Examining Hillary Clinton's Character

The central-American nation of Honduras is ruled today by an extremist far-right government, a fascist junta-imposed government, because of what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did in 2009. The lives of all but the top 0.001% of the population there are hell because of this.

The matter in Haiti was similar but less dramatic, and so it received even less attention from the U.S. Press.

Furthermore, under Secretary of State Clinton, failures at the U.S. Department of State also caused the basis for a hatred of the United States to soar in Afghanistan after the U.S. has drawn down its troops there. This failure, too, has received little coverage in the U.S. press, but our nation will be paying heavily for it long-term.

Hillary Clinton was the Administration’s leading proponent of regime-change, overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. That worked out disastrously.

Clinton was also the Secretary of State when the 2006-2010 drought was causing massive relocations of population in Syria and U.S. State Department cables passed along up the chain of command the Assad government’s urgent request for aid from foreign governments to help farmers stave off starvation. The Clinton State Department ignored the requests and treated this as an opportunity to foment revolution there. It wasn’t only the Arab Spring, in Syria, that led to the demonstrations against Assad there. Sunni jihadist fighters streamed into Syria, backed by the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey. The U.S. was, in effect, assisting jihadists to oust the non-sectarian, secular Shiite leader of Syria and replace him with a fundamentalist Sunni dictator.

The groundwork for a coup d’etat in Ukraine was laid by Hillary Clinton, when she made her State Department’s official spokesperson Victoria Nuland, who had been the chief foreign-affairs advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Nuland then became the organizer of the 20 February 2014 coup in Ukraine, which replaced a neutralist leader of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, with a rabidly anti-Russian U.S. puppet, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and a bloody civil war. Nuland is obsessed with hatred of Russia.

On top of all that, Hillary Clinton is incredibly corrupt. And she treats subordinates like trash.

No well-informed Democrat will vote for her in the Democratic Party primaries. Here is what voters in the Democratic primaries need to know before they vote:

AND NOW FOR SOME EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY

“‘Good morning, ma’am,” a member of the uniformed Secret Service once greeted Hillary Clinton.

“F— off,” she replied.

That exchange is one among many that active and retired Secret Service agents shared with Ronald Kessler, author of “First Family Detail,” a compelling look at the intrepid personnel who shield America’s presidents and their families — and those whom they guard.

Kessler writes flatteringly and critically about people in both parties. Regarding the Clintons, Kessler presents Chelsea as a model protectee who respected and appreciated her agents. He describes Bill as a difficult chief executive, but an easygoing ex-president. And Kessler exposes Hillary as an epically abusive Arctic monster.

“When in public, Hillary smiles and acts graciously,” Kessler explains. “As soon as the cameras are gone, her angry personality, nastiness, and imperiousness become evident.”

He adds: “Hillary Clinton can make Richard Nixon look like Mahatma Gandhi.”

Kessler was an investigative reporter with the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post and has penned 19 other books. Among much more in “First Family Detail,” he reports:
• “Hillary was very rude to agents, and she didn’t appear to like law enforcement or the military,” former Secret Service agent Lloyd Bulman recalls. “She wouldn’t go over and meet military people or police officers, as most protectees do. She was just really rude to almost everybody. She’d act like she didn’t want you around, like you were beneath her.”

“Hillary didn’t like the military aides wearing their uniforms around the White House,” one former agent remembers. “She asked if they would wear business suits instead. The uniform’s a sign of pride, and they’re proud to wear their uniform. I know that the military was actually really offended by it.”
•Former agent Jeff Crane says, “Hillary would cuss at Secret Service drivers for going over bumps.”
Another former member of her detail recollects, “Hillary never talked to us . . . Most all members of first families would talk to us and smile. She never did that.”

“We spent years with her,” yet another Secret Service agent notes. “She never said thank you.”
•Within the White House, Hillary had a “standing rule that no one spoke to her when she was going from one location to another,” says former FBI agent Coy Copeland. “In fact, anyone who would see her coming would just step into the first available office.”

One former Secret Service agent states, “If Hillary was walking down a hall, you were supposed to hide behind drapes used as partitions.”
•Hillary one day ran into a White House electrician who was changing a lightbulb in the upstairs family quarters. She screamed at him, because she had demanded that all repairs be performed while the Clintons were outside the Executive Mansion.

•While running for US Senate, Hillary stopped at an upstate New York 4-H Club. As one Secret Service agent says, Hillary saw farmers and cows and then erupted. “She turned to a staffer and said, ‘What the f - - - did we come here for? There’s no money here.’ ”

Secret Service “agents consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment,” Kessler concludes. “In fact, agents say being on Hillary Clinton’s detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service.”

After studying the Secret Service and its relationships with dozens of presidents, vice-presidents and their families, Ronald Kessler’s astonishment at Hillary Clinton’s inhumanity should reverberate in every American’s head.

As he told me: “No one would hire such a person to work at a McDonald’s, and yet she is being considered for president of the United States.”     Well, now you know.   But we have one more collection of tidbits about Hillary Clinton - - as follows.

