This is All Saints Day

 So what do you do when you have no blogger ratings?  You stop caring and post any old thing knowing it won't be read.  But we'll give it a shot.  An argument was put forth that insurance of any sort is "redistribution of wealth" because it's inherently people gambling they Won't be lucky- - and the people they DO pay money to today are "feeling lucky".   I'm as in favor of the "free market" and all as the next fellow but in order for it or anything to work- - it has to be fair.  Like I was saying in the last posting- - - if you say you want health insurance- - the person who insures you has a decision to make.  They look you over- - check your teeth like you would with a race horse- - have you go for medical tests- - and of their own free will they announce that you are Fit to be Insured.  From then on, as I as see it- - it's Their responsability from that point onward if "something goes wrong".  They can't come back five or ten years later and say "Well if we had known about this or that condition we wouldn't have insured you".   It's like buying an item "As Is' at a Swap Meet.  It's like betting on a race horse- - and the Breeders Cup is tomorrow at Santa Anita.  You may want to bet on a horse- - and remember with horses, bet long shots, with football, bet favorites.  You like a certain horse- - but if he should fail to win, place, or show- - and you investigate and find that this horse had some injury at six months of age that might have affected his racing ability, you can't come back to your bookie or on track betting service and say "I want my money back because I got a defective product".  The moment you give your Word- - the responsability then lies on You.  This is fundamental "right wing' if you will, old fashioned ethics, moral character.   Today I was talking with an individual from the 'other side" Keith Relf - - and he said that the whole Rush Limbaugh argument about selective insurance or "paying just for what you need and not a bit more" is an absurdity in the modern, civilized cosmos.  Because the demands of a society are such that - - people get taxed all the time for things they don't use.  Old people get taxed for fixing potholes in the street when they themselves don't drive.  Or childless couples get taxed for educating school children.  A person with a brick house and tile roof and a rock garden- - has to pay for things like fire protection along with the rest of us.  It was pointed out that even some libertarian pirate ship or something living off shore from the international boundary- - if that boat gets raided by real Pirates- - who do they turn to to be rescued but the governments they despize.  Red States receive all kinds of aid from the Blue States- - but the blue state people don't resent poor white children in Arkansas or somewhere who are poor and ignorant and perhaps disease ridden with lice or something.  They can't help it; they're poor.  Of course they need to be cared for.   People say they don't want to pay for women's health issues- - but if you're a man, you probably Love a woman- - there's one in your life.  Don't you want her to have the best medical coverage?  I asked Keith Relf about that.  "Do you mean that everybody on Sirius A has comprehensive medical insurance".  He said (after a brief look of puzzlement on his face)  "No we don't.  We don't need it because we have a different system here.  You get a Warrenty for your Avatar.  If there are any "malfunctions" with it, you go back to the Maker and sue them.  It's a legal business transaction matter.  It's nothing you would even need to go to an outside insurance agent to have covered."   So in that case then there would be a Direct Connecton (as Rush Limbaugh wants) between the thing you want insured- - and the cost of the "Warrenty" or guarentee for it.

   And when it comes to Free Markets- - Larry Elder has come out against crossing the border to buy your drugs in Canada- - to Larry this is some offense.  What rich people like the Koch Brothers want is a poor and ignorant populace- - - because they know the Affordable Care act will put more money in poor people's hands and they can spend more and keep the economy and keep the country vibrant.  But the tea party then could not blame President Obama for a prosperous economy.  So much of what they do for seeming economic reasons has as its root motivator- - politics.   Raiding pension funds - - of workers- - if theft and "a re allocation of money from the poor, to the rich".   But they pay these "fund managers" all this money in the name of "efficiency".  They say in Austrailia you can buy a Mac Donalds burger for fifty cents less than one bought in the US even if they pay their workers sixteen dollars an hour.  Judy may be right that some businesses opperate on a paper thin Profits margin- - but Mac Donalds is not one of these corporations.  If there were really a Free Market- - the minute there were any shortage of doctors or nurses or emergency workers- - more people would go into these professions- - and make more money because their services would be worth more than in their old job, and markets would even out.  If we really had a Free Market maybe you couldn't get a loan for one & a half percent or whatever T bills pay these days.  So offer the person three, or four & a half.  If they STILL turn you down for a loan at three times the T bill rate you know there is a flaw in the Free Market system.  How about inventers who discover a new efficient kind of auto engine or new energy source?  They get "bought out" or threatened.  Just like the people in South Passadina were being threatened for fifty years of being "bought out" and some were.  Then the Freeway was canceled.  So will they not get back their homes for the price they "freely sold them for' years ago.  I speak in jest now.  They government OWES them the price of their homes that they were Paid at the time.  None of this crap about "Well that's not the Free Market price".  Was it "Free Market" when you obtained that property?

