"The issues can be stated very briefly:"

recent events have led me to conclude that my opinions
have been determined to be somehow toxic and that perhaps
my entire life has taken on the aura of something not good.

what has indeed happened is after 30 years of being harassed
and nearly stomped out of existence by roughnecks and cads
I have become notorious for being a live person, and not a cadaver.
yep...still have a pulse on the old wrist...

there has been an abandonment of any semblance of adherence to
constitutional law and civility.

"If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone,
"America died of the delusion she had moral leadership."  Will Rogers

America needs to be good before it can be great. and being good is
not very popular right now.

We must not accept the notion that everyone has the right to record
the conversations of others and transmit them to the world.
It is a grave mistake to allow this to happen and not be commented on.

"The issues can be stated very briefly: Who will be controlled? Who
will exercise control? What type of control will be exercised? Most
important of all, toward what end or purpose, or in the pursuit of what
value, will control be exercised?"  Carl Rogers

who was a therapist by the way

got to go

"...the strongest bulwark..."

"...the hanging...was of but little consequence. They constitute a portion of population that
is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it,
is never matter of reasonable regret with anyone. If they were annually swept, from the stage
of existence, by the plague or smallpox, honest men would, perhaps be much profited, by the
operation."   

what sort of vermin is being being written about here!  what sort of man would condemn
the lynchings of these people...?

this is a statement by none other than Abraham Lincoln in a 1838 speech to
the "Young mens Lyceum" of Springfield, Illinois
concerning the lynching of gamblers in Vicksburg, Mississippi
that is a harsh thing to say  about anyone
but he goes on to say that rule of law must be observed above all else
or we have no government but chaos and anarchy..


"I know the American people are much attached to their Government;-
I know they would suffer much for its sake;- I know they would endure evils long and patiently ,
before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this if the
laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and
property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their
affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later
it must come."

"...the strongest bulwark of any Government...the attachment of the people."

and so it must be observed that everyone's ideas evolve with their
experiences in life and yours will too



it has recently come to my attention that there are some person or people
who have sought to appropriate certain of my literary creations
such as mr teatsqueezer, the brothers hogwash and even Baba Rum Raisin
let it be known that none of these characters have been retired of or
out of my copyright protection...please use your own characters and leave
mine to live according to how I determine

regards
bootlegcircus

"The purpose of studying..."

stock market fluctuating wildly
or so they would have you believe
this bit of intelligent information from
the "Week" july 6/13 2018

"The stock market index is becoming meaningless said Alexis Madrigal.
Last week, GE, which has been a part of the Dow Jones industrial average
since 1907, was replaced in the index's basket of 30 stocks by Walgreens.
GE's removal probably has to do with its sagging profits or the relative decline
of industrial companies-out of 3,500 publicly listed corporations-supposed to tell
us about our "massively complex, globalized economy" anyway? In truth, the Dow was made for another era, "when people didn't have nearly as much access to different kinds of information."
An index of a few dozen stocks is helpful for historical comparisons, but it no longer reflects
our primary economic forces. As a matter of design, the Dow can't include extremely high-priced
stocks such as Google and Amazon because their values would wildly distort the average.
Share prices are also "becoming detached" from traditional measures of a company's worth,
because digital firms are valued so differently. Costco had earnings per share of $6.08 last year,
while Amazon had $6.15. But Costco's market value is $91 billion, while Amazons is $844 billion.
If we want a snapshot of the economy, "the real one that you and I live and work in," the Dow is
"not the best indicator."  Alexis Madrigal "The Atlantic"

"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic
questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." Joan Robinson

got to go

bootlegcircus

Much attention has been paid to the nomination of a person for confirmation by the congress
of the U.S.A. to the Supreme court as a judge. Much speculation concerning the activities of said nominee from about puberty until about last night has been put forth by various and assorted concerned citizens all of whom seek change, the sooner the better.

"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." J.M Keynes

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."  Ruth Benedict (anthropologist)

The people with whom we associate influence how we think and act.

"What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter,
which lie in close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs
in bar rooms, and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name virtue." H.D. Thoreau (journal)

Many persons have determined that as a gender female persons are subjected to prejudice which
leaves them at an economic and social disadvantage. This notion has begun to pullulate as the uvulating females insist on change tout de suite and not in exiguous portions. Not to be confused with ovulating females who also have demands, similar but different.

"Declamation roared while passion slept." S. Johnson

The battled raged...accusations, insinuations, and contradictions abounded.

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which
it was conveyed."  F. W. Nietzsche

Some believed that tacticts should change...

"The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."  Edna O'Brien

The primary witness against the nominee presented an eidetic, emotional testimony.

"Everyone complains of his memory, but no none complains of his judgement."
                                                                                                             F. La Rochefoucauld
what was the motivation for this accusation...?

"Spite will make a woman do more than love." Margaret of Navarre

what was the motivation of the accused...?

"The accent of ones birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech."
                                                                                                       F. La Rochefoucauld

Now that the accused person is a Supreme court justice and one of nine people who will
make decisions concerning the interpretation of laws which have been promulgated by
elected members of the legislative branch of government the question is whether there will
be any changes made in governance and social norms in society in the U.S.A.

"The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already,
and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do things which at present are not done
at all." J. M. Keynes

"Society...prepares crimes; criminals are only instruments necessary for executing them."
                                                                    L.A.J. Quetelet (1835)

"All philosophers have the common failing of starting out from MAN as HE is now and thinking
they can reach their goal through an analysis of HIM...Lack of historical sense is the family
failing of all philosophers." F. W. Nietzsche

what is wrong with this statement...?

"...language imposes a hierarchical clarity upon the world that is powerful but sometimes fake."
                                                                                       
I read this statement which put into perspective some of the tyranny of language.
Say these sentences three times and experience the different effects they have.

"I am a failure. I am a failure. I am a failure."
"I have failed. I have failed. I have failed."

the difference is slight but very important.

women suffer from imposed tyranny of language which must be addressed as it promotes a
"...corrosive worm of thought." and a flawed "heterophenomonology.

"We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years
of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration,
to recognize that we have such a distance still to go."  Lewis Thomas

"There is is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." Machiavelli

evolve or perish



you may have already read this but I only wrote it this morning
but as usual my writing has much value to the criminal class
who have no class

go to go
E.Teatsqueezer