Well, being the man of Christian values I am, I think it's a good idea to occasionally put yourself in the place of the other person with which you have issues. (That's putting it mildly) I think if we try there are actually issues we can agree on. We both agree that adultry, or marital infidelity is wrong. (I even say that in my book and it's about the ONLY thing I say along those lines in my book) We both believe in a work ethic, or at least I hope we would. We could agree that if your big screen TV and expensive 5.1 sound system is stolen right out from under you- - that you would welcome the presence of the Police, who would help you find it - and capture the thief. We both agree in "Providing for the common defense". I would hope we would agree on other things in the Preamble to the Constitution that Marcia recited by memory the other day. We want to establish Justice, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and posterity. And I would hope we would agree that it's a part of legitimate government function to "Promote the general welfare". But now we start to encounter problems. Because I believe all People were endowed by certain inailable Rights. I haven't read chapter one of Genesis lately but I'm pretty sure it doesn't say anything about Corporations being created in the image of God. Corporations don't die. They can't be arrested or go to jail. Corporations can acquire wealth endlessly without a break. Corporations don't have to pay an Inheritence tax, because corporations never die. Corporations don't receive the Death Penalty if they are found guilty of comitting countless deaths, like the big time polluters are. Given a choice between helping People and helping Corporations, I would hope the government would fall on the side of helping People. We know that it is People who earn money and go out and spend it and stimulate the production of goods and commerce and jobs. Without capital- - this process can't get started because there is nothing to spend, and therefore little or none of the conditions necessary for growth in the economy. So let's look at the tax rates and tax subsedies. Corporations are trans-national and stash all their money and attract jobs overseas, where it can't do the US economy any good. I think we can agree that a good economy is part of what would be called "The general welfare" that needs to be promoted. Providing shovel ready jobs and other government jobs programs, or promoting fair interest rates that aren't double the market rate- - for students to pay- - promotes the general and more specifically the academic welfare of the country, and has the effect of reducing unemployment. Bringing immigrants "out of the shadows" promotes higher paying jobs and increased tax revenue collection on these people, reducing the federal deficet. People who work - - do labor - - for a living- - should not pay a higher tax rate than rich guys sitting around the swimming pool waiting for the dividend checks to roll in. Warren Buffee is quite correct. If we truely believe in a "work ethic' as the Puricans practice- - tax rates will be adjusted accordingly. We also know that higher corporate and business tax rates promote reinvestment of earnings capital- - which will provide for yet more jobs. Because people can take depretiations for capital investments, as well as deduct the cost of paying those added employees as payroll expense. See how that works?
Let's talk about this trans-national Commerce which the Koch Brothers and the Tea Party are so in love with. For one you do know that the historic "tea party" or "the destruction of the tea" as it was originally known, was a protest AGAINST big international Commerce, don't you? In fact there used to be an Anti Semetic element and the stereotype of the "Jewish Banker" in all of this. But, not to shock you or anything but I would consider Richard Moore very "Jewish" in his financial dealings. What I mean is that I find him to be a very Fair person. He seldom gives out things for Nothing, but he's likely the best deal you're likely to get around here, either buying or selling something. The idea of tying in these trans-national Corporations today and making them out to have the status of victims like the Jewish merchants were in Nazi Germany starting on November 9th 1938, this to me is a grevious afront to the Jewish people. Jews are reasonable people. (We'll leave Dr Levy out of the discussion for the moment) On the Norman Goldman program today there was a person of Jewish extraction, who had moral problems with all the violence going on now in the Mideast, as do I. One talk show host pointed out that just as we have Dick Chaneys here, there are "Dick Chaneys' in the Israeli government, too. I would like to side with everything the book of Revelations says about this later day International Commerce. Indeed it's one place in the whole Bible that hints at the fact that God regards human trafficking and slavery as morally offensive. However the latest buzz from the Federation is to tread lightly on this international Commerce. Because indeed this "Whore of Babylon" is an Allay that I may need- - in my battle against what we refer to as "The Alcyonnized Sutterans", which are worse. You use an enemy to fight an enemy. I do not know if the Catholic Church herself is this "Whore of Babylon" or not. At the time the book of Revelation was written- - the Catholic Church was not decked out in ornate gold baubles and expensive jewelry and rare art works and other priceless artifacts. Besides if you read the tea leaves correctly- - the Antichrist when he comes will do away with all of this Commerce. People who read Revelations forget this. Believe it or not- - cosmically there are worse things than the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers out there. (Selah)
