SCOTT MCCLELLAN’S A REVELATION

This might not be what you think it is. And what I am going to allege does not apply to everyone. There are many young people who are not fooled by authoritarians, institutional arrogance, and other status quo beneficiaries.

But Scott McClellan actually claims to have believed the stuff about Bush being a uniter. He claims to have believed that Bush was going to clean up Washington. And that is the revelation. I had no such illusions over who George Bush was. I am not blind or blinded. It is as naive as all those allegedly “reborn” Christians who are so easily seduced by conservatives with a few promises.

Oh, later they find out several of the conservative hero’s end up being caught doing what they always railed against. So goes the convoluted thought processes, where cognitive dissonance, along with false self purging mechanisms of projection, has so many conservatives practicing the opposite of what they preach. It is amazing how few people know this, and act all surprised when reality gets out of the bag, or bubble.

THE TIME LINE THING

My suggestion here is by no means absolute, I am conditionalizing it to broad generality. I believe that many born after about 1960, do not quite grasp the levels of subterfuge the political system stoops to. Many seem to be raised on the assumptions produced in the corporate media, often for self serving rationalizations, assumptions that the two party system is a see-saw of liberal and conservative interest who cycle through ideological mandates which inevitably go up and down. If you do not know what the Vietnam era was like, the manipulation, the lies, the abandonment of the veterans, you may well have an imaginary view of what the country actually stands for in the world, compared to the high minded claims.

The current Press Secretary apparently did not know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. How was that even possible? She did not know what it was like trying to figure out where to get away from bombs and radiation like I did. Yet male posturing was ready to destroy most everything over some lopsided principle which we (US) did not have to adhere to. Luckily, some Soviet sub guy did not retaliate for the attack he was under. We were all saved by the commie I guess.

I believe many conservatives live in a glass bubble of their imaginary world view. Where good and bad seem black and white; just read the conservative script. If only life was the cartoon reality they believe it to be, we would hardly require critical thought at all. For us or against us.

And now we see the same talking points rolled out for the umpteenth time; He never spoke up before. He’s not the Scott I knew. An election is coming up and he wants to sell books. Scott M. even said that when Richard Clarke did his revelation thing. The RNC playbook must have whole sections on the rote focus group tested concepts that register as plausible if said to the press. Only they all pretty much said the exact same things, so it likely came out on a memo.

I know there are many exceptions to my view, but it still seems quite relevant; that if history is not accurately conveyed, we fall back into institutional non think. We assume all our allegedly cherished abstractions are both true and fully activated. The proof, however, emerges in the public pudding. Some old pudding already knew this, but its shelf life is running out. Let’s hope the nations does not as well.

SPINNING RATIONALIZATIONS

It is a phenomenon all in itself, to hear the Hillary Clinton advocates come up with the new reasons why she is the best person to win in November.

It is as if north is now the new south, and up is really upside down. She (Clinton) apparently does not agree with what she once agreed with. I guess that is that much maligned past, that so many of us are stuck in when it comes to someones word.

The delegate system is now elitist, and only popular vote is true–for primaries, whatever system she happens to be ahead in. How convenient.

I think we as a nation have been there too long and done that too well. If I say it is time for a change, I am sure change will be appropriated by the Clinton’s, wait, I think that is already the case.

Will this Juggernaut of convoluted confusion leave us with a presidential candidate that stands for both everything and nothing at the same time?

For a while at least.

No! Don’t look up!

SEVERE WEATHER EXPLODING–tornadoes May 29 4:30pm, cdt

{Update: Tornado watch boxes collecting from Kansas-Nebraska towards Illinois.-8:50pm, cdt

Long lived tornadoes and or rotating supercells dropping tornadoes through intensity pulses, from Northern Kansas to Southeastern Nebraska. Some of these may become rain wrapped.

Large tornado exiting Beloit area northeast.

Tornado Warning

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SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
852 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008

KSC089-123-300230-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0037.000000T0000Z-080530T0230Z/
JEWELL KS-MITCHELL KS-
852 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
MITCHELL AND SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL COUNTIES...

AT 848 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GLEN ELDER...OR 9 MILES WEST OF BELOIT...
MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BELOIT BY 905 PM CDT
  ASHERVILLE BY 910 PM CDT
  SIMPSON BY 915 PM CDT
  SCOTTSVILLE BY 920 PM CDT

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3930 9847 3953 9848 3965 9793 3936 9792
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 250DEG 30KT 3949 9824

$$

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We seem headed to another outbreak today.

Tornado watches and sever thunderstorm watches are up in the plains.

Kansas and Nebraska are the current hot spot’s in storm formation.

Tornado warnings now out in both states. Tornado may have crossed I-80

Tornado spotted in Wyoming, south of Buffalo.

Sever thunderstorms in East New Mexico and Texas Panhandle.

West-central Iowa now in severe potential for tornadoes.

Update: 6:00pm,cdt: Tornado warning Kearney, tornado reported east of Hoxie. Two possibly tornadic storms are traveling in lines near same area, in two different areas.

Damage reports from Buffalo Co, NE emerg. Management

Tomorrow–Midwest, centered near Chicago and out in a 3-4-5 hundred mile radius, including Detroit.

Click on US map after clicking emblem logo at right, or link at left to find tornado’s current path.

NOAA’s National Weather Service

Thunderstorm out flow from storm core shows up as sheets of wind driven rain spreading from right to left in 1982 photo.

Image ID: nssl0050, NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection Photo Date: 1982 Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

That was scary!

For a while today, i could not get into my site. It said I did not exist. It also said my secret code was incorrect when it is remembered on the computer! After many shut downs, nothing changed. Then now it just accepted me as always.

It is confuusing when you are told you have no blog. My weblog here at wordpress was said to not exist, do I want to register it! No! What would happen then!

I’m just letting you all know, since it happened to me. I’m on a new MAC.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER?

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

I have found that phrase implicitly naive. Why? It sounds like a kid saying I’m going to show them! I’m going to make a noise and get attention for a second. Then some observer says the kid is having a tantrum, but the other kids think; “Right On!”, or whatever kids think these days about identifying with their groups identity.

I’m going to speak up! Someone might hear me then. I’m going to say what everyone seems not able to say. Then I will have said it. No, nothing will change. But people will say; Did you hear what was said? I can’t believe it! Someone actually said it! They went and spoke truth to power! So there power! Take that!

What did you say!

Oh, nothing. I was talking about someone else actually. I was just passing along an opinion of what they said. That is all.

Alright then!

Next.

I am not against speaking truth to power, but in its own way, the phrase seems to me like the chants people apparently think they have to say when they go on demonstrations. Sometimes, those have the “look” of childish games, people laughing and having an entertaining event while they do it. Seems to take the true sense of seriousness away from the actual intent of the occasion. It makes it seem as though they are anachronistic and redundant, because they do not know what else to do, so they do something they know every other demonstration seems to have done. Life on automatic pilot. Then in the media it is pegged; Oh. One of those.

Saying these lines or phrases makes it kinda seem like no one is actually thinking. They are just repeating what they think they have to say. A supposedly catchy phrase that speaks you know what to you know who. The next one comes along and repeats that, and now we have a self replicating notion that goes on to occupy idle minds. Hit the play button.

My opinion of course.

I know the leftist traditionalist (conservatives) will disapprove of any self review. No one should speak a contrary truth to their assumed power point.

Oh! I just did it myself.