Wealth Bondage

National Guard at the Morial Convention Center

Posted by Joseph McPatriot

In times of stress, the hierarchy breaks down, and soldiers and police officers become citizens acting on their own intitiative to do what is best for all concerned. We should praise them, not blame them for making the right decisions in the Convention Center. A lot of these problems that people try to solve with government money are really self-correcting if you let things take their own course. That is the beauty of emergent demcracy. NPR should stop whining and rejoice. God is just and his will shall be done on Heaven as on Earth.

My So-Called Self

Posted by The Happy Tutor

I am my resume. My resume consists of a reverse chronological list of roles played and dates I played them. Above that I list my capabilities, so that Candidia can see what further roles I might play for her. My real life is my family life, the role of spouse, father, son, brother, and my spiritual life, the role of Parishioner making his pilgrimage through the sacrements from baptism to last rights. Now, how did I manage to play these roles for the dates provided? By suppressing myself at all times. By keeping my mouth shut at work, at home, and never laughing in Church. So, the real me, is a fiction in the crudest sense, not art, but a con. People who forget that about themselves and speak of being "open and honest," "sincere," "authentic," or "serious," - who are they? Fools who have disquised their foolishness to pass for wise; knaves who bend their knee to say, "Thank you God for making me better than other men and women." Art, the stage on which roles are played, is more real than real life, because it is made from the same stuff - fiction. Art holds the mirror up to nature, as one dreams that he is dreaming.

New Politics Institute (NPI)

Posted by The Happy Tutor

A new Progressive Think Tank with blog and alternative media focus. Your (well, rich liberals') philanthropic dollars at work. When you see how this works, connecting the pieces - the networks of funders, the fundraising people, events at the Greenbriar at $7,500 a pop, the think tanks, the electoral politics, the political action committees, the media, the "Fellows" who are pundits, the favors given and received, the current and emergent elites, even among bloggers - somehow the world seems smaller and sadder. I work towards such networks, developing strategically-enabled philanthropic systems and programs, as an arms dealer might create a better grenade or rocket. All in the name of "Democracy," but the only thing that feels like democracy to me is hanging around the Dumpster, where no respect is shown to anyone. What if someone offered you a sum of money to be a blogger advisor to NPI, like Daily Kos is? I would run like hell, I think. I hope I would. Freedom is hard to find and easy to lose. There is no Masquerade at NPI - no, of course not, these are serious people saving the world and thou shalt not offend the funders. Still, I'd put WB up against the Think Tanks any day, with results that will prove hilarious, if not informative. Let the nomenklatura get themselves a mask and come to WB to tell what they really think - not what they are paid to think as "Fellows" on Company Time.

Escape from Wealth Bondage

Posted by The Happy Tutor

From SFGate a fine article on Tracy G.. She is one of the few who can truly say, "There is so an outside of Wealth Bondage."

Welcome Sally Wilde

Posted by The Happy Tutor

How about this for a blogger bio?

I’m a retired philosophy professor with pendulous breasts. To make a little extra drinking money, I work at the Naughty Bits Internet Café here in Duquesne, Colorado. Speaking of breasts, it was the paps of analytic philosophy that gave me suck, and I’m a notorious baiter of the postmodernists.

I on the other hand am a wannabe philosopher with a pendulous....mustache. The analytic philosophers have a nice deflationary sense of humor. It does remind me of the Augustan poets. They never forget the earth bound reailty: "The cat is on the mat." "Here is one hand here is another." "Snow is white." Sally, please join our Dumpster Symposium. We are in dire need of someone who knows Wittgenstein et. al. and has $2.75 for a bottle of Thunderbird, to be shared of course, in what we call a "giving circle."

Spy Against Spy: Robert Novak and the CIA's Mockingbird Program

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Rather spooky speculation.

Wealth And Giving Forum at the Greenbriar

Posted by Dick Minim

Tutor and I will be speaking, at Candidia's invitation, at the Wealth and Giving Forum at the Greenbriar on The Meaning of Wealth in a Purpose-Driven Life. $7,500 a person and $10,000 a family to attend. "Wealth is a Gift." Hope all our Dumpster Dwelling Friends can make it. What do you get when you return empty bottles these days? 5 cents? It will be well worth it. If you do manage to scratch together the entrance fee, please remember to bring a jacket or formal dress (depending on your current gender of preference) for the evening Gala. Alternatively, Candidia is looking for Red Jackets to a park cars and serve the canapes. Klaus, you could do worse. $7.75 an hour plus tips. And if you work it right you can listen as you pass the drinks to Jeff Greenfield from CNN on "Philanthropy Across the Generations." Might be helpful to you in Living and Leaving your own Legacy. Maybe Juke can hobble around on crutches and make himself useful. Your invitation in pdf. Download file. More anon. Must scoot. Mummy just broke a string of pearls. Let us not strew them before swine.

Blackwater Mercenaries Patrol New Orleans

Posted by Joseph McPatriot

Mercenaries, back from Iraq, deployed to New Orleans. Paid killers on contract . Shoot to kill. At last our President is showing some spine. We have known all along what it will take to get America purged of its worst elements. The intellectuals may not like it, but ordered liberty is a cell without a number, in a prison without a name, in a land with no court of appeal from the Presidental back channel decree. If you don't like, buy your own army, or shut the fuck up. Now, we just need the torture man, Gonzalez, on the Supreme Court and we can close the trap. Little will be said, for obvious reasons. Civil liberties are whatever we say they are. Blackwater, welcome home!

Halliburton, Allbaugh, Bush, Cheney are Team Players

Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage

Lesson learn from Katrina: Continue to cut funding for the Corps of Engineers. Shift post-disaster recovery dollars to those who pay for the reelection of of those in charge. WB, some say is ruthless business as usual to the detriment of the public good. Fools! WB is a gift circle in which the gifts keep right on coming. To each according to his or her need and from each according to his or her ability. Cheney, Bush, Allbaugh - Great job Guys! God loves rising stock prices. And, Moma loves you too.

Joseph Padilla

Smoky Joe, JD, in Defense of Freedom

Americans are too stupid too know the difference. Freedom? As long as the malls are open to 10 pm, they are free. Protest if you will, but weigh the risk carefully.