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- Jon Snow: "What's my name?"
- Samwell Tarly: "Jon Snow."
- Jon Snow: "And why is my surname 'Snow'?"
- Samwell Tarly: "...Because you're a bastard from the North."
- — Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly[src]
The term bastard refers to anyone born out of wedlock. In the Seven Kingdoms there is considerable social stigma attached to being a bastard. The Faith of the Seven and that of the Old Gods of the Forest have rules against bastardy.
Legal status
Bastards are not allowed to inherit their father's lands or titles, and have no claims to the privileges of their father's House. It is up to their father on how to raise or treat them: at worst they are unacknowledged and ignored, though they may fare better and be discreetly sent funds to ensure their well-being. At best, a lord will acknowledge his bastard children (allowing them to take on one of the special bastard surnames), but send them away to one of his distant castles to be raised away from his lawful family. For bastard children to be raised by their father in his own castle alongside his trueborn children is considered extremely unusual.
There is no outright law punishing noble men or women for having bastard children, instead it is considered a social and religious disgrace.
It is possible for the king to legitimize a lord's bastard children, though this special dispensation is difficult to acquire and infrequently happens. It will usually only be granted if a lord has no other legitimate children (or no male children) to carry on the name of his house. However, the social stigma is not automatically removed after the bastard is formally legitimized.
The stigma of illegitimacy is so great, that all bastards born to noble Houses in Westeros have to identify themselves through a specific surname marking them as a bastard, which varies by region:
- Flowers: The Reach
- Hill: The Westerlands
- Pyke: Iron Islands
- Rivers: The Riverlands
- Sand: Dorne
- Snow: The North
- Stone: The Vale of Arryn
- Storm: The Stormlands
- Waters: The Crownlands
However, this system does not apply to the bastards of smallfolk: at least one parent (usually, but not always, the father) has to be a member of a noble House. If both the father and mother are commoners, the child cannot use the special surname.
The low-born commoners of Westeros do not actually use surnames at all. Therefore, possessing a bastard surname is simultaneously a mark of distinction and badge of shame. Anyone who encounters someone with a bastard surname will immediately know that they are not simply a bastard, but the bastard child of a noble.Bastards only use the special surnames if they have been openly acknowledged by their noble-born parent. In such cases, their noble parent will usually try to make sure that they are well cared for, or send money for their support, but it is extremely unusual for a noble to raise their bastard child in their own household.
There is no official distinction between bastards who have one noble-born parent, and those whose parents are both noble-born. In practice, however, a nobleman would be much more likely to acknowledge a bastard child born to a noble lady, than he would a child born to a commoner.
Bastard surnames are dependent on the region a child was born in, i.e. where the mother is from, not where the father is from. For example, a noble lord from the Stormlands could father one bastard child in the Vale, and another in the Riverlands, but neither would use the surname "Storm": the first bastard would use the surname "Stone", and the second would use the surname "Rivers." It is extremely unusual for a bastard to know who his nobleman father is, but not his mother. Therefore Jon Snow's situation is additionally unusual, not just because he actually lives with his nobleman father, but because he probably wasn't even born in the North. Eddard Stark brought him back to Winterfell as an infant after fighting in the south during Robert's Rebellion, but refused to say who his mother was or where she came from. As a result of the mystery surrounding his mother's identity, Jon ended up using the surname "Snow" by default.
Bastard children of a noble lord may be referred to politely as "natural children", though the less polite term "baseborn" is more commonly used, and they are often bluntly and rudely referred to as simply "bastard." In contrast, a noble lord's children with his lawfully married wife are termed "trueborn." Thus when Lord Eddard Stark discovers that none of Cersei Lannister's children were fathered by her husband King Robert Baratheon, he says that King Robert "has no trueborn sons," even though he knows that Robert has several "baseborn," bastard children.[1]
Known bastards
The North
- Jon Snow, the bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark, allegedly with a serving girl named Wylla. Sarcastically called "Lord Snow".
