Our Out Of Control Government

Sixty Minutes had the thing on Guantanamo Bay and the 168 prisoners held without charges there.  But some seem to have air conditioned calls.  How do they rate that?  But there will be five defendants being charged as organizing the 911 attacks.  But all five have been waterboarded and otherwise tortured to extract information.  Then they come to the FBI of their own free will and offer up information to these people.  But one has to wonder, perhaps they are doing it so they WON”T be tortured any further.   Of course there were all the “Black Site’ operations and renditions- - and these five prisoners may have been tortured secretly in remote locations around the world.  I’m not making some “political statement” and I don’t know how Rush covered this event this morning.  I’m just saying this was the summary that Sixty Minutes offered us.  The trial is coming up very soon and I don’t see why they don’t try these five and be done with it, and try all the other 163 men too on the charges that are appropriate to their case and wipe the slate clean, so that nobody is being denied their due process of law.  But for some reason we don’t work that way in this country.  Things go on in secret all the time the knowledge of which often never sees the light of day.  Now we are told that the President of the United States “didn’t know’ about all the spying on all of our European allies that was going on, that was apparently begun under Bush.  But apparently someone “made the decision” to keep it going and I’d like to know who that “someone’ is.  According to Ebony K, “someone made the decision” not to get the input of Young People, to poll them about how they feel about doubling or tripling their insurance rates.  Why should each and every policy carry coverage for things such as drug rehab and breast pumps, prenatal care, mental health coverage or things like esoteric drugs old people take?  When you think about it in those strict terms it doesn’t make sense and even Ebony K says that “maybe something was rushed through without the proper vetting process for its political and social impact”.   So we have spying, and we have torture, and we have secret wars, and secret weapons sales, and secret surveillance of citizens both in the United States and allies all over the globe.  We have a President who at least used to talk about Peace while all the while increasing drone strikes around the world.   It would sure be nice if we had just one candidate running for any political office that “couldn’t be bought” and didn’t CARE what Wall Street “thought of him” when it comes to enforcing trade and banking laws.  Like I say, President Obama is the best friend in the White House, that Wall Street ever had.  But we are also told- - no matter the absurdity “Never even think of forming a third party”.   At some point either the Left or the Right is going to “do it’ anyhow and form a third party.  Once one side does it, the other side will feel and know that it’s Safe to also form a Third Party.  I guess it’s kind of the ultimate lab experiment in a psychology class of “which side will crack first”.  What absurdity upon absurdity will we progressives tolerate in the name of “electability”?  If sixty percent of Americans see a need for a Thirt Party, you’d think one would show up on the scene, sooner rather than later.  Progressives have gotten almost nothing from President Obama in the past five years- - if you don’t count gay marriage.  But in the general umbrella of progressive issues- - there has been almost no progress, for example, in Wall Street reregulation.  It doesn’t help our side if the President never even ASKS for half of the things we seek.  So far the President hasn’t officially approved the Canadian pipeline, but I see no indication he won’t.

