The Martian Observer would take a gander at al Qaeda attacks over the 90s and 00s, and conclude that al Qaeda, more than anything, has declared a War on Hotels.

They would fumble to a degree to explain the point of ideological opposition.  Is it something about the building material, or the styles of architecture?  Perhaps they’d clue in to some degrees of modernity and cosmopolitanism which threatens their order, and if they do they’d be on a better road to understanding the situation.  But perhaps not.

And if not, the Martian Observer would flesh out a war plan.  Perhaps an appeasement strategy — tear down the hotels, build up campgrounds in their stead (that is, if they come to understand the point of a hotel) — perhaps tighter control of the buildings — fortress them all in so nobody can come in (this would suppose they haven’t figured out the purpose of a hotel).

One question that might come up:  all of them?

A few months ago, the Lyndon Larouche organization — in the daily briefing of February 4— rebuffed Webster Tarpley and told of the duty “that no one might confuse us with them.”  Interesting to note that the Tarpley is now fingered in something publically published (by them, I mean), in an effort to — um — consolidate 9/11 Truth Hegenomy?  See here.
The newly released documents, when cross-gridded with other evidence already in the public domain, confirm the Anglo-Saudi hand behind 9/11, and debunk nearly eight years of conspiracy rubbish, that portrayed the attacks as a scheme by cave-dwellers and “under the floorboard” mysterious forces. The writings of a former LaRouche associate, Webster Tarpley, more or less typify the kind of off-course conspiracy mongering that is now thoroughly discredited by the new material and the larger picture assembled by EIR researchers.

For comparison’s sake, here’s “Oregon Patriot” explaining what it is the Larouchies believe:

It’s not the people of Britain.  It’s the Venetian style slime mold that is represented by the imperial international monetary system centered in London and New York that is destroying nation states.

And here’s an explanation or other about Tarpley.

 Webster Tarpley is a gifted historian who generally eschews mention of Jewish bankers in favor of euphemisms like “Venetians.”  Therefore it is unusual for him to state bluntly that King Edward VII was in the pay of the Rothschilds and was responsible for World War One.  “

For more on the Venetian conspiracy — well, there’s a 9/11 Truth premier I leafed through once, with an interview with Tarpley — or there’s his wikipedia entry.  Essentially, Webster Tarpley claims ownership lock, stock, and barrell of the Venetians.

“Oregon Patriot” objected to the explanation (with a You’ve watched too many sci-fi movies.  What a bunch of crap.  Learn something for a change at LPAC — ) from a Cyrylek.

Like any self-respecting cult leader, LaRouche presents himself as a philosopher-king (in waiting), his messianic message being deeply rooted in history and global in application, of course. The Great Good that LaRouche happens to personify is not just about the strong opposition to the free trade (and most anything free) or the resolute preference for the “nation-statehood” over the “empires” (Funny though how he cheers for Putin at the same time, and his efforts to crazy-glue the last great colonial empire falling apart). No, from what I remember, this guy views the world we live in as a sum result of an ancient struggle between the empiricists (starting with Aristotle whom he hates passionately) and the Platonic idelalists, with their fascistic utopian ideas  (which LaRouche embraces and developes enthiaistically, in his own schizophrenic manner – once a Trotskyite is always a Trotskyite, to quote another great Platonist,  Comrade Stalin ). Hume, Locke, Adam Smith and other Brits who embody, for LaRouche, the evil Aristotelian spirit, also have the rare distinction of actually having influenced the government policies in their country, to what appears as the greatest success story of all times to rotten cosmopolitain market-liberals like myself – and as the greatest and most vicious conspiracy of all times to a “Platonist” like LaRouche. Jews, Jesuits, Masons et al (are the reptile space aliens in yet?) are always welcome to join the list of evildoers, but only as a side show, to the extent they seem to be conducive to the propagation of the appalling anti-utopian world order that requires no philospher-kings with their idiotic blueprints of societal perfection.

But if “Oregon Patriot” is going to charge that as being sci-fi, it means he hasn’t read this here.  That retort is kind of interesting in light of — posted here (and from lpac) — “We are a government in the wings”.
Also noteworthy in that light:  Larouche botched Greek history.  Understandable mistakes, in the right context — I imagine a college professor (or his/her assistant more probably) grading an essay from a Freshman, and shaking his/her head.  But the LYMers will get what they are intended to get from Books six and seven from Plato’s Republic… see here, (an old story, if you go back through their history).
“We do have a situation of opportunity, and we won’t be able to capture the thing unless we have a better understanding of how the mind works, and what the role of music and art is, how it has to be approached,” LaRouche said; Thus, the central strategic importance of LaRouche’s current writings, and the related scientific work underway by the LaRouche Youth Movement’s Basement Team.

