Rachel Brown To Take On Bailout Barney Frank
November 14, 2009 Boston, MA (LPAC) — LaRouche Youth Movement activist Rachel Brown announced today that she is a candidate for the Democratic nomination to U.S. Congress in the 4th District in Massachusetts, for the seat presently occupied by Bailout Barney Frank. Brown told a national internet audience on The LaRouche Show.

Ms. Dining Room Table.  Here’s to a good… debate?   It seems an obvious idea, most importantly a self-referencing to give the memebrship an impression of a fight against the elite, would indeed get the cult some publicity.  But it hasn’t as yet spared any more mentions in what is, at the moment, a particularly drought-filled stream — as evidenced by the sparcity of items found googling about.  Are they in a process of regeneration from the fresh new “International” Webcast?

Actually, my impression on just how sparse this sam may be distorted a bit.  I’ve posted a few things to factnet I ordinarily would have hovering here, waiting for publication.  It wasn’t my intention to post at factnet during the reprieve, but I have.  At one poing, “xlcer” made the statement:  I have no idea what happened, but there is nothing, nothing to report on The Larouche World Wide Takeover TOur 2009! today from the google search engine. Which was weird enough, in that it missed this, and the message:

I read it a fourth time. And I wondered why they don’t call themselves dictators with such a demanding message. What kind of training had those extremists gone through? If Obama is Hitler, who are they?
Boink-boink.

I gave myself one little contest on Friday of trying to beat “xlcer” to a posting of a bunch of links.  He barely beat me to it — the time stamp for both posts says “9:01”.  Seeing that he had just posted all the same items, I deleted all but the one link he missed — a mention of Lou Dobbs as possible running mate to Larouche.  Go figure.

Other encounters with the cult.:   As I walked by the table, I said, without looking at the people, “Not nice.”
The man replied, “Obama is going to hell!” (Actually, I think he said some word that included “Obama,” but I didn’t quite catch what he said.)
I shook my head. “Nope, not nice.”
In their defense, they don’t claim to be nice.
In the partisan grenade tossing that comes with the territory of the cult, I don’t know that this claim is true — that that Holocaust image was being waved by Larouchies.  They can prove it, if they will, but I’d advise them to be careful of pretending that all signs that don’t look favorable upon their cause come from this external source.)  Same, frankly, for this commenter:

I went to drop off something at the Post Office there last August and there was a heated discussion going on in front of the building by a group that had anti Obama signs on health care with some of the passers by. The protesters with the signs said they were LaRouche Democrats. One foisted some of their literature on me and said that Obama and Pelosi were beholden to George Soros who was secretly backed by the Rothschilds. So I bet the sign in the image above had its source in this thinking. I didn’t know the Rothschilds existed any more but Larouche’s people had them targeted.

We’re getting a bit of causation confused.  One element to the tea-partys, a man I associate most with spreading and popularizing the Obama Joker image is Alex Jones — and, you know.  For some reason, they have been wanting to tell me what Louis Farrakhan has to say about some matters.  (It is also here that I can fit in this comment.)  So, with that conspiracy lining established, we get this promotional effort for the  latest “historic” “International” Webcast (surely available for viewing in China?), a comment left on prisonplanet news entries at a particular time, two spots at the ready:

Michael Says:
November 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Larouche International Webcast on now at http://www.Larouchepac.com Don’t miss it!

How many Alex Jones fans wandered over to view the latest webcast, I do not know, but it does strike me as a fairly pathetic attempt.  I would also be interested in seeing if this message was plastered to other websites of this ilk at that time.

