Disturbing Signs That Violence Against Women Now Fashionable Again

What have they done to the Earth?

What have they done to Our Fair Sister?

Randy Rhodes is saying some troubling things and if half of it is true we as a society are in big trouble.  In 1994 the Clinton administration passed the “Violence against women” measure that insured a lot of various rights and protections for women.  Every year this measure has been reaffirmed through Republican and Democratic administration alike, till this year, when this Republican congress refused to vote it out of committee.  What I seem to be hearing through the grapevine is that this whole tea party idea about a husband having the right to Rape and beat his wife, is making a come-back, and people like Rich Santorum are championing that.  Apparently someone made a speech yesterday that said something like “Of course none of us wants women in the military raped excessively”.  I guess the question is – what constitutes “excessive” raping.  And included in all of this is the attempted banning of abortion rights for women who have been raped and get pregnant.  I’ve heard these scenarios on Christian radio about how a child of rape is a “special child”, just as a child predestined to Down’s Sindrone is a “special child”.  The only thing is - - this is not the law of the land now.  Maybe it’s not Christian to abort a down’s child baby- - .  To me this is a moral gray area and you can argue it either way.  Still were I to apply the golden rule here- - I would not want to be in the position of a prospective parent who just learned from the doctors that my child would be forever destined to live a “different” life from anybody else.  Personally I would not be happy if they isolated a gay gene and informed me and my wife that our child was that.  But I’ll let that pass.  In the case of Rape the morals of the situation are clearer.  This was involuntary sex.  Since the act itself was illegal, anything steming from the act is illegal.  It would be like the Mafia going to court and suing another Mafioso saying that “I contracted out with a certain individual to make a certain Hit- - and I shelled out the money and the guy failed to make the Hit”.  Try selling THAT one to a judge.  It’s kind of the same thing with rape in my opinion.  Certain acts such as rape and incest are so abhorrent to society that society has to make the “strongest possible statement” or if you like Romney’s word “severe statement” as to just HOW abhorrent these acts are to society and won’t be tolerated.

I'm here to tell you right now - I really despize you sexual predators

And that anything you say in questioning may be used as evidence

against you and will be Prosecuted to the

Fullest Extent of My Imagination

Iran keeps talking about their willingness to make peace with the West, but nothing ever seems to happen on the issue.  I could give you a whole long song and dance of who said what to whom, but tomorrow it all might become irrelivent.  In other news there were some on the radio today who were making noises as though Rick Santorum had won another electoral primary yesterday but so far I am unable to confirm this.  It seems that Santorum is already in the lead with number of wins having won four states.  Romney has only won three and now it seems as though Maine may be taken away from him, since Ron Paul is claiming victory there.  I think Santorum would make an interesting candidate in that the issues would be very well defined.  I think what we need instead of guns in the Mideast is that we need women’s rights groups to infiltrate places like Afghanistan to liberate their women.  If this has been a byproduct of our troops being in Afghanistan then perhaps the tour of these brave men was not entirely in vain.  I think we can all agree that this aspect of Islam constitutes a moral evil.  And on the subject of evil I am with Pastor Rick Warren who states that you don’t try to rationalize evil or live with it or negotiate with it.  Your highest duty to God is to Destroy it.  (Selah)

We had crab salad for lunch and it was much better this time than last, if you remember that.  There was actual dressing on it, and it was properly chilled and not warm, and there were also sizable pieces of crab in it.  After this I took a noon snooze, but then arose suddenly realizing it was 12:25 and I needed to check on the group going to Wall Mart.  I got out there just in time.  I had gone back for my jacket because it was cold and threatening rain out.  They were loading up the van for the second trip as I got there.  I was happy to be in a nice warm van, and so quickly.  Is Marvyn Gaye the one who sings “Everybody Plays the Fool”?   I’d gotten the vague impression it was somebody else but it sounds like Marvyn.  We got there and I had the last smoke of the pack.  Then I went in for my coffee making my long trek down there.  I got my three cans of Master Chef and paid for them and the cashier remarked about “You can’t get coffee that cheap any place else”.  Then I went out with Arleen, Francis, and Pete on the bench and paced around.  And before I even bummed my first cigarette Sarah showed up for the return ride.  I was returning nearly an hour before I ever expected to.  There were a few drops here and there.  It began raining a little more substantively later on.  I went to the store for a pack of John Black grape.  In the soap opera Samantha is still keeping up her wronged woman act.  And Brady gave Madison the boot.  Now Madison’s husband has a “past” with Kate, we learn.  He better watch it or Stephano will crush him like a dried leaf.  I’m not sure whether I’m going to use the Mr. Good bar photo or the Egyptian one.  It’s just after three now.   Philicide is a crime I never heard of before.  Generically it would be “killing the Love out of a relation with a loved one”.

For lunch [yesterday] we had our special Valentine’s day party.  They played one of their early sixties classic oldies albums.  That one some might be called “Wipe Out” east coast version with the bongos instead of the tom-toms.  This is a version they put on a CMK album in May of 1974 here but my memory is really vague here.  I thought they titled this song “Stick Shift”.  It had Cabrillo on drums and Richi on guitars.  But I was told later they brought in Black Bart to play the bongos but I sure don’t remember that contemporaneously, I was only informed later.  There had been a months long rift (since September 1973) between CMK and Black Bart.  Anyhow we had Pastrami sandwiches for lunch, and they did not spare the Pastrami, and soup, and fancy cake and chocolate ice cream for dessert.  [ranking name withheld] sang, but she’s been off her form the past few outings.  At one point she asked me if I personally had a love story that I wished to share with the group.  Not likely.  All of mine have a Shakesperian ending.  I didn’t hang around all that long.  [same name] did sing that controversial song “I Love You”.  I departed and eventually watched the soap opera.  Samantha Brady is indeed one person to whom the term “Bitch” is not an over-statement.  Although the term “jackass” will suit nicely, too.  I don’t get it with her.  She had absolutely no sense of personal humility but is narcissistic to the end.

Money draw came during the show as [another name] began calling names early.  She was already past my name when I went down but the way they rig the rules now it doesn’t pay to be early in line.  There was every little line and it moved quickly.  I got my fifteen dollars and picked up two pieces of chocolate.  Maybe that’s what Nora was referring to. ( )  I went out and bought a pack of John Black cherry at the liquor store.  I had the computer on much of the rest of the day doing one thing or another.  That Word translator draws a blank on common Spanish expressions you hear around here like “anda le pues”, which I have no idea of the meaning of.  Once Mike Deletore said “Cerritos” meant “foot hills”, but I couldn’t get any confirmation on that.  Some words seemed to get a lot more commentary in Chinese than simpler languages.  Sometimes you would be referred to a Spanish thesaurus, which is OK, if you’re literate in Spanish.

