I find it necessary today to once again repost some articles that I wrote regarding the media hustle that is going on in favor of the Big Fix currently in progress here in this great Untied Straits of Enronica.
The BIG Fix.
The business of America is business.-Calvin Coolidge
Bet on it.
Business by any means necessary.
Almost everyone on the leftiness blogs is going batshit happy over Obama’s miraculously meteoric rise to power here.
Justice Prevails!!! scream the headlines.
Out With The Old, In With The New!!!
But…wait a minute, here!!! I will readily admit that Barack Obama is a breath of fresh air in the foetid atmosphere of American politics. He possesses intelligence, charisma, self-control and eloquence to spare.
He is the Anti-Bush.
But…his stated policies are not very “progressive” at all. Not by my standards they are not. Practical? OH yes. He is a masterfully practical politician. But progressive?
HELL no!!!
Read on for more.
This country needs a revolution in its social, business, education and cultural systems or it is going to continue to go down in a descending spiral of shame.
Is Obama going to fix the whole medical/pharmaceutical/food supply system? The almost 100% reliance on corporate-sponsored drugs that often have as many or more bad effects as they do good in order to fix the battered health of a nation that is ill simply because it is eating denatured food at an unprecedented rate and not exercising?
No…he’s just going to continue that system by “fixing” the insurance racket that is part and parcel of the whole problem. Fix the general health care system and the insurance part will fix itself.
But NOOOOoooo…
Is he going to take down the almost totally ineffective so-called “educational” system and rebuild it on a more efficient model? Make teaching as lucrative a job as is corporate do-nothing middle management today?
HELL no! What? Do you think that he’s crazy? Challenge the corporate structure and he would never get elected.
The litany of necessary reforms that are prominent mostly by their absence from any mention in his campaign is endless.
Does he challenge the bloated military-industrial complex?
HELL no! His mama didn’t raise no fools.
Does he threaten real reform in the PermaGov? YOU know? the IRS, the FBI, the vast federal bureaucracy that consists largely of a mass of turgid-minded mediocrities simply waiting out their pensions and doing as little real work as possible while they wait?
Fuggedaboudit!
It’s “Yes we can!” and “Change is in the air!” instead.
The check’s in my mouth and I won’t come in your mail.
Or something like that…
Is he going to change the business-as-usual, militarily enforced economic imperialist position of the United States vis à vis the newly emerging Third World?
HELL no!!!
He’s gonna go get that bad motherfucker Osama bin Laden. YOU know…the guy who caused all’a this trouble that we are in?
Riiiiight.
It’s all HIS fault.
Saddam Hussein v.2
The Arabic Manuel Noriega.
Gonna go get Osama even if it means turning Pakistan into Al Quedastan.
Nice.
Meanwhile…back at the ranch.
Everything’s getting better again.
PHEW!!! I was SO worried!
U.S. Stocks Rally, Dow Jones Industrials Climb 889 Points
By Lynn Thomasson and Eric Martin
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Stocks rallied and the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its second-best point gain as the cheapest valuations in 23 years lured investors and increased commercial paper sales signaled credit markets are thawing.
Alcoa Inc. jumped 19 percent, leading the Dow to an almost 900-point advance, after the shares slid to their lowest price- to-earnings ratio on record. General Electric Co., the largest issuer of commercial paper, soared 9.9 percent after sales of longer-term debt grew 10-fold yesterday as the Federal Reserve entered the market for corporate IOUs. Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. rose more than 12 percent as traders boosted bets the Fed will cut interest rates tomorrow.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 91.59 points, or 11 percent, to 940.51 after sliding to the lowest level since March 2003 yesterday. The Dow climbed 889.35 points, or 11 percent, to 9,065.12. Hong Kong’s benchmark index added 14 percent, its best advance in 11 years, while Germany’s climbed 11 percent and Brazil’s jumped 13 percent.
“The valuations are extremely compelling right now,” said Dan Veru, who helps manage about $2 billion at Palisade Capital Management in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
So what is his REAL job?
To fix the business of America.
Which business ol’ Silent Cal Coolidge absolutely pinned about 90 years ago.
The business of America is business.
By any means necessary.
It’s not working right?
“FIX IT!!!!” they order.
