James Brody
January 15th, 2009, 01:42 PM
"There was a lot of agreement in that room about the notion that we're facing an economic crisis unlike we've seen in quite some time ... that we must act quickly to stimulate the economy, create jobs, put money back in people's pockets." Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
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Stimulants help us to know "when" we are as much as "how" and organize our sense of what to do next. Such things as such as coffee, hot sauce, and Ritalin also nurture initiative and persistence and, according to some studies, may be likely protectors against Parkinsons. And all of these substances may work through neural foundations that support the usually successful reciprocity game of "raise the stakes." That is, if you break even or make money on one round, you raise your bet on the next one.
The stimulant, cocaine - once a legal ingredient in Coca Cola - was used by Freud to write and now by some of my neighbors to feel good. There is, unfortunately, a withdrawal problem for individuals and for cultures, withdrawal now shared by most Americans as they come down not only from the stimulants they ingest but also the stimulant of excess credit spawned by Fannie and Freddie, cheap loans grand houses, or in the five credit card applications that most of us once got every week in the mail. J. Wellington Wimpy would have been ecstatic to take a prime beef hamburger today and pay for it on a bubble loan next year.
There is, ominously, a link between cocaine recovery and doing big things: accomplishing something outrageous combats the depression and withdrawal effects of the drug. Thus, my president smokes and campaigns bigger than anyone before him and a campaign talk in Berlin to 200,000 nonvoters may be symptomatic on several levels. Most recently, BHO expected to have $350 billion walking-around money and asked that George Bush hand it to him. He now asks for $900 billion in more walking around money and I sense more of Pechorin than of Abe Lincoln: We are to be given relief from withdrawal at the cost of greater withdrawal agony in our future.
Criminal and ghetto-accepted morality now play at the national level as thieves move in sync with each other: Geithner didn't pay his taxes and, therefore, could never work for the IRS, an agency he will manage. A Nevada governor withdrew his nomination for a cabinet job because he's under Federal investigation. Hillary stole china when she last exited my White House, later claimed she was a target for sniper fire at Kosovo, but is to be my Secretary of State. (Her husband, meanwhile, collects millions of dollars from Arab interests.) Nominees for the CIA and the Attorney General are also suspicious characters; Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Frank Raines - large contributors to BHO and larger beneficiaries of Fannie/Freddie - are still players not at poker in a jail but in my government.
America in withdrawal, on the other hand, now mistrusts Wall Street but saves more and spends less. The rules for personal trust apply again and the complainers in my neighborhood are possibly healthier than for years. There were suggestions on Bill Bennett's radio show that all of us send tea bags to Washington. The gang that elected BHO, even while some of them thought that Sarah Palin was his running mate, had instinctive preferences for youth, fast talk, and liveliness. As Michelle Bachman, a former prosecuting attorney for the IRS, remarked, our Democrat legislators are "full of themselves." So were democrat voters who elected a coke dealer, crook, and entertainer...a detached, self-involved sort, a preacher with too much self esteem, low arousability and, I suspect, high pain tolerance.
According to Drudge, a rhesus monkey that throws feces when angry is on the loose in Tampa Bay. I'm proud that he's my relative...
References
Cashill, Jack (2009) A continuation article on BHO's lack of writing skills. http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/newly_found.htm.
Bachman, Michele. Former Treasury prosecuting tax attorney and current representative from Minnesota http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/js...lzdFNpemU9Mg==
Bennett, William (1/15/2009) Morning in America. www.bennettmornings.com.
Goldberg J (2007) Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. NY: Doubleday. (See also references to Sowell and to Hayek.)
Lermontov, Mihail (1839/1966) Hero of Our Time. NY: Penguin. A fine study of a Russian psychopath named Pechorin.
Roberts, G. & Sherratt, T. (1998) Development of cooperative relationships through increasing investment. Nature, 394, 175-179.
Shlaes, A (2008) The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. NY: HarperCollins. See also When my recession becomes your great depression. December 17, 2008, Bloomberg.Com. (Lots of material if you put "Amity Shlaes" into the search window. Most relevant here is http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=alBlpZw7AquE
Solinas M, Chauvet C, Thiriet N, Rawas R, & Jaber M (2008) "Reversal of cocaine addiction by environmental enrichment. Proceedings National Academy of Science. November 4, 2008 vol. 105 no. 44 17145-17150 Http://www.pnas.org/content/105/44/17145.abstract?sid=fde9856c-c99f-420c-88ba-b5baa869940f
Sowell, T. (2002) A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. NY: Basic Books. See also Hayek Friedrich A (1944/1944) The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: Univ of Chicago.
