Can't face the reality of the magic of the RepubliKKKan Party
Posted by Iludium Phosdex on Saturday, February 4, 2012
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16h30 UTC; SATURDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2012: Somehow, the RepubliKKKan Presidential wannabes in Indecision 2012 can't stand to see freshly-released figures (just yesterday, in fact!) showing where our supposedly "morally superior" socioeconomic paradigm based on ekonomesie vryheid met Amerikaanse eienskappe actually gained 254,000 positions in January, thereby reducing the unemployment rate by 0.3% (i.e., from 8.5% to 8.2%) ... and causing the three major American equities indices to see major gains at the close of trading yesterday (the Dow Jones Industrials alone gaining 154 points for the day).
But then again, complacency should not be the watchword, as President Obama warned in the wake of the news. Not to mention reminding us all that things can change rapidly and without warning between now and Election Day on the employment front.
Which, to the RepubliKKKans and their prolefeed enablers, is not exactly good enough. They still insist that only ekonomesie vryheid met Amerikaanse eienskappe "gebore ons die Volk, die Volk te doen" is best equipped to create REAL jobs, paying REAL money, for REAL AmeriKKKans, and sustain prosperity from everlasting to everlasting--if only they, and they alone, "willingly made the effort on their own initiative" to resume hiring calls. The which, unfortunately, fails to recognise that it's actually demand that creates jobs, that jobs can't be spontaneously created without careful scientific testing and analysis beforehand.
And to make matters worse, the RepubliKKKan agenda insists that the State has no place in socioeconomic stimulation, unlike ekonomesie vryheid, &c. Witness this editorial from The Capital Times (cyberspace, via Madison, WI) confirming this point:
The Federal Reserve has, as part of its historic charge from Congress, a responsibility to address and fight unemployment — via its interest policies.Which should be enough to have us Real Americans (not the simulation Fox News uses, expecting such to be Happy Little Vegemites, as it were, playing along with its neo-conservative agenda blindly to the point of goodthinkful) start challenging the more hard-wired RepubliKKKans in Congress and in the prolefeed masheen into explaining the specifics (not just cheap, warmed-over-bumper-sticker-slogan platitudes) of that they have in mind as their real socioeconomic agenda for the defence of ekonomesie vryheid, &c., given their insistence that only the free market is best equipped to do so.
Fed chair Ben Bernanke is respecting that charge and fiscal common sense by holding interest rates down in order to encourage economic growth in what remain very hard times.
Yet, Paul Ryan is attacking him for this — claiming it is inappropriate for the Fed to take steps to combat high unemployment.
This is remarkable. A House Budget Committee chair is pressuring the Fed to let interest rates rise at a time when small-business owners, mid-size manufacturers and other potential job creators are still finding it difficult — even impossible — to get the loans they need to expand and start hiring.
Lack of loans is depressing employment growth, especially in Great Lakes states that still have record- or near-record post-war unemployment.
At the same time, other House Republicans are attacking the Fed for trying to address the mortgage crisis.
All this happened at a House hearing Thursday.
It really was unsettling. At a point when the Republican-controlled House is doing nothing to address unemployment and underemployment, and little or nothing to address the mortgage crisis, Ryan and his allies are attacking Bernanke and the Fed for trying to do something.
It's an incredibly cruel ploy and one that should remind Wisconsinites who Ryan really represents.
Ryan does not serve Kenosha. Janesville, Racine or other communities in southeast Wisconsin. Ryan does not serve the remaining small-business owners and small manufacturers of Rock, Walworth, Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha and Milwaukee counties.
And Ryan certainly does not represent the unemployed and underemployed workers of those communities.
The House Budget Committee chair is a bought man. He represents the people who fund his campaigns: the grifters, scam artists and speculators who steered this country into economic crisis — with the steady support and assistance of Paul Ryan.
