Sometimes Just "Thinking about Things" can be a Scarey Experiance

Sometimes I fear we on the left can be sucked into a sort of psychological cesspool by ingaging in the same sort of self-regurtating rhetoric, devoid of any actual fresh event.  There are risks in doing so of falling into intellectual and moral traps.  But yet we forge ahead.  Today is Friday April 11, 2014 and at two I grabbed my copy of “If you see the Bhudda in the road, kill him”.   In one chapter there is the proposition that when God “created them male and female” this included Adam’s first help mate named Lilly or something.  But God had to get rid of her because she refused to take orders from her husband but instead said to him “Am I not a co creation of God along with you?  We are equals”.   Of course Gene Scott says “Everybody knows that women are really smarter than men, and it’s my mission to keep them from ever finding out”.  Hence we have the “ruler-ship of the inferior”.  This would be in accord with Randy’s theory about these big Corporate bosses who pick a man to be President not because he is so smart or talented or independent or principled, but rather if he is plyable and hopefully a little dumb.  So there is talk of George W Bush being “Not his mother’s choice for President” but that distinction went to Jeb Bush.  George W was the cocaine addict and drunkard, or what they call a “dry drunk”, a term I continually am puzzled by.  So Dick Chaney had to be the Vice President as a “babysitter to President Bush”.  In like manner - - Ronald Reagan we all know was starting to get a little senile as early as the 1984 reelection campaign, and of course Nancy Reagan and her astrology had to take over.  So it isn’t that they make an icon of Ronald Reagan any more than these “Devout Christians” hold God in such lofty regard.  In truth in honoring Reagan as an icon they fashioned with their own hands, they honor themselves.   People are worried about President Obama’s popularity rating dipping into the low forties, and yet when George W’s ratings were 32% republicans lined up from all over to make excuses for him.

Of course the Republicans in Congress pulled off a trifecta earlier this week.  They passed the Paul Ryan budget, which was a completely meaningless gesture as we have previously explained.  The Republicans this day also defeated the “Equal pay for equal work” women’s rights bill.  And they also gave a strong thumbs down to raising the minimum wage.  And then there was that farsical thing yesterday that Harry Reid called them out on, where they had already passed cloture on a judicial nominee that had been languishing for nine months from President Obama, among so many unfulfilled posts.  But the Republicans instituted a “thirty hours of post cloture debate” rule, they are sticking to to the letter.  It’s a colossal waste of time and will postpone votes on key judicial nominees till after the Easter recess, which runs clear through to April 28^th, which last time I checked was eight days after Easter.  That’s how these people opporate.  These congressmen have only passed a third or less of the bills as the famous “do nothing congress” Truman lamented in 1947 and 1948.  Basically, and this is not sarcasm, they just might as take the rest of the year off anyhow because the year 2014 is a lost cause.

Randy Rhodes has some “psychological theories” some would consider dangerous, for sure.  If things are really as bad as she proposes, America is in a lot worse shape than anyone dares imagine.  The Republicans are going to great lengths to eliminate voting opportunies for blacks and the poor, and she says “They deliberately place the polling places an hour’s distance away” and then you have to stand in line for six hours.  Now the state of Florida was asked to provide handicapped retrofitted restrooms for people in voting lines.  But then the State of Florida felt “guilty” about possible “discrimination” and said “I know what we’ll do.  To insure that the handicapped aren’t discriminated against, a memo will go out that ALL restrooms in public places be closed on Election Day.  This scenario would not even qualify as the plot to a bad novel.  If things are really that bad- - just as they “Federalize the national guard” in emergencies, perhaps the Supreme Court should step in and federalize the conduct of all elections, since the states are obviously proving themselves incompetent to do the job.  Certainly the framers of the Constitution never dreamed of such a thing where the states would conspire to keep certain segments deliberately from voting- carried out on a massive scale.

