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Incidental #1,424 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/exaggerator/~3/olCY0Gi58Qs/1417.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:55:00 GMT <p align="center"><table style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" width="360" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com">The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a></td><td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c</td></tr><tr style="height: 14px;" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;" colspan="2"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: 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line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos/tag/health">Health Care Crisis</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>AS I'VE DOUBTLESS MENTIONED MANY TIMES BEFORE, CLOWNS ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET AWAY WITH THE TRUTH</b> than the rest of the general population ... or journalists, for that matter.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Latest case in point from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</span> on Comedy Central, in which he explodes a popular propaganda device of Glenn Beck in the wake of the latter's recent hospitalisation for a burst appendix ... by way of that same device in question.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">And you have to wonder if Beck's condition may be somehow indirectly interconnected to his fondness for stimulating those hypocritical crocodile tears "for Our Beloved Country" with Vicks Vapo-Rub under the eyes, notwithstanding where, in some instances, Federal law proscribes using certain medical products "in a manner inconsistent with its labelling" under pain of fine and/or penal servitude.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(Gimme-cap tip to First Door on the Left.)<br></font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a 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cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><font style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>You Are a Humanitarian</strong></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff"><center><img src="http://www.blogthingsimages.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/birthday.gif" width="100" height="100"></center><font color="#000000">You're so intuitive, it's like you have a sixth, seventh, and eighth sense.<br>You connect with others freely and easily - and you tend to have many best friends.<br>Warm and caring, it's hard for you to close your heart to anyone.<br>Affection is like air for you - you need to give and receive it to survive.<br><br>Your strength: Your universal compassion <br><br>Your weakness: Your unpredictable mood swings<br><br>Your power color: Mauve<br><br>Your power symbol: Butterfly<br><br>Your power month: February</font></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz/" target="new">What Does Your Birth Date Mean?</a></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com" target="new">Blogthings: Take a Quiz. Annoy Your Friends.</a></div><p></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>(GIMME-CAP TIP TO COMEDY PLUS FOR CALLING MY ATTENTION TO THIS PARTICULAR ITEM.)</b></font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(Not all that bad considering that my own birthday is shared with Mohandas K. Gandhi, Field-Marshal Foch, Groucho Marx and Rex Reed [no relation] ... as well as its being the national day in Guinea.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Equally interesting, for the sake of this post:</font></p><p align="center"><table width="350" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><font style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>You Are a Summer Person</strong></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff"><center><img src="http://www.blogthingsimages.com/areyouawinterpersonorasummerpersonquiz/summer.png" width="100" height="100"></center><font color="#000000">You are energetic, outgoing, and active.<br>You love to be out and about... hanging out with friends or getting things done.<br><br>Summer is the perfect time for you to be as hyper as you want to be.<br>In fact, during the rest of the year you feel half-asleep!</font></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/areyouawinterpersonorasummerpersonquiz/" target="new">Are You a Winter Person or a Summer Person?</a></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com" target="new">Blogthings: Learn Something Surprising About Yourself</a></div>        <p></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1423.html"><img 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Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ON THE LATRINE WIRELESS, FOX PROLEFEED HOST GLENN BECK</b> came down with appendicitis the other day as required his being in hospital for removal thereof.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Which has to make you wonder if G-d was sending Glenn Beck a sign that He is not amused @ his antics, and their particular appeal to Those Who Should Know Better (in particular, the socioeconomically vulnerable, marginalised and unemployable) in Our "Morally Superior" United States (snark intended).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ONE WEBLOG YOU (AND OTHER "RIGHT-THINKING REAL AMERICANS," COME TO THINK OF IT) NEED TO VISIT</span> in the interest of Knowledge and Enlightenment about the Inner Workings and Machinations of the Extreme Right and what they see as the "winning of hearts and minds"--vulnerable and easily-led more often than no--goes by name and stylee of <a href="http://www.stupidrightwingers.com/" target="_blank">Stupid Right Wingers</a></font><font size="4">.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Make it a point to visit same regularly, notwithstanding what the targets of this blog's analyses want you thinking about Knowledge and Enlightenment being Loathsome Mental Diseases and Disorders as will Translate into Wholesale Instances of Error and Moral Lapse Over Time. (Replete with the inevitable comparisons to Loathsome Social Diseases.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IN THE WAKE OF THE FORT HOOD MASSACREE THIS PAST THURSDAY,</span> certain weird and unwholesome prolefeed channels, all excusing such as one with True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command Towards the Final Perfection of a White Low Church Christian Theocracy, the Shining City of G-d Upon a Hill That Apartheid South Africa Came Oh So Close to its Final Perfection and Achievement Until "Communists" Came Along With Their Evil and Sinister Designs, seem to be <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200911060032?lid=1074761&rid=36985899" target="_blank">calling for "preemptive measures"</a></font><font size="4"> against such known or otherwise suspected of being Muslims in the military as much as in Our Holy and Beloved Nation based on their Al Cohol-inspired "Fifth Column" mindsets.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">And want same done not just discreetly, but showing No Mercy all the while, sadistic ultraviolence being justified as one with True Patriot Love, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">usw</span>. (And using the "preemptive action" defence in case police start asking questions, especially if Hate Crime charges are hinted @.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">That, and still insisting on the eventual aim of the Shining City of G-d Upon a Hill Being America's Eventual Destiny.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEANWHILE, OUR MUSLIM BRETHREN IN SWITZERLAND, IN THE INTEREST OF "WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS" AGAINST A NATIONAL PLEBISCITE</span> @ the end of the month to proscribe minaret construction across Helvetia, are having a National Open Day @ mosques and Islamic Centres in the interest of acquainting people with Islam and Muslim beliefs and teachings.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">And you thought Stan Freberg's referring to National Minorities as "Swiss," irrespective of national origins, to avoid offending anybody was rather absurd to the point of Monty Pythonic.... <br></font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CITING THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE THAT ALL ARE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, TAIWAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HAS STRUCK DOWN A LAW THERE</span> which has prostitutes arrested for engaging in Mrs. Warren's Profession subject to a 72-hour detention period in police custody while the patrons thereof ("johns," to use professional argot) get off scot-free essentially.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">This as Taiwan (Republic of China) seeks to build bridges of friendship with the Communist "People's Republic of China" (as officially frowns upon prostitution as a "moral evil***endemic to capitalist societies"), not to mention pondering the decriminalisation of prostitution; the latter point may gain some serious traction thanks to this recent ruling.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">And let's not forget that infamous suggestion conservative talkback radio host Neal Boortz made to a Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans in Atlanta seeking to return to self-reliance: Prostitute thyself. No wonder conservative Zealots and True Believers would love to use the current State of National Economic Emergency to push for "Open City" policies as could (as history has shown) excuse police-protected prostitution, gaming, "numbers/policy" rackets, back-room liquor sales, the whole carnival of political corruption, graft, criminal syndicalism and its evil byproducts.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Remember Phenix City, Alabama?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Hot Springs, Arkansas?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Canton, Ohio?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Joplin, Missouri?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Galveston, Texas?<br></font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">These are all watchwords for civic administrations who used "Open City" politics as just summarised to excuse <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Maschienpolitik</span> most vile, crude and venally corrupt excusing Sin and Vice as "business as usual."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">(Winona, MN, where Your Correspondent is based, was infamous in its day for the red-light quarter along West 2nd Street near where the Chicago and North Western's depot, since demolished, used to stand, brought to an end by World War II-related concerns that soldiers visiting Winona on weekend passes from Camp Williams or Camp McCoy were being thus "demoralised" through the spread of social disease--especially so Japanese-American soldiers; remember, racism was considered perfectly acceptable in such less-enlightened times, especially where Clear and Present Danger of Miscegenation ensued.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY @ THE SIDE BAR ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE PAGE, YOU'LL NOTE WHERE, JUST BELOW THE E-MAIL LINK,</span> there's now a widget as displayeth the 13 most recent Tweets into <a href="http://twitter.com/theexaggerator/" target="_blank">my Twitter account</a></font><font size="4">. (You'll likely have to scroll down in the widget to get a good idea thereof.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">In any case, I hope this will serve as an ideal way to call attention to this weblog's new adjunct of Twitter on the part of visitors old and new alike, especially so with an eye towards attracting new followers. (Especially  such as don't engage in pushing make-money-online/-with-Twitter schemes, pornography, crude and vile "patriotic" causes or anything else I take exception to. I do reserve the right and power to decline followers; please understand this in advance.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">As they'd say in Bloemfontein, "Dankie vir u ondersteuning.</font><font size="4">"</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Or, for that matter, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogoch, "Diolch i chi am eich cefnogaeth.</font><font size="4">"<br></font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" 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src="http://dl10.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1999/1999210v35w94b40d.gif" width="393" border="0" height="134"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE BIG STORY OF THE HOUR IS THE UNFORTUNATE EVENTS @ FORT HOOD, TX YESTERDAY</b> which saw an Army psychiatrist of Islamic derivation (fodder galore for the "patriotic" Islamaphobes of conservative prolefeed, doubtless) go on a firearms rampage as would make the National Rifle Association (motto: "Happiness is a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">WARM</span> gun!!") rather proud to the point of arrogant in its misinterpretation of the Second Amendment's supposed "right to keep and bear arms."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Which, in any event, left 13 dead and about twice as many hurt, including the would-be Charles Whitman (as was shot by a police officer, and is now under guard in hospital recovering from the wounds), whose explanation therefor is that he was upset @ all manner of Islamophobic and racist harrassment and taunting so directed, and wanted a cheap way to avoid imminent deployment to Afghanistan.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">And when you get right down to it, expect the funerals of the martyred to feature "educational" protests from the so-called "Westboro Baptist Church" of Topeka, replete with all manner of absurd scaremongering about "G-d Hates Your Tears," "America Is Doomed," "Obama is the Antichrist," etc., etc., excused as being one with Saving America From Herself (but, when all is said and done, may actually be little more than a patsy to conceal certain insecurities on the part of Rev. Fred Phelps as may or may not involve child sexual abuse, incest, molestation or even "gay panic").</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ONLY HOURS PRIOR TO THE UNFORTUNATE EVENTS @ FORT HOOD, OVER IN WASHINGTON,</span> what the prolefeed mongers known as Fox Prolefeed and conservative talkback radio hope to see as "preemptive action" against "Government Takeover of Healthcare" (a crucial vote therefor is set for tomorrow in the House of Representatives) attracted significantly and measurably fewer numbers of so-called "Real Americans" than organisers were expecting (many of them, it's now emerged, being bused in @ the expense of the so-called "Americans for Prosperity," a shill for the Koch oil-refining family and perhaps other elements among "the Four Hundred" hoping to use Joe Sixpack as unwitting dupes for the former's agenda and its articles of faith--a/k/a "astroturf" or, as such insist on being referred to, "tea party patriots," notwithstanding the perverted misreading of history excusing their agenda).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Said organisers including Rep. Michelle Bachmann and her closest media drookies, Fox Prolefeed being the most obvious in their (howbeit warped and misguided) application of the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">pro Deo, patria et familia</span> platitude to be applied in case a Please Explain Letter comes along in the letterposts.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">And need we remind all of you that "the Four Hundred," through the agency of "astroturf," are knowingly (all the while consciously denying, in line with the Principles of Doublethink) using an unwitting and unsuspecting (and @ once captive) audience of the socioeconomically-dispossessed and -dislocated (as in Joe Sixpack) to parrot articles of faith as are actually contrary to the interests of the "workers" they supposedly want us all to think they represent and defend (<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">cf.</span> Communist, Fascist and Nazi agendae and articles of faith along similar lines). And parrot them in the proper tone and nuance to maximise public impact and power, unaware of their being little more than pull-string dolls made all the more so by quasi-Scientologist methods and techniques.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EVEN YOUR LOCAL </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbb.org/" target="_blank">BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> WILL TELL YOU THAT "HOME BUSINESS" AND "WORK-FROM-HOME" SCHEMES ARE ESPECIALLY OVERT</span> during periods of wholesale socioeconomic instability, dislocation and/or uncertainty, targeting especially such as have been:</font></p><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">let go from the workforce because of current conditions;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">have few or no realistically marketable job or career skills;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">reside in lower-income or economically-displaced ZIP+4 areas; or</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">cannot find employment in the community because of external circumstances such as disability, mental disorders, need to care for infants or elderly relatives and dysfunctional background.</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Especially so now with just-completed official calculations of unemployment in our "morally-superior" United States showing the October joblessness rate to be 10.2%, up from the 9.8% back in September and the first time unemployment has exceeded 10% since under the Great Miscommunicator's misguided agenda of "trickle-down" socioeconomic thought based on capitalism with American characteristics as Great White Father.