Thursday, September 10, 2015

Democratic Filibuster In Senate Upheld


Now it's semi-official.  The Republican moves to block the President's nuclear treaty with Iran has been defeated.  President Obama has won.  No matter how many times a given issue is litigated, the Republicans never take No for an answer.  Twice the Affordable Care Act has come before the supreme court and the republicans still have designs on repealing the thing.   How about Roe verses Wade, huh?  And even though they have produced 41 senate democrats, the Republicans in the House act as though the failure of their current resolution wasn’t a reality.  41 is a better number than 34 because with 41 that is no longer a filibuster proof number.  And the democrats successfully executed that filibuster today- and as it happened 42 democrats voted to uphold the filibuster so President Obama wins another one - so all the House debating is pointless.  This “rejection resolution” will never even come to a vote.  That’s the way the US Senate works.

So is Jerry Brown going to sign the death with dignity bill?  It seems this controversial bill has already passed both houses in the state legislature.  I’d call it the “Death with dishonor” or the “Death with disgrace” bill, myself.  It’s dangerous on so many levels- - in terms of violating sacred religious precepts- - it’s bad psychologically for the person’s own mental health- - and it’s bad for people wanting to get money out of a will that was just made out so they want the person to hurry up and die before they have the time to change their minds.

 We’re informed that the next Republican debate will be at the Reagan library (quote appropriate) but the line up of combatants hasn’t been established yet, to my knowledge.  Sean is against letting Syrian refugees enter this country.  Somehow I’m not surprised.  It would ruin the image of the Republican party as heatless bastards to do any other.  We started the wars and created ISIS by our actions, but we don’t want to hang around to clean up the mess.  Sean said “Democrats are always saying that we shouldn’t be the world’s policemen.  Well we shouldn’t be the world’s huminatarians either”.   Or maybe Sean didn’t say “Either”.  Sean loves the violence but hates the cost of the human aftermath.  I’m not impressed with his lament of  “I really wish there were no evil in the world”.

This is Thursday September 10, 2015 and my motto for today is ‘Let’s pretend it’s September Tenth - - 2001, of course.  Sometimes good things come by subtracting rather than adding, and in this case it’s subtracting all of the paranoia and government repression measures we didn’t have fourteen years ago.  It’s hard to even remember now but George Bush was then a highly inconsequential President, and Rudolph Giuliani hadn’t yet ascended to super star status yet as “America’s great hero” yet.  We have evolved from altruistic goals such as balancing the budget and getting the economy going to now pure Hatred.  Not even Money can quench the blood lust of the Republican party to hate the poor, hate the “illegal alien” and hate the Black, or the gay or whoever.  Donald Trump is the instrument to reveal these so called “patriots” into the narrow minded selfish bigots they’ve been all along.  It’s hard to imagine but fourteen years ago none of this existed on a main stream level.  Fortunately Shawn Hannity even admitted the Republicans won’t get the White House.  

Page has been murdered on Days of our Lives.  They didn’t call a doctor, but perhaps a whole minute after the cops arrived they put a sheet over her dead body.  They want to blame Chad for this murder too because of a rare flower that grows only on the Di Mira mansion grounds.  How perceptive of them to know that!   But Roman Brady and that other narc guy have blood on their hands, too, and even J J has blood on his hands.  He could have stopped this murder before it happened if he’d been forthcoming on the telephone with that narc guy.  He could have said Cole or whoever was dead and Clyde Weston killed him, and he explicitly threatened Page’s life.  But J J said nothing.  J J continued to keep silent even after Page was dead and Roman asked J J if he had any inklings who might want Page dead.  What dark power prevented J J from spilling his guts at that moment?  I don’t know.  A brief description of what Jack Junior knew and Clyde would be in custody right now.   I don’t write these things.  But if Roman and his narc friend are at all human they have to be feeling mighty guilty about involving Jack Junior in the first place, knowing how dangerous it was, and J J was completely untrained- - and as far as I can tell he had no “training”.  Of course George Bush has blood on his hands as far as the 9 – 11 attacks go even though he wasn’t personally flying the airplanes.  Both Bush and Jack Junior had ample warnings of impending disaster and did nothing.   I’m not sure why Chad is drunk all the time but Chad was talking to Brady within a moment or two of when the murder was committed.  Chad specifically asked about alcoholic black-outs.

Rupert Merdoch bought National Geographic, seemingly with a view toward destroying it, and people are basically dressed in black right now.  Apparently Merdoch bought his American citizenship because he’s a native Austrailian.  But he went to England and “destroyed that media before coming to America”.  Merdoch couldn’t get a license in this country unless he were a citizen.  Norman Goldman has been in a rather fatalistic mood today.

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