Chaos Theory---and Practice

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[xbjllb]

Wow. Check out the comments over there. And folks think WE'RE rough over here.

[gringoman]

MONICA//"Meanwhile, the Chinese, Indians and Russians openly question the dominance of the U.S. dollar while kicking around ideas for replacement reserve currencies, and the president and his Treasury secretary are as quiet as mimes."

Don't forget Brazil too, Monica, to round out BRIC (Rhymes with). They want to know, in a US choking on its own debt, what is holding up the US dollar aside from US printing presses. Oh, wait. It's not just BRIC.
JIM ROGERS is a famous American investor, enormously successful and all that....

Jim Rogers Sells Dollars, Plans to Short Treasuries (Update2)
By Bob Chen

July 6 (Bloomberg) — The dollar and U.S. Treasuries are both likely to slide as soaring government debt in the world’s biggest economy undermines confidence in its assets, according to Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings.

“The government is printing lots of money and borrowing even more; that’s not the basis for a sound currency,” he said in a telephone interview today from Singapore. “The idea that anybody would lend money to the U.S. government for 30 years at 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 percent interest is mind-boggling to me.”

[gringoman]

With Monica's leave, if we can for a moment detour from The Bama to The Barracuda....

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gringoNOTE: The NY Times' award-winning columnist Maureen Dowd just did (surprise, surprise) a snarky hit job on the Establishment's bete noire, Sarah Palin. In response, gringoVision has done a deconstruction of Dowd's entire column, now published at monicamemo, before even my own blog.)

FISKING DOWD ON PALIN

(The gringommentary response to DOWD appears inside brackets)

Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president.

Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.

[Sweetener, the Lamestream fixation with a 'Barbie' and other inflatable items is understandable. Sick analogies are de riguer for the national swamp along the Potomac. But for most Americans the analogy for homespun,frontier woman who lives a real life, Sarah Palin, is closer to the sharpshooting Annie Oakley. Annie who? See 'Annie Get Your Gun, music by Irving Berlin, Book by Dorothy Fields. I think you'll enjoy it more than any Barbie doll.]

Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate (Nixon), gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.), or scary threats like biological terrorism (Cheney).

[Maybe you don't, Hon', but please don't speak for Helen Thomas.]

When Lyndon Johnson was president, some of his staff began to think of him as “a sick man,” as Bill Moyers told Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Moyers and his fellow Johnson aide Dick Goodwin even began reading up on mental illness — Bill on manic depression and Dick on paranoia.

[You mean the lib hatchet Bill Moyers who was a spokesman for New Dealer Dem LBJ who used to grant press interviews while seated regally on a White House toilet? Sweetener, why beat around the viper's nest? Why not go straight to Vanity Fair and Todd Purdum for gurgitations on Sarah Palin? As for mental illness, why would any of these liberals have to read up on it? Did Jack the Ripper have to read up on meat cleaver technique?]

And so it was, Todd Purdum learned, as he traveled Alaska reporting on Palin for Vanity Fair, that the governor’s erratic and egoistic behavior has been a source of concern for people there.

[Merci bien, Maureen! I anticipated both of us! Now fess up, girl. Doesn't 'Todd Purdum' sound like something Sarah Palin hooked on her recent fishing trip, then took the hook out of its slimy little mouth and, out of pity, tossed back into the pristine waters of the Sagahanoc or whatever?]

“Several told me, independently of one another,” Purdum writes, “that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’ — and thought it fit her perfectly.”

[Sweetness, we'll believe you and Vanity's hired hatchet 'Todd Purdum' on your un-sourced gossip mongering. But first, speaking of narcissistic personality disorder, will you swear they were not really referring to Barack Obama? We're not Christian extremists. You're free to swear on the latest Vanity Fair, if you prefer.]

The White House can drive its inhabitants loopy. So at least Sarah Palin is ahead of the curve on that one.

[Sarah already said she can outrun our natty POTUS. As for throwing curve balls, Hon', could you use your auspices to set up a match? Surely it would draw higher ratings than ABC's recent Obamacare Special from the White House cum Kremlin?]

As Alaskans settled in to enjoy holiday salmon bakes and the post-solstice thaw, their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability.

['Solipsistic meltdown.' That's good, Maureen. Will this describe our new Planetary Peril after Al Gore's global warming frauds have a statistical nervous breakdown?]

On the shore of Lake Lucille, with wild fowl honking and the First Dude smiling, with Piper in the foreground and their Piper Cub in the background, the woman who took the Republican Party by storm only 10 months ago gave an incoherent, breathless and prickly stream of consciousness to a small group in her Wasilla yard. Gobsmacked Alaska politicians, Republican big shots, the national press, her brother, the D.C. lawyer who helped create her political action committee and yes, even Fox News, played catch-up.