<br><br>Even more horrorshow to the mountebanks and carpetbaggers of "keeping people busy" (or trying to) is the news that companies are now finding it more profitable to use fewer workers, as well as rely all the more on telecommuting and the Information Stuporbahn, as byproducts of their restructuring and reorganisation ... thereby leaving such with limited (@ best) work skills open to exploitation, all the while unaware of the schemes they're being targeted for in the name of keeping bread on the table--<br></span></font><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">risk significant and measurable loss of what little savings they may have to weird and unwholesome types;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">make exaggerated earnings claims as may really be unattainable @ best;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">are deliberately structured so that any realistic earnings among rank-and-file participants are limited while the ones "running the show" profit all the while;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">overdo it on the Luddite angle (especially so when "home mailing" and "product assembly" schemes are offered) in misguided attempts to "make work" just to appease their (supposed) droogs among Fox Prolefeed and suchlike (all the while playing down the fact of automation and its efficiencies of scale actually <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">negating</span> any possibilities for big-big earnings);</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">overdo it on glowing generalities (and deliberately) to mislead and confuse, especially where reinforced by supposedly glowing-sounding "testimonials" from what turn out to be paid "singers" for the scheme who may not have been actually involved in the first place;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">may offer only time-limited positions, notwithstanding claims that such allow you to stay on for as long as you desire; and</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">have potentially weird, unwholesome and/or dangerous associations which can easily take undue and unscrupulous advantage of the vulnerable, especially if they suddenly realise they've been taken to the proverbial cleaners and try to seek help.</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">And you also have "the power and potential of the Internet" coming into play as a hook to attract the unwary into misguided attempts to avoid being reduced to State charity, such to be seen by All Good Christians and Real Americans to be one with Moral Error, Defect and/or Lapse (as in all those scams invoking the good name and repute of Google, Twitter, Facebook and other hot names on the Information Stuporbahn, only to deny any actual associations therewith).<br><br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONSIDERING THE LEGENDARY "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">VIS-A-VIS</span> WASHINGTON AND LONDON OF LONG DURATION,</span> perhaps it was time that President Obama join British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call upon the Afghani Government of "re-elected" President Hamid Karzai to either clean its house of corruption, with its potential for undermining confidence and trust in the Afghan Government by the Afghani People and Nation, or face the abrupt withdrawal of its military presence within measurable distance.</font><br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Even if it means The Unthinkable Prospect of the Talebani exploiting such loss of public sentiment to the point of calling for armed insurrection as would have the Taleban reclaiming power--with another serious wave of corruption and abuse of power ensuing, financed all the more by the proceeds of opium poppy and cannabis cultivation and its respective end products of heroin, morphia and hashish.<br><br>Which is something that the hard-wired Zealots and True Believers in His Fraudulency's Misadministration as brought about the whole mess all the while should ponder for once, what with such having brought blood on their own hands and the National Debt made all the worse (so explaining my 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ALMOST.</b></font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">In any event, this particular e-mail received of Your Correspondent is the sort as is too good to not share with you readers:</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; margin-left: 40px;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America, Fox "News" wins this week's Media Putz Award..<br><br> The MSM loves to tell us that there is Fox "News" with O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck and then there's Fox "News" on the rest of the time. Fair and Balanced.<br><br> Hmmm, well, based on what we've seen lately from the "news" part of Fox "News," their argument is as thin as the pastrami in a New York City deli.</font> <br> <br> <font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">Chris Wallace is seen as the legitimate face of Fox "News." After all, Wallace, son of a real journalist in Mike Wallace, has hosted "Meet the Press" on NBC and was on "Primetime Thursday" on ABC. Certainly, Fox plays that up when accused of news bias.<br><br> Here was the chance, the ultimate chance, to toss a few hard questions to Rush Limbaugh, prove the naysayers wrong, show them that Fox has a real news department. But Wallace's cushy softball interview with Rush Limbaugh is much more typical of the style of "journalism" Wallace has brought us for many years.<br><br> "I think you're a great broadcaster. How can you possibly be worth that kind of money?"</font> <br> <br> <font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">When you go back to Wallace's interview with former President Clinton in 2006, you find Wallace asked some tough questions. But that Chris Wallace, rarely seen in public, wasn't on display with Limbaugh.<br><br> "Do you think the individual mandate is constitutional? Do you think the government has the right to tell people, You're going to get health insurance, and if you don't get it, you're going to pay a penalty?"<br><br> This question of Limbaugh could have been phrased in a way that would have sounded legitimate. The question, exactly the way Wallace phrased it, sounds like he agrees with Limbaugh, described in a court of law as leading the witness. Then again, when you are all on the same side, every question is a leading one.<br><br> And this doesn't even factor in that Limbaugh was allowed to spew out "facts" that weren't even close to being true, but that seemed just fine with Wallace.</font> <br></p><div style="margin-left: 80px;"> <font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);" size="3"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LIMBAUGH:</span> I mean, just a couple days ago, they talked about these 650,000 jobs that they've created or saved. There's no such thing as a saved job. Besides that, they've destroyed jobs. They've lost 3.3 million jobs in this country since Obama's stimulus plan, and it's going to get worse.</span></font><br></div><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; margin-left: 40px;" align="left"> <font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">Wallace couldn't even ask Limbaugh where he got such a ridiculous set of numbers. And Wallace wouldn't dare correct him.<br><br> Then there's Gretchen Carlson. Okay, she works on "Fox and Friends," a pseudo-news show even by Fox standards. But they do interview newsmakers, and they do work on a morning show on a channel that masquerades as a news outlet. <br><br> Carlson was interviewing a rather prominent newsmaker in Rep. Michele Bachmann recently. The interview was typical Fox fluff, including Carlson's reference at the end to providing a link to Bachmann's "Super Bowl of Freedom."</font> <br> <br> <font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">But no one mentioned the conflict, where George Will of all people, disclosed that Bachmann used to be Carlson's nanny. Yet, the "news" department at Fox didn't have an issue with Carlson interviewing Bachmann and a lack of disclosure over their relationship. Do you think Keith Olbermann could interview his nanny (if he even had one) without mentioning a conflict of interest and not receive scorn from the MSM?<br><br> Carlson's two "questions" weren't any tougher than those seen on a 3 a.m. infomercial. And when Bachmann referenced the "whites of their eyes," Carlson's eyes didn't even blink.</font> <br> <br> <font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">You have to wonder how many times Carlson has interviewed or talked about Bachmann even before Will's disclosure. And why are we finding out about the Carlson/Bachmann relationship from someone other than Carlson or Fox? Not disclosing conflict of interest issues is a no-no. Steering a conflict of interest into a 1-on-1 interview? That's how they do it at Fox. <br><br> At least, Wallace and Limbaugh don't have a relationship. But given Wallace's reaction to Limbaugh afterwards, you might want to start making dinner reservations.<br><br> "I just want to give you my reaction. First of all I had never met him. Very nice, very sweet and I've have to say vulnerable guy and if you watch the interview you'll see because he talks very candidly about drug rehab..."</font> <br> <br> <font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3">Wallace's softball questions brought out the mean, petty, obnoxious side of Limbaugh, which is actually all of his sides. The "very nice, very sweet and… vulnerable guy" Wallace speaks of isn't there in the room.<br><br> Ruth Marcus and Jake Tapper, among many many others, owe us an apology.<br><br> Fox "News" may fool the MSM into thinking it's a legitimate news outlet. But we're paying more attention to Fox than they are, so we really know what's going on. Chris Wallace and Gretchen Carlson -- two reasons why Fox "News" gets put into quotes, and once again, wins this week's Media Putz award.</font> <br> <br> <font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fox "News" has previously won the Media Putz award on July 9, 2009, April 16, 2009, and on May 15, 2008.</span></font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(And there is Deeper Significance behind the preceding: Buzzflash.com has just launched an online campaign known as <a href="http://www.turnofffox.com/" target="_blank">Turn Off Fox</a></font><font size="4">, with the aim of getting people to have businesses change the channel away from Fox Prolefeed ... not to mention urging people to stop watching it as well.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SOMETHING THE CULTURE WARRIORS (OR SO THEY SEE THEMSELVES AS) WOULD JUST LAUGH THEIR HEADS OFF @: </span>Not many know this, but the Australians were the first to establish a films-rating system, approving films as either For General Exhibition or Not For General Exhibition (<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">i.e.</span>, Adults Only).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Which the film censor board in the Canadian province of Ontario refined in the mid-1930's with perhaps the first such in North America: Films were either deemed Suitable for All or Suitable for Adult Audiences after passing through the censor's shears in the name of G-d, King and Empire.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">And we have the current letter-grade-based ratings system of G, PG, PG13, R and NC17 ... but if you ask me, why not just simplify things and deem films as being:</font></p><ul><li style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">"Suitable for All"</font></li><li style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">"Suitable Only for the Elites"<br></font></li><li style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">"Suitable for Culturally-Deprived Environments"<br></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">"Suitable for Idiots and Morons" (as an alternative to the preceding)</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">(In any event, the films likely to pass in the last category, regardless of the labelling, are more than likely to be deliberately-dumped-on "elegant pornoo!" lacking any relevant plot or story because the Lower Classes thus targeted "don't have any general ideas anyway," and besides, so this line of thinking holds--the sort of line Fox Prolefeed likes promoting in the first place for all their warped delusions of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Kulturkrieg</span> grandeur--"need to be kept in their place," and deliberately.<br><br>(And the best way to do it? Nothing but cheap and cheerful "pornoo" as is little more than random and unrelated sex scenes, complete with explicit depictions of the genitalia and the obligatory "money shot." Occasionally including scenes of animal mating to break the monotony more than anything else, let alone distract Joe Sixpack from Reality. 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http://exaggerator.blogdrive.com/archive/1413.html Incidental #1,419 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/exaggerator/~3/D057QDWKnBE/1412.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:00 GMT <p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/415/415761fmelgqbtx8.gif" width="340" border="0" height="65"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>ONCE AGAIN, TARDINESS BECAUSE OF PRIOR COMMITMENTS @ <a href="http://www.webspawner.com/users/sterlingmotel/" rarget="new">THE MOTEL I DO FOR</a> (AS IN USING THE LEAF BLOWER TO CLEAN UP THE LOT)</b> is the order of the day, reader; hence, I would appreciate your patience and understanding in this respect.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IF THERE'S A LESSON WORTH LEARNING FROM INDECISION 2009 AS CAN BE APPLIED TO INDECISION 2010</span> (especially when you consider easy Republican wins in the New Jersey and Virginia governors' races, not to mention Democratic victories in special Congressional elections in California and New York and Maine voters endorsing "patriotic" homophobia), it would have to be this:</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Videlicet</span>, redoubling any and all efforts to win over especially younger, lower-income and National Minority voters in voter-registry drives and @ the polls--especially so when the Secular-Progressive agenda is all the more important. And also taking challenge to conservative campaigns of voter suppression, intimidation and harrassment which they can easily excuse as "protecting electoral purity and integrity", not to mention being <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">pro Deo et patria</span> in case they're sent a Please Explain Letter.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHICH LEADS INTO NEWS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, DEN HAAG (NL),</span> is sending investigators into Kenya to look into the root causes of the infamous post-electoral violence following their 2007 Presidential elections as led to wholesale slaughter and mayhem, with an eye towards possible action under International Law for Crimes Against Humanity.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Especially the involvement of, and interconnexions with, police and other high-level officials and their acting as <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">agents provocateur</span> when it came to the worst atrocities thereof.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">And come to think of it, you can just imagine our "morally superior" extremists seeing electoral interference as one with Moral and Patriotic Duty drooling in their Luscious Glory @ the revelations ensuing--not just in Kenya, but also @ the September rallies in Guinea which resulted in stampedes, rape and Extreme Ultraviolence, in turn translating into international sanctions by the United States, the United Nations and the European Union against the military regime.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHAT EXACTLY WAS IT THAT PROMPTED GENERAL MOTORS TO ANNOUNCE ITS ABOUT-FACE ON THE SALE OF ITS EUROPEAN OPERATIONS</span> (as in the Opel and Vauxhall nameplates), in effect retaining its presence in Europe @ the expense of the likelihood of 12,000 jobs in Germany being cut as part of wholesale restructuring likely ensuing?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">(Luckily, the Vauxhall operations in England's Green and Pleasant Land remain safe, what with the unions @ its two assembly plants welcoming the likelihood of restructuring.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">But then again, maybe it was time to ask about its Australian operations, General Motors Holden by name and stylee, and how such is being afflicted by GM's current restructuring.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IN THE INTEREST OF CUTTING OFF MAJOR FINANCING AND REVENUE STREAMS FOR WEIRD AND UNWHOLESOME ELEMENTS <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">VIS-A-VIS</span> THE DIAMOND TRADE, </span>the major diamond-producing centres have developed an international convention known as the Kimberly Process; the better to track the sourcing of diamonds from mines to cutters to jewellers.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Now, it looks like the Kimberly Process has its target set on the ZANU-PF regime of Robert Mugabe down Zimbabwe way, especially so in light of reports that police control of diamond mines in Zimbabwe is being used to finance ZANU-PF's corrupt and evil ways (disguised all the while as "hard currency reserves" for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe).</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AS WE ALL KNOW, BOYS AND GIRLS, THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION'S 1972 ANNUAL CONVENTION </span>removed homosexuality from the list of Serious Mental Aberrations Best Responsive to Treatment and Therapy.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Never mind the Elmer Gantry Institute for Religiopolitical Theology begging to differ all the while, as in invoking Biblical Majesty and Authority to insist that homosexuals are Freaks and Travesties of Nature and homosexuality as a Perversion of the Natural Order.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">I mention this because the Health Ministry of the People's Republic of China has announced that the use of corporal punishment to deal with the non-disease of "Internet Addiction," especially among Impressionable Youth, in so-called "Corrective Schools" run along military boot-camp lines is to be prohibited; this on top of a July decree proscribing electroshock therapy in furtherance.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">This the byproduct of the martyrdom of Deng Senshan (15), who died sadistically less than a day following his arrival for "rehabilitation" @ the so-called "Qihang Salvation Training Camp" somewhere in Guangxi Province ... and the near-such about a fortnight later of Pu Liang (14) following his sadistic beating and hazing by the principal and fellow inmates of a similar Corrective School.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">As the ministry hath it in draft guidance received by Reuters (and, ultimately, quoted by the BBC), "When intervening to prevent improper use of the Internet we should ... strictly prohibit restriction of personal freedom and physical punishments"; the ultimate goal being, again quoting the draft guidance note, "to urge the target[ed] people to use the Internet in a healthy way." 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PRESCRIPTION COCKTAIL I TAKE</b> inasmuch as I have a Familial Predisposition to high blood pressure, heart disease and colorectal cancer, the posting of this item is rather later than usual.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">For which Your Correspondent greatly and graciously apologises.