Knowing The Language Helps

 New lead paragraph:  I want to talk about my position on pro gay candidates and pro abortion candidates because I think there may be some confusion out there with my position.  I never said I would never support a pro gay candidate or pro abortion candidate.  The reason why I didn't vote for Obama last time is (a) because his pro abortion stance is so out there and extreme and (b) there is no "redeeming social value" in electing Obama because he's not advancing the causes I DO believe in.  Certainly I would support a pro gay candidate if I felt he advanced the Progressive agenda and particularly if he or she helped to win the House back for Democrats.  I'm not above letting a candidate such as Wendy Davis "use" her pro abortion appeal to get votes she night not otherwise get- - to swing the tide and elect another democratic governor, particularly in a major red state such as Texas.  I respect Wendy Davis.  Stephanie Miller and company were just discussing her case this morning.  She did everything right.  She got married and had two kids at a young age and did NOT. get an abortion.  This is as opposed to Star Parker, who claims to have had five abortions and now she's flip flopped and berading women for being on welfare or having abortions or whatever.  If you're guilty of it yourself - - most likely I'm not going to listen to you.  For instance Rand Paul himself was guilty of "abusing women" in his college days with these loathed fraternity pranks, which I've never related to anyhow.  If I'm a woman and I've heard of the actions of Rand Paul as a youth, I'm not going to listen to another word he says.  The adage holds true with me is that "Actions speak louder than words" and a person's own "track record" speaks louder than some position they might now or have advocated in the past.  In the case of Wendy David the "Republican narritive' has problems with her because she isn't the "single mother' Republicans like to talk about.  Wendy Davis was responsible, and she got married and then divorced, and maintains a corgial relation with her ex husband, Jeff Davis (?) in raising their kids.  The thing is with Republicans - - and you see it in asshole parenting too - - that a parent, or a political leader, will foist off their own "sin" and shortcomings on to their kids, and make their kids be saddled with guilt that they should not be saddled with.  You see this a lot in Christian preachers with the adage "If it happened in my life, than you in the congragation are yourselves Guilty of the same thing", when this may not be the case.  Bristol Palin is accepted by the right even though she had an out of wedlock birth- - because she's on the right side of the political aisle.  Whereas Wendy Davis gets villified- - - which is kind of self defeating really for the Republicans to single her out for villification.  They say "We are reaching out to single women" when clearly the Republicans are NOT doing this by the way they treat Wendy Davis of Texas, who has shown an awful lot of courage and determination over the years, growing up in poverty and working her way out of it.

[Yesterday morning] before nine I had Thom Hartman on at some length.  His podcast, unlike any other on “Free Speech” does not have any commercials, and you get both his news summary and also the regular radio program.  I did not know that "internet neutrality" was NOT the law of the land.  Neither did I know that now there are forces in play which could forever take away the access we have to the internet that we thought was ours by natural right.  I have a renewal of of outrage against the FCC and this former head of the FCC who would just as soon that the internet wasn’t “free” as a public access vehicle but rather that if a ISP, internet service provider, so wanted to, they could monitor every site you visited and decide for themselves whether it was in their interest for you to visit that site, and could slow it way down, in Gov Christie fashion, if it didn’t meet with their approval.  In other words it’s internet by highway robbery, and now you have to pay them extra for the something by right you should get free.  Thom also said that only this ALEC right wing political group - - supports this Pacific Rim Trade agreement or whatever.  So why is President Obama getting into bed with such sleazy people.  If this his solution to”bi-partisanship”?   After this I had Ed Schultz on the Chicago station.  Ed has been stressing that the president has “nothing to lose” and has no reason at all to “be nice” to all these republicans who’d just as soon see him dead, except in that case Joe Byden would become President.  In fact the reason why the Republican Senate did not convict Clinton in his impeachment trial- - and fact the thing fizzled faster than someone who’s Viagra had just worn off- - is because it would give Al Gore a lock in power and a big leg up on the upcoming election of 2000.  After lunch of course I had the Monterey station tuned in.

You can't de-hydrate water.  When a Christian peddles something sometimes the kindest thing you can say or hope for is that it costs you little, and won't actually harm you.  This isn't always the case.

