Beam Me Up, Scotty

THE SPEECH PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE GIVEN

My fellow Americans. We are here to night to discuss a very serious topic. But before we get started I would like to address myself to the TV networks and their practice of putting on a rebuttal to address delivered from the Office. As President of all the land I would like to believe I speak for the entire country and not leave myself open to be sniped at by some right fringe upstart malcontent who like all the rest of this phoney tea party movement are what Vice President Spiro Agnew would call "negative nabobs of negativism". Ladies and gentleman, there IS a serious crisis now but it's NOT the one that Republicans would have you believe it is- - not in the least. They would lead you to believe that we have a deficet crisis and justify their numerous below the belt political tacticts to justify the unjustifyable. There IS no "deficet crisis". Our government bonds and T bills and other money instruments are quite sound and AAA rated, as are those of many other nations like Japan who have a sizable budget deficet. However the Republicans' motives are not what they claim to be. Not by a long shot. Their actual goal is to crash this economy prior to next year's election and thus hope to gain the office of President next year. It's pointless for them to try and deny this, because were it not true, their actions would not have been what they are. Ye shall know them by their fruits. These fringe Republicans who took over in this election past have stated this goal often, and in many ways. My fellow Americans, good Americans do not do this. What they are doing is tantamount to economic treason. They say they are worried about the deficet. But is they really were, John Boehner would have agrees with me on a bill last week when we came close. I have been more than patient with my Republican colligues. But he said he would not compromize the pledge many of his coolgues surrupticiously and illegally made not to raise taxes no matter what the circumstance. This is the height of irresponsability. But Mr. Boehner is under pressure from those to the far right. He imagines these fringe tea party candidates will not win a primary if they do not stick to their no new taxes pledge. But I don't believe when people know the actual facts they will want to vote for a policy that will cause them to lose their jobs or for grandma to not get needed medical treatment, or for money to get tighter and economic uncertainty to increase. But these things will indeed occur if we do not come to an agreement in the next week. This deadline has no extensions. Were they all that concerned about the deficet they would have grabbed my offer with both hands to cut four trillion dollars from the federal deficet. But they didn't. Even now as you talk to many of them, their apathy about the approaching August 2nd deadline only grows with each passing day as the situation becomes increasingly out of reach. On August 2nd of next week, the nation will default and be unable to pay it's bills. My fellow Americans, when you in your own household decide you can't afford things in the future you do not unilaterally decide not to pay your outstanding bills and obligations. President Ronald Ronald Reagan spoke at length on this topic in a similar crisis in the 1980's. In that speech me made the identical points I am making today. If this default is allowed to come to pass, interests rates will go up and money will be tight and loans needed for economic expansion will be impossible to get. Prices of bonds will fall, and our credit standing around the world will fall. The Republicans will have at long last achieved the goal they were dreaming of ever since I took office. People such as Glen Beck have been predicting for years we'd have runaway inflation and skyrocketing interest rates because of my policies. Some two and a half years later this never happened. But now these republican fringe elements in the House are going to on their own endeavor to MAKE it happen. Ladies and Gentlemen, this should be a routine thing to raise the national debt ceiling. To use this event as a partisan political football is the worst kind of hitting below the belt. And I believe the American people have an inherent sense of knowing what's fair, and what is not. Eisenhaur, Nixon, and Reagan must all be turning over in their graves at the prospect of what is happening now. The Republicans just passed a cut, cap and ballance bill that not only makes massive cuts in vital government services, but also institutes a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget. In the 1972 Republican Convention they voted down such a provision as unworkable. If President Nixon found it unacceptable, why should it be any more acceptable today considering we have not had a balanced budget since 1969. Indeed Republicans through the ages have cited the proverb, "Deficets don't matter". These rises in the national debt ceiling for the past hundred years and up to this year have always been completely routine. Ronald Reagan had 17 such rises during his political tenure. Also, interest rates under Ronald Reagan were much higher than today meaning he subjected the American people to a perportionately much higher financial burden than is the case today. It's our patriotic duty to insure that America is economically respected around the world, and they are putting this as risk. These republicans have absolutely no pride in America, and they also lack any shame at what they are doing to this country by their petty and ill conceived actions. At this time I would like to remind you that George Bush, my predicessor is far from blameless in the problems we are having today with the deficet, and I think he'd be the first to admit it. It was George Bush who did the giveway to the drug and insurance companies with Medicare Part D, that guarenteed the drug companies top price for everything and stripped our government from any power to negotiate the price down. It was George Bush who put so many items "off budget" and thus did not show up in the official deficet tallies. It was George Bush who promoted the real estate crisis we are still suffering from. And it was George Bush who manufactured our war in Iraq and sent our young men there on completely fraudelent grounds. And evidence has clearly come to light that George Bush KNEW they were fraudelent reasons at the time, saying that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destructions". First of all it cannot be overstated the connection between the Bush family and the Saudi families - - and by the way fifteen of the nineteen 9 - 11 hijackers were Saudis. Bush has maintained a close relation with the Saudis and it was most likely they who wanted Saddam Hussein gone because his brand of moderate Islam was not to their liking, and they preferred the more radical Wahabbiest variety. President Bush thought if he could trump up a phoney war he could gain "political capital" and rise in the polls in time for the election of 2004. And he was right, if you don't count the voters in Ohio. But wars cost money. They kill people and our soldiers come back a shadow of the men they were and need extensive medical therapy to be rehabilitated into society. All of this costs money. But these Republicans don't care about our Veterans any more than they care about medical care for older Americans which they have come to depend on. The goal of these tea party republicans is nothing short of the dismanteling of the American Government as we know it. One of their own has stated that their goal is to "shrink the size of the American government down to where it can be drowned in the bathtub". This is their avowed goal. Not to trim waste in programs, and not even to cut the deficet. Were this true they would be much more open to revenue enhancement and closing gaping tax loopholes for giant international corporations. Indeed there is indeed waste in government, and I have stressed my concern about this time and time again. But the House voted down a tax law that would end our government's actually subsedizing corporations from moving over seas, and with them all those jobs, because they refused to eliminate the tax write off that enable this. Indeed I myself was accused of wanting to cut grandma's medicare by my Health Care reforms. Many good programs will have to be put on hold during this crisis. Yet I have been accused of not wanting to cut anything and I imagine Senator Boehner will again repeat this false assumption when he speaks. What they are about instead can be summarized in the words "starve the beast". But, my fellow Americans, YOU are the Government. You, the American People hold 65% of all American bonds which fund the government. So to say that the government should default is to default against yourselves. Do not let the Republicans get away with this. Get on the phone right now and call them, and keep calling them and tell them you will not stand for another minute of this needless delay, but to come to an agreement immediately. In doing this maybe we can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, for all of us. I wish you God's speed. Thank you and good night.