And asking them as well if their agenda towards the poor and socioeconomically marginalised is actually one based on the Afrikaans proverb 'n Volk red homself ("a people rescues itself"), and whether such implies that the poor need to rely solely on their own resources and initiative to save themselves from themselves based on appealing to an ur-Class Consciousness they seem to want to promote as a "preemptive" (so to speak) to Class Warfare such as they're forever whining about in their prolefeed. And asking them about the specific means they have in mind to thus inspire the Lower Classes towards such an ideal "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose", all the while implying that seeking out any outside assistance towards such ends of class rescue "will only perpetuate dependency and enslavement."
Which would be especially worth asking during any town meetings they may have during the Congressional spring recess in late March into mid-April. Not to mention e-mailing conservative prolefeeders, taking care to ensure avoiding the risk of their "blacklisting" you by e-mail and telephone.
As well, such specimens of conservative prolefeed may want to be asked if they have in mind calls for a supposedly "spontaneous and mighty appeal to mutual self-aid" in the vein of Vader Kestell's call to Reddingsdaad during die Tweede Trek's visit to Bloemfontein in 1938, all the while being seen as one with Holy and Sacred Duty ... only to have the funds thus collected out of the spare savings of "REAL AmeriKKKans" scared thereby being diverted at the last minute to "more pressing needs," not otherwise specified.
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One Spokane homebuilder has come up with his own way to help stimulate the economy by helping "restore American jobs" through constructing new homes with as much American-sourced and -manufactured material as possible--even if it means adding as much as $1,000 to the final cost, what with some lighting fixtures and appliances being assembled overseas (China, Taiwan and Mexico in particular) from American components.
I just hope this isn't crossing the line into out-and-out jingoism.
I just hope this isn't crossing the line into out-and-out jingoism.
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To some media watchdogs, the TV Ratings Scheme, V-chip and Parental Controls aren't good enough such to "help parents make better-informed decisions on their family's TV viewing," especially if the desideratum is one of Promoting Family Unity and Cohesion, that parents themselves need to take a more proactif approach.
But then again, I believe where, in addition to the ratings information, provision is made for broadcasters to "signpost" (as in alerting viewers to) objectionable content in programming (language, sexual themes or content, violence) as required, to help complement the greater ratings scheme; guidance in this respect calls for such alerts to be presented at the start of the programme, as well as coming out of commercial breaks and in promotional material therefor. (However, such signposting ought be phrased carefully so as not to unwittingly attract especially vulnerable or easily-led viewers out of depraved, lurid or morbid curiosity.)
With that in mind, may I be one to suggest that any signposting as aforementioned be done in a way best described as bordering on PsyOps (as in scaring the wits of especially Joe Sixpack types insisting on English as the lingua franca, first, last, always enough to reach for the remote and channel-surf wholesale, or otherwise seek out the Electronic Programme Guide, ultimately to recognise that TV is no longer really worth having as a waste of time and mind): Videlicet, having such advisories broadcast in foreign languages as are unlikely to be widely understood among we otherwise "morally superior" Americans. For starters, may I recommend the likes of these, with rotation on a regular basis:
The same general idea of PsyOps to likewise apply for infomercials and teleshopping, as in the "paid advertising" disclosure at the beginning and end of the programme, as well as when ordering information is given (usually as an on-screen crawl as opposed to aural and visual disclosures required by FTC rules at The Intro and the Outro, as it were).
But then again, I believe where, in addition to the ratings information, provision is made for broadcasters to "signpost" (as in alerting viewers to) objectionable content in programming (language, sexual themes or content, violence) as required, to help complement the greater ratings scheme; guidance in this respect calls for such alerts to be presented at the start of the programme, as well as coming out of commercial breaks and in promotional material therefor. (However, such signposting ought be phrased carefully so as not to unwittingly attract especially vulnerable or easily-led viewers out of depraved, lurid or morbid curiosity.)
