1/5/09
War Crimes
Way to go Israel, you just lost anther war. Are you going to use cluster bombs this time? Maybe ones made in the United States? The whole world is watching as you devastate a civilian population.
I was ready to support you and a one state solution. But I’m a little busy right now fighting off the pain from heart poison, testicle pain, and aggravated lung cancer: aggravated from doings of the Jewish Mafia.
What I want to know is if this is what Hitler had in mind: Stop the Mafia. Well? One State? Two State Solution? Final solution? I’m just posing the question because I’m in a lot of pain and it looks like the Jewish Mafia.
I saw the movie Valkyrie and I gave it an 8 out of ten when my father asked. Sure there was a lot of German soldiers running around. But half of them were trying to bomb Hitler. I don’t know, you watch the movie if you can stand giving up the money to a Hollywood steeped in sin. It was filmed on location, if this makes a difference.
My left brain cancer is acting up, so I better go and see you on the flipside.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Bridge to Pakistan
12/12/08
Bridge to Pakistan
When the NTSB came out with their report on the collapse of the W35 Bridge in Minnesota, they noted over half a million pounds of construction material on the bridge’s weakest point. I believe the bridge was taken down by the mafia, as extortion to receive money for “infrastructure.” This was done with water, sand and vehicles – intentionally. Because that’s the kind of people they are. They are not as harmless as fixing the sports games.
The Main Stream Media, or MSM, won’t tell you this because they are bought and paid for and have no guts. They should go bankrupt, like the auto industry.
I’m in pain now and get poisoned from multiple consumer products.
The goose in Pakistan is cooked. If there is such a thing as war with a nuclear power, you’re watching it now. Expect more drones near Afghanistan. This kind of thing is better left to the professionals. This was India’s 911 and they have had problems before. I don’t know what Rice said to India.
I told you they were better off with Musharraf. Now the ISI seems more out of control. As Rice said, the terrorism is the country’s responsibility. It is good that their troops rolled up the one camp, but that is not enough.
Bridge to Pakistan
When the NTSB came out with their report on the collapse of the W35 Bridge in Minnesota, they noted over half a million pounds of construction material on the bridge’s weakest point. I believe the bridge was taken down by the mafia, as extortion to receive money for “infrastructure.” This was done with water, sand and vehicles – intentionally. Because that’s the kind of people they are. They are not as harmless as fixing the sports games.
The Main Stream Media, or MSM, won’t tell you this because they are bought and paid for and have no guts. They should go bankrupt, like the auto industry.
I’m in pain now and get poisoned from multiple consumer products.
The goose in Pakistan is cooked. If there is such a thing as war with a nuclear power, you’re watching it now. Expect more drones near Afghanistan. This kind of thing is better left to the professionals. This was India’s 911 and they have had problems before. I don’t know what Rice said to India.
I told you they were better off with Musharraf. Now the ISI seems more out of control. As Rice said, the terrorism is the country’s responsibility. It is good that their troops rolled up the one camp, but that is not enough.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Return of Markets
10/9/08
Return of Markets
Sure, sure, I’m an economist too. Not only am I a writer, but here on this blog are words of wisdom to solve the Financial Crisis. I hope. But more than that. I don’t like the doom and gloomers. I want to say that failure is not an option. At least, to sow panic and fear when one does not know what they be talking about is irresponsible. Yes I’m upset. Because of the loose chatter that passes for commentary. And furthermore, on the other hand, the guy on TV is going to lose his show if he keeps giggling and wearing a suit. Because if the Depression hits, it’s going to be like the French Revolution around here – Off with Their Heads.
10/11/08
Every day they tell us something different. The mainstream media will tell us how we are doing. They are saying the establishment has the tools to deal with the problems. They are trying one thing after another and it hasn’t been enough. One day soon we may hear everything is OK. Unless this is a classic battle of good versus evil, and perhaps even still.
It’s been a real hassle to keep up with the economics of what they say is going on. I don’t like that it’s complicated and that you have to take peoples word for cause and effect relationships of financial entities.
In this space I want to relate some problems of the 700 billion dollar bill, even though it’s a done deal and is supposed to be a large part of the solution.
Maybe the home mortgages being repaired is a large chunk. Someone said banks are not going to lend money to mortgage people with no collateral. (I think they are going to have to.) I’ve got to say McCain’s recent plan for renegotiating sub prime loans sounds good. Is it dangerous to say something good about McCain? More down below.