Hillary Clinton’s biggest weakness is that she doesn’t actually stand for anything other than money and power. Glenn Greenwald pointed this out perfectly in last year’s post: Glenn Greenwald on Hillary Clinton: “Soulless, Principle-Free, Power Hungry…” Here’s an excerpt:

Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a fucking hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the first female president, and women in America are going to be completely invested in her candidacy. Opposition to her is going to be depicted as misogynistic, like opposition to Obama has been depicted as racist. It’s going to be this completely symbolic messaging that’s going to overshadow the fact that she’ll do nothing but continue everything in pursuit of her own power. They’ll probably have a gay person after Hillary who’s just going to do the same thing.

In light of Hillary not harboring any genuine principles, she needs to fall back on the tainted and phony Democratic brand of “standing up for the little guy.” The only problem is that Hillary Clinton might be the most connected human being alive in America to large mega-corporations.

As you will see from the following Wall Street Journal article, she spent much of her time as Secretary of State lobbying overseas for the economic interests of behemoth corporations from ExxonMobil to Boeing; and from GE to Wal-Mart. All of this masterminded by former Goldman Sachs chairman, Robert Hormats. Coincidentally, these corporations turned around and gave very generously to the Clinton Global Initiative.

It's Hillary Clinton verses Donald Trump

Well it's the campaign you were all waiting for.  The sparks will be flying when Donald Trump squares off with Donald Trump- - and the sexist remarks will be flying.  Bernie Sanders is through.  He staked all his hopes on Nevada coming through for him but despite positive poll numbers- - Clinton had a late surge of hotel union members in a get out the vote drive.   Meanwhile all those polls that suggested a late surge for Ted Cruz in South Carolina were wrong, and I was personally wrong when I predicted Trump would lose.  I wasn't reading the tea leaves correctly.  Last night they had the election results on the five thirty network news, which is about the only place you could find actual numbers.  But here’s some numbers.  Hillary Clinton won in the Nevada caucus 52.6% to Bernie’s 47.3%.  The networks called it a “decisive win”.  But it’s not overwhelming.  On the Republican side there appears to be votes missing in the South Carolina primary.  Donald Trump won with 32.5%.  It would seem it should be at least 52.5% because the others scored even lower.  Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were neck and neck for second place and after the dust settled Marco Rubio was 22.5% and Ted Cruz was 22.3%   I watched the Mc Laughlin group and they covered five topics.  The concencus there is that the Pope was wrong to judge who is a Christian.  The judgement of the panel seemed to be that Apple Corps needs to be forced to yield up some sort of back door key to incryption.  I still strongly disagree but Trump’s view of the situation seems to be prevailing.  After this it was the LA Clippers and the Golden State Warriors, who narrowly won last night’s NBA game.  After this it was some program on FOX.  I got generous coffee from Glen’s room for four cigarettes but it still didn’t keep me awake.

As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia is greater now than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 — in other words: greater than ever before in history. But it has just ratcheted a bit higher still:  The owner of Saudi Arabia, King Salman al-Saud, speaking through his spokesperson and chosen Foreign Minister, in an interview that was published on February 19th in Germany’s magazine Spiegel, says that he demands the resignation or else the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, who is allied with both Iran and Russia. Polls of the Syrian public, by Western polling firms, consistently show Assad to be overwhelmingly approved by the Syrian people to be the leader of Syria, and show that Syrians blame the United States for causing ISIS, which is disapproved by 76% of Syrians. The other named jihadist groups, such as al-Nusra which is Al Qaeda in Syria, received similarly low approval-ratings from the Syrian public. In stark contrast, a poll of Saudi Arabians shows that 92% of them approve of ISIS. But the United States is allied with the fundamentalist-Islamic dictatorship Saudi Arabia, against the separation-of-church-and-state democracy of Russia. So too is America’s fellow-NATO-member Turkey allied with the fundamentalist Muslims, and they’re publicly threatening to invade Syria (another nation that hasstrict separation of church-and-state) with ground troops. They’re backed by planes that were supplied to the Sauds by the United States. 

Rhapsody in black featured February of 1968 though I suspect much of this stuff was from at least a slightly later date.  Particularly in the early part of the program there weren’t that many memorable hits actually from February of 1968.    They played “Dance to the Music” (March 1968), “Sweet Inspiration” (May 1968),  “Tell Mama, All About It” (Spring 1969), “Stop!” (the James Gang song), “Nobody” the original of the 3 Dog Night song (with sitar), “Dock of a Bay”, “Ain’t That a Funky Way to Treat Somebody”, and then the percentage of recognizable songs improved.  “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You” and they played a Jr. Walker and the Allstars version of “Come See About Me”.   Then it was “Boogaloo Down Broadway”, the original version of “I’m Gona Make You Love Me”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Chain, Chain, Chain”, “I’ll Second that Emotion” and “Skinny Legs”.  There were continual pledge breaks.  They seem to spend more weeks devoted to pledge breaks than they do programming without it.   There was a Barbra Mason song.  They played a James Brown song and a Wilson Picket song I’d never heard.

