NORMAN MAILER

i RARELY CALL MYSELF "AN ARTIST", BUT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN i COULD LIE IN BED AND READ WITHOUT DOZING OFF, AND READ THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF THIS MAN'S HANDICRAFT, AND WAS ASTONISHED-AT THE TRUTH OF OBSERVATION, AT THE TRUTH OF THE FRAILTY OF THE OBSERVER-IF ANYONE WANTS TO UNDERSTAND AMERICAN POLITICS-READ MAILER'S COVERAGEOF THE 1960, 64, 68, AND 72 RED AND BLUE CONVENTIONS; WHEN THOSE AFFAIRS WERE FAMILY FIGHTS AND THE LEAST BRUISED BECAME A CANDIDATE. I WILL MISS NORMAN MAILER THE REST OF MY LIFE.

Wow your eyes were wide

The first time we said hi

In that plastic box

You were more bulletproof than Kennedy

And the swaddling cloths

Didn’t occupy your time

Like the tangles

Babes before you

Squirmed in their struggles

Life’s first lesson;

And your giggles made me believe in mary

All was magic and new

And candy bars and snow mean something too

All the good the generation TRIED

Ended up enough

The cottage, yes the nest,

More gainly than the billy club

That represents the brutal past;

Thousands of years

Of murder and theft

SO WE BUMPED OUR HEADS WHEN WE WERE Young;

Just never wanted to count myself a bum

Never mind the crowd

That circle that gets you

In the embrace that you learn

Is all you take out the door

And the unbroken band

Is worth all you lavish

Spend the days staring

Blank at the hundred year old tree

Without thought til years after-when it seems all ago;

And man!

was it a drag the night John Lennon got shot

Cosell announcing football & murder-Monday Night dipsomania

In old armchairs at Butch’s

Who burned himself up with a pile of the Detroit News, April of ‘85

Leaving us all bewildered

His Ma, niece Terry and me,

Among the Firemen, Football Big

In the toxic patch of front yard

with cindered hair and brows from rushing in

To retrieve a friend;

Not a wall of fire nor a lake

A Small

pond or big

Puddle

A

Man sized hell

the cottage-a stoked furnace

was burning from all, paint, synthetic fiber, 360 degrees.

And when the dirt covered him over,

was that it?

Was that all there was as

The suited and gowned walked away?

Like December 8 1980, during halftime of Jets Miami.

The snow was deeper that year, 1980
We took a picture

8 foot piles along West Parkway

Work was still labor

But we had our hearts

And a neighbor,

So unlucky hears laughing chasing;

No one was hungry at bedtime.

And didn’t Edison cash in on Christmas

Better than 4^th of July booming in a single night

Human love and fealty requires

We present the small

With shiny enthrall

And smiles

It’s how we keep them

And they stay in our hearts.

And the approving cheer on the smallest face in the the house

Is worth another GD year of putting up with the crooks-

Our masters.

Who rely that

What’s in your wallet?

Is the same reindeer game

Of winners and losers

Kings used to play

and

The natural arrival of cruelty

Like water reaching its level

the Imperial treachery

is reliable

to keep one upon the throne?

The hounding

Of a civilization that won’t-can’t share what it has no matter what-

It didn’t make me hate all blacks when one hit me in the head with a brick

When my back was turned

In summer 1987

For smiling politely at “his woman”

Unconcious all night on Cass Ave. til the sun stirred my head

As light might pierce a cave;

I did wonder, “What the fuck?”

I went home and soaped up and went to work;

I made Coleman Young a Corned Beef Sandwich

At Trappers Alley before we gave way to the Mob;

And the fairytale jingle of coins, and lottery

Sitting a wake at the funeral of our work;

Buying shoes, hammers, TV’s, American flags

All made in China

All Hail WalMart and the Supreme Court!!!

I can see how

The gun’s a magnet

Without all that Oakland County School;

football and baseball mitts, and trips to Dairy Queen.

White faces peer through polished glass;

Car-bound making passage

The green zone from Farmington to the Fisher freeway

Sleep in the eye too

satin border of the blanket at home

Still moist with snore drool

;

Asking

“How did they allow these fine homes to fall down?”

Whose timbers the banks owned then-and still do

When Detroit was mostly white people

The mirror said they thrived,

Treading mortgage

The pre-suburban way;

I’ve been alive awhile and I’ve seen a lot-

Mostly on TV.

Thank God.

When I say

When I say

The usa

Is the greatest country in the world

Please remember

I have only been to Canada

(Windsor & Toronto)

Where the cigarettes all tasted stale.

When you hear it said

The usa

Is the greatest country in the world

Remember the parrot!

The places

Where everywhere else lives

Is a theory-words

Arabs

Terrorists

Oil kings

Religious NUTS

Sunnis and the Shia’

Gooks!?

