VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[rich]

such appraisals are the result of these readers' failure to
>       apprehend the historical depth the novel offers, and their
>       refusal to take seriously the endpoint of the history it
>       relates. There has yet to be a critic who, like the ghost of Walter
>       Rathenau in Gravity's Rainbow, is able to "see the whole shape
>       at once,"  the continuing pattern of executive aggrandizement
>       so carefully interwoven into the exposition of Vineland
_______
and this was before W.--though w/ Cheney around you knew he had a
hardon for increasing the blood flow (so to sopeak) to the executive
branch.
who knew about these "signing statements"--where the prez can just say
i'm not gonna go along with this law/that law. crazy scary

rich

On 4/21/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> it is hard to believe but FEMA was once a well-run organization (i'm
> thinking Clinton appointee James lee Witt--a man w/ true background in
> disaster mgmt--see aftermath I think of Hurricane Andrew in Florida)
> before the bumblers Joseph Allbaugh (almost a cartoon cutout--check
> out the hairdo) and eventually Michael Browne got their hands on it.
>
> background of the head of FEMA in 1984 was a Reagan insider, friends
> of the lovely Edwin Meese (the American Hermann Goring). booted out
> for corruption (good gosh!)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_O._Giuffrida
>
> rich
>
> On 4/21/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:05 AM, rich wrote:
>>
>>> Reagen fired the all the striking air traffic controllers in 1981,
>>> considering the importance of such a job a pretty reckless thing to do
>>> beyond the union busting
>>>
>>> rich
>>
>> Good catch. Don't forget that this is all happening in the midst of
>> Rex 84:
>>
>> 	In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Directorate
>> 	 Number 54 that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national
>> 	"readiness exercise" under the code name of REX 84. The
>> 	exercise was to test FEMA's readiness to assume military
>> 	authority in the event of a "State of Domestic National
>> 	Emergency" concurrent with the launching of a direct United
>> 	States military operation in Central America. The plan called for
>> 	the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that
>> 	they could legally be used for domestic law enforcement. . .
>>
>> http://uweb.txstate.edu/~lf14/conspire/rex84.html
>>
>> 	. . .such appraisals are the result of these readers' failure to
>> 	apprehend the historical depth the novel offers, and their
>> 	refusal to take seriously the endpoint of the history it
>> 	relates. There has yet to be a critic who, like the ghost of Walter
>> 	Rathenau in Gravity's Rainbow, is able to "see the whole shape
>> 	at once,"  the continuing pattern of executive aggrandizement
>> 	so carefully interwoven into the exposition of Vineland and
>> 	which leads up to a moment as apocalyptic as any in recent
>> 	fiction. To answer Leithauser, Wilde, and Mackey, there is
>> 	inVineland something "overarchingly malignant," "some
>> 	glamorously threatening force," an "awesome glimpse of the
>> 	sublime and the demonic"; it has simply gone unrecognized.
>>
>> http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>
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