I’m a little bit more plussed by the claim of “Obama administration’s unprecedented” interference of party politics.

For example, the White House is interfering in Democratic Party state electoral processes in New York, Pennsylvania, and other states, trying to dictate who will be party candidates for the House and Senate—an unprecedented action in an area that has never been the White House’s prerogative.

Ahistorical, considering they supposedly worship Franklin Roosevelt.  But this is an intellectual cargo cult, which doesn’t really attempt to understand any of these concepts — just manuever about these concepts.

And now for your weekly allowance of oddity.  (As well).  AND:

That I found at a right-wing website — one that had prominent images of Joe the Plumber as an Every-hero and on the front page strikes against Obama’s Health Care policies.  I don’t know where the image is attached, though — could be general malaise or an increase in the Americorp program, perhaps?

In theory, the Obama — Nazi image should attract something on the order of skip down to Glenn Arlt and the response from Scipio.  But note this response:

I remember LaRouche. I could not get much into the webcast due to time. LaRouche’s hold on reality has long been tenuous, but what he says about Obama is a breath of sanity. No one will listen of course. A pity LaRouche says it when Republican leaders should be saying it.

A demagougic’s appeal, tainted beyond repair.  For instance, a basic problem with this story comes from the first sentence:  Protestors opposed to President Obama’s health care reform effort demonstrated last week on sidewalks across the North Fork, telling anyone who would listen that the proposed measure is a mirror-image of the Nazis’ T4 health care plan.  They’re not “opposed to President’s health care reform effort”; they’re just wound up and buzzing about.

I have half a mind to finangle from Daniel Pinkwater’s Lizard Music something of Victor’s dreams of Roger Mudd reporting on Walter Cronkite disappearing, in lieu of anything to say.  Walter Cronkite was before my time.  I respect his Giant role in American culture, media, and news.  And I acknowledge the changes in American society that have broken our culture into a million little pieces away from the day a Walter Cronkite could hold such sway.

But something that I need to say.  Over the years, I’ve heard about Walter Cronkite being named “America’s Most Trusted Man”, coming from a survey in the early 1970s.  That is all good and well.  But it’s meaningless.  An Observer from Mars would learn that Walter Cronkite was America’s Most Trusted Man, then learn that Richard Nixon was America’s second Most Trusted Man, and come to the conclusion that the word “trust” has no meaning.

Then the Martian Observer would say, “And that’s the way it is,” and leave Earth.

According to this “Yahoo News”‘s compilation of AP “scoreboard” reporters, the winners of the Kabuki Dance Supreme Court nomination hearing performancees are Sonia Sotomayer, Jeff Sessions, and Lindsey Graham.  And the losers are Sotomayer, Sessions, and Graham.

How Sessions looks particularly good in these hearings, I cannot tell you.  Jeff Sessions as the Republican chair of the committee is one line of evidence that maybe the former head, Arlen Specter, was quite sincere in his partisan switch and aiding his new party.  (Gist for the Specter — Sestack war of partisan loyalties, I suppose — though, this would be too obscure a point.)

The “Winners and Losers” is a pointless way to dissemble the news coverage.  It may or may not be worth mentioning that the Google Associated Press link for this story shows that yahoo edited it down.  And it’s worth mentioning that that here Tom Coburn’s reference to Ricky Ricardo is brushed away from Tom Coburn, the better not to make a judgement call on Senator Coburn.

At the bottom of the pile, after a mass of career lawyers, Al Franken spoke.  He refuses to say anything funny.  Drudge threw this link to Wes Pruden, a little ironic because of this.   One of these days, Al Franken will slip up and make a gaffe by saying something not earnest and identifiably humourous. 

 The front page of the local paper reads Sotomayer:  We Are Not Robots.  A fascinating statement.  A google news search for the phrase shows 14,760 results with those words, headed — oddly enough — by a favorable item from a Communist news source.  “We are not robots”, a response to the problems held against “empathy” (“Empathize on my behind”).  So she supplied at least have one mildly amusing phrase.

