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Monday, June 11, 2012

Too-Big-To-Fail KREMLIN Intolerantly Turns Up Heat On Eve Of PEACEFUL PROTEST

  With the new law, in place since Friday, increasing fines for unauthorized protest, Reuters and The New York Times report investigators stormed the homes (apartments), and confiscated possessions of at least ten prominent protestors including Aleksey NavalnySergei UdaltsovIlya Yashin and Kseniya Sobchak.
  Dissuading the public from attending Tuesday’s government reform protest seems to be the reason behind the intimidating searches, while requiring the searched to report for further questioning will keep them from personally attending Tuesday’s rally as well. It’s assumed though that the government’s escalating intolerance might have the presumably unintended effect of prompting even more citizens to attend the rally than expected. But also possible that violence associated with recent protests could be more easily blamed on a less organized crowd, though so far the repressive police seem at least as responsible for their own aggressive tactics that have fallen far short of responsibly acting as society’s referees.
  However holding President Putin completely responsible for a division of government performing strongly on his behalf will hardly change attitudes. Even in the world’s most tolerant societies complete acceptance of anti-establishment sentiment does not exist. But a return to the previous lip-service tolerance of protest would be a step forward that the president does owe the country for the confidence shown in him by his winning the recent election. A job that would seem to require encouraging the country to try to be polite with each other rather than focus on their differences coming between the people.
6/11/2012
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Too-Big-To-Fail Kremlin Intolerantly Turns Up Heat On Eve Of PEACEFUL PROTEST
6/11/2012 concluded: However holding President Putin completely responsible for a division of government performing strongly on his behalf will hardly change attitudes. Even in the world’s most tolerant societies complete acceptance of anti-establishment sentiment does not exist. But a return to the previous lip-service tolerance of protest would be a step forward that the president does owe the country for the confidence shown in him by his winning the recent election. A job that would seem to require encouraging the country to try to be polite with each other rather than focus on their differences coming between the people.

June 27 - July 18, 2016

  "Polite with each other rather than focus on their differences coming between the people." Vague and corny. If only the politics of fomenting discord were just vague and corny. Civilians might be as cozily copacetic as we're sold to be? 
  Politics.  
  Police are supposed to be referees. Acting on behalf of an objective aspiring court. The fact the art of Public Relations has made defiant forms of expression the enemy of happily going along with entrenched statehood in our own obsessively patriotic ways means money talks. Don't walk.
  So here we are, where the way in's the way out

American Penal Reform Is The Only Way To Get The Rest of the World To Give A Rat's A__.

  The fact is all over the world power defends itself against whomever and whatever conflicts with power's enjoyment. An independent judiciary is, hopefully, no threat to independence. But the list of people leveraged from influencing public debate by questionable authority is very, very long. And while it, of course, may appear I'm way off the soapbox's mark by not directing this essay towards Russia's stifling publicity speech. Still, the world over Public Relations influenced Public Opinion is practically copied from formats used authoritarian-ly in good-ole, tried-and-true, American resistance to being trued.
  Once again, sadly, we are experiencing more worst days in American History. Because people are shot every day. Of course hearing both sides, the militarization of the American Police is a miconstrued reality the police aren't responsible for. Though the motives that cause undue force all seem to revolve around defending morality immorally, when the very people trusted with access to the best defenses available regard resorting to lethal offense as a warranted defense. I have to read about how officers never expected of such atrocities, defend them because it's really team politics in this us vs. them creation, the Criminal Enterprise System. Right, people shouldn't be irresponsible. As bad as Hitler if, in honoring Anslinger's memory, the whole country's doomed
  Of late I've become addicted to watching the television Police Drama Blue Bloods, as opposed to my previously avoiding supporting the show's star Tom Selleck whose propped up status with Conservatives was accomplished by claiming to stand against Hollywood liberalism when actual people all feel this contrived dog-and-pony show is nonsense. Team Spirit people've fallen in behind, where now a presidential candidate announces that Newt Gingrich* will be a part of the future government as a standard of credibility. The grin so we bear it political hard-edgedness, basically, descends from history's evolution as organized leech. The Criminal Enterprise System is, like inflation, never beaten so they must be solved.
Best bet yet. 