Other things creating the impression of a slowing down the flow of Larouche’s web presence, the current state of their Wikipedia Information battle.  My following of wikipedia deliberations has always been best thought of as observing the cult’s organizational battle to control or influence a popular source of information.  At present, the cult is probably regrouping and retooling to figure out a new method of attack — it is to wikipedia’s discredit that they allowed the last rather nakedly absurd “Leatherstocking” attack to go on for so long and it is their organizational flaw that is exposed by handing them so much deference.  At the moment, we have a good deal of flawed but at least honest good-faith  deliberations on how to handle this tricky topic, what sources to use and how, and what is best spot-lighted.  There is, in this midst, a touching observation upon reading and dealing through the battles with the April 11 Briefing (JN466:  “I am equally struck by how this must have read to Kronberg.”) — and a wholly pointless debate on citing to Tony Papert or Larouche.  We do see the Larouche cult making its attempts — they really need to make John Markham’s counsel to Molly Kronberg as issue — but are effectively called out on for the moment.
And here’s one more item that strikes me as a pointless matter — listing the various epithets the cult’s members get called.  With this debris being moved around, I feel like a quick visit back to brushing off loose-ends of the last Cult Team attempts, as we await the next attempts — note this Sun Myung Moon referencing to the “Executive Intelligence Review” entry.  Funny for a few reasons — former members see some dove-tailing of interests at various times in its history — who popularized the Dukakis Mental Health issue? — depends on who you asked.  In the handful of instances I’ve seen that referenced, the org is short-swifted in favor of the Washington Times.

But the Moon is on a lot of cult member’s minds anyway.  The Moon Explosion brought out some signs of water.  But I am with a lot of people: screw the Moon, go to Mars.  To quote Bill Nye the Science Guy on what the  new scientific development means and what it does not mean — and I think he flubbed this but the idea is still there – “There is so little water, like there may be less water, for example, in the Antarctic desert than there is on the lunar surface. But that there is any water at all is remarkable.” Mars is as dry as the Moon, but we haven’t gone there yet — important if the idea is to advance to places as a species.

I was left wondering if the cult made it over to Al Gore heckling — but the references in the news accounts go to a Tea Party group and a cleverly named “Constructive Tomorrows” foray.  Only one of the signs is invective filled enough to suggest the possibility of Larouche, but “The Masses follow the Asses” apparently originates elsewhere.

In other news and notes, this one goes out to the Leader of the Larouche Cryonics Movement — a movement consisting of one person — you’ll have to wait a while to regenerate his corpse.

I liked the Obama warning about coming Senate investigations into the Fort Hood shootings.  Don’t make political hay out of it.  Don’t play political football with this thing.  That would be untorrid and evil.  The chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security is Joseph Lieberman, who is facing a modicum of pressure from various points with a threat to take the chair away from him over his positioning in the Health Care debate.  He has put Homeland Security to use by investigating Obama’s “Czars”.

But I imagine he’ll balance out the sudden appearance of Rudy Giuliani on the Fox News programs to discuss these matters, and Obama is playing politics by squelching the discussion on how if this were 1940, Hitler would succeed, Pat Robertson pointing out what must be done to Islam.  (The good news with where Pat Robertson appears to be going on that score, is the result gets bandied about with the label “Hate Crime” instead of “Terrorism“.)

There is, back in the world of the living, a question about whether this counts as Terrorism.  It fits my definition, surely.  But then again, the government and people who make their careers out of studying Terrorism don’t define Theodore Kaczynski as a Terrorist, and I do.  The reasoning is something in Kaczynski’s motives being better understood as personal delirium as opposed to the political madness he blasted away from his Montana shack.

It’s the same vein some of the acts of Domestic Terrorism and/or personal vendettas we’ve had in these states in recent years — a Census Worker killed in Kentucky (probably more useful designation than with…), Edward Wycoff, 40, of the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights, the murderer of an Arkansas politico, and … a few others sulking my archives.

Most of these acts of violence are better understood as individual distress leading to their horrid positions.  The ideology that lead them to kill infected them from personal breakdowns.  It’s difficult to know how to parse it out with the Fort Hood shooter as of now — and there appear to clearly be breakdowns in the bureacracy, but — for instance, it’s difficult not to read into the “encouragement” at the man looking into Islam as not being on par with the desire to get a person back to self improvement.  Obviously, the man’s suicidal mission was not what they had in mind.

But you can excuse Pat Robertson.  He’s just waiting around for something big to happen.

This photograph was the lead on Drudge Report yesterday and this morning.  It isn’t now: right now Drudge is hawking Hugo Chavez’s plans on seeding clouds to control the weather.  I don’t know if it’s taking Drudge longer to make shifts, or if he really felt that focusing on this story was something that needed to be done.:

No fooling.  Obama visited the Emperor and Empress of Japan (ceremonial though their positions may be) and, as per custom, bowed down to them.  Looking into Blogoland, I see that question: “How Low Will He Go?”.  The answer is pretty low: the Japanese Emperor is pretty short, after all.  If he were taller, he wouldn’t have had to go as low.

During Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Japan, he managed to work in a private lunch with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. The lunch, which lasted about an hour, was reported to have just been the three of them plus one interpreter. While the topics of their lunchtime conversation remain a mystery, the Japanese media delightedly reported on the event, stating how Obama made a polite short English greeting before entering the palace.

And thus creates the hub ub.  The president is criss-crossing the world, bowing down to foreign leader and royalty after foreign leader and royalty.  I don’t quite get this.  To compare to the similar foreign custom deference in the past Administration (and these minor controversies will pop up in every Administration, creating pointless hub ubs).:

Naturally this continues, with a bit less dramatic a flourish, with Obama (the Bush one is more striking in its symbolism) — we cannot extricate ourselves from power politics with Saudi Arabia, much as I’m guessing would have the preference of 99 point 99 percent of Americans.

But last I checked, our relationship with the Japanese Government is pretty straight-forward and simple.  Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is rather complicated, and has the feel to it of a Faustian Bargain.  I understood the hub ub about Bush kissing the Saudi king.  I don’t understand the hub ub about Obama bowing down to the Japanese Emperor.  But some people just have a wholly bizarre vision of the world – the rule for thee but not for me.

Obama “bowing down” to everyone?  Just come back to me when I see him do this.:

… or was Obama giving Gordon Brown, not much of a movie fan, a large collection of dvds as a gift the equivalent?  Maybe it’s best I ignore these hub ubs… Unless we want to dig back into earlier breaches of protocol — though, I don’t really begrudge Bush I of that incident, those things happen.

There was this woman on the tram, who was holding a sign out toward the window — obviously a political message of some kind for passerbyers (mostly at stops, seeing as that’s about the only time anyone would be able to focus on the sign.)

A guy — I’d guess age 17 or thereabouts, asked her to turn it over so he could read it.  When he did, he became puzzled.  “I … don’t get it.  That’s like, 2 different messages.  What does Abortion have to do with Homosexuals?  I can understand one message or the other, but what?”

The woman said something I couldn’t hear, and turned the sign back toward the window.  I could half explain how someone mixes the two items, but I decided to wait and see what the sign said when I left the place a few stops later.

“Free Abortions for Immigrant Lesbians.”

I… don’t get it.  Is there something in the ordering of the two words — would “immigrant lesbians” mean something different than “lesbian immigrants”?  Is there something to be said for the “Exceptions of Rape and Incest” here — I think Lesbians have a disproportionate number of unwanted or unplanned pregnancies?

Am I on Candid Camera, or being “Punked”?

Item.

Danvers High parents recently got an automated call from the principal warning them that if students say or display the word “meep” at school, they could face suspension.

Meep doesn’t mean much, unless you are Beaker – the hapless, orange-haired assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on “The Muppet Show.”

While meep may be nonsense, what it represented was no laughing matter to the high school’s administration. High school Principal Thomas Murray said students were using it and other words to disrupt school in a particular part of the building on Cabot Road. The term later became part of a disruption some students were planning online.

“It’s really not about the word in particular,” Murray said. “The reason for the message (was) a group of students were instructed to refrain from that language and other language in a particular part of the building.”

Murray gave students “a reasonable request” not to use the word to disrupt school in a hallway, and to stop other behaviors, but they did not listen, Murray said.

“Students were not going along with the direction or refraining from a particular type of language,” he said.

Murray did not elaborate on how the students were acting out. But he did say the phone call home was an attempt to head off a disruption being planned on the social networking Web site Facebook.

There’s only one thing you can say about a situation like that one.

Meep.

Item #2:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rubbed shoulders with rappers and was hailed with “respect” in a television show on Friday that could help boost his flagging ratings.

Putin, wearing a turtleneck sweater and jacket, went on stage to present awards to participants in “Battle for Respect”, a hip-hop music contest run by Muz TV, a Russian rival to MTV.

“It would have been cool to record a joint track with Vladimir Putin because he is a legendary man and our idol,” sang rapper Zhigan who won the contest. “Let’s make so much noise in his honour that the whole world can hear.”

A presenter told the audience of about 100 young rappers in a makeshift television studio in an abandoned Moscow factory building that he wanted “smiles to stay on your faces throughout the evening”.

