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.
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