  Opportunistically lining up at thoroughly stocked, Lake Opportunity? The New York Times published this linked conservative broadside, implying the country's not academically centrist enough because leftists dominate New England's universities. Imagine John Lennon singing The New York Times sees becoming The Wall Street Journal Lite as their economic salvation? Redundantly representing Americanism's same old narrowed possibilities. Rhyming with history. Great. Our minds are owned or don't exist forever more. Amen. Fabulous. 
  The dog and pony political show has led to half the country, still, carrying the siren-called tune, by, among others, scruple-less Roy Cohn. Mr. Cohn, who when it came to bringing down innocent people is an historical fact no matter what your slant

  Pedestals have been, pretty much, raised to successful reiterations of authoritarian Stalinism. Where shaded truth's really lying, and acceptable. Because power's all that matters, though what's right isn't wrong. And slapping the Constitution to the chest so the document's intent to change humanity's militarization isn't even read? The police shouldn't be victims. They're supposed to be referees. Where's the intent to End the Criminal Enterprise System
  So Blue Bloods timely(?) celebrates alcohol's responsible use as if it were the superior instinctual cultural tradition. A civilized ritual. But without facing society's stimulant ills nearly enough. The drug war was begun by opportunists on many levels of governments' ruling apparatuses. Hasn't this grudge-filled world's militarized enforcement done enough? Shared responsibility for corrupting enough souls? Babies aren't born to be criminals. The temptations themselves are of our devising and government should really do something about mellowing all this nonsense down. From the violent confusion to entrenched rhetoric. Until warped reasonings have grown to understand, one thing's for sure, no matter how polished the power point display. Humans created a monster. God/Allah is not responsible for our mistakes. Worship is appreciating the opportunity. And look how much humanity got pretending to be supreme?  
  So Blue Bloods is just television. Not a Barney Miller and especially no Mayberry, of course. But the show's in the lineage of expressing what police go through. Congress, you should look into that? Rather than becoming forced to see whether an idea can afford your expensive point-of-view. 
  So Blue Bloods is tuned into New York City Police Commissioner Bratton's doubting that the glorification of Harry Anslinger's legacy, extending the Criminal Enterprise System, was an, unnecessarily destructive, undermining of America's core. No. Morality's heads shake. Governors Scapegoat of New York and New Jersey maintain the stage where the world's capital's comically under siege to the immorality of morality's brutality born of a façade. Their three shaken heads blaming a drug culture that, with all its' faults, ethically grew from understanding the criminalization of America really is elicit exploitation. And power accomplishes what it can. Drink to that, Mr. Selleck? 
  Sorry. Condolences can't begin to express my regret bad things happen. 
  So. Blue Bloods is finely produced. But where are ideas for stimulating the laying down of the world's militarized societies? Right. It's not the guns. It's all the people. Where's ideas restructuring the public's badly misconstrued publicity face? Instead of answering the confusion, a form of authoritarianism has us skewered by the Criminal Enterprise System. Idiots excusing revenge. Wonder how many presidential candidates would at least understand both of those concepts?

  Dallas. ... . That the modern era's violence and revenge is an answer is on George W. Bush's shoulders and not just the delusional erratics people've even been preached into believing. Mr. Bush made a public statement about his and Laura's sympathies for the shooting victims in Dallas, when only the utterly fooled would perpetuate infinite martyrdom. A smirk, grin and straight tie, plus platitudes, are impersonations of shame? A lot more needs renovation than the Military Industrial Complexes. Who'll afford the logarithm? Because our world's beyond compromise compromising us? Settled in ruled so completely, obedience is reverent awe? 
  From Dallas, tragedy's visibly seeded into martyrdom's fabric. Now. Which religion teaches against that? Or have all been so distorted, and disgraced, that it's no wonder God/Allah's above us all. I'm not particularly fond of the contrived violence here either. 

