If Dr. Tom says its bad, its bad.! He is one of the most powerful Senators on the Hill, and we wish we had more just like him. I understand the person that wrote this article not liking him, you get my drift. He had the guts to stand up and tell you wants right and wrong. There are free on the hill that will do that. He killed hundreds of millions of dollors in “PORK” since he has been up there.

God Bless Dr. Tom Coburn, and God Bless The United States Of America.

Note: SIC all the way through.

I presume that Coach Morris Hodgson is referring to the rash of Lesbians in Southeast Oklahoma, who are going to the restrooms in pairs.  I posited this as a good opportunity for entrepreneurs to hire Coburn, who apparently can spot unseen enclaves of Gay Communities that you nor I nor anyone else really considers, and I suppose we have a another opportunity for those alternative phone books of the “Queer Pages”, to circulate in Southeast Oklahoma and… wherever else.

But I repeat myself.

Actually this is a good opportunity to dredge up the discussion this invited back in 2004.  Here’s the Free Republic:

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What is this crap?

Press release from Brad Carson…….

Another reason to vote for Coburn.

The state’s new nickname will be Oklahomo!
I hate to say it but that is just plain funny.
GOA tried to get me to send this guy money, but I checked out his “issues” page and concluded he was a nut on practically everything but guns. Sounds like I concluded correctly.
What’s with these guys that go off on wacky tangents, instead of focusing on real issues? They ought to have more important things on their minds, and instead they just run around providing fodder for silly leftist emotional-issue groups.

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Interesting thing about Coach Morris Hodgson.  Apparently, from his comment left at unity08, he is going to send this to …

420. Morris in Broken Bow, OK
The Democates and the Republicans have put the parties before the people. This is a disgrace and will only shut down this country. If we do not do anything about what is going on, and everyone knows what is going on, BIG CORPORATIONS are running this country. John F. Kennedy in 1963 said “large companies will start to buy up other large companies until they are so big, our Federal Government want be able to control them” that time has come ladies and gentlemen. If we do not turn this country around, we will be a third world country in 15 years. You can say “Coach said it” thats: Coach Morris Hodgson Broken Bow, Oklahoma [May I recommend not posting your phone # to these things?] mohodgson@hughes.net P.S. I will be mailing this to 300 addresses on my computer.
300 addresses on his computer.  Which is not as bad as the Zombie-Computer Spammer who was nabbed in Seattle the other day.

I don’t know how the politics of Tom Coburn square with a populist fight against “big corporations”.  I also don’t know how the politics of Tom Coburn square with the politics of the man speculated to be planning on using this vehicle for a presidential bid, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is threatening us with a Hillary Clinton — Rudy Giuliani — Michael Bloomberg race, that which the first poster — The Constitution Party man in New York — referenced for “liberal”, describing goddanged Fred Thompson.  Culturally, we have three figures whose electoral base for their election victories have been New York City, either by way of winning the mayorship or by picking up all the votes there to offset rural New York.  A far cry from Tom Coburn.
Which means that Unity08 is useful to furbish us with a presidential candidate flogging… what issues?  I think Unity08 is trying to steer us away from both economic issues and cultural issues somehow.  (Hence, the concern of the “homosexual agenda” which I’d figure Coach has does not fit that, nor the concerns of “Big Corporations”.  Unity08 is an empty vessel indeed).  I think the joking answer that Unity08 oughta run Tancredo/Sharpton may not be far off, as I note that serious beltway commentators have suggested that this would be great in giving us Lieberman / Hagel — never mind that those two’s “maverick status” are borne out of stepping away from their parties on the War in Iraq, and thus… agreeing not at all… making Unity08 yet again, from the perspective of beltway commentators’s suggestions, a joke.

I speculate in fits of wildness that Unity08, being that it is an empty vessel and an online tool which skews these and opens it up for unsavory penetration, might be a useful tool for another candidate, but I’m sort of segregating that topic.  Forget I mentioned it.