With that in mind, may I be one to suggest that any signposting as aforementioned be done in a way best described as bordering on PsyOps (as in scaring the wits of especially Joe Sixpack types insisting on English as the lingua franca, first, last, always enough to reach for the remote and channel-surf wholesale, or otherwise seek out the Electronic Programme Guide, ultimately to recognise that TV is no longer really worth having as a waste of time and mind): Videlicet, having such advisories broadcast in foreign languages as are unlikely to be widely understood among we otherwise "morally superior" Americans. For starters, may I recommend the likes of these, with rotation on a regular basis:
- Afrikaans
- Basque
- Breton
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Dutch
- Vlaams
- Filipino
- Indonesian
- Malay
- Irish
- Manx
- Welsh
- Papuan
- Vietnamese
- Serbo-Croatian
- Some of the over 400 regional languages and dialects of India
- Maltese
- Galician
- Polish
- Quechua
- Yiddish
- Khurdish
- Romansch
- Lithuanian
- Haitian Creole
The same general idea of PsyOps to likewise apply for infomercials and teleshopping, as in the "paid advertising" disclosure at the beginning and end of the programme, as well as when ordering information is given (usually as an on-screen crawl as opposed to aural and visual disclosures required by FTC rules at The Intro and the Outro, as it were).
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Thoughts While Crushing Aluminum Cans for Recycling: It used to be that flour millers relied on granite millstones to grind wheat kernels into flour ... until the emergence of hard red spring wheat as a cash crop in parts of Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana in the 1870's and 1880's posed a problem for millers accustomed to softer-kernel wheats; more often than not, the granite millstones wound up producing a rather coarse, harsh-tasting flour thanks to the harder wheat kernels emerging from the crop.
Which was enough for the milling fraternity of Minneapolis, itself emerging as a milling centre about that same time thanks to good rail links and adequate supplies of water power from the Falls of St. Anthony, to realise that a new approach to milling was necessary as made it possible to produce decent flour from newer (and harder) wheat strains. Which they found among European millers in especially Paris and Budapest--as in stainless-steel rollers as handled hard red wheat, thereby allowing more flour to be extracted efficiently and economically. Which, before too long, would make Minnesota and flour synonymous, especially thanks to advertising from the likes of Washburn Crosby (whose Gold Medal flour was promoted with the slogan "Eventually ... Why Not Now?"), Pillsbury and Ceresota.
And even if Minneapolis may no longer be the milling centre it once was (in fact, many of the mills there started closing in the mid-1930's as it became more economical to have mills in close proximity to major wheat-growing regions), stainless steel is still the preferred material for rollers as crush the wheat kernel into flour. Which has me wondering if, given the emergence of plastic and graphite composite materials as are said to be as durable as stainless steel, anybody has considered the potential of applying composites to flour milling towards the production of a more nutritious flour, and more efficiently as much as effectively.
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Which was enough for the milling fraternity of Minneapolis, itself emerging as a milling centre about that same time thanks to good rail links and adequate supplies of water power from the Falls of St. Anthony, to realise that a new approach to milling was necessary as made it possible to produce decent flour from newer (and harder) wheat strains. Which they found among European millers in especially Paris and Budapest--as in stainless-steel rollers as handled hard red wheat, thereby allowing more flour to be extracted efficiently and economically. Which, before too long, would make Minnesota and flour synonymous, especially thanks to advertising from the likes of Washburn Crosby (whose Gold Medal flour was promoted with the slogan "Eventually ... Why Not Now?"), Pillsbury and Ceresota.
And even if Minneapolis may no longer be the milling centre it once was (in fact, many of the mills there started closing in the mid-1930's as it became more economical to have mills in close proximity to major wheat-growing regions), stainless steel is still the preferred material for rollers as crush the wheat kernel into flour. Which has me wondering if, given the emergence of plastic and graphite composite materials as are said to be as durable as stainless steel, anybody has considered the potential of applying composites to flour milling towards the production of a more nutritious flour, and more efficiently as much as effectively.
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