Jots & Tittles N Ur Face

From Lake Flaccid, New York, Comes Barabas Munn-Dayne, the Jots & Tittles Man
I keep telling the editing horse to let it stay "Jots and Titties." Surely we'd get more hits if we keyworded "titties." Might educate the masturbators or even the perverts--titty perverts--aren't they just frustrated mamma's boys? I knew an Adirondack wildwoodsman up in Lake Flaccid, actually he tramped around over toward Keene Valley, who told me once while we were trout fishing up Randall's Brook, a large waterfally brook with occasional pools just packed with brook trout, that he'd been on his mother's breast until he was six! He further confessed how he loved looking at women's breasts, too. Around the campfire a night later, he brought out his collection of girly mags and showed me how he was more interested in scanning all the different women's different types of breasts in these magazines. One mag I recalled was Big Bazooms, another, if I remember correctly, was Big D Mamas. He cared nothing for what was between those naked ladies's legs--though he did confess to me that he loved noticing a lady's exposed vagina double-especially when these double D "cuties" (that was a popular designation for most of the young ladies in WW's mag collection) with the large lovable knockers were shown bent over with those lovelies swinging-hanging down so magnificently. He then showed me a couple of his extra-favorite babes that made me see his point--I mean, come on, I'm still a roving-eyed old bachelor who except for a strong willpower could easily wander off down a path of dirty old men, but, no, now I'm at an age where I've tasted most of the fruits of the forbidden garden and then I found my wife and I remained faithful to her (in society, not in my lusting mind, a la what happened to Jimmy Carter when he accidentally let fall one of those Playboy centerfolds one afternoon in the White House--what man doesn't "accidentally" lust after any good-looking woman he casts his hungry eyes on and his sexual appetite tells him he desires?--still, like I said, I was faithful to my wife during the entirety of our marriage of 23 years. My wife was found dead on the Appalachian Trail about 8 years ago now--the bears had eaten most of her when the forest rangers found her--in fact, now that I think of it, old WW was really the one who found her. Damn, coincidence. Or was it? I'll admit, I've had some "wonders" in the back of my mind." On that trout-fishing expedition I asked him just out of nowhere if he had ever seen my wife--the woman he found on the Appalachian Trail, and he said, he knew who my wife was but no, half-eaten was the only way he remembered her--but that's why he'd never married. He didn't know how to protect women; therefore, he preferred being alone with his own backwoods private fantasies. He was sort of married to his collection of girly magazines, I jested to myself--them and his right hand I continued with glee. We caught 25 trout those two days on that rushing brook that empties into Lake Flaccid, or "the lake that limps," as the Native Americans called it, though a local poet, Sir Herman Grace (he wasn't nobility of any kind, we called him "Sir" because that was one of his favorite corrections when a young kid spoke to him--"You call me Sir, young man, I'm your elder," so we called him Sir Herman. He contributed the name Flaccid to the The Lake That Limps back in 1934 in a poem about the lake in which he penned this line: "the flaccid waters of this shrinking lake"--based on that line in that poem, folks around here officially named The Lake That Limps, Lake Flaccid. History's my bent; though I was a Sociology major at New York University. Enough about me, let's jot and tittle:

