Larouche would have come up with something at the Democratic Convention for the purpose of convincing his cult that Larouche is a serious contender for the Democratic nomination.

Here’s another tidbit for you (I suspect you know all of this and just utter things that are false as a habit):

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3437nbcsl_resolution.html

“To National Black Caucus of State Legislators

“State Rep. Juanita Walton (D) of St. Louis, representing the 81st District in Missouri’s House of Representatives

Something about this one, and the mood I was in when I saw it, prompted me to a near immediate response — with the second half of this post. More can be said about that matter — the discrepency between the amount “LarouchePac” rasies and the amount it pours into these electoral campaigns. (Hint: Memory serves, $900 is the latter figure.) Maybe I’m missing some things, but I think I have the gist of the picture down.

Dennis King and his theory that “British” is a code word for “Jew”. 

If it weren’t placed in and around other clear quasi-code words (can you really refer to “Locust Fund” as a code word?  That’s not so much a double-entendre as a single-entendre, so to speak), it just might be completely hackneyed.  It’s somewhat sympathetic — continue the Greatest War on to today, from the German vantage point.  But I can and will relent.  The war against the British Empire is not an anti-Jewish crusade — it’s just a kooky nutcase one.  Happy now?

More later, on this post. Things get a little bit weird.

Forgotten History: FDR and 1920 and Naval Sex Scandal

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

From <a href=”http://www.davidpietrusza.com/1920.html”>1920: The Year of Six Presidents</a>  (a book I’m having difficulty sticking on the sidebar for some strange reason),  culled from pages 386 – 396:

In July 1917, Rhode Island Governor Livingston Beekman provided Josephus Daniels with a letter from Providence Journal publisher John R Rathom, alleging serious problems.  “The situation inNewport is about as bad as can be,” the rotund, Australian-born Rathom wrote.  “These places have been recognized by the police for years; they have been allowed to operate without any hinderance whatever, and orgies of the most disgraceful character have been carried on for the benefit of sailors, and frequently witnessed by police officers themselves as spectators.”  Not all the prostitutes were women.  And not all the homosexual sex was paid for.  In early 1919, Lieutenant Erastus Mead Hudson of the Medical Corps, a Harvard graduate, was assigned to look into not only homosexual prostitution at Newport but also ordinary consensual homosexual laisons.
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Because civilians were involved, local naval authorities thought the Department of Justice should investigate.  Accordingly, on March 22, 1919, FDR wrote to Attorney General Palmer:

The Navy Department has become convinced that such conditions of vice and depravity exist … as to require a most searching and rigid investigation with a view to finally prosecuting and clearing out those responsible for it… “fostering dens where perverted practices were carried on.” … This department, eager for the protection of its young men from such contaminating influences, desires to have the horrible practices stopped.

While Roosevelt, Palmer, and the court of inquiry dithered, Newport’s naval personnel took action — ill-advised, stupid action, true, but action nonetheless.  In February 1919, forty-four year-old Chief Seaman’s Mate Ervin Arnold arrived from San Francisco.  The rough-hewn, poorly educated former Connecticut detective possessed a keen interest, verging on obsession, in investigating homosexuals, boasting that he could “Tell them a mile off.”  At Newport, Arnold would investigate both homosexual prostitution and purely consensual sex.

On March 15, 1919, Arnold, with Lieutenant Hudson’s backing, recruited thirteen newly enlisted sailors to entrap homosexuals.  “You people will be on the field of operation,” Arnold instructed them.  “You will have to use your judgement whether or not a full act is completed.  If that being the fact, it might lead into something greater.  You have got to form that judgement at the time you are on that field with that party.”
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In April 191, the Hudson – Arnold operation arrested eighteen offending sailors.  […]

On May 1, Hudson, Arnold, and FDR conferred.  Hudson and Arnold later claimed that they discussed the situation at length; FDR claimed that they spoke for five minutes, without discussing how to proceed.  Whatever transpired, four days later Roosevelt assigned Hudson and Arnold to Naval Intelligence to investigate “moral perversion and drugs” at Newport.  “It is requested,” FDR wrote to Chief of Naval Intelligence Rear Admiral Albert P Niblack, “That this be the only written communication in regard to this affair, as it is thought wise to keep this matter wholly secret.”

To Hudson, FDR also provided a letter addressed to “Whom it may be Concerned” stating that the lieutenant was “engaged on important work in which I am interested and any assistance you can render him will be appreciated.”

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Hudson and Arnold recruited forty-one sailors — ten of whom were mere boys between sixteen and nineteen — and ordered them to entrap homosexuals by whatever means necessary.  In July 1919, they netted sixteen Newport civilians, including the forty-six year old Episcopal chaplain of the Naval Hospital, Samuel Neal Kent, arrested as “a lewd and wanton person.”