- Ramsay Snow, the bastard son of Lord Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort.
The Iron Islands
- Cotter Pyke, commander of Eastwatch, one of the three castles manned by the Night's Watch.
The Riverlands
- Ser Walder Rivers, a bastard son of Lord Walder Frey and a milkmaid.
The Crownlands
- {Daemon Blackfyre}, legitimized bastard son of King Aegon IV Targaryen, who lived over a hundred years before Robert's Rebellion.
The Reach
- {Jafer Flowers}, a ranger of the Night's Watch who accompanied Benjen Stark on a mission, was killed and returned as a wight before being destroyed.
Unacknowledged bastards
- Gendry, a blacksmith's apprentice in King's Landing, one of several bastard sons of King Robert Baratheon. Because Robert never acknowledged Gendry, he does not use the bastard surname "Waters."
- {Barra}, another of King Robert's bastards. Killed by Janos Slynt during the purge of Robert's bastards.
- King Joffrey Baratheon: Although generally believed to be the son of Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister, he is actually the son of Jaime Lannister and Cersei, making him not only a bastard, but a bastard born of incest.
- Princess Myrcella Baratheon: Jaime and Cersei's second child.
- Prince Tommen Baratheon: Jaime and Cersei's third child.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the status of being a bastard is a considerable social disgrace amongst the nobility, though less so amongst the smallfolk. However, whilst bastards are disadvantaged, they still have means to climb the social ladder. They may win honor and glory in battle and be knighted. If they do great deeds in service to the king or a noble lord, they can even receive a bill of legitimacy, allowing them to take their father's surname and formally join his House, or to take a new surname and found a new House (some bastards take new names altogether, like "Blackfyre", while others add a prefix to their bastard name, such as "Longwaters"). For example, House Baratheon was founded by the legitimized bastard half-brother of King Aegon the Conqueror.
However, while bastards stand outside the lines of succession and inheritance, there are still exceptions which have caused immense problems. King Aegon IV Targaryen legitmized three of his bastard sons and one of his bastard daughters on his deathbed. His eldest bastard son, Daemon Blackfyre, later claimed the Iron Throne and led a bloody civil war known as the First Blackfyre Rebellion. His sons and descendants launched four more attempts to take the Iron Throne before their final claimant, Maelys the Monstrous, was slain by Ser Barristan Selmy during the War of the Ninepenny Kings. This is sometimes used as an example of what happens if a bastard is treated too well and given too much power and legitimacy.
Fans sometimes derisively assume that "Joffrey Baratheon" should really be called "Joffrey Lannister," because of his status as the bastard offspring of the incestuous relationship between Cersei Lannister and Jaime Lannister, and not the son of King Robert Baratheon at all. This is actually in error, as according to the customs of bastardy, Joffrey doesn't even have the right to use the surname "Lannister". As Jaime's bastard son, given birth to by a woman from the Westerlands (Cersei), Joffrey would have to use the bastard surname for the Westerlands: "Joffrey Hill". There's also the possibility that he might be called "Joffrey Waters" given that both Jaime and Cersei had been living in the Crownlands for many years, and Joffrey lived his whole life there. All of this, of course, would only happen if Jaime were to openly acknowledge Joffrey as his son, which is an impossibility given the disastrous political fallout this would create. Further, as the product of not merely bastardy, but incest, the Faith of the Seven would want to outright kill Joffrey as an abomination before the gods if his actual parentage were ever revealed. Therefore from a strict legal standpoint, given that Jaime will never acknowledge his children with Cersei, Joffrey has no right to any surname, and should properly just be called "Joffrey" as if he were a lowborn commoner.


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You take them home and place them in the fruit bowl, so you can admire your taste and your thriftiness before you have to peel them and pick out all the seeds and make a mess that you will have to clean up.
Peeling pomegranates is about as tedious and messy as anything you can think of, so you put it off until the next day.
But before you get the chance to peel the pomegranates, your husband comes down in a monogrammed shirt and peels his own pomegranate, squirting copious amounts of the stain-making equivalent of motor oil all over his business clothes.
