FRENCH REVOLUTION
In a fa****onable faubourg,
a fastidious patrician of inestimable skill in equitation
sits at a desk with flared cabriole legs,
with scrolled acanthus mounts of ormolu,
covered in Boulle marquetry
With arched eyebrow and perspicacious mind
the man pauses and ponders, quill in hand,
while composing an epistle,
using many an arcane, polysyllabic, obscure synonym
to lucubrate over constitutional rights,
expounding in his nugatory rodomontade
His equerry finds him slumped at his escritoire,
with a poniard protruding in his back, penetrating the integument,
impressively rending the pudenda of the pedant,
as if parting the buttery sea with a scalpel
Where in this gallimaufry of mad, pseudo-poetical logorrhoea,
multiplying its longueurs, growing as if by process of orogeny,
can be found clues to reveal the uncouth ruffian,
the sans-culotte in pantalons and carmagnole
who has charged forth thusly, with tri-colored oriflamme?
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11. The French Revolution
.... to present their grievances in writing, through the famous
"cahiers de plaintes ... a fact hardly mentioned by writers
anxious to ****tray the Paris "mob" .
www.newyouth.com/archives/historicalanalysis/frenc...
The basic cell of the Revolution, especially in Paris but also
in the provinces, was the club and the secret society. It is
impossible to understate the im****tance of organisations like
the revolutionary clubs, whose model was the Jacobin Club ("The
Society of the Friends of the Constitution") in Paris. Here the
m***** came to debate the burning issues of the day
The question of violence
The enemies of revolution always try to tarnish its image with
the accusation of violence and bloodshed. As a matter of fact
the violence of the m***** is inevitably a reaction against the
violence of the old ruling class. The origins of the Terror must
be sought in the reaction of the revolution to the threat of
violent overthrow from both internal and external enemies. Thus,
the Brunswick manifesto of July 27 offered "fraternity and
assistance" to all peoples that were prepared to follow the
French example and fight for their freedom
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Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" (the more things
change, the more they stay the same), as the French saying goes.
Anticipating "glasnost" by two hundred years, all sections of
society were encouraged to present their grievances in writing,
through the famous "cahiers de plaintes et doleances"
(notebooks of grievances).
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2. William F. Buckley , RIP. - alt.politics.org.cia
From: "Thomas Keske" <ptke...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:53:20 - 0500. Local:
Sun, Feb 17 2008 7:53 pm. Subject:
Re: William F. Buckley , RIP. .
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Feb 17, 7:53 pm
rawal" <rlionhe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>I know that Thomas, and more, ...
> Judging from the American Ambassadors we have been getting in
> Lebanon... as one example, it seems that the US Government and
> Intel agencies have "overcome" or have been "accustomed" to
> using this issue to their advantage....
> Case in point: Ambassador Vincent Battle.... is now living in Lebanon,
> after the end of his tour of duty.... with his "friend" permanently in
> Beirut, and openly GAY.
> Vincent Battle came to a Beirut Hospital recently with a severe
"sickness"
> to one "special" area of his body... and was treated "discreetly.....
The way that our government uses gay issues to its
advantage is mostly as a wedge issue to get out the hate vote.
Oh, excuse me, the "values" vote, never mind that some
of these people put so little value on the lives
or human dignity of gays and lesbians that they would be
perfectly happy to see gays all arrested under sodomy
laws and put in prison.
Gays are the new "Southern Strategy" for the GOP,
now that it is no longer fasionable to do that with
blacks.
Like in Florida, land of fascist vote-rigging, land of
Anita Bryant, who is still around and plugging for
HIV concentration camp advocate, Mike Huckabee.
You notice, they didn't put their anti-gay marriage
ammendment on a ballot in 2005, or 2006 - no, they
want to play the same kind of game, again.
Why tamper with a winning formula?
I recall watching a do***entary - the way that things
were in my lifetime, where a State Department official
proclaimed, "We don't have any homo***uals in the
State Department. And if we do, we fire them."
Just like that - utterly dismissive, utterly confident,
as if no other position could possible make any sense.
I recall watching William F. Buckley, Jr in a TV debate,
once. With a great show of intellectual discipline, he
objected to the notion that homo***uals have no rights
at all.