I wanted to do a whole treaties about how a problem can start off small and grow like some kind of horrible malignancy.  I guess I’ll just edit out portions of it for blogging purposes and leave the rest.  It’s like the perverbial stain on the shag white carpet.  You have one blank ink spot- - and the more you attempt to erridicate it you only spread it around so it gets bigger and bigger.  This idea now is - - kind of like that “disturbance in the time fabric of the universe- - that starts off small and in this case gets bigger with Time, but in that case this ‘stain” or “blemish” in the Universe was getting larger as time “passed”.  And if you went back far enough into the - - future - - to “before” the thing started you look and see only stars, as things should be.    Let’s say the DEVIL wants to create “a problem” with me- - not YOU or at least “Not You - - Yet”, but don’t think you’ll get off that easy.  Let’s say the Devil wants to create a problem with me and Christianity.  The first thing he need do is create just random thoughts in my Mind that I share with no one- - or virtually nobody.  They are things like paperatzi that kind of  -zzz-z-zzzz-zz are here one minute and gone the next.    If that doesn’t work then he’ll enter a whole Person and make that Person the object of my Problem, such as Paul.  I do fine as long as I can keep away from that one person, Paul.  When Paul becomes in Satan’s esteemed opinion “incapable of oppressing me sufficiently” then Satan will add others into the mix such as Mark Bove and people tightly associated with him.   Then this gets broadened out a bit like in July of 1985 to include- - well what I faced at the Bosc house now was a whole other depth of "problem" with two out of three housemates, notibly Frank and Henry, neither one of which I had ever "approved' as roommates - - and then in September of 1985 to others such as screwy Louie that Bible Study teacher and his minions who follow him.   But supposed somehow I manage to get away from all that.  Then you have Christian Churches in general and people on the radio and TV media.  So far they aren’t impacted, but they’ll be next.  Then around 2004 you take the next slight step of- - not only can’t you trust ANY pastors and the whole idea of “church” is nauseating.  Now the Devil has gone on the Radio preaching - - just Bad Doctrine by Any standard in the person of Neil Savedra.  What the Devil has been unable to accomplish in two thousand years, Neil succeeds at because- - now the very person of Jesus Christ himself has been provided an Avatar that you can Hate.  You can think of Jesus Christ personally as “What a jackass” for instance.   Then finally we move on into politics and the Tea Party as we know it actually saw its first “budding” - - those first green shoots- - in the person of Sarah Palin at the end of August of 2008.  From then on the very processes of government has a mouthpiece for the dingbat Right Wing.  From then on it wasn’t a matter of going to a church or listening to the radio, but rather the whole apperatus of government is now enlisted in that Christian cause, and that carpet stain has grown mighty indeed.  What we have NOT seen - - Yet- - is the spread of this malignancy to the population of the entire World in some systematic way.  The rest of the civilized World population STILL thinks we are all nuts in the United States. 

 
So was "Q" right.  Was it really "Me" all along?  That would be terribly egocentric.  I'm just telling you My Story, My View of what Happened.  Jesus himself talked about "fruits" and sometimes there is a waiting process involved to see how these herbs will eventually grow and ripen.  What was utterly unthinkable at one point- -may be standard practice at a later date, such as threatened government shutdowns, and fillibustering virtually everything.  We progressives can take some stock that perhaps tomorrow's Elections will provide some Clue of where things are headed like in New Jersey and Virginia.  That would be funny if Governor Christie were voted out of office.  That would provide a dfinitive "Answer" to those, or perhaps Christie himself, as to whether he should or should not run for President in 2016.  Apparently the Romney team found a lot of political skeletons rattling around in his closet- - that made them cross him off their VP list.  But now of course Romney is protective of him.  Romney wants a candidate running who is "Electable" and yet can be somehow "brought around" to accepting the Tea Party platform on issues and running on them.

Astrological indicators don't bode well at all for President Obama in the next year, if you re wondering why I have turned so negative on him all of a sudden.  I said that he could still be Assasinated by the ever growing of nuts out there- and we just experianced another one of these at LA International Airport last Friday.   It's not alltogether inconceivable that President Obama may resign from office.  He may do this because even HE sees that the office is a mockery and that Others make all of the Key Decisions anyhow.  Perhaps President Obama too is tiring of defending the undefendable.  Can anybody even remember what issues got President Obama elected in 2008 because I sure can't!  I voted for him but I don't know why.  With so many good Democrats out there why did we pick this Junior Senator from Illinois- - who had such a thin political resume?  Why not Dick Durbin or Dianne Feinstein, or Andrew Cuomo or even laughing boy in the photo - Joe Byden in the top slot?  Clearly President Obama THINKS he knows how to deliver a good speech, but making the speech is only the start.  What do you do after that?  Political leaders need force behind his words.  We may not like John Boehner but he's a man with Power and knows how to Use it.  So we listen to him.  What he says is Important.  What Barock Obama says is NOT important because - - the only news worthy thing the media reports is that "The President is trying to shore up his disasterous image right now".