--Israel's vicious attack on Gaza City night before last and then Israel's missiling the UN school yesterday (30 they now say were killed) has left the death toll in Palestine officially at over 550 (650 the Palestinians say)--125 were killed night before last when the Israeli Army ground forces invaded Palestine--those poor deserted ostracized human beings had no where to hide from DEATH, so they ran to the UN school and hid there from the overpowering Israeli (American-paid-for) Army--the Israelis being as ruthless as the law allows, which is the US law since Israel's Army is a branch of the U.S. Army, blew the hell out of that school killing 40 civilians. I've been reading thegrowlingwolf and his explanation of the Power Elite and how it rules any way it pleases all around the world and how that Power Elite really loves war and strives on war and depends on war for a whole lot of its wealth and it depends on continuing wars for the extension of its vast wealth--the only solution the Power Elite has in its Capitalist skull is more and more profits, more and more Capital gains, more and more capturing more and more of everything--profits are essential however gotten--we are ruled by this comparatively small band of White Men--and this includes the Power Elites of Africa who are the White owners of Africa's wealth--like the DeBeers in South Africa all the way over and under to the Power Elite of Indonesia--controlling through their oligarchies and Plutocratic clubs and foundations and think tanks but mainly controlling through their accumulation of as much of the world's wealth as they can get their hands on--especially the world's natural resources--the world's oil, gas, water--yes, even the world's water--these self-rewarding, self-centered, self-empowering men want to own all the water--what next, the air?--bottled air--tanks of air when the real air gets unbreathable? Ironically, four Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza City night before last, too--but by friendly fire--that's right--the Israeli Army loses soldiers to its own kid-activated calculations and as a result of an artillery OOPS drops missiles on its own advanced troops--same as the US Army has killed its own troops in nearly all of its wars since it became a big-time nation with a big-time military. So Israel continues to follow the backwards logic of the Bush Family War Machine with search and destroy tactics--the original word used in Viet Nam for the same thing the "surge" tactics Bush is so proud of using, as he says, to win the War on the Terrorists of Iraq--he wiped out Al Queda from Iraq--"Mission Accomplished" once again.

--Barack Obama has shown once again he may be a follower of backwards logic this time by appointing to his cabinet and advisory staff several war criminals (just yesterday, Admiral Blair, who Obama just appointed to be head of National Security--an appointment that was a mulekick to the true-believer heads of progressives and his own people--Admiral Blair was in Indonesia during the Slick Willie years where he backslappingly encouraged the Indonesian Army to commit genocide in East Timor), numbskulls (like appointing Leon Panetta to be head of the CIA--whoooey, that was an ax-handle blow to progressives--Leon Panetta, Clinton's former Chief of Staff--Whooey, another Clintonista comes back to his Power-Elite slot in the Good Ole Boyz Club of the Democratic Party (again, just as thegrowlingwolf has been writing in his recent worship of Brother Mills's Power Elite theory of rule, whether ancient or contemporary, and the ruling families continue to gobble up wealth mostly as a result of the Power Elite's breeding among themselves and as a result of passed-down wealth through inheritance, estates, and foundations)), party hacks (Obama just appointed a Southern governor to head the Democratic Party, after yee-hawing Dr. Howard Dean steps down; why not Russ Feingold to head the Democratic Party? or Dennis Kucinich? Stupid questions to the Power Elite), and Clintonistas (Bill Richardson as Commerce Sec'y--that appointment has backfired on Obama). He did appoint some goodies, too, lest I be thought of as an Obama-slammer (I actually hope this guy is the smartest man to ever be president--he's calculating a unity that a white president would never ever consider)--Barack Obama appointed two women to the Justice Dept. who are said to be top lawyer types (Johnson and Kagen) and both are progressives--one has already said she would reverse the torturing policies set in place by Unka Dick Cheney. We shall see.

--the 700-million-dollar 140-acre American Embassy in Iraq has opened--this is the castle-like fort that has fast-food as well as 5-star restaurants, private schools, a Mercedes car dealership, an Olympic-size swimming pool, surely a golf course--a spa-like palace of a huge palatial American Mall as a fortress. Remember when we made fun of Saddam "Satan" Hussein's gaudy palaces?

--did you ever ask yourself why the US Army needs bases in 100 countries around the world? Shouldn't the US Army be in this country? Isn't the reason for an army in any country to protect the borders of that country from outside attack, a job at which our military failed totally when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in '41 as well as when the Saudi-Arabians and one Jordanian captured American airlines gas-tank-full jumbo jets using only their drunken, pilled up balls, and a bunch of rusty boxcutters (and remember, Clinton's rights-evaporating Patriot Act had already had us having to give two pieces of picture ID at airports and passing through metal detectors--how did 14 Saudi dudes go through those metal detectors carrying metal box cutters?), and brought down the World Trade Center in New York City--I mean, how all our national defense was overseas--still fighting wars like wars were fought in Imperial Europe times--pouring more and more troops into countries you wish to conquer and capture spoils and slaves from.

