The Truth about Troy Davis and the Damnation of a Species

The extermination of Troy Davis will not mark the graceful departure of a banal if precious beast as a higher species hovers tearfully above; it will mark the departure of a higher species from among us as banal and basic beasts look on.

Davis has turned the tables on us; he’s shown merely by existing what primitives we remain: a tribe pulled to the ends of an always-growing universe and pulled simultaneously against ourselves to snap like a rubber band further back than the place where all the journeys of our spirit had begun in the first place. We’re quite the Yin and the Yang, this bunch of us—quite the men …

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The Truth about Troy Davis and the Damnation of a Species

Mornin’, BT, pups

Not gonna comment on the Fuckin’ Fascist Fest last night. Well, shit, I just did.

There are two novels that can transform a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life, The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like the fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

The Value of Nothing, Raj Patel, p172

Mornin’

Great clip from Occupy Wall St.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIUeiEtUBIA

Remember this, you beings from the commanding heights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

Righteous, Woody!

Thanks, BT, and congrats! to TBogg

The circus last night is good for lots of quotes to live by, such as Perry telling folks if they don’t let kids go to school they don’t have a heart, and getting booed.

These are fiends.

Hello everyone. Watched about an hour an a half of the “fascist fests” (great name by the way SD) I had to stop my stomach was nauseated. I think after last night the Mittster is going to be the nominee. Not that it makes a difference mind you. Neither party gives a rats a** about us anyway.

O/T Rev Bev if you are here today my diary is called “Celebrate Life” I didn’t read much last bight but saw your comment this morning. Have a great day everyone.

Compassionate conservatism will give way to why bother to feed death row inmates for the last week before they are strapped to the cross of death.

Would make them more supple to the death machine.

Suskind’s up on democracynow.

But they did swab the injection area before they put the needle in just to make sure it wouldn’t get infected.

I have a certain sympathy for the lonely outcast drawn to Atlas Shrugged (terrible crap–from what I remember perusing at about age 20–too old for it by then, I guess).

Then, I remember the likes of “The Undertaker” who were drawn to Ayn Rand and remember that he was aptly named.

Overshadowed by the debate was yesterday’s top political story: my congressman Thaddeus McCotter ended his presidential campaign.

McCotter was upset that the media had ignored his candidacy. Now he knows what it’s like to be one of the constituents he’s blown off during his tenure on Capitol Hill.

But that would make the organs worse quality to harvest, so I think not.

My experience with Atlas Shrugged is that its most devoted readers are young men who haven’t gotten laid yet.

He can earn a living in Hollywood playing the lead ghoul.

Do we know that Davis’s organs were harvested? If so, did he authorize it?

Stoller had an interesting take on Citi here

Apparently many have aged but still haven’t crossed that plateau.

If that gig gets him out of my district, I’m all for it.

I’d question the viability after the use of the chemicals.

BT, love your posts — but you need the equivalent of Shakira’s Ass
/s

TMI, this am

Do not know, and hope not to find out.

Thanks. I’ll read it when dn segment is over. Suskind has his interviews on tape, including with Tiny Tim wrt what he wrote about slow walking Citi resolution after Geithner had read it, and also O after he had had a chance to read segments of the book.

FWIW, I think the notion that O was leaning toward nationalization is nuts. Plenty of concurrent evidence otherwise.

I agree. Nationalization of the banks, or anything else, runs counter to neoliberal ideology. Banks and corporations control the government, not the other way round.

OMG Suskind’s been played by O. We are not surprised. Suskind’s story, and he’s sticking to it, is that O was first to see how Wall St needed to be restructured but, golly gee, Wall Streeters ended up as O’s econ team and everything O saw so clearly before got subverted.

The Secessionist is toast.

See 25. It’s how O wants the story told after the fact would be my guess.

O was all Rubin, Summers, and Geithner — all the time.

Misogyny in WH is next subject. Suskind checked Anita Dunn’s quote about “hostile work environment”, which she now denies, with her before publication.

Agree.

Rubin was going to take an office in admin for $1/year bef he became toxic when Citi melted down.

I don’t see how that advances O’s reputation. Yeah, I knew what I was doing but I couldn’t get my staff to do it?????

Key sentence

Suskind takes issue with this theory. His ultimate point is that Obama’s Presidency is affected by management problems instead of ideological problems.

Consistent with my 25 and raises my query in 32.

On edit: Read some other discussion of O’s econ policymaking apparatus yesterday that pointed out how O did the same thing to voters that he did to Suskind, i.e., use “leftie” (aka centrist) economists, rhetoric, as fronts in the campaign but loaded up with Wall Streeters when it came to governing.

That was when Hugh, selise & I focused on what O’s policy would be (who gives a ff what he sez in the campaign) and how we knew the economy’s goose was cooked & Wall St. was in the driver’s seat.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,779

US KIA Irak: 4,475

Iraki, Afghan and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2011: 32,860 and counting

The Look

No war but class war

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

Never. Give. Up.

I will agree with that. He doesn’t perform very well and looks like a scared deer in the headlights.

When the ideology is fatally flawed even good management won’t make it work.

Alex Jones made a great point, that The One as an oligarchical tool was intended to extinguish hope and to make the people feel as if change is impossible.

Here is the link to my diary.

http://my.firedoglake.com/popyeye99/celebrate life

The tape apparently backs up Dunn.

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/09/anita-dunn-to-valerie-jarrett-ron-suskind-the-journalist-and-author-of-new-book-that-depicts-a-male-dominated-white-hou.html

LOL. An even more fundamental point.

Thank you for letting me know….such a good piece. I am so sorry about your mom….that is a loss that doesn’t let go. I really appreciate the link and your effort to get me there….Thanks

“Anita Dunn to Valerie Jarrett:

If it weren’t for the president, this place would be in court for a hostile workplace, because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women…

Ron Suskind:

‘This place would be in court for a hostile workplace,’ Dunn is quoted as saying in Suskind’s book. ‘Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.’

Naughty, naughty, Ron. That’s not how you quote.

Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps?”

Wowser!!!!

And, I thought she was saying that the WH was a hostile workplace for women. What a relief.

The point is that it was a selective edit that materially misrepresented what Dunn said.

As Brad DeLong said: “In normal, conversational English, “If not for X, then Y” means: “Not Y, and X made the difference”.”

Your welcome thanks for reading it and your compassion.

Scholler agrees with you. See the post over at Yves’ place.