"A homo***ual has a right not to get hit by a truck",
he said. All the casual condescension of a French aristocrat
looking down his nose at dirty, unwashed peasants, as
if they were just so many animals.
I recall a movie about the French Revolution, where
an aristocrat's carriage ran over a little girl. He didn't
like the accusing way that peasants were staring at him,
so he hissed hatefully at them, "You are lucky that we
don't run you ALL over. You are nothing but a bunch of
filthy animals!"
A brave peasant scaled the wall, and knifed the
aristocrat to death, in his sleep.
I think think of the great, distinguished, famous, wealthy,
educated William F. Buckely, Jr, and his casual
"run over by a truck" remark, every time that I remember
that movie.
If I had my way there are GOP big names would
meet fates just exactly like the French Revolution.
When people die over it, then it will seem more serious to them.
But don't worry, Mr. Buckley- you are too old, now,
and belong to history. The privilege would belong to
someone younger, up-and-coming, getting ready to
repeat the same bad habits and instill the same attitudes
in the next generation.
Buckley was very interested in what Justice Antonin Scalia,
good Catholic, he - would say about sodomy laws. "He always
has interesting opinions", said Buckley.
He certainly does. Constitutional rights for homo***uals?
Easy question. Easy. Why, it was a crime in all 50 states
for 200 years.
Not like that is any historical embarassment to the United
States, to have that kind of legacy. Just shows how
little consideration that those dirty, sick,
destroyers-of-civilization, those immoral homo***uals,
really deserve.
It would take about 12 pounds of plutonium to show this
smug and complacent country exactly why that kind
of attitude is unacceptable. Words are lost on them.
Like on smug conservatives who assume that anything
to do with "gay" must have something to do with disease or
molesting page boys.
The gay man writing this post has no diseases, is
in good shape for being over 50, would not be caught
with anyone under 21, even if scheming government
dirty tricksters tried to seduce him with a trained
agent for the sake of defaming a critic- the kind of thing
that goes on all the time, under the noses of the naive
public, and seems to be getting worse. Another reason
why there needs to be blood, unfortunately.
Someday, the limits of even a superpower could be
made evident by a radioactive hole in the ground
where the CIA headquarters, the FBI headquarters,
the Pentagon and White House used to be.
The mind shuts out an image that it cannot bear
to see, like trauma-induced amnesia of an event
that hasn't happened yet.
It is not healthy to provoke fate by indulging in
in-your-face bigotry like pigs in mud-hole, having
an orgy. All it would take, is one well-placed gay
mole in high places, at the right time, to rewrite
history.
Tom Keske
From: "Thomas Keske" <ptke...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:53:20 - 0500. Local:
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Department of French ~ University of Virginia
Beginning with a study of the French Revolution, this course
focuses on the ... the dreamer slumped over his desk while owls
and bats swirl around his head. .
www.virginia.edu/french/ugrads/cours/3-01.htm
"Le sommeil de la raison engendre des monstres": Goya's famous
painting of 1798 depicts the dreamer slumped over his desk while
owls and bats swirl around his head. The suggestion is that the
monster is not so much a threat from the outside as one from
inside ourselves, born in the innermost recess of dream. In the
aftermath of the Revolution and the Terror, 19th-century France
dreams its own monsters, from the criminal madman to witches,
demons and vampires
This course will address these questions through examination of
the various images of the monster in 19th-century French
literature, art and culture. As the monster itself is a creature
who transgresses its own borders, we too will cross disciplinary
boundaries, drawing on medical and historical texts, in addition
to short stories, poems and paintings
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William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82
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By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: February 27, 2008
William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance,
famously arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to
elevate conservatism to the center of American political
discourse, died Wednesday at his home in Stamford, Conn.
Mr. Buckley suffered from diabetes and emphysema, his son
Christopher said, although the exact cause of death was not
immediately known. He was found at his desk in the study of his
home, his son said. "He might have been working on a column," Mr.
Buckley said.
William Buckley, with his winningly capricious personality, his
use of ten-dollar words and a darting tongue writers loved to
compare to an anteater's, was the popular host of one of
television's longest-running programs, "Firing Line," and
founded and shepherded the influential conservative magazine
"National Review."
