In politics, nothing changes like change

At one Cabinet meeting during Ike’s [Dwight D. Eisenhower’s] Presidency, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey told the President that the national debt might rise above the legal limit.

“Who will have to go to jail if that happens?” asked Ike.

“We will have to go to Congress,” Humphrey reminded him.

“Oh,” cried Ike, “that’s worse!”

from Eisenhower: The Inside Story by Robert J. Donovan (New York, 1956), p. 144, quoted in Presidential Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller, Jr. (1981, printed in the United States of America by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee; set in Times Roman), p. 297.

When contacted…

When contacted, Donald Trump and Mitt Romney said “Nyet!” to the rumours they were, in an odd twist of history when going Russian meant you were a Commie, a pinko and unAmerican but now is strangely considered the move of a patriotic American, not going to accept Russian citizenship from their close friend and associate, Vladimir “No more taxes on the rich!” Putin.

Associates of Warren Buffett are already petitioning Putin to accept them.  If not, they threaten they’ll become Canadians and build military bases all along the Arctic Ocean and deny Russia its claims to oil/gas reserves in the Great White North.

What is a human and when do you stop being one?

Therefore, by conclusion, violence is positively good for us!

BONUS: Dead trees aren’t going away any time soon.

Christmas cacti and fiber optic trees

Welcome to 2013, U.S. citizens — my wife and I have figured out the government’s taking an additional $100 per week from our takehome pay this year compared to 2012.

Our best wishes for recovery to former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, the only winning person I cast a vote for chief executive because a former CIA director calling for a kinder, gentler America sounds appealing in perspective.

Do the twist like you did last summer

In a flanking move against the Ruralites, the Urbanski government declared all citizens as potential enemies of the State, with freedoms granted case by case only via petition, every former right reserved for the privileged few.

Therefore, citizens must log their future routines for examination to verify compliance with the Efficiency Act of 2025, retroactive to 2013.

Any deviant behaviour must meet criteria unavailable to the general public.

These new plans by the Urbanskis ensure we have enough profit (over and above the taxes, fees and tariffs needed by the Bureaucracy to operate in secrecy) to build rocketships for implementation of the ISSA goal to expand life off of Earth.

The darkness if a book cover

My trainers taught me well.  Pick a cover, any cover, and stick to it through thick and thin.

For me, the cover, if I choose to accept it, is a writer, loud and clear.

Speaking of which, another scientist on staff has shown me the code that will be used by mobile phone companies to report the faces/voices/IDs of users to the National Crime Database when a mobile phone is used.

My friends in the Bureaucracy tell me they can now catch criminals and incarcerate them with their own phones used as tracking devices.  No more need for warrants and GPS units.

How is the future futuristically nostalgic?

The provisional Ruralite government in exile announced today that, in order to overcome the weak ineffectiveness of the Urbanski government in power, which is reluctant to enforce laws on the books that would strengthen its world standing, all Ruralities are authorised to match the brutality of Mexican drug cartels, using the following methods and logic, as necessary, to get their point across that theirs is the government of your future:

1. Headless bodies of lawbreakers may be dumped on the side of the road.
2. Illegal immigrants and other heathens/pagans are lawbreakers.
3. Atheists are brainwashed zombies and considered lawbreakers, per recent disclosure by the Doonesbury comic strip creator: http://assets.amuniversal.com/92c335402c5a01300755001dd8b71c47
4. Any person or persons professing nonRuralite beliefs is/are lawbreakers(s(s(es)]}).
5. Lawmakers are lawbreakers by definition.
6. These rules break the law and may be dumped by the side of the road or nailed to signposts/trees as examples to others.
7. Murderers are God’s way of turning the innocent into saints and are equally revered by angels in the afterlife — their lawbreaking incarceration/ostracising treatment has been declared unlawful and those who have not welcomed murderers, no matter any combo of government assassins, anarchists, psychopaths and/or drunk/distracted drivers, into their subcultures are lawbreakers.
8. Restaurants that serve meals which are too big to be consumed healthily by patrons on a 2-to-3 meal or 5 minimeal per-day regular caloric diet plan are lawbreakers unless they designate on menus or placards that portion sizes are allocated on the assumption that leftovers/doggie bags are mandatory.
9. The number nine is a lawbreaker and banned from further use.
10. Without the number nine, ten becomes nine and is also banned.
11. All numbers after eight, eliminated one-by-one as a substitute for the number nine, have been banned as lawbreakers.
8(d). Manufacturer’s suggested retail price is a sign of heavenly profitseeking here on Earth and lawful.

Two views of poverty-vs-work ethics mentality

Do you view the poor as a drain on the economy or unfortunate casualties of modern society?

Whatever your view, consider these two approaches:

1. Georgia on my mind…
2. Singapore sling…

Should families once again be held responsible for supporting their own, rather than depending on external sources of funding to provide them not only the basic necessities but also the luxuries that our mass media monstrosity depends on selling back to us to support its cycle of prosperity selling?

Who is the Golden Mouth, St. John Chrysostom, and do his views apply here?

This storyline dives deeper into the saga of the Ruralites and the Urbanskis, pitting them against the desire for a meaningful place in society for the Suburbanians, Entitlementists and Provisionists.

In these recent days, when we debate the desire by a very few [mentally ill by community standards] to kill without permission from their government/society, can words that been translated from thought into writing centuries ago and then translated over the years into and out of context have meaning here? I search my subculture for advice:

1 Corinthians 6:9-11: “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers — none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”

1 Timothy 1:9-11: “This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave-traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.”

The afterlife is all fine and good for the dead but it is the living toward whom these stories are written — where in our exploration of the cosmos will our subcultures find common ground?