The best way to shut up these people who cry "class warfare" is - - "OK then, if we are not at war then make me your equal, for a man will hardly declare war on himself".   If you are not "fighting me" for anything, this should not be a problem".

Since when is a corpse giving birth to a baby whose deformation was caused by the thing that killed its mother two months ago - - any sort of "natural occurance?"

They say they love Nelson Mendella and hate Joseph Mc Cartny, but this is because they are more afraid of either of them, then they are of "appearing inconsistent".   Certain issues are so universal that they feel they have to lie to us to "fit in"- - even if the lie is comically obvious to one and all. 

Foreigners, have you found yourselves vexed in mastering the subtleties of the English language.  Do you find yourselves continually flumixed between the distinctions between common words such as "champ" and "chomp" or "whipped" and "whooped".   Or the most important distinction of them all, between "roasted" verses "broasted".  Well here at the Marcus Arelius school of proper syntax you learn the distinctions between "Oh, no it's not him" and "Oh no, it's not Him!".   You will learn the secrets foreigners have sought for years like the distinction between "spatter' and "splatter" and "spray" verses "spritz" or the difference between "sprinkle" verses "drizzle", particularly when discussing rain in southern California.  In our political chapter you'll learn the difference between "prudent' and "expeditious" and also learn the difference between "Pathetic" and 'Unfortunate".   You will learn that around 1950 the term "He's a really square fellow" did not refer to whether he was honest or not.   You will learn that Boston, Chicago, and Kansas - - were not at one time just places on a map.  You will learn the difference between "He didn't see clearly" and "Clearly, he didn't see".   You will learn the difference between "Are you going out with her?" and "Are you going out with her?   You will learn that your choice of whether to use "catch up with" and "interdict" depends on how cinnister your motives are.  You will also know that when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "ontological" in a sentence, he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.  When any salesman uses the word "absolutely" as an answer instead of "yes", you can be pretty sure he's lying.  And just remember that we don't discriminate. The only color we believe in is green, which itself means something different in this sentence then if you heard it at an Al Gore seminar.   Some people who aren't fresh off the boat even have problems with the English language.  Maybe some day Chuck Smith will learn the difference between "flout" and "flaunt".   Black people should know that the word "jive" is a verb, - - not an adjective.  It means to be in synchronization.  Apparently even some Rock Groups think American's are a little "daft".  For instance changing Lead Zeppelin to Led Zeppelin was for the benefit of Americans prone to mispronounce words.  There is no truth to the roomer that there was a special Beatles album released in the South as "Leave It Be".  Some words though meant to enhance, actually detract from the thing they are modifying.  For instance saying "white and pristine" is better than saying "virtually white and pristine".  And "I promise to well and faithfully discharge the duties of my office" is better than saying "I promise to pretty well execute - - ".   Also saying "Jesus was a perfect manifestation of God" is better than saying "Jesus was a more perfect manifestation of God".   Also for John Lennon's information "spaz" is the noun and "spazzy" is the adjitive.  In like manner the word "loon" is a noun and the word "Looney" is an adjutive.   The word "snipe' is a verb, and the word "sniper" is the one doing it.  Try to remember these.  Foreigners would never want to get the words "homey" and "homely" mixed up.  There are an impressive number of freak -LY words that are not adverbs, such as friendly, cowardly, beastly, manly, lordly, scholarly,  kingly, unsightly, priestly, lovely, heavenly, miserly,  homely, wifely, timely, unseemly, matronly, costly, and lengthly.   And for you Doors fans out there "I'm gona love you till the stars fall from the sky for you and I" - - is incorrect grammar.  Capish?

In terms of the President's speech I'd give him an A minus.  It was a way better speech than I expected him to deliver.  And frankly if I were delivering that speech I could not have done that good a job.  I would have done a much more negative speech, laden with a lot of statistics like Bill Clinton's convention speech.  But I think Obama was good at reading the times, and used that guimick of the personal example, which I as president would most likely use sparingly.  That's because in a lot of cases it's a cheap shot.  I thought the logical organization of the speech was amazing.  He flowed in perfect logical progression from one topic to the other.  Maybe he didn't entirely hit it out of the park- - but the ball bounced off the highest part of the fence.  I think he was wise to stress the topic he did and frankly the President did much as Pat Buchannon had suggested he do in terms of personal content and what he enphasized.  Again I'm giving it an A minus.

