This is Tuesday November 1, 2011, or 11-1-11 or Yhatsee snake-eyes day. So we have a Smoking Gun in the whole 9 – 11 thing? I believe so. You will remember the term “Smoking Gun” came into our vocabulary during the Nixon Watergate era when a tape recording came to light of the President ordering the CIA to tell the FBI to “stay the hell out of this investigation”. So did President Bush have foreknowledge of the 9 – 11 attacks? Judge for yourself. Sometimes you see things and it “goes right by you”. The media conditions us NOT to even think of certain things. Somebody asked President Bush when and how he learned of the 9 – 11 attacks. And the President said “Well I was watching the TV and I saw the first plane fly into the first building, and I just chalked it up to pilot error”. Of course you know it was AFTER this he was in that Serasota classroom when Andy Card whispered in his air that a second plane had hit the world trade center, and the President continued to read to the class for another seven minutes or so. Of course you know there WAS no TV coverage of the first attack. So why did the President say there was? How is a self confessed terrorist paranoid NOT concerned at such an event? There WAS no first hit shown on TV and no image was known of it until some French documentary on firefighter safety came to light that they were filming. Also such investment activity would have landed anybody else in jail ten times over. Just think of the slim evidence the Feds used to convict Martha Mitchell. On United Air Lines along they said that “put” activity was ninety times in one day higher than you normally get in a week. And the activity was a little too wide spread for a single case of insider trading, however that would work anyhow. Of course in Europe there were immediately conspiracy theories in their press but in this country such talk was tagged as “Unamerican”. The Wickipedia describes the whole conspiracy business the way for instance a psychology book fifty years ago might host a chapter on “Various types of homosexual deviancy”. Of course you do know that Flight 93 was shot out of the sky and there was virtually no plane wreckage at the “crash site”. Maybe somebody threw a smoke bomb for photographic effect for TV coverage. We know the government likes to generate lies of “hero myths” like the Pat Tillman situation, where he really died of friendly fire. And of course we hear over and over how the people of Flight 93 were all willing to die to serve their country. Flight recorders indicate otherwise. This is just a little reminder. It’s just the tip of the ice berg to think about today.
Now they are saying that if you eat at your desk you are risking a lot of bacteria because there are 400 times as many germs on the average office desk as on a toilet. We seem to be treated to statistics every so often. Now they have special wipes for it. Personally to me it seems silly not to get up from your desk and at least walk around and go outside or something, if you are given the opportunity.
Phyllis Green said at noon that she heard on an FM radio station that Dick Chaney was the one that “engineered 9 – 11”. I could not find any confirmation on that under Chaney – so there is no immediate news. Dick Chaney says he is against President Obama pulling out all our troops out of Iraq because “even though we in the Bush administration on the same timetable, we also had a second provision that we were to make agreements concerning training troops left behind”. Well as you know the Obama administration tried to negotiate with Iraq on troops left behind but talks snagged over the idea of immunization for liability so we said, “OK, we’re pulling them all out”. Secretary Rice has a book out where she “returns the favor” and criticizes Chaney saying that she took exception to all this “disappearing of prisoners” held at Guantanamo Bay. Rice is only a slighter saner version of Dick Chaney and President Bush.
Congressman Udall of New Mexico had just introduced a new constitutional amendment abolishing the Citizen’s United ruling of 2010. Also our side takes strong exception to the Buckley vs Valejo ruling in 1976. This amendment has all the necessary stipulative leagelese that Randy Rhodes thinks is unnecessary, but I’m glad it’s there because it eliminates possible ambiguities later on. Chuck Schumer sponsored this bill or “seconded it” or whatever. I don’t see why giving ANY money to a congressman not specified for a particular purpose- - shouldn’t be illegal. Don’t bige us this bullshit about “It’s just good government” or “Civic Mindedness”. We aren’t that stupid. Once the American People hear about this amendment they’ll support it.
In Arizona they have a problem. The people of the state voted clearly they wanted fair districts drawn next time. But now right wing legislators are taking exception to having to follow through. So they are bringing impeachment charges against individual people of the commission in attempt to invalidate their whole plan. In Arizona you can apparently be impeached for wearing the wrong color tie to work that day. Now the courts will get involved and their ruling will hopefully save the day.
They have been playing stuff by Rick Perry on the radio trying to show that he’s on drugs or disoriented or something. Roomers persist that there is a whole pandora’s box of stuff on Perry that has yet to come to light. They say now that Rick Perry is trailing in the polls even in Texas. I have no idea when the next debate will be. I'm still hearing roomers that Karl Rove is really for Romney and not a backer of Rick Perry. Since Rove is so influencial it would figure that anybody that Karl Rove backed at this point would win the Republican nomination.
The defense and the prosecution have both rested in the Dr. Conrad Murray mal practice case. Dr. White got a very hostile reception from Jackson fans. Dr. White was fined a thousand dollars for violating explicit court instructions. Dr. Murray decided not to testify in his own defense. They say you should not draw any “adverse opinion” from this but basically it’s the nail in the coffin for Murray. Tomorrow they are taking the day off and on Thursday, closing arguments will commence. Of course they have to “work out” what specific instructions the judge will give to the jury.
The stock market has now taken a downward dip this week of hundreds of points in two days. This author is still not concerned about it - - yet. Many people on the other side are holding their breath in anticipation of the all coveted double dip recession. That’s not going to happen. Of course there has been a setback in the debt crisis in Greece because last Thursday they hammered out an agreement with other European nations to “push the debt off into the future” as I understand it. But the Greek people will not give voter approval of anything that requires “austerity measures” and apparently don’t want to face reality even if the economic future of the nation depends on it. All of these European debt problems I see as transitory; they will pass.
According to Thom Hartman some parts of the four part trade agreement package that was given thumbs up by the tea party and the President has signed into law- - actually might be good. Apparently it contains a jobs retraining program. However part of it makes Panama banks more accessable to rich people as another place to stash their money without governmental complications. In the part of the deal involving Columbia we support drug running businesses who kill labor union leaders. In the South Korean part of the deal it is said that we indeed might actually be able to increase our exports to that country and that S C has made genuine concessions in that area. I’m still not enthusiastic about this bill and it’s a case of “I’ll believe it when I see it”.
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