It is worth noting that Kevin Durant did not start out playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder.  He was drafted second by the Seattle Sonics, a team which traded its entire roster and operations to the Oklahoma City Thunder, and in doing so folded — or, so it seems written in the fine print — was placed in hiatus.  (The curious thing on being drafted for fans of a major league team in Seattle was to see this promising young rookie and know there was a better than even chance he would be playing elsewhere next year.  The other curious thing is that once some team reappears in Seattle, they will claim the past legacies of their 1970s championship and that Gary Payton player and even the first year of Kevin Durant…)

Westbrook follows Durant in leaving Oklahoma City, meaning — it is believed — the end of any decent team in the city of Oklahoma City, and a curious “ugh” on the order of Lebron James joining with two other big names in forming a “Big 3” in Miami to, ultimately, win 2 championships and lose 2 others.

But now he’s played for three different logos / entities, and there is no link left in the NBA to the last Seattle Sonics one.  Ergo, fans in Oklahoma City should feel less badly than fans in Cleveland about James.

But basketball has gotten to annoy me as a sport, and I’ve diced it up to simply being that the limited roster leads to less of a sense of continuity and cohesion through the years, so goes Durant, so goes “Mr. Miami Heat” Dwayne Wade, so goes it all.

Sort of was annoyed in reading this article in today’s “Willamette Week”… A Brief History of Beefs involving a popular twitter troll artist… and we get this…

This was technically caused by a miscommunication when Banks reacted, shall we say, passionately to a fake online article that quoted Palin as saying slavery wasn’t forced on African-Americans—which, to be fair, doesn’t sound like too much of a stretch for Palin.

Um.  I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin to say the least, but… it kind of is a stretch for Palin.  To say that in particular.  This is different from, say, Tina Fey and “I can see Russia from my house”, and there’s plenty that she might say that she didn’t that you can throw in that “not too much a stretch” category, and probably some in the way of racial coding, but… to say this is just to provide your liberal bonafides of the problem with Palin while missing some nuances in creating a caricature of of this caricature.

And understand a chronology from Palin to Trump, starting with Pat Buchanan.  Pat Buchanan you ask “Did he really write a syndicated editorial entitled ‘Did Hitler Want War’?”  Palin:  “Did she really just quote Westbrook Pegler?”  And then Trump… “Did he just steal a Star of David image around Hillary Clinton from white supremacists?  Well…

Okay.  So here’s what’s making the rounds for Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate…

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.

I like that last one, because he’s been roughly the biggest cheer-leader among actual Republican sitting senators.  I suppose the same can be said of Chris Christie– ignoring the body language — though the case is something of the matter that Jeff Session’s politics lie roughly where you’d expect a Republican from Alabama to lie.  On the others:  Bob Corker appears to want out of the Senate, so it looks like he tested the waters by praising a Trump foreign policy speech.  And Mike Pence is odd, because Ted Cruz tried to align himself with Pence and Indiana and attack Trump regarding trans-gendered bathroom politics.

That leaves us with Newt Gingrich, who…

Okay.  Trump / Gingrich 2016?  Now you’re just trolling us.

It occurs to me, looking over the 2016 Senate election map — where you see a bunch of Republicans up with a a grouplet of vulnerable Republican seats and a smaller bunch of Democrats and one or two vulnerable Democratic seats…

determining whether you’re getting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer …

But it occurs to me… There aren’t any wackos, or semi-wackos, or novelty figures out there.

You would think somewhere down south– out of the nature of an electorate full of long-forgotten Democrats who’ve switched parties but not registration and stuck with entrenched incumbents– you’d get your Alvin Greenes and Jim Rogers.  Or, a bit more upscale, Mississippi Democrats having to settle for an octogernarian Albert Gore, or that truck driver who was their candidate for governor.  (Brown, as his name?)

Or your weird White Nationalist dude, or that weird John Bircher Ron Paul ish guy who ran to the right of Lindsey Graham…

No perennials of the Bob Kelleher type for the Republicans.

It’s all exasperating, and the only thing I can say is… (1) Well, maybe I have to stop at the top of the ballot. for this type of jollies.  (2) Or… down lower on the ballot.  (3) Still a few more primaries to go, maybe?

The British System Is Doomed: A Totally New System Is Now

And then there’s the new system I suppose Larouche is ambling toward…
Bending Stars Like Reeds Toward a New System of Extra-Planetary something or other

It is worth noting one Webster Tarpley, working against Alex Jones once again, is proving himself quite the globalist.  In the wake of Brexit, his twitter feed going off on Boris Johnson.  Will he be able to stand outside yelling stuff at this year’s conflab of the Bilderberg Conference, or are these things being rescinded these days?

ITEM NUMBER THREE

ITEM NUMBER FIVE.  History’s Mysteries.

Dennis Hastert is going to a famous prison.  Hastert must surrender by Wednesday afternoon to begin serving a 15-month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, a 64-acre secured facility that was once home to former U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, television evangelist Jim Bakker and perennial fringe presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

And celebrating gay pride history… On June 29, 1986, marchers in the NYC Pride March exchange words with two Lyndon LaRouche supporters who were insulting parade participants. Lyndon LaRouche had called for the registration and quarantining of those suffering from or carrying the AIDS virus. LaRouche had gained enough signatures in California to force a vote in the state’s November election.

