Well now you know that your cat has nine lives
Nine lives to itself
You've only got One
- - and a dog's life isn't fun
Mama, take a look Outside
Maybe everything isn't coming up roses just yet, but hang on, we're getting there. President Obama is back up to 52% in the personal approval polls, which is the first time he has had majority figures here in quite some time. Unemployment claims for this past week are down. Gasoline prices should be coming down since our number one finished export in this country is now gasoline. According to Thom Hartman some comodities law passed just for bankers in 1991 enabled Goldman Sachs to invest in oil. Hartman's memory might serve him ill here because the way I remember it- - oil price per barrel collapsed during and after Gulf War I to about $16.00 per barrel. It only it were selling for that today. Hartman says that A I G was bailed out in 2008 to save Goldman Sachs or they would have experianced the same fate as Lehman Brothers. Goldman Sachs counted on A I g to underwrite all of their investments. Wisconsin is the ONLY Midwestern state to actually have LOST jobs in the past six months, and this is undoubtably thanks to Gov Scott Walker's "austerity" measures. So other Republicans should take notice. Rick Scott of Florida was unsuccessful in selling off the Florida prison system, and Arizona also turned down the idea of privatizing their Prison system. Apparently Wikki-leaks is trying some new, instituting a Pier ti Pier file exchange program, so that now instead of uploading contraversial information to the cloud- - the other users can come to you for the file information. I guess this keeps it a little more Private and away from government snooping, at least for now. Representative Daryl Eise, the only convicted felon in Congress- - has now announced that he shall call no women to testify on hearings about whether birth control should be allowed in health plans or not. Obviously this shows a naked sexual bias on his part as though "women can't really be religious". I would ask you to check and just see how many women theologians there have been in history, because I sure can't think of any. Women are just too rational and sensible to go for such whacko mental indulgences. They have to be. Women often have to be "the adult" in a marriage, if you know what I mean. It would seem that Rick Santorum continues his rise in the Republican polls. If the Republicans really have the cajones to actually go through with it and nominate this guy- - then be my guest. It will make for one interesting race in the fall where the issues of the day can be diametrically challenged. Santorum apparently has said that "Birth control is bad for women" and at other times has said "birth control is bad because it encourages sex outside of marriage. He might have added that many Catholics still believe that sex is for procreation, not recreation. In terms of Iran it would seem that their latest hostility was spawned by the death of those five Iranian scientists. But now they have reaffirmed that though their nuclear technology is getting better (and they released that picture of all the scientists I downloaded) that they affirmed again they have no intension at all of developing a Nuclear Bomb. It would seem to me here there is an opening to a US suggestion that we send in inspectors to moniter their nuclear research activities, but not to interfere with their work- - but just allow them to reassure the world everything is kopecetic. Apparently this on again off again Israeli raid is now on indefinite hold and there are no real plans for it.
The House and Senate reached an agreement late Wednesday night on legislation to renew the two percentage-point cut in the payroll tax, which was set to expire at the end of this month, as well as jobless benefits for millions of unemployed Americans. It is hoped that the deal will be passed off for a vote in the House and Senate this week. “For working families facing tight budgets, this can make a real difference in paying for groceries, school supplies, and the monthly rent or mortgage payment,” Gary Burtless, economist with the Brookings Institution, said. “If Congress had allowed the payroll tax cut to lapse, these families would have immediately felt the squeeze of a smaller paycheck. Many would have cut their spending, slowing the pace of the current recovery.” For a worker or family earning $50,000 a year in wages, the payroll tax cut reduces Social Security tax withholdings by $1,000 a year, he said. This boosts after-tax income by about $85 a month. For families further up the income ladder, it is less clear whether they would see such an immediate impact of letting the payroll tax cut end, Burtless said. “These families do not live from paycheck to paycheck. They may be using the tax cut to pay off old credit card bills or add to their saving,” he said, adding that many affluent workers have jobs that depend on selling products and services to families who are in tight economic circumstances.
