Harry and Louise - Revisited

I am not entirely happy about President Obama saying that we have to pass some sort of health care bill during this session of congress before the August break, seemingly "At Any Price". I am one of those people who believes that it's often better to have no action on a particular problem rather than the Wrong action, which will have to be entirely undone at a later date. I as you know am now in favor of public health care funding, and if we can have open competetion between that and private medical insurance, I'd be happy to see who wins. But apparently what Obama wants passed is a bill that mandates employers fork out money going to the HMO's for private coverage. All of this new cost is going to boost government expence. Now "Harry and Louise" are back at it again and this time they are in favor of Obama's medical plan. We now learn that Harry and Louise are really democrats and that in real life they favored some sort of medical insurance all along. How apparently these new adds are being sponsored by the Drug Companies, and you know all about them. What any congressman should do if he votes for the current bill, which won't solve a thing or get to the true nature of the problem, they should be forced to give up their government funded medical coverage. My point is that the conservatives have enough things to attack us on, short of placing a new weapon in their hands.

Justice Sotomayor wasn't asked some key questions and people like Randi Rhodes and myself are disappointed at that. One topic is this idea of declaring George Bush to be president in 2000. This decision as you know was said to be a decision "that can't be used as any case precedent in the future". If that's the case the whole thing is bogus and the results should be thrown out. Sotomayor is a corporatist. We have too many of these on the Court already. Of course Republicans never tired of grilling her on this whole race thing and empathy tword the poor. They point out that empathy tword the poor can only result in bias and prejudice against the rich. As you know one of my complaints about the Calvary Chappels is that they seemed all to be posessed of "empathy- - tword everyone except me". Their biases were hanging out. I know how bias feels and a justice shouldn't have any, either tword the rich or tword the poor, and I think Justice Sotomayor made herself clear on this particular issue.

In terms of the previous posting certain things merit noting. I am not crazy about the fact that 61% of General Motors is owned by the government now. But it's more complicated than that and these are extrodenary times. I would prefer that government mess around in corporate affairs as little as possible, either by helping or by hinderance. As to "Godless" Churches now- - Christianity at large is pretty much circling the drain. It's in its last throws because like the leaves of autumn, it's time has come and gone, and now we need to give Christianity a respectful buriel. The author said that liberalism has pervaided even the Orthodox Church. In terms of the homosexual invasion we are now facing. Well, it's a reality and the rest of us are just going to have to deal with it. Homosexual marriage is the coming tide of the future as more and more states legalize it. St. Paul may have been gay. I've wondered about his relationship to Timothy. Clearly St. Paul is a very sexually tormented and gui9lt ridden person. The reason why I republished the entire article is so that I could not be accused of quoting things out of context. Sometimes a person's own words and serve as the best rope with which to hang the culpret. When I first read that article I said to myself, "This is so BAD- - I have to share this because nobody will believe it".

One thing that's going to happen is a revamping of our whole data sharing system in this country, centralizing control over information on every human being. This is another of those ideas whose time has come, whether you like it or not. In some cases better Law Enforcement sharing of information is a good thing, to help catch the bad guys. In sharing medical information, obviously this can be used to save lives. But in some cases you have true moral gray areas such as development of those computers that actually "read your minds". This is a powerful and dangerous weapon. Personally I don't like centralization and would love it if we suddenly went back to forty years ago. But that's not going to happen. I have a bias against various psychological tests because I believe they are flawed. I believe massive generalizations about people are immoral and wrong. In some cases they are out and out racist. But even where race does not play a direct part, such generalizations or red lining or black listing or whatever- - is wrong. There are people unquestionably on the "No Fly" list that should not be on the list. Conservatives may rail at this or that trend in society, but events move more quickly than any of us can imagine, and there will be hot issues ten years from now, that currently have never entered our minds. I believe our transportation system has to be modernized with new, high speed rail between cities that don't have it now. I think what we need in a lot of cases are completely new trains and completely new tracks. I am predicting that the Democrats will once again pick up house and senate seats in the 2010 off year national election.