Frank [the Crank] of the NYT Has Nothing to Say, So He Moans and Says Nothing.

We are always anxious to study and digest the facts as presented (and frequently misrepresented) by Frank [the Crank] Rich[1]. Frank Rich is well known for his uncanny ability to crank out sophomoric dogmatic leftist brats with sausage-machine precision even when they apply to nothing in particular. He is an artist. Without exception, as always, we are compelled to read to about how the right wingers have bungled the job of government in the last few decades. He can also identify a pratfall when it happens. [2] But, that was a specific and targeted attack on Clintoonery. We all know that Hillary is finished and the NYT celebrates their switch to Obama.  That is a victory for the right if nothing else important happens this decade.  She mumbled about the war.  No war but always abortions.

As we examine the instant egalitarian minutiae that generate the latest political proclamations from the New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[3], this being today, we get to dissect an interesting polemical essay on leftist economics of sort: McCain must be associated with a stupid economy.  Of course, politics is never assumed to be based on simple truths (or any form of truth for that matter), but that does not prevent a flurry of newly hatched rationales for hike taxes be left dormant or unexplored or go uncelebrated. We expect little other than tax whoring propaganda and leftist narcotic dreams in essays of the NYT, but the exercise is frequently amusing to watch. Today, the ultimate doom of the economy is presented by another pedestrian article in the Times. What else is new? Raise Taxes again??

So, let us have some fun:

The Whines from the Times continue like road kill as if morphing into a more luscious shade of brown in the warmth of the day.   The pejorative title even rings the bells of political history and elevates images of Clintoonery:

“THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the dust this week while they chase Barack Obama on his global Lollapalooza tour. Were voters forced to actually focus on Mr. McCain’s response to our spiraling economic crisis at home, the prospect of his ascension to the Oval Office could set off a panic that would make the Indy Mac Bank bust in Pasadena look as merry as the Rose Bowl.”-- It’s the Economic Stupidity, Stupid By Frank Rich[4]    [Emphasis] is mine in all quotes.]This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise stated.

‘Twas Hillary what was done left in dah dust my man. This is a propaganda tactic: correlate the present political issue or person with some successful political slogan of the past and force a nonexistent association in the minds of the disnimble. It actually works.  Bush lied—people died.

How about an example from the rabid left to compare with the McCain nostrum here? Now, for a comparison in contrasts we might consider the frolics of the sorry racist Chuckles Schumer[5] who violated his sense of duty [and probably some federal laws] by publishing a negative government report on the big bank Indy Mac so he and Frank could threaten and panic the public with an actual bank run and hope for more political power from the ensuing chaos. Frank shares that quirky smegmatic smile with Schumer on this effort. They probably have a lot in common.

One wonders where the NYT’s criticism on the economy was buried while objectively contrasting the Schumer Case[6]with current events.   Did McCain sink a bank in recent memory? We can suppose that stupidity and economics must work in some harnessed context so as to exclude deplorable acts as obvious shouting fire in a crowed theatre.  As long as you reside on the far left, you can celebrate our enemies, publish sensitive materials for political reasons, give away the tactics of nuclear submarines and pander to the ballot box stuffers. No criticisms will surface from the left to ruin the essence of your salmon pate and steamed broccoli. We can demand some form of narrow precision and conduct for Republicans while ignoring such public degenerates as Patrick Kennedy[7] and his worthless, murdering, drug-besotted alcoholic relatives. This fool nearly crashed into police car while in an alcoholic and drug-induced stupor and got a courtesy ride home for his fine work. How many votes did he miss while in detox? No matter, he is a leftist icon and way beyond any hint of reproof. So, let us blame the sour economy on McCain.

We can mumble on for a while and search for his salient point, if there is one:

“Mr. McCain still doesn’t understand that we can’t send troops to Afghanistan unless they’re shifted from Iraq. But simple math, to put it charitably, has never been his forte. When it comes to the central front of American anxiety — the economy — his learning curve has flat-lined.”

A Rule!

There is no law that says that there is any need to conserve the number of troops overseas unless it was picked, freshly and aromatically, from the fresh pigeon droppings of 5^th Avenue in the city. As FDR suggested, just keep the draft going if you run low on troops. A loss of 400,000 dead and as many wounded and maimed was no political barrier to war for Democrats in those days. The draft just kept humming along. Of course, they were aiding their bedfellows in Moscow, but that is another story.  We need a citation here on this rule.  This sounds suspiciously like the zero sum theory [8] that keeps the liberals in tight thongs, LSD and weed.

Nothing new yet………we can keep searching:

“Mr. McCain’s fiscal ineptitude has received so little scrutiny in some press quarters that his chief economic adviser, the former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, got a free pass until the moment he self-immolated on video by whining about “a nation of whiners.” The McCain-Gramm bond, dating back 15 years, is more scandalous than Mr. Obama’s connection with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”

This is a wild scrounging episode for the Times. Where will it end except in a impassioned plea for higher taxes?