You know – one in these troubled times tempted to say “Beam me up, Scotty”. Of course you know our scheduled Rapture is scheduled for September 28^th or just two months away. The time will be fast upon us. Of course I was thinking of announcing a delay of that event for another three years to September 24^th 2014, same time and place. But I don’t know if this chaos we are in can go on that long. We have no idea of knowing what sort of President a Rick Perry or a Mitt Romney or Michelle Bachman would make. Of course to ask Bachman about her frequent and disabeling migranes would be sexist or something, so as Nancy Pelosi would say, that topic is “Off the table”. The American people have gone insane, without a brain in their head. Of course the majority of these people claim to be Christian. But they couldn’t put together a coherent story of the resurrection of Jesus to save their lives that would survive even the most innocent of questions from one who might be genuinely curious. They say Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. How did they learn that? Judas was dead. He couldn’t tell them. And law enforcement usually doesn’t publicise the identity of informants. As to what was done with the money- - some say it was to buy a potters field to bury the poor. Others said Judas bought a piece of land with it and fell to his death and his insides burst out. I’m wondering. Doing business on the Sabbath was prohibited. So Judas had to wait till Sunday. According to the way all the movies portray it Judas hung himself over a cliff several hundred feet high and the rope broke. Then somehow his disfigured corps now rotting in the desert sun, the portion of it that hadn’t been eaten by scavengers- - and somehow a disciple was just passing by and identified it. But Jesus appeared to his disciples that very evening, so that poses very little time for Judas to have done all that. And I’m wondering if Judas knew Jesus was alive he surely would have met with him. We are told the three women on the way to the tomb mused on how they would roll the stone away. But Mary Magdolane came to the tomb even earlier while it was still dark- - and met the gardener who she took to be Jesus. So why didn’t SHE tell the other two women the SECOND time she went to the tomb the stone had already been rolled away? Why were Jesus’ disciples still in town anyhow when according to the Zachariah prophecy they were “sheep to be scattered”. They say soldiers gambled for Jesus’ robe. Yet the Roman soldiers GAVE him a purple robe to wear, which they draped on his bloody body, and then he appeared on stage with Pilate in front of the crowd that way wearing the purple robe. And those two men in a city twenty miles away. They had a talk with a stranger they later came to believe was Jesus after he had gone. But they didn’t talk about the fact that Pilate had pardoned a hardened zealot who had committed a murder. Surely that’s a topic for gossip. And they didn’t talk about the curtain in the temple being rent in two. They didn’t talk about either of the two massive earthquakes that hit the City, nor the fact that graves were opened and dead people were arising and walking through the city. As Gene Scott says, “Try pudding a little flesh and blood on these characters”. And of course not too many people in those days slowly ascended into the sky like a UFO, in an era that didn’t even have balloons. But somehow the people didn’t know about this. Of course if money exchanged hands (on a Sabbath, which was illegal) when the priests told the Roman Authorities to place a quatrane of troops to guard the tomb of a convicted criminal because there were roomers he would rise again- - - well, it just gets curiouser and curiouser. But me I’m like “Mr Potter” and I say “I see you are troubled- - and you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to help you out. I’m going to cite instances from the Bible - - - “. Did you know that a man who sacrificed his own daughter as a burnt offering is hailed as a “Hero of Faith” in the book of Hebrews in the N T. People say that Cain married a distant relative like a 2^nd cousin or something- - in some remote city, where he had fled because “He didn’t want people finding out he had murdered his brother” and God agreed to protect him- - - because you never when some desert caravan might be traveling from Adam’s farm to some city which- - - now we have a problem. There were no people so how could they build a city. Cain HAD no other older siblings who had “left the farm and moved to the big city”. Walter Martin’s been watching too many old movies. All Cain and Abel’s siblings would be YOUNGER than they were, and probably needed as workers around the place doing the usual farm chores- - - and they in the context of the story were probably but teenagers themselves. So we are left with the option of a bunch of “Children of the Corn” types- - maybe ten brothers and sisters probably with an average age of ten or eleven- - all going across the desert to build a city and then have sex with each other and begin having kids. People’s explanations for things are laughable.