This line about injecting capital into the banks keeps coming up. Likewise so does losses from derivatives and deregulation, including a big legal change in 2004. Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac are supposed to handle mortgage renegotiation also – they’re authorized for about a trillion dollars, which makes one wonder why the extra 700 billion was necessary. This bails out the rich and every dollar spent by the government is a reward for improper greedy practices.
Injecting capital sounds a lot like, give them money. One person’s view was that we give them the money, then we own some or all of the bank. This sounds like nationalization. Now they are saying that an obscure part of the 700 billion bill authorizes the partial nationalization of banks by the govt. Are we to be thankful for this twisting?
Also there have been rate cuts and monetary policy expansion like 900 billion by the Federal Reserve. The monetary expansion works in a similar way to the 700 bill, which is fiscal policy if it ever gets applied. A good thing is that if it gets applied, a lot of it can be like an investment where the taxpayer gets money back, when purchased assets are resold by the government for example.
Well here has been a lot of rambling commentary that has been supposed to be more simple explanation of some of the things that are going on. The fall of the stock market hasn’t been too bad I don’t think, because it can go back up. In fact, I wonder how much manipulation is being done by bad guys in a struggle of good versus evil.
On the 700 bill, I learned a lot from commondreams.org. On or around September 30th were posts by Michael Moore, Glenn Greenwald, John Nichols, and Dave Lindorf. Also Peter Costantini, if only for his title quoting Bush, “This Sucker Could Go Down.”
There is an October 6th post about Dennis Kucinich, who gets a lot of credit for pointing out that it’s not exactly liquidity problem of the banks, but rather a problem caused by the Accounting Standards Board, The Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve.
Phone calls were running 200 to one against the Bill. 200 economists signed a letter saying it would worsen the meltdown. I don’t know that these problems were corrected in the new Bill. Even oversight, I don’t know that it’s enforceable because it wasn’t in the first bill. Neither were there penalties for executive theft. In the bill there was nothing to force banks to rewrite mortgages. It was only “suggested” that the government be paid back
The letter from the economists said the bill lacked Fairness because it’s a subsidy to investors at taxpayers’ expense. It had Ambiguity because the terms, occasions, and methods should be clear and monitored. Its Long Term Effects were weakening private capital markets. Perhaps this last meant that these markets incorrectly rewarded too much risk.
So I think that the bill should not have been rammed through. We should have kept our powder dry without using it. It’s a bad sign that our politicians ran all over the will of the people.
This being said, it’s done, and maybe the investment will work out and this fiscal policy will stimulate the economy.
It’s time to clear up some loose ends. Yes I think there could be social unrest if the shelves are empty. No, I don’t think this is going to happen. Lately they’ve been saying it’s an international situation. There were a lot of them buzzards standing in line behind George. What if one of them had to take a piss? Don’t they drink coffee?
I digress. I wish them well. Regarding McCain, is it dangerous to say something good? On the Social issues, up and down, I’m liberal. If I was a one issue voter, it would be for a woman’s right to choose. But now because of personal problems including scary physical pain, I think of the Demos as mobsters with their unions and big construction projects, and organized crime. That’s why my politics is taking a hard right. In fact it’s possible that this financial crisis is engineered with downward pressure by the bad guys who are trying to take over. If we push up, they will fail and when things stabilize we can do something for the poor people.
10/13/08
In fact maybe we should do some fiscal policy like another stimulus payment to the poor or even everybody. You know, trickle up economics.
Return of Markets
Sure, sure, I’m an economist too. Not only am I a writer, but here on this blog are words of wisdom to solve the Financial Crisis. I hope. But more than that. I don’t like the doom and gloomers. I want to say that failure is not an option. At least, to sow panic and fear when one does not know what they be talking about is irresponsible. Yes I’m upset. Because of the loose chatter that passes for commentary. And furthermore, on the other hand, the guy on TV is going to lose his show if he keeps giggling and wearing a suit. Because if the Depression hits, it’s going to be like the French Revolution around here – Off with Their Heads.
10/11/08
Every day they tell us something different. The mainstream media will tell us how we are doing. They are saying the establishment has the tools to deal with the problems. They are trying one thing after another and it hasn’t been enough. One day soon we may hear everything is OK. Unless this is a classic battle of good versus evil, and perhaps even still.