Last night we had Chinese stir fry, they claim.  It was really mostly roast beef with an under-taste like it was going bad, with rice with an excessive Caucasian malady.   Later on I went and got a large coffee from the bakery that turned out to be very tepid.  With coffee makers of your own now you can fix problems like that.  Judy had to find me upstairs for my medication, as I was just coming down to her.  I was doing all sorts of photographs of a composite variety, and sending them out to people.  Judy (the usual one) claims not to be able to open any BMP file, which puzzles me.  Santorum was getting a lot of time on the network news.  Then it was Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and then N C I S, and later on NCIS Los Angeles.  I would say yesterday was a productive day.  But I had done so much on computer I decided to put writing this off till today.  I don’t have a lot of time right now before lunch. [That would we today, Wednesday]

Republican's "Cold, Cold Heart" Thaws a Bit

Bipartisan negotiators hammered out a tentative deal Tuesday to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of the year
, as well as unemployment insurance and the so-called "doc fix" aimed at keeping Medicare doctors from being hit with a drastic reduction in their federal reimbursement rate. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid had opened the door earlier to a House Republican plan to take up the payroll tax cut extension separately, and without offsetting the cost. But by late afternoon, sources said lawmakers were near an agreement on all three measures.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/obama-calls-on-public-to-pressure-congress-on-payroll-tax-cut-extension/?test=latestnews#ixzz1mPZi5AGg

Under the emerging details of the agreement, the payroll tax cut still wouldn't be offset by other taxes or spending cuts, however, negotiators are working out funding provisions for the unemployment and Medicare measures.

Sources said Tuesday that negotiators were looking at various ways, such as tweaking federal worker retirement benefits, to pay for those other two provisions. One source also said the plan would reduce the maximum duration of jobless aid from 99 weeks to 63 weeks in most states.  Negotiators are hoping to include all three provisions in one bill with the goal of sending it to President Obama to sign by the end of the week. The progress comes after House Republicans first offered a standalone payroll tax cut extension with no offsets. The Republican proposal marked a sharp turnabout from the party's prior insistence that the 2-percentage-point Social Security tax cut be paid for in any extension. Democrats, in response, voiced little concern about the fiscal implications of another $100 billion tax cut extension.  Reid said he expected his chamber to approve such a plan, provided House Speaker John Boehner could convince enough members of his own party to go along with it. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi earlier said her caucus could also support the proposed extension bill. However, the White House and congressional Democrats continued to press Republicans to extend the two other provisions. Reid said he ideally wants all three issues to be resolved in one bill, a goal taken up Tuesday in the bipartisan talks.  The White House likewise pressed for the jobless benefits extension and "doc fix" to be included. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said "all are important to the economy."  Pelosi also said earlier that failing to address those two other issues "jeopardizes both the ability of seniors to see their Medicare doctors and benefits for millions of Americans who lost their jobs." But she had no qualms about passing the tax cut by itself without offsets, saying the other two issues could be dealt with separately.  "Democrats have always demanded that we extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans without paying for it," Pelosi said. "Paying for it" typically refers to raising taxes in other areas, which Republicans object to, or cutting spending programs, which Democrats object to.

In the Senate, senior Democratic aides told Fox News that Democrats are putting aside their push for a millionaire surtax now that Republicans have offered to extend the tax cut with no strings attached. One aide added, "To be sure, it will live to see another day."  The move to offer the payroll tax cut extension without any accompanying spending cuts or tax hikes puts some Republicans in a difficult spot. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell just last week insisted that the extension be paid for. Asked about the plan on Tuesday, he said, "I can understand the frustration of House Republicans." He added, "I don't have a view on it right now."

Meanwhile, Obama reprised the aggressive White House-led campaign from last year in pressuring Congress to extend all three of the provisions.  Obama said the public should not take anything for granted and should not "let up" until he signs the bill into law. The president, speaking at the White House, urged Congress to extend both the tax cut and unemployment aid "without drama." He called on Americans to apply pressure via Twitter and letters to Congress, suggesting a 2-point increase in the Social Security tax could damage the economy at a sensitive time.

"No ideological sideshows to gum up the works, no self-inflicted wounds. Just pass this middle-class tax cut, pass the extension of unemployment insurance," Obama said. "Do it before it's too late, and I will sign it right away."

The cut is scheduled to expire at the end of the month. The back and forth marks the sequel to the frantic, last-minute posturing witnessed at the end of 2011, when the payroll tax cut was first set to expire. Congress in the end agreed to extend the cut for two months, with the aim of letting a bipartisan committee work out a yearlong extension. That extension was paid for with a fee assessed on everyone with a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac housing loan.

GOP leaders, clearly hoping to avoid the thrashing they received in December when they ran out the clock on the tax cut, are offering a solution fraught with potential pitfalls, especially after Republicans derided Reid last week for indicating he had a "backup plan."  The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget on Tuesday called the new plan "very troubling."   Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., conceded that the offer to pass the cut without offsetting it "may hurt the GOP" considering its potential impact on deficits. But he said the offer shows Republicans are willing to compromise "when (Democrats) are not."  And he suggested the budgetary hit from the payroll tax cut pales in comparison to the imbalance found in the president's latest budget proposal. The president's fiscal 2013 budget blueprint has complicated talks. While the president's team claims the budget will cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade, Republicans charge the White House is employing gimmicks -- like counting savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And despite claims from the administration that the budgets are curbing the rate of growth, projections still show deficits increasing by $6.6 trillion over the next decade. The administration also has not met its prior pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term.

OK I admit it.  We got lazy and punted this one today.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/14/obama-calls-on-public-to-pressure-congress-on-payroll-tax-cut-extension/?test=latestnews#ixzz1mPZqWm1H

"Going On" in the Face of Setbacks

To preach of peace and brotherhood

Oh what might be the cost

One man tried to do it

And the his credibility was lost

Grandpa died from too much sex

and being on the run

Junior died of a broken heart to see

The Presidency of his Son.

"Huh, Zimmy?"

I had the Today show on Sunday and the topic of the day was the death of Whitney Houston at age 48.  Actually the first I heard of it was on Eye Witness news Saturday at 5 PM.  She apparently died of heart failure in the bathtub of a hotel room in Beverly Hills.  She had been mixing Xeanas with alcohol.  Some said she seemed fine when she showed up at a celebrity event Thursday night.  Other people claimed that they saw her Thursday during the day disoriented in expression and doing strange things.  Drug addiction is a demon not easily gotten rid of, that's for sure.  So many people end up coming back to it because it's like a magnet where you only think you achieve "escape" velocity from it, but don't.  Of course the Police are withholding autopsy results from the public because they like to do their own investigations on celebreties, aka high profile cases of this kind like with Michael Jackson.  The most Googled song of yesterday was “I will always love you”. I was never all that "into" Whitney Houston's music.  Cosmically she's a total blank.  Unlike Etta James, who was a Reigel Sixer and clearly aknoledged as such,  there are a few big names, and U2 is another- - that draws a total cosmic blank.  They said Dion Warwick was her cousin but some female "guardian angels" of Warwick said "Whitney is no relation to ours".  Not to put a downer on this but apparently of the right wing FOX ilk like to bring up the whole racial thing as to connections with drugs.