What Would You Say If He Came Back Today?

F E A R  -False Evidence Appearing Real.  This is the platform of Georg W Bush and Chaney, as well as the George Zimmerman case, and the Bengazi, IRS, and "Fast and Furious" cases, as well of course, of Christianity.   And the way to get an instant twenty percent raise in salary for many Americans - - simply go to the "Add a Penis" web site.

A L E C IS THE ONLY ORG THAT SUPPORTS THE DASTARDLY TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT - - PRESIDENT OBAMA IS AN A L E C LOVER!

Rush Limbaugh referred to the Grammy Awards Presentations as "Just Awful" and even "Demonic".   Now I actually wish I'd watched more than I did, but like Chris Le Boy and the gang, I was just too tired.

I haven't posted a blog in nearly three days.  I didn't post any Sunday or Monday but I'm just posting this to let people know I haven't dropped off the face of the earth like Nick Fallon.

In terms of those five women who were part of the infamous Clinton past - - one caller points out that Hillary “stood behind her man” and this “solidarity” plan was the way they employed to win elections.  But another caller pointed out that Hillary’s ratings went up after the Luinsky scandal. So while it’s correct that Hillary was in my opinion “complicit” in her husband’s activities- - bringing it all up again will only be hurtful to the Republicans.  [These remarks were made in response to things Stephanie Miller was saying yesterday morning]   I got two cups of coffee.  Then after a veritable marathon of commercials it was Bill Carol on KFI, who at last I find out is the guy replacing Rush in the morning.  I’ve heard his name before but have never caught his show on KFI.  He talked about the Grammy Awards and so is Randy Rhodes just now.  There were a lot of “tweets” about the mass marriage ceremony, including a lot of gay couples.  The rhetorical question is raised ‘How can a marriage ceremony be anti family”.   Bill Carol said his kids pretty much ignored the Biance dance number with her husband.  I had two Grammy sites up earlier and saw the same video and bagged the photo of Paul and Ringo, and would like to see that video on You Tube, if they have it.   Now Randy is playing this rapper guy who is talking about religion and how hate is inappropriate at a church service.

The cigarette before breakfast from Paul is the only whole cigarette I’ve had all day.  I’ve got three and two-thirds days to go before I get paid.  A lot of people are commenting on this “Planet Hillary” photo on New York magazine or whatever.  I think the article was trying to make some “point” but I’m not sure what it is.   Bill has been spending a lot of time out of the room.  I wonder if he’d prefer perhaps a TV program instead.

Randy Rhodes just read off a long list of sexual scandals involving Republicans of all stripes.  So the left’s point is well taken that those who want to finger Hillary via Bill, really are barking up the wrong tree if they don’t want this other stuff thrown up in their face.  But Ted Cruz is the one who’s pathological in saying that “President Obama wanted to shut down the government because he knew the democrats would be helped by in the polls, but I never wanted to shut down the government”.  And now of course Ted Cruz and his buddies are threatening to ‘NOT shut down the government- again” if they don’t get what they want.   Ed Schultz says it’s almost silly for Obama to do a rerun of last years State of the Union address where he just goes down this wish list such as immigration, gun legislation, and minimum wage, which will never get passed.  It doesn’t matter if countless independent groups are in favor of all three of these things- - they will never get past that minority tea party in the House.   Ed believes that the President should just indict the republicans for their failure to act and then move on to announcing what executive action he can take on his own he can take to help the economy.

It’s five to six and I have cigarettes.  Do people buy a big screen TV just because the Superbowl is coming up?  Haggle on 2013 prices and ask for price matching.  We had Polish sausage for dinner with some trimmings.  But the so called scalloped potatoes were mushy – watery.  We had two chocolate chip cookies for desert.   But I began trolling around up and down the stairs as it got past five thirty.  The med line wasn’t moving since he hadn’t opened up.  Finally upstairs again, Marsha asked more questions and then referred me to Arleen G.  I went to her door at 226 and she had two dollars for me so I went down to the liquor store and saw James there and bought a pack.  The Oriental guy said I owed him a cigarette right off.  I won’t be doing any blog postings today, once again.