--have you heard about the dimming of the sun? A climatologist named Jerry Stanhill noticed while studying how to set up irrigations systems in Israel, that according to his calculations, there was a loss of sunlight over Israel during the several years he studied the situation. He published his findings in the '90s. His premise was that while studying sunlight in Israel he discovered a 22% drop in solar energy from the 1950s to the 1990s. He extended that localized study out to other sections of the world and his conclusion to his article he offered his phenomenon as "a decline in sunlight all over the world," which he gave categorization to calling his theory the Global Dimming theory--sunlight is dimming due to an encroaching on our atmosphere of toxic gases, toxic raindrops, sulpher clouds, smokestack emissions that act like giant mirrors--they do not allow the Sun's light to get to the earth's surface! It's being reflected back into outerspace by this atmospheric gaseous mirror--the Sun's energy is being reflected back into the Sun's own face. Here, from realclimate, is an article by Beate Liepert, a Berlin climatologist who wrote some early studies on pan evaporation and global dimming, followed by some interesting questions by commenters.

www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=110

--Pres. Bush called a ceasefire in the Israeli invasion of Palestine a "noble ambition," but said there was nothing noble about Hamas, that pack of demons, sailing its tin can missiles at the innocent people of Israel, a nation We the People of the USA through our political mouthpieces--those who control our money--are prepared to put an end to mankind if that's what it takes to make sure Israel survives as the God-given-rights occupiers of what was formerly Palestinian territory.

--Did you know there are approximately 200,000 homeless US Army veterans living in our streets? 17,000, they say, down in New York City.

--Is Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer in which he used real gold and silver and other precious metals the world's most expensive painting? $300,000,000 bucks paid to the Bloch-Bauer family due to it being confiscated by the Nazis when they took over Mr. Bloch-Bauer's mansion in Vienna and his house in Czechoslovakia and it's being discovered finally and through a Supreme Court decision it was returned to the Bloch-Bauer family who gleaned 300 millions bucks off its sale.

From the New York Times:
"The gold painting was originally commissioned by Mr. Bloch-Bauer, an avid art collector, for his Vienna palace. Klimt spent three painstaking years on the canvas, making hundreds of sketches for his sensual vision of Adele, her pale face at the center, her hands twisted near her face in a vulnerable gesture. (A film accompanying the exhibition reveals that Adele often twisted her hands because one finger was deformed.) Most of the canvas is covered in undulating sections of gold paint: in geometric squares and circles, Egyptian-influenced eyes and, if one looks carefully, A's and B's in gold relief."
Sharon Waxman, The New York Times


I read an article saying the Klimt painting sold to the Neue Museum, a German-Austrian Museum in New York City dedicated to German and Austrian art and crafts before the Nazi era, for 103 million and change, at that time the record, but then a Jackson Pollack sold for 130 million thus toppling the Klimt's old record--however, the appraisal of this Klimt painting, I recently heard on a New York City local teevee program, was 300 million dollars, which would make it the world's most expensive piece of art.

--200 cubic kilometers of ice has melted off the Greenland Ice Sheet. If it continues to melt at this current rate, it should begin to affect sea levels around the world within the next decade. Worst-case scenario: if the seas rise 25 feet, that would be enough to put NYC and Wash. D.C. totally under water--why, it would put the whole state of Florida under water, too.

--companies I've never heard of before recently: how about the Jared Galleria of Jewelry? They advertised heavily in the NYC area all during the X-mas holidays.

--Charles Ives wrote: "Why try to trace any stream that flows through the garden of consciousness to its source only to be confronted by another problem of tracing this source to its source." From Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives.

--a poem called "Who Am I?"

I want to go
but
a wall ascends
I want to rise
but
the moon won't set

Hey, there's not much to do up here living in a log cabin on the shores of Lake Flaccid up in Upstate New York--there's really nothing much to do anywhere in Upstate New York--I jest of course.

barabasmunn-daynethejots&tittlesman
for The Daily Growler

Addendum: from languagehat (L Hat), via wood s lot:

http://inspectorlohmann.blogspot.com/2009/01/vorocracy-final-historys-most-lethal.html