["incoherent, breathless and prickly". You mean in the ears of "Republican big shot" beholders, V.I.P. Obots, and the Alaskan Ankle-Biters? For everyone else, "surprising" describes it accurately. Instead of "incoherent, breathless and prickly," actual people, as opposed to "big-shots ," have been known to consider 'Sarah's Surprise' as stunning but understandable in light of (1) the hired Ankle-Bite Army causing her legal fees of a half million dollars by the strategy of mosquito law suits (2) her need to raise money for that and her family instead of worrying about your big-shots "playing catch-up" with her moves (3) no MSM concern about Obama who, in order to run for POTUS-O, dropped his senatorial obligations like a burning copy of the Sunday Times (4) Not to mention Ronald Reagan's interregnum from holding office as he prepared a Presidential run.]

What looked like a secret wedding turned out to be a public unraveling as the G.O.P. implosion continued: Sarah wanted everyone to know that she’s not having fun and people are being mean to her and she doesn’t feel like finishing her first term as governor.

[Not having fun? She dashed off immediately with hubbie to catch, clean and pan fry the fabulous rock-eye red. Sweet One, try to imagine that kind of happiness, if not in this incarnation, then....]

She can hunt wolves from the air and field-dress a moose, but she fears being a lame duck? Some brickbats over her ethics and diva turns as John McCain’s running mate, and that dewy skin turns awfully thin.

[Thin skin? But feel what's underneath it---off camera, Maureen, please, off camera]

Maybe there’s another red Naughty Monkey high heel to drop — there’s often a hidden twist in Sarah’s country-music melodramas. Or is this a reckless high-speed escape from small-pond Alaska, where her popularity is dropping, to the big time Below?

[Maybe. Maybe. Hey, maybe if Jack London had gone to BamBam's Harvard instead of roughing it in the Klondike! Maybe he'd be known and admired all over the world today not for 'The Call of the Wild, ' but 'The Burp of the Beltway']

Even some conservative analysts admitted that the governor’s move seemed ga-ga before venturing the spin that Palin might be “crazy like a fox,” as Sarah’s original cheerleader, Bill Kristol, put it.

Maybe, Kristol mused, she could use the 18 months she would have spent finishing her term to write her book and study up on the issues for 2012.

Why not? Palin/Sanford in 2012, with the slogan: “Save time — we’re already in Crazy Town.”

[But could it compete with Obama/Dowd in 2012: "White Grandma is not under the bus."]

Palin’s speech is classic casuistry

[As compared to 'Change You Can Believe In'?]

After girlish burbling about how “progressing our state” and serving Alaska “is the greatest honor that I could imagine,” and raving about how much she loves her job, she abruptly announced that she was making the ultimate sacrifice: dumping the state on her lieutenant.

[Isn't it awful, Maureen? The Barack Obama influence again. Oh, wait. Instead of manning up to resign his seat, Barry just voted 'present'?]

Why “milk it,” as she put it, when you can quit it? “Only dead fish go with the flow,” she said, while cold fish can blow out of town. Leaving Alaska in the lurch is best for Alaska. She can better “effect change” in government from outside government. She can fulfill her promise of “efficiencies and effectiveness” by deserting Juneau midway through her term — and taking her tanning bed with her.

[Maureen really should show more compassion for the Army of Ankle-Biters and their frivolous, vicious lawfare against Sarah Palin. Now that they won't have Sarah to leech on, can they expect a bail-out from Barry? Won't they suffer medical conditions, like depression (possibly uninsured) as Sarah turns the Governorship over to her very capable lieutenant who will serve as she would have served? Maureen, Maureen, the hard-working ankle-biters did their job. They weren't lay-abouts. Think of their needs. Use your influence. Don't unemployed leeches have needs too?]

“We need those who will respect our Constitution,” said Palin, who swore on the Bible to uphold the Constitution. She said she can’t fulfill that silly old oath of office in the usual way because she’s not “wired to operate under the same old politics as usual.”

Naturally, she dragged the troops in, saying that her trip to see wounded soldiers overseas “fortified” her decision to give up because “they don’t give up.”