Somehow, we shifted from the economy to John McCain’s lack of knowledge of economics. Are they related? Does McCain make fiscal policy?  He does advocate tax hikes, so we can infer from the negative evidence that John is a loony. Can we, now, with the license of the New York Times, blame McCain for the debt and high oil prices? Why not? That makes perfect sense to a liberal. Can we wonder how the money gets budgeted and spent by passing appropriations bills in our federal republic and then ask: who has the majority in both houses?? Oh! Democrats! Schumer and his friends? Who voted on those appropriations bills? Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid? Really? Teddy Kennedy seems to have sobered up long enough to vote on some too.

How do we pay for the Economic Stimulus?? Any Democrat willing to talk about that? The Dems now want another one before we know if the first one worked yet?? Spend Spend Spend.

Getting right along:

So, now we conveniently time-capsule the ugly racist Jeremiah Wright and sweep his disgusting racism and filth out of political sight? Love makes time pass and time makes nasty leftist political happenings pass.  Can we merely affix this theorem to similar phony religious racists like Jesse Jackson or Otis Moss or Calypso Louis Farrakhan[9], all heroes of the left, and put some 15 year statute of limitations on issues? Time heals the Time’s ailments? Maybe we can now forget that old Joseph P. Kennedy announced that democracy was finished as he admired Adolph Hitler in the late 30s?

O’Bozo[10] and Michelle’s close ‘involvements’ with Jeremiah Wright and his hate-based trash-talking congregation of Chicago’s Trinity United Church actually exceeds 20 years.  Can we perform a political stretch here for a quickie fix? Let us temporarily assume 15 = 20. That works. Perhaps Frank has slipped a digit or two here in his political calculations or has difficulties in manipulating simple numbers. Could we wonder how long B. Hussein had admired William Ayers[11], who used bombs to attack our government with toasting and noisy praise from the left now and then? Didn’t that go back 40 years or so? One can wonder if 40 are greater than 15 in leftist arithmetic. It depends.

Not surprisingly, Frank has nothing to say of importance in the rest of his little screed. Did anybody detect any whining here? Is the Old Gray Lady a kennel of whiners?

Does Pelosi whine? Liberals are never guilty of economic stupidity like Social Security, HUD, The War on Poverty, The Great Society, Welfare, Bosnia, Somalia, high gas taxes, etc.

The Times can produce better stuff than this. But, we shouldn’t be too cross with Frank as his neurons are apparently sagging from the strain of age and the exhausting tautological escapades of the left.  Get the Old Red Lady [12]back for a comparison and some more fun.  No Economic Stupidities here!

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Stupid, More Stupid and the Idiot Europeans Investigated and Explained.

The history of the world shows us many forms of societal transformations and most are not very pretty when the process and outcomes are examined.[1] There are always reasons to explore as to why the Roman Empire failed, citing, also, the Spanish and Portuguese empires, the Mongols, and others, but the details of any analysis reveal that mistakes were made in most cases. Whether these assorted mistakes were decisive or fatal and to what degree is open to debate. The avoidance of mistakes is an essay into itself and is convoluted with nostrums of predictions, visionary efforts, long-range planning and such. The general difficulty with societies is based in their intrinsic political mechanism [politics] whereby decisions are made by groups. Poor choices are the norm for most governments. There is never agreement, in full, on various courses of action in societies and so many obtuse vectors are selected and pursued with vigor and élan that could not be politically prevented.  One segment of history involves the analysis of military or religious invasions of various societies and the radical or military transformation thereof.  The fate of the conquered society is always of interest and mostly disastrous and this is happening as we read this in Europe. Those who conquered are now being conquered. Strangely, the Europeans are losing a religious war after many centuries after establishing their version of the ultimate religious domain. They are also paying for their own destruction with welfare-type programs that encourage their enemies to settle in their midst, take advantage of their laws, get money from the state, set up hate groups and schools, foster terrorist groups and undermine the societal substructure. Europe was saved from the Mongols by the Black Plague. There wasn’t much loot there anyway so the Mongols looked toward Baghdad. The Europeans may not be so lucky this time.  Europe probably cannot be saved.

