this book is intelligent, lovingly written, insightful, well researched, and remarkable in the interdisciplinary nature of its scholarship. The authors seemlessly integrate every branch of the social sciences (drawing heavily on anthropology), biology, history, comparative religion, cultural criticism, you name it. If you are a smart person -- an academic, a critical thinker, a theory wonk, whatever -- who is also aware of spirit and "worships" nature, the earth, the sun, moon, and stars, this book is essential reading.

A must read -- http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/history.htm

Jean Jaurès suggested that "the State, [...] though it bears the vivid imprint of capitalism, also bears within itself the germ of the future, and by trying to influence it, we are using the only certain means of influencing the future."

Read Jean Jaurès, Socialist and Humanitarian, by Margaret Pease

Regarding Barry O's State of the Union - 02/24/2009

Transcript of Speech: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/sotn.obama.transcript/

Comrades, friends and foes alike:

I will briefly post short portions of the transcript and interpret:

(a) "If you haven't been personally affected by this recession"
comment: we are in a depression, or at least beginning to feel the pressure of one
(b) "But while our economy may be weakened"
comment: weakened is a very soft term, "intense hemorrhaging" provides a better picture of the state of our economy
(c) "and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."
comment: it is very doubtful that the USA will emerge as strong as in post WWII / 1945 ... as we've declined in our power since
that time - note that the USA has not been outrightly victorious in any other war (e.g. Korea or Vietnam)
(d) "the weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation"
comment - no one ever said the USA would last forever - and yes, the weight of this crisis continues to determine our lives each day.
(e) "The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and our universities, in our fields and our factories, in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth."
comment - What exactly is Barry O smoking? The hardest working people on earth? in our factories? The USA is a post-industrialized service economy. Few factories exist. And, quite frankly, $$ allotted to universities that believe their 'business schools' are most important, continue to facilitate the problem. (note WCU and its partnership with BB&T to study the moral fiber of capitalism - source: http://www.wcu.edu/11588.asp
(f) "those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history"
comment: I think Barry O needs to read some works by Eugene Debs - prosperity? source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poverty_59_to_05.png
(g) "our survival depends on finding new sources of energy"
comment: Long overdue - finding new sources will deplete the energy the US already imports - at Catch 22 I think
(h) "energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy"
comment: In economics, "economic growth" or "economic growth theory" typically refers to growth of potential output, i.e., production at "full employment," - hint hint .... what does USA produce?
(i) "the flow of credit is the lifeblood of our economy"
comment: this disgusts me! .... here is capitalism at its worst. One scenario, FORD builds a car ... the car goes to the dealer, who then sells the car for more than its worth to a buyer who's borrowed $$ to purchase the car ...on credit. The problem here is ... the buyer drives off the lot, and wham! ... the car devalues instantly. And, therefore, the buyer (not owner) pays back the loan with interest for a car that devalues from day one. Who then profits? Ford, no. the Seller, no. the Buyer of the car, no. Yes, the one who owns the loan! Flow of credit is the lifeblood, indeed.

I could go on and on ... but obviously ... even the best of the Leftists in this country fail to see that the system is corrupt.
And, this Stimulus Act, now Law, will throw money away into sectors of this economy that have already dried up the $700 billion given away in late 2008. My friends, the real solution is not tax cuts, it is not jacking up millions of foreclosures with taxpayers $$ ... or nationalizing the banks? take banks over, clean them up, and sell them in rapid order to the private sector? Who profits from this?

Mismanagement of our Economy by Politicians ... not economists, ... and by Wall Street swindlers ...
has brought the USA to its knees, and I feel certain that to even get up off one knee will take a generation or more
to manage!

Does Anyone remember this?

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23143814

Friends and Comrades,

Does anyone remember the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008? This act, signed by former President Bush, was seen as, and I quote, "a booster shot for our economy" to stave off a recession.

Stave off is defined as: to prevent something from happening, to avert, to debar

Recently, President Barry Obama signed into law - his new plan to stave off "depression" with an estimated $800 Billion!  This plan thus calls for investments in health care, education, infrastructure and you name it, energy.  

Friends ... the great Viennese economist Joseph Schumpeter once said, "economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil." His concept "creative destruction" continues to rack my reeling brain! Let us consider progress as our objective. Let us consider that with progress, some things must be left behind. Therefore, with creative destruction, new methods will arise, e.g. in technology, innovation, organization, mass transportation, all sorts of human and intercultural communication, marketing strategies, new sources of labor and raw materials, and most importantly, new products (nothing utterly necessary) that we consume.

