so yesterday® ...1991

.. a somewhat deferential[1] short history.

Taking inspiration from the end of 'Repugnant?'
Submitted on August 20, 2007 - 9:19pm,

where Michael de Angelos (g'day) wrote:

«but hating socialism is so yesterday...»

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I occasionally use the '®' character as a plea to the WD Eds not to 'improve' my text by applying their spell-checker. An example:

Wardah®, wardah everywhere!
but hardly a drop for the crop...

(A reference to the coming CO2 greedastrophe® 'side-effect' of world-wide glacier and permafrost melting and concomitant sea-level rise, and the possibly unrelated current and desperate drought.)

Apropos wardah, Canberra, like (most) other wide-brown metropolises is going a bit short on it; the solutions proposed are a) expensive and b) IMHO wrong. They propose extending one dam ($132-165mio) and pumping from a river into another dam ($40-70mio+/-30%, both costs only indicative). IMHO, all they really need to do is a) discourage the sheople® from watering lawns and/or roses, say, or better b) reduce if not stop population growth. Of course, both my (a) & (b) are seen as politically too hard, so we'll probably just have to cough up the dough for an extremely non-optimal, possibly unsustainable and then only putative solution. Bah!

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Getting back to 'so yesterday,' my memory is not what it used to be, so I often employ 'artificial aids' in partial recompense. Ergo, a Google.

Google shows a possible 'dead heat' for a 1st 'so yesterday' use between Stephen Smith and Phil Uebergang around August 23, 2005. So much for me thinking of claiming any sort'a priority. But I have used it recently:

a) In my 'stung!' response to Daniel Smythe (g'day),
Submitted on March 11, 2007 - 7:37pm.

«Violence is just so yesterday.»

b) In my 'house-price inflation, ...' response to Alan Curran,
Submitted on March 24, 2007 - 2:15pm.

«... using an interest-rate scare to rattle the punters these days - apart from being outright devious, mean and nasty - well - isn't it just so yesterday?»

Following the principle of "the first shall be last", I note that:

a) Alan Curran never responded to this, possibly my definitive house-price inflation post. I put this inflation[2] down mainly to Costello's halving of the CGT. Costello himself recently attributed it to low interest rates and population pressures - toadally® ignoring/dodging his own acts/responsibility - but he would, wouldn't he? IMHO, dear reader, you can decide. Then

b) some others did respond (figuratively kicking at a 'downed' target), but as I have since pointed out elsewhere, these responses were doubly fallacious - by dragging in the red herring of consumer inflation. A red herring can be a 'simple' diversion, but here it does double duty, it is a fallacious[3] form of reasoning called 'the definitional retreat,' to redefine a term in the face of a failing argument - i.e. when the topic is and always was house-price inflation (Sydney 250%! Perth may go higher); to jeer that figures for consumer inflation are 2-3% is, IMHO, a deliberate off-topic and fallacious diversion. (Haw! Bad tactics, fellas.)

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Back to «Violence is just so yesterday». I found this article, already reported in my 'The most amazing lies' which details US criminal immorality vis-à-vis invading other countries going back at least to the 'conquering' of Hawaii in 1893. (IMHO, the website is a ripper!) The original might be here.

Sooo, an answer to «is the USA "military industrial complex" to blame for ALL the worlds' ills» is probably no. Just most, and that by a very long chalk.

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PS This post originated with Michael's «hating socialism[4] is so yesterday.»

Q: How do we describe the recent world-wide stock exchange bail-outs performed by central banks' injections of squillions of $s:

a) free market operations?

b) printing money?

c) socialism?

(Cue Costello: "Haw, haw, haw! - Let us prey.")

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Ref(s):

[1] deferential adj. respectful.  deferentially adv. [POD]

[2] inflation n. 1 inflating. 2 Econ. a general increase in prices. b increase in the supply of money regarded as causing this.  inflationary adj. [ibid.]

[3] fallacy n. (pl. -ies) 1 mistaken belief. 2 faulty reasoning; misleading argument.  fallacious adj. [Latin fallo deceive] [ibid.]

[4] socialism; Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Comment: sounds OK to me; only fair even.