Reverend Kent boasted excellent education and reputation.  His arrest outraged his fellow Episcopal clergy.  At Kent’s August 23 trial — and acquittal — two sailors testified that they had been authorized to go “to the limit” to obtain arrests.  The notion outraged just about everyone who heard of it.

On September 3, […] complained bitterly over the Navy’s treatement of Kent.  Roosevelt defended Kent’s prosecution and further slammed the judge who had dismissed the charges against Kent as a political hack.  But he also vowed, “If anyone has given orders to commit immoral acts, someone will swing for it.”

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On January 10, Bishop Perry and twelve clergy from five different Protestant denominations wrote President Wilson.  “It must be evident to every thoughtful mind,” they protested, “that the use of such vile methods cannot fail to undermine the character and ruin the morals of the unfortunate youths detailed for this duty, render no citizen of the community safe from suspicion and calumny, bring the city into unwarented reproach, and shake the faith of the people in the wisdom and integrity of the naval administration.”  They “solmnly request[ed]” that Wilson “at the earliest moment … eliminate from the navy all officials, however hightly placed, who are responsible for the employment of such execrable methods — contrary alike to the dictates of morality, patriotism, and religion.”
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The Journal, responded to what it termed FDR‘s “wild and clumsy attack” professed puzzlement:  Mr Roosevelt’s political loyalty to his  pussy-footing chief has lead him into a bog of falsehood and unfairness, where he does not belong, either by training or inclination.  Why this outburst on the eve of a senatorial investigation?  Would it not have been more politic, and certainly more just, to have waited in an orderly fashion for the evidence, without this preliminary shriek of alarm?  Or is it because Administration officials have come to consider themselves so immune from criticism that they think all they have to do in their own defense is to shout “Liar.”

On January 22, Rathom telegraphed FDR, alluding to FDR‘s personal involvement:

Many boys wearing the uniform of the United States Navy have been forced into the position of moral perverts by specific orders of officers in the Navy Department, and these conditions were known to the Secretary of the Navy and yourself months ago.

On January 22, however, FDR caught a break, when the skittish Ball Subcommittee voted to conduct hearings in secret.  The Dunn Inquiry, meanwhile, opened proceedings in late January.  It was a classic case of military cover-up.

One thing about the Frosts

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Something popped into mind when mulling the Republican Leadership*’s offensive against the Frost family (Graeme Frost being the 12 year old who was grafted into the poster-boy for S-CHIP) .  Over the years, I have heard any number of Republicans and Conservatives bellow  at the use of the phrase “working class” — suggesting that — hell!  The Rich work every bit as hard as anyone else, and who is it to suggest they shouldn’t be so?  I have also heard a certain amount of fury in terms of tax burden on the upper middle class and formulation of how these things play out, with the suggestion that Liberals and Democrats are  placing the bar for the definition of “Rich” rather low — the better to create class resentment and envy, the better to justify or rationalize a tax increase here and no tax cut there.

Today the Frosts are being accused of being too rich for assistance from the S-CHIP.  Graeme was not “vetted” well enough, because — well, just pick through a search engine.  Suddenly, the admission of the lines of poor, middle class, and rich are being re-adjusted for this battle.

* Can’t quite say “Republican” because it is, after all, a bi-partisan bill.  Though I suspect it won’t get past the House with a veto-proof margin, with any number of “Catch and Release” Republicans prepared to ensure such to be the case.

Things That Are Not News

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Lynne Cheney has discovered through her genealogical research that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are — eighth cousins.

Okay. So, this is what sells a book basically pre-packaged for the remainder bins? (Alongside Mary Cheney’s book and the Bush daughter’s book and…)

I am descended from Scottish royalty in some round-about way. I think we all are, if you get down to brass task. But you will have to do better than “eighth cousin” to forge a lineage between Cheney and Obama. Or for me to get back to my Scottish Royal roots.

Paul

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Some stamp their money with RON PAUL. Others wear T-shirts that read: "Who is Ron Paul?" There are men who carry little Ron Paul cards and drop them on top of urinals, no joke. "You have to get creative. Sometimes guys need something to read in the bathroom," says Chris Richards, 38, who works in finance.
I believe there is something in the US Code barring commercial stamping of currencies — something the “Where’s George?” site sort of meddles through.  As for sticking Ron Paul cards on the top of urinals — I would suggest creating them in the style of Jack T Chick tracts.  There are plenty of testimonies of Chick affecting people to the glories of end of times hyper- fundamentalist Christianity with those tracts over on Jack Chick’s website — why not for Ron Paul and the glories of Survivalist Libertarian – fill in the blank –?

