I meant to post Adam's Georgia Bulldog thread last night and I've got a compelling argument why ISBW should take South Carolina but....I was so busy and loaded down with work yesterday, obviously, that I was just too pooped when I got in last night. That's just how it is in The Delta.
Started in the lovely village of Satartia but spent most of the day in Rolling Fork...Home of this fella...
We'll get back to it...once I catch my breath.
I should take South Carolina and do what with it?
ReplyDeleteLove the fact there's a place called Rolling Fork. I can counter it a bit with the village in Suffolk we drove through on Sunday morning called Prickwillow.
Prickwillow...I don't know whether to laugh or blush.
ReplyDeleteBut do you have a Panther Burn...coolest place name ever...and that's about all it is these days..a place name.
You're gonna be the biggest South Carolina Gamecocks fan in Brighton after this fall.
Way off topic ... again; however, if you'll permit the deviation - but not deviancy of the delinquent kind - I was just kicking back watching the latest episode of Breaking Bad, when my mind wondered back to an email I had sent on a whimsy to a friend of mine for his amusement. The clip in question is of world-renown, prize-winning Professor Paul Krugman; also self-styled political liberal columnist on the NYT, interviewed on CNN, whereupon he appears to advocate a false-flag operation by the government to the effect that they would simulate an alien invasion in order to justify increased public spending - investment - in the manufacturing base; in this instance, those geared towards the military. Now, without going into the relative merits of his brand of economic theory and, accepting the fact he was making a humorous but serious point WRT fiscal policy - paralleling the monetary expansionism of the the US economy during WWII and the benefit that saw America become a world super power both economically and military, I recognised another chilling parallel from more recent history, but before I go further, the clip in question:
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My mind was cast back to the dot-com bubble circa 1995–2000, which triggered a "mild" world-wide recession. It also interesting to note that, at that time, there were also moves to increase military spending and, at the Fed, Greenspan cut and kept interest rates incredibly low. The latter, one could argued, is a direct causal antecedent to our present ongoing crisis as it was a trigger for, not just an investment bubble in real estate, but across almost all other asset classes. What, so-to-speak, triggered the trigger in was the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent "war on terror". Since you're already probably ahead of me, let me make it clear that I don't think that the government staged the 9/11 attacks for this purpose - to initiate economic recovery! Though I do think they - the attacks - were cynically exploited by some to enrich themselves - and some ideologues to expand their “political” capital - to a degree not seen since the rail-road tycoons. And while Krugman is making a valid argument in theory, no effort thus far has been made to punish those that recklessly exploited these beneficial conditions and reign in those poised to do the same with subsequent lack of regulation to prevent such opportunism in the future, Krugman's spend, spend, spend will herald an era more vastly ruinous, without the necessary reforms, than anything seen thus far. I do not equate "rich" with "bad"; however, it is noticeable that the group that seems to be doing even better in times of economic uncertainty, are those disproportionately small few controlling the vast proportion of wealth. For those interested, do a little digging and see where all “Quantitative Easing” - money conjured by the Fed out of literally nowhere in order to kick-start the “recovery” - went.
Having said that, doesn't Krugman's blank expression kind of remind you of this?
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Murky, if not "muddy" waters.
... but if the aliens did invade, we could send the best football players to the front line, thus giving the Vanders players the opportunity to clean up they so richly deserve.
ReplyDeleteMy parents live near a village called Wetwang who's former "mayor" - an honorific title as far as I can make out - was a popular game show host. Excellent Fish & Chip to be had there. Make of that what you will.
ReplyDeleteI think Paul Krugman is an alien scout preparing the way for a massive invasion. An invasion that, if I read it correctly today, will be triggered by global warming.
ReplyDeleteAnd if the Vanderbilt football teams is all that's standing between us and them....we are doomed.
Wetwang!...Man I'm just gonna leave that one alone.
Though....seeing how I haven't eaten in about 8 hours fish and chips sounds delicious.
Aliens are never off topic when The Delta is being discussed.
ReplyDeleteNat are you from the North?
ReplyDeleteYes, except for a period of two years at the back end of the 80s, when I had the tremendous fortune to live in a flat in Maida Vale, I've pretty much lived in various regions of the North.Speaking of which, today, I just put down a reserve deposit on my first house. It hasn't quite sunk in yet, but thanks to years of frugal living, I've saved enough to make my way in this very difficult market.
ReplyDeleteA down payment...what a quaint notion.
ReplyDeleteHard Work indeed...Congratulations.
Good to know...we seem to have a knack for attracting scruffy Northerners and Southerners that are of mixed or dubious heritage.
Just don't pee in the street....anymore. Just go behind my camper home that's up on blocks over there.
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One of these days we'll have to distill all the conversations that me and Adam have had about our two regions into a dissertation that will prove beyond argument that The South (U.S.) is The English North's (along with Ireland and Scotland) greatest achievement...a precious gift to sentience.
:)
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ReplyDeleteUp on the dresser/Got me a jar of change/Let's break it open and see what we got/Enough for a trailer and half acre lot..Hey Baby...
Southern Culture on the Skids...the outrageously straight younger sibling of the B52's. Raised by a blarring AM radio, a splash of bourbon in the bottle and a copy of McWhiney's Cracker Culture...irony isn't necessary for them, as it sometimes was for the B's, to embrace Southern Culture. There's a big sloppy drunk embrace that's probably gonna end with somebody in the emergency room and somebody in the maternity ward...maybe both.
They also put on the best show I've ever seen in my life..there's a lot goofin' around. There were pieces of fried chicken thrown around at one point...but they can flat get after it.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing ended with a rockibilly-surf-medley...I thought the building was going to blast off into orbit.
Speakin of peeing in the street, the fecking weather is doing it for me tonight. We arrive home from Geordie land to the Northwest to be met by the shittiest dark grey sky (I mean its dark when it ain't dark yet grey) and pissing it down like it only can in northern england, where the radio can't silence it. Welcome home eh?
ReplyDeleteBu the real reason for my visit... we did some work over the border once at a place in dumfreshire near cathruthers town, a small hamlet close by was called Twatthats ... does it get better than that? My late grandma lived in Cockermouth for years, famous more recently for its flooding and loosing mental gunmen on Cumbria, but I can't find that funny as I heard it before I can rememeber and I'm sorta numb to it.
thats all, see you next year!
In one of the boxes of all the notes and handouts worth keeping from school...I've got a cartoon from Punch that shows an Englishman who has completely lost it with trying to read about the Boer War in the papers because of the ridiculous place names in South Africa like Spion Kopp.
ReplyDelete"Why can't they have normal names like"...I don't remember exactly but it may very well have been Pickswillow, Wetwang and Twatthat.
We have that kind of rain here but, it comes in vicious bursts and then passes. I had to pull over Wed on my way home and in Jackson there were 80 mile and hour straight line winds that knocked over telephone polls...45 minutes later I'm in town and it's quiet and the clouds are almost gone.