Lost, lost, that was all
*
Stand in line
with your empty cup you're still waiting
for the future of all your living souls
wait for the incoming calls
Your desperation
Where does it lead to false riches?
And the little girl's greed your still young
Oh, but you've tasted it all
Is that you
you used to be so proud
Is that you
looking so hungry
Is that you
standing at the back of the breadline
back of the breadline
back of the breadline
meet you where the daydreamers stand
standing at the back of the breadline
You used to be
so careles and sure of your possessions
A moment before you got too restless
got up and walked out the door
Don't look to me
look to the west the sun is setting
You've been second-guessed, what bears the future?
Bottom line is what you must believe in.
Is that you
you used to be so proud
Is that you
looking so hungry
Is that you
standing in the back of the breadline
back of the breadline
back of tye breadline
meet you where the daydreamers stand
standing at the back of the breadline
Is that you
you used to be so proud
Is that you
looking so hungry
Is that you
Don't look to me is that you
you used to be free is that you
standing at the back of the breadline
Stand in line
with your empty cup you're still waiting
for the future of all your living souls
Oh, but you've tasted it all
back of the breadline
back of the breadline
meet you where the daydreamers stand
standing at the back of the breadline
Hunters & Collectors
Lost, lost, that was all, but these were different streets, new, glistening grey, washed clean. He wanted to envelop everyone, to live in a world of more imposed significance, to experience that heightened level of profundity all day, every day. That is, to be intoxicated. He was profoundly at a loss, not for fear but something greater, approaching ennui, a complete loss of substance and meaning, a profound dislocation. These things were haunting him. He wanted to enter into every home, every house, every life story; to hear them, to tell their stories, to be given a mission, to have, once again, a greater purpose in life.
These transporting acts, as profound as transformative figures, were all serried and tiered, as if transposing ideas into vast rice valleys, layer after layer built up over the century, the tiny figures of farmers going abotu their business, the aching loss that had always driven him disappearing in the face of age, these things had disappeared in a flash of crystalline, chemical smoke. He didn't know who he was anymore. Without the agony, without the depression, there wasn't any new mask to build. There wasn't a way to say I'm sorry. There was nothing to hide from. There was nothing to conceal.
These things still bothered him, that his own self had disappeared, and he didn't know what to build next. As if the process was one of construction rather than organic concretion, a building of a façade or the erection of a tower rather than flood waters seeping across the landscape. And was it in this landscape that he would finally find new purpose? Was it in his Bob The Builder motivations that would lead him to photograph the passing light, to catch lyrical landscapes, to build once again paintings, pay for their framing, sell them around the shops, enter the real world. He was always full of ideas. So many of them had failed.
The romantic notions that had fuelled his interpretations of Tambar had been dashed by the serial dreariness and downright alcoholic garbage of the locals, their petty fights, their loud voices arguing over nothing, their treatment of him as the rich bloke from the city. Trust him to fall in with the wrong types; the layabouts mopping up welfare and waiting for the world to provide them a living. Rudd has spoilt them all dolling out thousands of dollars from the disappearing surplus, so now none of them will get off their butts for less than $20.00 an hour, and it all has to be in cash so that their benefits will not be affected.
The profound dampening of all economic and human activity by passive welfare, by the dishing out of money to people who don't work and will never work, has altered the social dynamics; rewarded the worst behaviour. Rudd remains popular in the polls, his bland round face everywhere, but in the more articulate quarters they whisper loudly: he doesn't know what he's doing. We're plunging into a depression. The queues will begin to lengthen. Already unemployment has hit 5.2% and tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs every month. We enter a new era; of tough times and self reliance; of all the virtues of a bygone age.
And Rudd dishes out money to the country's worst layabouts, rewards the worst behaviour; actively encourages the black economy so slugs can go on bludging off us forever. He was irritated by his own thoughts. Was this the right winger lurking inside him? The voice fed up with the endless excesses and indulgences of the left. Bitterly disappointed by Howard's insanities. The extension of government control into every corner of our lives. We're shattered, but it's worse than shattered, we have been utterly duped; sucked into the Apology and Kyoto and a woman Governor General and a black man as Australian of the Year, every last guesture the most trite PC.
Has anyone read Rudd's essay? He looks up and asks. And what's neo-liberalism anyway? They shrug, they smirk, they know it's all a joke and nobody cares about anyone else any more. They know nothing matters, as long as they're OK. As long as they're employed. As long as they can keep on driving their BMW four wheel drive. As long as they're safe; the queues don't matter, those flickering grim images on the television each night, the sonorous voices of concern. None of it mattered because they were safe; in their glittering cars and their balconies overlooking the glittering harbour. As long as they were safe themselves; what was that? Dispense self doubt.
THE BIGGER STORY:
http://www.gazette.com/opinion/global_49972___article.html/warming_california.html
OPINION: Climate and costs
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March 13, 2009 - 10:53 PM
There was underwhelming news coverage this week of the International Conference on Climate Change in New York, titled "Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis?" and sponsored by the Heartland Institute.