[O Sweetener, "Advancing in another direction" might be considered "giving up" by your Authorities on Pailin, such as the Todd Purdum/ Vanity Fear Brain Trust. Since you're not likely to take Palin's word for it, why not check out the strategist General Douglas MacArthur? Pailin did]

She refuses to succumb to the “politics of personal destruction.” It’s no fun unless she’s the one aiming those poison darts, as she did when she accused Barack Obama of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

[A statement of fact (such as Obama pal, the terrorist Bill Ayres) is different from Vanity Fair/Todd Purdum un-attributed and slimily sourced. We draw a difference. It's called Journalism 101. We imagine that even the NY Times has heard of Journalism 101. ]

Sometimes, she explained, if you’re the star, you have to “call an audible and pass the ball” and leave at halftime, “so the team can win” somehow without you.

The maverick must run free when greener pastures beckon. The musher must jump out of the dogsled when warmer climes call. As Palin’s spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton, says, “The world is literally her oyster.”

But just remember, beloved Alaska, it’s all about you.

(Yes, Maureen, and don't forget "All the News That's Fit to Print"---especially this side of bankruptcy court.]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=1

www.gringoman.com
Escaping Politically Correct

[M/M]

I know you guys are really bummed out about Michael Jackson, so I found this song to cheer you up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

[Truther]

Thanks M/M. I cannot believe Monica has just taken off like this. I am worried. Obama believes that if you liberal in spending your money, you should be able to pay the government its tax also. If you live frugally (e.g. Greenspan ) you obviously have a pile of money and can afford to pay the tax.

[Truther]

I believe public sentiment is turning against Obama, and the way for a Republican president is paved - simply by embracing the middle class, and US soverignty. What is needed is a heavy-weight profesional politician that is well respected, that has or is willing to take on the money managers.

[Truther]

Our country needs to move toward automata - the element that big labor rejected previously. Innovations would have to be protected, and secured from foreign encroachment. We might need an intranet, that is protected from the wild and uncontrolled internet : secured from foreign attacks for example.

It should not be hard to compete in this fashion, since the enormous leverage is actually a gamble that in the long term, these huge losses and large loans will pay off, essentially shamelessly using slave labor, like England previously. These losses were made assuming nothing could compete with slaves. Clearly it would not take much to be more efficient and less costly than the unregulated, lawless, and materially deficient international market has been.

[M/M]

You’re welcome Truther. Here is a tribute to our troops and a great musical icon who is STILL alive. From the movie “Platoon” in honor of our veterans and the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1TvaWkC0w

And to our Vietnam Vets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEarDp1_Lw8&feature=related

[SteveOk]

It's a question of priorities. For Obama his priority is "climate change" and nationalized health care. The elite leftwing of the Democratic Party has embraced the Tennessee Fat Man's mad science of climate change and want to save the world from the big bad corporations who are polluting everything. They keep telling the masses that they have the science and they have decided to save the world by jacking our taxes through the roof and taking over the economy (cap and tax), and if you disagree with them you are an ignorant boob who doesn't appreciate the science that the Tennessee Fat Man has discovered. After all, he won an Academy Award so he must know what he is talking about. And don't forget he invented the Internet. Way down on the list of priorities is national defense and overseas contingency operations (it used to be called the war on terror).

[gringoman]

MONICA//"Meanwhile, the Chinese, Indians and Russians openly question the dominance of the U.S. dollar while kicking around ideas for replacement reserve currencies, and the president and his Treasury secretary are as quiet as mimes."

Don't forget Brazil too, Monica, to round out BRIC (Rhymes with). They want to know, in a US choking on its own debt, what is holding up the US dollar aside from US printing presses. Oh, wait. It's not just BRIC.
JIM ROGERS is a famous American investor, enormously successful and all that....

Jim Rogers Sells Dollars, Plans to Short Treasuries (Update2)
By Bob Chen

July 6 (Bloomberg) — The dollar and U.S. Treasuries are both likely to slide as soaring government debt in the world’s biggest economy undermines confidence in its assets, according to Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings.

“The government is printing lots of money and borrowing even more; that’s not the basis for a sound currency,” he said in a telephone interview today from Singapore. “The idea that anybody would lend money to the U.S. government for 30 years at 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 percent interest is mind-boggling to me.”

Posted by: gringoman | July 08, 2009 at 09:21 PM

And now for a word to Bush and Obama from Mr. Jefferson. (Note to Teacher's Union Government School graduates: Thomas Jefferson was an American. He was good at reading, writing and arithmetic. He rode a horse but never played basketball or did the moonwalk. Nevertheless, he became the third President of the United States. Wikipedia can prove it to you.)

"I place [the] economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared… we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty…or profusion and servitude."
– Thomas Jefferson

[gringoman]

I know you guys are really bummed out about Michael Jackson, so I found this song to cheer you up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

Posted by: M/M | July 08, 2009 at 10:20 PM

M/M,

I know that cheer. I was asked once to audition with a doo-wop group. But can it calm down LINDA STASI, as per....?