The BIG Fix, in the minds of the movers and shakers of this country.
And…they are wrong.
A patch job is not going to be sufficient.
Not this time.
But they are doing everything in their power to make sure that nothing substantive changes, including manipulating the election for their chosen front man by the use of corporate media.
Now…don’t get me wrong. Given the two choices that were imposed on us by the system…that’s Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, folks, because the McPalin campaign has been the designated loser from the get-go, bet on it…we couldn’t do any better than choose one of them, and both are truly capable big-time pols who know on which side of the bread resides the butter and have no intention whatsoever of raising enough heat to make unwanted toast in the kitchen of the truly powerful.
Gore Vidal had this problem pinned for him when as a young, successful writer from the right side of the tracks…his family is well connected to the whole Rockefeller establishment, the same “Gore” family as Fat Al Gore’s… he was invited to have lunch with David Rockefeller at Rockefeller’s palatial Adirondack estate.
Vidal was helicoptered from Manhattan to the estate and then treated to a lavish lunch. The conversation revolved around politics and business, as one might expect, and the young, idealistic Gore disagreed with most of what David Rockefeller had to say on those matters. As is the case with the oh-so-well-bred monied classes, the conversation remained…well bred, of course.
As Rockefeller escorted Vidal out of the mansion and back into the waiting helicopter, he asked if the meal had been satisfactory. Of course it had been sumptuous, and Vidal expressed his admiration for such fine cooking. As they shook hands, Rockefeller said “You know, Gore…I didn’t cook that meal. I hire people to do my cooking. The same holds true for politics.”
This is a lesson that we should all strive to remember during the coming weeks and months of incipient leftiness ecstasy at the prospect of a liberal government in charge of the affairs of the United States.
The same people who have hired Obama hired the Bush administration and then gave them not one but two terms to get their act together.
Midway into the second term it became painfully evident that they had hired a bad set of cooks. The Katrina fiasco was the clincher, I believe. Iraq v.2. “Enough is enough. They are OUTTA here!!!” said the big boys. Now firing a President and his advisors/controllers is much more complicated than firing a chef and his kitchen staff. It’s a big boat, this ship of state, and it responds to the rudder extremely slowly.
But respond it does, eventually, and now we are about to get a new administration. A new old administration apparently, seeing as how Colin Powell and the Clintons are making their presence known now that the fix has been successful. The more things change in this system, the more they don’t. (Or something like that. I’ve been working on my Bushisms.)
Obama knows what kind of food his employers like, and as I said before, his mama didn’t raise no fools. He’ll do what he can to upgrade the menu, but if the bosses don’t like soul food or Eastern Asian cooking, why…he’s not going to futilely try to force those things on them.
He’ll just lose his job.
Like Carter, Clinton and JFK.
(There are MANY ways to fire someone, y’know. Bet on it.)
So…following are the promised posts from the last couple of weeks. Sorry to take up so much web space, but…what the hell. Most of y’all didn’t read them the first time they appeared and the leftiness euphoria that I see building may make you so dizzy and/or lazy that you won’t even be able bother to manipulate your mouse in order to follow links, so…read on if you have a mind to.
If you have any mind left at all.
Or…start celebrating now.
Your choice. (As if any of us really have a choice.)
Later…
AG
NEVER FEAR!!!
MIGHTY MOUSE WILL SAVE THE DAY!!!
So way back on Sept. 30th I wrote a piece debunking the whole “Economic Collapse” thing as just another blown up lightweight that the cosmic fight promoters were touting as the next “Let’s keep the peons scared” routine.
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE!!! HOTTEST THING EVER!!! (v. MMDCLXXIV++++)
Headlines today? (10/14/08, 8:25 AM EDT) A scant two weeks after we were all headed over the cliff of Hottest Thing Everville?
Hmmmm….
MIRABILE DICTU!!!
Wonderful to relate!!!
Somehow…it all worked out in the end.
PHEW!!!
I was SO WORRIED!!! (Not.)
The fix is always in, folks.
As my wise old grandfather (the real Arthur Gilroy) always used to say “Relax, kiddo. Everything gets better except the last thing, and if it’s the last thing your worries are over. Siddown. Take a load off. Have a drink, kid. Take a load off.”