He also found time to write more than 50 books, ranging from
sailing odysseys to spy novels
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http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Into-Madness-Control-Medical/dp/0553053574
Buckley was injected with drugs, physically abused and
mentally befuddled by mind-control expert Aziz al-Abub.
This Arab doctor was but one of many disciples of Ewen Cameron,
a respected Montreal psychiatrist at McGill University enlisted by
CIA director Allen Dulles in the 1950s to devise techniques to scramble
victims' minds irreversibly.
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P.S,
This "William F. Buckley" is not the same as the
conservative pundit, William F. Buckley, Jr. who
served as a deep cover CIA agent in 1951 in Mexico
re****ted directly to Howard Hunt.
The latter Buckley has not accomplished much other than
to provide a pseudo-intellectual veneer for old-fa****oned,
right-wing bigotry. He unfortunately was never
captured or tortured before retiring from the National Review.
The former Buckley, who was single at age 57, might
have been gay- we will never know, because of bigots like
the other Buckley, who would huff that you were
besmirching someone's reputation by suggesting that they
were gay. It is because of bigots like the first Buckley
that people like the second Buckley would serve their
country and die with everyone, including their own families,
having a false idea of who they really were.
It is not an accusation. It is a compliment. Until such time
as we live in a country that realizes this, any closeted gay
person who works for the CIA, or NSA should consider
turning on them and destroying the big-name bigots who
are institutionalizing our oppression.
Tom Keske
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President George W. Bush said Wednesday that Mr. Buckley
"brought conservative thought into the political mainstream, and
helped lay the intellectual foundation for America's victory in
the Cold War."
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26. Like Cooking a Small Fish
William F. Buckley, Jr. ... "starving the beast" to be a serious
thinker in the Buckley mold. ... Rose special on William F.
Buckley, Jr. from last year: .
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13. Socialist Review
Goya was made painter to the court in 1789, the year of the
French Revolution, although ... Inscribed beneath the figure
slumped at his desk, harried by apparitions of owls and bats ..
www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumb...
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.. Creatures of the Night
| List Five Books Parlour Game | LibraryThing
See you later alligator par William F. Buckley ...
Owl Puke: Book and Owl Pellet par Jane Hammerslough ...
There's a bat in bunk five par Paula Danziger .
www.librarything.fr/talktopic.php?topic=16671
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http://www.apfn.org/apfn/grove.htm
Bohemian Club
The August 2, 1982 edition of Newsweek magazine re****ted: "...
the world's most prestigious summer camp - the Bohemian Grove -
is now in session 75 miles north of San Francisco. The fiercely
guarded, 2,700 acre retreat is the country extension of San
Francisco's all-male ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club to which
every Republican President since Herbert Hoover has belonged.
With its high-powered clientele, coveted privacy and cabalistic
rituals, the Bohemian Grove has prompted considerable suspicion. ...
The Grove's Shakespearean motto, "Weaving spiders come not here,"
is an injunction to forget wheeling and dealing which is widely
ignored. While 'ruling-class cohesiveness' rarely lets slip
details of accommodations arrived at there, some - such as the
1967 agreement by Ronald Reagan, over a drink with Richard Nixon,
to stay out of the coming presidential race - have helped mold
America's destiny.
Mother Jones, August 1981 volume 6 page 28, re****ted a partial
list of some of the prominent members: "George P. Shultz,
Stephen Bechtel, Jr., Gerald R. Ford, Henry Kissinger, William F.
Buckley, Jr.
For decades, there have been vague rumors of weird goings on in
Bohemian Grove in more remote parts of its 2200 acres. Reliable
re****ts claim Druidic like rituals, druids in red hooded robes
marching in procession and chanting to the Great Owl (Moloch.) A
funeral pyre with "corpses." (Scores of men work in the Bohemian
Grove as servants so this party is fairly well established.)
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William F. Buckley ... you are like mice trying to 'negotiate'
with owls. ... death their right to march, and then go down and
meet them with baseball bats. .
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http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/11/
what_is_wrong_w.html
Marginal Revolution
Small steps toward a much better world.
What is wrong with American food?
