Whither Logic

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/obama-campaign-launches-truth-teams/

Really?

Know what it is.

"To start off let’s make one thing perfectly clear; people who demand more money from the government are the farthest thing from anarchists one could imagine."

Words have meanings....or did...maybe.

"Boomers - Winter is Coming" by James Quinn. FSO Editorial 07/13/2009: "'We should basically be going back to creating a village economy, so that we really reduce the energy intensity of how we live,' he says. 'We need big time conservation, not feel-good conservation. Make things where they're used. You'll end long-distance commuting, and we have the tools to do that now with webcams. Grow food locally. Grow food in your backyard. If they're not commuting, people will have time to do that.'"

Hmmmm. If I weren't commuting.

Word to this!

Pajama Pages: "No other pastors will reassign their personal assistants. Where did this job title come from anyway? Hollywood? Affairs with secretaries are a staple of business life, but at least there’s some official separation between the boss and a secretary or administrative assistant; both are working for the same entity. Labeling someone a personal assistant changes the relationship and makes the person the vassal of the boss, someone who works primarily for the man rather than for the organization. Administrative assistants are people who help the boss do his job; personal assistants are more likely to be seen as someone to be used by the boss for whatever he wants. Note how Lamb just thought Elena was his for the taking. That thinking coincided almost exactly with the beginning of the affair. Perhaps it’s time for these show-time pastors to rethink that relationship."

I am personally quite tired of rock-star "pastors". I've said for a long time that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people; what passes for the Evangelical Church these days is Hollywood for wolves.....fat, loud, worldly, self-aggrandizing wolves in untucked t-shirts ripping bits of scripture from context. Who really needs another serminar?

Jim Kunstler : Easthampton Burning?: "In the typhoon of commentary that's blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that's wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously absent: 'fraud' and 'swindle.' But aren't they really at the core of what has happened? Wall Street took the whole world 'for a ride' and now a handful of Wall Street's erstwhile princelings have shifted ceremoniously into US Government service to 'fix' the problem with a 'toolbox' containing a notional two trillion dollars. This strange exercise in financial kabuki theater will shut down sometime between the election and inauguration day, when the inaugurate finds himself president of the Economic Smoking Wreckage of the United States. What will happen"

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I like the comparison to kabuki: Think about the Zombification of Japan's banks and culture. Are we headed towards a broken society of cyber losers and the pornification of cartoons in lieu of reality? My history books tell me that Japan was a nation of discipline and sobriety; my history books tell me the same of the United States.

My Way News - Obama left with little time to curb global warming: "Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming."

Really.....Cooling, warming, it doesn't matter. It's all coming apart at the seals.

The Silver Bear Cafe: "As much as the French of the 1790s, we too wished to be 'delivered by this grand means from all uncertainty and from all ruinous results of the credit system' (p. 8), and now, also like the 1790s French, we have discovered that where 'commerce was dead; betting took its place' (p. 27). We too sat at dinner parties and prattled on about how our hedge fund - the one we told you all to invest in - is up 46% year to date; and now we find ourselves staring at an empty 401(k) with the same dumbfounded 'what happened?' look on our face."

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