Someone bought $431 worth of stuff at the Dollar Store yesterday.  I assume that’s 431 items, but there was actually a sale going on at the Dollar Store, with 75 cent items.  Still, looking over at the sort of waving away any line cahier, it looks like it was all dollar items.

A woman had approached me while shopping, with a smallish Rice Krispies Treat item, and asked “Could you read the number of calories for this for me?”  I read it to her.  She balked, and said “Thanks.  I… guess.”  I don’t know what she was expecteing.  The two quasi-meal items I was buying were rather unhealthy, preservative laden microwaving boxed foods.  Utter crap, really, which is destroying my body and will be the death of me.  Just as certainly as the Krispie Treats will be the death of her.

Yesterday mid afternoon, I looked around at some comments at various websites, and picked up the anecdotal evidence that Saxby Chambliss was on the way to a victory.  Reports were that Atlanta voting spots were empty, emptier, and emptiest.  The urge to get Democrats to a 59th seat as opposed to a 58th seat was a rather unspectacular goal — Obama has been elected, that’s all anyone cared about, this is an anti-climax.  Meanwhile, Republicans spot this election as the only thing standing between Complete Democratic Socialist Domination and … not exactly divided government, but cracked government.  The election surrogates itself — try to spot the “Which of these people is doing its own thing” in this list:

on the Republican side, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, Mitt Romney and Rudolph W. Giuliani. The Democrats sent former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore and the rapper Ludacris.

The New York Times article on the election also brings, or brought, one interesting item from a 16 year old campaign worker who trucked in from out of state to campaign for Chambliss — and, not being able to find it in the article I have to dredge it out of a search… On why we need Chambliss to prevail.:

“America is a center-right country,” he said. “We need to have a balance of power.”

This saddens me.  His reasoning is a weird meaningless talking point.  He has a couple years to knock that out of his system before he comes to voting age (and I’m not referring to his partisan politics), but knowing the world of politics, he probably won’t.

Okay.  Where were we?

Writing in the Oct. 31 edition of Executive Intelligence Review, leading U.S. statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche issued a major report, one which, he wrote, “may come to be considered by some among the world’s leading circles of today, as the most important political document you have read, or might have read, during your lifetime to date.”

You know how television shows always advertise with “The final 15 minutes of Tuesday’s night program will be the most shocking 15 minutes in television history”?  You know how the major comic book publishers always used to plaster their covers with “Special Collector’s Edition”, salted liberally?  You know how a used car seller or a mattress seller advertises with “The Deal of the Century”?  How many of these proclamations of “most important political document you have read, or might have read, during your lifetime to date” can there be?

But this is all old and stupid.  When I get the chance I am going to look into the functionality of Alex Jones’s websites — are these things user input with a helpful editor that tracks the desired conspiracy mongering to the front?– because I note this:

Conspiracy theories abound throughout the Internet, as occurs when anything of this magnitude occurs – and one of the most astounding theories I’ve come across is that Great Britain was actually behind the attacks as published on Alex Jone’s site.

That actually is a rather unastounding and very boring theory.  And you know why that is.  If I hadn’t plucked this from the realms of the Internet by way of the keyword search “Larouche”, I would still know the source of this crap.  The British Empire — to quote the fellow, “And the British are also in heat right now.”  Is there no end to their sex-starved treachery?  What will they think of next?  (Well, this.  But that’s been floating in Larouche’s mind since the summer.  To paraphrase a drunk Mel Gibson, “The British are responsible for all the wars in the world.  And presidential assassinations.  Are you a Brit?”  I look forward to the upcoming Robert Beltran narrated L-Pac video on the British treachery of germ warfare which gave President William Henry Harrison pneumonia.)

Continuing:
This is an article that all should read, and when I first read it, my first thought was “WTF???” Then, I took the time to read-up on Lyndon LaRouche’s track-record for being correct – and if you read it yourself – it’s mind-numbing how often Mr. LaRouche has been correct in his predictions and analysis of several issues that have actually been absolutely correct, and this time, I hope that he’s dead-wrong!

Is there some sort of memo on how a Larouchie interacts on the Internet?  “Always act surprised, yet intrigued at the reading of a Larouche tract.  State that you’ve heard about him, and some bad things, but have never looked into him yourself.”  Anyway, I’m eating my 20 dollar loaves of bread and am waiting with the horror of our up-coming Michael Bloomberg Administration.