SHED NO TEARS FOR THIS TWISTED SICKO

By LINDA STASI

Posted: 2:58 am
July 2, 2009

YOU'D have thought by the media lovefest that the pope had died a tragic death after a lifetime of caring for lepers.

But, no, it was the death of Michael Jackson, a drug-addled, creepy-beyond-words, accused pedophile who literally bought his children with the help of two brood mares and, apparently, his dermatologist -- a group of amoral savages who had no problem giving their kids to a man who looked like the Phantom of the Opera and who behaved like a depraved worm.

You can call it "adoption," but I call it child-trafficking.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07022009/news/columnists/shed_no_tears_for_this_twisted_sicko_177187.htm

[gringoman]

Ann Coulter: FORGETTING SARAH PALIN

July 08, 2009

Sarah Palin has deeply disappointed her enemies. People who hate her guts feel she's really let them down by resigning.

She's like the ex-girlfriend they're SO over, never want to see again, have already forgotten about – really, it's O-ver – but they just can't stop talking about her.

Liberal: Ha, ha ... Sarah who? She's over, she's toast, a future Trivial Pursuit answer, nothing more.

Normal person: Whatever. How about the North Korean missiles?

Liberal: Can you believe she just resigned the governorship like that? What a quitter!

Normal person: Speaking of quitting, how's work?

Liberal: Did you hear she might get a TV show? There's no way Sarah Palin's getting a TV show! No way! I can't believe stupid Sarah Palin could get her own stupid TV show now. Well, I'm sure not gonna watch it – that's for sure!

Normal person: Have you seen all the Michael Jackson coverage on TV?

Liberal: How does she think she can run for president in 2012 if she can't finish her term as governor of a Podunk state? She's finished.

Normal person: OK, then! You won't have to vote for her.

Liberal: I was never going to vote for her! But now I'm not going to vote for her twice. And I will never watch her TV show. I am so over her.

Reporters had already written their stories on Palin's press conference – "rambling!" "incoherent!" – before she even stepped to the podium.

Whatever you think of Palin, her argument for resigning was the opposite of "rambling" and "incoherent."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103441

[gringoman]

Was young Obama an Indonesian citizen?

WND///////An Associated Press photograph of Obama's school registration papers as a child in Indonesia showed the president listed as a "Muslim" with "Indonesian" citizenship.

An investigation into Indonesian citizenship law and a review of Obama's biography and travels suggest the politician at one point may have been a citizen of Indonesia. That would not necessarily disqualify Obama to serve as president, but it could raise loyalty concerns.

A 2007 Associated Press photograph taken by Tatan Syuflana, an Indonesian AP reporter and photographer, surfaced last summer on the Daylife.com photographic website showing an image of Obama's registration card at Indonesia's Fransiskus Assisi school, a Catholic institution.

In the picture, Obama is registered under the name Barry Soetoro by his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. The school card lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His religion is listed as Muslim.

Jack Stokes, manager
of media relations for the AP, confirmed to WND the picture is indeed an AP photo.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103375

gringoNOTE: If Obama was in fact an Indonesian citizen at one time, it cuts right to the Constitutional question of dual citizenship which in itself disqualifies anyone from the office of POTUS. Of course, BHO's issue has never been adjudicated in a court of law. If Barry's million-dollar legal SWAT team continues to have its way (good chance) and Republicans continue to clam up like bivalve mollusks (excellent chance) the issue never will be adjudicated,

[gringoman]

HONDURAS: VIVA COJONES!

It couldn't come at a better time. Last Friday, OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza strutted like a colonial grandee into Tegucigalpa, threatening sanctions and the expulsion of Honduras if it didn't restore Zelaya. He refused to meet President Roberto Micheletti, warning: "We are not going to Honduras to negotiate."

It only strengthened Honduras' resolve against letting Zelaya return. After Insulza raised the stakes, Zelaya tried to fly into Tegucigalpa's airport, setting off riots that left two dead.

Government support strengthened though, with the Church, businesses and crowds in the streets all holding together.

"Honduras is an example to the world. We don't have money. We don't have oil. We have balls," read a hand-lettered sign from a defiant street protester in support of his government.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=331945340575116

[Phil Wedeen]

July 6 (Bloomberg) — The dollar and U.S. Treasuries are both likely to slide as soaring government debt in the world’s biggest economy undermines confidence in its assets, according to Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings.

“The government is printing lots of money and borrowing even more; that’s not the basis for a sound currency,” he said in a telephone interview today from Singapore. “The idea that anybody would lend money to the U.S. government for 30 years at 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 percent interest is mind-boggling to me.”

