STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 13 September 2012

[bread_and_roses]

23. Dems better hope the center* holds till after the election

since if it doesn't, having provided no alternative narrative to the essentially R mantra of "trickle down" and no help for ordinary working people, with now - did I just hear something like 46 MILLION in poverty in US? With goddess knows how many un/under-employed. If things get significantly worse, what option will they see other than to change drivers? It's not as if "our side" is giving them the real picture on the obscene transfer of wealth, or hasn't been complicit in it.

*William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?