Of course this same “Proactive Hostility” is on a far lower moral plane than the usual "reactive hostility".  It's one thing to "get back at someone" because they hurt you, or in the normal course of the day some frictions or misunderstandings occur.  Proactive hostility is targeting an individual you may not even know personally but somehow you have developed an obsession about him, and you can't get the fact out of your mind that somehow you need to "ruin his life" for some imagined reason.  It's kind of like Clarence Thomas saying "I believe in not revealing the sources of campaign donations because I care so much about Black civil rights groups in the sixties" when in reality- - this has nothing to do with his true motives.  It's almost akin to - - like in Prison or something where a Guard will take a disliking to you - - for completely irrational reasons that exist only in his mind.  It's like these people are "on a mission" to do you harm..  So you see proactive hostility carried out by the tea party against minorities - - - as if sabotaging the Vote in election day were the most "Right" thing to do.  And it is carried out on “Days of our Lives” by this spurned boyfriend of Jennifer Horton- - who has gone to fantastic lengths to “get even” with Dr Daniel Jonas, by drugging him just before he is due to perform a double by-pass heart operation slated to last for hours.  Nicole had but one question when she saw a stranger in her boyfriend’s apartment.  “What are you doing here?”  Note that he never answered that question but sure was really weasely about virtually everything.  He’s one of those people that makes Richard Nixon in comparison look like a really stand up honest kind of guy.  And then we have of course Julie Williams defending Nick Fallon.  Nick was being more diplomatic and “apologetic” (for someone elses’ stupid actions) than I would have been.  Julie doesn’t think it was very nice for Will Horton not to invite Nick to his wedding the other day.  I would have said to Julie “Well, I never really thought about it before but I think you have a point.  In fact why don’t you go to Will and Sonny and ask them why I wasn’t invited.  I’d be all ears when it comes to what they have to say to you.  You know- - I’d kind of gotten the feeling they resent me because last year I said I felt uncomfortable around gay people.  But someone like you asking a lot of questions rather than me wouldn’t be as threatening to them”.    Of course Samantha Brady is the very last person to cast any moral judgement about anybody.  Because as Julie points out “Samantha’s life has been one big screw up and people give Samantha chance after chance and forgive her over and over- - and it all amounts to nothing”.   

The Amazing March Into the Past

It seems today that politicians are openly espousing ideas now that were disproven a century ago.   For instance in the Creation Institute you have Adam and Eve co existing with dinasaurs six thousand years ago.  Now there is talk about bringing about the geocentric point of view and that the Catholic Church was right in comdemning Galileo and Copernicus.   Now in worship of the great god Two-Side you have the Truth acknoledged by scientists for decades, given equal weight with the nuttiest of right winder ideas now.  It's false equivelency and that's madness.  One caller on a morning talk show actually claimed that people who believed in Global Warming were of equalivent value to the Jim Jones Guyanna cult.  And when reminded by the host that "98% of serious scientists are in agreement as to the notion of man made Global Warming" the response was "Well - - 98% of Christians believe in Jesus Christ", which is about like saying that 98% of Mormons believe in Joseph Smith.   These people on the right seem to have lost all sense as to how to decide what is real and what is not.   It's crazy!

In terms of real Science today- - we have what I call the first "mass production bioptsy" or a microbe probe of- - industrial sludge for one thing, which can isolate by a new experimental process over a million different species of microbe in our industrial waste to test for a multitude of potential diseases which may affect society.  But such technology could obviously used with human beings to test whatever "dangerous microbes" are resident in their own bodies, which might cause harm.  And in the area of orthopedics- - now the dream of the old time Faith Healers is realized.  You have people with irreperably damaged spinal cords- - getting up and standing and even doing things like working out with weights and things.  So it keeps the patient more physically fit in the process.  There is some device you hook up to your nervous system and when the unit is on, you can perform wonders.  When the unit is turned off, you're right back where you were before.