I watched an old Saturday Night Live sketch, from the first season at the nadir of Nixon’s popularity.  Dan Ackroyd slightly awkwardly played Nixon, the mustache sticking out.  The person I was watching it with largely jeered at this sketch, not being terribly interested in American political history, preferring the theatrical performance that was a bizarre Frankenstein bit, something that would either not be done today in a more tight-knipped and conservative risk-averse Saturday Night Live, or if done would come across as “The Big Ear Family”.  I should probably have compared Nixon with Hamlet to give her viewing a bit of perspective.  Well, probably not Hamlet… I’d have to reconsult my Shakespeare to find a proper protagonist, “I read two Shakespeares“.
The Nixon sketch seemed to want to stuff in every then-just-exposed into the popular consciousness psychological dementia and surrounding aura.  If that sentence makes any sense.  Thus it is Nixon talking with the portraits of Lincoln, and FDR, and Kennedy.  Thus it is Nixon telling Kissinger to kneel down and pray, all the while berating him for being a Jew.  The awkward line came in with Kissinger running out saying he had to order everyone to ignore any directive from Nixon regarding use of nuclear weapons, something that came across as tacked on.

Nonetheless, it was an interesting little snippet, and the overdone nature really only added to its peculiar place today as a Museum Piece of cultural history.  The nation was putting the finishing touches on its definition for the word “Nixonian”.  What is it Nixonian, you ask?

Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.” 

Indeed.

I guess I am obligated to link to this.   You already saw that, didn’t you?  If not, you should have.

I never understood Joseph Lieberman’s 2004 declaration of “Electibility”, even if I take a giant leap of faith and buy into Lieberman’s noxious frame of reference on being a “Centrist” on the issues, supposedly “where the American people are”.  Beyond the issues, you have a real “Alpha” versus “Beta” problem.  Lieberman?  Beta.

Okay, so Ken Kronberg is dead. The in-house printing companies of Larouche Inc. is bankrupt — or liquidated. Larouche claims their demise as an effect of Baby-boomer mismanagement, slyly referencing any minute sparks of independence… they pooh-poohed his prediction of the economic collapse unleashed by the bursting of the Tech Bubble, apparently. This works as a good message for the modern Larouche Youth Movement “leaders” in that bizarre generational dichotomy Larouche has set up.

with the LaRouche org’s destruction of WorldComp and PMR, they are in quite a pickle in terms of where to print, especially because using a non-LaRouche printer means having to pay.
In the past year, the following LaRouche publications have croaked: New Federalist, 21st Century Science & Technology (now “online” but really dead), and Fidelio (partly for money, partly because Kronberg, who edited it, just stopped doing it last year).
Hanging on by a thread are EIR magazine and occasional pamphlets, pretty much printing LaRouche ramblings at webcasts.
However, the reduced runs of publications and the loss of many of the publications doesn’t mattermuch, because the LYM couldn’t get the stuff out anyhow.

