In 1978, Gerald Pechenuk won .78 percent of the vote in a Missouri Congressional race. In 1987, one year following the triumph in Illinois, Pechenuk won 1.2 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary vote for Chicago ward-healer. (Or whatever the position is and is supposed to be.)  I see one more reference to him as having served as someone else’s campaign manager, which in Larouchian politics I am not entirely sure what that job is supposed to entail — the road to that fraction of a percentage point.  (Aren’t you just still deployed for the 85 year old?)  I assume there are other electoral battles he has fouht, but all I can say is that he is apparently occasionally prominently featured in Larouchian literature for his effective deployment, a successful end to a long career in Larouchian politics and that which everyone should aspire to, I suppose.

It looks like he is otherwise doing a job of juanting around the Internet, spreading the word.  I gathered this when I happened upon this, which is a gem.

In response to a posting with one of the quotes Avi Klein’s article seems to have pushed into the popular culture — or at least a segement of the Internet, “if anyone was made for blogging” — as well the idea that Internet killed the Cult Leader, Gerald Pechenuk responds with:

Did it ever occur to you that maybe, perhaps, just maybe, LaRocuhe is right, and that all the lying and denying of what he has said and continues to say about the causes of and solution to the ongoing crash of the global financial system are nothing more than smokescreens by people who are purveyors or dupes of people who just plain out oppose Larouche’s FDR-Lincoln Foudning Fathers American System solutions. THE CRASH IS undeniable. Attack and LIE about LaRouche as much as you care to, then when you are finished blowing smoke, tell me what YOUR SOLUTIONS are to the crash that he correctly and uniquely forecast.. And have fun when you do it…

Hee hee. Anyway, someone who seems to have had a first name basis with Gerald Pechenuk at one time or other responded, and all I could do was see if “Gerald Pechenuk” has ever, in posting things on the Internet, expressed an independent thought of his own, not initiated from the boiler room in Loudon.  Witness…

Dick Cheney… and a rebut.

That keen grip on national politics.

The Youth Vote in 2006, brought to you by L-PAC

Alito = Carl Schmitt = Hitler #1

Alito = Car; Schmitt = Hitler #2

Felix Rohatyn as the Man Behind the Democratic Party.

For updates on these new collaborative relationships building between and among the nations of the world that represent the largest part of humanity…

Children of Satan IV?

That old Blood / Gore canard.

Architecture.

… Worse than 1929…

Anytime you want to debate Abraham Lincoln…

Plato.

Now, what is interesting, and what I probably should look at with a closer eye, is the difference between when Gerald references his LarouchePac address for further information and inquiries, and when he does not — is there a chronological diliniation or a categorical one?  I suspect that when he is on friendly terms with an issue,  — within a sea of comments advocating Impeachment, for instance, or the flailing of the “End is Near” of our economic site, there is an impetus to try for that next step… to Larouche.  The “History News Network” item, on the other hand, he apparently does not feel like he could pull that off, for whatever reason.

In the memorials to Norman Mailer and the “40 books” he has written, I keep seeing mention of Miami and the Siege of Chicago, the book on the 1968 Republican and Democratic conventions.

A very simple question: Does anybody really remember anything from the “Miami” part?  Can we just go ahead and say that he wrote “The Siege of Chicago“?

What can one say about Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Rudy Giuliani that everyone else hasn’t and isn’t saying?

Except to wonder about Giuliani’s words.  Without having easy ability to the transcript of the endorsement conference, I am stuck at this:

“His confidence in me means a lot. His experience and advice will be a great asset to me and my campaign.”

Advising him on Pat Roberton’s main reason in supporting him:

To me, the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our population from the blood lust of Islamic terrorist.

His viewpoint of which, as expressed in September of 2001, was “I concur” to Jerry Falwell’s

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.'” 

… meaning the two issues were at one point tied together, and goshbedarned the double-standard Pat Robertson is placing on the two parties.  But, really, Robertson is just protecting his piece of the power pie.  The thing is, in a political marriage such as this one, I don’t really know who I am supposed to yell “Foul” at… except we knew Robertson was a charltain already.

… When will Giuliani be able to bench-press a TON?  Is that one of the things Robertson will be advising Giuliani on?

Voters didn’t understand

Measure 49 has passed. And it passed by a wide margin, with mainly urban Oregonian voting on a measure that they did not understand. How do I know that they did not know what they were voting on? Because the measure was unreadable.

A highly trained lawyer would spend many hours attempting to understand the requirements dictated by the rambling switchbacks in the language of the bill.  The sweet-sounding ballot title in no way represented the ballot language.