I wasn't sure whether I posted on Saturday.  I had been thinking I didn't but clearly I did.  Sunday was a productive day.  The Beatles on KLOS had songs with “Love” in the title.  They also played “Something” and “In My Life”, “Here, There, and Everywhere” and “If I Fell”.  As you know in the US we got one of those famous sandwiched in Capital singles and one of them was "And I Love Her" backed with "If I Fell".   The one side has the single track vocal of Mc Cartney and the other side features the Lennon introduction just single tracked, making them collectors items.  They stuck in “The Word” as the song ringer that violated the “Love” rule later on.  You were supposed to call into the station and win a prize.  There were some genuinely rarities that they played they usually don’t.  They played “So this is Love” off “Cloud Nine”, and “Love Comes to Everyone” and  "I Dig Love", a personal favorite of mine from ATMP, and “Oh, My Love” from "Imagine" and “Love of the Loved” from the Decca Tapes.  That is one of the most "perfect" compositions I've ever heard.  It's brilliant.  They also played “Lovely Rita” and “You Got to Hide Your Love Away” and “It’s Only Love” and “Words of Love”, “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “All My Loving” and “Love me Do”.  They also played "I'm in love with You" by Billy J Cramer, and "I Think I'm in Love" by the Ruttles.  A good way to weed out perspective girlfriends who claim to have been Beatle fans, if they prefer the Ruttles to Billy J Cramer you can drop them.  Because the BJC drummer has that "Ringo" touch.  Also if they prefer the version with the flutes overdub of HYGTHYLA from "Help" I'd weed them out, too.  They also played "Choose Love" by Ringo, "Little Woman Love" by Wings, and "All You Need Is Love".  I did not go out for coffee in the courtyard either in the morning or in the afternoon.  We had tuna melt sandwiches for lunch.  I had Leo Le Port on till about one or so.  In the afternoon I finally downloaded Google photo and also updated several months worth of camera downloads.  This blog will be continued.  The CIA phone call is one I have to take right now.


We all know perseverence is a virtue.  I have it as one of my seven cardinal virtues.  However if you've got a lot of money like Mitt Romney, perseverence in the face of setbacks becomes a lot easier, just as it is for a capitally endowed gambler.  Romney got some of his mojo back winning in Maine.  And he also won that bogus "straw poll" of the CPAC convention or whatever, after Romney personally bussing in College students to vote for him.  Romney is now stressing that he is a "severe conservative".  That would be like me saying I have a record as a real Bible thumping holy roller.  No Christian would ever describe themselves using those words, just as no Conservative would ever refer to himself as somehow "excessive".  The word "severe" takes on the conotations of a concussion or some other medical injury.  Some hosts are saying that the Republican party may swing back to the center is Romney gets elected and tells the tea party "You know, you guys are right.  I am really not one of you.  Congradulation!"  I don't know why Mitt Romney would want to take the additional step and say that he "Lied" when he ever claimed to be anything but pro life.  He apparently told some Conservative magazine in June of 2005 that he was now a Born Again conservative and pro life.  It's one thing to posture yourself in a hostile state to appear as a "good guy" by bending some of your principles a bit.  You know the difference between a really carismatic person like Greg Laurie being a Christian and a mental patient being a Christian is that the Holy Spirit does less "damage" to a strong personality, just as alcohol does less damage to someone with a strong liver.  But the Holy Spirit "damages" every personality, and I'm no exception.  You see it in mental patients who are quoting the Bible and singing Christian songs one minute and then going into screaming hysterical fits over some imagined delusional belief the next.  In one moment they are nitt picking others and the next they'll lash out "Don't judge me.  I'm a child of God".  I for one would not be at all unhappy to see all these people "indefinitely suspend all activities" in public- - - and just keep it that way.


Mal Evans has a strong oppinion about that Sixty Minutes thing on Sunday about the Cancer research by that guy in India who said he had cracked the DNA code to match just the right chemo therapy drug to the individual Cancer patient.  Now they are saying that entire study was a fraud.  However they never once interviewed the original guy from India or those with him who made the discovery.  Also apparently only one of the "victims" of this man has died from their illness these past five years.  Every one of the volenteers knew they were taking part in an experimental procedure but they chose it - I believe - because it was the end of the line for them otherwise and they knew it.  And now they are alive five years later, and in response to that, they have decided to sue.  Mal Evans described this as a "trash piece" and alluded that Federation people knew his research was definitely on the right track.


A woman's dowery is guaranteed alimony in advance in a traditional marriage.  It's economic insurance.  It's property that the woman can have title to that will never be disputed.  And if the husband throws her out because she burns the toast one morning and she ends up back in the street- - now she has recourse.  The Indian people are buying gold.  However they are only responsible for 35% of the precious metal's rise in the past ten years or so.  Every woman who invests in it has prospered.  So it's wise both in economic terms as well as social terms where it can give the woman a sense of economic independance that she would have never enjoyed before.  I would say that if you owned gold last night, perhaps there would be a spike in price on which you could sell today.  As I always say, with gap openings, make sure you're going with the gap and not fighting it.  Make the greed of the stock floor price setters work for instead of against you.  After all, let all those newbys be the suckers this time.  What the Sixty Minutes article convieniently omitted was that- - this means that nearly two thirds (potentially so) of the price in Gold is determined by price speculators and not by the metal's scarcity.  Of course this story is ditto with the price of oil where the figure is at least 40% price speculation.

It's The Same Ol' Same Ol'

This is Saturday morning February 11, 2012.  It’s the anniversary of course of when we bought our green Chevy back in 1963 and the same day the Beatles recorded eleven songs, ten of which were used for their first album.  Tina Louise of Gilligan’s Island is 78 today so she was a mature woman at the time.  Today is the 33^rd anniversary of the revolution in Iran in 1979 when the Ayatolah came to power, and today the Beatles performed in Washington DC in 1964.  I got up at ten to six and made coffee and turned on KNX 1070 radio.  I listened to the President’s weekly address.  We had Raison Bran for breakfast and eventually a fried egg and plain toast. Our table was served at two minutes to eight which has to be a lateness record.  I listened to the Republican response on KNX without first going out for a smoke.  It was the same old clap trap.  Nobody asks why if cutting taxes reduces the deficit why deficets rose rose under Ronald Reagan.  How does cutting taxes for billionaires put spending money in an unemployed or under-employed person?  The Republican didn’t bother to answer the question at hand, which was put to him by the President about when the Republicans were going to get around to extending the payroll tax cut without political games.  Congress is already at an 11% rating and the republicans seem bent on lowering that.  As for all this alleged budget balancing done by Republican governors, we don’t know how much of that was from Union busting or raiding the pensions of employees.  In other words, the Republicans are offering nothing.  I have not yet heard of any employment stimulation bill that has been proposed by the republicans.