Nick Fallon definitely is alive but it’s the strangest thing.  Rather than thank God he’s alive and are not guilty of murder- - Samantha, Kate, Sonny and Will were saying among themselves what a bad development and all around pain in the ass it is to have him back, and were engaging in inappropriate humor.  It’s like someone who attempts suicide and whatever the family members vow about “How if they just had another chance they would treat the deceast better, once the guy is back from the dead, they go back to their old ways and forget anything they said while they thought he was as good as dead.  So it’s strange then why Jesus Christ didn’t throw it in the pharisee faces when he came back from the dead.   They would have been the logical people to appear to.  Instead - - it’s a case of a few people like Elvis watchers- - saying “yes we saw him and it was a religious experience, but we don’t know where he is Now - - - but don’t ask for any proof of what we say.  He probably went to Heaven or something now.   Even Hope does not entirely believe Nick is telling the truth. But I’m not sure what it is she doubts.

I went for coffee in the courtyard in the afternoon and got two cups.  Larry Barton gave me a whole cigarette but I shared the last third of it with Bill.  I left “Millionaire” on and watched some of it upon my return.  Then I turned it on Sean Hannity and watched that show almost till three o clock.  Later I had Katie Kuric on and she was talking about people who acts of bravery and heroism.  Then I went trolling for cigarettes once more, and got my third whole cigarette and wondered how many more, if any, that I’d get the rest of the day.

They are predicting a warming trend by Wednesday but rain is expected by the weekend.  Someone said that movie trailers will be getting shorter, and I wondered why.  They also said that filtered cigarettes will be outlawed and only unfiltered will be allowed.  That one is strange and a half.  Meanwhile one of the newer “Maroboro Men” died of emphysema at age 72.

This is Tuesday morning January 28, 2014  My blogger numbers are pathetic.  Of all the millions of people out there on the internet - - I guess there are just two many other choices such as cat and baby videos that people would rather look at.  This morning I got up just after five and Bill Press is on the Chicago station, live thankfully.  Last night it was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and then “The Following” and it was a continuing episode that went on into the nine o clock hour.  I was dead tired and went to bed.  I had a dream that I was moving back into the Bosc house but - - it was lush and green like it was in 1980 however I observed (?) that the whole yard had been excavated and they put in a whole basement levels with windows.  But getting down to that level you had to use this flimsy rope bridge, and I raised a question whether that was going to change.  I suggested maybe an elevator.  It didn’t even occur to me how you got downstairs.  However the patio door was on the left side of the yard - - well, the other end of the yard.  And there was this potential roommate who was perhaps (?) Mark Campbell, and we were planning on taking college courses together at Cal State Fullerton, of a philosophical and intellectual nature, and I was looking forward to that.

Is "Failure to Hate Sufficiently" a Sin?

There has been another shopping Mall shooting.  This one was by a Sears at a mall in Baltimore and the gunman is believed to be killed.  Three innocent people lost their lives and two more have been hospitalized, is my understanding.  Clearly these mass shootings occur on an almost daily basis now.  They showed the Olympic uniforms out athletes will be wearing next month, and they happily inform us that all the outfits were made right here in the good old U S of A.  The Russians say they have a lot of plain clothes agents out so they will not pose any “intimidating armed state feeling”.  But the athletes themselves say they intend to confine themselves to “the Olympic village” and may not range out and about to sight see among whatever town or city they are in. 