AND

Now it will be interesting to see how ole Lindy gets his stuff printed. How long can they pay an outside printer to do what they refused to pay Kronberg to do? How long will an outside printer print, if he doesn’t get paid?
Note that in recent years, the organization lost New Federalist (Kronberg finally stopped mailing it, and then stopped printing it, because he couldn’t get paid); 21st Century mag (now in some online avatar of no clout); Fidelio (Kronberg stopped putting it out, and since he was the only one who worked on it, that was that); etc.
Apparently the EIR runs have been cut drastically since Kronberg’s death, too. So what are the yutes going to wave around while they sing Jesu, Meine Freude on street corners? How on earth will they get contacts if they don’t have any literature to put on the card tables?
I wonder how much importance any profit margin of those ridiculous “card-table shrine” pamphlets. They strike me as loss leaders, those damned $5 suggested donation I find it impossible to imagine anyone shelling out. They are always ALWAYS unloaded in bulk at the end of the Larouchies’ excursion. (Here, Here, and Here, when I get a moment or run into it.) It looks like a Recruitment Show, and if money comes pouring in it’s off of larger donations when the Larouchites get the conduct information of the curious or interested and pester them to death for money later on. I suppose the Larouche book-keeping enterprise could pretty well squelch the payment to the Printing Component of the whole Enterprise to Zero, screwing Ken Kronberg as it did, which I guess would only mean that the LYMers will have to shake the unfortunates who leave their phone numbers for more money still.
I can’t tell if the absence of anything other than those shoddier and shoddier pamphlet-ings are essential to the running of the Cult. Those pamphlets are indelibly important — you have to wave something around, even if you’re actually physically selling a mere fraction of your stock. Beyond that… I am of two minds. Notice here in this silly LYM presentation the reference to — I’d have to watch it again to know for sure — either 20th Century Science and Technology or Fidelio as the “Third best selling journal” in its genre. If they disappear into the ether, one artifice of the Intellectual Potemkin Village that Larouche Inc has set up falls aside… can you continue to make that claim if everything is peering from, at best, Online? Are there other artifices of this type that will just have to take its place? The Robert Beltran Acting School, I suppose. And those brilliant discussions on the… um… Larouche — Riemann Method. (As “sancho” put it, sounds rather like the Curly-Dalai Lama method.)
EIR is indexed online in Google News, the positive and negative sides of Google News in their broad reach of including material. There is a sort of throw-away reference in one of those Larouche internal memos to the effect of how the Baby-boomers let lay the online side of the enterprise, which almost seems like a rationalization for their forced entry of… bulking up their online presence in, what I have noticed, they are pumping out garbage at a rather frenetic clip.

In terms of the evolution of Larouchism, it occurs to me that, starting out, Larouche first surrounded himself with College Graduate Students. He has reached lower and lower, to the point where… apparently admist his group are high school drop outs, and I somehow managed to miscommunicate my bafflement at this on the FACTNet board.
On the youth, there are a couple of considerations that indicate how LaRouche has perfected his technique.
When I and my age cohort joined, we were either college grads or in college or perhaps in grad school. We held jobs. In other words, we were independent, or could form an independent thought, and had to test those thoughts and our performance at work and/or in school.
We supported ourselves. We were able to buy clothes and food and books, and pay rent.
We were THE SAME AGE then, when we were doing all these “grown-up” things, that the yutes are today.
Now, this eroded over time, particularly in regions, where people’s rent and medical bills, etc., began to be paid for them, so that they were infantilized and rendered dependent. When I was a member, however, we called this becoming lumpenized–that is, some part of us still recognized that it was a Bad Thing to live 6 to an apartment, eat all our meals together, live off what we made at field deployments, etc., share our cars (and have them destroyed in the field).
Today, what we used to criticize as lumpenization is held up as the ultimate politico-monastic existence.
That is the crux of the operation: Keeping the LYMers in communalist dorms, feeding them from communalist pots, paying all their bills for them, imprisons them psychologically and financially. They are absorbed into The Family.
The vestiges of independence that we older people retained is one reason LaRouche hates the Baby Boomers and their immediate successors so much. For those older members, no matter what LaRouche does, he can’t impress them the way he can impress the LYM.
Also note that a couple of years LaRouche stopped the process of National Conferences in the U.S.–conferences attended by the old members as well as the young. Now in their place they hold LYM retreats, off in the mountains someplace in isolation.
There are NO conferences for older members–where someone might get up and say what he or she thought. And now the old members are taught by the LYM–very rarely is the LYM taught by old members. There are just a handful of old members “cleared” to teach–Jeff Steinberg, Harley Schlanger, Phil Rubenstein, Bruce Director, Michelle Steinberg, come to mind.

The question, one I would want to throw to Freakonomics : how do you classify a LYMer? Are they expenses? Initial Investments, which will turn into profit on a later date? PRODUCTS??? The set up has been built for them. How much of the enterprise does it cost to pull them up?
Oh, mercy me. I never thought I would ever end up looking at as much insight on the internal mechanics of Lyndon Freaking Larouche, but there you go. Now you too, oh long time blog reader of mine, have the same murky pleasure. And I have no goddamned clue what you could possibly use with this information, except to give a slight pause the next time you see that Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode with Homer shouting “Oh My God! Lyndon Larouche was Right!”

