this is a post on my blog from a week ago. a couple of folks thought it would be appropriate here. i’m not sure this is anything new to the burning platform crowd, but here goes. maybe spark some discussion at least. or some good insult throwing.
the system is broken. a lot broken.
10/8/2011
17:05
if you need a simple, focused message, you’re welcome.
this simple, focused message that the folks downtown at Occupy Wall Street offer to the nation is clear and obvious. except to the people who will not, or can not, accept either the message, or the reality.
and Occupy Wall Street is a success. a smashing success. after only three weeks. sure, the success may be temporary. but they are Winning-Duh!
the fact that the system is broken is now part of the conversation. it was not a month ago. now it is, on the tee vee, in the new york times, even occasionally on the murdoch (including the occupied wall street journal; while the street proper is still safe from the mobs, for the moment they got into dey heads.)
that is a success without a single demand. or a list of demands. i’m sorry, i missed that part of the revolutionary cookbook–that demands must be produced, err, on demand. there was an old term from the 60s and before. consciousness raising. still counts.
on the demand front, another way of looking at it i read earlier in the week. when there is a single injustice–we’ll have a single demand. when there is a simple, uncomplicated injustice, we’ll have a simple, uncomplicated demand.
see me; hear me; even mace me and arrest me; those are the demands of the day. and the success–being seen, being heard. that only took a matter of days. well done, OWS.
like i said, it may be temporary. very likely, it will be dust and memories by winter. temporary success is not failure. from small things mama, big things one day come.
enough about the messengers. let me hammer the message yet again.
the system is broken. a lot broken. to the point of failure. requiring massive overhaul, including replacement or rebuilding of many key components. possibly requiring junking and replacement, which becomes more likely the longer the crippled system is driven w/o the necessary overhaul.
the political component of the system has failed; it no longer performs its democratic function. Obama and his administration has functioned 100% in the best interests of the banks, the lobbyists, the huge corporations. not one single action, regarding war, economy, health care policy, has failed to supply those interests with everything they demand, at the expense of the population at large.
we have three years of historic record to serve as proof of this claim.
the party or individual identity of the president has ceased to matter. red/blue, democrat/republican makes zero difference in the day to day and year to year policies and actions of the federal government.
the finance industry component of the system has failed. despite being given every support and every dollar they demanded after their failure was obvious to the world in 2008, they again are on the brink of an extinction event. they cannot even maintain their stock prices, as boa, morgan and goldman shares tumble over the past year.
the larger economic component of the system has failed. in our system, economic prosperity requires growth. growth used to come from savings and investment; those inputs were replaced by debt. debt (and credit) is by definition based on confidence–a reasonable expectation that the debt will be repaid.
when debt grows beyond a certain point, the confidence fails, and debt growth stops. and economic growth, and prosperity, stops.
the problem appears to be how to replace/restore debt growth. the problem in actuality is too much debt. adding more debt only breaks the system more, compounds the failure.
all the efforts to feed the failed system serves only to foster more failure. more “stimulus” only stimulates 1) more money in the pockets of the rich, the corporate and banking heads; 2) more jobs to china and higher unemployment here; 3) more debt that will never be repaid. (paraphrased/stolen from Jessé at his blog today, Jessé’s Cafe Américain
the further myriad failures–education, health care delivery and profit taking, infrastructure, government bureaucracy–merely outcomes of and symptoms of the above component failures.
simple, really. the system, that we have all participated in and enjoyed our entire lives is broken. really really badly broken. no republican or democratic president or group of congressmen is going to fix it. because all they will do is a tune up–change the oil, new spark plugs, maybe wheels and a coat of paint. that is all they know how to do.
the bad news–that is the good news. that only a small percentage of americans are willing or able to accept the fact that the system is severely crippled is grim. but OWS has chipped away at that, if only for a short while.
the really bad news–we are not gonna overhaul and repair the system until it seizes up. not until a catastrophic full-stop failure. despite the opportunities, the multiple clear warnings, the wake up calls. it looks like we may be blessed with yet another opportunity, to watch it happen in europe, with maybe time to avoid it here. (i doubt it; i think when europe blows, we will have about three minutes before the first bank failure here, then its party on garth.)
i try my best not to fall in love with and commit to my forecasts and predictions (i don’t limit that to women.) most of the time, i don’t even like my predictions. including these two today. that Occupy Wall Street will fade away; either by co-option by the entrenched left or the labor movement or the Democratic Party; or alternatively in a spasm of violent suppression, orchestrated or not. and that america will not wake up to the severity of the failures of politics, finance and economy and demand overhaul until after the broken system is totaled.
as usual, i hope i’m wrong.