The hypocracy of these Bible thumpers is more than apparent.  John Fugelsang has his own take on this on Friday's April 11th Stephanie Miller program.  I have perhaps a more "pragmatic take on the same thing, a concurring but different opinion, so to speak.  For instance one person got a tatoo on his body of a Bible verse in Leviticus or whatever that bans homosexual content.  Unfortunately a few verses later there is a ban against tatooing your body.  And if that guy was wearing a mixed cotton and polyester suit, again he is in trouble by mixing his fabrics in his clothing.  Now you hear people talking about "Being on the right side of history" being less important than "Being on the right side of the Bible".  Have these people learned nothing from reading through the four gospels?  The central message- - one of them anyhow- -is that "People can and are - - (hypothetically) being in perfect accordance with Biblical teachings and may pride themselves on their fidelity to both the letter and spirit of scripture and still be "On the Wrong side of History" as the Jews were in Jesus' day.  As such Mike Huckibee has a major lesson to learn here - - as to how someone be positive they're on solid ground on an issue "In your Heart, you know he's Right" and still get the historical "shaft" from God and History.  Nobody ever said God was Fair.  This is a human construct.  Whatever devotion the pharisees had about "The true spirit of the Law" didn't matter to God when he swept them all away.  I maintain having Laws is a good thing.  Nobody says for instance "We shouldn't have speeding laws because what if the speed laws were 25 mph on the freeway?"  But this is the identical logic Rush Limbaugh uses on minimum wage laws.  Abraham Lincoln said "No man is above the law - - and no man is beneath it".  Too many people forget this basic truth.  If you are going to - (for reasons we won't question just this minute) - - make Leviticus your law book- - then the least you can do is follow what's actually in it.  But it seems more important to these right wing posers to just say "I HAVE a copy of the law- - but that doesn't mean I follow it".  The Civil Rights law passed under LBJ - - gave LAWYERS the right to bring legal suits in Court.  The first three letters in Lawyer is - - LAW.   Contrary then to what they would have us to believe- - these tea party people have a disregard for "The Law" and as such want to reduce the right of the people to bring Civil Suits- - - because they say it's a boondoggle for "Lawyers".  In other words using that same logic- - - police should not arrest criminals- - because to actually DO what your job entails - - be it a lawyer or a cop- - is somehow "wrong' in the eyes of the tea party, for reasons unfathomable to me.

Rush Limbaugh obviously is not serious- - as the spokesman of the Republican Party- - about reaching out and trying to perswade people out there in radio land.  For instance some of the remarks about women are beyond tasteless- and downright tacky.  When Rush Limbaugh was told that there was some new museum or monument opening up to celebrate the accomplishments of women - - Rush said, "Oh, women already Have That - - they're called shopping malls".   He then makes sexual remarks about the women's movement- - - and told that joke twenty years ago about being in an elevator with Hillary Clinton and getting her to wash and iron his clothes "to prove she was a woman".   Now you have the Mitch Mc Conell race in Kentucky.  Clearly you will tailor the race in the fall depending on whether Senator Mc Conell wins or loses in his primary challenge.  If the Senator pervails against his tea party challenge- - the thing to do is to attack him personally.  Call him Yertle the Turtle- - and say that he's getting awfully old- - and is no longer politically relevent to the people of Kentucky.  If the tea party candidate loses- - the issue is simple.  Just pose it as a straight up referendum on the Political Issues of the day saying if you really go for all the far out tea party beliefs- - vote Republican.  But if you are like the Governor and actually are among those who LIKE your Obama Care and in other words want to join the 21st Century - - then you have to vote the democratic ticket.

In terms of Gerrymandering congressional districts, the answer is simple - - "It's the Geometry, Stupid".  There is no need to have endless debates about race and such and "deciding what is fair and since you can't come up with a good definition that is pleasing to all you might as well throw in the towel and let the victorious Party draw those district borders just as they always have.   Well there is a sensible solution that does not involve any "supreme court" decision of involved sociological study.  The solution is that ANY congressional district will be assigned a unit area of ONE.  And now for a square this would mean that the perimeter would be four times this Unit Value so there would be a four to one ratio right there.  But we're reasonable people.  I'd allow for an Eight to one Perimiter to Unit Area Value- - for a district.  This would be a completely color blind method of drawing the districts.  After all the liberals might like to gerrymander the minority districts so that things go Their way.  We have no need for any law that speaks of "Any districts ought to have this or that many minorities but no more than X percentage of them"  That would make it too complicated.  Just use my system.