Oh well like I say

Love the Buddah

Jesus would

The memory of Woodward Ave.

After dark when Hudsons was still open

7^th floor for mink coats

down in the basement for $5 pants.

When they laid cobblestone

Envisionoing a Mall on the street.

The banks refused to build

What the genius, Coleman A. Young wanted

(nervous across 8 Mile Rd.)

A prosperous black city

Black folk in Detroit

Must go to the suburbs to shop

Usurping the tax base of a city they will reconquer.

The white flyers.

It’s all unplanned and impossible to prove.

USA!!!!!!USA!!!!!!!!

WE’RE FREE TO DO WHAT THEY TELL US TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joseph Hughes Coleman

9:36 pm

Nov. 21, 2007-Thanksgiving Eve

Lawrenceburg TN USA

who killed who?

JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, FRANK COSTELLO, AND THE MOB:

POINT: 9. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, FRANK COSTELLO, AND THE MOB: "The most direct assertion of Kennedy involvement in bootlegging came from Frank Costello, the most powerful Mafia boss of the 1940'' and 1950's, who sought in his later years to cast himself as a successful business man. In February 1973, at the age of eighty-two, Costello decided to begin telling his story to Peter Mass, the prize-winning New York journalist. Ten days after he began, he suffered a heart seizure and died, before Maas could fully explore the Kennedy-Costello relationship. Maas later told the New York Time that Costello had confided that he and Kennedy had been 'partners' in the bootleg liquor business during Prohibition - a partnership that began, Costello said, after Kennedy sought him out and asked for his help. In an interview for this book, Maas said that Costello specifically recalled arranging for the delivery by sea of bootleg scotch to a Cape Cod beach party celebrating the tenth reunion of Joe Kennedy's Harvard class of 1912. 'We were in the liquor business,' Costello told Maas, adding that Kennedy was responsible for the shipping of liquor to the United States from abroad." "Similarly, in his 1983 memoir, A Man of Honor, Joseph Bonanno, the retired New York Mafia boss, said that Costello always told him, 'and I have no reason to doubt it, that during Prohibition he and Joe Kennedy of Boston were partners in the liquor business...I would sometimes go to Sag Harbor, Long Island, in the summer. This was one of the coves, so I was told that the Kennedy people used to transport whiskey during Prohibition." The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh, p.48. Who was at the Court of St. James urging isolation while Hitler builded an army on US capital? Joe Sr. via FDR who the rich called a traitor to his class!! Because he cared AND DID SOMETHING FOR THE POOR OF THIS COUNTRY in his elevation to power which now happens magically as before 1932. The gangsters who send our youth to die by IED's and bullets; the same DuPont's and rich folk as alway.

Warriors of Economy

The youth who enlist today are mostly economically deprived. This will only change with law forcing more to join; i.e. a draft which is even more unpopular than the current combat operations, which are not a war. The US is a republic; where the cream is supposed to rise to the top (Senate) and democratic votes are dicisive. Pure democracy exists in theory and very small groups only. But when elected voters, ie legislators are so under the thumb of banking and corporate forces to prevail in elections, because of the cost of mass media they own; our republic is a plutocracy.

"DON"T TAZE ME BRO"!!!

What's next in the US Police worship? Nancy Grace stated 18SEP07 the police were RIGHT to taze student.

Lay of the Land intro2

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· “African-centered thought, unlike Eurocentrism, does not assume superiority and look at everyone else as being inferior.”

· Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

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· I support Sen. Obama very strongly. I post a blog on his website at Link

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· One of the most dismal events in the last generation, was the Supreme court of the US granting certiorari in Cargill v Monfort of Colorado, immediately after the pious “so-called” abortion hating Mr. Reagan had raised Renquist to Chief Justice and sat J Scalia next to him on September 26, 1986, just in time for arguments in this obscure but nonetheless earthshaking case October 6, 1986; and render its mystifying and vexing decision December 9, 1986, in time for Christmas. Read this bewildering miscarriage of justice in its entirety at the site controlled by gangster lawyers who fake out the public: I wish I was half my age I would engage any of them in tackle football on any of the area's golf courses as we used to-Ibet none of them ever had a bloody nose before.

Here's the case!

U.S. Supreme Court

CARGILL, INC. v. MONFORT OF COLORADO, INC., 479 U.S. 104 (1986)

479 U.S. 104

CARGILL, INC., ET AL. v. MONFORT OF COLORADO, INC. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT No. 85-473. Argued October 6, 1986 Decided December 9, 1986

Held:

1. A private plaintiff seeking injunctive relief under 16 must show a threat of injury "of the type the antitrust laws were designed to prevent and that flows from that which makes defendants' acts unlawful." Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat, Inc., 429 U.S. 477, 489 . Pp. 109-113.