The Greek term for Form denotes "physical appearence" or manifestation.   In that Talosian episode on Star Trek the Tallosians tell them "This is a nutrition drink and it can assume any Form that you desire".  Here the term Form means physical manifestation or appearence.  In a chapter at the end of Mark scripture says "Then Jesus appeared to them in another form".   Walter Martin says "The words Another Form indicate that this is not legitimate scripture because Jesus never took another form".   In the Greek the word "Form" means "What you see and experiance physically".  A better translation would be simply "Then Jesus made another appearence to them".  In English the word Form involves a Geometric shape or perhaps a Form of Government.  You think in terms of outlines- - shapes- - blueprints- - or charts and graphs when it comes to forms of government.  In English we distinguish between Form and Substance.  This distinction is not held this way in the Greek where Form and Substance appear to be much more similar if not identical.  However some will say that the scripture "Avoid every appearence of evil" means that you can leave it to imagination or supposition or conjecture to determine what is Evil.  Here again you need to look at the word.  The correct translation is "Avoid every form of evil".  That is- - to avoid every way in which Evil manifests itself.  The evil is real and not some sort of pharisiac supposition that evil exists.    

 

Radio Pravda Speaks

First, here is a general summary of the other news. Shawn had John Kasech on at twelve thirty and Jeb Bush on at two thirty-five. I shaved in the intervening time. The lie is told that the reason why the economy was good in the nineties was because the Republicans cut the capital gains tax. The first time it was cut the economy went up but the second time the tax was reduced to fifteen percent, the stock market crashed. You will remember that income taxes were a whole lot higher then. There is also this lie about the so called “politicization of the Iraq war”. I guess that’s code-speak for the Iraq War becoming very unpopular. Just think how many lives were saved from getting out when we did. In terms of caucuses, the Republicans will be in Nevada on Tuesday and the Democrats will have their primary in South Carolina on February 27th, the day of Stephanie’s “Sexy Liberal” tour in Madison, Wisconsin. John Fugelsang and Frangela will be three of her guests. Norman is breaking early for the ten to four hour. Marco Rubio was an Anchor Baby.

 

On 12 February 2016, the much-maligned-in-the-West Mr. Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, was interviewed
by Agence France Presse — a reportorial coup, of which AFP were justifiably proud, because their 26 numbered questions to him (and the follow-ups) were substantive and were focused on providing to the publics in Western nations the perspective by Assad (which one might thus characterize as his “defense” case), against the virtually uniform chorus of condemnation of Assad by Western governments, which governments demand his overthrow and support the tens of thousands of foreign jihadists who have been flocking into Syria to provide the “boots on the ground” to achieve such an overthrow, of him — overthrow of the President of the sovereign nation of Syria — overthrow of him by these foreign fighters. (It’s an invasion of Syria, but the Western press don’t report its being that.)

Only two news-sites published in English this widely-distributed-to-the-press news-item: AFP itself, and France24 News. All of the ’news’ media in other countries ignored it — didn’t publish it, nor even quote from it — though, as you will see here, they shouldn’t have: they should have published it, or at least quoted extensively from it (as will be done here). Mr. Assad is accused by Western governments of numerous heinous crimes, some of which are demonstrably lies against him that Western ‘news’ media and Western politicians nonetheless repeat interminably, as if they weren’t already exposed to be hoaxes from his enemies, and based on frauds that were set up by the very same governments that are trying to overthrow him. (The link that was just provided here brings a reader to the evidence, just in case the reader might happen never to have seen the evidence on the given matter: the charge that Assad’s forces, instead of the U.S. government, was behind the notorious sarin gas attack in Ghouta Syria on 21 August 2013. Anyone who is closed-minded to the actual evidence regarding that matter should cease reading right here, because no such reader will be able open-mindedly to read AFP’s interview of Assad; it would just be a waste of such a person’s time.)

Here are some highlights of their interview, courtesy of AFP:

Question 1: How do you feel when you see tens of thousands of your citizens starving, running away from hunger, from their areas which are being shelled by your Russian allies, and trying to cross the borders to Turkey? And how do you feel when you see the pictures of them drowning in their attempt to cross the seas?

President Assad: If we talk about emotions, I belong to this people; and it is self-evident that I have the same feelings my people have. Any scene of suffering is painful to all of us as Syrians. But as an official, the question for me is less about emotions than about what I, as an official, should do, being responsible before my people.

However, when the cause of this suffering is the terrorists, not the Russian shelling as claimed by Western media, and when one cause for migration is the almost five-year-old embargo against the Syrian people, naturally my, and every Syrian official’s first task is to fight terrorism essentially using Syrian capabilities, but also using our friends’ support in the fight against terrorism. That’s why I say the problem of Syrian refugees abroad, as well as the problem of hunger inside Syria, as you referred to it, is a problem caused by terrorism, Western policies, and the embargo imposed on the Syrian people.