It’s been a real hassle to keep up with the economics of what they say is going on. I don’t like that it’s complicated and that you have to take peoples word for cause and effect relationships of financial entities.
In this space I want to relate some problems of the 700 billion dollar bill, even though it’s a done deal and is supposed to be a large part of the solution.
Maybe the home mortgages being repaired is a large chunk. Someone said banks are not going to lend money to mortgage people with no collateral. (I think they are going to have to.) I’ve got to say McCain’s recent plan for renegotiating sub prime loans sounds good. Is it dangerous to say something good about McCain? More down below.
This line about injecting capital into the banks keeps coming up. Likewise so does losses from derivatives and deregulation, including a big legal change in 2004. Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac are supposed to handle mortgage renegotiation also – they’re authorized for about a trillion dollars, which makes one wonder why the extra 700 billion was necessary. This bails out the rich and every dollar spent by the government is a reward for improper greedy practices.
Injecting capital sounds a lot like, give them money. One person’s view was that we give them the money, then we own some or all of the bank. This sounds like nationalization. Now they are saying that an obscure part of the 700 billion bill authorizes the partial nationalization of banks by the govt. Are we to be thankful for this twisting?
Also there have been rate cuts and monetary policy expansion like 900 billion by the Federal Reserve. The monetary expansion works in a similar way to the 700 bill, which is fiscal policy if it ever gets applied. A good thing is that if it gets applied, a lot of it can be like an investment where the taxpayer gets money back, when purchased assets are resold by the government for example.
Well here has been a lot of rambling commentary that has been supposed to be more simple explanation of some of the things that are going on. The fall of the stock market hasn’t been too bad I don’t think, because it can go back up. In fact, I wonder how much manipulation is being done by bad guys in a struggle of good versus evil.
On the 700 bill, I learned a lot from commondreams.org. On or around September 30th were posts by Michael Moore, Glenn Greenwald, John Nichols, and Dave Lindorf. Also Peter Costantini, if only for his title quoting Bush, “This Sucker Could Go Down.”
There is an October 6th post about Dennis Kucinich, who gets a lot of credit for pointing out that it’s not exactly liquidity problem of the banks, but rather a problem caused by the Accounting Standards Board, The Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve.
Phone calls were running 200 to one against the Bill. 200 economists signed a letter saying it would worsen the meltdown. I don’t know that these problems were corrected in the new Bill. Even oversight, I don’t know that it’s enforceable because it wasn’t in the first bill. Neither were there penalties for executive theft. In the bill there was nothing to force banks to rewrite mortgages. It was only “suggested” that the government be paid back
The letter from the economists said the bill lacked Fairness because it’s a subsidy to investors at taxpayers’ expense. It had Ambiguity because the terms, occasions, and methods should be clear and monitored. Its Long Term Effects were weakening private capital markets. Perhaps this last meant that these markets incorrectly rewarded too much risk.
So I think that the bill should not have been rammed through. We should have kept our powder dry without using it. It’s a bad sign that our politicians ran all over the will of the people.
This being said, it’s done, and maybe the investment will work out and this fiscal policy will stimulate the economy.
It’s time to clear up some loose ends. Yes I think there could be social unrest if the shelves are empty. No, I don’t think this is going to happen. Lately they’ve been saying it’s an international situation. There were a lot of them buzzards standing in line behind George. What if one of them had to take a piss? Don’t they drink coffee?
I digress. I wish them well. Regarding McCain, is it dangerous to say something good? On the Social issues, up and down, I’m liberal. If I was a one issue voter, it would be for a woman’s right to choose. But now because of personal problems including scary physical pain, I think of the Demos as mobsters with their unions and big construction projects, and organized crime. That’s why my politics is taking a hard right. In fact it’s possible that this financial crisis is engineered with downward pressure by the bad guys who are trying to take over. If we push up, they will fail and when things stabilize we can do something for the poor people.
10/13/08
In fact maybe we should do some fiscal policy like another stimulus payment to the poor or even everybody. You know, trickle up economics.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Markets
9/24/08
Markets
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. And markets tend to clear. That is, everything gets sold, at various prices. Therefore everyone should resist the urging to write this 700,000,000,000 dollar check. Each of these failed entities represents risk, greed, and probable criminal behavior. Bad debt should not be made good.