Beware revisionism- - the scourge of the Texas Schoolbook distributors.  Now I'm hearing via tape delay about Jim De Mint and his revisionist history.   Now Jim De Mint says "All men are Created Equal" is in the Constitution and that it was "The will of the people" that Freed the Slaves, and had nothing to do with Big Government or the Civil War.   Has anyone ever heard the term "Progress" used with the words "Away" in the same sentence.  Jim says "The Democrats want to progress AWAY from those things that made America great".   I think inherent in the world "progress" is pro and gress meaning movement Foeward- - Tword a goal- - and not Away from any goal.  But if you have Adam and Eve frolicking with teradactyles - - then you're a lost cause anyhow.   You won't find the Truth that today's Republican party in Texas is composed primarily of those right wing Dixiecrats- - that transferred party membership in droves due to President Nixon's "Southern Strategy", which it could be argued itself is based on a racial premise.   These people- - revisionists will come out and say that Columbus was a good Christian who only sought to "Share the Christian gospel" with the native Americans he came accross.   He never raped them and he never exploited them or gave them diseases or outright slaughtered them- - according to these Columbus worshipers.  And don't get me started on William Bradford.   But people like Rush will say that anything other than total Personal Perfection in our sacred Historic Icons - - is some sort of- - I don't know - - Blasphamy against said Icon.

It All Comes Back to Race and Racism

Even if there is no crushing new news, there are older issues that need to be dribbled around the court a little more.  Take the whole thing of racism in the Republican party.  I would like to now address this in keeping with the Mike Papentonio thing that just cropped up as a fresh offering on Freespeech.tv.  Lee Atwater is dead.  He died in the early spring of 1991 and not to wish anyone harm in the afterlife or anything, but it wouldn’t disturb me to find out that Atwater after death had gone to the deepest bowels of the Infernal Regions.  Conservatives have made an icon out of Ronald Reagan but the evil genious behind Ronald Regan’s success was Lee Atwater.   Candidate Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 run for President in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Civil Rights workers were slain.  This was no accident but according to those in the know, it was meant to send a distinct “message” that the Southern Strategy is alive and well.   For instance it was Atwater that said “In 1955 you used the word Nigger- - to promote you were in accord with the racist audience.  But by 1968 you couldn’t use the N word anymore, so they spoke rather of “forced bussing” and “state’s rights” issues.   The thing is that even liberals can fall into the “mistake” of being misunderstood.  I heard a story from some show yesterday about “People who trade in their food stamps for Kentucky burbin”, and I thought “Well if this is being done- - it’s wrong and should be stopped” but they weren’t referring to the inner city ghetto, but rather appelatia that runs from northeastern Mississippi into central Pennsylvania.  This whole area is like an abandoned shell, and really if you’re a true conservative idiolog you can well argue that “The best and the brightest among them” with any get up and go and good old fashioned “gumption” have left that white “ghetto” of hopelessness, and moved on to there there was opportunity for economic advancement.   Whether it’s Blacks hanging around in the alley shooting craps, or a bunch of long haired white people in tattered clothes sitting outside the one drugstore in town that’s still in business- - whitteling or whatever- - it’s the same symptom.  Some like Paul Ryan have this “newly discovered cause” of our economic slow growth and it’s “Black people in the inner city ghetto who are just lazy”, when in reality - - people who have actually lived in “the ghetto” know that people by in large aren’t like that there.  They are just as eager for work as the rest of us.   Pardon my wordiness today.   We have “souls to the polls” by Black churches, so in attacking early voting- - why isn’t it argued that you’re actually attacking the Church and devout people?   But clearly this racism is rather blatant at times.  Why is for instance George Zimmerman such a folk hero among those on the right- - or people like Ted Neugent.     So it’s silly for Rush to say race plays no part in stripping away of the safety net because it certainly does.   It goes without saying- much of the Anti Obama hatred and ranting we see is based on race and not performance, because not even Clinton suffered this way.  Any psychologist wants to know “What is Driving your pursuit of this particular issue?”  And of course in Texas having a gun license qualifies you to vote, but having a Student ID from a University will not.  This law has a two-fold purpose of encouraging gun ownership and at the same time tending to disparage institutions of higher learning.    Demographically they are also fighting the immigrant wars and wand the children of those Ronald Reagan encouraged by the 1986 act to “come on over and we won’t stop you” - - are the ones the Republicans in the house now want to deport, and Rush Limbaugh wants to make sure don’t get the vote.   In another demographic - - of those younger people from eighteen up to their early thirties - - - nearly a third of these have no religious affiliation at all and apparently don’t even believe in a personal God.

