Sean Hannity Was Not Wholly Wrong Today

You know, it’s so rare when Justice Clarence Thomas actually says something or espouses an opinion that’s different from the others it benefits us to know what it is.  It seems besides going all the way and eliminate all campaign donation limitations even into the millions of dollars.  But another plum position of Justice Thomas is this element of secrecy.  He dares to invoke the Civil Rights workers who were targeted for their donations to civil rights groups as a rationale for secrecy us ungodly large campaign donation so we have even LESS of an idea who is buying off our politicians.  I am a total disclosure person myself.  I think when the constitution says “speedy public Trial” that’s just what it should be.  Not only do coverers of these trials need not conceal the identity of those on the Jury, but that they have an Obligation to show us the faces of the jurors and their expressions, just as though we were present in the courtroom ourselves, like the founding fathers intended.  Some may point out that people in the Joseph Mc Carthy era got into trouble for donating to or even being members of the American Communist Party in their youths in the thirties.  What Senator Mc Carthy did was wrong.  And what happened to that executive of Firefox who was pressured out of his position for a donation he made in 2008 to a ballot measure the Majority of Californians voted for- - that pressure or “climate of hostility” is also wrong.  In this way I disagree in the strongest terms with Bill Press on this issue.  Apparently, by his reasoning, once support for or against an issue falls below fifty percent- - we lose all our rights.  This is so completely beyond the pale for an otherwise reasonable man like Bill Press.  It seems there is a Mormon lady who owned a restaurant and donated to proposition eight also, and happens to be a Mormon- - and various hostile forces drove her out of business, if I have my facts straight.  Whatever happened to having a mutual respect for those with a differing point of view?   Then we have Anne Coulter - - with her own strange slant on issues.  Every time I hear Anne Coulter I think of some male drag queen who is trying hard to sound feminine, and not being very successful at it.   She is saying that it’s liberals who are the racists and “treat Blacks like children”.  I don’t understand that one at all.  Certainly she is aware that the majority of the tea party membership used to be southern democrats who opposed the civil rights bill.   For these Democrats - - the 1964 civil rights bill was “a bridge too far”.    For instance on this issue of needing a photo ID to vote- - - it is not “just like cashing a check or insuring against under age alcohol drinking” as I’ve heard lately.  The avowed goal of these people - - and I’ve heard it out of their own mouths - - is to insure a reduced participation of liberals and minorities- - and in one case “To insure that Mitt Romney wins the state of Pennsylvania in November”.  I guess I’m a little puzzled why we now have to re-litigate” bills that were passed by a wide majority of both houses of Congress fifty years ago.  But sadly, we do.

I listened to Sean Hannity today and was not wholly opposed to what he and Rush Limbaugh were saying on the subject of equal pay for equal work.  You have to pin people down and ask them where they got their numbers and whether they have “controlled” for all other variables, and next you have to ask yourself “even if this number varience is true- - how relevant is it, actually?”  Take this notion of people who smoke not living as long.  Well they live in the inner cities where pollution is higher- - and live in a lower socio economic group where occupational accidents are more likely - - and their diet is cheaper because the dirty little secret is – in the ghetto- - junk food doesn’t cost as much as healthy food.   Sometimes you can look at a number and get paranoid over nothing.  For instance if you read “This drug will give you twenty five percent higher chance of a heart attack” isn’t relevant much at all if- for example I only had a two or three percent chance of a heart attack to begin with.  It’s like saying ‘My gambling method will boost your chances of winning the Power Ball lottery by fifty percent!” when even when that’s factored in, it’s still nothing.   Now we have heard since the late seventies that “Women only earn 78% as much money as men do for the same work”.    Today we hear that President Obama’s women White House staffers only earn 88% as much as the male staffers.  But let’s talk straight for a moment.  You have to take into account- - first of all whether male workers put in more overtime (that till last week they weren’t being paid for) and their seniority - - and both their education and their background, and how completely their bosses trust them.  Failure to take into account ALL of these factors, means you’re just being unfair.  Sean says he hires a lot of women.  Perhaps Mitt Romney sent him “Binders full of women”.   It’s too easy t take a cheap shot both in this area- - and also in the medical area.

