Tsk, tsk. I must have missed your spelling of the last name of Bill Maher, spelled Marr, on another post, since it was not spelled that way for this article. So the teaching certificate, which doesn’t exist, is in no danger. I do appreciate the fact you referred to me as Professor, I am not one. However, in the teachings of my Native Indian heritage, the wolf is known as a teacher.

As for your reference: by my own admission....
I have never done drugs, illegal ones anyway. The only drugs I have used, when I remember to take them, are what my doctors have prescribed. Sorry, you loose again. I have witnessed what illegal drugs do to many and choose not to follow in the same destructive pathway as they do. I owe myself better.

My post to you was purely for humor. Winter has lasted much to long and this helps pass the time until better weather finally arrives for longer than 30 minutes a day. Also, I consider Cyrena a good friend, it’s nice to know there are others who post on TD who feel this way also.

MENSA MEMBER, YOUR NAME UNVEILS YOU.

The correct spelling is Maher, not Mahr. Also Bill Maher is younger than Cyrena, as well as myself. Both of us, as well as Bill were much to young to have induldged in the drugs used in the 50’s. So your title, much like the ones G.W.Bush claims he has earned, exists in your mind only.

• “…To hide their lack of any actual ideas about what to do, managers sometimes make a big show of rearranging the boxes and lines that say who reports to whom.”.. “You now understand the principle behind the Bush administration’s new proposal for financial reform….”

HA! Now there’s a bit of irony for you. Or maybe we should call it an ‘understatement.” Doesn’t EVERYBODY know by now, that this ‘rearrangement’ of ‘who reports to whom’ has been the Dick Bush doctrine-principle since the beginning?

And no, it’s NOT to hide any lack of actual ‘ideas’, since they had plenty of them. It’s to HIDE those ideas, which just happen to be the creation of a fascist/totalitarian/authoritarian regime/ tyrannical dictatorship.

And, this is DAMN sure one of the ways to hide one’s real fascist intentions. They create a shadow government behind the pretend one, and it involves setting up a whole new set of ‘who reports to whoms’ but of course we the people only see the puppet one. (AKA george bush)

I think Stanley Kutler’s piece on “The Decriminalization of Corporate Crime” encompasses this really well. Worked for Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, and Peru’s U.S. puppet Fujimori.

And what ‘next’ economic/financial crises are they talking about, when they’ve acknowledged that THIS one hasn’t been “averted”, and won’t be diminished? What ‘next’? It’s just one long continuing fall until we crash or run the fascists/gangsters out, which ever comes first.

Speaking of which, just for the sake of whatever, (maybe putting some real figures behind the housing crisis) I checked on line earlier for foreclosures in my old neighborhood in corporate slave state of TX. (checked some nearby zip codes as well).

I was shocked and awed. Seriously…I expected some negative numbers, but even I was overwhelming by the HUGE number of foreclosures in what were previously known as middle to upper-middle class neighborhoods. I’m talking HUNDREDS. Gave me quite a shock. Put some ‘reality’ to the whole thing.