This is the next morning, Wednesday July 27th. and I'd like to throw in a "prequel" at this time. For some of you who thought the "Children of the Corn" analogy was over the top, I say "not one bit". The oldest child, presumably the leader may be fifteen or sixteen, like Malachai was in the movie. Picture being raised by parents who talked about a land of talking serpents in a garden Paradise to the west, the east gate of which was guarded by two angels, with flaming swords that moved every which way. To say this story is not an "essential" element in Christianity is again to miss the target. Jesus spoke of Adam and Eve as literal beings. However in other areas Jesus liked to cherry pick scripture. For instance, Jesus regarded the making of any vows to either the LORD or a human being as a snare of the devil. Jesus said "Do not swear". Jesus said if you married a divorced woman YOU were guilty of Adultery. Jesus obviously never read the scripture where the prophet Hoseah was ordered to take a prostitute for a wife. Jesus also said that the Old Testament law was some sort of degraded or compromised version, despite incessent references elsewhere in the Old Testament to the law of god being perfect, and to meditate on it day and night. Jesus also taught that blood atonement was not absolute. If you did not forgive your brother, neither would God forgive you, regardless of whether you were "covered by the blood". And now here are some other worthwhile coments fro yesterday.

We are now in concrete. This is Tuesday after three on July 26, 2011 and Bill is out of the room. The soap opera demonstrated that Victor is both a bully and a queer lover and in my opinion only diminished what little credibility he had by his behavior today. You know, homosexuals are not immune from being assholes or causing embarrassing social situations for others. And they won’t acknowledge that.

Money draw call came near two. It was a short line. I guess Loretta Hill has already been. I went in and received fifteen from [name withheld]. I wanted sixteen. I took three pieces of candy. I was going to buy a snack at the store but now I’ll have to spend that money on coffee. Janet’s little request actually cost me a dollar and a quarter of this week’s money. I’ve got enough coffee for one more cup. They music class met today. I went out and got two cups of coffee from Dora. I also got coffee from Dora in the morning. I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and after two. Oscar is hosing down the patio so I went out front to smoke. Nora was by at about 10:30 to change the linens. I’m going to save that coffee lid because the normal one with those cans doesn’t seal tight.

Yesterday just before noon Dr. Levy’s class convened. Of course Dr. Levy fancies himself an expert on economics and between the two of us he is the one presumed to have the more knowledge although I spend all day listening to the stuff and information compiled by people more industrious than I. Whereas he brags that he only watches ten minutes of news a day and that’s it. Someone said Marie Calendar pies are definitely closing down, all of them. The company is going into bankruptsy. I mentioned this on a blog in passing weeks ago as a roomer. We had our check-in. Joe read four favorite poems from Dr. Levy’s book, and they were good ones. Then Dr. Levy wanted to talk yet more about creative aging, as though we hadn’t more than beaten that horse to death. Dr. Levy grilled us with a few test questions. The corrected version of our poem was passed out. At one I went up here briefly and then met Dr. Levy and we went to his car to go to the bank. I went in alone. My account was $58.50 or something, but I forget to get a receipt. He said he knew of no “secret question” that people who called an 800 number were supposed to answer. On the way home I mentioned the ontological delema about knowing something may be true but not being able to prove it. Would that still be called objectivism if it was an “objective” truth? I them nentioned the perils of utilitarianism and capitalism and how both are fine within moral boundaries.