The Romans transformed most of the known world in their time and so did the Mongols using similar tactics a few centuries later. Both societies were after loot and power and enforced detailed laws on their victims and ran sectors of their conquered subjects as provinces. Clovis I (466 – 511) was the first King of the Franks and consolidated central Europe approximately as it would be later known.[2] Clovis ended the Roman influence by terminating their power. Europe was later decimated by the Black Plague, numerous wars, errant and unsuccessful Crusades but, it could be argued by many, improved in certain societal metrics until the general demise of European society that started in 1914 with World War 1. At the pinnacle of European society, marked by the 1900 Paris Exposition[3], they had opened to the doors to wonders of the future and nothing could be imagined that might limit their progress and ability to build a lasting society except their own politics and poor decisions. The general decline of Europe, as seen by the trench warfare and millions of dead [51,000,000 was the toll in WW1]  was followed shortly by a depression,  then a repeat of the Great War [31,000,000 dead this time] , the collapse of several governments, the extinction of most banking systems, kingdoms, political parties and more. There was mass starvation, pogroms, the Terror returned in Russia and other parts of Europe all made possible by politics. It is not possible to accuse the Europeans of good sense or diplomacy during this era from 1870 to 1989 as they could not sensibly curtail any of their devastating wars and cold war belligerencies.  Certainly, their most talented leaders died in the continual wars or, later, in concentration camps. There are strange structures known as ossuaries that are simple charnel houses holding the moldy bones of unknown losers of massive wars to remind the current inhabitants of their sordid history and culture. It a truism to state that peace in Europe occurs spontaneously after major wars and lasts for a short time.

Rescued several times by the United States, with money and soldiers as appropriate, whose citizens assumed the various roles of  wet nurses, mop brigade captains and official lice dusting regulators, the remaining demoralized Europeans formed some kind of communal economic cluster and traded all they had for ‘peace and security.’ Socialism gripped the continent and England and its satellites as Bernard Shaw had hoped for with his Fabianism.[4] Besides being a generation of cowards, since their brave soldiers and best leaders were killed in numerous wars or exterminated by the Bolsheviks, the current examples of European leadership are a curious product of 300 years of inbreeding, sloth, leftist political indoctrination and nonsense as embodied in the clownish caricature of the Prince of Wales. The have-nots have discovered many new ways to circumvent the tax prohibitions[5] of the Magna Charta.[6] Socialism has succeeded in putting bread on the tables of the masses with little or no casualties from wars while leaving the United States and Australia to fight the necessary wars as the Europeans hid in the shadows. The Western Europeans who were cowered and demoralized by the shadow of Communism and the nuclear threats of the USSR, retreated into their little cocoons and pretended to live their safe little lives with continual meddling and prodding by the Swedes, of Nobel War Prize Fame and who had manufactured and sold guns and arms to any European belligerent who could pay for the stuff. Later on, after the 1989 collapse of the USSR, the Greens got control of many governments and decided that ecology and Marxism were more important than society. Next, the Islamo-Fascisti moved in to mooch, preach hate and proclaim the impending general burden of Sharia law [7]to all who would listen. To get the attention of Parisians, for instance, they routinely bombed the city restaurants, synagogues and other structures in 1995 and on [8] and forced the French to grovel and moan, appear to simulate head-banging droolers, and formed the sickly appearance which they certainly display today. As this is written, the French and their less sophisticated socialist associates in adjoining territories are struggling with their self-assessed  failure to properly ‘assimilate’ the barbarian Arabs, selected former members of French Colonies from North Africa and Persians into their society. The Moslem population now ranges from 1 to 10% or more in much of Western Europe and the fraction is much higher in Eastern Europe and Russia.[9] Their presence now commands more political power than their population ratios would suggest. This is all made possible by the numerous splinter parties that have plagued the Europeans since 1789 and many will sell out their country for a few Muslim votes. The rise of militant Islam is now at hand and the Europeans are not addressing this issue as the US also failed to do since the Carter Era.[10] The psychotic Islamo-Fascisti are not to be compared with Mexican illegal aliens in the US as their goals are very different. Torching automobiles and hospitals are the customary modern political procedures in Europe and they are very effective. The French and Germans cower, mumble and appease all burnings and threats. They are now well below the accepted standards of the average coward. A broad yellow stripe painted boldly down their backs in not enough to signal danger to strangers even if they were phosphorescent and glowed in the dark.

Germany[11], France[12] and other garden spots in Europe have struggled with their economies and unemployment and high taxation for centuries without resolution other than to employ assignations, revolution and war. The general population was gradually reduced to impotency by high taxes and socialism so that power groups could not arise to contest or threaten existing governments. The church disintegrated except in Poland and the Church of England is but a useless relic of history. The demoralized population was some what satisfied with the high taxes along with some social benefits and the precious absence of conflict. Sloth and drug addiction are now preferred elements of European lifestyles.

