The change up is used to completely fool someone. It’s results are seen in poor response times, off balanced misses and sometimes laughable endings. Our DOJ, IRS, and to some extent all investigative Federal Agencies, are in the business to fool the general batting public. The only Constitutional question that these people have is the desirable outcomes they seek. Some people see selective prosecutions and audits. From where I’m sitting in the bleachers I see nothing more than winning; ” by any means necessary. ” Nixonian? No, just the same old shit, different day. More like gov’t vigilantism, to me.

Jim Kaat on the use of the changeup ( a pitch ) and life in general, ” Well, we are all in the business of fooling people, aren’t we ?

I agree. The people are being led into the trance dance; a whirling dervish of disastrous environmental footsteps and major economic dislocation. Sooner rather later, too, I’m afraid.

Thanks for the great post. Moving forward in this economy, collectively, will take some catastrophic global event, I fear. Everyday people just see the financialized political economy as an insider, corrupt, mean game and they don’t have the table stakes to get into it. Or choose not to mix it up with the Wall Street swine for moral or religious reasons. They’ll rescue pets; people, not so much. Humans, unlike pets, have a risk and trust threat the loyal critters of the animal kingdom spare us from.

So funny that Benedictine College is mentioned here. Everyone I knew who went there either bailed out or was asked to leave. Atchison, Kansas? Does C-Span even go there?. Has Mr. Ryan sunk to the D list so quickly? Maybe he and Sarah Pee can form a interfaith minstrel show or enter a Barbershop Duet competition to raise some much needed, good P.R. As for the gospels, monks, and the rest of these bishops’ Divinity: ” yeah, right. “

This whole thing smells to high heaven. It has more loose ends than a gaggle of geese, funnel fed grease. Since when has the IRS formally apologised to any progressive group engaged in street politicking? The Congress has destroyed a few, though, just by watching the video/lies of FAUX NEWS. Get out the vote efforts will be soon be illegal. Can you say, ACORN?

In 1990 78% of Americans wanted a Single Payer/Gov’t Insurance program modeled after Canada or European systems. Enter The Hill-Billary Show. Ruined it for the decade! That was planned, IMO, by the same people who made them both multi-millionaires. Now cometh the ACA: same old shit, different decade. Framed and written by the same Bill-Hillary retreads, too. Obama’s Grand Compromise is an unworkable lie and it will make he and Michelle multi-millionaires. Same old shit, different decade. And, Dems want more Hill-Billary in 2016? Same old shit, different decade, same shitty results. At what point do you stop killing people, through denial of quality healthcare, to become a multi-millionaire? Why do we continue to be offered impostors or party traitors? The shit flying off the Democratic merry-go-round, as it spins faster and faster, is obviously landing on the wrong members of the party or the right ones, depending on party positioning. Since 90% of the people have shit all around and on them, IMO, the answer is clear. I can’t see shit from where I’m typing but I can see the Bill-Hillary and Barack/Michelles of the world, pretty clearly. Just sayin’.

This is right up there with finding out Ronnie Raygun and John Wayne didn’t fight in WWII but George McGovern was a highly decorated veteran. Geez, will wonders never cease. Propaganda films and warped political reporting from the Entertainment Industry, TeeVee and the MSM: Shocking! Just Shocking!

A happy send off is all that we can hope for. And, whomever launches us we’ll never know, anyway. ” Hope for the best and prepare for the worst ( buy plenty of hooch “. )

Well, it’s true that if you serve liquor at your Irish wake you’ll have a captive audience on an island.

Community is an odd word in a perfect world of 7 billion people. I’ve latched onto ” affinity ” myself. I’m attached to some people through music, the arts, literature, sports and other things. Through these filters of choice, I’ve got a community who ” tolerates ” my deviations within the context of what you call local. Of course, neighborhoods and their larger extended family, city states, are fluid due to variables beyond the control of the most powerful of affinity groups. But, their response is not. Community is the only thing, after all, that makes people want to show up to your funeral.

Frank Zappa said, ( and I paraphrase ) ” there are probably 50,000 love songs in existence and probably 500 are stuck in everyone’s head. And, they obviously haven’t made much of an impact. ” If love songs made a whit of difference then Elvis Costello probably wouldn’t have had to ask, ” What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding? ” But, to some people who are very wealthy and very ugly; they hardly feel the beat, let alone understand the meaning and message. That’s who runs America, now. The white guy comfortable in the 3 piece suit tapping his foot irregularly and holding the joint wrong has found his niche. Money is power and grace has nothing to do with either one of those two words. Same as it ever was in Amerikee.

Got ta love them Texas insurance laws. ” Liability? We don’t need no stinkin’ liability insurance. That’s for people who don’t own guns and don’t want to be freedom fighters. ” Hook’em Horns, yee haw!

” Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. ” Herodotus I think history is being rewritten all the time as new ” ____ comes to light. ” And, that gives me some hope for the truth to be found. Too bad our gov’t keeps redacting and classifying ours.