Maggie's Farm

" ... the federal-state balance, but the integration and balancing at every level of society that results in a flexible and reasonably stable system"

A possibly worthy goal, if it contains the results of a knowing that ever single thing in and outside the human mind, spirit or material, on or off the planet, represented in the parts of speech or the unwordable things hovering nearby present or absent, real or imaginary, has a cost to the seller, and a price to the buyer.

A century ago Le Bon wrote of the difficulties involved in “reconciling Democratic equalization with natural inequalities.” As Le Bon pointed out, “Nature does not know such a thing as equality. She distributes unevenly genius, beauty, health, vigor, intelligence, and all the qualities which confer on their possessors a superiority over their fellows.” When a politician pretends to oppose the inequalities of nature, he proves to be a special kind of usurper – personifying arrogance in search of boundless power.

Logically, the establishment of universal equality would first require the establishment of a universal tyranny (a.k.a., the dictatorship of the proletariat). A formula for doing all this was worked out in the nineteenth century, and was the program of Karl Marx.

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so reports the Nyquist piece, meditating on a national "...integration and balancing at every level of society that results in a flexible and reasonably stable system"

"Arbeit Macht Frei at every level of society results in a flexible and reasonably stable system," nodded the party members, sitting around the big table in the castle in the Black Forest, "...und ve vill see to it macht schnell!"

Right --USA's constitutional republic is the radical antidote to about as much of blue-on-blue human misery as a political system is capable of offering.

Our charge is to accept the offer, as fully and completely as we are able, and in deed as well as word.

Nyquist has a new one out, following the above --America's Crony Capitalism:

http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/jr-nyquist/america-crony-capitalism

It's mainly about a lady named Ann Barnhardt, whose name you may recall from her shutting down her own career and income, her commodity futures biz, upon the revelation of the MF Global affair. She made at that event an icily ferocious truth-clanging statement to her clients, as she returned their money --the statement was soon picked up by Zero Hedge --and the rest is (if i may be so bold as to say) the beginning of the Second American Republic.

Read the Nyquist --it's his usual three-minute column --but then, do not open the link to Barnhardt's site unless you have no further plans for the afternoon --and possibly evening, if not the (cough) rest of your life as it is at this moment.

http://barnhardt.biz/

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When you get to mid-July: her story of dropping away from the Catholic Church due to --she only now understands --the 1968 Novus Ordo liberalization --and how her recent accidental encounter with the church as it was before 1968 --the Tridentine Mass --compelled her in a rush of love head over heels to return --well, you'll then be prepared for The Alinsky/Archbishop Bernardin/Obama Nexus Part 1. Hold onto your hat.
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Meanwhile, here she is on GM and the Manchester rugby team sponsorship, followed by a piece of the next entry, included to shed further light on the kaleidoscopic strobe this woman is:

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3. GM announced on Monday that it had purchased a sponsorship agreement with a British soccer team. The players will wear little Chevrolet patches on their jerseys and Chevy will be the "official vehicle" of this soccer team. Do you want to guess how much GM, the same GM whose stock is trading at all-time lows, who is writing sub-prime car loans in a desperate bid to move inventory, is losing something like $100,000 per Chevy Volt, and still owes the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars is paying for this sponsorship deal? Go ahead. Guess how much GM just plopped down for a few jersey patches on a British soccer team.

Try $600 million. As in six-tenths of a billion dollars.

The population of the U.K. is 63 million people. They basically just spent $10 on every man woman and child in the U.K. You know what they should have done? They should have taken that $600 million and figured out how to build cars that aren't pieces of crap. Heck, you know what I would have settled for? How about they take $60 million - one tenth of the original amount - and assemble the greatest scientific and engineering minds on the planet. The goal? Simply this: figure out how to build a vehicle such that when you shut the door, the window and interior door mechanisms don't rattle for six seconds. Throw in an extra $20 million while you're at it and unlock the secret to the satisfying "whoosh-thud" door closing sound that the Germans figured out FORTY YEARS AGO, the Japanese figured out THIRTY YEARS AGO and the Koreans figured out TWENTY YEARS AGO. You'd still be $520 million to the good, and could use that money to pay back the bondholders that got raped in 2009.

4. Hey! How about a couple of emails from readers about the Latin Mass videos below?


Ann,
I watched your links to the Latin Mass videos yesterday and I literally picked my jaw up off my desk. As soon as I returned home, I went straight to my wedding heirloom case where one item is a 1951 pocket copy of Today's Holy Mass. In it are all the exact prayers and sections (in English) of the Latin Mass that I watched. My heart swelled with longing to witness this Mass. I know you have advised us to search out a Tridentine Mass and I fully intend to do so.

J

If you build it, he will come . . .