FROM THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME TO THE SUCKED-IN-SYNDROME

For those who haven’t heard the term Stockholm syndrome, long story short is when folks imitate the very captors who own them, take advantage of them and control them. And that has a lot to do with American politics but in a different form which we shall call the sucked-in-syndrome. Every person of moderate means who cheers the Republican attack on unions, needs to remember virtually all private worker advances came from union advances. They need to realize that a balanced budget achieved without billionaires paying a few extra percent (poor babies) means that services for their own parents and their children are affected, often drastically. One time I heard a very well to do Democratic voter arguing with a person who made a very moderate income (he was a Republican voter) saying something I will never forget “we have a wonderful synergy. Every election I vote your economic interests and you vote mine”. There is the magic of the Republican party, they get people to vote in large against their own economic interest and there is the failure of the Democratic party, they fail to get them to recognize it, thus the Sucked-in-Syndrome.

THE SLAVERY OF MYTH

There is a book named The Fiery Trial, the subject is Abraham Lincoln and American slavery, the author is Eric Foner and said author was recently on the Colbert Report and talked about what Lincoln learned during his presidency and listening to Mr. Foner was quite a learning experience as well. Playing as the conservative foil, Stephen Colbert said the civil war was about tariffs, states rights and basically economic issues. When in fact Mr. Foner pointed out that the South Carolina declarations concession was that they felt it was “no longer safe for slavery since Lincoln had been elected president".  We learned that Mr. Lincoln had not gone into the presidency determined to abolish slavery, but the south conceding gave him the chance. Another, be careful what you wish for moment; the obviously, how succeeding did not succeed. Although, in some ways, at least parts of it act as if it had. And recently Governor Rick Perry of Texas talked again about succeeding, but that said how many black men with folks out there in Fauxvia nation actually served in the Civil War? I thought it was a few thousand, it was actually 200,000. But again, as Stephen Colbert has said in the past; facts have such a liberal bias.

THE UN-IMMACULATE CONTRACEPTION

The State of Texas is at it again, using that special logic that only they can use. They recommend abstinence as a method of preventing pregnancy (“abstinence works” as quoted by Governor Rick Perry). They have also made it more and more difficult to get contraception and claim the results speak for themselves. And the results definitely do; they have the third highest teen pregnancy rate among all states in the country. But beyond that they have the HIGHEST RATE of repeat teen pregnancies. Thus you have to abstain from thinking to think that young people will abstain from having sexual relations and it is a very un-immaculate contraception plan that has some very tangible and long range damage in itself. But not to the conservative males who keep such laws in place.

THE LAST 20 BULLETS CONTINUED

Former Major League pitcher and manager Dallas Green showed up as he was expected to at the Philadelphia Phillies training camp in Clearwater, Florida. He is special advisor to the team and was in fact the manager of their first ever world championship in 1980. He is a big tough guy, but the random tragedies of this world have hit him below the belt as they can hit any of us, as his beloved daughter Christina Taylor Green was the youngest victim of the shooting in Tucson this past month. She was not hit in the first wave of bullets, that was for target Gabby Giffords; she was hit later on when the shooter with a 33 bullet magazine could keep shooting. Green addressed it; “I don’t have a glock, or whatever it is, I don’t have a magazine with 33 bullets in it” he continued “ that doesn’t make any sense to me be able to sell those kinds of things, I guess I never thought about it until this happened. What reason is there to have all those kinds of guns out there and to kill people? I just don’t understand that". Our minds and our hearts and our questions as well are with Dallas Green, we don’t understand it either, especially when your loss involves the last 20 bullets.

Fox naming

Fox naming

Attention all Fauxvians: Due to a theft the name Faux News Network was no longer viable but we able to secure realfoxnews.com and with it our own fox to watch the hen house. But alas, this fox has not yet been named and/or titled. To that end we welcome your suggestions and should we use your input you will receive 1. our gratitude and 2. a pair of NY Yankees box seats for a game to be determined this season.

OUR PREZ TREASURES YET ANOTHER YEHUDI

David Cohen was just hired as the new secretary of treasury by Barack Obama. For that small but very, very vocal sliver of Jews that are suspicious of him, this shows his remarkable cleverness in that he will basically hire all the Jews in the public service market to be able to control their opinions. Or maybe because he really thinks they are the best person best job. Na, that will never sell. Oh by the by Mr. Cohen replaced Stuart Levy.

THE WEBS WE WEAVE

They advertise that the Broadway show Spiderman is the most ”talked about” show in Broadway history. True enough, in a related development the Titanic is the most talked about ship in the luxury cruise industry.

BIGGER TO BE SURE, BUT IS IT WORTH THE WEIGHT?

