Billary: Why Don't They BOTH Just F-Off?

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Sunday September 09, 2007 · 3:48 PM PDT

2007/09/09 · 15:48

Plato had it right a long time ago: "Those who SEEK power are invariably the least fit to hold and wield it."

Billary (co-enablers Bill and Hillary) are BOTH consummate narcissists, megalomaniacs, liars, control-freaks, manipulators and even psychopaths.

My mother used to refer to elections as "Moron Censuses". Her argument was that it was not only the vote for a particular candidate that registered a person as a moron in the census, but for her, any vote for any candidate had that result given how U.S. elections, since the founding of this plutocracy masquerading as a republic, wind up as basically rigging votes and from backroom-pols-rigged menus of "choice"

That Bill Clinton has the support he still has in the Democratic Party, and that Hillary has the standing she has in the present polls, is a profound testimony to just how many profoundly stupid and/or single-issue-obsessed people inhabit America as well as the Democratic Party.

James Craven

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Wednesday September 05, 2007 · 10:26 PM PDT

2007/09/05 · 22:26

There is a new book out on George W. Bush, said to be the product of unfettered access to Bush, called DEAD Certain.

It is an apt title as Because of George W. Bush's certainty, and the basis of it, a lot of people, past, present and future, wind up DEAD.

It is called The Calvinist Tautology:[G.W. Bush in at least six different venues]: The basis for my wealth, fame and attaining the presidency is preordination or predestination by God; the "evidence" that I have been predestined or preordained by God is my wealth, fame and having attained the presidency.

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Which of the following are clearly manifested by Bush?

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Which of the following are clearly manifested by Bush?

Megalomania

1 vote

Malignant Narcissism

2 votes

Psychopathy and Sociopathy

9 votes

Evil

5 votes

Naziism

2 votes

Antisocial Personality Disorder

3 votes

Room Temperature IQ

1 vote

Dry Drunk

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Preppy Inbreeding

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Eugenics Gone Wild

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Momma's Boy

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Walter Mitty-ness

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Legend-in-own-mind-ism

2 votes

Pompous Swagger

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Pampered Preppyness/Faux Texan

1 vote

Petraeus: Another "Go-To-Guy" for Bush (Part 1)

James Craven

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Sunday September 02, 2007 · 5:04 PM PDT

2007/09/02 · 17:04

Please read the new, Updated, Official, "U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Handbook" written by Lt. Generals David H. Petraeus U.S. Army and James F. Amos USMC(Skyhorse Publishing, 2007). You will see why, apparently, Petreus was really selected and given his present assignment by Bush. You will also see that his "Report" on the status/effectiveness of the "surge" in Iraq and where to go from here, expected soon this month, was really already written a long time ago.

The whole Bush Family, in addition to being known for being control freaks and obsessed with their image in history, is also known to be big on short-term loyalty to friends and timeless vengeance against enemies. They do not like having anyone around them even capable of coming up with--let alone expressing--an opinion contrary to theirs. After all, if your position, wealth and power is a Calvinist-based and "Predestined" manifestation of God's Will, then how could "God's servant"--or his views on anything--be wrong? And how could any contrary opinions be right?

It appears they got another "Go-To-Guy" in Petraeus.

James Craven

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Tuesday August 28, 2007 · 1:13 PM PDT

2007/08/28 · 13:13

The parallels between Vietnam and Iraq are striking and mounting every day. Some of them (A to Z) are listed here.

What is really at stake in Iraq, and the main reason Bush will not leave (in addition to his monstrous ego, malignant narcissism and megalomania and not wanting to "lose" an illegal war he started--on "his" watch and to an "inferior" enemy) is what was at stake in Vietnam: The DEMONSTRATION EFFECT of a U.S. loss revealing to many potential victims and adversaries of U.S. Imperial system exactly how weak, overextended and vulnerable the U.S. imperial system really is.

Once a given war is clearly illegal by even U.S. laws and standards, there is no "optimum" or "orderly" way to end it but IMMEDIATELY and without any conditions.

James Craven

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Saturday August 25, 2007 · 6:12 PM PDT

2007/08/25 · 18:12

It is time to strip away some of the mythology and outright sycophancy vis-a-vis military service in the U.S. imperial war machine. Yes, some heroic actions are undertaken and sacrifices made by U.S. forces despite the often ugly intentions of those who sent them into battle, but the U.S. military is also full of psychopaths, sociopaths, glory boys, morons, racists, proto-fascists, and other forms/types of pathological personalities who often thrive in a military environment. What kind real veteran, with an IQ over 60, could stand or cheer, for one minute, the likes of Chickenhawks Bush and Cheney in faux military gear or talking tough to the VFW? Bush in military gear is like a pedophile priest in elegant flowing robes.