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(In case you ask, hydrochlorothiazide is a diuretic used in early-stage instances of high blood pressure, the which can cause potassium loss. As well, I continue taking gemfobrozil for high triglycerides and ranitidine for acid reflux.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Nonetheless, I hope you don't mind the brevity of this posting.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Especially when you stop and consider where, in the spirit of Glenn Beck's perceived interconnexions on that blackboard of his @ Fox Prolefeed, maybe it was time to look for likely interconnexions between the "tea party" movement (and the "astroturf" fronts backed by "the Four Hundred" controlling Joe Sixpack types falling for the ruse), the "Quiverfull/Christian Matriarchy" movement, White Low Church Christian Supremacists and neo-Nazi/Fascist types interrelated to the preceding. The interconnexions thus discovered would be rather fascinating, and would amaze even Glenn Beck to the point where The Shadow (as in "Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?") might come to haunt Beck on one of his broadcasts, in the stylee of his radio adventures over Mutual from 1937 to 1954.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Preferably spoken in a clipped South African accent, Vrystaat such preferred IMHO.<br></font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" 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src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1486/1486204cx6l31zoc0.gif" width="321" border="0" height="320"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>YOUR CORRESPONDENT UNDERSTANDS THAT THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC) IS NOT AMUSED</b> about the website FreeCreditReport.com, a byproduct of credit-reporting agency Expirian infamous for its rather reechy-sounding tunes promoting what turns out being a come-on to a subscription-based credit-file monitoring scheme needlessly duplicating services that one can do free or @ nominal cost.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Especially galling is the fact that said website's URL (as in its address) is a deliberate trick to mislead especially vulnerable and easily-influenced persons from The One, True and Only Free Credit Report Site on the Information Stuporbahn Authorised by Act of Congress, which is <a href="http://www.annualcreditreport.com/" target="_blank">www.annualcreditreport.com</a></font><font size="4"> for the record. And the FTC's gone so far as to back up the claim with Public Service Announcements as essentially parody FreeCreditReport.com's adverts, tacky jingles, corny looks and all.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Which could mean that the FTC may petition ICANN, the international agency responsible for website domains and address registry, to look into FreeCreditReport.com being assigned to the Holy and Morally Superior Free-Enterprise System with intent to confuse or mislead the public, in particular such with inborn or latent naivete.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TO SEE THE FOLLOWING AND NOT BE CONVINCED OF THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER POSED BY THE ELMER GANTRY ELEMENT</span> to Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity (by way of Ted Danson's appearing on HLN's <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Joy Behar Show</span> last evening) speaks volumes of just how we "morally superior" Americans seem to have become too dependent upon Fox Prolefeed, as if suggesting where we have become what H. L. Mencken called <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Boobius Americanus</span> in the extreme:<br></font></p><p align="center"><script src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=dom&vid=/video/bestoftv/2009/11/02/joy.behar.ted.danson.cnn" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a></noscript></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>WITH THE ANNUAL <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">HAJJ</span> (AS IN THE PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY MAKKAH AND MINA EXPECTED OF THE MUSLIM FAITHFUL ONCE IN THEIR ADULT LIFETIMES) COMING UP,</b> <a href="http://www.hajinformation.com/" target="new">the Saudi Ministry for the Hajj</a> has issued its annual warning to intending pilgrims not to use the Fifth Pillar of Islam for real or perceived political purposes--a veiled reference to the so-called "Islamic Republic of Iran" seeing the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">hajj</span> as a propaganda weapon among such making the pilgrimage.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(The Saudis, for their part, consider use of the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">hajj</span> for propaganda ends to be a safety risk, not to mention distracting pilgrims from the sachristy and significance thereof in relation to the Muslim faith. Witness the traditional uniform issued to those on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">hajj </span>of a seamless white cotton pyjama, expected to signify the unity of all Muslims across the world so participant.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHICAGO BACK IN THE GLORY DAYS OF AL CAPONE AND HIS ILK WAS NEVER LIKE THIS:</span> A court in Chongqing, China has sentenced to 18 years' penal servitude what state media described as the "godmother" of the local criminal underworld.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">By name, Xie Caiping (46).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Who, according to state prosecutors, ran illegal casinos in such venues as hotels, tea rooms and nightclubs ... illegal detention of people ... harbouring drug addicts and "social degenerates" generally ... bribing the local police and running protection rackets on the side ... and reputedly keeping a stable of 16 young men to serve her sexual desires, all along pocketing some RMB2 million during her Reign of Terror (of which she will have to pay RMB1.02 million in fines along with the jail time).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">As if that weren't enough, Madame Xie's brother-in-law, Wen Qiang (himself a former local judge), faces referral to the Communist Party authorities in Beijing for Serious Disciplinary Action <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis</span> his connexions to Madame Xie's syndicate alongside sentencing forthcoming on charges of rape, bribery, money laundering and illegal moneylending.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Not to mention Further Serious Enquiries into the Depth and Extent of Corruption in the Chongqing district which the Xie trial uncovered; on top of that, six other people were earlier given death sentences (as in a single pistol shot fired @ the temple) for murder and blackmail.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Let it be hoped such may be the tip of the iceberg into just how far corrupt the so-called "People's Republic of China" really has become, all the while claiming to be acting in the name and welfare of the Workers and Peasants towards "developing socialism with Chinese characteristics."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">As well as provide some worthwhile lessons into just how low certain right-wing extremists want to take our "morally superior" United States in the name of "saving America from herself." "It's a small world, after all," as Disneyland and Walt Disney World forever remind us.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COULD IT BE THAT FOX PROLEFEED MAY UNWITTINGLY BE EMBRACING COMMUNIST TACTICS AND METHODS IN THE OLD "WINNING OF HEARTS AND MINDS" THEMSELVES</span> while parroting the trope about President Obama being some class of an unwittingly conscious "Communist dupe***undermining Our Holy and Beloved Nation" all the while?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">(As in the use of confusingly misleading and deceptive phraseology with clear and present danger of harming the Great Unwashed to the point of causing confusion.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEANWHILE, THOSE PLAYING ALONG TO FOX PROLEFEED'S DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING TUNE AND STORY</span> about "where are the jobs?" <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis </span>President Obama's Socioeconomic Stimulus (as in expecting the private sector to so create out of the goodness of their collective hearts and minds) may want to recall where many of the Great Depression's various make-work initiatives (among them the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC], the National Youth Administration [NYA], the Public Works Administration [PWA], the Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] and the Works Progress Administration [WPA], to cite the more prominent such) also had a relief component (as in providing money, by way of allotments, to the families of those so employed).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Case in point: Out of the $30/week in pay CCC workers received to engage in reforestation, soil and water conservation and construction of amenities in state and national parks and waysides, $25 went to their families as relief benefits.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Take that, ye Zealots and True Believers still expecting the private sector to create work without recourse to State blackmail or extortion, and whining about the "chronically and habitually unemployed" "not making good enough effort" to find work, let alone "knowing where to look" (as in private employment agencies operating in Bad Neighbourhoods as charge advance fees to would-be job seekers, not to mention employing "singers" to engage in "whispering campaigns" working the bars and welfare 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In other words, inaction now will shut the door indefinitely on serious reform while millions more (especially the Lower Classes and National Minorities lacking insurance) suffer the price of not having health cover.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(Thanks to Engrish.com for tipping me off via Twitter.)<br></font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1417.html"><img 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Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>FOLKSIES, WOULDN'T YOU AGREE THAT THE IMAGE LEADING TODAY'S POST IS RATHER APROPOS THE TIME OF YEAR,</b> particularly among such of you in the Northern Hemisphere as are still seeing autumnal effects?</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PERHAPS IT WAS OVERSIGHT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE,</span> but perhaps it was time to add to <a href="http://exaggerator.blogdrive.com/archive/1412.html" target="_parent">the FAQ's I asked back on Saturday</a></font><font size="4"> this particular one:</font></p><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Why are your blog posts shown in UTC time, not prevailing local time?</span><br>The reason for this is logical more than anything else: It's the World Wide Web, not the America Wide Web, that I happen to be on. And UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time, to translate from the French abbreviate; a/k/a Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT) is the international standard by agreement for establishing correct time the world over.<br>As for the inspiration therefor, such came about by way of the German worldcaster </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.dw-world.de/" target="_blank">Deutsche Welle</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">'s TV service, DW-TV, using UTC time for programme scheduling purposes (@ least when it was on cable TV here in Winona).<br>Now you know.</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">And don't forget to </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="mailto:thedailyphosdex@yahoo.com" target="_blank">send me an e-mail</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> or otherwise </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://twitter.com/theexaggerator/" target="_blank">follow moi on Twitter</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> should you have further pressing questions about this blog.<br><br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOX PROLEFEED CRONYISM @ ITS MOST PATHETIC:</span> How many of you can be considered regular, hard-wired viewers of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fox News Sunday</span> week after week among you readers of this blog, or reasonable facsimilies thereof?<br><br>If so, you may have noticed yesterday's show being little more than a rather pathetic exercise in idolarty towards </font><font size="4"><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh" target="_blank">The Oxycontin Boar</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4">, who, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">inter alii</span>, insisted that the GOP's Last and Only Hope for Remaining a Viable Political Option in Our Morally-Superior United States is for them to hold dear a complacent, "stay the course" toadyism <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis</span> the hagiographic deification of Ronald Reagan and such articles of faith holding free-market capitalism with American characteristics to be the Great White Father of especially the Lower Classes "otherwise enslaved in hopeless and helpless dependency upon State welfare and Social Security," or so the patsy would go.<br><br>Remember, holding fast a "stay the course" complacency only risks its destruction from within, as in corruption, mismanagement, waste, fraud, inefficiency and scandal; one need look no further than the Leonid Brezhnev regime in the then-Soviet Union (1964-1982) as a prime example and warning of this. (Not to mention the star-crossed attempts by his successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, to so perpetuate, only to be thwarted by their deaths in office within measurable distance of their assuming power.)<br><br>Instead, what El Rushbo deserves is your reminding him of the facts as above; consider referring him to this item </font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><a href="mailto:elrushbo@eibnet.com" target="_blank">by e-mail</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"> (politely, of course).<br><br></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);" size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">=============</span></font><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COME TO THINK OF IT, YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE NOT JUST RUSH LIMBAUGH, BUT ALSO HIS COMRADE-IN-ARMS (SO TO SPEAK), </span></span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News" target="_blank">FOX PROLEFEED</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'S GLENN BECK,</span> perhaps being unwitting psychopaths whose messages, notwithstanding their playing the patsy of being "entertainers" to avoid Attracting Unwelcome Attention (or so they think), may pose Clear and Present Danger to the Community as much as to its Peace, Safety and Good Order.<br><br>With Glenn Beck probably being the More Dangerous of the two.<br><br>And made all the worse, in either case, by the fact of the core audience for both their respective programmes being the Great Unwashed, deluded into an arrogance rivalled only by the ranks of Afrikanerdom in apartheid South Africa expected to see themselves "as of natural right" being the natural Lord and Master of South Africa "by right of conquest," so to speak, as reinforced by officially-sanctioned organisations of highly-secretive and Freemasonic nature such as <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Die Broterbund</span>.<br><br>What exactly would prevent someone from taking "pre-emptive" action against Beck and/or Limbaugh by way of the prevailing mental-hygiene laws both would love to see deployed against "Godless Liberals and Secular-Progressives" and other "Enemies of the Nation," real or suspected (unaware that the orders in question may be issued in a state of insanity, technically rendering such null and void under common law)?<br><br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW DO WE KNOW THAT </span></font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Astroturf" target="_blank">"ASTROTURF" MOVEMENTS</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> AREN'T ACTUALLY IN UNHOLY AND CORRUPT LEAGUE WITH </span></font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Church_of_Scientology" target="_blank">THE SO-CALLED "CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY"</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> in the development and perfection of propaganda, mind-control and </font><font size="4"><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Groupthink" target="_blank">groupthink</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"> techniques to mislead such among the Joe Sixpack types expected to parrot the line of "the Four Hundred" through trick or deceit in furtherance thereof (as witness the use of deceptive-sounding stylees for their movements like "Americans For Prosperity," to take one especially noisome example)?</font><br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">And how sure are we that the Scientologists' infamous "Fair Game Policy," bordering as it does on </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=McCarthyism" target="_blank">McCarthyism</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, isn't a cornerstone of such groupthink <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis</span> "astroturf" in the "winning of hearts and minds" racket?<br><br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A REMINDER THAT WE IGNORE THE LESSONS AND WARNINGS OF HISTORY @ OUR PERIL: </span>The rather scholarly journal <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Latin American Antiquity</span> hath it in its new number that the ancient Nazca peoples of Peru, perhaps best known for the massive displays of earth sculpture best appreciated from the air, may have planted the seeds of their own destruction in pre-Colombian times thanks to wholesale and reckless deforestation just to open up new agricultural lands.<br><br>As for, perhaps, the closest parallel to the Nazca in our supposedly "advanced" and "enlightened" times, consider the North Koreans as have themselves been forced into wholesale deforestation in recent years just to maintain its cherished neo-Stalinist agenda of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">juche</span> ("self-reliance") in terms of food supply after several years of poor harvests translating into famine ... aggravated by increasingly heavy rainfalls which, in their turn, have translated into gross soil erosion on the denuded hillsides as have themselves washed out fields and crops by mudslides. <br><br>And throughout, "Great Leader" Kim Jong Il is expected to be looked upon by its starving and helplessly tired populace as a superdivine leader with mystical powers ... and his father, "Eternal Leader" Kim Il Sung, being worshipped as a deity (its <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sanctii Sanctorum</span> being the Monument to Eternal Leader Kim Il Sung in Beautiful Downtown Pyongyang, backed by a ceramic-tile picture of Holy and Sacred Mt. Paekdu, itself figuring prominently in the official pantheon of North Korean Mythology as well-documented).