Since he won't shop for clothes, one more good outfit bites the dust.
Do you take off his shirt and treat it with stain remover right away?
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HOUSEHOLD TIP: Kitchen scissors can take a monogrammed dress shirt and turn it into a dishrag immediately. As long as the shirt is all cotton or linen, it won't repel water.
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Over and over and over.
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My kuhli loach is injured or something. He is swimming sporadically and in circles. Sometimes he appears dead, then will become spastic. His neck appears slightly kinked and sometimes he pants.
-It's a 20G, cycled, with tankmates listed in my siggy. They all leave him alone, never even notice him really. It's filtered and heated, at 78-79*. There is also a bubble wand. Several live plants.
-pH is running high- 7.2, so I know for a fact that's not good for the loaches, but ammo, nitrite both at 0, and nitrates are 5. I had added Aq salt at the beginning, when we first started the tank (late December), but I've done several 25-30% WC since then. I have no test for the salinity to confirm, but I doubt there is much left, especially since I dosed it conservatively to begin with.
-My water change schedule is every Saturday, a 25-30% change, and I do a stir method with a turkey baster on the gravel as well.
-He has lots of hidey places, my substrate isn't sand, but it's small pea gravel and he can dig through it.
-He and his pal are fed 2 API shrimp pellets each night, and they also obviously get any leftovers from the other tankmates, which are Aqueon tropical flakes (pinch a day) and possibly the betta's NLS pellets but he usually eats those up. I put half a cube of frozen bloodworms every Friday as well. But, I don't think he can eat. He can't seem to swim well and only swims in circles, and totally spastically.
Because of his crazy symtpoms, I want to get him in a separate tank so I can possibly medicate him, reduce his stress from tank mates, be better able to control the pH, which is a problem for me at the moment, I believe it's our tapwater. Also, I am worried he isn't able to eat much, if at all. What should I do? I bought him a 1.5G with a Tetra Whisper filter. I don't have a heater yet, but will be able to get one. I also have Melafix, epsom salts, Aq Salt, Stress Coat, but I am not sure how much is safe of these things, if at all. Kuhli's don't have scales, so they can't take as much as other fish.
I really want to give him a chance. I bought the loaches without noticing the salinity issue and the site I used for info gave the wrong info on the pH. If I can just keep him well enough til I can rehome him I would be happy. If not, I do have clove oil, if it would be more humane to euthanize him.
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Your loach may not be sick. The erratic behaviour you are describing is quite normal with them. Kuhlies like to be energetic in bursts as opposed to the botine loaches with can be active all the time. The panting is just a result of the fast movement. This comes from years of observation of them. In fact a few of mine are doing the loach dance in my tank right now.
That said, there is a problem with your set up. You have too few loaches. Kuhlies are shoaling and highly social fish. They should be in groups of 6 or more. When my shoal died (from old age) down to 3 kuhlies I noticed a sharp withdraw in the remaining fish. They would not eat as well, and I rarely saw them. Upon adding another 6 fish, their appetites increase, and I see a lot more of them now. Plus, the social interactions of these fish are just amazing.
I would NOT separate him from the main tank. Loaches are highly susceptible to ammonia poisoning and rapid temp swings which is what will happen in a small tank. He will also be away from the only other loach which will cause him great stress. If you don't want that 1.5 gal return it. It's of no use to the loach.
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Oops, well, I already QTed him before you replied. But, I feel like it's helped him, he seems to have improved some. Also, we siphoned the gravel pretty good and I never located the other loach. I haven't seen him in almost a month, so I think he probably is dead. We had started with three, and one died within the first few days, I think because of our water conditions at the time (I had added aq salt, not knowing they couldn't have any). I've since done a lot of water changes and not added any more.