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  His life is depicted in the play, Turn Me Loose Starring Joe Morton at the Westside Theater through July 17 Theater Talk The New York Times Review by Charles IsherwoodThe Root Joe Morton and Dick Gregory talk. ReviewsEBONYTODAY SHOWThe State of the Black Union 2008Dick Gregory Breaks Entertainment Color BarrierDick Gregory Live @ The Village Gate 1970 "That really frightens me as much time as I spend in jail?" The Light Side The Dark Side, Dick Gregory's last show, James Baldwin and Dick Gregory, Dick Gregory Speaks OutToo Few Know "sanctioned by the people in control" & how Honky came to be is explained. WISDOM - "Killing is wrong by the state." 
  February 1980 I shook Dick Gregory's hand thanks to Reverend Ralph Abernathy's shaking mine the year before after Reverend Abernathy spoke @ the University of Central Florida's Black History Month. After my former PE instructor, and 7th grade basketball Coach Oscar Willis, who was then Vice-Principal of Orlando's Jones High School, must have made some remark to Reverend Abernathy after his speech because I'd overheard their talking, when Reverend Abernathy arrived, and that they'd worked together in St. Augustine back in the day
  Leaving Reverend Abernathy walked into my aisle to address overly shy me. If only all the world's contests were decided by who's the nicer person? 
  So. There I was, year later, in the Engineering Building's large auditorium. Where I sat in the middle that must often feel like the podium's aimed right at you. Because I can't recall ever situating myself in that particular type of seat again. Anyway. I remember wondering why Mr. Gregory's speech wasn't funnier. Or maybe it's just the seriousness overwhelms memory? 
  Anyway. Mr. Gregory indicts the next generation for amusing themselves with drugs and not putting their shoulders to the grindstone to fulfill humanity's better destiny. While above-the-sinner self-righteousness is still a problem too. But Mr. Gregory does never lose focus on humanity's need to grow up. Not his fault good pot couldn't circulate in the ghetto. Spawning the more disastrous chemical results of the drug culture. 
  So. Shyer than even now. I'd made the commitment to shaking the writer of those books' hand. The hall's clearing and I'm just more nervous. Standing at my seat, watching Mr. Gregory sitting on a chair arm facing the young black man facing him. Finally I walked to the end of my aisle, shaking inside. Then over behind where he sat. And after my standing there, up to a good 30 seconds, he gave that sideways glance that meant: what the heck do you want. The next beat I grabbed his hand, he didn't offer, and shook it and at no time have I ever shook a hand as limp and said, "thank you very much" and left. One supposes with Mr. Gregory's thinking I didn't show much capability to do anything. (Took some time.) Some people have sacrificed so much for the world, that the people, left here now, have no business thinking they'll ever sacrifice as much. As Mr. Gregory might say, we're still just an across-the-board spoiled generation. 
Joe Morton as Dick Gregory
The Long Grudge
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson

  Tougher solves the terrorist crisis when its' exacerbation was the cause? The innocent dying is on everyone's shoulders. Moral enforcement is not a plan. From Charlie Rose's coverage of militaristic progress to the delusional giddiness of moral superiority that's just rationalization for Allah/God's gift of independence squandered on human greed. While a burnt Bush sleeps undisturbed. Shame. There's so much that should have to be faced.

  Politicians. 
  Well. Yes. I know. Academics call on the nation to see the underpinnings of power all the time. But still the result of a framework of alliances where this side is this and that is that and everything's overlooked to patriotically hang behind bs art... .
Sarcastically Acceptable = Car (mobile throne) Apologists

* Two decades ago, on television I sat through the entire Newt Gingrich American History course, just to know, and felt as lectured at as having given Sean Hannity 3 hours a day, five days a week, for a year, five years later. And in case anyone's miraculously wondering, yes, I've been criticized for not writing liberal enough. Because unless jargon's recited, you're no team player, and hence can't fulfill the real purposes of a team. Hence2soapbox. I could deride President Obama's legacy for having "saved the automotive industry" and remaining as indecisive about a transportation system as his excuse spewing, White House, laurel-sitting, forebears. Or, if you'd prefer I could spew about how Bill Clinton sycophantically coat-tailed the criminalization of more of America for contrived political purposes. Proving Jesus' hopeful quotation, for us, from the cross. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." 
NOTICE HOW TOO-BIG-TO-FAIL APPLIES TO THE REASON WE'RE RULED INDEPENDENT
Time To End Criminalized America

Friday, December 13, 2013

Here's To The Ukraine In All of Us


Leveraging nations is a big affair and, of course, why so many Ukrainians filled Independence Square protesting probable closer economic ties with Russia than to Europe. There's no solution other than preferring Ukraine ALREADY HAD DEALS with Russia and Europe as part of healthy economic circulation. A real shift from the actual conundrum this international situation highlights? That territorial competition is exactly why wars and skirmishes were always fought and however costumed we're on the same path centuries of experience explain is just a Dead End. But nothing a good suit can't camouflage? Because past the veneer Stalin was a dapper dresser for his era too.