Every day this crisis looks different. I’m not sure of the answer. A very many people should be consulted. For example, Gerald Celente (on Coast to Coast) has said that the blame rests on the Mafia, the Democrats, and the Republicans. Maybe he meant the government fomented the legislative environment that allowed the criminals to run rampant. He’s also a doom and gloomer who says the global financial system cannot be saved.
So much of the problem comes from persons passing of worthless things as valuable. And bundled and sold. Catherine Austin Fitts uses the example of one property mortgaged ten times. And this is organized criminal behavior.
According to Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University (on PBS,) no further rescue is necessary at this time. It has been pointed out elsewhere that the housing market has already received attention with the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
There should be no corporate welfare for the wealthy. The failed enterprise and cultures should be allowed to fail. We should keep our money in our pockets. This way there will be no inflationary pressure, the dollar will not devalue, and the price of oil will not spike up.
I don’t know what it means for companies to leverage 30 to one. But it’s not good. I don’t know what it is to have a reverse auction, where companies bid to pay the least price. And many people do not know what the derivatives are. This situation is very complicated. And we shall hear more about it.
It’s going to take some gumption to resist Mr. Paulson, Mr.Bernanke, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Franke. This bill is not good for anybody but the white collar criminals. When the proposal was first presented it was fascist in that it had directives for no legislative oversight, or judicial review. Maybe this was what was needed to fight the crime, but it has been judged as extra-constitutional. It is probably another glaring inconsistency to think that all those billions, from the taxpayer, is going to make the average person feel better in the long run. Stay tuned.
To update on previous posts… Yes that was the entirety of my comment that got newspaper style censored.
Musharef was a good guy, who did what had to be done when he did it. Relations with his country were stable when he was in charge. It is true that democracy got him removed from power. It was a democracy he helped preserve and he was a friend of the U.S.
Iran will still probably be bombed. Amadinejad will be shown to be crazy, because it will have been his running commentary on the existence of Israel that got his country bombed.
To conclude, and with all things considered, America is being held hostage, being held for ransom, by organized criminals, and we should fight back.
Markets
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. And markets tend to clear. That is, everything gets sold, at various prices. Therefore everyone should resist the urging to write this 700,000,000,000 dollar check. Each of these failed entities represents risk, greed, and probable criminal behavior. Bad debt should not be made good.
Every day this crisis looks different. I’m not sure of the answer. A very many people should be consulted. For example, Gerald Celente (on Coast to Coast) has said that the blame rests on the Mafia, the Democrats, and the Republicans. Maybe he meant the government fomented the legislative environment that allowed the criminals to run rampant. He’s also a doom and gloomer who says the global financial system cannot be saved.
So much of the problem comes from persons passing of worthless things as valuable. And bundled and sold. Catherine Austin Fitts uses the example of one property mortgaged ten times. And this is organized criminal behavior.
According to Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University (on PBS,) no further rescue is necessary at this time. It has been pointed out elsewhere that the housing market has already received attention with the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
There should be no corporate welfare for the wealthy. The failed enterprise and cultures should be allowed to fail. We should keep our money in our pockets. This way there will be no inflationary pressure, the dollar will not devalue, and the price of oil will not spike up.
I don’t know what it means for companies to leverage 30 to one. But it’s not good. I don’t know what it is to have a reverse auction, where companies bid to pay the least price. And many people do not know what the derivatives are. This situation is very complicated. And we shall hear more about it.
It’s going to take some gumption to resist Mr. Paulson, Mr.Bernanke, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Franke. This bill is not good for anybody but the white collar criminals. When the proposal was first presented it was fascist in that it had directives for no legislative oversight, or judicial review. Maybe this was what was needed to fight the crime, but it has been judged as extra-constitutional. It is probably another glaring inconsistency to think that all those billions, from the taxpayer, is going to make the average person feel better in the long run. Stay tuned.
To update on previous posts… Yes that was the entirety of my comment that got newspaper style censored.
Musharef was a good guy, who did what had to be done when he did it. Relations with his country were stable when he was in charge. It is true that democracy got him removed from power. It was a democracy he helped preserve and he was a friend of the U.S.
Iran will still probably be bombed. Amadinejad will be shown to be crazy, because it will have been his running commentary on the existence of Israel that got his country bombed.