There are of course potential pitfalls for this economy.  Some say the Iranian crisis could get worse.  But what if it doesn't but improves?  Some say the crisis in Greece could get worse.  But what if it improves?  They are predicting stagnent unemployment figures for this year of 2012.  But what if they are wrong?  And evidence already suggest that these doom and gloomsters are already wrong.  Suppose the balance of trade with China improves?  And there is strong evidence that it will this year.  Suppose congress passes some of the measures for small business and domestic industries the President actually wants passed?  There is no logical evidence to suppose that the Republicans will not pass these measures and yet knowing their inherent irrationality you can never be sure.  Suppose the American people decide to just get smarter and to make a real effort to "buy American", and there is evidence to suggest that they will.  Suppose the Republicans can't find ANY candidate they all like before their convention.  And there is growing evidence that they wont.  Suppose of losing the senate, the Democrats hold the senate and make dramatic gains in the House?  You must remember that while the Presidents approval numbers languist at 48% that Congress itself is around 11% approval of the American people.  California has all these contingency plans for cutting more government programs, and yet they just announced Lottery revenues are way up.  There has been a basic change in perception from three months ago in terms of what is economically Fair or not in this country.  Suppose the Republican tea party message just isn't "selling" any more?  Certainly the people will soon be able to see through all these Orwellian quotes of the tea party right listed above.  They can figure out that we aren't headed into hyper-inflation in the next few months due to skyrocketing interest rates, since interest rates remain at record lows.  People know how to spot things that "just aren't So".  That's why evangelists have such a bad reputation in most of the country.  They are seen as charletons and frankly, less trustworthy than used care salesmen, who are actually pretty straightforward and honest these days.  The tea party right will never answer certain simple direct questions when posed to them by progressives.  They can't tell you why it's relivent whether our side of the Talliban controls a certain mountain pass clear on the other side of the world.  They can't tell you what is so "bad!" about Latino culture.  They can't tell you why all of their "secret sources" that they use to the exclusion of the rest of media reality- - are so valuable that they deserve ours and their undying trust- - even if daily they make fools out of themselves.  All they say say with any credibility is that this President is a poor leader, and in this I have to agree.  The President on an almost daily basis allows his opponents to walk all over him and just why he allows this to go on is a mystery.  Certainly if he used some of the perks at his disposal, he would- - with the sheer power of his Office alone crush his enemies into irrelivent ovlivion.  The "authors" of the tea party never had moral credentials to begin with.  A lot of them were professed atheists of a most A Moral sort.  Yet they use Christian morality as a come-on to push through their anti American agenda of making America just another cog in some Corporate New World Order ruled by the Koch Brothers.


We really do live in a world of market forces and supply and demand.  And there is a lot more "Supply" out there of entertainment- - too much to be able to sustain the millions of dollars they claim as privelege for their "Uniqueness".  This isn't the 1930's any more and we don't live in Kansas.  We have become quite sophisticated and mass entertainment is no longer a novelty that you can charge premium prices for.  I guess Randy Rhodes would say something like "media entertainment is like male sperm.  There will never be a short supply of it, or an inability to get it any time you want".  But more often than not it's the Publishing companies that get greedy more so than the artists themselves.  Trying to Police this nightmare of poliferation (from their point of view) would prove a nightmare if one were going to really do it.  And the number of "collateral abuses" of an over-bearing law would far outweigh the benefits.  Now they want to copyright our food by "genetically engineering" it, such that sees have a one time use sunset clause and the next batch of sees for the following year is useless.  There will be enough of these sort of corporate abuses going on, as there are in the drug industry already, that we don't need to encourage them by enacting stringent new piracy laws.


We would be amis if we didn't note that horrible suicide murder of a father of his two young sons last Sunday.  He was suspected of his wife's mysterious disappearence and new evidence was recently found against him.  So in response he took his two sons, Charlie 7, and Braden 5 ( ) and locked them in the house telling them "I have a surprise for you".  Some lady neighbor dialed 911 and said she feared for the lives of the boys.  Eight minutes elapsed before a police car was dispatched.  The father torched the house with gasoline and the resultent explosion killed both him and his kids.  It's been my belief for a long time that the hottest places in hell are reserved for parents who kill their small kids, particularly in a murder-suicide like this.  Unfortunately that police dispatcher could not be psychic.  Who would have guessed?  Now they are starting to use these small police helocopter drone cameras that wherr around like some Sci Fi movie.  My only question is whether, if you aim a laser at one, you are guilty of a crime or merely "protecting your privacy" rights.  I guess if technology is going to come, we can't stop it.


The Syria violence situation has been really bad for weeks and has been particularly bad this past week.  Now John Mc Cain has suggested that the United States take certain steps to help end the violence and I think that's a pretty good idea.  Even the wife of Assad has backed him up in all of his violence, such that many of her fans think she betrayed them.  Now this conflict is spreading into other mideastern countries such as Lebanon, with both parties taking sides.  It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how Israel might be adversely affected if this violence spreads and becomes general throughout the mideast.  I think the smartest thing we can do is to follow the advice of people like John Mc Cain and Newt Gingrich and nip this thing in the bud now before it gets any worse.  If Russia and China object- - what are they going to do?  The two nations are pretty much isolated in the world on this particular issue, which sees the vast majority of the Islamic community on the side of the Syrian people and opposed to Assad's conduct.


Alzheimers is an ailment which is becoming progressively under-funded as research dollars shrink steadily.  Yet they say in the next 35 years ago, the number of sufferers from Alzheimers wil almost triple.  Now they have sophisticated tests to catch the onset of this disease at an early stage, but it is still not soon enough because generally this disease is not reversable.  I'm not worried about getting it, and people in my family tree don't seem to have the gene.  There is a lot of other people out there who do.  Who have loved ones suffering from it.  They call it "the disease that keeps on taking" because it not only robs a person of their body but of their mind and the precious relationships they have with loved ones.  I cannot even imagine how heart breaking it would be to go through an experiance like this with a loved one. I think it's a "sellable" item that Obama could even get this Republican congress to do something about. 


It seems everybody wants to have a water dragon in China.  No, that is not the latest pet fad, but rather this year on the calendar.  And don't worry, if you should miss it, there's another one rolling around in another sixty years.  Jeremy Lin is apparently a media sensation that has only been famous for a couple of weeks or so or since he joined the New York Nicks of the NBA.  At least that's what they are telling us.  Before this he just drifted around the NBA being cut from teams.  He still sleeps on his brother's couch and one time security guards questioned who he was in a stadium, not knowing he played for the NBA.  I don't know.  I guess every dog has his day and his fifteen minutes of fame.  We'll see how this one pans out.

WASHINGTON -- Presumed GOP front-runner Mitt Romney has won a straw poll of Republican voters at the American Conservative Union's annual CPAC conference in Washington.  Romney received 38 percent of Saturday's vote on the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, followed by Rick Santorum, who garnered 31 percent.  The win is likely to soothe concerns that Romney cannot shore up backing from conservatives wary of his past change of position on abortion and his onetime support for an individual health care mandate.  

Romney told a packed audience here during remarks Friday that he is "severely conservative," while Santorum urged attendees not to choose a GOP nominee who cannot excite the conservative base.  

"We always talk about how we are going to get the moderates," Santorum said in a clear reference to Romney. "Why would an undecided voter, vote for a candidate of a party that the party's not excited about?"  

One-time Romney "alternative" hopeful Newt Gingrich came in third place with 15 percent of the straw poll vote. Rep. Ron Paul won just 12 percent support.  

Some 3,408 people voted in the straw poll, the second-highest number to participate in the poll.  

Paul has won the poll for the last two years, but he did not participate in this year's conference. 

The Texas congressman's past victories prompted organizers to change the format for the poll, doing away with paper ballots and offering online voting for participants.  

The American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC, also commissioned a national poll of 600 self-identified conservatives reached by telephone this Tuesday and Wednesday.