Kevin Drum asks:
What's the scoop here? Why is it that even with lots of money
and chefs who clearly know how to produce three-star food,
American restaurants still can't measure up to their French
counterparts?
The better pure ingredients in Paris include amazing cheese
shops, perfect bread, and fresher strawberries. On the macro
scale, this translates into superior haute cuisine.
America, in contrast, excels in multi-dimensionality. Move away
from refined Michelin-style cooking, and New York City is
usually better than Paris. We have better Indian food,
Columbian food, Afghan food, Chinese food, su****, burger joints,
street pretzels, and so on. Yet there is probably no single
cuisine where NYC is #1 in the world, precisely because American
ingredients are not up to scratch.
It is no accident that France specializes in uni-dimensional
food competition, whereas the United States scatters its
culinary energies in many directions. By choosing food networks
which emphasize speed, reliability, and cheapness over
perfection, the U.S. makes possible many more ethnic cuisines,
and it also guarantees a better shot at cheap prices. In short,
New York offers more choice.
Recent Posts
Which 20th century classic of American conservative political
thought has held up best?
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Synarchism, the Spanish Falange,
and the Nazis
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
This article is necessitated by the renewed threat to both
Mexico and the United States, among other nations, that today's
Synarchists- centered in the United States around Vice President
Dick Cheney, and in Mexico around the National Action Party (PAN)?
will impose international fascism.
Some have argued to the contrary, that the Cristero Rebellion in
Mexico was a lawful development unique to the conditions which
prevailed in Mexico at the time. Anne Carroll, whose husband
Warren Carroll was the founder of Christendom College in
Virginia- a cesspool of Buckley family-connected Spanish Carlism-
argued, for example in her book Christ and the Americas, that
the Cristero Rebellion was justified, and that even though not
victorious in the short term, it had a positive historical
effect, as evidenced by the fact that Pope John Paul II visited
Mexico in the 1990s. As she put it: "The blood of the martyrs of
the Revolution had borne fruit."
The reason that the views of an otherwise obscure Northern
Virginia cult figure like Anne Carroll are im****tant on this
question, is that she is part of the synarchist circles of
Christendom College and the William F. Buckley family in the
United States
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Born Nov. 24, 1925, in New York City, William Frank Buckley Jr.
was the sixth of 10 children of a a multimillionaire with oil
holdings in seven countries. The son spent his early childhood
in France and England, in exclusive Roman Catholic schools
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2. William F. Buckley Jr.: An Appreciation
In keeping with his patrician bearing, William Frank 'Bill'
Buckley Jr. was born in ... His childhood was an idyll filled
with horseback riding, sailing and ...
themoderatevoice.com/politics/libertarians/18058/w...
3. Revisiting the controversial career of Westbrook Pegler. - By ...
Dangerous MindsWilliam F. Buckley soft-pedals the legacy of journalist
.... (and men on horseback who conspired with Hitler's agents
in this country). ...
www.slate.com/id/2096673
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5. How To Compete in Equitation | eHow.com
How to Compete in Equitation. Equitation is an English riding
event that judges correct riding and proper body carriage of
horse and rider.
www.ehow.com/how_10953_compete-equitation.html
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31. Political Conservatives in the West
.... gatherings Rand went out of her way to avoid Buckley.
Buckley was the more tolerant. ... of the French Revolution (a
connection between .
www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch31con.html
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47. William F Buckley Jr interviews Oswald Mosley
.... situation like the French Revolution or the Russian
Revolution, in its own ... liberal elite, a large number of
peasants, and a tremendous amount of social .
www.oswaldmosley.com/archives/firingline.htm
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http://www.takimag.com/blogs/
Likewise, in the wake of the French Revolution, the Right in
several European countries abandoned its traditional
(aristocratic) internationalism, and sought to whip up patriotic
sentiment as an alternative locus to class resentment. There is
also the question of finding work. In France, the only avenues
for advancement open to dispossessed conservatives after the
catastrophe of 1830 were in the Army. Government positions were
only granted to anti-clericals; being seen attending Mass was
career suicide, especially after 1870, as Hannah Arendt noted in
The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Leaving aside the brute political necessity of redirecting
popular sentiment and gaining power, one can't help observing a
natural affinity between conservatives and the military. There
is surely something in the typical make-up of a person willing
to disapprove of ***ual and social innovations and scoff at
elitist critiques of traditional ways which attracts him to the
order, discipline, ritual, and asceticism of military life.