Let’s talk about so called “religious rights”.  Some would argue that the KKK has religious rights and that a KKK run corporation has a God given “right” not to hire or serve Blacks.  Others might for instance say “Nobody in our work force need ever join the military and even if they are drafter- - we mandate that you should evade such a draft because it violates out religious principles”.  Others could argue that paying taxes to the government is wrong but that God has the sole claim on all of our worldly goods.  This all got started when the High Court stepped in and said that various Indian tribes did NOT have the right to eat peyote as a free exercise of their tribal religion.  I would argue it differently from what the Court heard, saying that various reservations were in many ways like a separate nation and certain laws did not apply, for instance, prohibitions against Gambling establishments.  Since the Court in 1990 outlawed peyote for these native Americans, then congress set up the “restoration of religious rights act”.  Now Hobby Lobby is using THIS act, passed to help out peyote eating people in New Mexico - - - as their grounds as why Corporations have religious rights.  This is of course beyond strange.  Because as Mike Papentonio pointed out- - the Corporation is losing it’s “separate” status as a legal entity.  Because people on the board of directors or anyone who owns Stock in that company, by ordinary law could be personally sued for anything- - were they not protected by Statute- - that said (and here is where they say it) a corporation is like a separate Person that can be sued apart from any individual liability.  Share holders are thus insured against bankruptcy.    But Mike says that if you are going to strip this “other” ness from Corporations- - if they have not only free speech, and meranda rights and now Religious rights- - then it seems the line is so blurred that all distinction corporations and the human beings like the Green family that owns Hobby Lobby, are now dissolved.   (Put that in your pipe and smoke it.)   In other words it it quacks like a duck and feathers like a duck - - etcetra, etcetra.   If you want to say that Corporations ARE people, then let’s be literal about and sue individuals for the decisions that these “individuals” made “in the name of” said Corporation.

We now come to Eric Holder, who was a corporate stooge before he became Attorney General, and is careful to do nothing to offend the corporate world will serving at AG because once he leaves office he’s be going BACK to that corporate world, where his loyalties have always lain.  Jesus Christ summed it up a long time ago saying “you can’t serve two masters because you’ll be loyal to one and resent the other”.    I have Covington 0- Burley here.   Now Wells Fargo has gone further and is passing out material to instruct their employees how to commit outright Fraud and get away with it, and how to forge documents.   Of course Timothy Geitner is guilty is tax fraud but it didn’t stop him from being appointed Sec of the Treasury.    Of course thanks to ALEC, it’s no longer a case as it used to be of “finding some obscure loophole in the law and exploiting what was never intended”.  Today it’s much more blatant.  ALEC actually Writes the bills for congress to rubber stamp with their vote of approval.  The provisions in these bills are tailor made to the interests of corrupt corporations- - just as Monsanto GMO’s have DNA that is “tailor made” to be compatible with their own insecticides.