To conclude, and with all things considered, America is being held hostage, being held for ransom, by organized criminals, and we should fight back.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
News
8/20/08
News for now, comment on Karen’s blog, maybe a post
The whole paper is mobbed up and the rich people seem to have their way with the news. Precisely because of this it will continue to be printed to tell the people what to think. For control. What would Murdoch do? As if I can drop Citizen Kane’s name too. I don’t know. How about running both paper and internets divisions, and one needn’t be exact in allocating common costs. We’ve heard how youth is illiterate for a long, long time. Because of television perhaps. Nowadays high school graduation is less frequent.
If the paper doesn’t hold the youngsters’ interest, whose fault is that? I prefer hard copy to all this scrolling and clicking, and ads taking forever to open up. And whose racket is high speed ISP anyway? The same people who collect the campaign money, and the oil money? Oh… I’ll shut up about responsibility.
8/24/08
So the above little piece, without the top line, began life as a comment on a blogger lady’s blog. Her cartoon showed how newspaper readership has declined because people have no time, information can be had by scanning blogs, and that being informed isn’t necessary. She asks what happens when it’s known that only dorks and oldsters read newspapers, and what happens when newspapers go away.
Maybe I should be thankful for an editor who saved me from embarrassing myself on her forum. Maybe not. I think my response, though containing vinegar, is more optimistic for newspaper future.
Maybe it should have been split into another paragraph or two. Maybe it’s all over the place. I subsequently considered explaining line by line.
I was surprised when she demonstrated how newspapers have editorial control, or self censorship. My comment was deleted by a blog administrator. I’m guessing she didn’t like my first sentence. I’m thinking the paper never met a union it didn’t like. Including its employees. I say this favors the mob, as well does the fact that every headline can be read with multiple meanings that do inform in an underhand way.
A guy blogger commented that the paper was slow to expose the county corruption of late. Perhaps related is that I have complained how big construction is corrupt with the mafia (in a prior post.) I’m saying maybe people are tired or reading that sweet stuff. How about telling the mob to get stuffed. Perhaps even half measures along this line would boost readership.
About the rich, consistently it seems that money talks, and B.S. walks. Example include these: when the stock market goes up, how about saying that the rich are getting richer, or that the capital wealth of the nation is getting farther out of reach of the working or unemployed poor? Likewise when housing stock devalues, how about saying the dream of owning one’s own home is more within reach?
So that’s a lot about the first sentence. And at the end I vent about these large money transfers. This is related to newspapers because news, whether paper, radio, TV, or internet, is big business. I think I’ve brought hope in tweaking perspective with regard to the mob and the rich. Also it may help to try harder to interest the young. As for myself, I tend to be irresponsible as a life choice.
Still I’m working on the medical piece promised. It’s slow reading regarding how rural Chinese eat less animal fat and protein, and have less cancer and heart disease. I expect this message is slow to get out because of big medicine, big pharma, and animal foods industry.
News for now, comment on Karen’s blog, maybe a post
The whole paper is mobbed up and the rich people seem to have their way with the news. Precisely because of this it will continue to be printed to tell the people what to think. For control. What would Murdoch do? As if I can drop Citizen Kane’s name too. I don’t know. How about running both paper and internets divisions, and one needn’t be exact in allocating common costs. We’ve heard how youth is illiterate for a long, long time. Because of television perhaps. Nowadays high school graduation is less frequent.
If the paper doesn’t hold the youngsters’ interest, whose fault is that? I prefer hard copy to all this scrolling and clicking, and ads taking forever to open up. And whose racket is high speed ISP anyway? The same people who collect the campaign money, and the oil money? Oh… I’ll shut up about responsibility.
8/24/08
So the above little piece, without the top line, began life as a comment on a blogger lady’s blog. Her cartoon showed how newspaper readership has declined because people have no time, information can be had by scanning blogs, and that being informed isn’t necessary. She asks what happens when it’s known that only dorks and oldsters read newspapers, and what happens when newspapers go away.
Maybe I should be thankful for an editor who saved me from embarrassing myself on her forum. Maybe not. I think my response, though containing vinegar, is more optimistic for newspaper future.
Maybe it should have been split into another paragraph or two. Maybe it’s all over the place. I subsequently considered explaining line by line.
I was surprised when she demonstrated how newspapers have editorial control, or self censorship. My comment was deleted by a blog administrator. I’m guessing she didn’t like my first sentence. I’m thinking the paper never met a union it didn’t like. Including its employees. I say this favors the mob, as well does the fact that every headline can be read with multiple meanings that do inform in an underhand way.