Question 2: Mr. President, can we talk about the possibility of putting an end to shelling civilian populations and also lifting the blockade imposed on certain areas?

President Assad: The conflict has been, since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, about who wins the support of the people in Syria. Consequently, it doesn’t make sense for us to shell civilians if we want to win them to our side. This is in theory. Practically, while moving around in Syria, you will find that in any area under the control of the state, all sections of Syrian society, including the families of the militants, are being cared for by the state. What is more is that in a city like Raqa, which is under the full control of Daesh (ISIS), the state continues to pay the salaries of employees and send vaccines for children. So it doesn’t make sense for the state to shell civilians while doing all the above, unless we are talking about mistakes which happen in every battle. …

Question 5: Do you think, Mr. President, that you can regain control over all Syrian territory?

… [The West’s] continuing supplies to terrorists through Turkey, Jordan, and partly from Iraq – because Daesh (ISIS) exists in Iraq with Saudi, Turkish, and Qatari support -– naturally means that the solution will take a long time and will incur a heavy price. So it is difficult to give a precise answer about the timeframe.

Question 6: Can’t you say precisely how many years you need to restore peace to Syria?

President Assad: The question is: for how many years will Turkey and Saudi Arabia continue to support terrorism? That is the question. And when will the West put pressure on these countries to stop supporting terrorism?

Question 7: Who is your main enemy? Is it the so-called moderate opposition and the Islamists, or is it Daesh (ISIS)?

President Assad: I don’t think that the term “opposition” can be used, in France or anywhere else in the world, to describe somebody carrying a weapon. Opposition is a political act. Suppose that you mean to say “moderate terrorists”, this is a different term. Saying that, you mean that they do not belong to Daesh (ISIS), Al-Nusra, or to these extremist groups. … The moderate opposition is a fantasy. … Most of the militants belong to extremist groups, such as Daesh (ISIS), Al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, and others. So, my answer is that every terrorist is an enemy. We respect every political opposition; and we do have political opposition inside Syria. They adopt tough positions against the state, and we are not attacking them. … The state will confront all those who carry weapons. It will not ask them about their ideology. But the difference is that the extremist groups refuse to have any dialogue with the state. They believe that they will fight, die, and go to heaven. This is their doctrine. …

In Search of "The End of an Era"

 It’s been ten years since I’ve been listening to liberal talk radio and all this time we’ve been told that the tide was turning and a new era of populism and getting out the vote - - would occur.  It hasn’t happened.  For years we’ve been told that the demographics were changing.  We were told that in 2012 and we were told the 2016 election would be a slam dunk for the democrats.  Now we live in a world of uncertainty due to all the voter suppression that’s going on- - and the media now is very different now from what it was under Ronald Reagan thirty years ago.  The media at large didn’t take kindly to the policies of Ronald Reagan and his “jobless recovery” and his turning his back on the AIDS situation, and the epidemic of homelessness that sprung up then.  Now once again we are informed that with the death of Justice Scelia that the Ronald Reagan era is over.  But of course conservatives have a hammer-lock on over the air talk radio and all that purging out the left occurred not that many years ago.  We see that Donald Trump has tapped into the very ugliest part of society in terms of its reactionary bigotry- - something that would have been undreamed of thirty years ago.  For the first time in a long time the economy will play almost zero part in who our next President is, because people have accepted this “new normal” of uneven wealth distribution and nonstop wall to wall foreign wars.  The Republicans have a hammerlock on the state houses controlling thirty states.  That’s almost unprecedented.  But with everything that’s going the Republicans’ way we are told of this “vision” the right wing has that we haven’t gone nearly far enough.  So now we want to revamp congressional districting to further disenfranchise minorities, crack down even harder on labor unions,  and presumably be fighting in several foreign conflicts at once.  There seems to be no urgency by the public at large that “Anything is wrong with this picture”. 

John Kasech had a rally at Clemson College in SC talking about the rewards of assertiveness like persistence on getting in the President of the College office.  Then he got to see President Nixon - - alone - for twenty minutes in the Oval Office.  “Fantastic!” I thought.  But then he said something that invalidates his whole message.  He said ‘I never respond to the first person with a question who raises his hand’.  That to me means “Assertive people turn me off”.   Of course despite all of his pep talk rhetoric he’s still pretty much a hard, down the line conservative.  But Obama’s book with all that “Yes, we can” stuff was bullshit too.

   Pope Francis has questioned Donald Trump’s Christian faith.  I think it's about time somebody did.  He can't continue to tell jokes that begin 'Two Corinthians walk into a bar - - ".  Trump says “Nobody has the right to question my faith”.  Actually Donald Trump shows his ignorance of Catholicism because the Pope has the power to ex-communacate members of the Catholic Church, and if you’re not Catholic you can’t take communion in the Church.  Pope Francis spoke of “A person who speaks only of building Walls and not bridges, is not talking like a Christian”.  Donald Trump had the gall to claim that the Pope “Was being used as a pawn by the Mexican government”.  Meanwhile President Obama will visit Cuba soon.  Hopefully he’ll visit some Catholic Churches in Cuba if they have any.  Hopefully the President will speak on the subject of religious liberty. 