Smokey – sorry to disagree. Stuck’s photo shows him to be Neanderthal.
” … and by Stuck’s picture he’s Caucasian also.”
Fuck you. I am going to kick you skank ass. Name the time and place. Bring your barbed wire and mountain lion. It won’t be enough. I’m going to beat you up bad … real bad.
Crickets.
Jesus H Krist
et tu LLPOH ??
What’d I say ?
Holy Shit????
Stucky,
you asked for it by posting that photo, ya fucking cave man…
Or are you Hispanic? Bwahahahahaha! Smokey drops A-bomb on bean eaters everywhere.
You said I APPEAR to be Caucasian.
Appear????????
You are on my shitlist ………. until tomorrow.
“Do not let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” — Eph 4:6
Quick and free relationship counseling.
Ms. Freud and I have determined that we will NEVER go to bed angry with each other … no matter how big the fight may have been during the day…. and we have some doozies from time to time. It “works” like a charm.
Neither shall I go to sleep with wrath against Smokey or llpoh …. although Ms Freud and I are going to watch a violent movie (MY turn to pick a movie) … and I will hate you both accordingly during that time.
llpoh,
Hispanic is not recognized legally or otherwise as a race. The ONLY determining factor to qualify as Hispanic is name.
When I was in business a couple of decades ago, I SERIOUSLY considered to legally changing my last name to Garcia or Rodriguez so that I would qualify for preferential minority treatment from the U.S. Government.
Smokey – why not Kwame Antwon Yusef?
llpoh——-or Akmed Habib Hassan
Tell you the truth, Europeans and their cock-a-mame theories and hoity-toitie bullshit really need to take care of their own bullshit.
Curs whine about a defense budget and overseas bases, but a bunch of pasty ice-dwellers are seriously shaking in their yak-fur boots at the idea that Americans could possibly stop protecting their gravy-train of North Sea Texas Tea.
Cry me a fucking river.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHDFotQp-4
howard in nyc says:
“my ‘program is similar’
1) no more bailouts
2) prosecute the crimes
3) take the money out of politics. all of it. every fucking dollar.
I can go along with that but I would add one more item:
4) restore the constitutional courts for the people.
Administrative statutes, rules, and regulations do not fall under the constitution and because of this it ignores the “Bill of Rights” of the people and States; or the first 10 ten Amendments.
Because of this congress, state legislators, administrators, and city councils are making arbitrary laws that in some cases violate the rights of the people and the States.
We have only commercial courts that follow the Uniform Commercial Code UCC. In a Constitutional court that we used to have before the 1970s when a person went to court for a violation of law, the law was on trial with the person. A person could plead innocent. The jury had to look at the circumstances rather than decide only, that the person was guilty or not according to the law. This is common law. Common law should come before administrative law.
Our first amendment rights include the right to pitition the government for grievances. This includes the right of public assemby for voicing those grievances. The way it is now a city council can make an administrative law requiring a permit with the limitations they see fit then they can deny the permit. This is exceeding their power over the people to use their first amendment rights. Because administrative statutes, rules, and regulations are about contracts it falls under commercial courts using the UCC to determine outcomes. This is completely taking the context of arguements and putting them under contract laws. For social grievances this is not the correct route to solutions.
Occupation is an ultimatum that violates administrative rules and regulations set up by local city councils to control people. This has to be settled by constitutional law. Administrative courts will rule in favor of the city council. So Occupy Wall Street is practicing civil disobedience. They are disobeying arbitrary law. The constitution gives them that right under the “Bill of Rights.”
Tyrants don’t give up power until they are forced to. I see a fight coming.
Hahaha!
Smokey…
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A clue from Colma…
(Fuck Red Coats)
If anyone works in the trades without picking up a few Spanish expressions, they’re either stupid or deaf.
Colma,
So you and llpoh are both Indians?
My 30 yr old nephew’s decade-long girlfriend is Indian, but the other type of Indian—from the country India. She ain’t centerfold material, put her family is fucking loaded, hotels and shit all up and down the east coast.
correction——put her family——–but her family
Yessir…
Yeah, East Injuns can be very affluent… lots of high-end property owners around these parts.
I don’t have a res card or nothing like that… Thinking about really trying for some College money but that kind of shit may land me in North Dakota digging ditches or teaching braves and squaws.
Brrrrr. North Dakota… fucking brrrr
Shit, nothing to lose, it can’t hurt for you to ask.
If the funds have been allocated you may as well get them than some douchebag from the Free Shit Army..
All the shit will be confetti anyway in a few years, grab it if it’s there.
Excellent points, TBird.
First, Colma is from what is commonly called the Wannabe Tribe. No roots to the Dawwes roll – and you are not able to be called and Indian. End of story. It is a steaming pile of shit but there it is.