It's definitely not their normal dancing behavior. I have seen him do that, but this is new. He CAN'T straighten out. His neck is kinked. We did end up QT him, and I'm feeding him a few blood worms and crushed up shrimp pellets. I got him some much finer grain gravel and we've ordered some sand. We are going to make him (and the other loaches we are ordering) a sand bar, and ultimate phase the whole tank towards more of a sand substrate. I also have added him some melafix, at a 1/4 dose. The pH is lower and temp is lower too. I took 2 hours to acclimate him, and he already is swimming better, but still kinked at his neck area. I think he got injured in the gravel, and then got an infection. I was better able to examine him and in the kinked part, there was a noticeable reddened crack or scratch, and he is very skinny, much skinner than he was when we bought him. Also, one of his pectoral fins are torn, pretty far down to the body.
I watched him eat, and because of his neck, it's hard for him to get at his food. He is shaped almost like a shepherd's crook, but like I said, he's already straightened out some over night and panting less. That's what made us decide to commit to the sand bar. He just really needs it. Our gravel is small, but just not small enough.
Thanks for your advice though! I really love the loaches, they are so cute and clever and fun to watch. But, until he gets better enough, and until we get the tank more appropriate for kuhlis, we will hold off on purchasing him some friends. If I still don't feel comfortable with the changes we will have to make to the tank, if I don't feel like I can keep it healthy for them, I will rehome him. I am already looking and putting out the word, just in case. But I would prefer to keep him. I love kuhli loaches almost as much as bettas. :)
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I understand your love for these little guys. I like them better than bettas.
Bare-bottomed tanks really aren't good for them either. But one thing you can do it get oak (has to be oak) leave from a clean area (no chemicals sprayed around) and put those in the tank. This replicates their natural environment almost perfectly as they are found in leaf litter. You won't see him as much, but he will be more comfortable this way. I QT my loaches like this and haven't lost one yet with this method.
About the substrate, when you try to put two different kinds of substrate in a tank, they just end up a mixed mess. I tried this before, and it wasn't fun. If you're going to switch to sand, take everything out and do it in one day. It may be a long day, but it is better than watching your sand and gravel get mixed in with each other and then having to sort them out later.
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Yeah, I knew he wouldn't want it bare, so it's not sand, but it's very small grain (like, rice-sized) and I made a little "maze" with some larger, smooth rocks. I didn't think about leaf litter. We have lots of plants and leaves outside and we haven't used pesticides ever since we've been here. We have one area that's high up and shouldn't have any run-off so it should be ok. It's with a bunch of pine needles though, and I've heard pine-needles lower the pH of soil. I know he'd prefer lower pH but I don't want it to drop too much, kwim? I'd not put in pine needles anyway, too sharp, but I'm worried they might have seeped into the other leaf litter.
Thanks! I just gave him a whole pellet, and he poked out from his rock maze and he's staring at it. His neck still has a kink but it also still looks much better compared to yesterday and especially compared to last week.
Will his fin regrow? It's so difficult for him to swim without it.
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His fin should regrow, but might be a bit crooked. Also be warned that if you drop the temp too much (below 73F) he won't be able to digest protein as well and shouldn't be fed as much. A heater will certainly help him a lot in this case.
As for the oak leaves near pine, they will be just fine.
The thinness you talk about could also be from parasites. These fish are wild-caught and unless they go through a good QT before the store sells them, they will often have parasites or other diseases from the wild. In a healthy setup, the fish are usually able to fight the parasites off, but when they are stressed the parasites can take hold. The best way to treat is to de-stress the fish as much as possible and feed them a food with garlic in it. I like the Thera+ from New Life Spectrum as it contains the most garlic.
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I upped our house temp. His tank is setting at 75 according to the therm I put in there.
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Not necessarily, as I discovered while researching how school fundraising and giving, in general, has been hit by the recession for May's edition of ASBJ.
For days, I scoured search engines and subscription databases, expecting to find countless stories of districts abandoned, ignored, desperate to find donors willing to spare a dime and bolster their crippled budgets.
I found a few, like Beaverton High School in Oregon, where booster club president and long-time volunteer Marcia Loggins was at her wits end on where else to go and who else to turn to fund events and programs at the school.