Keith Relf said some other things this morning and yesterday- - when the message was getting garbled in the translation.   First of all when it comes to travel over long distance- - Keith Relf seemed surprised when I mentioned a "time-warp device for filtering out gravitons and affecting the time and mass problems you have in space travel".  Relf indicated "we have no device for filtering out gravitons.  We use space geometry properties- - - and then looking at me for a reaction- - he said "Metaphysical space geometry properties".   "It's a basic property of the geometry of space we have been aware of for a long time".  I asked him about the Romulan Cloaking device and he said "The Romulan cloaking device is no big thing actually.  We would do just fine without it".    His answer puzzled me a bit.  But apparently a lot (most) of the races Do "Do without it" but I'm not buying the notion that it would not be an enormous advantage.   Yesterday and early this morning (while it was still dark) he talked about the "Rotunsans".   This is a group that first landed on Earth at El Dorado, Arkansas, and is responsible for a lot of Southern Country Music- - and he named Atlanta, Dallas, and - - - Bakersfield, California.   He said Billy Ray Cyrus would be the name you'd be most fermiliar with.  "I was awfully young when Achy Breaky Heart- - was on the charts, but I do remember it".  (referring to his incarnated body then)  There is one grunge rock group we won't name- - where they released their First Album- - and for four months it languished in the record sales- - then- - they struck up a deal with the Rotunsians- - and record sales exploded- - and people were lined up at the stores waiting to buy their Second album sight unseen.  (I myself own their third album only)   But this grunge group- - "spit the hook" or somehow was able to disown their "contract with the Devil" and reverted to their "Purple status" as Keith referred to it.  He said that Aldeberan IX people "Were in a panic and needed a place to go after their home planet was destroyed and the Purple planet was their Salvation.  (Since about 1970 it's been known as the "Colors" planet)  So they benefited from some "escape clause" spell.   He spoke of these Rotunsians as "They used to be pretty inocuous- - but have gotten really wierded out and Occultic".   He said they were "Half Sutteran and half Taccoman" but when I told him my understanding of Sutteran geniology he took issue with me.  I said "I think they have a star or so in Cassiopia" so he looked on a computer star map he had.  Notibly all the stars and such- - were done in all small letters -no caps at all.  Some of the spellings were strange with a lot of consonents.  He showed me how you could click on a name and get a whole lot of other information and click on a word there- and get even more.  It was the first time I'd seen such sophisticated technology in use on Sirius A.  (So not everybody on Sirius A is retro when it comes to technology)  He agreed with me that the Sutterans were a Cassiopian group - - but I had previously been given more detailed information, he couldn't confirm.   There is another racial group called the Trumbles- - or Trumbolians - - -  a Cainus constelation group but not Sirius O - -  that features a few early Rock Groups- - the Diamonds, the Del Vikings,  Link Ray, and the Rays themselves, and Ernie Freedman.  And also the Four Preps- - - but no other group with "Four" in its title.   The word in the native tongue of "trumbles" means "Electronic equipment".    Tempust Fliget - - - that's not a planet- - just a check on the time and temp and all, and how long I've been at this.  We'll have a few "relics" (from yesterday) later.

I did watch Kathleen Sabelius on C-Span today being grilled by a lot of questioners.  I did not take my camera with me to the Halloween party but I was still wearing my red jacket.  We had barbecued chicken and brown rice and a green salad.  We had chocolate cake with lush, creamy icing and vanilla ice cream.  I had Teresa’s coffee also, with sugar already in it.  The last song I listened to was “Red, red wine” performed by those two guys.  Mary Jane sang a duet with a guy.  Marcia didn’t sing.  I left just as they were starting the costume contest.  There were fewer people dressing up this year than usual.  Sarah came as a referee.  Paul Evans appeared as wolf man or something- - and one guy was Spider Man.  I listened to Randy Rhodes.

On the soap opera Merlena happened to see Christine’s blue flash drive on Daniel’s desk and hopefully this will be the turning point.  Victor is already sore with her for blowing opportunities.  It was only serendipity that Marlena even ended up on Daniel's office to begin with-- to write him out an important message.  Obviously now she has found the object of her long quest.  She'll really make Victor's day when she plays it for him.  Then there is the horrific task of sharing this grizzly video with her Priest son, Eric.  I went out for afternoon coffee in the courtyard.  I’ve gotten two cigarettes from Keith.  The first lighter he lied just conked out and Keith said it was because the wheel on it had broken because the metal cracked or something. 

This morning a guest on Bill Press was saying that unborn fetuses didn’t feel pain, when obviously they do because nerve development is extensive at sixteen weeks, or four weeks prior to the new Texas abortion law.  You never thought you’d hear me say Texas was too liberal on abortion.   President Obama has dropped again in the polls.  But all the same Republicans come in third as a possible candidate for anything behind independents and democrats.   And now we hear that the Administration is data mining people who fill out the forms for application and they share them with a lot of other government agencies.   Also we are informed that the President had the Dept of Justice come out and oppose this new suit that wants to eliminate prayer, or at least certain types of prayer- - at local government agencies like city council meetings.  Because kids are there, as well as people wanting zoning variances and others seeking justice- and they feel intimidated that if they don’t go along with the prayers the council men and women will note that and it will be counted against them in their petitions.

We had some different kind of tomato, pasta and pork “meat ball” thing for dinner - - and lots of peas.  Teresa gave me her casserole portion, as she continues to eat little.  We had chocolate pudding for the first time in ages- for any pudding.   The weather cooled right off and at twenty to six as the sun was still shining brightly- it was cold, even on the patio.   It was after two when I put the clean laundry away and noticed that no wash cloth had been returned.  I can always ask for another one- that’s most likely in better condition.   Richard Moore yesterday morning had these new reading glasses that really make him look different.  Of course now there is a new charge they can arrest motorists with, "Driving While Informed".  If you wear Google glasses that flash information in front of your eyes about everything you are looking at while you are driving.  By the way, I may be accused of being a libertine for this- - but I still have not wholly accepted the idea myself that you HAVE to buy medical insurance- - the bulk of which won't go to insure you but others getting stuff you've never get - - like a filopian tube infection or ostio perosis- - - or the idea that you HAVE to wear either seat belts or a motorcycle helmet.  To me you should have the right to RISK that you won't be one of the few Unlucky Ones.