The manner in which this measure was created and presented to the voters is another sad chapter in the destruction of this state. It seems that as a valid philosophy, “The end justifies the means” should be stamped on the liberal establishment in Oregon.

MICHAEL HARTFIELD Dundee

Without saying a single word about Measure 49 pro or con, I need to say what a stupid argument this is, something that boils down to:  Measure 49 was written in legalese.  Indeed it was.  And it is now situated in the lodgers of Oregon law, replacing large swarths of similar legalese, and placed before and after similar legalese — actually, about where Measure 37’s language lay.

If Oregon had voted to turn down Measure 49, it would have been a vote for rambling switchbacks readable only by highly trained lawyers.  Just as it is with Oregon voting for the measure.  I do not understand this man, Michael Hartfield of Dundee.  Rant and rave, applying new standards for that which you are for and that for which you are against.  I assume he was all for Measure 37 — maybe he read it and understood every word of it and the permetations that lawyers would argure with it for the next century, but he would have been the exception.  Likewise his case against Measure 49… that which the peons should not discuss amongst themselves because they’re not literate enough.

In the interregnum between the end of David Letterman’s NBC show and the start of his CBS show, that wacky “Late Night Wars” jumbling over Johnny Carson’s successor, NBC ran reruns, somewhat skewed from what what I now believe came out of the 1988 Writers’ strike.  It wasn’t something I was particularly cognicient of this idea at the time, but it popped into my mind when reading Peter Ames Carlin on this:

Recall how “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson and then-“Late Night” host David Letterman reached unforeseen heights of weirdness, and often hilarity, by facing their audiences night after night with almost no prepared material. Letterman, famously, got a shave on the air. Carson was just his charming, bone-dry self.

I think that NBC was running through a catalouge of non-repeated episodes spanning the previous four years that summer– Mondays were repeats, and add the regular vacations, and the episodes that “demanded” to be repeated, such as the one where he received a shave, surely were already done.  So what I ended up watching, at that summer vacation where I had no reason to wake up early the next morning, having found myself a Letterman fan, was a random phone conversation with a woman from an office building across the street.  And that was the concept for the “sketch” portion of the show for the entire week.  Those non-scripted programs tended to be a bit… dull.  I am not sure what Peter Carlin is talking about, but Maybe I really should have just gone to bed.

Today, I don’t know that Letterman has something in it.  Besides which, the politics of the situation seems to require the late night denziens stand in solidarity with the writers, and the way the strike was set up it seems as though there is a bit of a … dare I say, script to it, where the writers have offered up as congenial an end-game for the Production companies to come to the proper terms as is possible with a Strike.  (And, from my vantage point, the writers seem to deserve what they’re demanding, a nod to the changing realities of how their product is disseminated, ergo DVD sales and the Internet).

A man in a cigarette costume was standing across the street from Pioneer Square this afternoon. Clearly a part of a contingent waving signs urging a “Yes” vote on Measure 50, ie — fighting the influx of Tobacco Company Advertising for the “NO On 50” campaign.

The image that popped into my mind, however, was the Cigarette character that appeared in Doonesbury over the years when Gary Tradeau wanted to portray the Tobacco industry. I also had half a mind to go up to him with the assumption that he was a Tobacco Industry mascot and was dispensing free cigarettes. Which would work well, I suppose, and may be something they should do tomorrow — Measure 50 has gone down to defeat.

Oh, jeez louise. Plucked from FACTNet, for the benefit of … whoever the hell reads this following of the Larouchian world of mine that doesn’t also read FACTNet… Commentary within provided by Eaglebreak, because I may as well not delete it and let her particular insight stay.  My comments provided with footnotes.

1. Sunday briefing, Nov. 4

LYN’S IDEAS ARE THE DRIVER FOR EVERY POLITICAL INITIATIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD–GET THE RESOURCES TO CARRY THEM OUT!

JEFF: Let me first of all start out by making sure that everybody’s attention has already been flagged to the LaRouchePAC website and the new animation which leads the website.[Everybody’s attention flagged years ago.]  And Lyn basically intervened against a certain flatness and went to the crew out here in the Basement and said, “Let’s apply the animations technology that we’re working with to really add some spice to the website,” (*1) and I think you’ll agree that the opening shot, the Nancy Pelosi Mask really is exactly what the doctor ordered. [Dr. Kevorkian.]
The other big challenge that we’re going to have to take up and solve this week, is a certain disconnect[They’re not making any money], between the LPAC income being generated versus the actual tremendous breakthroughs that are being made operationally, through the LPAC work in a number of different ways: Obviously, we’ve turned the country upside down already [Oh, swell], around the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act, and we know, without going into a lot of name, rank, and serial number detail [Because it sounds way better if it’s secret knowledge], that the issue of Lyn’s firewall proposal is being intensively studied and debated in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill,  against an enormous counterorganizing effort….[Wow! What else is new?]  (*2)

*In Illinois, we got … two initial sponsors on the HBPA, as the Illinois legislature is also in emergency session, over the fact that they can’t get a budget together. And those two sponsors–in the context of the Mark Fairchild’s highly successful statewide tour, and then his direct intervention in Springfield with the press conference at the State Capitol, delivering a 20-year-long “I told you so” from Lyn…(*3).[Can you imagine anything more impotent?]