"I know businesses are hurting and because there's such competition for fewer dollars it's like a frenzy," Loggins told me. "It's almost like people are running to doors saying, 'Me first.' Our poor little orthodonist probably supports everything in town."
Loggins' experience was certainly dire, but from what I could find, isolated. At my wits end and at the suggestion of my editor, I turned to one of the posterchilds of the depressed economy: Elkhart, Ind.
Pres. Obama had put the manufacturing town on the map, as he hosted a series of townhall meetings across the country intended to create momentum toward his economic stimulus package.
With a decimated local economy, thanks to tanking RV sales (their big industry), and unemployment rates at 15 percent, surely, community generosity toward schools was scaling back in Elkhart. Nope.
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31 U.S. Code § 331 - Reports
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(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress each year an annual report. The report shall include—
(3) plans for improving and increasing public receipts to provide Congress with information on ways to raise amounts necessary to meet public expenditures;
(4) a statement of all contracts for supplies or services made by the Secretary during the prior fiscal year;
(5) a statement of appropriations expended to pay for miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for;
(6) a statement on all payments made from the fund under section 3126 of this title for the prior fiscal year; and
(1) On the first day of each regular session of Congress, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report for the prior fiscal year on—
(A) the total and individual amounts of contingent liabilities and unfunded liabilities of the United States Government;
(B) as far as practicable, trust fund liabilities, liabilities of Government corporations, indirect liabilities not included as a part of the public debt, and liabilities of insurance and annuity programs (including their actuarial status);
(C) collateral pledged and assets available (or to be realized) as security for the liabilities (separately noting Government obligations) and other assets specifically available to liquidate the liabilities of the Government; and
(c) On the first day of each regular session of Congress, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report for the prior fiscal year on the total amount of public receipts and public expenditures listing receipts, when practicable, by ports, districts, and States and the expenditures by each appropriation.
(d) The Secretary shall report to either House of Congress in person or in writing, as required, on matters referred to the Secretary by that House of Congress.
(1) Not later than March 31 of 1998 and each year thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall annually prepare and submit to the President and the Congress an audited financial statement for the preceding fiscal year, covering all accounts and associated activities of the executive branch of the United States Government. The financial statement shall reflect the overall financial position, including assets and liabilities, and results of operations of the executive branch of the United States Government, and shall be prepared in accordance with the form and content requirements set forth by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Source(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 884; Pub. L. 103–356, title IV, § 405(c),Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3416.)
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|Source (U.S. Code
|Source (Statutes at Large)
|331(a)(1)– (5)
|Feb. 26, 1907, ch. 1635, § 1(2d par. under heading "Treasury Department"), 34 Stat. 949.
|31:757c(i)(last sentence).
|Sept. 24, 1917, ch. 56, 40 Stat. 288, § 22(i)(last sentence); added Apr. 11, 1943, ch. 52, § 3, 57 Stat. 63; restated Apr. 3, 1945, ch. 51, § 3, 59 Stat. 48.
|31:725p(a)(last sentence).
|June 26, 1934, ch. 756, §§ 17(a)(last sentence), 18(a)(last sentence), 48 Stat. 1230, 1231.
|31:725q(a)(last sentence).
|Nov. 13, 1966, Pub. L. 89–809, § 402, 80 Stat. 1590; Apr. 21, 1976, Pub. L. 94–273, § 2(17), 90 Stat. 375.
|July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 15, 28 Stat. 210.
|31:1002(words between 4th and 5th semicolons)
|R.S. § 248(words between 4th and 5th semicolons).
In subsections (a) and (c), the word "receipts" is substituted for "revenues" for consistency in the section and the revised title.
