Jerome Corsi - American Fool
It’s hard to say what motivates a person like Corsi? Is it just money, is it as Eric Hoffer suggests, those who hate passionately lead empty lives? Did he hate his father’s work so he turned against the world? Conspiratorial mentalities, such as Corsi are a psychological mystery that demonstrates a lack of grounding in the real world. His personality is similar to all conspiratorial people in the sense in which he sees the opponent not in terms of differences of opinion but in hidden conspiratorial terms. When one can imagine - create in ones head - the opponent, rather than see them as real people with varying ideas, one can, as Corsi does create negative fictions rather than critical analysis. This would not matter except there is a enormous conservative media that spreads falsehoods, exaggerations, and outright lies in a media sphere that is hard to counter as it has too many who accept and repeat this bad information. And the listeners simply don’t have the time or inclination to evaluate it. Jerome Corsi is the Julius Streicher of our times.
“Corsi on Islam: “a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion”
Corsi on Catholicism: “Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported by the liberal press”
Corsi on Muslims: “RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters — it all goes together”
Corsi on “John F*ing Commie Kerry”: “After he married TerRAHsa, didn’t John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?”
Corsi on Senator “FAT HOG” Clinton: “Anybody ask why HELLary couldn’t keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?”"
Read here.
That a person who believes the ideas Corsi believes in this article is believed in the political sphere show clearly the paucity of intelligence in the far right wing media sphere.
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.” Eric Hoffer
Plowing not Drilling
Commodity prices are rising: food, heating, and transportation costs affect all Americans and have global impact. Energy cost is considered by most the major cause, so in a effort to resolve these issues with a single policy and process, ‘Plowing’ is the answer. Plowing will render off shore drilling unnecessary. Plowing will allow us to rebuild our infrastructure in a less wasteful way and put America back to work.
Plowing is a solution everyone can agree on as it is obvious and transparent. Urban and suburban sprawl have contributed to a loss of farm land and forest. The cause is, well us, not all of us. (I have always used public transportation or a bicycle.) And there is no need to even debate global warming as Plowing alone will help our environment survive far into the future.
What we propose is plowing over houses that are too large and too far from public transportation. Houses that have taken over land once farmed and forests that create byproducts that keep our planet healthy. Exceptions of course would be functional houses: farm homes and barns, worker quarters, and some recreational homes provided they are clustered near the recreational location.
Once plowed the land could then be returned to farming, reducing energy needs, and providing healthy work and fresh food for the locality near the farms. Lots will be raffled off to those willing to engage in this work. Certain areas will be left as forest. Short trips to market would save an incredible amount of energy. And with food prices reduced locally, mega-farms could feed the world cheaply. Better health will be another plus.
Transportation systems would be created similar to the Paris or the Washington Metro, in a hub spoke formation. Taxes would be levied on citizens based on distance from a Metro station. Ruining our world requires cost and the wasteful need to pay those costs. Any development that extends too far will require a consensus vote by the local people. People using energy cause a situation that only leads to more need and no sensible equilibrium of resources. Growth will be in doing the green thing and not the easy thing.
The work involved in plowing the houses and returning the land to farming and forests would create numerous job opportunities as housing pieces are recycled to manufacturing campuses at a spoke of the transportation hub. Recycling of these many materials will reduce their costs.
The housing and manufacturing industries would blossom again as we created homes that are friendly, livable, and people can walk to the corner store. Squares and parks would be required. Plus you can hop on the rail to the city for its many amenities. Homes would be similar to original city row or townhouse designs with more space for people and vehicles and privacy yards. Leaving more space would create work opportunities (customers would be nearby) and a friendlier community.
Excessive non-perishable material, stone in particular, from the plowed homes would be shipped by rail to fill in mines and other places where our destruction of the earth is too obvious. Recycling of these materials as we build smaller more efficient homes and communities would be an additional industrial base. Emphasis would be on natural products as opposed to created products that eventually end up in landfills.
Tax structure would be modified so the wasteful in our society, with large houses, those with too many cars, who live far from work, would pay extra taxes. This only seems fair if we want a nice place for our grandchildren to live.
Well folks are you with me, it going to be a long trip, but FDR did it, let’s get started.
Footnote: Areas that posses these qualities exist now. Transportation, see the Washington Metro, or any big city subway system. Disney world’s monorail is a good model. Princeton New Jersey is an example of a place that maintains it open spaces and its quaint city. Certain shore area have the housing examples and the proximity to neighbors creates a friendly atmosphere. Pennsylvania has a train stop with parking areas that is a preliminary example of the transport hub to the city model. No more bowling alone. It will take time but we can do it, we can save our earth and a child one hundred years from now will still marvel at wilderness and a sea horizon that stretches forever.
God Wants Me to Be Rich
I am amazed today in the way culture has turned inward to the self. I think some of it has to do with the way children have been raised in an affluent society. All things become about them. When I talk to conservative (I hardly see any leftist kids today) college kids who were born with a silver spoon, there is no sense in which things could be different. There is also the sense in which if the other has nothing it is ‘their’ fault. I am wondering when America turned away from its religious values to self centeredness? This piece is just one more example.
“Joel Osteen preaches the virtues of prosperity — for himself as well as his congregation. A look at the man who may well be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the slumping economy.”
by Karl Taro Greenfeld, Portfolio
Bush is not a conservative???
Some people in an effort to separate themselves from George W. Bush claim he is not a conservative? That he is a failure is obvious, that he is a conservative is also obvious.
Bush cut taxes - conservatives cheered
Bush invaded a country - conservatives cheered
Bush selected ideologues to the SC - conservatives cheered
Bush vetoed child care - conservatives cheered
Bush started faith based initiatives - conservatives cheered
Bush reduced aid to our veterans - conservatives cheered
Bush engaged in illegal wire tapping - conservatives cheered
Bush reduced environmental regulations - conservatives cheered
Bush tried to outsource SS - conservatives cheered
Bush reduced taxes - conservatives cheered
There are lots lots more, that Bush is now not a conservative makes my head spin and is the epitome of hypocrisy.
A vote for John McCain is a vote against the fundamental principle of America, the right of the individual to lead their life privately without the government interfering.
What to read this Election Season
What to read this Election Season
If you read just one book read ‘Deer Hunting with Jesus’ by Joe Bageant, doesn’t matter if you are left right republican democrat or independent, the story its tells is both funny and sad but real. Working class America has its chronicler.
‘The Big Con’ by Jonathan Chait explores the economics of the time. How many remember when American corporations represented American people and not the market and consequently only the rich. Probably few today as now the working class worships the very system that has made them slaves of insecurity and low wages. ‘You know they know better that’s why they’re CEO etc.’ Anyone ever notice or wonder why so many business execs end up in jail - and probably many more deserve to be there. Making big money or large profits isn’t always a good thing for American society.
In ‘America Since 1980,’ Dean Baker examines the changes in America since the Reagan revolution. He examines how policies have contributed to the top 5 percent while the working classes have sunk farther behind. Reading it along side Bageant’s book is an experience. Dean outlines the causes, Joe shows the effects.
As the conservative media and Fox spin the news to favor the abandonment of the bill of rights Noami wolf reviews the steps necessary in ‘The End of America.’ The steps she reviews are all too obvious in the Bush administration, and though Bush is a failure even in the minds of the conservatives, the people he has placed in our judicial system are hardly concerned with justice. Ideologues are scary people, you would think we had learned that.
Read Joe’s book and if you want a real challenge to your worldview, check out Derrick Jensen’s ‘The Culture of Make Believe.’ Enjoy the summer.
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