About Taki
Taki writes a column, the "High Life," which has appeared in
London's The Spectator for the past twenty-five years. He writes
also for National Review
Taki was educated at the Lawrenceville School and the University
of Virginia, and is married to Princess Alexandra Schoenburg.
One thing I can tell you for sure, there may well be some
atheists in foxholes- but you'll never find a neocon. They prefer
to send blue-collar kids out to die on their behalf, so they get
to feel macho- and make up for all the times they got wedgies in
prep school.
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Conservative patriarch Buckley nears end of his graceful exit
And he does liken it to a voyage over the seas, with Buckley
still in command even as the hour grows late. "You are moving at
racing speed, parting the buttery sea as with a scalpel,
and waters roar by
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http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/australia-birdquest-1107.pdf
There is an Australian expression: "To have Buckley's chance" or
"to have two chances, Buckley's or none". It seems to refer to
an escaped convict called William Buckley (1780 - 1856) who
survived along this part of the Australian coast for 30 years
from 1803 after being taken in by the local Aboriginals.
It was considered impossible for convicts in Australia to survive
in the outback: as anywhere outside the penal settlements was
considered then, hence the saying. A visit to an inland lake on
the Bellarine Peninsula to seek out a bird one usually has
"Buckley's chance" of seeing produced the first of many
sightings for us of the distinctive and sometimes difficult to
find Freckled Duck.
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http://freeread.com.au/ebooks/e00018.txt
La vie est vaine:
Un peu d'amour,
Un peu de haine...
Et puis--bonjour!
La vie est breve:
Un peu d'espoir,
Un peu de reve...
Et puis--bonsoir!
Leon Montenaeken
A squarer tom, I swear, I never seen,
In all me natchril, than this 'ere Doreen.
It wer'n't no guyver neither; fer I knoo
That any other bloke 'ad Buckley's 'oo
Tried fer to pick 'er up. Yes, she was square.
She jist sailed by an' lef' me standin' there
Like any mug. Thinks I, "I'm out er luck,"
An' done a duck
"An'--wilt--yeh--take--this--woman--fer--to--be--
Yer--weddid--wife?"...O, strike me! Will I wot?
TAKE 'er? Doreen? 'E stan's there ARSTIN' me!
Bloke--A male adult of the genus homo
Boot, to put in the--To kick a prostrate foe.
Boss--Master, employer.
Break (to break away, to do a break)--To depart in haste.
Breast up to--To accost.
Brisket--The chest.
Brown--A copper coin.
Brums--Tawdry finery (From Brummagem--Birmingham).
Buckley's (Chance)--A forlorn hope.
Buck-up--Cheer up.
Bump--To meet; to accost aggressively.
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buckley-dead-remembered.php
William F. Buckley's Greatest Hits
Radar remembers some of the great man's finest thoughts:
"...[G]ay marriage, gay marriage, gay marriage?
I wish more gays would move to Canada.
Just kidding."- National Review, July 28, 2003
Resentment is firm against homo***ual advances toward children,
but the question is not explored whether that crime- which was
then, continues to be, and will be in the future, a sin- has
increased in pro****tion to the toleration of the practice at an
adult level."- National Review, May, 6 2002
"When it was black men persecuting white or black men- in the
Congo, for instance- he was strangely silent on the issue of
human rights. The human rights of Chinese, or of Caucasians
living behind the Iron Curtain never appeared to move him."
- On Martin Luther King, Jr., 1979
But whatever the exact net result in the restricted field of
school desegregation, what a price we are paying for Brown! It
would be ridiculous to hold the Supreme Court solely to blame
for the ludicrously named 'civil rights movement'?that is, the
Negro revolt.... But the Court carries its share of the blame."?
National ReviewJune 2, 1964
"[T]he White community is so entitled because, for the time
being, it is the advanced race."
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.. Skull And Bones, Secret Yale Society Includes America's Power ...