Does any one really need a plasma TV? No. Therefore, it is an utterly unnecessary product. 

It is my view that the Obama government take neither consideration on the matter of creative destruction nor the Kondratieff Theory: 

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Kondratieff_Wave.gif) 

It is thus true that new innovations in our technology destroys former technologies. And, my dear friends, Barry Obama's 800 billion dollar stimulus will booster the infrastructure, but I doubt it will create millions of jobs, or even stabilize the home mortgage crisis. 

Is not Barry's plan just another so-called Booster Shot in the arm of America? Let's hope that within this socialized syringe, America will get a profound dose of revolutionary and spiritual rejuvenation that will stand in defiance of the cultural materialism and shallowness of our age.

A little too late ... Mr. Bush

News Source

Friends - I think it would be to your benefit to google each State of the Union address (especially 2003) made by Mr. Bush in order to recognize why his domestic policy is without doubt the absolute worst in US History. 

The what ifs' mentality projecting from this article speaks to Bush's farewell address. I am baffled by the commentary in this article - e.g. efforts kept Bush too busy to deal with the issues, such as Immigration reform. Ladies and Gentlemen, what has the man done since invading Iraq in 2003? Absolutely nothing ... except f@ck America ... a Grand O' in ... out... in out... that only Bush could conjure up! 

Indeed, we Citizens of the US should blame the Liberal Democrats, too, for not sticking to their own domestic guns in order to push for immigration reform. They, as well as Mr. Bush, had their chances. They had our interests at attention!

It now falls into the rookie hands of Barry O to endure. But, I feel he will give little thought to this issue. His concern is instead for Americans to wake up, to volunteer, and to sacrifice even more than the likes set in motion by LBJ's Great Society.

When I read how many Americans currently suffer economically under the cold aegis of the Two-Party Dictatorship in this country, do you blame me for wanting to fall back, if not utterly retreat, to the secondary fronts so that I can realign my own literary guns towards that new target -- the next Great Depression? What would Mr. Debs do or say in this age? He already said it, I believe.

What we have allowed ourselves to squander these past 8 years - under the buffoon-ship of Mr. George W. Bush, we shall never regain. And, today, we "sleep-walk". No domestic battles have been won. Bush, like his co-Fascist predecessors, has instead played with his own make-believe military maps, giving misorders to incompetent four-star generals, has maneuvered our weakened armed forces with maxed credit, never realizing that he has lost the battle, if not America. 

Now ... the Unknown. Have we reached the end of History? 

The Nietzsche Channel

Read the following:

On The Use and Abuse of History for Life 

Begin the seduction ... 

deterioration in labor market conditions

News Source

Employed US Americans should keep a watchful eye of this current crisis.

In the US, Slavery has been abolished ... post US Civil War. 

But the "Labor Market" still exists ... today. 

I plan to complete a project application:

Important Info for WNC Farmers

Madelyn's first moment of the potty!!

As of 01/15/2009 - Ms. Madelyn Amore (meine Tochter) had her first pee on the potty!

Let's give her a round of applause ... yeah!!!!

Creed

• I believe one's initial and foremost education (viz. knowledge of values) must come from the home, to be a well-read and learned student of classic literature, enlightenment and nature.
• I believe one must find time to enjoy at least one love affair before reaching the age of sixteen. (Goethe)
• I believe one ought to maintain at least one unconditional friendship with the opposite sex.
• I believe one must make every effort to travel beyond one's hometown, county, state and/or country, i.e. study abroad.
• I believe that "all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty..." (Mencken)
• I believe in times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. (Orwell)
• I believe one cannot study the darkness by flooding it with light. (E. Abbey)
• I believe that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. (Zinn)
• I believe no one is free, for even the birds remain chained to the sky. (Dylan)
• I believe solitude - though it be silent as light - is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to all, for all come into this world, alone, and leave it, alone. (de Quincey)

KJHC's first blog

This is my first posted blog ... ever. 

So please pardon my possible naivete in such a venture. 

My sincere hope, if not fervent endeavor, is:

To provide you, my dear readers, with periodic book reviews | random commentary on current news and its sources | informative critique of so-called social reformers and the excessively pious | ceaseless attacks against "boobs and quacks" and the insatiable American appetite for mass consumption.

Be aware! ... this blog will not be defined by negativity!

For I am positively enthusiastic about a great many things.

A myriad of examples of optimism and progress will indeed follow ...

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