I wanted to talk a little more about questions my blog readers may need to be answered.  Number one is “Where does this demon Molech figure in your pantheon of inter stellar cultures and people?   See the next paragraph.   In terms of that Paul Mc Cartney song that was running through my mind that one morning that we kept you in suspense as to what song it was - - it was "I See the Love of the Loved" from the Beatles Decca tapes done Newyears day 1962 when Stewart Sutcliffe was still alive.  But I wanted to talk a little more about Romulan cloaking devices.  Some of you may be saying "How do you just get rid of the mass of a space craft- - and wouldn't the sheer acceleration force of the ship still crush all of its occupants with maybe a thousand G forces or something?   No.  Because the kind of "space" the ship is moving through ISN'T the same kind of space that exists within the ship.  The space inside the ship is encrypted space.  The space the ship travels through is non encrypted space.   Think of the song "Journey Through the Center of the Mind".   This isn't a litteral trip.  It isn't some Magical Mystery Tour that takes you Two Thousand Light-years from Home.  It isn't "a trip around the Bay and he takes you back the same day" to quote another song.  Ted Nugent expressed surprise that "Journey To the Center of the Mind' was about drugs.   if you really believe Nugent "didn't know' this song was about drugs I got a bridge in New Jersey I'd like to sell you.   Neil says "Some questions you have will never be answered in this life".   That one is right up there with "Go ask your mother" or "You'll understand when you get older".  It's an adult's way of "punting".   He doesn't know and he knows it; he's screwed.   So basically - - non encrypted "space" is not the "space" inside the ship, just as "traveling by M & D, and I don't know if that's methadone and demerol or what- - is not the same is normal physical travel.  In the case of Romulan transport it IS physical travel - - -   I wanted to pick up on something Mal Evans mentioned early September of 2011.  He said he believed I had a "Jewish incarnation" somewhere along the line.   I was "a traveler' in those days jumping from life to life with gay abandon, minus the "gay" part.   My "down under" incarnation ended "the last days of May" in 1901.  This left me a little over two years as F Scott Fitzgerald.   During the time he was living in Buffalo I left that body- - and then incarnated or "Avatared" in a Jewish ghetto in Manhattan or some place, and stayed there till about 1921.    Then I entered the life of another "infamous person" who met his death in Chicago around July 23rd. 1934.   This life is notible beecause I was again reunited with Jim Cooper, as a close associate of mine.

  We believe, OK, I believe, that the Sutterans have this closet “innocent human sacrifice” point of view.  Sutterans are as adept at lying and manipulation as Star Trek credits the Romulans of being.  Lying and treachery are second nature to them.  Yet they have this - - ability - - much as E J Di Mira or a Kate Roberts on “Days of our Lives” of appearing “utterly innocent’ in fact “shocked and insulted” that you’d have the slightest suspicion of their actions or motives.  They are noted for over-reacting in a paranoid to any phrase such as “I have a question” or “I have a point that perhaps you could be helpful in clarifying for me”.    They will have very convienient lapses of memory that can be very convincing.  They are also most adept at “throwing things back in your face” or holding a grudge- - that might not even exist but exists only in their warped imaginings.  It’s interesting that Jehovah of the Old Testament at times displays a few “Sutteran” qualities.   For instance all the times “Jehovah” appears to contradict his own laws.  Such as the saying ‘Obediance is better than sacrifice”.   So therefore if a Christian in the “Antioch Baptist Church, who’s a faithful follower of Brother John Birch” to quote a song lyric - - if he should be caught in a fault, which in Romulan translates as “shortcoming’ or “faltering” and he says “I plead the blood of Christ’ or “I fall on the mercy of Jesus’ atoning sacrifice” then in some case “An atoning sacrifice won’t pass muster”.    At times God says “I am tired of your New Moons and sacrifices”.   How does an Eternal God get “Tired” of a command he himself gave, hummm?  This saying was used on Saul when he failed to commit total genocide on the Amalikites.  Saul said “I was saving the best livestock for sacrifice” and God took a dim view of this.  God did not want Saul doing animal sacrifices at all, though he gladly accepted them from other Patriarchs such as Abraham and Noah.  God demanded that five sons of Michelle (spelling?) be taken and made human sacrifices and scripture says “They hung before the Lord”.   Hebrews in the new testament picks up on this theme that mere Animal sacrifices aren’t enough when it says “The blood of bulls and goats was not enough to put away their sin”.    Even though the Temple was sacrosanct, David was condoned for “appropriating’ the communion bread, to feed his troops with.  These are troops that were in armed rebellion against the King.  So on what planet does this past theological muster?   They make up things that didn’t happen to support their Godfather style “clearing of the beach” as Ed Schultz might put it.   David made no promise or vow to Bathsheba before he had sex with her- - the way that Tamar was promised things.  In fact the “issue’ of that union died.  My POINT is that David did not PROMISE Bathsheba anything in order to bed her down.  That horse was already out of the barn.  Therefore for this event to be brought up later as justification for Mafia style vendettas - - seems a little convienient.  Ask Stewart Sutcliffe.  He was a victim of it himself.    There is a key "Failure to Hate sufficiently' event in my own life.   It took place in April of 1991 where the principles on Both Sides of the conflict- - expected people who "are supposed to be in their camp" not consort with "people in the other camp" even if said people were not directly involved with the event.  The Sutterans are champions of what youmight call "third party prejudice".