Sadly the political sin of violently curbing peaceful protest occurred in Kiev, UkraineA bad reflex for rulers possibly lamenting their power isn't outright authoritarian fear. Because as thoroughly mixed-up as he was on a personal level, authoritarianism was very good for Joseph Dzhugashvili, uniformed left above. Yesteryear reality? When today's politics aren't competition, just raw wielded Power. It's a bitch, huh?

A breakdown in civility happened in Kiev, November 30th according to Ukraine Leader Calls for Talks With Protesters by David Herzenhorn in The New York TimesThen contradicting the notion of Peace Officer, violence again in December 11th's Ukraine Forces Retreat, Ceding Square to Protest (NYTby D. H. and Andrew E. Kramer. Co-packaged, first-page with In Ukraine's East, a Message for Protestors: Stop (NYT) by Andrew Roth from Donetsk, Ukraine. Explaining people with work are content and the belief politics is futile is still around. Dissatisfaction and contentment everywhere so no need for violence. No? Friday, December 13, Ukranian President Yanukovich Meets With Opposition Leaders and gives his word, "no more violence." The New York Times

So? This is business. If you don't use power you lose it. So Europe had a deal with Ukraine that left President Putin's Russia out of the equation? It's asking for interference while trying to steamroll through. On its' face, as I'm not privy, it seems a strategic ignoring of an important detail when spheres of influence are no joke. 

What I don't understand is why citizens have to be accosted over what, in the end, bottom line, are business decisions? Can't get past the extent of corruption? We're living with now. Our entire ways of life are constructed around how the law is bent and power used ruthlessly. Period. Or am I missing something? Ukrainian Political Opposition arrested? Arrested? What has that to do with anything? Unless politicians flap their gums nothing's going on. People need to be a little more cool. Everyone? President Putin's Attitude For Everybody!
Because Independence Square should mean money for everyone.
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All Obituary Is Lament

February 2, 1946 – December 12, 2013
Jang Song-taek, pictured far left, a leading figure in the government of North Korea was executed yesterday. A month-and-a-half before his sixty-eighth birthday. Officially labelled a drug-user, the great scapegoat crutch of the elite behind alcohol. But what sticks in my craw is I was a bandwagon-jumper writing laudatory appraisals on the bright side of Kim Jong-un's rule. 

Soapbox View was wrong? No this execution demonstrates real power is public appearances and basically no one interferes with authoritarian auto-pilot. 

Funny what I'd expected to satirize, The New York Times headlined Execution Raises Doubts About Kim’s Grip on North Korea by Choe Sang-Hun. In American slang, a real soap opera.

When even revenge against officials responsible for North Korea's prisonish existence shouldn't be executed. Hello?

So. What the political purging ahead means is a busy elite translates as self-serving and lazy. Lazy because in most countries fired Party faithful receive severance pay. A Command Economy is an illusion. Communism doesn't exist without capitalism and anything less is pretend. I just don't believe Jang Song-taek's plan was to tarnish the family legacy further with a coup. Well one witness down and ruthlessness continues as a rule? ...
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Plus for good measure, Paranoia anyone? Or The New York Times, Russia vs. Europe by Bill Keller, December 15th.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Sadly Russia’s Political Trajectory Emulates Entire World’s Exclusionary Elitism