2. Monday briefing, Nov. 5

LPAC IS THE LAROUCHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE 2008 PRESIDENCY

It is time to end the insanity of the persistent downward trend in LPAC income at the very moment that Lyn’s political impact is on an upward trend (*4), as never before.[The money’s getting worse and worse.]

Look at what we have already done with the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act (HBPA). This is the only reality being debated, albeit behind closed doors, on Capitol Hill. (*5) [Claptrap.]

If we successfully prevent a bombing of Iran, it will have been solely the result of Lyn’s persistent intervention (*6) against the Children of Satan….(*7) [Balderdash.]

Despite all this, many of our own people have not seized upon this reality, to drive LPAC. Face it: From 1976-2004, Lyn ran for President in every election cycle, and it was the impact
of his Presidential campaigns, despite some internal sabotaging [Boy, Nancy, he’ll never let you forget that—even though you didn’t do a thing], that drove whatever outreach was achieved, and whatever successive boosts in income followed from it…. We almost pulled off
a Kerry victory, through our efforts, in league with Bill Clinton and the Clinton team. [And the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and Amelia Earhart.]

Ostensibly [What does Jeff think ostensibly MEANS?], Lyn is not running for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008, for obvious reasons of age. But that does not mean that we are not {running a massive intervention into the Presidential elections.}

3. Tuesday briefing, Nov. 6

OUR MISSION: CREATE A PRESIDENTIAL CULTURE WORTHY OF LINCOLN AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (*8)

The following is a paraphrase of Lyn’s message to the organization, delivered on Monday night in dialogue with the NEC, the LYM and a group of Chicago organizers who have been tearing
up Ground Zero in Loudoun County for the past weeks.

The organization has been in a crisis for months that must be solved right now. Up through March-April of this year, the organization was based on field deployments with mass-circulation
pamphlets. [What happened in March-April? Anyone remember? It’s on the tip of my tongue—it was—it was—I got it! Ken Kronberg committed suicide and PMR closed down!] That perspective was abandoned and now must be revived. [And strangely enough, from that day forth, the perspective of having literature was abandoned. Shoulda thought of that before, Lyn.]

From the mid-1970s to the present day, the organization’s survival was based on Lyn’s Presidential campaigns. [Just as you always suspected—all those FEC dollars were keeping the darned thing going.] Now, the country is going to hell [unlike all those other times, when we just SAID it was going to hell] and what is needed is a spokesman to articulate what must be done to change course and restore the American System and our tradition. Just because Lyn, for age reasons alone, is not running for President does not change that basic fact. (*9)

Lyn saw that a Bush reelection would mean the destruction of the legacy of the Clinton Presidency, and so we intervened. We succeeded, despite resistance from within the organization [He’s at it again, Nancy], with the deployment of 100 youth to Boston, singing. This changed the course of history and saved the organization. [I can’t top that one….] (*10)

We are going to redo a competent production of the Prologomena(sic). We are going to revive what we were doing through the early Spring of this year [EARLY Spring—that would be before April 11]–mass organizing through an array of mass pamphlets, which give people an idea of what we are doing. [We want our literature back.] Then the Prologomena (sic), which gives the serious people an in-depth idea of our broad strategy for saving the nation and mankind. (*11)

You need a young adult movement to create a maelstrom. Define the wave of the future. That is what gets people of every age bracket truly excited. We must not have a Romantic notion of the youth, or of the tweeners. We know the weaknesses and the neurotic problems. [The youth have neurotic problems? When did that happen? Last I looked, they were marvelous in our eyes.] (*12)

Recognize what we are doing that is right. We have total authority, Lyn has total authority on the economy and the financial collapse. Look at what we are accomplishing around the HBPA, and now, around a renewed interest in capital budgeting. The HBPA firewall is the only thing that can avert total disaster. [If we could only figure out what we meant by “firewall.”]

We have a package of issues. We have nuclear energy, and we are going to politically destroy Al Gore, as part of this drive. [By the way.]

So we are going to shift to a deployment policy that is a shocker. [I’m shocked. I’ve been shocked for years.]