A guy blogger commented that the paper was slow to expose the county corruption of late. Perhaps related is that I have complained how big construction is corrupt with the mafia (in a prior post.) I’m saying maybe people are tired or reading that sweet stuff. How about telling the mob to get stuffed. Perhaps even half measures along this line would boost readership.
About the rich, consistently it seems that money talks, and B.S. walks. Example include these: when the stock market goes up, how about saying that the rich are getting richer, or that the capital wealth of the nation is getting farther out of reach of the working or unemployed poor? Likewise when housing stock devalues, how about saying the dream of owning one’s own home is more within reach?
So that’s a lot about the first sentence. And at the end I vent about these large money transfers. This is related to newspapers because news, whether paper, radio, TV, or internet, is big business. I think I’ve brought hope in tweaking perspective with regard to the mob and the rich. Also it may help to try harder to interest the young. As for myself, I tend to be irresponsible as a life choice.
Still I’m working on the medical piece promised. It’s slow reading regarding how rural Chinese eat less animal fat and protein, and have less cancer and heart disease. I expect this message is slow to get out because of big medicine, big pharma, and animal foods industry.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Garden Spells and Wal-Mart Plus
Garden Spells and Wal-Mart Plus
7/31/08
OK this doesn’t mean you should not read the previous post. And the next post may have something to do with the system of medicine in this country. And this post does not examine the morality of locking people up for using illegal drugs, or just how well the status quo functions This post does critique a novel, and ruminate on the food goods one gets at Wal-Mart, plus reports on other stores.
Garden Spells was written by Sarah Addison Allen. I went to a book discussion group. Reading a book is a lot of work for an intelligent conversation and the chance of meeting a romance partner.
8/3/08
This novel is called by me to be an example of magical realism. From my dictionary as I remember, this is a realistic narration with elements of fantasy. Here is a story about four female relatives who have paranormal gifts. The main character is able to use plants from her garden that seems pharmacological but also magical. At the end of a book is an index of plants and their uses. Is this a kind of grimoire?
A more important point is, why does the author make the personification of evil a man? Is evil masculine? I think it is an effort by the author to segregate the genders. The women get along together just fine. I think this is to sell more books to bonbon eating female loners. Who needs a man? To be fair, two couples do pair up eventually.
One slightly negative female character is the mother of someone and is unpleasant. Surprise, surprise she also use her sexuality for advantage. This is pounding away with the theory that sex is bad (and I don’t agree.) At least in the end there is a baby born – kind of a Christmas story.
About this book Garden Spells. The title is literally describing magic, so it is controversial from the beginning. I think the mob doesn’t like magic, unless it’s doing it itself.
8/4/08
An actual character in the book turns out to be an apple tree that can throw apples to people. These apples promote dangerous precognitive visions. At the group someone mentioned a parallel to the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Do you think apples promote paranormal abilities?
8/5/08
Wal-Mart has sold me poisonous items. Recently it was a can of Chef Boyardee canned pasta. In the past, it was defective Diet Mountain Dew. Time and time again, their Sam’s Club generic Diet Cola has come up pain inducing. My theory is that it’s the mob trying to damage Wal-Mart’s sales because 1) they are non-union and 2) they are pro-China, which happens to be kind of a rotten country if you think about it. I feel humble in not casting stones, but if you consider pollution, human rights, censorship and their lead in wages race to the bottom, there is room for improvement. They’ve also given us cannibalism and the Death of a Thousand Cuts. So they help make Wal-Mart an easy target for the bad guys.
Other stores have sold bad milk and my gosh beer and other alcohol for reasons that I can only guess that they were too cheap and they are trying to stimulate more expensive sales. Other theories include that it’s a two part poison to spare others, and that appropriate paranoia indicate that the bad guys are plain out to get me. These stores include Walgreen’s, CVS, and Giant Eagle.
I believe physical pain is intrinsically related to our souls. Luxury is not necessary, but of things like hunger, pain, and sleep deprivation from the cold: It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that these things suck. And I’m saying again that the bad guys have delivered to me all sorts of pain that has not yet been diagnosed. I will be happy to report that I am mistaken if that is in fact the case. People who are inexpert on the situation say no one is poisoning me. How do they know how common it is or isn’t?