<br><br style="font-weight: bold;"></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW MUCH LONGER BEFORE OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED BLACKMAIL BECOMES THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN GETTING BANKERS TO MAKE MORE LOANS AND LINES OF CREDIT AVAILABLE TO SMALL BUSINESS,</span> especially so in the wake of The CIT Group, heretofore the preeminent small-business loan and finance company, having gone into Carey Street?<br><br>(The whole being seen as a "pre-emptive" action against the likelihood of weird and unwholesome elements, many of them based offshore "for tax reasons," according to the official patsy, start exploiting the vacuum now opened by CIT's insolvency. Even more so where Notorious Criminal Syndicates, both from within and without, have significant involvement--especially for discreetly [or so hoped] laundering the Proceeds of Crime and/or Terrorism.)<br><br></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MONTY PYTHON FANS ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THE "MINISTRY OF SILLY WALKS" SKETCH,</span> about a supposed agency of Her Majesty's Government specialist in studying and promoting bizarre or otherwise unusual walking patterns.<br><br>Which had Your Correspondent imagining as perhaps the perfect example of Silly Walking Music none other than "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan of late 1970's vintage; I think the melody line makes it ideal to Silly Walk to its beat.<br><br>Care to offer other candidates in this regard?<br></font></div></div></div></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></span></font></div></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></span></font></div></div></div></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></span></font></div><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1415.html"><img 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Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>CONWEBBLOG IS NOTING WHERE JOSEPH "WORLDNETDAILY" FARAH IS STARTING TO GET PARANOID,</b> even if it means resorting to devious, illicit and questionable pseudo-journalistic tactics to make sure the Fourth Estate (or what remains of it) kowtows to him and him alone, reinforced by the one command he knows--OBEY:</font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Joseph Farah's Oct. 31 WorldNetDaily <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114524" target="new">column</a> is another whine-fest about how the rest of the media is being mean to WND over the birther issue, and this time he's issuing threats:</font></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 80px;"><p><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">I believe I have been far too kind to my colleagues in the rest of the media.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">I have been playing Mr. Nice Guy.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Well, Mr. Nice Guy has been around this business for 30 years and knows where a lot of bodies are buried.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">And if I have to redirect some of my attention toward reporting on the media, I will do it.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Consider that a warning.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Consider this a shot across the bow.</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Uh, when has Farah <em>ever</em> been nice? </font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Well, to people who hold his same far-right views, sure--see WND's <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2009/wndtaitz2.html" target="new">Orly Taitz protection racket</a>. But this is a man who <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/outthere/otadultery.html" target="new">condones the murder of adulterers</a> and advocates censorship through the <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/outthere/otfarah.html" target="new">return of the Hollywood blacklist</a>. As we've <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2004/farahkerry.html" target="new">detailed</a>, Farah in 2004 described John Kerry as "a privileged rich boy," "traitorous," "rotten to the core," and, of course, "truly dangerous ... truly contemptuous ... truly egomaniacal ... truly without character ... truly transparent as a political huckster and charlatan." Oh, and he called an Obama White House adviser <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"</span><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1958130/farah-calls-obamas-muslim-adviser-toga-head/" target="new">toga head</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">." </span></font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">This is "Mr. Nice Guy"? </font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">What set Farah off this time was Bill O'Reilly talking about birthers:</font></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 80px;"><p><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">There was pompous old Bill O'Reilly again this week attacking one of his favorite targets–"birthers."</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">He had two guests on with him – neither one cognizant of the facts surrounding the Barack Obama eligibility questions. Both of them happily nodded in agreement to most of the tripe emanating from O'Reilly's big, ill-informed mouth.</span><br><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Night after night, show after show, network after network this goes on.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">This is journalism?</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Whatever happened to "fair and balanced"?</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Whatever happened to getting other points of view?</span><br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Whatever happened to the idea of interviewing those with whom you disagree?</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Whatever happened to the notion of representing honestly the opinions of others?</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">I'm getting flat-out sick of it. </span></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Really? If so, Farah might want to keep his reporters and columnists (and himself) from engaging in those very same behaviors. As we've <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2007/unruh.html" target="new">detailed</a>, WND's articles are not "fair and balanced," and its reporters frequently do not gather other points of view. Nor does it honestly represent the opinions of others, as, <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1953357/wnd-lies-about-another-obama-official/" target="new">John Holdren</a> and <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1952809/wnd-lying-about-chai-feldblum/" target="new">Chai Feldblum</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,</span> among others, know all too well. </font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Needless to say, a few paragraphs after he whines about "representing honestly the opinions of others," Farah misrepresents facts, complaining that "Not one of these cable networks, let alone the Associated Press, <b><i>New York Times</i></b><i></i>, <b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><i></i> or the major networks, has reported the significance of the fact that Michelle Obama admitted her mother-in-law gave birth out of wedlock." But that's not what she did--An Oct. 27 WND <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114259" target="new">article</a> by Aaron Klein dug up a quote of Michelle Obama saying "during a July 2008 round table at the University of Missouri" that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, "was very young and very single when she had him." That's not the admission Obama was born "out of wedlock" Farah portrays it as or even "contradicted previous claims President Obama made about the circumstances of his birth,": as Klein writes, since it could also describe that Dunham was estranged from her husband at the time. Farah and Klein have simply <em>chosen</em> to interpret it that way. </font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Farah seems to be oblivious to the fact that petulant screeds like this and sloppy, biased reporting--on top of Farah's <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2009/farahcriticism.html" target="new">inability to handle criticism</a>--are precisely the reason why WND isn't treated with respect, nor does he seem to realize that there are other reasons as well, such as repeatedly <a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2008/wndlawsuit2.html" target="new">reporting</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2009/wndliar09.html" target="new">lies</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2009/wndhatecrimelies.html" target="new">as</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2009/wndbirthlies.html" target="new">fact</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. </span></font></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Then again, maybe Farah does know this, and refuses to acknowledge it publicly for fear of becoming even more discredited. Either way, it's not a way to earn the respect he so desperately craves.</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">And it's no wonder that WorldNetDaily is not held in such high esteem by such among the Greater Blogosphere who values sanity and the freedom of the (virtual) press, when you get right down to it. It's become as if Mr. Farah, oblivious to the loss of credibility when it comes to his (supposed) Pride and Joy in the Information Stuporbahn, has started to become his own worst joke, forcing him to play the schoolyard bully in what may be a last desperate move to save what he sees as his Good Name and Repute.</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">And wants to stop @ nothing, Joe McCarthy-stylee, to make sure he gets his way, no matter how filthy, obscene, vile, disgusting, putrid, loathsome or scandalous it may be. (Come to think of it, about the only advertising WorldNetDaily can attract is from rather disreputable channels, the sort no mainstream online news site is willing to accept lest their good name and repute be compromised.)</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">In any case, WorldNetDaily needs to be told for once these same words as were the ruin of this supposed hero of Joseph Farah's: "Have you no sense of Decency, Sir, @ long last? Have you left no sense of Decency?"</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><font size="4">The which WND would likely respond to by quoting Nietzsche's "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." 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EDGAR HOOVER MUST PROBABLY BE SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE @ THE CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY IN WASHINGTON, DC (AND LAUGHING ALL THE WHILE)</b> when he hears the news that certain weird and unwholesome circles are claiming that the FBI is "recommending" that people start watching Glenn Beck and listening to conservative talkback radio "if you want to know The Truth."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(The which Your Correspondent learned about on <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/10/30/fbi_watch_glenn_beck_to_know_the_truth_what_the_fk.php" target="_blank">News Hounds</a></font><font size="4">, in case you ask.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Sadly, though, the FBI disagrees: Your Correspondent actually called the Minneapolis office thereof (as has jurisdiction over these parts where he's based) to check on the rumor just yesterday, and the Duty Agent hath it that:</font></p><ol><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">the FBI was unaware of the claim until I had brought it up to him; and</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">further, the FBI has a very strict policy against the endorsement, approval or recommendation of any company, product, service or person.</span></font></li></ol><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">(If you don't believe me, just call your local FBI office, which should be in the Blue Pages [Government Offices] listings of your local telephone directory or, failing that, </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm" target="_blank">can be located on the FBI website</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">.)<br><br></span></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL WITHIN MEASURABLE DISTANCE AS READS "PLEASE CHECK YOUR BANK DEPOSIT INSURANCE COVERAGE" OR SOME SUCH,</span> the </font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><a href="http://www.fdic.gov/" target="_blank">FDIC</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"> urges you to simply delete it and take no other action.<br><br>It's emerged that such an e-mail is making the rounds nationwide to cash in on fears of bank failures in the wake of that which His Fraudulency's Misadministration hath wrought socioeconomically upon Our Morally-Superior Society and Nation, and for which the Obama Administration is doing its best to repair the damage, Fox Prolefeed-stylee paranoia about "Creeping Communism!" (replete with the inevitable Reechy Horror-Movie Music From The Mighty Wurlitzer in the background) notwithstanding; worse yet, it's emerged that said e-mail is actually a "phishing" device that can be used to access sensitive financial and banking information through trick and deceit.<br><br>(That's "phishing," as in the rock band ... more than likely enriching Corrupt and Notorious Criminal Syndicates with whom "phishing" rings have what turn out being Weird and Unwholesome Associations; perhaps the best known I am aware of is the Russian-based "Rockphish" such, with rumoured connexions to the United Russia party and its xenophobically nationalist agenda under the Medvedev/Putin regime; same being a cheap and cheerful way by which Post-Communist Russia can "reclaim Past Honour and Glory" through procurement of hard-currency reserves "by whatever means necessary," no matter how venal or perverto it may be. And with the tacit endorsement of the Russian Orthodox Church.)<br><br>As reminder, the FDIC <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">is</span> continuing to ensure bank deposits in our "morally superior" United States to a maximum of $250,000/depositor for the interim (with the National Credit Union Administration [NCUA] offering similar protection for credit union depositor/members), even with some 115 banking-houses having failed this year up to last Friday, concentrated for the most part in California, Georgia and Illinois; ergo, you should have nothing to fear in the face of such a scaremongering e-mail serving, in the end, corrupt and evil ends.<br><br></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IS IT JUST ME, OR IS THE PANDA IN THE WANCHAI FERRY ADVERT ON THE VIDIOT'S LAMP OF DIOGENES</span> somehow sounding rather bored, disinterested or otherwise indifferent?<br><br>(Especially when you stop and consider that "Panda" figures quite heavily in Chinese-restaurant names these days. It used to be that many of the Chinese restaurants out there either used the owners' names [the storied Wong's Cafe in Rochester comes to mind] or those of exotic Chinese locales [and Your Correspondent can't help but recall the likes of the Nanking Cafe in Minneapolis and the Port Arthur in St. Paul, the latter especially popular during their Winter Carnival] to attract custom. Not to mention plenty of Chinese restaurant names tending to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">double-entendre</span> bordering on the scatologically suggestive.)<br><br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BILL "NO-SPIN ZONE" O'REILLY'S BIGGEST THREAT TO THE MORALS AND DECENCY OF OUR HOLY AND BELOVED NATION (OR SO HE WANTS "REAL AMERICANS" THINKING),</span> otherwise known as France, has begun a major national campaign urging her people to rethink their national identity in the face of an emerging Muslim populace thanks to immigration (and how such can be reconciled with the Gaulic Holy Trinity of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Liberté, Égalité, Fraternite</span>).<br><br>Next thing you know, expect Fox Prolefeed and its droogs in the 9/12 Project to push for a campaign of Promoting American National Identity as One with National Unity and Cohesion--one, unfortunately, rooted in their preferred ideal of America being a White Low Church Christian Nation Now, Tomorrow, Forever ... and one which holds xenophobic hypernationalism, hate, self-sufficiency and bigotry dear as articles of faith.<br><br>In its turn, expected to be call enough for a counter-campaign as ought be rooted in our motto of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">E Pluribus Unum</span>, "One From Many."<br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br><font style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);" size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold;">=============</span></font><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold;"></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AS IF GLENN BECK'S "REHABILITATION" OF CLEON SKOUSEN AND JOSEPH McCARTHY WASN'T AWFUL ENOUGH A THREAT TO AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY </span>as much as her "antient and peculiar sovereign identity," Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is using a video blog posting on the Kremlin website to take issue with such seeking to "rehabilitate" Soviet-era <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">majordomo</span> Josef Stalin in the interest of Saving Our Holy and Beloved Mother Russia From Herself, especially considering where many millions of Russians died during the sadisto excesses of Stalinist rule between 1929 and his death in 1953.<br><br>As the BBC explains:</font><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Mr Medvedev said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own people. </font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">He also warned against efforts to falsify history and defend repression.