Something worth mentioning about Mountain Dew’s commercial alignment with World of Warcraft, sticking some characters or other on their cans and bottles, and having some sweepstakes or other, with the words “Game Fuel”:

Way back in the 1970s, and I believe from its inception, Mountain Dew was marketed with a decidedly hick-ish flair, the commercial campaign rhyming “Mountain Dew” with “Ya-Hoo!”, and bridging the two phrases with the word “It’s”.

Case in point:  this.  OR this.  Mountain Dew:  the favorite soft drink of Snuffy Smith.  Or, he trio of tv programs The Dukes of Hazards, Petticoat Junction, and Hee-Haw?  After that era of celebrating southern culture was passe, the search was on for more marketable pastures.

Flash forward to the 1990s.  At this point in time, the soft drink marketed itself tying itself to”Extreme Sports”.  Climbing a Giant rock, dangling over the edge on a thin rope, you reach into your climbing supplies and take a giant gulp of this caffeinated beverage.  Coca Cola introduced “Surge” to compete with this, I guess on a bargain basement version of putting yourself in barrels and rolling yourself down hills.
Come to think of it, maybe Surge bridged the two eras of Mountain Dew marketing?

One thing that needed to be saying, and it was pretty clear in the 1990s — Mountain Dew?  The province of video gamers and role playing gamers.  I don’t know if this was the case in the 1980s — somebody ask old Dungeons and Dragons masters.  But I gather they thought the association would chafe the cool lads with Tony Hawk posters.

The color of Mountain Dew has some vague remnant to the color of urine rolling down a mountain stream — such that the first of the three marketing connections makes some sense.  The caffeine is necessary to keep a person upright through 30 straight hours of rolling through imaginary medieval creatures on their computer screen — such as that piece of marketing makes some sense.  I don’t quite understand the logic of the Extreme Sport-ers — but whatever works for them.

The CIA.  They’ve been keeping SECRETS and LYING to American elected officials?  SHOCKING!!!

Dick Cheney.  Pulling in powers to the Executive Branch, and denying any role for the Legislative Branch.  That violates everything I suppose about anything.

Truth be told, though, this isn’t so much a power to the “Executive Branch” as it is, preferably, a “Permanent Government” — past Obama as before past Ford and Carter.

How to read Seymour Hersh.  #1:  Read him.  #2:  File away for later date.  #3:  At later date, go back and re-read, or failing that, garner a sense of recognition.

The two stories have converged, or at least run up to each other.  I couldn’t really quite understand the partisan attacks against Pelosi some weeks back when she pledged that the CIA misled her.  Without dipping a single toe into the specifics, what gave it away was the outrage of such an accusation “HOW DARE SHE” “ATTACK THE INTEGRITY” … such a thing is unfathomable.

One interesting question… Who cares about Nancy Pelosi?  What I want to know is… Did Bush Know Anything and when did he know it?  Was it anything more than, say for instance, Adam Sandler knew?

We can expect Dick Cheney to shortly come out in ameliorate the conditions with a good “We kept the Nation from attack.”  I further suspect that the sort of basic assumption of a mass of his side is to question why Pelosi, extreme Leftist Ideologue she is, is worth any briefing.  It’s a dangerous world.  She’s liable to squeal on any tough-minded measure that will keep us safe, undermining American Security for Political Gain.

Look at the name in the marquee.

Ron Paul discusses his role here.  I have to side with Paul, whose only “crime” was using the word “queer” as he left the room, and see no real amusement value in 90 minutes of a man rubbing his butt cheeks at various people.

For Ron Paul’s movie career, it is a step up.  Previously, he appeared in such films as Engame:  Blueprint for Global Enslavement, a movie with the not so promising tag-line “They Want You Dead“.  I guess he’s escaped a certain type-cast: he’s role is more uptight foil than sage truth-teller.  (His fans tend to watch other movies and insert him as the hero.)

Both films pretend to have redeemable political and social commentary, but cater to a base level instinct.
(It is worth mentioning that I pulled the youtube video from a blog, in searching for this thing, entitled “Deconstructing the Jewish Crime Network”, the url address including the word “zion” — which is the type of thing which will be sloping off of fans of the “They Want You to Die” movie.