Despite hip-hop’s violent image, Putin had a stern message for the rappers about healthy living.

“I do not think that ‘top-rock’ or ‘down-rock’ breakdance technique is compatible with alcohol or drugs,” Putin told cheering hip-hoppers who responded with chants of “Respect, Vladimir Vladimirovich”.

Meep.  Meep.  MEEP!

This… can not end well.

Jul 28th, 2009
A group called “Patients First,” a project of the lobbyist-funded Americans for Prosperity, has been going around the country and hosting tea parties in opposition to “government-run health care.” Last week, they held a symposium in Salisbury, MD, and warned about the dangers of “socialized” medicine. Yesterday, some individuals decided to protest outside Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil’s office, even though he hasn’t yet come out in favor of a public option. Protesters even hung up Kratovil in effigy.

(Okay.  That’s not organizational, though.  One guy or a couple of peoples… is it?)

October 27, 20o9.
Randall Terry, the outspoken pro-life activist and a founder of Operation Rescue, has launched the “Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Burn in Hell Video Contest,” encouraging people to burn the House speaker and Senate majority leader in effigy on Halloween and submit a video of the burnings to his Web site to win prizes.

(Lunatic fringe.  It’s goddamned Randall Terry, for crying out loud.  Still nobody in the mainstream… yet.)

November 13, 2009.
In a move sure to spark controversy, the Danville TEA Party will close their “Fired Up for Freedom” rally by burning Rep. Tom Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy in response to the passage of landmark healthcare legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The event is being held Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Blairs, VA at the corner of U.S. 29 and E. Witt Rd. and is open to the public.
Danville TEA Party Chairman Nigel Coleman said, “We were outraged to find that Tom Perriello had voted in favor of this bill. I was with dozens of 5th District voters in his office two days before the vote and we pleaded with him to stand with us against the Pelosi plan.”
“At this point we feel we have no representation in Congress. It disturbs me to find out that Perriello literally received a pat on the back from Nancy Pelosi before going to the House floor to vote.” Coleman said, citing unconfirmed reports that Congressman Perriello received handshakes from Democratic House leaders before casting his vote last Saturday.

(Wait.  This is “Danville TEA Party Chairman Nigel Coleman”.  Lines of demarcation… crossed.  Ladies and Gentlemen… Coming soon to the next big legistlative fight… National effigy burning as cental part of the Tea Party Rallies!)

Some comments worth noting.:

The other day, I thought to check the blogosphere for “Rick Emerson”, to see what fans had to say about the new owners of KUFO canning Emerson, and with it Rick Emerson Show version number — depending on how you count these things — I’d say Seven.  I saw this link to an interview Rick Emerson did for WSU Vancouver college radio, and posted it.  My posting went as follows:
Rick Emerson on his most recent of his long line of firings.   skip to 10 to … sputters out. skip to 18:22.  skip to 24:50 for a cringe-worthy college radio moment.  and Rick glosses right over “Max”, doesn’t he?
Special note on the new KUFO morning hosts: they apparently are doing this “call in to other radio show hosts”, such that the morning hosts “wackily” call into KPOJ’s local morning host.  Wow.  This stunt speaks badly of KUFO as a station I would never want to turn on. (Not that music radio is anything you listen.)

I believe the new KUFO morning show is called something like “The Skippy and Chuckles Morning Zoo”? , or and I post this link with the disclaimer that I basically hate Seth MacFarlane and The Family Guy but find this bit hilariously apt, Weenie and the Butt.  Googling for blog mentions of KUFO, I see this little comment.:

Responding to negative Internet reaction to the firing of KUFO’s previous talent and the station’s new hires, Ditch says it’s “just a small group of people who’s constantly posting stuff.”
Afternoon host Ricker says that listeners will eventually learn to appreciate his style and his show, then “come back three fold with love.”

Interesting.  A sign that the news owners of KUFO and the new Skippy and Chuckles Morning Zoo program are getting knocked about on the Internets.  I assume the main target of this nasty little missive is Aaron Duran, Geek in the City, who I see has on his website a posting to a new version of the Adolf Hitler film.

