I decided to check out
the Sage of South Central, Larry Elder, for the first time in months this
afternoon. Strangely KABC was by far the
weakest station on my pre set “buttons” and I’m wondering whether they had to
cut their power for failure to pay their utility bill or something. Anyhow I gleaned that Larry Elder is still
toeing the Tea Party line. He combines
being anti immigration with the idea of defending the rights of Nevada ranchers
who don’t pay their grazing fees. And he
played a clip - - twice- - of someone saying “When Obama took office our
national deficit was a tenth of the gross national product, and now that has
fallen to three or four percent or so of the GNP?. Larry kept saying “Can you believe that?” I can- because I checked out the numbers for
myself. There was an admixture of Paul
Ryan’s budget in there saying we have to gut the safety net for the poor
because of the skyrocketing deficit. Of
course the ads on that station are the worst of any of them. Norman Goldman used to be on in San Francisco
and was talking about how “We lost, Seattle, we lost Portland, we lost San
Francisco” and goes on to say that they may “lose” another city within a month,
but thankfully not the Chicago station.
That’s because WCPT is not owned by one of these conservative overlords-
- so is not vulnerable to the machinations of corporate greed – or huberous- or
whatever you call it. Normal does
suggest that a five dollar donation would bet you podcasts with 38 minutes of
material out of an hour program. That’s
what you get now- - and the rest of it gets edited out.
Ed Schultz was upset
about this “Politico” article about how Ed “took money from labor unions” as if
he were a government employee and was disallowed from doing that. What they fail to say of course - - whether
it’s true or not and Ed swears it’s all a lie anyhow - - but even if it were to
be true- - Rush Limbaugh gets nine million for his show, and doesn’t have to
even worry what potential sponsors think of his program content or how bad
content may be bad for business or “taint” a sponsor in a way they’d rather not
be associated with. So Rush has been
losing sponsors in droves but that doesn’t matter. Just as right wing congressmen after “Citizens
United” and “Mc Cutcheson” or whatever case- - well- - Rush doesn’t have to “dial
for dollars” because Ed Schultz says anyone can run a radio station
indefinitely on nine million with no problem at all. It’s stressed that in this stage of the game “ratings
don’t matter” and the only thing is that we are headed to a sort of North Korea
type situation where radio propaganda blairs out from everywhere and there is
no escaping it. It doesn’t matter that
you can’t stand it- - it’s kind of like Church.
It’s one of those things you have to suffer through. And according to something Randy Rhodes said-
- there is another turncoat among the far right. This one guy famous for the racial “Bell
Curve” now says that this dominance of Big Money by the very rich is throwing
off our whole free market and free enterprise system. Nobody can succeed in business any more
starting up a new company because - - Big Money controls everything and this
country is less a free enterprise state and more like a - - dare I say it- -
Corporate Statist Fasciest State. It’s
like some override switch has been thrown.
The game is interrupted and Big Money now calls all the shots- - and the
rules of the game don’t matter anymore.
I listened to the
Supreme Court hearings on this decision to force gay marriage on the people of
Utah, who have clearly indicated they don’t want that. The argument is pretty basic for the State’s
case. The State determines what a
marriage IS. It is not under the
jouristiction of the Federal government to do that. He brought up the Loving verses Virginia case
involving racially mixed marriage. The
guy pointed out that the portion of the law barring interracial marriages was a
whole separate part of the law than that which defined marriage as the union of
a man and a woman, and sometimes for procreation. He made it clear that the Supreme Court was
specifically attacking these “other regulations” or the racial component of the
law. And they didn’t stop at black and
white law, but they had a whole set of regulations for how the other races are
to conduct themselves. Unfortunately- -
and I’ve found this with my own family members I hate to say it. The other side KNOWS you’re right and THEY
don’ t have a leg to stand on, So they
interrupt you constantly before you can hardly get a whole sentence out of your
mouth- - with a lot of estranious bullshit that isn’t germain to the issues of
the case and they Know That.
Now there are talking
about this new earth like planet or planets they have discovered that are the
right size and probably have the same basic geo-structure as our own planet has
and are within reasonable G perameters for life in that sense- - as well as distance
from the sun. Apparently this "sun" slightly smaller than ours - - is a little short of five hundred light years from earth. It's thus a logical deduction that it's orbit is also a little closer to the sun than our own earth is- with a larger sun. It may come as no surprise
that this “discovery” has gotten Zero press among my friends from the Other
Side. I’m not even sure where these
planets are. Places I’ve never heard of.
They say that if three
different people in one day call you an Ass - - then you’d better put on a
bridal. Well Raphael Hernandez has
received the Same Dire Warning from diverse people concerning the need to “hands
off Nick and Gabriel” and also “If you don’t - - Dire Things can and will
happen”. Naturally Raphael- - given his
proactive personality, which is usually a good thing, but not in this case- - and
he wonders what the heck is going on and what dreaded Secret is there out there
nobody wants to share with him. Now
before his eyes he sees Nick and his sister. Gabriel - kissing fondly- - and I
would say right now “You’ve got a decision to make” - ”and may I suggest that
if you make the Wrong One- - you may find out all too well and too late that on
this particular issue you made shall we say “A regrettable error in judgement”.
Well President Obama
got on network TV with a press conference trying to soothe all of our fears
about Russian incursions into eastern Ukraine.
But John Kerry’s words are starting to sound more than hallow with
nothing to back it up. The President
used the three most dreaded words in politics - - “Off the table” to say that
any sort of military response was out of the question and that if we give any
aid to the Ukrainian people it will be of a “non lethal” nature. That’s just what we need now – more non
lethal military weapons. And there are
some jokers, perhaps Ukrainian - - taking advantage of the situation saying
that Jews have to register with the government. One of my friends on “the other side” Stu
Baby - - went ballistic when he heard this and he thinks the threat is
real. However even Stewart was advised
not to put his pro Ukrainian sentaments in an official article- - because there
is this historic “Nazi” connection between Ukrainian nationalists and Stu Baby
was a Nazi in a previous incarnation and died as a casualty of war and is
technically a “walk in”. In another bit
of news - - - there is a comic skit going around Sirius A now that slams hard
and mocks- - one of those “dreaded four terrible corporations” the Entertainment
one. It features a parody of Thom Brokov
as an employee of this corporation in one of his drunken slurs- - speaking like
someone who’s just had a stroke. The
thing also figured these painted “hand” puppets- - where you paint faces on your
flesh and do silly little skits on corny voices. The guy that put this little video together
was that Federation employee that Mal Evans fired for being “too over the top
and offensive to too many people” but this video may be the guy’s road back into
the good graces of the Federation.
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