Nobody talks about "running out the clock" when it's just the beginning of the fourth quarter.  This whole idea of "fillibustering" is a weak debate tactic.  Thom Hartman has praised Hillary more than once for talking and talking and not letting Bernie Sanders get a word in edgewise in the democratic debates.  Hartman says "This is a good debate tactic and it's normal to use it, and it will work well against Ted Cruz or whoever in the fall when Hillary uses it against him".  Do you really think either the moderators then or the US population at large will tollerate evasion tacticts such as these?  Hartman says "Well Bernie Sanders doesn't want to wound Hillary for the fall campaign".  The trouble is that HIllary is playing to win - - and Sanders is trying "Not to offend anyone".  What if the Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game decided to go easy on the New England Patriots and "Let them win" so that the Patriots would have a better change against the Carolina Panthers?  Huh?  It's crazy talk, isn't it?  

Nevada is having its democratic caucus this Saturday night.  Sanders is gaining in the national polls 53% to 42%.   The race is a toss-up in Nevada at this point between Hillary and Bernie.  They’ve been having more “Town Halls”.  Meanwhile Ted Cruz is number one among the Republicans pushing Trump down to second place for about the first time since Trump announced last June.  How can Trump’s ego cope with that?   I have Norman Goldman on now.  Talk radio where being prepared for a conversation is a liability and not an asset.  If you’re too organized they accuse you of either reading something or of “Having an agenda” as Neil Savedra used to put it.  Sometimes less intelligent callers get more air time.  This is most certainly true with liberals attempting to call a conservative station.  Meanwhile this story of the conflict between Apple and the FBI on the right to protect personal data – is not going away.  It’s seemingly a really hot topic, which is hardly reflected in my blogger numbers.   This paragraph are just a pot purée of topics with no particular logical connection. 

It would seem that President Obama in his never ending battle to look tough against Russia and Assad, is willing to start WW III, or at least allow it to get started, presumably cheering on the radical Sunny Muslims, a sect he publicly criticizes but privately supports.  With the Russian-backed Syrian army encircling Aleppo, cutting off Turkish supplies to rebels andadvancing on the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa, a panicked Saudi Arabia and Turkey have set up a joint headquarters to direct an invasion of Syria that could lead to a vast escalation of the war. And there’s only one man who could stop them: President Barack Obama.  It is probably the most important decision Obama will make in his eight years in office since a Turkish-Saudi invasion risks a direct showdown between Russia and NATO, since Turkey is a member of the alliance.   The U.S. traditionally has held tremendous power over client states like Turkey and Saudi Arabia. So, an order from Washington is usually enough to get such governments to back down. But Ankara and Riyadh are being led by reckless men whose continued existence in power might well depend on stopping a Syrian government victory – helped by Russia, Iran and the Kurds – and a humiliating defeat of the Turkish-Saudi-backed Syrian rebels, who include some radical jihadist groups.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prince Mohammad bin Salman have shown increasing defiance of Washington. Neither man is the legal ruler of his respective country. But both have seized power nonetheless.  Erdoğan is technically in a symbolic post, a presidency without power. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu should be leading the country the way Erdoğan did when he was prime minister, but Davutoğlu is still letting Erdoğan call the shots.

Liberals And Conservatives

It has struck me as odd that we continue to use terms like Liberal and Conservative for the political spectrum because they don’t mean what you think any more.  It used to be that if you were for the right to privacy for example that you were a conservative.  If you believed in a “conservative” use of Eminent Domain you were a conservative.  It used to be that if you interoperated the constitution the way the founding fathers meant it, you believed that a President had the right to nominate a supreme court justice during all four years if your term of elected power and not just three of them.  If you saw the term of “congress shall enact no laws prohibiting the right to freedom of practicing religion- - - it didn’t mean that women would be denied contraceptives as part of their health care plan at work.  This to me is a far from clear issue for the Founding Fathers that this is what they meant.  For that matter, do Corporations such as Hobby Lobby even have the right to deny women’s rights in the name of religion since corporations are not people?  No founding father regarded corporations as persons.  One could boil it down simply to say that liberals favor faster progress and conservatives favor slower progress.  So for instance I might be a moderate on pot legalization because I believe we ought to proceed carefully on granting rights to light up.  And I believe we have proceded carefully in this regard.  But here’s a graphic example of what I’m talking about.  Conservatives might be regarded as fearful of losing what we have where as liberals are optimist looking to the future for bigger and better things.  But what about Windows 10.  You may back away from that because you fear losing Media Player.  All of the photographic stuff I have on my computer now I might lose if I get windows 10 and some of that stuff is not compatable and I lose many photo options I have right now.  Why should the mere passage of time bar me from continuing to use software I already own?  In like manner one would be a conservative if one believed in going back eighty years and preserving the regulations on Stock trading instituted by FDR.  For instance back then we had Gless Stiegel, and we had margin requirements of sixty percent or something.  We also had a quarter percent stock trading tax instated on all trades to slow things down.  I’d like to bring that one back.  In fact I wouldn’t mind if it were raised to a half a percent.  This would put computer traders in their place and make the market a whole lot safer.  But often times we hear absurd things such as “Let’s go back to the nineteen fifties”.  Do these people mean that they want to return to a time of 91% income taxes and corporations paid one third of the Federal Tax revenue?  What about airline regulations?  The last time I flew commercially was in 1975.  I think a lot of us would love to roll the clock back forty years and not have all of this “deregulation” where flyers pay a heavy price in terms of loss of services.  This is to say nothing about all of the security regulations they have now.  So I as a “liberal” believe we have a lot to lose from the conservatives coming to power.  Labor Unions were a whole lot stronger sixty years ago.  Even this so called golden era where women stayed home and didn’t work and nobody got divorced.  Upon even inspection even these things weren’t true.  Women had jobs and people did get divorced.  So in general you could say conservatives are good at spinning myths such as Ronald Reagan was the greatest president we ever had.  This would have to be an awfully air-brushed, sanitized version of the Ronald Reagan presidency.  Not the actual one.  There was a “Reagan revolution” to be sure, and it wasn’t good, for a lot of ordinary people. 