  The s

vrvey showed Romney clocking in in first place with 27 percent, followed closely by Santorum at 25 percent. Third-place finisher Gingrich garnered 20 percent support in the national poll.  

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was the top choice for vice president among straw poll participants, while he and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Romney backer, tied at 15 percent among the national poll respondents.  

"This is the first time ever in 25 years that we've ever done a corollary survey that asks the same exact questions," ACU pollster Tony Fabrizio told reporters during a press conference before the release of the results.  

The margin of error for the national poll was plus-minus 4 percent.   

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was the top choice for vice president among straw poll participants, while he and New Jersey governor and Romney backer Chris Christie tied at 15 percent among the national poll respondents.

We were going to quote

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BLOG 

but I changed my mind on that

More Brain Droppings

Mitt Romney is trying to convince the voters of America he still has the best Mind out there.  He reminds us that Newt and Slick Dick have voted for things like raising the debt ceiling over and over again - no doubt to make way for the White House Christmas tree.  Newt reminds us that sometimes we need to see things in terms of absolute numbers rather than relative numbers.  For instance in absolute numbers of people voting for him, Mitt Romney was unquestionably the biggest loser of Tuesday's trifecta primary loss.  Because he did way better in the sheer Numbers of turnout of people willing to vote for him in 2008.  Sometimes absolute numbers can mitigate facts and other times they tan agravate facts, though I prefer using the more scientific terms of "attenuate" and "enhance".  And of course there are a lot fewer people employed in the United States now than when President Obama took office.  I know this, but as a democrat I was hoping the American people wouldn't.  Of course Tricky Dick Santorum knows how to speak the "Rust Belt" lingo and identify with the blue collar worker, and even side on occasions with Unions as part of his justly perceived "fiduciary" responsability to the people who put him in office.  People still may be looking for a "not Romney" out there.  If someone were to come to me and say, "Marcus, what we need is a civil libertarian who believe people's rights are supreme over both government machinations and corporation greed- - but also subscribe to Christian morality- - do you know of such a person?"  I respond, "Is the Pope Catholic?"  Mitt Romney is trying to show, and successfully doing so, that he is "one of them" in terms of Religious liberty in this country and that some of us actually believe that "The war on Religion" is every bit as counter productive as the war on Drugs.  Some candidate somewhere ought to embody all the things American people want in a single candidate.  Well, that candidate hasn't appeared yet.

Certain words I use may need to have their definitions restated again just for clarity.  Such as "Perpendicularity".  This doesn't necessarily have to do with erectile dysfunction, although I'm open to other applications.  Then we have "Convexity", which is not to be confused with "Complexity".  And of course there is the famed "Viscosity".  I'll take this one.  This could be redefined as either "wind" or "resistance to movement through it".  It has other applications other than motor oil.  "Agragate" to my way of thinking refers strictly to a mean or "average".  If you are looking for the Median, don't settle for the Agragate.   Certain words I give simpler definitions to than others may.  For instance a simpler term for "Cognative dissinence" is "Confusion".  When I use the word Corporate in a generic sense- - - I am often referring to "The Group".   And as to the term "generic" itself - - this means the thing as originally conceived and designed.  Capish?

If you are looking for the answer to that Math problem I talked about from Wendy's book, that we put on the previous posting, here is a big hint to the answer.  Counting to nine isn't any problem for you, is it.  Joe Cocker on an album asked us to count to ten.   I hope for you people who learned their numbers in school in base Eight this isn't going to be a problem for you.  Now - listen to the Sgt Pepper album, and there you will find a numeric clue.  I'll state it another way.  Doing exponent math 3 + 3 is 6 and 6 divided by 2 is 3.   Of course Wendy is one of those people like Janet.  She's one of those people whom I darkly suspect actually has an IQ forty points higher than I do but she does an excellent job of concealing it.  Janet is the same say.  You know Janet has a "Masada" social emotional policy.  She's up there in her mental fortress catapaulting big rocks off the ledge, and never once worried about being hit back.  Although hats off to Paul Evans as one dude with at least the balls to try.  Of course sometimes playing intellectual "Possum" is of value.  Ask Leo Le Port.  He's always talking about having a separate physical fire wall router.  There is a certain merit in having a regular Manfred Berkheart personality as security guard.  You know, someone who thinks in as rigid terms as the Rain Man, and always adheres strictly to regulations, and is too dumb to be vulnerable to emotional manipulation.  (or a computer virus)  Playing intellectual possum is of value if you're attending a Christian Bible study.  Mark Campbell was a master at this.  I was one of the lucky ones fortunate enough to be included within Mark Campbell's inner circle or "space".  I'd be curious to know who, if anybody, is allowed inside Janet's "space".  I myself tend to be more of a Gloria Alred personality of "Like me or hate me - What You See Is What You Get".

I'd like to hit the whole grammar thing again.  Of course as you know Sue on "The Middle" has made an awful lot of Sophomoric statements this year.  So - - I thought I'd give myself equal time on the previous posting.  Not to brag or anything but English can be an incredibly complex language when it comes to verb tenses and the like.  Two tenses I think I left off were "Future perfect" and "Future perfect progressive".  It can get more complicated than that.  Try this one on for size:  Imperitive Future Perfect Progressive.  This is embodied by such English expressions as "You should have been doing your homework all along" or "You should have been keeping me up to date from the office".    Certain words such as "must" or "should" or "ought to" have the double meaning of either Imperitive or probability.  English uses a lot of "future" construction that involves things that haven't or didn't necessarily occur in the future.  I would not like to hit on that Past Imperfect tense a bit more.  This in Spanish makes use of what I call the cartoon overlay metaphore.  It's like cartoon characters chassing each other past the same rock formation over and over.  They have a backdrop on which they superimpose the animated characters.  Well the Imperfect tense is the backdrop and the character overlays are the Simple Past.  We can illustrate thusly, "As I worked in the lab late last night I suddenly beheld an eery sight", and I know I misquoted the lyrics so don't write me.  I was making a point.  So you can use such key words as "when" or "as" or "while" for this.   Some say that I unnecessarily biffercated the Subjunctive move, because in Spanish - - both halves use the same tense endings.  I have this one form of the subjunctive I call the conditional or probability.  This is the simple IF or SINCE mode, where other key words can also be used such as "When you get to the next down- - call me".  Or "While you are at the store, be sure and shoplift something for me" or - - "If the multiplyer of a number is 2, then the answer must be even".  It's kind of like- - maybe you can call it conditional Indicative.  Returning to the example of "If you spare the rod you will spoil the child"  - - this is your conditional subjunctive.  There is another form of the subjunctive involving either the "That - - - " construction, or the Infinitive construction.  For instance with infinitives you use expressions like I Want - - or I Told You to - -   or "I believe- - ".   Or even I Move - - that the nominations be closed.  I suggest- - - I recomend- - -   anything involving either a "That" clause or else an Infinitive construction.  This is kind of the 'out there" land.   This subunctive mode can exist in either - the suggestive - - manner - - or the fate accomple mode, such as "Joe told me that Hank was a trans-sexual". So the dividing line with the subjunctive is kind of completed verse not completed acts.

