It probably really is not worth mentioning Hillary Clinton’s search for her campaign theme song, a process whereby you YOU YOU can go to her website and vote VOTE VOTE from a list of relatively diverse relatively inoffensive songs before whittling it down to that U2 “Beautiful Day” song.

She started with a list of ten, cast out five of those once the voting was in, and then promptly added five write-in songs. Again, it is not worth mentioning what those songs are — though “Everything She Ever Does is Magic” is clearly unusable, but there is something worth mentioning about the predictable negative song titles the masses are “writing in”.

I specifically dwell on the Thompson Twins song “Lies Lies Lies”, because it is a talk radio staple, and an increasingly tedious one at that. Actually I want to say something about talk radio and music: the political parody songs? Few of them are particularly amusing. Most of them are wretched. Thom Hartmann is particularly bad at airing these things, always managing to double the impact of them by referring to the lyrics out of break. While they are not inconceivably terrible, I would prefer a moratorium because they tend to be terrible.
Other than that, Hillary Clinton is getting treated to some songs that end up dwelling into the realm of her tricky-to-navigate gender politics: “Witchy Woman”. Elton John’s “The Bitch is Back.”  Also notable is the shifting of the name of the Beatles tune to “Tax Woman”.

And then there’s Beck’s “Loser”.

Actually, I recommend that Hillary Clinton go with with something by Bach. Just to be completely different. Nobody would see it coming. Nobody would be able to make a derogatory comment on that decision. I’ll throw it to one of the other candidates — maybe one with nothing to lose — um… John Cox?

I.  Is this, or anything like this, proceeding apace?  It floated out into the ether, grasped by … whom?
II.  Reading paragraph 2 regarding the evolution, or general fragmentation, of groups into the 1970s out of the 1960s regarding a general “backlash”, the NCLC being brought into the equation in pargraph 3 — it gets the picture incorrect in spots.   Witness:  These people were drawn to organizations which systematically combatted the anarchic anti-authorianism of the 1960s and combined cultural vestiges of the 1960s (such as rock music, communal living, or the rhetoric of love, peace, Experience, or Revolution) with prescriptions which reversed those of the 1960s culture, e.g., obedience to superiors, short hair, or sexual abstinence.  In the NCLC, there was no rhetoric of love and peace, and rock music was Bourgoise propaganda emenating out of Aristotle and the Jews/British.  At least we still have Revolution.

But indeed, Ruth Williams’s begrudging acceptance and rationalization of life advocating Larouche despite her objections of him as a fear-mongering cult-leader, as portrayed in the book Younger Than That Now, on behest of her questionable boyfriend, initially involved how the NCLC swore off of drugs.  Juggling the two just out of it but still infected and still sorting their strange life decision out “Larouche Youth Movementarians” currently discussing matters at FACTNet, I can safely cue:

I myself am very affected by the experience and I think about it daily; It really was a turning point in my life, and In many ways I felt very connected to what it means being a human being – as opposed to the extremely superficial reality of popular youth culture today, of which I was a part.  This sense og humanity is something I still cherish and is grateful for.

Youth Culture Killed My Dog.  Speaking of superficial youth culture items, I bring you back to the Larouchies’ attempted revision of this wikipedia entry, um… here.  Even if your goal is bringing culture to the masses, this seems like a waste of time… indeed, go by this man:  you’ve got to hand it to them: they’ve come up with the best possible way to waste your life, by far. even heroin addiction is preferable, if you ask me.