[And another thing….] We must, in this context, destroy Nancy Pelosi. She is the market (sic), the test of politics. She is keeping Dick Cheney in place, and if Cheney, by virtue of Pelosi’s sabotage, gets his Iran war, then more people will die than were killed by Hitler, and she will have that blood on her hands. [Plus she’s a woman….]

…………..

(*1) Larouche has discovered animated gifs? Wow! This innovative use of innovative technological innovation makes me want to get up and dance!

(*2) Hm.  I think the literature has it that the bills that winding through Congress (example) are strung from Felix R.

(*3) (Shrug) http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/19305.asp

(*4) Yeah, good luck with that one.  I think the idea is to jiggle money out the “Impeach Cheney” tact?

(*5) I think footnote #2 offers the refutation.

(*6) I think this is a reprisal of the old “Labor Committees Avert Nuclear War” tact (following the “One Week to Nuclear War”, etc.)

(*7)  OHMYGOD!  The Children of Satan!  Back again!

(*8) The premise has come into the literature.  On one page you see news that a college professor said the Democrats should emulate FDR — what a concept! — but, for the Larouchian world, starting whenever it was he discovered the genius of FDR, that means emulating Larouche…

(*9) … Likewise, similar lines appear on electing the idea, not the person.  Seeming acknowledgement of the hard sell Larouche would have to fit his round pegs into that campaign of Hillary Clinton.

(*10) Sit back and marvel.

(*11)  Does this end the “Winds of Change” arc?  Really, I never understood how Larouche, Inc. was supposed to pass out their propaganda without those booklets.

(*12) … what with their myspace and facebook and Tron and all that.

Over in Kentucky, the Republican Party has brought out the big guns to get their men elected.

Pat Boone!

You know Pat Boone.  Of Stairway to Heaven fame.  Or did he have any other hits?

A gay person who lives in a Idaho (or other conservative thinking states) would have to appear straight to be elected. Once elected the person he has to vote for his constituents preference. I don’t think it’s being a hypocrite, rather its being a pragmatist which all politicians are. The best commentary I’ve seen is located at (you may have to copy this address and paste it into your browser.)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/doc/clt/459032955.html

Well worth the effort. The publicized reality right now is in Idaho though.

The comment is an example of not addressing the post but instead addressing posts that reference the topic of what the commenter wants to parlay his message regarding, in this case Larry Craig — and the claims of “hypocrisy” — something I did not say there, and for all I know never expressly said.

The comment is a sad one, though it does parallel my sentence about “only electable in a handful of zip codes”.   Saying what? Regarding Larry Craig, though, his situation gets even worse: he is not gay — so he says — and does not believe himself to be gay, and there is a part of himself that believes he never trafficed bathroom stalls like that.

The U.S. “is deeply disturbed by the proclamation of emergency,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. “We cannot support emergency rule or the extreme measures taken during the emergency. Such actions are not in Pakistan’s best interests and damage the progress Pakistan has made on its path to democracy.”

This is one of those statements, and I believe I heard Condelleza Rice made similar statements, which elicits the simple question: “What progress on what path to what democracy are you talking about?”

Well, here is the rationalization of the Pakistani Democracy Project, as put forward by the ruler since that military coup in … 1998? … Musharraf,

Musharraf, however, urged the global community to “understand the ground realities in Pakistan and the decision taken to stabilise the situation in the country”.

He assured the diplomats that efforts were being made in a phased manner to move towards complete democracy since 1999. In the first phase of this process during 1999-2002, he was in full control of the government.

This was followed by the second phase during 2002-07 when an elected parliament functioned along with provincial assemblies and local governments and his role was confined to “advising the government on various issues of national importance”, Musharraf said.

He also referred to the role of the media, saying that in some cases it “seemed to be helping the cause of extremists and terrorists by showing the gory scenes of suicide bombings”, which “encouraged these elements to carry on with their heinous acts”.

Musharraf also said difficult decisions had to be taken in the national interest for “ensuring effective governance, maintaining writ of the government, law and order, security in the country and averting a decline in economic growth”.

I think I have always said that Pakistan was de rigouer necessary in keeping track of or an eye on and understand some political undercurrents out of, for us lay-people, because it was liable to explode.  But after that it becomes a strange example of national impotence.  For instance, I knew how certain rising tensions regarding North Korea would resolve itself; Pakistan just shows up as a black box and some unsolvable riddle.  (Immediate interests in terms of Americans shows up with Jon Stewart’s odd interview question to Musharraf: “Where’s Osama Bin Laden?“, but to expand some things out of our narrow purview — you know the Indian’s interests.)