politics, mostly NP with a glance at Vineland

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Just to make it all perfectly Pynchonian, let's call it Foley Adeiu:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-lewis/bush-photographed-praisin_b_30726.html

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4228575.html

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/gop-rep-john-shimkus-r-il-let-foley.html

Anyone who thinks this is really all NP really needs another pass at Gravity's Rainbow, with (in consideration of the current [hopefully temporary] suspension of habeas corpus within the good old USA) that Fascist link up to various non-scheduled sexual practices/children's games (let's all grunt "On the Good Ship Lollypop") and other indications of trouble in this petri dish in which we all live. As soon as Habeas Corpus is suspended—whammo, out pops Foley. 

Let's hear it for the Gopodpates: The Grand Old Party Of Pedophiles And Their Enabelers!
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> "If we have a military strategy, I can't identify it," (...) "I don't
> know what's worse -- that they have one and won't tell us or that they
> don't have one."
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293_
> 2.html
> 
> 2006/10/2, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> > The lastest news and sports:
> >
> > http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=9386
> >
> > From where I'm sitting, looks like the Tower card (atu XVI) in the 
> Crowley/Harris deck. Like a war machine devouring itself.
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> > > Otto:
> > >
> > > >As long as books like Bob Woodward's ...can be published in the US I
> > > >don't think that this is an accurate description! Can you imagine
> > > >that this would have been possible in fascist Germany, Italy or
> > > >Spain in the Thirties?
> > >
> > > Part of the problem with 'fascist' as an adjective is that the word
> > > has gained broader definition and variant meanings since the
> > > Thirties. This leads to tangential debates as advocates of tighter
> > > and slacker meanings go a few rounds on the relevance, accuracy and
> > > appropriateness of the word in the debate of the moment.
> > >
> > > The question here could be phrased:  are the current developing forms
> > > of corporate/state control and authority in the US leading towards a
> > > society comparable to 1930s fascism. If so are we beyond the point
> > > where there is a way back, or is through the only way out?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> >
> >