Research by contemporary political psychologists indicates that there are two types of Authoritarians. The same research suggests that that there could be two types of Anti-Authoritarians, their polar opposites.
The reason I call them Zombie Deals is that by all accounts, they're dead Jim dead! On the other hand it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of the D.C. Neoliberal Consensus to resurrect incredibly bad ideas that benefit only their Billionaire Paymasters and International Mega-Corporations. How many times does the Debt/Deficit Hawk Grand Bargain Plan for privatizing or eliminating our meager Social Safety Net have to be staked through the heart, decapitated, and torn to dust by the sunlight of truth before the Beltway Bozos and their Media Jesters get it?
Is it any wonder they need brains? Theirs have rotted away.
Jill Stein of the Green Party gained ballot status in New Hampshire yesterday, adding another 4 potential electoral votes and bringing the potential number of electoral votes in states where she is on the ballot to 462. She is now on the ballot in 40 states plus Washington D.C.
None of those numbers include the 3 states where she is an official write-in candidate.
Some of the things I have read startle me, so I thought I would lay this out.
So I was noticing the other day that people on this site, they are again having the bickering. Sustained bickering. So much so, that, JtC, he has several times had to go in, cranky, in his bathrobe, to tell people to go to their rooms, or go sit in the corner, with the duncecap on. In one instance, a person became no longer a survivor, and was removed, wholly, from the island. JtC. As Thor. Hurling. The hammer.
Then, when I sat down here Friday night, to draft this Sesame, I noticed that it was still happening. The bickering. Sustained. And even the Giant, he appeared, here, in this room, to confirm. That: indeed. It Is Happening. Again.
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This bickering, it has occurred, is occurring, across multiple threads, and on multiple topics. None of these topics, at bickering issue, are they really new, or nuclear. All have, here, on this site, been previously discussed. Without the bickering. Sustained.
So. Why the bickering? Now?
Then: I had a brainshower. Maybe the Problem, it is astrological. Maybe, as the site is moving through time and space, it is encountering planets and moons and aspects and nodes and conjunctions and squares and whatnot, that are stimulating effects that are Bad. Maybe people here, they are being whipped about, by Saturn & The Sabian Symbols. Which sounds like a band. And. Maybe. It is.
If I were cloned, I would set one of my selves, to examining this Problem. But, I am not. So, I'm not going to. Anyway, I would have to first know the date and the time the site was born. I know JtC mentioned this once here, but I don't remember it, and I'm not going to look it up. Also, I would have to know where, the site, it was born. I assume that would be JtC's computer. But, maybe not. I have never cast a chart, for a tube. Maybe the birthplace of a tube, it is considered the server. Who knows? I have no idea. I assume tubular astrologers, they have long ago solved this problem, of where it is, that tubes, are actually born. Or, maybe not. Because, after all, astrologers, they are humans. So, no doubt, there are endless heated tube threads, out there, somewhere, where the astrologers, they convene, to be all about pinpointing, just where it is, that a tube, it is born. And: lo: look: there they are. Bickering.
Caution - profanity to ensue...
First, some background. There is an initiative on the ballot in November in Colorado. Amendment 69. (Colorado can vote to 'amend' it's constitution by popular vote). This amendment would instigate a single payer program for health care in Colorado. And so I proceed...
The fucking 'Broomfield County Democrats' sent me an e-mail tonight:
The human race has problems up the kazoo, but here's a real major one hardly anyone is talking about.
Robots.
"Sarah Connor: Reese. Why me? Why does it want me?
Kyle Reese: There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
Sarah Connor: I don't understand.
I promised Raggedy Ann a few images last Friday for today, but could not find a Photo Blog essay.
Raggedy Ann
Don`t Have a Cow
Eight years ago the central banks of the world embarked on a bold experiment. They approached the economic crisis with the assumption that it could be fixed with monetary policy alone. Their primary weapon was quantitative easing (QE).
Now, in 2016, experimental monetary policy has run up against reality. The reason is something simple to understand, and yet hard to believe:
central banks are running out of things to buy.
