A MarketPlace of Ideas

Hilliarous Clinton wants that we should create fully free-beefied public service academies for training the next generation of Apparatchiks.

When the founding fathers envisioned how to engineer an enduring democracy they used the basic premise that the politicians should be chosen from normal-ish people.  That’s not what has happened.  Ms Clinton wants to exacerbate the problem by sending these not so normal people who crave power to a special beaurcrat incubator school !   mmmm… maybe we should……Then once we have them ALL in the same place …………………??????  But no matter how many we killed those with the morals of horny alley cats will outbreed the rate at which we exterminate them.

To add insult to injury HRC wants to make this a fully paid full ride !  Probably so she her shiftless no good lazy welfare loving constituency can instantiate itself EVEN more into the government. 

Don’t fall for this one.  It sounds like the communist academies you heard of in Russia before the fall of communism where the elite sent their kids to be indoctrinated into how to function in the upper crust communist oligarchy that ruled the flimsy shithouse.  ( Hitler was right about one thing….Communist Russia was a flimsy outhouse.  It required only the toll of 80-ish years to find senescence. ) 

We should do this only if we want the American experiment in democracy to end.

 Too bad our government doesn’t fund its boon doogles by merchandising democracy. At least then I would get a choice of participating or not.

How many times have I woken up in the morning to the helicoptors beating the air early in the day. Not just one helicopter.  I’ve seen 4 and 5 of you at a time when the story is marketable.  Now some of you are no more and you are a marketable story yourselves.  

Am I sorry you are gone ? Yes its terrible this happened.  Am I surprised ?  NO!

This collision is a metaphor for what the press is doing to the country.  If the story is sellable you’ll tell it from the angle that sells best even if its wrong or short sighted and ignore everything around the story that might be relevant but not sellable.  In this case focusing in on the sellable to the expense of your safety cost you.  That’s fair to do when all it does is cost you.  Is it fair when you do it with regards the country and its costs the one truly ALMOST kind of free nation?  The cradle of democracy could use you taking a break.

It just seems like the news business who’s only interest is selling stories to people.   As in any standard sell job its the story that sells best that gets told.  Not the real one.  The problem is real life deviates from classic story telling lines that sell best.  Thus it seems any coincidence with the truth is a full on accident.

My condolences to the victims and families.  My condolences to the country for the low grade information factories that are killing.

John Edwards did a really good job playing Jack McFarland on the TV show Will and Grace. Here are a couple of his publicity head shots.  As always perfectly coiffed.

Ok maybe he didn’t play Will’s flaming friend but he sure looks like if he would have auditioned he would have gotten the part if he tried.  He has the mannerisms down pat.  OOps you can’t say down pat it gets Jonny Cat hot.

 He could have played Jack’s dad. Jonny Cat is hot in a very gay way in a JUST JACK from Will and Grace kind of way. When they do the remake in a few years he is sure to be tapped as Jacks long lost father who breast fed Jack till age 10.  Poor Mr Edwards will only ever get as close to the presidency as the genital holding contest he had with Barrack Obama.

A poem I came across on the internet:  

ITHACA

By Constantine P. Cavafy, circa 1900
Translated from Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn

As you set out on the way to Ithaca
hope that the road is a long one,
filled with adventures, filled with understanding.
The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
Poseidon in his anger: do not fear them,
you’ll never come across them on your way
as long as your mind stays aloft, and a choice
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
savage Poseidon; you’ll not encounter them
unless you carry them within your soul,
unless your soul sets them up before you.Hope that the road is a long one.
Many may the summer mornings be
when—with what pleasure, with what joy—
you first put in to harbors new to your eyes;
may you stop at Phoenician trading posts
and there acquire fine goods:
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and heady perfumes of every kind:
as many heady perfumes as you can.
To many Egyptian cities may you go
so you may learn, and go on learning, from their sages.

Ithaca — are we there yet ?

Do you assume that Paris’ porn tapes are not *reality TV* ?  That they are sex tapes leaked by a money hungry cad ?  I don’t.  Long ago I came to the conclusion that all the *leaked* sex tapes like Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson were intended leaks meant to allow them to use the porn angle to promote themselves and enhance their fame without being *porn stars*. Full on porn stars are seen as limiting themselves while leaked tapes do the same job without the limitations on career.  Thus Paris has smoked her sausage and ate it too!

From Scott Adam’s Blog:

You need a healthy ego to endure the abuse that comes with any sort of success. The trick is to think of your ego as your goofy best friend who lends moral support but doesn’t know shit.

   I wanted to note this because it summarizes what I’ve thought for a long time.  We have to walk through fire.  Without our ego’s we probably couldn’t do it.  But you have 1 ego and 2 feet.  Thus I deduce that my ego is not my foots.

I wrote an article a while back about how certain big online Amazon sellers tend to do a bait and switch.  They list large numbers of books and they do not have alot of them.  Then if they get an order they do not have they send ANYTHING hoping to buy time or ???. 

You can see the original artical here:  frugalmedia01 apparent bait and switch techniques

This article is about how certain types of postings are set to very low google search placements or possibly supressed altogether……

1- Do this search -  frugalmedia01   site:amarketplaceofideas.com

RESULT: It appears this article is in the Google Index

2- Do this search - frugalmedia01

RESULT: If you search all the pages you will see no links to AMarketPlaceOfIdeas.com ’s pages AT ALL.

This result was coming up at the top of search results because of the candied urls. Now it is not.

This entire article is an experiment to see if I can get google to re index an article with a amazon user name.

So you are a high dopamine personality type and you are in tech school.  What do you do for fun ?  You are creative and you have capacitors?  I’ll give you a clue:

More clues: You and your friends that are also bored are full of salt water that conducts pretty well once you get past the dry skin. Yes that is what you do.  You fashion the high voltage electrolytic capacitor into a dart with fins and sharpened tip.  Then you charge up your capacitor darts.  Then you all rampage around having a dart war.  When the person goes to pull the dart out of their leg they get shocked.

The above story was recounted to me by Phil Graham of Phoenix Arizona.  A fellow of many stories he was in tech school in the 70’s when you could safely share capacitor dart needles.  I’d freak out now if hit by one. 

Er well almost never. My neighbor Eric Snell snapped the following photo because he’s queer for the weather and he’s not even a chronic pot smoker.

I once took an comedy improvisation class with Melanie Chartoff. ( her website)    She played the sexy nasty principle Grace Musso on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. ( I had a secret little boner for her when she was on that show )  She was on Seinfeld a few times too.  Before I went there to take the class in Santa Monica I was afraid that everyone would think I stupid and and laugh at me. But then I thought    “Wait ….. its comedy……they are supposed to laugh at me”   I then realized that I should try to be more stupid not less. Thus to be a straight arrow who no one ever laughs at is just as bad as to be totally worthy of ridicule.  Both are extremes of control or lack thereof and thus strangely equivalent in a sense. My take away:  I’d rather be a rich clown than a poor fool.