I would like to talk about race and the Orion Federation.   Somebody reading my material on the subject must think “Boy that guy must sure be obsessed with issues of Race”.   No, I’m not but THEY are- - and I definitely find it a little over the top at times.  For instance Ted Nugent’s remarks about the President being a “sub human mongrel” doesn’t have near the connotations in the Federation that it has on earth.  And Mal Evans reminds me ‘I don’t have the personal power to determine where Ted Nugent goes in his after-life.  That’s up to his own people, the Bela Tagis B’s”.    Mal Evans is only “Minister of Propaganda” and that’s his literal title.  Even the word “Propaganda” is a bit more benign in the Federation (either them OR in Russia) as it is here.   I would also like to talk about Avatars and Race.   For instance we said that Brian Epstein and Pete Best are both what’s called “Northern Reigelianized Sirius 0’s”.   Perhaps I’ve made this overly complicated in the past.  What they are are people who karmicly, in terms of their essence or soul or whatever- - but have the Avatar of Sirius 0 bodies.   On the Stephanie Miller show this morning there was talk of one dentist buying an extracted tooth of John Lennon for the perpose of “cloning him and teaching him to play the guitar but keeping him away from harmful drug influences”.    I draw a blank trying to get Feedback from Lennon on this one.  However the minute Stephanie and the gang mentioned Stewart Sutcliffe- - instantly Stu chimed in and said “That’s not gona happen” as per the prospect own cloning.   By the way - - these ZAC purists who live in Sirius A - - are not the same group as the Drewanians.  The Drewanians have never been into all of the Howard and Roin mythology or lore.   All they care about is “Ziggy”.    But it’s the Sirius A segment that Jim Morrison referred to as the Tea Party segment on Sirius A, which may be why he’s no longer affiliated with the Federation.   Another earth retronym is this term os Bosc to describe the progenitors of Blue Oyster Cult in Sirius 0.   This is the group that uses the Sirius A alphabet, has Crestorian philosophy, but Romulan soul karma.

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.

Speaking Common Sense To a World that Desperately Needs It

Here is an area Senator Ted Cruz and I can agree on.  Ted Cruz gave a speech in the Senate today “in the absence of a quorum” as he points out,  to propose a law that we don’t let avowed Islamic terrorists become Ambassadors to the United States, as President Obama appears ready to do.  The nation of Iran held those 52 hostages from November of 1979 to January of 1981 and the proposed ambassador the President of Iran has proposed was in the thick of all that.  It would seem that Iran is still nursing desires to drive Israel into the sea.  The United States is called “The Great Satan” and Israel is referred to as “The Little Satan” and Iran apparently imprisoned a Christian cleric to a worse prison than he was then being held in, on the anniversary of the taking of the US hostages.  As they did this they crowed about “Compelling the world to do the will of Iran”.  This is completely unacceptable behavior.  Clearly we should not resume ANY negotiations on Nukes with Iran until they have stopped all enrichment activities of Uranium 235.   But I would propose that even after Iran meets our demands on everything we want- - a sixty day “patience period” should be allowed, where they have to wait out a sixty day probation period to see if there are any infractions in that time.

I think the Conservitives and I are in agreement on another issue.  I am dismayed at the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the cause of this photography outfit in New Mexico after the New Mexico Supreme Court disallowed them from declining work- - photographing gay weddings.  I mean clearly any professional outfit has the discretion to accept or decline any job they want.  For example, suppose you were a house painter and there was this big old mansion with a lot of du-dads and crannies, and the paint was flaking off and maybe the place was overrun with rats.  It would be perfectly reasonable in my view to decline such a job as “beyond our capability” and “Perhaps you would be happier is another company did it”.  From the standpoint of the gay wedding, I don’t see why the subjects ad said gays wedding would care to be photographed by a crew that finds their personal conduct repugnant.  But it seems that the Supreme Court has gotten lazier over the decades, declining a higher percent of cases, cases I personally feel they should have taken up because clearly the issues in them are of national import and need to be decided.  But this Court only wants to go with Winners or something.  I darkly suspect that these Justices know how they’re going to rule on a case from its outset. 

