[asg70]

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[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou guys despise Kunstler and started a thread to prove that.

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')rump is the archetypal PIG. Pushes his weight around, against men and woman. He is the last of his kind. I guarantee it.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou guys despise Kunstler and started a thread to prove that.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Name calling by name calling by name calling doesn't work. It's recursive idiocy ha ha ha

[MD]

heinlein said something about writing as a disease that should be done in private and wash your hands afterwards! I think of that quote every time I read JHK.

... and I wash up afterwards

[Revi]

I really like his take on things. I think Peak Oil peaked in 2008, so maybe it's not as popular as it once was.

[AdamB]

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2017 was the kind of year when no amount of showers could wash off the feeling of existential yeccchhhhh that crept over you day after day like jungle rot. You needed to go through the carwash without your car… or maybe an acid bath would get the stink off. Cinematically, if 2016 was like The Eggplant That Ate Chicago, then 2017 was more like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, a gruesome glimpse into the twisted soul of America. And by that I do not mean simply our dear leader, the Golden Golem of Greatness. We’re all in this horror show together. 2017 kicked off with the report by “seventeen intelligence agencies” — did you know there were so many professional snoops and busybodies on the US payroll? — declaring that Russia, and Vladimir Putin personally, tried to influence the 2016 presidential election. “Meddling” .

[AdamB]

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')These are the long, dark hours when cis-hetero white patriarchs sit by the hearth chewing over their regrets for the fading year and expectations for the year waiting to be born. I confess, I like Christmas a lot, Hebrew that I am, perhaps the musical and sensual trappings more than the virgin birth business. Something in my mixed Teutonic blood stirs to the paganism of blazing Yule logs, fragrant fir trees, rousing carols, and snow on snow on snow. I hope we can keep these hearty ceremonies… that they are not banished to the same puritanical limbo where the Prairie Home Companion archives were sent to rot. One surviving old chestnut of the season is the 1946 movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, a movie so thick with gooey holiday sentiment, it’s like bathing in egg nog. It’s larded with messages of

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')ay something. What's the plan?

[Rod_Cloutier]

I posted a Christmas carol on my facebook page yesterday and it was promptly deleted as being hate speech. (I got a notice of deletion) The term 'Gaily' was used in the song, and I can only guess that it was censored as being anti-homosexual, which of course is absurd.

The tune 'Carol of the bells' was written in 1920 and it predates homosexuals going by the term 'Gay'. To be Gay, was to be happy. In the 1920's the term for homosexuals would have been 'Fag' or 'Faggot'. It is my favorite X-mas song because it sounds differently depending on who sings it. Female vocalists sound differently that male vocals, and mixed choirs sound differently as well. Instrumentals are often played faster and this sounds unique as well.

https://youtu.be/FSCo5dZ42v8?t=2s All female singers
https://youtu.be/q23V7rDj27Y?t=2s All male singers
https://youtu.be/0lyp2i2cRKk?t=3s Instrumental using bells
https://youtu.be/EKkzbbLYPuI?t=1s Instrumental with violins

(censorship sucks)

[MD]

He's actually being nostalgic... sort of. Somewhere behind the kunstler lyrical bravado is a soft hearted brockport boy yearning for his lake effect past.

eat a christmas cookie, buddy. One that's loaded with bud, preferably. Then go paint something

[AdamB]

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There he is, our president, both immovable object and irresistible force, unsmiling with slitty eyes beneath that car-hood of a hair-doo, lumbering from one presidential prerogative to the next through squalls of opprobrium, perplexing leaders from foreign lands, punking congressmen and senators, inducing swoons of un-safeness among the zhes, theys, and thems on campus, provoking the op-ed bards of The Times to mouth-foaming hysterics, tweeting any old thing that flies through the interstices of his brain-pan, our Golden Golem of Greatness, MAGA sword in smallish hand against a swirling red sky. Well, he made it through the year. I thought the fucker would be sandbagged by a claque of Pentagon patriots inside of three months, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. What seems to be forgotten is that Donald Trump brought his own swamp to Washington, as in a history of hinky

[Subjectivist]

Kunstler is like my Grandpa when he was achy and ticked off all the time. In the blog world he is the guy in the door yelling "Get off my lawn" at the neighborhood kids.

[AdamB]

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Markets If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot the world, or something like that. Since I believe that the financial system is at the heart of today’s meta-question (What Could Go Wrong?), it would be perhaps more to the point to ask: what has held this matrix of rackets together so long? After all, rackets are characterized by pervasive lying and fraud, meaning their operations don’t add up. Things that don’t comport with reality are generally prone to failure so sooner or later they have to implode. Financial markets have been surging supernaturally on “liquidity” since 2009 — and by “liquidity” I