Well the era of "government by crisis" continues right literally through "The Eleventh Hour' with no sign of movement either by the Republicans or the President on the Sequester of funds issue. Neither side is at all inclined to budge an inch to compromise. But need I remind you that I am personally fermilir with this sort of 'government by - - manufactured crisis" scenario plays itself out in my family with Me in that they will just suddenly Say something is "a crisis" so they can go into panic mode or whatever and freak me out. I'm not in panic mode. We'll get through this one way or another. Clearly the Republican Party is becoming out of touch with the main stream of America. But what continues to worry me is that prominent governors such as in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio are these right wing tea-bagger Republicans who enact these right wing draconian, and in many cases I believe- unconstitutional laws. But if this isn't a "Do nothing congress" than Harry Truman is going to have to apologise to the 1947-48 congress, because compared to this current one, that one was a wherll wind of productivity. This current Congress has been in session seven weeks and they have exactly ten logged days actually at the Capitol doing their jobs conducting the business of the country. Forget the high pay checks, I'd be happy is they didn't keep adding weeks at a time of vacation time- - when there is clearly a vast backlog of work to be done. What other employer do you know would put up with this crap from any employee if he could help it. You and I both know an employee who is told "there is a lot of work that needs to get done right now" will be asked to Give Up vacation time and work nights and weekends and take that business trip he was promised he wouldn't have to do. Then of course we have the polling numbers where Congress is at 11% approval and the Castro government of Cuba is at nine percent. John Boehner can put that in his pipe and smoke it. Ashley Judd polled 51% in Kentucky for Senate to Mitch Mc Conell's 49% and this poll was conducted by the Mc Conell forces themselves. On the issues those in favor of blocking gay mrriage in the Supreme Court received a major setback today when people from John Huntsman to Meg Whitman signed a petetion saying they favored full gay marriage. I don't make the news; I just report it. Clearly they have done a lot of polls on economic blame and global warming and social issues- - and the Republicans come up short every time. This has to be worrying them down the line if they have a rational bone in their bodies at all. Then there is this whole Britebart web site. Never has a dead guy deserved more undeserved honors. At least four senators have engaged in Joseph Mc Carthy type tacticts to try and impugn the reputations of honorable men. Some people try to outsmart themselves. How often do you hear someone trying to be "nice" speaking of someone they despize saying "I only have pity for you" or "I'm sorry for you" or "Your pathetic". I can think of a lot of despicable people whom I don't feel sorry for at all- - and I'll admit it.
Randy Rhodes is making a good case against
Sequester saying that in the end it will cost vital jobs and throw people into
unemployment, costing the covernment more money that way. Also if you eliminate corporate tax
loopholes- you will “spare” those corporations from having to spend all that
money hiring accountants to find those loopholes. Rather there should be deductions for
research and development to improve the product, which is a concept that is the
last thing Mitt Romney would think of. I
thank God at times all the arguments I’ve been spared over the past two months
from conversations I have NOT had with Judy, which in the end would have proved
pointless, what with her unfair arguing techniques. The Republicans are going to elaborate
measures to avoid doing the right thing and instituting the Warren Buffet rule
and other common sense tax measures to insure that the newly instituted tax
rates can’t be skirted around with cleaver accounting techniques. But the EST people warn of the “Reasonable
equals Rightness thought-pattern vicious circle, for which the only cure is to