Here’s another good reason for not voting for Trump.  Trump wants Apple and other electronics companies to open up a “back door” for encrypted software so the government can read your private communacations.  I am with Gene Scott on this one.  I believe that the average citizen has the right to hide- - even if it’s nothing.  It’s none of the government’s business short of probable cause and even then I’d say “It’s still a secret”.   If I meet in private behind locked doors with an associate my conversation will not be revealed.  It’s just that simple.  I believe Americans have the right to private conversations.  Likewise I don’t think employers should probe your facebook accounts any more than then it would be right to send agents of a company into your medicine cabinet to see what medications you may be taking.  Capish? 

Franklin Roosevelt had the balls to call for higher taxes for rich people in October 1936 two weeks before the Presidential election.  He even mocks the notion that because of higher taxes these rich people would think about moving to another country.  You will remember that the Great Depression began in October of 1929 is not before.  And for three years and more the Great Depression got worse and worse till in 1933 people were crying out for change.  It’s been said that people sent mountains of letters to their congressmen saying to give the new president whatever powers he wants to for his new programs.  What if President Obama had gotten that kind of support in March of 2009?   There is a “Republican light” ad circulating around now saying that if Bernie Sanders gets elected as President he will raise taxes and institute the sort of socialistic programs that have been discredited.  Perhaps this is a pro Hillary outfit putting out this video, but if I were Hillary Clinton I wouldn’t feel too easy about this video being out. 

WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders fares a bit better than rival Hillary Clinton in head-to-head matchups against Republican presidential contenders, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Pollfinds, and he has pulled within 10 percentage points of her for the Democratic nomination.  The nationwide survey, taken Thursday through Monday, underscores how formidable an opponent the 74-year-old democratic socialist has become against one of the Democratic Party's most established figures.  Clinton — a former first lady, two-term New York senator and secretary of State — is backed by 50% of likely Democratic primary and caucus voters, down 6 points from December. Over that time, Sanders' standing has surged 11 points, to 40%.  While Clinton argues that she would be more electable in November, Sanders shows somewhat more strength against four possible Republican opponents, although almost all of the matchups fall within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.  Meanwhile, the Republican race has become a three-man contest. Real-estate mogul Donald Trump has widened his lead nationwide to 35% of likely Republican voters, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 20% and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 17%.  The other three Republican contenders — Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson — trail in distant single digits.

I was able to locate that “casting out of nines” number magic thing.  It’s in Psychic Balance from late November of 2009.  I need to identify my stuff so people can find it.  I think the semaphore flag formations are from October of 2011.  It’s October 19^th 2011 in the “Escape from Egypt” blog.  I need to “flag” things so that people can find them.  I've done various listings of my "Seven Deadly Sins".  For four of them I am in agreement with Dante and the Catholic Church.  These are Wrathful Anger (Huberous), Lust, Averice, and Sloth.  I believe in three kinds of anger.  One is rightious anger.  For instance someone on a construction job misusing a big crane and almost offing a bunch of bystanders by hitting them in the head.  This would be a case where a boss would be rightious in his anger.  Then there is what you'd call "human anger" such as if you lend your new car out to a friend and it comes back with dents all in it.   It's normal to react.  But then there is the type of pure anger spawned by pure "wrathful pride" and this is the sort of anger I am referring to.  Pure hatred.   Then there are three vices (sins) on my list that the Church does not even seem to recognize.  This is Dishonesty - - Treachery - - and Cowardess.  I'm really surprised the Church does not take a dim view of cowardess since fighting and "honor" were go big in the Middle Ages.  