The link, I guess, came to us from sort of the fringes of the Alex Jones website.  Meaning, the fringe of the fringe.  The front page would tend to entreat you with information that Webster Tarpley will be on the next Alex Jones show, Alex Jones to be on the next Webster Tarpley show — Tarpley having more credence in the world of Kookery than Larouche (though, this may be by design).  The last time I spotted, in my slightly askewed glance over the Internet, Larouche being in the Alex Jones web-sphere — it was with a youtube clip where Larouche babbled on about how everyone is going to be killing everyone else — and, if you imagine 2 straight days of speeches along those lines, the not entirely unfeasible portrait of a lone LYM taking things into his own hands at an isolated conference in Germany becomes a little easy to picture.

If the Alex Jones sites operated with this sort of user-based variety, I can entertain myself with an odd version of how things work with dailykos — where we see this post has been deleted.  Karole Noymann contributed for consideration and deletion an entry which began:  Maybe Lyndon LaRouche isn’t so crazy after all25 Nov 2008
OK maybe my title is a bit misleading since this diary is about Mrs. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, for over thirty years the wife of Lyndon LaRouche, who has worked closely with her husband and reflects his own views and philosophy.  Perhaps this makes Markos Moulitsas and his website are one of those dreaded “Gate-keepers” conspiracy theorists talk about, keeping this view or that view outside the purview of respectable opinion.  I wonder if I were to create an account and post some rather tame donkey versus elephant partisan horse race item at Alex Jones’s website if I would be similarly deleted.  Well, it’s a thought.

But, in terms of the Internet, wikipedia is probably the front-line of any Larouchian fight.  I tend think the wikipedia article on Larouche right now is a little lame, the Larouchies have successfully gotten a good focus on their roaming batch of any figure who has given the man validation.  On the other hand, I appear to have indirectly affected the entry on “James Bevel”, this post seeming to have lead to a further explication of Bevel’s career of the time — which had been posted at wikipedia as simply “getting his educational viewpoinits to the public” (appreciate the dark humor there) to include such items as “booed off stage in front of black Nationalists” and more importantly the Nebraska Child Molestation hoax he played a part in propagating (irony or ironies) and… Perhaps there is more to the story of Bevel’s career in his Larouchian phase and why, but researchers would have to figure it out and document it.

In other news, Funny this, though ironically something of a Larouchian tactic:

The lowest of low blows was lodged anonymously against a House GOP leader candidate, New Hampton Rep. Fran Wendleboe.
Titled “The Truth About Fran,’’ the two-page attack called her the “Lyndon LaRouche of NH politics’’ in referring to her past unsuccessful bids for Congress, party chairwoman and state Senate.
It had a character assassination of Sam Pimm, who had led the Reagan Network political action committee that Wendleboe formed and which opposed the renomination of moderate-to-liberal GOP House members.
And it contained a picture of Miss Piggy the Muppet and a picture of Wendleboe with the caption “Separated at birth?’’
The letter was sent with no return address to all House Republican members the weekend before Monday’s leadership vote.

And,  Satanists are upset with Larouche.  Supposedly a pivot for the org would be to seek funding sources and feign support for and around a sort of Sarah Palin supporting Christian sources — this  a good start to that goal, I suppose.  (Look into this story yourself.)

In other news — David Icke has been making some rounds and figuring in the Franken — Coleman recount here in the states… in Britain — it gets even odder.  (Franken is seen here playing Henry Kissinger in an enactment of the scholarly polemic “Henry Kissinger and the Politics of Faggery.)

It is Election Day Part 2 in Georgia, with the run-off between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin deciding the difference between Democrat #58 and Democrat #59, and Republican #40 and Republican #41 — the Minnesota race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman still outstanding, state court having ruled a swarth of absentee ballots won’t be checked and Franken’s hopes hanging on a higher court reversing that decision with perhaps one dreaded action from the goddamned US Senate.

The money is that Jim Martin will win only in a fluke, and a wonky turn-out model — I suppose a conceit already dissolved because Sarah Palin made an appearance in Georgia to bring out her base.  Should Chambliss win, it’ll be his seat as long as he wants it, I’d suspect.

With all that in mind:  Georgians, Vote.  A rendition of the old joke on “voting early and voting often”, another variation of the joke about “Get to the polls, if you’re a Martin supporter, and if you’re for Chambliss, go ahead and sleep in.”

Also, while by definition — run-off election — there are only two names on the ballot and no blank spot write-in slot, that wouldn’t stop voters of “Lizard People”.  Remember, though:  a vote for “Lizard People” is a vote for Saxby Chambliss.  And vice versa:  a vote for Saxby Chambliss is a vote for Lizard People.