So that’s me whining. I am not recommending the book. In the book and at the discussion I asked if magic is always a bad thing (like as all originating with the Devil, as was told to me by a priest.) So I asked and I got a lot of No, No’s, magic isn’t all bad. The book treats it as a matter of course as it mixes the real with the surreal, and never uses the phrase white magic. And I can use some preternatural assistance in dealing against the bad guys who poison goods.
7/31/08
OK this doesn’t mean you should not read the previous post. And the next post may have something to do with the system of medicine in this country. And this post does not examine the morality of locking people up for using illegal drugs, or just how well the status quo functions This post does critique a novel, and ruminate on the food goods one gets at Wal-Mart, plus reports on other stores.
Garden Spells was written by Sarah Addison Allen. I went to a book discussion group. Reading a book is a lot of work for an intelligent conversation and the chance of meeting a romance partner.
8/3/08
This novel is called by me to be an example of magical realism. From my dictionary as I remember, this is a realistic narration with elements of fantasy. Here is a story about four female relatives who have paranormal gifts. The main character is able to use plants from her garden that seems pharmacological but also magical. At the end of a book is an index of plants and their uses. Is this a kind of grimoire?
A more important point is, why does the author make the personification of evil a man? Is evil masculine? I think it is an effort by the author to segregate the genders. The women get along together just fine. I think this is to sell more books to bonbon eating female loners. Who needs a man? To be fair, two couples do pair up eventually.
One slightly negative female character is the mother of someone and is unpleasant. Surprise, surprise she also use her sexuality for advantage. This is pounding away with the theory that sex is bad (and I don’t agree.) At least in the end there is a baby born – kind of a Christmas story.
About this book Garden Spells. The title is literally describing magic, so it is controversial from the beginning. I think the mob doesn’t like magic, unless it’s doing it itself.
8/4/08
An actual character in the book turns out to be an apple tree that can throw apples to people. These apples promote dangerous precognitive visions. At the group someone mentioned a parallel to the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Do you think apples promote paranormal abilities?
8/5/08
Wal-Mart has sold me poisonous items. Recently it was a can of Chef Boyardee canned pasta. In the past, it was defective Diet Mountain Dew. Time and time again, their Sam’s Club generic Diet Cola has come up pain inducing. My theory is that it’s the mob trying to damage Wal-Mart’s sales because 1) they are non-union and 2) they are pro-China, which happens to be kind of a rotten country if you think about it. I feel humble in not casting stones, but if you consider pollution, human rights, censorship and their lead in wages race to the bottom, there is room for improvement. They’ve also given us cannibalism and the Death of a Thousand Cuts. So they help make Wal-Mart an easy target for the bad guys.
Other stores have sold bad milk and my gosh beer and other alcohol for reasons that I can only guess that they were too cheap and they are trying to stimulate more expensive sales. Other theories include that it’s a two part poison to spare others, and that appropriate paranoia indicate that the bad guys are plain out to get me. These stores include Walgreen’s, CVS, and Giant Eagle.
I believe physical pain is intrinsically related to our souls. Luxury is not necessary, but of things like hunger, pain, and sleep deprivation from the cold: It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that these things suck. And I’m saying again that the bad guys have delivered to me all sorts of pain that has not yet been diagnosed. I will be happy to report that I am mistaken if that is in fact the case. People who are inexpert on the situation say no one is poisoning me. How do they know how common it is or isn’t?
So that’s me whining. I am not recommending the book. In the book and at the discussion I asked if magic is always a bad thing (like as all originating with the Devil, as was told to me by a priest.) So I asked and I got a lot of No, No’s, magic isn’t all bad. The book treats it as a matter of course as it mixes the real with the surreal, and never uses the phrase white magic. And I can use some preternatural assistance in dealing against the bad guys who poison goods.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
On McMafia
On McMafia
7/6/08
This doesn’t purport to be only a book review, or attempt to be a thorough one either. It is on the subject. The title of the book by Misha Glenny comes from the idea that mafia or organized crime, is as globally diversified as McDonalds, and that it can be franchised like McDonalds, or the Chechen mob. I’ve been nervous about even reading this book because the network of the Charlie Rose show went off the air when Rose was interviewing him about his book.
Glenny travels the world and discusses the organized crime here and there. He doesn’t say they are all connected. He does count the organizations as Mafia. He lets us off lightly as he says the United States is mostly a consumer of crime products. He says that the mob here was seriously damaged in the 70’s and 80’s. However it seems to me that the bad guys have control of EVERYTHING here. And I’m in serious trouble and I get poisoned all the time. Philip Carlo says they are in construction, concrete and steel, in EVERY major city.