Testing - One - Two - Three - Four

Quick math problem here.  If Wendy's book only has basic trig functions and not inverse, arc, or hyperbolic functions, than how many combinations of figures could you get alltogether.  To answer look at your Atari game of Space Indaders and take thd square root of the possible game conbinations, and you'll have your answer.

Winners rush in - - where losers fear to go
But losers never get no where - - so how are they to know?
When November came- - I felt my walls cave in
So open up your heart and let me plunge it in

James Dobson says "A stable man has a good sexual relation with his wife.
Ted Bundy was allowed congical visits with his wife on death row and even fathered a child there.
Therefore by James Dobson's reasoning, Ted Bundy is a stable man.


In their lives there's something lacking.  What  they  need's  a  damn  good  whacking....    ......    .......      

Newtering your pet will make him viscious and argumentative and unwilling to accept responsability.

Sam Spayed lost his ability to reproduce- - - previous successes, after his male partner died.

If smoking cigarettes gives you cancer, does it follow that smoking Cancers gives you free cigarettes from the tobacco lobby during the month of July?

You got all your different races out there, starting with your basic spade.  "Yeah, but when you die it's one of those basic spades that's going to do you in in the end".

If tin whistles are made out of tin, what do they make fog horns out of.

If you're trying to catch a fox you follow fox tracks, so if you're trying to catch a subway you follow subway tracks.

You robbed me before so I'm robbing you back, and if it don't put you straight it will put you on the right track.

Tonight the Ruttles sang about this road hog.  Yeah, one of their biggest hits is called "Piggy in the Middle"

When you throw a rock through a window you may hit an ongoing card game.  When you throw a card game, your friends may fix it so you hit the rocks, wearing an orange jump suit.

The carpenter loves to work his wood.  Then his mother came in and told him to stop being nasty.

Kate Roberts is a woman who gets vengeful when she gets crossed.  Unless Jesus gets crossed, he feels absolutely useless.

Leo Le Port says routine memory wipes are good for a sound hard drive.  "Yeah, that's why men when they are younger have such good sex lives, because they are blessed with short memories.  Unfortunately for him, with the passage of time, memory improves.

Hey Joe where's ya going with that resignation in your hand?  "I'm going to see the President and tell him now I'm the leader of the Band."

Newt Gingrich's supporters are a dime a dozen.  I'm looking for the jerk that's supplying the Dimes.

All work and no play makes Jack a Dull Boy
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes Jack Nickehson a mad man
All Play and no Work makes Jack Nichelson an interesting man
All work and no play makes your steering wheel predictable but hard to use

This was a deliberate extra space

This is done after pressing insert jump break
And now this line is the next one with a single space
And this one is spaced out being written by Jethro Bodeine
And this little piggy went whee whee whee whee all the way home

HAIL, HAIL, TO OLD SAVANNA HIGH
YOU BRING THE WHISKEY; I'LL BRING THE RYE


REBELS ARE BEST    THEY BEAT THEIR MEAT  
REBELS ARE BEST    THEY BEAT THEIR MEAT  
REVELS ARE BEAT   THEY BEAT THEIR MEAT  


THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERATION   
WE'RE THE REBEL CONGRAGATION         
WE CREATE A GREAT SENSATION            
WHEN WE START WITH MASTURBATION


BUILD YOUR HOUSE ON THE SOLID ROCK                
DON'T BUILD IT TOO NEAR THE SHORE                      
YOU MAY THINK IT'S NICE                                            
BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO BUILD IT TWICE                         
YOU'LL HAVE TO BUILD YOUR HOUSE ONCE MORE 


BE PARTICULAR !!!      IN HOC SIGNO VINCES            


There are Seven basic aspects of a Sentense


There is number, which can consist of either singular or plural, and sometimes terms referring exclusively to two such as "either" "neither" "both" or "twice".


There is Gender, which consists of Masculine, Feminine, and nuter


There is Person, which consists of first, second, and third.


There are Cases, which consist of Nomnitive, Objective, Posessive, Indirect Object, Reflexive, and isolated posessive


There are tenses, which consist of present, present progressive, present perfect, past perfect, past progressive, future,  future progressive, and past "imperfect" constructions with cue words such as as - - ,  when - - ,  while- - - , used to, and would
 

There are Modes.  These consist of Indicative, Imperitive, Conditional, Hypothetical, and Subjunctive.  This latter is cued in by such key words as "that" or "said that" or the infinitive "to" construction, or words such as should, must, might, or would used as probabilities.


There are also Voices.  These consist of Active, Passive, or Reflexive.  Passive is most often created by past participle construction.  Reflexive verbs don't take an object but can only refer back to themselves.  Other verbs may denote a reflexive voice if used with a reflexive case word.  Capish?

It's A Second Santorum Surge

The following is vintage fourth grade in a school district far away:

Kenny:  "What's the difference between a rooster and Marolyn Monroe?

Marcus: "I don't know; tell me"

Kenny: "A rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo, and Marolyn Monroe says - Any Cockle Do"

Marcus:  "I don't get it"

The Bible says to spare the rod and to spoil the child.  But just to be on the safe side, make sure he's getting enough anti-oxidents in his diet.

The founders of this country say "In many- Strength (or "One")"

Marcus Arelius says "Spare the originalism and spoil the Court ruling"

The tea party says "Spare the right to work laws and spoil the worker".

The peace sign was conceived with the letters D and N in mind for "down with Newt"


"You're screwing up the Bible.  You'r using the imperitive mode rather than the indicitive mode"  "Well, I think it is imperitive that you pastors get your Dick out of other people's business- - so there!"


The oil worker fell into bad health from excessive jacking off.  On that Arctic oil rig he developed a rare Icelandic 104 deg fever and kept taking off his jacket in a futile attempt to cool off his body.

With final results in from Tuesday’s caucuses and primary, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum pulled off large margins of victory in three non-binding nominating contests, all marked by low turnout.  In Missouri, which held a primary but will not use the results to award delegates, Santorum got 55.2 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney got 25.3 percent, and Texas Representative Ron Paul got 12.2 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich did not appear on the ballot. There were just under 252,000 votes cast, according to the Associated Press tally, less than half of the 588,000 votes that were cast in the Republican primary in 2008.  In 2008, the Missouri primary featured a winner-take-all system where John McCain narrowly beat Mike Huckabee to win all of the state’s delegates. This year, the primary was no more than a “beauty contest,” since delegates will be awarded at a caucus in March.  In Colorado’s caucuses, Santorum won with 40.2 percent of the vote, followed by Romney with 34.9 percent, Gingrich with 12.8 percent, and Paul with 11.8 percent. Just over 65,500 votes were cast. Turnout was down slightly from 2008, when more than 70,000 people voted.  In Minnesota’s caucuses, with 97 percent of precincts reporting this morning, Santorum won with 44.9 percent followed by Paul with 27.1 percent, Romney with 16.8 percent, and Gingrich with 10.7 percent. Only around 47,000 attended caucuses, compared to record-breaking attendance of around 62,000 participants in the 2008 Republican caucuses, held on Super Tuesday.  Romney won the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses in 2008, making yesterday’s finishes even more disappointing for him.

If you are not prepared to go to war, 

you cannot threaten that “nothing is off the table”

as you search for diplomatic solutions. 