US Minorities Dodge a Redistricting Bullet with Scelia's Death

 There is a Supreme Court case that would have totally altered how we draw congressional district lines.  Had Scelia remained alive the vote was there and it would have been a five to four decision and it would have completely disenfranchised blacks and minorities.  It would also have compelled all of the states to draw their district lines.  It would be based not on population but registered voters.  Can you imagine that?  The constitution expressly says the populations of each state.  It says nothing about those over twenty one or legal voters or felons or people without transportation.  If you want to get religious about the whole thing you could say that God struck Justice Scelia dead to prevent such an awful ruling from happening.  Because it's my belief that this Supreme Court ruling would have itself been the most unconstitutional thing the court ever did.  How does Ted Cruz feel about that? 

Dwight Eisenhower recessed appointed Justice Brennon to the Supreme Court, so apparentlky Brennon was installed as a Justice prior to the senate confirmation.  So there’s no reason why President Obama couldn’t put Camilla Harris on the High Court during this time when the US Senate is in recess.  If the Republicans want to play rough, we can play rough.  But of course Justice Kennedy wasn’t officially approved by the then Democratic US Senate till 2008, which was an election year.  The Bork hearings were during the time when Frank was still living at the Bosc house and appared to have all that time off work, and was carping at the media and at me at the time.  Ron Rhodes described Bork as too arrogant.  But we don’t need to go that far back.  Our old friend Senator Mitch Mc Connell said in 2008 complaining of democrats not confirming Bush appointments as “The democrats don’t have the right to run out the clock in the last six months of the Bush administration like this’.  Well, we aren’t even in the last six months of the Obama administration.  There are eleven months left, so let’s just play Mc Connel’s words back to him.  The perfect thing to do would be to nominate a moderate- - one who has already been approved by the US Senate for a lower post.  Then watch the Republicans try and justify his not being appointed.  They’ll look silly and the whole thing will be a campaign issue, particularly in blue states, apparently, where Republican senators are struggling to hold on to their seats.  

The last time the High Court had a vacancy for as long as one year was during the Civil War.  The Constitution says nothing about the President being ineligible to nominate a Supreme Court justice during the last year of his administration.  “That’s crazy talk” to quote our friends from Stinky’s Rooter.  Of course four and four rulings of this court will result in a maintaining of the Status Quo.   So if there is a situation with Labor Unions where their rights may be restricted, this will be put on hold.  Also the President won’t be restricted in his executive orders, because there will be no High Court to point the long finger and say that the President’s constitutions are unconstitutional.  There is also that key case above we talked about involving redistricting.  The significance of that case can’t be over-stated.   Of course the President could kill two birds with one stone by appointing Hillary to the High Court.  Because she would be removed as a political target for the Republicans to attack this year relentlessly.  Now they are saying that Hillary Clinton tied in New Hampshire last week with Bernie Sanders.  You may think she lost by over twenty points but apparently there was a monster surge of voters voting for Bernie of proportions I can’t imagine, because a 21 point deficit is an awfully huge hedge to hurdle. 

Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage said Monday that “something stinks” surrounding Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, advocating for a Warren Commission-style investigation into his possible murder.  “The question is, is it a conspiracy theory to ask questions that are so obviously in need of answer, or is it just common sense,” Mr. Savage wrote in a blog post on his website. “And where is the common sense both in the press and the Republican Party. The answer is nowhere.”   Fortunately, neither Rush Limbaugh nor Shawn Hannity has referenced Michael Savage as any kind of credible source for anything. 

(CNN) Jeb Bush was the latest Republican presidential candidate to compare rival Donald Trump to liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday, in response toTrump's criticism of George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq War.  "I don't get it," Bush said. "He's basically bearing the words of Michael Moore in a Republican Primary."   Bush is not the only politician to compare the business mogul to the left-leaning filmmaker. During an interview with ABC's Good Morning America on Monday, Bush ally and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called Trump, "The Michael Moore of the Republican Party."  Republican candidate and Texas Sen.Ted Cruz also compared the two during a stop in South Carolina Monday.  "When Trump sided with MoveOn.org and Michael Moore and the fever swamp left-wing, that demonstrated where he was coming from," Cruz said.  Moore's political documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" famously criticized the Bush administration's involvement in the Iraq War.

Stephanie Miller - Back In My Good Graces

I had Stephanie Miller on before and after breakfast.  It was actually a good program this morning.  It helped solidify my feelings about Donald Trump’s performance in the debates Saturday night.  Trump had a liberal melt down and many progressives agree with the things he was saying, including me.  They say that Bernie Sanders got more votes in the New Hampshire primary ever for an NH primary- from either party.  This new enthusiasm will help to bring out voters for democrats in the fall.  I think we democrats need to saver the good feelings we have had given news of the past few days, about being Democrats and draw energy from those feelings.  There was a lot of blood on the floor after the Republican’s knock-down drag out bar fight last Saturday.  People are saying that despite how much Donald Trump got booed that the people will still turn out to vote for him.  Thom Hartman states that both Trump and Sanders’ presence and popularity on the political scene are symptomatic of a political revolution already taking place in this country.  The Rude Pundit was on along with Dean Obadala later, who is a Muslim.  Muslims as a people are becoming objects of persecution.  The Rude Pundit had some rather obscene remarks to make about Justice Scelia’s cold, dead, body.  I think you have to do a little dancing on the graves of people you hate just to get it out of your system.  I got bored with the program later and looked all around to C-Span and things.  I finally visited the C-Net site, which I haven’t visited in a long time.