2. The proposed merger does not constitute a threat of antitrust injury. A showing, as in this case, of loss or damage due merely to increased competition does not constitute such injury. And while predatory pricing is capable of inflicting antitrust injury, here respondent neither raised nor proved any claim of predatory pricing before the District Court, and thus the Court of Appeals erred in interpreting respondent's allegations as equivalent to allegations of injury from predatory conduct. Pp. 113-119.

3. This Court, however, will not adopt in effect a per se rule denying competitors standing to challenge acquisitions on the basis of [479 U.S. 104, 105] predatory-pricing theories. Nothing in the Clayton Act's language or legislative history suggests that Congress intended this Court to ignore injuries caused by such anticompetitive practices as predatory pricing. Pp. 120-122.

761 F.2d 570, reversed and remanded.

BRENNAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C. J., and MARSHALL, POWELL, O'CONNOR, and SCALIA, JJ., joined. STEVENS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which WHITE, J., joined, post, p. 122. BLACKMUN, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

· Since the end of the gilded age, and the changes brought by the progressive movement around 1900, especially passage of ANTITRUST LAW, American workers and businessmen were protected from forced mergers, rapacious competition, and “price-squeeze” practices making it impossible to survive economically. The Court proceeded to stand antitrust law on its head, and destroy its utility, unless the Congress restores it with a law that defies such perverse confusion.

· It was held by that besotted assembly that antitrust law was written to “protect competition not competitors,” so the dam burst and we know how many concerns were swallowed up like fish in the sea. Despite improved productivity, American labor has never recovered from the Reagan Administration, a pandering Congress that sent him the deficits HE WANTED FOR HIS BUDDIES IN THE BOND MARKET, and the appointment to the High Court, of a group of fops that either never worked in their life or performed as few commercial functions required for social acceptability. Their problems were not those of the wage earner and vice versa.

· I heard something chilling on TV last night, Chris Matthews was discussing how some call this president a fascist “like Hitler.” Matthews informed us that Mussulini, the original Fascist and coiner of the term , defined those politics as the joining of “Corporate and Government power,” to control the masses. That is what we have today, but business is very crooked, so the ones who make decisions, and control capital are making it harder to earn a living than it was forty years ago.

· That this case received such scant scrutiny by the corporate owned media belies the fact the executives of RCA (NBC), Capital Cities (ABC), and the lone self-owned network CBS Inc. were made ecstatic by such legal alchemy, for dollar signs appeared before their eyes that crossed the bounds of reality, they were chasing leprecauns now, fuck the news!

· ABC was sold to Disney, CBS to Westinghouse Electric Corporation whotook on the name CBS henceforth as in marriage and to keep it on the down low, and GE just had to have NBC at any price. Holy Mussolini! The Corporations control the dissemination of information, so if they lock arms with politicians willing to run interference for them so their greed is kept abundantly sated, with rip-off tax cuts, military contracts, foreign reconstruction, a plethora of bonds issued on waves of deficit budgets and spending; those Corporation types will loyally supply whatever funds are needed to keep friendly politicians in office, through whatever conduit the politician legislates is kosher this election cyclelegal elected. And the wheel goes round and round.

· One of the saddest parts of this whole mess, is TV reporters, who the working class of modest or adequate education rely on, have continued to compare deficit spending by the government with household debt. It never crosses their lips that deficits are funded through the issuance of bonds; which the rich snap up like a hungry pit bull, because they are tax deductible; so, with the tax cuts Reagan, Bush&Bush gave to the rich anyway, their tax burden is further reduced by bonds; which funds the government; but they get it all back with a sweetener when the bonds mature from the Treasury at the expense of revenue paid in taxes. It’s really a nasty crooked deal.

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· I’m one of these white people who is a descendant of settlers who arrived here so long ago we don’t know where they came from exactly. We call ourselves “Scotch-Irish,” (also known as ‘Borderers,’ from what I’ve read, they were no aristocrats, see scholarly treatment at Link. We don’t know anything about what ship they took unlike the Mayflower folks, and there is nobody in the old country to answer the phone.

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· I grew up in a believing family, although we attended services rarely. My late Mother, Faye, was really pro civil rights. She was born in 1930 and lived near Tuscaloosa AL for her first eight years before moving to Detroit MI. See saw some of what the south was about, and she despised the racial shit. She told me she had a black playmate who wasn’t allowed at table with them when they at at a Dr.’s house who often watched my Ma, because her Dad died when she was 13 months old. She was a tender hearted person.

· I lived in a racially mixed area of Detroit (not the suburbs) for many years, went to school, worked, did time, served in the Army, and got drunk with black guys, and I never had any real personal issues come up. The social awkwardness that still exists is sometimes painful because the residue of our guilty history remains. I have heard the word European thrown around. I just tried to show I was taught, and believe by my actions that skin color doesn’t enhance and cannot hide the true qualities of any human.