OK we have Neil Sevedra on the “pitch fork” report as I call it.  If it comes from Neil is comes straight from the bowels of Hell.  I was thinking of doing a posting called “Is Failure to Hate Sufficiently” a Sin?  This morning before ten it was Chris Matthews who hasn’t forgotten the Governor Christie scandals - - plural.   Dawn Zimmer has friends to back up her story.  One will note a bit of back tracking on Chris’ part on the Friday show where he seems a bit less convinced of the Feds being able to prove Christie’s guilt as he was on Thursday.   It seems that Rand Paul is now in the number one position for the republicans at this moment - - - perhaps because statements from Paul have been a bit less whakazoid than from so many other Republican luminaries lately.  Then it was out to the courtyard for coffee where I had two cups.  Then it was Melinda Lee and we’ll be ushering the Chinese Year of the Horse this Friday.  It’s only fitting that if a rapture of whoever - - is to come, that it would be in the year of the Horse.   I never knew before just how you make Egg Fu Yung.  It seems all you need is a little cut up pork, and cut up sprouts of some sort, and onions and mushrooms with no fixed proportions, and an egg “binder” and you use four eggs and you make the thing kind of like a pancake, on a griddle where you cook both sides.   It’s harder than it used to be to get your traditional Cantonese cooking that we grew up with as kids.  Melinda says sauerkraut nowadays is consigned as a companion garnish to the hot dog, but that Central European countries aren’t having it as much.  Columbus had sauerkraut on his three ships to sustain his men because he had a lot of vitamin C in it.  And the dish was a way of preserving vegetables out of season when they didn’t have the food transportation they have today.  My Mom always sifted her flour, of I would if I were helping her.  But she never went as far as sifting it BEFORE she measured it.  But at any rate- - sifting may be altogether less important today due to higher production standards.  But it does make for a lighter, fluffier baked good.  We had Submarine style cold cut sandwiches - - with a fair amount of meat- and mustard and tomato and lettuce.  There were only seconds on the macaroni salad, and I declined seconds on the spiced tomato soup.  We had an orange for desert.  Owen gave me his coffee at lunch, and Mario gave me a few sips of his coffee.  I got a whole cigarette from Donald, which surprised me, and this other guy who rolls his own said he’d keep me supplied if I needed any.  I have Leo Le Port on right now.

 