abandon all such thinking. I think the most concise summation of the whole situation was saying that "Basically what the Democrats want to do is to give you a tax break with anything such as gasoline perhaps in getting to and from your appointed work - - that is - what you do for a living - - earning your daily bread - - bringing home the bacon. The Republicans want to protect the business meeting - - the three martini lunch where you make business deals probably clouded by the judgement of all that alcohol. Don't get me started on John Boehner. Part of the problem is that when Republicans use the term "special interest" the more proper term would be "general interest". This would refer to putting more money generally into people's hands - - and mainstreaming the poor and those part time people who are already living on the economic margins - - and mainstreaming them into becoming part of the middle class. Here is an example that came to me this morning. Many Christians such as Neil Savedra are constandly talking about "the wisdom of God' and "Trusting him to know best", when such talk and thinking is directly contrary to the way they handle the rest of their lives where they don't trust anybody as far as they could throw a bowling ball on Jupiter. Yet when it comes to this President- - unlike with the things of God where they have fundamentally NO Evidence- - they will suddenly impute the worse and most cinister motives to anything he may endeavor to do, and even in the face of positive proof the President's measures are working- - they will balk. Rush Limbaugh has often alledged that "The liberals- - more than wanting to soak the rich seem hell bent on the idea that the left has this "economic revenge" agenda- - and even if the poor have to pay and pay that somehow if they see the rich also struggling - it will make it allright. So Rush would say that "The liberals don't care if they make everyone poor just as long as the poor can point with pride that the rich are suffering". But ironically this whole perverse line of thinking- - is the exact same psychology that Neil Savedra brings to religion. For instance- - Jerusalem getting wiped out by the Romans in AD 70. Whether you are a pentacostal or a do gooder liberal pastor, or a Nazi or a KKK member- - at least you can all agree that this conquest WAS indeed a Disaster. Not Neil Savedra. He would say "Well this disaster Wasn't a Bad thing- - because some hypothetical individual may appear on the scene, some Oscar Schlinder of his day- - who would valliently protect key Jews from arrest or slaughter- - or else open his home to the poor and the disposessed or what all. And Neil would conclude "What a pity it would be if this tradgedy did NOT take place- - because in his perverse thinking then that - - strictly hypothetical "brave and vallient man" would NEVER be made manifest, and that would be just horrible, and of course (so the reasoning continues) GOD himself would be too Dumb to Know in Advance whom the Brave and Vallient persons would be in a tradgedy.
Cardinal Mahoney has
spent a lot of money to stonewall the victims of sex crimes, and if he is
covering up crimes now that should be prosecuted, he is guilty of obstruction
of justice. There was a British Cardinal
under suspicion for trying to pick up gay men or something after hours – but he
had the decency to recruise himself, but Cardinal Mahoney won’t. If he’s going into the Conclave in a
spiritually impure condition- he is committing a sin before God. Think about it. You know how on the soap opera now Nick Fallon was held up to be such a dishonorable man - - because he would not divulge a secret which as far as I'm concerned was strictly on a "Need to know" basic, and Father Eric didn't "need to know". You have to undergo what Rush has referred to as a psychological "proctology exam" by the Church before they can trust you enough to let you get married- - when half of them are gay to begin with. It's like Arlo Guthrie musing about whether he's morally upright enough to go out and burn women and children's villages and bayonette people to death - - after being a litter bug. But the thing is they call it a Holy Conclave. That sounds like tall spiritual cotton to me. You have to be morally pure before God to enter therein. They Pray about their decision on the next Pope. And I do believe there is a verse or two in the Bible that goes "We know God does not hear the prayers of sinners" (you can argue with me on this later) So before going any further perhaps they should excercise one of the Nine Spiritual Gifts- - that of spiritual Discernment- - and- - first of all decide whether their Eye is clear lest a bean be found in it- - that they may see clearly to perform the spiritual micro surgery in selecting the next Pontiff to represent the Body of Christ on earth.
We had chicken teriyaki
in a bowl for dinner and I dumped the rice into it to have one of those nice
Yoshenoya teriyaki dishes. There were
mixed vegetables. We missed seconds
which began on the other side, as they did with the soup at lunch. Irvin saying “Have faith” was useless. Janet gave me a cup of coffee about 5:25 and
she also let me has a cinnamon pastry from the bakery while I waited, and she
also gave me an orange juice. She then
announced I would be charged a quarter for one of the cigarettes, and Bill
would be too. I got a cigarette from
James right them- just after sunset- and I had another white cigarette from
James now just after seven thirty. Right
after dinner I had the final Swiss Miss.