Points of Order

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Bebe
Hello,

I posted several months in your comments section about a friend who was talking to LaRouche people that were campaigning at my school. I don’t know if you remember.

I’m just here to update:

once she finished up her 2nd year at university this last spring, she refused to re-register for fall semester. This past summer she moved across the country, to Boston, with these people, and is staying at a home rented out by Larouche. Six months ago, she didn’t give a damn about politics. Now, she’s moving across the country for the sake of it.

Her family is devastated, as are her friends. She is a very bright girl who had ambitions of entering the field of medicine. She was doing very well in school, was attending a prestigious university, involved in multiple organizations, and had a very promising future.

While she has only just missed one semester at school, and there is a possibility she could always return for the spring, I am deeply worried for her. When I speak to her on the phone, she evades all questions of when she will return.

Fortunately, she is returning “briefly” for a family function in a few weeks. This will be her first return from Boston since June. I only hope she will see what she has left behind, and decide to return permanently.

I mean, alright. I can understand a person’s passion for politics. I understand a person’s need to feel involved in something. What I don’t understand, is how this man, this organization, this whateverthehellitis, can so easily destroy the life, family, and future of a human being.

And for what? I mean, what does their campaigning really accomplish? How can they be there, in Boston, feeling like they really are affecting change in society? How does this man manipulate their eyes in such a way that they fail to see what seems to be glaringly obvious to me –that this LaRouche guy is completely and utterly INSANE?

And I sometimes wonder, from the way she talks about it, maybe they really ARE doing something. Maybe I’m insane for not seeing what is so obvious to her, that LaRouche has got it right. That maybe, as she says, he really is popular in other countries.

But then, all I have to do is try to wade through one of his essays, and I see straight again.

I only hope that once this man dies (he is ancient, isn’t he?), the organization will as well, and it will at last liberate my friend.

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2. But here’s something more interesting Nancy wrote recently.

One to two weeks ago, an All Users mail message: No stipends this week because of a big tax payment. (I’m paraphrasing here.)

It’s not the no-stipends part that’s interesting–if there were stipends, that would be interesting.

It’s the “big tax payment” part…. I’ll bet you a dollar the IRS has come acreeping ’round their door about moneys owed to PMR.

Because PMR owed VERY LARGE taxes, and PMR had some customers who were, shall we say, remiss on their payments, so when the IRS wants to get its money, and can’t get it from PMR, which is flattened, where do you suppose the IRS goes?

Already, a few months ago, LaRouche in 2004 (L04), the Presidential campaign committee, had to cough up significant dollars to the IRS as a result of its outstanding debt to PMR.

Betcha the same thing has happened with some “infrastructure” accounts out of which stipends are paid.

Now that’s interesting. That’s a Simple Fact, as B. Boyd so absurdly christened the list of lies about PMR, Ken Kronberg, and the org that she generated a few months ago under LaRouche’s direction.

Gee, if Boyd was telling the truth in her claim about how scrupulously L04 and LaRouche PAC paid their bills, how come the IRS nailed L04 for such a bundle? How did it happen that L04 owed PMR such a chunk of change?
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Oh. By the way. A long-time member of the Larouche cult’s response to bebe’s comments is right here.

And the reason that the date of the Zero Dollar passed by?  We’re dealing with humans, not computers.  Which… I don’t know… is all the reason not to put up a date certain where we’ll enter into a Depression greater than… oh, never mind.  Send your bread to Leesburg.

Al Gore is not running for president

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

I had to think about Jared Diamond’s expansive book Collapse when thinking about Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Award.  We are dashing into a strange conceptual territory hereabouts, connecting Global Warming with “Peace”: all good and well — indeed, just as sensible as the founder of the micro-loan, with its equal “two degrees of seperation” from the focus of “Peace” .

A fun game might be to google up (or search a blogging database) “Yassir Arafat” and “Al Gore” and see the slurring of Gore as “sharing the same award with Arafat”.  It will be more than the number who did so with Jimmy Carter, merely due to the proliferation of the Internet — more blogs (even the greatest part of growth is spam-bots) — but with the same idea in mind.  Arafat’s Award, alongside his two Israeli counterparts, was an effort in political prodding.  Which brings to mind the charge of this being a political slight against the current American administration, purely a political hit — one can argure a bit more pursuasively that Carter’s was, and one can argue a couple others.  But it is akin to stating that Martin Luther King, Jr’s award was an attack on the political maverns of the Southern United States — this too shall wear off.

Anyway, the trendline has the “skeptics” on global warming sidelined further and further into the margins, as effects move on from the poles (We watch Russia take renewed interest in claiming the North Pole for excavated oil deposits, for instance).  And Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize.