is all enough?
las vegas, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. am so glad to be back, weather is beautiful, dogs are playful, rhonda is playful, i am playful and basketball season is upon us. we are going to game tonight, unlv vs. little sisters of the poor (texas pan american) which we should win handily. both the ap and usa today have unlv at number 26 in their polls. we beat a pretty good san diego team, though they were missing some key players, while i was gone and have some big name teams coming up; louisville and arizona to name two. we start 3 seniors and two freshman and have a 7 footer coming off the bench. lon kruger is a great coach and if our young guys mature properly we could very easily be a top 15 team this year. i was here in 90 and 91 when jerry tarkinian's team went to the final four two years in a row and won it all once. i was in houston for phi slamma jamma and in l.a. for the 97 ucla championship team so i have seen some great college basketball teams and kruger is building a program that will produce a final four team before it is all over. go rebels!
i do truly hope that president-elect obama is devoting this time to figuring out what steps to take as soon as he steps into office to help jump start the economy. every day, or so it seems, more bad news comes....jobs are being lost at way beyond what we can afford, companies who have been around for a century are closing their doors, the car makers are on their last legs, the stock market is tanking and no end in sight. there is much talk about "bailing out" the car companies but if no one is working no one will buy cars anyway. duh. putting people back to work would be the best course of action. (in my opinion)
supply side, trickle down economics should for once and for all be put in the grave of "things that do not work" and never to be raised again. if we recuperate from this then we need to look at some 21st century ideas and though i know it will cause great angst among some, the government(s) must take a larger role. left to their own accords the masters of the universe will continue to rape and pillage and the peons like you and me will be the ones who get raped. the robber barons of the 19th century became the m.o.t.u.'s of the 20th and their goal is to get it all. not part of it, all of it. and the "it" is our national wealth. they don't want the nation to own it, they want to own it. how much of our national wealth was transferred during the bush years? how much has haliburton made? if a stock was bought at 300 dollars and it went down to 10 dollars was 290 dollars lost? fuck no. it was transferred. somebody has that money. there are people on wall street who have been pushing the markets down by short selling and they are making millions on the misery of others. masters of the universe. up against the wall, motherfuckers.
if this collapses we will see revolution in the streets and it won't be pretty.
arm the homeless.
arm yourself....you may be the homeless in the near future.
oh well, i am going to a basketball game.
my schedule is starting to fill up for next year and i am already booked through may. i even have next new year's eve booked. cool. i will be posting the 09 schedule soon.
i do truly hope that president-elect obama is devoting this time to figuring out what steps to take as soon as he steps into office to help jump start the economy. every day, or so it seems, more bad news comes....jobs are being lost at way beyond what we can afford, companies who have been around for a century are closing their doors, the car makers are on their last legs, the stock market is tanking and no end in sight. there is much talk about "bailing out" the car companies but if no one is working no one will buy cars anyway. duh. putting people back to work would be the best course of action. (in my opinion)
supply side, trickle down economics should for once and for all be put in the grave of "things that do not work" and never to be raised again. if we recuperate from this then we need to look at some 21st century ideas and though i know it will cause great angst among some, the government(s) must take a larger role. left to their own accords the masters of the universe will continue to rape and pillage and the peons like you and me will be the ones who get raped. the robber barons of the 19th century became the m.o.t.u.'s of the 20th and their goal is to get it all. not part of it, all of it. and the "it" is our national wealth. they don't want the nation to own it, they want to own it. how much of our national wealth was transferred during the bush years? how much has haliburton made? if a stock was bought at 300 dollars and it went down to 10 dollars was 290 dollars lost? fuck no. it was transferred. somebody has that money. there are people on wall street who have been pushing the markets down by short selling and they are making millions on the misery of others. masters of the universe. up against the wall, motherfuckers.
if this collapses we will see revolution in the streets and it won't be pretty.
arm the homeless.
arm yourself....you may be the homeless in the near future.
oh well, i am going to a basketball game.
my schedule is starting to fill up for next year and i am already booked through may. i even have next new year's eve booked. cool. i will be posting the 09 schedule soon.
posted by Ron Shock | 10:34 AM
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History is replete with examples of imperial elites who eventually bled their nations dry and saw them fall into ruin or curdle into a fearful insignificance. But I think that those who believe – either hopefully or in despair – that the American empire will shrivel away anytime soon are badly mistaken. The war machine and the security apparatus are not shrinking; they are growing by leaps and bounds, and Obama has promised to make them even larger. The economic disaster doesn't threaten the position of the imperial elites at all. On the contrary, as we have seen in the last few weeks, the Obama-backed "bailout" plan has enriched the already rich and powerful to a staggering degree. As CNBC reports, the government has spent more on saving the rich from the consequences of their greed than it spent in winning World War II: more than $4 trillion so far, with much more to come. This astonishing theft – the largest gobbling of public loot by a rapacious elite in the history of the world – will only further cement the powerful in their entrenchments on the commanding heights of society. The nation may rot beneath them, may be roiled by storms of blowback; but that is not their concern, it is no defeat for them. You can lose; they do not.
I don't buy Barack Obama as the Messiah. I didn't vote for him (I voted for another Afro-American) and I haven't filed an application to join his regime. He ran a duplicitous, multi-million dollar campaign that masqueraded as a social movement and because it was a gimmick and a shuck, will thwart and demoralize the re-creation of real social movement for years to come.
The suckers packed shoulder to shoulder in Grant Park on Election Night were not a movement. 40 years ago, the Left stood in that park and were burning American flags, not waving them - although the reasons were equally specious. Back then, it was the denial of another false Messiah's rightful place on the Democratic Party ticket. We ran a pig for president to underscore our disdain for the electoral process and when Mayor Dailey's cops kidnapped and barbecued our candidate, we turned to yet another Afro-American who was also not the Messiah. In August 1968, the Mayor of Chicago, whose son is now Barack Obama's most trusted political advisor, sent in the real pigs to beat us into the Grant Park grass like so many baby harp seals.
Now that was a social movement…
Black slaves once built the White House for which the president-elect is now measuring the drapes, but Obama himself is a slave, a slave to Wall Street and General Motors and Big Oil and Big Ethanol, a slave to the War Machine and U.S. Imperialism and Israel, a slave to We're Number One jingoism, avarice, and greed and the American Nightmare, a slave to the free market and free enterprise and free trade and the flimflam of corporate globalization, and most of all, a slave to the Democratic Party puppet masters who now move his strings.
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