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">[***]</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">Mr Medvedev said it was impossible to imagine the scale of repression under Stalin when whole groups of people were eliminated and even stripped of their right to be buried. </font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">The president said there were now attempts to justify the repression of the past, and he warned against the falsification of history. </font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">All this flies in the face of the current trend to promote Stalin as an effective manager and a leader who transformed the Soviet Union. </font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">Under Mr Putin, the order was given for school history books to be re-written, highlighting Stalin's achievements. </font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">In Moscow there is now even a Stalin-themed cafe and a metro station with one of Stalin's famous slogans on its walls. In northern Russia a historian investigating crimes committed by the former Soviet dictator was recently arrested. </font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">It would appear there is a split within the Russian leadership on this highly sensitive issue. </font></p><p> </p></div><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4">(In fact, the timing couldn't have been more interesting, coinciding as it does with a National Day of Mourning and Remembrance for the victims of Communist-era repression.)<br><br>Let this be an example and lesson for our "morally superior" United States seeking to push an idealised vision "to reclaim America from herself" based on embracing white middle-class Levittown-stylee values of the 1950's towards such an end. Especially such which sought to arbitrarily label anyone opposed to a conservative <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">quid pro quo</span> as being "Communist".<br><br>Which expected all Americans to be of one thought, of one mind; any deviance thereof to be seen as one with Serious Mental Disorders and, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">ergo</span>, committed to the State Asylum for the Insane posthaste (or, @ a mininum, to be seen as a Psychopathic Communist).<br><br>Which expected all Americans to simply ignore the poor and National Minorities in its midst and pretend they don't exist, that such are unworthy of acceptance or help because of "serious moral failings" on their part (and that any attempt to justify helping the less-fortunate and destitute beyond an idealised mutual self-help model was to be looked upon as "Communistic" and any supporters thereof prime candidates for the State Asylum).<br><br>Which expected capitalism with American characteristics to be looked upon as Great White Father and Saviour of the American People, offering a wider selection of goods and services @ lower prices than the "morally suspect" Communists.<br><br>Which saw Our Holy and Beloved Nation as The One True Centre of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies, not to mention The One True Portal and Gateway to Heaven as of Divine Ordinance and Will, and that the defence thereof was essential to defending Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity--preferably in a nativist and xenophobic brand of groupthink.<br><br>Which required essentially playing along with "staying the course" to a conservative <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">status quo</span>, and doing so without question or reservation; any deviance therefrom to be looked upon as one with a Serious Mental Disorder or Disease Bordering on Communist Tendencies and, hence, Requiring Drastic Measures to Prevent Further Harm and Danage.<br><br>Which is what Fox Prolefeed and their droogs are pushing as the Last and Only Hope to Save America From The Clutches of the Evil Empire Whose True Name No True and Loyal American Should Dare Speak Under Pain of Most Drastic Consequences Too Horrible to Relate, and Preferably Through a "Pre-Emptive" Brand of McCarthyism, Showing No Mercy and Taking No Prisoners--and, in the process, Showing Reckless and Utter Disregard for the Holy and Sacred Constitution They Claim to be Defending.<br><br>And which should be challenged @ any and every opportunity, the which is and ought be the mission of All Real Americans (and no, not the imitation promoted by Fox Prolefeed and Drookies).<br><br>Otherwise, America will be the ruin and desolation these self-proclaimed "Saviours" and "True Believers" are really (and secretly) wanting all along (and yet don't want you or I knowing this is their real intent and desire).  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SUMMER TO STANDARD TIME IN THE UNTED STATES AND CANADA</b> (with Certain Obvious Exceptions), Your Correspondent perhaps felt it was time to devote today's edition to a "pre-emptive" edition of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) for this blog.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Especially considering where there are some of you as probably have questions about Your Correspondent and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Exaggerator</span> as are going through your head that "need to be asked" for once.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">I'll try my best to fill this need on your part, and I hope you'll be satisfied with the result. Shall we proceed?</font></p><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">What motivates you to blog as you do?</span><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">I would have to say my upbringing, and the abuses I was made to ensure throughout. Thanks to a diagnosis of dyslexia brought about by a pre-natal auto accident as injured my mother seriously, I was placed in a succession of institutional and, later, foster-care situations from age six on until my high-school graduation in 1980 (never mind where some heckler shouted "Johnny Wadd!" in the audience as I was about to receive my diploma). It was an upbringing as saw me facing one mindset which expected me to look the other way @ the injustices around me (and pretend such cannot be expected to exist), while concurrently encountering another which held that such needed action being taken.<br>Especially fuelling this desire to blog was an extended referral by the Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)--basically a formality for the disabled, including such with learning disorders like myself--of my case for jobs training and evaluation interstate (<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">i.e.</span>, to a testing facility in Menomonie, WI and a sheltered workshop in Eau Claire, same state), never mind where suitable facilities probably existed in Minnesota (howbeit in "bad neighbourhoods" of Minneapolis); flashbacks of abuse suffered @ a foster home I was resident in just prior to graduation from high school led to a referral to the local Day Treatment scheme in Eau Claire whose mentality was a "fight-fire-with-fire" approach in dealing with "schizophrenia," especially the paranoid sort. One which had parallels to the Oceanic mindset in George Orwell's novel <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Nineteen Eighty Four</span> (disapproved of by the Day Treatment counsellors as "too depressing [and] paranoid," reinforced with advice that I Attend Church Sunday), complete with frequent claims of "spies," "men in white coats," "schizophrenic germs" and "parasitic agents" in therapy sessions, not to mention some Bad Words Unbecoming Those in Positions of Authority, Confidence and Trust.<br>In any event, Day Treatment's approach and mindset were all the more serious enough to cause serious psychoemotional harm precluding any likelihood of useful and gainful employment, notwithstanding two subsequent attempts @ employment in the sheltered-workshop system (in one such instance, I was expected to say that "emotional well-being", rather than money, explained the need for working there), following my being moved back to Winona in the fall of 1981. And still the "troublemaker" tag kept following me, even extending to suggestions that my "tattling" was directly to blame for the closing of the local Orphanage in 1976 when, in fact, changing attitudes towards treatment of problem children were in part responsible therefor.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Did you have prior blogging experience?</span><br>I will admit that, when I was in middle and high school, I had fantasies and designs on launching a gazetta of my very own, the better so I could channel my own thoughts to the widest possible audience. Money, however, was pretty much the problem precluding it.<br>But with the increasing awareness of the Internet in the mid- to late 1990's, as well as public access computers being available in such venues as the </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.winona.edu/" target="_blank">Winona State University</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> biblio, I decided to launch what I considered an "online column" of sorts through Homestead, one of the first free website services, as allowed me to express my take on things online. I called it "It's Another Prozac Morning in America," and I had it from the summer of 1999 until late in 2001, when changes in Homestead's <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">modus operandi</span> incompatible with public computers put an end to that.<br>In response, I decided to launch on Freewebz my first true blog in the sense of the term, which I called "the daily phosdex" (after a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">nom d'Internet</span> I use, "IludiumPhosdex," for the sake of privacy). That went swimmingly for a few years, but when a few online "purists" and Niedermeyr types started complaining about the "ratty" appearence of the site, I decided to move "the daily phosdex" to a straight blogging platform.<br>Especially so the sort as allows for making extra money (or trying to) in supplementing the disability benefits I get, especially as it's unlikely that I would be coming into money within measurable distance. (It still seems to be that way.) And Blogdrive.com, warts and all from time to time, happened to provide the ideal such I needed.<br>By the fall of 2007, when, thanks to the generosity of Winona State, I was able to finally get my very own computer and Internet access @ my flat in the Shaffner Homes here in Winona (where I've been resident for 25 years when the New Year rolls around), "the daily phosdex" began getting a repute, thanks to its "ratty" looks of largely courtesy linkbacks, as "Worst. Weblog. Ever." In any case, I decided to give up on "the daily phosdex" and, shortly after Christmas 2007, started anew with this blog you're visiting now.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">What explains the name and stylee of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The Exaggerator</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">?</span><br>I acknowledge the influence of the Hanna-Barbera prequel series to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Scooby-Doo</span> entitled <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">A Pup Named Scooby-Doo</span> for the name of this blog--specifically, a recurring gag involving a supermarket tabloid in the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Weekly World News</span> vein called the "National Exaggerator", which a younger Freddie Jones would quote from on occasion.<br>Which gave me an idea to relaunch my blogging presence on the Information Stuporbahn by calling it "The Intergalactic Exaggerator"; however, because Blogdrive caps blog names @ a maximum of 14 characters, I settled on <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Exaggerator</span>.<br>Now you know.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">What explains the frequent recourse to exotic and esoteric language in your blog items?</span><br>I acknowledge the influence and inspiration here of an older school of newspaper publishers in the early American West, the sort as were rather fond of the flowery sort of writing which, @ times, could cross into the sarcastically acid. Think of my fondness for language as a sort of "safety valve" against the abuse and taunts I was made to endure in a very critical stage of my life, especially in school.<br>But perhaps the best way I can think of to explain such recourse to the style I use (without, thankfully, recourse to especially the Seven Dirty Words and their variants) was a T-shirt slogan from about the time of my high-school graduation: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance ... baffle them with bull."<br>In some instances, expecting you, Dear Reader, to consider going to your Funk & Wagnalls (as it were) and looking up the meanings of some of the terms I use--especially in obsolete and archaic senses.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">What about the use of British English on occasion?</span><br>I acknowledge the use of British English terms in the blog from time to time when so-called "common sense" expects me to use American English, and American English Only, because <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">a)</span> I happen to live in America; and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">b)</span> I should consider America to be The World, and to consider the concept as reversible (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">i.e.</span>, "The World is America") if and when Loyalty and Patriotism dictate this.<br>And yes, it is true that there are substantiative differences between the English spoken in our "morally superior" United States and that spoken in a supposedly "morally suspect" Great Britain. But, as for the occasional use of British English, it's to serve as a reminder, for one, that American English has linguistic roots in the British, just as much as the first specimens of British settlement @ Jamestown and the none-too-successful Popham Settlement. (Even if quite a few terms of American English, cookie, stoop and cranky among them, have Dutch antecedants; credit that to the Dutch settlement @ New Amsterdam, which we now know as New York.)<br>And, for another, that "it's a small world, after all."<br>In other words, we need to stop looking exclusively in terms of a "Fortress America" mindset and, instead, see in terms of what the late Wendell Willkie called "One World."</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Have you ever been on the "It's a Small World" ride @ Disneyland or Walt Disney World?</span><br>I plead guilty as charged.<br>Specifically, I visited the original such @ Disneyland in the summer of 1979 as part of a family vacation otherwise marred by abuse, teasing and cruelty involving foster-siblings I was living with, targeting me in particular. I took the Guided Tour option, and "It's a Small World" was one of the featured distractions (along with the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Bear Country Jamboree and the Tomorrowland People Mover).<br>The memory thereof has been a longtime guiding influence of my blogging experience and its editorial mindset in calling for us otherwise "morally superior" Americans to stop seeing things in an exclusively xenophobic mindset and be world-centric for once.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">How do you consider Americans to be "morally superior" to all others?</span><br>I use that term for purely ironic and sarcastic reasons, particularly the sort targeting the uber-conservative Zealots and True Believers whose mindset of America is probably on the same page as Imperial China in its decline, particularly so under the opium-addicted and @ once xenophobic influence of the Empress Dowager Cixi.<br>(As in seeing especially the Forbidden City in Beijing--specifically, the Palace of Cloudless Heaven--to be The One True Portal and Gateway to Heaven. You may want to Netflix <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Last Emperor</span> for the complete story.)<br>Fox Prolefeed and kin in particular.<br>The same thinking likewise explains my use of the second line of the English version of the Canadian National Hymn, "O Canada" (as in "True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command") on occasion <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis</span> appeals to a rather crude and base form of patriotism as crosses the line into jingoistic excess, or otherwise risks it. (The second line in the French version thereof is "Ton front est ceint des fleurons glorieux!", which came out in the first attempt to translate same into English as "Thy brow is crowned with leaves of red and gold!").</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Why don't you get a "real" job for once, and learn to keep your mouth shut and nose clean?</span><br>As I explained early on, I went through extreme psychoemotional abuse and torment while under the Day Treatment Programme in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, and to such an extent that serious emotional harm, anguish and cruelty persist to this day.<br>Persisting to such an extent that it precludes my ability to find viable work that would, in your simplistic mindset, "make you learn to use your hands rather than your mind," especially before "serious error" ensues as could "pose problems."<br>As explains my being on Social Security disability benefit and Supplemental Security Income, which, as everyone knows, can only go so far (especially before you come into money, which seems, as I said, to be all the more unlikely within measurable distance). But then again, considering where the "safety net" could easily fail, I decided, out of necessity, to include online shopping in this blog, as well as an opportunity to make a donation (regardless of amount) to the cause of this weblog and Your Correspondent. (I should mention that, unfortunately, donations in aid of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Exaggerator</span> do not qualify for tax deductions.)<br>When it comes to my e-boutique, </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.cafepress.com/exaggerator/" target="_blank">The Exaggerator Collection</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> (as powered by </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.cafepress.com/" target="_blank">CafePress.com</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">), I conceived of it as a way to not just supplement the income stream, but also as a sort of "walking billboard" promoting this blog; <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">i.e.</span>, when you see anyone wearing anything bearing this weblog's name and logo, I hope you'll think of this blog (and maybe do a Google on the same). Not unlike the signs and bumper stickers of </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.walldrug.com/" target="_blank">Wall Drug</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> and the shopping bags of </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.stewleonards.com/" target="_blank">Stew Leonard's</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">, which, I acknowledge, were indirect inspiration for the whole idea of ephemeral apparel being ur-billboards (especially so in the tackiest of tourist trap communities).