the timboucher experience

Julia

They arrested him because he was about to sell Obama’s seat in the House of Representatives. He’s as dirty as they get. He’s been under investigation for a few years and everybody has been trying to figure out when he was going to get arrested. We’re surprised he made it through the last election (two years ago).

We’re used to corruption here in Chicago but he’s over the top. I read part of the indictment and he’s just a maniac. We both had lunch in the same restaurant once and I could hear bits and pieces of what he was saying. The quotes in the indictment soundes like his speaking style.

Every once in a while someone gets arrested because they’re a criminal. Our Federal Prosecuter, Patrick Fitzgerald, also successfully prosecuted our former Gov. George Ryan.

JK

Something doesn’t add up period with this yarn. I don’t know a lot about any of it. My friend in Chicago, in fact said “fuck him, he’s a crook”. But then I spy this but comparing Gov B to Gary Hart:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008489172_govbug10.html

And then coming from Obama’s “state” and the whole “Fitzmas scooter libby thing” and everything else. It reminds me of the Spitzer “scandal” and then the John Edwards seen in a Beverly Hills hotel with a mistress thing. Nothing adds up to nothing as far as I am concerned.

It all, seems to add up to some sort of psychological undermining on a grand scale of how jurisprudence, enlightenment rationality, democracy’ capitalism and even the popular conception of biological life itself works. I can’t put my finger on any of it. I’ve never subscribed to the conspiratorial hunch that all people of power are actually in control of less power than they think, because each and every one of them is a crook, a liar, a cheat, a womanizer, a rapist, a sexual deviant, a cold blooded murderer. But it seems like all too many succumb to this needless, knowable rapacious immorality. The head honchos of Chase Manhattan or AT&T to Yum Foods Brand etc, would never be up for such scrutiny. Which to me suspiciously suggests that some form of authority has it’s shit bottled up tight as it should be — as the leaders, tycoons and captains of industry they are. It’s the little brat gnat-like figures of progressive upstartism that gets the old skool in a tizz. The number one upstart brat-gnat I can think of is JFK.

Have any of you seen Evidence of Revision? I’ve seen the first 3 parts. (Out of like 6 or 7 parts, also apparently covering RFK and MLK)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=666048701355447870

Anyhow, that above video documentary, and with no narration whatsoever, seems to project JFK as he appeared in the raw, in the rough. When you watch him go, like a little wind-up Obama toy, only JFK seems real — you see and can totally understand why they hated the motherfucker. He was a smart, upstart, fairminded, egotistical, asshole, smartypants utopian technocratic peace believer. He was like Jon Stewart without the humor, technology and the invention of snarkiness. He literally thought he was good enough, clever enough and powerful enough to change the whole world. What an awesome and naive guy.

We only say “naive” because “they” killed him. We’d be saying something else if the bullet had bounced off his starfleet issued tritanium skull sheathing, causing him to handily snatch it out of the thick Dallas air and present it to his lovely wife as a second oath of his fidelity to her — all caught on film by one lucky fuckin’ zapruder. All exactly like a meth addicted, gay, homophobic preacher who plays the central casting’s role type thing gets to be the dude the new “Preznit(TM)” talks to every day and then nobody asks about that shit later after the same crazy moralist is caught doing something the hated/loved, liberal/conservative sinners wouldn’t even be caught doing.

I think there may be something about puppetry. All of the above courtesy of not getting how Gary Hart can be brought up in this case, but for instance Neil Bush and the S&L scandal cannot be brought up in this perfectly routine “Bailout Phase” of the omniscient Capitalist Eternal Plan.

Julia

Oh yeah. The threat to stop doing business with BofA was a shakedown attempt. I wish he was a reformer but he’s not.

JK

He’s Jesse Jackson Jr., his wife is an elected official, his father runs a respected community organization and was basically Pres. Clinton’s confessor and he himself is a very well liked and respected sitting senator.

This is why it doesn’t add up, I might add.

Oh yeah. The threat to stop doing business with BofA was a shakedown attempt. I wish he was a reformer but he’s not.

Which again, I say, it does not add up.

Everything is weird about this saga and I think it is meant to reverberate out in some other form of effect sometime down the road. This situation is not meant for “now”. It is meant for later. It is frontloading a future consensus response — as all things, planned or not wind up doing anyhow. I think it has to do with the Jesse Jackson Jr, Illinois, Chicago, Barack Obama, fantastical bailout, threatening depression, power, prestige and trust in banks and the “historic election” which overcame, at long last, all racial divides in this country angle.

It fully freaked me out, the nonstop camera footage of Jesse Jackson crying at the celebration of BO’s win. It also freaked me out when none of the old, jowly networky political people were tapped to “analyze” the election this time, but instead the networks went with old, random civil rights leaders who emotionally reacted to the “historic victory”. Nothing was historic about it. Except that it made history.

No “progress” was made with the election of BO and no crime has now been punished with Gov B having been arrested. Nothing will change other than the themes of the ongoing mindfuckery.

Julia

“I am curious to follow JK’s line of thinking though”

Ok, ok. But you’ll need the help of a Chicagoan with ties to the reality based community to crack the Obama code. You just happen to have a friend who fits that description.

One of the nails you guys hit in the head was the theatrical aspect. The drama surrounding Obama is much more grand and than people outside of Chicago realize. He some sort of a male archetype who is playing out a role on the world stage.

He’s sticky. He attracts people to crash and ruin themselves like some sort of pirate trap. He’s not an insider here and he never could be. When he gave that speach at the Democratic National Convention and attracted attention people here knew he was going places and hoped to tag along.

Rev. Wright was a father figure to him but became jealous and destroyed his reputation and their relationship. Father Pfleger did something similar and had to tuck his tail between his legs and hide until the election was over. Hillary Clinton is his subordinate now and her husband will have to turn over info on his activities since he left office. Jesse Jackson Sr. completely embarrassed himself and his son had to publically repremand him. Then, Jesse Jr. got his name smeared for trying to follow in Obama’s footsteps. Finally, Gov. Blagojevich. If it hadn’t been for the Obama connection this would’ve been a flash in a pan.

I really can’t get across to people outside of Chicago how impossible it is to do these things. This stuff just doesn’t happen here. He’s like the anti-Anakin Skywalker. He didn’t bring balance to the force, he upset the balance. Except for Jesse Jr. and the Gov. these people are professional fighters, street brawlers who got where they got by steping on the weak. I’m including the ministers in that description too. It just doesn’t happen that a soft outsider with no clout can push their buttons like this.

If you’re looking for magic this is where to start your search. Pure Shakespearean archetypal drama.

Read the second paragraph. If Studs Turkel said it then it’s true.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/article...161/studs-terkels-most-notable-quotes

Julia

Blush Blush! And all because of Gov. Blagojevich.

Julia

Don’t mix chicken wings and orange juice. It makes you can’t spell.