TW3 and a bonus read

November 7th, 2007

That Was The Week That Was … bizarre, but as usual.

The whole conversation about “vajayjay” has captured the imagination of many, included me and my buds who have had short discussions on the topic … but “a little cartoon character with eyes that walks around?” Puh-leeeeze! Sounds like the Outie’s are badly in need of a way to make the Innie’s less threatening — and that seems to me, as well … bizarre, but as usual.

You’ll find a good crusty-old-Doug-Thompson cheerleading piece, as bonus — a November reminder about V for Vendetta; considering the anger of the public [and Schumer and Feinstein better RUN] it’s a timely rant.

Jude

HARPER’S WEEKLY REVIEW
November 6,2007

Friday marked Mexico’s Day of the Dead, which was
celebrated as hundreds of thousands of people attempted to
flee the flooded state of Tabasco by boat, helicopter, jet
ski, tractor, or by swimming through murky, snake-infested
currents. The town of Orme, Tennessee, which has suffered
from a prolonged drought, announced that it had run out of
water. Former FEMA director Michael D. Brown, who now
works for a disaster recovery company, was made available
for comment regarding the wildfires raging in California,
and the ten-year-old boy who started a fire that spanned
60 square miles and destroyed 21 homes near Santa Clarita
was declared by a neighbor to be, to the best of the
neighbor’s knowledge, a good kid. A professor of clinical
psychiatry suggested that 60 percent of boys between
kindergarten and fourth grade have experimented with
matches. “Fireplay is a common and absolutely normal part
of human development,” said the professor. The U.S. Navy
pursued and seized a North Korean tanker hijacked by
pirates off the coast of Somalia; three-hundred American
diplomats protested the possibility of involuntary
transfer to the Green Zone; and Sunni leaders in Anbar
province lobbied the United States for billions of dollars
as a reward for joining the fight against Al Qaeda. In a
speech publicizing October’s record low of civilian
deaths, President George W. Bush, commenting on sectarian
violence, made his “disappointments clear to the Iraqi
leadership.”

The Venezuelan National Assembly overwhelmingly approved
constitutional reforms that would greatly expand the power
of President Hugo Chavez and permit him to run,
repeatedly, for re-election. In Lahore, Pakistan, police
armed with clubs and tear gas attacked the thousands of
lawyers protesting General Pervez Musharraf’s imposition
of martial law. 60 Minutes aired an interview with Nicolas
Sarkozy that was cut short by the French president after
he was asked to discuss his wife. “Bon courage,” said
Sarkozy, and declared the interview over. Rudy Giuliani
conceded that although his campaign’s statistic for
prostate cancer survival rates in Britain was seven years
old and 30 points off, Americans should still be wary of
“socialized medicine.” “If we ever got to Hillarycare in
this country,” said Giulani, “Canadians will have nowhere
to go for health care.” Late President Gerald Ford was
reported to have ascribed “unlimited ambition” to Hillary
Clinton in a 2002 interview. “The Republicans will make a
mistake if they think she is gonna be a pushover,” said
Ford, although he didn’t think the country was “ready for
a lady president.” Clinton told reporters that the other
Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination were
not targeting her because she was a woman, but because she
was winning, and Mitt Romney launched an ad impugning her
leadership experience. “The idea that she could learn to
be president as an internship,” says Romney, “just doesn’t
make any sense.”