There is crime in just about the entire world. Here is comment on a few countries, and as discussed in the book. Japan struck me as bad because big business used their criminals to route the pour from their housing in a big way, to make money on real estate speculation and appreciation. This was done on a large scale, and I can’t believe law enforcement was mostly on board for this. Way to go, Japan.
PBS comes up short in the news department when it speaks of Columbia. They make out FARC to be the bad guy communists, but who will speak for the poor? And the media mostly leave out the story of the paramilitaries (which story is in the book,) who use drug money, and have right wing ties to the national army. (This means to me they have access to U.S. drug fighting monies too.) One answer is drug legalization, more below.
China counterfeits everything, everything whether there are copyrights or not. Glenny says North Korea does a good job on $100 bills and is cheaper on some things that say made in China.
Russia and Israel deal in much, including trafficked women sex slaves. Glenny asks if those in the brothels, the men, knew the extent of the devastation of the kidnapped women, would they still use the services. I know I have a poor opinion of mankind, and think this knowledge would change little. Yet I’m hoping this blog can change things.
The U.S. consumes so much drugs, can you imagine the corruption involved in the distribution. Glenny points out how much has been spent on incarceration and other law enforcement. The war on drugs can be rethought to emphasize medical treatment WHEN NECESSARY. Legalize it. This would mean less profit for crime, and we can save the baby from the bath water, and make society better by being less prude; (my opinion is that prudery promotes prostitution for some men and women.) And we can make love not war, instead of funding merchants of death and smuggled cigarettes.
I don’t know, read the book to learn more. The book McMafia is listed in my profile, and last I checked I was the only person to do so. I don’t know why I feel harassed about this book and will continue to try to make this a better post.
7/6/08
This doesn’t purport to be only a book review, or attempt to be a thorough one either. It is on the subject. The title of the book by Misha Glenny comes from the idea that mafia or organized crime, is as globally diversified as McDonalds, and that it can be franchised like McDonalds, or the Chechen mob. I’ve been nervous about even reading this book because the network of the Charlie Rose show went off the air when Rose was interviewing him about his book.
Glenny travels the world and discusses the organized crime here and there. He doesn’t say they are all connected. He does count the organizations as Mafia. He lets us off lightly as he says the United States is mostly a consumer of crime products. He says that the mob here was seriously damaged in the 70’s and 80’s. However it seems to me that the bad guys have control of EVERYTHING here. And I’m in serious trouble and I get poisoned all the time. Philip Carlo says they are in construction, concrete and steel, in EVERY major city.
There is crime in just about the entire world. Here is comment on a few countries, and as discussed in the book. Japan struck me as bad because big business used their criminals to route the pour from their housing in a big way, to make money on real estate speculation and appreciation. This was done on a large scale, and I can’t believe law enforcement was mostly on board for this. Way to go, Japan.
PBS comes up short in the news department when it speaks of Columbia. They make out FARC to be the bad guy communists, but who will speak for the poor? And the media mostly leave out the story of the paramilitaries (which story is in the book,) who use drug money, and have right wing ties to the national army. (This means to me they have access to U.S. drug fighting monies too.) One answer is drug legalization, more below.
China counterfeits everything, everything whether there are copyrights or not. Glenny says North Korea does a good job on $100 bills and is cheaper on some things that say made in China.
Russia and Israel deal in much, including trafficked women sex slaves. Glenny asks if those in the brothels, the men, knew the extent of the devastation of the kidnapped women, would they still use the services. I know I have a poor opinion of mankind, and think this knowledge would change little. Yet I’m hoping this blog can change things.
The U.S. consumes so much drugs, can you imagine the corruption involved in the distribution. Glenny points out how much has been spent on incarceration and other law enforcement. The war on drugs can be rethought to emphasize medical treatment WHEN NECESSARY. Legalize it. This would mean less profit for crime, and we can save the baby from the bath water, and make society better by being less prude; (my opinion is that prudery promotes prostitution for some men and women.) And we can make love not war, instead of funding merchants of death and smuggled cigarettes.
I don’t know, read the book to learn more. The book McMafia is listed in my profile, and last I checked I was the only person to do so. I don’t know why I feel harassed about this book and will continue to try to make this a better post.
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