In subsection (a)(1), the words "public receipts and public expenditures" are substituted for "receipts and expenditures of the Government" in 31:1030 for consistency in the section. The word "completed" is omitted as surplus. In clause (2), the words "First. A report on the subject of finance" in 31:1027 are omitted because of the restatement. The word "containing" is omitted as surplus. In clause (4), the words "Second. A report containing" are omitted because of the restatement. The words "prior fiscal year" are substituted for "during the year preceding" for consistency. In clause (5), the words "paid at the Treasury" are omitted as unnecessary. The 3d paragraph of section 257 of the Revised Statutes, providing for a report on rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury on imported goods, wares, and merchandise, is omitted as obsolete because section 252 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing those rules and regulations, was repealed by the Act of February 27, 1877 (ch. 69, 19 Stat. 241). The 4th paragraph of section 257, providing for a report on amounts of hospital taxes collected from sick and disabled seamen, is omitted as obsolete because section 15 of the Act of June 26, 1884 (ch. 121, 23 Stat. 57), repealed the tax. In clause (7), the words "the Commissioners of the District of Columbia" (subsequently changed to "the Mayor of the District of Columbia" by section 422 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (Pub. L. 93–198, 87 Stat. 790)) in 31:725p are omitted as unnecessary because of § 448 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act. The text of 31:725q(proviso) is omitted because of the restatement.
In subsection (b)(1), before clause (A), the words "for the prior fiscal year" are substituted for "as of the close of the preceding September 30 (beginning with the report as of June 30, 1967)" to eliminate unnecessary words. In clause (C), the word "obligations" is substituted for "securities" for consistency in the revised title. Clause (D) is substituted for "and of each department, agency, and instrumentality thereof" for clarity.
In subsection (c), the words "a report for the prior fiscal year on the total amount of public receipts and public expenditures" are substituted for "an accurate combined statement of the receipts and expenditures during the last preceding fiscal year of all public moneys" because of the restatement. The words "including those of the United States Postal Service" are omitted as unnecessary and superseded by 39:410.
In subsection (d), the words "either House of Congress" are substituted for "either branch of the legislature" for clarity and consistency. The words "that House of Congress" are substituted for "the Senate or House of Representatives" for consistency and because of the restatement. The words "or which appertain to his office" are omitted as unnecessary because of subsections (a)–(c) of the section.
1994—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103–356added subsec. (e).
Termination of Reporting Requirements
For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which certain reporting requirements under subsecs. (a), (b)(1)(A), and (c) of this section are listed on pages 140 and 142), see section 3003 ofPub. L. 104–66, as amended, and section 1(a)(4) [div. A, § 1402(1)] of Pub. L. 106–554, set out as notes under section 1113 of this title.
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So Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. long-term debt from AAA to AA+ (with a negative outlook). Ouch. Yeah, it's a bit of a joke. After all, these are the jokers who declared Lehman Brothers AAA a month before they went bankrupt. They rated junk mortgage securities AAA, leading directly to the financial mess we're in now. And we can argue till the cows come home about whether S&P oughta be in the business of downgrading our credit rating because our political system is so dysfunctional.
Doesn't matter. What does matter is that they did. They looked at the recently completed debt ceiling debate and determined that although we haven't defaulted, and probably won't in the near future, our idiocy is so complete that creditors should think twice or more about extending further credit.
Now, that would probably suit the TeaPublicans just fine. They seem to relish the idea of the United States becoming a backwater country where the majority of its citizens have little to no access to decent health care or education. And why wouldn't they? Stupid, sick citizens are much easier to bully into submission. And the handful of others who know better? Just throw 'em in jail, shoot 'em if you have to. That's what they do in places like Zimbabwe, Syria, Yemen and Iran. Never let a little inconvenient truth bother you.
And all of this could have been avoided. We've had so many chances. After Reagan put us on this wretched road to ruin, Americans wised up after a term of George Bush Sr. and elected Bill Clinton, at the time branded The Most Liberal Man On The Planet although he was a Blue Dog at best. Never mind, though, he was certainly far better than another four years of GHWB, or, god forbid, one of the other whackos who could have been on the Republican ticket. You know, people like Pat Buchanan and David Duke.
