tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post2126157445401739518..comments2024-03-27T07:30:21.457-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Tablespoons of Blue LentilsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-10433683884992271692013-06-26T19:39:05.436-04:002013-06-26T19:39:05.436-04:00Sorry, I hadn't had a chance. Say Roberts, so ...Sorry, I hadn't had a chance. Say Roberts, so not only would Obama need replace one of the Conservatives he'd also need name a Chief Justice, whether the nominee or one of the sitting Justices.<br /><br />I'm curious what Obama would do if he had to replace Alito or Scalia or Roberts or Thomas (I take your point about Kennedy). I don't see any of them retiring until after next POTUS, so barring illness or bus, we may never know.<br /><br />Though in it's own way maybe the more fascinating scenario, (and more likely, yes?) is Kennedy retiring. <br /><br />BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-57195838332372758562013-06-26T19:07:48.401-04:002013-06-26T19:07:48.401-04:00Well I never got an answer on the court. I'll...Well I never got an answer on the court. I'll play courtfilling any time.<br /><br />That said, for those who like to wallow in the presumed superiority of their cynicism, let me remind you that after Mr. Bork was turned down his slot was replaced by Mr. Kennedy. Take a microsecond to imagine a court with both Mr. Bork and Mr. Scalia and think about how decisions would be different.<br /><br />It's about the court, folks, like it or not.Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06501998212859335778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-56017486902576224912013-06-26T18:22:41.870-04:002013-06-26T18:22:41.870-04:00re it's all pretty much hopeless, anyway
mayb...re <b><i>it's all pretty much hopeless, anyway</i></b><br /><br />maybe, maybe not - <br /><br /><b>Uncle Sam as Zombie - a metaphor for the Republic's state of health</b><br /><br />Dead? Catatonic? Just resting? Pining for the fjords, like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch?<br /><br />I suggest the American Republic is zombified, in a metaphorical sense of the literal truth of the horror movie cliche. The superstition about zombies is that they are dead, and returned to a kind of life in death by magic. The truth (and I am relying on the accounts of Canadian ethnobotanist Wade Davis for this) is that they have been intentionally poisoned in such a way that they appear dead, and after the "corpse" is buried the folk psychopharmacologist (a.k.a. "witch doctor") revives and enslaves them. Their state of mind after zombification no doubt depends not only on the drug regimen they have received, but their pre-existing beliefs about what has happened to them.<br /><br />"The Republic", of course, is not a biopsychosocial system that can literally be given mind-altering drugs. It is a kind of abstraction for collective social behavior, and the art, science, and business of the manipulation of collective beliefs has many ardent practitioners these days (even, in a sense, those of us who blog).<br /><br />I ask you to join me in a thought experiment. Let's imagine that there might be some way for Uncle Sam, now lying in his grave, to return to life - not just a half-life of working for his (and our) oppressors, the military-industrial-congressional-financial-corporate media complex.<br /><br />How could that be done? What would it take for the Republic to become unzombified? What are the "antidotes" for the "brain poison"? If "ideas" and "feelings" are what have poisoned us, are there other "ideas" and "feelings" that can restore us to health? <b>Some say there is hope - structures of oppression built by people can be dismantled by other people. </b><br /><br />Or maybe Kurt Vonnegut was right in the pessimism he expressed in his last years - there is no way in hell that the U.S. will EVER become a humane and reasonable nation.<br /><br />May the Creative Forces of the Universe have mercy on our souls, if any.<br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-70974018494804133812013-06-26T14:50:29.798-04:002013-06-26T14:50:29.798-04:00SCOTUS whiffs on Postbellum amendments again.
I...SCOTUS whiffs on Postbellum amendments again. <br /><br />I'd like to drive that bus. <br /><br />Hello, NSA. Just kidding.dpjbrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680203407323600453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-75278357326916609472013-06-26T13:14:27.817-04:002013-06-26T13:14:27.817-04:00What you said about R*b#R+$. Code, of course, for ...What you said about R*b#R+$. Code, of course, for teh benefit of our N$@ overlord over seers.<br /><br />Go United! Good luck in the Cup!<br /><br />Thx for linkylove. You have one coming your way in one of the next 2 installments.<br /><br />What? so now I'm being screened? What is this? TSA @ Dulles?Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-25886728525568497552013-06-26T12:43:27.823-04:002013-06-26T12:43:27.823-04:00It's all pretty much hopeless, anyway.
~It's all pretty much hopeless, anyway.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-72814044394715076952013-06-26T11:44:04.820-04:002013-06-26T11:44:04.820-04:00I'd be happy to play your Supreme's guessi...I'd be happy to play your Supreme's guessing game (and I think you couldn't be more wrong about his preferences) but you have to tell me who he would be replacing. Because they aren't interchangeable. Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06501998212859335778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-529196609496570212013-06-26T11:38:38.949-04:002013-06-26T11:38:38.949-04:00Link thanks, and there was something else but I fo...Link thanks, and there was something else but I forgot what it was thanks a lot heat so PRAISE ALLAH.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com