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August 06, 2007
Blaming Kevin Bacon
(But he's just the tip of the iceberg) Glenn's link to Frank J.'s post blaming Kevin Bacon for bridge collapses has made me do some very serious homework, because it occurred to me that this might be about more than just bridges and infrastructures collapsing. Anywway, I'll start with Frank J.'s simple yet elegant reasoning: 1. Boooosh had an illegal war in Iraq.I complete agree that the whole picture is not being looked at, and that Frank J. really puts the finger on it when he says nothing goes wrong that isn't somehow linked to Kevin Bacon. But I thought I should look further, because that's what we conscientious bloggers are supposed to do when confronted with unpleasant realities. My philosophy is that whenever there might be unconnected dots, it is our job to find them and then rigorously connect them. So on to the dots. If we take a detailed look at Kevin Bacon, the facts are indeed horrifying. From his IMDB page, we learn that by a very simple process, he can be connected to virtually anything evil in Hollywood: ....Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, whereby people have to link any given actor to him by no more than six steps. For instance, to do Fred MacMurray, you could observe that MacMurray worked with Lee Marvin in The Caine Mutiny (1954), which is one step; and Marvin worked with Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou (1965), which is two steps; and Fonda worked with Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome (1979), which is three steps; and Lemmon worked with Bacon in JFK (1991), which completes the link in four steps.The liberal media and the academicians like to call this a "game" but I think such a diversionary tactic must be seen for what it is. They know the connections can't be hidden, so they try to dismiss them with humor. (The way some might dismiss the cogent reasoning in Frank J.'s post.) As Wikipedia makes clear, the notorious Ed Asner has a Bacon number of 1, while Elvis is a Bacon 2: The way you link an actor with Bacon is like so:Obviously, the subtext of Frank J.'s post is that the above "game" is no game. These connections are real, and undeniable. There are also very stubborn, ineradicable dynastic legacy issues, as spooky as they are damning. First of all, Kevin Bacon and George W. Bush had famous fathers. Simply for having had Kevin Bacon and George W. Bush, both of these fathers have considerable blame for the damage done to the world by their notorious sons. While Kevin Bacon's father is not quite as well known as George H. W. Bush, the former, a man named Ed Bacon was considered the father of modern urban planning. This means that not only is he responsible for most of the problems in most of the cities in America, but he helped design and build much of the aging infrastructure that his son's irresponsible movie meme is now destroying (as Frank J. proved). On a more personal level, Keven Bacon's father is directly responsible for the worst traffic nightmare I have ever had to face -- the Schuylkill Expressway (the fact that they gave it a name impossible to spell is no coincidence): Constructed over a period of ten years from 1949 to 1959, a large portion of the expressway predates the 1956 introduction of Interstate Highway System; many of these portions were not built to contemporary standards.[3] The rugged terrain and limited riverfront space covered by the route has largely stymied later attempts to upgrade or widen the highway, despite the road being highly over-capacity; it has become notorious for its chronic congestion.[4]And look at the other roads for which Kevin Bacon's father is to blame: Much of the city's highway system was planned and built during Bacon's tenure, including the Delaware Expressway (I-95), the Schuylkill Expressway, the Roosevelt Boulevard Expressway, and the Vine Street Expressway.What this means is that not only did he build the decaying infrastructure his son wants to destroy, but he's also responsible for some of the worst traffic jams in American history! His policies have spread like a virus, and he wrote a book which is in use everywhere: In 1965 Bacon was appointed by President Johnson to serve as a member of the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, where he was one of four panelists who reported directly to the President. In 1967, Bacon wrote Design of Cities, still considered an important urban design text.A little known fact about Kevin Bacon's father is that at 92, the man actually rode a skateboard -- thus closing the circle, as if in full embrace of the "Footloose" policies his son designed. We are in big trouble, folks! And there is more. So much more. Back to the legacy issue. While it is beyond dispute that both Bacon and Bush are incredibly guilty sons of incredibly guilty men, the guilty connections only start there. Few people know it, but according to readily accessible public information, Kevin Bacon is related to Richard Nixon! His father was a seventh cousin of President Richard Nixon.Get ready for an even bigger shock. George W. Bush is also related to Richard Nixon! (It's beyond dispute, and all laid out at the site.) A much more shocking, and even less known fact, is that in addition to being related to Nixon, Boooosh is a Jooooo! As for the right wing cynics who don't trust Washington Monthly, the evidence is uncontestable, and not only appears at many reliable web sites, but is documented in numerous videos like these. But beware! The Jooos are making the facts disappear! (Pretty soon they'll destroy the evidence of the Bush family Jewish Nazi conspiracy.) After all of the ample documentation above (most of which was never intended as satire), I hardly need to point out what this portends. Kevin Bacon is related to Boooosh the Joooo! We're doubly, triply, quadruply, doooooomed! Q.E.D. (Which is Latin for "case closed.") posted by Eric on 08.06.07 at 09:11 AM
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Now I play the game of 'Six Degrees of Monzer al-Kassar' based on the relationship webs and interactivity between groups and individuals and 'who knows who'. This is a 'Friend of a Friend' (FOAF) network or 'social network'. This sort of thing lets you know the connectivity between individuals and events, so that you can start to demarcate limits of interactivity. What one can do is take a relatively famous or infamous individual involved with Nation States, terrorism, gun running, narco-trafficking or money laundering and see how many connections it takes to get to Monzer al-Kassar. As an example: Saddam Hussein you go to Sarkos Sarghenolian to Monzer al-Kassar or two connections. To go from George W. Bush you go to George HW Bush to Ollie North to Monzer al-Kassar or three. If there is documented evidence of GWB and North knowing each other (or Secord or Hakim) then it is two. What is surprising about this is, that no matter how tangled the individual groups are (say the IRA or ETA) the number of connections to, say, Kim Jong-Il ... no, wait, there is a direct connection for the OIRA... *sigh*. Ok to GWB is usually in the range of four because of the well connected cross-organizational individuals involved. Hillary Clinton by meeting Yassar Arafat then closes her connectivity to Monzer al-Kassar to two via route of Imad Mugniyah or Abu Nidal. Nancy Pelosi, by meeting with Bashar al-Assad gets it to one for her. Fun, huh? Because I came from a job with DoD that had one relatively well connected individual I knew, I tag my own level at three to Kassar. It is the FOAF social network concept that really starts to define such things as possible conspiracies and such, because extended networks have difficulties communicating outwards. That makes relatively and seemingly low level operatives as one of the best targets to go after to unravel such networks. For al Qaeda that was Walid el-Hage and KSM. Effective connected individuals help ensure the trust system inside and between such networks and the typical method of introducing a trusted friend into an existing network then makes the overall network more effective. Add in a reciprocity system, payment system and 'you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours' sorts of deal and you get extremely complex operations and activities from very, very simple rules of interaction. Currently I'm using uDraw(Graph) freeware from Germany to do a major mapping of individuals, groups, events and Nations and the thing is horrific once you add in the banking scandals of the 80's. And damned surprising in many ways, too... ajacksonian · August 6, 2007 02:20 PM I'll have to look into the Monzer al-Kassar thing, but if acquaintance is sufficient my Kevin Bacon number is three, with Haskell Wexler at key. triticale · August 6, 2007 08:47 PM Post a comment
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And to think I was blaming the evil and nefarious BushCo-Halliburton connection. I feel so ashamed of letting my Bush Derangement Syndrome get the best of me. lol.