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AMERICA THE AUTOPHAGOUS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 03 August 2011 |
What was it I said about sausage and the law last week? What emerged as "the debt ceiling deal" since
could not possibly be called edible sausage.
It is such a putrid malodorous maggot-infested dog's breakfast that no
non-deranged dog would eat it.
Yet it's only the appetizer.
The main course America
is dining on today is itself. Autophagous mean "self-devouring." Our country is committing suicide by
devouring itself. America
has become an autophagous nation.
I always request a window seat on an airplane. No matter how many times I've flown across
the US, I
always see something memorably beautiful I've never seen before. To see that beauty below is so heartbreaking
now, to gaze down upon such a blessed land so perversely destroying its
blessings.
Washington DC
has long been a fetid fever swamp of political insanity - but the level of
lunacy is now full-on psychotic, and on both sides. Both the Dems and the Pubs, both the enemedia
and the normally more sane punditry.
The editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal were
smoking crack when they wrote A
Tea Party Triumph on Monday (8/01).
To call a $2.4 trillion debt increase a "victory for the forces of
smaller government" is way beyond
delusional. We're into Flat Earthism
here.
Folks, the Tea Party Reagan Republicans have been screwed
blue and tattooed by Boehner & Co.
They got nothing, while Zero
got exactly what he wanted all along - enough funny money trillions to spend
all the way to his re-election.
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DISRAELI'S TEA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 29 July 2011 |
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), one of Victorian England's
most prominent Prime Ministers (1868/1874-1880), once commented to a
friend: "There are two things that the
public should never be allowed to see how they are made: sausage and the law."
We are witnesses today of just how immortally trenchant
Disraeli was back in the 19th century. For in truth, observing our politicians
handling the current "debt crisis" is a far more repulsive sight than the
inside of a sausage factory.
If Disraeli were here now, he'd smile sardonically and
remind us that (he was fluent in French) plus
ça change, plus c'est la même chose - the more things change, the more they
stay the same. Yet there has emerged a conservative movement determind to put an end to this: the Tea Parties.
I have spent the last week criss-crossing the country
meeting with Tea Party leaders. My jaunt
was capped by a private dinner last night with three Congressmen at the home of
one of them on Capitol Hill. While I can't
quote any of these folks by name, here's what they said. First the Tea Party leaders.
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PTOLEMAIC POLITICS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 |
The level of snake-oil shell-game flim-flammery going on in
the Washington Circus has now reached levels of Ptolemaic astronomy.
Although certain ancient Greek astronomers had argued that
the earth revolves around a "central fire" (along with the sun, like the black
hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: Philolaus, 480-385 BC) or the sun
(Aristarchos of Samos, 310-230 BC), Christian
theologians declared the geocentric astronomy of Ptolemaios (90-168 AD) as
official dogma.
Geocentrism argues that the earth does not move at the
center of the universe, that the sun, planets, and stars revolve around
it. Since the earth is the sinful dross
of the universe while the heavens are perfect, the sun, stars, and planets
revolve around it in perfect circles.
The problem, among others, is that they do not have circular
orbits in regular motion. Especially the
planets, which is the Greek word for "wanderers." From the earth, they appear to stop, reverse,
and switch direction at various times - whence, e.g., the expression "Mercury
in retrograde."
This is an illusion, caused by the earth's orbit around the
sun being slower or faster than those of other planets (like cars going slower
or faster than you on a race track). The
only way for Ptolemaic geocentrists to explain planetary wandering was to
invent "epicycles" (orbits within orbits) that spun around a make-believe point
called an "equant" which was the center of a make-believe orbit called a
"deferent."
What they ended up with looks remarkably like the schemes Dems and Rinos are
inventing to explain how to solve the debt ceiling problem, as convoluted as what the
special-interest, crony-capitalist, constitution-trashing universe of the
federal government has become. Call it Ptolemaic politics. It needs to be junked, like Ptolemaic astronomy was. There is a way to do this.
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THE SPEECH I'D GIVE IF I WERE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 14 July 2011 |
I am running for president because freedom in America
is being systematically destroyed by Demagogues in Washington,
and I am determined to restore it.
That capital "D" is there because it is the more appropriate
label for Democrats. The Democrat Party
should be referred to as the Demagogue Party, and that is what I shall do until
the day comes when they abandon their opposition to fundamental American values
and their advocacy of Marxist-Fascist ideology.
We are gathered here today to discuss solutions to the
economic crisis the Demagogues have created - a crisis to which they claim
there is no solution. Their Treasury
Secretary, Mr. Geithner, has stated
this publicly, saying that for a lot of Americans, their lives are going to
be, quote, "harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for
a long time to come."
This is a textbook example of Demagogue Marxist idiotic
nonsense. Folks, restoring prosperity in America
is easy. It can be achieved quickly, virtually overnight. Not automatically. It will require a lot of energy, a lot of
focused and intelligent effort by all of us.
The solution to America's
Malaise is so simple it can be summarized in seven words. Those seven words are:
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THE 10th ARGUMENT FOR PERRY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 |
Monday's (7/04) unveiling of Ronald Reagan's statue,
described in A
Reagan Fourth of July, was followed that evening by a black tie Ronald
Reagan Centennial Banquet in London's
magnificent 14th century Guildhall. Some 800 Reagan admirers attended and I was
fortunate to be one of them.
I was seated next to a nice lady who was the dean of a
prestigious US law
school. When she asked who I was
supporting for 2012, without hesitation I answered, "Sarah Palin." She blanched.
"Palin can't win - so there's no way I could be for her."
"So who are you for?" I responded. "Mitt Romney," came her reply. When I made a face, she explained, "For me,
it's all about who has the best chance to beat Obama. We simply cannot afford four more years of
this guy. I think Romney has the best chance
of anyone out there, so I'm for him."
"I disagree with your conclusion, but I certainly agree with
your premise," was my response.
A fellow across the table joined in, an investment banker
from Connecticut who now lives in
London. "Palin
could win, although I'm far from convinced of it. I am convinced, however, that there is
someone else in a much better position than Romney to defeat Obama."
Our eyes turned to him.
"Rick Perry. I think
he would slice Obama up like shredded pork and have him for a Texas
barbeque."
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