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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

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I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

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I Am America (and So Can You!)
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Adventure Divas
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The New Golden Age:
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by Ravi Batra

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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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What I am saying is that there are orbits of events that are separate and operate independently of each other.

Maybe many of us wish there were more interdependence, more cause and effect relationship, but if we are to maintain a "reality based" view, there is not.

For example, victims of US military aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan are neither motivated nor affected by the ticking domestic time bomb in the US.

Their orbit of pragmatism does not really depend on or have anything to do with whether that single mom in Anytown, USA can afford housing or the fact that the lady next to her under the overpass used to work for Delphi.

And the folks in philinmaine's diary down in Mississippi sleeping on dirt floors and paying 20 cents more a bag for potato chips than the white folks have their own orbit of pragmatism, which is independent from the women smuggling out desperate notes from the Ghraib.

And neither of those orbits have anything to do with the business of US politicians and their devotees, in pragmatic terms.

Now all those orbits are affected by US business interests. In fact, US business interests own all three of those independent orbits, and changing that will take some very unpretty lifeboat-storming and Patriot Act violations, all of which will occur.

The course of human events, if you read history, is a tapestry of predictable pragmatism.

one man's conspiracy is another man's business plan
Blog updated as needed

by DuctapeFatwa (DuctapeFatwa@yahoo.com) on Thu Oct 13th, 2005 at 08:33:02 AM EST
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