Having said that, let's discuss Paul Ryan's new budget.  I tire of the right making these sweeping generalities about we on the left like was evident on the Rush Limbaugh program this morning.  Is it really an endless game of “taking away goodies or “free stuff” the government hands out” as if the sole existence of the Democratic party was to get as many poor people “enslaved” by their policies.  Many things Rush Limbaugh says are an obvious projection (a psychological term) and would apply much more to himself than to us.  He speaks of “The Left” as this monolithic entity that walks in lock step and regards President Obama as the supreme arbiter of issues for them.   In reality the shoe is almost entirely on the other foot.  It is the tea party that has their “pre fab” talking points all lined up and ready to go.  In terms of “taking things away from people” Paul Ryan’s newly proposed House budget is so bad every American should read it- - and it’ll scare the begesis out of them.   In almost every case he wants to compound the draconian cuts already imposed by the Sequester, agreed on last year.  So in truth there is no NEED for a proposed budget now because one has already been AGREED upon.  But the strangest thing is how the tea party talks about this "debt that's going to bury us" and yet they aren't serious about cutting the deficet.  Why do I say this?  Because the Obama Administration has cut the deficet in half if not more than half in the past couple of years or so.  So why in the name of all that's sacred would it take Paul Ryan till the year 2024 - to cut the Other Half of this deficet?  Hummm???   Of course- - he does the "bend over and grab the knees" approach to let all of the biggest international corporations have their way with us.   There are statistics that say that the top one percent have 43% of the wealth in America, according to a reference in George Washington's blog.  The bulk, eighty percent of us- - hold but seven percent of the world's wealth.  If they took my suggestion and called our side the 95.5% then - - those who remain the other 4.5% would have about three fourths of the world's wealth.  But I dispute these statistics only to say they are not extreme enough.  You see this was the result of a lengthly study that was released in March of 2010, and the research was no doubt done at an earlier date.  Since this is four years and counting - later, and we know things have Continued to get Worse (as the Republicans endlessly remind us) then more extreme numbers would be evident.  Rush was grilling one caller who suggested that at least the Tea Party ought to pretend to be civil and compassionate in their policies, and not scare the dickens out of the other side in the first fee sentences out of their mouth.  Rush disagreed- - - almost in the tradition of that Kendrick guy in “A few good men” who was just “aching to tell us all just what “The Truth” is”.   So- - just let Rush Limbaugh talk - - and talk and talk.  He’s exhibit A, B, C, D, and E, all himself.

If Thom Hartman is right and not just smoking something funny- - this carbon tax thing is actually a wealth redistribution bonanza for the working man.  Because this carbon is taxed everywhere along the pipeline of production, when the oil is taken from the ground or when the ground if fractured, or when the fuel is refined.  And this tax taken from business is then given TO the average working man.  This would perhaps cover medical expences like with Thom Hartman's father.  It would be money for a average person to spend.  Since the profits of energy companies are enormous- - - and this tax Can't be negotiated down- - then this would give the average citizen a lot of extra spending cash in their pocket, to help the economy.  I am a firm believer that taxation should carry a little of the carrot and the stick prodding.  I believe this Constitutional justified by the phrase "to promote the general welfare".  Right now what we have seems to be government "promoting the general malaise".  In other words, our government has proactively lowered the "wage market".   While gas prices will by necessity go up a little, corporations will feel a pressure to "eat" a lot of the cost due to the lowered demand curve.  But certainly the consumer will have the "stick" applied to him with an "incentive" to switch modes of transportation or fuel used therein.  When Thomas Jefferson extoled the value of free public education, he himself was adhering to the principle of "promoting the general welfare".  In this case it was a literate population, that in Jefferson's mind made for a more qualified electorate.  (Selah)

Of course the dirty little secret about world history is that there was another Renaissance period in the world before our Western one.  It extended from China to Morocco - - and occurred around the eighth and ninth centuries.  This is when Islam was much more scientific and civilized than it is today.  It interacted with India culture and both benefited from this cross pollenization.  This would be during the T’ang dynesty in China.  Of course China was not always so lucky.   You had this emperor named Chin, who by the way got a whole country to be named after him.  He was like in the third century BC and he was one of the first book burners, and had a personal Ego bigger than the state of Texas.  He was the emperor who built the Great Wall, and also had these clay soldiers who “guard his grave”.   There are times when I read certain parables of Jesus and I wonder just what Jesus Christ would be like anyhow, if he had absolute power.