Certainly the Media in this country has behaved in a Whorish manner. If there is a guy who believes the moon is made out of green cheese FOX news will have him on. And they'll put him against a world renound geologist- - and the green cheese guy will talk over the geologist. And FOX news will pronounce it "Fair and Balanced coverage of this issue". We hear that Michelle Bachman and Louie Gomer are dingbats. This is a free country. People are free to believe what they wish. That's their god given right. Stephanie Miller was on one of these "Fair and Balanced' shows on CNN I guess. I don't know about this Candy Crowley or whoever. I'm not quite sure she's kosher. We have heard a lot of nasty accusations against the Koch Brothers. British Petroleum does these adds about the Gulf Coast saying "Come on down! We have the welcome mat out for you". I am not entirely opposed to such self serving adds. One might almost call such ads a recompence for the damage they have done to these Gulf merchants. In a sense they are Owed - - - Something from BP. These ads could be a form of payment. I heard the charge leveled today that the big Oil Companies are using the same "trick" the tobacco companies used. They do PR campaigns to soften their image and to say "You see - - we aren't so bad". And they relocate to third world countries. Kind of analogus to perhaps a Senior might have roomers spread against him spread by some social clique- - so this guy moves to Sophomore girls, who don't care. All they know is that he's an older guy who is interested in them and appears really macho. So in the Third World companies- - when it comes to Global Warming and climate change and pollution - - They Don't Care. All they know is that some rich benefactor is proving Jobs and an overall Rise in the standard of living for these people. They don't care about how the earth may fry tomorrow, as long as they have money in their pocket books today. (Selah) The charge was also levied against Fred Koch, the father of David and Charles Koch- - that Fred did business with Stalin and helped the Soviet Union become an Industrial Giant providing Refinaries and such to make them energy competitive. We also hear that the House passed a bill virtually undoing all the provisions in the Dodd Frank bill. It is not my position to judge the rightness or wrongness of this. That is God's judgement call to make. My motto at this point is "whatever side my bread is buttered on- - that's the side I'll go with. I know that doesn't make sense to any of you who haven't gotten the Message I have gotten from "The Other Side". I'm exercising my freedom as an American to believe what I want.
It's a convention that the difference between a Comedy and a Drama is that in a Comedy, the Characters never "Grow" personally. This is what makes the same gags hysterically funny over and over again. But then you have Samantha, who isn't a Comic Book character. So it was the soap
opera and you know something? I’m not
buying this “wronged woman” from Samantha one bit. She’s enjoying this little charade all too
much- - wallowing, almost luxuriating in every lurid reminiscence. She said she got the security tape of the
building where a camera caught them having sex in the shower. She said she was suspicious from that instant
on. In one sense EJ is lucky because now
there is no need to hide the affair.
Samantha, never the diplomatic one, can get pretty tacky. With a total disregard of the sex tape her
mother was tricked into playing at church, she shows the photos of the affair
to Abigail and her mother. Samantha
seems to know every last detail about E J’s involvement with Abigail. She’s
known about it for weeks. And yet went
right ahead full steam with the wedding plans and seemed almost giddy with
anticipation. EJ says of her, “She looks
at me wide eyed like a pussy cat, almost purring with delight”, but all the
while she’s a betraying snake. That bit of almost forcibly roping Abigail in to
do all the stuff at the wedding- - is psycho almost of Norman Bates
perportions. But the bottom line is that
Samantha never would have been true. She
would have betrayed E J sooner or later, just like she betrayed Raphael, and
I’ve never quote gotten the explanation for THAT one. But Samantha never feels guilty about
anything. She’s a lying, conniving
bitch. And that’s why she doesn’t have
any friends. Oh – one more thing. All of Samantha’s well laid plans may be for
naught because do you remember in the wedding ceremony where they say “If there
are any here who know a cause why these two should not be united in marriage,
let him (or her) speak now or forever hold his (or her) peace. So the Church itself may annul the
ceremony. And the Stephano Corporation
may be able to come after her legally for committing misrepresentation and
fraud. That’s right. Now Eve isn’t just satisfied with money. She also wants production rights over the
movie to Jack’s book. She wants to
corrupt the message to make more money.
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