Posted by: gringoman | July 08, 2009 at 09:21 PM

...and if that idea of lending to the US government is mind-boggling to Jim Rogers just imagine the synaptic havoc being wrecked on the mind of Gringoman.

[Phil Wedeen]

"Honduras is an example to the world. We don't have money. We don't have oil. We have balls," read a hand-lettered sign from a defiant street protester in support of his government.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=331945340575116

Posted by: gringoman | July 09, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Investors Daily, Monica Crowley, and Gringo Dan... all alone against the world.

[Phil Wedeen]

gringoNOTE: If Obama was in fact an Indonesian citizen at one time, it cuts right to the Constitutional question of dual citizenship which in itself disqualifies anyone from the office of POTUS.

PhilipNote: If Gringoman had a degree, it would cut right to the question certified erudition which itself disqualifies anyone from raising a non-sequitur.

[Phil Wedeen]

Gringoman:"I know that cheer. I was asked once to audition with a doo-wop group"

..a group of italians on Fire Island? Thriller.

[Phil Wedeen]

"Reporters had already written their stories on Palin's press conference – "rambling!" "incoherent!" – before she even stepped to the podium"

Once she stepped up, the truth of all the assertions were revealed.
The first casaulty of truth being the sentence I quoted above..
It seems that reporters had not already (pre)written their stories on Palin's press conference. That assertion is a lie. "Rambling!", "Incoherent!" may be the general impression, maybe based on prejudice and predisposition. Gringoman would know all about that.
Pride & Prejudice, too. Not to mention I Claudius.
I Claudius?
Shhh.
Don't say anything.

[Checkers]

THIS IS ALL VERY ALARMING!

The Cloward-Piven Strategy to implement socialist revolution

http://cloward-piven.com/

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968

THE BIG QUESTION IS

Will the U.S. Supreme Court, while it still can, have the balls to demand that the Traitor in Chief present proof of his natural born U.S. citizenship? And if so and he fails to do so, will they have the balls to declare everything he has signed and will sign null and void?

[Niall]

> I believe public sentiment is turning against Obama, [ . . . ]
> Posted by: Truther | July 09, 2009 at 03:50 AM

It certainly is according to the Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll, which as I write this shows his approval rating has dived to -8. Look, folks, the American public is waking up! A few months too late, but better late than never I suppose.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

[Niall]

> Will the U.S. Supreme Court, while it still can, have the
> balls to demand that the Traitor in Chief present proof of
> his natural born U.S. citizenship?

No. Anyway, the Republicans don't have the balls to make an issue of it in the first place.

> And if so and he fails to do so, will they have the balls to
> declare everything he has signed and will sign null and void?
> Posted by: Checkers | July 09, 2009 at 04:54 PM

Moot, but that would be another No if it were even applicable.

[Niall]

Tony Blankley raises an interesting question: If Sarah Palin is really politically dead as the pundits keep telling us, WHY DO THEY KEEP TELLING US? Blankley points out that newsworthy politicians and the political news media don't waste their time on "political corpses."

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_tony_blankley/sarah_agonistes

[Phil Wedeen]

Checkers did not do his homework regarding the fake ACORN bulletin he posted above.

"THIS IS ALL VERY ALARMING!

The Cloward-Piven Strategy to implement socialist revolution

http://cloward-piven.com/

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968"

If Checkers would track back he would see that the author is conservative writer Jim Simpson and is not an ACORN screed.

But Checkers otherwise is being logically inconsistent. For example, suppose the Supreme Court did take up the issue of Obama's citizenship and then suppose that Obama wins his case. Isn't that issue then a weak substitute for stopping the Obama agenda through the congress and the ballot?

Besides, no matter what ACORN wants, socialist/communist or whatever, how is it that this translates into public policy?
Perhaps however, like Gringoman wants, an authoritarian regime is needed in the USA to curb excesses and restore order to the pluralistic circus that is manifest in modern american culture. Some militarism isnin order here. Screw negotiations, bomb first.
Jail dissenters. More police at home. Waterboard criminal suspects to see what they might know. We shouldn't discriminate by only using 'enhanced interrogation techniques' on muslims.
In a fascist world the government responds to corporate interest; in a communist one the government serves the state.
Pick one.

[DJ]

In a fascist world the government responds to corporate interest; in a communist one the government serves the state.
Pick one.
Posted by: Phil Wedeen | July 09, 2009 at 07:06 PM

Sorry, Phil, we refuse to fall into your duality trap. The truth is: we live under a government where liberalism, and only liberalism, rules. ACORN is but a symptom.