Speaking of sorts… this is odd analysis.

The mass murder rampage in Orlando, Florida, by alleged Islamic State follower Omar Mateen, is but the latest in a series of horrific terrorist attacks that all flow from a thirty-year-old “oil deal” between the British and Saudi monarchies. That deal has given them great power and great hidden resources to create today’s global jihadist apparatus, for attacks against nations.

ITEM NUMBER SIX

Heh heh.  Protesting in the old tradition of the CPUSA…

Russian media reported that “I love Russia” demonstrations took place simultaneously in 15 American states and hundreds of people took to central city squares to declare their love of Russia on the Russian national holiday known as Russia Day.

At the same time the last Gallup poll shows that Americans are increasingly viewing Russia as a threat and the US’s top enemy. 18% said they see Russia and America’s enemy number one, compared to just 3% in 2011.
Furthermore, the only actual American shown in Channel five’s story on the “I love Russia” campaign show is a young woman identified as Michele Fuchs of the Lyndon LaRouche political movement.

ITEM NUMBER SEVEN

Tarpley by way of Cliff Kincaid

AND Etc…

Dennis Small “latin america expert from leesburg”…
Lyndon Larouche, the well-known American political figure.

That being said, while the Huskies have enough talent and experience to compete with (and beat) all 12 teams on their schedule, it would take a lot of coin-flip-or-worse probabilities going right for UConn to jump from to 9-10 wins, which is something you might occasionally see on Lyndon LaRouche fansite “The Boneyard”.

ITEM NUMBER EIGHT

Don’t Be A Senior Sucker

Well “Marsha Maluke” left me a message from 410-299-6293. She said a “friend” brought my letter to the Naples Daily News to her attention and wanted to speak to me about it. Flattery gets you nowhere. Think before you act.
You have so much technology at hand, your friends or the Sheriff’s Office.
I just Googled the phone number and guess what? It’s the Lyndon LaRouche organization. Well, Marsha, I hope you’re not still waiting for my return phone call. Curiosity killed the cat. So seniors stay smart. We may be older but don’t be played for a fool.

As I always say to the LaRouchies who set up shop outside my local post office on Saturdays, before you consider impeaching Obama, consider whether you really want Biden as presiden…

Damned if I didn’t miss this one…

Which, I suppose, was a thing that happened.

Somewhere in the past, I saw some raving from someone insisting that there was no correlation between industrial hemp and marijuana, and so these issues, and the legalization of one or the other, should not be intertwined.  This bit of raving was from someone of some stereotypical pot smoking person. and would surely be in favor of both, and probably personally would have no problem in intertwining the two issues…

and if forced to choose one or the other would probably choose the latter, and would just so well have the former a gate-way legalization into the legalization of the latter…

Which is, I think, probably how these things work out in the real world.

Anyway.  Hemp History Week passed, without me knowing it, and so — I guess I have to wait until the next declaration of such an event to learn anything about hemp in history, as the other 51 weeks are all about not thinking about historical hemp happenings.

I’d once upon a time smirk to that claim that the last president of the United States was the “Worst Ever” — eventually Rolling Stone got around to that idea on the cover and I suppose that represents the height of respectability for where that idea was floated and consecrated.

And, of course, we have the multitudes who claim the current president is the “Worst Ever” — mildly amusing.  Congressman Ben Quayle may be the height of respectability for where that idea has been consecrated.

Now we see this.  David Cameron as the “Worst Ever” British Prime Minister.  Or at least for the past 100 years.

And that’s interesting.  His domestic policy, Tory as it is in he scheme of British politics, is such that there were figures for the Obama administration on the election staff (as there were for his Labor opponent), so for all intents and purposes I would say write that one off.  Besides which, the 1970s litany of British prime ministers were notorious for ineffectuality an (perhaps) senility.

I know we have Neville Chamberlain.  But we can understand where he was coming from, at least.

So for Cameron, his legacy of decisions made one mistake in way to re-election: placate the isolationist part of his base by promising the Brexit Referendum.  It got him re-elected.  Perhaps?  And had he not done it, Britain would be in a position closer to where he wants it (in the European Union) either with him or with the Labor Party in power right now.

Make of it all what you will.

Random thing popping up in the “google” and search engine searches for this blog…

Where do you think Henry Kissinger will get his 500 million ‘real’ human beings from to populate the Judaic NWO world of the future?

Interesting question.  Leading question.  As in, if asked by a “Question of the Week” type thing for a local paper, there would be answer from me.

I don’t have an immediate answer to it, but am curious on its nomenclatter.  First google search result is this, where the progeny of Machivelli and realpolitik (and, I may as well add, a Hillary Clinton favorite) says some things you’d expect, and some things are diced narrowly… and where, frankly, the selected quote is veering in the opposite direction in terms of implications.  But at a certain point we toss everything in the conspiratorial mix, and things don’t necessarily have to fully match… right?