The GOP Noise Machine went into high gear of course, lying and stretching the truth at every possible moment to paint Clinton as Evil Incarnate. It worked to some extent, but it didn't wholly work because Bill possesses one of those thing the Republicans like in their candidates: He's Affable. You wanna have a beer with him. So what if he had sex with that woman? I mean — and here's where the Right Wing Crap Machine worked wonders — look at that bitch he's married to.
But after two terms and a deficit surplus, the Noise Machine had also done a job on the man who should have been Clinton's successor, the truly more liberal Al Gore. And Gore was hampered by a tendency to appear rather wooden, plus, it appears that an awful lot of Democrats/liberals/progressives at that time had not caught on to the Republican Bullshit Machine strategy: Lie at every opportunity, and make the other guy out to be in league with the worst things you can think of. And if all else fails, ridicule from the lowest common denominator.
Thus, George W. Bush. Of course, the conservatives needed a little boost from the Supreme Court, but honest to god, it never should have been close enough to go there. The Noise Machine works very, very well, indeed. See Kerry, John – Swiftboating.
After eight years of up is down, black is white and Alice doesn't live here anymore, it's a wonder any of us could even walk. But walk we could and unbelievably enough of us had seen through the LSD haze to actually not give the presidency to another Republican. But the Noise Machine had a hand in who did select too. See Clinton, Hillary – Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
Again, we selected a very moderate, albeit black, Democrat who was again portrayed as The Most Liberal Man On The Planet despite no evidence to support that contention. But we, suckers that we are, thought we had a chance. My god, a black Democrat in the White House, majorities in the House and Senate — we're saved!
Except we weren't. The right started its anti-anything but them campaign with its most ugly component yet: Racism. Well, they actually tried that with Bill Clinton. Who do you think came up with "the nation's first black president?" Problem of course, was that Clinton clearly isn't black.
Barack Obama is, and racism is a ready-made weapon so easy to deny. "Tar baby!" "Oh, I'm sorry if anyone was offended. I didn't mean that as a racist statement." And, with our well trained stenography pool ready to bring every utterance to the national media, nobody but us crazies ever challenged the clear bullshit. So while the our so-called journalists bring on birthers to talk about whether or not Obama was born in the United States (doesn't matter, idiots, his MOTHER was), nobody challenges the racism fueling charges that Obama is from Africa, that he's Muslim, that he's anything but a good ol' boy. Seriously, do you honestly think that conversation would be going on if Obama's father were named Olsen and he was born in Norway?
But the Machine had done well making sure a natural compromiser was elected president. That's what community organizers do, yknow. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but when one side deviously plots to suppress the other side and uses good intentions to doom the process from the start, well, that's another matter.
And then there was the Tea Party, rabidly taken up by my colleagues in the stenography as some kind of populist movement despite the clear evidence that it was and is funded by billionaires and political insiders. Follow the money, my friends. Follow the money.
And the politicians, never ones to take any kind of principled stand (with rare exceptions. See Sanders, Bernie – Socialist, Vermont), bent and twisted any which way the wind blew to make sure they stayed in office. Then came 2010, and the intentionally ill-informed won big in those places where once more moderate conservatives might have flourished. And now, the stage was set.
A barely Democratic president, a Senate with a narrow Democratic majority, a House full of full-on crazies with little to no understanding of anything beyond Well, sheeit, I'm a US Congressman now! and a House constituency of the ignorant masses who don't realize Medicare is a "socialist" program nor that their champions have every intention of destroying it.
Oh, and the completely out in the open No. 1 goal of the Republican party: Get rid of the black guy in the Oval Office in 2012 if not sooner.
So despite Standard & Poor's culpability in the our economic morass, somebody there had the sense to realize that the United States was indeed on a slippery slope and it isn't one to socialism. It's sliding into what's much closer to the corporate-run colonies of the British, Portugeuese, Dutch, Spanish and French empires. Seriously — they were all about profits and coopting some local group to give their corporate rulers some legitimacy. And the corporate rulers, of course, answered to the crown back home.