  Headlined Prosecutors Charge Protest Movement Leader The New York Times reporter ELLEN BARRY, with contributed reporting from Moscow by Anna Tikhomirova, wrote today Russian prosecutors charged the blogger and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny with embezzlement. A statute that carries a sentence of five to ten years in prison, and is, as The Times states, the Kremlin’s most direct measure to date against a leader of the protest movement that publicly erupted in Moscow in December. The State Investigative Committee accused Mr. Navalny of organizing a scheme to steal timber from a state-owned company, called KirovLes, when he was acting as an unpaid adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, resulting in losses of just under $500,000 to the regional budget. Mr. Navalny was released on his own recognizance but signed a promise to not leave Moscow while charges are pending. The Times reiterated this charge marks a threshold for President Vladimir V. Putin, who for 12 years as paramount leader has refrained from criminal prosecutions of activist leaders, sidelining them with softer methods such as short-term detentions and limited access to television. But the charges on Tuesday suggest the Kremlin is eager to limit Mr. Navalny’s impact now, outweighing the risk of a political backlash. As Mr. Navalny emerged from Tuesday’s hearing, he called the charges “absurd and very strange.” Comparing the accusations to the case against Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the oil magnate and Putin rival who has been in prison since 2003 on tax evasion charges. Mr. Navalny said, “All these jokes that Khodorkovsky stole all the oil and Navalny stole all the timber, basically reflects what has happened today. As far as I can tell, the single idea behind this is that people watching the news on the first channel can hear on the news that Navalny stole 16 million rubles.” The KirovLes deal, which dates to 2009, was the basis of a previous criminal charge against Mr. Navalny, which was closed earlier this year by investigators in the Volga region. Mr. Navalny received documents informing him that he was no longer under suspicion and his legal expenses would be reimbursed. But a statement Tuesday from the investigative committee, the main federal investigative authority, said the embezzlement case was opened after the files from the earlier case were transferred to Moscow, and augmented by “financial analysis and investigative materials, which confirm Mr. Navalny’s participation in the execution of a crime.” Mr. Navalny said he believed the case had been revived in the wake of an unexpectedly large demonstration on May 6, on the eve of Mr. Putin’s inauguration, culminating in clashes between riot police and members of the crowd. Last week, he accused Russia’s chief federal investigator, Aleksandr I. Bastrykin, of secretly owning real estate and other investments in Europe. Whereas in the United States you can openly head a free enterprise participant in the military industrial complex before becoming the nation’s vice-president involved in propagating a war that financially benefits that firm, thereby producing rewarding returns on their investment in a prime mover and manipulative shaker who, according to his resume, may have never labored an actual day in his life. The Times says Mr. Navalny said the Kremlin was calculating that the protest movement was weakening and testing the waters with a series of actions against participants in the May 6 march. The 16th such indictment took place on Friday when investigators identified a university student who they said had wrestled other protesters from the hands of security forces and resisted the police. And the fact is Russia’s security services are strong and large enough to one step at a time shut down the country’s protests that would then leave the population cowering before the nation-state. Mr. Navalny said, “They are doing it to watch the reaction of the protest movement and of Western public opinion. So far they consider both of these things acceptable and so they are continuing along this line.” Uh huh.
7/31/2012
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Sadly Russia's Political Trajectory Emulates Entire World's Exclusionary Elitism

7/31/2012 concluded: Uh huh.
August 1 - 31, 2018
Idolized Elitism
Power Corrupting Absolutely Isn't A Maybe?
    Go ahead, try walking. Nothing's like, or compares to, thinking things through. A sidewalk or park, perhaps pacing in the open air. Nonetheless, we're all, usually, in such a hurry hurrying, compiling shortcuts sweep up that extra time contemplation requires. Reflection then is, theoretically, victimized by the vitriolic sniping catchphrases maintaining preeminent political positions. Verbatum's an ideology of concern? "The" political diorama's "rest of the story" even Paul Harvey didn't afford. Just one huge ferris wheel, joy ride's been carved from political views. The Debate Show's "talking about" claim when there's no real way of knowing what's happening "behind the scenes." Pass the grains of salt, please?
A NOTE ON RAMBLING MAN
  Feeding on controversy is hard to fathom as something not acutely victimizing our time. But history's an ongoing reflection on the ramifications of what's been gotten away with in the past. Why would the present be any different?
  So on the subject of exploited patriotism? I can't condone the American flag's use as a chip on the shoulder. Since insensitive hypocrisy's trending, Colin Kaepernick kneels here as well - 
 