· I didn’t finish any of the three semesters of college I enrolled in; but I don’t consider myself naïve’. Claims of a color-blind society are pie in the sky. Detroit is the most segregated city and metro area in the US. The segregation and discrimination that continues, is an economic and psychic drain and insult on a great people.

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· It is a good thing to have this man run for president.

· I supported Jesse Jackson in ’84, and was mesmerized by his speaking ability, I felt the Holy Ghost when he spoke at the convention in San Francisco (I downloaded it free at Link and still listen to it). But facts are facts, and not one preacher has been elected president.

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· I currently stay with my Father, Tom, in TN. I receive disability for stenosis of the spine, arthristis, nerve damage, PTSD, and depression. I find TN to be how I always found it, somewhat backward, The election of Chatanooga political hack Mike Corker over the brilliant and impressive Harold Ford Jr. was evidence of the racial prejudice in TN. The election of Corker was an outright sham, he is an imposter in the Senate as far as I’m concerned..

· Fundamentalist clergy and doctrine control a huge number of votes here. Fundamentalist Christianity is unquestioned truth to many in the south. Fundamentalist belief is normally taught from childhood, and accepted without examining its meaning, which I finally think I know. It isn’t holding any particular correct orthodoxy among the many to choose from. It is a relationship to a Holy Book that answers all the big questions and provides all the information humans ought seek from diety, some really worship the Bible, and shun seeking the living God outside its pages.

· While Americans virtually unanimously condemn Fundamentalist Muslims of any stripe for the violence they commit, American violence is just as real and far deadlier. We routinely wage these campaigns far away. Our civilians are distressed by the price of gas, as Iraqis flee for their lives, from the commited jihadists attacking US personnel, from US retaliation to guerilla tactics, from the various religious sects and ethnic groups settling old scores, and the spillover violence by those venting generalized hatred or driven mad by the constant tension and danger. While the murder and lesser violence driven by religious, political, ethnic and territorial hatred has persisted at close quarters for over four years, especially in Baghdad, where war has almost certainly imtimately touched everyone still alive with wounds, loved ones killed, and destroyed property, the US civilian population watches the constant haggling of politicians who with few exceptions never heard a bullet whizz by freezing there heart with fear. While in the comfort of our homes and SUV’s; our soldiers act as our proxies doing violence in our names. Because our government controls the kind of wealth and riches that seems unlimited, even the relatively modest sized military detachment deployed has the firepower to kill and destroy, that no similar number of soldiers has matched in history. So it appears that, if the American Army kills ten or fifteen Arabs to each dead GI, the brains in Washington and many churches deem such a ratio, “acceptable losses.” As the President of the United States, a devout Methodist, has repeatedly called all our adversaries “evil,” it stands to reason some US Christians may accept this judgement from their President, a man who has publicly announced he maintains a disciplined schedule of prayer and church attendence. The same way Muslims accept an order to kill, a fatwah, from an Ayotollah, President Bush acts commited to the task of keeping a righteous sense of wrath ginned up in those who will listen. However vigorously President Bush disputes the “Crusader” appellation given our troops by the Muslim hordes who believe it to the bone; if he is a rational man, he cannot deny the empirical reality of our presence in the dessert, as an almost exclusively non-Muslim or Christian foreign army, friends and comrades to the death with the British, the very colonial power that exploited their land for years. The US Army and Marine Corps are engaged in a mission to prescribe to the followers of Islam the future of their nation on our terms; refusing to leave until they mind what we tell them to do. It is a mission impossible. Perhaps only a man who avoided war on his father’s money, name, and war record, whose compulsory reserve duty encroached on the lifestyle of the rich young party boy and was as taxing and hazardous as a weekly round of golf; he alone could give the green light to our uniformed services, composed of the youth of a nation whose economic prospects for High School graduates, without the means to go to college; was crippled if not destroyed by the deficits of President Reagan, the man he worshipped, and President George HW Bush, Dad, who continued such massive deficit government spending, he was limited to the rarity of one term in office. Most one term presidents have left office feet first.

· Many observers, like Sen. Obama foresaw the removal of Saddam Hussein as a catalyst for chaos. It is fairly universally accepted Hussein was a monster, who followed the examples set by Hitler and Stalin, torturing, killing rivals with slow death, the gas attack inflicted on a village of minority Kurdish people, televised globally, will remain a memory for all who viewed it. However brutal he was, the present orgy of murder was unheard of while he held power. In layman’s terms, he kept a lid on the situation. As an American father of a daughter of military age, just like the president’s twins (all three remain civilians); if Iraq’s Arab neighbors were not compelled to assist their Muslim brothers and sisters out of tyranny, how in the name of Christmas is it our place?