I exchanged about three emails with Avi Klein of the Washington Monthly (who I can mention because he gave his name on the FACTNet board). It was, as I posted before, largely a deferral and acknowledgment that I know nothing, a couple of email addresses for contact information he may or may not have found helpful, and just for the sake of it — I made a quick test to see that he had enough minimal background knowledge to avoid a string of references to the Queen of England in whatever article she was working on (and, for the life of me, I can’t quite tell what direction he is taking it in — it looks like one of two directions). I don’t think I am out of school to refer to one statement he made:

A good book about the movement itself has yet to be written.

The frightening thing is I am staring at an oral history, although it probably gets weaker depending on which end of the strand it lies on — plenty from the NCLC days, not as of yet a whole lot first hand from ex-LYM members, as that little innovation is a bit too recent and, for the most part, any “ex” members would, almost by definition, not have fully indoctrinated themselves.

Laura Mallory, a mother of four children, tried to get the popular Harry Potter books banned from Gwinnett County school libraries in Georgia. She argued that the fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft, and she claims she still wants the best-selling books removed and may take her case to federal court.

Etc Etc.

Actually, what I think the most annoying thing about Laura Mallory, and the Laura Mallorys of the world, is that her crusade, against these forces of Witchcraft, end up rationalizing the inclusion of Harry Potter on those phony annual National Library Associations’ “Banned Book Week” lists, which are list compilations of books that have been challenged… somewhere or other. By people like Laura Mallory. Never mind that there is no place in these United States that you cannot find yourself a copy of any of the Harry Potter books, and just about any public library that stocks popular fiction.
There is a gimmick there, which is that elementary school teachers can hook a child into
reading a book by saying that it was censored… somewhere or other. Other than that, we celebrate the “Captain Underpants” series through the “Banned Book Week” list. Although to be honest, I almost want to ban those ones, just as I want to become a warlock to spite Laura Mallory.

Did I ever mention how I checked out the first Harry Potter book from the library, read the first forty pages or thereabouts, shrugged in indifference, and then returned it to the library? Ah well.

Fred Thompson has initiated that famed Exploratory Commission to decide whether or not to form an Exploratory Commission on whether to run for the Presidency.  I understand one of the calendar restraint Fred Thompson has concerns contractual obligations with Law and Order.  It seems a faulty concern, a contract that one can walk away with on good terms with the Producers of the show.  But whatever, I wouldn’t think it profits Fred Thompson much to actively run for president for a bunch more months.  I do wonder if it might not profit the nation of the United States if the eventual political party nominees coming out of 2008 didn’t start running for president in the first half of 2007, setting an example for the way things will work out.  I kind of want many conventional wisdom edicts to explode in this election cycle’s Process.  For example — wouldn’t it be great if there was still a muddled nomination victory coming out of that famed log-jam of the first week of February — for both parties, naturally?
In other presidential testing of the water news, Tom Coburn is considering running for a presidency.  I don’t really have anything original to add that you cannot find if you look up his name at technorati and consult the bloggers’ comments.  Oklahoma has two nut-job Republican Senators, making it the most obnoxious Senate congregation in the nation.  In Tom Coburn’s case, he will be looking out at and working on issues that you never knew existed.  Who else but Tom Coburn will be solving this problem:

“Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in Southeast Oklahoma that they’ll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it.” 

Southeast Oklahoma, he said in his 2004 Senate campaign.  He has the ability to identify the hot areas of rampant Lesbianism, one of them in the schools of Southeast Oklahoma.  I would not think of Southeast Oklahoma as a hot-area for Lesbianism, but I suppose there are enclaves everywhere and in places you would not expect.  Perhaps Tom Coburn can team up with the creators of the various “Queer Yellow Pages” to better market to these untapped arenas.

Actually he doesn’t need to even be President to do that, and I do think that would benefit our capitalist system in offering better target marketing opportunities to our nations’ businesses.  So, what is the basis of electing Tom Coburn to the presidency?  The simple narcissism that underlines everybody’s presidency, I suppose.