Disrespecting global warming alarmism is unfashionable. Had the conference predicted rising sea levels will drown everyone in Denver it doubtless would have drawn widespread, favorable coverage.
This isn't because of science. The scant increase in erratically measured "global average" temperatures over the past century isn't alarming in itself. It's true the past decade's cooling trend isn't absolute proof global warming isn't occurring. But it does prove the touted computer models on which believers base their campaign are badly flawed.
The models are entirely dependent on incomplete, subjective data fed into them, and are based on assumptions that large "positive feedbacks" created by greenhouse gas emissions dangerously capture and magnify heat.
"The crucial question is whether nature actually behaves this way?" asks Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The answer is unambiguously no."
That probably explains why temperatures for a decade have declined even though greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously, dramatically increased. If Earth isn't getting alarmingly warmer, and computer-based theories are fatally flawed, what's going on?
Advocates of global warming theory accuse the Heartland Institute of being a "big oil" mouthpiece because the organization received some funding from corporations like ExxonMobil. But that funding stopped three years ago.
Meanwhile, researchers and advocacy groups in the alarmist camp receive billions of dollars from government grants in taxpayer money, and the media rarely questions their motives.
The global warming debate is "a political rather than a scientific issue," Lindzen told the conference. In the words of California Rep. Tom McClintock, there's an "actual threat that global warming poses to our planet - and most specifically to California."
Ostensibly to save us from global warming, California in 2006 adopted "the most radically restrictive legislation anywhere on the planet," requiring a 25-percent reduction in man-made CO2 emissions by 2020, McClintock told the conference. "To put this in perspective, we could junk every car in the state of California right now and not meet this mandate."
The regulations and controls will block construction, cripple agriculture and divert vital resources from productive uses to politically correct uses like heavily subsidized ethanol.
Meeting the requirement for California's 15 billion gallons of annual gasoline consumption means converting 4.3 million acres of farmland to ethanol production, McClintock calculated. That's millions of acres not producing food, adding to the worldwide shortages and higher prices.
Something's going on here, but it's not catastrophic, man-made global warming. "Higher taxes, higher food prices - and higher gas prices," McClintock concluded.
Someone will profit from global warming alarmism. And someone will pay the price.
http://www.gazette.com/opinion/global_49972___article.html/warming_california.html
obamacan1 wrote:
To anyone who wants to read Pico get depantsed as an lying, anti-science, paranoid conspiracy theorist shill, read these comments: http://www.gazette.com/opinion/climate_49523___article.html/warming_period.html
Bottom line - in order to believe what Pico and the nuts who sponsor this wacko conference assert, you must:
1. Think that the fact that 10 out of the last 12 years are the hottest on record is indisputable evidence that the earth is cooling. Also believe that all of the measures that clearly shows warming are all flawed - every one of them.
2. Think that there is a global scientific theory that is suppressing any opposing evidence, because all of the scientists who assert that the world is warming are pinko commie liberals who sold their integrity, brains, and personal reputations to their liberal overlord Soros, who secretly runs NASA and every scientific institution of learning now in case you didn't know. He and his evil liberal cohorts also control every university, scientific journal, and really every scientific-based institution on the planet - not to mention all the means of measurement because the gauges and raw data can't be trusted either. The fact that any real scientific discovery or finding that disproves global warming would be immediately lauded and celebrated (not to mention a financial bonanza for the scientists who make the findings) because constant debate, testing, and observation is what science IS at its fundamental core is subverted by a liberal conspiracy of silence by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of climate scientists who don't bypass this potential cash bonanza in order to protect their meager funding. From Soros of course.
3. Believe, like fraker, that a single Newsweek article from 30 years ago that doesn't say what the deniers say it does is proof that there was a
"consensus" that the earth was cooling and shows that climate scientists are corrupt, inept, and have been lying all along.
4. Believe that the groups who sponsor this "Heartland" conference and others don't represent a tiny tiny percentage of climate scientists (maybe 1%, maybe 2%, roughly the same amount of scientists who believe Darwinism is a fraud) and are not funded and supported by the fringiest of the rightwing fringe and other parties with a direct financial interest in obscuring and obfuscating the reality of global warming. Some good resources that demonstrate that (including a creepy pic of their creepy leader):
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/12/you_too_can_be_a_distinguished.php
http://www.desmogblog.com/international-climate-science-coalition-bets-that-a-lie-repeated-often-enough
These tactics are what UFO chasers and creationists do. And paranoids. And frauds. And shills of the fringiest fringe this country has to offer. That is why real scientists who study climate change don't acknowledge this nonsense. It's pathetic and sad that they find such a willing audience in the Gazette and the Springs. This paper has always been rife with rightwing hackery - and it continues.
3/14/2009 2:51:27 PM
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