I shouldn’t be too hard here.  Or maybe I should.  I’ve gone through just over 100 posts about this matter in 3 years’ time, a great bulk coming from after last November which was when I chose to mire myself into a topic that ultimately affects me not one iota.  I am studying a rare and exotic species of flora.  I’ll keep that line that was handed to me and string it next to “gutter outlet of Wall Street Fascist John Train”.
I was meaning to swerve myself into other parcels and bits from the two just exiting semi-Larouchites.  Anti-semitism, for instance.  I have never wanted to get too in-depth on the topic, and if I were seriously fighting the forces of Larouche I would defer to comments made such handful of ex-Larouchites rumbling through the FACTNet board, who seem quite good at recollecting instances of “Um.  Huh”, greeted as it is by the cognitive dissonance found in the statement I have a feeling that you guys might be flat out making the story up..  But it doesn’t really take any insider information, or for that matter mid-level analysis, to see something amiss.  It is telling that that Greenpeace blogger who says he was “Larouched” included the phrase “anti-semitism” in his digestion.  To wit, the line Yes, Larouche does attack people who so happen to be Jewish but not because of their ethnicity or religion. He attacks them because of the actions they are commiting. Henry Kissinger for instance… falls flat with my one and only statement: You cannot use such an esoteric term as “synarchist” without being rightly accused of covering something up.

Actually what I wanted to comment about were the following two statements:

#1: Are you sure Larouche knows about whats being done to the older members?

Even I could tell months ago before taking a closer look, and before the suicide of Ken Kronberg brought it into stark relief, when glancing through a Larouchian pamphlet that exhaulted the “LYM” “leaders” and slammed the “baby-boomers”, that something had to be going all swervy at Larouche headquarters with this asinine generation gap discussion.
#2: Yeah I’ll Admit, Lyn sometimes doesn’t describe the specifics of his proposed recovery such as what you said above: Pricing, land ownership, environmental problems etc. His members however usually do the more specific research.

For example, When I was in the movement Lyn would reference tons of projects and thinkers and the members would do the research on them. It might be because larouche wants the members to make the discovery on their own. A perfect example of this would be Bruce Director’s work on the mathematics.

I swear, I laughed out loud at that statement.  It is akin to a wife apologizing for a battering husband, and rationalizing why he has to beat her.

Actually I want to wrap this up fairly quickly.  I have mused that Larouche clearly has “mother problems”, having seen that he implanted the “mother issue” into his followers right back to NCLC days, and probably right back to his days as a semi-respectable guru nibbling off the edges of SDS at Columbia.  Thus I am mightily intrigued by this statement:

The Cuban frogmen theme or meme came from the movie that was shown on the airliner on which Carol and Chris White flew back from London to the U.S. in December 1973. When Chris, who was not brainwashed, but just upset and freaked out, started mumbling about frogmen–when he and Carol were at Lyn’s apartment after arriving in U.S.–Lyn went bananas and started screaming that this was an assassination plot against him.

So no, he’s not doing this so people can make their own discoveries. He babbles like this because his mother told him (I have a source for this) that he’s the most important person in the world and all his thoughts have tremendous weight and so he just knows it’s true.

What the Hell?  Source?  For that?  One of Larouche’s childhood playmates?   Oh well.  Whatever.  It is probably best that I never know the answer to that question.

The Scientologists have parked thrown up their annual yellow titty tents at Pioneer Square, the interoirs of the tent full of garish paintings of bridges and sculptures of L Ron Hubbard, the employees of Scientology prepping the passer – bys with the inane personal quizzes that start you off on the road to clearing those beta-thetans.

Most amusingly enough are the words emblazoned: “Something can be done about it.”  It is a slogan for all times because the something ends up being fairly specific — a giant sucking sound from your bank account into the Corporation founded by L Ron Hubbard, but the “it” that this something is going to be done at is imprecise — the body-thetans of previous generations are haunting you, and you don’t even know it — you may think you’re not miserable, but you are.

