Let's Declare R I P to the Reagan Revolution

Norman Goldman says the tally was 61% to 49% for Hillary.  That’s a lead of over twenty points and substantially more than I thought.  Trump won every demographic group in New Hampshire except evangelicals.  Bernie won in almost every demographic.  Hillary won with women over 45, and her best strength was with people over 65.  However according to Sean Hannity - - Hillary won fifteen deligates to Sanders’ thirteen.  Now they count the super deligates.  The networks never used to count them before.   Given this evidence, there seems to be no way that Senator Sanders can win with a quarter of the deligates pledged to Hillary at the git go.  This hardly seems fair.  Where I think the Hillary people are making a major mistake is that Blacks are an unknown commodity.  You can’t conclude from Iowa, with its few minorities, that Bernie can’t score with minorities.  This is because a major campaign has not been launched to reach minorities yet in South Carolina or anywhere else.  There is absolutely no reason to believe that Blacks in particular won’t go for Bernie the same way white people do.  They said Blacks were for Hillary in 2008 but they simply weren’t used to any other candidate, and when they heard a better candidate they voted.  We’ll have our next debate tomorrow night and the Republicans will have another one this weekend.  Five percent of the deligates are selected in February but sixty percent of the deligates are selected in March.  Nobody will wrap it all up on March first like happened in 2008.  They vote in South Carolina on February 20^th.   After Super Tuesday there will be elections coming hot and heavy for the next several weeks. 

This is Ash Wednesday and both Teresa and Hernando had the ash marks on their foreheads.   The results of the New Hampshire primary didn’t change from last night.  Trump still came in first with Kasech at about half as many points.  Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were third, fourth, and fifth and the order never altered.  Governor Christie came in a weak sixth and he is getting out of the race.  Sean Hannity still holds against Christie for making nice with Obama during Hurricane Sandy right before Obama was reelected.  I still subscribe to the theory that some sort of a deal with the Devil was made with the democrats, so I am in agreement with Sean.  Carley Feurina is also withdrawing from the race.  I think she deserves a tribute for being a fearless campaigner with definite opinions about how things should be run.  It’s easier to listen to Hannity than Stephanie Miller because if they ever utter a pro Bernie Sanders thought on that show they all have to do major penance today for it.  If Stephanie doesn’t knock it off, I might have to stop watching her show for a while.

I had a five Messiah theory when it comes to who Jesus Christ was.  I would now like to reduce that number to four.  I am jetezening Luigi Cascioli's theory.  I’m eliminating Jonah of Galilee.  This is a brother in a Jewish novel about the revolutionary Macabees family and supposed brother of Theudas Macabees.  The fact that other brother names were the same as Jesus’ brothers I’m now chalking up to coincidence.  Therefore there is no problem in saying there is a body of historic tradition that Jesus appeared in Galilee at age thirty and got a band of twelve disciples.  This Jesus or Yeshua was a Nazarite and therefore was a “Pescaterian” who only ate fish and no other meats.  He wore long hair and a razor has never come near his head.  He didn’t drink wine and was never allowed to touch a dead person.   We told you that these Nazarites for the most part lived near Mt Carmel.  I think certain details in the text were added later such as the teaching on never marrying a divorced woman, or the bit about the brother who sins and you kick him out of the whole assembly.  Anything that alludes to a “Church” such as Jesus saying to Peter “On this rock I will build my church” and all that stuff about Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, I believe were just added later. 

First I'd like to spell out ways of getting the economy going again.  We need to discourage states that pass "right to work" laws that weaken or eliminate labor unions.  We need a strong labor movement because it drives up wages even in non unionized businesses.  I think we need to raise the minimum wage to twelve dollars an hour.  I think fifteen is a little too visionary.  We need to scrap the NAFTA treaty and also vote down the trans pacific partnership- - because that will be a disaster in so many ways I can't enumerate them all here.  Next I would penalize employers who hire known illegal aliens because they do drive the wage base down.  I wouldn't do it in any racist manner but merely to have respect for the law.  And if there are any small business regulations that are too burdensome I'd ease up on the paper work.  Judy complains that all that reporting to the government for every little thing is burdonsome.  I would also institute income averaging over five years assuming we don't already have that so if your business has one good year you don't get socked all at once with a whole lot of taxes irregardless of the previous four years of losses.  If we do these common sense things we will get the economy going like it should.  I think the stock market is in trouble.  CEO's are getting paid too much and don't pay their fair share of taxes- - thanks to stuff done by Ronald Reagan.  Because of the actions of Ronald Reagan and later Obama's Federal Reserve- - stock prices are artficially high and don't represent the reality of enemic business.

Basically I'm for Bernie Sanders if I didn't say.  But I think some progressive ideas are a bit too visionary such as having paid medical leave for having a baby.  These things should be negotiated by your union at the time you are hired- - and not mandated by the government with tax dollars.  I also think free College for everybody is not realistic.  I think we need to scale back these endless wars we are fighting in the mideast and not try and start World War III with Putin.  This is an unnecessarily complicating matter.   I have problems with Hillary.  She's against restoring Glass Steigel- - and those FDR stock market regulations.  She voted for the Iraq war in 2003 and this shows bad judgement.  She voted for the bankruptsy "reform" bill that makes it harder for ordenary people to get out from under.  College debt can not be counted in figuring bankruptsy.   Hillary's position on abortion is extreme- - and I think she's for very late term abortions and partial birth abortions.  Now Hillary is even having a problem with younger women.  I guess Madalane Allbright or somebody said 'Younger women just want to hang out with their boyfriends, but women get more radical the older they get.  I think we have an image problem here.  Hillary at times gets too combattive and still doesn't answer the question.  There are all these ties with Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.  Hillary for a long time was for the Trans Pacific Partnership.   HIllary Clinton HAS been known to change her vote after a donation.  She does get that angry rant to her voice that- - - in this society a man can get away with but a woman cant.  I think Clinton is too extreme on the guns issue- - - and wants to sue gun manufactures and store owners.  In this case I agree with the adage "It isn't the gun but the person who fires it".  Then there's the whole judgement question about Libya and deciding to take down Qadafi in Libya setting up the whole Bengazi situation.  Then there are still lingering questions about her E mails.  All in all Hillary has just too much "baggage" making her an easy, attackable target for Republicans in the fall.