There is a new crisis in the Ukraine we first heard about last night where agitators from Russia are causing civil unrest in the eastern part of Ukraine.  Now the Soviets are interjecting themselves in another nations affairs in saying "Well you people just better not try and quell these disturbances by using the military or it would mushroom into a full fledged Civil War.   John Kerry has openly claimed that all these agitations and unrest are being fomented directly by Russia herself.  Those in the know have always claimed that if Russia, or WHEN Russia invaded the Eastern Ukraine, it would be on some fig leaf of an excuse that they are doing so to "prevent further violence against ethnic Russians".  I doubt that at this point either Secretary Kerry's or NATO's complaints will be sufficient to stop whatever invasion or "incursion" (our term) against the Eastern Ukraine.  People like Pat Buchannon will never run dry in their bottomless pit - - of rationalizations- - of Russia's acts of naked aggression.

E J Di Mira isn’t the only person who cam come up with creative illustrations for complex problems.  For instance eight plus thousand bananas for three hundred plus chimps.  Those are pretty big numbers for a little girl like Alley to be working with.   But now let’s help allay your fears out there as to what an “Event horizon” is.  Contrary to what the media has been cramming down your throat for decades “event horizons” have nothing to do with black holes.  Perhaps a better illustration might be “the things you chose to share about with your psychotherapist.  These events are Important to you because they are in your Event Horizon.  They are the Things in your life that Matter to you.  One could define an Event Horizon as a sort of “feng chue’ snap shot.  I guess some spell it “fung chue” snapshot.  I’ve heard both.   Each individual person not only has his own “point of view” (literally) but also his own Event Horizon.  This might not be such a strange thing but it’s slightly different for each person.  AND - - this “event horizon’ is literally The Thing that determines what Is and Is Not Real in your own life.  If a certain thing is NOT in your event horizon even if it’s in your neighbor’s then it does NOT matter to you.  (Selah)  So in answer to the question of “how big is the universe” the answer is “your event horizon”.   Nobody blows a whistle and says “You have just moved outside of Ed Schwatz’ event horizon”.  It’s not like everything suddenly “looks all different now”.  The more objects move with respect to Each Other (the ultimate application of relativism, by the way)  - - the more dissimilar these two Event Horizons ARE.  The more they vary from one another.  Just to relate to Lisa Simpson by way of Ven diagrams- - the circles can overlap a lot or a little or fifty-fifty- - or can be almost perfectly concentric, or they may not overlap at all.  And most certainly a third circle can overlap into both circles, which in term do not acknowledge the other’s existence.   Just to get back to Feng Chue for a moment- - in my version of "string theory" the strings are very large indeed.  Just as electricity is generated by a pole "slicing through" flux lines- - - which "form" after a manner of speaking (literally if you're using iron filings) along the same principle as the rings of Saturn - - mutual gravitational attraction to get literal - - - these "strings" are like trip wires that when crossed are like trip wires- - or the rats in Annie Wilke's drawers traverse threads she placed there and it "triggers" the event of Annie Wilkes going psycho on everyone.  Many computer programs speak of "triggering events".   So that explains that.

Bill Press this morning was again talking about this whole crock about Unionizing and paying college athletes.   The thing is they are already among the most spoiled, pampered people on the face of the earth.  Nobody actually expects them to be “academic” in terms of actually Working and studying for their grades the way everybody else has to.  They’re jocks, after all.  And they mostly get “full scholarships” so they don’t have to take out these Student Loans like ordinary people do.  But if you think about it- - you have heard liberals as well as those on the right saying “I might be open now to having an apprentice working under me to learn this radio trade”.  And of course an apprentice of this sort works for free, just as college students do what they love to do, “for free”.  It’s an opportunity of exposure and learning.  And who wouldn’t sell their soul to be in the very site that the NBA and the NFL is sending scouts to look at YOU, with a possibility of hiring YOU to a life of fame and status, not to mention high pay?  And for all of this these players rather than feeling grateful - - complain that they are “Abused” and “taken advantage of” and refer to themselves as “cash cows”.  No, no.

Today, Tuesday April 8, 2014 is the dreaded “last day” of a Windows XP update.  Support ends as of tomorrow.  I clicked this and that link like Judy suggested but did not get any constructive suggestions as to “what to do about it”.   I have gone off Internet Explorer and change my default Firefox page to Yahoo.   Apparently, so far as I cal glean, there really isn’t anything else TO do besides just wait- - for everything, or nothing.