Morley Safer re****ts on the secret Yale University society to
which many of America's power elite belong, including
President Bush
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5. On the Contrary: CIA/Skull-and-Bonesman
Wm. F Buckley Jr. Obituary
Mr. Buckley then entered Yale, where he studied political
science, ... was elected chairman of the Yale Daily News; and
joined Skull and Bones, .
revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2008/02/ciaskull-an...
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10. Falwell | Dangerous Intersection
Jerry Falwell is dead. At 73, he passed away, at his desk,
apparently still ... and while I found myself opposed to just
about everything he stood for, ..
dangerousintersection.org/2007/05/16/falwell/
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2. William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82
William F. Buckley Jr., American conservative pioneer, has died.
He was 82. He was found at his desk where he had been writing a
column. I think Buckley has ..
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"It's unbelievably cramped," Buckley said. "I'm literally
sitting in an office with desk drawers on the floor. Things are
taking up room in the vault. I actually gave away some furniture
so I could fit [into this office area]."
The problem first surfaced when Buckley found that ceiling tiles
over his desk became discolored after it rained. The roof was
still under warranty, so he had the leak fixed, but then he
discovered that his room had a strange odor in the summer.
Buckley hired Hygenics, a firm based in Stamford, to check out
his office
Last week, at a Board of Selectmen's meeting, Buckley asked for
$8,656 to fix his office. The board recommended that the Board
of Finance approve the request. Since fungal exposure can be so
damaging to one's health, it is quite common to appropriate
funds for politician's work spaces in order to remediate them.
This began in 1999 when former governor George W. Bush found
mold in the governor's mansion in Austin
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.. William F. Buckley Jr. on Senator Buckley on National Review Online
By William F. Buckley Jr. EDITOR'S NOTE: This was WFB's August
14, ... better off consulting with august relatives who come
from the same ideological mold;
www.nationalreview.com/flashback/1971200511230826....
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.. National Review Founder Says It's Time to Leave Stage
(William F Buckley Jr retiri...
.... Theater," the 28-year-old William Frank Buckley Jr. decided
to start a magazine ... He and Warren Steibal really broke the
mold when they conceived of that show. .
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162042/posts
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12. William F. Buckley Jr. Goes Home | Redstate
William F. Buckley Jr. Goes Home 17 Comments (0 topical, 17
editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment ... God broke the mold with
that one. Rest well Mr. Buckley. .
redstatenetwork.com/stories/the_parties/republican...
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The Parisian dealer Maurice Segoura, who sold the commode to Mr.
Ojjeh in 1983, said he considered the commode the most im****tant
piece of French furniture made in the 18th century.
Charles Cator, a director at Christie's, said, ''It's a rare
combination to have Boulle marquetry with pietra dura plaques,
but it was the fa****on of the time to take things off of Louis
XIV furniture and reuse them.''
He said the commode was probably one of the three such pieces
sold at Christie's in 1791 after the French Revolution, adding
that the other two belong to the Queen of England.
The estimate is $2.5 to $3.8 million.
Another top lot is a magnificent Louis XVI sycamore commode
stamped by Jean-Francois Leleu. The unique piece has been owned
by several famous collectors. It has flared sides and marquetry
inlays of amaranth, rosewood and satinwood. The marquetry
depicts acanthus leaves (echoed in the bronze drawer pulls) and
vines with grapes, a motif picked up in the ormolu frieze on the
apron.
The piece is estimated to sell for $2 million to $2.8 million.
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Video: William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal debate Constitutional ...
Buckley: "Now listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-
Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn ... They contracted William
F. Buckley Jr.and Gore Vidal. ...
www.kronykronicle.com/1968/BV4.html
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3. gore vidal
Gore Vidal is a best-selling novelist, screenwriter, and
playwright whose works include ..... Then he rather takes the
wrong side of the French Revolution, ...
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Slaves and masters. And there was some very brilliant writing
being done. There was just an explosion of it, from Locke, and
from the French as well. Montesquieu and Rousseau. And everybody
was thinking. How do you...What is the best form of society?