Posted by: Gosh Darnit, People Steal Votes for Me | July 7, 2009 8:18 PM

… not for allegations of fraud or illegitimacy ala Franken, or gross partisanship, or even the now tedious SNL “Gosh Darnit” reference, but for the sentence:

The last honest Dem was William Jennings Bryan

Wowzers.
My response:

William Jennings Bryan? Wow. He was, like, 3 or 4 poltical alignments ago. In the meantime, names of high profile Democrats who’ve floated onto the national stage include everyone from Benjamin Tillman to Paul Wellstone to Harry Byrd to Shirley Chisholm to Champ Clark to John Davis to Strom Thurmond to Alton Parker to Richard Daley to Gary Hart to Henry Wallace to George Wallace.

I guess the reference was hyperbole, but it’s a weird one nonetheless.

A pretty strange stray sentence within Peggy Noonan’s editorial, attempting to get her fellow Republicans to ever-so-gingerly move past Sarah Palin:

Here are a few examples of what we may face in the next 10 years: a profound and prolonged American crash, with the admission of bankruptcy and the spread of deep social unrest; one or more American cities getting hit with weapons of mass destruction from an unknown source; faint glimmers of actual secessionist movements as Americans for various reasons and in various areas decide the burdens and assumptions of the federal government are no longer attractive or legitimate.

All due respect to the Governor of Texas, the Texas “secessionist” sentiment is long-held and largely joking — it is a sort of nationalist pride that it’s in the constitution that “Texas can leave any time it wants”.  That was the most visible “faint glimmer” of “actual secession”ism to pop up in the mainstream press.  At least, since the New York Times Magazine covered Second Republic of Vermont’s spear-heading of a union of Secessionist movements as one of several “Ideas”.  (That was during the Bush Administration.  Secessionist sentiment has necessarily moved across the political spectrum, I guess.)

Well, Kennedy’s bringing the US into Vietnam brought on the borderline Insurrectionist sentiment in the Johnson and Nixon administrations (Seymour Hersh’s sentiments in “Dark Side of Camelot”).  , or to  Moynihan’s defense of Nixon that he averted our second civil war.

I guess Noonan is saying Noonan would be our second President Buchanan?

Arizona state Senator says the Earth is 6,000 years old.  My thought on hearing this story, honestly?  Dog bites man.  This is the type of item which is fodder for various bloggers and MSNBC hosts, but not worth too much mention in the grand scheme of things — wait a week and we’ll have someone else saying it again.

The same might be said for the Fox News dolts who leapt into commentary on a scientific study by observing that we Americans “keep marrying other species and other ethnics.”   Okay.  That was a stupid comment.  But what’s the point?  “Fox and Friends” is the dumbest part of a dumb line-up, a set of “news” commentary dolts whose vacuuousness is not exceeded by anyone anywhere.  I know and basically understand the “movement conservatives” attracted to “Hannity”, but I am puzzled by your Fox and Friends.  Who watches this crap?

A bit more substantial, as these things go, was the Glenn Beck interview with a CIA creep where the (Michael Scheure) suggesting that a new 9/11 would whip us Americans back into shape.  Intelligence creeps, I believe, are a dime a dozen — yet… it needs to be noted that the man was tasked with the capture of Osama Bin Laden.  At any rate, Alex Jones has a feather in his cap to differentiate himself from Glenn Beck and consign Beck back to the category of “neo-con”.  (Even with Scheure’s somewhat more “realist” notion for perpetual war than a neo-conservative would have, a difference which sees him posted at… antiwar.com(!!!) )

Also in that realm lying in the gray area of matters of import, lies a furor over Obama Hitler signs admist the Tea-bag gathering vaguely associated with Republicans.  It is the bizarro version of the Republican chomping at a couple of moveon.org “Bush Hitler” videos in a sea of moveon.org contest entries.  This would be worth pushing to the side, except that the “Obama Hitler” is in the water — in Maryland — and that ends all well and good enough, I suppose , in Georgia — drawn back to attention with this ad, from Saturday Night Live alumnis — I don’t think Victoria Jackson is going to follow in the footsteps of Al Franken anytime soon, and from Oklahoma.
Contrary to reports, South Carolina is not giving us Obama Hitler  comparisons.  Jim DeMint compared Obama to the social democrats who came before Hitler — either Philipp Scheidemann  or Paul von Hindenburg, I guess.

Those matters out of the way, we can now turn our attention to the matters that really matter.  For instance, was Obama looking at a French girl’s butt?  AND… how about the seedy details of John Ensign’s sex scandal, and how it figures into other sex scandals?
The things… that really matter.