Myself, I am left with the comment:
KUFO listener Says:
November 12th, 2009 at 11:01 am
You’re opinion of KUFO.. means absolutely nothing… you sir are a NOBODY

I wish I had a firmer leg to stand on in charging against the contraction of “you” and “are”.  I half suspect that Skippy and Chuckles may not just be calling other radio stations with stunt calls, but are also typing out anonymous comments from “KUFO Listener”?  No, I don’t believe that, but I will be sure to check into the ISP number just the same.

Months back when Rick Emerson announced he and the show had been hired on to KUFO, I couldn’t help but have a negative feeling.  The situation was spot-lighted by Rick Emerson’s bad answer to the question “Are you going to be playing music?”, the answer: “Of course we are!  Music has always been a big part of the show!” somewhat evasive of the fear that Emerson, Dylan, and Riley would be rolling into that status as morning deejays to a pre-programmed playlist heavy on 90s alt rock.  But the ensuing battle over how much music they’d be playing is now moot — be sure to fill your ipods with Skippy and Chuckles Morning Zoo podcasts — or is it Wiener and the Butt?  I hear they’re quite wacky and edgy.

Ages ago, in another political era entirely, 1989, newly elected President George H W Bush (now with the nickname “Poppa”) plucked the House Minority Whip out of the Congress — some guy from Wyoming named Dick Cheney — for installation in his administration.  This spurred a major Republican Leadership fight between one Edward Madigan of Illinois and one Newt Gingrich of Georgia.  You know who won.  On the purely “moderate” to “conservative” voting pattern, the lines in this intercessine battle did not make too much sense.  Tom Delay out of Texas, for instance, backed Madigan.  And Representative Olympia Snowe from Maine, considered then as now a Republican “Moderate”, backed the combative Newt Gingrich.  The winning appeal was against a complacent and comfortable Republican minority, viewing the leadership as protective of its entity without fighting for new partisan battles.  The choice worked out for the Republicans, so far as it went, though that list of insults to fight the sudden appearance of a Democratic President at that point where a Republican Congress appeared went a bit overkill “enemy of normal Americans” — leading to Clinton’s re-election.

Newt Gingrich was last seen on the losing side of an intercessine battle, backing Scozzafava against the Movement Conservative’s Cause Celebre, Mr. Hoffman.  It is tempting to say Gingrich had found his role reveresed visa vie the Republicans — now the establishment being Insurrected — to ape your Paul Krugman cries that this surely is a sign of the Republican Party’s insanity where Gingrich is now the “Moderate”.  But, as always, it’s not that simple.

Polls show Olympia Snowe’s ratings amongst Maine Republicans have fallen, such that she would now be vulnerable to a primary challenge in, I guess, 2012.  I would not know what effect this polling has on her, if it rattles her at all, but I do have one suggestion: Do not switch parties, please.  If things go topsy turvy, look over to Rhode Island where Lincoln Chaffe is the favorite for governor, running now as an Independent.  I see this inching from various Democratic partisan bloggers suggesting that she do so — she’d be better than Lieberman in getting to 60 votes, after all.  Actually, I saw that as far back as after the 2004 election as “Path for Democratic Party Recovery”, with one good Liberal blogger rejoinder asking “What?  Are you crazy?  What the Democrats need is to become the Republican Party of 1990?”

It is that “Big Tent, All Comers” logic which produced that paradox of the most completely Democratic Party controlled Washington passing a House bill with the most anti-abortion measure on a federal level in a generation, one probably slated for hasty demise but leave that as it may.  It is a logic that produces this strangest of logjams in the Senate — how does one keep this coalition, with various Senators beholden to various interests, in tact?  The problem with a Democratic Party swallowing in Snowe is a continued loss of its populist bearings, seding that to a disturbing degree to your outraged Tea Party contingent, attidunal wise and marketing purposes if nothing else.  The Democrats need no more Specters.

The political equilibrium is a bit insane right now between the two parties.  The good news is, on the Democratic side, a few Heath Shulers and Walt Minnicks are about to be shedded in 2010.  The only thing I can think for the Republican Party is — well, some of the governors have the responsibilty of actually governing, which usually chastines a party that on the national level is more tactically allied to this.  A stab at an answer to this question of why the noxious throws at Charlie Crist when he’s no different than Jeb Bush — Crist had the unfortunate desire to try to be productive when Obama was just elected, the new partisan object of disgust quickly and naturally consolidated against — and also… he’s a bit gay.