What is a republic? Is a republic applicable if the country's
too big? You have to have representative government. I remember
Madison was saying, about our Constitution, he said, "Well,
suppose we have a hundred million people. We might have one
thousand people in Congress. How on earth is a Congress of a
thousand representatives going to do any work?" And Madison
expressed the great American truth, which Jefferson would have
agreed with: the iron law of oligarchy always obtains. A very
few people will always run the place, no matter what, whether
it's a monarchy or a republic.
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26. Daily Kos: Prepare the noose for William F. Buckley
It's kind of funny to think that the "queer" Gore Vidal and the
"Crypto-NAZI" Buckley were both veterans of the US Army.
www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/25/115912/029
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http://www.antoninartaud.org/reinvention.html
I had to endure deliriums and sleepwalkings in the cold
dormitory of my English boarding school. From the school windows
on a clear day you could see the French coast, so that I am
tempted to fantasize that some vibrations of poor Artaud did
cross the Channel and plant themselves in my forebrain the day
he died. March 4, 1948 - of cancer of the rectum, an organ that
figured centrally in his work. I can claim that, a couple of
years later, also in bed in that same school, I heard the
explosion of one of the first nuclear bombs on Bikini Atoll and
that the windows shook from this event the other side of the
world, a kind of experience, the verity of which I would however
be at a loss to know how to prove, that was in some way similar
to the one that Artaud described in his great text on Van Gogh,
whose neck they or their fathers so well wrung when he was alive.
And was this not because they had participated in unison in
certain generalized dirty tricks, when the consciousness of
Parisians left its normal level for an hour or two and proceeded
to another one, one of those mass unfurlings of hatred dirty
tricks
This kind of personal approach, however, too easily degenerates
into sentimentality or an anecdotal mode, or even in the case of
the great, despised dead into necrophilia. (Try seeing
necrophilia from the point of view of the corpse!)
In any case, imagine you are such a critic and that you are
sitting at your desk writing, and that you steal a glance in the
mirror and see instead of your own familiar form that you have
developed a hairy forearm like a baboon, and/or that instead of
your much loved and trusty countenance you have the head of a
gryphon or a cheetah! What then will you write? Things aren't
always what they seem.
What I am trying to find a way of saying is that the presumption
of objectivity inherent in academic criticism is inadequate to
dealing with a figure such as Artaud. Although his collected
works have been published by Gallimard in, nota bene, 19 volumes
thus guaranteeing him an honourable place in French literature,
Artaud himself very clearly in text after text placed himself
outside that bookish tradition. In his approach to language he
gave the spoken word a crucial primacy over the written. His
whole career, moreover, resists classification.
How can he be described? As poet or as actor?
As occultist or as polemicist against all forms of mysticism?
He found the theatre around him backward. irrelevant and
academic, out of touch with what was going on in society. In the
equation life/theatre, life was for him the first term; but the
chemical element, if you like, the catalyst for change, was to
come from the theatre. This is what so clearly distinguishes him
from his contem****aries who called for a political revolution.
'And no political or moral revolution will be
possible
so long as man continues to be magnetically held down -
even in his most elementary and simple organic and nervous reactions -
by the sordid influence
of all the questionable centers of the Initiates,
who, sitting tight in the warmth of the electric blankets
of their duality schism
laugh at revolutions as well as wars,
certain that the anatomic order on which the
existence as well as the duration of actual society is based
will no longer know how to be changed
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http://www.rosenoire.org/articles/mass_love.php
The political influence of the French Revolution is easy to
discern. The Revolution itself promoted the ideals of
egalitarianism and the propaganda call of Republicanism. Not
only did the French Revolution uproot French society as a whole,
it also gave rise to the Jacobins' radical and aggressive self-
righteousness that propelled them to spread the revolution
across continental Europe. Therefore Europe was re-organized
along the anti-traditional lines set by the Revolution.
Madman, genius and brilliant actor Antonin Artaud put it in
exactly the right words when he exclaimed way back when,
"Who am I? / Where do I come from? / I am Antonin Artaud /
and if I say it / as I know how to say it / instantly /
you will see my present body / explode into pieces /
and under ten thousand / notorious aspects / a new body /
will be constructed / in which you will never again /
be able / to forget me."
Like Artaud's precious and frail artistic body, the social
organism of France was ripped apart at its seams.
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Lux et veritas
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