Second, it is largely a fallacy that there is loads of money floating around for Indians to get college educated. If you want to go to one of the handful of Native American colleges, maybe. Or to stay within your tribes territory or reservation atea – maybe. But in general there isn’t a lot out there. There are quiye a few scholarships – relatively low dollar – available to high achieving Indians (and no cracks about making up my mind)
In any event – no certificate ofdegree of Indian blood going back to the Dawes rolls and you simply cannot meet the Indian test.
Tyhe Dawes rolls ddestroyed a lot of Indian rights. I f you were full blood Indian, but didn’t come out to register the fact, you and all your future generations of offspring were shit out of luck.
llpoh,
I don’t keep up with it, but I thought there was large amounts of government set-aside money for minorities, REGARDLESS of which race or tribe. Everything form tuition grants to small business start-up capital etc.
Maybe not.
25% or more blackfoot gets you in, no matter what. If I were to ever put a kid up for adoption, I have to petition the Blackfeet for permission… no ifs ands or buts.
You are right about most else, llpoh. My mother wants nothing to do with that shit, never has. Smokey would blush if he heard what she thinks. One can only take so much resignation and destitution. About the money, yes, a high achiever can get some, but like I said, it comes with an expectation that you will return for the benefit of the tribes.
Personally, I’d much rather qualify for my academics… little above a 3.7, but generally financial aid of any sort passes through the FAFSA and mine shows a mid-tier income, regardless of the fact that it’s lower-tiered for where I live. Tough shit.
Truthfully it didn’t matter in Community College which is really inexpensive and an overall great deal, but after the transfer I’ve found some issue coughing up that kind of cash without dipping into my retirement. I’m really beginning to entertain dropping my morals and take what I can get. Lest I end up like a dirty boomer with nothing stashed away for tomorrow…
Trust me, I don’t walk around with a head-dress looking for accolades from a fawning PC crowd, though doing such may just allow me another edge for a grad-school worth attending. I have the genetics and the grades, right?
Oh yeah, hard booze gets me red in the face… I turn into an incorrigable savage and dirt-worshipper. That’s ALWAYS given me cred with the AIM kids…
http://www.blackfeetenrollment.org/docs/Ordinance14.pdf
Refer to Sec 2(d)
Section 2(c) dammit! 2(d) as well, but 2(c) is my angle, should I gather proper evidence.
Leaving the tribe for military and employment purposes can be interpreted quite easily for most persons’ cases.
Colma – if you are on the Blackfoot census – that probably presumes your ancestors are on the Dawes rolls. Are you on the blackfoot rolls?
Llpoh: No.
Was my granny?
Yes… but I’d have to gather evidence besides heresay.
Hearsay, dammit, Hearsay.
My dumb ass may as well have spelled it “Heresey”.
Colma – If your granny was on the rolls it is a pretty easy matter to accomplish – and probably worth doing. You would simply mneed your mother/father’s birth certificate (depending which side of the family granny was on) and your own, of course. That would establish the chain. Birth certificates are reasonably easy to find, if you know the where born. And that is about all it would take.
Colma – You would have to be 25% blackfoot – meaning if your mom/dad had married outside the triber, then granny would have had to be 100% pure blood.
llpoh:
Only the docs could say for sure. They would be key and a little hard to gather… not impossible… but dificult. That I know…
Looks like all my major TBP allies are non Caucasian.
Colma—Injun, LLPOH—-Injun
Cynical30—-I am pretty sure he said he is not Caucasian, but I’m not sure which minority. MY guess is Hispanic, but only a guess.
When I lived in Texas nearly thirty years ago, I knocked the bottom out of some fine Hispanic gals.
I think C30 is Puerto Rican, by memory. Apologies if I have that wrong.
Just goes to show that Indians are fine judges of character.
Of course, SSS is on my ally list forever, and he is Caucasian.
Stuck would be on my ally list if it weren’t for the fact that he and I do battle all the time. And the fact that he usurps his Big Dog status frequently to declare me the loser of shoot-outs in which I have left only smoldering remains of my decimated, thoroughly vanquished adversaries.
In fact, it may well be high time to convene a tribal council to consider revoking permanently the Big Dog status from Stuck, due to his shameful sucking up to the Administrator on ALL occasions, regardless of topic at hand.
Smokey
You could learn a few things from Stuck.
Nope. Quit doubling up on your meds, dillhole. As the only known member of TBP to face down the Gestapo and tell the piggies to go fuck themselves, Stucky’s status here is engraved in depleted uranium. Smokey. thou shalt not undermine our 290lb monument to man-boob magnificence, lest ye be judged!