(something I picked up at Scientologist headquarters when doing a paper — which I can’t find immediately; and actual answers to the “personality test” found at clambake.com — “correct” answers to such a thing boggles the mind.)
They descended upon Virginia Tech, the Scientologists.  Granted, I have maintained — in a jesty spirit that belies that I probably believe it — that the difference between a religious cult and a religion is about 200 years.  But I would just as soon not let Scientology get that far.  This is a repeat of the Scientologists’ greetings onto the grounds of the WTC in the aftermath of 9/11 — by pretending they were working with the Red Cross, and a sleazy manner in which they managed to get a phone number to a front-group called, I swear to Gawd, “National Mental Health Assistance” — onto media outlets, Fox News being the most national and notable.  A week or so later, I saw Tom Cruise (thought it might have been another one of those Scientologist celebrities) on Rosie O’Donnell’s old show talking about how proud he was with the Scientologists’ response on the ground with 9/11.  He evidently had received his news from the Scientologist paper of record, and I’d have to look that name up.

To both of the email addresses I reguarly use. Check it out!

AND

WOWIE!  I can’t believe I was selected to get this exciting stock tip!  What is this “ADOV”?

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With news like that, you can see how this stock is just about to explode RIGHT NOW!  I feel like I was just told to bought Coca Cola in the late 19th century.  Or McDonalds in the 1940s.  Or Amazon.com in the mid-1990s.  Or told to Sell EVERYTHING on the eve of the eve of the 1929 Stock Market Crash.

Alright.  Mock-serious consideration of an email spam is a played out joke.  I apologize for being lame.

Something worth watching is the frequent dailykos reader poll of support for the various Democratic Party leaders. Generally they have been high in this post – 2006 Election cycle. I expect to see one huge humongous dip in the support for Reid and Pelosi and Emanuel — and probably a minor dip for Dean — who is out of the picture somewhat.

I expect the Democratic Party Demoralization foray has been of a sort that has calculated that they can push this all aside, a series of 15-minute news cycles will turn Americans’ attention elsewhere.

One of the difficult things I had in digesting the 2004 election was that the performance of the Democratic Party– in their minority role — had never really did anything to suggest that Ralph Nader — always further to the left than I have ever been — was wrong in 2000, even with every liberal in America shouting “See?  See?  This is what is wrought with your precious Nader vote!” Granted, there wasn’t much the party held a horrible hand up until somewhere in 2003, but it took until the second term of the Bush presidency for the Democratic Party to find a holding on how to oppose the Republicans. After a flurry of moderately successful tidbits, they appear to have thrown themselves back to square one, unable to foot themselves.
We are now in a holding pattern of inertia until the next president. The similarity is with the Democratic Congress of 1931-1933, the last two years of the Hoover administration, which was a party that was more than willing to out-Hoover Herbert Hoover. It’s a long two years of inertia, the Congress making themselves a bigger laughing-stock than the president. All we can really do, in terms of electoral politics, is tend to your various local and state pictures and elect a better-than above average president. Reid and Pelosi are largely useless without one.

The man who cooked President George W Bush’s breakfasts, lunches and dinners for the first four years of his presidency reveals in a new book that the most powerful man in the world likes no more than a cheap processed cheese sandwich for lunch.”Kraft singles on white bread was one of this President’s most requested lunch items,” says Walter Scheib, who, from 1994 until he was sacked by Laura Bush in early 2005, was Executive Chef at the White House.

Scheib, a professionally trained cook with an outstanding CV even before he started work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, tells me flatly that making lunch for Bush was “not very challenging and didn’t really require any of my professional training”.

But according to Scheib, this is not a making a partisan or political statement. During our conversation over coffee in a swish New York bar, he does refer to the burgers and ‘dogs to which his first Presidential employer, Bill Clinton, was partial. Yet Scheib’s book, White House Chef, part memoir, part cookbook, clearly shows who he preferred working for, and why, during his 11 years in the basement kitchen, even if his professionalism – and presumably his desire to work for the big guns again – rule out any the dishing of any serious dirt.

Scheib, or “Cookie” as President Bush liked to call him, is frustratingly discreet when it comes to talking about his tête-à-têtes over toast with his employers.  […]

The new President was into simpler food than his predecessor. “He didn’t like soup or salad, or anything green,” says Scheib. “He really just wanted beef and anything that could be prepared in Tex-Mex style. There was little challenge in preparing the President’s lunch.”