The Europeans cannot address a reasonable threat. The Islamic Fascists and terrorists were able to easily transform the political architecture of Spain with a single bombing episode in a train station along with the threat of many more to come. The March 2004 bombing of trains in Madrid, a mere three days before Spain's general elections, that killed 191 people and wounded1,755, drastically altered the instant political infrastructure of Span yielding a convincing political and inexpensive  victory to al-Qaeda.[13] The Spanish live in rabid fear of more bombings so they caved in to demands to not support the US in the War on Terrorism. That was more than enough for the Spineless Spanish. They now grovel and cower before such threats of a repeat performance. Even the threat of bombing the same site in Paris since 1980 is an effective political maneuver for the terrorists.[14] The Italians and French have performed similar acts of cowardice much to the praise of the radical left and their fascist allies from Islam. Various parts of Europe suffer from terrorism and fear of Turks, Albanians and other ethnic Muslims.[15] Much of this is a result of guest workers gaining political power starting as from as far back in history the 1950s. The cowardly Europeans are assisting the hangman in the extermination of their society, citizens and culture.

Apart from their low stance of perpetual subservience and Kowtowing to the slightest demands of Islamo-Fascisti, the Europeans are preoccupied with sloth, sodomy and drug addiction. They want a 20 hour work week. In the Netherlands, simple and clinically unconfirmed complaints of frequent headaches will qualify the complainer for a lifetime on welfare that pays only slightly below the pay of ordinary workers. The public park in Amsterdam has a large space next to the Red Light District where drugs are consumed and celebrated and the police do not interfere. Drugs are for sale everywhere and there are pink escort signs on the tops of nearly every phone booth and taxi cab. Not to be outdone in participating in the intakes of degeneracy, the Swiss had an experiment called NeedlePark.  Let us recall that the Swiss are in the dirty money business. Druggies were attracted like moths to a flame from all over Europe to shoot dope, overdose and die. These experiments failed, of course, and they closed the park but the dopers moved to the train station. Now the Swiss government maintains private shooting galleries where dopers from all across Europe can snort and mainline drugs using sterile equipment and avoid the press and criticism. That is a typical contemporary political and social solution now praised by the Europeans. That is the kind of twisted social logic that has infected Europe and this mass mental affliction may be applied to housing, jobs, testing, education and many other facets of the degenerating society in Europe.[16] In the US, of course, we have San Francisco, the most degenerate place on the planet and California will soon sink into moral oblivion and the state will go broke. [17] The aberrant California political and social philosophy is detailed in this satirical link:[18] Europe is a swamp of drugs and misery but the Muslims will have none of it. They don’t even drink wine.

Europe has lost its moral compass and has surrendered to the Islamo Fascists. Peace at any cost and the proud wearing of an Islamic brass ring in the noses of the citizens is indicated. The Muslims will take power by force and intimidation and the result, unexpected for the errant and miserable Europeans, will be the beheading of perverts, drug addicts and religions types, if any remain, because they offend Sharia Law. French wine will be poured into the public latrines as they did in Teheran in the 70s. The call to worship will shut down Paris and London several times a day. This process will come as a shock in San Francisco where they would be the first city to fall under the power of a new version of the Taliban. Indeed, many Californians blame religious moderates and conservatives in the US by aid of the concept of cryptomisoxeny.[19] Here, for example, the use of overt racism employed by liberals is used to ferret out, expose and condemn racists according to this precept. Many infidels would need to be destroyed to satisfy Sharia Law and cleanse the new Islamic society of the undesirables in California.

That is the level to where the spineless Europeans have degenerated and they whimper and moan as their new masters build strength and political power. The US is not far from this sorry state in San Francisco, parts of Oregon, Boston and some dung heaps like Philadelphia, but these places are still morally and financially and socially isolated from the suburbs and country dwellers. They cannot penetrate the ‘burbs with their blather as yet. The taxes are still way too low and it is too easy to beat the city folk at standardized tests, work ethics, industry, mental exercises, educational hurdles, investments, planning, marriage, family matters and life in general. Europe now looks like Philadelphia sans the murder rates.

It is most interesting that the elements of the Celtic Peoples evolved from a barbarian mystic sect far and away from its roots in crude tribalism to the feudal system and then democratic government and was ultimately strongly dominated by somewhat homogeneous religious and political forces. It is more interesting, now, that they are now being conquered and demoralized by a highly organized religious system of fanaticism governed by the strict rules of tribalism and religious bigotry unparallel in the world. All this suggests the need to begin some revolutions and vigilante activities, but the socialist rules of conduct do not permit such and their armies are outdated, too small be effective and impotent. This impending disaster in Europe is not a bad option for the US, if we survive our leftists, as the demise of Europe would lessen demand for critical raw materials such as oil and copper and ease our economic burdens. Europe is probably lost except for what remains in history, poetry and literature and the loss is not important to us anymore. The foolhardy Europeans sit idly by and listen to the mullahs dispense hatred from the mosques and madrasses and allow the revolutionary system to build. They are guilty of suborning all the needs of their enemies.

That is stupid.

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