Yup.
Read on for more.
LOTS more.So now Obama is safely elected…what, you think not? Pfffffttttt.
Obama has been safely (s)elected due to that terrible economic crisis that magically melted away as soon as his numbers rose over 50%, and we can now all happily proceed towards the next necessary crisis.
Necessary in order to keep the proles in line, of course.
What’ll it be next time?
Oh…my guess? (After the national exhilaration of the coming to power of a new generation that is an absolutely perfect physical representation of the coming demographic of Rainbow America? Sorry, folks. I just cannot believe in coincidence as the mainline moving force in this universe. Either God has been studying with Charles Dickens regarding plotlines and character names or someone is pulling some HEAVY cosmic string theory on us all. The doddering McPalin and his nasty-faced surrogate trophy wife Sarah “I can see Russia from here!!!” McPain versus the baraka of Barack Hussein Obama…a name for the New Age if ever I have heard one…and a VP candidate who has been honorably Biden his time in the Senate for lo these many years? Please. The publicity pimps at the WWF couldn’t fix a fight more
palinly. Errrr…plainly.)The next crisis?
My guess?
Probably Pakistan.
Most certainly something.
Yawn.
I can see the headlines now.
HOTTEST THING EVER!!!
EVIL ISLAMIC DRUGLORD TALIBAN AL QUEDAS TAKE OVER NUCLEAR POWER PAKISTAN
And the reaction.
OH!!! I am SO FRIGHTENED Harry!!!
Just when everything seemed so…good!!!
And of course…the solution!
Read on for a reprint of that Sept. 30th article that sunk like a kidney stone in the body politic of Leftinessville.
And…never fear.
Mighty Mouse IS on the way.
Bet on it.
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE!!! HOTTEST THING EVER!!! (v. MMDCLXXIV++++)
What if they threw an economic collapse and nobody came?Every few years it’s another “Hottest Thing Ever!!!”
>Fitzmasses all.
Reverse Fitzmasses.
It ALL tends towards the mean.
Naaaaahhhhh…not that kind of mean.
The middle mean, not the extremely mean.
Read on for more.
Going backwards in time…
Katrina-Hottest thing ever!!!” The country will fall apart under the pressure!!!
The Iraq Invasion-Hottest thing ever!!!” NOW we’ll make the world safe
for economic imperialismfor democracy!!!9/11-“Hottest thing ever!!!” The country will fall apart under the pressure!!!
The 2000 + 2004 elections-“Hottest thing ever!!!” The country will fall apart under the pressure!!!
Bill Clinton’s impeachment/dick control problems-“Hottest thing ever!!!” Sitting president goes down!!! Or…someone goes down on a
sittingstanding president!! How can the nation survive this worst thing ever!!!“Reagan is senile!!!” “Hottest thing ever!!!” When was he not senile? Ever seen any of his early pictures? The worst actor ever. Bar none.
“Reagan’s been shot!!!” “Hottest thing ever!!!” The country will fall apart under the pressure!!!
No it won’t. I am in control!!
Just like I was before the old fool went and got hisself shot.
Nixon’s a liar and a thief!!!
Vietnam is falling!!!
JFK’s been shot!!!
The Bay of Pigs!!!
The Cuban Missile Crisis!!!
Etc. etc., etc. on back to infinity.
Watch out!!! Here comes Genghis Khan!!! “Hottest thing ever!!!”
ALL “The hottest thing ever!!!”
And all bullshit.
Everything gets better but the last thing, folks.
And this ain’t the last thing.
Bet on it.
The last last thing?
That will be the hottest thing ever.
You kin bet yore ass on that, as well.
Bet on it.
All the rest?
Just more bullshit and hustle.
The answer?
NEWSTRIKE!!!
What if they threw a financial panic and no one came?
Yup.
Later…gotta go tend to the same knittin’ I wuz tending to before this latest hot spell. I smell some cool air a’comin’ in about 18 months. Bet on that too while you’re at it.
One day it’s a Depression, the next it’s a great big, profitable World War II.
Hmmmm…..
Sometimes it rains; sometimes it shines.
Hmmmm…..
Have fun…
And…panic not.
Later…
AG
