All The Nuts Swing Down From the Trees

Just when you think you've seen and heard everything pertaining to the right wing fringe, they still do something to surprise.  This time it's cattle ranchers in Nevada.  It seems this one rancher hasn't paid any federal land grazing fees since 1998, or sixteen years ago.  Now he owes close to a million dollars.  Of course he's a multi million dollar cattle rancher so he can well afford it, and every other cattle rancher using that land for grazing pays his fees to the Federal government.  But this guy is intent on making some sort of Ruby Ridge or Waco incident out of it.  He DOES know what happened to those people doesn't he?  Does he Really want to go down that same road?  But now he's dragging Majority Leader Harry Reid into the thing.  He's saying that Harry Reid secretly met with people in China and the government wants to use that land to erect a whole lot of solar power collecters.  So he's killing several birds with one stone.  He's playing the "eminent domain" card.  The trouble is - it was never his land.  If he's one of these "Self made businessmen" Rush talks about- - he didn't do it without having that land for the cattle to graze on.  He's playing the China card.  He's also being political in going after Harry Reid, which those on the right can't stand.  And by the way he's also taking a jab at alternative energy sources.  Isn't it ironic that in Nevada where the farmers DO own their land - - the Tea Party sides with the federal government saying they should give up rights to land they own- - and let the government and Trans Canada did it up.  But in this case where they DON'T own the land, the tea party sides with as it were the dead beats.  This story will not have a happy ending for him.

Then we have the hysterics of Rush Limbaugh.  Who is like this guy who rambles on about anything and it takes a trained expert in Rush-samantics to get even a glimpse of what Rush is talking about.  We know Rush is mad about some waffle restaurant.  We know Rush is mad because Stephen Cobert is now replacing David Letterman on CBS.  Now Rush is going after college educated people with degrees and unable to find a job.  Rush of course calls them spoiled, and this caller Rush had on his show echoes that charge.  This random caller claims to "Have started from nothing in business and now has made something of himself" and even alluded to "selling the business" presumably for a tidy profit.  But I never caught exactly what this guy did to become successful, only that he did.  He kept saying he was a self made man and not like all these college graduates- - and didn't depend on the government but had individuality and character- - and of course did the usual ammount of President Obama bashing.  But I don't know WHAT the guy made- - or just HOW he got successful or WHO helped him- - or anything.  If I didn't know I"d say this was a Plant caller.  Just before this caller Rush was talking about Hillary Clinton and her husband.  He mentioned two famous staged events the Clintons did while in the White House.  One involved being eyed by a sniper with a tele photo - - - lenz, not gun site (but it could have been, apparently).  And he just "caught" Bill and Hillary dancing with joyous expressions on their faces listening to a radio that seemed to be a prop- - - and then the Clintons complained about the photo- - which only insure that even More people saw it.  This was a staged photo right before the Monica Luinsky story broke.  The other incident involved walking on Omaha beach and happening on a certain number of well places stones or pebbles out there in the middle of nowhere along a deserted beach.  The camera focused first out to sea and then panned back and let you see this lonely figure looking contemplative walking on the beach.  It was Bill Clinton.  He just happened to see these stones (there were no others on this beach) and Clinton spontaniously arranged these stones in the shape of a cross.  Later Rush accused Hillary of having planted questioners in this crowd just to insure that a question about Global Warming would get asked.  Apparently what they do is come to you and say "Do you want to ask a question?" and then they give you a choice of several pre formulated questions on a sheet of paper they have prepared text answers for.

The difference, in case you haven't noticed, is when they came after the Clintons and called him a lying, phillandering, pot smoking draft dodger, that Bill Clinton was indeed all of these things.  Because Clinton, so the argument goes, was a white man- - they needed real incidents to pin on him before attempting to bring him down.  But with President Obama they can use all the usual groundless charges because "after all he's a Black man so he's already half condemned in the eyes of many people".  It takes just the slightest whisper of anything wrong to fan the sparks of inate racism into a raging fire.  So you have all the usual code words.  He was born in Kenya, and he's a Moslem, and he eliminated the requirement of Work for Welfare Mothers,  and he gave amnesty to illegal aliens.  According to a thing Judy sent me- - Canadian late night comic TV is replete with jokes about how in the United States that Latinos routinely get free citizenship and amnesty and voting rights as their reward for illegally crossing the border.  According to this same source- - nobody in America questions your right to vote even lacking a photo ID.  I have more than a little reason to believe there IS NO "Canadian late night talk show" as they described like this.  Then we have Bengazi, and of course Fast and Furious, where Obama wanted to stage a gun incident- - with the Mexican mafia, in order to gin up support for firearms control because after all America is such a normally peaceful country with no gun violence events.  Then of course there is this notion of "Going after right wing groups via the IRS".   They of course can't name a single group that was denied tax status- because of their political beliefs, and neither is there any connection to the President.  And yet with Governor Christie- - his subordenate works at a desk ten feet away- - but Christie and she never talk about- - anything, apparently.  This is the most bogus of all the charges because the Story is that NONE of these groups even Deserved to Have the tax exempt status they Received.  But nobody on FOX news points that out.  Now they are calling the shootings at Sandy Hook- - some sort of a "staged event" and that the bombings at the Boston Marathon were some "false flag opperation" or something, where an Arab student "pretends to be a victim of the bombing, but he's really the one who organized the thing to begin with".  This list of hysterical and irrational right sing charges never lets up.

Terry Hill showed up during lunch as I was lost in thought about something.  Mark was in Timothy.  Terry brought with him a bag of carrot and raison muffins, and they aren’t the least bit gravely or grainy.  It was a filling lunch with the muffins, and Teresa had at least two, and really rich, thick soup like a meal unto itself.  We had pizza and a green salad with grapes for desert.  Terry talked about the Captain America movie.  Terry said that he just watched the opening ceremonies to the 1980 Moscow Winter Olympics.  Terry has a way with research digging down for deep topics.  He’s kind of like “Me” on steroids.  He said that the Romans got the idea for Pizza from the Jews because the soldiers were hungry and there was all this unlevened bread and the Romans thought, “This bread is so bland, we need to put something on it”.   Terry’s mother is turning ninety, and just got over a case of pneumonia.  Terry had lunch with us.  I told him about that possible bank trip, which most likely won’t be till the week after this coming one.   I got the least filled coffee cup today - - and I’ve seen that happen a couple of times before lately.

Finally, there was a little pow wow between Raphael Hernandez and E J Di Mira on Days of our Lives today.  I think E J is about to let Raphael in on the little secret that six of them have been carrying around - - that there was an attempt made on Nick's life- - and Nick hasn't gone to the police about it.  It's hard to know just how Raphael will react to this news.  If it's like everybody else let in on this hasty secret he will be shocked at first, and then suck in a breath and then sigh and say "You're right.  We have to keep this all quiet" and he'll join this rather elite little kabal on the show.  Samantha once again voiced sentaments that she's like to see Nick Fallon dead. Elvis of course reminded her, "Samantha we've gone down this road before.  Do you really wanted to again be indebted to my father?"  Indeed!