Today President Obama actually did something right. He signed the aid bill to help states with Medi Cal payments and also to keep policemen and teachers from being laid off. It is a good thing. Randy Rhodes was saying something today about police officers and teachers being the new "Welfare Queens", which was kind of a myth to begin with, since the majority of welfare recipients are White. But it was pointed out like in the Meg Whitman commercials, it isn't that state unions are looting the tax payers pockets, it's just that these people are among the few who actually get what is coming to them, as opposed to the private sector where the employees are over-worked and under-paid. For senior citizens it is worse. For the second year in a row in 2010 Social Security payments contain no cost of living increase even though expenses for older people has continued to rise. They aren't buying things like power lawnmowers or new homes or lap top computers that are going down in price but rather prescription medication. It used to be that when corporations wanted to expand they hired on new employees. Now they've all found a way to cut payrolls and expand profits. People say that Obama is "trying to advance the progressive agenda". Others like Pat Buchannon say that President Obama is a political oppertunist and whichever way the winds are blowing is the direction he will lean. I am inclined to believe with this assasment. People wonder what the political "center" IS nowadays. It is pointed out that the political opposite of Michelle Bachman or a Sarah Paylin is not someone like President Obama, but rather a member of the American Communist Party, all three hundred of them. Thom Hartman is not a down the line idiolog as far as the left is concerned. There are any number of issues such as guns and immigration where Hartman shows conservative traits, such as throwing out the fourteenth amendment as far as it serves to protect American born children. It isn't typical of a leftist to say that Marburry verses Madison set a bad Supreme Court Precedent. Most leftists don't advocate guying gold. I sure don't. My point is that nobody would argue that President Obama is to the political right of Thom Hartman. The health care bill was a sheer give-away to the Insurance companies, and I was against it in its final form. President Obama has kept on Defense Secretary Gates from the Bush administration. In fact Obama's entire foreign policy and natural security position is basically a holdover from the Bush administration. President Clinton wasn't that different. He turned his back on the gays with "Don't Ask Don't Tell". He signed that bad telecommunacations bill finishing the damage Reagan has started. He signed the bill to "end welfare as we know it" and he also signed the Defense of Marriage act. In addition to all this he let the Republicans put through all that economic legislation that has caused so much damage. You know it was nearly thirty years ago the song "Take This Job and Shove It" was popular. Nobody would dare say that today because employees have all been "Greenspanized" and are constantly in fear of their very jobs, in any form. People regard that male flight attendant for Jet Blue airlines as kind of a folk hero. He got into a scuffle with a passenger and had a piece of luggage fall on him from the overhead bins. Then he picked up two beers from a serving tray (and presumably drank them) and then used the ejection slide to exit the plan to his car where he drove away. I could write paragraphs on the pressures for both employee and passenger in the airline industry. It was pointed out that passengers have been hassled all the way through the process of boarding the plane and they too reach that snapping point. But when you look at Obama you wonder why he is doing the things he does. You know, to go "Soap Opera" on you people, I wouldn't mind a bit if Berock Obama was a little more like Elvis Di Mira. He would make a good attorney because he inspires confidence and is calm and cool under fire and he knows what he's doing and he doesn't back down. He makes sure he has all his ducks lined up in a row before acting. Nicole Walker has a real guardian angel in him. He is the best thing she's got going when all her other friends have forsaken her. Of course some will say "People will do amazing things if they feel they're being blackmailed. I guess the issue is "We know Obama feels pressure from the political right and everyone on the left makes excuses for his actions, or inaction. How can we on the left be a little more like Nicole Walker and get our own "bargaining chip" to expedite a little Action? I saw this thing on the internet last weekend about a Black attorney (?) or something involved in that false arrest incident of a Black professor outside his own home. He said that the President's involvement on this issue "blackened" him. THAT is a racist barb is there ever was one. That it was a Black man who said it causes me to cringe. You know something, the political Left DOES need to put out a unified message. But that message should NOT be "George Bush light". It should be a message that advances the causes of the left, so that the left can be relivent today.
Global Warming is in the news. We have record setting heat in most of the country (but not here on the west coast, thankfully) and also in places like Moscow, which is pretty far north. They are suffering through really bad heat and really bad smog, due to all the fires in the region. They say the peat bogs around Moscow are on fire. And we have record rains and flooding in such diverse areas as Poland, China, and of course in Pakistan. And just in the past few days there is that ice sheet four times the size of Manhattan breaking off into the sea, which would provide drinking water for every man, woman, and child in the U S for 120 days. You can't rationalize all this away. This is the hottest summer of the hottest year of the hottest decade ever. People talk about the snow storms but a lot of this was with thirty degree temperatures or in other words just below the melting point. Raise the temperature a few more degrees and these snow storms also will be a thing of the past. I guess just today Carl Sagan said that mankind better colonize another planet within the next two hundred years or we're all doomed. There is not a lot of time and the more we waste the more we run the risk we will have waited too long because we've already passed the tipping point. To coin a phrase from our Dentist friends, "If you wait to go until it starts to hurt, basically you've waited too long". Dr. Levy did a little Al Gore bashing the other day even though Al Gore has done a disappearing act in the media from the presence he had just a few years ago. And it's an unhealthy thing. Being right is not always the politically expedient thing to do. In the past we know this is true. But it seems as this is just another case of those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. (Selah)
In order to colonize other planets we will first have to develop some propulsion system that is not prohibitive, with or without the special theory of relativity. Under ordenary Newtonian physhics- - propulsion systems known to us now just won't cut it in Deep Space. It would be nice if somewhere some flying bit of matter were clocked at hyper-light speeds. If you read our material from late last year you know about the "reciprocity doctrine". This isn't a way to get out of a rape conviction but rather it's the doctrine that says that all of the claims Einstein made for special relitivity may be just optical illusions and not actual. If they are illusion- - then none of the things Einstein said would happen WILL happen. I repeat this is in special relitivity, which is a hypothetical zero gravity realm. I know of no instance where Einstein's theories were proved in a Zero G environment, or nearly so. If you have, let me know. This is a legal loophole, a "hole card" if you will, that Elvis Di Mira himself might pull out of a hat to win his case.