 Thus there are completed plans, updated daily, at Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv and at the Pentagon for carrying out attacks on Iranian facilities in a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.  

Israel has a plan to go it alone. So does the United States. And there may even be a plan for the two countries to collaborate. Back on Dec. 20, the Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, told CNN: “We are examining a range of options” and “I am satisfied that the options that we are developing are evolving to a point that they would be executable if necessary.”   In any event, the plans exist, and they illustrate the difficulties in carrying out what some people think would be a simple operation.

For example, should Israel act alone, it would face the extraordinary problem of needing to refuel its bombers en route to targets about 1,000 miles away and refueling them again on the way back. That is why in the new Bipartisan Policy Center report, “Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock,” former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) and retired Air Force Gen. Charles F. Wald suggest that the United States provide Israel with three KC-135 refueling tankers.

Robb and Wald do not advocate that the Israelis undertake such an attack, but they say that providing the tankers would “extend the effective range of Israeli aircraft” and “improve Israeli credibility.”

Then there are questions about what targets should be hit, and how many planes would be needed, to stop Iran’s nuclear program, even temporarily. Israel’s two past successes hardly count.

Now look at the potential targets in today’s Iran.

There is the fuel-enrichment plant at Natanz, a collection of below-ground facilities used to produce enriched uranium. There is the newer Fordow fuel-enrichment plant near Qom, built into the side of a mountain and heavily fortified. This is where Iran has already moved 3.5 percent enriched uranium from Natanz and where most analysts believe it will be enriched to weapons grade, if Tehran decides to take that step.

Of course there would be other targets if a strike is to do more than set back Iran by one to three years. At Parchin, one of the nation’s leading munitions centers, Iran is suspected of testing high explosives for use in nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s November report. There is a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, a heavy-water facility being constructed at Arak and centrifuge factories outside Tehran.

It would seem that Rick Santorum has a second or perhaps a third life.  The Lord must be with him.  I'm sure there are people of faith all over the place       praying for his success seeing the utter unfitness to run of both Gingrich and Romney.  These two have engaged in this ongoing cock fight for months now and each candidate at this point is nore more than a bloody hulk and utterly destroyed.  Of the two, Newt has the more political baggage.  And yet the whole Romney tax business seems to be catching on.  Mitt Romney paid 16.35% of his income in taxes.  I        calculated it correctly taking off income that is not counted that he gave to the Mormon Church.  That's still less than a lot of people.  I  am puzzled why this blog doesn't automatically skip paragraphs even when they are spaced in the original article.  Previously if you hit enter even if the next line were consecutive to the previous one in Edit, it would come out with a space in-between.  I can live with the way it is now; it's just different.  I hope the letter shaving doesn't extend to the final publish       .                
                                                                    
  LESS FILLING                TASTES GREAT  
  RAISES TAXES         COSTS US MONEY  
  LOVES NIGGERS   BETRAYS HIS FAITH  
  LOTS OF DITTOES         MAKES SENSE  
  POT SMOKER              DRAFT DODGER  
  SUBVERSIVE                   LONG-HAIRED  
  TEXAS LOVING              ALL AMERICAN   
  CHRIST ANNOINTED    CONSECRATED   

Ninth Circuit Court Overturns Prop Eight

"If you were able to mandate Love, then Love would be

 inherently lessened in value like an industrial item in mass production, 

and Love would not be the one thing 

which even God doesn't seem to be able to attain.

The big story of the day is that the Federal Ninth Circuit Court has ruled that gay marriage is legal in California and by clever “poisoned pill” wording, the opponents are discouraged from appealing this ruling to any higher court because it was stipulated that this ruling applies only to people in California, who approved this ballot measure.  Since this ruling is not a ruling on legalizing gay marriage as a “national right” some legal experts say that it cannot be appealed.  The ruling that Proposition 8 being unconstitutional is just another step in this absurd trend of legislating from the bench and inventing rights that are not there but, in fact, would be abhorant to any author of the fourteenth amendment, from whence this ruling is said to stem.   In strictly legal terms there is no fourteenth amendment problem since that the law stipulates one is to marry one of the opposite sex applies to everyone and does not discriminate, and as such everyone has “equal protection”.  On the issue is Justice Walter being gay, I will agree with the left, and that his sexual orientation is utterly immaterial as to his fitness to rule here.  I am not happy about the proliferation of gay marriages anywhere in America because I believe any day where a five thousand year cherished institution is slimed and debased is not a happy day, either for us now or for World Civilization in general.  Gay “marriage” was certainly a subject that was never even broached in the Bible.  It was that unimaginable.  Not even the licentious Greeks and Romans dared propose such a thing.  And one will note that in Greek and Roman mythology with all the depraved deeds of their vast pantheon of Gods,  I know of no myth that involved two Gods of the same sex being either married to each other, or proposing that such a right should exist.  This ruling cannot help but underline the cement of marriages everywhere.  Like it or not, people are bound by a certain “moral glue” and an ingrained sense of propriety- - and to tamper with this “natural protective device” cannot be a good thing.  I would now like to venture into another area where me and the liberals can find greater “concordance”.  This is the commercial with Clint Eastwood during the Super Bowl last Sunday, which is kind of a “hurray for America” pep talk on how “America is back” and is now building up a healthy car industry.  Leave it to people like Bill O Riley and other right wing whack jobs to claim that it’s a “conspiracy to the commercial media to re elect Obama”.  I don’t know how we EVER evolved into this state of perverse, backward thinking.  Obviously we have no business trying to invent motives for people that we not only have no basis for, but are also completely false.  Eastwood is a Republican after all.  The other day Dr. Levy wanted me to make some moral judgement about a decision some woman in the group should make.  I told Dr. Levy that her decisions in life were not my affair when I don’t know her and would have no basis to make any sort of judgement at all as to her needs and values and the rest.  I think we need to just let people be people and make their own decisions in this country and not trying to overlay some mantle of “political correctness” over each individual decision.

You know – I like Newt Gingrich’s new slogan “People Power – not Money Power”.  This is indeed a people and not money.  Money and corporations are not endowed by their Creator with any inailable Rights.  People by their numbers sway the power of the nation.  One of the sayings we did in Dr. Levy’s class yesterday was something like “Man’s humanity enables a sense of Justice, whereas man’s propensity for unfair abuses of that system necessitates Democracy.  As John Lennon says “Only people know how to talk to people”.  The Bible itself says, “There is wisdom in numbers”.  People – Despots- - run a risk any time they allow others besides themselves to make a decision on anything.  They run the risk that their depravity and “iniquity” if you will not play well in the moral light of day.  Classicly – tyrants have never regarded themselves as having to play by the rules the rest of us do.   I believe in the adage of “No man is above the law and no man is beneath it”.  In saying this I don’t mind one bit being labeled a “Legalists”.  I much prefer that to the alternative.  But these candidates in desperation will claim to embrace issues they have no convictions about at all- - such as Newt Gingrich suddenly announcing now he’s developed a new Compassion for the Poor.  Not Mitt Romney seems to lower his overall integrity in the interest of sprucing up his image among the Tea Party voters.  So now Mitt Romney is playing the Religion card.  In terms of violence and destruction with our protests pragmatists every are saying “Count me Out” along with John Lennon.  Sol Allinsky is apparently running the Presidential Reelection campaign from the grave, according to the tea party.  Sol Allinsky believed in People Power.  He did not believe in Violence and destruction of property.  You have to hope and pray if you are a Republican that the democrats never actually Follow the teachings of Sol Allinski because if the democrats ever do, the tea party knows they are toast- - or to be properly British, make that crumpets.

