Supreme Court Overturns Key Campaign Law

Well, the hits just keep on coming. They say when it rains it pours. Today in another major political defeat for the left, the Supreme Court in a classic five to four ruling, over-turned a century old tradition of limiting corporations from donating to political campaigns. The case centered on that anti Hillary Clinton campaign add people wanted to run in 2008. But the application is much more vast and sweeping. Courts in essence ruled that corporations were "persons" and thus had free speech. This is the ruling that Thom Hartman and others have been dreading. Perhaps it violates the sworn testimony of justices Allito and John Roberts that they would respect prior supreme court rulings. I'm not saying this is any grounds to impeach these two but it only goes to show that if you are on a confirmation committee, be prepared to be lied to. This ruling opens the floodgates even wider to candidates being bought and paid for by corporations. The adage is true and often repeated in my postings, "Money doesn't talk; it swears". The ruling went on to overturn certain provisions of the decade old Mc Cain - Feingold law vastly limiting campaign contributions. Many have in fact argued that congress is so in the iron grip of corporations that they dare not push any measures through now by "reconciliation" requiring only 51% because they would lose all their corporate contributions. Where is Franklin Roosevelt when you need him? This ruling will case an even longer shadow on the political landscape than did Tuesday's election. But the thing is - when President Obama has had a political decision to make he's never really (except for Eric Holder) appointed an out and out liberal with an anti corporatist record. We can't be assured that Obama's next choice for the Supreme Court will be to our liking, given the President's dismal track record with appointments. There is a crisis coming. And it will be noted in the history books. That's the day progressives finally get the cajones to run a liberal anti corporatist candidate from a third party, and that candidate actually wins. The last time that happened was with Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1860. And it's time that it happened again.

John Edwards has admitted to fathering a nearly two year old daughter by his mistress, Real Hunter, a campaign aid, of some two and three years ago. Edwards lied when he said "I know I could not be the father because the timing is not right for that". Edwards also lied when he said "I did not get involved sexually until my wife Elizabeth was in remission". But again Edwards lied because the conception occurred shortly after the doctors notified them that Elizabeth's cancer had returned. Having said all this, John Edwards is still on a higher moral plain than Larry Crag who said "I am not gay - - I never have been gay - - " and all that. John Edwards was the liberal's choice for President in 2008. When I heard that he wasn't running I was disappointed because I would have voted for him over either Obama or Hillery. Even now I wonder whether John Edwards would not have been a better President than Berock Obama. But the American People will not accept any man as President who fathered a child out of wedlock and especially when he lied about it. Of course Christians are the world class liars of all time. I have been lied to by Christians more than any other group I associate with. They say it's worse when you are lied to by a close friend, in whom you trusted your confidance and secrets. As such I am not particularly emotionally affected by Edward's lies because it doesn't affect me personally. But lies told to me by trusted Christians work enormous damage to my emotional psyche.

Conan O Brian is now out at NBC. His late night show had been handed back over to Jay Leno. Leno and O Brian both have made endless jokes about that. NBC screwed up big time and then know it. O Brian gets a nice severance package but I disagree with it in one major way. I believe Conan O Brian should have total ownership of all the jokes and routines he used on the "Tonight Show" while he was at NBC. He doesn't owe NBC squat. Because N B C brieched the contract and as such they owe Conan virtually any deal he wants to make, if he even chooses to settle and not drag it out in a court case. O Brian owes them nothing in the way of creative property rights. Jay Leno joked that since the golden globe awards were so popular, they'd be showing endless reruns of that at ten o clock. It shouldn't be hard to fill the ten o clock slot. I'm sure there are a lot of writers and production people out there because of the recession. NBC should be able to pick them up for a song.

China may be pulling the plug on our own economic recovery because it has decided to tighten up its own money lending policy to cool off its own economy. What this means is that our economy will not be getting any more money from China, which means we'll have to come up with our own ways of stimulating our economy. This could be a good thing if we view it that way because the outcome may be to strengthen the US dollar against foreign currencies.

We had at least two tornadoes in Southern California in the last couple of days, one in Huntington Harbor and the other in Costa Mesa, and possibly others. Now those in the know are saying "Orange county has the highest incidence of tornatoes anywhere west of the Rockies". I've lived in this area a long time and I never knew that before. It seems obvious that our weather all over the country and the world is changing, but I'm not sure what it means. You know, Jesus on KFI said that Christians should be "prepared". I wonder if that means they should be supporters of Al Gore. Somehow I don't believe this is what he meant. People like Rush Limbaugh are telling us that if species are wiped out because of climate change- - they will somehow "evolve" into another species more able to survive. Rush believes in short that "God told me that nothing bad will ever happen to planet earth because of man's foolishness". I think Christians- - and everyone else too, should be prepared. They should be prepared to be lied to by their pastors who will tell them neither to worry about their own economic state, and also not to worry about the state of the world. Hence we should not prepare for, for instance, world peace, or take steps to achieve that. We should prepare for war but never for once consider the notion that God may want us to make peace with other nations. Being a liberal is all about "being prepared" because they are able to see a lot further out into the future than are conservatives. Rush Limbaugh says "actions have consequences" and I agree. And a sign of intelligence is to be able to predict the consequences of a certain act, before you do it. (Selah)