In this era when the
economy is doing so well - - real estate and employment is up- and so is the
stock market- - and the deficit is down.
In such an era it’s only natural that if you’re FOX news you have to
fill this great void with other stuff.
So you are hearing “Bengazi” repeated again and again, as if this one
event could sink Hillary’s carrier. And
now these people are playing the race and poverty cards big time. Bill O Riley and Glen Beck are saying it’s
all a matter of poor Black teenagers having lots of out of wedlock babies and
getting on welfare. (They are very lacking
in subtalty as to their aim) As it
happens the teenage pregnancy rate has gone down 25% and the abortion rate has
been dropping since 1992. In fact even
the single teenage mother rate peaked in 1991.
We just told you violence in Chicago has dropped. And the border crossing net level of
immigration has dropped to zero. And
when you break down the races if these figures are right- - for White teenagers
the pregnancy figure has dropped 20% and the Blacks have had a steeper drop at
25%, but it’s Latino girls who have had the steepest drop of all at 35%. Of course when it comes to health care- - we
here in America spend more for health care and get less coverage for it- - than
any other developed country in the World.
It doesn’t seem to bother people like O Riley that our nation has become
a laughing stock of the world, on a whole host of issues- - such as math and
science education. Randy points out the “a
stitch in time saves nine” principle. If
you catch a disease in its early stages, it’s a whole lot more treatable, and
for less money, then if you wait for that perverbial stage four lung
cancer. I’m wondering if just perhaps- -
these O Riley types might not mind one bit if a lot of poor people were to suddenly
die off a lot quicker. But the thing is
you have the “grandpa” problem, of no slaves to work on the Plantation. These rich people don’t have all their luxury
in a vacuum. And someone made a joke
about how one poor guy was mocked by a rich person saying “You poor people aren’t
very smart. You need to find a way to
earn money the same way I did - - inheret it”.
There was also referenced this “rich guy related to the Koch Brothers by
a different mother” where- one man completely turned around North Carolina
politics from blue to red. (Selah)
Randy Rhodes got this
one caller who agrees with her “99.9% of the time” but takes issue with Randy
on the subject of these town meetings.
The caller was afraid that he or any friends he organized to go with
him, would all be killed if they went.
Randy then joked about “how she really loves this guy who writes her
nice letters” but pegs him as one of these loners who still lives in the
basement of his mother’s house and never gets out” almost like a psycho in some
of these slayer movies. But really he
could be me- - when not on my meds. Or
more to the point, he could be me forty years ago in 1973 about the era where “For
What It’s Worth” my little novel, takes place.
At this time many of us thought Kissinger was the antichrist, and that
Nixon would not stay in office his full term, though we didn’t know when or
specifically how that would happen.
About an hour later Bones came to the guy’s defense asking me “Just what
was unreasonable about anything the guy said?”
I was puzzled. Bones said “Well-
in 2008 you would never have guessed what the political environment would be a
year and a half ago when the tea party debates were going on. And even in early 2012 you’d have never
guessed the sort of gun toting racist hate environment we are in right now”. I had to agree. So challenging him I said “So, what will
things be like in 2014?” He said “What
do you think? Do you think it’s beyond
the ability of the tea party to stage some outrage. You know they are already threatening a
violent revolution that will be “sparked” by an event. Of course they are blaming it on the
democrats. You know, don’t you they have
come out and Admitted- - just as the caller said- that all of these “Town
Meetings’ will be completely choreographed just as they were in 2009 and that
the Truth will never see the light of day”.
Randy Rhodes seemed to see it as one of those “Do or die’ moments. That means you take action. In that there is no real option. The only unknown is- - “Do you feel lucky
today”. Dr. Levy read this sheet of
quotations from the people at founders and one girl there had the quote of “Sometimes
the thing you least want to do right now is the very first thing you Should do”. Some of these Black civil rights workers
may have been apprehensive, too, but they did what they had to do. They knew they were traveling down South and
putting possibly their lives on the line.
Just because one may have expressed a momentary bit of anxiety to his comrade
doesn’t mean that they were somehow “yellow”.
I had another of those long dreams last
night. This one involved some new
government order to micro-manage the relations between Whites and Blacks in the
schools. There was something funny about- - like you'd see waves of students being ordered around by some loud speaker system. The dream took place at what
seemed to be Brookhurst Jr. High (but it could have been Western) It looked the same but there was no open area
in front where the ninth grade circle is.
The dining room didn’t have windows in it either. There were a lot of students hanging around
the girl’s locker enterence. But also it’s
as if “someone had moved the gym” - - like it was “further to the north than it
used to be." And I would stare at the
whole west side of this building and muse “something about this building is
different now from the way it was when I went here”. Because there were a lot of like “administration”
type office officials and perhaps some library archives there. I guess students were being registered. But there was a rule that said that White
students and Black students could not be segregated even voluntary and no more
than- - maybe two or three blacks in a row and then there had to be White
students. People blamed regulations from
the Obama administration for this (constantly)
But they still managed ways of screwing over the Black students. They would cheat them on their lunch money
and short change them on their food or take pudding cups off their trays when
they weren’t looking and had other ingenious ways to make sure that the Black
students were subjugated. Like the
previous night’s dream – it’s so real when you’re in it- and it almost seems
real a second or so after you have woken up.
Time-Warner is not
refunding any of the customers’ money for not carrying CBS or Show Time. But they promise they will add a “Kids
Channel” at some future date. Mario is
inclined as am I to blame Time-Warner for this deboccle more than CBS. Just to my pin head way of thinking- - if
every other cable carrier was able to work out a deal with CBS then why couldn’t
Time-Warner? But Time-Warner is even
denying their internet subscribers access to the CBS.COM site, which is
probably against the law. Mario is
skeptical about the statements of Governor Jerry Brown claiming that there are
not ten thousand inmates in the State Prison system that could be
released. Certainly there were a lot of “third
strike” people- convicted for minor offenses since the mid nineties that could
be released- - or your garden variety drug addict that needs to be
rehabilitated in more of a medical environment.
Maybe it’s all politics.
On the soap opera- -
Christian posing as Susan made her little “blunder” with the coffee much worse
by actually taking extremely sensitive research and picking up the whole pad
and dabbing it on the coffee spill. The question is why any cop would have ultra sensetive original research documents right out there in a desk before the public. And stranger to in this age of computer copies and photocopy machines- why this wouldn't have been done. Of
course she then made her escape through the bathroom window. Which is funny because I didn’t think the
bathroom was near a window. And they all
must have developed deafness because nobody heard a thing. Father Eric stumbled on to the truth when he
picked up on the idea that he too had encountered a “strange brunette”. Stephano Di Mira has this almost God like
ability to get information even when precautions are done to keep it a closed
circle of knowledge. Samantha Brady was
verbally accosted in her cell by the grieving Widdow. Just between you and me- - if she had had a
gun in her purse- - she could have gotten away with it in this joke of police
department, who couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag. Elvis received all these promises about how
secure Samantha would be and how her quarters would be guarded at all times and
there were video cameras everywhere. But
lo and behold there are no guards and no cameras were rolling. I’m not usually the one to advise Elvis to
throw around his family name, but this would be a really good place to
start. Right now as far as I’m
concerned, as an attorney for his client- - he is well within his grounds to
file suit against the Salem PD.
Samantha may be a jerk- - but I believe that any prisoner, even her, has
rights.
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