Just Another Bunch of Boring News Items

This is Saturday morning January 25, 2014.  Let’s start with the republican response or what I call the “Pre-buttal to the President’s State of the Union Address”.   This whole term of “pre-buttle” has been in use lately and has come to describe the out of power that is SO impatient to “put their two cents in” they can’t wait their turn.  So let’s look at what this guy on KNX this morning says is wrong.  The President has increased taxes, presumably ones that the poor find burdensome, since the whole address appared to be a token morsel to the poor because those Republicans are so gosh darned empathetic to the plight of he poor and income disparity and all, which of course is all the President’s fault.   Then the fact we have “skyrocketing debt” now, will somehow impact the poor.  There are also “all these new burdensome regulations” that impact the poor.  None of these “new burdensome regulations” was listed- not a one.  But we are all to assume they exist.  Then of course there is Health Care - - and as you know I have no good defense for charges in this area.  I think the law as a concept is a horrible mistake and any moves tword its repeal will find a sympathetic ear with me.  But then the speaker goes on to say “The President can’t just pick and choose which parts of the law he wants enforced”.  Why not?  Isn’t this what the Republicans have been trying to do with bill after bill.  Have the Affordable Care Act die a slow death from a thousand paper cuts?   Finally we are told that economic conditions in China now are the President’s fault and create “a climate of uncertainty”.    I am not particularly bullish on the stock market - - but this doom and gloom is completely uncalled for.  A three hundred point drop on the Dow Jones Industrials is no big thing- - really.  These are not 1929 prices, in case you haven’t noticed, and the gain in stock values over the past year has been impressive- - which had helped out a lot of private middle class accounts.  The very idea of “uncertainty” is strictly a case of lagging economies- - in far away places, not here.    So why don’t we just wait until AFTER the President speaks, before we comment.  But you know I got to thinking.  There was this brain dead lady in Texas and the court finally ordered the Hospital to pull the plug on her.  The Hospital had been saying “She’s a pregment woman and Texas law insists we keep her alive”.   Well, I think it’s also time we “pull the plug” on the Republican party and let it die a natural death.  And that way we really will have a lot of “shovel ready jobs” waiting- - as we put the Republican Party six feet under- - and after a few fitting solemn words- - we can then move on.

There was a “maverick surfer” contest in half moon bay, which I am informed is in California “somewhere up north”.  You’ll have to refresh my knowledge of geography.  These are waves in excess of forty feet and regarded by most people as “unsurfable”, but are caused by all the storms we’ve had- - in other places, obviously.  In other news it’s been really cold in Texas, even in Teresa’s San Antonio.  We have had sleet in a lot of Texas cities such as Austin and Houston has a “winter storm alert” for the first time in three years.  People have been slipping and sliding on the ice.  Even in Corpus Christi, which is awfully far to the South- - it only got up to 38.   Now they are predicting that temperatures in this later “polar vortex” invasion, will get still colder for a lot of people.  But I don’t see how like with these fires that have broken out in the cold- - and I guess fire hydrants are frozen- - that they say people are trapped in buildings in the ice- - and they have to cut through the ice to get to them.   Could someone please explain the physics of that to me?  Kiev is burning.  The capital city of the Ukrane is on fire and bullets are flying and guns are exploding in some major conflict with the rebels.  It’s as I suspected that the leader of the Ukrane wants closer ties to Vladimir Putin, with a more totalitarian form of government, like they had in the bad old days.   Then we have Justin Squerrel or whoever - - yeah- - he’s only been in the public eye for four years and it seems more like forty, with all the media exposure he’s had.  I don’t know what it is - - but when fame comes to the very young they just go nuts and think they are invulnerable to any laws, and the system lets them get away with it.  Meanwhile outgoing LA CO Sheriff Lee Baca is in trouble because of a mistreatment of prisoners situation.  And they sent two FBI agents to snoop around in prison - - and various suspicious suppressive behavior has been engaged in by the LA Sheriff.  But you have to know “You just don’t mess with the FBI because it really ticks them off”, and now a number of people are in a lot of trouble.   And maybe this next one is an Onion story but George Zimmerman has been selling a number of paintings that he did (?) or copied from associated press photos or something, and sold these paintings for a ridiculous amount of money, kind of like what Gene Scott was doing in 1986.  Now we hear there are two new flavors of Oreos.  By the way I have always found cookie dunking a disgusting habit, along with those peoples who insist on breaking up crackers and putting them in their soup.  Cookies like Oreos and Ginger snaps are freshest when they are crisp- - and if you get a limp one, you know that it is stale.   Guess which news story is completely off the radar screen now.  Hummm?