Justice Scelia is known for some really stupid lines.  He says that insisting that Black voting rights be enforced by law is symptomatic of “Minority entitlement” and once Minority entitlement gets established it’s hard to get out of that situation.  Scelia was a judicial activist.  When he believed in judicial restraint I agreed with his rulings.  Now that he’s become a nakedly political activist, I can’t agree with his rulings because they have caused a lot of harm.  Some would say “More harm to society than a serial murderer”.   When you stop and think about it it’s silly to think that President Obama wasn’t elected for four years, but somehow only three years, and that certain constitutional prerogatives are denied him the past year.  No.  If there were some sort of wartime emergency declared- - President Obama would be within his rights here.  It’s almost as if they are carrying the black thing a little too far with “three-fifths of a term”.  

I watched “Face the Nation”.  I had political commentary on and then there were the Rubio and Trump and Sanders interviews, each with an accompanying bagged photograph.  Then I had the Fullbright hearings on from February 8^th 1966 on.  This was just about the time I personally turned against the Viet Nam war.  They had some retired General Gavvins up there with a philosophical history of man and war and they talked about 1954 a little and our decision then not to get involved in Viet Nam attacking the Hanoi delta.  Also there were things against “urban bombing”.  Senator Fullbright liked the guy’s message.   In Google News, President Obama will take the “Time and rigor required” to make a court nomination.  The nomination will still arrive D O A. 

There is a line from an old movie that said the world would end on Valentines Day 2016, which was yesterday- and we're still here.  In the Bible in those portions of the Gospels not taken up with healongs or exorcism of demons, or confrontations with pharicees, are taken up with Parables of the Kingdom.  A really large percentage of these NT parables are about the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.  I believe these parables were the teachings originally of John the Baptist.  The only way to prove it is to check with disciples of John the Baptist.  John saw himself as a herald, a forerunner of the Son of Man, who then would inaugurate the Kingdom.  Let's look at these parables.  'Ye shall know them by their fruits'.   There is the parables of the Wheat and the Tares, referred to in my prophecy book as darnel grass.  They both start out as green sprouts but one of them turns white and the other turns black, where they are then very easy to tell apart.  Or think of a pearl of great price that you sell everything you have to obtain.  If this sounds extreme remember that Baptism itself was a symbolic total emersion of death and resurrection to new life where the water (not Jesus' blood) washed your sin away.   The Kingdom is like collecting fish and accepting the good ones and throwing away the skinny, scrawny ones.  The kindgom is like a wedding party where ten virgins wait for the bridegroom who arrives at Midnight.  It's known as the parable of the five wise virgins and five foolish virgins, who forgot to bring oil for their lamps.  The Kingdom of heaven is like a wedding feast held by a King where if you didn't have a wedding garment, you'd be thrown out.  The Kingdom is like two debtors where one owed the Master a whole lot, and another servant owed the first servant some small change.  The Master forgave the first servant but this servant didn't forgive his neighbor.  We are told to be watchful.  The master will return at an hour when you do not expect him.  What if the servant in charge is drunk and mistreating his subordenate servants.  The Kingdom is like workers in a Vineyard.  It doesn't matter what hour you "hear the calling" but just to give it your all from that moment on.  According to Bones the reward in all cases is not money but Eternal Life, which is the same for all of us.  Those servants who were blessed to be "called" early had the advantages of being Born Again throughout our lives.  But the ones called late probably worked the hardest because they most feared they weren't good enough.  Also the kingdom could be likened to not workers but tennants in a vinyard.  The Master comes at the end of the season to take his cut of the crops.  First he sends one servant and then another.  Finally the Master sends his own son to collect the debt.  Those wicked squaters kill the Son thinking that they will gain the whole field is the son is dead.  Finally the Kingdom of heaven could be likened to separating the sheep from the Goats in a passage in Matthew 25 Thom Hartman likes to quote.  The sheep are the ones who do ministering to our brothers, our fellow comrad Christians- - and serve them as we would serve the Master.  Those who do this and give food and drink and clothing and shelter and visit the sick and imprisoned- - these are the Sheep will go on into the kingdom.  The ones who fail to do this are the Goats who will be cast into outer darkness.  I don't know where "Outer darkness" is exactly but it's a place we don't want to go.  It's referred to quite a lot in the gospels.  John the Baptist also preached against adultry.  And it can be inferred that John was particularly against "trading your wife in for a newer, younger model.  There is a lot of that in Politics, but these politicians and celebreties don't like the idea of being called out on it.   I think if there was a church of John the Baptist I'd join it.  Most likely it was John who also referred to the pharicees and scribes and such as a den of vipers and whitewashed graves and all of that.  So you clergy could keep that in mind, too.