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simply wow. You just wrote a fantastic blog and so filled with food for thought and deep insight. Excellent. I really liked the quote of Rev. Wright. The little I know of him he seems a fascinating man with a fascinating mind. I think Sen. Obama is lucky to have supporters like you who can write and make powerful posts.

Lay of the Land intro

LIFER JOINTS

I BELIEVE Michigan has reached the point where those never getting out deserve their own motherfucking joint. Put all the fucking hopeless in together and guard ‘em with machine guns. I’m not sure what Michigan voters want; besides union jobs and 1^st class education. The neocon destruction done away with; and fucking jobs and factories!!!

THE DEATH OF US ALL

THE ONE WITH THE CONVERSATION

We were sitting in the living room with the TV off, just talking.

Once again he started talking about houses for sale.

“There’s a place in the hills for 85 G’s. A real good hide-out.” He grinned.

“Shit; your sitting in a joint that’s paid for.”

“Across the street from the cop shop.”

“I know, you forgot about that when you bought it.”

“It didn’t matter, we bought it to flip it, not to live in.”

The front yard is a desert in the 100 august heat; inside the mammoth and ancient Carrier refrigerates the whole house to 70, and removed a bucket of water full of condensed humidity today. From the old houses I’ve seen, he’s sitting in a Cadillac.

The cement job with Darnell got started in casual conversation. I mentioned how some “experts” had told me it was impossible to repair the crumbling sidewalk without removing all the cement and starting over. Darnell said if the mixture is done right it will adhere to existing concrete. So far he is right!

The Primary Thought of Love

The primary thought of love is others

Not dwelling on self

Seems like the love and care of others

Is the primary thought of love

Like those people known to me who completely turned into Love

The Force of God

Visible in the world

Is there enough Love to overcome the insufficiency of all political systems, they all fail to produce consistent public approval in many crucial areas; our judiciary fails to reduce crime, military operations continue in spite of vast opposition in US polls, because confidence/no confidence votes with power to boot the Executive without a high crime and misdemeanor doesn’t exist in our Legislature. Britain has the system where the top dog can get the bum’s rush at any time. Perhaps our practice of bestowing a flat number of years was aimed at corrupt politization of each transaction of The Office to placate Parliament, and maintain the votes required to continue in office. This practice delayed needed reforms because the executive was never free to act on his own. Our President is given four years to sheepherd the nation. The constant ridicule of President Bush on TV is becoming disturbing to me, and I don’t agree with Bush in his policy or philosophy. But the old family feeling we Americans have for each other can bring a pang of protectiveness to anyone holding that office when the whirlwind of criticism, satire and the crasser insults, some are tasteless. Performers are becoming more bold in their displays of disdain for President Bush. Some Bush-Mockers stay so ‘in-character’ after a performance, one report has a surly fake news reader uncontrollably overcome by the bile of his own hatred of George W. Bush. Wailing and the knashing of teeth is the only logical next step to continue the trend toward the juvenile with ever more fighting words, crude innuendo, and scatological references.

People had begun in ‘03 speaking loudly that the death toll in Iraq was too high.

These deaths get laid at the President’s door, customary in US journalism. This carrying on is all speculation done to the tune Bush does an evil little Hitler dance to when he gets his news. That whole army could be where it is, or be in the woodsides of America training to do what it does now do. You don’t hear a single one of them bitch. At the end of my day I am happy it is not my decision whether shooting continues or stops. I have the idea Bush wants to get enough Iraqi’s on our side that the Army’s job will get easy, like Japan. Where they still play baseball. I also think Bush is an idiot and a war profiteer.

My sudden and mysterious twinge of rue for the mocking he takes came out of nowhere.

I was opposed to the election of President Reagan. His policies pandered to the rich, while the economic safety net was declared un-American.

When a low-income, disabled or jobless individual receives assistance it’s automatically called a hand-out.

Receipt of a check in the mail from stock holdings is a regular entitlement. No one is at his mailbox declaiming his dividend payment is arbitrary and undeserved. If the Stock Market operated like the Social Security Administration and Congress of the United States, Mr. Shareholder might find at any time the rules have changed and all his years of work will undergo a brand new calculation.

The moral relativism of real life demands constant mental weighing of the cost and benefit of each decision.

The President is unwilling to accept his sworn and moral duty to decide when our military operations will end. Unless fighting continues until all the ammunition is used up, there will be an end to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. This end will satisfy no one not already invited to the trough of money made on this misery. The war will end on paper without conversion to anything American.

The administration of President Bush has been a train wreck

Exponential growth in US debt incurred to operate the government in lieu of politically unpopular tax collection is the touchstone of the actual Supply-Side method of government. The “neocon” philosophy is faithful to the gospelling of President Reagan and his devoted followers.