The Trouble With Saints
Idolatry
  Finding additional information on this rabbit hole proves dauntingly past this essay's time frame. And to avoid endless repetition, the satire, The Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service provides more perspective. 
  Linked below are aspects of the various views of the Alger Hiss case. But as revealing as the documentation may be, the rounded out "story" still seems too surface and cursory. Why couldn't Time Magazine reveal more about how Mr. Chambers was even at the magazine, considering his known past even before his spy revelations. Partly Corporate privileged secrecy? But just a piece of small non-forthcoming suspicious doubt that there wasn't somewhat of a strategized game going on? Two wrongs don't make a right. Why there's the film of my reading from the novel next to the shortstop Roy Cohn's Townhouse. Right. More to the story than political professionals want the public admitting. Past the lights bells and whistles where understanding drives the culture forward, instead of tugging us, often enough, just for lucrative pay.   
  Another Wittaker Chambers investigation. From every angle, for the discerner, outright fraud is hard to concede. Especially when the benefit of the doubt's, so adroitly, maneuvered by publicity machines. Contemplating where's next's a cul-de-sac, due to such a strangling pedestal devotion, detached from their "hooks in you" in unquestioning staunch disbelief. Where next, would reason out history's histrionics, indeed.
  Fate wrestles with nothing but the present's, either too soon or late, fleeting moments.
  Not for nothing? Heard Robert Redford's retirement from acting announcement on news radio, just as I'd heard the publicist say, in the mid 1990s, he'd like to play Armand Hammer if he saw the right script. If only there'd been another title more easily absorbed by the consumer culture? Then maybe Mr. Redford would have noticed even the hour sample, above. But the satire happens to have rose to the title's use, in all sincerity, for everyone's understood benefit. As disappointing as your retirement is, it was nice having your commercial rainbow along for the ride. Happy retirement. 
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LEGOLAND PROTEST
PUBLIC COMMENT
August 16, 2018
Goshen, New York 
Chorus
  Yes, no Press Release of denial necessary. None whatsoever, from the Mobile Throne Class? Some millennium that. Idolized destruction is human history? "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light?" 
  The Greenhouse Effect's mean twin, could be described of John H. Sununu as expressed by The New York Times Magazine's 

Losing Earth: 

The Decade We Almost 

Stopped Climate Change

By Nathaniel Rich

Photographs and Videos by George Steinmetz

  About how avoidance was the easy way out that evolved. We've known what's wrong and how to fix it for a very long time in human years. The article traces the progression in understanding and dealing with abusing the planet, and how everything reaches a head when White House Chief of Staff, Governor Sununu carries the football against energy use progress that was as huge in its time as the current loggerhead constructed from exploiting the power of myth by an American Presidency. Again, as Mr. Rich's article eloquently alludes
  Often issues are industries that preclude their solutions. No end of martyrs for that fate. There being so much more money in arguing the point, than drawing resolution near. 
  Fake. Bamboozled. The public sphere's confusion's adamantly clear.
  Sununu himself gives the magazine's present day, paraphrased, parting shot that the politics haven't changed. A______s. The atmosphere's a chemical experiment?
Fun Links For Those Convinced Not To Read Too
     There you go. The idea that we're even able to be totally truthful with ourselves has been turned on our heads. In all this gung-ho modern euphoric religion-based political drive there's been a real alienation from what the Holy Bible reveals and what's been vainly adapted for manipulative use. And now, supposedly, there's been an alliance formed with one who'd adapt anything to personality abuse. His vocabulary toward his public voice enemies descends,  probably, from charlatans long ago in our past? God knows Roy Cohn wasn't an original leech. And that that man could come to symbolize an acceptable amount of earnestness in defense of American liberty is a travesty
  In the headlong belief in reinforcing the enforcement of morality, which is only God's right to judge, we've come undone by the most desperate of villains. The Political Chameleon. The only thing independent about our president are the twittered whimsies lashed out daily to shatter relevance's relationship with irrelevance. Telling the people to agree with his telling himself he's done and doing a good job. Bad examples shouldn't rule - 
The Soapbox View pursues the Twin Legacies