Everybody hates a hypocrite.  Especially one of multiple disaster marriages, whom the opposite warn each other of the danger of.  There is an inherent ugliness about preachers or "morality" who seem to lack all evidence of that particular virtue themselves. A certain of  Michael Benner style “button pressing” occurred today on Days of our Lives.  This occurred when Samantha flew into a tyrade about her husband being caught kissing his fellow business partner, Carrie in a moment when they were both caught up in emotion.  Raphael, her husband readily admitted he was in the wrong and shouldn’t have done it and takes the responsibility for it.  However Samantha, once she gets on a rant, doesn’t stop and wasn’t listening to a word he said but wanted him out of the house as of five minutes ago.  Raphael reminded her that marriage is a relation – involving two people – and “things haven’t been right between us for months”.  James Dobson would agree on this that feelings need to be looked at and examined and traced down as to how they got the way they were – and then “fixed”.  There’s that word again.  It isn’t some game of blame shifting volley ball- - or just shoving issue after issue under the rug (and hope it isn’t attracting cockroaches).   One family counselor we saw once in July of 1968 advised me to practice this “shove it under the rug” philosophy myself.  Well, we never went back.  Then there is the whole “turn and attack” and “the best defense is a good offence” rule.  Samantha is practiced at this.  Yes this is the same woman who during a recent family crisis was off having really passionate pent-up sex with E J Di Mira.  And she didn’t say word won about this whole affair.  She was being a regular Newt Gingrich about it.

Now the news media is telling us that since the economy is improving so much, the focus of the republican campaign has shifted to the social, moral, and religious issues.  These issues are more to my liking, that’s for sure.  I’m not really sure myself about Catholic hospitals being required to provide abortion and morning after pills for rape victims.  Something might be the moral thing to do, but all the same you may have a religious first amendment right not to do it.  There are other hospitals out there.  This is still America.  I still continue to oppose compulsory health care coverage.  I for one would be delighted if the Supreme Court struck down Obama-Care.  It would take the issue off the table for the November elections and there would therefore be no “If I’m elected president the first thing I’m going to do is eliminate Obama-Care”.  I do not believe American as a price of being born and breathing air has to be criminalized if he doesn’t provide what amounts to some fascistic union between the Government and the Health Care Providers.  What are they going to outlaw next- consumer boycotts?  This is the sort of thing I was referring to when I talked of the freedom to make personal decisions about your life free from the dictates of government.  If we don’t spend the money here, we will have it for other more vital and relivent things like jobs programs and infra-structure repair- - and dare I say, maybe even a little something for NASA.  I think to a degree the media has hyped up this whole health insurance crisis to begin with- - and it would seem that the incidence of abuse are far lower than the media would have us believe.  But if they occur, and they do, the Courts are the place to resolve them and not the law.  Just as in other cases- - Congressional bills are the place to resolve these issues rather than Court Rulings.  Everything in its place is what I say.

A RANT ABOUT LENSES AND OPTICS

This is an overcast Tuesday afternoon February 7, 2012, the day of the Minnesota caucus - and I finally got around to changing the calendar for this month.  Let’s kick things off here with an incident on last night’s “House” episode that triggtered a little distracted thought.  One doctor was razzing another doctor about an eye patient who squinted every time he looked at the chart.  Squinting is something near sighted people do.  Far sighted people don’t do it because it doesn’t do them any good.  (far sighted people just get headaches)  I don’t know about the actual biology but I imagine squinting causes the vitrius humor to press up against- more the center of the lenz compressing the lens in at the center and decreasing the convexity ( ) of the lens causing the image to be focused on the retina and not in front of it.  Of course the images of far sighted people focus behind the retina.  With telescopes, you move the eye piece in to focus further away or “move in on the image” whereas if you see a fuzzy object too near you back the eyepiece off (pull it out) to back up to the image.  I think that the optical power of the telescope is a function mainly of the focal length of the main lens that lets in light- - and also the eyepiece that focuses in on the “real image” that hangs upside down in the ether (in ethereal space).   A more convex eyepiece will generate more power because the focus length divisor is smaller- - and the more convex lens needs to get closer to the “real image” to focus on it, but also at the same time like a Camera and the Zoon,  the image is bigger but of lower resolution for less light is let in.  In a camera- - I have concluded that the F stop rating or the base rate of the lens itself- - is a ratio between the focal length and the apiture or the width of the lens.  Therefore a smaller diameter lens of the same focal length will generate a bigger optical image, but let in less light.  Dad spoke of there being an ideal F stop rating with the same “perportions” as to what is seen with the naked eye.  One time I asked him about a shot taken in a room of the Primrose house and I said “I was in there and the rooms are not that big” and he reminded me it was a somewhat wide angle lens.  I think the angle settings in Sketch are probably mathematically relivent for this purpose of naked eye comparison, and the image is optimally viewed at that spread angle from the- - - flat - - screen.  I told you Sketch images were designed for the flat screen.  But I know of no camera that generates that exact type of image.  Cartoon simulations yes, but not photos taken with cameras.  They can’t.  Here’s why, as far as I’ve been able to figure out.  First of all I wouldn’t change the mathematical algorithm for Sketch.  However the human eye works much more on the “inside the crystal ball phenomenon” we’ve gone into before.  This is where lines that are actually curved appear straight when processed by the human brain.  The question on my mind has been “cam a camera lens be constructed to somehow duplicate the Sketch effect?”  The answer seems to be “No” for the same reason you can’t invent dehydrated water.  (The best you could do would be to go to a country stream and use some kind of “essence of urban blight” powder flavoring)  Camera lenses do have the task of focusing on a flat surface, which is inherently more difficult than what the lens of the human eye has to do.  The solution is to bow the bilateral axis of the lens out in a convex fashion.  This will remedy the disparity of focal length between the sides of edges of the film plate as opposed to the center.  For perpendicular or center point light, the only thing that is difference is that the focal length might be a millimeter longer or something than a straight line axis convex lens would have to have.  Flat glass on an angle will shift an image without changing it but glass is usually so thin you never notice it.  Lens materials may have a higher refraction index than ordinary glass to begin with.  (I’m just guessing)  Now an object from the left side of the image view area would enter more perpendicularly on the left side of the lens than it would enter the right side and for a location on the right- - this would enter the right side of the lens more perpendicularly than the left.  The amount of flat refraction image shift, as I call it- - would cut the focal length of the lens more where it entered more obliquely - - and where it has the shortest distance to travel - -  and in the area of greatest perpendicularity- - the focal length would be the longest, and it’s also need to be.  Hence as I see it you can have a lens of varying de-facto focal lengths in the same lens- - that would handle images from different locations and make sure that they were projected in proper focus.  But to do this the front of the lens cannot be flat- - and so you can never have the sort of “straight line math” imagery of a Sketch program.