</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">What explains your interest in Reducing the National Debt of the United States as a Good Cause worth donating part of the proceeds from online shopping towards?</span><br>With so much having been discussed in especially recent years about the size and extent thereof, as well as prevailing mindsets in certain Washington circles still playing by the canard of "low taxes = jobs = prosperity = social stability and order" as has otherwise been discredited in more logical circles (and still holding same dear as an article of faith as will Save America From Herself)--not to mention continued and continuing ex-lax on the issue, presumably "for political reasons"--I, for one, felt that it was time that someone who offered shopping in the Greater Blogosphere considered pledging part of the proceeds therefrom (if any) towards reducing the National Debt.<br>(Which, in fact, is actually possible; </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/resources/faq/faq_publicdebt.htm#DebtFinance" target="_blank">click here</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> to find out how.)<br>As if that weren't enough, I've also called upon "the Four Hundred"--the traditional arbeiters of wealth and power, or so we're expected to believe (and defer to in the name of Natural Law and the Order of Nature, or so we're expected to believe)--to "do their part" in making contributions towards the National Debt's reduction absent the prospect of outright repudiation or cancellation, or such being refinanced through (theoretically) gold-backed debt securities for which the vaults @ Fort Knox may not have enough such as collateral without having to dispose of substantial quantities thereof, thereby "destabilising" or otherwise "undermining" the gold markets and such among the weird and unwholesome who profit therefrom.<br>Soooo: In planning your holiday shopping (which, considering the rising gas price of late, you may want to consider doing more of on the Information Stuporbahn), think about online shopping with a conscience--as in the Greater Collective Good of the Nation being aided by ameiloration and relief of the National Debt, for one, absent any serious initiatives towards those ends as would have Serious Political Consequences in Certain Powerful and Influential Circles, especially so the conservative such.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Where did you get the idea of calling the Internet the "Information Stuporbahn"?</span><br>I acknowledge the influence of the Nickelodeon animated series <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Fairly OddParents</span>, specifically the episode entitled "Information Stuporhighway." Combine that with "Infobahn" (an early buzzword for the Internet from around the mid-1990's), and you get "Information Stuporbahn."<br>It's a way to add colour to a Greater Blogosphere as is otherwise expected to be dull and otherwise show monochromatic blandness (<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">cf.</span> this classic specimen of "Engrish" from an envelope used by a Japanese film-processing laboratory to return finished photographs: "Fresh fruit enriches everyone. Takes the thrist out of everyday time. A pure whiff of oxygen, painting over a monochrome world in primary colours. We all like that. It's why everyone loves fruit.").</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Where did you get the name "IludiumPhosdex"?</span><br>I came across it in the Loony Tunes animated short <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century</span>, vintage 1951. (Daffy Duck plays a rather bombastic parody of Buck Rodgers, hero of a science-fiction-themed comic strip still popular @ that time; same is also remembered as one of the first run-ins Daffy has with Marvin the Martian.)</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Anyhow, I hope I have answered some of Your More Pressing Questions regarding this weblog, Your Correspondent and the mindset as powers the whole. 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target="new"><img src="http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1522/1522297jmzbqvuizr.gif" width="456" border="0" height="364"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>READER, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED A TENDENCY ON THIS BLOG FOR YOUR CORRESPONDENT TO REFER TO FOX NEWS CHANNEL AS "FOX PROLEFEED"</b></font> <font size="4">and its companion "free-enterprise-as-Great-White-Father" channel, Fox Business, as "Fox Prolefeed II."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">And the reason is no doubt obvious: What passes for "news" on Fox News is really little more than what the Oceanic police state of George Orwell's <b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>Nineteen Eighty Four</i></b> called "prolefeed"--news and information that, by deliberate design, was meant to be false, inaccurate or misleading, or otherwise create unnecessary disappointment.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">And was deliberately streamed to the "proles" (as in the rank-and-file masses) for the sole purpose of their pacification in line with the Party's line that proles were (in Orwell's words) "natural inferiors, like animals, who needed to be kept controlled by the application of a few simple rules."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Which brings to mind where Fox Prolefeed has recently acknowledged that it airs <b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>only nine hours of serious news</i></b> in the course of a typical weekday's programme, leaving you and I wondering about the other 15 such.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Leave it to none other than Jon "Daily Show" Stewart to explain it all for you, demonstrating once again that satirists are sometimes closer to the truth than we care to acknowledge:</font></p><p align="center"><table style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" width="360" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com">The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a></td><td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c</td></tr><tr style="height: 14px;" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;" colspan="2"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-29-2009/for-fox-sake-">For Fox Sake!</a><a></a></td></tr><tr style="height: 14px; background-color: rgb(53, 53, 53);" valign="middle"><td colspan="2" style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 360px; text-align: right;"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(150, 222, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/">www.thedailyshow.com</a></td></tr><tr valign="middle"><td style="padding: 0px;" colspan="2"><embed style="display: block;" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:253738" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000" width="360" height="301"></td></tr><tr style="height: 18px;" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 0px;" colspan="2"><table style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%"><tbody><tr valign="middle"><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a target="_blank" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes">Daily Show<br> Full Episodes</a></td><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a target="_blank" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.indecisionforever.com">Political Humor</a></td><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a target="_blank" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos/tag/health">Health Care Crisis</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(In any case, a gimme-cap tip to RawStory.com for the video.)</font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1411.html"><img 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target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>IT NOW APPEARS AS IF THE WHOLE "BIRTHER" MOVEMENT IS NOW IN CRASH-AND-BURN MODE</b> thanks to yesterday's ruling by a Federal judge in California dismissing <b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>yet another</i></b> Frivolous, Vexatious and/or Tortious Challenge to the legitimacy of Barack Hussein Obama being the 44th President of Our Morally-Superior United States for lack of "satisfactory evidence" to establish the Constitutional Qualification that the President be "native born."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Especially disturbing to the judge, in handing down the ruling, was evidence that one Orly Taitz, the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Pontifex Maximus</span> (as it were) of the whole obnoxious exercise, was coaching "witnesses" in the expected trial on the testimony to be given with the effect of condoning perjury.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Even more destructive, let it be hoped, will be the likelihood of disbarment actions pending before the California State Bar against Ms. Taitz, whose whole exercises in connexion with the whole "birther" agenda (which she expects us all to see as a "preemptive" action "before Our Holy and Beloved Nation sees serious and dangerous harm to Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity," as the patsy will go) have prompted @ least one complaint. <br></font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Might I suggest the Bar also look into whether Ms. Taitz' legal qualifications are of dubious nature (as in coming from some class of an online "diploma mill" awarding "degrees" based on "life experience") so as to cause scandal and disgrace to the profession as much as to Our National Identity which Taitz claims to be "protecting" all this while.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(But then again, such a suggestion is nothing new: Back in 1930, it will be recalled that the Kansas State Board of Medical Examiners revoked the right of Dr. John R. Brinkley to practice medicine [as in Toggenberg goat-gland implants in the name of "rejuvenation"] out of Milford for, among other reasons, Pretending to Medical Skill by virtue of a "diploma" procured from the "Kansas City Eclectic Medical College," a notorious "diploma mill" in furtherance of medical quackery. This on top of the then-Federal Radio Commission's enquiries into Brinkley's associated radio station KFKB ["Kansas' First, Kansas' Best" or "Kansas Folk Know Better"] for Excessive Self-Promotion. In turn, prompting Doc Brinkley's legendary and yet unsuccessful write-in electoral campaign for Governor on the Republican ticket.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE WHETHER WE'RE STILL SEEING THE SORT OF HALLOWE'EN PRANKS RECALLED BY MOTHERDEAR</span> when she was growing up near Osnabrock, North Dakota in the 1920's and 1930's, among them:</font></p><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Putting horse collars on the cows to confuse them ahead of milking time.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Hoisting a horse-drawn sleigh to the rooftop of the local hardware and general store.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Toppling over outhouses (she recalls in particular one such as was behind the bank in Osnabrock being removed one Hallowe'en).</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Meanwhile, considering the significant numbers of foreclosed-upon houses in the Detroit area, you have to wonder if such could be targets for a revival of the notorious "devils' night" orgy of arsons as plagued the Motor City on Hallowe'en night for several seasons some 20 years back--and with the tacit endorsement and sanction of Fox Prolefeed and their "winning of hearts and minds" drookies preaching ignorance and contempt for the vulnerable and marginalised while (in true conservative doublethink) claiming to be acting in their best interests and welfare.<br><br>(As in, for one, expecting the Lower Classes to "wholeheartedly" and "without question" regard "pure" free-market capitalism with American characteristics to be Great White Father and Saviour, an Empowering Force towards Self-Reliance and Personal Responsibility (which may be rather difficult when the only option likely to be available is Wally World, and even then, the cheapest goods usually turn out to be the most expensive in the end).<br><br></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br><br></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WITH GLENN BECK STARTING TO GET OFF-THE-DEEP-END OBNOXIOUS ON HIS SHOW,</span> perhaps to the point of where that Lonesome Rhodes Moment as will be his Ruin and Downfall is <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">definitely</span> within measurable distance (</font><font size="4"><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/10/29/glenn_beck_continues_his_violent_rhetoric_barking_on_the_tube_with_fox_friends.php" target="_blank">case in point</a></font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4">, from News Hounds), you can just imagine the very likelihood of Beck's vitriol-laden rhetoric he sees in his own deluded self as "pre-emptive measures to Save America From Herself and Her Imminent Ruin" causing spontaneous, unprovoked outbreaks of nausea and vomiting among his Good and Loyal Drookies in Podunk Center, Doo Wah Diddy and the Park and Flush Trailer Park.<br><br>Especially so the sort of vomiting where Mr. Beck's acts, deeds and exploits before camera, and the tone and tenor thereof, are emetic enough. (The concept of which, no doubt, is bound to recall in the minds of some readers the rather bizarre notion radio and TV evangel Oral Roberts had about claiming to channel G-d's Healing Powers through the electromagnetic forces of radio and television broadcasting signals, and his easily-led audience praying before their receiving insturments in hysterical emotion--and not even Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, would have been impressed.)<br><br>Enough, then, to call for what may be a "pre-emptive" measure to top all the "pre-emptive" measures Glenn Beck "himself" has designs on, and also serving as a cheap form of PsyOps: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Videlicet</span>, when Mr. Beck starts to get rather obnoxiously hyper (as in those Vicks Vapo-Rub-induced tears "for America") on camera, I'd cut to the "Intermission" sequence from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monty Python and the Holy Grail</span> (even if it was rather brief), to be followed by a rather distracting infomercialesque promotional for Wisconsin Dells as would have Cody Maverick (per <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Surf's Up</span>) introducing the same "Direct From Pen Gu" and, just as Jack Nitzsche's "The Lonely Surfer" starts playing, have him explaining that the scheduled programme is being pre-empted "for reasons you will understand" just as Cody M. goes into a surfing routine ... and, in due course, having such become a sort of "flight" scored throughout to "The Lonely Surfer" between Pen Gu and Wisconsin Dells (via the likes of Catalina Island, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the Four Corners, the Durango and Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad, Pike's Peak [and the cog railway up same], the original Cabela's [Sidney, Nebraska], then roughly along I-80 through Nebraska and Iowa [with a slight detour to the world's largest railway yard, the Bailey Yards in North Platte, Nebraska] ... then a jog past the Field of Dreams near Dyersville, Iowa, up Iowa's Pike's Peak, then along the Wisconsin River from Wyalusing to Stand Rock in the Upper Dells, eventually emerging into the titles proper), followed by The Special Itself.<br><br></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" size="5">*************</font><br style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE HAVE IN COMMON, APART FROM BEING MAJOR COAL PRODUCING STATES</span> seen as Essential to Energy Self-Sufficiency in Our Morally-Superior Society and Nation:<br><br>All three have the worst rates of sleeplessness and insomnia in the United States, as per a just-conducted, first-of-its-kind telephonic survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released. <br><br>Your Correspondent surmises where, absent specific compelling explanations given by the study's authors as would otherwise explain this (dis)honour, such high rates of sleeplessness in such states overzealously dependent socioeconomically on coal could be put down, in large measure, to the uncertainty of mine shift assignments from week to week among those in the mining community ... as well as the rather limited access to decent health care apart from the infirmaries operated by the mining companies and the ever-present concern of lung diseases peculiar among coal miners.<br><br>And even then, it's rather impossible to find Horlick's Malted Milk, that Old Reliable (and non-addicting, too) against insomnia. Likewise with Ovaltine.<br><br>By contrast, this same study hath it that North Dakota, California and Wisconsin have the lowest rates of insomnia ... and you have to wonder why it is that North Dakotans manage to pull off some rather sound sleep when you're having to run combines all night during the harvest and tractors likewise during planting season.<br><br>In the case of Californians, you wonder how they can get through some sane sleeping habits when they happen to be the socioeconomic epicentre of the Western states. Not to mention the film and television industry's having demanding schedules which can sometimes require crews to be ready on set as early as 4:30 am just to do a shoot, surfah types somehow insistent on catching that perfect dawn patrol wave, the San Joaquin Valley being a major vegetable-producing centre and stockbrokers and market makers @ what remains of the Pacific Stock Exchange (with trading floors in both Los Angeles and San Francisco) having to be ready when the opening bell on Wall Street goes off @ 9:30 Eastern time--which is 6:30 Pacific time.<br><br>And for Wisconsinites, just how is it possible to have sound sleep when its dairy farmers have to get up rather early to get the cows fed and milked before brekkie and spending the occasional Friday or Saturday night with friends @ the local tavern playing cards, shooting bull and drinking beer? Is it something in the water? (But then again, it will be worth noting that Frank B. Horlick created malted milk in Racine, Wisconsin in 1885. Not to mention Wisconsin being where America's supply of malted milk, Carnation being the predominant brand these days, is produced.)<br><br>Go figure.... </span></font> <br></div></div></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></span></font></div><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1410.html"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.gif" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark" width="256" 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displaying in the blog proper in timely manner?