Friday, August 31, 2012

Our Liberalism Must Be More Proactive



You know I hope the Democrats will be given sufficient time by the media to sort out and expose all the lies told at that disgusting exhibition by the Republicans this past week in Tampa.  One TV evangelist used to say that the first thing you need to do in evangelism is “draining the swamp, before you can even think about laying the foundation, which is Christ”.  Apparently Romney told his people “not to be bothered by the fact checkers.  We aren’t listening to them this week”.  I believe that. In other lies told at the Republican convention it seems that this steel plant built in a field in Indiana, had at least six other investors besides Bain capital.  Mitt Romney left that out.  Also this plant, like the Olympics, got considerable government help such that a county in India had to dramatically raise their property taxes to cover the cost of constructing access roads to and from the steel plant.  It was pointed out today that two more corporations associated with Bain Capital just went bankrupt today- - and Randy was talking about one that went bankrupt in 2002.  Also Romney was talking about “getting two nine dollar jobs instead of your old $22.00 per hour job” but in fact, the average salary in Staples is $8.50 or something.  I have heard before that Staples really didn’t take off economically till it had “recovered from the trauma” of dealing with Bain Capital.  And also Gingrich used to want to separate himself from President Reagan after all that Iran – Contra stuff.  But now that he’s dead he’ll say anything the tea party wants him to say about President Reagan.  Of course Oliver North was in charge of laundering drug money through Saudi Arabia, yet he dresses up in his military uniform and everybody thinks he’s a hero.  And of course you know about that GM plant in Wisconsin that went belly up in December of 2008 while Bush was still President.  Therefore the plant was already GONE by the time President Obama assumed office the next month, so he could not possibly help that company.  That is, of course except in the mind of Paul Ryan, who blames the President shamelessly.  I’ve said it before.  The amount of sheer crap this President has had to suffer at the hands of the tea party is nothing less than disgusting, and something which should never, never happen in America.  If it were me I wouldn’t have cared a bit if they called me an “angry Black man”.  I’d take decisive action to shut the lying mother fuckers up.  You know, the Presidency has a lot of prerogatives, if the President has the will to use them.  Or to put it more succinctly “I’d give the bastards something to cry about”.

We have another police shooting to report.  This one is by a US Marshal.  Normally marshals are those people who escort you in and out of court aren’t they and keep decorum and all of that.  But they pack heat, and this guy was packing even though he wasn’t un uniform and in fact nobody knew his identity.  He got in a physical altercation with his wife in the Fairfax district.  There were a bunch of friends of the woman there and one guy took it upon himself to separate the then unknown US Marshal from his wife and this one guy managed to get him about thirty feet away.  Then as he turned back the guy began following him- and somehow the Marshal got knocked down.  But it was a full minute later when the Marshal pulled his gun and shot the rescuer in the left shoulder.  Now the guy began walking fast away for fear, and the guy got out his gun and shot him four more times, killing him.  He never let the guy he killed know either his identical as a Marshal and took steps to conceil his firearm.  This incident took place back in July and today Federal Charges from the Justice Department were filed.  Some on the political right are fond of saying that Eric Holder is no good and good for nothing, and they positively loath cases like this.  Later David Cruise told some story about some woman who wanted to drop off her children and ended up getting killed by five cops.  I don’t know the details on that one.  Of course the Marshal lied about everything and if they hadn’t had a video of it the truth would never be known.  One wonders how much “testa-lying” is done by the cops.
Melanie on Days of our Lives is writing what I call a poisoned pen letter to the parole department to keep Nick Fallon in prison a while longer.  Brady and Chad pressured her into it because she didn’t want to do it.  There is something very cold about a letter, as opposed to talking to someone face to face.  I wouldn’t like it if it happened to me.  I don’t remember this case too well but Hope and Julie are strongly urging that he be paroled and point out that his life has already been threatened once in prison.  I don’t really remember this case but apparently it involved being mentally incompacitated by drugs and killing Trent, who is Melanie’s evil father who forced her to have sex with strange men while still in high school.  Nick sought to protect her from that.  A lot of time you don’t realize in conversations that “the waters have been poisoned” and they don’t want to even relate with you because they are “all talked out” because someone who claims to know you well has been filling their head with a lot of crap.

Some people utter lines of utter wisdom despite themselves.  You’ve heard the story about the husband who comes to the Pastor’s office plaintifly saying “You know, Pastor.  I don’t get it.  When I first met my wife she was bubbly, exhuberent and full of life.  But now she’s downcast and never fixes herself up and kind of drags through the day”.  And the Pastor aptly responds, “You JUST told me the effect marriage to YOU had on her”.  Romney gave a good line last night I’d like to re-work.  “You know you’ve picked the wrong religion when the best feeling you ever had about Christ was when you first came to the altar to Confess him and get saved”.  People know a bad fit when they see it.  I never liked the “feng chue: of my parent’s house in Laguna Hills they moved to in late 1990.  The timing of the move is curious.  Earlier in the year I and my parents went to “mission study meetings” to help shape the course of our Church for the future.  But it was within ten days of moving into their new house the new pastor, the Asshole from El Paso took over.  They didn’t waste time in selling our old house we had lived in the past - - in the neighborhood of three decades.  They sold the place for $181,000 – which is the sort of price you get for a place you’re planning to break up and use for fire wood.  I think the place got sold with all dispatch- - while they were still living in it.  In November sometime there was some article about deciding on a new pastor - - soon or now or.  And my Dad sent out these vibes like he already knew who it was, and I said “You know who it is- - don’t you?” excitedly.  Then he clammed up.  Some of the tracing of subsequent “behavior patterns” is curious.  As to the house itself- - it’s downright ugly from the outside with a horrible roof line.  It has all these tiny windows- which my Mom used to hate. It was over-grown even by my standards, particularly that long, wandering hedge path to the front door.  Add a few cob webs and the place reminds me one of those “King of the realm” houses on a perch of land- - - and it had things about it my Mom formerly hated such as these step up and step down bits my Mom used to say “If we ever had a paraplegic over here that would be a definite problem.  I hated the black venetian blinds, and with the square tile pattern of the floor and subsequent furniture covers- - one is overwhelmed with a sensation of squares and lines.  I don’t like it that every room is the exact same color- - kind of this pervaisive off white. The outside colors clash.  There is this “marine blue” window trim –a color I’ve always hated anyhow, with kind of a beige.  The inside of the house would strike you immediately as “over-sized” and it had this really high, cavernous roof line my Dad formerly talked against.  When we moved into out old house- - my Dad wanted a house with “not too high a ceiling which wastes heat energy”.  He was fuel conscious in those days.  It almost reminds me of the house Jimmy Stewart used to throw bricks at when he was younger saying, “I wouldn’t even live there as a ghost”.  Of course now we have this rather incompatable, ill suited relic- - as the Republican Nominee for President.  Chain saws will have to work overtime just to cut away the underbrush.  I’ll tell you this.  I thank God every day that Barock Obama is President now instead of a Republican such as Bush.  America is in much safer hands.  President Obama is “the thin blue line” between sanity and complete tea party madness, which will be unleashed in full if Romney assumes office on January 20th.   The best way to “Impeach” Romney- - is don’t elect him to begin with.  If we don’t solve thie “Romney problem” now- - it will be a lot harder to deal with later on.


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