President Bush was also reluctant to dine with his wife if she had friends over for lunch or if she was having anything fancy’. “He wanted one of his go-to items such as a cheese sandwich or a peanut butter and honey sandwich on white toast with potato chips,” says Scheib.

…………….

Hm.

What’s in a diet?  Okay.  Let me put it this way.  Clinton, according to this cook, would be most at home with ribs and whatnot.  Bush?  Individually wrapped processed cheese food on white wonder bread.  Crusts, what of it exists on such bread, removed no doubt, because Bush is essentially a five year old.  But I have a particularly strange bias about bread, which is essentially that the more grains in it, the better.
Other than that, we have peanut butter and honey?  Ugh.  Does he also eat Chocolate Covered Sugar Bombs with two spoonfuls of sugar while watching cartoons on Saturday morning?  Seriously, I remember eating raw oatmeal with a ridiculous amount of brown sugar in my youth, and that’s about what “peanut butter and honey” comes out to.

Oh well.  Luara forces him to eat his broccoli and… real food, I presume.  It’s a strange era we’re living in anyway, and Bush is not alone in a sort of prolonged adolescence.  It’s just that he happens to be leader of the Free, or Free-ish, World.  Also, it seems his stunted growth hasn’t reached the adolescence point yet.
Years from now we are going to be scratching our head regarding Bush.  Actually I already am.

Ron is our last hope. They want to take away any possiblity of resisting there agenda. We must do something before we cannot even DEFEND our selves. We the people….NEVER FORGET.

This sounds strangely familiar.

Actually I am almost wondering if I ought not reconsider my statement Ron Paul is not a cult leader, which was a blog entry spurred off of a blog that compared Ron Paul with Lyndon Larouche, or more patently the supporters of Lyndon Larouche with the supporters of Ron Paul. Granted, the half a dozen comments that were sent my way were mostly okay (I get the feeling I probably would have had a couple more had this website not gone down for the night), and I can only really say I have this problem with one and a half of them. But those one and a half are indicative of something.

Generally I’ve found that the Paul admirers at Reason are more realistic in their admiration than the supproters at Lewrockwell. But this is probably something of an ideological putsch of sorts.

Again, Ron Paul is not a cult leader, and to say he is is to make statements of hyperbole and/or demogaugery. Lyndon Larouche is. (By the way, have I mentioned yet that Lyndon Larouche called this blog a “gutter outlet” of “Wall Street Fascist John Train”?) However, something in the realm of the politics they espouse somehow does bring a strange synthesis. Over the years, Lyndon Larouche has been referred to as a “libertarian”, and self-described Libertarians slapped silly with assumptions of Larouchian nature. While Larouche is the opposite of Libertarian, but the basic assumption comes with this idea that Libertarians are espousing a pallete of wild and kooky political ideas.
I observe, for instance, this. James Butler, a 25 year old student from New Jersey, has this misguided desire for Lyndon Larouche to toss some credence to his favorite poltical figure and presidential candidate, Ron Paul. A Larouche endorsement, which is physically impossible because it does not advance Lyndon Larouche’s meglomaniac agenda one iota, is about the worst thing that Ron Paul — already suspect for mainstream credentials and travelling the by-ways of fringey politics– could possibly obtain. If you think connections and support from 9/11 Truth and the Alex Joneses swirl uneasily with the mainstream electorate (both of which the person I am about to mention is a proponent of), Larouche is just poison. And Larouche responds as one would figure he would.