In America, though, we're dispensing with the crown. The corporate rulers answer to no one.
And that's very, very dangerous, something even Standard & Poor's can't ignore. The debt ceiling fight, then, was our last chance before someone outside started taking action. Obama must have known. That's where the Grand Bargain came from. It was the only adult proposal made, one that in all likelihood would have satisfied S&P that we were seriously about fixing the economy. Of course, just lifting the fucking debt ceiling and focussing on a jobs plan probably would have worked too, but the TeaPublicans would have none of that and instead pushed for this showdown, a playground battle royale.
So Obama offered the Grand Bargain and the TeaPublicans, so enamored of their rich overlords that they cannot conceive of taxing them one penny more than they already are, poor over-taxed bastards, said no fucking way. And the pitiful "debate" that followed showed S&P, and every other sane person on the planet, that the lunatics indeed have taken over the U.S. government, and no one is safe.
The reasoning, which people who aren't TeaPublicans actually note contains criticisms of both Republicans and Democrats, is far more damning to the GOP. Here's the full report, go read it. You can be sure the TeaPublicans won't. They were satisfied with the press release. But here's the key passage. S&P says the recently completely debt ceiling deal is a step in the right direction, but is not sufficient to correct the slide. Previously assessments have given the United States the benefit of the doubt, S&P says, assuming that reason will overcome the pitchfork-bearing masses. No more:
Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.
And there you have it. If those tax cuts don't expire, S&P says, the credit rating will likely slip to AA. Killing those tax cuts off might — might — "stabilize" the rating at AA+.
So what's it all mean? Basically, we're screwed. And the Republicans and Democrats are to blame. The Republicans for all their lying and bullshit and the Democrats for showing their bellies every time the GOP or Fox News yells "Boo!" And that dysfunction, which is what S&P is talking about, isn't likely to change, because our politicians are too addicted to being in Washington to see what's really going on in the world around them.
Instead, they'll take what S&P says and make further cuts into "entitlement" programs, along with things like education, public safety, environmental regulation, banking regulation — basically anything that a civilized society needs to thrive — keeping only enough to maintain the military dictatorship the Teahadists so desperately yearn for. Austerity times 1000. This is how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, and we really do have weapons of mass destruction.
I don't pretend to know why the rich want it this way (even less why the lied-to masses work so hard to make it happen), but I do know this is how they want it. Follow the money. At the end you'll find people like the Koch Brothers whose only goal, for some unfathomable reason, is to get richer.
I also know it will get better. But not, apparently, before it gets a whole lot worse.


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Details are not only sketchy, they are non-existent, but two close sources confirm that Alex Sanchez was again denied bail at his hearing in federal court yesterday. Don't bother searching the Los Angeles Times, to whom this case is apparently not a story in spite of its drama and implications for administration of justice, gangs, and organized crime.
For background on the story of this former gangster, ostensibly turned anti-gang activist, but now accused in a federal RICO indictment of being a secret "shot-caller" or gang boss, go here, here, and here.
Meanwhile, perhaps the most that can be said until the trial and verdict is this.
Whatever the prosecutors served up yesterday, it apparently was sizzling enough to convince federal judge Manuel Real to keep Sanchez locked up.
Experienced gang prosecutors and investigators who are not related to or part of the Sanchez case have told me that this sort of "back and forth" or what is known as the "battle of the transcripts" is fairly typical of the early stages of a big racketeering case — particularly when you have a case that relies on transcripts that require translation — and that it is best at this stage to keep an open mind and not jump to conclusions but rather to follow the evidence until the "back and forth" sorts itself out.
At this stage it appears to these observers that too many people are jumping to conclusions and making personal attacks (on both sides) when the real issues are evidence-based — namely, "First, "what precisely do the transcripts say?" Then, once that is established, second, "Now that we know what the transcripts say, what exactly does that mean?"
Point taken, but Fairly Civil remains amazed at the virtual news blackout on this case.
Lindsay Lohan grabs more media time? Any media time?