As we approach Super Bowl (45) XLV, writer Jere Longman of the New York Times pointed out an interesting trend for those who have the Super Bowl Championship as the center of their sporting year. The players have gotten better and certainly bigger. But is it worth the weight? Consider the heaviest player on the Packers in Super Bowl 1 was Ron Kostelnik, he was a defensive tackle weighing 250 lbs. There are 13 members on the Packers now who weight more than 300. And here how it’s gone league –wise; in 1970 one player in the league weighed 300, there were three 300 pounders by 1980, ten years later. There were 94 in 1990, 300 in the year 2000 and as the teams opened last year there were 532 players in the league weighing 300 lbs or more. We’re not sure if anyone checks these guys medically, but instead of saying supersize me, they may want to go back to their families and saysupervise me.

GEE WHIZ GE

President Obama has appointed CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt as head of the President’s Advisory Board. It is an attempt to reach out toward businesses and his poll numbers are in fact sharply Independents. 58% do and 40 % don’t in fact feel that Obama understands the problems of this country, a really solid high for him. That said, you’ve got to say, gee whiz GE, because they did take billions of dollars from the Fed in the bailout, they do have most of their profitable subsidiaries offshore and wind up getting a huge tax refund. But we want to hope for the best and we believe that GE Chairman, Jeffrey Immelt will be loyal to his job and his president and who knows maybe even loyal enough to keep some more jobs here and pay some more honest taxes. So we are going to hold up on saying; oh, gee GE and see what happens.

WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A SWAY, ON THE STATEMENT OF THE UNION

We have to thank George Will for actually giving us some factual knowledge we did not know as he spins the rising popularity of our president. But what we do know and he pointed out that between Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson the State of the Union was a statement of the union, (our words not his) literally a written copy was sent over to congress, it wasn’t given in person. Nice to know, we never claimed Mr. Will was knowledgeable, we’ve always claimed he was the expert of the erudite sentence, just not the erudites complete truth.

FRIDAY FAUXLOSOPHY

On American extreme politics, does being fearful cause us to act stupidly, or does being stupid cause us to be fearful?

SO GOES JOE DOZE

Fittingly even before Senator Joe Lieberman was to hold his press conference to announce whether he would run or not word already leaked out that he would not run. So figuratively there would be no drama and you could sleep through the conference, but then again, which one of Joe’s conferences or speeches couldn’t you sleep through? We again renew our latest addition to the drug industry, “Joe Doze” assorted tapes of the senator’s career - guaranteed to cure the most hard core insomniac. It would be like counting 10 to 1 backwards when they give you whatever that IV stuff is, you won’t make seven. So while Joe Doze now goes we still have his tape for prosperity and they can help ease the evenings of restless Americans. That, and the fact that he won’t run again.

MISSING WOMAN

No doubt all the news agencies, real or faux, be it NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Faux news or the real Fox News (www.realfoxnews.com) will all unite that everyone of them must be alert to a serious situation where a lovely young woman, an honor student from Union Academy has gone missing. Her name is Phylicia Simone Barnes; she has been missing since December 28, 2010 in Baltimore. She had left the apartment and according to her half sister has not been seen since. So why are we just focusing on it now? Well it has been reported in the local media in Baltimore and it has been on NBC as well as CNN but it has little legs Nationwide. Why is this? Why isn’t a high school student, honor student, straight A student beautiful young woman, why isn’t this missing white woman getting more attention? I mean who can forget the attention given to Natalie Holloway, this is crucial stuff. Why, we repeat isn’t there more effort to find this beautiful, bright accomplished missing white woman? Police Chief Anthony Guglielmi of Baltimore has a theory and we have a confession, this missing white woman is not a missing white woman she is a missing black woman. So what’s the story? Well maybe the story is the lack of story and we fervently hope this young lady is found safe and we also hope people look at our news, our interest level, our thought process that makes the disappearance of Phylicia Barnes such a late breaking and we sadly predict short-lived story. I guess for the next unfortunate missing lady of similar profile, better luck in the coverage and gene department.

THE INSANITY (IN)DIFFERENCE

Question; is there any record of any of the gun shops, let’s say particularly in Arizona having ever reported to police that there is person here who seems obviously deranged looking to buy a gun with an extended clip and we won’t sell it to him. It would warm my heart to know that those who so fervently live, sell and prosper by the second amendment also have some regard for the sixth commandment, thou shall not kill. If there are any such records I’d love to hear them, but so far haven’t heard of any.

JOB LOSS, THAT’S A GOOD JOB BY OUR GOVERNMENT

Our government is supposed to create jobs but sometimes by eliminating jobs you show that they have helped create and maintain life. Example; Philip Morris is the largest cigarette manufacture in the country; they are going to be giving people buy-outs to trim their employee force of 2600. Keep that number in mind because at one point their work force was 15,000. Don’t think cigarette smoke is dropping? And of course that is loss jobs for late care practitioners and for undertakers, but it has increased jobs for people who sell everything else (food, clothes etc.) these people eat and use and consume as they live on. So this is a job loss again which shows by the US Government is a good job, the smoking campaign has worked and it needs to keep on working.