Them Business Guys

There's this stuff goin' on about the recent gargantuan Oil Profits co-newsing it with the price spikes, and defending them business guys with Supply & Demand. Talkin'bout "If executives of ExxonMobil had anything to do with these circumstances, they are the most powerful people on Earth, and perhaps Congress really should try to prevail on them to create harmony in the Middle East and less cyclonic activity in the Atlantic Ocean." Smartass. As it happens though, I've just been reading about Teddy Roosevelt comin' in as prez when Big Bill went down and TR taking stock of his situation with his conservative cabinet and all their ties to the --- no, not big --- HUGE money corporate folks. This from Edmund Morris' Theodore Rex :::

"They were prepared, in return, to give trust lords such as J. P. Morgan their favorable support in disputes between capital and labor, or local and interstate commerce. They tacitly acknowledged that Wall Street, rather than the White House, had executive control of the economy, with the legislative cooperation of Congress and the judicial backing of the Supreme Court. This conservative alliance, forged after the Civil War, was intended to last well into the new century, if not forever."

Yeah, forever. Also, the same Edmund Morris just wrote a book on Beethoven, and spoke @ The Library of Congress last week. He talked about the beginning of the 9th and how it was like straining to hear -- the willing of sounds into a Cohesion of Sound. The rolling background of the deaf has a tone, and this static ^^ this ... white noise ^^ is conjured at the symphony's introduction.