Mid Summer Lull

This morning I had Ed Schultz on and he lamented this do nothing congress which as of today is officially beginning its five week vacation.  I heard even in September they have only six work days scheduled that month.   This congress is not only a do nothing congress, they are a sabotage the economy and sabotage the governmental process as a whole congress.  Tonight Thom Hartman stated that the Republicans in the Senate 36 of them, were backing a law that would issue a flat prohibition against the US government EVER passing another occupational safety measure for workers, because it "isn't referred to directly in the constitution".  Neither is Air Traffic control, but perhaps this is because the airplane hadn't been invented yet.  As to the whole tainted food and "Melamine' in cat food imported from China- - the libertarians would say that 'market forces" would get the stuff off the market in time.  The trouble is that enough is never enough.  For instance Mitt Romney spoke of lowering the corporate base tax rate and they closing loopholes.  President proposed very much the same thing this past week- - but now the republicans won't touch it with a ten foot pole.  The Affordable Care Act once upon a time was endorsed by Newt Gingrich and the Heritage foundation.   It could be argued that Slavery in the South would die away on its own as more modern inventions came on the market to save labor time.  And yet once upon a time there were dejour laws AGAINST freeing your slaves.  Congress at that time wanted it's express wish to be that Slavery would be preserved.  Once upon a time they had Maximum wage laws.  Perhaps because if one wise acre paid more money then other Employers- - it would drive the wage market up as other workers demanded the same thing for their jobs.   There is a line in Star Trek where Commander Reyker was aboard a Klingon ship and Reyker had to deal with an insubordenate officer.  He asked a comrad for advice as to what to do and the other guy responded, "Well, this is your first Command decision".  Well Absolem, King David's son in the Bible had such a "command decision".  His sister had been raped and her virginity stolen from her.  In mideastern culture being a rape victim was an affair of shame- - and could even result in her being stoned for it being HER fault.  So Absolem made a Command Decision to commit murder against the rapist.  It's kind of like in the South they brag because "We don't leave things to the government - - we take care of our problems ourselves".  (Selah)

Incidently under my economic plan of the previous post- - I too would cut the Corporate Tax rate to twenty-five percent.  Mitt Romney wanted twenty, so mine would only be five points higher than his.  This is for earned income of a corporation.  The point of having that high "idle money" tax- - for either a corporation or an individual- - that is just "stashing the money away" in some account or T Bill - - would be a carrot and stick strong incentive to invest in the business and to hire on employees.  Money you are paying for equipment or property or paying employees- - is NOT money that you will be paying Taxes on.  Capish?  Making payroll is a 100% deductable expense.  The other two are considered Capital outlays.  You can't deduct that- - but only to the extend that you won't have all that nasty interest earnings you have to pay taxes on- - you'll have to rely on your own inginuity in buying equipment or otherwise expanding the business, and deciding which employees to hire knowing that they are indeed a deductable expense you won't have to pay Earnings Income Tax on.  I hope that clarifies things a little.

We listed our Romulan Color Codes several years ago in a posting.  On "Criminal Minds" there was the notion that people's words came in Colors and by these Colors you could deduce their emotions.  We may get to that.  By the way there IS no "middle voice" in Romulan.  It was a reflexive construction equivelent to the middle voice in the Federation language.  Someone out there was trying to snooker me.  Then I watched a whole lot of movie previews in Google Play.  Then I had Moe Kelly on briefly a little before lunch.  We had chili cheese fries for lunch today- - which was a departure from the customary cold cut sandwich.  We had salami rather than bologna sandwiches from Donnie.  Last night Donnie had three cookies for us.  The soap opera is pretty much beyond the pale and to comment on that would be next to pointless.  I added a spoon and reran the coffee grounds around two.

  Randy Rhodes was all doom and gloom and more stories about cops out of control.  One guy was shot fifteen times for the crime of sitting in his own car in his mother’s driveway looking for a pack of cigarettes.  There was more talk about this congress not just “doing nothing” but in kind of a demolition of the government mode. They aren’t even making a pretence of being concerned about the economy now.   They replayed that Mississippi hicks interview made by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter March 2012.  I got on C-Span and first watched a hearing by a subcommittee on identity theft in the IRS- - of people getting refunds for other peoples’ taxes.  Sounds serious.  Then it was a summation speech, rather gloomy, by Nancy Pelosi about how this congressional session has been a complete disaster.  She took questions and gave detailed answers and I left there.  Then it was a hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act come this October first in less than two months where the average citizen will be able to buy coverage on the Exchange.   That Carl Levin guy made a number of good points and got a lot of questions clarified.  But the Republican’s goal is not to “try in implement Obama Care by examining potential problems”.  Their goal is to sabotage the thing, pure and simple.  Randy Rhodes mentioned how they plan to sabotage all of these so called “Town Hall Meetings” that will turn out to be completely stage managed affairs.

This section has other "late news".  We had real pork chops for dinner for the first time in at least six months.  And the gravy was better, too.  We had rice with it and green beans.  We had applesauce for desert.  Laura was by with seconds on everything.    A ninth woman came forward to accuse the San Diego mayor of sexual misconduct.  The guy utterly refuses to step down from his office.  They isolated the bacteria that made those people in Iowa and Nebraska ill from bad produce, to some Mexican outfit, and as usual we get the not assuring words “All of the offending produce has been taken off the market”.  People on the Moe Kelly show say that incidents of sabotaging the orders of customers they don’t like or who offended them- - are much more prevalent than anyone would imagine.   Money wise I’m already into my second twenty dollar bill, and that’s never good.  Time Warner cable has dropped CBS stations all over the place.  Personally this is reason enough not even to consider Time-Warner.