The other dirty little secret is about light- - and how different kinds of light - - waves - - travel at different speeds.   Now light as a corpuscular eneity- - photons - - all travel at the fixed speed we all know about.  I assume this would be true for any sort of lepton, which is a class of sub atomic particles.   But as we have said red - - “waves” are more retarded in that if you are retreating from them, they can’t keep up with you but it takes longer invervals to overtake you if you are a “moving target’ going away.  The opposite would be true for blue waves- - - - which would be like going against the grain like running out as quickly as you can into the ocean to be greeted by wave after wave.  It occurrs to me that many of you may honestly not Know what we mean by red or blue "Shifts".  This is my oversight.  Do you know what the LSH key is on Windows calculator?  Never mind.  Light that passes through a gas has a "line signiture" kind of like its own unique "bar code".  When light is being red or blue shifted this "bar code" shifts one way or the other.  Failing this far code- - one can make certain deductions about light of a certain color.  Blue light for example could be either stationary or moving tword you.  If it is in fact coming tword you it will have a greater amplitude per the original "energy propigation" otherwise known as "candle power".  In like manner red light could be stationary or receding but if it is receding it will have reduced apparent brightness per "candle power".   So just to clarify, though normally - - - -amplitude goes along with frequency- - frequency per se is the thing that denotes color.  Amplitude demotes brightness.   The reason why blue light bends more is NOT its speed as the "Cosmos" thing stated, but merely because short waves bend more than longer waves - - and so you have to throw out ideas about "impact physics" because photons don't have mass as we know it.  Not to get too complicated but any mass photons DO have is due to their "energy" and not their mass, and since photons never stand still, they never have absolutely zero mass.  So it isn't the "mass" of light that determines how much it is bent- - unlike an automobile or a bullet- - but rather its wavelength.

At two I turned it to Dr Oz.  His latest theory which seems well supported is that anti-biotics cause people to gain weight.  My only question is since we’ve been using anti-tiotics for seventy years why is this fact only now being “discovered”?   And I have to question the idea of something used only a tiny percentage of a person’s life, having such an influence overall on how their body processes food.  First of all the anti-biotics create more of the sort of bacteria specialized in breaking down food and extracting calories.  Next, said “bad bacteria” multiply the number of fat cells the body produces, and thirdly, these same bacteria create a sugar craving in the body.  If you were truly sick it might not be such a bad thing to gain back a little weight.  Dr Oz would prefer that you suffered through the ravages of whatever illness you had.  Then I went down for coffee and was moved to the front of the line because I was a first.  I had the guy top off my coffee cup.  I went up to the patio where Janet gave us chocolate covered toffee.  I have the teeth for that.  But that doesn’t explain the mysterious brown stain I just noticed on my pants.  Of course Dr Oz is as much of a broken record on the subject of weight and dieting as the Catholic Church is on sex.  Take Nicole and Eric.  Eric was falsely accused of wrongdoing by the Church and Nicole naturally figured when Erie said he had chosen to leave the ministry it means putting distance between himself in the church.  Eric concealed the fact that the church had told him Nicole being a divorcee, would not be wed in the Catholic Church,  but Lord knows, Edward Kennedy had no problem being pro abortion and also getting a divorce, while staying in good standing as a Catholic.  If Eric is going to have such complete disregard for how Nicole obviously feels on this subject- - then it really is best to end it now- - and Eric can stop wasting Nicole’s time.