The malleable Congress, always sleeping with one eye open toward reelection and a trusted ear to the ground listening for the next popular outcry from the public in response to outrageous government activity, that occur like clockwork, or more frat-house behavior by some government official serve to further trivialize the political discourse, non-voters tip the balance in many US elections. If one deems exercise of the franchise (the ri9ght to vote) a waste of time because years observing the government has convinced them our republic will continue as long as those enriched by it desire:

The wealthy executive and his many wealthy friends may play a round of golf with a congressman; no bribe is offered nor favor asked. The Congressman is treated with the respect befitting his office, fed, and donations make their way to him in plain white envelopes. All Mr.Wealthy Executive says to the eager congressman about their relationship Exec said as he led Mr. Rep to the front door and helped him into his topcoat.

“The XYZ business has been good to me. We think you’re a straight shooter. All we ask is that you consider the homes and well being of our people before votes that hurt us and make it more difficult to earn close to a decent living. I hope you have a pleasant flight back to Washington.”

( something as meaningless as buying a lottery ticket useless because the financial cost of a Presidential campaign ensures no one from his strata will ever win, I’ve heard useless become an invariablereverted to oftenhas was and decades old refusal to )

The agitators grousing for impeachment of President Bush are counterproductive. The impeachment of a president has yet to occur: taking Nixon’s example of resignation with a losing hand as precedent, it is highly unlikely to ever take place.

It is unlikely anyone can portray precisely how singular an individual our Presidents are. The trust of the country is his to protect four years at a time. We do not change Executives like European Parliamentarians. This President will have the job until January 20, 2009. There are ways to improve the lot of troopers in Iraq. The bitterness of White House coverage, and the ever increasing scorn he receives from a wide section of media is unprecedented in my memory. While some people had nothing but loathing for Richard Nixon, he was not accused of being stupid. President Bush has arrayed against him the snobbery of “all those who were right about the war.” Claiming he is stupid is a 5^th grader’s tactics. Talking heads could improve the dialog spending more time educating the public on what is taking place in our names in South Asia. Congressional speeches warning President Bush the money to prosecute the war may soon be withheld from him to force an end to the war was pure theatre.This was Little Rascals all the way…each declaimation a preface to outraged playacting. Nobody around Washington took it seriously. It is Constitutionally forbidden for a US Senator or Representative to approach a President to discuss matters relating to military operations, or bargain with a President. The idea any Congressional Democrat is so ignorant of the US Constitution or the way government operates or how money is actually disbursed down to the actual transfer of funds from the Treasury to Defense, the actual legal transaction. Any doubt about whether a single Democratic lawmaker did seriously believe any parliamentary rule empowered Congress to alter the amount or withhold funds to any segment of Department of Defense or the larger government with a budget in place carrying the force of law. The so-called “Constitutional Showdown,” President vs. Congress, to determine if Congress possesses the authority to demand a President make any change in foreign policy or ongoing military combat operations or supply lines supporting forces and enforce its will in a timely manner like a Court of Law can either rest assured or face the fact such action is beyond the scope of Congress..

The Corporate US Media; always the Equivalent Of any Government Controlled Media in both Authority and Purse, is devoted to the portrayal of violence as freedom of speech-to sell commercials. Anything to draw a crowd the law will allow is WHAT IS ON TV. It is FORBIDDEN to show a mother breastfeeding on Network TV, but all manner of mayhem, especially violence with THE GUN proves to be the “formula” for hit after hit after hit.

One does not cotton censorship. It is the ownership and control of the airwaves which require adjustment. Few Americans are aware of their 100% percent funding of the cable TV infrastructure, the way subcontract contracts were written when cable was strung on the Bell poles many unknowing and elderly taxpayers were underwriters of Cable TV who died before watching a minute of it. through both taxes and utility bills and NASA subsidized satellite launches the public has supported the TV business to the point we need to band together and deny them a single copper.

The middlemen between Producers of programming Content and subscriber are hogs.

US media is an oligarch, like tobacco.

The folding up of our economy like a road map because mergers are virtually unrestricted is represented by the numbers of channels a single corporation may operate on cable and satellite TV. NBC Universal Inc.controls USA, History Channel, A&E, Biography Channel, Sci-Fi, Bravo, Sleuth, Chiller, Telemundo, MSNBC, CNBC, Shop NBC all owned by the same Shareholders and Board of Directors who dictate the dissemination of information and provide entertainment based exclusively on the ability to draw draw a crowd for any spectacle allowed on the air. Commercial time is the business they’re in.

Is that in the public’s interest?

Is that the only alternative?

People yet to be shot with the evil tumbling deer rifle bullet the AK-47 and M-16 delivers still have a choice.

The trade deficit monster exists from the top down. WalMart peddles merchandise from Communist China, and consumers cannot be expected to alter the price or availibility of the vast array of products imported from China. The anti-protectionist gospel of supply-siders and neocons has far more acceptance amongst premium movie-star media than the public that doesn’t vote, they used tariff a thousand years ago.