Hollywood screenwriters went on strike. “I’m really
scared,” said Oren Ashkenazi, a dry cleaner who caters to
Warner Brothers. Fourteen children were rescued from a New
Delhi sweatshop that was subcontracted by The
Gap. Self-proclaimed real-life superheroes such as “Red
Justice” and “Direction Man” gathered for an anonymous
meeting in Times Square. “I don’t have many friends,”
explained “The Super,” who fixes faucets in a cape. Duane
“The Dog” Chapman’s cable show, Dog the Bounty Hunter, was
suspended indefinitely after a tape surfaced in which
Chapman used a racial slur to describe his son’s
girlfriend. “It’s not ’cause she’s black,” said
Chapman. “It’s because we use the word ‘nigger’ sometimes
here. I’m not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing
everything I’ve worked for for 30 years because some
fucking nigger heard us say ‘nigger’ and turned us in to
the Enquirer magazine.” Chapman’s son subsequently sold
the tape of the conversation to the National
Enquirer. Rapper Jay-Z was flashing euros in a recent
video, and supermodel Gisele Bundchen was refusing to
accept payment in dollars. The New York Times Style
section published a feature on the rise of the term
“vajayjay” to describe female genitalia. “The reason that
vajayjay has caught on, I think, is because there is a
black–Southern especially–naming tradition, which is to
have names like Ray Ray and Boo Boo and things like that,”
said John H. McWhorter, a linguist at the Manhattan
Institute. “It sounds warm and familiar and it almost
makes the vagina feel like a little cartoon character with
eyes that walks around.” In Johannesburg a contestant on
the reality-TV show Big Brother Africa was caught on
camera digitally penetrating an unconscious female
housemate and then, after heeding the pleas of another
female contestant to desist, sitting alone sniffing his
fingers. The contestant explained his behavior by telling
his fellow housemates, “Well, this is Africa.” British
police documents revealed that the DNA of suspects accused
of crimes such as picking wildflowers or defacing coins
will be stored for life in a national database. Alexander
Feklisov, the Soviet spy handler of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg, died at 93, as did Washoe, the signing chimp,
at 42, and Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the
Enola Gay, at 92. Tibbets remained unapologetic about his
role in the 66,000 deaths and 69,000 injuries wrought by
the atomic blast at Hiroshima. “I never,” he once said,
“lost a night’s sleep over it.”

– Miriam Markowitz
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/11/WeeklyReview2007-11-06

Revolutions must start somewhere
And the Fifth of November is a good place to start
Doug Thompson, Capital Hill Blue
November 7, 2007

Remember remember the fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and plot
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot

The English know that ditty as part of the history of Guy Fawkes, leader of the Gunpowder Treason and a plot to blow up Parliament and kill King James I. Many Americans know the poem from the movie, V for Vendetta, which told the story of a futuristic England rules by a despot with strong parallels to the Presidency of George W. Bush.

And on Monday, the Fifth of November, supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul, used Guy Fawkes Day to make history - donating $4.3 million to Paul’s campaign - a single-day online fundraising record for a GOP candidate.

Organized by music promoter and Paul supporter Trevor Lyman, the fundraising show of strength made a lot of people suddenly sit up and take a look at Paul, a long-shot candidate with a fanatical following among disaffected voters fed up with traditional politics and the domination of parties by cookie cutter candidates.

While Paul’s chances for capturing the GOP nomination are still a 100-to-1 shot at best the show of support by those willing to give money and the voter anger that provides the base of his support cannot be ignored.

Status-quo politics and the so-called leaders the system spawns not only anger voters but lead to a growing groundswell that signal a growing undercurrent of dissatisfaction in America. Both Bush and the Democratically-controlled Congress suffer the lowest job approval ratings in history. Public confidence in the system is failing at all levels. Americans grow increasingly pessimistic about the future of this nation and anger quickly erupts in any discussion of politics.

But while voter anger grows, politics in America is still controlled by a traditional system of big-money donors, powerful special interests and political professionals who have little regard for the will of the people or the future of the nation.

Politics is a business where the bottom line is delivering at least 50.1 percent of the election results on the First Tuesday of November. If the system must be manipulated to deliver that bottom line then so be it. Democracy ceased to exist in this country decades ago, if it ever in fact existed, and the system of government today is a far cry from the Democratic Republic envisioned by the framers of the Constitution.

The anger that pours $4.3 million into Ron Paul’s campaign coffers in a day’s time is growing and present but anger alone cannot change the course of American history. The system still favors the status quo and it is controlled by those who benefit most from it.

The story of Guy Fawkes did not have a happy ending. The Gunpowder Rebellion and Plot failed, Fawkes was captured and hung.

Tyranny prevailed in England, just as it does in America today.

Still, the English remember the Fifth of November.

And so should we.

Revolutions must start somewhere.

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

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