They are not "serving" what is euphemistically called "American Democracy" because: a) America was never founded as a "Democracy"; it was founded, by white propertied elites as a plutocratic pseudo-republic and remains so; b) America is rightly regarded as an oppressor and outright suppressor of Democracy not as a liberator and promoter of it all over the world;

Why do "THEY" hate us? Often for some good reasons.

James Craven

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 10:40 AM PDT

2007/08/23 · 10:40

"Chutzpah" used to be defined as "Killing one's parents and then pleading mercy of the court on the grounds that one is now an orphan." The new defintion of "Chutzpah" is Chickenhawk and Deserter-During-Wartime Bush and Chickenhawk Cheney speaking to a VFW audience--and, speaking on the need for "Staying the Course" in Iraq as "WE" should have "stayed the course" in the Vietnam War they both worked so hard to avoid. What is also disgusting is all those patently stupid and backward VFW types (the older they get the bigger "heros" they used to be) actually sitting and listening to the lies and rationalizations of failure of both of them and even applauding.

There are indeed many parallels between Vietnam and Iraq Wars. And there are also many parallel myths born of cognitive dissonance: the naked contradiction between the BELIEF vs EMOTION, BELIEF vs FACT or EMOTION vs FACTs.

The same cognitive-dissonance-reducing myths and rationales of Vietnam are surfacing again in Iraq--with the same disastrous results.

James Craven

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Tuesday August 21, 2007 · 10:45 AM PDT

2007/08/21 · 10:45

It is so amazing how nothing more than a macho-full-of-onseself swagger, wearing some faux military gear, a few Tom-Clancy-ish technobabble words and sense of absolutely certainty, can be passed-off as "national security" credentials and expertise among many of the American electorate. As Marx (Groucho) said: "The two keys to success are honesty and sincerity; and if you can fake those, the sky's the limit."

And it is also amazing how many dumb people let these armchair generals and pontificators, most of them outright Chickenhawks, get away with it.

It is simple:If one has not served in the military, then tread cautiously both with and on your opinions and advice involving the wars, conditions and military service--and possible deaths and maiming--of others if one did not bother to show up for military service oneself and had a chance to do so.

James Craven

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Friday August 17, 2007 · 2:05 PM PDT

2007/08/17 · 14:05

When "news" is a commodity (an object for sale and profit) then news, along with the producers and the reporters of it, all must be bought and "sold" like any other commodities--like Cornflakes.

Those who select, package and report the news all understand the "game" or the core imperatives of the news business. When the typical editor or reporter says that no one ever told them what to report or not report, they may well be telling the truth because no one had to tell them what was "permissible" to cover and what is taboo; that is how and why they got hired in the first place: they demonstrated throughout their previous work that they had the right paradigm, understood the game and did not need to be told about limits and taboos.

The game of commodified-profit-driven news goes like this:

Access brings The Scoop; The Scoop brings Exposure; Exposure brings Celebrity; Celebrity brings Expanded Access; and Expanded Access brings an even Bigger or Expanded Scoop and...

James Craven

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Thursday August 16, 2007 · 9:57 AM PDT

2007/08/16 · 09:57

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated...
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...We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants todaThe privilege y is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity...

Opening address at the first Nuremberg Trial by Justice Robert H. Jackson, Representative and Chief of Counsel for the United States of America

Calling a crime or body of crimes a "mistake" is like calling rape "sex".

If the powers-that-be can get us or the media to pose the wrong questions than they need not fear the answers.

James Craven

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 10:03 AM PDT

2007/08/14 · 10:03

My father gave me some advice when I was young that the Democratic candidates, for any office, need to take to heart: 1) "Never wind up the only honest person in a rigged card game."; 2) "Never show up to a gun fight with a knife."

Five basic possibilities emerge: 1) becoming corrupted by the game and other players; 2) finding onself continually getting taken; 3) trying to survive and outwit the corrupt within their own parameters and rules; 4) trying to evolve and impose a new kind of game with new rules and hoping that those whose interests will be threatened will not be able to resist; 5) Leaving the game and any legitimation of it.

Under the banner of "lesser of evils" we wind up supporting "the evil of lessers." Or, as Plato put it: "Those who SEEK power, are invariably the least fit to hold and wield it."

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