My Email Box

I went to El Paso, Texas, today to lay out a plan to do something big: fix America's broken immigration system.
Washington won't act unless you lead.

I don’t want to be mean to the president or anything but this is a bunch of shit. This is the usual clichés. I know how to write, OK? – and I am NOT going to take this seriously. There are three parts to this exercise in rhetoric: doing something big; immigration as an issue; and a standard activist ploy—a bit about the public getting into it and leading Washington, which is such a big cliché in itself --- I am left quite speechless and astonished. Astonished at bullshit, that is.

Gibberish of Barack O. Come on. No one takes this seriously. So what is it?
Well b.s., I mean it's such total crap. You can just hear it:

I went to El Paso, Texas, [comma unecessary] today to lay out a plan to do something big: fix America's broken immigration system.

It's an issue that affects you, whether you live in a border town like El Paso or not [there's your comma, guys, after the "o"?]. Our immigration system reflects how we define ourselves as Americans -- who we are, who we will be -- and continued inaction poses serious costs for everyone.

Those costs are human, felt by millions of people here and abroad who endure years of separation or deferred dreams -- and millions more hardworking families whose wages are depressed when employers wrongly exploit a cheap source of labor. That's why immigration reform is also an economic imperative -- an essential step needed to strengthen our middle class, create new industries and new jobs, and make sure America remains competitive in the global economy.

(JS) it’s diabolical! In the immediately preceding paragraph, note the first sentence. It is just a liberal "trope": we care about all these persons’ sufferings (hey, I do too, dude). The next sentence ties liberalism in with economics, bit it appears to be done merely in a crass, rhetorical way. I don't see any real economic ideas there. This is gibberish. It's just a lot of posturing. It's empty. He tries to draw it out, to put certain daggers in certain demons' hearts. He wants to save the public from the first swamp merely to lead the public into a second swamp, and there they will get lost as well, as well as ever. It is Mr. O himself who is lost in a swamp. I feel like he is an embarrassment to his children. There is no reality to this. What is he doing? Isn't this "politics as usual"?
     This country is so completely built on lies. All you ever see is this kind of thing.
     So, thanks for the email, Mr. President. It tells the whole story about who you are. Bravely leading us into a swamp, with garbled rhetoric. Fooled again.

"Make it a double --- no, a triple!!!"

In nature we are surrounded by neutrality. One cannot say it is positive or negative. There are no advertising pitches; no billboard by the waterfall. In capitalism, we are surrounded by stupid stuff. I mean come on. There are a lot of stupid advertisements, on the radio. Public taste might determine which songs are hits. Consumer preference certainly does account for the success of R.E.M. or Nirvana. But no one voted for the goddamn billboards or other scams thrown at us by narrow-minded businessman (make that plural). After every one or two songs, we hear from the true mediocrities of the world. That amounts to being surrounded by the negative. I don't want a bite of candy, then a bite of cow dung or garbage or moldy orange rind, every other bite. I would settle for neutral.
But the city is not neutral It's polluted (here you insert a link to Pollution/City, the post for May 25th: but I am unable to make it link properly)
So are the airwaves.

Drucker

Peter Drucker asks, "has the West lost its taste for Capitalism," [http://thedx.org/2011/05/land-labor-bleh/] but I think the issue is that of what capitalism means for different sorts of person at different places and times. What did capitalism mean for a poor peron trying to survive two hundred years ago? What does it mean for a third-generation white-collar worker who reads Peter F. Drucker? These are very different type persons.

Our "capitalism" is about luxury living; but that is not what capitalism was for a just-starting out office worker in 1920

Terminus

____
Something grimy and endless about Chicago ...Streets of dirt extending in all directions
...The streets are streets of dirt, or wooden slats above mud ...Dirty streets extending in all directions. Some are like Milwaukee Ave., diagonals. These diagonals are appended into an otherwise unrelenting grid; this is to keep you from going insane, from boredom. From the suburban edge, which is about 8000 West inward, neighborhoods follow upon one another hardly distinguishable until the first Starbucks appears at exactly 3400 W. Go east now on, over a bridge. You are on Irving Park. Soon ...Finally ...the intrepid traveler reaches a terminus at the lake. He is exhausted, rents an apartment in a skyscraper; lays his head down and goes to sleep.

My Work

www.indianliberals.org/2011/04/the-remedies-for-capitalism

The blog cited above writes:

It is a sign of the world in which we live that the word “crisis” should appear so often in the introduction to Dominic Barton’s well-argued critique of capitalism. But what we have experienced over recent years is not, in my view, so much a crisis of capitalism as a crisis of ethics

My blog (Jacksgreatblog) now:

So the question can become: What is the connection between capitalism and ethics?

This is the intersection at which I do my work; my insights are unique. Hopefully my ideas show up to some degree on this blog. And also if you get really interested there is another blog I did previously. The previous try --- jacksilvermaneconomicsblog.blogspot.com

Pollution/City

____
...Pollution City
____
The city is a polluted environs. It is a pervasive surrounding that one has around one. This is a quality. This is a quality of air. The quality is: polluted. This is an environmental quality, like a cloud, an environs.

We can go to a health food bar or juice bar, that is true. One does not cancel out the other. You are drinking a healthy juice drink let us say but even so your skin has to be touching same city of outward pollutedness. (Skin city???) This is the outward pervasive surrounding. The city is a polluted environs. This is what the air is. While you are putting spirulina or wheat grass inside yourself, your skin is feeling the air, touches the outsides, the environs of city.

Your insides might be getting some thing good, wet, yeah. No doubt, but you are in city; it's all happening in pollution and in the dirty atmosphere. Pollution is comprehensive. Pollution is dirt, a quality, and it is surrounding you. All dirty air. All the air is dirty. And the air is touching you. And you drink wheat grass juice on the inside.

But you are in the city and you cannot hide.

It's all happening within the great city — a city of pollution

Persons with missing back teeth Often swallow too soon

Adventures this morning:

The regurgitated morsel of peach meat slid up out of the place at the back of my throat where it had been sequestered, temporarily, for another go 'round in the taste chamber. Delicious.

It was like a second chance. I also like the chance to write about it but not as much

We should all call our mouths the "Chamber of Taste." Sounds like: Edgar Allen Poe. Maybe if we all learned to go around talking like in a gothic novel....