THE FOLLOWING WAS TYPED AUGUST 8TH. 2010
Last night I watched the Mc Laughlin report. It was a gang-up so four to one on Eleanor Clift. It gets tiresome. Then I watched Malcolm in the Middle and then Wheel of Fortune. Then it was another airport movie. This pushy guy is in this woman’s face and she doesn’t have the gumption to blow him off and now she learns he’s some kind of a homicidal nut. I had some dream last night about Dad weeding out my folders and I was looking for them and he was vague about where they were of if they were around.
In the morning I went out to the bakery for a large coffee. I had Neil Savedera on and today he was asked about pets in heaven. I thought for a minute he was going to go into the “lobotomy doctrine” where the sadness of losing a pet (or other unsaved family member) would be forever erased from your brains by God. But then he says animals aren’t specifically mentioned in heaven. WE are not specifically mentioned in heaven either. First there is the thousand years on earth and then there is “a new Heaven and a new Earth” because the old ones are passed away. I wanted to find the blog where I use a writing in Word from July or August of 2005 about the very line of reasoning Jesus talked about where animals are not “Judged” the way human beings are. The point of my article then was that it’s inherently unfair for HUMANS to suffer eternal torment in Hell merely by not saying the magic words of Salvation. The trouble is- - Google Desktop pretty much sucks as far as finding references in blogs, even though it does a good job finding Word documents. I’d like to give my readers a link or something to other blogs of mine where they could go for more information, but I don’t have any indexing system and the more blog postings I do, the more chaotic it gets.
We had Rice Krispies again for cold cereal. We had the ever so usual fried egg and under toasted toast with butter and two grape jellies today. I was unable to get a second cup of coffee because she was slow making the rounds and even put the extra cream back on her cart so as not to waste it. We finished early and I caught most of the Chris Matthews program and “Meet the Press”. The oil leak was a topic. At nine they had the gay marriage topic starting with the two attorneys who had argued the case. Then they had the gay couple on themselves. They were two well dress clean cut wholesome looking men, who could about pass for Mormon missionaries. They appeared not to be flaming radicals or anything but said they just wanted rights not based on sexual discrimination. The idea of procreation or “marital duties” or roles is not the issue. It’s that the whole notion is a biological and moral perversion of a thousands of years old cherished institution. I turned it off at 9:18 and went out for a cigarette.
“Get Back” was originally intended as a song about Pakistanis coming to England to take away jobs. “Jo-Jo” is supposedly Dennis Lane’s wife, and Tuscon is where Linda once lived. Brian Ray (?) (not Brian May) was some guitarist that worked with Paul once and KOLA played a new song of his. KLOS had that Lawerence Jubar (?) fellow who joined Wings for “Back to the Egg”. Wings ended prematurely because of some Japanese concert that got derailed. Brian played “When I’m 64” and it sounded like two guitars playing. It seems like it would take seven or eight fingers just to finger the thing. KLOS played “Spin It On” and “Old Siam, Sir” and I’m wondering whether this song might have been a little inspired by Rush’s “Passage to Bancock”. They played three “American versions” of Beatle songs. They played the single tracked version of “And I Love Her”. They played the version of “I’ll Cry Instead” with the extra verse, long roomered to exist. And they played “I Feel Fine” with the American re-virb. They played “Good-bye, My Love” with Mc Cartney using his “Blind Owl” voice.
With Leo Le Port we’ve been plagued for weeks now by his constantly airing repeats in his broadcasts. I don’t believe the whole show is a repeat but it’s persistentant enough to be annoying. There is a security “hole” in the Safari operating system that can only be fixed or plugged by “jail breaking” the I Phone. Even Leo says jail breaking is not always a good idea because “there aren’t that many applications it doesn’t have” but also because jail breaking may cause it to malfunction. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Fritos for lunch. I had an extra half. Again there were seconds on coffee. We had cantaloupe. Loretta not only declined my half-ass offer to go to Harvest Festival tonight to hear James Dobson, but she didn’t even go to church this morning. In light of what I said above, I really don’t want to go myself. I only have two cigarettes left. Even on a good week the problem is running out of money before the end of the week. They just announced that the Salvation Army singers were now here.
I managed to watch This Week on the ABC link. It was sliced up into segments, but they were reasonable segments, not excessively short. There were several segments on Iraq and Afghanistan and military progress, and on the subject of military suicides. Then they talked about he gellatanus nature of the US Senate. The example with Washington and Jefferson and the pouring out of coffee into the saucer to cool it, is not quite right. The Senate has become a place for bills to die. In one case a Republican who wanted to support the troops last December was convinced by the others not to so it would hold up the Health Care bill till as close as Christmas as possible for political purposes. Don’t ask me how the two were connected. President Obama has not made his case to the American people, but the Republicans have, and that is the problem. One side has a clear position and Obama does not want to fight back because he feels uncomfortable espousing liberal issues. So his biggest problem is cowardess
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