I think the added calcium actually helps with resisting the urge for a
cigarette. It was the ABC network news
and Jeopardy and I left after Final Jeopardy.
They said that it got up to 71 today but around here I don’t believe we
made that, at least in the shade. But we
registered two degrees above “normal”.
The Dodgers won their first game of spring training today, and it seems
to me as if we are rushing spring a bit.
I’m going to keep Mt Rainier up a few more days for the wallpaper before
switching as I customarily do, to the red “Poppies”. Hopefully I’ll catch a little of Mike Meloy
on tonight. “Wheel of Fortune” is on
now. I don’t think I trust that Wendy
lady. My “little man” tells me once she
gets into office she’ll prove to be a closet tea party conservative, though I
have no evidence to back that up. I
won’t be posting today since there was absolutely no movement on dealing with
the Sequester situation in congress. I
don’t see why is John Boehner has what he regards as all these constructive
ideas why he doesn’t just push his own bill through congress, if the senate
will approve it, and then it will be up to the President to sign the thing – or
not, and then the President can rightly be accused of obstructionism in not
preventing the sequestration measures from coming into effect. I guess I told you that that “Goldfinger”
lady represed a live performance of the original song last night. I guess she pulled it off half way decently.
On the soap opera Christine is making up a
lie about Stephano being ill to get Brady to move into the Di Mira
mansion. The problem is even given those
perameters if it were me or any normal. Person we would say “You know, if
you’re going to get pushy on this matter knowing how I and my whole family feel
about the Di Miras, then perhaps it’s best we start seeing other people and
take a break from each other for a while and come back later and see how we
feel. But as it happens Stephano doesn’t
even WANT to come back to Salem now because he’s in the pink of health and has
a new lady love he’d like to spend time with.
So he’s inconvieniencing himself just to go along with his daughter’s
plan to “get back” at the Bradys for imagined “wrongs”. The trouble with Samantha is that she so
indignently says things like “how many times to I have to say I’m sorry for
that” and the obvious answer is “Not enough” because the words are no sooner
out of her mouth then she’s back Doing It Again. (Selah)
When it comes to dead people I've told you about Burt Lombard and Mal Evans- - but me and Stewart Sutcliffe have also had honest "differences of oppinions' on a thing or two. I think Stu Baby is all too inclined to want to go along with the "nanny state' and make the government the final arbiturs of our Health. Here is an area where me and Rush Limbaugh are in agreement. We also disagree about Yoco Ono, and in the past my own oppinion of Yoco has been clouded by the biases of someone who has never even met her- - based on the supposition of spiritual connections with Alcyone and particularly the Lanian connection - - in Yoco's past. We also disagree about my Romulan friends notibly the one I refer to as F H, which is rather German sounding. (classified) Bones tells me that "He's hiding things from you". Maybe, but he really doesn't strike me as the type, and I've known him a long time. (some have suggested that Tonny Chong might be a good guy to play him in the movie. Perhaps that's being too Stereotypical) And there is another individual whom Stewart reminded me very recently that he "warned me about" and my response to him was "Just don't jinx it", which was a cold and catty thing to say to Stewart and unlike me. But of course there is James Dobson. Sometimes you listen to a Nut on the air and you don't realize how nutty he in fact Was till you get away from him for a while. It's like seeing the cloud of smog roll in when you're driving down the Cajon pass on the way back into San Barnadino after being away from the City for several days. You realize "- - and I was actually breathing all that stuff". So now we hear that James Dobson believes that demons can occupy inanimate objects such as a sweater you might buy at the Good Will store. I haven't heard that one before. I kept thinking of that Bewitched episode about this antique bed warmer that went missing. Demons occupying objects is a little too far out for even me. But James Dobson says it's a good idea to perform some sort of exorcism prayer- - on the things you purchase from a Good Will store.
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