Lacking confidence in Congress to obey the will of the public many have just tuned-out.

Opposing incumbents already in the money camp is a fool’s game. The same capital the political process is beholden to cannot be expected to promote the changes required to rein in business practices hurting average Americans while Wall Street views it all in a microscope it neither bought or has a mind to protect. As long as High School Americans wanting a job not McDonald’s is all that’s standing up for this country, we ought to be allowed to have some goddamn fun now and then. For the poor bastard who just wanted the “College Benefits” It’s not that simple.

George Will and the courts are in agreement that money connects to freedom of speech. This will guarantee the dominance of the two parties. Limiting the expense of elections to an equal sum for every political party would transform political discourse. Ideas should trump image, but that is not reality; as long as the US has the Federal Reserve in its form as a quasi-central bank, owned by a rather small unpublicized number of shareholders, expect the protectors of their interests to receive abundant donations.

I believe it is possible to drastically reduce crime in American cities with the Public Works projects pioneered by President Franklin Roosevelt. Economic alienation from the community is instrumental in developing the personality willing or daring enough to commit property crimes in addition to legitimate jobs.

This alienation is everywhere to be seen.

In 1951, 51% of US wage earners were represented by a Union demanding the benefit of collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is the only leverage Americans can use with an employer. His work is not a real asset under law. English Common Law states: “Labor is not property.” The US “labor movement" depends on current legislation. Protection of Union is not in our Constitution.

By the end of the Reagan years union representation of US wage earners was 11%. Reagan didn’t do it by himself.

Ronald Reagan was the photogenic TV politician the heavyweights needed. As a single-minded advocate for tax relief the American public took him at his word like a fevered patient takes an aspirin. The obscure economic theory that was his hallmark was an afterthought to those marked up by our loss in VietNam. About every action he took, the ones transmitted to me; were disagreed with.

When he fired the union represented airline air-traffic controllers for striking for a raise and started using military personnel as emergency flight controllers the end of labor progress in America was in sight.

Unless one has a professional degree, work must arise from the market for goods and services. The organic economic forces existing in all human community.

A Supreme Court that Nixon built upheld the firings to be lawful. The union movement never received a more crippling blow in the courts before or since.

Once the courts approved a practice of mass firings to resolve a strike for benefits; the right to strike was suddenly in flux legally, losing stature to bring a dollar bill from the pocket of an owner to a laborer’s jeans. The so-called global economy has been with us as long as there were ships at sea. The bastardizers of English communication would have the average GED moron believe something new is afoot. Trade existed in caveman times. The first guy to sell out his buddies was probably a caveman too.

If one derives benefit from slavery-like Chinese labor one is hand in glove with among the worst of all the God-denying governments ever on earth. Communist gospel states no one will believe in God in the envisioned result of human historical forces.

When collective bargaining is denied any group; we toy with jeopardy for any segment of the workforce who is dependant on agreed wages. Some loonies up north think schoolteachers should go to jail when they strike, because the letter of the law prohibits them to strike too, it is easy to dismiss the actions of others as too daring when we hear they fail. Reagan bet the courts would uphold his action and he bet right. This decision hurt the Union Movement irreparably; and without corrective legislation to address the issues the Court depended on to reach its holding it is case law. The legitimacy of the Union Movement is diminished, if mass firings can be used to enforce a letter of the law enforcement of laws forbidding strikes written during WWII when workers were frozen to their jobs and were de jure militarized; labor has become a housecat. Labor contracts are “for the already hired.” Ownership is still the worshipful apex of the social order.

So: as I observe a tribal gospel arise that “Reagan won the cold war” I direct the reader to PBS.com to find the Frontline episode documenting how heightened the threat of nuclear war was in those Reagan years. I view the Reagan devotees as believers in that phrase “All’s well that ends well.” Those who believe the world is safer because of the collapse of Gorbachev because of Russian treason are whistling Dixie. Oh we laughed and laughed, we won! We won! But what is our New World freer of the fear of nuclear confrontation than ever before in H-Bomb history?

It isn’t yet clear to me what system Russia practices. It looks like the mafia took over from the commies.

After the fall of the USSR military pensioners soon began receiving irregular payment then none at all. I never understood how US-USSR relations became so hostile immediately after victory. ESPECIALLY NOW THAT COMMUNIST CHINA PRODUCES EVERYTHING IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE!

The US warred against Germany and Japan TO END THE AGE OF EXPANDING BORDERS BY FORCE. WE DON’T WANT ANY MORE STATES. THE FORMATION OF THE U.N. RESTS ON THIS PRINCIPLE.

Bush’s failure to ease the persecution of drug abusers can hardly be seen as Christian; We don’t know what George may be snorting now. But his testimony that he bacame transformed from a rich kid testing nose candy whenever he craved to a tee-totaling, observant Methodist: that should mean something to prisoners, especially anyone taken into custody unarmed.