There was this Black guy republican Senator from South Carolina and he came up with the saying “People don’t care how much you know till they know how much you care”.   If that’s the case I and a lot of other people sure wasted a lot of time watching Gene Scott, who’s not half as smart as he thinks he is to begin with.  I think this saying could serving as a damning indictment to most Christians, and the higher the position the more guilty of it they are.  Otherwise this black almost “Sambo” type personality - - had very little to say but a recitation of the standard Tea Party talking points.  Before this I was watching John Kerry give a speech to some world organization insisting that the United States is not retreating from the world stage despite certain “misperceptions” fostered by such people as FOX news, for instance.  He also made a pitch for this trans Pacific trade agreement, and stressed all of these “important dialog talks” with all sorts of leaders around the world.  President Obama this morning said “A lot of government programs are working out a lot better than people think they are”.   Well, from everything I have gleaned about the Affordable Care Act, it is still one of the biggest lightning rods attracting and feeding Republican oppision, along with the President’s race, that we have today.  I just don’t see any way of jimmying the numbers so that they work.  Then it was a bit of Reinz Previs Republican Party head speaking to his colligues.   He now is bragging because he told CNN and NBC that if they run their “tributes to Hillary” then “No Debates for You”.   First of all neither one was a “tribute piece” but regardless if they were or not, backing down is an act of weakness, as if anybody actually cared any more about what goes on in these closed Tea Party circuses that have become irrelivent. 

I made efficient use of the lengthly commercials during “Days of our Lives”.  I read three different paragraph articles in “The Week” magazine.  The first one was on Health Care saying that Insurance Companies are not the ones to blame.  They only make a 2.5% profit according to this article.  Then they won’t mind if eighty percent of their funds have to go for health care and not into their own pockets.  The article says that in other countries like in Europe the base expense is only a fraction, like a quarter of the expense routinely charged in the United States.  Now Randy Rhodes is mentioning the keeping of a corpse alive to perform a C section on a highly deformed baby to begin with – with water on the brain and encephelitus and badly deformed limbs.  This is in a Texas hospital.  It’s a little much keeping a corpse alive to perform a C section on the corpse to deliver a badly deformed baby.    The next article was that Israel is badly discriminated against by most liberal Universities, who somehow sanction Israel for “Human Rights” violations.   Israel is much more diverse and democratic than for instance the Tea Party is.   Meanwhile people in Iran and Syria or China or any number of African nations, Christians suffer a horrible fate.   If liberals are discriminating against Israel they better knock it off right now.  It’s wrong.  Then there was an article that says most College educated football players only have a fifth grade education and often can’t adequately even read newspaper clippings about them.

Here’s another Wheel of Fortune trick.  When a player gets on a real roll, they vastly edit out the time that the Wheel is still spinning, because they have a rule that it has to spin around at least once, before it slows to a stop.  The pure fact is that on “The Final Spin” then expend more time per letter than they do when they get a player on a roll and you hear the Wheel spin for a second or two and then stop.  So it’s kind of a racket they’ve got going.  They play games with this “live show”.   On Days of Our Lives they are playing games with us for sure.  They put something on the screen and the next minute you find it was just somebody’s dreams, or a hallucination or something.  Then I went out and talked with Glen.  Then I went to the courtyard for coffee but just had one cup because I saw the long line behind me.  I had to use the facilities anyhow.  Yesterday it was J W and Brenda’s birthday, but I didn’t find out how old either of them was.  I had the Ed Schultz show on this morning, and also went out for coffee in the morning in the courtyard and had two cups.  My blogger numbers came crashing down yesterday.  You never know.  The stock market has undergone a sharp drop in the past couple of days which frankly I don’t think means anything.  The buzz is that “a number of earnings reports were disappointing last year”.   Now I need to come up with a name for this file.

 Sean Hannity had his music hour where that Linda lady sang three more songs.  One was about “Moving out of New York” and if Billy Joel is Sean’s favorite recording artist, he’s got problems besides his politics.  That was my least favorite of the three songs.   There was “My Favorite Things”, which is actually rather cleaver.  There were clips from one of Obama’s book about all of the cocaine the President had snorted and how he seldom attended class.  Then of course there was “Rocky Mountain High”.   Of course Sean mentioned all of the things liberals weren’t able to get accomplished- - and somehow it escapes Sean’s notice that the tea party right was in the vanguard of the opposition to each and every one of these measures, which if passed would have this economy in much better shape than it is now.  Rush Limbaugh says that Republicans - - - Republicans have a secret plan to vastly liberalize the amnesty provisions in the “Dream Act” immigration bill that the President proposed a year ago.  So increasingly you hear the tea party people making Republicans just as much targets on their radar screen as they do Democrats.