Ron does stand up on some important matters, but none of the candidates of which I know, including Ron, has yet to express himself effectively on the issues which will determine whether or not our republic still exists in its present constitutional form when January 2009 arrives.
Crack the code, and Larouche is running for president after pretending he’s not, with a draft-movement by his Cult kicking into high gear. He goes through the list of the party he is infiltrating (to rescue it from Howard Dean, who has sold it out to the ‘syncharists’ — also known as the International Jewish Bankers’ Conspiracy).
Some of James Butler’s comments are unintentionally spot on. Such as:

It is time to leave this fake, phony liberal/conservative paradigm in the past because it is dead.
Travelling the high-ways from Trotskyist associations with the SDS on to the anti-semitic Liberty Lobby, and feigning his way through the electoral political spectrum from there. Yes. He has certainly moved beyond the “phony liberal/conservative paradigm”.

Apparently, Mr. LaRouche believes that the US will be in a state of total anarchy in less than 2 years. Scary stuff here, folks.

More “scary ha ha” than “scary uh oh”. It’s been an article of faith for Larouche for the past 40 years. Don’t pay any mind to it.
Now do you understand why I posted that Ron Paul supporter comment on “last hope”? Help me Obe Won Kenobi. It’s a thin line; be weary of it.

The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned “My Sweet Little Habib”; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets. […]

“Yes . . . F—ING Yes!!!” said one blog entry on the Schlessinger site. “I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it . . . and some that don’t.”

Deryk Schlessinger joined the Army in 2004, telling a crowd of Santa Barbara, Calif., Army reservists gathered for an appearance by his mother that he resented the way Americans criticize the war without recognizing soldiers’ sacrifices. 

I remember seeing Deryk on CSPAN back in, probably 2000, which would have made him 14 or 15.  It was a talk by Dr. Laura Schlesinger, yattering on about raising good kids in this corrupt world of ours, proudly beaming about the young man’s home-school curriculum.  She made a point to throw the camera to Deryck for applause, and for Deryk to say something queasily wholesome.

Mike Paul, spokesman for Laura Schlessinger, released a statement which said, in part, “We hope all news media outlets will respect his privacy for his safety and the safety of those serving with him.” In an interview with The Tribune, Paul suggested that the page could be a fake.
That was a contention echoed by Army spokesman Robert Tallman, who said “it may be possible that our enemies are actually behind this.
“Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace,” Tallman continued. “Sadly, they will use that space to promulgate and disseminate untrue propaganda.” 

Interesting theory, that.  The Enemy zeroes in on a popular, but not overwhelmingly so, right wing talk show host and makes up a raunchy site so that the Enemies in America will have gist for the mill in their non-stop undermining of the troops.  Or something like that.

MySpace is an online social network in which users link pages together through like interests and shared friendships. The Deryk Schlessinger page included nearly a dozen “friends,” including a number of soldiers in Afghanistan, several of whom were linked back to Schlessinger’s page and some of whom had additional photos of, and comments from, Schlessinger on their sites. 

So much for that theory.  Or maybe The Enemy propped fake myspace pages for his friends and fellow soldiers?  Goddamnedit, this is one nasty psy-ops campaign!

The site indicated Schlessinger’s team has survived numerous mortar, rocket and roadside bomb attacks. It also included several graphic cartoons. In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life. 

I used to have ongoing discussions on an Internet message board with some fairly radical Christian fundamentalists.  One of the people, Eldon for those who remember anything and in the know, once posted something to the effect of “You never hear of kids out of Christian schools or home-schooling misbehaving.”  Then again, he was a Holocaust survivor, and Schlessinger is Jewish anyways — honorary Christian fundamentalists though she may be from various visits on Pat Robertson and the like.  It didn’t take me too much work to come up with stupid stories to dispute Eldon’s asinine statement.  The Amish are particularly amusing in their confusingly daft sinning.
I don’t quite know what to make of Deryck’s sense of humor here.  This whole story is part of a vast liberal conspiracy, right, from that well known Liberal Media outlet, the Salt Lake Tribune.  More items of interest here on the understandable fallout the writer had after writing this story, into the fury of the most conservative state in the Union.  Keep reading those comments… they will amuse you.