Eskelinen, Marjo H., Tiia Ngandu, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Hilkka Soininen, Miia Kivipelto. Midlife Coffee and Tea Drinking and the Risk of Late-Life Dementia: A Population-based CAIDE Study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 16(1), xx-xx. Summarized at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0114200005.htm
revised 1/28/09, 2/1/09
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Stimulants help us to know "when" we are as much as "how" and organize our sense of what to do next. Such things as such as coffee, hot sauce, and Ritalin also nurture initiative and persistence and, according to some studies, may be likely protectors against Parkinsons. And all of these substances may work through neural foundations that support the usually successful reciprocity game of "raise the stakes." That is, if you break even or make money on one round, you raise your bet on the next one.
The stimulant, cocaine - once a legal ingredient in Coca Cola - was used by Freud to write and now by some of my neighbors to feel good. There is, unfortunately, a withdrawal problem for individuals and for cultures, withdrawal now shared by most Americans as they come down not only from the stimulants they ingest but also the stimulant of excess credit spawned by Fannie and Freddie, cheap loans grand houses, or in the five credit card applications that most of us once got every week in the mail. J. Wellington Wimpy would have been ecstatic to take a prime beef hamburger today and pay for it on a bubble loan next year.
There is, ominously, a link between cocaine recovery and doing big things: accomplishing something outrageous combats the depression and withdrawal effects of the drug. Thus, my president smokes and campaigns bigger than anyone before him and a campaign talk in Berlin to 200,000 nonvoters may be symptomatic on several levels. Most recently, BHO expected to have $350 billion walking-around money and asked that George Bush hand it to him. He now asks for $900 billion in more walking around money and I sense more of Pechorin than of Abe Lincoln: We are to be given relief from withdrawal at the cost of greater withdrawal agony in our future.
Criminal and ghetto-accepted morality now play at the national level as thieves move in sync with each other: Geithner didn't pay his taxes and, therefore, could never work for the IRS, an agency he will manage. A Nevada governor withdrew his nomination for a cabinet job because he's under Federal investigation. Hillary stole china when she last exited my White House, later claimed she was a target for sniper fire at Kosovo, but is to be my Secretary of State. (Her husband, meanwhile, collects millions of dollars from Arab interests.) Nominees for the CIA and the Attorney General are also suspicious characters; Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Frank Raines - large contributors to BHO and larger beneficiaries of Fannie/Freddie - are still players not at poker in a jail but in my government.
America in withdrawal, on the other hand, now mistrusts Wall Street but saves more and spends less. The rules for personal trust apply again and the complainers in my neighborhood are possibly healthier than for years. There were suggestions on Bill Bennett's radio show that all of us send tea bags to Washington. The gang that elected BHO, even while some of them thought that Sarah Palin was his running mate, had instinctive preferences for youth, fast talk, and liveliness. As Michelle Bachman, a former prosecuting attorney for the IRS, remarked, our Democrat legislators are "full of themselves." So were democrat voters who elected a coke dealer, crook, and entertainer...a detached, self-involved sort, a preacher with too much self esteem, low arousability and, I suspect, high pain tolerance.
According to Drudge, a rhesus monkey that throws feces when angry is on the loose in Tampa Bay. I'm proud that he's my relative...
References
Cashill, Jack (2009) A continuation article on BHO's lack of writing skills. http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/newly_found.htm.
Bachman, Michele. Former Treasury prosecuting tax attorney and current representative from Minnesota http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/js...lzdFNpemU9Mg==
Bennett, William (1/15/2009) Morning in America. www.bennettmornings.com.
Goldberg J (2007) Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. NY: Doubleday. (See also references to Sowell and to Hayek.)
Lermontov, Mihail (1839/1966) Hero of Our Time. NY: Penguin. A fine study of a Russian psychopath named Pechorin.
Roberts, G. & Sherratt, T. (1998) Development of cooperative relationships through increasing investment. Nature, 394, 175-179.
Shlaes, A (2008) The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. NY: HarperCollins. See also When my recession becomes your great depression. December 17, 2008, Bloomberg.Com. (Lots of material if you put "Amity Shlaes" into the search window. Most relevant here is http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=alBlpZw7AquE
Solinas M, Chauvet C, Thiriet N, Rawas R, & Jaber M (2008) "Reversal of cocaine addiction by environmental enrichment. Proceedings National Academy of Science. November 4, 2008 vol. 105 no. 44 17145-17150 Http://www.pnas.org/content/105/44/17145.abstract?sid=fde9856c-c99f-420c-88ba-b5baa869940f
Sowell, T. (2002) A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. NY: Basic Books. See also Hayek Friedrich A (1944/1944) The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: Univ of Chicago.
Eskelinen, Marjo H., Tiia Ngandu, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Hilkka Soininen, Miia Kivipelto. Midlife Coffee and Tea Drinking and the Risk of Late-Life Dementia: A Population-based CAIDE Study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 16(1), xx-xx. Summarized at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0114200005.htm
revised 1/28/09, 2/1/09