There are so many pieces of the Sacred ceremony that you lack
Your head is filled with false ideas, twisted images, and distorted facts
- - - - - - - - -
Sometimes I find myself day-dreaming about the way things Really Are
But the way you get on my case, you make my ears ring, and you're making me see stars
In the news we have
Romney and the tea baggers jumping all over the statement made by the President
that the private sector is doing well.
According to the republican response the private sector continues to be “worried”
about taxes that haven’t gone into effect yet.
We’ve been hearing this excuse for years and it’s wearing a little
thin. There is always this phantom,
mystery tax in the future. But in point
of fact the recovery with the private sector is coming along quite well; it’s
the public sector that’s the big problem and I’m not telling you anything you
don’t know. But they are comparing
yesterday’s statement to John Mc Cain’s statement in September of 2008 that “The
fundamentals of the economy are sound” in this continual “false equivalency”
thing the right has been doing lately.
First of all if they are saying that John Mc Cain’s statement is way
wrong- - which it certainly was- - tell me this. How come all of you people still voted for
him knowing what you did going in? Of
course one thing that will work against Romney, ironically is this thing about “Lowered
expectations”. Some might call it “evolving
to a new sense of Normal”. It was Jerry
Brown who first used this “Lowered expectations” phrase, and none of us liked
hearing it. I sure didn’t. Two days ago when I spoke of “lowered
expectations” I was referring to a whole host of things including the “Promises
of God” himself. You see even God is
telling us now we need to lower our sites. I guess God was high on communion wine
when he dictated these sweeping Bible promises to the scripture writers and now
desires not to be held accountable for his words. And to use the “responsibility” argument on
God- - Dr. Phil or anybody would say that if someone makes statements in your
name and you well know about, and have the power to stop them from saying it,
and you do absolutely nothing - - - then it’s none other than You who in the
end accountable for the falsehood of the statement. But I’d like to raise another issue now and
this is the whole “straining at gnats” thing the tea party has routinely done
with this President. At least President
Clinton actually WAS a “lying, pot smoking, draft dodging, womanizer”. I didn’t dispute these things. But I’m kind of wondering just what the “Driving
force” or some might say “obsession” to find some Fault they can pin on this
President. To me it all goes back to race
in the fact that the President is a Black man.
Judy sent me stuff about Rush Limbaugh discussing the adverse votes for
the President in Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia. And Rush said “It would be wrong to say these
anti Obama votes among Democrats are racist”.
Sure as that memory lady on Stephanie Miller sais “Sometimes we can
remember things and see them as some historical oddity or anomally- - but
definitely as just a part of our past and not a part of our present”. I would like to now remind you of an
insightful thing I heard from some evangelist maybe twenty years ago. He said “We should classify a problem by time
and how long it will take to be solved.
Is it a thirty minute problem or a five or six hour problem - - or a
five or six day problem - - or is it a longer period, for instance a month - -
or a year- - - of perhaps a lifetime?” Fir
instance when the LA Kings lost Wednesday’s ice hockey game, I knew we had at
LEAST a three day “problem” and the odds are very good that it will turn into a
five or six day “problem” before it gets “solved”. Capish?
Many problems I have with my family are indeed lifetime problems. If you’d asked me fifteen years ago whether
racism in the South was “A thing of the Past” I would have said it was. That it was long dead and buried. But in the light of Travon Martin and other
hate crimes recently- - - I would be proven wrong. When you strain your brain trying to some up
with some germ of rationalization for why the tea party behaves the way they
two tword President Obama, in the end you’re left with what Mr. Spock says “Once
you’ve eliminated every other possibilities, then whatever remains, no matter
how improbable - - is The Truth”. So it
is with Racism, which clearly is not some anomally from my child hood fifty
years ago but on ongoing, revived reality of today. As to that Story I wrote about a nuclear war-
- - in case the message didn’t quite get through Stewart Sutcliffe believes
that Mitt Romney is attackable on the whole “going to War” issue, and that he
will do almost anything- - nor to respond to danger, but to actually START a
World War. “Like Judas of old - - you
lie and deceive. A World War can be won
- - You want me to Believe”. This is
from “Masters of War” by Bob Dylan.
While we're on the subject mf memory let's just review a few obvious facts about the timing of various political events. Jimmy Carter was NOT responsible for the Reagan recession that actually began in ernest in July 1981 which is "indellibly etched into my memory" because I read Business Week in the public library so much back then. Bill Clinton might possibly owe his eventual surplusses to the fact that George HW Bush "threw himself on a live political granade" by raising taxes in late 1990 that lost him the Tea Party vote but might have helped save the economy and certainly helped with the soaring budget deficets. Also people used to always say that 9 - 11 was the Start of the George Bush recession. This one can't be blamed in any way on Clinton. But Bill Clinton can be held partially responsible for giving the Wall Street manipulators and crap shoot crowd a leg up in signing a host of bills late in his second presidential term. However may I also remind you that George Bush by this time in 2004 had NOT created as many jobs from the "trough" of the 9 -11 recession, whenever you say it was in late 2001 or whenever - - - as this President has in the past three years since the bottom of THIS recession in June of 2009. This President has done well by the private sector and they really owe him a Lot.
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