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">As explained previously, the head honcho with Blogdrive (which is a four-person operation, know) explained to moi that there had been some issues on the server hard drives @ the host servers to the point of problems ensuing during much of the day, and that due effort was being made to rectify such.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">So, if you can timely see this posting, <a href="mailto:thedailyphosdex@yahoo.com" target="_blank">please e-mail me</a></font><font size="4"> or otherwise <a href="http://twitter.com/theexaggerator" target="_blank">tweet me in Twitter</a></font><font size="4"> to make sure we're on the same page, as it were. Otherwise, continued and continuing apologies for any problems as are outside my direct control, understand.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AND MEANWHILE, ON TWITTER,</span> the ratio of followers to Twitters I follow is now 2:1 in favour of the latter, in case you ask. Isn't Twitter wonderful, even with the occasional retweets of Secular-Progressive news fodder?<br></font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1409.html"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.gif" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark" width="256" border="0" height="24"></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_linkname="The 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reason or another, some problems in the server hard drives on Blogdrive.com's end have caused delays in the most recent postings displaying in a timely manner.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">And despite reassurances that the problem was being worked on, it seems as if the posting scheduled previous isn't yet displayed. Hence, this apology of sorts, to make sure you're still "in the loop," so to speak.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">As if that weren't enough, the principal behind Blogdrive.com has been going through some health issues of late, precluding his being able to answer my comments and answer my problem tickets in a timely fashion; nonetheless, be assured that he's doing his best, what with only four people <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">in toto</span> working with Blogdrive and a number of improvements in the pipleline. That, and Blogdrive's willingness to remain an independent company in the face of a growing cartel mindset <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis</span> the Information Stuporbahn.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">In any event, the problems in the immediate display of postings are beyond my immediate and direct control, for which Your Correspondent apologises if any inconvenience was suffered. So, if you're able to see this displayed @ my blog, I would welcome your letting me know, as explained @ the start of this post.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Nonetheless, thanks for your continued and continuing support. (As a matter of fact, I'd appreciate some of it coming from the online shopping section, especially with the holiday gifting season approaching.)</font><br></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1408.html"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.gif" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark" width="256" border="0" height="24"></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_linkname="The 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You are a proud member of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.</p><div style="padding: 0px; background-color: white;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px; font-family: 'Georgia','Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10px; color: black;">Take the quiz at <a href="http://www.fightconservatives.com/Inside-the-Book/What-Breed-of-Liberal-Are-You.html" style="color: blue;" target="new">www.FightConservatives.com</a></p></div></div><p></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>IS IT JUST ME, OR IS THERE A DELIBERATE USE OF DOUBLETHINK PREVAILING IN THE IDEOLOGY AND ARTICLES OF FAITH</b> held dear (or expected to) in the so-called "tea party" movement to such an extent that douchebags and others weird and unwholesome seem to predominate in the ranks of control and dominance?</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">(Made even more so considering that such is dominated by "the Four Hundred" acting in the [presumed] name and behalf of "the workers," as if on a par with Communist, Fascist or Nazi regimes. That, and "the workers" expected to essentially parrot what amounts to bumper-sticker slogans from "the Four Hundred.")</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GIVING <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">MATERIA HOMEOPATHICA MEDICA</span> A BAD NAME, AND THEN SOME (AS IF ITS SUPPORT AMONG EXTREME RIGHT "PATRIOT" TYPES WASN'T AWFUL ENOW):</span> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hath it that many parts of the country are seeing "swine flu parties" whose sole intent and purpose is to infect as many as possible in attendance with the 2009 H1N1 virus; the theory here being that, by picking up a mild form of H1N1, such would help build up immunity against any stronger forms as may develop.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Which, as your doctor will tell you, is not exactly the case; on the contrary, such could make it easier for the virus to mutate into stronger forms as, far from helping build up immunity, can only have quite the opposite effect. Especially the fatal sort, which is <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">horrible dictu</span> for the most part.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">As if that weren't enough, <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/10/26/rise-up-and-fight-the-swine-flu-conspiracy-says-gen-bert/" target="_blank">weird and unwholesome elements are pushing atrocity propaganda</a></font><font size="4"> claiming that 2009 H1N1 is really of super-secret laboratory origin; the better, so this thinking holds, to distract the attention of the Good American People away from The Larger Conspiracy of President Obama to Weaken and Undermine Our Holy and Beloved Nation and Her Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity Under One of Various Guises and Ruses.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">The same weird and unwholesome elements, it turns out, pushing the screed suggesting that the Government is keeping out of the public eye information about the development and availability of homeopathic treatments in Europe for HIV/AIDS, cancer and Other Loathsome Diseases; the better to "protect costly and ineffective research involving conventional medical treatments."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AND SPEAKING OF HIV/AIDS AND ITS EFFECTS,</span> the weird and unwholesome must probably be drooling in their Luscious Glory about ways to exploit for atrocity propaganda ends in our "morally superior" United States (especially that of the "it <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">can</span> happen here" and/or "none dare call it conspiracy" schools thereof) news about the rampant and even out-of-control spread of HIV/AIDS in the Former Soviet Union and its consequences for the first generation of post-Communist Mother Russia.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">The which may have been made all the more rampant by the lingering excesses of Communist puritanism in the early stages of the epidemic in the mid-1980's which expected Loathsome Diseases of such ilk to be all the more likely only in the "decaying capitalist world" and, because of the Workers' and Peasants' Control of Industry and Agriculture, such cannot be expected to run rampant in the Workers' Paradise.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTWITHSTANDING WHERE HOMOSEXUAL "BEHAVIOUR" IS STILL CONSIDERED A PENAL OFFENSE (MAXIMUM ONE YEAR) IN KENYA,</span> officials there have announced their conducting a census of the local homosexual populace within measurable distance.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">The better, Your Correspondent understands, to help Nairobi develop effective strategems to help approach the HIV/AIDS epidemic along what may best be called "pre-emptive" lines (including increased distribution of contraceptives and education campaigns against Risky Sexual Behaviours and Patterns).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Even allowing for the prevailing social and moral stigma which Africans still attach to homosexuals and homosexuality, not to mention Kenya's southwestern neighbour state of Uganda pushing rather draconian laws against homosexuals of the sort recommended by the Elmer Gantry Institute for Religiopolitical Theology, an affiliate of the Rush Limbaugh Centre for Advanced Conservative Study and Thought.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HELD DEAR AMONG CONSERVATIVES AS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH, ESPECIALLY SUCH SEEING THEMSELVES AS "PATRIOTS" OR "SAVIOURS OF OUR AMERICAN NATION,"</span> is that which expects womanhood to see themselves as little more than breeding stock, to be abused and "subject[ed] graciously" by the male (especially males in heterosexual marriage relationships).</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Especially in service to G-d, Country and an idealised Aryan Master Race whose articles of faith gloss over the clear and present danger of "undesirable traits of breed" to be expected from creating a "genetically and racially superior" bloodline and gene pool, hoping all the while to pick up where the Nazis in Germany abruptly left off and apartheid South Africa tried to keep alive.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Meanwhile, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Parents_Television_Council" target="_blank">so-called "Parents Television Council"</a></font><font size="4"> hath it in a just-released study that the "Big Four" FreeVee networks have (according to their supposed "researches" as may themselves be based on flawed methodology--fatally, methinks) made a sport out of Extreme Ultraviolence Against Girls and Women, especially so the sort which may be seen as misogynistic or otherwise reduces womanhood to Objects of Sick Fun.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">No wonder doublethink is held dear among conservatives, especially when the overzealous application thereof can be held as a Badge of Honour and Glory.</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHAT THE REACTION AND INTERREACTION MUST BE OF OPPONENTS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SOCIOECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE MUST BE</span> to news that the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge hath been closed to all traffic Until Further Notice, forcing commuter traffic ordinarily using same onto other crossings (or, even better still, to ferry services or <a href="http://www.bart.gov/" target="_blank">BART</a></font><font size="4"> rapid transit), because of some 2.5 short tons of steel and wire collapsing onto the bridge deck @ the heighth of the evening commute on Tuesday, is not very pleasant to dwell upon.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Come to think of it, expect such to cross into the racist, not to mention calls for essentially repudiating the National Debt concurrent with the "complete and final" reinstatement of "Constitutional money" (as in a gold-backed dollar "to promote common sense" and "labour discipline") itself concurrent with the "complete, final and binding" abolition and liquidation of the Federal Reserve.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">(Or, more than likely, essentially refinancing the aforementioned National Debt in a series of gold-backed securities issues to be financed not unlike the stylee of the star-crossed South Sea Company in England @ its founding in 1717; in addition to having a Government-Protected Monopoly on trade between England, South America and the Pacific Islands, its charter also had them assuming the National Debt @ 6% p.a.)</font></p><p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="5">*************</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EXPECT CERTAIN "CHRISTIAN PATRIOT" GROUPS, AND THEIR ONLINE DROOGS IN ZEALOTRY AND TRUE BELIEF,</span> to be pushing for a United Campaign to "give till it hurts" among especially Joe Sixpack to launch a test case in the courts <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vis-a-vis</span> just-encacted Federal legislation extending Hate Crimes protections to homosexuals and the disabled.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Especially the sort which plays the "Christian Persecution" meme to the hilt for "winning of hearts and minds" purposes--only, unknown to those behind the United Campaign, such is really a setup of the highest order as can be quickly dismissed by the courts for being "frivolous, vexatious and/or tortious."</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Not to mention raising questions of Malicious Prosecution.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; text-align: left;"><font size="4">Even worse: Expect those behind the United Campaign to, under mysterious circumstances, redirect funds thus raised to "more pressing and urgent needs" @ the last minute, and with only the shortest possible warning to donors, if that. Not to mention the likelihood of such funds being held in offshore "pure trusts" structured purely for "tax reasons" as much as "judgment-proofing."<br></font></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1407.html"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.gif" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark" width="256" border="0" height="24"></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_linkname="The 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especially in certain parts of Southern California as wanted some variety in contrast to Disneyland.</span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">As in certain mascot Trolls of the Magic Mountain variety from up Santa Clarita Valley way, nowadays more than likely living in enforced retirement and being the source of trivia questions galore (and probably living on in the minds of many, Your Correspondent included), and having some quasi-adventures in "getting high on fun" as antidote to a dysfunctional life in the backwaters of Southern California suburbia.</span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">The sort of dysfunctionalism which has parents insisting that the kids leave the house for extended periods because the parents (the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">materfamilias</span> in particular) fear being driven into the throes of a Major Nervous Breakdown, and (in theory) the parents hoping some relief may be had if the kids were somehow out of the way. (Only to have the parental units use the absence as an excuse to debauch themselves on liquor, drugs and child pornography.)</span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">OK, OK: Imagine, if you will, your typical Southern California schoolkid in the throes of dysfunctional upbringing in an otherwise critical stage of their life as could only be made worse. And, it turns out, are made worse by the mother getting all too ballisto as he comes home from school on Friday ahead of the weekend (as in the inevitable appeals about the kid's driving the parents into a Nervous Breakdown, as if he's heard the same pathetic bromide over and over again, complete with the inevitable about "we were better off before you came along, and we'd be better off without you, so PLEASE--LEAVE. US. ALONE!" as suggests that he should leave the house for the parents' sake).</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">=============</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHICH, IN ANY EVENT, MANAGES TO BECOME STAGE CUE FOR THE ARRIVAL OF A RATHER ORDINARY-LOOKING CHEVY VAN ON THE OUTSIDE</span> ... which, inside, is a rather crazy and @ once whimsical sort of escape hatch right out of the 1970's: Fuzzy dice on the rearview mirror, shag-pile carpeting on the floor, bucket seats, a mini-fridge stocked with Dr Pepper plum full, a case or two of Laura Scudder's potato chips (the world's noisiest, as anyone in the Southland knows), neon lights lining the dashboard and running board, '70's and early '80's hits playing nonstop on the CD, surfboards mounted on the roof, the smell of board wax and jasmine air freshener, all populated by a gaggle of wildish Southern California Trolls of the sort as used to populate a certain Magic Mountain in the Santa Clarita Valley.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">The van being driven by a certain Bloop by name, still looking every inch his fun-fuelled self from the 1970's: Orange fur interspersed with maroon polkadots, big googly eyes, a rather warm and inspiring smile and personality, not to mention the laid-back hair as could be mistaken for a surf bum down Motherbu way. And riding along, a couple of female Trolls ("my girlfriends of the hour," Bloop will likely put it) and a couple of adolescent Trolls needing to be taught a few things about having fun by keeping alive the legacy of their Magic Mountain forebears in Vitamin F-fed fun. (Even the window is tinted somewhat, to keep down the glare as much as maintain the '70's ambiance.)</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Bloop, in any case, comes out to meet the unfortunate kid as he's seen walking nearly forlorn, shaken by what the parents were telling him just moments ago ... and suggests that he maybe spend the weekend with them, learn about having some serious fun for once by spending some time with a bunch who knows all about having to have some fun in the first place. And riding shotgun, the kid pours his heart out about the state of dysfunctionalism he's having to live with to Bloop, all the platitudes the parents hand him about driving them to a nervous breakdown and all that, prompting Bloop to come out and insist that maybe he should Get High on Fun himself for once, and that this bunch of Trolls are willing to help.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">The whole starting out on a rather long drive to locate a certain family dining sort of place that Bloop in particular "happens to know quite well" enough so that the whole party, Trolls and kid, can have a rather decent and yet fun sort of supper that manages to drag on well into the evening, what with Trolls in particular being fond of anything in the food department. And some rather lively conversation about the Southern California fun scene, managing to go incognito (or try to) in all the well-known hangouts of Southern California ... as well as a number of other places that Trolls alone know about, such as surfing beaches of particular ridability and hot spring pools close by.