Illegal gun-toting should and could be seperated from sale and possesion of drugs. Having a gun or not should be like night and day in announcing drug sales and possession sentences. The least this might do is provide some incentive not to go into drugs “Big Time” meaning those heavily invested in a supply of illegal drugs become a target for thieves and robbers and require the same protection police officers demand. Many in the food chain of Dope receive currency indirectly enough to be protected from any criminal association. Yet they are the momentum of the dope problem now. They are never caught and never will be, because they’re doing nothing wrong. They are responding to ecomonic stimuli just like supply and demand requires. US Troops are presently engaged in combat operations to forcibly bestow upon the residents of ancient Babylon the ways and transactions of Jeffersonian Democracy.

Coca and Poppy cultivation could be attacked with about zero loss of life.

Beneficiaries of widespread drug abuse and promoting the status quo of draconian penalties that include Life Without Parole are numerous, the pharmaceutical Corporations, backdoor South American and Latin American Political players and their US contacts, the massive paramilitary Police and Corrections Workforce, Members of the Bar, TV Writers…

It is rarely conveyed to the public what a premium a prison cell is to the common good.

Current penal codes defeat the aim of corrections-keeping dangerous people under observation. With so much time being handed out for non-violent property crime it becomes impossible to keep all the right people behind bars. At any given time the demands of the mathematics of space guarantee the parole of an approximate number, a quota. I observed how this worked when I was in Jackson Prison for a per se drunk driving, meaning the car was parked and I wasn’t in it when the cops arrived . But I watched as the tatooed and ponytailed Joey S., who was in prison for shooting and killing a man after illegally entering his own home with a pistol was sent home like a graduate; while I, a drunk, was kept another year. Maybe a lucky drunk, I never seriously hurt anyone else or myself. That should mean something in court more than it does.

I remember my Parole Officer, a 5’4” dark haired college woman, really ambitious in her job and following “Zero Tolerance” gospel. She was shouting at me about “What might have happened”, and listing examples she’d pull out of her ass, making up alternate endings for real events, and she sent me back to prison for exactly that, what she said “might have happened.” That’s scary shit. The average person doesn’t realize how easy it is to wind up in prison.

One inmate I knew from Auto Mechanics class was in prison for fighting with people who refused to leave his house, he got Felonious Assault because he picked up a hachet in the back yard after the fight spilled outside, he didn’t use it, he didn’t hack anyone up, he just picked it up, he was bleeding from the head where three people struck and injured him. It was his house. His name was on the landlord’s paperwork. The Hazel Park cops treated ownership even like that’s unimportant.

Prison must be permanent .

Except for paying guards, Michigan Prisons were self sufficient 30 years ago. Now MDOC is a bonanza for commercial suppliers. MDOC is a money drain exceeding school funding for the first time in history.

Only the legislature can remedy laws written to mollify the public by long indeterminate sentences. I rode from Oakland County to the prison with Mike McKenney; his sentence was 4 years to life for punching someone in the mouth.

That’s fucking crazy.

Dangerous Offenders receive inadequate programs and are set free unchanged except for age; molesters of children, because the budget required to maintain maximum prisoner population requires restrictions in rehabilitation opportunities. College in US State prisons was completely eliminated by President Clinton signing the 1994 Crime Bill completely cutting off federal funding for Pell Grant assisted College in prison. This is the “Crime Bill” that also limits an individual’s right to file federal habeas corpus to one single petition no matter how long they are locked up. Really obscene shit. Of those in state prison released by petitioning for Federal habeas corpus, few were released on the first filing, some were not read without the persistence of the petitioner.

There is an evil algebra that’s mandatory required to manage a corrections environment.

Figuring ratios about space or the cost of housing those who should never get out while simutaneously processing those the court sends you. With so many long indeterminate sentences being handed out for such a wide variety of offenses, especially unarmed offenses. Courts are handing the real job of Judge to the less educated people employed in Corrections Departments. The buck stops nowhere in human sight. The actual sentence of most criminals run to a length no one knows who is uninvolved in the actual incident because bureaucrats must do the work that is politically dicey and perform for an audience of one, the poor bastard who wants out.

After one goes to the the penetenciary, the facts of a criminal’s crime get chewed up. The parole process is a corrupt personality contest.

After the minimum of any sentence for any crime the prisoner is legally eligible for parole. In all likelihood some really dangerous convicts will always regularly hit the street. The need for weeding out the dangerous from the merely greedy or thieving is where the rubber hits the road. It is violent crime that destroys families and ruins human minds.

The need to protect property would be secondary to any normal family member encountering an invader of his household.

The law as written doesn’t exactly see it that way sometimes.

Prison sentences should befit #1. Physical Injury to Victim, #2. prison space.