I don't know how Dr. Levy has this habbit of "losing' my E mails. I don't "lose" E mails! He said I could re-send the message. Maybe I'm not in the mood now. You know- - I have said that an argument lacking three dimensions is not worthy of "having both sides of it looked at". David Bowie said it more tursely saying "If you're stepping on my toes I have the right to shout you down". There are times when you have to "take a stand" in life and not "be a continual worshipper of the great God two-side" as one Evangelist put it. The trouble with "seeing the other side" is that you continually have to be "thinking for another" and "making the case better for your Enemy's side better than He could make it Himself". This thinking also tends tword what I call the "perswasive capital" argument whereas ten of your ideas are only worth one of his ideas, and therefore he has ten times as much right to be heard as you do, when in reality given certain contexts, he ascually has NO right to be heard. Some will beguile you with the argument of "If you don't feel as close to God now as you used to feel- - then guess who moved". But I say unto you that it might well be not God that "Moved" nor you, but your Church, and you don't know the Difference and that's the Problem. (Selah) "Yeah, Marcus, that oppinion and fifty cents will buy you a cup of coffee". Well, fortunately for me this is 2012 and coffee sells for a lot more than fifty cents now.
As you may or not know, chocolate is toxic to dogs and perhaps cats too. Someone told me lately that chocolate would be toxic to human beings too except we are unable to metabolize the poisons into our blood system. I don't know. As you know both incarnations of Stewart Sutcliffe- - - as Toby the dog and Bones the cat, both of them had as their favorite flavor of ice cream as chocolate. Both their favorite meat treats were pork chops. Of course Romney economics is toxic to America and in the Lennon metaphore, most of us are dogs, and can't afford the luxury of thinking as though we weren't. Back when the Beverly Hillbillies were on the term "bourshwah" was a disparaging term meaning inferior and un-cooth, crass, money grubbing, and not attune to the finer things. This is NOT how Karl Marx used the term. Judy might do well to listen to one of these rants of Mrs Drysdale once in a while. Of course now on Days of Our Lives they are teaching us new steps to an old dance, the Madison, which is before my time. Could it be possible for instance that Howard Richards' fiancee (who lived in Madison) didn't have him killed because he cheated- - but rather Howard found out that she was not really loyal to him but had these secret connections- - and that's why he was a bit uneasy the last two weeks of his life. Just perhaps also Howard decided (this is complete speculation) that maybe since he had lost his fiancee he might as well go ahead and make advances to Robin, and hence we have what I call the Robin-Evans wing of the ZAC which has developed this certain "narritive" all these years. So Robin was kind of "pulling an Abigail" to cite another character. You have wings of the ZAC that say that while Wings was an annointed group, this didn't include any track where Henry Mc Colloch was in the band. And so while "Wild Life" and "Band on the Run" are OK, then Red Rose Speedway and a few singles are to be avoided because Henry Mc Culloch had Romulan leanings. I have a bias twords "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and "Country Dreamer" because we did those two songs at C M K with "Muah" both on vocals, and playing drums on both songs. Of course you know my all time favorite Mc Cartney track- - a B Side ("Oh, you mean "Let me Roll It") no I mean the other B side that is a secret indulgence of mine that Mal Evans also has a soft spot for. That track appears on an album formerly called "KAOS Radio Hits of the '70's". It's a three CD set listed in "For the Record" I believe in my blog in May of 2006. The last song to be added was the song that gave the album its present title from then on. Otherwise known as Steely Dan chapter 5, verse 3. You know that BONES or 5 and 5 and you're lucky to be Alive if you're over 55. Also a not quite accurate Jim Morrison biography title. OK raise your hands. How many people caught the numeric error in this paragraph before I "fixed" it? How many know what the one word below I just changed to the correct one?
You got a woman and you want her gone
But you ain't got the guts
She keeps nagging as you night and day
About to drive you nuts
Leave It Alone
Pick up the Phone
It's time to make a stand
For a fee
I'm Happy to Be
Your Back Door Man
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