a euphemism for P's poorest prose: warm excrement flowing from a pathetic puppet's mouth

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Nov 4 05:25:37 CST 2012


also see Emerson Hough's best seller, _Mississippi Bubble_, it begins
with a speech about America and ends with begetting money.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:04 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> The political reading is alway risky; we recall those wonderful
> readings of VL and M&D that were published in a Law Journal, how they
> argued that the Presidency, with its wars, endless wars, on poverty,
> on drugs, its use and abuse of Emergency Power, and specifically of
> FEMA, made the Presidency more powerful than a locomotive. Here we
> stand in fishing waders, warm water that storm surged our city now
> cold, waiting for gas, and heat, and light, and the FEMA that Romeny
> would, with Bernanke's full employment plan, dismantle, while a
> President, weakened by his predecessor's excessive use and abuse of
> presidential power, tries to look powerful by declaring an emergency,
> sending in the national guard, and opening the deficit spending
> spigot, again.  That The Economist, Bloomberg & Co., as well as more
> of Wall Street than OWS, all with with egotistical reservation,
> endorsed the president, tells us that we may need study Vibe's speech
> a bit more to see HOW the Pyncher means. The headlines of the Left
> won't help us. Sweatshop & Pauper Labor falacies. The Pyncher never
> tires of his old favorite books; so it is not China and Apple here,
> but Benjamin Franklin, Weber, Marx,  Aristotle, Aquinas, Dante...these
> are the books: " money begets money." It is Weber, again. The Spirit
> of Capitalism. There is in the Pyncher, please excuse me for this
> but...something of the Catholic disdain for money begetting money.



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