at atlas shrugs ... barack obama "organizing for america app ... " ... obama twittering and tweeting away ...

at atlas shrugs, the post "barack obama -- organizing for america app launches for apple iphone, ipad, ipod touch."

see this related post.  and, here. 

ken kesey, the country boy from oregon, he who wrestled heavyweight for the university of oregon, and then wrote "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" and "sometimes a great notion," and then recorded his adventures riding around in a bus getting stoned on acid and other such pharmaceuticals, actually proposed democracy by electronic plebiscite many, many, many years ago.

not much new under the sun.  for all our supposed sophistication, we still do it about the same old way, or, in my case, we still don't do it in about the same old way.

but, "community organizing" has been going on for a long time.  no less a worthy than abraham lincoln was fond of saying, at least as i remember my carl sandburg on the matter**, that any politician should always watch the young, because that was were the politics of the future was coming.  the same was said about california, with precisely the same import.  and, now, silicon valley simply brings us silicon valley via a black man with sloped shoulders and pert nipples.  (i am sorry about that, it is just so amusing of me to think of obama coming out of the surf just as raquel welch did so many years ago, same posture, same look, same little pouty look & lips, ... , but flat as a board, not a muscle on him, but those pert little nipples, ... , it cracks me up.)  what was the movie, with ringo star and the cave men?

people will fuss about this.  and, then they will do it themselves.

but, there is a more ominous side to this.  obama and minions (i like to think of them as dead souls oozing from the earth like the armies of evil to be sent forth to battle mr. baggins and his good guys, depicted with such chilling vision in "the lord of the rings") have recently set up several trial balloons, phishing, as it were, for authority to be granted (by whom, and from where, and within what constitutional ambit remains a bit clear, as have the sources for many usurpation's of power by our flat chested little geek in chief) to shut down the net when he damn well pleases, and whatever pretext that he assumes the mantle of, jurisdictionally speaking, to do so.

i posted a "comment" to ms. geller's article, which i will set out in just a second.  let us just say, that it just flowed, though b. insane obama might say were he to bother with such trifles, that it just oozed.

but, let's be serious for just a g_d damned bit.--

even while this little snippet of a man, this "man" without a muscle, this physical "speciman" much as i would imagine dagny taggart's brother to be in "atlas shrugged," e.g., mollusk like,  ... , this puny little vessel at once covets the power to stop us from talking with one another at the flip of a switch he gets to switch on totally as yet defined grounds, ... , even as he covets and organizes the ability to communicate instantly with his followers.

say he gets his little "civilian security force" the size of the u.s. military, or just maybe a force like the c.c.c., at about half strength, and he gets "some of them" the authority to pack weapons (if you don't know this is possible you just haven't been paying fucking attention, and it is about time you do), ... , and he decides the rest of us shouldn't be talking with one another, mainly because we evidence that we are paying attention and mobilizes, ... , and he shuts us down, ... , and janet napolitano, that paragon of wisdom gets hold of eric holder, that pillar of discretion, ... , and declares us domestic terrorists, without us knowing about it (hey, the whole g_d damned thing is extra judicial, ... , we cannot do that in america?, well just ask british petroleum which views its wallet lighter by $50 billion, ... .--

and, all this happens and we aren't talking because we cannot, and he is talking to "his people," and we start getting arrested.

far fetched?  in america?  would it surprise you to know that obama and his dead fleshed minions who rise from the slime, from the depths of hell, ... , would it surprise you to know that each of the things i have discussed have been contemplated by legislative proposals introduced into congress, and that napolitano has contemplated this authority, to designate "domestic" terrorists?

john jay @ 06.24.2010

p.s.  my letter to the comments at atlas shrugs.--

pamela, friends:

obama is out casting pearls before swine yet again.

first, before the lefties, he asks for the tyrant's ability to shut the net down if it suits him. ah, our own little totalitarian in our own time, how divine is that, the little lefties swoon and croon one to the other. ooohhhhhhh, let's. let's let him, if it is for our own good.

then, he seeks to twitter and tweet cooing sounds so sweet, just to take those little ones in his thrall, knock them off'en there feet, won't be no trouble 't'all. 't'all.

but, wait a second here, partners ... just wait a fucking second.

does this mean that o'bambi, my favorite i.b. totally insane obama, ... , does this mean that if he does shut down the net in times of an emergency, that he will shut down his tweeters and twitters, too, or, in all likelihood, that he will just shut down me, ... , and you?

take a guess and be prescient, ... , maybe your insight, will be heaven sent.

john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

posted by: john jay / friday / june 25, 2010 at 12:49 a.m.

update: 

**after law school, i didn't want to practice law: can you imagine that?  the prospect of wearing a tie every day didn't appeal to me.  so, i didn't take the bar.  i went fishing & crabbing in alaska, 7 months on the bering sea.  i helped some friends build some house and some pole buildings.  and, i went to eastern oregon college where i got an education certificate, high school type.  as you can imagine, getting an ed. cert. was not too difficult after law school, so i spent the entire year at e.o.c. in the college library, where i had absolute uninterrupted run of carl sandburg's biography of abe lincoln, all 8 volumes of it if i recall correctly, plus a volume of lincoln's collected writings.  and, as a result, i have had a profound respect for lincoln's mind, and his principles, and his just plain old gumption & courage, ever since, not to mention a real liking for sandburg's prose, which i prefer to his poetry.  oh, yeah, it's that good.

at any rate, mine is the sort of scatter brain that remembers little tidbits like that 30 years after the fact, and cannot remember an 8 note riff when learning a song on the guitar.  but, you play the cards as you are dealt them, i guess, and, all in all, while i have gotten some bum deals, i have gotten some good ones along the way.  laughing.

still in all, i wish the guitar would come a little easier, and that i had started it 50 years ago.  next life time, i suppose, if there is one.

Comments

[Watchman]

What you going to do? The Green things are going to eat you anyway!

[john jay]

watchman:

perhaps.

but, i am going to stick in a few craws as i go down those gullets, ... , there are gonna be a couple of 'em find this old gristle a bit difficult in the chewing, ... , and some of 'em are just gonna choke on me, nay, unto the point of expiration, themselves.

even the lions have an occasional face kicked in, a jaw broken, some teeth extracted by the kick of the doomed gnu, ... , and go down with him.

it brings a very pleasant smile to my face to think in such terms.

so, what am i going to do? if events turn as you feel may be inevitable.

i am going kicking, screaming and clawing my way into oblivion, enjoying every second of it.

john jay

[john jay]

p.s. let 'em come and get me. it will save travel expenses. laughing.

[john jay]

watchman:

still laughing at your comment.--

you have brought a smile to a tired, old & gruzzled face, ... , formulating my reply.

thank you. there is still a little sport left in the settling of these matters, enough for anyone.

john jay