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Driving up the 101 past Ventura into the night, they manage to find what would be their bivouac of sorts: an out-of-the-way Troll enclave well out of sight of even the Pacific Coast Highway as turns out to be full of quite the number of California Trolldom just taking things easy and hoping to catch a few waves (as a matter of fact, California Trolls in particular are known to be especially adroit @ bodysurfing, but have been known to ride Malibu boards of their own construction, made largely from groundfall redwood and/or spruce, as Bloop explains to the kid on their approaching the enclave) and spend some time in the nearby hot springs baths (for some reason, Trolls and hot springs seem to go together).</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">All in the interest of getting their requisite allowance of Vitamin F ... by way of midnight chowder suppers and gabfests legendary in California Trolldom for swapping stories and witticism, as well as a rather unusually Trollish sense of hospitality especially directed @ the unfortunate, the outcast and the dysfunctional who stumble across their paths in their post-Magic Mountain lives. A hospitality as extends to our kid's being invited into an especially legendary hot-spring pool known to ease tired muscles and sprains from prolonged surfing and diving sessions as much as inspiring some lively conversation before a decent night's sleep on the beach, which can be rather chilly (thankfully, in the spirit of Troll hospitality, an extra sleeping bag was provided for by our hosts, not to mention the slap of the waves helping provide some atmosphere for sleeping.)</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"><font size="5">=============</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEXT MORNING FINDS OUR PARTY OF TROLLS, WITH THE DYSFUNCTIONAL KID NEEDING SOME HELP ALONG FOR THE RIDE,</span> facing a rather bracing wind and some "rippah" waves for bodysurfing that our Troll heroes charge into as if getting ready for the day ahead, followed by a mug of strong black coffee. In any event, our kid is given a few worthwhile pointers about Troll-stylee surfing, as well as a couple lessons in bodysurfing whose reults attract the bewildered attention of some Trolls on the shore.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Which is enough for Bloop and friends to explain a few worthwhile things about California Trolldom to the kid en route to a breakfast place of the kind Bloop and Company "happen to know about" for serving rather hearty such, and in generous portions:</span></font></p><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">As Trolls happen to be creatures of such environment they happen to be in, they're equally fond of not just surfing, but also underwater diving (they're especially good @ it, and can dive down to 60 feet rather smoothly; that, and their eyes being suited well enough so they don't really need a mask while underwater), long hikes followed by tenting excursions, snowboarding and even browsing the malls, with plenty of conversation to be expected among fellow Trolls regardless of where they encounter other such.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">One thing California Trolls learn early on is the art of bodysurfing, and the culture surrounding the California Troll mindset thereof--usually in special week-long camps that also turn out to be one of the first places a Troll will learn "the facts of life," largely through crazy interaction with fellow Trolls of their own age as are pretty close to their flowering (and which usually leads to some introllesting friendships in the process).<br></span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">By nature, California Trolls tend to be people-watchers (a product of their Magic Mountain phase; the fact of which was duly noted on the Steam Train to Trollywood), but prefer their privacy when it comes to mating (which they're not shy about doing, and enjoy as much for fun as for perpetuating the species ... as well as discussing without going into repulsive detail, in keeping with the beauty of a perfectly natural and yet magical act).</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Trolls, though aloof and tending to the incognito in the night, will like to crash the occasional party, yet all the while being good-natured and well-meaning in their intentions. They're also fond of long walks on the beach on moonlit nights, the surf culture, relaxing in mountain streams during long hikes, trying out new experiences (and sharing the details in conversation) and '70's pop music.</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">And even over a breakfast of waffles, eggs over easy, hash brown potatoes, sausage, gallons of orange juice and trying not to attract some notice among the regulars, the conversation Trolls and kid have can get to be rather amazingly lively. In fact, any inhibitions the kid has start breaking down big time, even to the point of his thinking that his parents must be rather pleased about his being out of their way for once, as they seem to have insisted on all this time.<br><br>Even with an afternoon's prowling around one of Southern California's biggest malls (and trying not to get mistaken by the weekend audience of teenagers and tweenies for faded rock stars by way of the pages of such magazines as<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> J14</span>, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Teen Beat</span>, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">16</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Teenage Wasteland</span> popular with the set), further conversation in the food court reinforced with chili cheese dogs and Orange Julius and a late-afternoon/early-evening people-watching session along the Venice Beach Boardwalk, the kid shows no signs of letting down.<br><br>Late into the evening and a Mexican dinner party with quesadillas, enchiladas and fajitas until all hours ... and sleeping the night off @ a wayside along the PCH somewhere between Malibu and Zuma, followed by another round of surfing lessons most introllesting well into the morning hours and some further contacts with California Trolldom as has the kid picking up some fun--and further bits of Troll legend and fact.<br><br>Followed by brunch, quite the cruising session as includes heading up Mulholland Drive just as the sun sets and the lights go on across the Southland ... and, as the kid is brought back to his house--<br><br style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"></span></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);" size="5">=============</font><br><br></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT, AS THE KID'S BROUGHT BACK TO HIS ACCUSTOMED HOUSE BY THE PARTY OF CALIFORNIA TROLLS HE SPENT A WEEKEND WITH,</span> a loud and chaotic police raid is in progress.<br><br>On his own house.<br><br>And it turns out that the parents' "nervous breakdown" was little more than a patsy by which they got rather deliciously drunk to the point of downloading some of the crudest child pornography known, and the parental units themselves uncooperative with police enquiries to the point of being seen naked and in a fetal position besides.<br><br>When police ask the kid about the parents' attitudes towards him, however, he is rather cooperative, explaining in rather graphic detail all manner of neglect and dysfunctional excess, their insisting that he was "a nightmare waiting to happen" (in fact, he was originally from broken parents and placed under care), all manner of claims that a "nervous breakdown" would affect the parents unless he left the house after breakfast and didn't return until @ least suppertime, the platitudes about "can't you see you're hurting me as much as I'm hurting you?!" (and in a rather drunken and nervous voice more often than not), the rumours about "gossip" against the parents ... and his using the former Trolls of Magic Mountain as escape hatches of fantasy to spare himself further emotional harm, culminating in a weekend's excursion with several of their sort.<br><br>Which police find rather hard to believe, even to the point of requesting psychological advice and having to do some research about California Troll lore, particularly such where Magic Mountain is involved. So hard to believe, in fact, that laughter ensues in the interrogation room; the accounts of the raid and its fallout are of the sort which are fodder for late-show opening monologue routines for a fortnight and more, as well as making the "weird news" rounds.<br><br>And even Sgt. Joe Friday, LAPD Badge 714, would find it hard to believe that Trolls existed in Southern California. @ least south of the I-5/California 14 junction in Santa Suzanna Pass between the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. (I just hope it doesn't drive him to smoking three packs of Chesterfields a day just to comprehend the very likelihood.)<br><br></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"><font style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);" size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">=============</span></font><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><br style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"></font><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IN ANY CASE, I HOPE YOU HAVE FOUND INTERESTING THIS EXPERIMENTAL DEVIANCE FROM THE USUAL STOCK-IN-TRADE OF THIS WEBLOG,</span> if but for a day. 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src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/2310/2310363cpcj8h56iv.gif" width="371" border="0" height="226"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4"><b>MY APOLOGIES FOR THE CONSIDERABLE TARDINESS IN GETTING THIS POSTED TO THE INFORMATION STUPORBAHN,</b> what with my crushing another load of aluminum cans @ <a href="http://www.webspawner.com/users/sterlingmotel/" target="new">the motel I do for</a> in Winona earlier this morning and downloading a software upgrade for the computer I have taking considerable time.</font></p><p style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" align="left"><font size="4">Hence, I will try and keep this brief because many of you are rather anxious to see what I have to say:</font></p><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">When it comes to Fox Prolefeed, how do we know that they're not starting to "judgment-proof" certain of their assets in offshore tax havens against the clear and present likelihood of serious legal action as could be their unravelling (and much more seriously, methinks, than that being carried on unwittingly by Glenn Beck @ the supper hour)?</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">How do we know that the so-called "tea party" movement, essentially expecting Joe Sixpack to parrot the line of "the Four Hundred," isn't making heavy (and deliberate) use of code, euphemism and even Orwellian Newspeak/Doublethink as part of their deeper agenda? Is this, perhaps, out of quasi-Freemasonic secrecy to protect themselves from deeper scandal and "betrayal" from the likes of the FBI (especially if their desire is to undermine the Constitution by reorganisation as "The United States of America, LLC," as it were)?</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">And speaking of beating the "tea party" movement @ their own game, may Your Correspondent suggest that counter-demonstrators to the current "Tea Party Express" run display United Nations and/or gay-pride rainbow flags as a form of psychological taunting which would be right out of the Monty Python playbook? (And you could just imagine the Python theme--Sousa's "Liberty Bell March," to be exact--playing in my head as I post this online.)<br>(Come to think of it, the inspiration for the above coming from press accounts noting that many of the protesters @ said "rallies" since the "movement" began have been seen displaying the ilk of the Confederate battle flag [itself based on the Saltaire, a/k/a the Cross of St. Andrew] or the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flag ... and, before too long, expect many such to start displaying the Nazi swastika flag or even the apartheid South African tricolour @ their manufactured and insincere "rallies" for no other purpose than to diss the audience.)</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">With reports that some of the most avid fans of ultraviolence-heavy exercises in "blood-and-thunder" misogyny such as <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">24</span> happen to come from the highest levels of confidence and trust in the now-disgraced Great Within of His Fraudulency's Misadministration (not to mention some of their most loyal droogs), maybe it was time to start reviewing the interconnexion between filmed or televised displays of Extreme Ultraviolence and Notorious and Infamous Criminal Acts, Deeds and Exploits (including such interconnected to terrorism, hate crimes or general civil disorder in one way or another) in the context of such shows like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">24</span> and the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CSI</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Law and Order</span> franchises on FreeVee having especial appeal to:</span></font></li><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">"law-and-order" Zealots and True Believers, especially such with neo-Nazi, "militia" or "tea party" associations or connexions;</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">children and suchlike others whose minds are easily open to suggestion (<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">e.g.</span>, those with certain mental disorders or coming from dysfunctional situations);</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">"Joe Sixpack" types of low income, equally-lower job skills and employability and minds easily open to suggestions which, unbeknownst to them, may be contrary to Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity (aided and abetted, perhaps, by Al Cohol, Mary Jane Warner, Old Lady Snow, Auntie Em and/or The Love That Dares Not Speak Its True Name, a/k/a incest); and</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">National Minorities, especially such in lower-income and/or economically-disadvantaged areas (and no, this does not include so-called "Confederate Southern Americans" somehow claiming a "natural right to self-determination").</span></font></li></ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Climate change translating into increased sea levels near shore could mean a serious dilemma facing the Australians, what with 80% of its population (especially so elderly, lower-income or otherwise immigrant) living in close proximity to the coast, in the process developing a legendary beach and coast lifestyle and culture. And all the more likely to be adversely afflicted are the likes of Melbourne, Sydney and the Brisbane/Gold Coast connurbation.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">And One Thing More:</span> With margarine being in such wide use for cooking and table spread, I wonder why it is that so many using "margie" insist on referring to it as "butter," especially considering where "margie" costs half as much as the real McCoy, yet has the same amount of calories in an average portion. (As in expressions like "please pass the butter" @ table during meals when it's really "margie"--only nowadays, it seems Political Correctness requires that margarine be labelled as "vegetable-oil spread" or suchlike.<br>(As if that weren't enough, you can actually buy butter/margarine hybrid spreads whose proportions are 60% "margie" to 40% cow butter; Land O'Lakes Country Morning Blend comes to mind.)</span></font></li></ul><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Apologies, in any case, for the somewhat unconventional formatting of the post today. Hopefully, such will not diminish from your support of this weblog or its </span><a style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;" href="http://twitter.com/theexaggerator/" target="_blank">Twitter</a></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"> adjunct.<br></span></font><p align="center"><a href="http://www.glitter-graphics.com" target="new"><img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/994/994435euahd22t2d.gif" width="160" border="0" height="59"></a><br><a href="http://www.glitter-works.org" target="_blank">glitter-graphics.com</a></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b><i>"...and that is is a way."</i></b></font></p><b><i></i></b><i></i><hr><center><p><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkname=The%20Exaggerator&linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fexaggerator.blogdrive.com%2Farchive%2F1405.html"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.gif" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark" width="256" border="0" height="24"></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_linkname="The Exaggerator";a2a_linkurl="http://exaggerator.blogdrive.com/archive/1405.html";a2a_onclick=1;a2a_show_title=1;a2a_num_services=22;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script></p><p><a target="new" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=Ts6tmIv1kMU&offerid=95373.10000419&type=4&subid=0"><img alt="SmartBargains.com" src="http://www.smartbargains.com/img/affiliate/banners/linkshare/logos/SB-Logo_234x60.gif" border="0"></a><img src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=Ts6tmIv1kMU&bids=95373.10000419&type=4&subid=0" width="1" border="0" height="1"></p><p><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=itsanotprozmorni&o=1&p=20&l=ur1&category=home&banner=1MTZZVJ45SYSJTNN6FG2&f=ifr" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border: medium none ;" width="120" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="90" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe src="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=thedailphosyo-21&o=2&p=44&l=ur1&category=homepage&banner=19B7CDVNDT0TC1FYJH82&f=ifr" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border: medium none ;" width="100" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="70" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe src="http://rcm-ca.amazon.ca/e/cm?t=thedailyphosd-20&o=15&p=21&l=ur1&category=multiproduct&banner=1X9NKG1G2DC7P9PCFTG2&f=ifr" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border: medium none ;" width="125" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="125" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000015678283&pubid=21000000000016475" target="new"><img src="http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplimage?lid=41000000015678283&pubid=21000000000016475" alt="Calendars Logo - 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